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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
UNION SPRINGS SOCIETY.

Union Springs. Feb. 20.-(Special.)- Miss Bessie Cowart was the hostess of the '09 Club Thursday afternoon.
 Each guest was requested to write a Dutch joke and a description of their ideal man. Cards were then exchanged and read, proving a pleasant pastime.
 The prize fell to Miss Lena Mae Har- ris in the drawing. Refreshments were daintily served.
 Miss Carrie Anderson entertained the Proposal Club yesterday afternoon with Cupid party. The decorations were red carnations. Cupids red hearts and ferns.
 / The game. a progressive picture pug zle. was much enjoyed. and at its close Cupid pie was cut and each guest drew a comic valentine.
 The refreshments and all heart shape. and carried out the color scheme. red.
 The guests were Mesdames c. B. Goldthwaite. P. F. Miles. c. M. Frank lin. c. E. Ghollston, J. s. Dickey. c. B. Cowan. Misses Maggie Mabson, Dot Slaughter, Annie Hobdy.
 Miss Helen Orr entertained the Sum- flower Club this week
 splendid program of music and readings was rendered. followed by re- treatments and the election of officers dS LOllOHos GAloS Lduno Iinks; Vice President, Miss Clair Paulk; Secretary, Miss Mary Salter; Treasurer, Miss Louise Prince; Reporter. Miss An nie Katherine Rosenstihl.
 The young ladies of the Meth odist Church have given the contract for stone coping to be placed around their church yard. from the parsonage cor ner to the corner of MT. Kellar's home. The contract was given to a Montgom- cry firm and the work is to be done at once.
 The prize offered by the Bullock County Rural School Improvement As soclation for the greatest improvement In the rural schools was awarded to the school at Welcome. Mrs. W. B.. Phillips President
 The committee awarding the prize of S25 regretted that a second prize could not be given. for the school at Sims vile submitted such an excellent re- port of improvements since its organi- ration in October.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. L. Hobdy enter tajned a number of their young friends with a o'clock dinner Thursday even ing.
 A. F. Smith will deliver an address before the Farmers Union at Indian Creek next Friday.
 Mrs. c. B. GOldthwaite left yester- day for Troy to be present at the thir!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
Lsess,s 7s shs Edis.r
THE .CHrrouAPrN FISH.

A waltonites Says He Has Met
 Selma. Ala. FebsNie, 1908. Editor The Advertiser:
 H one were asked to look at Grand mas" Lxxx volumes they would nat uraiiy say. the old lady should have more learning" Az e reader of her the Writer had aim almost looked upon her as unerring, but the "oid lady" lost her bearings last week in her dis snlnnSp.n, sssiaslsa m n nr shlnauspash Slas. aa the writer called them when we were school boys up in old Bibb. If the edi- tor had eyer nshsd fer bream in the is . small fish swimming under the "chinauapin." Ask any old fisherman
 a rssao ss w w.a syUs sp,s so have pssoqnss the little rascal but he Is . fish and "swim& this far South" They are a small species of brean. great bait eat and f one one @ii is hooked eS sf'i" he ii Is thrown back in the water and your guide or move to another place. the .ohinky- os ' Ss for snd hss rrn TGn the sAsae ss but an expert knows them by the way they nihble the bait. Brush up your bile bureau to substantiate this state ment by the writer. Il
 With kind regards and wishing the with no more one cent fines to pay, I am sir.
 A waltonite.
 (The Advertiser accepts as true. with no further authority needed, the state ment that fish known as "chinqua- pin" swims in the salt waer bayous of the State. Our friend, "A Walton ite," before prohibition became effec- tive was one of the States noted anna teur Fishermen and on fishing and all that pertains to fishing his word is sufacient. The editorial in question raised. and who while familiar with all the fish that swam the creeks and rivers of Alabama was nevertheless not too well acquainted with sale water fish,)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
: :" g4-
 This Date in History
FEBRUARY 21.

1s16-The British. after Issuing e proclamation of martial law, withdrew fram the coast of Georgia.
 ts2s-The Assembly of Virginia pro- tested against the tarif.
 tele--John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. died. Barn in 17e7s
 1ee6--2Sueral Crook captured ct Cumberland, Md.
 1ss6-The Washington Monument at Washington. D. C.. dedicated.
 1s91-Generals William T. Sherman buried at St. Louis.
 1Be7--A daughter was born to ex- President Benjamin Harrison at In- dIanapolis. .-.
 190G-United States marines engaged in battle with insurgents in San Do- mlnGo.
 ls0S-Pennsylvania Railroad com pleted its first tube under the East River between Manhattan and LonR Island City.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
BrundidRe News
Growth of sAs Newspaper.

