The age-herald., 1900-08-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

afternoon"
 Beware of accident and injury; thou wilt have a most unsettled and harassing year, and thy business will suffer"
 "The young will have cause for grief.
 "A child born on this day will be liable to broken limbs; in business it should keep in employ; it will be untidy and eKtrava- gant."
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Thursday, August g. 19o0:
 Court marry, ask fayors, and seek work"
 Beware of letters and disputes, and do not quarrel; in thy business thou wilt have successful year, and will succeed"
 "A child born on this day will be fortu- nate in it's undertakings and will rise in life"
 Bake bread.
 The solemn high requiem mass eelebrat- ed at St. Paurs Church yesterday for the repose of the soul of the murdered King Humbert had really no religious sgnih- canoe beyond the charity and benevolence ot the universal Catholic Church and it's willingness to gratify the pious impulses of
 t5 children. There are some eight hundred Italian men in Jefferson county, all Of whom are Catholics, and their families are Catholic This strong element of the church asked for the celebration of mass tor the repose of the soul of their late king, who himself was not entitled and could not re- ceive the comforts of the church living, nor
 its higher consultations in death; he hav- ing been born a Catholic, but solemnly ex- communicated because of rebellion against and defiance of the church, being at his death no more a Catholic than is the Czar. The apostolic delegate at Washington through the bishop gave permission for the ordinary high requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the dead king, and in this he gratifed the desires of some of the faith full. Similarly there is no law of the church operating to withhold mass for the repose of th~ soul of any person outside the Catho- lie Church, provided the proper request be submitted and arrangements be made by and with the approval of a bishop. The Catholic faith holds the church to be broad. charitable, loving, the universal mother of mankind, and it stands now as 1t has stood for nearly two thousands years to give its blessings to all them that love God and will acknowledge what Catholics hold to be the one church.
 This statement here made is not presumed or assumed to be religious fact; it is merely information from an unauthorized Catholic source, though it may be accepted as fairly doctrinal. The church had no possible grudge against the man Humbert: it never has grudge against any man. Humbert's attitude towards the church was practic- ally unavoidable on his part; the church's punishment of the king was absolutely un> avoidable. When Humbert ascended the throne of Italy he stood ipso facto exeom- municated In a sense, he inherited ex- communication, just as his son, the new king, inherits it; for upon his ascension to the dignity of the kingship he assumed rights and privileges belonging to and ap- pertaining to the head of the church; in other words, became rebelious. The Pope has never recognized the law of guarantees of the Italian government respecting vital interests of the church. The new king as- sumes by force rights of the Popes held sacred for tn.rteen hundred years, and more. This is the Catholic view of purely Catholic governmental and disciplinary matter, which really concerns nobody but those responsible for the church's govefn- ment.
 Something was said yesterday about the vanity of office-seel1ing and office-holding, the remarks being called forth by specific references to the Second and Fifth Congress sional districts of Alabama
 "Durned fools if they think I'm going to spend the balance of my life fooling around Congress!" was the emphatic remark of the late Luke Pryor in commenting upon some expressed wishes of his constituents that he should accept reelection to Con- gress in 1SSl He loved the "Old Eighth" as he always referred to his district; loved his constituents with the blunt and cour- ageous affection of a patriarch. q love my people," he would say almost tenderly; "but Congressional away he would go in an explosion of affectionatc wrath that they should wish him long to remain in Congress. Luke Pryor and George Smith Houston were law partners and lifelong friends, and when Houston r1ssed out of the government of the State to enter the American Senate Pryor was pleased, but doubtful of the "foolishness' of it all Houston died within few months after his election; and when Governor Cobb asked Pryor to fill the vacancy until the Legis- lature should assemble he reluctantly con- scented, not because le had any sort of personal desire for polite Il honor, but be- cause he was taking for a time the place that had been given to his dead friend ard associate. So wh .n he was elected to Congress In 1sS2 he was not candidate objected, in fact, to going 10 Washington; hut the Democratic leaders induced him 10 believe that he was the only nemocrat who could be elected. In Congress he fumed nightly, and gave vent now and then to great wrath at the impositi on of that honor upon him, a wrath that was greatest in affection. Noble old man there never dweIt a nobler soul upon the earth than Luke Pryor.
 Two Americans Drowned
 New Orleans, August 7.-Seventeen per sons, two of whom were Americans, were drowned in the department of Clancho dur