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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
TALKING NONSENSE.

The Portland Oregonian goes some what extensively into the matter of the dissatisfaction exhibited by the ne- groes of the country towards Rooss- welt and their endorsement of Foraker, all growing out of the Brownsville af- fair. Tn the course of it's comments 1t makes this statement:
 Of course both their resentment and their gratitude are absurd. Mir. Roose- yelt's famous order Of discharge may have been accelerated by desire to heal the Southern , soul ,,sl which he s hsd ington. We rather think it was.
 To say that the President. without proper investigation and delfberation, discharged a regiment of negro sol diers without honor merely to disarm Southern dissatisfaction on account of the Booker Washington affair. is not at all complimentary to him, to say the least of it. It is equivalent to saying that in order to curry political favor he was willing to risk doing grave injus tice to the army. We hardly expected such an admission from a Northern Republican.
 The oregonian doesn't think that the sentiment among the negroes against Roosevelt and in favor of >Foralxer amounts to anything. It believes that if Taft should be nominated as the candidate of the administration the negroes of the North would vote sol- idly for him. which is probably true. for they have a habit of voting just as the Republican bosses dictate. The OreGonian. however. has another sup position that is less reasonable. Sup pose," it says. Bryan or Johnson, be- ing President, should undertake to en- force the fifteenth amendment. What would happen in the South? It would become solidly Republican in the twink ling of an eye."
 Now, we decline 50 indulge in or be influenced by any such suppositions. Neither Bryan nor Johnson is President. and we are not supposing that either will ever me. Then we refuse to sup pose that either would undertake to nullify the efforts and determination of the Southern people to protect them selves against the evils and horrors of negro domination. We refuse to be- Ieve that either of them would be so fatuous as that would indicate.
 But our contemporary's assertion of what would follow such action by a Democratic President is not even good nonsense. To assert that the South would become "solidly Republican in the twinkling of an eye" or in the twinkling of a Presidential term, mere ly because the President had proven a traitor to the people and the section that elected him, is wholly absurd. The political doctrines of the Southern peo- pie are too firmly established to be swept aside by the treason of one man The Oregonian was talking through it's hat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
oxLY A rrcHsrcALrY.

The high browed literary students who. write editorials throughout the country, are shocked at the way In which President Roosevelt misinter- preted Dickens's Martin chuxzlewit, at Keokuk. The President never trav- els without speaking and he never speaks without preaching. He took his text at Keokuk from the adventures of Martin chuxzlewit. and Mark Tapley at Eden, the imaginary town in which interruptions American speculators were selling town lots to creduious Englishmen, as described in Martin Chuzzlewit. On Dickens's satire the President built sermon on pessinism. which he contended was what Dickens intended tc present.
 The editorial writers were shocked to find the President so far wrong. They have not been able to understand the Presidents misinterpretation of Dickens patent purpose. For the pri- mary object of the novel was the per- sccution of hypocrisy in Pecksnif and impregnable optimism in Mark T'apley and everybody but the President seem ed to know it. If Dickens was any thing he was an optimist and if he ever pictured optimism, he portrayed it in Mark Tapiey, who could be jolly un- der all circumstances.
 The writers are taking the Presidents s sermon too seriously. Of course they are right except in their serious earn estness. But is the President not a law unto himself? If Dickens did not mean what the President said he meant then 1t was Dickens's fault. What if the President went far from the nov eiist in his preaching? A detail. a mere detail.
 h the wordy orator:cal days of g decade ago. when Free Silver was a live issued, Western Popullst in Con- gress arose and denounced in fiamboy- ant periods the financial policy of the Democratic administration, which he declared had robbed the Treasury of billions and billions of dollars"
 'The gentleman means millions doesn't her. mildly questioned . Dem. ocratic Congressman.
 That's just like a Democrat" said the westerner with bitter scorn, try ing to win this debate on technicali- ties."
 To the zeaIous and enthusiastic friends of the President. the criticism of the President for rewriting and re- arranging Dickens to suit himself will be a mere .technicality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
NON-JURY TERM.
The County Court of Bibb in Session at
 BlOctOn.

