The age-herald. [volume], September 30, 1900, Section 2, Page 13, Image 13

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In Hotel Lobbies and Elsewhere
ODDEST JURY FOREMAN AND RICHEST PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE WORLD
wy STROLOGER Raphael’s prophecies
lA\ tor thls day’ Sunday' September
* 30, 1900:
‘‘Court, marry, ask favors and
visit thy friends."
“Fortune favor* thee, and thy affair* will
prosper.’’
“Young women will receive offers of mar
riage which they may accept without hesi
tation.”
"A child horn on this day will be gener
ally fortunate In all that it undertakes, and
will never lack friends."
“If a female she will marry well and live
happily.”
Astrologer Raphael’s prophecies for
Monday, October 1, 1900:
“Very doubtful, be careful.”
“This being tby birthday, thou wilst ex
perience sickness, losses in thy business,
and domestic bereavement.”
“Set thy house in order and jiropare for
trouble."
“A child born on this day will be un
fortunate in employ or in business for It
self; it will be indolent, careless, and often
In trouble. If a female, she will be liable
to disgrace.”
• • •
Ghost stories are always amusing and
therefore always popular. One ef the best
of all current ones, and possibly one of
the oldest of purely modern stories of tills
character, 1* the one now being used as a
stock-piece by Al. Fields, the comedian,
who was at the Jefferson theater the other
qight, and who Is making a tour of the
South with an excellent nflkstrel company.
,What a far cry from the troubadours and
the wandering minstrels of romance to
Fields!
The story which Mr. Fields has appro
priated, and adapted to a form not so good
as some other*, 1* the one about the brave
plan who bravely occupied a haunted house
until one night while he sat smoking his
pipe a big black cat appeared and quietly
and genially said:
“Just two of us here, ain’t there?”
“Yes, and If you’ll wait a second there
won’t be but one of us!" the man made
answer as he fled.
In the accepted version the man ran a
mile down the road, and then fell upon a
log to catch his breath. Instantly the
black cat appeared by his side and said:
"That was a devil of a run, wasn’t It?”
* “Yes; but you Just watch me now!" the
man made answer, as he tore off at faster
speed than before.
Fields in his version makes the flying
man meet in the road another man carry
ing a man’s bloody head under his arm,
and the head refers to the great run. That
is very Inartistic, and repulsive In fact,
and Mr. Fields ought to change It.
Perhaps It Is to be regretted that Mr.
Fields did not get one well known Bir
mingham man of notable wit to tell the
story. This man tells it in a manner that
would make the sourest person on earth
laugh, and would make the fame of this
local wit If he would but tell it to the
public. Ho has been telling the story,
which Al. Fields spoils, for twenty years
and more,
“Have you served on* a Jury within the
past twelve months?" asked a sheriff’s
deputy of a substantial-looking citizen at
the county courthouse Friday morning.
‘‘No; haven’t served on a jury in sixty
years," was the answer.
"Good! come with me,” said the deputy.
The citizen and the deputy stood before
Judge Coleman in the Circuit Court
"Have you served on a Jury within the
past year?" asked Judge Colemah of the
citizen.
“No; haven’t served on a jury in sixty
years," was the answer.
“Are you over sixty?"
"X believe I am.”
"Then you will be excused If you don’t
care to serve.”
“I have no objection to serving," said
the ctizen.
Are you related to either of the parties
to this case. ' asked the Judg-e.
“I don't know; don't know either of
them.
"Are you related to either one of coun
sel?"
"I don't know; don't know either of
them."
"You will do,” said the Judge, and the
cltisen was sworn, and made foreman of
the jury. The case to be tried was one of
the thousands of damage suits tfiat have
been tiled in the courts of Jefferson County.
In the afternoon the case was given to the
jury and It proceeded, to get “hung"; re
maining In that condition all night till
broad daylight and later, yesterday morn
ing. When the jury entered court It sub
mitted its verdict, which gave the plaintiff,
a woman, {2000 damages.
