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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
THAT OLD LEGEND.

Referring to the Indian legend of Lovers Leap" of which The Adver- tiser had something to say last Sun day. The Columbus Ledger says:
 It is thrilling story. and there may be truth in it. but whether there Is much truth in 1t or not will never be known. But But. Lovers Lovers Leap" Is no ory. For not only Is the mill there. and the power plant also. but round about the spot are many homes of the mills and at the plant. Quite a city has sprung up there and 1t has done so within less than ten years time. It will continue to grow and ten change as the last ten have seen.
 Thus does the iconoclasm of mod ern civilization shatter the romance of the older times. Where the Indian brave and his soft-eyed girl roamed and talk ed of the love which savage and civilized humanity alike acknowl- edge. are now to be seen the homes of the pale faces and to be heard the noise and hustle of unromantic com mercialfsm and industry. The bright and sparkling waters of the then un- polluted Chattahooche upon which they looked as they sat on the tow ering rock far above Is now a muddy stream harnessed by men to do his work while he directs its movements. The scenery is all changed. the TO- nance is all gone. but Lovers Leap" will live in legend~to keep alive the romantic and pathetic story of our Muskogee predecessors. The actual scene of tho leap may have changed In appearance and surrounding fea lures but the fragrance of the lovers devotion and sacrifice rena,ns.
 We have sometimes felt req, regret that the memorable trsnd ot m0aerp life destroys and blots out all the TO- nance and legendary storieA which once attached to the Few World. If this region had been blessea In the days of Indian isolation with such writers as those of Greece and the other old nations had 1t, also. might have lived in song and story aud sent down to future generations true or legendary lore as fascinating as any thing we read in the classics. But these simple inhabitants of great country had no one to write for them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
VIII Holland FIght9

Kansas City Journal
 One of the international questions that is exciting keen interest in the vari- ous chancelIories of the world is how HoI- land will come out of it's trouble with Vene- zuela- Most of the civilized countries England, France. Germany, Italy and the United States-have had similar troubJea with the little South American republic and all have failed to obtain satisfaction or to find an effective method to bring Venezuela to terms, and each in turn has been insulted, humiliated and defied by the insoient and crafty dictator-presi- dent. Castro It will be edifying lesson in international politics if little Holland should turn the trick in which the great powers have ignominiously confessed fail ure. and when one considers the sturdy character of the Dutch and their straight forward. determined manner in meeting their own obligations and in requiring similar treatment at the hands of other nations. 1t does not seem at all improbable that Queen Wilhelmina's ministers will solve the problem and thus establish a new and valuable precedent in international law The tenacity of the Dutch has been pro- verbal In history since the days centuries ago when Admiral Van Tromp swept tthe seas with his victorious fleet and sailed through the English channel with a neew broom at his masthead In those days the
 
 cry of the seas. and her flag. whether on man -of- war or merchant vessels. was known and respected in every civilized port in the world. They made up for smallness of numbers by the unconquerable spirit that led them to open their dikes and let the salt seas roll over their land rather than submit to the domination of the spaniards under the cruel Alva. and this spirit, to- gether with fair and honorable dealings with all nations. made them what they are today, a rich proud. free people. No nation in the Old World has ever been able to get the best of the shrewd. liberty-loving Hollanders. whether in deal in trade or in striking hard blows. and it Is fair to assume that they will exhaust every re- source ct their command before allowing their honor to be impugned by the half civilized Venezuelans-for Hollands cabi- net ministers have declared that their country's quarrel with Castro Is not a matter of pecuniary obligations or personal rights but of national honor which cannot be arbitrated.
 Holland will have one great advantage
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
Expert opinion en Baldheads.


