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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907.
TEACHING IT THINGS.

If old Horace was correct when he Eeclared that "Even the worthy Homer s=szss st.sses aeas," !" perhaps < is net su-- prising that such a well informed jour mai as The New York Post should make a slip. Recently in speaking of propellers that paper said: eff a man walks forward in a rowboat lying on still water the rowboat will move for ward also" This was too much for The Hartford Times which proceeds to hand out some information on the sub ject to The Post.
 s'If a man walks forward in a row boat" very correctly argues The Times, sthe boat will move backward, not forward, as every body must have ob- served when landing on a shallow shore. If a man walks forward rap idly the inertia of the boat tends to overcome the effect, and if he stops suddenly the effect Is reversed. No man can walk forward without pushing on the ground with his feet. On an Absolutely frictionless surface he could not advance an inch except by pushing his arms out rapidly and drawing them in slowly. If he fell down, he could not rise except by the almost impossi- ble feat of getting his feet exactly un- der his center of gravity and pushing downwards. The action of walking forward in a boat has no analogy to the theory of the screw propeller. The remarks of The Post were called out by the feat of steering steamship with out a rudder by the action of the two propellers. Anybody knows that if you push harder on one side of a heavy body than on the other. you can turn it around. The effect depends on the inertia of the body and is one of the Elementary problems of mechanics"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
The southern RaIIway's Report.

The thirteenth annual report of the Southern Railway shows an increase of 172 miles in it's mileage during the last year. an increase of S3.016.555 in gross earnings. an increase of $4,926,- l4s in taxes and operatinng asn ssz expensess s earnings from operation. An increase of s240,O00 in income from other sources is overcome by an increase of S1,412,257 in interst and rentals. The net result is a decrease Of $2,- 93S.744 in the balance over fixed charges. which for 1907 is $790,321. The net Increase ,,of.s of debt was s2Ss,5aii7s9G,
 The future policy of the company. it is stated, is not to extend it's terri tory. but to concentrate its resources upon. building up and strengthening the established lines of the system" This means second track, first of an, on the lines now b1rdened with the now in hand is completed the company will have 292 miles of double track, new yards and new facilities, congestion of traffic will cease, and improved net earnings are expected, in spite Of in- creased cost ot operation. The cost of labor permits is now $3.1S9. against $l,62l in 1895. and materials cost pro- to the drastic action" of some of the States for the, reduction of passenger rates and to the legal steps taken to secure the protection of the ConStitu- tion. Efforts are being made. 1t Is add. ed to cultivate closer relations with all the public and to cause courteous treatment by employees of persons pany." The report expresses a hope of early improvement in net revenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
sHouLp nr rRrr MrN.

Members of the Legislature ought to be free agents and act according to their best judgment and not be called on merely to carry out one mans wishes. In the campaign last year many members mads pledges as to pursuing q certain line of policy. They. discharged their duty as to those pledges at the other two sessions. The demands of the platform of the State convention of last year have also been met and events should now be allowed to shape them- selves.
 The acts passed in January and July were drawn-~by a specially employed attorney to meet the wishes of the Gov ernor as to carrying out his policy. Because the courts have been invoked to pass upon the constitutionality of those laws the Legislature has been called in extra session. For what? Plainly to seek to do by indirection that which cannot be done by direction.
 It HaS Deen dlulOSL uniVeFSdtly auInlt~ ted that the course of those who car ried the cases to the courts was regu- lar and in strict accord with guaran- tees of State and Federal Constitutions. The effort is now to be made to cir cunvent legal proceedings and tdeprive great interests of rights which they have invoked judicial tribunals to pro- tect We do not believe that legisla- tion to that end will stand when brought into court and why should not the regular course be allowed? MT. Conner in his speeches last year pro- claimed his ardent desire to have a judicial determination and now when there is a fair chance to secure 1t from the highest authority in the land he violently tries to prevent it and goes back upon his own record. Members of the Legislature ought to be willing to let the courts pass upon their acts and they ought not, because of exec- utive desire, still further complicate the situation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
WOULD HAVE DIED BUT FOR CUT|CURA
Five Children Suffered With Fearful Skin TroubIes-0ne Little Girls Eyeslght Was Endangered "A Grateful Woman Writes of
FIVE PERFECT CURES
 BY CUTlCURA REMEDIES

