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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, .,sOT.
ANOTHER THEORY.

French astronomer-or astrono- mess, for she is a young woman-has been taking squints at the comet and arrives at the conclusion that it is "a great pun of wind" and that if it strikes the earth the effect will be a great diminution of our supply of nitrogen. Then she continues:
 Then with the dimunitton of nitro gen and the increase of oxygen in the air a great reaction would be pro duced. First there would be a happy satisfaction, and irresistible gatety, then would come nervous excitement. caused by more rapid combustion of the blood in the lungs, and its more rapid circulation. A wild orgy would follow. The whole of humanity would palpitate to the beating of one heart and in the end the brain would be at tackled by oxygen. The world would be transfixed into wild madness, and participate in the widest extraya. this will probably never happen"
 We are surely very much obliged for the assurance intimated in that closing sentence. If there were a pos sibility that the comet would swipe the earth. and if the result should be such general prevalence of high jinks as the young star gazer intimates 1t would be time for apprehension and 1 quaking. The conditions she describes 1 would be worse than some of our po- l litical assemblages. In fact. as The Raleigh Times suggests, the entire world would be like Newport" and fJ,uk fg ko Ao forward to with satisfaction. In fact, the entire world would be filled with Harry Lehrs, Carrie Nations and kin dred spirits. and what kind of world would that be? It would be little bet 1 ter than one universal lunatic asylum. ! It Is strange what fantastic as well as divergent views the astron- omers and other wise men and women have about. comets in general. and our present visitor in particular. One tells us that 1t is solid object. and that if it should strike the earth it would either burst our planet into fragments, knock hole through 1t or shatter it. self and scatter its remains all over creation. Another declares that when r reaches the earth. if it ever does, ii will be so intensely hot that 1t will set our whole layout on fire and send us up in smoke.
 Now comes this Mile. Somebody to tell us a new tale of woe. First we are to be supremely satisfied with our selves and everybody else; then we are to become a universe of whooping and dancing cranks, and so on till we wind up as a congregation of worse than savages. How are we to know whom to believe or what to expect when we are treated to such variety of pre- dfctions and possibilities? Perhaps the better plan is to pay no attention to any of them and go our way as if such ahipEs as comets didn't exist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

his time to leading them to higher and nobler things. The white people of all Christian denominations should be permitted to operate their religious organizations; while the negroes who bob up serenely in their sacred pre- cincts, and frustrate their councils be- cause of their unholy intrusion, should 20 in pursuit of their negro brethren and make grand the organizations and enterprises that they have created and established among themselves. We ask in all seriousness. when will the so- called sensible negroes in this. coun- try stop improving the opportunity to be driven about, scorned and humil- lated by the white men? Let the ne- gro religious denominations who be- neye in the Christian Endeavor work. federate, organize a national negro Christian Endeavor Society, elect all the officers, create all the boards, nan dle all the money, hold their meetings in negro churches and find accommo- dations among negro people Let us, by some means, hasten that age In which our manhood shall assert itself; that age when instead of whining and grooming because of the humiliating strokes that white Christians put upon us. we shall, by heroic endeavor and a just degree of pride, be lifted up 10 the exalted dignity which constrains us to Honor God, and to serve humanity under our own vine and fig tree.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
Refuses To Accept Rails, Unless Made
 on Cassatt Specifications. Pittsburg Special to The New York

