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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

look like mad dogs and snarl at every body they see, as much as to say: What are you going to do about II!
 A good square American meal would give them a fit, and they would go 10 8 hospital and die if the meal could not be got out of them.
 Gosh, but I was glad to get out or the White Chapel district, and l kept looking back for fear one of the men or women would slit me up the back with butcher knife, and laugh like an insane asylum inmate
 Do you know, those people who drink gin and go hungry are different from our American murderers. Our murders will assault you with smile, rob you with a joke on their tongues end, and give you back car fare when they hold you up, and if they murder you they will do 1t easy and lay you out with your hands across on your breast and notify the coroner, but your White Chapel murderer wants to dis embowel you and cut you up into chunks, and throw your remains head first into something nasty, and if you have money enough on your person to buy a bottle of gin, your murderer Is as we'll satisfied as though he got a roll. Some men fin our country com init murders in order to get money to lay away so they con live a nice, respec- table life and be good ever afterwards.
 but your slum murderer in London just kills because his stomach craves a drink, and when he gets 1t he is tame, like a tiger that has eaten a native of India.
 You may think this letter is a solemn occasion because I tell you about things that are not funny, but if you ever travelled abroad you will find that there l is no fun anywhere except nj America | unless you make 1t or buy it.
 We are taking In the solemn things | first in order to get dads mind in a condition so he can be cured of things he thinks ail him. I took dad to the Tower of London, and when we got out of 1t he wanted to have America in- | terfere and have the confounded place burned down and grass sown on the | site and park made of 1t.
 | The tower covers 13 acres of ground and there are more, things brought to
 visitors attention that ought to bt | forgotten than you ever thought about | I remember attending the theater al | home and seeing Richard the Thirt played, and I remember how my sym' pathies were aroused for the two little | boy princes that were murdered bS
 Richard the Third. but I thought fl
 was a fake play, an that there wa!
 nothing true about it, but. by gosh, 1
 was right here in the Tower of Lon
 don that the old hump backed GUS.
 murdered those little princes, and dat
 and I stood right on the spot, and tn,
 beef-eater who showed us around tolC
 us all the particulars. Dad was in
 dignant, and said to the beef-eater | DO vou mean to tell me yOu stoo(
 around and let Richard kill thos'
 princes without uttering a protest o
 protecting them or ringing for the DO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

America, instead of subject of Great Britian, because you have got to be rich or be hungry here. and if you are too rich you have got no appetite. You have heard of the roast beef of old England, but nobody eats 1t but the dukes and bankers. The working men never even saw a picture of a roast beef. and yet we look upon all Englishmen as beef eaters, but three fourths of the people in this town look hungry and discouraged. and they | never seem to know whether they are going to have any supper.
 I went down to a market this morn | ing where the middle class and the very poor people buy their supplies, and it would make you sick to see them. They buy small loaves of bread and a penny's worth of tea, and that is | breakfast, and if a man is working he l takes some of the bread to work for lunch. and the wife or mother buys carrot or a quarter of a cabbage, and maybe a bone with a piece of meat about as big as a fish bait, and that makes supper. with a growler of beer. II Say the chunk of meat with bone that an American butcher would throw at q dog that he had never been inter- duced to would be a banquet for a large family over here.
 l have been down into the White Chapel district, which Is the Five Points of London, and of the thousands of tough people I saw there was not a man but looked as though he would cut your liver out for shilling, and every woman was drunk on gin. What there Is about gin that makes 1t the national beverage for bad people beats
 me, for 1t looks like water. tastes like medicine and smells like cold stor- age eggs. At home when a person takes a drink of beer or whiskey he at least looks happy for a minute, and maybe he laughs, but here nobody laughs unless somebody gets hurt, and that seems to tickle everybody in the White Chapel district.
 The people look mad and savage when they are not drinking, as though they were only looking for an oppor- tunity to commit murder, and then when they take a drink of gin, instead of smiling and smacking their lips as though it was good and braced them up. they look as though they had been stabbed with a dirk and they put on a look of revenge, as though they would like to wiring child's neck or cut holes in the people they meet.
 H Two drinks of gin makes a man or woman look as though they had swal- lowed a buzz saw. I always thought drinking liquor make people think they were enjoying themselves, or that they took 1t to drive away care and make them forget their sorrows, but when these people drink gin they seem Lto do 1t the way an american drinks carbolic acid to end the whole busi-
 ness quick.
 At home the drinker drinks to make
 him feel like he was at a picnic. Here every thinker acts like suicide, who
 only hopes that he may commit a mur-
 der before the gin ends his career.
 And there are hundreds of thousands
 of people in this town who have no
 ambition except to get a bit of bread
 to sustain them till they can get a
 drink of gin, and gradually they let UT lon bread entirely and feed on gin, and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
FoX's NEW BOOK.
Now Ready, Under the Title Christmas Eve
 Tnnaanrna

