The age-herald., 1900-07-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 day, Saturday, July ', 1900:
 Court, marry, seek work. ask fayors, and push thy business between noon and o'clock in the afternoon"
 Thy birthday is rather a favorable one for thy business and family affairs, yet thou wilt be annoyed by young people and by letters and writings; those in employ will be promoted"
 And the young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be fond of company and pleasure, yet will be for tunate whether in employ or in business for itself
 This is Thomas Beckett day." An epidemic of neuralgia has been prev alent in this district for the past two weeks; and apparently it was connected with the extraordinary and long-continued rainfall, together with the intense damp heat that prevailed towards the end of the rainy season so-caled. Very naturally persons afflicted with rheumatism suffered in such weather. Doctors and druggists have been very forcefuIly made aware of the neuralgia epidemic for neuralgia sui ferers, unlike persons afflicted with the
 kindred rheumatism, are always hopeful, noisy, and persistent in seeking temporary relief. One popular physician had three calls over the telephone within seven min | utes the other morning from unhappy mor- tals mad with neuralgia" He remarked that the complaint was almost universal. Others bear witness to the same fact. Certain drug stores which make specialties of neuralgia specifics have been experience i, +a5 a,d for potions that give relief One house has had heavy run" on preparation of it's own. All druggists are enabled in most cases to give temporary relief, and they do it by compounds of coal tar prepara
 tions that harmless Quinine, the old standard remedy, has proved useless, as all standard remedies do in the end, Pa tients have in many cases been forbidden to take mercury in any form, and have been kept to sulphate of sodium, whatever that is. Meantime the victims of neural gia have continued to howl, and set up | more vociferous howl than ever before as- cended from this vale of tears which we call Jones Valley. The rain ceased three days ago; but the atmosphere is still eX- cessvey damp and the population is swell terng in steam as if packed in damp cloth ing in an oven seven times heated, and the victims of neuralgia continue to vainly hope The number of remedies mentioned by the kind-hearted public to every suffer- CT exceeds a thousand. If the census of the city had been taken between the 18th | of June and the 9th of July, the enumera- tors could have put down half of the popu
 lation as being afflicted with neuralgia nd he oil, hol o,,i,,
 
 1 Tennent Lomax, who seconded the nom- l inatfon of Bryan at Kansas City, is the so- l licitor of the city court of Montgomery He is little man physically, with light sandy hair, and short mustache of the same hue; l has a resonant strong voice, makes fine | speech, is about forty-two years old, and l has been never married He is "a lawyer | planter, publicist, and has remained warm l ly attached to free silver in politics. He is entirely conscientious in this particular;
 and he was the first man in Alabama to 1 formally protest against expansion, Or, as l it is now called imperialism" This he did | in speech in June, 1898, at the Alabama | University, of which he is an alumnus | That was before there had been any politi- l cal agitation of the subject and before it 1 had been fully discussed by any leading | man in any State. When he was boy Mr. Lomax was page at the State capitol and | before reaching his majority he was made l secretary of the State Democratic Execu- | tive Committee, the headquarters of which were invariably in Montgomery, and he held | that position until he was chosen solicitor l He was at the Alabama University with Henry D. Clayton Jesse F. Stallings, Chap | pell Cory, James M. Weatherly, Joseph J. | Willett, F. D. Willett, Frank Mccall Judge l Anderson, Daniel Collier, Tancred Betts 1 H. c. Speake, Richard H. Lowe and others 1 who have since become conspicuous in the | life of the State, and from that institution 1 he graduated twenty-one years ago. Intel lectually, MT. LomaX is a man of marked
 ability. He has been repeatedly urged to
 seek the Governorship of the State and
 likewise to ask for a seat in Congress; but
 he has resolutely declined. His speech sec
 onding the nomination of Bryan was merely l rhetorical, was proper. It was sky-scrap-
 ing eloquence He can make a powerful
 speech--does so very frequently
 
 l It appears that the Democrats of the
 Opelika Senatorial District will simply com
 pei Gen. George P. Harrison to accept the 1 Senatorship which he so consistently does I not desire He has been formally nominat- 1 ed, and it would appear that he will not | finally decline what is to him something | of an honor that is empty General Harri- l son has been President of the Senate and l member of Congress, and all the time | lawyer with a large practice. He is now
 as he has been for many years, very | busy man; bearing the burden of the attor-
 neyshfp of the Western Railway of Ala l bama, besides having large private inter- | ests. He is one of the strongest and best 1 men in the State, and is capable of honor 1 ing any office.
 The health of John Witherspoon DuBose | the biographer of Yancey, continues to be l very unsatisfactory. He is with his sister