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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
Novel in CamRalsn.

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 Albert A. HartselIs book, '.Alicia q written around the Burdick murder mystery. Is being made use of by his opponents against Hartselrs candidas cy for a long term as Judge of the new City Court of Buffalo
 Hartsell was counsel for Mrs. Bur dick, and wrote the novel after tho case dropped. The story thinly wells the tragedy of the murder of Burdicx in his home.
 Alicia. the heroine. is Mrs. BurdiclS. MT. Blake. her husband, and the Pend1e- ton of the story is Pennell. who. with his, wife, went to death over the Jam
 The book advances peculiar ideas of social and domestic relations. "Our laws" 1t says, land especially the ugl- written precepts of society. express the low order of our civilization. Inc law is hopelesely archaic on this qs ton of marriage and divorce. Many good and wise people believe that the subject should be broadened, not mar rowed, and that incompatibility should become one of the chief causes for dissolution of the marriage tie: that society knows this. but is too tfmid to voice its understanding in law, and give it's sanction, and thus it fails 10 its duty In not conserving the happl- ness of its members and at the sanle tide advance its own moral status.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17

He that walksth humhlx. walketh sately.--owen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17

lately he published an article in which he deplored the weight of the present. day machines. and gave it as his opin- ion that no progress had been made in perfecting these during the past six months. The fatal accident. which oc- cured at BoulQgne. was preceded by another bad smash less than a week be- fore, In this instance tbe machine broke rudder and one of the planes.
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The Suppression of Dust.

The arrival of the dust season calls
attention to the absolute necessity OF
providing for it's suppression by some
means, whether temporary or perma-
nent. The actual damage done by the
dust as it is mixed with the atmo-
sphere and inhaled into the threats
and lungs of road users and the
blighting effect on. crops when 1t Is
carried over the adjoining landscape.
combine to enforce the necessity of
making immediate provision for its
elimination.
It must be borne in mind that many
able engineers are making a close
study of the condition and Of means
for it's ultimate rectifcation in a rea-
sonably economical manner. At the
same time it must be remembered
that the condition is here, and that
there are ample means, without pro-
hibitive cost, for its reduction.
OF course, the original dust-layer
was water, and it is still a good one.
It's artificial application, equally Of
course, is very expensive, owing to its
rapid evaporation and the consequent
necessity for frequent applications.
But there are a number of materials
which, according to the results OF
tests, which have been brought to u
attention, may be depended on to lay
the dust and keep it laid for greater
or less periods Of time. It seems,
therefore, that it should be the duty
of those charged with the a = OF
public roads to make usa, at least for
the time being, of such means as are
at hand, holding Themselves always
in readiness to util!ze any new dis
coveries or inventions which may be
more effective or more economical.
The Intelligence of those in control
of each situation must determine
whether the use OF temporary pallia-
tives or presumably permanent pre-
ventatlves shall be used. But the
time IS at hand when the one thing
or the other-or some other-should
be applied to the roads, that they may
be made comfortable for commercial
and Measure traific.--Gcod Roads
Magazine.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Much feeling maketh a man full.

