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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Boiled the Alarm Clock.

Minneapolis Journal.
 Edward Jackson doesn't expect his alarm o'clock to assume all the pro- perties of an intricate cuckoo clock, but he thinks 1t should at least cackle at meal time after the treatment 1t underwent yesterday.
 e The Jacksons live at 4024 Queen ave- hue S, and like many another family they have an alarm clock and a domes- tic. Both are new In the household. The domestic assumed her duties yes- terday. after passing the required ex- animation in culinary, science. Things went smoothly enough until nearly noon, when Mrs, Jackson told the new girl to boil eggs for the luncheon.
 Boil them five minutes by the clock. l" Mrs. Jackson said, as she left the kitchen for a few minutes. The girl nodded and set about the task.
 On her return to the kitchen, Mrs. Jackson learned how carefully and true to detail her command had been side half a dozen aggs, and well cover ed with the boiling water. lay the alarm clock. It was face up and still going. but slowly. The girl stood by the stove with puzzled look on her face, and then turning to her mistress said calmly. Do you think they are all right2'
 The situation didn't call for a repri- mand. The clock was removed and set away to dry. Boiled eggs are now tabooed for the sake of the girl who tried to obey orders, but Mir. and Mrs. Jackson are wondering what the girl will tell her next mistress about the funny way the Jacksons cook eggs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
MONDAY. NOVEMBER ss 1908.
DEFENDING OUR soLIDITY.

The Good Democratic contemporary The Pittsburg Post. thus treats a matter of which The Advertiser has more than once spoken:
 Republican newspapers are devoting much space to a discussion or the solid South in terms anything put complimentary for tis solidity- There is to these stone throwers an utter as- stunned or real unconsciousness Of the fact that they are dwelling In glass houses. The South is solid and IS likely to remain so for reasons of ser M interest that are yet sufficient to the
 Why. should they be any more con demned or ridiculed for voting uni and the unprogressive part of New England are criticised for uniformly voting the other? It is the limit of fish of the other. New Hampshire, Vermont and Pennsylvania are sodden in Republicanism of its most corrupt tyne. Here the public service corpor- ation frankly and fully rules. shall the people who permit and indorse this sort of thing, hugging the sordid chains of self interest, be excused saIlo. ana for something that to them at least appears to be a good deal higher and more necessary?
 There is more hope, progress and public spirit perhaps everywhere in the South than there is in that part of New England that seemingly can siways be counted upon to give big Republican majorities, no matter what the men or issues may be.
 We have often wondered over the degree of assurance exhibited by some of the Republicans in States which are nailed down to the Republican party when they declaim against "the solid South" as they do. The South was made solid by dangerous and op- pressive Republican legislation, and has remained solid for her own good and safety. Some of those States that rail against this condition are solidly Republican and refuse to be anything else, yet they criticise and condemn this section for also being solid. Cheeky is 1t not?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Mud Power Latest Bnersy.

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 Mud power Is the latest fashion in mechanical energy. There are large tracts of peat In iowa. Wisconsin, North Dakota, California and at in- terVais along the Eastern seaboard from Massachusetts to Florida. But the most valuable exist in Minnesota, wh ere hundreds of acres of peat sever al feet in depth have been found.
 In the treatment of these deposits European experience proves most pro- ftable. In Germany the peasant builds his cottage, makes bedding for his family and for his COW, feeds the COW, fertilizes his land, and heats his house with peat.
 Straw from peat makes excellent lit- ter for stables, and mattresses are so superior from the sanitary viewpoint that they are used extensively in hos- pitaIs.
 The fiber Is compressed by a special process into tiles and blocks for build ing purposes, these constituting one Of the cheapest of all architectural sub- stances. The moss then combined with the waste molasses of beet sugar manufacture produces a compound that serves admirably for food for domes- tic animals.
 Briquets of peat have been found ac- ceptable in seatrn production, and they offer even greater posstbhiLles with the gas engine. The purer the coal for direct steam production, the old standard of value, the more valu- able 1t is for yielding gas for the gas engine. When the structure of the gas engine becomes more fixed there is no saying what further revolution will take place in current ideas on fuel values.
 Florida peat, dried and compressed into bricks produces gas which yields results fully as good as Texas and North Dakota lignites, it Is declared. Some one has proposed central power plants established at the bogs and the peat converted into electricity which can be transmitted wherever desired. This would mean power at half the pre- sent Drices.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Odd Excuses For DiUorces
Queer Reasons Given by Misnated Couples for
 Seeking Legal Separation.

