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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

California's State Library has been nIaced under civil service rules. IL is the first department of the State gov ernment owhich those rules have been applied
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31
Cult Yer FOoIin'.

l. Quit yer foolin' us now. Miss Spring. We're anxious ter hear tn bluebirds sing. We wanter sniff the fresh turned sod We wanter get the line an rod. We wanter lay whar tn crick is deeu An cast line whar tn big trout leap. Come with tn roses yer always bring, Quit yer foolin' us now, Miss Spring.
 IL Quit yer foolin' us now Miss Spring, Hurry tn birds along on wing. Give us tn lazy days agin'. Deep blue skies an soft south win. When a feller kin loaf whar tn grass Is green Whar th gurglln' brook thro' tn trees is Seen, We're gittin' tired O Winters sting. Quit yer foolin' us now Miss Spring.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

A tack is a small contemptable ohv foot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

MT. John P. Kohn. who has been in the West for his health for six months, has returned home. His health is vastly improved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

The Flying Dutchman-one rushing the growIer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

MT. Osce Roberts, who is in charge of the printing department at the Deaf and Dump School at Talladega, Is in the city
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

The chronic kicker is not welcome when he knocks" arodnd the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31
Two Tracks on Henderson Division.

State Senator, J. D. Norman, of Cham bers County, was in Montgomery yes- terday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

Judge; Was the prisoner taken una wares?
 Prisoner; No. indeed, judge--they was all in wash.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

Whom the average man comes away from church about the only thing he remembers is the fact that he dropped a nickle in the contribution box that he could have used for something else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

Fred: I think Mabel is a little dear. Ned: I've spent enough on her to think so, too.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

Jay: He worships the ground his Dakota wife walks on.
 Ray: That's funny-and it's ground for divorce, too.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

%1l%A
 A tack is a small contemptable obs 1ect: by man 1t Is often trod under foot.
 The Flying Dutchman-one rushing the grow1er.
 The chronic kicker is not welcome when he Knocks" aroand the world.
 Fred: I think Mabel is a little dear. Ned; I've spent enough on her to
 Jay; He worships the ground his Dakota wife walks on.
 Ray: That's funny--and it's ground for divorce. too.
 The lunatic doesn't know that he Is well "off."
 Don't spend your life hur'tng unxinc the moss gathers no rolls.
 The oat meal of life goss better with the sugar of love and tha m,lk of hu-
 A level head is not in,li1ed to lean.
 It takes ecld American cash to get a hot Turkish bath
 The nervous man on the fourth of July wishes that a quiet time were "aI- lowed" him.
 It takes nerve to get in the dentists chair and the dentist takes 1t.
 Anybody who doesn't know what hard tack is will find out some night when meandering around a dark room airily clad.
 Whom the average man comes away from church about the only thing he remembers is the fact that he dropped a nickle in the contribution box. that he could have used for something else.
 Judge: Was the prisoner taken una. wares?
 Prisoner; No. indeed, judge--they was all in wash.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

Anybody who doesn't know what hard tack is will find out some night when meandering around a dark room airily clad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

It takes nerve to get in the dentists chair and the dentist takes 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31

The nervous man on the fourth of July wishes that quiet time were "aI- lowed" him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Work of Political Shysters

Probably the most baseless attack
that has. yet been made on President
Roosevelt appears in the democratic
campaign handbook. The passage IN
which the president is wantonly assailed
reads as follows:
''Mr. Roosevelt has shown greater re-
card for the interests of corporations
ard less regard for the law than any
other executive the country ever had
Was ever a greater falsehood uttered?
IF the man who penned the lie can name
president who has fought the corpora
tions with more vigor than President
Roosevelt. The Free Press would be
pleased to learn his name. 1t certainly
was not Grover Cleveland or any of his
democratic predecessors.
lentless war against the capitalistic. COM
binations and has succeeded in making
many of them beg for mercy. He is a
fearless advocate of the peoples rights
against corporate greed, and for the
democratic congressional campaign heads
to say that he has shown more regard
for the interests of the corporations
than he has for the people simply brands
them as political shysters of the most
Infamous type. The presidents record
gives the democrats the lie.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
The Great Fur Exhibit.

