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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05

In a few weeks the sidewalk paving will be completed in our North High land plat, making our lots the most desirable suburban property close to the city. The street is already paved with gravel We will sell a few of less than will bny them thirty days from now. %
 If you want an ideal suburban home. on large lot. gravel drive and car lipe lot us show you bargain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05
Choice Residence Lots

If you contemplate building. either for home or investment. we have some especially attractive propositions to offer In weii-iocated residenc lots. at exceptionally low prices.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05
Davidson Holt & Strauss
Real Estate & Insurance

2 FhoneS 1Z ana bos FOR SALE
 On Sou of the desirable places the city. Lot very large and offered at bargain. FOR EXCHANGE. We have party who wood like to exchange stock of Cloth ing for Real Either city property plantation Now s youf opportunity
 FOR SALE
 within blocks of the Fountain Square, .t Ss-;..hf. rs.to osts evec ,oor,s afI rder i'm, povcents. oue in rstclass condition and desirable resi- dnee from every point of view. We viii sell this property ooo cs balance terms tine opportunity to obtain nee home on easy payments.
 FOR SALE
 On South an street. lot 75xf5o feet. Ten foo bath focms all modem Improvements Barn. servants hose Price moderate Terms arranged to suit. The Sayre Apartments Court street, ready for lights bath room, anitor Rooms sn saiss for families or couples The most convenient flats in the city, For information asto price, etc. call on as' roprsAYp
 On Soh Court Street. store at price and terms that should appeal to an investor
 FOR SALE the few we located lots left that Avenue and will do well make early purchase of of thc You desoCs of bufdng nice homc They will not be on the Cottage Amanda street. five rooms baths electric lights good condition. Lot 50xf50 feet
 FOR SALE.
 On the corner of Jackson street and Highland the city, and has always been money maker Cali usf for ful particulars.
 bath a modern eonvsnences f5Oxt60 On accont party leaving city bargain can De had here. X cottage Soch MeDonoogh street. six and bath large lot Price low, terms easy. FOR SALE.
 On Madison house and lot at bargain. 4-s- FOR SALE. On lower Wetompka road City Brewery, abch three afes land, well suied for tics ot of city and have told us to sell so bargain b open to you
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05
FAREWELL TO aAMEN CORNER"
EIfth Avenue Hotel to Give Way t'
 Modern Structure.

New York. April '4.--'At midnight to, night the Fifth Avenue Hotel one of inc famous hostelries of the city. end- ed its existence of half century, but not until the old-timers had once more sat upon the plush-covered seat in the Amen Corner and once more breath- ed an acquiescent Amen" to the words of ~fhe .'Fcasy Boss whose political plans there promulgated, gave the spot world renown.
 Tn the old days Tom Piatt was se- cretive. Tonight he confessed that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05

We have for sale a new dwelling, just completed. finished in the most modern Siesigns throughout Every thing up to date. We can sell this place Is n quick purchaser very cheap.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05

For eS,OOO we have some of the best propositions in the city. If Interested
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05
Make Your Dollars Work

make them draw interest, and the highest interest obtainabie on safe investment. Tn order to do this. turn of rare opportunities for the present. and vast possibilities for the future.
 FOR SALE--For $2.e00 cash, and the of per cent mortgage for s3,000. payable in easy monthly installments. you can buy choice two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

the cluster of pins. his annoyance began to show
out through his clothes. He wouldn't let it show
in his face; but after another fifteen balls he was
not able to control his face,-he didn't utter a
word; but he exuded mute blasphemy from every
pore. He asked permission to take off his coat,
which was granted then he turned himself loose,
with bitter determination, and although he
only an infantry officer he could have been mis-
taken for battery, he got up such volleyng
thunder with those balls Presently he removed
his cravat after little he took off his vest and
still he went bravely
Higgins was suffocating. My condition the
same; but it would not be courteous to laugh it
That officer was good pluck. He stood to his work
without uttering word and kept the balls going
until he had expended the outfit four times, making
four times forty-one shots. Then he had to give
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST 80. 1908

up, and he did; for he longer able to stand
without wabbling. He put on his clothes, babe us
courteous good by, invited to call at the fort,
and started away. Then he came back. and said:
What is the prize for the ten-strke?"
We had to confess that had not selected
it yet.
He said gravely that he thought there
occasion for hurry about it.
7 BELIEVE Batemans alley better one than
any other in America, in the matter of the essen
tials of the game. 1t compelled skill it provided
opportunity for bets; and if you could get stranger
to do the bowling for you there more and whole
somer and delghtfuer entertainment to be gotten
out of his industries than of the finest game by
the best expert. and played upon the best alley
elsewhere in existence.
be continued Sunday after next
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Caught the Cigar

