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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
ARTISTIC FEATURES OF
 REMODELED WHITE HOUSE

Such was one of the cis-Atlantic modih- cations which the design of the Presi- dents house underwent.
 Of the final effect of the decorations it is much too soon to speak. sut it is not premature to say that the restoration has been done with sensitiveness and with that pious respect for the original 10 which it is so well entitled both on archi- tectural and on historical grounds Nor s it too soon to say that the remodeled White House will be- as 1t should be. quite the most eligible mansion in the United States for the performance with convenience and dignity of the function of entertainment which it was designed and has been restored in order to fulfill
 The liberality of congress hes been un- usual, and it has been rewarded. Ths sprightly N P. Willis. Inventor, among other things of the noble art of inter viewing, wrote the text to the colume of American Scenery" the illustrations of which we have been citing. In the course of his pot-boiler on the Presidents house. written, as he explains. in the last month of General Jackson's administration" he observes:
 There is an inequality in the furniture or the whole house, owing to the unwilling and piecemeal manner in which congress votes any moneys for its decoration. which destroys it's effect as a comfortable dwelling. The oval rooms are carpeted with Gobelin tapestry. worked with the national emblems, and are altogether in a more consistent style than the other parts of the house. It is to be hoped that congress will not always consider the furniture of the Presidents house as the scapegoat of all sumptuary and aristo- cratic sins, and that we shall soon be able to introduce strangers not only to the comfortable and well-appointed, but to a properly served and neatly kept Presiden- tial mansion"
 That reproach is now removed, and the hope about to be fulfilled. There will henceforth be equality and "consis- tency' in the White House, and refine ment and dignity, and that result will be worth all it will have cost, be the same more or less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

which emoody the lands and resources of the south. With lands selling at from s5 to s25 per acre, there are opportunities for all to secure homes at a minimum of cost, both in money and labor. So many avenues are open to the agrlculturist that a widely diversified farming can be carried on and many. not one line, can be followed to profit and comfort. The orchard, the dairy, the truck interest, the stock industry, the cereals, the cotton plant, the sugar and cane crops all pay tribute to the southern farmer and make his the best field of labor in all this broad country. The splendid conditions of com fortable living are combined with tine favorable opportunities in practical af- fairs and here, as nowhere else, are found the pleasantness of life and the profit of effort
 The development of the manufactur- ing interests and the wonderful resources with which nature has so richly endowed the south is a stimulus to agricultural prosperity. It gives an unequalled home market, a demand for products almost at the farm gate, a source of income at hand. It is a valuable ally to the farmer. one which will enhance the value of his home while enriching his bank account.
 The south Is growing. It commands the attention of the financial, the indus trial, the agricultural factors. It has rare promise of splendid growth and magnifi- cent achievement. It is well to be part of 1t and to participate in it's splendid triumphs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
DlRGE FOR TWO VETERANS.

By Walt Whitman.
 The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath. on the pavement here, and there beyond 1t is looking,
 Down new-made double grave. Lo the moon ascending, Up from the East the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastIy, phantom moon,
 Immense and silent moon,
 l see a sad procession, Ana hear the sound of coming full key'd bugles, All the channels of the city streets they are flooding
 As with voices and with tears.
 l hear the great drums pounding, And the small drums steady whirring. And every blow of the great conyulsive drums,
 Strikes me through and through. For the son Is brought with the father, Qn the foremost ranks of the fierce as- sault they fell, Two veterans son and father dropt to- gether,
 And the double grave awaits them). Now nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive. And the daylight OCT the pavement quite has faded
 And the strong dead-march en- wraps me.
 In the Eastern sky up-buoying. The sorrowful vast phantom moves illum- ind, cTis some mothers large. transparent face,
 In heaven brighter growing).
 O. strong dead-march. you please mel O, moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me! O. my soldiers twain! O, my veterans passing to burial,
 What I have I also give you.
 The moon gives you light, And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, o, my soldiers. my vet erans,
 My heart gives you love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
Practical Education.

"Cicero said that children should be educated to do those things they would be called on to do in after life" remarked citizen yesterday. q have always considered this very practical advice, and I have all ways thought that our public schools for the negroes instead of simply teaching them to read and write, should train them to be experts in the various trades and callings which are open to the negro Ne gro boys should be taught 10 be good carpenters. masons, walters, cooks, hos lers, buffers etc., and the girls should be taught how to sew, cook ana nurse.
 ''The negro women make the best nurses in the world, and many of them are now earning a living as trained nurses. There is one industrial school of this kind in Birmingham which Is mod eled after the Booker T. Washington school at Tuskegee on a small scale. This school has an enrolment of 125 pupils, and is taught in little wooden building on Nineteenth street. The proprietors of this institution are endeavoring to raise funds with which to erect larger builo- ing. They have bought a lot on Eighth avenue, and any contributions can be sent to B. H. Hudson, cashier of the Penny Savings bank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
Trade in Foreion Iron.

