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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

by distributing the surplus at once and reducing taxes instanter
 It 10 patriotic and popular to relieve the struggling masses of burdens, and they are more than likely to record their appreciation In the primary.
 Also, 1t savts the aspiring candidate good money. for. some voters are grate- full for favors and will vote for the man who lessens taxes. reduces offices, cuts down salaries (the shining vir- tues of our present chitf Magistrate) even if his opponent offers 6 dollar or perhaps a dollar and half or may be SO two dollars" The higher order or upper ten". understand can't be purchased for less than three dollars (unless the polls are about to be closed.)
 By the way. the Extra Session should make the price of votes uni- form, throughout the State. Equality of Citizenship must not be neglected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

Puck.
 The slums are inhabited by people who have nothing to trust in but Providence. The slums are preyed on by poverty. char itable organizations and settlement workers. They furnish literary workers with subjects, doctors with diseases and preachers with texts. If they did not exist we should never know how well off we are. We therefore take care that they are well kept up.
 Ladies who are dissatisfied with their own condition invariably go stunning. The contrast affords them a secret consciousness of their own good fortune.
 The slums contain so much misery that they could only be created by a constant effort on the part of the most intelligent people. As 1t ia. the best minds contribute toward their success. Rulers make wars. statesmen conspire and financiers plunder
 We get from the slums sociology. biology. pathology and bacteriology. We give in re- turn the swift kick of contempt,
 We could not get along without the slums. They furnish us with too many moral texts. and if we do not live for the purpose of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

St. Louis Times.
 Col Tom L. Johnson, 72S North Taylor avenue. retired from the Missouri Naval re- serves with the title of lieutenant and pay master, received nice birthday present from Governor Hadley.
 On the sixty-third anniversary of his birth Tuesday he was notified that he had been appointed state hotel inspector.
 once a year he. or one of the four depu- ties whom he win appoint. will measure the sheets and inspect the hotels generally. He draws s2,O00 0 year and his deputies S10O a month each.
 Besides the adequacy of bed covers. the hotel regulation WIN include sanitetion. quality of towels, plumbing and fire proteo- ton.
 The new law becomes effective August I6 and as soon as Colonel Johnson can establish his offices. probably in Jefferson City, he will appoint his deputies and get down to business. The cost of the inspec- -tion will be S6 for twenty rooms or fewer. SiO for twenty to fifty rooms and S25 for more than fifty rooms.
 Thirty days win be given hotel proprle-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25
Forestry in WashingtOn'S Day

tivating. and cutting live oak for the navy That timber was then consid- cred indispensable in building war yes sels. Much had been said and written of the danger of exhaustion of supply. Settlers destroyed the timber to clear land, and European nations were buy ing large quantities for their naVfes In response to repeated warnings, the government finally took steps to grow timber for its own use.
 Young oaks were planted on the San
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

set apart as a reserve. In 1925, Con- gress appropriated $10.000 to buy ad- ditional live oak land on. Santa Rosa Sound, Western Florida. and subse- quentIy other Florida timberlands, ag- gregating 203,224 acres. were reserved.
 Up to that time nothing more had been done than to buy or reserve land for timber growing naturally upon it; but the work was to be carried further upon the Santa Rosa purchase. The plan included planting. protecting, cul-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

ta Rosa lands. Difficulty was experi- enced in inducing young trees to grow. The successful transplanting of tho oak Is not easy. unless done at the proper time and in the right way. The plantations at Santa Rosa were gener- ally unsuccessful; but large quantities of acorns were planted, and a fair pro- portion of them grew. But the chief efforts were directed to pruning, train ing. and caring for the wild trees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

Thlckets about them were cut away to let in air and light.
 What the ultimate success of the forestry work would have been can not be told. The civil war brought 8 complete change in war vessels by sub- stituting iron for wood. Forestry work stopped. The timber reserves were neglected. Squatters occupied the land After a number of years all the reserves. except some of the Floriaa land were opened to settlement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

States. a recommendation came to him that the government ought to buy live oak islands on the coast of Georgia to make sure of a supply of ship timber for war vessels. The idea appears to have originated with Joshua Humph- reys, whose official title was Con structor of the United States Navy" al- though about the only navy then ex- isting was made up of six ships on paper. and not one stick of timber to build them had yet been cut. The ves-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

