The age-herald., 1900-10-05
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
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 "Thy business will prosper and increase,
 but in thy domestic circle expect grief or l affiotions"
 "A child born on this day will be steady, I clever and fortunate except in it's love and domestic affairs"
 Astrologer RaphAels prophecies for 1 Saturday October 6, 1900:
 Sell; unfayorable for all e1se Heavy losses, changes, and an unset | tied year await thee; keep myself quiet l and thy business under control, and do not speculate or run risk
 "A child born on this day will be ex- tremely fond of pleasure, and generally l poor"
 Yesterday various elements of the little world of Birmingham were discussing stage play that is based upon the filthy erotcsm of one Coreli, woman whose immoralities of fiction are said to be popu- lar amongst idle and minimizing good peo- pie and adored by some thoughtless persons of pure morals. That is of more than pass ing interest, for very lasting is the in- 1uence for bad of all that gang of sewer- suckers in fiction of which the woman Corelli is an acknowledged leader, and of whom we have many who are popular in this country. '"The Sorrows of Satan" purports to deal with ''society" in it's more exclusive sense, but the trouble is 1t is based upon the ews-money-views-of woman who perhaps couldn't get serv- ants character" to wash dishes for so- ciety. All that sort of filth is written by persons who are as ignorant of the real society as they are regardless of the teach | ings of Holy Writ When Satan" in the | play is made to say that many society women are guilty of a nameless crime he utters worse than a lie: 1t is an infamous charge, and in the highest degree hurtful | to public morality.
 Men of the world whom either inclina- | ton, opportunity, or destiny has brought | to knowledge of all the elements of so- | ciety in the generic know that the women | of society in the special are of the highest possible morality and purity. Men and women who write to the contrary are ig norant of society and grossly immoral. The most classic of all modern filthy fic- | tion is that of Ouida, a wretched woman | of unsavory repute who has never ceased l to islander society because society refused | to admit her to it's refined and enlightened charms.
 l Nearly all popular fiction of today reeks l with filth; and if it be suffered to exist and | to grow, disaster to the republic is inevita- | ble. All the disasters, all the woes, which have cursed France since the days of the encyclopedias are directly traceable to | filthy fiction and flthier philosophy.
 
 Pardon the Birmingham gossip of yes terday concerning filthy play, which ad- mittedly was nobly acted, and for which, and the like of which, the theatres are in no sense bameworthy, since the public de- | mands that sort of thing, just as the pulp | lie outside the South demands filthy news papers-was referred to in the outset to introduce as by contrast a reference to the most momentous literary event of all his | tory. It is needful to say, in passing, what | is wholly or in part in the minds of all | the people except the fools
 For some of the fools there is some hope even for some of the all-wise newspaper writing fools who set themselves up to insanely criticise literature and the work | of their betters; fools as false to fact and merit as to syntax.
 Three hundred and sxty-five years ago precisely old Miles Coverdale printed the first complete Bible in English. This there fore is holy anniversary to one hundred and thirty millions of the earth's people; greatest of all the anniversaries of all the recorded events in the modern world. Coverdales translation was probably printed in Antwerp, the printing facilities of London being at that time Q535) made quate. The first English translation from the Greek and the basis of all subsequent ones was the New Testament of William Tyndale, printed in 1926 at Cologne. Doubtless there are persons who do not read the Bible, but-But this anniversary is of intense concern to all the peoples There have been innumerable versions of the Bible, some of them in parts very odd. There is the Brooches" Bible so called because of the passage that Adam and Eve "seWed hgge-leaves together and made themselves breeches;" the "Treacle" Bible, so called because "treacle" is printed for palm in Jeremiah S-22; the "Bug" Bible. from Psalm 9l-5; "Rosin' Bible, from Jere- miah S-22; the 'He' and She" Bibles. from the different renderings of Ruth 3-15: the Vinegar Bible from the misprint vinegar for vineyard in the page-heading at Luke 20; the Wicked" Bible, from the omission of not in the Seventh Com mandment; and the "Baptists ;" Bible. using the word immersed" instead of baptized"
 "The rain, the beautiful rain falling cown; on roof and window-pane falling down." runs an old Sunday-school song. and the words must have rung in the ears of nearly all old Sunday-school scholars | yesterday afternoon! At 12:15 o'clock there was misty fall of rain, almost as gentle | as falling fog. At o'clock there was A , fine shower, which lasted for fifteen min l utes, during which the water fell gently | In sweeping sheets, laying the dust af- l frighting the terrible Dust Devil and rum ming in the streets and common roads-the | first blessing of water this valley had en- | joyed in some three weeks.
 The rain was supremely comforting to the | dustiest town on earth, which pitiably