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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
THEN AND NOW.

Somebody has unearthed an old diary or journal kept bZ an energetic New England woman just a century ago, which indicates that in some re- spects times have not changed very greatly in the years that have elapsed since she wrote of her troubles and worries. The dificulty of obtaining reliable and satisfactory domestic help is a subject of continual complaint in these days. and 1t is not confined to any section of the country, nor to any season of the year, so far as we have observed, but if we may judge from the way this Yankee woman complains she had about as much worry as people now have. She tells how she rode the country round to get girls for love or money to do the family work, and how incompetent most of them were. with much other complaints Of like nature. As The Chicago Tribune comments:
 But the earlier mistress may have enjoyed perhaps one advantage not general in our day. If the maid was the female help failed to respond to the blandishments of her would-be em- ployer and did not put in an appearance with sunshade and telescope at the appointed hour, the household machin- cry went on as before. There were no contagious apartment buildings with meals in the restaurant;;' there was no escape from the obligations of the kitchen and the demand for regular diet The early nineteenth century housekeeper was forewarned as to these impediments to a perfect home existence and educated herself accord ingly.
 Nevertheless the eternal conflict then as now went on with bitterness of soul and haughtiness of spirit. The prob lems which convince the present housekeeper that the country is surely drifting toward anarchy faced the energetic woman of the previous century. who pronounced her maids "impertinent, presuming. stupid" and worked alone as best she must and could. If the difference in a personal equipment was In favor of the earlier mistress Of the house, the difference in exasperatin conditions was not pro- nounced, and there may be a melan- choly feminine satisfaction in the thought that ones great grandmother had no telephone. no saving nearby restaura in short. but her own energy, and ability to do things. Thus the good old times" occasionally reveal their imperfections.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

to his friends. sent from Tromso June 3, to his paper, The Chicago Record Herald, he says: Nothing is too high to be reached or too good to be true" That, 1t must be admitted is rather hoastful way of putting 1t, but 1t shows his confidence in himself and his pro- ject and perhaps that spirit may help him in his undertaking One would think however. that Andree and his mysterious fate would be always before him and have tendency to make him less hopeful and confident. Let us at least hope that he may sue ceed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

With the price of wheat and meat both taking skyward tendency, we ordinary folks will have to quit eat ing and leave it to the millionaires.
 
 To The Houston Post Paragrapher: Will you please inform us If the milk and honey in heaven isn't inferior to that of Texas?
 Gov. Stokes of New Jersey is cut ting down extravagant appropriations He thinks his tate spends too much for memorials and has disapproved of mains of General Phil Kearney and providing monuments-News Item. According to this the dead issue Is a live isue- In New Jersey.
 "Cortelyou is the only member of the cabinet who can sing" says an ex- change. Maybe so, but Roosevelt with his big stick baton makes a pretty con- spicuous conductor.
 One woman out of every five in the United States works, according to sta tistics We presume the balnce spend the fruits of some one else's work
 
 It must be great to be so rich that all your family difficulties are aired every day in the newspapers of the country.
 Taft's tariff talk may yet be strong enough to support even as big a fel- low as he Is if the people take him seriously.
 May Irwin married her press agent but then May is a business woman and was for saving on her expense account.
 Strange. but the more wealth a girls family acquires the more letters she takes onto her name. Amt wom- en the grasping critters? When the World Turns Round Your
 Way. Say life is bright and life's all right When the world turns round your It's Hello, Day" and "so-long, Night" When the world turns round your oh you whistle and sing like every You're gay as a lark upon the wing Aid to this life you wait to cling When the world turns round your
 way.
 Oh the money comes easy and friends When the world turns round your
 way
 And you look at life with a rosy hue When the world turns round your It's a smile for everyone you meet As you walk so buoyantly down the
 street
 And everything is sugar-sweet When the world turns round your The Baby Prince continues to howl just like any plain American kid and ! no doubt if the little fellow knew what
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
Today In History
.Iune (

