The age-herald., 1900-12-19
IN HOTEL LCBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE

"A child born on this day will be very
 goed-behaved and much respected; in bu-
 siness it will be fortunate; its temper will require improvement"
 Astro1oger Raphael's prophecies for
 Thursday, December 20 1900: Travel. sign writings. deal with women
 and seek work"
 Thou wilt experience a very unsettled | time, this being thy birthday, and wilt get to law and qnarreling. and wilt travel and
 change and Injure thy prospects,; keep thy self very quiet and run no risks"
 "A child born this day will be very
 sharp and clever-too much so; in business it will meet with many reverses; it should
 keep in employ"
 "Let us talk of women, and to the old Nick with your eonfounded politics, re-
 form and iaw and order cant, and humbug
 of all sorts said the club man. who, oddly enough. a student~z "Give us racily and sportily written de- tails of weddings. instead of columns on columns of tommyrot about time-servers and eternal seekers after place. If the news papers should refuse to print long stories of poor politics written in poorer syntax, the
 inoffensive public would be greatly relieved. Bahi
 "T1he best thing I have seen about we'd
 dings is a happy suggestion of wide inter-
 est especially to Birmingham. It comes
 from the nearby west, the product of some
 bright newspaper workers mind, and friend in St. Louis sends me this newspa-
 per clipping which tells all about it. "Walker-The bride was quite a popular girl, wasn't she?
 "Watkinson-Yes, indeed. The Evening
 Sacrifcer sent it's sporting to report
 it. He printed a list of rejected lovers half
 column long under the heading Among Those Who Also Ran.
 "If general rumors are correct some of the ] most popular girls in Birmingham are per ilously near matrimony, and it would be of the greatest interest If the newspapers should procure a complete list-of the loved
 and lost class of young men and print it in connection with the marriage notices, re- spectively under some such subhead as
 These Got Left. This would require a great deal of space after the marriages,
 but 1t would make mighty interesting read ing"
 W A Davis of Anniston, the distin- guished business man and active head of the great Alabama Mineral Land Com
 pany, and w. A. Davis of Birmingham, the well known railroad man, frequent ly are confused in the minds of men, MT. Anniston Davis being frequent visitor ito Birmingham, where he is mistaken for MT. Birmingham Davis. When MT. Birmingham Davis came to Birmingham to dwell he
 said he'd give money to be shown MT. An niston Davis. MT. Anniston Davis heard of
 the proposition and called upon MT. Birm- ingham Davis, and claimed the reward.
 
 "Yes, I knew General Bulger well, and his death makes me inexpressibly sad," said Gen. F. S. Ferguson, the Confederate veteran. My acquaintance with him be- gan in 1859 and covered a period of forty one years During all this time he was faithful, just and kind to me. My own father could not have been more so. In | October, 1860, he and I went to Montgom- | cry together to hear Stephen A. Douglas speak General Bulger was Union Dem- l ocrat and I, though still a minor, was a l Yancey Secessionist. The difference did l not interfere with his goodness to me or 1 my admiration for him. By his direction | I went to the old Montgomery Hall, which l then stood on the ground now occupied by the United States post office, and secured l room for us. In the meantime he at l tended a meeting of the Douglas Demo- | crats and called on their illustrous can didate. We took supper and strolled down l the street, then called Market now Dexter | avenue, and when opposite the Hole in the We'll near the corner of Perry street and 1 the avenue, we met a strange looking man. l I cannot describe him, but Jonce Hooper | has done so to perfection He spoke to General Bulger and the latter said: Colonel Young, let me introduce my young friend.
 Turning to me he said: "'This is Col. Byrd Young Of Tallapoosa, | otherwise known as Simon Suggs.' ''To say that I was startled feebly de- l scribes my feeling when I found myself l face to face with this immortal character l He at once put me at ease by suggest ing that we wet whistles at the bar 1 of the Hole in the Wall This we did, in 1 due form, and conversed for few minutes l afterwards. I had an engagement to take | pretty girl to Crisp's Theatre that night
 and excused myself for the purpose of es- corting her. As I started out Colonel 1 Suggs said:
 | 1ouilS ihdi Sou nave ioisotten ID pay l the introduction feer
 "He held out his hand and said, one dol 1 lar, please
 Prompted by General Bulger, I at once l gave Simon Suggs Mexican dollar and | receiN ed his blessing and best wishes. The late Hon. Charles F. Crisp of Geor- 1 gia, speaker of the House, at Washington, l was the of the proprietor of the Mont 1 gomery Theatre to which I took my sweet l heart forty years ago.
 l Next day Judge Douglas made his l great speech from the portico of the cap itol to thousands of political friends and 1 foes General Bulger was near him. I l was on the edge of the crowd, but could