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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
OBJECTS TO ADVICE.

The people of Montgomery have more than once voted in favor of a bond issue for the erection of a Gen. tral High School The majority was about ten to one In favor of the propo- sition and we submit that Is pretty good evidence that they are thorough ly in earnest in the matter. Now comes the chairman of the Finance Commit tee of the City Council and objects to expression of desire on the part of The Advertiser or the Board of Education that steps be concluded by which the bonds could be issued. ' Whether or not The Advertiser was talking about something 1t knew nothing of, it does know that if the matters connected with the bond issue when it first came up had been properly attended to there would have been no occasion for hold ing three AeIections and the school build ing would have been erected long ago. of June and If the congestion Is to end work of erecting the new build- ing should commence by that time. but if the council continues putting off the adoption of plans for the issue of the bonds school time will come again and not a brick be laid. The chairman of remarks. criticizing The Advertiser for showing its interest in a matter, of great public importance. that the ie- gality of the election had been settled, and any stumbling block in that direc- tion has been removed. It will take several weeks to advertise for bids, af- sale of bonds and at the earliest work could hardly begin under nine ty days. The Advertiser thinks it Is time for the council to act if 1t ex- poets for the school children to be properly housed and as a natural consequence properly taught. Wheth- ers or not it knows as much of finan- cial matters as does the chairman of the Finance Committee 1t does know that there ought to be no more cleo tions on this subject, and just as It, tie delay as circumstances will permit, So far as past delay Is concerned, that has been due to mistakes Of Council and others in authority, and not to any "butting" in of citizens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
} WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
By Frederic J. Haskin.

One of the prettiest incidents fin tho life of the new President occurred just before his departure on his round the world trip. His mother was then In i'll health, and did not expect to live long. Before determining to go, the son went to her for counsel: he did not like to so so far away when the days allotted to her Seemed all but spent. But she told him the Filipinoes looked up to him and put their confi- dence in him. that 1t was his duty to live up to his promise to attend the opening of their assembly, even if 1t cost him the Presidency itself to go. Taft went. Before he got home the mother was dead. But she found con solation fof his absence in the thought that ne was away at the call of duty.
 The new President Is more of a fam lily man than MT. Roosevelt himself, even if the latter has been the worlds greatest preacher against race sui- cidet Charlie Is his fathers boon companion, and the incoming Presi- dent is always ready to take up for the son when that lively youngster tires of the restrictions thrown about the children of the great. A good illustration of this occurred on the globe-trotting trip which, by the way. Mrs Taft made without taking Q sin gle maid or servant. Char1ie had come to dinner with a dirty face, ex- cept where he had washed around his mouth Mrs. Taft felt worried and re- minded Charlie that he ought not to carry real estate around on his face while aboard ship or at dinner. At this, MT. Taft interceded, saying that she should not be "too hard on Char lie" as he himself got tired of forever priming up.
 Copyright, 1909. by Frederic J.
 Haskin.)
 TOmorrow-Inaugurat . Ruler.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
Give Them Work. Thomasyille Echo.
A FEW TEARS.
Mingled With Smiles Az the Last Official
 Function.

