The age-herald., 1900-12-25

ate displays rare capacity, come of his long years of experience In legislative and other delfberative bodies: and such a man as he will be required in the secretaryship of the convention which is to frame the organic law of the State He would be as certain to make no mistakes of record as any man I know
 "The present-day two Dromios gave me a mighty start this morning. said thoughtful and entirely sober man. T slept late, according to my habit and l arose very hungry, and with but few moments in which to get food before attending to some duties. hurried into a cafe, ordered some porridge and eeffee, and then glanced at the morning paper. My simple order was quickly served, and as I was enjoying it I happened to look opposite me. What I saw startled me so that I dropped my spoon and almose myself to the floor.
 Before me at a small table there sat facing each other two men as precisely alike In personal appearance as one black eyed pea is like another. Each was eating something with a spoon, and every move ment of each was precisely like the every movement of the other Each appeared to be- about sixty years old, each had white hair very thin on top of the head and brushed precisely like the hair of the oth- CT; each had white mustache, with the suggestion of an imperial, rather heavy eyebrows. straight nose, graceful chin, and ruddy and good-loolxing face; each was dressed as the other precisely, and as near7 ly as I could guess, each weighed exactly the others weight.
 al and after recovering from momentary paraly- sis I rubbed my eyes pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming, and looked intently at the two men so perfectly alike in every respect and condition even to their manner of sitting in their chairs, half bent-over, and with the right foot of each thrown back so as to partially rest on the toes. I knew I wasn't drunk, and seeing double.' for I never drink any intoxicant of any nature; knew I wasn't crazy, for I recalled in a second every incident Of nay awaking, my toilet, and my walk from my bedroom to the cafe, including word of friendly greeting to the cashier as en- tered the place; and then l knew l was In perfect general health.
 "All I am telling you occurred to me within fifteen to thirty seconds, and then 1 called q waiter and asked him to tell me who the two men were. he didn't know. Did he see anything peculiar about them? Yes, he said, they looked like twins. I felt better and went at once to church.
 
 One of the many millions of forbidden firecrackers fired in Birmingham last night struck pr. Rosser behind the left ear and made an ugly skin wound which bled free lN rha nr i'm fiicted within the vicinity of Nineteenth street and Second avenue, and he went in to the Adams drug store, where the wound was dressed by Dr. Barclay, who happened to be present. The injury to pr. Rosser was slight. but very annoying
 
 Hon. Frank P. o'Brien and Mrs. oBrien are spending Christmas with relatives in Montgomery.
 One of the early 1901 weddings, accord ing to well-founded rumor, will be that of a well-known young physician of Birm- ingham to a fair Kentuckian, who has many friends in this city.
 MT. Ben Harper of the Jacksonville Re- publican is spending Christmas in Birm. ingham.
 
 Merchants were agreed last night that Saturday and yesterday were the greatest two days in business known in the citys history. It is said that in the two days the retail sales of one house exceeded $25,- 000 Trade was enormous, far beyond all precedent. On Saturday and yesterday payrolls to the aggregate of several hun dred thousand dollars were paid off, and those great sums were added to the gen. eral circulation. In some of the stores lady members of the proprietors' families lent their assistance in dealing with the extraordinary run of customers. As an item showing the plentifulness of money and the growing desire for luxuries, one firm received yesterday morning con- signment of Persian rugs, some of them priced as high as sS25 each, and found sale for them during the day