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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
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 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. and have not charity, am become as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal,
 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all nIyste- ries, and all knowledge; and though have all faith, so that could remove mountains, and have not charity, am nothing.
 "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. and though I give my body to be burned, and have not char ;ty. 1t prohteth me nothing. Charity sutfereth long. and is kind charity envieth not; charity vaunteth Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily pro- voked, thinketh no evil;
 "Rejoiceth not in iuiqu;ty, but re- 1otceth in the truth:
 "Beareth all things. believeth all things. hopeth all things, endureth all Charity never faiieth; but wheths CT there be prophecies, they shall fail: whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there Dc knowidge, 1t shall vanish away.
 For we know in part, and we prophecy in part.
 be done away.
 When I was a child, I spake as~a child, I understood as a child. thought as child; but when ] became a man, put away childish things.
 For now we see through a glass darkly, but then. face to face: now I know in part, but then shall l know even as also I am known.
 And now ab;deth faith, hope, char ity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."--1 Cor. xiii
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
AN ABSURD ooNTENTIoN,

It takes the mine back several cen- turtles to read the following from a re- cent issue of the publication called American Industries:
 Opposition to the introduction of la bor-saving machinery by American la bor unions is one of the many incon- prehensible attitudes of so-called or- ganized labor. Tn this connection it Is interesting to know that the President of the English Trade Union Congress recently argusd that no attempt should be made to check the use of labor saving appliances. His position. as agree. Is lmpregnable. The battle has been fought thousand times and in- variably lost. Of this fact the Eng fish trade unionists seem aware, for, Presidents view was accepted by the Congress as thoroughly sound" In this matter our own workmen may well follow the example of their Eng fish cousins; for here the contest Is still wasing in every part of the eoun- try. The struggle is carried on at enormous expense to employer and em- ploye. Occasionally the business It. self is crippled; and every temporary victory for the workman is followed by ultimate defect.
 Really times and human feelings do not change very much in some re- spects. as this war on labor-ssvins machinery indicates. Those who have read the history of England will call to mind what an uproar was caused by the introduction of sawmills into that country. Previous to that time all lumber was produced by the whip-saw method: One man on top of the log and the other in the pit beneath alternate ly pulled and pushed the long saw up and down and thus the log was finally made into lumber.
 This of course was slow and labo- rious process. but because of its slew ness it gave employment to many la borers. Lumber for all building and other domestic uses must be had and this was the only way to get it. When the first sawmills were introduced and 1t was seen how quickly one of them could turn a log into blanks it was at once realized by the whip-sawyers that SAAGAA ONGaRoNtCAA Woo 9OAG 1tAA NhaA ~ was only matter of comparatively short time before there would be no work at their trade. Then they set themselves to the task of driving out the sawmilIs that had been built and of preventing tho introduction of others. Riots and disorder followed, some of the mills were burned and other out rages visited on those who were re- sponsible for the innovation. but all in vain. The advantages of tho new method were apparent, and the liberal- minded and progressive men of the time took sides with the sawmnl men. The result could not remain in doubt. Tn spite of all opposition and dissaJis- faction the sawmills held their own and the men of the whip-saws had to turn to other occupations. In one re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
JUSTICE AT LAST.
4 Biography of Jefferson Davis by
 Prof. Wm. E. DOdd of Virginia.

