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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
Down With the Bloody Rand.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
 If the assassination of former Gov ernor Steunenberg, of Idaho, last De- cember 30, cansed the American peo. pie to shudder with horror, the pres ent disclosures growing out of the murder should stir them to mighty wrath.
 The detectives have uncovered evil dence which indicates the existence of band of assassins whose bloody trail reaches from Colorado to Idaho One of the men arrested on the charge of killing Mir. Steunenberg has confessed to this fact and he has given the names of the foremost plotters who since then have been placed under ar rest in Denver and taken to Idaho to stand trial. That the confession is not spurious appears conclusive. for many the authorities. Bombs have been found buried in the places described: significant incidents Of which the pris- oner told have been proved authentic.
 Tie confession is a recital of as hid eous q story as the annals of crime have ever produced. It Is history of a murderous conspiracy which has been in existence eighteen years. The men of all ranks. Supreme Court Jus tices. Governors, militia officers and humble workmen have all been the ob- ifcts of their operations. Some of these have fallen victims to the plots and, like Mir Steunenberg, have met violent, sudden and mysterious deaths. Others have succeeded in escaping so Tar. Still others have been marked. but their time has not come
 According to the confession. the plot has for it's aids and abettors certain officers of the Western Federation of Miners. It is these who have lust been arrested by the detectives and taken to Idaho. Mir. Steunenberg was mark ed to die because as Governor of Idaho, he stood for law against violecne of anarchists, who perpetrated their crimes in the name of unionism. He called out the troops and protected human life and property from savage lawless miners. He had been a printer himself and a union printer, at that but he would not tolerate terror and crime merely because the terrorists and criminals bore the union label. That was several years ago The conspir- ators did not forget. At last they dyna- mited him.
 There is no place in civilization for such a band as this There is no prin- ciple of trades unionism that can jus tify it. It Is almost beyond belief. It savers more of Russia or Italy or China than it does nf free America. The au- thorities should search out every mem Der of the band and prosecute him mer- cilessly. Not one should be allowed to escape the justice of the law which has been so outrageouslv defied. It Is crusade which every healthy minded human being will support and cheer. To the gallows or the prison with all the gang.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
ARGuMENrs ANp SWITCHES.

Occasionally some phase of Boston, ian innerness-if that Is correct term for it-comes to light so that common people may be edifed. A few days ago the school board of the Quincy School in that city had before 1t one Alfred Bunker. who occupies the posi- tion of teacher of the boys in that in- stitution. The charge against him was that he was entirely too fond of ap- plying the rod to the backs and oth- CT portions of the boys. The chair man informed MT. Bunker that "to ap- peal to a boy by bodily pain was an unfortunate thing" and further argued that "the appeal should be from the mind of the teacher to that of the pu- pill, without the intervention of the body"
 Teacher Bunker. however. has some old fashioned Solomonic notions about sparing ,Ae rod, and while he admired and admitted the chailman's theory he mildly but firmly insisted that he was the teacher, and that as such teacher he had to deal with conditions, not theories. He said that the heart and mind of a boy sometimes refused to respond to the teachers appeal, and then asked the pertinent question: Shall we send the boy to court, or shall we try to do our best for him on the spot?"
 But when 1t came to details he left the impression that he is rather devot- ad fO Ehi oP or else he has an exceptionally bad lot to deal with. He admitted that nine teen of the boys had received 146 whip pings. which was an average of near ly eight to the boy, but they were not fairly distributed, for one got eighteen trouncings during the term.
 Reader of this case carries the minda of old people back to their early school days, say threescore years ago, when moral suasion was not included in the school curriculum, especially where boys were concerned. A switch of ap- propriate size was as much a part of the teachers outfit as was the knife with which he sharpened the quill pens of the pupils, and we have a somewhat vivid recollection of the fact that the teachers in those days had no conscien- tious or other scruples about applying the rod where it would do most good,
 And yet we cannot avoid the con viction that between the excessive leniency of the present there lies a golden mean which might be better for all concerned. We know from actual observation that there were timid It. tie boys in those old schools who lived iu' such constant dread of punishment and who were so terrified at witness Ing the cruel whippings received by some of their schoolmates. that their lives at school were a prolonged and useless torture for they learned prac- locally nothing because of what they saw and expected.
 On the other hand, there were boys then, and there are boys now, upon whom mild appeals and approximations have about as much effect as pouring water on a ducks back. They cannot be reached or controlled by appeals to their better natures, if they have any or by appealing to pride or ambition. They are impervious to anything ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
FEBRUARY ? IN
 WORLDS HISTORY
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Service by American Press-News.

