The age-herald., 1900-09-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1OuiS NpuiSH must De CdfSlut Ol bhSii acquaintanees and not rely on promises"
 "A child born on this day will have quiet life, but much will depend upon the hour of it's birth
 "If female she will not marry happily or we'll"
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Fri day, September q, 1900:
 An uncertain day"
 Beware of losses, and do not speculate or run any risks; with care thou wilt keep thy business together"
 "A child born on this day will be clever and rather fortunate, but very free with its money, consequently it will not be rich"
 If female, unlucky in wedlock and courtship."
 Brew not strong drinks; hire not maid servants, nor menservants"
 An eminent Alabamian, who is a Demo- crat and a wise observer of men and events, writing from his home to the southward, is pleased to say:
 q read Ned Brace in last Sundays issue of your paper with zest, as usual. will say confidentially, of course, that our southern newspapers are too formal. They seem to taboo everything from the laity, at least it looks that way when, day after day, there is nothing in them except press dis patches and routine staff work. The Age Herald is an exception. It gives us Hotel Lobbies and Ned Brace and 'Murmurer' as features, and they are the seasoning of the repast, I can assure you. News is well enough in its place. but views are necessary to satisfy most minds that open to the beauties of the world The Springfield Re- publican and the New York Post are very satisfying papers, and both give every day columns of letters from the people. Many of there letters criticize adversely the edi- torials of the paper that prints them, but the criticisms are just and interesting, hence their admission by the editor. A one sided paper soon stales.
 " Ned Brace said last Sunday that Bryan is not supported by the Democratic press of the south with unanimity, naming recall citrant papers in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and so on. He might have added to this paradoxical outcome the case in the Eighth Congressional District of Alabama. As yet there is no Republican op- ponent of Judge Richardson there, but General Wheeler is canvassing the district, speaking not one word for Bryan, yet ex- plainlng why the Philippine conquest is good thing. A Republican might come out against Richardson by following in Wheel CTS tracks with approval of all he says. So in the fifth and seventh districts, Senator Morgan could speak in neither without the endorsement of the Republican candidates against the Democratic nominees. Bryan will be elected, to all intents and purposes. His seed will flourish.
 "When the Democratic caucus of the Legislature meets, what will be the test of membership? The Populists and Repub- icans cant enter. If the test be support of the national and State party platforms and tickets of 1900, will all the members be able to qualify who claim to be Democrats? Will all the candidates for caucus favors be able to qualify by the same test? That is a question: you may depend on it,'
 "A great many people were actually drowned in three feet of water, not being able to stand against the wind!'
 That is one of two or three facts of in- tense interest connected with the great storm in Texas which have not been made public, and they come out here in this place now through the courtesy of Dr. 
 of Birmingham. Dr. Abernathy has re- ceived letter from his son, Jones c. Abernathy, Jr, who passed through the terrible disaster The young man was many years ago on the staff of the old Birmingham Herald before it absorbed the Age and formed the Age-Herald.
 This wind came in puffs, one after an- other. with the force of a battering ram!"
 That was an extraordinary phenomenon observed by an educated and experienced man who lived through the storm. It is wholly different from the cyclone or the hurricane which are heard afar off giving forth steady moaning sound which deep ems as they approach.
 Railroad cars were blown five miles from the road out on the prairie of the mainlandr'
 To one who did not experience it that Titanic force is almost inconceivable.
 'Ill never forget the roar of that wind as long as l live! I never heard any thing like it, and you couldn't crawl against it. It literally blew houses away in piece meals, sections at time!"
 "I don't know yet what I shall do, as I haven't yet collected my thoughts suf- ficiently. l cant realize the thing, and it all seems like a dream-somethng unreal and soon to leave"
 "We are all cared for, of course. A negro man who was refugeeing in my house at Yelasco at the time the storm struck us carried my wife across the street, and we had to take our sick baby through the storm. The baby has been quite sick, but is better. Write me at 1511 Clay street, Houston"
 "At Velasco we got out of our house about three minute before it fell.''
 Thus MT. Abernathys statements of his own experiences and observations are of world-importance in these particulars, ap- parently not hitherto dwelt upon, namely that multitudes of people were drowned in three feet of water; that the storm came in al-destroying puffs with the force of battering ram; and that it was im- possible for a man to crawl, much less stand, against that wind! MT. Abernathy is cool-headed man of education and ex- perience. His statements may be relied upon.
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