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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
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wuIiam ,. Rolfs.

William J. Rolfe, the noted writer and Shakeapearian scholar. waa born in New buryport. Mass. December 10. 1927. Tn his early years he was . school teacher and cational affairs. As young man he re- moved to Cambridge, which city is still his home. He began, his editorial and literary labors in 1888. since which time he has written many textbooks. criticisms. guides and magazine articles. In his multitude of labore Dr.. Kolfe has still found time fo master seven languagea and to make no fewer than twenty trips to Europe. Ho is regarded as one of the greatest living au- thorities on the life and work of Shakes gree of A. M, upon Mir. Rotfe in 1859 and similar honors have come to him from Amherst and other leading colleges.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

Failing to land the New York Sen atorship. it is now said that Tim Woodruff will be satisfied with the position of collector of the port of New York, and The Columbus Enquir- er-sun says that will put him in the same class with Dr. Crum. of Charles ton. Not. in Roosevelt's eyes; Wood rufK is a white man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

During the months of October and November, in the little State of Con necticut, nine persons were. killed bv automobiles This looks liKe- too much of bad thing. .atisd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

Some close watcher of events tells us that every hen-coop in Port .au Prince was robbed when the .revolu- tionists entered the city. Blood will tell, you know.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

The Augusta Herald which ought to know something about it, says that while Georgia Is theoretically pro- hibition state. practically 1t consumes as much liquor as it ever did."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

rgsE Daily Average, November. 1908 I5.sss Ne2 Sunday Average November As0e SV'ssA c | Finigau. Circulation MafaGer of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: staars' Circulation for the month og Novens- ber ieoe is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news oofa. news ez~nta anoiIad and leftover copies have
 C. |. FINTGAN. Circulation Manager
 sworn to and. subscr1oee oehoEs me snAs kfh dav4 of December. 1908.
 RIGA ALEXANDER Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

rail and partly water. all the way from Cape Town to the month of the Congo river. This is likely to happen gooj while before Cecil Hhodea
 dream of through trains between the South and North of Africa is realized
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

We know when we've got enough of Thaw." asserts The Columbus IAd- ger, Very likely but do you know when we'll quit getting enough of him4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
THE PASSING THRONC
Honsea In Demnnd

There is a constant demand m Montsomefy for dwellings and stores, said one of the officials of the city yesterday, even in spite of the late panic, Montgomery has grown percep- tioly during the year passing. The pest part of 1t Is that the new dwell- ings and places of business are. not mediocre affairs, but substantial houses that will be here for many years.
 ENen with the presence of the Bell building there is constant demand Tor office room and most of the stores being built are constructed with an eye 70 this source of income. In the rapidly developing suburban home dis tricts handsome houses are being built and the demand for es:em is increas- ing. It is true that some of the new houses, very few, are on the sites of ones that have been demolished, but in these instances the new buildings are much larger and more handsomely constructed.
 Tn tho last few years several fine apartment houses have been built and these are how full. Others are. being built 10 talk care vf families who are into business and who do not care to take a whole house to themselves.
 The records show that in the last fiscal year $440,492.5e was the sum expended on new houses. the sum. oN course, not including the pig office buildings which were planned for year or so ago. More than $S3.000 has been expended on Improvements of property. end permits for new houses and for Improvements are constantly being issued"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

The Columbia State thinks the Pres iaent should have begun his message something like this: Nov, one or two million more words and I am done" Yes, but you know Roosevelt claims to be like George washington and therefara hA "aaRAOt fAI Q lie" 2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
For More Corn
A Republican Trick.

During the last campaign some mysterious person" dumped 10000 speeches of General Dan Sickles on the Department of Agriculture and they were sent out to the farmers of the country as official documents. The speech advised the readers to vote for Taft and Sherman. and was so clearly tors to a fine of $S,0O00O However. as this mysterious person cannot be found" the clerks who had all this extra work thrust upon them are moi to De pestered with further inQuirIes as to how 1t all happened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
swoRN cTRCUI.ATTOM.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees It's advertisers land makes 1t part ok tne coneract when reQuestedJ that it's daily cir- culation is larger than that or any mofnink newspaper printed in Alabama-and tnat l.s Sunday edittou has the largest circuiauon of any edition of any newspaper printed m Alabama without exception.
 The figures for November printed below turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Argument en Football.


