The age-herald., 1898-11-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l an exciting tale. The sheriff red eye was very red last night. to tell the truth, and | it attracted the attention of all his friends | who had the pleasure of seeing him in his | happiest mood. He met three friends to- l gether, and they ventured to ask him seri- l ously what the trouble was. Don't ask l me- boys," said the sheriff. "It is too pain l full to speak about, and I am too much | ashamed of what happened" The sheriff
 looked grave and very properly sad. He l sighed audibly and appeared i'll at ease. 1 'Tell us of your trouble You must tell l us" demanded the faithful three. Well, Bob Warnock and I had a little l trouble. We were discussing official mat | ters, and got into hot dispute. Finally 1 Bob said lied, and that insult I wouldn't | take from my fatl.er. So I struck Bob in l the face with the back of my hand and l knocked him up against the desk. He l struck back at me with great vigor and l hit me in the left eye. We went at it like cats and dogs then, but immediately some | of my deputies separated us, and we, both l being sorry, made it up, and I hurried to the market and got piece of fresh beef to | apply to my injured eye. That is why there l is no blackness around It."
 | | and Bob?" they asked anxfousIy.> "Oh, yes; it's all right" he answered. Well, we will go and see Bob, anyway. l Just like you, both hot-headed and quick l tempered, to have row. Some of us al- ways knew that you and your chief deputy would fight sooner or later, and now it has l come"
 The news of a fight between the sheriff | and his chief deputy quickly spread, and | there were many callers on Warnock at l the court house, all of whom he received | solemnly and with them discussed the fight, while the sheriff was repeatedly stopped l down town by sympathizing friends, who l demanded the story in full of the unhappy row.
 The cause of the red eye was a broken rubber band that the sheriff was placing around a bundle of papers.
 State Senator Silas P Rather, of Morgan. | is in town, as happy and as handsome as ever. The senator will be the handsomest man in the. senate the coming session, and he will be one of the brightest and most useful. He is the image of his distinguish ed father General John D. Rather, former ly president of the senate, who is a big planter in the Tennessee valley. Some newspaper writer referred to Senator Silas as the son of the "late' Senator John General Rather is about the Iivest late
 man you ever saw" said Senator Rather
 last night. "He is hale and hearty, and
 continues young.''
 The senator will add largely to the gaiety
 of things at Montgomery, and very mate
 rially to the strength of the senate. He
 is a strong man, of wide information and
 ripe experience as legislator. He was
 member of the house of representatives be-
 fore being elected to the senate. The sena- tor is the friend of man and the admirer of fair woman.
 "Al this talk about a little hazing incl
 dent at the University of Alabama is ab-
 surd," remarked a. globe-trotter at the
 Morris last night. Boys will be boys, and
 every boy at heart a tyrant. It doesn't
 do school boys any harm to be knocked
 about, and fought one way or another. It
 toughens and makes men of them The
 broad and tyrannical democracy of school
 boys is most whole some. It is dead level
 and 1t scorns high-mightiness just as it has
 a contempt for goody-goodiness. The little
 fun at Tuscaloosa was childs play
 compared with the customs prevail
 ing in the great public schools of
 England for example; institutions
 like Eton Harrow and Rugby. There
 every boy has got to fight at some time.
 Wellington declared that Waterloo was
 won on the play grounds at Eton. Hun
 dreds of stories are told about the
 democracy of Eton, the school to which the
 princes of the blood are sent. The present Duke of Roxburoughe, now a young man of 23, entered Eton when he was 13. He had already succeeded to his great title, and was disposed to put on airs. On the first day he strolled about the play ground and
 seemed to hold aloof from the other boys.
 This aroused the ire of several of the lads,
 and one of them, himself the son of lord
 demanded of the youthful duke his name.
 I am the Duke of Roxburoughe! declared
 the young fellow, haughtily. Then you may
 write to your folks that plain Jim Smith
 gave you a good kicking, and suiting his
 action to his words, he proceeded to kick
 the proud duke, who fought well, but got
 badly licked, and after that he had some
 sense. That's the way to take the conceit out of boys!"
 The only visiting candidates for solicitor ships in town yesterday were Solicitor
 Sawtelle, of the Thirteenth circuit, and l..
 P. Troup, who is running against Dick Lowe in the Eighth Sawtelle, who won in a memorable contest six years ago, is one of the youngest solicitors in the state. He is also one of the brightest. He desires to succeed himself, and the indications are that his wish will be gratified.
 
 P. Sid Jones has received letter from his son, Lieutenant Norman Jones, of the Fifth regiment of immunes, now at Santiago The lieutenant writes that the health of the troops is excellent, and every body is in good spirits. The mud is delight ful, being knee-deep everywhere. sn.,1>u 4 nIr,nun a M pnn Inr6rI .