Function.
 Washington Correspondence of Louisville
 Courier-J Journal
 President Roosevelt. since the beginning Of his administration in 1901, has received House. that is to say. such members of the public as. hold tickets of admission. upon state occasions.
 Exactly forty times, President Rooseveit's Wife has stood beside him at their mutual post and received the great American pub lie, too. That's a game record for a wo- man.
 Mrs. Roosevelt has never once played hockey or pleaded sick. This estimate re- those to the diplomatic corps. the judiciary. Congress and the army and navy. and the New Years receptions for the past eight seasons from 1902 to 1909. inclusive. Mrs. Roosevelt has stood to her guns as uuflinch- ingly through the scores of other less stereotyped occasions when her husband has been host to hundreds.
 The army and navy reception was tho so- eial wind-up of the Administration: The moth balls. along with the wild animal heads, that have been decking the state dining room of the White House. during the present geological regime. "A dead circus" was the apt characterization of the small boy viewing the mortuary menagerie dis played in the national banquet hall.
 There was a clutch at the hoart of not a, few who participated in the last official blowout of the present boss of the execu- tive mansion and watched his wife and him self and their stately retinue in their pro gress up the marble stairway. after the last hand had been shaken. The President and his mate paused a second on lower step as applause of fellowship rang out from hundreds pressing for final glimpse. MT Roosevelt. drawing himself up to the last iota of his five feet nine inches as he bowed and smiled in gratitude. his eyes per haps trifle dimmed with emotion. Mrs. Roosevelt. too. smiled her last acknowiedg- ments. happily and a little wearily She is glad the game Is done She knows the normal woman in her own home-nest far from the spotlight has the fondest fate after all.
 Mrs. Roosevelt has smiled herocally for seven years. A ''pinned-on smile.' the caustic has designated the unrelaxing bea- tificness of her facial pose. She has allow ed herself no moods, no vagnries. no fads. She has been an ideal helpmate to a man who prefers monopoly in all the family eccentricities in himself. Like Edward of England. Mrs, Roosevelt has never made single mistake throughout her entire reign. There has been no word of adverse criti- cism. If ever there was perfect lady" you see her in Edith Kermit Roosevelt.
 If the retiring first lady of the land lacks in aggres 'iveness of characteristics almost to the verge of being nondescript, 1t is at least a fault on the safest side.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
Has Plan for Peace.

NeW 1oTk tteTaiu.
 Prof. George T. Ladd, of Yale, pre- sented a novel, plan for ending the talk of war between Japan and the United States at the reunion of the Alumni As sociation of the Western Reserve Uni versity, of Cleveland, Ohio.
 T would take the best battleship In the American navy" said Prof. Ladd after discussing at length the Christian nations of the Western World, then ] would place Richmond Pearson Hobson in command, man the vessel with cer- tain members of Congress and repre- sentatlves of a certain beligerent press andSsend 1t to the midle of the Pacific where 1t would meet a Japanese vessel similarly manned by Japanese. I would let them fight and. after picking up the survivors, place them on an island where they would be required to live together for a period. That I think, would effecually end all talk of war in this country or in Japan"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
This Date in History
MARCH 3.

l743-Peter Faneuil donor of Funeuil Hall.
 died In Boston Born In New Ro-
 chelle, N. r., in 100. l793-wiIliam Charles Macready, famous
 English actor. born, Died April s7.
 1873.
 lS05-Territory of Louisiana erected. 1Sl5-wiIiam II. Crawford of Georgia be-
 came Secretary of War. 1s1T-Alabama Territory formed. lS37-Independence of Texas recognized by
 the United States. 1S43-Congress appropriated $30,00o to build
 Morse's experimental telegraph line
 from Baltimore to Washington. lS49-Minnesota was organized as terri
 tory, and Alexander Ramsey was ap-
 pointed the first governor. lS61-The "Crittendon Compromise defeat
 ed in Congress. Is75--Congress authorized the people of
 Colorado to form state government. 18s9-Roscoe Conkllng of New York declin-
 ed an appointment to the Supreme 1s9o-George c. Dewey made an Admiral a.
 the United States Navy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
Dodging the Water Wagon.

Atlanta Constitution.
 'I don't know what's to become O the or man ef they keep on yotin' the States dry" said the old lady. "It didn't cost so much fer him to go to Chattynoogy, but as Tennessee will be as dry as a bone in July. thatll take him a step further an he jes' can't afford the money. Of course. he kin blind tiger 1t In Georgy. but it's no longer safe fer him to do so, seein' that he kin no more kiver up his tracks. fer ever time he tries 1t they ketch up with min, an haul him up before meetin', an he's gittin' too or now ter risk bein' turned out the church, fer satan might ketch him on the outside an sweep him off fore he has chance ter git gack ag'in. But the States air dryin' up, one after an- other, an I kin see him buyin' a rail- road ticket as far as Kalamazoo--an' I blieve that country would be dry fore he hit it!"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

