The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-09
THE STATE BUILDINGS AT the FAIR
An Interesting Description Of Many Historic Old Homes
as Reproduced at St Louis.

state buildings erected for the comfort
and convenience of the people Many
of them, as have before stated. con-
tain relics of great interest, and
many are exact copies of old homes,
once occupied by historical characters
that we have learned to love from
childhood. take great pleasure in
visiting these, and will take greater
pleasure in describing them to the
readers of The News. that they too,
may epjoy their history.
First, we will take the Hermit
age''-the old home of General An
drew jackson, which is reproduced
here by Tennessee as her state build
ing. We find it an old time country
mansion, with wide halls and broad
verandas-an in it's rooms furniture
that belonged to Gen. Jackson. The
home is not yet completed but one of
the Hermitage commissioners-a
lady-told me that Gen. Jackson 8
bedroom would be fitted with his own
furniture, brought here from the
Hermitage, and even the paper on the
wall would be exactly like that, at his
old home near Nashville. We went
all through the house, and many
memories of the brave old soldier
came up before us. This lady seemed
to take much pride in her work, and
you could tell at once that she was
an ardent admirerSS SSof the master of
the Hermitage. for she said to me, Il
have beautiful picture of Gen. Jack
son. Imagine Gen. Jackson being
called beautiful! According to my
Judgment, if this loveable old hero
had depended on good looks, he
would long ago have been forgotten; !;
but his character made up in greatness
what his face lacked in beauty.
Now just across the street from the
Hermitage, Virginia has erected
her building, reproduction of Mon
ticello, the old home cf Thomas jeff
ersoni that great statesman whose
name is now on every tongue; and
whose ideas and imperishable prin-
cipies are stamped upon the institu
tions of our free government.
Jefferson was one of the grandest
historical characters ever vouchsafed TO
any nation; and after the long lapse
of years since he served his country,
this Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion," held here, in st. Louis, in
commemoration of his noble work,
''The deed of the pen," shows how he
stands in the minds and affections of
grateful people.
Monticello will contain many
things of interest to lovers of history.
The old furniture of Thomas Jefferson
will be shown here when the. house
has been furnished, as yet they have
only his clock The building, which
is made of brick is completed, and
you feel almost as though you were in
Virginia when you enter this old
home, whose very walls speak of hos
pitality, and receive the cordial well
come that only Virginians know how
to give. Just across the roadway
from here we find some more of Vir-
ginia's history-an old Virginia
homestead-an while It's a little off
the subject of my letter, yet I must
tell of the contents of this log cabin.
You pay % cents at the gaSe and it is
worth more than twice the amount
to see the dear old Virginia grand
mother, one hundred years old, sit
ting there, on stool, weaving just as
our grandmothers did. She talked to
me some little time, and felt honor
ed to have the pleasure of shaking her
wrinkled hand. This cabin is copy
of the old log cabin built on Patrick
Henry's farm in Henry county, Vir-
ginia, in 1903. 1t is furnished
throughout with furniture hundred
years old. An old flint lock gun,
once owned by Gov Burkley, of col
Onial days, hangs over the door A
pillow case that belonged to John
Endicott hangs on the wall They
also have an old clock. one of the first
ever made, that winds up by pulling
string; a coffee mortar and pestle
and other things too numerous to
mention. When had closely inspect
ed everything else I sat down in a
1chair that they claim came over in
the Mayflower in 1620-of course we
don't know about this, it may have
been somewhat repaired like the
mans keg that came over in that
same vessel. He was showing his
relic of antiquity to another man of
an inquiring turn of mind and said !:
"This keg was brought over in the
Mayilower in 1920" "Yes;'' said
the spectator. 81 didn't know that
they put iron hooIs on kegs in those
days well, since I've come to
/ think, said the man, the wooden