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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
THE FEE SYSTEM.

| The Advertiser by some letters as well as by several newspaper editorials has been asked to join in the present i loud movement to abolish at one stroke the fee system of paying offie cials. This Is a matter of considerable importance and before joining in the hue and cry The Advertiser would like further information on the sub- feet.
 It Is possible that. as many say, cer- tain officiais of Jefferson County re- ceive yearly items of thousands of dollars" But those who are SO wig orously pushing the reform movement are wrong when they say the same thing of Montgomery. Mobile and Dal- las counties. No oficer in either of those counties receives items of thous- ands of dollars" No officer of those counties receives ten thousand dollars annually. Jefferson County possibly has a problem. If the people of that county believe that 1t has oficials who receive too much. If Jefferson Coun- ty is suffering from the fee system, 1t would be easy enough for Jefferson to remedy the evil without pulling the rest of the State into the light. We are growing accustomed to the suddenly inspired reforms which em- anate from Jefferson now and then. We are growing accustomed to have Jefferson County rise up and say that it has had a revelation to change the old order and demand that the rest of Alabama follow in it's sanetihed foot steps. Since AiabauA has been a State certain officials have been paid by fees, and while there is undoubtedly some evil fin the system we would like fur ther information. before we are ready to admit that the new movement is sanctified.
 The entire agitation appears to be directed towards the officials who re- ceive the large amounts in fees. As a | matter of fact we believe that the greater distress and harm from the fee system comes from the more nu- merous class of fee paid oficiais who l receive small returns and who are en- ergetically working to increase the ! amount of those returns. We are not disposed to become feverishiy excited because number of fee paid officials have a good thing in their of1ice, nor are we disposed to call them "fee grabbers and robbers" The system has obtained for years and years in Alaeama, but only recently did Jefrer. son County receive it's revelation that 1t was totally and wholly bad. The Advertiser holds no brief for the sys- tenn; 1t is interested in no single of- fciaI either in or out of Montgomery County. We simply believe that in an important matter of this kind caution and common sense should be used Hysteria is bad means for the set- clement of any question.
 In fact. we are persuaded that in- tellisent regulation of fees would be better solution of the question than the total abolition of it. in response 10 denunciation
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

was his. intimate familiarity with the people of the Pacific Coast, As well as his achievementB in business and in the development of the Northwest that placed him at the head of the Seattle exposition. which represents an ex. penditure of ten million dollars and ii now running full blast
 The Seattle fire of 1888 wiped out e shipping business which young Chfl- berg had taken over from his father and left, him several thousand dollars in debt.
 He went to work harder than ever this time fin trade between Puget Sound and Central and South Amerf. ca. Tn this business he laid the foundations for comfortable for tune. sstt
 When gold was discovered In Alas. ka, Mir, Chilberg disposed of his South American interests and joined the argonauts. He established a line oi freight boats on the Yukon river, and in Seattle. when the Nome excitement broke forth. organized the first starn- pede into the new camp. He took twenty-five hundred men down the Yukon to the, shores of Boring Sea in flat bottomed river boats. Later In Seattle, he became associated with the Scandinavian-Americ bank. and with associates erected the Alasaks building. the tallest structure in the Northwest (fifteen stories), the New Washington Hotel of fourteen stories and several other notable Seattle buildings
 For two years Mir Chilberg has devoted almost all of his time to the expedition. without remuneration, and has been the moving spirit behind the development of the enterprise Among other enterprises organized by MT. Chilberg are life insurance company and a fire and marine insurance con cern; he built light and power plants at Fairbanks. Alaska, and at other points and he has acquired heavy mining in- terests in the North. As may be in- ferred, he is a typical Western hust- Ter. He is forty-three years old and is a native of Iowa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
Selecting judges.