Service by American Press-News,
 Washington, D. O
 2i2.Geta Emperor of ,ESo Rome eas slain a cited to the deed by jealousy.
 1S04-The first savings bank in Eng land for the benefit of the poorer class es established at Tottenham.
 1S05ANapoleon started on his second journey across the Alps into Italy. War was inevitable, and Bonapartes policy was to strike the first blow.
 1S29-At the battle of Tarqui the Peruvians were defeated overwhelm- ingly by the Colombians.
 1S53-Paul Frederick Augustus, reign ing Duke of Oldenburgh. died, aged 70;
 1S54-The ultimatum of England and France sent to St. Petersburg Lieu tenant St. John, the British engineer attached to the unfortunate Darien ex- petition, arrived at Panama after al- most incredible hafdships.
 1S62-Columbia evacuated by the Confederates.
 IB63-The Confederate steamer Nash ville while attempting to run the Allister and was destroyed by the blockading fleet.
 1S65--A committee of Chlcas@ans visited President Lincoln to secure postponement of the draft and re- enrolment of the district, neither of which requests the President could grant.
 iS74-The Japanese rebel army be- gan the siege of Nagasaki; foreign res fdents took refuge in warships in the harbor.
 1sT5-rhe United States Senate pass ed the civil rights bill and the House approved the force bill.
 1SS4--British forces under General Graham advanced on Osman Digma's army at Suakin, Egypt
 1Ss5--Lord Salisbury's motion to censure Gladstone adopted by the House of Lords. but similar motion was defeated in the Commons.
 1S94-Russian and German soldiers engaged in a fight on the frontier, and European capitals feared war was im- minent.
 The Greater New York bill passed by the Senate at Albany.
 1S95-Postmaster General Bissell of Cleveland's Cabinet resigned. W. l.. Wilson succeeded to the portfolio.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
A Fnrm thnt Rnised a Mnn.

From the New York world.
 The farm at Hodgenville, Ky upon
 which Abraham Lincoln was born last August. Among the intending bidders was a distiller who wanted it to advertise a brand of whiskey. Oth- CTS had designs little less objection able.
 The place was bought for Golfers Weekly, which will turn it over to the Lincoln Farm Association, a body which has as President Governor Folk of Missouri, and twenty trustees of national repute, headed by Joseph H. Choate. william H. Taft, Horace Por- ter and Mark Twain. The association will buy and restore to the farm the log cabin in which Lincoln was born, now the property of. a snowman; will inclose and protect 1t, erect a memo By the Lincoln centennial eas in in 1909 the
 There is not in tEe world a more i'm pressiye spot than Mount Vernon Pre-. model farm that raised a man." as Mark Twain describes 1t. will have it's tZeOS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
UNcoUTH NAMES.

