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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
DUTY BY MISS JULIA TUTwTLER. Dedicated to the Boys of the soufh.

General Lees invalid mother used to say of her son: Robert is to me both son and daughter"
 General Lee wrote to his son at West Point: My son, always do your duty. You cannot do more; you should not pr willing to do less. Remember that duty Is the suhIimest word in every language"
 The greates. generals of modern times have ascribed high praise to his military ability After the war, an insurance company offered General Lee the position of president. with q salary of S25, 1000. He refused, saying: ''I do not understand the Insurance business. ; They replied that this was of no con sequence, since they wanted only his name. His answer was: My name Is not for sale.''
 He accepted the presidency of a yIr- ginia college, at that time small and obscure and until his deaths erformed patiently and censcientiously the duties of thls office.
 A boy beside his mothers couch
 With watehful care Is bending, Her every want with tender touch
 And thoughtful care attending. She lays her hand upon her son,
 with gentle, soft caressing: My daughter and my son Tn one,
 She says. with words of blessing
 Chorus. While bards and poets off have sung The praise of love and beauty, The noblest word In every tongue.
 Said Robert Lee, is Duty.
 A leader bold, yet never rash.
 Where armies meet contendinE, Where cannon roar and weapon clash The very heavens are rending, Calm and serene, unmoved. he rides.
 Mid musketry's fierce rattle, With eye and hand the whirI wind
 guides,
 And rules the storm of battle. A teacher mid Yirginia's youth.
 In quiet patience seated,
 He guides them in the ways of truth World-honored, though defeated; saint In heaven, high glerifeo-
 His memory let us hallow! Come veal, come woe, what ger De-
 tide,
 His noble footsteps follow. It fs suggested that the above stanza: may be sung to the saIl of 'ive Founo A Friend, o, Such FriendF' IL is hop ed that they will be found helpful 1h eelebrating General Lees birthday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
WHAT WE NAV ExPrCT.

Speaking of the recent speech of Sec retary Root In New York. The New Or. leans Item says,
 Running through that speech IS the intimation that the powers Of the gov ernment will be nbeTaliy construed by the Supreme Court, so that in time by inference and implication that body win so enlarge the functious of Congress and diminish the powess of the State as to prat tically bring about more intense Federalism without resorting to an at tempt c. amend the present cnnstltu- tion. Fortunately the Supreme Court is a strenuous defender of the rights of the States It was Justice Brewer who so signally rebukcd the Secretary in d later speech. and now We have de. cison of that august tribunal in the cases of Edwards and Mckeudra. which went up from Kentucky rhis decision looks like a direct answer from tna Cklef tribunal of the nation to certain utterances that have come from the eX- ecutive department uf the government and its immediate re resentatives. Ina court held that the cattle quarantine order issued by the Secertary of Agri- culture is unconstitutianal. lnasmuch as it attempts to regulate the movements Of cattle within the state, q thing be- vond Federal Jurisdiction. MT, Root in his New York speech, said that the con- summation of his policy of centralizn ton could be brought about by the Su. struction of the constitution. This lat est decision does not look as though i that court will break from its ancient moorings: but 1t is veil to bear in minf that Of the nine justices, one has al ready been replaced by late member
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
PERSONAL MENTION

MT. Rush Pearson Burke. a Etu1enr at the College of Physicians and Sur geons. in New York cty, is visiting hls rarents, Mir. and Mrs. J. D. BurAe. 70 Sayre Street, for the holidays.
 s < Ss MT. Paul Hausman, a former eitizen of Montgo emery. now engaged m DdaI' ness m Peoria. IL, IS in the city tO spend a few days.
 < $ Ss Mrs. F. A. Woo-rufg spent Christ mas with her mother and father, MT. and Mrs. L. s. Sellers at Fort De- posit,
 Mr. g. 1T. Scott O. Taliassee was in Montgomery yesterday. accompanied by
 9 @ % Mir. H. H. Hayes of Union Springs Is at the New Mahson.
 8 as Ss MT. L. S. prnctor of Sheffield Is at the New Exchange.
 M @ & MT. W. g. Monk of selns was in the city last utRht.
 w 6 q Mir. N. H. Millikin of Mobile is in Lhe cltN
 Mr, Harry R. shorter of Eufaula is U" @ % S Mir. W. P. Lay of Gadsden is in town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
Mir, Reid'. Spare Diet,


