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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07
WHY WAS THE EXTRA SESSION OF
 THE LrGrsLATuRn CAxLEDt

There is no question but that Gov ernor Conner put the State of Alabama to the extraordinary expense of the ex- tra session of the Legislature. and brought about the uneasiness, unrest and business depression incident there to. because the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and certain other railroad companies saw it to exercise the right guaranteed them by law to have the questions at issue between those roads and the State of Alabama, viz: whether or not some of the laws enacted at the last Legislature are con- stitutionaL decided in the courts.
 It Is fact that the Governor woukl have agreed to an increase in the stat utory passenger and freight rates, and cancel the call for the extra session, if the railroad managers had been so untrue. unwise and pueriie as to waive their rights to appeal to the courts to adjust the differences existing. The Governor himself on the stump in his campaign for the high office he now holds repeatedly asserted that if the Legislature or the. Railroad Commission should fix confiiscatory rates. the raii- roads could and would remedy the trouble by resorting to the courts.
 The fact that the bills drafted by Governor Conner and his leaders, or by his attorneys. were enacted at the last session of the Legislatures with but amendment, and that Governor Conner attempted to enter into an agreement with the several railroads to materially change the rates named in said bills. is a positive and emphatic admission that the last Legislature un- der the leadership of the Governor made serious mistakes.
 VIII body of sane men again follow his lead? Will not our legislators awaken to realization of the fact that calamity is already upon as a re- Sult or tnlS uHWlSc, anatGcotou auu ih- digestible Legislation. and can it be possible that the Legislature of Ala bama will attempt to go still further. the inevitable result of which can only be ruin? Is it possible that the intel- Iigence of our Legislature can be de- ceived into believing that 1t is a sin for an individual. a firm or a corpora tion, to go into the courts of the land to adjust differences?
 The extra session was called because the railroads sought to exercise this right. We have always been taught to believe that it was a sin for citizen to take the law into Bis own hands, !" but it remains for the present Execu- tive of the State of Alabama to leave the impression that 1t is sin for A citizen to go into the courts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07
: DRIFT WOOD
BY PHIL H. ARNEgTRONG.

t Why is it it's an apartment house you don't7
 Uncle Remus pays a glowing trib- ute to corn-bread in the current issue of his magazine
 A Pennsylvania girl about to be married returned $50,000 worth of presents. What's the matter-didn't the china match?
 Once more comes winters chilling breeze (pass the 'taters and possun please.>
 A man has been discovered who never growled at his wife's cooking. tsee. the side-shows collection. of freaks.l
 The Columbus Enquirer Sun says there were moEe drinks consumed in October than ever recorded before in any one month. The Georgians are evi dently trying to literally drink the State dry!
 Paul Cook. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Phil Fl. Armstrong. Grantland Rice and the other poets have had time over to the fair.-Austin Statesman.
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 An Alabama Burbank has grown a lemon over thirteen incheas in circum. ference. Enough to make Battlship Hobson shuddr exceedingly.-Austin Statesman.
 A college editor of the University of California has been attired in a suit ot sticky fiy-paper for saying that women This will only tend to make him more stuck-un than ever
  has asked the students to give up haz- ing and\ resort to old-fashioned flst- fights to settle disputes. The old man is right-better a black eye than have folks say Don't he look natural?" woman in Missouri wants S10,oon damages because one of her neighbors kissed hers Perhaps, after all, the damages aresAsked as compensation for the great shock she sustained to find neighborS so friendly.
 The Charlotte Observer agrees with The Washington Herald in opposing the idea that the prettiest women are always the stupidest. All other emin- ent and trustworthy authorities will do ewise.-washipgton Herald. As this is plainly an invitation for us to butt in. we would say as we did once before, yes; if woman cant be pretty let her be pretty sensible.
 Notice how the drowning summer girl clutches at the last soda-water straw.
 John Temple Graves still Insists that the newspaper paragrapher cannot so to heaven. However, John. Temple can go to New York as substitute. 
 NOvember-Tide. November tide-the leaf Is sere. They've harvested the golden grain Across the stubbles we can hear
 The Bob White whistling his refrain The empty nests sway to and fro Tossed by the laughing southern deep in the woods the sumack's glow The bIushing brides among the trees. And over all a saddened haze subtle some thing sweet as love 1 Oh. tangled ways and golden days That speak of the good God above.
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 A woman's "head-work" usually con sists in selecting a gorgeous and styl- ish hat.
 Montgomery has the finest drinking water in the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07
Boston Transcript.
 Holidays Next Year.

