The age-herald., 1900-05-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| OeIs eNll lOT all HlSO.
 Losses, changes, and troubles will be- fall thee in thy business: do not quarrel, speculate, or lend money.'
 "A child born on this day will be ye1y unfortunate all through life, and generally poor and in needy circumstances
 Death found Dave Culberson asleep, and so it simply sealed for ever the eyehds of him who was unafraid. That ending of life which has terrified mankind from the beginning was to him not a terror aiid if he were warned of its coming he must have bidden it welcome. To him it meant peace and rest, sweet to rest after the fever of a long day of toll with it's SiIts and denials, it's hoping and it's refusing With the load of the years came a sor- row that did not lift, and the old shoul- ders pended until the old lips kissed the cool earth, come to gather it's own to it's bosom, and so rest him at last with the stars as vestal lights in the slumberous shades of a solitude we mark with grave stones and call peace. In mans slumber- nook he rests with her whose hand for hfty years held his own, and for d touch of which he never ceased to yearn after IL had been folded above faithful heart
  woman was gone the old man lived with his memories, and now all of them are asleep together.
 David Culberson leaves the mark of his genius upon the records of his people, and he shall not be forgot Next to the highest honors of the congress came to him. and after long years honestly devoted to the work of his country he wearied for repose and sought it in his own way But that was denied him, and the end found him with his national work still unfinished. He was revising the laws which he labored for a score of years to enact, and 1abored with extraordinary ability and earnestness. It is doubtful if the congress has had in two generations an abler lawgiver than he. David Culoerson was born a Georgian seventy years ago; but his boyhood and younger manhood were spent amongst the Alabama hills of Tallapoosa, and his first requirement of legal learning. for which he was to become famous came through the instructions of the Alabama. Chief Jus tice Chiffon. In Tallapoosa he welded the woman whose passing four years ago broke his heart. His son, sometime governor of Texas and now a senator for that state, was born in Tallapoosa, and there the sen ator's venerable granddam still dwells in the twilight of a. century lived in doing good. He went to reside in Texas, and be- fore he was thirty was making laws for the Texans. His bravery in battle made him a colonel of Confederates. He re- sumed the making of Texan laws, and in good time his home folk sent him to make laws for the nation and kept him at that labor many year, during a part of which time he was chief of the lawmakers. He asked to be relieved of further duty in the congress, and thereupon the president asked him to undertake in part the revision and qualification of all the national laws. Pending lis last work, the completion in fact of the great monument which he had builded to himself without the sounding of trumpets, this strong, unpretending, be- loved lawgiver of the people closes his rec ord and appears in the High Court of Jus tice. Some of us who loved him told him so as the years passed. No tribute of love or veneration can reach him now.
 "Only the actions of the just smell sweet and bloom in the dust" was written by poet who had not been through storms of Birmingham dust such as ragged yesterday. Nothing could be sweet in such dust At twenty minutes to 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon there was a dust cloud at First avenue and Twentieth street that was so dense that house door couldn't have been seen through it a distance of sixty feet by actual experiment. Scores of men and women and children were almost stified and the damage to clothing and to the stocks in adjancent stores was enough to have paid for watering the street three months That was but one instance. Ma ture had planned a day wonderfully bright, breezy and delightful, but the absence of watering carts defeated the plans of na- ture in all the downtown streets. The on- ly smell in that dust was poisonous.
 Hon. Chappell Cory and Mrs. Cory re- turned to Montgomery last night, after a short visit to Governor Johnston and Mrs Johnston, on the South Highlands. They were accompanied by Master Chappell Cory, Master Armstrong Cory and the lit- tie Miss Cory. Mrs. Cory was delegate to the woman's federation convention dur ing the past week.
 Percy Clark of Selma was in town yes- terday, and went to Montgomery in the afternoon.
 c. r. Barrett, Cairo, Ill.,; J. R. Oglesby, Albertville, Ala, and George w. Cook of Montgomery were in Birmingham yester- day.
 Lucien V. LaTaste of Montgomery, na- tional president of the Travellers Protec- tive Association of America, is in Br- mingham, preparing in part for the na- -tionaI meeting of the association, which will be held in New Orleans May 22-27 President LaTaste reports his great or eanization to be in a most prosperous con- dition.
 Judge B. H. Craig of Selma is in town