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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
4 MORNING THOUGHT
nY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS.

A lady received the following reply from 8 neighbor In answer to q ques-
 tion as to why she allowed
 The her children and her hns-
 aA1Ss' GS1S room in. @ the tSS SSuSge. ge esTis The sentiment viii ind ibdgnent in the heart of every home-loving person h muddy feet upon the door can Se easier removed than the stains where the lit- tie feet go into the highways of sin. The prints Of the little. fingers upon sunshine half so much as the shadow that darkens the mothers heart over the one who 10 but a name in the com ing years. And if my John finds home happiness within It's four walls he can put his boots in the rocking chair and hang his coat on the floor any day in the week. And if I stand t. and he body's business"
 Nuggets.
 The modern city needs the strength that country Boy who thinks of escap- ing inc isolation and toll of the farm by plunging into the ceaseless whirl of the congested centers entertains the widest sort of dream.
 All great and noble souls experience times Of depression. Life seems a humdrum and only one weary routine. The skeptical query as to the worth or living obtrudes itself upon us The distinguished statesman, Mir. Gladstone. tired out by the cares and perplexi- ties of office, once exclaimed: 1T am leading a dogs lifei "A St Bernard dogs libe!' Instantly remarked a quick -wiited friend. The happy con- ceit took hold of Gladstone's lmagina- did performances of these watchers of the Alps. He never again complained that he was leading & dogs life. Of- ten, the routine service Is our most heroic achievement.
 
 Angels weep when you wipe a tear from your eye with a hundred dollar handkerchief after giving 25 cents to the contribution for the poor, and sing: Were the whole realm Of nature mine That were present far too small.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
This Date iru History
February 2.

1S5O-Elenor Gwyn, the actress whc influenced Englands affairs of State In the reign of Charles II, born. Died November IS, 1887.
 1774-Rhode Island approved of the Boston Tea Party.
 1787-General Arthur St. Clair elect- ed president of the American Con- gress.
 179S-The Federal Street Theatre, Boston, destroyed by fire.
 1604-George Walton. first Governor of Georgia and signer Of the Declara- tion of Independence, died in Augusta. Born in Virginia in TAO.
 1S12@William Henry Burleigh, poet and journalist, born in Woodstock. Conn. Died in Brooklyn. March IS, 1871.
 lsss-The Federal ram "Queen of the West" ran the blockade at Vleks- burg. but was captured a few days later by the Confederates.
 lS69--Lord Llsgar assumed oflce as Governor General of Canada.
 1902-Fire in Waterbury, Conn.,, caused a loss of Ss,o00. .000.
 lS04-Wtlliam c. Whitney. ex.Sec- retarry of the Navy. died. Born July
 lsos-Manusl II proclaimed King of Portugal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
This b My 66th Birthday
Knute Nelson.

Knute Nelson, United states Senator from Minnesota, was born in Norway, February 2, 1S43, and at the age of six he was brought to the United States by his parents. The family re- sided in Chicago for two years after their arrival in America. and then re- moved to Wisconsin, where the future Senator remained until 1871. when he settled in Minnesota. In the mean regiment during the civil war, and had been wounded and taken prisoner at the front he studied law. was admitted to the bar and served one term in the Wisconsin Legislature. Soon after he had removed to Minnesota he was elected county attorney of Douglas county, and from 1872 to 1878 he was a member of the Minnesota LegislaA ture. He was elected to the Forty Eighth Congress and after serving three terms he was elected on the Republican ticket as Governor of Minnesota in 1892. and reelected in 1894. The following year he was elected to the United States Senate, in which body he is now serving his laird term.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
A Grateful Patient.

