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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
PROMISES TO
 SPRING A SENSATION

Chicago, H.. Dec. 11.--President Ban
 Johnson, of the American League, who
 Returned from a hunting trip with |Charles A. Comisky today declared that The would furnish a sensation for the |gathering of baseball magnates in
 New York next week by naming the linen connected with, the alleged umpire
 bribtng scandal of the Chicago-New York series of 1908. Il came Into possession of consider
 able new evidence in the matter last
 |summer. said Johnson, and if neces-
 was merely scapegoat for others." Empires Klem and Johnstone were
 the men said to have been approached before the crucial game that detef- mined the National League champion. [ship.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

still some little red wagons and when he had finally and gleefully decided on his purchase and started to pay for 1t, he had put his hand to his pocket to find it--E-M-P-T-Y. Alasi
 MT. Pro Crasty sank down on a nearby doorstep muttering over and over: What will the children sayr''
 But the last store was closed and the shutters drawn. The next tomor- row he had to face would be Christ mas--devoid of Christmas gladness. "Of all sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these-Tt might have
 been'."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

After something over eight years, Alabama has come into her own again in the Field Trials world. The init ial running of the Southern Field Trials Club will begin Monday morn ing on the grounds of the club at Letohatchie.
 While the derby. the first stake in the trials, does not begin until Mon day morning. the meeting of the club really begins Sunday. The drawing for positions in the derby will be held at the Exchange Hotel Sunday night.
 This inaugural meeting of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Two Crimes in Frsnce.

Paris. Dec. ii.--France is stirred to- day by the discovery of two horrible crimes. At Marseiilss a wine seller slew his whole family and killed him self. He shot his mother and cut the throats of His wife and their three children with q raxorl kAtSa farm near Tonnerre. two swfsss 'cowherds. bent On robbery. iured a farmer, his wife and four domestics to e COW house where all were slain. The mur- derers escaped to a nearby forest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
AMERICAN HELPS WIN
 GAME FOR OLD OXFORD

London. Dec. 11.-Oxford had mat ters all her own way In the annual In- ter-varsity rugby match at Queens Club today. defeating Cambridge by four goals and five tries to one try.
 burg, Pa. Rhodes scholar, from Princeton University, was among the Oxford forwards. His presence aT- tracted attention as 1t was the first time that an American had played in a varsity match. English rugby being regarded generally by Americans as too tame sport for them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
send AeropIanes seush. .

Washington. Dec. 11.--It is proposed by the War Department to send the Wright aeroplane owned by the Gov- ernment to some Southern city. proba- bly, San Antonio. Texas. for aeronauti- cal experiments during the winter. Lieutenant Benjamin Fouiias will hav0 charge of the experiments. The aeru- plane is now at Fort Myar. Va.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
STATEMENTS OF EXPORTS. Figurex for Month Large, Hszf ksr Year
 Thev are Sm0xs.

Washington. Dec. li.--The ,montfiy statement of exports of dofnssslc pro- ducts issued by the Departrnent of Commerce and Labor for November shows increases Of sl7.ooo.006 over the corresponding month in 1908. but de- crease of s5i.Q0o.0oe for the eleven months of 1908.
 For the month the valuations of ex- ports Of wheat, corn and mineral oil show the leading increases. While the decrease in the number of bales of cotton exported was several thousand. the increase in value was els.0ee, 900 ! Wheat -four. meat and daisy products, cattle. hogs and sheep show. slight de- creases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Sander, Agnsn ln Trouhle.

Huntsville, Dec. 1f.-(Special )-- Bud Sanders. negro. who resisted arr rest and cut Oficer Arthur Dill'a throat. and was sentenced to 6 term of five years in the mines. has served out his time and Is being brought back here to stand trial on two charges of assault with intent to murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

Lidies' auto coats are in pony skin. caracul, muskrat and raccoon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02

'The Reformatory Record of
Huntingdon, Pa, reprints Young
Steady's poem, The Love That
Never Dies, without specific cred
it. It appeared in The Mirror
several weeks ago. However, it is
nevertheless compliment to the
author, as it was his second effort"
The above is from The Prison
Mirror, published at The Mime
sofa State Prison, at Saltwater.
The poem referred to was taken
from an exchange which gave it
the same credit as the Record gave
it, and we did not know who the
author was. Tue Record has al
ways endeavored to give proper
credit when it is obtainable, believ-
ing in giving honor to whom hon
or is due. We are very glad to
know the poem was written by an
inmate in the Minnesota State
Prison; it contained splendid
thoughts which will doubtless in
spire many to high and noble liv-
ing .-Reformatory Record.
Chautauqua meeting next Sun
day. The Duke of Oxford will
read paper to be discussed by all
of the mem bers. There will be
but one paper read next Sunday.
Two jailbirds were carried out
last week-canaries. Mr.. r. F..
Willie, formerly employed here
took them to st. Paul to adorn his
home.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
JOCULAR GEOGRAPHY.

