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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

of the people 1t ought to be amend ed--but if the price of sucn an amend- ment fs to be Federal license law. the business interests of the United states from my standpoint, had better let the Sherman act alone. This Fed erel license law is predicated upon the false notion that the Congress has the same power over the persons who may engage in interstate commerce that the State has as to whether it will permit foreign corporations to do business within it's borders.
 f think the people of the ~ United States ought to think a long time be- fore they allow the commerce of the United States to be put infa straight jacket, to be frightened or loosened as some one at Washington may think best.
 Let us keep the channels of com merce free, allowing no one, corpora- tions by contract in unreasonable re- straint of trade or any power, to ob. struct the free transit of products and commodities from State to State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

dents action. the conclusion of The Times editorial is interesting, to say the least. and what Roosevelt and Taft will do about it Is worth watching. Win the former back down in order to secure the negro vote for his favcrite and will Taft sustain such course in order to tie that vote to him? The negro vote. both fin a national con- vention and national election. is an Important asset in the Republican Party. If Roosevelt goes back on his Brownsville record will it be done to placate the negros
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
BURIAL OF MIR. BIBB.

Athens, Jan. 2.-(SpeciaL)-The re- mains of MT. William Bibb. a grand son of the second Governor of Ala bama, were buried at his old home at Belle Nina today. He died at his home in Texas. where he resided for a number of years.
 His body was brought back to sleep in the family burying ground at the old home place in the south part of this county. He is survived by a brother, Hon. Porter Bibb, of Belle Nina, who occupies the home of his distinguished grandsire, one of the few remaining elegant ante bellum homes which was built nearly 100 years ago.
 MT. Bibb had many friends in his native county and all through this sec ton of the State. who will learn with much grief of his death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
This Date in History
.Ianuarr 3.

January 5.
 I740-Benedict Arnold born: died June 14. JS01.
 1777-washington surprised and de- feated the British at Princeton, N. J. brigadier general in the British army. 189S-R1v. Jacob Duche, who deliver ed th Asirst prayer before the ContineDtal ConsWss, died in Philadelphia; born there in 1737.
 lS25-Parliament buildings in Toron- to burned.
 fs55-James A. Tawney, member of Congress from Minnesota, born in Pennsylvania.
 lss5-Pubiic degradation of Dreyfus at Paris.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1908.
PREsKpENTIAL PENSIONS.

The New York Commercil has a lengthy editorial comment on MT. cIeveland's suggestion of 8 pension fer ex-Presidehts, reviewing the various points at issue. It arrives at the con- clusion that Congress should at once put the presidential salary for future ones at sIO0.0O0 year and provide an annual pension of S1O,0O0 a year for those who retire from ofice with honor." whatever that may mean. The Commercial rather intimates that a quarter of a million a year would not be too much. but thinks the limit first named should at least be provided at once.
 The question of the Presidents sal ary has been a point of discussion from the very beginning of our government. The impoverished condition Of the country when the Republic entered on its career. and the desire to maintain and encourage simplicity decided Con- gress to fix the salary at the modest figure of $25.Ooo year. It Is likely, too, that those who had control of the business wished to show the high priced monarch of other countries how simply and modestly a President could live. When, after the war between the States. it was decided to double the pay. 1t was thought thet the provis- ion was ample. but it seems that there are those who contend that something more should be added. All that, we suppose, is to be discussed and decid- ed by those who have the right to do so, but there is one feature of The Commercials article that we must dis sent from. It says:
 Theodore Roosevelt must inevitably leave the White House poor man, as riches are reckoned in these days. He has no previous profession or occupa- 4ton to which he may return-no train ing, in fact, that would peculiarly fit or equip him for any one of the callings conceiyably open to an ex-President; for he has spent practically all his life in the public service. It may be argued. of course, that this fact is his misfortune, snobody's fault but his own. But this
 
