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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
TODAY M HISTORY

Name Day: Leander. Sun rises at
 1746 .-Tnomas Faunce died at Ply which the VPilgrims landed. and learn ing that 1t was covered in tho con strgetien tic of Mharf was sS affected
 1794.-Of the crews of thirteen American vessels captured by the Al gsesrinfs four T., were ere redeemd leaving captured in 17S5, and the. rest in 1793. A great effort was made througnout the land to raise money for their re- demption by charitable contributions.
 1929 At the battle or Tarqui the Peruvians were defeated by the Colom-
 GS9i.-NicholSs Riddle. celebrated as the President of the United States Bank for a number of years, died near PhiJIaaddelphhia, aged 5s. Lieutenant St. John, the British en- gineer. attached to the unfortunate Darien expedition, arrived at Panama
 1863 The Confederate steamer Nashville, while attempting to run the blockade, rot aground near Fort Me Allister, and was destroyed by the
 1884 News received of arrival of Admiral Farraguts fleet off Mobile to Fort Donelson,. presented to Governor Yates of Illinois, at Springfield
 1865 A committee Of Chicagoans visited President Lincoln to secure a rollment of the district, neither of which requests the President could grant.
 1875 The United States sena,e e passed the Civil Rights bill and the House approved the Force bill.
 1S95.-Postmaster General Bissell of Gleyeland's cabinet resigned; ". l.. Wilson succeeded to the portfolio.
 1902 .,I,Roosevelt attended Mckinley House of Representatives at Washing ton.
 19O3.-President Roosevelt sent spe- cial message to senate. urging passage of Philippine tariff bill.
 l904.- w. Machen convicted of postal frauds, sentenced to two years in Pris9n; fine ne of r6t, $iSoo9 each imposed
 1906 .-Presidcnt Roosevelt in letter state of efficiency for army and navy, quoting Admiral Togo.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Women OutIive Men.

WeStnllnSte. GdZete.
 once more woman has demonstrated her superior vitality. to the discomfit- ure of mere man. Of the centenarians who died in the United Kingdom dur ing the last year forty-two were woo men; in 1905 the numbers were thirty six and twenty-two respectively, ,a and During the last ten years the women who died after completing 100 years, at least of life exceeded the male cen zen of nearly eighty-five per. cent.
 Tested by length of life woman can Danahar, who died last March in Linn rick. was said to be 112 years old; Ma ry O'Hara, another daughter of Erin, was only two years younger, and Mrs. Sarah Egan. of Kings County, was credited with 107 years, while Bridget Somers, who ended her days in Sligo work house in March. 1904, had reach ed the ripe old age of IA. So healthy is Ireland that 1t is said she has at present more than 500 centenarians, while England. Scotland and Wales can only muster 192 among them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Healthy Moral Tone Generally.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
 It is only necessary to read the his tory of the various nations-and not necessary to read as far back into the past days of the Caesars-to be assured that the morals of the United States are rather healthy as whole and that the morals of the civilized world are of finer grain today than theE were in the past. This Is due part ly to better sort of civilization, partly to the spread of the Christian decency has hedged vice about with laws that draw the line where person al liberty infringed upon the liberty of persons.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
TWO MEN.

