The age-herald., 1900-11-04

"An excellent day for any purpose"
 "Thou hast a chequered birthday, and successes and losses, joys and sorrows, will follow each other; see to thy health; in thy family thou wilt have sickness if nothing worse.'
 "A child born on this day will be for tunate in business and will rise in life, but 1t will spend its money fast on pleas ure and women; in it's domestic life 1t will have much sorrow"
 Astrooger Raphaefs prophecies for Mon day, November B. 195O:
 Travel, seek work and deal before noon."
 Sickness, disappointment and bereave- ment threaten thee; in thy business thou will have an unsettled and harassing year; keep thy money safe and avoid specula- tion"
 "A child born on this day will suffer with sorrow and bereavement; in its business it will fail; it will succeed best in employ"
 
 There's bower of roses by Bendemeers stream" is the original quotation upon which Congressman Brewer based his now famous reflection in a short and brilliant letter to newspaper regarding in effect the recent political troubles in the Fifth Congressional District of Alabama. As the letter appeared in the newspaper to which 1t was sent, Colonel Brewer was made to say, There are gardens by Ben denere's stream, you know" "Bende- nere's' was most probably misprint; but otherwise the words he used constitute misquotation, as may be plainly seen in Tom Moores ''Lalla Rookh," specifically in "The Yelled Prophet of Khorassan;" and here is found the most beautiful of all of Moore's passionately emotional work. "Now this joy, most divine of all ever
 dreamt or knew,
 To see thee, hear thee, call the mine misery, must I lose that, too?''
 It is pleasing alway, all this discussion of roses and gardens and joys. Even Ba- con wrote learnedly and beautifully of gar dens, as every one may read who cares to turn to the immortal Essays. "Of gar dens," Bacon begins in the stately phras- ing of his time: God Almighty first plant ed a garden One of Bacon's illustrious successors in the public life of England, having politics, diplomacy, statecraft in hls mind, exclaimed, How fair garden amid the tolls and passions of existence!" The passage may be found in Disraeli's story of "Sybil"
 'The madding crowds ignoble strife" in politics is far removed from Birmingham happily for this valley where peace and plenty dwell The political solidarity of the South may be "un-American" and show hopeless dependence upon the whims of minority elsewhere; but it is not with out comforting compensation. We haven't been bored to lunacy by continuous roaring of brass instruments and brass-throated oratory and have been gladly without cheap fireworks to endanger the lives of children. We haven't been begged for our votes or theratened with loss of occupa- ton; haven't passed through showers of two-dollar bills, or known the advantages of subsidized saloons: haven't been com pelled to listen to or read lies about men we know to be honorable. Hence on this Sunday morning, two days before 'the day." we all of us here in the valley are free from the commoner abominatons of a Presidential canvass. Assuredly that is something for which to be deeply grateful. Birmingham has politics enough of its own, in the name of all that is reasonable; but ordinarily the voters leave the ever present, never-fadeth-away candidates to do the ''politicking'' and peaceable citi- zens do the voting at the prescribed time: though it is a fact that place-hunters thrust their aims and purposes into al- most every relation of life. much to the annoyance of respectable inhabitants in general Birmingham is never free from lk s, 4I. didates. The man at work can, If he'll leave his work long enough, find out with fair accuracy today the men who will ask for office two years hence, or maybe four years from now. The candidates are with us every night and day the years come and go; and it is amazing that the Ameri- can people, pre-eminently the working peo- pie of the world, yield to the blighting influence of endless political disturbance: {: Next Wednesday morning the organs of the innumerable candidates who shall be defeated will shriek all sorts of nonsense about the defeated but not dismayed" and their multitude of friends will ''close up ranks and "march to victory, in 1902 or 1904, as the case may be. Some day the people will put stop to chronic candidates and chornic politics generally. Speed the day.
 Roses, roses, love you sol" And the