Refuses To Accept Rails, Unless Made
 on Cassatt Specifications.
 Pittsburg Special to The New York
 A bitter fight between the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and the United States Steel Corporation, in which the latter may lose the rail contract of thestormer for the coming year. came to light here today.
 some time ago 1t was announced from the headquarters of the Steel Corpora.- ton in New York that the Pennsylva- mia had placed its order for 147.so0 tons of rails for the coming year with the Steel Corporation. Now 1t is learned that the Pennsylvania has done nothing of the sort, and that it has threatened the Steel Corporation that unless the latter makes rails in accordance with the Cassatt specifications the order will be placed with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, whose plants are in and around Birmip gham. Ala
 It was with the latter plant that E. H. Hartman recently placed an order for 150.000 tons of rails for the South ern Pacific Railroad, to tho surprise 0t the Steel Corporation.
 The Steel Corporation has just com pleted a test of new rail which has been submitted to the Pennsylvania and has been rejected. The Steel Corpora tion built a new train of rolls at Brad dock for the sole purpose of making an experiment on tbis rail. In making the new rail the Steel Corporation uses an tngot twice as heavy as formerly, in order to scatter the impurities over a greater surface.
 The Pennsylvania has refused to ac- copt 1t. and still insists on the Cassatt specifications, which call for the re- moval of 25 per cent of the top of the ingot. which contains the. impurities, instead of about per cent, as in the present rail. The Steel Corporation has again told the Pennsylvania that if this rail is demanded 1t will charge $3s a ton for 1t, instead of S2S ton.
 The railroad company refuses to pay the advance of $5 a ton, asserting that the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company will make its rails under the Cassatk specifications at the old prtce-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
What fac State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
And some Of It viclou.

And Some Of It yiciouR. Mobile Register.
 The New York Tribune calls Mir. RooseveIt's English vigorous. The New York World says 1t is violent. The
 No Selling, No Buildins. Mobile Herald.
 There are men who are willing and anxious to turn loose their property in. and about Mobile at present prices who will shed tears by the bucket full if they do so. because of their want of foresight.
 Might We'll Be Doubled. Birmingham News.
 It Is estimated by a very conserva- tive contemporary that there are s1,- 900 persons in jail in this country. But of course this does not include the null titude who for some unaccountable reason managed to escape
 Useless Waste of Time and Paper. Mobile Item.
 A Chicago man has gotten out an elaborate work entitled 'The Bachelors Guide to Matrimony." This is use- less waste of time. labor and paper. There is only one bachelors guide to matrimony, and when she tries her hand the guide usually lands the bach elor.
 The More, The MeTrIer. Birmingham Ledger.
 1t is not often that so many can- didates announce, or intimate, three years ahead of a State election. There are three candidates for Governor, one announced and two have intimated, and one other is suggested by friends. IL is a long race to begin now, put our people are fond of politics.
 +
 Well Stated. Huntsville Mercury.
 Some of the squirrel hunters" are likely to get into trouble if they are not careful. The law requires that they have the written consent of the owners of all lands they hunt on. From the area a squirrel hunter usual ly travels over. 1t would require noolxet full of .consents'' to keep him out of the clutches of the game war den.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
A Man without shame.

Baltimore Sun.
 The shameless and indecent conduct of the artist Earle in putting aOay his wife and abandoning his child in order to marry another woman. and his equally shameless and indecent talk in tustifying his conduct, so outraged bis neighbors at Monroe. N. r.. that they mobbed him. An attack upon him was also made at the steamship pier in New York when he went there with his little child to ship him to Europe
 While. of course, such attacks upon the man were violations of the law of the land and subVersive of the quiet and peace of the community, it must be ad- mitted that these outbreaks of lawless- ness were manifestations of a spirit of morality and regard for the highest law which must gratify all true Americans
 In this eountry. fortunately for the welfare of the whole land. the great body of the people regard marriage and the family as sacred institutions. upon which mainly rests our system of civil iZatlon The Russian Socialist GorkY
 a man of learning and ability. came to this country some time ago expecting welcome and acclamations. Rut he came with a woman who was not his wife. and encountered the same whole some American sentiment that caused the Monroe mob to set upon Earle, and was refused entertainment at the ho- teIs. TO these fragrant cases of disro- gard of morals and decency the press of the land gives wide publicity. and the restraining influence of that pub ucity is immeasurable. MT. Earle says that 1t will advertise his pictures and enable him to sell more of them. This Is extremely doubtful. but even if if does. that will be a poor compensation for the contempt of the people among whom he lives When a man destroys his family puts away his wife. aband- aus hls child and prepares for him q heritage of shame because his lust has led him to some other woman, and then seeks to justify himself by crazy talk of afhnities and prenatal marriages, he al once makes himself an excellent and popular candidate for coat of tar apd 6AatharR- . Al r-r Ael
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
DRIFTWOOD
RY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.

