The age-herald., 1901-07-19
Noble Wiley,

Noble Wiley of Montgomery has been nominated by the President to be lieu tenant in the army, and has been sum- moned east for the regular official ex- animation preparatory to his formal com- mission,'' said a former Montgomerian last night.
 Wide interest attaches to this an- nouncement. Noble Wiley is the only son. only offspring, of Congressman Ariosto A. Wiley, colonel commanding the Sec ond Regiment Alabama National Guard, for twenty years, at the bar, in the State Senate. and in general public life. has challenged the admiration and won the affections of Alabamians That is true of the brilliant orator and eminent jurist and statesman. Colonel Wiley.
 Noble Wiley is the ideal soldier. and i. he comes by his bright mind, his splen- did physique, and his charming manner by the right of natures true heritage. His father, who for five and twenty years has been an officer of what we now call the National Guard, Is, and has been all these years, one of the ablest. most painstaking and most capable of Ala bama's unsurpassed citizen soldiers. And physically few men can equal him in handsome and striking personality; and in the world there is no better fellow than this same A. A. Wiley. Congressman. colonel and late State Senator.
 'This youngsters fair mother, who was a Miss Noble, the daughter of family which has dweit in Montgomery for three generations and been all the while leaders of society and of thought, is one of the loveiiest and most superb women in this South of lovely women. It has been said of her that she Is the best-dressed woman in Alabama Certainly she is in appearance and in manner one of the most graceful. gracious and charming of all women. It is most pleasing to see her and her son together-they look more like brother and sister than son and mother. He gives her in opulence that most beau tiful thing in life, boys wild devotion to his mother; though Noble Wiley is now a man in all the higher significance of manhood; and she responds to his de- votion with a mothers idolatry of her big boy. She knows. and everybody agrees with her, that physically and mentally he is superior to most youngsters in the world. He is six feet tall and perfectly proportioned. with great eyes and great mouth that speak together and always eioauently, always kindly. always gener- ously. His brilliant mind is brilliantly cultured, and therefore his manners are perfect, his courtesy unfailing.
 '.Noble Wiley is already a military offi- cer Many months ago he was elected Captain of the Montgomery Mounted Rifles, the cavalry company of the Ma tional Guard which his father assisted in organizing some twenty years ago and which the father commanded for many years; Noble Wiley having been elected to succeed his father, condition that Is probably unique in. citizen soldiery.
 '"There cannot be any doubt that Noble Wiley will pass the army examination. And true and thoughtful friends of Colonel Wiley throughout Alabama will rejoice that so admirable and so honored a career is opening for his son. The sol- dier's life Is ever noble in Its purposes, and is elevating in character. Young MT. Wiley will not have to grub for a living. and in that, as in many other respects, he is more fortunate than most of us"