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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

Accident has added one more to the worlds fund of important discoveries. and this one is of moment because 1t touches on the food question. being nothing less than a new method of rendering" a tough chicken. Most of us know what a tough proposition tough fowl is. When you buy a ready dressed spring chicken, or try to eat part of one at the hotel or res- taurant. you may really be getting spring chicken, but you don't always know whether it was born last spring or some other spring in the long ago, but if this alleged discovery Is genu- inc it doesn't matter if your fowl was left over from the Confederate Army. for 1t will be tender just the same.
 But to get down to particulars. The story goes that a farmer on Long Is- land was the owner of a patriarchial fowl of the masculine persuasion-a rooster to put 1t in good country Ian guage. This rooster. not having learn ed wisdom through the passage of years. while nosing around for some thing good to eat. happened to step on a live wire which had become de- tached and was lying on the ground The poor old innocent was not edu- cated in electrical knowledge; didn't know any more about it. in fact, than some people do. He saw what ap- peared to be harmless string, or per haps he was looking upward for bug and didn't notice where he was step ping. Perhaps if he had seen it he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

The Birmingham News of the 27th inst says that only two Alabamians were ever named by National conven- tions for the Vice. Presidency and gives the name of Vim. Smith in 1886. who was not elected. and wm. R. King, in 1852. who was elected on the ticket with Franklin Pierce. As re- suit of the split in the Democratic Party in 1860 two tickets were placed in the field. The Douglas wing of the party named Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama, as the running mate of the little giant" from Illinois. MT. Fitz- patrick declined and the name of Hers chel V. Johnson was substituted. If the Democrats had been united in all possibility Lincoln would have been defeated. and many of the great events that have since occurred might not have happened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
would have stepped on it Jus. the

would have stepped on it just the same.
 However, to get back to the real story, he stepped on the live wire and at once cashed in. as the saying goes. To put it in shakespearean phrase, he stood not on the order of his going. but went at oiiee to the place where dead rcosters go. but hls owner. not wishing to lose anything. had him. dressed and cooked just as though he had lost his life by the guillotine or the axe. Great was the surprise of all who partook of the old resident to find that, instead of being as tough as an old mlserrs heart, he was really as tender as a genuine young and fat chicken.
 Here was a discovery, indeed, and the lesson is as plain as anybody's nose. for only one conclusion can be drawn from the circumstance. and that Is that the old he crower was ''tendered" by electricity. You can't make anything else out of 1t, for he was prepared and cooked in the ordinary way. and was tender morsel; ergo, when you have an old and tough rooster that you want to eat eiectrocute him. Can anything be palmer or simpler than that2 The manner in which the job is to be accomplished is mere detail which can easily be worked out. or we mistake American ingenuity very se-. riously. Just let there. arise q de- mand for 1t and somebody will have a rooster -electrocutor on the market in short order, warranted not to miss fire or knock out the operator. Then the good housewife won't care little bit whether she has spring chickens or prehistoric roosters she will have "a tender fry. toothsome bake or rav- ishing chicken-pie ready when wanted. Oh. it's a momentous discovery. and the man who found 1t out first made a great mistake in not having 1t, pat ented.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

lighting ground may affect the char acter of the campaign: may make it more breezy than it's opening stages have proved. But f present harysSs ;,s prospects are realized the farmers Will have little time for listeLing to talk, until the barns are 1iied, and oy that conclusion, when issues have all been made and joined From the Republi- can point of view, the West is as good a battlefield as could be desired.
 The Rochester t-Express sees many ways to avoid the prohibition of large contributions to campaign funds.
 "Mr. Bryan puts a limit of slo.ooo upon a single contribution, but if there is a successor of the late Marcus Daily, who contributed s15e,000 to Mir. Bry- ans campaign fund, it would not take him long to split. up this amount and send sixteen checks. instead of one. It has often been said and never denied that william A: Clark of Montana contributed s45.000 on one occasion to MT. Bryan's campaign fund. Would five checks, each of S10.0o0, be rejected with scorn if Mir. Clark should send them nowf'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
BRYAN,s REAL WORTH.
His Record Should Inspire Unbounded
 Confidence.

