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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15
SCHOOL FOR BRUNDIDeE.
Citizens Moving To Secure Institu-


 Brundidse. Nov. 14-(speciaD-A few days ago a petition was circulated among the citizens of Brundidse by Hon. Jeff Waters. asking the city coun- ell to deed to the state the Brundidge public school property. on College Hill' for the County High School. as pro- vided for by the recent legislature.
 It is learned that the petition was signed sy' every citizen of Brundtdge except four or five, and these are deep- ly interested in securing the school for Brundidge.
 The property belonging to the city public school is valuable and will make an ideal location for the county high school.
 The building Is a large two-story framed structure, and In years past was the finest public school building in Southeast Alabama, Since Profes" sor B. H. Boyd took charge of tho school here, some five years ago. large addition. making the building one-third larger. has been made.
 The petition was presented to the council at It's last meeting, and that body proposes to grant all the requests made in the petition. provided the people of the town build suitable buildisg by popular subscription. Tor the city public school
 There seems 70 De wave or SSHe. ment against the action of the council in this matter. As the petition was signed by every voter in the city ex- cept four or five. those opposed to the councils action maintain that no pro- viso should be stipulated by the couu- ciJ when the entire city comes as unit, praying for certain measure.
 United States Marshal F. G. Taylor of Montgomery. was among the out of-towns guests at the marriage Tues day, of Miss Jennie Griffin Collier, daughter of Deputy United states Marshal and Mrs. A. J. Collier. to MT. John Francis Nelson.
 Misses Donnie Walters and Ada Fur lough, of Troy. attended the Nelson. Collier wedding In this city Tuesday.
 Dr. J. A. McEachern went to Mont Romery Saturday to visit his sons, who are attending school in that city.
 Box Collier. private secretary to the post t-master in Birmingham, was in Brundidge Tuesday to be presnt at the marriage of his sister.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15

Honest--it's the best ever.
 New Beauvoir Havana cent cigar. II, J. Mattox ClK. and TOb. Co., Distrib.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15
SPECIAL JUDGE NAMED.

John H. Miller of Bfrmingham to Pre-
 side over Tenth Circuit.
 John H. Miller of Birmingham was yesterday appointed by Governor Co- mer to act as special judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court. during the absence from the bench of Judge A. A. Coleman, who Is quite i'll.
 The docket of the Tenth Judicial Cir- c,it is contested with business, and as Judge Coleman will be unable to pre- side fin some time. it was deemed ad- visable by the Governor to name q spe. ciaI judge, 'n order to clear up the bus mess of the court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15
STRENGTHEN YOUR
 NERVOUS SYSTEM
Purify Your Blood; Expel all Poisons
Colonel Dillingham; Shows How all This Can
 Easily be Done.

You cannot be lucky unless you are healthy. and you cannot be healthy if your blood is out of order. Keep your blood in pure and healthy condition. Most of the diseases which afiict man. kind spring from blood diseases There is one remedy that brings back health and strength to the wasted form, puri- flss and enriches the blood. and brings new strength and vitality to the body. That remedy is Diilingham's Plant Juice and it stands in a class of its own, having absolutely no equal.
 Get your blood purified. get a new supply of rich. healthy blood. and all your organs win resume their proper duties. Impurities will b6 thrown of and health. strength and happiness re- turn. Diilingham's Plant Juice keeps the liver. bowels and kidneys healthy and active. and the poison is expelled from the system. Whenever the blood is deprived of its vitality. we must re- store the exact substance that is lost. The blood is the mediator pabuium of existence. Tn it and through 1t all life forces act. The blood is the life of man. and when 1t becomes .impover- ished mans life is endangered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15
BURIED IN RRUNDIDGE.
Child of Mir. and Mrs. Jones sA
 Troy.