Is Austro- Hungary? Let her have
Of Turkey quite piece;
And serve it with some Barbary je)l,
And not too much of Greece.
Perchance Mesopotamja
Would Sweden on her smiles;
If not let Madagascar if
She'll have some Sandwich Isles.
Is Chill sauce? Let her pause,
Or she Malacca friend
Some day when her New Zealand strength
Pe1u-ses it's sad end.
For Ecuador may then be closed,
While Chill, with groan,
See Paraguay and Uruguay
And leave her all alone.
Who knows just what the Tunis that
The Portuguese all sing?
And do the Michiganders try
The air while on the wing?
The way in which Vespucci planned
To get the laugh on US
And tie his name to this fair land,
Proved him Americus.
Nixon Waterman.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02

The Popular Magazine is issued
twice a month and is devoted to
good fiction.
Gail who Joy would win
Must share it. Happiness was
born a twin"
Who who's are going out right
along but new who-who's are CON-
ing in all the time.
Prof. Webb says: "There is no
prison pallor on me, sab. l defy
'em to put it on me, sab.
Davy says: 81 don't belong to
no fuzzyknot outfit. I'm kinky
hoboy-but no fuzzyknot-not on
what's due YOU"
Said Butch, jr., the other even
ing: II haven't bin to court for
awhole month. Vatyou tink bout
dat?" M:a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s!!
Private Secretary Ball is an
s'oraytor" all right. His voice and
delivery are excellent. Score one
more for Tailor Nelson's depart
ment.
LikehelIhecan is back on the
"yob." He says he was showed
not pushed. Spindleshanks, his
chocolate cream assistant, is glad
to see him back.
Ainslee' s--the magazine that en-
tertains-carries some very good
fiction in it's December number.
To fiction readers Ainslee's is al
ways welcome guest.
Life is short. Let US not throw
any of it away in useless resent
ment. It is best not to be angry.
1t is next best to be quickly recon-
ciled.-Samuel johnson.
Lord Roscoe is one of the suavest
and politest mem ers of the local
colony. "PoIiteness costs moth
ing" said Lord Chesterfield, "and
yet tits very rare, indeed"
The local electrician advertises
his business we'll. His apartment
is flooded with light at night all
right. Nothing like being good
advertiser of ones business.
Baron Slipupsky, Prof. Burch-
ards runner, is valued reporter
for The Mirror. He says, he, too,
is now looking toward the Board
of Control for "diploomer."
"WelI," said DR.. Trenkle, 81 had
pleasure in observing Por6rio Alex
10 Gonzolio get a grip on Il good,
gray suit on schedule time. That
is the kind of a grip to have" con-
cluded the Doctor.
"You must not only be cheerful,
but stay cheerful, too. Don't be
like the revolving light, flashing
out one minute and submerged in
darkness the next. Send steady
ray of cheer through the year"
Enter the local Hall of Fame
Supt. Williams browneyed book.
keeper under the title of the Re.
tired Banker. He makes very
little noise except when he shut
fles his feet on the ceiling of hit
cell-which is not often.
King Menelik says, when
don't see myself interviewed OF
noted in The Mirror [ feel lone
some-I'm so used to it now. Say
anything you please-roast, toast
stew, scald. scold, bake, boil OF
broil me, sub, but don't leave me
out, sub. "
Goober Head says be does no
like the appellation. Very we'll
Goober, "raus nit it. The loca
Hall of Fame will have to get along
without a Goober Head. How
ever, any ordinary cabbage heat
will answer as we'll. What thu
local Hall of Fame wants. is mem
bers. But the rooster as fel
low says seems to be full all tn
time
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
.slDE5LleHTs TX TX :: . !; !! !:
BY AvIso.


