The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-13
What fhe State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

Just :. any old thing Won o9 a.st,y .v " nominated no TOT M as tha white House was first elected Vice President and he has served as President about seven years.
 Playing With Dynamite.
 The panicy times in Alabama is not a very sweet morsei to the voters who have been led into national and state capital s is ike playing with dynamite bomb.
 Bouquet For Jere. Huntsville Tribune.
 1t takes men like Jere King to keep on building, and while Huntsville is proud of the way he IS building ana ra progressing in the Magic City, yet we wish there were two Jertes and Hunts- ville had one of them.
 Don't Hoard the Money. Dadeville Courier.
 From any standpoint the best thins screws and let the machinery go on. TO but on the brakes while going up hill is worse than folly With confidence in Ta1lapoosa and her people throw on the brakes and relieve the useless strain. f%
 Employing the Stockings.
 The scrip has about run it's race. the finish of that fake money is in sight and the sooner the better. When gem uine money begins to circulate the hoarders will bring the T, z oic S.S1 SOCK out
 Hard On the People. Selma Journal.
 an extra session of the legislature to deal with the railroad rates. It is hard on the railroads and tax payers too to meet the experimental legisia- are applying as cure all for the troubles between people and roads.
 Must Tarry Longer At Jericho.
 The way it has been for years is that the South has done most of the hollowing and voting and the other sections wrote the platforms and got stood out. and voted strictly as a choice of evils?
 A Growing Town.
 We understand that soon machinery will be placed on the second floor of the new knitting mill-the first floor Is now. being filled with hands. Fort Payne is now enjoying a steady growth, some new residences are being built and we understand several more are in contemplation.
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 swho Is Our NeiShbors"
 ssWho is our neighbour queries an exchange. Old fellow that question has been asked over and over again for 1900 years. But in order to adjust ones self to neighborly practice we would suggest that you swap gossip and compliments with those next door and borrow meal from the fellow ten blocks away. /
 A Fiery Substitute.% Piedmont Joupnal
 Liquor wifi be a little inconvenient tsnt tS 1efsn 5e Ordersd a seeSe fPom Annston Piedmont is to have a turpentine dIs- tillery. the product of which may serve as an emergency substitute for the fiery throats of the Amalgamated, Dis ipatd Delapidated Order of Perpetual Guzzlers.
 Millions Agree With Him. Birmingham Ledger.
 and Nthe states are suffering from too much Legislation. There are several million thinking people yho agree zee laws on the statute books and by far too many introduced at every session of every legislative body.
 5 Have Good Fafmss Fort Payne Journal.
 An exchange asks why people do not go to the country. If the writer will come up fhis way and investigate the value of our mountain lands ana sought he will find that not only do people go to the country when they can get chance but those whol are already there seem pretty well satisfied Y +
 A Good Gospel To Preaeh. Goodwater Enterprise: thing else is the impressive preaching of the gospel of content..Not that sort of content that comes from lazinsSs, e.. the heart of man who has made reaf. those whom he may be able to help, and who has no desire 10 own the whole shooting match
 Fine Quarters and Good Salaries. Huntsville Mercury.
 Congressman are now provided with elegant private office quarters as well as an increase of fifty per cent In sai- ary. The luxuries are coincident With the advent of. Senator Jen Dayls' o who make one of his family government secretary and another a government .'laborer." Is there anything in the ne idea that sg congress is ,gg ,golngg gguntpvF tq no 
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 shifting scenes. Huntsville Mercury. ,,..,, We-notice in telegraphic dispatch from Birmingham that the supreme Court is expected to render decision in the Park er-Ward case next week which will determine the consultation ality of the 199th section of the new municipal code bill. If this section IS Knocked out the City Board of Educa- tion may have another opportunity 70 resign in favor of the Spragins Board. The shifting scenes may change any moment.
 Our SOuthern NeighbOrs. Gadsden Times-News
 The Germans are now suppiantlns the other races in importance in the Southern continent. German oincers are training her armies; German teach CTS are holding her ideas andt the time Is not far distant when German intiu- ence If not counteracted, will be para mount in the continent and everything will be viewed through German eyes; Ehe opening of the Panama canal VII naturally bring the two continents In closer touch, but unless there is national awakening to the opportunl- ties which are slipping from our grasp even this will not avail.
 Autausa Roads. Pratville Progress. -. ,-- The county board of revenue has been in session for two days audltlng the books of the public road overseers of the county. The reports show there is much money being spent on the pup lie roads of the county. some loea oL the work may be gathered from the fact that the board of revenue IS now