 The Ledger has delayed answering the communication of MT. Thetford of the State Bar Association, because it is rather remarkable proposition he makes and not to be answered off hand.
 Nearly all conservative people would like to see the judges of our courts removed from politics, if possible. Whether the people of the State would take kindly to the idea of allowing the lawyers to control the nominations Is extremely doubtful, without a great deal more discussion of the subject At first sight, 1t looks to the people as If the lawyers would merely ap- portion the high places among them- selves. It would make the associate a political arena, in a very short time and the battles there would be as fierce as before the people, but with less cost to the candidates.
 As a party measure there Is some objection. The bar association has no politics and the proportion of Republi- cans in its membership Is far greater than among the people of the State.
 It is understood that the judges are to be lawyers and it is fair to infer that lawyers know each others fitness better than non-lawyers. At the same time there is a general feeling that the judges or the supreme Sourt should be taken from the circuit and chan cery benches. In other words judges should be promoted as they show themselves fit and industry will be con- sidered a desirable quality. A prompt judge Is treasure. The people are coming to knowledge of that
 Again, the people are still pleased at their work in taking nomination away from conventions and will be slow to give them up.
 The Birmingham Ledger thinks the people of the State will be glad to hear the advice of the bar association in judicial nominations. but are not yet ready to concede that body the power to nominate-which in our State means election-judgs. We may be ready for that later. but 1t will take some argument to win the con- sent ofs the people ito so unusual a proposition. It comes. however in time for us to think it over.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
This Gate in History
 JUNE Ie.

1520-Martin Luther excommunicated 1e5l-Queen Christina of Sweden abdIcated. 1Ts3-British made an unsuccessful attacE
 on Martinique. 1s4S-Lord Cathcart. who commended the
 British expedition against Copenha-
 gen in 1907, died. Born Sept. 17, I7s5. 1S45-The Texan Congress accepted the
 terms of annexation to the United
 States.
 1s5s-Gustaf V. King of Sweden born. 1SeS-Confederate cavalry under Gen. Jen-
 kins entered ChambersburR Pa. 1e64-Battle of Lost Mountain. Ga. is7s-Ruthereford B. Hayes nominated for
 President by the Rer ublican national
 convention in Cincinnati. 1sss-American squadron under Admiral
 Sampson shelled the forts at Santia-
 20.
 1a0s-The Pan-Anglican Church ConKress
 convened in London.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

In some cases the man wno was paying the doctor by the year would reason about this way: "rvs got to pay him 30 much anyhow, and It's his business to keep all of us well; so we'll drive ahead and live as we please, and let him cure us when we get sick" That might be the view some would take. but we think most people would prefer to remain we'll. and would therefore follow the doctors advice and refrain from anything that would be likely to injure the health. At any rate. the Chinese plan is interesting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
WEDNESDAY. JUNE Is. 1908.

We give it up. The Charleston News and Courier has convinced itself that 1t was "Jinny put the kettle on." Af- ter that we shall let all the misguid- ed. muddle-brained brethren growl srope and wallow in the mire of is- norance as much as they like. They may quote 1t "Pocahontas. put the ket- tie on" if they like. That would be no more absurd or incorrect than soms of the others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
IMPORTATION WANTED.
Representative Pitts Writes on an Im-
 pcrtant Subject.

Representative Pitts Writes on an Im-
 p0rtant Subject.
 Uniontown, Ala, June 12, 1909. Editor The Advertiser:
 At the last session Of the Legisla- ture offered e joint resolution ask ing Congress for an appropriation to for navigation by barges and fiat boats from 'Centreville to its mouth: and for . survey from Centreville to the mouth of Schults Creek, for lock- ance with this resolution. our deieEa- tion in ConRress has stccAe dad sih se- curing an appropriation for The usual preliminary sxarllipation of the river. H. B. Ferguson. Corps Engineers. that he desires Information from the people bearing on the resources of the coun- try tributary to the river. and any data upon which to base the consid- ent freight rates from this valley to Mobile and Selma; the products of the valley, agricultural. mineral and tim- Der. etc He further states that he in- tends visiting Centreville about June 26. and to inspect this river from Gem treville to the Alabama River.
 This Is matter of great importance to Perry and Bibb counties. as well as the coal fields in the Birmingham dis feel interested enough to write Cap tain Ferguson at Montgomery along the lines indicated, 1t may contribute somewhat to the ends desired.
 The Cahaba was navigated by steam boats and baeges before the war, ham, ding large volume of trafic; and the increase of population and the de- velopment of the coal and ore miues, as well as the deposits of lime marble along the stream. are strong reasons for restoring the styeam to navigation. The cleaning out of the river. with a new locks above Centreville. will also be of incalculable benefit tN the coal and iron industries about Blrms ingham. W. l.. Pitts. Sr.,
 Representative
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
This h My 47th Birthday
ALLEN F. COOPER.

