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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

for the United States as ordered by the Congress last June; so hunt around and do your best to find something- anything. red, white and blue--that can be sewn together. and we'll show the enemy banner that will tell them we are new nation, with colors of our own: banner that we won't haul down. my lad, while there's one of us left to defend it.
 With this command. I rushed around ransacking the barracks and store rooms. Hnally securing a couple of white ammunition shirts. and an old red cloth petticoat from the wife of one of our soldiers; but nothing blue could find. Running back with my store of materials. I showed them to the coll nnel, telling him that lacked the blue Captain Swartout. standing nearby. said. I can furnish that and going to his quarters quickly returned with a cloak of the right color, which he had captured at Peekskill. At once the stripes and field were cut. a pa- per pattern made for the tsars. and in a short time our patchwork flag was put together. What mattercd 1t If the red was somewhat faded In places, or that the seams were rough and uneven, the Stars and Stripes were there, and by sunset we were ready to unfurl our homemade stan dard to encourage us In our defense.
 Ezra James, my fellow drummer. and I, beat the long Aoll, and at the word of command the sergeant pulled the halyards, while, saluted by the officers, and cheered by the garrison. up went out flag to the top of the stan. Ezra and I put our whole hearts into the beats we gave our drums, and new CT will I forget the delight I felt at seeing how brave and beautiful that first edition of our nations flag look ed as the breeze caught it's folds. whip ping it out in graceful curves like thing alive"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
ABOARD A MAN-oF-wAR.
Life is Largely Made Up of Scrub- pings, Regulations and Inspections.

Life is Largely Made Up of Scrub
 pings, Regulations and Inspections. William O. Stevens's "Salor Life on a
 Man-o'- War" in July St. Nicholas.
 The days program aboard a man. of-war is calculated to make the boy who wants to runaway to sea sit up and think twice. It varies somewhat according as the ship is in port or at sea. and under different commands; but in any case from o'clock in the morn ing till 7:3O at night it Is a rather strenuous round of scrubbings and drills. The recruit realizes very soon that the expression 'shipshape" means a good deal
 Saturday morning is a tremendous cleaning time. called field day" which is followed by a half-holiday in the af- captain himself inspects his ship from keel to truck. Of this ceremony we have a good view taken from the after bridge of the Illinois, the marine band is stationed just below on the hurri- cane deck, the blue jackets stand on the port side of the quarter-de and the marines on the starboard, all ready for inspection.
 But life isn't all scrubbings. regula- tions and inspections. On the larger ships the Government furnishes ath- letic supplies. and each man-of- war has her champion boxer and baseball and football teams. These teams are managed or supervised. at least, by officers, and many an ensign or lieu Naval Academy plays shoulder to shoulder with his bluejackets: Such familiarity would have SCandalized old Commodore Porter beyond words
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

We have heretofore alluded to the case of Georgia Edwards, the Nashville negress, who took a seat in a passen- ger car appropriated to white people only. and was forced by the conductor to remove to the car set apart for colored passengers. She has brought her case before the Interstate Commerce Commission and The Buffalo News thus refers to 1t:
 It is because this case involves one Of the elements of deep concern in the race question in the South that the Great ability has been brought to the task of showing that the last three amendments do not mean what they seem on their face to mean and it may be that another interpretation may sustain laws that discriminate between races on the color line alone. It Is well to have the question settled as only the court of last resort can settle it. Georgia Edwards Is likely to make a more celebrated case than Dred Scott gave his name to half century ago.
 The case may finally get before the Supreme Court of the United States, and if it does, we predict that Georgia will get about as little satisfaction from it as Dred Scott got in his law suit. We do not believe the Supreme Court will attempt to deprive railroad companies of the right to separate white and colored passengers: That rule is necessary down here, and will be adhered to. in our judgment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
SETTING AN EXAMPLE,.

