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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14

as he stood in the door of the power house. The road led past the door, and as he stood listening to the rhythmeti6 purr of the dynamo. the familiar sound was broken by the quick beat of horses hoofs on the hard road. and around the curve swung a maddened broncho with woman swaying in the saddle
 Marsden sprang into the roadway and in one tense moment fought the insane brute with desperate energy as he was dragged along Then the fight was won and he sprang to the saddle just as Marjorie slip ped, fainting from the seat.
 'I came because I wanted to see for my self" she explained an hour later, as they sat on the porch of the superintendent 5 cottage. "f could not believe that you had been contert fn- two years as a fireman Of course I;-. Travers wanted the credit of Introducing the biggest money-savins device in the plant. And he did not re- member that father was particularly ifl- terested in you. Father ought to have been more explicit"
 ''But it's been a good thing for you" de- clared MT. Dufford as he stepped through the doorway. You've shown the stuff that's in you---and tt's mighty good stuff; fit material for & son-in-law I'm going on to the rest of my holdings in New Mex leo as long as I'm out here. As you are going to he put in charge of my mining interests when we get back to New York you'd better combine a honeymoon and . business trip"
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There is hope for the most hopeless case of Rheumatism If the sufferer will only take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) It in- vigorates the blood. making 1t pure and rich. and destroying the active poison in the blood. which causes the awful symp- toms of Rheumatism.
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 Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B. is pleas ant and safe to take. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Composed of Pure Botanic ingre- dlents. Strengthens Weak Stomach, Cures Dyspepsia. Price Sl per large bottle. st drug stores by express prepaid Sample free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atantas Es- s--nulaA
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changes, until one day we run across A shin that was bound from New York to San Francisco, and we Keel hauled alongside and took her. You had ought to hear our captain, who was a very profane man. swear when he found out what that ship was load" ed with Nothing but books!
 q suppose he only wanted golo, said Miss Hinckley.
 Just SO" said Eliph' Hewitt. our license only allowed, us to take gold and Jewels, but we had got so care- less on board oar ship by that time that we didn't abide by the law at all :. The captain was going to throw that whole cargo of books overheard when I spoke up. Captain I said, some books are worth money. If there is any first folios of Shakespeare In that shipload of books we can get go money for them The captain swore. 'Jimminy Cricketsr he said, there ain't no first editions in this lot Near as I can make out this whole ship is loaded with the ty-fourth edition of 'Jarby's Ency- clopedia of Knowledge and Compen- dium of Literature. Science and Art and overheard she goesr With that he chucked one into the briny deep, but put my hand on his arm. Captain said, never heard of that book, but think of the ladies locked down in the basement of our own ship. Mebby these books would vile away their tedious hours. Suppose we save one copy for each of the ladiesT So we did."
 Eliph' Hewlett paused to let Miss Hinckley ask a leading question, but she did not seem inclined to speak. He took the sample copy that he had been holding on his knee and opened 1t So that Miss Hinckley could see the alle- gorical frontispiece in three colors.
 Tn one week from that day and date" he said ,"every pirate was learn | Ing to drink tea with his little finger sticking out from the cup. One week | of reading this remarkable work had raised them imprisoned ladies to q point where they knew more about ev- rything worth knowing than any of the men knew. and they took the vot- l ing away from the men and voted themselves into the offices, for this
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rIIE MONTGOMERY ADvEKTIgEK.

up. but 1t wasn't no use for there Nas dirt everywhere. and the pirates always tracking in mud with their muddy boots"--
 ''what's thatf' asked Mits f1inck- Icy. sharply. Where did they track that mud from7'
 E1iph' Hewitt hesitated for but . moment. Then he smiled pleasantly att Miss Hinckley. From the dirt that the cross-trees grows in." he said.
 T never knowed before that ships hAA soil aboard" said Miss Hinck- Icy.
 what do you suppose every ship has yard forr inquired E1iph' Hew- litt. well, things got. worSe and worse. The masts was all cobwebs and some days all the crew Iaid around smoking. and everything was going to racky ruin as fast as 1t could, just as 1t is in another way in this coun. try of ours today. There was big need of new laws on that ship and of some firm but kind hands to run things, and gradually we all come to see 1t, but we never once thought of the ladies in the basement as it to do 1t. We voted one man into office and then voted him Out again and another one in, but no good come of all our
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14

Men are needed for the big battle ships, cruisers, and torpedo boats. Here ts the chance for you to learn all about the Navy without costing you anything. Large increases are now being made in the Navy and the Government is looking for large number of able bodied boys and young men eligible for enlistment.
