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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05

Piccolo Bassoon is the name of a
man who appeared In London cour.
the other day in answer to sum.
mons.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05
so.ton,, Fondne.. for Beam.

More money is spent each year In
Boston in buying baked beans than
would buy the largest battleship In
the United States navy.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05
Queer Medicinal Prescriptions.

A superstition less prevalent now
than 1t was few years ago is that
the skin OF a black cat laid on t1e
bowels is almos. sure cure for in
flammation. Like the recipe for hare
soup, you must first catch your cat,
kin it-preferably at midnight-skin
Immediately and apply the skin warm
TO the patient.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05
Collector Of pwarf..

King Philip Nv OF Spain collected
dwarfs, and many diminutive spec..
mems OF humanity were sent him on
his birthdays.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05

disciples Of st. John that the southern
province Of what is now France was
converted to Christianity. and 1t was
from these provinces that the mission
aries came to spread the gospel in
England. The great Cathedral Of 81,
John In New York is bound to the
little Patmos chapel by a link nine
teen centuries long.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05

Gets Water From Mountain.
San Diego has arranged with COM
pany for supply Of 100000 gallons
Of mountain water 6 day, at 4 cents
. 1000 gallons.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05

Seemed So.
what in the deuce does that h-hy
Of yours cry about!'
"About all the time. I gu~sa"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-05-05

Parsley was rst known In sardL-s.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06

due. according to these members of the profession, to dishonest motive, to the actuai saie Of the paper whose course IS criticised. Orten 1t happens that all iairness and courtesy. such as wouIo befit an honorable profession, are thrown to the winds when discussion between newspapers is seSuii. olch' ems description of the terrible news paper war in Etanswlll would not pc misapplied to conditions too rrequent- ly existing in Alabama.
 The public does not take these tra. ducers seriously. It has become used to them Perhaps 1t Is nopeIc5e of lm- provenent, and mas passed final 1udg- nient upon the wordy and reckless Journallsts. We doubt II those who induigeN in derrhction realize the sx. tent Of their nnsdoing. They expect their bearing 10 be taken in the PICK wickian sense. Nevertheless, it IS mucn to be regretted that there Is not more self respect In Journalism, ana more consideration for the honor Of the pro- fession.
 The fayorite target of the detractors is the city press. They seem to thinh that the game is a legitimate one. We are pleased to see that The Montgom- cry Advertiser has called one or tnese defamers to the bar of public opinion, and exposed his mendacity. It wouia be better for all of us. however. IT occasion for action of this sort shouiu not be afforded. We would be glad 10 see the press Of this State assume higher tone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06

Amount spent in public and private improvements, s2,065.707.
 Galveston holds first place in the world in exportation of cotton, first place in the exportation of cotton seed prducts second plcce in value of for eign exports, eighth place among ocean and gulf ports In all import matters, and thirteenth place among customs districts.
 Galveston has a total seawaI pro- tection df four and thirty-seven-one hundredths miles. extending complete 1y around the Gulf side of the city. It Is estimated that the city's filling is about 45 per cent completed. The cost of the seawall and grade raising is s3.505,040. When the private Improve rnenrs necessitated by the grade Tais- ing are included. the cost or seawali and grade raising is placed ats$5.250,- 900.
 One hundred and six thousand and ninety-one loaded cars were handled in the yards of the Galveston Wharf Company by the various railroads, compared with 93,f51 for the previous year.
 immigration through the port of Galveston has been the heaviest in the history of the port. Galveston has be. come noted both as a summer and winter resort and the excursion travel to Galveston during the past year ex. ceeded all previous years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
nIRTY RIrsINEss.
Was Hearst,s Plan of shadoyving Bry-
 nm iu Europe