.Brundidge. Nov, 14.--(Special. l-- Wednesday afternoon the corpse of the child of MT and Mrs. Bob Jones of Trey was brought to this city for in- tdrment.
 Mrs. Jones was a Miss Copeland. whose girlhood home was near this city, and she has numerous relatives and friends here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15

It is open blasphsmy against God ts assert that any disease Is incurabie. We declare against the very cause and center of life when we do so. Health and happiness are priceless jewels. Why will people continue to use drug poison. which at best only antidotes pathological conditions, without one iota of life or strength in them to in- crease the pabulum of life? Wise men are ever ready to follow truth wherev- CT 1t leads them, Ignorance of Natures laws is the father and mother of all sickness. and all kinds of inharmony. Natures ills require Natures remedy-- Plant Juice. It strengthens the ner- vous system and in doing so regulates the circulation, the liver. bowels and kidneys perform in their natural man. ne.r the blood is thoroughly cleansed of its impurities, and the vital fluid goes on it's health-restoring journey to heart, lungs. brain and every part of the body, removing all feelings of heaviness. weight and duilness. and leaving in their place the buoyant feel ing of health. elasticity Of spirits that may have been stranger to you for years.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-13
W e
Want
ONE MILLION DOLLARS

which purchase
and development the desirable and Five
Mile Beach ahead all competitors Atlantic City excepted
We have advantages bestowed upon this peninsula
that other place from Maine O Florida enjoys.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
Riqhts of a Country Editor.

According to the terms and condi.
tions of the pass now in use we are
privileged to walk on the right of way
of the railroad, either in the center of
the track or on ths ties outside the
rails. We are further privileged te
take with us our wife. the devil and
the office cat, If we wish. Frequent
stopovers are also allowed and the
amount of baggage allowed is only
limited by our enduring qualities and
our physical possibilities. During the
first year of this arrangement the ties
will be left as they are, the next year
let us hope. they will be planked or
put little further apart. as they are
a little close together to accommodate
the stride of average newspaper IneL
when In hurry to go somewhere.-P.
d. Swick.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
.Jobn Henry
on the
Benzfne
Buggy
By HUGH McHUGH


tCeorSe ". Hob0rfD
A cross-country dub named M0nt-
rose has been doing the shine spe-
cialty around Clara Jane lately.
He began to call evenings ana
bring bunch of ready-grown mowers
with him as big as hay stack
Then he'd spread around the parlor
and tell her how he won the long-dis-
lance running jump in the 'O1 Yale
class.
AS you approached him from the
front the first name you saw was
Clarence-Clarence Edgerton Mont
rose
Wouldn't that slap you!
don't think Clara Jane considered
him the real kittens, but he could tax
fast and use long words and she FOUND
him pleasant company.
She said she loved to sit and shade
her eyes with the eightdollar fan l
gave her and listen to Clarence Ed
gerton Montrose while he discoursed
about Palestine and the Holy Land.
If he was ever there he went in
hack.
That's the trouble with some OF
those college come-outs! The pro
fessors beat them over the head with
a geography and then as soon as they
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

then started down the road at the rate
of 100000 miles a minute.
why don't you stop it?" screamed
my lady friend.
"Tll be the goat; what's the an
swer?' l said, clawing the lever and
ducking the low bridges.
We met man on bicycle and the
last saw of him as we whizzed by ne
had found soft spot in field about
four blocks away and he was going
into it head first.
We kept his bicycle and carried it
along on our smoke stack.
couldn't stop the thing to save my
life.
Every time l yanked the lever the
snap would let a chortle out of his
puzzle department and fly 400 feet
straight through the air.
We were headed for an old ash
heap, and my market price had gone
down to three cents ton.
Don't jump" yelled to my lady
friend, but the wind whisked the first
half of my sentence away.
Clara Jane gathered her skirts in
bunch and did flying leap out of
the crazy cab.
She landed right in the middle of
that heap of fresh ashes-and she
made good.
Ali / could see was a great, gray
cloud as pushed on to the next stand
About half mile further down the
road the machine concluded to turn
into farm yard and give the home
folks a treat.
1t went through window in the
barn, out through a skylight, did the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

