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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
A woNDERFUL AMERICAN.

Probably a majority of Advertiser readers, if the question should be put to them, would have to take time to reflect, or to refer to the records before they could tell who Elihu Burrltt was,
 although he has been dead but little more than a quarter of century. And yet in some respects the learned black
 smith," as he came to be almost uni- versally called, was in several ways the
 most remarkable man this country has ever produced.
 MT. Burritt was born in New Brit. ain, Conn, in 1910, of poor parents.
 His education was limited and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to black smith, and at that occupation he spent the earlier years of his life. Neither l poverty nor hard labor, however, could
 dampen his love of study, and an emil nent Professor said of him: Tt has been my good fortune to make the ac- quaintance of many bright men and women, but there was but one Elihu
 Burritt," and he further, said: For studious concentration I doubt if his equal has ever been known in an Amer ican university"
 There was apparently nothing in Bur ritt's ancestry to account for his after life, nor in his childhood days, yet the
 intense desire for study was in hlm and knew no Encouragement At home during his brief hours of rest, by the | hreside at night, while standing by his forge waiting for the Iron to be heat 1 ed, he always had q book at hand from
 which he could be learning In short
 it was one of his chief characteristics
 to make the best use of every oppor-
 tunity and of every facility. He was
 really wonderful mathematician but his
 real, controlling fate was the study and
 mastery of languages, and to the grat- iflcation of this he devoted most of his l spare time It is said of him that he was master of twenty languages, be-
 sides some knowledge of several othefs
 As a persistent and successful student
 under many difficulties he n-sy fairly
 be called the most remarkable man the
 country has produceSS and the title of
 Learned BlaclSsAith" was appropriate
 and we'll dsIsrved. The following ex-
 tract fro1F an article printed in The
 HartfOrq Times will show something of
 his m1Aner and earnestness:
 Rutritt completed Virgil in one win ter's study, devoting only evenings to { study. Then he read Cicero. Upon 1 completing his study of Latin he took | up Greek. Old residents tell that Bur rift carried a Greek lexicon in his hat while he worked. He mastered twenty books of the Had of Homer in one winter. At this time he became an en- thusiast in the study of languages. 1 He went to New Haven and there stu ] died with native masters of French, German, Spanish and Italian He ma mas at, | by himself he said. Tn a few weeks was enabled to read this language with
 such facility that I allotted 1t to my | self, as a task, to read two chapters I in the Hebrew Bible before breakfast
 this, and an hour at noon, being all l the time that I could devote to my | self during the day"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
PAPA'S TROUBLES.

Utah is fifth. s5.14o.9O0: Montana comes sixth. with $4,So9,300; Nevada ls seventh. with sS, 1859, 100: Arizona IS eighth. with s2,111,1oo: Idaho is nlntn' with $1,706,600, and Oregon is tenln. with $1.244900 No other state fur nished as much as q million of gold.
 In silver production Montana leo, with 13.454,70O ounces. Colorado came next. with 12,942.S00 ounces; Utah third with 10.319.S00 ounces: Idaho fourth, with s.125,6O0 ounces; Nevada fifta. with 5,S63,500 ounces; Arizona sixth, with 2.650,70O ounces, and Californla seventh. with 1,0S2,s00 ounces. NO other state furnished as much as l.o0e'-
 A number of southerl,. States fur: nished some gold and silver. In gold production North Carolina led In the South with $123,000, Georgia coming next, with ss69oo, and south caro dHt ina with S41,50O. Maryland produced $l4.- 500 in gold, Virginia s5,000, Tennessee 300 and Texas 1.200. Tn silver pro auction Texas led in the South, with 417200 ounces, North Carolina coming next with 13,400 ounces. and Tennes- see next. with $500 ounces, No other Southern State produced as much as
 .2a1 ounces of silver
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

The Springfield Republican calls at tention to what 1t alIudes to as the Presidents growing habit of carry ing into state occasions the attitude of instructor and lecturer of sO,OOO, OOC of people who talks down to them as if they were mostly children, if not fools. That is an attitude which may be overlooked on the public platform in a verbal address, but it is out of place in anual messages to Congress of the chief executive of a free and self gov erning people," It is certainly habit of his to talk to all as if they were children and he the only one compe- tent to instruct them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
SUNDAY, DECEMBER Q, 1908.
QUEER TALK, FOR PHILADELPHIA


