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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
LEr THr MAyonrrY RULE.

The present session of the Legislature will be a memorable one. The people look to it's proceedings with intense interest. Among It's members are many young and talented men. The session will be the mak king or the unmaking of the future ca reer of numbers of men. The new Con- stitution Is 10 be put in force Many of it's most beneficial provisions depend for success upon the wisdom with which they are carried into effect. Legislation af- fects vast number of interests which are keenly alive to the situation, and some of which are very aggressive in re- sisting reform. Some of these measures have been much discussed in the press and on the stump. Whether these meas ures are wise or unwise, there Is an in- sistent demand among the people that they shall be fairly met and discussed. and not choked down or defeated by skill full manoeuvering or artfully drawn par- liamentary rules. Neither House should surrender the will of the majority of its members to committees. It should at all times be in the power of either body to bring any matter before 1t for considera- ton which the majority desires. whether the particular committee to which 1t is referred is hostile to 1t or not. In times past the will of the majority, has been throttied absolutely by the judicious se- lection of committees, to which the mat ters were referred; and then on various pretexts and in various ways preventing that committee from reporting. Many times it has been the case. where a meas ure has become entangled in the meshes of rules. which required eyeater num- Der of votes than the majority, to change the rules or standing orders of the House, so as to get matter up.
 Let every man. therefore, who is anx- ious to subserve tine public veal consider at the outset how he votes for any rules which will give the power to defeat the legislative will, by pigeon-holing import ant bills before committees. and tying the hands orf the Legislature. so that bills cannot after wards be called up. There aie some matters in which the public feel the keenest interest. Already some who are opposed to these reforms. give it out that they will not be met squarely in de- bate and by the votes of the two Houses, but will be smothered up by the machin- cry and inaction of committees. If any advocate of the measures which now challenge public attention, is earnestly desirous to carry any reform through, let him reflect how he votes for any rules which will abdicate the authority of the majority of either House, and put that majority in the hands of the minor- lty by unwise rules. If such measures are defeated, the people will not take the excuse from those who have been elected to represent them. that these matters could not be gotten up for action, and, therefore. they were not lacking in earn l est effort to do the things which the peo- rle sent them to the Legislature to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

ings and the like. but there are others. and quite number Of them. A man with lean ana bony. shanks and big feet would be beautiful object. we don't think. trussed up in the Beau Brammei style of dress. and . majority of them would look such thorough guys that a stranger would wonder if he had fallen on nation of scare-crows or iunatics. From such an exhibition of male idiocy, we beg to be preserved.
 If Mrs. Lord wants our opinion about di ess reform and will send us a stamped envelope. we win cheerfaily give her some dress pointers for her own sex, but they are not for publication. We do not care to take chances of being put out of business and laid up for repairs by, print ing all we think about some of the dress styles we see, because our respect for woman-kind is only equalled by our re- gard for our own physical welfare. and we are not hankering for @ martyrs crown-not just yet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
NOT A GOOD ARGUMENT.

