The age-herald., 1900-10-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

what thou undertakest will not prosper; keep myself quiet and avoid speeula ton; those in employ may lose it.
 "A child born on this day will be very un- lucky, whether in employ or in business for itself; it will be careless and fond of com pany'
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Tues day, October Is, 190O
 Court, marry speculate, ask favors travel, seek work, and push thy affairs in the afternoon and evening""
 Fortune favors thee and thy money and business will increase"
 Young persons will court or marry and will be much inclined to pleasure and com pany."
 "A child born on this day will be lucky in whatever it undertakes and will sav4 money; if female, rather fortunate in marriage
 Said a Democrat from the turbulent Fifth district yesterday: Tt is amazing how nu- merous the places between the devil and the deep blue seal In my district for ex- ample, we found the Democracy. in peril by reason of two many nominees for Con gress. Thereupon appeal to the state committee was taken when, To and behold here, only a few days before the general election, the committee steps in to warn us we have not now and never have had any nominee at all Not too many. as innocently thought upon the premises but none at all.
 "There is lack of definite phrases in the literature that attempts to describe con ditions in this important matter, and less the proper words are employed to de- scribe the facts as they exist the Democ- acy will be menaced with a very serious consequence. There is not to be any pri- mary in the district on October 20 to nominate candidate for Congress. There is to be nothing of the kind The thing is utterly unlawful and impossible. We shall have a primary, we'll and truly, but the vote and only object and aim is to retire Brewer or to retire Thompson from the place on the legal ticket they both already rightfully hold. Both names are now legal ly on the ticket Both candidates agree 10 submit the question of withdrawal of one name or the other Let this point be well drawn out or trouble will follow.
 Suppose the ballot to be cast at the forthcoming primary should read: For Representative in Congress from the Fifth District, Willis Brewer: C. w. Thompson Then the Depublican contestant, Milstead, takes a copy of this ballot before the House committee on elections and attaches to it the Alabama statute which excludes from the official ticket the name of any nominee which has not been handed into the secretary of state at a certain time ante-dating this nominating primary, The case is plain. Neither Brewer not Thomp- son received any legal votes November G. Both Brewer and Thompson had openly subscribed their names to the primary of October 20, not for withdrawal from a pre- vious nomination, mind you, but for a nomination de novo, a nomination outright The ballot is before the House committee and demonstrates it's face the weight of Milsteads contention. The proof is to the effect that Milstead received all the legal votes cast November 6.
 "The newspapers all refer to the forth coming primary as to the nominating pro- cedure If that be the real character of the movement it's work must be void in law and of no effect. On the other hand, if Messrs Brewer and Thompson see to it that the ballots express the one and singu- lar object of the primary to be the with drawing of one or the other of their specive names from the official ticket, where both names are already in place, as voluntary accession of the name with drawn to the popular will, then the pro- cedure is valid and effective The phrase oIogy of the state committee itself might have been explicit, whereas it stands out confused and misleading, Yet the phrase ology of the committee does not count as against the remedy which the two can ;1a1 eli, I have just indicated"
 Words are things" wisely says Childe Harold.
 Congressman John Hollis Bankhead was In Birmingham yesterday. He left town in the afternoon for Tuscaloosa, where to- night he will publicly address his con- stituents on the political issues of the hour. Colonel Bankhead will be without organized opposition on the nation election day, which will be three weeks from to- morrow. He expressed great interest in the contest which is engaging Congress- man Burnett in the Seventh District An unjust plea which the supporters of MT, Spears are urging against MT. Burnett Is that he hasn't done as much in Congress for the Coosa river as Colonel Bankhead has done for the Warrior The answer is that no river and harbor appropriation bill has been passed since MT. Burnett entered the House; therefore it Is absurd to charge him with failure to secure large sum of money for the Coosa.
 
 Representative Bernard Harwell of Greene was in town yesterday on his way to Montgomery. He says that the recent rains have caused rise of twenty feet in the Warrior the result of which is the sus- pension of work on the government locks in that river. The teams and workmen were brought out of the river on Saturday; but the water will run out rapidly now that 1 the rain has ceased, and it is expected that the great work of the river improvement | will be resumed within few days. The work of purchasing and taking pos