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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
High School Girls Heard :.
 Lecture tn Weather Bureau

were given an office lecture on the weather bureau department, its work ings and forecasts, by Frank P. Chaf- fee, the division director in charge or the Alabama station.
 The Alabama station has an excel lent instrumental exhibit. and Mir. Chaffee and his corps of assistants, are always glad to explain and demonstrate instruments to students of physio- graphy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
SUSPEND PENALTIES.
Effect of the EIkins ResOIMtSOn Which
 Is Favored.

Washington, April 3.--The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce to- day voted unanimously to report the Elkins resolutions to suspend the com modity clause of the present interstate commerce law. but the extended time, when the clause will take effect was changed to January. 1910, making the extension twenty months instead of two years.
 The ettect of the resolution if 1t be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
Nexro Disappenrn Prom JaII.

NashViIIe, AprlI VA HopklnsViIIe, Ky, dispatch to The Banner says that George Tut, a negro. has mysteriously from Trenton, Ky. where he was in jail on a charge of carry irg concealed weapons. He is report ed to have been taken from the Jail by thirty or forty masked men. Nothing can be learned of the fate of the ne- gro. Tut had bad reputa tion
 It was later learned that Tut was given severe whipping and told to leave the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
A. Ia. ana A. EIIe. neean.

Birmingham. Ala. April S-The At lanta. Birmingham and Atlantic Rail- road, through subsidiary corporations. has filed warranty deeds in the probate office aggregating $473.17S. which rep resents property recently purchased in the county for rights-of-wa and cer- tain terminal tracts in and around Bir- mingham and Bessemer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
NO ACTION AS TO COLLEGE.
Presbyterians at 1AnnistOn Adjourn To
 Meet in BirminKhan.


 Anniston. April 3-(Special.) .)-The Alabama synod of the Presbyterian Church adjourned this morning, a qua- rum not being present.
 A call was issued for a meeting on April 17 at D. .m., when bids will be received for the location of the Ala bama Synodical College for Women, now located at Talladega.
 The synod met last night with about thirty members present. but all the ministers except three were from the North Alabama Presbytery and this morning 1t was decided that a quorum was not present, so the session last night amounted to nothing.
 The claims of Anniston and Talla- dega were heard last night and this morning members of the Synod were taken in automobiles over the city to see the sites offered by Anniston.
 Dr. Carr. of Mobile, is Moderator. and Dr. McIlwafne is acting as stated clerk
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
NEWS OF DEMoPoLIs.
EIks Hold Meeting and Have InstsIIa-
 fi0n of Officers.

Demopolis. April 3.-(Special )-The Demopolis Lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. held an in- teresting meeting in their hall on last Thursday night. Installation of officers was on the program. after which the members and guests enjoyed a smoker. The Following officers were installed:
 I. Bley. Exalted Ruler; O. L. Mcxin-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04

THEATORIUM REOPENs. Under new management April 9th. Nothing but high-class amuSements. Vaudeville and moving pictures.
 .. thu.aat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04

comes a law will be to suspend the penalties under the provision of the law prohibiting any railroad company to engage tn interstate transportation of any article or commodity other than timber and it's manufactured product which has been mined, manu-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
SPRING SUITS CLEANED

By Holt's Dye Works at 100 South
 Court Street.
 Our steam cleaning process leaves . , garment as clean as new cloth. It can still be stained. faded or worn but 1t Is absolutely clean. Adv -tf.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04

factured or produced by the railroad or in which the railroad has an in- terest.
 The committee today received a let ter from the Interstate Commerce Com, mission approving the resolution.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01

