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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
GOVERNMENT ON SPREE.
Spending More Money Than It Did Du-
 ring Spanish War.


 ring Spanish War.
 New York World.
 Jefferson said that the accounts of the United States government should be as simple as those of well-kept farm. So they are In some respects. For one thing, the Income and the out go, though expressed In terms of hun dreds of millions, are as plain as the earnings and expenditures of clerk or mechanic.
 If a clerk or mechanic earned $1.oo0 a year and spent $1.z00 he would soon be forced to discover new sources of income or get into trouble with his creditors. Uncle Sam Is in the same predicament. Though his income is in the neighborhood of $500. 100000 per annum, he is spending much more than that, and that Is why we are hearing of new taxes at Washington.
 Men sometimes becUme reckless and, going on sprees, indulge in many ex- travagances from which they must re- cover by economy. So nations some times go to war and draw down their surplus and become involved in debt. If they do not return to the old habits of life, they must impose more taxes or suspend payment. The united States government spent more money last year than it did during the year of the Spanish war. and almost as much as the average yearly eXpendit- ure during the four years of civil war.
 When Is the great national spree on which we entered during the Roose- welt administration to come to an end!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
AN UNFORTUNATE POLICY.

The announcement from Washington that the new administration had de- cided to abandon the extravagant ir- rigation policy of the last sadministra- ton is notice that another Roosevelt theory has gone to smash when put in- to actual practice. The proposed work of irrigating desert lands in the West has cost the government millions of dollars with the prospect of costing it many more. if 1t was continued and as yet no benefit has been derived from the governmental extravaganza.
 This attempted enterprise of spend ing millions of dollars to turn water into the desert lands has always ap- 'peared partisan and sectional. Why should costly sums be spent at this stage of the oountry's growth to create new farms on desert lands. even if it were practical. when in State like AL abama there are thousands of fertile acres that needed only the coming of the settler to make splendid farms? Ala- bama may be pointed to as an example of State that needs people more than 1t needs anything else. The lands are here. and the acres are fertile as any in the country. It always semed to us that the government could be gpend- ing It's millions to better advantages than in digging canals to make farm ing lands In deserts, when older States were hungry for more settlers. The money could be spent to better ad- vantage by readjusting a part of the population. by moving people away from the congested centers. by per suading farmers On worn out lands to come to the fresher soils of Alabama.
 By such means Alabama could se- cure American immigrants against whom there could be no criticism. The most serious economical question which faces Alabama today Is to get enough people to cultivate the rich lands that have been idle for years. The government. if it should follow policy of readjusting population as roughly outlined would confer a double Deueut. AlbDdtUh Wutu pc DchOutCu anu the settlers would find a fruitful soil on which to establish their per- sonal prosperity.
 The, Roosevelt plan. has failed and Attorney General Wickersham an nounces that the government has re- versed It's irrigation policy. In the first place the government undertook more irrigation work than it could do Its operations were so spread out than none of them was very successful. The original plan was that the government appropria ton was to go into the irri- gation work. When the desert lands were made ferthe. they were to be cold to settlers and the money received was to go back into the reclamation fund But no settlers funds have been made available. The lands have not been reclaimed and they have not been sold. The government has spent its money and 1t saw nothing ahead but the spending of more money
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
THURsDYA, JULY l, 1909.
The pittsburs Sun is evidently tryin'

The Pittsburg Sun is evidently tryihs ko stir up discussion hot as the weather is, on the origin or the uioon,s and has some specuiauons on the subject. We doubt if it can excite much controversy along that line. Most people know there is moon. because thsy see 1t. and they know 1t has a ronflrmed habit of changing its looks' and that's about all the average citi- zen cares for Whether the moon was created when the rest of the universe came into existence. or whether 1t Is an offshoot of some larger planet, mat <ers little. We have always had a moon from our very earliest recollec- flon. and we guess it will last our time, what does 1t matter if 1t is made of green cheese. just so 1t continues in busness2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Hat. for Horses.

