The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
GOOD THINGS PREPARED
 FOR BIG ADVERTISER
Christmas Edition to Be Issued December IS, Will Provide Remarkable Amount of
 Interesting Reading Matter.


 The Advertiser confidently expects to print for It's Christmas Edition on December 1e. the best newspaper evei published In Alabama An effort 10 do this has been made--an effort to print a finer paper than that published for the Christmas edition of last year.
 From the manuscript which has al ready been received 1t is believed now that this effort will be completely su' cessfu1 While plans were laid for publishing the best newspaper ever of these plans until their success was assured. No premature rJedictlons were made. The copy was Ia tbe of flee before the claims for .hfs excen tional publication were made.
 It is confidently believed that thers has never heen published ia Alabama so full and so complete a reflection O. Alabama life. It is confidently believ- ed that the industrial, the social and the agricultural life of the State has never been so fully represented as it will be represented ia this remarkable edition. There must be. of course, some reason for the making of these claims and these reasons ave already been partially set forth For the con- sideratfon of the public.
 They have already impressed the public of Alabama. Thousands of cop les of this issue will he distributed as no newspaper of Alabama has ever before been distributed. In the first place many of the colleges and schools of Alabama have ordered a sufficient number of copies to give copy to each student The school authorities have become convinced hat the paper will represent industrial Alabama as 1t has never before been represented They have become convinced that the industrial and agricultural resources ot the State will be portrayed as they have never before been portrayed Such is the purpose of The Advertiser. to give in one single, big issue an ade- quate portrayal of industrial and agri- cultural Alabama.
 still, the industrial and agricultural feature of the paper. as full as it will be, will be only one feature of thu 1 big paper. Stories of special interes. by Alabamians of Alabama scener and Alabama events, stories Of Christmas by some of the best known writers of America, sketches and essays by Ala 2 bamians of Alabama things will all find place In the big edition,
 The peculiar merit of the editioa has been recognizde in another way too. Many of the citizens of .dontgont- cry and other towns of the State have ordered special copies to be sent to their friends and relatives in practical iy all the States Of the Union. They have become convinced that this Christmas edition Is the best single way of presenting to their interested friends and relatives the true condi-t tion of industrial and literary Ala bama The edition will cor rsist of at least S0,o00 copies, but 1t Is doubted so great Is the advance demands, that this big number will be enough.
 The aHVantRra of Shfu nanar aa advertising medium are obvious It will reach more people than any other paper ever published in Ala bama. The we'll informed man knows this to be true. The copies of this paper, for its literary merits alone, win be preserved ar read throughout the long winter nights. The issue will, in all things, meet an unprece. dented demand.
 A long program of the contents of this paper, which win be published two weeks from this morning. has been printed put as long as. the program was, it was incomplete. Since then al number of new articles have been re- ceived and a number Of others are ex- pected. In the literary bill of fare the Christmas edition published last Sum- day, nothing was said of a brilliant story by Ellis Parker Butler, on .'The Christmas Trust" No magaz zine read CT needs to DC told who MT. Butler is. He has in few months Jumped into the front ranks of contemporary humo-- fsts.
 story of peculiar interest has been contributed by Prof. ". 0. Richardson, of Tuscaloosa, entitled, "A Memorable Seance." Professor Richardson has also contributed some excellent verse for the big paper.
 Miss Ethel Armes of iSirmin ghan. for whom her pen has won fame has sent in a dainty child story, under the ti- tie of "A Week Before Christmas" Harriett Prescott spofford. one of the most famous writers of the day, will have in the Christmas edition a story of absorbing interest called, Mrs. 1 Spofford's Christmas Eve"
 Miss Zitella Cooke, has given a clever and, entertaining sketch called "The Ad- venturous Woman"
 1 A poem of special merit, by W. F. Horne, well known Alabamlan, will have 2 place in the edition.
 Two of the ,lsver writers of The Advertiser stan } ave contributed stories | which are bound to receive compliment 1 tary notice. Frank c. Burrows has | written a modern automobile stcrv. which will be printed under the title i of The Car of Destiny