window and remarked that the sky was blue. John in lugubrious tone would reply that all things were vanity, and that life was short. If the devoted wife happened to mention millinery and the prevailing shades, John was almost cer- tain to moralize on the sinfuIness of hu- man ornament. On one point, however, John Hancy was at least consistent; he gave a third of his income to the church. That must be true because Mrs Hancy says 1t herself.
 He did give that much to the church" she remarked tearfully, but had to suffer deprivation because of it. Besides, he prayed every night for the soul of his wicked wife. and I am just as good as he isl"
 It Is understood that as soon as all the little odds and ends of the pro- ceedings are settled up Mrs. Hancy will leave for Sioux City. Ia, where she ana Gus Westfall an old friend. will be married.
 There was indignation in the veins of Mrs. Caroline Jones when she testi- fed in a Boston court how her hus- band, Frank M., had treated her. It seems that Mfr. Jones had q little way of his own with regard to the support of his wife. Once in a while--no often er--he would slip into Mrs. Jones's room and pin two-dollar bill on the pin cushion. Mrs. Jones could spend this just as she liked, and when 1t was gone she could whistle until some more was pinned on, In many ways 1t Is the only Authenticated instance of real pin money. One day rMs. Jones grew bold and asked her husband if he couldn't pin something bigger to the cushion, or pin a little oftener. Do you suppose Jones gathered her to his arms and ex- plained that he was merely testing her as they do on the stage and to come around to the back yard and he would show her where he had whole barrel of money hid out? By no means. Jones simply threw a clothes wringer, which grazed her coiffure. -l
 Mrs Jones that was now receives a little allowance from her former hus- band. She gets it by mail, and if there is any impaling to be done she does 1t with a hatpin.
 Mrs. Matte Holmes. at BellevilIe, IlL, doesn't alieEe in her divorce pro- eeedings that John Holmes was stingy or that he beat her=-she simply declares he "polSed fun at her" Malediction on his jolly soul! He just couldn't leave her alone. John had a fund of humor for every day, a joke for every hour, a quip and a grin for every minute; he leased and he tormented. It was un- bearable, she declared.
 Finally one day it became more than she could stand, so she switched right out of the house and stayed away for sixteen years. This is no typographical error--it took Mrs Holmes that long to decide she wanted separation without any conditions. She admitted in court that if Holmes had made overtures ten years ago there might have been re- conciliation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Laws for Aerial Travel.

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 It has been suggested that. inas- much as navigation of the air by aero plane is now an accomplished fact, the next thing will be to pass laws regu- lating the proper use by aeroplanists of the newly conquered empire. This has already been done in the past for balloonists. In 1871, when French balloons from beleagured Paris were dropping on the sacred soil" of Prus- sia, a royal decree declared them con 6scate as contraband of war. And on the conclusion of peace a measure was passed through the German Reichstag which forbade, under penalty of death. any future similar aerial violation of German territory during time of war
 So long ago as 1880, again, balloons ascents were made Illegal in Turkey, so far as regards Constantinople and forty miles around, and in 1S72 the prohibition was extended to include the entire Turkish empire. To France, however belongs the distinction of having made the first laws for the reg ulation of aerial trafic, In 17S4 it was solemnly decreed that nobody should be permitted to so up In a bal- loon Tor any other kind of aerostatic machine" which was worked by burn ing spirits of wine, or any other means of making fre.
 Later, in 1911, it was enacted in France that henceforth no balloon. whether free or captive. should be per- mitted to ascend with any species of furnace or stove; that no one should be allowed to ascend In a balloon un- less he carried a parachute and that ascents were not to be begun later than one hour before sunset nor earlier than an hour after sunrise. Further more. no ascents whatever were to be undertaken during the garnering of the harvest nor for six weeks prior there tn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23

