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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
Why naalei.

 Jacksonville Times Union,
 It may be asked why does The Ttmes"pnton advocate the nomination of Senator Daniel for the Presidency.
 Because he stands for conservative Jeffersonian prineipleS.
 Because ne is a Representative of the South, her thought and tra 1itiOn.
 Because he stauQs against the cen, traltgation of the republic and the pa tsrnalism of the government. Because eS;l be stands for Democratic people for the beneht of the few building up one industry to the ruin of another.
 Because he Is in favor of equalizinE the tariff upon 2 revenue hasls , Because the time has come Eur the South to assert herself in national af- fairs and to claim the right to mako the Dem 0erattc nominee.
 Senator Daniel Is not alone among the great Democratic leaders of the South. The South has moro than enc man hrainy enough to ref sit honor on the Presidency. but we cannot think of any other who would combine the qualities of statesmanahip as well N Tth elements of availability. Senator Dan- iel has lodged no issue and evaded no fight and yet he has no hobby, and has made no enemy, He is In the full vtgor of his intellect, retains his phy- sical strength and represents all that cratic Party.
 Virginia has furnished several Pres. idents to the Uni0n. Washington, .ief. ferson Madison, Monroe were amons the giants of the earlier days of the republic. Senator Daniel would bring back the na4sOn to the constitu- tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
 YETERANs TO RETIRE.
Few Of The old Timers In The SixtIeth
 CanEress.

EGN Ol The OAM AhrA8tb Ale ClANAGtE
 Congress.
 Washington Special.
 When Representatives Bankhead. of Alabama, and Robertson of Louisiana, retire from the House on March 4, De- Armond of Missouri; Jones, of Virgin la Livingston, of Georgia, and Meyer. of Louisiana, step forward a peg in the ranks of the veterans in continuous SaO tidal wave and have served in the House since that time.
 When they first entered the House there were quite a number of distin- guished and prominent Democrats with long records of service to their credit. In this particular the service record than on the Republican side of the House, as 10 now the case. These four Democratic survivors or the Fifty-Sec- ond Congress had for colleagues such CTS of Texas; Crisp. Blount and Glenn ents, of Georgia; Herbert and Oates, of Alabama; Richardson. McMtllan and Enloe of Tennessee; Hatch and Dock cry. of Missouri; Holman. of Indiana, known as the watch dog of the Treas. ury," and the great ohteetor;', Kentucky; Breekinridge. of Arkansas. and others who have long since Te- tired from politics.
 crats exceeding the Republicans in the number of veteran members. the latter then, as now, had the ope member with the longest continuous SerVlce Whlcl carried with 1t the title of father of the House" And the most remarkable part of 1t is that Pennsylvania. the Keystone State. has held the honor fot
 "Pig Iron Kelly. the father If the House. was succeeded by Charhe 0 Neill. who in turn, was succeeded by farmer, and the honor now rests ua0u Col. Harry H. Bingham, of PaIn5yl- vania Had 1t not been for the bCeaS in Uncle Joe's' service in tho Fifty Cecond Congress. he would be rather of the House as weil as Sisdker
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

"Whither are we tending? asks The Montgomery Advertiser. Some of us are making trips to the apOthecary's 8 shop as a result of Christmas eat ings."-COlumbus Enquirer-Sun.
 It is dlscouraging. but true. that some people will never learn modera- ton in eating and drinking. However. they help the doctors and druggists, which eveus things up to some extent some of us" should reform.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
A New Tvne of Pntrlot.

The worlds greatest authority on fishes works for the national govern ment at Washington. Rene Bache tells us in Technical World Magazine for January. His name is Theodore Gill; the multiplicity of his titles and de- grees being ornitted--and he occupies room in the north tower of tae Smithsonian Institution To enter that room would friEhten timid person. II is filled with an .ndescribable litter of fishes and snakes in big glass jars, other wonders Of the mighty deep Yet out of this seeming confusion have come great additions tQ Che Scten tific Knowledge Of the world. And be- nevolent and paternat government pays Dr Gill for his laboTs the sum of St q month.
 The fact that the scientist has a Personal fortune of a quarter of a mil lion dollars, and that he is a faP0ritG dinner guest in Washington society only marks him as a member Of the nations New volunteers. an army oi wealthy naan whe. are doing patriotic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
WOMEN HAVE TROUBLE.
Martha wnshlngtOn Hotel wln Probably

