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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-20
New York Coffee and Sugar.

New York, July 19-The coffee mar
ket opened irregular, with prices un-
balance of the short session was more
disturbed by the action of prominent
bull operators. The foreign market news
was better than expected and helped to
strengthen the views of longs here. To-
ward the close bulls did the near months
up, while selling by importers was less
a factor than of late. The close was
steady, with prices net 5Q15 points high
~. - La.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-20
New York Cotton Futures.

NEW YORK, July le-The following were
the ruling prices in the exchange today:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-20
ESTABLISHED is7a

HsxRv BEER. BERTRAND BEER
EDGAR NJ ss,ay- 4,
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(For other markets, see Page Is)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-20
LrABILIT1Es.

Capital stock paid in..............
Surplus fund ..................
Undivided profits less. expenses
and taxes paid. .........-.....
National Bank notes outstand-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
GREENSBORO,

Greensboro, September 27.-(Special)-- The literary and scientific circle will hold it's first meeting on the evening of Octob- CT ?. As this Is the first meeting, 1t will be devoted to social enjoyment. Professor Christenberg Is president and under his able management the club has delight full future in store for it.
 Miss Anna Jones entertained delightful ly at whist Tuesday afternoon. She num- bered among her guests some of the most charming young matrons and maids of Greensboro. At the close of the games, delicious ices were served.
 Mrs. Charles E. Waller entertained the younger set with another charming dance on Tuesday evening. On Thursday even ing she delighted some of her married friends by inviting them to partake of her hospitality and enjoy a game of whist. No one adds more to the social pleasure of Greensboro than Mrs Wal | Ter.
 The cotton oil mill not only increases the business of Greensboro in many ways | but it adds most charming people to our circles. MT. w. J. Burney of Atlanta, Is frequent visitor since he assumed the presidency of the mill. MT McFadden who manages the mill will soon bring his charming family here to live. Mir Car penter the mills efficient bookkeeper, adds much to the pleasure of the younger contingent.
 Miss Jennie Benners left Thursday to spend the winter at Los Angeles Cal. Miss Benners will be greatly missed in both social and literary circles. She was a most enthusiastic member of the Sat urday Shakespeare club.
 Miss Irene Pasteur has returned from her summers outing in Waynesvile N. c.
 Mrs. Hobson and the Misses Hobson have returned from Virginia. They ex- pect to join Captain Hobson later in the winter in Washington city. Captain Hob son hopes to be in Washington the great CT part of the season, and introduce his two lovely sisters to the official society of the capitol.
 Miss King of New York gave a recital Thursday evening at the opera house for. the benefit of Greensboro graded school. It was a most enjoyable entertainment, and goodly sum was realized. that will be expended in new desks for some of the grades.
 ] Miss Mary Avery has returned home While north, she was the guest of friends | at Stamford. Conn, Newport Orange | City and New York city The first issue of the Greensboro Rec | ord will appear October 1. That it will be bright and newsy goes without the | saying. when one remembers that it is in the hands of Mir. Lee Otis and Mir George Ready.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK
 ALABAMA'S LAUREATE
BY MARTHA YOUNG.

