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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

The Golden Age Of the RefsKnaeHa.
Harper's Weekly
When all the saloons are shut, and
a few vineyards, brewerieE, and diatii
leries supply what stimulant is called
for by iudicious and Responsible (carfi-
fied) drinkers; when q few surviving
stockholders attend twice q month 70
the necessary business OF the bona
fide investors: when an occasional
horserace is permitted strictly for the
delectation OF horse-lovera who never
bet; when the captains of industry ana
finance always retire from the game
as soon as they have made comfort
able provision for their declining years.
when labor unions cease to attempt
to keep non-union men from woFklnGs
when entrance fees at intercollegiate
contests are abolished. and the presld-
ing bishop OF the Methodist Church
and the president Of the w G. 7. u.
divide the command OF the United
States army: when all the trusts are
dead and all the railroads carry freight
and passengers for nothing. and every
body forty years old has six children
and q pension, and duties are abolished
and income and inheritance taxes sup
port the government. and Jack London
is President, and Bryan is Congress,
and Arthur Brisbane and Upton Sim
clair are the Supreme Court--what a
wonderfully improved country this Will
be. and how very, very happy shall
be our lot II we have the great good
fortune to be living in I'll
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15
Davidson
Holt 81 Strauss
Real Estate & Insurance
Phones % and IS.

EnooeS
FOR RENT.
We few very desirable Offices for rent m the Vandf
yer Budins, will make liberal concession to tenants from
heat furnished free.
We offer for sale within blocks of the Fountain Square,
most desirable one-stoy cottage, all modern I'M
proveents Hose rstclass condition and desirable resi-
denee from every point We will self this property $1,000
cash. balance very terms fine opportunity to obtain
nice home easy payments. 81
AS an investment we offer you six our-room tenement
houses plastered Throughout and in good condition These
ey for S3o0OO which you readily perceive big inter-
est on money invested
vArDvER BUILDING.
We offer for rent In this budng reasonable price, sutc
of offices well parties needing vaut splendid
reproof vau for the security Of books and papers, rear OF office
FOR SALE.
On Heron street, near Whitman. offer valuable piece
of property at low price, The lives another state and
wants to close out here Lot t27x60a five house part
of lot. A bargain In this.
FOR SALE.
Nice dwelling for sale on the sout side Of Burton
lot 5Ox2o feet Five roos electric lights porcelain BATH In
good condition. Price $35O0Oo. Terms easy.
FOR SALE
On Soch c street, lot 75xt50 feet Ten fooms, bath
rooms AFT modern improvements. Barn, servants house Pce
moderate. Terms arranged to suit.
FOR SALE
We offer for sale on High street modern Uptodate two
story dwelling eight rooms, baths electric lights cabinet
antc House uptodate In every and IN hrs class con-
# you are looking home that attractive and be sore
to suit you IN every way now is the Opportunity.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

loan 100000 on the property If de-
sired.
For $1,000. 90 we have nice s-room
cottage, corner lot. rented for t1s0UB a
year. Only s25e.0o cash. balances on
easy payments
II you are looking for q nice little
farm. close to town. let as show you
a bargain.
II you want a gilt-edge investment.
in modern residence property, let us
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15
ReformlnE Habltuai Criminals.

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Judge whitman declares that in his
judicial experience he never knew
hardened criminal to reform. and he
cites the chaplain of one of the great
State prisons as admitting that all eff
forts to save habitual criminals are
wasted. Judge Whitman even fixed 80
as the age after which the hope OF re-
formation is grounded. and any extern
sion of mercy a mistake. He insists
that our treatment OF hardened GRIMM
ais Is far too easy for the protection
Of the public from them, and for the
mistaken good nature Of our jurors he
blanies the system which allows 30 long
a time to elapse between the COM
mission of a crime and the trial OF the
men arrested for II. HIS illustration
is the overcrowded Tombs prison IN
Manhattan, but he exempts the Dis
trict Attorney of New York County
from responsibility for the condition
there. The effect of the delay IL 70
make people forget the crime. 50 that
WIN the trial comes the one personal
appeal in the case is Of sympathy for
the prisoner who must face Q long
term In prison. or perhaps the electric
chair. IL the Jury IL severe with him
II trials could be held when the crime
las stiI fresh enough In the public
mind 20 excite horror. Judge whit
man believes that our verdtcts would be
far less foolishly soft-hearted and the
protection OF society from men whose
only source OF income is through crime
would be far greater.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