The President as a pistol toter is coming in for much criticism, generally unfavorable. The Boston Traveller puts the argument in good shape when 1t says:
 At a time when the authorities of all the Large cities are united in the effort to enforce the laws prohibiting the carrying of deadly weapons, such an exhibition is giving the very worst possible example. What parent can argue successfully with his boy that it boy, can crush the old man by simply asking him to read the papers? With such model in the high place. how San Si,ia We teach the aliens that to do he does it. A six-shooter in the Presi- dential stern pocket will not ward off an attack. while the fact that it is car invitation to anarchy.
 That is just the point. as all should readily see. All over the country there is strong and healthy sentiment against the habit of carrying concealed pistols, and the makers a1d enforcers of the law are trying to make the prac- tice unpopular and unsafe, but what greater obstacle to the enforcement of the law can be found than to find that the President is a tol-toter? As the Boston paper argues, how can a man convince his boy that pistol-carrying is wrong when the boy can reply, well the President does it, and if he can carry a pistol in his hip pocket. why shouldn't I do the same?"
 suchsan argument is simply unan- swerable. because a high official has no more right to disregard and vio- late the laws than the humblest citi- zen has. It is not necessary to charge that the President may commit mur- der or homicide merely because of-the fact that he has the means at hand. It is the bad example he sets. and the certainty that the example will be held up by others as proper one for them to follow that causes the mischief. If Roosevelt wishes to pose as a swash- buckler or a bad man, let him wear belt with his pistols stuck in it, so that those who meet him may know that he Is dangerous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
THREE BOYS HAD
 ECZEMA OF HEAD
One Mothers Trials Little Ones Treated at Dispensary for Three Months Did Not Seem to Im- prove Suffered Five Months.
ALL WERE PERFECTLY
 CURED BY CUTICURA

"My three children had eczema for five months. A little sore would ap- pear on the head and seemed very itchy, increasing day after day. The baby had had 1t about a week when the sec ond boy took the disease and few sores developed, then the third boy took it. For the first three months l
 took them to the N Dispensary, and they told me that the children had ring worm, but they did not seem to in- prove. Then I heard of the Cuticura Remedies, and l thought would write you about my case, and when l got the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint- ment I bathed the children's heads with warm water and Cuticura Soap and then applied the Cuticura Oint- ment. In few weeks they had im- proved, and when their heads were well you could see nothing of the sores. l should be very glad to let others know about the great Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513 West 29th St., New York, N. Y., Nov. 1, 5, and 2, 1906."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
PERPLExING PROBLEMS.

Few official. positions are more per. picking. difficult and complicated thar that held by appraisers or classifiers of foreign imports. Our present tariff schedule specifies hundreds of articles on which different rates of duty are to be collected, besides the many that are allowed tojcome in free. It would per haps have been impossible for human
 intelligence to have foreseen and pro- vided against the different views or interpretations that importers would place upon the articles scheduled in the long list On the other hand, il cannot be expected that like human in- telligence can in all cases draw the line between articles of the same gen. ences of material or construction. Two articles, for example, may be made of the same material, but differing slight ly in construction, and have different tarif rates. Then two articles may be constructed exactly alike. but contain ing some different materials. and on them. also. there might be different rates of duty.
 In either of such cases the Board of Appraisers or classihers must fix the status of the articles and decide what amount of duty they shall pay, and the difficulty of doing this correctly and fairly Is a task that no human being can always perform. The New Bed ford Standard calls attention to some protest of a New York firm at the as- sessment of Japanese bone-swords in the class of goods covered by the de- scription, swords, sword blades, and side-arms' They wanted them as- sessed as articles in chief value of bone, at a rate five per cent less than levied on swords, or as unenumerated manu- factures, at rate fifteen per cent less. grade of steel, ard they are used chiefly as ornaments, having usually much carved handles, but they arc exact copies of common type of sword used in Japanese warfare, and are known as bone-swords in the trade similar case was the protest at the classif1ca- tion as side arms of some Oriental swords, pistols, and batt1e-axes, which the importers wanted rated as manu- facures of metal, because they were Io be used as ornaments. In both cases the protest was overruled and the goods were rated at the port of entry as what they were held to be in the country of their manufacture. The decision seems to be fair enough It is out of reason that the Government should look into the intended use of each individual item imported, especially when 1t can not keep guard over the article to see that it fulflls that mission only so long as 1t endures. ;small respec-, indeed would be paid to an implement of war by rating it as an unnamed ranufac- ture of bone or an unenumerated manu- facture. The importer should have small concern in the present case how the goods are classified, since I.e ought to have no d'ficulty in getting his profit out of people who can affor2 to indulge in decorations of carved bone."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