Next year Washington's Birthday all fail on Saturday, giving the pub. lie three double holidays" Ordinarily these three do not fall on the same day but by the intervention of February 29 next year Washineton's Birthday falls just fourteen weeks earlier than Mem. orial Day, which regularly comes Ave weeks before the Fourth.
 The advantage of having holiday adjoin a Sunday. for people who de. sire to seize the opportunity to make trips out of town. Is very great. In crc- ating the last holiday--Labor Day-ad' vantage of this principle was taken 1T the selection of first Monday instead of a numbered day of the month. nth >II Monday. fine 3Oth of May and ths Fourth of July on Sunday, whie~ vii mean a Monday observance. so that fol two years in succession double hoRf- days are assured. In the later year Christmas will also. fall on Saturday thereby affording the most complete trial of the double holiday" possible in our calendar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

One of the latest presidential booms to be put forth is that of George B. Cortelyou, Roosevelt's pet money raiser for campaign purposes, and his Sec retary of the Treasury. That such a
 man should by any one be seriously Contemplated as a fit man for President shows how unsettled the Republicans are. and how they are fishing--some- times in very shallow pools-for the man to nominate. There have been presidential candidates in the past of small caliber. but few who could meas ure down to the standard of Cortelyou.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

CONSISTENCY THOU ART A JEWEL.
 From what appears to be reliable sources, the information which reaches The Advertiser is that the main object for which the Governor has called the special session of the Legislature is to take from the railroads the right to go into the courts to test the validity of railroad rates. If this rumor is cor rect, then the Governor stands as the embodiment of inconsistency.
 The Advertiser printed verbatim the speech made by the Governor at Tusca-: Ioosa on December 8. 1905. the speech appearing in the issue of The Adver- tiser of December 9. 1905. However, Governor Conner saw fit to revise and reprint that speech, and as so revised and reprinted. it appears in The Mont gomery Journal of January 1s, 1906.
 It is interesting to read the Gov ernor's utterances in that speech as follows:
 do not mean to impugn my asso- ciates; I simply mean that their en- Tbeg Wers and on they may have thought tn emselves fair In their rulings for the railroads, yet 1t was a great sacrifice of the people court there Is no appeal in Alabama, except to the ballot. There Is no court that you can carry 1t to. .. If the case they could have carried 1t to all the courts of the land.
 I win say tC you in all cand9r that made rate; I am working for a law made rate, working for rate that the courts of Alabama will pass upon, and is where it is going to end-at the bar of the courts-and all of this talk about the unreasonableness to the railroads 2f lowering the rates IS superficial; nft all the State, and tRey are fair.
 So you see it ise not prejudice. but it will call upon all the lawyers of the State. if that is not reasonable and right!
 bama so ignorant as not to know that the Federal courts in Alabama are Courts of Alabama" The Governor in his speech from which above quota tion is taken, and in numerous other speeches along the same line, seems to emphasize the fact that he wanted the railroads to have the right to go into the courts. so that if the Legislature or the Railroad Commission should fix rates which were confiscatory, the damage could be remedied by appeal to the courts.
 The Advertiser feels that it can safely assert that the Legislature which meets today, will not fol- low Governor Comers dlctation to the extent of attempting to deprive any citizen or corporation of the "equal protection of the laws" This equal protection is guaranteed to every in- dividual and corporation. not only by our own Constitution. but by the Fed eral Constitution. both of which instru- ments the Governor and every member of the Legislature are sworn to support and uphold.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

A contemporary declares that 'it Is time for the President to speak"-al
 luding to the third term question. Per haps it is, but what good would it do? After his election he spoke as plainly and positively as the English language will admit but the people plainly do not believe him, and their disbelief grows with time. If he should come out emphatically and repeat that he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

would not accept another nomination swouid it be satisfactory to the country We doubt it very much. He has &C., auired such habit of changing his mind that no assurance he can give will convince obseryant people that he will not accept a nomination if offered him. He might refuse it but gambler would hot bet on it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07
Na Neea for ElectIonn.

