The age-herald., 1900-08-25
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and keep thy money safe.''
 "A child born on this day will be un- lucky from the cradle to the grave; 1t should keep in employ. If a female, she will marry badly"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Sum- day, August 26 1900:
 Court and marry and ask favors."
 Thou wilt have successful year for thy business and domestic affairs, and they will please thee.''
 "The young will court
 ''Thou. .shouldst not brew strong drink, nor hire madservants nor menservants, nor go a-fshng."
 "The public sense of weariness and dis gust with the Democratic party troubles of the Fifth Congressional District, which was already very pronounced. is accentuated by the fact that the highest party tribunal is called upon to consider the questions in dispute" said a good Democrat. Every thing is appealed nowadays, even unto Cae- sar This is an age of appeals. The national Democratic party itself Is now appealing to the real Caesar, the tyrant majority of the American people. The majority in this coun- try upon every subject is tyrant to whom every man bows in acknowledgement of ao- solute power. That Is in accord with our organic law, and is thoroughly in keeping with the American character. With us mi norites have rights which anybody Is bound to respect. Minorities are mere oiphers in government and in general so- ciety of the Republic.
 Therefore, the interest of the general public of Alabama in the Fifth Congress sional District squabble, muddle and scan dal has to do with ascertaining, if pos sible, the read wishes of the real majority of Democratic voters of that district l rather than in concerning itself with the | ambitions purposes of the four candi- dates for Congress. The public outside the district does not concern itself with MT. Brewer MT. Thompson, Mir Buiger or MT. Heffin as individual candidate; but this public does wish to know which of them, if either, is right and of right entitled to the nomination for Congress. If there has been corruption, it ought to be proved to the entire satisfaction of the public and justly punished, not because any man may be helped hurt, but because corruption Is corruption, and is even more reprehen- sible in politics than in private aaffrs Meantime the public is very weary of this whole Fifth District business"
 
 'There need not be any surprise at the extraordinary decrease in the population
 of Omaha as reported by the census bu-
 reau yesterday" said engineer of wide | knowledge of the variouc sections of the 1 United States. ''Omaha is boom town, | and when the census of 1890 was taken | the town was at the widest state of it's | 'boom and it showed 10000 inhabitants, nearly 3S,000 more than it now shows It l will be remembered that the whole country was surprised at the comparatively small l population of Birmingham as shown by | the census of 1S90 for Birmingham was at that time, and had been for three years l the most talked-abo town in America l But Birminghams S boom had collapsed ut | terly. In June, 1887, there were probably 1 50000 people in Birmingham; in June, 1890, | the census showed less than 27,0O0. These l latter figures did very great damage to a ! town already nearly ruined by the follies | and madnesses of the boom. Birming | ham never was boom town. It was | merely given that appearance by speculat- l ors and gamblers; and it has grown great | in spite of the blightng curse of the | boom Birmingham has more of the l elements of real greatness back of it than | any other American town whatever; and | the day Is past when a boom is possible; 1 or if possible, it could not be seriously | hurtful. Birmingham's population in tine
 city proper is now about 40,000; almost | 50 per cent greater than ten years ago. If l Birmingham had what is legitimately it's own, the census would show it to have l some 60.000 inhabitants and that without l the annexation of Jefferson county, after | the manner of Atlantas annexation of Full ton and Chicagos annexation of Cook county and other outlying districts of H.
 linois. Similarly, if New York had its 1 own it would contain 4,500,OO0 people in- | stead af 3,500000
 l Whilst Omaha has natural resources be- | hind it, yet it is in some essentials a
 boom town. When I was there not so | great while ago, the authorities ac- | tually moving the weeds in some of the
 streets, so deserted of traffic were large
 districts of the city. Omaha sprung up
 like mushroom. and like mushroom it
 decayed. It was as I it a deserted
 city, and that appearance is in large part
 verified by the census just reported. And
 this wretched showing which must add ad-
 ditionaI disaster, as disaster was added to
 Birmingham in 1890, all the worse
 in view of the millions of money expended | on the recent Trans Mississippi exhibition
 held there; an enterprise fostered by the
 American government and advertised by
 the postage stamps and coins of the Re- l public"
 It is a fact of some interest just now that
 a noticeable change in local public opinion | respecting the national political situation
 has taken place very recently. Many men
 who were unaiterably opposed to the nom-
 nation of Bryan for President have come
 to believe quite confidently that he will be
 elected. This has reference to men of real
 intelligence and discernment. men not &C.,
 customed to being swayed or moved by
 political passion or party clamor-men of
 knowledge and independent thought. There
 are many such men in Birmingham, as
 everybody knows, and as everybody is