 You can enlist in the United States Navy--sail the ocean on the great bat tleships and cruisers of the United States know the thrill of firing the biz guns -secure practical training. at no expense to yourself-.fit yourself for po- siticns of good pay in the Navy Cor in- sure competencs if you decide to rA turn to civil life).-and you lead . healthy life and earn god pay while
 In order for you to enlist in the unit- be not less thAn sevedtssn years. nor more than thirty-five years old. in good health and physicaily sound. an American citizen of good character. and able to pass the practical examination reuuired Of the rate for which you ap- ply. If you have a mechanical trade you must be between s1 and 35; if with- out trade. between fs and 2b.
 There Is no expense to. you what- ever in enlisting--the pay Is. all things considered. probably as good ss you are earning now. Most of your necessities and comfortsi and some pleasures. are provided for, at little or no expense to you. An outfit of uniforms is, sup piled you, free. upon first enlistment and your railroad fare. meals and Pull man berth are paid by the Government to whatever Naval station you are sent.
 If you have not yet decided on your career, Or If you are ploddinE along. engaged in some menia1 work or urat- tractfve occupation. where you have It, tie or no chance to see things or to bet ter yourself, you should give this op- portunity ycur earnest consideration.
 Tn addition to the above reuuire- ments, it is necessary that you furnish a birth certificate or satisfactory wrif- ten evidence of your age and of your good character. If you are between f7 and IS years old--you will. besides. he required to have the written consent of your parents or guardian.
 The class of young men which the United States Government calls to It's naval service are the strong. healthy young men from the farms. the schools. offices, factories, machine chops. rail- roads etc.-sthe men and boys who are required to earn their own Livelihood and who are not afraid of hard work. If you are one of these. you are wanted.
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gents said, you had been a pirate, as l have. you would want the ladies to vote and bring their refining infiu- ences into use and to circulate from poll to poll. making elections as polite and elegant as pink tea party
 Them sentiments did you credit" said Miss Hinckley.
 "Yesm," admitted Eliph' Hewitt, "but ] only spoke what believed. Gents. I said, If you had been pirate on the tossing seas, as I have, and If you had seen the way things was run on that pirate ship before and after ladies took q hand in running 1t. you would look at the votes-for-ladies bus- iness in a different way from what you do. You couldn't help 1t. And you would see, as I do, that the only thing needed is to hand each and every fe- male one copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Lit crature. Science and Art to make the world a garden of joy
 Them was strong words to use to men as dead set against us voting as them men was" said Miss Hinckley.
 T felt it my duty to speak up strong" said Elph Hewitt, hoping
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An Opportunity Is Offered
 Young Men of This City
Who Desire 10 Join the Navy.

On your arrival at ths isaval Training station you arc assigned to your quar- ters in comfortable living barracks. Then your training as a "biusjackst" commences.
 You are taught how to look after your person and health. how to care for your clothing. handle rine. revol- ..s yer. etc; how to make knots and you when you enter upon actual ser- vice on board battleship or cruiser. At each of these training stations there are small training ships, and you are taught to steer. handle the lead, boats of all kinds under oar and sail, how to swim. etc.
 At the end of the training you will hs examjned. and if found qualified, arc sgiven higher rating, with an increase of 8 in pay.
 Then you go on board cruising ves- ssl, and your life as . full-nedged blue jacket begins. Hero your work is in line with what you have been taught at the training station. and you have op- portunity for recreation md sports of ell End; The foeS IS &. and comfortable, and If taken sick you re- ceive expert medical attention and nursing.
 Free libraries of technical works and fiction, both at the Training station ana aboard ship, afford you opportunity for improving your mind. and any aptitude which you show In the performance of your duties is rewarded by advance ment.
 As nearly everything you require is furnished you free, or at cost prices. your wages, while seemingly small, arc equivalent to much more than shore job; and you can, if you wish, save up a very comfortable sum by the time your first period of enlistment has ex- pired.
