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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
ADDT0TAFT VICTORY
SWITCHES IN CLOSE STATE GIVE
 REPUBLICANS MORE.
Some Joy For Democrats - Walter weIlman Tells of odd Contrast On GovernOrshfp and
 Electoral Tickets.

Taft Electoral Vote ... ....... .S27 Bryan Electoral Vote ... =. .... .15e 
 Taft's Majority. ..... =. .....1T1 By Walter Wellman in Chicago Rec-
 ord-Herald.
 Taft. s27; Bryan, 15s. This the way the electoral college stands by the latest returns.
 The figures have been changing about almost hourly. For a long time Colo rado was in doubt, but finally settled down in the Bryan column. Montana wobbled from one side to the other in the earlier returns. but is at last safe for Taft. So with West Virginia. Claimed by both parties. the Taft plu- rality. While small. now seems sbeyond dispute.
 Maryland was again distinguished herself as the dearest state in the union. Four years ago Roosevelt got one elector there by 51 votes. At 10 o'clock last night Maryland was re- ported for Bryan by 2s2. At II o'clock the pendulum swung the other way. and Taft had plurality of 149. It is apparent the official count will be re- Quired to decide, and it is possible the electoral vote may be again divid- ed. Bulletins from Missouri indicate that the state Is for Taft by a plurality of 5000 votes. Hadley. Republican, is eleced governor.
 The Democrats have been unusually successful in winning governorships in Republican staes. Harmon car- ries Ohio, Marshall wins over Watson in Indiana. Governor Johnson is re- elected in Minnesota, and the govern orship contest in Michigan Is very close, and undecided.
 Tn view of their losses of the gov- ernorships in Ohio and Indiana. and of the legislature in the latter State and possibly also in the former. the Republican count themselves lucky to have saved the presidential electors in both states by relatively small plu- ralities. E
 The new Indiana legislature is Dem ocratic, and 1t is expected Mir. Kern Is to have his disappointment over loss of the honor of presiding over the United States Senate softened by the gain of a seat in that body as successor to Sen- ator Hemenway.
 The Legislatures in ohio and Kansas. both involving United States senator ships. are in doubt.
 Taft has carried twenty-nine states. and Bryan seventeen. The only states in the Bryan list. outside of the "solId South" are Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada Bryan has carried the same number of states he carried in 1900. but they are not ali the same states.
 Bryan's first. run for the presidency, in 1896, was his. best one. He did not do nearly so well in 1900, and this year is not quite up to his first mark, as the following resume of the three Bryan battles. over the Roosevelt Parker campaign included for reference, will show:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
would Have Gone on Any way.


 It will be noticed by the able ora tors who have recently been on the Republican stump that the Pennsyl- vania Railroad did not wait to see who would be the next President before giving a contract of $5.00O 900 for cleo York terminal Railroads and facto- ries and mines and farms and stores go on with their business under all Presidents interrupted only by occa- sional Republican panics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
vVEnnTNC EIowrns,

Wedding bOuauets made mp artisfs- eaIly of home-Krown Roses, Carnations Chryaanthen1ums and Lily of the VaI- ley and shipped safely by express any- where In the South.
 Phohe 200. ROsEMONT GARDENS,
 City Store. 100 Dexter Avenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
Weak, Exhausted, Pe-ru.na Gave New Life.

! D. E.
 
 felt weak and exhaused and 1t  bottle hadt other much advertised remedies without relief I a a to was in fine health and happy Thanks hand me In
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
surrs sla ANp UPwARDs.

Made to order. Lowest prices In MomtRomery. Fit and workmanship guaranteed, Terms, .one-Afth when and the balance on delivery 1000 patterns to select from. Hoifs Dye Works, IO0 s. Court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
F1re> I.osse. Hsre and EIsewhsre.

springfteld Hepubllcan, Nov 3.
 The committee on statistics of the na- tionai board of fire underwriters has pre- pared report of comparative annual fire losses per capita of population for this and various European countries during re- cent years. tt Is very impressive exhibit. The figures for the European countries are as foilows'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08

The reason the baby fs always SO smart Is because its parents aren't.- New York NewB. /
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08

