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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1907.
WHAT WILL ROOSEVELT DO,

1t is to be hoped that all the readers
of The Advertiser read the statement
In yesterday mornings issue from DIR.
William ]. Long, addressed to President
Roosevelt. We doubt if such a scath-
ing letter has before been hurled at
a President. and the public will watch
the result. The President may bluster
1t out and consign the writer to the
Ananias Club, or he may take refuge
behind his official position and main
tain what he would probably call a
dignified silence, but neither course
will be satisfactory. The charges
made by DIR. Long are direct and spe
cifiic, and cannot be met by buster or
silence. The President is held up as
deliberate slanderer of a citizen and
as having misrepresented and injured
that citizen by statements which are
not true. Mr.. Roosevelt cannot brush
aside DR.. Longs statements by init
mating that the latter is beneath his
notice. for that will not avail him. As
q naturalist OF much experience and as
an author of books on natural history
in standing and integrity and but for
the latter's official position would be
at least his equal in any respect He
charges the President with having
slandered him, either wilfully or
through ignorance, and properly calls
him TO account. Roosevelt has but
three courses open to him: he must
make good his statements, or he mus,
retract and apologize or he must re-
main silent and thus bear the stigma
that DR.. Long puts on him, and stand
in the public eye as a slanderer and
falsifer There is one more way open
to him, II is true, for he can follow
the Roosevelt precedent and brazen 1t
out by calling his accuser a liar and
think thus TO clear his own skirts
Which course will be adopt?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
D.RIFTWoOD
nY PHIL n. ARAsTRONa.

The hand that rocks the cradle riies
the world. but the hand that rocks the
boat ought to be swatted with an
oar.
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It may be easy to fool the world
with what 1t says on Your tombstone.
hut. St. Peter isn't gong to be SO
easily duped.
Taft ought to be President for moth
but a fat job would suit him.
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A woman doesn't mind a mans en-
barrassment SO long as it isn't thc
financial Kind
Wasps prey on fes-a fact which is
well known In Italy. On any summer
or early autumn day in the Tuscan
county par5s, when the luncheon table
wasp sail in at the open WINDOW. Sc
lect a fly, roll 1t oyer, curl 1t up and
carry IL out into the sunshine and
soon return for anothsr.-Scientitic
This is a cheaper method than the
use OF screens and electric fans. Now,
all you have to do Is to collect a
few Nwasps and there you are.
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The papers are ali discussing the flu
ture habitation of the soul bof the
newspaper Photographer. They seem to
think he cannot enter heaven He
oughtn't to If he gets off any more
''peek-a-boo' puns.. ..'
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Some mems idea OF remembering the
Sabbath day and keeping 1t holy is
to shoot it full OF holes.
alter Wclman has purchased thir1
ty-seyen dogs for, MS arctic trip. Moth
ing like taAing plenty of meat.
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Houston (Texas) people are feasting
on the first watermelons of the season.
Here's hoping The Post Photographer
is up to his ears in the sweet red
juicy drippings.
Many "a, a man an, sips his fonr-dollar-a.
milk ana honey hereafter.
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Whenever you see a married man
who is a good fellow" when he is in
moderate CIRCUMSTANCES. you can bot
every year and wears the same old
nat season after season.
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sSThe divorced chorus girl-wife of
New Yorker has had HIM put in Jail
aimony. Chorus girl wives are ex-
pensive luxuries>
The Nashville American wants to
know If frog is q fish; for, il 1t is,
its skins can be imported free of duty
Is the American thinking of import ting
frog. hides? This 10 a skin game.
brother.
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you up. life is indeed blue when thu
home team loses.
The main drawback about city shop
ping Is walking for your change IN
less the clerk is pretty.
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characteristics
open cars,
Cheap cigars
Boston Globe
End seat hog
Sits like log
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
High steps trip
TIL things ZIP.
Houston Post
Hallway Gar,
FeatherS-tar
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Flesh Things.
May-All pIen are created free.
Fay-Yes. and some Of them are too
darned free
Great RecOpme ndatiOn.
Has he thing in the world to rec
gently than the average man, / be.
iieVe."
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A Song For Today.
4 schg for today,
A song by the way.
Where the wee brook is laughing
And running at play.
Where the magnolia tree
Watts its fragrance so free
And the roses are nodding out there
whore they sway.
song that is sweet
Natures voice to repeat
Where the tall cattails nod in the
brecZe,
Where the birds sing their tunes
Through the Mays and the Junes
And you're glad for such mornings
as these.
When your heart beats fast
And your brains a-whirl
And it's all for the love
OF a Lovely girl.
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Although Rockefeller thinks that
truth is light. 1t isn't furnished by
the Standard Oil Company
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
How, Doc. rhis st Ike John Temple:

