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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14
Pointed Paraxravhm.

Unreal pleasures of life are the most expensive. ,.-.t.
 Many a mans strong breath is due to his, weak backbone.
 It is almost as easy to find trouble as 1t Is to make excuses.
 Every man has a different explana- tion for his failure to make good.
 When an heiress marries a title that is about all she gets for her money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14
A T.. O. Inatitntinn

tuscaloosa, sept l3.--( Special )--Ihe University chapter Of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity held It's initiation of new mem bers last night in the Masonic Temple After the initiation. the college men and alumni were invited to the home of G. w Pratt. where delightful spread was thor oughly enjoyed The dining room was de- corated in the "A. T. O." colors and the initiation night of 1908 was one long to be remembered
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14
TrnlvarsItv FurolImept.

Iuscaioosa, Sept. l5.-(speciaL)-The enroIlment at the University yesterday reached the number of $50. this being ten in advance of the enrolment on the same day last year Faculty and students have gotten to regular work and everything is in smooth running order.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14
going E1o back home where folks know

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 would like 1t much. battar. ,~ people could mistake me for hs s,,,ra
 sne brains of Mir. Bryan rather tba5g oeing like him in looks Anvhnrr Siesr breakfast straw hat and soms
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14

The parish church of Morrow fin Surrey, England, has pews that are uniform in shape but each Is uphol- stered in a different color or shade which gives the interior very pe- culiar appearance
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that particular engine at the same water tank,
when the engine eastbound. 1t really mat
tered not whether the train late time,
little Pat there just the same waiting for his
ride. He never made mistake as to engines, and,
far known, never boarded any other.
EVERYBODY knows that trainmen and engnemen
- superstitious So it happened that the
gineer looked on the bird as mascot Each trip he
brought Seeds cracker crumbs, bits of cake, etc,
and, strange it may seem, the little sparrow be-
came so tame that he would perch upon the mans
hand and eat the daintes that offered him.
1t was queer experience in the life of a railroad
engineer who has little time for sentiment thoughts
other than of his duties and responsibilities, while
duty, this coming to his ngine each trip of
little hop-o' my thumb, a sparrow, free to 60
where he would. yet tame and contented for half
hour in the cab of throbbing, screech-
ing roaring locomotive Neither the sound of the
whistle, the changing of the bell, the popping of
the safety valve caused the bird the slightest
>easlness, apparently.
Throughout the spring and summer. Pat rode
every other day this engine when it in
mission. At last the season grew late. Frost had
come, and Autumn had put her last tnts tree
and vine and shrub. The days had grown still;
and day the engineer carried the seeds and
crumbs in his vest pocket past the tank and on to
the end of his rum for Pat appeared for his din
ner. He was greatly missed; but the engine men
felt sure that the little sparrow had gone to the
sunny southland for the winter: But Pat was not
forgotten through all the dreary trips that
made across the bleak country during his absence
in the days that followed.
When cold weather broke up again, the engineer
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much confidence as if he had never missed trip,
he found his meal in waiting
A COLD, still rain was soaking the brown fields of
track was SOFT At the tank Pat appeared usual,
and perched upon the throttle of the engine and
went to making his toilet in much the same manner
that he did the first time he The train moved
and minutes merged into half hour, an hour an
hour and half vet the bird showed no signs of
leaving as he had always done before, and the
CINE men grew uneasy.
as he noticed that his fireman was keeping eye
the bird, and that his face had taken a serious
expression.
The fireman shook his head ominously.
Approaching that portion OF the road where the
track wound for several miles along narrow bed
the side of canon, where there were numerous
trestles and small bridges, the engineer leaned far
dizzy height was being passed over. Suddenly
Pat flew to the engineer hand which rested on the
throttle, chrped fast and loud for several seconds,
then darted from the cab. The actions of the bird
SO startled the engineer that he nervously shut off
the steam, reversed the engine, and applied the
air-what for he did not know-but this had no
more than been done, than the fireman, who
alarm and in another instant great mass of rocks,
dirt, and trees crashing from above to the
track, carrying out a small bridge. With deafen-
ing the passed on to the chasm below,
missing the engine by only few yards. Had the
train not stopped when it did, the slide would
surely have carried it to destruction.
Pat was never seen after that trip. What be-
came of him, of course, nobody knew.
You may call it instinct chance, what you
will; but the fact remains that the little sparrow
saved the train with its burden Of human beings
from destruction
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have the Greeks stigma thing all foreigners with the
contemptuous term Barbarian, and the Jews
arate terms in their abulary for Gentle and
women Again, the almost universal hate toward
the Jew which because of its persistence and mag
nitude has been dignifed with the terms Anti
semitism and - Judaophobia, belongs to this cate
CORY, do the hates and prejudices which the
European nations have against each other.
Johnsons definition of oats grain which in
England is fed to horses, but in Scotland to men;
Swift's assertion that, The greatest inventions
were produced in times of ignorance, as the use
of the compass, gunpowder, and printing, and by
the dulest nation, as the Germans; and Coler-
