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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
HIP POCKET AND REVOLVER
Ex-Ranger Says Weapons Are Not
Carried There by COWBOYS.

Il have just been reading one OF
these books of Texas life, so-called,"
said an ex-ranger, who has had many
dangerous experiences with bad
men," according to the San Antonio
Express. THE hero was Texas
cowboy, who wore a pistol in his hip
pocket. Now, anybody with grain OF
sense would know that cowboys don't
go into hip pockets for their shoot.
ing arms. It's clumsy and unsafe.
when a man needs his gun he
needs it bad and so he will keep it in
handy reach. He isn't going to take
any chances of throwing his coat back
or having his pistol stick when he
tries to pull it out. Besides, a pistol
big enough to do the work, with a bar.
rel long enough to insure accuracy OF
aim, wouldn't go into the hip pocket.
anyway.
Some fellows carry theirs in their
holster, fixed on the right side of their
belts and they let the belt swing
loose, so that the pistol hangs well
down on the hip. That's well enough;
D"' Always piSlCllSu W CARRY HuluS
in holster under my left arm sus.
pended from the shoulder and little
to the front.
I'm this way there is no vulgar dis.
play of the weapon; yet when you
need it, all you have to do is to let
your right hand fal! carelessly, as If
you were going to take lead pencil
out of your vest pocket, and you are
ready for any kind of argument"
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
Healthy Place to Live.

st. Vincent de Tyrosse. a French
village with a population of some five
hundred people, must be healthy
place to live, if the old age of its in
habitants is any criterion. On a single
day recently no less than five couples
of the village celebrated their golden
wedding together.
The five couples have combined
age of 765 years, and are named OAR
cant, Fabes, Latailade, Fortabat and
Coustets. A sixth couple in the vii
lage only lacked few months of be-
ing able to join in the celebration. All
of the parties concerned are agricul-
tural laborers, and they are all in
good health, and every day finds
them at their usual tasks.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
Slight Difference.

There goes a successful author
Great genius, eh?"
mo, | didn't say he was a senius
merely said he was a success"
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
PICKING CHERRIES WITH THE
ROBINS.
(By G. M. Jackson.)

lIo DuISlluS uT6CTdCkGTS, us T6O
rockets in the skies;
With it's half-shot celebrators, it's pow
der-burned small boys
A-nursin' of their many hurts, sore
thumbs and bunged up eyes,
All over this broad land of ours We'll
hear the eagle scream;
On the platforms spelling orators
will rant, and rave and shout,
Till we get the notion up our nose
that once we get up steam
We can lick entire creation; can
knock the whole world out.
Now for me the Fourth has no delights
in the firing of guns;
The thing l want-and when think,
my old heart goes to throbbin'-
Is to go back to Dan Theodores" and
have my bit of fun
Up in the old black cherry tree on
the same limb with a robin.
I've read the Declaration; once knew it
all by heart;
In the constitution and the law I'm
tolerably astute;
OF the hist'ry of my country I've
learned a no small part,
And ought to know why, on this day,
we all get out and shoot.
No bowling speaker from stage can
team me something new
Nor do | care to jog around light
ing noisy things
Like Chinese bombs. or flower pots o.
flaming red and blue;
Or touch off Roman candles, or send
up balloons with wings.
No, let me climb up Britton's hill, and
on past "Jabe's" old farm
And then, with Ed. and Steve again.
up tree just go a-bobbin'-
The tree l mean is 'crost the road in
the corner from the barn
And celebrate my freedom eating
cherries with the robins.
The robin is a knowing bird, with an
intellectual eye,
And taste for good things, like the
fruit that there in clusters hung;
So glossy, black, so rich, so sweet, so
lovely, Oh, my, my,
No wonder that the happy bird e'er
after eating, sung.
With tail afirt, and juice-stained beak,
he'd slice a cherry clean.
And hop from twig to twig in search
of those which were dead ripe;
While l, oh, dear, it makes me sigh,
and wish me back again
With the redbreast in the cherry
tree; to hear him gaily pipe.
To tell the absolute, plain truth, as
sit here tonight.
With mem'ry of that juicy fruit,
scarce can keep from sobbin',
For Pm honest when / say my purest
best delight
Would be found up in cherry tree,
on the same limb with a robin.
Twas said in centuries a-gone that
they who lotus ate,
Meier could be brought to leave the
land in which its petals grew;
No matter what had been their lot, or
what their previous state,
They'd not forsake the lotus for pros
poets old or new.
And where a chap has tasted of such
cherries as now burn
In uscious-colored pendants upon
that old, old tree,
You can bet your last simoleon that
fellow will eer yearn
For a glimpse of the dear country,
where their beauties he can see.
So let the small boy celebrate; the
tippler take his dram;
IN. 30, ctttff
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
MEN AND WOMEN
 WE READ ABOUT
tContinued frem Page Taree.)