When did the United States begin the practice of forestry? Few persons can answer this question correctly. Most people are of the opinion that the be- ginning of forestry in this country was of very recent origin. and that the first step in that direction was taken among the mountains of the Far west. Neither fact is correct.
 While Washington was serving ms first term as President of the United
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

Dog collars of velvet are sspeclally pretty when embroidered In tiny badS and flowers or a spray of foliage, in' natural colors. Worn with summer dresses, they arc smart and stylish ter's frock of pique is to scallOp the opening down the front from the neck ton will fasten through each scallop, to nwiIl fasten through each scaliops keeping the flap quite In place
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

sels were designed to fight the North African pirates.
 Five years after the rccommenda- tion was made Congress appropriated money to buy live oak land. Grover and Black beard Islands on the coast of Georgia were bought for $22.500. They contained 1850 acres.
 Louisiana was bought soon after. and in 1917 the Six Islands. of 19.000 acres. and containing 37.000 live oak trees, were withdrawn from sale and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

tors to conform to the law, after which they will be liable to a fine of $1 or $laQ or Imprisonment of rom ten days to three
 monthR. or both.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25
Some People Do Think So.

The Advertiser should remain very quiet while the law-makers are In the city, for what right has she to an opin- ion7 None at ali, and she should either fine de gang or dry up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25

There is revival of the ear pendent elaborates
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25
Price of Land in the South
The 'sIunns.

stand an even break with the South fl securing the migrating farmer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-25
WIn Meaaurs the sheets.

preaching on moral texts. what are we her for?
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-04
'The0neHOrnedCOw'

Copyright, 1908, by T. C. Mcclure
 Deacon Henderson was a meek man who had married a shrew. Cows trou- bled the deacon's wife. There was one cow in particular that the deacon always treated with the utmost ten derness and that his wife, per contra, always thirsted to kill on the spot This was a one horned COW belonging to the Widow Glenn, in the village. At some stage in her COW career some one had knocked her right horn off in treating her as a trespasser. The dea- cons wife wanted to maim or kill that COW because the bovine had but the one horn and because she belonged to a widow that had once wondered how the deacon could possibly stand it to live with such wife. It thus came about that there were mornings when the one horned COW came home with imp and dejected attitude and other mornings when she came home with head and tail in the air and believing that life was worth the living It all depended on whether the deacon or his Wife got up first and found her tres passing.
 The one horned COW had been what might be called fixture for two years oefore the deacon's wife died. The conduct of the COW and the deacOn's Vile had divided the sentiment of the community. There were the cow par ly ana the anti-cow party, and both of them were provided with powerful ar Sunents to sustain their positions. The wire was several days in dying. When She mad given directions about all oth- CT things. even to having the barrel of solt soap moved to shady spot, she sad to her husband:
 And now. Job, I want to talk about .hat one horned COW. hoped to live lohg enough to kill her, but Provi- dence has ordered otherwise. I 20. ana she stays, but want you to prom ise 10 make it hot for her. Knock off her other horn. Break her neck. Spare ner not. Have no further mercy on Ter because she is the COW of q wid- o". l can't die easy unless you prom ,se me. You will probably find her in tue cornheld the day of my funeral non mind me- but get out and go for tue COW, Chase her ten times around 'ne lot and break both her hind legs"
 It was against the grain, but the ueacon wiped the tears from his eyes ane promised, and 1t is due him to say .nat Tor month after the funeral he r,u hls best to carry out the promises. ne didn't find the COW trespasslng
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-04

