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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
MISS WHITE TO STEAK.
She VIII Deliver Address at southside
 Baptist Church.

On Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'cloc& at the Southside Baptist Church. Miss FIoy White, of Birmingham. will address a meeting of the Baptist women of the city. Her address will Wlh.RT'..t ..adg( STE subject will be: The Baptist Train Ing School"
 Miss White Is the beneficiary of the Young Woman's Auxiliary of this State. and has spent two years at the institution, which is located at Louis- vile.
 It is earnestly requested that rep resentatives from every Baptist church in the city attend the meeting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
NEWS OF RECORD

The following transfers of real es- tate were yesterday recorded in the otfice of the probate judge:
 The Hillcrest Land Company to E. c. Ramage. lot 6 and the south half Of lots 5 and 2, block 3, of the plat of the company; consideration. s700.
 Mary Mccoy Westcott to her hus- band. S. H. Westcott. an undivided third in lot T. square 4. fronting on Commerce street near Tallapoosa street; consideration, $25.
 Jesse F. Watkins and wife to P. M. Ryan, lot 52 of the plat of Midway, fronting on the west side of Magnolia street; consideration, $l,100.
 The Capitol Heights Development Company, to Clark H. Sphar. lot 5, block 7, of the plat of the company; consideration, $400. w. T. Stuckey and wife to W. B.. Howard, lot 6, block 7S, of the plat of the, Highland Park South Improvement Company; consideration, $500.
 The Highland Park South Improve ment Company to W. T. Stuckey. lot 6, block 7S. of the plat of the company: consideration. $650.
 The following marriage licenses were yesterday issued by the probate judge:
 To G. C. Culver and Miss Matilda R. Lewis.
 To George M Merriweather and Miss Lyda Rosser.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Mrs. Schwartz, of Mobile. Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Woit' on Broad Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Bessie Minge. of Faunsdale. who has been visiting Miss Alene Hunter. returned to her home today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Alice Carotners has returned home after spending several weeks ID Camden, Ala, with friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Judge J. W. Mabry and famity' wnS ,, have been spending the summer at oio Fort. N. C., have returned home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Bessie Morrisette. of Newberne is here on a short visit to Miss Pauline Welch-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Mir. Harold Brown. formerly of this city, but now residing in Birmingham is here for a short stay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

MT. Watt Dudley. of Benton. is spending today here with friens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Mrs. John McKinnon and little son have returned home after visiting rel atives in Clanton. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
Social and Personal.

Miss Lara Cannady, of Jackson Ala, spent yesterday here with Miss Sidney Young. while en route to Bris- tol. Va, where she will attend school
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
.w.lJ. BETHEA. AT SELMA.
Unable to Come Any Further This
 Trfu.

The packet. "W. J. Bothea." of the B. and G.. line of steamers. was due in Montgomery Wednesday, but a tele- gram received by Agent L. H. Moore stated that the boat would not come any further up the river than Selma this trip.
 The City of Mobile will be at the local wharf Friday and from then on Mir. Moore says that there will be two boats a week regularly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Anna Creagh Is spending day or so In Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Leila Lamar left today for Ma rion. to attend school at the Judson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
nv.x Day with the Court.

The grind on the civil docket of the Circuit Court was taken up again this morning when the court convened at 9 oNclock. During the day a large num- ber of the cases on the docket were taken up and disposed of. The grand jury also continued busy today and during both the morning and after noon session examined a large number of witnesses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

Miss Helen Patrick. of Marion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

spent a portion of today here with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

The appointment by the governor of Homer F. Baird, of Double Springs. and R. R. Kelley. of Tuskegee, as mo- taries public. was announced yester- day by Private Secretary William E.. Fort.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
SELMA BUILDING
PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENT
 UNDER WAY.
Harmony Club Is At Work and . Start wilI Be Made On
 New Sky
 scraper.

