The age-herald., 1897-12-17
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL I0BBlES

Sheflff Nelson Gilbert. of Limestone county, was in the city yesterday. stopping at the Florence. MT Gilbert is one of the youngest sheriffs in the state of Alabama, as well as very popular young man in his section. He is shrewd, but he got into case the other day from which it was very hard to extricate himself.
 'I was notified" said he, that nothing short of a youthful desperadQ was running at large in a certain portion of the county. sent one of my best men out to make the capture. He came in with lad about 13 years old, heavily shackeled. A school marm' accompanied the deputy and his prisoner. I naturally supposed that she came to prefer charges.
 "Oh, he Is a horrid boy and she held up her hands in holy horror. For some moments she went on at this rate, and finally asked her what the boy had done to cause such havoc.
 "'Oh, he-he actually turned a mouse loose in the school room. We were all frightened to death He certainly ought to be hung No, mo-, and she wiped away a tear, he really ought to be sentenced for life
 'I learned afterwards that the youngster was typical country boy chuck full of fun. He had been playing pranks in school for some time, and as the majority of the scholars were girls, he some times all but frightened them out of their wits. The young school marm prosecuted the case with such persistency that the boy was indicted by the grand jury Boys will be boys, but they can do nothing worse, from a woman's standpoint, than turn mouse loose in school. This reminds me of an- other case that occurred some years ago. There was an old man teaching school and he was very strict The boys one morning got little pig and put it in his desk. The teachers hair stood on end when he found it there, but he got even by licking every pupil in school"
 Col J. M. Faulkner is popular all over Alabama. He is a good lawyer and an expert railroad man, but few of his friends knew that the good-natured colonel is an accomplished dairyman. He is in the city now attending Vthe Baptist state conven- tion He has cigar box which he carries with him all the time.
 "Have one," says the colonel as he thrusts the box toward an unsuspecting friend.
 "Certainy!" But there is a surprise when the unsuspecting friend opens the box.
 There are no cigars in 1t, but instead the bowl of tin dipper which is filled with tempting bits of granuated butter. The colonel, aside from his duties as attorney for the great Louisville and Nashville, finds time to devote to dairying. He has invented a contrivance to get the butter from the cream in granulated quantities, which Is considered quite an accomplish ment He has abandoned the old way of churning the cream, but instead has sys- tenn by which air is forced through the milk
 q wouldn't give a cent for the old meth- od," said the colonel. Ut was very good in it's day, but by the new method I get the purest and best butter"
 The invention is the result of the colonePs own ingenuity.
 W. J Boykin, of Russell county, was at the Morris yesterday. MT. Boykin is prominent lawyer and recognized candidate for attorney general before the next demo- cratic state convention. He has been here attending the Baptist convention, but left last night for home. In speaking of the "Whitsitt matter" he said that majority of the delegates to the East Lake conven- ton were friends of the doctor.
 .NearIy all the scholars agree with him. said he "One of the most distinguished men of the church, Prof. Newman, of the Toronto University, is of the same opinion as pr. Whitsitt on the historical points in controversy. He has not expressed his opinions in print because he thought t unwise to do so at present. don't lock- for any definite action on this matter by the present convention" DeWolff Hopper is just as jovial and as spry as in the days when he made Wang and "Dr. Syntax" all the rage. Hopper was registered at the Morris yesterday, as was also Edna Wallace Hopper, but there Is evidently a coldness existing between the two They were not seen together and 1t it said that the charming little actress has instituted divorce proceedings against her husband. Yet they travel in the same company and come in contact with each other every day.
 A. c. Harper, of Baltimore, was at tho Florence yesterday
 l.. B. Middleton, of Cottage Hill, Fla, is at the Florence
 E. E. Cranberry, of Spegner, was at the Florence last night. S. E. Sebastian, of San Francisco, Cal, is at the Morris.
 IN BOHEMIA.