The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-26

To those persons who expressed amazement at the general excellence oi last years holiday edition of this pa per the Christmas edition of The Ad- vertiser, to be issued Sunday. Decem,, Der 17th, will be a revelation. IL VII, % Se hsys agser RiaRer piiRs than edition of 1904 which was declared .S be the greatest newspaper ever issueo in Alabama. advertising space in the big edition. which is now in preparation, ana as it is to be issued a full week neIose Christmas day, shoppers Will ma lts ao-
 The editors. who are planning the many features of the big holiday edi- tion, declare that they were never ape reading matter from home writers. The Advertiser has again drawn upon Ala bama literary talent and the result is more than surprising. the writings of Alabama newspaper men, many of whose pictures are to be reproduced. In addition to interesting stories, sketches. poems and nction yertiser will present articles from the pens of Erwin Craighead, editor or The Mobile Register; Eli F. Smith and ROD ert G. Hidden of The Birmingham News; Paul Cook of The Birmingham Age- Herald; J. R. Hornady. editor or Ad- vance; Max Hamburger, editor Of The Mobile Herald; W. D. Sowell, editor or The Brewton News; Tom Garner, edi- tor of The Tuscaloosa Times -Gazette J. B. Stanley. editor of The Greenville Advocate, and other newspaper men of State reputation. Then, too, there will be a series of stories and sketches by newspaper men who have gone from Alabama into metropolitan journalism Aa a ffnnS for tham- selves. These will include W. V. Brum, by of St. Louis and M. Koenigsberg and Will R. Hamilton of Chicago and MIL Saul of Atlanta. formerly of The Ad- ington, Walter Hawiey of The New York Sun and Sewell Haggard of The New York Times; Bozeman c. Buiger of The New York World and numerous others.
 gale" of The New York American, has written exclusively for the Christmas Advertiser a unique poem, which ne calls "A Ballode of Longing.
 In the fiction department of the grea' paper there will be an able story, 'Ths Promise of the Pines." by Will 1T Shee- han, The Advertisers well-known spe- cial writer; Guinea Nigger sam" bI Wellington vandiSsr n.,ross. of Iaitaresa stars a early Mobile life. by Dora Barron o Montgomery; Larry of Court Killar ney." by Enfield Joiner, the cleve' young story writer of Talladega; Bet netts Boy" railroad story of moderf interest, by Henry Gaines Turner O Mobile; "Virs Triumphans." splen didly written story by. Charles Stevens Partridge of Selma; "A Grating Phil anthropist." by Harry J. Burney O. Montgomery. whose writings for Tn Advertiser invariably attract atten | tion; The Redoubtablel Miss Prescott, an up- p-to-date story of society, by Ofiy' winston Gage of Mobile; Tn Bayo' mingham; "Grandmother's Wedding Gown" by Florence Sanders Turren | There will also be published splendi' stories by John Kendrick Bangs, Mrs Ruth McEnery Stuart, s. F. Riser, c. B Tsoomis, w. J. Hampton. Florence War den. w. Gurney Benham and numerou others of like reputation,
 A complete section Of tne 1eo paper paper will be devoted to children's story
 sThe Life and Adventures of Sant Claus" by L. Frank Baum, author O 'The Wizard of Oz," and one of tn greatest of modern writers of this styl of matter.
 at the many admirable stories dread planned for the fiction department O the Christmas edition. Every one Q these articles. as well as the compiet paper, will be illustrated in the ar rooms of The Advertiser by It's owi artists and engraverR
 The poems and verses puplisned p, The Advertiser in its last holiday edi tion attracted widespread interest Among those already in hand for tn forthcoming edition are those from til pens of Mrs. M. E. Henry-Ruffin O