The northwest is justly proud of its
greatest fur house-that of Z. Albrecht
& Son of St. Paul, whose representa-
i've is at present in the city with a full
exhibit of the latest fur styles and
novelties.
The house of E. Albrecht & Son was
founded in 1855, and purchasers of Al
brecht garments get the result of nearly
50 years of hard, conscientious study of
one business. Styles and qualities are
the worlds latest and best. Mr.. Ernest
Albrecht, the senior member of the firm,
makes annual trips to the Old World
Markets, where he purchases the raw
peltries at first hands at advantageous
prices, and makes careful note of all
fashion changes and features. The re-
suit of these trips of Mr.. Albrecht, SEN
ior. taken together with the frequent
New York visits of inspection by Mr..
Otto f. Albrecht, the firms Junior part
ner. give to Albrecht fur distinguish
ing quality and Cosmopolitan style OBJ
tainable in no other furs in the world.
For further REASONS why "Albrecht
Furs are Standard our citizens are urg-
ei to call at the exhibit and see for
themselves.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Organize Against Grating

The stockholders of the Pullman Pal
ace Car company are a greedy lot of in
dividuals. Instead of yielding up por
ton of their princely dividends to the
porters who make up the sleeping car
berths and perform other services that
help to make travel round of pleasure,
they hold on to what they have got and
are reaching out for more, permitting
the public to pay the porters and there
by encouraging the tipping nuisance.
Figures 90 to show that from August
1898, to August, 1906, the stockholders
|of the Pullman company have received
81 zoo, 600 in. extra 20 per cent cash div
idend, $36.66O,000 in regular dividends
and .$46,S00,000 present market value
of $lS,OOO,O0O gift stock, "a total $751;
5000 Total per cent received in eight
years by stockholders 1880. In cash
1880 per cent. In market value gift
stock 1870 per cent Average per cent
in cash per annum 14lS Average per
cent in stock 1925. Total average for
eight years 3o4S per cent.
The Pullman company is another one
of those grasping corporations that
feeds fat off the public. 1t not only
charges the travellers cxorbitant prices
for inadequate accommodations, but
it really forces the patrons OF its cars
to pay the wages Of its employees. The
public should stop the tipping habit and
at the same time demand of the Pull
man company the best of service, for
the amount of money paid to the cor
poration entities the traveller to that.
1t is up to the travelling public to or
ganize an Anti-tipping society and pro-
coed to enforce the rules against being
grated by the Pullman company.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Money Paid for Pensions.

There are still four pensioners on ac-
count of the Revolutionary war, one a
widow and the other three daughters;
66O all widows on account of the war
of 1912. and Hap on account of the
Mexican war. OF the Mexican war pen
sions. 1884 are to survivors.
The report of the pension bureau
shows that in the entire history of the
country the total expenditure on ac-
count of pensions has been $3,459 $780,
81, of which only $96,445.A44 had been
paid out prior to the beginning of the
Civil war. OF the total 1929, 1915 BOG
was on account of the Civil war. The
total payment of pensions on account
of the Spanish war reaches $l5,43S,355
up to state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Free Seed Graft.

The free seed graft is one of the
rankest of the many rank and petty
CRAFTS which the public has long COM
planned against. 1t would seem that
congressman themselves would feel hui
inflated whenever they vote this gratu-
ity to the people. State and local farm
ers' associations are entering protest
against the public issuance of the seeds
and this should be enough to cause our
national legislators to call halt on the
whole farcical business. These seeds are
sent out as cheap means of catching
votes, but at that the public is called
upon to pay something like $250O0C
annually for this display of generosity
on the part of the congressman who re-
sort to this small method of campaign
ing.
What these seeds are and what dis.
position is made of them is well illus
trated by the following incident which
will be presented to congress next win.
ter supported by the proper exhibits and
affidavits. A few days ago Long Island
florist was passing the home of a neigh.
Dor when he saw pile of packages -pi
government seeds several feet high ans
as many feet square at the base, being
burned. On inquiry he found his neigh
Dor was destroying the seed to get rio
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
The Two Johns.

