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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
A coon pEcIsIvN.

The opinion handed down by Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States, affirming the right of any state to provide separate schools for the white and colored races should put a stop to all aerid discussion and in-feeling on the subject in any DOT ton of the country. It Is right which the Southern states generally have maintained all along, and which should be maintained throughout the country. The trouble and friction originating in Berea College in Ken lucky was the cause of the case going up to the highest court in the govern ment, and it is we'll that there can be no doubt of the right of a Southern State to separate the races in all edu- cationaI institutions.
 As general thing the best informed and sensible members of the negro race in the South do not favor mixed schools. They know that whether 1t proceeds from prejudice or from deeper cause. there will always he friction and ill-feeiing where the CO., education of the races is attempted. Neither in social nor educational life can the races associate together on terms of equality. and it is unwisdom to attempt 1t. Mixed schools could not exist in Alabama and it is the same in all other Southern States. Even in the North we find frequent reference in the papers to the animosity and frio- tion between white and black, where they go to the same school. and it will grow worse as the oolored population increases up there.
 The truth is that no such decision as that recently rendered should have been required. Every state should pro vide amply for the education of the colored children. and every State should provide by law that such eiuea' tion shall be in separate schools. This is one State right that should have been admitted and acted on in all states, and the opinion of Justice Brewer removes all doubt as to the right of a state in the premises.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER F, 1908.
SMALL BUSINESS.

Roosevelt inviting labor leaders to a dinner at the White House and not extending the invitation to Samuel Gompers was an act thoroughly characteristic of the small prejudices of the man. Mir. Gompers supported Bryan very warmly and that was enough to queer him with the occu- pant of the White House who actually thinks himself great. Even The India napolis Star. rampant as 1t is in all matters concerning the administration or the party, does not hesitate to eriticise the Roosevelt exhibition. It concludes an editorial on the subject thus:
 We do not like the implication that Gompers was bad citizen for support ing Bryan and other labor leaders were good citizens for supporting Taft. Fear of insidious terrorism of this sort cost the Republican national ticket some votes in the recent campaign. It ia inconceivable that the President elect would favor any such attempt at official discipline of political oppon- ents. The incident would not leave quite so unpleasant an impression If 1t could be positively known that the President did not mean to discriminate against Gompers, or even to draw him into ambush by getting some complaint out of him and then retorting that a mans house Is his castle or something of that sort
 Whatever opinion we may have of Mir. Tatt's politics we cannot conceive his descending to such an exhibition of petty spite and malice. The wording of the invitation to the labor leaders was really a reflection on MF. Gompers and we have no doubt that it was SC intended for that would be just like Roosevelt He may possibly have ex- pected to draw Gompers into contro- versy which would have given him a chance to hurl abuse and misrepresen' tation at his victim. after his usual habit, but whatever his intentions were he was guilty of a very small piece of business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17

phrases which might have been literally re- peated in this eorgons murder case, which was appealed on the plea that the prisoner vas constitutionalIy entitled to trial by jury Congress. said the Great Expound- CT, could govern Florida as t pleased:
 Tt might even deny trial by jury" That was merely an argument in court. but 1t was successful argument and the court gave judgement in acordanee with it. There have, been various other decisions of the FedeFAl courts to the same effect, and 1t ought by this time to be pretty well es- tablished that the Consultation of thf United states was ordained for the Unitei
 states and its people. and not for any oi
 the ends of the earth which may fortuft
 ously come under our control
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
SEES WAR ON PACIFIC.
Tokyo statesman Says Japan and Am-
 erlcn Must Flight. NaN Yorl Snacial fn The Wa shingt