Now Ready, Under the Title Christmas Eve
 on Lonesome"
 The new book by John Fox. Jr.. Christ mas Eve on Lonesome. and Other Stories" is now ready for publication.
 The stories which make 1t up picture the tragedy as well as the pathos and humor of life in and near the Kentucky mountains The dramatic intensity of the episodes in 'The Last stetson'' is relieved by the richly humorous scenes and characters in "The Army of the Callahan: while the little girl and her doy Saty. who are the principal figures in Christmas Night with Satan" will recall to every reader the first half of ''The Little shepherd of Kingdom Come" The stories are illustrated in colors from drawings by Schoonover. Ashe. Campbell. Potts and Keller.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
THE HOLIDAY SEASON
 DEMANDS SUGGESTIONS

you find 1t bohersome in the selection your presents we advise to here and look the tb mir chase of useful that will be only gift but render useful service Every article offered will be of double valueo useless things sale What gift made than of elegant Jackets Fu? Then line of Skirts and tailor made Su consisting of grade and % every price and coor selected carefully by buyer thoroughly familiar with requirements of this section present than beautiful Rugsor lace Curtains could be thought pair fine Shoes might be to liking and largest carried to select from It may be Handkerche Pattern Nice Hose, Fascnator and we've just what you and at right prices.
 For the show you the latest Neckwear Collars Socks suspender Shirts Underwear shoes Ha Clothing feel ing satisfied of being perfectly able please you husband father brother sweetheart An important consideration guar ment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
|PECK'SBADBOYA ABROAD
The Bad Boy Writes to His Chum from London The White Chapel District and the Craze for Cin-Cives
 His Dad Scare in the Tower.

the palace and catch the king or queen in the act, and take them by the neck and hustle them to the tower, ana when a king or queen got in the tow CT they went out on the instaliment plan, and after being thrown In the gutter for the mob t6 recognize, and walk on the bodies, they would bring them back in the tower, and seal them up in a pigeon hole for future genera tions to cry over.
 All my life have had in our house to look at picture of beautiful Anne BoIeyn, and here I stood right where her head was cut off, and I couldn't help thinking of how we in America got our civilization from the descendants of the English people who cut her head off.
 By ginger, old chum, 1t made me hot. I didn't care to look at the old armor. or the crown jewels, which make you think of a cut glass factory, but l rev eled in the scenes of the beheading. I never was stuck much on kings and queens, but it seems to me if they had to murder them they ought to have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK. Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, formerly
 publisher of "Peck's Sun," author
 of "Peck's Bad Boy" etc.
 Copyright, 1904. by Joseph B. Bow
 les.)
 London, England.-My Dear Chum: received your letter yesterday, and it made me homesick. Gee, but if could be home there with you and go down to the swimming hole and get in all over. and play tag in the sand. and tie some boys pants and shirt in knots, and yell that the police were coming, and all grab our clothes under our arms and run across lots with no clothes on, and get in a barn and put on our clothes. and dry our hair by pounding 1t with stick, so we would not get licked when we got home, life would be worth living, but here all I do is to dodge people on the streets and see them look cross when they step on me.
 Say, boy. you will never know your luck In being citizen of good old
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
A Commitment to pr. Mitchell.

pr. Mitchell has had paid 10 him by the critical press of the country a compliment which rarely falls to writer of fiction. His recent book. New Samaria,' is made up in a large part of account of the experience of man who threw himself upon the charity of such of his fellow as he chanced to meet in the highways and by ways For the purpose of his story. as well as for the enforcement of his idea, pr. Mitchell was forced to create situation irn- probable in itself. This fact has been uni- versany recognized by the critics. but like wise there has been almost universal agree ment in the fact that the situation which pr. Mitchell has outlined Is entirely convinc- ing as he expresses it. This would seem to bear upon the old question as to whether the fact as a writer knows his situation ta tbe based upon actual occurrence Is sufficient
 to warrant him in relating what is nos plausible to the reader
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

