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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
MRS. FIsKE's FIRST APPEARANCE

When Years old She Was One oE
 the Ghosts in "Azaebeth." Mrs Minnie Maddern Fiske in Woman's
 Home Companion.
 "I was about s year old when hrst began to appear in plays An odd in- ctdent occurred about that time. when I had child parts In Shakespearean drama with Barry Sullivan. It was on the night he first played Macbeth. and I was one of the apparitions. The piece as usual, was put on hastily, and I stuck hopelessly in my speech at rehearsal. However. I was confident I would be all right by night
 T must have looked funny ghost as I came through the trap with my bristling red hair. and in my mighty I forgot my lines. but with the non" chalance of an old actor l began to improvise. My voice was 1hrill and penetrating, and am told I said some thing like this
 Be lion mettled. proud and take no heed; there perspirers areI'
 "The audience went wild and Sul- livan almost collapsed. Take her ofrP he groaned, and I was lowered out of sight.
 After the play he took me aside and gently promised me lollipops if I would learn my lines in the future I didn't know what lollipops were, but l liked the sound: so I promised"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
rRosrCurNa IuRoRs.

Much progress has been made in the prosecution of the several jurors In the Cooper ease at Nashvilie and 1t is conceivable that the court in a few weeks will devote itself to the prose- cution of the accused. prisoners. This far distant from Nashville we do not understand clearly what the jurors have been guilty of. but we do know that they have been prosecuted wig orously. It Is rather novel idea--- this Tennessee conception of what is due juror.
 . A well disposed citizen is going quietly about the discharge of his daily tasks; court offcial summons him to serve on murder jury. He Is accepted against his will. And in the twinkling of an eye he finds that he and not the defendant in court is on trial. Some people have gone so far as to say that Col Cooper and his son will not be vigorously prosecuted. @iehVuBu ehotV ID uV 1PPatout BNouuu for such a statement. But whether the Coopers are or are not prosecuted with vigor. the outer world knows that the offices of the court and the law have been reIentlessiy used in the prosecution of the jurors.
 Jury duty is always hard, so hard that the disposition of the average man to do anything he honestly can to escape has in many places embar- rassed the courts. If the Tennessee idea is to come Into general use in the South, where the court first prose cutes the jury and then turns to the defendant, jury duty will be more avoided in the past.
 The conduct of the Cooper case, so far. has not been altogether credit able to the courts of that State. All the political capital that could be made out of the unfortunate tragedy in which Senator Carmack met his death was made: all possible emotion that could be worked up out of 1t was worked up.
 Now the trial. to the outer world. bears a political aspect. This may be wrong, but 1t is m idea gotten this far from Nashville through the col umns of the Tennessee papers. The impressions that the outer world has gained from the trial and the politi- cal aspect it is made to bear is one that is net complimentary to the Ten nessee method of procedure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
CosT or sTATn nLncTIoNs

Axknnsas spepda Half . Million An-
 nuaIly in PeaIttcs.
 Arkansas Gazette.
 As nearly as can be estimated, more than a million dollars is spent in Ar- kansas every two years in the holding of elections and the campaigns Inci- dent thereto.
 Two elections, school and municipal. are held in Arkansas every year, and every other year this number is in- creased to four by tho addition of the State and national elections. With the municipal elections in April, the school elections in May, the State elecs tions in September, and the national elections In November, there is almost . continual round of duty at the polls. Moreover, all nominating by the Demo- cratic party is done through primaries, ana these are practically elections
 The expense of holding state and na- tional elections In Arkansas Ia estimat- ed at &s4,0O0, an average of &720 per county, and total of 310s,000 for State and national elections. In the whole state the campaign expenses paid by the committees--inciden to elections are estimgated to be $780, 600, bringing the total cost of the State and national elections. In the political organizations expenses up to $258, 900.
 The cost of holding primary Is $2,- 900 for Pulaski County, and is esti- mated to be e90,O00 for the State. The amount of money spent by the candi- dates for various offices in the cams paigns preceding a primary Is estimat- ed at $6,oo0 on an average in each county-surely a conservative figure, But if only $5.O0o Is spent in each county the total would be S375,000 for the State. Thus the cost of holding the State and national elections and the primary, added to the amounts spent by candidates in the ants-prim- ary campaign and by the committeeB would be 9723.0O0. We must add to this figure the smaller cost of the school and municipal elections, priFnR- rIes and campaigns. Moreover, much money has been spent in campaigns for the adoption of amendments to the constitution. The estimate of a mill lion dOllars every two years spent on elections. primaries, and campaign is doubtless too low.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04

