The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-20
Intelligence and Fun Are
 Mixed. ATTEMPT TO ASSEMBLE
 RESOURCES OF STATE
 - Agricultural, Live Stock and Other Exhibits With Lectures. Gradually Filling Up The "Curve" For Joyous CarnivaI--SuIli- van And KiIrain Enter
 tain In The E1ng.

Tn IuL DlaSL anu WlIB WedLneE suspicious. the big State Fair opened Monday. The first cars out to the grounds were crowded and as the day grew old there was-every evidence that people were mixing we'll in the spirit of the annual enterprise.
 Some few of the exhibits were not in place when the gates were thrown open, but by noon the big Agricultural hall presented more orderly appear ance. It is not known when all the exhibits will arrive which are expect ed to fill this building but it Is hoped by farm-lovers that before the close 1t will be a finished factor in the big show.
 building. however makes one think that Ceres had bestowed on Alabama her best gifts. for grain of every Yarie- ty is seen in excellent condition m many of the booths. .
 Great luscious stalks of cane nod over melons and potatoes that make the visitors mouth water. Stacks or corn. peas. beans and piles of onions and potatoes are everywhere and be- tween the groups big melons ana pumpkins are set about as lavishly as thev grew OF their native heath.
 Rut the bounty or prolific agriculture is not by any means all the big hall has to show. The arts, mechanical anu commercial industries are well repre- sented The piano companys exniplt Is one of the main features or the tlrst floor. Facing the door are an assort- ment of organs. upright pianos, oaoy rrands and if there are any others they are there too and all of the pest
 Set in park-like artillery are group of the prettiest buggies one could wish to drive i'll and beside these are 8 num- ber of keen-cutting ploughs that are the cynosure of the farmers eyes.
 3A fhHrA would be some trouble with the dust in the big agricultural hall, but corps or bows with sprinkIers have been put to work and will be kept busy keeping down the dust while the fair lasts. Everything possible Is being done to insure the comfort of visitors and re- marks of appreciation are being ex- pressed on all sides to the manage ment, not only about the care taken or everyone. but the splendid fair that is being given.
 Transportation Improved.
 The street car and railway service was a different thing from that of the car company alone Sunday, the crowd ing being pleasingly absent.
 Trains loaded with live stock are still coming in and this part of the fair deserves the most careful inspection. At no fair heretofore given has the management succeeded in arranging for such diversified exhibits and all of such high-standard.
 Tuskegee has one of the best ex- hibits 1t has ever made on the grounds. and the handsome percheron stallion is the center of attraction there. An other one of the exhibits there is genuine picture" COW. People have seen for hundreds of years pictures of cows in old prints that looked diff ferent from. all the other cows they saw in real life, but the big gray COW
 AH@& ahA A had stepped out of steel engraving done in Essex when Shakespeare was rolling marbles on the banks of the Avon.
 Everything frSm good looking horses down to pigs can be seen In this ex- hibit-
 their building are more than worthy of attention. They have some very fine harness made by students in the negro training schools. shoes and woodwork that Is very well done, and an agricul- tural exhibit they may well be proud of Work done by the little negroes in school shows up nicely and the needle work of the women is good. Thig department Is drawing much at- tention from those interested in the development of the race and the ex- hibits speak we'll of the efforts be- ing made by the directors Of the negro educational institutions.
 If will be impossible so early in the week to estimate justly the general live stock exhibits for some of the entries have been delayed and all will not be in before tomorrow morning. but those that are here are we'll worth seeing, especially a herd or jerseys: said 10 be the finest development of the breed fin the south. There are sew eraI hogs on exhibition in this depart rnent of which there Is no use telling the weights. No one would believe 1t, unless they saw the beasts themselves. Suffice to say, If these hogs were kill ed there would be enough meat avail able to run an average boarding house until the millennium. There are sew eral entries of fine sheep, but these exhibits have not all been filled yet.
 Attractions For "CuFve."
 All morning and during the night the attractions for the curve came in by rail and before noon most of the tents were up and the shows being made ready for the evening entertainments. Cages of lions for Colonel Mundv's shol created quite a sensation as they were brought along, but the funny part bepnened when they were being taken from the cars There Is a big bear in one of the cages and the cage is so arranged that the bear can get about half of his head out. Out at the rail- road station what was first thought to be dead man was round when the train came in but 1t later turned out he was only dead to the world"
 He was aroused. and turning over found himself facing the bear. who was gazing very interestingly into his face.
 "Mornin' Mister" said the drunk "but can you tell me fish zhis Sunday or ish 1t Wednesday,"
 The bear made swipe at him with one paw and the intoxicated one roll ed over rubbed his eyes, looked again hard. and taking a bottle quietly from his pocket smashed 1t solemnly on the road rail- then picking up his hat and methodically dusting 1t off and with out looking back. he walked away up the railway line.
 Colonel Munday has had another trying experience since he was almost torn to pieces by his lions last sum rner Sunday two of the big ones got in a scrap and nearly killed each oth-