If the Mergenthalers and proof read CTS have stood the strain there will be found elsewhere in today's Advertiser ain article from The New York Mail which deals with some of the unpro- nouncable names of places in the Uni- ted States, and also has reference to some of the really discreditable names of postofices throughout the country.
 Little blame can rest on the gov ernment, the Postoffice Department or the Bureau of Geography for discard ing local Indian names in New Eng land. Of all the native languages or dialects of America, the Indians be- longing to the great Algonquin group perhaps spoke the harshest and most uncouth tongue, as it sounded to Eng fish ears. This group, with its vari- ous subdivisions, occupied most of the Northeastern portion of what is now the Unted States, and they left the im- print of their personality on all the lakes. streams and localities of a large portion of the country Their Ian guage, if we may call it a language, somewhat resembles Hungarian or Polish, but is really worse than sith- CT, and to the English and American ears 1t looks and sounds almost into1er- able, and 1t Is not surprising that ef- forts are from time to time made to change these barbedwire names to something that ordinary people can write and pronounce. Any one who will take the trouble to look up list of the proper names in the New Eng land States alone will wonder why they were adopted by the white people, are perpetuated as they are in geogra- phies and postal directories.
 In the South 1t is in the main wide ly different. There is hardly spoken anywhere on earth softer or more musical language than the Creek. Most of the Southern Indians, especially those belonging to the great Maskoki linguistic group, spoke soft and simple language. as is evidenced by the many names thS..- have left all through this section of the country. They left the names to creeks, rivers, mountains and towns, and they are nearly all simple. we'll sounding and easy to pronounce. There are not enough of them. and in their places we have names that are neither musi- cal. pretty nor appropriate.
 In Alabama, for example. we have such names as Beehive, Crow, Getup, New Moon, Rat, Tickridge and numer- ous others we could name which have nothing to recommend them, and for which there is no excuse, so far as we can see. How much better 1t would be to give to each of these postoffices some soft and musical local Indian name that would sound we'll and mean something. The government is gener- ally very complaisant about naming postoffices as the community desires, but it might draw the line when name is suggested that is ridiculous and unmeaning. There is hardly a place in Alabama without one or more local Indian words which would be suitable for postoffice. and it would not be at all intolerant or wrong for the Postofiice Department to draw the line when it comes to some of the names which can be found attached to offices all over the country. We are not so badly off for good names as our New England brethren are, and ought to use more of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

The Postmaster of Allegheny City has determined to break up flirting by mail through his office and has seized a large number of letters of this character which he knows are for young people under 2l years of age-- Philadelphia Item.
 Can any one outside a lunatic asylum give any ground for such conduct on the part of postmaster? Unless he opens the letters. how can he know that they are flirting" communica- tions? Thousands of perfectly proper letters are written by and to persons under twenty-one years of age. and We know of no law or regulation au- thorizlng a postmaster to withhold them. That Allegheny City fellow needs lesson, and the people ought to give it to him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
ERWIN MAKES PROGRESS.
VIII Now Try to Prove Division
 Profits With Carter.


 Profits With Garter.
 Savannah, Ga. Feb. 26.--The Govern ment is progressing more rapidly in the Greene and Gaynor trial, and the out look now is the prosecution will finish the presentation of its case within week or ten days, though 1t Is not im- probable that collateral issues may de- fer the determination for a greater time In response to an inquiry from the court, District Attorney Erwin stated today that he was near the end of the Governments case.
 There were three distinct phases of the evidence today-the cross examin- alton of c. P. Goodyear of Brunswick. which related especially to the conspi- racy charged by the Government; the testimony of J. w. o. Sterley as to the alleged forging of certain names by Michael A Connolly as one of the overt acts in furtberance of the alleged con spiracy; and the examination of AL phonso K. Deguiseard in regard to the accounts of Greene and Gaynor in the American Exchange National Bank or New York.
 The Government announced that lt was now entering upon the proof to the alleged division of profits between Greene, Gaynor and Carter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
cnrrennane.n in Nynuhinrtnn-

in Inc matter Of splondor Perry Bel- mont WashtinEtton t,I tt resldeneG 1,,. outdoes six liveried flunkies in vivid rcd sa+ in as to the neither limbs and gray and buff coat and waistcoat. Two stands just under the arch of the porte cochere Two others are placed at the front door. When the visitors finally penetrates into the mansion there are two others to point out the road to inc reception chamber Six servitors, just a shade less gorgeous appareled are on duty in the Fairbanks house when a public reception is going on. agree that. while the country generally is drifting away from old -fas shioned social ways, the simple life Is further out of sight in Washington than else where.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
WATCH THE HEAVENS.
Next Friday Night the MoOn WI
 SwOIl0w, as It Were, a Star.