 his country has failed to do him justice that his own party, his own friends, admirers and loyal supporters have turned deaf ears to every proposition before Congress whose adoption would have placed him in 1909 in as comfort able a condition in life as that in which Grover Cleveland fortunately finds him self today.
 We do not think there will be many 10 agree with this view. Roosevelt will not go out of office a rich man of the Rockefeller Car ne gie type, but he win lack very much Of being a poor man as compared with the vast major fty of his fellow citizens. Unless we are badly misinformed he will retire with enough to live upon comfortably and honorably, even if he should earn nothing more during his life, but that IS a supposition not to be entertained for an instant. He can make a liberal salary by writing books or articles for the magazines and other publications. IL matters not that his contributions may not be remarkable for their at- tractiveness, their fairness or their ac curacy-they will bring him hand some income. To talk about Theodore Roosevelt going out of office a poor man and unable to earn living is surprising coming fr"-- such paper as The Commercial
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Some days ago we printed the ac- count of a Western preacher who re- fused present of one hundred dol lars in gold because they were coins from which the motto. Tn God We Trust" had been omitted. Now the gentleman is out in statement that he did not refuse any such money and that no gold coins were offered him That settles it so far as he is con cerned, but the one who started the li- bel needs to have a motto stamped on him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
PrODOsed Federal License Law Is Dam
 FEeFOus. By John c. Spooner, former Senator


 The Constitution lodged in Congress the power to regulate commerce among the several States and the Indian tribes and foreign ustious. Commerce was not the outgrowth of the Constitution but the Constitution was the outgrowth that but for the burdens and discrim- nations VNich were placed by the States. which Wefe sovereign each and sovereign absolutely. as to the others upon commerce among the several States the Constitution very likely would not have been adopted. That was one of It's principal inspirations at least.
 It is said now that Congress IS given among the States; that 1t may prohibit or it may prescribe the conditions on which it may be conducted. That was not the purpose of the Constitution and in my opinion that is not the true construction of the Constitution,
 It has been recommended that the sherman antitrust act be amended. It ought to be amsndsd--in the interest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

We learn from the newspapers of our neighbor city of Columbus. that "the first day of prohibition was very quiet" Wen. you see, the folks were merely waiting to see hew 1t felt Some of them, no doubt. had filled up so full on the day before that they could do nothing but be still. The change will come when they begin to take on monumental thirst and must find something to gratify it. Then we'll see if they are very quiet"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
AndaIu.Ia in 0Dry,o

Andaiusia. Jan. 2.-(Special.)-Al- though a bill providing for dispen- sary has been passed through the Leg islature nothing in the liquor line could be obtained in Andalusia today, and prospects are that the same condi- ton will last for several days.
 Nothing will be done about the open ing of the dispensary until after the election to be held next Saturday.
 The whiskey men in the County are planning and 1t is not certain that they won't fight the recent legislation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
A CnIh PIunre.

New York. Jon. 2.-Clad in thip bathing suit. Miss Helen Wilcox of Ellingville. Staten Island. last night took a swim in the ocean near her home. She remained in the water for five minutes. although the temperature registered two degrees blow freezing. The bath was taken on 8 wager.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
'Monsst Pisasanf Persons
BY Q. g. RARTRID0E,


 Nav. of course I have made no reso. lutions." snarled The Pessimistic Per Haven't I done 1t for years? We'll then. look at me now. Am any bet ter than if had kept my mouth shut and my heart open to temptation and conviction 2"
 Nobody said The Pessi . stic Person nay; so he snarled some more.
 Last year~I swore off nearly every thing worth while In the world, and for a week l was miserable. I swore that I wouldn't drink, or smoke. or eat, or cuss. or lose my temper, or get the blues. and during the seven mortal and tried to live on such luxuries as grape juice and cubebs and very yapid chicken broth and chaste English and smiling contentment. 1 was sick and irritable. yet had nothing to complain of. You remember that little bit of verse of the Bab Ballads: Oh. don't the days seem lone and
 long
 When all goes right and nothing goes And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble E at?
 NO more resolution for me- I am going to do everything I can find that will hurt me. My question now is, not know good but how hurtful and how sinful. Everybody else in the wo-ld is i-ean. and I am going to give succeed in being anything else any how"
 A great many feel that way about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
Me u,n Ancentn Call.

