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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Personal and Pertinent.

When one realizes that the inhabit-
 ants of Greater New York number twice
 and more than those of Alabama it Is
 not strange that we can see more and
 stranger sights in day in the city
 than in a month in Dixie. The edge
 gets off of surprise and interest at the
 rush of new things. It is strange how
 without fail the familiar sights and
 sounds attract and please more than
 the new. have often noticed 1t Is
 fact with sight-seers at expositions, or
 travellers abroad. At Kew Gardens
 group of us. all Southerners. gathered delightedly about a cotton plant, more interested were we to see that familiar
 plant in English soil than we were
 in all the orchids and strange growths os other lands.
 A Southern girl in New York tells
 me of her delight to ], ok out at cer-
 tain hour each morning and see go by
 wagon load of calves. Sleek little calves twenty-five or thirty, standing close in the wagon and bleating con- tentedlv at the close fellowship and the
 warm sunshine. little rocking that they are driving to the sacrifice.
 saries of kodak pictures of the nur,erous and diverse wagons that nass A window in a day would make an Interesting Co]1ectlon. he SCutiiV- shaned ash-carts. The garbage-box-
 wagons. the paper gatherers, the men with push-carts. a row of bells on leather strap across the body of the cart tanelInp. jingling, jingling an acoornpaniment to the mans strident cry of Rags! RaRs!" The organ wagons. one has symbols. and drum, and lots else that goes with brass
 hand all rolling and beating and blow
 ing at once. The basket-wagon. such beaps of baskets of all shapes and sizes known to the ordinary trade. Brush wagons. all sorts of brooms and brtIshes Wagons of lemons at the
 marvellous price of cents per dozen. Wagons of peaches. of fruits Of all sorts. of vegetables of oil sorts. Ice wagons with Danger" sign painted large and which the street boys do not hred. in spite of the warning they are up for a ride in iminent danger of be- | ing crushed every minute by the slip perv masses of crystal coolness. MIX l wagons. beer wagons. bread wagons. | fre-wa gons. besides wagons from all | different shape and sign. Hundreds Of l devine shape ano, sign. Hundreds or l them without beginning or ending. a l constant stream of wagons serving the | myriad wants of millions of people. | The value of literary wares Is dis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

and all her culture. and all her knowl- edpe of the law but refutes the cry that college courses unfit a woman for wife and motherhood.
 The love of mother and child has often found place in romance. No- where has been shown in fiction that most beautiful devotion of father and daughter than in Nancy Stair.
 There is a distinction of style, a refinement of fiction. a glow of real genius in the book that will com mand the readers joyous absorption of every page.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Miss DaSlsnm'~ Baby MemOIrs.

New York Times Book Review.
 am n lover of Elizabeth of the Ger man Garden" and the letters in your Review concerning her have afforded me much entertainment; but I was un- able to understand the feelings of those who dislike Elizabeth until l came across a book by Miss Daskam, The Memoirs of Baby !" After reading it half through laid 1t down in disgust at the wearisome tirade against those who have done much more good than harm in the world. and at the staleness of the joke-if joke 1t could be called
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
THE CLUB WOMAN.

Mrs Dore Lyon writes wisely or "Woman's Struggle for Power" Notes of the Federation of many clubs of many States. echoes of biennial are of interest to all club women.
 Rosine Ryan tells of the plan of work of the Travelling Library. This Is a work of club women which is produce tive of much good. Every club ought to reach out and do some such mis- sionary work Katherine Louise Smiths paper. Little Home Libraries for the Children" contains a plan that clubs of the South would do well to adopt for our rural schools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Couldn't OF woulaa,t Tell.

London Punch.
 MT. Pritchard of Boston. America, In A speech on the Ignorance of children. mentioned that a large number of pu- piis attending school in his native town teniared Themselves unable to say what Bfftter was made of. Possibly, how ever. the parents of these were in the margarine business, and the little ones were Loyalty keeping trade secrets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Three Iihrnrx Brothers.