 'sThe argument of one of our great est college presidents In favor of foot ball." said an Alabamian, ''has about convinced me. I have often been op- posed to the sport but when I compare the fatalities of this game with others perhaps less prevalent, I do not think 1t should be classed as an extra-haz- ardous exercise. Of course, it is rough;s there's no way getting round that. Yet think of the great principle of self-reliance which 1t teaches, the virtues of sacrifice, the art of quick thinking, the value of following up de- cision with swift and effective action.
 '.As the college president said at the banquet board. there would have been little hope from. a young man in an after-career if the playing of football causes any any material sacrifice in the way of education. If the man is iz the boy 1t will rise up and sur mount all obstacles This seems to me to dispose of this phase of tiie opposition argument. As for the haz- ard there are other games fraught with more danger, think Yon will notice that the majority of accidents are not in those schools or colleges where the players have been taught the reflnements of the sport, how to really tackle. and how to run with the ball. Most of the accidents are due to untrained men,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

Reducing the Party. Coosa River News.
 If Mfr. Bryan cares to decimate the ranks of the Democratic party any fur ther. he is exactly on the right track in insisting upon continued leadership.
 Dollars, Not sympathy. Piedmont Journal.
 to hustle to keep the wolf" down and the standard of his paper@up.. But he don't need your sympathy; what he needs is that dollar you owe him.
 The River Improvements.
 Theresis much encouragement in the reports coming from the government Warrior rivers, With these completed and the coosa canal certainty Mobile will become the greatest seaport in the South. Let's work for these iIn- provements.
 The Walking Test. Greenville Advocate.
 It appears that none of the Justices of the Supreme. Court who have at tained to superannuation are much dis posed to acconmodate President Roose- welt by resigning. Why does not the President apply the walking test that he has found so efficient in the army to the Supreme Court?
 Beset by Trials. Opelika Morning Post.
 The old adage that troubles never come single. but in battalions." will certain hold good in the case of Bir- mtngham. She is beset by trials and tribulations on every hand Her list is made up of blind tigers. country clubs. obstreperous aldermen and va- rious other things that do not give her an enviable> reputation with her sister towns.
 Commission InfallSbility. Bessemer Weekly.
 The infallibility or absoluteism of a State Railroad Commission was explod- ed by a decision of the Supreme Court at Washington on an appeal from the courts in Virginia. The action of such prescribing rules is subject to review by the highest courts in the land. That Is just what the railways wantedN and contended for. .r.
 For More Corn. Alabama Courier.
 We invite your attention to the arti- cIe on corn growing in this issue. The Montgomery Advertiser had an Illus- trated article on the Williamson meth nd of growing corn last week that we wish every farmer in the County might read. It shows that where ground usually produces thirty or forty bush els of corn to the acre. eighty and ninety can be grown just aS well with no more labor, but little more ex- penso.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

When 1t isn't baseball. it's football and when it isn't football, we suppose it will be something else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Bradar ceupae Arr4ves,

eution he stated that that would Dc 'saksa care of later on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Hnn Street nnnt.

DO you know" said a Hull Street resident yesterday, 'this asphalt pave meht is a great success in wet wealth CT and for that matter in pleas weather immediately after the ram, hut this awful dust created by the street cars whirling along is fright full
 T thought when the pavement was laid there would he no more dust, no moro mud.--in fact, that the street would be the anest place to locate on you ever saw. But the cross streets are. not paved, and the dust and mud from them cross the pavement. Con- tinuous trafflc makes the dust exceed ingly fine, and when the street car comes along on It's twelve minute schedule, there fs a perfect dust storm for several minutes.
 "But I'm not Kicking. I'm tickled to death with the new pavement and the bright folk who make use of it on an afternoon. I like to see the 'bub- bles' scoot along It's smoothnes. and If the dust could be remedied there would be nothing more to be desired for any street in existence.
 TT make this suggestion, and hope that the Councilmen will see 1t. Why not put a sprinkler on the street to run it's entire length twice day when fs dusty? Of course there is sprin- kle wagon every other night or so for cleaning purposes, but after few hours in the morning the dust accumu- lateB again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Pot Huntrra nnnon.a.

"I am. most emphatically opposed" said prominent citizen yesterday, "to the methods employed by great many hunters or at least persons who call themselves such. The methods of which I am speaking are what. are generally known as pot hunting and the killing of game in excess of the number allowed by law. A great many persons make a practice of kill ing game birds, such as cartridges while on the ground if they get a chance and shooting rabbits while sit ting in their beds. To a great many people 1t seems impossible that such thing could be true. Yet such is the case. I have seen men come in from a hunt and tell in a boosting way how they had shot rabbits which they had taken unaware I myself am an enthusiastic hunter and prefer this kind of sport to any other; but I think that there ought to be a severe pen alty inflicted on any one who is caught committing such acts'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Push Cape-Cairo Lime.

