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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

ceiling Is a circular row of windows that
 let in d flood of light on the rotunda
 below and constitute themselves hand
 some establishment. On all four sides of
 the rotunda. between the eight double
 columns referred to. there are openings
 three stories in height; crowned with
 what is known as segmental arches. At
 the key of each arch. near the top of the
 last floor, is a. biindfolded figure repre-
 senting Justice. In these openings be-
 tween the coltfnns and underneath tfe
 arches are four galleries on each Of the
 two upper floors extending clear around
 the rotunda and forming promenades. The
 entablature constituting the support for
 the gallery on the second floor is Ivory
 marble scagliola, to harmonize with the large columns, supported by two smaller Italian marble columns slightly withdrawn
 from the rotunda space. Two similar
 smaller verde antique columns support
 the next gallery. and between them, on the second floor, is an oval balcony ex-
 tending slightly in front, supported by
 she'll This gallery and the one above It, inst beneath the arch, which is without columns are finished with handsome raii- ings. The general effect of the white
 walls and ceiling, the old ivory columns and gallery fronts, and verde antique smaller columns, is singularly pleasing as a color combination. but. as stated preyiotisly. there Is opportunity for still further decorative treatment of the dome
 that will add considerably to the en- semble.
 The grand staircase starts on the first | floor directly opposite the south main corridor with a central flight which di- vides at landing half way between the | two stories and goes up to the next floor. repeating the central and double flight | to the third story. It is constructed of | English veined Italian marble, with dark | Tennessee marble steps. On each side of the stair, instead of railing. are massive reversed carved marble consoles. forming an excellent decorative feature. At the first landing there are in the wall | three stained art glass windows with symbolical figures the central one repre-. senting Mississippi and the two on the sides typifying respectively the cid set tier and the Indian. The soffits or backs | of the stairways are seen from the land- | ing are all of Italian marble, as are also | the walls. Three arches lead from the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

gallery to the stairway on the second floor. The landing between the second and third floors has a beautiful, ellipticai vault ceiling, pansled and plastered with exquisite design. There is no feature of the building more calculated to attract adniring attention than this grand stair way, up and down which the beauty ana the intellect of the State will pass and repass for the years to come, as they have passed along the stairway of the old Capitol for the years gone by
 The main floor of the building Is natur- ally the most imposing of all. The walls of the corridors around the rotunda and leading to east and west are all Of white Italian English veined marble. with black Belgian marble trim. The ceilings, as we'll as the walls, are white, paneled, with plastered beams supported on Doric pilasters projecting slightly at intervals from the walls. This is true of all the corridors on the floor. The dominant style of the main floor is Doric, making up in simple dignity of detail for the lack of greater ornateness. The marble cor riders leading to the Supreme Court room on the east and the library on the west terminate in fine entrances to those re- spectIve chambers. They are of white English veined Italian marble, and are composed of two turned columns fianked by piiasters supporting pediments. The name of the chamber Is in bronze letters on the tympanum of the pediment. The entrance to the library opens first into a pretty lobby, with tile floor, verde ah- tique dado and plastered and paneled ceiling At the west side of this corridor are three arched openings into the main stack room of the library. the central one havingA marble book delivery shelf and the other two being closed with grill work. An arched opening at the right end of this lobby opens into ref erence room. which in turn connects both with the main stack room and the pri- vate office of the Librarian, while sim-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
AN ANCIENT CEDAR.
The Seed Was Brought from Lebanon
 and Planted 262 Years Ago.