All of which suggests not only one of the Western Democratic Governors as the standard bearer of the future, but MT. Bryan's natural and proper place in the party. He is likely to be the leader of Democracy for years to come, the most powerful man in it, the maker of other men, the framer of poll
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08

Tsft Electoral Vote ... ..... .s27 Bryan Electoral Vote ... ... .... .15s
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

DR.. Francis H. I,errlck says q
sparrow viii pluck horse hair from
the mouth or nesting. while an
other. bird. like an oriole. will stand
by and see its mate hang until dead
without attempting to release it.
4 robin will tug at a str!ng which
has caught on a limb. but Is never
seen fully to meet the situation by
releasing the striug. 1t will make
several turns of cord about n limb
and leave the other end free with
out any relation to the nest. so that
It's effort is useless. 1t ties no
Knots.
The gull according to abundant
and competent testimony. will car
ry shellrsh to a considerable height.
drop them on the rocks or hard
ground. and repeat the experiment
until 1t let's the soft meat.-Chica-
go Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
A Useful Precaution.

A most satisfactory way of pre-
venting garter clasps from breaking
the threads In the top Of stockings
has been devised by woman in
charge Of large theatrical ward
robe. She sews two small squares
of ribbon on the hem Of the stock
ing. on either side, Just where the
garter fastens.
BY doing this she finds that the
strain comes on the ribbon instead
of on the stocking, and that no
matter how tightly the stocking may
be draw up the stitches will not
break.
There Is nothing much more dis
couraging than to find break with
run that may extend half way
down the length of the stocking, and
such small precautions are more than
worth the trouble that is necessary
In taking them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
THE CURIOUS INK FISH.
The Vcracious Seaman Relates Some
of its Wonderful Doings.

You talk about fights with sharks
and sighting sea serpents," said
Third officer Carl Ducks. of the Ger
man steamship Allegnany, as he
leaned over the chart ,able. DO
you see that spot on the map in the
Bay Of Bengal? Well, we were be.
calmed there for a week when was
working before the mast on the full
rigged ship Arethusa ten years ago.
There had not been as much as
breath of air stirring for week and
all of us lay around despondant and
hopeless. for the Bay or Bengal is
Lot the happiest place In the world to
be becalmed in.
The skipper had no orders to
give. so didn't give any, and no one
of us in the fo'cs'le knew what to do
with himself. On tie seventh day
when this idleness got on our nerves
and We were lazily drifting with the
currents, the man at the wheel sud-
denly discovered that the Arethusa
vas being pushed over to port, not
withstanding that he had his wheel
hard over endeavoring to keep the
vessel in a straight course.
None of us could understand II,
for there did not seem to be as much
as a small current in the sea and
there surely was not puff of wind
in the ilapping canvas.
Suddenly Metzger, the bosun
leaned over the starboard rail for.
ward and pointed eXcitedly to the
water below. All of us ran to him
and there dimly visible and almost
entirely submerged, was a huge ink.
fish close to our starboard side.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
CARVING THE INXFISH.

Because the inkfish had spread
her peculiar coloring on the water
about her we could hardly make her
out. 1t is popularity Of the ink
fish. this spreading Of haze around
her. think here you call the ink
fish an octopus. Whichever It Is.
ours was actually pushing our 5000
ton ship over out Of the course to
which the helmsman was trying to
keep the Arethusa.
THE captain ordered q harpoon
brought out and the hook was drop
ped right on top Of the inkfish, catch
Ing the monster amidships. and she
was, with the aid of block and
tackle. rigged to the foreyari. soon
high and dry on the fo'c'sle deck
"One Of the boys was investigat-
ing the monster which weighed every
ounce of seven hundred pounds when
suddenly out shot one OF the dozen
tentacles from the inkhsh. When
that was withdrawn another would
shoot out. and in this way the inkfish
bent our toward stanchions, twist
ed the rail into shapeless mass and
spread ruin and damage all over the
forward section.
"Darnsadt, the carpenter, had a
bright suggestion. None of us could
get near to the inkflsh whose arms
were about twenty or twenty-five
feet In length, and which were now
swaying all around, keeping the
crew at a safe distance. The carpen-
ter brought an axe and when the
first arm reached his vicinity off
came Ave feet of tentacle. He kept
this up with each tentacle in success
sion until the dozen arms of the ink
fish had been shortened by five feet.
Then he got nearer and again made
the rounds as the arms we're shot
forward toward him.
Finally, when the inkfish had on
ly dozen stunps left and Darn
stadt could get close enough to the
monster, he gave 1t one blow between
the little doorknob like eyes and that
was the end of the inkfish on the Are
thusa. AS the final blow was struck
home that inkfish gave forth squeal
Just like . rabbit. ] never knew q
fif h to be able to utter sound. But
the death squal Of that octopus ink
fish will never leave my ears
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
THE TEDDY BEAR CRAZE.
German and American Factories
Could Not Make Enough.

