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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Admission Hot Blast.
A great many people outside the
State, as well as in Alabama. are won
dering If the Southern Railway will
decide to stop business in Alabama
on account of the recent action of the
Secretary of State. Here are two in
teresting newspaper comments:
III the Southern Railway should r. o.
coed to remove its cars and engines
from the State of Alabama, ami to
take up the rails on its tracks and get
out of the State, is there any law to
prevent it from doing sO?"-KnoXy lie
journal and Tribune.
Replying to the above The ChattI-
noOga Times has the following to say:
No, but 1t would be a very costly
as well as a very foolish thing to do.
The Southern Railway will hardly suf-
fer as much because of the freak iaws
under which it is being emharra ssed
as VIII the innocent public of the Sta te
Nothing will moressurely divert inv st
ments from q State and drive out en-
terprise than inimical laws that nc
complish no real benefit to the people
but only embarrass and harass those
engaged in promoting extensive de-
velopments of the states resourc IS
The Southern Railway will go on build
ing up and creating values; the sou is
Will in the end right whatever injLs
tice or wrong that may be done it's
business
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Today In History

1866 First ships built In Canada
said to have been LAUGHED at Quebec.
1914 Commissions from England
and the United States met at Client to
arrange a Treaty of Peace.
1884 Jospeh Marie jacquard, in
ventor of the silk weaving loom. died.
Born 1852
1881 Seven lives lost by the falling
of a suspension bridge at st. John, n.
3.
1870 English parliament passed an
act prohibiting the use of boys as
chimney sweeps
1882 Commander David s. Nc
Dougal. U. S. N. who with single
ship destroyed a Japanese squadron
at Shimonoseki, died. Born in Ohio.
September 81. 1909
1889 Mrs. Florence Maybrick con.
victed of the murder of her husband
1S99-Dreyfus trial opened at Rennes,
France.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Polytechnic institute, OIhcldt OIdtS
Chemist was in Montgomery yesterday.
Mr.. j. H. Fried, with Nachman &
Meertjef left for New York yesterday,
where he will spend the month of Au-
gust on business.
Mr.. George w Darden of Birming-
ham. is i'll with appendicitis at the
Exchange Hotel. '
DR.. Clarence ]. Owens OF Abbeville
was in Montgomery last night.
United States Senator J. H. Bank
head is at the Exchange.
Mr.. j. NJ Kyser of Albertville was
in the city last night
Mr.. W W Bailey is visiting rela-
tives in Birmingham.
Mr.. j. f. McCay of Atmore is Wis
iting Montgomery.
Mr.. w. NJ. Coleman of Albertville
is in the city.
Mr.. w H. Albritton of Andalusia
is in the city.
Mr.. j w. johnson of Talladega is
in Montgomery.
Mr.. ]. R. Adair of Geneva. is Wis
iting the city.
Mr.. G. C. Philips of Selma is in
the city.
Mr. H, L. Martin of Ozark is in the
city,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
, state Rights.

Birmingham Ledger.
We do not think the contests be-
tween the States to control railroads
and the United States courts to pre-
vent such control, will ever reach the
stage of secession. The contest be-
tween the States and the Federal Gov.
eminent was settled for all practical
purposes at Appomattox No one
State and no eleven states can afford
to go further than the Supreme Court:
Up in North Carolina II looks Us IL
Judge Pritchard were playing FOR
even" with the people of North Caro-
lima He has gonswjust as far as the
railroads wanted him to go. and Il is
reported that he went further than
the President and Attorney General
wanted him to go. It is not probable
60 so far. Indeed. many of them have
taken very different positions from
that of Judge Pritchard.
Be all that as 1t may, the states
have to stay inside. of secession. In
stead of following the Breckenridg !,
idea and going out. they will haze to
follow the Douglass idea and make the
contest inside the Union. There will
be no thought of States leaving the
Union. That we tried. and we JAILED
to enforce our ideas. Now we can only
go to the Suprece Court and submit.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Mr.. George w Darden of Birming
ham. is i'll with appendicitis at thu
Exchange Hotel :'
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The Lehigh Valley railroad mas
served notice on itR employees that theS
must be total abstainers from alco-
holic drinks or leave the service o.
the company, and 1t is quite like!y tt aeS
ali of the ether lines in the United
states will adopt the same rule. 1t Is
only cumulative evidence that there
are enough sober men in the word 10
do the worlds work The CONVICTION
is gaining weight everywhere that the
temperance question is not Simply
moral hut economic, and corporations
are now one with the churches in the
effort to suppress this great hauohal
xrfra
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST =, 1907.

