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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

tasks cleverly she will take the hard est and most roundabout way to achieve a blunder. She will ask you for directions how a thing should be done, and then Immediately, without a minutes intermission to allow her to forget your words. she will do the very opposite It isn't obstinacy either; that's where the the odd part comes in. I wonder whether stupidity and thick ness of the brain also produce a thick ening of the ear drum. the tongue and of the eyeball. It would seem so. I once had a friend, a very radical sort of person, who held a pet theory that the state should order the death in infancy of all those who were not bright mentally. Cnly original and clever people should be allowed to populate the earth. she declared.
 I used to think there was something in that. Now I don't, and know her idea is no good since I have studied our elevator boy. Supposing the ele- vator boy were to be eliminated-and indeed he would be marked for an early victim-wno would take his place and run the elevator. since the world would be filled with clever people? Answer, no one.
 To run the elevator in this narrow dark little hotel Is a mighty stupid piece of work, and therefore 1t should be done by a stupid man. Therefore the stupid man is useful, and he ought to be allowed to live. Do you suppose for one instant that any one with brains, and consequently a nervous system and a temperament, could stand 1t chasing up and down all day long in dark. narrow canyon of a shaft when outside were the world and sunshine and people and opportunity? No, in deed! After a week of such a per formance he would be a fit subject for the insane asylum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
Some Sensible Gown. for s,r,n9.

One of the most practical gowns a woman can have for spring wear is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
Special Garment Opportunitit

$6.50 Walking Skirts A. These made of all wool weight ehevo in brown navy and back plated from hips down and extra full only A.
 $S Walking Skis at $650 This special nubef and woud De cheap $8s they of blue brown and black panama cloth, made in the newest style plated from the knee down, only $6.50.
 White Lawn Shirt Waists Two extra specials for Monday, of good quality lawn, trimmed with embroidery in front and back and collars and euffs sizes 32 A. at 75e The other of very ne shee white lawn, elaboraey trim med with embroidery and broad teks special at $5O India Silk Shirt Waists New mode trimmed both back and front with broad eks and shrrng shoudefs very tull sleeves, black and white only, grand value for $a50
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
Bargains In Linens.

Linens showing tendency sell in the wholesale market lowered the advantage that will find hard duplicate elsewhere
 both bkaehed and half tsaehs ali linen and extra h wot a $t75 hnshhed knotd fringe
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
Bargains In White Goods.

For Monday we offer some extra good values in White Goods; the kind you will buy if you need them right now or not. P inch Fancy Lace Stripe and Checked Lawns;
 for waists and shirtwaist suits, 1l 1-2c yard. 36 inch all pure linen Cambric; for shirtwaists;
 very stylish weave, worth soc at 33c yard. 40 inch White Irish Batiste; this is another case of the same Batiste we sold last week, the ae-
 tua1 va1ue of this material is FOG, but the price
 is still only l5e yard.
 32 inch White India Linon, one case of 50 pieces
 splendid t2 1-2c quality, very sheer for Mon day at only 10c yard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

Bargains In Wash Fabrics.
 A grand collection of Wash Fabrics at very tempting prices awaits you here Mon day, do not fail to see them. At t5c yard; we offer large variety of 20c wash matesials, such as Ga1atea, Dress Swiss es, Batistes, Madras, Polka Dot Zephyfs, Mer- cerized Tissues and Fancy Ginghams everyone 2Oe vafue and perfectly fast in color special at t5e a yard.
 At 25c yard; 25 pieces new Dolly Walden Or gandies bought to sell for 35c, which is their actual value; for Monday at 25c yard.
 in beautiful patterns, a very fine cloth, 32 inches wide, usual price is 12 t-2c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
STATEMENT MADE
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Southern Education.

The annual meeting of the Southern Educational association Is to be held next week in Nashville. beginning on Wednesday. It deserves the attention and the attendance of all southern teachers who can leave their tasks at home. The railways offer low rates of fare. and the list of speakers in cludes nearly every prominent educa' tor in this section of the country.
 President Abercrombie is one of the vice-nresidents of the association, and c. w. Daugette of Jacksonville Is a director. State Superintendent of Ed ucation I. w. Hill will report the con dition of the public schools in this state. Superintendent J. H. Phillips will discuss on the first day of the meeting the training of teachers in local training schools, and Mrs. Phil lips. and Miss Elizabeth M. Haley of Monteyallo, are both to read papers in the department of child study. In the department of industrial and manual training President Thach of Auburn will present a paper entitled Needs in Polytechnic Institutes" and Profes' sor Buckner of the University will omen "discussion upon a qualified teaching force.
 The participation of these distin guished Alabama educators alone shows how valuable and instructive the Nashville meetings of next week are to be. They call for the presence of every teacher who can be spared from school work at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
NashviIIe's Good Fortune.

