The age-herald., 1900-12-29
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'slckneSs and triDulation are III me hi- fluence of this thy birthday, and thy health
 and fortune will be wrecked; keep myself quiet and avoid new enterprises the dan
 ger Is great'
 "A child born on this day will have great difficulty in making a living; poverty will
 dog its footsteps. and sickness will befall 1t;
 if female. it will marry unfortunately"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sum-
 day, December 90, 1900:
 Visit thy friends"
 Fortune will attend thy endeavors and
 thy business will increase and prosper but
 do not quarrel, travel, or remove, on this
 thy birthday
 A child born on this day will be for
 tunate and very clever and will rise in
 life."
 A view of the halt called on the great
 Nicaragua canal question in the Senate was
 remarked yesterday at cafe:
 If Secretary Hay had not come forward
 with his treaty with Great Britain, Senator
 Morgans name would have been more
 tenaciously and justly associated with the
 Nicaragua project, but if the future move-
 ments toward constructing the canal are
 to depend on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, Hay and not Morgan may be the acclaim
 In the parlance of the day applied to the
 work. This Is only notable as 1t may go
 toward illustrating the ephemeral nature or political distinction and the poor dis elimination the public is too apt to visit | upon service rendered to itself. Hay simply
 interfered with Morgans great work The | accident of official position makes the diff ference that menaces our Senator's just | rights to pre-eminence.
 | "So much said now about the Clayton
 Bulwer treaty as an obstruction to the
 right of the United States to contract with ] Nicaragua and Costa Rica for right of way | for the canal, brings up some interesting l matters. John Middleton Clayton, the Clay | ton in the case, was born in Delaware. He
 was Secretary of State, appointed by Presi-
 dent Zachary Taylor, mostly for the reason
 that as a Senator he was the author of the
 Clayton Compromise, patch he contrlved
 for the ruptured section on the slavery question. Clayton in the one year of his
 Cabinet life arranged with the British min ister to the United States, Earle Henry
 Lytton Bulwer, Baron Dulling and BuIwer,
 not the novelist, a treaty to the effect that
 neither Great Britain nor the United States WOULD occupy lOIllly UT COlOHlHc ally Pdil of Central America
 Senator Morgan, at various times, has
 contended that Great Britain consistently
 violates the Clayton-Bulwer treaty by taking possession of number of islands off
 the coast of British Honduras since the
 date of the treaty. The Senator has seen
 proper to retract or waive this view in his 0f tIa
 which recognizes the Clayton Bulwer agree ment. British Honduras did not come under
 this earlier treaty, merely because it had been a British possession for more than two centuries.
 What was the animus of the Clayton BGlwer treaty? Clayton was a Whig of
 anti-slavery sympathies, and so was Bull wer The Southern States were in the | escendancy then in this government. The | Southern States had to be cut off from ad- vancement to the southward. Cuba might be annexed, then the South American States. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was
 a movement by anti-Southern forces. "I was in Mobile when that rare and noble fellow, Henry Maury, set out with rein forcements to help Gen. William Walker conquer Nicaragua. Maury was ship wrecked on the bay, and I saw him and all his men land, after rescue, at the wharf at Mobile The town was there to meet him
 and the town walked the streets, following
 him to the Battle House The other part Is too long to tell here, but it was a specta- cle of great rejoicing. Maury stood forth | in his round jacket, splendid example of manhood.
 General Walker was not then an Amer | ican citizen. He had been naturalized in 1 Nicaragua, but all the same, President l Buchanan had him seized and carried to | New York. The South was then too power l full to be monkeyed with. The South had elected Buchanan.
 General Walker came on to Montgomery,
 then the acknowledged center of Southern | politics, in 1S5S The general was given a grand reception at the Capitol. He spoke,
 then Yancey, then others. The atmosphere
 scintilltaed with mighty thoughts that re- voved around Nicaragua"
 | Tt was upon such day as this, thick, 1 damp, muggy and gloomy, that I last saw 1 Gladstone, the 91st anniversary of whose birth falls upon this 29th of December" l said an Alabamian who had happily se- l journed abroad.
 | "Chappell Cory was the cause, the nov 1 ing why, of my last view of the beaten | and broken old man. whom ambition de- | ceived about as badly as it did his illus | trious predecessor, Wolsey. Gladstone had
 been to the South of France for the bene- 1 fit of his health, and was returning through London to Hawarden. It was in the news papers that he would depart from Euston | railway station at a certain hour Cory i with whom in London I was spending a 1 few weeks of happy convalescence from | long illness, proposed that we go to the l Euston and see the venerable statesman. l Gladstone was one of Cory's heroes-so
 was that arch-humbug Kruger, singulary l enough-but he had never seen the builder | and wrecker of the radical party; and | Corys wishes being dearer to me than my