The little pig that went to market certainly rode. there on the end of a street car seat.
 By the way Is there any creature on earth any happier than An Alabama. nlgger with a pair or new tan shoes and yellow vest?
 We believe the Georgia papers have all simply taken the dry" grins. Now comes an Alabama man who wants @ wife. but she must be an or- phan. Two to one that man Is wid- over. A Woman is the fairest object that was ever painted.
 Imagine staying out all night with the boys in the Arctics where the nights are six months long.
 A good way to get even with the dev- Il is to sunb him entirely. In reply to The Washington Heralds query: What Is whiskey." we would say 1t is an evil that the majority of men are trying to put down"
 Love without the quarreis and mak- ings up is like lemonade with the sugar left out.
 It, must, be terrible calamity to a bull dog to Jose his teeth.
 Country editors who are worrying over where the oflce kindling is com ing from this winter should remember that The Congressional Record will ba issued as formerly.
 
 
 Nell: Are you going to attend the Garbage Gentlemen's Ball?
 Bell 4-Certainly-if I get a formal invitation F
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
arexico,s Centennfal.

Chicago Tribune.
 Instead of an exposition Mexico Is to inaugurate number of public improve ments national in extent and of far- reaching value. Some 300 cities and towns are to start simultaneously pub lie works of the kind most needed in each particular locality and costing on an aiserage of .$10o,000 each The plan is worthy of the brain of President Diaz, whether he originated or indors- ed 1t. The cooperation of the nation al government and the local govern ant event in Mexican history since in- dependence was achieved. Instead Of the centennial anniversary leaving nothing but pleasant memories and q big deficit, the effects will be felt and appreciated until the nation produces a greater man than Diaz, and that Is an unlikely event.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
A Negro Suggestion for Negroes,

paper edited by and for negroes In Nashville, and called The National Baptist Union, makes a significant sug- gestion when it says:
 The white people of this country are about through quarreling over negroes, and all the negroes in all the churches will be something better off when they discover that fact. We never expect to see another day uopn which white people will give each the least degree of offense on account of negroes The white people are unit ing; the negroes who have common sense will profit by their example. The negro who Is hungering and thirsting after association with the white man, South or North. should have discovered by this time that he is persona non greater degree of respect if he should go unto his own people, and devote
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Amen TO This.

Selma Journal.
 A cadet at West Point has been ostracised by his entire class because he gave testimony against another ca det who had hazed him until he was such a nervous wreck that he attract ed the attention of the superintendent and was forced to give the reason therefor. The superintendent claims that he is powerless in the premises and that orders from headquarters would only aggravate the matter. If that is so the situation at the military academy resolves itself into this: It is against the rules to haze a cadet; the cadets pay no attention to the rule and haze a man. the man is forced to tell the officials. the entire class ostracises him and begins a course of treatment which will ultimately force the cadet to leave the academy or live a pariah among the future officers and gentlemen" of the army; the officers of the academy are powerless the cadet suffers and others seeing what he got for acting a gentleman and telling the truth when under oath are thus tempt ed to eisher lie or submit to treat ment which can only result in making them mean spirited and centemptible. Verify. West Point had better be abol- ished than for such a condition to cons. ttnue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Was This Brick Heaved Toward Ala
 hnnaaf ..

Louisville Courier-Journal
 The Courier-Journal favors, and has always favored, the regulation of the liquor traffic. It's Editor believes m Local Option and has always voted dry The "conviyial and companion able habits," to which The New York Tribune refers as particularly Southern, belong no more to the South than to the North. The "drunkard" in politics generally poses as a Prohibitionist. He is either appalled, by himself. as hor- rid example, or he seeks to conceal his habits behind the noisy assertion of Temperance, or csse-which Is oftenest the case--he is a snug rogue seeking office and thinking to get it by riding a wave of hysterical reform
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

The announcement of cases of bu- bonic plague in San Francisco is not much comment in the news papers, but it is serious matter. for 1t Is one of the most dreaded of all human diseases. It is fervently to be hoped that 1t will not spread.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

It begins to look as if Montgomery will hit the bottom about the time Atlanta gets the pennant. but one can't most always tell what win happen in baseball. Montgomery may take a few falls out of some of them yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Government RaiIroad supervision.

