The age-herald., 1900-06-02
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

ness success, and thy money Will increase
 fast: those in employ will meet promo tion'
 "A child born on this day will be clever
 and fortunate in all that 1t undertakes, but
 it should avoid dealings with public com-
 panies."
 During the summer quarter: At Wash
 ington Jupiter and Uranus will be rising
 and Mars will be setting. The latter is
 not favorable and threatens trouble with
 some foreign power or colonial dependency.
 The planet Saturn in the second house shows great waste of money, and that
 trade will not be good. As the Ingress
 takes place in the eighth house, Death will
 reap a rich, harvest in the states.'
 This day Viscount Wolseley, command er-in-chief of the British army, is sixty seven years old.''
 "The Sons of Confederate Veterans at
 their Louisville meeting are discussing the
 old question of our Civil war history, as
 taught in the public schools, said veter-
 ans brother. This grievance of southern CTS has existed practically ever since the
 close of the war between the states, and
 they have held it against their own section
 and against the north as we'll Discussion of it would seem to be a waste of energy. Here in Alabama, for example, there is no law that requires any .so-called standard text
 book in any school. The children of Jeff ferson county might be taught Gusher's lies about the war, while the children of
 Dale would be instructed in the lies of Slusher. This might apply in effect to all
 the states of the Union. And, broadly speaking, it may be respectfully suggested that a fair history of the American Civil war will never be taught to any consider able number of American school children. | The war was political, as all civil wars have been; and it will not be given to any American to compile a fair and truthful | history of that terrible strife. Sons of Con- federate Veterans in this valley and all over Alabama all over the south, might as
 well possess their souls in patience: they are merely chasing a rainbow. They may
 take comfort of Carlyle's dictum that Fame is accident, and history a compi- let:on of rumors.' It remained for the
 Frenchman De Toqueville and the English
 man Bryce to write the only worthy vol
 tunes government in America, and the Alabama American Hannis Taylor to write the only really great work on government in England. The American Webster's dic-
 tionary is accepted as the standard lexicon in England just as it is in America. With in twenty minutes after Goethe's bridge fell, that profound logician interviewed some twenty eye-witnesses of the occur
 rence and no two of them agreed upon any essentinal fact except the simple one
 that the bridge actually fell. Every day
 our school children are taught false or biography and most of them false syntaX, and these are worse than false history.
 It were better to know the grammar of our language than to know the exact position
 of the-th Alabama regiment when Pick
 cit charged"
 'Philistinism in education is the parent
 of all other forms of philstinism, and is
 therefore highly objectionable" said a tax
 payer who was present at the Jefferson
 theatre Thursday night to witness the
 closing exercises of the Birmingham pub lie high school. MT Glenn of Georgia, who delivered the annual address, is, I un- derstand, the official head of the public school system of that state. While it would be harsh to say that there was a pro-. nounced element of phiistinism in his speech, it may be said that the line of his thought was almost grossly materialstic When he cited Chicago In support of his plea for education through the sense of touch, he appealed to the empire city of the grossest philistinism known in chris tendon. Chicago is the incarnation of the doctrine of Get Money, the most baleful of all possible influences, and one which is corrupting and degrading modern life
 to an extent that threatens the universal destruction of good morals.'
 "The remarks of MT. Graham of Talla- dega to the high schooi graduating class were elevating and inspiring. His figure of the mountain and its toilsome ascent by students was graphic and beautiful, and therefore of a nature to work more ma terial good than any sermon of mere ma teralism that could have been preached There is nothing in grammar the gen. tier arts that is antagonistic to a business education. One may be pardoned for a nat ural stupidity which makes him unable to | subscribe to a theory that seeks to deny | to a merchant, bookkeeper, a clerk, or any man of toil fair acquaintance with | polite accomplishments Such denial is im- piled, frequently expressed, in the idle and | senselessJ prattle one hears and reads re- | garding business education. With the sol itary exception of a jest about the Lords mistake Tn Eden, MT. Graham s short talk to the graduates was just what such a talk should be. Everybody was proud of and for Superintendent Phillips, and the teachers under him. One may we'll be- lieve that Dr. Phillips is without an equal as a school superintendent in the south | and certainly President Ullman of the board of education has no superior any where. As for the graduates, all of us who were at the theatre loved them" good citizen of Birmingham who re- sides in Twenty-fourth street raises chick | ems, as many other good citizens do His | chicken house is in the rear of his lot; and | early yesterday morning when he went to | feed his chickens there was none to be fed | except one that was suffering from i'll health. There were numerous chicken heads lying on the ground the lock, chain. l and staple were gone from the door, and 1 in crack was found note which read: l of fri oh;