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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
NEGRO IS NOW ONLY
 MAN WHO SAW NAPOLEON

London, Dee. 19--The Daily Chron- iele" says: Eighty-seven years have passed since the death of Napoleon. Is there anybody now alive who remem- bers having seen him7 only one per- haps-a venerable negro of s5. an in- terview with whom is published in 8 recent isue of the St Helena Guard ian This negro. 6 native of the Con- so. was kidnapped in childhood. taken to St Paul de Loanda. and placed on board slave-ship bound he knew not whither. When four or five days oait at sea the slayer was captured by a British man-of-war and taken to St. Helena
 A gentleman who lived near Long wood. the residence of the exiled Elm peror. took the little black boy into his household. one day he was with q man who was rounding up some horses when the man suddenly ex- claimed Look over therei" The boy looked, and saw d short stout man in long coat, with his hands' behind his back. watching the movements of the horses. That is the great Napoleon, |" said the man to the boy; "he is a prisoner here.s
 General Sir William Butler has boId- ly declared his belief that in sending Napoleon to St. Helena the British Government of the period deliberately desired to do him 10 death. That may of may not be so, but if the weather at Longwood was the same in Napoieon's time as it is to-day. 1t must certainly have shortened the life of the ilns- trious exile. An item of news from ian.P says it has been raining there "incesantly for twenty-three days" Longwood Is now the site of fax Tailk
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

Chicago Tribune.
 The most Revolutionary scientlfc an- uouncement of the year has just been made by Dr. w. H. Burnham He pro- poses to cure laxiness. which is the most persistent and universal of all mGiadies. If he has really found a spe- ciiic remedy for the dislnclination to labor the consequences will be far more startling than appear at first blush.
 It was MoAse--of course you know all about Mnsso--who first discovered that work was nothing less than poison to the human system. When you are poll sonod in this particular way you get lazy In the language of the immortal Mosso, "the toxic products resulting from the functional activity of the mus cles are the chief cause of fatigue.
 Adam of course, was the first lazy man. He knew that he hated work Hike poison but didn't know that 1t was poison. He thought perhaps, that 1t had something to do with the prifn- eval cArse. He passed the word down along the line. and sfnes that time every normal man has hated work. If has been 3ust as natural to be lazy as to breathe.
 All the poets sang the beauties of ina dustry. and yet the world hated to work It came to he regarded as a deep4seated sign of the total depravity ,0f man that he summed labor. Really. 1t was a sign or mans wisdom. ThIs instinctive turning away from toll ex- cept in case of hunger. or hanging on to your job, or other dire necessity, was what Kept the race alive. When man worked he was poisoned. Without realizing the danger he dodged the fa- tai results. The dread of work was saving instinct instead of 6 curse as we always were taught to believe.
 It was a lucky thing that the work poison was not like some other modern poisons that fascinate the victim and hold him in their clutches. If you take morphine or alcohol or smoke cigar cites you get the habit and require in- creasing quantities to satisfy your cravings. But the work habit never gets such hold on you that you cans not shake 1t of. The alarm clock calls you to your daily task every day In the year, but it never gets to sound like music.
 Laziness Is not merely spring few er" but a worldwide result of the
 work poison. When you saw q cord ( wood or add up q column of figures the virus gets into your veins just as distinctly as 1t does when you partake of a ptomaine supper or ret bitten by
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

