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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
MONDAY, MAY 2S, 1908.

A Chicago working man who is the father of fifteen children somewhat sadly remarks that "it would be much better if only rich people had large families" and spoke of the great dif- fculty of providing for so many. He voiced a sentiment which many have
 thought of and spoken of before. He Has doubtless observed. however. that rich people either have small families or none at all. It is only the poor who keep up the population. "Well-to- do people" comments The Indian apolis Star. look at the large families of their poorer neighbors are wont to observe philosophically that they ''get along somehow" So they do Some members of the overcrowded households are likely to die young. The Attest survive and are perhaps a shining illustration of the desirability Of large families. on the theory that of a smaller number all might have died. Those who are left do grow up somehow and some of them make ex- cellent and desirable citizens, but the entire situation seems to involve waste Everything considered. bringing child ren into the world without knowing how they are to be taken care of is a proceeding that has elements hardly less objectionable than those leading to race suicide"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
NEWS or THE ELECTION.

The Advertiser should be pardoned for referring to it's exceptionally ac- curate and complete returns from the Democratic primary election held in Alabama last Monday.
 Tuesday morning after the election this newspaper published full returns from forty-nve of the sixty-seven counties. Wednesday morning fol- lowing The Advertiser published re- turns from the same number, or forty fse counties. Nearly all of the county committees met Saturday at noon and canvassed the votes. Sunday morning The Advertiser published the official returns from sixty of the sixty seven counties. The official returns were arranged for and published because was keen interest were still undecided.
 When 1t is considered that an irn- mense amount of labor. skill and money is required to secure returns from so many counties we regard the publication of this news so quickly after 1t was available as a triumph fin the way of gathering and disseminat- ing information, the one real purpose of a modern newspaper.
 No one outside a newspaper ofice may realize the cost of such an under taking. It means strict attention to detail. loyal workers with clear heads. devotion to duty coupled with unusual ability and the willingness to spend money without stint.
 We have no comparisons to make with our contemporaries in Alabama. But we know that The Advertiser kept it's promise in this matter Of proVid- ing full news of the election. a prom ise made many years ago to give the people of Alabama all of the news of Alabama that is fit to print Having done this in full measure 1t Is only fair and right that we give full credit to our News Department for it's real achievement in this matter. The heart. and consequently the life of our News Department. Is its corps of faithful correspondents scattered throughout the State-one hundred and twenty six of hem-correspondents who feel a quick interest fin their obligation to send us the news at any cost and any sacrifice. To them we express our gratitude for measuring to our expec- tations.
 To the realers of The Advertiser let us say that we are in the business of supplying the news of Alabama. We feel a pride in the fact that we have always been first with news of cleo tions. We expect to continue this course. Ability. fairness and prompt ness are the requirements in giving the news. We hope that we have met the requirements.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
GOOD ADVICE, BUTT
The Pittsburg Sun lays down tn law as follows:

The Pittsburg Sun lays down the law as follows:
 Mere personal preference or other individual considerations must moi guide the party in It's choice now, The only matter for the delegates at Denver to consider is what is the best platform, what one of the many good, strong. able Democrats spoken of for leadership is best fitted to this nlaf- form and best calculated to enlist the support of the party and those disaf-- fected Republicans whose assistance is necessary to sommand success at the polls
 Very good suggestions but how can they be made effective and binding. There are sure to be wide differences of opinion, both as to candidate and platform, and to reconcile those dIf- ferences will be among the most dif- icult undertakings the party has had to tackle. Rarely has there been an occasion when harmony was more de- sirable. or when 1t seemed more un- obtainable. The supporters of MT. Bryan will be satisfied with no onA hut himself, and they will insist on a platform that he win endorse. Those who are opposed to him and his pol icles are likely to be equally inslstent for some other man and different platform.
 We fully agree with The Sun that this is a time when personal prefer ences. either as to the man or the platform, should be laid aside. aad all Democrats unite for the good of She party and the country without regard to other considerations. For we be- lieve in all sincerity and honesty that 1t is a time when there should be a change in the management Of govorn- mental anairs, and that change can only come through and with Demo cratic success. Nothing in the way ot improved conditions is to be hoped for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

An example of the way some people look to the President to do every thing was shown by committee of the National Association of Retail Grocers, who called on Mir. Roosevelt asking him to issue an order to com pei all civil service employees to pay their bills when due. This is going just a little farther than any one has before, and we are some what curious to know what kind of order he would issue, and how 1t could be enforced. Would he dismiss an employe who fail ed to pay any Of his bills when they fell due?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

