The age-herald., 1900-11-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

thy money and business will increase rap- idly"
 ''The young will court or marry"
 "A child born on this day will be fortu- nate and well-behaved, and will have many friends; 1t will be quick in anger but gen. erous to forgive"
 Astrologer RaphaePs prophecies for Mon- day, November 19, 1900:
 Travel remove, deal, and push thy af- fairs before D. m
 'Thou wilt have some annoyances, and must be careful of law and quarreling; thy business will require attention
 Young women will have offers of mar riage.'
 "A child born on this day will be very quick in anger, headstrong and always ready to quarrel; if female, not happy in wedlock."
 A man writes:
 "Out in the fields by East Lake, hard by a turbulent stream of clear water which bursts from the earth in famous spring; at the foot of the mountain at the head of a valley the wealth and fame of which the world acclaims; in the wide domain of health and peace and plenty, and in a cli- mate Ol SuIpdSSlUB dllTdCllNtHeSS, lHSlS 'S quiet spot which good women are labor ing to make the home-place of homeless boys It is amazing that these good women should be hard-pushed and greatly embar- rassed in their efforts to secure for few boys there simply something to eat and something to wear out of the splendid abundance of a happy, prosperous and wealthy community.
 "Yet it is so. The dozen or score of boys in the Industrial Home for Homeless Boys at East Lake are actually in need of the necessities of their poor and pinched young lives; and great-hearted good-hearted an- gel women are moving to the rescue of the poor boys-striving to rescue them from hunger and cold, and to make them con- fortable in a real home of good cheer, far removed from the walks of vice and the habtations of wickedness. Just such work as this, good women are engaged in every day of the year and every night, the world around; and assuredly these women of this valley shall not plead vainly for help for the helpless for aid in keeping home for homeless boys whom misfortune and may be vice have thrown upon the mercy and charity of the world.
 ''The other afternoon one of these wo- men was downtown in a trap gathering up odds and ends of necessities for the poor lads which had been contributed by generous souls. She was a young mother with a little grave great as a mountain in her heart, and she was robed in the sombre raiment of mourning. Her own great sor- row had deepened her sense of human sym pathy in the sorrows and misfortunes of others, and softened were the harsher as- poets of her grief in the flood of goodwill and generous impulse towards whosoever suffered from whatsoever cause. So she was pleading for those poor little boys out wonder in the wide fields, adrift in the wide world with no home harbor where burned the bright and holy light of mother-love. They were boys-poor little waifs of hu- manitys mighty wreckage, and they need ed the aid of her whose boy had passed to his little six feet of earth upon the hill- side reserved for the dead. And as labored that mother for the homeless, so labored and so are laboring other good women; and their appeals for aid in this noble cause of charity should be answered in all-sufii- cient abundance of life's little necessities of life's little poor.
 "Cold weather is near, and its coming finds the little treasure-box of the boys industrial home near East Lake quite emp ty There never was much, and that littEa is gone for poor necessities. The good wo- men who have taken the home under their especial charge and loving care are without money wherewth to purchase the food and clothing absolutely necessary for the boys, and they appeal to busy, prosperous and rich community for assistance, for the means actually necessary to save and pre- serve the home to keep the fifteen or twen- ty boys from hunger and rags
 Tn the name of Charity, amen! So let the great-hearted women appeal and let the public respond with open-handed gener- ousness! Let everybody give something, and give it at once. Help is needed today. He gives twice who gives quickly. It were better to be q beggar and give ones last dollar like king than to be a king and give a dollar like a beggar!
 "Help the boys home-farm near East Lake-help it now. tS The Right Rev Bishop Edward F. Allen of Mobile arrived in Birmingham from Nashville yesterday afternoon, and is the guest of the Rev. Father O'Reilly at the priests residence, St. Paurs chnrch. The bishop will preach at St. Pauls at 10;30 mass this morning. -At "We had large and profitable trade last year, but our business has been far better this year." said member of a, wholesale grocery firm yesterday. This year has been the best indeed in the history of our house. We were busy all through the spring and summer, and this fall we are rushed from morning until night. And the experience of all the merchants of Bir- mingham is doubtless the same as ours. Prosperity is well in evidence and no mis- take about it.''
 "If a man has little cash capital it is easy for him to make money' said we'll known lumberman. There are many fields that present great opportunities for invest ment. I know of none better than the