fNsURANCE--we represent four OF
the best Fire assurances Companies
sna aoficft your IRE Insurance..
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

f. never found In answering every adj
vertisement you see. One man learned
hy sending q dollar by mail he could
be cured Of drinking. The reply was
Take the pledge and keep t." TAX
ing the pledge 10 all right but deisvers
ing what you advertise IL better. Read
what we are offering. then come to see
US.
renting for $ls2 a year. Can you beat
it,
bouses renting for 1852 a year. These
houses are located in good renting
district. and always rented.
For Sale--$525.00 Nice four room
house in good condition, renting for
sT2.Oo a year. Owner left the city ana
For saie-s4.75o. Splendid piece Of
investment property. rented TO good
tenants for $3.50 year. Hair cash.
balance at per cent. interest.
For Sale--$s5o viii buy nice four
room house rented to white tenants for
5000 per month.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

FOR RENT-we have several nice
dwellings to rent. See US II you neeo
a house 8
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

There can be no more striking proof
of the effect OF the Industrial depres-
sion upon well-to-do people than the
fact that the inportations OF precious
stones 1chiefIy diamonds), amounting
10 1851 400 In value In the first two
months OF 1907. have dwindled to
s5l9,s99 in the same months OF the
present year. II should be observed,
TOO that the prices OF precious stones
nave also declined, In spite OF the ef-
forts to maintain them.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

How Is this for an investment
Three new cottages in splendid rent
ing district. large lots. all new and
modern. rented for $4,000 a year, and
not a vacant house in the community
S4.256.0o will buy the three. and we will
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

If you are in the market for an ideal
suburban home. new ana modern. on
paved street and car line. We nave tne
place YOU are looking for, with one
half acre In grove. Here Is a snap,
and will sell to the first one who
sees It.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
A Cave of Natures Jewels.

By proclamation of the President
the Jewel Cave National Monument
has been established in the Black
Hills National Forest in South Da-
kota. This formation is, in some re-
spects, unique. 1t was explored in
1900, and consists of a series OF
chambers, connected by passages and
galleries, the walls of which are en-
crusted with beautiful calcite crystals.
1t is situated in canon, on lime
stone Llateau, 5000 feet above sea-
level. 1t is believed to have been the
channel for the waters of now ek-
tinct geyser.-Youth's Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
The Real Reason.

That midsummer days are the long.l
est in the year is because heat ex-I
pands;
that criminals weigh less than
moral men, is because they're lighter
fingered;
that a man swears at dull razor.
is because the pesky thing lost its
temper first;
that roses are referred to as
"blushing," is because they are prop
erly ashamed of the prices they
bring;
that wave is called a swell, Isl
because it arrives at the shore in|
great style and goes away broke;
that the army of unemployed IS
not decreasing is because it's members
want too many afternoons off week
that the present-day aero clubs
are considered so exclusive, is be-
cause the members necessarily ALL
move in the upper circles.-Warwick
James Price. in The Bohemian.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
"OBLITERATIVE COLOR"
The Part II Plays in Animal Life and
Defense.

Whales, lions, wolves, deer, hares,
mice; partridges, quails, sandpipers,
larks, sparrows; frogs, snakes, fishes,
lizards, crabs; grasshoppers, slugs,
caterpillars-all these animals, and
many thousand more, crawl and
crouch and swim about their business,
hunting and eluding, under cover of
this strange obliterative mask, the
smooth and perfect balance between
shades of color and degrees of illum-
ination.
Nature, having thus usually un-
substantialized the bodies of animals,
so that if seen at all they look fiat and
ghostly, does not stop there. From
solid, shaded bodies they have been
converted, as it were, into fiat cards
or canvases, and, to complete the illu-
sion of obliteration, pictures of the
Observation-Disclosures pictures of the
more or less distant landscape-have
been painted on these canvases. Such.
in effect, are the elaborate markings
of field and forest birds. This is the
consummation of obliterative colora-
ton; full obliterative shading in con-
junction with true picturing of such
scenes, nearer or farther, as would
appear straight beyond the animal
were 1t transparent, or as would ap-
pear if there were no creature there
at all. The animal has vanished and
in his place stands picture of the
distance, with its numberless details!
The term ''obliterative coloration"
truly fits the case, since these animals
prove to be colored to disappear from
view and not, as has hitherto been
supposed, to look lifeless solid OBJ
jects. Some writer's. indeed, have
mentioned the fact that animals blend
into the varied ground behind them,
but all have failed to see that this
phenomenon could not exist without
the aid of some profound principle in
addition to the general resemb blance
of color and pattern.-From Gerald
II. Thayer's The Concealing Colora-
tion of Animals" in the Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
THE DECEITFUL FARMER.
His Outrageous Traffic in Watered
Stock.

