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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

lee comes from customers who svan4 5y, SITE 70 pose-publisheFs. photosranf~rs miinners and all sorts of persons rf.ss, arrange terms among tiyersseixnz T,. oruinary posing g an hour is connlaere4 tne right thing. Some extra, fine rnozess want P an hour. and find no frouhIS is selIlng It. Last Spring supplied twan<g who wanted to break into New YarIg s1'''i''ss sss ntted up fine rooms. advertised erfs,s- sively and came to me for wsII-droxSs8 attractive women to report to his ulnrs. every hour. They sat around fhe 1iars. aWniie' priced goods, had their rneaTsi,.ns' taken, and acted In every way aa fhn,,,ss, they intended to buy. He kept thIa s.s TOT two months. alternating a differenl set or women each week. To-day he K making money in an established huslz. My customers do not know the names pr addresses of the women T.. send II. them. Few ask any questions. If ls strictly a matter of dollars and cents. |. know one young woman whose Allowances rom her father woaild not pay for her gowns and music lessons, too She want. cd both, and she wanted the best. eha paints little, and she told them af nome that she sold her placaues and things. So she did. but not for enough a't 'oiu 10 ouy her Winter hat. Hbn worked for me. One day her sister caiso home with fashion magazine. Mamma she said. opening the page at certain plate. isn't that for aii the world like Certie?'
 Why, tho resemblance is positively startling. exclaimed the mother. 'Gertie's heart was in her throat, but sho kept her nerve. Reaching for the magazine she looked intentIy at the pie ture- If looked as handsome as that said.
 Next day a woman came to my office. am told by MessFs. Blank. she said that you furnished tho models for this picture. Do you mind telling me who that girl is with the parasol?'
 was wise in q minute. Mother and daughter were too much alike to be mis- taken. We make 1t rule not to give the names of our employees. madam. said, Why do you wish to know7'
 Because she continued, it looks s1spiciously llko my daughter
 Impossible, madam I said That young woman is In the chorus of q the- atrical company playing fin Boston 2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
The Musical Courier,

Daction for singers" the book by Hen. " Gaines Hawn. ta full hf meat from be- shining to end. In his dedication to Mrs, Annie T. Brooks. of Selma, Ala, he saws she first showed him the possibility ana beauty Of the correct blending of words and music in the art of song. A few ex- amples of absurd dictfon are quoted to- day, showing in some degree tho many good points of the book. Mir Hawn depre- cates the ,caFeleeeness of composers fin setting such sentiments as whisper fin my ear" and T love you" to creaminx fortissimo. Of Abt's "stay With Me When All the Woods arc Still" he says: Can you picture the quiet and serenity of the woods by a loud dramatic deIiv- ery?' T love thee'' sung fortissiino seems ridiculous, as if screamed from the housetops, and implying q love you, and don't care who knows 1t" The phras- ing of many songs is simply laughable: for instance, Let me sit beside you in your eyes" occurs in a popular ballad. Some of the best vocal teachers are of foreign birth. but it is not possible for them to teach English diction. Not long since one of them said: 'Ah! zat ees eet ze diction ees all of ze art, eet ees ze most import ant sing; I itch 70 pupeel to pronounce ze wort, wit. how you say. exactment.'' We have heard of the old lady who left tho church in indignation because the singer kept repeating "Was not arrayed, was not arrayed," saying she did not think it proper to hear such things in the Lords house.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

Applewhite Bacon in HaFpers Magazine that the child iaborer in the Southern cotton mills is often we'll provided for with night schools, kindergartens and many opportunities for learning praticai house keeping and kindred trades In these schools there is also developed a sense of order and cleanliness which was homes. Miss Bacon's conclusion is that cotton mill life. as a whole. Is by no means so dismal as 1t is often painted" Lovers of miniature painting will he in- terested in the fifth annual exhibition of the American Society of Miniature Paint CTS, which will be held in New York City. at Knoedlers Galleries. from January 2S to February inclusive. Only original miniature paintings will be admitted. work from photographs being debarred. The following letter was received by the Keystone and speaks for itself in behalf of this publication:
 State of Alabama, Department of Archives and History.
 Montgomery, Nov. 1o, 1903. My Dear Madam-I desire to know if can secure for this Department a com. plete set of The Keystone from its be. ginning. If so will be glad to purchase preserve publications of this character in our collection. If the back numbers car be secured, we would enter as subscrib- CT for ali future issues,
 Very respectfully.
 Thomas M. Owen, Director. It is gratifying to be able to state that this file is ready for delivery,
 The Keystone of Charleston, s, C., Miss Louisa B. Poppenheim. Editor, is a monthly Journal devoted to woman's work. It is cfilciaI organ for several State Federations of Clubs. It Is an earnest. wide-awake. up-to-date paper that no
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
NO Fine Old Southern Mansions
 Are There Anye-Where AHA HhnuR

