The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

he made me play the bassoon to those seeding plants"
 MT. Darwin added, however, that the plants apparently were not affected to the slightest extent by his efforts.
 Cain.
 ByGeorge Seibel.
 Am 1 my brothers keeper?" cries
 With many tongues the latter Cain; And am I guilty if he dies
 If he succumb, shall be slain? Because from teeming tenement
 They bear his body's lifeless weight. Shall the mad tongue of envy sprent
 Ills blood upon my palace gate? Shall be judged if I concurred
 In treasons wrought by honest men To club him with a bludgeon word,
 Or stab him with a poison pen? Or is his famine on my head,
 And shall 1t profit me a curse. Because I held a loaf of bread
 A little higher than his purse?" One hand that clutches dirt and gold,
 The other clamps a smoking sword, He asks in logged accents bold,
 Am I my brothers keeper, LordT' 
 That the Club Woman is in earnest about helping her fellow club woman no one will deny who is acquainted with the workings of the numerous women's clubs in America. In Grand Rapids, Mich.. the Ladies' Literary Club repeats its afternoon program at the clubhouse in the evening especially for the working girls of the city while a club in Utica. N. Y., follows the same plan with the addition of providing a supper for those members who are employed during the day. It is certainly in consideration of their less fortunate sisters that these progressive club-women give up their time and interest to such enterprises. 
 The late Henry Seton Merriman has left two novels still to be published. One entitled "The Last Hope" is to be issued serially in the Illustrated London News.
 Alfred ollivant is said to have a liter ary conscience'1 and to cultivate it at the expense of 1his own pocketbook. He was not satisfied with Danny" when he wrote it and less satisfied with 1t later Although, according to the publishers the book sold we'll he insisted that it was not worthy. He has purchased all copies in the hands of the publishers. to- gether with the plates, and has destroyed them.
 It is interesting to learn that the first village improvement society in America owes it's origin to a woman's thought and that it is now forty-six years old. The Laurel Hill Association of Stock bridge, Mass, was established by Mrs. Mary Hopkins, and it's annual meetings are continued up to the present time. The object of this association is to i'm prove. to keep clean and to beautify the village of Stockbridge. Its membership is open to any person over fourteen who has planted or protected tree. or has paid the association one dollar or it's equivalent in labor. Any person under fourteen who has paid twenty-five cents. or its equivalent in labor is also eligible, so it is readily seen that the association represents the entire community. The work it has accomplished speaks for it. self in the lovely shady lanes and beau- tiful streets of historic Stockbridge.
 That the ideal home when found does not always satisfy an authors growing desire is attested by the fact that Rud yard Kipling has just sold for 5000 the Vermont home into which he put $30, coo.
 The Catholic women of New York have founded a new hotel for Catholic women at % West 17th street. The Maria Pa rades is not charity but a business enterprise, the lowest price for board be- ing $500 per week.
 Beginning with the January issue. "The Keystone" will publish a series of articles on South Carolina women prom inent in the Women's organizations of the State at the present time.
 Is Persona Grata at Three Courts.