The age-herald., 1900-08-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| in thy business thou wilt have success ful year; those in employ will meet promo 1 tion''
 "A child born on this day should be con- l tent in the employ of others. and not at- l tempt any business on its own account"
 If a female, not happy in marriage" Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Tuesday, August ', 1900:
 Sell about noon: evil for all else.' Thou hast most unfortunate birth day, and thy affairs will all go wrong; | thy health will suffer, and thou wilt quar- | rel and get to law"
 "A child born on this day will be liable l to accidents, and injuries, and broken bones; in business it will be successful, | but should keep in employ of others" 'If female, in danger of disgrace" Hire menservants: do not hire maid- l servants; do not court
 Those inhabitants of Birmingham who never get outside of the city limits, and l even those who take delightful runs on l the trolley cars to suburban villages and resorts, are unaware of the remarkable | rural attractiveness of these valleys and l hillsdes. It may well be doubted if there |
 l United States which has such beautiful | drives through such beautiful fields, gar
 1 dens, orchards, meadows and woods. In | every direction lead the best public roads l in America-.now two hundred miles of l such roads, making smooth and reasonably l level drives without steep hills, or mud | holes, gullies or unabridged streams.
 There is one drive in particular, leading | iatI, eft l around three or four corners and up the
 | valley along the base of Red Mountain
 | through the highlands of Avondale, Wood
 1 lawn and East Lake, and so on a road
 l of perhaps twenty miles, and of wonderful | charm. It passes between picturesque residences in the midst of wood, orchard, l garden, flowers and fields. There IS one
 l corntield which in itself is compensation
 1 for an afternoon off duty. And the vege- | table farms, dairy farms and the wide sweep of the green valley, dotted with villages, while houses amongst the, green trees, a church spire here and there great school house, all set in the vivid and luxuriant greens of these early August afternoons, give a living picture of rural woodlawn, and suburban beauty of unsur- passable charm An hour or two in the late afternoon amongst such scenes were worth
 week-long toll with graphite pencil, or' any other instrument or tool of labor. ! And there is glorious drive on the north side of the valley in the same eastward direction whilst the way out Nineteenth street to near Twelfth or Thirteenth ayep-' ue, thence through the splendid wood and across the other valley and the wide creek with its bridge of steel, past the Country | Club as it lies to the right, and so on by farm and garden and through primeval | wood to Fulton Springs. There is pleasure | enough in this drive to reward long and l weary work. So also are the several drives leading down the valley to the westward, by Fountain Heights, Owentown, Thomas Pratt, Ensley; and through Elyton, the West End, by Powderly, Hawkins Spring | Bessemer; and over and under sfffd along Shadess Mountain and Valley; out Twen- tfeth street, and over Red Mountain; out past the mammoth new St. Vincent's hos 'pitai crownfng' the wooded hill a palace 'of peace and charity, and over Req Noun tain by another wonderful road!
 All these drives are of unsurpassable at tractiveness, and quite reasonably are | more charming than the trolley car lines Such persons as those that do not care for driving, can go out on the cars in any direction, and, when once we'll out of the city s limits, can leave the cars and go for walks along the shady lanes And all who wish to fully enjoy the superlative charms of this valley and the adjoining hills and valleys at their best should take advantage of these August afternoons. Within a few weeks the greens will be saffron, then brown, and then pass away leaving trees and shrubbery bare for the icy blast of Boreas.
 Everybody was amazed and gladdened by the fullness, completeness and attractive ness of yesterdays newbirth anniversary issue of The Age-Herald, but none save newspaper workers realized the vast amount of work, the hereulean. labor pe- ouired to produce such newspaper, The work was not all done on Saturday, nor last week, nor within several. weeks, nor was it all actually printed Sunday morning; but the rush, the nerve-shatteringt all-night labor and the most pressing anxiety was experienced during the past week. It was perhaps the most generally readable news paper ever issued in Alabama; and the men who made it did not need the cordial pub lie praise yesterday to cause them to feel proud of this Sundays journal. Men who make newspapers, know every time that paper goes to press whether it be good, and know better than men in other trades can know; and they know whether any particular issue will please the general puh- lie. They have accurately calculated be- fore quitting in the silent hours whether the paper is good CT will please. Yesterdays Age-Herald was. good and pleased; and such a result is what all good newspaper workers strive for.
 Extraordinary issues of daily papers re- quire extraordinary work on the part of men who make them. Some of the men of The Age-Herald have for two weeks done [ each day what would be considered two or three days ordinary work This was due