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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
rHURsDAY.pECEMBER 2T. 1oOe.
WOULD THANK HITCHCOCK.


 The Buffalo News. in its overwhelm- ing anxiety to endorse all that is done by the administration or any member of it, declares that Mir Hitchcock ought to be thanked for his action in with drawing from allotment Indian lands as he did. This Is a remarkabl state- ment. and shows to what extremes party organ may sometimes go.
 The case is a very simple one. There were about four million acres of valua- bie lands to be allotted among the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory. The law under which this was to be done was imperative and admitted of no mis- construction. and it was the duty Of Secretary Hitchcock to obey and exc cute it. just as any other official is bound to execute plain law.
 These were the conditions and re- quirements, yet Hitchcock, with the knowledge and connivance of Secretary Wilson. withdrew this large body of lands and refused to allot 1t among the Indians to whom it really belonged. and the only excuse or defense he could make to the committee of the Senate was that he did it Ter the best! In plain words, he put his own opinion and judgment above the law.
 In the face of these plain facts, which The News itself admits, that paper de- clares that the reproof administered to Hitchcock by some Of the senators twas discreditable to those who stopped to it," and declares that the Senate should have thanked the Secretary in- stead of censuring him. Wo should like for The News, or some other defender Of oficial derelietion. 10 tell us why any other member of the cabinet may not refuse to execute any law If his judgment so inclines We know that Hitchcock was only following the ex- ample of Roosevelt, wmo holds up, sus- pends or sets aside laws whenever 1t plsases him to do so, but that does not entitle him or his officials to thanks, we contend.
 But If we come down to hard pan we should understand that one thing that caused this violation of law was the fact that 1t was On.y the Indians who were to suffer. Republican ad- ministratiOns have long acted on the principle that the Indians have no rights which white men are bound to respect, and this act of the Secretary was only in line with prece lent. By the way. we wonder that the President hasn't fired a special message at the Senate. reproving that body for daring to disapprove the acts of one of his subordinates. He seems to keep a stock of messages on nand. ready to be fired off at any moment and this would be good occasion for hin to turn one loose. Those senators who had the audacity to condemn the wrongful act of a cabinet officer may expect to be spanked
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
TODAY W HISTORY

Name Day: St. John Ev Sun rises at 725; sets at 4:35.
 1763-The Pax on bows broke into Lancaster fall ana massac el fourt, en friendly Indians.
 I814-- ni,ei sta,es scho~ner. Caro- ina, blown up on tho NJ ssis3 poi r yer by a red .ot ball from the British bat teries.
 1899-The Senate rati jed the treat les with the Indians whi h gave to the United States 100000 res of Iand 1S53.-The mammoth cl'~ner Greli Re public burned at her wharf in Ne V York to- ether with savera otEe ves- sells and five large flour warehouses
 lS54-Thomas Wilson Dorr, tn ca use of what was called the "Dorr war" Rhode Island, died at Pro iden.e ageI 4g.
 1SG0-Revenue cutter. Wi liam Aiken. surrendered to the South Carolina au-
 fS6I-Mason and sliden su rendered to the British Minister.
 1S62--Second attack on Vickgb"rE; General Sherman attacked the advan six miles from Vicksburr the samo time the gunbOa 8 a'ta the con. sederates on Hainef B.
 1S64-The Mex can re U icans de- Seated the impe laligts at Sa Ped
 1&74-All u churches of Mil tukce. vices SO that tn" people might attend a great mass m Q in for the relief or Nebraska erass hopper sufferers.
 fS92-Orange Judd died.
 t00i-H y tieu court sente ced form er President Sam to prison for fraud pledges to decrease the area of tn fir cotton crops 9 per cent. (service by Anne. ican Press NewA Washington. D. C.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
NO TRAIN IN MONTH.
Ecmpty Box Car Remained On Main
 Lime for Weeka.