- R. Samuel Minturn Peck's new
 volume. Alabama Sketches - has called forth the highest praise from the press north and south. It is unusual for another to score such marked success with. both prose and verse.
 Dr. Peck was first of the many and tal- ented authors of Alabama to gain recog- milton in the greater magazines of the union. He is justly called Alabama's laureate. Since nearly two decades. now, The Century, Harpers and other lead ing periodicals have given eager accept ance to his inimitable songs his delight full society verse and his charming na- ture poems. As the poet is still young man, it goes without saying that he be- gun his career when scarcely free from the routine of college and university
 This new volume a group of stories of the south, reveal the poet in a new light and shows him to be no less delft a weaver of romance than a builder of delicate fancies in rythmn. Everybody has read the graceful sketches, so it is hardly necessary to tell how quaint is the tale of "Pap's Mules" how delicious the story and how fanciful the relation of the Registered Letter.
 At the request of his family Dr. Peck studied medicine and was graduated from Bellevue college. He had no lean- ings in that direction, but would have, had choice been his entirely, adopted music as a profession. Had this been fate's decree doubtless we would have had instead of our laureate. a composer who would have put to harmony as no one has yet done the story of the south, of its grandeur its fall, it's pathos, it's struggle to rise again, It's plan of new victory in the present warfare of pro gress. We would have had put into rip bling melody Its bird song, it's woodland tunes it's rush of mighty rivers, it's strains of wild plantation chants, it's singing notes of present day industry and success.
 The poet says of himself that he drift ed into verse-making almost by accident as one falls in love, or gets drowned. Dr. Peck's first verses appeared under a pen-name in the papers of his native town, Tuscaloosa, and subsequently, in the Montgomery Advertiser, and the At lanta Constitution. His frienuds recog- nized talent in these bits of poesy and urged the young poet to try the northern periodicals. His first efforts were with the Independent and the Evening Post These efforts were eagerly accepted, and when the Century was approached sue cessfully, then all was plain sailing
 Since those first verses in Century caught the ear of all the world, the gay Bessie Brown, M. D., the frolicsome Cousin Lillian, the joyous Southern Girl, all magazines eagerly opened their pages to the poet who proved himself in his work so fastidious and so fascinating
 Cap and Bells,' Dr. Peck's first vol ume of collected verse is now in the sixth edition.. This was followed by Rings and Love-notes,' then Rhymes and Roses," all three remarkably successful. Then came the artistic yalume. The Golf Girl and Fair Women of Today"
 Dr. Peck's love songs began to find
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK.
 Platts Power in Politics and Morgan's in Finance
BY JoH N MARTHoL.

the national payroll. The work was great. as biography has presented it to us. but because of the countrys growth and development, it does not. simmered down, tower into very great attitudes when the comparison with our own times is instituted Take statistics and figure them out for yourself in the reference books. In the days of Seward, and Gree ley and Weed, New York. state and city, was very small, and, because it was SO the output of political brain power, in the executive field, was restricted within very narrow limitations. Look at it now. Within it Is the second, soon to be the first, city in the world. It's population Is double that of the, old thirteen colonies when they successfully resisted the power that, little later on. locked up the con querers of all the kings In Europe on a lonely sea rock. To direct the movement of all this political enginery is no trihe in human undertaking. To keep at the helm of it all, decade after decade against strong, vigorous rivals, bespeaks the pos session of faculties of the very highest order. All this Platt has done, and think of him as we may, his supreme ability cannot be questioned.
 There are two men in New York at the present time who have risen to commando ing positions in their respective walks one is George w. Perkins, of the banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.,, and the other is Max Pam. the counsel of the United States Steel corporation. Moth ing proves that this city welcomes ability and accords to 1t high place more ab-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
CIRCUS IS COMING.
Walter L. Main Show Will Be Here
 October 6.

The Walter l.. Main big three-ring cir GUS and menagerie will be in Birmingham on Octiber 6. This is the only large all- feature show not in a trust or among the syndicated exhibitions. It is said to be the largest piece of individual show prop erty in this country, and has been chris tened Americas Representative Show" It travels on its own train of forty-two 6o-foot cars, and is said to have won dis tinction, not only for it's sterling per- formance and mammoth menagerie but for truthfully advertising only what 1t presents.
 While comparatively a new show in Birmingham. it comes stamped with the approval of the press. pulpit and clergy. The daily expenses of this aggregation is s3500 and three rings, two elevated stages and hippodrome track are neces- sary to display the hundred and more features that are on the programme. In Chattanooga, where this show exhibited Friday. no less than 25,0O0 paid admis- sions were checked in. The seating ca- pacity of the large tent Is 12oO0. but 2OOO more can be comfortably accommodated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

told by financier whose business ' is to know about all things of this auriferous character that is the first time we have imported gold from Africa. In the old days, negros used to be the chief articles of import from that quarter of the globe
 and they were as good as gold on the auction block as some pious New Eng flanders of a long-departed generation very well knew. Wall street is now the delta in which all the gold streams of the world converge. Australia has been a contributor for years. So have India and Canada. Now comes South Africa. This golden inflow is an evidence of our na- tional progress. Gold goes where 1t can find most profitable employment. Lon don, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfort. Ber- lin used to be the great gold magnets
 New York now possesses the most attrac- tive force and it is constantly increasing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Ny EW YORK, September 2.-In the
 A state Thomas Collier Platt Is \ V more master and a leader now

