The age-herald., 1900-06-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Doubtful all day"
 "In thy family circle thou wilt have sick ness and disappointment. and in thy busi- | ness losses and changes; thou must strug- | gle hard to keep thy business together
 "The young will court.''
 "A child born on this day will meet many | troubles in it's domestic affairs, and will | seldom be fortunate in business" Six hundred and eighty-five years ago l exactly, that is to say, on June b, 12l5, l Magma Charta was sealed, and there was thereby secured the foundation of Anglo 1 Saxon liberty, in the name of which l million crimes have been committed and l many being committed every day from | Powderly to PelSin! Other stout barons are needed now to deal with King Wrong, | as King John was dealt with in the long ago.
 President Joseph J. Willett of the Ala | bama State Bar Association was in Bir- l mingham yesterday on his way from An l niston to Montgomery to preside over the | meeting of the association, which will be- | gin its annual session at 10 o'clock this 1 morning in the Senate chamber of the State | Capitol. The proceedings will be opened | with the presidents address, which will | deal with the noteworthy changes of the 1 year in the statutes of the nation of the respective states The preparation of this address has required painstaking labor and | wide legal knowledge, and none at the 1 Alabama bar is more capable or better l fitted for such undertaking than is the bril- l liant and scholarly MT. Willett. He is l young lawyer who loves the law, and for l his devotion to it he has been rewarded in 1 fuller measure than comes to the average successful lawyer in the course long life l time. MT. Willett's national position in 1 politics is not due to desire for personal political advancement. He never sought | political office, and never desired to. He is I lawyer.
 | The standing committees of the associa- | tion will submit their reports at todays l session. The report of the committee on | Jurisprudence and law reform will be made | by the chairman, s. D. Weakey of Bir- | mingham; that judicial administration l and remedial procedure by the chairman, l Hon. A. A. Wiley of Montgomery, State | Senator and Democratic nominee for Con | gress; that on legal education and admis- | sion to the bar by the chairman, Hon. J. R. | Dowdell of Chambers, Justice of the Su- l preme Court; and that on correspondence l by the chairman, Hon. F. C.. Bromberg of l Mobile, former Congressman.
 feature of the session of national inter- l est will be the address of Hon. William J. | Curtis of New York.
 Tomorrow's session will be held at Jack sons Lake, the beautiful pleasure resort | five miles north of Montgomery. Through the characteristic courtesy of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company special train has been provided to convey the mem- bers of the association and their guests to ''the lake," the train leaving the Union Passenger Station at Montgomery about 9 o'clock. At o'clock at "the lake" bar becue dinner will be served-a genuine old fashioned Southern barbecue" the like of which probably cannot now be enjoyed at any other place in the new" South.
 
 Birmingham's United States Consul-Gen- eral Robert A. Moseley at Singapore has appointed his brother, A. B. S. Moseley of Rome Ga., to be vice-consul-general in his office. A Rome newspaper prints some hopeless nonsense about MT. Moseley flor the first time in his life'' applying for an
 
 Romans and prominent Georgians," and l This success is naturally very gratifying to him." This is very absurd in view of | the fact that Consul-General Moseley | must have asked for his brothers appoint ment, or in effect appointed him; for the Department of State at Washington never | makes such an appointment without the 1 request of the principal consular officer 1 directly concerned, and never denies such | request. The Department expressly re- serves the right to deal with all such mat | ters as it may deem best, but in practice | it never interferes with the wishes of | principal officer. However, whatever con | cerns Consul-General Moseley and his l gifted and charming wife is of interest to l Alabamians, and the people here very generally would send assurance of all sorts of good wishes to ''the genial doc l tor'' and Mrs. Moseley in the far-away | Orient
 "Old Pat" the aged Irishman who died day or two ago, was a familiar figure about police headquarters and the office of 1 the Opera House hotel. At each place he was always kindly received and during cold and rainy nights was given seat by the fire. Latterly he became quite des- titute and did not appear to have any fixed abode. Little was known of his past; but it appeared that his kind impulses and generous nature worked to destroy his usefulness. Occasionally, after men who | meant to be kind were unkind in giving him too much stimulant, he complained of hard fate; but for the most part he was a philosopher. Some years ago he received $2O00 in pension money from some source and through some agency and a day or two before he died he repeated the statement often made before that he was about to receive $6,00O from the same source. The 5000 did not last him long. it seems; he spent it as if there were fortunes back of it. 'Id give any of the boys who wanted it ten or twenty dollars at a time as long as my stuff lasted" he
 declared. But now, when I get hungry