Ecmpty Box Car Remained On Main
 Lime for Weeka.
 Washington, Dec. 2S.--Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane, who has had direct charge of anaeliorat ng con d.tions in the Northwest. where both coal and car famines have pre- ai ed. is in daily receipt of hundreds of @ ters from dealers and residents in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming ani Idaho that tell most interesting story of existing conditions.
 Some of the writers so to the eytent of saying that In many instances freight trains have not passed railr Id stations for a month or SIX weeks Id that hundl eds Of thousands of dollars have been lost to the farmers and e.e- vator men, particularly in North Da- kota. by reason of their fai urc to on . tain cars to move their wheat and flax Commissioner Lane today received a letter which is a scmp-e of many from CheN,snns N. D.. in which IL was stated fhaf n,I November 26 a car was billed from that point and tLat on the l1th Instant the car was still on the side trnck and freight train had not passed up or down for wee Ss,
 Governor Bookings, of Idaho. to whom Commissioner Lane had vi. ttea for information relative to conditions !n that State states:
 'Tns seftSuS ttoupiS " 0S@tl'S 1 " Is the fact that among the tra1sporta | ton companies the one important con alteration in their management Is the securing of dividends without re%ard 10 the service rendered to the peop'e The latter consideration Is entirely los. sight of
 The Governor of Idaho informs the Commissioner that he will recomnent the creation of railroad commission in his next annual message to the leg islature,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
DRIFTWO0D
The ~EHuEIess Dance" and the @SEVRter-
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BY PHIL II. ARMSTRONG

The ~HuElenS DunceY anu Gne ~W&teF~
 less Swim"
 Chicago. Dec 22--"H ugieHs' dancing and "w4terless" swimming are to be taught in the Chicago public schools: The 210,000 pupils w.il balance forward and back, trip through the rythmlcal steps. of the stately mazurka. glide gracefully Into waItzes and two-steps, trip through polka, or dash ever the floor in an old-fashioned gallop. But they will trip, glide and dash alone. the girlfsh waist, and they won't even know that they are dancing, because in the currfculum the 'hugless dar1c' ing is catalogued as fancy steps
 As for the swimming" the pupils will be allowed to hang theinseIvcs from flying hickory rings and go through the motions of swimming in midair.
 public schools for the winter term on January 2, the course of study is to be enriched by the introduction of the "hugless" dancing and the "wAterless swimming.--News Item in The AdVe'- The Hugless Dance and the Waterlsss
 Swim
 Say. what is this new, silly whim? Chicago, we're ashamed Of you. Stirring up this new style stew. Where once we glided In and out Our arms some damsers waist about, We now must whIrl through mystic
 maze,
 And be content to simply gaze Into the liquid orbs so dim--- Through the hugless dance and the
 waterless swim. The IIugless Dance and the waterless
 Swim;
 oh, goodnessl what a silly whln If sea sides should adopt the fad But 1 don't know; won be so bad. The girls had rather promenade Along the sands than merely wade. But with the kids, 'twont make hit; The country boys won't stand for t. So let's all kick at this with vim The Hugless Dance and the Waterless
 Slim.
 Curiosity, Navasota. Texas.-My my, which finger the engagement ring goes on? And hundreds of pretty Texas girls become engaged every week? J can hardly believe it. Try the third finger of the left hand and see If IL doesn't feel more natural there than any where else. (2l IL is permitted 10 kiss your tinnce as often as you p.ease But you won't please If yov do II toe him to take you any w:lere you want to go. He wouldn't want you to SC with any other man, would he2 Really. dear, l didn't think Texas girl could be so green.--Comtort, Augusta, Me. Respectt ally reIerred to uId MOrtl- mer Lewis, of The Houston Post.
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 At the Recital
 'I hear she Is a good judge of music" :" "She Is also a good executtOner; she mur0ers It."
 % @ & A Psalm of Weather.
 Little drops of mercury,
 Going up and town. Cause tho kind of weather That makes people fTOwn. $ e &
 Tt's all right to paddle your own ca noe but most people want gasoline engine thesc days
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
THE CANAL AND FIFE NEGRO