Pittsburg Post.
 The record of William J. Bryan since his first appearance as a public man has been such as to inspire the confidence and win the admiration of men of all classes. Personally. his life has been worthy of emulation in all ways and in every respect. His utterances on questions of public im- portance have been those of the man who thinks, and who has reached his conclusions after most exhaustive h. vestigation of all obtainable facts His position on matters of moment Is unassailabl his integrity beyond question. and his earnestness unmis- takable. Mr. Bryan is a man of more than ordinary ability. and what he advocates and stands for is worthy of serious consideration by the people of this country.
 Any man who can lead as he has done for the past twelve years, and in all that time in the face of dis couragement and defeat maintain his leadership and retain the loyalty of those who believe ss he does, pos sesses traits of character that mark him as more than a remarkable leader of thought in this great country A dishonest man, a demagogue. would have fallen and passed into oblivion with his first defeat
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
HoNoRs ARE EVEN.
Tn the PeIiticsi strife for . virtssus
 Pose.

Tn the Political Strife for vfrfuous
 Pose.
 New York Post
 Tn the lively contest in political pu- rity between Mr. Taft and Mir. Bryan. Mir. Taft has just scored point by announcing that the Republican Na- tienal Committee will not accept any contributions from any corporatiou. The honors between the two candi- dates seem now to be about even. though in view of the intimate rela- tions between the Republican Commit tee and the corporations in recent cam palgns. Mir. Taft has made the great this matter is, like MT. Bryan's, entire ly creditabie. Although the courts have held that Presidential electors are State oficers. and, therefore, beyond the scope of the Federal law, he will adhere to the spirit and not the letter of the statute. Nobody can deny. of course. that If 1t is undesirable that election of Congressrnen shall be in- fiuenced by corporations. which may often command enormous resources. and thus determine the result. 1t is equally undesirable that the Presf- dency shall in any sense be pawn in the game of finance. Tn view of the promises of Mir. Taft and MT. Bryan. which but reflect the growing senti- ment against the lavish use of money In elections, the campaign seems like ly to be more free from scandal than any within the memory of the present generation. For this ciearness of vis- ion regarding the evil of corruption in politics the country is largely indebted to President Roosevelt. The fact. that this great apostle of morality person. ally appealed to B. H. Harriman for | campaign contribution in 1904. that Mir. Hartman responded by raising $260. 1000, and that this money, paid in just before election day. turned--as Mir. Hartman said--50,000 votes in New York city alone. has done as much as any other one thing to convince men that pure politics and financial piracy are incompatible partners.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

If Hearst and Graves should be the nominees of the Independence League they should get some man named cof- fin as campaign manager. with head quarters at Tombstone. There's noth- ing like making q complete job of things, and we think such a combina- ton as the three names suggested would be highly appropriate, as we'll as prophetic. aslss.as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
No WnIk-OYer.
Pittsburg Inquirer.

With Bryan in the field. inspired to make the effort of his life by the the impending campaign Is not go- ing to be any walk over, and it is fortunate for the Republicans that they have a record upon which they need not fear to invite judgment, a plat form on which they can safely stand. and in the person of William H Taft the best equipped candidate for the presidential office ever placed in hom- nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
None for Him.

Well, what does the hat bill come to this summer?' inquired Mir. Jug gins.
 Let me see." said Mrs Juggins, producing the long paper. My black Merry Widow. Lottie's pink Merry Widow, Elias green and Mamie's mauve Merry Widow-totaI $90so.
 "Gee!" said MT. Juggins. Nearly a hundred! We'll. with the ten cents remaining, I guess I'd better have my old straw done up again."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
.Jan OlI Comn.nv ah.s~t.