pr. Wilfred T. Grenfeil in February I cannot forget the emotion with which I was shown one evening a tiny sovereign gold piece given him by q grateful patient and guarded as a way had been operated on by Sir Fred erick Treves in hospital. His life had been saved, and he had gone his way with the hundreds of others, who as the surgeon who rdid the thing" Late one evening a timid knock brought Sir Frederick himself at that unusual hour to his door In Wimpole Street. A tall, gaunt sailor in threadbare attire asked if this was where "Mr. Treves lives" At his earnest request, though Somewaht under protest, he was al- lowed to enter. He at once proceeded to get out a jack-knife, and from the lining of the belt of his trousers he cut out small gold piece and offered 1t to Sir Frederick. On his refusal to accept it the man was So hurt that Sir Frederick listened to his story. The man had. on leaving hospital. sought a berth at the London docks. but, be- ing stranger. had been unable to get had gone hungry day after day. though ne knew that he had, sewn up In his waistband by his wife in Norway. the piece or gold in question. He had got so pulled down by bad living that he at last decided he must spend the money. but that very day had succeed ed in getting a berth on ship, and his advance had given the food he stood so sorely in need of. He had promptly tramped all the way to Vim pole street. How he found out Sir Frederick's address was always a pug zle, for he was not the famous Kings Surgeon in those days. All l was told was that the sailor did the thing so humbly and yet so insistentIy, and de-, parted so incontinently. that Sir Fred- erick found himself lowing into the darkness. holding the gold piece in his hands. and with an overwhelming sense of inferiority strongly impressed on his mind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
BEL1rTL1NG A HOME PRODUCT.

We hereby and herewith, deliberate ly and with malice prepense, or some- thing just as bad, accuse The Macon Telegraph of disloyalty to its State and to that States products. As all of us remember, when it was planned to tender Mir. Taft an elaborate and typical Georgia dinner in Atlanta it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that Georgia 'possum and yams were to be the central figures in the feast. It was heralded far and wide that nothing that the South in general and Georgia in particular could hand out gould hold a candle to a fat specimen of Georgia's marsupial population. and it was expected that Taft would feel that he had been blessed
 But The Telegraph knocks the wind out of Georgia's claim. "The eharac- ter and habits of the opossum," 1t de- clares, ought not to be set before the children for admiration and emula- NAOAA- " HCtC AS AlG lCuCEAAAlB lEdIL It Is deceitful-plays possum'-and it is essentially a scavenger. A common cur dog is a prince by comparison. Some people think they like to eat the Opossum's fatty, indigestible flesh "a sort of fad which does violence to gastronomy. Dog no doubt is as good if not better food. If the opossum is to become national favorite, pet and emblem, then the turkey-buzzard ought to mount to the eminence now occupied by the American eagle, and the skunk should be the hero of the freside. tales rather than Brer Rab- bit"
 Now, wo submit that this is laying it onto the Georgia beast with some thing like brutal severity. But a short while ago the Georgia papers and We think our Macon oontempor- ary was one of them-were laudlng the Georgia ham and ham gravy away up towards the zenith, but will not the abused Dossum compare favora- bly with any hog? And yet The Charlotte Observer sails in with an endorsement of The Telegraph's de- nunciations. saying:
 Can any word of this terrific indict- ment be controverted? We need only add that while a narrative dealing in- timately with the 'possHEa's ways of L hair to stand on end" or eyes "to start like planets from their spheres" it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

would in all Likelihood produce cer- tain definite physiologicai effects. none the less Among all the unciean beasts of the fieid and fowls of the air efs the possu% n1 a For the saRs e'e of stronR @ contrast let us consider the hog. He is one of natures noblemen in com parison with the 'possurn.
 Now, wouldn't that jar your To call the hog ''one of natures noble- men in comparison with the 'possum" is laying it on altogether too thick; 1t is almost funny, in fact We know full well that there are those who will not under any circumstances eat the flesh of fat 'possum, but there are others who will no more eat the flesh of the hog. They naturally re- gard him as an unclean beast. whose lean is indigestibie and whose fat Is really a disease. There are some who win not eat mutton, and so we might go on to show that the refusal of some people to eat 'possum Is no indictment against the animal. It Is all mat ter of taste. and tastes differ.
 And what may MT. Taft himself be expected to think if he reads these tirades against the animal that sup piled the principal dish at the feast2 Will he not feel aggrieved to learn that the animal selected and set apart for his deiectation was such a thing as The Telegraph paints? and will he not wonder if this was a deliberate attempt to make game of him? We are surprised at The Telegraph.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Politics and Politicians
An equal suffrage amendment passed in the South Dakota Senate with only two dfssepting votes,

An equal suffrage amendment passed | in the South Dakota Senate with only two dfssepting votes, Colonel Frederick Hale, son of Uni | ted states Senator Hale, of Maine, has announced his candidacy for a seat in the national House of Representa- tives.
 Charles J, Hughes. .Jr., who will suc- orado, Is Democrat and a prominent lawyer of Denver. He is fifty-fiye years old and native of Missouri. +
 All but nine of the 132 members of the Maine Legislature are natives of other State Legislature with as many native born members.
 