Are TheyP
 The following clippings from The New fork Times Saturday Review speak for themselves: The question of the nameless correspondence sin may be set aside. I don't myself doubt but that his kin are educated, aristocratic and modest Many people south of Mason and Dixon's line are But these characteristics or ac- quaintances or inheTitances are individual rather than sectional. But on the matter or me old Southern mansions, would ne &lad to have line or two written by the readers of The Advertiser Are there any old and handsome houses in Ala. ing? By whom built? Are they now kept any over one aud a half stories in neighthI How many rooms in the man. sionsY What was the cost of the build ingF By whom build? Are they now kept up. or in ruins? Please write concise de. scriptions of any tlne old mansions. not more than one thousand words--six hum dred preferred-direct to Old Southern Mansion Editor. Send, if possible, photo- graph Of the place described and thus lei us learn for our own satisfaction what and where are our much-Wlle..n c.
 sions.
 It must be kept in mind that Alabama had enjoyed only forty years of Statehood before the outbreak Of the war. Forfv years is but short time in which to con. vert wilderness. Q primitive forest an untouched prairie. into sites for paIses- yet surely some handsome homes vSsrs reared on our soil.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
POSE ON THE SLY.
Pretty Models for Clothing Ads
 Make Pin-Money.

Pretty Models for Clothing Ads
 Make Pin-Money.
 New York Press.
 A man who advertised for attractive women with good figures considered that he had done 3 good mornings work when he had seen forty and engaged ten the other day.
 'I don't care.' said he to a reporter. ''to have anything to do with chorus girls or artists models, I mean that do not engage them as such. But three women who are now playing in Broadway thea ters were well paid last week for posing for three photographs for a fur maga- zine. The publisher wanted women of a certain figure who were not afraid of running chances of their friends reeog- nlzing them fin print, and I knew where to find them. have about 300 women and girls on my list, all of them within Q radius of 50 miles of New York.
 '"The women pay me nothing except the expense am put to in sending for them. Sometimes they arc wanted at an hour s notice, and I have to send a cab. My
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
coast Line of the pilippines.

NatfonaI Geographic Maga7ine.
 Tho Philippine Islands have a general coast line of about LILA statute miles, or double that of the main part of fha United States, while the total area ia fis.s 026 square miles. There Is mile Of naaet line to every ten miles of area, wlafle M the United States the proportion is fs S55. There are nearly 1,7o0 islands havlna names and islets on the charts Ever the larger land masses are 90 elongated more than eo miles distant from sossa part of the coast.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
souhern Provincialisms.


 New York Times Saturday Review of Books. " After so exhaustive a consideration ot ''you all" and I've all," would it nat be profitable to turn to a study of the many other Southern provincialisns, for ex- ample. soon" for early" reckon" fo, the Yankee guess" or the New Enwland farmers 'cal'late," idea" with the sc- cent on the 'I." etc Your correspondent of December boasts of his kin" the Southern people. as the "best educated. most aristocratie people in the world and modest withal." '.Modest''-nercifui goodness. If there is any one duaiitv more than another that Is conspicuousIy absent in the Southern character if is modesty. Your true Eouthsrner deals in exaggeration and hyperbole. One reads much in Southern romantic novels about the elegance of bearing, eourtIy manners. delicate sense of honor. and ina gaIIan- try of the people of this portion of ths country, True. these exist in a few, but they are hardly typical of the people gem orally any more than of the lnhabitants of other old settled portions of the eoun~ try.
 Those fine old Southern nangions.' where are they? Mostly fin the romanceE.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

en, and his determination to look up his religion again ''when us sits settled" are in their way inimitabie. and as fine as anything in all the range of negro dialect work.
 The pretty love story of the book comes to happy end. words of Uncle Pomp to Ego forth, and take place 'mong de nations ob de 'arth, an flourish like a green baize tree.r
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
The Modern Hisorical Novel.

