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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04

in the years from 1896 to 1908 and the result has been a party with one thought. that of redeeming the country from the evil effects of Republican rule and legislation.
 A better or more brilliant campaign has never been made in this country than the one which has just closed. Everywhere Mir. Bryan inspired con- fidence and hope. and friend and roe alike. testified to the sincerity of the man. and to his earnest desire to ad- vance the honor and prosperity of his country.
 He did nothing for which his friends or his party need to apologize. His campaign was financed through the contributions of men who had no fav- ors to ask of government or the pow CTS that be. Their offerings were those of free will and heart, and better these in small amounts and high mo- tive than millions from favored in- terests which have prospered by plum dering the helpless.
 Although the result is disappointing to several millions of voters the con- solation yet remains that their leader and cause deserved success. While it is natural in view of such an untoward end to feel depressed, let us not forget the future. The campaign of 1908 has cleared away many Instructions and blazed the path for future success. The principles of the Democratic party will live as long as there remains a vestige of love for true independence in the hearts of the people. We may be defeated now but we are neither destroyed nor dismayed.
 We have a party now that Is united and we must move forward as one man for the contests that are ahead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
College bred Women.

Phlladelph1a Ledger.
 President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, discusses in the current issue of a popular magazine "rhe Kind of Women Colleges Produce" The keynote of the article is the sem tence: '"rhe ideal of our colleges for young women, especially those whose regimentation is chiefly feminine, is not principally wifehood and mother hood. but glorified spinsterhood." Pres ident Hall Is of the opinion that sch plastic specification is too much the end and aim of women's colleges-that they make it their main concern to instil and inspire high ideals of schol- arship instead of training women for their prime functions of wifehood and motherhood. He thinks that for wo- men who contemplate teaching the colleges make inadequate provision, and that a course in education 'could easily be expanded and enriched so as to con- stitute about all the best that col legiate education could contribute and be a preparation for motherhood so broad as to be the most liberal and cultured course to which the giri can be subjected" Philosophical introspec- tion, he olds. sho'nd be dIscouraged; a womans finer intuition guides her aright through perplexing ethical mazes, and her need Is not for self analysis which may develop into an obsession making war upon the naive and the inutitive."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
He Wa. "Just Going TO.e

Success Magazine.
 He meant to insure his house. but it burned before he got around to it.
 He was just going to pay note when it went to protest.
 He was just going to help neigh bor when he died.
 He was just going to send some flowers to a sick friend when 1t proved too late.
 He was just going to reduce his debt when his creditors shut down" on him.
 He was just going to stop drinking and dissipating when his health be- came wrecked.
 He was just going to provide proper protection for his wife and family when his fortune was swept away from him.
 He was just going to introduce a better system into his business when it went to smash.
 He was just going to call on cus- toner to close deal when he found his competitor had preceded him and secured the order.
 He was just going to quit work a while and take vacation when ner- vous prostration came.
 He was just going to repair his side- walk when a neighbor fell on it and broke leg.
 He was just going to provide his wife with more help when she took to her bed and required a nurse. doctor and a maid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
The Tyranny of Grammar. Havelock Ellis in The Atlantic Month

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 For most of those who deliberately seek to learn to write words seem gen. orally to be felt as of less importance than the art of arranging themIt is thus that the learner in writing tends to become the devoted student of gram mar and syntax. That Is, indeed, tendency which always increases. Civ- ilization develops with a conscious ad. hesion to formal order, and the writer writing by fashion or by ambition. and not by divine right of creative inc stinct-follows the course of civiliza- tion. It is an unfortunate tepdency, for those whom it affects conquer by their number. As we know, writing that Is real is not learned that way. Just as the solar system was not made in accordance with the astronomers laws, so writing Is not made by the laws of grammar. Astronomer and grammarian alike can only come in at the end, to give a generalized descrfp- tion of what usually happens in the respective fields 1t p1eases them to ex- plore. When a new comet, cosmic or literary, enters their sky 1t Is their descriptions which have to be read justed, and not the comet. There seems to be no more pronounced. mark of the deeadence of a people and It's literature than servile and rigid subserviency to rule. It can only make for justification, for anchylosis, for petrification, all the milestones on the road of death. In every age of dem- ocratic plebianism, where each man thinks he Is as good a writer as the others and takes his laws from the others. having no laws of his own nature, it is down this steep path that men. in a flock, inevitably run.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4 1908.

