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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Zach McGhee Writes Of
 Trade and Tariff in England

for the government without taxing their beer and tobacco. but would give than England has eyer had cure all forty acres of land and a mule and ail
 hs. 4. i1rs sass 2. 'a,p saS before. these Lanea. built up the most Extensive manufac. turing industry In the world under fres lous to come at this late day and tell them that free trade has ruined them. They. are. moreeysr. bent on making share of the taxes Without putting up the cost of their necessaries of life.
 Now, while 1 have paused in these kind and patient reader at home his tell little more about the political place as any. you know. to insert an
 Apparently nobody in this part of England has any doubt of the budgets an overwhelming majority in the Hous5 of Commons. and there are no "insur- gents" to amount to anything. What Americans are accustomed to think of it Is not like our Senate. The Lords could unqpestionabiy defeat the bill 1T at q disagreement, would be dissolved. and there would be general election for members of the House. They do not have q conference committees tc ix 1t all up as we do.
 And in that election, what would be the issue? The land taxf The protsc- tive tariff which the lords would pros pose as a substitute? Nominally the se would be the issues, and conservatives. who favor protection now, and Liber- als, who favor the present law. would each put up their candidates, buf the real issue would be, Shall the House of Lords be abolished for daring to. veto bili passed by the peoples chosen
 And that question the lords dare not let so to the country. because there Is little doubt as to what swould happen to them. So the impression through out England, as well as in this hotbed of Liberalism. judging by what the pa- pers say, and from conversation with men from other sections, both Conser- vatives and Liberals, Is that the House of Lords will meekly pass whatever the House of Commons sends them, and old man Albert Edward will take whisky and soda, write his name at the end,
 It does not, therefore seem that ton on the tariff or any other question within the next year or two. But the whole Island Is nevertheless full of political discussion. These people like politics, you know, like the academic or theoretical side of 1t, quite as much as in Amsrica we prefer the practical side
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
NATURAL ENVY.

All aviators, amateurs and profes' sionals. must entertain . feeling oi helpless envy when they witness the flight of almost any bird. and note the ease and certainty of its move msnts. To watch the flight of the common buzzard. for example, and see him ascending In regular circles, nev- CT moving a wing, but constantly go- ing higher untii finaily lost to sight fovms such striking contrast to any thing man has done or can do that human imitators, or would-ba imitn- tors, can hardly he eensured if they feel envy as we'll ss chagrin. If there is any air current at all the bug xard must go before 1t, against 1t and across 1t at some part of each circle he describes. yet so far as the observ- CT can see the bird never moves a wing. and suffers no inconvenience How does he accomplish it9
 On a different line Is the flight of some of the smaller birds which fly with almoat lightning speed and with little apparent effort. They seem to have no trouble whatever in maintain ing their altitude. or directing their course. or in ascending or descending. Sometimes they go forward by contin- uous Tapping of the wings and some times they sail right along with an aceasioned wing movement
 Again the question may be asked.
 How do they do It? and again there will be no satisfactory or conclusive answer. Many and various have beer the attempts to explain bird flight hut no one has been fully satisfac- tory. If this could be thoroughly un- derstood 1t might help the human be- ings who are trying so hard and se persistently to initiate the feathered creation. Of course the fact that the fowls sails, his motive power and his powers of suspension are all part of himself gives him an immense adyan- tage. and one that man can never equal. but for all that the man must envy the bird and can't help it. When he learns all about bird flight he may be able to do much more in that line than has yet been accomplished.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13

Now comes a more or less well in- formed scientist to tell us that politics is a disease, and he Is dead right, for that's just what it is. It is a disease that Is infectious, contagious and gem orally incurable. Sometimes the vic tim contracts 1t without contact with another afflicted subject; just catches 1t in the air, as one might express It. We don't know what sort of microbe 1t has or what 1t looks like. but they are numerous, ubiquitous and several other things. When man contracts the disease 1t clings to him like the itch. gand must run it's course--and most frequently the course ends only with the victims term of existence. There is no cure; the only partial rem- edy is an office, and sometimes that makes the disease more obstinate and impIacable Yes, its a disease, beyond 8 doubt, and woe be unto him who gets it good and fast.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
yupeE rnonAs .. JONES.

