The age-herald., 1900-01-14
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Many a heart will be saddened by the | statement that Duncan McPhee is very | dangerously i'll at his old home on tine St. | Lawrence. in Canada. Word comes pri- | vately that he is sore-stricken, and it may | be many weeks before he is seen here | again Indeed he may never more come | oui way, as the shadows fall very heavily | upon him now No man who comes here | as a commercial traveller is better known | or more gently loved than Duncan McPhee. Everybody likes him. everybody chershes | his friendship. All his life is filled with good emotions, good impulses. good deeds; and now in the darkness there be a thous- and hands offered to him in brctherly greeting that grieves. MT McPhee left Birmingham shortly before Christmas with l the intention of spending the holidays vita his venerable and venerated mother. The family home is on the St. Lawrence, sev- enty miles above Montreal. In "a gable | window of the house of the MePhee there | gleams all through the dark hours of the long gloom of the Canadian winter a l2mp-a light in the window for every ore who may go astray upon that great space | of ice lthat belts Canada. At the point where the McPhees dwell the St. Lawrence l ing place of importanee-by boat in sum mer, on the ice in winter. Duncan Me- Fhees mother keeps a light burning all | the long nisGt-a beacon to guide the way farer across the unmarked ice in the deep of the Canadian winter.
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 F. Sid Jones, passenger and imm grafton | agent of the Louisville and Nashville rail- road, has received a letter from "a Dane at Copenhagen, making complaint that he has been placed under police surveillance i because he owns certain lands at Vine mcnt, the new industrial town near Gull man. The Dane remains subject of the I king of Denmark, and possibly there is some Danish law applicable to this par | ticular matter. Captain Jones' has taken steps to protect the Dane from further | noyance. This will be done through the department of state at Washington. The secretary of state for Alabama, Robert Patton McDavid, will certify to the gov- ernment at Washington as to the Vine mont company; and the American minister | at Copenhagen will be instructed to use his good offices in behalf of the Dane. |
 | T know man who accepts all invita- tions to drink at a popular bar" said a wel-known man about town. '"The man calls for cigar, and the lbarkeeper gives him 25-cent one, the man does not indulge in strong drink. He takes the | costly cigar, and remarks that he will smoke it presently. But instead of smok- ring it, he goes and swaps it for a half dozen cheap cigars. which he smokes at his leisure sharp, smart business, call that"
 | There are twenty-seyen or twenty eight | Masonic lodges in Jefferson county, and all of them will be represented at the county | conference at the Masonic hall, First ave- nue and Twentieth street, Monday night" | said a well-known Mason. This confer ence will continue for two days and will | be of decided interest to the fraternity All | Master MaSons are invited to attend. The meeting will be called ito order by Wor- | shipful Dan Greene, chairman of the com- mittee of arrangements, and then will fol- low a permanent organization. Dr. R. P Edwards of Wylam is secretary of the | committee. It is expected that one or two of the grand officers will be present dur | ing the exemplifcation of the work"
 'The next meeting of the board of trade
 
 this week, and while it will not be. followed by a smoker, the case on January 3, a large attendance and interesting dis cussions may be expected" said board of trade official. 1.-The board has large membership, but 1t should be larger than 1t Is. Every one of the three or four hun | dred mercantile firms in Birmin gham | should take interest enough in organi- zation of this sort to be enrolled and pay | a dollar month in the way of dues" |
 State Auditor Walter S. White was in | Birmingham yesterday
 | The Hon. A. D. Sayre the judge of the | city court of Montgomery, is in Birming- | ham. Judge Sayre was for years a repre- | sentative of Montgomery county In the | lever house of the general assembly, and | subsequently, was the state senator for the district of the coupty of Montgomery In | the house, as in the senate, Judge Sayre | was amongst the most gifted members. | The Hon. Francis l.. Pettus, of Dallas. was speaker of the Erouse when Judge | Sayre led the democratic majority there | MT Pettus was president of the senate | when Judge Sayre was Tn that chamber | Judge Sayre is one of the ablest men in Alabama; he is one of the truest and best l men in the world. He lives in an atmos- phere of distinction, and abides in the spirit Of good fellowship. Intellectually, he is a | young man Of great power-a "big man." as the phrase runs in his case Judge | Sayre's mother is the sister of Jc,hn Tyler Morgan, the senator and ne comes by good heritage to the ability and the virtues of the Morgans and the Sayres To them that know him best and love him most he is plain Dick" To the world he is the orna- | mont of the bench, right st,,,np man a great man, indeed.
 Ray Rushton, of Montgomery, Is at the Morris.
 lhe work of enlisting men for the regu- | lar army progresses slowly because of tba