The age-herald., 1900-11-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

many troubles in thy business: run no | risks: in thy domestic affairs thou wilt be 1 more fortunate"
 "The young may court"
 l "A child born on this day will be very unsettled and untruthful. fond of pleasure and often in trouble; 1t should keep in em- 1 ploY: if female, unhappy in marriage
 Indulge in strong drink but mildly
 Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for Fri day, November 9, 1900:
 Travel, deal, seek work, and push thy . business"
 Sickness and disappointment threaten thee. losses in thy business; do not specu- late; thy affairs will go very wrong"
 A child born on this day will be eXtrav- agant, careless, headstrong, and poor; 1t should keep in employ; if d female, very unhappy in wedlock.
 This day is the 225th anniversary of the death of John Milton. This greatest of blind men since Homer was not great enough to rise above self It is related of him that he suffered his daughters to read to him for years in the Latin tongue, not one word of which they understood. In large meas | ure his greatness was builded upon their | love and their young lives, given a sacifiee to him who was selfish. Yet we have Par adise Lost" and that wonderful work from d little great man,
 | Unanimously and remarkably picturesque was the scene in the street in front of the Age-Herald building shortly after midnight of the national election. At that unseason- able hour probably two thousand men still awaited the election news as it was flashed | the editorial rooms.
 The moon was at that hour near the zenith in a perfect night and never seemed moon so bright before. The atmosphere l was intensely clear and the moon was quite white, seeming to glitter in a world of silver rays. And the air was crisp and frosty and unstirred by even the lightest breeze
 For a moment-it might have been an hour-the thousands of men stood abso- lutey motionless and silent, while the fig ures on the great white canvas registering | the will of a nation were being shifted by delft hand of the man unseen. They stood l like an army of mems images carved from stone, their shadows falling in inky black ness upon the ground.
 Where the moonlight broke through the l ranks of the men who most of them had a few hours before vainly cast their ballots, l there seemed to be patches of white fire | and one almost looked for smoke to rise | Upon the outer edges of the dense mass of l men the figures were scattered and so grey | they looked in that unearthly light from the full moon that they scarce could be | seen above the patches of deep black which l their still forms cast under and about them, | lending a weird aspect to a scene thrilling | in it's intense stiffness.
 | There they stood those voters who had voted vainly and their fellows who had won stood and waited for the shifting of | the black figures upon the white canvas | telling them what their millions of fellows | had done, from the Rio Grande to the Pe- | nobscot. from Gulf and Atlantic to the | western ocean a thousand leagues away! | Impassiye, unspeaking, they made a pie l ture there in the moonlight wondrous in its l suggestions, graphic in its intense realism. Some spell was upon them-maybe the | overmastering spell of nationhood-and yet | they knew it not; for they were at the moment in no mood for reflection An exutant shout over lost hopes strange contradiction-destroyed the charm of that marvellous scene!
 Gen. J. w. Burke, the collector of cus- toms at Mobile, who died yesterday, was one of the earliest developers of the miner- al rgion of Alabama; he, some fifteen years ago, becoming largely interested in mineral lands, chiefly in Walker and Calhoun Coun- ties, and was one of the men who created the short-lved boom of Jacksonville his home. He was accounted an astute man | had been prominent in the Republican pol itics of this state, and was two or three times appointed collector at Mobile He was man of pleasing personal character and won many close personal friends.
 Il so happened that General Burke died immediately after the reelection of Pres ident Mckinley, who less than four years ago honored him with a high office. Thus a vacancy is made before the expiration of General Burkes term, and it is likely to cause some excitement amongst Alabama Republicans. It is believed that former United States Marshal Ben w. Walker of Macon will be an applicant for the colec- torship. and there likely to be other | applicants.
 Everybody in railroad business and a great many other persons in Birmingham knew "Sld" Lanier, who spent the better part of the past ten twelve years here representing railroads. MT. Lanier died in Illinois few days ago and was buried at Anna, in that State. the childhood home of his wife, who, with one child, survives him.
 | Sidney Watt Lanier was formerly of Montgomery, and was about 45 years old I To ha1 ayta ipt in Alabama, Georgia and adjoining states, and everywhere he was most cordially es- teemed. Many a good soul kept Sid" Lanier in constant affection, and to all such bis passing away will carry sorrow.
 He was one of the truest of all friends and most lovable of all men, and though | Of late years his health had been wretch edly poor his spirit of cheerfulness never