Selma, Sept. 23-(special)-C buttons from throughout the county to the National campaign fund are not be- ing received in Selma as fast as was expected from the organization of the Dollar Bryan and Kern Clubs through out the county. But while the con- tributions are not being received fast several dollars to this cause are being received from voters every day and 1t Is expected that many dollars more will be collected during the next two or three weeks.
 Chambliss Keith. who is the treas urer of the fund which Is being collect ed in Dallas County has remitted to the National headquarters s20S which has been turned over to him. Besides what has been remitted. he today had on hand $66 which. with other collections. will be forwarded towards the latter part of the week. It Is expected that Dallas County will not contribute less than $500 and an effort will be made to make the contribution from the county reach $1.0o0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
Work on skyscraper to Begin Soon.

PTtpdIdlIoHs dI6 IeIHB Illatte kUl tHo be ginning of work upon the big build- ing which will be erected by the Peo- ples' Bank and Trust company at the corner of Broad and Water Streets. The three story building which now stands on that corner will be torn down to give place to the handsome six story structure which the bank will eroct there and which. when completed. will he the handsomest and largest build ing in the city.
 The Peoples Bank and Trust Com pany can not get control of the. three story building until after October 1, but as soon as possible thereafter the work of raging this building will be started. The preliminary work of dis mantling this building was started to- day on the third floor and in about a week a large force of hands will bc put at work upon tearing 1t down
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
Building VIII so.a nesin,

The work upon the erection of the new home for the Harmony Club on Water Street. 1t was announced today, will probably be started during the coming week. When She work has been started it will be pushed forward us rapidly as possible until the build ing has been completed. and when it is completed 1t will be a great i'm provement to the business district Of the city and will be one of the most modern club houses in the State.
 The committee of the harmony Club which has the building in charge has practically let the contract for it's con struction. With the exception of sign ing the contract all of the arrange ments for the building have been made and the work will soon begin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
Held Enthusiastic Meeting.

A large number of the members or the Young Mems Christian Association attended the meeting of that institu- ton. which was held at the building last night. The principle feature which came up during the meeting was the discussion of the raising of the mem bership fees of the Association and which has been under consideration by the Association for some months past.
 The membership fee for sonle years past has been $7 per year, but the meeting held last night voted unani- mously for the dues to be raised to $10 a year. This raise will go Into effect on October l. and the increase l. revenue will help the work of the As sociation most materially. %
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND


 Miss Abby F. Barrows, of Nelson vile, Ohio, writes to Mrs. Pinkham l: "When I wrote to you I was very nervous, had dull headaches, backache, and was very irregular. Doctors did me no good. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and your advice made me regular, well and strong. I am now in better health than ever before"
 Miss Elsie L. Hook, of Chelsea, Vt, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
 II am only sixteen years old, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and your advice have cured me of sideache, periodic pains, and a ner. vors, irritable condition after every thing else had failed"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

hardly outiive the moment of the tell
 ing. The Knowledge of their existence l remains.
 stephen felt her loneliness all round 1 In old days Harold was always within l hail and companionship of equal age
 and understanding was available. But
 now his very reticerce in her own in
 terest, and by her fathers wishes made for her pain. Harold had put his strongest restraint on himself, and in his own way suffered sort of silent martyrdom. He loved Stephen with ey- cry fibre of his beslg. All the strings of his being, physical as well as spir- itual, were tuned to the note of her existence and character. Day by day he came toward her with eager step; day by day he left her with a pang that made his heart acne and seemed to turn the brightness of the day to gloom. Night by night he tossed about for hours. thinking, wondering if the time would ever come when her kisses would be his. !. !. For in ali a healthy mans dreams of the woman he loves. her body that God has made, as well as her soul. has it's due and relative place. But the tortures and terrors of the night. the longings and outpourings of heart and soul and mind which seemed to culver through the darkness out into space had their effect on his days It seemed as if the mere act of thinking. of longing, gave him ever renewed self-control. SO that he was able in his bearing to carry out the task he had undertaken: to give Stephen time to choose a mate for herself. Herein lay his weakness "a weakness coming from his want of knowledge of the world of women. Had he ever had love affair be it never so mild "a one, he would have known that love requires a positive expression. It is not sufficient to sigh, and wish, and hope, and long. all to oneself stephen felt instinctively that his guarded speech and manner were due to the coldness--or rather the trust ing abated worship-of the brother- hood to which she had been always accustomed. At the time when new forces were manifesting and expand ing themselves within her; when her growing instincts, cultivated by the senses and the passions of young na. ture, made her aware of other forces, new and old, expanding themselves outside her; at the time when the heart of a girl is eager for new impressions and new expansions, and the calls of sex are working within her all un- consciously. Harold, to whom her heart would probably have been the first to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
EUrAULA cHAUTAUaUA.
Occasion Gives Promise of Drawing
 Many Visitors.

