The age-herald., 1900-07-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

"Ths young will court.
 "A child born on this day will be rash
 and headstrong, but fortunate in employ, in which it should keep"
 If a female, not very happy in marri- age"
 Brew; hire maidservants go a-fishing.' RaphaeIs prophecies for Tuesday, July | r, 1900:
 | Buy, speculate, and ask favors before | 30 o'clock in the forenoon" Thou wilt suffer aff1iction and thy health vii! fail; with care thy business will suc- l ceed."
 "A child born on this day should keep in | employ and not attempt any business on l it's own account"
 Fake bread"
 l It is a somewhat odd coincidence that l Thomas Lamar Sowell State Senator 1 aged forty-two, should have been named | as the Democratic nominee for
 State Auditor, in succession to the late l Walter Mathews State Senator, aged | forty-two, nominee for Auditor. The two | men represented adjoining Senatorial dis | tricts, lived in the same Congressional dis | trict, were the same age, and were per l sonal friends.
 l It is common talk that United States l Senatorial politics was played or at | tempted to be played" when the State l Democratic Executive Committee assem- l bled to nominate a candidate for Auditor l That may or may not be true. It is likely | enough it was attempted, to say the least. 1 The Senatorship will probably figure in all l politics in this state for the next two l years, as the Legislature of 1902 will have | the duty of re-eecting Senator Pettus l choosing a successor to him. Congress- | man Bankhead intends to be a candidate, l 1t is understood. And no little credit will l attach to him for MT. Sowell's nomina- l tion, as he came to Birmingham and 1 worked most faithfully for the man from 1 Walker, who is one of his constituents, as | MT. Mathews also was.
 Nobody questioned the fitness of State l Treasurer Ellis for the Authorship; but 1 there were two arguments urged against 1 him, which doubtless carried weight. One was that his nomination would be an act | ual violation of the Democratic custom of l refusing a third term to all state officers
 outside the judiciary; that he having served two terms as Treasurer, which of l flee he now holds, to make him Auditor | would be in effect to give him third con- secutive term. The second argument was
 that the Democratic party had the oppor- l tunity of nominating him for Auditor last | spring, but failed to do so
 1 The men concerned in the proposed Mo- 1 bile and West Alabama Railroad are con- l ident of being able to perfect the neces- | sary financial arrangements. They recently l received a proposition from responsible in veStors to furnish the necessary money; but 1 1t was considered not sufficiently liberal | to warrant it's acceptance. The money l market is not as easy as would be de- 1 sired. This fact is due chiefly to the in | ternational complications that threaten l from the far East, and to the depression l incidental to every Presidential year. Busi-
 ness men generally regard Presidential 1 election with some concern, and the re- | suit Is general depression. Those directly | concerned in the Mobile and West Ala | bama Railroad look with confidence to the coming winter. It is proposed to utilize
 in part the famous Milner survey, author ized and paid for by the tSate. They have practically completed the location of the line from the point where MT. Miners survey stopped in Washington County to | Mobile and will run line north from that point up the west side of the Bigbee river, crossing above Butler, and through De- | mopolis to MT. Miners line.
 Unquestonably this is the greatest new l railroad enterprise that now offers in the | south, probably the greatest in America. | It was contemplated by the late Senator l Milner to run a line from the main survey | through the Toadvine district of Jefferson l into Birmingham, a distance of about | twenty-five miles, That would give Birm- | ingham three direct lines to Mobile. | There will be a vacancy in the State l Senate caused by the forthcoming resgna- | tion of Senator Sowell of Walker, who Viii | three weeks hence be elected State Aud i itor. It is too late for a Senator to be elect | ed at the regular August State election; but | Senator Sowell will resign in good time to 1 allow his successor to be formally nomi- l mated, and elected at the national election 1 in November His resignation will be sent | to the Governor within the next few | weeks. As is probably well enough known, 1 the Governor cannot fill a vacancy in either | branch of the Legislature. It is believed 1 that Senator Sowells successor is likely | to come from Lamar County. It has oc- | cured to many persons that John H. Bank 1 head, Jr., of Walker might succeed to the | vacancy, but it is believed that he doesn't 1 desire the honor. MT. Bankhead was nom- | mated for the constitutional convention l that was called in 1899 and then "done for"
 and he is deservedly popular. If the Sena- | torship is given to Lamar 1t may go to 1 Walter Nesmith c. c. Nesmith.
 
 | It is alleged that in one county in Ala | bama one of the candidates for Congress 1 has given $l,0OO to one church and $500 to
 another church, and consequently he is l very popular with the "breathering." He ought to be. All things else being nearly ] equal, free and independent electorate | may be expected to vote for the candidate l who gives his stuff to worthy causes | The denomination of the particular | churches adverted to is not known here