',The big banquet in Birmingham In honor of visiting railroad officers" said a well known man from Nashville yester- day reminds me somewhat of the cele- bration we had in Nashville recently when we secured two new trunk lines. The presidents of both the .big lines, the gen. eral managers, the attorneys and other notables were present as the guests of the chamber of commerce. This event will go down in Nashville's history as one of her costliest entertainments.
 .'There is an interest ting story back of the feast and merry making. To tell it in a few words Nashville has, until very re- cently enjoyed practically no railroad competition. Now that the Illinois Cen tral has joined on Jerry Baxter's short line at Hopkinsville and the Cincinnati Southern connects with the other end of the same short line at Hartman, Nash vile gets two big roads at one stroke. Is not that enough to make any city give a big blowout?
 'Ill tell you how it was done. Jerry Baxter secured money from capitalists. obtained a franchise from the City Coun- cil and built a line to Hopkinsville. Then he extended it the other way to Har- riman, making a total distance of about 225 miles. The next thing heard, the Ten nessee Central the name of the short line, had become associated with two of the biggest railroads In the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Canal Enqineers at Leuuerh ads

The conclusions of the board of con- sulting engineers have not been pup lished, and they may not be given to the public until after the meeting Of Congress, but 1t seems to be well under stood that the consulting engineers have agreed to disagree. Some, it is said, will favor a sea-level canal, others still others lock canal at, say, a thirty-foot level. The disagreements point to at least three reports. Unless compromise becomes possible the weight and influence of the commission will be greatly lessened, if not wholly dissipated. compromise favoring a lock canal upon low level may be reached.
 The foreign engineers, relieved as they are of all responsibility as to ex- pense, favor almost to a man sea level canal. They evidently desire for the use of the vessels of their own country the best possible canal, and they are wholly willing Uncle Sam should build 1t.
 The home engineers lean towards a lock canal, chiefly because sea-level | s,, et, ti0,. many years and much money. An isth- milan canal Is needed now, and the time element will scarcely be consid- cred by Congress.
 The coolestheaded experts pretty generally agree that lock-level could | be dug in the course of ten years, whereas a sea-level would consume fully sixteen years. Already three years have elapsed since the Spooner | bill was passed, and start at real con struction has not been made. There is less digging going on today at Pan anna than there was three years ago. | Congress should take up the reports presented by the consulting engineers and determine without undue delay what kind of canal we are to have This point should be settled this win ter. After that will come the heavy task of digging the canal, but once a plan Is agreed upon the American peo pie can be trusted to execute 1t. The sentiment of the country is plainly in 1 favor of canal. It is overwhelmingly in favor of a canal even if ships have to be lifted up in the air 90 feet ol more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18

grants. For example, German-Egyp- tian half-breed was given a Greek sen tence to transcribe. The result is that no immigrants are going to Australia, and that big land is sorely troubled over the situation.
 Congress should study the Austra- lian situation before it attempts to put any more restrictions on immigration. Especially should the Italian immi- grant be left free to come to this country, for he above all others is the one needed in southern mills and on southern farms. The south needs more labor, more white men, and Italy is the source we should look to. Forp- erly the Italians went in large num- bers to South America. but they now prefer to come to this country, and if they are properly received and treated in the south increasing numbers will come this way.
 The advancing prosperity of the south turns upon our success in at tracing to the untitled lands of this section Italians. They are almost to a man farmers, and the climate the Italian leaves behind him is similar to the climate of the cotton belt. If the Italian immigrants were landed at New Orleans, instead of New York. the problem would be simplified, if not solved. They would stay in the south, and year by year they would buy small farms, and help to swell the produc- ton of southern staples, especially of cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18

department of education at Montgomery is at the Hillman N
 J. H. Fitts, Jr., of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 Charles Bell, a well known young busi- ness man of Annston, is at the Morris.
 President John W. Abercrombie of the University of Alabama is at the Hillman. w. B. Bankhead of Jasper is in the city.
 pr. Eugene A. Smith, Prof. A A. Per sons, Prof c. Y. Graham and pr. c. H. Barnwell of the University of Alabama are at the St. Nicholas.
 Erwin Craighead. editor of the Mobile Register, Is stopping at the Hillman.
 Lorenzo Woodruff of the Montgomery Advertiser is in the city.
 S. T. King of Chicago is at the Bir- mingham.
 G. G. Sessions of Andelusia Is at the Morris.
 J. E. Mann of Roanoke is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Hides One of Many.