Pusn CGpe@NAAhO Aslhes
 New York Sun.
 Many months have passed since we have heard of any progress on the Cape to Cairo Railroad The inter ests concerned have finally had a con ference in London and decided to push forward without further delay the proposed branch from Broken Hill. the present northern terminus of the line, to the Congo State and into its south eastern district of Katanga. where 1t will tap the rich copper region whose praises have been so loudly sung; it's development, however. can go ror- ward only after transportation is pro- vided The British South Africa Com pany. which Is building the Cape to Cairo Railroad. has agreed to extend the line from Broken Hill to the Com go State frontier at Mabaya, and the route has already been surveyed. From that point the railroad com pany of the Lower Congo and Katan- ga agrees to extend the line to the Etoile du Congo Copper mine, sixty miles, and then on through Kambowe to the copper district of Ruwe, ITO miles further. When the British and Belgians are preparing to build this road the railroad company of the Great Lakes Is laying tracks around the stretches of rapids In the Congo and placing steamers on the naviEaole reaches above them, so that when these two transportation systems meet in ths Ruwe district there VIII pc steam inland communications. partly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10
Country Club Crowded.


 'No club has shown such growth recently in Montgomery as has the Country Club remarked a member yesterday. Its membership has in creased so largely of late that there Is actually not room in the dressing department. I understand that appli- catiops for lockers are on file now that cannot be attended to Many members are sharing lockers Jointly and the place Is otherwise crowded. We'll, when summer comes again this crowded condition is going to be more apparent. It seems up to the board of governors to enlarge the capacity of the club. Certainly there is no more pleasant place in Montgomery to pass the leisure hours but the pleasure may be sacrificed by the congested condition.
 Master of Trains Tom Mizell. of the Mobile and Montgomery Division of the Louisville and Nashville. reached Montgomery yesterday morning from the regular inspection trip that he makes Sver the NJ. and NJ and A F. on the first of every month.
 The parket W. J. Bethea of the B and c. Line Of steamers reached Mont gomery about 1 o'clock yesterday from Mobile and the lower river and left for Selma and Mobile about D. m.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-10

There comes a eonfession from Drift Armstrong of The Montgomery Advertiser to the effect that men tn Montgomery haven't worn their over coats for so many days this winter that they forget every now and then and think It Ia spring. Evidently most significant event in the history the yother day that prosperity had landed in Montgomery with both feet San Antonio ExpTeaa.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-22
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

several reports of the committees OF 1nVeSugauon Oh
the various counties of the state beg to submit the
following report subject to your pleasure and dis
cretion
Having considered the reports of the various
counties we can be best understood by submitting
the disposition made of each as follows:
ada county-We recommend the report as sub
mitted to the committee of the whole be submitted
to the state board of equalization.
"Bngham-We recommend an increase OF 70 per
cent on the present assessed valuation of bank stock
and an increase of 20 per cent city and town lots
and improvements and an equitable raise on farm
lands and improvements
"Custer-This county was not represented at TINS
meeting No material raise over 1907 IS reported
"Lemhi-Not represented No material raise over
1907 reported.
"Idaho-We recommend raise of 20 per cent on
town lots and farm lands
"Kootenai county-We recommend the report OF
the committee stand reported
washington county-We recommend an increase
of 25 per cent town lots and improvements and
farm lands and improvements.
''Lemhi county-We recommend an increase of
500 per cent merchandise 20 per cent on town
lots and so per cent improvements upon town
lots.
Reconnaissance as reported
Twin Falls-Stands as reported
"Canyon-Stands as reported.
"Bannock-We recommend an increase on all real
estate and improvements amounting to 20 per cent
"Owyhee-Stands reported
ShonShone-Report of committee approved
'Blane-An increase of 90 per cent real
tate and improvements is recommended.
Reports of the committees Latah, Elmore,
Bonner, Nez Perez Oneida, Cassia and Bear Lake
are approved.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-22

the nav of mercess persecution in the name of
politics.
Having played the game themselves, what right
have the apostles of republicanism to murmur over
the application of like rules of warfare to the human
misery that has developed under their management of
public affairs?
It is one of the duties of the hour to fix in the
understanding of the people the fact that political
party can guarantee prosperity. The lesson of this
republican panic must be driven home And no
republican has right to raise his voice in protest
After 1896, there is something coming to the de
mocrac party in the way of retaliation and while it
is evening the score, the figure of repubcanism
crouch in the ruins of wrecked factories, while the
a1legorical weeps over her starving children
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-22
Chairman of the Committee.

The state convention of the democrats of Idaho
crowned its successful session at Wallace with
wise selection for the Craftsmanship of the state
central committee Timothy Regain, of Boise, will
preside the destinies of the party during the
coming two years and will conduct the campaign
that is to lead up to the November election of this
important democratic year.
Mr. Regain is in the pioneer class of distinguished
Idahoans, having located in the old territory in its
early mining days and remained with it through
adversely and prosperity and we'll into its progressive
statehood career. He has done his share as one of
the builders of a great commonwealth and is now
able to give time and attention its political adj
vancement
veteran in the ranks of democracy, we'll equipped
by active experience, he is qualified to lead Mr..
Regain will give good account of his stewardship
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-22
Ships for the Air.

