The age-herald., 1900-12-02
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Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day. Sunday, December 9 1900:
 Visit thy friends. and ask favors"
 Success will attend thy endeavors and thy money and business will increase; see that thou dost not quarrel"
 "A child born on this day will be gen orally successful in it's business, and will rise in life"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Mon day December 3, 1900:
 Thou wilt have a chequered year and thy business will require much attention.
 See that thou dost not speculate, and avoid pleasure and society,""
 A child born on this day will have an unsettled career and be often in trou- ble: if a female, she will marry unhappy
 The aspect of the heavens threatens great excitement and many untowerd events throughout the land during Decem- Der. Let those who have the affairs of the nation in their hands be on their guard, otherwise we shall be caught mapping. This afiietion is very unfavorable to the rulers in this country, and to the royal family in England, more than one member of which may expect sickness. if nothing worse.
 There will be appalling accidents on sea , and land, with heavy losses of life. Let those who travel beware. In England, if not in this country, there may be a great strike. In consequence there will De in England many failures in business, en- tailing ruin to thousands. Robberies, cheating and secret crime will be every where very prevalent. The French will be greatly unsettled, and new troubles will come to unhappy Spain."
 
 Shining high above and apart from all the babblement of babblers, and the toll and turmoil of law and politics at Mont gomery, yet in sense bound up in the higher fortunes of the time, is the figure of young girl of some fifteen or sixteen, in whom all Alabamians will feel sense of personal pride and reverence said man who attended the wedding of the fair young girls mother and father some sev- enteen years ago.
 She is President Jelks' daughter, his ly child" the man said, and saying he drew from his notebook this tribute to Miss Catherine Jelks, taken from the "Murmur of The World' of Sunday, June 24. 1900, which the man insisted had a wide and prophetic interest at this moment:
 Given health and a day, and we shall make the pomp of emperors ridiculous All the splendors and vanfties of the world were not worth one smile of Catherine She, wide-eyed and radiant hand in hand with joy, romps the world in beauty and light and sweetness; a queen of youth and love and laughter and innocence. She pauses tiptoe to drink of the viewless in- of oil -aI1, ifa p1 igbt bliss. and away she speeds, as a creature of flight with luminous wings amongst the flowers that blossom upon the confines of childhood's garden of gladness. She lives to love and loves to live in the fragrant morn ing time that makes for the hour which calls for larger love for herself, larger hopes, the larger fruitage of the noontide of virtue and devotion. With the uncount- ed riches, the incalculable wealth of youth, her little tawny head strikes the stars -Ihile the flowers kiss her little feet. In Ither little hand she rolls a rainbow, and II her little heart is writ every pure prom ise of maiden ambition. 1.-the, lissome, swaying, laughing, fair Catherine is reg nant in thousand hearts, the sovereign of a thousand hopes, the prayer of thou sand peitioners!"
 San Francisco newspapers received give whole pages to the performance of Romeo and Juliet" by the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company. The first night there was a $10,0OO house, more than 3uO0 persons paying for admission, and the sign of mo standing room" being put up before the performance began The San Francisco Chronicle gives more than a page of criu- cism graphically illustrated. Under a spe- -cial headline it says:
 ..In the little part of stephano came out