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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CaII. on People Tor Ald.

Editor The Advertiser. . who. when asked to contributes to. a good cause. hesitate, put you off-ralse this and that excuse, must consult his partner father. brother & sister rteI,d e some ans entually to contribute at least some tAng Why not come right down with their contribution of whatever they intend to give or else with flat refusal?
 I was elected by. the State Division of the Southern Cotton Association, did not need the job but took 1t at the urgent request of our State President W. H. Seymour. together with the un- pledged my faithful efforts to the members throughout the State as well as the South Now l ask the co-opera- tion of all. including men in every walk of life. to the end that>we may make the Southern Cotton Association what 1t was originally intended 1t should be andfthereby bring to high terest of our South land. In. this, ali are interested.
 Think of the price of cotton 6 lie day StG tSe Southern Cotton A Assoeiation socI lon was organized. That very day. and under the influence of our movement oscon ie in adYSaeGS fiSe @onths Ss 1se thsTe6y % bringing to each one who was thef holding cotton from $1.50 to $22.50 per pale pr0Ilr.
 The Cotton Association is not fight ing and legitimate business or instf- tuition. but is working in the interest of the man who follows the blow and thus conserve the interest. of each and every industry not only in the South but the whole United States, and yet we have those among us who are daily ity. but who withhold a helping hand.
 To this class I wish especially to ap- peal. and assert that 1t is their duty, and should be the pleasure of every loyal citizen of the South to contrib ute to this worthy cause.
 shall pass among you daily until I give all a chance. In the meantime, I ask again those both in the city and country Of Montgomery to send in their contributions (great big liberal ones care of the Imperial Hotel. this city, or to my home address verbena, Ala. Again thanking one and all who have already contributed or who will con- tribute. am
 Most gratefully yours.
 G. A. Gulledge,
 Financial Agent for Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Financial Agent for Alabama February 18th.
Unwritten Law and the Thaw Case

Unwritten Law and the Thaw Case. Buffalo News.
 / Last week several hundred news Thaw T1Sv' iury!s as s loudly as biackface type could cry it. For the impression it was intended tG make it was quite unnecessarv to add-"and If not ac- the last event" Tn the Northern mind the opera bouffe Southerner- the Southerner who, by the way. Is a myth-stepred to the fore with will ing, hand. at his. hip pocket saying: I'll die in the jury room .suh, befo' I'll help convict a man fo' shooting anothah who has ruined his home .
 of demarkation between the, news papers that thus shouted and those that did not, was again the corn bread and cold biscuit line" that has ing opinions. No Southern paper di- vined any significance favorable to Harry Kendall Thaw in the selection of Louisiana man for juror. There tended editorial sympathy to a Southern born man called to pass upon such a ease. but entoininr him to do his full duty as a juror. according to written law was not mentionsd
 The truth is that the North has a strange misconception of the ''un- millionaire, were hls case being tried in the metropolis of the South in stead of New York city, would find fense on the "unwritten law" The South has no exclusive 'unwritten law" One must soeak in the plural -"unwritten laws"-for there is a code of three such no one of which a man can choose for his own conVen- fence with indifference to the other two. The first is that behind which Harry Kendall Thaw may make his fight for life; (under the plea of hereditary in- santtv); the second commands man to marry no woman whose society his own mother and sister hesitate to in- vite; the third makes 1t the blackest of crimes to shoot man from behind when his victim is nnnrmed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Rapid Advance in stumpage Values.

Comment has been made on the rapid advance in the price of yellow pine stumpage from time 10 time wi.hin the last few years. where figures in
 transfers have been made public. To the layman the value at which long leaf pine is held today must be sur prise, and a source of some regret to those who. less than a generation ago. disposed of their holdings at prices those paid in q late sale. The deal referred to is that of a purchase of S5OOo acres of yellow pine timber land in Calcasieu parish, Louisiana. by the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company, from Michigan interests known as the Wright -Blodgett syndicate. IT. Is said that the price paid was $50 an acre. or involving total figure approXimating the trade will doubtless consider this price as excessive. it Is a rather con servative figure when the character of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

the tract and the circumstances at tending the deal are taken into consid- eration. The purchaser controls in- terests owning considerable acreage in the territory Immediately adjacent to the new tract. and by the purchase of this additional standing timber, will be enabled to continue the company's oper- supply for long period. During the last two or three years stumpage val- ues in the South have ip"reased enor- mously and within the last eighteen months several large tracts have been transferred for a consider ation as great as, if not greater than, that reported in the sale mentioned above.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Neither Easily weHned.
Washington Post.

