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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
romorrow-Romance of Real Estate
The Truth of It.

Washington Post.
 For many weeks some of the South- ern newspapers, extending all the way from The Norfolk Landmark to che Houston Post, have engaged in fierces vehement and turbulent quarrel over the vexed culinary problem as to what is a johnny cake, and as to the name of the lady who put the kettle on" One asserted that the johnny cake was made of flour, and The Hous- ton Post comes along to sustain him. and asserts that the cake got it's tit:e from a North Carolina family by the name of Jonney, as flat COCK and bull story as ever was narrated.
 Your johnny cake is made of water ground white corn meal. kneaded into dough with cold water fresh from the spring. It is spread on a smooth board cut from a white hickory tree and thoroughly seasoned. This is set be: coals and allowed to toast till as brown as a berry, when it Is turned and toast ed on the other side. Eaten with nice sparerib that has been toasted before the same fire. suspended by a string from the mantelptece, the tommy cake Is to pone as planked shad to baked shad, which is to say it is luxlry.
 As for the lady who put the kettle any one of the others our Southern brethren insist she was in their out landish dogerel. Here is the true ren dition, and 1t is real poetry, as any cul- ttvated taste will discover on the inc stant:
 Jenny put the kettle on, Jenny put the
 kettle on,
 Jenny put the kettle on. we'll all take
 tea.
 Cut your bread and butter fine, Cut enough for eight or nine. Choose the one you love the best And buss him on the jaw.
 That Is not only poetry, but it is ec- stacy when the game is played among pious folk who frown on dancing, There is Jenny in the middle of the floor, surrounded by young people, boys and girls. hands round, from 16 to 20. singing that poetry 10 tuneful air, and with the melody and the kiss ing 1t beats dancing all hollow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Trial By Fire.

New York World.
 Mr. Taft has not yet had his trial by fire. That will come when tariff revision reaches a stage at which he can no longer keep silent but must ac- cept his responsibilities as the leader of the Republican party Secretary MacVeagh admitted in his Chicago Chicago speech Saturday that there would have to be the kind of tariff re- vision that would satisfy the people o1 the Middle West. If they are not satisfied" he said, then the tarif ques- tion will unfortunately not be out of the way and we will not have rest" Yet only a few hours before MT. Taft's Secretary of the Treasury made this speech, the Middle Western Senators who have been fighting for a reduction of duties were routed by Senator Ald- rich in the struggle over the cotton little practical help from MT, Taft in trying to carry out MT. Taft's own pledges,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
SCHOOL pIsCIPLINE.

SOhle weeks ago The Advertiser had an editorial, partly reminiscent, on the subject of whipping in school in which the general position was taken that there are times when it is neces- sary for teachers to inflict corporal punishment on the pupils The Nor folk Landmark a few days ago copied the editorial and commented as fol- lows:
 Where does the parent come in? Has tne parent no rights when we come tH tH the 9uestlon of what is best for
 Of course. if parents are unfit to nave nave control of their children, if par the children are admittedly incorrigi- 6le. we have special cases to deal with requiring the State to assume special standing, who profess their ability to attend to their own family affairs. are not to be set aside in considering what Is best for the boy.
 Some parents are willing for their boys to be corporally admopished in school, admitting the need. Other parents are not willing; and as a mat one person in a hundred Is fit to en- trust with arbitrary power to admin ister bodily chastisement to other peo- ple's children.
 We'll, "where does the parent come in?" sure enough. It is impossible for all parents to know at all times when child deserves punishment at school, or what degree of punishment should be inflicted. On the other hand it seems plain to us that it would simply be impossible for the teacher to pre- serve proper discipline in school if he left 1t to parents to punish disobedient and unruly pupils. To quote further from The Landmark:
 of the interesting editorial from which we have quoted is that there are extremes both ways, and that the teacher who can find and practice the may be true, but 1t does not answer the broader question at issue-which is whether the average teacher is bet ter or worse for being trusted with the power of corporal punishment
 The Virginia School Journal, pub lished under the authority of the De- torially agrees with The Landmark that this power does more harm than good Certainly the wishes of respect able parents should be respected as to 
 that a few children have to be expelled from school, so be it.
 All that is arguing along the same line. The teacher is not to punish un- less the parents give leave. In other words, whenever a pupil deserves cor poral discipline the teacher is to re- port the fact to the parents. They, in turn, must either do the chastising or notify the teacher that he is au- thorized, empowered and duly depu- tized to apply the birch. In our judg- ment such a system. if generally prac- ticed, would be highly detrimental to the cause of education. In short, we insist that there are occasions, though they may be rare. when the teacher should infllct needed punishment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
"Pocnhontnsn In England.

