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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
FOR NEW COUNTY.
LOyett Joints Fight to Garry Through the

Law.
 Huntsville. July 2I.-(Special)-Dr. J. A. B. Lovett of Bessemsr has come to North Alabama to make campaign In favor of the formation of new county with Besse- rner as the county seat. The fisbt has heen won in the Legislature and now. to make it binding, the proposition will have to win in the approaching election in No yambsF.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
steamer Liberty Arrives.

The Alabama river. steamer, LipeIFy q srriyed .at the wharf last night about o'clock from, Mobile. bringing a good load of miscellaneous freight The Liberty left at noon today on her re- turn trip to Mobile with a good load or freight for way landings and "a good
 Ytaf s.-ls 2 tf .HfEa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
.a. rror afafe Conventan..

tF s. D. Mallory and MICS EAae a.I. ne nraiiorv pr. j. L. Rosser, pastor oI tha 'First Baptist Church. left tnis ,..sr,,t,, sne .. for Roanoke, where they go ...o' .n, attsnd the Alabama State Baptist eorvention. Many other prominent Rantists from the western part or ine State also passed through selma tnls morning on their way to FsoanoAe 'o attend the convention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Cotton States League
 Meredian, i; Monroe, o. vicksburg, 0; Gulfport- Biloxi, 2.
 Jack son, g.; Columbus, O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Miss Mary T. Dunwoody left this aft ernoon for Staunton Va, where she will spend the remainder of the sum- mer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
Social ana PeruOnaI.

Mrs. John Starr will leave tomorrow morning for Birmingham where she will visit relatives.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

P. B. .Harrell.. Jr., has returned home from Hot Springs. where he has been spending several weeks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Misses Flora and Belle Kornegay of Tuscaloosa are here for short stay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

FOreiRn Press Says American Capital
 In Wanfed fin Manehuria.
 Pekin. July 21.-The edict issued yesterday which directs Tang Shao Xb Governor of Mukden province, to pro ceed to Washington to thank the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
NEW STEAMSHIP PROJECT.

Casino Matinee To-Day F. M ''FiddIe Dee Dee," 10 and 20 cents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Messrs wnI Phillips. James Doltz, and Jim Kennerley went to Uniontown today to attend a dance given by Misses Adele Ellis and Adele Davidson of that place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Messrs W. B. Blackburn and W. P. Munden, Jr., of Hamburg are in the city today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Miss Benie Johnson left today for Bates to spend while with relatives.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
REAL PURPOsE scREENEp.

See The, White Hat at Majestic Theatre, matinee and night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Misses Sue and Mary Gee of Burns vile are in the city for short stay with friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Mir. Ed Jordan has returned to his home in Tuscaloosa after spending a day or so here +-s t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
KIND WORDS FOR US.

Casino Matinee To-Day ( P. NJ sFiddIe Dee Dee," 10 and 20 cents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Mir. James Dear. of Mobile spent yes- terday here on business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
preslaent cahrera,. arother pead.

Follow the erOwds;. .wheres Maies- tic Theatre,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22

Don't miss ''Thc White HatD at Majestic balance this week.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
THE RIVER NILE.
Ancient Greeks and tho Process Of
Sterilixina Water.

Ancient Greeks and tho Process Of
Sterilizins Water.
The ancient Greeks already recon-
mended the use Of sterilized water.
Rufus of Ephesus, in the first century
of this era, taught that "all water
from rivers and ponds is bad except
that from the Nile. Water from rivers
which how through unhealthy soil,
stagnant water and that which flows
near public bathing places is harmful.
The best water Is that which has been
boiled in baked earthenware vessels.
cooled and then heated a second time
before drinking"
This hygienic prescription was In
tended both for healthy and sick peo-
pie, since 1t was applied to the armies:
During marches and in camps pits
must be dug successfully from the
highest point to the lowest level OF the
place. These holes should be lined
with clay such as is used for making
pottery and the water should be made
to percolate through it. The water will
leave all its impurities in these pits"
1t may be inquired how the ancient
Greeks, knowing the processes OF ster-
ilization and filtration Of water which
they applied to that Of the most limpid
rivers, should have drunk without pre-
cautions the water Of the Nile, which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
DoLL1YER's FAD.
(Washington Press)


