The age-herald., 1900-10-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l IoSlpOAe important DuSlnSss.
 Avoid speculations and keep myself l quiet"
 Young women must be careful of their | acquaintanees
 | by good friends, and will succeed in em- | ploy.'
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for | Wednesday, October 3, 1900: l "Very unfortunate day" l Beware of law and quarreling. and avoid | them: thou wilt be annoyed in many ways"
 Young females are in great danger and l should be extremely careful of their con- | duct and acquaintanees during the next 1 twelve months''
 "A child born on this day will be rash and l much given to falsehoods; in business it l will not be fortunate; it should keep in em- l ploy: if a female, unhappy in wedlock." l l Swinging in the grapevine swing, listen 1 ing to the wild birds sing; shooting al game of various species and hurting few now l and then; eating chicken-pie, squirrel-pie,
 rabbit-ple, bird-pie, pork-pie, peach-ple, ap- I ple-pie, liced-potato-pie-ail sorts of pie l fried homemade fish, homemade ham, home made beef, homemade pork, homemade 1 wheaton biscuit. homemade corn-dodgers, l homemade fapjacks, homemade honey, homemade 'lasses, homemade milk, home l made coffee, homemade obejoyful-stuff 1 that made Milwaukee famous-all sorts of l homemade things-the historic family party | of the Hef1ins has been camping on a wood- I ed hill two hundred feet above the Talla- ] poosa river in Randolph County. 1 The family of the noted Dr. Wilson Lump kin Hefin of Randolph, including his sons | Solicitor Heflin and Dr. Wyatt Heflin of | Birmingham, and Hon. John Heflin of Randolph and Hon. Tom Heflin of Cham bers, together with the family of his late brother, the famous Judge Hefiin, go an- nually for a fortnight's camping-out on a lofty hill by the winding Tallapoosa, four teen miles from anywhere, that is to say from beautiful and prosperous Roanoke, in the county of Randolph. This happy cus- tom of the happy Heflins has been kept up for generations. so to speak, and is likely to be kept up by succeeding generations of the house of Hefiin. The camping ground is in the almost unbroken wilderness of the high hills, on a cool sequestered summit re- mote from the maddfng crowds of a too busy world. At that point the rapid flow of the Tallapoosa is five hundred feet wide;
 and the shooting and fishing Is of the best between the seas. Thus the Hefiins have an ideal place in which to spend their vaca-
 tions.
 The party of this year ended their sports and pasttmes with last Friday, and re- ports are that it was almost the happiest and jolliest of all their gatherings. There were nineteen Hefiins and they had six wants, making party of twenty-five, all told. They had six large tents, and other wise all the conveniences of enlightened village life. On the fourth Sunday of the bright September they were at home to their friends, and they had visitors from long distances across country. Their guests numbered forty-nine, the fftieth man evil denty getting lost in the woods. On that day they had a great feast There was one good old-fashioned chicken-pie which re- qured a round dozen of fat chickens in it's making. Oh, my!
 My ole marster had big white house
 Sixteen stories high,
 An ebry story in dat house
 Wus filled wid chicken pie.
 One whole fat beef and quarter of a
 beef, one fat porker and half of a porker,
 anQ-a great lOL OI OlneF IldQe up
 the feast.
 Medical Inspector of Convicts Dr. W. H.
 Blake reports that in nine weeks there
 has not been death amongst the convicts at Coaburg. This fact will astonish and please the people, most of whom remember
 with shuddering the dark days of typhoid fever at Coalburg prison. Sickness amongst the convicts there used to be fatally and deplorably prevalent, but now it is doubt ful if there is a town in Alabama so health full as Coalburg.
 Under Dr. Blake's sanitary regulations
 and through the improvements which he
 as skilled physician has been enabled to
 recommend, the death rate amongst con-
 vlcts in Pratt mines prisons has decreased
 about S5 per cent, and in one two places about 50 per cent.
 Dr. Blake, who is a man of most philan- thropic and deep humane impulses, is talk ing a great interest in consumptive con victs, and he has written a very able pamphlet on ''The Need of a Separate Prison for Consumptive Convicts." He shows that the average death rate from consumption amongst Alabama convicts is AZ per cent. of the total. This average is based upon figures for the past nine years. During the previous nine years the average was 2003 per cent. Thus the percentage of deaths from consumption amongst the Ala bama convicts has more than doubled in recent years. Strong humane influences will be brought to bear upon the Legis- lature next winter in favor of providing a separate prison for consumptives.
 
 Constant reference to the remarkable | scarcity of chickens is made in the Age Heralds excellent daily produce market | reports; and produce merchants are quoted | as saying that double the pesent supply of l chickens would not be sufficrient to meet l the demands of the housekeepers of Bir- | mingham. And no considerable increase l in the receipts of chickens Is looked for I Rev. S. R. Lowery, the well-known and | progressive negro truck-farmer, siik-grow- | er and fruit-grower of Shades Mountain,