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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

Spring. now heralded by a multitude of signs. impels the observation that we should change our reading, as we do our clothes. with the seasons. Who. when slender blades of grass are pesping through the moist, warm earth-when na- ture proclaims with thousand voices that she has suffered a change as beau tiful as 1t Is ever strange-wishes to be shackled to some massive tome of heavy philosophy2 Such reading Is for the win ter season. when nature is inhospitable, and when one naturally turns, during the long. bleak evenings. to heaped-up fire, students lamp, and perhaps. the old fa- miiiar pipe. as holding out the truest comforts to be found. Not only should we relegate the heavy philosophy to the back shelves now, but some others as well. It seems to us that Dickens is pre- eminently a ''hreside' author. His de- scriptfons of the radiant comfort of the home circle. or of the gastronomic prodi- galfty of the old time English inn, seem to enhance our shut-in content; while our snugness. in turn. gives a mellower tint to the pictures of creature comfort DOT trayed by his master hand. The full fia- vor of his Christmas stories, for instance, can not be had except during that joy uus season. HOW happily, then, they nt In with the mood of most of us, and what an incentive they are to the uncalcuIat- ing generousness and good will that should permeate the Yuletide seasonl How heartily then. do we condemn old scruggs. when if the story were read at any other time, we might come to think he was not so unduly grabbed after all, and give him more than his due of sym pathy.
 Neither do we. at any time except the holidays. wish to be carried by Irving on that delightful visit to Rracebridge Hall. when we make the acquaintance of the coachnan, the busiest man in the country with his packages and commissions; the rotund cook who in the nick of time knocked thrice' as a prelude to the feast; the young men, the maidens, and the mis- tletoe; and the old squire himself, the perfect English country gentleman. How delightful they all are--but reserve them for the Christmas-time. when mayhap the ground is white with snow, and their company will lend a zest to the proper observance of the hallowed season. It is natural that Shakespeare. touching all the shores of thought" should require selection tragedies. delving deep into the psychologists of life, should now be laid
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
& THE CONQUEST Y

The great Northwestern expedition which left St. Louis in 1894. passed up the Missouri and over the Rockies. going as far as the head waters of the Colum- ing the return journey by an overland route. was the magnificent conception of Jefferson. The honor of its execution belongs to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
 Mrs. Dye has treated exhaustively in 'The Conquest the vital years of Amer ican history extending from 1774 to 1886 rsing the famous expedition of Lewis and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
CONCERNING AUTHoDs AND
 THEIR PUBLICATIONS

L. Frank Baum has written and pub- lished more books of fairy tales than any author of ancient or modern times and. especially in America, his name Is known in every household where there are children old enough to read or to be read to. It Is rather surprising that an American, and a Chicago man at that, should hold the worlds fairy tale record, but it is, nevertheless, true. MT. Baum's s new book for this year is announced under the attractive title of 'The En- chanted Island of Yew." It is said to contain even more novel ideas than the authors famous Wizard of Oz."
 In Frederic s. Ishams Under the Rose.' a story of the days of the motley, the sayings of Trboulet, the court fool, recall certain noteworthy remarks attri- buted to other testers. When Ahaxar- chus. fool to Alexander, was in the power of Nicocren. the latter put him in a mortar. to kill him In a novel manner. Pound awayr' said the poor jester. tits only my body; you cannot pound the soul" Timocreon, of Rhodes, a heather jester. wrote for his epitaph, one more suitable, perhaps, than the average flowery tribute on marble: Having drunk much; eaten much; spoken much evil; here at last lie l." Many of the remarks, attributed to Triboulet in the story. Under the Rose" are actually taken from the old chronicles and made to serve their purpose by MT. Isham un- der new conditions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
CABINET OF SHORT NAMES
Most of them of only One Syllable Hay, Root, Shaw, Payne, Knox.

Most of them of only One Syllable
 Hay, Root, Shaw, Payne, Knox. Washington Star.
 The present Cabinet is made up of men with shorter names than any set of Cabi- net officials in many wears. Five of the nine advisers of the President bear names of only one syllable each. These are Secretaries Hay, Root, Shaw. Post master-General Payne and Attorney General Knox. Secretary Moody has not a long name, neither has Secretary Will son. Secretary Hitchcock has nine let ters and two syllables fin his name. Sec retary Cortelyou has nine letters and three syllables. His is tho hardest of the Cabinet names to pronounce. All the others are plain.
 The predecessors of these men, how ever, did not have long names, and if the letters of all the men who immedi- ately preceded them were put together the results would be almost the same as at pr esent, in fact just one letters differ ence. Secretary Hay succeeded Secre- tary Day. the same number of letters.
 Secretary Root succeeded Secretary Alger, a gain of one letter. Secretary Shaw took the place of Secretary Gage, the same number of letters. Mr. Payne came into the Cabinet when Charles Emory Smith came out; the same num- Der of letters. Attorney General Knox took the place Of John w. Griggs a gain of two letters, and Secretary Moody followed John D. Long. a loss of one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