The craze seems to have started
at Atlantic City. A child there,
says one chronicle, saw lovable
looking little fuzzy brown plush
bear in shop window one day and
had his mother buy it for him. 1t
was a bear made by an old lady In
Germany. Other children saw the
Child with the bear and copied.
Visitors at Atlantic City took home
with them the bear fad, and the bear
craze was in the saddle.
The German woman who had
sent tho bears over years ago, and
had since then been making COM
paratiNoly few, just enough to
satisfy the small demand, wondered
why the American toy dealers sud-
denly sent such large orders for the
bears-Teddy bears, az Americans
began to call them Immediately.
The average German toy maker sup
plies orders as they come in, not car
ing to keep on hand a large stock
of goods with only ephemeral popu-
larity, so the German lady was hard
put to It. In short time she had
more than 1000 girls at work on the
Teddy bear, and the calls for ami
mails were still insistent.
AS many of the ideas of the Ger
man toymakers come from France,
and those in the UuitedStates from
Germany the American manufac-
turer promptly fell in line for the
bear trade. Hundreds of bears are
being made every day in the United
States, and the issues of the trade
journals of toyland carry many ad-
vertisements of Teddy bears.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

lay on the 1.-TWO people occupied
ground and the tall oak seat"
they were looking at the pictures.
At tea that afternoon the post came
In.
i've got lot of snapshots from
Greenhays," Lady Hildegarde said
suddenly, and looked at Miss van
Busker.
Coralie flushed the slightest, pref
tiest pink, but she finished her tea,
and then got up and went into the
hall.
Little Lady Hildegarde handed me
the snapshots. BERTHE sent them"
she said briefly. Miss van Busker
was staying there. She seems to for
get-games, she added wickedly.
In quite six out of the dozen or
more photographs, Miss van Busker,
! regret to say, appeared playing dia
bolo with the most finished grace.
She was depicted in the act OF catch
ing and throwing the spool with the
precision Of an expert.
Lady Hildegarde laughed. What
would Stony say?" she murmurei.
But her brother had followed Miss
van Busker from the room.
! happened to pass through the
hall not long after. Two people oc-
cupied the tall oak seat under the
palms.
why, yes," | couldn't help hear
ing a drawing murmur as / hurried
by, II guess / knew 1t all the time
pretty well. But l kind Of thought
you'd like to teach me-dijn't you?"
But l shut my door upstairs upon
the answer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
The Four DIS.

Charles Spurgeon once said that there
were three great enemies to man
dirt, debt and the devil" He might
have added one more and included
dyspepsia. The evil results of this dis
ease could hardly be exaggerated. It's
effects are felt in mind and bofy, and
are so tar reaching as the effects of the
curse that was laid on the Jackdaw Of
Rheims which was cursed in "eating
and drinking and sleeping. in standing
and sitting and lying" The
good effects Of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery are most marked in
aggravated and chronic cases of dys-
pepsia. 1t enables the stomach glands
TO secrete the necessary quantity of di-
gestive fluids, and tn $ at once removes
that craving or gnawing sensation so
common to certain forms of indigestion.
IL tones and regulates the stomach, in
vigorates torpid liver and gives the
Diood-making glands keen assimilative
power. Golden Medical Discovery"
cures ninety-eight per cent. of those
who use it.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are su-
perlor to all other laxative medicines
when the bowels are obstructed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

