The age-herald., 1900-04-12
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Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for tnis day, Thursday. April F. 1sOO-An unfor- tunate day.
 Troubles and annoyances threaten thee at every step; keep thy affairs well in hand and do not quarrel
 A child born on this day will be untruth- full sharp-witted and difficult to manage' it's success will depend upon the hour of it's birth.
 'If all the men who claim to be cousins of or related to Admiral Dewey should vote for him for president of the United States they could almost elect him, al- though he requires about seven million ballots" said New Yorker last night. Not the least noteworthy result of the admirars performance at Manila is the evil dence it demonstrated of the enormous ex- tent of the Dewey family in the United States. There is, it would appear, scarcely a street of neighborhood in all the repuphc that does not show up with cousins or relatives of the man who has so suddenly taken the people into his political confl- dence. It is amazing, this huge family or Deweys. The newspapers have been bur dened with the names of the cousins and relatives from Dewey to Denis, the ad- miral himself having but now adopted the latter cognomen. Enthusiastically his name is Denis. His cousins and relatives are found amongst the Smiths, Joneses, Rob- insons, Browns, O'Tooles McSwiggerses, Henris, Ottendorfers, Maartenmaartenses, and on through the whole list of names borne by good Americans, save only the r. a1xac for with or without" At supper in a cafe the subject of Dew eys presidential aspirations was alluded to. "I have visited six of the most important southern cities within the past ten days said an Atlantian Everybody I met spoke of Dewey's break in politics. The men said he had paresis; the women declared he was crazy. That was the only way to account for the admiral's sudden appear ance as a democratic candidate for the presidency It is difficult for me to inl- agine how a man in his right senses and holding Dewey's place in the world would seriously consider the acceptance of the presidency even if that office were offered him. Yet he couldn't get it, however earn estly he sought the thankless burden. All elective offices are apples of Sodom!f'
 The fact was stated in this place the other day that the Louisville and Nashville railroad has determined to take energetic measures towards securing the building of cotton factories at various points along it's line; Captain P. Sid Jones, one of the rep resentatives in Birmingham of that great company, having been charged with the duty of promoting it's policy in that direc- tion. From the first of January to the Slst of March P, 900 spindles were added to Alabama's cotton manufacturing industry; this state being in that particular the low est but two of the southern states. South Carolina easily led with 20S,000 spindles, followed by Georgia with Ill., 000; North Carolina 119 900, and Mississippi, 41,OO0. Tennessee and Texas show 2500O spndles each for the first quarter of the year. New and enlarged southern factories reported for March represent 493. .56s new spindles, Il, 900 new looms. and new investments ag gregating s1,O0o.o0O. Twenty-odd additional companies were in process of formation, with S7,Oc0 spindles and $174oOOO capital. During the three months 67 factories were contracted for. new departure in the SOuIn IS d great DleacnSTN costing SooU,UUu which has been contracted for by Thomas Barrett and associates of Augusta. It will be built near Augusta, on the South Car olna side of the Savannah river ''The widening market for southern cotton goods and the phenomenal profits of southern factories" says an authority on the sub- ject, deprive the present expansion of the industry of the suspicious features of the ordinary boom.'' The enterprise of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany means great things for the industry in Alabama. In roundabout way bitter memories are stirred at this hour in this newspaper es- tablishment by the word manufacturing. The effect of Tuesday nights storm on local gas and electricity factories brought grim grief and sad hair-tearing to toilers of the night. Towards midnight lightning burned out some thing connected with some wire or something else by which some thing was turned that worked the ma chimes that manufactured the type for the mornings paper. Somebody did the peril ous mending after an hours effort; and the type-making machines were again put to work. All went fairly well until two hours after midnight, when there was a complete failure of the gas that melts the metal that enables the machines that men work to make the types that make the matrices that make the plates that go on the press that prints the paper that everybody reads in spite of the wretched est storms that blow and crack and howl and cut off electricity and gas and hope and rest and sleep and piety! How could you expect anything else slumbering lun- atic? Bah Moreover and once again, bah! Likewise, darn the luck! Ever and anon: more especially, anon.
 A nominee for the presidency of the United States, in the person of the Hon. Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania, is at the Morris. Mr. Barker came to the city last night from Atlanta, where he had been spending a day or two in attendance upon the populist convention of Georgia. The