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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
ON WAY TO BANKRUPTor.

Mayor Advised to Cut New yORIk's Ex-
 penses. fy
 New York Special to New Orleans
 Times Democrat.
 Mayor MoClellan's advisory commits sion on taxes and finance has made It's final report through its chairman, Ed- gar J. Levey. His long experience in the comptrollernss office justifes him apparently in the startling conclusions he has drawn. No such view from such an acknowledged authority ever has been taken of the future of the muni- cipality.
 Mir. Ievey's communication is enti- tied: New York's Progress Toward Bankruptcy" and he concludes his exS haustive review of the city's present conditions and the grave peril that threatens the future with this warn ing:
 T know of no greater need of the hour than to arouse the people to R sense of the danger which threatens them, for at present many of those to whom we would naturally look for leadership in municipal economy seem drugged into folly by the hasheesh of Socialism,"
 Especial attention is called to the vast difference in the increase fin, ex- penses compared with the increase in population. Commenting on this. Mir. Levey says:
 what would the average business man say if he found that the increase in his expense account was growing three times faster than the total in- crease of his businessT'
 New York City. as at present com stituted, has. ever since its creation, ten years ago, been steadily inereas- ing its expenses faster than 1t has grown. The rate of such excessive increase has been startlingly large; the period during which these condi- tions have continued has already been long enough to plunge the city into se- rious financial embarrassment, and the conclusion becomes inevitable that un- less this tendency is checked. and sharply checked, New York will i'm evitably become bankrupt muntcipal- ity."
 MT. Carnegie's peculiar form of ben efcence, which increases the burden of the taxpayer. is commented upon as follows:
 Tn 1898 there was some criticism of the increasing amount of money ap- propriated by the city for free circu- latfng libraries. the dgure that year being sl81.5o0. In 1898 Mir. Carnegie's gift of $5,00O.000 having in the mean time been accepted. the appropriation rose to $954 400.6s, an increase of 425 per cent.
 Tn view of the fact that the city now appropriates for these libraries an amount equal to the income Con a 1 per cent. interest basis) of a capital investment of $23.S60,O00 (to say noth- ing of the amount expended in provid- ing sites for the library buildings), 1t will be seen that Mir. Carnegie's gift, munificent as 1t was, looms very small in comparison with the burden its ac- ceptance placed upon the taxpayers. ]"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
PRODUCTION OF COLD.
ThIs Years Outturn Expected To Be
 SI1O, ,OO0.

Thls Years OuttuTn Expected To Be
 Sl10,0O0,OO0
 New York Special to Times-Democrat.
 According to reports received by The Wall Street Summary from operators of mines that produce ninety-two per cent of the country's gold. the outturn for the current year will be not less than S1I0 00O.- 900. The estimated production of the other mines Is S6.0OO.0oo This country's gold production has doubled since 1898. and un- der the improved machinery and mine de- velopments of the current year may reach SIPS. 1000. 900 in 1909
 Conditions have never been so favorable to the economic extraction of gold from its ores as they are now. At a number of very low grade gold mines, chemical and me chanical engineering science enable the op orators to extract nnety-flve per cent of the gold from ores so low In gold contents that until lately no capital could be found for opening up properties. Today a number of kinds of low-grade gold-containing ores are eagerly sought for which under tho mining conditions of only ten years ago were regarded of no value.
 The exploitation of low grade gold depos- its constitutes today a most attractive field for capital. Investments in such prop critics are safer than in most of the com mercial and manufacturing corporations says The Wall Street Summary. Gold has an unalterable value and the demand is fo- all that can be produced. None of our sound gold mines has been affected by the hard times All have increased their output while their shares have amounted to Q sum that is upward of Ss0. 900. 900 more than the valuations of year ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
HUDSON HARMON.
Notable Man es:;:s a's,:...,, :. 3. oa'''.

