The age-herald., 1900-11-26

tions throughout the country. and contrib uted largely to it's influence by visiting schools and speaking upon questions of educational importance Success has crowned him in everything. He has been constant contributor to the newspaper press and to the magazines. Plenty, from full horn, has poured it's abundance about him. Last summer he voluntarily resigned his professorship in the Universi- ty of Tennessee in order to enjoy the free dom of his farm and to devote himself ex- clusively to historical investigations and literary productions. He is writing a book on Famous Southern Editors. His latest article is on Thaddeus Sanford, for many years editor of the Mobile Register. This article Is in the November-December issue of The Methodist Review. Another article on Joseph G. Baldwin, a cousin to Mrs. Mellen, is to appear in The Sewanee Re- view. An article on John Mitchell was in a late edition of the Knoxville Sentinel John Moncure Daniel appeared a year or two ago in The Methodist Review.
 Dr. Mellen has several times addressed the Irving Club, the most exclusive literary club of Knoxville. He has a beautiful home, fine old brick mansion three miles west of Knoxville, where he entertains handsomely and joyously. In the bosom of a happy family, wife, two sons and daughter, with books, fine horses, Jersey cattle and blooded hogs, he s~living an ideal life. He owns much real estate, from which he receives ample income. He is % true gentleman in education. in manners and in fortune'
 "On next Thursday there will be dedi- cated and formally opened to the public the largest hospital in Alabama and one of the finest in this country-a great home of charity builded by the charitable for suffering humanity-andJ the Sisters of Charity invite you all and everybody to visit St. Vincent's on that day" said Rev. Father O'Reilly after the 10:30 o'clock mass in St. PauPs church yesterday forenoon. "St. Vincents is an institution of which every man, woman and child in Alabama may well feel proud" said the eloquent priest convincingly
 Mir Chellot Berney Is dangerously i'll at Dr. Browns infirmary, in First avenue. His health has been unsatisfactory for two or three years, and latterly his condition Is understood to be alarming.
 
 Six out of thirteen convicts reported on Saturday as having been pardoned by the Governor were murderers, according to the official statement. "One cause of the wholesale murder that disgraces Alabama is the frequency with which the execu- tive clemency is extended to murderers," declared a leading lawyer of Birmingham Study the pardon records and you will find very large per cent of the pardoned con victs are murderers. Juries are very slow to convict in murder cases. What is the use of convicting at all if the convict is to be pardoned?"
 ''The entire history of reconstruction and the restoration of white man rule in Ala bama is recalled by the the announcement of the death at Montgomery on Saturday of Mrs. Clanton, the widow of the famous Gen. James Holt Clanton, the first and strongest leader of the reorganized Demo- cratic party in this state" said a Black belt man last night ''Mrs. Clanton was a Miss Abercrombie of Macon County, and was 65 years old"
 Said travelling man last night:
 "Cad H. Beale of Montgomery has thousands of friends in Alabama and throughout the Gulf States who will be greatly shocked and grieved to know that his H-year-old son, Mallory Beale, was shot and instantly killed Saturday night by his intimate friend, Lyle Lawson IT, year-old son of W. H. Lawson, chief clerk of the State Convict Bureau, In whose resi- dence at Montgomery the shooting took place. The deplorable tragedy was acci- dental, the two boys having been playing with firearms in young Lawson's bedroom. The boys were boon companions. About twenty years ago a similar accident occur rnd tn ,antal alale ia r,,ilies q nntcraraer,r