The Seed Was Brought from Lebanon
 and Planted 262 Years Ago. Country Life.
 The records of British forestry give the date at which the cedar of Lebanon was introduced into England as the middle of the seventeenth century. if this is correct the great cedar or Chi1drey Rectory. near Vantage, in Berk- shide, has strong claim to be one of the first three planted in England subsequent to 1641. The rectory, a very ancient one, became the possession of Corpus College at OK ford. In the later years of the reign Of Charles Corpus College granted 1t to the first Oriental scholar of the day, Dr. Po- cock, who, according to an unbroken tra- dition, planted this cedar from a cone which he had brought with him from Lebanon.
 He became an Orientalist when almost a boy. and at Oxford found in the Bod leian missing manuscripts of the four Gospels and transcribed them into Syriac and Hebrew characters. adding, for the benefit of the less learned, popular translation of Greek.
 ! Then he went out as chaplain to the Turkey Company at Aleppo in 1929. when he studied Syriac on the spot and also Ethiopian and Samaritan.
 In the evil days of the royalists Pocock
 
 chaplain to the embassy at Constantino- pie. In 1641 he returned and was appoint ed to Childrey in 1642. He probably brought the cones back in 1641. and, all lowing a year to raise the seed in, that would give a life of PSI years to the Chlldrey cedar. It is stil in vigorous growth and increases rapidly in size.
 At the present time it measures 23 feet round at five feet from the ground and the lateral spread of its branches is forty yards giving roughly an area GOV cred of 1900 square yards. Every year it's shoots add fourteen inches to the end of it's lower branches.
 Perhaps the most extraordinary fact is that 1t has renewed and repaired loss of certainly one-fourth of It's principal branches in seventeen years. One night very late and very wet fall of snow descended. All through the night the de- pressing sound was heard of huge cedar boughs snapping with a crash like fog signals.
 Next morning the tree looked perfect wreck Eleven great boughs and many smaller ones were smashed on, huge white splinters stuck out jaggedly every where and tons of timber lay below. Yet in the succeeding years the growth of other branches-rnainly the smaller ones. which had no chance to develop De- | fore-was such that. except on one side, | the damage is not very obvious The tree has never. been struck by lightning ana. contrary to general belief, all kinds or flowers grow beneath it's branches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

far opening at the left end leads into a reading room. large, well lighted and ventilated and ornamented with two es- pecfally handsome nantels. The floor Is mosaic The stackroom is very plain chamber. but perfectly adapted to its uses. At the other end of the building on the same floor the Supreme Court room is entered by lobby somewhat similar to that of the library. The treat ment of the room Itself Is severely Doric. in keeping with the. august character or the place where weighty issues are deter mined. The room has circular east end with eleven windows, and in this space will be placed the judges stand. On the right and left side of the main part of me room are three massive columns with pil- asters at the end, which give an impos- ing look to the apartment and cut off pt- tie halls or porticos forming entrances into the judges and attorneys rooms on the right and the clerks rooms on inc left. The space to be occupied by the court proper Is circular, the curve of the semi-circular end being completed and the inner part being separated from the rest of the courtroom by heavy walnut railing. The public space without this railing has a tile floor, but the rest has A floor of oak The walls are Pavanazzo marble scalgliola with verde antique dado.
 The corridors on the second floor around the dome and leading east to the Senate chamber and west to the hall of Repre- sentatives are carried out in Ionic detail, somewhat more ornamental than that be- low, and are the handsomest of all They have marble floors, and the harmonious ,mbination of colors in the wall ma- terials is we'll worth notice.A The dado is of verde antique. and the futed piasters ranged at intervals along the walls are of the same material. The wall is panel ed and made of rose claire marble scagliola, the panels being framed with a beautiful shade of verde campagne or light green Around the openings along the halls Is placed black Belgian marble. The ceiling Is beamed and the panels are filled with stained art glass. novel feat ure which not only adds richness to the corridos, but lets in the light from the corridor above The opening into the House terminates the west corridor and that in the Senate the east one. Both are of the same design. consisting of pro-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

