The age-herald., 1902-01-30
History, Romance and S S
 % S Country Editor.

the WlncnesIef rom which Sheridan was not twenty miles away" as tie poet has perverted history. Colonel Mcdonald loeated' other royal grants of land in Montgomery country Maryland, There he married the granddaughter of Isaac Eltyne, proprietor of Fairview Island. He also selected grants in what is now Ken lucky, and as colonial colonel in the French and India wars of the colonists. in the middle of the eighteenth century. he built the first bridge that ever spanfied the Ohio river Washington commission ed him a colonel in our war of Independ- ence, but he died before he could form his regiment.
 Again Alabama comes into this narra- tive of biography, which, w--h autobiog- raphy, constitutes the only history of abiding human interest through John B. Mcdonald late lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment Alabama Volunteers in the Spanish-American war, and now . captain in the Fifth Cavalry, stationed at Ft. Meyer opposite Washington, in Vir- ginia Captain Mcdonald, who was born in Limestone county and who retains his Alabama citizenship is a descendant of the famous colonel who led a regiment at Culladen.
 Coming back to our bridegroom, he is likewise descended from William Naylor, who removed from Carlisle, Penn, to the Valley of Virginia in 1904. He was an eminent lawyer and represented twelve counties of what is now West Virginia in the Virginia constitutional convention of 1909, in which he was the lawyer of Chief Justice John Marshall and of two other great rginians who were after wards President of the United States. namely. Madison and Monroe Another associate of Mir. Naylor there was Judge John W. Green of the first Virginia Court of Appeals, grandfather of the ride groom; who is also descended on his mothers side from Captain Jack Cram ford a naval hero of the Revolution.
 MT. Green, be it said to his honor, Is country editor, being owner and editor of the Weekly Culpeper Exponents; adorning a position in society at large that Is adorned by thousands of the best and most honored citizens of the Repub- lie, the country editors of America His tastes are exemplifed in his recent re- publication of Rev. Philip Slaughter's book, ''St Marks Parish record of the Episcopal parish of Cu1peper. one of the oldest of such parishes in America To Mr. Slaughter's work MT. Green has add ed notes on Culpeper and revolutionary records, as well as most interesting de- scrfptions of Federal and Confederate battles on the fields of Culpeper and Manassas.
 MT. Greens fair bride, Lucille Dove, is like himself a southerner of the south erners. She is eat-granddaughter of Gibson of revolutionary fame. a real daughter of the revolution like so many thousands of her fair sisters of the south, fairest of women, and is descended from the historic Colemans, Pendletons, Dand- ridges and Buckners-thus coming in for her own connexion with our Alabama through the Colemans, who continue pow erful amongst our home people. She was married in the home of her grandmother, Mrs. John Buckner, in Cupeper.
 Talk of the romance of history-in this happy Virginian marriage we have vol umes of history more thrilling than any fiction ever writ!
 The Alabama colony in Washingto on Is greatly grieved over the death of Dr. William LeRoy Broun, whom most of us here personally knew and loved Alabama surely never had an educator whose work has done the state greater or more en- during good, and the Alabamians in Washington were gratified by the worthy tribute paid by the Age-Herald to him who was so pre-eminently benefactor of our people. His moral and practical in- fiuence was greater than that of any other one man within the state, for he had been primarily responsible for the proper training of thousands of young men during the past twenty years.
 Dr. Broun was one of the strongest and greatest of men, one of the bravest, truest, tenderest. His master mind was devoted to all those minor details which go to make the great things of life; his heart was moved by love of the little truths and tenderness that make the great heart of the world to beat in hu- man love and devotion He was emphat- ically a man to do noble things and in- spire others to do them.
 To those of us privileged to know him in the intimacy of his own hospitable and ideal home he was both master and friend whom we adored. It may be said of him in its broadest significance: His life was beautiful. In life he was noble; in death he is blessed. His good deeds will live for ever.
 One may not intrude upon the grief of that daughter who never left the home. nest because she realized that spiritually she was his other self; nor of the other daughters. one fair one of whom adorns our valley of Birmingham; but the world would be better if it knew of the sur passing faith and beauty of their lives under the family rooftree. To the one who remained with him Alabama owes debt that may not be paid, for she, most gift cd and gracious of young women, was his right hand, his gentler genius, his active assistant in his monumental work as head of the great college in Auburn.
 pr. Broun's familiar and most amiable expression, "Tut-tut," has done more real good in the world than have thousands of sermons.
 As an evidence of his remarkable en. ergy and his deep devotion to the college which he made great 1t may be stated lint a fexv days hefora hia death he vyrofa