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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
Progress in Dental Science
B Frsds6c J. H..lin.

Her by each generation than by it, predecessor. Some scientists look to the time when man will be compiefelS efnancipated from the pangs of com. piainins teeth They declare the need Of and thst some time in the great, Rol. den future man will learn to adjust his tastes to the needs of his teeth.
 Perhaps the most remarkable of all tho evidences of dental skill is that of changing the contour of the face. Who has not seen the person with the the fetreatin9 chin? Modern dentis- try eomes along now with cure for those detractions from personal beau ty. More often than not 1t Is the child who sucks his thumb that has protrud- ing upper teeth. It all depends on the angle at which he holds his thumb--or his fingers. By system of carefully constructed metal bands the dentist fs able to force the teeth back into nor mai position Into one with lips to match cupid's bow. No patent medi- cine advertisement with a before and after" illustration. ever showed . more gratifying transformation than the dentist is able to show with tho
 The leaders of the dental profession will unhesitatinsly declare that though dentistry ss profession in America has made great strides in the thnfe.- score and ten years of its existence. strides that have made 1t set the pace for the whole world. 1t Is yet in It's infancy as regards it's progress. and that the years to come bring greaat- CT results than ever were brought be fore. But they concede that the great est result of all will be the awakning of people to a proper understanding of the necessity of caring for their teeth, starting when they are child rem.
 Copyright 1909 by Fredric J. Has kin.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
BARAcA GLASS PICNIC.

Dothan. May 23.-(Special. )-The Baraca Glass of the First Baptist Church. this city, invited the Phylathia class and a few other friends to a pie nic yesterday at Panama City. and the most enjoyable occasion they ever attended Is the version of all who at tended.
 A special train was engaged for the occasion which left Dothan at 5:45 in the morning and arrived at Panama City at 9:10 loaded down with the flower of Dothan society, and immedi- atelY on their arrival at the bay, steam yachts were secured and a short visit made to St. Andrews returning to Panama City in time for dinner. Din- ner was spread in the large public mark. The remainder of the day was spent in or on the gulf and bay with out A single casualty or mishap of any kind reported.
 Panama City and St. Andrews both are making great preparation for the entertainment iof the Alabama Press Association whom they are expecting to have as guests on their annual outing this year.
 excellent arrangements have already been made for the surf bathing. skat- ing dancing and other pastimes sports and amusements, and there Is no doubt but that an agreeable surprise awaits avery editor who makes the trip.
 The beauties of St. Andrews Bay and the bay country are almost as yet nnknown and unadvertised to the world, but prettier sheet of water has never greeted the eye of an Amer Acan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
ENORMOUS FIRE WASTE.
Losses for Past Five Years Reach TS
 tai of 4I,246.O .OO2 0SN.

Losses for Past Five Years Reach To- New York World.
 Money to burn and matches in plenty formed the burden of the preliminary talk at the opening of the forty-third annual meeting of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Every speech. every official report and every com ment, went to show that when it comes 10 burning. dp the Tong green" the eSSody ese see on the bs
 During the five years just passed, the representatives of fifty ire and marine compa.niss the United states enough to build ali the subways New York has built or planned and then leave about billtor for the constfuc- tfon of "ladies-oniy" cars.
 ,, Getting down tO the personal cast, the country was "soaked'' at the rate of $2.51 for the year 1908. He added that he had omitted trifie of s14.o00,- 900 of forest fires that had helped to cause the scarcity of paper pulp that the paper trust moans about when it wants to boost the price of the favor ite home paper.
 Everything from the modern incu- bator that pauses in its work of mui. population long enough to cause few fires up to the spontaneous combus. tion and the cigarette came m as blamable for a part of the fire loss. Nor did the big fire chief forget the humble incendiary as contributor.
 Our neighbors over the pond came the tip, only had the fire habit from one-tenth to one-thirtieth as bad as took better care of what they had he did not say.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
HENRY H. ROGERS.

