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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
The Right Way to Do.

A few days since two of our pastors called on the business men of the town. requesting them to close up during a Church. The result was, every bust ness man in town, including all the saloonkeepers. readily consented and agreed to close. This was indeed com place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
The Band waso. Dispisy.

Lamar Dem0crat.
 l. There will be more band wagon displays in the coming campaign than there has been for years. Almost every candidate has band wagon in view and Is getting ready to make the leap for seat upon 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

We learn that Professor William Jones, a half-breed of Sac and Fox tribe, Is preparing, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institute, diction- ary of all the living Indian languages In North America. Such a work will be valuable addition to our litera- fnra
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Dsa,t Invade the Cotton Fields.

Birmingham is calling for twenty thousand laborers. Cotton planters in this section have nothing against Bir- mingham and the great mineral district grace If Birminsham viii make her call somewhere else and not take the darkeys from the cotton patches to supply this demand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Must Keep at It.

Troy MessengeF. Line about tke bad end on trains and depots 1t is giving them. Profiting by
 Troy's experience, it is best to begin have long time to wait before they get what they want.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Knocked Out for tho Time Being.

Uniontown Herald.
 Since the Time light of inquiry has been turned on MT cortelyeu's meth ods Of soliciting Republican campaign funds in 1s04, his Presidential boom has been knocked into a cooked hat," as 1t were.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
DriftWccd
The Painter of the Wood.
BY PHIL ". ARMSTRONG.

Lo! Each leafis tinted gold and red AS though some elfln artist here had spread The colors of the sunset ere they sped
 And hung in Natures Gallery as
 she stood. With stray sunbeam she paints the Goldenrod. Prtmroses, too, she colors as they nod And all the orifames that deck the sod
 Ootober-beauteous painter of the
 wood!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Ubaf State Papers
 lire Sayina
A Good Thing-keep it MovIps,

HHuHtsVIIIe Mercury.
 A better. brighter and more hopeful spirit is observed among our people tnen tor years; It's . good thing. Pass afeund and keep 1t moving and don't
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Great shrirnn Inilnstrr.

Ten million pounds of shrimps are caught annually on ths German coast Most of them are netted at depths of thirty or forty feet. but a great many men and women stiu earn living by rather ing shFimps from the flat beaches at low tide
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
The Rrtrhter nnx

The Brighter Day. There's brighter day ahead-don't fret. or wrinkle up your brows-forget The bitter hour of regret There's brighter day coming. There's a brighter day ahead-for all It may be Spring 1t may be Fall, Heat of su inner or winters palf- There's brighter day coming. There's a brighter day ahead--den't
 care If the. world seems somehow cold and
 bare,
 share
 There's a brighter day coming.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

The esteemed Hartford Times admits that it is quite possible and not wholly improbable that with the inev- itable increase of the deer which are already pretty well established in the State, and with the large reserves in western Massachusetts. and with the increase of deer in New York. Yer mont and New Hampshire, which ad- join a region in which wolves are still to be found. these creatures may work back again into this State"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
McCarthv,. obiects in Life,

Justin Mccarthy says that ms tnfee objects ir life have been attained' Ihey were: To write books, to De a neuloer of Parliament and to live In Lonoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Paying the Penalty for stubhornness. Mhbfla Item

uWUDlIB IttIIIs
 Public sympathy for Pensacola must be general, notwithstanding 1t might have been otherwise had Pensacola appeared in her midst. The city Is paying a terrible penalty for the stub bornness of some of her citizens who refused to comply with sanitary regula- fever epidemic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
One Way q Looking at It.

cion,
 He said it in her presence, did he
 Yes, believe he did," he means Is 8 couple have just moved in the room beneath them whose &C., tions are decidedly suspicious. hence the statement that she is above sus- ricion."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

Must we study Chinese?" asks The Columbia State. Speaking for our selves we reply that we mustn't.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
CaFfIimlv

T understand she and her husband live in perfect harmony"
 They ought to-she sang in the choir and he is music professor"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Pretty nnerx NIuIe

