The age-herald., 1900-08-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thou hast most unfortunate birth l day, and thy affairs will all go wrong; | thy health will suffer, and thou wilt quar- rel and get to law"
 "A child born on this day will be liable | to accidents, and injuries, and broken l bones; in business It will be successful, but should keep in employ of others" "It female, in danger of disgrace Hire menservants; do not hire maid servants; do not court"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for | Wednesday, August 8, 1900:
 Push thy business till o'clock in the l afternoon"
 Beware of accident and injury; thou wilt have d most unsettled and harassing l 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 l in employ; it will be untidy and extrava- gant."
 Circumstances may not make the man, but it is impossible for the man to '.get there' without circumstances. Yellow fever, is the circumstance in Tampa, and the man is he whom Surgeon-General Wyman refers to in the dispatches; printed over 1 the world as "Weedon." This is pr. Leslie Weedon, health officer of Tampa. formerly | drug clerk and medical student in Eu- faula. He went to Eufaula about 1880 | through the influence of his uncle, Dr. H. | M. Weedon, who now has large real estate | interests in Birmingham, and who was then head of the wealthy drug establishment of Weedon and Dent of Eufaula. The elder pr Wppdop iS retired Leslie Weedon left Eufaula and went to Florida about fifteen years ago. In short time he built up lucrative practice, opened the l handsomest drugstore in Tampa, and be- came health officer. Meantime he married well and happily, and at forty he has &C., cumulated a competency. and is making large fortune. He is d man of marked ability, most excellent character and charming personality. The whole South looks to Leslie Weedon to stop yellow fever from spreading in Tampa and getting be- yond control
 Colonel J. M. Falkner was in Birmng- ham yesterday. He came from Blount Springs in the morning and proceeded in the afternoon to Montgomery, returning re- luctantly to his constantly pressing legal WOTh lOT lut LOulSfilIt anu 4NdSnNliic
 road Colonel Falkner left Mrs. Falkner and their invalid son at Blount; and he ex- pressed earnest regret that he had to hurry
 back so soon to his work. Everything is satisfactory at Blount, he says, and a visit there cannot but be pleasant at this time.
 
 Colonel A. A. Wiley of Montgomery and Former Congressman Boatner of Louisiana ,I,,o np thai way to Decatur to attend to business of the law. Colonel Wiley is about to begin an experience of which MT. Boatner got weary enough long ago. The Montgomerian has gotten great deal of enjoyment out of a very hard-worked life so far; has made a great deal of money; has spent much upon his family and friends, and is now man of independent means-has just reached that period, so seldom reached, when he could retire from the turmoil whilst still young enough to enjoy himself, and have long and happy afterwhles. But not so. He is in for some years of Congress; will probably have to fight for his seat after the first four years; and whilst that sort of thing is fun for a man of Colonel Wiley's temperament learning and energies, one would hope that he could find more real en- joyment with his books and his friends, and in yielding to the entrancing allure ments of travel in foreign lands. One month in Rome, say, is worth ten years of Congress; one year in Italy would be of more actual comfort than a quarter of century of politics It is amazing l that well-bred men of learning and wealth stoop to politics as politics runs in this country. One with beautiful home, wife, children in the Providence of God, and the worldly goods needed for their worldly well-being and luxuries, turns his back and goes forth to rub against the most intolerable side of human characteristic side that is for sale-to have his own character blackened by islanders, and even sometimes his wife and children aspersed, and all for the poor privilege of sitting with 356 other men, mostly ill-bred and | ignorant, in Washington, talking nonsense for the galleries and print, and voting as some political master may dictate. Such as that passeth understanding. He finds out, too late perhaps, that all this Is vanity, vexation, grossness, un- | cleanliness, as every refined and gentle man who ever lived that life has found it out. In the natural order most men have to surrender nearly all their illusions re- specting vital things. Once in a while some makes some woman an angel; finds out, to his own satisfaction at least, that her feet are not of clay; weds her and she becomes the mother of his children but in many such instances he in measure sacrifices those most precious of all possible possessions in the pursuit of some unclean political office Practically every political office nowadays is unclean. for the reason that some per- son, whether the principal or his repre- sentative, resorts to uncean methods to obtain it. Madness The Presidency itself is not worth the price of the fierce fight that is now raging for the Congressional "honor' n the Fifth district of Alabama. Yet the hearts of good women and of little children are involved