I4On0On ONTOnlCIt.
 May carnival of a particularly in- Sedgeford. in West Norfolk, on Thurs day next The chief item will be the presentation of pageant play, "Poca- hontas." written by MT. Holcombe In gleby and given under his direction on the hillside The play Is framed on the historic story of the romantic love affair of John Rolfe, a Heacham colo mist in Virginia in the earliest years of the seventeenth century, with Pc cahontas. the beautiful daughter of the Indian Chief PoWhatan Rolfe was condemned 10 die, but Pocahontas sue cessfully interceded on his behalf He afterwarl brought her to England and made ner his wife, and she died at Greenwich.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
The Mad pags.

Chicago Post.
 reminiscent touch of the mad. wild ways of our younger days was given Chicago yesterday when City Frost is- sued public warnings against the planting of dense shrubbery along park ways because of its use as a pace of concealment by holdup men," And won't the Indians use it, too? Will not the savage Pottawattomies am- bush us on our way downtown if we permit anything larger than a violet to grow along our defenseless boule- yards And how about the trees which the wilde beeste and the banderlog take pot shots at us from their leafy bran ches? Evidently the public safety de- within the city walls shall be torn out a once. Either that, or we'll all have to carry firerms, as we did when Capt. Whistler held sway over old Fort Dearborn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

Pike county, inspired by the splen- did example of Montgomery county is doing more than amy other Middle
 labama county with the possible eA- ception of Dallas. to secure d first class system of good roads. Montgomery has wasted but little time in talking about good roads It went 10 work and built them. built nearly as many
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
The Conquest of the Tropics For The
 White Race.

White Race.
 Meiical Record.
 Col W. c. Gorgas, U. s. A, of Ancon. Canal Zone. in his presidents address to the American Medical Association urges a continuance Of the associa- tion's energy in examining medicinal preparations and influencing sanitary legislation. and recommended that steps 9a be taken to tq the ereSf medca n ocers n Doth armies in the Civil War. The sub ject of his address is the sanitary work at Panama. It has has been proved that the female anopheies mosquito IS malaria anl the work in Panama has been directed to killing the mosquito. Destruction of the breeding places Is carried on by draining. especially by subsoil tilling and concrete ditches or the use of petroleum and phinotas oil. The brush Is cleared for one hundred yards from the houses. Colon, a town rendered practically mosquito free by draining. All houses are screened. especially the galleries. All employees are urged to take three grains of spector and seventeen district inspec- tors who carry out these measures. A complete record of the cases of malaria in each district is kept and the sani- tary work regulated accordingly. The maiarial rate at Panama has droppe from S31 per 1000 in 1908 to 2S2 In 1908. and tbe death, rate from 7.46 to 1.S4 per 1000 The general death rate has changed from 65.41 per 1000 in 1905 to 24.s3 in 1908; in the Canal Zone from 31.6O in 1907 to 1895 in 1908; among government employees from 41.37 in 1906 to 1901 in 1908 Among Amer ican men in 1908 1t was 7.69 per 1000. and among women and children 972 This rate is no higher than in the United States. Tropical debility is due largely to malaria. With the modern knowledge of sanitation the tropics will soon become as habitable by the white men as the temperate zone. The cost of protection from malaria ani yellow fever in the tropics is no greater than the cost of protection against cold in the North. To future generations the building of the Panama canal will be known less as engineer ing enterprise than as the first demon stration of the habitability of the topics by the Caucasian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

The editor of The Marion Standard was one of the first men in the State to speak out against the dangers of the campaign of hysteria and denuny citation in Alabama and predict the evil results which were as certain to follow as the night follows the day. Because of this much of the loud mouth denunciation which character ized that campaign beat about his de- voted head. Now Editor Greer sits back and says: q told you so."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

The Birmingham Ledger earnestly prays the Legislature to create no new office at the extra session. In the first two sessions the Legislature broke all records in the matter of es- tabiishng new offices and raising sala- ries. and stnl there are a number of original rate reform" patriots who have not been taken care of Are the peepul" to be deprived of the fruits Of their victory?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

as the people could use and built them so well that they will endure indeh- nitely. It's example has done more for good roads in this section of Ala bama than much preaching and much agitation and much spreading of printers ink could have done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

The Washington correspondents have sent out dispatches declaring Senator Aldrich in command" Has anybody doubted it or doubted the loyalty of his "one for all and all for one" fol- lowing?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
gxUoyx VACCINATION.

