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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

Macabee .who mas just celebrated his tooth birthday anniversary at the United States Naval Home. Philadei- phia. Ills records show that he was born in Baltimore Sept. 22, 1903, which was in the first administration of Thomas Jefferson. Shortly after the war of 1872 he enlisted as cabin boy on the old frigate Constitution, and this fact alone establishes his great age, since he was but II years old when our second war with Great Britain closed. He was promoted to the rank of able seaman on the Con- stttution. remaining in active service in the navy throughout the Civil War, and until his age. compelled. his, going upon the retired list. since when ne has. remained In the Naval Home On his hundredth birthday anniversary he was visited by Secretary of the Navy (now Justice) Moody. accompanied by a delegation of naval officers of high rank. and upon that monentous event he said he would be lone Of the crew. for some time. to come
 The last remaining veterans of all four wars have passed the century mark, Daniel. F. Balseman, the final survivor of the Revolutionary War. died at Freedom. Cattaraugus County, New York. April 5; 1869, aged 109 years. months and 8 days, and Hiram Crook of Ava. N. r.. the last surviving pensioned soldier of the War of 1872. was 106 years and 16 days old when finally mustered out by the Great Com- mander on May 13, 1905.
 Saw Our Four Great Wears.
 Bakeman. who Is remembered by
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

The first German magazine for wom en was a weekly publication that ap- peared in 1725 and continued for two years. It was not only primarily in- tended for women. but also purportea to be written by women with the eu- phonism noms de plume of Iris. Phyllis. and Calliste, says The New York Post. This was, however. a fiction easily paralleIed in our modern womens pe- riodicais, for the editor was man. and no less a man than Gottsched, the re- Rormer of poetry and speech. The well Fare of the far sex was of vital inter est to him. Moreover. he was man
 who read the signs of the times, ana issued his magazine at period wilson the woman question" which was then chiefly a matter of woman's nigner education, was In the foreground. The English weekiies were just oeginning to be copied, and the very name, though translated into the feminine. shows the source of inspiration for German edi- tors. since 1t was called Die vernunfti- zen Tadlertnnen," which we might render. although without the indication of feminine authorship, as The Sensi- ble Censurers.
 Comparisons with this perienicai n regard to it's aims and its contents are fruitfui and suggestive. It was not filled with fashion plates and directions for sewing. nor did its pages offer eith- CT practical or unreasonable recipes. It rave no attention to the proper care or furniture and woodwork. had no beau ty page, and aroused no false hopes as to the profits to be derived from vegetable garden. No. Its purpose was moi at all materialistic. but moral also hefensive. the object being "the en- couragement of the female sex towards the improvement of their intellects. and "the defence of our honor against un- reasonable despisers of women" With nj there is nothing favoring or blue
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

became the teacher of a school In theA Green Mountains at IT. and at 20 mar rfed Noah Damon, a. Revolutionary War veteran of '76. Their wedding took place Sept. 6. 1Ss4-two years before the Mexican War. It Is related that Damon was possessed of $16.50 at the time. and that he married in bor- rowed elothes. After living from hand to mouth for three years. the tli-matched people separated. Damon going to live
 with daughter. at whose house he
 died two years later at the age of
 s1. Until his death. however, htn
 faithful wife clothed him out Of her, rneagre income. During the remainder
 of her life---as long as her stren9fhi held out--she earned her living by sewing for a tailor and nursing the sick. Her first pension was but $50 year, which was increased to Sfz per month. For some good reason she remained true to the mefaory of her aged husband and refused number ofi subsequent offers of marriage, When, she died. Nov. II, 1908, she was in her, 9Srd year. From her husbands birth in I75s until her death was a span of 147 years. or what science calls i've generations. This period covered every stage of our history, includinxt seventeen years under the colonial re- gime. the entire period under the Son-l tinental Congress and the subseuuent epocns of our national growth undert all of our Presidents. save Mr. Taft. !
 About 400 widows of the War of f1sI3 veterans survive. They are dying ofc very fast. 1.742 having been upon tha pension rolls sn 1900. iiNss ts.4aaff
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
essss1aq Magazine z25 Women