Allen Foster Cooper. RenrAs.r+s.,,,. l.. congress SoE from the Twenty-third district of ppsnnsyivania' was born in Fayette County, re. renhsyNaniA. June ls. 1862. After oompIet. m maj school he taught school for six yeara Deciding upon the profession of law, he en. tered tt. the Law Department of the Univer- that institution in 1sss He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar the samS yea and Uniontown. He was elected to Congress a. Republican in 1902 and has been three times honored with reelection.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Houston Post, as agile as 1t Is. has never been able to explain satis-
 factorily, the turn down that Hous- ton had when the Confederate Veterans voted their preference for Mobile for the reunion. And while we personally rejoice that the veterans are coming to the Alabama city our rejoicing is mixed with pain. for the vote at Mem phis showed a distressing lack of con- hdence in George Bailey and The Post.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

Why should The Montgomery Adver- etser object to us? We have never done it any harm knowingly. and titles ,5f one sort and another nowadays are so abundant that possibly. there are quite enough to go around--Charles- ton News and Courier.
 But we do not object, not a bit of it. We regard it as one of our very best contemporaries, and are willing for it's talented editor to wear as many titles as can be pinned on him. They may make him a Georgia Colonel and we shall not object a little bit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
A DistinEuished Visitor.
 U.~A Aw.A f...A A 1A

Editor The Advertiser:
 Verbena has today enjoyed visit from a distinguished visitor in the person of Mrs. ". T culbertson of union at Memphis last week. Later deciding to visit Alabama she arrived at Wadsworth Friday morning the 11th inst. Going to Montgomery. spend ing Friday night and Saturday visit ing the different places of interest, In- cludtng the Captol. noting the spot where President Davis stood when talk Ing the oath of ofilce. It being of she is the ex-President of the U. D. C.'s of the, old Indian Territory. and upon the amalgamation of the Terri tory and State of oklahoma last year lahoma U. D. C., which position she still hlls
 She also visited the Soldiers Home near Mountain Creek on Sunday in of a home for the Confederate Vet erans of Oklahoma, she being one of the leaders of that noble move In her State.
 Mrs. Culbertson is a highly accom- plished and beautiful woman. She is one-eighth Cherokee Indian, and is Q descendant of William McGuffey of Vlr- ginia. who was of reader and spelling name being Harris, daughter of E. Poe Harris, grandson of William McGufrey. the latter educated by the former When he moved from Tennessee to Tahlequa, Indian Territory. where he married a Cherokee girl, Mrs. culbert- son being their child.
 She was first sent to a Cherokee school and later finished and gradu- ated at Christian College, Columb Ia, Mo. She says while she is not a poll itician yet she Is a Democrat of the old school. She and Mrs. Dr. T. w Jackson. also of KIowa, Ok. have spent today with the family of Mir. and Mrs. F A. GulIedge. where many called on them.
 Before leaving Mrs. culbertson ex- pressed great admiration for the people of Alabama and said she thinks now she will suIe ely visit us again from Mobile after the 1910 reunion. Mrs. Culbertson and Mrs. Jackson left on the Birmingham train at 4:40 this af- ternoon for their homes In Kiowa. Ok, where they expect to arrive late Tues- day night
 Mrs. Culbertson said she had often heard of Alabama and the. South, for its hospitality but had now gotten a real taste of It. F. A. Gulledge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
Head of Q Great Exposition. ov,ptnpto MaOazina

John Edward Chilberg, president of the Alaska -Yukon-Pacihc Exposition, is credited with a wider acquaintance upon the Pacific Coast from Cape Barrow in the Arctic to Valparaiso. Chili, than any other man, for his &C., tivities have carried him into most of the mining camps of Alaska, all the principal cities of the Pacific Coast States. Into Mexico. the Central Amer
 ican republics and South America. It
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Washington Herald thinks that what this country ought to do is "to start at the bottom and revise Con- sress." Very true, but there are some things even this country is not mighty enough to accomplish.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Pittsburg Post Is enjoying the June days by quoting sentences from Mir. Taft's ante-election speeches on tariff matters and comparing them with his present failure to insist on his party living up to its pro~ises. The Post should bear in naind that MT. Taft occupies an exceedingly deiI- cate position just now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
DRIFTWooD

