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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-21

Roe And Buck shad sPanish Macker- eI, Fresh and Salt water Trout, Hard Shell Crabs.
 HOrEsn A G. Phone 3s0.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-07
just = Minute. Q

N JUo{ Minute, "
rhe Glands are ,oatinr N the sky-- {,
Thera,Il ~ some more ton1 ~ and Nv.
The hirds ha 10 zone n warmer cline
I'm glsd because a helms ma rhymel
Tha coal r,an-~Nn MI snare von' that:
parhaSs vn,,,. r,,sa ~ paad. ! Natl Nh
srha h,r,oI aows gantly ~ tha ses,-
n m,,st f,ou that w,av aon,t Won nee?
,rha ~. ,,as . - foatiry v,t,, ifha itile-
sThav,ra tiad ~ nothinr iii conflde.
INA hr,aa II IL is r,aEing clothes--
sha e,,aads am Shad,v gooSnsss knows!
the lime ~ snnara acco,,nts draws near
I'm shv aho,,t ona sn,,are I fearl i N
\ naad y nayv fal, ovarcoat- NJ M. 5Ss AN
irxn,,sa ,,,a sir is that vo,,r hoatp
An we'll IN writa line or two
A., wen' - WIZ, ~ = M, mae ,sa,v ~"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-07

Fancies.
II we could put as much Joy into
our lives as woman can stun mis-.
cellaneous what-nots into her hand
bag, there would be lots more fun in
living. Il
In one day twenty-seven women
complained to an English police magis-
trate because their husbands had
kicked them. What those English
women need is a well, you know
those bird cage affairs stuffed with
hair that the women sometimes wear?
What they need is-well, If they
should happen to live near a brick
yard and-I beg pardon, but perhaps
you get the idea anyhow.
Billet-doux rhymes with "skiddoo"
and when wife finds one in the breast
pocket Of her husbands best coat, 1t
frequently ends that way.
It sometimes happens that the man
who has taken all the spoils, must
take the blame, too. To him that hath,
etc.
I went fishing up in Wisconsin last
spring and had Just lovely time"
Besides catching a goodly string OF
fish, I made several observations Of
benefit to humanity. / noted that one
species Of fish sing. hooked this pc
cl1liar fish just at daybreak the morn
ing OF my arrival. He took the line
merrily and as it spun out upon the
reel ! caught the strains of song
that always delights the heart of the
fisherman. It is needless to say that
the fish was bass. Therefore the
singing fish is the bass. The bluefish
does not sing but he is very melan-
choly. The skate fish is an awful
drunkard. The most scholarly fish is
the trout with specks. live in Chi
cago, you know, and when hooked
a shark, felt right at home. Why
are some people like, and not like, the
goldfish? There is plenty of fish
about them but no gold. The last day
! caught fiatfish This reminded me
that pay $50 per for my fiat in the
city and came home forthwith for
fear wouldn't get my moneys worth.
This is all know about fish, except
that they never bite when you take
your friend to- the same resort where
you have caught lunkers for years.
Well, I've got to dive for my train,
now. Good-by.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-07

MORE Ucu COVcIS nave tuC Coh lnCSO
nights.
A Pennsylvania section hand sent
his overalls to Chinese laundry.
They went through the wash all right,
but when the "chink" started in to
iron. the bifurcated toga. he accidental
~ struck railroad torpedo. Instead
of tagging the Chinaman, 1t started
him on a mad flyer down the track.
AT last reports he was headed for
New York unmindful of grades and
open bridges
A friend Of mine who evidently has
been reading some Of my stuff, says
the prize sentence for ungrammatical
construction Is that of the hoy who
leaned over the fence and asked of the
shepherd, BE them Sleeps yourn?"
He says every word Is incorrect. l
was raised in the country and 1t seems
all right to me. but maybe he knows.
some women are never Jul VI lSHi-
per. They have 1t to give away all
the time.
"A friend of mine got out Of pretty
tight place yesterday morning by g
quick witted reply. His wife found q
strange hair on his coat and asked
him where he got it. He replied.
wisely, From the head Of the bed,
dear
The woman who can, and does, peek
at the last chapter Of the book she is
reading to discover the final outcome,
must suffer terribly because she can
not find out whether II is going to be
! boy or girl.
The man who has been chasing his
straw hat all summer must now be
content with losing his gloves land
his isn't half as much fun for the OBJ
serving public.
A Rhode Island man sold his wife
or $500. Some men are born lucky
Sss,,,nss...y
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-07

