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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
GAME OF PRECEDENCE.
Social Etiquette Becoming Serious Ma
 ter in Washington.

Social Etiquette Becoming Serious Mat
 ter in Washington. Boston Traveller.
 Precedence with its thousand gradua- tions is more discussed in Washington than in Vienna or Madrid, and in the capital of democracy where such things are ostensibly decried, snobbishness and struggle for social place are marked by the abandonment of all ideas of demo- cracy and even decency.
 Senators and Representatives laugh at our Vanity Fair" but the question of social precedence seems a serious one to their wives. many of whom are obsessed with the idea that as each one climbs the social ladder 1t is her im- perative duty to put obstacles in the social path of the ones just below. The game is cruel and heartless It has nothing in it of morals or the brother hood of man
 The new and strange standards or royal etiquette which have been estab- lished at Washington means strange and unmilitary duties for army and navy officers. which are not only fool ish. but abhorrent to old-fashioned democratic ideas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
cULBERsoN LOOMING UP.
Texas Senator Talked of for Dem
 cratic Nomination If Bryan Falls.

Texas Senator Talked of for Demo-
 cratic Nomination if Bryan Fails.
 E B.. Clark in The Chicago Post.
 Washington Democrats, Bryan and anti Bryan, are beginning to consider seriously the outcome at Denver in case the Nebraskan finds he cannot It Is believed by many members of the party that if MT. Bryan is not to be the nominee he will throw his strength to Senator Charles A. Gull The Bryan men resent the Johnson tactics. They believe. denial to the contrary notwith standing, that the Minnesotaa is banking altogether too crats who favor neither Bryan nor his policies. and who In a measure. at least. were responsible for hts two defeats. The personalities that have crept into the pre-convention campaign have made 1t seem unlikely that MT. Bryan would look with equanimity
 Senator Culberson is MT. Brysn's friend. strong man in the ranks of the Democracy, a clean man and a Southerner whose public life has been ability of Culberson's nomination if Mir. Bryan's enemies in the party can con- trol enough of the delegates to pse- vent the nomination of the Nebrasksn account of this talk, for, coming. as 1t does. from Democrats of all factions, it must have more than suspicion of Mir. Bryans intention as it's bass.
 Senator Culberson never was rad ical on the free silver question. and this fact, taken with the fact that he is not an extremist on some of the other Bryan subjects" has made both branches of the Democracy look to him as a candidate who could com mand united support.
 Democrats in Washington do not be- from the south will injure his vote getting power in the least. He was not in the Confederate service because he was too young, but even if he had been, there is feeling, the war being long in the past. that 1t would not tell against any candidate who might have borne arms for the Confederacy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
wATTERsoN's VIEWS.
Thinks Bryan Has a, Good Chance For
 Election.

Election.
 New York Special.
 Colonel Watterson said there was nothing in his conversation with MT. Bryan at breakfast that he cared to make public
 Personally, I have no doubt that MT. Bryan will be nominated at Den yer" said the Colonel, and I think that we have a good chance to elect him. The movement in the interest or Governor Johnson comes too late and from the wrong quarter. If the In- terests that are now urging his nom- ination had backed me up when I advocated his candidacy ten months ago he might have had a chance CT the nomination. But the Democrats or New York, in the present chaotic con dition, cannot dictate to the majority of the Democratic party"
 Colonel Watterson, discussing the Republican situation. said that Taft would be nominated. Concerning President Roosevelt he said:
 "I left Washington a few weeks ago convinced that the President will not arcept the renomination. I believe that if the convention should be stampeded to him he would insist that it be called together again to nominate another man. Of the general situa- tion. I would say that the Republica ms are just as badly off as we are. we are bother trading our eggs and some of the eggs are bad"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
This h My 66th Birthday
vespasIan Warner.

