The age-herald., 1900-07-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

ANO1Q SuperlOTS ana keep Qulel.
 Beware of sickness and ill-health and do not give offense nor go to law; in thy business and domestic affairs thou wilt have a very unfortunate year; those in employ may expect to lose it..
 "Young women may expect to be court ed, but should beware of men, more espe- cialy such men as bear gifts"
 "A child born on this day will be very unlucky, whether in employ or not"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Thursday, July 1S, 1900:
 Travel, seek work, ask favors and push thy business"
 Thou will have a successful year. and thy business will increase.'
 "The young may court"
 "A child born on this day will be gen orally successful in all it undertakes, and it will rise in life."
 A lunar rainbow of remarkable brilliancy was seen from Birmingham shortly after 9 o clock yesterday morning. It was first observed at ten minutes past in the southwestern heavens, about two-thirds down from the zenith, apparently. The clouds were shifting and almost black where the rainbow appeared, shading northward to the familiar mackerel forma- tion Assuming a wide circle about the moou the rainbow appeared about six teenth segment of such circle, and u elowed in great brightness, displaying dis tinctly all the colors of a clear solar raln- bow. The effect of the phenomenon upon the observer was of awe singularly. The night was still and wondrously beautiful. When the rainbow was brightest there was a broad and perfectly regular bar or light bright as furnished silver extending from the horizon apparently across the moon straight up almost to the summit or the great arch of the heavens. The two splendid phenomena glowed in noble ma iesty, spectacles of the upper deep to ln- spire!
 The person first to see the phenomena was toller of the night, given to star gazing clouds gazing incoming, If you hke' one who is sunset worshiper He sum- moned an hotel night clerk and a good soul who was keeping the clerk company, and the three summoned two policemen from down the street to see the wonders.
 Note-Observing persons will remark the extraordinary similarity between the pro- phecies as printed yesterday and those as printed today. This denotes as to July lz a singular combination of star influences.
 
 .rhose who profess themselves Demo- crats free to cry out. clap trap upon the anti-imperialist plank built at Kansas City, ought to re-read the several letters of Jefferson, in which he declared he had no anxiety to enlarge domain for the re- public in the Louisiana purchase, saio learned and veteran Democrat. "He wished mainly to head off European monarchles from our neighborhood. He distinctly says, let the settlers of Louisiana make one or more separate republics, if they so elect; all want is republican institutions hoid- ing the land
 Jefferson and Burr defeated John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckhey in 1900 on the same substantial theories now embodied in the Kansas City plat form. Parties are again back upon the lines of a century ago. Bryan Will Win now as his John the Baptist won then
 "Read Jefferson's letter to Dr. Priestly in the first few pages of volume four of his works and then go to Mckinley Tor im- perialism."
 "The decision of the president of the Birmingham Police Commission that a tie vote had all the force and effect of adoption is an extraordinary departure from parla- mentary law and usage" said Birming- ham citizen who had for years the duty of observing and reporting the proceedings of the Senate and the House at Washington, who had reported several state legislatures, and who had studied at first hand the meth- tba narliamentS of Europe in actual session. Tt is the rule of both houses of Congress and both houses Of the Alabama Legislature. and therefore is the law of the United States and the law of Alabama, that the full force and effect of tie vote upon any proposition or measure Is to defeat the proposition or measure. Identical law governs every parliamentary body of consequence in the world-even the new parliament of the new Japan. An act declared adopted by tie vote is not worth a pencil scratch on white paper.
 "One of the chief parliamentary purposes of a presiding officer is to break tie votes. The custom ia the Alabama Legislature is for the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to answer to their names in the roll call upon any measure. The contrary Is true of Congress.
 
 "Perhaps the most historic vote cast by the Speaker of the House was given when MT Carlisle voted for the ill-fated Morrison tariff bill in 1884. It was a moment of in- tense excitement in the House. The gall leries were densely crowded with on- lockers; and the assemblage was still under the influence of Frank Hurds marvellous eloauence. Speaker Carlisle stated the ques- ton to be upon the passage of the bill, and Reading Clerk Walker began the long roll call For every aye there was an an- swering no along down the list. Some of the responses to the names so resonantly spoken were short sharp, shrill, defiant! Others were muttered some half whis- pered. The tension was terrible. Up in the press gallery some of us fancied could hear the beating of hearts down in the House Randall was as white as marble.