 Whltelaw Reid. Ambassador to the Court of St. James has come home for the Christmas hOllda ys and wi 1 end a good deal o the time In Washlng ton. While here. he will of co rse, bs entertained much by tn society and diplomatic sets who. perhaps, are not aware that he Is on a diet of a very simple character, an1 that they nj st govern themselves aecor 4ingly so r as he Is concerned. M.. Red's diet consists almost WI oily of mi k. ot which ne drinks eopious'v a~d O. oat- meal the food of h's ha dy g eth an cestors. It IS sad that. for ear O. more he has partsken of no other food than this, and that the strictness vita which he has observed the re gilnen, which was prescribed for hi n by a his constitution wonder uly. Mr Reid never possessed a supersbundance pf physical strength and stamina and but | Cor h!s extremely careful hab ts 10 | nearly a quarter of century, he ! would have been a chronic inv alid lon ago, # alive at all 1t is reported that ! he is now in more robust health than
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
WEDNESDAY,. DEcEMBER 2o, 1906
4 HnRnrurn s~nRv


 / One of the most horrible and revolt ing stories that has come tn our notice in many days is contained in q brief Christmas morning. and as many of our readers may have overlooked 1t we re- print the essential portion. It is of 8 midwife In Paris. and reads:
 The attention of the police was at fracted hy the fact that no deaths Of children were reported from the estab- nshment and an invessttlFation resulted the complicity of a servant, 4had cut up and burned the bodieg of the child ren in Pig steve in the dining room dence obtained indicates that one hum dred and twenty children were murder ed by the two women.
 Not the least revoltins part of the stnry Is the natural suspicion that these human ghouls were not alone In their crImInality, though their own part in 1t is almost beyond belief. This brutal and horrible butehery of newborn babes whose eyes had Just opened to the light of human existence Is so indescribably hendish that humanity finds it diaieult to believe that things in human form could be so utterly lost to all feelings of humanity as the acts of these fe- males--it is shame to call them wo- men proved them to be.
 But the most disturbing thought in connection with this affair Is that it seems incredible that such continuous and wholesale series of murders could have been committed without the cOn- nivance or criminal indifference of others. It doesn't seem possible that the parents of the babes could have been kept in ignorance. The mothers, if they were human. would have tired to learn what had become of their little ones. and 1t does seem that the health officers and the officials of the city would have had Knowledge or what was going on before the number of butehered innocents had grown so great If 1t was ignorance it was a case where ignorance was criminal.
 But the most horrible feature of this wretched business is the thought which will intrude itself that the moth CTS of these slaughtered lnnocents must have been crimlnally indifferent, or they must have connived at the crime Tn Paris, We are informed, there are many women. and not all of them of low degree who will go to any ex- treme rather than have 1t known that they are mothers and perhaps a ready method of saving themselves from such burdens as babies was to allow the flendish midwives to work their wills  on the offspring of crime, In some cases. and of unwilling mothers. m others.
 No one. we presume, will believe or even imagine that these midwives carried on the.r butcheries without get ting pay for their foul work. There was not only Nsome labor and trouble connected with ths manner Of getting r1d of babies but the women must have known that there was risk also in the practice No punishment Is too great for these fends, but we imagine that inquiry and punishment should reach higher than the two who were - in all probability mere tools for others
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
THE DAY AFTER.

he has enjoyed for many years, and that he does more hard work tn m ne pIvsiciam put him on the SD re dlst mentioned. It Is lurther reported n U the Reids are de1ignisd with the iile In Enkisnd and that their popularity with the ru In classes >vsr there eN- ceeds that of any Amer can antoa x l- deriai family in that cU-ntry TOT many vearE,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
It Waa Al Hot Langnagc.

PhNaGeIphia Fress.
 What did fataer say when you told him of our engagement?' asked the aweii-er--really. dear" began young @oh. you can leave out the swear aThan there's nothing to tell you,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26

South Carolina and Tennessee are not iA harmony about Speaker Cannon. Both states wanted the vacancy on the Rivers and Harbors Commission and Tennes- sue got fl. That let's Cannon out with ehe Palmetto staters
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
Dina With Us
Mortgage Sale.

