The age-herald., 1900-12-09

thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
 It was as if the ages had burst into that one white flower of maiden lovelness, and that maiden bloom stood there before the altar and expanded into woman and wife. It was as if all the dreams of chivalry and prayers of piety had been incarnat- e-' ;. ,.er who paused demure in her widest joy and beheld- her maiden self trans formed by a benediction, and anchored amid the golden waves in the sunbright harbor of her love and her longing. It was as if Time had hesitated one brief mo- ment so to make memorable the marriage of this one the fairest of his children, as she pressed against the frall cord that marked joys boundary betwixt the two worlds of her happiness, before he pass ed on to carve wrinkles and whiten locks and cut deeper the endless trail of human infrmity. It was as if the queen elf out of all elfland, the daintiest and tenderest and fairest of them all, had lent herself to the bridal for brief space to show man a living prayer, and ring to him in softened notes prayerfuI admonition to the
 
 higher and purer and better things of mans life It was as if white-winged truth Sveiled in white-souled love had come from the far heights of beauty to stay her lit- tie feet there in the place of suppliants, blessed figure of maiden existence at once the most blessed and most beautiful thing given us to know. of this world, and brightest promise of all the afterwhiles of 3a,. cfo to at bliss held for the faithful for ever.
 It was as all these things, and more. It was an act of the bridal, the most ex- quisite material romance of which men have knowledge; and that little bride was radiant as a figure in a dream of good in which we might mingle all the world with her, and her presence was an appeal to the higher impulses as clearly and as tenderly uplifting as the echo of vesper bells in the calm afternoon of a joyous day, when care has perished at the thresh- old of a prayer.
 She might have been joyously smiling little saint, a creature not of the earth, fair stranger from a star. Enchanting was her marvellous whiteness, that was dreamfully shaded by the touch of youths priceless flush upon her face, fair beyond all dreams of light and sweetness, her eyes luminous in and through the meshes of 8 veil that might-have been spun of fairies by the moonbeam's emparadising glow. Her lips quivered in delight, her eyes brimmed and flashed and danced in her joy. She was a sentient dream of in comparable loveliness, the most exquisite ever coming into the inner palace of im- magination's all-encircling empire of hope and striving.
 And all the breeze of Fancy blows,
 And every dew-drop paints a bow,
 The wizard lightnings deeply glow,
 And every thought breaks out a rose
 Time never brought forth fairer bride than this; no dainty maiden breaking the frail thread that barred her from the heaven of the wife ever was so dreamfully ex- quisite in the doing of it; none ever was or ever shall be more superlatively en- all of them together, exceeding 45O pounds, which is less than a light bale of cotton But Mr. Morrow, MT. Goldsby and Mir Powell are amongst the strongest young men Intellectually in Alabama, and Mr. Norman. who appears to be about 46 years old, Is said to be possessed of ability. It is doubtful if the Senate ever before con- tained at one time four men so young, so small, and so intellectual
 The weather yesterday was so disagree able that it kept great many people in- doors, and the result was a comparatively dull Saturday. for Birmingham. Hon. Frank P. OBrien came from Mont gomery yesterday and is spending Sunday in Birmingham. He will return to the capital this afternoon.