The age-herald., 1900-11-06
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 AstrOloger Raphaeis prophecies for this
 day, November 6. 1900:
 Avoid superiors and keep myself quiet"
 "Ye who are in employ, beware those
 in business will find difficulty in keeping it | together"
 ! Young women will haveeoffers of mar
 riage."
 "A child born on this day will be gen.
 orally unfortunate, whether in employ or
 in business for itself"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for l Wednesday, November '. 1900:
 Be very careful and do not quarrel" l Troubles threaten thee every side;
 beware of law and quarrehng; thy busi-
 ness will cause thee much anxiety" l "A child born on the day will have much
 to contend with all through life; it will be 1 headstrong and difficult to manage and 1 often in trouble
 "Brew strong drink; thou mayest have
 need of it."
 There was a wise old Alabamian. a good
 man who loved flowers and birds and trees
 fields and brooks and lakes. 'eToo many
 ugly and repulsive things force themselves | before me to make it advisable for me to | seek things which are offensive" he was | in the habit of saying. T have no wish to
 seek snakes and slime and filth, for these
 things annoy me on my own land, and
 spend money to remove them. And I am
 entirely willing to give a drunl1ard which 1 ever side of the road he wants. My boy, l take 'roundance on trouble and ugly l things-go around them every time" l
 | theD h would tell famous story about John Randolph of Roanoke and
 Yankee Congressman. The two met face
 to face in front of the old National Hotel
 in Pennsylvania avenue, which road was 1 then deplorabiy bad. One of the men had
 to give way the other he forced into the mud. With characteristic rndeness the New Engiander, recognizing the Southern 1 CT, bristled up, and declared: ~I never give the road to a damned ras- 1 calr'
 q always do," said Randolph as he 1 quickly stepped aside.
 l Thus if should meet 'the Christian" 1 in the street, it would be better to steo
 aside Into the mud if need be. MT. Hall Caine is q radical because he is of the Pharisees and is one who hates the clergy. The bounds of his religion and his morals do not reach beyond the mental vision of l the average ManXman, and that springs | from the lowest-class girls of Liverpool and Manchester, who every Sunday and hol- day rope in" their men" and go to the Isle of Man. There is more of immortality on that little island during any Saturday to-Monday," from April to October than there ever was among our Southern white people since this country was first set tied Amid such surroundings Hall Caine has spent much of his life.
 There is a Birmingham man who saw Hall Caine one night in bad company in London. He was one of the clowns in show of which the notorious person Stead was the 'star." There were other Radicals present. including one of Gladstone's for mer cabinet ministers, close friend Of Gladstone's bosom chum Jabez Balfour, a Nonconfornlist deacon, who is now serving fourteen years for swindling. Caine who is q little man with a full beard and disrep- utable hair, was called upon for "spooch.' He compiled by telling anee- dotes, chiefly about my dear Americans" and the way he patronized our people was in the fullest degree offensive. The Bir- rningham man, and another American who
 
 and it was therefore their first view of the Caine-Stead element in British life. It was also their last view.
 Chine was most probably brought up in the English established church, but his l sociations are largely with nonconformists, such as the various branches of Metho- dsts, and these latter are exclusively of 1 the middle and lower classes. There is oIt d,on pie which is real and earnest, if it be hope lessly narrow The established church is fashionable, amongst it's clergy being ''the fool of the family of many an illustrious house, but it's faith is mainly in itself civilian r. Seward and his wife of Scranton township, near Urbana, Ill, have given their six hundred acre farm, valued at S6O0O, for the founding of an institution devoted to the education of colored people iu the black belt of the South" says the New York Tribune of Sunday. Isn't the "'black belt of the South the Black belt of Alabama alone? Is there any other ''black belt?' If the good Mir. Seward and his wife could visit the Alabama State Fair today and see Booker Washington's remarkable dis l play of negro work of all kinds, they would | experience much greater pleasure from their munifcence. They appear to have given their all to the educa-
 ton of negroes, and thus they have done more praiseworthy work than Rock efellers gift of six million dollars to a University one of the professors of which declares this mere maker of money to be greater than Shakespeare. It is not alto- | gether good when men give of vast wealth ) to education simply to get themselves ex- | travagantly praised by salaried beneficiar- | ies It is pity that MT Rockefeller and | his university" professors can't see what 1 Booker Washingtons Tuskegee school is l doing.
 l Miss Carrie Bridewell passed through