The age-herald., 1900-02-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l down yesterday, and Sotteneu ddy thS'1 l began in brightness and warmth. lhe i day was too soft too mild, ended Tn too i soft and mild d night to have been not the
 hamburger of cold and sleet and snow and
 storm. Spring is not yet; for some hun | dreds of barrels of onion sets and more l hundreds of barrels of seed potatoes do
 mot make springtime; nor do the nakes and
 the hoes of a thousand kitchen gardens! | But the day divine to all, save only
 to the Nretched rheumatic persons whose l poor aches aohed but the worse because l of the rise in the thermometer
 and fa' in the barometer. The
 streets of Birmingham were throng-
 ed with crowds of people happy or l busy, or both. Many beautiful women
 walked the ways shopping in the retail dis | tricts. It seemed there were thousands 1 of school girls in and about the fashiona- i ble stores. Perhaps they merely loltered
 to purchase chewing-gum or pencils, or some other trifes; but they buightened the | streets and stores and public places won derfully. It is remarkable how school | girls innocence and loveliness-her laugh 1 ter, the brightness of her eyes, the nim- | beness of their feet, the sauciness of all l her bearing-can make light in shadowed 1 streets and illumine the outside world!
 Schoolchildren appeal to everybody but
 themselves and perhaps their teachers. | Yesterday afternoon ''three little girls | from school" turned into Second avenue, | from Nineteenth street, and proceeded | eastward. They Were so beautiful so I bright, full of life, so radiant of youth, | that every man not coward felt like un-
 covering as they passed by. The predtiest
 of them was chewing gum, which is per fectly shocking, of course, but 1t showed | her pink lips and white teeth to perfection.
 She was beautiful beyond all compare! l The marriage of Hon. J. Kirkman Jack l son and Miss Helen Gunter, of Montgom- l cry, which event will occur on the Fist of February, is of much general interest in 1 Alabama. MT. Jackson has had inter
 esting public career He was the first sec | repary of the Alabama railroad commits
 sion, quitting that position in 1886 to be- l come private secretary to Governor l Thomas Seay, place he held for four l years, and then served Governor Jones in l the same capacity. Subsequently he was elected secretary of state of Alabama, and | reelected second term, retiring in 1898 | to engage in private business in Montgom- | cry. He is tllirty-eight years old and is a | native of Colbert county. It is probable | that he has the widest acquaintance of men of amy man of his years in Alabama | and he is esteemed by all the men who l know him. As to his bride-to-be, Miss | Gunter, she is the daughter of Hon. Will | jam A. Gunter, for many years a leader of | the Montgomery bar, and it is said of her | that she is the most beautiful woman in | Alabama. But however that may be, she | is woman of remarkable beauty, and her | spirit is in keeping with that fairest of faces! This marriage will thus be one of | the most notable so far of the new year | in Alabama!
 President James Crook, of the Alabama | Railroad commission, was in Birmingham | yesterday on his way to Livingston, where | he will remain for two or three weeks to | drink the waters of the Livingston we'll | Unhappiy, President Crook is not well in | health, and he goes to Livingston to seek strength. Everybody in Alabama-for everybody knows and likes him-will hope l that the famous waters of the fair town of Sumter will restore him to his usual good health.
 There is story out that is alleged to be related upon himself by State Auditor Walter S. White, and certainly 1t Is char acteristic of his love of joke. The audi tor made speeches in "the marches of our shire of Crenshaw'' during the recent poIit- ical canvass down there, speaking in sup port of Governor Johnston for the United
 States senatorship After the auditor had concluded one of his best speeches, farm er~approached him and said: Captain. White, you ain't so mighty good Iookn', and l don't know if you've got
 mighty much sense: but you shore do talk
 more to my likin than any speechefier I've yet heard.'
 Senator Mathews, of Marion, a leading
 candidate for state auditor, is in Birming
 ham. MT. Mathews is one of the best and
 most representative members of the pres
 ent senate of Alabama, and he is receiving
 political support in all the counties.
 Charles P. Jackson, general freight agent
 of the Mobile and Ohio railroad at Mont
 gomery, and formerly secretary of the Ala bama Railroad commission, is in Blrming- ham.
 MT. George W. Scovflle, manager of the
 Kmball house. Atlanta, and his brother.
 Mir. L. w. Scoville. for many years man.
 ager of the famous White Sulphur Springs.
 Va, spent yesterday in Birmingham It
 is possible that they may be the managers
 of the proposed new Birmingham hotel
 Mir. Lee Roy Myers, of Savannah, presi- | dent of the Cortez Cigar company of Key
 West, chairman of the Savannah school
 board, and one of the wealtlaiest of Geor-
 gians, has been here several days inspect
 ing the manufacturing district