The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-12
What tie Sfate Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
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&Ek M WEtNEt N0ANEe West Alabama Breeze.
 Brown Eyesr and Blue Eyes are notn very pretty. but we hope our cor respondents win not all take those tese sac pnsrs ars stheI 6ss nsnss Ra saaa bler. Rsynard,' "Reporter.s Rex" and hundreds of others. Don't all sign yourselves any sort of 'Eyes.'"
 Preserving History.
 falladeEa Mountain Home.
 'De Las Hymn in de Book, Is graphic story of negro life just after the civil war written for sundays Montgomery Advertiser by J. Culpep- per. The Advertiseris doing more than any agency in the country to familiar ize Southern people, and especially history.
 The King For Mobile.
 Montgomery has had Bryan: Atlanta has had and New Orleans is to have Taft Whats the matter with Mobile making a try for King Edward now that he is on the visit around? We move an invitation be sent him at once. We can offer him better fn- ducement than 'possurn stew or aili- gator steaks and we know if he could hay plants he would not need second invitation.
 
 Let HIm Have It.
 So long as s your neikhbor wants to borrow this paper from you, for lands sake let him have it. Some day he. will send or walk over. just to look through the paper. and you will have 1t to some one else; then he will get mad about 1t and go off and subscribe for 1t in order to show you that he can take it. Let them borrow the thing and read 1t,
 The aAwning Campaign.s Talladega Mountain Home.
 The Selma Times Is waging war over sidewalk awnings in that city. We The awning in front of The Home of- flee was tho first one to fall In the war. then others and still more fell. This was in spring time when all the world was fresh and green. But nyes s thesworid was dry and parched; the sun streamed in our front windows ana the warn1est roast The Times edltor ever wrote was 2 cold dish compared to the roast old Sol handed out to us. And as soon as we could get a build ing permit, a carpenter and plumber, the awning was replaced. and the same thing occurred ali over town; The Times better be sure 1t wants to tear 'em down" before 1t proceeds.
 
 The Pipe Question.
 Tuscaloosa s-Gazette.
 There Is a fable extant about cut ting off the water when you think U is cold enough to freeze and drain ing the pipes. Several people thought they drained their pipes carefully dur ing the last cold snap. but one Of these had a terrible accident to happen at his home and many others had bursted pipes and unspeakable inconvenience and expense. The draining business seems to be myth in some cases. All of which leads us to think that We do not have our pipes put in proper ly. There are plenty of places wnere they have colder weather than we do and then seldom have frozen pipes. Would 1t not be wise to adopt some method of protecting pipes? surely to protect the pipes could not cost very much more than 1t costs now to nave plumbing done. Then, certainly, We ought to see that the cut offs are piac- ed SO that the pipes can be drafnea It ia ridiculous to cut off the water IT sonne of 1t is going to remain in the pipes and our plumbers ought to tell the unsophisticated people that the prevailing system of cutting off and ,lrainInR pipes fs . joke and we need to reform our methods