The Hartford Courant, in the joy of it's party victory, has a poor opinion of the power of the Democratic party to recover from the reverses it has suffered, and to rid itself of the cause of those reverses. It quotes what Mir. Bryan said in Texas. and adds:
 So now the Democratic party knows where 1t is. and where Mir. Bryan is. He's right where he was before No yenlber 3-astride It's back. his arms wrapped tenaciously around it's neck. He has no thought of letting go, either. Should the party show any desire to abandon his reforms" he'll tighten his clutch immediately: he says so. The only question now is whether he can be shaken off-this terrible Old Man of the Prairie. It's that, or be ridden and choked to death. for the unhappy Democratic party.
 Comparing the Democratic party to poor old Sinbad and MT. Bryan to the Old Man of the Sea may to some ex tent have been justified in the past but we refuse to believe that 1t will hold good in the future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
LIONS TURN MAN EATER.
Hunger Drives Them to Prey on AfFi~
 can Natives.

Hunger Drives Them to Prey on AfFi-
 can Natives.
 New York Sun.
 A new terror has befallen some of the districts of Nysaland, the British ool- ony along the western shore of Lake Nyasa. In this region game has never been plentiful and the supply has been still further depleted by excessive hunt ing in the last few years. The result Is that the natural food of lions is becon- ing scarce and they have been driven by hunger to prey upon the natives.
 Fortunately the lions are not so numerous there as they are in British East Africa. But the natives are In ter- TOT, owing to the fact that the animals now look upon them as an excellent source of food supply. The evil at pres- ent is greatest in the district which lies between the Government station of Nygara and Dowa in the high country west of Lake Nyasa.
 In this locality during the last year the lions have become a scourge. These natives have surrounded all their vil- lages with stocikades at least fifteen feet high. the tops of which are thick Iy woven with thorns.
 These precautions seem to afrord no security. Lions have repeatedly climb ed over the stockadss. broken into the huts. usually by tearing away the roof thatch and carried of natives. Even those not attacked are usually too ter- orr-stricken to offer resistance.
 A party of white travelling through this region in May last observed many small villages deserted by their inhah- itants although the huts were still quite new. On asking the reason the answer was invariably the same:
 "The people could no longer remain The lions have become so bad that we are all afraid we will be killed.
 At one village three women had been killed and eaten by these ami mals; at another a man and two Eirls' and so on.
 rayaRes are believed to have been driven to prey upon human beings on- Iv by hunger, for man eating lions have not often terrcrized this region. Most lions are not the feroctous beasts they have been thought to be.
 They run off into the jungle at the sight of a human being and never at- tack a man unless wounded or hunted. But with the man eating lion 1t Is different.
 night, fires. guns and noise will not keep him of. He springs into group of natives and carries one off before the others have time to make resistance.
 He enters tents without fear. claw ing away the fastenings. When the man eaters attacked the laborers on the Uganda Railroad everybody built platforms and slept on them at least twenty feet from the ground.
 All that is necessary to turn an ordinary lion into one of the man eating sort Is for him to acquire taste Of human flesh. He may first feed on the remains of a human body that a man eater has left and as soon as he learns that the human kind is easy to kill he is likely to attack men, women or children in preference to any of the game that has been his food. Then he becomes a man eater. @ terrible evil.
 This Is the gravest feature in the present situation In Nyasaland. The Hons are being turned into man eat CTS. Of course, this state of affairs has melted the colonial authorities
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
This b My 4Srd Birthday
GEORGE D. SG'CLELLAN