Notable Man Chosen to Be ohio's
 Governor.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The voters of Ohio have chosen an able lawyer. a broad-minded business man. and capable public official for Governor. Mr. Harmon will be chief executive in fact. as well as In name. Tn spite of the fact that the new governor will have hostile ieEis- Iature and will find every other State office filled bv members of the opposite party. he will not be without great influence h di- reeting the affairs of government. Ills recommendations to the assembly should reflect an active mind broadened by exper- iefce in large matters of law and business. and the legislature cannot help pay heed to them. The veto power put into his hands by constitutional amendment In 19oa gives him a Eaiutary influence to check possible legislative attempts to enact meas ures inImical to the state.
 The people had confidence in Judson Hsr- mon-confidence that he would give to them the same tireiess energy that he had given to the country as member of Gre yer Cleveland's Cabinet: that he had given to his own business and to the interests ot those vho had intrusted them to him. Ills election in the face of tho Taft uprising and in spite of the defeat of the rest CT the Democratic ticket and of a majority or the legislative ticket throughout the State was q s--iking display of trust fin man who had not -.aoped to the arts of dena' gogue to furt.. his own interests
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
MR. TAFTs GREAT TAsK.
What the People Expect of the New
 President.

-
 What the People Expect of the New
 President.
 St. Louis Republic.
 Mir. Taft has been elected because the country believes his administration will follow the broad lines of Repub- licanism as he interpreted 1t in his let ter of acceptance, and not the narrow partisanship which the party organ ization formulated and defined at Chi caEo. The difference Is material and in some respects radical. since it im- plies both repudiation of some quite positive declarations and honest full dllment of promises which the conven- tion intended for campaign effect alone. In the accomplishment of the herculean task which awaits , him. President Taft will come to his ardu- ous undertaking with a popular con tdence in his personal sincerity of purpose which should be a helpful stimulus and a cheering support. The best element of both parties will ac- credit him with an earnest desire to redeem the pledges he has made, and will rejoice if he shall succeed in the endeavor.
 genuine effort to repress the aggressions and control the rapaclty of the trusts; a successful revision of the tariff along lines that mean re- lief from the oppression of injudicious protection; law to make publicity of campaign contributions obligatory; a modification of the present statutes for the purpose of regulating the is- suance of injunctions in strikes; a formulation of concrete plan for a more elastic and adaptable system" of currency: a fulfllment in material way of the grave obligations that rest on the American people In their rela- lions to the dependencies that camo to uE through the Spanish war, are suggestions of the long list of Im- noTtant duties to which Mir. Taft must now turn his thoughtswith serious earnestness-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
A BIG PROJECT.

Much has been said and written about the rapid spread of electricity as motive power. but something new Is continually coming up to show what is and may be accomplished. From a con- temporary we take this paragraph re- garding a contemplated application of the power:
 One of the most important contracts signed this year provided for the com pletion of the Slectrifcation of the Pennsylvania terminal in the City of New York: the work to cost about s5.- establishment nf the electric system over the Pennsylvania lines from New ark. N. J. tc Jamaica, L. l. Thus by sans t9sns Sa,n or the int, new ali York over this road will be operated by electricity, The plan is to use motor. built something like the pres CT and capable of developing a speed of 12o miles an hour. It Is estimated that within the electric zone under the river and On land there win be a de- Velopment of 250,eOo horsepower.
 This goes beyond anything that has yet been accomplished or undertak en, but there is no reason to doubt its uI- timate success. for those who have the matter in charge are thoroughly quail flied to not only estimate the cost and advantages of the system but to en- sure Its success. It will not be the first instance of the substitution of electricity for steam to operate railroad fraf hut &@N on such an extensive and expensive scale as the one above indicated. Tn several places in the Northern States they are running railway trains by electricity and the use of this power in place of steam is fast becoming the fashion up there. One of the advant- ages of electricity, aside from the saving of fuel. is that the power that can be developed is almost unlimited, and Is practically inexhaustibIe. The horse power proposed to be developed in the work under consideration is enormous. but 1t shows what the en- gineers consider possible and profitable. Discussing this subject The Brooklyn Eagle says:
 One day, in the not far future, we shall all of us wake up to the appre- citation that we are looking upon a lo~ comotive as relic of an archaic period, when soot and dirt was the inevitable consequence of railroad travel. When consumption of coal by the motor en- zine Is no longer part of railroad operation, more comfort and satisfac.. tion in travel and more of the travel will be the satisfactory result. The substitution of electricity for steam is "a consummation devoutly to be wished"
 We have no doubt but that The Eagle is correct in it's predictions. and that the time is not far distant when steam locomotives will only be a msm- ory. There are so many and such good reasons for the change that it cannot be long delayed. ---- --------- -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
wRAT THE POET SAID.

The poet Whittier wrote:
 For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have
 beenH
 How many there are among us since the election who echo those words, in thought if not in expression! We can think of many things that might have been done that were not, and of re- suits that might have followed if things had gone differently. The might have been" leads to many re- hections and suggestions. but what's the use? Rather let us take the senti, mont expressed in this stanza from Longfellow's Psalm of Life:"
 Let us then. be up and doing,
 With a heart for any fate;
 Sttil achieving, still pursuing.
 Learn to labor and to wait.
 There's good doctrine. especially for AlabAmians. Be up and doing" In business and industrial lines. There is plenty to do. plenty of room for effort. plenty of encouragement for capital and labor; in short there is room and occasion for all of us to be "up and doing" and as a brave. self sustaining people We can have a heart for any fate" that may come to us and with grim determination and earnestness defy fate itself if 1t comes through the acts of men or even through. our own weak nesses.
 And we can still keep on achieving all things that are humanly possible and while we are pursuing results we can also learn to walt while we con- tinue to labor In just cause. There Is no reason why Democrats should noI labor for the upbuildins of true Dem ocracy. While we may have to wait for years before we can achieve definite results that is all the more reason why we should labor while we wait. Dem ocracy has departed somewhat from the basic principles which in former days made 1t a power for good. and we can conceive of nothing in the po- Htical or official world more commend able than to restore the old landmarks and get back in the old paths.
 Democracy is vital principle Of popular government which cannot die untr the people so will The Demo- cratic party is not dead and will not die if those who should control and guide 1t are true to themselves and to their country. It has received a re- pulse. but it will recover and will de- serve to succeed-and will succeed when 1t shakes off the anti Democratic vagaries and theories that have so nearly been fatal to it as a party. We have faith that there are enough of the old guard left throughout the Union to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13

The New Haven Register tells. of woman in that State who owned a large pet dog and also 6 husband. One day the husband tried to kiss her when the dog flew at her and bit her severely. He was evidently not mad with the man, but merely jealous of him ''This." says The Register. will be a warning to all husbands who have dogs in competition with them for the anrections of their wives. The proper placs of husband should be we'll un- dsrstood. His mission is to rustic around and f1nd revenue for supporting the wife and the dog. He is permitted to visit the house occasionally. if he keeps his distance. but no familiarity will be allowed. And really. if he will send the check along regularly. there Ia no need of his troubling to so up to the house The dog will take good care of the lady" a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13

reorsanizs the party and lead 1t to victory. While we wait we will labor. and while we pursue we win also achieve. So it Is that all the good men of the land can find something in the commercial industrial and politi- cal world to call forth their best eff rorts and so work in harmony for the good of all. Is there not plenty of op- portunity for the man who loves his country and his kind?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1908.

A man has just been elected to Con- gress from one of the Pennsylvania districts who has discretion down fine. To a question from the woman's suf- frage Association of the State as to how he stood on the question of fe- male suffrage, he replied:
 handed your letter to my wife, ana asked her to give me her views on the subject. After considering the mat ter, she told me that at the present time she had no desire to vote. As she has this view of the matter. I. think have nothing to say until she changes her views.
 There. now, ia . man who is plainly wise in his day and generation. If his wife had been a believer in woman suffrage the plain inference is that he would be for it. As she is not in fa- vor of it. he is opposed to it-until she changes her mind. He evidently knows what Is best for him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
A MORNING THOUGHT
 BY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS.
M

You can't cover your traclxs. Gheng- his Khan could be traced by his pyra- mld of human skulls. What marks ,. In spite Of all the mistakes and worlds one vital thing.
 The ,fellow that courts advice dosen,t to endorse his whims.
 The divinity of her sex is only with that woman who refuses to forsake her kind when the depths are reahed.
 I don ot mean to make a punu when say that a journey on the sea brings out the there is in some people.
 All the world loves a lover. They are our unconscious comedians and we reserve the right to laugh or weep.
 some men suffer alone from the de- feats of their own sterling qualities and too often take counself of their ambitions.
 Any public win suffer when her ser wants clutch for honor thirst for ap- plause, and lust for medals and power
 Some queens wear thorns because kings wear coronets:
 and out The nacho fukes will hold if your soul is like fathomless depth.
 some boast of prizes won that a. footing of an already impoverished soul.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13

sume the great undertaking of restor- ing prosperity. getting control of the trusts and nonopoiies, and bringing has slipped from the hands of the many to the few. The Republican Party has before demonstrated that 1t is capable of administering govern ment and meeting crises. It will now again be put to the test. We do not believe that Mir. Bryan will envy 1t the task. To accomplish this it will need to relegate to the rear those par ty leaders and all others who have forgotten the people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
MEANING or THE ELECTISs
A Radical Mid-wektern View of Its six-
 nificance.

A haulcaA Mtd-WeEteru View Of Its SiS- Kansas City Star.
 The election of MT. Taft has a peculiar relation to the country as a whole. It has much to console even those who had hon est preference for Mir. Bryan. just as the election of Mfr. Roosevelt brought comfort to many Democrats who voted for him and to others who refused to vote for the reae- tonarv Parker and remained away from the polls.
 For, with the exception of Mir. Roose- welt Mir, Taft is the most progressive man elected to the Presidency in half centu- rY He is, on the other hand. as strong in character. in temperament. in training and experience and judgment, and as aafe in methods as he is progressive in policies.
 After all. the difference between the two parties in this particular contest was not so much difference of position as 1t was a difference of candidates. And, so far as both candidates stood for the same things. 1t was inevitable that Mir. Taft should have been regarded as the better man to make those things effective.
 The Republican party should profit by its experience In this election. It dare not revert to It's traditional position. It must get in hne--in Congress and in the several States--wfth the new order of things. If 1t does not, 1t will lose control of the gov srnment just as soon es the Democratic par. ty adjusts itself more rationally to the aspirations and rights of the people and finds a leader whose capacity and judg- ment ss we'll as sincerity may be trusted.
 And the Democratic party should profit by this third defeat of Mir. Bryan. This defeat simply means that the voters of the United States will not have Mr. Bryan for the Presidency. No matter what the theo- ries or facts as to this opposition may be. the truth should be recognized, and the party should throw off the personal domi- nation Of Mir. Bryan and relieve itself of the disturbing extremes for which he habtt- ually makes the party responsible.
 It is to the interest of the country that there should be tive strong, well.managed. weIl-matehsd parties. the one acting e an effective check on the other. Such rivalry produces the best results in national and local government.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13

1908. Murphy's explanation ef this phenofn- enon would probably match that of the Western sheep hsrdef. who. after receiving a drove of sheep to herd. returned at the end of a month.
 DO you want me to herd sheep?" he ssit- ed of hh employer.
 DO I want you to herd shsepf'' said the latter. why. what did I hire you forf"
 Well" said the herder. calmly. If you want me to keep on herdin' 'efn- you'll have to get me another drove, 'eaase them I had is all gnnei's
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
What ths State Papers
 Are Saylng and Doing
He rSnnurn Mar. Noyr.


 John Temple Graves was nfty-two years old last Monday. Not very olas than to tie up with the Independence party.
 One Grain of Comfort. Opelika Daily News.
 If we were in any frame of mind to enjoy scraps" of comfort from the late election reports. the bestest crmmo Watson's light also went out in the cyclone.
 (utdoAe in Atlanta. An,slDu Atlanta Georgisn si wants to make the public believe that Li Sum. the Chin- ese editor. did not find that city con- genial: The, job is too big for The of the fact that the u Muchs and Li Moores of Atlanta can show Ld Sum that he is poor amateur.
 Money Failed Him.
 The result of the election in Colo rado was crushing blow to the as- pirations of Copper King Guggenhelnn. Republican Isgisisturs, but the whole electorate refused to sell. A Democrat will succeed Henry M. Telleds.
 E0NEEB Talladega Mountain Home.
 Down in Houston county they had pretty good evidence that Democratic nominee for Justice of the Peace In certain beat had voted for Taft. Straightway the voters began to scratch the ticket and elect another man who was put tn the running after the polls were opened. That was a. neat trimming up of a political bush whacker.
 % % A s& ssg
 Tribute to Miss JoMea. Tuscaloosa Times-Gagette. In the death of Miss Sallie Jones the State has lost lovely character. A teacher for several years, a. writer of meritorious verse, a Daughter of the Confederacy whom all daughters de- lighted to honor, she was a rare, sweet woman, one who exerted a wide tnfiu- ence along the best of lines and there are many who will grieve at her death. The world is better for such women as Mss Sallie Jones.
 Growing old Gracefully. Opelika Morning Post.
 It is a pleasure to be around some old people and observe them growing old so .graeefully. and a pity that all can not. To grow old gracefully. to with the passing years. is something life's evening Is like a lovely sunset flood the earth with beauty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
OUR BLAsE OFFSPRING.
Simple Pleasures Unattractfve To
 Chlldren of Today.

Simple Pleasures Unattractfve To
 Children of Today.
 Adlai E. Stevenson. in Woman's Work.
 My careful observation of children of today is that rarely does one of them approach the most elaborate and ex- travagant pleasure--lIke a trip across the continent or to Europe, for exam ple--wlth anything like the zest which the children of the old-time homes an- ticipated a treat, which would seem absurd and even contemptible in the eyes of the typical girl or boy of 1908. Indeed, am often impressed with the conviction that there is nothing quite beautiful or grand or novel enough to really jolt the boy or girl of today into genuine amazenaent, and give them the splendid thrill that have felt over the gift of a silver dime, or the promise of a trip to the county seat on court day.
 Comparatively early In life I learned my lesson along this line in a way that made 1t stick to me throughout all the subseqnent years. had made up my mind that must and would have a col. lege education, This meant that must somehow earn every dollar of 1t my self, for in those days only the very wealthiest of fathers gave their boys the funds with which to carry them through college. The way to earn my college funds, which seemed readiest at my hano was mat or planting and cultivating a truck garden. One year after I had done my planting. we had a spell of decidedly dry weather My anxiety was intense and it seemed to me that rain was certainly the most de- sirable thing on earth. Almost at the time when 1t seemed to me that my whole enterprise would be hopelessIy burned up by the scorching sun. it be- gan to rain. The fall of those first heavy showers was music to my ears. But day after day the water continued to come until my garden was little short of a pond, and a very large pro- portion of my plantinEs was literally "drowned out" In other words, nature had gone to an extreme and had suf- fered disaster from a surfeit of what. 1t first seemed the most desirable thing to be wished for.
 So 1t is with this matter of enjoy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
This Date in History
Novemher 1a.

l4e2--Vincent Yanes Pinzon sailed from Palos for America. with four caravals, and was the first Spaniard to cross the equinoxicaI line
 1620-The Plymouth colonists disem- parked on Cape Cod.
 1S09---Rear Admiral John A. Dahl Eren DSrn m Fn'iaGStphIa' fSIp Ia ,s7nd aied m
 1S13-The junta, under the name of the National Assembly. declared the independence of Mexico.
 lS33-Edwin Booth. famous Ameri- can actor born; died June 2. 1898.
 1S49--Constitution of California adopted.
 1S7I-Present Duke of Marlborough born.
 19O0--The Duke of Manchester and Miss Helena Zimmerman of Cincin- natl married.
 lSO7-The German Emperor visited London.