of enforced rest probably win be pro vided for. Fifteen minutes every four hours, it is thought. will be sufficient to have the men knock of from tiTeiT labors and spend che time In social con- verse.
 With everybody working as long and as hard as he can there will not be enough work to do to go round, and t is entirely within the limits of possi- bliity that society. to protect itself. will be obliged to produce a class of drones. Rich men, or trust magnates, may be punished by depriving them of work |. Instead of fning the John D. Rockefel- Ter of the future s2s.oo0.o0o. the judge then will sentence him to one years idleness.
 If Dr. Burnham's remedy is proved to be as efficacious as he thinks, it will be only in the next generation that it's full results will be felt. By that time there will not be lazy man or woman left In the world. Little children. when they start to school will have to be made Immune against the fatigue toxin. On jthe day the term opens the school phy- sicians will make the round. and every pupil who cannot show a certifcate that he has been vacinated with the laziness antitoxin will be taken promptly in hand by the school doctor.
 III to have a sore tos when tt cornes time to go to school in the morning. He will never play hockey In ofder to visit the old swimming hole. Teachers principal duty will be to ses that the children do not study too hard.
 The economic possibilities of a world where everybody loves to york are things to consider. There will probably be a law that a man who lays mp money in excess of a certain reasonable sum will not be permitted to work to earn more The immediate effect would be to abolish. riches, for when a mstn saw his wealth mounting up to the danger point he would hurry up and get rid Of the surplus.
 pr. Burnham believes his Ihzlness an- titoxin would apply to nenAal as well as physical fatigue, Every novelist In the future might be expected to write fuore books than Cyrus Townsend Brady. He would always be in the mood for work and would not have to walt until the inspiration seized him or the wife needed a new dress before he could drag his reulctank fingers to the typewritlng machine.
 There would be no vacations. of course. What would be the sense in prying the shoemaker sway from his last for two weeks in the midsummer just when he wanted tof work hardest to forget the heat? ors at the worst. vacations might be kepf as a punish rnent for the unfair rfwor1sn1an who tried to shirx his legitimate hours of rest. If he tried to sneak in after ofiice hours and work while the rest of the boys were at home. or if lie Insisted on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Men Had to Serve Time fer the Grim. Of Owing the sum of Sixty
 


 Tn 1S29 1t was estimated that 7b thousand persons were annually inpris- oned for debt in the United States. ana at that date the practice nad pee. abolished in at least two States-name- ly, Ohio and Kentucky-says the Yan, Review In 1880 the estimated number of individuals imprisoned on account Of debt was:-In Massachusetts, 5000; In New York. 10000; in Pennsyivania. L. 900; in MaryIand( 5000 or a total of 2s 900 in States
 The average of the debts for which persons were deprived of their liberty were small-under s5. In the jail at Dedhan, Norfolk county. Mass, out of a total of 52 debtors confined within It's walls only owed more than $50. and 16 owed $10 or less.
 A local society for the relief of deb tors coqnfned for small debts ptU- cured the release of IS persons, whose debts added together amounted to on- ly $1S2. an average of less than ss.
 IHs a jail located at Hudson. N. Y. in the course of the year ended September 29. 1880, fetal of 16S persons welo committed for debts: of this number 4s were held for rum debts" Tn PhiladeI- phia 40 cases were recorded in wnicn the sum total of the debts was only $23.40h-an average of less than bO cents each.
 James Bell. keeper of the debtors Jail in New York. in a document sub mitted 10 the State Senate, stated that in 1s16 729 persons were confined in the jail under his control for debts un- der s25 each. Nearly all of these would. he asserted. have starved except for the bounty of the Humane Society. Bell himself was compelled to beg for fuel to keep them from freezing.
 He specifically mentions the cases of Dins Lyman, imprisoned for three years for a debt of less than $50. ana Of George Riley, imprisoned for years. also for a debt of less than $50 Both of the men were supported while im- prisoned by charity. Tn other States. as Massachusetts and Rhode Island. the creditor was required to provide for the board of the imprisoned debtor. When this was not forthcoming the debtor was discharged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