The New York Times Saturday Review
 of Books:
 For half century have been a reader of that class of whom the Germans say: Die lesen die Butcher veg vie die Man ner Cigarren rauchen." have read for profit, for pleasure. for inspiration. To what purpose shall read the historical novel of today, since am a creature of habit. and read 1t I must. Let me quote from a recent much-editioned specimen. The hero tells his own story. and fin three consecutive pages he writes thus of his behavior during & conversation:
 "I said vehemently." q fell back in black despair
 "I protested"
 ''I shook my head feebly."
 q implored."
 "I lay on the floor in impotent frenzy" 'I shouted"
 'I satd feverishly."
 ''I burst out"
 ''I tmplored.'
 'I cried"
 ''I moaned."
 ''I fell hack speeches."
 Is thls literature? M. c. ".
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
The Harpers' Year.

Most people. doubtless. have pretty vague ideas of how many books are is- sued in a year by e large publishing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

Rudyard> Kipling has gone for his usual winter visit to South Africa. where he Cecil Rhodes. He is reported to be much devoted to automobIling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
The Coloneps Opera Clock.

This old book is one of the fortunate ones gifted with new life, The publishers have wisely brought out a new edition of 1t finely illustrated by E. w. Kemple and Arthur B. Becher.
 To know that it came out first nearly a quarter of a century ago, accentuates the fact in book-wOrld as we'll as in life a light will peep through even if under a bushel.
 This book is the gayest. brightest, truest, picture of Southern folk, just af- ter the war (some Southern folk, let us hasten to say).
 For in those dark days there were not all of us who had even a prospective lead mine from which to draw (very ir- regularly) the much needed money for footballs, candy all the time and Jenny IAnd chewing gum! Not to speak of lilac silk dresses, suites of rooms at best hotels at Southern resorts, and parrots in gilded cages.
 The line has never been exactly drawn between what one needs and what one wants, and if it was drawn through the minds of the St. John family in some- what more zig-zag fashion than usual there is little fault to find.
 Some way, somehow 1t all was to come right in the end.
 The negro characters, John Jasper Jackson and his grandfather, Uncle Pomp, are well drawn and true to the life
 wonder some elocutionist eager for the real thing in dialect recitation does not work up monologue' of the life and death of John Jasper Jackson.
 There would be food for smiles and tears. Jasper philisophizes to Mrs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

srecI<cn--literalIy and aSithueticaliy for I can recall but two country homes of generous eixa and over ane and half stories In height iu all my travels over the South These two were never elegant m the serse of having been well finished or comfortably appointed. Thes wefe barren of wall paper, and always had been. thei, ceilings were of yellow pine boards, their manteis of painted wood and their fire North is led to discount the fnuch-sighed- for glory of apte-bellum times after such discovery. If any reader of The Book Review knows of country homes in the South that before the sixties were com parable, in elegance and the accessories of comfort. to the present day farmhouses of New York State and New England, l should be sisd to learn of them and make Tailahassee, Fla, Dec. 5. 1sce.
 Souhern Provincialisms.
 New York Times Saturday Review of Books. "Tourist," in todays issue of The Re- view, seeks to enlarge the discussion about you ell" which Is simply collec- tive expression meaning your family. your nefghborhood. etc. by contest be- tween Southern and New England collo-
 
 that of pronunciation. In which case we shall have such sport as has not been seen since 'The keow jumped over the mune."
 Truth is. the South always has been provincial-like Scotland-and many of Its peculiarities are simply surviyais of what was good English in the eighteenth cen- tury. For the Southern planter and the New England farmer always have been conceitedly conservative--thc one because the splendid isolation of his plantation was rarely penetrated by his supsriors, the other because none such existed, I | suppose. .. -. '.
 As for the lack of ''ins old southsrn mansions" of which he complains, had ne been a tourist" personally conducted oy 0enerel Sherman in 1884 he might have seen moro. but there are still some TO. maining. The best of them, howeyer moi having papered walls and even SO barba- | rio ss to have plain brick flrepiaces, When he says that upon iearnine where they are ha will make them a. visit" IA nc not possibly reckoning without his most. For even Southern indiscriminate hospitality may rebel at such a person. ality. But should he enter he would scarcely be pleased. For when he had recovered from the shock of finding the front door. unlike that of a New Eng land farmhouse. was not looked unoperi- ably. he would miss the glacial horsehair furniture, the unit cast-iron stove. and would not bc ''comfortahie" with hot , mufhns for breakfast instead of the GUS tsrd pies with which in that region they eEgs. e. Wy
 New York City. Dec. as, 1868
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