. Senator Dolliver wants to help the
measly country schools, and tho
he has not hetcherized the scheme,
and so has far from digested it, he
fancies the rural school can be cor
related with the agricultural coll
leges of the land, so that small fry
can learn all about farming from
the pretty little young schoolma'am
who wears a rat and red or pink
bow on her hair and lavender sash.
1t is well known that these lovely
misses are way up in agriculture,
and as a rule can give Tarna jim
Wilson, Old Agricola, Cincinatus,
and other grangers, ancient and mod
ern, a lot Of new ideas. OF course,
only. the big boys in the rural schools
would be expected to take this course,
and everybody knows that pretty
schoolma'am can do anything she
pleases with the big boys. They will
just be delighted to learn all about the
art and science of agriculture from
her, they will gladly exchange gum
with her If she'll only do a good job
of instructing them therein. 1t is to
be hoped that Dolliver will put his
bill thru. There are now not near
enough fads in the schools. This
one would be boss.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
SPRINGS in the Sea.

Menama, the principal port OF the
Bahrein islands, the center of the pearl
fisheries, gets it's fresh water from the
ocean. Visitors often note boats an
chored a few hundred wards from the
shore, the boatmen engaged in draw
ing fresh water from springs at the
bottom Of the sea. These springs we'll
up strongly at a considerable depth and
the entire water supply of the town is
obtained from them. The fresh water
is procured ntwo ways-either in a
goatskin waterbag, which diver takes
down with him and carefully closes
before bringing it to the surface, or
by letting down long hollow pipes of
bamboo, weighted at the lower end,
thru which the water rises up uncon-
taminated to the surface.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
Topics of the Times.

The New York man who created ex-
citement by predicting the end of the
world disappeared on the date speci-
wasn't much use to stay longer or any
thing more to get. but prophecy seems
to be paying business in some parts
of the Empire state.
Experts Of the Missouri agricultural
for hog cholera. If this is true the
Missouri college has paid the cost of
all agricultural schools for all time.
But they will have to show the farm
ers.
Nowadays Alaska is looked upon as
a much better prospect than Kansas
was considered a few years ago. and
it is more important part OF the U. S.
than Nevada, outside Of politics.
Mr.. Johnson, whose especially no.
table display Of physical culture put
one Thomas Burns in the also ran
class, now divides with Booker T..
Washington the homage Of his race.
-
When that house committee has
looked over the hotels and sampled
they will be ready to REPORT on sthe
Gatun dam. The public awaits the
verdict of these eminent political en-
gineers with avid interest.
mfr. Dooley" once remarked that all
Christian Science needs is a little more
science, and that all science needs is
a little more Christianity. This remark
seems to have been prophetic of an ex-
traordinary condition existing in the
United States today. which Ray Stan
nard Baker reports in the January
American Magazine. In the same issue
William Allen White begins new
series of political articles entitled "The
Old Order Changeth," an inquiry as
to the solid results of the years of agi-
tation and exposure thru which we
have just passed. Stewart Edward
White tells great story of boy life.
Will I. irwin describes the New York
Sun. Eleanor Gates reports the facts
about new meat which may soon
feed the millions. David Grayson inter-
views sober drunkard Mrs. Mckee
Rankin recalls memories Of John
Wilkes Booth.
In the January Scribner's Brander
Matthews undertakes to show how
wrong the critics are who reproach
contemporary playwrights with fitting
a special actor for a. part, Sophocles,
and Molierd wrote parts
with definite actors in view, and in the
present day Sardou and Rostand have
fitted plays to the actors who are to
produce them.
In it's contents of twenty-seven titles
the January Van Norden covers a wide
variety of subjects, from an analysis
Of the situation in Germany to a, per-
sketch of Rockefeller. Two ar
on Alaska, the other on
things not usually
known. "The Brain of the Army ex-
plains the uses Of the new United
States Army College,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
consider the relation of industrial edu-
cation to the general system OF educa-

