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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
FIXING VALUES.


 In his speech at Huntsville Hon. Elm met o'Neal, candidate for Lieutenant Governor is reported as saying that for the purpose of taxation the railroads of the State are valued at $36,OO0. 900.
 We do not know whether he intended to say that was the value reported by the roads or the value on which they pay tax. If he meant the latter he is just $22, 100000 or more than 50 per cent off as the State Board has fixed their value for this tax year at about 5s,00O, ,000 whica is an increase of $4,- 900 0O0 over last assessment. The roads have nothing to do with fixing the val ues on which they pay taxes in this State. The citizen gives in his property at what he thinks it is worth, but the Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Auditor after considering the whole situation fix the values on which rail- roads must be taxed. The people can surely trust the States own officials.
 It is only right and proper to say that the Governor being interviewed immediately after the recent assess ments were made against railroad pro perty said they were in his opinion as high as the valuations placed on pro- perty in any county in the State Judge Carmichaoi State Auditor at the same time being interviewed made a state ment as emphatic as the one made by the Governor and to the same effect
 In speaking of Mir. o'Neai the re- marks of MT Conner in his speech at Tuscaloosa naturally come to mind, Mi Conner claims that he is not traduc- ing any Democratic officials but here is what he said about one of them:
 You take the list right straight along
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Corners Fatal Kick.

Huntsville Mercury.
 As long as Mir. Conner jumped on the railroads and laid at their doors the many drawbacks of the people for not being more prosperous, great many Democrats believing the charges true. rejoiced and cheered the president or the railroad commission and candidate for Governor to his delight. But when this aggressive candidate in his Tus- caloosa speech charged the convention that framed tine present constitution with being controlled by the corpora iao tionS and railroads. that the railroad commission had not been .giv- en sufficient power, and thus assailing indirectly, if not directly, the Demo- cratic party of Alabama, MT. Conner kicked one i'm" too much: When Democrat in Alabama assails his party he is in bad. shape to get an office at the hands oi a people who are oyer whelmingly loyal party men. Judge Thomas w. Coleman, who was a leading member in the constitutional convention. has come out in lengthy and very vigorous reply to these charges and inSinuations and says the time has come to call halt The aver age party Democrat is like the man and his dog. He reserves the right to kick his own dog. but will knock any other man down who does so.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Something of a Frost.

Opp TiOHtSpuH.
 Hon. B. B. Conner candidate for Governor, spoke to a large crowd Of nesday night MT. Conner possesses splendid dramatic power which if culti, vated, would render him fine political roads furnished the principal subject of MT. Conner remarks, and he didn't fail to score them. The audience plain iy manifested their opposition to Gomerism by keeping a rigid silence throughout his address MT Conner was evidently disappointed at the cold reception accorded him by the voters of OpD.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

They are having a red-hot municipal campaign up in the old city of Hart ford, and The Courant Republican, and The Times, Democrat. are vieing with each other in saying nice things about the opposing candidates. We fear all this billing and cooing will turn to hair pulling before the campaign closes. following precedent in such matters Each side, however. is demanding a clear campaign and a fair election. which ic to their credit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
SIDEWALK PENCILlNCS
Exte.ding Electric Lines,

The time Is not far distant. in my optnion,' said citizen yesterday when the Montgomery Traction Com pany will extend It's lines to Wetumpka and possibly to Prattville. The We- tumpka line would be q paving invest In that part of the country waiting for development through which there IS not d singles railroad. Wetumpka is a prosperous little town and d line running there would not only do fine pas senger business. but the freight traf- fic h,,. would form greai, part oi ne the from Wetumpha daily and parties would be constantly coming over to theatres at night, Knowing that they could catch car back to W WetHmpka immediately after the show. In sum mer. Wetumpka people would fiock over here to our parks and places or teen miles from here. In large cities, 1t is nothing for people to- travel d distance of twenty miles to enjoy them selves.
 T understand, also, that one of the pet schemes of the day is the building Of an electric car line from Birnling- ham to Montgomery. I have known far would be profitable, but it would take an investment of several million doi- lars. The difficulty about such Il line would be the erection of power plants at intervals along the road, but It IS said this could be overcome, by run hing long distance transmission lines from the Tallassec water power plant to tap on at different points on the line. l would not be surprised to wake up some bright day and find that company had been organized to puilu such an electric line"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
A NEW ONE.

