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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

9Copyrirht. 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) N A cat in a strange garret, a dog Shat has lost its owner, fish out or Awater, each in turn symbolize the ex- Areme of discomfort and misery. DIS eontent with ones environment IS wretchedness.
 % Nobody who is intensely lonely can be anything but forlorn, although he -xnay put a brave face on the situation and hide from the people he meets the yearning he has for home companion shfp. Men often feel the bangs or home sickness and rebel against the Hullness of solitude when their neigh Aors suspect them of no tedium and suppose them to be quite free and easy an their independence. A married man whose wife and children have gone away for a summer holiday. leaving him to hold the fort alone. picking up meals at clubs or restaurants, and sleeping in a house that echoes to the dread and has ghosts prowling about in every shadowy corner is much to be pitt 3ed. Scores of such men go to business Every day during the heated terms In Dur cities. and at night return to sleep Nh houses as silent as the tomb They do not complain. they write jovial let fers to the absent ones, and they make a pretense of engaging in such pas- dimes as are open to them. but the Summer wears on their nerves.
 N A boy or man away from home for the first time. missing the familiar chores at morning or evening, and the xnother- breeding that has been so con- Htant and so sweet from childhood on. Kinds a boarding house among entire sstrapgers as desolate as the desert.
 What diversions are there for tho Aonely man? What shall Adam do in an Eden where there is no genial con- srade to take him by the hand and make him feel that he Is of much &C., 1count7
 < Eve, left to herself. finds plenty of Occupation for brain and fingers She -inay busy herself with delicate laun- dry work not to be entrusted to the ,rough handling of servants. Stocks. lace handkerchiefs, cuffs and collars and the various etecteras of fem thine toilette, may be periodically renovated in her own room, If she have the needful apparatus. She has stockings to darn, mending to do, shirt waists to make. hats to trim. embroidery to fill her leisure. and all ways endless letters to write and some times books to read. A woman has the advantage over a man in multi tude of small resources. trifling in themselves. but essentially worth while in their results. and excellent as things that pass away time that might be empty and lonely.
 Notwithstand a general opinion to the contrary. a man Is more dependent
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on the society of others and on the friendship of his equals than Is the av- craze woman.
 When a man has a fad or a hobby
 of some knack at cabinet making or his neighbor who understands only the single round of the days work. A fellow who plays a musical instrument. whether 1t be banjo, mandolin or plano. can always while away solitary even- ings. but the man who is most to be envfed is the one who can take an old. disreputabie and brokendown bit of | furniture, desk, a table, sofa, and | spend long and patient hours on rub
 bing 1t down, polishing and restoring
 1t so that he serves a double purpose;
 not only does he save the enormous expense charged b ythe trade for reno- vating antique furniture, but he makes his wife or sister the envy of all heE friends by the marvels of his workman
 ship.
 In a plain little parsonage in the | mountains, never mind where, there | are chairs and dressing tables that
 anyone In the smart set might covet, l evolved from the rubbish heap by the | delft hand and skil1ful labor of a mem-
 Der of the family, who never finds
 time hanging heavily or knows the | meaning of solitude, except in the | sense of privilege and benefit l A naturalist, whatever his field, Is | master of moods and often considers
 companionship superfluous. If one is | devoted to the study of birds or but l terf1ies or beetles, one need not dread
 a hermit life. Although ones home
 be fin a crowded town. there are sub urbs within reach and the man who would amuse his leisure by any de-
 partment of scientific investigation, however humble. will not complain of l loneliness.
 Strange to say. although reading be | ones passion, 1t is apt to pail in a | house where one is the solitary occu- pant. The fire on the hearth in win
 ter may give cheer and take away the
 sense of absolute seclusion, and a pipe l is a good deal of company, but in sum
 mer. with windows open and a fire
 less hearth, even the pipe Is a dis l appointing makeshift for a familiar household presence. One loves to
 read If there are people moving about.
 if somebody sits near with a bit of
 needlework, or if h another room
 there Is the low-voiced talk of young | people who are a world to themselves, l or If in the nursery above there are little rosy children fast asleep. But a
 book read in the silence of deserted house often adds emphasis to home
 sick yearnins for company
 Of course the man who is alone at home may write letters. Whether or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
England Mnx RuiId New Cannl..

