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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
Advertising Is the Thing

RE iudicious advertising YOU can excite curl
~ OSitV, and when the people understand how
much is provided for the price OF the ticket
they will not remain away on account OF the
cost being larger than usual. BY JudiciouS
advertising I do not mean merely well worded
printed matter. but verbal advertisement.
which is the most effective tTet Your trends
TO talk about the proposed tdlr, and try 70
arouse interest and enthusiasm. Make tan
TALKING secrets Of some Of its features and talk
frankly and openly OF Others. II YOU are IN
srran town. this advertising, with few
prominent posters. and notices IN the ddllE
papers giving some OF the attractions and the
date IN large type. will be all YOU VIII need
Another effective medium OF success Is 70
choose Your helper- from the various social
circles of Your place. dnd 50 increase the
interest and attendance OF the friends OF all
1t Is q great mistake u CUntlne an undertaking
of this kind t. ones own particular " set
The first thing t. do IN preparing the halI
for the Old English air ! to make the village
green To accomplish tins. YOU are not 10
turn the hall inside out but literally outside
IN Draw Il plan on paper arranging the
b,nth- As You want them round the wall. but
leaving the center of the room open. hen
make a green hedge eight or ten feet high all
round the room or wherever the wall Is ex-
posed
Bcgin bv covering the walls the required
height with bright green cambr1c dress i1ning.
This Is inexpensive. especially when bought
by the bolt Cut the cambria into breadth7
and hang them on the wall with the edges
slightly overlapping 1t Is not necessary To
sew them together. II YOU are not allowed 70
drive nails or tack~ IN the walls stretch a wire
along and fasten II 10 convenient door lanb@
and window panes, then PIN the cambrIc on
the wire Collect all the evergreen YOU pos
,blV can and faStcn great branches against the
walls over the muslin II you can get small trees
n rlarge shrubs place them Is If growing between
the booths and wherever possible have potted
plants. fowers and vines. Remember. how
ever. that tropical plants do not grow II
England. the temDtingy decorative palm
should not he used.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

IMPORTANT: If yoc have IN youF
possession the forceps and drum iuserte
belonging to the Common Sense Ea
Drums, you can get a pair Of the new
drums at a discount OF 20 per cent Oh
the original price. Write promptly.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
Getting Up an Old English Fair
By ADELIA BELLE BEARD

forms erected under the tents for the per
formers. and leave a space IN front OF ,l eacn
platform for the audience IncloSe TINS space
with large screens made OF clothes horSeS
covered with bright colored cambr1c and
decorated with cr9delv painted posters that
advertise the attractions within
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
DEATH ron KrDNArrrRs.

The Chicaso Journal urges the IIIi- nois Legislature to enact e law fixing the death penalty for kidnappers, and recently we have found number of our contemporaries advocating such legislation. While some may look on 1t as severe punishment for the of Tense. we are not prepared to say that 1t is too severe. for no more dastardly crime can be committed. and t is be- coming entirely too common to be looked on with any degree of tolerance. Almost every day we read in some pa- per that child has been Kidnapped and held for ransom.
 Kidnapping child is not only an at- tack on the holiest of human feelings the love of the parent for the child but 1t is robbery at best and may he murder. The helpless little one who is stolen and held for ransom may be murdered if the price is not paid, or of It's percentage. and probably be train ed to became as great a criminal as it's abductor.
 One of the recent eases is of a child stolen from It's parents in Delaware. and a ransom of s50.oo0 is the demand of the worse than thieves who stole it. If the parents can. by any means, pro- cure the money. they will accede to the demand. for what parent would hesi- tate when the life and liberty of child tu ot afo &ho la 1nk w.ufd the parents may never know what has become of the little one. It may be put to death in revenge for failure to pay the outrageous demand, or 1t may be carried off, never again to see mo- ther or father. and never to remember who or what its parents are. The crim- inals who stole 1t will make it one of themselves.
 Robbery and theft are bad enough from any point of view. but Kidnapping is a crime of infinitely hare damn able vileness than merely taking the money or the property of others. Steal Ing a human being, and that being helpless, innocent child, is among the crimes for which there Is no palliation- and for which there should be no hu- man mercy or human pardon. For orr dinary theft or robbery there may in some cases be almost excuse, but steal ing human offspring Is outside the pale of forgiveness. If few kidnappers could be put to death 1t would be an example which would most assuredly have a good effect, and we are persuad- cd that the enactment of State laws im- posing the death penalty on all vile criminals of this kind would be of great benefit. The prospect of immense gain where the parents are very wealthy is so great that nothing but ignominious death will deter them. Letfthe gallows tree bear a few crops of th-s kind of fruit and good will come of 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
White pomentic Servants.

