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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
Vernon Lincoln Leaves Money for
 Spelling Matches.

Andoyer. Macs, Feb. 20.-The will of Vernon Lincoln. just probated, leaves $500 to the treasurer of the town of Andover in trust for the purpose of providing prizes for the annual oid- fashioned spelling matches to take place here.
 If is provided that the matches shall take place in public hall the con testants being between 10 and IS years old persons, the oldsfashiopeed method of choosing up" to be used. Prizes of s10, SC and s4 are to be awarded year fly to the three who are last to be spelled down"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
ADMINISTRATORS
 NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that letters of administration on the estate of Lizzie Prank furter. deceased. were issued on the sist day of January, 1908. to the underalRnad gomery County
 All persons indebted to said estate win make settlement with me. and all persons holding claims against said estate will file the same within the time required by law. or the same will be barred. Administrator of the Estate of Tirste
 Frankfurter. deceased --fFi-at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
MRS. ELrzABErH BARNUM DEAD
A Surviving Widow OS inc War oi
 1872.

A DuFFIVInB WIuVW Vt Inc WhF OI
 East orangee. N. J.. Feb. 20.--Mrs Elizabeth Barnum. one of the few sur viving widows of the war of lS12, died yesterday at the age of 96
 She was born in Vermont. Her hus- band. B. Barnum, of Franklin, Conn. was . cousin of P. L. Barnum. the fa- nous circus man. He was a mere boy when the war broke out. but ran away from home ard joined the Vermont reg iment. He died several years ago. Mrs Barnum is survived by three sons, a daughter, sixteen grand children and fourteen great grand children.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
nennrta for south.

Washington. Feb. 20.--Ambassador sternburg accompanied by the Baron ess Sternberg left here for a trip of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
shARGAIN.,
A PECULIAR WILL.

Tennessee egss. 25c. the aosen. reivertoR;s Palace Market.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21

it q reck-~Stome- for brcaA--GPound to. baeeo the best plant food found omiy in Dnybreak Ferfillsern.
 MARKS & GAYLE.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-26

colony will allow betting that we can
get pupils to learn the scientific
facts about the trinity and how to
keep it holy or-healthy, faster than he
can get members to his church, especially
when he runs competition with Sister Bliven.
Faith and l send regards to both and want
every Materialist in the world to know about
La Prosperidad Colony and the Motherlove
Home for fallen girls" as introduced by
ONE OF THEM.
451 Ulysses ST., Los Angeles, Cal.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-26
MOTHERLOvE HOMESITE.
Twenty Acres Secured in La Pr0speridad
Colony and the Work of Sex Redemption
is Prosecuted With Vigor
(By Helen H. Philbrick.)


l wish notify all friends among the
Blade readers, who have so generously re-
sponded to the call of the w. l. 5. Q. and
Motherlove Home Society, to help establish
a method of home and family protection OF
kinship ties without the help of the church,
that l am at last in possession of title
to five acres of the richest land in the world,
in the finest climate in the world,
among the finest people in the world, and
under the finest government in the world.
refer to La Prosperidad Colony Association
in Lower California.
When l have completed my title to 20
acres 1.-THE limit of a voters share) and have
made some small beginnings in the way of
shelter (which need be but light down here)
1 shall be in a position to begin the work
of educating the young mothers of free born
babes, how to look at their ease" from a
scientific standpoint, and by the means, place
Colony, of any possibility of being the
mothers of Legitimate children; those who.
like the 'unwise children of Solomon should
not know their own father.
The young mothers will leave their babes
with us, Faith and l. while they prepare on
their own little homesites to plant the vine
and fig tree and build the cottage from which
to send to the Colonial Public school, the
little kndergartners after they shall have
graduated in the knowledge of god," posi-
tive and negative electricity or force caused
by heating and cooling, taught incidentally
with the phonetic reading and spelling which
is waiting in its rainbow colors for them in
the Mother Goose Phonetic Rhymes" in our
possession; and most important of all, in the
knowledge of the Trinity, the three powers
in one personal consciousness (sense in tel
lect and emotion) which the church Orthodox
and which the Church (of Humanity teaches
does not exist at all but which does or do
exist and vibrate the various conditions of
heaven and he'll" as you and I, reader,
know them to be in the nervous system or
human pro-to-plasams your selves.
Faith is as eager as her mother to 90 to
the Colony and begin the baby home and
kindergarten. She is but eight years old
but can tell you all very easy that god" is only
the life force in all things, and that the
whole secret of dispensing with the grating
middle man. is to remove the First Great
Cause of all middlemen, the supernatural
agent of graft known god" which makes
the human mother beast and slave. Faith
can also tell the superiority of truth over
ceremony She is also beginning to under
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-26
Order of Square Fellows.