Rastus-Come up. yoh blamed dcbble --yoh imp ob Satan--oome up.
 MT. Jones-New, come, Rastus, don't yop know 1t isn't right to abuse dumb animals. You won't go to Heaven.
 Rastus-Well, yoh see, boss-Hebben can't be used in de same breff wid dis fnewi.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
His Reason

T told you, said stern Doctor Lyle, Every morning to go run a mile
 Now you're W liking, see,
 With a Miss" Then said he, Well, a Miss is as good as a mile."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

The Manchester Union advises that If Alabama is anxious to get rid of her surplus she might try Republican rule again. Thanks for the informa- tion. but we don't want the surplus to disappear in that way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
A Throw D0wn

Poet-I have here a poem-
 Editor-For Heavens sake hurry then-can't you see I'm trying to start a fire in the stove?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
L.eaFUlmR

enough to learn the ropes?'
 "Oh, yes; hadn't been there a week before he realized the ropes meant string on his dad. and he straightway wrote home for money"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Signs

What profession do you think the baby will adopt when he growl up?"
 T think he'll be an eeditor--he Is al- ways playing with the paste cup and the other day he tried to jab his sister in the eye with the scissors.p
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

Anothr, woman bewailed the loss of her grandmothePs feather bed She had bAen talking for sometime of haV- ing it renovated Having on several occasions mentioned the subject ip the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
IN A HOLE.

The Chicago Chronicle. now one of the chosen organs of Republican poli- tics, says:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

bWOHN DEFAILED.
 The Advertiser is one Of the VERY FEW soNknern Newspapers that prints sworn oefatied Circulation Statement every day lp the year. showing the actual number ax complete co~ies printed and PAID FOR. We don't Include the free copies
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

MT. w. T. Brightman of Hayneville, d leading citizen of Lowndes County, was in town yesterday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

Congressman H. D. Clayton of the Third Alabama District, is in Mont" gomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

MT. Paul McGargh, a leading law yer of Hayneville, was in Montgomery yesterday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Increnre off Homicides.
state superintendent of Education L

State SuperIntendent Of Education |. W. Hill has returned from a trip to Gadsden on Department business. He will go Thursday to Greenville to speak on local taxation for school pur-
 poses. President R. B. Conner of the Alabama Railroad Commission will also speak at that place Thursday on the same subject. Butler County will vote in few. days on the proposition of levying the tax of one-tenth of l per
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03

Hon. Gregory L. Smith of Mobile was a visitor to Montgomery yester-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES.

The first notes of the "Marseillaise"
are being used as popular form OF
whistled greeting in London.
Malodorous automobiles and motor
cycles are not allowed at POntresina,
the fashionable Swiss resort.
Because OF the dust raised by automo-
biles, it is getting to be difficult in Eng
land to rent houses on roads used by
motor cars.
Owing to the insufficient supply OF
apothecary clerks in Germany there is
an insistent demand that women should
be educated for places in drug stores.
dressmaker, IL years old, had record
of having Tilted IL lovers in two years
when the eleventh endel her promising
career with a. dagger.
The porters of the market place in
Paris carry, strapped on their backs,
great baskets full of garden produce.
Often you see a man with a, load of cab
bages that is bigger than himself.
For drinking a glass of beer in rail-
way refreshment room at Frankfort, in
the presence of an officer, German SOL
der has been court-martialed and SEN
fenced to Is days Imprisonment.
In order to aid the police in maintain
ing order on the occasion of recent
motor race, the authorities of the town
of Rezemburg, Germany, compelled all
local cyclists to enroll themselves
among the police.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
Ians Know Go I'd Music.