consider the relation of industrial edu-
cation to the general system OF educa-
ton Of the country, presented a pre-
| liminary report at the annual conven-
| ton recently held at Atlanta, Ga The
| important nature of this report makes
| it of interest to all laboring mem as
well as to manufacturers and teach
ers. parents and the public. One Of the
salient statements from the document
follows:
"The need for industrial training and
the facts concerning our own lack OF
1t have been so often repeated that
they may be accepted. All who are ac-
quainted with education in European
nations know that in the matter of in
dustrial training we are far behind
such countries as Germany, that our
apprentice system even if materially
extended can offer industrial educa-
tion to only q comparative few, that
there are practically no, facilities for
the training of the youth between the
ages of IA and Is for Industrial pur-
suits, and the opportunities for those
who are in the trades to improve their
skill by theoretical training is confined
to isolated and occasional schools. 1t is
also perfectly clear that this Is an In
dustrial age and that the education
which Is to serve for whole people
must take account of vocational train
ing.
Assuming these facts as clearly
demonstrated, it is evident that two
distinct groups of our population are to
be considered: Q) boys and girls be-
tween the ages of IA and Is who leave
the grammar school and at present
have no systematic opportunity for
training in the industries: co the men
and women now in the industries who
desire to increase their skill and eff
flciency by further study. The prob
lie moi industrial training seems. there
fore, SO far as the schools are con-
cerned. to be divided into practically
two parts. according as it applies to
one or the other of these groups"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
THE BAslLIsK.
How the Fabulous Monster Was Pic
tured by Ancient Writers.

tured by Ancient Writers.
The basilisk was the most famous
of the many fabulous monsters Of me-
diaeval folklore. According to the
popular notion, 1t was Matched by a
toad from an egg laid by the cock of
the common barnyard fowl. In the
ancient picture books it was usually
represented as an eight limbed ser
pent or dragon, sometimes with and
sometimes without wings. Its name
is derived from basiliscos. meaning a
little king. and was applied because
the creature was figured with circle
Of white spots on its head which much
resembled a crown. The cockatrice, a
species of basilisk, besides having a
crown, possessed a comb which was
an exact counterpart of the cocks.
Pliny assures us that the basilisk
had voice which "struck terror to
the hearts Of men. beasts and ser
penis" The Bible classes it with the
lion, the serpent and the dragon as
one of the most formidable creatures.
Old writers-Pliny, Bascho and others
say that its bite was mortal in every
case, that it's breath was suffocating
and that no plant would grow in the
vicinity Of its lair. Its dead body
was often suspended in belfries to pre-
rent swallows from building there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
Counting the chirp..


Professor Dolbeare, of Tufts college,
has found that at so degrees Fahren-
heit the rate of the chirp Of crickets Is
eighty a minute; at 20 degrees Fahren-
l1eit the rate is 120 minute, change
of four chirps minute for each change
of 1 degree. Professor Dolbeare also
notes that the individual crickets chirp-
ing by themselves observed no great
regularity but in chorus they keep in
time as if led by the wand of con-
ductor. Again, the professor asserts
that crickets in adjoining fields, pre-
serving the same rate a minute, will
follow different beats as of their re-
spective conductors, "as one may easily
perceive by listening"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
SHOOTING AND STRIKES.