The County Court of Bibb in Session at
 Centreville, Oct. 8.-(Special. )-The non-jury term of the County Court of Ribb County for the Blocton division was in session at Blocton yesterday. There were quite number of cases on the docket for trial. but Judge W. L. Pratt with his usual facility for dispatchlng business soon completed the call.
 There were nine convictions and pleas of guilty and two cases were dis missed. Most of the cases went over to the jury term. Two defendants were sent to hard labor for the coun- ty.
 Sunday night, Deputies Oakley. Gard ner and Sims, raided a crap game which was in ful1> blast at Wick. three miles east of Centrevilie, and captured a crowd of ten negroes who were en- gagged in the game. These parties will be tried before Judge w. l.. Pratt at the November term of County Court
 George Monroe. who killed his son- in-law, Ed Callahan. at Piper last week, was discharged on preliminary investigation as it was conclusivcly shown that Monroe acted in self 1e- fense.
 Quite a wind and rain storm oc- cured here late yesterday afternoon but no serious damage was done
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
MANY NEW INDUSTRIES.
Georgia And Alabama Index Gives OD-
 tImistic Industrial Forecast.

GeOrEtQ And Alabama IhOeX G1Ves Op-
 timistic Industrial Forecast.
 Columbus. Ga. Oct. S.-(Special.)- The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index wil say in it's regular weekly is- sue:
 "The coming to the South from elev- en countries of the Old World and from New England of spinners and capitalists who are attending a cotton conference in Atlanta and who will make a tour of the cotton belt, illus trates an inevitable. and uninterrupted tendency. Mills for spinning cotton have been coming and will come in increasing numbers to the South to find their proper and logical places in the midst of cotton fields In growing volume. dollars follow dollars Into this section, attracted by the certainty or substantial profit from the develop ment of resources which in their va riety and richness are unsurpassed. In Georgia and Alabama this develop ment is little short of wonderful. Week after week new industrial plants are established. municipal i'm provements projected and upbuilding continues steadily. This week The u- dex reports the formation of a com pany. composed of Georgia and New England capitalists. with capital stock of $3OOOOO, to build aud operate apd In terurbSE electric railway fifty mues
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

in length. Another company organ ized by the fsame people will build and operate gas plant cerosoting plant and e plant fir the distillation of rosin and turpentine. A company or ganized in an Alabama city during the week will establish an electric lighting and power plant, developing . water railway, use electricity in mining oper- ations and later will build an ice fac- tory, The definite projection of these enterprises illustrates what is being done every week in Georgia and Ala bama.
 Among ether industrial plants re- ported by The Index this week are: Cotton factory, Slyaoauga, Ala; can ming factory, Abertville. Ala; ice fac- tories, Albany, Ga.. and Waycross, Ga grist mill of daily capacity of 2.4oe bushels, Attalla. Ala; oil mill, Tus- kegee, Ala; $50,000 abattoir, Mobile. Ala: marble product plant, Rome, Ga; electric light and power plant, Jack son. Ga. machine shops, Wadley. Ga; rope factory, Huntsville. Ala. There is a great activity in construction lines. A $3000c club house. Bruns- wick, Ga. $20.0o0 business building. Andaiusia. Ala; and $10.000. residence, Atlanta, Ga. are illustrative of con. struction of that character planned. Others are: Churches, Cordele, Ga, and Cedartown. Ga.; street and sidc- walk paving. Newman. Ga. and Colum- bus. Ga. school buildings. Dublin, Ga. and Monroeville, Ala: railway termi. nals. Bessemer, Ala; apartment house and $13,000 warehouse, Birmingham. Ala. Two cities are to hold elections upon the issuance of improvement bonds. Among the contract fwards noted are: Steel bridge. Monroe coun- ty, Ga; $18.00o library, Marion, Ala; y35,000 court house. Harris county, Ga.. and $740,0e0 locos construction work on the Tombigbee River in Ala ganized at Triton. Ga, to dvelop town sites. Illustrative of increasing land values, two building lots in a South Georgia town. which were bought nine years ago for $50 were sold lavs week for s4.500.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
Growing Old.

