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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
Harvard And The Confederacy.

Harvard Bulletin.
 The Bulletin prints in another column an incomplete list of the Har- yard men who served during the Civil War in the armies of the Confederate States. It is earnestly hoped by The Harvard Alumni Association, and by all those interested in the lives and achievements of Harvard men, that this list will be supplemented and cor rected by those In possession of the desired information!
 The University can III afford to wait longer for complete record or those who dared so greatly, and who. after the turmoil was over and the natural bitterness had been softened, turned with enthusiasm to their old college In many cases, too, through friends or relatives of another generation, they have revived associations with Har- day Is the same in essential respects as Harvard of the fiftels. and of the early sixties. That's the kind of a darned fool they raise at Harvard" " affectionately remarked young Con federate officer when he heard that Harvard classmate, fighting gallant ly opposite to him. had been killed at the head of his company. And 1t Is Is training still-men whose courage Is strong. and whose purpose endures to the end.
 These Harvard men who wore the gray uniform, sufrereu the same priVa- lions and dangers as did their fellow students and former friends ranged against them in the Northern %bat- tallions. They bore with the same un- fllnching courage the periis which are the common lot of the soldier, and
 whether they fought under the Stars | and Stripes or under the Stars and
 Bars, they were. first. last, and always
 Harvard men: and even if the names of
 those that fell do not now adorn the l fa hleta in Memorial Hall. they are none 1 the less honored by their University
 as men who gave an overflowing meas
 ure of devotion and nobly did their l duty as they saw 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

The Pittsburg Post isFt very favor ably inclined towards the race of jim goes and Roosevelt worshippers That portion of the press which adores all things Rooseveltian," 1t says was unanimous yesterday in declaring that peace had been promoted through the circumnavigation of the globe by the Atlantic fleet. The world was at peace when the fleet left our waters. The world Is at peace on its return. Will someone please explain how peace has been promoted? Does anyone think that war would have ensued had the sixteen fighting machines stayed at home? If SC, where would it have broken out? None but the jingoistic mind can conceive that the mere sight of our battleships has scared any na- tion into seven fits"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
MT. Roosevelt the Instisasor.

Brooklyn Eagle. .-. ed one of them must be first decided before the other is reached. The one to be decided first IS this: Can. Messrs' Pulitzer and Smith, with their assoSi- and work. and where their papers are made and mainly circulated. to the Dis: trict of Columbia and be put on tsial there on an indictment charging crime against them as publishers? We know they ought not to be. We do not be- Iieve they can be or will be. Two men. Charles A. Dana, then editor of The Sun, and w. M. Laffan, then us pHp- effort to extradite them was made. Judge Samuel Blatchford (?l forbade their extradition and Elihu Root was their counsel ago ssainisst ssis 'as tSst Messrs. Pulitzer and Smith are now charged with having criminally hnen- ed Mir Root. amone others. That does not affect the legal i,d, fact T whaeswsr Rnot has complained that Pulitzer and smith have libeled him. They may have Ii. beIed him, but he has not compiained
 that he is hurt or swear that he has been hurt. no one else need feel charg- ed with solicitude on his account; It is the same with some others alleged J. Pierpont Morgan have not coms plained. Theodore Roosevelt has not sworn to any complaint. Charles F. Taft was compelled to come before Q grand jury by subpoena sent to him down South. He did not do so volun- tarily, so he says. Douglas Robinson
 was a Iso subpoenaed arbitrarily away from home. William Nelson Cromwell
 did not voluntarily appear It Is a fact that MT. Roosevelt has brought these indictments about in Washing ton. where and while he is President, 1 and has set legal efforts afoot to write the names of the other men with his own as those of the men libeled- No- body believes the contrary and every | one believes that Mir. Roosevelt is the instigator of the indictments The in-
 statements of fact They may be in- valid In law and ought to be, in our | opinion for the offenses committed can | be tried where there is undisputed Ju-
 risdiction and in courts which have l undisputed cogntzance of criminal or civil suits for libel. The where" is all-important. The question Of the tri.
 ability of a csiminal libel in 9 Federal
 court is all-important. The. decisions
 ought to be but one way. and that
 should be against the position MT '.
 Roosevelt has morsTly forced his Fed eral instruments to fake. Were Pull
 itzer and Smith on trial where they l should be on trial. something could be
 said about their cases One thing to
 be said would be that neither commit
 ted the offense charged against him.
 Both were absent from their papers
 and ignorant of what was put into their
 papcrs on the dates named. That does not affect their legal liability That does affect their personal liability. or should.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
This Date in History
February 27.

