The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02

important element in the plot of this dramatic and emotional story. The Pas time Of Eternity by Beatrix Demorest Lloyd, Charles Scribners Sons. New York, Price. a.so.
 Henry Wysham Lanier of Doubleday. Page & Co. has with Henry Holt & Co. book entitled Romance of Piscator. ' which will probably appear in about two weeks The author. who Is a son of Sid- ney Lanier. the we'll known poet, sent his book to the publishers signed Henry Wysham, and it was not until after It's acceptance that it was discovered Mir. Lanier was the author.
 May Magazines. The Worlds Work: The recent Ware Service Pension order gives special i'm terest to Our Enormous Pension Roll" by Robert Lincoln OBrien. This arti- Gle is an illustrated statement of start ling facts and figures. For instance: One million names are on the Federal pension roll. The Civil War pensioners or to-day would make d city of 964,e00 inhabitants. The pension payments rom July 1st, 1865, to June 30th of last year, have amounted to the enor- nous total of s2.e24,17S.145.ss. The cost Of administering the law for the some period has been ss5,647,s347i. The to- tai expenditure thus far on pension &C., count Is thus seen to be more than three billion and thirty-seven million dollars, or, expressed in figures $3,037,- S26, ,0S064
 MT. o'Brien tells many amusing sto- ries of people who apply for pensions. Many of those who receive pensions, not perhaps so amusing to the tax payer. Here is one from Alabama, not much of the Civil War Pension, how ever. comes our way:
 T had a man to come to me-" relates an Alabamaian, ito say that he want ed to get general law pension for injuries really received from being thrown out of a buggy at Racine. Wis, ten years after the war. He acknowi- edged that the procedure was not quite regular, but he justified his course by saying that it was only question of time when every Union soldier would get pension, and as he might not live to see that day himself. he want ed to take time by the forelock by get- ting his share now"
 Making Cotton Pay by Ulrich B. Phillips is of special interest to South- erners. Tho article is richly illustrated with photographs that are true and good enough to make any Southerner, sing: I'm gwine back to Dixie" The story of successful cotton planting told in this article is the story of the suc- cess of MT. J. W. Young of Prattville, Ala. Five years ago Mir Young bought his farm and began cotton raising af- ter the most approved methods He bought the newest blows, harrows, and fancy cottonseed. He invested in high. priced mules and new negro houses. Best of all he superintended every de- tail of the work himself
 There Is where so many of our plant- CTS fail. They practice law, medicine, or leisure, while some one else at- tends the farm. But things grow bet ter. Auburn and universities like 1t, are teaching the glory of the profess sion of the planter.
 The direct consequence of Mir Young's scientific farming Is that land when he bought valued at $2.5O per acre is now held for $s0 and $35 per acre.
 Here are some of the figures of in- come from farm of 450 acres.
 q come from section where nothing less than 5000 acres is called a pfanta- tion' and l fall into the old fashioned phraseology).
 From ss4 acres of cotton Mir. Young's income was $S,6O0.5O.
 From the cotton seed, $S59.5O
 In addition to this income Mir. Young made for himself all table supplies, meat, eggs, meal, fruit melons. vegeta- bles.
 There is again where our planters have failed of late years. All food bought from the West.
 MT. Phillip writes of Mir. Young's corn crop of 2.500 bushels, oat crop l. 900 bushels. Peanuts that beside nuts give good yield of hay.
 A peach-orchard of 1900 trees, cov- ering 10 acres Is now utilized as pea field. Peas being planted between rows Of peach trees and cut as hay.
 There are many farmers over the South land as prosperous as thIs one from Prattville, Ala. They are slowly and intelligently working out industrial salva- tion for the South.
 Other articles of timely interest are: "The Americanization of Porto Rico," by John Ball Osborne.
 Can Labor Unions be Destroyed" by William English Walling. This article shows the significant growth of the em- ployers' association movement.
 Of timely interest Is William Thorp's article: Our Problem Tn Santo Domin- go." In the Days Work of the Mayor of New York" Franklin Matthews writes of the official whose power is second only to that of the President.