The age-herald., 1900-10-09
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 "The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be very
 active and restless, but on the whole rather
 fortunate"
 If female, she will be very feeling,
 affectonate and kind"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for We'd | nesday, October 10, 1900:
 An unfavorable day"
 Thou wilt experience losses, law and
 sickness; keep myself very quiet and run l no risks
 | "A child born on this day will be very
 rash and headstrong, and unfortunate" 1 Hire maidservants; brew strong drink
 in small quantities to avoid possible cold Dom Paul-not Dom Paul Gilardoni, but
 he of the fleeing house of Kruger-will be
 seventy-five years old tomorrow and such
 Americans as admire that sort of man
 might authorize the illustrlous "Web" Da- l wis to send him a cablegram congratuat- l ing him 'in the name of all the American l people" for his "heroc" devotion to the 1 "deathless' principles of liberty, from 1 which he is now engaged in running away. But. like Little Bopeep who lost her sheep,
 the lovers of old Kruger don't know where 1 to find him. Unlike Mary's little lamb, | wherever Dom Paul goes his wife and his
 Boers are not sure to go. It is given out | that the old man will begin his final run tomorrow; will celebrate his diamond an- niversary by sailing away from South Af- | rica with peck O diamonds and bushels | of gold. He is going to live in beautiful l Avenue Louise, in beautiful Brussels, Pe' | tite Paris and garden of delight, home or l rene gades like Louise Michel, Boulanger, l Victor Napoleon, and on. 'Presidentess | Kruger remains in Pretoria, on the alleged l account of ill health.
 Fancy George Washington, in event the | American struggle for liberty had failed, l running away from the British and leav~ | ing behind him the good Martha and the noble patriots of his army! Fancy Robert E. Lee flying to a British warship and claiming the protection of the crown, as
 Kruger has fled to a Dutch warship and claimed the little Queens protection! Even Napoleon, who fled to a British warship, his enemy, leaving France outraged and | desolate, did not present as sorry spec tacle Paul Kruger presents! King | Charles did not attempt to escape the suit of his cause in it's failure, but died by the headsmans hand and In courage died like a King
 Fancy Robert Emmet or Parnen taking to their heels to escape the penalties of their patriotismi They made the scaffold and the jail noble; they didn't know how | to run away as old Paul Kruger is run ming!
 "l have been down town all day buying winter things' declared one of the rarest of faced and happy, and likewise natty in the black jacket that covered her shirt-waist The chill in the atmosphere gave her in- creased warmth of nature; increased joy to d heart for ever joyous. Her abundant good ness was yet more abundant And she was living mark of the autumn that is come with its cooling breath, Its healthfulness, its amounted happiness. She didn't know how lovely she looked, nor realized how much of human pleasure, coming of the atmos- phere and of the mind, she represented. Somebody tell her in part? This woman of goodness and loveliness was fair type of hundreds and hundreds of women who were down town buying win
 ter things" That plural noun things" means more to women than any other ten words in the English tongue, Hove" in-
 
 man hours of toll and years of bliss. or the other thing Things had greatly to do with the lives of great numbers of fair women yesterday-"winter things; and the streets were all the brighter and more at tractive.
 Speaking of women's things, the com- ing of cool weather yesterday had much to do with mems things The straw hat wasn't hit blow. It's yellowness was evidently yellower than before, and, to use a strictly original phrase, it's days are numbered.' But the fact of most importance in mems attire yesterday was the sudden and brave brown, box-cut, neat and tasteful. For tunately 1t was worn by neat and tasteful man; good-looking man, clever and like wise genial real gentle man withal. Charged with the innovation the man plead illness and was more than forgiven, for the sight of that overcoat was almost as comforting as the little black jacket that covered the shirt-waist of the lovely wo- man. It in silence told eloquently of the passing of the blankedest-blankity-bla blank-blank period of dust in the dustiest town on earth These be not melancholy days-they are jolly, o so jolly. A learned doctor at dinner yesterday made a brilliant and entirely original ob- eervation concerning the happy change in the weather. He said that summer was no longer tickling the knees of falll Tut tut! Jordan, '02 is staying in town this year. The boys in barracks miss Mort very nuch.'
 Same here! "rhe boys in this newspa- per's 'barracks miss Mort very much' As may be guessed, the reference to "Jor- dan, 'O2,'' is from college newspaper. In fact 1t is from the Crimson White, pub lished bi-weekly by the students of the University of Alabama. Mort Is MT. Mort inner Harvey Jordan of Birmingham, late of the office staff of the Age Herald, and still of the Age-Herald. It is not journal | ism" for journal to speak respectfully | of any one who assists in making it read | able. But this is 'newspapering' here l and this is a neWspaper And fherefore if