They have some real bad boys in Chattanooga. judging from accounts printed in The Times. of their pranks In that city on Halloween night. II says:
 Saturday night gangs of boys made raids upon residences carrying on nbrch furniture, tearing off gates and Iioing other unlawful acts not licensed by the occasion. The most dangerous p1 their offenses, however, were those affecting the operation of cars on the electric street railway lines. The gfeasing of tracks on grades subjected kfae passengers in their cars to serious dAnger, while the placing of rocks and other Instructions in the switcn frogs" might have occasiOned accidents en- dAngering life and limb. Fortunately, flfe company. in anticipation of these acts of laWlessness, had provided large number of watch CTS at various points on the lines and accidents were happily averted.
 Such pranks as these go entirely be- yond the limit of proper boyish fun. The old saying that "boys will be boys" is a truism, but, as The Times else- where observes, such boyish excesses as these are the foundation of night riding and other crimes of the elders.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04

As an evidence of what may be ac- eomplished by pure sensationalism ref erence is made to the fact that Carrie Nation. is now proclaimed to be worth considerably over a quarter of a mill lion dollars. It has all been accumu- lated by unwomanly bluster. by viola ton of the proprieties in all ways pos sibIe, by getting herself imprisoned oc- casionally, and in all other possible ways keeping herself before the pub lie. No matter how discreditable her actions and words may have been at any time or in any place. she has not regretted or felt at all ashamed of 1t provided it put money in her pocket. So far as we are aware, none of her money has been accumulated by meth ods which any good woman would con- slider right and proper. She has made it by unsexing herself, by degrading all true womanhood. and by making her self unfaVorably regarded and talked about. Can any good American woman envy her notoriety and wealth?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
Lone-wlnded Preachers.

w westminster GdIelte
 Dean Lefroy. who has expressed the opinion that ten minutes Is long enough for a sermon. would have met with scant sympathy from some divines of past centuries.
 Thomas Hooker considered three hours a fair average allowance for a sermon, though on one occasion, when he was i'll. he let his congregation off more lightly. Pausing at the end of fifteen minutes, he rested a while and then continued his homily for two hours longer. Cramner's sermons were each a small book when set up in type; and Baxter, Knox, Bunyan and Calvin rarely reached Lastly. my brethren" under two hours.
 George Herbert once said The parson exceeds not an hour in preach ing, because all ages have thought that a competency" but a certain rec tor of Bilbury, Gloucestershire. was of another opinion. for he never sat down under two hours. The squire, we learn, usually withdrew after the text was announced. smoked his pipe outside and returned for the blessing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
l MORNING THOUGHT
BY .. MARVIN NICHOLS.
e EII. Life's Vain Delusl0n

A Ahhs
 Life's Vain This Is the
 DeIuslon era of the
 lightning ex- press. Distant places must be quick ly reached. Nothing succeeds like success."--that's a false philosophy. Some mems real success Is but the story of their failure. :. Get there! that's the shibboleth now. The dauRh- ter fin the parlor grinds off some Hun Ear'an rhapsody with the crank of a pianola. Boys quit our public schools in the eighth grade and go to business college. They come home. start @ pea nut stand. and bust They call it edu- cation. We want our classic courses strictly interlinear. Get-rich-quick has crept into everything. Life Is only a surface disturbance. It looks like rich vein now, but you come to find its terrible deception. Some gold is only a pocket deposit; other gold is found more and more as you follow the lode to richer depths. We're living in an age of foppishness and illusion, Thought and action are nothing until they demonstrate an earning capac.sy. This Is the Rome to which all roads must lead. But to build that Rome means dissolution and oblivion. on. for the golden age when thought IS the badge of aristocracy and the king dom of brains is the realm for which we sigh. 4s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
Shocking! shockIngl