idge's observation that he had never met Ger
man clergyman who Christian are beautl-
full examples. of this national hate. Toward the
French Coleridge's hate was even greater. French
men" he said, ARE like grains of gunpowder: each
by itself smutty and contemplate; but mass them
together and they terrible indeed!' Johnson
referred to Americans "a of convicts who
ought to be thankful for anything we allow them
short of hanging" He was willing to love all
mankind, except an American. OF the French he
said, What do you expect, dear sir, from fellows
that eat frogS:" And when asked by Scot whether
God had not made Scotland, he replied, Certainly
He did, but we must always remember that He
made it for Scotchmen and comparisons are odious,
Mr.. Strahan, but God made hell"
This type of hate, while common and widespread,
is not deep rooted and alternating as race hatred.
1t springs from exaggeration of superficial and
accidental differences but not from the damental
biological difference of blood. 1t may lead to
in which each will fight for his country, right
wrong, to boycotts high tariffs, ETC.; but it can
never become so intense as to create an aversion
attractive in spite of their national differences and
hates, as they cannot when they separated by
the wide and deep racial gulf.
The Hates of Localities
SECTIONAL AND POLITICAL.-Every country
~ is naturally divided by the points of the compass
because of their slight differences hate each other
or less. In Italy, it the LOmbardS; France
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and fireman began to speculate
whether their friend would appear.
The grass came again; the trees were
all but in leaf Here and there might
be seen an occasional bird. Then Pat
came one day. For sometime the
engineer bad been carrying crumbs
and seeds in his pocket to make sure
that, if his friend came, he would not
have to be disappointed. So, when
the sparrow flew into the cab, with as
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ture Of the civilized world arrayed almost sold1y
against her: The answer IS simple: She stands tor
blood, for the continuation OF the germ plas1na OF
the Caucasian race.
Similar arguments have been raised in Europe
and this country against the Yellow Peril. The
supremacy of the white race must be maintained,
even though all the laws OF justice and tar play
have to be violated
This type of hate is the most serious and deep
rooted of all shall have mention; for it springs
from difference of blood, which, however slight,
is amply sufficient to keep the races apart, The
Englishnan, for example, differs from the German
and the Frenchman in language, temperament, and
customs; but from the negro and Cmnaman, not
only these secondary and acquired characteristics
to greater degree, but also IN the more
fundamental characteristics, such intellectual
emotional. and moral vigor and all that these IN
volve-in esthetiC taste, religious belief, color hair
general size and FORM size and form of the separate
organs, bodily odors, etc.
These are the wide CULTS which have and will
continue separate the races, perhaps forever
They have occasionally been overeaped by fool
hardy individuals; but no anthropological engineer
has as vet suggested feasible plan by which they
can be safely bridged. For reasons inscrutable to
man. Nature desired to keep the races separate and
distinct. and therefore planted the seeds of hate
and prejudice in the priordia bits of protoplasnic
stuff, which are transmitted from one genera ton
to another. To the anthropological arguments in
proof of the essential unity of the human races the
reply of carpenter to Professor William James is
very apt:
There is little difference between and
another but that little counts.
Or better as the poet philosopher Browning put it.
Oh the little more and how much it is!
And the little less and what worlds away!
Iet it be understood that 1 am not justifying
racial hatred; merely attempting to explain it,
National Hate Not So Serious
A1ATIONAL.-Nations,l like individuals, have their
~ own Municipalities, their peculiarites and pee
cadioes which render them less hateful to
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alternating with sleet, stung the face
of the engineer, this little sparrow flew into the cab
window of a Kansas Pacific express train, near
Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, and perched upon the
throttle at the boiler head. The bird cold and
wet He seemed to be not the least bit afraid. and
without paying the slightest attention to the throb-
bng of the engine, the actions of the fireman who
was busy trying to keep up full head OF steam
under very adverse circumstances, grade, WIND and
cold he began to pick at his feathers, smoothing
and drying them at the very best spot he could
have possibly chosen.
1t strange thing, to say the least, to be paid
a visit by sparrow. Not wishing to frghten the
bird away, the engineer succeeded in carefully
pulling the throttle and putting the machine III
motion without even disturbing the little fellow.
After having satisfied himself that he dry,
from the throttle and sat the engineers cushion
enjoying his ride, perhaps; after which, with a
chirp he flew out of the window.
In few moments the eng ineer and fireman had
forgotten all about the incident they dashed on
over the monotonous foothills and endless stretches
Of alkali desert.
Two DAYS passed. The engine had returned to the
western terminal and was again eastbound with the
same 1t drew up for water at the Cheyenne
Wells tank when, just the tank pipe raised,
the engineer and fireman were astonshed to receive
another visit from the sparrow.
II guess he's goin to be a regular passenger,
remarked the fireman.
Sure looks that way" muttered the eng ineer
as he threw over the lever and reached for the
throttle with less care this time, in order to test
the staying qualities of the bird adding, Let's call
him mething.
The fireman scratched his head If birds are
ever Irish he unused, I'd be in for calling him Pat
And SO the little feathered stranger received the
name of Pat
Every trip thereafter, Pat flew into the cab Of
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Caste and Class Hate

SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL.-C Glass hate is as old
~ society ITSELF and of the very worst types
because it has worthy rdlsou etre whatever. 1t
is born of artificial conditions and thrives every
variety of social difference and inequality, the
most absurd 1t obtains among the members of the
same race and nation, and even members of the
same family have been alenated through it. Parents
have disnherited and disowned their own flesh and
blood for no other ason than that they married
beneath" them; and children, the other hand,
who have married above them have sometimes
denied their parents In the most exclusive circles,
the question is not much what YOU to-day
what YOU were yesterday, and unless You can show
family tree or at least fair sized shrub you
excluded from the social turf.
The amount of evil this hate and prejudice wrought
in ancient and medieval times when they were most
viruent is of course, inca1cuable 1t be safely
said, however, that the history of every people,
from the Egyptians on, would have been brighter
and happier it not for class and caste hate and
prejudice Its baneu effects still to be witnessed
in caste cursed India recent traveller and writer
cites among other interesting incidents the following:
lone of the wealthiest and most distin gushed
Continued page II
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH 20. 1908

Britain, the Irish-who are hated and the SUBJ
jects of their nations butts and ests. Of the
tiona1 hatred in country. the less said the
genera tons more its quantity should be negligible
But it has always been thus The ancient Greeks
despised and ridiculed the Boeotians who gave
them Hesiod, Pindar and Plutarch; and Nathaniel
voiced the general sentiment of the Jews when he
asked Can there any good come out of NAZARETH"
And vet out of Nazareth came He who strove hard
est to liberalize mems minds and rid them of their
unreasoned hates and pre- JUDGES, teaching them as
they had been taught before, the brotherhood
of man and the Fatherhood of God.
Generally this sectional hate is further aggravated
by the political differences which obtain among the
various sections 1t is we'll known that in the South
not so many years ago, social ostracism was the
penalty for voting the Republican ticket; and it IS
safe to say that not few in the North voted against
the Democratic ticket because OF their antipathy
for the South.
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T TITLE Pat wasn't boy, not even
II a very small one. In fact, he
was little larger than boys thumb.
And it may seem strange that such
tiny bit of flesh and blood-a little
sparrow-might figure seriously in
the safety of a railroad train; yet
such is the case.
Little Pat was just a sparrow, and
one cold, sobbing day, when the rain,
alternating with sleet Stunp the face
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National Hate Not So Serious

~ own Municipalities their peculiarities and pee
cadilloes which render them less hateful to
each other. Among primitive peoples, such as the
American Indians the different tribes are constantly
at var with each other Among civilized nations we
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The Hates of Localities

is naturally divided by the points of the compass
into sections, south. east, and west,which
because of their slight differences hate each other
the Gascons; in Austria, the Magyars; in Great
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-09-10

Pittsburg, Pa-Wives of hun
dreds Of Pittsburg rich men, after
several years of alleged holding out"
on the city assessors with their bonds
and mortgages. have at last been
taken into camp through a clever
move on the part OF the assessors,
who are now Boosting of It to the
discontinue Of the women who wear
blue silk stockings.
The assessors claim to have uncov-
cred assessable paper worth more
than 100000, which has lain in
rosewood cases for years under cover,
the owners not caring to pay taxes on
1t, and so never made returns OF it to
the assessors.
The Pittsburg blue book was the
medium through which the assessors
OF sPittsburg hung one of the most
monumental bluffs ever worked off
on unsuspecting women. The cry
Ing need of more taxable property
appealed to the assessors, and they
decided to call on the rich women Of
Pittsburg, who have long been sus-
pected of having much taxable paper
which has never been turned in.
Thousands of letters were sent out
to Mrs. John Smith. Mrs. William
Jones or Mrs. James Green, asking
them to please make statements to
the assessors regarding stocks, bonds,
mortgages. etc. that they were sup
posed to possess. This brought moth
ing. Mesdames Smith. Jones and
Green ignored the summons as they
had done for years.
Finally the blue book was thought
OF. There was some hard detective
work. and within a week other let
tiers were sent out, but this time ad-
dressed to Mrs. Lucille Jamison
Smith. Mrs. Vera Worthington Jones
and Mrs. Margaret Clancy Green,
and the letters read something like
this:
MY Dear Madam-You will please
furnish at once to. the Office of the
City Assessors full particulars re-
garding that block of Pennsylvania
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A SIMPLE SAFEGUARD. 81
ING PAINT. ~

