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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

seems little doubt Whether, after his
 flight from Europe to enlist in the
 French colonial service, the Princess
 Charlotte followed him to New Or
 leans and thence to Mobile and finally
 up the winding and beautiful Tomolg-
 bee and Alabama rivers to Fort Tou-
 louse. is a thing that can never be
 positively known, but more romantic
 history says she did. These pages or
 half fiction and half history says that
 here, indeed, Charlotte came and lived
 for time, in a cottage made for her
 near the stockade. In fact it Is sal~
 that some traces of the cottage were
 dscoverable in the next century, made
 all the palmer by the fact that one or
 Bienville's cannon was lying at that
 time before what had been the door
 of Charlotte's haven of rest from Eu-
 ropean persecution and a luckless mar
 rlage Why she should have lived out
 side the stockade would seem to be
 question to be answered. The pos
 sible site of her home is as completely
 lost as are the walls of the old fort.
 Just In front of the old fort site, and
 but few hundred yards away, rises . mound. twenty-five feet high. They tell us that it was an Indian lookout
 elevation. From its top. covered, too,
 with trees, one gets real view of the two rivers and their junction. still be-
 yond, in the biggor Alabama This
 same mound stood here, doubtless, be- fore Blenville came and before Fort
 Toulouse was built. Hereon, before the
 advent of the French, the Creek look out, no doubt, kept watch of the river pathways and here the Frenchmen erected their post to guard the same channels. Then began the passing of
 the Creek, as his vantage point was absorbed by the newcomer. This mound and the Irregularities nearby are all that are now left of either Fort Toulouse or Fort Jackson. About each, however, are evidences in plenty that nearly two hundred years have not made changes enough to wipe away
 the minor evidences of Indian days, fol
 bits of Indian pottery. arrow-h heads and even complete stone tomahawks
 heads are to be found In plenty. Now and then complete bits of pottery are
 turned up by negro cultlvators as they ] blow for cotton, but these attract no more attention that a kick aside
 One other thing we found here that | cannot be eradicated from the soil or this part of the world-Alabsa,IPnaa s,Pa nosp,- d,ir ! tality While we were filling our pockets with Creek arrow heads, tnere | arose the baying or hounds ana soon | afterwards d half-dozen negro hanus l came out of the cane-pf Wlti l struggling shoat in their possession. 1 Following these a young man appear | ed-planter- as to boots and en- l gagged on a cigarette It was J, G, l Frommelin. the owner or the lahd' Who l was using a wet day Co round up some | strav hogs with a pack Of bounds. In | five minutes he had regretted that the | sea son was not that in which he might l offer US a little hunting or fishing. and | then, apropos or indtan s Iens'ns' @ ..s hs l vvav back and search the out -buiidings l for anything that might appeal to us
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

Bu. even to Mir. Crommelin, native and an educated man, the story or Fort Toulouse was not too well known. t recalled to him, however, that few years before, while fishing one day at the base of the blum nearby, ne hAu seen a cannon in the bed of the river, which was very low at the time. Later it occurred to him to secure and pre-" serve this link of the past, but the river had risen and the piece has dis- apueared Since that time he had not been able to find it again. Since Jack son carried no cannon to the rehabtli- tated fort this was undoubtedly one Of Bienvilles pieces. These old French guns were lying about the fort In the middle Of the last century and one Of them was taken to Montgomery where. the historian Pickett says' It long marked a street corner.
 Neither the mound at the fort nor the present Wetumpka mark the site. pos sibly, of the Indian village that was the capital of the Creek Nation and the settlement with which the first French eonmandant. Marchand, had to do, This may have been at place known at the Hickory Ground, on the south ern limits of the town of Wetumpka' but it was moro likely on a bend of the Coosa, about four miles above We tumpka-the Little Tallassee of Indian and Alabama history. We stopped at the out-buiIdings of Toulouse planta- ton on the way from Fort Jackson' ravenously benefitting by its owners in vitation, and then, on the way oack to town, tried to conjt tcture where the Hickory Ground might have been: There is no local recollection of it, and as there is no trace of hickory grove. we probably passed over the ground unuo4ing the place where Washing
 toms representative ana EhsIish;
 yrorcb and Spanish ambassadors had taken the black drink" with the great chief McGilIivray. and laid before that
 ..Tal1eyrand of the forest" their bland
 isbments and gold. For the Hickory crSund was one of his homes as Lit .L. rrulIaasnn nLas his main one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