Tokye Statesman Says Japan and Am-
 erlcn Must Flight.
 New York Special to The Washington
 Post
 war between Japan and the United States is inevitable" Is the startling deciaration made by Gen. Viscount To- rio, Japanese elder. statesman and one of the closest counReiers to the Mika- do. Not only is 1t fnevita hie, but. on the same prophetic authority. it will last not three nor thirty. but perhaps 100 years, and will be the greatest war in the history of mankind.
 Gen. Torio makes this bold prophecy in an interview secured by Richard Barry, the war correspondent, in the December number of a New York mag azine. It is a remarkable utterance, coming as 1t does from a man of such great prominence. Gen. Tories Is the first authoritative voice of Japan to predict war with America, As to the length of the predicted conflict, the Seer of Atami," as the magazine arr ticlas entities him, said: . fs.
 Come and see me when you re- turn from the first stage. Your hair will be as gray as Hafne.''
 "whatl 30 years warp
 Perhaps 100," he answered. You have a great nation. and we have well--we have a nation, too"
 DO you then regard so confidently a conflict with American"
 T regard 1t as inevitable. You are encroaching on the rights of our fam fly" :,
 And you feel certain of the out
 "Remember this.p end as he spoks the old man rose. sThs whole differ enee between you and Us hinges on 8 thought. what your philosophers call a mental attitude. That thought is the attitude we bear toward one another. Among you the purposes of life are mix ed; sometimes you are a family; soHley times you are not familT With us the purposes of life are absolute. We have but one purpose-duty; the high- est duty is the family,P
 "In q word" the magazine article continues. "the seer would testify that 1t Is one of the permanent eondl. tions of history that the white man shall not occupy Asia, or any consider able part of it. for any great length of time. Victorious Japan has developed great ambitions. Never will she be content until she controls that great system of islands that stretches down from Nagasaki to Australia. She can not like, though she may initiate the powers. which, while professing friend ship to her. still refuse te admit Jap anese into their possessions on terms of equality on the ground that they age inferior, or, at all events. an uncivil- ized people"
 Fifteen years ago Gen. FnrIe wrote for the Mikado and his immediate ad- visers report on the conditions in Korea, In this report he forefoid the necessity of war with Russia Then and ever since he urged Japan to prepare.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Landor.s Gentle CAaraeter.

The Argonaut.
 One of the lectures in which the late Bishop Potter was most entertaining illustrated the eccentricities of the artistic temperament and contained his anecodote of Landor. the poet. Landor, he said, was at the same time the most violent and brutal and most delicate and sensitive of men. He adored flow CTS. The gardens of his beautiful villa at Florence were full of flowers. and the poet walked among them daily, never plucking them. only bending over them reverently to admire their loveliness and their perfume. His cook one day served him a wretched dinner, and In his rage the poet threw the man out the window into bed of splendid roses. As the cook writhed with 8 broken leg below. Landor from his window eXclaming in a horror stricken voice: Good gracious, for got the roses"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17

Advocates of government ownership of railroads will not derive much com fort from the statement that in Swift zerland. where about a year and a half ago about 1,530 miles of railroad out of a total of 2.s7O came under govern nent ownership, the expenses of man agernent have exceeded the receipts to an extent that necessitates the levy ing of tax 10 supply the deficit amounting to something over sl.oo0,- 600. The dispatches report also that In Belgium. where the proportion of state-owned railroads is greater, the estimated deficit in operation for the year Is about two million dollars If in small countries like Belgium and Switzerland the experiment proves such a dire failure who can estimate the extent of losses in the United states, with territory reaching more than s.000 miles in an east and west direction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Royal Beliefs.
rit-Rits

Tit-Bits.
 It is not only the Ignorant and un- learned who arc superatitious, but even such a person as the German Emperor is apparently not without a certain amount of superstition. He has always been careful that the ancestral cradle of the Hohenzollerns should be used for each infant member of his family in succession.
 This cradle Is over two centuries old and is of curiously carved black oak. It Is supposed to protect the baby who sleeps in 1t from convulsions and other childish ailments.
 Italy has also a remarkable super stition. Itis believed that dire mis- fortune will befall the present mon arch if the chamber of the dead king be interfered with till at least two gen erations have passed. Therefore the room of the late, King Humbert at the Quirinal is shut, no one except mem- bers of the royal family being permit ted to enter it. Thus 1t will remain, silent and unused, like the apartment of King Victor Emmanuel, King Hum berts father. which is just as 1t was at the time of his death, some thirty years ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Yictorx for pew Ratha.