Flurries. s.5
The suburb where l live is swell;
One couldn't ask for more
There's only one thing that miss:
1t has no New York Store"
The man who falls from the top OF
the ladder always has chance OF
catching on a lower rung. In other
words, he may strike something
coming down.
WOMAN.
She's slight and fair and somewhat frail,
She's delicately made.
She knows that some day she will catch
Her death of cold, and fade!
She wonders why she sneezes SO
When to a ball she goes
And wears the smile that won't come off
With decOllete cut clothes.
She sails about the sloppy streets
On shopping duties meet,
While on her shoes are paper soles--
All sopping are her feet!
She leans across the back yard fence
And swaps her recipes,
Talks shop and gossips, I'm afraid,
In weather made to freeze.
The West wind whips her silken hair,
And chills her ankles trim,
The North wind swats her in the chest
And numbs her with vim.
Yet still she stands there blue with chill
And hears the latest tale
Then wonders how she caught that cold
And why she's thin and frail!
o woman, woman. please wake up;
. We. so thin and pale,
Quit driving In your coffin lid
Each day another nail!
Statisticians are complaining that
although they have conclusively
proved that bacilli are transferred by
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-07
Kun II ! walk.

While coming home from Selling
saturday, n. M Crocker's team run
away and had to walk home. The
buggie tongue broke causing the rum
away.
Would Make vehicie Of Boy.
/ want good smart reliable boy fol-
nv peddling wagon. s. Coz. Am
herstburg tOnt.) Echo.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
Revolutionary Russia.

Like the Stuarts of Great Britain
and the Bourbons of France, the
reigning dynasty Of Russia goes from
blunder to blunder. Such a revolution
as is in progress throughout Euro
pean Russia cannot be suppressed by
the sword. The thing to have done
was to make concessions to the spirit
of liberty when the agitation began.
Grants that would have been
hailed as liberal a year ago would be
rejected with scorn to-day as wholly
insufficient.
The revolution is strikingly like that
of France, and there will be no stop.
ping it. The proletariat has fought
and tasted blood. Suppose they sup
press the revolt in Moscow? 1t will
break out at some other point--in Pc.
land, or Lithuania, or Finland, or
elsewhere between the Baltic and the
Black seas. The army will be kept on
the jump, and its loyalty put to the SUI
premest test. Then, when order has
been shot into the nation, and reigns
everywhere as 1t once did at Warsaw,
the revolution will break out afresh in
Moscow or somewhere else, and it will
all have to be done over, again.
Before the thing is finished, Russia
will be republic; not a free republic,
but Revolutionary republic guided by
a Cromwell or Napoleon. And If such
should be her destiny, she will be a
mighty ugly customer in quarrel with
a neighbor, just as England was in the
middle of the seventeenth century, Just
as France was at the close of the eight
zenith century.
For a full 100 years republicanism
has been driving autocracy to the wall
in Europe. France is a pretty good re-
public and getting better every day.
The Kaiser of the great German EN-
pire has in the Reichstag partner in
the government, ofttimes a very med.
dlesome and very obstinate partner
at that. The Cortez holds the purse of
Spain, and Italy is a constitutional
monarchy. Austria-Hungary has a leg.
islature, and the Scandinavian peo-
pies have enjoyed liberty for ages.
Russia is rousing from the slumber Of
centuries and she cannot be put to
sleep again. There will be battle and
blood and terror, but it will end in a
republican, least, in legislature
and then Russia will begin the new
lesson of learning what liberty is and
what to Go with it.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
Couldn't Mix the Bicycle.