 If you feel personal interest in this matter and desire to know more about 1t, call at the Navy Recruiting once, where you can secure any further in- formation you desire, and you can ap- ply- for enlistment in the Navy. The Recruftine ofIlcer will be at
 The Postonlce Building
 Montgomery. Ala.
 from
 April 18th
 to
 April 20th. office open from a. m. to 3 D. m
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en on page 28S. Yes, by Dummy! give the ladies of our dear native land a chance and sell them this book, and vote they will and mustf So at the next stop we made we went ashore and didn't come back"
 "You didn't all run off to get away from them pink teas, did you?" asked Miss Hinckley. "It sounds little ltko it to me-"
 "No ma'am," said Eliph' Hewitt. "our object was as stated, and this book can only be had by subscription of the agents. s5 volume, s1 down and $t a month until paid"
 T guess I can get along without one," said Miss Hinckley. We women will get our rights without buying books off of book agents. Some towns let us vote at some elections already"
 "Yes'm.' said Eliph' Hewitt. 'Those are the towns where I had sold the ladies copies of this book"
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was locked into the ships basement. here them poor women had to stay, week in and week out. and was never allowed on deck for fresh air or to take part in any of the elections.
 How come the pirates to have elee- tions?' asked Miss Hinckley.
 ITO choose new officers explained Eliph' Hewitt. 'srhe excitement of the life was always too much for one or two poor fellows and they would drop down dead of heart disease. !. When 1t was common pirates de did nothing but toss them over the ban' ister, but If they happened to be of- ficers we had to have an election to fill the office. So we voted. It was a hard life, but 1t was a merry one, and nearly all hands drank beer and smoked ip most any part of the ship that they had mind to. rose right up from the ranks, being cleo ted anitor first and then floor man ager and then general superintendent of the whole ship, which was a hard job because It was my work to keep things tidy. and the ship did get so
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and the rigging feather dusted off. The capstan and pinnacle and things was beautifully covered with turkey red stuff, and every evening we had read inEs from '"The Five Hundred Ennobl- ing Thoughts including the Prose and Poetical Gems of All Ages page S64, after which until ton we played somc Of the games as given on Page 745, Five Hundred Parlor Games for Old and Young Then lights was put out and all retired.
 'One day the captain called us all together and said. By Jimminy Crick- etsl lads, just see how much better on we are now. See how elegant this pi- rate business has come to be and how much better off we are. I move that we leave the ladies to run this shir and that we men all go on land and sell 'Jarby's Encyclopedia. of Knowl- edge and Compendium of Literature and Art, throughout the United States of America, statistics of which is giv-
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book had taught them usefm inform- ation ,n one thousand and one subjects. comprising all the knowledge known to man. twenty. thousand references in all from A to 2, calculated to make the ignorant as wise as the most educated. and f1t man, woman or child for the duties of life, as we'll as providing ef,- tertainment for leisure moments. Price only S, s1"---
 How did the ladies get along as of- acers of the ship?" asked Miss Hinck- ley. Did they do as we'll as the rfden had done?'
 Can you ask me such a question:" sail f8liph' Hewitt. "The Flying Hen became known from Africa to Green- land as the only pirate ship that had the refined and we'll conducted ennob- ling influence of home around 1t. The plank was that we'll secured it made all the difference to the poor fellow that had to walk 1t. Every morning the deck was scrubbed and the sails airtd
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mussy in a fight. Nobody wanted to do the sweeping and dustins AS looked around this tidy room,' added 'Eliph' Hewitt. as he looked kindly at her through his spectacles, Miss Hinckley, 1t makes me sick to think how careless that ship looked on some days. Mebby you won't believe 1t, but the windows wasn't washed for weeks at a time and the hold wasn't housecleaned once."
 "T can believe it," said Miss Hinck- ley, out I don't see why the women wasn't let up out of the basement to tidy up the ship"
 ''Because we was afraid of them-- that's the truthr" said Eliph' Hewitt. "We was afraid they would claim their rights and ask to be let vote, and so many of the pirates had been killed off that the women was in a majority and could have run things to suit themselves if they had had any sense. which they hadn't. never saw such an ignorant lot of ladies, but that was all you could expect of wives of pirates. So we kept the la- dies locked down in the basement, and I did my best to keep the ship cleaned
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MARSDEN'S PROBATION.

for eight hours day.