Age will creep on to any one as the years go oy. and yet growing old Is much like a habit. Mind, the active manifestation of the spirit in man, has a wonderful influence over mat ter. "As a man thinketh in his mind, sc is he." said the wisest man If we indulge in the thought that we bre getting old and yield to that mental impression, we shall soon feel the aches and pains We understand belong to age and our shoulders will stoop to the weight of years; but if we re- fuse to recognize every little pain as the work of time, keep up a buoyant spirit, maintain cheerfulness through the cares and worries of life, light up our facea with smiles instead of darkening them with forebodings and refuse to count our years except tO gain wisdom from them we may al- most defy the ravages of time. Wrin- kles cannot bear to be laughed at, and they keep away from the faces of those who do not care for them much longer than from the faces of nose who are constantly for them and drcnd- Ing them. We often meet old people who seem young and young people who look old, and the difference is in the temperament and thought of the person. The years will pass away, a, d time may leave it's mark, and yet we may refuse to grow old.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
ALATE CONVERT.

The Oklahoma State Capital has ex- perienced a wonderful change of heart and sentiment within few days. It consistently fought the Constitution that was framed by the delegates and tried in every way possible to defeat 1t be- fore the people. Defeated in that ef- fort, if fell back on the President, urg- ing that he refuse to issue his procla- nation admitting the new State. and
 going so far as to declare that he could not issue such proclamation with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

The charge made-and apparently substantiated by the records-that George Washington was a tax-dodger, is in the nature of a severe jolt to many people. The truth is that we moderns have elevated Washington to a higher plane than belongs to human beings. He wal in many respects a man of his times and lacked very much of being a saint, though a charge of personal dishonesty Is new.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
DRIF r WOOD
IT PHu n. ARaagTRON0.

Af.s. hsy,.ns ss,sn 5 propesss, \ sysntyy-sogr lou. his sweethsarfs consent. Such persis- tency deserves . better reward than mere matrimony. hsmMsSe has a iittis Ansnias Club or her own.
 Artist Earle's 'aninity". wears glass; es which ought to. enable her to see What. oh what. is "demi3ohnsr weH Louisiana has . bear chanes' physcis s.S sad dssisrss Ss. sor sh. women are invariably the stupidest. Dollars to doughnuts that mans wife is the ruler of the roost and as ugly pr. Frederick Cook says that he has discovered 6 new way to the North Pole a some p.te old vs tyRewsi!'sr Sst! and ioun Alas the grape afog sgE., of ft.lIpass Trsnss' is is would seem that syen NssSrs IS wsye sry A good way to succeed is to appear nearly E 50 pretty to . hnnsry man as dressed turkey.
 They say marriage is . lottery. Don't believe ,sin ,ds l9ttsry os monsyin yoa nays get I'd st "a lot sf of Iti 1T
 -s Al n --r ished by the waiter-men.
 Football for 1907 is proving . re- cord breaker in the way Of limb breaker.
 Those University of Alabama boys who are acting as walters. have proven that in cases of emergency despite the fact that time and tide wat Tor no 1osr %an lssHsEs lssis. fellows. lows
 while young lovers are so consid. crate ss to think that the spark of love Is l that's nsSesisry Ss. in poppsr 5as don't see 1t that way.
 First Fly: Why Is Mrs. Flea so stuck up. I wonders the 'SS Waite House dosI
 Hoop snakes will be fashionable in the jungle this season.
 
 Must Be. Woman they say is a riddle; Ah--how depressing- Hey didd1e, diddle; She must be riddle The way she keeps up guessing.
 A~Cusiosity. As he sat up there. In the boot-black's> chair. Folks gathered near to see. AS though this fellow were some hu-
 man curosity. I elbowed through To get a view, And pushed the people back; And then saw the reason Wny: (The socks he wore were BLACk)
 
 Phil Armstrong. in The Montgomery Advertiser, expresses doubt as Io whether a person uses thirteen pounds of soap a year. That depends, Philip. Ledger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

The Washington correspondent sent off columns of excited description when young Kermit Roosevelt went into the White House with a little snake he had picked up in the yard. Kermits pa is rather strenuous. but it is safe to say he will not try to do any snake charm ing, if he should run across a blunt tailed moccasin in the Louisiana swamps.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
MODELS HAVE WAGE SCALES.
Girls Get Three Dollars Day for Six
 Hours work.

