The age-herald., 1900-08-05
IN HOTELBLO
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for this day Sunday, August 5. 1900:
 A very favorable day.
 'eThy birthday is a good one, and thy money and business will increase, and thou wilt be inclined for pleasure and company"
 '.rhe young will court or marry"
 "A child born on this day will be clever and fortunate in whatever it undertakes, and will rise in life.''
 If female, she will lose her husband
 Astrologer RaphaeIs prophecies for Mon- day, August 6, 1900:
 'Very doubtful all day.
 "See to thy health, and keep 1t in order; in thy business thou wilt have q successful year; those in employ will meet promotion"
 "A child born on this day should be con- tent in the employ of others, and not at tempt any business on it's own account
 If female, not happy in marriage"
 It Is passing strange that Birmingham persons should go away in hot weather to spend week or more from the most de- hghtful pleasure resort in this country. All up and down the whole creation of Jones valley and the enclosing mountains is one extended pleasure resort, health resort, resort of joy and prosperity; and thousands of people come hfther from great distances to enjoy themselves, have good health, make money That's the way 1t is with Birmingham and the valley and the dis trict; and therefore it must be fashion, fad or fancy that induces persons to "go away for the hot weather
 Many Birmingham folk have gone away during the past few days. Others will go today or tomorrow, or some day during the week This, too in the face of the fact that within two weeks everybody who sleeps in Birmingham at all will have to sleep under blankets to keep from freezing, or being brought very nearly to that un- comfortable condition.
 It is urged, and with perfectly trustwor- thy evidence, that on the least cool nights of this summer all residents on the South Highlands have been impelled to sleep un- der blankets There was even a rumor of frost being discovered halfway down Red mountain; though that was possibly a mild exaggeration. One man, reputable and notable member of the bar, who sleeps in Twentieth street. not far from the hilF' thereof, declares that he has found every night of the. summer uncomfortably cool, whilst a fair and youthful little woman says that in the hottest night of the past week she nearly froze to death.'
 These facts are extremely interesting, and if it were not for the possibility that the people in the sizzling hot towns like New York and Montgomery would fear the weather in Birmingham would be too cold, it would be well for the Commercial Club and the Board of Trade to advertise Bir- minghaEn's cool atmosphere in the local newspa pers of New York, Philadelphia and other towns. There are some few people in the world who'd rather be too hot than too cold, and such people at a distance from Birmingham might prefer sizzling heat at home to the quite too cool coolness or great Birmingham, the valley and the dis trict generally. Still there cannot be the suggestion of deception in the broad gen. eral statement that this is the best health resort. pleasure resort and money resort in the United States.
 Amongst those who expect to go away this week is the Rev. Father O'Reilly. He is going for rest and change, not for bet ter climate. The good father, hardest worked of men, has to get far away in or der to enjoy rest. The demands upon his time and his energies would break down an ordinary man; but he does more than is really necessary. His broad and enlight- ened sympathy leads him to do more than his strictly pastoral duties require, and his charity his sense of generousness, his hu- mane instincts, have endeared him to all persons who truly esteem such virtues. Father OReilly's labors alone for St, Vim cents Hospital, grandest of Southern char ities, sufficient for one man to Sea-- That splendid home of charity, the new building for St. Vincent's at the top of Twenty seventh street, South Highlands, will be opened for afflicted men and women next month or early in October; and with it's 250 beds it will be a refuge for all in need of the ministrations of good wo1as=, who have pledged their lives to charity and to charity alone. No race nor creed nor lack of creed, is considered there; but hu- manity in its broadest sense-human char ity More than $2OO,0O in cash has already been expended, but more money is needed, and St. vineent's looks for assistance to the generous people of Birmingham whom 1t in mercy and kindness serves. Charitable persons with hearts that love real charity have undertaken to furnish some twenty rooms in the great new building without
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 The present building occupied as St. Vim cents is very much crowded and the noble sisters have been greatly grieved that they hadn't room in which to take care of all sufferers who came seeking charity and all who wished to aid charity by taking pay wards; but all troubles of that sort will vanish within the next few weeks. When the new hospital, the noblest and costliest building in Alabama, is opened there will be room for all who may wish a place of rest, refuge or ministration in illness. as
 One of the eminent and honored Ala bamians who is taking a deep interest in the movement which has for its object the presentation of a suitable gift from the people of Alabama to the battleship Ala bar,a is Colonel Edward L. Russell of Mo