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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13

The Record Herald renectine or that day--for in these times thought moves rapidly. ..s
 After frittering away q whole win ter Congress at last awakens to real ization that the way out is to use the clearing house tgroup of bankD; 70 issue certificates based on assets, these certificates to have law as well as ann lagally as well as in fact and sub stance.
 One conference of the majority party in the House has already seen the light. Another is to have try at it tomorrow night. The principle fs sound and has the approval of the country The dangers are: First, that the House will act hastily. with an ill., considered. defective rush" measure. falling properly to work out the inn portant details of redemption; second. that the Senate always mysterious. may fail to do anything at all.
 But the new epoch Is here. The sound principles used by other nations that the going-to-market property and the promises of business to pay, almost at once, through the banks is the proper base of currency for bust ness. instead of mortgages or bonds or promises to pay in the distant future --fs tho proper base of a national cur rency. Is now in spirit, and soon will be in fact. part of the financial poll cy of the American people. This is in truth epochsl. It is one of the best signs of the times in this great coun- try of ours
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
I N S OC I E T Y

Aut.usaville to visit Miss Annie Lau. rie Howard.
 Miss Pearl Rouse of wetumpka is visiting Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Elliott at their home on South Court street.
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 Miss Dorothy Ensel has returned from Birmingham where she has been visiting friends.
 MT. and Mrs. J. C. McGrew of Lex ington. Mo, are at the New Exchange where they will be for two weeks af- ter which they will so to New York.
 Mrs. George Berry and Master Arth- UT Berry. Mrs. Ed Lummus and Master Hewerd Lummus of Columbus, Geor- gia, are the guests of Mrs. o. ID. Brewv sr at her home in Cloverdale.
 Mrs. Eliza Merrill and nieces. Misses Lila Merrill and Teresa Merrill spent yesterday in the city en route to Birm- inghsm. where they will go later to attend the U. D. c. Convention. The Misses Merrill will go later to Tus-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13

eaiooss to attend commencement exsr- cises at the University. from which inc stitution their brother will be gradu- ated.
 Mrs. John W. Watts of Birmingham is visiting Mrs. Thomas H. Watts.
 
 Miss Mary Bray of Eufaula Is vis- itfng her cousin, Miss Elizabeth Baarcke at her home in Highland Park.
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 Mrs. Warren Reese will entertain the Wednesday Card Club this after noon at o'clock. . Mrs. Willard N. sweatt who has been absent for some weeks on visit to her brother at castleberry has return ed to the city.
 Mrs. Forbes Llddell formerly of Mont gomery now residing on Long Island is visiting relatives in Charlotte, N e. Her daughter. Miss Katharine Liddell. is continuing her studies at Bryn Mawr. Miss Louise Mulford who has been spending few days with Miss Rob- erta Roberts has returned to the home of her aunt. Mrs. A. s. Woolfolk In Cloverdale.
 Mrs. J. N Hause of Birmingham is visiting her sister. Mrs. Milton An- drews on South Court street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
CITY OFFICIALS 'CUE
 LETTERS TOMORROW RED

Tomorrow is written redly in every calendar in the City Hall, and in many almanacs in other places because to- morrow is the n1addest. giaddest, Enerri- est day of the entire month of spring to employees of the municipality and their friends.
 It Is annual barbecue day, and the fact that the cue is bigger and better than ever this year. makes the rising of tomorrow's sun an event that will outshine So splendid ar undertaking as the attempt to limit an Alderman to three resolutions in one session.
 The cue is. of course, to be given at Jackson's Lake. Trains that pause at Jackson's Lake are the Louisville and Nashville passengers departing from Montgomery at ' a m. and 9:lo a. m On the return trip there will be trains leaving Jaekson's Lake at { p. na.. and 6:4S p. m.
 Numerous people-all men, of eourae. for Mittie May and her Mommer would be bored to death trying to play ping pong with those great. rude men--havs been invited and they are holding on to the tickets that will admit them to the grounds as If they were the most precious things in the world They are almost that valuable. for the gath ering is going to be the finest and it takes a ticket to gather with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
DEATHS IN MADISON COUNTY.

