The age-herald., 1902-02-11
Mining School Appropriation to be Divided With Auburn and University

gather in the galleries of the House. To see the stately statesman John Wesley Gaines fall back in his seat at the shut up signal would be very entertaining, not to say Imaginable.
 Another promising young Alabamian has been appointed lieutenant in the army He is Albert Sidney Williams, son of Hon. Price Williams, who for more than twenty years has been probate judge of Mobile County and who is one of the best known and most estimable men in Alabama.
 Young Williams who has been attach ed to the Twenty-sixth Infantry is in the Philippines, where he has been for three years in the government service. Some opposition developed against him and charges of some sort on account of alleged personal misconduct were filed in the War Department. This aroused the friends of Judge Williams, and the result was a full and perfect vindioation of the young man. When the facts were placed before Secretary Root, who Is an exacting man, he at once declared that MT. Williams had been wronged and thereupon he recommended him to the President for commission. The facts so impressed the President that he forth with sent the name of MT Williams to the Senate, being induced to take speedy and favorable action by the urgent oral representations of Congressman Richard son of Huntsville, who was cordially joined by Congressman Bankhead. The result of all this will be most pleasing to the many men in every county of Ala bama who hold the veteran Price Will Hams in the highest esteem.
 Congressman Richardson and Judge Williams were schoolmates and insepara- ble companions in their boyhood, and the friendship then formed has strengthened with the years. Colonel Bankhead took an active interest in Lieutenant Williams case on account of old-time friendship for the young mans father and with the added desire to assist the friend of his own boyhood, Judge Richardson, for whom his second son, William Bankhead of Huntsville, is named.
 In all Alabama there is not a greater hearted or more generous soul than Price Williams of Mobile. Throughout his hon. ored life his greatest pleasures have been derived from his unself1sh promotion of the pleasures and well-being of others. Withal he is man of noble courtesy.
 The evident determination of Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson to quit the navy at the first opportunity causes re- gret in Washington and throughout the country. When he applied for retire. ment on account of defective eyesight, fact made public through the official re- fusal of his application, the public be- came aware of and was surprised at his desire; and the proposed legislation for his retirement leaves no room for doubt as to his purpose to quit that branch of the public service in which he won a measure of fame that shall not pass.
 Captain Hobson's retirement, whenever or however brought about, will mean for the time being the end of his career. Though past thirty. he will have to begin his life over so te speak, for in featuring there is no permanency of good fortune or reputation, and in politics there is virt- ually no promise of place or continued success and certainly no hope of material things. Senator Morgan. for example. a man of transcendant ability, entered the Senate poor a quarter of century ago, and he probably has less now than he had then. There are numerous similar cases. Men of great intellect who have re- mained in office poor through the best years of their lives have been forced as age came on to quit politics in order to make a living" Politics has destroyed thousands of brilliant and most promising careers.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.