Picking up menu card OF a hotel
in Yokohama, one sees thereon a mu-
sic programme, made up entirely of
compositions by Beethoven, Flotow,
Haydn, Strauss and List. Which
proves that the Japanese know good
music and evidently like it, else the
hotel management .vould not make up
its programme from composers of this
grade. This is an improvement on the
American taste, which goes In for
ssragtime" or such chaste works as
"Bedelia," Smoky Mokes," 'The st.
Louis Tickle" The more we hear
and see of Japan and its people the
more we are inclined to the view that
IL many respects they represent a
higher degree of civilization than
bos.stful America and Americans Savs
yet reached.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
FUNNY
People Will Drink Coffee When II
"Does Such Things"

''I began to use Postum because the
old kind of coffee had so poisoned my
whole system that / was on the point
OF breaking down, and the doctor
warned me that / must quit it.
My chief ailment was nervousness
anu heart trouble.
Any unexpected noise would cause
me the most painful palpitation, make
me faint and weak.
had heard of Postum and began to
drink it when I left off the old coffee.
1t began to help me just as soon as
the old effects of the other kind OF
coffee passed away. 1t did not stimu-
late me for awhile, and then leave
me weak and nervous as coffee used
to do. Instead of that 1t built ur my
strength and supplied constant rigor
to my system which can always rely
on. 1t enables me to do the biggest
kind of days work without getting
tired. All the heart trouble, etc, has
passed away.
ST give it freely to all my children,
from the youngest to the oldest, and it
keeps them all healthy and hearty"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little hook, @The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

America that was going to buy the
AcropOlis and move it to the United
States and make it over into morgue,
and that he didn't care for expense,
for he was the richest man in the
world
'Well, we looked things over, like
all tourists do, and we went to Mars
Hill, where Paul preached, and dad
read up on Paul, and offered to bet
that Paul could give cards and spades
to any preacher, and then peat him
preaching, and the next night we went
to the place where Socrates and Plato
taught school, and some Of the Greeks
had watched us pretty close, and just
after dark, as we were walking around.
beautiful woman, like Greek statue,
rose up before us, with white robe on,
and she went up to dad and claimed his
protection, as she was being pursued
by robbers, and she cuddled up to dad
At first we thought she was a ghost,
but when she touched dad, and chung
to him, he said she was warm all
right, and was no ghost, and he told
her not to worry, as she was under
the protection of the American flag,
and he would stand by her till hades
froze over, and he put his left arm
around her and drew his revolver. /
can remember the scene as though it
was last night, and how that Greek
woman chung to dad, and thanked him.
and she smiled a smile full of teeth
and red lips, and then she locked out
into the moonlight and screamed:
''There they come" and she tainted
in dads arms, and then we were sur
rounded by about dozen Greek ban
dts, dressed in white petticoats, and
with long crooked daggers, and one
fellow that seemed to be the chief,
put a crooked knife to dads throat,
and dad turned blue and said what
are you going to do, but they didn't
say anything, but took us to cave,
where the woman got over her faint
ing spell, and then they dressed dad
up in white petticoat, and these long
socks such as ballet dancers wear, and
we all got on to small mules and start
ed for the mountains, and rode all
night.
"Say, dad was picture. The Greeks
are small men, and they look all night
in petticoats, but dad was so fat he
looked swelled up, and even the mule
noticed it, and the girl, who was on
the white mule, laughed at dad, and
she could talk English, and she told
dad that the bandits only wanted his
money, and they wouldn't hurt him If
he gave up million or SO. 1t proved
that she was enc of the gang, and
dad and held consultation, and we
decided to give her a letter to the
American consul at Athens, authorizing
him to give her carload of money
for ransom, and in the letter dad
wound up with postscript telling the
consul not to give a COMPOUNDED cent.
but to arrest her and send troops to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

mad at dad and said: You think you
are smart, don't your and then she
was taken to Jail, and dad and l took
an account of the stuff we robbed the
bandits of, and found we had several
hundred dollars, and besides, dad filed
a claim against Greece for half mill
lion dollars, for lacerated feelings, and
left it with the consul to collect, so
If you ever hear of American warships
going to Greece, you will know what is
the matter.
1.-THE next morning the soldiers came
into Athens with the bandits tied to
mules, and they threatened to kill dad
or sight, so we skipped out, bur dad
got his pants back, and SO he didn't
have to sail with petticoats on, but
whenever dad meets Greek gentle
man around home here it is all / can
do to keep him from robbing the
Greek. Say, give me another slice OF
that cheese" and the bad boy got up
and stretched himself and yawned.
The old groceryman looked at the
bad boy for a minute, and then said:
Either your father ought to be in
the penitentiary or else you are the
condemndest liar in America"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
A Teachers Testimony.