Discussing the question Of home-ralsed farm supplies, and especially meat. The Huntsville Herald says:
 3sailen beneath the axe, and there Is no mast, so the farmer must feed his hogs on corn or buy his meat. If the corn crop Is bad, then the farmer has not enough to fatten hogs and 1t IS too high to buy for that purpose. If some of these editof-farmers had to get their living out of a two-horse farm, they would soon learn that half the advice they have been giving makes the farmers laugh.
 We willingly admit that the farmers themselves are better judges of what can be dcne than the editors are, as q general rule. but the newspaper men. on the nther hand. arc better informed as to what is actually being done than the farmers are. Consequently. when we find in our exchanges from all portions of the State accounts of individual cases where farmers have killed fat hogs enough tc more than supply their own needs, wG must be pardoned for insisting that oth' 4 efs can do the same.
 Y M these reports came only from few favored individuals. or from specially 1. favored sections of the State. 1t would bt different. but such is not the case. They cooIne from the mountain regions, iron the cotton belt and from the wlre-grasi corntry--not as numerous as We woult be glad to see, but we find enough O such accounts to convince us that Ala hama farmers can raise hogs. "Wna t iran has done, man can do again" o ! t.yords to that effect, is an old and truth kful saying, and it applies to hog-raisini las it does to other matters.
 vye admit what our Huntsville contem norary has to say about the greatly de creased forest area in Alabama, and tn aouseouent decrease in the supply of na I Sufaa food for hogs. but that is only ; martial excuse. nor is the fact that th corn crop sometimes fails a much bet { ter one. When a farmer plants jus enough land in corn to supply him, if tn seasons and circumstances are favorable q if is not a matter Of surprise If a failur
 ar d partial failure of the crop shouk cause a shortage in the meat supply. bu that cnly shifts the excuse There ar
 farmers in all parts of Alabama who pro
 drce. year after year. all the corn an,
 meat they r.ced, and we take no stocl in the argument that others could not
 the same. It is because We want to SC
 the farmers prosperous and independer
 that we so Frequently insist on Q chang
 of methods to something better than no,
 prevails. The prices nov. paid for all ho
 products ought to be argument enough.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
ALAS ALAS.

There is q something about the passing
 of the postoffices of Alabarua which
 should give us pause in our helter-skclter hurry to oblivion, for it marks the van
 ishing of some sweetly charming names
 loved of old.
 Boozer Is gone, dear old Boozer of tho
 Talladegan hills. which had the largest circulation In the whole world. Surely he
 is indeed hard of heart who will not turn
 aside to drop a tear for old Boozer of cherished though painful recolections. And fast after old Booser has gone old Bulger. bringing to an affectionate heart
 the touching refrain of that tender mel ody heard in childhood's happy hour: "De raccoon am a cunning ting, Ail's raunbles in de dark; Nebber tinks to curl he ole tail Till he hear ole Bulger bark" Alas! Likewise, aiack. Moreover. ain. And then Golddust got on a Dyke in Earnest and went to Ewings Lot to get in a Scrap with Majors and Partridge. The Rains came and all were killed, and were taken to the Green to be laid away
 hard by where the Toadvine had with cred forever.
 If the foolSilIer hadn't gone out of busl- ness the postoffice-namer couldn't live
 long.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
ALABAMA MONEY.

There are thirty-eight national banks in Alabama and they hold $2,3S9. 800 in United States bonds. according to the an- nual report of Judson w, Lyons, the negro register of the treasury, issued Saturday night. Of this sum, s2,167, 300 is in the per cent consols of 1880, that is to say, consolidated bonds due in 1930 slo00OO in 1907 per cent, and $21, 500 in 8 per cents.
 The total number of national banks is 4.S41, and they hold a grand total of $i2S 145,9S0 in United States bonds. Sim gularly enough, Texas is the third State in the Union in the number of national banks, though 1t Is but ninth as to amount of capital invested in United States bonds. That State has 319 national banks, with investments in bonds amount ing to s10.29S,700 It will thus be seen that while Texas has more than eight times as many national banks as Ala bama, those banks hoid less than five times the sum in bonds held by Alabama.
 It is perhaps not surprising that there are more national banks in Pennsylvania than in any other State the number be- ing 531, as against New York's 334. But while the bond investments of the Penn sylvania banks aggregate $50, 2i6, ,9050. the total of the New York banks is SIG, . 750. Nevada is the only State which has but one national banK. 1t holds so 800 in bonds. Alaska and Porto Rico have | each one bank, the Alaska bank holding $S7,500 in bonds and the Porto Rican | $250, GOO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
MORE ROOM.

Register Lyons in his most admirably framed report echoes the universal cry of all official Washington for more room. It is perfectly well known to Congress that the government workers are crowd ed like bees in a hive in the great. but wholly inadequate department buildings, 1t is astonishing that Congress does not undertake to remedy the evil. A com mittee of the House reported the other week that the government Is now paying interest on about $11 ,OO0,OOO in rents for private property in Washington, occupy ing as 1t does several hundred rooms, and this too with an overflowing treasury and per cent money going a-begging," as was set forth in the committee report. A huge office building is just now ap- proaclAng completion within a square of the White House built under contract for reEt to the War Department.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
A Great Antipathy.

