The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-17
Makes Address at Bir-
 mingham Fair. LAUDS HIS NATIVE STATE Chief Executive Delivers Masterly Speech to Loyal Sons. Second Day Exercises at Magic City Exhibition Now In Full Sway Many Special Attractions ArPivos

Birmingham, Oct, 16.-(Special)-
 The Home Corners to Alabama and
 to the State Fair Tn this city were
 given a warm welcome today. the ex-
 ercises in the grand stand being wit
 messed by more than 1000 people. Kopp's Military Band rendered stir
 ring tune first. after which Mayor Ward was introduced and he delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the city
 Then Governor W. D. Jelks was in troduced. and he delivered an address on behalf of the State. Judge J. J.
 Banks, of Denver. Coio., formerly a resident of Birming gham. responded to the addresses of welcome on behalf or the home corners. Then T. V. Boardman sang the prize homecoming song. Alabama Home Coming. which was
 composed and written by Miss Heeb.
 Afterwards the crowds dispersed and
 visited the various attractions at the
 fair.
 Governor Jelks. Mayor Ward, Judge
 Banks, officers and directors in the
 Fair Association participated in luncheon at the Hillman Hotel this afternoon The attendance at the fair today was much larger than on the first day The races were quite inter- esting. Beachey and his air ship ar rived tOOdy, anu lIo iiSt oS~SSAo-' will be made tomorrow. Vulcan" the iron man. will be in position by tomorrow morning. the pig hoisting derrick used on the fifteen story building recently completed in
 this city being used for the big iron statue. The judges in the various de- partment are busy already and a num- Der of prizes have been won by local exhibitors The live stock display IS the best ever shown here.
 Dan Patch, the famous horse, is drawing card and his stall Is neine visited by hundreds or visitors daily. The horse show in the evenings to- rether with the concert by the Kopp s. Military Band attratcts large attend ance.
 In welcoming the home corners, Gov Jelks spoke as follows.
 Governor JeIks's Welcome It gives me great pleasure to look into the faces of returning Alabam- ians and to extend to them word ot welcome to the State.
 You have changed your allegiance but not your affections. You have
 sworn fealty to some other govern ment, but your heart responds first to the call of the State which you left m your earlier and mayhap happier years. -
 It's hills and it's valleys. its streams and it's fields have hold upon you which other sections bearing other hills and valleys and streams ana fields cannot efface from your mem ory. or move out of view of your ten- der vision. There can be no place | like the early home
 l w. read that those who leave bleak and barren shores carry the stony places in their hearts; that little val | ba ku hills have gram ted Rrudgingly to the hungry farm CTS are sweet oases. and the rocks themselves fighting back man In hls afforta to bring a reluctant supsls- tance. in the imagination of the wan derer. becomes pregnant with beauty and bursting with the good harvest: The land refusing food to the real nossssror except with coaxing and urging and diligence becomes a lano | of easy life to the absent. overdowinG with milk and honey. No country Is so bleak and so bar ren and so profitless that does not seem beautiful to its .ats children. who see it afterwards in their mind eve through the mists of time and distance. They may not have occasion l more tr,:.y to boast of the prowess or its sons and the virtues of it's daugh- ters than of the beauty of -ts freez- | ing climate or the product |eness OK its unresponding acres, and Jet they Hove it and make of this sterile and
 stubborn country continuAd boast. The high points in the history of the old State may not he higher than t''s low polnts in the State of their adoo ton and they never discover 1t .
 Their loyalty for the old nome of
 tne.r youth. the companions O thelr youth; for the big men whom they knew or read about in their youth Is an ever present and continuous joy and inspiration to them. No home Hand is so dread that it does not He out beautifully to the wanderers soul; mo people so insignificant and no hi'- tory so bare of worthy incidents that the same wanderer does not hold them and it in everlasting and beautiful Remembrance and love.
 Not of Fare Hills
 l But the country to which you re-
 turn. my friends. is not one of bare
 hills. of unfruitful tiel's. or unlovely , streams The hills If your youth did mot grudgingly yield slips of slim and lean earth for tn" plowman. It gave freely wide expanse of yellow ear.h which laughed with pleasure and de- light at your touch If you fretted it a allit filled your barns and made your tables to groan. To no stroke of the