The growing impulse toward closer government supervision, even to the ex- tent of government ownership or oper- until the private management of thesa enterprises purges itself. Either tho stockholders and owners of these deep ly shining public service corporations will have to make radical changes in the staff and administration of their lines, or events will force re-arrange- ments even more drastic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Mr. Bryan Wants to Know.

With Aldrich and Foraker opposing tariff revision in the Senate, Uncle Joe" Cannon with his Ways and Means Committee opposing tariff reision in the House. and with the tarfff beneficiarias providing the campaign fund for the Re- publican Party, does any one imagine that the tariff will be revised after the Presidential election" in the event the Republican Party wins7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Drifting Leaves.

, DEthtsnG Leaves Oh, the leaves The drtftin' leaves
 The murmur uv The wind that grieves. To see the summer Pass away, Oh, what a pity, She can't stay.
 Course the fall Must come ye know But hate ter see The summer go.
 When the leaves Start driftin' down With a futter. To the groun'.
 When tho empty Bird-nests sway
 Where the birds Hey gone away Then somehow
 q can't tell whyl set aroun' an
 Sorter sigh Cause git so sad
 Gee whiz- Sometimes I can't ten.
 Whut it tiS 'Cept these ole eyes
 Dimly sees Full O tears
 The driftin' leaves. Fer I think how
 Much are we Like the leaves
 Upon the tree. When Life's autuna ConAes aroun'--> We drop off Upon the groun'. A little while
 To take our ease And then we go
 Like driftin' leaves # S- The Montgomery Advertiser observes that life is like a bank" A gentle way of saying that humanity is in red ink whenever a balance is struck Nashville American. "A cat travelled in Kansas twenty five miles back to its ola home" says an exchange. We could believe this if you hadn't said Kansas. The Sineer building, now in course of construction in New York. will be forty-one stories high when complet- read thir title clear to a mansion in the skies" Mrs. Elizabeth Allen. of Webster City, Iowa, will be paid $5,o0O lifei insurance On heF husband. who has been dead her husband carried policy until in- formed by the company-News Item. Some women are not half inauisitiva enough.
 Not MatrlmOnialIy Inclined A little widow Now and then Is avoided bv
 The wisest men.
  Even a girl who Is a peach may have a heart of stone.
 
 Hint
 Gans-Britt--
 Punch-hit-
 Quick nit
 Cans It. A fire was inevitable with Marse Henry writing scorching editorials.
 
 Alas!
 The summer girls
 Come back to town Upon her brow's
 A pensive frown Through her peek-a-boo The tan's in dots In splotches, and,
 I-dont- know what's (This leopard can not
 Change her spots)t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

The race between Congressman Bur ton and Tom Johnson for Mayor of Cleveland promises to be a strenuous one. and the announcement that Roosevelt will not help Burton is made Wonder if he's afraid of Tom?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
aoINa bun oF ToWNe

eubscrfhers who leave the city temporarily should have The Advertiser mailed them. Addresses will be changed as often as re- auested.
 You emn keep fully informed about Mont momery and Alabmma affairs only through The Advertiser.
 Before leaving mail or 'phone yOur si- dress to thls office. Phone Ss0. City CaEeu- infaan Department
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
-wyW - FwuCrr,ATFON

rhe Montgomery Advsrtiser st of the sts ndvartisers (and makes h par u, S, c,r- ronsra.s when reouested) that It's oaly oy.,Inr S . cniation is larger than that of any tn ,Ssat its newspaper printed in Alabama--ena1- nra1-.,siatton Fundav edition has the largest e.sS in s,ss ,',1 any edition of any newspaper>prfntec' III Afahmma without exception ,.-~ rep-
 The figures for July printed s,t raturns resent the actual net circulation a"
 having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

Railway. Mileage and Earnings.
 poor's Manual for 1907, just issued, is inRtructive on the point of t5e reason~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11

m q. Noble. Circulation Ms>e1er of The Montgomery Adevrtiser. beihSN cuiy V Otn' Otn' says: Tha foregoing statement of The Adver- ffaerss circulation for the month Of Juiy. Js07 ip trtie and correct. and compiled after aIl returns from news boys. news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have been de- a,.rted M g. NOBLE
 Circulation .-anager. gwora to and subscribed before me this eth day of August 1907.
 frTxY.1 RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
CONGRESSIONAL SENTIMENT.