or store on the meandering main street that leads to the bridge cross ing the Coosa. Here the modern We tumpka comes in sight at other end of a toll-bridge Ca relic of ancient days in itself)
 Where the new Wetumpka nes, the Coosa river makes a halt-circle bend to turn the dying foothills of the App palachian mountain range which rise
 behind the .own, in almost mountain heights-pine clad and dark with deep forest growth. Around these and be-
 low the town the Coosa roars and
 tumbles over its rocks-"Tumbling
 Water" the Indians called it-and be-
 tween this 0easeless but varying song
 of the water and the overhanging for
 est shades one gets the flavor of We
 tumpka which is something more than
 comes from mere picturesqueness. It is suggestive at once Of the first days of American history and one need go no further to know why 1t was here that the most powerful Of southern Indians made their home; why thls place early became the focus of travel and trade that swept Southward around the Appalachians and why 1t was here that the French came from Mobile to get q grin on the real wealth or col | oniaI America-things now forgotteh | by all even by old man Robinson, Who | has been keeping the bridge TOT iorty | years To this modern veteran the bridge is the institution of Wetumpka
 Indeed. it's history Is an economic tale
 of interest. and the old bridge-Keep | bothers himself no more with history
 than will cover the time when old we | tumpka was the cotton mart Tor all
 this part of Alabama.
 In those day--in the forties and fir
 ties of the last century--wharVes anc
 warehouses lined the river front for below tho Coosa's rocks that end sharp | ly at the bridge, there is navigabl' | water down the Coosa to the Alabama and so to Montgomery and Mobile. Bu when the railroads came and made l; square of steel about the old town | | died; the warehouses and stores o l brick were torn down and transported on flat-bo to appear again in som'
 of the business blocks of Mohtgom l cry, and now there is not even a land ing place left on the river bank. Whert the stores once stood are empty lot and here and there, back from thu river among the trees, are old homo' l whose white columns and gardens tel of wealth and mid-centRry pleasures | Nowadsy ys, where the old landings onci | cut into the Coosa's swirl, there is new gigantic concrete lock. the first O twenty or more that the government Il
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

yard Henry James writes of old New York around the neighborhood of Washington Square. and President Thwing. of the Western Re- serve University describes the University of Geneva and the cIated with 1t. The story of the find ing of the 'Long-lost Mani Bihle." and the peculiar conditions of it's discovery, is related by Professor Bloomfield nf Johns Hopkins University. Margaret Deland's intensely human story, The Awakening of Helena Richie" is oop- tinued. and there are short stories bv Alice Brown. Marie Manning, Llly A. Long. Grace Demo Litchfield, Pasehai H. Coggins. and Elizabeth Moorhsad. The frontispiece of the number is from a painting by Edwin A. Abbey. illus tratinG King Henry ". reproduced with strikIngly rich and accurate ef- feet. There are many other pictures in tint and in black and white. Mir. Al- den Study and MT, Howsll's Easy Chair are distinguished features ne this Magazine, and the Drawer adds the usual humor at the close.
 4 Bishop Who Was . @GOod Mixer.S
 Bishop Talbot. oe central pennsylva- nia, tells in HarpeT's for March soma funny stories of his experiences in
 
 Bishop of Idaho. As a militant mis- sionary among the rough men of ear Her days, Bishop Talbot was obliged to cultivate the amenities of what Is known as a good mixer" and in that way frequently reached the hearts of men otherwise impervious to religious appeal. He tells of Bishop Kempara experience with a road-agent who was about to search his pockets. Bishop Kenper said. Surely you would not rob a poor bishop I have no money worth your while. and l am engaged in The discharge of my sacred duties" Did you say you were a bishop? ask cd the raod-agent. Yes, just a poor bishop" "What Chureh?" "The Epfseo. pal Church" The Hell you are! Why that's the Church I belong to. Driver you may pass on.'
 Frederick Trevor Hill. in his long and careful study of Lincoln during his years as lawyer on the Illinois circuit is confident that an important side of Lfncoln's character has almost disappeared under the mass of silly stories which are coupled with his name. The real Lincoln of these years Mir Hill will endeavor to show in the March Century installment of Lincoln the Lawyer" pointing out also that 1t was Judge Davis and q handful of men who had learned to know and ap- preciate Lincoln as q lawyer--a small group of his fellow practitioners on the Eighth Circuit; Davis. the judge. swatt. the advocate: and Logan. the leader Of the bar, but especially na- vis-who forced Lincoln upon the Chi- cago Convention in 1880, and thus gave him to the nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
PART I. FORT TOLoUsE.