Usher Cousins opines business
will pick up by the first Of the year.
Bonny Bill who tried a four
days course of physical culture in
The Mirror pressroom sometime
ego, IS now a runner. Bonny Bill
never gets Billyus. He is a husky
lad and not afraid of a job that en-
tails little extra work. He is
now known as Wild Bill.
A prominent newspaper heads
an article on the North Pole
squabble: "Peary Submits the
Tales of Eskimos." ST Haskell
says: "Ap.opos of this and lot
of other stuff that is published
why would it not be a good idea
to submit the whole skins2"
eyes, said Young Steady, "like
Monte, I was introduced to the
editor as a crazy Canadian. bat l
am like the fellow who went to the
bughouse and found the others
were all crazier than himself"
The kind of insanity Young Steady
is obsessed of could be inoculated
in others with profitable results.
He is simply "crazy" to progress
and improve himself-a good kind
of insanity.
One of the shop runners remark
ed yesterday that it looked as if
the oldtime smile had come off the
face of the Duke of Oxford in the
Stewards Office. It is said the
Jock wears faraway and fargoing
look. Cheer up, Jock and send in
some more of your very excellent
short stories for the edi6cation
of the readers of the family churn-
al and forget it. The Jock is a
Joy to all hereabouts.
Hugo says: "UncIe John, he
dell me dat since he bin advertised
in De Mirror some fellers get jeal-
GUS. Veil. let 'em, yet, yah! Vat
do l care, yet? Noddings! Ich
bin choost SO good as some odders,
yet, [ dink. Yah! I like to see
Something's vonce in a vile aloud
him, yet, yah! He bin here a long
dime before anyvon noticed him
yet, yah! He is big Teller und
he needs blenty of shpace, yet
yahw Yah!
An esteemed contemporary says:
"a Kansas editor who paid too
little attention TO punctuation is
now defendant in a libel suit be-
cause he printed an item as fol-
lows: 'TWo young men went with
their girls to attend a teachers
meeting and after they left, the
girls got drunk The comma
should have gone after the girls
but as it is the girls have gone
after the editor" And this in a
state where prohibition is said to
prohibit. The girls were perfectly
justified in going after the editor
in this case. He is probably one
of those fellows who believes in
catching highfiers with a ely
paper
Says Monte: "One fellow, he
say: How can re crazy French
MAN set 70 Anglaise type?' Oui
, Well. re crazy FrenchMAN set z,
Anglaise type, all right, oui, bu
re Anglaiseman, can he set q
French type? Non, non, Monsieur
: One fellow, in re printing office
he say: 'Ze editor, he is crazy
too! Well, | tell Eat to re edito
+, and he say, L admit it, Sam
r way wiz me. Wen anyone, h
say, re crazy FrenchMAN, [ admi
it, too, you see, like re editor
t Oui! [ like to be wiz crazy mel
like re editor. [ would like t
| have some Of re same craziness il
!, me as he has, oui! It is better t
be re crazy man like Eat, you SCI
but l no want re bugs in re gar
e ret some of zeze fellers have-non
NOV Mope;our Tf1o oro1v Iron oh
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
"REMINISCENCES.

Athwart the shadows OF the evening Hit
Visions of days long passed away,
OF dew bathed meadows by the dawnght lit,
OF peaceful gatherings at the close OF day,
Bright ooyish faces in whose open smile
Turks not deceit, the vipers sting,
Whose fresh, young voices yet unknown to guile,
To truth and purity, responsive ring.
From afar down the shaded path of time
[ catch the music of the soulful peal
Oflaughter, such as once was mine.
The JOY that youth alone can feel
Now see clearly as the mists unfold,
The spot sequestered, where when school was done
Convened in boyish sympathy, we told
Our destined futures when manhood be won
Nor dreamed we then how wide the paths diverge
That men are treading to their final goal.
The sky was heaven and the oceans surge
The stirring cadence of dauntless soul,
Which of fifes many devious ways
Has ured these comrades that loved SO we'll.
God grant to the aspiring of those blissful days
For them no sorrow yet hath tolled knell.
ID. NJ
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02

The knocker and tattler are the
worms that .gnew. at the roots Of
piece and friendship.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02