So great is the demand for material in buildings and railroads that about 100000 tons of iron and steel were actually imported in the month oi December upon which a duty of S4sa ton was paid. The cargoes consisted of pig iron, structural iron, plate bars, steel rails, billets and blooms, scrap iron and steel, wire rods and iron rails. The actual imports of pig iron in December were 55,430 tons from British ports, and 1875 tons from con tinental Europe. During December 126,000 tons of iron ore, iron pyrites and manganese ores were imported, Cuba alone sending to this country S5,947 tons of iron ore.
 When iron and steel can be import ed at profit after paying duty from $4 to $10 ton, prosperity must be abundant, and the demand very strong. At present the country is i'm
 
 porting nearly as much iron and steel as this district makes. This fact goes to show that production in this coun- try will not soon outrun consumption. The demand for both building and railroad material is very strong-so strong that although the production of the year was fully l7500,000 tons, an other million tons, is needed upon which ocean transportation and a duty of ranging from $4 to $10 a ton will be added. It is believed however that the present years production will be carried to 19,0O0, ,OO0 tons, and that this will put an end to importations of duction has been million tons behind consumption, and until production is increased to this extent foreign iron will be brought in.
 It is the railroads and new build ing that draw so heavily on the i'm mense production of the country, and no one can see ahead any prospects of diminution in either. Skyscrapers are being planned in nearly every city in the land, and railroad extensions of various sorts are to be carried out on gigantic scale. Probably 5000 miles of new railroad will be laid this year. and the equipment of existing lines will proceed apace. All this points to great consumption of iron and steel, and foreign importations may be main- tained well into the new year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Rlrmlnnham sill Dirty.

Birmingham still remains a dirty city and in dry weather the dust devil reigns supreme" said an old citizen yesterday NO big city with much traffic on its streets can ever be kept clean unless the streets are paved. It matters little if one street is paved when all the other streets crossing it are not. Dirt and mud are brought from the unpaved to the paved streets to dry and be turned into dust
 The only remedy for Birmingham IS more paved streets. The business center is fairly well paved, but all the principal residence streets should be paved aiso' Montgomery is ahead of Birmingham in this respect, for most of its residence streets are laid with vitriied brick, which is probably the best pavement of modern times for southern cities. Asphalt IS prettier to look at and more quiet put 1t is expensive and hard to keep in repalr' and 1t is dusty and very hot in the sum mer. l hope the present year will see many more streets paved in the ety. especially Third, Fourth, Fifth and sixth avenues"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
About Persona.

Ernest Ellis of Seattle is in the city was on the Constitution staff for several years He reported the Hawes hanging for the Constitution. MT Ellis is now in the investment business. He says Seattle is growing rapidly. It had population of 81,00O in 190O but the estimated popula- tion is now over 100000. Among the prom inent citizens of Seattle are many south erners. Virginia thd Kentucky being es- pecially well represented.
 H. M Francis of Brooklyn Is at the Hillman.
 George Van Zant of Chicago is at the Hillman.
 J. schwerin of New Orleans is ot the Hillman.
 J. W. Campbell of Memphis is at the Hillman
 Merrill Moores of Indianapolis is at the Hilman.
 o. Clonker of Indianapolis is at the Metropolitan.
 c. Pearce of Mobile Is at the Morris. Harold P. Davis of New York is at the Morris.
 W. w. Robinson of Anniston is at the Metropolitan.
 A. B. Long of San Francisco is at the Metropolitan.
 s. O. Hardness of Livingston is at the Morris
 D. T. Sikes, Jr, is at the Morris.
 R. c. Van Vracken of New York is at the Morris.
 S. B. Carlton of New York is at the Metropolitan.
 Eugene Ware of Baltimore is at the Morris
 M. B. Manley of Springfield, H., is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
DeIaware's Vacant Seats.

