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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
rhn peanuf Cr0n.

(The peanut crop in Virginia anu North Carolina will show a big de- crease in yield this year.--News) To me this 4s an awful blow Because I love the peanuts so: They're my tobacco. and my drink, And so do not like to think Of any scarcity or drop At ali this years peanut crop: The message fills my heart with woe, Because I love the peanuts so. What would a circus be to me Without my peanut symphony? And what would be tine county fair
 If peanuts weren't plenty there? Do you suppose I'd go to see game of baseball? No. sir-eel It wouldn't be nowise the same Without the peanuts in the game. o. let them raise the price of hash, Or let the "corners". go to smash; Let shortage come In that or this, It won't disturb my daily bliss, But O. the cruel fates that lie
 Behind the peanut lands supply; o. woe Is me, o. mine is woe,
 - ---Boston Herald
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
NO DANGER.

A writer in The Chattanooga Times essays to calm the fears of those tim- Id persons who are getting ready to dodge Hailey's comet which is now headed in this direction. He ayers that the comet is three billion miles from the earth. and then figures out that a train travelling at a. continu- ous speed of 100 miles minute would require about fifty-seven years to reach that cratic body.
 That is all very well. as far as it goes. Three billion miles is an almost inconceivable distance. as we all know. and if it only advanced a hun dred miles a minute this generation would be in little danger, but 1t must be speeding towards us very much faster than that, or the astronomers would not be looking for it to be- come visible about next May. And while 1t may be possible that they can calculate it's distance from us at any given time. we are not betting on 1t. Still. let it be as far as 1t may. and let 1t travel at what speed 1t may, we see no reason for apprehension. This willy old earth will dodge 1t. we predict. just as 1t has avoided many other dangers that threatened it.
 But whether the earth is or is not ! in danger from this source, the comet itself furnishes an interesting sub ject for thought and speculation. Af- | ter 1t visits the earth, or reaches the nearest point towards the earth, it ! requires about seyenty-six years, as We remember the calculation, to re- turn. When we reflect on the rate of speed attributed to 1t, and the many years required\to make its jour- ney and return. we may endeavor to conceive something of the immensity of space; or rather we may make an effort to conceive 1t, for that is all | tIlc OruiuaTy iHteAtcCt CaH QO. IraVot- ling as swiftly as 1t certainly does we can begin to wonder at the incalcu- liable distance that 1t can travel in sev- enty-six years making its round trip. Where does 1t go, and what does it see while covering distances that the human mind cannot grasp? It Is an interesting subject, and whether it is to visit us next spring or not-and we think 1t wiil-we are lost when we try to reckon where it goes or the distance it covers. However, there's no immediate danger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
BACK FROM ELBA."
Slogan of Those Engineering Revival
 of ROOseycltism

Slogan of Those Engineering Revival
 of ROOseveltism.
 Washington Special to The New York
 Herald.
 Whats all this talk about the Back from Elba Club. anyhow?"asked Mfr. William Leary today. Doesn't 1t real ly mean back from North Elha. New York?"
 No. my son." replied MT. Clifford Pinchot, Forester of the Taft admInis- tration. Tt means back from Momba- sa for our honored chief, after the op- ponents of his policies have lost the Republican House In 191O."
 This is the genesis of the Roosevelt third term movement. which is said to have heen launched when Representa- tive Herbert Parsons. (N Y.) threw his harpoon into the Republican organ izatlon of the House the other day
 It must be admitted. however. that good many of the tennis players of the former administration and q good many others who have been counted On to bring Mir. Roosevelt back from the African wilds as a Republican Moses. have suddenly become tender-footed
 For instance, 1t is said that even For ester Pinchot himself. who Is m ghtilv afraid that Taft and Ballinger intend to upset some phases of the Roose- welt policies, Is going about wearing rubber shoes since MT. Parsons so clearly foreshadowed that he intended to force the fighting on Uncle Joe" Cannon In the House. Naturally while Mir. P.nchot Is a leading member of the back from Elba Club ne desires to hold his job and for the time being is just as good a Taft man as any Of them.
 Great interest Is expressed as to what the attitude of Collector Loeb, of New York, will be after Mir Par sons has accomplished hfs scheme of making Roosevelt available by losing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12

