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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
MR. WARD ACCEPTS CALL.

New Presbyterian Minister at Auburn.
Auburn. April 6--(Special)--Rey. ].
q. Ward has accepted a call to the
Presbyterian Church at this place. He
Is native of North Carolina and is
graduate of Davidson College.
He was warmly welcomed by a union
meetine of all. the CONGREGATIONS of
the town by, cordial actresses of well
come delivered by Rev. Mr.. Cornell of
the Methodist Church and Rev. Mr.. Ed
wards of the Baptist Church
Miss Kate Willis, who has been Wis
iting the family of Lieut.. w. D. Willis,
at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, is Wis
iting friends in town.
Pros. c. L. Hare. who for many years
has been a member of the chemjcaI
staff at Auburn. has been rendered fine
position of chief chemist for the Cuba
Experiment Station
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

ASLEEP in Jesus!' How comfortine
should this assurance be to the grief
stricken parents of dear little william
Edward Douglass. So I thought, as ]
listened to the sweet voices Of the
singers. and saw the dear little form
borne away from the happy earthly
home that he had filled with sunshine
and gladness for eighteen brief months.
He was bright and lovely child. with
sweet and sunny disposition. His
soft blue eyes seemed to reflect the
beautiful heavens to which his Joyous
spirit has taken flight. He was the
idol of his parents whose hearts and
home are now desolate. They will
miss his loving caresses, the patter of
his little feet and his peals of joyous
laughter. But they must not mourn as
those without hope for.
safely. safely gathered IN,
Far from sorrow, far from sin;
God has saved from weary strife.
In his dawn, this fresh young life:
Now 1t waits for them above.
Resting in the Savior's love!
adv.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

Boston Herald.
The custom now growing prevalent
by which boys and girls of the higher
classes In public and private schools
are given the opportunity of visiting
Washington and observing life and pub
lie Institutions there marks a decided
advance in educational ways and means.
1t also speaks of the advance in PROS
perity when pupils of families In Diff
ferent grades in many distant sections
of the country are able to bear tha
seeing. vacation from the routine
of school duties. filed as this Is with
so much 10 interest and delight the
youth in our preparatory schools. should
bring fresh and enlarged ideas to their
minds and lay broader foundations fol
good citizenship In the future.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

Who have been the three greatest
Americans? The New York Times re-
Gently addressed this question to a
number of professors of history in the
leading colleges and universities of the
United States. The replies received re-
veal an almost unanimous Judgment
that Washington should be placed first
In the list In fact, only one of those
expressing an opinion failed to nance
him. Lincoln fell three votes ,hort of
Washington. while for third place in
the triumvirate. Jefferson receives one
more vote than Franklin or Lee. Thir-
teen letters are given. and the choice
as indicated by them is as follows:
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
REVISING PREMIUM LIST.


Committee Of Fair Association Mt Work
On Annual Task.
Acting subsequently T. resolution
by the Board of Directors of lie Ala
bama Agricultural Association. w. F.
Vandiver. president of the Association.
Yesterday appointed a comittee to re-
wise the premium list of the State
Fair. H. c. Davidron. General Barry
l.. Holt and Captain W. Westcott
are the appointed members and Presi-
dent Vandiver the ex-ofilcio member
of the committee
The committee Immediately met and
began its work The value of the pre-
miums will be diminished on account
of lack of appropriation by the State.
The committee will report to the d.
rectors of the Association as soon as
possible.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
THREE GREATEST AMERICANS
In OPINION OF EDUCATORS
Professors of History Decide in Favor Of Wash
ington, Lincoln and Jefferson Professor
McCorvey Favors R. E. Lee.

bone himself when the Inevitable came.
No other character in American history
will command stronger admiration In
the ages to come, not so much for what
he achieved as for what he was-for
the world has ever done homage to
true greatness, whether crowned with
victory or palled by defeat. Lees fig.
ure will loom grander and grander on
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

very critical condition at the home OF
her daugher. Mrs. l.. d. Rouse. Mrs.
smith has been very seriously sick for
eight weeks.
Governor Conner has accepted an In
address at the commencement exercises
address at the commencementexercis
of the Fifth District School
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

