The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
In nia nnotnsr's Arms--Airnoss, but not

h his motnsrs Arms--aimost but not Iduite.
 | Let us diagnose Herods case for a few minutes. see him swayed by wsrkk6 women. HerodiAs made hin jrut John in the dungeon: and when this slip Of girl forgot her maiden mod rsty. and danced before him and his
 fellow: scyrterers. he was so infatu-
 ated tut ne sworo he would give her
 anythiuE she asRed. She conferred with her mother ard asked the head of John the Baptist, and Herod consented to the beht ading of his noble priso ler
 Tn the annals of men religion has been the great insrirer of deeds But lundefueath tl.fit ali shadowing canopy, nien lave Said. all their laurels at the
 Feet of women. The poems and the songs and the pictures. the triumphs of sculpture and of architecture. the ac- lcttnf iishments Of council chamber and lof battleheld- ali have been wrought for the look Of some woman's eye. for tito love Of some woinan's heart. That is a truef picture that Lewis Morrison has conceived at ffe close of Goethe's Faust Mafgnerite in mia-sky, lead- ling up the fallen man. while with the other hand she points to the angels Icirsiing rouno the throne of God. But the picture has another side. If Faustus, and countless others. .had their Marauerites. Antony had his Cleo lpatra. and Louis XIV his Madame Du lBerry. There are some men who think that they must follow wherever { twosnan's finger beckons. lest, foFsooth lfhey be considered slew in picking ur
 any gage Of galiantry. Herod's lifa
 vo.iId say to us: Follow the true and the good to the skies. But be thou as Iininovabie as roca when sounds the
 IsyfeH vcise .4 eny less pure than snow
 less chaste than ice.' .
 "A gain he was swayed by those that sat at meat with him. How unlike the
 man of. the desert in the dungeon be.
 How He was not a reed shaken by ths
 Iwitid. The world is looking for mef
 who will stand alone. During one oi
 his earlier campaigns Abraham Lin.
 coin was entertained in city of Illi'
 n,is by the State managers. When h. [ went to his room he found champagne and wine and whiskey. He said to tn,
 servant. You may bring me some wa. } | ter en5 take these away. His frient ] said. You must be careful It is thu ] custom tc take those things Old Abe er,i;e1 and said, Suppose we change the custom
 "Ara you acauAinted with that incl dent ir Alabama history related b. { Parton ih his Life of Andrew Jackson : jacksou was lying in Nashville. sho to pieces by the Cotton brothers. tdispatch came from the President or defiffk h.n to Alabama to quell an in surrection among the Creek Indians . Tsc physician in charge read the mes sage to General Jackson and expressed the rekret that the old war-horse coul, not go to the front. Jackson quietl. HEfnade preparations to go despite ever, H order to remain In bed He was helpel Ito his horse and rode to the swamp down north of Mobile. There the feve Elbegan to rage among his troops, ant X | the Indians to pick them off in tn Hlnight time. They became mutinou and wanted to go home. but Jackson though he was sick and unable to ge on and of his horse without help, in sisted on staying in Alabama an' H | breaking the Indian cofifederacy at an. cost. One night the volunteers decide' h to desert the next morning. Jackson found it out, and marched his regular Hlby detour through the woods. an' when the deserterS were mile ava. from csmp they found their Genera and bis faithful troops lined up in iron of them. They were commanded to re turn and they did so. That night tn regulars decided to desert Jackson found it out. and the next morning mt.a away from camp he was in iron Of them with his volunteers. And the were sent back. That night both regu lars ana volunteers decided to desert Aga,n Jackson found 1t out. The nex HlmorninE at revieIle. when the odtbrea' was 10 take place, Jackson knocked Eman down. took his musket, and wit EIbiazing eye and hair standing straign N Ion end. confronted his mutinous sol NIdsers. No man dared to move and An k drew Jackson was the master. On tn \ crest of that wave he rode to victor