Now they have found a new subject for historans and antiquarians to worry over. being the question of the first European settlement on the con- tinent. Leaving out the legendary or mythical account of the voyage of Jeff Ericson and his Norsemen to Newfoundland or New England, it has fact that John smith, when he and his comrades settled at Jamestown in 1907. made the first landing and settle- ment by Europeans in what is now the United States. The Puritans came to Plymouth thirteen years later, but the Jamestown settlement has heretofore held the banner as the first settlements
 It is really matter of wonder that efforts have not been made long ago to disprove the claims of Jamestown but the iconoclastic club has descended at last and the attempt will be made to show that John Smith and his claims must take d back seat. Rep resentive Pollard. of Nebraska. and Mir. Powers, lawyer of San Francisco. say they are prepared to prove that the first European settlement was at place called Carmel-by- -the-sea, in California, by Sebastian Viscano and two Carmelite friars in 1902. This Viscaino was somewhat famous Spanish navigator, and there is no doubt that he sailed along much of the California coast in the early, years of the 17th century, whether he actually made the settlement alluded to or not. Messrs. Pollard and Powers claim to have maps and documents to prove their contention and say they are ready to make good when called on.
 If this contention is true, and the claims made are established 1t sets Jamestown back five years, and dis pels a belief that has held good for three centuries. The people of Vir- ginia are making great preparations for a grand National Exposition to be held at Jamestown next year, and a bill is now before Congress to ap- propriate s1.4Oo,OOO to aid the enter prise. It is to be hoped that this ap- parently new discovery will not be al- lowed to interfere with the appropria- tion, or with the success of the Ex- likely to be much controversy over the attempt to knock out John Smith and Jamestown.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
The New Bedford Standard looks a

The New Bedford Standard looks at it this way:
 The United States is going to have the biggest war vessel in the world unless somebody gets in ahead and finishes a bigger one first. But the ship will not be one thousandth part the credit to us that country schoolhouse with twenty children and a pretty and enthusiastic young schoolma'am is.
 That's pretty picture for a fact but the big shippers would apparently rather have no schools. or pretty school ma'ams, than fail to have the biggest war vessel in the world. That, in their estimate, is all that is needed to make the United States the boss of all crea- tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Monument tn Jefferson.

Arrangcmcnts are being made for the erection of q monument in Central park, New York, to perpetuate the memory of Joseph Jefferson, the actor Macmonnies has been appointed the sculptor. The statue will represent MT Jefferson in the character of Rip Van Wrinkle, life slze. wrought of bronze and mounted on a pedestal of granite The cost of the work will be $50.O0O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
The Bay Minette Times has the fol lowing:

ne Day Mlnette IlfleS Has tHe loi- lowing
 Baldwin county is perhaps the best advertised county in the country to- day. Hundreds of people are pouring into the county from all parts of the North and Northwest. The Louisville and Nashville road had three sections of the fast train No. 1, from the North on the 21st, and all were crowded with homeseekers for Baldwin ana Mobile counties.
 The rabid Conner men will consider thing like that slap at the anti-rail- road agitator. It is so different from what he has been telling the people of Alabama. According to Mir. Conner the railroads in Alabama are not only robbing and expressing the people, but they are building up other sections at the expense of Alabama. The little paragraph from the Bay Minette Times does not tally with what MT. Conner says. But the Times is on the ground and knows what it Is talking about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

A correspondent of The Norfolk Land mark wants to know where he can get a copy of Georgia Scenes" which, he says, was written by Lyman Hall. The Landmark promptly sets him right by giving Judge Longstreet as the author, but the question shows how fieeting is the fame of the humorist. Georgia Scenes" was written twenty years be- fore Lyman Hall was born.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

The Philadelphia Record is of the opinion that after we get the biggest war-ship on record we shall not know what to do with 1t. Well possibly there may then be another Roosevelt in the presidential office who can use the biz ship to bully other natons with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

Now they are trying to start a boom for Alaska as a winter resort. We'd about as soon think of booming the neither regions as a summer resort.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

Tennessee and Georgia are having campaigns that both sides will be ashamed of when all is over
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
A Busy KInr,

The King of Italy Is one of the most energetic of monarchs; he was taught by his tutor never to be idle for mo- ment and was always punished If caught doing nothing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

The divine Sarah is going to per form in Muskogee. l. T. Hope the big Injuns" won't get out their scalping knives and tomahawks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
MT. Powell Has the Record.