The following review of a biography of Jefferson Davis, by a Northern writ CT in q Northern newspaper. will be read with interest throughout the South:
 Professor William E. podd Is the au- thor of the new biography of the Pres ident of the confederseys and George w. Jacobs q Co. Phalidelph;a, are its publishsEs It is % one of r,s, twenty; t;;o vol vol phies." Ten are biographies of North ern and ten are biographies of South ern participants in the great American Hoftfhsern 59fss and ten hs yoSHs sOutSsrn i %rit CTS were selected for the twenty sub jects, because they were removed in some degree from the personal pre1u- Davis biography is just out. The book reviewer of The Philadelphia Public Ledger writes thus interestingly
 "The American Crisis series of biog- raphies in the eighth volume to be is- fsderate states. The Arst dealt, with Abraham Lincoln, and md this book gives US a picture of the executive leader who was pitted against him in the great sectional contest which so vitally wrenched the nation in the sos.
 "A few years ago it would have been sin. black and glaring. for a Northern publishing house to have undertaken a AcIlH6 llhS luA6t aD QOCHi biographies of southern leaders to equal places beside Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant. But we have come so far in a few years that it now seems q matter of course Even a little while ago 1t would probably have been regarded as philanthropic or conc.Iiatory. Today 1t is only natural and right, and there is widespread public interest In the achievements of the great figures of the Confedeacy-the keener. no doubt be- cause of the postponement of the pleas ure of looking into their lives and try ing to find out what were the motives that really actuated them to wage a great war aga.nst men who had So long been thetr brethren in the conduct of the nation.
 common sense tells us that they cannot be dismissed. as they were so long. by calling them traitors rebels and other ugly names. Lee was the irst to come out from under the dark pail of tPOAaon. beloved as his charac- ter eaW1Al him to be both North and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
Tzi. E My s<A sSthdsy
Nfrr. .. Af. N. stesens.

Mss. LilIisn N. N: Stevens. president Temperance Union, was born In Dover, Maine. March fs 1st4 and has always made her home In the Pine Tree State. She spent her early woruanhood as q tescher. and married at the age of tsTsstsa ss s, in tsirpsrasaes work when { the that time to tiaIs Mrs. Stevens has been r. u werk. She was chosen state president Of the Meina ". O.. T. u.
 in 1876. For thirteen years she was year recording secretary Of the na- tionai orEanixation. Tn 1894 she. was elected yiee. deqt,st-lsrse Upon ems was chosen her sucessscs as pres ana has filled the position ever since:
 Mrs. stevens Is an apie speaker and has been heard in behalf of the tenn perance movement in every part Of the Switzerland and other countries. Tn addition to her teuaperances werK she has been active in numerous charities and pfifanthropiee-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
auNpAx. MARcH i. 1908.
smER sunsEpEEs. .

lonr esteemed Republican contempo- rafw The Portland Oregonian. has this e say:
 areat is the value of the ship sub eisav--to the country which does not vessels now in port under charter to lead wheat, thirteen are French sub- B5a9 earners. Every one Of these Tes- sets brought cargo from British, Eafwian or German port to the Ameri- can lnopnrterB in this city. Every one of them will return to an English port wtfh wheat from an American shipper, conAienaa to British importer. Ihis Iais well calculated to make the patriotic Frenelnsan get up and howl for the old flag and an appropriation to sub rfanhfse and wheat for foreigners who an not care rap what dag flies from xhe alsfp,s masthead so long as she de- lfverp the cargo in good shape and at gn slihBidIes will bear the scrutiny of soma of our American subsidy hunters. f S ara at present using theory in- fnedi Of fact in their arguments.
 SWR hereby warn The Oregonian that
 sa liable to get Itself court-martialed.
 Aofhlng worse. for such criticisms n fheAreputation of it's own party. It
 ewa fnlI well that the subsidies of ahleh t speaks could only exist by na through and because of Republi-
 legislation and encouragement. pThy does it not tell the whole story Id make 1t plain to it's readers that zeDuhlleanism is responsible for the cusfages of the tarin system and the \ subsidies Of which 1t complains2 The oregonian frequently surprises us by its fierce attacks on the present tarifE laws and its criticism of those who stand iu the way of revision, vet 1t sticks to its party and it's President with tenacity worthy of a better pause. It should quit the party or stop fpeckIng 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
s.ComradeU Four.v

A book of the above title by Rev Neale Publishing Company is an In teresting addition to the already Ftch literature of personal recollections and "reminiscences by Confederate Yeter- ans. During the Civil War, Rev. Mir Maryland Cavalry. and he took an act i've part in the struggle between the North and the South from its begin ming to its close. Tn the volume be- fore us he writes entortaintpRly Of the battles in which he was engaged, of those feilcw-C -Confederates with whom he was intimately associated during the conflict. and also of the life in camp. on aold and in prison which fell to the iot of wearers of the gray uniform.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
pRIFT TowARp RRYAN.
Eastern Ellmlnafors Ignorant of tn
 COndItlNna Went and R0uth.

Eastern Ellmlnafors Ignorant of the
 Conditions West and South.
 New York Trhune.
 If any Southern State really contains the nucleus or an opposition to Bry- ausm that opposition ought to be vis- ible In Tennessee. The leading Demo- cratic newspaper of Tennessee's Capi. tai. The Nashville American, has fought Mir. Bryan consistently for the last twelve years. The Memphis Com- mcrcial Appeal ridiculed him in 1898 and 1900, and has barely tolerated him since Tennessee took the lead among the Southern States in pushing Judge Parker for the Presidential nomination in 1904. Yet now 1t falls into line for Mir. Bryan without a whimper or 2 protest
 the efforts Of the Bryan eliminators in to be working in blissful ignorance of conditions in the Democratic Party in the South and West Those conditions are being disclosed as different State conventions come together and ratify A choice for the Presidential non1ina- ton which circumstances have made inevitable. Mir. Bryan gets the deie- gates everywhere for two sufiicient req sons. Tn the first place, Re has the support of the unshaken rank aud dle of the party. despite His past failures. Tn the second place. no oneetting pres sure is being brought on the politi- clans to displAce him; for displacement would necessitate replacement and there Is no leader of equal keel and amplitude anywhere in sight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
netter Chance fer IsabIes.

"A century ago the anxious parent of the newborn babe had good req. sons to be uneasy" says pr, Woods Hutchinson, in writing on. The. Ire pressible Tendency of Babies to Grow tJp." in, The Woman's Home Cofnpan- ion, eThat was still the age of dirt ana huge infant mortality.
 .,Iass than half the children born lived to be years old--in London, in 3I7sO. "A. 5 per cent dled--and more than one-third perished in the first year. Now such a condition is rapidly dis appearing, and remains only In our siunr and most ignorant peasant com nunities
 .aToday the average mortality In the first five years of child life in the eur fire United States Is less than 20 per cent The mortality for the. first year about 1c per cent, and eliminating the siurns and our foreign population, the rate is nearly per cent lower yet, So that your baby, gentle reader. has ten chances to one of reaching his hree hirthday, i've to one of reaching hts dfth- and three to one of attaining adult life. Surely this is not an oue- look to Justify serious worry or com atsnt anxiety for fear that some drea0s fuI thing will happen" ..,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

spect this substitution of machinery for human labor worked hardship, but that consideration could not stay the advance of machinery and it re- mained.
 In the early days of this country the whip-saw was largely used. but 1t was not so strenuously adhered to here as in England. and did not cause such ill., feeling and disturbance. As new sec- tions of the country were settled and the demand for lumber grew great the advancing pioneers built sawmiils and operated them without serious opposi- tion. No doubt there are many per- sons now living who have seen the whip -aaw in operation.
 oppocition to labor snving machin- !e cry has developed to some extent at various times, but nothing serious has resulted in this country Now in this day of enlightenment and human pro- gress some at least of the labor unions are adding to other evidences of selfish intolerance by objecting to the use of such machinery into the shops. Not content with boycotting and blacklist ing non-union workruen and shops, they set themselves to the task of do- ling the same by the machinery that Is now recognized as absolutely indispen- sable. --
 What can these people hope to ac- complish and where do they expect to stop7 If they propose 10 make a fight against the introduction oE new ma cftnery they may as we'll make a com piete job of it and remove or destroy af the machines in use. Let them go back to the methods of century or two ago, and do all their blaming and their saving. their mortislng and their tenoning and all their other work with hand tools Whats the good of stop ping half way?
 The truth Is that the whole thing Is ] almost too absurd to discuss. and but , for the fact that we have what we consider satisfactory evidence that such spirit exists in some places we could hardly believe that there are men so deiuded as to attempt or even imagine such thing. This Is essen- tially the age of machinery. It Is ev- anywhere in evidence, and men might as we'll attempt to stop the rain from falling or the wind from blowing as attempt to stop the use of iabor-saving g machines wherever one can be used. They might as we'll attempt to abol- ish steam and electricity and resolve that human muscle shall do all the work that is to be done. The old wo- man who tried to sweep back the waves with a broom cut no more ab- surd figure than do those who at this late day make war on machinery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
m rs ro nn FITTED

