The age-herald., 1900-05-11

t. III.
 "Thou wilt travel and change, and, on
 the whole, wilt have a successful year.
 "A child born on this day will be fond
 of change and travel, but rather fortunate
 in it's business affairs.'
 Bake bread"
 The unsuspeeting. indignant and enraged | public of Jones Valley were shivering fire
 less in an atmosphere but seven degrees
 above frost yesterday morning. whilst
 reading the "hot-as-sheol' weather poetry
 of the renowned bard of Twenty-First
 street. The sudden fall in temperature
 had given every inhabitant of the valley
 a cold in the head, every second one neu-
 ralgia in the face, and every third one rheumatism unmentionable; and what with shilling, aching and limping the
 spirit of resentment was so aroused that A committee of safety was appointed to bomb the bard over Red Mountain. There
 was perhaps never a May in this climate without cold spell but it is doubtful if any other May of many years showed as low a temperature as yesterday. The
 mercury fell to 49 and fraction above zero, or within about seven degrees of the frost point; thirteen degrees lower than | the previous night. At s o'clock a. m. the thermometer marked 56, or 10 degrees low
 CT than at the corresponding hour of the
 previous day. At 6 o'clock p. m Wednes-
 day the reading was II above, and from
 that there was rapid fall of 20 degrees:
 remarkable change for any period in all most any climate.
 
 pf Mobile
 tinues to grow with great force, and that city has not been in d better business
 way in a generation if ever before." said 1 w. K. McNeill, who travels for Mobile
 wholesale dry goods house. "The percent age of increase is enormous and trade will
 continue to grow rapidly, for Mobile IS | really the best port for the trade ot the
 south and southwest, the West Indies and | Central and South America. A present case in point is that the new steamship | Michigan of the Holander line operating | with the Mobile and Ohio railroad, will be | put in commission on the 9th of June, and
 after that date there will be weekly sail ings between Mobile and New York The | Michigan will be one of the largest and | best equipped vessels engaged in the coast | wise trade of the United States; 1t IS classed Al at Lloyds, and has all the latest devices for receiving and discharginS car go and so on.'
 "Great advertisers are employing some of the best newspaper writers in the couh-
 try and paying them almost princely sal aries" said the travelling representative or
 widely known patent medicine hrm' at the Morris last night. T know former New York reporter by name Rose, who was engaged sixteen months ago by pat ent medicine house in Massachusetts to write advertisements. The firm signed contract to pay him salary of $l5,ooO a year, and allow him stated per cent or whatever increase of business there might be. His pay for the first year, 1853, was $2t coo; and there are now indications that his earnings this year will reach nearly s6o 0O0 The increase in the firms business, which is advertised throughout the world, is due to Roses skill in writing att active advertisements. There are several similar , cases, though not so marked, that are known to me Men who have been trained on newspapers, are, of course, generally speaking best suited for getting up bril- liant advertising matter; though there are notable exceptions The New York attor- ney for our firm was asked one day to try his hand on advert sement writing. He wrote hundred that proved to be of great value Our manager asks all the mon tu try advertising work, and send him | their productions. Write me an acceptable advertisement and I'll pay you $100 for it, is standing proposition of his There are two bright former newspaper workers in New York who have adopted adVertis- ing writing as a business and they are earning from $30000 to S40,000 a year. sent
 our office something fpom Birmingham yesterday; but I not by any means
 certain of the offered $10O of the manager. Wish I was.'
 "It is very seldom, even in Alabama that the laws delay is so conspicuously exem- pliGed as Ill the case of John Gafford, | twice convicted of the murder of Francis | Dartow Lloyd in Butler county in the | summer of iSe7, regarding which the yer | dict of the lower court was for the second 1 time reversed by the supreme court at
 Montgomery today, said lobby lounger
 last night. With the merits of the cause | I have got nothing to do; but the accused | is either innocent or guilty. If innocent | he is suffering monstrous wrong; if | guilty, he ought to be subjected to just punishment. The decisions of the supreme | court are not to be questioned; but it is
 not improper to ask, where should the
 blame rest? Fault there is, but where? | It is the personal prominence of this | Butler county tragedy that makes this | cause more than ordinarily conspicuous
 The records of the courts furnish countless | cases of delay. The cause of justice and l the rights of men afe held in suspense for | years. Why? Justice is bind It is also
 suffering from paralysis It is a mourn | ful commentary upon our so-called civili- zation that the innocent cannot be always adjudged innocent, and the guilty pun
 ished. Whilst we are discussing oppression and heathenism on the other side of the l globe hadn't we better give a little i thought to ourselves-to the United States? | to Alabama? to Jefferson county? to Bir- | mingham?'