Philadelphia North American.
 Let men smoke. Good tobacco, used moderately, is a sedative for the nerves. You can no more stop men smoking than you can stop them breathing"
 This opinion. uttered by Dr. Rachel Skidelsky, was the bomb which cre- ated consternation al the meeting of the womans Club in the home of Mrs. A. B. Nesbit Tuesday.
 When she had finished half dozen women wanted the floor slmultane- ously. There was a long discussion, in which 'my husband" was frequent ly quoted as an authority.
 The temerous statement of pr. Ski delsky was made in reply to a remark made by Dr. Harriet R. Westbrook, who was a speaker at the last meet ing of the National Municipal League. She was shocked and embarrassed, she said, because nearly all the men were smoking.
 ish. but most unpleasant to me as I could not get rid of the smell of to- bacco in my clothes for 6 week. |"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
HOW THE ARAB TRAVELS.
Cover. sH sIss as.iIs ss Hs.sss ss E. sss sssss

Covers Miles of Desert by Never Wor-
 rying Hfmself or ,His Mount.
 It is most interesting to note the way the Arab treats his faithful friends. So inured. indeed, is the Arab pony by long usage and descent to the my own pony positively improved on the treatment and never saw him so fit as when he came back from the trip. declares writer in the London
 If the Arab and his horse are by legend closely allied they are in point of fact even more intimately connect at all times. by far the most Interest ing topic of conversation. He Is ur- groomed. unclipped unhaltered, for the Arab prefers to shackle him by means the fore and hind fetlocks and long line tethering him above the hind fet- lock to peg in the ground. Thus he should oSs ere aoGS Se sny Er ron Gous herSase hand can forage for 1t
 Perhaps one of the principal reasons why the Arab so excels at long jour. nor does he ever distress his mount unless there is real cause to do so. He simply continues a steady walk all day and h1ardlg eyer gaiiops in ths. the Tild SIh1 depicted by. artists. His horse. being in thoroughly hard condition owing to the quantity of sound barley he Is get less unduly pressed; thus he can stand very long days. without undue fatigue. Even these people seldom go far afield alone but make up parties of dozen or more. fully armed. when their point is far distant. (. ~
 During these journeys they march about fifteen hours out of the twenty four their times being largely govern ed by the moon The. average, speed is about four miles an hour, so that they cover from day to day some sixty miles. When asked whether this pro they replied that the first few days al- ways were exhausttng but after the fourth day they could sit in the saddle any length of time without fatigue. This statement too was entirely borne out by my own experience. for the fourth day. which was. considerably the longest. was by far the least tirlng.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04

New York, which now includes Brooklyn, is big city and they appa- rently do things on a, big scale. if we may judge by the expense budget for the present year, which is something over S15O. .OOO. Just how much of this enormous sum is for legitimate ex- penses and how much Is rake of. |" would be hard to ascertain. but it is hard to believe that even a city as large as New York can need so much money for annual legitimate expenses. No doubt there are some very rich pickings for the favored ones of Gotham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
Cheap Freight Rates.
Manufacturers Record.

NIlI UT dN ' UT UI D ANNVVI Us
 That dozen eggs can be shipped from Chicago to Baltimore, a thous- and miles for less than the United States charges for carrying a single letter. and that a leading railroad such as the Chesapeake and Ohio must haul a ton of coal more than three miles to earn one cent, are in- teresting facts which throw a flood of light when rightly considered upon the transportation interests of the country. People who hold up the working of the Postof1ce Department as an illustration of government ef- ficiency against individual work should contrast the difference between carrying a dozen eggs thousand miles for less than two cents. while a single letter carried any distance. whether 1t be one mile or a thousand, must pay two cents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
4,OOo Pennies Found on Beggar.