Speaking of railway construction |, we note that the, Delaware and Lacka- wa1na Railroad is preparing to make an Improvement in its road that rath- CT tops anything in that line that we have seen portion of It's line, thir- ty-nfne miles long, runs over an ex- eeedingly rough route and as a conse- quence the line Is not only very crook ed but has some very steep grades. The Improvement to be made will reduce 4he length to twenty-eight miles, make the line almost straight and re- move very many of the steep grades. The eose of thus saving eleven miles of distance is put at ten million dol lars. or nearly one million dollars spent for each mile of distance saved Evidently the company thinks 1t will pay or the job would not be under taken.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
rHURsDAE FEBRUARY {. 1908.
SPEAKING our.

The Raleigh Evening Times has it's own very decided opinions about press Tnuzzling/ and press censorship. (which had you rather live in."5 1t asks. "a country run by the newspa- pers or country run by Roosevelt and his kind? That is the essence of yhe suit against The New York World by Roosevelt in the name of the gov- ernment. When the press is muzzIed by some old sedition law and the bread line begins to knock at the doors of the National Capitol. then 1t is time for the thinking people to ask them selves whether this is a real free govA ernment or not. It is the same old story of Rome and the same old story of the French Revolution working it. self out between the common people and the rulers who are running wild with power. Muzzle the free press of this nation and such men as Cromwell, the buccaneer of the Roosevelt and Taft expeditions. will take justice by the throat and freedom in this coun- try win fade into a myth. When the press of this nation cannot ask, What went with the peoples money" with out having to face a secret govern ment court. then 1t is high time for the. men who founded this republic to call a swift halt'
 We think all who deserve to be free will prefer to live in a country where the press is free. rather than in one in which the newspapers are controlled by men like Roosevelt and those who follow his way of thinking. One trou- ble. however. that lies in the way is the fact that so many people are eith- CT ignorant or indifferent as Co what efforts are being made to muzzle the American press. If all private citi- gems would interest themselves as they should it would not be an easy thing for self-constituted censor to even attempt to buHdoze the newspapers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
Come Again, senatori

New York Sun.
 Jeff of the Ozarks-we refer of has taken another fly at the Octopus, to empty benches at the Capitol, but to the great repure and edlfication of the be circulated as rapidly as possible. The Senator's frank and the distribut- ing powers of the rural post will in Sesoh of tRe tRRr1nE EEumbles sfpr Si Sly wtn ad great will be the guffaws and the
 There were only s5.OoO words of. it, stuff from first to last. and 1t viii be read in thousands of log cabins along the foothills within the next two ecstatic % silence % @ and them the men H siap u their fir legs at proper intervals. Je1 is doing big things at Washington, as the mountain oracles always said he would fin Arkansas. where other bad men pre- vail and sometimes break walking sticks and hotel chairs and things over all his way on Tuesday at the Capitol Nobody could interfere. Even Davis's loyal packer, Senator Johnston of Ala bamas seemed to be laughing at some. thing else in some other place. and so he ranted at the Stock and Cotton Ex- changes in a bleak and uninhabited chamber. with none to make him afraid, while his burning language was
 