Under and by virtue of the power com tained In that certain mortgage L.ade by C, A. Allen and his wife. Eliza B. Allen. to then Union Bank -& Trust Ca. dated May 18th 1e04. and recorder In Mortgage Book is3. page lO6 in the office of the Judge Of Pro- bate of Montgomery County. Alabama. the Union Bank Trust Co. will. at hoon, on the 5th day of January, 1907. al Court Square Basin in the City of Montgomery. Alabama sell at public auction. for cash. the property therein described. to-Wit:
 The west half of the southwest quartefi. sixty acres on the north end of the east haif3 of the southwest quarter: sixty acreF 0h the north end of the west half of the southeast quarter: twenty five acres on the south end of the west half of the northeast quar- ter; and fifty acres on the south end oe the northwest quarter. all In Section zs, Township l5, Range IT; also. eight acres In the southeast corner of StStion %. Town- ship i5 Range 17. bounded on the east by the above deseribed lands. on the south by lands of W. S. McGehee. on the west and north by lands Of Finn. and the whole aggregating two hundred and eighty-lhree (2S3l acres more or less. and being the same lands recently conveyed 10 J Pettus by the American Freehold Land Mortgage Conpany Of London. Limited.
 The proceeds of said sale to be applied to the expenses Incident thereto WILD attor ney's fee and then to the payment Of thS indebtedness secured thereby -
 FF~~ ~i' Mortgage.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26

Tn day or two we will begin to get in returns from the accidents and cas- ualt'es that will result from Christ mas frolics. A thoroughly safe and sane Christmas is hardly to be hoped for. but we always look with dread for the reports that come in after the holidays are over.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26

For some days now we will be enter taIned,, If not ed.fed, by details of the manner in which Roosevelt spent his Christmas. Very likely he took the oc- easion as good one to write a mes sage
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
sontheru rronerty va.re,.

Manufactu. CTS Fec rd- Baltimore.
 As a matter oE re tJrd O. increasing prosperity In the South, the fol owing tab.e of estimated tue va ue li p ope.- ty there in 1900 and BOA tOmpfieI by ihe Manufacturers Record ron d bui letin of ts National Census Bdre4u, IS of interest;
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
slg.gs4.sas a76 l..e2a.17l as5
Total

The increase in values dur ng the mast two years has be esn quite as gr sat as the increase between 800 ana 1914, and the wealth of Lne South Is now quite IS0vnU0O.OvO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
TALKING RrGHr our.


 The San Francisco Argonaut stands up and talks right out loud about the school embrogllo, thus:
 eve assure President Roosevelt, Secretary Root and Secretary Metcalf, thet 1t is inmaterlal to the people Of California what construction may be uut on treaties and laws in so far as schools Of this state The people of California will never permit children uf Asiatic descent 10 sit at the same desk and occu the same room with their white children. The government 0f the United states is powerful, but 1t. Is not powerful enough for that"
 That is very much to the point. but The Argonaut means every word of 1t, we do not doubt Our contemporary dues not intend to convey the impress sion that the people of California will rise ups in armed rebellion if the gov ertlment undertakes to force mixed schools on the peo. le of that State. but 1t declares that the attempt will cause all the schools in the State to be turn ed over to the Japanese and other Asiatics of all kinds. and then the white fathers and mothers of the State will educate their children In their own V 1ys AA A@ HV@ SO 9s0@O0 9At tAC AAAEA ence Is that the public schools thus modernized would not receive any pe- cuniary assistance from the State or the cities. That we are persuaded would follow any attempt by the gov- ernment to force mixed schools on the South. The government may in sonle manner usurp the power to osen the 1Ie SA ol9 ke,.A cannot force Legislatures to apprppria- ate money for such schools After all, the whole affair may have been merely big Roosevelt blum. of which he us- usally has store on hand
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 The Pittsburg Sun ruminatss that the Republican party Is going to feel very tired before the canal Is finished If the Iresent line of policy is adhered to. Then it makes th.s sort of implied in- terrogatory:
 Hundreds and thousands of working people In the United States living ir foul narrow, dark, dirty. disease breeding tenements will wonde' why their Government can take such elab- crate pains and precautions to prov. I c sanitary and pleasant quarters for Spaniards. Italians and Jamaican ne groes, as well as the few Americans working on the canal. and vet wholly neglect them In this country.
 Why may we on the Panama strip srend Government money to provide good food cheap. and plenty of amuse- menus on the side. and vet leave the poorer classes at home to grapple, un- aided. with rapacity. fraud and extor- ,tion.
 All this favorltism, as The Sun views it. is due solely to politics and to noth- ing else; or, as it expresses the matter, privilege backed by rolitics governs this country" We presume no one will care to dispute that statement except those who are benefited by the privi- Iege and politics grating process. But what can be done about 1t?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
sTATE RTGHTs AS ISSUE.