 cling. During the five months in the year that he lives in Cleveland he goes @ to his office and works from six to eight hours every day. Lakeland Is approximately 100 acres in extent The house Is picturesque, comfortable. handsomely furnished and we'll kept up. There is a private trotting park on the place, where he speeds his own horses for the fun of 1t. He is ex. ceedingly fond of trotting as sport, but he confines his indulgence in 1t to his own track, on his own place and with his own horses. He has never had any bIooded animals for profit either at Lakeland or the Kansas farm, except his cattle.
 from s1,o00,000 to s2,0oo.0 900, though that is only surmise His Kansas ranch is enormous in size. It is at the end of branch railroad, over which access to it is difficult because of infrequent trains Oh the ranch he has raised 5000 Horses and so,ooo cat tie.
 Mir. Rockefeller looks a good deal like his brother, William. and very lit tie like John D. He Is not much fl any over fifty. His eldest daughtei Che has three daughters. but no son) Cleveland business man. Alice and Anna, the younger daughters. ars wholesome, healthy, well-groomed good looking American girls. They live at home with their parents There seems to be little nonsense about the Frank Rockefellers. and their stand ing with their neighbors appears tc be of the best.
 . Conyrisht, 1905, by Dexter Marshall
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
0oN 0lSlSh' TOBACCO PLANTS
o .4 e,~.r-Moufhs of Process Goes m in snokeiA h . of
 the Mostse Up-to-
 Faruni

Hartford. conn., Sept 2s.--Passengers on the New Haven trains trough this pect.on of Ahe Connecticut Valley usual iv watch Ntth great interest from the middle of August until the end of Sep tenber the operations of the tobacco Farmers. So much has been written about the marvellous richness Of the yield of the weed in a limited district pf this valley. and so many pictur- esoue features appear in connection with the industry that 1t is the regular thing for the tourist returning from the mountain seashore resorts of New England, after he has passed Spring field. to begin craning his neck for 2 sight of the fields, gray-green with the tall standing tobacco plants, or swarm ing with motley crowds of workers Amonest the "taths," or Frames, on which the plants are hung head down. ward prior to their removal to the dry ing barns which dot the landscape in every direction.
 During the weeks. of the harvesting there Is no lack of employment in this section for any able-bodied man who is willing to work. Getting in Connecti- cuts tobacco crop is accompanied al- most every year by just such scarcity of help as prevails among the wheat and corn harvests of the Middle West.
 This year, especially the passenger has looked out upon animated scenes as he has ridden comfortably through what has been termed "the richest agri- cultural section of the United States" for the yield has been of~"bumper" pro- portions, one bringing millions of dol
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24

ous mechanism in the ground, until. eight months or twelve months later, the perfectly cured leaves arc turned over to the freight department of the New Haven Road, with instructions to han die carefully and place the boxes on their sides in such way that the toz baco will continue to settle" harmo- ulously, 1t ia one continuous triumph of skillful methods. Ideas, rather than fertile acPes-though these, too, are present, thanks to intensive cultivation ---have brought the industry to it's unique importance. Because of the care and skilful handling from beginning to end, nine, men out of ten, so says MT. Louis Haas. the Dean of Hartford to- baco dealers, will give preference to a cigar wrapped with Connecticut broad leaf over Havana filler to any other cigar made. By means of intelligent methods, even the less desirable parts of the tobacco plant, consisting Of the smaller and broken leaves, are so treat ed that hundreds of thousands of pounds are exported every year to coun- tries whose small earning populace cannot afford high priced cigars and cigarettes.
 The difdculties which attend the treat ment of the weed fin the drying barns and the factories are so great that the Iayman wonders why good cigars are not scaFeer than they really are. For weeks fin the autumn months every Connecticut farmer who has tobacco in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24

