The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-14
Gradually Improving.

MT. James welsh, brother or the late Patrick Walsh of Georgia, has been quite Ill for some months past at his home in this city. He is gradually get ting better and stands a chance to get entirely well again. MT. Walsh is one of those big hearted generous lrishmen, whom to know is to love. He is shoe maker by trade. but he Is known and liked by every one in this city. When Hon. Patrick Walsh visited our city, he could be sen at his brothers shoe shop, sitting on a bench. the two engaged in earnest conversation. United States Senator Walsh never thought himself above his brother, who followed a more humble avocation. but treated him with all of the courtesy and affection due from one brother to another. MT. James Walsh was also a great friend of General John T. Morgan and Alebama's senior Senator never came to Selma that he did not spend an hour or two with his old friend Walsh. General Pettus had to pass right by Mir. Walsh's shoe shop going to and from his office and he. too. always had a kindly word for genial, generous, witty Jim Walsh.
 Everybody in Selma hopes that MT. Walsh will be restored to his accustomed good health agin. He has not filled poli- tical positions, but his rugged honesty, his kindly disposition and his nobility Of character have drawn around him a coterie of friends, who will all rejoice if he is restored to his accustomed good health and be his jolly self again. He is at the house of Mrs. Joseph Pollock, sr., his relative. and all that tender. low ing hands can do for his comfort has been done. Even on his bed of illness there will come occasional sallies of wit from MT. Walsh Chat make those around him laugh. H
 Letter from England.
 MT. Felix M. Wood, son of the late Probate Judge, P. c. Wood, received letter from London yesterday that is of more than passing interest. Judge Wood was appointed delegate to the Ecumenical Conference of the Methodist Church in place of Governor Sanford, when that great and good man laid down the cares and burdens of life. Judge Wood left for London full of hopes and with feeling that the trip would do him good. How he was taken i'll in Brus- sels with pneumonia, his death and the shipping of his body home and the sor- row that filled the hearts of the people who had known and loved Judge Wood so long, have all been dwelt upon In these columns.
 Yesterday. however. Mir. Felix Wood received q letter from England addressed to his father. He opened 1t in the pres ence of your correspondent and read Its contents. There were several personal friends of MT. Wood present when he read the letter. It was from young man in London. the leader of a Sunday school class. Judge Wood was a great worker in the Sunday school, and had written Felix letter or two telling him how he had dropped into little Metho- dist chapel. He was asked to teach the class The next Sunday he had been in- vited to address the school, and on the last Sunday that he was there the chapel would hardly hold those who came to hear him.
 The letter written to Judge Wood was a New Years greeting. The heart of the young man who wrote 1t was full of qualification and tenderness toward the lamented Judge Wood for the manner in which he had assisted him in the conduct of the Sunday schoel, and he enclosed a New Years card as a token of good feI- lowship to his friend on this side of the Atlantic.
 MT Felix Wood will answer the letter. and it will be a sad one to the man who receives it on the other side.
 Ex-Councilman Joe Pollock of the Fourth Ward Is in Selma. He is travel