But de whale sed he wuz live ez live eud be;
Gus de whale, yuh see, he nu, he had no ma
1usinashun -.
Wifi him it case Nv havin, inside IN
fomashun.
Wen Nibcuhnezzer rosted Shad an Meesh an
gud Abednigo,
An foun dat fiahry fernish done no hahn;
1t shorty did pervoke him, wen dey open up
dat flemish do, ,
Tub heah dem sing ooh, no. dis ain so wahm. -
Gus, yuh see, dey all erbout dat con-
fagrashun,
Twas jus er case Nv dem er havin' inside
infomashun.
Wen yuh am tol certing stock will go up
lax rocket,
An dat yuh ort tub buy all yuh kin git,
Jus TAX advis an keep yo money IN 20 tro ziZ
pocket,
Fo dat ez much de safes place TO it.
Err cos sum wun will know all erbout dat stock
quotashun,
But yuh wunt be de wun tub hev dat inside
infomashun
v
En- small boy ct apelz onc't erfo dey he'd
grown meer,
An den he went er swimmin en- de crick;
He soon felt kinder quar- turn er sort er
greenish yeller,
An long erfo de docktuh cum tub max er OBJ
serVaShun,
Dat boy nu whut de mattuh wuz he'd inside
infomashun
De liun en- de lam done de lynn down ter
gedder &C,
An ahfter dat de lam walnut nevah seen;
Dey axed de liun if he thunk his fren
evan cumin' bac,
But de liun KEEP on lkken his chops clean.
Yuh see, dat liun nu NV dat 1amz destinashun,
Ercuz he felt do he had inside in
fomashun.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
Shakespeare Every Hour

"The bell then beating one" (Han1-
let, Act /.
"Sure, Luciano, it is 2 o'clock" (Com-
edy of Errors, Act I'D
"The clock hath stricken three"
Julius Caesar, Act ID
How far into the morning is it,
lords? Upon the strike of four" (Rich-
ard III, Act W
'At 5 o'clock I shall receive the money
for the same" COMEDY of Errors, Act
IV)
"How's the day-on the sixth hour, on
which time, my lord, you said our work
should cease" (The Tempest, Act W
Lets see I think It's now some 7
o'clock" (The Tanning of the Shrew,
Act IV)
"The eighth hour-be that the utter
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
1t Is Bad Form.

To eat with the lips not closed. 1t
is just as easy to chew right; besides,
the noise of eating is Objectionable.
To pass ones plate with the knife
and fork removed.
To talk or laugh loud in company.
To talk about any of your neigh
bors.
To ask questions about matters
which are none of your concern.
To drink more than one glass of
water when dining with others.
To chew gum in public.
To criticise the clothing of others.
To use coarse language or infer
ences in any kind of company.
To allude to ones own perform
ances, leaving the impression of
vanity.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01

The scientific books shall rest;
Beside them, History; above.
Re1igion-hope, and faith, and love:
Lastly, the southern wall should hold
The story-tellers, new and old;
Haroun al Raschid, who was truth
And happiness to all my youth,
Shall have the honored place of all
That dwell upon the sunny wall;
And with him there shall stand throng
OF those who help mankind along
More bv their fascinating lies
Than all the learning of the wise.
Such be the library; and take
This motto of a Latin make,
To grace the door through which I pass:
He habitat Felicitas!
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
THE LIBRARY.

By FRANK DEMPsTER SHERMAN.
Other selections from this author, and
his biographical sketch, have already
been printed in this series. The Latin
line that concludes the poem may be
translated Here dwells felicity"
Give me the room whose every nook
Is dedicated to a book;
Two windows will suffice for air
And grant the light admission there
One looking to the South, and one
To speed the red, departing sun.
The eastern wall from frieze to plinth
Shall be the Poets labyrinth.
Where one may find the lords of rhyme
From Homer's down to Dobson's time;
And al the northern side space
Shall snow open chimney-place,
Set 1ound with ancient tiles that tell
Some legend old, and weave a spell
About the hredog guarded seat,
Where, musing, one may taste the heat:
Above, the mantel should not lack
For curios and bric-a- brac-
Not much, but just enough to light
The room UP when the fire is bright.
The volumes this wall should be
All pros" and all philosophy,
From Pate down to those who are
The dim reflections of that star;
And these tones all should serve to show
How much wrte-how little know;
For since the problem first was set
No one has solved it vet
UTon the shelves along the west
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01

most?" Julius Caesar, Act ID
It's supper time, my lord-it's 9
o'clock" Orchard III, Act W
Ten o'clock; within these three hours
twill be time enough to go home"
(Alrs Well That Ends WE'LL Act IV.)
Eleven o'clock the hour" merry
Wifes of Windsor, Act IV.)
What hour now-it lacks of r."
(Hamlet, Act l.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
INSIDE INFOMAsHUN.
BY LEONARD SUMNER WHEELER,

