The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05
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saau a raliroad man. yesterday. me- chanfcal devices may be perfected to the hnest degree. but they hove no brains | ana there Is no mechanism in the world which will not refuse to work some time or another.
 There has been much agitation in reference to devices for protection against wrecks, but I take the view | that none on earth will ever do any | good. and that as long as the universe exists, there will be railroad disr sters: An appliance for the prevention or wrecks might work well in theory, but when you put such an appliance on l train. 1t will be human nature for the I train crew to become rather careless, 1 disregaruing their responsibility and the necessity for maintaining as much viz tlance as they were previously accus- toned to. They would naturally take | 1t for granted that the mechanism has human brains. and. Just at the time | when the appliance should work. 1t would get out of order. and wreck would result
 F T can't see that the number of tective mechanism or arrangement. What we need ia to instill into our crews the necessity for them to exert | more care and vigilance. That, I be- lieve. will be the solution" | 'A.ss ss ks tk
 Manual Training in Our Public Schools. The effort that Is at present engag- l ing the attention of some or our citi- zens. looking to the introduction into l our public schools of manual training, is a subject that should receive moro l than passing consideration" remarked gentleman interested in educational matters. The ladies who are earnest I ly and systematically working for this much needed reform should receive the | cordial support and co-operation or those interested in the schools Of the city; ha fn 10 minds those who for a moment give the mat l ter serious reflection. In the first place, | the dignity of work-a thought to which children unfortunately pay little heed, is thereby impressed. If naught else were accomplished. this would more than justify the experiment. But there are other equally potent reasons why manual training should be | insisted upon in our elementarys schools. 1 Originality; ingenuity; patience-traits. alas, not destined to be brought out in | their full measure of development by our present system. Many other pos | itive virtues enure to the child if man. ual training be properly directed. ~'Then, too, the pleasure derived from the experiments will do much to coun- | teract the lack of interest and indiffer- | ence often felt by the child in his too close application to things that do not | interest; and thus will better results be | attained in his other work. By all means encourage the good woman In their work along this line; they have struck the keynote and It Is for us to aid them"
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 Condition of Cotton Crop. '"rhe condition of the cotton crop Is deplorable C. H. Bi1Iingsley, clerk in the Department 0: Agriculture and In- dustries. said yesterday. MT. Billings | ley spent a day in Lee County. driv~ | ing more than twenty miles in the country round about and near Opel ika.
 Tt might almost be said that there 1 Is no cotton crop in some parts of the State, and that the prospect of making one Is not fine. In my long drives. ! | saw hardly one round of cotton. In one field the plant was about ready for 1 chopping, but even there the crop was spotted, the growth being exceedingly ragged. Nowhere else did see cot 1 ton crop that looked nearly ready fer 1 blowing; all the other fields being bare or showing only stinted growth:
 Tn Lee County many farmers. was told, not only have no seed for re- planting, but will he unable to get It. heard that the oil mills had sold al, | their seed.
 "The reports in Lee County are in. dicative of the conditions prevailing in other parts of Alabama and tho out look for the crop Is dark" | s se ss
 | Is Local Fish Law.
 The report that Judge Jules Afford, of the Inferior Criminal Court of Mo- ble, had declared a game and fish law unconstitutional, is apt to create an err roneous impression that the law upon which he passed opinion iN the new game and fish law enacted by the Legis- l lature at it's last session." said Hon. l John H. Wallace. IT,, state Game and l Fish Warden. in speaking of the "uo> 1 ject.
 "The law upon which Judge Afford ruled Is an old law affecting only Mobile l nd fo concerned general law just enacted hy the Leg 1 isIature. I believe that the new game | and fish law. which is considered by many competent critics to be the best in the country, will sta ld the test as to constitutionality as we'll as to efficacy"
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 General Manager R V. Taylor of tho Mobile and Ohio Raiiroad, passed route 10 Mobile. He reached here al lO-55 a. m., over the Western. and left at 11:15 a. m, on Louisville and Nash vile passenger train No, for Mobile
 Mir. J. J. Frazer has returned from Texas. being called by the critical ill., ness of his wife. and Is at her bedside at 119 Madison Avenue The condition of Mrs. Frazer was slightly Improved yesterday.
 Mir. Vincent M. Fillmore, Jr.: of the | United States Army who was the guest Of hts parents, Md1Or ana MTS NlhCe'it M. Elmore. has returned to his regi- rhent at Plattsburg, N. Y., after six
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 Rev. J. H. Rife, who will preach to- day at the South Side Baptist Church. Is the guest of MT. H. C. Burdeshaw, on South McDonough Street. during his stay in Montgomery.
 ss E8 ss will he pleased to learn that he is i'm proving. He was painfully hurt seV, eral days ago in the Louisville and Nashville yards,
 News from Master ". F. Fort. Jr.. the infant son of MT. w E. Fort, Pri' vate Secretary to Governor Conner. is that he, is convalescing steadily at
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 MT. J M Atkinson. President elect Of the Eighth District Agricultural School at Athens, was In Montgomery 3Vs- terday. ..:-+
 Mir J. D. Flowers. President of the Flowers Lumber Company of Jakin. Ga, spent Friday with Mir. Brooks Flow CTS.
 Prof C. Hammond has returned home after visiting friends at Hatties- burg, Miss.
 MT. T. A. Goodwin of Mt. Willing was in tho city last night, accompanied by his wife.
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