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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
AN ENGLISH EXAMPLE.


 In a recent issue of a contemporary we find some account of an English man of such an interesting nature that we think it worth reprinting entire, just as it is. This is the article:
 "I have had twenty-three children, and have come to the conclusion that man is much happier and better off with family than without one"
 Such was the opinion expressed by George Farmery. a hale and hearty Lincolnshire man who, in spite of his sixty seven years, was actively engag- ed in hay-making near his home at HemsweIl. near Gainsborough. today.
 Farmery was awarded the first prize of $20 offered by the Lincolnshire Az ricultural Society to the farm laborer greatest number of children without having received parochial relief.
 T have never earned more than $4 12 a week." Farmery continued. and my average is only about half a crown a day. so that I eau only reckon on s3 T5.
 T have been twice married. By my first wife I had ten children. and by my second one have had eight boys and five girls.
 T do not smoke and I do not drink, and have always given my wife every penny of my wages. and she has done
 Sour staple food has been bacon and bread, with, perhaps, little fresh meat once week. but I have never been much stuck on butchers meat
 Then I have had to pay as much as nine pence and ten pence a week in years gone by for my children's school ing. now I do not pay anything.
 T have never spent ~5hything on amusement at all. l. seems to me that that Is where young people in big towns waste their money.
 T have lived in Hemswell about thirty years. and have never had a halfpenny from the parish. When the children got old enough, of course. they all went out to work and brought little home. and that helped us to get
 Mrs. Farmery then told how she made both ends meet on the modest wage which her husband brought home.
 Well. We pay s23.75 a year for our cottage" she said. Then, every week buy two stone of flour, which. comes to seventy-six cents. quarter of a pound thirteen cents; one pound lard. twelve cents; one pound rice. four cents; one pound entrants eight cents: coal. thirty six cents. That accounts for
 We keep a pig. So am not counting the bacon. Then there are the clothes and other things to pay for. so that there Is not much left out Of 15s.
 My advice to young people is, do not get married until you are both we'll between twenty and thirty years of age"
 There is nothing to show that this man had any source of income except his scanty wages, and the little that his children could bring in. and it Is doubtful if his entire income ever reached as much as sb a week. He was simply a day laborer. with no farm of his own. yet he raised large family and appears to have-liYsd sim. pie and contented life on what would be looked on as starvation wages :n this country. They kept a pig. the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
PROBATE NOTICE

State of Alabanlas Montgomery County
 Notice is hereby given to Montgomery Bank and Trust Company. Fourth National Bank of Montgomery, Miss Fannie Blount.. R. T. Aldworth Grocery Company, Brock Grocery Company. Bethea and Thompson. Champion Flaming Mills. Geo. P. Haardt & Bro, Hudson & Thompson. Highland Park Lumber O.. Wholesale and Retail Credit Association, ]. A Murray 6 Co. O'ConnelI Hardware Co. J. c. Thrasher. Walter Brooke. Alabama Lumber Co.,. Southern Sash 6 Door Co.,. Loeb Carriage and Sup ply Co.,. all of Montgomery, Ala. and N. Hohenberg & Co, and Bank of Wetumpka. Of Wetumpka, Ala, D. Swan. C. M. Har-. well, R. Patton, John Harris, Sol Williams. Ali. Motan. Sam Goodwin, Louis Jackson. John Williams, W. H. Pool, Sam ,Livings- ton. pr. Robt. Goldthwaite. Dr. H. B Will kineon, E. c. Spann, Dr. J. l. Gaston and W H. Tice of Montgomery. Ala, that the estate of T. K. Bunhley. deceased. was. this day declared insolvent by the Probate Court of Montgomery County and that the executrix of the will of said decedent has been ordered to appear and make settle ment of her administration of said estate on the s1st day of August, 1908.
 ,. B GASToN.
 wed-st Judge of Probate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
rr Is MuppLEp.

