The age-herald., 1900-04-21

l
 Uncertain all day"
 "rhou hast a quiet, but rather fortunate birthday, and thy business will proceed
 satisfactorily"
 "A child born on this day will be gener-
 ous and rather fortunate, but much will
 depend upon the hour of its birth The astrologer has declared that Satur-
 day, April 2l. 1900. will be uncertain all day" That is what he foretoid of last Saturday, and he was eminently correct
 in his prophecy. Many political uncertain
 ties of a week ago are now determined: | but the county conventions will today l have to settle various matters and there 1 fore it will be 'Gncertain all day Poli-
 ties is a sort of endless chain of disap- l pointment and vexaton to most men who l have to do with it. but no candidate IS
 ever certain until he is certain and
 certain that uncertainty has given 1 place to certainty with its certain
 results that overcome uncertainty and
 make certain that certainty which is the
 certain relief to an uncertain mind, thus
 proving the fact that it is not always cer-
 tain that things that equal to the same 1 thing are equal to each other and that l the vote of the town Is not the vote | of the county; and,-O botheration 1 "Jncertain all day" saith the astrologer. | Therefore let everybody be good to every
 body. Some day politicts shall cease from
 troubling and the weary be at rest. 1 There cannot be any reasonable doubt 1 that the street fair to be held in Birming- 1 ham May 14-19 under the auspices of Bir- l mingham Lodge No. 70 of the Order Of
 Elks will be worthy of that order and
 worthy of this city and district It will be
 a time of merry making and pleasure of the l higher character and it will therefore re- 1 ceve the cordial support and cooperation I O. the inhabitants generally. There will be l no gambling devices to lure the unsuspect- ] ing, nor slde-shows of questionable morals:
 there will be nothing that can harm or of 1 fend anybody. The fair has been planned
 OH a high plane, and will be successfully
 carried out to the satisfaction of the pub 1 lie. The Elks are famous for their public 1 spirit their love of harmless pastimes and l their beneYolence and general goodwill, and
 they have a way of doing well whatever | they undertake to do at all. These facts | the local public is especially aware of.
 slnce Birmingham has Lodge No. 79 And | all enterprising citizens will give aid and l encouragement to the Elks in the purpose
 to make the street fair Birmingham's
 greatest occasion of mirth, amusement, harmless pleasure. Lodge No. 79 has un- dertaken to do a great deal and that lodge will do it. So much the better for Bir-
 mingham.
 Sister Chrysostom, the Sister Superior of St. vincents hospital, has gone to St.
 Louis to inspect furniture and furnishings with view to contracting for the supplies l required for the magnificent new building l in Twenty-seventh street. South High lands now nearing completion. More than
 two hundred beds are needed for the new l hospital, and that fact alone will give
 some popular conception of the work
 which Sister Chrysostom and the society
 of the Sisters of Charity haveundertaken 1 It will also impress the public with the l mere dimensions of the new St. Vincent's.
 which will be the finest hospital south of | Baltimore, and one of the most perfectly
 equipped in the world When completed 1 the hospital will represent an expenditure l or nearly a nalI in1liiOn uOliarS III the l cause of human mercy and charity, and l for the relief of human suffering: and as- | suredly good men and women need not be
 urged to help the good Sisters of Charity
 in this noblest of all human endeavor. It
 is probable that Sister Chrysostom will
 visit other cities than St Louis | in quest of what is required for
 the new building, and she is eminently
 we'll qualified for intelligently discharging ] such an important and burdensome duty.
 Yet it is no burden to Sister Chrysostom. 1 Her happiness is found in doing good for l others. She is a woman of remarkable
 executive and administrative ability: a i fact which may be stated without pre- sumption.
 And Old Irishman" writes from Mont l gomery: MT. Pat J. Sweeney is not | Frenchman as reported, but a great big old | Irshman of pure old Irish blood. l don't
 think that our 'tallest cop is so good | hearted, for he is the terror of tramps and
 loafers. Without this he would make l good body-guard for the Prince of Wales" l Reference is herein had to statement
 that MT. Sweeney, who had won prize
 the most popular policeman in Montgom- | cry, was Frenchman, as h1S name 1ndi-
 cated. That was not properly labeled as a l joke. Once upon a time a customs officer
 asked German traveller as to his nation 1 ality. q am German from Baden Baden, l was the answer. An Irish traveller who | heard the answer considered 1t quite | "swagger and "upish," so when his turn 1 came as to his own nationality he ans | swered: "Oim Frinchman from Corky l Corky, bedad! en. I kin lick livery wan O l thim Germans"
 l Representative Alfred M. Tunstall of | Hale is in Birmingham MT Tunstall has l been renominated for the legislature, and will be one of the leading members of | the next house. He is, by the way, a kins-
 man and law partner of Speaker Charles | E. Waller, candidate for governor c.
 Brooks Smith of Hale, member of the | state democratic executive committed, Is