Selma Times.
 The extremists of the North are taking advantage of the Indianola incident to onism between the two races in the South. There is nothing of the kind. It is true that the Southern people have a great antipathy to negroes holding office where they come in contact with the whites. Sensible negroes recognize this, and if they would act as Minnie Cox has done. declining to hold position that they know is distasteful to the whites, lit tie incidents like the Indianola affair would not spring up to give Northern fire eaters a chance 10 malign the South. This people claim the right to govern them selves. and they are going to. do it In spite of the waving of the bloody shirt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
TEE GREAT NEED.

It is well for the public information to quote a passage from Register Lyons s report, since 1t is typical of the un- versal complaint. Referring to the custody of vouchers and papers of the greatest national value, the register signi- ficantly says:
 ''The accumulation of these files has be- come so great that the room now allotted for their storage is entirely inadequate for their proper filing and shelf ,rrrang- ing. In view of this crowded condition of the vouchers, with the regular annual increase to be expected. it has become question of pressing necessity to find the future there may be such confusion that it will be almost impossible to keep the vouchers In any convenient form for ready reference"
 Thus Congress is saving at the spiggot to lose at the bung, the which, 1t may be said, is strikingly characteristic of Con. gross.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
Strong Negatives.

The Springfield Republican says that Judge Parker stands for so many mega uves that he ought to make a good Dem ocratlc candidate for President Maybe that is meant for sarcasm, but it must be remembered that a Conservative party and It's leader deal very largely in mega. uveS-that IS to say, in opposition to the vicious positives of the radical or Repub- lican party We dare say that Judge Parker's negatives are ali strong ones and would prove to be good remedy for many of the present evils,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
Will Be Dangerous.

Georgiana Enterprise.
 Several largo paper balloons were sent up Christmas week. We heard of one that was found burSted and We naturally came to the conclusion that one of Mar coni's wireless telegrams had strayed of and hit the balloon and knocked the gas out of it. It will he dangerous after awhile to get three miles from the earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
Would Be Awakened.

Cullman Democrat.
 Just at this juncture it would he awk- ward if We were obliged to welt Colombia or Nicarauga over the head in order to get route for the trans-isthmian canal. The episode would he likely to evoke i'll natured f1outs and jeers from the powers which, at our instance, have submitted their differences with Venezuela to the decision of The Hague tribunal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
News ano Gossip Of Washington
sx LuorzH JULIEN WALKER
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Washington. Jan. I3.--{Special. )--The hvest and most nomentous issue that continues to disturb Washington is, you may be assured, the Presidential recep- uon of last Thursday night, the actual opening of tho society season in the capj- tal It will no more down than would .he ghost of the wretched Banquo, or the nv,ng reality of the negro question.
 tne reception was inexcusably misman- aged. For two hours the State dining room Of the mansion was so packed with humanity that when one person moved ever so lightly 500 had to sway. The nat ural result was q display of bad temper in many cases. when everybody should have been happy
 But this was not the fault of the Presi- gent or Mrs. Roosevelt. It is very doubt ,.ul sui II they are yet aware that their guests were made uncomfortable by the bIunder- ing of the responsible officials of the Fresioential household. Still the guests many of them. were driven almost des- perste. and If they could have returned ny the way they entered they would have departed without having paid their re- spects. which would have been unpardon- able rudeness; but due to the painful mistakes of the officials.
 To illustrate the hopeless wretchedness nt the arrangements, 1t may be stated that this one of the Presidents guests was nearly an hour In passing the length less than sixty feet
 But the President and Mrs. Roosevelt were never more gracious, never showed 10 better social advantage, and they are the most hospitable occupants of the White House in our time, if not in any time. How very. very gracious they are cannot be appreciated by any one through mere written statement of another. They are the soul of gentle courtesy. Yet many of their guests are very. cross over Thursday nights bad management.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
FACTS OF INTEREsTs.

