The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-18

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 of Alabama is presented in yesterday edition of The Advertiser. It Is doubt | full if such large number of repre- sentative Alabama literary people has ever been before assembled in any Many of the articles of these numer- 1 ous Alabamians are accompanled py their pictures. number Of them pc. | ing published in a newspaper the f1rst time.
 | The Advertiser feels a pride in the fact that 1t is the only newspaper in this State that has ever attempted an exploitation of the literary attatnments of the people of Alabama and in do- doing. so it has given its readers much ic.h
 It is interesting to observe that Mo- bile. the home of a John Forsyth: a Bellamy, a John l.. Rapier. Father Ryan. a Mrs. Ruffin; for awhile the abiding place of Theodore OHara ana a T. c. DeI.eon and host of others.> Is still seat of culture ana that many of its people in this age Ur commercfal- ism, still turn themselves to literary
 In the galaxy. of AIaDama writers presented yesterday morning is to be found a delightful essay on Happiness forceful editor of The Mobile Register in papers in his cosy editorial den nev- CT too busy to stop for kind word to
 Then Miss Ethel Hodgson. the gifted daughter of Joseph Hodgson. former reader with an admirable "Apprecia- tion" of Mrs Augusta Evans Wilson the most distinguished of all Alabama lit
 Another Mobile writer, Henry Gain CT Turner, shows great literary ability by his short story, "Bennetts Boy" thc MF EoTeen ns yeqRis SerRiee man wn0
 Miss olive Winston Gage, a young girl of Mobile displays discriminative
 1Sgns soes1 sPd fea eaad fEf rbs her sH | able Miss Prescott"
 The ,erudite Mrs. M. E; Henry Rufti9 of Mobile contributes tc nes af grsat aT ar ment is dramatic and forceful. Mrs. Ruff
 fms literary work has SttFaGted nge mTeh She Is also author of John Giidart" and many shorter stories and poems s fa rRe rRF roofs oSf rlie%e' Garden by eq1n Ha@ %T avfe4 GayfSr yes eSaenos % M00f o He1e tfae poetic genius. His touch is delicate and subtle and his philosophy is sound. MT. Gayfer Is a business young man W ho contributes verses now and then to the metropolitan magazines. By inadvertence MT. Gayfer's poem was omitted from the Christmas edi-
 
 A glance at the index brings a vivid | picture of dear old gentleman about thousands of young men of Alabama | have sat at his feet anu have gone forth from his presence better men for Tuscaloosa has parental regard for | thousands of us, who in full measure give him unbounded love. His finely told narrative 'The Flight of the Ala bamas" should be preserved in every Alabama home where there is respect for the early history of our State. Dr. Wyman is nearly a s old as The Advertiser and he belongs to that SC. lect class of honored citizens which | receives The Advertiser with the com pliments of the management having been continuous subscriber more than fifty years. The transition of Walter L. Hawley from barefooted plowboy to one of the most powerful political writers of the world makes his paper on South ern people of New York of great inter- est MT. Hawley spent many years in Alabama, He is on the staff of The New York Sun.
 Two clever young women of Alabama who were represented in the. last Christmas number have contributed Joiner of Talladega. and The Wit of a Woman" by Mrs. Lulu Judson Moody of Bessemer, provide ample proof that ing fiction. Miss Joiner and Mrs. Moody have published a number of short stories in the magazines.
 Hon. Wellington Vandiver Mayor of Talladega, who has hitherto been re- garded as a droll humorist, shows by his story. Guinea Nigger Sam," that he can depict the dramatic as well as the droll. It is study in constructive
 For beauty of diction, the essay of Miss May Harris of Robinson Springs is commended to the reader. Miss liar ris gives evidence of wide information and depth of thought,
 Miss Martha Young of Greensboro, the clever book reviewer of The Ad- yertiser, had her share in the making of the holiday number. In addition to her usual department she contributed an exceptionally good review of Ala bama Authors" and an interesting dia- feet poem, "The Christmas Cakewalk."
 ''The Gold Fields of Alabama" by Richard C. Barnard, Jr., of Birmingham is a timely article on subject that in- terests every one who feels pride in the industrial development of our State MT. Barnard is an engineer of wide
 The able paper of Dr. Thomas NJ Owen, director of the States History and Archives Department, on "The Federal Judiciary of Alabama and the interesting paper on The Mission of Francis Scott Key to Alabama in ls33,"' hY Professor Thomas C. McCorvey, will anpeal to all classes and should be read by every school boy and school girl in AIahama Professor McCorVey has been a member of the State University faculty a great many years.
 The quaint philosophy of J. Culpep- those readers who enjoy droll humor ETis style Is inin1itable and although he