Tn the following paragraph The Ab- bevilie Times gives outsiders a very poor opinion of the people of Henry county,
 There is but little merit and honesty in politics in this County Prejudice and money rules. A few politicians can lay their plans, work together trade off and fool the unsuspecting and capture the pie. Such is politics and such is the successful politicians.
 We suppose The Times lost some of the candidates 1t supported and feels grouchy about it. but that does not ex- cuse such an opinion of the people as it expresses. And we beg to assure a disgruntled contemporary that those who know the people of its county have far better opinion of them than it seems to entertain. The Times should take something.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Hearing Re.tored by Bas. Drum.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
 During a euchre the hearing of Mrs, Amelia Menz. living on the North Bend Road, Chevoit, was suddenly restored to her. She has been almost totally deaf for the past twenty years. The ailment was superinduced by sickness. Mrs Menz is 50 years old d-and is the wife of a well-to-do farmer.
 She was playing in a euchre given in Rabenstein's Hall! near her home, last Tuesday evening While occupy ing a chair near the orchestra the drummer gave the bass drum a re- sounding thump. As he did so. some- thing seemed to snap in Mrs. Menz's ears, she says. and the noise in the room sounded so boisterous to her that she says 1t almost made her deaf again.
 She rushed from the room and stay ed out for a few minutes in order to accustom herself to the new condition. She says that she can now hear even a low-voiced conversation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
ParticuIar on That Head.


 An American. while visiting King ston. Canada. recently saw flames is- suing from a house he chaneed to be passing at noon time. Rushing round the corner he burst into a fire engine station, shouting Fire"
 At his entrance and cry an old man the only occupant of the station, who sat reading a newspaper. slowly rose carefully deposited his paper on the chair. and hobbled to desk, on which was a large book. Now said he taking up a pencil and opening thit volume, "wot's the street and num- ber7"
 "I don't know. butts it's just around the corner"
 "well you'd better go back and find out the number" advised the old man shutting the book. When the boys git back from dinner and hear there's a fire they'll be pretty anxious to know just where 1t isl"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Raising Pearl. in Mexico.

The method of cultivation Is inter- estine. Tn the first place the cvFfers are gathered in the season when the eggs are being deposited. These eggs are carefully placed in artificial pools with bottoms like the natural bottom of the sea, care being taken to protect them from their natural enemies. At the proper age they are advanced into deeper water where larger boxes con ttnue to protect them. The shells, which have by this time formed, are here sorted and the dead ones thrown out The live shells are transferred to the deep water cages and left to develop. At the end of two years the harvest is ready The divers then de- scend and gather them without risk .. The gross receipts of the second har vest produced was over S200 900
 Under the usual system of pearl fish- ing. the industry is something of a lottery. Bushels of shells sometimes yield but a few gems or possibly none at all. After two years the shells lose the pearl within. and unless opened at the proper time no treasure is found - Popular Mechanics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
THE GIRLS DoRMIrORY.

We publish a letter from Hon. Sam
 Will John, of Birmingham in refer
 ence to recent criticisms of the dorm
 itory for the Girls High School at Montevallo. He is one of the trustees of the institution. a member of the building committee. and has always manifested deep interest in everything connected with it. He states most emphatically that the building meets the requirements of the situation and that 1t is comfortable. healthy and safe. He is in position to speak as if by authority.
 It is due. however. to the public that the other side be presented and there- fore, a portion of the letter of a Stan Correspondent of The Birmingham Age Herald is also given in this issue In view of the reports that have gone out, for we have read a much more condemnatory article than Miss Wal ker's in The Columbiana Sentinel, a paper publish ed in the county in which the institution is located, it would seem requisite that decided steps to pacify the public mind should be taken. This can be done by an inves- tigation by expert architects and builders and there will be harmful rumors until this is done. The item of cost in securing such an investiga- tion, ought not for one moment to be
 considered. It will be cheap at any price.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
A Tnnte For Sermons.

T have heard and read much of the 'ofice goat with an appetite for de. clined poetry and so forth,'' said the preacher, according to the Kansas City Star but I never knew that a goat had a taste for sermons. until ont morning when the bneez blew si1 solid discourses of mine out of the win dow. When I reached the nearby meadows where they had taken a tenn proary resting place. my neighbor's goat was calmly devouring them. He had already swallowed my sermon or Paul and Timothy and had got as Firstly in my sermon on Job When I returned with the remains I told the story to an old brother who had done constable sleeping under my expound- ing of the Word. Ills comment was; That's a vallible goat Did 1t kill him"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Roston,n AutomnhtIen.