Everybody should ku>v " simple
and easy it is to avoid u certainty
IN buying paint mater There are
many so-called whit 60 ID on the
market, which cont halk, zinc,
barytes, and other fdulterants-
Unless the propert er takes ad-
vantage of the sin cans OF pro-
lection Afforded hiL6, eliable white
lead manufacture runs great
risk OF getting a'PG or and adul-
terated white lea
It is to pro- e paint-buyer
against fraud sSQ liberation that
National Lead r., ny. the largest
makers OF gent Ire White Lead,
place their fam en- butch Boy Paint
er" trademark Fery key OF their
product. an alb y guarantee of its
purity and quality. Anyone who wants
to make a pract'calHe est of white lead,
and who wants luable FREQ book
about painting, ST build address Ma
tional Lead COMPANY, Woodbridge
Bldg. New York, and ask for test
equipment.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-09-10

General Demand

OF the Well-InfOrmed of the World has
always been for simple. pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex-
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the Californis Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by the Well Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine -manufactured by the Cali
tornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-09-10
A COWBOYS Breakfast.

T. B. Sweet a Topeka capitalist,
stopped at Abilene in the early days
at the best hotel in the city. He
asked for his breakfast. The wait
ers took no special notice of his ap-
pearance, or at least did not guess
that his appetite was different from
the average patrons.
Give me some eggs" said Mr..
Sweet, and waited.
In litt9l while the waitress came
back. In bowl she had full doz-
en- eggs, all 'eard boiled.
Sweet ga bed and ate what ne
could, protesting that she had
brought him too many, and that he
didn't just know how hard boiled
eggs would strike him for his first
meal of thO!day.
"Why, that's a regular cowboy s
breakfast" responded the waitress.
Kansas City Journal.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-09-10

tertiary In Time to Find Her a Widow
fore, preparatory to entering upon
this sort Of enterprise.
The romance between Dalton and
Julia Lewis, known as the Cowgirl
began twenty years ato. when the
latter was pretty daughter of Texas
Johnson and lived with her parents
near the Kansas line eighteen miles
north Of Bartlesville. She and Dali
ton were about the same age and they
rode races, practised shooting with
rifles and rode their ponies to all
OF the dances. While Dalton was hid.
den from the officers 1t is said that
the girl cooked his meals and kept
him informed of the movements of
the pursuers.
They will live here, where the
bride has a large amount of prop
erty. The wedding was a very quiet
affair before a justice of the peace.
The bride and bridegroom have re.
fused to accept a lucrative offer tc
go on the stage made by a Chicago
Snowman.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-09-10
Tilted Man Silent 30 Years.

For thirty years Benjamin Lands,
who lives in a modest little home
with his mother two miles outside
of this town, has not conversed with
friends or relatives because, it is re-
ported, he was Tilted by a girl whom
he loved devOutly when a youth.
More than 80 years ago Ben"
Lands wooed Miss Fannie Gingerich,
who was then the belle of the coun-
tryside, and who married Harry
Snavely. Lands, who was IS years
old, tried to forget and went West
to seek the excitement of a mining
camp or life on a ranch. For several
years he lived near Kansas City, but
finally returned to his mother, near
Middletown.
Relatives declare chat he became
queer while in the West" but neigh
bors and friends say cit was the
girl" 1t was at this time in his life
that he took the vow never again to
speak to any one, and he has lived
up to his resolution unflinchingly for
80 years.
Today the girl whom Lands wooded
Is widow, her husband having been
killed on n railroad sixteen years
ago. She lives with her parents very
near the Lands home, but BEN
Lands never talks TO her.-New
York World.
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The model had sat, with the neces-
sary rests, for three hours in one
position, the pose of a splendid Sena-
tor of Washington, elegant, aristo-
cratic. He had fine head. He was
quite noted for that. He had been
model for illustrations of many he
roic figures.
But the model with the fine head
wore about the dustiest suit of
clothes you ever saw. His shoes
were down at the heel. His cuffs
were frayed. His collar stayed put
with difficulty, 1t was so old.
When the three hours were up he
gave n sigh of relief, for posing is
hard work. There is no work hard
err. The artist drew forth his wad
and paid him. The model thanked
him with a grateful smile.
"He is down and out" said the
artist when he was gone. He hadn't
a penny to get his lunch with
And he looked at the picture he
had drawn of him as a splendid Sena-
tor of Washington with a complacent
smile of satisfaction with the fine
dignity of it.-New York Press.