Girls Get Three Dollars a Day for Six
 Hours work.
 Most of the models are not made; they just happen.
 Girls. in most cases of breeding and intelligence, want to make little money for some special occasion. Some acquaintance recognizes that they have distinction and style, and gives them the address of an Illustrator who hap pens to need such a person.
 They pose once in this way, more or less from necessity. find they can make an independent living in congeniai sequence the women who pose for a livelihood in New York are exceeding ly nice as a class.
 The prevalent idea that the word artists model" necessarily means a highly paid, greatly petted, and d-utterly depraved individual Is rfdiculed in the extreme.
 A first -cIabs artists model in New York City receives s3 a day for six hours hard work. A photosraphic model has, of course, different propo, sition. She has shorter hours ana higher rates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
PIKE COUNTY WOMAN
 TRIES TO KILL SELF
In Fit of Dependency Mrs. Moblty
 Jumps in . Well.

Brundidge. Oct. s--(special. )--News was received here this afternoon that Mrs. Mobley, whose home Is about eight or ten miles south of this city, tried to commit suicide last night by jumping in a we'll.
 There is no telephone line to the neighborhood or means of getting any particulars.
 According to the meager report that came here. Mrs. Mobley was discov- cred this morning and it was supposed she had been in the we'll all night.
 The woman's health hal been bad for some time, and the supposition is that despondency was the cause of the act.
 The report is that she may not re- cover.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
Today In History
october o.

october 0.
 1514-Marriage of Louis XII of France and Princess Mary Of Eng land.
 1e51-British Parliament passed the first navigation act.
 166S-Bishop Laval founded the sem mary at Qebes. 16S2-La Barre appointed Governor of Canada.
 1757-Charles x. the last Bourbon king, born: died November 6. 1886. 175s-Eddystone lighthouse com pleted.
 IS37-Steamer Home. New York for Charleston, wrecked with loss of leo lives.
 1S5s-First overland mail arrived in St, Louis from San Francisco.
 1S67-Russia transferred Alaska to the United States.
 1S70-Rome incorporated with Italy by royal decree. 1906-Adelaide Ristori. Italian tragic actress, died; born 1891.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
IMPROVED DRAwBRuDGE.
Electricity Is Used on Span At

Electricity Is Used on Span At
 FIOrenc.e
 Florence, Oct. s--(Special.) A new epoch in the history of Florence was inaugurated yesterday when the big Southern bridge. the great connecting link between Florence and the out side world, for the first time swung around by electricity to allow the pas- sage of steam boats on the Tennessee River.
 The draw was timed by officials of the Southern and of the Sheffield Com pany and with the new impelilng power made the revolution in just sixty sec onds. With the steam power the op- eration took not less than thirty min utes and the electric oar and passen- ger trains have been subjected to long and vexatious delays.
 Two eight horse power motors at each end of the draw and a thirty horse power motor in the center will now do the work in from three to five minutes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

The attempt to convict Senator Be- rah. of Idaho, of complicity in certain land frauds seems to have been fiat failure. There have been so many charges against prominent men in the Northwest that 1t is gratifying to see the name of one Senator cleared.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
,u-wed-fri
PROBATE NOTICE

THE STATE OF ALABAMA. MoNTGoM-
 FRY COUNTY.
 To. J. F. Frazer. who resides at oiief. Harris County. Texas:
 You will take notice that on the sSth day of September, 1907. certain paper in writing, purporting to be the last VIII and Testament of Martha E. Frazer was filed in the Probate Court 6f this County by ! D. Phelps, and herewith his application for the Probate thereof as such VIII; and that the 18th day of October. 1907. was appoint ed day for hearing said application. at which time you may appear and contess the same if you see proper.
 Given under my hand this 2tth day of September, 1907.
 J. B. GAsToN. -wed-3t Judge of Probate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

Admiral schley, declares that there's not the slightest reason for even suspicion of war between the two coun- tries." alluding to the United States and Japan. That statement will not be rel- ished by those who are habitually go- ing about the country with their war paint and feathers on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
BOARDING HOUSE BURNS.
Occupants of Place at Luverne Had
 Narrow Eaenpes.