"Cuticura Remedies saved my two children. My little girls face was SO covered with sores that she could not see and [ thought at one time that her eyesight was gone for good. After two doctors had failed to do her any good friend asked me to try the Cuti- cura Remedies. did so and in two or three days we could see great change and in four weeks she was well and her face was smooth and had cured nicely. She had been sore for three months so that she could not rest night or day. My little boy was sore all over. His head was solid scab. First we tried a doctor who did him no good, but the first time I bathed my sons head with Cuticura Soap and put Cuticura Oint- ment on it he rested better at night and the next morning his head was much better. In five weeks he was well. I cannot say enough for the Cuticura Remedies for if I had not used them my baby would have died. My little sister, Nora s -, had a terribly sore face. I told my mother of the Cuticura Remedies. She used them and the child's face soon got well after the best doctors had failed. Pearl sB T- used Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills for sores on her body and face. and little Pinkey s - had a sore head. Her mother used Cuticurs Soap and Ointment on it and she was soon well. Mrs. Mary Hicks, Sutherland, Dinwiddie Co.,, Va, Apr. 15, 1e07."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
Trf-staten, Rights.

Charleston News and Courier.
 When Governor Glenn made his now celebrated resistance to the proceed iugs of the Federal courts in the two and a quarter cents passenger fares he built his defences on the principle of separate States rights. What. then, does he intend by conferring, conspir- ing and confabulating with Governor Conner and Governor Smith of Alabama and Georgia? Why was Governor Mar tin Ansel invited into this conference? |?
 If North Carolina cannot stand on its own legs but must form 8 dreibund with Georgia and Alabama, what be- comes of separate state rights? If the alliance may be composed of three states why not of thirty-six or forty six 1t would include the United States, not emitting half-fledged Oklahoma and the next and inevitable step would be the formulation of railroad policy in Rcts of Congress, which 1t seems would result in the obliteration of the intrepid North Carolina policy.
 The symptoms are that the mind of Governor Glenn has been converted from the principle of states to tri- states rights.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
The Result in Kentucky.

NdSHVlllG AU1eTlCdHs
 Whats the matter with Kentucky! It was. for one thing, a protest against imperious machine rule. The Beckham machine~w autocratic and merciless and seems to have fought under a black flag. It's retirement of Black burn and McCreary and other Demo- crats and It's methods of parcelling out of offices contributed to the dissatis- faction and resentment of thousands of Democrats. The party in power must necessarily have an organization. Those who are opposed to 1t call 1t the machine. even though it be only necessary and legitimate party organi- zation. But the people recognize the difference between machine organiza- tion and a machine operated for the benefit of a chosen few and in the in- terest or those who are selected to fill the offices long before they are empty This sort of machine the people resent and they are apt to rise up and smash it. This is what they seem to have done in Kentucky. The temperance vote probably cut little figure, though there has yet been no analysis of the vote. The Legislature seems to be Democratic by comparatively small majority. Governor Beckham is the nominee for. Senator, but he may be defeated or forced to withdraw in favor of some more acceptable Democrat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09