The scene of this very interesting story is laid in part of the west side of New York called the Alley. It was neat, clean spot, which did not savor of alley ways at all. But The Alley" 1t had always been and the Alley 1t remained. for the simple reason that the touch of the great hand of improvement had pass ed over in every way, except that where there had once been oil lamps there were now electric lights. It could boast no "sky-scrapers." no great flats. no de- partment stores, in fact none of the 'im- provements' of some of the streets around it.
 MT. Mahoney owned some property in Pennsylvania which Mrs. Mahoney was always after him to sell, but he held on to it. saying that some day oil might be discovered on 1t. Of course Mrs. Maho- ney ridiculed the idea, but MT. Mahoney stood firm. Finally one day. MT. Maho- ney was visited by a man who offered him S1, ,0O0.000 cash for one-half interest in his oil well. MT. Mahoney accepted. Mrs. Mahoney could no longer rest in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
BIRD PROTECTION.
Agricultural Interests outvalue rhe
 Millinery Industry.

Millinery Industry.
 New York Tribune.
 Feeding the birds in the snow-covered parks has become a popular amusement vicinity of Central Park clubs have been formed, the dues of which, in the form of crumbs, are distributed daily among the birds, which seem to wait for the visitors The little tots and their nurses are valuable aids to the bird protecting organizations, and the people who en- courage the Httle folks will probably be interested also In record of the organiz- ed societies which have bird protection as their main object.
 Save the birds" Is the burden of a pamphlet just issued by the National Committee of the Audubon societies. It Is the report of the American Ornitholo- gists Union Committee, of which William Butcher is the chairman, and, besides the appeal to the public to protect the feath- cred tribe and for funds to carry on the good work, 1t contains many interesting facts. About twenty years ago George B. Tennett first called the attention of ornithologists to the rapid disappear ance. of birds, owing to their use as mil linery ornaments, and as a result of his warning an organization was formed and out of this grew other societies and conn mittees, having the same object In view, until now there are thirty-two State Audubon Societies. Through the agency of these societies and the workers con- nected with them the slaughter of native birds has been diminished to a great ex- tent. They have worked with the vari- ous State Legislatures until now more than 40 per cent. of the States have a uniform law, which gives protection to the birds which do not come under the head of game as far as law can protect them.
 MT. Butcher. in speaking of the people who at personal sacrifice "of time, strength and labor" have stood between the birds and the people who tried to ex- terminate them, said:
 ''They have by hard work begun to ere ate a sentiment for bird protection which shows a healthy growth. They have em- ployed wardens at various places along the Atlantic and gulf coasts to actually watch over and protect the sea birds dur ing the time that they are engaged in nesting. It is at this period, when the birds in the South are in their best plumage and are in colonies, and when the paternal instinct renders them fear less and regardless of danger. that the plume hunter does his deadliest work"
 As to the value of the birds to the farmer, 1t is of interest to note the fol- census of 1900 there were in the United States 5, ,739, ,675 farms, with a total acerage of S41, ,2n, ,546, the value of these lands was placed at $20.514,0O ,S3S. The product for the farmer and fruit grower was $7.739,- 118,7 752. It is said by persons who have made the matter study that insects and rodents destroy products annually to the value of about $200 OO0. 900, even with the birds as protectors, and this amount would be vastly larger if the birds were destroyed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

From Montreal through the continent Of North America, to the frozen and Pacific Oceans in 17S9 and 1793 had as its motive. the enlargement of the fur trade, and the extension of the boundaries of geographic science and by this venture Mackenzie added new countries to the realms of British commerce. So he tells us the dangers he encountered. and the tolls he suffered. have found their recompense.
 The story of his daily discoveries are told by his Journal-which proves thrIll- ing incidents which are frequently re- corded-but he reminds us that the variety which might be expected in the story of such voyages. Is not of a nature to be effectually transferred to the page. Mountains and valleys. the dreary waste,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