A few months ago Henry H. Rogers was pictured as a ruthless pirate of the financial seas--a Captain Kidd who swooped down on lighter crafts and showed no mercy. He was pictured as the Standard oil financier at his worst. than which there should he nothing more abhorrent to the American people. Dead and beyond the reach of words of praise he is held up as a great con structive genius. building. planning and acting ahead of his age. He is presented as an unrecognized benefac- tor of his age and his people
 The truth is between the two ex- tremes. Rogers was strong. deter mined man. with a remarkable genius for financiering. There was a deep sympathy in his soul for humanity. manifested in his remarkable gifts to his boyhood town. his gentle kindness to Mark Twain and Helen Keller. He was not wholly bad. nor yet wholly good. He was man who fought his fight and won it--one whose methods might not always bear close inspection. but whose heart beat in sympathy for the unfortunate.
 It might be truly said that with all his faults Rogers life benentsd rather than harmed the people among whom he lived and worked.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24

We suspect that few people, even among those who read a great deal really know that there are now fifty nine metals known and recognidzed by chemists. AS well as can now be as certained there were but four when history first mentions metal These were gold. silver. tin and copper, but new ones have been discovered and eliminated until the total Is now put at ffty-nine. Whether there are stilI others as yet undiscovered is not known, but perhaps there may be, ana that time will bring them to view.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
NEW HOME FOR JEWS.

Proposed to Establish . Great Colony In Mesopotamia.
 New York Herald.
 Details ot the contemplated estab- iishment of the largest Jewish colony the world ever has seen were made public in this city Tuesday.
 Announcement was made of the combination In support of the project of international Jewish organizations. which never have acted together be- fore. That the new movement has financial resources in excess of one hundred millions Of dollars and that the country which 1t Is proposed to turn turn into Jewish sSlony SaG oo wil sup dfcatiors of the extent of the enter prise.
 Men in this city who are interested in the latest movement toward the es- tablishIpent Of Jewieh colony said credit for having united the various forces in support of this elaborate plan should be given to Jacob H. Schiff and ]. Zangwill The latter is president or the Jewish Territorial Organization now in session in London and before which body he has laid an official pro- posal by the Turkish Government look ing 10 the turning over to the Jews of all of of Mh.sopStaraia; sh. shnnh.. ..x,.n.. ,n favor of .Mesopotamia is that In sup porting the proposal to establish the great colony in that land one step Is taken nearer the accomplishment of the plan to make Zionist settlement of PalSsfins. rfrf
 According to the original plans of the ztonists tt was Intended. sto in- clude MesopotaThia in the fines 6f Col onizatioh. Under the rule Of the Sui- tan of Turkey this object failed of that governmental support which Is needed. Now that the Young Turks have voluntarily offered Mesopotamia to the Jews, it is thought the Zionists will support the Mesopotamia project. hoping the settlement there will be followed by that of Palestine.
 Through the Jewish Territorial Or ganization, which Mir. Zangwill found- ed when he left the Zionist movement, 1t is said that In Mesopotamia there will be room for the 6.0n0s60D Jews in Russia and the 400.o00 Jews in Rou- maniaN and that the establishment of the home rule colony between the rivers Tigris and Enplrates will de- fleet much of the stream of immiGra- ton which now flows from Russia and Rounania to fhe IInitad States
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
FEAR OF THE RAILROADS.
Ripley Says OnIy MeddIers Can Nov
 Hinder Progress,

Ripley Says OnIy MeddIers Can Now
 Hinder Progress. z Chicago Dispatch 10 The New York
 The railroads of the West have but one thing to fear. meddlesome and ma- hcious interference In the conduct of their business by Legislatures and com- missions having no interest in the property and no knowledge of railroad natters-elected not to do justice, but for the sole purpose of getting as much as possible out of the corpora tions In increased service and reduced rates"
 This statement was made bS E. P. Ripley, President of the Santa Fe Road, upon his return from a compre- nearly. every State in which the com pany has rails. Mir. Ripley was giv- ing his views as to the future of West ern railroads and was discussing the recent acts of several of the Western State Legislatures and State conInis- sions. In Texas, for example. where there Is an urgent commercial need for. at least 10000 additional miles of railroad, and in which State the rail- roads had determined to do more rail- road building this year than will be done fin any other State. the commits sion has recently imposed numerous conditions upon railroads, which. 1t Is claimed. make increased construc- tion undesirable from an investment standpoint.
 For example, the railroads of Texas must have the cars which are oper- ated in that State repaired within the State no matter what the operating necessity may be, and Mir. Ripley and other railroad men say that body dis plays no desire to encourage the ex- tensions of transportation. facilities in States where the same disposition IS manifest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24

