The age-herald., 1900-09-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

l ASK faVors and seek work In the after-
 noon."
 Beware of law and quarrelling; in thy
 business thou wilt have successful year
 and it will increase and prosper; those in
 employ may be promoted"
 "A child born on this day will be rash
 and headstrong, but rather fortunate in It's business affairs"
 "If a female, she will marry very well and
 get a good husband"
 "Brew strong drink; go a-fshng.'
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for | Thusrday, September 27, 1900:
 Avoid women and ask no favors."
 Thou wilt have an unsettled year for
 thy business and family affairs, and they | will cause thee much anxiety; run no 1 risks with thy health or thy money"
 A child born on this day will be care- | less and indolent, fond of its ease and sell | dom fortunate"
 If female, rather lucky in wedlock."
 We have just passed two anniversaries
 notable in the worlds history. Forty-three l years ago occurred the relief of Lucknow, l one of the greatest three events in the | terrible record of the Sepoy rebellion in In- l dia When General Sir Henry Havelock, | at the head of the British troops, entered l the city of savage butchery, he penned a | dispatch to his official superiors worthy | of Caesar:
 1 T am in luck now
 1 That is paronomasia which makes silly l the contention of the encyclopedias that | 'punning is usually considered the lowest | species of wit" There have been witty | encyclopedias, but-they all died last cen- | tury.
 1 That Sepoy rebellion the cause of | another pun that never die, and 1 which is perhaps all the more pungent be- l cause of the necessity of translation. When | Gen. Sir Colin Campbell with his army | took possession of the province of Scinde | he announced the fact in one little Latin | word:
 | "Peccavii'
 These two historic instances of parono- l masia, somewhere somewhen read, are re- l called from memory's ghostly shore on this l anniversary-Monda was the actual day of the relief of Lucknow, and they may
 serve to amuse, possibly to instruct. l Tuesday was the other historic anniver- sary adverted to- Eight hundred and sixty 1 four years before, September 25, 10S6, the l first English peer was created-the first | l has resulted directly in vast consequences 1 to England - has largely made England
 England-and incidentally it was of the l highest possible importance to numerous | wealthy American snobs who have been | moved to purchase for their snobbish l daughters real live lords as husbands. As | for many of the latter-day English peers 1 Chill penury represses their noble rage I l souls' no longer than it is convenient for
 them to place themselves in the lean swine
 stalls of the ttied-husband- hunting daugh- | ters of American millionaire swinebutch- | CTS and soapboilers!
 l It is amazing that American-born young women, instead of marrying worthy Ameri- | can men, prefer to have their fathers pur- l chase for them sapheaded foreign noble 1 men for husbands! In England especially | that sort of thing is appreciated in its mon- | etary aspect only. Perhaps no American l woman who welded title for money consid- | eration has ever been able to secure any real position inside the inner circles of the | English aristocracy; that Is to say, amongst l the women aristocrats.
 l An American has to personally know very l little of English society before he comes to 1 know that vulgar fact concerning the vu- l garest form of international marriages! l
 l Mention was made the other day of a possible duty resting with some political l party authority to notify General Wheeler | of the untimely character of his speeches | in the eighth district, so far as the rights | of Judge Richardson, the party nominee for Congress are involved. Judge Richardson 1 is entitled to full and willing vote. It 1 will be reme embered that for many years | past he has been menace to General | Wheeler's ascendancy in their common dis
 trict In their last joint contest before the primaries, the first count gave the nomina- l ton to Richardson, thus defeating Wheeler. l The primary in one county was repeated by
 mutual consent, and in the second trial that county gave Wheeler a small majority. l General Wheeler owes it to himself under 1 these circumstances, if not for other req
 sons, to speak for Richardson and the dis ] trict State and national platforms on which ! the party stands. If he is unwilling or un- able to do that kind of work, he should keep his peace until after the election.
 Then again attention has been attracted
 to the good which Senator Morgan might accomplish by a word for Congressman Burnett in a severe trial that gallant con- l testant is now making in the seventh. The Senator made several speeches in that dis trict and others in the fifth pending the primaries of last April He did not mince words then. He was for Bryan as the best man. No one expects or desires the vener-
 able statesman to take the stump, but in the quietude of his library in his home at 1 Washington let him prepare ringing in- terview, such as he of all men can pre-
 pare endorsing the party platforms, State and national, and the party candidates from high to low in Burnett's district. Let him appeal to the masses there, while in the dis cordant fifth he cries aloud to the rival party candidates to reconcile their differ i ences in the interest of the party in its day 1 of trial and danger.