It does not seem to be TeIt in Eng- land that the days of the canal boat are drawing to close. A scheme was laid recently before the royal commits sion on waterways providing for con- meeting the four great ports of London Hull. Bristol and Liverpool by canals The route from Birmingham to Bristol would cost S3,400.O0e, and that from Birmingham to Liverpool $11.100,00 The counties through which the pro- posed canals would pass produce year iy 129, 900, 900 tons of minerals, and il is hoped that a part of this would be shipped by water.
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LOcuSts in Algeria.

Locusts are devastating Southern Algeria The swarms are so great as almost to defy imagination. It Is not easy to conceive of an almost solid
 phalanx of insects 125 miles long by six miles wide. Unfortunately, the devastation which such myriads of vo- racious insects must create in vegeta- ton is not so difficult to appreciate. Wherever the host has passed nothing green remains. Even the houses are
 becoming uninhabitable. The Oran province seems doomed for this year.
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porters of the royal arms above the consulate gate, therefore the real
 brute should be very appropriate. But the Brtton escaped tho. necessity Of ao- cepttng the unpleasant gift. T am
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Atlanta and Charlotte Sleeping Ga
 Line.

Line. The Southern Railway announces Pullman Drawing Room Car line has been established between Atlanta. Ga. and Charlotte, N. C., on trains Nos. S5 and 36 This car will be placed in station Atlanta 800 p. m. for occupan- cy and at Charlotte $500 P. m. for oc. cupancy.
 Brooks Morgan, A. G. P. A,
 Atlanta, Ga.
 Jno. Metcalfe, T. P. A.,
 Montgomery. Ala
 adv12t
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THE DIVERSIONS OF ALONELY MAN

Away Small Passthe Time an - & Readng Unais ctory n n Hardeon the Maj
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make an Incomplete present" he res piled, "nnd when you are able to ac- compRny the lion with a unicorn shall be delightsd to receive your munifoent
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An Inconvenient Preaent.

Sir John Kirk was once the British consul general at Constantinople The Sultan had a very savage lion, and he offered 1t to Sir John, reminding him
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Tariff revision was the subject which | engaged the attention of all the speak
 CTS at the Reform Club dinner at the
 Hotel Astor. Congressman John Sharp Williams. Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale, Congressman H. T. Rainey, and ex-
 Governor W. L. Douglas of Massachu- sotts. addressing the club along that line. It seems evident that this dinner | was intended as the first gun of the | national campaign of 1908. so far as tariff revision is concerned. Governor Douglas declared that the people have | to pay $S0,000.000 a year in duties on I hides more than is necessary, and that | If hides were free and the tanning in- ! dustry were open to competition the I results would be seen in an increase
 of $100,000,000 in the amount of busi-
 ness done by American shoe manufac- | turers. He said also that with free | Canadian coal and free iron ore the
 manufacturing industries of New En- | gland would reap much benefit and
 that iron and steel plants would once
 more be seen there. without any dam
 age being done to Pennsylvania coal in- terests.
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Immigration to the South will be largely stimulated by the new Southern States Immigration Commission, inst organized in this city. Delegates ap- pointed by the governors of the South ern States. representatives of various Southern commercial organizations and transportation men met here for the purpose of establishing a permanent organization, with headquarters in New York. The Commission will consist of three delegates appointed by the gov ernors of the fourteen Southern States, together with an executive board of fifteen members, and its duty will be to obtain immigrants for the South, by selecting the best of those arriving in this. port Southern agricultural. com mercial and transportation interests will be eligible for membership. Branches of the commission will be es- tablished at such other points as may seem desirable. It was announced at the first meeting that twenty seven distinct Southern interests were repre- sented.
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After Migrants of All CoIors.

Selma MlrTOT. black who have no visible means of support. Every man ought to be able to find something to do.
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more excitement than either comfort or safety.
 Lonsacre.
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Good and bad boys went fishing in Harlem last Sunday. They didn't go to the river, but fished in a roaring tor rent of water pouring down Manhattan Avenue from two hydrants which had been opened for flushing purposes. Hardly had the stream begun flowing before 1t was seen to be full of fish, from an inch to ten inches in length and "all alive" The news of this pis- catorial prodigy rapidly spread and scores of boys and girls came running from all directions to share the spoil They cared not a straw for their Sun day clothes, but plunged into the rush. ing water and scooped out fish by the dozen Both the open hydrants kept belching out fish and older people be- gan to join In the sport. One man caught eleven, which he afterward ate for supper, and a little boy got four teen. The fish were mostly bass. with some sunfish among them, and their appearance accounted for the unpleas- ant taste the water has had for some time past. People enjoyed the fun more than they did the reflections to which 1t gave rise for on the whole one pre- fers his Croton without fishy additions. It seems to be up to the water depart ment whether 1t is running an acque- duct or an aquarium.
 