Of course 1t had to come sooner or later-Democratic discord. This time Senator Bailey applied the match. This is not especially surprising for Bailey has been a trouble maker ever since he was in public life. If he ever did anything that resounded to the good of his party, if he ever achieved anything that did not rebound to the personal credit and aggrandizsment of Joseph ". Bailey, it has never been recorded His unjustified attack on Governor John A. Johnson may be regarded as another proof of his reckless love of strife and discord.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
MIR. sTEAD's PREDICTION.
The following paragraph Is from The New York Globe

New York Globe.
 MT. William T. Stead Is a busy man. But he seems at last to have found time to read the legal literature on airships-for now he Is out with brief space of time the frontiers of Europe will be wiped out by airships and its customs systems be destroyed. Not that the legal literature contains any such tremendous prophecies. but it does contain just enough of speculation and suggestion to fire bold and un shrinking imagination.
 The Globe intimates. although it does not say so in direct words, that MT Steads' prediction Is not tenable. but we confess that we do not agree with the New York authority. It Is mat ter about which we have often thought since so much has been said and pra- dicted about successful air naviga- ton. The only valid reason that we can see for doubting MT. steads view Is for one to doubt that there will be any really successful airsfnps, and to doubt that would be to pdt oneself in opposition to the entire cult Of avia- tors. They believe and declare that the air will be navigated with as much facility and certainty as the water now is, and though we have not yet arrived at the point of fully agreeing with them we cannot dIsprove their claims, and there 1t rests.
 Then, if the time ever arrives when an airship. carrying passengers CT freight, can be made to fly as desired. and go up and come down where want ed, we fail to see any cause to doubt MT. Steads line of reasoning. All who even partially keep up with the affairs of our own government know what an impossible task 1t Is to prevent or sup press smuggling. Even at our 4ea- ports, where every vessel that lands can be examined and every passenger searched by customs officers; the pa pers are continually publishing reports of attempted smuggling, and 1t devel- ops that many of these attempts are successful. and the sinugkled goods are safely concealed and appropriated by the vlolators of the custor4 laws.
 If smuggling can be even partially successful at the seaports. 1t can easily be understood that 1t Is much more diff Acult to detect and suppress it where the boundary between two countries Is merely an imaginary line which can
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
The word aYankee."

Nashville Banner.
 The New York World says: or vile and Wilbur Wright, who yester- day returned from Europe. are ohioans by the accident of parental migration. Essentially they are Yankees of. the lean, angular type that has furnished It's share and more of the worlds in- ventors."
 The word Yankee here has its most restricted sense, meaning not only the New Englander, but the original stock of white men in that part of the eoun- try. To say that man is a Yankee though he lives in Ohio. iss a superflu- ous statement in this part of the Uni ted States, and would be quite per- picking to the outside world, which calls us all Yankees.
 The Indians of the North endeavorej to call the New England settlers after the manner of the Frenchmen in Cam ada. They converted Anglais into Yankee. It became a nickname which the English applied to all Americans and the people of Virginia and Nary land to all north of their boundary lines, Immigration was mostly on parallels of latitude, and the people of the South naturally made the same application of the term to the de- scendants of the Fasteners in the West that The New York World makes to the Wright brothers.
 The civil war served to give a fixed emphasis to the name in this section. and the naTnO homemade Yankee" was sometimes opprobiousIy applied to Southern sympathizers with the Un- Ion cause.
 But the world at large continues to call us all Yankees, and has done so from quite an early date. The song. Yankee Doodlee,' originated with Braddock's men. who came to this country in 1760. and as they were mostly in Virginia. was applied to the Southern populat on of the country in that time.
 The word Yankee is applied to Northern people in the South now through old association and habit. and not in any spirit of i'll will. Proba- bly, the truest test of a thorough unity of the nation will be the cheerful ac- ceptance of this term by Americans of all sections
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
NO MORE GOLDEN SPIKES.
Completion of Another Transcontinent- al Railroad.

