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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Letters fo The Editor
Cotton Quotations.
The Advertiser:

Editor The Advertiser:
 As a young professional man of Montgomery and inci0ensaaiIy sasn ons mbo Iaro takes a deep interest in our 1910 move ment. ask you in good faith to please explain to me the remarkable diner- gomery and in other points adjacent to our city.
 The market page of The Advertiser Montsomery I % Tuesday f at ssG cents. The Selma market is quoted directly underneath our market at 10 Is cents for mtadas Macon and a the bes press Pad p markets at from 10 I4 to 10 5-s cents.
 studied the, page carefully and found that the Montgomery market market quoted.
 Now. have some cotton to be ship ped to market from West Alabama and cry for obvious reasons. If our market continues in this manner will ship 1t here? certainly will not.
 Does this help us in our 1910 move
 Montgomery, October 30.
 The attention of Montgomery cot ton man being called to the above he
 There is another matter which, per- haps. many do not understand, and quotations are re- not % as high as those sent in from interior cities. I happen to know of one particular instance. This is where a smaller town in Ala bama sends daily quotations to the newspapers here. This quotation is often higher than ours here.
 AS we have an office at this place and buy large quantity of cotton there. happen to know that the mar ket there is no higher than the Mont gomery market, and that it really de- bends on the Montgomery market. As .. rule the quotations there are a frac- ttOn higher than the price paid on the streets. while 1t is often the case here that the quotations here are lower.
 This is due to the fact that when the market is fuctuating, and there are no large transactions for the fac- tors to fix the quotations on, they do not show the real price being paid.
 T believe" said this waref1ouseman, that it is better to under quote than to over quote the market for the req son that the farmers always believe an advantage is being taken of them when they see one quotation in the papers and receive a different price for their cotton. g s8
 We do not always govern our prices by the quotations of the factors, and residents in the country districts can rest assured that they can get as good or. better prices here than they can in the smaller cities where facilities for handling and placing cotton on the market are more limited"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Octopus Chasing.

washington Post
 A distinguished citizen of that State declares that West Virginia is in sore need of additional railroads aggregat- ing 2,000 miles. Between the Potomac and the Rio Grande there is need of additional railroads aggregating S0,0o0 miles. As the crow flies 1t IS sixty miles from Somerset. ky. to Glasgow. Ky, and the crow can journey from out crossing a railroad track. though 1t is as fair land as the eye of bird ever viewed and rich In most of the natural energies of field. of forest and
 But this is the age of octopus chas- ing. Where Is the capitalist that will construct a railroad for Hoke Smith and Tom Watson 10 play with? MT. Moses Wetmore is a man of millions, proprietor. of a baronial estate in the Ozark region that might challenge the envy of q Hapsburg or Hohenzollern: ing railroads for the octopus chasers to practice on. It is narrated that Mr. Tom Watson has become rich, and In an honest way, but MT. Watson is not to toss In blanket Mir. Hoke Smith is also disgracefully rich--a million aire, his wealth honestly acquired. we make not the smallest doubt-but MT. Smith is not building any railroads for Tom Watson or Ben Tillman to chase.
 There is a deal of sWusement in the octopus chase: We al got our mon nor, man bfll. but it has pretty nearly stopped railroad building, except ex- tensions and connections imperatively demanded.
 the octopus chasers. They are a noble army of patriots, triumphant and milf- tant. They are all right; but we do be- !ieve they would be ulblie benefactors gets at least 50,000 Fmiles additional railroad lines to chase.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
SideDak Penciiings
Many Place. es Management.