When girl says her fortune is her that poverty is ho disgracs: s Atsf to sssssi hGns sf 5Ra drunlards. '.Read. philosophy only while your wife is dressing. says Dr, Depew. The ee whsn sn wl x1STs nave snan npis ts all right ss sEyerybcdy talks too much,p says The Rome (Ga.) Tribune. It then takes up column or So to prove it, falsir at one dollar a word. He Is an authority at that price
 DO not get married. girls---tp ex- cess" is Mark Twain.s latest advice. and Lillian Russell please write. In Milwaukee people are lined for bad singing, This law ought to be- come general. One exchange cannot understand why any man wants to talk to Mars when there are so many good looking women around.
 Farmer burned his barn to get rid of the rats Some people overdo eyary- thing. St. Louis man purposes establishing telepathic news bureau, with relays of men with telepathic minds stationed distribute messages. They should be careful. however, not to think aloud.
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 Wireless messages now come down from airships,. but from one of the came down cans of roast beef and packages of coffee. In future we may be forced to carry sheet iron umbrellas to portect our heads or take to suits of armor like the ancient knights.
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 Some men who during the wedding ceremony said they faced their ideal later on declare 1t was their ordeal. There are 16,O00 empty houses in London, so cheer up and be glad that you don't live there or your wife might try to go through every one of them on an inspection tour at moving time. How wise we all are when it comes to knowing what the other fellow ought to do.
 Can a man reach the pinnacle of fnan- cial success these days and still be above suspicion?-well hardly.
 Say now. honest Injun. does listening glee?
 If you expect to surprise woman by saying complimentary things to your theory of women.
 A hammock is a girls best friend Corner tn in % of the piazza e' if ft can't swing her to an engagement nothing can. These days when you drive up in a make near the impression hollering for her to come out that you can rid- ing up in an automobile and footing the horn
 When a girl is ugly she is supposed to be amiable to offset 1t. However, every time she looks in the mirror she can't help cutting up ugly. So there isn't much consolation In the thought after all.
 An enjoyable and yet amusing incl dent at the school entertainment was the antics of mockingbird that. perched on the swinging limb or an oak tree near the window, joined in loudest each time there was a musical number oa--Darian (Ga.) Gazette.
 
 The Aftermath.
 After the rice is scattered,
 After the last glad shout.
 After the windows battered.
 And the Pullman ears pulled ouS. After the papers fiattered,
 That couple to the sky.
 Then loves dream is shattered
 When he eats her first pie.
 -P. H, \.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Richmond Times-Dispatch inti- mates that If the Martians are so much in advance of the earth people why not let them cough up the ten million dol lars to establish communication? Very good, but perhaps they don't care to spend money trying to talk to insis- nificant people like we'uns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

MT. Howard Gould and Mrs. Howard Gould were married in haste. The court is deiiberating at leisure as to whether there ought to be a divorce and as to which one if not both ought to have it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Kansas City Journal proclaims that 'the cyclonic disturbances in Kan sas are about over for the year." Per- haps The Journal may miss it as far as some of the other weather prophets have done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

An actress advocate of the ballot for women declares that women are too modest in their demand for suffrage" t" Yes-in London, for example, where they stampeded Parliament and almost created pandemonium in the city. Is that her idea Of being too modest?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
swoRN CIRCULATION.

The figures for May printed osiom ,1 s.,ura. resent the actual net etrcnlsuehs sA having been deducted. ,tse. ifs
 The Montgomery Advertiser gue.ss .ss ,aa- advertisers Jana maRes it part .,s oL sn e,Yo,,- tract when reQuestsd) that lts oA"s w iatfou {. larga. than that of any .e ns ts newspaper printed h. Aiahaana-Ahp1.. alss ,an sunday sdttion has be lArses. sr,naaa n of any edition of any newsp@Rss S'
 Alabama, without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Rome Tribune Herald is some what put out over what 1t assumes to be a fact that things have reached a state where the average person Is not qualified to enter society until he has had two or three surgical operations performed. What part of his anatomy does the brother propose to have ann putated?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

The Columbia State prints what if calls some good North Carolina po- etry." and we actually read part of if. What do you think of that as a specl- men of self-denial?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

A dispute arose in a Mississippi town and before the matter was adjusted three men had been killed and the mil litia had been called out Life In Mis- uissippi is stIll strenuous. at times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

"of heaven or hell I have no power to sing" warbIes an Indiana poet. He Ess well not to venture onto strange and unfamiliar ground.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
Letters to The Editor
MEMORIALS TO ALABAMIANS
 AT vICKSBURG BATTLEFIELD
pr. Fielder, . Recent visitor Writes ef the Alabama Troops on that
 Famous Field.

