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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
okInhon,n NiRhts.

Shawnee, Ok. Herald.
 Ii matters not how hot the day may he in the new State, as soon as the sun goes down the breeze rises. It comes from no mysterious source. It is simply the radiation of heat which will occur in any open country which is hot enough At o'clock the breeze will make your hatband whistle. At s 1t will slap your tie in your face, and if you are wearing sort mat ana glasses the brim of your hat will beat against the rim of your glasses and make deep red marks on your cheek. By 10 o'clock the breeze is no longer a breeze, but moans and whistles round the corners like a March zephyr in Missouri. And If you stay up until blood-red Aldebaran rises in the east ana Vega dips low in the west, the wind comes in enormous signs like the very world must have been shaken to give them vent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
AmEna,lAN REALITY .

There is a certain French writer and critic named Le Roux who will do well to keep as far from New England as possible if he sets any value on his life. To be hung. drawn and quartered is about the Ieart punishment he can ex- pect If he ventures to set foot among the lrate brethren of good old Yankee land. He has recently asserted that beauty among American women is not to be found in New England at all. That would be bad enough but he adds to his ofense by declaring that 1t is in the South that real female beauty is to be found. Narrowing 1t down he says that the typically pretty women of America are confined to the Mississippi Valley region.
 Now hat do you think of that? Or. rather what do you not think of 1t? And yet when the Frenchmen gers down to details we are bound to ac- cept his opinion as well founded. Ac cording to The Union of Manch ester, N. IT., the eonspicuously beautiful wo- men of this country, as this French writer sees them and unblushingly writes about them. are descendants of early French settlers. though he grants them a strain of Irish blood. and 8 lit- tie Spanisi. He generously gives the prairie breezes credit for having done their part in enhancing the inherent beauty of the Mississippi valley belles; and then he gives truth the refrigerat- ed shoulder while he declares that wo men of Puritan ancestry are angular. shapeless, sallow and sour-faced. These calumnies he has actually put into book-but he discreetly ohoso Paris as his place of publication"
 There we have it In the plainest style. and while we can't expect New Englanders to agree with him. we of the South are quite ready to declare him a man of discernment and verac fty. Beautiful French women are eel ebrated the world over. and when |" tho French blood We add liberal mo dicun of Irish and q strain of Spanish
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
MONDAY, AUGUST IT, 1908.
A WORD NEEDED.

The Richmond Journal wants some- body to come to its assistance, and come quickly. Here is its cause of complaint:
 Win not some mighty man or wo- man of intellectual strength. capable or coping with a great problem, of relieving a distressing situation of nnding what has been vainly sought Tor generations and centuries and ban- tshtng from the world a fruitful pro- voker Of profanity, arise in benefcence ana devote a fleeting moment of the otliy season in piling up a monument English language was first babbled in The woods of Britain; ever since the nrst tier of foundation stones was laid of our majestic tongue, both writers and speakers have vexed their right eous souls for lack of common word TOT he and she his and her, and beau tiful periods have been utterly de- stroyed by the cumbrous expressions. He" alone will not do. as lacking in respect for the better half of creation
 She alone is derogatory from the dignity of the lord of creation. and "it" Is direspectful to both him and her. Here. therefore. is a crying need, a much-felt want, and a chance for glory unstained by blood or tainted with graft.
 Like our Richmond contemporary We also want the new word What is needed is a personal pronoun, third person and common gender. When we are speaking to an audience composed of men and women. addressing them in the second person, 1t is proper and grammatical to say you" and that in- ciudes all of both sexes but when 1t comes to the third person 1t is dif- ferent. Take this sentence. as an ex- ample: Every man and woman should be free to worship God as he or she pleases." Again: Every man and woman should worship God accord ing to the dictates of his or her con science"
 Both these sentences are clumsy and badly constructed. but there Is no help for it as our language now stands. What we need Is a simple pronoun to be used In place of The and she" and shis or her" There have been at tempts to coin or adapt a word. and more than one has been suggested. but none has been satisfactory. Such words or terms as have been proposed have failed to take hold. and have gone into innocuous desuetude. SO to speak. win not some philanthropist. wise in his day and generation. arise in his might and supply the missing word? Perhaps two are needed. but certainly one is, and the man or woman who can supply 1t will do the best thing he or she has ever done, and will earn the gratitude of his or her kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Depth of Atmosphere.