But the fact of general Interest about alt
this is that the substantial-looking citizen
who hadn't served on a Jury in sixty years
was both a Christian minister and a justice
of the peace; and probably there ts not a
similar case on record in the courts of
Alabama. A preacher, a Justice of the
peace, and a foreman of jury, all one man,
constitutes a fact as novel as a novel. The
citizen is the Rev. E, W. Jones of Birming
ham, a Methodist minister, known all over
Jefferson County, who was several months
ago appointed a justice of the peace. See
ing that his Jury was hung all night. Dr.
Jones doesn't believe that lie will agree
again to serve the State as a juror.
• • •
One hundred and nine school children In
one beat of Jefferson County are most
likely better off In the way of school money
than any other public school children in
the world.
Henceforth these 109 children will have at
least $5000 a year of public school money for
their educational expenses. This will be
more than $45 for each child. The average
for the school children is about a dollar
and fifty cents a year.
The beat of the favored children is Short
Creek, towmship 7, range 17; and doubtless
they are the world’s most favored chil
dren in the way of public education. The
sixteenth section of that township, con
sisting of 640 acres, still belongs to the
public schools; It being the last unsold
section of school lands In Jefferson County
acquired under the Sixteenth Section act
of Congress for the support of public
schools. The land lies seven miles west
from Ensley on the line d£ the new Ensley
Southern Railroad.
On the 22d of June last County Superin
tendent of Schools Jere Fountain entered
into an agreement with Mayor Walter
Melville Drennen of Birmingham, State
Senator Jones G. Moore of Bibb and Ellis
McCormick whereby he undertook to lease
them the school land in question for the
purpose of coal mining operations. Yester
day the lease agreement to cover five years
was finally consummated, and Superinten
dent Fountain's last official act before re
tiring from office was to approve the bonds
of the lessees. Messrs. Drennen, Moore and
McCormick give bond to pay 7U cents a
ton royalty on all coal mined on the prop
erty and to pay $300 a year; the minimum
total payment each year being guaranteed
at $1500. Estimated on a moderate out
put, the beat school will receive $5000 a
year, and is likely to largely exceed that ;
amount.
This section of public school land, which
promises to become famous, was lost in
the woods, so to speak; nobody wanted it,
nobody would have it. But it is rich In
coal, and was every day increasing in real
Aalue, whilst all the other sixteenth sec
tions of Jefferson were disposed of for "a
little o’ nothing."
Prof. Jere Fountain deserves a statue.
This one transaction alone would distin
guish him. Yet he has been one o*f the
best and ablest superintendents of schools
Jefferson has ever had, and as he goes
back to the school room he carries with
him the thanks, good wishes and cordial
esteem of all the people of the county.
* * *
Birmingham Is sorely in need of thor
oughly trained women nurses for the sick.
All the public feel this need, doctors most
of all. There are said to bo not twenty
really good nurses in Birmingham, and not
more than half that many of the first class.
And doctors wonder why a greater number
of young women do not become educated
as nurses, seeing that the work is whole
some, eminently respectable and well paid.
Hospital nurses get from $25 to $40 a month,
together with their board, and private
nurses $20 a week, with their board.
One of the local nurses, an Alabama girl,
who is highly esteemed by the doctors and
treasured by many an invalid who has suf
fered, leaves today for the Truro Infirmary.
New Orleans, to complete her training. She
Is Miss Mary P. Nicholls, the daughter of
a good doctor and notable man of Shelby
County, now dead. Miss Nicholls has been
nursing and studying very closely and very
diligently in ^Birmingham for two years or
so, and she has displayed great skill and
aptitude. Iler skill in nursing has been
enhanced in value by her tender and beau
tiful character. Into many and many a
home of Birmingham darkened by suffering
slic has gone a white-capped angel of
mercy and gentleness, and many a brave
heart will bless her alway. Almost every
enlightened home in Birmingham which
has been saddened by the protracted illness
of any of its inmates has been comforted
by her gentle presence; and almost every
body knows her and she enjoys to a notablo
degree the esteem of this community.
This much is duo to this brave Alabama
girl to say. She is one of the multitude
striving to make her own gentle way
worthily. She has a brother, young Dr.
Walter L. Nicholls, who promises to be
come a very successful physician. He also
leaves Birmingham today, going to Balti
j more to complete his studies.
Sketches From Every Day Life
PROF. BROADNAX TALKS TO HIS CLASS.