The Indianapolis Star is disturbed over the report of the Cana. Com mission as it concerns the question of negro labor on the canal. The re- port sets out that the negroes are dis qualified by lack of actual vitality but it adds that their disposition to la bor seems to be as frail as their bodily strength" The report further declares that few of them are steady worke~s but that the majority of them work Just long enough to get money to sup ply their actual bodily necessities"
 This Is the finding of the commits sioners who have been making an in vestigation. and who are supposed to he without prejudice in the matter. To the people of the South who are well informed regarding the negro race there is nothing new in this finding to be told of the unre:iability of ne- gro labor, for the evidence Is before us at all times, but the comments of The Star are so unusual, coming from a Northern standpoint, that we copy the main portion Of them:
 Not all negro labor can be indicted thus. We all know industrious well trained negroes who have ho"ome mod A' janitors, barbers. walters, house servants. porters But we also know the useless tyre of negro who grows m in independent and IrresponSibe 9 freedom, hlrdlv able to withstand when fierce temptation assails his appetite 1esirCus of work only SO long as is ne- ,ossary to keep him going in easy suo- sistence and enjoyment. "frail. as this ~eport says, fin their disposition to lahnr."
 Even in the tropics the blacks are giving way to the whites as llborers in the trenches party because the r nhvscal powers are inferior. partly be- cause thev won't take care of the n- selves. partly because they won't work. And in contrasting the severe and sometimes disastrous tests that con front the negro under freedom, one can enter more pathetically into the point of view of the former slavehold- ing population who recall that under the discipline and care of the old re- gine the blacks were in some respects protected from themselves and from the hard law of survival of the fttest.
 There is, of course. no reversion to slavery. The negro must fight his own battle with the world and with temp" tation Whenever weakness and in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

American president is clothed with very great powers, but there are strlet llnl- its to his discretion. He ts not born to office vita the right to hola it dur ing lite and to leave II to his heir. but is elected by the people throhsn tneil State governments for term ok Tour years. and on going out of oh1ce ne often resumes the business that ne left on aoing into office. Nothing of the ruler in the European or any other sense Of the word Is 4 parent In the position Of President He may be. and often is, leader. but all the same he is servant of the people, deriving all hls powers from them and dlscharging his offlciai dulles under oath to pre- serve. protect ana defend the Const'- tutlon'' which was fir aned by the ,peos pie when they created the national Roverfiment In modern times. the course of events all over the world has been shrinking the one man lower until there Is little left of it It Is. therefore, the crassest of anachrcnisnns to ap ly a title that smacks of med ievalasm 10 the President of this re- nuh1ir
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
WHAT SLATE PAPERS
 ARE SAYING
Not Time Enoueh.

Not Time Enough. Anniston Hot Blast.
 It would have been remarkable, in- deei. Lad the President been able to secure In 6 lew houra a clear. compre. henslye insight into canal affairs.
 No Love for Either. Gadsden Journal
 Foraker and his colleagues in the Senate who are keeping up the Brown vile agitation have but little love for the negro. but having still less for the President they seize every opportunity to discredit him.
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 Won't Cost Money. Mobile Herald.
 Governor, Hoch of Kansas wants the Legislature to provide for . press agent to advertise the State, If the Coy ernor will kiss another woman, the State can get plenty of advertising without paying s press agent
 Glad of Capital CIty's Prosperity. Greenville Advocate.
 GreenvIlle citizens are glad to know of the prosperity of Alabama's Capital City, and we are not the least bit jeal- ous, for we are so near that her great ness reflects on US and will make Greenville grow and prosper as her q eat sister prospers.
 
 VIII Help District. Northport Breeze.
 The electric line from Gadsden to Tuscaloosa seems to be a go. Right-of- way is being secured, and if Is thought that work will begin in the spring of bargcE running between Tuscaloosa and Mobile, there would be a mighty increase of business here.
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 BuiEer's story. Athens Democrat.
 Bozenaan Buiger's article entitled "Alabamians in New York" which ap- peared in the Christmas edition of The MontEomery Advertiser. was especially interesting to people of thls State. It, many men and women who have gone to New York from Alabama have made enviable narnes for themselves and re- hected credit upon their homeland.
 For EdueatiOn. Marion County News.
 Despite the nouthings of few dem aeogues, who are opposed to the edu c@tion of the masses every State school in Alabama has solid phalanx of friends fr.,r!, who will lend them every en- !. down single school will use their best efforts to establish more of them More schools and better schools will be the battle cry of the next Legisla- ture.
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 Be Contented. Sand Mountain Record.
 There is no reasonable excuse for any man to live In town if he doesn't like it. If you have no word of com mendation to say for your town. it's institutions or people, emigrate. Yo <. won't stop the town clock by goin, away. The church bells will have the same musical ring, the little dogs will play just as well and the pure air, bright sunshine and sparkling water will have the same health-giving prop critics. Speak & good word for your neignbor. if you can; if you cannot, Ssnlfs If von hs va hacanne thorop ,si5rV srtIv move away; go somewhere where things will suit you.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
origin of Bridge whist.