Manchester (N. ILL -UnIun'
 Perhaps. too. there will be no need of PresidentiaI and CongTessional elec- North Carolina, Conner. of Alabama. and smith, of Georgia, manifest & dis position to take upon themselves the country's Legislative and executive af- fairs, to say nothing or the Judicial
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

go county, arrived in Montgomery last night and Is staying at the lmperial Hotel.
 Mir. H. l.. Levy is seroiusly i'll from typh old fever at his home on Wtlkin- son Street. Mir. Cadwallader Jones. of Rensacola was a visitor to Montgomery yester- day. < MT. R. c. Smith,. of Opelika. is stay ing at the Hotel Summers.
 MT. Robin Lapsley, of Selma. is in the city on business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

"The Republican party is the party that does things" gurgles one of It's organs. May the good Lord deliver the country from any other party that does things as the present dominant one is doing them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

A man in New York was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for mot more than his natural life.s That was 8 cohsiderate judge. He didp't want to get up any complications with the hereafter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

The Richmond News-Leader has an editorial on "moneyless campaigns" !" The subject reminds us of the student who was set apart to write an essay on Snakes in Ireland" He wrote, "There are no snakes in Ireland" and that was all he could find to say. It is the same with moneyless campaigns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

The Houston Post boasts that "a Texas nisser caught twenty-eight pos sums in one night" Texas Is great State for night providers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

The Washington Herald designates them sHollering Houston" and Nov ing Montgomery" Now wait for The Houston Post to Justify The Herald's appellation-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07
sWORN CIRCuIATIoN.

The Montgomery Advertiser guaran.ses 1ts advertisers land makes 1t art of tne contract when requesteda that its daily eaI- collation. is larger than that of any moFntns IF MewspAper printed in Alabama--and tnat L.s Sunday edition has the largest circulAtion of any edition of any newspaper pfinteo ia Alabamap without exception
 The figures for September printed peiow; representing the actual net rcuiation. III xefurns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

Wonder what the Hollering Houston Post will find to boast of next?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

L1sa RetarnaA etcs..s ss.s s0.s .ss. aessss II Net Total ..ss sec Ssss ss..ssesAe' nn1ly' Average, September. 1907 .... .14,Se! nnnday Average, September, tS05 ... .Il!VOa =, Montgomery Ad-ertiser. being duly sworn, nMyBs
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- ffaefss circulation for the month of Septen- her. 1907, Ia true and correct, and compiled n4fer all returns from news boys, news aner1ts, spoiled and left over copies have heen deducted. IL s. NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11fh day of October 1Se7.
 9eEAI.l RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notarv Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

Once more comes winters chilling breeze (pass the 'taters and possum please.1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

Why is it it's an apartment house when you live in 1t, and flat when you don't7
  Uncle Remus pays a glowing trib- ute to corn-bread in the current issue of his magazine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-07

A man has been discovered who never growled at his wife's cooking. (See the side-shows collection. of freaks.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
UMPIRE ASSAULTED.

William Evans, aged twenty four, the
Youngest umpire in the American
League, was struck on the head at st.
Louis yesterday by a bottle thrown by
an enthusiastic fan. Evans was so seri-
ously hurt that be was sent to hospital
at once, and there it is said his chances
for recovery are slim. The bottle struck
him on the base of the brain, fracturing
the skull, and was broken into hundreds
Of pieces.
1t WAS in the first game of double
header that was being played by the St.
Louis and Detroit teams. About 20
600 persons were watching the games.
An alteration arose about foul ball,
and, while they were arguing, Hugo
Duseuberg threw a soda water bottle and
struck Evans. The widest excitement
followed.
Evans dropped at once, and lay uu-
conscious on the ground. The spectators,
seeing what had happened, made fol
Duesenberg, shouting, "Lynch him ~
Dusenberg, realizing his position, jump
ed onto the field and started TO run, and
he was chased by several hundred of the
spectators, who we're seemingly bent on
vengeance. There were about fifty po.
licemen on the grounds, and they took
charge of Dusenberg, and after a while
managed to get him safely away from th'
mob
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
Cures WOman's Weaknesses.