A SECOND instance came
"a under my own observa-
ticn some twenty-five years
after the Civil War. A railway
train had stopped at village
in Northern Alabama where
was the usual crowd of idle,
happy darkies standing round
hoping to pick up a stray
nickel or dime. One was laugh
ing boisterously in very JOY
of living, when passenger on
the train carelessly tossed out
of the car window a half
smoked cigar. By an odd chance
the end of the cigar that had
been in the smokers mouth
landed pat between the darky's
teeth just as he closed them
together.
Did he spit it out with in
dignant disgust? Not a bit
Continued on page Is
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q
i inside of the negros head ~ ~ S0
we'll as the outside. His humor
itself is sort of kinl or curl in the ordinary
straight strand of normal thought.
Of African humor illustrated in the negroes
of the South, may say that it has many of the
Bile to English speaking peoples. There. is GER
tain nimble agility in lodging point or in making
one like unto the frocs of gleeful kittens In
negro humor, however, there is wholly lacking the
familiar bull that has been the sire of many
Irish jokes. Close observers have pointed out an
other notable limitation: the typical negro rarely
if makes pun.
1t is the typical negro of whom this article treats
We are considering the characteristics of native,
thereof as yet remain, without reference; to modi-
fcations due to fuller assimilation of Caucasian
habits of thought.
Such a negro we'll understands how to appeal to
the sense of humor in order to escape censure or
punishment. Thus, occasion, the wife of
prominent attorney in Georgia taxed Nose her
butler with having carelessly broken a valuable
glass pitcher in which iced tea was customary
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Was Dey Black Folks ?"

primitive simplicity to be found in the negro mind
On the library wall of a Southern home there
hung two black shouettes of revolutionary ances-
tors of the family. One day, Cora the maid, in
busting the pictures, turned to her mistress and
asked:
Miss Mary who is dem folks in dat picture?"
They my great-grandfather and great.
grandmother, Cora. He was one of the signers of
the Declaration of independence and a great man
in his day." proudly replied the woman
"Lawd, Miss Mary! responded Cora with wide
open eyes and in an awestruck whisper, twas dey
black folks?"
Cora had near neighbor, Susan, who was the
author of original opinion of Rosa Bonheur.
Susan's mistress had among her photographs one
of the famous animal painter, taken in her usual
working costume of boomers and blouse.
Miss Jennie" asked Susan, who is dat quare
1oOkin MANI?
That is not man, Susan replied the mis-
tress; it is Rosa Bonheur the great painter
Well replied Susan after a prolonged inspec-
ton, she sho do favor her pa
Got His Sweets
THE happy humility of the oldtime darby and
his joy over the good things that came into
his lowly life constitutional traits not to be
possessed thoroughly understood by the
masterful Anglo Saxon
A Renaissance of the childhood days of law
yer of national fame to illustrate some of
the comic features of that unquestionng and even
grateful enjoyment of the sweets of life, they
by whatsoever route they would. Says Mr. E:
when l very young, my father gave me as
my special property a little negro boy about my
own age. The boy Gerry, his was) and 1
eagerly scraping the sugar from the bottom of
coffee cup which had just come from the table.
Sugar, or short sweet ming, as it called,
rarity in the plantation kitchen, where molasses
long sweet ming the rule. shall never for
get Jerry's eager enjoyment of that sugar and it
Immediately suggested to me scheme which l at
put into effect l began filling my cup half
full of sugar at each meal and then, after drinking
my coffee or tea, l would to it that Jerry got
the remaining sugar, and he would dispose of it
tho r1,r,fY
operation went for weeks, and Jerry was getting
his fill of sugar, when suddenly the scheme dis
covered and stopped in time, they thought, to
prevent the complete decentralization of Jerry and
his stomach"
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Jim's Valuable Graveyard