Miss van Busker looked plaintively
at me. "I'd see about that after,
but I'd hate to face the reporters
and the girls luncheons If | hadn't
pretty good thing on ice."
But is that quite fair?" / muir
INJURED once again, 'and-and are
you sure you CAM"
Fair? Why, l reckon most young
men have pretty useful amount of
horse sense" Miss van Busker re-
piled. II don't worry any about
them. And | s'pose most of us can
get what we feel we warnt"
We both stared into ,he fire. IL
seemed a simple and cheerful phil
osophy
"Diabolo's a great game Miss
van Busker added, irrevalently.
You're learning 1t, aren't your"
/ asked, beginning to take the dia-
monds out of my hair.
Yes; I'm learning" Miss van
Busker laughed, and when she
laughs in the freight there is a
gleam of what looks like fine pearls.
Miss van Busker said some very
pretty things to me; she's certainly
very attractive and we said good
night in the friendliest way.
The next day the men were to
shoot the great spinney; it was the
big day of the week, and every one
was what Miss van Busker called
well on time. every one except the
duke.
I'VE cant walt for old Stony" the
men agreed after breakfast. and
various expeditions to the bachelor
quarters drew blank: the duke sent
down to say he had strained a mus
Gle and couldn't go out.
A big oak gallery runs round the
hall at the Towers, and my room
was off the gallery. do not know
that | was surprised when | opened
my door to see diabolo spool shoot
up past me and fall back with
loud crash to the hall floor.
My! a babe in arms would do 1t
better" | heard Miss van Busker
say with great apparent vexation.
When | descended the big stair
case moment later Miss van Bus
ker, and, of course, the duke, who
seemed quite well, were resting on
the big oak seat with the high back.
Miss van Busker held the diabolo
sticks and the duke was twirling
the spool in his hands and looking
at Miss van Busker.
All that day and the next Miss
van Busker learned diabolo.
Il don't get on one mite" she
would answer when questioned; and
the other men gave up all claim to
teaching her.
Our main staple of conversation
became Miss van Busker"s progress
in the game.
On the fourth day she had i'm
proved slightly; the duke had de-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
Surprise for an Oyster shucker.

AS George Schuck was opening
oysters in the Susquehanna House.
Catawissa. he opened one that gave
him a surprise. 1t was apparently
as solid and as sound as any he had
opened, but when he removed the
she'll he found therein a small fish
about two inches in length and a
small hard-shell crab. the top Of
which was three-fourths OF an inch
In width. The nsh was plump and
nfe-like. though dead. but the crab
was ~ lively ~ q cricket There
was NO sign Of an oyster in the she'll.
which was 2hx4 inches.-Phiiadel-
phiA Record.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
East and West of Fill.

East of Fiji life is one long. lotus
eating dream. stirred only by occa-
sional parties of pleasure, feastins.
love making. dancing and a very lit
tie gardening work. Music Is the
soul of the people. beauty of face
and movement is more the rule than
the exception, and friendliness to
strangers is carried almost to ex-
cess. Westward Of the Fills lie the
dark. wicked cannibal groups of the
Solomons, Banks and New Hebrides.
where life is more like . nightmare
than a dream; murder stalks openly
in broad daylight. people are nearer
to monkeys than human beings In as
pect, and music and dancing are lit
tie practiced and In the rudest pos
sible state.-National Geographic
Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

done quit sermonisin' On Satan.
Ef de folks wants ter kno's any mo-
bout him dey'll have ter wait twei
dey git dar,
have my own idea bout Para
disc. but ef ever gifts In dar J
gwinter to lay mighty low!
Some folks driver angels FUN dey
door. but ef dey a knowed dey wuz
angels dey'd "a axed 'um In an
pulled de feathers out dey wings!-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Freshen salt fish by soaking in
sour milk.
Thin syrup may be made thicker
by boiling 1t down.
To remove egg stains from silver
apply salt and rub with a soft cloth.
A little sugar added to the water
used in basting a roast Improves its
flavor.
Eggs are more nourishing when
cooked by being covered with boiling
water and allowed to stand for Ave
minutes than when boiled for three
minutes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

Nobody ever thinks OF fitting a
hot stove lid with the fiugers.
Stovelifters are provided for exactly
this purpose. For the same reason
the housewife should not be COM
PEELED to lift hot cooking utensil
from the fire with her fingers. An
implement designed for this purpose
Is shown in the illustration. It is
shaped like stovelifter-in fact,
can be used as such. At one md
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20
DIABOLO
AND THE
DUKE.