Relentless City, is one of three broth CTS who are all literary men. A. c. Benson wrote Life of Tennyson, Life of Rossetti, and a volume of poems. and Robert Benson. who recent ly entered the Roman Catholic Church, is also an author +'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

What They Get et.-weston-Wha does h member of the Legislature get in your State7 Keystone--That de- peuds. Sometimes one is sentenced for a wear or two, but more frequently he gets of scot-free. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Nancy Stair. By Fillmore McCartney Lane.

By Fillmore Mccartney Lane.
 'In a green tabby velvet, laced with silver and a huge feathered hat, Nancy set out from Stair about eight in the morning" for Mauchline.
 There arrived because the house of Janet McGfllavorich, whose guest Man. cy was to be, had fallen into the cell lar of the same. Nancy was perforce re- ceived by Mistress McGillavorich at the Inn of the village.
 There was the notable meeting of the "twa rhymsters" Nancy Stair and Rob Burns. It is beautiful to hear the plow-boy talk of how he had been petted by the ladies and wined and dined by the 'Monbodders, the Glen earns, the Gardners" and the great poet adds these were good people,"
 Strange, a touch of nature this. Be a poet or novelist, or what not ever so great in genius, in talent, yet how rarely one found out the lower walks of life who is not a sycophant to the great of the world, the great in the visible tangible thing of money. rank, power.
 The cheering evenings of rhyming in the Inn where a storm shuts the min ister in a week are gaily depicted.
 Nancy Is carried away by the mem tai charms of Burns, by the apprecia-
 
 delightful Hitting and impressions of the worlds truest singer.
 How Nancy was disillusioned of what might have grown into love the story must tell itself.
 She had held that true gifted folks were Gods aristocrats--then came the Burns book: there are no words to tell the glory of 1t which had in it's high est essence, the thing we call genius. But 1t took me but two weeks to dis cover that the thing we call genius has no more to do with a persons char acter than the chair we sit in. I've come to the conclusion quoth Nancy wisely, that it Is harder to be a gentleman | than a genius"
 Better for living purposes dull gen. tleman than a brilliant boor. The Burns epistle is an excellent piece of work, a mere bit of an alto- gether brilliant book. Nancy was the Portia of her day. l Proving as brilliant and cultured wo- | men all down the ages continue. to prove that the evident outlook. the deepest rendition, the utmost bril1iancy | of mind, but give a deeper capability of love and added lovliness to women Nancy Stair with all her brilliancy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
NEW BOOK NEWS
 CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

Cousin Nell" with her eager en. couragement of her young ship-build- ing lover. is equally as attractive in her own winsome way. But always it is the men whom Mir. Connolly will make most true to life. Maurice Blake, splendid captain, who never loses head or heart; Clancy, the friend true and tried; Wesley Morris and O'Donnell. and the rest of them. The very different stamp of ship-own- CTS are well drawn, Fred withrow and "Old Duncan
 The mackerel schools. the excite mcnt of the pulling in the seine, the rush to New York to be first in the market is all graphically told.
 The story of the great race will be one always memorable in sailor liter ature. Love and fortune and friend ship were in. the race, and the best man won. Many a rollicking sea song enlivens the pages.
 There's a gale upon the waters and
 there's foam upon the sea, And looking out of the window Is a
 dark-eyed girl for me, And leaving her for Gloucester, maybe
 we don't know
 What the little ones are thinking when
 the mother looks out so--
 Here's to it that once. again
 We'll trawl and seine and race
 again"
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after looking in vain. for the. charms of infancy which had supposed was the attraction of the book. Then the thought came to me. Is this the way Elizabeth's detractors feel after read ing her book? Am lacking In humor and appreciation that I cannot laugh over this book? Is this to some people the rare, delicious reading that the German Garden" is to me? only felt a bored regret that Miss Daskam would waste her really clever pen on such small business. E. H. s.
 Mount Kisco N. Y, June 20, 1904.
 