New York Press.
 Patrolman Rockett of the First In- spection district staff made an arrest of a fake blind beggar" in the 'L" station at Bowery and Hudson Street Tuesday. He turned out ro be a ver- itable copper mine. The man. who said he was George Gabay, AS years old. of 1O3 Bowery. had between 5000 and 4000 pennies in his pockets when searched, besides other coins of small denominations. amounting in all to about S60. Gabay was sent to the work house for vagrancy by Magis- trate Barlow in the night court.
 He was well dressed and wore smok- ed glasses. Rockett took him to the East Fifth Street Police Station. There he was searched. His capaciOus over coat pockets were filled with pennies. He had copper coin scattered in all his pockets, besides several small bags filled with the coins. After Rockett had counted 5000 of them he got tired and put them all together in a bag The biggest coin the beggar had was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
This Date in History
NOYemheR 4.


 1650--King William III of Great Britain. born at The Hague.
 1877-Marriage of William. Prince of Orange. and Mary Stuart, daughter of the Duke of York.
 1787-Edmund Kean, famous English actor. born. Died May 15, 1883. 18OS-Riva Palacio. Mexican patriot, born In the City of Mexico Died 1SSs--Martiaf law established in Montreal.
 1S42-Wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd at Springfield, H. 1869--George Peabody, philanthrop- ist died in London. Born In Danvers Mass. February IS. 1795.
 18S4-Grover Cleveland of New York elected President of the United States 19O7--Hon. S. W. McInnis. Provin- cial Secretary and Minister of Educa- ton of Manitoba. died.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
ssALL FISH OF PACIFIC.
Great Schools Along Southern Caai-
 fornia Coast.


 Washington Post.
 Reports that the sardine industry Is failing in France and on the north east coast of the United States" said William M. Ray, of San Diego, Cal, need not worry lovers of that succu- lent fish, as there are schools of un" told millions to be had for the taking of the coast of Southern California and in the Gulf of California. It Is only within the last year that any at- tention has been paid to the industry in my State, and now one small can nery has begun operations at San Di- ego.
 The United States Fish Commission has been experimenting with the Cal- ifornia sardine and anchovy and has found that in flavor they equal, If not excel, the French fish. The Chinese and Japanese fishermen have been talk ing the fish for number of years.
 "A fish that has been adopted from Eastern waters Is the shad. It Is only a few years ago that they were intro- duced in our waters, and now they are plentiful all along the coast. There Is some talk of beginning to can them, the same as salmon, but as yet noth- ing has been done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
THE BIG HORSE.

Draught Animal Getting Larger ana
 Larger.
 The draught horse Is getting bigger and bigger. In the late sos if one weighing over 1000 pounds came from France 1t was an event. and the horse papers talked about him-with pic- lures. Today the draught importer will touch nothing under 1,S00 pounds, and Swear colts often run to ton. a
 The favorite draught breed in Amer ica-6 or to lis the Percheron of France He comes from Le Perche, southwest of Paris. and nowhere else The horse breeders of that district have banded themselves into q guild or union, says Golfers, and decreed that no horse from outside the borders of their district can ever be recorded as a Percheron in the stud book of the breed. A colt foaled just across the line out of a mare and by a sire correctly registered cannot himself be registered.
 The foundation blood of the Perche- ron is or is said to be. Arab. The Frenchman will tell you that Per- cheron is an Arab made heavy" by the climate But whether Arabian ex- tract or not 1t is sure that the breed has been made heavy by the climate or human selection during the past half century
 When George Sand wrote the Per- cheron was famous as a road horse. a traveller a ground coverer. Her heroes used to drive hither and thither. "be- hind four splendid distance eating Per- cherons." No modern Frenchman would dream of driving up to his Min cites door behind four Percherons
 The Perche peasants are artists. sculptors, who within the limitations of their material most wonderfully fashion into being their equine imag- things. It Is much easier and simpler to carve a horse of the shape you want Lucerne pasture in the Eure-et-Loir district. Dazed by their artistry. the French Minister of Agriculture gravely reports: These men of Le Perche are incredible! Command from them horse and they will build you one to your specifications.
 From the current report of the French horse breeding bureau 1t IS learned that during the fiscal year 1614l4 mares were bred to stations belonging to the State; Si,207 to ap- proved stallions, 9.467 to authorlzea stallions. That Is bureaucratic isn't it?-that a country should be able 70 report a thing like that. And in the archives of the French Government Is the name and description of each mare in France, together with data about the horse to which she was bred,
 The French never dream of breeding to stallions of mixed or unknown blood. But the American farmer who bred his mare to a Percheron for heavy colt. usually changes his mind a cou. ple of years later. puts what he got from the first cross to coach horse for style. this product to a trotter for speed, and the grand result to a jack for a mule. As a horse breeder, he doesn't shine, as M. Vallee de Loncez remarked He looks only at the out. side of a sire (and apparently not so what kind of blood is running inside.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04