 Usher l.. Burdick, speaker of the North Dakota House of Representa- thn tives. h was ra1s,o star football pIayer on eleven in 1903.
 In his last message to the North Carolina general assembly Governor amendment making the terms of all State, county, township and municipal officers four years, instead of two. 
 The Nebraska Legislature is expect ed to pass the Humphreys bill, which provides for the election of Senators by the Oregon plan. The bill Is in- tended, 1t is believed. to give W. J. Bryan chance to be elected United States Senator.
 Martin N. Johnson. Senator elect from North Dakota Is flfty-eight years old and native of Wisconsin. Before he took up his home In Dakota he taught school for a time in Oak land, Cal, and later served a term in each branch of the Iowa Logisla- ture.
 Duncan U. Fletcher, the new United State Senator from Florida, is a law yer by profession and graduate of Vanderbilt University. He has long been prominent for his active interest in the movement for the improvement of the inland waterways.
 Charles T. Brooker. of Connecticut, who Is slated to succeed Frank Hitch cock as chairman of the Republican National Committee, is prominent as a finacier and industrial leader in his home State: Though active in politics sought public office.
 
 Wesley L. Jones. the new Senator from the State of Washington. is Illinois. He was graduated from Southern Illinois College. read law in Chicago and removed to Washington in 1889. He lives at North Yakima and has been Representative-at at-Large in Congress since 1899.
 
 It appears that the surest way to become a member of the United States Senate is to have name beginning with the letter B. There are now thirteen Senators whose name begins with that letter and in the next Con gress two more will join the group. The newcomers will be Burton, of Ohio, and Bristow, of Kansas.
 :.
 Senator Teller, of Colorado, one of the veterans whose terms will expire next March. began his official career as Senator in 1876, and with the ex- ception of three years service as Sec retary of the Interior. under Arthur, has served continuously in the Senate. Ills case Is somewhat peculiar, as he had never held office of any kind be- fore. Until his famous bolt, in 1Ss6, be was a Republican. but in the last thirteen years has been a free lance Democrat. and he occupied seat on the platform at the Denver oonven- tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Advertiser word. Appreefatea.

AtAuuUlVH NGWSs
 The Randolph News has appeared bearing the familiar name of P. A. Jackson at the mast head. It there- fore shows that one of the best week iy newspaper men in the State has made another move. The News fE pub iished at Roanoke. The people Of Rn. anoke and Randolph county may con gratulate themselves that Mfr. Jackson has taken up his work among them. When it comes to running c neWgphpeE he knows his business. He will not only publish a good newspaper but the peo- pie of Randolph county will find that his judgment Is sound on questions with which he deals in the columns of his paper.-Montgomery Advertiser.
 We clip the above with much pride. coming as 1t does from The Advertiser, which has buiN an enviabie reputation on truth and right, ever fighting for the best interest of the State, even at great sacrifice of money and friends at times. Yet The Advertiser stood firm and true. We are proud to have such endorsement from such paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Shall We Have Nezvsuauerae

OeIrOlt Timeg-lnQ.
 As between a government without news papers and pewspapers without a govern ment Thomas Jefferson said he would choose the latter
 Thomas Jefferson was supposed to know thing or two.
 The suit againt The World is to decide whether we are to have a government with out newspapers. ""S
 It might not be far out of the way to suggest in this connection that perhaps if the Government has been Ibelled The World is not the first nor the greater offender.
 The press has been very considerate in President RooseveltS case however.
 Where he has been wrong 1t has charit- ably regarded the end sought and overlook ed the method.
 President Roosevelt, with better grace. 1t would seem, might have extended the same consideration to The World, though its alle- gations were untrue. while mindful of the fact that 1t was Joseph Pulitzer with his New York World. who was the first jour nalist to take the initiative in the making of the American newspaper the great agent for reform that the newspaper Is today.
 We should have preferred to witness this reform President working hand in hand with this great reform publisher and his newspaper in getting to ths bottom of 8 widely circulated story that the Govern ment rather than criminally libelled, has been buncoed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
A Bridge Retween Life and peatn.


