The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-17
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

An Unusual Recori.
 Peoria. III, exoltNs one's passing wonder. A bank there failed. but the receiver has paid depositors in full and will soon add the interest.
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 What Kansas Whiskey Does. Mobile Herald.
 The Kansas man who insists that he saw rat with horns Is an instance of the imaginative qualities packed into a quart of Kansas whisky.
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 Its Their Business Not to Tell. Birmingham Age Herald.
 If stenographers and telegraph op- orators should tell all they know, the world would know much more about its updercurrents.
 Mutual Admiration. Cleburne New Era.
 The people are "cussin the rail- roads. and the railroads are ''cussfn" the people. The cup of human kind ness seems to be running over with "cussedness.
 A LegisIator's Views. Scottsboro Citizen.
 Two bills of importance arc on the calendar and will. we hope. be passed when the Legislature meets again. the child labor bill and the compul- sorry educational bill.
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 Second Choice only. Chicago News.
 What are your best bananas worth? asked the pedestrian.
 "The best are not for sale" replied the pushcart man. They are reserved for the police" R Less Money and More Conscience. Birmingham Ledger.
 Mrs. Russell Sage Is now the largest Uar n Ia not because she has more property, but because she has more conscience than Carnegie, Rockefeller and twenty oth" CT men. Mrs. Sage will not perjure herself to save x mSney; g x
 Honest and Courageous. Mobile Herald.
 Men may differ radically from the Eckels. but that he was honest and courageous and made the best that was good out of the work he had In hand cannot be doubted. What more dence and admiration of his fellow man?
 Alabama Weather the Best. Anniston Star.
 While Anniston Is shivering be- cause a frost hit us a couple of times in succession, Michigan has been bur jed under several feet of snow. and even Chattanooga and Nashville have had snow to cover the grouad. After all. there is no place quite so we'll favored by nature as is the Anniston district.
 Unsettled Investment Outlook. Hanceville Hustler.
 The prosperity of the country seems to have aYed lot Of people. The railroad agitation has hurt business. We have not settled state in any line of investment. The result will harm many people. but the final out come will be good. It is making assurance doubly sure, and credit con- ditions will evolve stronger and bet ter than before,
 Where Honor Ikss. Sheffield Standard.
 There's honor and fame in store for the legislator who can evolve prac- tical road law. More money has been wasted on the present makeshift sys- tenn of road work than would be re- quired to build macadamiZed roads all over Alabama. The question of good roads Is of the greatest impor all its economic affairs.
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 Thaw Will Shoot no More Men. Mobile Register.
 We dare say that Thaw will not shoot any more men; also that no jury will ever convict him; also. that he has had already an amount of pun ishinept approximately equal to the crime that is charged against him. Jerome should set him free. More over such an act would spare the public a second orgy in sensational ism, the first having been deplorable In its effect upon the public mind.