We might we'll cease our railing
at Rockefeller; the farmer is the real
monopolist. We might as well quit
hammering Hartman and cussing
Carnegie until we can squeeze the
water out of the farm produce. For
the farmer is caught with the goods.
and science tells us the exact propor-
ton of the water in his truck"
For example, beef is 76.5 per cent.
water, mutton rs, lamb 63.9, and
pork 60.9. Such a watering of stock
Is enough to make traction monop-
olist look like drought in the desert.
Milk is II to SS per cent. water.
and cream 1912 to As, and this is even
before it has come in contact with the
pump. Potatoes, our old reliable
spuds, are 1877 per cent. water, yams
1916, carrots, S5.7. cabbage S9.6, tur-
nips 90, spinach 90.6, muchrooms
93.7, and cucumbers 96. What COM
fort is there for a vegetarian in such
figures as these?
And even the stalwart onion, the
Goliath of the grocery, is 89.1 per
cent. water! Only smell more than
10 per cent of real onion!
Fruits are S5 to 80 per cent. water.
and early spring strawberries are,
nearly all water, and sour water att
that! Even the great American hen
has seemingly been corrupted by our
modern methods, and eggs are S5.7
per cent. water.
And is this water capitalized? Itl
it? Look at your grocery bills and
behold! At the sight of them we are
almost ready to sing a new "Marsel-1
laise," to cry, "Conspuez lie farmer!
A bas his watered stock!" But WEI
refrain. Secretary Wilson tells usI
that the farmers boy insists on COM
ing to the city. Let the deluded vic !
tim come. Let him hasten to his un
doing. Let us send our boy out to
run the farm, and the next genera
tion shall see our revenge!-Milwau,
kee Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22

world. His life was a romance, his
death tragedy and his fame immor-
tai. Never before has so much gen.
ius been allied to such misery. The
most interesting and picturesque fig
ure in American literature, his
strange and romantic life possessing
an incredible fascination for those
who have sought to follow it from the
time the poet began his wanderings
as writer, it is no wonder that the
approaching centenary has been the
occasion for reviving a renewed life
for the Poe cult.
Those who go back to investigate
find that. after leaving Boston, Poe
was adopted by Mr.. John Allan, of
Richmond, Va, which accounts for
the fact that, though a Northerner
born, he always had such close un-
derstanding of the South and SYM
pathy for it.
How He Left West Point.
In 1929, when he was twenty, Is
found his name for the first time on
the flyleaf of volume of poems, "Al
Aaraaf," "Tamerlane," etc. The Uni
versity of Virginia had been his alma
mater; then he went to West Point,
but the move was mistake, and
after spending few months there
he asked his guardian to permit him
to resign. The later peremptorily re-
fusing, Poe took his own means of
ending a regime that had become
painful to him, and by neglecting all
his studies finally got himself into
such disgrace that he was cashiered.
Thrown on his own resources, he
took up literature as means of live
lihood, and wrote in rapid succession
his wonderful stories OF mystery, of
which Marie Roget" the Murders
of the Rue Morgue, THE Gold Bug"
BLACK Cat, ""Pit and the Pendulum"
especially astonished the world. In
New York he contributed to the New
York Quarterly Review a series Of
searching criticisms, then he went to
Philadelphia to assume charge of the
Gentleman's Magazine.
His romance with Sarah Helen
Whitman is one of the most famed
chapters of his life. He worshiped
this brilliant woman, and her loyalty
to him is proved by the vigor with
which, after his death, she hastened
to reply to every one of the ISLANDERS
directed against his memory. Almost
alone for long time she bore the
burden of battle against the detrac-
tors of Poe, and her work is nov
bearing fruit in the changed attitude
of the public mind to him.
Baltimore, in whose streets Poe
was found insensible in October,
1S49, was first to publicly honor his
memory, and statue erected there
in 1875 was the first memorial to his
memory.
Other honors are certain to be the
outgrowth of the centenary, for the
United States, having finally found
its great poet, will now proceed to
make nt.-Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN.
Enormous Number of Cells and FL
bres Connecting Them.

