The age-herald., 1901-07-12

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 "Very doubtful day for business"
 Court in the evening""
 ''Thou wilt be annoyed in many ways and wilt have sickness during thy year beginning with this day; attend ito thy business and keep 1t well in hand"
 Young people will court"
 "Of good behavior and generally fortu. nate in business will be the child born on this day. If female, not very happy in marriage"
 The People Not To Be Trusted.
 T am in favor of limiting the state tax rate for general purposes to e6 cents on the s1OO, but certainly there should be an additional ten cents for educating the people," said Hon. William c. Ward. the distinguished lawyer of Birmingham
 The constitutional convention by it's re- cent vote, which 1t is argued, will have the practical effect of going far towards destroying the public schools declared fl does not agree with this veteran states man.
 "The people should be allowed to elect their own officers such as registrars and managers of election. 1 nevery beat in ev- cry county in Alabama" says Captain Ward
 "The people have got no right to say who shall be their election officers" the majority of the suffrage committee of the convention in effect declare.
 'In the old days" says Captain Ward. ''pt was provided by the law of Virginia. that two young men from each county Should be educated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute free of tuition charges, the only requirement. being that young men so educated should leach school for three years within the State of Virginia. The result of this wise policy was that Vir- ginia always had a corps of trained teach CTS instructing her youth in the common schools.
 NO State or government ever lost any thing by educating men and women. That sort of investment of public money is wise public policy. And I thould favor one really good normal school In Alabama sufficient to educate all men and women who wish to become teachers, and I'd have that school a place for training teachers only. Every student entering it should be made to bind himself or her self to teach for a period of years, as public return for the education received at public expense. One such normal school would be sufficient for Alabama, provided it did not undertake to educate as teachers any person who would quit the schools to immediately become a law yer, doctor, or to engage in some other occupation than that of teaching"
 The Work of Christian Science"
 Tn my opinion John Alexander Dowie, the blasphemous Chicago person who claims to be the prophet Elijah re-incar- hated, ought to be subject to some law which would prevent him from depriving the credulous of their money and inci- dentally in many instances, of their lives" said man who thinks he hates all manner of cant and humbuggery
 Perhaps 1t doesn't matter materially whether a humbug like Dowie influences the minds of cranky persons, but 1t does matter when Dowie draws money tribute in an enormous sum from 10000 or 5O, 900 persons, just as the Massachusetts wo- man, Mary Baker Eddy, or Mary Eddy Baker-I forget her exact name-does.
 But didn't start out to discuss the merit or lack of merit of the Dowie or the Eddy plan of human salvation. What l was going to say is this: A certain young man who was a dozen years ago a leader of Birmingham society but who is now a resident of New York, visited this town a week or two ago. His old friends remarked upon his evident good health and happy spirits.
 " Christian Science has done the work, he said. You know I came to drink too much. Drink got such a hold upon me that I couldn't "cut it out" tried the Keeley cure, and tried everything could hear of; but it was no use Whisky had me. But one day in New York an &C., quaintance of mine pursuaded me to try Christian Science. I yielded to his im- portunities. From that day to this-three years-I haven't tasted any alcoholic stimulant, and have not only not desired drink but have loathed it, and I still loathe it. The result is, I have got a good business connection, am making money, and am happy. This is a re- markable condition for a man who for years was utterly unable to cut out drink-and 1t all comes of Christian Science
 Another Birmingham case" the man of yesterday continued, Ifs that of a wo- man. She was never in society here, but many years ago she was known to and respected by everybody, more especially by all the better class lawyers. Her life was orderly in all things. She married a wealthy man in Chicago, now has all the money she can spend, and Is thor oughly happy-as devotee to Christian Science. or Eddyism or Dowieism; call 1t what you may. She is busy distributor of science healing literature, and re- gently she wrote to Birmingham friends demanding contributions to the building fund of science church.
 Thus is this quackery of miscalled re- ligion getting in It's work upon persons ordinarily intelligent whom one knows"
 The Police and Shade Trees.
 Probably every other shade tree in Bir- mingham has been permanently injured by being made use of as hitching-post for horses, and this vandalism goes on ev- cry day under the eyes of the police and in defiance of plain law forbidding it,