The age-herald., 1900-09-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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| thy business"
 Thou wilt have very active year and thy business will increase and prosper, but
 be careful of thy health; those in employ l will meet promotion"
 1 Young females will have attention from
 tho opposite sex.'
 ! "A child born on this day will be very active, ambitious and rise rapidly in life, whether in employ or in business for itself"
 Thou mayest hire maid servants" ] Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Fri 1 day, September H. 1900
 Court and marry before ? o'clock in the 1 afternoon; unfavorable for all else" Beware of losses, and do not run any risks or speculate, and keep thy money 1 safe"
 ''The young will court"
 1 "A child born on this day will be careless i over money and will waste and spend it, ] and consequently be generally poor; 1t l should keep in employ"
 Hire men servants and set geese" l
 | Repairs are being made in the Cover I nor's office. The old time-worn wall paper | is being replaced by a handsome tasty pa- l per that has greatly improved the appear l ance of the room. A carpet will be l laid and other repairs will be made" 1, Yea, verily The world moveth. In these
 days of uncxampled prosperity even the 1 dingy executive apartments of the Cover | nor of Alabama at Montgomery are. being l renovated. A few dollars of the peoples | money Is being expended in sort O brush | ing up two dingy rooms in the peoples 1 dingy old house at the famous landing on
 the Alabama river loved of all Alabamians 1 as Montgomery.
 l For six and twenty years, more or less, 1 the peoples servants of all sorts have
 much of the time kept the peoples house I The House of the State-in an unclean i even verminous condition. Couldn't waste 1 the peoples money, you know; 'twerent 1 honest to keep out vermin or damp or cold
 rats and rots! Maybe that was the reason
 some of the peoples servants have been so everlastingly walloped from time to time in days agone. People didn't like the sort of honesty that is another name for meanness, parsimoniousness Possibly. The executive chamber of Alabama has | been held by legislators and others to be : good enough for "the people,, but 1 Montgomery lawyer would hold it to be l very shabby for a work place, though an ] eminent lawyer of that town lent it the | light of his genius for several years be- | cause he had not elsewhere to lay his work. | bench. There isn't any apartment in the | Jefferson County courthouse which would | be suffered to fall into the ordinary con 1 dition of the chief business office in the | house of rats and rots on Goat Hill, at | the top of Dexter avenue, in the town of ] Montgomery, County of Montgomery, State | of Alabama, United States of America! | The ill-furnished old capitol-still stately | even in its shabbiness-and the splendid | county building of Jefferson have one dis l tfnction in common: Huge and filthy cuspi- 1 dors.
 | Here is a fair description of the executive 1 apartments in Alabamas capitol: 1 A big square room containing two worn | desks, a small table and two worn drawer | cases; a washstand and water cooler. both l worn, behind an old screen in one corner:
 telephone against the wall which answers
 for the entire building except the Supreme | Court; faded and ragged paper on the walls; time-and- tobacco-stained marble | mantel and supports, on which rests d | crazy clock; patched fireplace stained
 black-brown by the efforts of generations | or tobacco-eaters; ragged carpet on which l a old chairs of various patterns, not worth l thirty cents each at auction:-the whole
 shabby interior lent the dignity of a dead
 nations pathos by a glass-doored case con- | tainng precious relics of the Confederacv | Adjoining is a much smaller apartment | with one window, used as the Governors | private office, and about as shabby as the I apartment just described, containing one { high desk and me low deslr. eo++,o u.., l two or three chairs; drawer-case, and a 1 fireplace, and in flush times occasionally a | basket of fruit, or a melon. or a bunch of l flowers, sent by admirers of the Governor, Such was the general condition of the executive apartments of Alabama for many long years previous to this week, when as 1 the Governors private secretary-good and | patient soul-tes us in his Montgomery newspaper, workmen began to put new ba- per on der wall and garbet on der l floor, thus making ready some measure of 1 tidiness for the new Governor who win [ come ten weeks hence!
 1 In such disgracefu condition has been the l Governors apartments of Alabama-the
 principal rooms in The House of The Peo- ple-and all because some servants of the people afflicted with penny-wisdom and
 pound-foolishness have refused to provide the small sum of the peoples money nec- 1 essary to keep up the appearance of de- cency! That was economy" of the dam 1 phool sort; and 1t Is enough to give rise to successful nov ment to place in the States next paper Constitution a clause re- quiring every member of the General As sembly to make solemn oath that he will not try or pretend to be economical" with the States money.
 ] Yet there be good folk, in Montgomery who toss abed O. nights ridden by the nightmare of removal of the capitol to birmingham.' Birmingham doesn't wish 1 the capitol here. Birmingham would prefer ! second grade pig iron furnace The town