MT. John M. Nelly of wagar. is her
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-13

plentifully sprinkled with friends. and
no harm came TO him, nor was there
any threat of harm. He was enjoying
/ his holiday. He talked to many off
GERS regarding the coming peace and
what should be done for the restOra-
tion of the south. His advice was for
liberal terms and kindness to the south
ern people.
ecpresident returned TO City Point,
where a squad Of Confederate prison
ers cheered him. He turned to Adj
miral Porter and remarked:
They will never shoulder muSket
again in anger, and if Grant is wise
he will leave them their guns to shoot
crows with. and their horses 70 pillow
with"
LET them down easy" he had said
to the military governor of Richmond.
Word reached the president at City
Point that his secretary Of state, Mr..
Seward, had been thrown from car
riage and injured. This cut short his
vacation, for he returned to Washing
ton at once 1t was observed by mem
bers of his cabinet upon his return that
a great change had come over the
president. His thin face had grown
thinner during the increasing sorrows
of the war, and latterly it had aSsum-
ed a gray pallor that was almost
CHASTITY His eyes looked forth an I'M
utterable grief. He had borne the bur-
dens of a great nation in it's time of
keenest agony, and the terrible stress
and strain Of those four years were re-
Elected In the features Of the man.
But now-after his first and only vaca-
tion-what change! The man walk
ed with a springy step, the stoOp disap-
peared from his shoulders, the tense
lines III his drawn. sad face began to
disappear. and there was a hint of
ruddiness in his cheeks, and his laugh
was hearty.
Yet It was not the vacation that had
rejuvenated Lincoln. 1t was the very
recent success of his armies, the evacu-
alton OF Richmond and. last and great
est, the surrender OF Lee on the 9th Of
April these things had transf@lIaed
him. For ave days he was the hapl TEST
man IL The United States 81 Ia the
word, tAe happiesr because for four
years he had been the eaddeat, and
now that, lrdsacrih9 hie sa1pBEYstin the
words az 81 atoN M Srsond !, Ilidn been
sN6tsRIy HeHahncsed fSfrs'an equally indie.
scribabie expression OF serene joy. as
lie scoue aa1 II
slAias beeIi -
nuriAE this tim &h sci azf9+ e.:
Mary, We hare had q hard, tinse Of. it,
6af1ce We came to Washington, but nov,
WE SKIRT haVs four more years hero OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-13


RS IN her, book Dixie After the. War;,
Mrs: Myrt& Leckett AVRry tells tbs
following new Lincoln story in CON.
neetion with General Pickett, who led
the charge at GettysbnES: Mr. Lincoln
had taken wHrHn. interest In young
George Pickett as q cadet at West
Poist: During his hurried soj0urn In
Rictn1pnd. Lincoln's carriage and. arm
ed rgtinue drew up Ia front OF. the old
Pickett mansio0. The generals yNyn9
wife. came out with hsr baby in her
arms and said, II ana General Pickett
wics.'' -,
:.'Nadam,'' LtacSln aRsv sre1. Il am
Georges Old friend, 'A5saAam Lin
colD." ;e.== -. >: 54.ss4, "
: ."EIie president et 4he United states2'
slsS. asksd.z9
NO." said the visitor. With . smile,
''only Abraham. ;;I;ineoins Georges ola
fciend!"a =, a.s 80: :,- =. = :. -; :
TIA cAs1 reached one, his.hands.- and
WhNh Lzscoan took, nina in his arms he
kissed tbSf p estdent.
,,.s ..s.rbii fglr; father. said. Lincoln,
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