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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Is It Worth While:

Washlngton Times.
 Andrew Carnegie has no son and only one daughter. so his hundreds of millions will start no line of Carnegie Kings. Russell Sage has neither son nor. daughter and his fortune will be scattered among strangers. Leland Stanford had only one son and he died. e. P. Huntington had no children. Frederick Vanderbilt has no children. three of the youngest Roekefellers. al- though married for ten years or more. have no children. .'
 This is the remarkable information conveyed to us by Cleveland Moffett in Success. It Is revealing table. In if may be found the whole story of present-dav Snaterialism, the opening chapter and the last, with all its greedy ambitions realized-and all it's human hopes choked.
 For nothing these childless rich can buy will give the castles they call their homes the jov that comes into the poor ries by the thousand. investments by the hundred, colleges spread over souare miles of countryside. railroads Rirding a continent with ribbons of steel. secu- rites choking safe-deposit vaults a levy on all the liGht of the world not any of these things or all of them together can fill the heart and brighten the life like q single. little. bad, wor- risome. towse1-headed youngster. And a family of them is joy multiplied.
 Yet these people, as a class. have rHOSeD IO nave lt 50. JUey knew rom their own childhood what it was that made the real home. but thev willfuliv locked it out. Many of them have lived in dreadful loneliness. All of them must die in awful solitude. And for monev--which has to be spent to be enjoyed and simply cannot be en- joved alone.
 What sad thing it is! What a pitiable thing it is to see people oozing vinegar, exhaling bitterness. breathing either stinginess or eXtrava gance. hoardinG, counting. storing. slaving. deliberately shutting out of their hearts the sweetest, the most joy-Eiving. the 1ob1est association men and women can ever know in this happv. fearful, whirlfnE. settled world of ours'
 Is it worth while? Go and stand be- fore one of the libraries Mir. Carnegie has built to hand down his name and ask yourself that question. Or look at the dinRv figure that men call Russell Sage. Or contemplate the lonely sor- row of old Senator Stanford when his only boy had died. Or picture Coils Huntington here in Washington vast ing the shadowed evenings of his life lobbying for money that was not his. or note the lives those others lead. lives of shell and crust and ostenta- ton, or else lives of heavy emptiness. Then think just once of vour own home. and the sunshine of the laughteri you hear there--yes. and the choke in your heart when some one there is ill You will not need to ask them:
 Is it worth while?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Morf00oe Sale.

Purusant to the power and authority afven in that certain mortgage made by SaIIie R. Janney and G. Fl. Janney. on the Sth day of December 1900. and recorded In the County, Alabama. in Volume 5- T of Mort the said mortgage and debt thereby has been assigned. will on Friday. .he 1st day of February, 1906, between the legal hours ef sale. at the Artesian Basin In Court Square. in the City and County of Mont gomeTy Alabama. sell to the highest bidL. der for cash the property conveyed by the said mortgage. situated in the County of scribed as follows, to-wit:
 The SEE r Of Sec. (. containing one huri- dred and sixty (160) acres, also the E of Sec :. containing three hundred and twenty (S2O) acres also the E of Sec ,. contair- ing three hundred and twenty (220) acres also all of Sec. 1, except the W x Of the NV k. containing five hundred and sixty (5e0l acres, also the N x ef the N E of Sec. ls. containing one hundred and sixty (Iso5 Sw A of the SW h containing ore hufsdred and twenty (120) acres. all in T. IS. R is; also the SW E of Sec, 31, T. 16, R. i4; also the W E of Sec. 6. containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres, also the NK of Sec ', containing three hundred and fweptN. {320) acres, also the W iz of SW K Sec T containing eighty (S0( acres. all in T. i5 R. of satisfying, as far as possible, the debt se- cured by said mortgage and costs and ex- penses incident to said sale.
 This 2no day of January. 1906
 NATHAN GREII. Steiner crum & Well.
 Attys for Mortgage. wed-4t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Light on the Trusts.