Wetumpka, April 6.-(Special.) Mr..
and Mrs Charles Lansdell of Paris,
Tenn, are visiting Wetumpka
Mr.. Lansdell was at one time one of
Wetumpkas most substantial business
men. He made this place his home for
many years and still has property in
terests here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes and children
of Fountain Heights, Birmingham,
came down this morning to spend sew
eral days with DR.. and Mrs. w. NJ.
Gamble.
Mrs Hughes of Birmingham has
been the guest for the past week of
Professor and Mrs. L. L. Vann.
MRS. F. l. Tate has been Ill for few
days.
Mrs. Margaret Smith is still In q
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

the background OF our country's past
the further we get away from the fra
tricidai strife In which he bore the
greatest but the losing part
IT. C. McCorvey.
University of Alabama
The other answers were from Prof.
Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, Prof
j, II. T. Mcpherson of the University
of Geot gia. Prof +. H. Holder of the
University OF Kansas Prof. Leon G.
Prince of Dickinson College, Prof Nor
man NJ Trenholme of the University of
Missouri. Prof. Kemp T. Battle of the
University of New Orleans, Prof Ed
mund s. Menay of the University OF
washington. Prof. Edward NJ. Hume of
the University Of Idaho. Prof. Henry
Temple OF Washington and Jefferson
College, Prof. Arson D. Morse OF Am
herst College, Prof. Lyon G. Tyler of
william and Mary College, and Prof.
w. G. Sumner OF Yale.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
CRUSHEDUNDERROO
YOUNG FRENCHMAN MEETS HORRI-
BILE DEATH.
Was WORKING In New Veading In Mime
Near Wylam when Huge BOulder
Fell Causing Fatal
Injuries.

Julie Bessere, a Young Freuchman
working in heading in Mine No. I.
near Wylam. in the Birmingham dis
trict. met death last night by having
big rock fall on him.
Bessere was In a new heading in the
mine when without warning the rock
fell on him breaking one of his legs
an injuring him internally. He lived
until o'clock this morning. The de-
ceased was twenty years of age ind
resided in this district all his life. He
is survived by parents, q brother end
sisters, His remains will be Inferred
tomorrow at Pratt City.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

The funeral services of William Ed
ward Douglass, the eighteen months old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hartwell Dough-
ing at 10 o'clock from the family resi-
dence on South Perry street. Rev.
Stewart Mcqueen off1ciating.
The pail bearers were Messrs. Hard
ie and Boyd McGehee, @. A. Thomas
and c. w. Williams.
Interment was at lakewood cemetery
In the presence Of many Borrowing
relatives and friends. A wealth Of
floral offerings attested loving sym
pathy
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Call On secretarx Taft.

Havana, April 6.-The COMMITTEES Of
the last revolutionary army with
which Secretary Taft made the peace
terms last year, met here this evening
and decided that the secretary fulfill
the promises he made at the time in
GLIDING a promise, according to the
committee, to hold elections in June.
Taft is expected here from
Colon tomorrow.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
InfleIder Sent Home.

Infielder Roetttnger. who was brought
down from Cincinnati by Manager
Vaughan of the local baseball team for
try-out, returned to Cincinnati to-
light Roettinger is too young to hold
place on the team. and 1t is believed
good player.
The score cards this season will con.
tain a schedule of the Southern League
made this morning by Manager
Vaughan.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Raise Operators wages.

ern Railway in this section have been
notified of an increase in wages grant
ed by the railroad, practically unso-
licited. The increase in wages is
in accordance with the amount of work
required of the men, and will range
between $3.50 and SO per month for
each man. The increase in wages will
cost the Southern several thousand dol
lars per month In this State alone.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
DEATH FROM PARALYSIS.

william III. Booker Succumbs to Second
Stroke.
The death of William Fl. Booker oco
CURED yesterday afternoon about z
O'clock at his residence. 200 Francis
Street Death was caused by second
stroke of paralysis.
Mr. Booker, who was about 80 years
old had a general store and was at
teniifng to the demands of his trade
when the stroke came upon him.
His brothers have been telegraphed
their arrival what disposition will be
made with the remains.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

In the Circuit Court this morning i
in the case of Malcolm s. Edmundson
VS.. the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company. Edmundson was
the result of an accident In North Bir-
mingham. He averred that he was
on a pole and that 1t started to fall
In getting down both arms were
broken.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Killed With Axe.