Our California contemporary, The Sacramento Bee. is about the worst muddled newspaper that comes to our table It almost "bellussed" itself in the effort to secure Roosevelts renom- nation. mainly because of the lsttsr's position regarding railroads and other corporations. We say alleged" be- cause we regard most of his tirades against corporations as mere sound and fury. sisnifying nothing. but The
 Bee apparently took 1t all as Gospel The action of the Chicago Convention, it argues. was repudiation of Roose- welt and his policies on this subject. After stating three of his propositions regarding corporations of all kinds. The Bee says:
 To those patriotic citizens of Califor- nia who have been accustomed to vote the Republican ticket on principles, be- lieving the Republican Party to be honest and trustworthy, The Bee ap- peals by the undisputed record Of the Chicago Convsntion; Is the party as not utterly forfeited all claims to re spect and confidence when 1t thus bra zenly and shamelessly betrays the faith of The People and openly sides with the corruptfng railroad corporations against Roosevelt?
 The action of the Chicago Convention on these three propositions was simply damnable, and should arouse The Peo- pie to defeat the present Republican organization everywhere, in State and Nation, and hurl it from power. No- thing but defeat can purify the party and restore its original high character and lofty aims.
 This is plain talk and one would naturally infer that a newspaper which so openly and fercely attacks the Re- publican Party. and asks Republicans to defeat it at the coming election, ought to come out squareiy in support of Mir. Bryan. but 1t does not do so. After hesping so much praise and flat tery on Roosevelt. it is probably ashamed to advocate the man who is Roosevelts antithesis in most respects. This it is not: doing. so far. but com tents itself with advising Republicans to vote down their own ticket. It seems to be practicing a double role, in that it lights one side ana does not advocate the other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
UNJUST TO LINCOLN.

number of our contemporaries in alluding to the Springfield race trou- bles express surprise that such thing should occur at the old home of Abra- ham Lincoln, who was. they say. op- posei to anythiny like racial distIec- tion. In other words they charge, or plainly intimate, that he favored race equality. Tn this they do Mr. Lincoln injustice. as any one may see who will read his writings and speeches. For example. during his great cam paign with Judge Douglas in 1858 he made speech in Ottawa. H., of which this is part:
 T have no purpose. either directly or indirectly. to interfere with the insti- tuition of slavery in the States where 1t exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. and have no inclina- introd9cs tr I political G % and social % % seuality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two which. in my judgment. will probably forever forbid their living to- equality; and, inasmuch as it has be- come a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which be- long having the superior position"
 It seems that Douglass was not sat isfed with this plain utterance. or else he wanted to goad. MT. Lincoln Into saying something of which political capital could be made. for in later speech in the same State Lincoln said;
 Judge Douglas has said to you that he has not been able to get from me an answer to the question whether am in favor of negro citizenship. So far as know the Judge never asked me the question before. He shall have no occasion to ask it again. for tell him negro citizenship" is
 Certainly that was sufficiently plain and definite not to be misunderstood and we have no doubt. but that the future President was sincere. Not oniy did he not favor social equality, bat was not even in favor of negro citisen- ship. The emancipation proclamation was brought out by the exigeneies of the war, and however much we may condemn the act from any and all points of view, we have no reason to believe that he would have favored so- cial or political equality if he had lived, or that he would have upheld or en- couraged the atrocitits of the recon struction period. We do not consider 1t fair to him to charge that conditions at Springfield are due to his teach ings. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
WILL BE KNOWN BY GARD.

Index System to Prevent Waste of 0ra-
 tory by Republican speIlbinder. New York Herald.
 Elaborate plans have been perfeeted national chairman. whereby he will know the weak and strong points of every "spellbinder" employed by the national committee; The orators are to cluded in the system which Mir. Hitch cock, aided by William Hayward. of Nebraska, is putting into effect, to the wonderment of many of the. old war shaking than card d-indexing,
 Under the plan devised by Mr. Hitch cock and Coleman Dupont, chairman or the speakers committee, the commit after the spellbinders' brigade is turned loose on the country just which ones are worth keeping. They will know which ones can speak best on the all the other issues--in fact, will know which ones appeal most strongly to the workingmen and which ones take well" with high-class. audiences,
 Tn nutshell, every one will have a card in the index, and on that card will be recorded all the Information that any one could desire about the speaker. Just a glance at 1t will enable the head of the speakers bureau to send him where he can do the most good.
 It will not be an easy task to get this information. To do so each speak CT will be accompanied on his early trips by, a clerk who will make care ful notes of the impression the speaker makes and the treatment that is ac- corded him by his audiences. About two weeks will be required to get all the speakers "sized up," but when this Is done. no oratory will be wasted In former campaigns it Is said, much eloduence was cast upon barren ground dex.
 It has not been decided yet how many speakers there will be. but if the cam paign fund grows as the leaders hope for, there will be at least 1000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
This Date in History
AuGusr m.