Macon TeioTranT.
y corrcsr ondent OF The New York
World who c0nSesscs to the utmost
enthusiasm for the President, pro
poses to get around the third term oh
lection and the IDOLS promise not to
be candidate by nominating Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr, (pfter so amending the
Constitution as to make one so young
eltRlbleJ. Thus the present Admins
tration would continue, the son merely
other "enthusiastic" tackass rear up
and propose that tn eroyal family or
Roosevelt be made heirs of the Frest-
dencY forever.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
Today In History
May 30.

149S-Columbus sailed on his third
voyage to the New World.
l574-Hcnri III of France born.
16IO-Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish
painter, died. Born 1877.
1T57-Iicnry Addington, Niscount Sid
mouth, English Prime Minister, born.
Died 1874.
Empress Josephine. wife of
NAPOLEON /, died.
1S35-Alfred Austin, English poet
laureate, born.
IS3S-Naw charter granted the Hud-
son Bay Company.
-4ilrhrld Memorial dedicated at
Cleveland. O.
ls9S-'ommrrCiul treaty between
United states and France signed.
l900-Paul Kruger Ned from Preto-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

There has been no trial of the case'
of Governor Conner VS.. Tho Birming-
ham Age-Herald, The Montgomery.
Advertiser and the L. q y. X. r. when
they were called in Birmingham City
Court. demurrers to the bills were
sustained and the cases went to far
ther. The demurrers were not sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court and the
cases will be heard at another term OF
ni~ningham City Cour''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
\ Southern Democrat for the Presi-
demcy.

\ Southern Democrat for the Presi-
dency.
Baltimore Sun.
The suggestion made by The Sun
last year that it might be not only
justifiable but wise for the Democratic
the Presidency. was most favorably
received and has been echoed from
many States. Following this sugges
in The Sun few weeks ago, adverted
to the admirable qualifications OF SEN
ator John W. Daniel, Of Virginia. for
Daniel has been in public life for more
than a generation. and his record is
without flaw. His honor and his
reputation are as stainless after long
when he emerged from the Civil War
walking on crutches. He is loyal
Virginian, loyal American and sound
in the Democratic faith. He abides
States. and could be trusted to resist
all encroachments upon the rights OF
the several States which are guaran-
teed TO them by that great instrument.
He is not a man to be blown about by
every wind of doctrine, but holds stead
Easily to those things which We're
the Republic If the North and South
have not. after forty years, become re-
united so that a Presidential candidate
may come from any State in the Union,
then 1t is idle to talk of reunion. The
South has been giving her electoral
vote to Northern men for three or four
decades, and if the North objects to
voting for a man, however well quail
fed he may be, simply because he lives
In n Southern State. then all the talk
of reconciliation has simply been sound
and nothing more. No man could be
selected from any Northern or West
ern State more loyal to the Constitu-
ton than Senator Daniel and other
Southern men who might be named,
and none could inspire more completely
the confidence of the business people
of the land. With such men in the
ranks of the Democratic party as Dan
delaware and Culbertson of Texas,
why should the party invite inevitable
defeat by continuing to nominate q gem
tlemau whom the country has twice
rejected? DO the Democratic masses
prefer defeat?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
Cure for Health and wardrobe.

