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The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

In the battle of the naval experts
now going on in Washington great
care should be taken to use smokeless
words.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

Two st. Louis policemen arrested
each other for violating a city ordi-
nance. That time at least the limo
cent bystander did not connect with
the trouble.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

Any foreign nation that takes . no.
ton to go to war with US might find
that the critics of our navy are great
jokers
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08
lYDiAE PlNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

For proof of this statement read
the following letters.
Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman,
Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
"For eight years 1 suffered from the
most severe form of female troubles and
was told that an operation was my only
hope of recovery. wrote Mrs Pinkham
for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, and it has saved
my life and made me a well woman"
Mrs. Arthur R House, of Church
Road, Moorestown. N. j., writes:
81 feel it is my duty to let people
know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me. 1
suffered from female troubles. and last
March my physician decided that an
operation was necessary. My husband
objected, and urged me to try Lydia
E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
and to-day am well and strong"
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-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, and backache.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn. Mass.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

1t is reported. denied and reiterated
that King Edward wears a night cap.
How can England remain SO calm
amid all this Uncertainty?
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08
A SURGICAL
OPERA

If there is any one thing that
woman breads more than another it
is a surgical operation.
We can state without fear of a
contradiction that there are hum
dreds, yes, thousands, of operations
performed upon women in our hos
pitfalls which are entirely, nneces-
sary and many have been avoided by
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08
SADLY MISTAKEN.

Hubby (disgustedly)-The doctor is
a fool.
Wifey-What's the matter, dear?
Hubby-He said l need exercise
Think of it! Exercise! Exercise for
a man who has looked after his own
furnace all winter. and is now COZ
templating the opening of the lawn
mower season!
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08
THE REGISTER

After thinking it over China has de-
cided not to be Japan's little faithful
F1do.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

In the Kongo natives there has been
discovered by France peril several
shades darker than yellow.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

That stork club formed by Detroit
women should put quietus on the
Teddy bear craze.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

He who lives but for himself leads
but little life.-Damien.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teethng. eoftens the grns, reduces tn
nAmmauon alays pain, cures wind collie &c bottle.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

Better to wear out shoes than
sheets.-German.
The Lamar register., 1908-04-08
Personal.

Paul Morton. president OF the
Equitable Life Assurance society. is
i'll in Seattle, Wash, with ptomaine
poisoning.
Rear Admiral Evans has gone to
the hot springs at San Luis Obispo.
Cal. for treatment for rheumatism. He
hopes to rejoin the fleet at San Fran.
cisco.
John Mitchell, former president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
has refused the position of special
commissioner to investigate labor con-
ditions in the Panama canal zone.
James Jeffrey Roach. American con-
sui at Berne, Switzerland, is dead af.
ter long illness.
Madame Anna Gould. formerly the
Countess De Castellane. is i'll with
bronchitis and stomache trouble at
the St. Regis hotel in New York.
George Ellsworth Putnam of Ottawa.
Kan, a student in the graduate de-
partment at Yale, has been appointed
to Rhoade's scholarship at Oxford.
John Mitchell. ex-president of the
United Mine Workers OF America, is
TO establish a labor paper in Indian.
apolis.
William Seattle. of the Illinois bureau
of labor. has been appointed editor of
the. United Mine Workers Journal.
published at indianapolis.
Joseph Howard. Jr.. one of the most
prominent newspapermen in the coun-
try and a former president OF the In
ternational League of Press Clubs, is
dead in New York.
The Young Mems Democratic club
of Missouri has elected Frank NJ. Nc
pav1 of Springfield. its president.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11

den to pay the costs of the action."
 To put 1t plainly. the game warden was laughed out of court for trying to do his duty and enforce the law. Such verdict. we repeat. was a iis- grace to North Carolina and a travesty on justice. The idea that the law against bird slaughter should be en- forced seems to have been highly amusing to judge and jury, and no doubt-though not so stated-the charge of the julge was amusingly disfegardful of law and justice. It Was not a mere sentiment against use- less bird slaughter that should have caused a conviction in this case, though that should have been sufficient. It was the open disregard of the law by those whose duty it was to enforce it. Added to this. there fs such indis- ptuable proof of the value of birds to the country that both judge and jury should have been glad of a chance to enforce the penalty for killing them out of season. Let us hope that there Is some mistake in the published re- ports of this affair. though they seem to have been authentic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
Politics and Politicians

