The age-herald., 1900-06-06
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1nOu ldSl d iIOSl uiiiOl tuhehtO pii hAiHs''' and sickness, disappointments and troubles will fall upon thee in showers; keep thy money safe and run no risks
 "A child born on this day will have difficulty in determining between it's own and other peoples property, and should have very careful training Its success in life will be very poor; if female she will be liable to disgrace"
 Mint juleps are ripe, and the foam is on the beer" said the happy colonel medita- lively. as he ndulged in the cherished southern luxury of chair on the side walk "Dr. Johnson declared that the greatest thing devised by man for the com fort of man was a good inn. This was af- ter he had enjoyed numerous tankards of nut-brown ale in the Cheshire Cheese, off Fleet street They tell me that the famous inn stil Islands and the nut-brown ale is still drunk in Dr. Johnson's favorite cor ner; but there is no mint julep there. What an unspeabable luxury was denied that great man who earnestly appreciated good thngsl He never tasted a mint julep. As Zangwil said of our great Birmingham here in the valley, he never even heard of it. Something must. be allowed for the
 
 thinks the rustic cackle of his burg is the | murmur of the world but the mint julep is without reasonable doubt the most de- licious drink in the whole world, Don Quixote might have said if that renowned knight had known that which was so vast ly superior to the pigskinned wine of old Spain. Yet there are not above two in the valley who know how to make the ,art min ipIo I am not so sure of the other. Take a large clean tumbler that has not been
 wiped with cloth; pour into it three-fng- CTS of the best whiskey; add one fresh lemon freshly sliced, and two table spoon fuls of best white sugar pulverized; throw in a handful of cracked ice; stir vigously | with a silver spoon, if you can't get one of gold, or a stick of seasoned and polished oak; add water until the mixture reaches within an inch and a quarter of the top of the glass; then, if putting cut flowers in ter, place in the glass bunch of fourteen fresh cuttings of mint, the stalks of which have been carefully run through clear water. Thus you complete | the perfect mint julep, which is as super for to every other drink as the free water of a mountain spring is superior to that which feeds a wet weather rivulet. Look at that perfect decoction of blissfulness for five seconds. seven, if you have that almost superhuman courage of self-denial. As you lift the glass to your quivering lips your hand will tremble quite enough to shake the liquid sufficiently. Bury your nose in the divinely scented mint, close your eager lips upon the crystal brim, gent ly, ever SC gently raise your glad hand that holds the cup of the gods, and-your reeling senses will carry you away floating fiowery beds of biss!'
 The colonel sighed dreamfully and there was profound silence. By julep,' he said with startling suddenness, its eleven min utes past o'clock. At eleven minutes past 6 o'clock precisely every evening I take a mint julep. Gentlemen.' he continued, with rising infection and rising motion of the body. They passed in and lined up.
 "He is a bright star, a blazing meteor "a brilliant lumnary, and, if kept in his proper orbit and right sphere, he will shine with great luster until the climax of human pos abilities is reached" is the tribute which the Decatur News pays to Representative John H. Wallace of Madison who delivered the literary address DeIOTe the State Agrl- cultural school at Athens
 The announcement is made of the mar rage, shortly to take place in Vermont, of Miss Nell Porter of Greenvlle and Mir John Lewis of Birmingham. Miss Porter is the younger daughter of the late Rev. James D. Porter Episcopal minister at Creenville, and granddaughter of Judge 
 tinguished residents of Tuscaloosa Judge Porter was an od-tme gentleman of much learning, rare literary accomplishments and great force of character He labored earnestly and ably for the secure founda- ton of the University of Alabama One of his daughters is Mrs. I. M. P. Ocken- den of Montgomery, widely known as a gifted writer of verse and prose, and for her abiding interest in all things pertaining to the southern side of the war between the states. Another daughter was the late Mrs Joseph R. Abrams of Greenyille one of the best and brightest of all good and bright women. One son, Major R. Y. Por- ter, was long connected with the old Ala bama state troops, now the National Guard, and was formerly mayor of Greenville. Judge Porter died great many years ago.
 MT. William Berney came to town from Montgomery yesterday. Within the next two or three weeks he will resume his | residence in Birmingham and engage in the bond and brokerage business.
 "On one occasion I went all through the Notifications of Pretoria. and I thought
 them perfect the masonary being about the best I ever saw," said a Birmingham
 man who spent some years in the Trans vaal. T am not surprised that the Boers have surrendered their capital; but have been somewhat surprised at the newspaper tributes to the extraordinary bravery of the Boers. It would seem to me that men so lacking as they are in moral character could not be truly brave. They are gross ly immoral, as well uncouth and person. ally uncean; and they afflicted with fA ;e ;IrnI,,