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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
TODAY IN HISTORY.

Church Day: Theodore. Sun rises at
 1S3 B. C.-Emylius Paulus passed from Brundusium to CoreTa (the nian expedition. and on the 9th, sacri- ficed at the shrine of Delphi.
 1794.-The British under Sir John Jervis took the island of St. Helena.
 1797-The French under Bernadotte entered Lauback the canital of Carni- ola. At the same time Massena. com manding the advance guard of the French army, attacked the imperialists in the defiles near Neumark; the strife being between the flower of the Aus trian army and the French veterans of Italy. was most obstinately contested. The French, however, carried the day.
 1799.-Assault upon the works of St. Jean d'Acre, in Palestine. The French were rep9ised with great loss; , times passed by the Commons, thrown out by the House of Lords.
 1S92.-The London Penny Maga- zine. under the superintendence of the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. commenced.
 1S44.-Peter S. Duponceau so favor man died at Philadelphia, aged S4. In his 18th year he published his Dis sertation on the Chinese Language"
 1S45.-England signed a treaty of peace with Mohhammed of Cabul India.
 1S54.-A new passport law was put in operation in the Republic of Mexico against the protest of the representa- lives of the United States.
 1S63.-Two hundred and fifty Of Jen- kin's Confederate cavalry attacked Point Pleasant.
 An expedition from Murfreesboro un- der General HaZen attacked Confed- crate camp near Woodbury. killing and wounding twenty. capturing thirty prisoners, fifty horses and d lot Of mules and wagons. The Confederates were 600 strong and under the com mpnd of Colonel Smith.
 1S65.-Dispaches from President Lincoln at City Point announced that the Union army. after three days fight ing, succeeded in breaking the Confed- crate center at Petersburg and flanking Lee on the left.
 1s74-"Free silver" or currency in fIation was debated in the United States Senate on motion of Morrill, (Vermont) to limit the fractional cur rency to $40.000. 900.
 1S75.-Henry Ward Beecher began his testimony in his own defense in the Brooklyn court which was hearing the Tilton- -Beecher case.
 1SS4-The bill for the redemption of the famous silver trade dollar passed by the House at Washington after an acrimonious debate on free silver.
 1SS5.-A cabinet meeting decided that while this nation was IAot concerned with the internal affairs of Colombia. then in a state of revelation it was re- sponsble for free and uninterrupted transit across the Isthmus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
MIR. B. B. CONFER
Has a Poor Opinion of Alabama News
 papers.

Has a Poor Opinion of Alabama News Andslusia News
 B. B. Conner, candidate for Governor. was visitor at The News office yes terday morning. He's about the same sort of fellow that we had expected to meet. Hes got one opinion and rides along that line of argument exclusive ly. He has followed this argument so long and so strenuously that he seems with him is a failure. To use his own words: Hired by the corporations. Mir. Conner told the editor of The News amount to much. The day has gone by-people know the average news paper is bought with a price" MT, Co mer seemed to think everybody was wrong who opposed his policy. He alone is the fountain head of truth, uprightness and ability. He was the people. He told The News man that some day he would learn that it didn't pay to run newspaper in the interests of the railroads and against the people. He was informed that we have always made d success at the newspaper bus iness-was making a success at Anda- lusia today, and we didn't borrow ideas from such politicians as himself In his harrangue. He said he was go- ing to speak at the court house at lO:3O o'clock, and gave us an invita- tion to come out We went.
 At the court house 1S1 persons were present to hear the speaking. Mir. Co mer is an easy talker and entertained his audience He has poor voice for public speaking and it grates harshly on the nerves of his hearers. He told several stories that have been worn threadbare. Some of his personal "reminiscences were humorous, but the applauding was very light His au- dence was not wrapped up in him. He didn't carry AndaluSia by storm. This was his first visit to Covington Coun- ty. He soon got on the old outline Of argument and commenced to assail the railroad lawyers, the railroads them selves and then came the press In fact he didn't forget to refer to the press in many instances. He said the newspapers were against him. Said he, there are two kinds of Democracy in Alabama and the press belongs to the other kind-thcy don't belong to the kind that I represent. When he reached the poilS where it was neces- sary to get empnatic he would shake his hands and pat his foot At doing two things at once we'll admit he fs success. He told his audience what a great philanthropist he was. How he had spent thousands of dollars in educating the people," But he neg lected to tell his audience that he was educating them in order that they might vote for him and push him farther up the ladder He endeavored to create a prejudice against the rail- roads by picking out little instances that were especially aggraVating to tho patrons of railways Conner is very much impressed with his own import
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Political War Cloud.