Chicago American.
 No one has gone higher in a bsllon than six miles. The exact height ~ which the occupant of a balloon might live Is probIematical. At thirty miles the air becomes practically notning. It is calculated that only at distance of 2S.2s4 miles from the surface of the earth is the centrifugal force devel- opAd by the whirling Of the globe suf- ficfent to cast off any molecules of air that might exist in this region If an obfect could be thrown from rhs earth with sufficient force 1t might reach a point where the attraction of other planets would equal or exceed that of the earth and consequently the object would not retrun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
This Date in Esistovy
Aumua1 tr

iT80---Amsricans defeated British aad Tories at battle of Musgrove Milie.
 17e6--David Crockett. the hsr0 of the
 lsOT--British army invested copen-
 iSI3--Andrew Pickens. American General of the Revolution, died In Pen dleton, S c. Born in Paxton Pa. esp- tember l9. iTs9.
 ls3e--British Parliament passed the Dissentsfs, Marriage Act
 1s3a-~Tha fraf United States explQfs ing expedition sailed. under Commander Wilkes.
 1s46--GeneraI Kearney teek peace able possession of Sanfe Fe. Mexico
 1S50--Jose De San Martin. the ssWash- ington of South America dted. Born February 2A, 1TTa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
 A HEAVY TAX.
The British Government Gets s2.5O0,00o
 from Lord Derbyas Estate.

The British Government Gets 92.5O0,0o0
 from Lord Derbysa Estate.
 The will of the late, Earl Of Derby has been probated. His Lordship left an estate valued at nearly $19,0oo, ,o00. The English laws are generally ora1t- ed to protect the wealthy from paying their fair share of taxation while alive, but when they are dead their estates are mulcted heavily by death dutles and succession taxes.
 1t is estimated that the Earl of Der by's estate will pay the Government over s2.5oo. 900 in death duties. When the late Earl's father died the Govern ment taxes on the form of probate and inheritance taxes aggregated only $aso.000, Under the law introduced years ago the estates of mtllionaires nav a Government tax of 10 per cent. on the first $5.00o. 900 and 15 per cent on all the millions exceeding five. The windfall to the treasury under the present Liberal government, whose lri- crease of the death duties was de- nounced when the law was enacted as ought to be glad of the privilege of dying in the United States where the Government does not take 15 per cent of their fortunes.
 Possibly in the depths of darkest Az rica next year a royal kinsman of the Duke of Abruzzi will have occasion to say when he encounters another mighty hunter "Mr. Roosevelt. I presume"
 The Count of Turin, King Victor l3n1anueis cousin. leaves Florence shortly for the upper Congo on a biz game shooring expedition. which he ylanned a year ago. The prospect of bs4ng invited to the Abruzzi's wedding 6 has rather confirmed his intention 10 hide himself in Africa than otherwise. He hopes tc cross the continent to Uganda, where he can dispute the championship for lion staying with the ex-President.
 The Count of Turin was once promf- nent before the public as a man hunt CT. He challenged Prince Henry of Or. ange to a revolver duel. and shot al hut missed him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
T0vI,at,ona to Burglars

Here is a bit of testimony VoIun- teered by a retired burglar which ought to De seriously considered by themselves out in all their jewelry every time they go into the street. Almost every really successful haul ever made in the Jewelry line" said he was the result of plans carefully laid after shadowing some women that looked like a walking jewellers case It wasn't worth while wasting my tal- ent on a house that didn't contain any thing worth taking chances on. never went into anything blindly. Tn order to make no mistake as to the value of the plunder I just watched the beringed. the bediamoned ladies in the streets and shops and followed them till found out where they lived, then, when the opportunity came. sailed in"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Ingenious Johnnie.
DelIneator

