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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The latest estimate" of the cost,
says Harper's Weekly, of the Fan
anna Canal, is $500. 100000. The nrst
was $40, 900, 900. The last in our juds-
ment. will approach a billion. But
that is not why the government needs
money. Eight years under Cleveland
cost the country $2,5ls.b24267: eight
years under Roosevelt. s4.62T855.3ss, a
difference of more than two billion del
lars. The army and navy. under Cleye-
land, cost s551,55s.39a; under Rooss-
Welt. Si,7S1.42s,471. difference of near
ly billion and a quarter And fifteeh
years hence not a single battleshi3 now
afioat will be fit to go into action.
We thought 1t was getting time for
another jump In the canal estimats but
did not look for such q big one. Per-
haps they have become tired OF going
up by small bounds and decided to
make a big one and he done with It
but we doubt II they will stop at that
As to tho other matters referred Ia.
there is hardly q feature of the Roose-
welt administration that does not show
up discreditably when compared with
Clevelands. And the same things. or
a smaller scale, will be written about
Alabama when all the facts are brought
to light and made public. as compared
to former administrations.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

There is only. one generation be-
tween the shirt sleeves" Is a wise old
saying. honored for years in Ameri-
ca. The truth covered by this pithy
saying IL illustrated ms well In Eng
land. as 1t could have been in Ameri-
ca by the announcement that the
three grand-daughters of Charles Dick
ems had been awarded a pitifui pension
same bitter truth was conveyed in the
news of Monday morning which told of
the death OF Charles Francis Smith
pardoned convict. the disgracsd son of
the author of My Country It's Of
Thee"
Dickens was not only a great au-
thor; he was a man of business as
well He was no poet In a garnet,
feeding an a crust. He was not TWEEN
ty-five before he was hailed as the
most popular and the most successful
novelist If the English tongue. Strange
to saw he combined a rare business
talent with his literary genius and he
increased by excellent Investments the
heavy financial returns from his pen.
But that great fortune Is gone now
and three of his granddaughter were
living of the small earnings they
could make as stenographers. when
the English government set aside
slender pension for each.
DR.. Smith, who wrote the famous
song Of America" vas q class mate
Oh Oliver Wendell Holmes, who in a
class poem alluded to him as "a young
ster of excellent birth whom Fate
tried to conceal by naming him Smith"
He filled out long and useful life.
honored by all who knew him and well
coined by the cultured ard learned Of
the land. He did more than write one
great song. He was a.leader whose in
fiuence was felt by his people.
But his son was nercifully released
from prison that he might die at home,
and going home he died on the way.
He was a thief and an embezzler. He
confessed his guilt. And he served
Ave years In prison.
The moral Is that we cannot look
through the years of the future and
protect posterity from its own folly.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
Dull Times in Georgia.

Charlotte observer.
The Georgia newspapers are hard pushed
for something to kick about. They are
complaining because the Legislature 10 not
doing anything II looks like there was
enough doing in the House of Representa-
tives Tuesday TO satisfy the most sensa-
tional paper when Representative Anderson.
OF Savannah, arose to a question of personal
privilege regarding an attack made on him
from the pulpit by Rev. Len q. Broughton
and replied thereto. That would have been
enough to satisfy the people Of any other
city and State but Atlanta and Georgia.
They call it nothing doing in the LeElsla-
ture when a member on the floor denounces
one Of the States most sensationally promi-
nent ministers as "a wilful malicious reck-
less malignant and Vicious liar. Any
where else In the world that and the other
proceedings on the same subject would nave
been classed as somewhat on the order OF
the sensational: at least 1t would not have
been called day OF no proceedings worthy
OF comment Those AtlantianB have rather
peculiar ideas Of what constitutes dull legis-
iative proceedings. but they are so used &c
trying to be different from all the rest OF
mankind that nothing they do or say Is 9
surnriaa-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
COTTON RAISED IN MEXICO.
Can be Mixed without Detection with So
Qualittoa ~ Silk