We refer 20 that boon TO weak, nervous.
sn0eriuQ women known as Dr. GleIces .
Favorite Prescription. .ca
n, .Iohn Fyfe one Of the Editorial staff
NJ Tur ECLECTIC MEDICAL REVIEW says
~ TTnicorn root (HeJontds DiOtcd) which
fs one of tho chief ingredients Of the Ia
vorite Prescription -:
"a remedy which invariably acts as qtcr-
tra irvigorofor makes Tor normal ac-
tiyity OF the entire reproductive system,
He continues riu ilciOuias we nave uleit'c1-
nent which moro f1iiy answers the aH2Fe
,,,,r,,oees fb0n rtlii ofnCr drug ctth irHcf an
dentGm,6d In tho treatment Oi diseases pe-
culiar 70 women it is seldom that /. cas-. cas- IS
seen which does not present SONY ~ 49,
for this remedial agent" bt fylo i1lSuC, lS.,.l,
saws. eThe fOliOwing arc among lhc ict,. nv
Indications for IiclOnias unicorn rOOV al
or aching IN tho back. with 'leucoIihQ! = u
orgsns of Women. rnentN depression anu -
Titabliity associated VIII chronic dISedsCs Q.
The Teprodttctive organs OF Womeni Col'i;t,iS
sensation ~ heat bn the Iegi9n OF .4e ,-,,S.. -
news: menbrrhagl@ tdOOdingi, due 10 S. wee
ened condition ctlthe reproductive syst1i.is
amenoTYhQ11syr5rcsScd az ausent niJ'I'nlS i.
periodS. 1SEihg Siro.a CT aceonpanylns, an an
S6nOpTN condition OK the digestive oisahS
ond 6Emrnic thin blood habit; Dragging
sensf3ions in the extreme lower part oi 'ne
IYin II more or less Of the above SYMPTOMS lls
are N0FeseTit, no lIYalll AfQI1a ~ a, f:1Q--4s4
Better Than take Dr. Pierce, $ -ks-AQ-!Ir&
PTesCFTDIT0TI, 0l6- 6I Chs Ieading ,ingredl-
ef7ts of @Ilcf is Unicorn root, or Helonilassi,
and the medical properties OF Whlch 10
most faithfully represents.
OF Golden Seal root, another prominent
ingredient OF "Favoritc PRESCRIPTION"
PROT. Finley Elllngwood, NJ. d., OF Ben
mott Medical College, Chicago, says;
at an Important remedy In disorders of
the womb. In all catarrhal conditions
and general niecblement IL Is useful -,
Prof. John NJ. Scudder, N. d., late OF
Cincinnati. says Of Golden Seal root:
ain relation 10 its general effects on the ile
svstero. tScre fs no medicine IN use about WhiGn
fSsrs Il such general iulGrtnttU of opinion. ~
is ifnipsrsdiiG regarded as tho tonic usctui IN
an prof SSfB rs Bartholow. NJ. D.. Of jefferson
Medical College, says of Golden Seal;
UValuable in uterine hemorrhagc, u,cnor-
rbagia CloOding) and congestivc dysihenor-
rh0a fpainful menstruauon)" -
DIR. Pierces FavOrte Prescription iath-
f,,iIy ronreseuts all the above named in
ere3lents and cures the diseases for which
they are recommended.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
TIE BIG PIER

10 the presence of %, 900 persons and
with the finest pyrotechnical display
ever seen in that section Of the country,
the big government pier Of the James
town Exposition, which cost $4OO, 900,
was formally dedicated Saturday even
ing. The ceremonies were brief, and
following q concert by the Mexican band
f. w. Gaylord, representing the Sco--
field Company, the contractors, turned
over the structure to Major T. l. Wheel
er, the government officer in charge of
the construction. Major Wheeler, then,
in a few words, turned the structure
over to President Tucker, who accepted
it on behalf of the Exposition Company.
With the band playing the Star
spangled Banner" the lights Of the
Exposition we're turned on slowly and
with increasing power, until every build
ing and the great pier were outlined in
blaze of light.
The invited guests were then con-
Quoted from the center arch, where the
dedication ceremonies we're held, TO
seats at the head of the basin, and all
lights on the pier were extinguished.
After a slight delay three smoke bombs
began the display OF fireworks that lasl-
ed for more than an hour. There were
rockets of every description, while one of
the features we're huge set pieces forming
in fire tho portraits of Capt. John Smith
and President Roosevelt.
The plans for the big pier called for
total of about l3, 900 piles-sheet piles
and round Extraordinarily over a
mile of sea wall, about 800, 600 yards of
FL and about 45O, 900 yards of dredging.
To complete the plans over $500, 900
feet of lumber, for either permanent or
temporary use, was required. The pier
is double one, enclosing an enormous
water basis of /, $50, 900 square feet, but
its most.exceptional feature is $50 foot
reinforced concrete arch at the outer
end. This arch, placed on a mud bot
tom relying entirely upon the bearing
powers of the piles driven for its abut-
ments, was the principal engineering
feat of the whole work as it is the long,
est single.span bridge Of the kind 10 this
country, measuring exactly 15l feet and
5 inches from spring line to spring line.
Ia order to place this arch over 200 piles
we're driven in each abutment and the
concrete placed nine feet below the water
line in two large cofierdams.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
KILLED BY ITALIAN.