 Montgomery has certainly had a variety of attractions this week." said a visitor to the city. There has been a show at the Montgomery Theatre every night this week. The new Majestic Theatre on Commerce street has been running in full force and at least four moving moving picture shows have been in operation down town. On top of all this, the State Fair has had great variety of attrac- This is about as good a list of at fractions as have ever known in any one town the size of Montgomery.
 II think I've pretty nearly taken in all of them and much to my astonish- ment I've found all of them doing land office business. The moving pie ture shows have been well attended, the Majestic vaudeville had excellent sized audiences, the Montgomery Theatre has played to fine houses and immense crowds have visited the Fair. They don't need to tell me about hard times and tight money. When the people are willing and ready to spend their money for amusements. there can't be such terrible scarcity, of the coin"
 Messrs J. F. Grady and D. T. smith. of Birmingham. were in Montgomery last night
 MT: Gaynor St. John Turner. of Mobile spent last night in the city. Mir. J. K. Brantley and MT. Ralph cowart. of Troy. are in the city. Judge Thomas l. soweM. of Jasper, is visiting Montgomery.
 MT. Young Rainer. of Elba. was in the city last night.
 MT. H. Y. Brooke, of Luverne, was in Montgomery yesterday. Mir. J. ". Dees, of GreenvilIe, was in the city last night
 Mir. D. M Scott. of Selma, is regis tered at the Imperial
 MT. A. F. Mabry. of Birmingham. is in Montgomery.
 
 MT. H. W. Freeman. of Dadeville. is in the city
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
The Largest Tree in the World.

" New York Sun.
 Dry/o. Kuntze of Germany is the latest to give his scientific impressions Q fthe giant cypress in the church yard at Tulle, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexi- co. This has for ages been more fa- nous than almost any other spectment of the vegetable kingodm. When the Spaniards landed in .Mexica, they wrote of the mighty tree that the Aztecs re- garded as sacred. The boaanists, A. De Candolle and Asa Gray, estimated that 1t was at least 1000 years old. It Reclus gave 1t page In. his uni Versal Geography" It figures in the latest guide books. It is asserted that the distance around its trunk, six feet from the ground, is 154 feet and two inches.
 pr. Kuntze in his long account of the present condition of the tree. says 1t Is remarkably vigorous and years the weight of forty centuries almost jaunt- ly. The famous cypress on the out skirts of the City of Mexico, under which Cortez is said to haye wept on the night of July 1. 1920. when things were going wrong, can not be com pared with the great monarch of the three family at Tule. for it is much smaller and younger and half dead at that.
 If this tree is not the largest in the whole world 1t at least exceeds in hav all bssn trees t.Ssn % whtS s
 
 measurements gave the diameter as ffty-seven feet. The diameter of the sequoia which ph hotographs have made familiar by the wagon road passing through it, is thirty feet, not much more than half that of the Tule cy- press. The largest baobabs and other African giants are from ninety-six to 112 feet in circumference. girthing only about two-thirds as much as the Mex lean tree There Is considerable dis crepancy, however, in the figures of the circumference of the TuIe tree (120 to 154 feet), owing, as Dr. Kuntze ev- plains. to different ways of measuring it. Some persons merely extend tape line around the tree, while others in- clude all the cavities and prominences of the trunk in their measurements.
 This variety of cypress is found growing wild only on the banks of streams. The fact that no stream eX- ists near the Tule tree or its sister in the suburb of Mexico City is believed to prove that they were both planted by the ancient MeXicans. the Tule tree at least 2,000 years before the Chris tian era. It is the mother of the vil- lage around it. for the houses were clustered near merely because the tree existed. The Spaniards enclosed 1t in a churchyard and its shade spreads over part of the church.
 Though probably the oldest and thickest known plant, 1t Is not the tallest. Its height is about l50 feet, or almost the same as its circumfer- ence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Committed of Council.

Tuscaloosa, Nov. 1.-(Special)-Th announcement of the standing commit tees of the Board of Aldermen by Mayor Faulk Is as follows: Finance Committee, M. T. Ormond, SamFriend- man, A. F. Prince; Public School Com mittee T. M. Leatherwood, A. F. Prince, E. B. Nuzum; Fire Department Com mittee, Sam Friedman, F. W. Monnish, T. M. Leatherwood; Public Buildings Committee. F.. B. Nuzum. F. W. Mon nish, M. T. Ormond; Street Committee, M. T. Ornond, T. M. Leatherwood, P. W. Monnish; License and Taxation Com mittee, A. F. Prince, F. B. Nuzum, Sam Friedman
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
WORST ECZEl
BaffIed Medical Treatme For a Year, Cured by
 Cuticura.

