The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-08

E is an old man now but in his B0 breast the beacon light of hope
 burns brightly Although age has sprinkled his head with gray hairs and his moustaehe has lost it's raven hue; although his form is bent and his step not so brisk as of yore, he continues to dream with all the optimism of youth. His eye sparkles with excitement as he talks of his plans and looks away into the future when long years of waiting will be crown ed with success-when wealth and all that wealth can buy will come to him and his toll will be at an end Just now the old man Is living a rather precarlous exis- tenee, buffeted about as fortune wills. sometimes up and most of the time down. But diversity can not extinguish the fires that help him to keep his head above the surface For years this man has lived and struggled in pursuit of that will o-the-wisp called fortune, signifying in the minds of most men-money. Appar- ently he does not thirst for fame or great honor He wants wealth and the power which wealth confers It is pathetic to observe the feverish haste of one who has been failure in life and yet is pant ing on and on after gilded bauble with courage unabated and faith in himself un- diminished. He owns a gold mine in Ala bama. People can own several gold mines in Alabama and yet not have money enough to pay a grocery bill. He might be able to sell his property for enough to keep him in moderate comfort the rest of his days, but no. he will hold to his property and be a millionaire. So the game goes on. Somewhere in the future a figure stands waiting with grim smile on his face-waiting to draw down the curtain on this sad little com edy of a life.
 With President Roosevelt, Kaiser Will liam and King Edward junketing around the worlds personal column is more than usually interesting. These three rulers are fortunate in being able to get away from home now and then by leav- ing some one behind to sit on the lid
 President Fitzhugh Lee of the James, town exposition announces that one of the big features of his show two years hence will be the re-interment of the body of Pocahontas on Jamestown island the site of the first English settlement in America. The grave of the Indian prin- cess is at Gravesend, England, where her resting place has, been kept in repair Pocahontas has been sleeping on English soil for many decades but her fame has been kept alive by history, song and story. It is dull school boy who can not re- late the adventure of Captain John Smith and his rescue by the Indian maiden To bring Pocahontas back to this coun- try during the Jamestown exposition will be a strong drawing card" no doubt. but is it not trife sacrilegious to use heroine of early American history for advertising a show?
 The recent contribution to the indepen- dent of an article on conditions in the south by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart | of Harvard university has provoked an- other of those time e-honored discussions of the race question. The Charleston News and Courier proved Professor Harts paper to be tissue of misstate- ments which were not only erroneous and warped but showed that the writer was not in touch with his subject Now the Boston Herald rises to remark that people of the south charge eastern critics