BY LEONARD SUMNER WHEELER.
For THE PALIsADIAN:
Wen Noah wuz er budin dat big of-fash-
uned ark,
An Peepul sed it wuzen gwine tub rain,
De OF man diden' dem creep Jes tub
remark,
Dat he ruther thunk dey'd hev tub guess again.
Gus Noah, yuh see, he nu, it was not i'm
agirashun,
'Twuz jus er case NV him havin' inside in
fomashun.
Wen Jonah went er sailin' dat OF time
fshin' smac,
An de sailuz had tub trun him en- de sea,
Dey all sed he wuz drownded, and dey swor it
fo' er fac,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
BEAUTIES OF THE PARK.
Wonderful Combination of Natural
Features in Palisades Amusement

4 Palisades Amusement Park as
Ne of resort offers many more
lions from the hand of nature
anything on the American con-
Il Situated high abreast of the
In, 500 feet above it, opposite
n street, New York, and in full
n of Broadway or Riverside
u it is almost forty acres in ex-
with the original forest trees,
pne hundred years old, still
ing within its area. 1t is one of
Wliest spots in the world, reach
Apng the very edge of the fam
Palisades, and back to Palisade
ia, one of Bergen County's we'll
IL roadways, running from Jer-
Nity to Englewood. The COM
on of natural beauties with those
n make the Palisades Amusement
without a peer in the world in
of natural advantages. Its To-
Il is one of commanding emin-
overlooking the broadcast posi-
|Neep of New York City just
81 the majestic Hudson, and at
presents a veritable scene of
land with the myriad electric
: which line the walks and fes-
fhe trees.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
THE PARK FOR PICNICS.
Management Makes An Appeal to So
cieties and Sunday Schools to Hold
Picnics in the Palisades Amusement
Park.

There is no place around New York
so beautifully adapted for holding pic
mics, and the management offers
special inducements to lodges, socie-
ties, associations, Sundays Schools,
department store clerks and others, to
come and enjoy the inviting shade,
pleasant walks and amusement places
to be found in the Park. A represen-
tative will call upon any one who
wishes to consider holding a picnic in
the Park
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-02

By ROBERT E. PARK
THE vital thermometer of people, if
you will permit that expression,

-
is its birth rate A Unitarian min
ister in fashionable suburb in Massa-
chusetts recently called attention from
the pulpit to the fact, that the average little
than child was born annually for every
hundred members of the congregation in good and
regular standing. All the country, and not
alone in fashionable churches ministers
planning that it is difficult to find enough children
in their congregations to Sunday school. Par
ticularly do the Catholic clergy assa their parish
toner's for the lack of marriages. and especially early
marriages.
For one hundred years and the birth rate
In the United States has been steadily omnously
sinking. Its steady decline, particularly among
the native Stock shows that the blood of the Fathers
of the Republic if it has grown blue, has also grown
cold in the veins of the newer generations Thomas
Jefferson, basing his estimates the birth rate,
predicted that the United States would have in
1875 population of eighty millions This predic-
ton was made at time when, by the natural and
normal process of reproduction, the population
doubling itself every twenty-five years BENJAMIN
Franklin, who number fifteen in family of
seventeen, said that the average family in his day
was eight. At the present time it is in some por
tons of the country, less than two.
The most elementary conditions of modern life
make the big families of a hundred years ago
scandalous anachronism. Think of eight children
in a modern fiat! It's different of course in
the tenements. There human nature still grows
rank, and the people have not yet broken with
the ancient and honorable custom of having
children
But this simply illustrates the fact that America
is no longer depending for its population the
native product, but yearly increasing impor-
tations Of the European surplus Until 1S4o the
growth of population by native reproduction was
estimated seven times greater than the growth
by immigration. But at the present time the native
population is slowly dying out.
Take Massachusetts, for example, where the
facts have been more clearly studied than they
have elsewhere. The birth rate, taking the State
as whole, is 27.7S births annually for each thou
sand of the population. But that of the native
population is seventeen while that of the foreign
born is fifty-two, to the thousand more than three
times as large. The stagnation mark the Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-02
Drawing by F. Vaux Wilson