Through the genius of Captain Thomas Baldwin,
Uncle Sam has become the proud possessor of
dirigible balloon He promised to buy the captains
balloon if it up to the requirements and after
series of all the specifications complied
with and the bargain concluded
With this much of start, the chief signal officer
of the army intends to ask congress for appropri
atom of million dollars with which to build and
equip an aerial squadron. Then the United States
of American will fly as high any other nation.
During the past two weeks the world has witnessed
number of experiments in the navigation of the air,
drigble balloons and aerop1anes engaging in the
tests. All the progressive nations have interested
themselves, each fearing that another might gain an
advantage that would be turned to conquest.
1t is hardly conceivable that the battles of the flu
ture are to be fought in the air. Yet that is the
theory behind the efforts of inventors and govern
ments. 1t will probably fail Balloons may be used
to sprinkle the earth with explosives, but their
pacity is limited and they would be easy marks for
the long reaching guns in
AS far back as the American civil war; the observa-
ton balloon was used anchored to the earth by
ropes, and found to be valuable scouting de-
vice. The balloon in those times was at the mercy
of the winds and the currents of the atmosphere
Captain Baldwin demonstrated in his exhibitions that
the balloon is Siderable and can contend against air
currents and wind of considerable momentum by
the employment of a paddle wheel pushing device.
The United States, England and Austria Hungary
are under agreement made at the last international
peace congress, not to employ the aerial machine in
bombarding each other with death dealing explosives
conHagraton agencies. But they are free to "get
the drop" other nations So it becomes necessary
for those nations to keep pace with the world in the
development of air fighting apparatus
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-22
AS to Carbon Birds.

Boise Statesman: Every disaster that can happen
to the people of this country gives hope to Bryan's
frenda threatened crop failure betters his chances
Business depression is of much benefit that
prospect Of it is hailed with JOY by his supporters
Can any think of any good that would
help Mr.. Bryan-What manner of bird is it that feeds
on such carbon
1t is the same manner of bird that fed on the
carrion of 1885, if that's what you call it The bird
of 1896 republican bird, and it gorged itself
the purifying remains of slaughtered industrial
system, to carry out the simile.
Time has not grown so much older since that year
of violence and corruption in politics as to efface
remembrance of the republican methods then in vo-
que.
Few of the participants in that memorable strug-
gle have forgotten the elaborate colored posters that
made hideous the dead walls and bill boards de-
plotting factories falling into ruin surmounted by for
ests of smokeless chimneys, while the starving moth
crouched in the gap of wrecked wall, surround
ed by her famine stricken children, and the father
and husband wrung his hands in agony of despair
as he appealed to heaven with tear dinmed eyes
There is yet an impression on the retina of memory
of a colossal Mckinley emerging from the debris of
demolished workshops and homes, bearing aloft like
the infexibe boy in the Excelsior" story brave
banner carrying the legend "The Advance Agent
of Prosperity"
We all remember the pictorial tragedy, touched
with heightened color by the master hand of Mark
Hanna, chief of political corruptionsts.
1t was in 1896 that republican newspapers carried
the daily story of deso1aton wrought by the innocu-
Gus Wilson tariff act and pointed the dread finger
of rebuke at the covering figure of democracy and,
hour after hour and week after week, charged that
here the monster that had invoked the demon
of suffering and starvation that had invaded the
homes of idle workingmen.
The democratic party knew that it was innocent of
any small of the atrocities charged against
it. But the bird of republcanism was devouring car
rion in those days and democracy bowed its head and
held its nose while the uncanny feast swept into
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-27
Stocks - BOnds# Cereals
WHEAT WAS ACTIVE
Closed at High Point After Setback in
Final Hour-Corn Lacked Snap
Oats Quiet.

Chicago, H., March 26.-WHEAT.-
Sentiment was bullish almost the en-.
| tire day, although the market expert
onced an occasional setback because
| Of profit taking safes The most pro-
Inounced decline occurred the final
hour, but the reaction was of short
/ duration and was followed by a shorp
rally which carried prices to a new
high point for the day. The close
| was strong. May up r. Firm cables
small receipts in the northwest and
the continued absence of rain in KaA-
sas were the chief strengthening in
| f'uences. The principal demand came
from shorts although commission
houses We're active buyers late in the
day. No. ? red 1914 @Sh; No. 3 red
! 94H @SH; No. . hard 944 0102A:
No. hard 9ih@100. MAY opened
highest 95h; lowest 81
a Is closing 95h July 90.
CORN-Business lacked snap that
had characterized trading for some
time past, and sentiment was in
cilned to be bealish Bun leaders ap-
parently made no attempt to support
the market and there was more or
less selling by local and outside longs.
The market manifested a little finn
ness early owing to tine strength in
wheat and again near the close prices
advanced in sympathy with the late
upturn in wheat Country accepjances