The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
CHRISTMAS ADVERTISER
 TO BE ISSUED TOMORROW
Same of the Features of the Great Annual Holiday Number of This Paper--Will Eclipse
 Other Efforts.

The great Christmas edition of The Advertiser will be issued tomorrow morning and it will be the biggest anu best newspaper ever issued In Alanama and in point of interesting reaoins matter and artistic iiiustrauons' the best newspaper ever issued III 'he
 No expense and no labor has been srsred in making this great newspaper 1t will be another demonstration oI lhe excellent equipment of The Aovertise' and a creditable reflection or its nne stan organization and skillful "ork- men. oai,,or ,z,ili he ,Inexcelled, while the artists and engravers employed by The Adver- tiser will show that they are as cleVer and as skillful as those or any otnr, newspaper in this country. There wiii be more than 800 illustrations. all e~- ecuted in The Advertiser building.
 The advertisements. designed. iiius- trated and engraved in the various de- partments of the papers plant, snow. too, the perfect equipment of the paper for the handling of the pubiic's busi- ness.
 In the numerous sections of the great pauer will be found reading matter for all classes. It has been selected with great care As usual The Advertiser has given first choice to Alabama writ CTS and the display Of literary taieht hr Alabama people will be surprising. { Among the fuil-page features of the biz paper, all of which are profusely and artistically illustrated by Frank M, Spangler, is short story, The Grating Philanthropist," by Harry J. Burney of Montgomery; short story, Larry of Court Killarney" by Miss Enfield Joiner of Tailadega; a short story, ''The Promise of the Fines by Will T. Sheehan of Montgomery; "A Page of Driftwood." by Phil H. Arm strong. The Advertiser's poet, humor- ist: "Reminiscences of Osceola," by pr. H. N. weedon of Eufaula; "The Flight of the. Alabamas," an interesting his- torical narrative, by pr. W. S. Wyman of Tuscaloosa.
 Other full page features are Solo mon Crows Christmas Pockets" by Ruth McEnery Stuart and ''The Christ mas Gifts of Thaddeus" by John Ken drick Bangs.
 Tho list of short stories selected from many that were submitted includes Guinea Nigger sam by WiIlington vandiver of Talladega; "Janet's Re- conefliation" by Miss Florence Sanders. Turrentine of Athens, Tn Bayou Goula Swamp" by Paul Cook of Birmingham; ''Vir Triumphans." by Charles Stevens Partridge of Soldiers Creek; Ruined by McGinnis' by Win R. Hamilton. of New Orleans; "A Ruse that Failed by Lorenzo F. Woodruff. of Montgomery; The Mysterious Princess" by Miss Dora Barron, of Montgomery; The Redoubtable Miss Prescott" by Miss Olive winston-Gage of Mobile: '"The Wit of Woman" by Mrs. Lula Judson Moody of Bessemer; "A Plantation Tragedy" by Miss Frances Grimm, of Montgomery: "Bennett's Boy by Henry Gaines Turner of Mobile: "A Sensation at Cline by Charles L. Harold of Montgomery; Wanted, q Companion" by s. F. Riser; The Cruise of the Mudcowski' by C. B. Loomis; By Way of. the Chimney" by W. J. Hampton; "A Bushrangers Christmas" by Florence Warden; The Land of the silver Star" by Eva Rogers and christmas at No. 5 John Street."
 Walter Hawley, policicaI writer of the New York Sun and former Ala bamian. writes on Southerners in New