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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

Advertiser Shots. Mars will soon be within 38.000.0oo miles of the earth; If 1t comes any nearer William Alsorandolph Hearst will start a paper there rafts physician has recommended running exercise for him; 1t seems he gets that all right anyhow. This weather @,as fried all the crean out of the "cooi weather jokes that were in such evidence recently. Roosevelt is spending his vacation writing, magazine articles; 1t seems days is the Oyster Bay. schmitz gets five years. but declares most vehemently that he'll run again bar to his ambition at present Is the steel variety. A Chicago man, s1 years of age. has one explanations: he lives in Chicago, which in itself is enough to account for anything in this line
 If unwrittsn law were only unwrit- ten.
 Oh. to be off somewhere shovsiins snow.
 
 It is better to give than receive-the humps. 4- A Brooklyn woman who has reached the tender skittish age Of l07 years is passionately fond of automobiling. In. deed. she must be tired of existence If this Is her favorite occupation. Admiral sakamoto. the Japanese ofi- cial with the poetical cognomen. az. serts that the American navy woulo ues to spout such ebulitions az this we'll have one of our officers expecto- rate on and drown him.
 Don't tell me a woman has no head for figures-just watch some or them walk down the street.
 New York of all places has organized 8 Society for the Spread of Good Man ners. If any city needs such society if is that place And we'd advise the Rroadway street tar conductors to wear the printed rules pasted in their caps.
 King Alphonso says its very happy walt till you have to walk the floor In teething time at D. K. In the morn- ing. .-s...
  .,,arS Then pen is mishtier than the Indeed it is; all kinds of people get in the pen."
 Extravagant.
 There ought to be money in SIX "Yes: but everybody can't keep 1t there"
 The Finish.
 How did he come out in the aisaAe Soh. with flying colors."
 In Boston.
 New Yorker-Have you breakfasted? Bostonian-Beg pardon nave beaned.
 oh. SIush!
 How sweet to walk in darkened ways"-MaRazine Poem.
 Say you never parked your shins against a chair then. did you? and had to use language that forced the re- cording angel to put his fingers in his ears Roll on. thou deep and dark blue ocean, And let those hear you roll who'va
 got the dough. l will not DaV you ten dollars roll. And to the seaside l don't think I'o
 Touching.
 Tn your travels have you noticed how the poor, ignorant natives have felt the touch of civilization" T don't know so much about what they have felt. but I know American tourists have felt the touch of those foreign beggars.
 This Life. You can't keep O good man down In the bottom of the cup You can't keep a good man down But Xe oft keep bad man up. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

Some of the star-gazS who have their lenses fixed on Mars have all ready announced that they can see the canals all right. Perhaps if the Martians are looking our way they
 gan see where our canal Is going to be Nt some time in the far distant future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

The statement that m9squitoes are annoying the President at his Oyster Bay home is lacking In details We want to know what brand of mosqui- toes would tackle that proposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

From all we can learn our own Mark Twain seems to be having a high old time among the Brtishers. It Is even hinted that some of them are getting educated up to the point of under standing some of Marks jokes-but this lacks confirmation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12
It's Main Duty.
Mobile Item.

Mobile Item. ,a,,+;on of last winter as much as anything else that falls to the duty of the very hrief adjourned session, and much or this can be cured if the legislature wifi wifi get together as body of patrri- otic Alabamians and not maintain it's reputation as a domineering faction opposing everything that has the ap- pearance of opposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12
y1Nr CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantsesss ss f1 adyertissrs (and makes 1t . part Of tns 6oatyact whom reQussted) that its daiiy CIT enlet5on is larger than that of eny mosnihe 0oWgpApsr printed in Alabama-ano tnet us
 n6ay edition hos the largest eerculanea ~ <ny edition of any newspaper printed ID k1aoamA without exception
 The figures for June. printed below. rep soesnt the actual net circulation. all returns kavlng been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

The trial judge who presided in the case of Schmitz proved very conclu- sively that the Mayors skin is not i'm pervious.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

