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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
The Nex. wavs of PronpeEity,

The World Today for March.
 A thing usually lost sight of is that last year tho products of the American farms were valued at approximately seven and one quarter billions of dollars. Pause q moment to consider how many steel corpo- rations, railroads and cities this amount of wealth would supply for year. Nor has the country stopped grinding out this wealth. In 1908 this production will ex- ceed that of 1907. Where Is this wealth going if not into general consumption? And what does this consumption mean but trans portation, new equipment needs for rail- roads, new orders for equipment shops and rail mills. and so on around the endless chain of supply and demand?
 After one of our previous panics when practically every element now present in the situation was plainly visible, the prest- dent of one of the largest railways operat-. ing out Chicago expressed the petuiant wish that he had not outstanding order for new car or for a pound of new rails. Within six weeks the whole country had the signal that the onward march had been resumed. and the railroad president came supplies for his road.
 We have had a panic. true; but 1t Is an i'll wind that blows nobody good, and after having cried for years for cheaper labof and materials, and, at the same time, hay ing iterated and reiterated that the rail- roads of the country alone can not possibly be financed fast enough to meet the needs Of posterity. are the railroad magnates going to overlook present opportunities in the investment. labor and material mar kets?
 The signs of the times are so plain that he who runs may read, and they point to another wave of prosperity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
A JURY AND A VERDICT.

Justly severe have been the criti- cisms of those New York jurymen for their manner of arriving at verdict in a recent damage suit. The brief history of the matter is that a Mfr. Dickson sued the New York City Rail- way Company for damages in having caused the death of his child. It is said that nine of the juryInen favored a verdict for Dickson. but as the others refused to come to their view they agreed to decide the case by tossing a coin, and the railway company won.
 This is the story in brief. as We Ind 1t in the New York papers. The jus tlce or lack of justice of Dickson's claim is not the main point at issue. Juries often agree on verdicts which are not just or fair. but when they come to an agreement after full and fair deliberation we can respect their verdict even if we doubt the justice of their decision. It would have been the same in this instance. We do not know anything about the equity of Mir. Dicksons claim. Either he was en- titled to damages or he was not. ana If the jury has decided the case as any honest jury should do there could have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
4 Real Lady.

washington ItH16S.
 The most noticeable feature about a real lady is that she never makes herself conspicuous fin the slightest degree. She dresses, talks, walks and acts quietly. She Is dressed so mod estly and appropriately that she is not conspicuous.
 She never adopts flaring hats and gaudy colors simply because they are the fashion; she never laughs so loud- Iy that people turn to look at her. and she tries to cultivate that most excel lent thing in a woman a soft voice."
 To be a true lady means to be good many things. It means modesty, gentlensss. self f-centrol, and thought fuIness for other welfare.
 Try to realize tbat 1t is better to be ladylike than to be stylish" when to be the latter means that you must wear ridiculous hat and impossible shoes.
 All men admire and respect the wo- nap who is a lady as we'll as a wo- man. They know that if she is a lady in the truest sense of the word she is gentle, and there is not a man liv- Ing who does not love gentleness.
 When you find your voice and laugh ter growing loud and attracting att tention, just pause and ask yourself: Am I behaving as a lady wouId?' When you are choosing your clothes avoid conspicuous effects, l--a.: a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
THE oHARGE oF rnoNAeE.

