The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-22


 distinction, helped to make the city and the countyFs rich history.
 Sometimes there ip a. whisper ot Bsr1 B..s bour County,s political decadsncs 5Se sSt father im % of the thought. In abilltys In intelligence, in political influence. Bar bour County is more than noldlns ,ts own. It Is the home county ot 1a Aiaa . resents the Third District in Congress And in the neighboring. town of Clay cult, Ti A. A. Evans, and the supernu- mary Judge of the State sof Alabama. A. Fl Alston. In various positions or trust and honor In the S state ,S tnors non.ns SIs citizens. Nor should 1t be overlooked that the present President of the Ala bama Railroad Commission, who holds sSs. sye. B T B. comer, is q product of the County of Barbour.
 All in ali there is probably SScS Sc cosn, ssn tx in the snS sste of ffn s etmens aaw whS @ Eiant Elan county Of Jefferson. No. Bar bour County is not decadent.
 The People of Eufaala.
 The refinement of Eufaula's people, their high mental average, the fneness of its home life and the rare physical beauty of the place, are those snlnss which perhaps leave the most abiding impression of the town. It IS put na- tural to suppose that Q people that should have given forth so fine an ar ray of men as herein has been hurried ly named should be people Of culture come from nor could they have gotten their inspiration from any other people than a people of culture and of lntelh- gence. Even so are Eotanlas peohie. It Is a place where the gentler, sweeter things of life are nourtshed, where the traditions which made the glory of the Old South are kept alive during the strife to get the best that IS s iH1rS Nsys
 As for EufauIa's beauty, the most casual visitor voices its praise thhe the common. the ordinary verdict upon 1t. This, of course. is matter of taste, but there are more Alabamians who any other town or city of the State. much t could not wei be said, and what would be said would pro5sa3,iSy ,So d;n daLl turesque Southern town. The site of it, the mere place upon which It was built, was favored of nature. It was than 200 feet above the eddying cur rent of the Chattahoochee River. From the crest to the river the blum Is sroSea sTes and p'd dossa eo1ssaa Tor with to shrubbery. From the. grass-covered and umbrageous crest of The bluff, one reviews the fertile meadows of Geor- gia with the Polden slow moving Chat tohoochee far below his feet, and the scene Is like a painted panorama, so perfect tB it's proportions and so agree able Is it to the eye
 Back from the blutf a plain. almost perfectly level. runs to where College Hin rears Its graceful outlines. Anu here, upon the level plain, the town has been built, upon this plain and on the hills to the west. Plain ana hlIIs' broad and sweeping avenues. whatever there Is in this to make landscape beauty, Eufaula has.
 Nor was tt built in haphazard fash ion along country roads to spoil It's beauty for future years, It was latd off Co be beautiful by a skilled ana trained engineer and in this it has fulfilled its appointed destiny The streets do not wind and ramble, but they met each other suuarely and at right angles Broad and sweeping atraata they ara lined In the main with