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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
TIT PREDICTED TRULY.

If some newspaper clipper had cut out and saved all the editorials that were written about the Portsmouth con-
 ference before the treaty was conclud- ed it would make an interesting book
 and it would also have some distinct ively amusing features about it. All inc large newspapers of the country had column after column each day tell ing just what would be done or not done, and what the effect would be. Some of these comments would actually sound ridiculous now. but the great daiIies felt 1t their duty to inform the public of what would be done and they did it. The only hitch was in the fact that most of the information was er- roneous. ..>
 Ard among all the great organs of public opinion there was an almost general feeling of doubt, especially in the latter days of the conference. It was so freely declared that na satis-' factory conclusion would be arrived at that the public would not have felt much surprised if the confab had ended in row. There was one metropolitan paper. however, that was not mistaken, .-and that was The New York Mail. On the 17th of August that paper had an editorial beginning: Peace is as sure to be the outcome of the present con- ference at Portsmouth as the sun is sure to rise tomorrow" The entire editorial Is founded on this text. and The Mail was as confident then as 1t could be today. Every word of its pre- dictions was verified. -@':
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
WILL IT COME TRUE.

The Brooklyn Eagle quotes an emi- nent authority on railroads as having remarked four years ago that "at the exniration of ten years search for a steam locomotive in operation would be far and wide, and that when one was found it would be on a small, remote railroad, where cheapened electricity was not to be found"
 This was rather a bold and startling proposition. or prediction, 1t must be admitted. To say that in only one de- cade the railway motive power of the world would be changed on all but the 'backwoods" roads from steeam to cleo tricity was taking large chances as a prophet. but we need not yet set him down as a false one. Electricity as a car driver is yet an infant in its swad- ding clothes, but 1t is an infant which grows and expands with wonderful ra- pidity. From the Atlantic to the Pa- cifc, from the great lakes to the Gulf. on the prairies and in the mountains, the subtle fluid is surely making its way and Is continually putting steam out of business. As yet the, progress has been slow, and less than six years of the time fixed by the railroad man remain for his prophecy to make good. He may have been over-confident, but if he was mistaken 1t was only in the matter of time. The movement. like ball rolling down a decline, gathers force as 1t progresses. and apparently nothing will stop it.
 The Eagle notes that some railroad men are suggesting another innovation which will be almost as radical as the change from steam to electricity has been. Their suggestion is that long trains-or trains of any kind-of pas senger cars will go out of use, and that people will be carried on single cars just as is now usual on street rail ways. These cars will be of greater capacity than those now in use, and will be run at frequent intervals, as street cars are run. Then, if the roads are all double-tracked, accidents will be reduced to minimum and service would be better.
 And why not? If street railway should send out train of cars only two or three times a day no one would bt satisfied with it. but when they run 2 single car every few minutes all car ride at any time of day except on ex | traordinary occasions. If car tha could accommodate one hundred pas sengers comfortably should leave Mont gomery, for example, every hour in tn, day, or oftener, if necessary. on an! one of the roads leading out of thu city. people would soon accustom them selves to the change and would per | haps be better and more satisfactoril! served than they are at present Wheth CT this will follow the general adoption of electric motive power cannot be told but 1t is not improbable. +~- ,.>
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Quite an interesting publication is The Alabama Farmer. a monthly pub licatIon at the price of 25 cents per an- mum. The first number has reached us. There is no farmer in Alabama who would not be benefited by reading the excellent matter which 1t furnishes. It is published by The Alabama Farmer
 mpany. w E. Phillips. Manager. and
 fife s. Saunders. Editor. Both are
 roughly capable men. Mir. Phillips
 been all his life connected with
 wspapers and has fine judgment and
 lte. MT. Saunders has a wide repu-
 ion as writer on farm and stock mat lers. The Advertiser hopes The Farmer will have unbounded success.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

publication. even If the Territory be- comes State.
 These corrections we thought proper to make, though we agree fully with the correspondent quoted in his esti- mate of sequoyah's real greatness. It would be a compliment to his memory as we'll as a credit to the new State, if one shall be formed, to give 1t his name. 4ney could not give it name which would be more appropriate or better deserved
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Efnaf RAm!