Tokio. July 2S.-The Takarado OH Company continues its process of ab- sorbing ali its rivals. Some time ago news was published that it had pur- chased the Namboku and Fujf com rumors say that it has now effected the purchase of the Bokuyetsu Com pany for 260s000 yen, of the Yamato for 100000 yen, and of the Miku for 1000 yenS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

Sometimes newspaper correspondents lilse quite a lot of being good pr0ph- cts For example. day or two before the rendering of the decision by the Court of Appeals knocking out that big fine a dispatch was sent from Chicago aying that Judge Landis would be sus- nsipea in every particuIa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

The Boston Globe asks if 1t will not he inconvenient for Taft to go to Af- rica in case he wants to send a mes sage to Congress. That will hardly be necessary. we imagine. The President win be likely to leave a shelf filled with canned advice and instructions, if Taft is President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
Horrors Ahead.

Meridian JOurnaI
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's tower in Madison Square. New York, is to have four of the biggest bells in the world chiming the quarter-hours $50 feet above the pavement. There will be nothing left for the Equitable but a steam siren set 909 feet from the ground and audible from Cape Cod to Hatteras
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
Then He Went.

FhlIadeIphIa Press.
 "Ah" remarked Miss Wesry, WI cnl Mir. Staylate mad been boring wtrh o.d conundrums, that last one rom. ads me of the best thing going''-
 Whats that?" he asked eagerly
 "A man who has stayed too long,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
For small Farms.

The tendency to divide up the large plantations has set in in Alabama, and 1t is going to be the means of adding thousands of desirable citizens, and in- crease the production of the soil. If there was hundred more small farm CTS in few miles of Centreville. things in this section would be different in a business way. We would have better and more thrifty town, better schools and churches which would naturally mean better citizenship. Divide up the big plantations and sell it of to the small thrifty farmer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
Gaaaaen GelnE Forward.

GadSden JoufnaI.
 Things look better in the Queen City now than at anyl time since the panic. A pull together is what Is needed to get results. With the water question disposed of, a board oe Mayor and Al. dermen assured that will have the con- fidence of the people. a better feeling in real estate circles. work on the Fed- eral building to be begun shortly, as- suranees that the Louisville and Nash vile Is to undertake big Improvements here and other equally significant in- dications of progress make us all feel that the tide has actually turned and that from now on Gadsden will once more make rapid progress in her de- velopment. V
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
SWORN CIRCULATION.

Ths Montgomerx Advertiser guarantees it's &tfvertisers (and makes 1t a part of the contract when 'requested) that It's daily cir cuistion is larger than that of any morn ing newspaper printed in Alabama--and that ffs Sunday edition has the largest cir culation of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for June printed below repre- sent the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
Soon
Puck

Farmer-Im a-goin' to drive to town some day next week. Maarthy.
 His Wife-You can't. Hiram. wuz just lookin' over the skedool of auto races an tn ere ain't an open date fer hoss-drivin' on the roads foF tbe rext ten daysy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

One Cause of Popularity. Washington Post. Mir Roosevelt refused point-blank to talk into photograph recently. No wonder he is so popular with the masses!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
CheeEine Reports.

GreenviIle Living Truth.
 All over the country just now comes the cheering news of good crops With worlds supply of cotton the South should never be out of the road of prosperity long at time. With good cotton crop supplemented by a large crop of corn in order that the proceeds of the cotton are not spent for feed stuffs, the South will be surely pros- porous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

Net Daily average June 1908 .... is,3so Net Sunday average. June 1908. ..... 2O.672 -~~----~-------->-----S~-->- c I. Ftnigan. Circulating Manager Of Tho Montgomery Advertiser being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of the Adver- tiaar's circulation for the month of June. 1Sp4 is true and correct. and compiled af- teF.&lf returns from news boys. news agents spoiled and leftover copies have been de- dnekad.
 c. l. FINIGAN
 Circulation Manager. z1st day of July. 1908.
 RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
Cheerins Forecast.

