The age-herald., 1900-09-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Court and marry before o'clock in the afternoon; unfavorable for all else"
 Beware of losses, and do not run any risks or speculate and keep thy money safe"
 "The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be careless over money and will waste and spend it, and consequently be generally poor; it should keep in employ"
 Hire men servants and set geese"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sat urday, September 15, 19OO
 Avoid superiors and keep quiet"
 Those in employ must be careful and those in business will lose money.'
 Young women will receive offers"
 "A child born on this day will be very clever and quick, but not lucky In busi- ness"
 Hire men servants and set chickens"
 Business interests once made 1t neces- sary for me to visit the State capital at time when a certain issue affecting Jeffer- son County was pending in the General Assembly, and upon my arrival there at night I looked at the hotel registers to as- certain who was there from Birmingham. I read the names of thirty-one citizens of Jefferson who were personally known to me- and all of them were registered as from Birmingham, whereas but three of the number resided within the corporate lim- its of this city," said Fergus w. McCar- thy, who comes nearer than any other man perhaps to knowing by sight and name all the men of Jefferson.
 '"Those men, to almost a man, who were registered from Birmingham actually re- sided in what is really the city; that is to say, they lived in continuous suburbs and did their business and got their living out of Birmingham, enjoying ali the manifold advantages of a city without paying a cent towards maintaining this city govern ment."
 MT. Mccarthy in stating a familiar con- dition so succinctly and so graphically did not pretend to be arguing for that munich pal consolidation of Birmingham which goes enormously by the name of annexa- ton; he was merely stating incidental facts of his own accidental observation. Yet, while all the great newspapers of the United States discussing the mar velous increase of officially circumscribed Birmingham's population, as shown by this decennial census, and referring with na- tional pride to the extraordinary fact that Birmingham has hung the banner of the new South her outer walls," daily newspapers so-called of Mobile and Mont gomery are making unseemly and unwar- rantable filings at Birmingham because Bir- mingham, an Alabama town, has shown a larger percentage of increase in population than any other considerable American town outside of the West and apart from two or threa New cyl- vania, and comes within a very small num- Der of showing the largest increase in the entire United States!
 | Whilst that sort of cheap sneering does not injure Birmingham any more than the gnat on the. bulls horn injures the bull, yet it is annoying in view of the facts that Birmingham, founded by Montgomerians and made up largely of good men from all sections of Alabama, relieves the remain der of the State from material burdens and is living and powerful advertiser of every community in Alabama And it is the Age-Herald which constantly sounds to the world the virtues of Mobilians and Montgomerians and the great business at tractiveness of their towns. It is the Age Herald which almost single handed at times proclaims eagerly to the world the iuelitS, dS tO luulNluudlS ana also cOllec- lively, of inhabitants of those towns and likewise proclaims the pre-eminent busi- ness and material charms of proud and prosperous Mobile and proud and prosper l ous Montgomery.
 | The people of Birmingham will not hold l the good people of Montgomery and Mobile | responsible for the ceaseless filings at this | city from daily newspapers so-called. The people of Birmingham will continue to love l their kinsmen to the southward, and Birm- | ingham newspapers will continue to do what they can to advertise Mobile and Montgomery, whatever may be done by the local daily newspapers so-caled of those towns. .a The spirit of all that sneering falls very nearly to much-heaps when a simple state ment of the Age-Herald as to the general difficulties of printing the great news of last Monday morning arouses rancorous coun- ter-statements from beautiful Perry street in beautiful Montgomery!
 | Speaking of unconsolidated, legally unex- banded, unannexed Birmingham, and the | general expansion of everything nowadays, | MT. T. G. Webb of Birmingham sends these l lines: :.
  | Man wants but little here below'- | The statement gives relief, | And I am now about to show | The statements not beyond belief. What man wants Is thus defined, | According to my conception, l He wants what's left behind 1 And included In the term expansion" Greater Birmingham can take care of itself, and the more care it takes of the rest 1 of the State the better for the State; for
 Birmingham means good, enlightened llb- eral, progressive government. There is no community in America or out of it more in- | tellgently or keenly alert to the business of
 being than Birmingham. This Is a commun-
 ity of practical people with practical aims i and objects, and they have no time for fogyism, bigotry, intolerance, or hide
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