Occasion Gives Promise of Drawing
 Many Visitors.
 Eufaula,- May 11.-(Special.)-AV very handsome booklet giving the full pro gram of the coming Chautauqua which is beautifully embellished with cuts or those who are to take part together with points of interest about the clty have arrived and are being distributed. The event is the all absorbing topic and every detail pertaining to it Is fast De- ing perfected.
 At a recent meeting of the Alumnae Association Mrs. E. T Long, Mrs. C.. A. Locke and Mrs. c. M. thompson were appointed a committee to com plete tlIe arrangements for that day and a full program will be announced this week.
 Among the other interesting features that have recently been added will be a baby show which Is limited to chll- dren not over three years old.
 Mir. and Mrs. Victor Milton, former residents of the city, who have for the past two or three years been residing in Jacksonville, Fla, will arrive here next Sunday morning to again make this city their home.
 MT. Milton comes to take position in the drug business which will be made vacant by the illness of his brother. John Milton. who will be forced to leave the city on account of i'll health.
 The city council has provided an en- zine house on College Hill where one of the fire engines will be kept to be used in case of emergency and as protection to the residents in that DOT tion of the city where the waterworks are not available on account of the elevation.
 The first ripe peaches of the season reached the city Saturday and were raised by Quin Stanford in Quitman county, Georgia near the city. MT. Stanford has 1000 trees that are bear ing among which are ten varieties that ripen at different periods until Sep tember.
 Rev Bertram E. Brown has ac- cepted an invitation to deliver the com mencement sermon to the students or the college at Abbeville next Sunday morning.
 During the services at the Presby- terian Church yesterday morning the rite of baptism was administered to little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Richard Thomas of the city.
 A handsome new residence is going up on vacant lot on Sanford street and 1t has been learned that large vacant lot of land near it will be dl- vided into building lots and placed on the market
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

in it's stead was pereftc poise and ad- justment of figure, which is after all one of the greatest charms which IS given to any one destined to mother hood. The slightly increased fuilness of her cheeks and throat shower up the fine colour of her skin: her eyes were moro lustrous. and in their add ed brightness seemed to have eniarseu
 Her movements were more elastic without losing anything of their Tree dom She seemed generally to De the very Incarnation of grace, even at those languorous moments when vo- lupturous fancy unconsciously sway ed her thoughts. and through her thoughts, her body.
 With the cultivated instinct or lifetime the old lady grew more watchful than she had hitherto been, and in her own mind she challengeo all and sundry the men who were within the circle of her nieces Ire.
 One only of her male acquaintances did not at this time appear. Leonard Everard, who had some time ago mn ish ed his course at college, was llVlhB partly in London and partly on the Continent His very absence made him of interest to his old playfelloW' The image of his grace and comellness' of his dominance and masculine force early impressed on her mind. began to compare fayorably with the ac- tualities of her other friends; those of them at least who were within the circle of her personal interest. In Stephens mind had been. but a very mustar I'd seed of regard for him. In- deed it had hardly gone farther than the interest which comes from isola- tion. But new lights were breaking for Stephen; and all of them, in great CT or less degree, shone in turn on the memory of the pretty self-willed dominant boy, who now grew larger and more masculine in stature under the instance of each successive light. Omne ignotum pro mirifico. stephen knew the others fairly we'll through and through It did not need much CT fort for an intellect so acute and di- rect and unfiinching as her own to see through and understand common place characters. The mixture or good and evil, of strength and weak ness. of purpose and vacillation, was quite within the scope of her own feei- ing and Of her observation. But this man was something of problem to her: and, as such had prominence in her thoughts quite beyond his own He might be very good or very bad. she did not know which; and. not knowing. did not particularly care. Had she been of larger experi- ence and more watchful of her own Interests she would have understood inc force of this negation.- and per hans have come to a-conclusion other than that which was forcing itself upon her. '
 Continued Tomorrow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
NEGRO KILLS NEGRO.
Walter Haynes head and John Byrd
 Escapes.