The acquittal of Toler upon the
charge of manslaughter was to be ex-
pected under the circumstances. There
has never at any time been any doubt
as to the fact that he was assaulted
and shot, as he supposed, in self de-
Tense. There has been and is yet grave
doubts as to the necessity of his shoot
ing in view of the fact that the time
was yet daylight, the scene a street
crowded with people and an officer
within sight but other men had been
beaten up during that strike and Toler
was one facing four men. 1t was enough
to make any man get nervous and he
shot. The killing was a lamentable
tho natural outcome Of the somewhat
unrestrained slugging incident to that
strike. Everybody regretted the sad at
fair and no one more than the great
majority Of workmen who were then
on a strike and felt the stigma of law
lessness attached to their cause when
the individuals causing the trouble
were comparatively few. But the shoot
ing having occurred it was not the de-
sire of fair minds to see Toler suffer
more than he had
In charging the jury as to the law Of
the case Judge Bradshaw recited a
principle of law which every citizen
should read and remember. In plain
language he states that Toler was not
obliged to retreat when it involved
danger to himself and that shot de-
livered with deadly effect when sent in
self defensetwas no crime against the
statutes. He said:
THE evidence shows without conflict
that the deceased and the witnesses,
Winters. Minetor and Jones, We're mem
bers of a union labor organization, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28

had for some weeks been on what Is
for reasons of their own, quit the en-
ployment of the Iowa Central railway
company, and that the defendant was
an employee of said company, and was
not member OF any labor union or
ganization.
You are instructed that as to the
reason or cause of the deceased and the
said witnesses going out on a strike,
and as to the merits Of the contro-
versy between them and the railway
company, you have nothing in this ac-
ton to deliberate upon or decide. You
are instructed that laborers or en-
ployes have a right to unite for their
own Improvement or advancement, or
for any other lawful purpose; that they
have right to organize into and join
labor unions, and take joint action as
they have right to peaceably leave
the employ of their employers, and to
go out on what is termed strike, and
while SO engaged they have a right to
entreat, request, and pursuade, and by
any peaceable or lawful means induce
others not to take on their abandoned
employment; that the fact that menu
bers of a labor union during such
strike congregate together in public
place or are seen together at different
times and places does not tend to prove
a conspiracy to do an unlawful act. and
that a combination as herein described
is legal in it's character, and not an I'M
lawful conspiracy.
THE law. however does not protect
these organizations or unions or the
members thereof In any unlawful acts.
and the members of such organization
have no legal right, either as individ-
uals or in body, to assault others who
may take their places, or to threaten
them with serious bodily injury If they
do not .desist from work In place of the
strikers. You are instructed that If you
find from the evidence that the defend
ant was unlawfully assaulted by the de-
cedent Davies and by the witnesses
Miretor. Winters and Jones, merely be-
cause he had taken employment from
the railway company, In whose service
said Davies and witnesses had been en-
gagged previous to the strike, and that
said parties, acting together or aiding
and abetting one or more of their num-
her, struck the head, neck or face of the
defendant with their fists or with weap-
ons and seized the person of defendant,
not in an effort in good faith to disarm
the defendant, or prevent him from US
ing a deadly weapon, but merely be-
cause he had gone to work for the rail-
way company, such acts of the said
strikers would be unlawful, and the de-
PENDANT would not be required to re-
treat when to him it appeared danger
Gus to do so, but would he justified IN
repelling such assault, by using a
deadly weapon. if to him as a reasona-
bic man, under all the circumstances, 1t
seemed necessary for his self-protec-
ton"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
Iona Newspapers
JOE cANNoN's SPEECH.
(Washington Press \

Uncle Joe Cannon made speech at
a Philadelphia banquet last week In
which he felt he was cock OF the walk.
He really sang a prose Miriam song
Of gloat over his enemies. Speaking of
his enforcing the rule that enables the
majority in the house to do business
and prevents the minority from do
ing the same, he got off this savage
simile: "The speaker would have
been like cat in hell without claws
if he had not fought against such
usurpation." And he ripped open
the bowels Of selfish newspaper men
who cursed him for not removing
the Is per cent ad valorem duty on
print paper and wood pulp = they
could not show that the increase in
the price Of paper was at all due to
the tariff, and he refused to take it
off. and his cigar went on its usual
tilt to the north.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
4 CAUSE OF POVERTY.