DIOOhlS II LdBlt.
 Not content with the attention which the railroads and insurance in the long est message on record. Commissioner Garfield is going octopus hunting g. Con gress has Instructed the commissioner to report upon the Oil Trust and the Steel Trust, but it. is reported that he had collected considerable information about the business methods of those passed. He has also been inqulring into the methods of the Lumber Trust and the Coal Trust.
 The beef Trust has already been re- ported upon and the Tobacco Trust and Sugar Trust will be inquired into as soon as the Bureau of Corporations can get to the work. The reports in all these eases will go directly to the PreSi G;; ident. Then the reports on the oil and the Street Trust will be sent to Congress, which asked for the informa- tion The other reports may or may not be transmitted at the Presidents s pleasure. They will make a inc lot of ammunition if the revision of the tariff should ever be taken up seri- ously.
 On that point. however, the Presi- dent has not yet grown more strenuous than his party If the facts or big monopolies which are sheltered behind the DinRley schedules should De made public, there is little doubt that the popular demand for revision would pc as great as it now seems to Dc TOT the curbing of the railroads; The Eagie Washington correspondent reports that the corporationB have ceased fighting the efforts sf the bureau to learn how they do business. and that, like Davy Crockett's coon they come down when con1lntesioner Garnsld's
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
THE oLp ro THE NEW.

When the decrepit old year tottered off the stage and the virile young new year bounded on, the old left to the new a lot of complicated matters to try it's mettle on. First. the Panama Ca nal matter. and a more vexatious leg acy has rarely been left to any one. It is in every respect and from every point of view strictly unfinished busi- ness. A more thorough muddIe has rarely confronted our Government, Congress included. than this Panama job. No great undertaking on the part of the United States has been so com pletely up in the air as that now is. Those who should know most about 1t are either undecided or are working at cross purposes. Congress is expected to vote funds for the work. but will not be satisfied without more informa- ton. No one can expect the new year to see the completion of the job, but If it sees an intelligent and harmonious beginning made it will do well.
 Then there is the disagreement be- tween President and Senate which came over from the dying year and which threatens to become worse in- stead of better. wfth all his impul- siye. clustering methods he has learned and is learning that the Senate refuses to be brow beaten. He may bluster and bloviate as much as he chooses, out he will not whip the Senate into vfolat- ing It's convictions or surrendering its nriviIeses at his command. Both in the Panama matter and in other af- fairs there are differences which do not seem adjustable and which the pres ent year may fail to. sec satisfactorily arranged.
 And there is the Roosevelt mess of San Domingo affairs, the Venezuela sauabbIes, the trouble in the Philip pines, the Cuban affair. the vexatious Statehood question. the trouole-breed- ing tariff, and number of other cares and responsibilities which the old year passed on to the new and which will serve to make of the present decided ly strenuous period of our history. The young year came in saddled with a full pack of responsibilities. and we suspect that some of them will be passed on to another year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
A FINE SHOWING.

The statement made by Hon. John T. German, State Examiner, published in The Advertiser Monday morning, is de- serving of special notice. It reveals two important facts: First, that the ex- pense attached to the work of examina- ton is a good investment for the State; and, second, that Alabama has honest officials. Occasionally an official falls, and it would be strange if. out of so many, there should not occasionally be dishonest one, or one who exhibits his dishonesty while in office. but these cases are so rare that they only prove the general claim that our State has good officials.
 We we'll remember that when the of flee of public examiner was first insti- tuted. more than twenty years ago. al though the extent of his duties was limited. the new departure was looked on with disfavor. It looked as though the State thought it's officials needed watching. and that the accounts of public officers should need examining was not relished. This feeling has largely disappeared. and the report of the State Examiner shows that the of flee is a proper one and that it has been faithfully administered. The state ment that s15o,000 has been recovered for the State is a sufficient argument in favor of stated examinations of of fees.
 The reports do not charge or show that the money thus recovered was the result of dishonesty. except in a few rare cases, but was on account of errors which involved no moral turpi- tude. When we reflect on the number of ofices to be filled in Alabama, the number of new and inexperienced men who are elected or appointed to them, we need not wonder if some of them are not good bookkeepers or financial experts. Rather it is surprising that more errors do not occur in the multi tudinous work that must be done. Personal and official honesty is not aI- ways a preventive of errors, and most of the mistakes discovered by the ex- aminers are honest ones and are COL rected as soon as pointed out to the of- ficials.
 On the whole, the statement of Mir German is highly creditable, both to himself and assistants and to the State and it's many officers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
In Behalf of Childhood.