 The New York Herald is to award prizes to the amount of ,00o for tho best co1or-page drawings for Its. Christmas number. The first prize is $500, the second $500 and the third $200.
 Germany Likes Gertrude Atherton, :.
 Gertrude Atherton's novels The Aris- tocrats and The Doomswoman, have been translated into German and pulp lished in Germany, and n German translation of Rulers of Kings Is now in preparation. Apropos of this the oTurner Yearbrook (Jahrbuch,l edited by Y. E. Freiherrn von Grotthuss, and published in Stuttgart, whose contrib utOrS are the most cultiVated German scholars writing without prejudice, says of this American novelist: The only Anglo Saxon novel of It's year possessing strength and poetic fire ap- peared fin America. It is entitled The Aristocrats. In consequence of the daring morals that characterize the social satire. 1t first appeared under the pseudonym of a young English mo- blewoman. who, writing to her sister in Scotland from the Adirondacks. ex- presses her opinions on the subjects of marriage and the relation of the sexes, in a most unconventional man ner. Now, however. the author has ended the mystery. The work Is from the pen of the gifted Mrs. Atherton. who in Germany, also, has achieved an enviable reputation. During this same year, Mrs. Atherton's first novel, Die Norne ('The Doomswoman') published some ten years aga, first appeared in Germany. It is a most interesting novel. picturing the life of the Califor- nian Spaniards before their annexation to the Unted States in 1s46. The sub- ject in It's entirety in handled in way of which Bret Harte is incapable"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
MT. Howeirs Latest Novel.

Mir Howell's latest novel, 'The Son of Royal Langbrith." which has fol- lowed Henry Jamess ~The Ambassa- dor as serial in The North American Review, is arousing general interest as the romance of a man and woman past their youth. It will be published in book form by the Harpers In the au- tumn. Mir Howells Is still in England.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

A tablet and window has been plac- ed in Exeter Cathedral as memorial to R. D. Blackmore. author of Lorna Doone." At the unveiling last month Mir Eden Phillpots said that Mir. Black more did not simply give the world many good books and one great one. but he enriched the language with many great ones"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
About the Homes of the .Iapanesc.

Edward s. Morse. author of Japaness Homes. and Their Surroundings. has been elected Corresponding Member of the American Institute of Architects. and Honorary Member of the Boston Society of Architects. in appreciation of the work done In his book.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

ents. Who's therer growled the irata father of the printer. thrusting hls head out of the window.
 'It's will Carleton" replied timfd voice. T want to see Bob. have to change my poetry before he gets it printed"
 What! Did you wake us up out of our sleep just for that? Well. I'll be -" the rest of the sentence was lost in the recesses of the room. Pres- entity Bob appeared: uut 1t was too lates for the whole edition of twenty copies had heen run off during the evening. The sorrowful and conscientious young poet had to content himself with the two copies he received as his royalty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21
Which is the Nicest Chiids

English interest in charming chil- dren is eliminating at present in a contest in which The Tatler has offered a prize for photographs of the three most beautiful children in the British Isles. The ladies who have consented to be judges are the wives of two fa- nous novelists. Lady Conan Doyle and Mrs. Thomas Hardy.
 I've would direct attention to some words of truth and soberness to be found in series of papers lately coll lected and published in book form un- der the title Problems of the Present south,'" says The New York Sun in a long editorial With full knowledge of the facts. and in an admirable spirit, the author. Mir. Edgar Gardner Mur- phy of Montgomery, Ala, examines certain of the educational, industrial and political issues in the Southern States. These papers should be read carefully and sympathetically by all Northerners who comprehend that the day has gone by when the North could be alleged to constitute the Nation. and who recognize that no smaller en- tity is connoted by the terfn Nation than the whole Republic. North and South. Mir. Murphy declares, on the contrary. that the South d&sirea from every quarter--as every eaction of our Commonwealth should desfre-a true national participation in her in- terests, a criticism national fin the exacting nobility of its ideals. nation in It's moral vigor. but national also in its intelligent and constructive sympathy. The appeal for such sym pathy is, to our mind. irresistible
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The value of literary wares Is dis-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