me NE01GGs
 New York, Dec. 2S.--A long meeting of stockholders of the Martha Wash ingtoh Hotel. a hostelry exclusively for women was held yesterday to de- eide the fate of the establishment
 Dissatisfaction that has arisen with the management and number of stock holders demanded a change. It was finally decided to present to the board of directors for their decision a reso- lution recommending that the hotel be leased.
 Many prominent persons in the city joined together to establish this hotel for women. The idea was philanthropic in that If was planned to give a pleas ant home and chance for social in- tercourse at moderate cost to women who worked for a livelihood.
 Since the prOpery was bought, it has doubled in value and the Martha Wash ington now is said to be worth about a million dollars; this fact alone making 1t impracticable to hun the hotel ac- cording to the original design. The econon( praeticed by some of the pa : irons. rho continually order half DOT. tions and carry food to their rooms. besides having stoves there for light oookiriS. recently eaused the closing of the American plan restaurant,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
Gettlne Ready for the shor.

kansas City Times.
 T thought you said you were going to tar and fea ather Bowieknife Bill for shooting up the saloon and letting a barrel of whiskey leak out m the sand. %
 "Thev's been little uuforgeen delay. They aint a feather bed in town and the boys air busy now cuttin' the wool offn a bunch O buffalo robes"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

The advocates of ship subsidy and a big navy thought they had a good ar gument in the prospect of a war with Japan. over the San Francisco s0air, but that has peteVed out and they must and something else. --.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

Some one has discovered that there is a law, passed fifty years ago, docking the pay of a member of Congress for every day he is absent from the House without leave. but none of them seems tO want it enforced. Each one Is prob ably afraid it would hit him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
MaHIm Grows NIaaatonoas.

WaehingtOn Herald.
 Maxim Gorky has left another caun- tonous. Maxim need not mention his travels again unless he should happen 10 leave some country in another state Of aaind
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ror the Lee CentennfaI.

LivinEston, Ala. Dec. 24. 1908, Editor Montgomery Advertiser. Mont
 gomery, Ala
 bama and throughout the country will be seekln gapprepriats snpgs for use In celebratlnR &he birthday or sen Robert D.. Lee. suggest that you re- produce the following stanzas. select ed from a poem In the current mum" Der of The Outlook. With slight adap- ton, they may he effectively sung. to the air of 'Massa's in ae Cold, Cold, Ground. using ss chorus the iouF 1SS Very sincerely yours.
 (Nissl Julia Tutwiler.
 "sfarne Neh&wt fs AsleeP."
 By Miss g B. Valentine. The following verses are based upon an incident of the war between the States Gen. B. D. Fry, os tho Con. federate Army, (formeyly a reaidsnt Of Montgomeryl. related the story to the author. General Lee, soreiy fat igued by hard days march lay down on a log beside the road and quickly fell asleep. Soon 2 column of soldiers came down tta voRas tanw atEae a1Ad taai<- trooper who had been standing guard by the Generals lmproviged couch, rushed out into the road and whisper- cd Hush, Marse Roberto Asleep!" The the ranks instantly subdued. tiptOed past thetr sleeping leader Had you heard the distant tranping On that glowing summer day! Had you seen our comrades running To meet us on the wayl Oh. the wondrous sudden silence
 Tn unmilitary creep, As down the line that caution ran. 'Marse Robert Is Asleep9
 Chorus, Tread softly, soldiers.
 Reverent silence keepi Down the line pass on the whisper. "Marse Robert is asleep! There lay that knightly figure,
 one hand upon his sword, The other pressed above his heart A VOW without a word! Two laurel leaves had huttered down. For flowers their viglls keep And crown'd him. though think they
 knew,
 'Marse Robert was asleepl" In glorious old Westminster,
 No monument of war. No marble stOFy's half as grand
 As this our army sawis Over leafy old Westmlnster--
 Virginia woodS-stilI keen Immortal that lew whisper,
 ''Marse Robert is aaleepI''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

E s. Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn, says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiaer'E circulation for the month of Oete- Der. 1906. is true and correct and compiled after all returns from newsboya. news agents spoiled and leftover copies have been deducted. E. s. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager. sworn to and subscribed before me this 1Tth day of November l906 (seaL) F. W. JACKSON,
 Notary RtibTfr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
ADVERTISERS. EVT0RN-TO fyERCEJT.A .ATI0N.

Any day in the year you can look right here and find this sworn Detailed State nlant of The Advertisers Circulation for the preceding month.
 The net paid-for circulation during octo- Der was follows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
PROBATE NOTICE.