Gadsden, Jam, 2-lSpeclaIJ-FeV William E. Hill, who after reconsider ing his former action in not accepting a call to the pulpit of the First Pres byterian Church of Gadsden. has an nounced his acceptance of the call or the congregation. and is now here ar ranging to move his family here. lie will preach the first sermon under the pastorate next Sunday at Ii o'clock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
~1s' FAILED AS A 100000.
Members of . Thirteen Club Who Gave
 6 Supper In 1885 All Alive.

York, Pa, special to New York Times. lucky number 13 was somewhat damp sened here yesterday when it became known that just twentytwo years ago thirteen young men who celebrated the incoming of Christmas Day by a midnight supper are still alive. At that time-1SS5-th Thirteen Club, {" as they called themselves, joked over the superstition attached to the num- Der.
 One of the number. J. D. Miller. a cigar manufacturer. is now living in Iowa, and it was intended that the mas Eve, but on account of his not be- ing able to reach here in time it was abandoned until next year. when the members hope that they all will still be living
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
New zeAland's Windy City.

London Chronicle.
 Wellington, the political capital of cities in the world. and once a build- ing gets well alight," there is little chance of saving 1t. Everybody in Wellington clutches his hat on round ing blown into space, A Wellington man is always known in Sydney, Mel bourne and other cities by holding on to his hat through force of habit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
Motors Run Best at Night. Edgar Boehm, in The London Auto

Any man. woman .or child who is at all observant, must be perfectly well aware that petrol car in good condi- tion travels better in the evening after sund6wn and at night than in the day time The reason is obvlous--for the herbage and foliage, etc. gives off certain gases at nightfall which act on the explosive mixture, the ignition of which supplies the force which moves the pistons of the engine, and, in con sanuence. we get an increase of power.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

i According to The Muskogee Times Democrat the people of that city are demanding that legal blackmail shall cease" Very good resolution. but will The I'D inform us how there can be legal blackmaip'? We thought it was all illegal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

No doubt some of those who made iron-clad resolutions on last wednes- day are already looking for a chance to "renig." Some of them will not have any trouble. about it. however.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
Fer . European rreaty.

London Times, 2
 What Is needed today Is some treaty laying down the absolute integrity and Aautrality of Sweden, Norway. Den- mark, Holland and Belgium. To be signed, not by one or two powers in opposition. perhaps. to the rest of the world. but by at least the four powers principally interested. England. France. Germany. and Russia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Hughes not a bogy man." says The Portsmouth Star. The indications are that he is getting to be something of boogerman to Taft and Roose- welt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

They have organized a National Squash Organization up North, and The Norfolk Landmark thinks the ob- ject is to stimulate the manufacture of pumpkin pies. as if the Yankee brethren would do anything ike that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
sNORN CrRCULATTON.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees fits advertisers (and makes it e part Of the contract when requested) that its daily GIT cuiation is larger than that of an: morning newspaper printed in AIabama-and that ts Sunday edition has the largest circulation or any newspaper printed in Alabama. without exception.
 The figures for November printed below fepressnt the actual net circulation. all re- eurns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
s1r. parrlsh ]. Peregrinatlye.