The Advertiser prints this morning an extract from a splendid address by John Trotwood Moore before a meet ing of Tennessee teachers. Mir. Moore is a native Alabamian. son of the late Judge John Moore of Marion. He taught school in this State, and knows Something of the rights and wrongs of childhood. Every member of the Leg Isiature ought to read his eloquent ap- peal and resolve to aid in doing jus tice to helpless children, and stop the human grind-up which dwarfs their bodies and shrivels their souls
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
ADMINISTRATORS
 NOTICE

Under and by virtue of power and the direction given me in the will of Joanna Dove. deceased. recorded in the office of the Judge of Probate of Montgomery Coun- ty; in uhi,c WIFI So0k 0scrS NO. .h faSs iSa. yin at the Court Square Fountain. in the City of Montgomery Alabama. on Monday, July balance in one and two years. with inter. est. the following property, to-wit:
 116 South Court St., S14 Washington Ava, 11S-120-I23 Montgomery St., 200 Lee; acres Goode St., 20 acres Goode St
 For further information. to location or condition of the property. or to incum- brances thereon. apply to the undersigned.
 JOHN J. DOWR Executor and Trustee under the Will of
 Joanna Dove. Deceased.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
HAN N
FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE

Most everybody in these times does care. They want the quality and the up-to-date ap- pearance that goes with the ladies' shoes we are now show ing. If your vacation calls you to the sea shore you will possi- bly, want a wAite canvass Gib- son or a Russia calf pump. We have them. Perhaps you have run short of an evening shoe. An all patent Christy tie or may be a black suede Gibson or a tan suede Gimon, we have them also, or may be you have a blue or gray suit you want the shoes to match; we have them in canvas Gibsons. No matter what your ideas of a shoe we think it will pay you to inspect our stock. Or perhaps you feel the need of an extra pair of low shoes, but do not know what kind. Our stock will make selection easier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

One of the most important inventions of recent days is annoGnced from Kan sas City where MT. Merrill has. 1t Is stated, discovered a method of com pressing natural gas. Natural gas, as most readers know, is found in many portions of the country, and in the West and Middle West it is abundant. It is procured by drilling holes down ing pretty much the same as drilling or boring for artesian water, When the gas is reached, pipes are inserted and the fluid conveyed wherever de- sired. Naturally. it is an expensive process to carry 1t a long distance, and that is why the new invention is fifty thousand cubic feet of it may be compressed into a small cylinder and sent wherever wished. The Kansas City Post thus alludes to it:
 Mir. Merrill has several thousand acres of proven gas land leased and several producing wells drilled in ter ritory close to Kansas City, the prod uct of which will be used as soon as the compressors can be installed. This discovery will be great thing for towns or cities where either gas is un- known or where manufactured gas is used. You get the gas in cylinders, the same as soda fountains, and when one cylinder is used put on another, etc. Gas at 25 cents or less per thous- and feet could be shipped for hundreds or even thousands of miles. There is practically no limit to the possibilities of this discovery.
 The importance of this invention can hardly be over-estimated. We do not know whether the supply of natural gas is inexhaustible or not and We do not know that the scientists are agreed as to its origin. but at present the sup ply seems to be practically without limit in many places. Whatever may be the source of the fluid, or how great the supply may be, the discovery of a method by which it may be compressed into small space and shipped to any part of the world, Is certainly most important one. for 1t removes the ex- pensive necessity of tubing and piping To bring natural gas from Missouri to Montgomery, for example, through iron pipes would, of course, be too expensive for use, but if 1t can be brought here by the railroads as easily as they can ship another product, we should think 1t would be much cheaper than the ar tficial gas now used.
 To show that this raported discov- cry Is not a dream or a fake, it is an nounced that a company composed of capitalists from the large cities has already been formed with capital of five million dollars for the purpose of eapitalizing and exploiting the busi ness, which is good evidence that mon eyed men have sufficient confidence in it to risk 1t as an investment. The prospects are that it will not be long until cylinders of natural gas will be among the regular commercial commo- dities shipped over the country. Then we will have 0as to burn, sure enough.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
WAS IT WORTH WHILE.
Something of What the National Arbi- tratlOn and Peace Conference
 AecOmpIiAhed,


