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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
NEWS OF OZARK.
Great Preparations Made for Visit of
 1Er. Bryan.

Ozark, Jan s1.-(speciaL)-The fam fly and friends of Mrs. Bartow Garner are anxious about her condition.
 Sunday afternoon last she suffered a stroke of paralysis and has been con- fined to her room since then. At first it was hoped the stroke would be more or less temporary but she has made no perceptlble improvement
 Miss Georgia Bowling has returned from 6 few days visit with friends st Dothan.
 The price of cotton seed has been advanced to $20 per ton and the Ozark cotton oiH mills is being flooded with seed by the farmers.
 Arrangements for the coming of Will liam Jennings Bryan next Tuesday night have been completed and the of- hcial program announced as follows: 1. Reception at the home of Mir. and Mrs, H. L. Martin immediately on ar rival
 2. Breakfast served at 7:sO wednes- day morning to which the press and distinguished citizens of the wire grass belt have been invited.
 3. General reception in the rotunda of the court house at o'clock.
 {. The lecture In the auditorium of the court house at s:45 sharp.
 Ozark expects thousands of people here on this occasion from abroad and b preparing Tor their receptlonr
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
What the Tariff Medns
 To Each Man. Bre0kfas

taxed 43 per cent. The fact that sait water vas found at Onaudage N. Y-l ssussd s sea. the ,l passsgs of one Of the esylI- York joined the wooden g<5ds beggars steel besEars of Psnnsyivania--aIl' on her hhereuns oL ssit--and saddied the rob-
 If the .farmer of Kentucky or Ten- nsssee cnt nins q dozen hogs. hs is taxed salt he buys to- cure 1t. On the other hand the New England fisherman may go out and catch as many mackerel as h,s fa nicsia Icss VII h npl9 and when he comes inS %Postsa as sssss sss fss ss salt .a .ss m pounds of salt {; but there was a rehate of e the duty on ios. szs and sos pounds fisheries" though I believe that there is rebate of duty on salt with which eSportea meats are cured. At was to keep that cheap ssit out of asi our IF markets that the duty was inposed. The salt tax is not collected by the Treasury; 1t goes to make the salt trust
 Some tax payers are Christians ana hold family prayers. # so they kneel Snderstandins % that # the S oiy Ss things ls %S oH the English wor<ingman's table that are taxed are coffee. tea, pepper spices and sugar. All the rest he gets free and he lives in an untaxed house from cellar to Barrett.
 More than three score years ago q cheap breakfast was the paramount poe iitieal Issue in England and it carried the day. If the Democratic Party has got generalship enough to herd flock or geese, and skill enough to put up e panel of draw bars. 1t will make . cheap breakfast its paramount issue in 1910 and in 1912. and if 1t does t will urban America and half the voters are from our urban popuiation---and we may De sure that the Republican sres vision" Of the tariff will not cheapen living-'The OK knoweth his owner and the ass his Inastsr'= crib" s
 Here's Uemecratie Opsortunity.
 The percentage that I have given in the foregoing are substantiaIIy cor- rect; but the tariff is such . juggie and the figures are In such a mage that It Is difficult to be precisely accurate. take the average when I can. For fnstance, carpets have ten classif1ce- Some articies- cotton fabrics--have a hundred lass,ficattpDs,ss.s
 But if you are interested send to your Congressman For d public docu- Tneuf issued by the Department of Con- merce and Labor entitled Imported Merchandise Entered for Consumption in the United states and Duties Coi- that you are the most universally talk ed individual on earth. It tells you how the Government taxes: it does not show you how the manufacturers col. lect twenty times as much"
 Washington. Jan. goth. 1908.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
This, h My 4Osh Birthday
Caleb Powers.