PART |. FORT IOBOO Sb'
 The memory of old times in the South (except in such places as St, Augustine, Mobile and New Orleans1' 1' does not always run back to French and Spanish times, and most Of the lH- habitants of old Wetumpkas Alabama, aee no further and recall no more or ancient ,.mes than the ante-bellum cotton days. This at once brings to IIght A dual life for Wetumpka, and one hardly to be suspected. l went there last March to find traces of it's two hundred years ago history, and found instead the ruins and remains of a forgotten city of fifty years ago. Instead of the flavor of the French occunation of old Fort Toulouse, | Tound nnly dim recollections of Gen erai Jackson and Fort Jackson; instead of souvenirs of the days when Deautl- SuI t,reek Indian girls were lntatuat- tro inc hardy scotch and English trad ers from the Carolinas, l found only tba vacant lots where once cotton warehouses and brick stores llao 5," st9ou tnstead of pride in the historic lhdlah 4ouns of Little Tallassee and the 1Gtckory Ground and a glory in the d;rIon,acy of Wetumpka's first citl- -an-tbe French, Scotch Creek, Alex snder McGluivray--I found no more or encient glory than attached to the time Tben s0OOO bales of cotton passed through WStuHlPN" t.-.-. ,f fore if YOU want the real history ot vTatumpka. you must take it there with you. ,,,-..,.. ,,iIIa,c of 6O0 inhabitants Putting aside its romance. one will find the placo both curious and picturesque. To reach it. I,ou go from Montgomery to Elmore on the Louisville and Nashville Kaliroad- ahort twlvc miles-and then branch rosJ of four or five miles brings you to inc town. The train stops on the west hank of the Coosa river and the F,rst sight of the west hank town shows wide, irregular, winding streets free lined and unpsved. with old lash toned houses that tell at once or iaie century ago or more. There Is nc sign of modernity; nor IS there shor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

which Is effectively illustrated with drawings by himself There is de- URhtfuI article on 'Ibex-shooting in the Mountains of Baltistan." in north ern India. by Joseph Clark Grew. who writes of the curious customs of the people and the superb scenery. as well as of the excitement of stalking and shooting the difficult Ibex. Junius Henderson. Curator of the Museum of the University of Colorado. describes a genuine Colorado glacier known as the Arapahoe glacier. Jennie Brooks tells about the Ways Of the Kentucky Cardinal" in a charming bird article.
 The Anatomy of a Steel Rail'' is ext
 plslned by Professor Boynton of Har-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
ANCIENT
 WETUMPKA

I'll. L. sayler, manager of the & Ghi- cago News Association. who has takeh great interest in the history of the In- dian tribes of Alabama, last year paid a visit to Wetumpka, to view tne tne scenes made famous by the Creeks. MT. Saylers story will appear m tnlet .t nsrtA Tn this he deals with Fort TouIouse. Next Sundays will tell ol Little TalIassee, and the Sunday fol- lowing of Alexander McGilliyayo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
Choosing Your Spring Dress.

between wool cotton and sko longer the cheap dsped fabric of former years but rivals both beauty and quality and sheer that all three of these materials be ranked practically class.
 The newest and pretie you'll find Cobbs, this wek-an here the woo the the silks enicng and dazzling prouson
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
NEW BOOK NEWS

(continued from Page siateen.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

The Romance of the French Captain and the Indian -McGillivray and His Realm {:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
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 Cobbs' Enticing Spring Offerings

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 nMSp Goods with Eeynm
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
Special Sale of Silks

WASH SILKS-Pety corded Wash Silks all cOos, neat stripes and cheeks This week only B the yard
 TOXIC SLKS-h looks exactly like the Kajah Silk that sells for $25. Comes in every ynewa and pretty shade 65 cents
 BLACK TAFFETA-We show you bargain good quail y Black Silk. worth $l 25 this week only for 95
 JAP SILkS-New and pretty; variety of syesdany stripes cheeks figures; especially styles here for child ren' dresses Only AS 6centth the yard.
 PONGEE sikh the popular Queens Grey g inches wde-new and very stylish This week introduced at only 90 cents
 MORE QUEENS GREYS-Tn novelty Taaeta and Lounmne Silks The prices range around 65 to $ 25 the yard
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