Huntsville Tribune.
 The following interview clipped from The Montgomery Advertiser catches us. We never listened to what we consid- cred a seVerer denunciation of the Democratic Party than the one eX- pressed and implied by MT. Conner in his Huntsville speech. As we express ed 1t at the time, If the Railroad Com mission. a statutory creation, brought into existence in tEis State by the Democratic Party. fostered by the Dem ocratic Party. is the corrupt machine that MT Conner describes 1t to be. and the De Denocratic leaders are the corrup- tionists, tools of railroads that he de- clared them to be. the Democratic Par ty of Alabama must be the largest az gregation of scoundrels ever assembled Under a political flag" Howe We do not believe what Mir Conner said about the Commission the party lead CTS and the lobbyist To be charitable he allows his enthusiasm to sweep him on his feet. But if he is elected by this people. it is impli"dly the severcst possible indictment against the party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
SUNDAY, APRIL I, 1908.
NOTHING WILL BE DONE.

Probably no one really had reason to expect any tariff revision at the pres ent session of Congress. It is known that some of the Republicans of infiu- snce and high standing have been un- til recently persistent in their demands for revision and in their exposures of tho injustice and inequalities of our tari1 system as it now stands. They pointed out that 1t was not only unjust and in many instances entirely unneces- sary. but also made 1t plain that the most grievous and devouring of the great trusts were the legitimate results of high protection, and that the only possible way to curb and reduce their insatiate demands was by such revision of the tariff as would make such prac- tices impossible.
 All this was plainly and repeatedly set forth by Republicans themselves who were not entirely blinded to all sense of fairness and justice. but it was useless. There was a stand-pat ele- ment which from the beginning was determined that there should be no re- vision. We heard much about the tariff being revised by it's friends" and were often assured that it would be done 'at the proper time" but 1t was all a delusion. The friends are those who arc benefited by it, directly or in directly. and the proper time for re- vision has never come, in their estima- tion. Chairman Payne, who evidently speaks by authority tells some of the Massachusetts >revisionists that Con sress is not prepared to review the tar if schedules in that calm, judicial frame of mind so necessary to the preparation of a tariff act at a time so near the coming Congressional cleo tions."
 The concluding words tell the whole story. The Congressional election is just ahead and in many Republican dis trictsi in the North much depends on the position the member occupies on this question. If there Is dominating stand-pat sentiment in his district, the candidate will show himself loyal be- licver in that idea. and if the senti- ment for revision is strongest, he can
 
 patters held him down. Thus the astute Republican applicant for further Con- gressional honors will be able to make his calling and election sure and retain his hold on the salary and pickngs.
 The only method by which the tariff can be revised and made fair and just is by taking it out of the hands of its friends, and the only way to do that is by getting a Democratic Congress. No relief from the present evils of the system is to be expected from Republi- cans. Even if public sentiment could be powerful enough to force them to do something it would be done in such way as not to offend or injure the pow erful interests now thriving on protec- ton and the real sufferers would gain but litle. Republicanism and high pro- lection are twin brothers cnd are not going to hurt each other. In Democ- racy is the only hope.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
SIDEWALK PENCILINCS
Weether ..d he Crops,