Boston has taken a whack at the au- tonobilists, following New York's example In excluding from its parks motor cars equipped with tire chains or metalcovered tires. The Metropoli- tan Park commission of Boston has de- cided that the antiskio on the heavy cars tear up the parkways faster than an army of men can repair them anl has decreed that from now on any chauffeur operating a machine with spiked. chained or studded wheels shall be mulcted to the tune of SEQ
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
This h My 4Ist Birthday
Earl of Dudley.

The Earl of Dudley. who this spring succeeded Sir Henry Stafford North cote as Governor General Sf the Com monwealth of Australia, was born May 25, 1867, and succeeded his father. the first Earl in 1885. After leaving Eton he devoted himself for some years to extensive travel. Tn 1888 he was ap- pointed high steward of Kiddern1in- ster. and he was Mayor of Dudley from 1895 to 1897. He served iu South Af- rica in 1900 and later was parliament ary secretary to the Board of Trade. Lord Dudley is one of the richest men in England His landed estates cover more than 30,000 acres He owns large iron works and mining interests and is the proprietor of a considerable estate iu Jamaica. Lady Dudley. whom the Earl married in 1891. Is the youngest daughter of Charles Gurney, and is known as one of England's most &C., complished women.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
This Date in History
May 2S.

May 70.
 153s-De Soto landed in Florida in search of gold.
 1720-The plague made its appear ance at Marseilles, resulting in the death of 50,000 persons in 6 few months. m a. ..5. 1s45-Sir John Franklin sailed on his last expedition to the Arctic region. 1S4e-Louis Napoleon escaped from the fortress of Ham. ernor General of Australia, born. 1s71-Bank holiday act passed by the British Parliament.
 1S99-Rosa Bonheur. celebrated French painter, died; born March 22, 1922.
 l905--C. C. Magoon inaugurated as Governor of the Panama Canal Zoue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Demmark's Farms.

Denmark has nearly 200, 900 farms and farm gardens of ten acres or less and about 100000 farms of between ten and fifteen acres. There are less than 1000 farms In the entire king dom of 500 acres or over. the aggre- gate of these last-named being less than a million acres. There are 1,0S5 cooperative dalries with 15s,170 mem bers and a cooperative egg exporting society. with 500 local centers. The business transacted by these cooper ative concerns is enormous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Adler and Germans.

Dr. Felix Adler, recently appointed Roosevelt professor at Berlin University ciety for Ethical Culture at Carnegie hall in farewell address Sunday to the So-New York, outlined the pur-
 poses he had in mind in undertaking the mission. I'm gong to tell the Germans" he said, that despite the excesses, moral enormities and excre- scences on our country this land Is great and glorious and full of promice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

under the continuance of RepubJican domination. and the people of the en- tire country should see ana under. stand this.
 If the Denver convention ends ,ts work by leaving a large contingent of the party dissatisned to the uoint of indifference that feeling will spread ell over the country and be felt on election day. Never has there been time when wisdom. conservatism and ccnciliation were mcre badly needed in the party's counciie than they are needed now. Espec'al'y will all these he needed at Denvs.. Democrats can- not shut their eyes to the fact that wide differences now exist. nor can they fall to see that these differences are likely to be carried to the conven- tion hall That old motto. United we stand. divided we fall" was never more foreeful and significant than now. In spite of all their wrang- lings and apparently irreconciiable differences the Republicans will unite when the time comes. according to their custom. The Democrats may unite on a candidate and a platform of Irinciples that wi,l commend the respect of the intelligence of the coun- try. solidify the party voters and draw away many Republicans from their o@n candidate or they may adjourn a-,d offer a man and ristforn not agreeable to their owl oar.v auj sure '"i 10 obtair assistance fro ttepubli- cans or independents. Which shall it be? That is what must be settled be- fore many more weeks have passed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Loti And Erypt.

Pierre Lott. who has ransacked most parts of the globe in search of impres- sion, and whose sketches of Eastern life are among the most delightful things in modern literature, has lately visited Egypt and found disillusion- ment in the land of the Pharaohs. He tried hard to project himself into the tranquil immemorial past, but the noises of the present kept breaking in upon his meditatIons
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Know an Artist.