 Editorial in July Century.
 Was 1t worth all the trouble and strain-oratorical. prandial, journalis- tic. financial-the National Arbi+ration and Peace Congress of New Yorko Did it accomplish anything substantial. be- side the generous opportunities afford ed to the jaded wits of the pen and the pencil?
 Yes, we think it was worth all it cost in nerve wear time and money irrespective of any immediate influence upon subsequent proceedings at The Hague. The jokes pass, and the effect remains of setting the world thinking As we have said before, the world is moved by attention" Wars begin with the military command, "Atten- tion! In the peace congress of New York the worlds attention was fixed upon the thought of the undesirability of war of the very great desirability of peace and of the proper methods to maintain it. War and peace. in general and in particular are the offspring of public opinion; there can be no public opinion without thought. And the mind of the world was. for a little while at least, concentrated upon the thought that there is another and a better way of deciding international disputes than by nations flying at one another's throats; namely. as Dr. Hale pointed out. the very way adopted by the United States of America when 1t established the Supreme Court of the United States.
 The tendency of modern internation- allsm is evidently toward peace-peace congresses or no peace congresses. This sometimes troubles those philoso- pher who ee, along with wars evils, the good that war has accomplished in the history of human evolution; and above all the training in physical and moral prowess that armed conflict has secured to individuals and nations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
Today M History
June 26.

1S2S-John Mclean of Ohio became Postmaster General of the United States.
 1S3O-George " of England died. Born August 12, 1762.
 1S46-Abolition of the corn laws by Sir Robert Peel
 1S57-First distribution of the Victo- rian Cross took place in Hyde Park, London.
 1S63-Rear Admiral Foote died in New York City.
 1S91-Spain and the United States concluded commercial treaty.
 1S93-Governor- Altgeld of Illinois, pardoned the Haymarket anarchists. 1S9S-Clifton House at Niagara Falls destroyed by fire.
 l8q9-The Shamrock. challenger for the Americas cup. launched on the Thames
 19O5-serious riots in Warsaw, Po- land
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
HnIIanh and Her Lace.

N. Hudson Moore's The Lace-Maker,
 in July St. Nicholas.
 There has never been time since the beginning of the fifteen century when Holland has not depended on the wages of her lacemakers, and she does so still There is hardly a town, east or west where 1t is not made, and in West Flan- ders alone are 400 schools today where the making of lace Is taught to 3O,0OO children. There are, besides, the be- guinages, as they are called. These are institutions presided oyer by Catholic siste-hood. The inmates support them : hours work each day for the supportHof the sisterhood, usually by making lace. There are thousands of workers n these homes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
BANKRUPT SALE

On the 18th day of July. 1907 the un. dersigned, as Trustee of the estate of Frank S. Vaughn, bankrupt, will sell for cash at the Artesan Basin in the City of Montgomery, Alabama, the following de- scribed lot or parcel of land, lying and be- ing situated in the City of Montgomery State of Alabama, towit: :-
 The North half of lot No. forty-two of the Moses Brothers sub division Wise tract con- taining one half acre. more or less run ming from the range line near Jackson Ferry Road to Court St, in front of the Ing the same land conveyed by l.. J Bryan and wife, Mary E. Bryan. to Frank Sl Vaughn, by deed recorded in volume GA page S4. in the office of the Judge of Pro bate of Montgomery County. Alabama
 This the 18th day of June. 1907
 GEORGE STUART, "eo st R@ Trustee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
The Columbus Enquirer-sun of last