 than he has ever been in his long career of more than a generation. What Nor
 gan Is in finance. Platt is in affairs of state. Into the office of MT Morgan flow all brooklets, brooks and Mississp pis of money, the money that is intended to beget money; and to MT. Platts mod
 est room, not very far away, and with only a small boy, not a vigilant private or public detective, to challenge the call CT and ring up the nearest police station if the visitor is the least suspicious look ing, one may see. day in and day out, & procession of politicians q use the word in its best and highest meaning), each one of whom seeks the advice. sup port and influence of the man without whose knowledge no move is made on the political chess-board. In the old days of the Seward Weed Greeley regime New York did a good share of the running of the national machine. That trumvirate while they held together, played for the presidency. The prizes for which they contended with their adversaries were cabinet offices, foreign missions, mem bership in congress, postmasterships, rev enue collectors in custom houses, oDm- manding armies of henchmen who made for themselves profitable impression upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

in order to question them. Among thess was young Crane.
 Robert, who is the Governor of Mas sacnusetts? inquired he, turning to the boy suddenly '''
 ine youth thought for time and then answered: I am sure I don't know You certainly don't mean to teI ma you do not know who the eovernor Inf your own state is?' replied the astonished man. Think a moment longer
 why. Robert, your father is the gov ernor of Massachusetts, exclaimed the bewildered principal.
 fes he told me that himself once,' answered the boy in the same quiet man. ner, but l never believed it. I thought he was only stringing me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Couldn't Fool Him.

From the New York Times.
 During the discussion of the manners of the sons of distinguished Americans, the other evening, an instructor in one of the private military academies along the Hudson river told this story:
 The faculty of our school were de- lighted when Governor Crane of Massa- chusetts sent his son to us and we all grew fond of him, for he was a bright and extremely modest youth In fact, his modesty was so marked that we often talked about it among ourselves. One day there came to the school a party of distinguished visitors, and the principal called up a Rumber of the brightest boys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
WoMlAANNc ANcrnrv (cOntInued from Sixteenth Page)

returned from Mobile where they visited Mrs. Harry Jones. While there Mrs. Jones invited the members of the Mobile chapter to meet these guests and learn from them something about the soldiers home at Mountain creek. Miss Dolly Kirk has returned from a visit to Miss Sophia Holmes in Pensa- cola.
 MT. Charles Anderson has purchased the Tyson home on Jackson street and will soon move into 1t.
 Miss Nellie Thigpen of Greenville, who has been the guest of her brother, pr. Charles Thigpen, has return home. Miss Ethel Owen of Birmingham Is wis., iting MT. and Mrs. Ned R. McDavid. MT. and Mrs. Charles Joseph have gone to Florida where they will in future reside
 Mrs. Harry Danziger and children have returned from Seven Oaks where they have spent the summer
 Miss Mary Green has returned from a visit to Mrs. J. Manly Foster in Tus. caloosa-
 Mrs. J. Nachman and children have re turned from New York.
 Mrs. Walker Reynolds of Talladega fl the guest of her mother, Mrs. Clara E Virgin.
 Mrs. T. J. Brannon has gone to Arkan
 
 bell
 Miss Ella King of Tuscaloosa is visit ing her sister, Mrs M. M. Tressla. Miss Fannie Lockett will spend tn, winter in Opelika where she goes to oper an art studio.
 The engagement of Mir Sidney Winter of Montgomery and Miss Selma Eisemar of Atlanta is announced.
 Mrs. Fred Kirtland of Savannah is wis afcfar ri
 Miss Bettie Elerby of Birmingham spent last week with Miss Olive Mac Donald.
 Mrs. Alfred Betha and daughter. Mis- Mamie Bethea, are back from Mountain creek. where they spent the summer. Mrs. j. M. Mcdonald will remove thi week td Laurel. Miss, where MT Me Donald Mas been stationed and has pre- ceded her. Mrs Mcdonald is presiden of the Ladies Auxiliary, O. R. C., ant her removal from Montgomery is a sourc,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

much favor with song composers and many of them have been set to music and have become widely popular. Per haps the best known of those is The Grape Vine Swing"
 One of the best things that has ever been said of his best work Is that It IS done after the manner of Peck no imitation in Peck's verse. It is all his own with the richness and flavor of the poets own beloved southland therein.
 There Is nothing more interesting than to know a poets own valuation of his poems, therefore I snatch bit from Dr. Pecks modest critique of some bits Of his exquisite work:
 ''If all my lyrics were slipping back to the nothingness from which they came I think that | would graps "The Grape
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28