That Mayor Schmitz OF Frisco strikes
US as being just about the limit. Al
though he has been convicted of felony
and is now in Jail awaiting the result
of an appeal, he insists that he is still
the Mayor of the city, and that he can
conduct it's affairs from his cell He
makes appointments and fills vacan-
cies, and otherwise assumes to be the
real Mayor of San Francisco. notwith
standing the fact that another Mayor
Is now in office. Schmitz plainly needs
treatment.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Spent Fortune in Vain.

New YORK World.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany, trustee under the last will of
Catherine Ann Ten Eyck, who died in
1893, IL seeking to have the estate par
titioned. Alfred c. Cowen, of 203
Broadway. is opposing 1t on behalf Of
eight defendants who contest the viii
of Mary r. Shaw. one of the legatees
under the Ten Eyck will. The contest
has brought out a strange story u
squandered money Authorizations and
the futile effort Of colored woman Ia
break into European society.
Mrs. Ten EYck was a mulatto. her
husband who had been a servant OF the
old Dutch Ten Eycks. accumulated es a
caterer $3.50 900 before the Civil VAR.
He was accounted the wealthies. coli
Ored man in the North
Among Mrs. Ten Fycks servants vas
Mary l.. Shaw, 10 whom she left her
estate.
In possession of property. Mary Shaw
announced that she was fitted for hish-
er society than that of Minetta laae
and Macdonald street; that she was IN
fact a queen, and would have to go
to Europe TO be recognized
LAWYER owen says that Mary spent
not far from 500 900 in storming the
eitadels of fashion in London. Paris
Berlin and Vienna. but the citadels re-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Pity we couldn't all lay in our supply
of oil before the court puts that thirty
million dollar fine-or nearly that
on the Standard Oil Company-mean-
ing Deacon Rockefeller. If the fine
has to be paid, he is not going to lose
it. but will add something to the price
OF oil and soon recoup himself. Trust
Johnny not to get left.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

DR.. Clarence ]. Owens of Abbevill
was in Montgomery last night.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
A Terrible blow.
n ItFFEUIr UEUFNs
New York Evening Post.

New i OIk ENGIilI6 p1A.
A terrible blow has befallen the
Southern Railway. The license TO 60
business in Alaba ma. which It acquired
at the great price of $40. has been
revoked. Now will it be good? Real
ly, kind of frenzicd competition IN
petty attacks upon railroads seems 70
several Southern States. We shall
next hear of justice of the peace re-
pleVining switchbar At last &C
counts the trains were running in
Alabama as usual IT they ceased do
ing so, simply because the Secretary
Of State revoked the company's license,
there would be fearful cutlery
There are undoubtedly important
questions at issue in all this matter
Of state regulation of railways, and
the jurisdictions Of State and Federal
courts in the premises. It is certain,
hoWever, that they will never be solved
by men who can see nothing larger
than q grain of mustard seed. The
revocation of a $40 license is sea- 1ely
a thing Of which the Supreme Court
win take judicial knowledge
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Some one has been treading IN the
toes of one OF our Canadian contempt
raries which rises up to declare that
ga thrashing would do the United
States good" Perhaps it would, most
discerning brother. but where are we
to get it, and from whom?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