WE " TO HA FITTED.
 Those who can entertain feelings of sympathy for any foreign potentsts must sympathize with the young King of Portugal who came to the throne under such discouragins circumstances -a throne fsgurativeiy stained with the blood of murdered father and brother. TO ascend the throne of kingdom at his age ana nnpreparedness would have been severe ordeal under the most favorable conditions. To ascend a throne under which the Ares Of revo- iption aad disorder were even then smeuIdenpa would have been an ordeal to try the strength and nerve of the strongest man in the kingdom.
 What then must be the feelings and the apprehensions of this bey--for he is but boy--to find himself elevated on the weapons of assassins to the po- sition of ruler over people who are to all appearance fast reaching a stage where peaceful rule VIII not long be probable. if 1t is even possibie7 A strong man accustomed to rule. might stay the advance of revolution and for . time at least ruie over the nation with something like order. difficult as the work might be. and uncertain as might be the prospects for the future.
 But for this hoy we can feel genuine sympathy; sympathy for him in the great loss he sustained at the hands of brutal assassins. and sympathy for his future ss that future now appears. It Is not reasonable to suppose that a hoy of IS Is fitted to rule under the conditions surrounding him. If the people of Portugal were quiet, orderly and contented. and he had come to the throne in the natural order of success sion. without violence or bloodshed. it would not be unreasonable to suppose that he could. with the aid of wise ad- visers. rule his kingdom satisfactorily, Minors have ascended thrones many times and ruled with credit to them selves and satisfaction to the people.
 But Portugal. like some of the other European governments, is now in q condition of unrest, and has been for quite while. whether this discon- tent was due to the late King or to the trend towards republican form of government which is exhibited in many places is not so important as is the ono fact that the people are discon- tented and inclined to be turbulent and disorderly. That condition was respcn- sible for the recent assasslnations, and it may at any time break out into open revolution. We need not be surprised at any time to hear that the boy rulsr has been put Go death or doposed. and that some form of representative gov- ernment has been inaugurated in place of the monarchy.
 Whether the people of Portugal are qualified and ftted to set up and main tain semhlance of free government remains to be seen, but. plainly the forces of revolution are hreparing for action and that action ma be delayed but short while. Any day the dis patches may tell us that the throne to which the youthful prince was elevat- ed in such tragic manner has been taken from him in the same way. and the Portuguese monarchy at an end. Is not the boy entitled to sympathy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
WHO IS BnNEF1TEDs