WELLSBURG, w. VAL am a Free
thinker and see in the Blue Grass Blade
that Mr.. Curtis, one of your subscribers,
handed me an article on Organization. AL
low me to say that there is but one religion
and that is the equality of man and that
all truth should be based upon the formula
that all men are negative until made posi-
tive by purpose. That all men are born
equal, but do not receive equal culture and
that education is process of brain trans
formation. That as DR.. Thompson saye no
child is born speaking any language, and
knows nothing by any sense until educated.
and this must be achieved by anatomical
changes in brain structure-trans over
farmare-make-makin over thin minds
and that the will of the Creator is an all
equal will; that to love neighbor as self
angles and sides, is figure of equality
and is the symbol of the golden rule-of
which all nations have formulated express.
sion-the will Of the All Equal One--God.
Women are also equal with men. There
is no sex in principle, there is sex In the
natural man, but, not SO in principle and
that divisions and inequalities exists In
society, because they do not believe in an
all equal creator. All religions begin upon
principles of equality, but end in favorite-
ism. Masses square world was not the real
kosmas, but reality world of equality
character and love, symbolized by the
square and he invested the square with a
heart quality by wearing the square breast
plate of judgment" over the heart thus in
vesting the square with sincerity and hon.
esty, and an ethical meaning, viz: square
ness. l have been trying to organize an
order under the caption of Square Fellows
with the enclosed emblem and determining
all social acts by the rule of equality. My
idea was to make it secrete and have four
degrees. There are principles common to
all PHILOSOPHERS. These ideas size the
square being the symbol of the golden rule,
and that makes square world was symbol
cal are original, but the present false in
situations can be hit some SCATTERING blows.
Please advise me what you think of these
ideas. l can send you matter thereon
T w NEET.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-26
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

stand that though marriage is the great crime
of the vlization that it has to be, under
competing forms of living; but that the social
wedlock, without the middlemen (god), or any
of his agents OF graft, is the only decent or
moral method of preparing two human beings
for the solemn obligations of parenthood.
l am told that it is too bad that Faith,
SO young has to grasp all these hard ques-
tions;" but after a talk with her this morning
we decide that scientific thought and prob
lens more dangerous for a young
child than the problems of hell-fre and
damnation to scare a child into nightmares.
Faith can also tell the married women of
the Blade, or any one who may wish to
take issue with us, that the only difference
between signing false name on a note Ito
put man in the perjurors celp and naming
a child contrary to the facts of nature to
put minister in pulpit is, that in the first
instance, some one in this generation gets
the money under false pretences, and in the
last, some one 1.-THE capitalist CLASSY gets it
in succeeding generations. She will be pleased
to have the assistance of all wise and good
men and women VINO can afford to take
some of the pa shares in La Prosperidad
Colony, join us in preparing the lessons
showing these facts, for the babes of the
Motherhood Home.
We sure land our friends here SO tell
u.s. we have the understanding of this Child
question" which, coupled with the settlement
of the woman question" as done by our
wonderfully perfect Colonial laws, will lead
the way to the Land of Freedom that Olive
Schreiner saw when she met the old man
Reason in the Desert
Believing there are many women among the
Blade readers who would join the Colony and
help in this matter of showing the honorable
way to freedom for women, by the Mother
love Home method, / ask that every male
reader who reads will make an effort to get
this letter to some lady friend who wants a
home of her own, vote of her own, and
insurance against poverty in her old age by
becoming a member of the Colony and, incl
dentaly Through her influenced helping Faith
and l bring the education to women both in
and out of the colony.
The body is the matter" the motion of.
on, in and through protoplasm is 'the life;"
and, the life is more than meat"-the mat.
ter; that is, the healthy balance of the three
fold life powers when balanced a. 20 oper.
alton makes possible) is more to be desired
than the more dead matter without "the life"
or, body in "hell' because the life 1.-THE
motion) is all turned out of nature by wage
slavery and faith in personal gods and devils.
Faith and l can hardly wait to begin the
work OF showing the members of the Church
OF Humanity the beautiful truth to supplant
the falsehood which it tears down We
shall teach in the Home; Brother Kerr can
teach in Church, butt will wager (if the
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05