Prior to Saturday last, John w. John
son was an unknown workingman living
in Minneapolis. Today he is one of the
most frequently discussed individuals III
the state by reason of his having filed
a petition with the state secretary re-
questing that his name be placed on the
state ticket as the socialist-labo can
didate for governor. His sudden appear
ance in the political arena has caused
considerable of flutter in the dem
ocratic ranks, and really more than is
Granted that Mr.. Johnson's name is the
same as that of the present governor
who is candidate for reelection, it need
not necessarily follow that the friends
of John A. johnson will make the mis-
take of voting for John w. Johnson.
And another thing, the savage attacks
made by the democratic press, charging
that the republican campaign managers
put up the job Of bringing out John W.
johnson as a candidate for governor are
entirely uncalled for and indefensible.
AS a matter of fact the leading news
papers of the state, The Free Press
among them, gave out the information
some weeks ago that John W. johnson
would be the socialist-labor candidate
for the position of chief Nexecutive OF
Minnesota and it seems passing strange
that the wise heads who are guiding the
destinies of the democratic party failed
to put quietus on the candidacy of the
gentleman whose name sounds as well as
that of Governor johnson.
If we mistake not the socialist-labor
party held convention in Minneapolis
or st. Paul during the summer and John
w. johnson was made the nominee for
governor. The city newspapers men
toned that fact at the time. Now when
John. w. makes his formal appearance
backed by petition with the required
number of names thereon which entities
him to a place on the state ballot the
democratic newspapers feign to be sur
prised and raise an awful hullaboo, as
sailing the republican campaign captains
in manner that is but little short OF
disreputable in its character. :.
The republican state central commit
tee knows nothing of how John w.
johnson managed to secure the sigma
iture to his petition nor did they urge
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12

OF them and for half dollar he pur-
chased a bushel bag full, the remainder
being burned. The seeds were taken to
New Eotk City and are nor in the pos
session Of prominent seed firm of that
city. It is estimated that about ten
thousand packages were burned and one
thousand saved. Examination of these
packages showed that they were not old
seeds and therefore necessarily worthless.
A large part of them were under the
frank of member of congress from
New York who is serving his first term
and therefore they are part of the for
ty million packets sent out this year.
The Others bore the frank of an ex-
member from New York, so were prob
ably d. year or two old. Evidently they
had accumulated until it was decided
to get rid of them all at one time by
burning.
1t was naturally question as to
why such ''rare and valuable" seeds
should have been so ruthlessly, destroyed,
so an injury was made as to just how
'srare and valuable" the seeds were that
had been rescued. This examination re-
vealed the amusing fact that of twenty
four varieties of garden seeds contained
in these packages, and distributed free
as ''rae and valuable seeds" the newest
variety was twelve years old, while
most of them had been known to the
trade for from twenty to thirty years.
Congress should 'cut out" the free
seed graft. The public has no use for
the out of date seeds and the only thing
that can result from their continued dis
tribution is the growth of other gratis
which will fasten themselves like tenta.
cles to the body polite.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12

at the shrine of the almighty dollar
What blessing it would be for man
kind and generations yet to be if we all
could only put the reins on the neck OF
reason, live more like human beings
should and obtain more pleasure out OF
the few years we have on this
earth. People are firing themselves
out in the pursuit of riches, and when
Nhey have accumulated the coveted
Wealth, their minds and bodies are
wracked with disease. They are in no
condition to enjoy that for which they
struggled so long and hard to obtain.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
Jacobsen and Cole

