The age-herald., 1900-12-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 Do not speculate or run any risks with thy money, this being thy birthday; thou wilt travel and be annoyed in thy busi- ness"
 .rhe young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be oblig- ing and well conducted, but not very for tunate in business 1t should keep in eTn- ploy"
 AstroIoger Raphaels prophecies for Tues day December 25, 1900:
 christmas Day-Enjoy myself, but for get not the hungry and poor.'
 Thou mayest expect many changes and some travelling, but not attended with sue cess; keep thy business we'll in hand, and run no risks with thy health
 "A child born on this day will be quick and clever, and possess good business quail ities; in business, however, it will not be very lucky. If a female, rather unlueky in marriage"
 It might have been upon a Christmas Eve like today when Tennyson, noblest of all the real singers, asked:
 An! when shall all mems good Be each mans rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year!
 
 "It looks very like the Murmurer is being plaigarized in the New York publication called the Smart Set, which is very bTil- liant and charming, and which has won an extraordinary popularity writes student. '"The Smart Set has contributor whose name is Sadie Martinot. presumably woman, and she writes a thing she calls sTa T r,hi oh ic OalnablV after the Murmurer's weekly Murmur of The World. Witness:''
 Tn the sanctuary of my heart is en- shrined my Beloved. From the first blush of dawn to the last dew of evening the in- cense of roses steals up to the throne.
 Hail, my hearts Beloved All the thoughts and dreams of my life. waking or sleeping, are laid at the foot of this altar, and the radiance of my rarest worship en- velops and surrounds it.
 Hail, my heearts Beloved! Here, hidden from the gaze of all lthe world. lies the essence of my idol, cherished, nurtured, held in close embrace, lifting me upward and onward, supplying the wings of hope.
 Hail my hearts Beloved! In exaltation the day is passed in realized hopes the dreams of the night.
 Hail my hearts Belovedl Rosaries upon rosaries of prayer and blessing issue from my soul, in gratitude and welcome to my silent Love; and the well-springs of my tears freshen the garden of my heart, my Loves dwelling!
 Hail. my hearts Beloved An. the heaven of this dreaming this unreality. this llusionl All the real glories, tangible and substantial, are not worth one moment of this exaltation, this self-deception this absolute nothing which is my all.
 Hail. my hearts Belovedp'
 Honored family names of Alabama and notable deeds were recalled by mention that made in this column of the in- justice to the animate, striving part of humanity by neglect of biography of merl- tor.ous dead for instance the late Gen eral Bulger, and it excited the feelings of an eminent Alabamian who related as fact that the men who had made possible the greatness of others in this State were lit- tie known.
 ",rhere are the Gilmer family of Mont gomery," he said, "who were extremely active promoters of industrial and com mefcial interests, furnace builders railroad projectors and managers, yet history so- called hardly knows their names. I ven ture to say if Frank Gilmer had been made President of the Southern Confeder- acy at the election of November 1862, lass space would have been necessary to record the fame of Abraham Lincoln. Who knowe that John A Elmore was really ono of the great lawyers of America? Gov ernor Watts told me that he was the great est lawyer he ever met. Few people now living know that Henry Lucas of Mt Meigs was millionaire cotton planter and that Thomas Barnett millionaire cotton planter of Montgomery County founded the Tallassee cotton mill of to- day?
 'There is another family of Montgomery that history, so-called, takes little notice of except where the earlier active mem bers of it held political office. I refer to the Bibb family. Few of the living know even the name of William Crawford Bibb who died in recent years, an old man. He was born and reared in Montgomery and lived there continuously. He never as- pired to political office, but his services to the public were of supreme importance He was a rich man of rare culture and e&QuiSlle ldSle I1e was d brave man, equal to all emergencies that arose to test his courage When the war broke out he sent his young son to the front but look ing around him for field for his own work In the cause, he quickly realized the weighty truth of Bob Toombs' aphorism expressed to President Davis at the out set-'Sr, 90 per cent of war is pure busi- ness.'
 Acting upon this axiom, as he viewed .. Crawford Bibb, then in the prime of manhood, gave his exclusive attention to the work of a contractor to supply the Confederate Army with stores. He needed profit in money, he was very rich al- ready. He had subscribed and paid up $90,OOO cash to the North and South Rail- road and was vice president and active manager of the line by way of illustrating his energies ad wealth. He had built a