State Senator Dempsey M Powell, who was apointed special justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama to decide the case of the City of Birmingham vs. the Birmingham Water Company, oyer which the associate justices of the high chief justice was disqualified from de- ciding, reached Montgomery Saturday night. secured the records in the case and returned to his home in Green vile.
 At his office there he will carefully study the case and present his decision to the Supreme Court,
 Hon. Massey Wilson, Attorney-Gener- al, has returned from western trip which extended as far west as Salt Lake City. The trip was on private Wilson visited a number of western cities.
 There was apparently much improve ment yesterday in the condition Of Captain John G. Finley who, is ill ar his home on Finley Heights. Hon. Ross c. Smith of the Alabama | Bureau of Immigration was in the city | yesterday from Birmingham.
 Solicitor J. F. Thompson of Centre vile spent last night in the city.
 MT. H. I. Bryan of Flomaton is vis- iting Montgomery.
 MT. Tate Mason of Selma was in Mont l gomery last night.
 MT. George Craig, Jr., of Selma was in | town last night
 MT R. F. Valentine of Clayton is in Montgomery. Mir James H. Tharp of Marbury is in the city.
 MT Sidney R. Prince of Mobile is in the city.
 MT II. N. Bowdry of mingham is in town.
 Mir. G. R. Hooten of Hartford is in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Travelling Mans Kick.

DO yo uever print knock in The Adyertiser?" asked a well known Montgomery travelling man yester- day.
 Well, sometimes we do. but we don't like to do 1t" said the newspaper man guardedly What's this particular knock?"
 T don't know where it ought to go" 4the travelling man went on. I don't know who I am kicking against. don't know who is responsible for 1t. But good kick ought to be registered about these Haunting circus streamers that are Tapping all over the business district. The whole business looks like the flag end of a cheap street fair. Look at 'em hung on every wire. What do that has d lot of cheap and gaudy cir GUS posters fluttering every few feet.
 Montgomery is getting, too big for that sort of thing. Somebody has made a mistake"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
when declining to accept another nomina-

when declining to accept another nomina- ton.
 A snake drove the first pair out of Eden and man has been seeing them ever since. 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave and so do the other kind.
 No man is SO homeiy that his wife isn't jealous of him at times
 It takes a smooth thinker to run over knotty problems.
 The leopard cannot change his spots be- cause he hasn't advanced far enough in civ ilization to become acquainted with the use of hair dye
 The goat and the skunk have given up in disgust since the advent of the automobile
 Little pitchers have big ears and their capacity for holding things is also kmark- able.
 A flight of stairs-vision seen by MT clubman coming home on a jag.
 When a young man comes around in an automobile to take a young lady out steps for it is an awful thing to pay five dollars an hour while woman is putting on her hat.
 Keeping everlastingly at it brings success but quicker way is to employ graft.
 A girl likes to keep a man guessing until the answer is yes.
 Troubles are like guina pigs-give them start and they'll multiply rapid ly.
 Don't jeer at a man because he hasn't as much as you have. The wheel bar row has only one wheel but it carries a pretty big load.
 Hubby thinks it's an i'll wind that doesn't blow some bargain sale"
 First Ghauffeur-You are making a note nFyour memorandum sec Smashing a record?
 Second Chauffeur-No: recording a smash.
 Did he seem to have much personal magnetism? s
 We'll, perhaps. but was not attract ed
 Shiftiess. I know they call me shiftless An I reckon they are right. Cause I love ter smell tn clover And watch the swallows flight. When Mother Nature calls me Somehow I hev ter go Whar tn humble bees a buZzin' An the pale wild roses grow. I kno wthey call me shiftless Cause I love ter lay an dream Whar tn little brooks a gurglin' Stid O cluckin' ter to team. Shiftless cause instead O murderin' Rabbits with a gun druther see em hoppin So contented in tn sun. I may be shiftless but I guess ] git my share O. happineas
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Killed the necoxs.

If the pastime of wild foWl huh.lnS CTS of Montgomery. it will not occasion any surprise among at least one party of sportsmen in the city. Perhaps the following account of their experience will go some distance in explaining the reason
 Bright and early Sunday morning.. party of ardent duck shooters lett the miles down the banks or the swollen river. With them, in addition to the necessary luncheon and qnantity or cold preventive, they carried half doS- en excellent imitation decoy birds. One of the party, whom we will call Brown because that Is not his name, remarked upon the fidelity, of their likeness.
 Why, these decoys will tooi the wisest birds in the country. once nll- them with air, their. canvas covering will deceive Mir. Teal. and all we snail have to do will he to close our eyes
 A good location having been reached, the pneumatic birds were anchored Tn an eddy. and the hunters found them, na waited for the sport to begin. Tres, entity a bird came their way and sought the company of the gutta pereha teai-ehost. Another followed it's .ex- ample, with the same result, and then four others. The sport was good, ana the sportsmsn enthusiassic. sn,ssxsr two re- ports were heard from the other slde of the river, and simultaneously all six of the decoys flattened out, and an in- stant later disappeared under the wat CT. The enraged hunters sought the men who fired the fatal shots,-and found them.
 After the smoke of the battle had cleared away. one berated sportsman remarked:
 when they fooled the birds, how did you expect us to be able to tell what they weren't?'
 The owner of the disapparent flock sighed.
 "what's the use?" he said contempia- lively. when a person has to- put sign on decoys to tell what they are then it's time to give it up"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

