The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29


 through the open door saw row of the most disconsolate looking .Ur,Es9, women think of picking their lilac. So to ex- cuso my bold appearance at the gate called: rCan I pick some of the wild vlosets wss lR 5ldye yous eaypst ypse of them tho row of womens heads turned this way and that way toward the most deso- late one who sat in the middle sis % or tne d ferred to her for reply felt she was head of the desolate household: No. she called positively. I stood rooted gated No" I ever heard in my life. Did you ever hear mel It completely stunned me. was only brought to way ray felt impeiied to alleviate that rasping monosyilabie with Theyre m I % went back to the trolleyites and told the story. Their sectional pride was hurt. They said 1t was shame. not to let anybody pick wild violets out of those masses of them. @ how that angular woman had out of direst poverty made the awful sacri- fee of selling the old home. how the on she had put on her hat to show that she was an alien on the spot that since birth had been home: how she loved has gone from her, not even q wild violet in the garden was longer hers to give away.
 It was shame" repeated the troi- | ed by the house and yard with carpet- | ing of blue blossoms. but with mo it was all grief and keen sympathy for The Difference.
 On another walt for connecting troll tSnns the %s wno o vehicles. an old farmers wagon and a machine agents cart. Just the graz ing of a wheel. but the agent hurled back at the farmer a volley of d--d--- | ld-d-'s. with accompaniments. The | farmer replied in the same coin. Some minutes the wordy warfare waged. then our either having left his seat. .'Heav- ensr, cried. aren't they going to why. no, should say not" said a
 Tt may be. better so. doubtless is,'' l answered; but at the South--there,d o%en sscS thing Ths @oaa have happened at the he South. The wheels would have grazed. A manifest accident Both drivers would have would have been accepted. There joking. The farmer would have prob a damn would have polluted the air. For when a man needs to let loose that | bomb in the South he expects some l thing to come of it. After all, give me land. where le damn costs some- thing. for you don't have it cast about extravagantly there.
 Travelling on the troileys is great | fun. There are so many beautiful su- burbs and shores and towns and cities | that one can visit thus so leisurely and so cheaply. The many towns as large | as our cities all feedera-to Greater New York but as we whisk by always call to mind what Confederate Veteran I told me of his first trip North. He came on a wedding tour just after the | war. The South was in ruins and ash- es,. every hamlet and home even had felt to its hearts core the strife and we'll kept. trim. Not one person in a thousand had done more than attend mass meetings and shout for freedom | in all the four years fighting. As town after town was passed. the train ! speeding Northward, this man said he couldn't help just saying to his wife l every town or two: And. Lucy, we thought we could whip 'eml"
 | Mrs. Atherton Accuses and Confesses. | Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. author of "Faul- CTS of Kings" has written for the May | number of the North American Review ar | article entitled why Is American Litera- | ture Bourgeois7" Mrs. Atherton declares | that original work seldom comes out oi | America. and she raises an inquiry into | the reason for the commonplaceness oi l American literary conditions. To this ac. Il eusation Mrs. Atherton herself is not sub
 feet. nor does she assume that she is. Hel books speak for themselvss--eanh one more
 daring than the last. In the Review article | she takes her reader into her confidence and makes some interesting confessions Thrilling Air ship Experience. In the May Worlds Work the following | thrilling experience in one of his air ships | is related by Santos Dumont: once when | flying Paris a rope running from the long frame of the ''engine room suspended. got caught in the pulley, for. | tunasefy in the long frame. not in the Zen. zine room I walked along the frame | which is about three inches wide. side ways. leaned down. fixed the pulley. and | got back to my seat in four or five min utes. How high was then7 ohi about thousand feet but I held on to the braces | If anything happens to my engine. am balloonist, and, therefore in similar pre- dicament to a sea captain whose ship hai lost It's propellers. or broken its engines l He must hoist the sails or be at the mercl
 of the elements. The valves at the end O | the balloon regulate the effect of the tenn perature upon the gas If have difficult, | in rising quickly. I throw over some bal
 last let out water from the "engin | room"
 Robert E. Lee Is Hero of q New Story. James Barnes new adventure story fo boys and girls, '"rhe Son of Light Hors Harry" will be published by Harper (
 Brothers on May 19 The story Is woyei
 around the youth of General Robert E. Lee whose father was the famous Light Hors
 Harry Lee It tells of Lees early boyhood
 and follows his adventures through his ca
 reer at West Point and in the Mexicai
 War. The last two chapters deal with tn
 Civil War and the surrender of Lee. MT
 Barnes is already well known as the autho
 of Naval Actions of the War of 1S12,
 and that stirring story. For King O
 Country
 Where are the Books of Yester Year?
 There was poor "Trilby." If she cam
 back to earth she couldn't sell enough o
 her books to buy herself shoes It iB re
 ported that when Harpers got into diff
 culties they had seventeen thousand copie
 of "Trilby" on hand. Booksellers every
 where have put ''Triiby' upon the bargain
 counter. Not called for in tY'
 years" reports one bookseller; in a librar,
 with over seventy thousand card holder
 only eight were reading "Trilby;" in an