leCtinG state ana county taxes Tor the Ysss YsSs: l'0S' and assessing for the year
 First Round.
 Court House, Beats to s-october 2, Teasley's Mil. Beat 12-Monday. Oct. Pine Level. Beat 1s-ruesday, Oct. 10. Dublin. Bset 14--wednesday. Oct Il. Ramor. BeAt 1S-Thursday. Oct 1s. Mount Carmel. Beat ls-Friday, Oct crenshaw's Store, Beat 1o-saturday. Mount Meigs. Beat 21-Monday. Oct Pike Roads, Beat 7--Tuesday. Oct. II. Oak Grove. Beat s-wednesday, Oct Robinson's x Roads. Beat i1-Thurs- McGehee's Switch. Beat s-Friday. Si carters Store. Beat is-4ssturday. Highland Park. Beat 17-Monday. waiker's Store. Beat 2O-Tuesday. Browns Store, Beat 1s-Wednesday. Oct. 25, 1905.
 Second Round.
 Court House. Beats to 6-Nov 6, T. 8, g, 10 and II, 1905.
 TeaSley MIL, bedl AI-hhOHQdyB OCts Pine Level. Beat 1s-Tuesday. Oct. II. Dublin. Beat 14-wednesday. Oct IS. stoddard's Store, Beat 15-Thursday. Union Academy, Beat 1s-Friday. Oct. IT, 1905.
 Mount Meigs, Beat 21-MOnday, Oct. Mathews Station. Beat 7-Tuesday. otS Oak Grove. Beat S-wednesday. Oct. RoSiHson's X Roads, Beat 11-Thurs- ua McGehee's Switch. Beat s-Friday, 0VS Carter's Store. Beat 1s-saturday, IH Highland Park. Beat 17-Monday. oGV walkers Store. Beat 2o-Tuesday. Browns Store. Beat 9-wednesday. Oct 29, 1905. Assessor will be open at Court House November 18th 14th. 18th. 18th. 17th and 18th for assessments
 GEO. W. HALLS. Tax Collector. Montgomery County A H EUBANK,
 Tax Assessor, Montgomery County sun-3t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Conditions in the steerare

OIeVeIAnd Leader.
 In the arrest of the captain of an Atlantic steamer in New York the oth- CT day the fact was disclosed that the United States government was deter mined immigrants should arrive in Sthe country after voyages fairly comfort able. An inspector had made the trip in the steerage of this vessel and found the quarters about as comfortable as those in & cattle car. The food was execrable and the general conditions miserable beyond thinking. The incl dent also reveals the intention of the government to force the steamship companies to live up to their promises
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
REMOVAL SALE

We have sold our lense and are conn peIIed to VncRte our present store Sep- tember 1OthJ after that date we will be located in the Windsor Hotel block, 221 Commerce Street, and rather than move our stock of pictures, cut glass, chaflng dishes, coffee machines and other fancy articles we will sell them regardless of cost for cash only, beginning Monday morning.
 This is an opportunity to get big values for little money.
 Ed C. Fowler Company,
 13 Dexter Avenue. "#
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
THE NAME FOR IT.