A delegation twenty-eight strong, representing $500, 100000 in capital in- vested in shoe manufacturing, recent ly went before the President seeking his aid against the Dingley duty on hides High priced hides means high priced leather, and high priced leather means that our shoe factories cannot compete with shoe factories In other countries in the markets of the world. The duties on hides increases their cost, and several of the delegation said "it was only a matter of few years before New England would become a desert," if the tariff goes unreyised.
 If the shoe men think the duty on hides is the only obnoxious provision of Dingleysm they are widely mis- taken, for every schedule of that na- tional scheme is packed with unjust taxation of the many for the benefit of the few.
 The duty should be taken from hides and the entire scheme changed from one of robbery to one of revenue, and the revenue should be diverted from the pockets of the few to the treasury of the people. The entire tariff should be rewritten on strictly revenue lines
 This will not be done this winter, for the standpatters are in power. It will never be done by the republican party The education of the people should however, be maintained, and In the long run the country will throw off the incubus that is wickedly taxing the many to enrich a favored few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Italians for the South,

The effect of excessive immigration regulations is illustrated in Australia, where up to 1890 about four hundred thousand new corners came in annual ly. Under restriction rules immigra- tion began to dwindle until it disap- peared altogether. In the years 1901 and 1902 the big island gained but fifty-five new citizens, and in 1903 and 1904 it lost 6O00 more by emigration than 1t gained by immigration. And yet Australia contains plenty of gold, plenty of cheap and fertile lands, and plenty of opportunities for the man of small capital.
 The immigration restrictions include an intelligence test. Every immigrant must be able to write passage of fifty words in any European language, dictated by the officer on duty. This shuts out at once Japanese or Chinese immigrants-al yellow and brown peo- ple-and 1t may shut out white immi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
GOOD NAMES FOR COUNTRY
 HOUSES ARE IN DEMAND

something quite different. But their cons mon root is the same. ''Fields'' is also a popular termination nowadays for house name that begins with the family's name
 "Honerhurst' is the name of a home in Connecticut owned by the family whose name begins the title ''Hopedene," Lee croft" "Shercote"-cote means a cottage or sheepfold-is the name of the country estate owned by a family named Shear man. Other examples of this same way of identifying the country home are "Bellholme," ''Mooremead" and Green fields"
 There are nowadays many "halls'' and ''manors," and "house'' has lately be- come very common. The great trouble with the last word is the suggestion of hotel or, perhaps. even a boarding house.
 Court is termination limited by the grandeur of the establishment to which it is applied. Nobody would ever think of calling any home a court unless 1t were really magnificent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
TEXAS.

From the Choctaw Inquirer.
 Texas is whopper. She's peach. She's the widest, broadest and longest country on earth, extending from east to west and also from north to south. She could put Rhode Island in her vest pocket. She could swallow three or four states like Maryland and wash 'em down by drinking the Mississippi dry, and could digest 'em without ever having the collie. Texas is the empire state of the Union, without any Kaiser Bill for an Emperor. She is the chiefest among ten thousand an. altogether lively, wild, reckless. She's the pebble on the beach. She's one of the old blue hens chickehs She's the cock of the walk and the democrat of the world. She's a wolf and it's her day to howl. Texas Is bounded on the east by the alligators of Louisiana and huckle- berry thickets of Arkansas. She is bound- ed on the north by the tomahawk and the war-whoop of the red men. She is bound ed on the west by the chile con carne of New Mexico and the hot tamales of old Mexico. She Is bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and if it wasn't for that measly body of salty water she would extend beyond the South Pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
THE FLIPPERTY.FLAP PROCESS.
Lecturer Himself Furnished Best Ex
 ample of How Throat Works.

From the Washington Post.
 At the end of one of the meetings of the International Sanitary Congress in Washington, young layman asked Sur geon General Wyman a question about the construction of the throat.
 "If the throat were constructed like that" said General Wyman. smiling, there would be more truth in the flip perty-fiap story than there really is.'
 "The flipperty- story?" murmured the young man.
 "Yes. Did you never hear it? Listen, then. A auack medicine vender stood in a carriage, selling a cough cure. To ex- plairf> the construction of the throat he said:
 I.ades~and gents, In your throat is two little faps, one closing when swal- lowing the food and opening to receive drink. and the other closing when swal- lowing liquids and opening to receive flood only. Now. IT.
 "But here a humorous old farmer inter- rupted, blurting out:
 a Gosh, mister. what a fiipperty-fiap- nertv there must be when yer eatin' bread and milk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Railway Regulation.

W. G. Brantley, representative In coh- gress from the Eleventh Georgia district is in Birmingham visiting his friend, wal ter L. Sessions a well known local in- surance man.
 "Yes," said MT. Brantley, in commenting on things political yesterday. "the ques- tion of railway regulation is unquestion- ably the most important one now before the American people.
 My prescription Is patience and slow time It's a business proposition, and one that Is hedged with a great many dif- faculties.
 "The cause of complaint Is discrimina- tions in railway rates. It should be re- membered that the law recognizes dis criminations provided they are not un- just. It is almost impossible not to have discriminations. For example, in order to build up industries and encourage the development of certain states, or com munties, like for instance, the Birming- ham district, the railroads must grant a special or discriminatory rate. So also with the northwest. It is complained that the rate on grain from the northwestern cereal states to the Pacific coast is lower for export shipment than for home con sumption In Washington, Oregon and Cal ifornIa This lower rate is granted, how ever, in order to market the grain sur plus output of the country.
 "These things should be kept in mind when the subject Is discussed.
 ''It's big question. however. and II needs for its settlement all the intelli- gence, patriotism and sober second thought of all the people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Standnatters Rebuked.