The New York Herald is to. award prizes to the amount of 1000 for tho best color-page drawings for its. Christmas number. The first prize is $500, the second $500 and thei third $200.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-07-08

of its own. II he had indeed recog-
nized the face of the woman who had
touched him with her hand, it was as
though he had witnessed her in a
vision, a dream bitter and troubled.
since it was a dream impossible to be
true.
The Swiss looked still hesitatingly
at. the lady who had thus strangely
come upon the scene, noticing her
sweet and tender mouth. her cheeks
just family tinged with pink, her eyes
shining with soft, mysterious radi-
ance. She approached the couch and
the unconscious man. Tears sprang
within her eyes and fell from her dark
lashes. The old servant looked up at
her, simply.
Madame would be alone with mon
sieur?" asked he. TT will be better"
Lady Catharine Knollys, left alone,
gazed upon the sleeper. John Law, the
failure, lay there, supine, abased, cast
down, undone, shorn utterly of his old
arrogance of mind and mien. Fortune,
wealth, even the boon of physical
WSll-DSluS- Hdu IhO
pride of a superb manhood had depart
ed from the lines of this limp figure.
The cheeks were lined and sunken, the
eye, even had the lid not covered it,
lacked the late convincing fire. No
longer commanding, no longer strong,
no longer gay and debonair, he lay, q
man whose fate was failure, as he HIM
self had said.
The woman who stood with clasped
hands, gazing at him, tears yelling in
her eyes-she, so closely linked to his
every thought for these many years
we'll enough she knew the story of his
boundless ambitions, now so swiftly
ended. Well enough, too, she knew
the shortcomings of this mortal man
before her. Even as she had in her
mirror looked into her own soul, SO
now she saw deep into his heart as
he lay there, helpless, making no fur
| Their plea for himself, urging no claim.
making no explanations nor denials
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THE MISSISSIPPI
, BUBBLE
By EMERSON HoUGH
Author of "The storyof the Cowboy"
"The Girl at the Halfway House. " Etc.
Copyright, 1907. by Emerson Hough.)
CHAPTER XLu.-CONTINUED.

The faithful Swiss, who had re-
time, and who had been not far from
his side during the scenes just con-
Guided, was in a moment at his side.
He hardly reached his master too
soon, for as he passed his arm about
him, the head of Law sank YEARLY
forward. He might, perhaps, have
sunk to the ground had he lacked
supporting arm.
At this moment there came again
the sound of hoofs upon the pavement
There was the rush of mounted out
rider, and hard after him sped the
horses of a carriage, whose driver
pulled up close at the curb and scarce
clear of the little group gathered there.
The door of the coach was opened, and
at it appeared the figure of woman,
who quickly descended from the step
What is it?" she cried. rs not this
the residence of Monsieur Law" The
officer saluted and the few loiterers
gave back and made room, as she
stepped fully into the street and adj
vanced with decision towards those
whom she saw.
Madam replied the Swiss, this is
the residence of Monsieur Las, and
this is Monsieur Las himself. l fear
he is taken suddenly ILL"
The lady stepped quickly to his side.
AS she did so, Law, as one not fully
hearing, half raised his head. He
looked full into her face, and releasing
himself from the arms of his servant,
stood thus, staring directly at the Wis
itor, his face haggard, his fixed eyes
bearing no sign of actual recognition.
"Catharine! Catharine!" he ex-
claimed. "Oh God, how cruel of you
to mock mel Catharine!"
The unspeakable yearning of the cry
went to the heart of her who heard it.
She put out hand and laid it on his
forehead. The Swiss motioned toward
the house. And even as the Office.
wheeled his troop to depart, these two
again assembled the steps, half carry
ing between them tumbling man
who but repeated mumblingly to him
self the same words:
'Mockery! Mockery!"
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CHAPTER XLIII.
THE QUALITY OF MERCY.