Boston Dispatch to the NeWa xerk
 Triubne.
 Dew baths on a lawn in the early morning are not evidence of insanity; going about the house with nothing on but a union suit Is no evidence of a weak mind; and the fact that a woman thinks It perfectly proper3'to appear in something less than the accepted minimum of clothing is no sign that she connet manage her own affairs; not in the State of Massachusetts, anyway This is the gist of the decision of Judge Mcintyre, of the probate court, in the now famous Mazdasnan case He handed down his findings in the ap- plicationn of Mrs. Mable Dutton for a guardian for the estate of her aunt, Mrs, Helen Shaw. the wealthy social leader, who wants to give her fortune to the Mazdaznan cult.
 Judge McIntyEe refuses the, applied ton. In his decision he goes over all the evidence, even that eoncerAing the rites of the inner circle, the printed rules of which Anthony cOmsteck took exception to, and all of them, Judge Mcintyre finds may be explained as religious belief and not as an evidence of unsound mind. The Mazdaznan lead CTS refuse to talk on their victory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
OzARK's LADY HUNTER.
4 Challenge In sklII Has Been Of ferea..

a CAaAlSA&e LM akttf - AAaa Been Of~
 fered.
 Ozark Tribune.
 We have known all the time that Mrs. James Barnes,,e0f this city. was. one of the finest little. ladies in all, this she was one of the best heipmates any where to be found, We knew she. had many accomplishments that go to make up the queen of home, but she demonstrated the first of this week in another department {, with efseienSys Meat vas scarce at the home, of Jim. Barnes, who was busy running big saw mills and farms, and he was not HIvinE the home the attentfoA that he onBfst to have and to guarantes a de- licious repast for the hardworlEing hus- r. band, she decided to take her gun and go to her farm about five miles above town, taking with her four loaded shells. and when she returned she brought back four squirrels which she killed herself, and a sumptslous tmeal was ready for her husband, and Jim was replenished satisfaetotlly te him self Now to the heading of, thls arr tiele we challenge the Stats to pro- dnee so good 8 shot among the wo- men, We take and hold the blue rlb- bon tllI won by some lady who can produce better record. Jim says he will let sister Barnes from now on furnish the game for the table and he will never say anything else about hunting. He h4s spent many days hunting. and go home without a squir. rel while Mrs. Barnes brought back four in about a half hour after she went on the hunt t>
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
If You Are Lest la the Woods.

Outing Magazine.
 Let the man who is lost in the woods be very careful to overexert himself His chief dangers lie in panic and over exertlon. and though he may be in a great hurry to find shelter. l must warn him to so slowly. Two miles an hour, on an average through the snow in the woods. is all that a man in his condition will be able to stand with out overfatigue and it's attendant dam gers. overheating and precipitation. By exercising caution, man may live through a week of what he is under going. To make this article brief, how ever, we shall suppose that he regains the road by the afternoon of the first d. V. He doesn't yet know. of course just where he Is He should examine the tracks of the person who last pass ed that way. It being afternoon, he must follow In the direction taken by the last passing vehicle or team. as shelter will be nearest In that direc- ton. Had it been morning he would have taken the opposite direction as whoever made the tracks must have come from the place where he obtained shelter the previous night
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
DRIFTWooD
when the Log Sings lp the Fire.

when bne Log sings m the Fire. When the sparks in the fire place upward
 go
 And the logs in that funny way you know Sing in the old monotonous key When the sap is oozing out SO free. When the first snowfiakes begin to fall And the old horse seeks his sheltsriag stall When the breath of winter begins to cling By the fire I love for the logs to sing. when the milk on the back porch freezes And you have to melt the butter an lard When the pigs in the pen begin to squeal And all the stock the cold winds feel. when mothers hustling ali she can ts To bake a cake for the preacher man, I love to pop corn morn anything When the logs in the fire begin to sins. fl Some girls waste lot of valuable time. practicing on a vocal range while their methers are praoticlng on the cooking range.
 It is shocking to think that the salems dancer Is not even eoversd with eonfusion' 4 man wishes for wings when he ls in devil of hurry, The optimist rnakss light of a dark day That's the proper spirit for all,
 First Stage Carpenter; How did you get that pin jab in the face. Second stage Carpenter; star-sazins. Bisg.: I'm going to give by wife nice jigss: Going to come homs sobsFf Paradoxleai that the soft headed fellow should be block headed. .t
 DO you believe in traHsmigration sf-ths soulq' ,,a,.o been a COW in some other life when he Is eating some brands of breakfast food'
 
