The age-herald., 1900-02-10
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
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| planted in cotton this year will be largely in excess Of last years acreage. It ap- 1 pears -7be true that the rise in the price of cotton has set the cotton planters wild; l and we are likely to an enormous crop marketable at cents. This fact is pitfui | For the first 1me since 1872, the cotton planter has seen his way to independence, | and now he is about to throw away his chances. Dealers in fertilizers report that their sales are enormous, and that daey look for the largest acreage in cotton for many years. This would be laughable were it not mournful. The curse of cotton grow l ing is again to assert itself. Next season win see 4-cent cotton, and no hogs no corn no potatoes-nothing to hve upon. |
 The marriage of Roy O'Neal. a success | ful young newspaper man of Huntsville, to | a beautiful young woman of Tennessee, will 1 be sympatheticaly and warmly considered | throughout Alabama MT. O'Neal is one | of tine best known of the younger workers 1 on the press in Alabama. And uhroughout 1 his work he has been conscientious, has 1 sbnlven to do right because it was right ito ] do right, and nobody has had reason to question the integrity of his purpose or the 1 honesty of llds work. Since it has come to | him ito wed his feilowLworkers on the l press will not be divided in wishing him l long years of prosperity and happiness! | We shall all of us wish for Roy O Neal that l his honeymoon shall continue till the sun | set time of life for him and the bonny bride | out of the plains of Tennessee
 Asafew of the Lafayette silver dollars are on sale in Birmingham at two dollars apiece. It will be recalled that the congress auahoTized tine coinage of silver dollars in | commemoration of Lafayette and in honor | of the Paris exposition of 1900. These coins are on sale now for the benefit of the American exhibit at Paris The coins are up to the full standard of American ooin- l age, which is the best fin the world save only that of Great Britain. Perhaps the most perfect coin in the world, regarded as to its artistic merits. is the British sover- eign, the widely known pound sterling The Lafayette dollar has the obverse | side an excellently executed bust of Lafayette. and the date 1900. On the 1 verse side sre busts of Washington and Lafayette side by side. The United States l mint has not produced a more beauifu | coin. save only the gold double eagle, un- | dou,btedly the most splendid coin in the 1 world.
 Stuart Robson does not seem to have 1 aged within these thirteen ears, as he ap- l peared in the lobby of the Morris yester- 1 day. It is marvellous. this gift of mems | youth. Yet he is not old, as the years go. | Stuart Robson is not far from fifty. It seems a thousand years since he and Billy Crane were together: but really it was | just the other year. The two of them had I a play that they called "The Boarding | House." or something of that sort. Crane was Colonel M. T. Elevator, and Robson was very much a lover. Robson used to make violent love to the spinsters in the 1 boarding house, and promise to marry each l of them-'in the spring" ''The last time | I saw Robson was in that play in the old | Star theater in Broadway said odd play-goer. q had just returned from a | prolonged stay abroad. It a happy evening. With were MT. and Mrs | Frank P. Glass, of Montgomery, and our | little party and joyful time The way Robson said 'Ia marry you-in the spring!' was the highest order of humor!'
 
 '"The proceedings of the last session of the Alabama grand lodge of Masons have just | been issued, and show the fraternity to be | in a prosperous condition said a Birming- ham lodge deacon. ''There were during the past Masonic year two charters in the state forfeited; seven lodges reinstated 271 lodges represented in the grand lodge, with membership of il ,291; number of ministers in the state who belong to the order, S04; work of last year: Initiated 634; raised to | to the degree of fellow craft, 62S; raised to l the sublime degree of master mason, 6S9; | affiliated, 451; renstated, 3O5; re-admitted. l 469;' died, 255; suspended for non-payment of | dues. 362; suspended for unmasonic con- duct, 25; expelled, F. The largest grand l lodge membership is in New York, it be- ing 5000. In England lodges are more l numerous than they In this country. | but lodge membership rarely exceeds 5O."
 "Chicago claims to be gaining New | York in the matter of population, but that | can hardly be- said commercial traveller 1 "since New York expanded its growth has | been very rapid. The census will give it l over s,5eo,0oo Chicago has population of 1 17Oo.Ooo. Every city of any importance in | this country has made large gains since l 1S9O'
 A. B. Carpenter of Greenville, s. C.; J. | w. Webb of Greenvile. Miss. and Patton l Burnett, of Greenville, Ala, are in town. I
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 H. Luke Williams, of Wetumpka, is in | Birmingham.
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 Frank Nelson, Jr.. of Anniston, was In | Birmingham yesterday.
 Former State Senator Cech Browne, of l Talladega. is in Birmingham
 
 Editor C. M. Allen, of the bright Sumter Sun of Livingston, was in town yesterday. ]
 Charles B. Compton, general freight | agent of the Louisville and Nashville, and | one of the most popular railroad men in l the United States. is in town. |
 Captain Cad H. Beale, of Montgomery, | as in town.
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