The Independence League of Ohio has nominated State ticket headed by A. F. otte of Cincinnati as candidate for gov ernor.
 David W. Hnl former speaker of the Missouri house of representatives,. has senator on the Republican side.
 The Massachusetts Socialists have nom mated a complete State ticket headed by James F. Carey of Haverhfli for governor chosen u as 0Vs fsss Ssiesste to % % the Repubiissn State convention which is to meet in Sara toga next week. Q
 Congressman W. Bourke Cochran of New York has accepted an invitation from the Democratic campaign committee to deliv- CT 6 series of speeches in the Middle West.
 The Iowa "standpatters'' are said to fav- or Congressman Gilbert N. Haugen of the the USfia 4aee % against t Governor S @ % cammins for the United States senate.
 Republicans of New England are to hold a biz barbecue at Point of Pines. near Boston. on Sept 1s Congressman Niehoi- as Longworth, son-in-law of President Roosevelt. will be one of the spsakerS + + +
 State Senator Archibald McNeil of Bridgeport, Conn, who was a candidate off
 
 Denver convention last July. has declined to become candidate for the gubernator- ial nomination in Connecticut.
 The Association of Southern Democrats composed of former residents of the South now living in New York city. which was quite prominent in the presidential cam paign of 1892. has been raorganized to campaign for the Bryan and Kern ticket
 Editors of forty trade union journals published in various parts of the country met in convention in Chicago recently and voted their support for Bryan and the Democratic ticket.
 J. Eiwood Fox. who has been nominated publicans of that State. is known as the ''Bobbin king." from the fact that his factories make more bobbins for spinning cotton than any other concern in the world.
 William D. Mahon. president of the In- ternational Association of Street Railway Employees, will be the Democratic candi- Edwin Denby in the First Michigan dis trict. MT. Denby declared for the "open shop at the time of the telegFaphers strike last year. since which time he has been bitterly opposed by the labor organt- zations.
 John Hays Hammond, the new chairman of the executive committee of the Nation the most famous mining engineer in the world. Only within the last year or two has he been active in politics. For few weeks prior to the Republican national candidate for the nomination for vice president. Mir. Hammond Is a native of San Francisco and was clRSssmate of william H. Taft at Yale University.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
PAYING PRESIDENTS.

The Norfolk Landmark doesn't agree Presidential salaries. As to that mat ter, The Landmark has a somewh at confirmed habit of not agreeing with anybody unless it says it first-but let that pass. Our contention was that a much higher salary than the one now paid, while 1t might be a reasonable qualified for the place, would be vastly overpaying some who possibly might be elected. The Landmark declares that the American people have never selected a man of small calibre to fill the position.
 Well. if that Is strictly true then one Theodore Roosevelt ought to be unan- imously elected to the chairmanship of the Ananias Club. for his so-called historical writings about former Pres idents make some of them out to have been of very small calibre indeed. That is exactly the position In which the matter stands: if he wrote truth fully about them there have been some very small and weak men in the Pres idency. and if he slandered or misrep- resented them he wrote himself down as very small man indeed.
 Judging by their lack of broad statesmanship and general intelligence we are bound to maintain that more than one President since the war has fallen below the standard of greatness in more than one respect. AS to that matter, measuring him by what he has done for the honor and credit of the office he holds. and by the good he has done for the country and the people, the present incumbent is over paid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

