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I have seen numbers of the best bred Parisians do under such trying circum- stances.
 That even among this class of French men one finds poets and artists if often illustrated in the most curious way. so senuous a background. If your back ground were simpler and more chaste your subject would have the proper set ting for the pure and virginal import of form and face"
 Fancy this from one of our plasterers or plasterers!
 The artist saw the truth of the arti- sans criticisms in an instant and changed the background of the canvas, which is now considered one of his mas terpieces.
 The facteur is one of the important men of Paris, and no different from our postmen. save that there are two of him, one for delivering letters and one for papers and packages. On New Years, which is like our Christmas in France. each person in a household is expected to give the letter carrier five francs and the paper postman two. Their pay, like that of other government em- ployes of Paris. Is very small and in the winter of 1899 all the facteurs struck and their duties had to be turned over to the common soldiers, who performed them with disdain, amid the derisive jests of street ragamuffins.
 The gendarme of Paris is a rather idle person, save in revolutionary outbreaks. With the exception of the poor, blind beggars, there are few in Paris who so- licit aims, and the French policeman never finds lazy tramps to oust from his beat French street fights have no blood in them consisting as they do of gestures and vituperations. and the gen. darme looks on with amusement like the rest of the crowd
 There is a pretty side to the duties of these men, though, and one of which lit- tie is known. It is in their protection and care of children. The laws in France for protecting children are won derful and far-reaching beyond those of any other country, because, perhaps, of the decreasing population, or because French people adore children themselves.
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The morning-glories round the corn Open their blue eyes to the morn.
 For me the special charm of these stories and ballads lies in the fact that they photograph the object not only as 1t used to be, but as 1t is yet. Here is the negro as our fathers and mothers knew him before the war, and here he Is as we ourselves know him now at his jolliest and best. These moving pictures are perpetual witness that here in Mid dle Alabama, at least, the turn of the century finds the ''nigger still mig ger," and his banjo still to him a joy forever.
 Hog Killin' Times in Dixie Land' is the longest story in the volume, being a collection of scenes and songs that will never be viewed or sung again. How the story gallops from one part of the pro- cess to another, ringing joy in every line, a veritable hustle of melody from the weather prophecy at the beginning to the closing elegy on the "Olden days we ne'er forgetr' What could be finer than this opening banjo song of Dag zle's?' Unc' Dew know when de fros' gwine fall! Unc Dew hear dem guineas squall, Ole Uncle Dew, better git out your shawl, Hhi Uuc' Dew, fer de fros' gwine fall! Eros put sugar in de punlxin' shell! Eros make de simm on tas'e so we'll! Eros make de shoats all squeal and yell Oh, la! honey, de fros done fell! Oh, la! massa when de pigs be kill Who gwine turn dat sausage mill? Oh. la! Mistis! Dazzle will If you des give spare-ribs to his fill!
 
 What negro music was ever better than that which went with the swing of the axe? Hear the younger hog killers as they cut the wood for the great fire un- der the pot!
 Oh, de cedar tree is mighty fine tree, Fer hit grow so tall and hit grow so free! But she fell my axe blade belt hen round, Den she come down level wid de ground
 Wid de ground!
 Wid de groundl
 Oh, de beech say de pigs eat all CT de
 mast,
 De beech say dey greedy, dey eat so fas': But now, Mister Beech tree, you can
 burn,
 Fer every one can have his turn:
 Den les burn
 Fig to a turn!
 "The Passing of Nanny" is the one sweet pathos of the book You say that Nanny is dying? My dear old Nanny Jo! Why didn't you come for me, Rosser, Ever so long ago?
 The grown up "chile'' mounts her pony and rides to the oistant cabin where the old Nanny had taken herself after free dom, and gets there in time to see her die.