The State of Alabama. Montgomery County.
 To William L. Johnston, who resides d Winston Salem. North Carolina.
 You will take notice that on the 8oth day of November, 1906, certain paper in writ- ing purporting to the last will and testa- ment of William J. Johnston was filed in the Probate Court of this county by Robert q Bishop and herewith his application for the probate thereof as such will and that the Fist day of December. 1906. was ap- pointed a day for hearing said application, at which time you may appear and contest the same if yQu see proper.
 Given under Nny hand this s0th day of No~ Ne"iOs' J. B. GAsToN. sat-2t Judge of Probate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

Johnny-whats silence, Freddy?
 Freddy--Its what you don't hear when you listsh,--kansas City Inde- bender
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon Avon,
in the County of Warwick, Gent. in per-
feet health and memory God be
praisedD do make and ordain this my
last will and testament in manner and
form following: that is to say."-then
after yet more intrOductions comes the
long list of bequests and instructions to
his executors.
Trustees and executors come face to
face with some very curious requests,
sometimes, indeed, requests that COM
mon sense insists upon disregarding.
one of the most remarkable conditions
ever presented to an amazed executor,
for example, was the command of a
New England gentleman that his skin
be made into two drum heads, the same
to become the property of an old
friend who should go to Bunker Hill at
sunrise every nth of June and there
beat on the said drum the tune of
Yankee Doodle" The request was
the more easily ignored as it had no
bearing upon the actual disposal of his
goods and chattels.
And hardly less startling was the
wish expressed in the will of Jeremy
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
opening Paragraph the Signature

discourage vice among their immediate
descendants. There is a Long Island
will i'm which a man of considerable
wealth provided that none of his heirs
should inherit unless they could give
proof that they were leading lives of al
most angelic virtue They could neither
smoke nor drink; they must be up
early every morning and breakfast at a
certain hour; they must be in the house
early each evening; they must be in
dustrious; they should never enter a
barroom and should not marry until
the age of %. Out of all the heirs
there was only one who was willing to
come within the limits of the specifica-
tions.
quite the opposite of this Long
Islander was the queer old Finlander
who cheerfully devised all his property
to the devil-and the state at once
took possession of it. Perhaps hardly
less cynical was the man in one of our
western towns who devised all his
property to any man who could prove
himself a Christian. defining the word
"Christian" in way that no mortal
man could possibly come up to. And
here the court set aside the will and
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

Bentham, distinguished author and
founder of the school of utilitarianism
that his body be embalmed and seated
in his favorite arm chair at the ban
quet table of his friends and disciples
at any especially important meetings.
The wish in this case was actually
carried into effect, and for several
years the figure of the benevolent phi
losopher still presided over his friends
banquets-gazing from a glass case,
to be sure. but described as having all
the appearance, thanks to the skill of
the embalming process, of an excellent
statue. But as time went on the ban
quets became fewer, and the old gen.
tleman now sits in the museum of an
English college.
In actual donations of money that one
or more trustees must administer the
human nature of a will lies more fire.
quently in its smaller than in it's larger
donations. A man in England. for in
stance. some time ago, bequeathed the
sum of twenty shillings a year. payable
at five. shillings quarterly, to a poor
man ''to go about the parish church
during the sermon to keep people
awake and to keep dogs out of the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
How Jay Gould and Coils P. Huntington Waged
Railroad Warfare When the State Was Young