Mobile Register.
 A housekeeper asks The Register to give advice and assistance in the mat ter of providing domestic help. She tolerable. as colored help cannot be ob- tained. Tn her distress she has written to the paper to ask If something can be done to get white domestic ser way. The immigrants who come to this country are of the farming or laboring class. and are i'll fitted to become do- mes nestle servantIs, Ths 1S,. only foreignsrs are the Chinese and Japs nese, and the Chinese are barred out and the Japa- nese' are likely to be barred out by treaty. 1t being the consensus that to our population. The only source of supply Is in, the Northern States. There is found class of white people accus- difhcult to persuade these people to come South. They have the idea that the South Is a very hot and sickly re- zion, and, besides, they fear that they may come into association with negro servants. Nevertheless. if a consider able number of housekeepers here would organize an association. pledged to employ white servants. and would send a trustworthy agent to the North to explain the peculiarly favorable sit- uation of Mobile, in climatic and health point of view. and to give assurance of might result in bringing in so large a number of applicants as to form ba- sis for colony so to speak. It must be recognized that half dozen or so all, would find their isolation too great to be long endured. New Orleans has a large number of white servants, principally as help in restaurants Mo- bile may be able to get the same sort of help, if the business is undertaken in earnest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
Today Ln Historya

1741.-Conflagration of the chapel and buildings in the fort at New York which was followed immediately by
 i754,9The first theatre established in the city of New York, closed with the 'Beggar's Opera" and the Devil to Pay 1T, when men et. the fo9w1pg EsaS n9tae comedian, intending for Philadelphia, begs the favor of those who have any demands against him to bring in their
 1766.-stamp act repeating by the British Government, reserying however, the right to make laws binding on the colonies in all eases .whatsoever. News of this repeal excited great joy In America, where 1t was celebrated by the ringing of bells, fireworks and
 I775.-British General Gage seized 1S,425 musket cartridges and 5000 pounds of ball, all of 1t private proper ty, stored 5 on. S3s,sS B93stSn Meek. Meek sv,n
 acuated Boston, Sir Archibald Camp bell. unaware of his movements, on entering the harbor with 1.7Oo men,
 17S0.-Congress resolved to call in by taxes in one year and burn all the continental money emitted prior to lars new money, redeemable In specie
 is5s.sfhe legislature of Mexico spaniards from the country.
 i830.-The population of the United States was 11,600.000.
 1S37.-Grover Cleveland born.
 1S62.-Confederate Qualifications at Acquia Creek evacuated.
 1S65.-The Confederate Congress at Richmond, Va. adjourned sine die.
 IS74.-NeWs first reached the United States that Prince Kalakaua had been elected King of the Sandwich Islands to succeed Lunalilo.
 lST5.-The Hawaiian treaty ratified by the United States Senate.
 1S79.--Congress meets in extra ses- sion; Samuel J. Randall elected Speaker of the House; in the reconstruction of menships except three go to the Demo- ign Relations. Mr Eaton; Commerce Hppropriations p 5orGIi uqIGD Mn Davis (w Rura9 Ws Patents Mir. Kernan and Privileges and Elections, MT. G2ulsbury. The South furnished thirty n .tSa firty- three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
TIE EARTH AND COMETS.