except to observers possessed of an elementary knowledge of botany, must have appeared as more or less of a freak.
 The principle. of course. Is simple enough. The paper bag does not ma terialfy hinder. the flower from reach Ing maturity, while 1t does prevent the wandering bee from depositing pollen from another plant in another field on the reproductive portion of the scarlet and white bloom. In other words. the flower Is obliged to fertilize itself, as the botanist's phrase Is; cross fertiliza- ton is cut out altogether.
 Only the best plants m the field are selected, and the seed obtained, when self-fertilization Is necessitated by the use of these caps. produces plants Of exactly the same type even the slightest peculiarities reappearing. Both scieht- ists and practical farmers believe en- Enthusiastically that after the practice has been followed few years dehnfe types of practically perfect tobacco plants will have been established something that is impossible while the pollen from one field may be distrtout- ed into another field. producing all sorts of variations and accidents.
 The complete story of the production of a crop of tobacco in the Connectieut Valley, where the yield for a small re- zion exceeds in value the total cotton crop of Georgia or the wheat crop of Illinois, illustrates what American en- terprise applied to an interesting prob lem can accomplish. From the mo- ment the seed Is scattered by an ingeni-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
FAMOUS FEMININE
 RIDERS AND DRIVERS

phaeton when she saw 8 carriage conn ing with the horse galloping full tilt, his reins dragging upon the ground. An awfully scared boy was in the car- riage. Miss Roche instantly drove her own phaeton to the roadside, sprang out, caught the dragging reins of the runaway horse and mastered him quickly.
 There. too. is Dorothy Forbes of Bos- ton. another girl lover of horses. Many consider her one of the best amateur riders and drivers In America. By her skill in the saddle as well as in ham, ding the sreins she has won various prizes in society horse shows. Miss Forbes Is a sister of Allan Forbes, the polo player. Another expert Boston girl whip is Alice Thorndyke, only 19 years old.
 Not any account of American women riders and drivers would tell more than half the story, however, if itrfailed to make mention of the famous MulhaH sisters. the daughters of Colonel Null hall of Oklahoma. Undoubtedly they can do what not one of the society horsewomen oan-lasso any wild horse and master and tame him. President Roosevelt admired so much the power and skill displayed by one of these noted sisters that. with her father, she was invited to visit at the White house
  family of daring and splendid horsewo- men in the world as these American Mulhall girls
 A Pennsylvania stock farmer noted for the fast horses bred and trained there is the one known as Thorny Croft. It was made famous by a woman owner and superintendent, Mrs. Maud Twin ing. Two of the best known trotters on the turf, Lady Gold Dust, 2:1i S-l, and Fannie E., 2:12 1-4, belonged to her and were frequently driven by her at shows Mrs. TwininE being also an expert whip. At length, satisfied with her experience in horse breeding and racing. Mrs. Twining sold her noble stock farm. She went to Philadelphia, studied dentistry, practlced her profes- sion and was as successful in the care of teeth as she had been in the care of horses.
 She was winning laurels as a dentist, when suddenly there came a curious somersault in her career. One day, passing along the street, Mrs Twining observed Q crowd at some kind of an open saif meeting. She drew near and listened It was an outdoor service of the Salvation Army Sweet and thrill ing to Mrs. Twining's ear were the hymns they sang, eloquent were the prayers they said. She drew nearer stlll and her heart was moved within her. We'll, the upshot of 1t was that Mrs Twinins, first a horse racer. next a dentist, made another change and be- came Salvation Army lassie. finally marrying Captain Paul Jones, leader of the street meeting, that had attracted her first to the army. . Strangely enough, now again Mrs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24