Slander has become the fashion in Alabama. A politician on the stump acknowledges allegiance to no consid- eration of deiicacy and ignores every claim of justice. That which will in- flame. that which will stir the pas sion of the people, Is what shall be said. no matter who may suffer in- jury and no matter what good name shall be defiled.
 Judge Thomas c. Jones. who has borne patiently the assaults of the Chief Executive of Alabama. today in another part of The Advertiser makes answer ta the fnfiamed charges. He sets forth clearly the history of the Alabama rate cases. theis course through the courts and their present status. On many stumps of Alabama for political purposes, he has been as- sailed and vilifed. He makes answer and in doing so exposes the deliberate misrepresentation to which he has been subjected. In defense of his good name he addresses the people of Ala- baina
 Judge Jones' life has been spent in Alabama. The ashes of his dead are here. and here he will repose when his own career has closed. He shed his blood for the people of Alabama Today he bears the scars, that ars witnesses to gallantry and service Four years he filled ably and nonorabiy the office of Governor. His people have chosen to honor him in other ways.
 And though he has filled high ofice, and worked hard and long at the practice of the law, he is from a worldly way Q poor man. His good name is therefore all the more val uable to him To serve the uses of ambitious asitators that good name has been viciously assaulted.
 To the people oe Alabama whom he defended in war and served in peace. he makes defense of that which is more to be desired than great riches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
FACULTY or SEEING.
Education and Trend of Theugbt
 Materially Aid Vision. Phfladelnfta ptlhIfo I,edrer

Education and Trend of Theugbt
 Materially Aid Vision.
 Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Some one has said that the eye sees what 1t possese the means of seeing. For example, the trained astronomer. through the eyepiece of his great tle- scope, will discern an eight satellite of Jupiter where the untrained observer i,, is unable to detect syen the , minutsst auisn tific star gazer has brought to the telescope not merely the retlna and the brought the stored experience of his famiiiarity acquired R in ioSesome nocturnal yigils. until he can read the illuminated book of the heavens with a readiness quite beyond the ken of eee ayno on tSs saSsot cf Eu ropeap voyage. He disrnisses four or five countries in forty. or fifty words and his teacher asks him to go more explicitly intS detail as te what he has any more confesses the lad. I've told fitted past pain. of .comparatiyely dull. insensate orbs: The youthful was looking at, Nothing is really seen till 1t has gone quite through. the eye. which Is merely the lens of the camera. and has registered distinct impression on the sensorium of the ob- server. Some people are afflicted with ennul. and the time hangs heavy on their hands. not because the world about them Is stale, flat and pnprofit- able. but because they them. selves remain stupidiy and peryerseiy ob- tuse toward all that is going on. They are unobservant. Just about as much happen in one mans life as in an- others. The difference is that one man Is possessed of faculties of sight and insight, and his fellow burrows along mole blind to anything more than a few inches from his nose. The good St. Bernard, in the Middles Ages. rode all day by the lake of Geneya without noticing 1t, so absorbed was he In his own meditations. And many of us are so submerged in our own concernments that we are oblivious of what is taking place within the length of our own shadows. To the person who really sees what goes On fife is never dull and sterile. Each dya is a moving pageant, a process sion of epic figures and picturesque f0aturea
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
sockingbird and Nightingale

COlumDla StAte.
 The Macon Telegraph has an appre- ciative editorial on the great songster of our Southern woods and fields comparing him favorably with the ing for It's text the statement in a recent American novel that pair of North Carolina lovers go out into the moonlighted wood to hear the song of nightingale" The Telegraph comments upon the widespread igno- rance of our song birds. We Infer that even some Intelligent young people, of Macon did not know there Is no nightingale in America.
 nightingale in this country. though the name Is applied to a finch-the cardt- nal grosbeak-in Virginia, and. we think. in North Carolina as well. It may be this sweet singer that the Far heel lovers are going out to hear, al- though he does not, as far as we know sing at night, as do the nightingale and the nockingbird.
 The Telegraph very justly says that the mockingbird Is the greatest of all
 singers. It is certainly the greatest and by far the most versatile; but 1t is to be doubted If he has a single note or strain that can match In delicious liquid beauty the song of the wood or of the hermit thrush.
 As to the name. ''mockingbird," The Telegraph protests that It Is less beau tiful and appropriate than that of the pretty name and surely better should be found The name of the little sing CT of Europe, Asia, and northern Afrl- ca is geerally melodious and appro- priate in all languages. The Germans call 1t the "nachtigau," the Fronch "Rossignal," and the Persian name, "Bulbal," in imitation of its thick. warbled" note, is especially fine. Ever the Japanese. "Uguisu." Is better thar our name for the mockingbird.
 Our Macon contemporary says that some one has called the mockingbird the "arboreal Shakespere." We dc not recall this epithet! but Sidney Lanier in d well-known sonnet calls the mocklngbird, the trim, Shakes, pere of the wood" The rather suited prase "arboreal Shakespeare" may have been adopted from this not toe felicitous description.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
The symme. Theory

