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The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22
The All Powerful Hat.

Nov. my DEAR" said the indulgent
husband, II have managed to save up
enough money to justify US in buildinx
= new home. But. first, am going to
give you q choice between that and
the new hat you so much desire"
WELL" said the beautiful wife. "you
know I can't wear the house on nv
head. Trade Review.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Matthew Sawyer, age 81 years.
who died the other day in Atchison
county, Kansas, had helped to make
the Inauguration suit worn by Presi.
dent Andrew Jackson He hauled
corn to Atchison in the early DAYS.
receiving 10 cents a bushel. and IL
TOOK an entire load to purchase a
pair of boots
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

II there's an unskinned sheep left
In America, let him walk right up and
present his diploma, demands the
Boston Transcript.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22
WORN TO A SKELETON.

AWonderful Restoration That Caused
o Sensation in q Pennsylvania Town.
Mrs. Charles M. Preston. of Elk
land, Pa, says: Three years ago
found that my housework was be-
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Belgians complain that the quality
OF American goods deteriorates after
the first or second consignment. So
reports Consul McNally from Liege;
and an unpleasant report it is.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

All authorities agree in stating that
the ancient inhabitants of Ireland
must have been very familiar with
gold and W, accustomed to it's use.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Mrs Winslo'~'- ,sOothing Syrupfor Children
teetnings so. thegums, s,reducesinfiamma-
ton. allays cures wind colo, 25c a bottle
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Vegetarians claim that hair grows
less luxuriantly on the heads of meat
eaters.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

FITS, St. Vitus Dance: Nervous Diseases per
manently cured by DR.. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free.
DR.. H. r. Kline, Id, 1881 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Hays has scheme to improve the
human race by the careful selection
OF people for parents of the children
OF the future, declares the Houston
Post.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

As feat in frugality. Castro's sue
cess in saving SO,0Oo, 900 in six years
on a salary of $4,000 must excite the
admiration and bewilderment of even
Russell Sage, observes the Chicago
News.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

II there's an unskinned sheep left
in America, let him walk right up and
present his diploma, demands the
Boston Transcript.
Belgians complain that the quality
OF American goods deteriorates after
the first or second consignment. So
reports Consul McNally from Liege;
and an unpleasant report it is.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Hays has a scheme to improve the
human race by the careful selection
OF people for parents of the children
OF the future, declares the Houston
Post.
As feat in frugality. Castro's sue
cess in saving $3O,O00,O0O in six years
on a salary of $4,000 must excite the
admiration and bewilderment of even
Russell Sage, observes the Chicago
News.
Since that Kansas hireo man arose
In his sleep, observes the Atlanta Con-
stitution, harnessed his team and cul-
tvated eight acres of corn before he
awoke, he has been in receipt Of a
bushel Of letters day offering him all
kinds Of money for his services.
A woman in Flushing, N. Y, declares
the Atlanta Constitution, chewed up
and swallowed, a contract that she
had signed and wanted to repudiate,
and furnished the first instance in
the history of the world where a wo-
man was willing to eat her own words.
1t is doubtful whether a great chess
player is often, we are sure he Is not
OF necessity, to be regarded as a man
of powerful intellect. remarks the
London Saturday Review. 1t has
never been shown that the greatest
masters of the game were men with
big brains for anything but chess.
An engineer who has gone over the
route pronounces the plan of a canal
at Panama impossible of realization.
says the New York Tribune. Opin-
ions probably will continue to differ
until the canal is dug and in opera
ton, and then nobody will care what
was said about the enterprise in 1906.
The new automobile law of Massa.
chusetts which has just gone into ef-
feet forbids a speed of over twenty
miles an hour anywhere in the state,
notes the Buffalo Courier. So, If it is
enforced, the sixty-miles-an-hour ma
chimes will not be an especially at. !
tractive kind Of personal property
there.
President Roosevelt, speaking at
Oyster Bay on independence Day,
said: Distrust as a demagogue the
man who talks only of the wrong done
by the men Of wealth. Distrust as a
demagogue the man who measures
iniQuity by the purse. Measure ini-
guilty by the heart, whether a mans
purse be full or empty partly full or
partly empty. II the man is a decent
man, whether we'll of or not well of.
stand by him; if he is not a decent
man. stand against him, whether ha
be rich or poor. Stand against him
in no spirit of vengeance, but only
with the resolute purpose to make
him act as decent citizens must act
II this Republic is to be and to be
kept what it shall become.
There Is a large class OF frauds
worked upon the public with amazing
of which the bait is an ap-
L
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Some o. largest ocean steamers
can be Ct ted into armed cruisers
In 30 hou;
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