 for subsequent distribution in the piney woods of Arkansas.
 A great moment for Jef Davis, a great day for all his kind, when he had the Octopus bleding and dismem- bered beneath hts victorious boots and gambling palaces tottering to ruin all about him. Not an alarmist Is Jehf of the Ozarks. Far from 1t. Calm per- ehes on his unruf1ed brow, tranquility and fearlessness have marked him for their own His earlier apprehension. Rule of the Senate, has long been dissipated; the wicked men all behind him, far behind in distant Arkansas; the hellions and myrmidons of We'll Street cannot answer back-conceiv- ably they never heard of him; so Ozark Jeff let down his luxuriant back hair, pulled up his defiant pants" and turn ed loose upon the vacant Senate chairs and the sparsely populated galleries a vertiable flood of language that ought to fill the provinces at h ome with rap lure when they get 1t by muleback or by skin.
 Shall we have another inunlation? [? Why not? There is no. reason why some day when the other Senators are busy, when the stenograph CTS have nothing else to do and when the news paper men are vigllantly eating pie and so on in the restaurant. Nobody in Washington wants to shoot at him. and the Public Printing once stands wide open for the handling Of such stun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
Letters To the Editer
Nsbie Deyosie's Death. Evanstons ul., Jan. 2s. 1909.

kvenstons ui.. Jan' xs, lsvs.
 h an article recently publishsd ey who was the first victim of the war. MT. James R. Grove states that De- He is absolutely wrong in this. The date of Deyotiess death was Febfu- ary l2, 1881. Devotie was the found CT of the sigma Alpha Epsilon fratsr. of Alabama in isss and as a member of that organization I have been es- peciaiiy interested in hts career: In fact. am the aaithor of the lie of Mos q serial In our fraternity magazine teriai for his life, I have made several mlnity in which he ever lived, as. for instance Tuscaloosa, Marion. Selma, Fort Morgan and Princeton. N. J, I have interviewed several hundred who posssssion ns@ @ an ssiSna i%msnse amoun. a of his writings. including letters which he wrote after January 2i, 1881, one of them being q letter to his mother. days before his death. Moreover. the Mobile newspapers of February 1t, 1881. give an account of his death which occurred two days before and contain accounts of his funeral ser- vices which were held in Mobile be- fore his body was taken on the steam CT up the Alabama river. These news papers are on file In the library at Mobile, where Mir. Grove can see them. Again, the library Of the state Histor- ical Society at Montgomery in the capitol building contains files of the gives the correct date of Devotie's death. If this evidence does not sat- isfy Mir. Grove, who has been correct ed before, refer him to Deyotie's ep-nioth CT, Mrs. c. L. A. Devotie, s11 West Taylor street, Grifiin, Ga. and then If he is not satisfied have oth- CT evidence but feel confident that the above is enough to convince any
 Very respectfully.
 William c. Leveres
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
The Model Representative.

The funeral oration made by M. Brisson over his friend and contem- porary Deputy Delbet has not been sufficiently noticed
 During all the sittings of the Cham- ber,"aexclaimed tine yenerated Presi- dent T saw him before me, his eyes fixed upon the orator. notlosing Q single word He followed all the dis cussions with an attention that never fiagged. To me he was the. trlue model representative of the people in a dern- ocratic nation"
 In fact M. Delbet never entered the Chamber but to run over the journals and reviews. He spent all his time during the session In reading, and as he read he never lifted his nose from
 only once did N. Delbet deviate from this habit N Jaures was haranguing from the tribune The Chamber was protesting So strongly that M. Delbet for an instant lowered his paper and look at what was going on. 4a..e
 M. Jaures saw this and exclaimed: Monsieur Delbet, 1t is not worthy of such a man as you to interrupt me"
 q? IT" said M. Delbet, greatly as- tonished. Indeed said nothings'
 And this was the only time that this model Deputy ever opened his mouth!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
CoUard!y Assaults as
 Means Of Nuzzling 7he Press

ured on the time 1t took them to get wrought up over what The Advertiser a we ys ssfors shsy s wSa sos ns ssoss to fight at anything We might have said one way or another about their
 We sSsiiss will sither iasn1s De broke or ou. of business or their kses edge wIli have ever reach The wire-Grass. That is. ap their resentlng abilities.
 CsvraraIy Attack. Columbus, Ga. Ledger.
 The attack of sFfetchef and Donald Conner, sons of 0ov. B. B. Conner. of Alabama. on Mir. Frank P. Glass. busi- ness manager of The Montgomery Ad- cry Sat saturday sfternocn. ~ was o one of the most un-called-for and cowardly affairs that has ever occurred in the newspaper history of the state; x vertiser has always respected Govern- or Corners character and has opposed only his policies of governIhent and ducted duct dpi in most dignified % manner. @ personalities and mud slingfng never having been 2 part of iL The ooy. ernor himself haa resorted tc the himself and the paper aud had been awarded damages to the amount of one cent. After this verdict, the oov-
 