Waiving the contentious of Peary and Cook as to the primacy of discOv- cry. It Is safe to say that the pofar Ee- searches of both have sufficiently. prov ed the fallaey of the theory of Jchn Cleaves Symlnes that our earth is a hollow sphere and that an opening in- to the interior of the globe could be found at it's northern extremity. lTSO. He served as a captain in the war of lS1a, and later settled at New port, Ky In lsls ne broached the the.- tSy ory of concrete I,nSa epherss." and devoted in Hamilton, O.; in 1929, to the pro- books, pamphlets, memorials and Iet- Ss fhom s aksn o%s tSf Sf following illustration of his concep- tion:
 With dividers describe a plane of matter of loose texture, and in the cen a line through the centre It Is evi- dent Gas matter gravitates matter in proportion to quantity and distancel that either half of the inner circle, be- ing almost equally surrounded by mat ter, must be very little gravitated cen terwise: so, being suspended, only a TO- tary motion is needed to throw 1t com paetly toward the outer circle. This being admitted, it follows that half way from the outer to the inner side of this circle of matter thus thrown out like rarity suspension, or balance of gravity should prevail, and hence a dls- position to concentrie circles. There fore 1t follows that successive similar subdivisions should exist, gradually lessenipg in force or quantity. By ap-- plying this principle to the ca rth, find the necessity of hollow concentric spheres"
 Symmes believed the interior of the earth to be habitable. and that an en- trance to 1t could be found at the North Pole, an alleged opening which was jocularly referred to as ''Symmes' Hole" So Seaious was he in this be- 1922 and in 1923 to fit out an Arctic expedition to test ms theory, but of courae without avail
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13

transmit to waiting world the ap- propriate words ef Nswburg's Mayor ssperity. Governor Campbell tsie- graphed an urgent request that the President visit Austin wben. on his long journey. The crisp rejoiner Wal: that the itinerarv was made up and could not be altered. Pique on the part of the rebufed Governor. .and in- timation that he would show his dis- approval by neglsctinG to bs present at El Paso when the President enters President Of Mexinot
 It is not altogether as much fun to be President as is commonly assumed. The milk of hospitality quickly .sours when It's kind proposals are rejected An admiring public is hard task . master, and knows no mercy when de- manding chance to display its admi- ration,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Line-un of the Press.

BlrminehRm . ge- Herald.
 ~while not familiar with Alabama poll tics am beginning to take an interest in the contest over the question of putting prohibition in the constitution" said Frede- rh ]. Haynes of Louisville
 q am not here on a business trip, and am In wise connected with the liquor trade: simply visiting relatives for q fw days. But 1t looks to me, an outsider, as if the constitutional amendment propo- sition would be defeated. On my way hers I stopped day in one of the smaller towns of Northern Alabama and several men thers told me that they had been prohibitionists but had made up their minds to vote against the amendment. What impresses me, however. more than anything else is the fact that the press of the State !s largely opposing the constitutional prohi- bition. read In an afternoon paper . long list of papers published outside of Blrminx- ham and twenty-eight of these papers were listed against the amendment and only sev- enteen for 1t.
 'The State press Is usually a most i'm. portant factor In political campaigns sucb as the one referred to. At least 1t Is SO in Kentucky"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13

Most of the daily newspapers of last Thursday morning carried news headline reading. "Mr Hartman bet ter" The evening papers of the same day announced his death. This shows either the uncertainty of human life or the difficulty of getting the exact facts in cases of this nature. Ever since he returned to the United States the accounts of his condition have been vague. contradictory and unsat- isfactory and the announcement of his death was the first news that was of a definite character. It is difficult to get the facts about a prominent man like Mir. Hartman, especially as to the condition of his health.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
TT. IS TIRED OF IT.