5uue q.
 1520--Meeting of Henry VIII and Francis on a plain near Calais. 1770-Second Earl of Liverpool, Brit ish Prime Minister, born. Died De- cember {, 1928. t- 17ss-Irish rebels defeated at An trim.
 1S14-Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia visited England.
 1S32-First reform bill became law Tn England.
 1s59--David Cox, famous landscape painter, died. 1S61-Malcolm R. Patterson, Cover nor of Tennessee, born.
 1S92-Republican convention at Min neapolis nominated Benjamin Harri- son and Whitelaw Reid.
 1S93-Flfty villages destroyed by floods in Austria.
 iS95- -Ricnard Olney of Massachu- setts became Secretary of State. 1901--Andrew Carnegie gave $10,o00,- 900 to Scotch universities. .y-s -y- -..s.s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
,e fonnding of tn. little rnrr,.h town

the founding of the little English town of Romsey, a few miles from South ampton, will be celebrated on June 25 and 27 by a pageant in which the vil- lagers, under the direction of F. R; Benson, will present scenes connected with the history of Romsey One scene will be the destruction of the Abbey of Romsey by King Sweyn and his Dan- ish followers in s94. Several of the actors will be direct descendants of the of the pageant will be devoted to the restoration of the abbey.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
Bricks Made of Flour, ,

Baltimore Sun.
 In England much interest has been shown of late by the army and navy authorities in a new method of pre- serving flour by means of compression With hydraulic pressure apparatus the four is squeezed into the form oi bricks. and experiments are reported to have shown that the pressure de- stroys all forms of larva life, thus pre- serving the flour from the ravages of mold. Three hundred pounds of com pressed flour occupy the same space as 100 pounds of flour in the ordinary 6tate,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
Pointed Paragraphs.

Chicago News.
 A lawsuit is the thief of time and money.
 A stitch in time may close the mouths of nine gossips.
 Thrift and stinginess are as similar as they are different.
 If man Is incompetent, he usually charges 1t up to bad luck.
 Men with long heads are capable of using them on short notice.
 It Is the scarcity of their remaks that makes some women remarkable. Even if you gain but an inch, you haven't put your best foot forward in vain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07


 While the larger wild animals are often dangerous and sometimes de- structive we are not to forget that some of the smaller domesticated ami mals. if we may so designate them, are no slouches when 1t comes to doing things. as the following from The Bos- ton Globe shows:
 It is reckoned by the experts of the department of agriculture that the rats in the country consume S100, 900. 900 worth of food material, without calcu- lating the damage they do to proper ty. The brown rat, according to these in existence, and destroys more prop erty in the United States than all oth- CT noxious animals combined. '"
 Yet this destructive rodent was not here before the white man came. It accompanied the Europeans who voy- aged to this country to settle in Vfr- ginia 800 years ago It was of the species known as the black rat. and more than a century and a half later the brown, or Norway rat. made it's appearance here and soon supplanted cies that Is now so common.
 Readers of the histories of old Vir- einia will remember how one of the first colonies was almost annihilated by rats. Abundant stores for the winter had been accumulated, but when the colonists began to draw on them they discovered that in the summer and au- tumn the rats had consumed the great CT part of these supplies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
A Mcteor'A Fall.

Columbus Dispatch.
 T waa q witness to the falling of the erea. meteor that dropped at Som erset. O., n 1S60" said w. H. H. Wal lace, the visitors Attendant in the State ju1 'iary building, the other day, and a V;viG impression 1t made upon my mind. ?he celestial visitor drop-- ed down 5ust after noon one day. and Its course through the sky was bril- liant even In the glare of monday. One can imagine what 1t would have been if It had happened in the night. The brilliant display was accompanied by ser!es of frequent and loud explos- ions
 "rhs mass struck the ground at one side of Inc main btreet of the town. wn'ch was in fac; the extension of the old national road through the village. IL buried Itself many feet in the ground acH Jtdin< to my recollection. and when the cUriOus pt Oplc dug down to 1t, the mass was vet so hot that 1t could not be touched, l understand that though 1t broke into many pieces, which were carrIel away as souvenirs, only the large nucleus, wEick was secured for the Smithsonian Institution in Wash ingtoa can now be located"
 
