The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-06
Sidewalk Pencilings
snecuintion Is Suicide.

.,i Wshs sr ol5 citizen of Montgomery | County, flor an article Wnlcn Ii copied into the issue Of sunaay: ,ah contained heart reaching hh truohs ,o read 1t was headed, Industrial Suiclde, ., ana was written by Col. J. B. kilteDrGM St and published originally Tn me SoHtn tnne ern Farm Magazine. 1t was not ions and | make bold to ask it's reproauc- tion and request every paper In Ala bama to give it an insertion. 70
 There are numberiess ,,s lnstancesS ,n sooi. M ing with cotton and grain futures. Ihey had better let 1t alone"
 Here is the article:
 Among farmers speculation IS lnous- trial suicide, They have not the same chances for studying the hnanclal con dition of the markets as those ls, WnO make 1t daily study. They @ are o 9usiins iny nocent of the tricks of the professionat gpeculator and may be so easliy de- ceived by the knavery or the sharRet For many years the WrltsF ta nag sarn,ers who have entered the field of specula- ton. and in not a single instance can he remember when the farmer was pen ehted in the end. some temponalS nrofits have been sometimes realized, but this only whetted the desire 10 enter more largely into speculative matters with one certain terslinas'1,itb n,,S 9th a mind so unsettled as to make tntuFe success well-night impossible. Many fine farms have been sacrlnced 10 tne greed of their owners Tor the more | rapid accumulation of riches. Inere are five or six persons now living With | in easy reach of the writer's home Wno | were once comparatively Wealthiy' lpt' ot | lost their wealth in speculating Tn cot, | ion and tobacco and are now competed | to rent farms in localities where they l were once the equal In wealth to any | other farmers in their nelghoorhooos' |
 Another Hero of the Alamo. l q notice in Mondays issue Of your | paper" said a historian Of wide repute, 1 Ian article to the effect that Colohei 1 Travis. of Alamo fame, resided In Mont | gomery, but was native Of South Car l olina- .,z ,,,.o among the heroes of the Alamo Ills l name was w. CA F. DuBose, native 1 of Darlington. s. c. He was an orphan 1 who came to this State and county win 1 Msrengo County. Young DuBose was | onlv IS years old when company rem | de2yous ed at this town to take the boat to Mobile on it's way to nght Tor Iexas | vate in that company, and shared the fate of Colonel Travis.
 "The State of Texas made a grant of land to each or the victims .h ot sdiI ahs diers, that comprised her independen' army. The grant that young DuBost was entitled to was divided, as to mos, of 1t, among his nearest relatives only within the last ten years. It com prised many hundreds of acres. Patriotism of Alabama.
 .AH of the patriotism in me wal aroused today" said man from Mas sachusetts, who stopped Tn Mont6om cry yesterday for the first time, whei saw old Glory flying from the flag stan of the historic old Capitol of Ala
 ..It goes without saying that I hav not doubted the patriotism or the P%eo % foatinE over the building that nurture inc ronfederacy is sight worth tfaV cling from Massachusetts to Alabam
 "Aiabama people might think strang of this feeling, but 1t comes to we Tan Ixees among whom 1t Is sometimes har
 to realize that the people or tnls sec tion are so loyal and true to the unio
 after what they passed through" Good Music in Churches.
 A visitor. who has been here severs
 weeks remarked yesterday that he ha
 been much impressed with the must
 rendered by the choirs of the variou
 local churches. .,,u.,, os .to Mo-, son9erv churches" he said. and tn
 choirs appear to me to be above tn sveraee of those in the larger churche
 ol ..smnSaV I attended the First Bar
 ,ist Church and in all my travels in tn ; Sontb [ have not heard sweeter mus tban that rendered by the choir an
 oreanist of this church. The organ o
 fertory played by Professor Callowa 2 was masterful and I enjoyed every b
 of it."
 Mir I. D. Mcqueen, prominent cit |. zen of Eutaw spent yesterday in Mon . gomery..
 n col L.. Y. Dean of Eufaula, was
 visitor to Montgomery yesterday
 Mir [. E. Jeffries and MT. John Lap
 lev of Selma are in town.
 MT Frank Merritt of Pensacola spe
 last night in Montgomery
 MT ]. M. Miller and MT E. F. Gi
 der of Linden are in town
 Editor |. P. Hill of Ensley spent ye
 terday in Montgomery.
 Mfr w. D. Huddleston of Tuskeg
 Is visiting the city
 10 Mfr. J. w. Duke of Luverne was
 town last night
 :. Major Dayton Plaster of Iallass VI is h the city.