The people of Indian Territory ap- pear to be thoroughly in earnest in de- manding that they shan not be uni ted with Oklahoma in forming a new State. They want to go in as a State of their own, and according to a spe- cial from Muskogee to The St. Louis Republic they want the new State to be named Sequoyah, after one who was really the greatest Indian ever known. He was not a great warrior. great orator or a great leader of men. In fact, he possessed none of the clements of leader, as Indians understand leadership. but that an al- most entirely illiterate Indian should invent and perfect an alphabet of his own tongue, which has been used in printing and writing the Cherokee language for more than three-quarters of a century, marks him as a great man in the highest and best sense of the word. The Republic correspon- dent has this to say about him: ventor of the Indian alphabet, and justly styled the American Cadmus," was born in the old Cherokee nation in Georgia in 1763 and died in New Mex ico in 1S44, while in search of a lost band of Cherokees. his grave being un-
 In 1921 he, invented the Cherokee newspapers have been published in the Cherokee characters. In 1882 he moved to what, is now, the Cherokee ran a trading post for years
 The Cherokee alphabet contains eighty-six characters and is one of inventor was an iiliterate Indian.
 The Cherokee Advocate was estab- alphabet was invented, and has been published there since that time, using the Cherokee characters. This Is the only o neCwSspaper many nan of the full
 There are two or three inaccuracies in this extract which are worth cor recting. Although sequoyah com menced his great work about 1891, when he was about fifty years old for he was born in or about 177O, in- stead of 1763-it was not completed until four or five years later, proba- bly in 1928, and it was almost im- mediately adopted and put to use.
 The writer is also mistaken in say ing that The Cherokee Advocate was established at Talequah soon after the alphabet was invented. The first pa per to De printed in the new language was The Cherokee Phoenix, which was established at New Echota, in Georgia. about 1928. It was published several years. but in 1885 the Georgia authori- ties took possession of 1t and 1t ceased 1 to exist.
 The Cherokee Advocate. at Talequah, l q. T. was established Sn 1856, though in its present form it is only in its twenty-ninth volume. It is pub lished by the Cherokee Nation, and is the official organ of the Nation. It is partly printed in English and partly in the characters invented by Sequo- yah and as the correspondent states. there are many of the full-blood Cherokees who can read no other nwespaper. It is a pity to think 1t may go down when the tribal form of government is abolished. which will be done next March, though 1t may be that they will arrange to continue its
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

The Mobile Register with It's Trade Edition of September first has done Q grea. service for it's city and State. It demonstrates that no city has brighter hope for the future and that those hopes are based upon the most solid foundation. Every page of this great issue is a reminder that Mobile has a splendid set of business people who are carrying the city forward with rapid strides. The Register has gotten out many notable issues but none of them surpass the one just brought out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
n.cndence of France.

A century ago France had E6 per cent of the population of Europe; now if has only Il per cent of it. At one time French was spoken all over the world. Today it is ,..e language of 45. .0OO, coo people. while German is spoken by 1000, ,OOO, and English by nearly l5O.OOO, ,00O
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Vast Cost of Forest Fires

NeW lOTk GUU. - .,. "a
 A million dollar fire in lumber yardi excites public attention and comm .el en !, ' from Maine to California, FeW IPraR P@RS any attention to the $25,OOO.0gO wotsl wotkn of lumber annually destroyed m ae tne United States by forest fires The prioe of beef, gas and railway rates is ,oa a permanent topic of active discuSsloLil o oLl i and controversy. Few give any heso to the recent enormous Increase ln lse nr cost of lumber or to the danger or .na ai early exhaustion of our LoEss'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Distress in Kansas.

Birmingham Ledger.
 Kansas farmers are in distress. They had a big crop that paid off their mort gages. Another big crop built new houses and barns. Now they are con- fronted with another big crop and are worried thinking of what to do, with the money they are to get.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Not ..YnIunbIe" Liyen.

A reporter of The London Chronicle. who was not without his sense of irony, wrote of a recent automobile accident in England: Motor cars at racing speed sometimes run out or the course, and to prevent the possi- bility of any loss of valuable lives the ground level of the promenade Will be occupied only by representatives or the press"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Progressive Public Spirit.

CuIIman DemOcFdt.
 A good, healthy, public spirit is being developed in this town and 1t will soon bear fruit. If you make a mistake on the side of progress and development, the whole world will applaud you; no man has any respect for an obstruction ist and fault finder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
FalthfuI Friend and Adviser.

Selma Journal.
 W. H Councilrs letter to Governor Jelks increases that confidence which many thoughtful men of the State have had In him for long time. The ne- groes of Alabama will find him safer leader and a truer friend than Wash ington has ever been and will do well to heed his words of advice and warn ings of dangers toward which they seem to be drifting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Same Way All Over Alabama.

selma JOufhdI.
 A gentleman from Montgomery on 1 the streets said yesterday that he had not been in Selma for two years and that he was amazed at the change | which seemed to have come over the | town. That improvement and progress l seemed to be in the very air. And so
 they all say and such is the truth | Selma Journal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
In the Backyard.