Since that Kansas hireo man arose
In his sleep, observes the Atlanta Con-
stitution, harnessed his team and cul-
uvated eight acres of corn before he
awoke, he has been in receipt Of a
bushel Of letters day offering him all
kinds Of money for his services.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

There Is large class or frauds
worked upon the public with amazing
regularity of which the. bait is an ap-
peal to greed through the proposed
recovery Of treasure. The details are
innumerable, remarks the Christian
Register. The treasure which may be
recovered, if only one can raise an
adequate sum of money to carry on a
lawsuit, or an investigation, or to fit
out an expedition or an estate held
for hundred years in Holland, or in
an English Court of Chancery, or a
large sum of money deposited in the
bank of England, or pirates treasure
buried in the River st. Lawrence or
somewhere in the Spanish main, or
money secreted in foreign land by
some prisoner who is still living, or
some unfortunate exile who has died.
leaving hidden treasure intended for
some dear child or other dependent.
but which will be shared with any
one who will bear the expense of its
recovery. All these have been work.
ed, to our knowledge, within six
months, and the daily papers, in re.
porting them, give no hint that they
are not genuine, although they have
been exposed hundred times.
The weekly messenger., 1906-09-22

A woman in Flushing, N. Y, declares
the Atlanta Constitution, chewed up
and swallowed. contract that she
had signed and wanted to repudiate,
and furnished the first instance in
the history of the world where a wo-
man was willing to eat her own words.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
Didn't Tarry Long.
& s & sound Advice.
oRIGIN OF THE WORD "BOss."

London Sjectator. --.., ..,,o,s ..
 EIs the origin of the woro poss, s, iteIv settled? Tn South Africa the term bass" is commonly supposed to be the same and the Hottentots call the neao of the family lou Daas, or old ooss, and the eldest son is the yong paas, "Ou baas." however, Is a term Of re- snect ana may be used in addressing a beardless youngster who is in pos ition of authority, and there are grounds for suspicion that the words have been taken over by the Duth from an criminal native source >,.,,-
 It is significant that Cicero CDe Vulcan was called by the Egyptians "Obass' who was the son Of CelIum. "Skelrn." in Cape language, Is the same as Burns "squellum" cram Q Snan- ter,"b and indicates an unrully person -Bacchus and his various synonyms who in a sense was the father of all. It seems extravagantly far fetched to trace back the Hottentots "ou baas' to the Egyptian "Obas," but have so frequently come across classical GUS toms among the natives or south Africa that the connection uoes not seem improbable.
 I have seen the wailing for the dead Andonis among the Basutos performed as tremendously Is among the ancient Greeks, while some of the folklore tales of this nation given py Casssalls' can be paraIlled. incident for incident, with some of the greek tales, which n many instances were borrowed from the Egyptians. I should explain that am thinking of the god Obas (Vul- can,) not as the blacksmith of later mythology, but as the very essence of supreme being. We learn that this was the sense in which he was once though of from the inscriptionon the portal of the temple of Heliopolis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
SKIN ERUPT|ONS
 FOR 35 YEARS
Suffered Severely With Eczema All Over Body-Examlned l5 Times by Government Board Who Said There Was No Cure--An Old Soldier Completely Cured.
A THOUSAND THANKS
 TO CUTlCURA REMEDIES


