The age-herald., 1900-05-13
IN HOTEL LO8BIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 Expect annoyances through letters, and from young people; in thy business and do- l mestic affairs thou wilt have a successful | year. This day the young will court. "A child born on this day will be uneer- | tain and untruthful. clever steady and | kind, but fckle- minded
 To-day and tomorrow shall be good days for fishing
 Request is made for the horoscope of Jan
 uary goth and February 22nd last. For Sat | urday. January 20th: Thou Wilt have an active year for thy business, and with care | 1t will increase; thou wilt travel with sue | cess Young widows will have offers of | marriage. A child born that day will be | clever and quick and will rise in life. II | a female rather lucky in wedlock.' For February 22, ten minutes after mid 1 night: Be careful in thy business, and do | not run any risks; those in employ may | lose it. Young widows will have offers or | marriage A child born that day in 1900 | will not be fortunate whether in employ or
 out. If female, unhappy in her welded l life"
 The romance of birmingham, the valley, 1 the encircling mountains, the mineral re- | gion generally, has not yet been touched | by graphite pencil or otherwise, and 1t is | fallow field rich for the working The
 names of fair women have been heretofore perpetuated in mines and furnaces; and just
 now two of the most beautiful women Of | the valley are understood to be playing no | little part in the development of new
 coal mine. Two young men having acquired a goodly share of mineral land are proceed l ing to open a mine and grow richer. One | of them having given his heart to maiden, | desired to give her cherished name to the | new mine, and he Yentured one day, with | a careless indifference bravely assumed to ! suggest the subject to his business asso- | ciate, asking him what he thought of it. | The associate didn't think well of it. and 1 said rather abruptly. He, too, had given
 his heart to a maiden, and he desired to 1 give her cherished name to the mine. There
 was a hot discussion immediately, and pos | sibly some expletives were made use of l that might have mildly shocked the fairest
 of the valley. No, by Old King Coal, The | second speaker had paid as much money | for the property as the first, and he'd jump 1 himself down the mountain rather than have the mine bear name that was not
 
 | speaker was resentful In his disappoint- | ment at this turn in the discussion and he
 spoke some very plain words. Finally the l second speaker ventured to suggest that the mine bear two fair names; and pending | discussion the amendment went over and | the house stood adjourned The chances | are that the mine will be called either the | Nameless or the Lost Chance, most likely | the latter.
 l Speaking of womens names is re- | mindful of the queer custom in Washing | ton and Atlanta of giving women the titles
 of men, such Mrs. Senator" Mrs. "Ad-
 miral," Mrs Superintendent of Peachtree | Street Railroad" and so on Tn an At | lanta publication there has just appeared cut which purports to represent five famous beauties of war times" meanin,, the period of the war between the states. Amongst the five women are Mrs Judge" Clopton and Mrs. Governor" Fitzpatrick of Alabama. A painstaking and perfectly sincere student of the history of Alabama has been quite unable to discover that there ever dwelt in this state woman judge or a woman governor. There was Judge Clopton, a man, who has been but few years dead Whilst he lived Alabamians delighted to honor him as one of their ablest judges Judge Clopton had a long and distinguished career The state had also a Governor Fitzpatrick a man of deserved eminence, and almost the only American who ever declined a nomination for the vice presidency. But the state con stitution never has warranted the appoint
 ment or election of women as judges or governors. There are Mrs and Miss doc tors and dentists, because women can en- joy those titles; but there are in Alabama no Mrs. colonels, majors, generals, or any thing of the sort in the way of titles for women. Fancy a Mrs. Garbage Contractor Garber or Mrs. Streetsweeper Dustman Mrs. Rev. Dr. Gusher would run counter
 to sacred teaching, wouldn't sine or it? The hundred judges who are to decide
 upon the names of the hundred immortals
 for the Hall of Fame in New York have been selected, and their names are pub
 lished. Alabama has but one representa-
 tive, Chief Justice Thomas N Mcclellan of the state supreme court, who is per
 haps less suited to that duty than either
 President w. Leroy Broun of the Auburn college, Professor McCorvey of the State
 university, Hannis Taylor, Hilary-A Her
 bert, Thomas McAdory Owen and maybe other Alabamians. Chief Justice McClel-
 Ian is conceded to be one of the ablest
 judges now on the bench in America. and
 he is the head of one of the ablest four
 supreme courts of the states; but
 1t is not known that he has made special
 study of general history. Other southern
 CTS on the great court of fame are Rich
 ard H. Dabney of the University of yir-
 ginia; J. H. T. McPherson of the Uniyersi-
 ty of Georgia; Joseph LeConte of the
 University of California, Georgian;
 Thomas J. Shahan of the Catholic uniyer-
 sity at Washington; William Henry
 Welsh of Johns Hopkins; Supreme Court
 Justices Henry G. Bum of Arkansas: R.
 F. Taylor Florida; Thomas J. Simmons.
 Georgia; William T. Faircloth, North Car
 olina; E. T. Nichols, Louisiana; David l., Snodgrass Tennessee; Reuben R. Gaines, Texas James Keith. Virginia, and M H. Dent of West Virginia. With the excep- \ tion of Professor Dabney, Professor Le- Conte, Professor Shahan, Professor Welsh The