The age-herald., 1900-07-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Travel, seek work, ask favors and push thy business
 "Thou will have a successful year, and thy business will increase"
 "The young may court.'
 "A child born on this day will be gem erally successful in all it undertakes, and it will rise in life.'
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Sat urday, July IA, 1900:
 Every doubtful all day"
 Expect many annoyances and perplexi- ties in thy business; avoid new enterprises and do not speculate"
 Young women must be careful of their acquaintances.
 "A child born on this day will be stub born and headstrong. but active; its suc- cess in life will be poor"
 The Treaty of Berlin was signed twenty two years ago, or on July 19 1878. That of the most famous treaties ever agreed upon was the result of the Con gress of Berlin, which was composed of the representatives of the six great pow ers Great Britain, France, Germany Italy, Austria and Russia, and which was called together to consider the international con- ditions arising out of the Turko- Russian war. The greatest of the masters of di- plomacy and statecraft gathere there were Bismarck and Beaconsfield, and to the skill and wisdom of the illustrious English Jew is still due most praise for averting a general European war, which the eternal Eastern question then threatened War between Great Britain and Russia on ac- count of Constantinople seemed inevitable; for m tba of then prime minister the march of the victor ious soldiers of the Tsar on the Turkish capital was stayed. The Queen ever placed perfect confidence in her great minister, and she formally bade him to act in her name. Accompanied by Lord Salisbury, who was one day himself to be prime minister and is now, Lord Beaconsfield set out for Berlin, having with him the hopes and the power of England. The history of the congress is too familiar for discussion here. Returning to his Queen, Beaconsfeld's first words to her were:
 Madam, bring you peace with honor."
 England and the world still ring with that proud boast of the masterful Jew.
 Another great Jew, newspaper worker, won fame on account of the Treaty of Berlin. He was M. De Blowitz, then and now the Paris correspondent of the Times. He was enabled to get a complete draft of the treaty except as to one paragraph, and even before the sovereigns themselves had seen the document it was being hawked about London at three pence the copy. That was the most historic scoop ever made by a newspaper, and was worthy even of that other scoop by an- other Jew with the news of Waterloo.
 The youngest lawyer in the State has just received authority from the Supreme Court to practice before the various tri- bunals of justice in Alabama, and there isn't citizen who will not wish him long life and prosperity. The name of this youngest lawyer is Michel Screws. Men who were members of the State legislature ten years ago, and those whose duty re- quired them to spend considerable time about the capitol, have happy recollections of the brightest-faced, best-mannered, most lovable and most tireless of all the pages in waiting there. The page was Michel Screws. All the men about the House, the reporters most of all, loved the lad; the women who came to sit in the galleries adored him. the speaker, now
 
 own; and the little fellow, unspoilt by praise, kept to his duty, and scattered roses the while-roses in that dull and dusty chamber whence for fifty years have gone forth the laws of the people, and whence great and small have gone to greatness or to oblivion through the changeful time!
 Michel Screws was graduated from the law school at the Alabama University the other week as one learned in the law. AL though he is merely youth in years, he is in mind man of marked ability, and Is far too sensible of facts to cherish ab surd illusions of professional charac- ter, such are common to even many elderly lawyers, newspaper workers and others who have work to do Michel Screws has elected to work at the law. Let him work, and good speed will result! It appears that he will continue to reside in Montgomery, where he was born, and where his own folk have dwelt for forty years The young lawyer is the only. son of Benjamin H. Screws, who, as a boy, distinguished himself in battle for the Confederacy, and won captaincy; was for eighteen years on the editorial staff of the Montgomery Advertiser; is and has been for many terms member of the legislature; was secretary of the Ala bama Constitutional Convention of 1SI5 is an eloquent orator, a lawyer and magis- trate. He is, therefore, a nephew of Will liam Wallace Screws, the veteran and dis tinguished editor of the Montgomery Ad- vertiser Hence the State has no small in- terest in Michel Screws lawyer!
 
 The death of Senator Walter H. Mat thews of Marion County, Democratic nominee for State Auditor, is most calami- tous MT Mathews one of the purest, best and most admirable men in public life in Alabama, and there was in him bright promise of greater usefulness and higher distinction in the time to come. He came of race of good and strong men. For three generations, covering the existence ot Alabama as a State, the people hayo gladly honored and trusted this house of Mathews and the death before his time