The age-herald., 1900-06-09
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Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this day, Saturday, June g, 19O0:
 "Yery doubtful"
 "Thou hast rather fortunate birthday and thy business will increase and thou wilt journey or change"
 "A child born on this day will be quick and clever, but very short in temper 1t should be very careful of accidents it's success in life will depend upon the hour of it's birth"
 Thirty years ago, June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died" said a student, "and when he rested there passed from the world that man who did more with his pen than any other man of the century to promote hu- man liberty in it's personal sense; more to relieve human oppression; more to foster a spirit of charity and sympathy and gen. tleness: more to curb the great and raise the lowly; more to create sunlight in shadowed lives, and more in merey's name to teach that little children are entitled to the blessings of the nobler humanities. If every child who speaks the language to which Dickens lent such tender grace could realize his work in its fullness infan- tile prayers for him would circle the globe on this anniversary of his falling asleep. No man ever read Dickens who wasn't the better for that reading. Fiction written nowadays is merely fads in many forms, and the public fools itself with sexless he- roes of horseradishes and heroines of on- ions. But the romances of Dickens and others dead we still have to serve worthy
 
 edition of the average popular novel proves nothing that is much above the ten mill lionth of a popular brand of sausage. In Chicago there is person named Hobart Chatfied Chatfield-Taylor who writes books that are society gospel; there is also a man in that town named Armour who slaughters pigs which squeal to popular taste."
 Professor Patterson, head of the State Normal School for Negroes at Montgomery, stated to me recently that out of about two hundred young men and women who had graduated from that institution but two had been charged with bad character" said a public man who takes deep inter- est in the race problem. You need not visit the jals to find the alumni of our in- stitution!' said Professor Patterson, with pride. The faculty of that school watch very carefully the careers of its graduates, and it is a matter of record that only two of the nearly two hundred young negro men and women who have graduated have ever been charged with serious offenses.'
 "The students of Booker Washington's famous school at Tuskegee paid in labor during the school year just closed nearly $65, 000,'" said another man. "In the gradu- ating class the other day was Booker Washingtons oldest child. The enrolment this year reached 1,231 against 1164 last year, making it the largest school in the south. Of those enrolled SIP were boys and 339 girls. Twenty-seven of the forty-five states of the union, two territories and Cuba Porto Rico and Africa were repre- scented. Alabama leads with 4S5; Georgia, 229; Mississippi 76; South Carolina, 63 Flor ida, 49; Louisiana 36; Tennessee, 22. The following northern states are represented: California, Connecticut Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. The grad uates from the normal course number 36, 27 boys and g girls. Their average age is 22A. Eighteen of them have received cer- tificates from the industrial departments this year; four others received theirs earlier in their course. Some have received certif- cates from two departments besides the lit erary. All have received thorough training in various forms of work, though they have not received certificates. Some will return next year and finish their trades. One of the graduates is a good stenographer and typewriter They represent seven states and one territory. Fourteen are from Ala bama."
 Jourd White, the editor of the Edwards vile Standard News, will be married near Moulton tomorrow to Miss Mary Holland, and thus will come the supreme happiness to him who has waited long and been de- serving of joy through every hour of his waiting. Jourd White has been d slave of the graphite pencil through generation of faithful labor, and that pencil has never been dulled in malice or slander scandal or uncharitableness; but it has ever traced upon stainless paper truth and kindness, good will and good fellowship. It has been guided by brave spirit, softened in that gentleness that knows not spite or raneor jealousy or covetousness a spirit given to fairness and tolerance and justice in it's merciful garb. Such a spirit is Jourd White, the bridegroom of the glad tomor- row. For more than twenty-five years he has been amongst the best known and most honored workers on the newspaper press of Alabama, and in the day when those workers were perhaps a more closely united band of brothers than now, he was amongst the best beloved of them all. "Jourd White of the Moulton Advertiser was a familiar phase many year; but not long ago he quilted the hills of Lawrence for the hills of Cleburne. Now he returns northward to claim the bride whom he has known changeless through the changing years! All manner of good wishes will go to him from all newspaper workers in Ala bama.