The age-herald., 1900-09-25
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| fA NCiy
 Beware of losses and do not speculate
 nor travel; in thy domestic. affairs thou
 wilt be more fortunate"
 ''The young win court and marry
 "A child born on this day will have
 quiet life; it will be steady and obliging,
 and much respected; it, will succeed best
 in employ
 Astrologer RaphaePs prophecies for Wednesday, September 26, 190o
 Ask fayors and seek work in the after4 noon."
 Beware of law and quarreliing; in thy
 business thou wilt have a successful year and it will increase and. prosper; those in
 employ may be promoted
 "A child born on this day will be rash and headstrong, but rather fortunate In It's | business affairs
 If female, she will marry very well and l get good husband"
 Brew strong drink; go a-ffshing'
 T have been on the run all day with l good housewife friend of mine hunting house; but we failed at last to. find a. house l to let that was fit for decent folk to live 1 in, and 1 am entirely exhaustedl" said a | handsome young woman of surit and clev- 1 erness, yesterday.
 l She stopped her friend in the middle of 1 the pavement to, tell, of her woes, to give expression to the sense of personal injury | which. she clearly felt. The hour was high noon The sickening heat of a phenomen- E ally hot September day made the atmos- |, phere thick with unwholesomeness.. She | drew close to her friend to lend him little of the shade of her little umbrella; and she. | 'proceeded:
 | Tt is monstrous! Day after day women I are compelled to go hurryfng around the l town trying to find roofs to, let which | will shelter them, whilst their men folk are of necessity attending to. the serious business of bread-winning And all this fret l full struggling after houses is in very many instances unavailing. Families have to seek | poor lodgings and meat. where they may. | No use flying away to the suburbs, of
 which are almost ideally attractive, for the suburbs are as hare of vacant houses as the
 city proper
 We visited two or three housetlettfng agencies today and at each discovered hold
 placsrds with the heart breaking legend for house-hunters:
 "'We have got nothing-Please do not
 ask us.' D est. =. That is too horrid Oh, for some Prince | Bountiful who would come out of the great, world of progress far away and build in
 Birmingham decent dwelingsheuses for Re- r spectacle folk who are unable to build houses for themselvesv'
 "Verily is Birmingham in the flood of it's | prosperity, said d newcomer yesterday l "EYidenceS of this fact are observable ev- l erywhere in and about the city. An inter 1 esting case in point was given me today 1 by Rev. Father OReilly, priest of St. 1 Paul's Church, upon whom 1 called to pay l my respects. A man of marked magnetism, ! goodness and power, the father impressed
 me. He is evidently a practical business l man, for he told me with pride and grate- l fuiness that the charitable, benevolent and | purely church contributions of his congre- l gation, which hear is the largest but one | in Alabama, are double in amount what l similar contributions were two years ago;, ] and that too in face of the fact that two l years ago everybody was feeling good and, l generous on account of the great rise in the l tide of the peoples great material condi-
 tion. The charitable and benevolent de- l mands upon the priest and people of a. | great churcch like St. Paurs are always l heavy, and they increase with the popula- | tion. In other words to illustrate, the 1 church will need mona money this week l than it needed last week! "I was much Interested in statement by | Father O'Reilly that in the boom days of I Birmingham people stood for hours in line waiting their turm to do. buHiness with the | post office"
 | This morning I was conducting one of 1 my children, a little daughter, to- school | on the Southside, when. in crossing | street, the child and I very narrowly es- | capped being knocked down and run over I by heavy brewery wagon driven. at high. Il speed,' said Colonel Montgomery yester-' | day. | "On Saturday as I was crossing Twenti- | eth street at First avenue young man in I vehicle driving furiously bore down upon | me suddenly; and in the effort to save my, | self threw myself backward, and fell flat | in the street. The vehicle did not miss me | more than six inches, and 1t was q wonder l that I escaped with no more serious hurt | than the joltingy and brtdsing' I, received | from the stone pavement. Men hurried to my assistance, and the driver of the ve- l hce drew rein and asked. me if L was. | hurt. My reply was to demand of him | why he should dash around corners and | run down defenseless people afoot! At that | he dashed off. "'You must have that man arrested. | some one demanded.
 | How can have him arrested when do
 not know his name or residerrceR re- l piled.
 | Believe me-" continued Colonel Mont | gomery, "every mother and every father of | little children in Birmingham give their | hearts and their good wishes to the Age ] Herald in its efforts to check the cease | less criminal outrages of fast driving in | the streets.''
 The law of Birmingham declares that no | person shall drive in the streets of the I city at speed exceeding six miles an hour, | but that law isi even more d'sregardedi and defied than the statutes against murder and
 other heinous offences, which is as much | as to say that the law is almost entirely imperative. The peoples writ does not. | run against fast driving in Birmingham. The police themselves are clearly at | disadvantage. They know that it has | never been a custom. to arrest fast-drivers in Birmingham and if it were the custom, h the burden Is placed upon them of judg-
 ing whether a person is driving faster
 than six miles an hour, and of proving
 their case iTr c0U-t afterwards
 Six miles an lur is too high speed
 for any street-crossing. That speed in the
 crowded streets down town is sheer reck-