The age-herald., 1900-08-31
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thy birthday is rather quiet one, and
 thy affairs will go on as usual" Females should be careful of their ac- | quaintances, and conduct themselves with | discretion"
 "A child born on this day will be active and pushing and fortunate in employ"
 "If female she will have trouble in con- nection with love and matrimony." | Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Sat urday. September l, 1900:
 Buy. speculate, seek work and push thy
 business in the afternoon"
 Thou wilt experience a diversity of for
 tune; beware of law quarreiing, and new
 enterprises, and avoid them all; thou wilt
 be annoyed in many ways; pay especial
 heed to thy business, and keep it well in | hand.
 | Females, beware, great and sudden | changes beset thy path, and unless care | full, tears and ruin will result "Go a-fishing
 You Tut me in print yesterday on the real issue of the times and thus embold- | ened me to add: We ought to understand | that a policy of great volume of money | from free coinage of gold and silver and l liberal issue uf greenbacks combined, all | good money everywhere, will not distrib- | ute money as it is needed in the rural or | interior sources of commerce" said a vet eran Bryan Democrat. We know that | the paper bills of the United States banks | from Washington's time downward, never were available as general currency simply because they were good everywhere These bills would go to Ohio, then the l wheat field to wheat n the Then back they went to Wall street to supply spectators. In the fall and win ter, these bills came south to move cotton Then back to New York. The only money
 the people then had left with them was State or private bank bills. Those early private banks were immense power for good.
 "If we should create $50 per capita as the Populists fix the limit of money, all good everywhere then instead of sixty millions of bales of cotton futures sold an-
 nually in Wall street as now, one hun dred and twenty millions would be sold there. In a word, speculation will concen- trate in the great cities all the money of the country that is good everywhere and trusts alone can get hold of any part of it for use and distribution in sources of pTOuuCtlOH IHe COuillIy MOulu COint tO d sudden halt if individuals only were de- pended on to get money from Wall street now as individuals once obtained it from Mobile, New Orleans Charleston, where private banks flourished. The trust only is wanted in Wall street as a borrower. Bank reform will alone crush the trust. "It is idle to shout wild cat and so on against private banks of issue in this day and generation Our people have learned banking and safe rules of business. Passing from precept to example, our seaport increased in population from one thousand to thirty thousand in the first forty years of the statehood of Alabama when we had local currency only, while in the second period of forty years under fed eral or centralized currency, the increase has been only twelve or fifteen thousand of population with a loss direct of quite thirty millions of dollars every year from her export trade of the first forty year period.
 "one of the grandest spectacles I ever witnessed was the battleship Alabama go- ing at full speed ahead" observed Alex ander Mcleod, who has returned to Bir- | mngham after months vacation enjoyed
  steamer from Boston to New York, and as we approached the metropolis I was on the bridge with the captain of the ship, whom I know well and who showed me the court esy of inviting me to join him as we en- tered the harbor.
 'He saw and identified the Alabama miles in front of us and coming in our di- rection, and at once he called my attention tn ha reht Ae sb1 tossing the water into spray, the Alabama presented magnificent sight, and almost as quickly as I am telling about it the enormous battleship passed us within ap- parently hundred feet. She was going at great speed and was a grand sight. "I have seen all the great ships in our navy and the Alabama looks what she is the greatest of them all. As we came out of Boston harbor we passed five of the big battleships awaiting the Alabama, to go with her on the trial trip that has since astonshed and gratiied all Americans by the display of unsurpassed qualities. Not being entirely finished and ready for for
 nal transfer to the government, the Ala bama was not painted white, but bore a yellowish paint"
 All Alabamians who feel any pride in this acknowledged queen of the American navy or any pride in the State of Alabama's mo- ble history should send whatever sum of money each can spare to the battleship Alabama fund, Judge Samuel E. Greene, trustee, at the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Company, Birmingham, the money to be expended in providing an Alabama present for the Alabama
 Judge Hunt who has returned to Bir- mingham from Georgia, says that the Georgia peach growers, few in the north excepted, lost money on this pears peach l crop. Weather conditions were very un- | favorable
 The late Captain Frank Crenslhaws | father, President Thomas Crenshaw, of | the Georgia Railroad Commission, formerly | resided in Alabama, his home being in But | Ter County. His brother, Captain Edward