The prediction attributed to a French astronomer that. some time during the present month the tall of a mighty comet would strike the earth and muss things calls to the minds of lovers of good fiction a really remarkable book which appeared almost A quarter of a century ago. We alIude to Ignatius Donnellys work entitled "Ragnarok; or, The Age of Fire and Gravel
 While in one sense this may be re- garded as purely work of fiction. in another we may look on it as work of scientific research, theory and adap- tation. The text of the book, if we may use that term, is that ST some im- mensely remote period of the earth's existence a large portion of its surface was swept by the tail of mon ster comet. This tail, according to the writer. was composed of loose gravel and perhaps certain metals. all of which were held in place by the motion and attractive force of the head of the comet. until finally a portion of the appendage came In contact with the earth and was deposited on the sur face of our planet.~s
 Although "RagnarolS" is looked on as a work of fiction. or. at best. as mere speculative theory. it is wonderful to note the amount of study and research that was devoted to 1t, and the inge- nious manner in which the results of his Investigations were brought to- gether. He goes into the legends, myths. and traditions of all ages, peo- ples and nations, combining and dove taiIing together all these varied proofs or evidences of the truth of his appar- ently fantastic theory. One reading what we earth people may expect if the alleged French prediction is true, and our abode is swept by a fiery, gray ely tail some milllons of miles in length, and of the messy condition 1t would leave us in, provided any of us should be left in a condition to know what hit us-
 Comets have always been a source of wonder and speculation. not merely to the average observer. but to the most learned scientists as well. Where they come from. of what they composed. what governs their movements. where they go; these and other questions are debated and puzzled over, as they have been for centuries. More than one learned investigator has admitted that not only has the eartl. been struck by one of these strange visitors. but that 1t may happen again in the future. This gives interest to the computations of astronomers regarding th times and 1 motions of comets. and the chance for one of them to cross the earth's path in such way as to bring on collision, the result of which can only bes conject- ured. To those who are interested in such things, Ragnarok is an absorbing book. +
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
What the State Papers
 Are Doing and Saying

Unanimous Feeling. Gadsden Times News.
 Jerome thanks cd that the end of the Thaw trial is in sight, to which pious sentiment united country. says amen.
 This Was an Issue. Talladega Reporter.
 Some things may. or may not have been issues in the primary but 1t is sure there was a decided issue on the child labor question, and yet nothing has been done, Why notY
 spring sheSring. Gadsden Journal
 Wall street has sheared its lambs. To be sure it's little early in the season but as there Is always a new crop of lambs the shearing can be done at any time. And Wall street sure needed the money.
 Deserve Contempt. Hartford Advance.
 Those who voted in favor of Gx- empting cotton mills and against the exemption of old Confederate soldiers property from taxation deserve only contempt at the. hands of decent. fair minded people.
 Good Sense as Well as Money Needed Marion County News.
 The question is being asked, .tWilI the increased appropriations made by the LeEfSlatur6 improve the ScnoOlS!f We sincerely hope so, but 1t will take good management and the use of conn mon sense to a large degree to get the proper benefit from the increased funds
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 The Supreme Tests Dothan Eagle.
 A man can be very good friend to you, and will give you the strongest kind of a personal letter as to char acter. honesty. esobriety and ability to help get rid of you. then will not loan you money. or his horse to drive a day, for these are the supreme tests.
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 Pike COunfy's Good Roads. Troy Herald.
 Pike county is fast getting the pnb- lie roads Of the county in splendid shape. We now have ninety miles of rosds graded and ciayed and instead of being a burden to travel ip this county, 1t Is a pleasure. Take North S-Notch road to the county line Of Bullock. distance of about six teen miles Before this road was clayed there. was not one mile in the entire sixteen miles that was not of the very deepest sand. One thousand pounds was very heavy load over that road for two miles and today any team in Cross Roads beat can, with ease, haul 2.000 pounds in one-third less time than formerly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
ON ''TRE ROAD''
And it's Really Lots Of Fun.

An Ind. woman solved the food ques- tion with good sound reasoning. She says:
 "For almost ten years I suffered from poor health, which was plainly the re- suit of improper food
 'I was always drowsy, had headache, stomach trouble was getting a sallow complexion-in short was simply mis- erable.
 Yet I did not realize the real cause of my trouble until recently. I have given Grape Nuts and the exercises in the little book, "rhe Road to We'll ville." (which I found in the pkg.) a thorough trial, and they have worked wonders for me.
 q noticed @ change from the begin ming. My headache disappeared and at the end of the first week my stomach did not trouble me so much.
 Now, in less than a month, my nerves are strong and begin to have some ambition to do things. have gained six pounds and feel full of life.
 "Grape-Nuts food, with cream, makes a delicious dish and never grow tired of it. consider '"The Road to We'll vile" one of the most valuable books ever printed, for I owe my present good health to 1t and Grape-Nuts." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Get the book from your pkg. There's a reason.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
DRIFT " OD
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.