Caleb Powers, the Kentucky polI- tician whose eight years light for free- dom attracted the attention Of the whole country, was born in Knox county, Kentucky, February l. 1869. He worked his way through college, studied law and was admitted to the bar Ills first public office was that of superintendent of schools of his didate for Secretary of Stats of Ken lucky on the Republican ticket, with w. s. Taylor for Governor. The elec- tion of the governor was contested and while the matter was pending in the courts William Goebel. the Democratic candidate for governor, was assassin ated in Frankfort. Mir. Powers was among those accused of having . part in the conspiracy He was arrested March 10. 1900, and was placed to trial in July of the same year. He was cen- victed. but in. the following February he was granted another trial Again he was convicted and sentenced to life Imprisonment A third trial resulted in sentence of death. The fourth trial of the case ended in January, 1908, with a disagreement of the, jury. Last June the famous case was finally closed when Mir. Powers was granted ar1par- don by Governor Willson of Kentucky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

n4aEk 1W6lug III El&E RCA V WCGAASt
 LThe astronomers of Harvard have observed perturbation in the orbital movement of Neptune" such as might he caused by the presence of a new planet in the vicinity.1 .
 believe in the new planet. was eleven years old in 1S4s, when Lever rier and Adams and Mary Somerville discovered Neptune through the dis ing Uranus. 'Perturbations." they call that kind of disturbance. I had been having those perturbations myself, for more than two months; in fact all to keep dogs in some of the patches in those days. You notice that these re- cent perturbations are considered re-
 narkable because they perturbate Iy that is nothing; often usedsto per turbate through as much as hahan hour perturbating. There isn't any Neptune know, because I am not speaking from hearsay. Why. if there was a planet two hundred and fifty thousand Tight years" the other side of Neptune's or- it in a minute if it could perturbate equal to a dog. Give me Q dog every time, when 1t comes to perturbating. Yon let 2 dog jump out at you all ot you will see what small thing three seconds of arc is: the shudder that goes through you then would open the seams of Noah's ark itself. from figure: drop that melon the same as if you had never had any but just casual interest in it. I know about these am writing, but history.
 Now then, notice this. About the end of Augustl1S46, a change came over me and resolved to lead better life. so anyway hecauaa they had got to hav- ing guns and dogs both. Although was reformed, the perturbations did not stop! Does that strike you? They did not stop. they went right on and to the 23d of September; then Neptune was discovered, and the whole mystery stood explained. It shows that I am so .sensitlyely constructed that I per turbed. This has been going on on all my life. 1t only happens in the water melon season, but that has nothing to do with it, and has no significance; horticulturists all tell me 1t Is only an cestral and hereditary, and that is what think myself. Now then, I got to perturbatfng again, this summer all summer through; all through wal srmelon time: and where. do you think? Up here on my farm in Connecticut. Is that signihcant2 Unquestionably it is. for you couldn't raise watermelon on this farm with a derrick.
 That perturbating was caused by the new planet. That Washington Obser- vatory may. throw as much doubt as it wants to, 1t cannot affect me, because l know there is a new planet. I know 1t because I don't perturbate for poth- ing. There has got to be a dog or planet, one or the other; and there isn't any dog around here, so there's got to named after me: should just love 1t if I cant have a constellation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

Dear Sir;--
 have recently noted in your col India. myself have quite recently been in India. have many friends there and am in daily receipt Of news papers and periodicals from that coun- from representative Indians and Eng ttshmeu,
 As gather from these sources of in- toTmatlon. the main characteristics mortality of indians from famine and plague and their increasing poverty. the former dependent upon and keep tng peace with the letter;s the latter %fs sna,sh SpoD ana aeac
 In the t1rst three quarters of the nine- teenth century there were thirteen fam iness tn the last quarter, eighteen. and throughout large and increasing areas of the country famine. ia now chronic. During a single decade. from 1881 to 1901, nineteen millions of people died from famine. The income per head has !n 1850 to about 2 cent and a half in 1900. Concurrently. English >income from India has increased by leaps and bounds" the export trade in the last fifty years rising from thirty seventy millions sterling In the past year. Of these millions muicted from the Qver.creduIous and unresisting In. practically nothing on the education of the people who produced them. Even today she spends less than three ceuts per day per head for this purpose, with the result that scarcely iB per cent. of InIia's three hundred millions are init crate in any degree. In almost every country on earth education is not only free but compulsory. Even in Turkey t is n2minaliy %. In India alone there
 1t is easy to enfuse India with the people of India. The term America and .terchsnEeahiy without serious confu- sion, because the people. their land and their government. are all of q piece. so to speak. Hut 1t is exactly revers- the commercial value of that portion Of the earth known as, India, ia enhanced by every foot of rsiL every factory and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

