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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Pearl Hunting in Canada

~ HATED on the bank of river in Northern Canada an adventurous traveller picked up mussei sneai, y nried 1t open with his knife. and lo before his eyes law large beautiful pearl It brought him good p.ice when he reached civilization But more important sun it opened up prosperous new industry.
 Jewery houses in large American cities are sendins representatives regularly to the ungaVa region ot Canada Indians Esimos and some white people sners toll day in and day digging musse sheils' some oA vhchalthough not manyconain pearls Of rare value'
 The usual procedure is to pile the shells up on tne hank then leave them to decompose. when the pearls may be removed little labor Hudson Say Sonpny traders got fair share of the profits.
 Recently two pink pearls. beautifully matched were discovered in the she'll They weighed IA grams apieoe and were sold $40 to New York dealer Az much as SiOOO has paid for single pearl Found there but as general thing the pearls are Of little value. -,.- .h... sra .novv,, xyhita An ahsfseie is that a large percentage of them arc irregular fn shape. ...,. ...,,.o,,o.,a ,. "a snadaronantic that at any time one may happen mon d pearl that will yield fortune
 the owner to Do one pr NnS most aiuehe pears in estencet is held by nm to ce worth Si00 IO-Was found. not long ago. by WlnA etes Wnis d0cdng for clans near Red Wing Mlnn 4 lew ySaEA sgo Id pearl of smaller size sold for N0o0A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
A v1R1LE POLITICAL PEN

No such thing It is political organ and in the first column to the left page its jolly proprietor gives feelings and convictions that often anything mild dipping his ren into vitrio sometimes and ical of the day and falling to say exactly what he thinks about them.
 He usually comes down his office about 8 in morning. stopping several times the to see anything Arrived at the sanctIn, which is cozy little with fireplace and frayed clothes basket for waste he takes off his coat and goes to work with the exchanges. If Augustus Thomas were write great American newspaper play wanted a typical editors desk in act, all he would have do would be to copy Whites,
 the mind of the who planned that desk it was possessed of flat surface under the rolling hood, there is evidence of this ip- tentIon Where hatness is slanting hill side of papers, etters books and all sorts of things and on this the sage of Emporia signs his to such docunnents as 1t. doing his writing on a typewriter front teeth need strengthening.
 Above the desk pictures-two of Roosevelt for the editor the President great friendsone of Grant and of Grover Cleveland. The Roosevelt pictures are inscribed. and the inscription of them is written in white ink. the background being dark
 It is Whites treasured desire to take Roosevelt out the oki Indian Reservation in Arizona after he stopped being President show eff these pets for the AIoki Indians are loved by White they ase half as nice as he makes em to be. any who knows how would love them least 
 White has spent weeks with these delightful people. dancers. but reality tribe of beings intensely interested in the things that to make up the better part of life, without regard race, color
 And after this best known all country editors has through the papers of neighborng towns States he squares himself in front o the writing machine and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
BARS ALL EXPECTATION

And good of 1t all is that White comes right out in the says this lot of other things like it. He isn't afraid to be himself you That places him in limited edition unfortunately
 Maybe you won't believe it. nut not long ago White hit with his readers by taking census or all the Emporia who wash the dishes for their wives.
 Yes printed their right out in bold black type part 1t is that the not only did NOT object but them tickled to be worthy of such place. Which goes to show that Emporla has Of tho right sort.
 When imagining that their home-duties consist in grumbing and oramenting the easychair in the sitting the servant question will be half solved
 William Allen White all these things, and he has enough reckon rightly with their significance and after he has this puts down his reckoning on white paper two weeks later gets thin envelope through the mail
 And he always sees the funny side which, all Every in while the Gazette has Item along the line of this one which appeared in recent issue;
 Two Empora girls got feather Christmas from men two got fur collars one got Sed handled inFs seem to be becoming the proper thing through which the express their regard . . .. & keeping n PIa , wts hs sr
 The Colonel says he has desire inelegant Emporia sending much drygoods around he begs the Gazette to announce the following half dozen covers and Cotoene one hose
 The Colonel says that manages to keep the girls peeSaboo waists silk petticoats but if the people heathens Africa wouldn't another Bible for
 The coionei's is of
 Colonel Alphabetical" Morrison one the char
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
HARD LINE5 FROM THE START

