The age-herald., 1900-09-29
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 "A child born on this day will be very fortunate and rise in life rapidly, whether in employ or in business for itself"
 If a female, she will get a good and fortunate husband and be very happy with him."
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sunday, September 90, 19OO
 Court, marry, ask favors and visit thy friends"
 Fortune fayors thee, and thy affairs will prosper
 Young women will receive offers of mar riage which they may accept without hesi- tation."
 "A child born on this day will be gener- ally fortunate in all that it undertakes, and will never lack friends"
 'If female she will marry we'll and live happily"
 If the Criminal Court grand jury should carry out what is rumored to be one of it's intentions, and begin a systematic and business-like investigation of the wide spread offenses of concealed weapons, there should most likely be three thousand in- dictments found in Jefferson County. There are probably more than three thousand pis- tols in this county; more than three thous- and men and boys who habitually go about prepared to commit murder, many of them having no sort of objection to commit the worst crime known to humanity.
 You're no gentleman!'
 You are a liar!'
 That Is the regulation formula for the wholesale shooting and murdering that goes on; and all the murderous shooting occurs in public places to the deadly dan ger, and often the wounding, of innocent persons. The law doesn't protect the pub lie from men who are armed to commit murder. Presumably every person who carries a concealed weapon does so with the full intention or committing murder, if ex- cuse be found. There never is any reason for such lawlessness
 It will come to this: the public will pro- tect itself If there be any excuse for lynching it is indiscriminate firing of weapons in public places If the next man "wid de gum who fires in public to the endangering of the lives of citizens were taken up and hanged to the nearest lamp post, there would be an end to such fir ing. Lynching is horrible, loathsome; but it is scarcely as damnable private mur- der in public places: it is virtue itself com pared to the numerous murders that par take of the ordinary qualities of assassina- tion.
 In Birmingham Thursday there was pub lie shooting that would be disgraceful among savages. A man charged with hay ing broken into tool house was being pursued in lawful manner by a police of fcer. Several men-report says twenty joined in the chase and some of them drew pistols and began firing wildly, to the im- minent peril of women and children, who had to fly for their lives. The man was shot. To all intents and purposes the men who did the firing are murderers, and the law so holds. The law? Rubbish. Why were those men carrying pistols? To shoot other men, By what warrant? The war rant of unenforced law.
 That is merely a case in point We have public shooting with murderous intent here in Birmingham perhaps every day in the year. In very many cases there are no arrests.
 In Montgomery Wednesday afternoon a monstrous public crime was committed. Two walters in the largest restaurant there got to quarrelling in the main public din- ingroom. One of them produced pistol and shot the other there in the main din- ingroom of the largest. most fashionable and most popular restaurant in the capital of Alabama.
 One day at 1 o'clock in the great Cald- we'll hotel main dining saloon guest drew pistol and fired at waiter because the soup was too cool or too hot. More than a hundred guests, including many of the gentlest and most refined women in Ala bama, were at their midday meal and witnessed the outrage. No arrest was made. A reporter, sent immediately to in- vestigate the crime, was informed that the criminal was "a traveller;" couldn't so much as ascertain "the travellers" name.
 There are multitude of 1aw-abidng citizens in Birmingham, and they are talk ing, and talking with deep indignation, concerning the reckless use of firearms. They are angry. When they act, the gal lows will come more into use and the pen itentiary will receive many additional con- victs.
 Thousands of the best citizens of Ala abama would be glad to see enacted laws making the carrying of concealed weapons iSAohS' eiit PiOAiDlliliS dpptdlS III murder cases!
 Whilst everybody loves the circus. it is remarkable how many persons try to "do' the circus, and how many more try to hold up the great show of the people Charlie Sells, one of the owners of the gil gantic circus that was in Birmingham yes- terday, had a very annoying experience many years ago. His famous circus, then Sells Brothers was showing in Montgom- cry. Tined had pack of wonderful per- forming dogs Of great value. Some man had a claim, or claimed to have had claim much the same thing-against the manager of the dogs, which were the property of Sells Brothers. The man with or without the claim claimed that the dogs belonged to the manager, and the manager owed him. So he got a lawyer in Montgomery to take steps to have the dogs attached for the debt. Charlie Sells got hint of