The age-herald., 1900-06-21

''Thou hast a very unfortunate birthday and wilt have sickness. and lose money In 1 thy business; see that thou dost not spec 1 ulate or travel.'
 "A child born on this day will be very
 careless and untidy, and very unfortunate
 in it's undertakings; it will have to work i hard for living If a female, very unfor- | tunate in wedlock."
 | This day marks the beginning of summer, | and is called the longest day of the tweVe- smonth. On the calendar 1t is the l'Zo ol | 1900s 365. The sun rises in this latitude al | fifty-two minutes past o'clock approXl- | mately, and will set at eleven minutes past 1 T. thus making the day fourteen hours ana | nineteen minutes long. Cherishing the cherished .tround numbers of inaccuracy, | and without regard to seconds the length of this day was equalled by yesterday, and will be equalled by tomorrow and the day | following. In point of fact, today Will pc | longer by some seconds than any other day of this year. past or to come. This IS the summer solstice so called because the sun | apparently stands still in it's southward | motion. It is the time of the suns passing | the solstitial point Actually, summer Is | the season of the year in which the sun l shines most directly upon any region. In l this latitude summer is popuarly taken to | include the months of June, July and Au- gust. Astroncmically, it begins about June 21st and ends about September 22d.
 
 q love my family first my church next, and the university next" was declara- | tion many times made, through more than I boI of honor. by James
 H. Fftts, the venerable and venerated | treasurer of the University of Alabama
 who was "kicked down stairs" by the l board of trustees Tuesday night, after | twenty-five years of labor in office, pains- | taking devotion and sef-sacrfce in the | interest of that troubled institution or | higher educationl In removing MT. F1tts | from office, the trustees, servants of the | State, have done all that could by them | be done to rebuke the oldest and faithful l est servant of all; but by the alumni and the public at large he is exalted. The re-
 moval of MT. Fitts caused surprise and | sorrow in Tuscaloosa; it will cause sur | prise and sorrow to the limits of far wider | bounds. The element of indignation is not | lacking. It is said that nobody in Tusca- | loosa thought that MT. Fitts was in dan | ger. It is alleged that one trustee said of l MT. Ftts during the height of the unhappy 1 land-sale dispute that he was fixing to
 have his official head rolled into the bask- | et," or words to that effect
 The most picturesque and honored figure | in the university life since Professor Meek | died passes out, and there will be wide | felt regret But the tall, erect, black-coat- I l,;r cd an1 1 pious and benevolent old man has not | worked for the university fifty years in | vain.
 General George D. Johnston of Tusca- | loosa, who was elected to succeed MT. | Fitts as treasurer of the University, is the | Democratic nominee for State Senator for | the Tuscaloosa District. He is a liquor | prohibtionist, and as such sought the l Senatorial nomination against Senator | Frank S. Moody, the father of the liquor | dispensary fad in State politics, defeating | Senator Moody by about 70 votes. When | the granger movement amongst farmers | was sweeping the country twenty-five or 1 thirty years ago, General Johnston was 3 | leader of it in Alabama; and he seems to | have been interested in the good tenn | plars' fad that prevailed about the same | time. It appears that he removed to
 Louisiana, and it was from that State that | he was appointed to be a member of the | United States Civil Service commission. l Theodore Roosevelt, the political hero of l today, was also a member of the commits l sion at that time, and he and General | Johnston clashed. The affairs of the
 commission became so disagreeable that
 the President was called upon to inter-
 vene. It is understood that the President
 caused it to be intimated to General John
 ston that some other good office would be
 given him if he cared to quit the commis- | sion. General Johnston declined and re-
 signed, and published letter that at
 tracted some attention at the time.
 | The President of the Senate the Senator
 for Jefferson, doesn't come into Birmng-
 ham often, and that's a pity. Dr. Gun
 ningham is busy with his medical practice
 at Pratt, Ensley, and in that district He
 has built large infirmary, and that alone
 would call for all the time of a man oi
 ordinary energy; but that is the sort oi
 man Dr. Cunningham is not. Yesterday he
 took time to spend an hour or two in
 town, and called on Chairman John "
 Smith at the State Democratic campaign
 headquarters to discuss politics and ascer.
 tain when, where, and how he was needed
 in the pending canvass. The Senator
 showed up in blue linen clothes and with
 a very noticeably bronzed face, and was as
 happy and jolly as a school boy on a hall
 holiday. He declined to be interviewed
 upon any possible subject and spoke
 philadelphia" but once, and only once
 Kansas City"
 General Charles M. Shelley has returned
 to the city, after an absence of severa
 weeks, the greater part of which time was
 spent in New York and Washington The
 General was engaged in looking after pri- vate business interests He still keeps his
 private office in Washington, which re
 mains in charge of his associate. Captar
 James H. G. Martin, formerly of Birming-
 ham. General Shelley has fully regained
 his good health, and is as ruddy ant I |.