Hinton, KY, Oct 30th Especially Tt
has long been claimed that Diabetes is in.
durable, but Mr.. e. j. Thompson, teach.
er in the Hinton school, has pleasing evil
dence to the contrary. Mr.. Thompson
had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney
Pills and is cured. In a statement he
makes regarding his cure Mr.. Thompson
says:
Il was troubled with my kidneys for
more than two years, and was treated by
two of the best doctors in this part of the
there was little to be done for me. Then
L started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
what they did for me was wonderful. II
is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills
that I am now enjoying good health"
Many doctors still maintain that Dia.
betes is incurable. But Diabetes is kid
ney disease, and the kidney disease that
Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has YET
to be discovered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

made me dance, and dad kept saying
Let's have one more on me- and they
drank until the whole crowd was
stupefied, and dad acted as though he
was drunken than any Of them, but
when they all got asleep, and began
to cry, and wish was dead, dad woke
up and said: Now l won't do q
thing to your Creeks, and he went
around to the sleeping bandits and
money, and he took off the petticoat
they had given him to wear and tied
a blanket around his waist, and he
tied their legs together with strings
off the saddles of the mules, and just
before daylight on the second morning
dad and got on the biggest mule and
started down the trail, and when we
struck level ground we mauled that
mule and he got a move on him and
went across that prairie on a hop,
skip and jump, and only touched the
high places.
'Along towards noon we saw dust
in the road ahead, and pretty soon we
met mess of Greek soldiers, with the
American consul at the head, and told
them where the bandits were, drunk
and with their legs tied, and the con-
sui and some soldiers went back to
Athens with us, and the rest of the
troops went on after the bandits. We
got to Athens before night, and found
the woman under guard in the con-
sul's Office, and when she saw dad.
and he told her how he had liked the
bandits, she cried, and said she wasn't
to blame, and wanted to hug dad, but
he said: Nay, nay, Pauline, and
then she said he was no gentleman
because the consul did not pay the ram
som, and dad told her he wrote to the
consul not to cough up, and she looked
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
WANTED SIMPLE TUNES.
Those Classical Things on the Violin
Were Too Much for
Him

A Westport fond father made his dauph-
ter mad and, incidentally. held up to view
his lack of knowledge of violin music. His
daughter is a violinist. A visitor was in
the library, and the father suggested that
his daughter play. She was willing, re-
lst t.a, the Kansas sIs s. City Times,
her father, "and has Just got home. l
haven't heard her play much myself yet"
The girls mother went to the piano in
the next room, and the girl got her violin.
For three or four minutes twanging from
the two instruments was heard Then
there was halt. 1t was there that the
fond father made his mistake.
Nov play something simple, Mary" he
said. THAT was nice, but it's too classical
for me-"
The girl glanced through the door, Her
face wore look of disgust.
1--WE been tuning, father she said.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

rescue US. asked dad what he was
going to do If she didn't come back
and the bandits decided to kill us, and
he said never you mind. your papa
will get out OF this ell right, and he
did.
THE woman went away with a let
ter she could not read, but which she
told dad how to write, and then the
bandits made dad do the cooking for
the bunch, and he put so much salt
In the food that it made Them all
thirsty, and they sent one of the ban
dts to vineyard, where he got sew
erai pig skins full OF wine and brandy,
and that night they sung songs, and
made dad sing Hot Time and they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