Can be Mixed without Detection with Some
Qualities Of Silk.
Los Angeles Times.
W. A. Graham Clark. special agent, is in
Mexico investigating textile trade condi-
lions. and reports on the progress being
made there in growing the new tropical Car
cotton and was produced by the crossing Of
fine, long-stapled Mexican cotton with
coarse long-stapled Peruvian cotton. This
hybridZation was carried out in Queens
land some ten years ago by an italian sci
enlist. DR.. David Thomastis. Experiments IN
Upper Mexico and the United States have
proven failures. but in Lower Mexico the
plant grows we'll. II has been demonstrat-
ed that the plant Will grow only in hot
climate with not too much rainfall.
There are two varieties OF the Caravonica
cotton. one known as wool CaravoniA.
which is adapted for mixing wool, and the
other, which is more valuable known as
silk Caravonica," which has long, silky
fiber of great strength. that can be mixed
without detection with some qualities OF
silk. The advantages claimed for Caravon-
lea are its large production per acre, its
larger yield of lint. and tho fact that 1t Is
a perennial. The Caravonica tree. or rath-
er bush. will grow to twenty feet or moro
in height. but is usually trimmed every year.
It will begin to bear at seven or eight
months after sowing and will yield proflta-
bly, without replanting for five to eight
years The bolls on large trees run about
fifty to a pound and this large size OF
bolIs diminishes the difficulty Of picking
from such high bushes.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

with the man who makes q trade OF
politics: He wants popularity and Of
fice and he win get them--honsstly. IL
he can. but he wilt get them. Some
times when we see some Of the poii-
tics that are being praotised and sx-
plotted we are forcibiy reminded Of
those lines Of shakepspeare. we believe
1t Is. running thus:
Get thee glass eyes,
And like a scurvy politician. seems
To see the things thou dost not.
All who make a business OF politics
are not "scurvy politicians" but many
OF them are. All they care for IL to
take advantage of any popular wave
or movement and ride into power on
It. Politics. In Its highest sense. Is
commendable and may well engage
the attention Of the best American cit
izen. Politics in its lowest form Is
little less than despicable and Is mere
ly trade with those who are ION
the make" and always have an eve
out for some issue that will help them
and advance their interests.
We are not referring to Mr.. Bryan
as a corrupt politician. for we do not
regard him as a corrupt man In any
sense. but we look on him as a politi-
clan before everything else: a man
who is always on the lookout for op-
portunity and ready to grasp 1t as soon
as he feels at all sure that it is like
" to become a paramount ISSUE"
What we are especially referring to Is
the man who makes a trade of the
lowest form of politics: the man who
has no scruples about the way he gets
office and who will advocate and sup
port any law that he thinks will he
popular, regardless of fairness and
equity. There are some. Of these In
every section of the country: men who
care not for the State or country and
the welfare of the people, but whose
only solicitude liz for popularity. VIII
the country ever be freed from this
class7
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
Last Friday W

Last Friday was the one-hundredth
nyson, the great English poet. but we
suspect that few of the rank and file
nj Americans remembered it. And yet
few poets of the last century attained
to such success and fame as he. He
was one of the few really great poets
Of what is called the Victorian era.
and left q name that will not be for
gotten in his own land. whatever may
be the result in other countries. Poets
are born. not made" we are told. and
Alfred was a born poet.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
All of "A Piece.

mobile Register.
Bills overthrowtng the freedom OF
the press have been introduced and
the supreme folly of attempting to leg
islate virtue into mems lives again
undertaken regardless Of the warning
said Samuel J Tilden, take a step
backward toward the barbarian age,
when the wages OF labor, the price of
commodities. a mans food and cloth
ing were dictated to him by a govern
ment calling itself paternal. "-Emmet
O'Neal in his Florence statement
II the principle OF local seff-gov-
eminent is disregarde6; IL party plat
form pledges are M longer honored; II
the Constitution is to be amended to
get rid of obnoxious Supreme Court de-
cisions defensive of individual rights,
1t is natural that the press should come
are In power. The pattern Is made
out of one piece Of cloth and II all
looks alike.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
A Gag Law.