 The police force has just had its an- nual parade with 5000 men in line. They were reviewed at Madison Square by Mayor Mcclellan. who also decorated three honor men for deeds of heroism in saving life at great personal peril. The crowd of spectators all along the line of march from Bowling Green to Fortieth Street was something trc- mendous and it was a good natured crowd. too. frequently bursting with applause when well known officers were recognized in the procession. New Yorks police force as a whole is fine body of brave and well conducted men. and on such occasions as this people acknowledge the fact, in spite of all the stories of graft and corruption which they are reading from one years end to another,
 The recent fire in the subway, caus- ed by collision between two empty trains, established two unpleasant facts. One was that the steel cars, supposed to be fire-proof, were completely gut ted by the flames; and the other that the copper sheathed cars burned as quickly as if they had never been cop- per-sheathed at all. The subway was none toe popular before, and this acci- dent has still further discredited it with those who have to use the serv- Ice On top of all this a WestcheSter mag trate says that one prisoner ir th.r' at the Bronx Park police station IS p3Ssenger who has been beaten by 1he cpmpany's special policemen at the telmInal station. Between fire and tlst'Hffs the patron of the subway gets
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FEARS CHICAGO MEAT
CANNED GOODS AND sAUsAGEs GO
 BEGGING.
Tariff Revision Campaign Started southern Immigration Bpreau Es-
 tabIished--Fanishing Harlem Streesg.

New York June s.--The saddest men in town are grocers and delicatessen dealers who are we'll stocked up with canned meats and sausages Nobody will buy these comestibles since the Chicago packinghouse exposures were made and people are eating fish instead to such an extent that 7s0.ooo pounds of sea-food have been sold in one day. The sausage-makers of Brooklyn, who say that their product is made of the very best ingredients. savagely abuse ness and are soon to issue state- ment. Meanwhile eight additional meat inspectors have been appointed and will at once begin work. In some ways this alarm is fully justified, while in others it appears excessive. A physician on the staff of the Post- Graduate Medical School and Hospital of this city says that embalmed beef is dangerous, not so much on account of the chemicals employed as because not
 enough of them are used to prevent putrefaction. A quantity of formalde- hyde. for instance, sufficient to com pletely sterilize a piece of meat would
 taste so strongly of the chemical that nobody could eat it. The physician iutthcI says tndt tainted meat CoH- taines ptomaines. trichinae and bacte- ria, which set up various diseases. one of which, called botalism, is of a type so much like typhoid as to be readily mistaken for 1t. So-called malaria" Is also often caused by bad meat In view of all the facts it would seem well to take to Hegetarianism whenever any feverish Symptoms appear.
 
 More than fifty thousand persons are employed in the city government, ac- cording to a message from Mayor Mc- Clellan just laid before the Board of Aldermen. There are 51,146 of them. to I be exact, and they receive annually
 s64, 4,264,547.62 in salaries. Last year the | pay-roll was only about $60,0O0, 900, and I in 1903 something less than $57, ,00o, ,00O showing percentage of increase which speaks we'll for the activity and inge-
 nuity of the politicians who spend so much time in getting their constituents I 'on de job" The city debt amounts to
 s457. 7.s3e. .745.03, and ss1.S7o.796 must b.
 raised by taxation. Nevertheless. the borrowing capacity of the city for the
 year will be s1s2.96s.3eS and $S3,000, ,00t
 will probably be expended for new
 works. These figures are certainly
 large enough to suit the most enthusi.
 astic financial megalomaniac and suffi-
 ciently significant to shock the reform. ers-but New York City IS a big city
 and everything about 1t, or in it, good or bad, Is big. also except the subway , ventilators and Charles Murphy's alice. . ton for Tim Sullivan.
 ,
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Danderlne Is So ExhiIaraiing,
 Invigorating