Clark as the backbone of the story.
 The subject matter is divided into three books. The first is . detailed account of tho life of George Rogers Clark, Williams 2 oldest brother; the second. and the most interesting of the three. deals in most minute and exact way with this journey into unknown wilds. while the third tells of the years during which William Clark was at the head of Indian affairs.
 Mrs. Dye, in this her latest work, will hold the American boy who loves to read of Indians and hair breadth escapes; she will hold thoughtful readers who want . subject dealt with in an accurate. palms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
BY J. B. MAcKENsTE.

and the wide-spreading forests, the lakes and rivers succeed each other in general description.
 However. the Diary gives one an inn pression of looking into the authors eye, and hearing him relate his experience. As In this instance-"Sunday. 5. The sun set last night at fifty-three minutes past nine, by my watch. and rose at seven minutes before two this morning; we embarked soon after. steering north northwest, through islands for five miles and west four miles. Saturday. H. I sat up all night to observe the sun. At half past twelve I called up one of the men to view a spectacle which he had never before seen; when on seeing the sun so high. he thought 1t was signal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

taking. truthful manner; she will hold that unlimited class who love to read of brave deeds executed in the names of liberty and country-of figures more hs- roic and deeds more, far-reaching than any told in song and story of the Greek and Roman heroes of old.
 The number and shifting of the scenes is panoramic: the style is clean and graphic. do not think that the critic who has called The Conquest "a grand prose epic of the great West" has put 1t too strongly GA, c. McClurg and Co.,. Chicago, N.5o.)
 Nora Belle starke.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
s Voyage to the Arctic

to embark, and began to call the rest of his companions. who would scarcely be persuaded by me. that the sun had not descended nearer to the horizon, and that 1t was now but a short time past mid night"
 Sunday, 12-It rained with violence through the night the weather continuing very cold. The adjacent land is high and covered with short grass and flowers, though the earth was not thawed above four inches from the surface; be- meath which was a solid body of ice" We are given home-like pictures of the in- habitants of those far away lands the pictures of the aborigines-animal and human.-(New Amsterdam Book Company. N. Y) Aron Nosirrah.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
Filipino Gamblers.

Chicago Chronicle.
 According to a recent writer the Fili- pinos are natural gamblers and there is more gambling to the square inch In Ma~ nila than in any other town on earth. This i'll be welcome news to Leonard Wood, who will. undoubtedly, make arr engagements to accept with reluctance q gold dinner service to match the silver one presented to him by the gamblers ox Havana.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
John Percyheld-By Hanford Hend.
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 John PercyfieId" comes under the head of fiction, but it's title hardly does justice to it's contents and to it's genu- inc cheer and humor. The Boston Tran script describes 1t when it calls the book an Anatomy of Cheerfulness |" It is a romance. not a novel, combining some of the admirable characteristics of "The Reveries of a Bachelor" and "The Auto crat of the Breakfast Table" and pleas antly recalls John Inglesant'-quali- ties which insure it's ready welcome. It's scene is laid partly in Switzerland and partly in America. At a chateau upon the shore of Lake Geneva the reader meets group of interesting and attrac- tive people and his sympathies are pres ently engaged by an idyllic love affair The chief interest of the book, however lies deeper. Mir. Henderson is already known as graceful and singularly stim- uiating essayist and this wholly delight ful excursion into new fields of humor, sentiment and reflection will secure for him an enthusiastic audience.
 Mir. Henderson Is also the author of a volume of essays on Education and the Larger Life. The London Guardian said of 1t in recentSaotice: This book
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

may be recommended as serving to put education in it's proper place beside phil osophy, and bringing 1t into relation with modern thought. Its author belongs to a type that Is perhaps more common in America than in England, and which Professor James. in his last book, places under the heading of Religions of Healthy Mindedness." Houghton, Miffiin & Co.,, Boston, Mass.).
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