 Vine Swing with one hand and clutch "The Knot of Blue" with the other. or course, some of my songs have certain facts connected with their birth, or early years that set them apart in my mind. For instance "A Kiss in the Rain was suggested by an incident in Hardy $ novel, "A Pair of Blue Eyes" Then My Grandmother's Turkey Tail Fan forces a reminiscent smile from the fact that admirers in the lar west wrote to re- quest the gift of feather from the tail of one of my gobblers to frame with the poem. A story, too, too long to relate hangs to the poem, "Dollie."
 Dr. Peck makes annual visits to his old home, Tuscaloosa, but the greater part or him time is spent in New York city, where his work holds him. In every lead ing periodical of the day his clear, musi- cal lines appear He oftentimes spends a summer abroad, particularly loving to spend his days in La Belle, France, es- pecially in old Touraine, in fair Province.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

Clanton, September 27.-(Specal) )-The beautiful home of Mir and Mrs. Guy Hig- gins was open Friday night to their many friends. The house was decorated with Japanese lanterns. flowers and ever greens. Beautiful music was rendered by Mrs. Mrs. Renfroe Mullins, Mrs. Martin and Miss Myrtle Moore. Progressive games were played followed by refresh ments. Those present were MT. and Mrs. J. P. Vandiver MT. and Mrs. Harvey Chandler, MT. and Mrs. Jim Jones, Mir. and Mrs. H. M. Martin, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Curry, M. A. Kicker and Miss Mullins. MT Mo Morris and Miss Hattie Lee Chandler, MT. Sam Latham and Miss Hannon, MT Rush Vines and Miss Mary Duke MT. D. c. Aired and Miss Collier MT. Jim Middleton and Miss Annie Stew art, MT. E. B. Deason and Miss Bettie Mullins. MT. John Dennis and Mrs. Bish- op, Mir. Watts Moore and Miss Emma Mullins, MT. G. P. Dickinson and Miss Garrett, Dr. Hopkins and Miss Latham, | pr. Horn and Mrs. Anderson. MT. White and Miss Potts. Mir Fuller. MT. P. b. Wilson and Miss Myrtle Moore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
It Is Next Week.

Next week we move, and in order to clear our stock will sell all goods at a big sacrifice. Come now. J. Lowinsohn, 200S First avenue. After October l. 1921 Second avenue. 9-2S-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

After a pleasant vacation of the sum- mer months, Mrs. Mahaffey will resume dressmaking at No. 1895 Thirteenth ave nue, South Highlands. 9-25-2t-thu-su
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Our Latest.

C. T. Randalrs sign. Avenue D, and Twentieth street. Hermitage, 218 N. Twentieth street, city. 9-2S-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
The Value of a
 DIAMOND!

Perfect and Pure Diamonds are safer to buy than Real Estate because the value is steadily advancing and convertible into cash anywhere in the civilized world. A small investment in our Beautiful Diamonds delivers enloymnet as well as security. We scale our Prices on Diamonds, the same as we do on all other goods-just as low as we can possibly make them. We are showing New and Exquisite Offerings in Diamond JeweIry. F. w. BRoMBERG,
 107 N. goth St.,
 The Leading JeweIer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
CLAYTON.

of much regret to the officers and mem- bers of that order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
A Few More

A Few More Surprise Steel Ranges a &22.5O. Van and Anchol Ranges at cut prices.
 s. Spiro, 1920 Sd Ave. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Have moved to 2Ol8 lst Av- enue. Godden's Seed Store.

Don't move that old stove! I'll swap you a new one for tt. s. Spiro, 1920 3d Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

Only short time ago we wer shipping mules to the Transvaal to aid in the work of preserving the British empirt. South Africa is now returning us good for evil by letting us have a big chunk of her gold product, which is a much needed re- lief to the stringent money market. am
New-York tribune., 1902-06-22
N-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.