Much feeling maketh a man full.
1t keeps many a fellow busy look
ing for a job.
The modern hero is n part valor
and nine parts printers ink.
Probably the old maid remains a
miss because she never made a. hit.
Never trust a man whose dog has
gone back on him.
You can't smooth a man down by
rubbing him the wrong way.
Even the fellow who has nothing
to doesn't seem to be satisfied to
do it.
There is no such thing as the big
gest half, in spite Of the fact that
most of US want it.
It takes a pretty slick individual
to match a sample in buying expert.
snse.
A mar may sometimes feel that
he has no friends, and at other times
that he has too many.
No man works SO. hard that he
hasn't a little energy left to pat him
self on the back.
Gossip is merely a case of putting
two and two together and making
five.
1t never occurs to some men that
the easiest way to get a living is to
work for it.
When a boy begins to wash his
hands and face without being cold.
look for the girl in the case.
Every man may have his price, but
it doesn't always accord with his
market value.-From THE Dyspeptic
Philosopher" in the New York
Times.
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back to the boat and saw the boots
wet and shiny in Che moonlight, I
don't deny that I thought they were
good boots.
"'No, it won't work. said L. He
is a human being. even if he is dead,
and his clothes are his own, and when
we take them we are stealing
lis he a human being?' cried
Hans. No, a human being is one
that is alive like you and me. When
you're dead you're nothing-dust and
clay, as the minister says, and moth
ing can't possibly own anything
II stood and pondered over this for
a few moments. but 1 couldn't get my
bearings.
See here said Hans. If we took
his watch or his papers-if he has
any-that would be stealing. Those
things belong to the big-bugs that are
| coming tomorrow to poke their noses
into all that. But a beach-washer
must be buried in the clothes he is
wearing. If you don't know that
much, I do, and why should we let
| the worms eat those good new boots?'
81 rubbed the back of my head and
then I said: But who should have
the boots, you or I? 1t wouldn't do
any good to divide them, surely
"Hans looked at me. We might
rattle them He picked up a handful
of pebbles. odd or even"
mo, I don't want to- 1 said. and
left him.
Then I want to- said Hans.
@'Give me your bottle, Hans
II took a good swallow, and then
we went over to the boat and tackled
him. Hans took off the tarpaulin,
and I grabbed his leg.
do you suppose we can get it
OFF, I whispered to Hans.
"'What in thunder are you doing?'
said Jens behind us.
"We both jumped up and looked at
Jens, who was sitting up on the sand.
1T won't do I whispered to Hans.
'Jens is as leaky as a new tub
1--WE are looking at the beach
washer 1 said.
81 went over to Hans, but he was
just as. scared as 1 was. He lay down
by the side of Jens without saying
anything. When I went to put the
tarpaulin over the beach-washer again
the moon was shining right into his
face just as the sun had done before,
and it seemed to me as if he was look
ing at me and saying, You thief, you
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his boots. though perhaps they would
not do him much good in the place
where he was going to. Then the
curate went away. but it seemed to
me a pity that a poor shipwrecked
sailor should be sent away without a
word. Jens was pulling at his
breeches and looking around, and I
could see that he was thinking Of the
same thing, so 1 said, Lift your rud-
der
$50 Jens stepped forward with his
cap in his hand and said: Listen to
me, boys. 1 may get in trouble for
this, but I am going to say 1t any
way that I think he who is anchored
here ought to take with him a good
word from those who towed him into
harbor and from those saw him made
fast to the wharf. A farmer has the
bed where he is to give up his breath
right before his eyes all his life, but
a sailor or a fisherman never knows
where he will lie. And he who is
moored fere we don't know where he
came from, but we can give him a
kind thought and maybe a little wood
en- cross and a fence around his grave
if we each do our part. And when I
or Hans or Ole or Per get into trou-
BILE and are drifted on a strange shore
we hope that other sailors or fisher
men will 10 the same to US as we are
doing to him--though we don't know
who he is and may get thanks
for it; for that is the Why it ought to
be between fishermen. And now may
God rest his SOUL
Amen said the pilot-master, and
we all repeated Amen
so he was buried. And Jens al
ways got along very we'll, and the
year after Hans was dro wned off the
American coast. And 1 have been
dragging along with my rheumatism
ever since. But I have often thought
of the beach-washer and his boots!"
San Francisco Argonaut.
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ONE REASON Why SICILIANS
COME TO AMERICA.

