The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-26

where he wants to. The friends of the New Yorker will be greatly surbrised if Mir. Platt is not found in his accus- toned seat when the Senate meets next month
 | MT. Thomas G. Garrett, the we'll Known and popular Secretary to Sena- tor Morgan. met his old friend, Cap tain Dan Lee, of Virginia the other day and the latter, who is q brother ] of the late General Fitx Lee is insist ing that the Alabamian must visit him soon at his Virginia farm to have q rabbit and bird hunt down in Stafford county. Both of these gentlemen served in the Confederate navy, but not on the same vessel. Naturally, when they meet they get to talk ng of the stirring events of the civil war. After they had parted company the Iother day, the subject of rabbits and birds naturally caused Mir. Garrett to commence talking about 'possums. The genial Secretary to Alabama s senior Senator does not conceal the fact that he Is immensely fond of 'possum, and every now and then, Mir. Garrett invites some of his best friends to cluster around his table at hts hospitable home in Maryland, nine niles from Washington, and revel In possum supper with him.
 And a picturesque and comfortable home is that of MT. Garrett out at Linden. He has a fine garden when the vegetables are in season, raises his own chickens, there is plenty of fruit on the place, and the flowers are such as only gentleman of culture and good taste would have about him. But ! that's getting off the possum part of | this article.
 To friend Mir. Garrett said: "The finest 'possum ever had in my life was at Atlanta, Ga, where once res sided. I had a friend there who used to get a noted restaurant keeper of Atlanta to fix 1t up after & recipe of his own. First the possum was dress ed Then 1t was stuffed with the neo- essary condiments. Then a huge pump kin was brought in and cut open. dn you understand? The 'possum was put inside of the pumpkin, and red hot embers were thrown over the latter The possum was nicely steamed, and when it was done was taken out and properly put in a stove or oven. The | flavor of 'possum cooked in this was Is simply delicious"
 Then you think 'possums cooked that way are really good. do your" friend asked.
 'Good?" said Mir. Garrett. The best way to cook 'possum that mortal man ever devised"
 'oh, hushi' responded the friend. q feel just like that old darkey coming home on a mule from the corn fielC where he had been blowing all day Another negro get to telling about thG best hings to eat, and mentioned pos sum served up with coon gravy, sweet potatoes and corn bread, and he ex. claimed: "Shet up nigger; eff you don't I'm gwineter to fall right off'n dis mule"
 Mir. CIarESs' Work. Mention was made the other day fl these dispatches of the work bein, done in the Orient by Special Agent Vi | A. Graham Clark (of North Carolina ment of Commerce and Labor to in vestigate the cotton-goods trade in tha | part of the world. In his first re | port to the department Mir Clark say that there is undoubtedly a good mar ket for American goods in Japan. I Is not large market, at present, h, declares, but if the nearly SS,OOO 900 fl cloth shipped to Japan by England las year had some direct from America mills there would be moro spindIes ii | the United States today.
 MT. Clark points out in the follow
 Ing statement the fact that the Jan anese market has been neglected bv tb
 American manufacturers:
 ] The Japanese market for cotto,
 piece goods has not been cultivated h
 our cotton mills manufacturers nor b
 our commission merchants. On mos l lines. no effort has been made. A repre l sentative of one of the largest Amer
 lean importing houses told me he ha,
 not seen an American cloth saIesma, for three years. but could hardly aften,
 to his business because of the swarm n
 English statesmen continually wantin,
 to show him new samples and quot
 him latest prices. The indifference Q the American manufacturer along thf line, which is in marked contrast to hi
 Keen competition on most other line in Japan, Is undoubtedly due to the i'm l pression that this is a small marke for cotton piece goods, and what fiel, there is for cloth Is being rapidly ia ken possession of by the native mills
 To certain extent this is a cheal
 market, but on certain lines thero is good demand for goods on which Amer ican mills can compete and on which also, 1t will be a good many years a least before the native mills can ge monopoly"
 As previously stated in this cor respondence, Mir Clark was appoint te, | to his position at the suggestion of in, Southern Cotton Manufacturers Asso | citation. as was also Mr. William Whit ham, Jr., another resident of Nortl Carolina, who is now in Europe rnak ing investigations. report from tn, latter is expected at the Departmen shortly.