Niles Weekly Register. Oct Is. 1sl1.
 Ihomass History of Printing gives A list Of the newspapers published in the Init ed States In the commencement of th. vao. 1910. Of these New Hampshire has 19. necticut, II; Vermont. IA: Ne~ vnI,, rs Con. ea. y;.'S;v S1; Nsw Jersey, s; District of columSia, olina, 10; Georgia, 12; Kentucky 1T: Ten nessfs: Mississ:ppi 3el9 M Indian Territory I:
 h all Se4! Of these is are dupl,cats. Sosans S6sIns country papers)i , were pabiished thrice-weekly, 8 semi-weekly 2ss weekly: 5 are printed in German. in French, 2 in sS spanish; l6S Republican, l6T Federal and
 We venture to say that no country in the n. worIo S,s presents such e number and variety free and elective governnent which dtstin. Su1snes the United states.
 The number of newspapers printed in from the records of the stamp nstsS Office which must give rather above than below
 In the year 1898 there were published in London: Daily morning papers. 2; daily Sundays. IT; once week on other days. l9; country papers in England. sS; papers in Ensisnd % irsIaaS sRss seOstsSd sG.ha ais total
 We have formed the succeeding estimate of the newspapers annually published in the United States for the purpose of con trasting It with the statement of the mum Der published in England.
 Twenty-Five ''daily" papers, ayerasiDV 1000 each published 3l1 days in each year deducting Sundays and Christmas and 900; nineteen "duplicatss, = generally p,tb lished three times in a week. issued from the offices of the dallv papers. will aye. -, 800 each, published 15S days in the year sss, 900; sixteen 'thrlce-weekly," arr
 at l.500 each. published uOd',
 1000 each for lO4 publications > ,ie n, 2e2 weekly" at 75s each for fifty-two huh. lIcattons, 9,542.000 Grahu total, 25,ss-,,J
 The preceding calculation is formed on reasonable data and is rather under than above the number actually printed In the United states every year. To which sholrld be added. to aid the comparison, an esfi- mated number Of suppiements and extras all of which. issued from the British presa are liable to the stamp duty. and thsrefaFa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
vAaRANCY IN pTRaINaRAAs.
Cxfminal Courts Will Be Busy mi
 week. s9ete c5i1l2 1

CHtMtnal Courts VIII Be Busy This
 SVSSks "ete c5i1ls 4S
 Birmingham, Feb. sO.-=CspecsaI y--l One hundred and ten cases of vagrancy are on the dockets in the; criminal court and will be called up in the. sec- ond division of that branch of the judiciary the coming week in Birming- ham. This will be the record in this line.
 On Monday there will be thirty-four cases on the docket, thirty-six on Tues day, twenty-five on Wednesday, ten on Thursday and Friday will see five cases. Most of the arrests were made in the segregated district on warrants sworn out by Curtis Shugart, 6 young attorney of the city, who is said to have removed to Oklahoma.
 The arrest of the women in the segregated district several weeks ago by the sheriff and his deputies on the vagrancy warrants created consider able discussion.
 In the first division of the criminal court next week the case. of S. R. Haddow is down for trial Haddow Is charged with embezzlement. He was treasurer of one of the local tn eatres, and is said to have emDezzled some of the funds of the theatre.
 Charles M. Harralson, a white man, who is charged with perjury and mis- cegenation, is to be tried. while some of the bribery cases growing out of the now famous graft fund" started by the sheriff, will be called up.
 The indications are that the court house in Birmingham the coming week will be the scene of large doings and the crowd will be extensfve from the start of the week through to the fn- iSh
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
This Ls My sth Bhfhdayl
JOHN NICHOLAS nRowN.

John Nicholas Brown. who has .been3 was born in Providsnce. R. |. Febru-. ary 2l,' 1900, and by the death of his father. on May of that year. and Har- old Brown. his uncle. on May II. the head of the family. His fathers death letf him a5.O00.oOe and by hts uncle's death he became the possessor of an. @ years iS't;Ss oid these 3io, ,oOO. .ooo viii have. grown into SS0. .0o0.o60. John Nicholes Is the last representative of the Rhode Island Browns. family that has been father was the eldest son of John Car ter Brown, who gave to Providence a big public library. His great-grand- liberal benefactors of Brown Univere slty, and his father. Chad Brown, was one of the original settlers of Provl< dance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
NEWS or NTCHoLsvILLn.


