The age-herald., 1897-10-26
WITH THE ALABAMA EDITORS.
What the Clever Fellows Are Thinking and
 Writing About

The Opelika Industrial News gives this ferse but graphic description of the effect of Senator Germans letter on Mir Abell of the Baltimore Sun:
 Senator A. P. German of Maryland called the Baltimore Sun man and found him sitting behind a bob tail f1ush.'
 The Sylacauga Enterprise thinks that some of the romance of the Cisneros de- livery was dispelled by the fact that Kail Decker is a married man. The En- terprise says
 "We don't believe Billy Hearst is TO- mantle, or he wouldn't have chosen married man for the assignment of res- cuing that Cuban girl from prison"
 Editor Williams, of the Wiregrass Siftings mournskover the decadenca of Henry Waterson
 Henry Watterson, the once brilliant orator and editor, now writes like a. crazy man. The thought of Bryan and Bryanism weigh so heavily upon his mind that he rants"
 The Florence Herald has issued a handsome twenty-page County Fair Trade Edition" It is full of iflustra- tions and interesting matter and typo graphically is work of art.
 The editor of the Sheffield Reap=r last week lapsed into poetry:
 From here to the K1oniika
 There VIII soon rise a roar
 For countless throats loudly
 Will yell: "Shut the door.'
 
 Editor Smith of the Baldwin Times has at last explained what was hersto- fore regarded as an impenetrable mys- tery:
 "Statistics show that nine-tentf1s of the blind men in the poor houses of this county are bachelors. They probably lost their sight trying to thread neadles."
 Ths Besaemer Weekly Is loud in it's praise of Judge Banks. It says:
 "The Bessemer division of the circuit court closed it's fan term Friday, having been in session nearly a month. Both the civil and criminal dockets were pretty we'll cleared. very few cages going over for final adjudication. Judge James J, Banks brings to his judicial admins tration qualities which every cincuit court attendant and the public at large, having knowledge readily recognize as distinguishing the sturdy, upright, the energetic and alert, the impartial and immutable judge. Deeply learned in the law; resourceful and prompt in it's appli- cation; extremely courteous and pains taking in administration; watchful of the trend of evidence that strict justice be always done; obdurate to the wiles and tricks which So often charsctsrze litigation. and strletly decorous, frank and business-like in all the details of practice and admin stration, Judge Banks typifes the learned, the upright and the just judge.
 From Judge Banks first induction in- to judicial office he has displayed the chara cteristics so essential to the proper administration of justice and which have established his notably high-standing and popularity with the people, True, like human beings, he may sometimes err, but his motive can never be m- pugned, TOT his sense of justice pessed. Seldom have men advanced with such rapid strides to so high plane in the Judiciary of this state.
 Z We take 1t for granted, as we likewise learn that 1t is fact that Judge Banks will be a candidate for reelection. He would be doing an injustice to the pso- pie of his circuit were he not to place himself at their service. Such men grow by service. Every days experience adds value to his worth to his constituents His training and development is their