The police department today was no.
titled to look out for a negro named
Harry Evans and wanted for a muir
derous assault and probably murder of
ployed as cook with a construction
gang on the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad in the Vicinity OF
Adamsville, In the western part of the
county. The report announced that
while Ripley was sleeping the negro
struck him with an axe over the head
inflicting a wound that win most
likely prove fatal
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
PEACE CONGRESS DELEGATES.
Secretary Alex Troy of state Bar A.
ISOLATION Names Representatives..

ISOLATION Names Representatives.
In response to a request by the Leg,
islative Committee of the National
Arbitration Peace Congress Hon. Alex
Troy. Secretary of the Alabama Bar
Association. has named six delegates
from the association to the Congress
in New York, April IA, Is, 16 and II.
At the request of the committee Mr..
Troy will be one of the delegates.
The others from the Bar Association
are Hon. Hannis Taylor. Washington
D. C.; Hon. S. H. Dent, Jr., Mont
gomery; Hon Fl. 8. d. Mallory, Sell
ma; Hon. Alex T. London, Birming-
ham, and Hon. Lawrence Cooper.
At this Congress Hon. David j.
Brewer, Hon George Gray, President
Roosevelt, President Eliot of Harvard.
and other prominent speakers will de-
liver addresses.
It is probable some If not all of the
delegates from the State Bar Associa-
ion will attend the Congress
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
TWO MEN LOST.

Were Pulling Nets from Fishing Boats
At Toledo.
Toledo. April ga report reached
the police here today that two men
had been drowned in the bay through
the capsizing of a fishing boat.
A skiff In which two men were busy
pulling nets overturned and disappear
ed. No trace of the men or the boat
could be found. The storm on the bay
has been terrific all morning.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
-oRCED INTO BANKRUPTCY.
,Hamn Company Has Two r.
cefvers Amounted.

,.r% Reaves- Hamn Company. an es-
tahlishnaent doing business at 1913 Dex-
ter avenue has been forced into in
voluntary bankruptcy.
A petition against the company was
aled in the United States court by Abe
We'll. Greil Brothers and c. F. Moritz
and Company. Sam P. Well, a brother
of Abe We'll one Of the petitioners.
was named by the court as receiver;
After a further hearing before Judge
tones Yesterday, on a petition by Vir-
dem and Company, e. T. Naftel was
Amounted co-receiVer.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

The pay roll of the steel plant and
and the amount of money to be paid
out by the Tennessee Company to Its
employees for labor during the last half
of March will amount to $270,S57.05.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
NEW APARTMENT HOUSE.
Captain w. b. Jones Lets Contract for
Structure.

Capt. w. B. Jones yesterday awarded
a contract for the construction of
three story apartment house on South
Court Street. The monetary considera-
tion of the contract was not published.
The contract was let to James Hodg-
srchitect The house is to be three
Stories with an exterior of the con-
struction known as the pebble dash"
Each floor will contain an apartment
70 he com nleted by September l. 1907.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

MONDAY SPECIAL.
70 pounds standard Granulated su-
gar for s1.O0, Monday only.
BROCK GROCERY CO,
I5N Perry. 7O6 Highland Ave.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Engineer's Leg Broken.

the Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
was brought to the city and carried
to an infirmary suffering with broken
a coal chute at Alfalfa tore of the
cab of the engine in which Mr.. Haefer
was at work.. That the engineer was
not killed is a miracle.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Trouble Coming After school.