population calculations the birth rate of France,
which is ga
DR.. George ] Engelman, Boston physician who
has contributed much curious information this
subject to the medical magazines, says that the
number of children born of native American families
is less than that of any other country in the world
not excepting France which has long been haunted
by the specter of depopulation. 1t is strange and
curious circumstance that in America, where more
than in any other part of the world the individual
hourishes the race dies.
One reason for this is that marry less and
marry later than they used to. This is true else
where but it is particularly true here. No other
country, unless peTchance it be Australia, supports
so large and enthusiastic contingent of bach
elors. There is certain select portion of popu
lation in which every fourth man and every other
woman is bachelor There certain communi-
ties that almost without children.
Not all, but great DEAL of this lack of chill
dren is due to the people who do not marry. One
reason why there fewer children and
bachelors is that children expensive than
they used to be. John Graham Brooks, close
student and investigator of social conditions said
last summer in Chautauqua address that the cost
of a child from birth to economic independence
might easily amount to twenty-five thousand dol
lars and that too among families mot among the
very rich" In an article written later he adds
that the growing consciousness of this cost is
handicap in the struggle for existence"
Result of Counting the Cost
NOW, if you begin counting the cost of
children it is remarkable how easily it appears
that they luxury that only the poor
afford to support.
We all love children, if not in the house, at least
in books, or in orphan asyums. But if we have
children Of our own. they may die. Worse STILL they
may live, and grow up to disgrace In any case,
not counting the expense, they constant
of care and worry The poor. who are familiar with
sorrows, do not mind SO much the inconvenience of
children, and they usually mprovident enough
not to count the cost of them
There is as yet no instinct that makes man a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-02

he succeeds in escaping his opportunities until he
old enough and wise enough to marry with dis
erection, he is pretty likely not to marry at all.
set this down fact and without malice, as
something that, in the vast scheme of forces and
motives in which lives and fortunes involved
must ultimately be estimated and accounted for.
The fact is, this so called single blessedness is
habit and. to state it precisely, it is habit
not only of the rich but of the educated and we'll
informed generally.
For some reason or other, shutting up young
and in universities and loading them down
with learning to unfit them for matrmony.
When they marry, they marry late, and have few
chdren,not enough, in fact, to preserve the stock
and to carry on the family traditions.
Much that know about such matters is due
to the industry Of class secretaries In collecting the
statistics of graduating classes, they have furnished
the facts for most of our recent studies in suicide
College Mems Low Average
THE class secretaries of Yale have tabulated its
graduates for the last thirty years, emitting
the recent classes, which have hardly had time to
marry. The results demonstrate that if all the
people in the United States married and had chill
dren in the ratio the graduates of Yale, the
population of the United States would diminish
one-thrd each generation, until there not
enough left to fill dormitory With only two
thirds of the graduates married. as the fact,
the average number of children would have to be
three to keep the population stationary, assuming
that the girls whom the other third did not marry
found some others for husbands. Instead of that
birth rate, the number of children averages only
two The reduction from infant mortality made
the survivors less than enough to take the place of
their fathers and mothers, without considering
the other third Of the graduates who did not marry
In New England. for instance, Puritanism is
rapidly being thoroughly extirpated, and the coun-
try is flooded with alien who probably be-
lieve that Saint Patrick greater theologian
than Jonathan Edwards (and for that perhaps
h,,ff of <16
lies in which it will be admitted).
DR.. Engelman has attempted to show, basing his
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bachelor, and this is still less true in
the case of woman. All the natural
passions are in league against such a
cosmic anticlimax The bachelor is less
a creature of nature than of calculation
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-14

sherman act, for restraint of trade,
Now that Uncle Joseph has fairly
set his puissant hand to redressln,
the abuses Of the tariff in this man
ncr We expect much OF him. They
say no Is actually prepared, II the
boot manufacturer grow too clam
orous over the duty on hides, to have
tho beef trust arrested for splitting
on the sidewalk, II American ship.
builders complain again that the steel
trust handcaps them by selling plato
TO foreign competitors cheaper than
TO them, he will prosecute the trust
for performing unnecessary labor on
Sunday
There Is even some gllmmer Of
hope for American artists who these
many years have grleyed over tho
idiotic barrier which the tariff erccts
against foreign works OF art The
speaker VIII not remove the duty,
but he will join heart and soul in
the crusade against ugly blllboards.
Saturday Evening Post
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-14
Hogs and RattlcsnaI,cs.