the open. 81 guess we can start now"
he observed, taking a sweeping In
ventory of the outlook.
Kitty rose quickly and made ready
for the walk. The air outside was
crisp and stimulating after the rain
fall. and they walked half a mile
without fatigue. But presently Kitty
began to feel her feet grow heavy,
and pitiful little droop showed it.
But she held her head stubbornly
averted resolved that Billy should not
detect her weakness.
Another 10 minutes, and the skin
doomed gratefully into view. Kitty
took her seat demurely, and Rochester
sprang into the one opposite.
An hour passed
Again the stars blinked out, one by
one, and the moon rose round and
clear and golden. The mellow dip of
the oars was the only sound that
broke the stiffness. After awhile,
Rochester spoke.
kitty" he began. abruptly, don't
you think we've had enough of-of
this sort of thing? God knows, have.
Is 1t worth while? Couldn't we both
acknowledge ourselves just bit in
the wrong, and-and begin all over
AGAIN." His voice trembled strong
ly under Its veneer of ealmness.
Kitty did not reply at once. Her
gaze was fixed. distantly. on the gleam-
ing blue sheet of water. across which
the lights were beginning to flicker
! dimly.
do you remember what day this
is-what day 1t was to have been,
dear?" He bent toward her till his
warm breath brought the crimson into
her cheeks,
Kitty glanced up and met his eyes.
Her own bore look he could not al
together fathom.
"of what were you thinking, them"
he asked, almost sharply, shadow
deepening suddenly in his eyes.
Kitty gave soft little laugh that
mingled unsteady with the delicious
rush Of water against the sides OF
the skin" l was giving thanks" she
said In low voice, for you, Billy"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

Courtship of female doctor is like.
ly to be attended with perils. man
out in Des Moines, Ia, while a patient
in hospital. fell in love with the
woman physician who attended him.
After he left the hospital he made
frequent calls upon the lady and In
nocently supposed that she knew he
was there as a sutton. Whether she
did know or whether she finally
thought 1t time to get rid of him is
not made clear, but at all events his
love suddenly cooled when she sent
him an itemized account of his calls
with bill for s562.i2 The court has
just upheld her claim, and In the fu-
ture when a Des Moines man, ami
mated only by sentiment, calls upon
her or woman of her profession, he
will announce the nature of his visit
at the door.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

epH D. DOWiSo.l
what timidly, that the sun over here
is going to be uncomfortaably warm
after awhile"
Kitty laughed-but with almost too
much enthusiasm for 1t to be genu.
ine. Il don't mind that" she re-
turned, with her head in the air. I'm
fact, IL like it," She gave her
minutest attention to the rearrange-
ment of refractory lock, as Roches-
ter walked off in the direction of the
beach.
Several minutes passed In dead
silence. When she trusted herself to
look up again, he was coming toward
her rapidly. There's an awful storm
brewing" he said, gravely; "we'd bet
ter try to hunt up place Of refuge at
once"
Kitty rose quickly, and together
they plowed through the heavy white
sand in what seemed a hopeless quest
for shelter. But finally they came in
sight Of a dilapidated old structure
the property of quondam campers
and were soon established under its
rickety but friendly roof.
Il hope this delay is not going to
cause you too much inconvenience
observed Kitty, the first to speak.
1T will probably interfere with an
important engagement" answered
Rochester with a little inward smile.
Kitty turned inquiring eyes upon
him.
She felt her heart start painfully
Marie Kensington! Surely that was
the name OF the girl with whom Cos
sip had tried to connect his-Billy's
name since-since-well, since she
no longer had right to think OF
him
Was it so very Important" she
asked in a colorless tone that tried
vainly to be casual
| "All engagements are, more or less
are they not?" He gave her pointed
! glance.
But Kitty did not see it, Her eyes
were down now, to hide the pain and
shadow that she could no longer con
ceal, and her cheeks were winter thar
he had ever seen them.
For half an hour they sat in 81
lence. 1t was now past three o'clock
The storm had at last worn itself out
and desultory patches of blue showed
through the hurrying clouds.
Rochester rose and walked out int
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
Mother Not to Be Trusted

John Alexander Dowie had a grand
knack of putting things quantity and
forcibly. At one of his last meetings
he attacked the modern mother of So
ciety, the mother who neglects her
children
Why" he said. 81 overheard the
most remarkable conversation be-
tween two nursemaids on car yes
terday.
Are you going to the picnicr said
the first nursemaid.
:" No, said the second. I'm afraid I
shan't be there
Why not?' cried the first Ana
you so fond. too. OF picnics and dane.
ing and young men and all that there,,
Oh, said the other nursemaid I'd
dearly love to go; dearly. But, to tell
yon the truth, I'm afraid to leave the
baby with its mother"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