Albany Journal.
 Experiments made> by Baron Henri d'Anchald, French scientist, have re- suited in proving that the well meant practice of affixing straw hats to the heads of horses for the purpose of pro- tecting them from the suns heat not only fails to accomplish its purpose, but actually aggrayates the suffering of the animals.
 The experiments were made when the temperature of the atmosphere was 7s degrees in the shade. Bareheaded horses standing in the sun were found to have a temperature of S6 under their forelocks. When straw hats were put on them their temperature under the forelocks rose to 10s. A horse moving in the sun had temper ature of SS. Under straw hat the temperature rose to 9l, and under cloth to 100.
 The explanation Is that the covering prevents the free movement of air and serves to accum ulate heat.
 The head covering for horses should be discarded, therefore, and relief should be given by frequent sponging of the head.
 Incidentally. the result of tbese ex- periments teaches. logically. that hu.-. man beings, too. would be better off hatleSs on hot days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

But there are those who are scep- uceI about the government bcing able 70 economixe. It recently was an- nounced that the naval budget would pc trimmed to the extent of nearly yzc,000.000. Yet in the same paragraph that told of such heroic trimming. 1t vas stated that the Secretary would ask for two new Dreadnougfts and an increase of force amounting to $500 men, The problem that is keeping the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and House awake at nights is how they while adding tot cost of upkeep by nearly e4.000.000 year. It is the same In other departments. Naturally Ienough Congress is rather dubiou about being able to cut down the gov- ernments living expenses.
 President Taft has harder job on nis hands than has been undertaken Congress last year enacted mandatory law which provided that whenever there is deficit in prospect it shall be the duty of the president and his cabi- net to try to trim the estimates wher- ever 1t can be done without interfering with the public service. and that if they find they are not able to make the buckle of income meet the tongue of expense 1t is incumbent upon the president to recommend such new taxa ton as will provide sufficient revenues to cover any prospective shortage. Congress sees MT. Taft walking away with all the credit for this new spirit of economy that has invaded the body polite, and feels that credit which is its own due is going to him.
 But even 6 small measure of economy would effect large saving on 50 big . pile of money as Ia needed to main- tain the government A saving of just one per cent of the total would amount to t10.000.000, and the saving of five per cent would be enough to make it worth any nations while. Some in- dulge in the hope that the appropriA- tions for the next fiscal year may bs cut down that much. But the veterans around the Appropriations Committee : rooms at the capitol are not /among those who expect such results.
 Copyright, 1909. by Frederic J. Has
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
This Date in History
 July |.
July I.

is7s--New Jersey divided into East
 and West Jersey s st * -1@-s 17s5-Sir James Edward Oglethorpe.
 founder of Georgia. died. Born
 December 2f, 1898. 18t0-King Louis of Holland abdicated. 1835-James Gibbon, the hero of Stony
 Point. died In Richmond, Va. 1862-The Union Pacific Railroad char
 tered by Congress. of the three days bat
 tie of Gettysburg. Edward Island entered the
 Dominion of Canada, with James
 Colledge Pope as the first Pre-
 mier.
 lSss-The South Carolina liauor dia-
 pensary liquor law went into ef.
 feet.
 ls95-Statue of General James Buford
 unveiled at Gettysburg. 199S-Amerlcan troops defeated the
 Spanish in, battle of El Caney. 1904-Victor H. Metcalfe of California.
 became Secretary of Commerce
 and Labor. 4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
War rulk and peace Foe. .

From an Editorial In the July Century.
 No sensible person supposes that the world has advanced far enough to make naval armaments and standing armies unnecessary; but every sensi- ble person should be convinced that there ought to be some limit put among civilized nations to the present "ruinous competition"-a competition that in a measure involves all other ately situated as the United States.
 Those who think that peace con gresses, and peace talk in general. are futile in world In which mankind has been tearing itself to pieces ever since its evolution out of the original pro- toplasm, must be insensible to the fact that wars are made on sentiment, and sentiment Is controlled by opinion, and opinion is formed by instruction and discussion. The peace movement, as every other movement, thrives on talk; ; so the more peace talk the better. It may be hundreds of years before duel ing goes out between nations, as 1t has so largely gone out between indt- viduals, but even if the reform is slow, 1t Is surely thing to be hopc0 Tor, and worked for by tongue and pen and treaties and tribunals, and not thing statesmen or by private citizens. There have been wars since the beginning of The Hague Conferences, but the first conference was only the other day, and there might have been more wars if there had been no conferences; and the recent conclusion of twenty three aPbitrat ton treaties by tthe United states is a substantial accomplishment in the right direction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
This ls My 49t h Birthday
Charles MarciI.