 A Town One Thousand Years old. New York Times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
The Farmers are Workers. a IaaN

People Of other sections who are imbued with the idea that the South erner is lazy and slow. should come down this way and watch our farmers and planters from now on until the cron Is made. They would see about as lively and active a crowd of men as ran be found anywhere else in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
APRTI CIRCULATION

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees ifs advertisers (and makes it part of the contract when requested) that it's Daily cir eulation is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama-and that its Sunday edition has the largest circulation of any edition of any newspaper printed Tn Alabama without exception.
 The figures for April printed below, rep resent the actual net circulation, all returns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

A modern scientist has made the dis covery that bullets may carry disease germs. We have a kind of dim rec ollection that bullets were in the hab- 1t of carrying death germs something over forty years ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

"when a man is born into this world his work is born with him. mora llzes The Richmond Journal Leaving out of consideration the fact that a man is never born into the world, The Journal theory doesn't leave us much choice as to what we shall do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

was ahead of him he'd gladly ex- change places with some of them. Very few of the natural born ora tors are willing to work For living says The Dallas News. However, some of them have no aversion to working the public for living.
 Carried Away.
 How did you like your trip in the balloon?" with it."
 When poverty comes in at the door it hasn't even politeness enough to wipe its feet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

We are not given to worrying over the science or theory of vegetaria nism butt if meat prices continue to soar many people will be forced to be- AOms strict VeEetarians in practice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
A Serious Riwnder.

Kansas City Journal
 The Sioux Falls woman who killed her hired girl has got herself into very serious trouble. She may be &C., quilted of the murder. but how can she expect to get another girl?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

The Houston Post states and The Montgomery Advertiser approves. that "a woman cant button her shirt waists down the back which leads to the be- lief that both of these contemporaries are shamefully ignorant of the capa- Utilities of women who wear shirt waists, Perhaps, however, 1t is just as welL-Chattanooga Times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

E. S. Noble. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. nays:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of April 1907. is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have been de- ducted-
 E g. NOBLE
 Circulation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of May, 1907.
 RIGA ALEXANDER, Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
AnrERrIsER ECHOES.

several Alabama cities have fixed the number of people they want by 1910" says The Montgomery Adver- tiser. Times must be good in Alabama if the population of the country in 1910 is all they can find to worry about-Washington Herald.
 The Montsomery Advertiser Is a bit worried because 1t cannot prove that the word "thousand' on the new $l,- OOO certificates is spelled wrong. Our contemporary should not permit itself to he worried by such e small mat ter.-Columbus Ledger
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

The Montgomery Advertiser may not Know what's what amid contemporary poetry. but 1t is sound enough on etymoiogy and deep-sea lore. This it evidences in the dearest manner by expressing full agreement with The Observer in the matter of Jonah and the whale vs The Statesville Land ma pix ct al.--Charlotte Observer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
DR IFT CD
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG

With the price of wheat and meat both taking a skyward tendency, we ordinary folks will have to quit eat ing and leave 1t to the millionaires.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

To The Houston Post Paragrapher: Will you please inform us If the milk and honey in heaven isn't inferior to that of Texas?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

Town One Thousand Years old. New York Times.
 The one thousandth anniversary of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

"Cortelyou is the only member of the cabinet who can sing" says an ex- change. Maybe so, but Roosevelt with his big stick baton makes a pretty con- spiouous conductor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

We nave been antioipatlng that our AdveJ iser would sooner or later have something to say on the subject and we have not waited In vain: Here 1t is: What is whiskeyg is the conun- drum propounded by The Washington Herald. 1t might just as well ask what is hash. Any properly informed person can tell what whiskey should be. but the man who can tell what the article we buy for whiskey Is may safely pose as a competent chemist. :" It would be useless to attempt to re- flute such an argument If one were dis posed to do so. The answer to the question seems to be comDlete.-OO- lumbus LedRer.N
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