 You, Babsey-you PIT gall You Petsey! You Is done come to Nam Jo! De niggers all say you wouldn't tole 'em you would: Des so! Dfn't you useter leave yo' Ma When I'd call you to come? e?-ho-hol Dat useter make Mistis mos cry To see how you'd come when I'd call- I do b'lieve de chile. love you, Jo, Mo n me and her Pa, and all
 The illustrations are all from original photographs taken for the book by MT. J. w. Otis. a friend of Miss Young's at Greensboro, Miss Young herself selecting the subjects The best of them all goes with what I think the best and daintiest of all these little stories about our mod ern Africa Jobs courtship of Rox Ann" The belle of six plantations" That pie
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E are constantly hearing of WV the : :::;. ::s:;s ]: ';: Z: 's: 5::;: 5;: dame' of the Faubourg, she is subject for discussion in which scandal, curios- ity, admiration and envy are combined; but outside of the great heroes of France how little one ever hears of the French man. says Amulet Andrews in the Phil adelphia North American In some burst of Anglo-Saxon contempt he is now and then berated as soldier or rid iculed as a patriot and in one or two words of distaste he Is, as dandy, dis missed from the minds of the usual American or English woman.
 Now and then we foreigners are told of his social qualities by some one of the few Americans who have access to the salons of the Faubourg. These assert that if we ever knew gentleman of France intimately his fascination, his wit and his intensely sympathetic and clever qualities would make us dissatis- fled with men of other nationalities for ever afterwards.
  who go over to the Latin quarter to study art will tell you that all the men are fiirtatious villains and thus dismiss the subject and tourists will repeat the same maledictions from more varied points, but just as one discovers in En- gland that it has taken a race of fine women to make such sons so in France, where woman is persuasive and para mount, one finds many interesting and
 -H- ..- |. C.. CTS, and sons.
 The working people of France are most interesting and least known to the stranger. They are the cleverest, the most patient, polite and intelligent work ing people in the world, and one ac- quainted with the language is constantly having a revelation of the poet and artist beneath the smock of a peasant ef the greasy and anticipated livery Of a cabman. The cocher of Paris Is he not the leading in the five Cs that rule the French capital to wit, the cocher, the concierge, the coutouriere, the cook and the coquette.
 Poor old despised and ever exasperat- ing cocher, have all of us nomads not be- rated him thousand times? Yet his life has a seamy side from his standpoint, and he is not altogether blamable for his bad disposition. His work is hard and the only remuneration allowed him is the money left over each day from tho twenty-one francs he is compelled to bring in to his employer. That is the reason of his insistence upon a tip for the shortest journey, since this must make up the twenty-one francs if the Jehu has not made it in straight fares When one considers that 1t takes ten hours of constant service a day, at two francs an hour, to make up this sum, it is no wonder that the cabman grum- bles over bargaining for service by the hour, and prefers to be hired by the trip. since he can in that way make sev- eral trips at thirty cents journey and a tip for each one of them in an hours time. If you chance to get him at the end of an unluclky day, he charges you double price and answers your objec- tions by explaining that his small earn ings make 1t necessary.
 The cabman's worst moments are just
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collar and questioned such expeditions recovery of property Its my violin." gasped Lipton breathlesssly. oh. it Is. is 1t? Well. you will have to come along with me and we shall see." Lipton hung on tight to the violin, and when the pro- prietor of the store could he found his rights were quickly established
 When Sir Thomas Lipton started in Glasgow as a provision merchant his ad- vertising methods eclipsed many other large concerns in their originality and ef- fectiveness. He knew just how to talk to the public in 8. way quite out of the rut' and with singuarly good results. Somehow or other he managed to enlist the services of the singers at the Glas- gow music halls. and every night they would bring in a topical reminder that "Lipton's bacon and meat are just the things to eat" His cartoons long re- mained one of the sights of the city. Everybody laughed at the orphan idea. That little pig was crying because his father and mother had gone to Lip tons.
 To advertise his provisions MT. Lipton conceived the idea of making an enor- nous cheese to weigh five tons, and rep resenting the milk of $500 cows for pre- sentation to her late Majesty Queen Vic torfa. Court etiquette forbade the Queen receiving such a gift from the hands of stranger, and her secretary wrote a courteous letter to him explaining this fact "A dead failure" says somebody. Nothing of the sort. The cute provision merchant was quite alive to the situa- tion, and turned the letter to excellent account. Prefaced by some interesting details he gave 1t to the public. The par agraph appeared In scores of newspapers and formed the material for gossip in clubs. railway trains and wherever bus mess men congregated. By his prompt seizure of the situation he gained a mar velously good and cheap advertisement.