The expression, ''peonage in the south.' falls strippingly from the tongues and pencils of many of the bretheren up. North. Half A century and more ago the word was rslavery'' with which they taunted and condemn ed us, but now 1t is ''peopage" and they ring all the changes on the term with what must be solacing delight to their souls. Not all of them up there are of this class, however. A trade publication in Chicago called Fuel" sees better than some others.
 "A newspaper writer" it says. 'tslls that the so-called 'peonase' in the South may be stopped by corporation. It is easier than that There is no such thing in the South as 'peOnage,' and what has been falsely so-caIled can be prevented absolutely if the worker will work according to his signed contract and not run away as soon as he gathers in his expense and transportation money and has another
  offer elsewhere"
 There may have been, there may still be, instances of both constructive and actual peonage in the South just as there are instances of white slavery up North, but the former are not at all common, and many which go by that name are not So as a matter of fact. AS Fuel" well argues. most of the cases called peonage result from the efforts of landowners to enforce con- tracts voluntarily entered into by ten ants. If a man contracts to work for an employer a certain length of time and violates his contract ana goes of; and then if the employer invokes the law to bring him back and force him to fuIfin his contract we straigthway hear peonage charged against the man who Is only trying in a legal way to enforce a contract. It is a mouth hll- ing charge to make against the South ern people and they are bound to keep on using 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03

In Australia there are nearly 1000 more men than women. A good place to ship consignment of New Jersey schoolmarms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
Small Farms and Diversifled Crop,
This Is My 42nd Birthday
Free A. Busse.

Fred A. Busse. the present Mayor of Chicago, was born In that city. March 3. 1888, and received his education in the public schools. At an early age he showed great aptitude for business and before he was 30 was we'll on the road to financial success. His princi- pal interests were in the transfer ana coal business which he conducted on q large scale. Being interested Tn the Republican politics of the city he was elected deputy sheriff. after serving one term as court bailiff. In 1896 he was sent to the Illinois Legislature and reward for his work in the Legislature he was elected State Treasurer on the Republican ticket. President Roose- welt, in 1905, placed him at the head of the Chicago postoffice, which position he held until elected to the Mayors ofice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
Ars we Eaueaslne Arle.ocra.s.

The World Today for March.
 They tell us that our education as t now er'' forms, is making aFistocrats. The charge Is just true enough to be serious. There are schools and colleges where those families that can afford t pay out a min having their cons pass examinations. join fraterpities and become enthusiasts over athletic teams. Many students act like snoba, Their standards of success are their very friendships seem determined by the size of incomes. Their synnpathies in college are limited by their eliques and vacation house parties. They toll not. just before examination; and yet Solomon in all hts glory had no such sense of the im- pertanes of Zion as they have of their fra- teFntties.
 To find the real student life of the nation one must look away from the half dozen institutions of which these charges are true, to the hundreds of other colleges and univef- sities in which the great bulk of our young temper of these schools Is spiendidiy dem ocratic. The great majority Or their stu dents are poor. A large proportion of these students are working their way, They take they. wait on tables, they hire out as farm hands. The instruction they get comes from meh almost without exception who them selves have had the same experience
 The man who knows college men in school and out knows that they are, the best friends democracy has. They have their pfeiudices; but what man without preJudices is worth anything? They have their friends. but they do not expect work ing men to rise to give them seats in street cars. They see certain dangers in or ganized labor. but they see even more dan gers In predatory wealth. As long as our colleges turn out this sort of aristocrats democracy need have no
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
Germany Rivals the United states.

Edwin D. Mead. in the March Atlantic.
 We think Chicago a miracle; but since 1870 Berlin has grown relatively and ahso- lutely faster than Chicago, the Greater Ber- lin having today a population of over three millions. Thirty years ago the population of Leipzig was less than 1b0, 000; today 1t Is more than half a million. Hamburg then had almost precisely the same population as Boston; today, although Boston's growth has been so great, Hamburg, with more than S00,000 people is larger than Boston; the growth of her commerce has been vast ly greater and her docks and port facilities are incomparbly finer. models commended to Boston for imitation at the very moment by an expert commission. The Hamburg. American line and the North German Lloyd are the largest steamship companies in the world, larger than any English compa- nies, the former having more than 150 ocean steamers iu It's service. The great railway stations are the finest in Europe, incomparably superior to those in the great yet, the new union station building at Leip- zig. will cost S25,000, 900.
 The University of Berlin Is planning a special department devoted to the wise and beautiful laying-o out of cities. with provision for making the lectures available to the d. recting municipal officials of Germany. Tn industrial and technical education from top to bottom, Germany's achievements are far ahead of us. It is by science that she has pushed her way to industrial supremacy fin so many fields. that she has captured the chemical industries of Europe and in So large degree the electrical industries. and that she Is distancing or efowding Englond and ourselves in the markets of the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
HnAR THE AuTOCRAT.