No doubt the CZar acted very sem sibIy when he quit playing golf A bomb could easily be fashioned into the shape of a golf ball.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12
FRIDAY, JULY IA, 1907.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is Aisgustedly sarcastic when 1t says:


 aisgustedly sarcastic when 1t says:
 Tt is provided in article two of the Federal Constitution that no person except a natural born citizen. or cit isen of the United States at the time of the adoption Of this Con atitution, shall be eligible to the ofiice of President The unwritten law pro- vides that no person except a citizen horn in a State which has never se- eeded shall be eligible to the office of President. In order to bring the mat ter to a test, we propose that the un- written law be enacted and made yart of the Constitution, It is always keet to be frank. If Southern men are ineligible in fact to the of1ce of Pres adsnt. they should be ineligible in 1Aw."
 We object to such an amendment. Perhaps by the middle. of this century . Southern man might become Presi- dent and we don't want any bars in the way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

we are going to keep cool" prom.
 eses The Albany Herald. Will you nleAAa show us7,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12

U q Nr>ls, C1rcuiatioa Nanagsr of Tine 1tntGemsSI Advertiser. being duly sworn The fortgoing statement of The Adver- t1oor'o circulation fof the month Of June, 11o1, c true and correct. and compiled after au rafurna from news boyA news agents. Oeilsd and leftover copies have been de- ducted. 8. NOBLE. t Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Uth day of July. 1907.
 RIGA ALEXANDER. Uaal Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12
.DRIFTWOOD
 DY PHIL '. ARllDTBON0.
Tn Watermelon Land.

In Waterme1on Land. No use in talkin'
 Amt 1t grand. To des be Twin in
 Watermelon land. Oh. de days am swaaty
 An de nights ain't cool, An de furrow's long Behind de mule. But when de sun Drap outen sight I cain.t hep singin'
 Kase ma heart am fight. For I smacks ma lips,
 An life seems gra1d. For de melon am a drippin' In Watermelon Land, In Watermelon Land
 I like to be, For de watermelon
 Am de fruit for me. A cloudy night
 Am de darky's friend. If white folka don't give
 Devil have to lend. De melon smiles
 At me 50 sweet From de patch out dar
 Tse bound to eat. Oh, dar's nufi1n' but Joy On every hand When a nigger am Twin In Watermelon Land.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-12
GOING OUT OF TOwNs

GOING OUT OF TOWNs
 Dubscribers who leave the city ten- porarfly sho lld have The Adertiser HnalleA them. Addresses will be chang o1 as often as requested.
 You can keen fully informed abeut Hentgomery and Alabama a1airs only ahRough The Advertiser.
 before leaving mail or phone your alHress t, this omce. Phone 23O, City CArsulatiOn Department.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
DAILY STORY
THE WHITE FOOT HORSE.

copyright, 1907, by NJ. NJ. Cunningham ]
The wild white foot horse of the
plains was known for 200 miles north
and south of the Three Bar ranch. He
was a sorrel stallion with one white
fore foot
For Il year the white foot bo:se en-
joyed immunity. Then he began rob
bing the Three Bar ranch. Colonel
Miller, the owner, was raising horses
and mules for the market. DESPITE
the vigilance of the riders by day the
sorrel would mingle with the herds and
coax from three to Il dozen head away
at once.
\ Mexican cowboy came riding uo
and asked for work about the place.
There was no want OF hands, and the
foreman shook his head The colonel
looked at the stranger for q moment.
saw that he had fine broncho under
him and then said:
Have you ever heard of the white
foot horse?"
aye, senior, as who has not?" was
the reply.
He must be either captured or kill
ed. l want to try capture first. To
run him down you must have two
more bronchos, and you must have pro-
visions for month. Can YOU trail
Phim until he is finally tired out? If SO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
oglesby's Tribute to Corn.

