The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-03

n IT T-rv VI | --' s, ' . ~ !. v | charge of attempted burglary in thu
 night. Moody had previously sanctioned f the pardon Of this young man, when he had been sentenced fin a minor case, but he avowed then and there rever to sanc- ton another psfd0n, and he never has. Moody has Aectded opinions about every thing. but fhcy are so tempered with dis erection thst he at once becomes one of the larger men of the world. Some say of Moody that he sowed his
 wild oats. If he did, he has never reaped
 the harvest which is pretty good evi- dence that he 'iId not SOW manyj of them. He was a. young man, full Of life. ambi-
 tion and hope, and he has never swerved
 one iota from the path they directed.
 Wien he was District Attorney. and there
 was prohibition throughout the county,
 he would net even invite friend to have a drink, and he beasted that he would never knowingly break a single law. for
 he could not tell how soon he would have to prosecute semeeue else for. doing something he himself had done. He had
 more respect for the law than most law yers, and while he was never a Jerome,
 he enforced the laws of his county irf,- partially and to the letter.
 Moody never had . friend who went
 wrong. While none of his cronies-and
 he Is man who has always had croniee- ever got immensely wealthy. they are all substantial business men. They are all everyday sort of fellows. and he is su-
 premeIy happy when he is with them.
 Moses 1T, Dow, a ieatlser dealer in the
 shoe district. is one of tilsm, and is the
 closest friend that the new Secretary has
 He, Is one of the wits of the town, and
 has score of times dipiomatlcally sug-
 gested solutions of local fights that have
 saved Moody from a deal of criticism.
 Once, when a p0stmastership was at
 stake and a. dozen candidates were sure
 they had it and were disrupting every
 thing in the harmony line in sight. Noses
 suggested his partner in business as a.
 candidate, and he was named. to the SUIT
 prise of all. and he made one of the best
 postmasters the city eyer had. As Con- gressman Moody has never been busy hunting up offices for men with pull. but rather given his time first to the general needs of his district. and then to matters of national legislation, this has soured some people. but it has made Moody.
 He, likes. out-of-door life. and he does not hanker after the ballroom. wall flow CTS and a dress suit. He can ride over a stone wall and never move in his saddle. He can walk a dozen miles and come back and prepare a case for court and go in and plead 1t. He Is a good golfer. When he Is tired of this, he goes to one of the big law libraries and hunts up some law books which carry the dust of fifty years and learns something that no one has thought about for a century. and ti en takes what he has learned and ap- plies 1t to some case. he IS trying and wins that case. .- He is aman Of stupendous energy and wiai stand for hours cross-examining a witness, finally to bring out something that decides the question of fortune or that of a criminals liberty. He used to be ohe leading criminal lawyer in the county-now he is one of the best in the
 dryest and most intricate of cases, and
 the most important and that is why 1t is said he will go to the Supreme Court
 bench when he has surrendered the navy
 portfolio.
 Moody Is not a rich man. He has given
 too much time to Congress to be rich; but
 he is a typicaliy honest man and he has
 never allowed extravagance to anterIefe
 with principle. He has one of the coziess
 homes in this section. and 1t IS nlied wiol w rare books and works of art If he has
 been so occupied at Washington that ne
 has. had no chance to earn large fees-has
 largest is said to have been aa.vn ana
 he could not afford d new. coal; ne. has
 worr, an old one, but it was always in the mode neatly pressed and as spack as when he received it from the tailor. He has kept his home in excellent shape ana
 has never stinted it that he mignt keep rp with the gay life. of the capital.
 When he comes home he falls into his office work for fifteen hours q day, ana then goes to the least dlgnned oI ms clubs and drops into an easy char ana discuss with has friends and crack
 iokes with those who gathr round Un- derneath this rest is all the sersousnss of the mana seriousness that has come 10 him of later years-and he 'odn QUICKLY drop his jestinf, and champion any act or the sadniristration at Washington or any act of his own when he breaks. away
 from conventional lines. as he dad relaAve to the seating of a Southern Democrat during one of his first terms @ lh ,ne hsve tSem done with Many years ago ne attonoeu A caucus in his ward. It was m hali where the few kerosene lamps purheu dirnly and was not the most pfsisa' iiia,.. place in she world 10 uahS"0' eNS'i P
 icaI business.
 Over ir one corner stood an oid-time
 ward politician. Bill Jeffers, ana Bili had a list of delegates in his nat hnine that he wanted nominated. Laborlousiy he read fine first name, then drew nttie nearer a smoky light and started Tn Wiuh the next. Moody stood tnis as iohs up he could. and then moved that the con yention elect the list Of delegates III Sel- fers's hat. The old mans wits were quicker than his eyesight ard like nasn he answered back. "l second the mottoii' and the men whose names were In that hat went to the County Convention ani carried it for their candidate
 Once Moody and Ben Brickett ran county fair and when it was over the now secretarv went to his partner and asked him how much was coming to him Brickett squinted at him moment ana then said, in that provoking drswlNof his: l. .'Young man." (Brickett was perhaps four years his seniorI. what are you thinking of? You have had the experi- ence, you have bad the honor and the glory. and every farmer for miles around has heard of you. That's enough for your first years work" And Ben enter tained his friends on the proceeds.
 Once Moody was the only available man in town who could take charge of school when the master was ill He did his work so we'll that the school com mittee and many citizens waited on him and asked him to take the place perma- nently. He declined. little thinking that had he not done so he might today have been superintendent of the school system of a city of 37, 600 instead of Secretary of l the Naty of a country of twice as many | millions. ..4
 Incidents like these have made the new ] Secretary. His life has been full of | them and the future is in the same hands l that have nodded a career so eminently | successful.
 BIRDS AMUSE THEMSELVES.