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 The name of bridge probably grew out of the Russian word s'biritch," which Is called out when the player de- clares no trumps. The ap. earance in England between 18S3 and lSS6 of a pamphlet on '.biritch." or Russian whist failed to attract much attention at that period, but during the ensuing ten years the present natural offshoot of the Russian form of piay--one variety of which is called ieralasch, terelache. yelerash by Sir Horace Rumbold--be- came everywhere quite favorite pas time. The game is said by some to have originated at Athens, although 1t Is known to have been played, practical ly in its present form, throughout Tur- key, Greece, Egy.t and along the Mar time Alps for actually more than tnlr- ty years, under the name of knedive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

We dislike to make corrections but in an editorial yesterday speaking of The New Bedford Standard the editor wrote. Although The Standard is a Republican newspaper 1t has not here tofore been an advocate of imperial ism" The leaving out of the little word mot" changed the meaning of the sentence and made It say what was not intended. Such errors are annoy Ing. but they will occur in a daily newspaper office. especially at this time of year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
I.onglng For Country Life.

BaItlm ore Sun.
 A strange thing Is the universal long ing of professI,e al men and others whv have come to the city and have pros pered as they advance in life to set back to the country It is seldom that they do return, and when they do thcre Is often disappointment and things d." Tot appear as they al dlong ago. The change Is in the man himself but h." thinks 1t is In the country. Neverthe- less. the desire to get back to the oiu country lace to end ono's days Is very general Sir Walter Scott refers to ii and compares the course of man through the world to that of the hare which Is started from her lair and af- ter a long chase and making a large circle ends by returning to the nest from which she started.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
Problem of Civic Art.
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Century.
 The increasing abuse of advertising in the open air is making hideous no inconsiderable part of the world. For many uersons it has already virtually destroyed the pleasure once taken iu railway journey'ng. Trips that were full of interest for the scenes from the car windows are now preferably made bv night to avert the melancholy com ternpiatIon of ruined landscapes. These aggressions are yearly growing In the extent of their field and In the magn' tude Of their erations. TO meet them to abate them, to restrict outdoor ad vertising to it's proper sphere. and even to guide 1t In directions where it win he aestheticAIly rather than offensive. is one of the most serious problems of civic art.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

Some little while ago a New York paper had an item telling how a wo- man, travelling with her husband on a street ear. was annoyed and insulted by a masher. and then the report adds that the husband and the masher got into an argument over the affair."" If the husband had been a good Southern man the argument would have been all on one side and the masher would have been carried out on two sticks. But 1t is different with people up there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

ca oability overtake him he will go down by violence. by disease, by sheer xle But for every black man or wo- man therc will always be the oopor- tunlty there is now and has always been to gain a place of reerect and even of affection among friends. neigh bors and business associates, white or black Negroes who are industrious abiding, living in settled homes and doing their duties with unobtrusive fi- deity. have little cause of complaint against their white neighbors, North or South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

The Charlotte Observer now has a query before 1t that will cause some of the esteemed Virgiana contemporaries to sit up and take notice. The ques- ton asked is this, Can a fish hear?' The Observer replies that "the fish hears, and hears very well" Perhaps you are correct. but we will wager a package of fire crackers that The Nor folk Landmark takes you up and proves that fish can't hear G wink.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
pn.ebsII as a Business.

CiAveIand Leader.
 Baseball has become a business In which millions of dollars are invested and from which large profits are ob- tained. It's revenues and expenses are both on a great scale. It Is growing bi9gAr and rnor6 important every year in the financial and commercial sense. It is q national sport which has de- velopAd into a vast business enterprise. It pays to amuse the American people Baseball magnates have learned how to make the most of that fact. Hence biz salariaS in the baseball world
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
When you nave a Sad
 Breath-Walxe upl