Huntsville, May 12.-(Special. )--Mrs R. A. Tidwell. aged 54 years, died last night at her home on Church Street, after brief illness. She was q widow. Five children survive her.
 Haywood Snyder, a truck farmer who lived near this city. died yesterday af- ternoon after q lingering illness with Brisht's disease. He was 50 years old and leaves his widow and six chill dren.
 Mrs. Mattie Brazier. aged 32 years. died Sunday at her home at Moore's Mill after an illness of several months with tuberculosis. She was the wife of J. W. Brazier, who with five ciil. dren survive her.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
Guaranteed Liquor Cure

Drunkenness is progressive dis ease; the moderate drinker is not sat isfed with two or three drinks a day. tho craving for more and more becomes irresistible as the disease advances; the result is Chronic Alcoholism.
 The treatment used successfully by thousands right in their own homes is Orrine. It is sold under a positive guarantee to effect e cure or your money win be refunded.
 Orrine No. 1 is the secret remedy Irrins No. 2. is for those willing to take the treatment. Either form costs d. Write The brine Go. Washing ton, D. c Sold by leading drugEists and in this city by E. c. Fowler. cawthon- Coleman, Selma. (s5)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
TuscaIoean Eremale CoIIere

Tuscaloosa, May l2.-(SpeeiaL) )--The annual commencement concert at the Tuscaloosa Female Coilewe was thor oughly enjoyed last night by a large. and appreciativs audience. The pro- gram consisted of a splendid list of selections and they were all extremely well rendered.
 The graduating exercises took place tonight and the address was delivered by Hon. Walter D. Seed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
Gkeanings From, ALaban,a

Dixie Club The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
PRISONERS PRoFITABLE.
City Obtains Good Revenues from Lease
 of Convicts.

City Obtains Good Revenues from Lease
 of CoByfcts.
 Mayor Teague yesterday gave to the press the first quarterly rejort of the revenue derived from the lease of city eonvicts. for whose hire the city rec eeived. during the months of January. February and March. $s7s.7o. Since this amount does not include the ex- penses of feeding and clothing the cons victs who are supported by the lesses. 1t shows a fine proft
 Mayor Teague expressed entire sat- isfaction with the results of the new system. which was created by ordi- nances adopted by the council last CaU The lessees of the conVicts pay from S3.5o to Slo5O month for each of the convicts. the price being grad uated in accordance with the age and the sex of the person leased.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
JACK TON IS RELEASED.
No Indictment Against Man Aecpsed . Grave Crime.

Demopolis, May 12.-(speeiai )--The late grand jury of Marengo County did not find a true bill against Jack Ton. the blacksmith. who was sent to Lin- den jail several months ago from this city. on a $500 bond. which he failed to make.
 Ycn was charged with incest His fb-year-old daughter and her mother testified against him in the preliminary hearing held before Judge F. s. coyp-, ish. The mother and child failed to appear to prosecute the case.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
C.nr nanniren Rasen.

St. Petersburg. May l2,-Baron kosen. the Russian Ambassador to the uhtfed states. who is at present home on leave of absence, was received in audi ence by Emperor Nicholas teddy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13
MISS PALMER INJURED.
Northport Woman May Die of Her

Burns.
 Tuscaloosa May 12.-(Special. )-- News has been received here that Miss Lizzie Palmer of Northport has been terribly burned and 1t is feared she will not recover. , She was in the back yaro 10 ner aro,nS a wash not near which she was stsndInr. She evidently attempted to put the flames out herself but failed to do so and when assistance arrived she had been badly burned'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

tor of the Mississippi valley, and the Journal was the leading whig organ. Brough was the foremost democratic ed- itor of that region, and the Enquirer the chief democratic organ. It was in that elder day when politics was far more strenuous than now. Prentice be- came a bulwark of the union in 1861 and wrought tremendously to save Kentucky to the union. Brough became war gov ernor of Ohio mainly because the Mari etta railroad thought David Todd, while war governor, gave business to the Hook ing Valley road that the Marietta cov- eted. Brough beat Clement L. Vallan- afghan, but the g. o. D. had some ex- perts to count the returns.
 And speaking of hay, the year 1907 the area moved In the United States was 4402S 900 acres; the average yield per acre 1.45. tons the total product 63.677, 900 tons, and the value S743, ,507,- GOO, just about the value of the cotton crop, which in 1906 was $721,647,2S7. New York leads in the production Of hay 5S96,00O tons. Iowa Is second, with 4.900,000 tons. Pennsylvania Is third, with 4,56SO00 tons. Ohio pro- duced 4.050 900 tons Missouri 4060,0 tons. All the rest produced less than 4OO0,000 each. It should be observed,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

