The age-herald., 1900-07-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| in the evening.
 Thou hast very chequered birthday and wilt experience grief and losses, joys | and pleasures, alternately; see to thy heailh | and that of thy family; thy business will i increase; those In employ may expect pro
 notion
 | "A child born on this day will rise rap | idly in life, but will not save money as III | it's family or domestic affairs it will ex- | perience a constant drain on its purse which will keep 1t poor"
 Hire neither maidservants, nor men, l servants; do not bake bread or brew strong
 drink; do not go a-fishing; do not court Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for
 Wednesday. August 1, 19OO
 "Very doubtful; be careful"
 Thou wilt have successful year for thy business. and it will increase and prosper,
 and thou wilt have unexpected benefits or | assistance from superior persons"
 Young females are In much danger of | being led astray, and should be very care | full of their acquaintances, and not rely on 1 promises
 "A child born on this day will be very
 clever and rise in life; it will receive much | support from powerful persons If a female, she will marry very young, l and a person older than herself Bake bread
 Whilst those Alabamans who have their | hearts set on a suitable Alabama gilt Tor | the battleship Alabama anticipate rebuhs | and discouragements among their own peo- l pie, it seems all the harder that their cher | ished purposes should be interfered with by savage-fronted anarchy.
 Those amongst us who are striving to do
 t..e best they can to uphold the pride and honor, self-respect and fame of Alabama and so laboring without any hope or wish or possibility of individual gain or personal interest have enough to do in contendlns with Alabama apathy, Alabama indifference tn Alabama glory, and Alabama lack of
 Alabama pride.
 These workers in the cause of State nor
 ality and the proudest history are entirely indifferent to the perfectly apparent fact
 that the task they have undertaken is
 tbankiess one; they do not wish thanks.
 They pray for absolutely no acknowledge ment of their efforts except the trihing
 sum of money needed to save the honor and
 good name of Alabama, in which they have
 individual interest in no measure greater than lHelT elSHleel uuiuiSU tiiOASoA0 SSAA&
 patriot Alabamians The proposition under
 consideration is one of public morality; and
 there isn't a reputable intelligent man in Alabama who isn't aware that In US broader sense, its real significance, 1t IS
 needful to the welfare of public morals that
 the States nobler history be cherished and kept fresh in the minds of the people One poor little red cent from every child,
 woman and man in Alabama would aggre-
 gate sum almost three times greater than the amount needed for a worthy gift to the battleship Alabama. All that is wished or | desired is S7,000. That is about equal to the | cost of the gifts of other states respectively to the great warships bearing their names. And it should be remembered that the Ala bama will be the most splendid ship in the American navy
 | It is understood that the people of Bir- | mingham and the district will be given the l opportunity within the next week or two to | do their duty towards providing present l for the Alabama.
 | Birmingham's obligation Is all the greater | for the fact that it is the greatest Alabama l city; and after the Congress provided for | the building of such a vessel as the Ala l bama, the Commercial Club of Birmingham | adopted resolutions praying the Secretary l Of the Navy to give the name Alabama | to the new ship, and the club appointed l committee of most influential citizens to | submit the request to that great Alabamian, l Secretary Hilary A. Herbert. In April 1S9S | at the State Convention of the Commercial | and Industrial Association of Alabama, | composed of the commercial organizations
 of the state which met in Huntsville a Bir- 1 mingham delegate proposed that commit l tee be appointed to collect funds for pres | ent for the Alabama. The committee was appointed
 | But nothing practical has come of any movement yet undertaken, except Gads- den's noble gift of some forty dollars, and
 the gift of five dollars from Mir King of l Huntsville. The other day Colonel Herbert l sent twenty-five dollars on his personal ac-
 count to the Montgomery Advertiser; and
 the Anniston Hot Blast has undertaken to l solicit subscriptions for the proposed state l gift. The Mobile newspaper men are deter ] mined to do noble work. The Press Club
 there has received one hundred dollars from | Colonel E. L. Russell; and the club hopes | to raise 5000 or 5000 by public enter 1 tainment
 Here is where anarchy comes in to inter- fere with the efforts in behalf of the Ala l bama gift. The Mobile Press Club had ar- ranged for grand entertainment to be l given yesterday with the aid and active assistance of the New Orleans Press Club. | Saturday morning President Hamburger of | the Mobile Club received from Captain Lee
 and Edward Mccarthy of the New Or l leans Club this telegram
 "City under martial law. Governor re- | fuses militia permission to leave the city.
 Editors positively refuse to allow reporters
 to make trip. Would advise postponement | of festival one week.
 President Hamburger called a confer- | ence of the local club members and then | replied by saying that as next Monday was J ala a.a4i. l...= Il l L.. ..-- 1-r