CSSSFA@sS ok Ah~SG Ae AuVCEMS AA0U
 Narrow Escapes.
 Luverne. Oct. S--(Special. This morning just before 1 o'clock the two story frame boarding house belonging to Hawkins Brothers, and formerly managed as the Walker Hotel, was dis covered tp be on fire and the occupants barely escaped with their lives. ChieA Clerk Stoddard, of the probate office, was one of the boarders and he leaped from the top or the porch un- hurt He had carried a small metal box to his room from the office which contained $40 or $50 and the undelivered pension warrants amounting to $1.So0 or S2.000.
 The building and furniture were in- sured for $2500 MT. Stoddard f6et all of his personal effects without in- surance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

The Charlotte Observer Is disposed to be hard on our President, saying that he has made i've long speeches without advancing a new idea" The Observer had better be careful: the Ananias Club still exists
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

It is announced that one pr. F. E. Cook. with a party of Esquimaux. is plodding In the direction of the North Pole. It would be a sad setback for Peary if he should reach the Pole and find another man hugging it, or find on 1t a placard reading: This Pole be- longs to Dr. Cook.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
NOT ARKANSAS TRAVELLER.
This Man Holds Record for Staying in
 OMlce.

ATKAnSaS GazetIe.
 Holding an office in Arkansas longer than a second or third term Is a rare exception, yet there are four or five county officials in several counties who many as twenty years. The record breaker in continuous service in one position in the State, however. Is s. w. Wheless of Warseren, Bradley County, who was in the city recently and paid his respects to every ofticial in the State House.
 Mir Wheiess has been City Treasurer of Warren for the past thirty-ni years Of course, he Is engaged iu other business besides that of looking after the finances of the town. When he was first elected Treasurer Of his town the salary of the office was only S16 a year
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
AnGnsr EVACUATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser saaFsnt.ss its advertisers (and makes 1t a part of the contract when requested) that it's daily cir- euiation is lar ger than that of any morning nsw- aper printed in Alabama--and that Us Sunday edition has the largest circuiauon of any edition of any newspaper printed in AIabama without exception
 The figures for August. printed below representing the actual net circulation all re~ turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

467 members, of the Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Church, will meet at Milwaukee from October 8 to II Indiana. Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin being the territory covered hv tha orRapization>
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

Daily Average August, '07 ... ...... .I4s9es Sunday Average. August 'o7.... ....sl'Sas E. 6. Noble. circulation Manager Of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. eayB.
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- siser's circulation for the month of August. 1907, is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents, spelled and left over copies have been de- 6ucted. D. s. NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this l1th day of September, 1907.
 (sEAL.) RIGA ALEXANDER.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
BACON TO GET PLUM.

Assistant Secretary of State To Re Am-
 baaaadOr to Germany.
 New York, Oct. S--A Beriin disoatcn to The Times. states that 1t Is reported in well informed quarters there that Assistant Secretaryyof State Bacon Will he appointed as Ampassador Towers successor. Mir. Tower has asked to be relieved as United states Ambassador to Germany. on account of his private haasinazs a6RirA-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

Artist Earle's "affinity" wears glass; es which ought to. enable her to see his defects.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09

You can't lose up-to-date Birming ham-she has little Ananias Club Q her own.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
NO EXTRA SESSION.

The temper of the people was never more strikingly shown than recently in connection with the feeler put out by the federal administration with ref erence to a possible extra session of congress. From one end of the coun- try to the other the reply has been an emphatic negative.
 This is the first illustration we have had in years of departing faith in the ability of halls of legislation to cure any and all ailments. It is a good sign of the times, and if 1t only leads to halls of legislation attending strictly to their own business, with the other departments of government left to exercise their exclusive functions, the country will have reason to be grati- fled.
 The people will bear with admirable patience the absence of congress from the fields of effort for another month. Neither it's advice nor the advice of the executive department is needed for the present. Silence is the best kind of oil to pour on the troubled waters for the present