WAS HeufGfhN FAum 1H 8N0u0WhMB BEE~
 an in Europe.
 New York Tribune, September ?.
 The Bryan men got shock yester- day when they. discovered that Will ready for MT. Bryan If he raises his after.
 while Bryan was on the other side he received a call from Representative of J. P. Morgan.
 Just what there was in the meeting ggpoIasy the Hsarss %sn % ss ssepssyss snsSgs for the proletariat to know that Bryan and Mir Morgan's man were together for an hour or two on British soil Union League Club. st. Georges Church. the Association for Improv- ing the Condition of the Poor, and at various hospitals and places of philan- garded as a liberal giver and a good citizen. But in the realm where there Is no forgiveness for man if only he Mhers Ras sass tsa vsen4aa % 4Eyose o fa%ts % h hnd bu man nature are deferred-in Mir. Hearst's realm--Morgan has horns. and that's all there Is to 1t.
 1t happened months ago, when Mir. Bryan was getting interviews with the Japanese and doing the Douma in St. Petersburg, that some suspicious per- son in the employ of Mir. Hearst sug-
  some to the Hearst boom for Cover nor of New York after he returned to this country. It was surmised that. he might inadvertently cut the anchor rope to the balloon and let 1t go sail ing away to the shores of Nixieland. So Mir. Hearst became "forehanded."
 He sent one of his most trustworthy young men to camp on the Nebraskan. Some one on MT. Hearst's stan had what they called "hunch." or premo- hilton, that somewhere on the route Mr. Bryan, in A moment of 1mpetuos- fly, would commune with an octopus. The young man went to the efHete East and in due tims he struck the trhil of the NebraslSan. He said nothing. He wrote nothing. But he was the same as Bryan's shadow for two months. Among the Ole Olesens of Sweden and Norwa~ when he was eating South down mutton in southern England, when talking theology beside the bon nie brier bushes and kirks. and samp- ling scones in Scotland; in Switzer- land: in Rome, where Mir. Bryan visit ed the dungeons in which former Dem ocrats languished. and then into France and Spain-wherever Bryan went, went the naid henchman, and the 'chiel" was "takin' notes"- when there was anything worth noting
 And Mir. Hearst has it In his won. derful museum where Mir. Bryan ate slept and drank, what he satd and what he thought It is all down in black and white Tho spotter was on the spot
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
THURSDAY SEPT 6, 1ooe.
WHO CAN rRUsr HIMs

VgAen President Roosevelt in de- fense of his action in appointing ne- gro to be Collector or Customs at Charleston. stated that he has been told by the most prominent men of that city that they would be satisfied with any place to which he might ap- point crum to fill. said prominent citi- Eens promptly declared that his state- ment was not true When Mir. Whit ney, a leading Democrat of Massachu- setts, asserted In public speeches that Mir. Roosevelt had advanced to him and others certain propositions look ing to tariff reductions, in which statement MT. Whitney was supported by a number of men as good as Mr. Roosevelt can ever hope to be. the lat ter with the air of a bragsart and bravado, denounced it as false. When Judge Parker in 1904 declared that vast corruption fund had been secured for the Republican campaign from cor porations MT. Roosevelt again rushed into print to denounce the statement as false. and although Judge Parker has been proven to have been correct in what he said, Mir Roosevelt not only has not retracted but has since made the man who received the corruption fund a member of his cabinet. who is today filling the high office of Post master General, and is guilty of the disreputable conduct of continuing as Chairman of a partisan committee. When during the contest in the Senate over the railroad rate bill Mir Roose- welt was anxious to make an alliance with the Democrats for heir support of the measure as he wished it, and made certain promises as to incorpo- rating certain features and then for party advantage went back on his promises he denounced as false state- ments made by Senator Tillman and ex-senator Chandler, but all the world knows that the two latter were the ones who told the truth. Verify with such record as this, which could be enlarged to any extent. who can trust President Roosevelt to stand by any thing he says If personal or political advantage is to be gained by going back on 1t.
 In view of all these facts, who can believe that he will not go back on his repeated assertions that he will not again be a candidate for Presi- dent?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
~RunnIng Down. Ones' Profession.