 There Is. something doing in Phila- delphia. if we may judge from this}oOt- burst from q contributor to the col- umns of The Philadelphia Ledger:
 Notice has bsea. puhllsHed that the Egr0es are planning to hold a mass meeting at the Academy of Music, to protest against the action of our President in discharging the negro tooops:. Are we. the white pee going to sit Idly by and permit the black agitators to desecrate the sanc- tum of our academy, within whose walls only the greatest celebrities of the world are allowed to enter? Sure iy we are not going to bring shame |, 1t to become a matter of bistory that Philadelphia was the first to allow Q gathering of lawiess, insolent and un- grateful negroes to assemble, that they might give vent to their vile and bit- ter attacks against the just and equit- able. decision of one of our greatest presidents.
 As to the discharging of the negro soldiers, they got their just deserts, as evidence was clearly shown that they were drunk and disorderly and reck- less1y discharging their rifles, caring llt- t1e for the lives and safety of the pebble. I think I can proudly say that there is not one white man in our city who would for one moment entertain the idea that negro was on an equal ity with himself; yet if the white peo- pie of hiladelphia do not soon awaken from their long reyerie and devise some radical means of suppressing the negro ere long the sacred honor of their wives and daughters will be placed in greater jeopardy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
international piant Conference.

The growing recognition of the hec- essity for the systematic governmental introduction of exotic plants in indi- cated by the announcement that m the near future there will be held in Paris am international conference de voted to the selection and intrduction the useful plants. The work of the bu- reau of plant industry in this eeuntry has been fully appreciated by the farmers and commercial seedmen, as well. and already the retdrns frqm new crops introduced through t9e bureaus agency have repaid many fold the federal expenses incurred in their discovery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

When 1t comes to damning anything with faint praise, as Pope says, our Republican contemporary, The New Bed ford Standard, does it in its reference Go the Presidents message Here is a specimen:
 President Roosevelts message shows more than anything else, his increas- ing diffusiveness in the treatment of the subjects with which he deals. He is growing to have a fatal facility for extending his discussions into long drawn out periods that do not increase the force of his arguments. Most of what he says in the message which he sent to Congress yesterday is not novel At enc time or another he has touched upon them all with conclusions not varying from those which he has reached in the message. Even the sec tion devoted to advocating income taxes and inheritance taxes is mild as com pared with what was anticipated, being extremely guarded in it's recomm enda- tions and conclusions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
Japan's Ambitions,

New York Commercial.
 The idea that Japan is planning Q commercial conquest of the world is re- ceived in Japan with ridlcuie. The American Asiatic. for instance. says that the idea that Japan is to be commercial peril, a commercial ty1 phocn. wreckinE all other conmercial Enterprises. is simply economic non. sense, This authority says that whaal Japan will do is simply to find It's level of fittedness, grow. mapuiaeture and sell what it's people are most htted for. and permit other nations to hd the same.
 It is pointed out that Europeans and Americans need not fear the Japs as commercial rivals. because the Japs could never by any possibility monop- olize so much trade that 1t would ever make a serious Impression upon Amer lean or European commerce;
 All of this sounds plausible, put at the same time, any man manufacture ing an article which can be manufa"- tured in Japan on any reasonable bA- sis will do well to keep his eye on Japan or he may soon discover m9c Il to his surprise dropping off in hta business in Oriental auartars.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
Some Maaaachunetts Figures.

Mobile Register.
 from Massachusetts showing the decline
 of marriage in that state there Is no difficulty in determining why Massachu-
 setts Is peculiar in many ways. The
 number of single women in the state In 1885 was 1.O7O151 ana in 19)5 the mum Der had grown to 1,66S,169. Ten years ago there was 330,J65 more single than married women in the state and at the present time the single women in Massachusetts outnumber the married bv 553S54. Divorces have increased in ten years from 2.956 to 1,S00. The pir n rate shows a depreciation correspond- ine- with what would be expected in a state of such female independence ana single blessedness. The otflc! al who has compiled the record charac- terizes the eXhihit as startling and att tributes the great disparity between | the number of married and unmarried women in the state to the greater In depcndcnce of the woman through the ! opcning of new fields of occupa tic n. | The women nf 4esachusetts have al . ways shown disposition of indcpend- ! ence but If they allow this to grow as it has been going in. the past ten years on the subject of matrimony, | Massachusetts will he a g badly in need | of immigration within few years aS | the undeveloped portions Of the south
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
DRFTWOOD
,,,IIonesty always pays in the end"
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG

Honesty always pays in the end"
 If you don't get ths little end" drink Himself to deSth.S ing?" --'. ...
 Some men make fools of themselves, meddie with SMPtgEe's < s a hanaiw0rk.
 Genius without some common sense is like ship yit9S0uta E as rudder
 Too many cooks don't spoil the broth these days; were lucky to get one in
 Trial marriages ought to be sanc- tioned by any who have passed through marriage 'r'aiS p <
 Strange. hut a mans income is sell dom so large that he can live within - --.en sSe & S -'>sts ,s a@
 "f you are so fond of music why don't you ask Miss Descreecha 10 aaug3's
 That's why m a e-.A
 "A Louisville man presented his bride
 He's crazy shell take t as ,a hint that he's wiling X Keep It up
 The camel goes for eight days with %Yss: : put he seems t0 have his back 1' '''Ut !" # $ $
 "Theres black sheep in every
 "Thats hard on an only child"
 The Pullman Company is protesting that 1t really meant nothing by sending t eS' of doing 2 things that mean nothing.- Exchange. For instance, naming sleep. ing cars. to raise the price of fowl at holiday time. We find 1t hard to raise the price down this waE' @
 Why is it in a cafe a girl always de- clares she doesn't want . bite and ends up by eating g farmland meal with wine on the slqs'
 The to be sgfeesSG%l @ iP ttS. love too Is to 'ie-wo0tsie' % @
 The young man who brings bon-bons always stands highest with a girl while they last S % $
 arPSEss ARfals.es are hsPRSd f5gd day n nial advertisemsnts
 Air castles are the only real sky '''@9 E $ % Your husband has gone clean daft"
 Well. it's consolation to know that A' g % 6
 'Peary didn't reach the pole" No; but he reached sonething cold er--the heart oS a magazine edi'or' | It must be a sad awakening when we realize that it was not love but indi- gestion.
 It's a very poor lawyer l Who takes no more heed | Than to go and mistake The will for the deed | The quick lunch and the get-riehs quick scheme are helping the under- taking business # % A TangIe Q Love. 1 A tanEle O love .. Is haby's hair. -,-
 Where 1t shines like gold l In the sunshine there. v. Mother fusses
 And combs it out l While baby gives many. A yell and shout. 1 But we wouldn't swap her l For angels above | With her Jumbled, tumbled | Tangle O. Love. l A tangle O love l Is baby's hair, st ..
 But there ne'er was a tangie On earth so rare.
 'Tis like spun gold 1 "Tis sweet to kiss Oh. baby's q dumpy; Wee ball of bliss. | She's mama's duck, | And daddy's dove l With her jumbled, tumbled Tangle O love.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
xnn md RoOseveIt.

vRn mud ROOseveEts
 'rlG.
 Bryans Madison
 ech with Mir. Roose-
 ,0ngGess, the reader
 fusion that if MT.
 locate tariff revis- .,. Mr. "SrSA would stop advo- ...lg government ownership of rail Tyads they would be substantially m accord Certainly two great political parties could not successfully divide on inc issue of the "pAace with right eousnessi which comes from b:g navy. or even on the issue of q ship subsidy Accepting MT. Roosevelt ana Mr Bryan as the leaders of their re- snective parties, we defy anybody tc say where the dividing line is beyond which a voter has ceased to he Roose- welt Republican and become Bryan Democrat There has been no such ob- Iiferation of party lines in American politics for three-quarters of cen tury.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

donkeys if they would try. but what good would it do? If a mans ears were long enough to brush the flies and mosquitoes of his face. there might be some advantage in knowing how to wag them, but as 1t Is the accomplish nent is not worth the trouble of ac- uuirinR if
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
rhe onention of the HOur.