cated this peculiarity. Those of us who had the good fortune to be raised up during the old slavery days we'll remember how the strange beliefs and superstitions of their native land held sway over the slaves. and how the old legends. incantations and charms which their ancestors believed in and prac- ticed centuries ago were still binding and sacred to them.
 Any boy who grew up in the slavery days and had opportunity to go. out to the negro houses at night would feel his skin creep and his hair rise at the many weird and uncanny stories the old uncle would tell him. The witches and the ha'nts, the rabbit. the fox, the bear and the terrapin, of which Uncle Remus discourses so entertaingly, all came into these stories in some form or other, and with them were accounts of unearthly creatures and ghostly per- formances, to which the boy would listen with fear and trembling and probably beg to be guarded to his own room when the seance was over.
 These beliefs and superstitions have grown weaker, but still among the real negroes of the South, especially the old ones, there is to be found no lit- tie of the old ideas, as we see on many occasions. No doubt these Mississippi negroes look ed on the two-headed baby as genuine hoodoo. in whose neigh borhood there was no human safety, and so made their escape while there was time. We may laugh at their ignorance and cowardice, but the s.p- prehension was real to them. Even in our large cities the homes. the churches themselves, are not free from the old beliefs and we need not wonder that the residents of the Mississippi cotton fields were overcome by terror A ne. gro baby with two heads was clearly something unreal and uncanny, and therefore to be feared and avoided. The old leaven has not entirely de- parted from the descendants of Africa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
AN OPEN LETTER
To the Mayor and City Council O.
 Montgomery.
Newton. Tex.

To the Mayor and City Council of
 Montgomery.
 It is a violation of the statutes of Alabama to allow a minor to play pool. or billiards, but by one subterfuge or another. the law Is disregarded and scores of young boys. ranging from flf- teen to eighteen years of age. daily frequent the pool rooms billiard halls of this city, and are acquiring habits of likeness and viciousness which will cling to them in after life. The State law Is utterly disregarded boys play pool and b iards with i'm. without any fear of punishment what ever The city can prevent this. If they will do so. and while the tidal wave of morality and reform is sweep ing over the country, l make this ap- peal to our city lawmakers to save the boys of the city from some perni- cious influences by enacting ordinances making penalty for allowing minors to be, or remain in pool rooms and bil- Hard halls. whether connected with sa- looms. or not
 Little boys. some of thep in knee pa!u hear language Aot the hlthiest and foulest character. Oaths escape with every breath. gambling is indulg- ed in freely and even whtskeY Is brought in those places not connected with saloons. and l have seen boys of helplessly drunk. Let some Alderman, who has the welfare of the boys Of this town at heart. draft and have passed. a law forbidding. minors to visit such places. and making it penal for the proprietors and employees Q such places to permit them to come there. If this town had a curfew law which required all boys under eighteen years of age to be at home before g o'clock. it would help the parents to keep their children from disreputable places and dens of vice. While agita- tions of moral reforms seem to ha the order of the day, let us have some laws enacted that can be enforced for the protection of the unsophisticated youths of our city.
 John ". A. Sanford. IT,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
Today LnA History
November 6.

November 9. 2 1620-The Pilgrims came in sight of land after a voyage of sjxty-three days 1792-Baron Viomenil, second in command of the French forces in the American Revolution. died in Paris; born November 80, 1723.
 If93-First newspaper issued in Ohio. called sentinel of the Northwest Ter ritory," and published at Cincinnati.
 1s00---Asa Mahan. first president of Oberlin College. born: died April {. 1889.
 is30--Politicai panic in England, re- sulting in the downfall of the Yelling ton ministry.
 1s57-Faiiure of the Western Bank of Scotland.
 1s72-Beginning of the great Boston fire.
 18s9-Free mail delivery extended to all cities in the United States having 5000 inhabitants.
 IS93-Extradition treaty between the United States and Norway ratified. 1Ss9-British victory at Ladxsmith.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
TOO MUCH FOR THEM.

In the news coIumsn of The Adver- tiser of Tuesday was a despatch from Meridian telling of a negro baby born there with two well formed heads, and the item went on to say that many of the negroes had fled from the vicinity in terror. The genuine negro is very largely a bundle of superstitions. Their forefathers brought it with them from Africa where superstition enters into their daily life. their religion. their feasts, and in a part of their existence. Without 1t life would be a dreary and monotonous existence to the African in his native land.
 Centuries of contact with the civili- ration of the white man has not. sgadi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
A New Poultry Popcorn.