An excellent illustration of the
complicated racial ancestry which
goes to the making of an American is
given by a correspondent of the New
York Sun in a letter whimsically as
sorting that the new Spanish heir is
logically an American. The CORE
spondent, who is a citizen of this
country. says that he was born in
Spain of an English mother and a
Spanish father while his parents were
visiting that country; one of his
grandparents was German, another
Austrian, a third French, and the
fourth Spanish. The blood of the
prince of the Asturias is almost of the
samn strain as his. The queen of
Spain is English with a German
father. Most of the ancestors OF the
king of Spain were Spanish for sew.
eral generations. but his mother was
an Austrian. OF course American
citizenship is not q matter OF blood,
but of allegiance. II the little prince,
in bis mature years, should grow tired
of Spain, he could qualify as an
American citizen by living here and
taking the proper oaths.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
The Fourth of July.

Somehow the Fourth of July of to-
day seems tame and insipid compared
to the Fourths of our boyhood days.
We suppose 1t is dyspepsia or point
of view, but, anyhow, we are honest
when we casually remark on the utter
shortcomings of the celebrations of
to-day. Now, when we were a boy,
there was Bill Sprunt. Bill was an old
soldier with several good streaks in
him, two of them being early vege-
tables and patriotism. William was
the town cannonader. He made an
annual canvass every July to secure
funds with which to buy powder for
the village cannon, an awesome bit
of ordnance that never failed to lift
up its thunderous voice when primed
and rammed by William Sprunt!
On the morning of July A. along
about the time ma was getting wor.
ried over Elite and her beau in the
hammock, Bill would let er loose for
the first time!
"Boom!"
A defamation rent the air for miles,
echoing and re-echoing among the
hills we knew and loved The town
folks turned over in bed and tried
hard to go to sleep, realizing that
Morpheus and Bill Sprunt We're start.
ed on battle royal! Then the town
bad boys pulled the church bell ropes
until the sections had cataleptic fits,
the factory whistle was tied open and
the nigger-chaser fire alarm joined
General Sprunt in making large able
bodied pandemonium with calliope at
tachments.
And biggest batrachian in all the
puddle was William Sprunt Charge
after charge he fired, while early ped
estrians gathered about and cheered
our hero in his army clothes All day
long he held the fort powder-stain-
ed, fiag-loving, noise-creating, wor-
shipped saver of his country.
But alas, as night came on and the
noise died little by little of WEAKNESS,
Bill Sprunt would steal away to where
the adder lurked, to seek false pa
triotism in the stinging cup.
Late at night the veteran of the
warning field was taken home, mute
and as helpless as the town cannon,
but he had done his duty well.
Year after year he primed and fired
the shot that sent the Fourth of July
message around our little world.
Others endeavored to steal in upon
his honors by being wounded ON the
July field of battle, but triumphantly
he held his own. Despite his lapses
from sobriety's path. public sentiment
accorded him place of honor at
the touch-hole of the town cannon. He
had his bad streaks, but when ST.
Peter needs a cannonader up above,
we feel sure that Bill Sprunt will wear
crown above his soldiers blue.
But. anyhow, We know the Fourths
of to-day don't amount to much com.
pared to those we celebrated when q
| bow
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

hula dance over the lawn, and then fell
in the well and stayed there, painting
as though its little gas-engine heart
would break.
When | limped back to Clara Jane
the storm signals we're flying.
She was away out on the ice.
The feather boa looked like the haw=
ser on canal boat, and the ashes had
changed the pattern of her dress goods
We were stingy takers on the road
home.
1t will take me two years to square
myself.
Hereafter, me to the trolley!
Me to the sancy stage coach when
I'm due to gallop away and away!
No more benzine buggies for yours
sincerely,
Never again for the bughouse bar
ouche! Not me.
! have only one consolation: The
chap we pried off the bicycle was Clar-
ence Edgerton Montrose.
1t will take him about three years
and two months to find all the spots
that foolish wagon knocked of him.
Meantime. | hope to be Clara
James sugar buyer again.
Copyright, 1901, by c. w. Dillingham; Co
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