Some years ago, soon after bicycles
began to be freely used throughout the
United States, an agent for New York
house turned up at village in Central
New York. He expatiated to an old
farmer upon the virtues of the new ma
chine, dwelling upon what time-saver
it was, and withal how fashionable it
would be for the old farmer to be able
to ride down to the village on one of
the new-fangled machines whenever he
wanted to.
why" said the salesman, whenever
you go to the postofhce, bank, or store,
everybody will stop and stare at Farmer
Wilson, and pretty soon you'll be the
| most-talked-of man in the whole coun-
tyr
THAT may be SC" replied the farmer.
"but l tell you I'm a-needin' good
new cow mon | am one o them things
you're a-talkin' about"
| Nevertheless, the agent extracted q
promise that the old man would save
up his money and purchase bicycle
when the agent came around in the fall
According to promise, the agent was
on hand in the fall with the wheel The
4 farmer took him in charge and carried
him out to the lot and showed him ;
fine Jersey~cow.
That's what I bought with the money
| saved UP for you" said the farmer
| And without waiting for the agent t.
recover from his surprise he went on
lI lowed that | needed the COW mon
did the bicycle, an there she is. Ain
she beaut%
| When the agent recovered his breatl
| he said: you'll look funny riding tina
cow to town, won't your"
"Ya'as," drawled out the old farmer
but I'd look darned sight funnie
tryin' to milk bicycle"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

In other words, as a result of the
dsiiberate delay OF the public lands
comnittee Of the. house instead OF
havinr the SaIue OF the stumpage from
that &.eeo, 600 acres of timber IN the
nat'ons1 treasury We have parten win
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

that would make him feel the full
weight of an outraged national public
sentiment. (Applause.) They are not
liable to punishment criminally, but
they are morally responsible for every
fraud committed under the timber and
stone act since they shelved the bill to
repeal it passed by the senate in the
last session of congress.
But 1t Is not enough merely to re-
peal the timber and stone act. Every
acre of public forest lands or brush
or woodlands which conserves water
supply should be at once embraced in
permanent forest reserves, the title to
be always retained by the national
government and the stumpage of ma
tured timber only to be sold.
Wonderful Possibilities of the Arid
Region.
. The whole great plains region
should be studied and developed as a
vast area which can be transformed
from a semi-arid region to one of
great fertility and more humid climate
by the planting OF Immense areas,
hundreds OK thousands of acres, Of
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
NEW PUBLIC PRINTER.
AT THLRTY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE
HE HEADS THE BIGGEST PRINT
SHOP IN THE WORLD.
His Office Pays Out Annually Over
Four and Half Million Dollars in
Wages-ls One of the Presidents
Youngest.


Four and a Half Million Dollars in
Wages-ls One of the Presidents
Youngest.
At the head of the biggest printing
office in the world at the age of "a.
That is the position in which Charles
A. Stillings finds himself to-day. When
the Hon. Frank w. Palmer resigned
from the office of Public Printer last
summer, President Roosevelt found
himself facing the necessity of making
one Of the most important appoint
ments that had ever fallen TO his lot
to consider The printing required for
the United States Government is SO
voluminous and of such diversified de-
tail that 1t is necessary to operate the
enormous plant in which the printing
is produced, in. the most perfect way.
At the head of this great printery the
President knew he must place a man
who would be manly among men,
strong of character, quick of decision
and with thorough grasp of every
detail OF the printing business in
everyone of its many branches. Many
men backed by strong political infiu-
ence were presented to the President
for his consideration in making the
appointment for Public Printer, but
none seemed to be possessed of all of
the necessary qualifications, until his
attention was directed to progress.
sive young man whose knowledge of
the printing business covered the en-.
tire field and who had had practical
experience in Boston, Philadelphia and
Washington-one Charles A. Stillings.
And SO, after a thorough examination
into Mr.. Stillings' commercial career
the President, finding that Mr.. Still
lingS ability was Just what he had
been looking for, appointed him as the
executive head of the Government
Printing Office. The Senate promptly
confirmed the Presidents appointment
and so Mr. Stillings has become the
active head of the establishment.
A brief idea of the volume of bust
ness conducted by the Government
Printing Office may be obtained from
the following figures. Last year they
paid in wages to its various employees
the sum of $4,616,7S1.70 and nearly
three millions more were spent fol
various supplies, including paper, new
machinery and maintenance of thu
plant. Every dollar of this great sun
is expended under the check Of tn
Public Printer and it is evident tina
much wisdom is needed in handlin
money where so large an amount is il
volved.
Mr.. Stillings is especially fitted b
training, inclination, and ability TO
the position. He forms an attractiv
addition to the ranks of the yonng me
J with whom President Roosevelt hs
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

