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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17


 to speed and makeshifts. in building
 The building of Atmore was different It was built for time. for permanence It was and Is the firm purpose of MT carney to make 1t a town of which any man could feel proud, to have q | town which any man might feel a sat. isfaction to have had part in the building
 It came naturally to pass, therefore
 that the business houses should be strong, handsome and enduring, They are nearly all of bick, these business houses. In the early days there were lew wooden stores but they were so rapidly substituted with brick structures. that In the short space of SIX years they have become all but a memory. There are in Atmore a dozen stores which In architecture in floor space In furnishings are such that a city might feel pride in them. The dwelling houses, the homes of the prosperous little city, are of the same sort of merit and permanence. They are built to be lived in. they were punt 10 stand. The plain hurriedly bullt houses which mark the usual mil town are not in evidence about At. more. In the building of the town all ways was 1t kept in mind that it was to De town of permanence, a place of future importance.
 In The Early Days.
 For number of years the station of Atmore. located on the main trunk line or the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was nothing more than a weatherboarded depot with two or three stores and Carney's big lumber mill. But MT. Carney who owned nearly everything in sight and who had ac- cumulated fortune in the turpentine and lumber business determined to build town and to fill it with good citizens. It Was but little more than six years ago that the work was be- gun. What Atmore is 1t has grown to be in those six years. It is claimed 1t now has population of 1000 The business done in the town is much larger than which is usually done in a town Of 1000 population. The surrounding country is fa..ing up quite as rapidly as is Atmore. The p state tate meut of MT. Carney that he has soid land to be between l25 and 1So white farmers shows this if nothing else does and other people have sold farming lands in addition to MT. Carney
 between $500 and 1000 bales of cotton ton
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
ATMORE==A PROMISE=AN OPPORTUNITY
WneGras sLandsune
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that rich land with the clay suosoii and with those notifications ana gra- dations which mark the land or the Wiregrass. It Is pine land nke the Wiregrass. Houston County. Conee County, Geneva County and lower Henry County, are made up III the main of such soil. The same fins Belt runs across the southern ana eastern portion of the State. Across the attahoochee. Southwest Geor- gfa is perhaps the richest farming country of Alabama's sister States. It is the same sort of land over there, the pine land with that clay subsoil found either in Houston or Escambia Coun- ties.
 NIT. Carney's View.
 Mfr. W. Nj. Carney, the leading citizen of Atmore, is firmly of the opinion that the section about Atmore Is even better farming land than is found In the Wire Grass. Mir. Carney Is veteran turpen- tine and lumber man. He knows the pine belt from end to end, and from side to side as 1t is given few men to know it. Conditions In every part of it are known and familiar to him.
 The land here is better than that on which the Wiregrass has grown so rich" said Mir. Carney. with conviction. "In the main the lands are similar. be- ing the same Pine Belt, but whatever difference there Is is a difference in favor of the lands about here. They are better than the pine lands of South east Alabama. Over there you frequent ly find the sapd covering above the clay subsoil. Here you find very, very little sand. Tn the main the clay sub soil In cur lands about Atmore is cov- cred with black ioam which holds the moisture and which retains the fertil- izer better than any other sort of lands
 An especially enthusiastic admirer of the lands and ardent believer in the future greatness of the section is Dr. D. C. Burson. The doctor which goes before his name indicates that he is a dentist. but of itself it fails to indicate as 1t might, that he is a good dentist and a successful one. Dr. Burson is a Monroe County product. He came over to Atmore some five or six years ago and like so many other young men who have come to this new place. he has made money and won success. He has not only luilt up a fine practice. but he established a weekly paper here. The Atmore Spectrum, and a good paper it is, too. He and his partner. G. w MeRea, own the paper and the big building which Is its home. They have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