The President of the United states occasionally sets on edge the teeth of The Hartford Times. One of his latest breaks is contained In message he sent to the President of Peru. saying:
 am much pleased to receive your tslssr,m ns .s so,aay: E , and . I heartily ap- garding the American fleet. The en- thusiastic welcome and friendly dem onstration at Callao have gratifed and ever had for Peruvians sentiments of sincere esteem. Accept the assursnces of the highest consideration and warm regards from me and from my people.
 That last expression. from me and from my people" gets onto the nerves of The Times. which thus comments.
 Here. indeed. is an innovation. It used to be the fashion In other coun. tries for supreme rulers of the iin- psrisi p.aiov variety T, to indulge in the ex- It is now regarded even by such ex- alted percentages as somewhat out of date; The Car of Russia mighH use German emperor might do the same thing. although he would in view of the existence of sundry millions of so- cialists in his realm. be more likely. -my soldiers than of ..my people, King Edward is not on record. we be- lieve, as speaking of Engiishmen. Seotchmen and Irishmen as "my peo- ple, and we are quite certain that the president of the French republic would never so chisracterize the people of France. In the Orient. the Mikado might undoubtedly so describe the na- tivss of his country. and there are numerous dattos and other potentates in the outlying Philippines who would be entirely justified In using the term
 The Pope and Mrs. Mary Baker Ed dy may properly enough refer to the large number of human beings who &C., cept their teachings and authority as my people" but the question remains whether a person employed by the pso- certain carefully defined duties for a limited time, and who is merely their employe and agent while attempting to perform those duties. and of no than s5,6oo. 900 other Americans after the end of his term, does we'll to speak of his fellow citizens as my people" when addressing the head of a foreign
 Yet. 1t must be admitted, we sup pose. that there are few millions out of the s5,000.000 who will see no im- 'Gpse if bs Tefers m to or them 0sss sS amine' AZ. perently there are some Americans who will even like to be tagged in. that way. But times change and people change with them Most of those who rejoice to be known as ''my people" to-day will be equally happy If they find them selves Mir. Bryan's people in about a year from now.
 We feel no surprise, of course at the evident disgust displayed by The Times. nor at the disapprobation 1t displays. but the brother must remem- Der this is an age and an era of ppog- ress. The use of the expression, ''my people" is simply one more evidence Of the Rooseveltian advance towards autocracy. The people and Che of- ice of President belong to him. the former to be dictated to and ruled and the later to be turned over to the man of his choice--unless he decides to re- tain it for himself. My people" have only themselves to thank or blame if they are regarded as subjects.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
What tue State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
Not . Good Adycrti.ement.

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 The humber of unconstitptionai acts fathered and carried through the Legis- first biush advertise him as fit man to be on the Supreme bench.
 No Greed For office. Eutaw Whig. and Observer.
 All the offices in the county seem to be wanting for candidates as no one has yet manifested a desire for them. The County Executive Committee mas S Ho' es eaS no dse sof anyone to set out in the open
 Auothes Name For IL.
 1t has been officially decided that blow accordions, which omit the half notess are not musical instruments, put toys. In Eeighborhoods where they prevail they have long been chased as internal machines
 Time They Were Showing It. Huntsville Mercury.
 The might rider must go. Ken lucky and Tennessee are states power ful enough to enforce the laws on their statute books, and the executives of both states should rise to the oc- casion and stamp out forever the reign of terror now prevailing
 Must Make . start. Tfmes-News.
 Ultimately every road of importance In the county will be improved and made passable at all seasons, but this cannot be done in one year. A start must be made and 1t Is to be hoped that the people will be patriotic enough to vote for a bond issue, and let the good work begin.
 Small Farms and Diversified Crops. Journal.
 . North Ala bama is the Sand mountain country where diversity of agriculture Is practiced and small farming engages much of the attention of the people. Nowhere in the state has there been greater strides made in the poultry in- dustry and this year e strong effort is on foot to make trucking one of the sources of wealth productlon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
The sun Frof, q BallooIn.

