The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-07
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Beware of law. losses, and quarreling,
and keep thyself cool and collected; in thy
business much will occur to harass and
perplex thee"
"A child born on this day will be unruly,
| headstrong, and difficult to manage; its
| business success will depend upon the hour
| of its BIRTH
Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for Sat
| urday, September s, 1900:
"Unfavorable; keep quiet"
Misfortune will fall upon thee and thy
| business and thy money will waste; thou
| wilt change and travel and meet annoy
anees at every step see that thou dosr
not speculate"
"A child born on this day will succeed
| best in the employ of others, and should
| not attempt any business on it's own ac-
count"
"A former slave who never quit the serv-
| ice of his master was old Wade Crump-
| ton, whose death occurred in Montgomery
| the other day." said J. Mortimer Williams
| of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company. Before the war between the
| States the late Colonel Charles Pollard,
president of the Alabama and Florida
Railroad of Alabama, purchased the slave
Wade for the railroad company, and ever
since then the old man has been in the
company's service, having been Familiarity
known about Montgomery for forty years.
He died in the employ of the general Of
| fees of the Louisville and Nashville at
| Montgomery.
"Wade's freedom from slavery came in
1865, but he was comfortable and had no
wish to leave the service of his former
master. There were great numbers of sim
| liar cases throughout the South but one
so conspicuous as this is worth attention.
Wade was one of the very first, and
therefore Oldest, railroad workers in Ala
| bama or in the country Ownership of him
| was acquired for the specific purpose of
working on railroad, and from the hour
| he stuck his first spade into the ground
| until he left the earth he did not leave that
| railroad service.
THAT which we now call the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad has borne many
names. The line from Montgomery to Pol
lard, near the Florida State line was orig
inally called the Alabama and Florida
Railroad of Alabama; the line from Pol
lard to Pensacola was named the Alabama
Pollard to Mobile was known as the Mo-
bile and Great Northern. Subsequently the
line through from Montgomery to Mobile
was styled the Mobile and Montgomery
Railroad, later the Mobile and Montgom-
cry Railway, and now the Mobile and
Montgomery division of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. The old Alabama and
Florida Railroad of Florida is now the
Pensacola i1c IF tba 7
Nashville.
Everything changed even old Wade
Crumptons employment, though he re-
| manned steadily at work as free man just
| as he had as a slave. He used a spade as
| a slave; he was using a broom when he
died free the other day."
Bad luck came to fisherman Frank p.
O'Brien off Asbury Park a few days ago.
Everybody may not know that the retiring
Sheriff of jefferson adds the anglers art
to his very numerous other accomplish
ments; but he does. He is a fisher from
who laid the chunk; one who has known
trout to mount a fourteen feet dam across
the Little Warrior river. But in the YER
nacular of the dime novel, we digress.
Some days agone Captain O'Brien turned
ais pdch upOIl tAt lthc WueTe urlpS roper
Hulick's cornjuice back of Asbury Park,
and put to sea in an open boat, accom-
Panied by Mark Hanna's secretary, or
some satellite of that burning sun of politi-
cal sin. The fisher from Birmingham was
feeling even happier than is his wont, and
so he elected to use the rod and reel which
had during eighteen years slain their
thousands.
Far out at sea- SO far that the quality
of the bathers' stockings on the beach
could not be seen, the fishers fell a-fishing
and to pratting about politics. The dis
cussion, the sunshine and the fish all were
hot. Captain O'Brien stoutly defended the
unterrified Democracy, which his compan-
ion just as stoAtly blackgus -ded They for
got about their hooks and lines, and
simply laid off to one another in desperate
earnestness. Suddenly the Birmingham
man felt mighty tug at his rod, and just
as suddenly the rod jerked from his
hand. At that moment a mighty fish
leaped high above the surging waters with
Captain O'Bren's line hanging from his
mouth, and upon his side was the legend
Och sure-come out O. that, ye haythen
spalpeen!'
Leastwise, Charlie Roberts was there
and he tells something to that effect since
his return to Birmingham
The circus is headed towards Birming-
ham, and promises to arrive here in the
last week of September. 1.-The circus Is
everybody's circus, no amtter who owns it,
from the small boys viewpoint. Autumn
brings nothing quite joy-giving as the
circus. 1t gives some degree of pleasure
to every person, except the physically or
mentally dyspeptic creatures who see no
pleasure in anything but misery. The street
parade is a splendid event, the Gagged ami
mails terrible beyond compare; a nickle's
worth of peanuts is a noble feast and
pink lemonade which is gutless of lemon
is real ambrosia! The ancient jokes of the
clowns are excruciatingly funny and as for
the bareback riding, oh, my! Therefore