About four years ago was affil, with black splotches all over my face a few on my body, which produ a severe itching irritation, and wi caused me a great deal of suffering was forced to call in two of the !eat physicians of -. After a thoro examination of the dreaded comp they announced it to be skin eczem its worst form. They treated me 8 year, but their treatment did me good. Finally I became despont and decided to discontinue their servi My husband purchased complete of Cuticura Remedies, which enti stopped the breaking out. l con. ued the use of the Cuticura Renee for six months, and after that ev splotch was entirely gone and the fected parts left as clear as ever. have not felt 6 symptom of the eeze for three years. Mrs. Lizzie E. Slec $40 Jones Ave, Selma, Ala, Oct 2s, (
 Complete External and Internal Treasmen, Every Humor of Infants. Children, and A eonslsts of Cutieura Soap (25e.) to Cleanse the Cuticura Ointment (bOc.) to Heal the sktn. cuticure ResQyent t50c( tor h the form of Choef soid throuehout tks world. Potter bFug c Ch as~ Nailed Free. cutieurA Beck on skia DisaA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
To-day In History
2.


 1766-Field Marshal Radetzky, cele- brated Austrian commander. born. 1772-First town meeting held in Boston. 1775-St. John, N B.. captured by American force under General Mont gomery.
 17S3-Washington issued his farewell address to the army.
 1S25-Opening of the Erie Canal eel ebrated at Albany.
 1841-Sir Alexander Burnes and twenty three others murdered at Ca bull.
 1S52-Franklin Pierce elected Presi- dent of the United States.
 1S62-General Grant began his ad- vance on Vicksburg.
 lS76-Many thousands of people kill ed by a cyclone in Bengal. 1885-Canadian Pacific Railway opened between Montreal and Winni- peg.
 Iss9-North and South Dakota ad- mitted to the Union.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
ITCHING P|MPLE'.
 TORMENT ] BO'
Arms and Hands Affected Ct Not Sleep Because of Itchiu Suffered for Two Montbe
 Two Cakes of Cuticura s
ONE BOX OF CUTICU
 CURED THEN

1T have five boys, from five years of age, who were affect time last winter by some kinC disease. The worst parts of were around the arms and hant small pimples formed and itche suffered for two months so tn could not sleep at night. Inoticr vertisement about the Cuticul edies and we made a trial oj two cakes ef Cuticura Soap ar of Cuticura Ointment which ga satisfaction. I washed their with Cuticura Soap and then Cuticura Ointment every otk Since then they have all been A. E. Carlson, Norcross, Travc Minn., Nov. 26 and Dec. 23, l!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
''7his is My 59th Birthday"
Leslie M. Shaw.

Leslie Mortier Shaw. former secre- tary of the Treasury, was born Nor vember 2, iS4s, at Morristown. vt Farm life formed tileeprincipal part Of his early experience, with attendance whenever possible at the district schools. He completed his education at Cornell College, in Iowa, and two years after his graduation he began the practice of law in Crawford Cotln- ty in the same State. He began a banking business in small way and was eminently successful. Tn 1896 he took the stump for Mckinley and two years later was elected Governor of Iowa on the Republican ticket. In 1900 he was reelected. At the expi- ration Of his term as Governor MT. Shaw was appointed Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He has been closely identified with church work all his life and g. number of times has been a delegate to the quadrenniaI General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
 Pope sulHeFs from GOut.
 Rome, Nov 1.-The Pope Is agajr suffering from gout. He walks w4 dif1culty but continues his audiences
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
ruscnloonn Delegates.

Mayor Faulk, at the request of the President of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, has named the fol- lowing delegates to represent Tusca- loosa at convention of this Congress to be held in Washington. D. C., on December 1. and 6. 1907: w. H. Raj ford. Henry Fitts. T. R. Taylor. F. R. Maxwell. F. s. Moody, c. K. Little, WooIsay Finneu.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Dr. Andrews,s Dnnger.

SprIngfIeId RepubIican.
 Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska Is facing a storm of protests from the people of that state for his recent remarks about hanging newspaper editors for criticizing -millionaries like MT. Rockefeller or their methods of acquir- ing wealth. He may be forced out of his present position in consequence. Dr. Andrews radicalism in the conser- vatlve East cost him the presidency of Brown, and now his conservatism In the radical West may serve him like turn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
HONORs GENERAL BOOTH.
Triumphant Arrival of Salvation Army
 Leader.

