The age-herald., 1900-10-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

'This being thy birthday, thou wilt ex- | perience sickness, losses in thy business, | and domestic bereavement" "set thy house in order and prepare for trouble"
 "A child born on this day will be un- | fortunate in employ or in business for it. self; it will be indolent. careless, and often
 in trouble. If female, she will be liable
 to disgrace"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Tuesday, October ?, 1900: Postpone important business" Avoid specuations and keep myself quiet"
 "Young women must be careful of their acquaintances.
 "A child born on this day will be helped by good friends, and will succeed in em- ploy."
 '"The signs of the stars for October in- dicate a wild, wild month, with heavy storms of wind, thunder and lightning The electricity of the earth will be dis turbed and shocks of earthquake will oc- cur in many parts.
 Death is likely to make inroads into the homes of the great ones, and many notable characters will be cut off, It is an unfavorable month for Royalty, and sickness may be expected. The health of the people generally will not be good. 'There is danger of a great strike this autumn, probably the miners in the coal pits will cease to work, to the great dis turbance and dislocation of trade" Note By Raphaels Reporter:-This prophecy, so graphically fulfilled in Penn | syivania at the present time, was fore | casted through the aspect of the stars by 1 the great astrologer thirteen months ago. There will be heavy calamities at sea, 1 many wrecks and disasters. The trade of 1 the country will not be good, and the pub | lie revenue will show 8 falling off, In the l United States especially a depression in | trade will occur. There will be a great | fire in London"
 Many years ago there was foreman of | a leading Alabama newspaper who used | occasionally to imbibe rather too freely of that inspiriting intoxicant vulgarly and | variously called tanglefoot Jersey light | ming, O-be-joyful, busthead, booze, and so | on. He was not a regular thinker; he 1 would go for weeks, sometimes months, l and never take so much as a glass of beer. | Those who made the paper could always l discover the exact time when the foremans | yearning for the ardent had overcome him
 to the extent that he felt impelled to take I just one little, and no more. In the busiest l hour he would be heard jumping up the | stairs two steps at a jump and calling in | tuneless voice.
 | "When the leaves begin to turn," with | the emphasis decidedly on the leaves" | Beginning low with "when," his voice | reached almost shout on "leaves,' and | then fell repidly to the whispered turn" The fellows would look at one another l and wink, and then one of them would get | cross
 | In about half an hour there would again | float in from the stairway: l When the leaves begin to turn" with | a little less emphasis on "leaves' and a l little more spring the steps. Thus the | foreman would go every twenty minutes or
 half an hour, with ever less springiness of | step and more pathos on the poetry of the | song, only one line of which the good soul | tried to sing. Occasionally there were tears | in his voice, as if his heart was breaking
 over the fact that the law of nature re-
 quired the green leaves to turn" some | other color.
 Finally after some hours of turning the
 leaves the happy man would struggle up l the stair, a half a step at time, wheez- l ing:
 | 'Wen thleaves-begin- The jug having gone the one time too
 often to the we'll, the man would recline at
 the foot of the stair, saying, every saying: l --leaves-leaves-tur All of which brings to the leaves of this l October. They have been turning a month | with dust. The glorious autumn tints''
 have not yet appeared, and they may not.
 It would require a week of rain to wash | away the taint of dust for the tint of au-
 tumnal decay. Dust has floated up to even
 the tree tops, and wood and field and gar
 den are browninsh gray as if there had l been a fall of brown snow from the clouds;
 snow that was dust of the most abomin- l able character, the unexeampled dust of l Jones valley. The Birmingham variety of
 this dust prevails all the year round It is l likely to be just as voluminous and mad
 dening on Christmas Day as on the Fourth
 of July; and Birmingham appears to esteem l it one of it's precious treasures. It covers | every bit of vegetation and every house in
 the city; it is found in prison cells and on
 the baby's downy couch of slumber reeks | in the market places and forms a scum | on plates of soup.
 Birmingham eats dust, drinks dust l breathes dust, sleeps in dust-is literally
 buried in dust. Nothing small about Bir-
 mingham, except the money it spends fight
 ing the Dust Devil, "when the leaves begin | to turn" and at all other times.
 
 l. An object lesson in city improvement is
 being given daily at the southwest corner
 of Twentieth street and Fifth avenue
 The dwellinghouse there, one of the first
 built in that district, appears not to have
 been painted in a century. It was built
 on high pillars over hole in the ground,
 and was enclosed by picket fence, almost
 the ugliest even in Fifth avenue; though
 there is an uglier one two doors to the
 south, hemmed in by high weeds on the | sidewalk, contrary to the law. The corner
 fence was removed, and now what was