H. H. Clayton in The March Atlantic
 At the height yof two miles. the sun shines with fierce intensity unknown be- low where the dust and the denser air scat ter the rays which, thus diffused. lose nook and eoTner of our houses. At heights exceeding five miles. this dlffused light Is mostly gone and the sun shines glowing the blue is so dark as to apprS ach black ness At the outer limits of the atmos- phere. the sun would appear "a brilliant star of massivel size among other stars; and if one stepped from its burning rays into shadow he would enter Egyptian darkness At the height of mile and half, We prevent sunburn. although the air around us was but little warmer than that of the previous night, being about forty-fiye de- balloon began to cool and sink. we were obliged to throw out much sand. casting 1t away a scoopful at a time and just after sunset. it was even necessary to empty two or three bags at once.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03

been no serious fault found with their decision. Mir. Dickson would have had the right of appeal. and might have got justice in the end if he was justly entitled to verdict When the ver- dict was announced and Justice Guy learned how they had arrived at an agreement he promptly fined the jurors fifty dollars each. saying;
 This Is the greatest outrage upon Justice have ever known. You must realize that this Is a court of justice I cannot allow your conduct to go un- punished.
 That was brief, but 1t was to the point and we agree with The New York Commercial that if Judge Guy sits on the bench the remainder of his life 'fhe will never do better two-minutes bit of work than this" The Commerc- iai adds this comment:
 A more merited punishment was never imposed. Action from the bench more wholsesome in its unquestionable
  at least checking what Is believed to be an all-too- common jury-roona evil, can scarcely be conceived. This jury's outrage upon justice was no doubt the greatest" one that Judge Guy had ever seen, but 1t Is easy enough to imagine infinitely greater ones that have not happened to come under his notice and are known only to those guilty of perpetrating them. Almost since the establishment of the system of trial by jury there has been stand ing joke about jurors reaching yer dict through drawing lots" or some other scheme of chance. But there is every reason to believe that the thing is no joke but a fact--a gigantic evil far more common than Is generally known Not that the violation of the oath through this practice always involves all the members of a jury or any considerable portion of them. but that a 5iror individually not infrequently decides how to vote by chipping a copper" or something Of the sort. and without the knowledge of his fellow-jurors. The process saves time, mental effort. discussion. III feel ing perhaps--and there are men who hold Justice lightly compared with such considerations. If for no other reason the fear of exposure and punishment will now be likely to deter such jurors from violating their oaths and the law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
RoosEvELT AGAIN.
Editor Ridder Says He wnl Run For
 RreHideut.


 President. Nashville Special to New York Globe.
 "Roosevelts going to run on the Re- publican ticket. The candidates will be Roosevelt and Bryan. The Presi- dent wants to run"
 York. President of the New York Straats Zeitung. whom. 1t is alleged, the President called the iimburger en-
 Mr. Rider was at the White House this morning and subsequently, was asked if he had talked with the Presi- dent about being called the iimbur- ger envoy"
 II can say officially that this was not discussed" said the editor, with emphasis on the "officially."
 Are you willing to say officially that you think the President didn't
 As to this the New Yorker was non committal.
 MT. Rider is the head of the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers Association, and he has been here for some days trying to get the tariff taken off white paper. It was said at the White House that he had talked this over with the President. and that MT Roosevelt was Mir. Ridder had talk with Attorney General Bonaparte today. and there is reason to believe that proceedings are contemplated under the sherman law against the so-called white paper trust
 mood when he. left the White House tion.
 T don't know a damn thing about it, said the speaker. Nothing of that kind is pending before Congress-"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
DRIFT WOOD
nY PHIL H. ARMsTHoNG