Leader. New York, Nov. 1.-The religious fe- yer which characterizes the Salvation Army was heightened by the arrival here today of Gen. Booth. the patri- archial leader of the organization. In- deed. inasmuch as his present tour of the United States will probably be his last. his stay of about a week here will be made a sort of triumph.
 Col. Hughes and representatives of every walk of life will participate in a series of public meetings arranged in the veteran evangelist's honor.
 Gen. Booth will deliver three address es in the New Amsterdam Theater Sum day. and it Is expected that all of them will be attended by big Salvationist demonstrations. The formal welcome of the State and city will take place on Monday. Governor Hughes will pre- side.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

Alabama Is to have another all- winter menagerie." remarks The Co., bad as that. We hope to have it over by Christmas.--Montgomery Adver- tiser.
 It was an effort to say that Atlanta" will have an all-winter animal show, but one of the type-setting machines decided to make it Alabama" which seems to suit, as the Legislature is about to convene in that State.--En- quirer Sun.
 Just as you please, but we'll thank you not to mix Alabama up with Att lanta again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

The Washington Herald fntimates that the election returns from Bir- mingham make dry reading for Mont gomery. Well. that only makes thirst quenching more pleasant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

We have not learned whether there were any presidential booms mixed up in the balloon races but It was a good place for some of them. They are light enough to fly and might have made good scores.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Toy Balloon Breaks Records.

Paris, Nov, IA toy balloon, one or many released by the newspaper, The Eclair, has been found in Finland. It travelled a distance of 1850 kilometers from Paris thus beating by twenty five kilometers the long distance bal loon record made by Count De La TVaulax.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

"If all the Presidential booms could be consolidated, they would make huge stack" says The Montgomery Advertiser. Leave out two, and the re- maining booms would hardly fill a two ounce sack.-Washington Herald.
 Meaning Bryan and Roosevelt?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

'.Iudians fight Unitsl States trcop-," Is the headline over news item. They've been at that ever since there was any United States, and have made things lively at times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

While some are claircing that Okla homa is Gods country. there are oth- CTS who insist that it belongs 70 the Democrat. After all. the difference is not as great as it might be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Astonishing Indeed.

One of the eloquent poetical writers who report the costumes and etiquette at Washington penned this in his, or her, account of a Presidential recep- tion: Mrs. x. wore nothing in the way of a dress that was remarkable" The slipshod English was handsomely corrected by the pedantic but unhumor- ous printer, thus. Mrs. x wore noth- Ing in the way of a dress. That was rema rkable."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

The Atlanta Georgian sent a reporter named Gortatowslxy over to Rirming- nam to report the recent el4;tion, and in spite of his name, he sent in a fine report
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

The statement that Roosevelt tires his body-guards" is nothing TO be sur prised at. He tires the whole country at times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

J Carnegie, we are told. is for Roose- Velt's nomination next year. and Andy can easily dump a round million into Ahs campaign chest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

Mrs. Fish declares that it is very ex- pensive to be rich. Possibly 1t is. but 1t is also very inconvenient to be poor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

Why did Secretary Root stop over in Texas? He certainly cannot hope to start a boom among the wild voters of that State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

What the Republican Party stands most in need of is somebody to help it turn Roosevelt loose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
aWoRN CrRcuT.ATHoN.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees 1ts advertisers (and makes it art of the contract when requestedl that its daily CIT cuiafion is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in A1abama-and that Ns Sunday edition has the largest circulation If any edition of any newspaper printed m Alabama without exception.
 The fiGures for September printed below, representing the actual net circulation. aii sstnrns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
EEPTrnrnER. 1907.

E & Noble, Circulation Manager of the afnntKOmery Advertiser. being duly sworn, nAya;
 me foregoing statement of The Adver- stsafsB circulation for the month of Septem- her 1907. fs true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents, spoiled and left over copies have hsan deducted. D. g. NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. sworn to and subscribed before me this a5th day of October. 1907.
 fsEAIAl RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Loolxing Forward.