IL looked like good thing. because. according 10 Btgtement 1t had daily circulation of coo After he had written the and editorials for his first issue White counted up the list of subscribers totaled l1st s5 Whites thermometer of hope fell exactly l15 dsgrees in many seconds.
 T just decided to make it 500" he said to me, at in the office of the he in his blue shirt with hs sparse hair all towsley and hts chubby checks hrinklhg into a smile.
 Then, in a months he wrote that editorial. with put the idea that he would ever hear it. hen--we the publishers many telegTams to Elm boria that the Postal Telegraph Company opened an in order share in the business lhe Western Union of some of the strain.
 The average fellow having thus heard the ioin would have packed up and moved to New York T East Orange. to be handy, but White did pnah thiH&,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

was contented fin Emporia and he liked the people around him and the country close at hand and then there mighty bright school teacher over in the end of the state whoi still more attractive In his estimation and it cones that he now has pressed brick building which to print his paper pressed trck house with porte cochere smodern conveniences in which to live happily afterward
 No one in Emporia planes him The Emporians think they found the place in all the world, and they are happy, which cannot be said of many urbanites. And the happest among them is William Alien whitethat s he the happest before Charles Curtis elected to the United States Senate recently
 What is your greatest ambition? asked of him. after had scared few miles into the rarefed realms philosophy morals and incidentally skrted the wreck-strswn of Literature.
 ITO beat Charley curtis,'' he answered.
 And he meant it. too for politics shares place il his being with philosophy and optimism and love for literature and the and women who make literature possible And he acknowledges 1t with the frankuess of loving kid ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

coantry editor soho writes amnsingly and IT, structively for dozen or tsUo nations besides the one of sUhich he is an honored and high saiaried citizen.
 h;e hf pary 2 hs. hs ,ee0na a, a,, o, af' o ts, @ ir Emporia call him. Some do not pretend 10 fhas dignify the Seer of Sfeerdom. White is the man rUho sorote an editorial for his paper eleven years ago come next summer-- an editorial headed "TtzhaYs the Matter W,ith s1e fa,me and % eharaeteristie letter from one of the greatest Americans of the last fesc dec ades.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
EmpQ1a Han. b@us gfMMHe.

plays a few fairly rapid tunes it.
 While writing he is interrupted every in while by reader subscriber whose dollar long and who with still longer tale of to why has not been forthcoming and how much the wmmen-folks thinks of the Gazette. or local politician with look of vast dcings his face and a desire to editor in a far-away corner where monentous questions may be discussed with e coming secrecy agent for paper house.
 These interruptions don't bother hrn at all. Indeed he looks if nothing could bother him much and it's hard to believe he had to the Far West few years ago to get his tangled nerves restrung It was then he got friendly with the Mokis and became so fond of them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Mere Nehm0DS Eaitor does .6to NeulSp9Oer utorH.

eallties bound half but walking. takins Of pain men and ordinary deeds done in calico taffeta the case be- and frec from pedantio persaage and all other of tommy-rot.
 Yes, he has learned his lessons from the folks who interrupt him as he is writing the afternoon paper-the Gazette goes press at 4s0and the reason like read he has learned is because we have chance saying That reminds me-
 And because he has learned how to estimate Bill Slcler the bus-driver he is able to place fair value any man. from his Roosevelt to the boy who helps the dishes in wihites wonderful hotel the M-way which next to White himself the most Inter esting thing in Emperia.
 White says wilhite knows the pet and pedigree each chicken served his cafe. and will be good day paates digestive generally when the of such fowls is legion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

