The age-herald., 1900-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

day, Wednesday, June 27, 1900:
 Seek work, and push thy affairs"
 An active year awaits thee, and thy business will increase, but beware of law and quarrelling."
 "The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be very clever and with prudence will rise in life"
 Fifty-six years ago, on June 21 lS44' Joe Smith died The willy and woolly Joe was the person who claimed to have received from Divine source the Book of Mormon. That fallacy has led to much trouble since Joe promulgated it, and 1t is still causing trouble. It brought about at least one war, and murders innumerable; in various districts of the South it has added stirring chapters to the enticng history of mob violence; it has Just secured the indictment for blgamy of a former member of Con- gress. one Brigham Roberts; and first to last, it has filled some seventeen million pages of the Congressional Globe and the Globes successor, the steamed witty, bril- liant, profound and newsy contemporary the Congressional Record, which has at last become a try-weekly-comes out one week and tries to come out the next. Great
  lacy But it shall be said of him in the deathIess words of the obituary, Recl1wy eskat in paste; the which being freely translated meaneth, Go to, thou rapscal- lion, go to!
 T took a drink with a bigger man than old Grant in Washington the other day." said an Alabama politician who has re- turned from the national pow-wow at Philadelphia. "The Hon. Daniel Webster Flanagan of Flanagan's Mills post office, State of Texas was very numerous at the convention: he always Is numerous, and has been so ever since he was kicked out of the doorkeepership of the House of Rep resentatives for writing to a friend that he. Web was "a biger man than old Grant, the President of the United States. Elan agan, who is beginning to look old, Is now United States district attorney out in Tex as Some how he always manages to get a good job when the Republicans are in power. He has been a delegate to every national Republican convention for some thirty years. He was amongst the great number of delegates who called on the President at the end of the week, and was the Digest of them all, and halls from the Digest state. Texas is a great state, he repeated many times over. Legislati tion is bad, for it keeps out capital by excessive taxation. The census will show popua- tion of 4,000 000 Before there were rail roads there talk of dividing the state. There is no such talk now Texas is thor oughly united, and the interests of the diff ferent sections are not so diverse that one government can not legislate for the whole. It wants to maintain it's position the largest state in the Union As is well known, there are many ranches in Texas larger than the state of Rhode Island or Delaware"
 The incessant rains having provoked re- marks about wet days in June, early worms, weedy gardens, full creeks, and so on, and reference having been made to "Tennysons" silly question regarding a day in June, four bright women come for ward to deny that Tennyson every asked such question James Russell Lowell did it with his little graphite pencil in "The Vision of Sir Launfal:"
 And what is so rare as day in June?
 Then if ever, come perfect days Then heaven tries the earth if it be in
 tune.
 And over it softly her worn ear lays.
 That is not specially creditable to Low. ell if he did write it. This June of the year of our Lord 1909 has undoubtedly brought perfect days-perfect in their mis- erable miserabIeness There
 District Attorney Vaughan, Collector Bingham, Marshal Cooper Clerk of Court Allison, Postmaster Hughes, J. A. Winston Smith, and the other local visitors to the National Republican Convention, have turned home.
 Hon. George H. Dent, Mayor of Eufaula, and Dr. H. M. Weedon, a representative citizen of that town, are at the Morris. They are owners jointly of large inter- est in Birmingham real estate, some of which is among the most valuable property in the city.
 The Alabama citizen who perhaps joyed most the National Republican Con- vention was Joe Bryan the colored barber. who has returned from taking in'' New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Bryan is not a politician, but he met Senator Hanna, from whom he accepted twenty five-cent cigar and a cooling drink. He was also presented to the President at w dSHl1lSlOn, ana was greatly impressed Dy the Presidents kindly courtesy and good nature, as is every one who meets Mir. Me- KinIey Senator Hanna did not run the Convention; it was the President who really did the work, in Joe Bryan's opinion Mr. Mckinley is a straight and honest man, Bryan maintains one whose record is clean, one who is not hard drinker, and one to whom no sort> of scandal attaches. Bryan ie bor I,a cfa and his numerous white friends here at home are glad he had good time. Dr. William H. Sanders, State Health officer, and R. J. Chambers of Montgomery are at the Morris.
 Professor Jacob Forney of the Alabama University is in town