If often happens that a farmer has much dlfHcllty in weaning a calf and the longer the baby COW Is permitted to draw its subsistence from the ma ternal fountain the greater the diff culty becomes and the more rathetie is5 the spectacle presented. So 1t is with human beings who are compelled to surrender any special privilege in the enjoyment of which they have been uninterrupted for long time. They lose the capacity to distinguish be- tween a privilege and vested right and they set rp whine in which grief and indlEnation are so mixed as to make a ear-punping olenS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
One of the rampant advocates of wo-

One of the rampant advocates of wo man suffrage, a woman herself, ad- vances the argument that giving them the right to vote will not interfere with a woman's home duties, because as this one sees it. woman can vote in one-fourth the time that it takes her to buy a hat" Just so, but we have been told that it sometimes takes one a week or ten days to buy a hat, even if she doesn't wait to send to Paris for it. This woman's argument is not convincing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

They claim to have dug up from some of the ruins of Egypt. The remains of another queen who queened over that country some thousands of years before Columbus discovered America. We don't know the market value of these antiquated stiffs but they must be very valuable. judging from the efforts made to find them, Perhaps one of our mil lionaires may add this latest fnd to his collection.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Jamaican Song RirtIs.

Jamaica has many song birds. the ing bird larger than that found in the southern states of this country and somewhat differently marked. As Il songster, it is very sweet. but 1t seems is the delirious warbler of the Gulf States. T. Is called nightingale by the Jamaicans. with their English traditions to direct them, but 1t resem- bles that songster even less than does the American mocking bird.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Not So Young Q. Pletured.

ChlcdBO IhrOnIcIe.
 Nobody will be greatly surprised at juvenile, innocent and unsophisticated friend and confldante" of Evelyn ,Nes-, bit Thaw. turns out to be a divorced woman with two grown-up children properties and accessories of tie rYlur- der trial. Everybody mixed up in ttH appears to have been more or less of a professional,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Heir to Coutt.,n Millions

Francis coutts, who. has inherited Burdett. Coutts, is ,a man of literary pouant books. one a volume of poeu's containing 8 few lyrics and some S,QoV tines of blank verse, the other a vol uue of criticisms of the bod& of Job, concerning which Mr. Coutts has an entirely new view.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
H. p. Morgan Not nRetired." 1"

J. P. Morgan has not actually 're- tired' from business. but he has not been at his New York office since Christmas. Last week he came down to attend a meeting of the Metropoli' go to his bank. He spends a good deal of his time at his club .playinR bridge and taking life 1eisurelE His health is fairly good. He is repre- scented at his office by his son.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

Free passes have been a source of evil when used by those who should not be allowed to use them. There are times and occasions, however. when 1t is to the benefit of State and cor porations for free passage on railroads to be allowed, This is shown by the following sensible remarks of Major F. Y. Anderson in The Birmingham Age-Herald;
 One of the most hurtful things the Legislature has done was enacting an anti-pass law, without excep: ing those which the railroad companies had been in the habit of issuing Lo committees of home seekers who come to see for themselves and report to their neigh bors. l have been instrumental in bringing every year about 400 families to this State, who have settled and prospered. These new corners have been in every case most desirable citi- gems. They have brought money and paid for their farms. The abolishing of the class of free transportation alluds cd to is certainly a great blow to Alabama's progress In an agricultural way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

contemporary consoles itself with the reflection that although a dollar doesn't go as far as it used 10 it goes about twice as fast, so we suppose that evens up things
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

The Connecticut Legislature proposes to pass law for the protection of skunks We are informed that the trade in the skins of these malodorous animals is a valuable industry in some portions of New England.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
"WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1907.