N.- statenssnt shevvsn9 Tbat People Get No Beneat Frpm se-caIled Reductfon. Marion Standard.
 ! A writer in The Pirminghain Ledger sskss sooSs sslS py merchants the [ c N Railroad where the old freight rates are charged pending the iniunc- fion. Thase comparisons in prices are ' obtained from reliable merchants do- ing business In the towns located on these railroad lines and The Lsdger these people which show there has not been the slightest reduction in the price of goods as result of freight re- anes,Uh aieast psralai hsI in siS paliss Marsnso. Perry and Clarke counties, the con- sunler gets his goods just as cheap who buys from the merchant on the l. Q N., as on the Southern. At Marion Junction, on the Southern. MT. Randall quotes the following scale of prices on the staples for Januaryi Fionr. yS.ys; oats, 75c.: meal. sf.7s: salt, si.2s; lard
 At Consul on the l. q N, same date. as above, the following scale prevailed: Flour, s6: oats, 7sc.; meal, Sl.s5; salt. s0c.: lard. 1oc: These prices submit E, Prices at Pine Hill, on Southern as given by T.. J, Wills: Flour. ss: oats, 5se.; meal. $40; salt. $1.
 by rT'ees s A a' 'Rsynoids; S1nsia @ FTopr ss; oats T5c.; corn. ssc.; meal. el.70: salt. sl.lo; lard. l0c.: meat, l0c.
 X The agreed sentiment ct Pine Hlh not n. Seaefted the Consumer in the -s The Ledger article concludes as fol- Mayor W. J. walden of Uniontown fSouthern Railway points out that while flour was selling in UniontoWn on september 1 st S6.75 a barrel, It is now selling for s6;2e barrel; Oats' .s 72 cents a bushel. Meal has advanced from si.60 to si.65;; meal is on aDout a half cent pound but 1ertlltzer nas Increased q dollar a ton since last Au- ain the face of all this evidence giv- en by men of the highest character in the communities in which they live, no reasonable man can believe that the consumer has received any benetlts from the rates forced upon tue rails roads, nor can any reasonable man doubt that number of the commodi- were last August.
 ssE ssTo s tho connamar the new freight rates mean nothing. To the railroads mech ne heW For ssss tSs m consumer ns thsre is ho old old s rates isi 6n indivldual articles the difference Is So small that 1t could not 
 "But the Adherence between the new rates and the old rates mean for the efIiclency. The margin in the aggre- gate 10 sufIicient to wipe out the prof It's Of a railroad. In the aggregate the new rates destroy the efhciency Of the road which ds forced to establish them The splendld efilcfency which has characteFiged the Louisville and Nasia- : vile under the old rates is -mposstpie
 'The consumer gets no heneft from the new rates. But he is deprived of the efficiency which .prevailed under the old rates. This much five months beyond perauventure, Is the consumer satiafiedT"
 Marion Is situated on the Southern and if a single consumer has been ben cited by the reduction in freight rates we would like for him or her. he, she or 1t, to arise and make 1t. known,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
\ prME 10 A DOLLAR.

The yaaaea a. Rannnu azemoFini Fund.
 Reticenco 10 olfer it's mite to wor- fity ana desired result. often holes Dach
 Ire better fitted. ! 9e who gives bis dime to a good ob- Acf is apIng his share with hiin wno SfNee h1e A,isnr& Thsrefexa shis taper will receive t1r and all eontr.ba.ioas of from Ten Csff& up Co One Dollar. and eili list fha same fwith or without namesl m mortal Fund.
 No snbscripklnn of over sI win be xieted hera Any one desiring to give more Gan write directly to the editor or to T c. DeLeon, Mobile.
 ff any newspaper desires 10 aid thts worthy and much-needsd testimonial fl can do so by keeping this paragraph standing at It's column head and rs' beating this note.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

When we saw 1t stated In a dis patch or item from New York that a bank clerk had resigned his position, aIving as reason that he was receiv- i0s too much salary we hardly thought t necessary to read the further state-
 nent that a physician had found on examination that the young mans inind was unbalanced. The last infor- rnatlon was the natural sequence of the frst
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01
me ReckonIag wln Come.

GadB0en IIIMt9 ENOW",
 The Southern Railroad bowed It's head to the mandates of Messrs. Conner. Glenn and Smith, and accepted the re- der to make both ends meets finally. cut inc Wages of it's employees. Thus the great triumvirate Is earning an undy- fne- feelina m the hearts of the dear neonie. What that feeling is will be shown little later.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

Winter seems to have settled on tactics that are sharp and decisives" remarks The Pittsburg Sun. and from what we read Of the weather up in that region we should say the tactics have been decidedly sharp.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

n s Nen1a. usrnuIaslon Managea of The MonfGolaery Advertiser. being duty a"etn' aayas
 Tha foregoing statement ef The Advertl- anr'a clrnnlatfoa for kha month oe NaceHpnf, 14os sa true ana correct. and opnpiled N1tef eIl refuffia from news boys. neWs agents. spoiled and leftover copies hays essIer roe-
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