- Walter Haynes nead and John Byrd
 Escapes.
 Brewton. May I1.--(SpeciaL) )--About : o'clock last night Walter Haynes, negro. was shot and killed at his home three miles from Flomaton on the Sei- ma road by John Byrd. another negro The trouble started between Haynes and Jack Byrd over dog, and while the two negroes were standing in Haynes's back yard talking John Byrd came around the house and remarked that he would settle it at once and fired. the bullet striking a vital spot Sheriff Fountain was notified and sent a deputy to the scene. Jack Byrd was arrested and brought to Brewton and placed in jail, but John Byrd es- capped. Sheriff Fountain. accompanied by Deputy Blackman secured dogs and returned to search for the fugitive ne- gro. Mrs. L.. R. Mcconnell has been in Atmore for several days at the bod side of her brother-in-law, Alex Stead ham, who is critically i'll and his life Is despaired of. MT. Mcconnell went down this morning to spend a while with the family.
 protracted meeting was commenced tonight in the East Brewton Methodist Church. The pastor VIII be assisted by Rev. MT. Tate. of Evergreen, who will arrive tomorrow. The meeting will likely continue through the week.
 owing to sickness Rev. W. M. Mur- ray, pastor of the Baptist Church, was unable to fill his pulpit today.
 The year-old baby of Mir. and Mrs. G. F. Schad has been seriously sick for several days
 Miss Eunice Frederick spent today in Castleberry with her sister
 The continued cool weather Is ma aterially retarding the growth of crops.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
THE TICKET IN PIKE.
Twenty-Nine Candidates for Demo-
 cratic Primary.