One of the most compact and expres- slve comments on the Beveridge non- sense that we have read comes from good Republican contemporary. The Hartford Courant. That paper com ments at some length on the recent speech made in the Senate by Beyeridge in support of his bill. and after not ing his atleged arguments the edi- torial winds up in these words:
 whenever such opinions as these prevail in this country, the time will have come for sending all extant copies of the Constitution to the paper mills and looking around for the benevolent despot Civil liberty and local self government will have had their day in the United States of America.
 That short paragraph expresses "the conclusion of the whole matter" as Sol omon says. The position and argu- ments of Beveridge. if adopted and followed. would inevitably lead to the practical abolition of the Federal Con- stitution. That instrument, with all it's safeguards and wholesome limitations. would become "a thing of shreds and patches" so far as It's usefulness is concerned, and might as well go into the waste basket
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

E. s. Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn says.
 The foregoing statement of- The Adver- tissr's circulation for the month Of Jenu. arv 1901 Is true and correct, and compiled alter ali returns from news-bovs news agents spoiled and leftover copies nave wa Circulation Manager. sworn to and subscribed before me this Tth day of February. 1907. .~,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

Ut will be we'll for some of the other Senators if the Indian senator from Kansas doesn't carry his tomahawk and scaIping Knife with him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

The Pittsburg suu sarcastically re- marks that good men like Roosevelt, Beveridge and others" couldedo @ won derfuI amount of good "were It not fSr that cumbrous old Constitution"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
Locai Pofisles WHILE Up.


 Montgomery politics will soon begin ticator yesterday. I noticed today that one of the aldermanic .aspirants was getting busy. Arm. and arm with a friend, he was walking up and down the streets meeting the cons. .ituents of his ward, leaving them with the words. count on your .surport' T have been asked by numbers of people if Mayor Teague is going to have opposition. but the only. answer and | don't believe there is anyone in Montgomery who knows. just now. The mayoralty aspirants all know this sec Sod So up 1srm aeanss d h ooSs Ss0 to ns though they are going to think be- fore venturing into the political arena. for H he the eeSsfs Tay 6Ss Sfng to mese s@s snG derstand der t nd the. body wifi meet soon. They ought to be sesMsinS M OSsy.
 Judge L. c. Coulson, of Scottsboro, one ol the leading Republicans in the State, is in the city on legal business. He warmly favors the re-nomination of President Roosevelt by the Republi- cans next year.
 Hon. I. Matt Meyer, a prominent planter of Dallas county, left Montgom,; cry last night after spending several days in the city:
 Mir Edward deGraTtenried ana MT R B. Evins, of GreensDoFo, are registered at the New Exchange.
 5e t S Mir. J. B. Goodwin and MT. John B. Knov, of Annis-on, are registered at the New Exchange.
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 Mr Robert H. Mangum, an, attorney of Selma, spent yesterday in Montgom- cry.
 Mir. Augustus Benners, of Birming- ham, was in Montgomery yesterday.
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 Captain A. G. Forbes attended the Msrdi Gras festivities Tn Mobile.
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 Mir. D. W. Crossland was confined to his home by illness yesterday.
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 Mir. l.. E. Jeffries, of Selma, spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 < & se MT. J. H. Johnson, of Talladega, is staying at the New Hxchange.
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 Mr. G. R. Hannon, of Mobile, is staying at the Imperial
 # 1S E Mir. F. F. Patterson. of Selma, is egistered at the Mabson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
SIDEWALK PENClLINCS
Pras.c fer Potice.