 SwoIlOvv, Hs It Were, a Star. o. A. Granger. in New York Times.
 On the evening of March 2nd, an unusual occurrence will take place in dinary interest to those who have op- era glasses, although it will be we'll worth. watching with the naked eye.
 High up in the southwestern sky will be observed an exceedingly brilliant star This is the planet Jupiter. the largest of the solar system. It makes an irregular triangle with two little of Jupiter being the Pleaides, which is hazy little patch often called the Seven Stars. To the left of Jupiter, the the Hyades. which is a a V-shaped group with the brilliant reddish first magnitude star. Alderbaran,. at the left hSad end of the Nov the Seiest1a baran and I think from this descrip- ton that beautiful star can easily be loeated in the sky. . ,, be occulted by the moon; i.e., the moon will shut the star out from view. This will occur at about 10:35 when as 1t were, and about 1O:37 it will reappear with equal suddenness on the other side of the moon.
 Now a star, such as Aldebaran, ap- pears to be of considerable size. but. as a matter of fact it has no size whatever, being. simply a mathsmati- the fact that an extremely fine hair like wire stretched across the line of vision in a telescope is sufficiently large to blot star out from view, if the atmosphere conditions are all fa- vorable and the telescope is so ad- justed, as to bring the wire exactly over the star
 As the moon has no atmosphere and the star has no size it will disappear with surprising suddenness, and on Friday evening it will be practically interesting because the dark side of the moon will occult Aldebaran and it will seem to disappear from the sky without any apparent cause.
 I think any one who will take the trouble to observe this beautiful sight in the heavens will be we'll repaid, and as it is a free show" I hope there will be large attendance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

else need be tried. Perhaps there were never as many of these hard cases as the old time teachers imagined. and we have no hesitation in saying that the average male teacher Of fifty or sixty years ago was brutally cruel, yet we are pretty well grounded in the belief that if the teacher IS wise enough to know when to apply the switch 1t Is the best way to deal with some boys. When reasoning and argument fail the good teacher will apply something else. and that appears to be the theory and practice of Mr. Bunker. He may be little too strenuous. but. as he re- marks. he Is the teacher
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
A striIIinr Clergyman.

pr William s. Kainstord, who on account of continued ill-health has re- isR' New York City earned his title of the fighting parson" immediately af- ter taking charge of that passionate. on inc Fast Side, and was conducting a meeting when an intoxicated man began to raise a disturbance Dr. Rainsford ordered him to leave, where preacher ppG % walked over and after soma vain barley with the burly disturber suddenly knocked the fellioWW tll down; hurried out Later he was one of pr. Rainsfnrd,s most ardent admirers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
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The Wraithn of the Yearn.
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.

The WFatths of the Years. The wraiths of the Years They come and go Here and there like sea gulls in tho
 storm That swoop and swirl That glide and gleam On the breast of erethic Ocean Now
 seen. now lost. When the storms of diversity gather Over my darkened path The ghosts of my youth Pale phantom shapes that writhe and
 twist, That laugh and mock till reach my And they clasp. but the air empty air. In the ffrelights glow, When the big logs sing and sigh Ever the same In the old monotonous
 strain When the snows blow keen and the
 loose blinds shake. And the long lean branches bow their
 heads To let the Majestic Wind pass by. Iris then l crouch with my cold white And dream my dreams and read in the The history of Daysithat are past and
 gone and Dead. Then they dance The Wraiths of the Years. There's the Wrath of schoolboy. hap
 py free, With expansive smile creeping on to
 school. There's the wrath of Home and the
 loved ones near One by one they crowd so fast They twist and turn and dance They wrlthe and laugh and cry, But they all ascend up the chimney's
 throat And the chimney seems to laugh. But more than all there's the wrath
 of a face, A white girl face and a tangle of hair, And a devilish haunting, Wistful sweet seductive Smile. The smile of a girl lovable maid And the wrath of Cupid Is standing
 near. But his bow Is broken. his arrows
 b1uEt And the white white face With the haunting smile, .. With the non-forgetable smile Fades with the rest. There are other wraiths- But I'm tired now and the fire Is low Weary and sick Of the Wraiths-- Of the Wraiths of the Years!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
1mDroyements in Train Service.