William Allen White in the America"
 A grave question presents itself to the manhood of America. It is' fellow citizens, what am I going to give my wife? Shall our children starve while boiled milk? No, a thousand times no; they may have indigestion. but starye? Never! The real issue before the Amer not he confused by false reasoning or o6scured obs by tie hired seribblers of niutocratIc tyranny is; Is there santa Claus? And when the masses of liDertN, !', neopie rise In their might and thelr nighties and creep with bare feet into the parlor and see the stockings hu1Go vnIne that there fs. They may not put tt that way. They may just say, "oh. look what I gott But it wall come to the sama thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
Eorccd to Keep QuIet.

Miss Anteek has such an unfortun- ate disposition; so disputatious and sc sensitive about her age.
 Yes, she was in perfect agony tn" other day while Colonel Bragg was telling some reminiscences She knew ,s. that happened thirty years ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
coId and Silver

The great bulk of the gold and silver n,inn6 in the United states comes from the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states ss nrodnrnd 1i.H in ds many as twenty three Pf Pf't", tho states. \ report issued by the P' pprcau , of the Mint shows that in the calendar year of l9o5 CoioradSo dSo ieG t.,.l m forUta stands next. with $1S.l9f,luu; Alaska stands third, with Sl4925.60oi Sog.1 naknta is fourth, S6,9l3,9OO;
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
Chnrch Women on Their MuseIe

Kansas CitY Journal.
 Because the cream for a social at Cherokee, Kan, failed to arrive ten society women of the town got into a fuss with the local druggist of whom if was ordered and pounded him so that a rhysician had to be called. Then they tackled the express hauler and ono of the sisters got black eye The Freezer with the cream was simply car ried by and came back on the next train. but the social, which was to raise funds for the church, had been broken up
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

At Stockton, one of the tidewater ports of Maine they are building a warehouse in which to store potatoes for shipment, which 1t is estimated will hold s6O.00O barrels. That is piling them up some. and then some more.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

There recently died at Tokio, Japan, a reverend Bishop who for seventy years had borne up and lived his days under the name of Schereschewsky. (Hope the Mergenthaler will hit that in the right place.) We are not sur- prised that he died but that he lived so long with such a barbed-wire ap- pellation as that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

That Omaha woman who has brought suit against steamship company be- cause she was made >seasick has sued the wrong party. She should have lackied Father Neptune,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

There is one thing that almost leads us to hope that Harry Thaw wiH be acquitted. He says if he is not com victed he will make his home in Paris in future. That pledge-may have some influence on the jury.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
oCTOBER, isOe.

Total sssssssssss 'ss''sssssss sHVs'oN- Yaailv average for October. IS, S2o sunday average for October. ..11'SSs ~--------~-~-------~~---~- ~ D. g. Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly swoFn' says: The foregoing statement of The Adver- ttssr's circulation for the month of octo- Der. i9oS. is true and correct and compiled after all returns from newsboys. news agents spoiled and leftover copies have been deducted D. q. NOBLE. $
 Circulation Managef. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of November. 1906.
 (Spal) P. ". JACKSON.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
ADV EKTIsERs.

Any day in the year you van look right here and find this sworn Detailed State ment of Tie Advertisers Cireulation for the preceding month.
 The net paid-for circulation during octo- her Was As followss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

Well. We suppose Shakespeare is done for now. Hall Caine has just de- clared that not more than one-fifth Of his plays are worth preserving. Alas poor Buly, That settles him-perhaps
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

A, learned scientist asserts that all men can learn to wag their ears if they will try hard enough. Well, no doubt all men could learn to bray like
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
satisfactory Arrangement.

AIeN0NueI VIIT 5{177II '-o,oi,.oI Do4iaa z, r,I }be oassenger denartment of the rentrei ant of Georgia Railway that after the iirst of January; d9O7, they would Id as,as and that all advertising will be cpSnductSd on a cash basis. We'll. if that latter clause, amounts to anything [!i,,r to 1valk-at least if the roads as'dvertise one-half as much for cash as Vnct did for trans spOrtation
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
In . Bad Fix.
Ht. Reputation Accounted For.

lITS Tam ~ BTight was once asked how it was that Pitt made, one of his finest speeches after drinking two bottles 5,, or T port to inc occasion. He pointed out that verbatim reporting was unknown in those days and he suggested iTes,a that me the ion Pitt's reputation largely depended, lad probably drunk three bottles.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20

Over 500 ladies neck arrangements,
sample line, no two alike, atone-hali
price. Call at Manassas.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20
Following The Flag.

