The age-herald., 1900-10-20


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 A child born on this day will be active 1 and quick, and rather fortunate"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for l Sunday, October 21, 1900:
 Court; visit thy friends
 Be careful of sickness and disappoint- ment; thy business, with care, may be kept | together but no risks"
 "A child born on this day will be very 1 fortunate in the employ of others. and will quickly rise; it will be free with it's money and spend it very fast
 Poor Birmingham
 With extraordinary material prosperity and riches and peopled from amongst the 1 best folk in the world, it has harder time with villageism and philistinism than any other city in christendom!
 The West End-Twelfth avenue trolley car which left Nineteenth street at 12:Jl yesterday noon was stopped three or four minutes at Twentieth street, block dis tant. Before it had come to standstill two young men rushed to 1t bearing fiaring 1 banners of blue and white with which they proceeded to completely cover the broad l dash boards of the car This work of phil istinism done, the car proceeded on it's way looking about as disreputable as any cir | GUS van it advertised.
 | With hideous display of blue and white 1 circus advertising banners, here within | three weeks after the passing of the best | circus in America, lends to the whole town air of disrepute which is not likely to | be cleared up by the belated circus which l is thus so cheapy and hastily adVer- l tised.
 The merchants of Birmingham, the peo- 1 pie who make Birmingham, would not be allowed the outrageous privileges allowed | to this show that Is coming from the devil knows whither. Birmingham had three weeks ago the best of all circuses. What more?
 Can you inform me why Rob't E. Lee should have his name in the Hall of Fame? What did he ever do to make his name famous, outside of being a traitor to his country. Are the American people to un- derstand that Lee, the commander of the Confederate forces, is to be named with such men as Washington and Lncoln?
 "These remarkable questions are asked in a letter from an old soldier to the New York Sun," said a southern man who
 
 letter to the Sun was evidently written by the Sun, for the Sun stamps it as correct | and then proceeds to a column and a quar- ter of vituperation aimed at Lee and the south, which for vindctiveness and blind | hate is worthy of Cincinnati and Chicago l newspapers in the heyday of the Bloody | Shirt The Sun is the representative of @ very large and reputable element of New | VOrIx'e ,Iafi JF h ness and its insane outbreaks of passion l against the south and southerners did not please its readers, it's mortgages would find a way to stop the loss of revenue The act of hireling of corrupt hireing newspa- | per giving expression to such low bitterness against Lee simply because he was a south erner is entirely intolerabe. Oh, how our northern brothers love us in election times! 1 Lee with such men as Washington and Lincoln forsooth Washington was the | worst rebel and noblest man of history. He is the arch-rebel of all history: he was the | incarnation of the spirit of bloody -browed rebellion, and he taught in fullest degree mankind how to rightfully, religiously and successfully rebel against constituted au- l thority. And Washington didn't have even the shadow of great reason for rebellion | against centralized despotism-precisely | what Lee fought against, but under vastly | greater provocation. Lincoln wan a rebel | against Washington and blessed Washing l tonism Lincoln fought for that which | Washington fought against. Washington and Lee fought for local self-government. | Lincoln fought for strict government from 1 the District of Columbia. These were and |, -...lz- some another as they will. Washington and Lee were right-eternal right; Lincoln was l wrong-eternal wTong!"
 1 One of the best officers of the Alabama | National Guard passes out of service by the resignation of Capt Cary Thomp- | son of the Jefferson Volunteers. On ac- count of his private business Captain 1 Thompson has found it imperative to re-
 sign the command of one of the best of all | the companies of the National Guard, a company which owes a great deal of it's
 efficiency and excellence to his skill abund- ant energy, and pride in his military work.
 The Jefferson Volunteers are in the highest degree praseworthy, and they are an honor ] to Alabama. That they are so is largely | due credit to Capt. Cary Thompson. Aaptam lHOmpson IS tie SecTtldry ana | treasurer of the new Martin Cracker Con- | pany, which has prospered in the first
 five weeks of it's business that its capital
 has been doubled in order to double it's pro- | ducng capacity. All this prosperity has
 brought work to Captain Thompson so exacting that he is compelled to quit the 1 National Guard. All the National Guard
 and all its friends will regret Captain | Thompson's resignation.
 1 MT. Jack Cranford, the eminent mer- | chant and banker of Jasper, was in town | yesterday. MT. Cranford is one of the most successful merchants of Alabama, and | Is one of the States best citizens. | sam Jones is almost completely broken | down in health, I hear, and has cancelled l all his public engagements, said George I .NI.