Editor Of The AdVertlSer:
 SC, GOO @ chiidren. from six to sixteen years of age. working in the cotton even at this season, and the working day is twelve hours in most of the work at night.
 The National Child Labor Commit tee, organized a little owe. year ago, has already succeeded in securing laws ing children in twelve of the States. Our Southern States are behind the others In this human legislation. Some of them have no laws at all, and no
 h the meantime the very strength and vigor of our pure Anglo-SaXon stock is being sapped by this sys- tenn of working the little children. mute appeal of their helplessness to be delivered from this slavery.
 The National Committed, on which there are twelve prominent Southern in Atlanta with a Southern man in charge. Funds are needed for the legitimate expenses of the legislative campaigns now in prospect. Every be expended to protect the, little chil; dren of the South from the fearful consequence of too early toll.
 In the name of Him who was born tie children. this appeal Is made at this sacred season for this sacred cause. In the happiness of your own children, think of the little workers at the looms and among the the sPfindNies. Ns tionai Child Labor Committee, Room GOA, Century Building, Atlanta, Ga.
 In behalf of the children. In the name of the Christ Child;
 Secretary,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
The Modern Farm.

Evening Wisconsin.
 There must be bright intelligence and up date knowledge on the farm. There are these things on many farms. who are waxing prosperous. The most intelligent farmer, other things in cluding industry. being equal, is as q rule the most prosperous farmer, in the principles which identify 1t on the one side with science and on the oth- CT side with business. The old times when the typical American farmer was caricatured as MT. Hayseed have passed away The typical American farmer today Is an alert. intelligent individ- ual. and in the West as well as in the East he will soon be as keen to avoid waste as the typical manufac- turer is. Waste is every year in every industrial pursuit less and less compat- ihla with SucCeSs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Race Problems.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Richmond Times-Dtspatch.
 The Charlottesville Progress repro duces with its approval some com ments of ours on the saying of Senator Gearin of Oregon. that the people of the Pacific slope, who have a race prob lem of their own. are willing to leave the Southern people to settle the ne- gro problem in their own way. The Progress says that it makes differ ence whose OK Is gored, adding:
 Now the conditions that surround the Chinese problem on the Pacific slope are precisely those that environ the negro problem in the South. If the Northern people had negro ques- tion at home. they would take the view of the Oregon Senator"
 Precisely. But in some localities of the North they have q small-sized ne- gro problem. and they deal with it as we do down here. It Is all in the point of view
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Money in Raising Black Foxes.

Worcester, (Mass.) TeleEram.
 A Maine farmer who raises ncihing but foxes claims to have discovered that the black fox is not q freak and he ir proceed ing to prove this theory by mixine black fox from Ohio with red ono caught in Main woods. From the cross he has a pair of fine black foxes 10 weeks old. and these twins are not the first he has raised the same way he is confident that time he r.ay be able to replace all the red foxes on his farm and raise for the fuf market nothing but the finest blacks. whose pelts sell for s200 to $500 each. Judging from sales made in the past. the four black foxes he has now are entered on ais stock list as worth s1,O00. and h. feels rich He has the foxesfoxes inclosed by wire fence sixteen feet h!sh.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette tells of somewhat singular movement now being made, or prepared for. by certain prominent Republicans of that State. They contemplate asking Governor Guild to recommend to the L.egisla- ture the enactment of laws which will practically give the State full control of the municipal affairs of Boston. The only reason for it that is apparent is the expectation that the Governor would place the affairs of the city in the hands of the Republicans. It Is hardly expected that the Governor will do anything of the kind, but if he recommends such legislation and the assembly follows his suggestions we may expect some lively kicA.ag in the goodly city, and with good reason.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Cnnnda Eyadlnr High Tariff.