George B. Mcclellan, Mayer of the City Of New York was born in Dresden. Saxony, November 23, 1865, the son of General George B. Mcclellan. who was chief of the Union Army during the first year of the Civil War. While his father was Governor of New Jersey, the younger Mcclellan received his schooling in the Trenton public schools and subsequently,, graduated newspaper work In New York and at the same time studied law and in 1892 was admitted to the bar. The same year he was elected President of the Board of Aldermen of New York City. Tn 1894 he was elected to Congress and was four times honored with re-elect- ion, resigning his seat in 1905, when ne was elected Mayor of New York on the Democratic ticket Mayor Mcclellan stands high in the councils of the Na. Tlonal Democratic Party and his name has been frequently mentioned in eon- nection with the nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
COAL WILL LAST oENTuRlns.
Enough For 4y000 Years at Rate of Prsduction of 1907.

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 Geoiogists who are presumed to be great economists. or economists who are supposed to be eminent geolo- gtstss try to scare the world from time to time by spreading the speedy exhaustion of coal or gold or timber. We are, using all of them layishly, and so far as We know nature is pro ducing no additional minerals The forests are not being replaced as fast as they are cut off. but it can be done whenever mankind shall become suf- a dleiensly naat.r;;s charmed about the interests of the world is greater than alarm tsts have calculated. About fifty years ago England was warned that she was approaching the end of her coal supply but she is still able to produce enormously in excess of her own requirements. Twenty-two years ago the world was warned that no more large finds of gold were pos can and the Alaskan fields have been discovered and most of the older gold regions have greatly increased their
 The preliminary report on the min eral resources of the United States for 1907 is distinctly reassuring. Mir. Campbell calculates that at the end tole in the fields of the United States nearly 100000 tons of coal, or enough to last more than 4,oo0 years at the rate of production in 1907. As to this state, and particularly in regard to anthracite. the calculations are much less satisfactory, but he believes the bitumtnous coal in this state would last nearly 800 years. at last years rate of production. The rate is in ceasing every year, but two or three, centuries Is. as far ahead as we need to look. When we think of the econo- my of fuel in the use~of gas engines. of the possibilities of electric power generated at waterfalls, and the pos abilities of the solar engine, we feel that we need not be anxious about our descendants beyond the year 2200. He estimates that the anthracite would not last 200 years at last years rate and without waste. Hut there is waste, and last years rate will be ex- ceeded. Still. if 1t shall hold out a century we may expect the world to have other means of generating smokeless heat and power by the time all the hard coal is gone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Indianapolis Star.

Indianapolis Star.
 Dfvorces may be obtained with great CT or less ease. depending on the io- cality, nature of grievances. unanimitv of opinion, practice of the court and other circumstances and conditions. The grounds for separation are based on reasons and excuses of which the latter are perhaps the more common. After an excuse has been mentally housed for a sufficient period 1t becomes reason. or, failing in that. 1t gener- ates reason on the other side. Since the result Is the same, the variation Is not material.
 In two cases recently dragged Into publicity, strange as 1t may seem. the allegations were that the offending spouse was too religious. It had hith- erto been supposed there could not be too much of that commodity to cement family structure. but in two cases at least, if complainants are to be- be- neved. the devotional atmosphere be- came too heavy.
 In the eases cited Tessie Brennan and John Hancy are alleged to have de. voted too much attention to spiritual things. which greatly grieved their matrimonial opposites. Tessie lives in St Louis and John in South Dakota, and so far as is known they have new SA hACt Oho aHothcT. 1ney are brought Into close proximity merely because of their happening to be in the same boat, as 1t were. There is this difference, however, that Tessie Ia complaining be- cause her husband made fun of her de- votions, while in the South Dakota case John Is the defendant Johns wife has obtained the separation she asks; Tessie is awaiting the courts decree.
 Tessie--or Mrs. Brennan as she should perhaps be called--alieges the most surprising conduct on the part of Clifton, her husband. It seems they had been married only six months when he began to become annoying. He would laugh at her when he found her read ing the Bible and would tell her it was no better than a novel. At other times he would accuse her of being hypocrit- ical and would mock her. She stood this until one morning he snatched c prayer book from her hand just as she was dressed ready for church, and that capped the climax. She left him.
 There is little to laugh at in the home dissertation of the Brennans and Cliff ton shows as no hero according to the evidence. In the case of the Hancy im- broglio, there is a humorous side that cannot be overlooked. Mrs. Hancy asked for a divorce because she could not stand Johns everlasting praying. she said.
 T was the victim of two match. making families" she told the court. but it took me only five weeks to get enough of my husband's preaching"
 It appears that John Hancy wore a long face about the house whenever he happened to be there, which was ra' ther more frequently than desirable. Whenever Mrs Hancy looked out the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
Riding the Wave.
We Excuse the Smile.


