The age-herald., 1900-08-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thou mayest expect changes ana an
 unsettled time for thy business; see that
 thou dost not quarrel; those in employ will
 loose it. <>
 "A child born on this day will have
 much trouble to succeed, whether it is in
 employ or in business for itself.n
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Sat urday, August Il, 1900:
 Deal seek work. be careful and push thy business.
 Avoid speculation and keep thy money safe, neither stand bond for any one; thou wilt have an active year but not success full one.
 "A child born on this day will be for tunate and active, and will succeed, but it
 will spend it's money fast, so will not be- come rich.''
 "The business of fruit growing is already very considerable in Alabama and it will increase steadily" said Colonel b. L. Hig- don. "In the eastern part of the State peaches and watermelons are extensively cultivated and are shipped at good profit. East Alabama is coming to be Georgias chief competitor. Alabama watermelons do not average in weight quite as much as the Georgia melons but they are as fine, if not nHtI, III quhhty. AidpoiHet piouuNS9 NN-
 cellent peaches and in Blount and several other counties apples are profitable com
 mercial crops"
 Colonel Higdon has a large young peach
 orchard in Shelby county. He will have
 several thousand trees in full bearing next
 summer, and two or three years hence, when all of his acreage shall have been set
 he will have good fortune in peaches.
 ;z ,,ff fl,A oct cI1po
 full fruit growers in Jefferson county. He
 has a little peach orchard-only about four acres-but the yield from his few hundred
 trees has paid far better this sea-
 son than some large cotton crops. Several of MT. McCarys trees
 brought him s3 each and his entire or
 chard averaged over s1.5O per tree. Peach
 orchards require comparatively little cuiti-
 vation-only keeping down the weeds-and
 at Birmingham prices peach growing pays, even if Jack Frost comes and nips the buds every now and then.
 On the whole this has not been a good fruit year. The excessive rains hurt the
 melons and the peaches and there was great loss from rotting. California peaches are being marketed but there will be little or no commercial demand for them in this
  gone.
 Birmingham has a large percentage of
 reading folks,' said a prominent news dealer yesterday. "The trade in maga-
 zines and newspapers is much larger now than it was last winter. Summer IS usually called a dull season, but this sum- mer my business has been exceptionally brisk It seems to indicate that Birming- ham is growing. The number of those who read magazines is certainly increas- | ing"
 'The Uniform Rank of the Knights of | Pythias will make a splendid display at l Detroit this month"; said an enthusiastic Pythian. "There will be at least 10,009 we'll drilled members of the order in camp, and they will compare favorably with United | States soldiers
 | The Knights Tempar triennial encamp | ment will not take place in Louisville until 1 August 1901, but already the local com | mittee of arrangements is very busy, ana l a great deal of literature is being sent l to the communicates throughout the | country. It is estimated that 100000 Knights | will rendezvous at Louisville. The ma | jority of them will sleep in tents instead l of hotels. Formerly only cities of great | hotel accommoda ton could undertake the | entertainment of the Grand Encampment | of the Templars. But now, with tent life | attractive and fashionable the hotel cuts l little figure.
 | 'I am not an ardent partisan of William J. Bryan" said a distinguished citizen in l the lobby, but the two speeches l which the Democratic standard-bearer de- | livered at Indianapolis impressed me as l being admirable in every way. Bryan dis | cussed the paramount issue with marked l clearness and force, and with telling elo- 1 quence; and I was glad to note his free i dom from anything like demagogy, which
 has sometimes marred the speeches of both | Democratic and Republican orators. Bry- | ans formal speech of acceptance will win,
 I think, many votes for the ticket.' Cardinal Gibbons will be the ceebrant at a requiem mass for King Humbert at | St. Matthews Church, Washington, Au-
 gust 19 President Mckinley and his Cab
 met will attend. The services are held at l the request of the Italian Ambassador. A Washington correspondent, writing of l the great library, describes some of the l changes that have been worked since
 MT. Herbert Putnam took charge. The | library force has been largely augmented | and it's efficacy has been increased. The 1 appearance of the place Is very much inn | proved. The library is not only feature l of Washington. but 1t Is something of | which the whole country is proud. NEGRO VIEWS CN SUFFRAGE l To the Editor of The Age-Herald: