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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

their wives: others have beaten them others have stolen their money and run away from them. l never heard the like of such horridness of men to- ward women as there has been this year. So I'm thankful above all else for a perfectly perfect husband. He's just as nice and polite and sweet tenn pered to me as he ever was before we were married. He takes every care otf my shoulders. so that l am not wor- ried about money or business or even things that go wrong in the house, What I'm most grateful for this Thanksgiving is that have the best husband In the world
 Miss Sarah Ann Spinster rose. She was a stately looking woman who carried herself we'll. She had clear steady eye and a face with no non- sense in 1t. She said:
 I've much to be thankful for. l never had a husband to take any cares off me. so I had to learn to manage financial matters myself. and I can do 1t with the best. never had a human being to earn money for me. I learned to earn 1t for myself-all l need and something more. I'm par ticularly thankful I nave my own money to spend. I never had chance to coddle myself by staying indoors in storms. but had to be out in all weathers and get used to 1t. I never take cold when I get my feet wet. I have good health. I can take care of myself under all circumstances. If every dime I have were swept away could immediately go to work and earn more. I believe in my heart I've more to be grateful for this Thanks giving than any of the rest of you"
 ..- JANE MOSES.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Not Thought But Instinct In Animal.


 Animals have no language. Lam
 guages are conventional signs of thought and have to be learned. Anil nal sounds are instinctive and are in- stantly recognized by all the members of family without learning. Animals may learn to express their wants by signs which sympathetic persons can understand, but animals do not think in the way human beings do. They do not learn the alphabet or the multi plication table, learned horses and pigs to the contrary notwithstanding. By patience and skill a man can teach an animal to do things which express thought; but the thought is in the mind of the man and not in the mind of the beast and is communicated by signs which suggest certain actions. When pig tells the difference of time between Boston and Saratoga. he uses the cards which in some secret way his master indicates to him by signs long practiced and associated with eat ing. Darwin made much of the hered- ity in pigs. A SOW was taught to point, and her offspring instinctively pointed at birds; but it is now known that 1t Is a habit of pigs to point. Per
 haps that sow's ancestors had been pointing for thousand generations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Brings Enormous Sum.

The State of Illinois gets Tar mere money for its corn crop than the com bined revenues of all the Latin Ameri- can governments except the four most important ones---Mexico, Chile, Argen- tina and Brazil. Take the sixteen sov- ereign republics of Hayti. San Domin- go. Salvador, Costa Rioa. Honduras. Guatemala, Nicaragua. Colombia Ven ezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and Panama, and you will find that their national rev. enues do not exceed seventy millions of dollars annually. Illinois gets twenty-five millions of dollars more for her corn crop.
 And it must be remembered that all this vast wealth Is of recent creation. As late as 1859. the United States im- ported corn from England, but the great extension of maize growing in the Middle West and the South soon made that forever impossible again l.. By 1879 Illinois was producing 105 bushels per head of its population, and since then the corn production has increased by leaps and bounds. Wy ominE now comes lowest on the list of the States and Territories in the mat ter of corn. Its crop in 1903 amount ed to the mere tri1e of 45,7S4 bushels. but that was larger than the produc- tion of many of the sovereign powers of Europe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
To Prove What Swamp-Root will

was not the Truth. Then came the Mystical Memberhood of the Peacock Blue Magi. It. too, dropped out of fashion, thus proving it was not the Absolute Truth. Then we who fol- low Truth found out about thought transference and enlarging the solar plexus' and the pineal gland We kept at the practice enjoined by Azwashtur Thingummy. our master from the Ori- ent. till we fairly felt our pineal glands thump in our heads. Then we found out Azwashtur was no Oriental adept at all. but just smart ex-valet who had imposed on us all. My, but We dropped our solar plexuses in a hurry! But now. my sisters, I feel have found the real Truth. It is the cultivation of Theopneusty. have joined the Doubled and Twisted Order of the Ancient Theopneustics. Oh, the joy of being"
 Well. of all things! Thankful for the blessing of a new fad." murmur- ed Mrs. Praxu.
 Miss Faddish rolled her eyes pity ingly over those of her audience who were not Theopneustics. Mrs. Mother ly. a gentle little woman. said, with a slight timidity, as coming immediate ly after Miss Faddish
 For years. I confess, I've longed for Perian lamb jacket with chincnilla trimmings For the past year, too, I've wanted so much one of those beautiful white, gold banded china dinner sets with monogram in the center of each piece. This thanksgiv. ing I've got both, and I'm perfectly delighted
 Mrs. Goodlove said:
 All tins year of 1904 I've been read ing in the papers perfectly horrid things about husbands. Something must have broken loose among the planets that has driven husbands to be dreadful. Some of them have killed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Get Rid of Vitulity-sappers.

O. s. Marden.in Success.
 Debt is a great force-waster, because
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

very few men or women can be heavily in debt without worrying or being anx- ious. If you are so deeply involved that ie Is impossible to extricate your self withour going through bankruptcy then take your bitter medicine at once. and start again. Pay your debt in full afterward, when you are able. Get rid of all vitrlity- -sappers. If you have taken an unfortunate step. retrace 1t if you can. Never allow what Is dead and should be buried to keep bobbinE up and draining off your life-capitaI in worry or vain regrets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

south and west of these points; and the 'Horetooth" in the South. where 1t grows along with the Dent"
 Green" corn, the great American del icacy of today. was a most important article of food among the North Amer ican Indians in their prime, and many tribes celebrated its season by relig- ious festivals and elaborate thanksgiv- ing ceremonials. The white man of to- day only follows the example of the red American of yesterday in giving thanks for corn first and foremost of all the fruits of the earth. Corn is still. as 1t was then, the bulwark of the social order, the handspring of in- dustry, the creator and sustainer of civilization.
 John H. Machray.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
TIRE OF OLD KENTUCKY HOME.
Hammered Out of Q Piano 5000 Tinaes
 at the Worlds Fair.


 at the Worlds Fair.
 Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Upon the very conservative estimate of three times every hour 1t Is stated that My Old Kentucky Home" has been played on the piano at the Ken- lucky building at the worlds fair nearly 5000 times since the opening of the exposition. Nearly every visitor who knows how to play the plano rat- ties off that familiar tune, until now those connected with the building have almost become unsentimental enough to wish that stephen Collins Foster had never written that song.
 The estimate Is that about forty dif- ferent musicians try their hand at My Old Kentucky Home" on the piano in the pavilion of the blue grass State daily, or 7,2S0 times since the opening of the exposition.
 Kentuckians at the building have heard that popular air rendered with all of its different variations. Some times 1t has been played with feeling. other times mechanically. Those at the building were delighted at first at the interest shown In the Kentucky air and, they are not now so joyful when they hear the first strains con- ing from the piano as they used to be
 An interesting feature of the Ken- lucky building is the furniture of the room including the table, where Fos-' ter wrote My Old Kentucky Home As souvenirs of the building copies Of the song have been given and more than 10000 copies have thus been dis tributed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Which Hod Most to be Thankful Fors

Which Hnd Most 10 DC AnanAAui TUT
 In honor of Thanksgiving the Friendly Circle Club resolved that at the mid-November social meeting each member should tell the rest what she thought she had real, solid reason to be thankful for. Some of the ladies had never. hitherto. considered they had anything to be grateful for, so the proposition sent their minds explor- ing in new fields which was in itself matter eminently to be thankwor- thy.
 Miss Faddish opened the programme with: Madam President, fellow mem bers and guests, I am grateful at this Thanksgiving time to announce that at last I have found the Truth" (Miss Faddish pronounced 1t with a capital ID My life has been devoted to the pursult of Truth. When the Yoga breathing system was fashionable 1 went in for it with all my might. rose at daybreak. and, with my face to the east. I practiced breathings. post brings and saying my mantrams. That went out of fashion. which showed 1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
CORN
CHIEF AMONG THE CROPS OF THE
 UNITED STATES.
whanksgivinx Day Mockery Over This Land without . Good Corn Crop-IIlinois Greatest Pro-
 ducer.

Chicago Special.
 Of all the fruits of the earth and the blessings of Providence for which good American gives thanks on the day appointed by the Chief Executive. corn ranks first and foremost. It Is the greatest of American crops. the typical American crop. On corn the prosperity of the United States depends in a larger measure than it does upon any other single article. Corn vitalizes a thousand industries, and affects in some degree almost every nerve and sinew of the commonwealth.
 If the corn crop Is bad, Thanksgiv- ing day seems a hollow mockery to millions if it is good, Thanksgiving day Is the heartiest of festivals.
 It may we'll be so. The corn crop of 1902 throughout the United States amounted to 2,523,64S, 900 bushels: while the corn crop of all the rest of the world put together only totaled 65s,l6Z'- 900 bushels This is the latest com parison available, the statistics of the corn crop of 1903 fof the world. exclus- i've of America, not having been com piled.
 Illinois Leads.
 The State of Illinois-the greatest growing State in the unlon- alone produced during 1902 great oeal more than half as much corn as the whole of Europoe-namely zO4'ooI43i bushels as compared with 422,520,oO0 bushels. The total production or south America. Africa and Australasia was not much more than half of that of Illinois Australasia produced 7,S47,0O0 bushels. No fewer than twenty-six American States and two Territories individually did better than that.
 The American corn crop of 1903 was harvested from over eighty eight mill mil This area is much larger than the whole of Great Britain, or Italy and Greece put together. and more than twice as large as European Turkey.
 Value of 1903 Crop.
 The value of the 1903 crop was esti-~ mated by the Department of Agricul- ture at close on to a billion dollars, but that was only that direct value of ths crop when harvested and sold or await ing sale in the farmers hands. It took no account of the many other uses t" which corn Is put For example. the live stock industry of the United States which. with all it's countless ramitica- tions is by far the greatest industry of it's kind in the world, is very largely dependent on the corn crop. It has been estimated that over five million sheep and twelve million beef steers are tattened in the great corn belt WHICH HaS SpTiHRIIelu, H., lor us CSh- ter. And then there are chickens, hogs and dairy cows lnnumerable.
 Illinois corn last year worth more than ninety-five million of dol lars-about tenth of the value Of the crop, and about S20 for every man. woman and child in the State. Iowa came next with a crop worth over sS1.- o00,000. That is more than the national China, Canada, Belgium, or the whole revenue of either Austria Hungary, of the British colonies, excluding Cam ada, India and Australasia. It far ex- ceeds the combined revenue of Sweden Switzerland and Norway.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

proportion of the ingredients come from corn When you ride your auto mobile or your cycle you are under an obligation to the corn crop. for a com position of rubber Is now made from corn, and Is largely used in place of the real article from the forests of South America. When you buy a gaily-colored shirt or print frock. you may be pretty sure that the coloring matter for 1t has been obtained from corn.
 The list of by-products might be heightened almost indefinitely. Mil lions of whirring factory wheels would have to stop running for lack of raw material if, for any reason, the corn crop utterly failed, and millions upon millions of operators would be out of work.
 Out on the wide. treeless plains of the West, in Kansas and Nebraska. it was the custom. until recent years. to burn corn for fuel. In many places. when it was down to ten or fifteen cents a bushel. it was cheaper to grow it for this purpose than to transport any other kind of fuel that was avail able. A hundred bushels were reck- oned equal in heating power to a cord of the best hard wood But corn has ceased to be used for this purpose. even on the Western prairies, since its rise in price in recent years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

The new nature study Is giving us- both through it's common sense and it's follies, new data for the study. of the animal mind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Over 300 Varieties.

It is not generally known that there are more than 300 varieties of corn, and that they differ among themselves more than those of any other cereal. Some comes to maturity in two months; ; others in seven months. Some are as many feet high as others are inches; some have kernels eleven times larger than others. But of all these varieties only three are common and widely grown-the Flint" east of Lake Erie and north of Maryland. the Dent"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Transportation An Item.

More than with most other crops the problem of transportation plays supremely important part in the cal culations of the American corn grower D. corn buyer. A bushel of corn has with tIly to be carried many hundreds reach uile~ by railway before 1t can be gave vteamer at Duluth or on 'usslaH s"'4 vessel at one of the chl. tlantic or Pacific sea IL was H!lsH' n 1t has to be trans ceIhoeF anu of miles to the mar tal "eeA pelC the Far East. as the nre oh roit @ At may well happen that cullar tn'he auoH S its destination the IS lhal !I the bushel has been Aeehly eHa' Pu' by the cost of trans an immense ship
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-10-06
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and now he's entirely cured. They're
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-10-06

RrudhGad Woman Has Bad Fall.
Mrs, Russell Day of Erodhead acct.
IDENTITY fell, while tending To house.
hold duties and broke her thigh.
Mrs. Day is about - years OF age,
and fears are entertained that she may
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-10-06

Trains arrive and depart as fol
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Speaking Of Ovepsights.

The Minneapolis Journal, pub
lished in the city once presided
over by Mayor Ames, says: ''It
might have been an oversight, but
the Democratic Convention never
indorsed the Supreme Court Of
Missouri" Perhaps the esteemed
Journal can assure us that it was
an oversight that the Republican
platform did not indorse the Su-
preme Court of Minnesota in it's
position on the Ames case. And
perhaps the Journal can assure US
that it was an oversight that the
Republican platform never in
dorsed the Republican Governor
of Indiana in his refusal to honor
q requisition for fugitive from
Kentucky justice because that
fugitive happens to be Republic
can prominent enough to be
cheered to The echo by a Republic
can National Convention, which
said fugitive attended only after
being assured that no Kentucky
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
VIM. j. Bryan.

Of all the men who took part in
the st. Louis convention none did
so more splendidly than Mr.. Bry-
an. Earnest and courageous to
the end, fighting for the things in
which he believed, he yet yielded
to the supreme Democratic princi-
pie that the majority must rule.
He went at least half way-aye,
more than that-to promote spirit
of harmony which will lead to sue
cess. We believe it can be truth
fully said that in the eyes of the
country to-day he is greater than
ever before. There are many who
look upon him as the greatest liv-
American. He is young and he is
growing. With his wide know
ledge of affairs, his great abilities
as a debater, his magnificent ora
tory and his lovable personalities,
it seems sure that there must be
much in store for him. AS the
central figure of the great conven-
ton he knows in what regard he is
held by his fellow-partisans the
country over.-Indiamapolis State
Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28

eeper Sunday and returned Mon

Leeper Sunday and returned Mon
day.
Miss Lottie Nevens, of Gad's
Hill, visited Mrs. Nellie Ruble last
week.
Ed. and Charlie Ruble were in
De Soto last Thursday.
The men are working the county
road here at present.
Quite a number of our folks at
tended the picnic at Annapolis
Saturday. Among those present
were: Misses Mary Cooper, Cora
McHenry, June Goodman, Matte
Mann, Mary and Bertha Huff, Lima
Ruble and Pearl Berry.
Chas. Clifton visited relatives
here Sunday.
Miss Carrie Upton attended
church at the Roberts school
house Sunday.
Geo. Goodman, ST., spent Sun
day with home folk.
A. Morris and family spent Sun
day in Annapolis.
VIM. Chiffon was in our city on
business Monday.
Ed. Mann and sister, Miss Della,
of Piedmont, attended the picnic
at Annapolis.
VIM. Huff was at Annapolis
Monday on business.
Chas. Ruble visited his mother,
Mrs. John Lewis, Sundayr
Mrs. Cox, Of Mill Spring, has
returned home.
Miss Mary Cooperspent Sunday
with the Misses Smith.
| THELMA,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Des Are Items.