the paper at that time was not slow to see that it would soon be unpopu- lar. if not actually dangerous. to es- pouse the Southern side so he made haste to do q little gymnastics and between suns he made an expeditions Hop to what he saw was going to be the safe and popular side. This was merely specimen of his agility.
 But in the main the editorial views and opinions of big newspaper half a century ago were considered the main and important feature of the sheet and all else looked upon as ac- cessories. It is largely different now. Readers of newspapers are much more given to doing their own, thinking and forming their own conclusions with out so much regard to what the edi- tor may say. They look to their daily paper for all the news of passing events at home and abroad. and then decide for themselves, regardless of what the editorial writers may think or say.
 But although this is true. and a1- though the editor is no longer looked on as infallibie.. we hold that a news paper. and especially one of the lead- ing journals of the country in many respects should have fixed opinions and abide by them. A newspaper cannot. and should not. have much in- fiuence if it shifts its position and changes its opinions merely to be in line with. popular opinion. As news paper The New York Herald is in the front rank. but editorially it com mands little respect. That is the con ditlon in few words. asa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
BY sAvorARD.

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 It Is confidently predicted that the tssp wifi paoposs %ss. sna duty on coss O
 cents a pound when they proceed to "revise" the tariff next spring. It would yield 2 revenue of some $eo, ,ooo.- tS0 S Dss a s anS sss mSad In the Treasury. If the Democrats in 1894 had raised s30 900 by duty on coffee instead of snacting that lawsuit aye tesy sEss the me ss sas future sale of bonds and dissipated q sixteen to one nightmare. Had that been the result, evsrything political in sas TSouS iSds ss Ssh ns deyt Bn they would not have 1t so, and most of the things in this country today, much of It not worth the devils fetching, is Republican,.
 It used to be amusing ts hear old Pig Iron Kelly crate on "a cheap breakfast table for the American working man ,s z A, A great many peOEis was theatricai delivery; his voice was that of . tragic actor who tore q passion to tatters; he was artificial from ordium to. peroration. and affec- ter sSs he nns as hOnsss msra ana he did have some Credit Mobiifer stock ---for he died poor as he had lived poor and he might have had millions by selling the most influential vote his own--in any one of several occa-
 Rare was old Pig Iron's idea of . cheap breakfast--cheap coffee. cheap sn on d fsss aed M pf waIss he else from roof to foundation stone ex- cspt sausage and some spices
 Let us look. All building material eat his breakfast in q cheap house. The table at which he eats Is taxed 35 per cent. and the chair in which he sits as much. The table cloth and napkins pay so per cent. The Knives and forks are taxed za per cent; piatea dishes. cups and saucers 6s per cent; tumbiers. cent; eoisee pot pots, sW per sn cent; I suSsr ksr ss per cent; butter sS per cent: milk 1A per cent.
 Now your farmer will say that milk part ts ell bosh; but the tax 10 levied and on the Canadian border it is col. iected. Besides millions of folk in this country use condenssd milk and that is
 But to proceed. Butter Is taxed ga per cent; poultry z0 per cent. eggs, 44 per cent. :; bacon. 25 per cent: beef IS per cent; pork, IS per csnt.i cheese. s5 per cent; muttoh. 2s per cent; per cent; bread, 20 per cent: corn
 ahs ra sr per cent cent. bts sa as I gsr cent cent. spices are free --ctnnamon, cloves, mace, pepper 1t is tsxSed tSd 30 Ias psr n cent. and d is taxed 3s per cent.
 was about to forget salt that is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
MORNING THOUGHT
nY .. NARyIN NICHoLs.