Clark e. Carr has been digging into
the past and has unearthed a speech
made by the late Governor Oglesby
on corn. 1t was delivered at a ban
quet of the Good Fellowship club i'm
Chicago several years before the old
prairie statesman died. Uncle Dick
was called upon to respond TO the
toast on corn. Something humor-
Gus was expected but the old governor
surprised his hearers with a speech
that proved to be classic. an in
spring sentiment which appears on
the curtain of one of the Chicago the
aters. He referred to grain as an en-
blem of immortality and concluded
thus:
"The loyal corn, within whose yell
low heart there is health and strength
fer all the nations. The corn is tri
umphant. that, with the aid of man
hath made victorious procession across
the tufted plain, and laid foundation
for the social excellence that is, and
is yet to be. The glorious plant
transmitted by the alchemy of God
sustaiBs the warrior in battle, the poet
in song. and strengthen everywhere
the thousand arms that work the pur
poses of life. Oh. that had the voice
of song. or skill to transmit into tones
the harmonies, the symphonies ant
oratories that roll across my sou
when, standing, sometimes by day anC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
Curious Ethical Problem.

Political corruption in Pennsylvania,
made manifest by recent developments
in the judicial investigation of whole
sale fraud in connection with the
building of that states new capitol, is
the immediate cause of severe criti-
cism by the English press of condi-
tions in the United States. The Lon
don Times says:
''The general state of American feel
ing with regard to these and similar
disclosures presents a curious ethical
problem to impartial observers. The
great middle class in the state is pos
sibly not surpassed in honesty and bus
mess integrity by any people in the
world, and it seems very remarkable
to outside spectators that they should
submit to leave their public business
in the hands of notorious rogues, and
not only to watch the growing accu-
mutations of wealth by such persons,
but even to take certain pride in the
magnitude of these accumulations AMI
in the ostentation with which in many
Instances they are displayed"
In the same connection the London
Globe concludes a criticism with the
declaration that ''it appears truly ex-
traordinary to outsiders that in spite
of all the force of character of the
American, he permits and almost
encourages frauds from his purse and
blots upon his natural good name"
1t is not only truly extraordinary.
as the Globe declares, that the people
of this country permit and almost
encourage grating, but it is almost de-
plorable that majority of the people
appear to be ignorant of the fact that
grating is capducted right under Their
noses, as it were; or, If not ignorant
are Indifferent to the fact. The people
need to be aroused to present condi-
tons and the future consequences OF
same if they continue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
A New Trust

The General Biscuit company is II
succeed the cracker trust. One hun
bred cracker plants in various parts of
the United States employing 5000 per
sons will be united in one giant cont
bination. The capital stock of the trust
will be $30,00O,000 and such large
part of the business will be controlled
as to enable the trust to raise prices
to suit themselves.
Everything is going up. The besi
trust has advanced the price of al
meat except pork three and four cents
a pound The milkmen it is said are
going to put on ten per cent increase
Canned fruits will cost the consumer
from four to six cents can more tho
coming winter than they cost today
Everywhere we find the same effort t.
exploit the public for private greed
1t is only the poor newspaper man who
is ground between the upper and tbs
neither milestone. He belongs to n
trust. Nay, he has been fighting fol-
years and now, the Internal trusts
come down and down On him like sew
eral thousands of brick and worry his
soul.
Truly, there is no honesty in vii
famous man and the worst of it is thai
the republican editors who have bee
insisting that the party must stand pa
on the tariff are now prone upon the.l
backs, yelling for relief until the very
welkin rings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
Hard Times in Kansas.

The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the pros
porous Kansas of today, although citi-
zen of Codell, Earl Shamburg, has not
yet forgotten a hard time he encoun-
tered. He says: 81 was worn out and
discouraged by coughing night and
day, and could find no relief till | tried
DIR. Kings New Discovery. 1t took less
than one bottle to completely cure me. y
The safest and most reliable cough and
cold remedy and lung and throat healer
ever discovered. Guaranteed by all
druggists; so cents and 81. Trial bot
tie free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
1t is Serious.
Some Rock Island People Fail to Real
ize the Seriousness.