 Nichoisviiis. Feb. a0y--fspecial 1--0. B. Mc0regery recently from Florida, has put in turpentine plant ons mile from NIcholsviiie, working about twen- ty-hve mep. a,
 He has leased several hundred acres of heavy pine timber lands and will continue his operations here 1ve or six years. ff
 NichoisviIie is promised telephone service about March 1, The Clarke County Telephone Company will ex- tend It's line here; also to Campbell and Nanafals. tv
 Mrs. George Harris. wife of prom inent farmer of Marengo County. was seriously gorsd about the face yestef- day by one of her milk COWS.
 Invitations are out for . popular wedding at the home of '. lP. Lambert of Lasca, February 2t. His daughter. Miss Ola Lambert, and William Mo- Nlder, of Marvin. gre. the contracting parties, Rev, T. N. Green of Nichols vile. win be the cficiatlng clergy man.
 The New NichoIsvifie Baptist Church has just been htted up with elegant new pews. costing S72o.
 Cecil Day won the fine Bible offered last year by the pastor to any on in the Sunday School who would be pres ent every Sunday in 1868.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
JENNINGs-AfeDONALD.
Of Popular Persons At
 Ur.maaEr GuP4nwn.

Wedding Of Popular Persons At DC
 Funiak Springs.
 De Funiak Springs, Fla, Feb. 20.-- Especial. )-A beautiful home wedding took place Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. c. V. McDonald, the contracting parties being Miss Cath crime Mcdonald and Mir. W. K Jen- nings. :. friends were present.
 The ceremony was performed by
 This marriage is of much interest to a large circle of friends in Florida. Alabama and Virginia, uniting, aa # does, two of the. oldest and most prom inent Families Of Florida and Virginia.
 MT. Jennings is a young man of sterling worth and is held in the high est esteem by all who know him.
 He holds responsible position with the Grayes-Tatom Lumber Com pany.
 The bride is one of De Funiak's women. She possesses qualities of mind and heart that will make her . noble helpmate and 8 comfort to her new home.
 After a two-weeks' bridal trip to Virginia, MT. and Mrs. Jennings will return to Florida to reside.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Gordon. who were recently married at Opp, Ala. have arrived in the city. and are at home to their friends at the Brown House. as= T
 J. J. ,MeCaskilI has purchased tho whole Flournoy block from Mayor W. W. Flournoy, and will complete the new two-story building already begun.
 Dr. Morris will erect a two-story building on Eighth street. .-4
 pr. and Mrs. J. W. Walden are in Pensacola.
 Mrs. H. H. Dreyer was a recent visit or from camp Walton.
 Mrs Bonham. a popular matron, who has been spending several months with her parents in Birmingham, has re- turned home.
 Miss Annie Burke Landrum has zone on an extended visit to Texas. She will be with her sister, Mrs. S. D. Cawthon.
 Mrs. c. A Stanley. of Freeport ia with her daughter. Mrs. R. W. Storrs. who continues quite i'll.
 The first of Hotel Chautauoua'a ra9. ular receptions was given last wednes- day evening. It. was delightfully."- in- formal. Musical selections were given by Miss Mary Campbell and Mrs. w, 5. Amsbary. readings by Mrs. EsteIle HesSett crow, Mrs. Hardin Burnley ana Prof. W. B. Amsbary.
 superintendent Kenneth Bruce rave an illustrated lecture on Scotland this evening. While on his lecture tour to scotland last summer. Superintendent DFuce gathered much information.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
A sIasoa at s!ght.

Birmt0Gnam AEe-A0T8lo.
 all other Masons. in the account of making Presideut-elect Taft a Mason at sight" said an old member of the fraternity. Making at sight means communicating the signs and pass words and the chief points of the ritual to the candidate without requiring the candidate to pass through the cere- monies.
 "In the ancient landmarks which all Masons have sub scribed to is this: The right of the, Grand Master to make Masons at sight @Z
 "This high prerogative of the Grand Master is supposed to be seldom exer- cised. Within the past fifty years only one man in Alabama has been made q Mason at sight. In 100 years only one man in Virginia has been so hon. ored--the late Rev pr. Moses D. Hoge, about ten years ago. Dr. Hoge was eighty years of age when he was made a Mason. @ .
 "In Mississippi quite a number of men have been made Masons at sight. but in most of the States the occur renee Is exceedingly rare"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Fl, 1909.