Editor of The Advertiser:
 I have been growing this corn for eight years. l procured my start of this variety from an old Indian in Northwest Texas. He said poultry fed on 1t would never have cholera, and l have not lost a fowl with 1t since I began growing it. It is an enourmous yielder; has large ear and long grain and Is easy to shell. It makes a large amount of forage which Is fino for stock. I think every farmer should grow a patch of this corn for hts poul- try, for with this corn and a few mann moth Russian sunfiower seed you will always have plenty of eggs and healthy poultry.
 If any brother farmer would like to get a start of this corn and will write to me, I will send him a package bv mail for start. It is so easy to grow and such a good yielder. every one should grow a patch. If anyone should write for corn kindly send post age.
 G. D. Persgo.
 NawtOn. Tex
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
PROBING THE UNKNOWN

To know the unknowable, to uncover
 that which is hidden, to discover the
 secret of the universe-these arc among
 the never ending desires of modern times. Man in this advanced age is
 never satisfied with what Is open to
 the view and comprehension of all, bue
 insists on going deeper. It is to this
 restless desire for Knowledge, this de- termination to wrest from Nature her
 darkest secrets. that we owe most of our inventions. This unceasing effort
 to know more gave us the steam power and all that has come from it. It gave us knowledge of the wonders of elec-
 tricity and taught us how to use them.
 It gave us photography and all other inventions and Improvements which go to make this an age of wonders.
 But all this leaves many things un- known and many mysteries still un- solved. The sun is a great mystery
 which has worried scientists no little. Whence comes thy heat, O Sun? thine everlasting light" they ask, and try to find the answer. They want. to know of what it is composed and why it continually endures. And they are now worrying themselves over the planet Mars. All through the past summer the wise scientists have been focusing their telescopes and cameras on that far-off world in the effort to | learn what it is, if there are inhabi- tants in or on it. and all the other se- screts of it's existence.
 And so it goes without ceasing. Now | the scientists are setting themselves | earnestly tos the task of discovering | how our earth was formed, and of how | it came to exist. If they take the writ | ten record given us by Moses they Ire told that "In the beginning God cre- ated the heaven and the earth" and that is all the recorded information we have about the commencement of | things Where He obtained the mate- rials, how He brought them together, how He set the earth in motion, and many other things are sought to be made plain to our intelligence. Geolo- gists, we are told, flor many years have been endeavoring to prove scien- tifically how the earth was made, and they are still absorbed in the prob lem"
 We'll. we should say 1t is a problem, and how 1t can be solved is beyond our comprehension. We know 1t is unsafe to say that anything is impossible, but the ordinary mind will be disposed to deny the possibility of this task. They may ascertain the constituents of the earth, their uses and the relation they bear to each other. They may find out the effect that. certain of earth's con- stituents have on each other and on an- imal life, but when they undertake to go a little beyond our conception of what human intelligence can accom- plish So many wonderful and appar- ently impossible things have been done within the memory of man that. as we said. it is not safe to doubt. but the task the geologists have set for them selves really seems to be one beyond human effort Whether the world will be better off if they are successful is another matter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
rhere is really some good in Penn

There is really some good in Penn ysyIvania, after all. At the late cleo tion the county of York actually elected the Democratic county ticket, much to the surprise and disgust of the Repub- iieans who thought they had every s$hing tied down for their side. The York Dispatch refuses to admit that it a a Democratic victory but merely "a Republican slump" Well, we suppose the officers who were elected don't care what they call the affair; they get the benefits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
Letters to The Editor
Crenshaw County Farming.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Jim Parkman, who lives in Beat 12 Crenshaw county, made this year si1 bales of cotton on six acres of land, and he had six acres in corn that made him forty bushels to the acre. He had toes and he made some peas and grolind peas. MT. Parkman bought some fer tilizer and used all he could get at home. He hauled all the leaves and muck and put it all on the land and this Is one reason of his good crop. He did all of his blowing and haulfng P with an OK. l think, and some others think, MT. Parkman needs to be con graduated.
 S. Y. Pinkard,
 Nov, 6. 19O7 "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
''This is Ny 51st Birthday"
John Temple Graves.