Mother had bright red apple which she wished to give to the children, at the same time teaching the little broth CT lesson in generosity. JohnEie had a peculiar fondness for apples.
 Calling him to her side, she said. Nov, dear, mamma has a nice, rosy apple to give you, and she wants you to be generous" That word was not in Johnnie's vocabulary so he said: Mamma. what do you mean by being generous?"
 "Oh dear, that means you are to divide the apple into two parts and give sister the larger"
 Joh nnie was silent. Suddenly his face frightened as he handed the ap- pie again to his mother, saying Nam ma give 1t to sister and tell her to be generous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Keep Cool.

Golfers Weekly.
 August is already here. Perhaps enc fact will help to keep you cool. It is statistical, stable as granite, and cold as an iceberg. It is this; Both tne death rate and the disease rate in our modern cities for July and August. in stead of being above the average for the year. are distinctly below 1t. They are from twenty to thirty per cent be- low that for the late winter and the early epring months. Sunstroke. dysentery and the whole board Of tropical diseases are not one-tenth as deadly as tuberculosis and pneumonia. The actual death rate by sunstroke: for instance, in the United States. is about of that for measles. The general death rate from nearly all dis eases. and at all ages. shows a marked decline during the summer. with the single exception of intestinal disturb ances in children under five, The only real danger to health in summer Is not heat directly, but it's secondary effect on food. The one serious cause of sum- mer slaughter of children Is milk that Is spoiled or dirty. If adults will be careful to avoid eating or drinking any thing which is tainted. they will avoid eigh-tenths of summer sickness." and also of much depression and diseom- fort usually charged against the heat. If is when partially spoiled. or when infected with dust. or with the disease germs carried by the ever-present fly. that food does it's deadly work, Wage ceaseless war against the fly. eat a moderate amount of clean and whole some food, and don't be too much alarmed by the newspaper habit of att tributing so many summer deaths to heat. Drink plenty of water without Ice, and don't worry about the tempera- ture. Remember that in the so-called dog days. fewer dogs go mad than in other portions of the year
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Corn is Fuel.

Atchlson GIobe.
 Corn is selling around eighty cents a bushel now. and it has been only a dozen years since corn sold in sec tIons of the Middle West corn belt for as low as ten cents a bushel, and farmers in sections where timber was scarce burned corn as fuel. because it was the cheapest available heat sup ply Big things have occurred in this country in that twelve years. and the industrial activity has increased the price of all farm products in a man ner which would have been counted a fable in the days of calamity and ten cent corn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
woth Cure.

There was a suburban lady whose house, one summer. was quite overrun with moths. A tramp told her that. in return for a square meal. he would give her an infaiIib1e moth cure. She Set a square meal before the tramp, he devoured 1t. then he said; All ye moth -fiiled clothes and carpets and things on a line and beat 'ein with stick Good-by to yer moths then." "WiIl that kill them?" asked the lady. "Yes, if ye hit 'enn," said the tramp.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

we have combination that might cause the most beautiful women of an- cient Greece to hide their faces and burn with envy over their own dea- cieneies when compared with the beau. ties of the Mississippi valley. We have not the heart to add to The Unions modification by endorsing what NJ Is Reux says about the physical failinEs of the New England women. but we insist that the Frenchman Is a man of keen disceFnment and sound judgment. but we advise him to keep away from New England until the pain wears of up there. as we have no desire to bring the consolidated wrath of the breath ren of that region onto our own heads,
 "on the whole" adds The Union. M. Le Roux's remarks about American women suggest the vagaries of sei- low who may have arrived by night in tramp steamer at New Orleans: who. perhaps. got as far away as St. Louis from the Creole City. and then went broke. and who casually fell in with a vindictive chap. smarting under the rejection of his suit by some New Eng land maiden of Puritan ancestry, and from him obtained his nisinformation concerning New England women in general and the Puritan type in par ticuIar."
 Our contemporary needn't try to get funny over a serious matter, because that will not help It's cause at all. It must furnish oeeuiar demonstration that Le Roux doesn't know what he is talking about before it can convince a disinterested public that its section has been slandered. Not that New England Is without handsome women, for we know better than that, but we stick by the Frenchman who finds In the Mis- sissippi Valley region the finest and most perfect types of American beauty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