 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is in session in Mobile Well, that's worth mention, but Mayor Pat coming the organization to the city. Excuse us if we smile when thinking of the difference between what the %nYG5 %iY be saSs tG e News wna'
 The foregoing is a sample of the newspaper references that Mobile has had occasion lately to complain of as press of Alabama of which The opelika News is a representative type, although perhaps publish ed more frequently than the others, can see no good in Mobile under any circumstances. Mobile Is Iawless,' says the distinguished state officer whom Mobile voted against In two elections, and immediately the benefciaries of official advertising. and echo. The ilberal-Ininded and best in- formed people of the state hear the piping and smile. They understand the conditions and appreciate that hum- expected favors. We do not know any mayor in the state of Alabama, past or present. unless 1t be George B. Ward. of Birming gham, whose principles in the in accord with those of the. Woman's Christian Temperance Union than those of Mayor Pat J. Lyons, of this city. He has been a total abstainer for many moderately. He has contributed finan- cially or otherwise to local temperance movements for twenty-five years, and by his personal example has done more than many of those who. in new found faith are shouting down with whis- key" from the house tops With these few remarks we can excuse the Opelika smiling habit Is only one of its accom- DliShments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23

the results of his leadership. With two weeks notice. and without a cam paign forty per cent of the voters of Alabama last spring cast their ballots in favor of Governor John A. John- son. or rather In opposition to Mir. Bryan. No reasonable man doubts that if there had been a campaign within the party for six months Mir Bryan would have lost the State of Alabama in the straight primary. MT. Bryan had been standing candidate for the President and for four years he and jealous friends had been organizing the party in Alabama in his interests. Yet within two weeks Mir. Bryan all but lost Alabama.
 On the shortest of notice Georgia sent an anti-Bryan delegate to Dem yer and 1t stood firm in spite of the bu1l-dozing tactics of an insolent ma jority. And 1t might be said that the Georgia delegation was more typical of true Southern Democracy than that which went from any other Southern State. A fight started in time and pursued with courage and vigor could have carried Virginia. North Carolina, Louisiana and Tennessee against Mr. Bryan and his methods of running the party.
 The sensible method to stop the party from being annihilated is to be- gin an open and above board fight for its safety Mir. Bryan's San Antonio interview Is notice to the country, that. notwithstanding the disaster he has brought to his party, he is as much a candidate for the Presidency as he ever was. Those who would see the party protected have been put on no- tice and they have four years in which to make the fight.
 The Advertiser is confident that the Democrats of Alabama have had their full of MT. Bryan and when the time comes 1t will be matter of small consequence to them whether MT. Bryan is or is not candidate. But the campaign of education must so on just the same.
 For one thing Southern papers should refute the statement of The New York World that Southern Dem- oerats forced Mir. Bryan on the party as the leader for the disastrous year of 1908. The Southern Democrats did nothing of the sort. If the Democrats of the East and West had done their duty, Southern Democrats would have united with them and nominated a man who at least could have carried the States in which Democratic Gov ernors were elected.
 We might submit that Southern Democrats in Congress could assist in restoring its old time vitality to their party by having the courage to talk and try to lead their people on na- tional issues. It was unfortunate last spring that Southern Senators and consressmen did not have the cour- age to come out boldly and say in public to their people what they said in private to each other-that Mir. Bryan's nomination would spell disas- ter for the party.
 The party is in no desperate state. It needs only courage mixed with sense.