sued. The owner of the dog said: XIV
has got him. but when the dog and
coon came out of the log the coon had
Ky. In this contract Huntington has
Gould, for the reason that the Southern
Pacific has the money and the contract
is contra bonas mores and consequently
is not enforcible."
After the road was sold by the re-
ceivers and passed into the hands of Il
new company. suit was brought with
the result that the Texas & Pacific
obtained nothing.
Famous Men
The country has produced famous
railroad men. The first was the elder
Vanderbilt. What he ACCOMPLISHED ,vas
easy He possessed great power to
forecast. He bought the stock of the
Harlem first, then that of the Hudson
river road, and through those acts ne
nad the main line westward on the
MP and 1T was easy for him to get hold
OF that. He built nothing but sinnly
operated to get control of what ha1
peen built. Tom Scott was successful
IN the pennsylvania road through
manipulation OF the legislature of that
state. He had such control that a
member once moved final adjournment
of the Legislature 'if Tom Scott had no
more business for it."
Jay Gould began by wrecking the
Erie and then acquired and sold il at
great profit. He also wrecked the Wa
bash, acquired it and it is now one of
the Gould properties. One of the most
dlfflcult roads to build was the Cen
tral Pacific, and through his energy
and genius c. P. Huntington gained
no inconsiderable advantage over the
Union Pacific by building a consider
able number of miles more than was
supposed he could do in the time linn
tied which gave his company the lands
and government guaranteed bonds that
oaks Ames hoped to obtain for the
Union Pacific.
huntington was not railroad wreck
er nut Il railroad builder, and none of
the roads he built ever passed into
bankruptcy He never defaulted i'm
payments of interest or wages to his
employees. James J. Hill has been a
successful builder and operator and
without federal government aid his
success has been due mainly to the
economies he introduced in both con-
struction and operation. Huntington
charged all the traffic would bear but
he did not go so far as to materially
impair patronage. The fact is he built
roads through sections of the country
that had no alternative but to give the
business to him. Gould managed to get
hold of properties of lasting value,
which he transmitted in healthful con-
dition to his children
There doubtless is n strife between
George Gould and Hartman for trans
continental traffic and both are great
railroad men. The younger Gould has
built and expended on the safe foun-
dations that his father prepared for
him. He will not go into water too
deep for him. Compared to George
Gould, Hartman is farmer in rail-
road matters. He probably is strongly
entrenched besides the resources he has
personally acquired, and doubtless is
very capable. but he cannot be more
level headed and safe footed than
George Could nor is he planted on
more solid ground. 1t is a strife be-
tween Titans.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
Ny Letter

] sent my love a letter fine:
/ said her eyes were black s night,
/ sworc her eyes is stars were bright,
] praised her tresses, soft and brown,
1 said they We're her heauty's crown.
/ vowed she was my little queen,
The sweetest maiden ever seen.
I wrote all that I dared not say,
And sent my letter far away.
o, would that l might join it's flight
And see those starry eyes of night!
All, will they frown or will they shine,
When my love reads my letter fine?
sent my love letter sweet;
] said my heart was hers to axe
| swore my heart was hers to break;
| said though many maids there be,
She was the only maid for me;
My hope to gain her for my wife
The rainbow of my stormy life.
And promised I would tender still
My loving service to her will.
That if her snowy hand she gave
l would be hcr devoted slave.
All. my poor heart! How will she greet
This letter written to my sweet?
j. Walsh in Baltimore American.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

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it has been translated into fourteen
different languages in Europe and
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cludes also books to men, young and
old, has attained q circulation of over
a million copies.
What Young Boy Ought to Know.
Revised edition by Sylvanus Stall, D.
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Landscape Painting and Modern
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is short and concise history of land
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Miss Edith Rickert went to England
five years ago to write. In travels,
lelsurely and intimate, she settled for
a long stay in the Shetland islands
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Folly is a tWo-edged title-the nick
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other man who was doomed to short
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finally of the struggles on what Miss
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

saved the executors untold perplexity
by giving the property to legal heir.
Very Old Custom
Dividing property by means of q will
is custom of ancient origin. perhaps
the earliest mention of a will being the
statement in Genesis that Jacob gave
Joseph portion above his brethren.
In Greece wills are said to have been
made as early as 594 B. c., although
legislation covering questions of lega-
cies probably came INTO being several
centuries later. From those early days
until the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury individuals acted as trustees un-
der wills. Finally lawyers began warn
ing their clients against the dangers of
trusteeships and the rascality of un-
scrupulous trustees has formed the
basis of an infinite variety of plays and
novels.
Half century ago the first trust
company that included trusteeship
among its routine duties was formed in
England. So successful have been the
trust companies that there are nov
more than 600 of them in the United
States, with resources of more than
$1,000 100000 and aggregate deposits
amounting to nearly $4,000, 900 900, or
nearly one-ffth of the total deposits
of all the banking institutions in the
country.
Trust companies act as executors,
administrators or guardians. A trust
company cannot be persuaded into
dangerous investments in Or
der to gamble for large returns upon
the property committed to it's care. Its
clients interests must be guarded ac-
cOrding to strict business and legal
principles. 1t keeps its trust funds en-
tirely distinct from its own affairs, but
the capital and surplus of the whole
supplies a guarantee that
its obligations in Il fiduciary capacity
will be properly fulfilled. In many
the trust department occu-
pies entirely separate quarters with no
relation to the banking department ex-
cept that of depCsitor. Corporations
of this kind" said an officer of a trust
company, in discussing the terms of
the Field will. have the advantage
over individuals in possessing better
of profitable investments,
better connections for the transaction
of business and better command Of
legal and financial sources of advice
and information"