The age-herald., 1900-08-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

NN"oic OA ictNs OhdiSGS anu ahe'i eiAih5, and keep thy business well in hand "A child born on this day will be quick
 in temper. but not fortunate; it will snc-
 ceed best in employ If female trouble
 in marriage"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for
 Wednesday, August g, 19O0:
 Buy carefully and ask favors in the afternoon"
 thy business, losses and disappointments;
 see that thou dost not speculate
 "The young will grieve'
 "A child born on this day will be clever
 and steady, and may rise in life. If a fe-
 male, she will experience much trouble after marriage"
 Senator Morgan has sent his check to
 Hon. Frank S. White for fifty dollars to be
 paid to the fund being raised to provide a
 worthy Alabama gift to the battleship Alabamal
 Noble Senator! Noble cause! Judge Samuel E. Greene of the Jefferson county Criminal Court having consented to act as Trustee of the fund, the gift of Senator Morgan has been paid into the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Com pany to the credit of s. F. Greene, trustee Battleship Alabama Fund; President Henry B. Gray consenting to receive the fund and to give his aid thereto. There is not a living in the county of Jefferson who does not honor Judge Greene and feel for him high personal es- teem and throughout Alabama he is hon. ored as one of the States ablest, most up- right and most just judges, and one of the | best of all men. By consenting to act as | trustee for this fund of the people, which | is to be expended in the peoples honor and l good name, he goes far through the power | of his name towards assuring the neces- | sary money. It is proper to say that Judge | Greene does not undertake any personal | work in this direction: he simply permits 1 the use of his name, and when the proper | time arrives will sign his check for what | ever sum may be collected and solely for | the purpose intended by subscribers. Therefore all good people willing to help this noble fund, so generously subscribed to by Senator Morgan, will confer good by either paying their subscriptions into the fund at the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Company direct, or placing it in the custody of MT. Lucien Julien Walker at the Age-Herald office, as suits their con venience This fund is not the fund of any particu- lar individual or concern, but is every body's fund.- and contributions to it will | be acknowledged in the daily newspapers. Senator Morgan's gift was sent to Hon. | Frank s. White, his distinguished repre- | sentative, and MT. White kindly conveyed the check to MT. Walker for the Battleship fund.
 Senator Morgan says that he is in bet | ter health now than he has been for ten years past and indignantly resents any in- | timation that he Is getting feeble, though | he is indeed slowly losing weight and his | voice is weak. He is now seventy-six years old, but his friends say he will stay in the Senate until he is eighty three. He is
 now at Warm Springs, Va" Thus saith the New York Tribune of Fri day last.
 '"The Alabama is going to give glorious
 account of herself, and there is not the re- motest doubt of her acceptability. She is i the steadiest ship I have ever handled" says Captain w H. BrownSon, the Ala bama's commander.
 .., +5-..-s Lightning bugs caused battle of the night between the Confederates and Fed | erals at Marietta, Ga, during the war be- tween the States said Colonel J. M. Falk- ner. Portions of the two armies were fac | ing each other a close quarters in a. wood ed district and at nighttime random shots were fired. When a soldier of one army | fired off his, musket soldiers of the other would fire in the direction of the flash; and l so such firing would proceed in a desultory l way throughout the earlier hours of the night. One night the lightning bugs sud- denly came out in great numbers, and some soldier mistaking their light for the flash of powder blazed away at the enemy The response was immediate, and almost in- stantly the two opposing forces were blaz- ing away in the darkness at a terrible rate. The shooting continued for thirty minutes and thousands of shots were exchanged but singularly enough nobody was hurt The discovery was made that the firing was begun through a sentry's error in mistak- 1 Ing lightning bugs for musket fire. Next | day this joke went around the camp of the Confederates:
 CT hear that the government has ordered I a thousands barrels of black ink What for?' l |" TO black the lightning bugs! ''So the innocent and beautiful fref1ies caused a battle-a bloodless conflict"
 
 One of the recently founded institutions \ of higher learning which has taken very I high stand and has been remarkably suc- | cessful is St. Bernard's College at Cullman. \ It was founded in 1892 by the Rev. Father l Benedict Menges, O. s. B., and is conduct | ed by the Benedictine Fathers. In 1893 it ! was chartered by the Alabama Legislature. l The past year the attendance was very
 large, as the large and beautifully printed and illustrated catalogue shows, and many l States were represented.
 | A fact of world-interest is that in the | hills of North Alabama the Benedietnes | purchased large tract of land covered by l primeval forest, and within eight years | they have builded a noble college of na- | tional importance, That tells a most elo- | u,SSnt story most elomeutlv