7. o,p. ,,saasrship. not leadership of political or s..sssiohA - but leadership of construetiva snousnt purpose of the country There .s pe no mistakihg the uneasiness of ~snoukntIui ~ men in the presence Of suoli circumstanees. or the un,yersaI Sesirs thaI mere should be soma action upon definite principle. It is futile to talk of a return 70 anything. Our economic conditions are such as have hitherto been unknown. We must mark forward. The conservatism which should be sharply distinguished from this false and bastard conservatism. which IS merely reactlosary is the conservatisyiiy which seeks a return to old and well recog- nised principles. but return to them in such way as will give them new inter pretation and new meaning for the time we live In.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
ROosEyELr.s ArRrcAN WAY.
kemarkabie Country Through Which H
 win Travel

wm Travel.
 Peter Aaccueen. in LesIie's Weekly.
 Thus ride on the Uueanda Railway is unique and one of the most interesting in all the world For we pass through coup- try whore the animal and human life is much the same AS 1t was in Europe 900. .o0a years ago. And here we see primitive sava- gsry walking hand in hand with modern civilization. retaining nearly all of it's plctu- rssqueness. but divoreed from its lust and cruelty.
 took this trip twice during the summer Of 1908. The fare is cents per mile first class. cents second elass. and 1 cent NhiFd cfass. White men cannot go in third class. and blacks cannot take first or second. Sat- tied comfortably in the train, we draw out from the tropical station of Mombasa and crossing by the Salisbury Bridge. i.To0 feet long ffom the Island to the mainland. we plunge Into the heart cf Afrfea. The en- zines are Baldwin locomotives from Phiia- delphia. and twenty-seven of the bridges and vfaducts are of American manufacture. When we stop ct the first station of Cham Eamwe we note the natives clothed in ltwht eottons and Kinghams. which they can ''AmericRni" This was formerly all brouEht from America henes it's name.
 Our Journey on the railway divides itself into three sections. First. the unhealthy scrubhv coast land and interior plateau. ax- tending to Kiu station. 2s7 miles and 4.seo feet in elevation. Natives and Indians can live ia this part but tho white man with- CTS and dies. At vot Ies miles. elevation i.sso feet. thers Is an excellent dak-huHga- low. with . restaurant as fine aH any on ths New York Central lines. Also at Vol parties Of hunters laavs the train for a trip to tha Kiifmaniaro district in German tesTitoFys 100 miles away. All this first Ss7 miles A covered with short. soFubby jungies. and n fuli of maiaria. One begins to see wile xebras and an occasional antelope unth rsavo is reached at 133 miles from Mom- basa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Receipt That Cures
 Weak Men ' Free
Send Name and Address Today You Can Have It Free and Be
 StT0ng and Vigorous.

I have ia my possession a prescription Cor nervous debility lack of vigor, weaken ed manhood. faips memory and lame back brouFht on by 6Ztesaes. unnatural drains or ths foliieb ofsyopth. that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own [ornes-wtthout any additional help or med- .eins-that I think every man who wishes 9n regain his manly power and virility es,,ckiy and quietly. should have a copy so have determined to send copy of ssa nreserpition, free of charge in a plain ordinary sealed envelope. to any man who WIZ srhis prescription comes from a physician v,bo bas made a special study Of men. and Y am M convinced 1t Is the surest-aetlng com hination for the cure of deficient manhood srd vigor-failurs ever pyt together.
 mink I owe 1t to myffellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any sssn aayghere who Is weak and discourag- ed with repeated failures may stop drug ssnr himself with harmful patent medi- ssnes. secure what. I believe, is the quick W-acting. restorative, upbuilding. SPOT
 NrTcHING remedy ever devised, and so N x himself at home quietly and quickly
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

taking some of his work home with him fin his pockets and doing 1t out of hours, they might compel him 10 take a two weeks vacation.
 The vagrancy laws in the future will punish a man not for being Idle with out visible means of support, but for such crimes as holding two jobs at oncs or working a second shift under an as- sumed name for another firm. All the stock notices about industry will be thrown in the discard. and the butter fly instead of the busy bee will be held up as pattern for the youth of the land Ministers will beseec1f their par fshioners to take life easier and not work So much. Men will not need moral coaching or the spur of ambition to rem der them ambitious. They win have an absolute passion for work
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Tennessee Whiskey