beautiful chamber, ceiled and walled with royal blue Vermont marble. with wainscot or dado of black Belgian mar pie trimmings all of the same material. and finished in quarter-sawed white oak. The three entrances in front of the vesti- bule are duplicated by the three that lead from 1t into the main south cor ridor opening on the rotunda To the right Of these doors there Is large black marble tablet on which are engraved the names of the members of the State House Commission and on the left is a similar tablet bearing the names of the main C contractors. the supervising architect, as- sistant supervising architect and superin- tendent of construction for the commis- sion. To right and left of the central door are lanterns supported on brass con- soies. Leaving the vestibule one enters the main south hallway. giving on the rotunda. To right and left are small rooms. intended. the one for the press and the other unassigned. A step or so further and one stands beneath the im- mense dome. sees in front of him, on the other side. the massive grand stair way lead gracefully ap by a succession of landings and with single and double flights to the upper stories of the build ing, sees to right and left, or east and west, long white marble corridors leading off to offices and apartments. and most beautiful of all, takes in the features of the massive dome, supported on enormous columns that bends over the rotunda from such height and needs only a blue color ing to the panels to seem a section of the sky roofing in the rotunda. It is in this position that one gets clear idea of the general arrangement of the building, as each floor naturally reproduces the essen tial features of the main floor. and 1t is perhaps, well to get the plan well in mind before proceeding to an examination of the various details of the dome. cor riders and aprtments.
 The supreme Court Room
 Facing the nortK. the position one Is naturally in when entering from the main south corridor. one sees in front of him, as just stated. the grand staircase leading to the third and fourth floors. To the right, or east. is a long marble cor ridor that leads to the Supreme Court room in the east pavilion, and into which, from the south side. open the offices re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
Excess Of Smoking Affected
 My Heart So I Had To Sit Up To Breathe. Dr. Niles Heart Cure
 Cured Me.

There is nothing that has a more deleter- iouS effect upon the cardiac or heart nerves than the excessive use of tobacco. Pain and tenderness around the heart, an oppressive feeling in the chesi, choking sensation in the throat, discomfort from sleeping on the left side and smothenng spells at night when the sufferer has to sit up in bed to breathe are the most corpmon symptoms of weak heart. Smokers who feel these symptoms and who do not understand their meaning should be warned in time, by the following experience;
 T was greatly troubled with an affection of the heart, due think 10 excessive smoking. On writing to you for advice l was directed to begin a course of treatment which in- cluded Dr. Miles Heart Cure. Dr. Miles Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills, together with bathing, etc. faithfully followed the directions given and am pleased to say that my cure is complete and permanent. Be fore beginning the use of your remedies 1 was so nervous l could not keep my hands still and suffered greatly from severe pains around the heart Many times at night I would be forced to assume a sitting posture to get my breath, and for the time being it would seem as though my heart had stopped beating. From the splendid results achieved in my case can cheerfully recommend Dr. Miles Heart Cure, Restorative Nervine and other remedies to all sufferers from heart or nervous truubles."-- Yours truly, ELIJAH HALL, Dothan, Ala.
 All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tie Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr, Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
"BoRRowrNa STOCKS"
A Word About Common Stock Ex-
 change Operation.