Charles Marcfl. Speaker of the De- minion House of Commons. was born at Ste. scholastique. Quebec. July l, 1880. When twenty years old he went to Montreal and entered into newspa- per work His first essay in the po- litical field was in 1897, when he sought election to the rovincial Legis- lature and was defeated upon 8 re- count by only eleven votes. At the general election in 1900. MT. Marcil was a Liberal candidate for the House of Commons, and was elected by good majority. Four years later he was rec elected by an increased majority. In 1905 he was elected Deputy Speaker of the House. and on the assembling of Parliament last winter he was ele- vated to the post of Speaker.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

An Alabama man petitions for di- 7vcrce. and alleges that his wife's con Hfanf talking" tends ito drive said de- fendant to drink" Considering the al- Iexed .'dryness" of Alabama. that wo- man should have little trouble annex ing another husband. if the court grants the plea.-Washington Heralds We suppose the inference is that man in this State will fall over himself 10 marry woman who can drive him to drink. But we don't believe 1t was an Alabama man who put up that sort of a plea.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
aRef.rmr 1tn Geefw,a.

one of the problems to. which we have reference is the prompt payment of school teachers. We noticed the other day, in The Atlanta Constitution. letter written from Berrien County, written by a prominent lawyer of that county, in which the statement is made that during the past school year the school teachers of the county earned $16,700 at the very low salaries they receive. and that they have been paid only $3.340. leaving 313,36 unpaid.
 It will be admitted that this is an outrageous condition. of affairs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Woman and Her Charm !.

NeW ipEh W Ot
 Prof. Starr will no doubt admit that woman, while retaining her original sava gerry has improved on her sister of the jungle. The latter does not change her costumes four times a day; her palm Free tTousseau serves for all occasions. Nor is -he a connoisseur of cocktails. But If We follow the Chicago anthropologist it is in the es- sential nature of her influence by means of personal charm that woman remains unchanged. It is still a ques- ton of the length of Cleopatra's nose and not of voting privileges or the k-@s=1n sducationA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Coo.a is n Great County.

Birm1nRham Leuger.
 The Rockford Chronicle insists that Coosa is one of the best and one of the richest counties in the State. We have had an idea that the people of Coosa were its best product. but we do know that there is gold and sev- eral minerals in the hills. and some valuable clay. If The Chronicle can induce a railroad through there. or even the great turnpike from Mont gomery to Birminghtm. old Coosa may Induce capital to take hold of her for ests and minerals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
DRIFTWooD
Majority of women wore the sheatf skirt merely as side line"