house. Here are the actual figures in the case of Messrs. Harper 6 Brothers, who may be taken as fairly representative. They have published in 1903 eighty-eisht books, divided among subjscts of history, bioEraphy, "reminiscences, science. ncttcn, essays, verse, drama, juvenile, literature proper. and domestic science. To these were added two portfolios of drawings and seventeen calendars, besides twelve numbers each of Harper's Magazine, Har- per's Bazaar, and Golf, and fifty-two numbers of Harper's Weekly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

It Is encourasing to learn from Mary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
Rart,e of Grand Bayou.

A stirring story of youth, love and ad- venture. The limits that tho story has its base of fact enchains the readers at- tention the more, hints that John O@eh- ham is retelling a story that he has heara from Alain fin his simple way"
 All the world craves the truth In story if 1t can be told in an interesting way, and we have all heard of the old reader who never cared to open book again when he learned that Robinson Crusoe was but romance. l know or a very young reader who wept woefuliy fin a window-seat of an old library when she came upon volume by the author of '"The Household of Sir Thomas Moore" She had taken all Margaret Rop- CTS story as an actual relation or facts:
 Therefore if the story of Alain and Barbe be not true, let us not assure our selves of it. Let us believe that Berna- din did treasure always remembrance of his love for the girl of the Light house of Grand Bayou. Learn after wards, when he had attained to d high position in the land and was happily married and had his children growing up about him, have seen him fall sud- denly silent at a casual mention of Baroe Carcassone's name; but I had seen Barbe myself, and l was not surprised. One did not soon forget her"
 
 these pages, there is always the tall white shaft of the light overlooking the world of sea and rugged coast and rug ged seamen's lives. There is brave Barbe to save a man from the sea, q man to become lover about whose loves many troubles gather. but there are two stout hearts to beat" the troubles back.
 There is jealousy. and an attempt to murder. a long Imprisonment in coast caves, close beset by horrors and name less monsters of the deep.
 There is rescue by loves vigilance and the little ray of. light that ever sends its gospel afar.
 There is the trial for life for Alain. Only the wise young advocate of Paris, Noel Bernadin, can surely plead his case and win him life. but Bernadins fee is- But we will not tell the story. To read 1t is to fill the mind with vivid pictures of the sea and the life of those who live with its sound in their ears.
 To read 1t is to refill the heart with the knowledge of how strong and sweet a thing is the true love of young, simple and single hearts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

GEORGE V. SWEENEY, prsp.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
\ TIE CENTRE OF THE
 SHOPPING DISTRICT.
ABSOLUTELY FIREpROOF.

The Only Hotel in Manhattau fronting on Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
Knox Concert Coming

with their melodious music and sweet
singing will appear|for the second time
in Ritzville at the Congregational church
next Monday evening. This quartet has
justly made record in the world of ex-
hibitions as something above the ordin-
airy. 1t was the finest entertainment and
pleased the public better than anything
seen here last season. The singing was
superb and artistic and the impersonation
of Mr.. Knox is genius of the highest
order. He kept the audience wildly en-
thusiastic and all who heard him before
are securing seats for next Monday
evening. Admission, IS and 50 cents.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
BUSINESS LOCALS.

