The age-herald., 1900-10-24
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

"Young widows will reee1Ve ohers or
 marriage"
 "A child born on this day should keep l in the employ of others; it will be quick
 in anger but not very fortunate; if fe-
 male, she will marry late in lfe.'
 i Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for | Thursday October 9, 1900:
 1 Travel. remove, and sign writings"
 Success will attend thy efforts and thy
 business will increase and thou wilt have I an active and prosperous year. | "rhe young will court or marry | "A child born on this day will be very
 oblgng. active and clever, and much re-
 spected; in business it will be successful" 1 John Hanby-good old John Hanby, stall l wart Democrat and jolly good fellow, whom l everybody in the mineral region knows | and likes, has sent to Colonel Fallcner a i rare knife, which John insists presages the ! election of MT. Bryan to the Presidency. 1 Certainly the knife is very peculiar and 1 was found under extraordinary circuul- stances, at the bottom of a 1490-foot ore ! mine, badly worn away with rust, and con l taining concealed in one side of it's rusty handle an excellent portrait of Grover 1 Cleveland, cherished leader of good John 1 Hanby and multitudes of other good men. i To-day while the working men were get l ting out ore in the bottom of the slope, | 140o feet from the surface, they took out | this knife which had been placed there by 1 fate,' writes Jofn Hanby from the Sloss ! mines to his good friend, Colonel Falk- | ner T have nothing that makes me l so sure of Democratic victory as this little l memento of victory past. There is a pict- | ure, as you will notice in the inside, of our ! former President Grover Cleveland. It is l a sure sign that Bryan is winner. Please | have the knife displayed in a public place ] at the State fair. From your friend John | D. Hanby."
 Colonel Falkner was greatly pleased and
 is exceedingly grateful for John Hanby's kind remembrance of him.
 Miss Carrie Bridewel was deeply touched
 by the real heartiness of the extraordinary
 enthusiasm which blessed her at the Jeff ferson Theatre Monday night, and she will
 remain most deeply grateful to her loving
 and beloved Birmingham. There were tears in her voice-that most marvellous voice Of melody-as she said, Everybody has been so good to me She is intensely emo- tional; no woman could have a voice like
 hers and not have with it the deep emotion of poetry, for her voice, her talent, her calling is the essence, the soul of poetry. All art is poetry, and without poetry the
 world would be given over to savagery. So Carrie Brdewell is emotional For her the tears of a great heart are ever in her great voice, and are ever brinmng her great eyes. And what wonderful eyes that ] woman has got!
 The world is hers! Her faith would re- move mountains. She believes the higher things taught by the highest law-knows them! She is one of those praying women. Given these things and her genius, and the
 world simply waits for her to possess it. But it was only meant to say here that
 Miss Bridewell was doubly charmed more
 than delighted with the character of her
 reception in Birmingham To the friends,
 many of them former schoolmates whom
 she gladly received yesterday she was most
 frank and cordial in expressing her feel
 ings of warm appreciation.
 From Montgomery she will go to Nash vile, the musical center of the South, where
 great welcome awaits here. On her way
 she may spend another day in Birmingham
 She is to proceed to New York almost inn
 mediately, and will make her debut in grand opera at San Francisco, November b.
 Out-of-town newspapers are joining in the volume of kind words concerning Gen
 eral Manager J. B. McClary of the Bir-
 mingham Railway and Electric Company, who recently elected a vice president
 of the American Street Railway Associa- ton. Many men receive more praise than
 tnpV deserve blf
 much less of generous commendation than
 they have the right to expect. It is diff
 fcult to say too much of MT. McClary as
 a street railway manager or a good citizen. Everybody knows that he con
 ducts the railways of Birmingham most admirably; and he is a man in whom every inhabitant is interested, for the street cars
 which which he controls are as necessary
 as the postman or any other public utility
 MT. McClary is another evidence of what sterling worth, honesty and a de- termination to succeed can accomplish for
 young man. as the Tuscaloosa Times
 we'll says. MT. McClary went from Lime-
 stone County to Birmingham when the
 boom was on and secured work with the
 street railway company in very humble capacity He attended to his work, care-
 
 general manager of the whole system and respected citizen of Alabama's most progressive city" The real power of a great newspaper as exercised in the collection and publication Of real news is graphically and notably H. lustrated by the New York Herald, first of all American newspapers, in its latest fore cast of the Presidential election. Nearly every man in Birmingham looked anxiously for the Horald's statement of last Sunday, for every man believed that the Herald would employ it's vast resources to ascer- tain as nearly as practicable the exact situation in the doubtful debatable states; the Heralds famous business being to get the news, not idle speculations. The great battle of the ballots is already won by one side or the other. The Herald says