could not help thinking to myself
whether It might not be possible some
Gay or other to awaken the people of
the Mississippi valley to realization
of the fact that forestry is a problem
extending from New Orleans to the con-
tinental divide of the Rocky mountains
on the west, to Canada on the north
and to the crest of the Alleghanies on
the east. where the Ohio river has its
source; and that failure and destruc-
tlon are inevitable If 1t shall be ex-
pected In the years to come to cohtrolI
that great flood by increasing the
nation. The time will come when they
cannot build them higher and the
country Will revert to swamp condi-
tion and be as -desolate as 1T is today
where the St. Francis basin is covered
with water through which you may
LOOK down and see. the tops of trees
that once grew on dry land How are
you going to prevent that?
This great problem of forestry, is
not. alone matter of sentiment. 1t
as just as much a cold blooded ques-
ton of business. The speakers who
preceded me have spoken upon the inn
portance Of forestry to mining.
have listened with much interest to
their mastery discussion on the rela--
tion of forestry to mining, and 1t
brought more forcibly than ever to my
mind the conviction that the whole
country and those engaged in all its
industries are fast coming to reeog-
nize the Importance of forestry. I
regret that we cannot include the
lower house of congress. They do not
seem to have yet walked up to 1t.
How to Get Things Done.
I am not going to take UP your time
with any further dissertations upon
the Importance of forestry. But / want
to offer some practical suggestions as
to what we should do to get what we
want done. I listened with the great
est interest and pleasure to the presi-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

new forests by the national govern
ment on the wide level. prairies and
bare, rolling foothills which are now
supposed to be among the waste places
of the land and fit only for grazing
ground for few stray cattle and
sheep.
1t is the vast possibilities of forest
planting and timber production in this
region that make it almost a crime
against future generations to part
with the land in its present condition
to stockmen under such a scheme as
the Kinkaid bill for the creation of
large grazing estates in private own
ership
The mining interests more immedi-
ately than any other ought to oppose
this 640-acre homestead idea anywhere
in the great plains or Rocky mountain
states and help to inaugurate a great
national policy, of planting new for
ests, not only to furnish wood and
timber for the mines but to conserve
and increase the rainfall, regulate the
flow of the rivers, stop floods and fur
nish water for irrigation.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
Don't Ask Again.

An amusing incident is related Of
Nat Goodwin, the actor Not long ago
Goodwin was standing on the corner
of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street,
New York City, where three car lines
converge, when seedy-looking indi-
yidual, apparently from the country,
approached him questioningly.
Il want to so to the Brooklyn
Bridge" he said, looking in perplexity
at the cars rushing in six different di
rectionS.
Very WE'LL" said Goodwin, severely
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
An LnprOVised Excuse.

Tommy was absent from school for
one entire day. But he brought note
of excuse the, next morning, which
would prove that he had been detained
at home legitimately. The writing was
hardly that of feminine hand, and the
note appeared to have been written la
boriously Furthermore, the penman-
ship seemed to be strangely familiar to
his teacher. The note read-as follows
"Dear Teacher: Please excuse Tom
my for not coming to stool yistidy, he
couldn't come. | tore my pants. Yours
truly, Mrs. Mulligan."
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

surrounded himself in the administra-
ton of the Government affairs. He re-
ceived his education in the Phillips
Grammar School and the English High
School at Boston. After leaving school
he entered his fathers printing Office,
where he received varied and thor
ough experience in all branches Of the
trade, finally working up to the posi-
ton Of general manager and later be-
coming sales manager of the Griffith
Stillings Press, an organization which
took over the business formerly con-
Quoted by Mr. Stillings, Sr.
In all of Mr.. Stillings' transactions
he has shown an unusual aptitude for
organization, and, possessing a marked
degree of personal magnetism has
drawn into a close friendship with
himself many men Of dignity and posi-
ton. Mr. Stillings is a Mason, having
attained the honors of the thirty-sec-
ond degree of the Scottish Rite, and is
also q Mystic Shriner.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