The taste for historical fiction has disappeared for the moment, but 1t has left in its place a feeling for romance. We do not care for armor and tourn- aments, for battle and martyrdom, as we did. We like our knights and la dies to be of the present day, to wear modern costumes. and play golf and tennis and ride in automobiles. The new chivalry seems to be the note of the day in fiction, yet we like 1t to have as much color and action as the old. The publication of such a book as Roland of Altenburg" emphasizes this change of taste anew. With reign ing prince for a hero and an up-to-date American girl for heroine, 1t brings together the ancient rites and the moo- ern. It is a romance pure and simple but it shows that romance is not ih- consistent with our everyday ille.
 The Rivers Children is an idyl or the Mississippi River, toio With .ne humor. the pathos and the grace that cbaractcrize all Ruth McEnery Stuarts work. The River flows through every maze If Is the River of which old Uncle Israel says:
 She's a mericle mystery, sho''
 "You loan over an dip yo' han in her an won take 1t up an you say it's wet. You dig yo' oars into her. an she'll spin yo' boat over her breast. You dive down into her, an you come up-or don't come up. Some eats her. Some drinks her. Some gethers wealth out'n her. Some draps 1t into her. Some drownds in her.
 An she gives an takes, an seem like all her chillen gifts satisfaction outn her, one way an another; but yit an still she ain't nuver Mustered. On an on she goes-rain or shine-high water, low water, all de same-on an on."
 Life. young and old! gray and gay. merry and tragic. the life of men and women who live along the Mississippi. is pictured. It is a book to deepen the affection of Mrs. stuart's old friends and to win new.
 Royalty seems to be having its way with American writers of fiction. Ed ward Mott woolley. the author of ''Rol- and of Altenburg," Is the latest to make
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Increase In Emigration.
Philadelphia Record.

PhtIadeIphIa ReCOru.
 1t may tend to relieve the excited minds of those who think the country Is becoming too populous to learn that emigration is almost as great as the Immigration in recent period. The American people in their turn have come to be stirred by the migrating impulse. During the month of July last the number of emigrants amounted to 66,05e, or nearly 5000 more than the new incomers in the same month. While this movement is going on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
NEW BOOK NEWS
(COncluded.) .

tude, to a work of De Foe, has easily taken high place in popular esteem among the books of the autumn. It is, Indeed, a literary triumph of an un- usual sort, and 1t might repay some painstaking student of history to so through it carefully for the purpose of comparing the words and express siGns in it which are really Washing tons with those that are exclusively Dr. MitchelTs. The comparison would doubtless be astonishing. There is a great deal of the actual Washington in the book
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
A Poets Dedication,

In his dedication. to the memory of Professor Francis James Child, of The Canterbury Tales of Godfrey Chaucer, A Modern Rendering into Prose of the Prologue of Ten Tales" Percy Mac Kaye writes: we beheld the nine and twen-
 ty ride
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

It is one of those frequent cases where poet. apostrophizing another. pays a tribute thoroughly applicable to himself. Thsi handsome book, fl- frustrated in colors by Walter Apple ton Clark, will bring the Canterbury pilgrims before the eyes of many to whom Chaucer has been only name.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

Through those dim aisles their death-
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 chide, Living and loving on the enchanted
 page"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

across the seas there is a constant and increasing stream of emigration over the northern border into the fertile wheat region of Canada. When the account comes to be balanced at the end of the year it will probably be found that the excess of emigration Is far below that of former periods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

There was a spinster of Du Quesne fWhose face was most exceeding pluesne.
 And she would pass
 A looking glass And look not in it--it gave her puesne
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

The first edition of Miss Helen Pit kin's novel, An Angel by Brevet," which was published November 2. by J. B. Lippincott Company, has been ex- hausted and the second edition Is on press. Miss Pitkin, who is a New Or leans girl, is widely known through out the South and in New England, and her novel, which deals with New Or leans life, Is her first story in book form.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

use of it's rights and privileges. He goes further than Mrs. Atherton in Rulers of Kings" and makes reign ing prince his hero To Mrs. Atherton the court ceremonies and etiquette are of great importance, but they form very small part of Mir. Woolley's story. They weigh so heavily upon the "Rul- CTS of Kings" that one rather forgets the story and the characters in follow ing them, but in Roland of Altenburg" 1t Is the men and women who are inn portant They are very modern and intensely human. And they do not hes itate to brush aside tradition and the formalities of courts in order to live their lives.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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per yr. Dated June 10, 1904.
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Tuck Wal co; Rel; leasehold, bldgs
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1904
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