the other hand; that 1t will meet with the approval generally of the people of the United States on one side of the
 line and of the neSpis of the ssas line"
 This statement was corroborated by Representative Sims, a Democratic member of the committee.
 Under the terms of the report. which it is expected Congress will make legally effective pulp is to be admit ted free, provided Canada should not see fit to bar it by an export duty. The tariff on news-print paper was reduced from thirty cents a hundred pounds to ten cents a hundred pounds. This is sweeping reduction. wiping out as 1t does two- thirds of the total of the figure established by the high protec- tive schedule of the Dingley bill.
 Mir. Sims said: We feel that we have won a sweeping victory" He may well say 1t and the newspaper publishers throughout the country will heartily concur in that asserted opinion.
 This is probably the greatest ad- vance that has so far been made to- wards an equitable tariff revision by Republican Congress in recent years. The report is yet a long ways of from a legal enactment but 1t is hardly prob- able that a unanimous report made by Select Committee after a searching investigation will be lost in tn C House or Senate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
New York Lives Too Fast. : vorH Annarican

NeW OTK A1IItTICdI.
 Some interesting mortality statistics were given at Columbia University by Frederick l.. Hoffman, statisian of the Prudential Life Insurance Company.
 Country life is still healthier than city life he showed, the death rate per 1000 being 18.6 in cities against 15.4 In the country. Bad air. bad milk, nervous strain, alcoholism, suicide, and acci- dents caused the difference, he explain ed. The speed of New York's life, he asserted, causes greater death rate here than In London. Those surviv- ing the age of 40, he said. are only TO per 1000 here, against S36 in Lon don.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
nrunkards May Not Wed.

Springfield Ul.) Dispatch to The New
 York World.
 Young men who frequent saloons will not he permitted to enter the matri- monial relations in Illinois If a bill introduced in the house be enacted into law. and 1t probably will pass.
 The bill was introduced by Repre- sentative Groves and amends the mar riage laws of the State by declaring an habitual drunkard incapable of con- tracting marriage and definlnf an ''hab- itual drunkard" to be a person who becomes intoxicated twice year. The provides also that applicants for mar riase licenses shall make affidavit that they have not been intoxicated twice in the preceding year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
This Ls My 47th Birthday
EDWARD H. BROWN.

Edward H. Brown. executive president of the National Railways of Mexico was born In Barbour County, Alabama. March g., 1862, and entered the railway service in 1878 as rodman and chairman of the prelim- eastern Railroad of Georgia. For number of years he held the position of engineer vile Railroad. From 1880 to 1888 he at tended college to take postgraduate course. After that he became connected Central Railroad of Georgia. MT. Brown first went to Mexico in 1888 as engineer for the Mexican National Railroad. and was promoted from place to place until he H. naliy became President of the National Railroad of Mexico the Mexican Information al and the Texas-Mexican Railroad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

tion last November. and who are very this ,connectisn The New York Journ-
 -rhis Is q procedure always to be reprobated in politics, but never more so than when it arect. judicial or for its functions. though In part ad- Iministrative or even in measure is no department of the Federal gov ernment, unless 1t be the judiciary itself, where Iplace-making in order to provide for unattached politicians purely gratuitous the proposal is can be inferred from the fact that ofi7- cials of the commission itself declare that no such additiDn to thei. mem, lem, the Introduction of two new members would operate to render the Commis- sion unwieldy and would possibly re- tard business instead of advancing 1t. That the work now imposed upon the commission could be better performed through a more extensive organization nf subordinates reporting to the mem- hership of the main body itself Is view which is strongly entertained by men on both sides of the railroad ranted by the facts in the situation"
 Another objection raised to the pro- posed increase of the membership of the commission is the fact that the ciple, hence the addition of members who are in sympathy with the major
 ity or minority of the body would he able to turn the balance on sll cless. e, which has aroused the suspicion that there Is some interior purpose in ada ing two more members ~to the com- mission. Moreover there does not ap- pear to be any good purpose to be served by the proposed increase. As at present organized the members of the commission hold office for com- paratively short terms and are remov- able whenever their action warrants such action. therefore if an attempt Is made to pack the body 1t should
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
ROOSEVELT AN "ADo EXPERT.
Knows How to Get Widest Pubiicit,
 on Dull Days.