Vespasian Warner, United States Commissioner of Pensions since 1905, was born at Mount Pleasant, Illinois
 April 23. 1S42, and received a meager education at the village academy 'sin Clinton. where his parents had taken residence when he was an infant MT
 Warner started in life as a newsboy
 When the Civil War broke out he was but a youth, but he joined the Union army and served over five years, retiring with the brevet of major
 Then he entered Harvard, and in 1888 was graduated from the law depart ment of that university. Returning 10 Clinton. H.. he entered upon the prac- tice of law and speedily became con spicuous in public affairs. Major war- ner served in the lower House of Con gress from 1895 to the time of his ap- pointment as pension commissioner. always receiving the Republican noni- nation by exclamation. In 1888 he was q presidential elector, and he was judge advocate of the Illinois NationaI Guard during the administration or three governors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
SAVE THE TREES.
All lovers of the beautiful will be interested in the following news item from New Orleans:

All lovers of the beautiful will be interested in the following news item from New Orleans:
 Rear Admiral Frederick Singer. in charge of the local naval station. an uounced tonight that by orders from Washington a magnificent avenue CT magnnlias at the station will be pre- served, instead of being cut down to make 'OCm for Improvements as had been originally planned. When Mrs. weeks go she admired this avenue Of magnolias. and the officers here attr1- bute the order to preserve these trees at least In part to g word spoken for them by Mrs. Roosevelt,
 The city of Montgomery is not. like the naval station referred to. under the control of the Federal Government and does not need an order from the President or anyone else to save our beautiful shade trees from destruction. The matter is under the control of the city auth critics. and truth com pels the assertion that they have neglected their duty in this respect. Some of the oldest and most msgnisl- cent shade trees in the city have been cut down for the alleged reason that they were in the way of contem- plated Improvements.
 This is not right or just or good
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

The Boston Globe has an ingenious cartoon showing Paul Reveres per plexity if he should now step out of night ride to warn the patriots. He would see automobiles. railway trains. Improvements that would ball him up in a hopeless tangle. And a very great time has not passed in which all these changes have taken place since his venturous ride, but that time has brought wonderful changes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

The story is going the rounds that "BiIlys Sunday, once famous as a baseball player. but now an evange- list, has been offered fifty thousand dollars to hold a series of religious meetings in Chicago and that he re- fused the offer. If the story Is true it shows that Billy haA no intention of playing a game where he has no chance to make a score.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
Hobsou and the Presidency.

OaNdnnan NtWS.
 A political tale told in Alabama Is to the effect that Representative Ricn- mond P. Hobson Is being gruomed the Presidency four years hence. MT. Hobson. it is said, has entered into the proposition with characteristic en- thusiasm. There is. however, no req son why MT. Hobson should not aspire to the Presidency. His political rights are unimpaired and unquestioned He has mother-wit and lndomitable en- ergy. He is too young to suffer han dicap by reason of the war of the six lies. great many persons-good Democrats. at that-may differ with him respecting policies, but they do and his ability By all means MT Hobson should run for the Presidency If he wants to do so. No harm can possibly come if. and good may re- suit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
This Date ia History
April 2a.

1sO7-Hudson sailed on his first voyage of discovery.
 1616-WiIliam Shakespeare died. Born April 2s, 1884
 1S13-Stephen A. Douglas born at Brandon, Vt. Died at Chicago, June
 1S21-The Greek Patriarch put to death at Constantinople.
 1S46-Earl of Cathcart appointed Governor of Canada
 1s51-First Canadian postage stamps issued.- = v States for home.
 19oO-Duke of Argyll died Born 1923.
 190T-Treaty of Peace between Sal vador and Nicaragua sailed at Amafa- Ia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
Cotton NIIIIs Curtn,I,Dr-

Fall River, Mass, April 22.-Practi- cally all of the cotton mills in Fall River have decided to adopt drastic policy of curtailing production in an effort to onset adverse market condi- tions and it is estimated that the out put his week would be less than the normal by nearly 125,o pieces.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

