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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
NOT MUCH VICTORY.

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 A number of our contemporaries and
 some of the press dispatches have re-
 ferred to "the victory of Governor
 Hughes in New York;" but we fail to
 see much of victory. judging from
 what occurred in the State Conven-
 tion. Perhaps The New York Heralds
 comments are most fair and important. | It says:
 Absolutely dominated and presided over by Roosevelt Republicans, the
 negie Hail yesterday endorsed the Presidential candidacy of Governor Hughes and coincidentally made de-
 monstration for President Roosevelt, which was regarded as one of the in-
 itial steps in campaign for third term. Political history will record this convention as one of the most re-
 There was presented the spectacle of 1,o09 delegates, more than goo of them
 Federal ofice and job holders and the
 great majority sbsolutsly under the
 claiming their allegiance to and love for Governor Hughes. whom they have privately been deriding for months, and porting in the Chicago Convention ex- cept in the most perfunctory way. Their attempts to appear sincere were at times iudicrous and were. in fact. They cheered to the echo at every mention of the name of President
 Roosevelt. They sat silent when the By every orator hundreds of words were uttered fin praise-almost fulsome at times-of the President where less than a dozen were spoken for Cover nor Hughes.
 HrtO
 convention or Hughes triumph, as we
 view 1t. When the Republicans of
 New York;" says The New York Press.
 failed to go to the primaries they disfranchised themselves from the
 right to join in nominating candi-
 date for President. That's the sys-
 tenn. If the Republicans of New York
 want more of it. this is up to them,
 as was the question of choosing dele
 gates who would do what they want
 ed" Evidently the majority of the
 party were thoroughly under the in fiuence of the President While they | did not wish to put themselves on re- | COT0 dS uuIrIcnuly AA0ehSo I they plainly declined to throw any
 bricks at Roosevelt. The Hartford
 Times has a good account of some of
 the proceedings from which we make
 this extract:
 There was a contest in the Commit | tee on Resolutions as to how far the
 platform should go in commendation of Governor Hughes and in commit | his support. Thirty members of the was reported and adopted, lauding The cord of achievements, which give to him for all time pre-eminence among
 the benefactors of the nation" In oth-
 Cor the American people than Wash ington, Lincoln, Jefferson or Andrew | Jackson. The platform speaks of his
 fearlessness, his patriotism, his sound | judgment his insistence upon square deal for all, etc. Seven members Of
 the Committee on Resolutions under
 the lead of Edgar T. Bracket, sought to have the platform adopt a resolu-
 ton for Hughes, modelled, as MT. Brack- | ett said, on the resolutions which were adopted for Morton in 1S96 and for Roosevelt in 1904. But these sincere | advocates of Hughes were pushed aside in the comnittee room and on | the floor of the convention hall as IT
 they were so many wooden manikins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
From Country to City :.

Washington Times.
 DThe rapid transformation of Ger many from a country where the rural village was for centuries the princi- pal factor. into one in which the city population is very largely in the ma jority, Is causing both economists and statesmen serious thought. Today at tention Is frequently called to the ne- cessity of administrative reforms, due to the fact that in many sections of the empire the rural population is be- coming very small, and that practical ly everywhere the cities contain not only the larger part of the population, but control the bulk of the wealth as we'll"
 This from a report from Consul George Nicholas lift, dated Annaberg, of Commerce and Labor: It is sus- tained by figures which show that the modern drift toward the city, which has given us Americans some alarm. is much more serious In Germany. Thus;
 At the founding of the German em pire. in 1871, the communities with less than 2,000 population each contained S4 per cent of the population os the was only 42.5 per cent of the whole In some sections. such as the Rhine land, Westphalia. Oldenburg. and the Kingdom of Saxony. the whole princi; pality is practically urban. the rural populations in those divisions being now but 2S. 2S.5, 24,S, and 2s.S per L.,
 In the United States we have not yet reached the condition of Germany al the beginning of her national career thirty-seven years ago. She then had 36 per cent of her people in cities. We have today 31.1. But the per centage of our people who are making their homes among paved streets and brick walls rather than in the open country Is growing steadily. Ten years ago | was 29.1: in 1860 it was 16.1; in 1920 4.9; in 17SO, S.4.
 Several reasons are obvious. Social Is the more attractive to the young boys of the farms. and if the boys come to make their homes the girls will come to take part in the home making. Immigrants drift naturally to the cities. More and more of ouI for large families, so that many of the young people are literally kicked away by necessity. But the chief reason i: the general charm of the city. which jumbles itself in the farm hands mind Into a mixture of theatres lectures In the big life of a big town, educa- tion. and vast opportunity.
 The American tide is setting the oth- CT way Those who work In the city are striving with might and main tc sleep in the country. Suburban VII valuable classes. The rich are comina 2 10 spend six to nine months of every year away from the hustle and dust which spell "workshop" for them. As a nation. we have been passing throug a period of cnmps rative unappreclatior fleet that we are working away from Ii long before we rave risked our ns- tiona1 health as Germany risked il nearly forty years ago
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