I'll fight out on this line" said the black cat to the white one as they hung suspended by their tails to the clothes wire, If it takes me all sum mer."
 (Notice-Reader will please go like two cats.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

An excellent article entitled "Candor and Honesty" which appeared in yes terday's Advertiser, was copied from The Geneva Reaper. and should have been so credited :
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Cause for ConxratuIation.

HeTIIn NeW EFd
 It is truly gratifying to all Alabama to note the rapid phenomenal improve ment of our great State educationsIiy, and it is even more gratifying to The New Era and the citizens of Heflin and Cleburne County to know that the coll lege at this place is in the front ranks of the procession.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
OuP Language,

Frenchman who was told that the words bad and wicked were .synony- nous, entered a restaurant, ordered an egg, and when 1t was brought to him having detected a certain odor eminat- ing therefron, exclaimed, 70 waiter take away ze wicked egg"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Hopeless Game.

Hartford Times.
 The report comes out from Montgom- cry that the Republicans of the State are preparing to put up candidate for Governor in the coming election. More good money thrown away
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
In the Mntter of n,Id u..A.

Howard (kaS) Courant.
 A bald head Is not necessarily the sign of brains or talent. Hanch Glow CTS head Is as destitute of hair as q peeled onion and his skull is SO hard and his head so empty that he should wear a husher in his plug hat to keep 1t from clanking when he puts it on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

"To say the least of it. Atlanta s Mayor acted the fool in Toledo" some what disgustedly remarks The Fort Gaines Recorder. Oh. well, Atlanta hadn't had a first-cIass sensation in several days and couldn't get on with cut something doing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
It Was Copied and Credited to Another | Pnrer.
Randolnh Star.

The Advertiser contained last week a notice that Judge Denson was thinking of running for Congress against Con- gressman Hefin. Judge Denson prompt ly says there is no truth in the state ment' and that he will n6t oppose MT. Hefin. that he is not a candidate and will not be. MT. Heflin served eleven weeks the unexpired term of MT Thompson. and will enter upon his first term next December. From all indica- lions he will have no opposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
FnlIed to Convince while.

YonkerB Statesman.
 ssYou should be like the chickens. Willie; just see how early they wake up in the morning"
 ooh. well, could wake up early, too ma H-1 stOnds nn Rn=n1&hAM
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
You Will Hear from Us.
Huntsville Tribune.


 The Montgomery Advertiser seems to be strictly out of politics. Sometime hard one, sending a high fly which was evidently caught out. Since then The Advertiser has not again come to the bat. Why this singular conduct we know not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Wbat State Papers
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ooodwatsr E5fsTnr,sa

One of the most significant and en- couraging events in Goodwater's his tory Is the almost unanimous vote in fayor of the electric light plant We honestly believe the movement emil nently wise and altogether safe We believe that 1t will make a new epoch ginning Of a larger fife and develop ment for our businers interests.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
An AInhamn Ontimiat.

An AIhbHlnn UpIlIIlInls Mockin' bird singin' in de hick'ry Ole mule in de furrow lookin' lazy
 like at me,
 Cotton fields a smilin' an a shinin' in F.. de sun, .~... Golly ain't An happy when nah days
 wuks done. -:-.- ..-. :~.- Little log cabin whar An res at night. Little ole fiddle makes nah haht feel
 light, <ts -s. Little yailer wife cookin' bacon and Golly, ainf An happy when nah days
 wuks done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

The Rome Tribune thinks there Is nothing strange in the statement that the Sultan of Turkey frequently changes his mind, seeing that he has 300 wives. The wonder to us Is that he has any mind to change.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

E. g. Noble. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, mAyBg
 The foregoing statement of Tho Adver- tfHers circulation for the month of July, 1eo6 is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents and left-over copies have been deducted.
 F. s. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of August, 1soS
 F. W. JACKSON. . 6seall Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Mr AInnre Returna Home.