/*■ ^ HERE are some inaccuracies In
VI ^ this composition of Jimmie Jun
f I gies on the Kearsarge and the
V* Alabama," said the professor,
fixing the glass through a pair of
strong newr spectacles and holding the
offending document in his hand, "which In
a boy of Jimmie Jungles’ age and general
Information is surprising." Here Jimmie
didn’t know wiiether to look pleased or
offended. "For instance," continued the
professor, "the statement that the mean
ing of the word Alabama, namely, ‘here we
rest,' was originated by the ship’s resting
on the bottom of the sea; and the further
statement that the word is used on tomb
stones in certain parts of the State as the
equivalent of the Latin ‘requlescat In pace’
are both erroneous. Likewise the state
ment that the name Kearsarge was made
up of a lot o-f letters of the alphabet left
on a remnant counter. He has also left
out one of the a’s in Kearsarge. I am at
a loss to know," he added, "where Mr.
Jungles obtained his information."
At this point Mr. Jungles made up his
mind to look offended.
"Had Mr. Jungles taken tho trouble to
ask me," went on the professor, "he would
have learned that the Kearsarge was
named after a mountain in New Hamp
shire and the name Alabama is an Indian
name.
• * •
"And while we are on this subject," he
added, "I wish to give you boys some talk
about names. Shakespeare asks ‘What’s in
a name?’ Well, there’s a great deal nowa
days. Sometimes there’s a libel suit If the
name is not complimentary, and sometimes
a suit for infringement of copyright if the
name belongs to a patent medicine that
some one Is trying to imitate. There is a
man in Paterson, N. J., named Rogers
who recently charged $1,000,000 for the use
of his name in a manufacturing concern.
Other names more euphoneous can be had
cheaper.
There is sometimes music and melody In
a name, as Lucien and Arden, and some
times bad spelling, as in. Mr. Jungles’ ren
dition of the word Kearsarge. There is his
tory, fame and opprobium—witness Napo
leon. Thermopylae means character and
patriotism, and always there is a world
of suggestiveness In a name.
• • •
Everything has its name, and by Its name
it is known. Give a dog a bad name! What
ever sort of a dog he may be or may have
been, his name henceforth is "Dennis."
it is conceded that a rose by any other
name would not smell as sweet. This name,
like others, is sacred. It could not be
changed without losing Its fragrance. Who
was it said the French call their mothers
meres and call their daughters ftlles? There
are, perhaps, misfit names like misfit
clothes. They are manufactured by bad
artists, as bad clothes by bad tailors. Peo
ple have been made or marred by names.
Some names have the power and magic
to send men to their death shouting them.
Some people lose their names, but like the
sheep of little Do Peep, leave them alone
and they’ll come home and leave all tales
behind them.
But of all attributes of names, I think
their suggestlveness is the most potential.
Think of the moaning to the wanderer in ]
the word home, of beer to tlie tramp and
police to the thief. There is a little sta
tion called Jug Tavern. What warmth,
comfort and rare old times it suggests.
• ♦ *
I was talking the other day to a news
paper man about the names of papers.
The name of a newspaper is an important
factor. Nothing else is so exclusively
known by its name. lie was telling me
something about the Alabama papers. “In
Alabama,” he said, “there is the Ozark
Free Press, which Is not free; the Carroll
ton Situation, which is improving; the
Brewton Standard Gauge, which is no
longer narrow; the People’s Party Advo
cate, which lost its cause; the Weekly
Enterprise, which should be daily mat
ter; the Daily Mercury, which tells about
the weather; the Morning Times, which arc
usually good; the Marshall Banner, whleji
goes to war; the Huntsville Daily Boat,
which should use t^e telegraph; Uie Eu
taw Observer, which is not a Peeping
Tom; the Marion County Democrat, who
will vote the straight ticket; the Anniston
Hot Blast, which needs the Columbia
Breeze; the Mobile Daily Item, which
shows that something happens there every
day; the Bessemer Workman, who was
struck by Lightning as discovered by the
Alabama Enquirer; that there was a race
for circulation between the Alabama Cour
ier and the Troy Messenger, the Gadsden
Tribune, to decide the matter, while tho
Montgomery Advertiser heralded the event.
The Alexander City Outlook Is good, while
it takes Spot Cash to buy the Montgomery
Journal. The Greensboro Watchman roads
the Selma Journal, while the Fayette
Banner waves in the Warrior Breeze.