1690-Henry Bull became Governor of Rhode Island.
 I760-Indians attacked Fort Dobbs in North Carolina.
 1764-Rhode Island College was in- corporated. American poet, born; died March 24, 1882. .
 1S47-Americans defeated the Mexi- cans at battle of Chihuahua.
 1871-Meeting at Washington Of joint high commission on Alabama claims.
 lS95-Postmaster General Bisse1 re- signed and was succeeded by William L. Wilson of West Virginia.
 1900-Cronje surrendered to the Brit ish at Paardeberg.
 190S--william o. Bradley, Republi- can, elected United States Senator from Kentucky
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
This b My 18th Brthday
Prince Carl of Sweden.

Prince Carl of Sweden, brother of King Gustav V. and one of the most popular members of the Swedish royal family, was born in Stockholm, Feb ruary 27. 1861. He received an excel lent and liberal education. as befitted the son of the late King oscar H., him. self one of the most learned rulers of his time. Prince Carl has been called the handsoniest prince in Europe, six and a half feet in height. dashing cavalry officer and a most democratic man in manner and habits. In 1897 he married Princess Ingeborg Charlotte Frederick, second daughter of the pres ent King of Denmark. The couple have two daughters the eldest now In her tenth yea The name of the little princess is Margaret and 1t Is a fact of some interest that she Is the first Swedish princess to bear that name since 1888, when Queen Margaret re- signed her throne as union ruler Of the three Scandinavian countries
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1900.

The New York Globe has double column picture of "President-electT Taft ascending the steps of his brothers residence today" We have studied the picture from various points of view and for the life of us we can see nothing unusual about it. or anything to call Tor it's. 'bubficatfof,: Now if he had been represented as going up the steps backward. or crawling up feet first or walking on the hand-rail we might have seen something in 1t to justify the space it occupied. but why news paper should think 1t necessary to make a picture of man ascending steps in the ordinary way is too much for us If by any mishap he should tumble Sdewn. stairs The Globe would be justified in giving a whole page to the performance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
from? Truly the incoming administra- tion must face a knotty problem.
THoaE LIBEL SUITS.

The contention of the prosecution in the libel suits against The New York World and The Indianapolis Sun is that the editors of these papers can be held for trial in the District of Co., lumbia because their papers were cir cuiated there; Nthe idea being that if newspaper. is ghilty of libel the crime is committed wherever the paper is circulated and read. The plain inten- tion of such theory is to get around the provision of the Constitution which demands that the man accused of crime must be tried in the State in which the crime is committed.
 To the layman such a contention appears absurd. unjust and untenable. It is a far-fetched effort to try, al legged criminals at 8 place where the administration thought 1t would have a better chance of success. Under that plea Editor Pulitzer could probably be forced to trial in any State of the Union for no doubt The World Is more or less read In all the States. If the editors of The World and The News can be forced to stand trial at Wash ington because their papers are circu- lated and read there we see no reason why they could not be called to the capital of any State in the Union where their papers are read. If the position l is not utterly untenable we fail to see ! why.
 We have seen it stated that MT. Taft does not want these libel suits con tinued, and that a broad hint will be given to drop them as soon as he comes into power. That will be wisdom and good common sense on his part. Roose- velts inordinate self-conceit led h i'm to believe that any editor who criticised | him or his acts was a malefactor who could be brought to Washington and convicted No President before him ever entertained such a monstrous the- ory, so far as we have knowledge. and 1t is- profoundly hoped that none will eyer attempt to follow his evil ex- ample. If President Taft can and win have the suits dismissed and an end made of the business he will. so far as lies in mans power. right one of Roosevelt's monumental blunders and discredit his autocratic methods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
OREGON AFTER HARTMAN
Senate Passes Resolution Authorizing atafH fn Ruild ROada.