]. J.. Joyce the plumber keeps the best
garden hose for sale.
have ten head Of No. mich cows
for sale. I.W. Cooper. Washtucna.
For Sale-Barbers complete outfit at
half price. Address this Office.
For RENr-Rooms with private table
DO ard. MRS. GEORGIA JOHNSON. D St.
Parties desiring to send laundry to
Spokane will find basket at the Office
Of F. P. French.
Buy the White Setby Washer. The
best washer on the market today. King
Mercantile Co.
Don't forget the Clearance Sale at
Myers-Shepley Cos Store. See other
advertisement in this paper.
If you wish homestead desert land
claim or cheap wheat land address. F.
]. James. Ritzville. Wash.
A good new two seated $4,000 family
carriage for sale cheap. Inquire of w.
]. Bennington. Gritman Block.
For SALE-Several milk cows fine
mixers. Same will soon be fresh. Call
on or address w. S. Egbers. Ritzville.
The First National Bank has suite
Good location. fine light and cheap rent.
The new bank building now nearing.
completion will have the finest business
room in the city. The floors are to be
covered with cork carpet and lnlaid
Linoleum for which the King Mercantile
Co.. have secured the contract.
Those expecting to run harvesting and
threshing outfits this season should call
q The Model Bakery and learn why it
il cheaper and more convenient to buy
bread than to bake it.
The King Mercantile Co.. have the
largest stock OF inlaid linoleums. oil cloth
carpets. couch covers. portiers and rugs
ever shown in . city OF this size. and
prices that defy competition.
The First National Bank always has
on hand land script for the purchase OF
government land. BY using the script
he purchaser secures complete title
from the government without any re-
quirements Of residence.
Before going to the St. Louis EXPOSE.
ton. call on the King Mercantile CO..
and get an admission card. admitting
you on board. 1.-THE Great Ship Majestic"
and emitting you to all the courtisies of
The Great Majestic Range Mapufacturing
Co.-King Mercantile Co.
The First National Bank has money
to loan on improved real estate in Adams
and Lincoln counties, whether deed Or
held on railroad contract. We make
loans on lowest terms. with or without
commission: light expenses: no delays.
Correspondence solicited.
desire to announce to the public that
will furnish fine sand for building pur.
poses at cheapest prices in town. Have
also on hand plenty OF good. 6rst.class
brick and all parties desiring 10 build
will profit by seeing me before purchas.
ing elsewhere. JOHN SPoNCLER.
Geo. W. Clous. optician from Spok.
ane. will again visit Rit.ville. Friday and
Saturday. July and ,. He will be found
at H. E. Gritman's drug store prepared
to examine eyes free Of charge and to
give perfect satisfaction In fitting them.
II you are in need Of glasses or wish
lenses in your frames il will pay you to
call.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
Superior Court

Judge c. Victor Martin of Wenatchee.
tried the case Of the State vs.. A. L.
Meggs. on a charge Of knowingly marry.
ing another mans wife. The jury ac-
quilted.
In the case of the state VS.. F. F.. Allei-
man of Lind. obtaining money under
false pretenses. jury found guilty and
defendant was sentenced to six months
in county Jail with suspended sentence
Divorces granted: Samantha E. Hath
man from Thos. Hathman. Mary Streeter
from Horace Streeter. Desertion was
the grounds alleged in both actions.
Geo. F. Heiber. representing Spokane
liquor house obtained Judgment against
o. M. Lee Is administrator of the estate
Of Alex (Scotty) Stachan. deceased. on
foreclosure Of mortgage. neH. lot
block Q. original town. Mr.. Lee was
formerly owner Of the property and holds
the first mortgage thereon.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
Notice

To all concerned and Others:
My son Glen o. Howard aged ~ years
having left his home and my control and
refusing to obey me or accept my advice.
therefore notify al merchants or other
persons not to trust or haSbor him on my
account a. will not be responsible OF
pay any debts he may contract or other
obligations he may incur.
Dated Ct Ritsville. Washington this
9Th day Of jues. 1904.
I. Howard,
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
New Officers Elected

The Farmers Warehouse company
he Id their annual meeting and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year.
President-John Olson.
Secretary-John c. Gillett.
Director-Michael Thiel, for three
years. The other directors are Henry
Rosenof and Daniel A. Scott. James
Turner is manager. position which he
has held some eight or nine years.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-22
Notice 10 Contractors

Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned clerk Of school district No.
80 for the building Of school house in
said district. Plans and specifications
are on file and ian be seen At the Office
Of the county school superintendent W..
]. Lansing in the court house At Ritaville.
Bids wilt be received up 70 Tuesday.
June ai:t At ip.m N. The right 70 reject
any and all bids Is reserved BY the board
Of directors. Bids to be left with the
county superintendent.
OTIS ROBINSON.
Address. Otis. Adams Co.. Wash.