tankerous prohibition speakers make speech in a house If he thought there was jug of good whiskey stor- ed in the wall? Would he not feel shivers running over him as if he were standing over a nest of snakssf And then might he not become so dry and thirsty that he would find 1t dif- ficult to talk? The mere thought of good flicker more than four-score years of age might be enough to knock all the prohibition theories out of him and make him wish for . small nip of the real old stuff.
 Then again there may be trouble in another and quite different way arising from a general knowledge of the facts related. There are places in Alabama where 1t is said to be diffi- cult to get any of the real stuff. and may 1t not be possible that some of the over thirsty one will so about blowing up or digging under court houses in the hope of finding a jug stored away? Might there not be cases where thirst would be more powerful than conscience. and desire for a square drink overcome honesty? We are much afraid that there's trou- bie ahead in some of the dry sections of the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
CHEAP MILK.

The Kansas City Journal calls at tention to 8 new scale of milk prices that has been agreed on and signed by the dairymen of Chicago and the far mers are to be paid three cents 8 quart for sweet milk delivered in the city. The dairymen retail the milk at from five to eight cents a quart. the price depending on the quantity taken by a customer and on the meth cd of delivering 1t. The Journal can see no tenable reason why the farmers in the country surrounding Kansas City should not sell milk to the dairy men of that city as cheaply as it is sold in Chicago.
 Three cents a quart seems a very low price for milk. but no doubt the farmers find 1t profitable. The coun- try referred to is a rich agricultural section, and as there is no cotton grown by the farmers they must de- pend on other farm products for prof it in their business. If they sell pure milk at the price named. and make money by the operation we may as- sume that 1t pays because of the quantity they can dispose of. Small profits and quick returns Is about the way they look at it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
Dudley Buck.


 Dudley Buck the organist and com poser who died in West Orange. N. J.. the other day. had done as much as any other American to advance the cause of music in this country. Per haps he had done more than any other develop church music. He wrote numerous anthems cantatas, etc, edit ed various choir books and laid a foundation for choir instruction. and as had hardly been known fin many of the churches before he commenced his work.
 His scope was not as broad and him, but within its range and limita- tions 1t brearhes the true spirit of devotional music. Buck, however, Cid not confine himself to church. music positions. notably among them the centennial cantata for which Sidney Lanter wrote the poem. or rather he set Lanier's poem-a splendid and thrilling burst of poetry--to music. The task was most difficult. as the poem is full of intricacies of rhyme not to say eccentricities-and chang ing metre. Buck; however, not only and voiced the Lanier's spirit in his score. He rose fully to the height of both the technical and musical argu- ment. asslmilating and flashing in the latter the fire of Lanier's inspiration.
 Tn this achievement he utterly dis credited those who criticised him al out of his element when he passed be- yond the domain of the choir. semi oratorio and hymn book The centen- nial cantata was performed under the direction of Theodore Thomas in May. 1876 There was chorus of 1000 voices with organ and orchestra of 200 pieces. But both poem and music were written for an occasion. and notwith- standing their verse they are little known now--were not destined to live.
 Still Dudley Buck served his musical generation noble and his harmonies will roll through church and cathedral when the compositions of many of his more scientific" competitors shall have heen forgotten and lost In the silence of time. The strains of his most popular religious productions" are ordained to keep quivering in the devotional air and vibrating on the devotional heart. as songs in the night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
ANOTHER FAILURE.