lars to the farmers and merchants, and thousands to the railroads that later will transport the cases of we'll cured cigar tobacco to every part Of the land. whoever has been especially observant In passing must have noticed the new est wrinkle in tobacco growine-name- ly, that In many of the rields the dozen or score of plants which ordinarily are left with uncut top to perfect their seed, after the rest of the crop has been removed, have worn this year curious headdress. We have all heard of shadegrown tobaco which is produced so successfully in Sumatra under tents of eheesecloth, but who ever before saw sunbonnets on ordinary sbroad- leaf" or Havana seed" blossoms7
 These seed flowers, in accordance
 explrements made in this region, roHessor 4. D. Shamel, scientific .As.s. ant of the Bureau of Plant In- 'ray of the United States Depart
 H Agriculture, have, in many in- |, been shrouded with Manila r., Nags, of the kind that ordinarily e. twelve pounds of sugar at the 7, and tied tightly at the bot
 h a piece of white cotton string.
 long after the leaf plants, dds were cut off early in the season, have all been harveated, these lofty eentinels of their tribe, destined Go reproduce their kind for next years crop. have stood waving in the septem- Der breeze. wearing these caps. which,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
OUR COIN IN CANADA.
Why New Nickel Coin There Has Been
 Proposed.

Proposed.
 Boston Transcript.
 The uprising of Canadian business men to expel American coins from the circulation of the Dominion was largely directed at first against the 'cartwheer' dollar which 1t is here. Now the movement comprehends all United States coin. Our money ia no mere legal tender in Canada than Canadian money is here. but along the border 1t has been tolerated on account of popular con venieAGa. +.i Similarly in upper New Ham pshire. in Vermont and in some districts of Maine one comes across Canadian silver and bills in circulation and storekeepers make aecunu- lations of both to meet local demands. There. is a Freneh-canadian element. more or less transient. to be catered to. and in Woodspllie and some other places there- abouts the shops display signs in English and French.
 But Canada being smaller can not afford continued toleratiOn of a practice that makes little impression in the United States. To get the American coins out once and for all. new Canadian coinage of nickel has been proposed. Some of the advocates of this suggestion have even urged nickel quarters. Judging from Canadian -apsrs. this is going too far to meet the approval of business men who, while admitting the convenience of niekels for small coins be- Iievei the difference In intrinsic value be- tween the two metals must limit It's usage In coining money.
 Canadians fear the general empioymen, of nickel would have q debasing effect on the whole currency. Possibly there would not be 50 much of an organised effort in behalf of nickel coinaae if 1t were not faE place in North America where this meta ia produced There may De an artfully desiaaed 'niekei boom" under all this aGi- ] tatlon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
How the sua Rises in Ohis.

PainesviIle (O.) Republican.
 It was at the feeble dawn Of day. 4 gentle mist lay low in unmoved air, and through It's fading sheet of dim ness the rays of a new days sun rent with penciled outlines the cloak that hid the face of green-eyed nature from the refulgance of the torch of day. Moistened verdure smiled in gladden. ed touch of June time dew and the tiny beads as pearls in the precious sands of the treasure land of imagery. The shafts of light sent gray-edged streaks through the fleeting haze and changed to eiearest air in the effer- vescence of the murklness of morning. Then the garish veil of a golden dawn is lifted and the great fire ball beams in growing warmth to furnish forth a day of glory in the month of June. Not a finer beckoning of a resource full world could any one crave when leaving home town in grand old ohio for a peep at the never-ending charms of great, wide. wonderful America. And as the rumbling wheels roll on to the West, leaving the home scene in retreating glimmsr, on over the continent of Gods faiTest gift to the biliowea blue of the Pacific, the grand- sur of the Buckeye morning IS not fnrGot
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
The TWO olasses..