Fish Hungry. Amt you gettin' sorter hungry Fer ter take your hook an line When tn weather's warm an Spring An yer know yer feeIin' finer Ain't yer gittin' sorter anxious Towards tn woods ter light: Amt yer gittin' sorter hungry Fer the speckled perch ter bite7 Amt yer gittin' sorter hungry Fer ter smell the springtime smells, Fer miles O daisied meadows An green ferns in the dells? Ain't yer soul Q sorter. pinin' Fer stimmer's fairest sight The speckled beauties ieapin' When tn Ash commence ter bfte7
 Natural Death. New Yorker--so your brother died q Kentuckian--Yes; delirium tremens.
 Suited. up, did you give Smiley part that ,ss .c;sSr,tsdInly;; ;S,5d aS; he gets blind drunk in
 The TesG How much paint does Mabel put on. for goodness sake?' Well, last night three coats or at least three coatsleeves couldn't rub 1t ofI."
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 The Latest. "Oh, oh--whatever is the matter with the cook, Jack; she is rearing around the kitchen like mad?' "Oh, my dear; she is. merely suffering with oueNof those brain storms"
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 Broken Reflections. There Is only one creature with as much curiosity as woman, and that Is a man.
 It isn't much of a jump for a girl from jumping the rope to jumping at conclusions.
 Any sensible girl will turn down man when he Is iigst- headed. About the hardest thing in the world for one to come to is his proper insig- niticance.
 @ $ V Better laughing defeat than 8 cry
 % < \ John D. Rockefeller was so poor when boy he peddled potatoes. But he soon got into oil and then he made the nickles slick. Never think you are so important that there isn't some one who can take your place when, you are gone. It's hard to follow success and Pleas ure with the same vehemence. Japan is increasing her canning fac- tories, but we. hope she won't adopt Chicago methods,
 The latest absurdity of science is that the human soul can be weighed. We had all the respect in the world for science heretofore, but this Is the limit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1907.
STILL TANGLED.

Indications are that we have not heard the last of the Roosevelt-Schmitz compact, or. contract. one of the most extraordinary acts that any President of the United States was ever a party 10, by the way. It will be remembered that Mayor Schmitz, on February IS, assured the President that the School Board of San Francisco would at once modify the position taken by that body so as to allow the admission of Japan ese children into the white schools. No such action had been taken at last accounts. and now we have this from MT. walsh, President of the Board of Education;
 The Board Is not surrendering any of ats rights. We have perfect confidence that the President will live up to his agreement. Under the new conditions there will be greater restrictions on oriental pupils than before. Pupils over sixteen will have to attend the orient al schools, as well as those who don't know English. If the President fails to keep faith with the Board and doesn't t fulfIl his part of the agreement, the Board can rescind its resolution and compel all Japanese children to attend 8he oriental schools.
 Commenting on this statement. The New York Commercial says:
 It is much Ito be feared that only trouble Is in store for all the parties to this unprecedented arrangement His 6the Presidents) part of the agreement" 1s this: The Federal immigration law passed at his request invests. him with authority to exclude Japanese with passports for other territory than the continental United States, whenever in his opinion their admission would be detrimental to the interests of Ameri- can labor. It Is almost inconceivable that his opinion on this point would CO., lncide with those of Mayor Schmitz, the Board of Education, and all the other "sandlots" statesmen who now control things in San Francisco. If the Presi- dent doesn't do the excluding" accord ing to their notions, they will, of course, rescind the present school regu- the same old grievance again!
 Does 1t not begin to look as if the President, the Mayor and the "sandlots statesmen" have bitten off more than thev can chew? And Is 1t not at least possible that the last state of this whole discreditable business will be worse than the first? Now, suppose the authorities of California and of San Francisco. refuse to be bound by the extraordinary contract, what will Roosevelt do7 He may order out the army and the navy and proceed to wipe up the earth with all who refuse to obey his orders. but we are not sure that such action would mend matters in the long run. Things seem to be iD a decided muddle just now, at all events.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18