This paper has presented a good
many arguments in favor of the
proposition "TeXas should raise more
hogs" but It has remained for n
sympathetic subscriber IN neigh
boring state to furnish q new sug-
gestion, which is simply:
Texas should raise more hogs in
order TO get rid OF It's rattlesnakes. A"
at is well known fact and not a
nature-iake," says the Telegram's
correspondents THAT between rat
tiers and hogs exists the deadlest
kind OF antipathy One would i'm
aglne that the sinuous RATHER with
lightning-like movements would be
more than a match for the slow
awkward porker, but such is not the
case. Either the hogs are immune
TO rattler poison or they are able to
run down and seize the snake before
II can strike The fact remains that
on farms where hogs are raised no
rattlesnakes may be found. A num-
Der OF years ago the owners Of an
island near Detroit, Mich, which was
infected with rattlesnakes turned a
bunch of hogs loose on the island
and left them there. In two years
not a snake could be found on the
island, while the hogs looked iDno-
cent, fat and contented."
Perhaps there is something in the
correspondents suggestion. 1t is
given away for what It Is worth,
Certainly the Telegram is in favor
Of more hogs, and likewise II strong
ly approves Of anything that will
kill the snakes.
Every few years there seems to be
an epidemic OF snake-bite reports
from all over the state. A few years
ago at least fifty persons we're bit
ten, and several of them died.
Already this year little girl in
Wichita county has died from n
snake bite and a woman near Ros-
coe has been seriously bitten
II the hogs furnish a real rem
edy to the problem they are worth
trying. Besides there's money in
them. --Stockman- Journal
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-14

| property In 1898, and until three
years ago, he did all the pick and
drill work, as we'll as firing tho
blasts to uncover the ore body. Dur
ing this time he cut tunnel Of $50
feet, striking the ledge at a depth
OF 100 feet.
He labored patiently and often in
the greatest privatlon before he
struck the ore.
We hear too much OF how the lazy
man allows his hard working assoc
ciates to go on while he throws him
self down to dream and finds a mine
at his feet. 80.
That is the isolated case, the basis
for fiction. Fact Is found in Proulx's
experience. In real life fortune
comes to him who keeps everlast-
ingly on her trail.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-14
new TRAIN
ON new ROAD
Rock Island Begins Service
Today on Extension
West
CFrom Mondays DailyJ

Tho afternoon the first regular
train over the first section OF tho
Rock Island west from here, went
ont from Amarillo anw two new
towns at least, Bush and Wldorado
have places on the railroad map,
Bush Is ten miles west and viii re.
main simply a siding Tor somo time
but WiIdorado has more ambitious
plans
Wildorado Is the present terminus
Of the line and the first order Of cars
for the new train service was for
lumber to be shipped 10 citizens OF
that place Four cars will go ont
with tho first train and In addition
u number OF cars Of lumber, build
Ing material, implements and hard
ware are ready to be taken out to
supply the citizens In the rapidly de.
Neloping country around Wildorado,
Vega, Ontario and west
Although the line for the present
is but twenty miles long, men ia
mlliar with the situation say that II
will pay from start and that 1t will
have plenty of business for the train
service that viii be put on. The
train, combination freight and pas
sengor, will so out from here at =
o'clock every afternoon and will ar
rive here on its return at o'clock.
Operating expenses will be light and
rs freight business Tor the country
west will be good the train will earn
money.
Construction operations wost OF
Wildorado are not in progress now
but Chief Engineer w. C. Beach and
his surveying corps are still In the
field making complete and final
survey OF the line, and as the belief
confidently expressed that the road
will ask for contracts On the remain
ing construction clear through to
Tucumcari shortly after the engin-
eering department is ready with the
estimates