Jess: Did he prove his love for you! , Tess: No; even the lawyers Tn the preach If promise suit couldn't prove It.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
Pats Opinion,

Pat stood and watched with keen interest the gesticulations of deaf mute who had ..WeIi ,S that ain't tn domdest most pro- fane silence Oi ever listened 10
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

When a poet is struck with an idea it doesn't hurt him; only the poor editor has to suffer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

when a young woman calls young man down for kissing her she displays about as much real indignation as a President does
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03

MT. Smith: Your son has an impeachment in his speech. . , 'f Aunt Mary; Gwan whf folks-Ah knows tt-ha ain't been off to college fo' muffin
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-12
back won't do no said briefly

back. Won't do" he said briefly
why not?" asked the clerk in sur
prise
See that verse, said the customer.
1T says:
" Darling, my heart is all on fire,
For thee live alone
We'll, my girl would never stand
for that. She's a great josher, and she
would give me the merry laugh, and
say, Hot air, hot air
The clerk finally arranged matters
by detaching the verse and substitute
ing the wording of another valentine,
L think of you" There" said the
customer, that's all right. It's neat
an nice, and you can bet it's no lie
either. If I sent her that other poetry
she'd think l was kidding.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-12
PREPARING FOR ST. VALENTINES
DAY

The game Of 'quoits,' although an
outdoor game, can be adapted nicely
for an indoor game, and for st. Valen-
tine fun it can take the form of pro
gressive game of Heart Quoits. Any
number of people may play, but only
four at a table. The game is a home
made affair and inexpensive. Use red
and white for the colors and the
quoits instead Of being round are made
heart shape
For each table have a centre pin
the hob and some heart quOits. The
hobs are sticks of wood ten inches in
length, sharpened at one end, wound
with white ribbon or tissue paper, and
stuck upright into a hole made in a
flat piece of wood, large enough to
hold it firmly. Cover these founda
tons with white or red crepe paper.
The heart quoits are easily shaped
of pliable wire and wound with red rib
bons or paper. This is all the prepa-
ration needed. Simple, is it not?
The players sit about two feet away
from the tables. The object of the
game is to get as many hearts as pos
sibIe over the hobs.
The object is to throw the heart
QUOT over the hob. If it lands over
the hob the player may count one. Il
he or she fails, another successive
throw is lost. The next player takes
his turn, and can keep throwing as
1ono &c his hearts mass over the hob,
even should he be successful enough
to throw five or six safely over.
The two boys or girls who secure
the greatest number of hearts in
given time-progress to the next table
and find new partners. At the end o,
the game the two who gained tn
most hearts are given a large silver
heart and the one who is the least
successful. a heart made Of bright re
flannel with a tiny wooden arrow
thrust through it.
Another lively game is called
"Cupid's Arrows" Pin up white
sheet upon the wall, or better yet
hang it in the open space between
rooms ana fasten the four corners o.
it out tightly so that there viii as
much frmness as possible for the ar
rows when they touch it. In the cen
ire of the white eXpanse sew on
large red heart and in the centre OF
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-12

Peoria, H., Feb. 1.-THE Peoples
Savings bank, a private institution
owned by the late DR.. George Sim
mons, who committed suicide Monday
night, and L. N. Kelly, has been
ruined by Simmons suicide. It has
liabilities of $4,000; the assets are
variously estimated at $4,000 to
100000, principally in real estate.
By an agreement reached between
the dead man and his partner a few
hours before the poison was taken,
the Peoples bank was not open in
the morning, having suffered heavily
from runs Monday. Negotiations for
the sale of the bank were broken Oft
on the news of the suicide.
The officers of the bank last night
refused to give out statement OF
the result of the investigation or the
banks condition which was conducted
Yesterday, other than to firmly insist
that the bank would be solvent Un-
der the law the partnership is dis
solved by Simmons death and the at
fairs of the bank must be wound up
in the probate court.
No proof has been produced to
show that the suicide was a defaulter,
although the secrecy maintained by
the officials of his private bank has
led to much uneasiness. Simmons
had little property himself, and his
estate is not expected to run above
$4,000. His interest in the Inter-
state bank was but $1,000 and it is
said by officials of that bank that he
was but figurehead, retained for the
prestige his name gave the institu
ton. The Interstate suffered with
drawals of $4,000 yesterday, but paid
all demands.
The coroner's inquest will be begun
this morning and Coroner Baker has
announced his intention of investigat-,
ing not only the immediate causes or
death, but the remote causes, includ-
ing crimes with which he was
; charged. The autopsy, performed late
+ last evening, was secret. but it i
said by the coroner that the condition
of the body indicated cyanide OF
potash poisoning.