Emily Post has incorporated in her
novel, "The Title Market" a true
and startling description Of condi-
lions found by an American engineer
in the sulphur mines of Sicily.
Derby" she says, chad thought
himself prepared, but with the hor-
rors actually before him, he shud-
dered uncontrollably; unconsciously,
he gripped the pommel Of the saddle
so tensely that his knuckles whit
ened. The mine of Golden Plenty!'
From the horrible mockery Of the
name, the devil might we'll have
taken notes in planning hell!
Little forms passed by him with
faces wizened and wrinkled-were
they gnomes?-or what? Surely not
children! Small, narrow, stopped
shoulders, backs bent under loads
buckled to %tottering legs. Ragged
the creatures were, to the point Of
nakedness, and on their arms and
legs were scars fresh and scarlet
from the torches of the overseers.
Women and men crawled near the
caldrons, and down the ladders into
the hell pits went the children-up
with the heavy load past the torch
and lash of the devil servers, whose
duty it was to see that no painting
being loitered. Day in, day out,
these miserable wretches stumbled
under the singing pain Of burning
lesh-and once in a while a child's
faltering steps slipped from the lad.
der rungs, his weak hands lost hold
"a cry, a fall, and the Golden Plen.
ty' had swallowed one more victim"
-Everybody's.
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*
&@0WD - - &; !
M0MDSD'
VIZ ~ ~v
National Highways.

The far reaching influence of the
campaign for good roads started BY
the Herald in connection with the At
lanta Journal Is shown by the facts
cited in an article published on an
other page this morning.
When the Herald the other day al
nounced the selection Of the Piedmont
route as the most available for the
thousand mile national highway be-
tween New York and Atlanta, which
will be ready, for the great automobile
endurance contest next autumn, 1t
suggested that the two other routes
explored by it's scout car would also
be constructed at some future date.
The enthusiasm for good roads
excited throughout the country, and
especially in the South by the scout
ing and pathfinding trips Of the Her.
aid and Atlanta Journal, is so intense
that at least one of these rival routes
will probably be put under construc-
ton at once. AS related in the article
which appears this morning. Mr..
Leonard Tufts, Of Pinehurst, N. G.,
with the strong support of influential
newspapers. in Washington as we'll as
in Richmond and other Southern
cities, has projected a highway from
the Capitol at Washington to the
State House in Augusta, Ca, and fur
Their to Jacksonville, Fla.
AS a result of the interest ezcit-
ed by the Herald's campaign in con-
nection with it's enterprising coA-
temporary, the Atlanta Journal,
every county in the Southland is
making appropriations for the inn
provement of it's roads or preparing
to do so. The projected automobile
contest for the prizes offered by the
Herald and the Atlanta Journal and
the preparation Of the great high.
way, one thousand miles long, for
the competing cars have set the
whole country to discussing the de-
plorable condition of our roads and
| the enormous mud tax" thereby i'm
posed upon the community in general
and the farmers in particular.
That this great and rich country
should be ~traversed by highways
worthy the wealth and enterprise OF
the American people is so obvious
that it calls for no argument. The
construction of good roads, however,
will not merely crafty national pride
but save yearly hundreds of millions
Of dollars now lost through the in
ability to transport products and mer.
chandise at all during certain seasons
and the needlessly high cost of NOV.
ing them when transportation Is pos
sible.
Instead of the existing streaks Of
mud or sand that disgrace so many
portions of the country we should and
will have a network Of highways as
much better than the Roman roads"
as the Republic is greater and richer
than the famous old empire.-Editor-
ial in the New York Herald.
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Needed Invention.

The maa with the p~rotupcr@nt
brisket entered the office OF a large
automobile mandatory with q "nn-
fldent air. - have here L great IN
vention, a most necessary r ne
said to the president of tie comr@ay.
"In the automobile line
eyes. sir-a 'shork a~Gso:ner.
PUT" objected i3e raaluf"ct"Eer,
there are dozens OF them already on
the market"
None Of this variety" said the in
ventcr. This shock absorher Is 4
device to break the ncws gently Ii
without shcrl: 10 ~ artamob!l;St that
his chauffeur ha5 taicr his mc"5" chr
without permission from tie garage,
and. while entertaining 4 party or
thirsty lady fre'E". Las totally
wrecked the machine ont IL tic sub
urbs. That's the sort Of shock ahsor-
Der 1t is"
Name your r-ice'" "loTtled the
manufacturer G"iiEE.edly.-~Cnlcago
Inter Ocean.
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A Short Sermon For Printers.