Senate Passes Resolution Authorizing State to Build Roads.
 Salem (Oreg) Dispatch to The New York American.
 Edward H. Harriman was verbally hayed in the Oregon senate, which adopted a resolution proposing the amendment of the State tonstitu; ton SO that the state may oHn and construct railroads. This reclution had already passed the house.
 Party lines were cast aside in the discussion and vote, although the committee which recommended the adoption of the resolution was; with one exception, Republican. Senators charged Mir Hartman with preventing the development of central oregon. with using obstructive tactics when the Hill lines were building the spo, kane. Portland and Seattle Railroad down the Columbia River and accused him of regarding central Oregon as his private domain.
 It was declared that if the senate adopted the amendment. Hartman
 would do something" and if 1t was
 not adopted he would do nothing; or that if the State went so far as to build a road either the Hartman or | the Hill system would, be. only too | glad to buy It. The resolution has | had the support of prominent busi- | ness men in Oregon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
Cuba'a Poor Beginning.
Buffalo Express

Buffalo Express.
 Speaking for the struggle for office under the new Cuban Government a Havana newspapers says: This strife over public office is a shame to the palace All officers of secretaries of State departments seem like eonvents or charity houses, where soup or bread Is distributed to famished and desper- ate crowds. left destitute by some great calamity It appears that an agree ment for tha division of spoils has been reached between the parties. Each wing of the Liberals is 10 have 35 per lowed 30 per cent. of the shares of each faction. Nevertheless, there are not nearly enough officers to go around. These scenes do not offer much en- couragement for the future of Cuba. The inaurrection against Palma ap- peared to have no more patriotic basfs than an inordinate thirst for spells, and the new regime evidently is we'll representative of that insurreetion Nh spirit. as 1t Is in individuals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
A MORNING THOUGHT
BY ,. MARvIN NICHOLS.

Experienced actors sell ps that they personate; that issif they are playing noble. heroic characters. they actually tonic of the .heroism assumed. On the other hand. when they are. playing mean, contemptible parts they feel mean and debased. Here's the mes down m antif o, you get get it., either: There is everything in ones assuming firmly and .persistently, the part he desires to play in life's great drama.
 Quit envying others of their success and put In your time studying how they got there. That's the thing you most need to know. ,-.
 Quit dreaming about so many sweet things and do few of them. Do them often. Get used to 1t. Stop this eter- nally drifting. Do not dream-but do awhlle- -.. difference into hate. Right here is the reef on which the state)iest ships go down. Would that, we were all pos- sessed of the higher power >of love- the love that's blind to the most soli- tary fault. "
 Quality counts in men just like 1t does in hardware. You've got to have the proper ring.
 Keep the upward gaze. It turns pris- ons Into palaces and transforms the hotel into castles.
 
 You may fool the other fellow but you can't fool yourself.
 You can't see beyond yourself. When the world looks all jagged and twist ed to you. you need to be run in for repairs. If that don't do any good. the next sbest--throw yourself in the scrap piles
 For tho most part, ones criticism of another Is In the nature of a self-in- hicted indictment. Until a man can stand fiat-footed and see over his nei igh- bor's back fence, he has no earthly right to see what is in his neighbours yard.
 Love has but one native atmosphere. It forgets the differences and revels in the affinities.
 Quit following at somebody else's heels You set the gait.
 Hold no ideas that are not possibili- ties. Otherwise, you are a dreamer-.a builder of castles In the air.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
Londou.. Erud,te Cabmen.