stand till he starves." How about his gaits?'' Mount him and ride him up the road Captain" Scott did so, and found that the horse walked paced, loped. trotted. cantered and galloped perfectly. 'Ts there any flaw in him?" said Scott. None that know of, and I raised him, :" was the reply.
 Now. on the previous night Scott had lost all his money at play. It would never do to confess that he was penniless in Texas town; and so after another minute examination, he said very gravely "There is only one flow in him; but that is fatal; he is fiukered' The trader had never heard of a flukered horse, nor had anybody else; but he could not afford to confess his ignorance; so he replied: 'Ex- cuse me- Captain; I had never suspected it. Of course nobody would think of such a thing as selling a fiukered horse to Capt. John Scott. Good morning. sir The trader then took his horse to liv- cry and sale stable and said to the pro- prietor: Sell him for what he will bring; he is 1ukered" That night Scott won a little money and the next morning bought the horse for a mere song, and to this day nobody knows what ''iukered' means.
 General Wigfall was quite free in eK- pressing very decided opinions about men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
THE AGRICULTURAL SOUTF4-By Savoyard

tation was literally worn out growing cotton, so that it would not produce half a bale an acre, on soil where in 1850 there had been abandoned in the field on January 1 half a bale an acre, because there were not sufficient hands to pick 1t.
 This man went In for alfalfa, COW peas and hogs with the result that he gets eight tons of hay per acre a single sea- son. He sells hogs by the carload that are fatted at half the cost of the Iowa or Nebraska hog, and he has restored the fertility of his land to the extent that 1t now produces over bale of cotton to the acre.
 What that man has done, and I wish could recolect his name, all his neighbors can do. I told John Sharp Williams about him, and besought John Sharp to lay off 100 acres of his Yazoo land and try all falfa. All the satisfaction I could get out of John Sharp was, "Pll consult Kit about it." Kit is a boy of ' summers. John Sharp is from the distinctively cot ton country, but I do wish he would try a patch of alfalfa. One day l saw at Lake Providence. La, white clover about two feet tall. What would alfalfa do there? It would get to the caves of the house.
 Thousands and thousands of our popu- lation are leaving the high-priced lands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

the constitution was a compact between the several states. But near the end of his life, he came over to Calhoun's posi- tion on this point; and in his Capon Springs speech, he said that "a compact broken on one side is broken on all sides" and he even went so far as to pronounce the personal liberty bill distinctly treas- onable.' This was a bold position to take, for he represented Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States and Massachusetts passed the personal lib- erty bill i. e., a bill to nulify both the constitution and the law of Congress, as to the rendition of fugitive slaves. The difference between South Carolina and Massachusetts was that South Carolina threatened to nullify an unconstitutional law, and Massachusetts did actually null lify law which was in the strictest ac- cordance with the constitution.
 l never heard Wigfall at the bar; but he was, an able and learned lawyer, and must have been powerful advocate be- fore judge and jury. I heard him on the stump and in the Confederate Senate, and he had few equals in either role. A man who can hold 5000 people with a four hours speech, in the open air is a speaker indeed and in the great presidential contest of 1860 Wigfall did this in Texas, and nobody left the ground during the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