Saturday has this bit of information:
 Today will be the longest day of the year. The sun will rise at 4:27 o'clock and set at 6:53 o'clock Today will mark the summer solstice, the sun be- ing at the most northerly point of it's annual Journey.
 We should be glad to know where our contemporary gets it's figures and data. According to the Cotton States Almanac. which is presumably correct for this latitude, there were four days of equal length last week On Tues day, Wednesday, Thursday ard Fri day the san rose ct 4:52 in the morning and set at 7:11 in the evening. which is quite different from The Enquirer-sun' IS figures Which Is correct?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
Hot Times Ahead.

Guthrle IUkIahamal CapltaI.
 While the weather profits all declare that this is to be cold summer, the prospect is that the weather will be Howard Gould Is going to try his di . vorce suit Mayor Schmitz Of San Francisco is on the way to the peni. tentiary Harry Thaw Is getting evil dence ready and will have another "brain storm" Abe Hummel is going to write his life. Harry Orchards of circumstances known to others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2S, 1907.
The Anniston Hot Blast of the 25th

says.
 There keems to be a discrepancy in the information Captain Bankhead has and that acquired by The Birmingham News. The Captain says he has re- ceived pledges of support from more than half of the members of the Iegis- lature, thus guaranteeing his election; The News says only ten members are for him. It would seem from this dis parity that it will take the official count to determine the result
 The Birmingham News is badly off for information if it is giving out such has been demonstrated that the mem bers of the Legislature will respect the wishes of the clear majority of Demo- crats who voted in the primary last year, rather than be led to a contrary course by Governor Conner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
AInhnma nt the Cnnitn1

Washington. June 25.-(SpeciaL)- Patents Issued: Glenn c, Brown, Bes- scmer. rope thlmble Walter s. Jackson Birmin gham. fire place; Sherwood $. Knight. Birmingham, cupola charging mechanism
 Postaftice established at Standing Rock. Chambers County, with Corne- JiuR E. HinAS- noStn1RStD
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

bacco." but we had always thougtt that it is the nicotine that makes tobacco fit for use. One might as we'll talk of inventing a method of taking all the heat from red pepper and think it would be popular
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else fails. For all purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery, Cuticura Soap, and Cuticura Ointment are priceless.
 Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humor of Infants, Children, and Adults con- ssts of Cuticura Soap (25e) to Cleanse the Skin, SnnSnra Ointment S0co to Heal the ski3s , 3H ana late Coated Pila 25c per vial Of 60l to Purity the Blood. Sold throughout the world. Potter Drug < Chem. Corp. Sole Props Boston, Mass. pB-Maied Ssees CatlcRER Beck ea skin and Scalp plseAaes'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26
4 BIT OF HISTORY.
Whc nand Where the Star-Spans led
 Banner Was First Raised.

From II. \. Ogden's Our Flags First
 Engagement in July St. Nicho-
 las.
 How many of our boys of today know where and when the star spangled ban ner was first raised, and that the honor belongs to New York State? How 1t was made. and under what circum- stances, Tom FOsdick. a drummer boy of old Fort Stanwix, which stood near the site of the city of Rome, N. Y., tells us:
 On August 8. 1777. the first day We were beseiged, the need of flag to fly from our bastions caused Col Ganse- voort our commander, to call me to him. saying. Tom my boy. we must have a banner to fight under. I have, in q copy of The Philadelphia Gazette a full description of the new standard
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

We have always been taught to look on ours as the greatest colonel country in the world. but Germany can give us pointers in that respect, for that coun- try has eight women bearing the title AS we understand it. they are not re- quired to draw gun or sword in deadly battle, but only draw their pay