 per personally and the relations be- tween them were amicabie.
 Also, nothing adverse to Governor 9s aan and his pS!Ssss sd fsr months. Therefore, 1t seems that the attack was premeditated
 The attack was .eowardiy and be- young men. together. without preyiousl prime of life. only lntrainsd. rash sId ws sa an sa say sof ss prs Of honor would have committed It.
 It is unfortunate for the Governor that. this affair. should. have occurred. that he had anything to do with it. and those who know Governcr Conner. know that he regrets 1t as much as the State win unconsciousiy connect him with 1t and 1t win intensity oppo- sificn to the Governor in his plans for shs fpturs ts so The Aerica af a. psopls a Ss speech now as much as they did a hundred years ago and any attempt 70 throttle or impede this rtght, ts sure to meet with almost universal con-
 Roosevelt Outaone. Gadsden Evening Journal.
 to stop newspaper criticism by main strength and awkwardness. Rooseveit can here get some pointers on how 70 deal with The New York World. The Indianapolis Newa and other publiea- fions that insist on naintaining. the freedom of the press. As the boys say, there's more than one way to skin . cat.r
 ,f Cause Ne4 HelpeA. Americus. Ga, Times Recorder.
 Sons of Governor Conner. of Ala barna, have attacked Editor Glass, Of m a Mont nnraerv Adverffsef aHaingt which paper the Governor recently see cured verdict of one cent for alleged fibel The cause of the old man was hardly helped by the methods of the boys.
 Big Task. Greenville Advocate.
 If tho young Corners undertake to assault every editor who dares crit- icfse the chief executive they will have their hands full. or the liberties of the press and free speech will be strangled In Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
The Horse and Senator Bailey.

Columbia State.
 It seems that rarely if ever is there occasion In public places for the ex- ploitation of flub-dub that there IS not d fiub -dubdist on hand to take advant- age of this occasion. The occasion pre- scented Itself the other day in the United States senate, and Senator Joseph W. Bailey was on the job. There was under discussion a provision in the appropriation bill whereby the president. if he so chose, would be nl- lowed the use of automobiles Instead of horses. Naturally and Inevitably there was somebody on hand to rise in defense Of that "noblest of dumb ami mals," that good and true friend of man, the horse. Senator Bailey, as we have said. was the man. He rose and paid this glowing tribute" to the horse:
 T believe that the horse Is the noblest of Gods dumb animals and I do not want to see him supplanted by senseless machine. Next to the dog, the horse Is mans best friend"
 This Is very pretty and very true The horse is a nice animal useful, friendly to man. intelligent, and in all respects worthy of any. glowing trtb- utes' that may come his way. At the same time we have nothing against
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
This L Ny lstk Birthday
BIeHoP HHCkEY.

s The Rt. Rev., Thomas F. Hickey, the snc- cessor of the late Bishop McQuaid of the r., was born in Rochester,. February (, 1881. He attended the parochial schools in his native city and completed his education Troy, where hegraduated In 1Sst. Upon his return to Rochester he was ordained 10 the priesthood by Btahop McQuatd. After serving as rector Of several churches in nearby towns Father Hickey was called to Rochester to assume the rectorshIp of St. Mary's Church in that city. Later he was elevated to the vieaF-gsneralship of the aio- oese, and in 1905 he was selected as Coad- tutor Bishop by the Congregation of the Propaeanda, in Rome, at the request of Bishop McQuaid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04