 "For over thirty-fve years was a severe sufferer from eczema. The erup- tion was not confined to any one place. It was all over my body, limbs, and even on my head. I am sixty years old and an old soldier, and have been examined by the Government Board over fifteen times, and they said there was no cure for me. I have taken all kinds of medicine and have spent large sums of money for doctorss without avail. A short time ago l decided to try the Cuticura Remedies, and after using two cakes of Ctiticura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura Ointment, and two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, two treatments in all, I am now well and completely cured. A thousand thanks to Cuticura. I cannot speak too highly of the Cuticura Remedies. John T. Roach, Richmondale, Ross O., Ohio, July i7, iso5."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
TUESDAY, AUGUST ', 1908.
OFF ON A TANGENT.

On Friday last The Advertiser print cd a letter from Rev. A. J. McKelway, of Atlanta, in reference to children Corners Avondale mill. So far only one of his newspaper Inouthpieces has caught it's breath and attempted to discuss the publication. and that is The Selma Times That paper de- votes several columns of it's editorial page to severe arraignment. not of the writer of the letter, Dr. Nickel way, nor of his allegations, but of Rev. R. F. otts. the minister to whom the letter was addressed. The grav- amen of The Times criticism is that Mir Otis has held the letter back. and has tried to put up political trick" at this late day in the campaign. Among other things 1t says:
 The letter is dated at Atlanta and was written on the 4th of July. Mir. Otis has carefully kept this letter sprung 1t now in the hope that it will hurt B. B. Corners candidacy for the Governorship.
 The Times is entirely mistaken in this idea. The Advertiser was care less in its proof-heading of the letter. The date should have been July 24th, not July 4th as printed. The oriGI- nal letter is in The Advertisers pos session, and the date is perfectly plain as stated The letter was in this off, flee for only one day before 1t was printed There was no trick intended by Mir Otis, and none perpetrated by anybody If we had had the letter thirty or sixty days ago, we would have liked it better; it's statements would have reached the mass of peo- pie more thoroughly
 So there is no need of The Times going or at tangent about a trick that was not conceived or executed. It had best devote it's space to de- lending Mir. Conner for violating the child labor law and for having so little regard for sanitary conditions around his mill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
"Tbe old soushN

Washington Post.
 As the influence Of a newspaper is, to a considerable extent, dependent on its character and antecedebts, The Post deems 1t proper to present. a tew items from the biography of the kennebec Journal before taking up. for brief contained in a recent editorial in that
 in 1925, only five years after. Maine stSfe hay1ig 9ssn 1ssG one ree and the other a slave state. as John Gilpin hung a bottle on each side to keep the balance true" the kenneoec Journal, located at Augusta the cap ing as small weekly. 1t grew in a few decades to be a prosperous daily, Beginning life as a Whig. 1t naturally became a Republican paper. But the reer Is that during. the greater part of Its eighty years 1t has been owned and controlled by Representatiyes In the middle of the last century was Lu- tbar Severance. who was one of the seven whigs in the Nationaf House Of ed against approprlating money to de- fray any part of the cost of our war with Mexico They rallied around the House that if he were Mexican he would welcome the invaders with bloody hands to hospitable graves" The most distinguished of the Jour nars list of statesmen editors was James G Blaine. Its present editor Is Represent native Edwin C. Burleigh, nf Augusta. man of brains and char acter as we'll as of ample fpancial re- sources In other national offices. at home and abroad. editors of the Jour- nal have won distinction. Such rec ord ought to be guarantee of fair ness In the Journals editorial dlsqui- sltions How conspicuouslY 1t has failed to meet such guarantee may be judged from this extract from an editorial in recent issue:
 "The new South has been fruit ful theme for writers and speakers during the past generation, and yet every little while there has been abuu- dant and unweluome evidence that the old South has by no. means passed away The South needs more capital, more labor more enterprise, less. po- lltical stupidity; but in spite Of It's heavy handlcaps it has shared to no small degree in the bountitui prosper itY which the whole country has been enjoying In recent years.
 Thank God, the old South" has not passed away; that while she has, "in recent yearg," been accomplishing wealth there has been no decadence of her manhood: that her Democratic rep FeaentatIon In Congress. In both Sen-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
MAKING AND BRnAkINC wII,I.s.

