The age-herald., 1899-05-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

ibidden to enter the good mans home and
 was treated as a guest of honor. In the
 morning the man robbed the unsuspeeting host and departed The alarm was sounded and the offender was, pursued and taken into custody. When the facts were made known to the governor of the province he caused to be branded with a hot iron upon the travellers forehead tho legend, The Ungrateful Guest in order that good folk might not thereafter be deceived by this particular exponent of ingratitude The moral of which is applicable to a hundred varying conditions" And the meditative
 man sighed.
 Squire Blvings was in town yesterday. The squire Is one of the best farmers and citizens of the county and is greatly esteemed Asberry Thompson. Dr. Morrow
 and the squire were In a cigar store in the early forenoon discussing the queens birth day, the Tsars peace conference and other current topics. Another man turned up 1 and increased the trio to a quartette. "Did you ever hear how the squire sen- fenced four negroes to hard labor for stealing roasting-ears in his cornfeld?" asked Asberry Thompson.
 The new arrival hadn't heard the story and he begged that 1t be told.
 '"The squire Is the highly honored and able magistrate for Bivings's Crossing.f sald Mir Thompson. '+To offenders against the law he is a terror. One day he was riding along the road by his cornfield when
 he discovered four negroes stealing roast l ing-ears to beat the band. The squire ar- .tal ta5 4ha,s a41 | the spot and sentenced them to hard labor at hoeing cotton in his ridge field near by; and the way he made those negroes kill the 1 grass was a caution"
 q didn't hold any trial of the men at all" added the squire. ''I just told 'em that they were guilty; that the court had caught 'em in the act. and there wasn't any use for witnesses: so they had to go | to work.
 "'we's hongry, jedge; dat's de reason we took de roas'inyears,' they pleaded. "'Oh, we'll I said, you shan't work in my field when you are hungry. Come on up to the house and get something to eat They got a good meal, and I put 'em to work right" And the squire smiled con- placently and benevolently.
 
 "The almost phenomenally cool weather of last night and today has. in way, aid ed in materially increasing those annoying and in many instances, dangerous troubles that originate from undigested or unwhole- some matter in the stomach" said medl- cal man yesterday. 'I have prescribed for some bad cases this morning, and under stand that such cases arc very numerous in Birmingham. This Is bad day for eat ing fruit of almost any kind, especially berries. Strawberries at the moment are positively dangerous to eat, and the same is true of cherries. But, of course, the ex- isting atmospheric conditions will pass away in few hours, and we shall have our normal hot weather. These brief cool spells are very agreeable, but they are dan gerous to the public health. People need to be cautious as to their food and drink"
 
 q was down at Brilliant, in Marion coun- ty, the other day." said Dr. Morrow. 'It is a wild district of country there; but the opening up of the new coal mines and the completion of the Illinois Central railroad will quickly work great changes, and Bril- liant will be full of life, busy and thriving. Meantime it is a new settlement out in the woods, and is just on the eve of great things. There is said to be plenty of good game all over those Marion woods. There is one thing I can testify to. Whippoor- wills are remarkably plentiful. The night I was there believe heard the weird notes of fully five hundred of these birds. The Illinois Central is going to do wonders to- wards the development of Marion county"
  "I know quite intimately young officer of the British navy named Lawford, and If was not perfectly aware that he is at Hong Kong, I'd swear that he is here in Birmingham" remarked lobby lounger. ''of course the figure have seen here half dozen times during the past week is Victor Lawford's other self; it is his astral body. When first saw this body it walked through the lobby rapidly and nervously. as Lawford always walked and to say I was startled is to make mild statement.
 It can't be- said to myself-.impossible Lawford is very fond of dogs, as all Eng lishmen are and he used have four of them with him whenever he walked out. look ed for the dogs at the heels of the figure as it passed from the lobby. They weren't there. That was queer. I'd speak to the body, but I am afraid it would vanish to Hong Kong instantly. Odd, isn't it?'
 
 Miss Lucy Morrow, the gifted young fa- vorite of the stage who is now visiting her father, Dr. George M. Morrow, in this city, has received by telegraph very fattering and remuneratlve offer to join a stock com pany for a summers engagement at Los Angeles, Cal, where she spent last summer and where she is exceedingly popular. Miss Morrow received telegram during the day Tuesday, and, not replying, an- other telegram was received at midnight urging her acceptance of the offer made and begging her to proceed at once to Los Angeles. Other telegrams came from | friends advising her in the matter. She is disinclined to accept the proposition, hand some as it is, preferring to rest at home during the summer. But she has the ques-