London NeWs,
 inst been brought to light deserve a place beside the erudite driver dis covered by Sir Fredrick Bridge. This cabman often drove SHir. Fredrick home from the Albert Hall after the performances of the Royal Choral So- ciety, and one evening as he received his fare he astonished the eminent conductor by criticising the tempo at which he took some of the Messiah" choruses on a previous occasion. This started a friendship between the mu- stefan and the oabman, and the for solid foundation of musical knowledge and got to think highly of his opinions On one occasion, Indeed. the cabrnan asked him to perform a new oratorio bv Perosi (which Sir Fradriok bad not then seen) and offered to lend him a conY of the score.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
|. Z. sss [ I.. t- y r
 A Parallel That Diyerges.

New 4Ork IlmeS.
 That curious combination of simplic- ity and seif-esteem which the French call naivette and we have left with out a name. though we know the thing extremely well Is one ,ss Of 1a.tt the taSSs mSss traits of William Jennings Bryan, He gave 1t brilliant illustration in his Lin coin speech at Springfield. Who else, moved gently to reprove the American people for forgetting, or at least for not ascribing enough importance to. the fact that Lincoln was an able po- Lincoln's eloquence as speaker has never lacked enthusiastic appreciation, and if there has been comparatively little said about It, only Mir. Bryan there were so many other things of more moment to talk about when Lin- coin was the subject of discussionA MT. Bryans estimate of relative values IS cooly proceeded to suggest dangerous parallel by calling attention to the re- lation between LincOln's nomination for the Presidency and his debate with Douglas. All his hearers. he knew
 would instantly recall that another man had also received a presidential nomination as reward for platform eloquence, and the peculiar twist of Mir. Bryan's mind prevented him from seeing that his hearers. and all who later read his words. would IS quickly recall that while it is great gift to speak well. 1t is a much greater gift l to have something 10 say that really counts-something that turns out to | be true and is treasured in memory | for substance more than for form. Lin coln's power of expression was mag nifcent, but 1t was always incidental and subordinate, both in his own tudg ment and In that Of others, to the at tainment of some much higher object
 than reputation as an orator. That
 power Is not bad thing to have. of l course. and Mir. Bryan knows much 1 about several of it's values. but he
 needn't worry a bit over the failure
 of the American people to think of
 Lincoln as a great speechmaker. They
 know he was; 1t Is only that he was
 so much more that they do not often
 dwell on that particular claim to fame
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
The Tnct of Artists.

Washington Star.
 tor of Pittsburg; recently discovered hoax in his gallery and compelled a dealer to refund the $9,500 that had been paid for sso work of art
 Mir Laughlin, as the episode shows. is a connoisseur of no mean ability. At recent dinner he pointed out very brilliantly to the limitations and the shallowness of court painters"
 "A movement was on foot for the alliance of King Charles of Wurtem-- burg and the Grand Duchess Olga. of Russia. An emissary of the Russian court came to the young king. laid cer- tain proposals before him. and sub mitted portrait in oils of the royal lady.
 "King Charles. after close scrutiny. said: The eyes are too large and brilliant: the hair too abundant. the complexion too fiowerlike, and the neck and arms too beautiful altogether:
 "'But. your majesty said the as- tonished Russian. you do not know the grand duchess
 "'No,' said the king. but I know court painters
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
As Easy As Lying. Monnn TA1anraDh

Macon Telegraph -#s
 Lord. Lord, how this world is given to lying" exclaimed the immortal bard of Avon, or caused his beloved and most observant Falstaff to do so in the dramatic tale of King Henry ". Only somewhat impatient sense of the proprieties that hedges us round In this year of grace restraints us from a similar outburst on reading the fol- lowing press dispatch:
 Wilmington, Del, Feb, 17-James Shobe, S4 years old. died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs Hannah The Last Rose of Summer" Bark Rose Minuet," and other compositions.
 He wrote "The Last Rose of Sum- mer" for the opera Martha for Henry was resident of this city for six years. Prior to that he resided in St. Louis. Mo. -.-.-.-.
 There are claimants without number for the authorship of every anonymous bit of verse that; has attained popu- larity. Beautiful snow" being a familiar example. It Is the same in the case of all anonymous prose of nounced tht the statesman and author, John Hay. wrote .'The Breadwinners. numbers of persons-quite respectable persons, too. 1t was said-modestly ad- mitted among their friends that they wrote that clever novel but for mys- terious reasons preferred to withhold the precious secret from vulgar Rub- lie. t.. 2
 But we should as soon have expected some obscure person ciaim the author ship of .The Raven2 spII3aw athaiP or "rhe Charge of the Light Brigade" as of The Last Rose of. Summer" inas- much as the last named has been in cluded among Thomas Moore's poems all these years and bits of 1t may be found under his name in any book of familiar quotations Hamlet said that to play on a pipe was "as easy as ly- ing,'' and if Shakespeare had lived in our time the melancholy Dane would perhaps have added that lying, is no easier than stealing another mans | thunder
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