the ambition of making Atmore pros- porous, beautiful little city. He has had this in his mind perhaps less than SIX years. It has prospered beyond his expectations. That he has been the central moving impulse of this growth and prosperity may not be doubted. He does not wish to have the town grow in a hap hazard way. He has seen to 1t that the buildings erected are not cheap nor shodcy and he has been careful of the sort of people to whom he sold his property. It was not sufficient reason to him to sell land to a man because he had the money to pay for it. He wanted to know what sort of a citizen the new conner would make. This may partly account for the orderly thirtf-loving citizen ship of the community.
 Mir. Carney occupies one of the most beautiful homes in all South Alabama It is in a splendid grove of verdant oaks. every tree of which he planted since he came to Atmore. The ap- proach to the home. through an avenue of oaks. Is as beautiful as the splen- did colonial structure which he built for his home. He had a we'll known Mobile architect come up and not only draw the plans of his house, but to su- perintend every detail or the construc- tion. This pillared home is a delight to the eye.
 Here Mir. and Mrs. Carney live throughout the whole year. Three of their children. all daughters, are liv- ing. and they or the grandchildren are visitors off and on throughout the year. The daughters are. Mrs. Patter-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

plant which may well be the envy of any weekly editor, so complete and so valuable Is it. Moreover, pr. Bur son has other business interests in At more and an unshakable faith In it's future growth and prosperity. And in talking of the farm lands about Atmore he became enthusiastic. Said he:
 Dr. Burt0n's Opinion.
 They are among the best, the very best farm lands in all Alabama. You can't make that too strong. You have been around this section. You have seen some of the farms about here. You have seen the sort of corn crops, the sort of cotton crops that are grown. Now take the Wallace place, for in- stance It's only four miles northeast of Atmore. Now that place has been in actual cultivation more than hundred years. It was first cleared up and cuf- tivated by the Indians. And right now after a hundred years of cultivation 1t is more productive than at any other time in it's history. Do you know that this place is this year renting for $6 an acre. and next year a lease of it has been made for 1t at the same fig ures? And there is plenty of land about here just as good. This piney wood land with its clay subsoil and it's dark mold above can't be beat. We have farmers who have come in recent ly from other sections Of Alabama. You ask them what sort of crops they are making here. and you will get the in- formation, if you doubt the results of your own observation.
 Moderate Good Prices.
 So much for the quality of the lands in question What about the price? The prices are reasonable, most req sonable. Of that there is no room to doubt. Tn other sections of the State where the small white farmers have come in and made the piney woods lands famous az an agricultural sec- tion they are asking S25 and $50 an acre. and the lands are well worth it.. Here at Atmore 1t Is perhaps possible to get the best sort piney woods land at half the figure. This statement alone should be sufficient to cause any man who is contemplating change in his farming location to thoroughly in vestigate conditions in and around Att more.
 Mir. Carney owns upwards of 30,000 acres of these piney woods lands. They were once pine timbered lands as a portion of them is now. but a great majority of the acres have been cut over. MT Carney has not had these lands on the market very long.
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remarkable increase over the towns cotton business of last year with its Dig bumper cotton crop when only 500 or 900 bales were shipped from that | point
 man who contemplates moving to new community wants to know something of the people who live there and he wants detailed information about the churches and the schools God fearing people, a people who esteem at its full value worth the value of education live In and around At- more. There are three churches here, all of them handsome attractive struc. lures.
 The building of the handsome little Episcopal church Is one of the many benefits MT, Carney has conferred up- on the town. He is himself devout churchman. a member of the Episcopal church. The church is mission church, being supplied by Mobile minister. as frequently as possible.
 Both the Baptist church and tho Methodist church have regular pas tors. They have large congregations and the interest in spiritual and re- ligious matters Is widespread in the community. One would naturally ex- pect to find, considering the youth of Atmore, some of the roughness which characterizes sudden and rapid growth UT young lOWHS. put IHe TnOTdI anu religious atmosphere of Atmore is such as characterizes the older Ala bama towns
 Excellent Schools.
 An especial pride is felt by the peo- pie of Atmore, the entire population in the excellent school facilities of which the town boasts. For one thing Atmore has a County High School, from which children students are ad- mitted from every part of Escambia County. It Is an original idea, this County School, and 1t was the concep- tion of Former County Superintendent of Education w. s. Neal. It Is de- signed to bridge the very defect fin the educational system of Alabama which President John W. Abercrom- bic. of the State University, pointed out in a recent intervIew-the hiatus between the common school and the colleges and universities. No county in Alabama has such a county. High School like thaA at Atmore, although Mobile Is similar. The County High School together with the public school
 Continued on Page Five.)
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Atmore and its section.