central warehouses there to store it until the value
it attains in idleness tempts them to exchange it
for money.
enjoy all of profit that has heretofore been shared
to some extent with parties standing between the
manufacturers and the producers-taking the wool
from the railroad stations located in the midst of the
hocks and concentrating within easy reach of the
big combine that transforms the raw material into
the finished product
During many years of the past, wool has been
convention of producers agreed to abandon and the
sheep have found the business re1nunerately at
tractive. But the pendulum has begun to swing in
the other direction and the first protest against fall
in prices is this proposition to eliminate one of the
profit sharers from the equation
Why should one element in the vast commercial
establishment be compelled to aim so deadly blow
political axiom these many years that the value
of wool fixed by the size of the tariff levied on
all importaons of wool clipped from foreign hocks
The size of the tariff has not been diminished from
the maximum established by the distinguished Ding
ley act 1t remains it has been throughout all the
years of prosperous wool growing
If the protective tariff has permitted the producer
strange that the same tariff should now make it
necessary to destroy of the factors that the
other may compensate itself Without undertaking
to solve the problem the facts are herewith sub
ntted.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
Hopkins DisCredited.

In the light of the final analysis of the vote at
the late primaries in the state of Illinois, Senator
Hopkins looks like the that was weighed in
100000 republican votes and his two opponents Foss
and Mason, received 2O5OOO republican votes. If
Foss and Mason represented candidate, he would
have been the nominee of the party for the United
States senatorship
Under the primary law of Illinois, Mr. Hopkins
cannot be considered the nominee for he did not
ceive majority of the votes cast. 1t remains for
the legislature to settle the senatorshp outside the
primary election result There is nomination
Mr.. Hopkins has been able to do better for himself
in the legislative body than in the body of the people,
for he is of the bosses of the machine the
primary election system sought to wreck He may
be able to fix the legislature If SO, he will know
that he is not senator by consent of his party. But
that is matter of small consideration with of
the political breed to which Mr. Hopkins belongs.
To "get there" is sufficient with his class
In his home city, Mr.. Hopkins received 400 votes,
while Mr.. Foss received 2,7O0 votes Mr.. Hopkins
was defeated in his own ward, his own county, his
own legislative district. Where he was best known,
he was cast out Wherever the machine controlled,
he triumphed Wherever federal influence could
save him, he saved But out among the
hampered people, he was discredited.
His compact with the national machine was made
when he appeared before the United States senate
as p1eader for the po1ygamist teacher, Mr.. Smoot
and the national machine fulfilled its agreement as
far it able Illinois is possessed of fair
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
Colonel Stewards Assignment.