The more one searches the 1902 pages of the new edition of the United States Onieial Postal Guide. for 19O3, just is- sued, the more entertaining the book be- comes. For example, we find that there are eighteen Montgomery counties in the United States and an equal num- Der of Montgomery postoffices, or towns, the largest and most famous of course being Montgomery. Alabama; the second being Montgomery, New York.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The Portland oregonian declares that Republican success in Delaware, Mary land, West Virginia and Kentucky have been wholly dependent upon the negro vcte." and adds that in several States 1t Ifs large enough to make its possession worth contest" Does not our far away contemporary see in these facts an explanation of Roosevelts leaning to- wards the negro?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
What Q Wise Marriape Broksr.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 ''Frisleigh acted as a marriage broker once. Yes. He was engaged by an impe- cunious German Count to secure an Amer. ican heiress for him, Frisleigh was to get 10 per cent. of the girls estate for arranging the match. He dld better than that. He took it all"
 "Ehi How could he do that 70
 He married the girl hinSelf.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

Our old friend. George Fred williams, declares that if olney Is nominated. 1t will split the Democratic party wide open. This means, we presume. that George will be on one side and the balance of the party on the other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
Lacketh One Thing.
Hartford Times.

Hartford Times.
 Alabama is a great state but it lacketh one thing yet. We haven't got the red hills of Georgia to grow the large juicy watermelons. But w0 can't get all the 'possums up one tree.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The Norfolk Landmark argues that Minnie Cox knew what she was doing when she resigned, and that Roosevelt didn't know what he was doing when he refused to accept the resignation. Which displayed most good sense?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The York (Pa.) Dispatch is consoling itself with the reflection that the coal trust will lose its grip in three or four months longer. Possibly. but how about the ice octopus?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The alleged discovery that an Egyp- tian mummy died of appendicitis need surprise no one. They were as apt to have 1t then as now. we suppose, but they had some other name for 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

Roosevelt alone can save Addicks." is the headline which appears in one of our contemporaries. If that Is true. and the big gas operator is thus saved, the act will be discredltable to the President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
A Sigh of Relief.

Bessemer Workman.
 No. Teddy Roosevelt did not want to be arbitrator not bit of 1t, but twas after he had been tied. gags d and held down by his cabinet and friends that he decid- ed he didn't want the job. His friends wouldn't let him is the reason and great sigh of relief went up in Congress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

Peary is willing to make another dash for the pole. if somebody will put up $l5O,0OO for incidental expenses. Plenty of men would take the job at that fig- ura
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
RAhauad Sn Radlu-

Birmingham Ledger.
 The President is still trying to squeeze some political good out of the Indianola postofflce. Many white people have had to give up postofflces before now. but no President has behaved so badly about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The present Is an excellent time for Venezuela to regret an the sympathy she bestowed on Spain when we were engaged in licking her in Order that President Palma might euioY his lucrative job Washington Post
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

When millionaire wants to get rid of rc ney and can think of nothing else. he gives somebody a library. It's cheaper than coal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

The weather gets cold enough occasion ally to make overcoats comfortable. and keep the coal dealers from going out oi business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

Remove the duty from coal" is the generally proposed remedy for the coal famine in the East.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
TAE ADVERTISERS TELE-
 FaUN Els.
ha Advertisar,s circulation orows.

The ci cuiation Uf The Advertiser during the &HSt monaQ eI sasa year Was aa~ser tnan In a,.s pfeviOuE month m it's history. It steaahs TT
 pH the sood will of tae people Of, AlApnma' 'i5ele are the sworn ngu4es for Decsm"er'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

And Weaver-Gen. James B.-once the leader of the Populists, has become the president of an <oil company Are there any of the old guard of the calamityttes in the tentacles of the. ocIopus ?-I. I.ouis- vile Couricr-J0urnal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

When a man gets so lazy that he rec fuses to let his friends work him, he has almost passed the limit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

'"The missionaries are getting us into trouble again. walls The Savannah Press. Then you should mend your ways.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
ALABAMA's PosToFFIcEs.