The figures for May printed D r.,urns resent the actual net cireulAuons ~A
 having been deducted. ..rtss. its
 The Nontsomery Advertiser guar .ss ,on- advertisers (and makes 1t . part ot e,rclI- tract when reQuestedl that its oaiy .ninr iation is iarges than that of any I ,p .t i,s newspaper printed ii. AiaeamA-anHa. 0a.c,,Ist lion Sunday edition has ;~s largest elr,s sn of any edition of any newspaper prlhseo .A Alabama, without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Rich Girl in Plain Dress. Yellington, O.. Special to New York

World.
 Miss Harriet Walker a wealthy mem Der of the younger society set. astounl- ed her class when she appeared for High School graduation in a calico gown. D. P. Wells. her wealthy uncle. does not believe in women wearing elaborate gowns. and, more to satisfy him than to win the $50 which N" Wells gave his niece, she at his reqr agreed to wear calico
 My object" said MT. Wells begin a campaign for nor gowns at commencemen' Too many poor people g. lively large sums on everyone could afford would be all right
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

Last Friday, if we mistake not. was the ninety-fourth anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. where Wellington and Napoleon did some stunts of the kind that go 10 make history. They are both dead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

Senator Gore, of Oklahoma. is blind, but he can come about as near seeing through a millstone as any of them. It is also evident that he can see through some of his colleagues.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

"oh, what is so rare as a day in June?" asked the poet, with some in- consequence. If he had asked What is so rare as fair day in June?" we would give 1t up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

duties on steel and iron. It could weep like crocodile. or like the Thane de- ploring war or hearing that his offer U buy the Philippines had been re- fused. It had saltatory limbs. on which 1t danced the Hiefand fling, and onemial crests with the motto T get All There Is." 1t was a brother of the ostrich, that delicate and diplomatic bird Sometimes 1t wore 8 horn and blew 1t so that the eternal hills had gooseflesh and the citaJels of protec- ton had to be propped up. often its
 prominent feature was the size of its head" tdinosaurus megalomaniacus). It was as much, at home and just as popular on water as on land. It usual ly crept, but sometimes stood on Its hind legs, and it had prehensile claws. even on it's toes. Like that of the pterosaurians, its character was rep tilian. and yet In many respects 1t was
 "a bird. 1t was carnivore ani q vegetarian, presumably eating grass for the sake of dying poor.
 In short the Dipiodocus. if we may judge by it's brothers and sisters, was a gifted and unusual being, suffered to grow up in those wild Jurassic ages that in the fullness of time 1t might be a memento and memorial of another unusual and gifted being in the hearts. the courts and the musuems of Europe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

When they get through with the tarin the congressman will be entitled to a long rest-and so will the coun- try.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
A NIercenarr sentIment.

" TTCUA bdWIVI-
 No more precious offering can be laid on the altar of a mans heart than the first love of an honest affectionate girl with an undivided interest In q Pine Barren nlanta tinn that does not overflow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Not a Mystery.

St. Paul Dispatch.
 II is not difficult to understand why the Doctor of Laws" degree has bern conferred upon so many United States senators.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

Is the weather trying of late to compensate us for the dryness sup posed to be prevalent under prohIhi- tion?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Value of . Hotel.

New York Sun.
 The woman who had left her own comfortable apartment to camp out for two days in a dollar room of a down town hotel was asked to explain her absence.
 T went there." she said. 50 could get fancy blouse and a lace and chif- ion skirt cleaned in hurry I needed fine feathers for a special occasion. l had neither the time nor the money to buy anything new that would be good enough and 1t would have been impos- sfble to get my old clothes home from less than week. But the hotel clean CT helped me out of the difficulty The clothes of transients are hurried through in those places in double hotel I became a transient and my gown was renovated in two days for the sum of $5, including my room rent"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

c. l. Finigan, Circuiation Manager of The Nontgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: r, s The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month or May. 1908, is true and correct and complied aIter spoiled and left over copies have been de- Auetpd c. I. FINIGAN,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22

wheat cost S10,000 and the annual crop is worth $50, 100000. Professor Hansen of the Department of Agriculture, spent six months in Russia and Siberia and returned with seed of the dry land alfalfa, which is now producing an- nually millions of dollars. of hay from lands regarded as worthless because the rainfall is insufficient for ordinary plant life. The Government claims that every day between darkness and dawn the cost of Professor Hansen's Journey is returned in forage produced on lands of that character.
 The Government spends $260,000 a year in buying seeds for distribution, which Is 1 per cent of the total seed bill of the country. Each Senator and Representative is entitled to send out annually 12,000 packages of vegetable and 500 of flower seeds, five varieties of each being placed in a package. The total number of single packets thus sent, with the number sent out by the department direct approximatcs 40,- O,0U0 These seeds are mostly bought from private firms under contract, and are shipped to Washington and packed by Government employees. Free seed distribution has continued since 1860 in the face of bitter attacks from many members of the Congress, and with unvarying opposition by the seed grow CTS and dealers.
 Of course. the great bulk of the grain. grass. and garden seed sown in this country is produced at home although one firm is said to import a million pounds of clover seed every year chiefly from Germany. Sweet corn seed comes from Maine, Nebraska and Kansas; lettuce seed from Cali fornia; bean seed from New York and | Michigan; raddish seed from the Pacific | coast: beet seed comes In largest quan-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
STRIKE
WILL END SOON
Perfect Calm Prevails Through
out Sweden.