wsHTs letter which Mr. White received after tho appearance of his famous editorial. brief but pointed It read
 Editor the Gazette. Ennpcra Kan--Dear Sir:
 e ssser a With y @ personai thanks
 have not much sense in one column in dozen
 When he got that ncte which is pretty to the limit of praise the young editor walked to the nearest ooking-glass and presented himself the thanks of inc eminent Maine Statesman.
 This simply shows tho difference between the is regarded home abroad. But this is not saying William Allen White highly regarded In Fmpora. which is his birthplace. well his present place of residence and where he wants die when he has tot
 No, the peaceful people of Emporia think lot of him. and though of the eminent citizens of the place told he thought White wrong fin politics which is half crime in Kansas he added quickly
 '.8ut he write like a steer.
 Emporians steers standard of conversational comparison just New Workers Broadway.
 If you draw circle with a radius fifty miles around Empora. Include the very cattle-erowng try in the United statcsa country bet ter fatfening qualities than other in all the West and the West is pretty large placei
 It's going on eleven since White wtote that column Of stuff about discredted State. and twenty eight prior to the writing of piece he bern fin the town where he where now writes and the like quarter word and "thess counted separately and has hump make the supply keep step with the demand
 There's nothing all the matter with today. except that her farmers have more money than they find good investments for part of this condition is due to the effect of that editorial
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
STUDIES HOME PEOPLE

Instead of taking spS courses In psychology in the University of chiqNg9 A po$-graduating in ethical ex celencies in that sik lesae warehouse of knowledge he has simply ma ssose study of the people among
 He has NsH s9S himself into their everyday lives through sympatt and human interest In the affairs which notable and lovely thing in small ol he learned some of the great simple lessons than that he has come by them n such way that he is able to tell them in understandable terms
 There you are! His philosophy is taugle Of teehnl-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

 Empcria Gazette It immediately reprinted in in this country but three, and later printed fn them.
 The father of William Allen White doctor who went to Epnporia before the outbreak Civil War and practiced his love and skin the residents of the prairie village When came him he made up hls mind to point That son should not have which could be ncAed his had been. He had 7 been "AL' but of his should be +Al" So the named William and ever since then has been 'Ried
 Biii was lazy of fellow It's good plan to keep on the lazy fellows. a rule. Once in while of them slips up and fails to get a niche in the Hall of Fame but
 HiII didn't shine fin school. he sent to a col- lege in his home town. He didn't shine there So decided put him in the State University He there two three years, sl shine SO he gave hp the quest brilliancy and Kansas City. where he fell writing editorials Kansas Notes 6 newspaper
 Fhe presence of the youthful White on its staff didn't to send the circulation list soaring any decided degree. In fact 1t the general opinion around the office that Bill rattlng good fellow but-yet would believe it now, wby say itl
 Along in 1895 Bill back Enlporia by dInt pf borrowing got together enough money buy the sszette which was daily paper we'll weekly and had patent insdes with aplenty of choice news matter about three weeks old in those patent hides.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

shoT1 ane @ se9k pint of beer sandwch
 S is ss :s:!s sa sss sa
 G ssht wa sny' twenty as @iss throh and k your
 sV9 s%n grandma"
 Side by side with this latter was printed coiurna editorial stout dead that had been found in aryaoods box on Commercial street that morning Ana m real human being could have read that without getsna damp in the eyes.
 yxy,,,sr Allen White believes that should see and be interested in the things average man snn women and are interested tn and hs neneh Y " creas,nx his bank account at satisfactory rafe
 He plays politics all the he can spare eut M aIvvs has room for of stu that comes right hs ,o tba heart and also the sort toxIes in tho rsbs and makes you laugh. That's why oa7e1se sutecrbers come down to the ofnce for papers aAsf n,,nnev if the carriers had chanced to miss him
 lies the most approachahle man fn hiS towns ana the fact that the windows of Miss Pi,nbs bookstore also stationery wallpaper are hlied vita pis1ufss of him him to take that side Of the ,r prafcrenee to the other has good opinion Of hiu1aeif I doubt not He wouldn't be worth shicks IT he hadn't fame and success and large onncnes ca loues.--thats his favorite for money-have not caused him to buy an automobile. There are forfy 'n Lyon county nearly recall Whites nearest approach is sixteen hands hgh ana p'eAs up ns ears whens addressed as Lou
 If if hadn't been for White few persons outside of the Kansas City Stockyards would ever have heafu on Fmporia Now the whole world knows about the place. and back of this widespread knowledge Is the very thing White is working He wants to help people to a right appreciation of the small town as the pest ana most healthful place of restdence.
 Maybe you read what he recently wrote about Elm poria and New York simply ptted Emporia against the metropolis because Empof1a better than any other toNn wanted to convey the idea that the real differences between the two places are cheny in favor of the small and think he carried his point
 You can't get next to the best that's in people whom you city" he said, trudged about the town looking at the comfortable homes and the Carnegie Library course there will always exist a need for men and to the cities, but we ought get from the foolish idea thai the ty the nlace to live There's whole lot in daily rubbing up against men who work; who make you ackEowi- edge the fact that they your equals through the very work they doing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