Some Rock Island People Fail to Real
ize the Seriousness.
The constant aching of bad back,
The WEAKNESS, the tired feeling,
The pains and aches of kidney ills
Are serious-if neglected.
Dangerous urinary troubles follow,
A Rock Island citizen shows you how
to avoid them.
Lawrence Graham of Eleventh
street, Rock Island, ILL.,, says: when
returned from the army, was a COM
plete wreck and my system was SO
badly run down that was afraid had
come home to die. The worst fea-
lures were very weak back and sharp
pains across my loins. My wife nursed
me and took care of me, as / was III
able to do anything for myself. The
whole trouble was from my kidneys
which were very much disordered on
account of the hardships had endured
while in the army. The secretions
from my kidneys were far too frequent
in passage, giving me much annoyance
particularly at night, and the secre-
4
tried many remedies and doctors, but
without success. Finally was advis.
ed by friend to try Doan's Kidney
Pills. got a box at the Harper House
drug store and took them according t.
directions. After had taken the frs
box the pains began to leave me, ms
secretions became normal and after
continued taking them for a fe.
weeks. was completely cured and
felt as well as ever. Doan's Kidney
Pills cured me completely
For sale by all dealers. Price SOC
Foster-Milburn company, Buffalo, New
{. York, sole agents for the United States,
| Remember the name oan's- and
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

1 win outfit you and give you 5000 the
day you bring him in"
Isl, senior. L want work, and / viii
bring you the white foot horse"
1t took the man q week to make his
arrangements, and during that time five
other horses were coaxed away Provi-
sions were cached at distances of fifty
miles apart. One extra pony was sta
toned 100 miles TO the north, the other
the same distance toothe south. Word
was sent to other ranches. and some of
them would have riders ready to take
up the pursuit while the Mexican rest
ed and slept. 1t was to lie two three,
four or five men against wild horse
1t was to be two, three, four or five
horses against one. The chase began
on Sunday morning when the sorrel
came galloping dawn Upon, grazing
herd to make more friends and more
captives. He held his head and tail
high when he got the first alarm. He
took q long look at the man on the
pony, and then, with snort of con-
tempt, he turned and Gathered up the
valley. 1t was only a caGter, but it
soon placed him out of sight. Then
the trailer bent over his saddle and
followed by the tracks alone. He did
not increase his pace. He did not care
to sight the sorrel for days and days
yet. Before nightfall he had made
eighty miles. Then he ate and rested
and took Up the chase again, but at a
slower pace. He could no longer see
the trail, but for that he did not care.
AT midnight the white foot horse was
routed. He heard the coming of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

II such thing is possible, the Illinois
lawmakers should be enjoined from adj
journing until they pass a direct pri-
mary law. The voters two years ago
asked for direct primary law, the
present legislature made two stabs at
it, both of which were wiIlful make
shifts. and now that they are in ses-
sion, there is no need in the world why
they should adjourn, to be called in n
special session, so that they may get
OH the pay roll at five plunks a day.
How many days were they in session,
that is, how many days of eight hours
each, did they work, to get the $1,000
that was paid them-$700 last January
and $500 last May-for the work they
willfully failed to do?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

sometimes by night, upon the borders
of this verdant sea, note a world of
promise, and then before one half
year is gone | view its full fruitioa
and see its heaped gold await the
need of man! Majestic, fruitful, Won
drous plant! Thou greatest among
the manifestations of the wisdom and
love of God, that may be seen in all
the fields or upon the ,hillsides or in
the valleys"
This beautiful peroration was heard
in silence, the audience being so over
come with the flight of eloquence that
applause seemed out of place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

The president has now come to the
state of declining to talk about the
third term, but is evidently delighted
with the persistency of his admirers.
1t is suggested he would like to see the
republican national convention dead
locked on several candidates, and then
nominate him in sheer despair of agree
ment on any one else. Would he take
chances on overcoming the strong OPP
position in his own party to a third
term and go back on his plighted word
are the questions worrying most of the
republican leaders.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
Americas Greatest Interest.