Today the crisis in the Delaware legislature will culminate. The sena- torial caucuses of the two parties are to be held, and the regulars, as the anti-Addicks republicans are called, will choose between the Addicks re- publicans and the democrats, or else ah. two seats will remain vacant. Each offers the regulars one of the two va cant senatorial seats. There are only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
HAT first and most strikes the visitor who makes his way
 through the dirt and confusion

AN HAT first and most strikes the N0V visitor who makes his way
 w through the dirt and confusion that attend the building operations in the White House is that 1t Is much more of a building than he had ever supposed from the inspection of a casual visitor to the state apartments, says Montgomery Schuyler in the New York Times In fact the scheme is that of the mansion of a planter of 'tidewater Virginia" only far more extensive than any then In exis- tence, even than Westover or Shirley based upon European, particularly upon British, models. but with very important local notifications.
 The tradition that the specific model was Leinster Castle has been finally ex- ploded by the importation of photographs of the supposed original. which clearly shows 1t not to be so. But an Irishman who knows perfectly what he is talking about In matters of art, tells me that the real prototype of the White House, or possibly only of the front on Pennsylva- mia avenue, by which 1t is most exten- sively known, is in truth an Irish man. sion the vice regal lodge in the Phoe- nix park, in Dublin. If that be so, and the vice regal lodge was erected for the purpose for which it Is named, the two must have been under construction at the same time, since the act of union took effect and the standard of the United Kingdom was hoisted over Dub- lin castle on the first day of 1901.
 The Pennsylvania avenue front of the White House, which, by the way was not known by that name before the lat ter half of the Nineteenth century, is, evidently enough, decorous and digni- fled mansion of the eighteenth century, which might be in the British islands as we'll as in the United States. But the very point is, as you presently discover. and as everybody will discover when the resoration is completed, that 1t is not the avenue front, the entrance front, but the garden front, soping to the river and commanding the view of it that is the front, and that the view from the river and not the view from the street is what the architect had mainly in mind as his most elaborate and pretentious performance. Such was the custom among the gentry of tide-water Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
MRS. LANeTRY TO HAVE STABLE


 New York Letter in Chicago Record Her
 aid.
 Mrs. Langtry will have stable of race horses on the American turf this year, and the colors of MT. Jersey" her nom de plume on the English turf, will be car- ried in races al Sheepshead Bay, Sara toga and Morris Park. Ali Hayman, who is authority for the statement, says she may bring to America her unbeaten Ally Smlax, who, under Danny Maher's rid ing, won every mount she started in last year-five in all-her money winnings amounting to more than S5O0o- smilax is a Ally of Mrs. Langtry's own breeding, be- ing by Milford. horse raced by her several years ago.
 Mrs Langtry will have the advice of such judges as James Rowe, who trains for the Messrs. Keene, and of John Mad den, who handled MT. Whtneys horses a large portion of last year, as well as Alsono the 2-year-od, who won at his first essay In the American colors of MT. Roslyn," the racing name of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs. H. B. Duryea.
 The newcomes on the local turf expects to see her colors carried well in the van by such horses as she may purchase un- der their advice. Her intention Is to have about four racers, which will be suf- ficient to interest her without being too onprOus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
LIFE LINES.

From Life.
 Love is gracious only to beggars.
 We are as happy as we think we are The years are steps that break from under us as we climb
 When we see something nice we want it. That is why laws are made.
 "Know thyself," said the aneients. "Be myself" say we.
 The only wizards who believe in their own magic are the children.
 The gods of Olympus have shrunk into the fairies end ogres of the nursery.
 The egoist is an optimist; he expects his neighbors to love him as he does him. self.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
New Settlers in the South.

Occasionally comes the report that contemplating change of location and are seeking new homes in the west" said an official of a southern railroad company. 'To all such, just little re- hinder that study of conditions be made and heed given to the signs of the times.
 Conditions have vastly changed in the past decade. The rush for government lands long since exhausted the supply and the former cheap farms of the west have scared to such a high figure that they return but small interest upon the invested capital. With Illinois and Iowa properties selling at $150 per acre. and Minnesota, Dakota and Nebraska acre. age reaching towards the high figures, there is no longer an opportunity to se- cure desirable home except at the cost of much money and labor.
 "The trend of immigration has been changed. The magnet has been reversed and now the attraction is to our own low-priced, productive lands, adapted to all the special as we'll as the general line of farming. Former residents of the great prairie states are taking up their homes with us by the thousands and their new blood, new brain, new brawn and new capital are cordially and heartily welcomed. They have keen apprecia- tion of the resources of the south, of the opportunities which it affords, and are rapidly becoming identified with the sec tion in which the financial and social con- ditions are so much for the better. They express themselves in no uncertain man. ner and give the facts, the figures. in substantiation of their opinions.
 There are no better business opportun- ities in the country today than these
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Baron Speck Von Sternberg, the German ambassador, should not lose sight of the fact that the Monroe doc Urine is still doing business at the old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