Atmore. its section. is promise and an opportunity.
 For the Southern farmer, the man who understands Southern farming and Southern conditions. 1t Is espec- ially rich in promise. The reasons which have brought forth this con clusion will be here set down as con- vtncingly. as they may be. for they are written In sincerity and in con- viction and they are written in a knowledge that should be more or less thought through. The conclusions were not conceived from reading compli- mentary and advertising literature for very little of such. if any, has been written. of that promising section which lies in the Pine Belt of South Alabama just north of the Florida line. Whatever has been set down for other people has been spontaneous and vol untary and those that have written of II have done, as I have done, visited 1t not once. but several times and inves- tigated conditions which prevail and read the promise of the future in those existing conditions.
 Why does Atmore offer an unusual promise to the thrifty home seeker?
 First by the quality of it's lands, second. by their price. third by it's splendid climate. fourth by the merits or its civilization. that Is to say the character of the people who live there and the educating and refining influ- ences which they have already es- tablishcd.
 The Promise of the Section.
 IL IS easy enough to say these things. But are they true? They are and they would be set down so con- vincingly that all doubt would be overridden. did the writer's abili- ty measure up the task at hand.
 Ask an Alabamian which is the rich est and most prosperous farming sec tion of this State as Q whole, and he will nine times out of ten say South . east Alabama. the wireRrnss country" Today Atmore and the Pine Belt just north of the Florida line stands where the wiregrass stood some sixteen years ago, when it was at the dawn of its remarkable progress. when the white farmers were just beginning the work of making it's great prosperity. The Wfregrass and its edges were the same sore of country as Escambia County and its edges. Now for in stance "n organization of tho soil and 'ts rrake-uo. it's attrihutne and itS "roduets. shows that 1t is mainly ar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
THE PEoPLEs MERCANTILE cor1pANY

or and adjoining the deer park. Tho deer have learned where the succulent green food grows. and no matter how hlSh the fence is one or two of them have learned to climb it.
 Herd Increases Steadily,
 The herd has been growing steadily. Most of them, now members of the herd were born in captivity, In the limits of the park. It Is worthy of mention that doe captured by a friend of MT. Carney in a wild state. grew to be the gentlest and freest of all the herd. She. above all others, was fond of betting. But all the deer. un- less 1t be the obStrepOrous bucks, re- spond to care and affection. Assem-. bled together. the herd, so indicative of song and story, recalling so much of the wild beauty and freedom of na- ture. reminiscent of so much of the romance with which the graceful ani- mals have beeen invested. is a beauti- full sight
 It is a gentle inspiring diversion. keeping and caring for his herd and no man could hegrudge. the owner the peculiar pleasure he takes in his daily visits to his wild, but affectionate and responsive pets. Nor Is It difficult to &understand his pride in the beauty. in the universal attraction his pets have for all visitors
 And 1t Is meet and proper that a park which is keeping alive the lar gest herd of native deer in the South should be located in Escambia county near the Florida line. For here was the chosen home of the Indian, for which nothing was more responsible than this section, than that of all the south it was the most favoranle for the red deer of the Gulf States. They were found here in greater numbers than anywhere else. It Is their home. hundred years before the white man came the Indians were living hereabouts and over the very ground on which Atmore is located the In- dian, Red Eagle and his forefa thers. Of the Creeks hunted the red deer of Alabama.
 "Atmore has the handsomest. the most substantial buildings l have ever seen in any mill town in the United States and I have seen the most of them"
 A famous lumberman, who came to Atmore not long since to see W. M Carney on business, made this asser- ton' mill town is supposed to run
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23
WHISKY STORED IN GERMANY
Dlstillers Find 1t Cheaper Than Paving
Taxes in This Country