 Sir Thomas commenced business with only few pounds capital. When he turned his possessions into limited lai- bility company. twenty-two years after, he wanted s2,50o,000 for it. Nor did he ask in vain But the way that he SO suc- cessful arranged the fiotation deserves mention. Within recent years no indus trial company has obtained such list of shareholders. The capital-subscribed to the extent of s40000. OO0--was distrib- uted among 7b000 shareholders including the late Lord Chief Justice of England. the Speaker of the House and others.
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up." though never thought of them as poetry until the touch was given. The two youthful. latter day dudes, may be seen almost any picnic day here in the Black Belt, one picking. the other batting, and we may sure they are singing utter nonsense with point to 1t just as Miss Young here gathers it up: Now dis heah quar'l 'twixt de kttle and de pot,
 Dat is de truf! Which is de blackest and which is not
 Dat is de truf! And de same sorter sputement is began,
 Dat is de truf! 'Twixt de skillet lid and de fryin' pan
 Dat Is de truf! And all dis talk 'twixt de pot-hook and de brane,
 Dat is de trufl Hitll go so far dat dey can't explain
 Dat is de truf! Des as silly is de spider arguin wid de hoe.
 Dat is de truf! Dey all Is black! Don't you think so?
 Dat is de truf! Miss Young takes us another happy and realistic journey into our new cen- tury Africa in the story of Unc' Solo, mon Ring, who died, went to heaven and was forgotten. The next protracted meeting was about to fail. Then up rose Unc' Ronymus Den and told how in a dream he had been to heaven and seen Unc' seL He had de bes' seat dat heaven could
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ture you and 1 have seen, or can see al- most any holiday time we choose 10 look about us. Poe tells his love to the ac- compartment of the banjo. 4.ox Ann IS obdurate. He accepts defeat manfully: Oar, Miss Nigger! Hard to please! Gwine be lief fer de winter breeze Same like corn-stalk lief in ue fief, Lef fer de nex' years wagon wheel! Go long, Nigger I don't keer, Somebodyll hab me, don't you fearl
 Next day he sits lonely picking the strings, when to his glad ears floats from the path along which his sweetheart Is passing from the we'll, this confession in song.
 Watch out, Nigger man. what you bout. You'll sholy wear dat banjo out
 Let lone dis gal!
 I'll tell you what I'll natter do- I'll be obleeged to marry you, And dat shall
 I bound to make yo' big mouf huch, And knock dat banjo inter mush
 Befo' I die!
 This relenting of Rox Ann happily H. lustrates the real genius of the author. One less intimate with the negro nature might well have thrown some sentiment into this soft confession. some tender ness of words. As Miss Young puts it, the sentiment and tenderness are there. but lie in the exceeding closeness to na- ture. I have myself heard other Rox Aims use almost those words in owning
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crowd go back to work the rations will be cut off.
 Little children fresh from lingering around the cabin doors are the best judges of negro dialect and stories. learned to appreciate Joel Chandler liar ris from the enthusiasm of the children at a boarding house over the weekly ar- rivals of the Sunday Constitution when 1t used to print his stories. So we read these stories to the children who now gather around our own hearrhstone, and we are still reading them over and over to meet the demand. Unc' Solomon Ring and Ole Duncan are the heroes of the childish factions, one of which prefers the frtter tree in heaven, while the other clngs to the hog killin' times on earth.
 What strikes me as the deftest touch in the whole book Is this little couplet from one of the banjo songs and which is given
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bringi He sat by de side of de'lasses pool Lasses made by de ve'y bes ole tim me
 rule De pool was rich and sweet and wide And de prettiest fritter-tree grew beside Uncle Sol sat under dat fritter-tree Whar fritters hung thick as leaves do be; When he hongry he des natter retch up,
 1 see, and eat as commojious as 'mojious could
 be, Des dippin' dem fritters right into dat
 pool And soppin' and eatin' away in de cool! The preacher saw his advantage, and with such heaven for text there was never such a meeting before. The van cin men from the town finally send up word that if it doesn't stop and the whole
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under broadly smiling and dusky face in the fronfisnfaoe.

