The age-herald., 1900-10-29
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 "Very doubtful all day"
 "Thy birthday is rather a quiet one. and thy business and domestic affairs will pro- ceed as usual"
 "The fortune of child born this day will depend upon the hour of it's birth; it will be thoughtful and steady" Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Tues day October 30, 1900:
 Travel and deal, sign writings and re- move after D. m."
 Do not speculate or run risks with thy money; in thy domestic affairs thou wilt will succeed.
 '"rhe young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be of good behavior, active and industrious, and for tunate in its undertakings"
 Summer died long weeks ago, but it's wrath came back yesterday and the light of it all made golden the browns and grays of faded days. The temperature was as that of Maytime; but that alone was not of the autumn all the rest that told of flowers was dead Watching little children at play under the grey trees upon the dead leaves and the brown grass, one recalled Long,
 
 were arranging to celebrate the poets birthday, and paraphrasing the words they seemed to be fit: "Ye are the sweetest flowers that eer were sung or said; for ye are the living flowers, and all the rest are dead,"
 It was even so; and as the children laughed in their frolicsome glee, the sounds of their merriment rose and fell the ring ing echo of joy in the tomb of the June.
 Everybody who could get out of the town, fled to field and wood, valley and mountain side. The day was divine.
 The grand committee on the proposed In- ternational Metallic and Industrial Expo- sition will assemble at the Commercial Club at o'clock tomorrow afternoon to further consider the greatest undertaking ever yet suggested in the south!
 Even the carnation, sweetest and most beautiful flower that blooms, is to do duty in politics at the winding up of what Is perhaps the sillest and most inane of all the Presidential campaigns which have af- 1icted the American people. General Apa- thy has been in command and the general has knocked the combatants on both sides
 
 knows his business!
 One side of this fret and fume calling it. self "sound money is to have a brave show in New York next Saturday night. Seventeen million men, or considerably less, are to march" and every man is to wear a flower Most of the vast crowd are to wear the sweet carnations When the wholesale dry goods men, who are to turn out E., 900 strong, announced few days ago that the carnation would be their flower and that every one in their line would wear one, a good many other organizations be- gan to think about adopting the idea. It wasn't dreamed of that all the marchers l could hope to be thus decorated because of the shortage in the flower market. The florists thought differently. They did not say how they were going to get them but they did say that when the day of the pa | rade arrived they would have 100000 carna- tions in New York for the national com mittee, any committee chosen by 1t, to distribute among the merchants This of fer was entirely unexpected. With the | flowers ordered already by the dry goods trade, this will mean that it will be possi- ble for 132, ,OOO of the 15OOOO or more paraders | to wear the carnation.
 | Said a citizen of Elmore County: T am 1 glad to see your interest manifested in Rep- resentative Wallace's proposed executive mansion bill. It's blank and hollow look | up about the summit of Goat Hill, but for | the monument there. Alabama must merge | out of her waste places. We want State, | even if we have 'Nation.' Now, as to the l cost of proper building, the State has fa- | cilities for making brick, and abundance of | labor and teams to deliver all the house 1 will require on the spot. Very much of the | labor of putting up the structure be | put in from the penitentiary. The build | ings called The Walls and the cotton mill | at Speigner's were all built from brick | made on its own land by the State. As 10 that matter, the State can quarry Alabama marble with it's own labor, thus having it 1 within it's power to build a marble man. | sion and marble capitol, if it so please | the authorities. There is nothing abundant | in Alabama too good for public use. 'The truth is, people do not seem to | understand one of their most important in- l stitutions, the penitentiary. There is some noisy cap-trap ringing the changes on su- pernumerary officers employed at the cot 1 ton mill for example. The penitentiary mill I
 | is not a separate industry, and was never | intended to be. The mill hands are taken | from the field when the planting and har- vesting of crops allow. Whether that method is good or bad economy of a gem l eral kind is not the question. The mill ex- 1 ists with the policy in view Now, when | the labor is all in the field at work there, 1 the superintendent of the mill is not occu- ] pied. You can't turn out any day and find a cotton mill superintendent. He must be ready on the spot to serve the purposes of the Alabama cotton mill. I don't know what salary is now paid, but last year the
 superintendent at Speigner's got $52 a month-hardly more than one-third of a full | salary for his position
 "So you go on the farms, and you find
 men there who at first sight would seem to
 be supernumeraries, but they are not. At
 The Walls there are perhaps 26O convicts- 1 all men-and many of them in for murder and capital crimes. There are only eleven l employees at that place, including the war