The difficulty of binding old men to forsake old and established habits under certain stipulated conditions Is
 we'll exemplified in the case of what Is known as the John c. Mercer Home for Disabled Presbyterian cier- gymen," located at Ambler. Pa. From The Boston Traveller we take this ref erence:
 Twenty-three years ago. sloo.oo was left by. will for the endowment of gymen. with the stipulation that no clergyman who used tobacco in any form should be admitted. It took a souPs Pbs of to build the sna elapsed. thirty-fiye applications have been received. of which only fifteen
 were granted. At tbe present time and legal action has been brought to shut up the institution and distribute the funds among the testator,s heirs spent his fife in the ministry should
 be prohibited from enjoying the com fort of tobacco ir his declining years seems carrying bigotry to the ex- 'treme.
 Many people view the use of to- baceo in any form as little less than a crime, and they would entirely pro- hibit it if it were possible to do so. Without questioning their good in- tentions, we are bound to say that they take a narrow and one-sided view of the matter. On the other side will be found strong. healthy old men who have used the weed all their lives and have not discovered that they are any the worse for it in any respect. If a minister. of the gospel doesn't see or feel that there Is any sin or wrong in the use of tobacco. and if he refuses to. accept a home where he could spend his old age in ease if his acceptance means that he must give up what he considers a solace in his old age. who should blame him? Neither his experience nor his con- science condemn the habit, and others should not condemn him.
 The tact is that this requirement of tno 11CECcT iihc VI thc hysterical legislation that has been ground out of late. It is illogical and intolerant in its conception and wrong in it's results. A minister may in- dulge in the pipe or cigar on proper occasions and no harm done either to himself. his calling or to others. Merely because a man does not wish to indulge in the use of tobacco or any other harmless habit is no reason why he should try to forbid all oth- CTS enjoying themselves. There is en- tirely too much of this effort to bring all men down to one line of thought and action. It may be bigotry. as The Traveller intimates; 1t may be mistak- en zeal. or it may be an evidence of a spirit of intolerance which Is apt to do much more harm than good. Those who refuse to go to the Mercer Home under the conditions prescribed are se be commented for their inae- pendence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
A DIRE POSSIBILITY.

Keeping an eye on what is trans piring in this uch-bedevilled com monwealth The Chattanooga Times remarks:
 And now another extra session of tn, Alabama Legislature Is threatened "oh, what a tangled web we weave. Is likely to become the hoo-gobbliI with which future nurses will "af fright offending children to obedience, would seem that instead of prescribing quadrennial sessions of the Legislature the Alabama constitution should have made them perpetual.
 We consider 1t the height of cruei- ty for The Times to even hint that there may be another extra session of what is by courtesy called the Ala bama Legislature. What the State has already suffered from that source ought to be enough to satisfy the most cruel enemy of both State and people. Of course another visitation is not impossible. If Governor Conner
 
 sion will benefit himself and few of his chosen. adherents he will not hesitate to call it. The expense 1t will incur. and the harm it may do the State will not be allowed to stand in his way for moment He has ai- ready given ample evidence of his in- difference to anything but his own ambitions. and any further evidence of 1t is not necessary.
 And the closing suggestion of The Times is not without relevance. When our Constitution puts 1t in the power of an incompetent or interruptions ex- ecutive to call the Legislature to- gether at his own pleasure conditions are little better than if that body should remain in session all the time. If the proposed amendment Is adopt ed the Governor may call an extra session to enact laws to carry out the provisions of the second section of that instrument so as to deprive the people of Alabama of the little per- sonal liberty and security that now remains to them. He has had ample proof that his Legislature will do whatever he orders. and if he sees a way to still further impose on the people he may be expected to do 1t. On the other hand. if the amendment Is defeated. as now appears certain, he will probably call his cohorts to Montgomery to see what else can be done in the way of drastic Legislation. So, however the present campaign may end. the State Is not out of dan ger from Comerism. Does not The Times feel sympathy towards Ala bama?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
cuRrAlLrNc COTTON PRODUCTION.
Trouble CharG :. aanbiing on the Cotton Exchanges.