under broadly smiling and dusky face in the frontispiece:
 My Gal, she's des es black,
 As airy lily's shadder.
 What heater adaptation of a white folk s" smile was ever conceived than that?
 The charming author of this beautiful book is an old friend of many of the Age -Heralds readers. Before she had garnered the fruits of her genius and when she was struggling for recognition in the early nineties, she was a regular contributor to the Sunday Age-Herald, writing prose and verse, stories and sketches. Her first, as well as her last, work was marked by that refinement of thought and of execution which elevates the commonest sayings of the race she sings of, into real poetry. f25'
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A Reasonable Request.
} PhIladelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 You know. dear" she said, when we were married you said that my possession made you the richest man in the world?'
 Yes. darling. and so it did"
 "Well-a-then. do you think you could spare me a quarter?'
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for there is no use arguing with the stomach of Frenchm.n.
 At other times, if disagreements arise, do not think about dignity. Dignity in dealing with any of the people of France Is ridiculous weapon, and the cabman will only have respect for you if you quarrel or jest with him. If he is old and stubborn, and you know he is impos- ing on you villainously, shake your fist under his nose and use all the bad and vituperative French you possess, just as
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Two views.

From Tammany Times. 1ai' ''She is what I call breezy girl"
 Yes, l notice she has good many airs-r
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He had de bes' seat dat heaven could
The age-herald., 1901-02-22
FIRE STATIONS
 AND NEW ENGINE Precisely What 1000 Would
 Procure Birmingham CHIEF MULLINS WISE PLAN Fire Station in North Highlands, One In East End, New Engine for Gen. traI Station, Hook ard Ladder
 and Appliances.
CHIEF MULLINS WISE PLAN

If Fire Chief Mullin be given what he prays for, which is as much as to say what the people of Birmingham pray for, the strong chief and his unsurpassable men will make Birmingham the best guarded city against fire in this country, for the simple reason that this city will have well equipped the best of all fire chiefs ana firemen.
 The chief and the people whom he so ably represents demand sl1,0Oo, a mere trhe compared to the vast values in- volved. and only about one-third of the excess premiums on insurance now paid because of the failure to expend the even s1l .o0O.
 If this money be forthcoming there will be immediate compliance with all the written and specific requirements of the Southeastern Tariff Association, the needs essential to the placing of Birmingham In the list of first class cities as to fire risks.
 Ii the absurdly small sum of money he supplied, there will be a fire station es- tablished on the North Highlands, some where about Sixteenth avenue and Nine tcenth street, and it will be supplied with an engine from the Central station, to- gether with entirely new general equip ment.
 Another first station will be established in the East End, probably at some point near Twonty-fifth street, and 1t will be supplied with a new hose reel and new general equipment.
 The present hook and ladder truck which is as good as new and Is practically un- used, will be manned and supplied with horses five men and two horses being required, the ladder being of the pre- scribed height of thirty-six feet, as re- quired by the insurance association.
 Most important of all, perhaps. a large new engine of the latest design and greatest power to the steam pressure made will be supplied to the central sta- tion In Fourth avenue; and some much needed additional appliances and equip ment will be procured.
 Fire department officials stated last night as a commonly known fact that fire engines can be purchased on five and ten-year credits the only respectable engine the city now has having been pur-  ministration, and one payment of $500 still being due from the city to the mak- CTS and sellers of the engine!
 The class of engine which Chief Mullin desires will cost perhaps 5000 and to pay for ti the city would be given ten years, or have to pay out only $500 year!
 Thus. in brief, succinctly and precisely, the people of Birmingham see and know just what Fire Chief Mullin and they themselves need and desire to place Bir- mingham in the frst-class as to fire in- surance risks; and thus 1t is seen how easily 1t would be to stop all the excuse for chatter and gabble, grumbling and growing; how Birmingham would save in fire insurance premiums $3oOoo a year, and in risks to property millions of dol 1or
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PERSONAL.