 l493-Frederick III. of Germany died. Born September 21, 1415.
 1617-Sir Walter Raleigh sailed from Cork on his last voyage to America. I699-George Burroughs, New Eng land minister hung for witchcraft; 170s-British took the Island of Min orca. , July lSH7.
 17S2-Kentucky pioneers and indians engaged in battle near the Blue Licks 1793-Elisha Mitchell. who conducted the first State geological survey In America, born in Washington, Conn Died in North Carolina. Juno 2l. 1857. lSl2-United States friSute Constitu- tion captured the British friEate Guer- riere.
 Is14-British troops landed in Chesa- peake Bay and threatened Washington 1S31-Nearly 300 lives lost in the wreck of the ship Lady sherbrooke' Iss6 = Charles D. Graham passed through the Niagara whirlpool rapids 1Ss7-spencer F. Baird. the first Unit ed States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, died at Woods Hole. Mass Born at Reading. Pa. February 8. 1S2a 189S-Spain named her commissioners to treat for peace with the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
Indenendsntn nna Taft.

Correspondence of N. r. Evening Post.
 I have read with interest your edito- rial tonight. why Independents Favor Taft" May I be permitted the cour- tesy of your columns to state briefly why. one Independent, at least, does not favor Taft?
 First and foremost do not favor Taft because he represents a party that has grown to be the most corrupt, unprin. cipled, recklessly extravagant, and of- fensiVely arrogant in the history of our country fall to see see how any SsiS ra- : election can, in voting for MT. Taft. separate him from his party, and am everlastingly against MT. Taft be- cause I am everlastingly against his party. But I am against Mir. Taft per- sonally because politically he has shown himself to be neither manly nor polit- ically honest. Certainly no man of true self respect and courage would have surrendered himself so completely. both in his actions and utterances, to the will of another as has Mir. Taft to The. odore Roosevelt Certainly no honest man-and here The Evening Posts sup port of him strikes me as so amazing would be willing to go before the country in the position MT. Taft has assumed on the tari1 question.
 Everybody with a grain of intelli- gence understands what the Republi- can Partys attitude toward the tarin Is. The Republican Party Is the hand maiden and slave of the protected fn- terests. Tariff revision, with the Re- publican Party. does not mean tariff re- auction. It means tarin raising. In trying to fool some of the people into thinking otherwise, the party Is simply attempting an imposture. to which MT. Taft is lending himself. These are req sons sufficient for me to be against MT. Taft.
 But I am not only against Taft am for Bryan--I am for MT. Bryan and his party. because they are the only eff: fectiVe force today that can be used in the overthrow of the Republican Party and high protection would far outweigh in value to the country any possible harm that Mir. Bryan and the Democrats could do 1t. While on the other hand, the further continuance in power of the Republican Party de- hauching and corrupting the people in renewed orgies of extravagance and tariff exploitation, means in my judg- ment at least, a rapid stride toward the disintegration of the republic. That such a champion of political righteous ness as The Evening Post should sup port. no matter how unwillingly, a party such as this, Is keen disap- pointment to one who ha imbibed his political principles largely from its col- umns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
This Is My 6Oth Birthday REAR ADMIRAL NAsHIHA.