Mobtle Daily Item.
And 1t Is also proposed by the Leg
islature of Alabama to prevent the
newspapers Of the State from printing
liquor advertisements. Surely this is
Gag Law in every sense Of the term
I The press of Alabama. since this ter
ritory was made into a State, has grne
along On its even way unheInpered by
laws such as are proposed &c ee en-
acted by the present LegisiSture ana ND
obtain.
A newspaper lie printed. not in ac-
cordance with the desires OF any one
far 40 its news service or advertising
columns are concerned. The editorial
columns Of a legitimate newspaper are
reserved solely for expressions CT the
paper in matters political aAnd general.
It's news columns are supposed t, be
used for disseminating news. The ad-
vertising columns are in the main the
source OF revenue.
legislative, as regards the handling of
certain news matter. Legitimate
newspapers use every endeavor to keep
their news columns clean and whole
some. The item is pleased to cay 1t
is in this category. AS regards its
i advertising columns The Item uses ev-
cry precaution in accepting advertise
ments and only such as are legitimate
The Item takes the attitude that the
| Legislature Of alabama has no right
to assume a censorship over Its ad-
vertising columns and when 1t pre-.
sumes to do this 1t arrogates to itself
a power which the Federal courts OF
| the State and Government. in the opin-
| ion of this paper, will promptly declare
to be unconstitutional
| If 1t is the purpose Of the Trainer
CT the proposed Gag Law" to have II
engrafted In the statute books as re-
taliation to certain papers which have
| tain elements of the Legislature, then
| 1t is the more reason that such pur-
poses should be thwarted. The Item
reserves to itself the. right to criticise
ty or municipal, when in the perform
ance of his duties he lays himself oper
to criticism. This is right given By
| the Constitution of the United states
If the paper oversteps the mark ano
utters anything that Is libellous, the
person aggrieved has recourse IN tns
! courts for redress.
But If 1t is the purpose OF the pres
| ent party in power TO muzzle the le'
Ultimate press of the state and as
sumo the role of censor OF what shall
or shall not be printed in its advertls
beyond its rightful powers and thu
Federal courts will, The Item believes
very promptly inform them. There II
limit to everything, and certainly II
is time that the press of the Stat'
should exert itself and speak out FOL
its rights ana inform the Legislature
of Alabama that they will not sit idly
by and be made subservient to thu
whims, caprices and vengeful feelings
of men who have already presumed Z
force down the threats of thousands
of Alabamians laws which are odiou
advancement of the State and the PEG
| pie.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

"Xerxes offered a rich prize to the
man who would invent a new pleasure.
but nobody qualified" observes The
way II some one would offer a prize to
the man who Suggest a new form OF
freak legislation.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
SWORN CIRCULATION.

me figures for juno printed below .y
sent the actual net circulation al
having been deducted. n.... ia
The Montgomery Advertiser guaIeunnc on
advertisers land makes II part OF me .sso,,,a
ton Il larger than that OF any nv NJ. H.
newspaper printed in Alabama-en1,r enia lion
Sunday edition has the iarges. sr,ntsd in
VI any edition Of any newspaper b
Alabama without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

A North Carolina writer says: "God
alone Is great money is His lieuten-
ant" That sentiment wouldn't take up
at our State Capitol, They call his
Iieutenants by another ana more per-
HonaI name
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

TOO many Of u.s." sapiently remarks
The Rome Tribune Herald. try to in
dulge an automobile appetite on an
ox-cart income" And choke them
selves, Ell?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