Curtis Guild, the republican candi- date for governor in Massachusetts, was elected by a plurality of about 25000 votes, while Mr. Draper, the can didate of that party for lieutenant gov ernor, barely escaped defeat The nor. nal republican plurality In Massachu- setts is 35,OO0, and MT. Draper got but 2000 plurality.
 He was freely cut by republicans, but no one cut him on personal grounds, for his private life is without blemish, and his standing is high. He represents, however, the standpatters, and standpattism is unpopular even among Massachusetts repl licans.
 MT. Draper would have been de- feated if in the last days of the cam. paign combinations and trades had not been resorted to in connection with the mayoralty race in Boston, and if the two United States Senators had not by personal effort come to Mir Drapers rescue. MT, Draper himself displayed great political generalship and victory of narrow sort was thus snatched from defeat. A week before the election he stood defeated, and il became known that heroic efforts must be made in order to offset the tendency among republicans to scratch his name.
 The standpatters in and out of Con. gross should heed the Draper lesson It will be repeated elsewhere if they do not heed it, for tariff revision will each year hereafter become more prom inent and more popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the, New York Press, It is good law that works on election day.
 There isn't so much fun in being wicked as there is in having people think you are getting 1t that way.
 A girl has an awful lot of clothes to get married and then no chance to wear them because of the babies.
 One nice thing about being in love is 1t doesn't make any difference how much of a fool you are in other ways.
 You could hardly ever make a woman believe that she ought not to judge a man,s business ability by the way he treats his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
CoIIeoe Bows.

Ut always does me good to see the college boys flock to Birmingham for a baseball or football game" said an old college man last night. 'They all ways bring with them that college spirit which is refreshing.
 There will be several hundred college boys in Birmingham today and they will have q great time-or at least about one- half of them will have big time. The other half will belong to the loosing side and there will be some clouds in their sky tonight
 "All the boys will have good time until the game commences. and they may not feel the sting of defeat until the game Is nearly over.
 Tt helps the boys when they get away from college one or two days every year to come to a football game. It also helps the city The boys liven things up for twenty-four hours, their college yells are heard on the streets, sthe bright college colors are to be seen on every side and they capture the city and get us out of the old routine in which we live"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
Montgomery Interested.

Montgomery is intensely interested in the outcome of the Alabama and Auburn football game to be played at West End park tomorrow afternoon" said c. N. Avery of the capital city last night. For several weeks the coming contest has been discussed on the street corners and in the street cars. and hundreds of people will be in Birmingham from our city to witness the battle.
 Montgomery is nearer Auburn than Tuscaloosa and there are a few more Au- burn rooters in our town, than there are Alabama rooters. Then there are several Montgomery boys on the Auburn team, which has tendency to arouse more in- terest in the Orange and Blue In Mont gomery than in the Crimson and White"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
IN HOTEL. LoBBIEs
Dr. Roland Curtin Evans.

Dr. Roland Curtin Evans of Philadel- phia, who won his degree of master of arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and the degree of doctor of medicine at the University of the South. arrived in Birmingham yesterday. He will settle here and practice here his profession. pr. Evans Is a veteran of the Spanish-Amer- iean war, having seen active service in Cuba throughout the period of hostilities. He comes to Birmingham direct rom Sewanee where he has spent the summer, and though a Philadelphian by birth and rearing Is yet no stranger to the tradi- tions and purposes of the south. His ad- vent here is welcomed by a large circle of friends who already either know him or know of him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18
FIRST LOCOMOTIVE WHISTLE

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Locomotives seventy-five years ago had no whistles. The engineer kept by his side tin horn, which he blew before curves and dangerous crossings. But tho noise was feeble.
 In 1883 an English farmers cart was run down on the way to market, and 1000 eggs. 100 pounds of butter. two horses and a man were bumped in one great onelet on the rails. The. railway had to pay the damages. The president sent for George Stevenson and said angrily:
 Our engineers can't blow their horns loud enough to clear the tracks ahead. You have made your steam do so much, why don't you make 1t blow a good loud horn for us?''
 Stevenson pondered An idea came to him. He visited a musical instrument maker and had constructed a horn that gave horrible screech when blown by steam. From this horn tho locomotive whistle of today descended.