The age-herald., 1900-08-12
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thou wilt be more fortunate.
 "A child born on this day will be un- settled in disposition and fond of change but kind and obliging; it's success in life will depend upon the hour of its birth
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Monday, August 13, 1900:
 Buy Ask favors between and p. m. '
 Thou wilt have checkered year for thy business affairs, with gains and losses law, quareling and danger of sickness to myself Keep thy business well in hand and run no risks"
 "A child born on this day will be quick and clever, but should keep in the employ of others, and not attempt any business on it's own account"
 No money that the city spends is perhaps more adyantageously spent than that Whlch maintains the office of meat and milk lh- spector. This office was created early ln the present year, and since that tune good deal of meat and some milk have been rejected as unfit for food. The butch CTS and dairymen of Birmingham have al ways enjoyed high reputation Tor non esty. but often unsound meat and impure milk found their way to the consumer, unintentionally on the part of the vender. The most honest butcher and the most careful milkman is liable to make mistakes. And then, too, only scientific inspection affords assurance that the meat or milk is all right Inspector Fleming and his assistants do their work thoroughly weil' and with that fact in mind our meat eaters and milk drinkers should certainly feel more comfortable than they did before the inspection ordinance went into effect. The excellent quality of Jefferson County milk is attested by the statement from the inspectors office that all tests made last week showed the milk to be above stand ard.
 Nowhere is the quick intelligence of the horse more strikingly illustrated than in the fire department. The small boy around the engine house soon discovers the traits of fire horses and never loses his interest in the study of equine life as he finds 1t there. Twice every day-at noon and at 8 D. m.-the drill alarm sounds and the horses run to their places under the har- ness to be hitched up. These animals know that they are not going to fire They know just as well as the firemen that it is only routine duty they are called upon to perform. They show it in their manner. They look indifferent. There is no spirit in their action. But when a real fire alarm sounds these horses are wild with excite ment. There is no play business then and they are in their best element. Tt takes a bright, quick-witted horse only two or three weeks to learn all about the alarms, said a fireman at headquarters yesterday. By that time the smart horse is as famil- lar with every sound and signal as if he had been here a year or more. All of our horses learn to know what is going on over the telephone, and when we get an alarm by phone every horse is instantly in his place."
 "The cigar business has been remarkably good this summer,'' said Julius Edell of Richmond, Va, who travels for one of the largest cigar houses in the country. T visit Birmingham three or four times year and always find trade active here." Speaking of Richmond, MT. Edell said that few cities of its class were pushing ahead faster. "Richmond has improved very much in the past two years. One who has not been there in that time would hardly know the place. Many new factors have entered into the life of the city not the least of which is the Seaboard Air Line. The Chesapeake and Ohio and the Seaboard Air Line Company are building passenger station jointly and when it Is completed it will surpass any railroad structure in the South. It will cost between three and four hundred thousand dollars. It iE eottmated that the elevated approaches to tbe station and the other work that will be done in that connection will run the whole cost up to g, 100000.
 The work of enlisting Alabamians for the United States Army progresses steadily at the Birmingham recruiting station. Six staIwart men offered themselves for the service yesterday. One of the young fell lows accepted recently is about to be dis honorably discharged. Being minor he could not be received by Lieutenant Mitchell, the recruiting officer, without the written consent of his father. The would be soldier brought the Lieutenant letter purporting to be from his father, but the Lieutenant suspecting that it was a forgery told him that he preferred writing and receiving a letter through the mall or a telegram by the Western Union or
 
 was promptly mailed to the parent whose consent was necessary. But the boy had hastened home and got there in time to intercept the letter. He got the mail and dispatched a wire message with his fath- CTS name signed to it, saying that perms- sion was given for the boys enlistment. A few days thereafter the boy had been accepted When the father learned what had happened he called upon Congressman Underwood and explained the matter, and begged him to get the youngster out of the army. This accounted for MT. Underwood's s visit tc the recruiting station yesterday The new recruit who had been enlisted by deceivng the Lieutenant was eager for service in the Orient. but ne will return home and work for tine old man instead of shooting for Uncle Sam.