While such thing Is about probable the nexaton of Mars before the Presi dents second term White might day stray from the pleasant profitable fields of literature but from politics-neverI
 You might suppose the Gazette being owned and edited 1t is by of the best-known and most widely read esentday writers, literary production.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

girls with show were on the ssrsss to ss having good time number of Emporia srss looEs1 the chorus girls ana ok sge. them and wished secretly tney 1r ta what one or the SitiS tVtu 5eAkAsNN Gasettes - ...~. ra~v T wouldn't happy anywhere else Ennr ws .ye cs % in Rustic Creek towns afs to bitter aunine dress for sense No am IT Y o fun, the candy for ue- ..S ,a-s,
 sometimes short In the chorHs sna .s psei sss 8 day nearly there Is ,Ssm Ssns esn os s sRa s But they all get aa # I the ooss couss as much as voice one mlxmaid bnttsd into the s9o~ feym that ticltIed and fair voice. We wsfs d her on. the same ni&nt If we get pint Of beer and cheese sandMicn onee luck the only. Johnnes ". $se ln inc Kerosene with tneir aees nno snta fheIr there's staylns Np njaht and sleeping with ear on the window p. m
 didn't see psa sc5 sTh days of the food we get woua m vo, walk twenty through the snow ana kh Souk own grandma"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

wxHTs letter which Mir. White received after tho \ appearance of his famous editorial brief. but & pointed. It read
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

Colonel Alphabetical" Morrison is of the char
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
p.rt o. The Lot4sr We Rosd.

ibid you ever think" said an old
printer, "that we really notice only the
upper halves Of the letters9 The lower
halves are In many cases only the
stems, the remainders Of ornamental
GaOuslshas which have been gradually
reduced In sire and length and are now
meaningless. Take, for instance, the
heading Of q paper. Cover up with q
blank sheet the lower half Of the let
tsws, and even II you did not know
what they were you would have no diff
nculty in reading the words. Now, re-
verse the process and cover the upper
half, and u you did not know TIE words
n would be impossible to make out the
letters, This fact IL even more plainly
seen In the case Of the Roman letters
used for headlines. An i might be
mistaken Cor an l, bat nearly all the
ether letters are 20 plainly indicated
by the shape Of the upper half that the
lines may be read without difficulty. -
90. Louis GlObe-D Democrat.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
nualInn Ia oLd creoIs paxa.

When duellng was an actuak factor
In the social order Of this country, 1t
had many worthy and notable expo
pepts, including no less distinguished
percentages than Henry Clay, Andrew
jackson, Alexander Hamilton, De Witt
Clinton, Stephen Decatur and others of
the same type, but nowhere on this
continent was 1t 80 much an establish
ID institution as In that peculiarly ro-
mantle old city Of New Orleans. It
was woven into the very fabric Of the
life Of the community, and many
Crumbling tombstone In the Anticipated
creole cemeteries bears grim and 81
lent witness to the fact, though to I'M
derstand the situation more clearly one
should breathe, so to speak, the atmos-
phere OF the period. Louis J. MeadGr
In Century.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
SReYond the MIpAs


A Kansas, girl graduate who had been
given the theme, Beyond the Alps
IAss italy" promulgated the following:
II don't care a cent whether italy
lies beyond the Alps or IN Missouri.
DO not expect to set the river on IRE
with my future career. am glad that
! have q good education, but am not
going to misuse It by writing poetry or
essays ON the future woman. IL viii
enable me to correct the grammar Of
any lover may have should be speak
OF 'd0rgs' In my presence or 'ssen q
man II will also come handy when
want to figure out how many pounds
Of soap a woman can set for three
dozen eggs ct the grocery. 80 do not
bogrudwe the time spent In acquir-
ing It, But my ambitions do not fly %
high. / just want to marry q man who
can lick anybody Of his weight in the
township, who can run an eighty acre
farm and who has no female relatives
to come around and try to boss the
ranch. will agree TO cooh dinners for
him that won't send him to an early
grave and lavish upon him a whoIe-
some affection and to see that his ra1or
has not been used to cut broom wire
when he wants to shave. In view Of
all this / do not care II get a little
rusty on the rule Of three and kindred
things ~ the years 50 by."-Topeka
CAPITAL,
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11