psychological fact that very ignorant peo- pie are often powerfully impressed by the mere sound of word of whose mean ing they have not the remotest eoneep- ton.
 When MT. Shelbys negro boy, in Uncle Toms Cabin" invented that brand new word "collusitate,' there can be little doubt that he profoundly impressed his companion.
 Tn Illustrating the curious psychological fact commented upon above, Wigfall told the following anecdote of Capt John Scott, the famous rife shot, jockey and sportsman, who figured so conspicuously in the flush times in Texas. Captain Scott, when he had won a pocketful of money at cards, advertised for a saddle horse, minutely describing the character and qualities of the animal he wished to buy. The next morning he was sitting on the piazza of his hotel, when a stranger rode up, dismounted from a magnificent steed and inquired for Capt. John Scott. T am yoursman," said the captain Well, there is your horse you advertised for said the stranger "1e is all right as to size and shape" said Scott How old is he?" Look in his mouth, sirH' The mouth was examined and the age found to be satisfactory. Shall l have to tie him when I dismount?' No, sir, he will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, and have gone across the border, settled in the Dominion of Canada and voluntarily become subjects of King Ed ward VII. There they get cheap homes with nearly all the conveniences they left in the states There they have low taxes, something they did not have in the states There they enjoy cheap living, a blessing utterly and hopelessly out or fashion in our free country There the country Is not tossed in a blanket every four years, to the discontinue and ter TOT of business. to see who shall be the first man in the land.
 If were young man l would go there too, to get out of and away from the cant of American politics-for example, both parties are fishing for the pension vote But that is sacrilege, and take 1t back.
 If the south were known to the men or Iowa as l know 1t, Iowa would send farmers to the south instead of to tho Canadian dominion.
 Yet of noble race was Shenkin
 And so the south will manage to Jog along as independent as that Viking of the high seas. who loved the storm and entered into battle with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

"The inhibition by alcohol, too, may have in the right place its very desirable purpose and no one ought to be ter rified by such physiological statements. even if inhibition is called partial paral- ysis. Yes, it Is partial paralysis, but no education, no art, no politics, no religion, is possible without such partial paralysis. What else are hope and belief and en- toyment and enthusiasm but a re-enforce- ment of certain mental states, with corre- spending inhbition-that is. paralysis of the opposite ideas? If a moderate use of alcohol can help in this most useful blockade, 1t is alley and not an enemy If wine can overcome and suppress the consciousness of the little miseries and of the drudgery of life, and thus set free and re-enforce the uncheck- ed enthusiasm for the dominant Ideas, if wine can make one forget the frictions and pains and give again the feeling of unity and frictionless power-by all means let us use this helper to civiliza- tion."
 Answering the question: What would result If prohibition should really pro- hibit. and all the nhibtions which a mild use of beer and wine promise to the brain really be lost?" Dr. Munsterberg says:
 ''The psychological outcome would be twofold-certain effects of alcohol which serve civilization would be lost, and, on the other hand much more harmful sub stitutions would set in. To begin with, the nation would lose its chief means of recreation after work. We know today too well that physical exercise and sport is not real rest for the exhausted brain cells The American masses work hard throughout the day. The sharp physical and mental labor the constant hurry and drudgery produce a state of tension and irritation which demands before the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

OHN JAMES INGALLS, once wrote
 a chapter on Blue Grass" that N was simply delightful as was everything that fell from his tongue or flowed from his pen. He classed Indian corn as a grass, and very properly, and dwelt in eloquent periods on the stately beauty of that plant king, as it is. of all the crop vegetables; but 1t is ignoble, indeed, compared with the giant oak. the graceful elm, the stalwart hickory, the imperial pine of the south. These, too, are grasses, monarchs of vegetables.
 Iris some 60 years since that George D. Prentice, in controversy with John Trough, then editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, put this doggerel in the Louis- vile Journal:
 If all flesh is grass, as the Scriptures
 say,
 Then Johnny Brough is load of hay.
 To which Brough, who weighed above 300 pounds, made this reply: Tt would seem so from the way that ass down at Louisville is nibbling at us" Prentice always declared that 1t was the best Ro- land ever returned for one of his Olivers. Prentice was then the leading whig edi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
WGFABy C. Hden D. D.

