The age-herald., 1900-11-25
TINE BERNRDRHARDs co., L STREETS MASS.

would make merry in pastures green,
 speaking great impromptu oratioHs for the edifcation of the oaks and pines or drift
 ing lazily upon limped streams, angle for innocent and unsuspecting perch, and
 dreaming all the while of the day that was
 to come when they should be in legislative halls.
 "When these two friends left the shelter ing fold of their Alma Mater no two boys
 ever left the university more beloved by faculty students and townspeople They
 have been recalled almost annually to serve
 in some capacity touching the welfare of
 the university. Both are eloquent speakers,
 and loyal friends to their university. Both these young men selected law as
 profession, and the plan was that they
 should practice together. When the matter
 of location was reached in the agreement
 they halted.
 "'That dimple on the face of the uni-
 verse. the Tennessee valley, must be the
 place. said one.
 May not so! Jones valley. that portion of earth that lies directly under the throne of high heaven, and no where else for mer quoth the other.
 Upon this rock they split So one young
 man settled in Huntsville and the other in Birmingham.
 To-day if you go to oMntgomery you will find In the Legislature hall MT. William Brockman Bankhead of Huntsville, and in the Senate chamber MT. Hugh Morrow of Birmingham. At lunch time you will find them eating a pie at the same table, and after adjournment they vii stroll together down Capitol hill arm in arm. They are the two boys who dreamed of fame and TO-
 nance under the campus trees Each has married the girl whose face was In the school boys watch. Two franker, nobler,
 abler young men are not to be found within
 the confines of our Alabama; and both are still In their twenties."
 
 Former Congressman Gaston A. Robbins was notable guest at the sixth annual dinner of the Society of Mayfower De- scendants at Delmonico's last Wednesday night, and the New York Sun, which de- votes a column of it's front page to the dinner, refers to the Alabamian as Repre-
 sentative Gaston A. Robbins of Tennessee" ." Supreme Court Justice Goodrich was toastmaster and Chauncey Depew was the principal speaker. There were many dis tinguished New Workers present, including several society women. The Sun says: Representative Robbins told the mothers of the society to impress upon their daugh- ters that Wheeler and Hobson of Alabama and Dewey of Vermont and Schley of Maryland had won the Spanish war, and that in the country that bred such men were to be found far better husbands than among the impecunious and spendthfift men of titles on the other side of the ocean,
 MT. Robbins has been staying In New York for several weeks, and word comes privately that he intends to permanently reside there. At present he and MT. c. A. | Mountjoy, formerly of Birmingham, reside | in adjoining apartments in the same apart ment house, though there Is no suggestion | that they are to become associated in law | practice. It Is understood that MT. Rob- bins made a great many Bryan speeches in New York. under the apspices of Tam many, during the recent Presidential can- | vass, and won many friends. Col William W. Brandon was in Bir- mingham last night on his way from Mont gomery to Tuscaloosa to spend Sunday with his family. Asked as to the Iegisfa- tive situation at the capital Colonel Bran
 don said Everything Is running smoothly