The age-herald., 1900-09-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES n
 AND ELSEWHERE

| "An unfavorable day"
 If this be thy birthday sickness and
 sorrow will befall thee, and thy bereaye-
 ment will be keen; in thy business thou
 wilt have an unsettled and unfortunate
 year"
 "A child born on this day will be singu-
 larly unfortunate and will be in constant
 trouble or poverty; it's domestic life will
 be one of grief and affiiction."
 1 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Mon- 1 day, September 24, 1900:
 l Travel remove sign writings, and push 1 thy affairs before o'clock in the after | noon."
 This being thy birthday, success will at tend thy endeavors, and thy money and
 business will increase; thou wilt journey l change with success
 "A child born on this day will be very
 clever and fortunate and will rise rapidly in life"
 1 We Southerners are very fond of talking 1 about our cotch-Irish and uor Cavaliers; l and very properly the Governor of Ala l bama made happy reference to that South | ern trait in a happy speech in New Eng 1 land the other day. He informed the New l Englanders that our Scotch-Irish and Cav
 alters of forty years ago suspected the in- l vasion of their rights by the North; and l that was true.
 l But 1t may be doubted if we always know | what we are talking about when we dis 1 cuss our Scotch-Irish and Cavaliers. In a l racial sense the Scotch-Irish are very near | ly non-existent. When we are boasting of | the Scotch-Irish we are boasting really of | the Scotch. The Scotch-Irish are Scotch 1 born in Ireland, but otherwise are not Irish l In any sense. They are no more of the l Irish race than Walker County farmer is l of the Jewish race: and Walker County,
 Alabama, Is perhaps the most purely Anglo | Saxon county in America, and quite as l much so as- any county in England, not | excepting Kent Essex, Sussex, or Devon. | There are millions of Scotch-Americans l racially, but a Scotch -Irishman in the l racial sense would be an anthropopathical l curiosity After the Scotch invaded Ulster | they remained Scotch, and so remain to | this day. They intermarry there or get | wives and husbands from the mainland of | Scotland. They are Presbyterians, w.Alst practically every genuine I-ishman is a Roman Catholic. whom they very cordially detest. Therefore, marriage between the l Scotch in Ireland and the Irish is very rare As for the Cavaliers, they were royalists 1 and of the English gentry, followers of
 King Charles I. In Cromwelrs time and supporters of the cause of King Charles II. Great members of the Cavaliers came to | America in the troublous times during the l Cromwelllan commonwealth, and every one
 of them settled in the South. They and their descendants in large measure formed l the ariStOcracv of the old nd heir descendants are the governing influence In the South of this day. In England they re- 1 quired the nickname Cavalier because of
 their dress and their dashing and courtly l manners.
 l A well-dressed stranger observed a pretty young woman of Birmingham in the street. l He looked al her respectfully as she passed along, and doubtless he would have looked l If looking had cost him blindness, for she was very pretty and very tidily and dAinti- ly dressed; but he did not stare. It was his right to look at her fin deference; 1t Is the right of every man to so look at pretty woman. She became aware that the man was looking at her, and she did not feel in the least offended. No woman could | be offended by the respectful admiration l of any person. stranger or not In the street stranger lost sight of pretty Birmingham woman; and shortly afterward he passed around an upright showcase in the doorway of a fashionable dry goods store at the very moment she came out As
 the two suddenly came together she invol- untarily sneezed violently-in his face. Both l were greatly embarrassed and both fled in opposite directions. Since then they have encountered one another several times l down town. and neither can avoid smiling l Romance? Yes. Silly? Yes. Marriage? | Maybe.
 Former Senator Lon W. Grant of Cal
 houn has been spending a day or two in Birmingham, coming hither from his farm in the far-famed Alexandria valley Mr. Grant is a retired newspaperman, having | several years ago sold the Jacksonville Republican, which he inherited from his distinguished father. former State Treas | urer Grant, one of the most honored of Alabama's Democratic leaders. Mr. Grant
 was a student at college when the war be- l tween the States broke out. He quilted his l books for musket and distinguished him. I self in battle. At the close of the war he I tried to enter Mexico. He returned homa and became a lawyer, but circumstances forced him to assume newspaper obliga- tions, and in the after years he became one of the ablest and most useful of the 1 State Senators. Retiring from the State Senate, he went to Washington at the sug- gestion of Secretary of the Navy Hilary 4. Herbert, where he remained a few yeara- I He then came back to Alabama, and has l been living quietly and happily on his beau l tiful farm. He is very fond of books, and 1 is one of the most accomplished men in l any walk of life in Alabama. He says he l feels young, and he looks it, and he has | some thought of going out into the world | again.
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