The public has watched for long time with curl
wonder the prosecutions inflicted upon Colonel
w. F. Stewart, of the regular army, by President
Roosevelt The colonel is possessed Of some peculiar
tiles of temperament that Objectionable to the
president though they have seriously afflicted
any other executive, and the president wants him to
accept retirement from the army and he refuses
AS measure of punishment for his contumacy,
Mr.. Roosevelt has assigned him to duty at Fort
Grant Arizona, although there is no duty to perform
there Fort Grant is abandoned of ruins,
overrun by rattlesnakes, in charge of custodian.
For companion he has co1ored cook. All else
is desoation
Colonel Stewards orders will keep him at Fort
Grant couple of years yet and he will then have
be put out of the army, which he appears to have
served well during the long period of his incumbency.
The recent order requiring officers to make test
horseback rides of sixty miles promises Colonel
Stewart season of enjoyable recreation and it will
give him the of horse, privilege heretofore
denied him.
The average understanding looks upon the perse-
cution of Colonel Stewart by the head of a great
nation as mighty small business and the average un-
derstanding resents it, though in silent way. 1t is
of no great Importance to any one but the upon
whom it is inflicted
without yielding, and the on1ookers are glad of it
Here's hoping that Colonel Stewart will stand by his
guns.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
The Unemployed.

1t is the indsputabe story of the statistics of
ganized labor that about two million working
in the United States have been deprived of employ
ment and wages by what is known as the panic of
October last now nearly year in the past Others
have had their working time and means of support
reduced.
During this period of industrial depression,
trory the economic teachings of the past the cost
of living has been high it during the
several preceding years of industrial prosperity, in
tensfying the hardshps of the idle and the partially
employed.
The officers of the American Federation of Labor
feel that it is something worthy of comment that,
in the midst of trials and privations, the working
men of the land have conducted themselves with
orderly regard for the laws and usages of society
They have insisted that various attempted wage re-
ductions should not be consummated, but have done
it in a gent1emany way, while insisting
Little visible friction between employer and en-
p1oyed has come out of the reign of hard times.
There is now possibility of something in the way
demonstration in the Wyoming coal fields, where the
mine owners are attempting to reduce wages, while
the price of coal to the consumer like the prices of
all trust controlled products remains at the old good
times figures.
There can be acceptable reason for reducing
the cost of labor when there is reduction in the
prices received for the products of labor.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
Opposing the Primary.

1t is rather late in the political experience of the
people of the United States to indulge in any direct
opposition to the abolition of the caucus and
vention system of nominations and the substitution
of the primary election system.
The voting members of all parties-those unidenti-
fed with corrupt organizations that represent parties
are positively satisfied that the caucus and con-
vention system has become undemocratic, unrepubli
can and there is a force within the body polite
that is moving irresistib1y towards the improved
system.
In the inception of the struggle for the radical
change commanded by the march of events, every
political machine in the land arrayed itself against
the demand of the populace for the primary election
system. They fought it at every stage of its pro-
gress in the states that have finally adopted it, and,
while now yielding to superior numbers are still
deavoring to undermine the system that they may
finally eradicate it
Their method of attack has changed in some of its
respects They admit that the principle may be
correct one but allege that the practical workings
of the law have not yet justified the principle and
fear that it will be impossible to construct primary
law that will meet public expectation. The dear
public is therefore admonshed to proceed with
treme caution lest it overwhelm itself with ills it
knows not of in its efforts to exricate itself from the
ills with which it is familiar.
Such are the tactics of the machine IN general
now that it has recovered from the first effects of
the uprising of the people against the inquities of
caucus and convention methods. There is no longer
disposition to openly resist popular demand,
but the whole tendency of the concealed opposition
is towards demonstration of the nefciency of that
which is popularity demanded
Of the primary election system, far as it has
been brought into practical use, it be said that
it has not yet reached the stage of perfection and
its shortcomings afford its enemies opportunities
for plausible criticism that often takes the form of
open or implied condemnation.
But it can be said in extenuation that the most
vulnerable primary system in vogue in any of the
states gives to the people much greater freedom of
expression effective self-governing facilities,
than they attain through present day. boss direct
ed caucuses and conventions.
The mperfections of the system will be removed
as experience sheds its light upon methods that
new and almost untried. Time is required for the
evolution of an idea that overturns the practices of
the past
Many years were consumed in rendering effectively
popular the Australian ballot, which is now solidly
The Australian ballot was opposed by
party machines and for reasons fully corrupt as
those that now stand behind machine hostility to the
primary election system.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
Wool Growers in Council.

