The age-herald., 1900-06-30

t the valley in the morning one sane person
 who was cheerful without artificial stimu-
 | lant. Even the little saints we call girl | children must have been cross and peevish. |
 The noble designation Soldiers Home, | which all of us know so familiarly now, 1 and which holds high place in the statutes
 i of the nation. and those of the provinces which we still fondly call states, was first
 used by the late pr. Carnot Bellinger of Montgomery the honored father of Mrs l Richard P. Dexter of that city, who, with 1 her much-esteemed husband, is spending a few days at the Morris Hotel Dr. Bellin- ger was of French descent, and was 1 named for the famous Carnot of the | Directory, who resisted the first Napoleon, l and who was the grandfather of Sadi Car l not, the assassinated President of France. 1 The first American Bellinger settled in l Charleston, and from there Dr. Bellinger
 removed to Alabama. For two generations ! the family have been honored in Montgom- cry County, owning a large estate there, part of which is now covered by that 1 charming district of Montgomery city | known Bellinger Heights, where the Dexters have a beautiful home and dis ] PNiiSS o dCiouS tiilu STdctlul hospitality. At the outset of the war between the states there was number of framed cot tages on Bellinger's hill, and at the in stance of Dr. Bellinger these were con- | verted into little hospitals for Confederate soldiers. In that day the Southerners who had seen hospitals were about as few as those who had seen Pelkin, and the people regarded hospitals they had read about l with some degree of horror So the first wounded and sick soldiers to reach the good Dr. Bellinger complained somewhat bitterly of the hard fate which had sent them to hospital. This house is not hospital, my comrades" replied Dr. Bellin- ger proudly This is a soldiers home," He and the good women and the good old men who assisted him made each cottage on the hill a soldiers home" and that name he gave it became known throughout the country and so we have it today. Mrs. Dexter, the old doctors child is a gifted and admirable woman, an organized Daughter" and takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the vanished Con- federacy.
 Colonel Jack Cranford of Jasper. widely known as merchant and banker, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 The local delegates and visitors to the Democratic Convention at Kansas City will leave Birmingham for the West tomorrow. Colonel John J. Altman alternate delegate, is hardly strong enough to undertake the journey, though happily he is able to come down town to his law office, after being confined to his house for a fortnight with rheumatism
 General William Calvin Oates passed through Birmingham last night on his way to Hot Springs, Ark, where he hopes to obtain relief from the attack of rheuma- tism from which he has been suffering for three weeks The rheumatism in this in- stance has attacked the stump that is left of General Oates right arm, which was shot off in battle whilst he as colonel was leading his regiment of Confederate in- fantry. The arm was shot off at the shoulder, and rheumatism in the healed wound now causes the veteran excruciating pain, and he is practically unable to lie down or to sleep. All Alabamians will wish for him speedy relief at Hot Springs General Oates is greatly pleased by the appointment of his only son, William Cal win Oates the Younger, to a cadetship at West Point; the President having made the appointment as from the country large on Thursday last. Young Oates is physi- cally model of almost perfect manhood He was seventeen years old on May 20 last, Is six feet two inches in height and weighs 164 pounds. He is powerful ath- lete for one so young; and is understood to be intellectual to most notable degree As reproach His mother who was Miss Toney l of Eufaula, Is notably attractive woman l in every higher sense This son is the only ] issue of her marriage
 President s. B. Trapp of the State Con- | vict Bureau and Inspectors Blake and | Booker are in Birmingham.
 | United States Circuit Judge David b. I Shelby of Huntsville is at the Morris
 Sonny Kolln of New York and Colonel 1 Thomas D. Radcliffe of Sheffield are at the | Morris.
 l John H. Bankhead of Jasper was in Bir- l mingham yesterday.
 l President J. D. Hand and Thomas Hand ] of the famous Hand Lumber Company of l Dolive, Balwin County, are in Birmingham.
 This company works many convicts 1 PREVIOUS GREAT RAINS
 l From the Mobile Register.
 | 1S17-A year of constant rain in Ala