Compietfon of Another Transcontinent- al Railroad.
 Leslie's Weekly.
 Without any golden spike. without the presence of any of the principal omcers of the. company. the last rail on the Pacific Coast extension of the ScagS, waH go,. Milwaukee Lnn and st Paul EsiI- waukee and Puget Sound Railway, was laid to point two miles east of Mtssoula, Mont, just before the $ o'clock whistles blew on March S1 last There was no celebration of any kind, and the only speech was the remark that's good job" The length of the extension just completed from the Mis- sonri River to Seattle and Tacoma, is . trifie over 1.400 miles, and brings the total milage of the Chicago, Mil- wauk,e and St. Paul Railway up to 5000 miles. The completion of the new transcontinental line creetes a worlds struction. The first shovelful of earth on the new line was turned April Is, 1906. No Pacific Coast line of any railway, and no line of equal length crossing three mountain ranges has eyer been constructed within the this period e0.o00,000 cubic yards of material have been excavated. 26e. .000 yards of tunnel driven 20 miles of bridges erected, and 100000 tons of S5-pound raii laid. at a total cost of $s5,000,o00. The baliasting of the new transcontinental line will be complet- ed about June 1. 1909. and regular freight and local passenger service will be established thereafter. The new line as far West as the city of Butte, Mont, has been in regular operation since September, 1908.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
MONDAY. MAY "A. Isos.

VIII there never be an end to the contention that Francis Bacon was the author Sf shaik sspezfe's works? when Ignatius DonneIiy, we think 1t was. put out his book entitled "The Great cryptogrSmi," |" he doubtless expected to convince the world that Shakespeare was not the author of the great plays shat bear his name. but that they were all written by Bacon. The world has strbborniy refused to De convinced however. but occasionally there ooos up some one to renew the Bacon's n ansory--with no more success than DonneTly had. 1t may bs truthfulJy said.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
Determined to Be American.

6AltiulOES Oun
 Ben Axelrod of Odessa Is deter mined to be an American If he was to swim into the country under fire. Ben is only IA years old. but he has come across the Atlantic so many times that he has almost worn himself a pal-~ across the ocean. Nine times has he arrived at New York, asking for ad- mittanee into America. Eight times has he been denied and sent back. As soon as he is landed on the other side he makes plans to find nook in some other steamer and he sails for Amer lea again. He has broken the stowa- way record. the immigration record and the persistence record; and the authorities are about to conclude to ad- init him and let the steamers haul someone else awhile.
 Ben doesn't take his parents with him when travelling. but leaves u . back in Russia. This omission is what prevents his admission.
 There isn'D any use in trying to keep such a boy down. He has the spirit of enterprise. of persistence and the grit that America needs, and he would probably make a better American than many of those who are born here and whe can't be deported
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
we hope out up- state bretnrsn wi1

We hope our upstate brethren will not tire of talking railroad until they get one on the way from Anniston to Montgomery. We want the line to come down on us. not like "a wolf on ton. We are not trying to point out the exact route. or what towns 1t shall tap as 1t comes towards this capital city. We want the road because we know it would be good for Montgom- cry and for the country through which the line would run. In short. let 'Sr come, and the sooner the better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24

not be at ali times suaracd along it's entire length. This heinz true where travel is by land or water we may eas- fly understand the impossib,iity of guarding against violation of the cus- toms regulations when the air Is the field of tfave,., When man can rise in the air in any part of Europe or Asia. or in Canada for that n,stter. and descend in any portion of the United States. ws fail to see how 1t will be possible to prevent tinn iron, bringing with him ana safely aepositlns du- tiabIe articles of any description, es- peciaiiy if they are Q. small size When the land and water lines cannot bs successfully guarded. how can We hope that the air can be watched?
 This. is why we cannot see that there Is anything absurd or unreasonable in Mir. Stead's prediction, and especially is that true of the old world The coun- tries of Europe, are mostly divided only by land lines. and we know from our reading how difficult It Is to guard all these lines against sinugelers. That difficulty is at present but a trife when compared with what may be ex- pected when air navigation becomes common, if that time ever arrives. We supbose the nations of the earth wfIl enact Flaws of the air" but executing those laws will be quite different af- fair They may sheer at MT. Steal If they like, but there's sound sense in his statements. all the same.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doin
usaai order Reversed.

