The age-herald., 1900-10-27
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l Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this
 day, Saturday, October 27, 1900:
 Travel and deal before Il a m, after
 which be careful"
 'sThy business will increase and thou wilt
 have an active year: but in thy domestic
 circle expect grief and disappointment"
 "Those in love will have cause for grief l A child born on this day will be fortu-
 nate in business and will rise in life; II will be active and possess good brains"
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Sun
 day october 2S, 1900:
 1 Ask favors, and pay visits after D n | Heavy msfortunes will befan thee In l thy business, and thy health will suffer- 1 see that thou dost not quarrel; those In
 employ will be more fortunate; females l should be careful
 "A child born on this day should keep in employ and not attempt any business on
 its own account or it will certainly fail 1
 Next Wednesday, October S1, will be Hal loween-or the eve of All Saints Day, a sacred festival of the church.
 | Repeated pleas in this place against cer-
 tain notorious drug iniquities are serving | to notably arouse the public conscience against monstrous evils.
 q read in this mornings Age-Herald | highly meritorious article on morphine, cocaine and other drug addietions, which | I heartily endorse" writes Dr A. S. Wool l ley of Birmingham under date of yester- l day. T think of all men l am in position 1 to know, the article in question is net over | but rather underdrawn, as existing eondi- k tions are daily proven to me to be worse l than set forth.
 l While the treatment of these addic- l tions is my speciality, and the passage of | a law prohibiting the free sale of such ar ticles would greatly reduce my business, | would gladly sign a petition for a law l which should be as stringent as possible l to prevent evasion if it compelled me 10 l abandon my profession.
 That the law can be made effective, :n | proof of which l will mention only one In l stance A few years ago I was in Chicago and in need of a preparation of opium, and
 although an adult and a physician, but | stranger the druggist refused to serve me until 1 was properly identified. I certainly 1 advocate the most stringent law possible l and the penalty heavy for selling or giving
 away of any of the forms of opium, CO.,
 caine, chloral or kindred drugs except upon 1 the prescription of a reputable physician. l Let us have the law by all means, as it 1 is the right and only plan to prevent this alarming and rapidly-growing curse.' There is the true spirit of the scholar and l philosopher in brief letter which Con- I gressman Willis Brewer writes to the | Montgomery Advertiser relative to the re- cent political unseemliness in the Fifth | District Colonel Brewer is at his home in l Hayneville, the quiet county seat of l Lowndes where for five and thirty years 1 he has dwelt and prospered and has been l ever gladly honored by his people Mrs. Brewer has just now read to me l that our friend Chairman Lowe says he l has written me to withdraw from the 1 race" Colonel Brewer writes, with the l scholars patience and something of the l scholars amused indifference. His letter 1 will no doubt arrive here in due time. l write to say that, while his letter has not I reached me at this hour, my duty would I be to answer that 1 was not aware that I was candidate after the State committee l and its primary revoked my nominations; hence had paid no attention to the matter; | certainly not after the events of the pri- mary.
 q have been here at home, a day or so, where my library shelves philosophers and l sages have been awaiting me, and I had all | ready begun to forget such incidental matter politics. There gardens of l roses by Bendenere's stream, you know. l To some people official place is a goal; to l others an incident
 l The astonishing thing is that man who | can write letter like that should not only | suffer himself to be elected to public office, but should actually seek official place. | This man Brewer, sitting in his easy chair | amongst the immortals, with his tobacco l pipe burning eyer the incense of the learned 1 and the loving and the peaceful, can reach l forth the white hand of the scholar, when, 1 loi Plato and all the rest are ready to answer with tongues of wisdom and peace. Great Plato, whom they called by that name because his shoulders were broad, I Immortal Plato rises to tell of the fair and | the good with which the emotional ever
 mingles, and the truth that "in the sight | of a straight line even there is beauty, | interest, emotion, something of the souls own; and this is because, like all beauty, it | is in some way soul seeing soul and re- l joicing at the sight
 And Philosopher Brewer and the other l scholars will pardon the levity incident to | this Platonc truth in this place: ''The 1 righteous man in this state will be scourged;'' for the rest there Is the second l book of the Republic, 360 361, and so on. l In the company of ''the philosophers and ] sages who have been awaiting me-" how l inestimably trifiing the politics of dis
 trict the action of a committee, and all
 that unpeaceful and acrimonious troubling!
 Even the struggle for the Presidency itself, | which seems to be causing some reputable | persons some concern, Is no more than an I incident in what Immortal Tennyson called | "a trouble of ants in the gleam of a mil lion million of suns!'
 The philosopher of Hayneville is to be