TO Ore XIII! Wn1le the M1SSuS sat DOWN ana
Jim's Valuable Graveyard =.
A instance of sophisticated absurdity cropped
in the of Jim. the elderly valet of several
young white gem en- whose bachelor apartments
he supposed to keep in more or less-generally
1ess-orderly condition i'm always taking up
a collection among his young white friends for the
purpose of burying some member of his family.
First he buried his grandparents; then his par
ents; then several uncles and auntS until at
length he had laid away enough relatives to fill
quite fair sized private burying ground.
This mortality among Jim's kin became
matter of serious concern to the young that
helped to defray the funeral expenses. They were
Jim levied his sad assessments
At last Jim's wife, the washwOman of one of the
young fellows, let the cat out of the bag. She and
Jim had fallen out; and in her anger she told all
about his burial funds Inns deceased relatives
proved to be empty whisky bottles, which he had
named for amented dear ones, and scrupuously
buried in his back yard he had drained
their life blood
Jim, be it known, pillar in his church, and
could not bear to tell lie. Thus ingeniously with
the help of lively fancy, while committing patri-
c1de matr1c1de, and various other c1des, he deemed
himself safe from the awful fate of Ananias.
Needless to say that after Mrs. Jims revelations
Jims moruary collections failed to collect though
to this day Jims graveyard" is mellow memory
among those young white gem'en we'll
advanced in years. Alas for Jim! Long ago his
sOdden self joined unto his sodded kin.
What the Dog Wanted
THE negro's hurnor born of happiness or
at least of cOntentment with his lot in life. It
IS simple, homely, spontaneous, and above all full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
OLD TIME DARBY HUMOR
By Webster Davis

go Do,: of good humOr. In the days Of
~ &c v 70 slavery he had no care for the NOR
row, because he looked to his
ter for all that he ate and wore; and now days of
freedom, rule the future troubles him but little.
He is possessed of that delightfully."- irresponsible
spirit with which children look the world, which
makes the intangible and unruled realm of Bohemia
wonderfully charming
Of this simplicity, which approaches the uncon-
scous funmaking of childhood, the following story
is illustrative:
Before the open fireplace in the sitting room of
we'll known Virginia woman there lay rug on
which was woven the figure of a large dog. 1t
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served. BY way OF reply, Nose
shuffled round and round the dim
ing table, mumbling to himself,
until finally turning to his mis-
tress with an air of grieved
indulgence he said:
Lawd. Miss Annie l didn't
bre'k dat pitcher. Use done been
tellin' you befo' dis you oughtn't
put dat strong tea in dat fine
pitcher Now, you see, dat tea
was so strong it jest hatchery
drawed dat pitcher up an cracked
it." And Nose went out of the
room shutting and mumbling,
Use done told ev'ybody bout
putin dat strong tea in dat
pitcher. / knowed it was gwine
-
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Oh OunudyS!
Which was a pretty good
advertisement for the liberal
giver.
A Hot Day
A S bit of homely drollery,
"A it would be hard to find
a better example than the
following story related by a
prominent Connecticut peach
grower who also has large or
chards in Georgia.
Well joe" said he to his
driver, this is a very hot day"
Yessir, boss" replied Joe.
EFF | owed a man a hot day,
an he wouldn't tex dis 'un,
l dun no whar I'd ever git one
to pay him Wild
In the Home Portrait Gallery
THE two following stories
L are sufficient aptly to illus
trate the homely frankness and
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w dS IllC oWllCl >
custom to place
the rug so that
the feet of. the
dog would be to-
ward the door of
the room, in Or
der that visitors
might get at first
view the noble
proportions of
the animal. She
noticed, however,
that when her
man of all work
shook out the rug
he invariably re-
versed its posi-
ton, SO that the
dogs back was
to the door.
Z" SAM" said
she, " don't you
know that l al
ways put that
dogs feet to the
door? Why do
you always turn
him round?"
"Yessum.mis
re,,Iia5 Con-, tT
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His Value Went Up

