The age-herald., 1900-11-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| Beware of losses and run no risks with
 thy money: with care and attention thou
 mayest keep thy bushes together; those in
 employ will be promoted"
 l A child born on this day should keep in
 employ, in which it will be fortunate"
 Astrologer Raphaers phophecies for Sat
 urday, November 16 1900:
 Travel and ask favors before Il a. m.,
 and then sell"
 Sickness threatens thee and disappoint-
 ment thou wilt journey or change. but not | with success"
 "The young may court"
 "A child born on this day should keep in
 employ and not attempt anything on its
 own account or 1t will certainly fail"
 "The business men of the South are be- | coming as practical as they are energetic" | declared a great Eastern authority the | progress of the country ''They have | countless sources of undeveloped wealth | to invite not only the money of the capi- | talist but the labor of the wage earner; | and they have lately been organizing and | perfecting practical methods to hasten | their indurtrial and commercial advance l ment. The most effective agent now em- l ployed in the South to devolp her industries
 and trade is the Southern Industrial Con- 1 vention, and it has become a fixed institu- l ton"
 l A Southern Industrial Convention with l Birmingham left out of it would be an ab- | surdity Therefore Birmingham is to be 1 we'll represented at New Orleans December | 4-9.
 l President Kettg of the Commercial Club has appointed the Birmingham delegates as l fo11 A Vo | ly. W. J. Miner. Gen. E. w. Fucker, F. r. 1 Anderson, Oliver Chalifoux, B. B. Conner,
 R. w Roland, w N. Malone, B. Steiner,
 J. H. F. Mosley, T. H. Aldrich, w. H. Has, | singer, Robert Jemison, N. E. Barker J. K. | Mcdonald, B. F. Roden, J. W. Hughes, T. G. Bush, E. o. Hopkins, Rufus N. Rhodes | E. ". Barrett, James Bowron, c. T. Ram
 bow. M. V. Joseph, T. H. Motion, John w.
 Johnston, w. M Drennen, J. J. Banks, J.
 B. Cobbs, J. B. Gibson, N. H. Sewall, ". J. l Cameron, w. B. Leedy.
 These are representative men of Birming- ham, and they will make their influence felt | at New Orleans.
 The heavy work of ascertaining the l names and addresses of all the inhabitants | of Birmingham is now in progress by the | Maloney Directory Company. This work IS | especially heavy this year, the popula- | tion has immensely increased since Novem- l Der and December, 1899; and the post office | estimates that at least 1000 families in the l city limits changed their residences on the | first of last October But the directory | company is determined to cover their ter | ritory with complete thoroughness and to
 make their 1901 directory the fullest and | most satisfactory they have yet issued. | For the real Birmingham the directory 1 will probably show population of 65 GOO or 1 more.
 | Father O'Reilly and the Sisters of Char l ity are very busy perfecting arrangements l for the formal opening of the magnificent new building for St. Vincents Hospital l at the top of Twenty-seyenth street, South | Highlands. The work of constructing this l finest of all Southern hospitals has been | delayed about ten months owing to various | causes, but the end of all the toll and | trobule is but few days off, and for the | first time in It's history Alabama will have l open to the suffering public a truly worthy l charity hospital. St. -Vincent's will illus l trate the great strides in material develop | ment which have been made by Birming- l ham and the district. The hospital has | cost $250,000 to $SO0000, handsome percent | age of which represents the free gifts of | the people of Birmingham and the district. l Probably not ten persons in Alabama could name offhand the birthday of Jeffer- l son Davis, and not five who could name the l year in which the Confederate President | was born or the state of which he was a | native. Yet young MT. Pettus, a member oF 4I,o r T | ty has introduced bill in the lower house l seeking to have the third day of June in | each year made State holiday" and | wide-awake world is informed that "this | is the day which marks the birth of Jeffer- | son Davis" This absurd bill was referred to a committee, which, let us hope, will pigeon-hole it, for there Is no reason in or l earthly demand for such a law. It would | be in the highest degree absurd to make | a holiday in commemoration of an event l which the general public does not remem- Der and has no wish to be reminded of By l introducing his bill MT. Pett1s has in- l formed an absolutely indifferent public that 1 Jefferson Davis was born on the third day | of June-year not stated. That is enough. 1 The Southern people hold sacred the mem- l ory of the mighty deeds of war accom- plished by their heroes, whom they believe to have been absolutely right in their eff l forts to quit the Union; but they have no | sort of wish for holiday called Jefferson 1 Davis birthday" They wouldn't observe | it; would pay no attention to it, and the effort to create it is sentimental nonsense. l Vast numbers of Southerners do not place | their faith in Jefferson Davis a figure | in history, and very few of them do so much as remember him except when they i zee his name in the newspapers. MT. Pet l tus' bill is unreasonable, uncaled for. 1 The usual anti-cigarette bill has been in | troduced in the Alabama Legislature and ] Rev l. D. Steele, well-known as a Presby- l terian preacher of Birmingham, has been | Investigating the cigarette habit and has | compiled some interesting figures It is