The age-herald., 1900-12-15
Marvellous Career.

Marvellous Career. The marvellous story of that old mans un- exampled life of a century may not be told here or at this time, for that telling is the historians task; but dull and unimag gina tive must indeed be that man amongst men on this eve of the old mans funeral whose pulse is not stirred, whose heart does not bound as he glances at the vanished cen- tury of a brother life! We know his was a brave heart, his a lofty spirit, like those simple great ones gone for ever and ever by. Sturdy even stern through all his long appointed years, he was of those who never knew a fear save of wrong doing, nor hate that did not die in its birth. His spirit was inhe- rently rebelious but it was a rebellion against unmanliness subterfuge, unright- eousness, and the wide empire of inane follies. But upon Nhis scorn there ever awaited a gentle hail; upon his sheer, a smile!
 His strong will and the petty spirit of little meannesses were ever in rude war fare; for he was not choice of his words when they spelled condemnation.
 First Impression.
 When first I saw him, two and twenty years ago, he was already a very old man, and I remember that he reminded me of my own conception of the warrior patri- archs taught of the Sunday-Scho from which I had just come. His long white hair and flowing white beard with ruddy face and youthful eye, impressed me to name less reverence, and I recall having kept my hand open that l might look at 1t after he had touched it. He was to me, the youth, infinitely compassioned, l felt, and l won dered if he could really know how ignorant I was and still be so generously and kindly condescending
 For many years afterward I did not see him, but thought of him often, and in af- factiOnata pratitudn The nthar damp, cold day. found him in the lobby of public house, and discovered myself to him. He remembered me, and immedie ately began telling me what I had been doing during the years, and what my peo- pie had bone before and so speaking he fell gently into reminiscence which carried me backward to eighty years ago, when he came from South Carolina to dwell in Ala bama. There was in it little love story, more than three quarters of a century old, and I believe he said her name was Sallie It was to me positively entrancing to listen to a man who was born in the eighteenth century, the second man so old whom had ever met. The other one was a Scotch man, born in 1796, who fought an officer under the Great Duke at Waterloo, and who saw Napoleon as he-but that story is not for this hour.
 Political Career.
 General Bulger was a member of the Alabama secession convention of 1S61 and was then about the oldest member of that illustrious body; and immediately after the war he sought the Governorship of Ala bama.
 But for the most part his days since the great strife betwixt brothers, the thun- ders of which shook the world, have been days of peace on earth and good will to men; and in his passing in these last hours of his century and the worlds, there passes the most luminous of all the southern fig- ures of this time.
 And so the great old man of war and peace, strife and love-knightliest old war rior of a race of warriors-sleeps at last amid the Tallapoosa hills, the offspring of a century dead in its dying!
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER,