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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-24
The Idealfst.

M& AUE4AAANs
 over f1reless grate in the tiny back room of an East End lodging house sat the man who hoped to reform the social and moral conditions of the world.
 The furniture of the room consisted of a sugar-box, which was being used as a chair. cracked jug and basin sat on the floor In the sornar, and three coarse brown rugs, one of which was rolled up to form a pillow. On the window sill stood loaf of bread a knife, and two bottles, one of them filled with water, and the other con- verted into a useful candlestick.
 The whole scene Suggested abjeet poverty. but no one coul& have called 1t saualid. It was rather the encamp- ment of a soldier on the field of battle The necessities of life were reduced to minimum.
 The figure of the man himself would have redeemed any scene from the commonplace squalor which character izes the homes of the very poor in London His thin brown face, his long black hair and shaggy beard sug- gested some prophet of the Old Test ament. His chin rested upon his hands
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-24
coLoN,s GRIEVANCES.

Colon. July 23.-The Citizens League of Colon. during Secretary Taft's re- cent visit here, addressed a petition to President Roosevelt direct, copies of which were submitted to Secretary Taft and resident Amador. complaining on behalf of property owners of alleged unjust acts on the part of the American sanitary and municipal engineering of flee, whereby they were compelled first, to raise and then to lower buildings, i'll in lots and do other work at a great expense, which, under the terms of the treaty, Panama and the United States should bear.
 As a result of the petition. com mittee has been appointed to look into the alleged grievances. but 1t Is com posed of the heads of the departments against whose acts the citizens com. plain. The league, however, has held a mass meeting at which it was decided to ask for the appointment of a mixed commission to investigate the griev- ances
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-24
ninnnnh NIIne Clonen :.

Kimberly. July 2S.-The Debeers Company. owing to the necessity of further retrenchments, has decided to shut down the Debeers diamond mine on July 31. This mine Is the largest of the group.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-24
Coat and PantS- Made to Order and Guaranteed to Fit by HOIt's
 Dye WORkR

Our great cut price sale of crack-a- jack tailoring Is still going on. Come in before the desirable patterns sre all gone.
 We guarantee a fit or no sale. Terms: Cash on delivery. Holt's Dye Works 109 S. Court Street tf
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
FORE:.SsT
DAIR WING

Learn how TO turn milk into money! Hun
tlrctis are doing that ana getting ricl, ut ii.
Gtal has unbounlcti possibilities III this drec-
ton. At tho a. g. Won get an opportunity &c
work iii model dairy. -. -. -. -. 500.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
COOKING AND SEWING

For three months women and girls of the
state who cannot attend school the whole year,
may pursue these important branches of study.
The kitchens, laundry and sewing rooms arc
perfect in their equipment.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

ertheless. However, that's got moth
ing to- do with the chorus girl. Take
it from me, the chorus girl is a pretty
hard working little slavey, and if she
had one-tenth as good a time as the
great public believes she has, why,
she would simply faint away and leave
a note for brother not to wake her up.
So long! And, say, if you don't mind
a bit Of advice from sisterly person,
why, I'd like to tell you to. change
your brand Of reading. You've got an
oyergrown Imagination now, superin-
duced as they say in the doctors re-
port Of a rich patiently thousand
a1ld,oneTnight tales you dig out Of the
illustrated dope magazines. Be care
full" ie.
And with that the chorus girl stood
up, gave her short skirts swish or
two to straighten them and then ran
to join her sisters in the chorus. The
reporter waited just long enough to
hear the aggregation: singing some
thing about I'VE are the merry, mer-
ry," and then he unostentatiously
CROPPED his way to the stage door and
out into the, night. The street was
still deserted-no touring cars, not
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
How many Of the white citizens Of

How many Of the white citizens Of
the country care how many of the
are maltreated, dis
franchised and oppressed?y But would
one of these persons think it mat
ter of Indifference if one Afro Amer
lean in their community were taken
with smallpox? Would they not de-
mand that the house be quarantined?
The fact is that any one infraction
of moral law opens the way to every
other species of vice and crime. The
gambling house leads to suicide; the
saloon to murder.
The reason why SO many Southern
legislators are under Indictment for
stealing is because they have all their
lives been robbing the Afro-Ameri-
can. The reason why there is so
much cheating in the primaries in
which none but Democrats are con-
cerned is because those fellows have
been trained to the work by cheating
the Atro-American and do not know
any other method of managing politi-
cal affairs.
AS We sow, SO also shall we reap;
and the South is reaping an abundant
harvest of mandrakes and toadstools
and docks and darnells, whose seeds
were soWn in years gone by.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

even a taxicab. And another one OF
his ideals of life in big city was
shattered
The next day he awoke to the sensa-
ton that the chorus girl had filled
him with unpleasant points of view. #
that was all that went to make up the
life. of a chorus girl, then why the
chorus girl? Why, indeed?
Determined that the truth and moth
ing but the truth about this alleged al
Turing phase of life must be known, he
primed himself with questions and
went to that fountain head of knoWl
edge on matters Of this kind, namely,
Mrs. E. L. Fernandez, who conducts a
theatrical agency, and who comes into
contact with the realities of the Choir
us girls life. She was gentle-voiced,
motherly person, who obligingly inter.
rupted her business when the reporter
explained his visit.
''I am delighted that the newspapers
takes up the cudgels for the chorus
girl-delighted not because of any
personal reasons, but because know
that it is the most maligned business
or profession in the world. You read
lot of nonsense about the hilarity of
that life, but let me tell you it's rub
bish. know what I'm talking about,
for they come here, applying for posi-
tions.
The pay of a, chorus girl ranges
from $18 to $25 a week. 1t averages
about $40, and out of that the great
majority Of girls support not only
themselves but a lot of other people,
too. .s.. ,e= ~. ,,.F.s. Sd.
!. +. believe me, am not, talking
IDEALS said Mrs. Fernandez, very
seriously, 'but am giving you some
of the straight facts Of the case. I get
very indignant when I read some of
the stuff that appears about these
girls and about the way they are sup.
posed to do nothing but devour lob
ster and loll in the cushions of their
automobiles: That's rot, sheer. rot.
'""And if some of the people who be-
lieve these things and smile incredu-
lousy every time the subject of the
chorus girl is mentioned-if some of
those people would look into the case
they would find that a great charity
could be done in providing a reason
able-priced, clean quarters for these
girls. sa
but why do so many girls banker
after such a life if it is SO dry and try
ing?' :s,s
Il Because i nearly all the world is
stage struck" replied Mrs. Fernan-
DEE. That is the only possible an
swer.
THAT alone explains why SO many
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

The chorus girl looked curiously at
the reporter, for she had not yet been
able to fathom the whole proceeding.
They sat upon a wooden bench paint
led to represent real stage stone.
LET me talk first" began the re-
porter, "and I'll;q wipe away all the
mystery Of this affair. simply want
you to tell me about the happy, happy
life led by you and your sisters in the
chorus. The public have read lot
about it, and have heard that your
physicians order you to adhere strict
ly to a lobster diet and prescribe
water in your bath only. All of this
they have. believed and still want to
believe, SO I'm relying on you to feed
them with facts about the enviable
manner in which you romp through
life in high-heeled French slippers,
opera length hose and chug- chugging
automobiles sc .5s= J.l
Say, are YOU quite through" asked
the chorus girl, and her voice betray-
ed some impotence. ".You may not
know it, but you are talking consid-
cradle nonsense. The nearest that
have come in a long time to tasting
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908.
AS We SOW, so SHALL We REAP.

Commenting upon certain statistics
OF divorce given out by the Census
Bureau, the Chicago Journal says:
"The marriage institution is rapidly
losing its sacredness. The stigma
that used to attach to persons break
ing their marriage bonds no longer
exist. Many people marry now with
feeling that the relation is only
provisional. If it does not prove sat
isfactory, they will break it. We'd
lock, which used to be regarded as a
solemn thing, is now entered lightly
and treated with indifference. IF the
husband is a stgood provider'' and the
wife meets no man she likes better,
If the wife continues agreeable and
pretty, marriage is. persisted in. If
not, then the chain is broken and
husband and wife seek new afhnities.''
But the Journal does not seem to
see the real root of the matter. THE
APPEAL is bold to affirm that the
wonderful growth and extent of evil
IN the United States arises from the
fact that it is general sentiment
throughout the country that large
portion Of the population Of the coun-
try is 50 low and degraded that it is
a matter of indifference how much il
may be down-trodden and oppressed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

girls banker after getting into the
chorus. Nowadays it is demanded Of
them that they know Sow to sing and
that they have good voices. Besides,
they have to be good looking, young
and have good figures. So long as
they keep these qualities they may re-
main in the chorus, but when they be-
gin to- get a bit old nobody wants them
any more"
And then what becomes Of them?
ooh, don't know" sighed Mrs Fer
nandez. Some few, you know, rise
from the chorus to the ranks of pri1na
donna-Miss Edna May and Miss Lulu
Chaser are such examples. But they
are the exception--the others drift
out Of sight and new faces and voices
appear.
So you see it is trying life and
necessarily a brief one. There's not
much fun in it for: the chorus girl, .be-
-lieve me- OF course, there are some''
and here. the lady shrugged her
shoulders but you'll find them out
side the chorus, too. And people
should not condemn the whole cake
just because one raisin is overripe,
should they?"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
TuSkEGEE
Normal and Industrial Ils6tQte:
TUSKEGEE ALABAMA

AOo1AA0IH AAADAMAs
"n. (1NcoRPoRArED)
Organized July 4, 1881, by the State Legis>
Exempt from taxation. 49,.
! BOOKER 4. WASHINGTON. Principal,
WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer.
LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where this
blacks outnumber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1888; males. 49,;
females, 3n. Average attendance, l,105.>-
Instructors, SO.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education combined with industrial,
srairing; Is industries in constant operation,
VALUE OF PROPERTY
=. Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
50 buildings almost wholly built with student
labor, is valued at $3s0oO0, and no rnortg age.
$50 annually for the education of each stu
dent; ($2O0 enables to finish the course;
81 900 creates permanent scholarship. Students
pay their own board in cash and labor. J
-oney. in any amount for current expenses
Ind building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
room and Industrial leaders, thousands ..;e
reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer
ence. ~
Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery and
13o miles west of Atlanta. on the Western Rail.
roa.A 81 Alabama.
Tuskegee is quiet, beautiful Old Southern
town, and is an ideal place for study. The CHI
mate is at all times mild and uniform, thu
waking the place al excellent winter Tes"~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

, : = ~
this has happened and it seems no un-
common 60 thing for a Mexican Of the
middle MD class to carry between 1000
and 1000 pesos on his person. -
The check idea seems to have taken
but small hold as yet upon the citizens
of Mexico, especially when small
amounts OF less than $1,000 are con-
cerned They consider it much easier
TO pay spot cash than to give check
for amounts of $50 and 500, and they
claim with some amount of reason
that business deal can be put
through with better advantage when
the cash is in sight.
Even the Indian in the street car
ries amounts of cash that would never
be supposed to be in his possession.
They carry their money in leather
belt, fastened around their bodies in.
side their trousers. These belts are
hollow and are open at one end Into
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
HOAX OF GEORGIA.

Throughout the late Democratic
movement involving Judge Parker he
aligned himself with the stalwarts of
the stalwart No sooner was that
fight ended, however, than he plunged
headlong into railroad abusing, ne
graduating, demagogic and mud
singing campaign for governor of
Georgia almost, if not quite, unpar-
alleled in the history of the South.
He was elected, overwhelmingly. He
promised the sun, the moon and the
stars from the stump; naturally, he is
having trouble delivering the goods.
The only really big thing that has
been delivered is something he didn't
promise-prohibition.
Thus the esteemed Washington
Herald discourses concerning the
most brilliant member of the Smith
family, Hoke, of Georgia The Her
aid pronounces Hockey zone of the
intellectual giants of the South"
Hoax did one big thing when he
went to Europe toepromote i1nmigra-
ton to Georgia, which caused the
Farmers Union, to declare its mem
bers didn't want any European i'm
migrants. 1t is also related that he
owed his appointment as member
of Cleveland's cabinet to the inter
vention of the Afro-American Bishop
Turner Hoax's greatest deed was
securing "The gal in the Fountain for
his Piedmont Hotel. !.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
MEXICAN CARRIES HIS MONEY
lie Dskes Checks and Doesn't Understand the Use Of the
Bank Books.

N e j r. ( . + y. 4. ~
Almost any Mexican in professional
or business life carries on his person
anywhere between 5000 and $500.
Even the poor Indian in his blanket
can more than likely produce more
than many foreigners.
The ordinary Mexican professional
man will be found to carry sums of
money on his person that would sur
prise the ordinary traveller and even
cause him worry were he forced to
carry it with him, yet the Mexican
never even thinks of it, says the Mex
lean Herald.
It was but few days ago that an
instance of this kind was brought to
attention. One Mexican of the middle
class asked another in casual way
if he could change thousand dollar
bill. The other pulled out a wallet
from his inside pocket and counted
out nearly. $4,000. Time after time
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
HAPPY LIFE OF THE CHORUS LADY
New York Reporter Learns Some Things About the Stage
Butterflies.

:, Z E [4t t1t !. z
lobster was when at Christmas time
our landlady served what she called
lobster croquettes.' Well, let's not
boast about it, for I know the taste of
good, honest veal, even when it's dis
ghis led with a fancy name. And so far
as that foolishness about the opera
length hose goes-wen, it's Isle
thread, black, with double soles and
heel l, for mine they If you're care
full. Automobiles, did you say? Well,
my chauffeur wears cap with a
shield that reads: metropolitan
Street Railway
And what CUFF about champagne"
continued the young woman, with a
sheer, that's in the fairy tales. Say,"'
she demanded, turning to the reporter,
what branch of literature have YOU
been consuming, anyway"
The subdued Observation-Disclosures
about chorus girls admitted that he
had browsed occasionally among mag
Eazlnes that you can find on the street
corner bookstand and that have DASH
ing crimson covers.
"Aw!" shifted the chorus girl in dis
gust, that s. dope-d-oep-e. Dye hear?
We usually. have rehearsal in the
morning, asd-then we go back to the
boarding house for lunch. In the at.
ternoon I'VE do what little shopping
there is to do, darn stockings and sew
up rents--no, not the landlords. Then
there's dinner and the nickel ching
chug to the: theater. After the show
is over we usually go back to the
palatial hall bed rooms, which are
hardly wide, enough for narrow
minded person. A lot ofsus live in the
same place and if somebody's flush
we have some cheese and crackers
and beer before turning in; if we're
all equally poor we chip in and buy
the cheese and beer. for the snack.
Isn't it exciting?"
But, z protested the reporter, there
must be some chorus girls who own
automobiles, and who make so-called
lobster palaces habitable places?. It
cannot all be fiction?''
! Neither it is, Mr.. Reporter. But
you'll also find ladies who own auto
mobiles and who are responsible for
the disappearance of many Holsters in
other walks of life. I'll not mention
any details. But they are there, new
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

Who has not heard that moss-be-
decked joke about the chorus girl who
saves her money? 1t has figured in
the Comics" it has been shown on
the stage and it has been repeated
millions Of times to those who have It
still oftener. It's age is unknown, but
it Is probably as old as the mother-in-
law joke, and, with the latter, will
survive panics and presidential mes
sages. Like the poor, it is, with us al
ways.
Having read about the. hilarious
lives which these butterflies of the
chorus lead while on their way to
fame and to millionaire marriages, a
New York reporter was assigned re-
Gently to find out if the chorus girls
happiness was all wool and a yard
wide, exclusive of the selvage, he
went to- the manager of atheater
where musical comedy or comic opera
holds forth, and was told to go to the
stage door and night he chose. He Sc
lected a night when the air was just
nipping enough to wflet the appetite
of any after-eleven-thirty mortal for
"a bird and a bottle .
His imagination received it's first
jolt when he approached the stage
door. The street I'M front of it was
deserted. Where was the long line Of
limousines, chugging impetuously?
The reporter drew the stage man
ager into a corner and told him his
errand. s4 s
Jaw, go on, you're fooling!" was all
the encouragement he could get out of
that unidealistics person; but when he.
insisted the custodian of ropes and
lights, and, if necessary, the posses
sor of lurid vocabulary capitulated.
II don't care, then, if the manager
says SO. Talk to any one you like and
I'll tell her. she can stay out of the
next chorus number. Here they come
now. Hey, you, sis, come here; some
body wants to talk to you. You two
better sit over there where the music
won't spoil your conversation
And turning his back upon the girl
and the reporter, the stage manager
began telling group of singers what
he thought Of the violent manner in
which they swished their skirts dur
ing the last number.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

The estate of Marshall Field, the
deceased Chicago 1nulti-1nillionaire
was recently compelled to turn over
$1,0OO,O0O, which the old man had
swiped from the city in taxes. The
thing happened in this way: Field
had about $25,ooo,ooo in stocks and
bonds Struggled away somewhere or
which he paid no taxes for six years
but in order to make such DISPOSE
ton as he wished of his personal
property he was compelled to list
these bonds in his will. That gave
the thing away, and the lawyers made
the old fellows heirs fork over the
million. The way to acquire a for
tune of $1oo,ooo,ooo is plainly indi-
Gated in the foregoing. Go, thou, and
do likewise.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-02-29

the open. end the Indian slips his
pesos or bills until he has the whole
full. The belt then is either taken.
off and hidden away or the bills are
changed for larger denominations and
still carried around the body. But the
Indian is sticlkler for pesos duros''
and prefers them to any other class
of money except gold.
To the Indian money is money and
bank book stands for nothing in
his way of reckoning. "A check he
will not accept under any circum-
stances, because he does not under
stand it. A coin or paper currency is
what he is after, and that is what he
keeps his hands on when he gets it.