| A girl can have an awful cheerful disposition with pretty teeth. If the average young clerk would | watches the clock, there would be more promotions l A wilkesbarre young woman ate an | indeiible pencil the other day. which no doubt made marked Impression on her appetite. 'ris strange to read of . blizzard in Chicago while the peach trees are blooming in Montsomery. If the conspirators who threaten to blow up the American fleet should hap pen to step on your Uncle Bob Evanss pet corn, there would be pretty warm reception.
 Tn Georgia even a blind tiger may prove a White Elephant. Louisville was named after Louis XVI. of France--yes, several years ar ter.
 4 Russian does not become of age until he is 2s. stiil 1t is to be m before then.
 In Australia there are nearly 1000 more men than women. good place so Sht " o SO.iSteiA'h VI "" ~~--"0V schoolmarms.
 Louisville was first settled in 177s by Col. George Rogers Clark, who landed with thirty families from Vir- ginia, on Corn Island, and some of her citizens have been living on corn whis- key ever since.
 New York City has on it's police force lS7 men whose business 1t is to open and close doors and watch the persons who enter and leave. Yes. we have been aware for some time that they were familiar with the opening and closing of the side-door entrances to certain bar-rooms on Sunday.
 The birds around Montgomery are singing notes that everybody Is willing to endorse.
 Divorees have brought into the State Treasury of South Dakota. in the last ten years, about $5.000, 900. So much for failing to find their afinities.
 When you see a dollar lying on the sidewalk, you should pick 1t up. for 1t Is sign of good luck.
 Thomas A. Edison saved a woman's life the other day. It is to be pre- sumed. however. that he didn't invent any excuses.
 what Men Tell Women.
 As sure as the arm
 Twines round the neck.
 There'll be few lies told.
 By heck. te
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
4 DIME TO A DOLLAR.

rhe xnraen R. RanaalI Memorial Fund.
 Reticenca 10 offer it's mite to q wor- @siy,hna dasired result. often holds back the hand that fears competition vita one better fitted.
 He who gives his dime to good ob- iect is doing his share with him who gives his d0liara
 Therefore, this paper will receive any and all contrib I .ions of from Ten Cents up to One Dollar. and will list The same fwith or without namesl in this place for the James R Randall Me- uoria1 Fund.
 No subscription of over $1 win be lfated here. Any one desiring to give mora tan write directly to the editor 5r to T. c. DeLeon. Mobile.
 If any newspaper desires to aid this worthy and rnuch-needed sestimonial it can do SO by keeping this paragraph standing at its column head and re- beating this note.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
The Books We Read

CHAFieStOH NEWS ana LOufleF-
 It Is not uncommon to hear elderly peo- pie lament that no one now reads the books that were popular in their young days; and they will probably add that no living writer can for moment compare with the generation of authors that has passed away; by which they generally mean Dickens. Taekeray George Elliot, BulweT. Troliope, Bronte, Hawthorne. etc. We have, however. every now and then. report from librarians of large libraries which goes far to disprove the correctness of the complaints of these 'old souls" since they show that many of the authors named are still in great demand by the public and hold their own very well along side of the books which are in favor for the moment. It may be that the book sellers report larger sales of the new books; but 1t must be remembered that every private library. pretending at all to completeness. contains editions of the authors named above Some yeaFt ago Mir. Mabie wrote a paper on the most popular novels in America, basins his re- marks upon a statement from all of the important libraries in the country; and t was not little surpriseing to find that in the table based on these reports Davis Copperfie1d'' headed the list with a per eentage of s2 and that '1vanhoe" followed closely with ss.