and strengthening both the hair and scalp that even
 25c bottle of 1t is often enough to show wonderful i'm proyements It at once imparts sparkling brilancy and veivey softness to the har and few weeks use will cause new hair to sprout out all over the scap and grow abundantly long and beautiful Use it every day for awbe after which two three times week will be enough to complete whatever growth you desire.
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NOW at ali druggists, in three sizes, 25 cents,
 SO cents and $f.OO per bottle.
 EnEE To show how quickly Danderine acts, we TnEEs will send large sample free by return mail to any one who sends this advertisement the knOWltOn Danderlne Co.,, Chicago, with their name and address and ten cents in silver stamps to pay postage
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Of course, the man who Is alone al home may write letters. Whether or
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on the society of others and on the friendship of his equals than is the av- craze woman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-18
Topics Of the Times

Miles w. Dawson, one of the great
insurance actuaries of the country, tes-
titles before the house committee on
judiciary at Washington that the
Iowa gold bond insurance companies
were the worst degradation yet known
in the insurance business. There were
two of these companies and the Times
Republican helped to drive them out of
Iowa. Ex-Governor Shaw and ex-lSec-
retary of State Dobson were officers
in one of them and ex-Treasurer John
Herriott and D. G. Edmundson in the
other. Cyrenus Cole says Cummins
once was asked to lend his name to one,
but was refused.
The Cedar Falls Record, under a two
column head announces Powder Sud-
denly Explodes." Sure. That's what
makes it dangerous.
Cedar county's grand jury met and
adjourned in fifteen minutes. Good
people or poor jury?
Mr.. Alexander Calvert has sold his
interest in the Belle Plaine reunion to
H. r. Mosnat, who takes entire charge
of the paper.
Under Sigourney date the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil says Perkins Carries
Dubuque County," If Perkins carried
Dubuque at Sigourney he carried it
cater cornered more than half way
across the state, and got it when Fred
Kretschmer wasn't looking.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxim Gorky's social
ism seems to partake more of extreme
sociability.
Governor Bob Taylor, of Tennessee,
fiddled himself into the executive chair.
However, he used violin and did not
fiddle" over great issues. Otherwise,
he might have been unable to carry
more than three counties in his home
district.
The gaekwar of Baroda, who is Wis
iting the United States, is maharajah
of the ancient Mahratta state of Ba-
roda in India. His state is almost ex-
actly the area of Massachusetts, and
has about two-thirds the population of
that state. 1t is proportionately richer
than most other Indian realms, how
ever having a yearly revenue of about
$5,OO0,000, and is one of the foremos
of the native states in prosperity, edu-
cation and social and civil progress
The visiting potentate is described as
a highly cultivated gentleman.
Senator Tillman tells of a section of
North Carolina remarkable for the
great longevity of its residents An
odd character there was long known
as "Old Jim Tolliver." No one knew
Jim's exact age, but he was popularity
supposed to be somewhere around 80.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-18
yne- 3eu1h1ira,r, lrsaltunry an1u,s 5llap Is 1906

consolidate the farms, but believe
there will be change. that there Will
be a division of farms instead OF con-
solidation There must be a change.
When the owner of 100 acres divides it
among three or four children and those
children live on their smaller farms
conditions will improve. When fac
tories get started the owners of LOCO
acre farms will find that they can
make more money on their investments
in some other way than by raising corr
on so much land There was one good
feature in the old single tax theory of
Henry George. 1t would have made
big farms Improbable No man would
care to own more land than he could
use well.
.:.:-;.
VALUE OF FEDERAL APPoINTEEs
[Iowa City CitiZenl
What is the use of denying that the
railroads are directing the Perkins
campaign in this state?
The men in charge of the Perkins
interest in this county are in direct
communication with j. w. Blythe of
Burlington and Ed Hunter of Des
Moines.
George w Swords is the receiver
of q national bank at Mnatt. S. d.
Why is he not there at his post OF
duty? Why is he here trying to get
Perkins delegates selected from this
county to the state convention? he
has received o. letter as we are cred
IDLY informed from ]. w. Blythe of the
c.. b. & O. railway, the boss of reserv-
alton, the one who brought jenkins out
as a candidate. Blythe wrote to
Swords that he had procured for him
leave of absence for two weeks from
his duties at Minatt so that he might
look after the political affairs of this
county and he hoped for good results,
etc.
Mr.. Swords will not deny having re-
ceived such letter. In consequence
he is here sitting up the pins for Per-
kins.
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