It seems to be one of the penalties or at least the outcomes-Of vast wealth that the possessor's will is pretty apt executed, and probably none ever will be, that may not be contested if there is enough in it to pay liberal fees to the lawyers. It matters not how we'll informed and mentally sound the tes- tator may have been, there can be found attorneys who will undertake to break the will if they are paid for it. However himsy the grounds of contest may be, Q sharp lawyer can make a case. Even if he fails he may involve litigation. and possibly use much of the estate in paying court expenses and lawyers fees.
 As might have been expected, there has already been talk of contesting the Russell Sage will. No one, we pre- sume, who knew or knew of MT. Sage will doubt that he was a man of un- usually strong mind. His will was made some five years ago, when he was mentally-at his best, notwithstanding his advanced age at the time. There are few who know anything of the man who would not say that he was as thoroughly competent to devise his property as any man could be. and that he would make will which would stand against all efforts to break it.
 And yet. for all that. 1t is stated that a nephew will make the attempt, This nephew. as did other relatives, re- celved $25,OO0 under the will, and that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
Prorperoua Country.

Samson Ledger.
 The fault may not generally be known but according to size. popula- tion. and number of industries, Geneva of any county in the State. We have eight banks doing business in the county. with assets and liabilities of over two million dollars, fact which speaks well for our citizens. Our county has not been heralded abroad as has some of the other counties, but honest and industrious people have come and found a home with us. We need only two things 10 make Geneva the banner county of Alabama, and sen timent is fast forming for them. We refer to better schools and better roads.
 Great Is Geneva county
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
DRIFTWOOD
The Cool Green Lane.
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG

The Cool Green Lane.
 birds song Frightened the hours all summer long Where we used to roam and forget all Down in the cool green lane. The coo, ,odgss gfeen lane is the same The The Wid SEas sing now jSss joars ss Down in m the cool green lane! The cool green lane IS the same The wild birds sing now just. as gay But its different now you're gone Down in the eosl green lanei
 After the Rattle. How did Punchen's style of boxing strike k, yS,,Sr~. yous~.
 WhereEverything Speaks. You can brag about yore cities-you
 have reason too l know
 find things slow But back thar in our village fer
 quietor things we seeks And one thing; when folks meet each Evry-
 Body
 Speaks! The city's grand and glittering. with
 streets and 1ectric light With great tall l--buildings-cars and
 shows-and things that give But your city gals are pale while ours
 has pretty rosy cheeks Then. too. you folks just stare and Evry-
 Body
 Speaks! A course I aint a-kickin none--
 'twould do no good you see But was raised old fashioned and the
 old ways cling to me.
 my broad shoes fairly squeaks But when I meet folks back ter Ex,ry-
 Speaks!
 Broken Reflections. The automobile repairer sometimes has to Hay down, on his job. The path to the altar Is bride path
  Usually most everybody is little better than they get credit for be- ing.
 We believe a lot of women could get together and dig that Panama Canal with hair-pius.
 2s g A widow can get a proposal out of a man while young girl is curling her hair.
 % ss Se What a girl likes about riding on a train is struggling with a window when good looking man is watching her. se.e
 e Se S Any fellow that thinks a girl is an angel ought to see her go after corn ed beef and cabbage at the dinner table.
 Ss Se S
 Different. He says he owns as far as the eye can reach.
 Yes; but he's very near sighted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07