MobiIe RegIsteF.
 A Chicago merchant takes a very op- timistfc view of the trade outlook. He considers crops good. prices stable and appreciating, and stocks of merchan. disc generally in sold out condition. He thinks that the railroads soon will have all the business they can handle. Such opinions as this, coming from different sections of the contry. are very encouraging.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
a,rls Sst }. Y yWsrry.as About Infections.

TUSCALOOSA TtmeG-Gazette.
 What does this continuad building during period of supposed hard times mean; Why Is ik that as soon as a neat. modern house Is started several people want to rent it? These evil dences are not of dead city Tusca- loosa ia coming right along.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
LeoIs. Good la Lewnaes.

Hayneville Citizen- Examiner.
 The crop prospect In this section ia very good at present. There are some localities in the county, however, where very little rain has fallen during the the crops are not so good, but fortun- ately these dry sections are very small.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

The New York Globe thinks the se- lection of the West as a fighting ground will Insure breezy campaign.
 'iseiection of the West as the main
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
What the .State Papers :
 Are Sewing and Doing
Ia Glover.

Ozark Star.
 Dale County farmers viii he in eIo- yer this fall, if the crops continue
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05
New Council
Gets Down
To Business

After the lengthy minutes of the last
two meetings, the reading of the may
or's inaugural address and one or two
communications, the new council got
down to business last night and dis
pensed with several matters Of more
or less Importance. The meeting was
made as brief as possible, but in spite
of that fact it dragged along tedious
ly for more than an hour. Mayor Tau
sick and Councilmen Cummings,
Whiteman, Stack, Hull, Niebergall,
Bachtold and Lehn were present.
Reports were read from the various
city officials. City Clerk Hart re-
ported that 369 warrants We're drawn
last month, aggregating 64,36O.02 The
city treasurers report showed that the
receipts for the past month have been
$46,1O5.O2. the disbursements, $3O,S92,-
OF: cash on hand, August 1, $15,212.95;
checks outstanding, $459.14; bank bal
ance, $15,672.09.
AS license collector, Mike Davis re-
ported $3125 collected, and as delin
quent tax collector, $111.21. AS chief of
police he reported S2 arrests, including
one youth and five women; Sill was
taken in in cash fines and forfeited
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05
Cut to Pieces
By Freight Train
}. J. Sellars Dying as a Result Of
Injuries Received on
Northern Pacific

Lying asleep across the Northern
Pacific tracks at Trigo, near Eureka
junction. j. j. Sellars was run over bv
a freight train about II O'Clock last
night, receiving injuries from which he
will probably die
Sellars was in town yesterday. and
1t is said he had been drinking hard.
He went out on the Northern Pa
c1f1c passenger at $50 last night ana
got off at Trigo. He was assisted by
the conductor and brakeman to ware
house, where he was left
After the train pulled out Sellars
crawled back on the track, evidently
starting for his home near the station
He did not succeed, however. in get
ting across the track, but lay down
there and went to sleep.
When the freight came along about
IL O'Clock he was run over, the Wheels
cutting off one leg above the ankle.
and breaking the other at the thigh
and badly bruising it. Besides this
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Is Mrs Grace
Smell Coffin Walker Coffin Coffin Ly-
man. Coffin Love again to become Mrs.
Coffin, for the fifth time? Friends of
the much divorced women are confident
that such is the case. Mrs Grace
Smell ct cetera recently secured q d.
vorce from her last husband, Hugh NJ.
Love, and it is reported on good au-
thority that Frank Nixon Coffin, un-
daunted by former matrimonial infe-
licities, is now paying arden court to
the beautiful grass widow
Grace Smells last appearance in the
divorce court was in Los Angeles,
where she appeared against Hugh M.
Love, once a newspaper man but now
an attache of the health office in the
City of Angels. Terrible charges were
made against the former scribe, among
them that he wore pink pajanas in
the drawing room when his wife was
entertaining friends; that he smoked
a strong pipe in the parlor and expect
GRATED into the fire, and similar brutal
cruelties
Grace Smell is the daughter of Amos
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05
Washington
Farmers Stop
Raising Hop:

