The age-herald., 1900-06-29

| InOu WILL nave successful year, anu
 thy money and business will increase; thou
 wilt travel and change with success.
 "A child born on this day will be very
 clever, and will rise rapidly in life; it's
 intellect will be far above the common
 run"
 This day is dedicated in the calendar of
 the church to St. Peter, the rock upon
 which the church was builded and Catho-
 lies throughout the world observe it
 solemn religious festival
 | Business is good and everybody in the
 East is in good spirits" said Morton kirke | Moore, who returned yesterday from New | York, Saratoga, and other Eastern towns.
 "In New York the most confident feeling prevails in business circles for business is good and promises to be even better. Dur ing the hundred years from 1790 to 1890 the
 total exports from the United States to
 foreign countries exceeded the total inn
 ports by about $500 000. 900. During the past
 three years alone exports have ex- | ceeded our imports by than billion
 four hundred million dollars. These start | ling figures tell a startling tale of unpar- | alleled national prosperity-a tale that | amazes ourselves and astounds the world l America is now passing Great Britain and | Germany in the worlds commerce We
 are becoming world-conquerors in more
 than one sense, and great indeed is our destiny"
 | At Saratoga there is more of life and
 brightness than ever before" said MT. | Moore, referring to the social side of his | recent stay in the East. q never saw the | springs so gay and happy, although the | season is yet young. The great hotels are | crowded and gaiety rules every passing ] hour. The women more beautiful than 1 they were last year. Do you know, the | women generally grow more beautiful each | succeeding year. My mercy me, How positively radiant they are this June, es-
 pecially in Jones Valley. Alabama.'' | When I was in Indianapolis my friends | there were good enough to give a banquet | in my honor at which Colonel William E. | English presided, and I found great joy,'
 said Hon. Basil Manley Allen, Grand Ex- | alted Ruler of the Elks. You are aware | that Colonel English is the son of the late | Governor William H. English, Democratic | nominee for Vice President on the ticket | with Hancock in 1880, and that he disting- | uished himself in the Spanish American | war in Cuba, being shot through the body | and almost fatally wounded. He is a boon l companion is Colonel English, right mer- | ry fellow, and he is a fisherman from l Wayback, Indiana. As of his experience | of angling, he related to me an interesting | fact. Shortly before the death of the late | Governor English that statesman purchas- | ed a large tract of land in the backwoods | of Indiana. One day in travelling through l the woods of this land he came upon a | beautiful lake with water wonderfully | clear. As he approached the edge he was | amazed to see vast numbers of dead fish | around the margin, and at the same time | noticed that the water of the lake was | stirred as by strong wind. Investigation | proved that the cause of the disturbance was the vast stock of fish in the lake, and | that the dead fish along the shore had died l of starvation. Fish in the woodland lake | were so numerous that they were actually l starving to death.'
 1 A trolley car from North Birmingham | was coming into the city, and as it began l slowing a colored woman at the front l Jumped off. She was tossed ten feet into a l bed of broken slag and lay sprawling. By | the time she had hattened out the car had | stopped still and her man was picking her | up. The conductor and passengers felt | much concern for the woman, fearing that | she was seriously hurt; but in answer to | the conductors anxious call if she was l hurt she answered a cheerful '.No sir" | and the car resumed it's journey It is l most astonishing, as the conductor said.
 that some passengers will never learn that | Uyhi iu ;,, | motion is very hazardous, dangerous to | limb and life. Every effort is made to | impress this very important fact upon the | public; yet there is perhaps never a trolley l car in Birmingham that makes journey l without one or more of its passengers fool
 ishly risking limb and life by jumping off. | And whenever one of these reckless per- | sons gets hurt it means 'sue the company" | forthwith. In fact, the company is no more responsible in the matter than is a Chinese Boxer" The company through it's serv- | ants labors to protect the passengers | against themselves. Yet Sue the com | pany" is ever a popular cry.
 
 Mayor Drennen said last night that neeo | tiations were in progress which he be- | lieved would result in the holding of q
 
 next autumn. The committee of arrange | ments appointed at last weeks meeting | has not been called together for the reason that matters affecting the proposed fair have not yet been gotten into shape for 1 a formal report Mayor Drennen and the ] committee are at work, but at the moment they cannot do more than report prog ress.
 | Asked last night if he had made arrange l ments of public interest for himself to be | carried out after he gives up the Flor l ence hotel, Major Michael Clifford answered | that he had not; that his movements after l quitting the Florence next winter had not | been determined upon.
 | This valley and all the district hereabout | were never greener than at present The | long continued rains have produced re-