Stockholm, Aug. 11.-Perfect calm
prevails throughout the country and
there are further evidences that the
general strike inaugurated a week ago
will result in failure. The Answer,
the organ of the trades unions, is the
only newspaper published in regular
form. The other journals have issued
small, hand printed editions.
Efforts are being made with some
success to improve the local street car
service and the street car employees
have called a meeting to consider a
proposal to return to work. The mer-
chants of Stockholm have announced
their intention of running their deliv-
cry wagons and it is expected that
the cab service will be resumed soon.
Foreign steamers are overcoming the
dock strike by bringing with them
their own stevedores.
There has been a big demonstra-
ton of 10000 strikers at Gothenburg.
In this city the labor leaders control
all the vehicles. Physicians requiring
an ambulance to remove a patient to
hospitals are referred by the police TO
labor headquarters.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
AFFECTING IMPORTS
FROM PHILIPPINES
Regulations Sent to All Co|Iec-
tors Of Customs.

Washington, Aug. 11.-Regulations
sent to all customs Offices for the adj
ministration of the Philippine section
of the new tariff law have been made
public by Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Reynolds. The regulations
are in the usual form except as they
relate to shipments Of tobacco, cigars
and sugar, which articles are admitted
free up to certain prescribed amounts
for each fiscal year.
To avoid abuse of the free entry
provision collectors Of customs are
required to report promptly to the
secretary of the treasury each free
entry of sugar, tobacco and cigars
granted, giving detailed marks and.
numbers and other facts needed for
the certain Identification of the ship
ments.
When the maximum quantities of
cigars, tobacco and sugar admitted to-
free entry in any fiscal year have been
reached all collectors will be informed
by telegraph. The fact also will be
cabled to representatives in the Phil
ippines. Any shipments en- route when
the maximum has been reached and
which arrive thereafter will have to
pay the full duty or be returned to
the country of origin or diverted to
some other country.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
NEGOTIATIONS ARE STILL ON
Efforts to Avert Threatened Street
Car Strike at Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-Union officials
and the heads of the Chicago street
railway companies conferred again
over the differences on the wage scale
of the employees.
In the opinion of the leaders on both
sides the tentative propositions Of
fered by the railway officials looking
to a gradual advance in the wage
scale will be a working basis for the
drafting of an agreement satisfactory
to both the men and the employers.
Through the medium of Walter L.
Fisher, special traction attorney, the
city is taking an active part in the
peace negotiations, being a recipient
Of IS per cent of the net profits of
the street railways under the fran
chise ordinances recently adopted.
The negotiations, whether successful
or not, will probably continue for sew
eral days before definite results are
reached.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
MRS. CASTLE TO Be TRIED
Magistrate Declares Case Will Not Be
Dismissed.

Magistrate Declares Case Will Not Be
Dismissed.
New York, Aug. 1.-THE charge Of
%felonious assault against Mary Scott
Castle Of California for shooting at
and slightly wounding William B.
Craig. a New York lawyer, will be
pressed even II Mr.. Craig should
agree to withdraw his complaint.
Magistrate Butts, before whom Mrs.
Castle was arraigned and held in 3d.
900 bail, declared that there was no
warrant for the circulation Of rumors
that the case would be settled out Of
court; that Mr.. Craig has shown no
disposition to settle 1t and had no
right to do so.
mo district attorney nor Judge in
this county can condcne any crime
committed" said the magistrate.
There Is no law for defendants in
high society that does not apply to
persons not in high society,""
Bail was furnished for Mrs. Castle
pending a hearing Of her case.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
CLOSE FIGHTF FOR COMMANDER
Contest viii Continue Until 8ailots
Are Cast.

Salt Lake City, Aug. 11.-Active
campaigning by the candidates for
commander-in-chief of the g. A. R.
and by the committees representing
Atlantic City and st. Louis for the
1910 encampment continues.
A systematic canvass Of the delega-
lions indicates that Atlantic City will
win the encampment and the open
supporters of 8. R. Van SAINT for COM
mander-in-chfef are most in evidence.
Those who are backing w. A.
Ketcham of Indianapolis express CON
fidence that they will win, however,
and this contest promises to be strong
until the ballots are cast
Reports from the railroads on ar
Nvals show that from points outside.
the state there are $4,000 In attend
ance at the encampment.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-13
ZEPPELIN IMPROVING
Report Of HE Death Wholly Withou.
Foundation.

Berlin, Aug. 1.-THE rumor EN-
anating from London that Count Yep.
pelin, the inventor of the dirigible bal
loon which bears his name, had died
- without foundation. He is not only
living, but he is quickly recovering
from the effects of the minor opera
tlon for an abscess on his neck.