Boston Transcript.
Johnny Jones--My sister has been
took with the measles. teacher.
Teacher-Then you'd better go home
at once, Johnny, and stay there TIL
she gets well.
Freddy Brown-Please, teacher
Johnny's sister Is stopping with his
aunt in Chicago
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
ENTERTAINED GLEE CLUB.
University OF Alabama Singers Hos

University of Alabama Singers Hosts
of Vandrbilt WarbIera.
Tuscaloosa. April g. Especial THE
University of Alabama Glee Club en-
tertained informally at the McLester
Hotel yesterday afternoon IN honor of
the Vanderbilt Glee Club.
The two Glee Clubs are the Wander
bilt baseball team together with the
pevy OF bellies of Tuscaloosa, made the
assembly one of much brilliancy.
Among the honored guests were Mrs.
Rhett Goode and her charming daught-
err, Miss Mabel Goode of Mobile
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
SERMON TO VETERANS.
Dr. RaiIey to Preach to His Old Con-
federafe COmrades Today.

Camp Hoitzclaw of the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans, has accepted
the Invitation of Camp Lomax of the
limited Confederate Veterans, to attend
the services at the First Presbyterian
Church this morning. They will as
semble at 1890 o'clock at the oftce OF
Judge ]. B. Fuller and march with
the veterans to the church.
The sermon to the veterans will be
delivered by Rev. f. G. Railey, pastor
of the church, who is member of the
United Confederate Veterans.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

MONDAY SPECIAL.
20 pounds Standard GranuIated su-
gnr for S1.OO, Monday only.
BROCK GROCERY CO.,
is N. Perry. 706 Highland Ave.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

Williamson In Ill.
John H. Williamson, editor of The
Bessemer Workman, is critically Ill al
his home on Fifth Avenue, and his life
is despaired Of
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

They Are in Dead Earnest.
Abbeville News.
The bill pushers did not mean II for
an April fool not by any means.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

Student OF Economics.
New York Sun.
Agent-Why don't you own your
home instead of paying rent?
Hardup-Because it's cheaper now to
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

IRISH FAIR.
Y. M. @. A. Building, April 0, 10,
II. If.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
At the Ballot Box

A MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, man was re-
n sponsible for an amusing mistake at the polls,
which was not exactly ballot box stuffing, although
it savored of it, and it was due to absent minded
Having carefully made out the ticket he wished
to vote, he deposited in the box, not the ticket,
he imagined, but check which he had in his pocket,
A Forgetful Mail Clerk
A WESTERN mail agent, through fit of abstrac~
n ton, which seized him at critical moment
caused the Illinois town of Leaf River to miss one
mail The train which the agent detailed
through Leaf River without stopping and it
was the agents duty to pitch the sack containing
the mail on the railroad platform Instead of throw
ing it out, however, one day he dumped out the
platform absent mindedly, as the train whzzed by,
the satchel containing drunrner's sample cigars.
The Child and the Book
THIS brings to mind the incident in the life Of
i the extraordinarily forgetful Comte de Brancas,
which inspired La Bruyeres absent Man." The
Count seated by his Preside, buried in book.
when the nurse entered with his infant daughter.
The father laid down the book took the child in his
arms, and was fondling her when visitor of note
ushered in Associating the child with the book,
he promptly tossed the infant the table.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

when a servant hurried into the room and said
hastily, Go back to bed again! Soldiers coming
in to search the house''
jumped back into bed, first shutting my glass
door. The next moment soldiers passed by along
the corridor that around the patio. They went
the whole house, looking for hidden prisoners.
Every house on the street similarly searched
That day, no two men were allowed to remain to-
all couples groups fast they formed lest they
be Matching conspiracies against the Government.
The president of the electric light company was
a chain round his neck, and one of his political
enemies, walking behind, calling him "Robber,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
Newton and His Meals