vensys The Japanese torpedo boats attacked the Russian
ships after they wrecked by the I2nc 1ogo roncads
That battle has proved than the OF Datehps
has torpedo belongs class of auxiliary
which be used effectively only under certain conditions
policy of States building
battps We will believe great turbine oncads
ryng patterns guns 40 treench
We hardly till have so baeshps and naval force of
defend the
Hawaii and Porto Rico protect Cuba make the Panama
when is built
We can't mprovise force like that 1t will take make
Some will be the warfare with powerful
nationpeaps than then be ready
only with ships but with What you suppose Russia would
been willing the eight baesps squadron she could
have them few weeks She could paid
80 times what they cost and they would have been cheap That's
the look at this naval situation President Roosevelt has right
No great nation afford be unprepaed for Defeat
costly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
No other female
ement
hosts of grateful friends as has


inflammation liberation Falling
dissolves
velopment.
Irregular Suppressed Painful Weakness the Stomach
relieved
invigorates the female sysen and as harmless water
that Feeling lassude
care and feeling exciabty rtabiy
These indications
Backache of either Vegetable Compound
hundred
thousand times they get
every whe ais ubs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
WILD WITH ECZEMA
And, Other Itching, Burning, Scaly
Eruptions, with Loss Of Hair
Speedily Cured by Cuticura.

Battle the affected parts with hot water
and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the sur
face Of crusts and scales and soften toe
thickened cuticle; dry, without hard rub
bing, and apply Cuticura Ointment freely,
to allay itching, irritation and inaamma-
ton, and soothe and heal;~ and, lastly,
take Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the, blood. A single set, costing
most torturing, disfguring skin, scalp and
blood humors, with loss of hair, when all
cleo. fails l.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
She Thought of Him.

She-Oh, Mr.. Borem, how do you do?
/ was talking to Mrs. Nexdore just now,
and I couldn't help thinking of you.
He-And was she discussing me?
mot exactly. She was commenting on
the weather, and just asked me if could
imagine anything more tiresome and dis
agreeable. philadelphia Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
Poor Imitation.

Arrested for larceny, the cashier of St.
Louis restaurant claimed absent-minded-
ness in exculpation. He said that one
morning while he was reading about the
delicta of life insurance officials he un-
consciously distracted seven dollars from
the TILL The judge asked him why he
did not take the entire contents.-Boston
Budget
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor of "Pecks Sum-" Author OF
''Peck's Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright, 1905, by joseph B. Bowles)
well, suppose you have got your
European airs worn off, SO you can
come down to plain American living
again." said the old groceryman to the
bad boy when he came into the grocery
with kerosene can, and sat down on
the barrel of dried apples, and reached
INTO the barrel Of lump sugar, and filled
his pocket. The old man had just cut
q new cheese, aid he sliced off thin
piece of cheese and laid it en- a. big
square cracker and handed It to the
boy, saying: ''Just lay that inside
your ribs and tell me if you got any
thing to eat in Europe that could hold
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 16.-It is reported
from Casper, Wyo., that sales of town lots
for the new town Of Shoshone, located on
the edge of the Wind River Reservation
or the new line of The Chicago & North.
Western Railway across the state from
Casper, have been unprecedented.
Bidding for town lots runs high, and a
in a short time. Buyers evidently figure
on the growth of the city here when the In
dian reservation is thrown open to settle
ment next June.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02
Go East via the Nickel Plate Roas

Lowest rates via the Nickel Plate Road
end it's eastern connections to all points
in Eastern and New England States.
Three elegant through trains daily to
Cleveland, Buffalo, New York and Boston.
Meals served in Dining Cars on the Indi.
rs cents to $780, Also service la carte.
Luxurious Sleeping Cars on all trains. No
excess fare charged on any train on the
Nickel Plate Road, and service as good as
the best For full information regarding
rates, connections, sleeping car reserva
tions, etc.. address j. Y. Callahan, General
Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago, Ill.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

The Bad Boy and His Dad at a Chris
tan Science Boarding HCuse-The
Bad Boy Tells His Uncle How They
Were Kidnapped in Greece-Dad
Sang "Hot Time" in the Bandits
Cave and When They Were Asleep
Escaped on Mule.