The age-herald., 1900-07-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Travel remove, deal, and sign writings before Il o'clock in the forenoon.,'
 Thou wilt experience many changes, and an unsettled year, especially in thy family thou wilt also travel; with care thy business will succeed, but do not spec ulate"
 "A child born on this day will be very active and persevering, and, on the whole, fortunate in business.'
 Bake bread"
 19, 1900:
 Ask favors, seek work, and buy care- fully before noon."
 Troubles threaten thee; keep thy busi- ness we'll in hand and run no risks; thy health will suffer; those in employ will lose it."
 Bake bread"
 But for the phenomenon that a southerly or westerly breeze blows in this valley al- most constantly during the summer, such heat is afficting us now would be we'll nigh unbearable and productive of disas- trous results. Sunday, Monday and Tues day were terrible in their hot oppressive ness, and the population became washed ONs anu iiiiiP So ulSdHy Olu ulSnTdSS. The consumption of food must have fallen off third. Such few persons as are too intelligent to make apparent gluttons of themselves, now eat most sparingly; others can't eat. So the heat is not without some good.
 On infants the heat is as bad as deadly plague. Accepting the theory that it is best to marry and multiply, the heat is calamitous, for it is breaking off hundreds of affairs that lead to marriage. Perspira- tion will drown love as certainly as bubonic plague will kill the body. Next springs birthrate will show a great falling off
 One of the best of all good women of Ala bama rested when Mrs Charles L. Mathews died. The end came to her at a health resort in North Carolina Monday, July 16. She was the wife of Charles l.. Mathews of Montgomery, successful cotton planter, a bank director, real estate owner and man of handsome private fortune. He and two daughters survive her, Mrs. James H. Lit tie, formerly of Birmingham, and Miss Frances Mathews Mrs. Mathews was a daughter of the late Colonel Lorenzo James, who had large estates in Lowndes County, and who was one of the courtliest, most polished, and most accomplished of men. Hundreds of the best women and men in Alabama had the happiness to per- sonally know Mrs. Mathews, and they knew her as one of the best, kindest- hearted most amiable of women She never forgot that she was a gentlewoman; nor did she ever forget that she was simply a woman, with a woman's duties a woman's heart. As illustrating her higher soul quality, one who had reverenced her for twenty years tells this: At pleasure re- sort where Mrs. Mathews was staying there arrived young woman of society, who was alarmed and grieved to discover that a Governors wife who was to have charge of her had not arrived. Quite naturally, the young woman was shocked and greatly embarrassed, there was matron there upon whom she had any claim. man who knew both the young woman and Mrs. Mathews well, appealed to Mrs Mathews to relieve the dis tress of the younger one. Mrs. Mathews asked two questions, "Who?' and "Why?" The answers were satisfactory, and in- stantly the man was bidden to fetch the distressed visitor No explanation was per mitted, no questions asked. The noble mother and the maiden understood each other. It was a beautiful incident in a very beautiful life now gone out-a noble, womanly life, such as make our Southern womanhood the pride of the true civiliza- ton of the world.
 Mrs. Mathews was related to the Gold thwaites, Markses, Arringtons, Pollards, Seibelses, Sempleses, and other principal families of Montgomery
 In these days of universal office-seeking, and of office grabbing, ofice-stealing, and offce-buying, 1t is amazing that any man can be found to resign any sort of office of profit or power. Very little honor attaches to even the highest offices, but pay and power are cherished The Mayor of Mobile has resigned He is perhaps the first Mayor of that town who ever resigned-perhaps the first Mayor of any important town in America who ever resigned, except such as gave up the mayoralty for something bet ter" One Grover Cleveland resigned a mayoralty to become a Governor, and governorship to become President of the United States; one David Bennett Hill gave up a mayoralty to become a Lieutenant- Governor, and received a governorship senatorship, and recently declined the Vice. Presidency of the United States. Both Mayors Cleveland and Hill were bachelors, by the way. The Mayor of Mobile had the opportunity once of being Governor of Ala bama Fortune fairly thundered at his door for an hour or two in political crisis and then passed on. But-that is another story.
 Mayor Bush now resigns on high moral grounds, and to look after his private busi- ness He resigns lon the ground that the work for which his fellow citizens called him to the head of the municipality had been accomplished and that his private business now needed his attention The resignation was accepted with reluctance by the council, and vote of thanks tender ed Mayor Bush for his careful, painstaking and able administration of the affairs of the city"
 Mayor Bush has discharged his duties to the great good of Mobile, and having done his full public duty he asked for permission