The age-herald., 1900-07-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| 'IrOuDleS threaten lHee ou SfCiS SANS' and thou wilt lose money, and thy business
 wall fail; see that thou dost not speculate. "A child born on this day will be waste
 ful, extravagant, and indolent, and will be | generally poor"
 "If a female, unlucky In wedlock. | Astrooger RaphaePs prophecies for Mon l day July 16, 1900:
 Push thy business and ask favors in the | afternoon and evening""
 Avoid new enterprises and new friends; in thy business thou wilt do well, and it
 will increase, but do not quarrel" ''The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be rash and headstrong but fortunate in employ,
 in which it should keep"
 l If a female, not very happy in marri- age"
 Brew hire maidservants; go a-fshing."
 This Sunday is St. Swithin's Day. Ac-
 cording to an ancient English superstition, | if rain fall today it will fall on every day | for forty days to come
 1
 | State Senator Thomas L. Sowell, who was yesterday nominated as Democratic | | the late Senator Matthews, is the only citi- | zen of Walker County nominated by Demo-
 crats for a higher office than State Senator | since the war between the States. That 1 historic county has never asked for much, | and has never gotten anything. Only thirty l of the sixty-six counties of the State were created before Walker, that county having been constituted in 1923. It was named for l John w. Walker, one of the first two | United States Senators for Alabama He | was elected in October, 1919, and served | till December, 1922, his colleague being Will 1 liam R. King, who served continuously for l twenty-five years, and at the end of that | time he was elected Vice President of the | United States. The oldest county is Wash | ington, formed in 1900; and the next oldest | is Baldwin, formed in 1SO9 Jefferson was | formed in 1919, when the State was admit l ted to the Union, and named for | Thomas Jefferson. Butler, Jackson, Perry | and Wilcox were formed in the same year. l It is novel experience for man to have lived in four counties and never to have l removed from his birthplace Such has | been the experience of Congressman John | Hollis Bankhead of the Sixth District, | now a resident of Fayette. He was born | in Marion County, which was formed in | 1S1S The district in which he lived was in corporated in 1865 into new county named | Jones, in honor of E. P. Jones, of Fayette, | who was then in the Senate. In order to | get his vote, which was necessary, the l promoters of the new county had to give | it his name. The so-called Constitutional | Convention of 1867 abolished Jones county, | but the Legislature in 1868 re-established it | under the name of Sanford, in honor of | H. c. Sanford, carpetbagger of Cherokee | County. It retained this name until 1877, | when the Legislature designated it as La 1 mar County, the name 1t still retains, in | honor of Lucius Quintius Curtius Lamar | of Mississippi. Thus Colonel Bankhead lived | in four counties without removing from his | birthplace, which was at what is now Sul- | ligent Station. He represented Marion in
 the Legislature when Jones' County was l formed, and represented Stamford" in the l Legislature when the name of Lamar was
 adopted.
 l Tom" Sowell, who will be elected State l Auditor in August, is one of the truest and | best of men and most loyal of friends. | Physically he is what is called chunky | man, short and thickset. His short mus | tache and his hair very gray for g man l who is but two score and two. His round | face is constantly wrinkled in smiles, and | his eyes seem always to dance in merri- | ment As friend he is most lovable; as a man most admirable and strong, and of | sturdy integrity. He is greatly beloved by
 his home folk and all men who know him l he truv iS knows al in the State, and he knows them all to be | his friends. He is good sort,'' as the 1 Scotch say, likewise decent mon'-7ftsh-
 est praise your sturdy Scot ever pays any
 man. In the Legislature he was of great | service to the State, and his service as | Auditor will be still greater His nomina-
 tion by the State Committee will give | greatest satisfaction to the party through l out the State l
 Prices of tobacco have remained un-
 changed for a year, and are the lowest in
 the history of the trade," said w. M. l Whitely of Winston, N. C., at the Morris 1 last night. Trade has been very dull, but
 some improvement is now noticeable. It | is a curious fact that June and July are | the dullest months in the tobacco trade. | Every year in those months our trade is | at its dulest. Another curious fact is that
 dull times effect tobacco more seriously
 perhaps than any other commodity. I have | known hard times to depress tobacco prices l one-thrd. Prices have not begun to re- | cover from the general depression in busi-
 ness which began seven or eight years ago. | Prices at wholesale of good ordinary plug
 tobacco range now from 35 to 50 cents a pound. Very fire grades are very much | higher"
 | "R. V. Patterson, Western College Mag | azine," appears on the register at the Nor