The age-herald., 1899-09-24
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 didate for the United States senate in
 succession to Senator Morgan. This rumor
 is repeated here with all reserve. There is
 also report that John B. Knox has de-
 elared that if a third candidate came out | against Morgan he would himself ask the legislature for the senatorship. This, too is repeated with reserve Neither story
 may be true: either or both may be quite 1 accurate MT. Clarkes former position as candidate for the democratic gubernatoriaI nomination makes interesting anything of a political nature that concerns him. MT.
 Knox is very generally regarded as a personal friend and political supporter of
 Senator Morgan, and therefore the rumor as to his own senatorial aspirations is of l more than ordinary interest But it is well enough to look for a sort of flood of ru- l mors regarding possible or probable sena- torial candidates. In the cases of MT. Clarke and MT. Knox, wishes may be
 fathers to thoughts that seem at the mo- ment unreasonable. In good time each of these citizens will speak for himself or re-
 main silent, as he deems wisest. Mean
 while the public will wait, and will ac- cept all sorts of rumors with large grains
 of salt.
 "The Rev pr. D. J. Stafford, the dis
 tnguished Catholic rciest and orator of | Washington, D. C., who is to appear at l OBrien's opera house in November in the | Lyceum course, ranks as one of the fore nose Shakespeare scholars of the world'' l said William Ryan. His leetu-es on Ham l let and Macbeth have been delivered be- 1 fore large and cultured audiences in New l York Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore, l Washington, Chicago and other great cit l ies, and few intellectual efforts in recent l years have met with such favorable crlti- l cism from the press. Dowden, Hudson, l Furness. Rolfe and other accepted com l mentators and essaysts may have as much l imagination and as much insight into the l poetry. wit and philosophy of Shakespeare
 as Stafford, but none of them l venture to
 assert, has been able to discuss the trage-
 dies with a spiritual sympathy quite so l deep, or a power of expression quite so
 vrile as this man. Stafford is a master | of Anglo-Saxon and every phrase and every
 sentence he utters is invested with a liter
 ary charm, is redolent of a literary flavor,
 which easily captvates and holds his au- l dience. And in addition to being speaker,
 and an orator of rare eloquence, he is an | 1 Booth. If his theme is Hamlet he acts
 with dramatic finish and moving passion
 all the Hamlet parts of the play. Even
 were his critical faculty less keen and
 subtle than it is, Stafford would still be
 great histrionic interpreter of the
 immortal bard It is perhaps this histrionic
 talent after all that accounts for Stafford's
 exceptional popularity the platform.
 The cultivated people of Birmingham cer- | tainly have a treat awaiting them" l Miss Howard Weedan of Huntsville. the
 now famous poet and artist is a delight l fully charming little woman, with black
 hair and eyes, and the kindliest of faoes,' | said one who knows this new light in litera- ture and art 'The faces drawn for 'Shad-
 ows on the Walr are taken from life, and
 are faithful pictures of darlSies Miss Wee den has known. The Shadows is having a great sale at the north. I hear; and it is
 said that Miss Weeden is receiving many
 bank checks from northern admirers of her l beautiful work Single checks for much as a hundred dollars have come to the l gifted Alabama woman. She has a pleas l ant home in Huntsville, and is as happy as
 bird that sings. Her life is beautiful, and
 she would make other lives glad; a noble | ambition nobly realized"
 l "California paupers fare like princes are l supposed to fare" said Colonel Robert Me- l Kee. "In Samona county, where I stayed l for several months, the poorhouse is
 splendid building in a perfectly kept park
 of sixty acres. It is not called a poorhouse
 there it is called an asylum. The hand
 some building is lighted throughout by l electricity is most comfortably furnished,
 contains hot and cold baths reading rooms,
 and so on, and the food supplied to the in- l mates is as good as that one can obtain in | the best hotel in the county. I figured it | out from the official reports that the | county would save money by boarding its | poor at the leading hotel at the rate of l three dollars @ day for each individual | Fruit and wine are the chief sources oi
 wealth in the county, which has a popu-
 lation of about 3O,0OO, and which produces | 9O00,000 gallons of claret year. It lies
 north of San Francisco and is an earthly
 paradise"
 | Joseph M Davidson, whom everybody in | Birmingham knows, and who is now en- l gagged in the work of insuring the employees
 of the Southern Railway between Atlanta
 and the Virginia state line, has been
 spending a few days in the city. He leaves l this morning to conduct his family to l Montgomery, where they will reside.
 Joseph II. Nathan, of Sheffield, was In
 town yesterday.
 Colonel A. M. Shook has gone to New | York.
 l Judge William Richardson, of Huntsville, | was in town last night, returning from at 1 tendance at the meeting of the University 1 trustees in Tuscaloosa
 Sam Carpenter, of Greene, candidate for | state auditor, is in town. | | Miller Retires from Presidency | SaN ,J4ar T Poe aNup