usasi order Reversed.
 That Adverti.sr walking delssation awiy Yuns fsS% hs9Gs s9es sas sasss sas usually just the other way.
 4
 n..s Dctnsgs Prospects. Dothan Eagle. dry, and the mud on them when 1t rains. will be done away with when those bonds are sold. and the paving Is
 Game Reported Plentiful.
 Roosevelts first lion hunt is said to naye resulted in three lions.--samson Suppose he was to take a tiger hunt
 Advertising PhiIesephy. Wire Grass Siftings.
 When q mans business gets go large until he doesn't need to advertise. the lafii t is is time n he s1s was replaced by sy another. which is almost invariably the
 Fine Tonic. aaes,s PStsints aoa tsslns Gns 'os sE vantages 1t has to offer good citizens We would like to see more of this Kind of advertising done. It Is the kind Of tonic tho whole State needs.
 Good oat Crop. Abbevflle News.
 The oat crop Is being harvested and is the finest crop ever grown in this section. It comes in good time and will save the farmer who has crop, many dollars, for t will stop them from buy and will cause them to plant a larger oat crop next fall. no doubt
 Perry's New Leaf. Marion Standard
 We don't know what the other courf- ties are dong but the farmers of Perry have turned over q new leaf. # reports do not have hog and hominy this fall 1t will not be their fault. The extreme high prices for food stuff has raised thetr "dander" and many are turning the soil with their own hands who dies In twenty years.
 Critics of Other Men. Blount County Journal.
 We can understand how the art crit Is criticfses things that he can't do himself and how the literary critic judges books he cannot write. but we how to get rich when he has never made a hard earned dollar In his life. We have met men who held little jobs and who were always telling people how to get better ones, but It has been to their little jobs themselves. Climb higher yourself, then pull your brother up. That's easier done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
! MORNING THOUGHT
EsPset i. sood lOas. ussful llts;
sH .. MARVIN NICHOLS.

Expect good Ions, useful life.
 Hold your thoughts persistentiy; nec1pes to of stimulanfs and seda- XIII oid Are. tfves; they will shorten
 your life.
 One of the best preyentatives of old age is enthusiasm and interest in the Avoid fear in ell its varied forms of the human race. .tls., Naturs is the great rsiuyenas9r; her her
 Avoid excesses of all kinds: they are Injurious. The long life must be temperate. regular life. and you will drive everything that Is ugly out of your life. Simply refuse to grow old by count ing your years or anticipating old age. the ssvs5 oSk SsT on o es aara sd thought will drive away the shadows.
 Be a child: live simply and natural ly, Keep cleare of entangiinR aiii- ances and compiica tions of every kind. all discontent and dissatisfaction bring the age-furrows prernaturely to the
 Don't live to eat. but eat to live, ing-to eating the wrong things. and
 Don't be too ambitious. The canker of an ovsrvaulting ambition has eaten out the happiness of many life and shortened it many years.
 Think beautiful tnoukhts-harmony thoughts. truth thoughts. thoughts of innocence, of youth. of love and Of kindness.
 Never trust appearances A drum, notwithstanding all its noise. Is empty.
 He is no less faithful friend who divulges the secret that you yourself could not keep;
 It is unbecomfng the character of $ wise man to commit the fault he con- demns in others.
 He who loves to listen to sJanderous reports at once ranks himself with the slanderer.
 A child. with living father and mother. is frequently worse off than if he had none at all.
 Don't despiss a man because he is poor. A lion is not less royal tecause he Is chained r.t