for the sake of harmony. The othsr candidates are Col. Henry B. Quimby. of Lakeport, who Is remembered as one of the workers for the bill that result ed in railroad consolidation. known Hs the Hagen measure; Col. Bertram Ellis. editor of The Keene Sentinel, and Cot Charles M Greenleaf. of Franconia. who was presented to the last conven. tion and did not receive, very kind treatment. Mir. Pillsbury Is the only one who has been represented on the stump by a corps of orators led by MT, the other candidates have been ac- cused of being subservient to outside influence. and have remained, for the most part. silent under the charge.
 But the possibility of the election cf Democratic candidates does not lie in the multiplicity of Republican as pirants so much as in the openly leaders. with the exception or Mr. Churchill himself Both on the stump ai-d privately the reform Republicans. who composed the now disintegrated Lincoln Club of two years ago. have expressed the intention of supporting the Democratic candidate, should he be Judge George Bingham, of Man chester. immediately upon the failure large per centage of these reform Re- publicans migrated from the Demo- cratic Party upon the nomination O Mir. Bryan in 1896.
 Washington Post.
 Maine Republicans are not going to win without a fight" said A. B. Smart. of Weston, Me, at the National T think Taft will carry the State Ill right but the Democrats are working hard, and 1t will not do for the Repun lican campaign managers to count on too easy a thing in our State.
 Representative Bartlett. of Georgia. has spent some weeks in Maine and he says:
 "The sentiment in Maine ia that Gardner. the Democratic nominee for Governor will defeat Fernald, Repub- lican. The politicians there say Mc- Gillicudy. who cut down Representa- tive Littlefeld's majority from 6.00o to 800 two years ago, will be elected to represent the Lewiston district. Mir. Idttlefield resigned, to t>ke effect on September 1. A week from Monday next. the State elections will be held. Prohibition seems to be the issue. The Dclocrats advocate resubmitttng the liquor question 10 the people, while the Republicans insist on statutory prohi- bition. Of course the election of a Democratic Governor and a National Representative will be in Bryan's fa- Nr. but I would not like to say the State will go Democratic"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
DRIFT WOOD

Paw, what Is the meaning of Dex- Trying to cross Dexter , 11sstH Avenue ,sIp 0p example of it, my son.. She is pretty swift little widow T should say so-her speed is about seven matrimonial knots a year"
 + Cheer ur amateur writers. if you write check for an editor he Will not decline it with thanks. When 1t comes to a wealth of words all women are rich. One exchange says there is bad luck in two dollar bill. while another ayers that all paper bills carry deadly microbes. However, just orer re us Teddy has a rain-proof tent on bis lawn at oyster Bay; However, rss,f u iS not joke-proof-so help yoursen- Did you see the dog-catcher rake em in right on Dexter Avenue! me only fun in being a dog in Montgomery is to be lady's pet. The Atlanta Constitut on speaks ot "the silence of Oyster Bay" That Oyster has been Baying so long, now ever. that this is real joke. Medium-Sir, your wife wants 10 WidowerNGood Lord - tell her I have another engagement. l thought I planted her deep. Every rose has its thorn-and almost every peach its heart of stone There are just as good measles and whooping cough in the sea as ever were caught.
 A man who will lose s25 in a poker game and say nothins SrOns Will Kick o,artse TsS through a hole in the sidewalk People go through this world care fully planning trouble for th-mseiveS sometimes get gets you thelr rights and lefts too right in the face.
 Always singin'. He couldn't help stngin'
 It come to him Natchel as young ducks
 Learn to swim. No matter what would
 Chance to come You'd alters hear his
 Cheerful hum. When trouble mocked him
 He would laugh. When people cried
 He'd only chaff. He never felt
 Misfortunes sting. He'd alters go
 Aroun' an sing. We used to ask him
 Oft if care
 Ere come his way
 Or deep despair. But he'd jes smile
 An pass along
 With his ever
 Lastin' song.
 Don't climb hills
 Till you have to Don't trouble trouble
 Till it troubles YOU. This was his motto
 You might share 1t: When trouble comes
 JUST GRIN AN BEAR TIT
 PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
A Timely Warning.

