The age-herald., 1900-10-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l Beware of law and quarreling, and avoid | them: thou wilt be annoyed in many ways" Young females are in great danger and l should be extremely. careful of their con- | duct and acquaintances during the next | twelve months."
 | "A child born on this day will be rash and much given to falsehoods in business 1t | will not be fortunate; 1t should keep in em ploy if a female, unhappy in wedlock." l Astrologer RaphaePs prophecies for
 Thursday, October 4, 1900;
 l Keep quiet and avoid business.' 1 Thou hast an excellent birthday any thy
 money and business will increase fast; thou l wilt travel and change and with success; ! those in employ will meet promotion.''
 "A child born on this day will be gener-
 ally fortunate whether in employ or busi-
 ness for itself. and clever'
 1 Tine movement for the annexation of West Florida to Alabama seems to gather
 strength as the canvas for the removal of | the Florida capital from Tallahassee grows warmer. All over Florida men are now l shrlekng themselves hoarse in giving warn | ings of impending disasters or in giving l promises of unexampled glory-it is all the | same in politics.
 | The loudest of shrieks heard in Florida
 are concerning the truly monstrous proposi-
 tior to double the State debt'' by removing | the capital. This Is funny, mighty funny, when one reflects that F'lorida's debt Is l barely over a million dollars, or less than | one-ninth of the State debt of Alabama and | about one-haIf of the city debt of Birm- 1 ingham. That too in defiance of the fact | that assessed taxable values of Florida are
 $9S, ,527, ,353 79 or more than third of the
 sessment of Alabama; something more than | double the assessment of Jefferson County, | and about five times the assessment of | Birmingham.
 Men who have taken interest In this ques- | tion of the annexation of west Florida to | Alabama have apparently lost sight Of the l fact that the existing constitution of Ala | bama provides for the annexation of west l Florida or any other territory which the l General Assembly of this State may deem advisable to acquire.
 Article 4. section 5l Constitution of Ala l bama operative from December $, 1875, reads:
 | Tn the event of annexation of any for | eign territory to this State, the General | Assembly shall enact laws extending to | the inhabitants of the acquired territory | all the rights and privileges which may be | required by the terms of the acquisition, | anything in this Constitution to the con- | trary notwithstanding"
 | West Florida was in the minds of the | Constitutional Convention which enacted l this annexation section, as multitude of | men now living remember. The designa- | ton foreign" therein employed is one ire | quently used in inter-provincial or inter- | State intercourse, more especially in mer- | cantile transactions. For example, in ordi- l nary commerce foreign bill," which pri- l marily is a bill drawn in one country and | payable in another, as distinguished from | an "inland'' bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country, means in the | United States bill drawn in one State | ard payable in another In this latter, as l well as in several other viewpoints the diff ferent States of our Union are foreign to I each other; the different views being dwelt 1 upon at length by both Kent and Story. Some newspapers in this country which, | through lack of any other term, must be | called provincial in the sense that they are | published outside of the metropolis are in | the habit of referring to advertisements
 
 each particular newspaper is published as | foreign adyertisementsv; in such instances l somewhat misleading phrase. 1 Hon. Basil Manly Allen, passed grand exalted ruler of the Elks. is i'll with fever l at the Hillman Hospital in this city. MT. | Allen fell i'll last Saturday, and too to his | bed in his apartments on the third floor of | the Allen building in Third avenue. He | bad been aiing somewhat for several days. | His physician was summoned, and he was at once put under treatment. The prog ress of his fever being not satisfactory, he was yesterday removed to the hospital The precise nature of MT. Aliens fever is not yet fully determined, but it is be- Heved to be bilious fever. MT. Allen him. self fears that he has got typhoid but there is as yet no real reason for his the | cry. He bases his belief in part on the fact that few doors below his apartments | in Third avenue a MT. Johnson is danger | ously ill of typhoid. MT. Allen hazards the | opinion that the opening of a large ditch | by a telephone company through Third | avenue by his dwellingplace and office has l bad to do with his sickness; but that is | said to be not tenable. the deposits of lime | in the streets of Birmingham being so | great-about 90 per cent.-that the soil can 1 be disturbed in hot weather without dan l ger; this being the only considerable town | in America where such work in such condi- l tions can be proceeded with safely. | Speaking of the misuse of name-words and other words. wise man of advancing l years, scholar historian gentleman re- I marked yesterday. he was awaiting his | train going out of town:
 | "A distinguished correspondent of an Ala
 bama newspaper wrote of some young
 ladies of an historic excursion of recent | days that they had gone to attend a
 dining In their honor As to fact, they | went to dinner. The eating is merely l mechanical. The dinner is a patronized
 feature of high civilization, perhaps the l Of oil