Boston Herald.
cures Of one sort or another. 1t has
been a strenuous winter and spring
and their nerves AMI clothes are about
exhausted. Some of these smart wrecks
travel to Bad Nauheim, others take
the cure I'm the Rue dc la PaiX-
though 1t must he said all Paris is
cure for worn-out wardrobes-and
the rest mount into a touring car and
join the universal procession through
Europe" 1t ~ strange how the attrac
tions of these 4ures increase, and the
SNARE wrecks with them. But 1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

Troy IFltlt,
But it seems to be the policy of the
money In sight on new officers and
increased salaries of old ones. They
haze placed a burden on every con-
sumer in licensing everything that
can possibly bear license OF course
pay this license tax. But the people
elected them and the people will have
to stand it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees
its advertisers land makes IT a part of the
contract when requested) that its Daily cir
culation is larger than that Of any morning
newspaper printed in Alabama-and That IT.
Sunday edition has the largest circulation
Of any edition of any newspaper printed III
Alabama without exception.
The figures for April, printed below rep
resent the actual net circulation, all returns
having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
APRIL 1907
Daily Average, April 1901. i...... II 90
Sunday Average, April 1907. -. ..2I.8l

H. s. Noble, Circulation Manager Of The
Mont gomery Advertiser. being duly sworn.
says
ne foregoing statement of The Adyer-
tisef's circulation for the month Of April.
1907, Is true and correct. and compiled after
all returns from news boys news agents.
spoiled and leftover copies have been de-
Quoted
e S. NOBLE
Circulation Manager
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
27th day OF May. 1907.
RIGA ALEXANDER,
Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

requires no ve-y deep philosophy to
foresee the consequences. What so
many may do Will soon be not worth
the doing. Repairing nerve rs systens
by buying new gowns and friuneries
and parading at German bads Is the
patent medici ne OF the rich. j
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

LeesviIb, COL, BungIe.
81 Haymow's oldest boy has gotten
a license to doctor and has put out his
shihgle. He is giving 1t out that ne
prefers desperate cases at first. be-
cause If they do die IT. won't make so
much difference. Give him a call.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
NOTICE
Anderson Coal Co.

Notice is hereby given that bill will
be introduced al the adjourned session 1907.
OF the Legislature of Alabama which re-
convenes in July. which bill is In sub
WHEREAS Walter cotter Company were
licensed by the State OF Alabama to do
business future dealers for the year 1907
in the City of Montgomery. Alabama. for
which said Walter Cotter Company paid
the sum Of $500. 90: and
WHEREAS, by Act OF Legislature APP
proved March 7, 1907, said license was can
eeled and an additional license Of $4,000 60
was imposed upon said Walter Cotter Com
pany to do business future dealers; and
WHEREAS said Walter cotter Company
declined to pay said additional license and
ceased to do business on April 8. 1907.
leaving an unexpired term of eight months
and twenty-four days under said license:
THEREFORE,, Be 1t enacted by the Leg
islature Of Alabama, that the Auditor Is
hereby authorized to draw his warrant in
favor of said Walter Cotter Company. on
the Treasurer of the State of Alabama for
tho sum Of $S6s,Oo. being the amount of
said license unexpired on April 9Th. 1907.
LOUIS LOEB
May s. 1897. -thI-4t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
, What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing
Humbug . Big Factor.

Humbug Big Factor.
Birmingham News.
A great deal has been said OF the
decentralization of the wheat market by
reason of the brown bug and the green
bug but the humbug in the wheat pit
also has a good deal to do with the
A Big Fight Potable.
Greenvilie Advocate.
II 1t Is true that President Roose-
welt is urging Congressman Burton of
Ohio to run for Speaker against Uncle
Joe. there will be fight that will
make the Republican edifice tremble-
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BiE Board Bill.
Mobile Herald.
Japan has sent to Russia a little ac-
count of $22.000.00D for the support of
Muscoviate prisoners of war. This Is
the biggest board bill on record.
Modest asd Discreet.
Mobile Item.
Britannia is as modest as che is dis
erect. She would follow a suggestion
from Columbia to The Hague confer
rnce as to disarmament.
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Pine Knots.
Athens Courier.
The President and wife have been
spending a few days at Mrs. Roose-
veit's cauntry honln at Pineknot. Va.
1t was reported cold there. but they
were fixed, Just touched a match to
"pineknot.' and got : warn by the glow
Has Already Wen In Democratic Pri-
mary.
Birmingham Ledger.
As the time draws near there seems
to be less opposition to the election of
Governor Beckham as United states
Senator from Kentucky. That wonder
full young man Is still wonderful.
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Hot After Fish Bait.
Union SnrinRs Herald.
Bait-diggers are undermining resi-
dences all over the city and the town
marshal NAV expect to be kept busy
the next three months or until school
opens.
Would he In a Pawn shop.
Birmingham Age Herald. -e-
AT any rate Mayor lschmitz and
Abraham Ruef couldn't carry off the
Golden Gate" remarked The Savannah
Press. III 1t had been a real golden
gate 1t would have been in a pawn
shop now.
New Marengo Road.
Demopolis Times.
A party of surveyors are now in the
field Surveying a line from here to
Linden. These people were very close
mouthed. but 1t is surmised that they
were locating a permanent line for the
Demopolis and Linden Railroad. The
party was under Captain Woolsey Fer
nell. who built the r'abile and Ohio
from Columbus to Montgomery and has
been conne~--- with many other roads
In a similar capacity.
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Better Stand ON His Own Puncheon.
Huntsville Democrat.
Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray
IN Mobile last week, made public his
guherpatorial aspirations on the Cow
ernor Conner line. His position would
be more graceful and his candidacy
more acceptable. perhaps, on Henry
b. line. Conner now and Conner two
years hence NAV be at variance with
q true Democratic political conscience.
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Roosevelt and Anofher Term.
Lafayette Sun.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. all he has said on
the subject of retiring, those best ac-
auainted with his peculiar inconsis-'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