During the last postoffice year Alabama lost nfty-three postoffices, tho total num- Der Tn that Stnte being 2,6o3. as compared with 2,ss6 in tho previous year. It is cu- rious to note the variations in the num- Der of offices from year to year. Thus Alabama had in 1896 222l. which fell the next year to 2,208 but jumping to 2,S47 in lssS. In 1899 there were in the State 2445 postofhces, and in tine following year 2,5S2
 In the entire country the decrease in the number of postofices during the year was l025. so AIabama's loss Is very reason able. seeing that 1t Is mainly due to ru- ral free delivery.
 Alabama has flfty-four Presidential postofiices. an increase of two, Jackson and Wetumpka. the salary of each of which is $1,000. There are but three first class offices in the State. Birmingham, $S4o0; Mobile. :$3,SO0 and Montgomery, s3.aO0. Second class offices number eight,
 Annistons S2,S0o; Bessemer, s2.2oO: Flor 5000: Selma, g, zoo. Talladega, 5000. and Tuscaloosa, $2,a00. The remaining forty. | three Presidential offices are of the third | class.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
O z ! 4 < \ < < < < < < & < < 2 c < WHAT THE STATE PAPERS { % ARE SAYING.
Has the Essentials.
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SnenIeId HNaDer.
 When 1t comes to maintaining the Mon roe Doctrine 1t Is just as well to quietly, but firmly, inform Europe that the Uni every other essential to do 1t with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

Is the President just mad with Mlssls. sippi because he didn't kill any bears down there?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

" A. Scott, Circulation Manager of The N6ntgonaeay Advertiser, peins ouiy sWorh' lats. he foregoing statement of The Ad- Yes fiser da4ly ctaGulatIon for tho month of betemDSr, fsv2, Is tiue and correct and touipiied after ali returns from newspoys, kcMs agents and leftover copaes have bstn heauctea W. A. SCOTT, Circulation Manager. Swarn to nds.subscribsu 70 before me tnis
 7th day of January, 1908. -.
 F. ". JACKSON,
 fsea1.1 N. F., Ex-O. J. F.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
CHILD LABOR
IT. North carolina-The Governors
 Message.

Columbia IS. O State.
 Governor Aycock of North Carolina, who is recognized throughout the south as man Of fine brain, high character aud true prosreasiveness, a man who has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14
COUNTY NAMES.

CVUNTx MARES,
 As might be expected, there is but one Mobile County in the country. But there are ten Morgans, eleven Fayettes, twenty-four Franklins, thirty-one Wash- ingtons (the highesD twenty-two Jack sons, nineteen Madisons eight Randolphs ten Henrys, eleven Lees, ten Pikes, ten Perrys, eight Buffers and seventeen Monroes. Of the Mighty Three" it is interesting to note that there are eighteen Clays. ten Calhouns and eight Websters.
 On the list are but two Llmestones and two Chambers, one each in Alabama and Texas, the Texas counties being named by Alabamians. Talladega and Tusca- loosa are not duplicated, and there are but two Blounts, three Walkers and five Dallasses. The names of only two counties in the United States begin with z, Zapata and Zavaiia, both in Texas. Three counties are spelled with three letters. Ada. Idaho: Ida. Iowa and Nye. Nevada. The longest named county is Chattahoochee. Georgia
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-14

In Alabama the first county alphabe. ticaaly is Autauga, and 1t Is the only county in the country of that name, but in the list of some 3,600 counties Autaugs is in alphabetical order about the 150th the first being Abbeville, South Carolina Abbeville, Alabama. by the way, comes third in the list of postoffices of tha' State, Abaline, Marion, coming first, ana Abba, Henry, coming second.