The Indianapolis Star declares that the report of the Senate committee on theAse6rett tservices"wasain intended to be misleading" The Star founds this opinion on the fact that the report was not pleasing to T. R.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Suppose the people of Ottumwa, Iowa, should pull of a lynching bee as the result of attacks by negroes on white women-how about ito Would the lynchers claim that they learned it from the Southern people?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Several times of late we have seen in the papers the question. ''Will the Panama canal pay?" If we were not afraid of a libel suit we would say that there is a suspicion that it has already paid some rather exalted personages.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

We shall soon know whether March will come in like roaring lion or a gentle lamb. Possibly the seasons have gotten little tangled and the roaring that has been going on throughout most of February will supplant the March performance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
Raising The Maine.

Philadelphia PreRh. ~ ,
 The proposal to raise the Maine is approved and strongly endorsed by practically the entire newspaper press stand the indifference of congress to this matter. The American fleet iE home after a triumphant voyage around the world. The national pride is naturally just now very strong. It Is a good time to remember the fleet of 1898 and make an honorable and only great sacrifice in our conflict with Spain, and give honorable burial to the American seanen whose bodies are imprisoned in the sunken bGttie- ship in Havana harbor,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

MT Bryan says he is not ''an out and-out. candidate" We'll, not exactly. He Is out. and out. and then out again. Let us at least hope that he will remain out of the nomination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

The New York Globe has a mild edi- torial on The Mobbed Creeks" refer ring to the Omaha outrage. If 1t had occurred in the South and the, victims negroes The Globe: would be, splitting fire over the matter.ta s-,-a-sr a''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

The Pittsburg papers exhibit more or less temper because of the criticisms that have been made relative to the race troubles which have lately been going on in that city. It makes quite a difference whose OK Is gored.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

If the tariff revisionists will, as in- timated, reduce the duties on print pa per from six dollars ton to two. and admit wood pulp free, it will do one of the best things that has been done for the diffusion of information in several generations. .t. 4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Will the Ananias Club be required to take out a new charter after March {, or can it continue to do business under the present one?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

70 Our copy of The Roanoke News came to us this week with the inside print ed t'other end upwards. We hope Ed itor Jackson hasn't been standing on hie head
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Let's see: what was it the ground hog did on the day of his coming out? But whether he remained out or went
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
In Recognition of Service.

Hartford Times,
 yer Cleveland should be put on the new gold certificates as arranged by Secretary CortelyOu. Cleveland's ser vice to the country in maintaining the gold standard cannot be emphasized foo strongly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Wonder what would happen if one of Maxim's ''silencers" could be attach ed to certain exalted parsonage in Washington. Would he bust? -'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

From Washington to Roosevelt, "Oh, what fall was there. my country mem"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Referring to Roosevelt's abuse of Tom Paine in writing of that much abused patriot The Lancaster Intelli- gencer remarks:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

It is not certainly known as yet whether Roosevelt will in future be compared with Nimrod or Gulliver.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

If it should be providentially ordered that Teddy would have to repeat to Tom that he has written about him, the things that Tom would say and do to Teddy would surely balance that &C., count
 Well. we can't predict where the tive will meet in the great hereafter, or whether they will meet at all, but if they should come in contact we sus- pect they would have something else to occupy them instead of quarrelling over what one may have said about the other in this life.