Two of the figures prominently as- sociated in the public mind in connec- tion with the Thaw trial appear in a most unfavorable light in the eyes of discriminating public They are Stan ford White and William Travers Jer- ome. We recognize the full force of the old Latin aphorism: De mortuis nil nisi bonum--"of the dead be nothing said but what Is good" and Stanford White ,s dead and gone to his reward, what ever that reward may be. Under or dtnary circumstances we might well let the evil that he did rest In the grave with him, but the result of Thaw's shot has made this impossible.
 Of Stanford White it seems difficult to say anything that is good, and speak the truth. There may be living men who are as despicable as he Is proven to have been but for the good name of our common humanity let us hope that they are few. There have been heartless libertines and lecherous beasts in human shape besides him, and doubtless there will always be as long as human nature remains as 1t is. That he was a human vulture, preying upon the weak and unprotected Is putting it mildly. Neither maidenly purity nor wifeiy honor was safe from his evil designs The ruin of the one and the destruction of the other were among his favorite pastimes. In his eyes no woman was chaste and no girl was safe from his devilish wiles if he could accomplish her ruin. The world is much the worse for men of his kind.
 But enough of Stanford White. and of his evil deeds Enough of the dead, but something of the living. Jerome's attitude in this trial, ana especially during the last few days has been both q surprise and a humiliation to those who had thought well of him. We mean no attack or criticism of his private character or of his personal habits. but of his official course lately it is legiti- mate to speak. He seems to have lost sight of the fact that he is prosecuting Thaw and IS using all his powers to pcrsocute Mrs. Thaw. He has apparently forgotten that it is his duty to con virt the man. and Is only intent on hu- initiating the woman. His persecution of her nas been brutal, revolting, deviIish, and his manner has injured him in the estimation of people who believe in fairness and decency even in a crim- iuaI prosecution.
 It matters not what Mrs Thaw may have been or what her life may have been before her marriage Whether she fell by the wles of past master in debauchery nr went down oi her own accord is not the question. IT as the evidence seems to show, sh" bas en- deavo-ed to lead proper life since l her marriage shc deserves to he on couraged, not insulted and humuiated by learned attorney who is doing his hest 10 discourage her and drag her i down to the lowest depths of degreda . ton in the eyes of the world f Stan ford White was, a human degenerate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

Jerome is human tiger who apparent ly seeks only to disgrace woman and a wife.
 That Harry Thaw killed White is a served nothing better is admitted. Whether Thaw was justified in his act is for the jury to decide, not for outsiders, but the great jury of public opinion will render it's verdict on Jer- ome and the verdict will be that he is not justified in his conduct towards Mrs. Thaw.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Eating Carrots for tine Complexion

It's dull day when new fad in food isn't thrust upon long-sutferlne world and the latest is carrot eating If A woman would have a clear. fresh complexion, says the theorist respon- sibie for the idea, she must eat a 2 T raw W carrot every day Hes no Vegetarlan meat, though he does condemn the eating of certain of the messes called food" In school just outside outside, oi B9s- ef. t6a nunils are expected to eat carrot daill. just as they might eat an orange or an apple. and they don't make the slightest protest either. But then what woman wouldn't sutter to De beautiful?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

has not served to advance or elevate the negroes, because 1t has not been accompanied by the proper moral train. ing and the Idea is too often instilied into the negro students that to acquire an education is to escape the necessity of labor. As remedy for this condi = be given in charge of Southern white teachers. ''The teacher must be H. censed.' he says. and certain require. ments ss to moral character are set down. When licensed he can get a school only by selection of school trus- tees: It Is very plain that the negro CT part totally unfit for the calling; si taking the States sacred school money in payment for it.; We are thus s,,Ip%,v p9,i, our future citizenship. The schools are turning out thieves and vagrants The negro school. still speaking gener- ally. has no influence in making more valuable citizens. On the contrary there could have been been no Soa more heoo or the schools among them for forty years. It is perfectly plain that the pupils from the vast bmaGprty of wtb sGho'is sense of the dignity of labor or the propriety and advantage of obeying di- vine and human laws; ,Sts Shall Il ds such such tive work furtherT'
 This is q severe indictment to be brought against negro teachers by former Governor of the State in which the famous Tuskegee Institute is To- oated. The conclusions are all at va riance with the basic idea of Booker Washingtons manner of instruction, his chief aim being to give negro youths industrial training and to in still into them respect for the dignity
 There is also in Alabama the Agri- cultural and Mechanical College, un- der the control of William Hooper and fine character. whom the white people of the State generally respect. These two institutions 1t would seem, the faults Governor Jelks describes to those now employed in Alabama sch1s; The good work of u these ss fshoos !gkg G6f e to express sass ufnsf the belief that I ali public schools taught by negroes are subject to this criticism The two leading in; presided over by negroes are, so Tar as l can judge. doing a clean work. Their graduates in character are m far are the leaders of their race in good works. This is indisputably true" The Governor is nevertheless of the teach the negro children.
 It would seem that the school at Tpskegee and the oSnr, one at 1aSS NSS1rmai. knowled ges are far above their people about them could furnish enough we'll equipSed graduates in time to supply the. Alabama negro schools. The class os native white men in Ala bama willing to accept places as negro teachers would not likely be of the highest and most desirable order: They would not have the confidence of their pupils, and the results would hardly prove what Governor Jelks seems to expect from such an experiment. The thing to do Is to raise the standard of negro teachers so that none but the well-equipped and Trustworthy may be emn1Oyed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Mule and Man