Tn my opinion" said a well known business man yesterday, "the Montgom- cry Police Department has rendered the cause of law and order an excellent service in it's quick solution of the Fin-
 When the body of the unfortunate young, man was found without sin- gle clue, many people believed the way in which the Montgomery police went about the work reflects the grea.- est possible credit on the department. ics,it a,titri6ute this to the fact nat pass praes, in. that work for the city were not only intelligent men, but they were vet eran peace officers, with deep knowi-
 While people in various walks of ire were down town Sunday, specu- iating on. various theories. Chief Tay,, Tor and his men had jumped several clues and had unerringly picked out the one that led to the detection of the supposeds negro. criminal. If the this excellent work of its keepers of the peace, then the city of Montgomery is ungrateful.
 the work of the police oiicers as matter of course. With out peculiar racial conditions. with portion of the inferior race vicious and criminal. and Tn some. instances almvs. bestial, po- lice work in city like MontgomeTy is knows that time and again he takes his life in his hands when he hunts in tho dark in a bad section of the city for a negro criminal. He knows that likely as not, when the runs across the criminal. hls life depends upon the quickuess with which he can use his pistol.- Being a police officer In a city where such conditions pre- vail as in Montgomery IS as danger ous as being marshal in frontier
 The high scompliment. however. which Is now due the department is and experience, as for the courage showed in quickly penetrating the Fin ley mystery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
JANUARY CIRCULATION.

The Advertisers January Circulation fig- urcs establishsd a new high-water mark. The figures given below represent the ac- tuaf bona fidef cifcuiatiou, from day 10 day, then the unsoId, spoiled and left over cop- les are deducted in the final result Ihe Advertisers circulation is unquestionaoIy the largest of any morning or Sunday ne"sps- per urinted in Alabama:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

Again we are told that the last of the horss-ears are about to he ordered of the streets of New York That is q poky old towP
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
watchmen to Get Raise.

T certainly agree with the man. quo ted in The Advertiser yesterday morn ing, who thought the Legislature should raise the salaries of the old soldiers who act as watchmen at the Capitol. His heart is certainly in the Tight place, even if he was poorly in- formed as to the facts of the case"
 It was one of the few members of the Legislature who did not make the trip to Mobile to see the Mardi Gras festival who was speaking. He stopped just 3 moment to let his re- marks sink in, and then went on:
 Those old soldiers were among the first that the joint eommittee agreed to raise in salary, when the policy of making raises was finally determfned upon, They have been getting only $65 per month, and this was thought too little. so the recommendation will go in te the Legisla ture 10 raise their pay up to $75 per month. That is little enough, but the increase will serve to remind the old vets that their faithful servfees are appreciated.
 T understand, also, that the report of the committee will recommend that four of the watehmen be employed regularly, instead of only three regu- lar watchmen, with one extra man, as is the case now, giivng the extra man d permanent place"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13

We are waiting to read the news that the last cold snap has again ruined the peach crop
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-13
A PrTIFuL sTenY..

we belleve t was Thomas Hood who
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
CHERIFFS SALE.

Rv virtue OF writ Of Fieri Facas is
sued out of the Court of Common Pleas
of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and to
me directed and delivered, there will be
exposed to public sale at the Court House
in the Borough of Laporte, Sullivan
County, Pennsylvania, on
FRIDAY, DECEM BER 9th, 1907,
at O'Clock a. H., the following describ-
ed property, to wit:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel OF
land situate, lying and being in the
Township of Fox, in the County of Sui
livan and State OF Pennsylvania, bound
ed and described as follows.
BEGINNING at the Northwest cor
ner adjoining lands of Mary and Andrew
Watts; thence South by lands of Charles
Foster. Edwin Williams and Mary Beard
sley one hundred eighty-siS QS6) rods;
thence East by land of Samuel Battin
ninety seven and 10 (97.3) rods; thence
North by lands of Nora Morgan and
Montvile Lets one hundred eighty six
(lS6) rods; thence West by lands OF
Dorson Dickerson. Lewis Dickerson and
another ninety and 80 (9F3)
rods; to the place OF beginning. CON
TANNING one hundred QO0) acres of
land be the same more or less.
About twenty. (25) acres improved
and under good state OF cultivation. the
balance in timber, and having thereon
erected one fame house, two frame barns
and other out bui dings. Well watered
and having good orchard of fruit trees
thereon.
Seized, taken in execution and to be
sold as the property of VIM. l.. Williams
at the suit of +. n. Thomas.
FRANK W. BUCK. Sheriff,
MULLEN, Attorney.
Sheriii's Office, Laporte Pa, Nov. 6, 1907.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
Trial List, December Term 1907.