j.. F. jacobson is making strong
campaign for \. L. Cole. His speech
es are being well received everywhere.
As TO the nomination of Mr.. Cole and
the manner of its tender MIR. jacobson
said in his speech at Owatonna:
mir. Cole got chat nomination inst as
fairly and squarely as any nomination
ever given in the state. Is there any re-
publican who viii SAY, that that Iomina;,
ton was not fairly gotten? Now let me
ask you that if you are going to begin
to question about any candidate on the
state ticket why begin at the top of the
ticket and stop there? Mr.. Cole is as
good man and as much entitled to
your support as any other man on the
ticket. There is no more reason for you
to 60 back on him than any of the rest.
If you are leaning towards democratic
principles and want to support Bryan or
Hearst, vote for johnson and all the
rest of the democratic ticket, but come
out like man and say you are dem
ocrat." -
That is the right article of talk 1t
is the utterance of republican whom
the democrats attempted to make ''fly
the track" by offering him large doses
of sympathy because he failed to re-
ceive the coveted place himself. The
democratic press tried to make Mr..
jacobson believe that the interests"
were responsible for his failure to secure
the nomination for governor. Mr.. Jac-
soft-like purring of the democratic OPP
ponents of Mr.. Cole, but stood by his
guns and his party. Immediately after
the Duluth convention the democrats
discovered that Mr.. jacobson was a first
class man, but it seems passing strange
that this fact was not put up to
Governor johnson and an effort made
to retain the gentleman at the head of
the state board of control where ne had
served with such satisfaction under
republican administration?
The democrats made an awful strong
effort to use Mr.. Jacobson for their own
purpose. They failed dismally. He could
not be made the "fall guy and neither
could be used to pull chestnuts out of
the fire for the democratic party of
Minnesota.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Cole and the 1 unnbermen.

The st. Paul Dispatch says that Mr..
Cole failed in the session of 1903 to Sc
cure passage of the bill to tax logs in
the counties where cut. The lumbermen
were too strong for him in the senate.
They secured the services of ''the sena-
torial gang" Their logs continue to
escape the assessors at either end of
their journey. The country of origin
loses the tax because the logs start on
the drive before, May l; the country at
the end of the drive loses it because
the logs do not arrive until after May l.
The state loses some tax, the counties
a great deal and the lumbermen scored
the added profit. And yet we have dem
ocratic papers assailing Mr.. Cole as the
representative of the lumber barons;
asserting that they dictated his nomina-
ton. What invincibility of cheek
Mr. Coles constituents, among whom
southstate democratic papers say he is
$50 unpopular" returned him to the leg
islature of 1905 with an increased vote.
He found the same old senatorial gang
in the senate and felt the uselessness of
trying to pass his log tax bill. But
something efficacious could be done to
prevent the stealing of pine and other
timber from state lands, out of which
had grown conditions often bordering on
grave scandals Loose methods, lack of
system, and the use of the large discre-
ton left with the auditor had been mat
ters of severe, often unfair, criticism.
The trespasses on timber lands, the
difficulty of proving The facts under the
rules of evidence, and the adjustments
of claims made some general plan nee
essary.
To fhis work. Mr. Cole lent himself,
with the result chat a comprehensive act
was passed, and is chapter 204 of the
laws of 1905. The effective portion of
the bill, as regards the securing of evil
dence of trespasses, is in the rewards
given for inforn1atioh;of trespass. Here
t,ofore the QUARTERBACK" who cut the
timber and knew that it was cut from
state land, had no motive and 10 induce
ment to report by whose orders he cut
it. His interests were more with the
man who hired him than with the state.
II was this that made legal proof diff
cult to obtain and which induced settle
ments rather than litigate for the penal
ties. Now the blance mclines the other
way. The lumberjack becomes detect
i've for the state. No trespasser will
dare rely upon the lumberjack's loyalty
to him.
And yet such are the necessities OF
campaigns that, in the face of these two
legislative records made by Mr.. Cole, in
which he tried to prevent the lumber
barons from stealing state timber and
from cheating the state of taxes, there
are democratic papers having the hardi-
hood to assert these same lumber bar
ons dictated his nomination for gov
ernor."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Democrat. Pure and Simple.