Knows How to Get Widest Publicity
 on Dull Days.
 New York World
 pr. Charming Rudd an advertising expert. says President Roosevelt is al so an advertising expert. He says he would like to have MT. Roosevelt in A '"ThHefe is gentleman in Washing ton who will oe President until the 4th of March," said pr. Rudd. in the course of talk on advertising, who Is an advertising man of the highest order. l would ike to employ him in my agency after the present employ ment Is coneluled. but I'm afraid his price would be too high.
 He knows how to get the widest publicity. He got a training as an advertising mau In his earlier years. He knows how to send out matter for publication so hat 1t will reach the newspapers on dull news days and get the most possib space,
 Every good advertiser (and I mean by that every one who seeks publicity for his goods or his messages) knows that on Monday mornings there Is usually less of n rush of news than on any other day in the week. unless 1t be a day following a holiday Hence the matter that Is submitted to the newspaper for publication on Monday (not paid advertising. but advertising just the same) will receive more at tention than If 1t came in for publl- cation on some other day"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
RECOGNIZING DEMOCRATS.
How Republican Presidents Ha'
 Given Them n Chance.

Arkansas Gazette.
 party has not since Clevelands day offered any opportunity to men of ex- ceptional talents save as members of Congress. And even there their op- portunities are necessarily clrcum- scribed At times there are cases where ability and fitness in Democrats are so obvous that recognition comes at the hands of a Republican Presl- dent. But we doubt whether in the history of t1e United states one of the two great political parties has ever had so significant a part in the coun- try's government, and in shaping and determining the country's destiny. as the Democratic party has had since t come under the leadership of William J. Bryan. There are men in Arkan- sas fully competent to hold Cabinet positions and places of like distinc- tion. But no Democrat is selected for such a position to-day save in the few cases Nnere a Republican Presi- dent shows the liberality and broad ness in filling some high office that many Democratic newspapers are un- able to show in receiving the news of such an appointment But that Me Kinley and Roosevelt and Taft have at times passed over all the good men that were available in their own parties to name deserving Demo- crats to high and honorable offices, the Democratic party, so far as ad- ministration If the republics affairs Is concerned. had almost ceased to ex- ist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
Packing the Interstate Commerce
 COmmlaRiOn,

What ls known as the Stevens hiii has been introduced in the House pro vlding for the addition of two mem merce Commission. but 1t Is being sub jected to some close scrutiny, because while on It's face 1t proposed to add to the numbers of an overworked body and thereby reduce the amount of duty falling to each member. 1t has other bearings that are commanding the consideration of Congressmen and believed that the main purpose of the bill Is to provide comfortable places for two Republican members of Con- gress who were defeated for re-elec-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
HAS NO FEAR OF INVASION. Laurier Says Angl0-SaxOns Will Neve
 War With Each Other. Ottawa Dispatch to The New Yorl

Press
 A statement of Canada's view as to the impossibility of future trouble with the United States was made at an artillery lun6heon by Sir Wilfred Laurier prime minister of Canada. He said:
 Canada has little reason to fear that she will ever be invaded. We have but one neighbor on this continent. the United States. While our frontier has been crossed in the past. my be- lief and the belief of Canadians gen. orally, Is that among the great Anglo Saxon nations civilization has reached a point where the shedding of blood among them would be regarded with horror equal to that with which a civil war would be contemplated. There Is no reason to believe that Great Britain and the United States will ever again be at war, or that Cana dians will ever live in any hut peace ful relations with their cousins. the great people of the United States"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