Charleston News and Courier.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is thus quoted: "A wife must train her hus- band and keep him trained just as one trains a young mule" Mrs. Catt does not know what she is talking about. A young mule i- these times is worth S25O or $500 and a husband to prac- tice on may be had for less than hundred,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Where the "suffragettes" Err.

NCW NOrk MAIL
 Each successive "storming" of the house of commons by the women suf- impressive to the populace. The so- called "suffragettes are desperately in earnest-too much so perhaps to estimate Correctely the value of their new methods of campaigning. There was a chance that their resistanee to to the police and submission to prison hardships would arouse indignation and sympathy. That chance has failed Laughter is fatal to most crusades As this distance even those who do not share their belief in the justice oi their cause may admire the courage and persistence of these ballot speak CTS. But they might well spare them selves suffering and humiliation by ecognizinE the fact that absurdity means futllitV.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1907
THE ROOSEVELT WAY.

The New York Commercial is dis posed to he somewhat rasping when 1t discusses Washington society, and incidentally some men high in posi- tion just at this time. Hear 1t:
 Inasmuch as the Honorable Eugene F. Schmitz, Mayor of the Imperial city" of San Francisco. was extended an invitation by Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States. to at tend a White House reception on Feb ruary in honor of the army and navy. there could certainly be no social or official impropriety in Vice-President Fairbank's having him as guest even as the guest of honor. If he chose at a small and select dinner party at his home on the evening of Sunday, February IT, The fact that Mayor SchmitZ stands high in the State and national councils of organized labor, that he is not unfamiliar with the Re publican politics of California or wholly outside of 1t and that he just now hap trading San Francisco promises "to he good" to the Japanese for Federal legislation ought not to operate to shut eminent Hoosier statesman, who hopes 10 control the Republican National Con vention of 1908 through delegates com mitted to his support for the presiden- tial nomination.
 The additional fact that Mayor schmitz is under indictment in San Francisco. charged with miscellaneous "grafting'' of a sort that constitutes crime under the California code, is no bar to his social recognition in Wash unworthy thought! A man is always to be considered innocent until he has been proved guilty-isit he? And hasn't the Honorable Samuel Gompers entertained the "labor-union" Mayor at Sunday reception in hIs Washington home? And aren't the local trade unions there tumhlnG over each other in scramble 10 do something" for Schmitz in order to demonstrate that they recognize" him as q great--and possibly growins-man? Mean and President of the United States who would do less for a visiting labor "magnate" than his distinguished and broadly democratic chief in the White House.
 The Commercial should bear In mind that Roosevelt dimes with whomsoever he pleases It should also be kept in mind that he is also much given to union labor leaders, especially if he has an axe to grind Finally we must not lose sight of the fact that this same President had set his heart on having the Japanese admitted to the  white schools of California. and that Mayor Schmitz was there to make a deal" with the administratlon-for their mutual benefit, remember
 Keeping all this in view, it is easy to understand that the charge and in dictments against the Mayor would not bar him from the Presidential bosom. or be in the way of getting his legs under the Presidential mahogany, When Roosevelt has an object in view, he has little squeamishncss regarding the road he takes to arrive at his objective point. He had two purposes to accomplish and went at them in a typical Rooseveltian way, and that Is all there is to it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
Plodding Now Out of Fashion.