Majority. of women wore the sheath skirt merely as side line"
 Girl at the seaside has nothing to snS Sira that 0i.' 2: .ass sasipi sss M sos91 ss9'es
 White is just now all the rage. When the wash woman brings 'em in not as immaculate as was expected. however, I'd like to be druggist
 And some cosmetics own,
 They and the girls have secrets waists" Young man from Andalusia said the other night he went to see Gn for tlss iifs of him s where @ a'p to place his arm. women's fashions keep the men guessing.
 hes seR- p ths M asg %sen S9s gou1s and said It was only condensed afraid to travel here lately. They all look alike and the moot respectable and Innocent 9f them sTs o iissis sn, to s,Is be It will cost s1o. o.ooo.ooo to take the 1910 census. Pretty expensive, but then we grow go fast that we are just that anxious to know how many there are of us.
 Negro firemsn in the Georgia Rail- road arbitration seem to have knocked g home run. y New charges are being made against the sugar trust Now let us hear a few more against tho oil trust. Then 1t will be sweetness ana light"
 Governor Joe Brown wears q suit of -jeans and keeps an old, ia shioned E 5os sas esSdsa as sRaaGf oRafa.nionas Atlanta man going to Charleston sS: Siam n's on nis 1snsa % or ' Mrs. Howard Gould is a wonder. She says she was never drunk in her life ssS ssforss yet Sse asai taAT!ns Tsso.s v' must have been to trim her hat. Time Is money-but don't tell the bill collector you intend to pay him fin time"
 Thief entered United States Senate and robbed number of visitors who were listening to tAs debates. Must eloquent orator who SC closely held the victims attention.
 Clyde Fitch attracts considerable at proves of race suicide. Well, there are some dramatists who ought to be made to see 1t ciyde's way. r,,~.-hAaA nr.rdarhur4 eau,inv along at the same time with Leon Ling and Mrs. Howard Gould. didn't get quite as big ecare-heads as they did, which no doubt wounded Broughton's pride considerably. The college man who late did grind At Greek and Latin lore. Now concentrates his heart and mind Upon the baseball score.
 Hear Parson Snowball:
 "De sweet watermelon
 When layin' on ice, Am bout de bestest ever
 No matter what de price.
 It mysses up yo' ears but
 Summer Song. Summer. the time of the rose and scnE. Summer with deep blue sky Summer with you and your heart so To think that it should .die! Summer with crescent moon on high, Summer with twilight haze. When the mocktng bird sings as he
 sways and swings, Through the sweet magnolia ways. Summer gone mad with sweetheart
 dreams, h Summer gone mad with song, Wen leave t all when the brown
 leaves fall,
 And for rose-kissed June we Il long. 'The summer was sweet for 1t gave me
 you"
 I'll say when I so away. And maybe we'll meet in this same re-
 treat,
 Again on some other day!
 P. H. A.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
win Get Alonx Without Hickey.

1NGWH. --7-- 7-7-
 A Virginia contemporary says: "As Hoke Smith seems to think nobody else is capable of holding down the job (of Railroad Commissioner), Governor Brown might give him a chance to try his hand at 1t by appointing him to the position" That would be a unique situation, now wouldn't 1t? But create such situations merely for the oddity of them. No; Georgia will have to get along without the benefit of Mir. Smiths genius as railroad ex- pert during the term of the Brown ad- ministration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Mothers Shining Example.

"Be a man." said an Atchison girl to her brother Then she got to thinking When trouble came to her home 1t was tiently and calmly. It was mother who told father not to worry, who calmed his fears. and who did all her own worrying without letting any one know about it. It was mother who was never afraid, never angry, who was above petty annoyance. and who spent her life on the firing line, fghS- quickly to her brother T don't mean Dc a man. be woman%
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
A NEW HAMPSHIRE JOKER.

It has become such q common thing to find joker" as they call them in laws enacted by legislative bodies that no one is surprised at a new one. One of the latest has been found in the liquor Legislation of New Hamp- shire. That State enacted what the lawmakers evidently thought was water-tight no-license law, and that they had thereby settled it that there should be no liquor sold in the State. But here comes in the Jok CT, for there Is a provise in the law which provides that the law shall not prohibit the sale "of any foreign spirituous liquors imported under authority of the laws of the United States by the importer thereof. In the original casks or pack ages in which 1t was imported" The effect of this proviso Is thus set out by The Boston Traveller:
 There is the little joker that is mak- lnR the prohibitionists of New Hamp- shire sit up and pay serious attention The best lawyers of the State have de- cided that this section means that no one, even in a no-license town, can be molested for the importation of liquor from Canada, or any other foreign country. and selling 1t to any one in the original casks or packages to any amount desired.
 terpFising citizens on the Canadian border at the north have begun openly aaiiinG the commodity in the oFlssaza1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Nexnda nank CIosed.

Rhyolite. New, June 3o.-The doors of the Bullfrog Bank Sand Trust Com- pany were closed yesterday by order of the bank examiner. who reported that institution had onthand but per cent of the currency necessary to cover its deposits, whereas the State law re- auires at least 15 per cent. The capi- tai stock of the bank is s1o0,00O, and It's deposits aggregate s2oo,00o. The largest stockholder Is owen E. Young, of Grand Forks. N. D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

The sincere believers in woman sui frage in this country can hardly feel satisfaction at the reports printed in 9be papers Wednesday morning of tha scandalons. not to say outrageous. be- havior of the suffragettes In London on Tuesday. No cause was ever Strengthened by such methods as were employed by those women
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Calvin a. a Man of the World.
From Maria Hornor Lansdale's "The
 Human Side of Calvin in the July
Century.

