The age-herald., 1900-12-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Sun 1 day, December 23, 1900:
 Visit thy friends"
 Except for quarreling and some annoy ances in thy family affairs thy birthday 1 is pretty good one, and, with care, thy 1 business will be kept together" "A child born on this day will be rather | successful in business, it will be clever and original in ideas"
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Mon- 1 day, December "A, 1900
 Christmas Eve.
 Rather doubtful for thyir fortunes" Do not speculate or run any risks with ] thy money, this being thy birthday; thou 1 wit travel and be annoyed in thy busi- ness"
 'The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be obl!g- ing and well condueted, but not very for | tunate in business;~ ;~it should keep in em- | ploy."
 "The costlest watch in the South and one l amongst the costliest ever made was stolen 1 from it's owner, MT. William Mudd Martin, in Birmingham sometime after midnight l this morning." said friend of MT Martin. 1 "The watch cost $1S00.P
 Some one of the swarms of burglars l that now infest Birmingham and success | fully defy the police is presumed to have 1 entered MT. Martins bedroom, at Fourth | avenue and Twenty first street, and ob- 1 tained possession of the watch, together
 with MT. Martins pocketbook and $6O in l money; and the mans skill was displayed l in not arousing MT. Martin, who was in his
 bed asleep and by robbing two other rooms | in the same house without awaking or dis | turbing any one of the occupants of the | house. As showing the desperate character of the robber it may be pointed out that about dozen men were sleeping in the l house at the time. The robber was doubt | less armed and determined to commit mur- | der if necessary to the successful carrying | out of his purposes. Two of the men in 1 the house declare that they were awake I until o'clock. and probably the robbery was committed after that hour. MT. Martins watch was wonderfully beautiful, being set with rich diamonds and other rare jewels on the front of the case, and being extraordinary in it's mechanism. | On the back of the watch was MT Martins 1 monogram, w. M. w, in precious stones. l Today MT Martins pocketbook was found 1 In the front yard of house two doors from l where he lived. It still contained several private papers, with New York exchange 1 for $20O, apparently untouched. MT. Mar | tin prized the watch far above its intrinsic value and its loss causes him great dis | tress.'
 Signs of some of the innumerable mar | riages which are occurring in these happy 1 times of plenty are daily seen at the union passenger station. where enough rice has l been thrown at brides and bridegrooms dur l ing the past sixty days to have graced | every dish of fried chicken that will be fur l nished forth to hungry men and women on | Christmas morning in all this valley" said l gossiper in tine lobby.
 l "The sweepers of the station have much | to do in sweeping off the bridal rice, tell l tale of many a wedding journey begun in excitement and jubilation; for good Mas l ter Megemry, kind always, is especially courteous and kind to bridal parties, as he I is indeed to all women whom business or pleasure leads to the great railroad sta- tion with it's hurrying crowds and reSound- | ing noises Every woman passenger counts | the big and happy Superintendent Meglem- l ry her friend, and it is small wonder that | he is popular with the multitudes Of Wom- | en and men who travel When bridal 1 couple is leaving, those in the immediate l wedding party straightway beseech the su- perintendent for passes to enter the station l gates, and their pleas are seldom vain. l "Tne departure of a bridal couple never l fails to cause something of a pleasing sen- l sation at the station, every person in sight l striving to obtain a view of the brides l face. Often there Is great fun over the
 I brides travelling trunk, much to the con- | fusion and rosy-faced annoyance of many | a timid bride.
 l "I was in the splendid new Union station | at Montgomery not long ago when a br- l dal party came down to see a bride and
 1 groom take their departure for the honey | moon tour-and the bridal tour is a fad of | fashion to which I would Strenuously ob- l ject of I were a bridegroom! The bride | was the fairest and daintiest of all real 1 or imaginable brides, and yet some Of the l men decorated in a wonderful manner the | fair little creatures big new trunk; bound | dt with white and pink ribbons, and fasten- | ed upon 1t old gloves. old slippers, and | fresh flowers until the bride would scarce l have known the trunk as her own. In this l case, the best man gave the bridegroom the I hint that he'd arranged with the baggage | master to allow MT Bridegroom tn enter l the baggage car and remove the bridal l signs from the trunk before it reached It's l destination"
 q find very general and cordially ex-
 l pressed desire on the part of good citizens l of every occupation that Chairman Robert 1 J. Lowe of the State Democratic Executive l Committee be nominated as one of the dele gates for the State at large to the consti- 1 tutionai convention" said one of the most | widely known and respected of Birming- | ham men last night. To-day was by chance in a party of | five or six of our principal citizens, and l the talk turned to this highly important l question of good men for membership of
 the constitutional convention. Every man | present was emphatic in declaring the l conviction that MT. Lowe should be nom- | mated for the State al large, it being held | that his position as the official head of the 1 Democratic party entitled him to the honor I as a free offering from the people, without | any contest being made for it by himself. 1 "It seems to me that this aspect of this | most important subject will present Itself l to every Democrat. MT. Lowe is the head | of his party, he is an able man, and his l services will be greatly needed in the con | venton The proper thing, the only thing 1 to be done, is for the party's State con vention to nominate MT. Lowe?' "There was a sturdy and happy young | priest in town today whom, you would have l been glad to see, if you knew him as many 1 of us know him." said layman last night. l "The Rev. Father Robert, o. s. B., of | Brookside, came to town to make his little Christmas purchases. gifts of one sort and