 "There is a man who .has never lifted his hand against any one.
 That SO? Where is bel - I refer to the armless wonder over on the other side of the tent" ..Eph is chicken heaFted."
 Co on nigger; l thought he oone nays mo nuV den dat ,,, What I mean Is. he has got Ieelih in his heart fo' chickens
 
 Has he ever shown her the depth of his loYs7"
 "Tes, indeed.s
 %In what way? ?" have drowned in the surf he went in up to his ears for her.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Politics and PoliticiGns

The election of William H. Taft gives Yale her first representative in the executive ohice of the nation.
 Former Senator Spooner, of Wiscon- sin. has been chosen Yale Law School commencement orator for next spring.
 |.
 Lueius N. Littauer. former represen- tatiye In Congress from the Twenty Fifth New York District. Is to become candidate for the office of United States Senator.
 It cost James s. Sherman s2,sbo to be elected Vice President of the Uni- ted States, according to his report filed with the Secretary of New York.
 Despite the fact that the politicians were all against him, Judge Ben B. Lindsey. of Denver. popularity known as the Kids judge, was reelected by an unusually large vote.
 Formal announcement has been made that Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill. of the Fourth Connecticut District. will be candidate for the seat in the Uni ted States Senate now filled by Sens tor Frank B. Brandegee.
 William Howard Taft will be the only President with middle name since Chester A. Arthur. All but sev- dents have been blessed with but a single baptismal name.
 As regards. the United States sena- torship from New York 1t seems to De and Roosevelt. -s-.----- '-4-A=-
 In Pennsylvania two strong labor men have been returned to Congress and William B. Wilson. of the Eff teenth District. Both are Democrats, both were members of the Sixtieth the United Mine Workers of America.
 The defeat of State Senator Everett Colby one of the Rep dblican leaders in ernor T John Franklin Fort and former Governor Franklin Murphy as possi- bilities to succeed United States Sem ator Kean. There Is some talk now of ex-Governor Stokes running for the United States Senatorship. I While President Roosevelt. secre- tary Root and Ambassador Whitelaw mentioned as possible successors of Senator Piatt in New York. there are number of others who may get into the running. Timothy Woodrun. Re- publican State Chairman, is .promt- nently meTtioned and so are ex@Gov- ernoF Black, Congressman J. Eloat Fas- sett, of Elmira, and E. B. Butler. of ex-Ambassador Joseph H. Choate are talked of. as usual, but probably will not figure.
 
 Herbert S. Hadley is the first Re- publican to be elected Governor of Missouri in thirty-fve years. He is thirty-six years old, and has been for the last four years Attorney General of the State, He Is a native of Kan- sas, and was graduated from the Uni- versity of Kansas and the law school of Northwestern University. In 1884 he began the practice of law in Kan sas City. and for one term was pros ecuting attorney or Jackson county His successful prosecution of graft cases first brought him into wide prom thence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
This Date in History
Novnu.hev IF.

N0VGmneF l9s
 16S6-La Verandrye. the disc0vefer of the Northwest. was born at Three Rivers, Quebec.
 weekly siiEi ienEnai sV1 wss i'm impTisonSsa nS 1I for 1T defending government by the people.
 17Sg-Seth Boyden, distinguished American inventor, was born in Fox boro, Mass. Died in Newark, N j., March af. 1870
 1s2y-President Guerrero of Mexico relinquished the extraordinary powers granted him by congress on account of the Spanish invasion. 1s35--Goyernor Andrew |. Harris, of Ohio, was born In Butler county, Ohio. Iss3-Battle of Knoxville. Tenn.
 1S74-Forty persons were drowned by the sinking of the packet Empire fa0e-President Roosevelt sailed from Colon for Porto Rico after hay. ing inspected the laborers' quarters at San CrIsto5al.
 isO7-Secretary Root opened the Central American Peace Conference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
sEcTToNALIsM IN AMERICA.
Interdependence of One Class Upon Anotl
 Emphasized.