Complaints from the county dis tricts on. the bad effect of the weather this spring upon planting have been coming to The Advertiser office ire auently.. Speaking of conditions in the outlying districts of the county. one of the largest raisers of corn and cotton in this section of the State said yesterday.
 T have not yet broken ground for the planting of my corn and cotton crops. Rain, rain, ran,. nothing but bad weather. Judging from my own experience and that of my neighbors. should say that the crops in both corn and cotton this year will be farth- CT behind than they have been for a
 'The weather this spring has been simply disastrous. No sooner would the effect of one series of storms be oyer, and preparations for beginning planting be under way. than another, and usually worse, storm would set in, and another wait of week or ten days be necessitated. Corn and cot ton planting should both have been completed several weeks ago. but in the condition of the fields we have been simply unable to touch 1t. The ground has been too wet to be work ed. Everything has been held back by 1t. and the result. I fear, will be "a much smaller yield than we usually have, unless the summer be especially propitious for maturing the growth of our staple crops."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01


 Does it pay to be humorist? We'll if we call George Ade humorist il does, for his Income from books, plays 'and newspaper writing is said to be s150,000 per annum. and we thinkk any one will look on that as tidy income fromNa pencil or pen. even in this day when literary work is so well paid. When we reflect that only two or three centuries ago some of the greatest of English poets and nov elists could barely earn. living. or when we think that little more than half century has elapsed since Poe, the greatest of American poets, lived and died in grinding and heart break ing poverty, we can see how times have changed, and can also see that appeal ing to the humorous side of human nature pays much better than it does to pursue the more substantial and en- during paths of literature. Ade is to be congratulated on his success, at least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
shoGId Follow a Good Example.

M0Dlle Herald.
 The Herald has been struck dumb guard of the Democratic party in Ala bama standing idly by while its leaders were traduced and their work for the past forty years denounced.
 To The Herald 1t occurred that the courage of the old war horses had gone glimmering III the face of the attacks repeated by one man over and over the memory of the pure and patriotic Alabamians who had done such noble work for the State. In glowing contest to this servile surrender of manhood. character and convictions Is the wig orous and blood-stirring challenge of Judge Thoma W. Coleman, . grand old Roman, which appears in The Flu taw Democrat.
 A thousand other leading Demo- crats owe it to themselves and to their party to resent the assault on Alabama Democracy,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

The action of the President in par doning John w. Pace of Tallapoosa County, who plead guilty'in the United States Court on charges of peonage, will be appreciated by those who have kept up with the case. It was more case of ignorance than intention on his part, and there is but little doubt that he thought he was strictly inside the law in his conduct. Let that be as it may. there were peculiar circumstances which strongly appealed in his favor. The President needed the petitions sub mitted in his behalf. It is gratifying that in matter of this sort he did heed the wishes of the home people rather than the desires of extremists of the North. Mir, Pace is now free from ap- prehension of future punishment under the verdict rendered against him. It will be noted that Judge Thomas G. Jones, before whom the cases were heard, and District Attorney Reese, strongly recommended pardon, and the Judge suspended execution of sentence until Peace could apply for pardon. All the Congressional delegation from the State joined in the recommendation for pardon. This about disposes of peonage cases. and there can be no doubt of the fact that the possibility of any more arising is very remote. Alabama has cleared her own skirts, and some of our critics would do well to follow our example.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

ance. He didn't forget to touch up" The Montgomery Advertiser. He ex- shibited several copies of that paper and commented on articles that ap- peared therein. The News representa- flor that was all there was to it. and left the court house. He was still speaking then, but fully one-half of his audience had left It is safe to say converts at Andalusia. He may have drawn some of his old friends little closer but he didn't make a very deep impression upon those who heard him for the first time.
 MT. Beckham. 8 stenographer for The Montgomery Advertiser, was pres- ent and reported his speech in full.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
saeeess ef tAe Faar.

Montgomery is the place of all oth- CTS in Alabama for an Agricultural State Fair" said visitor to the city belt. the very centre of the farming region of Alabama there can be an interest and enthusiasm aroused here that cannot be stirred up anywhere
 since the old days when we had strictly agricultural fairs In Montgom- cry. when the greatest competition was aroused and farmers vies with each other to excel in all branches of farming and industries, we have had no real, genuine agricultural exploits or shows In Alabama. | am very much encouraged now to feel that we are go- ing to revive the old days and have a Fair here this year that will do credit to any agricultural country on the face of the globe.
 'aThe right men have the. enterprise in hafid and their names will make 1t a success"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Raise Cattle.