THIS suggests the anecdote of Newton, who was
L so much the victim of forgetfulness and mental
blindness in ordinary matters that his friends
thought little of it. On visiting Sir Isaac morn
into the parlor by maid and informed that her
master was engaged up stairs, but would be down
presently.
ton did not appear. The doctor became restless,
and was on the point of departing, but decided to
remain. After a long stay the maid appeared in
a table in anticipation of Sir Isaac's appearance to
eat his midday meal Stukely grew more and more
hungry, the smell from the fowl was highly
tempting Finally, his friend had not come, he
could withstand temptation no longer and, turn
ing to the fowl, he finished it. 1t was sometime
after that that the scientist appeared and gazed
at the remains of the meal with perplexed
preston.
Il protest l had forgotten that had eaten my
dinner" he remarked. You see, doctor, how OBJ
ivous we philosophers are"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

the two went to the inn. Almost Immediately
messenger came in, asking if H. and B. would be
kind enough to go to the General. They went, and
upon their arrival, Ma or " was brought in guarded
The General then beat and sashed the Major with
the machete, until the Englishnan interfered or the
man would have been killed The General offered
profuse apolog for his officers conduct and sent an
army surgeon to care for H. S wounds.
This experience somewhat unusual one;
soldiers of the Government On one occasion when
we fell in with guerrillas, we had to
plain of their treatment of us We were party of
English and American men and women riding on
horseback about days journey from Bogota.
Suddenly band of perhaps sixty guerrillas bore
down upon AS as they found that we
were travelling foreigners they went back to their
encampment. They might easily have taken
horses, watches, and pocketbooks; but
though only part of them had mounts, and though
all of them nearly in rags, and though they
they neither asked for nor took anything whatever.
Difficult to Get Mail
THE thing that touched me personally the most
J. closely during the revolution was the exceeding
irreguarty of the mails. There was period of four
months during which the insurgents held the Mag
dalena River towns, and mail whatever was
brought into Bogota. During the last part of the
war all the letters that to Bogota addressed
officials, and great deal of mail addressed to foreign
residents was treated in the same way
One night forty-one political prisoners (rnany of
them of the best families of Bogota escaped through
the sewer under the city, coming out back in the
mountains, where they were met and escorted to
safety by small force of Liberals
The next morning had just stepped out of bed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

had taken place the night before just out of Bogota
The Government had had quantity of arms and
ammunition in hut in front of which little
stream, the bridge which guarded by only
one sentinel The rest of the Government soldiers,
being worn out, were sleeping heavily. force of
Liberals sent to capture the arms, softly up
the bridge but softly that the sentinel did not
hear them. He fired at the first Liberal and killed
him. but before he had time to fire again, or to give
the alarm, the second Liberal cut off the sentinels
head with his machete. Wonderful to relate, the
shot had not awakened any of the Government men,
The Liberals crossed the bridge, went to the hut,
took all the arms, and went off safely. The next
day, as say, all Bogota talking of the affair In
the afternoon, strong Liberal sympathizer said to
gleefully, Soon the Government will not have
any arms left! The Liberals are Selling them in all
parts of the country"
That evening dned at the home of prominent
Conservative. After bit he turned to me- and re-
marked in tone of great satisfaction, You see
senorita how it is. The Liberals are in bad way
They have arms at ALL except those that they
steal from the Government
Everyone specializing; buying gold to hold
it for higher exchange, putting away quanti
ties of the paper money in the hope that some
day it would go to something more nearly like its
face value. The exchange fell, sometimes
five hundred points in few hours. Foreigners who
had money to put into coffee to risk in gold
making large sums but for Colombians such trans
actions were unsafe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
Almost Lost His Supper

N1ICTORIEN SARDOU'S fits of abstraction are
v so intense that when he is at work the noted
French dramatist is said to be obvous to all else
La Tosca" was of the plays which appealed
to him particularly. He labored over it early and
lily his health would have suffered, so profound was
his mental preoccupation.
When he did not respond to the summons for
insist on his coming to the dining room where the
already seated. Presently the two ap-
peared, the mind of the dramatist apparently being
still the play. However, he was seated at the
table. Without uttering word, and still rapt in
thought he finished his soup and fish; then, push
ing back his chair he rose and started from the
room, mutterng and gestculating
You do not wish to finish dinner?" he was asked
Seeming to come to himself, he replied why
yes, if the meal is prepared. shall be most willing
to appease my appetite. l almost famished.",
He was in complete ignorance that he had already
partly finished his meal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
MIN D E D N E S S

twiddng his thumbs. Then he would as suddenly
rise, place his chair back in its proper position,
and resume eating as if he had not interrupted
himself