The age-herald., 1901-07-27
IIN HOTEL LoBaEES
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 | A fAIstgologer Raphaef.g prophecfes for tnis day, Saturday. July. q, 1s6f:
 Very uncertain all day"
 .bo not court or marry today
 Thou wit trayHeei,, remove or change thy business, and have { very 1nsettred ana harassing year, tniass ttnlfas being thy birth. day. keep thy affafrs Welf in hand, and rnnl. no risk with thy money
 .IAond of travel and change and not very. successful in business Wifi be the 6hsiiSSs- born 6n tdhfis dayy.@' dlafyy@'
 fI5fk Twsin's GtS6eRHa efasphemy:
 in blaspff66ffnfry and fif e6ars6 and 0iTs+: rageous fiTgs at the lffooliest traditions St the, Christian Church, Mark f#Fin,- tfTe arch bdffoon and nounftebank 6f the Ehs;; ifsf;sspfeaRing world; has seemed to ffnd lis e9niy Comfort fff lis fife 8. inffdeIit%y t3 inc dfyfne ,pian 6f Human safvatfon,.'' Said. q man Th9 fs wSaTyy; 6f What he termed Mark Mark Fwaiffh's f1saiale twaddaSis anf his fnfam9us ii1fssaa;its t6 GhrTtstiians:'' ififiig man referred by. Chance t8 the te- ! gend Of tfie SEy6n sieepers; t6 whom tife Ancient Church tieGEicSass6s tieGEicaasts6s tfie zft 6f Suiyi rsfiiGh is t6day:
 dffilii Mark fwain's first pot-boifing; 66t:: iar-earnfng work. 'fnnoceiIts 4bf6ad'' there are insults to Christians and Jews in almost svery Pass;a t}6 Hiai said: 'ifdark Twaifi's referrehces t6 the M6uht of 6iiv6s; A9unt Calvary, find other holy p1aces are ifsfam6ts; and lie produces q picture 6f the graves 6f the Seven sieepers, With tfie words 'fiigh;' fow'' Jack and the gafne;' frofi q gainsiin5 game Of cards; on the headst5iies
 afSeariy the whole of the silly book is hilarious, as is nearly every st8ry Mark Twain ever Wrote; but oii6 would suppose ths sibberifig old fnouhteBaiik; wii5 in suits ii5ffest folk ih his ess6Tts t0 make money by being 'fdhIiS, E5uia as he hears a Goddess Erave fefrain fF5fA his biaspherny: let he keeps 1t up. .iiis fais6 teeth ehattsring as he si5bes5 asaiist Gsa and i:6sy things:
 'iAs to fhe feast 5f today; the legend js that seven Christians 6f Bphesus refusesi in the year s58 t5 worsiiiD ah id6i set ,ip by the emperor: #6 sava their lives they fled to the niohntains aid hid ih a Cave: The emperor ordered all tiie Caves to be closed nr In 479 a we'll digger Is said to have broken Into the cave and discovered them This legend has place In the Ko. ran, with the addition thst the sieepers had a dog named Kratihe. Tisis animal, after It's long sieeo. became prophet and philosopher, and was admitted Into the Mohammedan paradise, where it sits by the ass ea Baiaam. The other animals that enjoy tlils high privilege are the ant of Solomon, the whale Of Jeiiah, the fa1n of Isaac, the calf of Abrakan, ,the camel of Saleh, the cuckoo of Belitis, the OK Of Moses and the mare of Mehamned.
 July 27 is also celebrated In many Eu- ropean localities in honor Of St. Panta- icon, patron saint of phssiciaAs. He fl6df= ished in the fourth century. In art he is represented as young, beardless and handsome He Is often painted in the act of martyrdom. when he was bound to an olive tree and Beheaded. As a patron saint he wears a physician's robe and bears an olive or palm, or both His relics or por- tions of them are elaiIned to be in a hasA- Der of different churches es Europe" I Judge flefIn and Colonel Handley 'Leng years agone, in the trying period of reconstruction, Taliadega county was in the FlftA congressional district" said a man who was thar, as Tom Eeflin says ''Undes the dominant forces of carpet- bagger and sealaway rule, the Republi= can Carpetbagger Norris of sikewhegaA, Me, and Parkinson, an Indiana Dem- ocrat, had in turn represented the district in Congress. Then began the career of Hon. William A. Handley of Roanoke, former Congressman and State Senator, and now a delegate in the constitutional convention.
 'vrhe time was again at hand for nom,- hating candidate for Congress, ana the Democrats were determined 10 nesns- nate and elect, if possible, a man of Southern principles and affiliations. The Democratic congressional convection was called to meet h Opeiika. The late Judge John T. Heain was a delegate from Talla- desa. At the proper time he and his asse- ciate delegates 3ourneyed to Opelika, where the convention was duly organized, and proceeded to work
 ".For two or three days. the convention had balsotted without practical result Judge John Henderson of Taliadega and MT. Parkinson of Tallapoosa were the chief coatestants Other candidates from time tp time were put in nomination, bal lotted for without result, and dropped out. Henderson, much of the time, had a good following, but as he had not been relieved of his political disabilities and therefore would not probably be admitted In Con- gross, even if nominated and elected, he was not considered available. This was his fatal weakness, and the majority of the convention could not be brought to the support of Parkinson
 '-In these conditions the delegates, worn and impatient, began to cast around to find some person whose disabilities had been removed. William A Handley was then a young man without political ex- perience or inf1uence- But It bscame known that he was 50 fortunate as to have had his disabillties removed a short time before to enable him to run, perhaps, small star route mail contract which ! had recently brrn awarded hirn. His name was tnsrefure put in nDmimRtiun- Judge Hefin WEBS promptly rm his Tset to second the nomination of his yprnB frdend and was squariug himself fnr charac- | teristic speech whrn a delegate from a