The age-herald., 1900-07-29

Astrolcger Raphaers prophecies for this day, Sunday, July %, 19O0:
 "visit thy friends
 "Do not travel or remove, but keep thy self quiet; in thy domestic or family circle thou wilt be more fortunate and have comfortable year"
 "The young will court"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Mon- day. July 30, 1900:
 'Very unfavorable all day"
 Beware of hurts, law and quarrelling, and keep myself cool and quiet; in thy business thou wilt have troublesome and unfortunate year."
 "A child born on this day will be very headstrong, rash and impetuous; it should keep in employ"
 After this week the cant-get-away in- habitants will have Birmingham prac tically to themselves and their visitors. Bifming- ham is the best summer resort in this country, as everybody ought to admit, and thousands of visitors come to enjoy them selves. But "a body likes a bit change" as the Scotch are fond of saying; and a majority of the inhabitants who have the leisure and the wherewithaI prefer to go to the seaside or to yet higher levels than the foothills of Red Mountain and the valley that spreads below. A few of them, like the learned Judge W1rzerson, elect to re- main at home, thereby displaying rare wis dom iH these days of fails and fashions. OtlHrs are satisfied with d few days in the country, being unable to have many days within the shrill clarion of the baxnyard fowl
 "I spent three days, esad days of peace and plenty, at a large country house with broad verandRs, upon a hilltop above great spring of cold water" said Walter Brown. -'Neyer was happier in my life. breakfast at o'clock with fried chicken: dinner at 12 o'clock, with fried chicken; supper at o'clock, with fried chicken. Also had all sorts of vegetables, including bacon and greens and homespun milk and butter, and pone corn bread, and every- Thing else estabie that was desirable Went to bed early, rose early; went in swimming; went fishing, walking, and at times rested in hammock Wide fields, wild woods, wild flowers. And that spring water was nectar. Glorious. And with all this was the real spirit of broad, enlightened, cul- turned hospitality! One could dream life away in such place."
 Assuredly. Such pleasures as fell te NIT Brown outweigh the attractions of all strands of tlIe sea, all the gaieties of the 'Tenderloin, all festivities of the crowded places of fashion, all the roar and rattle and fuss of travel. The water from that spring he talks about is the best beverage in the world-immeasurably more delicious taan beers, wines, liquors, and artificial connections of all sorts. That is the opin- ion of a man who has tried all and he ought to know. The absurdity of going away for enjoyment at place where one must change one's outer garments several times a day. including dress for dinner" is too absurd
 Better a stroll in Fifth avenue Birmins- ham, Jefferson county, Alabama, U. S. A., than lounging on any Board walk under the sun. So also of many other thorough fares in this valley as compared to the attractions of the great pleasure resorts" of the land and the sea. That's the truth So there is no use of reminding anybody that the Honorable MT Jackson didn't eat his supper or that MT Reynard thought the grapes not the sweetest in the world
 
 A man who travels much and profitably is John Pope of Louisville, known far and wide, and everywhere esteemed amongst travelling men and the public. MT. Pope has come to Birmingham from Florida, which is not the coolest land of this con- tinent i'll which to spend July.
 "The orange crop is perhaps the best Florida ever had, and the Floridians are in great good spirits" said MT. Pope. 'It is estimated that the orange growers will