The Long Prairie Leader offered free
subscription to any man who would lis
ten to Governor Johnson's speech last
Saturday and figure out whether the
governor is running as a republican, a
democrat, populist, q prohibitionist or
to what political party, if any, he does
belong. To this The Minneapolis Jour-
nal says: 1t may be difficult to figure
out from the speeches, but every voter
knows that the governor is running as
the nominee of the democratic party,
and on platform which exalts Bryan
and says nothing about Roosevelt.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Questions cannon's Authority.

Congressman Holiday of the fifth
Indiana district is not standpatter.
He is progressive republican who has
the stamina to challenge the right and
authority of Uncle Joe Cannon to die
tate in what manner candidates for con-
gres shall conduct their campaigns. In
an interview Mr.. Holiday is reported to
have made the statement that Soon
gressmen will have something to say
as to the kind of campaign they shall
conduct in their respective districts. A
congressman who would not insist on
this right would not be fit to sit in
congress-"
Mr.. Holiday possesses an independ-
ent spirit which the American people
certainly must admire. We need more
republicans of the Holiday brand in con-
gress. With majority of his kind in
the lower house would give the people
tariff revision such as they are asking
for
In the same interview Mr. Holiday
gave his views in the following Ian
guage: 81 always have insisted and al
ways shall insist on tariff for protect
ion, not merely for revenue, but | am
not in favor of maintaining existing
schedules. think the tariff should. be
revised with view to eliminating the
inequalities that are the outgrowth of
conditions since the Dingley law was en-
acted.''
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Rushing Into Insa nifty.

DR.. Richard Dewey, for fifteen years
head of the Illinois state asylum for
the insane at Kankakee and at one time
at the head of large New York asylum
and who is now, chief of the Dewey
sanitarium at Wauwatosa, paints a
gloomy and narrowing picture of the
future. He declares that while insanity
is increasing at an alarming rate there
is no need for fear that the entire world
will go mad. However, he. added, extra
ordinary provisions VIII have to be
made in thirty years to care for all
the insane if the present increase con-
tinues.
"While the proportion of insane per-
sons was about one in 600, some years
ago, it has increased until 1t is one In
3OO," said the physician. 1.-The proper
ton does not include cases OF epilepsy
and feeble mindedness, which also have
greatly increased
DIR. Forbes Winslow, an authority and
well known writer of London, England,
who is known to DIR. Dewey, is quoted
as having said that before long there
will be actually more lunatics IN the
world than sane people.
81 attribute the increase in the larger
cities to the terrible strain OF modern
existence" said DR.. H. J. Davis OF the
detention hospital at Chicago. Alcohol
ism is combining with the rush Tor
livelihood in destroying reason IN chi
cago." He does not agree with DR.. Wins
low that the world is going insane, al
though; his statement that insanity is a
burning problem fstfe day meets with
his approval, =
People nowadays are fairly rushing
into insanity in their haste to worship
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
The Man Who Robs You
Hartman is a gentleman"

Hartman is a gentleman"
II. H. Rogers is gentleman"
Chauncsy Depew is gentleman
The insurance directors who fattened
on too-trusting public-certainly they
are gentlemen" is an observation OF
the st. Paul Daily News.
Because, we have always heard, we
have been told. it has been carefully
pointed out to us that a man who wears
tailor made clothes, a pigeon blood ruby
and white spats, even though at the
same time he pockets money unethically
or ouestionably-not to say dishonesty
gained-he is gentleman; while the
man who takes loaf of bread, last
summers straw hat, a watch chain
your petty theiver-he is a thief.
Now comes Mr.. Globe of New York
with a new point of view.
evil the gentleman" he advertises,
"who took my vest and chain and mem
orandum book, kindly return the same.
Liberal reward. No questions asked"
81 Didn't want to call him thief,
he says, because he might feel insult
ed"
Here is food for reflection.
Perhaps Mr.. Globe is right.
Why hasn't the man who steals a vest
and chain as much right to remain a