The goodly city of Columbus seems inclined to play the octopus on this side of the chattshooehee. The En- ouirer-sun quotes one of it's cbservant citizens as saying that a road from Columbus to Abbeyilia. another to Montgomery and another to Anniston would be paying investments. That would be reaching out some, beyond doubt, but one who looks at the map will see that the speaker had good ground for his assertion. Each of the roads would penetrate and pass through splendid section of Alabama and each would draw to Columbus vast amount of trade that should stop in our own State. Our sister city may appear just a bit greedy. but can We find fault with her for that7 This is day of effort and endeavor. as we'll as Of progress. and cities and com munities. as well as individuals. are realizing that the way to get anything is to go after it. If Columbus gets something that Montgomery ought to have shall we blame columbusf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

up the mountain side. ands saved it's rider from death in . eieudburst
 SwiaheF was riding along Box Can- yoa. narrow gulch. when the horse attention to the rider. ran up the noun. tain side and stopped on ledge twenty feet above. Swisher was mystified un- rushing down the canon tearing up bushes and upending evsrything nov able, The water was from a oioud- burst about half mile farther up the gulch and the horse had heard the noise of the rushing water before the rider.
 Half mile of the Box Canyon road leading to FloFissant was washed out imained on the mountain side for an hour before he considered it safe to reenter the canyon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Locomotives Must Not Come Haek. y..-. v eFssr,.

NEW 1OFk 4AAlAGSs
 Travellers on the New Haven Rail way. and especially by the commuters, will hear with sattsfaetion--the often mentioned. but rarely heard, sigh of raIief'--that the road has no intention of returning to steam locomotives on the part of its line where an electrical service has already been installed, and that as soon as times are better it will complete the extension of that ser vice to Boston, as originally planned.
 Electricity for heavy railway work has not yet fulfilled quite all the hopes it excited In the beginning. for the movement of trains Is occasionally stopped by lightning hitting the wires or by more mysterious causes. but these delays are steadily growing less frequent. and though commuters roar with rage and hunger when the hold ups occur during the tourney dinner ward. as happened one day last week, they know in their hearts, even while thay roar, and are willing to proclaim. frankly in happier moments, that the new service Is a vast improvement on the old one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
This Ls My 5Sth Birthday
Rear Admiral seAreedeE.

Rear Admiral seaton Schroeder who commands the fourth division of the
 rp sround ths pword ssf GR @as a SSTs Washington, D. C., August IT, fS49. He was graduated from the naval academy at Annapolis in 1868 and reached the while attached to the Pacific squad ron, he took part in Admiral John Rod gers expedition against the Koreans In 1873 he was one of those in charge Egypt to New York, where it was placed In Central Park. Tn 1898 he was executive officer of the battleship Massaeh usetts and was advanced three ish war From 1900 to 1908 Captain Schroeder was Governor of the Island of Guam, and later was stationed at Washington as chief intelligence offi- rar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

Referring to the Presidents ques. tion of how would the South like MrsI Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic" as the national anthem. The Chattanoo- ws Times retorts We would prefer Booker Washington as gem eral of the Southern States Well. we ont think we can go that far, but gf a surety we don't want either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

Colonel Ali Taylor. Senator Bob's Re- publican brother. is dead sure, for he says so, that his party will walk off with Tennessee this year.. Optimism Is a valuable asset. even, if 1t does frs- quentiy mIslead people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
THE VERSATILE MFR. BRYAN.
Picture Pose Cards show Him in Many
 Capacities.

