The age-herald., 1900-10-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| "Thou hast an excellent birthday any thy
 money and business will increase fast; thou wilt travel and change and with success;
 those in employ will meet promotion"
 "A child born on this day will be gener- ally fortunate whether in employ or busi-
 ness for itself, and clever.'
 l Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for | Friday, October 5, 1900:
 Buy with care and ask favors before o'clock in the afternoon | "Thy business will prosper and increase, | hut in thy domestic circle expect grief or l aflictions
 "A child born on this day will be steady, | clever and fortunate, except in its love and | domestic affairs.'' l High up among the hills of Chunneenugee | about the head-waters of the winding and | woody Conacuh, where the cotton blossoms | blow and the corn tassels tassel, there is | the site of religious sights that are famous | Chunneenugee, which is Indian for clear | water or any old thing you like, is five | miles from the beautiful, progressive, en- | frightened town of Union Springs, the capi- l tai of the rich county of Bullock and | so-called maybe because there are no | springs there to form union; famous as | the place where the late lamented eclipse | was most eclipsing; and as being the one | time home of former Editor William C' l Jelks, Judge Banks, Judge Wilkerson, l Judge Feagin, and other distinguished l men, and present home of Editor Pierre | Miles.
 l Chunneenugee has other claims to fame | besides being near Union Springs. In that | immediate district is the old home of the | Walkers, long powerful in the social life l of that region and princes and princesses | of noble hospitality. But the fact of cur l rent interest has to do with humber folk l Chunneenugee is the site of sights for 1 religious meetings of the colored race | There the largest campmeeting, colored or | white, in the South is annually held ex- | cept possible break in the record made l year or two ago on account of the prevail | ence of smallpox. Negroes flock thither | in countless thousands from the Alabama l counties of Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Bull l lock- Barbour, Lee and Russell, and the | river counties of Georgia across the Chat | tahoochee. The railroads run special ex- | cursion trains which convey multitudes | while enormous crowds reach there by wagons and all kinds of vehicles, horse- | back muleback oxback, and shanks' lilly. | The great majority wend their way to the | place of shouting and hysteria on that | ever-ready lilly of shanlss'.
 Chunneenugee is one of the worlds sights | on a beautiful site, you may be assured | Chunneenugee is the greatest of all the l triumphs of negro Methodism. There is | preachin' and zortin' and singin and | shriekin' and wild pandemonium of hys- | terical religious fervor, from who laid de | chunk That's the truth about Chunnee- nugee
 Chunneenugee, Chunneenugee, You're a good un fur de ban; You're a credit your ligion, An to dshere sinful Ian. Chunneenugee was in it's glory this las | gone if Sunday in September, so a bull l lock-no, Bullockian-said last night whilst | he caused twofer to challenge a briar- | root pipe. He said he guessed that there | were forty thousand negroes present at the | campmeeting on that day. Asked to guess | again, he admitted that he once lived in | Atlanta and had often guessed the popula- | tion of that town to be 120 000 thereby com | ing into conflict with the census bureau to | the absurdly trif1ing number of 31 ,0OO or 4O,- | GOO people.
 q have wondered if the plains about Mecca in pilgrimage times present any | thing like the appearance of Chunneenugee
 at the negro Methodist campmeeting time" | he observed "Chunneenugee presents the | motliest and most mixed aspect ever seen | or sung. White negroes, as white as d Cau- 1 casian; black negroes, so black that a | piece of charcoal would make white marks | on their faees octoroons, quadroons, mul- | lattoes, browns, coppers, gingercakes-every | shade of human eperdermis is represented | amongst the lounging, shuffling, shouting, | persplring throng of uncounted thousands | of the negro race. Some of them go on | account of religious desires, others to see 1 what is going on, and others for base pur- l poses and they laugh and weep, love and 1 hate, caress and smite, pray and sin, in- | discriminatory. Unwdshed rags and tawdry | fnery are mixed up in hopeless confusion, l and
 "'G'way, niggerr
 Is the ceaseless protestation from score
 of thousand thirsty throats. 1 Water Is obtained from the Conecuh | river which at that point is narrow creek, | the beginning of bold and navigable
 stream running through the southern piney
 woods and emptying into the Escambia,
 bay adjoining the bay of Pensacola. Every | body who has any food carries it to the
 campmeeting grounds; others purchase
 from the hundreds of hucksters and pie | sellers, and a greater number trust to luck
 sor sump m teat. A great many white peo- | pie travel to Chunneenugee to spend an
 hour or two seeing the sights 1 g.
 Senator John T. Morgan and the Misses 1 Morgan are the guests al Annston of Judge
 James ". Lapsley, Senator Morgans old
 law associate and intimate personal friend
 fer fifty years. It is understood that the
 1 Senator will remain in Alabama until the
 | assembling of the Legislature in the mid
 1 dle of November, and most of the inter-
 vening time he will be Judge Lapleys
 1 guest. It is not believed that the Senator