 Saws The MontEomery Advertiser:
 There's a remedy for most vista tions or misfortunes, If We put knoW how to look for. 1t and apply It. we a premonition' ow as warning, or whe- ther it Is a punishment. but at all events it hits a man occasionaIly' ana then the number and quahty or nain restorers he uses would sink ship.
 We don't believe any baldheads both CT themselves excessively about their lack of hair. They are a good ed. tempered, whoie-souied lot as a rule; ardent optimists at heart in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred. Look around among your acquaint- ances and observe for yourself; 1t IS doubtful that you will be able to locate many baldheads who are grouchy, or who don't enjoy a good joke, even at their own expense.
 And there isn't any reason why bald headed men should deplore their lot, anyhow. Outside of the annoyance the flies give them, they have very feW worries in this worldS Flies are a pro- duct of a somewhat slovenly civlliza- ton, and if the baldheads could get the proper support in a wholesale ef- fort at their determination, there soon wouldn't be any flies. Even as It is, however, they bear their one serious affIiction manfully, and are prone to laugh the while they swat.
 It has been said that there are no baldheaded men in the asylums TOT the insane. We suspect tnlS IS true. dC least, save for rare and unimportant exceptions. This Is an important thing for anti-baldheads to speculate upon; it may well furnish them food for ser ious and earnest thought: Unfortun- ately, there are any number of bald headed men fin the penitentiaries; but 1t will be admitted in this connection that it often takes a man of brilliant mental attachments to get in jail. whereas any ordinary galoot in the world can get in the bughouse.
 In our judgement. baldheaded men should accept the situation; nature which never works without a worthy motive-provides for them. and let it go at that. They are not lacking in hair atop their craniums for nothing, Like the all-efflcient excuse for break fast foods, there's a reason" So they should not seek by invoking the aid of restorers. cosmetics. washes, and what not to thwart natures benign efforts to do the right thing by them, not withstanding some peoples ideas con- corning the eternal fitness of things. Let the baldheads stand forth just as they are without one plea save that their polls au naturel be! They com pose a highly important and useful sec: tion of society; they should stand pat on the question of their marble-tops, and let well enough alone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02

in settling her difficulty which the other European powers and tthe United States lacked fin regard to Venezuela. The great powers' hands were effectually tied by the limitations placed upon their freedom of action by the Monroe dostrine. which pre- vented them from seizing foot of vene- zuelan territory. On the other hand. the United States government has found its way blocked by the necessity of avoiding any action which bore a resemblance of bulIdozing Venezuela. or forc.hle measures of any kind. lest the traditional fears of the other South Aemerican countries would be aroused regarding to designs of the great North American republic upon Latin America. But in no quarter is there the slightest apprehension tthat little Holland has any designs of territorial conquest in South America. and 1t is understood that the United States government has agreed in advance to allow her to deal with the venezuelans as, best she can. to vindicate her wounded national honor in any way her statesmen can devise. Having free hand, a small but splendidly drilled and equipped army and a naval force ample for all prac- ticaI purposes. the Dutch have better chance to clip Castros comb and put stop to his insolent growing than any na- tion that has yet tried 1t. It is sincerely to be hoped that they will perform the task with the thoroughness and determination for which the Dutch character is noted One thing is certain. if Castro beats the Dutch he will do something that is prover- bialIy regarded as a mighty hard thing to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
"WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ?, 1908,


 Now comes another crumb of com fort and consolation to we who handle much paper money. For quite a time now we have had 1t droned into us that the paper bills are loaded. They told us that these bills are loaded with bacteria, bacilli, microbes. germs and anything else that is dangerous and disccncerting. but here comes a learned Yale professor to set our fears at rest and make us feel safe. He says he has made careful examina- ton of the subject. and also the bills, and finds that the microbes are both countless and harmless. That ought to settle it. We don't care a snap how countless they are. and if they are harmless there's nothing more to fear. Bring on your bills. the larger the better. and we are ready to risk the consequences of fondling them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
GOVERNOR CoMER's STATEMENT.
What He Said to the Strike Onhcial. Birmingham News Aug. 31

