The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-14
Luverne, Ala, Nov. 13.

Luverne, Ala, Nov. 13.
 Luverne, the picturesque and progress i've little town which IS the terminus or that branch of the Atlantic Coast Line having it's beginning at Sprague, Ala, is filled to overflowing with resentment this fall day, because of injustice that has been meted out to ner-an injustice which increases as the days do grow.
 Sprung from a seeding hardly more than a decade ago, she leaped forth from A virgin forest, and saw with benignant gaze the forest fall around her. Wearing for the nonce her swaddling clothes, she wore them in peace. until. favored by Time. she laid aside the ungainly habll- iments that had covered her baby form, and walked with armor on into the marts of trade. into the traffic of life. For few years after this marvellous trans formation in her financial and economic life, the Alabama Midland Railway Com pany visited her per diem with It's church-like whistle and fulginous cars, having a schedule which their sagaclty allowed them to miss with ghost-iike reg ularity.
 Feeling the injustice of this Imposition which all pseudo-sane men realized was not horn of a lack of patronage on the mart of Iuverne, several Of her best citi- zens were delighted to call in propria persona upon the Railroad Commission in Nontsomerv. and submit to that candid body the justness of her little claims The Commission, in the discnarge of its duty as it saw it. caused an additional train to be placed on the line, which ar rives in Luverne about noon of each day, and leaves some thirty minutes thereaf- ter, being denominated and known as freight train with passenger accommoda- tions.
 For while exultant in the knowledge that no competition existed to drive them from their pride of place" and with mercenary motives dangling from their little kite Qike tail, to make It go), the railroad authorities attacned to this freight train a coacn-a coach
 Do I sleep, do dream,
 Do I wander and douot?"
 Did say coach? Yes: but it resembles more the last hour of night following hard behind the prehensile appendage of distasteful dream. It was provided with no partition. and whites-those lordly de- scendants of that blue-eyed race, who. in all ages. have conquered foothold, strong hold; who, in all the tides of time, have dispensed the flawless civilization which their bold persistency permitted them to discover in that vague, voiceless era of the past-were of necessity forced to el- bow Cuffy for a little more space in which to seat his little wife that love ly. Iife-giving, tender goddess who con- auers life itself with her virtue and her eyes.
 At this sudden elevation of the negro howl went up from the travelling profes- sion that broke the cadence of the sky s ethereal blue and said coach was taken from the road being supplanted by its brother (one exactly like it, split in the middle.
 Repeated cries have gone out from the land of want to the abode of plenty cries that have filled multtudinous lach- rymatories and watered the graves of countless vain hopes. and ever and anon has come the response, Depart etc. with all it's vainglorious and arbitrary import For a while we have been sleep ing for a while the narcotic influence nroduced by loss of tears brought about a state of stupor that counseled silence, and at length our eyes have returned to their accustomed orbits a little red with no swelling perceptible. But the crisis has come; the supreme test has been thrown. like a gauntlet, at our feet Shall we lift 1t from the dust? Did David lift