NIT. Parrish Ia Peregrinattye.
 M Henry Msvar psr5sh S broSsss Prysss a story back from South Alabam ma, wherein he wandered for some space round about and nigh the Christmas tide. The trains down there are very sociable places indeed, Mir. Parrish said. and one that he rode on carried chair car. Mir. Parrish says that he rode in it for several miles himself. Nearly everybody on the outside comes at the stations, and as nearly every body on the inside goes out at the same time, there is much sociabiltty and very little schedule.
 chap on the train" MT. Parrish said yesterday to q group of admiring audi tors. "He didn't leave the train like me whenever 1t was stopped because very elastic one. and he could stretch 1t so as to get view of the surround ing countryside without leaving his seat But at every station out went eighteen hundred whiskers. and out went that long drawn query:
 "1 say. mister, now what station mought this be named?'
 At one station there was the most mischeivous looking grown persoh l ever saw. He was in that delightful stage of hilarity that is no respecter of persons. When our bewhiskered lTleHu eleCIeQ HIS neau ana the USUAL query this young person seized the old fellow by the beard, and as the train moved slowly along, held on and slap ped his face. All the while he was crying: this town! Don't ever come back!'
 Of course the old man was help less and so were we for we were laugh very pitable sight indeed, but it was also comic, The old man never put his head out again"
 MT. J. z. Mason left yesterday with bis family for Opelika, Ala, where they will in future reside. During his several years residence in Montgomery, where he has held an important posi- tion with the Atlantic Compress Com pany, MT. Mason has made many friends who will regret to learn that he will in future make his home else- where, but who will at the same time congratulate him upon having received a well earned promotion in the ser
 J. Fred Schnepfe and family from Baltin.ore, who are wintering in Mont gome 2, spent portion of the holidays in Birmingham. MT. Schnepfe is great ly impressed with Birmingham but is unreserved in his praise of Montgom- cry as place of residence.
 Edward w. Cahill. Jr., of New York is the guest of John c. oConnell. MT. Cahill has met many of the business men of Montgomery at the Commercial Club and elsewhere and discussed the prospects of this region.
 Dr. B. J. Baldwin MT. Morris Bald win and Mir. w. E. Sistrunk. Jr., have returned from Perdido Bay, where they spent the holidays in Dr. Baldwin's s country home. MT. Baldwin will re- turn to Cornell University Saturday.
 Mir. J. H. Nunnelee Recording Secre tary to the Governor Is visiting his former home in Selma.
 
 Mir Denman Cheney. of Ashtabula, Ohio, is visiting. friends in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
.6S.412 43.2s4 2O.17S

Total. .. .. 63,4lZ 43,z04 zV,l 10
 It is a pitiable showing. Desertions and failures to re-eniist, assignable to small pay, especially of non-commis- sioned officers, and high wages in civil life; lack of the canteen and 1Ss resultant aatlt the low standard and general worth lessness of recruits; usual immunity from punishment for desertion and belief by deserters that little effort would be made toward their capture; the generally hostile attitude of civil- fans toward the miserably maintained service-these are the reasons why the army, far from the two complete corps considered as a safe minimum in time of peace, has not one. or one-haif, or in spirit and efficiency one-quarter the value of a single corps.
 The problem at bottom is one of better pay. That is the handspring of self-respect and of respect for the cen en- flowing Treasury and with vulnerable outlying possessions @ that make a .oon- con surety of peace, would not, and 1t does not, consider this d problem at all. The people expect the Congress to vote the money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
DRIFT " OOD BY PHIL N. ARMsTRoNG.

| sss, saSs sSs ,s ,th us now for the s election.
 There is . growing belief that 1t is tions." says q Washington dispatch But 1t Hhall not "suspend'' as long as we have 2 President who will wear Vice President Brynes of the New Haven Railroad says "Once 1t used to be respectable to be in the railroad think that the ' great great Fish. ni .Harriman % @ | war was brought about merely because of the jealousies existing In the social aspirations of Mrs. Fish and Mrs. liar riman. -.' <
 An "independent oil dealer'' killed himself in Washington the other day Standard oil Company had ruined him. Still John D. is a consistent church member and his gifts to the Chicago University have numbered many mii- We have received the first number of strenuous Life" Q bright and att the journalistic sea from Bufralo. pPI N Y, and edited by John D. Wells. the clever funny man of The Buffalo News
 