Within the great house there was
silence, for the vistas of the wide in
terror led far back from the street and
its tumult; nor did there arise within
the walls any sound of voice or foot
fall Of the entire household there
was but one left to do the master
service.
They entered the great hall, passed
the foot of the wide stairway, and
turned at the first entresol. where were
seats and couches. The servant paused
for moment and looked inquiringly
at the lady with whom he now found
himself in company.
"The times are serious" he began.
81 would not intrude. madame, yet per-
haps you are aware"
Il am a friend of monsieur" replied
Lady Catharine. He is ill. See, he is
not himself. Tell me, what is this i'll
ness? ?" ~
Madame, said the Swiss, gravely,
This illness is that of grief. Monsieur's
failure sits heavily upon him.
How long is it since he slept?"
asked the lady, for she noted the
dropping head of the man now reclin-
ing upon the couch.
Not for many days and nights"
replied the Swiss. He has for the last
few days been under much strain. But
shall 1 not assist you. madame? You
are, perhaps-pardon me, since l do
not know your relationship with mon
sieur-"
"a friend of years ago. I knew Mr..
Law when he lived in England"
:, 81 perceive. Perhaps madame would
be alone for time? II you please.
will seek aid"
/, They approached the side of the
couch. Laws head lay back upon the
cushions. His breath came deeply and
slowly, not stertorously nor labored.
= .sHow strange" Whispered the Swiss.
''he sleeps!" - Es
s Such was indeed the truth. The iron
nature. so long overwrought. now ut
terly unstrung.s had yielded for the
first time to the stress Of nature and of
events. The relief from what he had
taken to be death had come swiftly,
and the reaction brought Q lethA calm
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BURIED UP TO HER NECK.
Pennsylvania Woman Rescued frou
Perilous Position After Ex-
citing Experience.

The earth suddenly opened under
Mrs. Thomas Gaughan's feet, and she
was enveloped in an old mine cave-ip
but escaped. She resides at Byrnes
vile, a mining village of Pennsyl
vania, and went to visit a sick friend
While she was passing along an al
ley, without a moments warning the
ground sank, carrying her rs feet be
low the surface, and burying her ur
to her neck in loose rock and dirt
Her head was not covered, and al
though she was held as in wise, she
could breathe.
Citizens formed rescuing party,
and, after hard work, released the
woman from her perilous position.
People living near the scene fear
their homes will be swallowed up.
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HORSES HOLD RIGHT OF WAY.
Dispute Track Near PottsviIle, Pa,
with East Train and Block
O Tunnel.

A pair Of frisky horses which es-
capped from a pasture near Pottsville,
Pa, persistently stopped the Pennsyl-
vania railroad nortA-bound express one
day recently by running ahead of the
train in a long tunnel, placing the lives OF
100 passengers in imminent peril.
Roberts, the engine driver, notlceo
the horses on the track as he pulled
out into the suburbs Of Pottsvilie. Ap-
pearing to enjoy the race with the
train, the footing of the whistle failed
to scare them from the track, and 1or
a long distance the singular spectacle
was presented of a fast train pre-
ceded by two splendid horses, with
flashing eyes and distended nostrlls.
going at breakneck speed.
1t was an ideal contest between steel
and steam and flesh and bone. Twice
the train was stopped, and the horses
chased away, but each time returned
The big tunnel between, Pottsville and
st. Clair was finally reached, through
which the horses sped, with the en-.
CINE close behind, the whistle screech.
ing continually, disastrous wreck Ger.
tain if they were struck.
The tunnel is about a quarter of 9
mile long, and the train had to BE-
stopped every few yards in order ia
avoid any chance Of running into tbs
horses. An effort had been made by
the crew at the entrance of the tunnej
to drive the horses from the track, but
they took fright and dashed on into
the darkness.
In order not to drop too far behind
schedule time the conductor decided
to proceed cautiously. Though the sit
uation was of a perilous character, the
humor of it was fully appreciated by
the crew and the passengers.
At the st. Clair station the horses
were still galloping ahead, and it was
necessary to lasso them to give the
train a clear right Of way. This waf
accomplished only after considerable
difficulty.
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LOVES YOUNG DREAM.
truly Touching Situation Brought
About by the Outrageous
Dust


The wind swept cloud of dust about
them as they turned the corner of the street,
relates the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Did you get any dust in your eyes, dar-
ling! he asked fondly, holding her closely
to MIN, as though to keep the too eager wind
away.
Yes" she murmured, searching for the
handkerchief.
Which eye, dearest?"
''The right one, love. Did you get any
thing in yours" she asked anxiously, seeing
his handkerchief appear.
Yes, darling"
(Which eye, dearest!
''The right one, love-"
"How sweetr she exclaimed. with a sad
light glowing in her well eye. DO you sup
pose, dearest heart, that it could have been
part of the same piece of dust that got into
our eyes, darling?"
eye and wiping the other.
Wouldn't it be sweet, dear?"
Wouldn't it, love!'
And the wind howled around the corner
as though it was in pain and from the house
three doors below a dentists sign fell off
into the street.