The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-31
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White-sheeted the old year dies in snow
fit raiment for the departing guest who
carries with him into the vast whence cur
sorrows and our joys alike; giving no
heed to longings and yearnings, and know
ing naught of what shall be brought to US
by the lusty youth of tomorrow. Alas!
And yet it is better SO. Tomorrow and
tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from
day to day, and all our yesterdays have
lighted fools the way to dusty death!
Voices called to voices across and through
the snow last night. The world became
a whispering gallery; and the flakes OF
white came down like white feathers from
white-winged truth; beautiful flowers in
the street upon the cranHied wall, in the
wood. the wild fields. Softly falling, SOFT
" resting, softly telling of things we
know not Of the snow came down, white
burial robe of one of the dead years! Fit
funeral of a space in time that gave US
ioy, unrest, pain, as the sun burst FORTH
the clouds came and rolled away, and as
we saw the splendor of the mountain, the
beauty of the stream, and the shadows of
the gloomy days!
Francis Shelley White, known to the peo-
nla as Cantain Frank White, who has
been chosen chairman of the campaign
COMMITTEE which is to labor for the re-
election of John Tyler Morgan to the
United States senate for Alabama, was
born in Noxubee county, Mississippi, March
Is. 1S47, and he is therefore within ten
weeks of the ffty-third anniversary OF mis-
birth. AS a boy he enlisted in the FIRST
Mississippi cavalry, and served unoer for-
rest in the war between the states.
Throughout his career in the confederate
army he was a brave soldier. On the LIST
of April, 1865, he was in the fight at Selma,
and his company, decimated to thirty men.
lost seventeen of its heroes. Mr. White
was captured as a prisoner of war, but
quickly made his escape After the war
was ended he studied law and was admit
ted to the Hbar in 1868. He practiced law at
West Point until 1885, when he removed to
Birmingham In 1875 he was elected to the
Mississippi legislature, and conducted the
impeachment proceedings against the lieu
tenant-governor, A. X. Davis, who was
convicted of receiving brides, and removed
from office. That was in the most critical
wear of Mississppi's history, the conditions
there being identical with the conditions
prevailing in Alabama in 1874 when Morgan
led the fight for this states redemption. 1t
is an odd coincidence that Mr.. White, now
an honored citizen of Alabama, should be
called to lead the fight in Morgan's be-
half In 1882 MIR. White was again elected
to the legislature of Mississippi. The regu-
lar nominee of the democratic party had
backed down in personal difficulty, and
was forced to retire. The democratic COM
mittee selected Mr.. White to make the race
in the party's interest. He was a man
whom no man could ''hack down." who
had moral and physical courage of the
highest order, and he was elected. Mr..
White is now a very busy member of the
Birmingham bar, and there is not a respee-
table man in Jefferson county VINO does not
entertain for him the fullest measure of
respect. Everybody likes Frank Wh5te,