A few weeks ago over twenty mil
lions of youthful Americans commenc-
ed working in the most important of
all occupations, the pursuit of knowl-
edge, and to maintain the schools adult
Americans will have contributed about
$50 millions of dollars for 1907. The
American public is also being educated
to the fact that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is a sovereign remedy for any
disturbance of the stomach, liver, kid
neys and bowels. Thousands of letters
Of testimonial have been received from
cured people during the past 81 years,
and what it did for them it can surely
do for you. Try it without delay. 1t
will restore the appetite, assist in the
proper digestion and assimilation of the
food, thus curing heartburn, belching
boating, sour risings, dyspepsia, indi
Egestion, costiveness, biliousness, insom
mia, female ills and malarial fever.
De Wits Carbolized Witch Haze
Salve is good for little burns and big
burns, small scratches or bruises an6
ri Cr Gold hu oil d~,,u ;cfe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
MEza.XFsSsi7aElN0TN ~sa Ss-s ,se.v

QEzEREHs9f7dESs1.OEj sSa ba-s ~ses~-
man a mile away. He spranS -
alarm and struck into mad galiop
and did not pause until he had COW
cred twenty miles. While he was
running like a shadow through the
darkness the Nemesis was resting. The
sorrel had had but three hours in
which to nrink and Craze and rest
again when some one else routed him
up. Away he went supple as ever and
with undiminished speed, but now he
was puzzled. No one. man had ever
chased him above FIFE miles before
Now one man had hung.to his trail all
day long, and second appeared. 1t
was something to puzzle over. 1t was
a new experience. The horse was first
puzzled, then uneasy, then frightened.
The Mexican had counted on this. 1t
was to be great aid in wearing him
down.
Straightaway up the valley for 300
miles went the white foot horse be-
fore he turned to galiop back. Out Of
hundred hours he had been kept on
the move FOR fully ninety. Sometimes
he had looked back from the crest of n
hill and seen the man in pursuit, but
| the man had not seen him or seemed to
care to. No matter what the pace
| was in front, that in the rear was only
| a steady canter.
As the sorrel turned a third man took
| up the chase. When he had held to the
| trail for a hundred miles the first was
| there and ready to resume that steady
canter. Now the wild horse was thor
oughly frightened. 1t wasn't that he
had seen men or that he was running
| from men, but it was that he was dog
ged with such persistency--thath he was
being hunted to his death. In his
fright he did foolish things. He drank
! too much water. He took to rough
| ground to hide his trail He founder
ed through quicksands and used up his
strength for naught. He continued his
pace when he should have rested
Ten times the white foot sOrrel
swept up and down the Mesilla valley
with the great Sierra range on his
right Or his left, and ten times did the
rider keep his trail AS the days pass
ed his pace became slower and slower
and finally it was left to the Mexican
alone to follow him. The pace slowed
from gallon to a canter, from can
ter to a trot from trot to a walk
Then the Mexican appeared at the
Three Bar ranch one day and said tc
Colonel Miller:
II have come to tell you that the
white foot is dead, but not to ask fol
q reward. l broke his heart at last"
"But if he is dead 1 will pay you
"No, no, senior! would be cursed il
/ took single claco. My arms were
around his neck when he died, and hi
rubbed his soft muZzle against my
cheek and whispered to me-"
HE whispered what?"
''That he was my brother Jemez
who died six years ago. Senior, have
hunted my own brother to his death
Adios.''
"Well, that's funny" unused the colo
mel as he watched the man ride away
without even dismounting for drinl
of water or morsel of food.
NJ. QUAD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

ST. Louis Republic: Governor De.
neen was sorry he could not stay with
the president during his whole Mis-
sissippi trip, but he had to go home
and invent another primary law to lie
knocked out by the supreme court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

The celebration of the opening of the
Hennepin canal is but a little over a
week away. Rock Island should be up
and doing if it is to participate in the
Milan jubilee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Chicago is declared by experts to be
baseball crazy. Never mind, it will be
but short time until Thanksgiving
day, and then the Windy city will be
football crazy. Thus do the variations
of human temperament follow in rapid
succession.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Governor Deneens twin babies in
the primary election law cradle have
been killed by the supreme court
The supreme court does not appear
to appreciate Mr.. Deneen's legal ca
pacity as father
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

The milk men of the state are raising
the prices of milk and cream, owing to
advance in the prices of feed and la
Dor. Nevertheless, it is to be sincerely
hoped that the pump handle will not
lose any of its oId-time activity.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
NlNIAN EDWARDs-1826-

Nn Edwards third governor of Illinois Democrat and
Thomas
March Montgomery
had
naugrated
delivered
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

The Teddy bears of Louisiana are
laying low.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. IEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Talk may be cheap but not when
done by wireless