Mobile Register.
 In no trade or profession do we find so much self -detractions as in journal ism. Perhaps there is in every trade an element that is dissatisfied and given to detractfon, but we do not have It's expression forced upon us, as tt Is in journalism What the newspaper prints is given to all the world. The editors complaining is in public. He takes his sore toe and exhibits IL where all can see, and cries out aloud Come and see my beautiful sore toe! If one would believe these distressed persons. the business of publishing newspaper-particula country weekly--is about the worst that isi subscribers do not pay up material IS lacking, the editors have to do all the work, and receive in return more kicks than half pence. Yet they con tinue in the business and some of them seem to be prosperous. COuutr4 jour nalfsrn. with all it's cares, Is not as bad as the persons engaged In 1t represent
 Another feature. Is the willingness of certain editors to think the worst of their professional brethren. Instead of building up sentiment favorable to Journalism they tear down, by ln- Sanitation, by open charges, and by do- ing their best 10 show Jnat Journalism ia conducted by nlshOnesI and venat men: ana. in most cases. this is with out the least warrant of truth. If there iH difference Of opinion be- tween one journal and another, 1t Is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
New EngIand,s Demoeraey.

Boston Globe.
 MT Bryan must have been migun- derstood in what he said at New hh- ven concerning the democracy or New England He is reported to have saaa that New England never had been good breeding place for demooraeEj Jefferson never considered 1t soi neitH- CT did Jackson" -,...n fl.
 Jefferson might have considered t so, for, although in l1S6 Aoatns ,Snaa Snr ried New England and again In asVo' Jefferson carried New Hampsnlte' NSr- mont, Massachusetts and Knoae vorable conditions Madison cerrieo yer mont in 1908 and 1S12, and Monroe car rled New Hampshire, Vermont ,Hssa Hne Rhode Island in 1s16. whiie ih ss assS John Quincy Adams was able 70 Wrsse from him only one vote. in New Hampe shire, in all New England.
 Andrew Jackson, it is true, lo9t NsW England in 1924 and in 1SzS, put ne carried Maine and New Hampshire In 1882 by good sized maJortties.
 The whiE landslide of 1940 gave Her- rison all but New Hampshire, but xNn Buren in 1846 had carried Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island ana Son- necticuJ, and Polk got Maine ana New Hampshire back in 1894, and Cass hele
 Pierce in is52 carried Connecticut. Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Is- land, but the antislavery sentiment of 1856 sent New England Into the repulp,., lican column, where it remained untiA 1878, when TiIden carried Connecticut a feat that Cleveland repeated In leo4s ip 1888 and in 1SS3.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
The Birmingham Ledger says:

There comes a little gossip from Montgomery tha some effort will be made to deprive Major Harris of the fruits of hls victory in the primary. The Ledger does not believe For an in- stant that any serious effort will be made to overturn the will of the voters fin any particular.
 If the sense of justice has not taken its flight from Alabama the effort to deprive Major Harris of his right will be a failure. He is a registered voter in Hale County, where he was born and where he has property interests. He has no voting rights anywhere else. and the fact of nominal residence here can not rob him of all the rights and privileges attaching to legal res idence elsewhere. We know of mem bers O. the State Legislature who lived with their families the greater part of the time in Montgomery, but who never claimed that city as their legal residence. The provision of law prohibiting election or appointment of two members If the Railroad Commik- sion from the same Congressional Dis trict does not apply to Major Harris, as he lives in the Ninth District, and
 dr. Henderson of Troy lives in the Second Dist.l let, of which Montgomery County is 0 part.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
SPEED, yroLAroRs.