! The local vaudeville show, last
Thursday morning played 70 S. R
o, Thepverture BY the orchestra
was lively and played with snap
and swing. Edward Campbell,
popularity known hereabouts as
Mistah Waldorf, opened the show
with a song aud dance. His song,
You Amt Taking To Me made
hit and his buck and wing dane
ing was very fine.
Hale and Nichols in comedy act
caught the crowd from their initial
appearance. As a Dutch character
comedian Hale was hit from the
beginning. These two specialists
introduced Schooners that Pass in
the Night and wound up with a
waltz a la comedie amid much
laughter and applause.
Following Hale and Nichols
came the scream of the show
Walter Webb-in his monologue,
in which, as usual, he was very
mirth provoking. Prof. Webb
swept the audience off it's feet
with his inimitable singing of
That's A Plenty. As a colored
comedian and singer of topical
songs this dusky prince of the
palace has few, if any, superiors
anywhere-in or out of prison.
Prof. Ronuulous Starr followed
with an exhibition of his wonder
full hypnotic powers. His subjects
were selected from the audience
and consisted of volunteers who
had never seen the Professor. He
exercised perfect hypnotic control
over his subjects--and performed
all of the stunts usually ''put over"
by the star hypnotists of the
world. He was ably assisted by
Prof. Powers, Acrobatus and others.
Mistah Eord--out on parole
returned especially to help Prof.
Webb in the last number on the
billiard his entrance as a Zulu
provoked great deal of merriment.
Prof. Webb carried on" the act
in a most entertaining manner,
singing I Love Ny Wife, But Oh!
You Kid and Wedding Bells
Mistah Ford-the Zulu-sang Can
nibal Love and the two colored
comedians wound up their act
with a banjo and Spanish mando.
lin duet.
The music of the orchestra was
superexcellent and the show moved
along with vim. Prof. Burchard
deserves the thanks and compli-
ments of the inmates for having
RECALLED them with a good home
entertainment.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
A MATTER OF. OPINION.

A MATTER OF OPINION.
Kilograms:
Raise the curtain, rush the play,
Strike the music loud and high,
Meath glow of night, and CLEAN of day,
The stream of life goes whirling by.
Angicus
Swift on lis predestined course it whirled
This fiery orb through dark profound,
From shore to shore oceans hurd-
Tempests on land and sea abound.
Duke of Oxford
The worlds valley between high mountains
And the mountains crowned with snow.
From deep in their hearts eternal fountains
OF water unceasing 6ow
Drink Deep dear brother, and strength be thine,
For thy task it's these stormswept heights to
climb
Young Steady:
O. woe is mel God light my way!
Guide Thou my step where shines the day
This worlds barren plain to me,
Where either side uprears the
ST Haskell:
The worlds big round ball of mud
Made spherical by it's revolving course,
Whereon we gambol awhile, then scud
The silent depths of the Styx across.
Erd:
The worlds wondrous phenomenon,
Though not perfect as it ought to be-
That 1t, its axis keeps revolving
Is entirely out of order, seems to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
Educational Fund.

Wyoming has large educational fund.
| believer"
I'm the early territorial days Of Wyom-
ing Congress in making grants OF land
saw to 1t that Wyoming should have an
inheritance for her school children. Sec
tions sixteen and thirty-six In every town
ship were set aside by congressional act
for the purpose of creating common
school land income fund. Under this pro-
vision these lands might be either held by
the state for all time or might under the
laws of the state be sold and the money
so received converted into a permanent
land income fund. This was indeed a
wise provision for the Wyoming schools.
1.-THE common school lands are divided
into two classes-first, the common school
lands simply, and, second, the indemnity
school lands, The reason for the second
title has not been made clear. At the
present time under the head of indemnity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

side of the city'S chief square, is of the
form of the cross. 426 feet long, 200
feet wide and TO feet high at the cen
trail dome. and it's massive twin towers
rose to an altitude of 200 feet Solemn
was the vast interior effect, though the
place of worship had been despoiled of
mentation. The high altar was at one
time the richest in the world. with it's
candlestick Of gold that one man could
not lift and golden chalices and pyxes
studded with precious stones. and the
golden censers, crosses and statues that
were many Of them plundered in the
long period of Mexico's decentralization.
There are five naves six affairs and
fourteen chapels. where rest the bones
of some of departed viceroys and great
men of the country. There were ancient
paintings on the walls. some of them
credited to Murillo, and in other days
the cathedral was a great treasure
house of costly art such as the all
dominant church could command. Once
1t contained q golden statue Of the As
sumption, ornamented with diamonds
said to have been valued at over ST.
100000. That the place was rich In his
tory and haunted by memories the most
varied goes without saying and must
be emphasized by the fact that this
building. which was begun 1886 years
ago. occupied the site Of the Aztec eco
CALI, or temple of sacrifice. UP whose
steps Montezuma led Cortez. and, TAX
ing him by the hand. pointed out the
beauties OF the city that the Spaniard
was to make desolate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
GARAGES FOR AIRsHIPs.
Progress in Aerial Navigation
Makes Structure Necessary.