 Some curiosity was expressed by the untnitiated public as to what was meant bv the great excitement when the stock exchange learned on Wednesday that Fouthern Pacific had '1oaned fat' ana then at a premium of one-thirty-second of 1 per cent, and why that was taken aa an omen of a possible corner.
 The speculator who has sold stocks which he does not own. borrows the shares to make the delivery. The trans- action is precisely the opposite Of thaa involved in borrowing money. When hs horrows money, he gives up shares Of stock for security. When he borrowa stocks. he gives up money as security By paying off the loan of money ne gets his stock again; by paying off the loan Of stocks, he regains his money.
 But the speculator who puts up money to borrow stocks gets interest on the money. How much he gets depends on demand and supply of the stock he bor- rows. If the supply be deficient Gas was supply of Southern Pacific this week)s the borrower may waive all claim to in- terest. Then the stock loans Hat" Ie he needs the stock still more urgently, hs not only valves interest. but pays a pre- mium-in that case 1-a2 of per cent a day, which is nearly 12 per cent a year.
 Tn the case of Northern Pacific. just before the continuation of the corner of 1901, that stock loaned at 6 per cent for use over night, which would have been 42 per cent a week. if the privilege had been extended. But it was not Owners refused t0 loan !s Ss eiI. and the shorts" had to pay the stock outright at any price that was charged. T%s was re- sponsible for the jump to N.oOO share on May 9.
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of special mention. There are about 4Ibo lights in the building. When the current is turned on in the dome it will be nood- ed with brilliance from 75o lights arranged around the upper cornice the sofnts or nothing of the lights in the galleries and in corridors around the rotunda. The corridors themselves will be long lanes of brilliance flooded from ceiling groups and wall brackets. The Hall of Repre- sentatives will be lighted by 4So lamps. fii wall brackets The Senate Chamber will be similarly lighted. In the Cover nor's reception room the lights are con cealed behind the cornice and are re- fiected In the room by mirrors. The of fices and other parts of the building Will be well lighted with electroliers and cell ing lights. The power is to be furnished by an adequate power plant already in- stalled in the gub-basement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

The eyelet hole punched out of the ma terial and button hole stitched around Is an old fashion revived which is seen on some hns linen garments. It is not too difficult for an amateur to attempt at home. If the button- hole ,stItchinz is done in contrasting shade or thread the decoration becomes particulaFlT ef- fective A gown of tan-colored linen trimmed in this way has the stitching done tn sS.s ,
 green thread green sash goes with the gown.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
WOMAN WALKED 1000 MILEs.'
Journey in Which Mother Drew Her
 Child in Little Wagon.

Child In LittIe Wagon.
 A 1oOO-mile journey afoot from Texas to South Dakota, drawing an express wagon containing her youngest child, was made by Mrs. Ella NJ. Arthur. a frat little woman. that she might keep her family together. Yet she lost the child at the end of the journey. That she may yet accomplish her purpose of uniting the family she has procured a divorce and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

Leaving for the time the basement or first floor out of consideration. with the understanding that it win be returned to later, the observer will do vel to de- vote himself for the moment to the sec ond story. or main floor. which he has just entered from the portico. He first passed through the main vestibule, itself
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-08
LOVE STORIES. "

men for being deceitfuli So if you are
inclined toward love, ideals and all
those nice little things don't let the
men suspect it. Talk golf nonsense
verse or what you will, only avoid the
slightest approach to sentiment, and
you will soon find things coming your
own way
"But the sentimental woman does
sometimes marry?''
'Alas! yes. but her husband does not
find out about her weakness till after
ward. Then we see a nice household,
with the mother of the family sprawl
ing on divan reading mushy novels
because real life isn't good enough for
her and the children and household
arrangements going to the dogs in con-
sequence. This, of course, is the ex-
aggerated type of sentimental woman,
but was personally acquainted with
one Of her kind. She spent her time
reading love stories and whatever
, spare money she had in going to see
romantic plays until she lost all her
ambition, her pride in her home and
everything else woman is supposed
to have. In the end her husband di-
vorced her, and even then she didn't
seem to care much. but lounged in
chair with box of candy at her elbow
reading her perpetual novel,"
Hmm! And suppose she"-
Yes, exactly so. Well. in its lesser
forms sentimentality leads to wem
ans thinking no one can understand
her, least of all the unfortunate man
who is her husband. When she is clever
she writes her experiences, and then
we have things like The Confessions
of Wife, that make you long to
shake the woman. But as rule the
sentimental woman is not clever She
contents herself with boring her hus-
band ninety times a day with the trite
remark. DO you love me-? or else weep
ing and going around the house wear
ing an injured expression"
81 WISH" the older woman went on
hastily as if she feared an Interrupt
ton, mothers would teach their
daughters that while love is good
thing it isn't the whole thing; that am
bition, work and success are not mere
masculine attributes. Oh, yes, know
there are many women who have
found that out already, but there are
lot more who ought to be helped to find
1t out. When we have more ambition
and less analyzing among women then
we shall have fewer sentimental wom-
en- and as a result fewer heartbroken
ones" MAUD ROBINSON. 1
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-08