Miss van Busker stood poised on
the doorstep.
rs that how you play the thing
;1"way?" she said. holding the dia-
20 sticks awkwardly but with an
!. escribably bewitch ng air.
We were all little bit Jealous of
5s van Busker, ] think. She had
rived last night before with three
.0nster trunks, four large hat boxes,
poodle and a very French maid.
An extremely smart shoot" was
assembled at the Towers, but Miss
van Busker seemed to take the shine
out of the rest of us when she came
down to dinner In pale pink velvet
and not an ornament of any descrip-
tion on her alabaster neck and
shoulders.
However, as ! was saying, Miss van
Busker stood on the doorstep with
diabolo sticks in her hand.
The guns were going to shoot at
ten, and everyone knows how fussy
i1en are just before they start, but
three of them actually responded to
Miss van Busker's challenge.
I'll show you" they exclaimed.
but the Duke of Derry didn't pretend
to hear and went on wiping his gun
or whatever 1t is men do.
81 won't bother now" Miss van
Busker said slowly, and presently the
the guns drove away in the big brake
to the home covert.
We all knitted stocks by the fire
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

In Paris dogs are treated ~ well
as human beings are. They wear
automobile togs when they 90 mo-
torinE, they have q hospital. and
they even have good-sized oeme-
terry. with monuments and head
stones. and Inscriptions and mostu.
sry wrsaths.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

to lunc "They We're Playing Da-
with he bolo in the Hail."
guns, and we stayed in until tea
time. Miss van Busker came down
to tea In clnging white crepe de
zine and looked quite lovely.
She's beautifully turned-out and
that" pretty little Lady Hide
:de ST. Helens said to me as she
anded me the toast, but she's no
arm, has she?'
oh, don't know" said doubt
fully. Il think she has,
The men came in just thin, and
first one and then the other went
over and talked to Miss van Busker,
except the duke. who sat by his SIS
ter and told us of the days sport.
The Duke of Derry was young, not
married, and as everyone knows,
quite poor; stony" is his own ex-
preston, so most of the girls treated
him as sort of brother.
After tea, don't know how it
happened, but Miss van Busker sat
reading paper, and when the men
went off into the smoking room, the
duke. who had to pass her chair,
stopped and presently sat down by
her side.
mo; I'm not a whale at games"
l heard her say. and little later she
ard the duke disappeared. When 1
went up shortly afterwards to get
book that had left in my room
and that | really wanted, they were
playing diabolo In the hall, or rath-
er Miss van Busker was looking on
and the duke was holding the sticks.
This way, d'you see?" he was
saying very earnestly, as passed.
my now IL that ain't too cunnin'," ="
Miss van Busker said in her pretty
nasal twang that seems to get worse
the longer she stays In England.
(She'j hardly any accent when Lady
Bulstrode began taking her out last
season.)
That evening when we had been
given our candlesticks and were GO
ing to our rooms, Miss van Busker
followed me.
Now, may come In a moment?"
she said in her girlish way that Ia
very appealing.
"Oh, do" / said. though l was
very sleepy.
Miss van Busker went over to the
fire and placed a marvellously small
foot on the fender.
MY! amt this the room Henry
III. sept in before the battle Of
Lewes?"
"Oh. is it?" said with some con-
fusion, perhaps II is.''
Miss van Busker looked at mo
meditatively. You British are
queer" she said. But II you will
pardon me l don't think you're one
mite British. No." she continued, II
Lind of feel cawnfdence in you; the
others here are what / call pretty
nosey."
had known Miss van Busker all
the summer. and / gathered her now
to mean that the house party struck
her as stuck up"
They don't mean anything" I
murmured.
But Miss van Busker was not listen
Ing, she was gazing into the Goals.
II got to get engaged to q dook,"
she said suddenly; all my girl
friends were when they came home
from Europe. and l don't intend to
be left on the mat"
Indeed" murmured rather
lamely.
Il don't know about marrying"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-08-20

Is an automatic clamp, which can be
instantly slipped over the edge Of
any cooking utensil and moved to
the place desired. The clamp Is so
adjusted that 1t grasps the dish
firmly. and there Is no danger of it
becoming loose and falling to the
floor. Such litter would be far
more serviceable and handler than
the usual method of using a cloth,
with the additional advantage of
protecting the hands and fingers
from possible burns.