Superficialty is the bane of the day and backed up as it SO often is by colossal self esteem and forwardness it adds form idahle contingent to the must-get-on classes of people. No one wants to plod nowadays :; the getting on must be rapid. and in trying 10 attniu money without having 70 work for it falsehood. dishonesty and heart lessness creep in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
WHAT STATE PAPERS
 ARE SAYING

Keep Them Going.
 The dollar bill has an average life of fifteen months. If 1t would only stay that long in one place all would be well.
 Any Name Will Answer. Birm ngham Age-Herald.
 Goyernor Guild of Massachusetts vision by any other name would smell as sweet to the consumers who are be- ing fleeced daily.
 Strictly in Line. Morgan County Times.
 The Constitution makers of the new State of Oklahoma don't propose 10 be litcas or legislative assemblies. She is comir 2 up. with one of the seeming es- sentials of such meetings--a regular paper weight and ink stand episode.
 < 9e Ts
 Savage Suggestion. Mobile Item.
 Another scandal has been found in governmental management of the af- fairs if the Indian. This is one thing that never creates surprise. It is al thieves over to the Indians to be pun ished acording to Indian fashion and let the go abroad scalpless before the gaze of the pu6licG2
 Agree on One. Mobile Register
 .Apropos of the Legislative definition of the pronunciation of the name Mis- souri, Is the reader aware that there is no legal certainty as to how Ala bama' should be pronounced? The best usage is to pronounce it Ala bah ma. with the emphasis on the second syllable and the final z a. short. but there are Alabamians who pronounce it "Alla-hammer," and vet otbers who make il "Arlarbarma. The state Leg islature might do a good half hour $ work hv putting the pronunciation in the re ord
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27
JANUARY CIRCULATIO

The Advertisers January Circuiauoh us ures established a new hish-water mark The figures given below represent the ae- tual bona-fde circulation. from day 70 uay' then the unsold. spoiled and left over cop cop ies are deducted in the final result: Ine Advertisers circulation is unquestionap!y tne far Sest of any morning or sunday ne"spa- per printed in Alabama:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

E. s. Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of Janu- ary, 1907. Is true and correct, and compiled after ali returns from news-boys news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have been deducted, E. S. NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this yth day of February. 1907.
 F. W. JACKSON.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

The letter of Judge John C, Anderson
 published in this issue of The Adver- consideration by the Legislature, There should be provision made for the crim- inal or crimiually inclined youth of both races, and the Lesislature can do nothing more Christian and hU- mane than to put the young negroes who are sentenced 10 imprisonment in some other place than the penitentiary. Many Of them may he reclaimed It Is the duty of the State at least to give them opportunity to uplift themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

Is John D. Rockefeller really sincere when he says he is worth only three hundred million dollars? Or is that merely the amount he pays taxes on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

"Acuteness of the Negro Question"
 The last issue of The North Amo ri can Review contains an able article by former Governor Jelks on the above topic Commenting on the article I'm" Nashville Banner says:
 He considers that negro education
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-27

The baseball season is near at hand, and the fans and fanesses are prepar- ing to make EoodA
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-10
Matthias Paul Suicides.