the timber and the land and the young
growth and everything for $3.50 an
acre. Taking the value of-that timber
at what the stumpage actually sold for
upon some of the government land in
$15.06 an acre, the govern
ment has lost $40,000,000 by that pro-
ceeding. But the stumpagee on the 81
100000 acres located during the last
two years was much more valuable
than that. And il the government had
any business man or any man Of
sense would have managed 1T we
might just as well as not have realized
100000 from that stumpage and
have had our young forest trees plant
ed in southern California and the sur
plus left over. (Applause.)
Anew Suggestions.
We are told that there is going-to be
a deficit this year in the treasury of
the United States of $22,000,000. If
we had not thrown away that $70,000,-
600 we could have covered that deficit
at least twice over and still have had
money left in the treasury. In other
words the public lands committee of
the house has thrown away over
s7O,000,000 Of the peoples money In
the last two years. II we should put
the two years 1t has amounted to over
100000 month or about $4,000 a
day.
Now suppose some enterprising. and
ingenious person had succeeded in
tunneling under the United States
treasury and cut hole into the vaults
and carried off $4,000 a day. Don't
you suppose We could get the people
of the United States to wake up the
public lands committee If 1T required
some action by it to stop that steal
ing? That is exactly what is going
on; for If the house public lands COM
mittee does nothing in this session of
congress (and it has already voted. to
do nothing) the loss to this country
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

Here lies the body of Mary Ann,
Her head on the bosom of Abraham.
It's pleasant and sweet for Mary Ann,
But mighty tough for Abraham.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

When you buy, Wing Piano, you buy atwhole-
sac. You pay the actual cost of making 1t with
plano, as many still do-at retail-you pay the
retail dealers store rent and other expenses.
rou pay his profit and the commission or salary
OF the agents or statesmen he employs-all these
on Top OF what the dealer himself has to pay to
the manufacturer. The retail profit on a piano
Is from SIS to 5000. Isn't this worth saving1
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

The Government Printing office
The Largest Print Shop in
the World.
Charles A. StilIings, the New
Public Printer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-07-12

The drinking of intoXicants is de-
creasing among the middle classes Of
the whole world and is increasing
among the very poor and the very rich
Such is the conclusion drawn from a
foreign tour by John G. Woolley, once
Prohibition candidate for president,
who has returned after a thirteen
months trip aboard. Taking all the
countries together" said Mr.. Woolley,
the main body of people-the great
middle classes who do most of the
business and form the backbone of the
people-are drinking less liquor today
than ever before. l am forced to the
opposite conclusion, however, with ref
erence to some of the other classes
the idle classes-both poor and rich"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-07-12
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
J. w. BARROW. Chatham. n. T..
Press Correspondent NeU York State
Grange
THE DOMINION GRANGE.
Some GIeanings From the Published
Report of Its Proceedings.

Some GIeanings From the Published
Report of Its Proceedings.
y copy of the proceedings of the last
session of the Dominion grange of Can
ada is before us. From it we learn
-that there are ten division oranges
shich correspond to the Pomona
oranges of the States and siXty-five
subordinate oranges, the most of them
being in fairly prosperous condition.
But there is great opportunity for the
exercise of earnest eudeavor in organ
iZing new oranges in the Dominion. A
little New England energy diffused
over the Canadian provinces, not too
thinly, would help matters very much.
label Robinson. Canadian granger
well known as a frequent visitor at
state and national oranges in the Unit
ed States. remarked that never in the
history of Canada was there so much
need for organization among farmers as
now. They are helpless because they
are not united. The grange in the
United States, said he, has purged itself
of that class who sought only their
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Every year they
accomplish something for the general
good of all the farmers of the nation.
Among the recommendations of the
committee on legislation were the fol
lowing: Asking the tota! abolition of
the senate; requesting the Dominion
government to increase the weight of
parcels which may be carried by mail;
advising the trial of the free rural mail
delivery system; favoring lower rather
than higher customs duties; disapprov-
ing the entire system of subsidies and
bounties; asking protection against
''the automobile nuisance"
Our meager knowledge of the CON
stitution of the Dominion senate may
excuse the remark that if it is similar
in any respect to our own institution
at Washington under the same name
our Canadian brethren have cut out for
themselves a good big piece of work in
asking for the abolition of the sen
ate"