From the Chicago News.
This being an age of aerial navigation,
1t is necessary to have ships that navigate
the air. Therefore the problem of build
ing airship garages is presented In Eu-
rope, where France is worrying because
Germanys war balloons are sailing
around over the republic and Germany is
watching Partisan inventors dirigibles,
and where Great Britain has a keen eye
on both, the need for a jealous guard
upon the secrets of balloon mechanism is
felt to be pressing.
An immense steel shed 400 feet long and
100 feet high was constructed in France
recently for the Clement-Bayard II, the
balloon which its inventor. NJ. Clement,
hopes NJ. Cappazza will be able to pilot
from Paris to London next month This
garage and the big shed for the Lebaudy
airship at Moisson, France, have inspired
aeronauts in both Great Britain and Ger
many to act. A large iron-framed struc-
ture Is to house two Zeppelins side by
side and British station is to be built
either at NORWOOD Scrubbs or Houns-
low.
The. English project contemplates a
building 1893 feet long. 1t is to be ninety
eight feet high and sixty-five feet wide
An interior gallery sixty feet high will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
Automobile and the Roads.
From the st. Louis Republic.

From the St Louis Republic.
The clamor Of the settlers IN southwest
Kansas for daily automobile mail deliv-
cry instead Of the semi-weekly stage
coach service they now have suggests
strongly the possibilities OF the horseless
vehicles on routes where it does not pay
70 build railroads.
The auto goes faster than horse can
so, even where relays are frequent. The
auto never gets tired until the gasoline
gives out. The chauffeur need have none
Of the computations which the speeder of
horses ought to feel.
1t may be presumed that good roads
are not costly to build in western Kansas
or the demand for the automobile mail
cars would be vain. And as these We
iicles cannot we'll go where the roads are
bad, 1t is altogether likely that they are
10 be the real pioneers of good roads
in all the well populated regions where
The roads have, until now, been neglected.
When the jewellers along our rural mail
routes become az impatient for the quick
est possible mail delivery as are the set
tiers in southwest Kansas they too, will
be asking for the automobiles. and In
order TO get them will make the rural
roads of the United States what they
ought to be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
WRECK OF NOBLE CATHEDRAL.
Chief Glory of Mexico's Capital.
Memorial Of Past Centuries.

From the Springfield Republican.
1t is sad news that the earthquake
shocks in Mexico have rendered the
great cathedral as one account says,
practically mass of ruins" In an
architectural way this building consti-
tuted the chief glory of Mexico's CAPT
tai. To command a bird's-eye view OF
the city of Mexico it has been custom
arv for tourists to begin their observa-
lions at the Plaza Mayor, the great
central square, by ascending the tower
of the cathedral. whence lay spread out
In splendidly clear panorama the valley.
encircled by an impressive framework
of mountains. As seen In the rarifled
atmosphere 1t was a mighty canvas IN
worthy setting. This has been the
largest cathedral of North America, and
one Of the grandest buildings to be seen
anywhere; the best memorial of the
ancient days Of Roman Catholic power
in Mexico. The edif1ce, begun in 1873,
was nearly hundred years in process
of erection. being completed in 1867 at
q cost of little less than $4,000, 900, and
it's symmetrical and reposeful archi-
lecture was after the best plans Spain
could offer.
The cathedral is located on the north
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
HALF A BILLION IN BUILDING.
Statistics of the Operations in Forty
nine Cities Last Year.
From the Cement Age.

From the Cement Age.
The total cost of the buildings erected
in the principal cities of the United States
in 1908 was s546 467, $3.50, according to the
geological survey. In 1907 the cost of
buildings in these same cities reached a
total OF 5000. 14S.S 800. The decrease in cost
in 1908, therefore, amounts to s7e,6s1. 500,
or 1913 per cent.
The relative rank of the cities in cost OF
building operations is interesting. New York
is first. the cost of its buildings exceeding
the cost of those of its closest competitor
(Chicago) by 5O5s4,5 49, or more than IS
per cent If the cost of operations in
Brooklyn. the third city In rank. is added
to- that for New York, the total will be
S163. 6S4, 622, or 80 per cent of the cost
of the building operations of the forty
nine cities included in the table.
San Francisco is fourth in rank, Philadel-
phia is fifth and st. Louis Is sixth. Sew
enth in rank Is the small though rapidly
growing city of Seattle, which spent more
for it's buildings in 1908 than Pittsburg,