 Roland Phillips in Success Magazine.
 About year ago an eight and half pound baby was bora into the home of a young New York physician. To all appearances the child was perfect strong. robust healthy. On the fourth day it developed a raging fever. At the same time hemorrhages of bright red blood issued from the child's nos- trils, neck, ears, scalp, diffusing into its eyes. causing temporary physical blindness. It was the one case in @ thousand of the dreaded melaena neo- natorium-the hemorrhage of the new born" The verdict was: no hope. AL ready the little sufferer was waxen. livid. Death was only question of hours.
 They strapped the. child to an from ing-board. On table next to 1t the father lay down and stretched out his arm. The attendant surgeon cut the pulse artery at the wrist and sewed the end of the artery to a vein in the child's leg. As the new blood began to course through the childs body the color of the skin changed! From a livid white 1t grew pink, then red. The hemorrhages stopped. The re- sponse was a lusty cry. Nourishment was given-an ounce of milk within an hour. There was no convalescence. An hour before the operation the child was, to all intents and purposes, dead; an hour after it was alive. The cure was instantaneous. It was a miracle of life and death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Letters To the Editer
Ne Da.ser es Lynehlns.

Editor The Advertiser: read with much regret the article in The Advertiser of yesterday with referenee to the supposed intent to lynch Blue McReynolds. who Is ac- cused of being accessory to the Killing of Messra. English and Walston at this place last Sunday.
 As an intimate friend of the rela- tives of Mir. English, who are inves- tigating the tragedy. and also in close touch with the defense, I caa truth fully say no such idea has even been discussed. Both sides insist on a careful and thorough lfnvestfgation as to the inno- cence or guilt of those accused. feel quite sure that had such thing been even thought of I, would have known #. It ds without foundation.
 w. W. Fox.
 Beatrice. Jan. s1.
 (The Advertiser regrets that the people of this community were misrep- resented. Tho report certainly reach- ed Selma that there was much feeling against the negro. The Advertiser published the matter merely as Q re- port The Editor.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Reflects on Alabama.

OeITnA IInts.
 The assault in Montgomery yesterday on Mir. Frank Glass, one of the editors and owners of The Advertiser. by two sons of Governor Conner cannot be too strongly condemned.
 At a time when the Governor of Alabama is endeavoring to fix the blame for an uuwArranted act of law lessness ir one part of the State. for his sons to commit assault seeking to prevent untrammeled criticism of a public official, is deplorable and reflects upon the good name of the common wealth that had honored their father in the highest degree.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
chattanonEa Times

Chattanooga Times.
 Governor Conner sued the staid old Mont gomery Advertiser for libel and got 1 cent from jury The Montgomery Advertiser would libel nobody for in 1ibeI there must be malice and if there is q newspaper fin the South free from that vice t is The Ad- vertiser. If 1t said anything about Govern or Conner that wasn't true. it didn't know 1t. In the case at point 1t seems that the libel-and the jury in the case said 1t was a little one, just 1 cents worth--was con tained in an advertisement. We congrat- uiate The Advertiser not only upon its good reputation. but its irreproachable charac- ter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

What seems to be one of the absorb ing question in Washington just now is-Does Roosevelt know more about benzoate of soda and it's effects than pr. Wiley does? Whats the use of an expert on chemistry in the Department of Agriculture if we have a President who is still more "experter"?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Atlaata TO De Heara From.