Now let the clustering braggarts OF
Virginia and the Carolinas waltz up to
the post and take notice We DEFY
any OF them to get away with thtt
Alabama production ana thcy may as
well hang their harps on the Willows
and hide their diminisho heads in
shame and humiliation. seIah
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
The Hen a. a Trust Buster.

Bristol. Va. Courier.
billion, two hundred and fifty
million dozen eggs were produced In
this country last year. That means
that the hen, the greatest trust bus
ter of the age, took $4,000. 900
whacks at the octopus In 1906 SO
when you wax eloquent about the
splendidness and permanency of Ameri-
can institutions don't forget one of the
mightiest of them all--the industri-
Gus hen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

The following, received by the Post
masters Advocate from the postmas-
ter at Hammac, Ala, the medium OF
transmission being Il postal card, Will
probably end tho discussion concern
Ing our native poets:
fell i'm love with a postmistress
And she fell in love with me;
j gave her a quarter for two-cent
stamp.
And she gave me twenty-three.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30

The watchful Washington Herald
comes to Alabama's defense by print
ing the following contribution sent 1t
by an Albanian now living in Wash
ington;
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
Roosevelt and Another Term

Lafayette Sun.
Notwithstanding all he has said on
the subject of retiring, those best ac-
quainted with his peculiar inconsis-'
tencies believe that he will himself be
a candidate before he will submit to
the nomination of one of his enemies
to the presidency.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
ABOUT OLIVE OIL.

The following condensed statement
out both interest and significance:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
New Marengo Road.
Better stand ON His own Punche

Huntsville Democrat.
Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray
IN Mobile last week, made public his
guherpatorial aspirations on the Cow
ernor Conner line. His position would
be more graceful and his candidacy
more acceptable. perhaps, on a Henry
b. line. Conner now and Conner two
years hence NAV be at variance with
a true Democratic political conscience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-25
CHRISTMAS.

Christmas day, the anniversary of
the birth of the great teacher, Jesus
of Nazareth, has developed during the
course of time to mean more than an
occasion for religious festival. 1t has
grown to be day that is set apart by
the people of every creed and in every
civilized cline as a time for the ex-
change of felicitous cheer
On this day, happiness is brought to
the young and to the old through the
remembrances of friends and rela-
tives. Scattered families gather at the
old homes and make merry with feast
ing and the "reminiscences of the days
of long ago. Even the lives of the
poor and the unfortunate are bright
ened for the time being through the
generosity of the charitably inclined of
whom there is such a multitude in this
land of the free and in other lands as
we'll
Christmas day-it is the day of
smiles. of joys. The sorrows of the
past are forgotten. The blessings of
the present are appreciated and glad
ness reigns supreme in the anticipa-
tions of the future.
And the Christmas day of 1907 is
one of many. A great peace pervades
the earth. The nations of the worlo
are extending the same good will, one
to the other, that men are to men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-25
ARE sPANIARDs PRISONERS?