George Westinghouse, the IN
ventor of the famous AR oraKe niio" -. -
~, bjs reame. is a notable exception TO
the rule that the promoters of inven-
tions grow rich at the expense OF the
Inventors. Mr.. Westinghouse mas
always been his own promoter ana
his brake is protected by some l'oOo
patents At the present time ne con-
trolls nearly $4,000 patents, ana Is re-
puted to possess fortune OF O"ef
f1O. O00. 600.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Fruitdale Herald.
H. D. Wing was shipping solid car
loads of canteloupes from his 65-acre
patch last week, and as prices have
been very strong on these this sea
son, he will realize handsome returns
from these as he also did from ms
SO-acre field of tomatoes. II Is salo
that he will cash in something like
SIh 600 from these two atone. Thls
should be encouraging to the new set
tlers in southern Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The yacht Hfldegrade, built IN Isl4
tn the order of the Prince Of Wales:
now King Edward VII; at a cost oil Of
SSo, 900 is being cut to pieces at Frank
r. Longs dock on the Hackensack
river Mr. Long bought her In Deee, ,,.
81 600. He expected TO use her as
freight steamer on the Hackensack
but her keel was too deep for the
channel. Her hull, made of Chinese
teak, is being cut up into souvenirs
ana one will be sent 70 King Ed"aro
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Huntsville Mercury

Huntsville Mercury.
A member of the Senate discovered
clerk Friday whose salary had not
been raised and hastily remedied the
error. II there remain any other EN-
ployes about the capitol who have been
overlooked they, should speak out
promptly.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

We tried to keep up with those Ar
menian troubles in New York. but
when they began to ring in such names
as Boghoosian. Martoogessian, Ham
partzoomian. and the like, we decided
to pass. The weather has been too
hot to tackle barbed wire names
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

These being dog-days, it is well to
keep a watchout for mad dogs. Any
dog is liable to go mad at any time, but
some dogs are liabler to go madde, at
this time than at othersand how's that
for grammer?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

New York seems to be enjoying or
suffering, a real epidemic of crime
these days, and there has of late been
serious talk Of lynchings. Is it the
hot weather that is causing 1t?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Alabama wants white Farmers.

Aiabama buys food of all kinds, even
turnips and cabbage. That is a shame
to our farmers. Tennessee sets the
price of eggs in Birmingham. That is
a shame. We need class of people
who want the million8 of dollars week
sent out of Alabama for food that could
be raised~on Alabama farms. Alabama
wants a million white people
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

master general, having examined the
records Of all the rural carriers In the
country. awards the palm to Maine
woman. who has made her trips in
the face Of rain and snowstorms which
kept the entire community wlthih
dnnrsn
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Madame Mclba. who is meeting with
her customary success in grand opera.
is said to be more pestered by auto
graph hunters than any man or woman
living. In sheer self-defense she Is
compelled to make a charge for her
signature, and all money thus received
goes to q charity.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The women of Sweden want to vote
and they have sent a petition to the
proper authorities containing 142,12s
names There is a bill before the
riksdag to make women eligible to all
chairs in educational institutions ex-
cept those of theology. The women
have long had municipal suffrage the
same as men
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Admission Hot Blast.

class of prophets are in the habit
of telling that rag time music has had
its day; music of the rag sort Will
take its departure about the same time
that the men and women stop talking
slang.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

A modern scientist tells US that
champaign affects the eyes, to which
The washington Herald adds that ii
also affects the nose Yes, and also
the pocket.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
D.v,. Attended His Church

Rev. DIR. william w. Lord. deceased
In New York at the age of IS, though
horn in the North, was typicai
Southerner before and during the clYti
80 ana was a strong friend of JEFF
forson Davis, who attended his church
He was rector of Christ Church In
Vicksburg during the Siege and before
that had been a Confederate chaplain.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Mobile Regist

Mobile Register.
The Queen of England has introduced
the summer muff to fashionable society.
Now, let the King appear in summer
great coat and summer snow shoes.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

A beauty doctor says kissing will
remove freckles" Now let the young
nan whose best girl wears freckles
proceed to get busy and make himself
useful.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Descendants Of Marshal Ney.

