The age-herald., 1900-07-05

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 l Avoid women and do not travel"
 Thou hast an unfortunate birthday, and l thy business will cause thee anxiety; see
 that thou dost not speculate; those in em- ploy will lose it."
 Those in love will grieve."
 "A child born on this day will be very | unlucky all through life, whether in em-
 ploy or not; it will lack energy and per- | severance"
 1 This day is the fortyseventh anniversary
 of the birth of Cecil Rhodes. who is five | years, less twenty days younger than | Arthur James Balfour. Rhodes is one of
 the most remarkable men of this age-one | of the most remarkable rascals, most men
 believe; and they are probably correct in 1 this view He went to South Africa five | and twenty years ago to die; but he got | fat, and remains so. He is said to have ac- | cumulated immense private fortune, | chiefly by public robbery; and there is no I reason to doubt that the complete restora- | tion of peace in South Africa will mark the 1 beginning of a new and wider career of
 swindling, blackmail, and blackguardism
 for this vanglorious Diamond King
 Rhodes is in London at the moment, and he goes about his business without arousing
 any more curiosity than would an Ipswich
 notary with a green bag. This is very | different from the reception accorded 1 Rhodes before he organized the Jameson | raid in order to rob the public through the | stock exchange Before the commission of | that crime, Rhodes was wined and feted | by royalty nobility and city merchants without the h. Royalty dined him for | dynastic and political reasons, nobility for
 money, and the merchants for the honor of | having as a guest man who had been petted by the "hupper ciawses." The l Prince of Wales and his son, the Duke of | York, put Rhodes up for membership of | the Travellers Club, one of the most ex- elusive of London's best clubs. Rhodes
 was blackballed; and socially Rhodes was
 done for It may be taken for granted | that his next attempt at great swindling | will be to endeavor to get Parliament to
 buy "Rhodesia, a territory owned by
 Rhodes greatest agency of theft the
 Chartered Company of South Africa.
 A story used to be told that involved the l President of the United States, and sam" | Blackwell of Morgan, who wasn't pomin- | ated for Congress to succeed Wheeler, and | Former Congressman Gaston A. Robbins of | Dallas who is now seeking renomination | in the fourth district. As the story goes, | the Democratic convention of that district | in 1892 nominated Mardis Wood, a young | man of Dallas; but, it being believed that | Wood couldn't be elected, he declined the
 nomination and Robbins was chosen. The | story ran that Robbins undertook to take of Wood in event MT. Cleveland should | be elected It was agreed that the most | desirable place for Wood was one of the | auditorships of the treasury, and after MT. | Cleveland entered the White House for the second time, Congressman Robbins, true to | his promise and faithful to his friend, urged | the President to appoint Wood to be, an | auditor. Robbins, being ever of genial | and courtly manner, finally succeeded in | securing an expression from the President | that could be construed as almost direct | promise. But somewhat suddenly and all l together unexpectedly, the President sent | to the Senate the name of Sam" Black | well for the place desired for Mardis Wood.
 Angry and grieved, Robbins. hastened to | the President.
 | MT President" said Robbins icily, "I was led to believe that you were going to | appoint my friend to be auditor?" | "Yes yes!' responded the President in | something like merry good nature, as he
 saw the. grave look on Robbins face.
 That's all right-appointed him today | ha. hal"
 | To-day, MT. President?"
 "Yes, to be sure. Pruden,"-to the exec | utive secretary-"didn't 1 send in MT. Rob- | bins man for audtor?"
 "Yes, sir: you nominated Samuel Black | well of Alabama,'
 "But-Mr. President, my man is Wood | Mardis Wood of Selma.''
 | "Oh the devil!" muttered the President | in astonishment; and the conference has, | tily adjourned
 6 The Hon. Sam Blackwell of Morgan,
 sometimes admringly called the "Game | Cock of the North" served four years as 1 auditor and it wasn't the fault of the Hon. | Gaston A. Robbins, member of Congress | from the Fourth district. MT. Blackwell
 recently carried his own county for Con- | gress; but the Democratic Convention which assembled at Decatur on Tuesday
 nominated William Richardson of Madison | by exclamation. The other candidates were l Jesse Brown, lawyer of Jackson, and edi-
 tor of the Scottsboro Progressive Age, one
 of the best weekly newspapers in the state;
 and William H. Sawtelle of Colbert, state
 solicitor. Each of these carried his home
 county. MT. Brown is 60 years old and was l a good Confederate soldier; having lost one | of his legs in battle. MT Sawtelle is com | paratively a young man, and it is under- | stood that he will be candidate for re-
 election as solicitor. Both he and MT ! Brown are men of ability and are excellent | citizens.
 Congressional nominations have now been
 made in the Second, Sixth and Eighth dis
 trcts, the nominees being Mir. Wiley, MT | Bankhead and MT. Richardson respective
 ly. In the Third district there is no oppo- ! sition to MT. Clayton, and none to MT. Bur-
 nett in the Seventh or MT. Underwood in
 the Ninth. The fight in the First district