The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-02
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Astrologer Rapuaels prophecies for this
day. Sunday, September q 1900:
ASK no favors."
Expect changes, travelling, and an UNI
settled year for thy business and family
affairs; those in employ will lose ii"
"A child born on this day will be clever,
but not wise; it will possess an unsettled
disposition, and be fond of company; its
success in life will be small"
Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Mon
day, September 8, 1900:
Sell in the afternoon; evil for all else"
Beware of sickness and accident, and
do not quarrel or fight; in thy business
thou wilt have a most unfortunate year,
and it will be shipwrecked.
"a child born on this day will be very
unfortunate and meet with losses and dis
appointments at every turn; it should
keep In employ; if female she will be in
danger of disgrace
This Sunday morning is the thirtieth an
niversary of Sedan: and a study of that
W. !d-event should give pause to men who
, are wronging themselves and others and
likewise those who are honestly in pur
suit of the fleeing distinctions of political
life. Disraeli declared that Adventures
are for the adventurous" and he must
have had in mind the career of such
character as Louis Napoleon, who was al
ways the adventurer OF all the tawdry
pageants, imperial or otherwise, the most
tawdry was the Second Empire. 1t was
cheap and gaudy court without aris-
tocracy, for the nobility of France ignored
the emperor; an empire without principle,
and without basis except in trickery and
corruption run riot in the shadow of a
dead mans glory; it was a sort of house
of cards builded by heroes of the cafe
chantant, and about it there was nothing
really royal. Its ruling influence was a
Spanish woman whose claim to distinction
was personal beauty, and the stories that
are told of her court concern pitiful figures
melodramatic in the splendor of the
Beurbons. This woman wanted war, and
in July thirty years ago she had 1t: called
it my war Within some six weeks her
emperor had Sedan, and she fled from
Paris disguised as shopwoman in charge
of an American dentist.
1t was ali very pitiful; yet it was in its
results one Of the mighty tragedies of
the ages. The Second Empire was an epoch
that had little to redeem it from vulgarity
and crime. 1t ended thirty years ago; and
the last of 1t was that mock-heroic mes
sage from the fallen emperor to the old
King of Prussia, who himself was soon to
be acclaimed in the ancient palace of the
French kings at Versailles Emperor of
united Germany:
Having not been permitted to die In the
midst of my brave troops, there Is nothing
left for me but to place my sword In the
hands of your majesty"
Three years before the two monarchs
were drinking wine together in the capital
of the world!
He is greatest in France who invents a
new sauce. In this country great men turn
from sauces to drinks. The names of wet
drinks are innumerable, and are being con-
stantly increased. "Rickeys'' "highballs',
and the other more popular fads of the day
are now endangered by something new
called the Throat sprayer." A lime, with a
generous dash of gin or Scotch or rye or
bourbon, some cracked ice and plentiful
dose of carbolic. all in a long glass, are
the essentials Of a Throat sprayer;" and
that Is all the rage in New York. When
one man asks another to take a drink he
says, Come and have your throat
sprayed"
Teddy Roosevelt. who is the creator of
more arrant humbuggery and claptrap than
any other bowler, is said to be indirectly
responsible for the throat sprayer." This
tough person has been taking an elaborate
course of treatment to make his throat in
vincible to the strain that will be put upon
it when he starts on his long speech-making
jaunt this month. Every day or two he goes
to a specialist and has his throat sprayed.
Colonel Robert c. Jelks and his nephews
Robert Cabaniss. Edward Cabaniss. and