What He Said to the Strike Onlciai. Birmingham News. Aug. 31 ~ met by request MT. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers; Mir. Ryan. secretary and treasurer. and Mr White vice president Mir. Lewis took dinner with me. and found him a very pleasant man. l took MT. Lew is and Mir. Ryan in my automobile out rancy and the danger from such vag- rancy. of the negro union miner main tained in idleness along the public highways and around and about the mines and properties of tho corpora tions In tents and In tent camps. called their attention to conditions as they were actually seen there that at Springfield. Ill., which came from criminal assault on a white woman by a negro. l called their attention to the riot at Pensacola, Fla. from the same cause. and called their attention also that in their proposition to main tain in tent life. or tent camps, five to, ten thousand negroes in continued eral district would bring about just such conditions. and that Il as Gov ernor. would be rePrehensible If l was too dangerous to contemplate; that under no circumstances would the United Mine Workers or anybody else be allowed to establish and main tain such conditions in Alabama; that I had nothing to do with the strike. but I had everything to do with con ditions that would breed disease both of health and crime.
 Now. that was the basis of the ul- tlmatum so far as the States author ity was concerned to the United Mine Workers and I am sure that MT Lewis. as president of the mine work CTS and Mir. Ryan. secretary and treasurer. will agree that 1t would be criminal of me as Governor of Ala bama to allow the establishment and continuous of these camps
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
A DUTY WELL PERFORMED.

Tn the general gratih-ation felt throughout Alabama at the ending of the miners strike. public acknowiedg- ment should be made at the splendid service for law and order rendered by the Alabama National Guard. It Is regrettable that the public has not fully understood and appreciated the excellent service rendered in the dis turbed district by its citizen soi- diers.
 For nearly two months. the young men of the National Guard have been away from their homes and away from their daily work, on patrol and guard duty. That they have prevented any general disorder Is not questioned. The dynamiter and the hidden assassin has now and then stealthily commit ted crime. but the presence of the guardsmen has prevented anarchy and dangerous disorders.
 The soldiers, men and officers, bore tn emselves admirably. Tue duty to which the State called them was both dangerous and delicate. The State should not forget that some Of them shed their blood that the law should be upheld. Nor should the State for get that in a delicate situation. camp ed, as 1t were between two hostile and armed forces the National Guard maintained order. aligned itself with no faction, and antagonized no fac- ton.
 The conduct of the men has been ex- cellent. The disorder. incident 10 young men in a strange place and away from home. which has some times brought criticism on both reg. ular and volunteer soldiers was no- ticeably absent. in the conduct of our young men at Birmingham. They bore themselves as though their ex- ample should have weight in main- taining order, as no doubt 1t did
 The pittance they received from the State in no wise recompensed them for the sacrifices they made. Men drawing s1,s0o and s2.4oo a year from their labor at home carried guns and did police duty for dollar day be- cause it was their duty.
 The State may well feel pride in its National Guard. equipped. efficient and as willing as It is. There are re- ports abroad that some employers have discharged a number of these young men during their absence. It is sincerely hoped that this Is mis- take. If it Is true. 1t is most un- fortunate. For merchants and others to follow such policy is as dangerous as 1t fs reprehensible.
 But come what may, the guardsmen of the State may take pride in duty well performed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
This Date in History
sentemher 2.

172s-Beauharnois appointed Gov ernor of Canadaernor of Canada.
 1755-Sir Charles Hardy arrived at New Work to succeed De Lancey as Governor the province.
 1792-French Republicans -slaugh- tered 16O persons in the military pris- on of Albaye. near Paris.
 1804-Nineteen Dominican missions established along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego.
 1s13-General Moreau. one of Na- poleon's officers. died of wounds re- ceived a few days before at the bat tie of Dresden.
 ls63-Kingston. Tenn. captured by General Burnside.
 Is06-President Roosevelt ordered reformed spelling to be given a thorough test bv the public printer. l907-French troops defeated the Arab tribesmen at Casablanca.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
THREE-DOLLAR ORE MILLED AT A
 PROFIT.
Manager of Consolidated Makes Great
 DhacOVeFY.


