The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13
[" WHO WAS THE FIRST
 SETTLER OF MONTGOMERY"

feels 1t knows" he got his jug and told the now reconciled combatants to "help yourselves. "The old woman soon fell into the sleep of the just" but Jones kept calling. even through the small hours of the night, for more! morel! more!!!''
 Bones who, lige the Prohibition lec- turer. was facetious. said to Jones. From this on, I'm agwine to call you Moore to distinguish you as such"
 This accounts for the Moore of in- itial residence.
 Jones was the original of the Moore story and Bones of the Hogg theory.
 Recollect, I said that personally I know nothing of that early Incident and am relying solely upon tradition, which is another name for authentic history. I claim no credit except in collating.
 I had an aspiration. once. to be some pumpkin" in Confederate his- tory, but Governor Conner turned me down" something like he did the union miners. wanted to be Com mandant of the Soldiers Home, I represented to the Chief Executive that a great deal of valuable history is going to waste in that home of patri- ots. without a job." The Legisla- ture. in a glow and burst of material sympathy. was about to appropriate to the battered old fellows "a dollar a month spending money" My inten- ton was to use that spending money" for the purpose of history.
 had planned a 'tank-up' on the
 blessed arrival of the dollar a month" to be followed by competitive recita- tions of personal vaior, which were to be faithfully recorded and transmitted to pr. Owen. But the Governor was positive and firm that a man who has sense enough to antagonize the Dem ocratic Party is too good to "camp on the territory of the Soldiers Home.
 And herein Is a pointer" for the friends who kindly call me "phiioso. pher" to do me an injury. Philosophy. like the quality Of greatness. Is of three sources--by birth, by achieve ment. by force. The born philosopher is on the order of the born Democrat --and both are like that good Scotch man of whom his friend proudly rec marked. There's nothing in him but what's put in him with a spoon"
 The philosopher by achievement is on the order of the "self-made" man, who is ignorant of what everybody else sees-that he would have made . better job by not building at all, but let Nature take its course.
 The philosophy that comes from hard knocks" in politics and religion is the best of all. It's the pure juice. I think such philosophy inclines one to be sensible. It. perhaps. assists the wayfaring man in politics. to desire prosperity and keep from the very appearance of evil" It teaches him to have a plying contempt for the &C., commodating clergyman who gives a Dill of health" to every candidate who takes sanctuary It teaches him to pity the Divine who besmirches tics.
 It may not be amiss to say that the Brethren often wanted to Hay hands" on me. and that several fellows as trining as I, or the common run" Of preachers--if that be possibie--an. swered when I was called"
 l used to have great respect for the "cloth" till q high cockalorum wrote a letter to the brethren mot to vote for Kolb." That got my "dander up," for Kolb was q Baptist and so am I, and when jack leg" preacher takes a political stand against Baptist or any other man, feel that there is a virtue In that man which the preacher cannot tolerate.
 That's one of the deductions of phil. osophy. Another is that when some old ministerial hacks "endorse" a can didate. there's a chance of rascality in that man highly pleasing to phari- eaical condolences.
 Everybody ought to be ''philoso- pher" of the true juice" stamp and have the proper regard for hypocrits. Ameni J. CuIpepper.