The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
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HuhIsVttie 70 tennessee ana 10 the north. might be an Enx.ish htgh- way with four centuries behind if.
 A home making people, kome lDv- ing people. who have been prosperous in thair day and time have iised it and Iixea near it. One sees the old Eng llsh love of beautiful hone md the English love of nature in tho spacious yards, in the groves. in the wide lawns. the clambering vince. in the long run ming walls of stone and ofick with their graveled driveways and grillsd gates
 Towering high above the old Turn. pike majestic in their blue loveliness are Monte sano and her sister hills. The white old road runs through green walirys, in whose ornament tafion Spring end Summer vie in spirited rivalry. When these wealthy seasons have done their work. tbe swelIs and undulations nf the earth that lies between are as the green clothed curves of beauty of the young girl vibrant and happy h the morning Of life, The man who 1oves nature and there he but few of the Kind who miss this happiness, finds in the gentle beauty of the scene q cnntentnent and a forgetfuIness of the sharp cares of the world.
 The old road aside from ,ts ioveiin ess which has opened the throttle for this chain of thoughts. is tdeniined with the life and times of that strong and picturesque character in American his- tory. Andrew Jackson, the greatest son of the Old Volunteer State. . State which has had many great sens. Tn one of the grassy meadows which line the road there was the cid Green Pond race track and the cd sreen Pond Ian. The site of the negro Nor. nal College of ". IT. councill is ipeH MN A4M ka 4A Ala A~.M his sporting eonipanions made merry here and old Hickory bet fhe pay lie had earned in that splendid army record of his on the feet footed racars he would brtrg down from e:s Hermlfs age stud.
 1t can not harm the younger genera- ffon to know that they are no worse than their serefathers, When all. Is said and done and when the whole truth Is told the Twentieth Century youth should knew that .he ideals of private and public life are Higher in these modern days than they were in earlier years Of the countryfs history no matter how uruch Is said or writ ten on the question of graft
 The public men of Jaekson's day. were too often horse racers. betto-s and hard drinkers. If Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were In public life to-
 
 ss that have held Chauncey M. Depsw np to public edIum. but their lives would be subject to the biting riti. eisH. aimed at Thomas c. Platt and others. who are criticized In public fife of today.
 criticise Jackaon.
 If Andrew Jackson were today in public life, the personal liberty he took to himself would draw town up- on him the criticism of the pulpit and the religious press. if the nuIplt aEd the public press remained true to their ideals of what should be the personal habits of the eountry's public men. IL Is not to be thought that the great Tennesseean was drunkard or a com mon gambler. but he enjoyed corviviai company and he never hesItated to back his thorough knowledge of horse flesh.
 Here on the beautiful old road, like omer's Sultan, he abode his day ana passed on.
 While the contemplation of the rursl lovellness of this Engllsh-'t'ra hish- way revives the memory of Green Pc q Inn and It's distinguished guest iha difference of Alabama peop'e to her own natural loveliness. Tn this road in the valley with blue hills on either hand to him who holds eommun'on with Natures visible forms there comes that ouiet gladness which rises from the woods. the hil's and the val leSs and steals away the cares he has brought with him from the outer world He wonders. then as he enjoys it, at the hasty conviction of Alabama' s people, that they must hurry beyon her borders to find the solace of the beautiful in nature. He wonders at their obtuse Indifference to her own natural beauty.
 Her people praise the Sapphire coun- try: they tell of the lovel'ness of the East Tennessee hills. The grim in- pressiveness of the Rockies the trav- eled Alabamian describes to his home- keeping neighbors. The famed beauty of California Is a theme for enthusias- tic description by the Alabama man who has been upon the Western coast.
 But in arguing himself a traveller by his encomiunns of the scenery of oth- or States. while silent upon the beau tiful places in his own State of which he knows not and cares not. he argues himself indifferently obtuse Ala banaa's natural scenery has never be- come fashionable.
 When 1t does beeons fashionable - when the outside word has taught the Alabap.tan that his own mountains are quite as beautiful as the hl'1s If North Carolina and Tennessee--that the soft spleudor of Alabanlas coast, where tropical waters lave the sends or the temperate Sone. Is as sat's'ytng to mans love of the taautiful as the Flor ida shores or Calif0r~ ,as coast
 Alabama wiII Wake Up.
 In due time the Alaba m who waS so slow to appreciate the wonder ful diver: ty of tte rich,s oG his St te, who was so slow to understand int the States mineral riches were quite as valuable as her agr!culturAl we I h and that both were dive SC and pro- fuse-in due time he will unde s a Id that the same PFovi 7ence wh h fl led the hills with unmeasured Urea u es of minerals, that made the va leys and the plains fertile and frui'frl throu rh the unnumrered years beauti@ ed the hills in their curving pride with tree, shrub and fio;ger-gAve the pa ms a dress of brillian emerald. marked off the valleys where creek and river ran with walls of green To el'ness and clotLed 1t all in a climate whose soft ness and splendor knows on earth no superior.
 Rut the A'abamian buys a tIcret to CoIorado. to the Catskills, to North Carolina. to the Jersey cAast and the Pullman which speeds him through h's native State, hurF'es him tNro1sh scenery. not a whit 'eSs be1utiful. rot q whit less impressive than the far-on scenes to which he Journeys. But he goes to places that are better known and which are the fashion.
 The beauty of Alabama, where land and sea meet has not gone unchr0n- ic' ed. Maurice Thomas. true a-tlst and great writer. disco cred and though the beautiful environment in which he wrote that appea in little volume on nature, My Winter Garden" rrac iraA nrrnaa The Aflealaainr,i line fhn