Spokane seems to be up against the
moral question In, q manner not an
tieIpated at election time. The re
form forces we're successful at the
polls and Mayor Moore's admInistra.
tion has bean housekeeping ever
since 1t took charge. Gambling and
grating in the resorts of the city
was stopped and the Conncll has pas.
sed an ordinance closing pOOlrooms,
and now the board Of managers 80 y
that Hpokane's fair will be q failure
" ithout the gambling. The situa.
, tion at present 10 creating. much in.
q rest as Il either means the success or
death Of the reform movement, be-
cause the administIatio cannot
consistently discriminate between
card and other gambling "a mes and
gambling on the races. There may
DO o distinction without q difference.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
RAILWAY BUILDING.

Occur d'Alene's future Is very
bright from q railway and manufact
uring view. The Lewis road is assur
ed giving us connection with the
Milwaukee & ST. Paul and f. A.
Blackwell, who has been one OF Occur
d'Alene's best friends, may bring his
road. the Washington & Idaho North
err to this city; in fact he says he
will meet the Lewis road here, and
when Mr.. Blackwell and Mr.. Lewis
undertake an enterprise IL 10 success.
fully carried to completion. Add tC
these the proposed electric line to
Wallace, which is surveyed. and
Occur d'Alene becomes q railway
center Of equal Importance with
Spoknae. These roads put ne In d.
rect connection with the Milwaukee 4
st. Paul, the o. r. & NJ, the Spok
ane & international and the Great
Northern, four transcontinental
lines. We noW have the Spokane 4
Inland and the Northern Pacific.
When the proposed roads are com.
pleted Occur d'Alene will become a
jobbing center and distributing
point. The future of the city
may surprise even the most enthusias-
tic Of its supporters. Much Of this
prosperity and activity Is due to the
efforts of the Commercial club
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
psvOupsd BY JaoIsaIs.

Foreign papers tell story o. a wo.
man at Phillipeville, In Algeria, who
was seated by her baby's cradle on the
veranda OF her house when she was
called within by her husband. Re
turning to the verandR after an alb
sence OF few minutes, abe found the
cradle knocked over and the baby gone.
Next day native shepherds discovered
In the underground Of q wood the
bones of young child and string Of
amber beads, which were Immediately
recognized by the mother az having
been on her child's neck. 'SThere IL NO
doubt that the infant was carried or
aud devoured by Jackals," a CORE
spondent adds.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11

Il b perfectly we'll known 10 every
enc that water constantly dropping
upon q stone will wear Il away, and
there Is trite old provsrb regarding
this fact The force OF a single drop Of
water falling from a height Is not
great, but the results Of this tiny blow
when 1t Il many times repeated are
astounding. There h q story OF one
poor wretch who was bound with his
back 70 stone wall and had a stream
% water ''of the bienaGs OF q mans
nngeT7 directed on 10 hts bare head,
ths water falling from 9 hslght Of
about eighteen feet The receptacle
! from which this apparently harmless
Slzoam trickled was barrel holding
only twenty gallons. but before the
water had more than half run ont the
man was dead, with hole In his skull
which exposed the brain. Popular Me-
Chantca
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-11
A Flsh story,

The latest fish story concerns the
herring and sea gull, and It comes
from Nanaimo. A boat load Of herring,
containing about fifteen tons, was left
at Johnston's wharf, Nanaimo, during
the noon hour while the fishermen
went 20 dinner. During their absence
several thousand sea, gulls-the chFop-
lcler says l0.O00-ate all the fish on one
side OF the boat with such good results
that they emptied It, and when the last
herring had been removed from that
side It was like the last straw that
broke the camePs back, for the boat,
with all the weight ON the Other side,
upset, splitting all the remaining nah
into the water Shanghai Mercury.