Now they tell us that Taft wants to succeed Roosevelt and that Roose- welt wishes to succeed Taft. The washington Herald calls it "a regular Alfonso and Gaston business" but 1t also looks as if they want to form sort of close corporation of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

Well. at all events. Montgomery has escaped some forms of weather that other sections have encountered. There were heavy snow storms in New York and other Eastern States last Monday, and we dodged that visita- tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

year or so during several centuries would in time cause great accumu- lation of bones.
 Missouri has a bone marsh at suI- phur Springs: there is great mine of them at Salt Springs. in Kentuckyt and at several other places in ono and Indiana where there are saline springs. A great spring in Florida. one of the four or five huge outlets Silver Spring. Is called the Bone Yard. because the bottom and sides are masses of rnastodon bones"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

This woman says that after months of suffering Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made her as we'll as ever.
 Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg, Va, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
 "I want other suffering women to know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound has done for me. For months. suffered from feminine ills 50 that thought could not live. wrote you, and after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and using the treatment you prescribed felt like aa new woman. am now strong, and we'll as ever, and thank you for the good you have done me-" FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
 For thirty years Lydia E. Pink. hams Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear. ing down feeling, fiatulency, indiges. tion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it !?
 Mfrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address. Lynn, Mass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
Some One Should Be Punished for rhiu.

Mobile Register.
 The absolutely unjustified nature of the assault made upon the character of Miss Julia Marlowe has been con fessed by the attorney who brought suit for Mrs. Clara L. Hermann against Karl Hermann for divorce naming Miss Marlowe as correspondent. The actress was prostrated by the shock and forcedv to abandon her en- gagement The attorney says that the source of Mrs. Herrmann's infornla- to be some one punished for this T,fo- ceeding that has brought into undue prominence and cast a shadow, upon a lady whose reputation has hitherto been unassailed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

The Hartford Times has little use for the race of jingoes in this country. It says that all of them who are "hol- Iering" for vast fleets of battIe-ships and predicting foreign wars have per sonaI motives of one kind or another to account for the course they are pursuing"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

To read the reports made by some of the Taft enthusiasts one would think that it is practically all over but the shouting. It looks like Taft now, it is true. but sometimes things fail to turn out as expected
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

Secretary Taft has issued orders that mechanics employed at government navy yards shall be paid according to the union scale of wages. Taft has his weather eye open for votes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
SWORN CIRCULATION,

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees it's advertisers (and makes 1t part of the contract when requested) that its daily cir circulation is larger than that of any morn ing newspaper printed in Alabama-ano that It's Sunday edition has the largest cir cuiation of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for March printed below rep resent the actual net circulation. all re- turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

Columbus is really showing signs of improvement. There were only seven trunks before the police court last Monday morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
FINAL SETTLEMENT

State of Alabsma. Montgomery County
 Probate Court, April sth, 1908
 Notice Is hereby given that F. H. Fillmore. executor of the will of A. H Hearne, de- ceased, this day filed his account for final settlement of the administration of the estate of W. c. Blob deceased. by A. H. Hearne. adninistrstix thereof. and that the 3oth day of April 1908 has been appointed a day for said settlement
 Given under my hand. this the sth day ! JH GAsroN. Hhu-St SudaA AA H--A--A-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

Net Daily Average, March 1908 .. .i5.225 Net Sunday Average. March. 1908 .@0.400
 
 E g. Mobile, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says.
 The foregoing statement of The Adverti- eer'B circulation for the month of March, 1908. is true and correct, and compiled af- ter all returns from newsboya, news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have been de- ducted. E. s. NOBLE. sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day Of April. 1908.
 (sEALA1 RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Washington times., 1908-08-27
Seeing Washington With The Times Guide
No IxxxvII-FIRsT PRESBYTERIAN CuIDCu
No. LXXXVII..

