The age-herald., 1900-10-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 fairs before Il o'clock in the forenoon"
 Beware of heavy losses in thy business
 and do not journey or remove; those in l employment will meet promotion
 "A child born this day should keep
 in the employ of others, and not attempt
 any business on it's own account"
 Astorologer Raphaers prophecies for Sat
 urday, October 13, 19O0
 Sell; evil for all else''
 Expect sickness, quarrelling, and losses 1 in thy business; thy affairs will go very 1 wrong; run no risk with thy money.' "A child born on this day will be very
 unfortunate in all 1t undertakes and in
 continual poverty; if a female, in danger ] of disgrace"
 l When every man was boy he gave his 1 little sweetheart red apples with the "em- 1 blem." He also gave her jonquils, roses, l violets, pansies which he called by name
 kisses" sprays of cedar and so on 1 through the whole botanical list without l the botanical names, all with the "em- l blems,' or what the boy had heard as be- 1 ing the poetic meanings of flowers. Cedar l was Il live for thee"; and a red apple, best l of all, was "I love thee;" or "Wiu you
 marry me?" much the same to a boy Way down in Butler" where they used 1 to have happy times they sung about, l there preacher, a brother of l the Baptist faith, twas said, who on the | evening of his departed wife's funeral gave | another lady a red apple with the em- | blem." Howsomever, that's what was l charged when he married the appled lady l just about two weeks after the deceased | wifes funeral. The good folk of the quiet | neighborhood were not a little scandalized by Brother B-'s second venture upon | the wobbly waves of welded woe; and the l members of his church called him to ac- count Then it was that the damaging evidence of the red apple on the funeral | day was brought forward, and it it's way | it caused as much talk as the golden apple | which the three girls scrambled for when | Greece was young. It was truly an apple of discord no Hesperidean fruit kissed by winds of the South
 The preacher defended his action by one fact only: He had nine children, the eldest of which was but nine years old. He was acquitted. Any man with nine motherless children, the eldest nine years old might we'll be excused for any desperate deed of daring, even marrying.
 Howsomever, if that classic word may be repeated there is a man in this same town of Birmingham who has got red apple big enough to serve loye-maker for a
 man with nineteen children, the eldest nine years old, to the jauntiest and jolliest and fattest widow between Gate City and Bessemer! This red apple could say q | love you as big as your head. It could | shriek "Will you marry me- louder than 1 the most ear-splitting locomotive whistle | that ever made even Birmingham man l swear. It could below "be mine, beloved lovey dovey dove" in tones that would ap- | pail an undertaken, and a general l alarm of the fire department. It could cause all the Hate lamenteds and all the lovers that-never-cam back to be forgot
 in one great gulp of gulpful gulpfulness! This apple is apple as is an apple tobeshore It is eighteen inches around weighs one pound and half, is perfectly formed and colored, as is without a blem- | ish. It Is e-e-e-normous! The apple is | in the possession of MT. Benjamin Men | delsohn of Birmingham. He brought it down town yesterday to show it, and eev- en bachelors, thirteen widowers and twen- ey-seven boys, all of whom are in love 1 and afraid to tell her so offered MT Men delsohn prices ranging from a dollar to a 1 Dunlap for the ownership and possession | of that apple. The hard-hearted man would l not, he would not. One bachelor in partic- l ular offered to write even more than this l for the newspaper in praise of one of the
 best fellows in the world, and add several
 simoleons, for the apple; but MT. Mendei-
 sohn would not, he would not. Seriously, this apple is a great globe of l luscious lusciousness. It was sent to MT. l Mendelsohns charming wife from the | fruit ranch of her brother in Washington l state.
 Do you suppose that the good folk who own disreputable front fences in Blrming- ham ever get out in the street and look at those fences?"
 That is a question sent hither by wo- 1 man, who, judging by her handwriting and 1 her question, is one of those angels whom l Lnen call good housewives. It is thousand to one that she is tidy woman and keeps l a tidy home, and is rearing her children physically and mentally tidily Dust is not | a quarter of an inch deep any of her ; furniture, and none of her children will l ever go to the gutter or to prison. That ] much is certain.
 l But this good woman's question is diff 1 iicult of answer. There are fences and i fences, reputable and disreputable. As l suredly good folk wouldn't knowingly, wilfully and with malice aforethought keep 1 disreputable fences until such fences rot down are torn down at night by enter 1 prising citizens with regard for decencyi 1 Certain it is that very many of the front l fences in the best districts of Birmingham
 are disreputable; and the proposition is
 made by a public-spirited citizen that the 1 worst of these fences be photographed, and | the photographs, with names of streets | and numbers, be sent to the Age-Herald l for publication. If that were done, it would 1 make mighty interestin readin'." It l would in part answer Robbie Burns pray 1 CT:
 "Oh, wad some power tn giftie gie us | To see oursels as ithers see us.''