TN the same category was pious old negro's
thusiastic Endorsement of New York who
had established chain of five and ten-cent stores
in Southern cities. This man was attending SER
vice at negro church. and when the collection
taken up he put substantial bill into the basket.
Whereupon, the old darby spoke up in open meeting:
81 Dress dis young man! l knows him, and
knows his business. He may be five and ten
cent eve'y day in de week; but, Dress de
Lawd he's fve-dollar man
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know you does; but dogs always lays wild dey feet
to de fire, an jest hatchery put him like he wants
to put hisself Now cats turn dey backs to de fire
an eff dis rug had cat on it, stead of dog, I'd
turn it round de udder way"
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What the Dog Wanted

THE negros humor born of happiness, or
at least of contentment with his lot in life. 1t
is simple homely, spontaneous, and above all full
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THERE are many kinks on the
i inside of the negro's head as
we'll as on the outside. His humor
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-14
NEWS IS SCARCE.

Two negroes, fishing at Weather
ford, captured an alligator three feet
long; at Mangum, Okla, six per-
sons have been operated upon for
appendicitis due to drinking "gyp"
water; at Clemens, Texas, a man
digging foundation for a horse
shed. finds the bones of an Indian
chieftan and beside it ball of blue
paint and branding iron; near
Lawton they have dug up the bones
of mastodon; and at Guthrie a
veterinary surgeon has just extract
ed a molar tooth from under a
horses right ear.
All of which, kind reader, may be
taken to indicate not that this is a
day and age of wonders, but mere
ly that news is scarce in the provin
ces and the genial correspondents
are trying their best to amuse, en-
tighten and entertain-Fort Worth
Telegram.
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Sun BATHING AS A TEST.
French Physician Gauges Thereby
Mans Moral and Physical
Worth

Dr. Sardou of Paris declares that
mans moral and physical worth
can be gagged according as he evin-
ces a disposition to seek the sun
shine or to flee from it, the rays of
the sun having a specific influence on
the phychical as well as the physical
composition of the individual. And
so the doctor has divided human
kind into two categories: Friends of
the shade and friends of the sun.
Belonging to the first category are
all nervous subjects, the mentally
unsettled, drunkards and dyspeptics,
who are also as a rule, agoraphobes
or haters of public places. Dawn,
says Sardou, is the proper time to
study the heliphile or the heliopho-
be. There exists in the normal beings
possessing good health, and who are
sound of mind and limb, besides be-
ing mentally well poised, a DISPOSE
ton, once the sun rises, to advance
forward it's rays. When they fall
i'll, however, the tendency is to shun
them.
In a test he once made among
large number of young folks he
found that the children of degener-
ates, who were themselves disposed
to the bad rather than the good,
evidenced not only q complete apa
thy, but a distinct aversion to the
influence of solar rays in the early
hours of the morning On the other
hand, the we'll disposed and we'll
conducted grew melancholy and
morose when withdrawn from the
sunshine.
Experiments of tentative nature
were carried out in the prisons of
East Flanders, in Belgium, with
view to deciding what effect rigid
incarceration and open-air toll had
upon persons of different tempera-
ments and records. 1t was found that
the open-air treatment had the eff
| feet of rendering the incorrigibles
! really hopeless in management, but
that, on the contrary, when incarce-
rated they performed their allotted
1 labors conscientiously enough. On
! those who had taken to criminal
careers rather than by the suggestion
! of others than OF their own natural
| tendency, work in the san had an ex-
cellent effect in improving their
| characters.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-14
JOKED HIMSELF IN.
How Private" John Allen Got Him self
Elected to Congress.