We are told that the first bacteria ever seen by man were discovered by a Dutch philosopher and came from the scrapings of his own teeth. He didn't know what vast amount of worry he was turning loose on the world when he made his discovery public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

We may at least assume that after Thursday there will be no more doubt as to the Taft ca5ine-. When he gives out the names to the newspapers we shall feel that it is all settled,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

They tell us that though the Chinese import a good many pianos they get them for the foreigners residing among them. the natives themselves not having yet learned or wished to learn to pound on the instrument.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

Would it not be something like a reflection on civilization if a dscred- tted nation like Servia, with little hon. or at home or abroad, should be able to bring on a war between some of the great powers?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

} We should like to know just what Senator Tillman means when he says he intends to keep right after the President"-meaning Roosevelt. Does he propose to follow him to Africa?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

Up in New England when two men meet each other on a fine day the usu- al greeting is, This is regular sugar wea thcr." They know tGo- such weat1- CT starts the sap to rising in the maple trees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

At London ball one night last week one Lady Granard appeared on the scene dressed almost entirely in dia- monds." one account says. She must have been sight to gaze upon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

We are somewhat curios to know what MT. Taft is going to do about that farm uplift" bsiness inaugurated by Roosevelt Will he keep on uplifting them or let them drop with dull thud?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

MT. Maxim calls his new invention the silencer" We have read of the case where silence like a poultice came" and perhaps this is one of that kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

March came in sufficiently lamb like to set the predcters to work telling us how it will go out. We don't know whether it will make its exit like an African lion or otherwise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
SWORN CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees i.s AAvertisers <and makes 1t 8 part or the ,o,,- con nect when reQuested) that its daily cnSu t', Aetion is larger than that of any nof nsns a, , nsswspaper printed in Aisbama-ahao ,rnn. rnu. Ns sunday edition has the largest cHcu. lAtion of any edition Of any neWspApe' printed in Alabama without sxeeptloh.
 The figures for January printed Usao" tspresent the actual net circulatton. all " turns having been deducted A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

For Jury Service. Opelika Morning News.
 Why are men who can neither read Is 1t a com piiment to the men sought We think not.
 A Large Party. 0feenvflle Advocate.
 The society columns announce that Miss Mabel Bardman, of Washington, is going to entertain a large party during the Inauguration. As Mir. Taft the '1arse party" becomes apparent.
 Married MensProb.bly. Gadsden Evening Journal. ;. beauties gave the honors to a mar loosa. Probably they we're married men who made the award
 Cotton Tails Next. Anniston Evening Star.
 We have had Teddy bears and Billy ,possums, and now some South Caro- rabbits left hind leg with the pos sible hope of creating . William Mol ne-cotton-tail" craze. what next,
 should Re Careful. Gadsden Times-News. :, The next extraordinary session of the Legislature should pay more at tention 70 tHe manner Tn Wnlcn the laws are enacted and less to passing a mass of laws that the people care nothing about.s Some of the most i'm portant work of last session was rem dered void by either Ignorance or neg ligence. and the State does not care to spend Its good money on either quality.
 Give Them Work. Thomasville Echo.
 The best way to extend charity to persons who are in need Is to give them work. Don't give any able bod led man penny or a mouthful unless he works for 1t. By this the man re- tains his self-respect, and the profes- sion of the tramp Is not encourag ged If a man needs help and is able to work and you are tempted to give hin something, don't you do 1t. But Al stead. give. him, work. odd jobs, can always be found, and set him at these We do not advise refusing to relieve hunger. but we do advise that 1t be done In manner that will not breed dependence in men, If everyone would do this all over the land. this country would soon cease to be ehe paradise for tramps that 1t has been
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

Whats this we find? The New York Herald printing a list of the ten great est living Americans" and not a T. R. in the bunch! How can the country survive such shock?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

Tennessee has passed a law to per- init boxing. We suppose they are will ling for the people to have little fun