The age-herald., 1900-08-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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 thy business before o'clock in the after noon.'
 Thou hast a fortunate birthday, and
 thy money and business will increase"
 Women will have offers of marriage"
 "A child born on this day will be lucky
 and fortunate whether in employ or In
 business for itself"
 Brew strong drink; hire maidservants; go a-fishing
 Astrologer Raphaels propecies for Thurs
 day, August B. 1900:
 An uncertain day; be very careful "An active year awaits thee, changes and travelling; with care thy business will succeed, but keep thy health in order "A child born on this day will be very
 quick and very clever and, on the whole, fortunate"
 "Thou shalt not court, nor marry, nor bake bread, hire maidservants or men servants, or go a-flshing; neither shalt thou
 brew strong drink"
 Now is the harvest time of dispensers of cold non-alcoholic beverages. The local trade in such drinks is enormous; one re- sort being estimated as selling six thous- and drinks a day, rising in one day to near ly ten thousand. Whilst the per cent Of profit in a five-cent glass of soda water itself is very great, possibly three hundred or more an enormous trade is necessary even to pay rent, not to mention other ex- nenses. In fact poor soda water costs al most nothing, probably not a half cent glass, cheap acids being used instead or fruits or fruit extracts; but the ingredients far single pound of pure extract of lemon, for example, costing five dollars. At some fountains the natural lemons and Times are used, being cut in the pres ence of the customer. That is of course most desirable. All soda waters favored with real fruit or the genuine extracts of l fruit, sweetened with real cane syrup, are | not only refreshing but are actually bene- | ficial to the stomach. acting as stimulus | to digestion and thereby soothing the | nerves. This much is especially true of real lemon soda water made tart with
 acid phosphates such as that called Hors- ford's Excessive heat such as we have been suffering from without interruption for just fifty days this day counted acts very badly on the nervous systems of all persons, even young children, however much care be exercised to diet, drink and regularity of personal habits All poor qualities of soda water, con- cocted of cheap acids and glucose, are poisonous and extremely deleterious to health. Certainly there is nothing more delicious to the taste or more soothing to
 the average person than what may be call sd pure soda water. Bad soda water is as bad as the germs of fever
 For the inventor of a really good and tasty and satisfactory straight" temper ance drink a fortune awaits that would be sufficient to enable him to live in imperial pomp and splendor. He could dwell in | splendid palaces like the Tsar has and in- dulge in what has been truly called "the sport of kings, watching; build hospitals and schools and become the prncelest pa | tron of charity known to the world He would be rich beyond the dreams of avar- | ice that haunt the unquiet slumbers of the | most avaracious devil of the money-bags now astride the world of work All man. kind demands harmless beverage that | mildly stimulates and comforts-a drink no more like opium alcohol than it is like | hell.
 III InSIdnQ lneTe IS even a greater ana | more constant cry for such drink than | in this country, and even The Times prays | to chemistry for a satisfying answer to the | universal prayer. Not only would such a | drink make its discoverer a prince of the l earth, but it would make him the greatest I benefactor not divine whom humanity has
 ever had. He would shut up the poor l houses and the jails, and judges might | sleep upon their seats; for strong drink 1 the damnablest of all earthly curses, would | be so largely displaced amongst the weak
 natured that it would become what it l should be- merely a sinless luxury of men | and women.
 | Chemists have for sixty years and more l labored to discover such drink and they are laboring still. Some one of them, in | the providence of the Master, will suc- ceed.
 | But as it Is, nearly all men like a stimu- | lant and to vast majority of such it | does no real harm beyond wasting money l that might be put to better uses. Call over l the names of the men of your personal ac- | quaintance, and ask how many of them | get drunk? Very few indeed! The time is | past when men may hdbitually get drunk | and stin retain the respect of the respec- | table.
 The supreme court of Alabama a few years ago held in effect that about three "sprees" in one year constituted "habitual drunkenness within the meaning of the law, and in so deciding the court removed a man from office. The decision was laughable, yet it was for the good of the public service. Intoxicated men are com
 mon spectacles of shame in the streets,
 and one wonders where they come from. l A learned local judge commented yester- l day upon the terrible part drunkenness l plays in the crime of Jefferson County. 1 The other night four well-dressed boys | of evident good social position were seen on l "a booze about town. The eldest didn't l appear to be over twenty, and one of them | was so drunk that two of his friends had | to keep him on his feet It was the mourn- l fullest of all possible spectacles except a 1 drunken woman; and an old reporter says