The age-herald., 1900-07-14
IN HOTEL HOBBIES.
 AND. ELSEWHERE

very doubtful all day
 Expect many annoyances and perplexi- ties in thy business; avoid new enterprises and do not speculate"
 "Young women must be careful of their acquaintanees."
 "A child born on this day will be stub- born and headstrong, but active; it's suc- cess in life will be poor"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Sun day, July 15,. 1900:
 Be very careful"
 Troubles threaten thee on every side, and thou wilt lose money, and thy business will fafl see that thou dost not speculate"
 A child born on this day will be waste full, extravagant, and indoent, and will be generally poor"
 If female, unlucky in wedlock."
 Today Is the anniversary of an event which was more pregnant of world-chang- ing issues than any other occurrence since the American Declaration of Independence, possibly since the signing of Magma Charta Such persons as are not more than ordi- narily familiar with the facts directly in- yolved in the fall of the Bastile, July A. 17S9, should turn to Carlyle's French Rev. olution." If there be any person who can read without being thrilled that most mas terful prose epic ever written concerning real history, such person is surely dull beyond hope! He who read it twenty years ago feels it now. Why, man alive! you can hear the blows of the triple-armed Vul- can ringing upon the chain of the draw bridge or the Bastile, ringing the loudest crack of doom yet heard in the world! You can see brave old Delaunay. white-haired stout-hearted, standing above the powder magazine with lighted torch, and hear him crying to the erowding demons athirst for blood
 Back! back! or I'll blow thee and my- self to hell."
 That was one hundred and eleven years ago this morning, as we count time here in our happy valley of peace. And this day in far-away Paris perfervid orators will shriek forth isms the damnablest from the base of the Column of July which marks the spot of earth where fell the Bastile and around which unquet sparrows play through days of unrest called peace; devil ish sparrows-English sparrows, Every thing English except gold is devilish in far, fair France.
 It Is not maintained here that Carlyle is absolutely accurate as to facts-no histori- an is-but no man is fully educated who hasn't read the French Revolution"
 The 14th of July is the national fete day or Fourth of July" of the Republique Franchise so-called.
 
 There is a seam of coal in Tuscaloosa County, immediately within the Birming- ham district nine iuobeS and actually and directly workable to the thickness of seven feet, from which coal can be proftably mined and put on barges in the Warrior river at seventy-fve cents a ton, and placed in Mobile for thirty cents more," said a Birmingham coalmaster yes- terday For one dollar and five cents coal from this district can be delivered in Mobile, and the cost of putting such coal from the barges into ships would be tri- fling. These amazing conditions will work to the making of Mobile one of the great est-if not the greatest-eities on this con- tinent when the work of improving the Warrior is completed, as it soon shall be, and lines of barges are put on the river Inexhaustible supplies of coal at a dollar and five cents ton alongside ships in the Gulf of Mexico will be of vast consequences to the commerce of the world and must result in the making of Mobile city of imperial power and splendor,, the greatest coaling port of the world, and the upbuild- ing of Birmingham, the district and Ala bama to an extent that the widest amongst us have not fully contemplated even in our dreams. Some day there will be built greater and deeper port of Mobile at Dauphin Island, but it will be Mobile still-great Mobile!'
 c. H. Porter and Arthur Board of Louis- yille members of the hat firm which was for many years represented in this ter ritory by the lamented Warwick Mcclure, are in Birmingham. They come hther to serve that which was MT. McGuire's trade, and in their work MT. McGuires family are interested. The great number of those in Birmingham and throughout this terri tory who were warmly attached to War wick Mcclure will greet cordially those who represent the interests that were his.
 
 It has not been generally known that the strife in China adds dullness to what was already a very dull cotton goods market. This much is true, and it is especially ap-
 
 the trouble in China reached the more accute stage, prices for certain grades of goods were too low to admit of any possible profit. These low prices resulted Srom general movement of large brokers or job bers in the East throwing upon the market immense quantities of what they believed were over-stock goods, which were pur- chased under contract when the prices of raw and manufactured cotton alike were very low: and this wholesale selling had special application to commoner grades of cloths, particularly such are made of the most inferior cotton. An Alabama manufacturer stated yesterday that some grades of goods had been offered in large quantities in New York at prices below what the actual cost of manufacture would be in Alabama at this particular time. Many of the Southern mills have sold their products for the Chinese trade under con- tract. This is said to be true, for examples, of the old and prosperous mill at Anniston, t,oi1