Willie Huffman went to Slower
yesterday on a pleasure trip.
There is only one negro in Smith
county Kansas, and he is SO discreet
that the politicians do not know
whether he is a Republican, a Demo-
Crat or a PopuliSt. Perhaps. under
the new political %alignments he is all
three.
The other day a Jacksonville
woman came down town for the fir t
time in eighteen years. She had been
a continuous resident during that tine
in full possession Of all her powers
and faculties. 1t took a long time for
her to find advertised the particular
bargain she was looking for.
The Jefferson City Tribune says
that the aged citizens of Montgomery
county are coming forward in such
large number with stories of mild
January weather back in the 80, and
1Os, that DR., theory OF chloro-
forming men after they reach a certain
age is gaming many converts IN thai
locality.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

The regular February term of the
Morgan county court convened last
4 Monday morning with all members OF
the court present. The following bust.
ness was disposed of
pool table license was granted to
J Charles Krushen to operate a pool and
I billiard hall at Excelsior for II year on
the payment of so.
Account of Fred Monsees for services
rendered in assessing the county allowed
in the sum Of Sg9I.5t. OF this amount
the county pays s4?5.IS, and the state
pays the balance.
A dranshop license was granted to A..
NJ. Colvin to operate a saloon at Barnett,
Mo. His county and state license
Amount TO $500 for six m,nlhs.
Account of W. McClain for wood
allowed in sun of SO.
i Accout of J +. Johnson as salary as
. school commissioner allow ed in sum of
1850.
Petition presented by A. l. Ross for
I change of read granted and change
ordered made.
Account of John A. Noycs for services
at special election allowed in sum of
$50. n fr
Account of w. c. Thomas circuit
CLERK, allowed III sun of sl4.3 %.
Account Of Hannay & Daniels print
ing allowed in sum Of $3.50.
Account of Gilbert Bros, for digest
furnished circuit court allowed i'll sun
of $50
Dramshop license was granted to J
W. Livingston & Son for six months.
Account allowed Electric Light Plant
for lights i'll court house in sum Of g. 90.
Warrant issued 10 J. ". Johnson 70,
services as county treasure in sum OF
SlS7 80.
Permission was granted w. I. Nc
Craig to construct telephone line OH
Richland.
Surveyors report on Versailles and
Syracuse road accepted.
The following accounts were allowed
and warrants ordered drawn for same:
DIR. J. W. Boxes, medicine......S 9 Dc
Munlzel Drug Co., medicine. Z Ui
! Spurlock < Eidwell.. E. ...... - S,
]. ". Padgett. saving wood. d ,;
! w. J. Williams, night watch 49,. o&
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Cashier w. r. Petty spent Sunday
in st. Louis.
Frank Thorpe vas in St. Louis
several days this week.
Judge I. H. Earnest of Proctor
was in the city Wednesday.
Jos. Tuckley and Grant Stringer
are in Madison county this week on
business.
Judge !. S. Thruston is holding a
position as pharmacist at ID. G..
Hardy's drug store.
A. G. Krcglingcr of Todd was in
town yesterday and made the Demo-
Graf a substantial call.
Hon. ID. W. Shackelford was here
last Saturday. He lett in the after
noon for Washington, d. G.
An Atchison Kansas tax dodgcr is
protesting because a $500 piano has
been bought for the high school
pupils to ''thump on
G.. n. Sherman left this week for
the Indian Territory where he in
tends to reside in the future. He
was accompanied by his family.
Miss Carrie Stephens left this week
for Excelsior Springs, Mo-, where
she will be the guest of her sister,
Mrs. ]. NJ. Griffin for some time.
Charley Petty left Sunday morning
Tor St. Louis and will take up his
duties again as a commercial traveller
Charley is one Of the most successful
men on the road and is a good mixer
ID. c. Hardy, ST., attended tho
February meeting Of the board O
managers OF the Training School a
Boonyllle last Friday. He was &C
companied by his daughter, Mis-
Katie.
: Recorder W. G.. Thomas has de
vcloped into a full aedged mule buy
cr. He purchased two while a
Syracuse this week. Jim Mills i
authority for the statement that We
canght 'em in a rabbit trap.
a patient in 4 Mokane barber sho
suddenly jumped out OF the chair an
ducked his head just as a bullet splir
! tered the wall back Of where he ha
been. a boy with a target rifle ha
shot at hall inch board overlookin
the fact that such a thin obstructio
would not stop a bullet and the lea
slug had kept right on its course /,
ward the man in the BARRIERS chat
II this had happened twenty centuri,
ago a brand new. joke about a clio:
shave could have been safely appcn,
ed to the tale.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09
You Must
Sleep.