Miss Ney. a lineal descedant OF
Marshal Ney. made the opening address
at a recent legislative hearing in Texas
in favor of an amendment TO grant
fun suffrage to women. Miss Ney Is
a we'll known sculptor
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
GOING OFT nF rnwNe

Subscribers who leave the city temporarily
should have The Advertiser mailed them !
Addresses will be changed as often as re-
Quested.
You can keep fully informed about Mont
gomery and Alabama affairs only through
The Advertiser.
dress to this office. Phone $50. City Cireu-
lation Department.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

NAMED intacg. and Mary returned TO
America sToken up in health. She
made a. will. bequeathing $50 to her
husband John William Shaw, and the
remainder Of the trust estate to
friends, relatives, the Tuskegee Insu-
tute and other Institutions.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

THE trusts must co. says Texas
THAT'S the trouble, they've been go.
ing" too long already. What We want
is some way to stop them from going
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The Austin Statesman talks of "the
wall of the pestiferous mosquito. >
from which we infer that our Texas
brother has no ear for music.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

w. e. Corey's 49, year-old SON is said
to have told a schoolmate recently that
his father offered TO give him $780,
OOS and take him into the steel COM
pany. If he would live with his father
and the new wife but he chose to re-
main with his mother,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

When those Wisconsin farmers set
FIRE to and destroyed a negro college.
they also set a very bad example for
the Southern people
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Exit Foraker" remarks The Ports
mouth star. but it will take something
more ponderous than even Taft to exit
that ebullient statesman.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Waco, Tex. Aug. 6.-After suffering
terrible agonies for three days. Ruby
Morgan the 5-year-old daughter of
W r. Morgan. is dead from hydro
phobia. The child was bitten last
week on the toe by a cat.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

TuscaIooea I1mes Gazette.
We are glad to note the news that
the government seems to have recalled
to mind our promised pcstof1ce. The
site Is 8 sight just now.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Amerlcnn C:uh in london.

The latest form of cub in London Is
the American Rendezvous. which mas
been established to receive the travel
ing American and the colonial on a
temporary visit to London.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
d RIFF TW Cd
ny PHIL m. ARMsTRoNa,



Over the Hills.
Over the hills and far away,
My thoughts go wandering back today.
To where, as a youth, used to play
over the hills-Back home.
A plain white Rouse. vines that cling.
Birds that flutter, chirp and sing;
A thousand fancies they seem to
over the hilis-Baek home.
over the hills is an old oak tree.
With = shy little maid. but where Is
she7
over the hills--Back home?
Over the hills the breezes sigh,
From the mock bird comes the old sad
cry,
And yearn and srievs for the days
Over the hiiis-Back home.
Francesca, the fire eater, was one of
the first to escape from the Steeple
+ Chase Park Hotels million dollar blaze
recently. 1t seems to eat this much
fire was too much for his digestive
ability.
We Just can't help wondering II there
wasn't a bottle or two OF Ola Madeira
opened at the same time the CONVEX
sation of Emperor William and Car OF
Russia on board the Imperial Yacht
STANDARD.
A Texas newspaper wants to tax old
maids Well, this would be just as con-
sistent as taxing old bachelors, as has
been discussed SO much lately
Wen just bet the Norfolk Land:
mark can't trot out as many pretty red
headed girls as Montgomery has
A scientist declares that the average
dried prune contains 100000 microcci.
Now you see what 1t means TO be fuil
of prunes.
Mark Twain gets thirty cents a word
for his Jokes; old ones half price we
presume, Mark?
oh, these glad August days in Ala
bamal the trout are leaping and fiasn-
ing In the cool clear streams, the mock
the watermelons are just dripping with
sweet. red juice, the cotton crop is
coming. the farmers are happy, and we
don't envy that hot place, known as
Texas. one bit.
Two Atlanta telephone girls" says
the Dalton, Ga. Citizen, rather than be
separated entered into contract to
suicide" Maybe they thought death
preferable to living in Atlanta while
the Legislature is In session
man had rather follow the ponies
than follow advice.
What a girl likes about being kissed
In the dark is the fact that you can't
see that she is not blushfng wnen she
thinks you think she ought TO.
THE trusts must co. says a Texas
that's the trouble, they've been go.
ing" too long already. What We want
is some way to stop them from going
The mysterious stranger is still
working In New York. However, ne
hasn't tackled the Independence League
as yet
II corporations down this way were
aned ssp 00e, 600 they simply Wouldn
paw 1t that is all. And thus wouid
they show their spunk.
One summer books Is entitled
"The Climate of He'll" However. We
would personally prefer something IKE
THE North Pole" or The Best way Oh
Mixing an Ice Cold Mint Julep.
BY the way. you can go to Electric
PARK now for a scent--and 1t comes
from that pig funeral across the lake
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The Duke of Argyll possesses
curious avenue of trees on his estate
near Lock Fyne Every one has been
planted by a distinguished person and
bears an inscription as to THom and
by whom 1t was set in the ground.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

