k]

[Illustration: Birmingham--The thin veil of smoke from far-off iron
furnaces softens the city's serrated outlines]

[Illustration: Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit
of "cutting in" at dances]

[Illustration: Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises,
great bursts of flame like fallen fragments from the sun]

[Illustration: A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and
collarless, sat near the window and uttered convincing imitations of the
sounds made by chickens, roosters, pigs, goats and crows]

[Illustration: Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike!
Observe the manliness with which he thrusts his pink little hands deep
in the pockets of his--or somebody's--pantaloons!]

[Illustration: The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going
home life and an informal hospitality. (Back yard of the former home of
General Stephen D. Lee.)]

[Illustration: Her hands looked very white and small against his dark
coat. He was gazing down at them, his features distorted by a shockingly
sentimental smile]

[Illustration: As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river,
so the visitor's thoughts flow down to the great spectacular,
mischievous, dominating stream]

[Illustration: Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other
buildings of a more self-respecting character, and, far off, the cupola
of Vicksburg's old stone court house]

[Illustration: Vicksburg negroes. Whether drowsing in the sun, doing a
little stroke of work, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were
upon the whole as cheerful and comical a lot of people as I ever saw]

[Illustration: In some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted,
advertised by large catfish dangling from posts and railing]

[Illustration: The old Klein house, standing amid lawns and
old-fashioned gardens on the bluff overlooking the river]

[Illustration: Citizens go at midday to the square where they buy
popcorn for the squirrels and pigeons--Memphis]

[Illustration: Hanging in the air above the middle of the stream]

[Illustration: These small parks give Savannah a quality which
differentiates it from all other American cities]

[Illustration: The Thomas House in Franklin Square in which Lafayette
was entertained]

[Illustration: You will see them having tea, and dancing under the palm
fronds of the cocoanut grove, when the electric lights begin to glow in
the luminous semi-tropical t