If YOU cannot, it is due to an
irritatcd or congcstcd state OF
the brain, which will soon de-
velopc into nervous prostration.
Nature demands sleep. and
it is as important as food; II
is a part of her building and
sustaining process. This period
of inconsistencies rcla%cs the
mental and physical strain and
allows nature to restore eX-
haustcd vitality.
DR.. Mics Nervinc brings
refreshing sleep, because it
soothcs the irritation and e.
moves the congestion.
1t is also a nerve builder; 1t
nourishes and strengthens cv-
ery nerve in your body, and
creates energy in all the organs.
Nothing will give strength
and vitality as surely and
quickly as DR.. Miles Ncrvine.
During tie past winter F.! rag two
attacks Of IaGrippc which lft me
very weak, and in bad condition..
was so nervous I could not sleep. MY
wife, after tryin; different, r.nod cs,
went for .. doctor, The doctor Wa
Milcs' Neivi1e. ard she Lrou%ht norro
q bottle. / had not sicpt for some sine,
and he'd terrible pains in ny, a,nd,
After taking a few doscs Of hrrvinr,
tLC pain VS. not so severe, and |
slept am nov taking the n@qoTa,
bottle. and am vcry. Inug,l !1nr3'tu.
HENRY NJ. SMITH. CnarrhiN VI.
Or. Mlieo' Heryine Is sold by your
%truagiut, vino viii 1~sarantee ti1t TINS
first bottle will benefit. u II fails, ne
win refund your rroney. ,
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

, Receipts of hogs thus far this week
are $500; last week, 23,5OO; last year,
1880. Mondays market opened SC low
er but closed with the loss regaiued.
Today's trade was weak to DC lower,
bulk of sales frou, $ .55 to sex.
Re ceipts Of sheep thus far this week
are YS 800; last week. 90, 100: last year,
$3.50. Mondays market was steady for
sheep; lambs 10 to i5c lower. Trade to-
da,y was weak to lOc lower. We quote
CHI. dice lambs 81. to us; choice year.
.lithgs, So. 10 to 6,2j; choice wethers, S5.G5
top SIS choice ewes, -. 10 to sos.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

Fresh canned goods, flour, produce,
etc, assured to customers purchasing
goods of T.. A. Williams, the South Side
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

Warrant ordered drawn to w. 7. S.
Agee, services as prosecuting attorney in
sun of Sl25.0O
Warrants were issued to poor persons
ont of the pauper and insane fund as
follows
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09
STOCK MARKETS At
KANSAS CITY.
Tt4g WGGkss TRADE REPORTED az
IcIAv. ROBINSON a COMPANY,
LIVE oTocK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
oPRioeo Az oHioAoo, KANSAS ClvY,
! OMAHA, eioUx oiTv, OF JOSEPH
AND DENVER.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 80, 1gU6.

KANSAS CITY, IAN. 90, q
REGENTS of cattle this far this week
are $500; last week, $500; last year,
49, 700. On Monday the market for beef
steers opened slow and heavy weights
were mostly l0c lower with light and
handy grades nearly steady. Cows and
heifers were steady to strong feeders and
stockers firm. Beef steers were in liberal
supply today and while choice light and
handy weights sold steady, plain medium
4nd heavy stock was neglected and
dropped loo. Cows and heifers were
scarce and steady; best stockers and
feeders firm; others 10 to 15c off. The
following table gives prices now ruling:.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

A newly married man in Jefferson
City asked the minister what his
would be and when lold there was no
fixed charge, but every Il paid what
he thought ii waa worth, gave the
minister a dollar, remarking''l guess
that's about the right figure
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-09

! The regular February term of the
Morgan county court convened last
Monday morning with all members OF
the court present. The following bust.