The age-herald., 1900-09-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES w
 AND ELSEWHERE

| ana prosper
 Young persons will court or marry
 "A child born on this day will be rash and quick in temper, but clever and gen. orally fortunate, possessing a high spirit
 If a female, she will marry d very l quick-tempered, military kind of man"
 Hire maidservants: brew strong drink | bake bread; go a-fishing."
 Astrologer RaphaePs prophecies for We'd nesday, Sept. 1s 1900:
 Court, marry. ask favors and push thy | affairs before o'clock in the afternoon"
 Success will attend thy endeavors, and l thy money and business will increase, but | take care of thy health.'
 "The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be fortu- nate and rise in life, and be generally suc- l cessful in all that it undertakes" l One might as badly be killed as fright | ened to death What's the difference? | Not the worst general result of the furi- | ous driving in the streets of Birmingham | are the murdering and manglng of inno- | cent persons by drivers who go unwhipped | of justice
 Thousands of innocent individuals suffer | frightful shocks from the close proximity | of deadly danger, and in great many l cases this shocking sets up deadly diseases l that may never be allayed. 1 Particularly is this true of women who at | the moment may not be strong, and whose nervous systems suffer shocks that are not | only excruciating at the moment, but which | in many cases lead to a succession of ills. l Even the strongest men suffer greatly from the sudden appearance of danger from harnessed horses driven frantic by | the whips of cruel drivers. Many a man in | Birmingham finds day by day his useful ness in his work temporarily destroyed by l imminent peril of death or lingering pros tration from turiously driven horses in the l streets.
 | But the surest victims of the hundreds of 1 fast drivers who make the streets of Bir- l mingham ways of ever-present peril are the aged, the infirm and the little children! 1 These are the "dead-sure game of the fast | drivers
 | Has there ever been any person in Bir- | mingham arrested for violating the city law against fast driving, except in the in | stances when persons have been killed or | badly maimed?
 l A poor little child of the poor, carrying little brown-paper parcel, maybe food for | hungry little ones, was passing timidly 1 along the street yesterday, apparently in a hurry. Reaching the crossing, she hesi- 1 tated and looked across and up and down at the rapidly moving vehicles-looking and fearing for her life. Almost pitiful she ap- peared; for she looked i'll and was pale, and was poorly clad, poor little thing. Her attitude, her every appearance was appeal ingly touching. Poor little daughter of the | poor!
 Finally, hugging her little parcel to her | breast she darted out into the dangerous torrent of traffic. and then flew back as | you have seen little birds do, learning to fly. This she repeated two or three times, and then away she went far out, almost half way across, when upon her came a great numbering dray drawn furiously by a team which was being lashed with a whip by man standing up in order to more fiercely lash the animals into fiercer speed.
 The child fell and But Birmingham doesn't care what became of the child since it is suffered that such danger shall menace every child who attempts to cross any one of Birmngham's principal streets l An eminent citizen drew a revolver on the fast driver of a dray in Twentieth street. Would it have been Justfiable homicide if he had shot the driver?
 How long will the hundred thousand who walk the streets of Birmingham suffer their lives imperiled by the hundreds who drive horses or ride bicycles?
 Dense pillows of black smoke rolled into this place of newspaper toll yesterday aft | ernoon blown by a stiff northwesterly l wind that was cool with the touch of frost. And accompanying the smoke was noise that would have been declared by every person outside Birmingham to be terribly exasperating. Talk about the devil beatin' tanbark'! That'd be nothing compared to the noise and the smoke of yesterday after noon. Yet it was inspiring as the roar of battle-it was the roar of the battle of progress against mud and dust and name less filth. That noise of yesterday was worthy even as the garments of the coal miner deep down in the earth are the re- galia of labor's dignity The work of pre- pairing the bed of the street for paving that section of Second avenue that connects Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets was in progress, and heavy steam roller was being run up and down in front of this newspaper. That was the cause of yes terday's smoke and noise, and that is why the smoke and noise were inspiring! The more of such disturbance Birmingham gets the better will 1t be for Birmingham. Roll on, thou dark iron roller, roll!
 The Huntsville Mercury declares in forceful words its objection to the Cover 1, nor of Alabama being forced to live in a second class hotel a boarding house, as he must live in Montgomery, and the peo- pie of Alabama would sustain the objec- ton if they had any real voice in their own | business!
 This plea from Huntsville is referred to here with no little reluctance, since it may lead fatheaded idiots to conjure up