The age-herald., 1900-06-26
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Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this day, Tuesday, June 26 1900:
 Sell in the afternoon; evil for all else"
 Heavy misfortune and sickness will be- fall thee, and thy affairs will go wrong. keep thy health in order and avoid risk.'
 "A child born on this day will be very unfortunate unless the hour of it's birth be very good one If female, liable to disgrace"
 There will be unveiled today at Mobile monument to Raphael Semmes. The money required for this memorial to the memory of the illustrious Alabamian was secured by wo- men of Mobile-daughters and orphans, and wives and widows of the men who fought on the side of battle to which the deeds of Semmes added the greater glory! Every monument ever yet raised to South ern valor was builded by the efforts of women. The men who led on this side of the civil strife are rapidly passing to dusty death, and those who survive are going out of favor with popular clamor, as well as popular honors but the women remain true in their devotion to the heroes who live and to the memory of heroes who are gone. The sons of rebels look chiefly to sons of ''rebels," the fathers forgot. To all Ala bamians, whether they like, and to the wider community of citizenship, there is pathetic interest in todays ceremonies down by the Mexic Gulf, whose waters Semmes roamed the mightiest mariner. Semmes made the very name Alabama familiar to the world, and his valor and daring writ 4laa t1,n hi tory of Southern achievement. His Ala bama" and the things of himself went down in the sea,
 And t.-ere they rest, the prnceliest
 Of earth's regalia gems,
 The starlight of our Southern Cross,
 The sword of Raphael Semmes.
 But there is tribute higher than any shaft of stone that may be up-raised Higher than St. Paul's, mightier than Westminster is the veneration in the hearts of good wo- men for Raphael Semmes!
 Semmes sleeps by the shore of that wide sea of which he was master, and today there shall be given to him the material tribute of women's love, and brave men will speak of him bravely. The old Ala bama survives in the new; and soon a new ship of battle will ride the sea bearing the name that Semmes made imperishable Yet while good women at Mobile are giv- ing proof of dear remembrance of the dead, nearly all Alabamians are neglect ing sacred duty of and to the living. On the map of America there is most likely no land outlined which is so lacking in State pride Ala bama. Men who make maps, compile his tory or prepare textbooks might truth fully write as an Alabama characteristic --"absence of State pride" The new ship "Alabama' will be sent to sea without any worthy gift from Alabamians, unless some present small beginnings result in great things. MT. T. c. King of Hunts- vile sent hither the other day five dollars, and he wrote ringing words that ought to have had wide practical effect. Some newspaper workers in Mobile have in some measure united in MT. Kings sentiment, and there is something of practical prom ise in their undertaking. Montgomery and Selma are too drowsy to do anything, and Birmingham is too mad after the Money Devil. Anniston, Gadsden, Tuscaloosa, Talladega, Eufaula-ah, well! In Hunts- vile and Mobile there does exist some worthy pride The few Alabamians who comprehend in any degree the noble sig nifcance of the new battleship Alabama" and who really feel State pride, must needs look to Huntsville and Mobilel
 Richard H. Yancey of the Nashville Ban ner, a writer of rare grace force and scholarship, who was formerly one of the most honored amongst Birmingham news paper workers, tells this story of the late Bishop Winner:
 "A few years ago the bishop was in a Virginia cemetery where is buried the first wife of Thomas Nelson Page, the novelist. The inscription on the tomb is The light of my life has gone out How is that bishop?' asked one who accompanied him. MT Page has recently married a rich widow in Illinois, The venerable prelate replied promptly and aptly, with smile, T suppose he struck another match
 "No man was ever more loved and re- spected than was Bishop Wilmer by the people of his diocese" MT. Yancey con- tinues. "He was a rare old man, and in his death one of the most conspicuous relics of the old south has departed"
 In the indoounce O tn wah people in the south, being deprived of oil and can dles, had to use lightard for making lights in their houses. In a block of wood a hole was bored, and in the hole placed stick of fat Administrations pine, or light-wood. This stick was lighted and made to serve the purpose of lamp or can dle That is the way they make use of
 
 United States, according to Joseph H. Par sons, the notable Birmingham lawyer, who has spent much of his time lawing and fishing out Seattle way. "The fish so used is long and slender, shaped not unlike candle and it is so exceedingly oily that if you apply lighted match to it the fish will blaze brilliantly said MT. Parsons. "So the people bore holes in blocks of wood or in ice in winter time. and stick in the fish, heads downward Light is ap- ta;1- fhara i- hrt mt