this world has not yet grown too wias to accept the false prophets at their own estimate of themselves Mans capacity for faith is unbounded. It may not always take religious turn. In fact. 1t may drift In an entirely dif- ferent direction. To the believer in the Christian faith the views of the ag- nestle seem utterly preposterous. To the nationalist the faith of the believ- CT in elementary Bible truths appears ineomprehensible The agnostic will build up theories which seem to be as utterly absurd in their way as the pre- tensions of Dowie appear to the sober minded churchman. But 1t takes man of the Dowie type to play skillfully upon the belief and superstitions of a certain class of men and women and coin their enthusiasm and loyalty into dollars and cents.s The wonder of 1t all is that in this advanced age Dowie could wear his prophets robe for so many years and wield real power"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18

Democratic Senators. of whom nine teen were ex-Confederate. offers.
 f880--Congress passes q joint resoiu- fion authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport contributions for the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland states steamshfp Constellation or ths mission. and she Is put into csmmts- sion. AIon. LevifP Morton, James Cor don Bennett and Hon. W. R. Gract volunteer to contribute q fourth par' of all the cargo she can carry.
 1894.--Henry George at a lecture in Chicago urged the abolishment of the United state4 Senate as the "creaturs
 1s04.--senate by vote of forty-ffve tc sixteep confers nomination of cen Leonafd Wood to be major general
 1aO5.--Uts Indians protested to the President against the openeing or tnsir reservation to settlement by wnl.es
 I906.--Associate Supreme Court Jus tice Brewer declared he was in favor of new spelling reform movement Service by American Press-NeWs
 Washington, D. C.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18

When Judge Parker declared that corporation funds were being used to elect President Roosevelt In 1904. the aforesaid President thundered out that 1t was false. Since George w. Perkins has personally paid s5o.oOO to an in- surance company, which he, as an ofi- cer, has personally allowed, thus prov ing the truth of Judge Parker's charge the aforesaid President has not been heard, even in the faintest whisper. to admit that he had horne false wit ness against his heighbor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18

This is the way The Troy (N Y) Press looks at it:
 In making restitution of the s4s,5OO which constituted a single corporate contribution to the Republican National Committee in 1904, what an illumtna- tion George W. Perkins sheds upon the ante election allegations of the con- tending candidates-Theodore Roose- welt and Alton B. Parker. Judge Par ker must feel sense of profound satis- faction in his conclusive if belated vim dicatlon from sthe fierce aspersions of his opponent.
 Yes. but one Theodore Roosevelt has never had the manly candor to apolo- gize to Judge Parker for the gross and outrageous injustice he did Parker by virtually calling him liar Evidence continually accumuates that the Judge was right. He has been thoroughly vim dicated, but not by the help Of the President. He stands pat, and if jus tice to Judge Parker could have found no other channel than Roosevelt, he would still be resting under the impu- sation of being a slandersr and fal- slider.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
Al. am o-tsmist Sees Things.

Philadelphia North American.
 Only the fool claims that everything is bright and good Yet the greater fool Is that one who claims 1t Is all dark and evil. Between these towers the man of divine wisdom--he may De knowfedges he sees the mud, the scum; the stumbling blocks, the clouds apo the dark places, but who knows that IT ing them they twill not hinder him or stand in the way of his helping along the better day. We make the days and when we complain of them we~ com plain of ourselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
FEnRuARY CIRCULATION.

Day after day week after week. monsn ns after month and year after year. m. Ans Advertiser continues to be the only oaiiy or Sunday newspaper published m ai@ bana to print sworn statements of It's ac- tuaf net paid circulation.
 The February figures given below snow vigorous and substantial growth anu further emphasizes The Advertisers guar. anfes that it's circulation is the IArGess of any morning Sunday neWspnpss printed in Alabam-.