The Chicago Record Herald holds that most violations of the speed laws by automobilists are unintentional. In an editorial discussing speed law evio- iations 1t sass
 Locking at the question. from anoth- CT point of view, it seems probable that few or no violations can be as- scribed to set purpose, and that people who exceed the limit are often uncon-s scious of the fact It is common thing to hear surprise expressed at the amount of ground covered in a Fsae fnr I BJI taIee ,Sa w9o are lS Ppnn,Ihee ahe certain that they are complying with the law and leave nothing to guess- work. This is their duty as citizens, and. furthermore. it is the very best policy that they can pursue as auto mobfiists
 At the present time4there is. as they know, a great deal of irritation against one of positive hostility among con siderable per centage of the people, and sometimes 1t is directed against reation which they. enjoy. A sugges.- ton that automobile clubs should themselves work for law observance Is. therefore, wise one. If they can thus do away with the causes for crit icism tb"y will dispel the hostility that has grown up. put the people as q whole in better mood to reconsider the question of speed. and do ser mobile industry.
 over-speeding has become so com mon in many portions of the North and East. and accidents and fatalities are so numerous that 1t is not to be wondered at if there is much irrita- tion on the part of people whose lives are continually inperilled by reckless drivers of theso machines. It is doubtless true that when there is limit fixed by law 1t may be uninten- tionally violated as 1t is manifestly impossible for the driver to know pre- cisely what speed he is making. Of course if the limit is fixed at ten miles cities. man who rushes along at for ty OF iftySmiles an hour knows he is violating the law. but he might travel at a speed of twelve miles and not know that he was exceeding ten. It would seem that each machine might be provided with an autometer. or something of the kind. placed in plain Eview of the driver. which would show him at any time just how fast he is travelling Then if he violates the law he does 1t knowingly and should be punished. Without something of the kind 1t is quite possible for a driver to pass the limit without in tending 1t.
 But after all the excuses that can be made on these lines it is plai- enough that there are many wealthy owners of these machines in the North who are so puffed up with their own importance. and so absolutely indiffer- ent to the rights of others that they will not hesitate to run a mile min ute though they should leave path strewn with dead and injured. There ought so be punishment for these will ful menaces to human life, ard the punishment should not be confined to money penalty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
DRIFTWOOD BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG

At the Seaside. Call me George
 And I'll call you Peari' Said the fresh young. man
 To the summer girl But this maid sadats
 Just gave a fFoWn. Did she call him George?
 No; she called him downl 2 H @Ss ' His Opinion. rWhat do you think of the new That it's merely g revival Of JOsn
 Early sarcasm. Adam-"Why oh why did you eat Eve--Go to the devil!
 Haxy HiIls. And 1t makes me feel so lazy. Until I'm nearly crazy
 For stroll Underneath the oak trees bending Shaking hands on. oH intending When the woodland sounds are blend
 With With my soul. Oh. I'd love to sing the story Of the golden autumn glory Till my IS locks Ks. are rsd long and hoary- How my heart with giadness fills Where the golden glory spills Over trees. and haZy hills,
 The autumn gold!
 % & SS
 Broken RefleetiOns. Better a beggar with one smile day than rich man with fifty frowns.
 & % & A fair exchange gathers no moss.
 q & One indifferent woman can make two masculine cynics.
 The trouble with If the ladder of suc- cess is most people are SO near-sight- ed they mistake 1t for an upholstered elevator.
 About the worst mishap that can befall the average woman Is a sudden unlocked for loss Of her dignity. It is very bad to read poetry when you are in love, if you are caught at It.
 %%& Cheap graphophones should be seen. and not heard.
 It is impossible for a man ever to appear quite so small in the eyes or the world after winning fame than he will always seem to the man Who knew him in diversity. To others the most uninteresting topic you can choose Is yourself. The difference between platonte love and the real thing is that one IS 2 wall-flower and the other fresn blown rose.
 Even the mosquito has his useIui- ness. Striking at him is the only way some people would ever get exercise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
A FADING BooMLEr.

