The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14

same old struggle then as now. Not even those we call grea, even after they had attained greatness were not freed from the struggle;
 "ShaIl I come and see you in the fall?
 Cant you coax Felt on the part of his
 societies % make me an offer? You and
 Mrs. Smelling might take him in hand
 showing how popular the series of lectures which I intend would surely be.
 ''Men of the world! Chesterfield. Whar- | ton. walpole, Crummell, what fun and sa- tire! What an opportunity for young men to learn about European manners! De- ] pend on it ladies would be the best nego-
 tiators in this matter. and would sooner
 have your help than the smartest man in
 Wall Street."
 Doesn't that read as if 1t might have
 been written this morning?
 The exchange of an intention to suicide for two lovers Is the unusual denoument of Anne Douglas Sedgwick's story. The two continued stories keep up brave- ly. never Tagging in alive interest. Of Helen Kellers new book We read in Topics of the Time: ''Helen's new book is a good Christmas sermon-so good that | 1t will it any season of the year. The
 nobility of 1t sthought is what might be expected of this courageous girl; but one cannot help wondering how many under
 graduates, physically unhampered, could compose an essay in as good form and showing an equal breadth of culture" It Is marvellous and beautiful to realize
 how this Alabama girl, but a short while
 ago blind, deaf. dumb. shut in in every
 way from all. that is beautiful in life has
 now become one of the foremost writers of the world with a reputation that | spreads over all earth. She can scarcely | be called blind whose fingers (with exquis- | ite training) see or her, or deaf whose soul
 is enriched with absorption of the best | thought of the best thinkers, or dumb
 when the pen speaks for her in words that captivate a world of readers. And it is Helen Keller who teaches us optimism. The Worlds Work.
 From the March of Events in The Worlds Work comes the partial review of the deeds of the day and the people of the times. In February number we have: Mir Roose- velt's Strength and Weakness. Conditions
 that Make for Steadiness in Business. | the Passing of the Speculator and the Coming of the Investor, Labor Unions Recent Lessons, Progress of the Pana-
 ma Incident, Possible Democratic Nom-
 inees. Senator Smoot andA the Mormon
 Hierarchy, the Governors Wf the Philip pines, etc.
 serano S. Pratt writes of the Presi- dent and Wall Street.
 The Profits of Garden and Orchard is always a subject of refreshing interest. B. F. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, writes improvingly
 and suggestingly of Living from Town | Lot, of Developing Worn-out Farm, of
 how MT. s. H. Rumph, of Georgia, be-
 came a peach king; of many other mat | ters of deep interest to those who live l close to the earth, and that IS where the best living Is.
 An extract from Charles M. Marrey's:
 The Panama Canal and the Mississippi | Valley.
 '"The nation.' said Sir Walter Raleigh,
 "who controls the Isthmus of Darien .s
 master of the world"
 'grhe gathering of the United States l fleets fin the Gulf and the Caribbean for
 their winter maneuvers in 1904 is not tenn | porary or arbitrary. 1t is a permanent
 function. Those waters are a strategic point from which the United States
 would be open to assault in a war be- tween this country and a greac naval
 power. From our bases at Porto Rico, at Guantanamo, and at Panama we gain | a mastery in our Southern seas which adds vastly to our prestige in the west | ern hemisphere and winch increases our
 influence throughout the world. "It also entails upon us the creation of very large navy
 Other articles that the thoughtful l reader cannot afford to miss ares Pro viding the World With Power. ''One Trust and What Became of It." The Work of Wireless Telegraph Man."
 '"The Emigraht Jew at Home" South
 America and Our Responsibility"