The age-herald., 1900-10-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Expect sickness, quarrelling, and losses
 in thy business; thy affairs will go very
 wrong; run no risk with thy money
 "A child born on this day will be very
 unfortunate in all 1t undertakes and in
 continual poverty; if female, in danger
 of disgrace"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sun day, October IS, 1900:
 Travel and visit thy friends" Beware of accident and quarrelling; in | thy business thou wilt succeed and have
 busy year"
 "rhe young will court.''
 "A child born on this day will have d quick and tormenting temper, yet will be clever and industrious and will rise in life: if d female, rather fortunate in wedlock." It is of very great importance that Brm- ingham send a strong delegation of her best business men to the Southern Industrial Convention which is to meet in New Or
 leans December 4-9; for Birminghams vital interests are involved.
 , In New Orleans a strong company has been already organized to bring New Or , leans into closer connection with the War rior river and the enterprise is entirely ! practical and comparatively economical It
 is via the Mississippi sound and Lake Borne canal, and this can be put into shape
 on short notice, and that without any aid from the government, if necessary .rhe object is to get into the coal fields of Alabama by water route, and of course that is very important and valuable to this city," writes Col. N. F. Thompson. Now l have from the very outset been a warm advocate for the Warrior canal,
 and now see forces that can be united for that enterprise and not only secure its con-
 sumation, but that too at an early date.
 If Birmingham will send a good strong
 delegation to the Southern Industrial Con-
 vention, for which there is already secured
 strong men from every section of the south, as well as from the north, she can secure
 united influences from New Orleans and
 Mobile that will greatly aid this enterprise
 With the Warrior canal Birmingham
 may have half million population in the
 next decade and lead the world in manu-
 factures!" declares Col N. F. Thompson,
 the famous builder of cities
 Colonel Thompson is now in New Dr.
 leans, as noted in this place several days
 ago, and he is eager to aid Birmingham in
 every way possible.
 
 'The general and extended gossip in the
 New York and other Eastern newspapers concerning the refusal of MT. Willett to
 deliver a number of speeches for Bryan
 is leading to newspaper misstatements
 which may mislead mell-meaning persons,
 said close personal friend of Hon. Joseph
 J. Willett of Anniston
 "Mr WiIlett was invited to make speeches for Bryan and afterwards he was most urgently pressed to canvass Greater New York and sections of New England in Bryan's interest. For excellent person. al reasons he declined to do as he was de- sired. Mr. Willett is a very busy, hard working lawyer. Probably no other law yer of his age South has a larger prac- tiee or is more successful at law. He having declined for personal reasons to en- ter the Presidential campaign, certain per sons very powerful in Democratic politics sought to impress upon him that it was his duty to the party and the country to make speeches for Bryan; that appeals from him would have great effect upon those Democrats who objected openly and who still object silently to Bryan's nomi- nation
 "Mr Willett's answer was to the effect that they were asking too much of him, and that as for his duty, he was perhaps the best judge of that. MT. Willett did all he could do and probably more than any
 other conspicuous Democrat, to induce the Democratic party to nominate some other
 man than Bryan. That much he felt to be his duty, because he deemed it best for
 the party. He is thorough Democratic md y1tilI uota for In No
 vember But certainly it is asking too much to request him to publicly retract all his utterances as to the individuality of Bryan's nomination. Since Bryan was
 nominated he has been a Bryan man, as is every Democrat in the United States who hasn't in effect quit the Democratic party. MT Wilett is not making any apologies for being Democrat who declines to racrifice his own interests by stumping
 the East for Bryan If all Democrats are
 as prompt at the polls on the 9th of No vember as MT. Willett will be, Bryan's elec- | tion will be assured"
 Birmingham is greatly interested in some armor and projectile tests that may be l completed at Indian Head, below Washing ton, today; and the proofs of which it may 1 please the Navy Department to give out at once. If the claims of a recently invented projecte now to be tested prove true, Car
 negie and other armor plate makers will have to look for new processes for making arrnor that will be of any sort of value. It is declared that this projectile will pene- trate any thickness of armor plate, and
 that by an explosive chamber, likewise | planned on new lines, single shot will do | more execution than half a dozen of those | in use now.
 | Private information is 10 the effect that l the government has maintained the great | est secrecy concerning this projectile, and 1 il has caused delay in signing the new arnor plate contracts. There would be no use in investing more money in armor as ] ermor is now made. The new projectile is 1 technically known as a 100- pound shot and 1 shell combination, with a cast steel shell | and soft cap. Behind this soft cap Is a tn fha rnin n1f