Huntsville Mercury.
 | Is stated that England has twen- ty-eight cows for every 100 people. That is what we would like to see in Alabama England is famous the world over for it's superior beef. while the south is noted for its miserably poor beef A Madison County citizen told us of seeing American beef in London n cents q pound, while the English beef was marked 21 cents, but the diff ference, The American was blue poor, and the other had fat all through it. In England the beef cattle are kept rolling fat from calf until slaughtered for beef Here the fat is generally on the outside of the poor lean. and the result is tough meat, although it looks Tat and juicy. And then England Is grass country, while here We kill grass and buy hay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Peace in the End.
Selma Journal.

SeIIHd JOUTHAL
 Dallas County continues to like a hot political fight but they never carry it outside .he party lines. The primary is past and gone now and the worst disappointed candidate is ready to take his coat off If necessary to help the nominees win their election Such is not necessary in this county. A Dem- ocratic nomination is equivalent to an election.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Chief Attraction Missing.

IuSCaIOOSa TImeS-Gazette.
 Somebody has kindly sent the editor a book describing the glories of Bar mum and Baileys circus as shown in New York. Now if transportation to New York had been sent and weeks stay at the Waldorf Astoria provided for and ticket to the circus the little book would have had added value.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Imnroyinr the Farm.

FIOleHte I1tTdIU.
 We note with pleasure that the farms in this county are developing into a higher stage of cultivation. The young farmers have certainly improved upon the old fogy methods of their fathers, and the more modern way of farming is causing Mother Earth to produce her largest and best crops.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
D RIF T w o O D
BY PHIL H. ARMsrR oNG.

It doesn't take a loud voice to call a bluff.
 The wall flower is born to blush unseen.
 A man isn't cannibal because he sometimes has his heart in his mouth.
 They say silence is golden but ALL is not gold that glitters. A man will ruin a thirty dollar suit twenty-fiv cent job and call it economy.
 Visitor: What are you here for? Prisoner: Stealth hawgs. Visitor: Aren't you sorry, my good man? 1t hosses while l was at it-thats my long suit.
 Love is the barometer of human emotion.
 Home is the cradel of the world rocked by the hand of Love. The trouble about the person who always aims to do right Is that he so seldom hits the bulls eye. Some men have pretty high ideas or least the party that puts up the money for pushing them through of- ten thinks so.
 Trees. unlike people, cover their limbs with more dress in summer than they do In winter. Every man has a right to express his sentiments if he doesn't send them c. C. D.
 There is a divinity that shapes our ends if we are able to pay the dress maker
 The would-be organist playe with pedals and stops and the hearers are often ~laddest when he stops. When a man. starts on the down ward hill how few people ever throw ashes in the path to stop him. si: Did yew see the Hippodrome when yew wuz up to New York? ~ Bronx Zoo.
 seal skin sackA is so called be- one.
 Watches have charms to soothe the savage pickpocket.
 Oh what a tangled
 Web we have.
 All because or
 Mother Eve.
 Mir Biggs: You should consider 1t an honor to have Prof. Pipp pat you on the he Il.
 Tom Riggs: Yes but at school he tries to shower honors on me.
 The rain falls alike
 On the just and unjust.
 But the unjust somehow
 Get the umbrella fust
 The Secret Out. Miss Spring" l asked, pray tell me
 why You hesitate this year? We're tired of winter and we long To hear your footstep near. The maiden shy just blushed and
 smiled
 And shyly hung her head. ''The reason is your Spring Poets l hate to face" she said,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

The law cannot touch him, or at least, 1t will not Hades will reject him in self-defense. He stalks abroad, secure from molestation, like devastating pestilence.
 All of us have encountered members of the family and have suffered from their visitations. Doubtless they are wise dispensations of nature, but we sometimes think that when bores were created the job was somewhat over done. ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
WHAT ST ATE P A. PIERS ARE SAYING
Dividing Honors.
Talladeg1 Re

TalIadeg1 Reporter.
 It is a live question now as to whether the basebai.ists or the poiltl- cials are attracting the most atten-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
speech of pr. Cunningham.