BIRTHSTONE" - Unadulteratsd, straight Tennessee Whiskey. Our leach ing process makes this whiskey distinc- tive. None better. Very old. full quarts, $5.Oo' ls full quarts, S1O.OO. Bottled-in-Bond WhiskieS
 Following brands bottled bx the Gov- ernment, whose stamp guarantees age, purity and strength;
 CONCORD PURE RYE, 100 proof, full quarts, $5.5O; ls full quarts, s11.OO.
 CONCORD BOURBON, 100 proof, 6 full quarts, $5.5O; ls full quarts, $lo.Se.
 CLARKE's PURE RYE, 100 proof, 6 full quarts, $6.25; ls full quarts. sl7.OO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Corn Whiskies

GRASSY VALLEY" - Unadulter- ated. Very old. No better Corn Whiskey made. 6 full quarts, $4.00; ls full quarts, $7.50.
 GRASSY VALLEY"-White, 100 proof, straight Corn Whiskey. We are the only distillers selling IO0-proof corn at S2.5O per gallon, two gallons, SAYS, delivered. Shipments in jugs. Small est shipment 1 gallon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Blended Whiskies

@R. H. c. CLUB"-A perfect blend of old Kentucky Whislies. It has that rich oily appearance. We conscientiously say there is no better whiskey. full quarts, $5.75; ls full quarts, $l1.00.
 GATES "ss"-A true blend of Ken lucky Whistles. A good honest whiskey. Will give entire satisfaction. full quarts, $500; l9 full quarts, ss.S0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
An unrraleful Trnst.

Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Shocking to hear the charge made that the sugar trust has cheated the government However. an humble citizen recently gave a wayfarer shelter, and the beneficiary ran away with the trousers of the benefactof
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
True Conservation.

From an Address by President Woodrow Wilson.
 We are conscious of a sort of dissolution of parties. of a confusion of issues. of sim Euiar intersections of opinion and inter ssingIing of impulse, and e notable absenae
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

Whatever heightens the Joy of the common people extends christ's mis. sion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
WHEN WE HAD DEBToRs, JAILs.

TOmOFFw-ouF Debt to vivlsectIon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
Haue a Cure For Laziness
MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ats MAKES PLAY
Chicago Tribune.

ImmNm mnuammmRm mHmHMEmnREmma
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11

Do your Christmas shopping early
and in the morning and aid the mer-
chant and his clerks.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11
DEVISED BY A BUSY FATHER
Electrical Apparatus That Saves Time
and Makes for Comfort In
the Nursery.

An engineer in Chicago has had
some lively experiences in home life.
He married lady graduate in medi-
cine, and later he found that when
his wife was on her rounds the care
of the baby devolved upon him.
Finding this work interfering with
his own professional labors, the en-
gineer produced an apparatus fol-
rocking the cradle by electricity. He
had another switch connected with a
photograph, which as soon as the
cradle was set in motion played some
lullaby, favorite of the little one,
and so sent him to sleep. The en-
gineer has also constructed an cleo
trio apparatus which gives the little
recipient its milk at intervals.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11
INGENIOUS DEVICE.

When the members of the British
Institution of Electrical Engineers
paid visit of inspection to north
ern Italy lately they were interested
in a device used to protect the over
head transmission lines of an electric
traction system from lightning dis
charges. The device consists of Jets
of water, which form a permanent
"earth" at the Monbegno generating
station on the Valtellina line. The
electric resistance of the jets was
said to be sufficient to prevent a seri-
Gus loss of current, while not too
great to enable them to. serve for
protection against lightning.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11