Having chosen to be a printer, my
son, Joy will forever be just ahead OF
thee. Thou wilt yer be near to the
vision of swe~et-featured reality, but
will get the hypothesis instead, IN
less thou art wise. Printers are a
breed unto themselves, mysteriously
generated and nourished on the bile
Of trade cupidity, which is CONNECTION
cry to them. Verify, printers have
three parasitic job-vigor, the fig
ure-obscura and the dump-entla.
These are heard to overcome, but
printers come over" with them cas-
lily. Be a Christening rather than a
chasing printer. Do not speed the
Job to cover and when up to it do
not feed the giyer on the little wind
thou hast left, but wrap about thy.
self an undiscovered quality and let
the customer guess. But never guess
myself; know both thy figures OF
speech and cost; be thou the entity
and II there is to be a nonentity lei
it be the customer or thy rival. He
who telleth all he knoweth is empty.
but he who seemeth to know much
and sweateth it slowly is swelled with
irresistible charm. When thou seek
est money remember it is fugitive;
seem not to eager to possess it, but
be coy, ever as the maiden who show
eth just above her ankles, and it will
not take fight. In business as in
courtship the reserve is ever an un'
known quantity. Follow these pre-
cepts, my son, and if thou wilt De a
printer thou mayest be more than an
assumption and may get the job
The British and Colonial Printer and
Stationer.
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Her Endorsement.

"I want to get this check cashed.'
said the young matron, appearing al
the window of the paying teller.
Yes, madam. You must indorse
it, though, explained the teller.
why, my husband sent it to me.
He is away on business she said.
"Yes, madam. Just indorse it;
sign it on the back so we will know,
and your husband will know we paid
it to you"
She went to the desk against the
wall and in a few minutes presented
the check, having written on its
back, Your loving wife, Edith. -
Bellnlan.
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seececcoseeeosee eesssees
!, DiSuSe of the
Left Hand.
eoees

There is no reason to suspect eVen
The most vague or faraway begin
nings in animals. So long as the
four feet are used for locomotion
there could be no lateral d~ifferentia-
ton of function. 1 have watched for
Il in squirrels that use their front
paws to hold nuts, cats that strike
at insects in the air or play with
wounded mice, and in many other
animals, but I am sure that to neither
paw is preference assigned. There
is thus probably no dominancy Of
either eye in animals. Even in the
monkeys and gorillas, who Of all ami
mails most use the forepaws as hands,
one catches no suggestion of prefer
entail use or superior experiences in
the dextral or sinistral side. (My
very intelligent dog trained to
shake hands" with his right paw,
lost hts right eye, and after that he
always offered the left paw
Human Characteristic.
But in the lowest human sayages
all over the world choice or greater
experiences of one hand is as clearly
present as in civilized cases. No say
ages, however, are 80 near anlmal1ah
conditions as to exhibit it's differeo-
tiating origins. Fixed in all u
military and social customs and nv-
Ing at the base of language itself are
two facts which solve the riddle and
make clear whence and how right
handedness arose. In all tribes and
countries since nan used implements
of offence and defence, the sinistral
or cardiac side was protected by the
shield, and the sinistral hand was
called the shield hand, as the dextral
was called the spear hand.
The Superior Side.
Next to fighting the synchronous
with it was the need Of barter, and
the fundamental condition Of bar
tering was counting with the low
numbers, one to ten. The fingers OF
the free or dextral hand were, OF
course, first used, and all fingers are
to-day called digits, as are the figures
themselves, and the basis OF u num-
behring's is the decimal or ten fingered
system. The tally stick, notched or
numbered, Is the record of digits held
in the air. Every drill and action OF
the soldier, from Xenophon to West
Point is dextral in every detail. The
dominancy of the right eye is shown
in firing from the right shoulder and
sighting with the right, eye. I have
two patients, left-handed in every
respect, who have been taught to
fire their guns from the right shpul-
der, but, of course, they are left-eyed,
and they depress the right eye below
the level of the gun and sight with
the dominant left eye.
Left-handers Abnormal.
Right-footedness. less d~ifferentiat'
ed, of course, must follow right-hand-
edness, so that all soldiers (and Free
masons, too) must step of with the
left foot first, /. e., the spring must
be made with the, right. The loss OF
the right hand, or right eye, mutila-
lions, etc., very common in barbaric
times, would help to account for the
preservation of the present four per
cent. Of left-handed people. - DR..
Gould, in Medical Record.
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SuSuries or Reoessities?