The Munich Jugend has discovered five new signs by which to detect the sch ool to which a painter belongs C6 If he paints the sky gray and the grass black, he belongs to the good old clas- sical school ;C2) if he paints the sky blue and the grass green, he Is a real, ist (3) if he paints the sky green ana the grass blue, he is an impressionist :. (4) if he paints the sky yellow and in q he paints the sky black and the rra ss red, he shows possession Of great dee- orative talent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
MONEY IN TEXAS ONIONS.
The Laredo Fanrmers Bld Fair to B.
 come MfIIfonnires.

come mlAA1OhhAreA
 Laredo Letter in New York Sun.
 It will not be long at the present rate before Texas has her onion mil lionaires. There Is nothing specula- tive in onion growing, at least that has been the case up to this time. Good prices are assured and there has never been a failure of the crop since the industry was started In the Rio Grande Valley eight or ten years ago. Tn the territory immediately adjacent to Laredo there were 1900 acres planted In onions this season. The crop is now being harvested. It will bring a net return of nearly s1.o00.o00. The yield to the acre runs as 22,ooo pounds of onions. or a little more than one carload. Some farmers have netted as much as s7oo an acre A return or $4oO or $500 an acre ss common.
 An onion farnar In Texas has an ideal calling. All the labor seeding, transplanting, oultiwatins and harvest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
AnnhnltIc Lnrern

Asphaltic layers have been found In Syria, near Kferie, a village about twenty five miles northeast of the port of Latakia. along the road leading to Aleppo which have been declared by competent mining engineers to be not only rioh In asphalt. but also practl- ca.lly ipexhaustible
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
SWORN CIRCULATION

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees fits advertisers (and makes 1t a part of the contract when requested) that its daily cir culation is larger than that of any morn- ing newspaper printed in Alabama-ano that it's Sunday edition has the largest cir cuiation of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception
 The figures for April printed below repre- sont the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

The fish stories are somewhat slow about getting into print this season. from some cause or other. It can hardly be possible that there's a lack of material for them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
This chunk is thrown at somebody by The Charlotte Observer:

The most discouraging feature Of the political outlook from a Demo cratic standpoint is that the RepubIi- cans will certainly have more sense than to nominate any gentleman wh ose patton consists in going around read ing people out of the party for non acceptance of his latest vagary. and the Democrats may not.
 Did The Observer have somebody in mind when it "frowed dat brick?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

The Columbus Enquirer Sun argues that if Taft is nominated he cant wear Teddy pants." No. but he may probably wear a Teddy collar. which Eiu be more significant
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
some of the defeated candl

Some of the defeated candidates will never have any confidence in mankind again" prognosticates The Abbeville News. Oh yes they will. Defeat makes fellow sore, but time will bring healing on its wings" or words to that effect. and they will all get over it. Hard feelings are not everlasting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25

c T. Finigan. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of April. 190s is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have been de- ducted. c. I. FINIGAN,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Eth day of May, 1908. RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-30

a source of so much danger during
epidemics of typhoid and other COM
municable diseases.
Each householder is required to
furnish his own container and into
this the milkman is directed to pour
the milk without handling or allow
ing his own can or other vessel to
come in contact with that of the
householders. The indestructible
milk ticket is also tabooed and
milkmen are required to adopt the
coupon ticket that can be used but
once and destroyed.
Warning notices are placed OH all
premises within which there are
cases of typhoid fever. This is
useful to the nursing corps which
is frequently made up strangers and
is an aid i'll carrying out milk reg.
ulations. Such warning placards
also prevent many people from en-
tering the premises who might be
of annoyance to patients and who
might carelessly contract the dis
ease themselves.
EMPLOY CORPS OF NURSES.
The employment of a corps of
visiting nurses is one of the most
efficient weapons in combating an
epidemic of typhoid fever These
nurses as they go from one house
to another give practical demon
strations of the technique of disin-
fection. They instruct the men,
bers of the household in the pre-
cautionary measures that are nee
essary in order to escape contracting
the disease. Such precautionary
measures are particularly important
in the prevention of secondary
cases. The condition of the patient
is under the constant observation of
the trained eye of the nurse and
emergencies are promptly reported
to the attending physician.
The physicians of a town are
usually taxed almost beyond the
power of human endurance at such
a time and the service which we'll
equipped and properly managed
corps of nurses can give in fighting
the spread of the disease cannot be
overestimated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-30
How's This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Ca
;arrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o,
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last IS years,
and believe him perfectly honora-
ole in all business transactions and
financially able to carry ont any OBJ
legations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally. acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
,ystem. Testimonials sent free.
Price rs cents per bottle. Sold by
III Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-30

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-30

THURSDAY. JULY 80, 1908.