That the spectacular jaunt of our battleship fleet was largely intended for efTect on people at home has ali along been the opinion Of close obl servers. On this subject The Pittsburg Post says:
 Senator Hale let the cat out of the bag when he tried to excuse the swol- Hen naval appropriations. He revealed the true purpose for sending the bat tleship fleet around the world. His iexplanation was that "the whole coun- ttry is in a furore and fever over the scircumnavigation of the globe by our navy" and that hence, 1t is difficult to scheck such appropriations. Is it not thus that an ambitious administration theory which has impel1ed a theaatfi- cal President: Give the people a Sublime, orld-beating. ead-whirling, Inerve-taxtng performance. and in the wild enthusiasm which follows they won't count the cost" Government under MT. Roosevelt has become mere ly an elevated form of vaudeville.
 So it appears that the underlying reason for all this brass band per- formance was to create a sentiment in favor of the Presidents pet-a big navy,- and thus make 1t easy to get liberal appropriations for more battle ships. A very Rooseveltian way of at- taining an object.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
Corn.
Corn Reporter.

Corn Reporter.
 People often wonder, particularly those who have travelled for hundreds Of miles through the corn belt, what year. In the year 1908, when the total crop was 2.666, 100000 bushels, 241, ,000,- 600 bushels were consumed in flour in the manufacture of starch, 5000 900 for malt liquors, 17,0O0, 900 bushels in the production of distilled liquors, 40,0O0,000 for glucose. 190.000.000 for export and 100000 for seed making g total of 5is,000.000 bushels, Or 1Is.3, per cent of the entire crop. The re- natning So.7 per cent, or 2.lIS, 900, 900 bushels, seems to have been used al- most entirely for feeding purposes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

icenputsd but not taken into view in the fortEoins aseregnte.
 lt resuits that in the United states thera gre pdbiished ss4 newspapers for . (whitel population of about 5000. 0oo. of souls and in Great Britain and Ireland SIS for 16,. e0o.ooo. From the American press mak
 ing ap allowance for suppiements and ex- tras. there are annually Issued at least 2s,- oeo.o 900 of newspapers: from the English press about 16.oo0, ,oo0j for. though the cal. culation of the latter is as far back as the year i1s1, there gre many reasons to be- lisye famong them chiefly the great ad- fcutty of the people to obtain iivelihood) that the number of newspapers printed in England has not been augmehted since
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
DEATHS IN FLORENCE

Florence. Feb. 2O.-(special) )-wu. nam T. Maxwell. aged 5S years, died ms home on East College Street. and was buried Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock Tn the city cemetery.
 employed at the Florence wa ear aans Works and enjoyed the respect ne si, , who knew him. He is suryivei h,, bI. Wife, widowed daughter and two % grandchildren. '"O
 Jesse Atkinson, an empIoye of tha Cohen Stove Foundry, died yeste,Sa V, of pneumonia at his home on Ea st Hill' and was buried in the Florence cemetery. He was 30 years Of a~a children. three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
A Strong Lettes. n@.A-Alfa 1FNN@AA

OGAhOpOAlB
 The letter of Mir. John Cunningham, of Lowndes County. to The Montgom- cry Advertiser In their issue of Sunday the 14th. was A "oorker." The subject of the letter was the mixture oE rec llGion. temperance, politics and liberty. The head lines given the letter by The Advertiser. were Appeal for Common Sense by a LoWndss County Man" Mr. Cunningham takes the position that the members of the clergy are run hing things in this State and that men seem to be the subservIent tools of preachers, afraid of their shadow WE, fearful that they will not be elected to an office. Once In awhile. now and then. you will find Q brave man like Dent (COngressmen from the Second Ditrict) that speaks plainly. and hon estly his opinions"
 Another of his timely observations was: 'I do want to see . pure, unself. ish. unprejudiced man come out for Governor. a man that knows his peO- pie. can gee all sides of this QueR- tion as well as other questions and with nerve to light for the rights and liberties of his people"
 We believe that Mr. Cunningham can be assured of q swing back of th . pendulum, In time. and also of the fact that the church and State must not mix, as 1t seems now to be the case,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
DEATH oF alRs. MoELLER.

Florence. Feb. 20 Especial, )--The remains of Mrs. George Moeller, who died at Whitsett, H., where she had last night, and were taken to the home of her son, Charles MoeIief, in East Florence. Ss.s.' gs4
 The funeral was to have been held from the Catholic Church yesterday. but connections were not made, and it will be held at the residence of Mfr :, Moeller Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock.
 Mrs. Moeller came to Alabafs1A from Illinois and had been making her home with her son here. She was q deHout. member Of the Catholic Church.. .s :.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of North Carolina requir- ing every man who uses any kind of intoxicant to take out a license, the charge for same being five dollars. That sort of blanket license doesn't seem exactly fair, for the man who takes a drink only occasionally must pay as much as the man who takes 1t in slugs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
ENp oF A NorEp oHARAcrER.


