The age-herald., 1900-11-29

That the wind will futler away;
 But here's a cheer for the waning year, 1 And the glad Thanksgiving Day!
 The thrushes, have flown from the treetops high,
 And the bluebrds could not stay; l And lore and hushed are the empty nests; But the children smile as they say,
 | "When frost is chill on the misty hill l Comes the glad Thanksgiving Day
 They know that the harvest is garnered in In its ripe and golden store
 l Ard patient and still the brown earth waits For the time of it's toll is o'er
 l It waits the snow that shall fold it low | Till it wake from sleep once more.
 l The daisies whiten the fields again l And the robins build, next May; | So gratefully sing, little children, sing, Till the air with mirth is gay, l A song for the cheer of the happy year And the glad Thanksgiving Day. "On the morrow, so to speak, William
 Dorsey Jelks will assume the duties of the
 exalted office of Alabamas Governor and l those of us who have known him longest
 and best send him glad greeting in ad- vance," said former associate of the dis | tinguished president of the Senate. But | I'll warrant you that President Jelks, soon l to De GOARrIOf JelbS, VIII u6 SOFiy lllio | Thanksgiving Day wh5n he knows that 1 heavy sorrow has come to the good printer | who was foreman of Jelks Eufaula Times | for seventeen years, and who Is greatly | beloved by the Senator about to be Gov | epnor. Edward J. Black now of Birming- | ham, used to manage the mechanical de-
 partment of the Eufaula Times, even before | MT Jelks acquired that newspaper, and 1 the two men were ever good friends Night | before last MT. Blacks venerable and be- l loved mother, Mrs M J. Black, died at
 his house in Birmingham, and yesterday
 afternoon his son, MT. c. w. Black, es- | corted the remains of the aged angel of
 goodness to old .Eufaula, where on this 1 Thanksgiving Day she will be laid to rest | amongst her kindred on the beautiful hill- | side which has been Gods Acre for the EufauHans through the speeding genera .tions.
 "The late Mrs. Black was the widow of | John Black of Eufaula, who was for thir l ty years one of the strongest and most | honored editors and publishers of Alabama. | As far back os fifty years ago he was known to all the public men of the State
 the Yanceys, the Ciays, the Wattses, the Walkers, and so on, and was neigh | Dor and personal friend of the Shorters | His son, Edward J. Black-no better fel- | low lives-grew up and became foreman of | his fathers old newspaper, and one fine | day young William Dorsey Jelks came over: from Union Springs and purchased the newspaper and confirmed young Blacks! 1 place in the office. Three years later young Jelks married l into the family which had hefrien6- l ed the Blacks-married Miss Alice Shorter | a beautiful and gifted sunny-eyed, sunny | haired, sunny-hearted maiden, who is on | this Thanksgiving Day one of the noblest loveliest and happiest wives and mothers
 in all Alabama She, like her adorlng and distinguished husband will be sorry for the sadness that has come to Ed Black; she never knew of human sorrow that did not arouse her sympathy, never knew of joy that did not cause her to rejoice. In the
 world there is no better woman than she, none more worthy of deep reverence. 50 the President of the Senate and Mrs Jelks will feel deep sympathy for E1 Black today. And there are two others | who will associate themselves with him in I something of personal sorrow. They are William A. Davis, the now famous busi. | ness man of Annston, and a newspaper | worker of Birmingham, whose name is of no particular interest to the public in this relation. MT Davis and this other one | together with MT. Jelks, slept in the same | bedroom, often in the same bed in Eufau- | la considerably less than twenty years ago. when Ed Black used to whistle and sing in Ith< scinting office hard by. In all this there rHs >the making of story which must one 1 day be written; but the time is not yet Senator Cushman K. Davis was one of
 the best men in public life and one of the very few polished and socially enlightened | men who reach the United States Senate
 nowadays said an old army officer who 1 formerly .dwelt in Minnesota, and was the | intimate personal friend and associate of
 MT. Davis long before the latter became a | Senator.
 Senator Davis was not only man of | wide reading, but of wide learning. He was | in some respects perhaps the most generally | accomplished man in the Senate The more 1 intelligent public will not think that is say | ing much for Mir. Davis, it being we'll
 known that very few polished and cultured I men ever gain membership of either house | of Congress; but MT. Davis was in the Il broader sense a man of the broader culture;
 and besides being a real gentle man he was
 one of the best of jolly good fellows. In
 making for himself a large private fortune
 be did not make of himself a swinish per
 son, as most American millionaires do; nor
 in filthy politics did he suffer himself to be- Il come unclean. S
 l 'When there was talk several years ago | of sendtng Mir Davis as ambassador to-the court of Saint James,, ignorant newspapers, I principally Democratic organs of vulgar I plutocracy, raised a great howl, and pro- l oeeded to throw all sorts of mud at MT. | Davis. Not one writer of such newspaper villifcation was worthy to black MT. Davis