The Hartford Courant is very plainly disturbed. if not actually dis susted. over the hyperbole and rho- demontade indulged in in various quarters regarding the polar discov- cry. It quotes Peary's announcement of "the Stars and Stripes nailed to the North Pole" as one prominent in- stance. and also refers to some of the extravagance of language used by Dr. Cook in the statements sent out by him. Then 1t quotes the following from The New York Sun as another specimen:
 Without q doubt during the last month or six weeks the dome of the world up in the napowing circles had been a race course. of which the low hanging polar sun had marked the start and the first slender tips Of tef. frontier of civilization, the goal. Down the swelling curve of the earth's shoulder had hastened the two racers for the prize of the worlds admira- ton.
 The courant should bear in mind that rarely. if ever. has there been an occasion which afforded such op- oortunities for fine writing. No doubt the explorers themselves felt that they had done something that justi- fled straining the English language to the utmost in order to impress the worlS with the importance of the feat. Then some of the newspaper writers feel that it is their privilege and duty to Hay over" anything that Cook or Peary has said, and they couldn't let the opportunity slip.
 The American people have long been noted for hyperbole and airy flights of language. Foreigners often ridi- cuIe the way eur newspapers describe the most common events and their criticisms are pretty generally justi- fled. There are space writers who describe a fire as If they were writ ing up some cataclysm. the like of which had never before been witness ad on earth. And then 1t must be re- membered that this polar affair is no common occurrence. It is the first time the newspapers have had the op- portunity to write about the discOv- cry of the North Pole. They have been anxious to write 1t up for centu- rlea but fate has been against them.
 Taking all the circumstances into consideration perhaps we have no cause to feel surprise over any high falutln'" language that may be in- dulged in by those who write about this world-interesting matter. As no such occasion has ever before offered itself, so we may assume that none like 1t will occur in the future. If Peary can speak of mailing the Stars and Stripes to the Pole why may not the guild of space-writers go him one better, if such a thing Is possible? Let them riot and let extravaganza of language be unconfined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
The Shortest Geographical Name.

WaSnlnRtOn Herald.
 The United States Geographic Board, which, by executive order. determines the spelling for all publications. maps, and charts for the government in this country, has just issued pamphlet containR all decisions rendered during the year closed Jnly 1. 1909. The list of names adopted by the board con tains the shortest geographical name on record. it being 'U.' which is an isl- and east of Quelpart island, on the Southern coast of Korea. It used to be fin the olden days" that the river Pc in Italy had the distinction of hay Ing the shortest geographical name on record; but 1t will bs seen that U goes 1t one better.
 Ma. m island in Korea Baq. ASiS.: Ui. an island on the western coast of Korea. and Uo an island In Island Sea. Japan, are close second for brevity. A new name in the list is Paradise Dry." Cache County. Utah. which in these days of activity by the prohibi- tionsts. should be welcome. while Bit terwater." Kern County, Cal. will have to be accepted by the vets in that sec ton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
DIsBELIEvERs IN THE SMILE

New York Globe.
 The Presidents speciality has been good nature. He Is the proprietry of the Taft smile. Yet worthy Major Me Clurg, of Newburg, and other digni- taries of the Hud son Fulton committee are In a state of active dudgeon. The Mayor wished to place In the Presi dents hands an invitation. engraved on silver. to the celebration. But .Bev- erly, called up by long distance tee- phone. had the effrontery to suggest that the plate be sent on by express or mail. Newburg has not felt as i'm well. It in disturbed that the recep- tion of it's invitation was not made 8 ceremony of state. with corps of reporters clustered about to catch and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13

every walk of life and every depart msnt Of human effort and occupation.' If one who died only a century ago could come now to one of our large cities and note the wonderful changes and improvements on every hand he would probably conclude that the sto- r,es told in the Arabian Nights were tame when compared with what he ae. tuaiiy witnessed all about him. some- times we feel inclined to wonder how the people managed to live in those old days before anything hardly was Invented.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13

The New Bedford Standard reasons that If Alabama can actually enforce the law which forbids a man taking a drink anywhere but in his own house sobriety will certainly be the gainer." That If" is big enough to does actually enforce such a law it win do something that no other State has ever done. or even partially done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Policing London's streets.

V
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 There are fewer mounted men In proportion to the force than in New York, and 1t Is no criticism of the London police to say that neither the men nor the mounts appeared to me as good or attractive-looking as those we have nor are they used as freely or as advantageously. If l may be permitted to say 1t, as in New York.
 It requires vigilance and activity on the part of the pedestrian to cross London streets in safety. Indeed, in many respects they are even more dan gerous than those of New York, and to this condition the swarming omni- buses contribute generously The tax icab Is rapidly replacing the hanson and the four wheeled vehicle. TO my great surprise this vehicle Is run through the crowded streets at a com paratively high rate of speed and as there are great number of them. I am astonished that there are not more ae- cidentS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Initials on Coins.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 The old Bland "cartwheel" dollars bear the initial MI of their designer. Morgan, in two places; our dimes, quarters and half dollars bear the in- itial "B' of MT. Barber. chief engrav- CT of the mint, though 1t takes a strong magnifying glaAs 70 ind 1t: our gold quarter and half eagles bear all three Initials oH Bella L. Pratt. the arr tist who designed them; and the SEQ gold pieces issued from 1S4s to 1907 bore the initials of their designed, "J. B. L." and the original Indian head cents bore the "L" of the same design CT.
 It Is an excellent custom and MT. Brenner's ". D. B." should De lett alone. If Secretary Maeveagh wants sonnething to play with, let him tackle the puzzles in the new tarin