 Discovery.
 Mining Review.
 A discovery of vastly greater. i'm portance than the finding of gold in Goldfield or the unearthing of fabu- ious mountains of high, grade. is an, the Consolidated Mines Company through a method of treating sulphide ores that insures the extradition or e9 per cent of their precious con tents without having to roast the ores. says The GoldAeld Tribune. The to-day all over the world. and no later than last week one of the great est mill experts In the country pre- dicted that the Goldheld mills would be failures. owing to the fact that the management had not made provis-
 Manager Mckenzie makes no at tempt to conceal the process, which Is protected by patent but takes prlde in telling the results of the experi- ments that were conducted before the process was determined.
 ming as low as $3 a ton can be han died at profit. Every mine can treat It's own ore. and every miner with a little capital can Install plant that will render him independ- ent of the railroads and smelters; The of base metals to gold. as 1t brings In. 10 the market tens of thousands of tons of rock that would otherwise be worthless It is estimated that the process will net to the Consolidated alone a profit of $12.000 a day or single company: When the same prin- cipla Is applied to the mines Of the world 1t opens up a vista Of wonder full pose1bllities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

vote. This will be big thing in q State that has been So strongly Re- publican. But believe Bryan will though his majority may not be large" Washington Herald.
 West Virginia will go for Bryan by 2b,oO0 majority" said William c. Hoy va Bfysn fyys RasiS sestSr a.t Sa hlssS
 "The Democratic Party is going. to make a clean sweep in West Virginia continued MT. BrowL. We are going Democratic candidate for Governor, and four Congressman.
 The Democratic Party in West Vfr- ginia never had such good chance as this year. There Is a split in the Re- publican Party. which will help niate- rially in the election of the Democrat ic ticket. If 1t were only a question be possibility of arriving at g com promise between the warning Reptb- lican factions. I must admit there ire Republicans in West Virginia who suffer defeat than to sacrifice a. .prm- ciple and have the doubtful satisfsc- tion of being counted 6 winner.
 Party iS narmens snd the peope are clamoring for a change; they are tiisd of the old administration and are de- sirous of giving the Democrats a can do."
 Washington Post.
 eff I were to speak to the negro te- day" says Henry Watterson, T would tell him that neither party Is hunting for his vote. I would say: The Derne- crats use you only to abuse you.'
 '.The time has come for the negro to divide his vote and thus become factor in politics such as he IS not today, Let him make peace. with the old master class in the South.
 That's the road to race pacificatim. Anyhow. there is more race feeling m some parts of the North today than Tn competes with white labor; in the South he constitutes the laboring class. repeat that the time has come ror the wh ites, and l talk as a friend pf the negro for forty years standing"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
POLITICAL
 POINTERS

savannah News.
 T had occasion to make business sad mr. Jonn w. Hopkins, or Butte, Aaont., at the De Soto yesterday. NO, didn't call on William Jennings Bry- though 1t has become the fashion for Democrats to make pilgrimases to the Democratic mecca.
 But 1 went to Lincoln and Omaha, and. besides attending to business, I endeavored to sound the people as to. their real sentiment towards Mir. Bry- an, merely for my own information. Bryan could maintain so strong a hold nationally, and yet so little Influence the people of his home State as to lose wanted to investigate. s a ms i came s S"Hs in contact with big and little tradespeo- pie, merchants, farmers. drummers and professional people, such as doctors
 Among ali of these people this time heard Mir. Bryan spoken of in the warmest terms of admiration and re- that, though they had voted against him in the espast, this time they were going to vote for their home man. mres b asked sd wny thsy had had na at voted for him. when they admire him now and will vote for him. And the reasons seem to be in the Democratic liked to vote for Mir. Bryan in the past they could not conscientiousiy stand for the Democratic issues of the day.
 They were business people. these North western men. and shrewd busi- ness men. too. and no matter what might be their personal sentiments they are going to vote where their business interests lie. This year for the first time since Bryan has appear ed before them as candidate they both sentiment and business And they are going to do 1t. They are de- lighted that at last their fellow-citizen stands on a platform consistent with ness and that the adoption of those principles is really better for the na- ton than the Republican policies in vogue today.
 "The consequence is that Nebraska IS going to give Mir. Bryan a heavy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02

of the brave deeds an1 romantic epI- sodes of their nature-ioving existence. There are still preserved many legends of the Indians but in rnAny instances they are like the aroma which fingers after the rose has been destroyed. They are but memory of things that were but are not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
This Is My 55th Birthday
w. w. Finley.

