The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

lea. and 1t has no strategy fouhk men ought to. learn golf, as Talleyranu advised the mastery of whist, as a saie- | guard against stupid old age"
 The most amazing train that ever left | the Grand Central station, not even barring some carrying New York deie- gates to national conventions. was that | which the other day carried 500 luna | ties, who were being transferred from | Long Island State Hospital to Roches- l ter and Willard asylums. In former years. the greater number of insane persons was found in remote and thiniy | settled rural districts, where, 1t was | said. inccssant loneliness unsettled the | mind. This is all changed. Either the | intense life, noise and nervous tension of the city have wrought the present pronounced increase in dementia or va rious forms. or the country folk have been so far advanced in mental disorder l as to come to New York to live.
 Nnn Patterson Again.
 The return of Nan Patterson to the gayety of the Tenderloin and other | streets, after her escape from the grim l shadow of the electric chair, Is the most | forcefui comment New York has had of late on the tenacity of bad habits and the unlikelihood of a girl, and pretty one, who once has tasted the heady wine of that kind of life, forsaking 1t | for the pure and very cold water of rec | titude It is the oldest of stories, re- | told in every days news of the city. In | columns of type. composed for her, and in many fearful interviews in the | Tombs, she protested she would be good" Tie latest report of her islthat | she was turned out of a Chesapeake hotel, with a party of gay companions, on her sportive way to Washington, where her old mother was still waiting. Father Bass. long chaplain of Kings l County penitentiary, when asked if he had ever known girl who had once gone wrong to reform, thought long time and said: T think I know of one, but I am not sure"
 Seeing New York From am Airship. The sky is full of airships this sum-
 mer Knabenshue in his dirigible bal loon has been cavOrting above New York, and reports are plentiful of bal loon catastrophes and the deaths and hairbreadth escapes of bold air sailors. A little East Side Daedalus. who had been studying Knabenshue and the
 daily newspapers, jumped off the roof
 of his tenements home the other day with a parachute made of a flour sack and mass of wrapping twine for cord age. What happened to him is just
 what happened to his prototype back in mythological days. but many a man will fall farther than he did before the 400" gives up the automobile for the touring aeroplane, or the Sky Express from the Battery to Albany in twenty min utes, puts the Subway in a class with the Fifth Avenue stage. Knabenshue, meanwhile has learned lot about modern advertising since
 he began going up in the air for news papers. He declares now that he will not be content till he has given Presi- | dent Roosevelt a ride. After the Pres ident's trip in the Plunger 1t may be
 as well to get Knabenshue out of the country, for if he begins exercising his craft in the neghborhood of Oyster Bay it Is almost like backing Yale to bet that sooner or later he will have the President of the United States as a pas senger. As calm, placid taker of long chances MT. Roosevelt probably has no equal.
 It is history, perhaps, but without
 doubt new to many, the story of his visit to that famous duelist. the Mar quis de Mores, who had a ranch near
 Roosevelt's own. When some argu- ment arose over boundaries or tres-
 pass and his cowpunchers told Roose- welt that the redoubtable Marquis had promised to shoot him on sight, he
 mounted his horse and rode over the line to the Frenchman's house. "I have
 been informed, Marquis, that you in-
 tended killing me, and I thought 1t was
 only polite to save you the annoyance of a journey" That was when Roose- welt began his strenuous career as q peacemaker. The two were the warm | est of friend to the day of de Mores' death. Rollin Knox.