Rev. 10. c. Moore, pastor or tue Clayton Street Methodist Chruch, fe- turned to the city yesterday from Ope- lika. where he has been engaged In n revival for the past two weeks. Hc reports a good meeting, the church greatly revived and many conver- sions.
 This is MT. Moores second meeting at the Opelika church. He held a re- vival there last summer Dr. Dickin- become very much endeared to him. He will flll his pulpit today. Commun- ion at the II o'clock service.
 During his absence the Ladies Aid Society papered the ceiling and walls and laid new carpet on the floor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Instead of impeaching her Mayor, The New Bedford Standard thinks At lanta should be impeached for having chosen such a man. We'll, is 1t humane to keep rubbing 1t in?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Sign of Prosperity.

Gadsden Journal
 One after another of our mercantile houses are seeking larger quarters so the increased stocks may be carried to take care of their growing trade. This is certainly a good index of our pros- perity
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Mrs Humphrey Ward, tfe great story writer, Is coming to Am&rica, We are told, to find an American heroine for NAer next story. Without waiting to consult our esteemed contemporaries we place the name of Mrs Carrie Ma ton in nomination. Do we hear sec ond?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Now there's another uproar. One Bergh. a native Norwegian. but a nat uralIzed American citizen. is our Consul at Gothenberg. On the Kings birthday he failed to hoist the American flag over the Consulate and now there's an international complication, and our Government will probably apologize and bounce Bergh. Lots of flubdub in our consular service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
AImnxn nehinh n ,,..n

Philadelphia Record
 Nell don't care for her face, do you7
 Belle-To tell the truth. Tya never seen. her without .,heP7epmplSSion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Cartoonists now are representing MT. Oyster stepping from the briny deep and reclining in the glad hand of the expectant oyster lovers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
The R0nh

There once wa sa big Russian bomb In the hands on anarchist Elum, It never exploded Gt wasn't half loaded)- Now wasn't that a bum bombs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Evidently.
TO Date,

Mary had a little lamb,
 Twas gentle as a pup; When Mary took 1t out one day The Beef Trust grabbed it up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Revised,
There was a little girl

There was a little girl Who had little curl That hung right down her forehead. When asked what she paid For the curl, this shy maid Said, T think you are perfectly hor-
 ridi"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
All Be on.
Mobile It.

MODlIe Item. Massachusetts investigators are to give married women a bearing as to
 race suicide. In that event it will all be off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Did your trip to the seaside do you good?"
 well what the trip lacked in 'do- 1 g me good was made up by the hotel keeper"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
DriftWccd
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Kermit Roosevelt killed a bear at Deadwood on his hunting trip-News- paper report.
 Kermit's Killed Bear. From the hills of South Dakota Comes the news upon the wire That little Kermit Roosevelt Has set the woods afire. All the animals are frfghtened- Each one's making for his lair, For the words been quickly passed Master Kermits killed a bear. In the hills of South Dakota Now the sun no longer shines; The wind is sadly wailing And each beast sits round and
 whines. Old Mother Bear shows scratches Where Pa Teddy grazed hair, All the beasts in the fear are quaking Since young Kermit's killed bear.
 Evidently.
 Whats the medical term for that coating on your tongue?"
 q don't remember. but l have 1t right on the end of my tongue"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Rnnr Fellow
Won. VARfHv.

He said he was simply carried away with her singing"
 He was-on stretcher.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
Don't Excite Us, Please.
Mobile Herald.

T
 If you are clapped into jail for con | tempt of court in time to miss seeing the Futurity won, wouldn't it Madden i you?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03
NirhtfnlI.

Low sinks the sun adown the west The cottonwoods look gaunt and
 grey; The red moon rides the mountain
 crest
 She but reflects the God of Day. Love burning in a human breast All unrequited sinks and dies; He falls fainting on the quest ,Tls still reflected on his eyes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

The whale was just preparing to swallow Jonah.
 Have you any objections to com ing inside?" he was asked.
 "None whatever" replied Jonah, T used to live in flat near a glue fac tOrV"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

Mark Antony was delivering his fla
 Friends. Romans. and countrymen. -" when suddenly there was a click ing, cracking sound. and the little wax cylinder had split. Thus 1t will be record breaker" #r+