The age-herald., 1900-10-30
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE

day. Tuesday, October 3O 1900:
 Travel and deal sign writings and re- move after ? D. m
 Do not speculate or run risks with thy 1 money; in thy domestic affairs thou wilt have success, and with care thy business
 will succeed"
 'The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be of good behavior active and industrious and for tunate in its undertakings Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for l Wednesday, October 31, 1900: Travel, remove ask favors, and seek
 work before 5 D. m."
 l keep a sharp eye on thy business if | thou meanest to succeed; to thy health; those in employ will run a risk of losing it
 "A child born on this day will be more fortunate in business for itself than in employ; it should strike out in some busi-
 ness and push it's way along" It is imperative that Birmingham and the chief towns of Alabama send strong delegations to the meeting of the Southern Industrial Convention. which will be in | session at New Orleans December Az. Especially is it needful that Birmingham
 be represented by some of its strongest and most influential business men: for the New Orleans convention will be composed of the ablest Southerners in commercial life, and Birmingham, the most progr->~- i've of Southern cities, contains men who would be distinguished in any gathering of Americans.
 Let some of these strong men of Bir- mingham be delegated to represent Bir- mingham and the mineral region at New Orleans.
 The world is looking to Birmingham for guidance and commercial inspiration! Birmingham will be the center of indus trial activity for half of North America, and nearly all of Central America and South America. All the country is gladly helping Birmingham, for in it's certainty of superlative greatness and splendor Bir- mingham is without rival outside jeal- ousy
 Governor elect Sanford of Alabama notifies Secretary Thompson at New Or leans that he will only be inaugurated on the 1st of December and the Legislature will be then in session, hence regrets ex- ceedingly that these facts will prevent him from attending, but says he will re- quest Governor Johnston to go and official ly represent Alaba:na.
 He further adds You further advise me that the first days of the session will be devoted to the Nicaragua canal. That fact causes me to regret my inability to be present, as that great project has my al I nrOfOIlphlV vinced that the interests of the South will be greatly subserved by the early comple- tion of that great work.
 T trust the deliberations of the conven- ton will awaken an interest in the canal that will not abate until there is 8. success ful termination of the matter. I suggest that you request Governor Johnston to ap- point delegation from Alabama to be present on the occasion"
 The proposed baby show is not the least interesting of the great events of the State Fair, which will be opened in Birmingham on Thursday for there is presumptive evi- dence that everybody was at one time a baby; and we all of us hold it true with him who sings to one clear harp in divers tones that the hand that spanks the baby is the hand that spanks the world!
 Hon. Charles Wesley Ferguson, Hon. John Mcqueen and Col. Erskine Ramsey have been named judges of the baby show, and with wise foresight they have perfected their arrangements for escaping after their legal decision shall be rendered, naming the most beautiful tootsie wootsies in the whole world. These judges, unac- customed to welded joys and utterly ob- livious of the alleged fact that Its nice to be a father, it's nice to be father; oh, it's nice to be father, have arranged for company of the National Guard to sur round the judges stand, and three swift horses securely saddled will be held in readiness. As soon as the decision is read the National Guard will close in, and the judges will mount the horses and speed away from the infuriated populace-assum- ing that the said judges shall be skillful enough to retain their saddleseats
 If the best-informed and most unbiased man in Jefferson County were called upon to name the most popular three young men of the county he would most likely name MT. Ferguson, MT. Mcqueen and Colonel Ramsey; and therefore these bachelors Of probable hopes are assuming a grave risk by consenting to sit in judgment up- on the babies of Jefferson We all of us know what they would like to do-they would rejoice to say that every baby in the county has it's fathers nose and mothers eyes, and is quite the prett!- est baby in the world!' And they would be perfectly correct in such a decision, for every baby under the sun is the prettiest baby ever rocked to sleep in the tender arms of true and worshiping mother
 Judge Ferguson imparts, the astonishing information, quite confdentially that he was himself "once baby" and intimate personal friends of Judge Mcqueen and Judge Ramsey declare that those two uni versally loved gentlemen entertain a be- lief similar to Judge Ferguson's regard ing their infantile condition in the dim and distant past. This may come as a surprise to the public which has so long trusted the gentlemen in question; but there is positive evidence in support of their claims tO a former condition of in