 The recent death at Fort sill, Okla homa, of the famous Apache chief, Geronimo, removes from active life one of the most picturesque characters the Indians have given to the world in many years. Whatever we may think of him as a cruel and relentless say age, the truth of history forces Us to admit that no Greek or Roman of an- cient times displayed more stern and unfaltering devotion to his race than did this untutored savage.
 Geronimo inherited all his savagery from the race to which he belonged. General Nelson A. Miles, who knew the Indians as few other men did, once declared that "the Chiricahua Apaches are the lowest. the most brutal and cruel of all the savages on this conti- nent." and Geronimo was of that tribe and for a long time It's leader. He led them in their forays against other Indian tribes with which they might be at enmity. but his great delight was the slaughtering of the white race whom he hated without reservation. or him The Kansas City Journal. a good authority. says:
 It was during the outbreak of 1884 that the fame of Geronimo spread throughout the Southwest. He had been at peace for several years. but .nf tA organized many murderous expeditions against white settlers, whom he slaughtered with horrible delight. No mercy by Geronimo, and whenever such a victim fell into his hands death came only after the most diabOlical
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
The waaderinG Hen.

St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 The Earl of Warwick at a banquet in Washington was quizzed about the hunting yarns he had swapped with the President while dining at the
 "Oh, yes" Lork Warwick said play fully. they were tall yarns--tall on my side. mean. outdid the wander ing hen.
 "A hen, you know. set out to see the word and met crow in a distant wood.
 "But.' said the crow. are you not way in this tangle?
 ..' Afraid7 Not l. scoffed the hen. Every little while I lay an egg to guide myself back by"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

forms of ssrturs this monster could
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 Sce in rsrsais sssesss s'is !. wa wss a;ssSs ansiiy
 FsssAsns FIsoS et 0as:wSss :s: sssons ;.
 deronimc never softsnsd In his hat
 red towara the vhites, aad in sli ths fused to issrn | word Ss Essiiss. His S sss sssy he sp ss ss .ns ac. s rss to feturn to his life of wanton slaueh- ter The unusual eonsidsration with
 which he was treated by the. govern clation. suiien. revsnseful cruel ana savage he remained to the end. He was the last of his kind, the sole sur riors Of the American continent. and his passing marke the close of the most stirring chapter tn the annals of West ern frontier life.
 The picture General Miles draws Of this Indians character and deeds Is too horrible to repeat. but The Journal says enough In the above extract to give us fair idea of the man. He hated the entire white race with. a hatred that knew no bounds and no. cessation. and he showed that hatred on all occasions. not only by slaugh- tering them in battle but by such tor lures inflicted on the hapless ones who fell into his hands as would seem im- possible for any being In human form. We doubt if the entire history of the Indian race in Amefics can furnish the name of one more absolutely devoid of humanity than Geronimo. He not only tortured as a matter of revenge but for the mere love of torturing.
 In contemplating the character of this savage who has gone. as he would have expressed 1t, to the happy hunt ing grounds of his race. we must not forget that his acts sprung from what he regarded as patriotism. He felt that his people had just cause of conn plaint and enmity against our govern ment and the American people for what he. from his viewpoint. regarded as unjust and oppressive treatment He believed that our government did not deal fairly with the Indians, and there was ground for that belief. He felt that the whites did not treat his race fairly when they crowded them out of what the Indians considered their own country. where they were born and reared. and which they looked on as their own. Were not the red men to some extent justified in believing that they had been unJustly and un- fairly treated?
 We are not arguing that these things justified the absolute inhumanity of Geronimo. If he had contented him. self with open war against his white foes we could regard his conduct with tolerance, but there can be no excuse for his cruel treatment of helpless victims who fell into his power. That was exaggerated savagery, carried to e point for which there can be no excuse or defense. As captive he was for a time a prisoner at Mount Vernon. above Mobile. and there, as well as at other places where he was a pris- oner, he conducted himself with all | the stoicism of his race, submitting to the inevitable. but abating not one jOt of his hatred of the whites. He has gone to join the long line of In- dian chiefs who have contended | against the superior race. and while we condemn his brutal acts let us not forget that he loved his people.