Here Is Chanfp Clark S defense If
bumor if ii ueet.s one
The dry-is-t'u*i* solelnniy assev-
crate hal manor Bevef tii any good
Now. lets see How did Private John
Allen Of Missi ssippi set TO congress?
.Iokel himself in One bit Of humor
sent him 10 Washington. II national
lawmaker Opposing him for he con
gressional nomination was the Confed-
crate General Tucker They met on
the stump General Tucker closed one
Of his speeches as follows:
Seventeen years ago tonight. my
fellow citizens. after hard fought
battle on yonder hill. | bivouacked I'M
der yonder clump of trees. Those Of
you who remember as | do the times
that tried mems souls will not. hope,
forget their humble servant when the
primaries shall be held
THAT was Il strong appeal In those
days. but John raised the general at
his own game My fellow citizens
he said, what General Tucker says to
you about bivouacking under yonder
clump of trees is true. 1t Is also true.
my fellow citizens. that | was vedette
picket and stood guard over him while
he slept. Now, then, fellow citizens
all you who were generals and ha'
privates to stand over you while yon
slept vote for General Tucker and all
of you who We're pri-ates and stood
guard over the generals while they
slept vote for Private John Allen.
The people caught on, took John at
his word and sent him to congress,
where he stayed until the world was
filled with his renown.'
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ter 1S56), to the Academy of
Sciences, Paris, to say that after
fourteen years study of blood and
fever secretions, he was confident
that yellow fever was caused by the
stings of several species of mosquit
oes. In his communication to the
Paris Academy of Sciences, he said
that as early as 1880 his investiga-
tons of unhealthy South American
locations had convinced him that the
so-called marsh fevers were due to
vegeto-animal virus, inoculated
into man by mosquitoes This was
an instance where hint was not ac
cepted and where the medical world
let slip a great opportunity. Nearly
two generations passed before the
clew was found again, and now the
whole life prospect for jewellers in
tropical and subtropical regions is
altered by the use that preventive
medicine is making of the facts"
No doubt it is characteristic of
every genration to esteem itself fur
Their advanced in knowledge, and,
therefore, more progressive, than the
preceding one, but the, deeayed
wrecks of once mighty empires prove
directly to the contrary. For the
wisdom of their wise men shall per
ish. and the understanding of their
prudent men shall be hid
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-14
MISLEADING NAMES.
Terms In Science That Belle the Prod
ucts to Which They Apply.

There are erns in certain depart
ments Of st,~oce that positively mis-
name the products to which they are
applied.
The word 'oil'' in lis more compre-
hensive and indiscrimirate uses is
made to include hydrocarbons. Ike pc
troleum. and also many other sub
stances that have an oily appearance.
like "oil Of vitriol," which is not oil at
all. but sulphuric acid.
Strictly speaking, the mineral oils.
including all petroleum products, are
not oil. although we speak of coal
OIL and kerosene OIL
The best classfications of oils do not
include mineral hydrocarbons, like
naphtha paraffin and petroleum, but
treat only the two well defined groups
or volatile oils.
"Copperas" Is not copper. but sui
phate OF iron. salt OF lemon" has
nothing to do with the fruit Of the
lemon tree but is potassium binoyalate
or potash treated with oxalic acid.
'Carbolic acid" Is not an acid, but a
phenol In structure 1t is allied to the
alcohols and has only slight acid prop
critics. soda water" has no, trace Of
soda. "Sulphuric acid contains 10
sulphur Sugar of lead" is innocent
Of sugar
Cream of tartar" has nothing to do
with cream nor milk of lime" with
milk German silver" is stranger
to silver and black lead is not lead
Mt all, but graphite Mosaic gold' is
n sulphide of tin.
These misleading names have come
down from the vocabulary of an early
and inexact chemistry. AS popular
science extends Ihe old terms are
yielding To the more scientific nomen-
clatUre
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-14
AN ANCIENT MOSQUITO THEORY

The negative of the question us
there anything new under the SUM-"
has been finding support as far back
as the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary. In fact, it has come
to be familiar saying among the
people, as more and more light is
being reflected into the past, that all
of our modern inventions are but
discoveries of former ages used at
the time and forgotten by suisse
quent generations, says the Houston
Post
Among other discoveries for
which the present age has been
claiming credit is the location of the
source of yellow fever infection, as
a result of which the disease, once
o fearful in it's ravages, has been
brought under control, but 1t seems
that even this discovery must yield
to the past
Discussing this feature of the sub
iect, the Boston Herald says: Cred
1t for the discovery that the mos
quito is a disease purveyor is GUS
tomarily given to men of this day;
but, behold, now 1t Is shown that as
ong ago as 1853, Louis Daniel
Beauberthuy. health officer at Ca
mana. Venezuela, wrote to the Gace-
ia official of that town. and also la