Among the arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday were: Miss Jannie New York; A. H. schlosser, Davenport, Iowa i; George H. Redwood, Rockland, Ill. i; Frank Pickham, Davenport, Iowa; Mrs. Mobile; Plato Mountjoy, Washington, D.. C.; E. C. Walker, Alexander City; Chas. W. Maier, Peoria, H.; Horace M. John son, Chicago; MT. and Mrs. Charles A. Bigelow, New York; J. H. Mcclure, Nash vile; A G. Morse, New York; L. c. Ray, Atlanta; A. l.. Deihl, Atlanta; Jeff Penn, North Carolina; Fred Good, Cleveland, Ohio; W. T. Wear, Opelika; J. c. Will son, Palestine, Tex, D. Kirkwood, Oak man; Charles Bendall Russellville; H, D. Rogers, Cincinnati; R. Vance. Centre vile; SWilliam T. Smith, Temple, Tex. t; Douglas Smith, Mobile; w. A. Hoene, Alabama; H. P Richard, city; R. L.. Windham. Jasper; A. P. Harvison, Ran dolph; l.. V. Clark, city; P. D. Roberts, city; William Collier, Patton; George M. Richards, Erie Pa; A. A. Suberz, Geor- gia; E. F. Reddick, Atlanta; J. M. Cam eron, city; J. L. Cox and wife, Atlanta; {; J. M Bell, Sheffield; w. H. May, Greens boro, N. C.; Mrs. F. D. Palmer Pitts burg, Pa; J. W. Shellen, Cleveland, O.; F. W. Huntington. Atlanta; Oscar A. Saabye, Southern Railway; J. H. West, Gadsden; J. c. Maben, Jr., Blossburg; George w. Hays, city; James J. Fayette, T. M Jours, Cropwell; w. c. Griggs, Springville; E. J. Robinson, Ashville; w.. J. Boykin, Gadsden N D. Crawford, city; F. M. Cox, Pine Bluff, Ark; J. I. Fraser, Ensley.
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nients of both Republics. The fact of Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener choos- ing tho term "marauders' is designat- ing burghers does not make them such. When was the war over? Perhaps after the battles in which irregulars captured the enemy and totally vanquished them The burghers would be less than men if they allowed the enemy to go unpunished after ill treating their wives and destroy ing their houses from sheer lust of de- struction. Therefore, a portion of the burghers resent 1t. Cape Colony will not only wage war but will be in a position to tak- reprisals as 1t has already done In the case of ambulances therefore we warn tho officers of His Majesty's troops that unless they cease the destruction of property of the Republics we shall wreak vengeance by destroying the property of His Majesty's subjects who are unkindly disposed. But in order to avoid being misunderstood we hereby openly declare that their wives and children will always be unni0lested, in spite of anything done to ours by His Majesty's troops. We request nothing from our brothers in the colony, but call on them as well as on the civilized world to assist in behalf of our joint civilization and Christianity in put tine all end to the barbarous manner of the encmy's warfare.
 Our prayer will always be that God, our Father, will not desert us in this un- righteous strife.
 (Signcd.) STEIN AND DEWET."
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Quo V adis.

The dramatization of Henrvk Sienkie- wiczs great novel, "Quo Vadis," which is to be offered in this city at the Jeffer- son Theatre tonight and tomorrow night and tomorrow matinee, under the man. agoment of r. c. Whitney and Edwin Knowles, has attracted widespread atten- tion. Their present undertaking bids fair to be one of the most important and ann bilious ever essayed by American pro- vidcrs of stage pieces. Everything ap- parently is in their favor to realize the highest aim of the author and manage ment.
 Prominent among the players will be seen Harry Roberts, Marcus Ford Jo- seul! Callahan. Edward Powell George Schaeffer, Richard Thornton, Willard Newell, Henry Stanley. Peter Marriott, Julius Schaeffer, Fred Arundel Winni- fred Bonnewitz. Mae Keane, Mary Finer son. Ellen Hill, Marie Barringer, Grace Turner. Florence Stanley, Annie Richard. E6na Harrington and Susie Knight
 The piece has been produced under the stage direction of Mir. Max Freeman, and the costumes, scenery and proper ties provided are as accurate for that particular period In the reign of the Coesars, as careful research could sug- geSl