Capacities.
 Omaha. Neb.. Dispatch.
 The Bryan Campaign Committee has injected the postal card craze into the contest and the mails from Omaha are being flooded with postcards show ing a different Bryan, according to the humor of the sender or the receiver.
 For the farmer there are cards show inE Mir. Bryan as a tiller of the soil. big eowhde boots and hickory shirt. To the studious a card will be sent showing Mfr. Bryan seated in his stump. tuous library surrounded by books. The poultry fanciers will be reminded that MT. Bryan is their friend by a postal card copy of the picture of Mfr. Bryan and his son studying poultry culture at Fairview. Then for the aristocratio element there Is a smooth, sleek MT. Bryan. wearing a high hat. seated In an auto, with a cloud of dust trailing behind. For the religiously inclined there is a Bryan deIiyering hig famous religious address. The Prince of Peace,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

shall the people ruler" is an ex- precision that is being somewhat over- worked just now. The people can rule whenever they make up their minds to do so. t.l-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
SWORN CIRUULATrON.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees lts advertisers tand makes t part of the eulation is larger than that of any mora Ing newspaper printed in Alaha1na--and that it's Sunday edition has the largest cir- culation of any edition of any newspaper printed ia Alabama without exception.
 The figures for July printed below repre- sent the actual net circulation. all retalrna having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

An Ohio paper says John Temple Braves is "Hesrst's man Friday" Then whose man Is he on the other six days of the week1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
Horses Sense of Danger.

Crlppie CteSh eottSsPoiueht benVeF
 News.
 That a horse has the instincts of inl- pending danger was demonstrated the other afternoon when an animal be- longing to NJ. D Swisher. County Road Overseer, refused to act on the bit, ran
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

c | Finigan. Circulating Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says;
 The foregoing statement of the Adver- tiaer's circulation for the month of July, 1ees is true and correct. and compiled af- ter all returns from news boys. news asente. spoiled and leftover copies have been de- dueted
 0 FINIGAN.
 Circulation Manager sworu to and subscribed before mo this 11th day of August. 1908.
 RIGA ALEXANDER
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

Affection for children is an Indian characteristtc, says Dr. Charles &. Moody. T have never seen an Indian a child cry. :"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

The American Consulship at GibraE- tar has been held by grandfather. fa- ther and son, in succession for over sixty years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
For Girls and Young Women
 Ward Seminary. Nashville. Tenn.

44th year Seminary and special sour sea Conservatory Jf music. STRONGEST FACULTY IN THE SOUTH 175 boarding pupils- Complete appoint ments City advantages Beautiful campus for outdoor sports Delightful climate. For circulars address
 q D. BLANTON, II. D.,
 PreEident
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
"Gaaaer PalllnEn cl.l.en..

AttdiId IfTlIcH,
 The gander pulling which took place at Eiliott's park saturday night was the most inhuman affair that has oc- euFred In this vicinity recently. How civilized people can indulge in such bar barrie sport is beyond our comprehen- sion. There is an opportunity for the humane society to get in some good work
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
,. Different lxlad Needed.

Shetffeld standard.
 knows all about freight tariffs ana railroad regulation. but when 1t comes to handling labor strike, he is miserable failure. strong, courageous, level-headed Governor would have had the Birmingham situa- ton under control by this time. But Conner Is not built that way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17
lEitchcoclk's Man.

Birmingham Times.
 William R. Farley, the labor leader, representing the United Mine Workers Of America. was a Thompson delegate to the National Convention, elected, We are informed, under direct orders from MT. Frank H. Hitchcock, now ma tional chairman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

EIDE CApQeF.
 We don't have strikes in South Ala bana because there Is nobody strike except the old man and the mule. and IT they strike the old lady cuts rations off. and the strikers are at work be- fore breakfast,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-17

The Richmond Journal wants some body to come to its assistance, and come quickly. Here is its cause of conn1aint.