The age-herald., 1900-06-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Unexpected troubles, journeys, and ah-
 noyances will befall thee, and thy business
 will go sadly wrong"
 "A child born on this day will be restless,
 headstrong, fond of travel, and generally
 unfortunate in business"
 Hire men-servants; set chickens Wake up, Johnny; wake up! Here It Is
 Monday morning, tomorrow'n be Tuesday,
 and next day Wednesday-week half gone
 and nothin' doner' calls the Woodlawn
 mother to her young hopeful. Here it is
 June, more than three-quarters gone, and
 nothing but rain. Birmingham hasn't sul-
 fered an entirely dusty day this month Mrabile dictu! Likewise, most extraordi-
 nary. Moreover, incomprehensible ineom- prehensbility! Tennyson demanded in po-
 etic respectfulness to be informed of some thing, anything, so rare as day In June. A boy in T1anta would inform him that day in February was rarer, since that
 month ordinarily had two days less than
 June. A Birmingham boys answer would be "a day without dust" That has some-
 thing to do with the abundant weather There is no use of the Woodlawn boy early rising; the garden is too wet to weed.
 And the early worm wouldn't be or any use to him; the creeks too full 10 nsh.
 One of Riley's exquisite jingles is about
 "Junetime noontime down amongst the clover" If the clover in Indiana were as wet as the hogweed in Jones Valley ths June there wouldn't be any sort of fuh noontiming with that old sweetheart oi
 mine." It must have been always so, for Sir John Falstaff said something lurld about June three hundred years ago. The Grand Exalter fuller of the Eiks, who has just returned to Birmingham from the sunset side of the Great Divide, de- clares that salmon are so numerous in the streams of Oregon and Washington that freouently many of the fish are crowded out of the water on the banks, where enough perish to feed many thousands. And many of the pure brook trout, said to
 be the most delcately favored and paiata-
 ble fish known, are so large that they weigh as much as thirteen pounds. MT. Snosrap, the popular and distinguished
 member of the Birmingham bar who him
 self hath whipped the trouty streams that fall into the Pacific, verfes the Exalted Rulers statements, and further declares that it is not uncommon for horses bear ing horsemen to be ripped flat down in fording streams by the voraciouS salmon, veraciously vouched for. Color is lent
 these assertions by a private letter re-
 ceived from Colonel Robert Mckee, be-
 loved of everybody in Birmingham and Alabama Colonel Mckee, who is now in California, writes to one who loves him
 that in fifteen days he caught fourteen
 bass, whilst the general average is one bass in twenty-one days.
 Several of us from Birmingham put
 some white trout in the upper Little War
 rior river twenty years ago, and the rap
 idity of their growth was extraordinary" said Sheriff O'Brien When we put the
 fish in they were no longer than your fn- ger, and the following year we caught some of them fifteen inches long. They were gamy fish and gave great sport; a strong
 one could almost pull a man in the river. Several of us from Birmingham were l camping on the Little Warrior three years after we had stocked it with white trout. One afternoon we decided to go up stream above an old dam which was twelve feet high. l was sitting near the road fishing when a farmer drove up. Just then l caught a big white trout, and the farmer looked at it in wonder.
 What sort O fish is that Cap'n? he asked. I've lived here nigh about thirty year, an l never seen no fish like that Explaining to him, l told him how we
 had put the fish in the river below the bridge three years before.
 "'Cap'n, do you take for a durn fool? he asked with a show of anger. How in durnnation could that fish or any fish git over that thar twelve-foot dam?' 'I tried to explain to him that it was a
 common thing for fish to scale even much higher dams; but he thought I was trying to make a fool of him. and he got piping hot It looked mighty like a fight, I can tell you; but Dr. Luckie came in the nick of time. The farmer said he'd take his straight"
 Mobiles trade is rapidly expanding" said Hon. D. P. Bestor, the distinguished Mo- bilian. This is particularly true of sea- borne commerce. Wharves that a very few years ago were nearly always vacant, being used by only an occasional ship, are now constantly crowded and with splendid
 modern vessels of great tonnage. We need pavements and sewerage, but they are in near prospect. Fruit and vegetable grow ing is becoming more and more important, and is increasing largely in volume. The
 best of everything early is shipped west and east. There is man I know who grows the finest of peaches. For years he has supplied me with the fruit This year had got nothing from him, and seeing him on the street the other day I asked why he hadn't sent me any peaches. He replied that he had sold all his crop under con- tract to a New York customer, and that therefore he couldn't sell me a peach. If I'd drive out to his place he'd be glad to give me few peaches; but was under ob- ligation not to sell his fruit in Mobile J. Warren Worthington, who arrived in
 Birmingham from the east Saturday night, spent Sunday here, and left last night for Memphis
 D. w. Crossland of Montgomery is at the Florence.