The age-herald., 1900-04-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l thee; avoid new enterprises, lend no
 money. and stand bond for no man. Avoid
 women, and young females will do well to
 avoid men; the influences are very treach-
 erous.
 ] "A child born on this day will be quick
 and clever, but not lucky; 1t will he
 thwarted by those more powerful than it.
 self.
 | There will be numerous familiar figures | in the next legislature of Alabama; chief
 amongst them being Francis L. Pettus
 of Dallas MT. Pettus returns to the | house. of which he formerly speaker,
 after an absence of several years. From l the house he was in 1891 sent to the sen- l ate. and was elected president of that
 body He retired from the general as
 sembly in 1898. It is not improbable that he will be again a candidate for the
 speakership: an honor to which Thomas L. Bulger of Tallapoosa is understood to
 aspire Mir Bulger is member of the | retiring house. MT. Pettuss cousin, Joel W. Goldsby of Mobile, formerly a member | of the house and young man of high | character and ability, will go to the sen | ate Leslie Brooks. also of Mobile. re- 1 turns to the house after many years ab- l AON'A
 years postmaster of Mobile city. That l county will send to the house Richard II.
 Clarke sometime a congressman, and, in l 1S96 Governor Johnstons only opponent
 for the democratic gubernatorial nomina-
 tlon. An interesting fact is that Frederic
 l.. Blackman of Calhoun, law partner of l Sidney J. Bowie and John B. Knox, has
 been nominated for the senate John H. | {1 fha hnJfc
 and his colleague will be William B. | Bankhead, second son of Congressman
 John H. Bankhead. Erie Pettus of Lime | stone, the youngest man in the present
 house. and one of it's brightest members, l returns to his old haunts. Cecil c. Whit
 son of Talladega is one of the braves re- | turning to the house. Tom Long Of
 Walker, an old and hard-working member, | also returns.
 William. w. Brandon of Tuscaloosa, the | leader of the Johnston forces in the pres
 ent house, will be member of the next
 Benjamin H. Screws of Montgomery, who
 has been several times elected member of | the house, goes back to the seat he has
 adorned In point of service. he will prob- | ably be the oldest member of the next
 house. William L Bullock of Franklin re-
 
 tirement. George P. Harrison of Lee, for
 merly a congressman and also state sen
 ator, will be sent back to the senate This 1 list of returning notables is but partial
 and hurried; a really full list cannot be
 made until after the date Tor the meeting of the state democratic convention, April | 20, as several candidates will be nominated
 on that day by senatorial conventions call I1aI t1, iy,n nternm
 | "Giye health and day, and I will make
 the pomp of emperors ridiculous" said l Emerson. Probably Emerson never had to
 face a day like yesterday. It gave no l health, and it made all pomp and circum- l stances ridiculous. Every man appeared a l guy There weren't any women about the
 streets save only those brave, fair souls i whom necessity drove upon errands of du- l ty or mercy. Rain began pouring down in l the dark of the morning, and it kept pour l ing throughout the dark day and into the but slightly gloomier night. There wasn't
 a moment of cessation, no apparent slack
 ening of the flood; it just kept a-flooding
 as if another period of forty days had come l to drive other Noahs to extreme measures. | There is Sunday school song about ''the l beautiful rain falling down." Yesterdays
 rain wasn't beautiful little bit; it was
 abominable. Streets, gutters, ditches, gull l lies, brooks, creeks, riyers gardens, parks, l fields, valleys, mountains-the world was
 flooded. There was a story that Village
 creek had swollen to seventeen miles in
 width between the city and Ensley, but as 1 the distance between the two points is only l six or seven miles, the story was probably
 exaggerated. Even the successful candi-
 dates didn't come down town. As for the
 unsuccessful ones they went through a l cold flood last Saturday. Yet the rainstorm l did some good. It settled the deep dust In 1 Birmingham. The dust-creating street. 1 sweepers weren't required last night. Thus, 1 compensating good for every trial is given. 'The recent celebrations on the battle 1 field of Shiloh were under the general su- l pervison of Colonel Cornelius Cadle of 1 Cincinnati" said an old friend of Colonel l Cadle. 'As is well known, the United 1 States government is making a national
 park at Shiloh, six thousand acres of land | having been acquired, and marked off by means of stone pillars. Colonel Cadle is the president of the Shiloh battlefield com- mission, created by act of congress, and under his able direction a great national undertaking IS being remarkably well car ried out. Something like $16O0OO has been expended, and a larger sum remains of the congressional appropriation. An inn mense amount of work has been done; but it will require several years to complete the park, as planned by congress. No man in the United States is better fitted for this national duty than is Colonel Cadle. The people of Birmingham and the mineral zion have pleasant and grateful recollec- i tions of Colonel Cadle. He one of the two or three original pioneers of the min eral development of Alabama and is one of the truest and best men who ever dwelt here"
 Major Frederick Mahan of the United States corps of engineers, who is about to be placed on the retired list of the army at | his own request stationed at Mont r.o,oerv for a time in charge of river iul-