When our soldiers went to Cuba
and the Philippines, health was the
most important consideration. Willis
I. Morgan, retired Commissary Ser
geant. U S. A. Rural Route |, Concord,
N. H., says: II was two years in Gu
ba and two years in the Philippines,
and being subject to colds, took DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, which kept me in perfect health
And now, in New Hampshire, we find
that it is the best medicine in the
world for coughs, colds. bronchial
troubles and all lung diseases. = Guar,
auteed by VIM. Mcbride, druggist
Price Soc and $f.00. Trial bottle
free.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20
Freewater Briefs.

Freewater, July 19-Mrs. Edward
White was taken to the. st. Mary's
hospital at Walla Walla, Sunday, and
an operation was performed last night.
She is somewhat improved. Mrs.
White is former Kalispell, Mont
girl and has been married a little
more than month.
Miss Myrtle Salt, who has lived in
this city for years, has gone to Spo-
kane and entered the Deaconess' Home
where she will prepare herself as a
trained nurse.
1t is estimated thai there are 300
families camped on the mountain near
the tollgate. Many are from Walla
Walla and Pendleton.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20
Loss By Flood $4,000

At the last session of the county
court over $4,000 in bills was pre-
sented for the 81 gnatures of the COM
missioners, over $12, 900 of bills being
for repairing roads and bridges in the
county damaged by the recent floods
that swept this section of the country.
Even with this amount expended at
least $4,000 more will be required to
put the roads in shape, thus making
total of $17, 900 spent in the repair
ing of roads alone. For the repairing
and reconstruction of the bridges that
were damaged the county court thinks
that an additional sum of $50, 900 will
be needed, making q total of $4,000,
all Of which is directly traceable to
the flood. -Pendleton Tribune.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20
Notice.

Sealed bids are invited by the
County Court of Umatilla County
Oregon, to be filed with the County
Clerk of said county on or. before the
9Th day of July 1906, at 10 O'Clock a,
m. for two bridges to be constructed
across Wild Horse creek near Athena,
Oregon. Que is to be constructed at a
point known as the Harve Cation cross
ing, the other to be constructed at a
point known as the Frank Mansfield
CROSSING. Said bridges to be con
structed according to plans and speci-
fications furnished by the County
Clerk upon application. The County
Court reserves the right to reject any
aud all bids.
Dated this Goth day of June. 1906.
Frank Sailing, County Clerk.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20

You get the celebrated Green Trading
Stamps absolutely free at Mosgrove
Mercantile Go.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-20

will be unloaded from the car today.
Mr.. Brotherton has 400 acres of wheat
which he will begin harvesting next
week. He confidently expects an av-
erage yield of 40 bushels per acre.
Jesse Reeves of Alba, formerly of
Weston. has returned from Portland
with his eyesight restored, after five
weeks treatment for blindness. Mr..
Reeves, who is 50 years old, was oper-
ated upon by DIR. Brewer for cataract,
and was the oldest patient ever treated
by that specialist, reports the Leader.
Fl. g. Walker is getting along nicely
in DR.. Williamson's sanatarium at
Portland says the Leader. Reports
as to his condition say that he has
already shown marked improvements
and that his permanent recovery is ex-
pected. Mr.. Walker will remain at
the sanatarium until fully restored in
health.
Circuit Judge Bean will hold court
at Milton on December 8, for hearing
the water cases brought by the Pea
cock Milling Co. The reason that
Milton was selected as the place for
holding session of the circuit court,
is that nearly 500 persons are made
defendants to the suit, and all reside
at and near Milton.
Thomas J. Price, one of the best
known pioneers of Umatilla county,
died yesterday at his home north of
Weston. Mr.. Price had been failing
in health for several months. He
was aged n years, and settled on the
home place adjoining the town Of
Weston in 1871. He is survived by
his wife and several children, who are
prominent in the county. William
and Harry Mcbride of this city are
nephews of the deceased. The funeral
takes place this afternoon at 2 2o'clock,