No use to do things by halves.' says The Montgomery Advertiser. Here for instance Is an item from q London newspaper, saying that the Royal Scots Regiment claim that the body guard of Ponti1s Pilate was composed of Gale donians, who were the original Scotch men" Wait untl you hear from Att ianta, brother Screws. We have no idea what card they mag be holding in reserve but you can always rely on Atlanta when 1t comes to making a showing, and we feel sure that "the Atlanta end of the affair" will yet be
 brought out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

l. The important question now is as to
 the effect the cold snap has had, or is to have, on the peach crop. It will take some days to know the exact truth about it, but let us hope that ftherell be peaches for all
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
SWORN CIRCULATHoN.

rae Montgomery Advertiser guarantees Us aurertisers tand makes 1t a part of the con tract when reqnested1 that it's daily cirea. lAtioa is larger than that of any snornins newspaper printed in Alabama--and that its sunday edition has the largest circutauon of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for December printed nsiSw represent the actual net oirculation, eA rs- turns having been deducted. N
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

We don't yet know whether they will expunge Rainey from The Record or not but he vows he will not take back anything- His grit seems to be all right.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

Has the renowned Colonel John Temple Graves suffered some sort of eclipse of late? He isn't much in evil dence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Senator Morgan viadisated. TfneR-(yaxetfe.

If the dead can show any satisfac- fion over worldly events, the present he tremendous comfort to the late Senator Morgan. who seems likely to De justified in great many of his be- liefs before all this canal talk fa through.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

It seems that there is nothing that can wrench Roosevelt loose from Crum, of Charleston.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
The Texas Fever.
Ruiiock c.

Bullock County Breeze
 People of Bullock county who have c fact that the man In the wntchtower ct Houston frose to death few days ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
What fhs State Papsrs
 Are Saying and Doing
Din. ne,t News nd ssx.

PIne Belt NeWn. last legislators made are constitutional, and the real good laws they passed are unconstitutionai-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Tired of Hearns.

Selma TImeR f7ET I Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, now that State. MacRaynolds, Is an ex-con- vict. We hope he can substantiate the
 charge. The country is getting weary
 of Hearst and his methods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
The Mali sfnrted It,

b0meon LedKor 3I-T. n
 As 1t is evident that she doesn't know. we will tell her that the little Daily Mail. of moro or less lamented memory. of Eufauia. first called her Grand
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Men For Sea Heroes.

NNW IUTN WOFIU.
 The wireless Is a wonder. collision bulk heads that keep q wounded ship thirty eight hours afloat are safeguard, put 90 long as We go down to the sec in ships there will be need of Men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
ArtieIe ror The ontIooI<.

Wire Grass SiftinGs.
 It has been suggested that "Rebukers Have Known" would be 8 fine subject for MT. Roosevelt to write m when he takes up his duties as an editor of The Outlook. <
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

Net Total -. .... .... .,......1's .,......sss.oai Net Daily Average. December, 1908 .l5s0S5 Net Sunday Average, December AeeS. .AnsSuS c | Finigan Circulation Manager Of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworns easB:
 Tne foregoing statement of The Adver- 4issF'o circulation for the month of Decem- ber 1908. Is true and correct, and coFnph- ed after all returns from news boyes news agents. spoiled and leftover copies nave Been deducted. c I. FINI0AN. Circulation Manager. Syvssrn to and subscribed before me thas 6sh day of January, 1909.
 RIGA ALEXANDER. Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

Usher l.. Burdick, speaker of the North Dakota House of Representa- tives, was a star football player on the champion University of Minnesota eleven in 1903.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

All but nine of the 132 members of the Maine Legislature are natives of Maine. It is doubtful if there is an other State Legislature with as many native born members.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

In his last message to the North Glenn recommended a constitutional amendment making the terms of all State, county, township and municipal officers four years, instead of two.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

Can any word of this terrific indict- ment be controverted? We need only add that while a narrative dealing in- timately with the possnEa's ways of life would not cause leach particular hair to stand on end" or eyes "to start like planets from their spheres" it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

fGrif1th Van Fleet. A Pennsv,var,o Iarner. shot his wife the other day be- cause she persisted in reading the BthIe
 tss all right to engage in such a hieh- ~ ciexatlng and holy pastime, but when It comes to making such a hahit or the thing as to neglect 4 fna,'s meals, why that's the way some of them Feel about 1t. that's all