We are told that the treasury mathe-
maticians figure cut that there Is some
thing more than three billions OF dol
lars In circulation in the United States
at present. or about S34,76 per capita.
II may be so. but--ws are from Mis-
souri,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The Pitts5urg Sun declares that Mr.
Taft is a greater disappointment than
the bill he has just signed" Evil
IDENTIFY a great mSny people thought
that he would not sign the tariff bill,
but did they really have any grounds
for SO believing?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Now they tell US that King Edward
of England is on the water wagon AL
so. We don't know whether it's con-
stitutional or statutory prohibition
that dried him up.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

IT was Robert Burns who uttered the
words. "Whiskey an freedom gang
tagither," but Robert was canny
Scot who dearly loved his toddy in
some form. He never lived in prohi-
bition state or he might have thought
differently, though we are not sure.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The Charleston News and Courier
wants to know--"Did anybody ever
hear of mint juleps in Hades?" Now.
we should like to know why Deacon
Hemphill is interested in that oues-
ton.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Has The Post soured on Houston's
red headed widows, or has the crop all
been harvested? 1t is maintaining a
silence on the subject
of late.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The World and His wife.
The cult of perfumes has go advanced
that women with a rose-tinteo gown, now
demands as a matter of course. haunting
rose odor and violet costume must corrs-
spondingly have violet perfurae. In short
perfumery has risen to be an art.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
Long Drought BROKEN.

Lacrosse. Wis. Aug. 1o.-The worst
drought in thirty-seven years was
broken today when the first rain
since July fell. hard rain con-
tinued for three hours.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing


Mortgage fs There.
Samson Ledger.
Looks as IL Alabama Is slated for a
red-hot politico-mo crusade until the
next State election at least. Wa trust
1t will not prevent the farmer from get
ting out from under his mortgage and
living at home.
A Truth In Few Words.
Bessemer Daily Times.
The Carmichael bill, IL enforced,
should be sufficient to make Alabama
as dry as q powder horn. II 1t doesn't
there Is no need of constitutional
prohibition or anything else.
The Bouquet Tosser.
Pine Belt News.
Governor Conner is about the limit
when 1t comes to the use Of taffy, as Is
evidenced in his latest message to the
Alabama Legislature, when he so pro-
fusely used 1t In telling his pets" the
marvellous results of their former leg
islaticn. As tosser Of bouquets he is
In class all to himself.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

blTInlnBham Leuger. .
We doubt II the bill to forbid the
publication Of certain news inside the
State has the support Of single real
newspaper. Our Legislature cannot
forbid the Atlanta papers, nor the
Memphis papers, nor the Nashville pa
pers from coming right here with far-
Ing headlines giving news that our
own papers are forbidden to print
When we forbid the publication or GER
tain kind of news we could go on and
forbid enough kinds tc put Alabama
papers at a serious disadvantage with
our own people. Such laws should
never be sprung on a Legislature and
passed at a Eallop without consulting
people who have dealt with such mat.
tiers by experience. This is an Ala
bama Legislature dealing with Ala.
bama papers.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

1t would be great thing for the
South II that should become true Of
the entire section. Then they would
not only stop shipping Western corn
here but would also stor shipping the
deadly pelagra as well.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

c. l. Finigan, Circulation Manager OF The
Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn.
me foregoing statement Of The Adver-
Users circulation for the month OF June,
1893. ts true and correct and compieo aIter
All returns from news boys news agents.
spoiled and left over copies have been de-
aprfeS L. /. FTNI0AN.
Circulation Manager.
sworn to and subscribed before me this
sseA 1~s RIGA ALEXANDER, +,
Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

"If conditions affecting corn Gull
ture improve in the next ten years as
they have during the past ten the ship
ping of Western corn into their terri
tory will be a thing Of the past"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Speaking of corn culture in North
Carolina The Wadesboro Messenger
saws:
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

A summer resort is that mysterious
bourne from which no traveller ever
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The most awful calamity that could
befAll the old maid fanatic and the
clerical extremist would be TO die ana
discover that after all these years OF
effort there was no hell!
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