Another Idol has fallen, or Is fall ing. When the Republicans of Illi- nois endorsed our Uncle Joe Cannon for President he evidently thought ne had ( boom that wouldn't fade in the washing He prepared himself to sit up and look as pretty as he could and be prepared to exhibit becoming nfodesty when, from all parts of tho Union the cry of Cannon" should be- ent State Conventions and other Re- publican organizations. No doubt he began to formulate his speech of ac- eeptance so as to have 1t all in good shape when the nomination should be handed hlm.
 But alas for human calculations. It begins to look very much as if his boom is like certain insects that are larger wheL matched than they ever are afterwards. The indications now are that his boom iE Eranding very stlll, If 1t is not actually fading away And it ought to fade. If elected he will be 73 years old when he takes his seat. and while we do not take any stock in Oslerism there Is @ limit to the strain which should be put on age. He will be five years older than Will Ham H. Harrison was when he was in- auEurated, and all know that he only bore up about one month after he be- came President. The strain and re- sponsibility SEas too much for him. and Capnon would probably go the same way. There are plenty of men of req sonable age from which to select with out taking'one who Is already fin the aere and yellow leaf''
 But that is not all nor the main ob- lection to him. He Is not the charac- ter of man who should be elected to that high office. As The Richmond News-Leader looks at it, MT. Cannon may be a very good man in some re- spects. but he is intrusively and Os- tentatiously profane and vulgar in his conversation and coarse in his conduct. No doubt he is entirely honest and there can be no question that he Is strong and clear-headed. but the American people have an instinctive regard for the proprieties and like to think they have a man in the White House who will do them credit ana illustrate the best of their life and manners. We suspect Mir. Cannon rather fashions himself after MT. Lln- coin; but MT. Lincoln was the product of a cruder time and was called to meet an emergency; and we never heard that he got drunk or used oaths continually to reinforce his discourses. The swearing habit used on the stage may get a laugh from the audience and may look strong and bold in a newspaper, but 1t shocks good many sensibiIities. and the politician who pa rades his indulgence in It is likely to be sorry"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
De.,roved Hi. own Chance.

Chattanooga Times. .
 The public ownership of railroads is a doctrine no man in free America can safely assert as being either prae- seeks to commit his party to ehin'- era when he virtually asserts that that is what must be inserted in its platform if he IS to be It's can aS objection his demand will arouse in the Southern States. he attempts to Justify his views by calling to mind Tn coninentaI Throne are owned by the States and vet there has been no embarrassment to interstate traffic. . Tn a word Mir Bryan has destroyed the ieadershin there would be a steady march march from 'ro this time on to victory In l9Os-marking. prohkhy, the most dis tressing disappointment this country has felt in any a day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
MT. Bryan's Remedy.
New York World.


 These railroads have S27,s51 stock holders. One single road. the Pennsyl- vania has 44,175 stockholders; an other, the Santa Fe has 1T.256. Incidentally, these roads carry upward of 1l5,000, 900 tons of freight. IL requires a little matter of 1,296,0O0 employees to do this work Rather a big business to turn over to a group or any number of groups of professional politicians, is it not?
 MT Bryan cites the railroads of Ger many as proof that his experiment ought to be successful in the United States. The total railroad mileage in the German Empire Is 34,016. Three States-- s--Pennsylvanla, Illinois and Tex as-have as many miles of road as the Kaisers whole empire. Some of hls friends point to the example of New Zealand If all the railroads of Aus tralasia were added to all the railroads of Europe the total would still be less than that of the United States As for the German railroads. they are not owned and managed by the Govern ment in any sense in which the people of the United States can understand and employ Government ownership While the roads are operated by the German states. these states are par ticularly private corporations so far as the railroad business Is concerned No question of railroad policy Is de- termined by popular suffrage or party conventions or political leaders The railroads are outside the entire realm of partison politics. They are not con- trolIed by politicians, they are not ope- rated by politicians, they are not af- fected by campaign considerations.