The age-herald., 1900-07-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| day, tfluay, July zi, lSOVs
 An unfavorable day"
 Thou wilt have an active year and thy l business will increase and prosper; thou | wilt also travel or remove with success, but beware of sickness"
 "A child born on this day will be quick
 and clever, fond of travel, and, on the whole, fortunate in business"
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Sat
 urday, July 2S, 1900;
 Ask favors and seek work in the after noon."
 "Thou art threatened with losses; see that thou dost not speculate; in thy family circle thou wilt have grief"
 "A child born on this day will be perse-
 vering and steady, but free with it's
 money; it will succeed best in employ"
 
 "The average citizen outside the Fifth | Congressional District doesn't care whom the Democrats of the district shall nom:- nate for Congress. just so the nominee be a | loyal Democrat; but the general public of Alabama must regret deeply the bitter | passions that seem to have been aroused in that district and the violent language | induged in,' said State Democrat last
 night MT. Brewer. MT. Hefiin, MT.
 
 | each to work out his own salvation; but l the constantly reiterated charges of fraud, | cheating, lying, buying. fraudulent deal l ings and general immortality are unseemly | and wearisome. If we are to accept the | assertions of some friends of each candi- | date for Congress. the Fifth District is | certain to be represented in the Fifty | seventh Congress by a fool or knave, or Vat hal ic "a Several | perfectly reputable men wish to go to | Congress-; but that fact should not cause mud-fiinging. It is free and open con- | test. Let him win who may-provided, he
 win fairly.
 | "No notoriusly immoral man should be nominated for any public office, no mat | ter what form his publicly displayed im- morality take; nor should fool be elected | to lead; but in every mans life there are | private little failings, little shortcomings, | little indiscretions that are not of slIffi- | cient force to destroy his usefulness, and | should not weigh against him in contest
 for public office To step aside is human No man Is perfect-no not one There l are small errors of life, minor sins maybe, | which serve to prove nothing more truly | harmful than a mans virility, his mas | culnity his abundant fleshliness his sense | of thrift. To condemn all this indscrimi- | nately would operate in numerous in- | stances to condemn what is in reality strong manhood a trifle beyond absolute | self control. No community can safely l countenance wanton and fragrant immor- l allty, such as public drunkenness swim | ding, or nameless debauchery. But short | of such vices a mans life, his habits, his 1 impulses are his own, and with them the | public has not concern Every man is a
 sinner"
 Such information as is obtainable makes l doubtful tht result of the present Congress- | ional contest in the First District" said
 another man of public affairs. MT. Han
 his Taylor personally is very confident of
 his own nomination by the Democrats, and
 leading men in Mobile in position to estf- l mate fairly well the result share in some
 degree Mir Hannis Taylor's confidence. It | is being urged against this man that he is | a scholar, a famous author, d diplomat, | and so on, and therefore unfit to represent
 the 'wool-hat boys in Congress. That will | doubtless have it's effect against MT. Hannis | Taylor. His accomplishments, his fame,
 are his handicap.
 Congressman G. w. Taylor's opinion of | the situa ton in the First District is not | known here; but he is making a determined | struggle for renomination. Colonel B. L. | Hubbard of Monroe considers himself a.
 candidate, but what the Democratic voters
 think of nlm in that attitude is merely con- | jecturaE
 General public interest in the First Dis I frict n ia hat NIr
 Taylor is a national, or rather interna- l tiona1, figure. So it is the personality of
 Sydney Bowie that lends widest interest to | the contest in the Fourth District MT. | Bowie is not national figure, but he looms | up proudly enough in Alabama, and if he | is sent to Congress, which now seems the ! most probable result of the pending can vass, the nation will know him quickly and I admiringly. Thus the broader interest in | the First and Fourth Districts is largely [ due to two conspicuous and powerful per- ! sonalities-Mr. Hannis Taylor and Mr. | Bowie. With all respect to the distn- | guished Democrats of the Fifth District | it is the apparent ferceness of the pending l struggle there that attracts most attention | from the outside world. Proudly and | generally speaking MT. Ninths constitu- | ents are indifferent to who shall in fu- | ture represent MT. Nineteenth's constitu- | ents. It is always a question of men or | fiercer fierceness."
 | One of the most admirable Alabamians 1 who wears Americas uniform will sail | from San Francisco for China tomorrow l Ffe is John B. McDonald, captain in the | Third United States Cavalry and there will be no stouter soul to fight the heathen. | Mcdonald was appointed to. West Point
 from the Opelika district in the '70s; and,
 after having been suspended for year on
 account of alleged complicity in the famous
 hazing of the negro cadet Flipper, he was
 graduated with distinction. He spent about
 ten years in assisting in the effort to keep
 the Indians in order out West doing a
 great deal of fighting whilst on that duty..