Many Democratic Lend F. as Strong
 for Cen -rallHatl0R Rs RO~t.
 The iaea now has been advanced that 1t Will be well for the De noerat a..... ( 2 and au balI.e In the next national ca h- pa gn for the prese vation Cf that which is left to the Sta .es. HoNe ter ,leslrab4e this may be, however atri : otIc. 1t will be most di.Acu |; ana tn 7 reason is that members of the penio cratic party have apparently los. n tersst in tIie d JctrineNof S,ateS' ri sh $. The generation that has xro Gn lp since the war seems to "a little Tor these things. 1ncesd. we ar Lc nu- cratic leaders. adyoeat ns polices ol capitalization which Tu far p@yOnd anything which has. been advocated h. to the Federal government Tor in- stance, the ownership and operation ot all the railroads tn the country Whtch cross State lines Woul1 ve the ad- minlstratfon fu-4yt as II uch. if n t nInre, power than Hamilton D al of giving hln a life tenure and the appoi tnlulL of the governors of the States. SLcn m power as that which soLs Democrats think should be given ulti nate 10 the Federal government wSt&d d) more to obliterate State !.nes than any other policy or p!an .whieh could he President to continue himself in office For life without difficulty.
 The doctrine of States rights how ever may be revived into II ing issue by events. An attack bY the Fed Al government upon the ght of the D O. schools they support Rssy rudelSi ewak- en people to the importan'e U, cOn~ tending for the ancient faf h for the rig of local sels-goveFnment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
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washington Herald
 Bradstreet's says: "The Christmas trade Is breaking all recotds." And that isn't all 1t is break n 2. either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26

~~--~------>-~ -~------@~@~ N < Noble. Circulation Manager of Tn" Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. ssyAs
 The foregoing sfstsrnent of The Adv~r- SsseF's circulation for the Tsenfh Of Ortn Fer. isos. is true and correct sn4 compiled afseT all returns from Hewshavs. new sR~ats. @nniIAd and Ieft-rvse eaoiAs have besk deducted F NOBLE.
 Cfrruiattnn "fanaEer 9rorn so and auhscr;hrS Ssfore me this zTs. dsv of November. 1908
 tS-at1 F " JACKSON.
 Nnta-v pwhiss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
THE EVlLS OF
 CONSTIPATION. Everyone Knows When He is COnstl- pated and Everyone Should Know the Risk He is Running When
 He Fails to Promptly
 Correct 1t. Any Disease Epidemic or Otherwise to Which He or She May Dc Exposed is Sure to Result Seriously.

There are two ways to remove cousti- patton; the wrong way is to drench the bowels with powerful, gripping, drastic eathartic that injures the coating of the bowel channels and produces an early -eturn of the trouble in more chronic ;orm. The right way is to use natural, .asy and mild laxative that tones up and trengthens the bowels and leaves a lealthfuI influence behind it. Prickly Ash Bitters will empty the bowels just IS thoroughly as the harsheS catharties, md combines all the tonic and strength. ming properties necessary to Perma- leutiy cure the habit.
 Accent no substitute. Insise oa having
 the genuine PriclSiy Ash Bittefs with the
 large figure in red on the trnnt lanei sald Ever,wheea. Price sl.o0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
Time Soon Up.