The Hartford Times thinks there will be no government libel suit against The New York World. and be- iieves that the threat to institute such . suit was merely blun on the part of the administration. Roosevelt will learn in time that good newspapers are not to be blurred or buIidosed. even by President And speaking of his probable abandonment of his plan in the case. The Pittsburg Post thinks Roosevelt. "may weIl retrsct. the edict he promulgated in a message to Congress. in which he declared that none but the government should act as the prosecutor. The result sought in this matter can just as we'll be att tained in proceedings which follow custom and precedent. and without e most dangerous violation of cOnstitu- tional provisions"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
7his Date in History
RRHRuARx q.

i7s7-Bishep white of PhiIzdslphia ofdaln-
 ed Bls1op of Pennsylvania by the Archbishop oe Canterbury. lsss--consress by resolution offered chip
 to convey the Marquis de lafayette to
 America,
 issG--tJnseed states Senate appointed .
 committee to investigate the national
 bank.
 issi-The Confederate Congress met at
 Montgomery and elected Jefferson
 Davis Presldent of the Confederate
 States of America. between Union and Con-
 federate troops at Mooffteld ". Va. 1ess--DInKasy chipping bili passed by the
 House oe Representatives. 1ss7--Interstate Commerce Commission es-
 abolished.
 Centenary Of the Supreme Court of
 the United Btatss celebrated. i9O1-Carrie Nation began her liquor cru
 aade In Kanses. As la0B--E a. D. Gh0rkridge, ex-Govsynor Of
 North Dakota, died.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
The Aasnult er alr. tlass.

AM0 A88M4H VI NHHt 8A8*8s
 The personal attack on Mr. Glass. of The Montgomery Advertiser, by asir G % so be @ jsSsii,se ssY either on n sroands @ of provccation or In q high sense of chfyalry. We dare say the authors of 1t. reviewing the affair in it's se- dissent from this view of 1t. But whether they do or not does not alter the positivefess of q conclusion which
 ns Tines Is sold to ssprsss ss o 1T ,ss ans chip on their shoulders to resent sv- cry harsh criticism which the public record of their father has provoked. cssion to prick their ears to attentive regard for signals to run to cover in an hour of real danger, Mir. Glass' sSas m nsy sassay seas9 nd st in the ring" The Governor must, and doubtless does, look to higher means of silencing his political enemies than Such types. of defenderes a nstic the wrongs of the. past. nor smooth sstiOss sa1a gssss of sss ysns fssnss ss ws stormy career to infer that the Gov-l ernor believes In thug tactics in nght- ing his battles of political renown. in the encouragement of giadIatorial contests o of of statesmanship. The mis- taken zeal of fllial affection in thsa in weighed in extenuation of the Judg-. ment that public opinion has been quick to pass upon 1t: The Times sees sa m .snsimsn. al sSs of na fssns TSs charitable estimate, of the affair does not save 1t from the popular verdict bs thst s sss son an na as sroasht sna ew expressions of rational approval In the meantime Mr. Glass is to be. com rnended upon his manly dignity prised victim of an attack which he had no sane reason to apprehend, he met 1t with a demeanor characteristic Ss hs assy m s Ssrsse ss sad sn trial
 Slow To Anger.
 Those Conner boys are slow to an- ger. and we of the Wire-grass will have some time to wait for our dfub- ping if they have started out to tackle or i've years ago when the governor took such steps in a political way ass to create political opponents, some of Teo% y and FSr I s ogs Ss ss M RsG Rs. late date to get mad enough to light over it, fg evidence conclusive. that those boys don't go or half-cccked. Out 3tN6 ttO tu0tA0E 0uC 0SttgOb1ttQlhf thinking not only the second time. but even the. third, before they do any-
 when they have cleaned out The Advertiser force and then go on to Birmingham. Huntsville, the Decaturs. points. and start on their Southern, tour they will probably drop down here and work back for their con- venience, we can tell them how to find the offices in Dothan. It's only a few doors from the Mullen Hotel to the Wire-Grass Siftings office. When they have finished there. they can drop down the street-sarne street on the east side--and there And The Journal office. Ny the time they have filled their engagements at these two offices, we will try to have cop ready to direct them for the next train out Of town.
 when we first heard of their start on one of The Advertiser editors, we then regretted the long run law, for we calculated they could work out from Montgomery, but when we fig E