The age-herald., 1900-08-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 thy money and business will increase; those in employ will get promoted
 "A child born on this day will be for tunate whether in employ or in business for itself and will rise in life."
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Thursday, August Is, 1900:
 Court marry, ask favors, and sign writings before o clock in the afternoon"
 Many annoyanees wilt thou experience through letters and from young people; in thy business thou wilt be fairly success ful.'
 "The young will court.'
 "A child born on this day will be gen. erous and obliging, and rather fortunate in business"
 Hire maid servants
 
 '"rhe Hon. Alvey A. Adee, who Is now Acting Secretary of State, is the most learned man in diplomacy in America, and one of the best of good men in any ooun- try said d former servant of the Aemri- can foreign service, at the Morris last night. "Ie is a little man with a big brain; wiry, sharp, shrewd man, eternally alert and eternally courteous. There are perhaps a few men such he in this country, except as to his manly and gentle courtesy and his knowledge of diplomacy, international law, and stateeraft In these exceptions he is probably not equalled in the United States. He was bred courteous, a real gentleman, and to his breeding has been added the result of long years of study and experience, aided by kindly, sympathetic nature and rare instructive cvility. In this country one seldom looks for genuine courtesy in high places: most high officers in the service of the people and great public companies alike are too ignorant or too ill-conditioned for the gen. tier and manlier civilities courtesies. As to this custom governing persons in high places, Mir. Adee is an exception bright shining and to be looked to with pleasure and unqualified appreciation. He has been in the service of the Government in the Department of State some thirty years, and he is the authority there on all the nicer questions of diplomacy, and it is he who puts into diplomatic form all the dispatches and writings Of the Department concerning diplomatic affairs. He prevents structural errors, and lends to American diplomacy whatever of the charm of court esy it may possess.
 MT. Adee is very fond of outdoor exer- else, and he was one of the first of Amerl- can cyclists Long before safety was heard of, he wheeling about Washing ton on one of those hideous seven-feet high wheels Many of his annual vaea- tions he has spent abroad, and has cycled over uncounted leagues in the British isles and in all the countries of continental. Eu- rope. Twenty years ago he made the tour of Scotland his high wheel, and he would probably admit today that Scot land is the most attractive of all lands which have known his bicycle MT. Adee has been accustomed in his European journeys to call American Consuls for the sake of goodwill and possibly he may have kept one corner of his official eye open the while Thereby hangs a tale.
 "One evening eighteen years ago MT. Adee wheeled down the road of Fife into Glasgow, and tethering his steed of steel at good hotel, took wee nip had din ner, stroled in Sauchehall street and Bridge, and then turned in for tn nicht a bit saer-tired. He was up betimes tn morn's morn, and amused himself until towards noon, when he called a the Amer ican Consulate in West George street to pay his respects to Bret Harte, then con- sul at Glasgow. A clerk in the Consulate asked MT. Adee what he wanted.
 Is the Consul in? asked the ConsuI's superior from faraway Washington.
 = 'No!' answered the clerk, with charac- teristic Scotch direetness and abruptness 1. The Consul, MT. Harte, is in London The Vice C'Ongul AJr ;o if have business
 :" How is that? asked Mir Adee who has long suffered from a somewhat infirm sense of hearing
 MT. Harte is not here-is in London hasna been here in sax months-lives in London!' spoke the clerk with emphasis.
 An" said the urbane and genial Per manent Under Secretary of State for For eisn Affairs of the United States If MT. Harte should ever return will you kindly give him my card? and MT. Adee handed his official card to the clerk, and turned towards the door of the consulate Suddenly he was startled by something very like a shriek followed by the sound of a heavy substance crashing downward. He looked back The clerk had read the card and tainted. Shortly afterwards MT. Harte vfs- ited his consulate at Glasgow
 That was long ago. Things are different now. Consuls are required to report to Washington every period of absence from their districts amounting to forty-eight hours. Mir Hdrte was relieved of his con- sular duties in 1885, and has ever since re- sided in his beloved London, Mecca to many thousands of his compatriots.
 
 Many times I came into personal con- tact with Collis P. Huntington" said Bir- mingham man who dwelt several years in Washington and enjoyed the friendly good will of the great millionaire. 'tBe was one of the most easily approached and best-na- tured of all the notable men whom my newspaper work required me to seek, and felt for him the greatest respect and friend Hest regard. His principal chara cteristics. and nearly everything about him personally, have been made familiar to the public. But his peculiar habit of never carrying money