n% HIS is John Marshall place.
ladies and gentlemen. between
d and c streets. and before
you is the First Presbyterian Church,
one Of the largest Protestant church
buildings in the city. The organization
OF this church marked the beginning
Of Presbyterianism in the District OF
Columbia
From the records Of the Presbytery
Of Baltimore, It appears that on April
go 1924, the Rev. John Brackenbridge
was licensed, and on April %. 1895. he
received a call from the churches IN
Washington. small hands of helieVers
who met for worship without any for
NAL organization and including settle
ments outside the present city iimits-a
city without houses.
I'm 1885, June "A. order was taken
for the ordination and installation Of
M. Brackenbridge as pastor. In 1901,
certain irregularities having been re-
ported % the Presbytery. Mr.. Bracken-
bridge was cited to appear and furnish
satisfactory reasons for the same; but
failing 70 appear he was again cited
to appear before a meeting held in
Georgetown, D. c. April IS62
At this meeting he appeared, pleaded
ill-health and requested the dissolution
Of his pastoral relation.
THE first building in the District
was erected by a congregation headed
The Washington times., 1908-08-27
USE GLADYS NAME
TO DUPE SOCIETY
Swindlers in Hungary Reap
Rich Harvest Among
Upper Crust.

BUDAPEST. Aug. 27-Revelations
made today of the operations of a com
pany Of swindlers at Arpad, who used
the name Of Countess Ladislaus Szech-
enyi. formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, in
securing subscriptions for a fictitious
publication. show tisat the upper crust
OF Hungary's society Is as susceptible
10 the glamour OF a high-sOunding
name as that of any other country.
The company purported TO publish a
book. "Jokish Jackass," and with the
prospectus was a forged statement.
signed By the countess. in which she ex-
pressed admiration for the book. and
announced ner gift of $1,000. 900 10 the
publishers in order that the price might
be reduced from SIS to s1A
Hundreds Of people were duped Dy
the scheme, and the publishing house
was flooded with checks. The police
finally swOOped down on the place but
the falSirS mad fed
II Is estimated that the swindlers OBJ
tained $500.
The Washington times., 1908-08-27
GAS METERS UNTAXED:
DECIDE ASSESSORS
Board Rules the Company Escapes
Because of Tax on Its Gross
Earnings.

Forty thousand gas meters owned by
the Washington and Georgetown Gas
Light Companies and valued by the as
SCISSOR Of the District at approximately
500, 900 viii escape taxation, according
L. the board Of assessors
The gas meters were not included in
the trienniai assessment of real estate.
as IL IS held by the corporation counsel
that they can not be claSsed as real
property. As personal property, IN the
opinion of the board, they viii be ex-
einpt from taxation under the act which
provides that such property shall not
be assessed IN view of the fact that the
gas companies pay an annual tax Of ;
per cent on their gross earnings. As
the tax on personal property is IL per
cent, this ruling of the officials will
result in an annual loss to the District
Of approximately $500.
It was discovered last winter thar
the gas light companies had, heretofore.
escaped taxation on their service pines
and meters which fixtures We're not
included by the companies in their au-
nuaI statement TO the Board of Assist
ant Assessors. The board. therefore
under date of August 10, 1907, returned
To the assessor an item of 81, I,00l.001
pany, and SS9.396 against the Georgetown
Gas Light Company, for service pipes
and meters.
After further consideration, however,
the board mas reached the conclusion
that the meters are not assessaDle. The
service pipes VIII be assessed as real
estate and IN addition 70 the tax foe
collect the assessments for the Yeas
1865 and 1907 under the law which pros
vides that property that has escaped
taxation may be so assessed
The Washington times., 1908-08-27
Guide

