The age-herald., 1900-10-17
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Great uncertainty prevails"
 Thou will quarrel and get to law and
 thy affairs will cost thee much anxiety; in thy domestic circle thou wilt have great, heavy and unexpected expenses. and will quarrel with or suffer through females
 Young persons will be very careful of 1 their acquaintances.
 "A child born on this day will be in con- tinued trouble with women and will waste it's money thereon; if a female, she will
 marry unhappily."
 l Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for l Thursday, October 1S 1900:
 Ask favors and buy carefully before o'clock in the afternoon"
 Beware of speculation. and avoid giving
 offence; with care thy business will succeed, but run no risks
 Young women will be very careful of their conduct
 l A child born on this day should keep i in the employ of others, and should be not returned; if female she will make good servant"
 Mister, gimme a nickle worth O mor- phne.'
 Tine boy who asked for the terrible drug, l III q popuieii UT uSSlolcs NeiS apparently nOl over ten years old. He ate the drug and went away.
 Quarters worth O cocaine" was the next order, given laconieally by young
 with a pale face tell-tale of vice. l Fifty cents O morphine-'m in hurry" was the third order, all within few min 1 utes, and was given by we'll dressed man 1 of nervous and suspicious movements, h. l dicative, the druggist said of constant and l dangerous of opiates.
 Tt is mostrous and terrible curse that is taking hold upon the public-this con- stant indulgence in morphine and cocaine" said young druggist.
 Isn't there a law against the sale of such poisons except on prescriptions of regular physcians?" was asked
 No; such law If there were a law to that effect, it would probably amount to no more than the law against concealed weap- ons: only defenseless negroes would suffer. Men fire at each other with pistols in the streets of Birmingham and escape punish ment What's the uss of talking about pun ishing 'em for eating 'dope'?"
 Then your observation is that the use of dope is very general in Birmingham"
 widespread, sir; widespread. It would astonish you-astonish anybody except a druggist, or doctor with big practice. It is perfectly awful, this dope curse: seems like deadly epidemic. Hits all ages and all ciasss; though I believe it is worst amongst negroes Little boys and old men; young girls and old women; strong women and men-all of 'em are hitting dope. and hit ting 1t hard You see a morphine or cocaine drunk is much cheaper than a whisky drunk, and the vice is beginning to tell on the saloons. For fifty cents a man can get big cocaine drunk, while that sum would buy him but five drinks of busthead liauor al the ten-cent saloons"
 You say a man can get drunk on cocaine Does it have that sort of effect?"
 Bless you, yesl Didn't you ever see A cocaine drunkard? I can walk up street with you and show you many such drunk ards. One good dose of cocaine will make a beggar fell like he owns the city: it's fine. But getting over a cocaine drunk is he'll Morphine has a more deadening effect makes Its victim very happy, but disgust ingly stupid; has to go to bed, as a rule Ton can always tell these sort of drunk ards. They look pale around the glls their lips are kind O buish, their eyes are dull and glaZed-looking.
 ''I tell you soemnly the dope curse upon Birmingham is terrible there are hundreds and hundreds of dope drunkards in the city; and maybe it will have a good effect Ii you agitate it in the paper. Hundreds of characters are being destroyed and lives ruined; for the dope drunkard not only becomes useless and unable to restrain his thirst for drugs, but he falls to be a com mon liar and will become a thief if his moral senses be not aroused. Dope is doing more harm right now than whisky has done since Birmingham was founded"
 In view of the universal gossip concern ing the selection of the Immortals for the Hall Of Fame at New York the list of names voted for by Chief Justice Thomas H. Mcclellan of the Alabama Supreme Court is interesting
 William Cullen Bryant Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Haw thorne Washington Irving. Henry Wads- l worth Longfellow, John Lothrop Motley. Edgar Allen Poe, Cornelius Vanderbilt Robert Fulton, Richard M. Hoe Elias Howe, Cyrus Hall Mccormick Samuel F. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Daniel Boone. Elisha Kent Kane Peter Cooper, George Peabody, Henry Ward Beecher, William Eliery Charming, John James Audubon, Matthew Fontaine Maury, James B. Eads, Rufus Choate, James Kent, John Marshall. Charles OConor, Roger B. Fancy, Will liam Wirt, Hiram Powers. Gilbert Stuart. James Marion Sims John c. Calhoun. Henry Clay Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lin | coin, James Madison, James Monroe, Alex ander H. Stephens Samuel Jones Tilden George Washington, Daniel Webster, | David Glascoe Farragut, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Robert Edward Lee, Thomas J. (StonewalD Jackson Edwin Forest.
 The names of Fulton, Hoe, Kane, Chan | ming, OConor Wirt, Powers, Stuart, Ste | phens and Tiden will at any rate strike the | average reader as odd enough for the Hall l of Fame.
 'The young Lord Russell of Halloween. | whom the Tory government has iuSt ,,