The age-herald., 1900-11-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

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 Sickness, sorrow and bereavement threaten thee; thou wilt quarrel; see to thy business. else it will fail: thou wilt experi- enee d year of much tribulation; those in employe must be careful"
 "A child born on this day will be unfor- tunate all it's life and poor; careless over it's affairs and in constant trouble. If a female, in danger of disgrace"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sun day. November Il, 1900:
 Visit thy friends"
 "Thy affairs will prosper and thou wilt be successful in thy business; those in employ will be promoted"
 "A child born on this day will be very lucky in employ, and meet with much pro- motion and success"
 Judge John A. Steele of Colbert will be the next Governor of Alabama should Gov ernor-eleet Sanford unhappily die before the Legislature could count the yote,' said q leading Alabama Republican yesterday. Next to the votes cast for Sanford for Governor in the election last August the greatest number were cast for Judge l Steele, the Republican nominee for the | Goyrnorship. When the Legislature assem- bles in joint session to count the votes, if Colonel Sanford shall have died, there will be no such man as he in existence, and therefore the Legislature cannot count as being the Governor-elect, a man who does not exist anywhere in the world, and there fore that body must declare the living man, | Judge Steele. to be the elected Governor.
 "The Legisla ture must count the votes cast for man who was actually alive when he was voted for, but that body of | lawmakers is without authority of law or power of imagination of right to declare that man who does not exist is the Gov ernor-elect of Alabama.
 Should Colonel Sanford be certified as having died before the Legislature counts the votes, the Legislature is bound by com mon law and equity to decide that Judge Steele, having received a majority of the votes counted for men alive in flesh and blood is the Governor-elect There is no way of getting around this bald fact If Colonel Samford's life be spared until the 1 Legislature can count the vote, then he will be declared elected Governor; but if he pass away in the meantime, Judge Steele will be the Governor-elect and will take his seat at the expiration of Governor | Johnstons term"
 One hundred and seventy-two years ago, counting from this day, Oliver Goldsmith l was born; and with all men and women | who esteem cleanliness in literature his in l fluence is still great for good. If any woman or man having impulse to turn to the unholy teaching of the popular" lat ter day writer of fiction would seek the Vicar of Wakefield society would be immeasurably better. Yet we hear re- spectable folk raving over "The Sorrows of satan," 'The Christlan'' and an endless catalogue of unwholesome stuff written to sell to those who wish to read something impure; such literature as has virtually destroyed France and is steadily making for the destruction of America
 The other week one of the yellow met ropolitan journals devoted an entire page, illustrated, to a review of "sex novel" written by an utterly unknown Southern woman, to whom a poor wretch of news paper man Is about to be married, they 1 say. The principal features of the "criti- , cism' were pictures of the "authoress" and graphically displayed appreciation" from the Prince of Wales, to whom "ad- vance sheets had been sent,' and in which that much-vilifed parsonage was made to say that if he had the story in book form he'd 'be afraid to cut the pages fearing 1 they would bleed;' stupid and very stale lie This same "sex nover' had been sent in advance sheets" to the Rev. Dr. Damnation of Savannah, who wrote a ser mon on it, "advance sheets of which he sent to New York, and New York sent them to 'city editors" throughout the country, seeking to enlist their aid in plac- ing grossest immortality in shining light before schoolgirls, That is the sort of thing | that goes on constantly. | What was it Goldsmith said about mon- grels, puppies, whelps and hounds, and CUTS of low degree?
 Fifteen years in the penitentiary for wife-murder and twenty years in the peni- tentiary for stealing fifteen dollars are law facts about this Jefferson County, Ala bama, that are going around the world and arousing it's horror and disgust. All the horrible details of the mans butchery of his wife were proved in the Criminal Court and the jury, sworn to its duty, fixed the murderers punishment at hf- teen years All the horrible details of steal ing fifteen dollars-"two five dollar bills and five dollars in silver'-were proved in the Criminal Court, and the jury, sworn to it's duty, fixed the thief's punishment al twenty years.
 Yet it is remarkable that a Jefferson County murderer should be punished at all. Murders without consequent arrests even are common in this county; and grand jures pass over attempts at murder without so much as an indictment So far | as the enforcement of the law goes no mans life is safe in Birmingham or Jef- | ferson County. The most peaceable citizen may leave his home in the morning and meet his murderer before noon; and there isn't woman or child who passes along the street with safety from the bullets of reyolvers fired to commit murder in public places Hundreds and hundreds of men walk the streets and go to places of pub | to mn ar