The age-herald., 1900-04-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Thou wilt have an active year, and wilt travel and change; on the whole thy busi- ness will succeed; but do not speculate nor let little difficulties daunt thee
 Travel, remove sign writings, and push thy business in the afternon.
 About this time there vii be poor health and a high death rate. There will be great and fatal accidents on the rail- ways, and by steam navigation on the rivers or lakes. There are testimonies of great expenditure of money by the gov ernment, probably in connection with the new colonial possessions, which our cousins [Americansl will find very costly and very troublesome.
 Hire maid-servants Best day for fish ing.
 The changing of the seasons has brought around once mare the time for the street. sweeping machine to roll its vast black clouds of dust high enough to blacken and defaee buildings, and do great damage to the goods of merchants and others. It is time for dense dust by day and denser dust by night; and assuredly those men who are responsible for the government of the city should make provision for avoid luS tllS Oi piSAipb2 SNeNAs - would be far more satisfactory to the busi- ness men and the genral public if the old sweeping machine were not used at all. The finer particles of dust rest on houses or enter through small openings such as the sides of dors and windows, damaging everything touched but the great bulk of
 the dry filth turned up by the sweeping machine falls back to the pavements to be again and again stirred up and scattered
 about. u is said that new goods in Birm- ingham stores suffer greater damage from
 dust than is experienced in any othef
 large town in the south. The city authori-
 ties have the opportunity now ot placihS
 the public very deeply in their dept py
 dealing with the dust nuisance eHectlNely.
 A matter of much general interest to members of the Alabama bar Is the prop ositon of western firm to reprint "l'h elaborate annotations, the Alabama Re- ports from '49 to 's2, inclusive. The original Reports now sell at $70o or Ss0O set the proposition is to sell the anno- tated reprints at two dollars and nall q volume. The legislature passed an act to allow the governor to provide Tor the reprinting of the reports as best he thought proper, but no appropriation was made TOT expenses The bill, in its original form, provided for setting aside $20o,00O Of the states money for the work but Governor Johnston gave it to be understood that he would not sanction any such measure Then the amended bill was passed The governor offers no sort of objection to the reprinting of the books; but merely de- clares that he will not consent for the state to be involved in any way or suf- fer any expense in the reproduction of the volumes under discussion. The present movement for annotating and reprinting the reports is tentative. in that the pub fishers require a sufficient number of sub- scrbers to warrant them in making the necessary outlay of s10o,O0O. Certain rights in some of the volumes owned by the estate of the late Joel White of Montgom- cry have been acquired by the well-known West Publishing company St. Paul, pub fishers of the National Reporter, who are endeayoring to undertake the reprinting of the law books. Edgar Burton of that firm is now in Birmingham in consultation with Sterling A Wood and other leading mem- bers of the bar
 It has been many day since so many happy-faced school children appeared on the streets as were seen yesterday after noon. Their number looked to be thou sands, and by the appearance of the
 throngs it seemed as if some Pied Piper of latter day Hamelin had charmed the children to gather from all points. But the
 magic was a horse-not a pipe There was an educated horse at the Jefferson thea ter, and never did horse perform such won derfu things since the noblest of animals became the slave of the (sometimes) most intelligent. Good Dr. Phillips the beloved superintendent of the schools, had made the arrangements for this rare object les
 son in animal training; and assuredly the tricks and performances of Beautiful Jim Key will be remembered by and serve to strengthen the purposes of those cherished young representatives of the highest type of animal life, who are preparing them selves and being prepared for the higher duties which as men and women they will be called upon to discharge. The wonder full horse will be something for the chill dren to remember and profit by for d long time. How bright and happy and rosy checked Birminghams beloved little ones looked after the show was donel They owe a rousing vote of thanks to pr. Phillips
 Yet they owe him SO many they'll never be able to pay!
 citizen of Lowndes county who is in- terested in cotton to the extent of thous- ands of bales said yesterday that the farmers in Lowndes and Butler were not
 behind with their work; that the rains had
 not set them back to any appreciable de-
 gree. He said that everybody was conf-
 dent regarding the coming crops.
 ''There is no more salubrious section of | country in the United States than Gull l man county" said an old Alabamian. Tn 1 reading the sketch of St. Bernard's which | appeared in last Sundays Age-Herald, l l thought of the wisdom of the Benedictines | in selecting Cullman as the location for
 monastery and college. Sickness is practi- 1 cally unknown there. No such thing as 1 malaria or fever is heard of in that part of l Alabama Ii is the very climate for col