 It was hard work for man whose ex- ereise had been taken in a gymnasium, but Jim rapidly hardened to 1t and in six months It had become a second habit
 He sent East for books on engineering. and by mistake book on electrical en- zines was sent him. instead of the one for which he wrote. He sat down to look 1t over before he sent it back, and to the original book he added others
 He had ben there little more than q year when he sought out Travers and laid a plan hefore him Less than half mile up the valley constant fall broke over the cliff and rolled into the valley, four hundred feet below. It was Jitns plan to use water power instead of steam. and emplo-- a trolley on the tramway.
 Travers smiled at first, but Jim worked But the plan for him, and the New York office approved Jim put in charge of the plant--and the company raised Tray ers's salary.
 It was we'll toward the close of the second year that Dufford came to visit the mina Nc one knew of his intentions until word was telegraphed from the station. The word was flashed about the camp that the old man had come. but the first hint that ladies accompanied him came to Jim
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I left New York committee of the anti-Female Suffrage Society came to me and begged me to give, up selling this grand book? Yes'nd. 'E1iph' Hew- lit they said, amt you q man and a brother. Amt 1t for the good of Us men to stand together and keep the ladies in the kitchen, where they be. long? Please to sell something else, but if you will sell this grand work in one volume, published by Jarby & Goss, don't, we beg of you, sell 1t to ladies, We ask it as a special favor, for with this superb volume in their hands they would have the whole wis., dom of the known world in handy form ready for instant reference, and would be not only our equals. which they are already. but our superiors.' At that" said Eliph' Hewitt, T shook my head. Gents I said, I must and
 will sell this volume. neatly bound in cloth, with frontispiece in three col- ors. to the ladies of this country. To sell 1t to the men I do not care, but in my humble way selling this book to the ladies is my life work. If.
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my rights and have got gumpticn enough to stick up for them. men or no men. But~I don't want that book, and the reason Is that I ain't got time to read 1t. My official duties takes all my time"
 'I should think they would" said Eliph Hewltsk with a. sympathetic lit- tie cough. etting the right to vote for ladies is AA big job. It takes lots of work and lots of time. just like i, did to get up this Jarby's Encyclopedis of Knowledge and Compendium of Lit erature, Science and Art, bn which the greatest minds of the known world have worked twenty years, but it Is
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ELLPH HEWLITT, PIRATE.
Hou Jarby's Encyclopedia Tamed Pirate CreD and Caue q Boost to tue Cause Of Female
 Suffrage for Women aq

worth 1t, containing as it does, every thing, from A to z, indexed and class ifled. Price only s5. si down and sl a month until paid" k~
 "Mebby 1t does and mebby 1t doesn't' said Miss Hinckley, though l don't blame you for praislng up what you've got to sell. But 1t hasn't got anything to do with getting votes for women, and I don't want it.
 The little book agent looked Miss Hinckiey calmly in the face through his spectacles.
 You would be surprised, wouldn't you, if I were to tell you that the, day
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thereby to win them from error. done my duty as I seen 1t. and as I've done 1t ever since 1 was converted by what seen on the good ship F1ying Hen. l use the words good ship af meaning how 1t was built"
 awful places. said Miss Hinckley.
 Words cannot tell how bad," said Eliph Hewitt. The captain was a constant user of cigarettes. and them men after dinner would keep sitting around the table playing dominoes for meney./ And all the time they was carousing that way their poor wives
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pharmacist. nurse, cook musician. or any clerical work, such as bookkeeping. stenography, typewriting. etc, there are positions awaiting you at good pay. In fact, there are few corporations holding forth better chances for advancement and compensation than are offered by the United States Navy.
 If you enlist as apprentice seaman you will be assigned to Naval Train ing Station at Norfolk, Va, or New port, R. l., where you enter upon four months instruction in the duties which will later devoIvek upon you.
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 a'Tf wanted that book I'd buy It.. said Miss Hinckley, setting her hard looking mouth firmly. and I'd like to see any man say shouldn't. I know very well that Mrs. Beem is scared to death of her husband and I'm not surprised that she let him dictate to her whether she should buy it or not but I ain't that way. I wasn't made President of the Ladies' Female Suf- fraEe for Women Society for no such reason as that. It was because I know
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If you have no trade, your pay will he better tall things consldered) than you could ordinarily earn in any unskilled position which you would be apt to se- cure on shore; but If you have learned. or partly learned any trade or profes- sion, such as that of machinist, electri- clan. carpenter. fireman. engineer. plumber, coppersmith, blacksmith.
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