The age-herald., 1900-06-28

day. Thursday, June 2S, 19OO
 An uncertain day"
 Thou wilt have a ehequered year, and must avoid speculation, risk and changes "The young will court or marry "A child born on this day will be quick, clever, and well-condueted, and rather for tunate."
 Just sixty-two years ago, on June 2S, 1S3S Queen Victoria was crowned in the | ancient Abbey of Westminster, where sleep many of those who preceded her on the throne of England including that other | great Queen, Elizabeth. Victoria was then a girl Of nineteen, and, like millions of ordinary girls, was in love, and had made
 up her mind to get married. Her exalted
 rank made it necessary for he to pop the | question, which other girls have popped at l them and in that alone did her courtsh1p differ from the wooing which any well-bred girl will experience this June day in any 1 Alabama valley or upon any Alabama hill. The little Queen had it bad," the flip pant phrase of nowadays runs, and she was impelled to >s and tell her Albert, "I want you, my honey--Yes, I do!'' Very beauti-
 ful the little Queen looked in the old abbey
 that noontime in June two and sixty years
 agone, the historians tel us; and one could
 well believe the historians true for once. She was surrounded by the dazzling splen | dor and noble ceremony of the worlds greatest empire, and right radiant was the l beautiful bride of the State-radiant in beauty and youth and imperial power,
 within twenty paces of where Elizabeth l lay and had been sleeping for more than 1 two hundred years; by her side Mary, too
 she of Scots who had gone to the heads I man when life was young. In such pomp 1 and circumstance of power the crown was | placed on the head of the girl Queen, 1 year and a week after she had been called l out of maiden bed to be sauted as sover- | eign. In the glad after days, when she l wandered about with her lover under the l mighty oaks at grand old Windsor she | was as sweetheart like every little sweet l heart of this Junetime; gave similar silly 1 answers to similar silly questions, and the | majesty of England became her not half
 so well as the crown of love that blessed | her. She is a very old woman now-an old i woman of many sorrows whom the world 1 loves and reverences-but on this anni- 1 versary she will be solemnly and tenderly 1 happy in remembrance of the long lost 1 June, and the long lost lover, and her sigh
 for the vanished hand and the stilled voice will be not without compensation.
 | And so "Coz" Is getting married again
 MT. Phillip Cosminsky of Mobile, news | paper worker and general good fellow. l Here's to him, from his old fellow work
 CTS in the slavery of newspaper shops!
 May he have plenty of copy and may it | be a long time before he hears thirty"
 He is a good-hearted soul, is Coz" He
 will pardon the Cockney's phrase of
 praise: E allus wus a sof -'earted
 bloke.' He knows how it is-its ups and l downs, it's shoals and deeps and he knows
 that his brothers in slavery wish him we'll
 Apart from the "pressmen,' as the Scotch
 call them. there are numerous good folk I in Birmingham who would extend cordial
 congratulations to MT. Philip Cosminsky
 May his tribe increase
 l Colonel William W. Brandon Adiutant- l General of the Forces, legislator for the l State and popular Billy of the re- | sounding stump and echoing rostrum, was
 married at Wetumpka yesterday, and
 there isn't anybody in the state who will |
 wishes. Colonel Brandon is still on the sunrise side of thirty, and the conspicuous
 and influential part which he has taken
 in public affairs during the past four years l is strong demonstration of the fact that l he is very strong young man; and one | in whom there is promise of higher dis l functions in the years to come Colonel l Brandons bride was Mrs. Elizabeth Ma l bors of Tuscaloosa, widow of Rev. R. Y | Majors, Methodist minister daughter of 1 the late Rev. Allen S. Andrews a very | noted minister of that church; and sister | of Rev. W. l.. Andrews, the Methodist | minister at Wetumpka at whose home the
 wedding took place yesterday She has | two daughters, Miss Aileen Nabors and
 Miss Mary Majors, society young women | of Tuscaloosa, and one son. Robert Ma
 bors, who is about to enter college. Colo
 nel Brandon and Mrs Brandon were in Btr-
 mingham last night on their way home to | Tuscaloosa.
 Matrimonial madness has taken a great | hold upon Alabama folk this June. if one
 may arrive at conclusion by reading the l 'society columns of the state newspaners
 Practically every state journal received
 tells of weddings past and weddings to
 come, and the stories are full of intense l human interest. An imperfect record | somewhat carelessy kept shows that there
 have been 3l7 prominent marriages" in | Alabama this June. Of every one of these | three hundred-odd marriages the better
 half Was the most beautiful bride who was | ever led to the altar. Astounding; but | true. by that press that doth here the peo- ple's rights maintain unawed by influence.
 unbribed by gain. cRah for the Fourth of | July) The most astonishing fact about all l these Alabama marriages is that every bride blushed and every one was led to l the altar. It is easy to understand that
 every bride was positively the most beau
 tiful bride amongst all the billion five hun
 dred and sixty-four million seven hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred and 1 thirteen people which do the earth inhabit: | but even the wayfaring man. though n