Twenty-Nine Candidates for Demo-
 cratic Primary.
 Brundidge. May Especial JAS the time draws near for the primary the political situation in this county shows more activity.
 The county ticket contains twenty nine names. The contract for printing the tickets was awarded The Brundidgs Record, and the job is now on the press
 For judge of the law court there are four candidates. D. A. Baker, T. L. Boron. A H. owens ana A, C' Worthy.
 For County Treasurer there are John O. Brown. W. D. Folmar. J. F. Fur low. J w. Harris H. A. O'Steen' Johh Post and G. R. Tweatt.
 For Tas Assessor: Milton Paul. Charles Spradley and John F. Walters
 For Tax Collector: W. s. Benton Gussie Gibson and W. R. walker.
 For Superintendent of Hducatlon' Prof B. H. Boyd. Prof. A. l.. Brazil John w. Flournoy. R. G. Hightower. J. NJ. Sanders. George L. Sellers ana C F. White.
 For Commissioner, First Distrlo'' M J. Enzor and z. H. Williams.
 For Commissioner, Third District J :. A Anderson. J. I w. Flowers and R. L. Gibson.
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turn, made himself in his effort to best snow his love. quantite negIigeable. A man loves woman, and seeks that woman's love: women seeks love To rove Tor loves sake is much more a teminine than masculine act Ste- pnen Tn all her vague longing for com panionship. which had at bottom q physical basis; was suhlimelv uncon- scious of her own desires. This is a part of virginity; it's weakness and it's strength. After all. there is nothing so self-centred. nothing so nobly self reliant. nothing so callously. wickedIy cruel as virginity. It knows no lesson of bitter experience. 1t acknowledges no worthiness of intention without ex- ecution. It has no federation for weak CT forces, no matter Tn what charac- ter they may be turned; no understand ing of what is: no pity of what was no fear of what Is to be.
 Thus stephen, whilst feeling that the vague desires of budding woman hood were trembling within her. had neither thought nor Knowledge of their character or their ultimate ten dency. She would have been shock ed, mortified, had that logical process, which she applied so freely to less personal matters. been used upon her own intimate nature. In her case log fc would of course act within a cer- tain range; and as logic Is a conscious intellectual process, she became aware that her objective was man. Man in the abstract. Man" not "a man" Beyond that. she could not go. At her age. and with her bringing up, she had neither data to help thought, nor a desire to raise the veil which hides the mysteries of her sex her own or the opposite. It was not too much to say that she did not ever. even in her most errant thought, apply her reasoning or even dream of its follow ing out either the duties. the responsi- bilities. or the consequences of having husband. She had a vague longing for younger companionship, and the kind most naturally interesting to her. There thought stopped. Incipient yearning came to the end of its war rant! All beyond was full of vague lightful, and all quickened with thrill of fear.
 This state of mind. and body-for the body rather than the mind is in this matter the parent of thought continued for some time, and began to have it's effect upon her. The wo- man within her her was unconscious ly coming to its strength. Her aunt saw, and understood, and feared. This phase of young girls life Is best known to her elders who have learned to understand from their own suffer- ing. their own delight. She was very tender with the child whom she so loved, and no mother could have been of better or larger understanding But whilst she feared she gloried: for Stephens beauty seemed now to grow. hour by hour. The slimness of her extreme youth was disappearing and
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(Continued.D
 Her coming was an inexpressiole comfort to stephen and from that hour Miss Rowly stayed at Normanstand: :: stephen wanted her and she wanted to be with stephen. After time, when grief began to fade into sweet memory, and when now and again in far apart moments of forgetfulness a wintry smile might be seen, the old lady oe- Ear to realize new life. It was one thing to see occasionally the girl whom rbe so loved and another to be al- ways with her. With the tolerant adaptability of old age she settled her- self to the girls ways. and ideas ana ambitions. She was content 10 wat, and help. and love. stephen, too' feit fhe influence of the sweet companion rbin: she yielded herself to her aunt in a way which was as new to herseif as 1t was to every one else.
 After the funeral, Harold, with an instinctive deiicacy of feeling, had gone to live in his own house; but ne came to Normanstand every day, and so things went on outwardly at Norman stand very much as they had done be- fore the coming of the tragedy. Her aunt saw and approved. The old lady began to secretly hope, and almost to believe. that her niece had laid aside those theories whose carrying into ac- tion she so dreaded.
 But theories do not die so easily. Their place is so far behind action, that action, which is of necessity in the immediate foreground, may ob- scure or hide them. It is from theory that practice takes it's real strength. as we'll as its direction. And did the older woman whose life had been bound under more orderly restraint but know, stephen was following out her theories, and to the end.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
Olga Nethersole AdUises
 All Women to Get Marrted

Persons in the audience were asked to discuss Miss Nethersole's address and the first man to arise. wanted to know whether Miss Nethersole ana . Sar.h Rernhardt did not do more for the world by working than they could by marrying.
 "A thousand times no,". said Miss Netbersole, women should marry. Wo- mon should have children" But think" said the man. what you are doing for humanity
 Miss Nethersole snapped her fingers. eve are not doing much" she said. "The mother is the one that does most covernments should make 1t easier for women to live proper lives for while I believe that the holiest thing ,n the world Is motherhood; be- iieve that the person who takes life is more merciful than he or she who gives 1t under conditions In which the child does not have half chance"