The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-19
MRS. LONGSTREET BITTER
AGAINST ADMINISTRATION
MUCH INTEREST IN
HORTON LECTURES
Local FOrecaster Tells of
Workings of Weather
Bureau

The public has shbwn decided interest
In the weather bureau lecture being givor
In the various school districts of the city
by f. C. Horton. local forecaster.
The lecture begins by reeounting brief
ly some of the greater discoveries in
the development of the science of me-
teorology. After showing some of the
ohservatories of the United States wealth.
er bureau. and the various instruments
used, a little of the technical side OF
the subject, touohils upon the art of
forecasting, is injected into it However.
there is very little of the technical In
the lecture, for it is intended to be easily
understood and written for use in the
schools.
About 100 slides are used. They were
made and the lecture written by j. r.
Weeks, local forecaeter Binghamton, y.
Y, for use In the schools of that state.
In giving the talks to the schools, Mr..
Horton does not attempt to follow the
| text altogether, 1t being necessary 10
shorten some portions on account of the
young children, VINO might become ia
| tigued.
Appointments for this week are as fol-
| lows: Monday, West End school; Tues
day Ensley High school: Thursday, Pratt
school; Friday, Fairview school.
|
cancers who had come down with the
glitter of Canadian gold to place foul
| blot of shame on the escutcheon of
| people who have ever eXemplified the
chastity of honor which feels a stain like
/ a wound
when internal strife shook the con-
| tinent, my people on both sides of my
| house, followed the battle flags of the
l
| Three uncles offered up their lives in
| front of the unions big guns; one at
| the Wilderness one at Chickamauga; the
| other at Gettysburg, under the leadership
of the immortal commander whose wife
| | was destined to become. on the pater-
nal side my grandfather died from wound
| received in the service. While my fight
| ing ancestors were dying on fields where
| the banners of the south streamed bold
| est, another member of my father fam
| lily, in the Confederate senate from North
| Carolina, William T.. Dorteh. guid-
| ing the destinies OF storm Graded ma
tion that rose without shame and fell
without dishonor.'
In LincOln's Cabinet
ut is true that my grandmother fam
| lily, the Speeds. illustrious In English and
American history. gave an attorney gen.
eral from Kentucky to Abraham Lin
coins cabinet. l trust that this does not
constitute me a carpetbagg gger and render
me unfit to hold the commission of a
democratic President 80 years after the
last hero went smilingly to death on
the stormy fields of the civil war, for the
cause that was lost, or the cause that was
won, following the geam' for which he
was willing to die. I understand that
I4incolns Kentucky Attorney General was
| a great Attorney General. | believe II
he were in office today that he would
prosecute the water power trust whose
sinister and invisible influences have been
more powerful against me than the
aroused sentiment of this republic for me.
Father as Lawyer
MY father. asleep for 20 years. in the
land whose forlorn hope he followed with
extreme devotionfi was one of the great
est lawyers Georgia has produced. He
was the contemporary of giants like Rob-
ert Tombs and Benjamin Harvey Hill.
| and the equal Of either. I hope it was
no disgrace that he never wanted. asked
for or held office. But when he Law
| dead, uncrowned sovereign of his peoples
| hearts eortege more than two miles
| long followed him to the mound where
he sleeps today on one of Georgia's red
hillsldes; my father-the kingliest man |
| have ever known-God rest his great
spirit Grateful for my Inheritance of
| honor and of courage from soldiers and
| statesmen who have made American his
| Tory III Gays tnal cdlleu lof real men,
| at the same time. It has never occurred
| to me to exploit the deeds of dead men
| as compelling reasons for my advance
| ment. With the great French Emperor,
| have preferred to date my aristocraey
| from some achievement of my own; and
| to rest my right to survive. upon the
| fitness which | myself have exemplified.
| 81 believe that there is not a high
| minded American between the tides of
i the two oceans. who will indorse the
methods by which | have been relieved
of the commission of the Gainesville Ga,
p9stofice;
the saddle in the good old democratic
state of Georgia in the year that mas
! given a Virginia President to the White
/ House? No, Mo- I simply turn them
over to America. 7 can imagine no worse
fate for them. | turn them over to the
conscience of the people of America and
/ there I leave them.
| TONC.SrDE