The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-22
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
AND ELSEWHERE

| Representative Burnett of the Seventh
district, spent yesterday in Birmingham.
| He left last night for Winston county to
attend court.
| Mr. Burnett's little son has been very Ill
| with typhoid fever for several weeks. At
| one time it was thought the little fellow
would die, but ne is now out of danger and
improving rapidly.
I'VE are not talking any politics up our
way" said the representative, but we are
all for Bryan and the Chicago plat
form"
Mr. Burnett tells good story on
newspaper correspondent who had the
pleasure of visiting his home in Gadsden
during his campaign for congress against
Street, the populist.
"This correspondent has lots of friends
/ in Gadsden," said he, but my wife is not
one of them. He was sent there to write
me up, but was not in town. He saw one
of my friends and the two went to my
house. My wife was i'll and at first refused
to see them. After much pressure and the
correspondent was brought in. The con-
versation drifted along. the reporter get
| ting points about my life, etc. Finally he
asked for a picture of the family My wife
positively refused to do this, saying she
would be Mortified to see their pictures
come out in a newspaper. My little boy
heard the conversation and when the cor
respondent went to leave the youngster
told him that he would get the desired
picture The lad got it and the following
day the pictures all came out, much to mX
wife's chagrin and discontinue.
81 know story" said gentleman from
North Alabama, (which 1 would like to
have Miss Jewett the Boston woman see.
1t is the story of an old ante-bellum negro
and her touching way of paying tribute to
the memory of her dead mistress
"To start at the beginning, it was many
years ago that Madame Childs, woman
of extraordinary mental attachments, had
charge of the female college at Athens.
She kept the school up to a high standard
and was one of the most popular and sue
cessful principals the institution has ever
had Among her servants was a negro
woman, Ann Childs. She remained with
Miss Childs long after the war and was
with her when death came. The remains
were buried in Huntsville, where Aunt
Ann followed them to the grave. She re-
turned to Athens and has since that time
been a servant in the college. Aunt Ann
has now grown old and bent with age, but
she has never forgotten her old mistress
Each year she goes to Huntsville at her
own expense, with money she has earned
by hard labor, to carry flowers to decorate
the grave of Madame Childs few days
ago this old negro, now up in the sixties
left Athens armed with a choice selection
of flowers to perform what she considers
sacred duty. Such fidelity and Thought
fulness on the part of a former slave Tor
her white mistress is worthy of special
praise
"There is much interest in. and out of
society over the approaching marriage OF
Miss Julia Dent Grant to the Russian
Prince Cantacuzene," said New YORK
dummer 1.-The Grant family is noted for
sleeplessness. General Grants short hours
have been made familiar to us by history
In the campaign of the West he was awake
for three days at a time, without appar-
emily suffering from want of rest. HIS
son, General Fred Grant. has not cioseo
an eye since he landed in the Philippines,
fguratively speaking. Buck" who wants
to be a big politician in California, does
not take more than forty winks at time.
1 am a Fred Grant man. He will come
pretty near being president of the United
States about the year 1912. Mark this on
the ice. We laughed at him for fifteen
years; now we admire him as gentleman
and a soldier.
"Do you know that there Is a big opening
in Birmingha for some enterprisbng boy!'
said well-knewn travelling man to the
Lobbyist at the Morris last night land
it ia a wonder to me that some one has
not taken up the idea.
"Brmingham is the most talked of city
in the United States, and hundreds of peo-
pie pass through daily ON the numerous
trains. many Of whom are anxious to leain
something more of what is going on here,
but haven't the time to stop off. Now, l
do not meaa that the aforesaid boy should
| undertake the task of telling the people
what they wished to know, but instead Of
fer them for a nominal sum souvenir
| made from iron or steel. which would be
emblematic of the district. Arrangements
| could be made with one of the foundres to
| cast miniature pigs, furnaces, miners, or
other small objects, with the word 'Bir-
| mingham' stamped upon them, and l tell
you that any quantity of them could be
disposed of al the depot and at news stands
and other popular places throughout the
city Why, l would buy dozen or more
myself to send to friends, and 1 know other
travelling men would do the same thing.
| Not only would it prove a good source OF
| revenue, but it would also be splendid
| advertisement for the city.
! Lets take a drink-yes, to the health
| and prosperity of the boy who will put the
| plan in practical operation.
| BIRMINGHAM'S MAKEUP
| From the Richmond Times.
friend. writes from Rirn1ir1P "The