Jane was down and in the kerosene
caravan.
Clarence hadn't arrived.
Somebody must have put him next
but l knew where he lived and | fig
ured 1t out that after we came back
from Lonely Lane I'd send the landau
around and around the block he
camped in till l made him dizzy.
Clara Jane was the feature OF the
game.
She was the limit in ladies' Dress
goods.
For chaser she wore one OF those
feather boas that feel cool because
they look SO warm.
Well. turned the horseless gag into
the she'll road and cut loose,
We were doing about 43 miles an
hour and the brides were singing on
the way.
Clarence Edgerton Montrose was
working in shaft No 3, back In the
mines-my lady friend told me SO.
She waa having the time of her life.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
AIaska's Growing Importance.


With the arrival of the season when
traffic with that quarter Is most
active. the world is reminded that
Alaska is occupying pretty large
space on the map and is growing in
commercial Importance. Within few
days four large steamers have sailed
from Seattle, Wash. for Nome, carry
ing 1857 passengers and $500 tons of
freight But this represents only part
of the business. Alaska seems to
have become a sort of outlying suburb
to our hustling western Pacific coast
cities. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
reports that the town and its hotels
are crowded with every class of men
and women who claim Alaska as their
home or place of business. How the
tide is sweeping toward that once I'M
known and unappreciated region is
thus indicated: THE array ranges
from the governor of the territory to
the promoter the miner, the trapper
and even the miner poet Prosperous
members of the Wall street throng
are among the large assemblage going
to the far north to investigate copper
and gold properties, to start the con-
struction of railroads to the coal
fields, or to confer with commercial
companies under their control. Trap
pers, miners and toilers have come
from all parts of the United States to
get steamers that will carry them
back for another season of profitable
work in the gold fields and in the fish
and fox islands. There are scientists,
authors, explorers and hunters among
the crowd daily gathering in the city,
buying outfits and arranging for pas
sage to the north. The note book,
the pen, the gun and the palette are
now as much part of an Alaska out
fit as the pick and the knapsack once
were." At the present rate of devel-
opment Alaska is likely within a few
years to become one Of the most pop
ulous-at least during the summer
as it already is one of the richest sec.
tons of American territory.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26

Kitty came back to herself with
little shiver. The sky that an hour
ago had glowed crimson, with all the
dazzling gold lights Of an Indian
summer afternoon in Florida, reflect
ed only the palest violet shadows,
deepening gradually to a dull drab.
AS she looked, the gray merged swift
ly into black, and one by one the stars
blinked out, shedding a CHASTITY light
over the rippleless surface of the bay.
How long she had been drifting,
Kitty could never have told, but when
she reached for her oars one was
missing, and strain her eyes as she
would, only the shining, speckless wa
ter laughed back in the starlight.
A sudden panic seized her. What
should she do? Three full miles at
least from the place she had started,
with only the barren shore of Santa
Rosa behind her-even supposing she
could be lucky enough to reach that!
There was no landing anywhere in
sight, and Is feet from the beach she
ran aground in the soft white SAND.
Mooring her skiff to the solitary post
that stood relic Of half decade ago,
she removed her shoes, and lifting her
skirts from contact with the water,
plunged in.
The moon broke suddenly round and
clear and full, hanging suspended from
the sky like a globe of liquid gold
Kitty sat down weakly on heaped-up
bank of sand and looked out to sea.
Her lips were trembling helplessly
now and the color was quite gone from
her face.
Would they come or send for her?
1t was very likely not. She had left
word at home not to expect her before
morning, as she had intended staying
the night at a friends house. Some
how, the thought of spending alone
this, of all nights-the one that was
to have been her wedding eve-was
| intolerable.
And now! She should not only
spend it alone, but in utter terror and
desolation. For hours she lay there
with wide-open eyes, her heart throb-
bling almost to suffocation, a thousand
emotions making tumult in her weary
brain.
| But by-and-by the salient breath of
sea wind stole insidiously into her
nostrils; the moon sank gracefully be-
| hind a bank of clouds; her eyes
closed-her lips parted slightly and
she slept.