They speak of this as a free ,eoun-
try, and yet II Is q nation that pro-
duced Nelson W. Aldrich and Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

The average man Is two-facee--one
face with q frown en- 1t he gives his
family, while the other face. entirely
different, he reserves for his friends at
the club
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

When q woman tries to be logical
she loses one of her sweetest eharae.
teristics.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Advice Is just like medicineL-eas,
to give but mean to take. and whei
to take e it one Is aiwsys up more or les,
dubious OF the result.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

1t Is rurnored that Walt Weilman IL
about TO get ready to prepare to start
for the pole again.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Does she 70 In much for local col
orr"
keeps O drugstore"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Miss Youngthing-Eow, honestly.
what kind of hair do you prefer7
Mr.. Bachelor--Real Hair!
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

II was a fool when I married you..
But you do not seem to have I'm
proved any by the association" replied
his wife. sArcastically, but then some
cases are hopAiess,"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Paw. what Is q green-grass wild
owY'
my son. there IL no such thing
widow IL never green
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Well. what's the good of Kicking
as long as the ocean hasn't gone dry
and there are pretty bathing girls to
lock upon, life isn't quite dreary
waste.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

will go to FittsburK and enter upon a
literary career. II any doubts ever
existed In the popular mind as to TIE
young mans insanity this will at cnce
dispel them.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-11

Alabama is 100 per cent. dryer thar
pulverized moonshinA. powdered SUI
gar. and seed diamonds. Please turr
on the hose
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1909-01-15
BISHOP WARDS LECTURE.
Large Audience Listened to the Dis.
tinguished Divine Last Might.

Bishop Seth ~ Ward of Houston held
he close attention OF a large audience at
he First Methodist church here Thursday
night in a lecture, the proceeds derived
from the admission charged being devoted
to the Y. NJ. c. A. of Allen Academy.
The subject of the lecture was, "Observ-
ations and Experiences in the Orient, and
the fact that the speaker related incidents
which came under his own observation
and drew his deductions from the same
source, gave an interest which would
otherwise have lacked Bishop Ward is
an interesting speaker. He possesses in a
marked degree that seldom, but happy,
faculty ot"carrying his headers with him. -
The address was confined chiefly to
Japan, tho the bishop visited last summer
Japan, Corea and China. He returned
from The East last November and the ad.
dress had to do with the people, the Gus
toms, the government and the FERNS OF
religious worship of the various countries
touched upon, tho as stated heretofore ia
pan was the only country discussed in de
tail During last year Bishop Ward pre-
sided over the MISSIONS and conferences of
FIVE ditferSnt countries-Mexico, Japan,
Corea, China, and the United States. The
business OF the conferences was conducted
in the language of the various countries in
which these conferences were held.
The lecture was instructive and valuable
in many respects. The speaker related
to his audience many facts that are not
generrlly known and which manifest
themselves only to the intelligent observer.
/ Japan, occupying about three-fifths as
large a territory as Texas, has a popula-
ton of $4,000, 900 people. Were Texas
as densely populated as Japan she would
have 20, 600, 900 inhabitants.
The bishop spoke OF the cities he had
visited, among them Toxic, the fourth
largest city in the world, with its 1000, 900
I people; of the educational and agricultural
systems of the country. The talk of war
between this nation and Japan is regarded
by Bishop Ward as utterly groundless. In
conversation with prominent business men
and government officials, only the friendli-
est feelings for this country was expressed
/ There will be trade rivalry tor the com
merce of the East, but there will be no
war.
There are 10000 COMMITMENTS of
protestant religion in Inpan. Christianity
is especially strong among the ietellgent
and educated classes of the country, and
fourteen members of the diet, or parlia-
ment, have accepted the teachings of the
western world.
The lecture was splendid thruout, and
I he Eagle regrets that it canno, publish
in full the text OF the address.