ured by the intelligence capable of
grasping the whole Of truth and
knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Clause. He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they abound
and give to your life its highest beau
ty and joy. Alas! How dreary
would be the world if there were no
Santa Claus. 1t would be as dreary
as if there were no Virg'nias. There
would be no childlike faith in this
weary world, no romance to make
tolerable this existence. We should
have no enjoyment except in sense
and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world would
be extinguished.
Not believe IN Santa Claus! You
might as well not believe in fairies |!
You might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus,
but if they did not see Santa Claus
coming down, what would that
prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,
but that is no sign there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the
world are those that neither children
nor men can see. Did YOU ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? OF
course, not; but that's no truth that
they are not there. Nobody can con-
ceive or imagine all the wonders there
are unseen and unseeable in the
world.
You may tear apart the baby's
rattle and see what makes the noise
inside, but there is veil covering
the unseen world which not the
strongest man, nor even the united
strength of all the strongest men that
ever lived, could tear apart. Only
faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance,
can push aside that curtain and view
and picture the supreme beauty and
glory beyond. Is it all real? All,
Virginia, in all this world there is
nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank Godl He
lives and he lives forever. A thou
sand years from now, Virginia, nay,
ten times ten thousand years from
now, he will continue to make glad
the heart of childhood"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11
KNOXVILLE.

Mrs. Matte Jones is i'll at this
writing.
Mrs. Joe Garriet of Green Castle,
Indiana, is visiting her father, Mr..
Tom Rayborn.
Miss Sallie Lee Lancaster of Lex
|ington, is the pleasant guest of Miss
Zelta Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett CLANCY, of
Winchester visited Mr.. and Mrs. F.
B. Rupard Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Butler enter
tanned a number of their friends with
|grapophone music last Thursday
night.
The home of James Niblick caught
fire Thursday morning, but with the
help oe kind neighbors, the fire was
extingulshed and little damage was
done.
Mrs. W. H. Rash and children Wis
tied Mrs. W. T. Bunch Sunday
Miss Ollie Sewell is visiting Miss
Lura Pace.
Miss Mary Dutton and Mr.. Lind
sey Douglass were the guests of
Emma West and brother, Shirley,
Tuesday night.
Mr.. Cecil Daniel visited his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Boone,
Sunday.
Mrs. Cliff Daniel and daughter,
Mrs. Oscar Forman visited Mrs. Joe
Hisle at "Holly Wood Sunday.
Miss Stella Bush is the charming
guest of Miss Alma Pharis.
Miss Lura Pace, Miss Ollie Sewell,
Mr.. Thaborn Pace, Miss Nellie Rash
and Mr.. Willie Johnson were the
pleasant guests of Miss Alma Pharis,
Sunday.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11
MARKED FOR DEATH.

"Three years ago / was marked fol-
death. A graveyard cough was
tearing my lungs to pieces. Doctors
failed to help me, and hope had fed
when my husband got DIR. Kings New
Discovery" says Mrs. A. c. Will
liams, of Bac, XIV. "The first dose
helped me and improvement kept on
until l had gained SO pounds in
weight and my health was fully re-
stored" This medicine holds tht
worlds healing record for coughs
and colds and lung and throat dis
eases. 1t prevents pneumonia. Sold
under guarantee at Phillips Drug
store. soc and $1.00. Trial bottle
free.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-11
is THERE A SANTA CLAUS?

The late Frank Marshalps famous
editorial in Charles Dana's New York
Sun answering the query, as there a
Santa CLAUSE" is particularly ap-
|propriate now. 1t is as follows:
eve take pleasure In answering at
once and thus prominently the COM
munication below, expressing at the
same time our qualification that its
faithful author is numbered among
the friends Of the Sun:
Dear Editor-I am eight years
old. Some Of my little friends
say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, eff you see it in The
Sun, it's So" Please tell me the
truth; is there a Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA O'HANLON,
lis West Fifty-ninth street.
Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of a skeptical age.
They do not believe except they see.
They think that nothing can be which
Is not comprehensive by their little
minds. All minds, Virginia, whether
they be mems or children's, are lit
tie. In this great universe of ours,
man is mere insect, an ant, in his
intellect, as compared with the
boundless world about him, as meas