Tuesday afternoon, shortly after din
ner, Rev. d. Mclean, who lives on the
DIR. j. l.. Harris farm, north and east of
this city, came out of the house and
looked over east and he discovered a
prairie fire. He at once went to the
and informed him of the fire and went
back with him to the house to get plows
and sacks to fight the fire. Mclean
says as soon as he told Paul of the fire
the man began acting strange, las though
he was frightened. When they arrived
at the house the reverend sent Paul up
into the potato patch after a wagon and
a pillow and he (McLean) went into the
house to telephone to Webster for assis-
lance. Upon coming ont of the house
he found that Paul had got the wagon
but had left the pillow. Mclean then
told Paul to gather up some sacks and
wet them and he went for the plow
Just as he was loading the pillow, Robert
Efnor. who owned part of the hay on
the school section and had seen the fire
from Hamilton's, came through the
Harris pasture and asked the way out.
Mclean directed him to gate near the
barn when Efnor got out of the wagon
to open the gate he discovered smoke
coming from granary. Mclean, who
had got the pillow loaded, was coming
down the hill and Efnor called his
attention to the smoke. Arriving at
the granary Mclean found it hooked on
the inside; he broke the fastening and
there discovered Paul had placed the
muzzle of single barrel shot gun to
his breast and shot himself. So close
had the gun been that the powder had
set fire to his clothes and they were
burning on both sleeves and about the
breast. The reverend got water aud
put the fire out. The man was stone
dead then The coroner was immedi-
asc.y telephoned and went out and
impannelled jury consisting of L. l..
Butler, j. E. Cooper AMI T. M. Loomis.
After listening to the evidence and
examining the premises the coroner's
jury returned the following verdict.
"We the coroner's jury find that the
deceased, Matthias Paul, came to his
death from gun shot wound from
single barrel shot gun fired by himself
with suicidal intent" Coroner NJ. O.
Schenecker then dismissed the jury.
1t is, of course, q matter of conjecture
as to what caused the man to take his
life. 1t seems that last spring the
deceased, who had come from Hungary
a short time before, went to work for
DR.. Harris. Shortly after he set fire
to burn up the remains of an old straw
stack. That fire got away from him
and it took great deal of work to put
it out and then not until 1t had burned
over large strip of country. 1t is said
that he was told by some people of the
severe punishments that are melted out
to persons in this coontry that burned
the property OF others and there are two
theories advanced for his action Of
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-10
Mrs. Bates Called Suddenly

A great deal Of surprise and the deep
est regret were caused in Webster yes
terday morning by the announcement
that Mrs. Nancy A. Bates had died very
suddenly at her home on the farm about
three miles northeast of this city. Mrs
Bates had been in Webster at the homes
of her sons, Charles and William, on
Saturday of last week and again on
Monday of this week and was telling
her children how well she felt. Accord
ing to her grandson, who lived with
her, she arose as usual yesterday morn
ing and performed her usual morning
duties aud had started to get the break
fast when suddenly she gave up her
life, presumably from heart failure,
without an apparent pain or struggle.
The deceased was born in Brandon,
Vt, July 81, 1928 At an early age she
was united in marriage to Edward H.
Bates Together they moved to South
Dakota in 1884 and lived happily until
her husbands death about nine years
ago. After their fathers death her
sons often urged their mother to come
to the city and make her home with
them, but she preferred to remain upon
the farm which had been her home for
so many years. Mrs. Bates was one of
the ,avs, ,>:veable of women, a devoted
wife and mother in all that word
could possibly mean. She leaves six
children, Charles, William and Scott, of
this city, Mrs. Messenger, of Oklahoma,
Alva, of Knowlton, Mont, and Monroe
to mourn her loss. Nearly all Webster
people have learned to know and love
Mrs. Bates and their sorrow for the
deceased's family cannot be told.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-10

OF the assessment; and that such
board had made a redu ction. The
defendants attorney claimed that
even il the original assessments in
these two towns, was fraudulent on
account Of the method employed by
the assessor, yet the elevator com
panies having taken the matter
before the board of equalization and
procured reduction the assessments
were thereby validated, and stood as
the judgment of the board Of equal
ization and not as the act of the
assessor.
This contention was sustained by
the court and II was held that after
having submitted the matter to the
board Of equalization the elevator
companies could not thereafter
attack the original assessment as
made pr the assessors. Tberefore
all the assessments ARE n<|jodged By
the court 10 be valid