Memphis Commercial-A Appeal.
 Boston, Oct, IA, 1920-The Ancient their 127th annual meeting today and concluded to join the Antf-Saloon League in a body.
 New York, Oct, IA, 1g20-F Marion Crawford. the well-known novelist, was nabbed by the police as soon as he dis embarked today from the steamship Eternal City. There has been a charge on the docket of the Criminal Court for three years against him for smoking a cigarette in Central Park when he was last here. The, alert custom officers found two cravats and an extra shirt in MT. Crawford's trunk. It looks as if it would go hard with him.
 Raleigh, N. C., Oct, 14,, 1s20-The conductor of incoming train No. Is on the Norfolk and Western was arrested today for ejecting a passenger from the fare. The recent rate law .nakes it a felony to deny anybody the right to travel simply because he has no nr,pey.
 Birmingham, Ala, Oct, 14, 1920- The work of tearing up the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville road has been completed. The Louisville and Nashville was the only road left, and fact that there Is not a mile of track in the state. The population of the city has dwindled to 10000 people, but the reformers are satisfied, as they contend that too much population is a danger ous thing.
 .. Topeka. Kan, Oct, If. 1S20-Col. Henry Watterson was pulled at the Union Station today and was taken in the Black Maria to the jug. He was charged with being a. Kentuckian.
 Cambridge. Mass. Oct, If. 1920-- The police raided College House to- night and arrested President Eliot, for merly of Harvard College, and all his fellow conspiratofs He was declaim- ing violently against the protective tariff in violation of the laws of the state. The authorities are determined to put down all such lawless agitators.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
Newspaper waIfs.

Washington Star,
 Wife-"But why do you have a home when you intend to spend all your
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

4HVInpIIIS JOf1IuefCIaI-A AppeaI.
 Boston, Oct, IA, 1920-The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston held their 127th annual meeting today and concluded to join the Anti-Saloon League in body
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

.. Topeka. Kan, Oct, 14. 1S20-Col Henry Watterson was pulled at tht Union Station today and was taken il the Black Maria to the jug. He wal charged with being a. Kentuckian.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-04-27
Grand Jury Ignored Its Duty.

The Second grand jury, to whom
the case against Judge FavrOt was
referred, after the indictment found
by the first grand jury was quashed,
refused to find any bill against Judge
Favrot for killing DR.. Aldricb in Ba-
ton Rouge last November. The nc
ton of the grand jury in thus dispos-
ing of the case meets with general
disapproval by the State press. 1t
was not sufficient for this matter to
he dismissed with the barestntement
that it was case where the "unwrit-
ten law" applied. The public had a
right to know that it wac such a
case. and the majesty Of the law and
vindication Of Judge Fnvrot could
only have been maintained by a fair
trial in "a court of Justice. The
Judge should have been required tu
mike showing, and the grand jury
failed in its duty in not presenting
him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-04-27
Gambling is "A Vice.

In his charge to the grand jury a t
Alexandria last Monday, Judge
Blackman charged them with the law
in regard to gambling us follows:
"Under the constitution gambling is
declared to be n vice and should be
suppressed. The Legislature has
seen tit to pass laws against gam
bling, banking games of all kind and
'against slot machines and other
species of gambling. 1t is made an
offence for parties to gamble in any
way, where they are in view of any
street or public road. 1t is against
the law to keep a gambling house
and it is your duty to inquire in all
these matters and find if the law has
been violated 1t seems that the
State of Texas has driven out large
number Of the gamblers and some OF
them are coming to the State of
Louisiana. The law SAYS that man
who makes his living alone by gam
bling, is a vagrant, and can be pun
isbed as such, and it is to be hoped
that the police officers of the town
and executive officers of the parish
will in every case arrest this class Cf
people, who are leading estray the
youth of the land and are demoraliz-
ing to any community. causing in
many instances the preparation of
serious crimes in the gambling dives.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-04-27

The primary election law requires
that all State and parish officers
shall he voted for at an election to be
held in January 1908, and the gener-
al election will be held in April 1903.
In case of no election or tie, it il to
he decided by another primary elec-
ton to be held between january and
April. The candidates for some oi
the State offices, aud also the candi-
dates for many Of the parish offices,
are already in the field, and we are
in for whole year of electioneering
and political wire pulling. As Mr..
Bryan very aptly puts it, that is a
long time to ''setup and look pretty"