Return day, Deco 1907, at = O'Clock, pm
/. Joseph Fisher VS. Harriet Steinback
and Riley Steinback. No. 25, December
term, 1905. Ejectment. Plea, not guilty.
Inghams. Mullen
. J. W. Bates VS. +. c. Trexler, Fl. c.
Trexler, and j III. Turrell; trading as the
Trexler & l'urrell Lumber Co. Trespass.
No. 46, Sept. T. 1906. Plea, not guilty.
Scouten, Bradley Thomson, Mullen
3. Floyd Ackley, by his father and
next friend Rodolph Ackley and Rodolph
B. Ackley VS. The Lehigh Valley Rail
road company
No. TO- May term, 1907. Trespass.
Plea. not guilty,
Hill. Thomson.
A Hattie n. Schoonover VS. Della
Brown. No. %, September term 1907.
Trespass-Plea, not guilty
Scouten. Bradley.
THOS. f. KENNEDY, Proth.
Proth. Office, Laporte Pa, 1907.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14

The Locomotive Engineers Broth
erhood OF Clearfield have passed res
olutions against the raise in the price
of milk and pledged themselves to
abstain from its use. They think
the raise in the price of milk and
cream is uncalled for and unjust and
they are up in arms against prin-
ciple more than against the amount
of money il means to them.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
ADVEkTIrEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing accounts have been filed in my Office:
First and final account of A. H. Busch.
hausen administrator, of Jessie Williams
deceased.
First and final account of Samuel G..
Vargason, executor ofthe estate OF Ma
tilda Vargason late of Elkland township.
Also the following appraisenents set
apart to widow.
In the matter Of the estate of Robert
Taylor late of Davidson township, deed.
Ia the matter of the estate of Carl F..
Heess late of Elkland township, decd.
And the same will be presented to the
Orphans Court of Sullivan County, ON
Monday, December 9, 1907, at 3 o'clock
p. M, for conformation.
THOMAS f. KENNEDY, Register.
Registers office, Laporte Pa Nov. 9, 1907,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
His Head and the Psalm.

The Rev. c. y. Wright, Wardie vicar.
age. Rocbdale, for a personal remlnis-
cence. writes: "ln my third living
there was Il very crowded congrega-
parishioners were evidently curious as
TO the build, color of hair. etc. of their
new vicar. AS matter of fact ] was,
though yoHng man. very bald. 4 lit
tie thought would have caused me to
make my first appearance on any
morning but the Sth. but 1t was TIN.
Sth. and In the Psalms. which were
read and not sung, ! had TO say: MY
sins are more in number than the
hairs of my head London Graphic.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
For a we'll Kept
Up-tO-date
Stock of
General
Merchandise

Far prizes that are
Right
For curteous treatment
go to
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-11-14
Sonestown's Improvements.

+ With great satisfaction We report
the following advanced steps our lit
tie southern hamlet is making.
Sonestown is really experiencing a
new life that means much for her in
the future,
A new and large clothespin iacto-
ry has been erected and will soon
begin operations and will give en-
ployment to large number Of peo-
pie.
kester' saw mill has increased its
capacity one-half
The Davidson Township public
school board has erected Il fine High
School building, and many pupils
from the township are taking advan-
tage of a High School course.
\ profitable lecture course for the
winter has been arranged. Already
the first entertainment was given
October %, by DIR. j. II, Whalen of
CarbOndale. On Friday evening
November -, Miss Helen Gilmore
and Prof. George Butler Of William
sport will render strong program.
Miss Gilmore is an accomplished
impersonator, and Prof. Butler an
expert violinist.
Revival meetings have been in
progress at the M. +. Church for
nearly three weeks. Much good
WIS accomplished. Many of our
strongest business men are entering
the active work. SOnestown Is real
ly having an industrial, educational
and religious advancement. To i'm
prove i'm all these factors alike will
make any community ideal.
An Interested friend.