Phllddelpnla RecoTu.
 What Southern Democrats who are not political degenerates can condone the attack upon their ights of repre- sentation in the Union by the Crum- packer bill, which was engineered bv Cannon and Dalzell. and received the vote of nearly every Republican mem Der of the House in the last session of Congress? This menace to the Southern people for protecting their political institutions from exercise of the suffrage by hordes of ignorant voters is still impending over them. What Is this Crumpbacker bill in its essence but an attempt to put a pre- mium upon .crass ignorance at the ex- pense of decent government in the Southern States? Let the South so far forget its true interest in this vital campaign as to send Re- publicans to Congress in place of the Democrats who are now faithfully representing its people. and the Re publicans would have an incentive to pass the Crumpacker bill in order to surely perpetuatc their political su- premacy. Is any Southern Democrat so naive as to imagine that Taft. If elected, could seperate himself from his party on this issue?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
POLITICAL POINTERS

Chicago Special.
 One of the curious aspects of public opinion in the West is illustrated oy the lecture tours of Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin. He has been out on the Chautauaua circuit and usually his topic is the wickedness of the Repuo- lican majority in Congress wnlcn bill over the filibuster protest of Sem ator Bob. They tell me it Is no un- common thing for MT. I.aFollette 70 start his lecture at o'clock Tn the afternoonA and to run on until o'clock, holding an audience of 5000 or 4.O00 farmers and their wives all that time while he reads from The Congresslon. . al Record <o prove that the leaders or the Republican Party at ths National Capital are in cahoots with Wall street and The System" Think of tt-four hours of talk on subject ike thls! And yet they say the farmers stay to the last gasp. drink in every word. and then drive home in anxious meditation or course. Senator LaFollette IS sup porting Taft, but he has queer way feet that he has done more than any other man. MT. Bryan not excepted. TO spread the belief that Wan Street T pro cured the passage of the Aldrich- Vreeland currency bill last spring. The facts are that Wall Street had nothing whatever to do with. and was. in fact, opposed to the measure. as were mosf of the big bankers throughout the buI senator Lar ullcttC four-hour speeches to eager audiences indicate that there may be some truth in MT. Bryan's diagnosis of the atti- tude of the public mInd. There Is also an impression among prominent Re- publicans that the managers of their national campaign have not as yet full ly realized the magnitude of the task which confronts them in the West.
 + ..
 Concord Special.
 MT. Winston Churchill has created alarm among leading Republicans. who do not altogether share his faith in the, belief that the ruling party pos sesses the truly purifying power. There has not been for many years greater feaF-of Democratic victory on State issues. Two years ago the election was so close that the Legis- lature named the Republican Govern or. The factional differences are greater this autumn, and tried leadef~ like United States Senator Galltnger are going about to the "Old Home" plcnics and other summer festivities warning the faithful of the danger of espousing new ideas
 Besides MT. Pillsbury there are threa other candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. none of them showing a disposition to yield
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
SEE TT SoUIR1,

The Kansas City Journal has had an- other jolt. It gets them occasionally for that matter. and largely they come from its own party. Here Is speci- men:
 Out of the turbulence of recent po- litical history In this country have come some astonishing follies and ab- surd isms. but 1t has remained for the Term League to place the cap sheaf of absurdity upon this remarkable crop. Within the past few days the secre- tary of the National Executive Commit has flooded the country with circulars setting forth somewhat vaguely the purposes it seeks to accomplish. The Presidential ticket which Mir. Jahns and his friends have nominated on their own responsibility carries the name of Theodore Roosevelt for President and Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for Vice-President.
 Although The Journal is a good Re- publican newspaper-good as any of them can be. we meant has not been a hearty or ardent Roosevelt sup porter. It has for quite while had It's eyes open to his blunders and his shortcomings and has not hesitated to criticise them, often in very plain Eng fish. As a consequence 1t was against his renomination and pleased at the success of Taft. whom it considers quite different sort of man-in which 1t may or may not be correct. Be that as 1t may, The Journal evidently hoped and believed that the party would soon be relieved of all responsibility for Teddy or of him.
 rise up and propose to run Roosevelt as an independent candidate for Pres ident is several times too much for its temper and stomach. And to make the dose still more nauseating, the proposition is to put on Folk for sec ond place. Folk is the Democratic Governor of Missouri. and The Jour nal has been plugging away at him almost from the beginning of his term, and this is about the last straw. Of course such a thing is not even re- motely possible, but to have Roosevelt as an independent candidate would be nuts for the Democrats. To say noth- ing of such a ticket adding to Bryan's chances it would be great fun to watch the Taft organs squirm. Pity there's no hope for such good luck
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
A STRANGE VERDICT.