Wetamcka Ala. Iune ,i. itp9. Editor The Advertiser:
 l have Just returned from vicksburg, Miss. and while there spent several sns paee I me NssDsa hss ssss speat hundreds of thousands of dollars On the park which extends eight or ten miles on the two lines of battle and is stiil expending something like sl0o.- while in the park found some tab let's or markers (of which there are hundreds), which I thought might be Of interest to some Alsbamians Ala. ,,ian,n.,on on n ~ c. s.
 Second Brigade, steyenson's Division. Army of Vicksburg--Brig Gen. B. D. Tracy. Col. Isham w. Garrott Brig, goth Aiaba nsa--col. Isharn W. aar- rott. Lieut.. Col. Edmund w. Pettusi Col Isham w. Garrott, Col. Edmund ssss 1l:s:%:ssl 1ss:%sssl E. E. K M ssss sssil.y Capt. John c Francis.
 S1st Alabama--Col. D R. Hundley. Lieut. Col. T.. M Arlington, Major George M. Mathieson. Lieut.. Col. T. M. 18th Alabama--coi. M. l.. Woods, Capt. George E.. Brewer. Lieut.. Col. Edmund w. Pettns, Capt. George E. The brigade. reinforced by waurs Texas Legion. repulsed determined assault on its front and especially at the Railroad Redoubt" on its left May 23; 1863. Colonel Pettus leading q detachment of the Legion that res coupled the redoubt in the afternoon. Countermines were prepared at that redoubt and at Fort Garrott oh the right of the brigade, one of which was July ?. Casualties. In the battle of May 1, ar Fort Gibson. killed IT., wouned 1l2s missing 142. total 271. Brig. Gen. B. D. Tracy and one other ofhcer killed. Brig. Gen. S. D. Lee assigned to command May 2. Tn the battle of Champions Hill. May 16, killed ~. wounded l42, missing 604, total 7s0. Two officers killed. and in the defense. killed 70, wounded 147, missing total PA. Col. rshsm W. Garrott and two officers killed. The aggregate reported casualties in the brigade during the campaign and de- fense were, killed 13l, wounded 4O1, missing 75S. total 1,2s5.
 It was at this point that Gen. S. D. Lees command lay in the trenches dur ing the day. There are two twelve pound howitzers standing at this point 1t Is near point on beautiful ele- vation near the railroad that the fine statue of Gen: s. D. Lee was unveiled on June II. 1908.
 M. L. Fielder. MD.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

c |. Finixan, circuiation Manager of The M onfgomery Advertiser. being duly sWoEn sAys.
 The foregoing statement of The Advsr- tsers circulation for the month oS May, 1909, Ia true and correct and compiled aIter ali returns from news boys, news AgentA epoiied and left over copiee have been de- Tucfrd c l. FINIGAN,
 Circulation Manager. sworn to and subscribed before me this sra day Of June. 1908. -
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
4 Correction. Editor The Advertiser:

Tn your account of Mondayfof my address a. the Majestic Theatre on last Sunday afternoon. your reporter, after noticing my reference to the Ten Commandments, inadvertently makes me say, And no man will seriously argue that the Commandments should be enforced" What said was that no man would seriously argue that the Commandments should be repealed. The difference in meaning between the words enforced" ard "repealed," is obvious. Yours truly,
 Samuel D. Weakley
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

A man isn't supposed to be a nature fal6ir at one dollar word. He is an authority at that price,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

DO not get married, girls--to ex. cess" is Mark Twain's latest advice What is "to excess7, Nat Goodwin and Lillian Russell please write.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16

"Everybpdy talks too much" says The Rome (Ga.) Tribune. It then takes up column or So to prove 1t.