E. w. Graves and wife left Fri
day for a pleasure trip. They will
visit Mr.. Graves mother in Ore
gon; also spend a week at the
Fair before returning home.
Walter Strother and wife are
visiting relatives at this place.
They recently returned from the
State Of Washington.
Mrs. Graham, of Hendrickson,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John
Stevenson.
Ray Stamp made a flying trip to
Piedmont last week.
Ed. Maddox is at home this
week from De Soto.
Miss Grace Cape, Of Springfield,
ILL.,, and Miss Mae Collins, Uf Sa-
bula, spent few days with their
cousin, Miss Allie Fitz.
Miss May Williams returned
home Monday from visit with
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28

w. Hinsdale returned from st.
Louis Saturday.
Mrs. Decker, of Granite, ILL.,, is
here with friends.
Mr.. Frank Ferguson entertained
about fifty of his friends Friday
night. All report good time.
Died-At his home on Saturday,
July %, 1904, Benjamin Kidd, aged
about rs years. Rev. Hill con-
Quoted the funeral services, after
which his body was carried to the
family graveyard and there laid
to rest. He leaves three sons and
three daughters and a number of
grandchildren and great grand
children to mourn his loss. To
these bereaved ones we extend our
sympathy. GIBRALTAR.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Sabula Items.

We are having some cool morn
ings now.
Mr.. Rhodes, the Republican can
didate Congress, passed through
here on his way to Centreville.
He will stand poor show in
Reynolds county.
Omar Shy spent a couple of
days in Piedmont with his sister
this week.
Several of the boys attended the
Annapolis picnic.
Wait for the Carver picnic.
John Hodges and Mayme Nc
Kinney, of Lesterville, were in
town Sunday. s
Mrs. Thos. Jackson and children
were in town Monday. Mr.. jack
son has possession of Mr.. Reese's
store.
Miss Grace Cape, of Illinois, is
visiting her cousin, Mae Collins.
We have a first-class photog-
rapher here now. s
Misses Effie Collins and Julia
Counts spent Sunday with Julia
Hughes. SNOWFLAKE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Chickens Coming Home.

The chickens are coming home
to roost at Oyster Bay under the
very nose of President Roosevelt,
or over it. The color line is being
drawn and race question is CON"
A few days ago colored preach
er from a down East city, where
the negro is considered as good as
the white man and where, as a
matter of fact, he is a good deal
better, dropped into the town OF
Oyster Bay and continued drop
ping until he dropped into a lead
ing barber shop and, without cere-
mony, dropped into chair. The
proprietor became indignant and
informed him that only white men
were waited on in his shop. The
colored preacher protested and in
sisted on his rights as an Ameri-
can citizen, as a Christian and a
minister Of the Gospel, and de-
clared he would not leave until he
was shaved.
Then there was some more drop
ping, and the visitor heard some
thing drop. He was thrown out
of the shop forcibly and he raised
such a howl that for a while il
looked like a race riot was in sight
The preacher then sought out
President Roosevelt intending te
tell him his troubles; but whether
he did or not the dispatches do MOI
say.
This is bringing the question
perilously near home, and Presi.
dent Roosevelt may yet have ar
opportunity of witnessing the
effects Of his teachings.-Memphi
Commercial Appeal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Night Was Her Terror.

81 would cough nearly all light
long," writes Mrs. Chas. Apple
gate, of Alexandria, Ind, "and
could hardly get any sleep. l had
consumption SO bad that If walk
ed a block | would cough fright
fully and spit blood, but, when all
other medicines failed, three S1.00
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry wholly cured me and | gained
So pounds" It's absolutely guar
anteed to cure coughs, colds, la
grippe, bronchitis and all throat
and lung troubles. Price SOC and
S1.G0. Trial bottles free at Area
dia Valley Drug Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
Graniteville Items.

Artie Tolleson went to Granite,
ILL.,, Wednesday.
Mrs. Ed. Coad is entertaining
relatives from st. Louis this week.
Miss Ida Belcher returned from
st. Louis Sunday.
w. r. Allen is in st. Louis this
week.
Mrs. Smith visited relatives in
the city last week.
Mrs. Young, of Bertrand, is the
guest Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robinson.
Miss Mamie Kerwin, of st. Louis,
is spending her vacation with her
parents here.
Jas. Anderson, Of New York, is
here with friends.
Mike Burke, Of New York, and
Jas. Burke, of st. Louis, are here
visiting their parents.
Mrs. j. Dubacher and Miss Pearl
Edmunds spent last week with
friends in Doe Run.