At a New England academy two middle-aged men met il
a class reunion. After renewing the old acquaintance. one
OF them said:
Il have a boy here now"
$50 have l." said the other man.
when 1 wen. through here" the first man continued, re-
fectively, II worked my way doing chores of various kinds.
My annual expense seldom ran over 5000. 1 find things quite
different here now. Last year I paid out $3.50 to keep my
boy here in the style he says he must put on in order to be
I anybody"
Il paid over $500 last year for my boy" said the second
man; yet when I was in this academy twenty-five years ago,
I swept out the building, MIXED COWS, shoveled off sidewalks.
and boarded for $3.50 a week. My expenses were less
than $500"
Does your boy do any work while in SCHOOL,"
"No. Does yours?"
"Not a stroke. The academy hired hands take care of the
boys room, black his shoes, put his daily paper on the table
for him every morning and do all the things you and I used
to have to do for ourselves"
The boys of to-day are getting luxuries where we go:
necessities. Are they any better students than the boys c.
twenty-five years ago."
Il doubt it. Yet their education costs from three to fouc
times what yours and mine cost. Are they getting three or
four times as good an education?"
doubt it. Shall we take our boys out?"
where else could we put them?"
81 don't know. Civilization and progress are great things.
aren't they?"
"Yes, great"
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thief 1t made me feel very queer,
for 1 had never in my life before
thought of robbing any n of what
belonged to him, nor have l done it
since, but this seemed a peculiar case,
for, after all, he had no use for the
boots. Anyway I bent over him and l
said:
i am sorry, shipmate, for what I
meant to do. You keep your boots,
and goodnight to you. If the cod
fishing is tolerable this year I guess I
will make enough to get a pair Of
new boots without stealing from a
dead comrade.'
"Then I put back the tarpaulin, and
I felt somehow as If he must be rest
ing better, that he was sure of
keeping what belonged to him.
when my watch was over 1 walked
Hans. What about the Doots?' he
said.
What God has united let no man
put %asunder,' said 1. And I believe
that made an impression on him. for
there were no boots lost that night.
When the controller of customs came
in the morning we stood at attention
in the bright sunlight.
"'Anything happened on the
watch?' he asked.
"'Nothing worth MENTIONING I an
swered, and Hans and I looked at
each other with u tongues in our
cheeks and one y pinched together.
"At noon the magistrate came in a
tlemen with him. The magistrate
, pointed to us and explained that we
were fishermen, and n Of the gen.
tlemen took a watch glass from his
pocket and stuck it in his eye and
stared at US. The magistrate asked
questions and explained to the gen.
tlemen, who seemed very fine gentle
men indeed. thought they must be
foreigners, since they had to have
everything explained, but they spoke
Danish just like the rest of us, so I
suppose they had never seen fisher
men before. One of them wrote
something in a book, so l suppose he
had a poor memory,
I'VE turned all his pockets, but
found nothing but a leather purse so
wet that it was falling to pieces. The
magistrate put gloves on and turned
it over. There was 4 German bank
note worth about seven Danish dol
lars, a piece of an English letter
which the magistrate said there was
no sense in and some Dutch copper
coins.
THAT wasn't much said the
magistrate, and it wasn't. Then he
gave orders about the funeral and
drove away.
in the afternoon the beach-wash-
er was buried on the beach. The cur
ate threw three %shoyelfuls Of dirt at
him, and we fishermen took our caps
of and looked down and said nothing.
/ remember feeling glad that he had