Read Admiral Nashiha. one of the ofs ficers of the Japanese navy who won great renown In the late war between jJanan and Russia was born at Hagi, Nabato. August IS. 1s4s. and served in the War of Restoration lssS) as en- sign in the troops of the Cnosnu Glan : in 1874 and an official of the. Home Dc partment. and detailed to the Fujisan in September. 1880. He saw much sery- boring countries. the Pacific and 5s
 wall in 1890. Then he was made Chief superintendent of Cadets of the Naval College and appointed tine commanding officeTs of the attacking department of the Kure Torpedo Division in Novem. Der On his promotion to captain, he was appointed to the command of the batieship Akitsushima in October, 1898. and commanded others of the principal Japanese ships. Tn the war With Rus sia he distinguished himself as com
 nander of a division of the first squad ron under the famous Admiral Togo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19

"In New. York City day or two ago" says contemporary "a disciple of the Holy Rollers. a religious sect, was brought before a magistrate for discrderly conduct and taking offense at a decision of the Judge, struck him. but the blow didn't fease the court nor pre- vent a return of the favor, which sent the holy roller rolling. He found what the judge meant. though tfTe blow was not all the judgment. a commitment to jail following" We predict that that particular roller will try to do his roll ing at some other place in future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
BEATEN AT THE START.
Nation VIII Repudiate President
 Roosevef's Man.

RO0seveMs Man.
 Nashville American.
 The first paragraph in Taft's letter of acceptance, in which he says he accepts the nomination on platform to carry out all of Rooseeylt's policies, viii beat him now before he starts The Republican party repudiated Roosevelt, despite his instduous ef- forts to secure the nomination.. The nation will repudiate his creature in November. They would not have the creator, and 1t follows they will not accept his man Friday.
 Bryan is going to be elected. All the sophistry about the empty buckets being filled will not deceive the coun- try nor appease the stomach of the pailbearer There isn't so far grease enough in the bucket to cover the bot
 Taft. once esteemed a great judge and an evenly balanced man, has shown by becoming the mouthplece of Roosevelt that he is neither a great nor a well balanced man. After trav- cling all over the world, mingling with all sorts and conditions of men. he appears on the American political stage as a mere understudy of the man who has yearly wrecked the na- ton, and who only desires Taft's sue cess that he may in reality get what his party and the people made clear he could not get at the ballot box the power to run the government four vears longer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
cROKER COMING TO AID BRYAN.
Tammany,s Old Chieftain to Work For
 The Democratic Ticket.

Tammany's old Chieftain to Work For
 The Democratic Ticket New York Herald.
 Richard Croker. former leader of Tammany Hall, will come to America next month to lend the weight of his influence to the effort to elect William J Bryan President He is expected to leave Queenstown for New 1ork on or about September IS.
 This Is the information that came yesterday from close friends ot Richard Croker. Jr., and Edward Cahill, the two men in New York most intimately ac. Quainted with the plans of the old chief of Tammany Hall. His coming is ex- pected to cause rejoicing in the ranks of Tammnny, where the personal Tn. nuence of their former chief Is stin strong.
 MT. Croker.s plan to come 10 this country to help Mir. Bryan is Tn line with a promise made by him to the Nee braskan when the latter left Ireland on Croker accompanied MT. Bryan to his ship and assured him that in the event he was nominated by the Democrats he. MT. Croker, would do everything In his power to bring about his election. Fur fher than this, while Mir. Bryan was in Croker sent a personal message to him expressing the hope that the Democrats would again nominate him.
 Richard Croker, Jr., with his bride, left New York for his fathers home in Ireland a week ago Thursday and was Croker and Mir. Cahill will return to New York with the elder MT. Croker in
 in Announcing his intention to come to New York to aid Mir. Bryan, MT. Croker is reported to have said that hs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
ANOTHER coon LESSON.

The "masher" Is . nuisance from which few cities are exempt. The ha- bitual specimen and the occasional one are both to be found in almost any city. If girl or woman knows how to treat him with the contempt he de- serves she can usually get rid of him, but sometimes sound thrashing is the only remedy. However, judge up in Minnesota has adopted a method of treatment which may possibly have a good effect A youth who had made himself especially contemptitble in this way was up before the aforesaid judge who sentenced him to ten days on the rock pile. It was an eminently it reward. From mashing unprotected women to smashing rocks with ham mer was an instance of the eternal fitness of things. so to speak, and should have good effect. It ought to teach that brand of nuisances who are within that mag istrate's Jurisdiction that their favor lite way of amusing themselves may raise BIistefs in their hands. As The New Haven Register puts it:
 Whatever the derivation of mash ing this is what 1t ought to come to. It may seem to the gay Lothario of street or steam car or sidewalk that mashing girls and breaking stone have little in common. But it is generally believed that mashing gets It's name from the idea of making an impression on a woman. It Is no more than fair that those so desirous of making an impression should have opportunity to try. their hands on good, substantial rock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19