John Temple Graves, the we'll known has decided. to leave Atlanta for the wider field offered by New York journ- alism. was born in Abbeville County, South Carolina. November 9, 1856. He father was Gen. James Porterffeld and his grandfather on his fother's side was the eldest brother of John c. Cal- houn. After graduating from the Uni- versity of Georgia MT. Graves began n.. enc .snr ..sertx Q .sd ne since fllAA 4hA highest editorial positions on leading papers of Jacksonville, Atlanta and other cities in his section. He has de- in many sections of the country and is considered a leader of the progress i've and patriotic sentiment in the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
Coinage and Thrift.

The South was poor for many years because the smallest bit of fractional currency was the scent nickel. The people dsspised the copper -bronze cent; in fact, the government refused for a Everything that was not a muitiples of five was raised to the multiple. few merchants made ten strikes by "call- If an article was priced ninety-t wo cents, you got it for ninety. It 1t was priced ninety-three cents you had to pay ninety-iive. The thriftier the peo- smallest coin is the cent. If we had the mill our thrift would increase. One of these days we shall come to the mill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
ECZEMA ON FACE
Cured by the cuticura Renredi,

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 "I had eczema in very bad form all over my face for the past four months. Physicians in several towns prescribed for 1t without giving me any results, but four weeks ago commenced using the Cutictfra Remedies, consisting of one cake of Cutioura Soap, one bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and to-day I am perfectly well. Nettie Helgeson, Ridge way, Iowa, Mar. 4, 1o07."
 Cusicura Soap Csc.l to Cleanse the skfn, Cuticura Ointment W0cl to Heal the Skin and Cufiearl 8esolyent tboe Cor n the form of Chocolate Coated PllA zoe. per vial of o0l to Purity the Blood, are Corp. Sole Props. Boston. Mass.
 @s-Aaiied Frs. Cutieurs Book on Skin Diseases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
CathoIie Church Burns.

Montreal, Nov s.-The Roman Cath ollie Church at Longue Pointe, built in 1729, burned last night. Loss $75, 900 with $16,O00 insurance. The church contained valuable sacramental ser vice in silver brought over from France at the time the church was built and this was lost in the flames.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09
DRIFT " OOD BY PHIL HI. ARMSTRONG.

An Allegheney, Pa, man has had three daughters and one son to eiope in one year. He can't kick if they staid eloped!
 We believe Drift Armstrong will re- cover his muse in a week or so, but Birmingham has given him such a 6Har 6rs sha 6oss he tPa %sS san ran Simpson.-Houston Post. New York is going rapidly toward the skies, but some of her nillionaires are not.
 A South Carolina man has been ar rested for having two wives. Sent to the insane asylum. we presume The college professor who says that peanuts form a nutritious diet wears a Van Dyke beard and makes fun of athletes. which explains everything.
 Hunt for the Sunshine. Hunt for the sunshine
 Let the shadows go; The worlds all right
 If you'll make 1t so. Tho the day be dreary-
 And things go wrong; Just be cheery
 With Halelujah song. Hunt for the sunshine Sprinkled down the way; Just be thankful
 And just be gay! least stand up for the aged in a street car; that will go long ways. The papers are having lots of fun out oH Rtrminshana:
 There are just as god counts in the sea of matrimony as ever were caught by American doliers. branch office, according to The Post And fuii of red headed angels--Gee! Now's the time when the rural weather prophet gets down his goose bone and predicts the weather. Even the thought of tax-paying time farmer far MVs as he chuckies hue at the S soSDiins of the big Thanksgiving turkey. It isn't surprising to hear that the best potatoes in Kansas are raised by a Mr. Cropp.
 Prohibition in Birmingham isn't wor- rying the Alabama poets as the per and then there's good old country ci- der-oh such delicious apple eider!ss A man on a steamer bound from Liv- erpool to New York who was going to KaNsas to be married jumped over board and drowned himself. Such an appalling prospect is enough to drive any man to something like that.
 
 Why do women cultivate a special voice for the telephone?
 Speaking of padded cels-well, some women are padded sells"
  A bursting bomb is mild compared to the shattering of our first ideal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-09

An Egyptologist has discovered-or thinks he has-that it was toothache that hardened Pharaoh's heart against the Israelites. If that was so Moses should have tried denistrdy on him in- stead of appeals.