The Two Glasses. There saa two giehses filled to the bEiA. On rich mans table. xim to rim. one was ruddy and red as bIood. And one as clear as the erystai flood. Said the glass ee wine to the paier brothaRs Let us tell tales of the past ts each etherl can tell of . banquet and rsvel and miFkh And the Droadest and srandest souls es
 earth zs Fell under my touch as thoush struck bt
 blight
 where I was king. for ruled in niighfs From the heads of the kings I have tcfn
 the crown. From the heights of fame I have hurled
 men down; | have blasted many an honorsd nAinss have taken virtue and given shama: I have tempted the youth vita s aips a taata That has made his future q barren waaAs "Greater. far greater than kink am I. ' Or any army benenth sha sly. | have made the arm oG tha driver fails And sent the train from the iten rhils have made good ships go down at sea. And the shrisks of the lost were sweet te
 ms.
 'Fof they said. Behold how great you bAt Fame. strength. wealth. genius before you
 fail.
 For your might and power are over all. Ho! Hoi pale brother" laughed the wiae. 'scaa vou beast of deeds as great ns miner" sald the water glass: T can not benat Of king dethronsd or a murdered hesss But can tell of heart oncs sad. My crystal drops made light and glad; Of thirsts I've quenched, of brows I've Iavsd, Of hands I've cooled. and souls. I've saved: have ieaped through the valley. dashed down the nIouAtain. Flowed in the river and played in sthe fountain.
 Slept in the sunshine and dropped from the sky.
 And everywhere siaddensd the landscape and
 I have sassd the hot forehead of fever and pain;
 I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain; I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill. That ground out the flour and turned at can tell of manhood debased by you. That I have lifted and crowned anew. I cheef, l help, strengthen and aids 1 eiadden the heart of man. and meids I set the chained Nwine-oaUtive free; And all the better for knowing ma" These are the things they told each otheR The glass of wine and the paler brother As they sat together filled to the hrim. On the rich mans table. rim to rim.
 --Eila Wheeler Wilcox
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
IN THE CENTRE OF TIE
 SHOPPING DISTRICT
ABSOLUTELY HRBs

rAS waEy kotsl sn HgnmAatena fe aag ca Broadway aMA FtftA ANa@Ne
 EUROPEAN PE.AN. qEQRGM ". RNE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
Lumplnr at . coneIasloa.

Pfttsburg Ledger-
 ';Another one of those lobbyists ap- preached me today with an insulting proposition" said Congressman Graph ter.
 you can afford to buy me that sealshin sacQue now, can't your
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
G. W. Barnett Hardware Co
 l6-llS Commerce St Phone 345

Twining Jones follows the raoes's aa of old, she did. but now she wears the scoop bonnet, with the scarlet rtbb0n across It and collects funds frem tuFfe men. spectators and bettors alike te pour into the Salvation Arnyss trsass ury. Martkl& Weaver
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24

These are the things they told each other. The glass of wine and the paler brothen As they sat together filled to the briEn. On the rich mans table. rim to rim.
 --Eila wheeler wilcox.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1905-12-15
7 R A N PS.

Amarillo Herald.
A writer in the Outlook has
startled the country by the
statement that there are 60, ,0(0 0
prOfe ssional tramps in the
United States and that they
cost the country $11, 100000 a
year. 1t is not exactly clear
how the learned gentlemen con-
firms his figures, but they have
been generally accepted as cor
rect, and all sorts of theories
have been advanced looking to-
ward the ideal society where
there are no trampS. All OF
which is interesting to degree,
but in most cases there is shown
a pronounced ignorance Of hu-
man nature, and of the natural
nomadic instinct of man.
There is, too, a wide difference
between the tramp and the bum
the tramp will work and the
bum will not. The figures in
the Outlook undoubtedly refer
to the buns, for there are in the
United States at least 1000, 900
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1905-12-15
CASH

The preacher in the pulpit and the
wise men everywhere
Who have toearn their "vttles" and
the raiment that they wear
Are earnestly declaring, as men have
since Adams fall,
That the rich are far from happy
and that money wasn't all;
o, their logic is delightful and their
reasoning profound
But cash is still a rather handy thing
to have around.
The professors keep explaining that
the richest men are those
Who possess the deepest knowledge
and are free from petty woes;
Much we hear OF tainted money and
the heartaches that it brings
To it's pitifui possessors, the per-
turbed financial king;
We are constantly reminded OF 1.-THE
last six feet of ground"-
But caSn Is Stlll a faU1er Mandy
thing to have around.
He that works from early morning
till the shadows fall at night,
She that sews with aching fingers
while her cheeks are thin and white,
May be heapiug future treasures
where the saints in glory dwell.
But the rich mans auto passes. leav-
ing trails OF dust and SMELL
He is freed from tolls eXactions and
he probably has found
That cash is still rather ha ndy
thing to have around.
IS. f. kiser in Chicago Record
Herald.