every morning when he turned out of bed. She put in some of her nights elsewhere When he did find her he clubbed and stoned and raised bumps and Jumps on various parts of her body. There came a day, however. when he let up on this. The one horn- cd COW looked at him so mournfully and responsibility that he couldn't throw another rock. She seemed to beg and appeal to him to give her a show, and he simply pulled up a tall cornstalk by the roots and used 1t as gad to drive her to the highway. For the next two months the one horned COW lived on the fat of the land and exulted over other cows with more horns. Then Deacon Henderson found himself in quandary between his dead wife and the living COW. He had made certain promises to dying wo- man. He had failed to break that cows neck Instead of so doing he was treating her with all love and gentleness. This fact began to worry the good man. He grew thin over 1t, and he was yet undecided when the minister of his church called one aft ernoon. Here was the opportunity to unburden himself, and it was taken advantage of The minister heard him through without a word and then said:
 "I am surprised that Sister Tender son carried such feeling to the grave with her. wish you had not prom ised what you did, and yet it would be unnatural for you to carry out those promises You have probably tried to break that cows neckW
 "For three or four weeks l tried my best" was the answer.
 "You didn't even succeed in knock ing the other horn off?'
 "No. It's there yet"
 And you broke none of her legs"
 "Not leg"
 "Well, then, you have tried and fail ed. It is not ycur fault that you have failed, but you had better stop right there Something is owing to COWS as we'll as to the departed. On the other hand, the Widow Glenn, knowing that her one horned COW is a botheration and a damage to you, has no right to let her run at large and to be defiant about 1t. Neither can she reasonably expect that you will continue to treat her animal with the mercy and tender ness you do."
 But there ought to be some way nnt nf "a tho doaoop
 "Yes. there ought. Suppose you were to call on the widow and talk things over in friendly way"
 "But she might turn me outdoors"
 'T will see her first. think you will find her gentle and amiable. Yes. l am sure you will"
 A month later the deacon called. The
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-04

one horned COW was discussed from the tip of her one horn to the tip of her ragged tail, but without acrimony. SIX months after that as the couple drove up to the house after a visit to the preachers that made them man and wife, the old COW was at the gate to greet them.
 What are we going to do with her" asked the deacon.
 Have her in the beef barrel afore tomorrow night" answered the bride. We ain't a-going to take no chances on a one horned COW bringing us to- Sether and then hooking us apart"
 NJ. QUAD.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-04

On account of Mardi Gras the Iron Mountain will sell tickets to New Orleans and return for $14 35, Tickets on sale Febru- ary IT to 22; good returning March 1st. But passengers by de- posting their tickets with the agent at New Orleans, and S1OO may have tickets extended to March 13.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
Cost of Running
American Cities;
How Cash is Spent
New York Pays Most Per Capita for
Police Protection and Lincoln,
Neb., the Least.

WASHINGTON, Dec. E.-If the 1s
largest cities OF the United States were to
merge themselves into one great corpora-
ton they would need a working capital
Of 81. go. 100000, or just about the equivalent
Of the capital stock OF the United states
Steel corporation turned into hard cash.
The census bureau has made a very
elaborate Investigation on what It costs to
run our municipalities, how the money Is
spent and who gets Il. The net amounts
sTent on public works and departments or
collected from taxes or other sources Of
revenue composed about IS per cent OF the
total transactions for 1907. The remaining
a per cent was spent incidental to the
conduct of the city's business or in trans
actions where the city acted merely as a
fiscal agent, as in the collection of revenue
for the state or county.
To maintain the departments OF city gov
eminent is 36 per cent OF the total cost.
During 1907 the l5S cities enumerated col
lected nearly $500, 900. 600 in their own
revenues. and then borrowed more than
800. OOO, 900 for improvements But an Amer
lean city as a collective institution is far
from a bankrupt. During 1907. after paying
all maintenance and operation and interest
upon debt, the cities of the United States
1870 0AHSAs ~ NA--tsNorNNN " push f
work.
1t costs more than S103. 600. 900 a year to
protect life and property; it costs more
than S37, 900, 600 for sanitation and the
preservation of health; the leading item
Of $1O9, 100000 is for education. and for
recreation we spend least Of all. a little
more than So, 100000
1t costs s3.S1 per capita in New York to
maintain the police force and it only costs
~ cents in Oshkosh. 1t costs 1912 in Wash
ington and it only costs a cents in Lin
coin, Neb.
1t only costs 40 cents per capita TO main
tain the fire department in Newport, KY,
and il costs A cents In Harrisburg. Pa,
but it costs $3.50 in Atlantic City.
The tendency Of municipal ownership
shows itself in some directions. OF these
l5s cities 11s own and operate their own
water plants. Only seventy-six of them
ovn their own market places.
In summing up the cost Of all the items
Of city government it appears that interest
upon borrowed money makes almost as
great a showing per capita as any other
item. 1t averages 1904 per capita and goes
up as the size of the cities increase.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
G0THAM'S DEBT SEVEN TIMES
AS LARGE AS ANY OTHER CITY
Has Nearly Forty Per Cent Of Indebt-
edness of All Cities of More
Than 10000.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-New York
City's total Indebtedness for the fiscal
year of 1907 was more tina seven times
that of any other city in the United States
and more than one-half of the total Of
the twenty-seven largest cities as figured
out by the census bureau. OF the total net
Indebtedness of the 15s cities of more than
$1,000 population, New York City is credited
with 1872 per cent. the per capita being
S142.52 The other cities with over 500 were:
Cincinnati, s123.s5; Boston, S12O37; Calves
ton, s115.7S; Pueblo, S10s.23 and Newton,
Mass. $lO5.S3. OF the cities over 300, 900, San
Francisco had by far the smallest net debt
and Detroit with s23.75 per capita, next to
the smallest.
The increase in the net debt for the fiscal
year Of 1907 was $40. $50, 631, more than
three-fourths Of which was redited to the
fifteen largest cities. The only city Of less
HI 800, 600 inhabitants having an increase
of more than 100000 was Seattle, Wash,
whose net debt increased Sc, 791, 07S. Several
cities decreased their net Indebtedness dur
ing the year. the largest of them being ST.
Louis, San Francisco, Washington, In
~dianapolis and Kansas City.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
Emergency Buzz
Car Ordered for
Police Station
Fire and Police Board Provides Three
New misunderstanding Lii
cense Revoked.