The Unitei States is the kiiiingest country on earth" said the man who
 looked as if he wouldn't Kill ny without chloroforming 1t. kiiitnk Tn 1907. there were S.2f2 country homicides committed here,
 an increase of $40 over the previous year. Heretofore. the only people who were greater killers than We were the Italians. We passed them last year and now show ratio of 11S people killed to every million, com pared with only l0b to the million among the Italians. Contrasted with other civilized countries we make c much worse showing. for in Germany only 13 to the million are killed by each other: in France Ie per million. and In Great Britain 27 to the million. Now isn't that record for nation posing Rs the most eniightensd ip the world? To make bad matters worse, we don't punish our nnurderers to speak Of Last year only 1s3 execu- tions took place, leaving COTS man. slayers stil1 alive. though some of thefn.s Fortunately, have been sent to prison. The only redeeming feature of the whole bloody story is that so many of them are foreigners. This is n little evidence that the killing busi- ness is not an American trait stili IuoTey are Tar tUO tileuy 6inSftcaho shu~ kill. May not this propensity begin in the practice of carrying firearms in this country7 Give a man pistol and a bottle of firewater and if he doesn't kill somebody 1t is because he misses the chance
 The most beautiful thing in all the world is a cioudless. star-lit night The whole stellar world Is majestic In Us noiseiess ana stately grandeur. To love that inexpressible Scene is to hold communion with her visible forms: She speaks to you In the language or the skies. So there are central suns burnt -out worlds, the, far-away plan cts. great consteliaticns. mighty star dust paths. and there's the vast. out. lying world of humanity. Would that their ceasefess tread might be as noise. less! Woud that their serene hush mi their silent movement in their ap- pointed task might teach us as to the worlds abovei
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

of the editorial department of The New York Herald. It talks this way about 1t: 's' f'-'~ ~+' ,"
 'The Herald has improved in all di- and has not now, any editorial char. acter or ability. Eagerly sought by everyone who wishes to obtain the freshest and most complete knowledge of what is going on"-in trade. in politics, in society, in lIterature-no- body ever thinks of going to The Her aid for a reliable opinion on any sub- 1ect. It has no convictions and there- fore no influence. Jt makes few com. initials, and those 1t makes are suh- tect to withdrawal or revision at the amenable to persuasion or to threat. Up to certain night in the spring of 1861. The Herald was moro rabidly Southern than The Charleston News; peals to Mir. Lincoln to beard the trait ors in their den and to drown treason in its own foul blood. So many times since. What The Herald says today 1t may say tomorrow. Therefore, again, It's editorial utterances com mapd neither attention nor respect"
 The truth of the matter is. as our contemporary should remember, that newspapers are quite different now from what they were in the old days, say half-a-century ago. Then the ed- itorial department was everything. Men like Horace Greeley, James Cor don Bennett, Charles A. Dana, James Watson Webb, Henry J. Raymond and perhaps others, were in control of the editorial departments of the various metropolitan newspapers, and then the editorial columns of their papers were "the thing" The big man who wrote the leading editorials was the Sir Or acle of his particular following. Each of the big newspapers had it's own clientele of readers and to a majority of them the editorial opinions were law and gospel
 In the main these organs of pub lie opinion were honest and conscien- tious in their views. They may have been mistaken but they were sincere. The Herald seems to have been some what of an exception to the general run of these leading journals. The incident cited by The virglnian-Pllot is a fair example of the faculty with which that paper trimmed it's sails to catch the popular breeze. There was in New York very strong sentiment. in favor of the South, and its conten- tions. and 1t is not surprising that The Herald was among the sympathizers. but the astute mind of the editor of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
And sun Thsy Come.


 The hot house editor of this paper has been besieged here of late with all kinds of summer truck. We first had greeo corn, with fresh silk and tassel; then it was green cotton boils. with fresh. cream colored blossoms, and now we have mess Of bunch beans, and some butter beans mixed, with the green vines attached, raised by Mrs. c. D. Walker. Then to prove that we live in the tropical Southland the garden spot where all the Yankees ought to stop. MT. L.. Gardner sent down couple of ripe Dothan raised bananas. They are about the first ba- nanas we ever saw that got ripe on the tree. But few of us know what a real banana tastes like. They are pull- ed green in the country in which they grow, and 0lrrive in the country green, and we know how that is. We know what a ripe watermelon tastes like, and how the ones taste that are pulled green and ripen while waiting for the Northern fellow % buy them.
 Several people here in town have banana trees, bushes, or whatever they are called but we fail to recognize them till they bring us the fruit. That's the proof of the pudding.
 Some of our people are already ig- uPing on putting out orange ereeA grape fruit, and such stun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
ChIcaxo,s Bnaxet.
Chicago Record-Herald.

