The age-herald., 1900-08-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

ASK faVors, buy carefully ana seek work
 "Thou wilt have an active and prosper ous year. and thy money will increase" "A child born on this day will be very 1 industrious, careful and steady, and will rise in life."
 If a female, not very happy in mar riage
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Fri day.rAugast 3, 1900:
 Avoid superors and keep myself l quiet"
 'See to thy health, and avoid quarreling | and law; in thy business thou wilt have | an unsettled year. and it will require much attention"
 "A child born on this day will have troubles all through life, and be seldom fortunate, whether in employ or in trade for itself"
 If a female, unhappy in wedlock." Brew strong drink; go a=fshing.
 
 "The constitutional amendment in North Carolina will, in my opinion, be adopted by a substantial majority" said Hon. Ed ward K. Campbell, who has returned from an extended stay in the western section of the State of Marion Butler. ''The con- test has been a very hard one, and much ill-feeing has been worked up; but as rather singular fact, the North Carolina negroes have failed to a greater extent than ever before to register. Therefore but a small percentage of that race will be enabled to vote against their own disfran- chisement; for the deprivation of the ne- groes of the ballot is the prime object aimed at in the proposed constitutional amendment. With some slight variations, particularly as to property, the North Car olina amendment is in effect identical with the Louisiana law depriving the negroes of the right to vote in lawful elections As to national politics. North Carolina is cer- tain to give its electoral vote to Bryan for President"
 The election in North Carolina will take place today.
 Upon the return of MT. Campbell his law associate, Hon. John P. Tillman. left town for his vacation, journeying eastward.
 There are probably a million girls in Italy who bear the name Margherita, said an Alabamian who had sojourned in that most fertile and most beautiful of the lands of the earth. ''The emotional Italians adore their Queen, and certainly Her Majesty Margherita has deserved all the wealth of love given her by her loving subjects; for her life has been given up to the doing of good for the love of good. to charity for love of charity. No appeal is ever made to her vainly. Her great Southern heart Is touched by every story of want of sor- row, of physical suffering, and she gives of her sympathy and her material means abundantly. The loves and the wants and the wishes of all her people appeal to her with force to which she rejoices in yield ing. There isn't happy maiden in all Italy who doesn't believe that her Queen would be happier to know of the maidens happiness; not one who sorrows but believes that her Queen would sorrow with her; not one who doesn't cross herself in prayer for t..e good Queen as all the people refer to Margherita.
 'In the humblest abodes of Italy there are found little portraits of the Queen, poor prints costing penny apiece, and they are kept near the crucifixes of faithful and praying Italy The women remember Margherita when they count their beads, when the Angeius rings, when they croon over their brown little babies. There isn't one amongst them who doesn't have abund- ant faith that the Queen will help her if destitution come. In Catholic Italy there are no poorhouses-there are no poorhouses in any Catholic country--but there is noble charity. and Italy's Queen Margherita is the head of all charity work When her husband, the murdered King Humbert, was communicated for open rebellion against the church. there was no charge against her. And since the Pope immediately cele- brated mass TOT the repose of the Kings soul, it is clear that the ban of Rome is removed
 Popular fads or fancies for giving to infants the names of great personages are always odd and some times amusing the traveller proceeded to say. Tn Italy girl babies are named by the hundreds of thous- ands for Queen Margherita; but boys have not been so frequently named for King Humbert, who, as man, was just as good and noble and well-beloved as his saintiy wife is a woman. In England, oddly enough, where the whole population loves and reyeres their aged Queen. never heard during several years of but one girl called Victoria, and she was of the nobility. That may De accounted Tor by the fact that Nic- toria is not musical or pretty name, and that the English, Irish and Scottish run t0 family names. Nobody eyer heard of a British boy named Gladstone, for instance, nor Bright, nor Peel or Palmerston. There are no Napoleons in France; no Bismarcks, but a world of Williams and Fredericks in Germany; no Parnells nor Emmets in Ire- land.
 "In America we suffer from the deplora- ble custom of giving to boy babies the names of notorious or distinguished poli- ticians, statesmen or mere place-hunters, as may be. We even name boys for bills that are debated in Congress. Some riotous political convention will nominate some man of possibly doubtful character for the Presidency, and next day seven thousand helpless infants will be burdened with a name that has no significance outside of