The Board OF Fire and Police Commits
sioners at its regular meeting last even
ing decided to buy an emergency auto of
the Interstate type for the police depart
ment, making three new automobiles TO be
within the next two months.
The bid OF the w. L. Hoffman Automobile
company to furnish an emergency auto
for 2,45S.So was accepted and the secre-
tary was authorized to enter into a con-
tract 1t will be a forty-horse-power car
and an early delivery is specified.
A resolution was offered by C. ]. Kar-
bach that the emergency car be paid for
out Of the regular police fund for LO9
and that the balance of $3.50 remaining
in the special appropriation OF $500 made
by the council for replenishing the police
departments rolling stock be returned to
the city.
The liquor license Of p. H. PhIIbin, pro-
prietor OF the Schlitz hotel bar, against
whom a conviction for violating the s
o'clock closing law was secured in police
court Tuesday, was ordered revoked, TAX
ing immediate effect
Chief reported there are many
districts Of the city without police pro-
lection and suggested hat ways and means
be discussed to relieve the situation. The
matter was referred to committee OF the
whole.
Police Officer Reedy. who lost his foot
as the result Of freezing a toe while on
duty and who has been drawing full pay
for some months, will be placed on the
pension list January l. until such time as
be is able 70 resume his duties on the
force.
A communication was read from City De
tectiye NJ ]. sullivan. expressing his APP
probation and thanks for the generous
treatment accorded him during the time
he was laid up as the result OF being shot
two months ago. Routine business occu-
pied the attention Of the board. which then
adjourned until Wednesday evening. when
IL viii again dslvs into liquor license pro
tests.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
Bryce Pays Tribute
to Gladstone
British Minister Speaks at Centen.
NAL Celebration of Birth of
Great Statesman.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-James Bryce. the
British ambassador, delivered to a large
audience in Carnegie hall last night an ad-
dress in commemoration of William e.
Gladstone, whose birth occurred 100 years
ago today. The meeting was arranged by
the Civic Forum, and a number of promi-
nent persons, including ]. P. Morgan, Jacob
H. schiff and Mrs. Russell Sage, were
present. Former Mayor Seth Low pre-
sided. A letter from President Taft regret.
ting that he could not attend was read.
Gladstone" wrote the president, has
been one Of my heroes"
Mr.. Bryce noted that the centennial
birthdays Of four illustrious men of Anglo
Saxon stock fell within the year 1909
T~ennyson, Darwin. Lincoln and Gladstone.
Gladstone had, he said, a boundless adj
miration for George Washington, whom,
In respect to his fidelity to freedom, he
placed far above Oliver Cromwell"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30