MT. Addick and MT. Shoot are both hard hit by public opinion, and they should hold an indignation meeting between them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The golden rule does not mention a physicians certificate as a prerequi- site in buying coai, and yet such a certificate is required in Toledo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Some New Workers went the other night to Mrs. Astors annual ball, and some went to the French ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The kaiser cannot change the Mon- roe doctrine by changing his ambassa- dors. The aforesaid doctrine has come to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Brother Malai Mahommed desires to unload his brotherly keeper. He kept him too closely locked up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Minnie Cox has all the attributes of the lecture platform, and she may burst forth there at any moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The spouse of a royal princess is not always easy in his mind, or in the possession of his princess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Helen Gould keeps three secretaries busy one of them having charge of matrimonial proposals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Minister Bowen is coming back with several laurels bound round his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The sultan of Morocco has decided that he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Uncle Sam consumes as much coffee as all the rest of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The new heating apparatus at the White House is in fine order. All it lacks is a coal supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Castro's creditors are a clustering lot, and they may have to take their pay in that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

President Roosevelt's picture fills the place of honor in the Almanac de Gotha of 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Lady Curzon represented the mod ern world at Delhi's durbar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Reed Shoot and Beet Root are the country's twin afflictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The entire country seems to have dropped David Bennett Hill like hot potato.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

Hard coal will be plentiful in July and August if present rates can be maintained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The tapping of wireless wires may yet be penitentiary offense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

The Mormon apostles seem to be ambitious of political honors and power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19

MT. Carnegie is trying to make two libraries grow where only one grew before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-19
TINE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Ia ALABAMA

Turn thou the moth of thy artillery, as we will ours, against these saucy WalIe.
 king John.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-22
CAPTAIN JIM'S C0URTSHIP
ss*ss By A. E. RICE, Portland .ss**

Joyed. He arose from his chair with
plouu satisfaction DeamIng IN 1Is
eyes, turned his back to rne child aau
MutCered to himself:
Dlunt l know 1t; didn't | say so
Dig circumference them air three gals
few young fellers. Powerful thing in
ihy laVof though. Thets a pinr
must work on" Turning to the cir
again he said, so yer ma be botnel ed
considerable by that young feller, eh?'
AWFUL, replied the precocIous
chlid. "J1st amt got no peace tall
iir MIN. Shed like tew go way from
this place."
"Sne wud?' exclaimed Captain Jim
cert answered the child.
Why don't she go?"
Got no rocks"
lf L Wus tew give her some. wud
you be friend tew me?"
Barbara sprang to her feet excited
You Jlst try me once. Friend! Look
ere, I'd do most anything fer you
Nhy old man, I'd call yer dad. There
now"
Dad" muttered Jim to himself
Dad. 1t don't sound bad nuther
kinder like it tew. Dad, he'd O. the
house, the pillar as it were, round
which the mother clings fer sport
Then he folded his arms and clasped
an imaginary Annie with lively salts
faction. yum, yum. | swan, | kin
taste them lips yit. Barb" He arose
from the chair, and gave the girl a
four-bit piece. BUY yourself an the
chlllun some sweets, an tell yer ma ]
De comm tew spend Christmas eve
with her an the chillun."
Barbara took the four bits and going
TO the sewing room door, turned and
said artfully, "all right, papa" and
throwing him a childish kiss with her
left hand opened the door and quit the
room.
AS the door closed on her burst OF
feminine laughter rolled in, but Cap.
tain Jim needed it not, perhaps heard
it not, for he was dense with joyful
satisfaction. He stood quite still for
moment, like one dazed. At length
he muttered softly:
Must go now. Reckon it's better
not tew git tew fam-eel-ar tew once't.'
Passing into the dining room he wish.
ed several of the dancers good night
excusing himself with the remark
thet:
"The Wilam-eet be risin' fast. an
the Sel-um's moorins air apt to chafe
apart" He went to the kitchen. 1t
was deserted. He put on his slouch
hat and pulled it well down over his
eyes. Then drawing himself up erect
and with a proud smile he exclaimed
Jim. you be tew wizard of them all
sailin fast an goin' tew win
The Widder be mine, sartin, sure"