William Wilson Finley. president of the Southern Railway Company. was born in Pass Christian Miss. Septem- Der 2 1853. He began his railroad career in 1872 as stenographer to one of the vice presidents in the of- flee of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad and rose to the position of assistant general freight agent two years later. In 1888 he was made chairman of the cIatIon at Kansas City. He was chair man of the Western Passenger Asso- citation at Chicago from 1890 to 1899; Northern. 1892 to 1895: second vice president of the Great Northern; com missioner of the Southern States Pas senger association and. in 1895, he subsequently, second vice preaIdent of the s.uthern road. In December. dso6. following the death of Samuel the presidency of the Southern,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
Connecticut Bird Preserve

Hartford Courant.
 Despite the fact that reports have been circulated of late that the Com missioners of Fisheries and Game had secured 2.O0O quail from Oklahoma and would place them on Terry Island near Suffield Commissioner George T. Mat hewson said last evening that nothing has been done about buying any quail as yet It Is true, however. that the use of the island. which contains about I35 acres. has been obtained by the commission and 1t Is very likely that preserve will be established there.
 Until fifteen or sixteen years ago the island was inhabited by Clinton Terry, and the house is still standing, and it was from this place years ago that a band of Second Adventists put on their ascension robes and waited in vain for the end of the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
They have been having a jolly rov

They have been having jolly row in Pittsburg between residents and the employees of the telephone and tel egraph companies over the matter of setting posts in front of residences. The residents turn the hose on the workmen, throw hot water on them and in some cases actually use guns to prevent the setting of posts. It is stated further that in some cases the stand there to prevent the poles being planted. Great place, Pittsburg is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02

The Norfolk Landmark meanly in- inmates that if Roosevelt wants to is- sue the longest message he ever wrote in his life he should take for his sub ject, What I don't know about the currency question:" That Is plain in- situation that the President. is long winded and that there's something he doesn't know.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
CIeyer AdnIfernfinna.

The department of agriculture. in its latest year book, grimly describes the things which the microscope re- vealed to the experts. Pepper contain ed large percentage of ground olive stones. A chocolate coating prepera- tion was found to be made of cocoa shells. corn starch, beef tallow and mineral matter sufficient to fix the ground rock was employed, in some instances the foreign material being as high as 40 per cent of the whole. How many operations for appendicitis were made necessary, how many deaths were brought about, there Is no guessing. The terror that hung over the period would have been something tangible. Surely, the pure food law came in time-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
Two Left Born in 1921.

Only two senators of the United States. Cullom of Illinois and stephen son of Winsconsin, were born in the same year. 1929, as was William B. Allison, the departed Nestor of the senate There are fourteen senators who were born seventy years or morA ago, and the terms of six of these will expire next year. while the terfs of six of the others will end in 1911, and the terms of only two of these elder statesmen, Senateor Cullom of Illinois and Senator Frye of Maine. will run the length of the administration ot the next president of the United
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
Tailadega's Greatness.

TaIIadega RcpOrLeT.
 Talladega county Is great and has two large and distinct industries to make her one of the great future cen ters. Her marble Is particularly Tal- ladega. It Is here in great abundance, the finest in the world. Her gray ores are just attracting attention. and they are the largest undeveloped beds in the South. These two sources of wealth will probably. give more em- ployment to labor in the future than all the industries In the county to- day. Great Is Talladega county; and future in two great and undeVeloped