GRAND ISLAND-Charles Thompson was
arraigned before Judge Mullin today on the
Tommy Ryan of Wood River in the latter
village Friday night, and a continuance Of
thirty days having been granted, was re-
leased under bond OF 5000, furnished by
w. T. Spells, the well known Wood River
nursery man and W. s. Thompson, brother
Of the defendant.
GRAND ISLAND-A meeting OF the exc
cutive committee OF the Nebraska State
Press association has been called for Lin
coin Saturday, January l. for the purpose
OF arranging a program for the next an
nual state convention 70 be held at Lincoln.
and also to fix the date. Tit members of
the executive committee are: N. ]. Ludi,
Wahoo, president; c.. c. Johns, Grand
Island; secretary; L. NJ. Warner, Sterling,
Lincoln and c. ]. Bowlby. Crete.
GRAND ISLAND-The members OF the
board OF directors OF the Grand Island
Chautauqua association met last night and
organized by the election OF Elmer VIII
ltanms, president OF the board and r j.
Barr, secretary. A program was decided
upon. Among the lecturers being such men
as senator Cummins OF Iowa Governor
Lenora M. Lake, Robert Seeds. ]. Adam
bede and others, and among the musical
attractions the Rounds Ladies orchestra,
chicago Grand Opera company, Ferguson's
Dixie jubilee singers and others. Twenty
per cent OF the capital stock OF the organ
ization will be paid in at once.
NEBRASKA CITY-The home Of Mr.
and MRS Lee Squtres, situated in the east
ern part OF the city was consumed by fire
The family was in Missouri spending the
holiday, and when the fire was discovered.
the home and its contents were beyond
aid. There was a small insurance on the
household goods.
NEBRASKA CITY-Herman Peggemeir
has brought suit in the county court aRainst
Marcus Sichl for $50 for frightening his
team with an and causing h
to run away.
NEBRASKA CITY-Harry e. Graves
editor Of the Union Ledger. was united IN
marriage today to Miss Jennie Z. MarIs
who resides with her parents near Union
The ceremony was performed by Rev. A
E. Perry OF this city. They will make their
home at Union, where the groom has been
editor OF the Ledger for a number OF years.
NEBRASKA CITY-Clarence Dunbar
SHlth or Dunbar was united In marriage to.
Jay 10 Miss Maria Christina Eden al ths
nome OF the brides parents near TalmaEe
me groom Is one OF the leading real estats
asAiers or this county and the young PEG,
home at Dunbar.
NEBRASKA CITY-Roy Burton and Ms,
Aiaud Rogers. both OF this city, were mar
their home here.
NEBRASKA CITY-The river has risen
over SIX feet az this polnt since il fross
oNer' put the Ice still holds firm. The ice
men are harvesting twelve 10 fourteen-incb
zee while on the ponds and lakes here
aoouts tho ice Is from sixteen 10 twent,
inches In thickness. There Is nearly twS
county. " Inn
CENTRAL CITY-FaninR ba.kuard 20,
a ladder and striking his head upon I
cement floor, Harry Owens suffered : -
we're accident at the Alfalfa meal mill NJ.
Jay afternoon The back Of his head wa
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
New TeIephone Zinc.

NELSON, Neb.. Dec. 29-(Special)-The
erection Of poles has begun for the install
lation Of a new telephone line between this
city and Superior, Neb, by the Lincoln
Telephone and Telegraph company. This
line will be open for telephone service
about the first Of next week. Superior will
then have long distance phone service to
all points east, via this line. in addition
to the present Bell line.
A line will also be put in at once between
this place and Edgar, Neb., by the same
company in order to open up that territory
to the long distance service of this COM
pany.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30

Council Bluffs. 1890, W
Updlke Milling Co. Omaha
Gentlemen have tried your Pride
Of omaha" flour and find Il TO be the
very best flour 1 have ever used. I can
not speak too highly OF It. This little
piece OF verse came to my miud as l
saw the hurrying crowd Saturday even
ing on the streets.
Hoping you can make use OF Il and
assuring you that / win always be a
user Of Pride Of Omaha" / am,
Respectfully.
MRS. c. W. MULLIs,
733 Avenue f. Council Bluffs.
Madam, whittier dost thou hurry9
To the grocery store, she said,
To buy a sack OF "updike's Best"
Because Il makes rood bread.
The Pride Of Omaha" you know,
II sold By all the dealers.
we like Il the best because It's far
above the test.
OF the pure food rulers.