Interdependence of One CIass Upon Another
 Emphasized.
 Serene S. Pratt. in Lesiies Weekly.
 That country Is doomed which is divided into two hostile camps parties of sections one representing capital and the other la Dor; one representing the lender and the other the borrower one representing pro. ductton and the other distribution If we coming to that, we might as we'll write over the open gates of the nation, in letters of blood. welcome anaychyf The sec tionaiiam that legisistes for class in- stead of for all Is as bad az secession. Let us adopt the live-and-let-Ilve policy. ImAg inc, of. you can.' a country composed only of multi i-millionaires--Ged have mercy upon it! Imagine a country without great indi= viaual wealth. How poor 1t would seem, Suppose the United States were composed only of wall street men. We would all starvN Suppose t were composed only of aEriculturists. It would have no industries. no commerce. no luxuriss. no literature, no art no broad horizon, Suppose 1t were composed only of lenders. There would be nobody to lend to. and the bankers would have to so to the poorhause. Suppose 1t were composed only of borrowers. There would be nobody to borrow of. We are ab- solutely necessary to each other New York needs South Dakota. and South Dakota needs New York, Wall street needs the country. and the country needs Wall street
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17

It begins to seem very much as if they are going to mix Theodore Roose- welt up with Standard oil before they quit, It Is made known that one of the largest stockholders of the Out look magazine Is James stillman and that he is also prominently identified with Standard oil; consequently. if Roosevelt becomes identified with The Outlook, win he not thereby be in the pay of the Standard Company to some extent? Win it not be an object les son to see the great reformer practical ly on the Standard pay roll?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17

ready to break the laws of God and man which say we shall not kill
 It is continually charged against the southern mon by Northern people that we of the South are "too handy with the gum and. although 1t is a fashion or habit not exclusively confined to southern men 1t is true that the hot blood of the South too often leads to tragedies which might be avoided with out any reflection on the courage or honor of any one. The killing of MT. carmaek ought to be lesson. but will 1t have any influence on others?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
First GIrafle in Europe.

pr. Johnson. as Is well known, re- fused for many months to believe in the Lisbon earthquake. and Parisians formerly were just as skeptieal as to the existence of the giraffe, a new specimen If which has just been added to the Hardin des Plantes. The earII- est specimen of these gentlA creatures was seen in Paris in the reign of Louis XVI. We learn from French con- temporary that the giraffe was nrsI heard of in 17S7, when 1t was described by a FTenchrnan named Levaillant. who had journeyed in the lands of the Hot tentots and Kaffirs When the ex- plorer referred to the animals with the long necks he was looked upon as a Munchausen and told that he was such in not the politiest la.guage. It was rived in the French capital that Le. vaillant's reputation for veracity was re-established. and then the animals for a long time formed the sensation of Paris, not only among the multi. tude, but in all scientific circles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Refusing to Allow Lower Rates.

4uHSdloOsd llmes- -6dSette.
 There Is a remarkable thing to be seen in Alabama today. The railroads are in the courts because they declined to change a rate they claimed to be too cheap and here the B and c, is held up because 1t proposes to charge rates that are too cheap Has the commission the power to set the exact figures the railroad lines and the boat lines should charge? Would that not do away with competition? It is probably true that the roads have gougsd the public less than three cents a mile passenger fares but if they should voluntarily reduce the passenger rate to one cent mile for instance, ought not the state to accede gracefully to the proposed saving to the pea pie? If a road or boat wants to charge low rate Is 1t not all right? Is it not abuse of the rate making that the CnmEnts- sion Is to regulateN