• • •
"There are many other papers In Ala
bama," said the editor, "with good names
suggestive of a purpose. There Is the
Canobrake Herald, for instance. It should
he a sporting paper, for its name calls to
mind the freshness Of a wintry morn, with
a smell of jfowder in the air, a flask of old
Bourbon In the pocket, the dogs on tho
qui viva and the game taking cover in
the canebrake. It has a melodious sound.
You hear the far-off bugle of the hunts
man, the cry of the hounds and tho ham
mer of the horses' hoofs, while nearby
murmurs tho breeze In the pines and the
voice of the lark Is heard singing in the
wilderness.
"Then there are the Elba Clipper and
the Collinsville Clipper, both good names
that indicate a fast, rattling and lively pa
per, with fresh, breezy articles, well salt
ed; and the Falkland Progress, that sug
gests the ring of hammer on anvil, the
push and go of the age, lifting a column
of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by
night to lead the march of the tollers. And
then for a colored paper, what better
name could be found than the Alabama
Coon? This Is the name of a well-known
song, and if a paper under this name be
came as popular as the song it would be a
howling success.
* * *
"Then there is an art in naming a
book. If Its subject is dry its title should
be attractive. To be financially successful
it should' be like a sugar-coated quinine
pill. It is related that a very abstruse
treaty pn etymology published under tn0
title, 'Diversions of Purity,’ found mofiy
purchasers who thought it was a book py
$ames, and a Work entitled "Essay oo
Irish Hulls" had a large sale amongst thd
farmers who were under the impression
that the work related to that animal.
• • •
“The first property right acquired In Ufa
la that of a name. Eo Instante, by opera
tion of law. when a man Is born Into tha
world ho lias a right to a name. This la a.
common law right and often of great
value. It can be an open sesame to th»
halls of the great or the hearts of the poq
I pie, or both. A good name, saith the Book,
Is more to be desired titan great riches.
This Is particularly true with a woman.
A flower so delicate that even an unkind
look or a slighting word can injure It.
Kill It, as any fool may, and for her life's
dream Is o'er and hell’s nightmare begun.
...
“And now, boys, one word more to Il
lustrate the momory of a name. Your fel
low-citizen, General Wheeler, was in a
hotel lobby one night In Washington city.
In looking over the register of the hotel
he saw a name that awakened old mom.
orles. The name was Smith, by the way,
Henry Smith, Jr., yet there was something
about It that brought back to the General's
mind the smell of the burning pine logs,
the ghostly terns o* an array, the scenes
of the Civil War. 'Yes,' mused the Gen
eral, ‘Henry Smith, Jr., of R.—surely that
must be the son of my old comrade.' The
i General asked aliout ihe youth and tho
clerk pointed him out standing In tho
lobby.
“Now, the youth had never left hia
mother's apron strings before, and of all
the dangers of travel had had the fear of
bunco men Impressed on his mind by his
mother. 'They will come up to you, my
son,' she said, 'and call you by qame and
say that they knew your father. Now,
promise me, my boy, that you will not be
taken In by them.’ 'I promise,' he sold,
and ever before his eyes stood the frank,
smiling face of the bunco man, and ever
he kept his guard.
"The General walked up to him and ex
tended his hand.
“ 'Are you Henry Smith, Jr., the son of
my old comrade, Henry Smith of R?’
“ ‘Excuse me, sir,’ said tho youth, 'but
I do not know you.’
•' ‘Why, I am General Wheeler,1 said
' the General. 'Your father and I were In
tho same command during the war.’
“ 'Ah, no,’ said the youth. ‘You can't
fool me. You aro a bunco man. Mother
told me all about you, and I'm not as
green as you think.'
“The General gave it up. For once ha
had met defeat.
...
“In conclusion,” said the professor. "I
have just received one of those kegs of
elder from my brother In the country, and
if any of you boys want to drop around to
night I will be at homo to all comers.”
F. H. M.
HK is COPIED AFTER
From the Mobile Register.
Lucten Julian Walker, a writer for Tho
Birmingham Age-Herald, has reached that
point of eminence in his profession where
ether writers think It worth while to parody
him.
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