If the accounts we have read are correct, a recent court decision in North Carolina is a disgrace to that State and a travesty on justice. That State has a game law, like many other States and among other things the law makes it a misdemeanor to kill doves during the closed season.
 Two men killed 100 doves in the said closed season, defied the game warden and by him were prosecuted for violat- ing the law. There was no dispute as to the facts or the law. and 1t would seem that there should have been no doubt about convicting the men, but they were not convicted, all the same. Both Judge and jury enjoyed the pro- ceedings immensely" the dispatch states, Laughing heartily at the law yers' wit and eloquence as he denom- mated any man who would waste time on a lot of birds driveling idiot, and the jury returned a verdict of acquit- tai of three wanton slayers of doves in mating time. leaving the game war
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
A MOTHER AND WIDOW OF HE-
 R0ES

When we look backward 1t does not really seem very long time since the war between the States closed, but
 just the same 1t Is rare to lind liv- Very few living veterans are now un- der the age of so, and consequently the mother of one must now be nearly or quite 80 years of age. and there are but few of them left. The Columbus Ledger. however, tells of one of Ala bama's venerable mothers and widows in this statement, which will interest many readers:
 West Girard boasts of one who Is not only the mother of a living Confed- crate Veteran. and also of a dead son who served the South In gallant man. ner, but she Is also the widow of a soldier, a graduate of West Point and Colonel In the Creek, Seminole and
 She is Mrs. catharine Bates, the
 widow of the late Col. Asa Bates. and the mother of Capt. T. Jeff Bates of thhs city. former sergeant in the Ia nous 6th Alabama Regiment. which Gen. John B. Gordon commanded and later a captain of artillery in Waddell s Alabama battalion of artillery.
 Mrs. Bates is S9 years of age, and while feeble in body Is bright and cheerful in mind. retaining all of her faculties and being endowed with that sturdy vitality for which the daugh- ters of Erin are noted. She is the cen- ter of a loving and devoted family circle and charms all by her wonderful retention in memory Of the vivid scenes of her youth and young motherhood and her recoilections of the period when Columbus was an Indian trading post with her husband ir command of the troops stationed there.
 Well may this venerable mother and widow feel just pride when memory carries her back to the time when she bade adieu to a son departing to take his place among the young heroes of the Confederacy. and to the still more remote day when her young husband
 went forth to fight the Indian wars.
 More than an ordinary life time has passed since these Indian disturbances.
 yet she was even then a soldiers wife. Such women as Mrs. Bates should be objects of the loving care and vener- ation of living Confederates and their
 children. for there can be but few of them left.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
The Prolific Queen Bee.

Technical world
 The queen bee is even greater antagon ist of race suicide than Distinguished Person. She strives to perpetuate the race with an ardor and an understanding that ia worthy of the highest communication. Some have been known to lay 1000 eggs day for a year, the number lessening after that to 1900 and going forward at that ratio for another two years. With 5000 hees to the colony that single praiseworthy queen laid enough eggs to establish forty six colonies Bee keepers figure on net income of $3 a colony each year If the owners of the bee under discussion profit ed from her Iabors to that extent the gain was $I4s It is not to be presumed that any such result were obtained. To argue SO much in favor of one bee would be to place heliaf in the statement that a man with ten acres of ground and two rabbits can become a millionaire in three years selling rabbit skins to glove manufacturers