Tha Montgomery Advertiser gosra "a 80
saa edvertisers (and makes IL parg Oh Wv
ssontract when requestedJ that tts ds..S 81 ~.
rulation 10 Iarger than that OF any ms. ~
newspaper printed In Al&oama-aAa 49, 49,. - ~
INV edition OF any newspaper pftnsee W.
Alabama without exception a
The figures for June. printed below. req
susent the actual net circulation al returns
having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing


Admission Hot Blast
Is there any truth in the rumor that
the Georgia Legislature may pass an
anti-kissing law?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

The Legislature soon will close
It's business and adjourn.
Back to the farm and SqueedunK'
Wen gee them soon return.
And all the village people
win gather round about,
Ana to the youths with open mouth,
THEY'LL soon be pointed out.
ThereIl be congratulations
From constituents not a few'
put mostly there'll be cusseS
For what they don't do.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Better Take weather without Conn
nIaininE.

Trl-CItIeS Duly.
If an unmarried man complains 10
his girl of the hot weather. she makes
him an iced lemonade; but let him
complain after he Is married and she
will tell him he ought to be thankful
he hasn't a corset on.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
Natural Consequence.

Birmingham Age Herald.
Eewport's monkey craze is not sur
prising. Where SO many monkeys con-
gregate there is bound to be monkey
craze.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

MoDlle herald
1t is very pleasant to learn that the
International Theater Trust is intended
to benefit art in this country 1t is
only to be hoped that it will not be as
great a Godsend as the Standard Oil
Company.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07

n O. Noble, Circulation Manager OF Ths
Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn
says:
The foregoing statement Of The Adver-
Users circulation for the month Of June
1s07. 10 true and correct and complied sitter
all returns from news boys. news agenta
spoiled and leftover copies have been de-
Quoted ID 8. NOBLE.
Circulation Manager
sworn to and subscribed bSfors me this
9Th day Of July. 1907.
RIGA ALEXANDER.
Seal Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-08-07
BANKRUPT SALE OXEN, AND ETC.

Pursuant TO order issued to me out
Of the United States District Court. Middle
District OF Alabama. as Trustee will sell
at public cutlery for cash. subject to approv-
al said Court az stock yards Perry Slough,
No. - No. Court St.. in the City of Mont
gomery. Alabama, Al oxen and Jokes, wag-
ons. drays chains. eight mules. etc. belong
ing to Conecuh Pine Lumber and Mfg Co..
Bankrupt. on 9th day of August, 1907. at
IL o'clock noon.
NJ w. STUART.
-su-wed. Trustee