1t is not generally known tba+ I o,i.
vile dIshllers and warehouse tna,, ,,,
warehouses i'll Germany in which COM
slderably more than a million gallons ~
Nentucky whisky is stored and will some
time be returned to this state. Dut,. T.,
the amount of $5,125.5S was coIiectoJ
at the local custom house yesterday an
relmported whisky. chewing gum. mil
llnery, glue and iaces. A large part of
TINS collection was on Kentucky wbisl,
which had been stored in Germany.
About $500 barrels of Kentucky whis-
Ky IS now stored in the customs ware
house here, consigned to local dealers
This whisky has spent several years in
Germany. Originally diStiIlerS assigned
as a reason for exporting whisky to Ger,
many and importing it again that it gof
peculiar sea flavor i'll crossing the
ocean, which improved it. Many a Ken.
lucky colonel disputed this fact ON the
basis that Kentucky whisky cannot be-
improved after it is properly aged.
The real reason, however. for storing
whisky in Germany is to save money.
although there may be the contributing
reason of securing a sea flavor. The
national law formerly provided that
whisky must be taken out of bond ill
side of three years. and the tax of $l.1O
gallon must be paid on ii when taken
out. 1t also provided that if whisky be
exported such tax would not have to be
paid on it at the time of the taking it
out, and further that it might be REIN.
ported upon payment of $1.10 a gallon
The duty on imported whisky which is
not made in America is 1925.
Many distillers and warehousers found
it cheaper to export the whisky and i'm
port it later than to borrow the money
for internal revenue taxes. An enormous
quantity of whisky was then sent
abroad, and as Germany is the only
country which will admit it without pay.
ment of duty it was sent there. Both
Mexico and Canada impose heavy
duty. The distillers figured that the
cost of transportation both ways was
cheaper than the interest on the money
with which they would have to pay
taxes at the time. They could keep the
whisky stored in Germany many years
or as long as they wanted to. and bring
i. back in small quantities, so they were
not put to the embarrassment of borrow
ing very large amounts of money for
taxes. Congress has since passed law
allowing whisky to remain in govern
ment warehouses eight years before the
internal revenue taxes are paid.-l4ouls-
vile Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23
Peary's Early Practice.

4 man who sets out to reach the noflli
pole should know how to endure hard
ships, and Commander Peary long aso
hogan to learn. A prominent citizen oil
Maine, himself a lover of outdoor me
says when Peary was Il young man u
was common thing for him To taN'
"a camping outfit of blanket ana Il
lunch" and start for the mountains h'i-
dering upon Maine and New Hampshire.
There, alone. he would pass days eA-
ploring ravines. lodges and the deep, Sc,
cluded spots, cooking his own meals ana
feasting upon the trout with which tue
streams ahounded. He never hu!i Il
camp; he simply rolled himself ia
blanket TO sleep, but he would come o"'
brown and hardy.
On one of these occasions he lau taN"
canoe to the headwaterS of Cold river
and after passing n few days came 90" j"
the Saco and stopped at about c'0,N
for a word with those in my camp W
expected to have the pleasure "t G'S
company for the night, thinking thai a.
would welcome hearty meals and n -''I
bed But NO." he said, Il never s-e'P
indoors when on these trips.
1t was cold, windy November Ii~N.'
but he babe us goodbye and went ,.o"..
the river The next morning b'Nlgt
stone wall, we found his campihS p",
4 few smoky embers told us Wil'" ~
had cooked his breakfast. tHd SPY
on the grass six and half feet long i'i..'
free white frost showed us where 81.
had slept.-Lcwis (Ne) journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23
The Black Art of Magic.

In every sort of magic the magiciau's
thumb is his worst enemy. If he could
strike off that thumb and still have its
assistance when necessary he would be
happy man. In closing the hand the
thumb usually bends toward the palm in
advance of the fingers. In this way il
many times is much in the way, and
practice is necessary 10 get magician's
thumb in perfect training. But when
he has practiced in the school for some
time the thumb becomes So flexible that
it will bend nearly to the back of the
hand.
Cards are invariably the beginning of
magiciau's education. In handling
cards the thumb is especially in the
way. aud this is the reason why this
tric6cry with the pastehoartlS is selected
for the beginner. To change one card
for another in front of ones very eves
and still to have made no perceptible
movement of the hand is a trick that
{oe boys learn 10 perform before they
have been in the school for any leuyti
of time.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Oh, say, young man of skinny scads,
Now is the time to buy
The things that you have got 20 wear
Next year-unless you die.
Go TO the shop where hats are sold
And You VIII see a sign
Which reads a little bit like this:
Straw mats now 40
Seek out the shop where clothes are sold
At prices which were great
And you will see nice suits thus marked:
Your choice, Gas
Another window shows this sign:
Come in. If you're alive,
And buy our - cent ties.
Reduced to two for ).
The chap who handled summer shirts
Of every known design
Has got this signal to the front
Fine shirts at 80.
The shoe man gets into the push
With this sign at his door:
These russell shoes, 1g9:
Marked down from 3 and 4
Here shines window like the fias,
In red and white and blue.
And lettered thus: 'GauZe underwear,
A whole suit, 30.
At every shop you'n find the same,
And If you're wise enough.
You'll hardly wait until next year
To buy your summer stuff.
w. J. Hampton in New York sun
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23