pfcs SoihcCtInS lneIn.
According to DR.. Edward A. Ayres
Gin Harper's Monthly the human
brain is composed of microscopic di-
mensions. Each has diameter of
from 1-1400 to 10000 of an inch.
Their number is variously estimated
at from 612,000,000 to 9,20O,O00,-
900! Even 100000 is a quantity
almost beyond comprehension. Con-
Meeting with many of the cells are
delicate fibres which extend to other
cells. Besides, there are telegraph
wires, the nerves, which run down to
or come from other parts of the body.
One set of nerves proceeds from
the skin. These are so close together
that there is no point on the surface
of the body which can be touched
with the finest needle without send
ing a report to headquarters. To
every square foot of skin there are
about 0,000 of fthese ''tactile" nerves,
and 1t is estimated that the body has
sixteen square feet of surface. Thera
are nerves also from the special sense
organs - the eyes. nose and ears.
These convey their messages much
more quickly than do the nerves of
the skin. Still third set of nerves
extends to the tips of the various
muscles and conveys the orders need
ed for the various voluntary move
ments. These are called the motor
nerves. Many of the duties per-
formed by such organs as the heart
and stomach are regulated by other
nerve centres than the brain. The
subordinate centres, called ganglia,
work Independently of the brain. Or
dinarily a person is unconscious of
their operations and he cannot con-
troll them by his will.
In the lowermost and back part of
the skull is the cerebullum or small
brain. Among its duties is making
other parts of the body cooperate
for given purpose, like keeping ones
balance. Something also has been
learned about the localities in the
larger and upper brain in which diff
ferent classes of work are performed.
Phrenologists have made rather ex-
travagant and inaccurate statements
about bumps" but, after all, there
is some truth in the later stories of
such discoveries. One way in which
the truth can be learned is to COM
pare the human brain with those of
animals. 1t catfish, for instance,
about half the brain is devoted to the
| sense of taste. Another method is
noticing the effects of an injury to a
brain by accident, and a third en-
ploys experiments on animals while
they are chloroformed. II one part
of the brain is exposed and touched
with delicate electric instrument, a
certain muscle will contract. II an
other is touched another responds.
With the knowledge thus secured the
surgical profession is sometimes en-
abled to perform operations on man
which would otherwise be impossible.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
Training a Beagle.

With regard to the training Of
beagle, he has to be treated on quite
different plan from the setter and
pointer. In their cases a great deal
of work of training is to conquer nat
ural propensities, whereas with the
beagle you encourage him to go on
and do all he can in seeking and
chasing when found. Young dogs are
usually put down with an older one,
and very few lessons suffice. 1t
comes as natural to beagle to run
scent as for terrier to kill rats, and
if there is no apparent inclination one
lesson usually provokes it. The less
one interferes with a beagle running
a line the better for the dog. so long
as he is not pottering in one well
tested place, but casting all about
when he has lost the trail.-Field
and Stream.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
Never BanBrunt.

slave you ever been bankrupt"
asked the counsel
81 have not"
"Now, be careful" admonished the
lawyer. did you ever stop pay
ment?"
"Yes."
"Ah, thought we should get at the
TRUTH" observed counsel, with an un-
pleasant smile. when did this sus-
pension of payment occur?"
"When I had paid all l owed, -
London Opinion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
rIIE LOWER VIEW POINT.

