The age-herald., 1900-06-19

"A fortunate year awaits thee, and thy
 business and domestic affairs will glide
 along smoothly"
 "The young will court or enter society" "A child born on this day will be clever
 quick and weli-conducted; in business it
 will be fortunate and much respected" Brew; hire maid servants; go a-fshing.
 Towards the close of the month some trouble will occur in our foreign or colonial
 affairs, necessitating a cautious handling
 Deaths will be very sudden and painful
 and more than one celebrity will go to rest
 with his fathers"
 This day is the 66th anniversary of the
 birth of one of the greatest preachers of the
 century, the late Charles H. Sturgeon, the London Baptist. MT. Surgeons influence for good was worldwide, and it will be felt as long as there is in the world real devotion to charity, goodness, beneyolence.
 To millions of hearts his words have car
 ried comfort and good cheer, for his teach
 ings were never those of bigot or one holier than thou. His broad spirit of tol-
 erance and interdependence appealed to all
 men, and made better every one who lis tened. He was great in all the essentials Ol HdJeSllC IndnnOOu IL lOliONS liidl IiS
 was modest. Whilst vainglorious men who
 perhaps couldn't have written three con-
 secutive sentences of good English were
 paradng their unearned ID. D. S before
 men, Sturgeon, the Master, the latchet of
 whose shoes they weren't worthy to loosen, remained the plain mister of the plain Eng
 fish tongue He knew that up and down the world men wrote themselves as "D D.s who probably unable to give the Latin form of the title of Doctor of Divinity. There were men who would have | made even great Sturgeon ridiculous; but they were without the power. Some mem Der of his church who was with him when he died in Mentone telegraphed to London MT. Sturgeon went to heaven at 1O:15 o'clock this morning." That language of the railways applied to sacred things didn't provoke popular derison, because the name of the beloved Sturgeon was involved. 'I have been spending a day at the storage source of Birminghams water sup | ply, on the mountain above the Cahaba | river" said A. M. Linn, "and was pleased l to observe that the water is purer and more abundant than ever before The water sup | ply of every city is of the very first inn l portance and is to be considered over and | above all other public utilities so called | And the quality and quantity of the sum- | mer supply of water being ever of gravest | concern, I am sure the public will share | my qualification at the existing water con- | ditions of Birmingham. The Waterworks | company have done and are doing all they | can to provide this city with an absolutely cat icfo ( generous public acknowledgement of the success which the company has achieved" That's what he said And he told truth | as everybody will admit. But Mr Linn failed to state that his inspection of the source of Birmingham's water supply was shared by party of anglers fair and ang-
 lers muscular; that they enjoyed a day
 of successful fishing; a picnic of rare pleas
 ure, and that nobody was drowned in the translucent depths or was wetted in the
 pearly shadows. The Waterworks Con- pany keep their storage sources stocked with lake trout which keep the water clean by consuming stray insects and the like
 MT Linn's party had a supply of mnnows, | and they ished for the fish so fishfully that
 they bagged, basketed, and bucketed enough trout to stock a stall in the Gen.
 tral market The fishers had great good
 luck in their catch, many of the trout weighing from a pound and a quarter to five pounds and half. They used corks
 on their lines-just ordinary corks from bottles-so loved by every amateur angler from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande from the Sewanee to the Oregon from Gate City to Bessemer! Some of Mr. Linns guests were very amateurish, to be sure, but quite successful. One of them saw her cork disappear and became alarm ed. 70 dear what has become of my cork!' she cried respectfully. Another one thought the fish should be shot after being hooked But the angling generally and of all sorts succeeded it appears. Eighty-nine
 trout, four souls, and seven colds were caught.
 'I first saw the late Mrs Gladstone in November 1885, at a radical political meet ing in Edinburgh" said an American tray-
 eler at the Morris. MT. Gladstone had
 come to Edinburgh to address his Midlo-
 thian constituents in the beginning of his
 Irish home rule agitation, and his wife ao- companied him, usual. His meeting was held in Georges hail. and was presided over by Lord Rosebery. Mrs. Gladstone and two or three other women sat on the platform. She was dressed in black, and she lent the impression of calmness and placidity. Her face was almost smileless
 and seemed dull. She was little woman,
 and it was evident that she worshipped her
 little great husband. It was common talk in Scotland, as in England, that he had not been always entirely faithful to her; but he was probably no worse than most other husbands. As to intellect she is said
 to have been very commonplace; certainly she looked it. But he gave her fame as well as anxiety, and that maybe was all she had right to expect. After Clad stone resigned the Premiership and quilted Parliament forever, 1 saw him depart from London for Hawarden. As he walked down the departure platform at Euston station