Montgomery people should turn out to hear Dr.. Cunningham next Wednes- day night. said a leading Democrat. He is a representative citizen, most pleasing and entertaining speaker. and 1t does not matter whether one agrees with him pr not. he should be accord- ed a hearingssS
 "Dr. Cunningham has been in pub lie life in Alabama for great many years and in all the positions of trust and honor thai he has held he has ac- quilted himself with credit and reflect. ed homer upon his State. He is well informed on public affairs and will make most Interesting and instrue- tive address.
 T hope that he will have large and truly representative audience"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

We are told by a scientific fellow that the only sure way of telling whether a snake is venemous is by killing 1t and examining it's mouth for poison fangs. Another way. however, is to let the snake bite you and note the result.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

The Brooklyn Eagle looks on the proposition for a continuous line of railway from America to Europe as "a remarkable dream" Possibly 1t is but The Eagle should remember that some of the greatest and most successful of human accomplishments were looked on as dreams by the doubters. This may turn out in the same way
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Citizens Should Discharge Their
 Duties.

Usksket NeWs,
 The Monroe Journal remarks that the people of Alabama are too busy and prosperous to run for office or even to vote The duties of citizenship are very important matters, and no man should become so absorbed as to grow indif- ferent as to the welfare of his commu- nit yand State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Want a Park.

Dothan SIftIngs,
 If an election were held in Dothan today. allowing every man, woman and child in town to vote on the park prop hundred would vote for the park.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
To He Pitied :.
Denopolis

DemopOlis Times. I
 The man who is unwilling to pc
 taxed one mill for the public schools | simply because he has no children Of | his own is to be pitied for his ignor- 1 ance and condemned for his selfishness |
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

The Enquirer-Sun says Columbus is willing to aid Montgomery in getting the 1OO.0 900 in any way except by letting us have some of her citizens. Don't be ssIhsh; give your folks a chance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01


 Evidently some specimen of the genus bore has been making too free in the office of The Portland Oregonian and has brought forth d half-column edito- rial disquisition on bores in general. It regrets that 1t is not even mis- demeanor to be one of the class, and aftirms that it ought to be felony, and thus discourses on the subject:
 He is always good d-natured. That is the bores worst trait. If he would get drunk and shoot off his gun in church, OF ride his broncho into the middle of pink tea parties, he might be forgiven. But he doesn't. The bore has no re- deeming vices. He Is one horrible mass of solid virtue. He never drinks. He never swears. He never gets mad. He is impiously suave, hendishly right eous Who could be one of q mob to hang such a good man? And yet if he had his deserts he would be hanged d thousand times a day. The bore is safe from punishment here and hereafter. A man who should knock him down as he deserves and trample upon his pros trate form would suffer ever afterward from a guilty conscience and re- proachful wife ''WhateVer induced you to assault and batter such devout church m~mbeT?" she would wall in the still wa tchcs of the night: "A man SO liberal to the heathep! The neigh bors will never stop talking about it.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
Won't Work.
Alexande

Alexander City Outlook.
 The complaint is made that 1t is all most impossible to secure labor of any kind. It is particularly hard to em- ploy men or boys and yet there are plenty of the latter seemingly unem-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
A Few Hundred W ould do,

A Chicago millionaire agrees with Uncle Andrew Carnegie that happiness is not matter of wealth. That may be true but the average country news es in finding happiness If can only get hold of a hundred.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
vhItewash Brush Next.

TaIlassee Tri-County News.
 All of this house cleaning in the Gov ernment departments suggests that as soon as the sweeping is finished the whitewash brush will be in requisition.