The age-herald., 1901-04-22

attend to thy business with all thy heart. Women must be careful
 Rather rash and careless. very active and unsettled. but not fortunate, will be the child born on this day. If female, not happy in wedlock."
 Friends That Are Friends.
 Some people would be amazed to know the lack of appreciation on the part of some public men in Alabama-their ab- solute incapacity to remember anything regarding years of labor in their cause by unselfish and unasking friends. and their inability to overlook or forget one single trife that displeases them." said man who has been long happy in doing volun- tary work for public men in Alabama.
 "one may go on year after year seek ing and making opportunities to serve particular place-holder or place-seeker. and scarcely ever receiving so much as one word of acknowledgement. and In the end may make even an idle jest that wounds pompous vanity. when loi all ones past services are forgot.
 "I have personally and closely known in my somewhat prolonged experience but two conspicuous public men of Alabama, though do not hint there are not others who in public ofYice, have steadfastly and invariably without exception. stood by their friends and supporters. making the interests of such their own interests. and who through good and evil report have been friends to their friends at all timesl One of these is former Secretary of the Navy Herbert and the other Congress- man Bankhead. With these two leaders of the people there Is not and has never been anything too good for their friends To my personal knowledge they have re- peatedly sought and procured honors and profitablee mployment for friends without even the knowledge or consent of such friends
 bamian who ever became a Cabinet officer of the United States. Colonel Bankhead has remained in the lower house of Con: gross longer than any other Alabamias . of our day, and he is just as certain to be elected United States Senator as he is certain to liver few years longer.
 Yet would upon reflection add to these distinguished and faithful two, that famous and ever faithful Alabamian, William Calvin Oatesl
 Recently man who had been for many years drawing a salary from the taxpayers offered himself as a candidate for an office different from the one that he was holding. Something really as tri- fling as a typographical error was made his excuse for becoming offended because could not give him any active support, and, although had helped him along for fifteen years. he displayed his resentment in the most childish possible way. there by revealing to me that had labored to place in high office a man who ought not to be honored in any such way.
 Again there was jest of mine made in yaffectionate goodwill at the expense of a public man of the State to whom I had gladly given service so delicate. and so valuable that if he had been an appre- ciative man he would have In common honesty and seif-respect held me in kind remembrance all his life. Yet the man got sore at my little joke and now he neglects me. Maybe I won't even my self with him, as we'll as some of the others. in thepyesrs to comel
 Tt comes to this: the average place. holder or place seeker Is absolutely self ish ,and he cares nothing for his friends except to use them in carrying out his own selfish purposes. He uses his friends to the utmost to get all he can out of them, and then he casts them aside as broken sticks. In serving such 8 man as that the respectable citizen is worse than foolish; he works against the public good. And. Lord bless you, there are many, many place-seekers who are thoroughly selfish and ungratefui.
 And this truth does not apply solely to place-seekers and politicians: It is alike apiicable to private citizens. One may love a friend and serve that friend with un- faltering steadfastness through years and years, and one day the served will turn upon the servant and rend him, all the services of the years being disresarded. Yet there are true men and women in the world, a plenty of them, and to these, all the rest of us may be gladly true"
 Fated to Farm.
 Tt looks now as if fate has decreed that I shall be farmer" writes in a private letter Hon. William Henry Sey- mour, late United State consul at Paler- mo- Italy. and several times a member of the Alabama legislature. The recent lamented death of MT. Seymour's father, Hon. R. H. Seymour of Sumter County, has placed new and unexpected burdens upon the son. the father having left a large and rich estate in Sumter, near Livingston, where the son now resides.
 Happy fate, most of us would hold It. The only truly free man In the world is the independent farmer, and 1t is within the reach of thrift economy, and patient endeavor for all our Alabama farmers to be Independent!
 The farmer is free from great number of annoyances and inconveniencss to which the city man is always subject. The farmer has the pure air and water, the quietude and the calm, the birds and the flowers and the actual repose of the wide woods and wider fields, whilst his brother of the city must suffer from the horrid din, the dust, the smoke, and dis .-l~.