Something is the matter with the price OF WOOL
Evident1y the producers of wool are not receiving
What they deem sufficient compensation for their toll
Their capital for the risks they in covering the
plains, hills and mountains with sheep
The wool growers of the mountain states have
been in session at Salt Lake and that their con-
sutation was not vain is attested by the fact
that they reached conclusion to send their wool to
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05

of retributive justice. 1t may yet be able to
keep Mr.. Hopkins from again breaking into the
senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

s(Copyrlght, 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter9
7 AM on a German steamer of 5000
tons. sailing down the Red sea. We
\ took ship three days ago at Port said.
and were IS hours going through the
Suez canal We tarried a while at Suez
and are now off Port Sudanh. where the
new railroad across the Nubian desert
begins. We are Just opposite Jeddah,
where, according 10 the Mohammedanst
Mother Eve was buried. and where the
Pilgrims start out over the desert to Nee
ca With the ships glass one can almost
Eee the place where the greatest grand
mother of all mankind lies. She rests
outside the wall in tomb 100 feet long,
and a mosque rises over her dust You
have heard the Mohammendan story OF
now Adam fell Eve gave him the apple,
and he ate it, and as a punishment both
he and she were cast out of the Garden
OF Eden. As they dropped a strong west
wind was blowing. and this waited tue
fairy form Of Eve to Arabia whl'e
Adam, with his heavier weight fell down
in Ceylon. There is a string of coral
KEYS running from Ceylon to Hindoo-
stan, which is still known as Adam
bridge, and it was over them that he
started out on his long hunt for Eve.
IT took him 200 years to find here. and
the meeting was somewhere near mecca.
What became Of Adams bones We do not
know. but those of Eve are supposed TO
lie at Jeddah.
Odd Features of the Red Sea.
Jeddah is just about half way down the
Red sea. 1t took us SO hours to come
here. and we shall be fully that long
in steaming to the Strait of Bab-el-Man-
deb. where we enter the Indian ocean.
The Red sea is mighty small on the
map. 1t looks like a scratch between
Asia and Africa. but the stretch is ac-
fually about 200 miles wide IN many
places. and so deep that the most of the
Blue Ridge mountains could be dropped
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Great Changes Going On Along
the Coasts of Arabia and Africa

down into it. and only their higher peaks
would reach the surface The Red sea is
50 long that If 1t began at Ireland and
extended westward across the Atlantic, 1t
would go half way to Canada. If il could
be lifted up and laid down upon the
United States with Suez at Philadelphia,
Bab-el-AGandeb would be a hundred miles
or so beyond Omaha, Neb., and all the
way between would be a sea canal as
wide as from New York to Washington,
or wide enough to accommodate all the
navies of the world abreast, and leave a
hundred miles or more to spare.
A hival for the Suez Canal.
This mighty waterway narrows almost
to a point at each end. Where it leaves
the Indian ocean it is no wider than the
English channel at Dover and it is lost
at the north i'm the Suez canal. Starting
at Bsb-eI-AIandeb, the coasts broaden out
and then run almost straight to the upper
end where they fork into two CULTS and
inclose the lower part of the Sinai PENN
sula These two CULTS of the Suez is 10
miles long. and it has been Joined to the
Mediterranean by the Suesz canal. The
gulf of Akabah is 10 miles long, and
capitalists are now talking of making
canal from 1t to the Mediterranean. The
Akabah canal would be a considerable
distance east of the Suez canal, but It
would practically parallel it. 1t would run
through Turkish territory. and for this
reason it can be built without infringing
on the Suez canal concession which re-
lates to Egypt alone. I am told that a
new canal would pay well. That of Suez
is already overcrowded. and there Is
enough business for Two.
As to the Red sea itself. it has deep
water throughout Along the main chan
mel there is a full half mile of salt sea
under the ships and in some places it is
more than a mile and a half deep. The
average depth of the gulf of Suez is
greater than the height of a 20-story
fiat, and two Washington Monuments,