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 When your tongue Is coated.
 When you have Heartburn. 5elchings Acid Risings in throat. .4
 When Pimples begin to peep out.
 When your Stomach cnaws or Burma
 That's the time to check coming Con stpation. lndgestion,an Dyspepsia.
 One single Candy cascaret will do it Ataken at the right minute, just when you first feel the need of 1t.
 Do t nowl
 cascarets don't Purge. nor Weaken. noe waste Digestive Juices in flooding out the Bowels, like Salts. Castor Oil, Physics.
 But, = they act ike Exercise on the Muscles that shrink and expand the Intes- tnes. thus pushing the Food on Naturally to It's Finish.
 WHSu y9ui DVWSt-muSStcS grow tlaOOy they need Exercise to strengthen theu-- not 'Physic" to pamper them.
 cascarets provide the bracIng tone that is needed specifically by the 6owelmuaolss.
 Then carry the little sen-cent "vest Pocket box constantly with you, and take a cascaret whenever you suspect you need 1t.
 One cascaret at a time will promptly cleanse foul Breath. or Coated Tongue. thus proving clearly Its ready. steady. sure. but mild and effective action.
 Have the httle loc Emergency box ot cascarets constantly near you
 All Druggists sch them lover ten mil- Hon boxes year. for six years past.
 Be very careful to get the genuine. made only by the Sterling Remedy Com pany and never sold in bulk. Every tab let stamped ''ccc." 75o
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
Needn of ciriIirntion.

w a%hAA N0i 4AuASs-
 Tradition says the frat loelss were made in England during the reign of Alfred tho Great. but it was not until dle of the fourteenth century that their use became general and only at the highly civilized period Of the nine taenth century that steel vaults, burg iar- proof safes and such things became necessary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
Tn ccnfroI CuMa.

Washington. Dec. 26 Governor Ma eon at Havana today cabled Secretary Taft that a Havana newsraner yes terday printed story to the effect that the Japanese had been heard Intriguing control in Cuba. Governor Mavoon id- .tculed the story and Secretary Taft also characterized it as absurd and ridicu- !ous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

Lawyer Patrick is not yet ready to admit that he Is down and out. AL though his life has been saved by the c.emeney of the Governor he isn't sat isfied and avows that he will continue the fight for absolute freedom. Some people never know when they ought to be thankful.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
AN oFFENsTYn TITLE.

WaSnlnEtOn FOSt.
 The Post, referring to a complaint by an American correspondent of Lon don Notes and Queries to the effect that Anne rican newspapers seldom quote the apothegms of European rulSrs. re- marks that perhaps 1t Is because they have no room after printing the words own ruler" There Is one word, a little word. containing only five letters, In that pungent comment of The Evening Post that grates harshly on the elr of the no >mal American, because the normal American Is a ratriotie c'ti- gen. The subjects of European mon archs call their sovereigns rulers, |" but 1t Is an exaggerated courtesy. for no one man or woman does much rul. inc in any country that has an cleo tive legislature The King Of England, to whom special reference 's made by Votes and oueries'' and the Evening pNst Is ruled bv the people of Great Rr'tHin-so romrletelv ruled th4t the nolities of the throne is compelled to fop from one nartv to another with every rolit'@ai ehAn9e in the House of Con1r~hrs. P'1t fn this country we have no ruler and it is regr@ftahIe that The Evertug Pact gives The Influence nF 'ts hiGh &xara~la toward the growth 3f the AwarnyIe of annlviN@ that teFTn .n thA foresid4nt Of the Trntted states tt rAnHAt fail to he offensive tn the ~hiAf TwAcuttve for hA is assun1eA "A '--Hvg that < verv laro4 nur,Her of hfs sAIlAvV sfttzAs.~ ~---a Sraat nfeFo~'tV. we NAIIAva. freIudir@ millions of his neIf- teal brAthren--fhat lern ,s soTcethinS e of an exaspeFetion, It is true tbaA an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

Daily average for October .......1a eco Sunday average for october .......:lT se2
  E & Noble. Circulation Manarer of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. aawa:
 The fnFe~ein~ stateppsut of The AHver- 4lser's circuIati0n for the rnonth nf O~to- her 1s0s. is true and correct s~d compi1ed after all returns fro-q newsbovs. news agents suaiIed and ieFt-nver eo~ies have been deducted. E. & NOIr.E
 Circulation Manager kworn to and suhs~ribeA before me this (seai.) F. w JACKSON.
 Notary Public