NSIIIONE5V INVNVE l 4AS1 tN4NE'
 Every city department head yester- day received orders from Mayor Busse. Controller Wilson, and Chairman Bet nett of the Finance Committee to. cut his estimate of expenses for the present year SO that the aggregate of cost will not exceed the expected income for the year The total of all estimates SUD . mitted was withheld from the public because they far exceeded the estimate Is planned to keep the appropriations for corporate purposes within $2S,0O0,- 900. The actual cash now In slght 10 S22, ,00O, 900. It is part of the retrench- ment plan to cut the salaries of tn Q policemen from the adyanced schedule of last December
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
THE DEAD OF THE
 MARION RIFLES
Old CSmrade Speaks of the nConB Men of Other Years Who Went
 aIs5a Afa Tan 29. 1903.

NAmEA0A EWGMMW
 Men of 0ther Years Who went
 To the War.
 shefieid. Ala. Jan. 2s. 1908.
 To give you an idea of how yoarr items in regard to the days or .. et .o og just received from one of my oIa com fades. He gives me some valuaple m formation that I had forgotten, put since receiving his laEter l now renhelti- anl,, burial place of Noble Devotie which was Columbus. Ga. instead of Selma. TntS item will be of great interest 70 tne s. A. E. Fraternity, of which Devotie tuscaloosa in 1856. I have heard that this fraternity contemplates building monument to Devotie'S memory. 1T you care to use the enclosed letter you can do so and I would like to have 1t re- turned to me as 1t may be the last I may ever receive from my old com rade. He was a brave and true SOL dier. Very trniy;
 I send you his letter which is as fol-
 Marion. Ala. Jan. 2s, 1909. T read o your communication in The Advertiser in reference to Noble De- votie, who was drowned at Fort Morgan in 1881. Alas, how the past comes up to my mind with the many changes that have taken place since then and 1T we MarfowSR Rafies- EglFo@ was ttH ass 9hen there now. remains of those know John a Apsey. dreensb6ro: Jim Bell Linden, Ala; c. H. Seawell. J. A. Smith, tie was buried at Columbus, Ga.
 A s. Hinton. Jim Rankin and were selected from the Ma rion Rifes as an escort to accom- pany the remains to Columbus. So you see he was not buried at Selma, Ala,
 Old friend, would love to write you long letter. but on the 18th of this month was 75 years old. cannot hold my pen steady enough to write.
 am your friend,
 F. J. Leverk
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

Carrie Nation on the London stage will doubtless present a spectacle for the theatregoers to look at. We have not yet learned whether she proposes to dress in the costume of a ballet girl, but perhaps not. If she wants to make a real hit she should take the part of an Indian warrior with his tomahawk. She could do that nicely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

If Dr. Wiley can't tell what whis- key is. The chattanooga Times wants to know how -the average policeman can bs expected to know. Well. by tasting we should say.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

The new Senator from Indiana ought to be able to look over the Sen ate without difficulty. as he is said to be feet inches tall. Physically, at least, the others will have to look up 10 him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

It will soon be time for the statis- tics to show how many human beings were mistaken for deer and killed dur- ing the open season in Maine. The figures will be surprising.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
Words Before Blows.

EVerybOdy's MaBaZine. ' Two London cabbies were glaring at
 SAw. wot's the matter with you?" demanded one.
 ''Nothink's the matter with me, you blooming idiot"
 You gave me narsty 1oOk," per- sisted the first.
 Me? Why you certainly lave a narety look. buut didn't give it to yous SO 'elp rnEs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

That scientist who claims that he can discover woinan's age by the use of the S-ray, had better bury his knowledge before it gets him into trouble.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

'Tf Mir. Taft would spend a week in Charleston we might make Dem ocrat of him." remarks The Charleston Post What. when they are predict ing that he win rsDublicanizs the South
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

No one. so far as we are aware. has proposed to furnish Mir. Roosevelt a flying machine Tor his hunting trip, but he may need one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
syyORN CTRoru.ATToN.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees its @4ysst.seyS land makes # nart of the con tract when requested) that it's daily circu- lation fs ssi&rEer than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama---nnd that lLs Sunday edition has the largest circuiati2n ef any edition of any newspaper printed ih Alabama without exception.
 The figures for December printed neiow Fepresent the actual net circulation eli fs- sprns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
REFLnoTIoNs oF A RACHELOR.

New York Press. @
 A reprehensible thing about lies 10 how the other fellow may beat you telling them.
 The reason a woman wants to go to the theatre in q carriage once is SO she esd say che always does. sa4