and are easily contrived by those the
least bit sliilful with their paintbrush.
Odd sofa cushions are made by appli-
queing large cretonne cut out flowers
on plain linen ground These are
stitched fat and the edges concealed
under cord Of the same shade.
Picture frames are decorated with
small representations of pipes, playing
cards and beer stems for the men and
powder puffs, love letters, 'Cupids and
punches of flowers for the girls. These
can be cut out from magazine illustra-
tons pasted and then colored, or they
can be sketched in lightly with pen
and ink and then tinted with water
color. "
Fancy pocket handkerchiefs combined
with loops of fancy ribbon make a
dainty pincushion covering.
Plain wooden boxes covered with
cretonnee are always acceptable for
handkerchiefs, and so are boxes deco
rated in burned designs.
Anything pretty while at the same
time useful is bound to sell.
GRACE ADAMS.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-08

e FkGNt II WTit"r or Tie name
"a of .iS4}!. S0Gl"WAnrr s;s2HlS Of
- the luck o. Stt;}tlf;:~ It will pow
F''7' ~14A er in tie ituu42.i r;oc>. He Go>-:
SO far rs to say j!-:,r Nil:1 sufficient viii
pcvrr Iu.til i.l,@si:j t-v"i: u"rr,jlls'' to
'coWur!!y lahit OF tyiE&.' | believe
lie himself, l.pWHvog iii l,.-;, SurrjUHN"d
to that c0Wuf:iIy l:2hit il Si'.t" OF his
dictuni E;lt tia NrtU!u contained TRUTH
to this eXtrhc: CEIouhtc,!.y SsrA(lfHS..
trained will l,nHeI viii l.eIp u 70 pro
long life and also to overcome many Of
the evils now Leiu to be inStpuraoly
joined to lie.
1t is not luck or even l.credity that
has enabled Mrs. Julia Goodman. an
English artist. to be a beloved and use
full member of the working world up
to near the age of ninety-one, which
she will reach next November. Luck
she never had. In 1886 she was mar
ried to Mr.. Louis Goodman. who years
afterward became a helpless invalid
and remained OH her hands to be sup
ported till his death in 1870. He did
not become an invalid till several chill
dren had been born to the couple, how
ever-worse auckland, in addition to
the maintenance of her husband, Mrs.
Goodman had these to rear and edu-
cate all alone.
Heredity was indeed in her favor.
She had in her veins the vital, te-
nacious Hebrew blood whose possessor
seldom gives down and whines. But
heredity alone would have awaited lit
tie except to enable Julia Salaman
Goodman to linger long in Il poorhouse.
She had noble artistic gifts also and a
wise common sense; best of all the in
donitable will that thus far has kept
her from yielding to the ''cowardly
habit of dying"
Julia Salaman was one of a family
of twelve children, all of them uncom-
monty gifted. Their parents educated
them in practical manner. Julia ran
naturally to painting. She had the
best teacher of the time and adopted
portraiture as her specially. When
she was thrown on the world with
husband and children to support, she
naturally and easily took up again, the
beloved art which had been her enter
tainment in her fortune favored years.
From that day to this her life has
been one Of ineessant labor-not grudg-
ing, slavish toll, but cheerful, happy
tasks, so happy that you can fairly
hear the joy bells ringing their accom-
paniment down along the years all the
way. Mrs. Goodman has naturally
strong power of concentration and she
has cultivated it till it is enormous.
These are the things that have made
her and kept her-nobie intellectual
gifts, strong love nature and a