We think some Society. for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals could make a clear case against Taft. if the story Is true that he tried to ride a horse which was too weak to carry him, and broke down under the load. We don't think he should mount any animal whose strength has not been fully and intelligently tested. Let him stick to the G. O. P elephant
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19

The Leavenworth Post notes that there have of late been evidences of unusual activity at Oyster Bay. and it suggests that it may be because of the report, that one wm. J. Bryan is preparing to break into the White House. That is a mistake. The stir at Oyster Bay is merely Roosevelt getting ready to break into the New York State campaign.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
POLITICAL POINTERS
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on the
 National Contest.

had no intention whatever of taking any further part In the New York pa~ litical game than such as was necessary 10 aid MT. Bryan; Other phases os the of interfering with. and would return to Ireland as soon as he had accom- plished what he could to further the Interests 0 fthe Democratic nominee When The Herald printed the . ex. to New York his unqualified indorse- 1t caused a scurrying about of certain Tanamany leaders. The news that Mr. croker ts to follow up this 'tndorsement For the a'oa 1o9inMnGa M J ny nss eRSsetsd ma terialy to accelerate the activity of Tammany,s present leaders in the cana psign. Despite MT. croksr's I. seyssrins eye the organization of which he was 60 long the head, his personal opinions stilI have great weight with thohsands Although Mf. croker was opposed to rsvised his opinion Of the Nebraskan- tIons ton be between them have hay been growins closer
 TAFT SAYS IT'S HARD TO PLEAsB
 EVERYBODY.
 Running for President Recalls the Fa- ble of the Boy. the sHan and the
  Hot Springs, Va, Special to New York MT. Taft has received a number ot letters reproaching him for playing golf The writers say that t is q rich mans game, and the one who plays th cannot have the welfare of the masses Mir. Tart says that running for. Pres ident reminds him of Aesop'a fable of the old man, the boy and the donkey. As he remembered it, the man was rid" ing the donkey and the boy was walk ing Passers-by commented on the cruelty of the man. rhereupon the two changed places, but others were severe in criticism of the youth for allowing an old man 10 walk
 Thinking to please every one, both rode upon the mule, whereat those whom they met yer mortified at the burden put on the poor beast. Tn despair, the man and boy carried the donkey. Look bt the fools" cried the it is impossible to please everyone, said MT Taft. "I play golf because ' find it the best sort of exercise Tor me"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
"WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1s. 1908.
FOR THE pEsdOCRATIc CAMPAIGN
 FITNn

The Advertiser acknowledges receipt of coDtributions for the National Dem oeratie Campaign Fund as follows: J. M ETarl1e.. =. .. $500
 Any sum sent in will be forwarded to proper authority and acknowledg- ment made in these columns. The peo- pie of the country, that is, those dssir- ing Mir. Bryan's election, can show their interest by making contribution to the cause.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19

IT the Great Emancipator. as Lincoln was called. could today stand on the top of his monument in Springfield and witness the killing and driving out of the negroes he would doubtless won der if that is one of the legitimate re- suits of giving them freedom.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-19
Letter to The Editor
Cotton Deterioration.

roy AlA.. Aug 4is 4S9o. Editor The Advertiser:
 With temperature around 94 to 100 for the past ten days, hot winds, no dews during the nights or early morn ings and without rain for three weeks. we wish to advise that never in the his- tory of the writer's memory (and l for eighteen years) have I seen such sudden and terrific deterioration in the growing crop. The plant was full of small bolls and blooms and sapPed to its utmost, and with the fearful drouht and excessive temperature was unable to withstand the pressure. So bad are the conditions we refrain from giving our condition figures, but to those who believe us we will say watch the next government figures and you will find this report to be very correct.
 1T IT Rahcock Co.