An evidence of the Northern Repub- lican feeling towards the negro, an i'm cident in the recent State Convention is of interest. There were five negro delegates in the hall and they wanted the convention to adopt a resolution call ing for the enforcement in the South of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend ments to the Constitution. The con vention promptly took a seat on that proposition, but as sop to the colored people a resolution was adopted call ing for better educational advantages for the negro. Wasn't that bully?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
This Date isa History
April IT.

April IT.
 i790-Benja jamin Franklin died in Philadelphia; born In Boston, January 17, 1706.
 1SO6-William Gilmore Simms, nov elist, born; died June II 1870. 1815-Commodore Decatur of the United States Navy, captured two AL gerian vessels and 500 prisoners. 1SlS-Norvin Green, President West ern Union Telegraph Company born; died February 12, 1903.
 1S50-Jogeph Ramsely prominent rail- road executive, born in Pittsburg. I85S-Dr. Simon Bernard acquitted of conspiracy against the life of Louis Napoleon.
 i904-ASkempted assassination of Premier Maura of Spain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
A wealthy New York heiress Is to b,

A wealthy New York heiress is to be married on the 3Oth of the present month and she is to wear a wedding gown which will make the balance of 'em sit up and take notice, and perhaps turn green with envy. The gown was worn by an ancestress of the young lady when she was married in 1712, nearly two centuries ago. We have seen no description of it's style. mate- rial or quality but is is safe to say that few modern brides can march up to the wedding counter wearing a dress of that kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

The police recorder over in Colum- bus had negro before him day or two ago charged with being drunk. He was dumb. so that he couldn't give his name, and he couldn't write it. No one could be found who knew him. and as the Recorder plainly couldn't fine man with no name he finally got out of the dilemma by telling an oficer to take the negro out of the room and chase him across the river. Needless to say the darkey was pleased with the verdict.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
what is a Candle Powers

New York GloDe.
 Pretty much every one thinks he knows what a candle power ts-the light given by a single candle or course. As a matter of fact, candles differ as much in luminosity as light houses. oil lamps or fire-flies, and os candle power is not one thing, pU half a dozen according to the coun- try where the phrase Is used. In Great Britain and the United States the stand ard light unit is the amount given by ''spermaceti candle, burning up at the rate of 12e grains an hour. with flame forty-fiVe .nillimeters high. etc. Tn France the standard candle IS made of stearine, and Germany's candle was until few years ago. paraffine Now the latter country uses the so-called Hefner unit of light, the amount given by a certain form of lamp burning ace tate of amyl. Another lamp standard, called the carcel, was used in France. In this purified rape seed oil is burned. Because of this unsatisfactory interna- tional chaos. 1t is now proposed that our national bureau of standards at Washington take steps to establish standard international candle, which would be acceptable to at least nine countcies. The joint committee of gas and electrical engineers which Is urging this standardization declares that the change could be made with very little disturbance of most of the national standards now in existence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

thumb, or else they are poweriess to control the weaker brethren. True, 1t may be better that some attempted legislation should be headed on, but it is none the less humiliatips to have a Congress bossed by one man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

The Richmond News-Leader plainly is not in favor of gag law, and fin the following paragraph utters a warning that may well be needed, we suspect:
 Some of the Bryan organs are urging the voters of Virginia to send none but Bryan enthusiasts to the State Con vention, so that Virginia may send an instructed delegation to the Denver Convention. That is a good way to nominate Bryan. but 1t is a poor way to elect him. There is a large anti Bryan element in the Democratic Party with If given recognition in the con- vention, it may be conciliated, but 1t cannot be choked or beaten into sub mission. This is no threat. It is a statement of fact which the Bryan leaders will do we'll to consider.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
The alost-Divorced Family.

Young Alfred Vanderbilt sailed on the Mauretania. The divorce proceed ings began the hour he left. In a state room across the way from his there rests the frame of his beautiful cousin. Consuelo, the Duchess of Marlborough. who has already been once successfully strolied down to the ship to see these two sail. the mother of the Duchess. who had not only got divorce but an- other husband. Thus the one family presented to the American people the entertaining triology of wealth do- mestic life-suit in the works. suit won, and second husband secured after divorcing the first. It's a great thing to inherit money. rtt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
What the State PGPers
 Are Saying and Doing

Here's Optimism for Yeu. Huntsville Mercury. ,,. ny.-.h will join the solid South ,,yess Inis s solid, old-time, sweeping majority
 
 The Texas Issue. Mobile Item.
 Joe Bailey just now is M getting srs more ns the Lone Star State than Helle de Ssgan or the Due de Abruzzi They are after Joe's scalp in earnest
 Could Drown In a Desert. Huntsville Democrat. -,
 The Roanoke Leader takes us sori- ously when we reeferred to the PIou- ably "dryness" of the next press meet G well enough to know that a desert IS wet enough for us'
 A Full Company. Northport Breeze.
 There are ffty-four men wanting to hire themselves to Tuscaloosa County for the next four years. The county has eleven jobs, and. practically; these is good and iustifes good service.
 Glory in Being Talked About. Anniston Star.
 It seems that Tom Watson would tlrs of the glory of being an also ran. By nature Tom is not a gentleman vel suited to play that role, and ms aoll- ity is far above the capacity necessary to lead a forlorn hope to certain de- feat.
 Economical Way to Look at It. Mobile Herald.
 The high price of meat Is not hard ship but a blessing at this season. ac- cording to Dr. Bosley. health commiss sioner of Baltimore. Dr. Bosley .s Of the opinion that in the spring and sum mer when the body does not require so much heat, meat can be dispensed with the greater part of the time Made No Impression Yet. Huntsville Mercury.
 The "bears" may keep the cotton market down. and the contrary tenn perature may give us apprehensions touching the safety of the fruit crop but the great American hen IS stack. ing up supplies at a price that ought to give the promoters of the beef trust some uneasy half hours. Poor Sort of a Man. Talladega Home. We people fin this part of the coun- try think a man who is supported by his wife is about the poorest specimS;n I; n n of the sex. yet rich New 1ork guTis Ma | dam Gould goes step farther ana marries the second one while settIing | her former titled husband'S deDts on the | tnstallment plan. Manufacturing Campaign Thunder. l Gadsden Times-News. MT. Roosevelt is trying a new tack | on the injunction line and advises the i Interstate Commerce Commission 10 secure an injunction against certain railroads to make tn em give the blacks certain required accommodations to | the colored persuasion. MT. Roosevelt l knows perfectly we'll that such an in- | function would be laughed out of court. | but he is busy manufacturing cam paign thunder and is not responsible.
  ProgressIng Finely. Decatur News. The two Decaturs. under their re- spective administrations, are progress | ing finely better than any other city | in the State irrespective of size. Both | have clean, progressive and aggressive | men at the helm of affairs, who are | deVoting their best energies to upbuild | and make us the greatest commt.7ity | in Alabama's borders. There's great destiny ahead and the star of hope glows brightly above the eastern hori- zon.
 A Democratic Falling. l Livingston Home. Each campaign brings up bitter ! wrangling within the Democratic ranks, and when the party hapnens to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

