The age-herald., 1900-09-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

"Those in employ must be careful, and 1 those in business will lose money" "Young women will receive offers" "A child born on this day will be very clever and quick, but not lucky in busi- ness"
 | Hire men servants and set chickens | Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sun l day, September 16, 1900:
 Visit thy friends in the evening" 1 Beware of accident and sickness, and keep myself very quiet; in thy business l thou wilt have losses and disappointments
 and thy affairs will go very wrong" l "A child born on this day will be very
 unfortunate in all 1t undertakes and meet l with many disappointments; if a female,
 in danger of disgrace"
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 Whilst in t4.e solar year and according to l the calendar summer will not end until Wednesday, September 26 summer practi- l cally passed with the passing of last Thurs | day as yesterday bore complete evidence. 1 On the 18th instant there will be but one seconds difference between the duration l of night and day. hence that will be the l autumnal equinox; meaning literally that 1 the day is equal to the night. Ordinarily l the years come and go powerful atmos- ] pherie disturbances mark the coming Of l the autumnaI equinox. This year such dis | turbance comes somewhat earlier than | usual having begun in this latitude on l Thursday, the 14th of September F days l before the equinox proper. Similar con- 1 dtions sometimes prevail a fortnight or l even three weeks earlier, but such rarely l transpres.
 l So far as humanity is concerned, autumn | came Thursday night. Popular custom | according to the uninformed and quack l nostrum almanacs divides the year arbi- trariy into four quarters and gives these quarters the names of the quarters Of the l solar year. Likewise those same authori- l ties inform us that the sun doesn't shine" 1 on a very cloudy day, and how to cure l corns
 There Is no more reason of fact for arbi- trarily calling June, July and August | summer" than there Is for the unlearned l to call Sunday "Sawbuth" the seventh day l of the week, when we know that Sunday | is the first day of the week and Saturday l is the Sabbath of the Hebrews the only l race which ever had a day of that name. "Sawbuth' as applied to Sunday suits the 1 purposes of cant and promotes the ends of 1 deception.
 l Birmingham wasn't dusty yesterday. l Birmingham was muddy yesterday; for
 rain fell all day as it had fallen the previ-
 ous night.
 | Birmingham is always in one or the other l of those conditions, generally the other. 1 The streets are for ever filthy. An hour l of direct sunshine will make them filthily l dusty; ten minutes of rainfall will make | them filthly muddy. Birmingham has 1 most capable commissioner of streets; but 1 not sufficient means are placed at his dis l posal to keep even a residential street in l good order The cobwebs of redtapeism | and nambypambyism tie the wiling hands of the commissioner of the streets. | Evidently it is lawful and right to put l out fires; to put out burglars-if any should 1 ever be caught; to put out tallow candles 1 that may light little parties indulging the 1 most cherished of national games; to put | out half enough lights and half enough
 policemen; but it is all wrong to promote l the public health by cleaning the streets l If the whole City Council, headed by the l Mayor, should be able to start out today 1 to counting the germs of death in one l cubic yard of Birmingham street filth, | whether in the form of dry dust or dust l that had been wetted, the honorable board l of Mayor and Aldermen would require 1 something like one hundred thousand l years, more or less, to complete the count! If there had been a visitor in Birming- | ham Thursday at nightfall with seven mill l lions of money to invest-there might have l been such a visitor-and he had taken a | stroll in the thickly populated and fash l ionable residential district of the North l side, he might have boarded the first train leaving town. Doubtless there were visi- tors here with money to invest who did see the monster Dust Devil in its most hideous form.
 Over all the down-tow districts dust was heavy; but from Third avenue to Eighth avenue and from the city limits on the west to the city limits on the east the dust was appalling pail It hung like the damp dark fog that hangs above poisoned rivers in tropical clirnes; and every cubic yard of that dust teemed With millions of disease germs
 
 At both services-7:3O and 1O:3O o'clock 1 at St. Pauls church tomorrow morning | the collections will be for the benefit of the l sufferers in Galveston. Rev. Father OReilly is deeply sorrowful for those peo- pie, and he is desirous of doing all he can | do to aid them in their direful distress Therefore he directs that tomorrow's col lections be for Galveston and will so state | from the pulpit and urge the congregation | to give freely in answer to the greatest call for charity of this century, This money gathered at St. Paurs will constitute everybody's fund, and doubtless | a great number of good folk who do not l belong to St. Pauls will enjoy the 10 80 1 service and bestow their gifts for the l storm sufferers.
 Representative James H. Leath, who will 1 be one of Jeffersons legislators at Mont l gomery the coming winter is slowly recov- l ering from the effects of a prolonged and | dangerous attack of bilious fever. 1 There Is political gossip. not attaching to