| Strange tales come out of the Fa
East from time to time. For ages
has been the land of mystery to tn
western world. But prosaic, practical
business-like Uncle Sam has rarel.
been associated with any of them.
| One is now current in Spain, how
ever, which links the United State.
with some weird and cruel exper.
| fences, attributed to about half the
crew of the Spanish battleship Reins
| Maria Christina, which was blown VI
by the guns of Dewey's fleet in the
battle of Manila bay.
When that disaster to the Spanish
fleet occurred 1t is said that these men
saved their lives by swimmin ashore
but were captured by native insur-
gents, and taken to an out of the way
island named San Juan del Monte,
where they have been held in slavery
for nearly ten years.
One of these alleged prisoners, Jose
Cebolia Valfuera, has returned recent
ly to small town in Spain which he
left about fifteen years ago, and has
stirred up that, region with his story.
He says that he and about three hun
dred of his comrades have been near
ly starved, and often tortured by their
inhuman captorS and masters. A few
months ago some companions sue
ceeded in making their escape and, at
ter many adventures, found their way
home.
1t is a common belief that many
Spaniards Of the Inflated fleet destroy
ed by Dewey did disappear as prison
ers of the native insurgents. 1t is al
most impossible, however, to believe
that for nine years hundreds Of them
could have been concealed anywhere
in the Philippines with American
troops securing the archipelago dur
ing all that time. OF course, where
ever our flag went all captives held by
the natives, If there were any, were
instantly liberated. But the Philip
pines comprise a numerous group of
islands, and 1t is just possible that on
some of the remote or obscure ones. a
few whites have been held in bond
age by some of the Filipinoa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
1From the Chicago News

lETOIn tn6 SAiCdSO ~NCWS.I
Dodging duty never brings success.
Oratory is merely talk with its Sunday
clothes on.
1t makes a difference whether peo-
pie say things or do them.
It is easier to secure vindication
than it is to rest tore virtue.
There is mighty little fun in doing
the things we are compelled to do.
A man usually gets what is coming
to him when the postman calls.
A mans wife would never know he
had a temper If he didn't lose it,.
Doctors are in business for the
health of others. but not for their
own.
Never judge the fidelity of a friend
by his eagerness to point out your
faults.
And every man is afraid of some
thing; IL it isn't anything else it's Il
woman.
A prophe is not not without honor
In his own community as long as he
pays his bills.
Once in great while young man
gets busy and does things in spite of
his Inherited wealth.
Tt is easy for man to have the
courage of his convictions IL his bank
balance is large enough.
Probably nothing makes a girl SO
angry as the failure of some other girl
to notice her new engagement ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

A country dogs idea of a good time
| is to come to town, and bark at every
team that goes by.
For some reason farmer always
looks more at home In a dry 8oods
store than a town man.
Every girl believes that when she
gets married, her husband Will tell her
what goes on at the lodge
How a woman who likes style, and
has been poor all her life. must grow
to hate that word serviceable.
When we see a man who cultivates
long finger nails, we think OF CLUBS, p1s-
tolls, and that sort of thing.
The smart things you say in con-
troversy with your enemy do not
sound smart to him: They sound
"Alicky."
Every woman, in recounting her past
foolishness, takes this credit to her
self: At least, she has never been guilty
of buying a boy gun
A man shouldn't spend all the
money he can get out OF the Dank;
and a woman shouldn't spend all the
money she can get out of her hus-
band.
In order to become martyr, man
must be killed in an inhuman way.
but a woman. If married, can become
a martyr without great deal of in
convenience.
Another Atchison man has fallen
heir to a fortune; but, after investi-
eating 1t, he finds he has been spend
ing good money in going after moth
ing. It is usually that way.
An Atchison shoe dealer said yester-
day: Zone OF my customers has such
a short memory that it reaches only
to his ankles. He, therefore, never
thinks to pay for his shoes"
When we were IL years old, the boys
used to race around Christmas morning
and say Christmas gift!'' to all the
men Sometimes they got a box on the
ears, and sometimes a gift.
Reform isn't at all impossible.
man who used to get drunk and ride
horseback into Atchison saloons is now
a rather exemplary and useful citizen,
and wouldn't take a drink for the
world
s A farmers wife was in town today
and this reporter asked her for news.
Turning to her daughter, IA years old.
the farmers wife said: ASK Jessie;
she's been listening over the tele-
You often wish you were rich. in
order that you might do something
for your friends. If you will do the
little within your power. you will do
enough You can add a httle cheer to
the life of everyone you know, by be-
ing gentle, polite and considerable.