are the authors of The Child Housekeep- CT, which will be published early next month.
 Adelaide Keen, the author of the unique cook book, entitled With Saucepan Over the Sea-" is a native of Philadel- phia, coming from an old and epicurean family. She has written extensively for the New York daily papers. Harper's Ba- zaar, Vogue and some of the monthly magazines. She is an authority on de- mestic topics, and trequenter of for eign restaurants. Miss Keen gathered her recipes from many sources. but chiefly, 1t appears, from foreign cooks. during tours on the continent and in England.
 L. Frank Baum declares children should have no suggestion of love or mar riage in their literature; therefore in all his stories that ancient idea of the Prin- cess marrying the Prince, "to live for ever and die happy" is conscientiously eliminated, and a plot of simple though stirring adventure is relied upon to hold the attention of the childish reader. Love, as depicted in literature" says MT. Baum, Ifs a threadbare and unsat- isfactory topic which children can com prehend neither in its esoteric nor exoteric meaning. Therefore 1t has no place in their storybooks" Another curious thing about Baum's stories is that no person is ever killed, or even painfully injured, in any of them, and only pleasantly ex- citing themes are utilized. The new Baum book for this year is to be called ''The Enchanted Island of Yew."
 Manager J. J. Rosenthal. of New York has secured Miss Katherine Oster- man, the we'll known vaudeville comedi- enne headliner, under five year starring contract, and he will present her next season in a new play called Miss Pet ticoats." This is a drsmatization by George T. Richardson, dramatic critic of The Boston Traveller, of Dwight Tilton's successful novel of the same name is- sued by the c. M. Clark Publishing Com pany of Boston. The Clark Company has sold to Manager Rose1Ihal the exclusive stage rights for this play. Those who have read the book or the dramatization will appreciate at once what an ideal character that of Agatha Renier, more fla miliarly known as Miss Petticoats, will be for Miss osterman.
 Mir. Rosenthal has been seeking play for two years in which to star her and has read plays submitted by the best dra- matists, but none pleased him or Miss Osterman until Miss Petticoats' was brought to their attention. The play will probably have it's premier in New Bed ford which is referred to in the book and the play as "Od Chetford." It Is in this ancient whaling city that the action of very spirited story begins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
FRESH CUT LEAVES.

The Grey wig-This is the Latest by Israel zangwill.
 The Grey Wig is only one of the Shortest. subtlest, and most brilliantly clever of the eight sketches and short stories which make up the volume to which 1t gives the title, a volume which,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

An uncommonly original little book, un- hackneyed fin its form, continuously in- teresting. and free from pedantry, Is en- titled "Introduction of Poetry: Poetic Expression. Poetic Truth. the Progress of Poetry" (New York, Dutton. 60 cents net.) The title is somewhat cumbersome, and might have been improved, but the book itself has none of the forbidding quality of its name. The author Is Lau- rife Magnus, M. A. an Oxford man. of Magdalen, who has also written vol ume of essays on National Education" His object in the present work Is ''to stimulate a reasonable pleasure in poet ry" and his method is 'tto convey the ele- ments of taste and judgment by the natural or direct method of litera- ture-teaching." His text or one of his texts. (there is more than one discourse here), is Carlyle's' We are all poets when we read a poem yell" Another text is Emerson's: 'Tls the good reader makes a good book" MT. Magnus first treats of the difference between ordinary speech and literary language" and of purism in literature and the dangers that beset the too conscientious purist, thus leading to a consideration of the growth of language which is a living thing" Realism and idealism, rhyme and rhythm, metaphor and simile and poetic allitera- tion are all treated of with admirable clearness and none of the formality of the ordinary pedagogue. When he gets beyond the rudiments to the considera ton of the spirit and essence of poetry. Mir MaRnus inevitably takes upon himself the function of the critic. His illustrations are exceedingly rich and apt. and if one does not always accept his judgment yet the quality of readableness in his book is skiTlfully maintained until the end We shall keep an eye alert hereafter for books by Laurie Magnus.
 Such a modest work as this scarcely enters into competition with Sidney La- nier's highly esteemed Science of Eng
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

When Cripple Creek was wild mining camp John H. Wilson, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent, entered the place in stage coach and obtained at first hand material which he has only just made use of for a novel entitled Barbara, a Woman of the Vest
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fish Verse;" or T, s. Ormonds Study of Metre" just published in London by Grant Richards. But 1t serves its purpose and stimulates thought.
 The appearance of Bishop Spalding' s Socialism and Labor" almost simulta- neousIy with his appointment on the An thracite Strike Commission, gave this book most unusual pertinency. His ap- pointment naturally augmented the in- terest and importance of these essays. as 1t was the highest recognition of his en- tire fitness to deal with the most vital questions of the hour. Of late years he has been giving much thought and at- tention to labor matters and has spoken frequently in public on the subject. Sev- eral of these lectures are included in this new volume. and like all of the Bish- ops writings, are notable for their bal ance, admirable clearness and excellent style. There Is no more able theorist than Bishop Spalding. and whatever he has to say is always to the point and always interesting.
 The third volume of Chambers Cyclo- pedia of English Literature" will con- tain a study of Shelley by MT. A. C.. Swinburne, an article on Byron by MT. Theodore watts-Dunton. and other ar ticles on MT. Swinburne, Philip James Bailey and R. H. Horne, by MT. James Douglas. There will also be a predatory essay by Mir. Watts-Dunton upon the subject of "The Renascence of Wonder in Literature"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
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