The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-08
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"Unfavorable; keep quiet"
| Misfortune will fall upon thee and thy
| business, and thy money will waste; thou
wilt change and travel and meet annoy
ances at every step; see that thou dost
not speculate
"A child born on this day will succeed
| best in the employ of others, and should
not attempt any business on its own ac-
count
Brew strong drink; hire maidservants."
Astrologer RaphaeI's prophecies for Sun
| day, September 8. 1900:
g. "Travel and visit thy friends"
Thou hast a chequered birthday and
| thy affairs will cause thee much anxiety
| those in employ will lose it,
"a child born on this day will not be
fortunate in employ, but will be contin-
ualy changing its situations"
1.-The gbberipg testers, buffoons of poll
! tics and of the more disreputable news
| papers, who imagine themselves to be
| wits and are paid for being vulgar, go fur
| Their than usual in disgusting decent men
| by aiming their filth at Mr.. William Wood
vile Rockhill, the American Commissioner
| to China" said a former servant of the
| United States government. "Mr. Rockhil
| is adjudged guilty of being a well-bred
| man and a scholar, and no such man has
| in later times escaped calumny in Ameri-
| can public life. He does not pick his
| teeth at table, with fork anywhere;
| does not tuck his napkin under his chin,
refuse to use one at all; does not spew
| liquid tobacco on carpets or bare floors;
| does not swear loudly in public places, or
| get bowling drunk and shoot somebody;
| does not boast of valourous deeds, or
| wrong women; does not account all men
| fools who do not agree with him. or shrek
| anarchy in an effort to impose upon hon
| est labor; and he does not even in small
| est degree resemble political tricksters or
blood-and- thunder howlers. Therefore he
| stands condemned by the vulgar and the
| self worshiping.
MIR Roclkhlll is not only gentleman,
| as that title used to be understood before
| social swineherds and porkbutchers de-
graded it, but he is the best-informed
young man regarding international law
and the worlds geography and it's current
history in the United States. And his
modesty, his unpretentiousness, his integ-
rity, his courage, and his unselfish intel
ligent attachment to this nation outweigh
in worth every blackguard between the
oceans. He is gone on a difficult, labori-
GUS, and dangerous mission because
he hopes to serve his country.
He cares nothing for the money
that may be paid him. money being the
standard of all values fixed by the vulgar
He is a man of private wealth Fat jobs
the things worshiped by the vulgar mean
| nothing but coarseness to this man of re-
finement He wishes no political honor
He knows politics to be the plaything of
corrupt men. He expended of his private
means. on one journey of discovery In Chi
ma and Thibet the hire of Alabama's Gov
ernor for seven years The material for
one book cost him the amount of hire of a
half dozen United States Senator's
Mr.. Rockhill has spent years and years
in travel for the improvement Of his mind.
He is a scholar and student, an able
thinker and brilliant author, and withal is
a plain CITIZEN plain as an old shoe; and
he doesn't know how to recite the formula
of the vulgar world, money are power and
is got it! He is fitted in every way to
adorn enlightened society, and is therefore
not fitted for the ordinary requirements
of political office-seeking. Hence Mr..
Rockhill is sandered.
.It is of at least sentimental interest to all
southerners that on next Monday Robert
E. Lee the younger, son of the great
commander of the confederacy, will begin
a series of speeches in Virginia in support
of Bryan and Stevenson" said Virgin
ian. His first speech will be at Louisa
Court House. His other appointments in
clude Culpeper Court House, September II;
Stafford Court House, September 10, and
Fauquier September "a. Captain Lee Is
not an experienced orator, but the fact that
he is the son of General Robert E. Lee
will attract large audiences.
General. Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin of Cap
tain Lee, and q nephew of the Confederate
commander, will be in Virginia about the
time that the younger Lee makes his first
| speech in this campaign. General Fitz-
hugh Lee cannot make political speeches
| if he desired to; he being an army officer
| in regular service
1t is given out that a new afternoon
newspaper to be called The Atlanta Daily
| News is being organized in the Georgia
| town and the men at the head of it are
| former members of the Atlanta Journals
| staff. They are Josiah Carter, manager;
Morton Smith, editor; w. B. Roberts, city
| editor; Milton Saul, w. G. Cooper, and
L. p. LYMAN all of whom resigned from
the Journal staff two or three days ago.
All arrangements for a press service are
understood to have been made, and Josiah
Carter and Walter Howard, formerly of
the New York Journal, are in New York
perfecting final arrangements for the new
publication, which will be edited by Mr..
| Howard f. NJ. Atkinson and Morris
Brandon, two of the owners of the Atlanta
| Journal, are in New York, and will have
| conference with Mr. Carter and Mr.
| Howard, and it would seem to be possible
I that the publication of rival to the Jour
| nal may be averted H. M. Atkinson
| principal owner of the Journal, is presi-
| dent of the Atlanta Rapid Transit Com
| pany; and 1t is said that Joel Hurt, presi-
| dent of the rival Atlanta Railway and
/ Power Company, is behind the proposed
| new paper.