II would not have trusted the bee with a
sting,
Nor the gnat with taste for meat;
= would not have hidden in brake and ling
The adder that haunts my feet;
i would not have bristled the hedge with
thorns,
Nor poisoned the berries red;
] would not have fashioned the bullocl's
horns.
Nor riddled the night with dread
Z would not have burdened the sun with
; spots,
Nor put out the moon so quickly;
: 4 would not set snails in the garden plots,
Nor scatter the weeds so thiclly;
But knowing the world is Gods not mine,
l fancy the gnat and the bee
The adder, the bush, and the horrid kline
Must wonder why God made me-
London Daily Chronicle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
Olives i'm Carolina.

1t has been the generally accepted
belief that olives were first grown in
America by the Mission Fathers, of
California, but the first olives in
America were planted on the coast Of
South Carolina long before colonial
times. During the American Revolu-
tion there was a ten-acre bearing
olive grove on the south shore of
Port Royal entrance. When the Civil
War commenced some of these trees
were living. At its close only the
stumps remained. 1t is supposed that
soldiers had encamped there and cut
the trees down for firewood. The
surrounding woods is said to be full
of wild olive trees, the birds having
carried the seeds from the ancient
trees. The old olive grove was on
the Foot Point" plantation.-Phila-
delphia Grit.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22
amateur around the ring. punetuatina

amateur around the ring. punctuAtlna
the trip with frequent wallops.
saw, mix it up! He's stollin'."
howled the gallery. make 'em fighti
Go git him, kid"
They clinched.
Cant hold'n' hit, argued voice.
"Put your head on his chin, jake!
Lock hold-that's the boy! Good
kid"
The bricklayer cravenly quit. II
was Jakie's fight.
Fifty dollars was offered to "the
man who stays three rounds" 1t
will be seen that jake had taken on
large contract. At each show the
contestants grew huskier in size.
Kid McGoogle labored over ais char.e
and Jake painted cut after the enemy
each time, putting them out one by
one. Protest was vain. The man.
ager said that If no light men came
then jake must meet what material
was at hand.
"Or no pay" he finished.
"What size they'll be by Sattiday,"
moaned McGoogle tearfully.
Jake sighed He had not been
home since Monday, therefore he
lacked the sage advice of his six
shrewd brothers
Saturday matinee tall, thick box
er appeared. He was bouncer in
a concert hall on the Bowery.
"Gimme a ladder SOS kin reach
up to his map" cried Jake angrily.
swell, if you lay down that let's
us out" announced the manager
coolly.
The big man couldn't find jake.
who ran between his long legs, skill
fully harrying him, under Kid Nc
GOGGLES coaching. Jake introduced
a Graceo-Roman hold, which caused
the other to bend down to see what
he was doing, whereat jake hooked
him with hard jab to the stomach.
The roars from the admiring audi
ence would have prevented the man
agement from giving a decision to the
big man in any case, but as evil living
lidu lHuuCSu iHulStSllOH III Tie DOuu-
Ger, the body blow settled him.
One show remained and Jake could
only wait and pray. 1t was clear that
the treacherous manager was provid-
ing these enormous men in an effort
to save paying the industrious jake.
That night hefty two hundred
FOUNDER climbed on the stage, to
emerge from the wings in red tights
five minutes later.
Mike O'Brien," yelled the stage
"O'Brien had large hook nose.
Kid McGoogle, seeing him, stared in
wonder. 1t was Caesar Appel, who
would do anything for money. The
offer outside had tempted him.
Caesars surprise equaled Jakie's,
but he made no sign. At the first
clinch jake agitatedly whispered his
story. KNOCK me out in the next"
said Caesar; don't worry"
With vicious right swing to the
jaw jake sent Mike O'Brien" to the
canvas. Unwilling and slow as the
referees count was, he did not rise,
for Caesar would have stayed there
all night. Wild bellows applauded
jake, the marvellous young tiger.
At ten-thirty jake and Mr.. Nc
Google, keeping close to Caesars
large bulk. heard the latter demand
his little brothers money. 1t was
given and the percentage also, for
Caesar would not be denied. Then
he took the exhausted juvenile away.
Next time never hold out to the
family" he gently rebuked, "'cause
them's your best friends. New
York Telepranh
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-22

In a cemetery at Middlebury, VT.
is a stone erected by widow to her
loving husband, bearing this ipserip-
tion: Rest in peace-until we meet
again.