and things. He was a warm admirer of Gen. J. E. Johnston as a strategist and as a commander in the field. He believed that Jefferson Davis was able and patri- otio, but that he was "a bad judge of men," and if you had heard Wigfall dis cuss "the high rank and the miserable failures of Bragg and of Pemberton," you would perhaps have thought there was some color for his criticism.
 During Wigfall's sojourn at my old home. Mont Peliso, his wife, most uueenly woman, was with him, and his chivalrous courtesy to her was a beautt- full trait in his character and conduct.
 He was fond of his dinner. as great brain workers usually are. Julius Caesar was an epieure Cicero was fond of the pleasures of the table. In familiar let ter to an intimate friend he describes a banquet which he enjoyed at Caesar house. These two famous men-the most accomplished of their time-ate till they could eat no more, and the means which they employed for depletion, and for get ting an appetite for a fresh attack upon the rich viands, are too disgusting to print here.
 never heard Wigfall utter an oath' nor did I ever see him under the infiu- ence of liquor, though he had the reputa- ton of occasionally drinking more than was good for him. Tn his religious opin- ions he was decidedly orthodox.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

the cotton country is as simple as shoeing horses and easier.
 In dairy products, poultry, and eggs the supremacy of the north is even more pronounced than 1t is in the growing, the harvesting, and the sav- ing of hay and yet in the gulf states it ought to be as profitable to make and sell a pound of butter for 20 cents as it is to make that pound of butter in New York, or Illinois, or Wisconsin for 25 cents. The south has at least cents a pound advantage on the cost of produc ton.
 In Wisconsin a COW must be kept in a parlor six months of the year, and on the Gulf of Mexico that COW will not suf- fer if allowed to run at large all winter. In Wisconsin the pasture season is short. In Alabama 1t Is long, but Alabama all her life has been growing cotton, and only lately turned her attention to min ing coal and forging iron. With alfalfa and intelligent dairy farming. that means provident rotation of crops, Alabama would soon become a greater milk butter. eggs, cheese and poultry state than New York, and raise two bales of cotton with less labor than she now raises one bale. There is a man down at West Point, Miss, in the black lands between the Noxubee river and Okolona, whose plan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

we may finally land in nuts and salads.
 Every glass of beer has an influence on
 the brain, but so has every cup of tea or
 coffee every bit of work or amusement,
 every printed page and every spoken
 word, says pr. Munsterberg. But is it
 certain that the influence is harmful be-
 cause an overdose of the same stimulants
 Is surely poisonous?
 Psychologically speaking alcohol has
 indeed an inhibitory influence on mind
 and body.
 The feeling of excitement, the greater
 ease of motor impulse. the feeling of
 strength and joy, the forgetting of sor- row and pain-all are at bottom the re- suit of inhibition; impulses are let free because the checking centers are inhib- | tied. But it Is absurd to claim from the i start that all this @s bad and harmful, l as if the word inhibition meant destruc- ton and lasting damage. Harmful 1t is, bodily and socially, when these changes l become exaggerated, when they are projected into such dimensions that vital interests the care for family and honor and duty are paralyzed; but in the in-
 hibition itself lies no danger There Is not the slightest act of attention which does not involve such inhibition. If | read in my study, the mere attention to my book will inhibit the ticking of the clock in my room and the noise from | the street, and no one will call 1t harm | full. As soon as my attention increases, and I read with such passion that l for | get my engagements with friends and 1 my duties in my office, l become ridicu- I lous and contemptible. But the fact that i the unbalanced attention makes me by 1 its exaggerated inhibition quite unfit for | my duties is no proof that the slight , inhibition produced by attentive reading ; ought to be avoided.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

continue it's defense would be a useless waste of the lives of brave men.
 General Wigfal represented Texas in the old Senate of the United States and afterwards in the Confederate Senate. For some time. I believe, he commanded a brigade in the Army of Northern Vir- ginia. He was originally South Caro- linian, but emigrated to Texas, and grew up with the country" He held that the average of intelligence in Texas was high CT than in the older states, and he gave as the reason for this phenomena the al- legged fact that the most vigorous and enterprising men were the men who em- igrated from the old states, and that the idle and stupid stayed behind" Whether his theory was sound I am not called to determine.
 In politics he was as devoted a disciple of Mr Calhoun, as was Jefferson Davis himself. He was states-rights to ths core and ready to defend his faith against all corners. On a memorable occasion in the United States Senate. when one of his opponents quoted Daniel Webster, he 'the great expounder of the constitution" Wigfall replied: of there was ever in this country a man who did not under stand the constitution. that man was Daniel Webster" Of course he was re- ferrng to the debate with Calhoun, in which debate MT. Webster denied that