The age-herald., 1900-05-25

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 "A child born on this day will be unlucky all through life, and will meet with much grief and sorrow both in it's single and married life."
 | The unsea sonable unseasonableness of | this month of alleged merriment lends sen- | sational news interest to subject as old l as Eves first appearance in Eden: there being no reasonable doubt that Adam de- 1 clared the morning to be damp bad It l is subject cherished through all ages by i all classes of men and women, from kings and queens to ragged beggars; but it hasn't 1 before in May time attracted so much com ment in this valley. Last night overcoats were essential to comfort the dear old phrase runs and a search of square mile of this town would have revealed not a single pair of lovers incoming and eooins on verandas, vinecad or otherwise. Even coat sleeves were no protection against the chill of the atmosphere. and lovers, poor things, had to sit indoors and run up gas bills or run the lights down. down, down un- til there were no lights al all. They had to hug-well, ireless freplaces perhaps. Here it is May 18th, and a few soulless, joyless hours will bring June, usually the hottest
 
 might'nigh brought frost. June may not come at all, and therein lies the most sen sational aspect of this news of the wealth CT. Next Monday May 18th, shortly after daybreak there will be no daylight and it is practically certain the world will end. Indeed it may be now stated with positive assurance of truth that after the day. break of Monday morning the world will l and i'm T rix, .I,i, fa., 1
 In that case, perhaps, Colonel William H. Denson signs for a farm but vainly 'I desire a farm far from the maddng crowd" Colonel Denson said. q long to hear the partridge call to his mate and at nightfall hear the whippoorwil make love in the trees. I'd love te catch the sweet odors of wood and field, and the thousand notes of the bird choir singing to the rol- licking time of the laughing brook Out of that same brook I'd like to pull bream and trout and suckers, and all sorts of | fish, and have them served at dawn with hoecake and hot coffee with. maybe, waf- fles and 'lasses to follow. I'd rejoice to hie me to the broomsedge field, and there run down young rabbit which I'd bear home and have barbecued for my frugal meal at noontime. With that rabbit I should have ash-cake that had been wrapped in green hickory leaves and baked in hickory ashes hot fallen from logs that sized at each end with softly escaping steam coming from the heated sap Alongside my plate I'd have a jug of buttermilk that had been cooled by the bubbling waters of a clear running spring. As side dishes I'd have turnip greens and hog -jowl, and hog -jowI and turnip greens, and-wel, just some more hog-jowl and turnip greens! Man. that's fine! After dinner d rest in peace for a space, and then I'd attend the choir practice of the birds again, and fish until l the darkness came and the fire-hies came out to light me home, while the whippoor- wills made melody and the lone owl hooted for it's mate gone a-Mayng. Supper would | be ready and I'd sit down to-Ah we'll, | there's just no use tall1ngl I've got my | farm picked out, and it Is a good one. I'll | have to practice law while longer, and | then I'll be off to the farm, and peace and rest and birds fish, rabbits, ash-cake whip 1 poorwills, and on, through all the glad l days!"
 William W. Garrett of Cleveland, O., the l inventor of the endless-rod mill, and the most famous rod mill builder in America, | is at the Morris MT. Garrett is a practi- cal mechanic, and began when very young to work at rodmaking. His close and thoughtful application. to his work sug- gested to his acute mind the possibility of the 'endless" rod, and so he patiently worked out his great invention, which revolutionized the manufacturing of rods l One day, while working at and experiment. ing with rod-making, a rod caught his left 1 leg and so lacerated that limb that ampu- tation was necessary. He now wears an artificial leg a fact that does not lessen the energy or gracious good-humor of this one of the most notable inventors of the age. MT Garrett built the great steel and wire rod mill at Ensley he had built many other such mills before.
 Thomas Lunsford Stevens, only son of Coloned Alexander H. Stevens of the Cen tral of Georgia railway, Birmingham yes- | terday successfully passed his examination and was appointed by Governor Merriam to an important position in the census bu- reau at Washington MT. Stevens was graduated last year from the University of Alabama, and at once was appointed to place in the office of MT. Holley of the
 
 ed that place until week ago, when he proceeded to Washington to stand the rigid examination required he having been nominated to Governor Merriam by Con gressman Underwood. His career at the university praiseworthy, and he had already established for himself an enviable | character in Birmingham Being am- bilious, well studious, he has deter mined to take night lessons in the law school of Georgetown University; and so the future is bright for this bright young | man.
 The commencement exercises of the | notably successful Central Alabama Agri- cultural school at Blountsville, of which pr. J. A. B. Lovett is president, will begin on Friday, June l. Rev. E. H. Hawkins will preach the sermon on the following Sunday. Monday, the 4th, will be Farmers