Century.
 Calvin had many advantages. He was not a scholar merely; he was a man of the world. He had travelled, was familiar with the life of courts, was on terms of intimate friendship with many of the most distinguished persons of his day. He had a com the learned He knew law as we'll as he did theology. French as well as Latin. His grasp of a wide range of subjects. as well as his attention to detail, were things to marvel at. Add to these an inexhaustible patience and a bulldog tenacity of purpose. a vivid human interest and an amazing ca- pacity for work, and we begin to un-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
r,..o nn.. .-. n-o-unsa

Philadelphia, June 30.-WhiIe swim ming in the Delaware River today at Washington Park, N. J.. a pleasure re- sort, Israel Berger and Harry Green berg, both II years old. were drowned, the latter losing his life in an attempt to save his companion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

A Philadelphia paper has 1t that s1nixed drinks made Mrs. Gould wab- hie.s If that was what was the mat ter there must have been some mixed drinks distributed among the witnesses for there was certainly quite a lot of wobbisng in the evidence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

.Y are told that single egg of the curious fowl known as the great aux" has sold for s1.5o0. That is probably because the eggs are so scarce. If they were plentiful those eggs wouldn't
 command such a high price, we pre- sume. although one would make sever al eggs of the average hen size.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Franco to Be RepreL,nted.

Paris, June So.-charles c. Moore. President Of the San Francisco Cham Der of Commerce, has been assured by the Minister of Marine that France will be represented by one or more warships at the festival to be held at San. Francisco next October to com- memorate the rebuilding of the city after the earthquake.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

Tt is still more than fifteen hours from sun to sum-" announces The Co., 5nnbns Ledger. Not in Montgomery, we beg to Inform The Ledger. We don't know how 1t may be on the Chat tshoochee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

we do not know if 1t is true, as re- norted, that electric fans are to be narfed from the Senate chamber In xTasfington. If so it must be because zhev can't- compete with the human SIr-distributors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

If Mrs. Gould decides that she cant five comfortably on SS6.OOO year she esn doubtless secure a good place on |the stage. unless she has grown fat. .ld and uEiy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
E,na. Body of Mrs. x.ueau.

Wheeling, W. Va. June 30.-The mutilated body of Mrs. James Lucas of Elm Grove. near here, was found in a creek today. The woman's hus- band and three other men are being detained by the police pending an in- Vestiga tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

hat Chicago Professor who says &Rn Ia savage has probably been
 As out too late at night. and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
r,unnx IanCuLAxlOl

0WOkN ClkCOAA ram S xna fgurse for May printed peo w..vrn. |0Grnt the actual nes etreuA~uons s 1n&luG been osducted. ..~.ctee. it. x1Sartfaees tano naaKss tt z part oh s csrcu- IE1af Wksn rsQusstedj that its os'T -atnn 5x751n ls iarG~. sthsn that or any nas s :. h. 5SWsVADsr printed iL Alabama-sn~sr ssrexI I,ie:.
 1ay sdffaon has :~s larsss. s.r,nssa in TT 4ny sdisaon or any nsw.pApss
 31@tGlma. Wttnoue exception.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
Hun Victims VIII Recovcr.

Vellejo. Cal. June 30.-Surgeons in attendance upon the five men sca1ded by the explosion of boiler tube on the torpedo boat destroyer Hull yes- tarday will reeover,t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01

caily and leglslatively Ten-
 low one of the "dry" states. MI to bs in fact Is vet to be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
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{<< Il riniean Circuiation Manager or Ins Y sntxomsry Advertiser. being duiy swera' <Tr. tcve~osn< abatement of The A6ver- 1;sers cfrculation for the month or May, f1eeL fs true and correct and compiled aLler 11l refurns from news boys news agents. SSnt;rd and ieft over copies have been de- SS<.'rs-& c l. FINIGAN.
 Circulation Manager. ewcrr to and subscribed before me this sfe oAs - RIGA ALEXANDER.
 Notary Public.