Sometimes @ Republican editor, in
 the heat of political discussion. can wander so far from the truth that he almost becomes original and interest ing. A late example was noted in The Oklahoma Capital a few days ago when, in the course of an editorial soreed In favor of Judge Taft. it begged It's readers to remember that all the good of our nation-every bit-was made possible by the Republican party" Is not that just about the limit of edI- torial evasion of the truth? We have noticed some pretty good efforts at un- bIushing prevarication from other sources during the heated campaign, but this one is entitled to the chromo,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
AfOneY.-

Golfers Weekly.
 The story of Thaw is the story of money. A judge in Pittsburg does wrong to his position by issuing a writ, the effect and apparent purpose of which would be to help Thaw es- cape judge in New York State takes a position only little less ex- emplary. We have not, met a lawyer who could speak of these two decisions without sad confession that the bench in the United States does not reach the hearts desire. When Thaw was on trial his lawyers introduced perjured testimony. The Hearst and Pulitzer made a martyr of Thaw and an injured saint of his cynical wife. It is a story, from the begin ming, of the malign power of gold. It narrates the baleful influence of money seeking evil. From the com mencement, when money bought for the young degenerate the lowest forms of pleasure, through the trial. when money corrupted his lawyers, his wit nesses and the yellow press, on to this ignoble end, when the very courts bend before the vicious power, 1t makes one livid tale, in which money is the vil- lain and justice is the maytyr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
nerIxntion of s.Taar.,,

London Telegraph.
 One. ahas become so accustomed to regard the title "tsar" as the special attribute of the ruler over. the Rus sian empire that, its reported assunp- tion by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria causes something of a shock As a matter of fact the world, which may be regarded as the equivalent of "em- peror,' Is found in various disgulses in all the Slavonic languages. and the rulers of the ancient Bulgarian empire used the title of >"tsar." The word was first imported into English under the Polish form of "czar." and that spelling Is still commonly used; but the form which gives the actual pro nunciation Is "tsar." though perhaps "tsare" is more correct, the final Co" being. only very slightly sounded.
 ITS" corresponds to the twenty ninth letter of the Russian language. which is very rich in double conso- nants. In Bulgarian, Servian and Bo- hemian or Czech, the word is car" the ''c" having the pronunciation of cts" !" In It's fuller form of tsisari (Russian). tsesari Gold Bulgarian), and similar variants in Servian, Croatian and Slovenian, the word Is derived from the Latin caesar" the cognomen of Cafus Julius Caesar, which was adopted after the time of Hadrian, as the title of the reigning emperor's heir and destined successor. Hence 1t came to signify any supreme ruler. especially an em-- porer of the old Roman empire, or of many. It was probably through the old high German form of "Kelsar" that the word passed into the Russian language