The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-09
GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT
 IS SUNDAYS. ADVERTISER
Big Special Edition Will Be Largest and Best Newspaper Ever Given to the
 Readers of Alabama.

A great treat is in store for readers of The Advertiser. The Christmas edl- ton of this paper to be issued Sunday morning win be the most readable, the most remarkably interesting newspaper ever issued from an Alabama pressS
 distinctive feature of this espec- cially interesting number of The Ad- vertiser will be the assembling of the literary products of more than fifty Ala bama writers of proved ability-some- thing never before undertaken by an Alabama newspaper.
 While the edition will be marked by literary excellence its other features will not be overlooked and it will un- doubtedly have the widest circulation and greatest advertising patronage of any similar newspaper heretofore pub lished in this State. Twenty five thousand copies will be published and arrangements will be made to exceed even this number in event of a greater demand.
 The management of The Advertiser has spared neither expense nor labor in the work of preparing the Christmas number. It was proposed to make 1t not only a credit to The Advertiser but a credit to the State, paper that will attract the attention of the whole couD- try. The plans have been executed be- yond the expectations of the editors.
 Its distinction as an Alabama edition will be enhanced by the numerous hls- torical and biographical sketches. fine- ly illustrated. and the paper should be preserved in every home of the State.
 The Alabama writers employed to H. illuminate the pages of the big Christi mas Advertiser have written fiction, poems and verses, character sketches. weird stories of adventure, true tales of Alabama life, and essays. Some of them have chronicled incidents never before related that will be held as priceless in the years that are to come.
 pr. W. s. .Wyman of the University of Alabama, has written a remarkable story of the banishing of the gamblers from Montgomery in 1S36, when he was than a local story. It is thrilling narrative of an interesting period in Alabama history.
 Equally as interesting Is story of the distinguished men in history who have visited Alabama. told by Col. Michael l.. Woods of Montgomery. The narrative includes the visits of Lafay- cite, Kossuth, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Presidents Van Buren. Fillmore, and is brought down to the visit of Presi- dent Mckinley. It Is illuminated with incidents of these great men and what tthey said and did while on Alabama soil.
 | Miss Frances Griffin will tell of the | famous women she has known person. ally, in her best style
 Among the fictional stories contribu- ted by Alabama writers are the follow
 ing: "Letitia's Seventh Christmas Eva" by Enfield Joiner of Talladega: "A Man, Cat and Rat" by Joseph | 1T An Ah-
 stract Infidelity" by Annie Bozeman
 Lyon of Mobile; An Exchahge at Par
 by John c. OConnell of Mobile; When | Polly Told the Truth" by Lula Judson | of Bessemer; 'Ashton's Stormy Defense | of the Boozorium." by Charles Harold of Montgomery; "A North Sea Adven- | ture." by Lucille Virden of Montgom | cry; "A Case of Body Snatching," by R. H. F., Auburn; "A Summons to the
 East" by Harry J. Burney of Mont
 gomery; Cupid on the Viaduct," bS | Walter Harper of Cullman; Not All | Froth," by w. w. Screws, Jr., of Mont
 gomery; Holiday by Aunt Emily and l Unc' Calvin" by R. A. P. Smith of Selma; Lost Treasures Regained." by A. L.. Bayne of Montgomery; "A Prima Donna and Critic" by Gaston Troy of
 Montgomery; "The Bazaar in River
 burg" by Tom Garner of Tuscaloosa
 "The Lost Cosmos" by Crawford T.
 Buff of Montgomery: ''The Story that
 Failed" by a Montgomery reporter | From Sawdust to Society" by Loren 20 F. Woodruff of Montgomery; The Governor on Trial" by Harry Lorre- quer" of Montgomery. and The Des- tiny of Zula," and other storiettes. by Bruce Kennedy of Montgomery
 Nearly every page of the great news paper will be embellished by poems
 and verses written by Alabama au-