The age-herald., 1900-12-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thou hast a successful birthday and thy
 business will prosper"
 Young people will court or marry "A child born on this day will be
 cessful in it's undertakings and will rise in
 life"
 Astrologer Raphaers phopheeies for Sat
 urday December 9, 1900:
 Sell before D. m, then deal and travel,
 and push thy business"
 Beware of sickness or bereavement and
 keep thy business well under control; much
 will occur to harass and annoy thee; those
 in employ must be very careful"
 "A child born on this day will have much
 to contend with 1t should keep in employ;
 it will be quick and very clever, but not
 always lucky"
 ..While it is scandalous enough that mem
 bers of the State Democratic Executive
 Committee should remain away from the meetings, prevent a quorum, and seriously
 interfere with the most important business
 of the party, several of those who did not
 attend the meeting in his city yesterday had excellent reasons for staying away"
 said well known Democrat. "Hon. Frank l.. Pettus and MT Mallory of Selma are both sick in bed; MT. Harolson of DeKalb is in bed with a broken leg; MT. Stevens was compelled to attend court in Clarke County, and one or two others were sick. But it is seandalous that members who can attend meetings will not do so. Some mem-
 bers have not yet attended meeting of the committee; and this absenteeism is becom- ing intolerable. Members make serious sac rifces to answer the chairmans calls, and then discover that the failure of others to
 attend to their duties make such sacrifices of no avail No Democrat has any sort of right to stop the progress of party work by refusing to attend to his own duties; and 1 the next State convention will be asked to | give the committee authority to fill the places of all who may be designated as ab- sentees."
 "-Fhe spectacle of a great convention of | the Irish people yielding to the dictation of l William OBrien and voting to 'expel Tim | Healey from the Irish patriotic political party, by whatever name it now be called | is sad to all true and thoughtful lovers of Ireland" said traveller who had sojourn- | ed in Iresland.
 "Tim Healey, the brightest and most ca l pablo of all the Irish members of Parlia-
 ment since Parnell, long ago aroused the | jealousy and incurred the personal dislike | of OBrien, and as usual, O'Brien brings his own personal affairs into questions of supreme moment to the Irish people. Tim Healey is the ideal leader for the Irish-quick-w -witted, impassioned in his speech, daring, and absolutely trustworthy in all things. He was born in the County Cork, and two of his brothers were at one | time in Parliament. His father is now a | clerk to the poor law guardians of one of | the unions-districts designated and out | lined for the convenience of taking care of | the poor-and is fine old man, of whom l Tim is physical and mental type. Sever | al years ago it was reported to me that | there were some fifty cases of scarletina l in the elder MT. Healey's union, which is across the Cork line in the County Water l ford, and certain duties of my own to the | American government in relation to immi- | grafton required that l should make in- l quiries. I sent long telegram to MT | Healey explaining the matter and re- | questing instant information. He answer | ed at once, and fully and satisfactorily. "The next day the old man came to see me, bringing documentary evidence that l there was no scarletina in his union. I was l annoyed that he should have taken upon | himself so much trouble, as I held his good word amply sufficient, and I said as much to him. He was pleased, and we fell into | a. conversation which was one of the most l pleasing and instructive I remember to have ever had with any man abroad. We | parted great friends, and on the next | Thanksgiving Day, an American holiday of rie serve, he sent me a turkey raised by him l self at his own little place. The gift, in the | circumstances was extremely embarrass- l ing, but to have returned it would have mortally offend a good man who meant l to show the best of good feeling, so I kept the turkey. At Christmas, the greatest of | all days in ~'"--'ic Ireland, I sent him a | barrel of American apples.
 Tim Healey was discovered as a young | day laborer by Parnell at one of the great mans meetings in the North of England, | and not long afterwards Parnell made him | his private secretary. When the O'Shea
 scandal developed, and everybody became
 aware of it's disgusting immoralities, Tim
 Healey renounced Parnen. Personally he 1 might have overlooked Parnell's great sin 1 but there was a religious question involved "Wiliam O'Brien was in 1894 or 1895 ad- l judged a bankrupt and therefore had to | give up his seat in Parliament His wife l was wealthy, but for some reason she did
 not pay her husbands debts, which were in the main incurred by OBrien in his | famous but unsuccessful libel suit against l Lord Salisbury. Mrs. O. Brien was Span 1 ish woman, and even the chivalous Irish l ever reluctant to admit that any woman is
 not beautiful, held her to be physically the 1 least attractive woman in all Ireland. "This William O'Brien must not be con- l founded with that famous William O'Brien, | Lord Chief Justice of Ireland who died a l few weeks ago, and whose sister, Mrs. Nel- l son or Pollock, was found to have mysteri- l ously died in house of refuge in New Jer- sey about month ago. The woman's real
 married name was Elizabeth O'Brien Nell 1 son, but she assumed the name of Mrs. Pol 1 hx- vvh he forl