ITOU0le Onaf& 1AniohhB VII tAs
 Cotton Exchanges.
 Providence, (R. I.) Special.
 Unless cotton comes down to about 13 cents a pound the cotton mills of Rhode Island. regardless of the action elsewhere, will reduce their running time for the next five months so that their output will be less by thirty days work than 1t would be on full time.
 This decision has been reached. &C., cording to one of the largest cotton manufacturers in the State. and the plan to stretch out the curtailment pe- riod has been devised in order that the maximum of curtailment may be had with the minimum of inconvenience to the operatives, the merchants and the storekeepers.
 There are upward of, e5.00o opera lives who win, be affected and the cur tailment will cost them fully s200.00O.
 A leading manufacturer explained the situation and It's causes today as .follows:-"It would be disastrous to all concerned to close our doors thirty days at one time. Schedules now in force for a days operation in the milly in all probability will be reduced sr many hours day. That would givS the operator shorter day and in the end of the five or. six months would equal the time represented in thirty working days.
 Then. again, if we were to shut our doors thirty days all at once 1t can he seen that disorganizat tion of our op- erating forces woud result. This can not be- We could not afford such an arrangement. No business could stand a proposition of that character, and beyond that we have to consider the men and women who are in our em ploy. To cut off their labor for thirty days at one time would bring about conditions that no one who has any heart at all wants to see.
 Conditions forced upon us are re- sponsible for the plans contemplated The whole question comes. down to the pointed inquiry y:-How long will the people stand for this gambling game that Is going on in the New York Cot ton Exchange? Another pointed in- quiry is:-How long will the people stand for the gambling game that has had much to do with the price of food stuffs? If you can tell the manufactur- CTS and the public how long this sui fering Is to continue you will have solved great problem. We buy cot ton straight. We demand It's delivery when we place a contract. and I just want to tell you. too. that we do not go to the Cotton Exchange when we buy. There the transactions are pa- per transactions.
 "The man who buys paper cotton buys 1t on chance. Some one has to pay the difference between the pur- chasing price and the selling price. It's a gamble. All wagering contracts are so considered. Something must be done to stop 1t If not. l fear for the fu- ture.
 There is at present a good demand <zr lA 4, cLrtail operations. but thfs illegitimate dealing in cotton has brought up face to face with the real questions already put. and which. in my opinion. are the keynote to the cotton situation as we'll as other conditions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
TUEDAsY, OCTOBER F, 1909.
ONE OF LEES MEN.

The technical and personal aspects or the controversy between Braxton aps pasf S0msr o,sa of sta.s: Judge. need not concern the country at large. These gentlemen have had dis agreements for two years or more over Governor Corners suggestion by the pears to have come into conflict with tempted to set aside the Constitution and the laws of the United States Governor Conner. intent upon his ob- 1ects. has not been disposed to regard the national authority as of much im-
 If we look into the careers of the os TG hes ws may pa sn Ss oysr nor. named for a Confederate general, vas boy during the Civil War. The Judge: g soldier In that unhappy time. wounded more than once and an off ces on General Gorden's staff. was the man who bore the Southern flag of truce at Appomattox. He has been a ocrat, fine old sx-confederate. a wise and fearless magistrate. devoted to the Union fas well as to his State, Judge wields in a measure the authority to which at the end of bloody strife he surrendered in 1865.
 When Governor Conner learns as oth- CTS similarly situated have done. that States, even in pursuit of worthy ob- 1ects, cannot override national law, he will have less trouble with Judge Jones. In the meantime the spectacle of one of Lees veterans calmly enforc- ing nationality from the bench cannot fall to carry an impressive lesson In Republican government to every part of the nation.
 The above is an editorial copied from The World Of October 8. Judge Jones was not 21 years old when the surrender occurred and was only major. For many years. he has been Inspector General of the United Con- federate Veterans with the rank of Brigadier General. which sometimes causes a mistake as to his rank in the war. A number of flags of truce were sent out from the Confederate lines at Appomattox. One or two were sent from Longstreets lines. one or two directly from General Lee, as well as those sent from Gordon's lines into Sheridan's forces, which resisted Gordon's attempt to cut out. Judge Jones carried one of the flags of truce from Gordon's lines. which made the last charge there, but, as there were others. he did not carry the only flag. or the flag of truce."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
ROUGH RIDERS.

the House In 1910. Where will MT. Loeb stand? True. Mir. Roosevelt and MT Taft almost broke in February 1903. just before the inauguration, because MT. Taft would not put MT. Loeb in the cabinet. but MT. Taft compromised by making Mir. Loeb Collector of the Port of New York. the best Republican office outside of the cabinet. and en- abled MT. Loeb to get after the Sugar Trust, to the great disgust or MT. Parsons.
 But the Back-f from Eloas are al- ready seeing in their dreams the de- feat of the Republican House in 1910 and, that having been accomplished. they see nothing in the situation but an irresistible call to the Jungle for MT. Roosevelt to take control of the party. So, the question Is: What will MT. Loeb do?" He is the big repre- sentative of the administration in New York He is the spokesman of the President in matters of policy. But what will he do when the returning hero comes from the wilds? Win he stand resolutely by his present chief or will he, like Marshal Ney, when Napoleon barred his bosom. refuse to fire and permit the returning usurper to work his will with the party?
 These are all mighty interesting questions raised by the formation or the Back from Elba Club.
 All along the line the situation re" vealed by The Herald causing roars of merrment. Under which flag are the rank and file to fight?~ Mir. Glavis, former chief of the field agents of the General Land Office. who was incontj- mentally fired" by telegraph recently. by order of the Presideit. when the movement of the forest service to CO., cree the Taft administration failed. is understood to be one of those who Is in the front rank of the Back-fro EIba Club.
 But what of Jonathan Bourne? Mir Bourne was the leading third termer. or rather, as he styled himself. the second elective termer. Recently lie has been doing all In his power to he nearer the throne than even Brigadier General Edwards. What will Senator Bourne do, when the muck -rakers have succeeded In their purpose and defeat ed the Republican House in 1910? VIII MT Bourne join the Back Elba Club or will he stand with his new leader, to get in touch with whom he wept so many tears and sNore so many oaths of allegiance?
 It Is all as funny as a play here in Washington when you Inquire among the Roosevelt old guard and ask them why they do not come Into the open and hang their banners on the outer walls The answer Is not far to seek They all want to hold office under MT Taft, at least until the great hunter emerges from his Elba in the land of the Nile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
Rack to the Temple. lR. ~s~- CAn .lo~H

The Standard notes with much pleas. ure that two of Marion's most noble women paid The Standard editor a eau this week to assure us of their en, dorsement of our efforts to protect our Constitution from mutilation at the hands of the fanatics and to res cue the State from the rule of the despot, led on In his mad career by one who owes his allegiance to political serves as a reward for the salary he re- ceIves. These women have long been recognized as leaders In school and church work, giving their means their time and their talept Tor the fur therance of religion and education daughters of honored percentage who not only laid the foundation but build cd the character that has given this section of Alabama an unrivaled repu- tation for patriotism, culture and re- finement: women who as children sat at their mothers knee and watched the turning. of the silk gowns Into battle flags to be borne by chivalrous fathers and brothers in that heroic struggle for States rights and the protection of the South arn home from the intruder; women who watched the process of turning tSe sword into the pruning knife and the bayonet into the plough share; women who saw and felt the keen bangs of oppression when liberty and freedom was a farce and laws and justice a mockery.
 Such a recognition of our efforts and our Judgment outweighs by far the criticisms sometimes passed upon us by the small bore political parson who ina zines himself a Moses Sr a Joshua.
 If such women as these continue to desert the marching caravan of Brooks Lawrence and Conner we cannot fail to win. and the staid old church of Christ bids fair to assume It's former prestige and dignity and His king dom confined to the temple where 1t belongs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-12
MAY BE TROUBLE.

A recent news item sent out from Spenser. Ind. is likely to cause trou-
 ble In Alabama, we fear. It states that the old court house at the place has just been torn down. and among other things found slowed away in or under the cornerstone was a close ly sealed one-gallon jug of whiskey. distilled in 1923, and which had thus lain concealed for a period of about eighty-slx years, Now. there are two ways in which this information may cause trouble In this State. if the sus- piclon should go forth that those who built the old court houses followed the example of the Spenser builders. In the first place, could one of our ran