The age-herald., 1900-12-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

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 "Thou art threatened with heavy losses, this being thy birthday; see that thou dost not speculate or run any risks with thy money; look to thy health, else it may suf- fer"
 "A child born on this day should keep in employ; it will be extravagant, careless and generally poor; if female very un- fortunate in wedlock.''
 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Sat urday. December %, 1900:
 Travel, and ask favors of women be- fore 9 p. m"
 Sickness and tribulation are in the in- fiuence of this thy birthday, and thy health and fortune will be wrecked; keep thyself quiet and avoid new enterprises; the danger Is great"
 "A child born on this day will have great difficulty in making living; poy- erty will dog it's footsteps, and sickness will befall it; if female, it will marry un- | fortunately"
 'Tn relation to the prevalence of Iawless- ness and disorder, which has disgraced Birmingham during the Christmas time, when women were subject to insult and | men to murderous assault, and even little children stood in deadly peril, there stands forth one fact that is comforting" said citizen. Amongst the seven and seventy prison- CTS who stood before the Inferior Criminal Court the day after Christmas were sev- eral men who were charged with carrying concealed weapons. The just and learned judge fined these men s100 and costs in every case but one, and in that the judge ! added thirty days hard labor to the fine.
 "rhese hundred-dollar fines in the In- ferior Criminal Court are of great signifi- cance.- for they are intimations to law breakers in beats 21 and 37 that 1t will cost them as much to violate the law as 1t will cost men in other beats in Jefferson County"
 "One of the most infamous outrages of the recent lawlessness occurred at Eigh- teenth street and Fifth avenue, practically in the heart of the city, where two ladies coming down town to do their Christmas shopping were, I hear, accosted by two men and most foully insulted," said a citi- zen.
 Personally I can't vouch for the story, but I am told that the ladies were wives and mothers of Birmingham walking along Birmingham streets at o'clock in the afternoon on errands for their households. The language addressed to them by the unknown men was monstrous., A young girl, caught in the crowd at Twentieth street and Second avenue, was familiarly and rudely addressed by a stranger who frightened her almost to death. She was aI. ,I,a I,01 l,a friends. If every person guilty of disor- derly conduct could have been arrested the Auditorium could not have held the pris- oners; but the police force was hopelessly inadequate in number to deal with all the violators of the law
 "The burning of the old Arends House at Brewton, which occurred Christmas Eve, will cause more general regret of per sonal nature than would have been caused by the destruction of any other hotel in Alabama, pe1dlaps" said a loiterer in the lobby Commercial travellers especially, thousands of whom the old house has shell tered during twenty five years or more, will be very sorry, personally regretful, that the friendly old roof is fallen in ashes. It was very much of real home to them, clean and tidy resting place, to which they always received home-fke welcome. simple, direct and cordial, wholly without formaltty or ceremony.
 "The late MT. Arends, who lived to an advanced age, went to Brewton when that now prosperous little city was an obscure village, and building himself a dwelling house he began at once to accommodate the few travellers who stopped in the vfl- lage, and ito every one who came his good and gentle wife gave home welcome. It was not a clearinghouse. nor was it an hotel It was just place to stop at.' and the happiest in some respects in all Ala bama. MT. Arends and his wife were Ger mans, and were very devout Catholics. the first adherepts of that faith to reside in Brewton. and possibly the first Catholics in the county of Escambia- It is a singu- lar comment upon conditions as they ex- isted a quarter of a century ago that the religious faith of those two pious pioneers of enlightenment made them in part ob- jeets of curiosity and wonder, and possi- bly, suspicion"
 'Those good souls prospered in small and moderate way, and occasions they WOulu Induce lHe biSHOp OI MODlie tO SeIu them a priest who would usually spend day and night and celebrate mass for the two faithful, and the two brown-eyed beau- tiful little girls, daughters of the faith whom the Great Father had sent to keep warmer the home nest. At first the mass was said in one room of the house, where simple little altar had been built. and where they could perfom their daily devo- ton.
 After a time the husband and father of the little household with his own hands buflded little chapel adjoining his house, and the house itself was enlarged Other Catholics came and there were converts, and so in time a priest came once a month from Mobile to minister to the spiritual needs of the faithful. Those were proud and happy days for the Arendses and days of importance to all the village. The Cath olic chapel was only partially burned'