SEATTLE, Aug 5.-According to r.
NJ. Livesley, broker in hops, the Wash
ington farmer is going out of the hop
business at a rate which will soon re-
duce the states total output to an
amount scarcely worth considering.
Mr.. Livesley says that the crop this
year will not total more than 10000
bales, in comparison with 1000 bales
last year and 10000 bales at one time
within the last half dozen years.
The very heavy decrease in the crop
is not due to lower production per
acre. Mr.. Livesley AYERS, but rather
to the fact that hop fields have been
planted to other crops. The reason for
this has been the great reduction in
the price commanded. A few years
ago the hop farmer was paid % and 20
cents per pound for all the hops he had
to sell. Last year the price was never
above 10 cents, and at one time in the
season or cents was the best to be
had
The Yakima and White river valleys
have been the great hop growing
communities of the state. Diaries have
taken the place of the hop fields in the
White river valley, while in Yakima
fruits have been substituted.
Mr.. Livesley states that the crop is
going to be an excellent one this year
for the acreage planted. and he esti
mates that it will bring about 10
cents per pound. The crop also appears
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05
Earthquake
and RiotinG

CONSTANTINOPLE, Algeria, Aug.
5.-Following a terrible earthquake
yesterday, killing between 500 and 1000
in score of Algerian towns, hordes of
wild bandits swept in from the desert
bent cn loot, and inaugurated reign
of terror.
The French soldiers are shooting
them down.
Hundreds of dead are being removed
from the ruins.
The rescuers were frequently in
terrupted by fighting. Two thousand
natives are homeless. The French au-
thorities have taken measures for
their relief. 1t is feared famine may
result before the outlying districts
can be reached with food. In some
placss the earth's disturbance dried
up springs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-05
Uncle Sans Big Bill
For Feeding His Men
At Camp D. S. Stanley

beef. The ration requirements all wv
20 per cent OF the meat ration in fresh
beef and the balance in smoked and
canned meats, so that the proportion
is 132,500 and $1,000 pounds respective
ly. The fresh meat will come to the
camp by carloads at various times
during the maneuvers, the first car
having been received Friday. The to-
tai amount of ice to be used is some
what indeterminate, but is being ship
ped in carload lots at regular inter-
walls. With the arrival of the Wash
ington national guard today, the requi-
sitions on the cOmmissary were prac-
tically doubled.
Nothing is done on a small scale at
this camp and especially at the COM
missary and quartermaster's depart
ment. Almost every staple purchas-
able in grocery store is stored there,
and in quantities such as beans, 10000
pounds, sugar, 27,000 pounds; cofree.
S,4O0 pounds; salt, $500 pounds;
prunes, 1000 pounds; rice. $500
pounds; apples. 5000 pounds; evapor-
ated peaches, 1000 pounds; tomatoes.
1900 cans; soap, 4.SOG pounds; candles.
1000 pounds; safety matches, 14,400
boxes There are 1870 different kinds
OF staples in the stores.
Less extensive in variety, but mucn
greater in amount is the forage to be
issued by the quartermaster's depart
ment Just now there are about 1000
animals here, but this number will
vary during the encampment and the
exact amount of forage needed cannot
be estimated at present. Leading the
forage list, however. are 100000 pounds
of hay, 275,000 pounds OF oats, lac, 900
pounds of straw and 10000 pounds OF
bran. All camp supplies other than
subsistence come from the quarter
and in addition to the vast
amount of general stores there are 500
cords OF wood, 200 barrels of crude oil
and 100 barrels of lime
1t is estimated that about $250,0e0
will be spent by the government with
Tacoma commission merchants and
supply men for supplies during this