Detroit Free Press.
 American capital Is being expended every where throughout Canada in the promotion of industrial enterprises designed to meet the demand of 'he people and even the tariff restrictions enacted Inc dominion parliament in retaliation for the discri- m .ination practiced by the Enitec States. The general and provincial governments arc giving bounties for the establ' hment of certain kinds of factories and mills. one re sult of .nis being fnuaG at tho Canadian Soo, where ste,i rails and other similar products are being turned out in large quantities Raw materials no longer find heir way to American factories in the volume they once did there to be converted into the finished
 product and sold t0 Canadians at a hand some prof. while the money expended for labor was distributed among workmen on this side of the borcer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

g'he New York Tribune. in an ar ticle about corn meal, regrets that the gennihe article is no longer procurable in the markets. Thereupon The Nash vile American thus lucubrates:
 It is a curious, we may say lament able, fact that the right kind of meal" has almost disappeared from the mar ket-place. One must seek for it In the remote hooks and corners of the far interior where a few old-fashoncd wa ter mills still stand along the alder shaded streams. It is there that the right kind of meal" can be found. It Is the only kind 1t for use in making corn pone, hoe-cake. Johnny cake nush, mullins and eggbread. Ground from selected corn on slow mill. not bolGed but transferred from the family meal barrel through the sitter" to the tray! For the rest let Aunt Dinah or Miss Mary look to it. It will not ap- pear on the table to taste like sweet enea bran or dry sawdust. If that is the kind of meal The Sun and The Tribune arc thinking about it l. the rirht kind. AS for New England Iheal, fhd only kind we ever tried was made of yellow corn. and meal made of yell low corn is an abomipation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Commissioners Sale.

NO. 3l16. ter esallia A. Knott, Complainant, ys. Samuel c,
 Oliver. ct als Respondents In the City
 Under and in pursuance of the decree and order of sale in the above stated cause rsn- dered by the Honorable. the City Court of Montgomery in Equity. Alabama. at the Oc- tober Term 1905. to-wit. on the 9th day of Minutes of said Court on the said 9th lay Of November. 1905. shali on the 9th day of January, 1906 proceed to sell at the Court Square Fountain; in the City of Montgcmery. highest best and last bidder. the following described real estate situated in the County of Montgomery. State of Alabama that f9 to say:
 Township sixteen Rapge eighteen in Mout- gornery County, Alabama. containing one hundred and sixty acres more or less.
 Said sale being maee for the purpose oe division among the joint owuars Of said land.
 the south. Highland Park on west. and ia crossed by the street ear line.
 THOMAS ". OLIVER wed-fri-sun-tf Commissioner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Sidewalk pencilinss
wonan Prlsonsr on Horseback.


 To my mind 4the necessity of putting the city's patrol wagon into service was more forcibly illustrated than ever before on night or two ago." said a citizen yesterday
 One of the mounted patroimen was forced to bring negress to the police station asfride his horse. The woman was arrested in the early part of the night and she was charged with some minor offense, but she had to be taken to Headquarters The patroIman ar rested the woman over in North Mont gomery, near Riverside Park. and the question with him was how he would get her to town. There was no tele- phone nearby to call hack and no ve- hfcles passed in that direction for at least an hour.
 As last resort. the patrolman com nanded the woman to prepare to ride horseback Co the station. She mounted the horse and straddled the animal be- hind the officer. The trip was quickly made to the station and the patroiman had to stand the jeers and t2sts Of his associates They have named his horse The Living Patrol Wagon.
 What will next be pressed into ser vice as q Black Mariah!" F1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03


 percentage of negroes to the total pop ulation Is less than in some of the Northern cities, of which. strangely enough. one Is Atlantic City. N. J.-- San Antonio Express.
 ! The white population in Montgom- cry exceeded the negro until the ex- tension of city limits was made by act of the Legislature a few years ago. That change brought in larger num- ben of negroes than whites and pos sibly the above statement is correct. The white influx to Montgomery. how ever. in 1904 and 1905 was very large and there is continual growth in Mont gomery's population by people moving here. The census of 1910 will show a city here of over 5o,oo0 and the white people largely in the majority.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
REMARKABLE REGENT ESCAPES.
PerilIOuS Position Of . Mountain Climb er.-Mnn Imprisoned on Top of
 Mountain.