Any person who will take the trouble
to investigate the reasons for destitu-
ton will be struck first and forcibly
by the principal cause-outside OF
drink and crime-the fact that the
bread winner for the family is handi-
capped by his lack Of equipment; that
he doesn't know how to do anything
that brings the best returns for his
energy and labor. In short the Amer
lean common laborer is on a par with
the Chinaman and the ignorant negro,
except only as higher grade of intel
ligence makes him more teachable and
more trustworthy. He is simply selling
his muscles against muscles and ev-
cry pound and ounce of Drawn in the
world is his competitor He isn't pro-
tected by any tariff = the greenest
Slav or latest arrived "husky" is his
immediate competitor His product is
the product Of the slaves who died to
set the stones of the pyramids, simply
a force set in action by superior knowl-
edge like a crank and a windlass. The
common laborer is the derrick that
trained intelligence uses for the time
and throws into the junk pile when
it is no longer useful or necessary
And this condition is the prime cause
of the terrible restitution that befalls
when industrial conditions are de-
pressed, when sickness comes to the
family for even few days, or when
by any reason the pinched income of
the common laborer is cut off or at
tenuated for short time. He doesn't
know how to earn good wages. His
energies and intelligence are unable to
ordinate His competitors are all
of dirt or drive railroad spike with
q sledge.
This is public matter, one in which
the general public is vitality interested
and the question what are we doing
to teach the primal ability to earn
enough ITO live on is pertinent and
should be impressive. What are we do
ing in the public schools to train the
eyes and hands as we'll as the intel
ligence Of the boy who must leave to
earn living when he has finished, or
before he has finished the grammar
grades?
What opportunities are we offering
in the high schools for the boy beyond
sixteen who looks forward to a skilled
trade? We are giving the embroyo
civil engineer his higher mathematics,
the embryo lawyer his acquaintance
with Cicero, but what are we giving
the 242 boys who leave to labor out OF
the 250 who enter the grades? He must
coordinate his mind and his muscles.
What are we doing for him?
Recently the committee of ten prom
inent business men and educators APP
pointed by the National Society for the
romotion Of Industrial Education to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-28
THE DIFFERENCE m A NEeRo's VOTE.

The Atlanta Journal has a notable
editorial full of praise for Georgian me-
groes who voted for candidate for Of
flee favored by the Journal and the
better element of Atlanta 1t goes on to
say that the vote cast by the colored
voters was by men of intelligence and
generally directed toward the better
ment of government. While 1t says the
candidate referred to would have been
elected whether or not the negroes had
voted for him 1t still has praise for
the good use made of theirSvoting fran
chise by colored men. 1t recognizes the
negroes ability to be citizen.
There appears considerable reason
for hope that soon or late the race
question will partially at least settle
itself in the south The editorial is one
of the many things that support the
hope. 1t admits much that the south
ernor is 10th to admit, that negroes may
vote right and that they have the NOR
al right to vote when they have at
tanned knowledge and citizenship to
justify the franchise of the voter And
this is great deal to come out of the
mingled prejudice and justified sense
Of the negroes lack Of the qualifiea-
tons as q. citizen, which are general in
the black belt.
There is much to be argued in de-
Tense of the disfranchisement Of the
lower class of blacks, to which the re-
joinder that low class whites are gem
orally given the ballot is not a sound
answer. In fact the lowest whites do
not deserve to vote north or south. So
Der judgment must be that the man
who does not know enough to vote in
telligently or who insists on making
his privilege bulwark of vice and
vicious men and measures ought to be
prevented BIZ law from exercising the
rights of the best citizenship. When the
negro begins to study the interests Of
himself and the country, state and
town he lives in his vote will be counted
and his citizenship become an unques-
toned fact.
Men do not rise in any community
except by reason of their real or sup
posed value to the community The In
dustrial, commercial and social value
Of men will always be the scale by
which men will be commonly meas
ured. If the negro will attain an indus
trial value he will find himself regarded
as an asset instead Of liability in any
state or among any people. When he
learns to vote with sense Of what Is
best, for candidates and on issues that
mean much to all men he will not be
denied the right to express himself at
the polls.
The solution Of the negro problem is
largely between the decent negro and
the sincere white man OF the south.
They will get together in time. The ed
itorial in the strongest newspaper of
the southeast Is promise of the flu
ture.