Senator Foraker recently spoke to a colored religious organization in Wash ington in which he told them that if the negroes are not given proper re- cognition at the Chicago Convention there will be a new party organized. Good-and let him be its nominee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

About the cheekiest performance that comes under our observation is when a Republican newspaper taunts Dem- ocrats with lack of harmony. liar with snakes in Ireland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

General Fort. of New Jersey-or perhaps we should say Governor Fort says that mo man in this country Is big enough to refuse a Presidential nomination before 1t is rendered to him." Exactly; but does he know of one big enough to refuse it after it is rendered?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

If William Allen White were mem Der of the National House of Repre- sentatives he wouldn't refer to Speak CT Csnnon as "an arrogant old moss back z" That would queer William good and plenty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

The best way to stop your neighbours hens from eating up your garden is to eat. the said hens, is the way one writer looks at it. That would be an effective plan, no doubt, but how would your neighbor and the hens like it?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

If Chancellor Day really said that he prefers Syracuse to Heaven it only shows that he prefers what he is best acquainted with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
aWoRN EVACUATION,

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees its advertisers (and makes 1t part of the contract when reQuested) that It's daily cir circulation is larger than that of any morn- ing newspaper printed in Alabama-ano ahat its Sunday edition has the largest CIT culation of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception
 The figures for March printed below rep resent the actual net circulation. all re- turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
Citizens Should Interest Themselves in
 Elections.

Politics Is frequently a dirty busi-
 ness, and always unpleasant, but the safety and well being of the country hang on the results of elections. Then if we are to have good government. in municipality, county and State. good citizens must exhibit some personal in- terest in the progress and S'esults of political campaigns and elections. As a rule, this course is distasteful to good citizens, but this is an unpleas- ant duty which no public spirited and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
western Grain used in Ais
It wnl Nes Ne . Close Race.

It Is conceded that Hou. J.. O. Md dlston,- member of the state Legisla- ture from Clifton County, will be nom mated for Congress by t6e Fourth Dis probably endorse Mr., Middiston's can didacy. If so, the race will be on be- tween him and Hon. w. B. Craig, whose nomination is conceded; and still between them, 1t will scarcely be sad- mitied that the race will be anythi ing like close.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

D. s. Mobile. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adverti- Her's circulation for the month of March, 1908, is true and correct, and compiled af- ter all returns from newsboys. news agents, spoiled and leftover copies have been de- ducfed. E. s. NOBLE. Sworn to and subscribed before me this ath day of April. 1908
 (sEAI.) RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

win. as with Mir. Cleveland. the inter- nal dissensions seem to become worss and an overwhelming defelt at ths polls Is the consequence. Unless the party can unite on Mr. Bryan it VIII meet defeat again. The overyheiuling defeat of Judge Parker, minority candidate, in the last elecxiop should
 Western Grain Used in Aissena.
 Mobile Register.
 Last year Alabama raised 45, s3s,oo0 bushels of corn. vatped at nearly ss4.- 5OO,OO0, and 3,s50.000 bushels of oats, valued at S2,579,0oO. The quantities given were not sufhcient for the needs President of the Alabama Division of the Southern Cotton Associstiop: be- tween sl0,000,000 and S15,ooo,oo0 of the money of Alabama farmerp went to the Western corn and oet producers. There is evidence of this in the recent statement of the Maoyr. of Selma that 1O0 car loads of corn were brought from Kansas. via Mobile and sold to Dallas County farmers during last sea son. s.--.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
VIOLET

Wordsworth has ikened the violet to a star.
 "A violet by messy stone, fair star.'
 All the world loves the violet
 The odor from that little flower is alLpervasive. Faint delicate and pur appeals at every human being.
 This reminds of something's
 We have just received Tacums Both of them Violet Tacums made by Richard Hudnut It called "Hudnuts Talcum It possesses that delightful fragrance that all of Hudnut Volet Sec pre- paratons. The price is 25c
 other Violet Tacum is known ''River' The odor of the true violet cngs to this package Price 25c. you phone again, include of these Tacums in your order.
 PHONE 9o PHONE 3S.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
ProEressing Finely. nacof1r Naws
A Democratic Falling

! Livingston Home.
 Each campaign brings up bitter wrangling within the Democratic ranks. and when the party haDnenS to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
Poor Sort of a Man.

IaIIadeBa I1OIHe.
 We people in this part Of the couh- try think a man who is supported by his wife is about the poorest specimen of the sex. yet rich New York girls marry them for that purpose. and Ma, dam Gould goes a step farther and marries the second one while settling her former titled husbands debts on the installment plan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
Made No Impression Yet.

The pears" may keep the cotton market down. and the contrary tenn perature may give us appreh ensions but the great American hen Is stack ing up supplies at a price that ought to give the promoters of the beer trust some uneasy half hours.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
Economical Way to Look at It. Mohile Herald.

The high price of meat Is not hard cordInE 10 pr. Bosley health comrniS- sioner of Baltimore. pr. Bosley. :s of the opinion that in the spring and sum mer, when the body does not requlre so much heat, meat can be dispensed with the greater part of the time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-16
SOUTH LANCASTER

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
The farmers will have to hurry
and get their corn in, for this is the
weather that makes it grow.
Miss Grace Brindley spent Sat
urday and Sunday at her home in
Boscobel.
The dance in the schoolhouse, in
the Richardson district last Friday
night was we'll attended and all re-
port fine time.
Miss Nell Jeide spent Saturday
and Sunday at the home of Christian
Vesperman's; also Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Vesperman spent Sunday there.
Henry Macke is busy remodeling
his house.
Miss Florence Williams, of Glass;
vile, spent a few days last week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugo Kolenberg
Miss Lydia Vesperman spent Sun
day with friends and relatives in
Rockville.
Miss Mary Bailie who has been
having the Dutch measels is i'm
proving.
Misses Kate and Cora Christian
sen, who have been visiting friends
and relatives here, expect to leave
for Milwaukee today.
The dance at Ed Meyers last
Friday night was we'll attended.
There was quite a storm came
through here Monday afternoon;
dong much damage to the farmers,
tearing down fences and upsetting
many small buildings
Miss Treshia Warren spent Sat-
urday and Sunday at her home in
Lancaster.
John Blackburn spent Sunday
with his friend, Emil Pagenkopf.
Christian Vesperman lost a fine
three year old colt last week; its
death was caused by wire cut OBJ
tanned some time ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-16
Resolutions Of Respect.

Adopted by Sunlie hi Chapter No "a, O.
Z. =, CaSsville, Wis. as a tribute to the
memory of Mrs. Elizabeth. B ewett, who died
Nav 1909
whereas. Our Heavenly Father in His
infinite wisdom, has again broken our golden
chain, and called from amo US our be-
loved sister Elizabeth Blewett. and
Whereas. in her deathRour Chapter has
lost worthy member. her sons a devoted
and loving other: therefore be it
Resolved. That, while we bow with bic
submission to the VIII of The Most High, we
do none tr e less mourn for our sister who
has been called from her labor to rest.
Resolved, That this Chapter tenders it's
heartfelt sympathy to the family and rela-
tiveS of our deceased sister in this their af-
Fiction.
Resolved. That our Charter be draped in
mourning for period of thirty days, and d
copy of these resolutions be sent to the
local paper for publication, and also be
spread on the records of our Chapter.
lone by one our loved ones fall.
No one hears the door that opens
When they pass beyond our call;
Soft as lOOSened leaves of roses.
One by one our loved ones fall
MAGGIE s. STEPHENS.
MRS, Eta g. DUNCAN,
MRS. LOUISE A. TATE,
Committee.