Surely one of the most terrible ex- periences which ever befell man, says Pearson's Weekly. is that which. be- fell the Honorable Gerald FitzGeraid while on Monte Rosa, in attempting to descend to Macugnagna. He had left the MargherIta hut, and was tied be- tween two Swiss guides named Amer, father and son.
 On the way down they were passing along q dangerous ledge. when MT. FitzGerald and the younger guide fell over The rope held, rowever. and young Amer succeeded in dragging hiEnssn np ovar ths faes of the rock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
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fIt.s the Same Old Tale.l
NY pHu. ". ARMSTRONG.

Some tell it in palaces--marble and gold. To lady in silks like princess of old. Some tell it timidly; some tell it bold But it's the same old tale. Some tell it in lands of the snow and ice; Some tell it in climes of the cocoa and spice; Some tell it for love and some tell for great price But it's the same old tale. In the tongue of the English--French, Spanish. Hebrew, German. Greek Cherokee Russian, Some show it, some talk it, some sim ply "coo-coo"-- But it's the same old tale. Some bashfui ones write it--but that's rather dry: Some poets they print it (but they only he); But no matter how, when, who. whither or why
 It's always the same old tale.
 Phil H. Armstrong.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

gun points that day. If these reports become public property a tariff light as fierce or fiercer than the coming railroad fight is only question of time
 The real missionary work before Messrs Williams and Ti1iman is to con vert the President to Democratic tartn doctrine, as they claim to have done to the Democratic position on railroad rates That would open possibility of reforms which would be general and self-operative, instead of special and enforced with club as in the proposed dealings with the railroads.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
Home Product.
Newspaperdom.

The Montgomery Advertiser issued on December IT a Christmas edition of 100 pages, which is said to be the largest special" ever undertaken in the South. The reading columns of the paper were entirely the product of Alabama talent, illustrated by The Ad- vertiser's own artists and engraved un- der its own roof. There were 26.761 copies of this edition sold, according to the bona fide statement of the pub fishers, which Is not to be wondered at after one has glanced through the paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

The writer in The New York Sun who says the time has come for a universal language may be correct in his theory, but working it out will be job. Then there are times when a man wants to express his feelings in about 'steen languages at once. No universal busi- ness would satisfy him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

The Guthrie state Capital claims that football Is the most invigorating of American college sports" Yes, WIG have noticed by reports of games that 1t 'invigorates" quite d number of the Dlayers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

Wonder why 1t is that people in some New Jersey towns have been sec ing blood-red cross in the sky when others have not seen 1t. Perhaps the Christmas things were stronger in some places.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
With old Glory.

"Well,' said the man who is alwayS talking. my cousin covered himself with new glory at a battle with the insurgents the other day"
 No" replied the man who knew best The covered himself with Old Glory He wrapped the American flag around him and ran like the devil"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
An object Lesson.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Our municipal ferry to Staten Island is a financial failure. Ii loses $500 a day, because the employees do less work for more pay than on other ferry lines, and the service Is too poor to warrant emigration to Staten Island Heros a lesson for the people who want to tax us a billion to buy railroads, gas works and groceries
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03

The Raleigh Times declares that not one person in million would change places with Rockefeller, but we suspect if the chance were given them the odds would be the othe rway
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-03
The Cold Hard Truth of the Matter,

Brown-Do you believe that babies really say the bright and clever things that the comic papers credit to them?
 enthusiastically not--if they did there would never be any need in a man growing up.