himself in the position cf
ieii'ehioef TWO things: FIRST e "o
ms !eaVe from Aldershot was n.y.. '.at
ueIihlte, and, second, that even tba ''' y, ill.,
est OF hoheymoons must be nracal. ..,'.s'
a service at which the pre-enoo '.H ~
lalthini lew is all that Is nec...,,.,. ',e
need hardly he said that Mr.. NJ it
was not one of these - '.'-'pt
but she missed Alice at the br.,i..
table. She was alarmed. and .,., .'..,l.>t
more than alarmed, by the sndla,, ;.,. z
OF MIR. Dinwecdle. ''!a,a
Its time We knew" he cr;.I. .....
ceremony. We've. time to sto ,," = ~ y. '''at
quick; That Draw youth frae fl" aSE re
den; Inn and Miss Alice thcv'yo c.- Eur,
on uhder yeer very nesc.' e''"
but 1t was too late. Soncthir,, 50. -.
story, though in quee@ mist ro.., 'g
Mrs. Nlndsor's fairtng brain ''.'-''
Where did he come from
uardcd. sternly sue a--
60 y took hi" from Eclrinslcy Han 3.
Mrs. Windsor ordered carr;aop g,
drove ut full speed t. tic All ~,
asked for Lady Commcril s"a
,"i "HShtp Is gone to church"
she drove thither. She reached if ms.
as the bridal party came out. Whom l I.I'
saw the bridegroom, she turned nnr ,'s
and then white. ~ purple
\, Alic I,,! came forward, radiantIy mpnr
mrs. Windsor, holding a crushed la .fs.
out to her, cried Child. cbiIJ ,, Met
you could nave mad LORI de veyne-soa
here's his letter-you've gone and mar
rled a gar-gar gardener" mat
Iney drled her tears. They pressed
round her' laughing, explaining. The be-,
And at last, Lady Commerill. bor s,,.,..
face beanlng with kindness toward ' aII
the world, came up to her and nnt L "'.
hand in hers, saying: 'Now that dn a',
Alice is so happy, can't we an w.
friends ?"-Herbert A. Norrah in Tho he
Sketch. me
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23
BOAT ON WHEELS WRECKED.
Anton Schmidt's Queer Land and Water
Craft Meets Its Finish.

The land-and-water craft which has
been building for six years on the Har-
rison side of the Passaic river lies under
II tent in Kemper's park, Harrison, \. j.,
Il complete wreck.
Anton Schmidt Il jeweler who invent
ed it, is undismayed. He says he will
perseyere until he has Il conveyance
which will serve equally well at sea or
ashore.
The invention was an odd-looliing af-
fair-really Il boat on wheels The
wheels We're to carry the affair on land.
while paddles attached to the SD0keS,
which might be opened at will, were to
propel it in the water
The first test was held in n shallow
cove in the Passaic Power was fur
nished by IA man-turned crank shaft.
This, Schmidt explained at the time,
would be replaced by an engine
The craft weighed 1000 pounds. was
about 10 feet long, and had about 4 feet
breadth of beam. At the trial trip it
drew only about 10 inches of water and
responded readily to the efforts of the
man at the crank, moving both backward
and forward.
1t seemed, however, to be topheavy,
and looked as if it might turn turtle at
any moment. Schmidt decided to take
1t to kemper's park to make some altera-
tons. He had a team of horses hitched
TO the steering wheel and rod in the
bow and tried to pull it ashore. 1t could
not stand the strain
Another hitch was made and the era IT
was got out of the water. When an at
tempt was made to turn it from an in
clincd track, which extends into the
river, the wheels caught in the rails and
were pulled off The craft was almost
totally destroyed before the horses could
be stopped.