Timothy Kelleher, a member of Troop
@, of The State constabulsry, was
stabbed to death in Reading, Pa, late Sat-
urday night by one OF two Italians he
was attempting to arrest for assaulting a
young woman. The body of the officer
was found on the banks of the Schuylkill
river yesterday. Traces Of blood showed
that the body had been carried more
than 200 yards TO the river and thrown
over a twenty-fve-foot embankment.
Kelleher started Tor the barracks of
the troop, which is across the Schuylkill
river in Cumru township. He had
crossed the railroad bridge over the
river when he heard a woman cry,
"Help!" He answered the call and
came upon two Italians struggling with
Bertha Bernhar;. Kelleher knocked the
woman's assailants aside and tried to
make them prisoners when one of them
turned and stabbed him with stiletto.
The girl fled, but WAS taken into custody
and heId as a witness. Several Italians
have been arrested as suspects, but the
assailants have not been Identified.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
FELL FROM A BALLOON.

Carrie Myers, girl aeronaut, fell 800
feet to instant death on the Olean, n. Y,
Fair Grounds Saturday, afternoon.
Her shrek SIS she lost her hold on the
trspeze bar of her parachute family
reached the 5000 spectators who had
watched the ascent. For an instant the
girl struggled to regain her balance.
She clutcbed desperately at the ropes
from which the bar dangled, missed
them and pitched backward.
The girls form stifened as she fell
and turned over several times in the air.
1t struck the ground with a shock which
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
SATURDAY.
the 2sth day September, 1907,

at 70 O'Clock M, ALL THAT LOT OF
GROUND in the said city Of Alexandria
bounded as follows, to-wit:
an that lot Of ground situated on the south
side Of Duke street between Hamilton Lane
and the Stone Bridge: Beginning on the
south side of Duke street at the east line Of
the lot of ground conveyed by the said Mar
earet Krsemer 70 Paul Pop 4S7 feet 6 inches
more or less west Of West street and running
thence east and binding on Duke street Is
feet more or less; thence south, parallel to
West street, 2s7 feet inches to the line Of the
occupation Of the Washington Southern Rail-
way Company; thence west with that line
and parallel 10 Duke street 6S feet TO Bur-
netts line; thence northwardiy with Bur:
nett's line and parallel to West street IS7 feet
inches 70 the line Of the lot conveyed TO the
said Paul Pop as aforesaid; thence esstwardly
parallel to Duke street 50 feet; thence north
wardly pasallel to West street i6O feet to the
beginning.
Terms Of Sale Cash.
r. b. cox, Sergeant,
Admir- Of John II. Greene.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
Pure Foods Building, Jamestown Exposition.

broke every bone. Women and children
screamed and tainted, aud the utmost ef-
forts of the few police on the grounds
were required to prevent a stampede and
loss OF life among the spectators.
Miss Myers hold on the trapeze bar
was broken by the sudden swapping
open of the parachute with which she
was attempting a 7OO-foot descent.
Since the fair opened she had made
two ascensions daily with parachute
drops. On cutting loose from the bal
loon Saturday afternoon the parachute
failed to open quickly but dropped like a
plummtt for fully 400 feet. While the
Mortified spectators gazed bresthlessly
the big umbrella snapped suddenly open,
checking the speed Of the young woman's
descent so unexpectedly that she was
thrown from her seat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
AUCTION SALES.
p Knnr Anctionter.

pY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
d bearing date the 18th day Of January,
1899, duly Of record in the land records Of
the city Of Alexandria, Virginia, in deed
book No. 4S, page 1876, and executed by Paul
Pop and Kate Pop, his wife, to John II.
Greene, trustee, and at the request Of the
party therein secured. default having been
made in the payment Of the note secured by
the said deed Of trust. the undersigned will
offer for sale at public auction es the Royal
street entrance to the Market building, in the
said CITY ON