ume is accordingly possessed of an Atmosphere
it is one Of those works of connoisseurshlp III
which tha reader who cares for beautiful Things
cannot but find rare enjoyment 1t is lavlshY
illustrated and 70 turn its pages IS to revive tiie
emotions of tranquil hours spent amid the more
csoteric treasures of the great Continental IL
braries and galleries. Also one is brought into
intimate contact with the personality and genius
Of q commanding figure in the history of litera-
ture.
The opening chapters give very interesting
sketch of Petrarch's movements in France and
Italy his transactions with artists and art low
ing princes and prelates and his general feeling
toward painting. sculpture. architecture archR-
ology and so on. The tangible evidence at hand
huctuates in volume and in value. Such as it is,
it fails to give conclusive support to the case
which Prince d Essling and NJ. Muntz would
naturally like to make out. Nothing like
New-York tribune., 1902-06-22

cal life and civilization. might be expected 70
turn an austere front toward those interests
from which the idea of luxury has been 50
often inseparable. Yet if the authors Of the
book before US cannot give chapter and verse to
show that Petrarch was an amateur Of art N
the fullest and most technical sense Of the term,
with a body of aesthetic principles fixed in his
mind in that of devoted critic and col
lector. they have no difficulty in exhibiting MN
as a man in whom a feeling for artistic beauty
was increasingly active.
Smone di Martino. the Sienese primitive. was
his friend, and in the Ambr-sian Library at
Milan there is a notable souvenir Of their lnIl-
macy in the shape of frontispisce TO the manu-
script Virgil there preserved, possession oA
Petrarch's- The Inscriptions which form part
of the design, as NJ de Nolhac has pointed ouI
are in the poets own hand and there IS 10
doubt that he collaborated with the SeAsS7
master in the whole enterprise His passion I'l
manuscripts is well known. as is his interest IL
the iIluminator's contributions to their oeau'''
and he brought his influence % bear upon m0lE
than one practitioner of the art SlInohe u
MARITIME was not the only contemporary ar-S'
who knew his opinions. nor was he the Only oNO
upon whose productions It is fair 10 suPpOT-
that he indulged in profitable meditation NJ
was acquainted with the decorations OF Uo''O'
and he must have seen much OF the Pain''.'
who followed in the footsteps Of that pioneer =
their labors at the Paduan court OF the PoV'
friend, Francesca da Carrara. II IS even posS-'
BILE that he may have had some pracucal IVi"
ton to the evolution of certain decoI''''O
schemes carried out in the palace at 1au1"
Yet while these and other matters t0ucheu utVH
in the volume before US suggest an eNPllli'
concern for artistic things on the part Oh
trarch, the general impression conveyed OS t-o
facts is that he simply a man Of TASTE "-'A
the interests and influence. not necessary Wv
fessional or profound. TO be ascribed 10 sucn 1N
individual IN any age. From this point Oh u'
parture criticism proceeds along lines when "a
volve it is true an incidental inquiry as 10 nl'
attitude toward art but interests Us far more N
the question of what he did TO make MS VIII
ings an inspiration to artists.
He was enamoured OF the antique. that muen
we know, and passages might easily be cited N
dicating n classical tendency in his aeS-he'-0
taste But it is unwise TO press the point "h@'
New-York tribune., 1902-06-22

this one, devoted TO Petrarch's influence upon
the artists of his own time and in later CEN
turies, are comparatively iuAIequent Though
the authors have not had altogether virgin
soil to work upon. M. de Nolhac particularly
having touched suggestively upon their subject
in his charming volume 'Petrarque ct rHu-
manisme." they have distanced all their prede-
cessors in the extent of their researches. These
have carried them into many byways of Euro
pean culture both authors enthusiastic
they scholarly, and their sumptuous vol
New-York tribune., 1902-06-22
PETR ARCH.
A STUDY OF HIS INFLUENCE UPON
EUROPEAN ART.

PETRARQUF. Ses ttuios dart son Influence
les aTtistcs SIS portraits It Dc l.aur". lil-
lustratiuu de orrits Par Prince y ESSluG ct
Eugene Mint. ouyrage acCompasne de virst-
ct-Uue plaUch"s trees part ct de cent
Quatrc vIrct one liavures dams lo teXtc. Folio
PIP. viii. 2gl. Paris: Gazette dcs Heaux-Arts.
THOUGHTS FROM THE LETTERS OF Pc
TRARCH Selected and Translated by J.
Lohse 12mo, PIP TX AZ. L z Duttou K Co
The labor of love in which Prince pEsslins
and NJ Eugene MINT have engaged is one
upon the results Of which no lover of letters and
of art could look unmovcd. The formal his
torian is always with us. The broad lines Of
literary and artistic development in Europe aye
constantly under discussion. But books like