document contains a clause that if any benehciary attempts to break the will. the $25.000 shall be lost, go that the contestant will get nothing. This is another evidence of the old man shrewdness, looking at 1t in one way. though it has one weak point He evil dently thought that gift of twenty five thousand dollars to a relative would shut off any attempt to contest the will, but there is where he. made a slip. His estate is variously estimated at from seventy to one hundred million dollars. and out of such a large sum as that to give relatives only twenty-five thousand dollars each. was only to render them dissatisfied and make them all the more anxious to get chance at the main pile. If he had given each of them one hundred thousand, or quarter of a million dollars, it would have been satisfactory, no doubt. The comparative pittance left them has only had the effect of whetting their appetites
 Whatever opinion we may have of a man who leaves such an immense sum to be managed and disposed of by an aged widow, we must all see that this disposal of 1t, and the small sums to his relatives, is really an incentive to litigation, and some of them, at least, would rather chance losing what was left them than forego the slightest hope of getting more. and we may ex- pect litigation over it.
 The nephew who has been mentioned as preparing to contest is lawyer, who probably knows something about the glorious uncertainties of the law" and how to take advantage of them, The young man argues that 1t may not be obligatorysto prove that Mir. Sage was mentally incompetent to make will, probably realizing that it might be exceedingly difficult to make such charge good. What he proposes to do, as we understand him, is to try to prove that undue influence was brought to bear on the old man to induce him to bedueath his property in the way he did This. also, he may not be able to establish, but if he makes that charge in due form, we suppose the courts will be compelleds to take cognizanoe of 1t. and then the litigation will be- gin. This may be all talk on the part of the young lawyer, and he may not attempt such a thing, but if he or any other relative goes seriously to work. they can cause both delay and expehse, however it may terminate.
 supposing. however, that 1t is found possible to set aside the will-that will be but the beginning, perhaps. of Iiti- gation. Heirs and claimants of diff ferent degrees of consanguinity will come into the light and no one may even guess at the end. Perhaps the money might have been as well-direct- ed if 1t had been fairly apportioned among the heirs as it will be under the will, but that is another thing that no one can tell. There's at least the pos sibility of some good pickings for law yers. /
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07

Cunningham Is pledged to the regu- lation of railroad freight rates, being . rather poor imitator of Conner. Conner has announced the kind of rates he wants in Alabama. Does anybody know what Kind of rates Cunningham Wants7 He says he favors the regu- IRtion of freight rates.-Mobile Item
 Here is richness for you. Conner has been for half dozen different rates. one of them being a legislature fixed rate. That would have to stand four years. unless the Governor called the Legislature together every time a change was desired. One of Corners earliest declarations was for the Georgia rate. Then he picked out 100 items on which he wanted Georgia rates. The next proposition was for the Legislature to make the present Alabama rates the maximum and let the Commission afterwards lower them. To cap the climax he hired a lawyer who declared that the Commission law was unconstitutional and there you are. Conner is fer Conner, that's all there is about 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
100000 MOTHERS Daily Tell Other Mothers

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07
THE SHAME nE IF ALL.

A brief statement on local page of The Advertiser day or two ago per- haps did not attract as much atten> tion as it should have done. The statement that there are now ten pris- oners in the Montgomery jail awaitins g trial for murder Is startling. when compared with some other cities. In drder that the comparison may be palmer. we put some facts in tabular form to show the number of murderers in jail in various cities, as follows:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-07

If the rule adopted by the Kentucky Democratic Committee in assessing for primary elections prevails generally, an end to primaries will soon come. For instance, they assess according to money value of offices. For United States Senator, they figure S36,000 pay for a full term of six years. and levy sS,00O to be paid by the candidates. If there Is only one, he must plank down that sum. If two, 1t is divided. There are two and they must pay s4,000 each. Candidates for Governor will have to put up S6.O00 between them, and other offices in proportion. The cost of the primary Is figured at $40,000. and the money is to be raised on the plan above outlined. It makes being candidate fin Kentucky pretty costly for a poor man.