The Montgomery Advertiser calls for comment on the peek-a-boo, regrettlr
 late The peek-a-boo has come to stay late. The peek boo has come to stay and is now an old family friend. com ment being unnecessary. It Is a case of when seen too oft, familiar with its face we first endure, then pity, then embrace. -Thomasviue (Ga)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

The Montgomery Advertiser gives up the conundrum we uggested-hnd a subject upon which Theodore Roose- Welt is not the highest authority in the should remember that some things are impossible" We have always sup posed that in this day 1t was The, Ad- vertiser that gets things This shows how hopeless is the task of finding the answer We withdraw the prize-Co- lumbia State.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24

Of mailman hurled me half across
the room. sank into chair.
mo, you dun't, Jim Randolph, no,
you don't. You came here for some
thing and, by heaven, you will tell
me what IL is! You know me-; you
are the only human being who does.
You know what l was, you see what
l am. You know what they did to
me to make me what l am. You
know. Jim Randolph. you know
whether l deserved it.; You know
whether in all my life up to the day
those dollar-frenzied hounds tore my
soul, had done any man, woman, or
child q wrong. You know whether ]
had, and now you are going to sneak
off and leave me as thought we're a
cur dog of the Reinhart- STANDARD OH
breed gone mad"
He was standing over me, a ter
rible yet a magnificent figure. AS he
hurled these words at me, l was sure
he had really lost his mind; that
was in the presence Of man truly
mad. But only for an instant; then
great, crushing, all-consuming agony
Of pity for Bob, and I dropped my
head on my hands and wept, 1t - is
hard to admit 1t, but 1t is true--I
wept uncontrollably. In an instant
the room was quiet except, for the
sound of my own awful grief. I heard
it, was ashamed of It, but could not
stop. The telephone rang again and
again, wildly, shrilly, but there was
no answer. The stiffness became SO
oppressive that even my own sobs
quieted. / gasped as the lump in my
throat choked me, then / slowly raised
my eyes.
Bobs towering figure was in front
of me. His head had fallen forward
and his arms were folded across his
breast. But that he stood erect
should have thought him dead, so
still was he. jumped to my feet and
looked into his face, down which great
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24

speaking to me again. What do you
want? If you are here to beg for
Reinhart and his pack of yellow ours,
you've got your answer. wouldn't
let up on that fiendish hyena, not II
his wife and daughter and all the
dead wives and daughters of every
System man came back in their
grave clothes and begged. I wouldn't
let up share" l gasped in horror.
when did these robbers of men
and despoilers of women and children
ever let up because of death?'- When
We're they ever known to wait even
till the corpse stiffened to pluck out
the hearts of the victims? 1t is my
turn now, and If let up hair may l.,
yes, and Beulah, too, be damned,
eternally damned"
could not stand 1t. II stayed, I,
too, should become mad. reached
for the .doorknob. but before Iseauld
swing the door open. Bob was upon
me like wolf. He grasped me by
the: shoulders and with the strength
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24
Delivered the Goods.

= The late Senator NJ. s. Quay, OF
Pennsylvania, kept all the letters his
constituents wrote, to him asking for
favors, says the Saturday Evening
Post. He had stacks of them when
his last great fight for the senate came
along. Then he sorted out the letters,
eliminating those from people who
were dead and on the back Of each
letter wrote: Dear John or Bill:
Do you remember when you wrote me
this letter and do you remember that
did what you asked? want your
help now in my fight for the senate.
Can I have it," The politicians In
Pennsylvania say those letters mailed
to the original senders with Quay's re.
quest on the backs of them, had as
much as any one thing to do with
Quay's winning his fight.
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ears were dropping silently.