Only a few more days to use our pass. and it's Christmas times, and the trains all late
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26

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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-30

judicial opinions If he believes them
wrong he should attack them with all
the strength Of a vigorous intellect
Money should be only secondary con.
sidcration.
"Thcrc is a difference between u
lawyer aud an advocate The latter
often wastes much of his minds
strength on expression; but ne also
stands often in greater esteem In the
public mind, and we often find him
on the judicial bench. though a man
of deeper mind and less gift for oX-
preston might be better fitted for the
place"
"Thc lawyer is a many.sidod man.
He Is an individual TO whom Is en-.
trusted the life, liberty property and
reputation of persons who are at once
his fellow citizens aud clients lie
must, therefore. be viewed as a pro
fessiOual man, Il citizen sustaining the
usual relation of citizen to citizen, ms
a member of the bar having close re-
latiOns to the court before which he
practices and. by virtue of his calling,
a man to whom the community in
stinctivoly turns in case of trouble for
advice on both public and private mat
ters, for assume that If he does not
know something more than the mere
mechanism of his occupation and has
not spent some time at least in famil-
iari2ing himself with the works of the
great iurists of the ancient and mod
orn world, he has not risen to the true
dignity of the profession.
81 hardly htiuk | am in a position
properly to advise the young man OF
today Just how he should study law
| Not having had the advantage of 4
tutor or law school, or even the asso
citation of kindred spirit i'm my stu
dies, and my reading having been guild
ed more by chance than design, | dc
not claim to be competent to judge
how a young man should enter upor
a professional career. But | am salts
! fed, after many years, that | pursued
! the best course that | could, CirCum
stanced as | was. | first borrowed {
copy of Blackstones Commentaries
and. having read ii to no advantage
| became convinced that 1t was not {
| good book for a beginner and turned
my attention to the civil and crimina
codes of the state in which lived ant
read and reread them and became ia
milar with their provisions and mem
Orized portions of them.
81 may be old-fashoncd in my ideas
but ! am convinced that the lawye
forty years ago was better equippe
than the lawyer of the present. Blu
this may be because the calling wa
not regarded as a trade or get-ricf
quick business, and there was not s.
much haste, but longer and bette
preparation than now"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-30
NEW RULES SAVED GAME.
Old Yale Star Says Revised ReeuIa
tons Wonderful Improvement.


New York. Nov 2i.-"The new foot
ball' has come to stay, according To
Curtiss, the wcll-liuOwn Yale graduate
and athletic authority He Is an init.
mate friend of Walter Camp, father
Of American football" ana any opinion
expressed by him may usually be prop.
crly assumed to reflect the expert ath
lotic opinion Of the university of which
he Is a graduate,
"Aftcr watching nearly all the i'm
portant gridiron contests that have
taken place so far this year, especial
hesitation in pronouncing the new
style game an unqualified success"
said Curtiss yesterday anyone who
saw Yale and Princeton battle last
week cannot doubt but that the reform
Legislation has given us a wonderfully
improved sport. Personally. | am sat.
ished to let the new rules stand as
they are, confident that as the time
goes by and the full possibilities in
the rules are graspcd by the several
elevens we will have a game superior
to any kind of football played in this
or any other country.
"The forward passes, while they
were not entirely successful, contrib
uted an exciting feature to the game
which was entirely lacking under the
old rules.
"Tn fact, | may say that all that is
needed in every respect is more ia
miliarity on the part of the college!
with the new rules When they com
prehend fully just what the changes
are and the latest possibilities In the
new rules. the contests will progress
as smoothly as did the games undeI
the old rules.
"ln fact, | may say that all that IL
needed in every respect is more ia
miliarity on the part of the colleges
with the new rules.
Certain persons have suggested
that with ten yards to gain, four downs
should be substituted for three. | SEE
no need for that change. Yale showed
on Saturday that it was possible Il
gain the necessary distance in three
downs, and if the rule were amended
by the substitution of four downs !
would tend to drive the teams back t.
the old style of mass plays-the yer!
feature the friends of the game wisl
to eliminate. Moreover as the rules
are better understood new methods TO
getting the necessary distance will
constantly appear.
"To sum up the situation, | believe
that the new rules have accomplished
the desired reforms. They have devel
open an easier game for the player
and far more thrilling game for thu
spectators to watch.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-30
SENATOR ALLEN SPEAKS.
Madison County Statesman Elected
Vice President Of Association.

Former Senator William V. Allen of
Madison, who has just been elected
vice president of the Nebraska Bar
association, spoke of the needs of a
successful lawyer at the state meet
ing. He said in part:
THE successful lawyer must be hon.
est, He must entertain no thoughts
of tricks or devices. He should love
justice for itself He should think
honestly and then he will be sure to
think logically, Anyone will trust the
open, logical lawyer rather than the
man who depends on sophistry and
trickery to attain an end Nor should
a lawyer be satisfied with the present