ed IN the building Of the Presidents
house. In 1898. when the building was
demolished, the congregation wor-
SHIPPED in a farm house on the site Of
what is now 81. Patrick's Roman Cath
clic Church
1T was not long before stems v-or,
taken tor the erection OF a church b,,iId
ing, and the following persons a.
pointed committee to have tba -.
enaer l' their care: George RIaf-1e,
Ehas g. Caldwell. John CovIa 49,, Iot.L
NcCieliand, and Daniel Ranine tn
e. i.terprise received great and uDevnec.-
ed encouragement. In the n,eanti-,,-
permission was granted the Conc
tioh 10 hold worship I'm the old C,anifo1
Ihe new house of worshin was o.
cupied for the first time I,tna On ~,
the dedication sermon being preaebIJ
by the Rev. Mr.. Brackenbridee froS,
Luxe xix; 2 Al a meeting Of the conA
giegation held January. 1913. Mr.. Brack-
enbridge was called, and the following
year was installed as pastor of the
church.
"On the 10th OF April. 1872, the cor
nerstone Of the present edifce vas laid.
The church was dedicated December 9.
1897.
In 1853 the church was enlarged and
reconstructed, making it one of the
largest Protestant Church buildings in
the city"
The Washington times., 1908-08-27

ened TO throw into the hands Of re-
oeivers a great railroad system which
he controlled, and was only prevented
from doing so by interests which turned
over to him sufficient stock with which
TO make deliveries without severe loss.
The fact that such a move on his part
would endanger the property holdings
of innocent investors, or that it might
delay the return of prosperous times,
thus working hardship upon hundreds
of thousands of toilers. probably never
once appealed to the finer instincts of
this man.
1t viii be a long time before Wall
Street reeoverC from the encc,s of this
latest revelation. 1t is the plain duty
of every member of the Stock Exchange
to aid the investigating committee, so
that it will be a much longer time be-
fore any other operators try the same
game.
The Washington times., 1908-08-27

mitted 50 publicly to organize his great
.filibuster agains. the second largest con-
tinent, without a word of protest from
any foreign power, and without sin
gle one of our American sentinels on
the watchtower sounding the alarum.
To US it is as plain as the Washington
Monument, that this hunting expedi-
tion is simply a tremendous filibuster
thinly disguised. Doubts win be dis
PEELED by a moments consideration of
the immense force which the President
proposes to mobilize in the interior of
the. continent.
In the first place the names of
enough prospective members of his ex-
pedition have ~leaked out" to make a
brigade of rough riders. Explorers,
scientists, geographers, cowboys, mighty
huHters, military experts, all have been
announced as quietly arranging to join
the force. Let it be ass stunned that one
man in ten has permitted his secret to
get to the public. 1t will then be plain
that a force of at least $4,000 is TO be
led to the heart of Africa by the soon
to-be ex-President.
To hunt elephants and anteaters and
zebras and coekatoos and hyenasl I'm
tbinkable' Manifestly, Theodore Roose-
velt is getting ready to mobilize in the
Congo wilds a force which, cooperating
with a Boer uprising in the Transvaal
and the rebellious natives of German
Southwest Africa, and carefully syn
chronizing its operations with those of
Mulai Hafd in Morocco and a Khe-
dival revolt in Egypt, aims at no less
stupendous consummatiOn than TO
brush from the African map the fringe
of European pretension to political
suzerainty, and then to establish the
Empire of Africa under the Emperor
Theodore L
1t is marvellous that Anglo German
and Jsp-Ameriean war seares should
be able to get first page display when
so very real and imminent danger
faces the world This African situation
is simply fierce. If the Springfield Re
publican and New York World longer
delay full exposure Of the conspiracy
they viii convict themselves Of blaekest
treason to their ideals, or else of hope
less g." 'ucy as watchH.aI of the
night
The Washington times., 1908-08-27
The African FilibuSter.

It is matter of some surprise that
the Sherlock Holmeses Of international
concerns should not before this have
awakened to realization of the grave
menace which threatens the worlds
peace The anti-imperiahsts especially
are failing to live up 70 reasonable ex-
pectations based on recollection of the
patriotic zeal with which in the past
they have sought to keep us out of en-
tangling alliances and attempts at for
eign aggression
Allusion is, of course, made to the
contemplated conquest of Africa by
Theodore Roosevelt. Credulitv is stag
gered at contemplation Of the fact that
Mr.. Roosevelt should have been per-