tears were dropping silently. ]
touched him on the shoulder.
Bob. my dear old chum, Bob, for
give me. For Gods sake, forgive me
for intruding on your misery"
looked at him. will never forget
his face. No heartbroken woman'e
could have been sadder. He slowly
raised his head. then staggered. and
grasped the Understand for support.
Don't, Jim, don't-don't ask me to
forgive you. Oh, Jim, Jim, my old
friend, forgive me for my madness;
forget what ! said to you, forget the
brute you just saw and think Of me as
of old, when Twould have plucked
out my tongue II l had caught 1t say
ing harsh word to the best and
truest friend man ever had. Jim. for
get 1t all. was mad, I am mad,
have been mad for long time, but 1t
cannot last much longer. know it
can't, and, Jim, by all our past, love,
by the memories OF the dear old days
at st. Paul's and at Harvard, the
dear old days OF hope and happiness,
when we planned for the future, try
to think of me only as you knew me
then, as you know that should now
be, but for the Systems curse"
(. The clerks were pounding on the
door; through the glass showed many
forms. They had been gathering for
minutes while Bob talked in his low,
sad tone, tone that no one could be-
lieve came from the same mouth that
few moments before had poured
forth a food of brutal heartlessness
Bob went to the door. The office
ewas lin an nprcar. Twenty erss9esso
.Bob's brokers' We're there, aghast--at
not getting reply to their calls.
Many were pouring in through the
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24
Were superstitIous, Too.

A woman who takes her super.
stitions seriously started to enter a
big department store one morning last
week when she noticed a ,porter4on q
tall stepladder that stretched directly
across the doorway, says the New
York Press. In spite Of the fact that
there were Ave women behind her
eager to pass into the shop she came
to a sudden halt, looked up at the lad
der and cried out, "Oh, I'll never walk
under that" saying. which she turned
and strobe away, Before SIN" had
gone far her sense OF humor. rose SUI
perior to her fear of ladders and she
looked to see II her remark had had
any effect on those who had been
within sound of her Voice. Walking
directly behind her were the. five
women who had heard her exclama.
ton.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24

outer office. Bob looked at them cold
ly. well, what is the trouble? Is
1t possible we are down to point
where the stock exchange rushes
over to mans Office when his wire
happens to break DOWN."
They saw his. bluff. You cannot de-
ceive stock exchange men, at least
not the kind that Bob Brownley en-
ployed on panic days, but his cool.
ness treasured them, and when they
saw me 1t was odds-on that they
guessed to, a man why, Bob had 9tg-
nored his wires guessed that, T. had
been pleading for the life Of l'the
street." ''easgS 3, A .s:i:i Il iii. X M 1900
We'll, where do you stand ?'' = - z z,
Frank Swan answered for the
crowd: THE panic Is in full swing.
She's a ce1lar-to.ridgeepofe ripper.
They're down 40 sorSsoyer; on an ay-
erage. AntiPeople's is down To- SIS,
and still coming like, sawdust over
broken dam. Barry Conants house
and dozen other of Remnants have
gone under. His banks and trust
SohPohiSo uiO boiu6 SFtTy Mluute.
The whole street will be overheard
before the close. The governing COM
mittee has just called a meeting to see
whether 1t will not be best to adjourn
the exchange oyer to-day and to.mor-
row."
Bob listened as II he had been a
master at the wheel In gale, re.
ceiving reportsi from his; mates, 4.;s
There was no trace nowg,r t. the
scene he had just been through. He
was cold, masterful, like the seasoned
sea-dog who knows that, in spite Of
the oceans rage and the. winds howl,
the wheel will answer his hand and
the craft its rudder,. Jim. come over
to the exchange" The crowd fol
lowed along. we have but minute
and / want to. have You say you for
give me- he said to me. II know.
Jim. you understand 1t all, but must
tell you how sorrowful am that In
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-24
Not a Reading Community.

The town of Charleroi. Pa. has q
Carnegie library in which there are
several thousand volumes and the
town is roundly taxed to support the
Institution. Last year, according to
a report by the librarian; just made
public, there was one solitary Fpatroh
of the library. The librarian ex-
pressed the opinion that the people .of
the town were SO much Interested in
roller skating, baseball games, bridge
whist and poker that they. had no time
for books