The age-herald., 1897-12-26

l of her suicide, perhaps ten or fifteen years l younger than either Miss Bayard or Miss l Herbert. The young man to whom she was l engaged belonged to a prominent family,
 with life of triumph and prosperity be- fore him. He was of excellent character,
 highly bred, of fine mind and with a good practice of his profession. He was some years older than Miss Garland. The sui- eide of the young lady made change in her father. From the day of that fatal shot to the present time MT. Garland has only lived in the past. When he was in the senate and in the cabinet he was one of the most jovial of men. Today he Is downcast, morbid and sad. The suicide of Miss Herbert, making the third young lady whose father was a cabinet minister is equally sad with the other two
 A son of the famous American Doctor Humboldt was committed to an insane asylum in London on Thursday last. The l publication of this fact brings to mind the 1 career of his famous and somewhat ec- centric father. Dr. Humboldt, the young mans father, was a physician in Philadel- phia. He was better known, however, as chemist and a druggist than he was as a physician, although he was known as
 
 of advertisers of patent medicines. Hum bold't Buchu' was advertised throughout the United States as no other article ever was. He spent millions of dollars every year advertising. He had every town, city and hamlet emblazoned with the words "Humboldts Buchu." He made millions of dollars in a night as it were. He be- came reckless, he squandered money, and l,A fo;IA in ha a Q '7Os. He had a beautiful daughter who was once the fiance of James Gordon Ben nett Mrs. Humboldt, who was very ann bilious for her daughters social triumph and marriage, was naturally pleased when her daughter told her that she was to be- come the wife of James Gordon Bennett, then the young proprietor of the New York Herald. Bennett was wild in those days His excessive dissipation was not pleasing to Dr. Humboldt. The engagement was broken off. It was not long after Dr. Humboldt's failure that he showed signs Of insanity. He was taken abroad and there died. The wife soon followed him to the grave, and the daughter married well-to- do merchant of Philadelphia. A part of the great drug house, well known as the Humboldt Drug Store, is still in existance Tn the SeHltIIlldl ilolOi pN'o
 delphia. Humboldt was a German, and came to America when young man. lie was at one time estimated to be worth over $50, ,0OO 0OO, which he had made within less than fifteen years, that being the revenue derived mostly from the famous Buchu. Buchu was advertised as good for everything It was sold at high prices and Humboldt perhaps realized as much as
 
 who was committed to an insane asylum in London A few days ago, made an attempt to take the life of Col. William Mckinley Osborne. a cousin of the president and at nresent consul-general at Englands capl- tai. Bishop Galloway, of the Methodist | church. is my kind of man. The interVle" | printed in The Age-Herald on Friday Wltn | this eminent divine on lynching is caicu- | lated to do a great deal of good The way | he does roast the courts is wonder. He | talks like a man who has made study or | the subject. If there were few more men l like Bishop Galloway in this country there would be a better administration or pup 1 lie justice. From Bishop Galloways point | of view there are few good men who get l to be judges. I believe he Is right. Ihe | administration of public justice in this | country is not what it should be. Too | many of the judges are too easily iniiu-
 enced. They have too many friends whom | they wish to protect, and oftentimes too
 many enemies whom they wish to punish | The lack of the administration of justice | ia the most conspicuous cause for the enor- | mons number of lynchings The courts | delay in taking up cases has outraged the | public mind The legal technicalities taken l advantage of by lawyers has inflamed pub l lie opinion. It is the fear that justice will l not he administered that prompts sensible i and easonable-minded men to resort to i lynching. This is one of the greatest prob
 lens the south has to contend with There l ,s ono crime that is committed so ire
 quently in the south that it is not a won 1 der why public opinion becomes so en-
 ragged. The disposition to mete out justice
 at a moments time necessarily prevails.
 If the courts did their duty, I believe the | people would not become so excited, but --------- l Tine respectable element of Birmingham is | entitled to at least as much consideration l as the hodlums, and, if carefully counted | 1t will be found that they can deposit as 1 many votes.
 l The indiscriminate use of fireworks not | only is a constant menace to the lives and l limbs of Birmingham citizens at Christmas | but endanger CTS every home in the city with | the possibility of a conflagration.
 l Birmingham needs Il long rest from the
 cannon cracker, the tin horn and the l rowdy.
 If one desires to send oG handsome sky | rockets and Roman candles in his own yard 1 he gives pressure by his genrosity ta an
 entire neighborhood. and is in no wise in | terfering with the public comfort and safe | ty. The most vigorous and rigid .procla-
 nations of up-to-date mayors exempt from | restrictions such harmless, fascinating | pastimes, but the time for the bomb. the | pistol, the cannon cracker and the Christ
 mas hoodlum is passed in every well-regu- 1 lated community.
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