The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-16
Sidewaik Penciiinss
The Pre.s--Ths Gre.t Educas assr.

Inc kress-~The Great Educator.
 T say, my friend" said the puzzled
 Inire from afar. and we often wonder if
 read dispatch from Tangier, anord-
 us ss SoSs. M tns ss
 been suhjectsd to . second raid hy Mulaf Hahg's men, who seized 1.04O 1 rifles. I was startled from my we'll
 seissd, Sidn!s know there s's were 70 70 | many rifles in the wordI and by Mu- isi Hahgs mcn-who would have sDld 1t startiss the press personss | Did they, know that there had been . previous raid7 Did they ever hear of
 this Hafig pervcnf | At the wfiG West show the other | day foreign person came out and said ] in Assyrian many. many things. didn't know what he was saying but l of course I followed the .populace and cheered like mad when he said some be a peroration. It was nothing but consonants, the whole speech. But at l the last he said. <'Hkidoor and then
 caught on: He meant that he meant T suppose when you hear that Muiai Hahg's men have made second raia; you know that he meant every word
 M the Ist .n. raid Mna Mnsn yos os ens toms is Fex man and that his name
 Is Ghaili sibty, your worst suspicious are confirmed"
 Congressuan Richardson Here. Congressman William H. Richardson of the Eight Congressional District,
 passed through Montgomery yesteroay,Y
 en route. 10 Savannah, wherc no goes to confer with Colonel Dan 0. King
 man. United StaEes Engineer for the Southern district, concerning oontem- plated improvement in the Tennessee river between Paducah Ky, ana Knox vile. Tenn. Judge Richardson IS in terested in the plan that Is now on
 foot to establish deep waterway pe- tween these two points.
 The plan is to construct an imm snse
 dam at Muscle Shoals. the widest DOT ton of the river between these Two points, and doing whatever dredging nav be need after the water is deepen ed by means of the dam. It addition to this it is proposed to establish the largest water power plant in the @outn at Muscle Shoals for the purpose ei
 generating electric power for .'1hmef- cial purposes. - Judge Richardson stated that the lock and dam system has proven un- satisfactory and has been Of but It, tie benefit to the deepening or tne
 channel and making 1t naytgabie. n 10 have the government cooperate with private individuals who are tn-. terested in having the river navigabie
 through this territory
 Hon. s. c. Jenkins, Representative of Baldwin County in the Legislature, was a prominent visitor to Montgo om- cry yesterday. MT. Jenkins was on nIs way to his home at Bay Minette Iron Birmingham, where he saw tne and stopped off in Montgomery In tne interest of his constituents. He isfr for Bay Minetta last night. MT. Jenkins during his stay In Mont gomery conferred with Hon. J. A. VII
 kinson about the placing of an e5pert man in the culture of tobacco In Said- win County and practically completed arrangements for his county to have adyantaRe of the advice of represen-
 tative of the national Department or All that was needed. Mfr. wilkinson told him, was cooperation of the citi- zens of Baldwin and Mir Jenkins thinks the cooperation may be sarely pFomis-
 ed. Previously MT. Jenkins had secur- ed for Baldwin the requisition for a soil survey which is now being mace and 1t is believed that the establish ment of the tobacco industry will do much to advance the prosperity of the county as It's lands are suitable to the
 growing of the crop.
 Hon. W. D. Jelks. of Birminghsn,
 formerly Governor of Alabama. was In
 Nor tgomery yesterday. MT Jeiks wss
 returning h,tS.r t1 rmcn bn acnemnan,ed his
 wife. who has been i'll. During his
 visitation to Montgomery. Mr. JelkS
 met rDns Of his old sriehfs and re- ceived general welcome to the city. +
 Commissioner of Agriculture J. A Wilkinson left yesterday morning Tor Birmingham to spend the day at the fair in progress there He will attend
 meeting at the Eight District Agri- | cultural School at Athens today. Mir. John Carrigan, Washington cor | respondent of The Atlanta Constitu-
 ton is in Montgomery. He is here to
 prepare some special stories on Ala
 bama and Alabama public questions.
 Hon. John Gamble, of Troy, who was
 recently elected to succeed Hon. Lucian | Gardner as Senator from the Twenty
 fifth district. was among the promi-
 nent callers at he capitol yesterday. | Government Expert A. c. Hill will leave this morning for Selma, where
 he goes to demonstrate the creosote
 process fo rtreating fence posts at the l Selma Fair.
 l Attorney General Alex M Garber,
 will return today from Talladega,
 where he has been since Sunday on per sonal business.
 4- +
 Rev. Father O'Grady, of Pratt City, ! spent several hours at the capitol yes- terday. calling on his friends there. MT. E. R. Norman. the well known
 Birmingham newspaper man. is a vis-
 itor to Montgomery.
 + .. Judge L. c. Hudgins of Jenkins was
 guest at the Capitol yesterday.