The age-herald., 1900-11-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

] keep thy health in order thou wilt quarrel and get to law and lose thy money; keep
 myself very quiet"
 "A child born on this day will be hot and l fiery in temper, and words will soon be fol- l lowed by blows; it will not be fortunate in it's dealings with others If a female, she
 will have very unfortunate life after mar rlage."
 Buy, ask favors speculate seek work, l and push thy business"
 Thou wilt have @ successful year and 1 thy money and business will increase; thou wilt also travel and change with success" "A child born on this day will be gener- 1 ally lucky, and will rise In life; it will be very fond of horses and of travelling and moving about"
 Judge Brckell became an old man long l years before his time, and ceased to smile or to be really companionable, said a man | who had known the late former Chief Jus | tiee for more than twenty years. "He looked twenty-five years ago just as old as he did few months ago, when I last saw him. I am pursuaded that there was scarcely ever a period of his manhood when he didn't look greatly older than his years.
 Tn physical appearance Judge Bricken looked very much like the late Samuel J. Tilden, although he taller by head than MT. Tilden. The features of the two men were like as like could be; their eye- brows beetled. the skins on their faces were hard and dry and almost yellowish, like ancient parchment; their eyes were | deep set and furtive, and about their lips and jaws there iron-like rigidity. Hence it may be said that Judge Brickell rarely smiled and never publicly laughed But for all that he was said to be most genial and of loving and lovable tempera- ment when with his intimate and closer personal friends in the privacy of complete retirement from the public view. More over, 1t is known that he possessed a strong and keen sense of humor which never failed him, and which his own little foibles oftenest aroused.
 "Everythlng about this great man was keen and searching. He began at the be- ginning of things, or worked downward to the bottom, if l may shift the smile He demanded in every instance the facts in- volved; his own rare judgment dictated whatever use he might make of facts, his clear perception sitting the valuable from the valueless, or the advisable from the IHtSt QudllllSS COHlDlltu with his masterful mental acumen made him the first jurist of his time in Ala bama. He stood apart the first of our lawgivers and there is none now in sight to take his place. In ability and knowl- edge of law there is judge amongst us who nearly approaches him.
 
 Judge Brickell had the unusual capacl- ty for losing himself in his subject He would have difficult case to work up and would fall to work, and toll and struggle with possibly tons of books until he had mastered all law bearing upon the partic- ular case under consideration. It is re- lated of him that d year or two ago he failed to return to his home in Huntsville for dinner a particular day: didn't re- turn for supper to sleep; wasn't there at breakfast, and he not coming for the mid day meal, his household became uneasy. He was found in his den utterly lost in the study of an intricate problem in law. Dozens of stories are told of him to illus trate his spirit of persistence, his capaci- ty of devoting his whole mind to whatever he undertook. It has been always said that Judge Brickell was very fond of a little private game of the great American na- tional pastme of draw poker, and that he could spend whole night blissfully at fifty cent"
 'There close upon one hundred and fifty active intelligent and thoroughly rep utable doctors who are members of the Jefferson County Medical Society, and every one of them has united in the ringing and universal appeal to the Alabama Legisla- ture to rescue the people of the State from the curse of deadly drugs" said one of the most widely known physicians of Bir- mingham, whose name is withheld be- cause of his personal aversion to newspa- per interviews. MT. Doster's bill which seeks to give the relief that all reputable doctors and observant men are praying for is the right sort of measure. and as- suredly the Legislature will not neglect or refuse to pass this bill or some similar measure. One suggestion l. as a doctor. would respectfully submit to Mr. Doster is that he cause his bill to be so amended in committee to prohibit indiscriminate traffic in chloroform, choral and ether by name He would regulate the sale or otber wise disposing of morphine, cocaine, lauda mum, opium opiates, which embraces paregoric; and I would beg him to include chloroform, ether and chloral specifically. for the use of these drugs is so abused as to work great harm to the moral well-be- fng of the people.
 'If the members of the Legislature could personally witness some of the effects of this terrible curse of the misuse and abuse of those drugs as physicians in active prac- tice see them, Mir. Doster's bill would be- come law as speedily as it could be con- additionally enacted. There may be oppo- sition to such measure but cannot inl- agine from what respectable source 1t could come, and if it came it should be wholly disregarded; for there is not one just word which can be said in favor of the present ruinous practice of dealers in selling dead- ly drugs to children and to whomsover wishes to buy it for illicit purposes. There was poor woman, at my office today a victim of the chloral habit, and her case