 from Houston Texas. did she7.
 In the wedding invitations of prom inent couple the other day appeared this is to become fad: people who are in the habit Of giving them may Miniature beer bottles tied in crepe were the popular favors at Birming- ham New Year dinners we presume. Of course the red-headed widows quicker at man during the present leap year than those. of any other vil- lage on earth.
 The Chattanooga Star enters that town in the alliterative order as Cash Chattanooga. Whats the matter don't you. have clearing house cer- Lettuce has a soothing effect on the nerves.-Health Journal.
 Geo. Bailey please write.
 A milkman of saulheld. N. J.. has horse which lies on its back. using a bag of nay for a pilloy and holds modating horse. that.
 Tomatoes are fsid to be good for a torpid liver. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
 The Texas newspaper men are said to be gouty from over-eating.
 The curly and black headed possun- fed widows of Montgomery are 100 times more heavenly and dimpled than the red-headed widows of Houston. Paw, what's a leap year?"
 My son, it's when the women leap hungrily at the men, as usual, only little more so."
 Up to the hour of going to press the Honorable John Temple Graves still had top-of the column -next-to-pure- reading matter. between Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Wex Jones in The New York Evening Scream.
 Chas. E. Blaney says stage villains are deteriorating. Is it possible that we are no longer to have that knight walking cane. the frock coat, pearl trousers and baritone voice which was wont to exclaim. "Aha-Myrtle Van Dudley, refuse ma and I will send your grey-haired faather to the Den."
 Overheard.
 Said the automobile
 To the trolley car,
 "I can pass you by
 Like a shooting star. But that's not strange
 When you must see
 That I'm high -topAd
 With a pedigree"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
Army Pay,

Tn his recent report. General Thomas H. Barry, commanding the Army of Cuban Pacihcation. recommended an increase of the infantry by twenty four regiments, and of field artillery by seven regiments. His notion is that the United States should have some- where available within it's limits one complete army corps ready to move to any threatened point on the border, or to embark. say for the Philippines without stripping the country of all its soldierly defense. The present needs of service in the Philippines, Hawaii and Cuba. and prospective needs in Panama are urged Tn this requirement of two complete army corps and one cavalry division. There is an immedi- with its complement of infantry to man the sea coast forts, both front and rear.
 General Barry did not consider the army's plight. It is shown in the fol- lowing authorized strength. of the four divisions on October IS. 1907:
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Miniature beer bottles tied in crepe were the popular favors at Birming- ham New Year dinners we presume.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Of course the red headed widowi of Humbug Houston will leap ten timet quicker at a man during the present leap year than those, OF any other vii. lage on earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
Overheard.

Overheard. Said the automobile
 To the trolley car, 'sI can pass you by
 Like a shooting star. But that's not strange
 When you must see That I'm high toned
 With a pedigree" Said the trolley-car
 ''That may be true carry the crowd
 That can't ride you. But I'd rather be me
 If you but knew Than to FLY and smell The way you do." The Montgomery Advertiser says 1t hopes we got a fat 'possum in our Christmas stocking. That would have added to the menagerie some.-Hous' ton Post.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

AN OLD AND wELL-TRIED RENkDY.
 Cuaranteed under the Fsods and Drug Al JVas Seth 1se& RaE1AA 11sAnkaR 11Al~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Tn the wedding invitations of a prom inent couple the other day appeared a request that no presents be sent. If this is to become fad. people who are in the habit Of giving them may not object.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS
MRS. wTNsLOw,s

MRS. WTNsLOW,S
 SOOTHING SYRUP, has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of Mothers for thair CHILDREN while TMHTHING. with perfect suecesa IT SOOTRg the CHILD. goFTANs the GUMS. ALLAYB all pain. CURES WIND COLIC. and is the best remedy for DIARRHODA Sold by Druggists In every part of the world Be sure and AslS for Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup and take ne other kind 3B Cenfa a Bottl@
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

E & Noble. Circulation ManaRef of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. hmyss
 The foregoing statement of The Adverti- esr'a circulation for the month of November, 1907. is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news to7s news agents, spoiled and leftover copies have been de- auctad, E. s. NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this &th day of December, 1901
 EEAL1) RIGA ALEXANDER.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

The Chattanooga Star enters tha town in the alliterative order as "Casl Chattanooga" What's the matter don't you have clearing house cer tificates up thero7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Since 1908 is with us. now for the de. lightful uncertainty of Presidential election. --
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-03

Say, Mrs. Leslie Carter didn't come from Houston Texas. did she?.