For some years engines have been taking water without. stopping, and mail cars have ben picking mail sacks M, pn annIianee for coaling engines vitb ont Stopping has been invented, end ~,5" eyneriments with it are said to have been satisfaottqSrGy r,I1 The n next tTt imc ,.. ,l S,,tii be A device for throwing passenesrs tSinS on board and off without stopping.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
HOW 10 Treat vivlsectlonIsts.

InWIdWA AWOIIs INVW -. -.,-
 The thing to do with those scientific investigators who are halt kllilng dogs and then turning them out in the streets to die of exhaustion is to in terest them in making that branch of geology which has to do with the re- ductlon of large rocks 70 small Iras
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

The most advanced woman we have heard of lives in Massachusetts. pre- sumably in Boston. She asserts that ''the Lord never intended men to be of any special use.' Perhaps. now, that was His reason for creating the woman so that there might be some useful person on earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

Never knock feller when he is down--he might be under an automo- bile.
 The father gives the bride away, and so does her kid brother, sometimes.
 A good fellow is an ea$y Soft Sap
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

New York Is proposing to build d sure enough sky-scraper. It is intend- ed to be forty stories high, and the total height will be six hundred feet. That will be going upward some, but suppose the thing should topple over and come to the ground? There would be something of a smash in the neigh borhoOd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
To Attend Mecting of raucators.

StHte -SnperlntenuenL OI FuUVHIIUl T.. w. Hill and Secretary of the State Board of Examiners w. E. Feagin left last night for Louisville, Ky, where they will attend the annual meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, which meets February 27.
 They will be accompanied by Prof. C: L.. Floyd, Superintendent of the City Schools of Montgomery, and Dr. J. H. Phillips Superintendent of the Birmingham Schools.
 This is one of the nations most i'm portant educational meetings and will be attended by we'll known school su- perintendarits and educators from the entire Union. Dr. Phillips Is First Vice. President of the organization and will read paper on the work of city superintendents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 President Ruosevelts public appeal in behalf of the famin4 stricken pro- vinces of Japan should meet with prompt response. The need is great and undoubted. The small margin which at best separates many Japanese of the North from starvation has dis appeared. with the failure of corps. Generous as their fellow -cUuntrymen may be, they are not able, with all their own crushing burdens of taxa tion consequent upon the war, to go to their rescue, and help must be sought from without. As the President says, Americans may well spare of their abundance to aid the suffering of d friendly nation. It is largely a ques- tion of ways and means. Among oth- CT methods of relief. we think the sug- gestion of Major Zalinski, in a letter printed in the Evening Post of yester- day deserving of attention by the au- thorities at Washington. He would have several thousand tons of corn, with the machinery to prepare it for food sent to Japan under government auspices. Possibly the railroads of the corn belt would give it free trans portation. Major Zalinski's. idea is that in this way, not only could speedy succor be given the starving Japanese, but a new and cheap article of food brought into use in Japan, to the advantage of that country as well as our own. The project is well worth consideration by the Department of Agriculture.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

A contemporary calls down anathe- mas on any one who will palm off mean whiskey as good patent medicine Yes. or as anything else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
Placing the Blame.

NeW lOIk ITtSS,
 When a man breaks his shoestring, it is a sign he is going to accuse his wife of having a cook that makes coffee that would disgrace a muddy river.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
Good Roads .nocnment.

Bullock County Breeze.
 letter or postal card to either or our United states Senators will secure copy of Senate Document No. 2O4, second session, 5Sth Congress-. This document is valuable compendium or Good Roads thought, and can be had for the asking. --..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

s6nahy Average. Jannsry, 1906 -. 7.0S0 @~-~-~~~-~-~~-~--~~~~--~~7~s~~~ E s. Noble. Circulation Manager of the Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of -Janua- ry. 1906, is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents, and ieft-over copies have been de- ducted. E. S. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of February, 1906.
 F. w JACKSON,
 Notary Public.