part. lost it's point. although. as 6 sa-
 tire on the college youth. 1t Is even
 now far fetched.
 . "seladon is the tenderiy reared. son
 of wealthy merchant. His checks come assfrequeptiy from his father as
 he could possibly desire. and his nioth-
 CT manages to send him Q hundred
 the morning he sleeps until eight or
 haif-past Then he drinks his .coffee.
 sometimes In, sometimes out of bed. He
 gets up and puts on his silk dressing robe. He, takes his violdigambe and plays several airs. At 10 comes his piano teacher. who has already. in the course of g year. flted him out with six or seven pieces. As soon as he Is gone, Seladon. stands at the window for a, quarter. of an hour and reads love poems or watches the passers-by. He takes his tooth powder and rinses his mouth. His hair dresser comes, and he has his hair crimped. and ac- cording to different fashion nearly every day. He takes out his watch and sees that 1t Is nearly IF. Aso he dresses. His shoes, even with silk socks, are so tight that he can hardly draw them on with the help of his ser want. .. He spends 6 good deal of time before the glass admiring now his dainty feet. now his white skin. his diamond cuff buttons. his graceful boise. Now he practices pleasant then a prim, then a Bcornful express sion. Then he bows several times to himself, and even makes several po- lite remarks. He pulls out his golden snuff box with an unconcerned air. and takes some out abstractediy. but with dainty movementS ot his fingers. His nose gets pretty yellow but that is quite the proper thIng. Then he puts on his little French sword, takes his gold-headed cane, and goes out to dinner." |
 In this way, the vanity of men is It. self made to speak for women, and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

My husband died in Gainesville, and I With my family. moved to Hernando County, in South Florida. the day after my husband was buried.'
 Healthy at Near 111
 Our next oldest pensioner, accord ing to his claims. Is Henry Dorman of Liberal, Mo. who served in the Civil War in Company E, 7th Michigan Cav airy. In a pension application made early in 1907. he stated that she was born Jan. 10. 17ss. which would make him almost a year old when George Washington died, and no years and months old at the present time! All though he does not boast. with Mrs. Sparkman, Of having lived under the administration Of every Prestdent of the United States, he claims to have been contemporary with every man who has held that office Within the present month wrote out West to in- quire about him, and received the re- ply that he "is stilI alive and in good health.'' According to his statement of his age. he was 62 at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War. in which he fought. s-tH
 The third pensioner claiming to be a centenarian Is Micajah Wise of Beaver Brook, Y. who says he is 10s years of age. He served in Company c, Hist Pennsylvania infantry, In June, of this year he was reported 1to be "hale and hearty" 4..
 Veteran ef Constftutfon at IOs.
 A fourth centenarian veteran of our wars--who is not, strictly speaking. a pensioper. but a sailor on the retired list of the regular navy-is William
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

stockings. but moderation and playful
 ness. supported by wealth of humor
 and wholesome satire.
 Not only are the fashions not pro-
 noted. but 8 deliberate campaign Is conducted against them and other arti-
 ficialittes and trivialities. Simplicity
 of dress, of speech. sincerity and na-
 turalness of manner. solid intellectual
 worth. are seriously advocated. The
 manners of men do not always escape
 ridieule in this campaign for the ad-
 vancement of women. and sometimes aerve as a magnificent foil.
 Ideas About Dress.
 The fashions of the day. already then imported from Paris, might well have called forth a protest from the sensible, even as they might at this present hour. although we who object to the rapid changes of dress today should not think 0 reform necessary because tour dress no longer resem- bles the dress of our grandparents. :" But a general criticism in the Sen sible Consumers" of the feminine pen chant for dress would hold now. There is no manner of woman con- ceivabie who does not think she has a good excuse for adorning her per son. The beauty wishes to enhance her charms. The ugly one wishes to atone by art for the neglect of nature. The young person thinks vanity par donable to her blooming age. The old woman seeks to restore her faded charms by fashion. The rich think that their wealth demands an appro- priate display of ornament. The poor do not wish to betray their poverty by their wretehed appearance. The single maid hopes. by these means. to make a good catch. or even to attract a dozen adorers. The married woman arrays herself so as not to be laid on the shelf before her time" Then comes the moral. None of them can see, orc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

disputes arose concerning even learn ing. They held public disnuta tfona concerning learned themes, which had peen published in little pamphlets be- they were a good deal more eager ana zealous than men are nowadays. They quarreiied, for instance, as to whether. logic was an art or a science. Whether one should agree with Aristotle's three or with Galenus's four syiiogisms. Or. whether the whole business couldn't pc thrown overheard once for all.
 Yes. there was one facetious woman whos from strange desire to discover new truths presented the question whether 1t really was a settled matter that men were human beings. She thoughtithat to settle this in the neg alive would be the best way of re- venging oneself on. those who had for merly doubted the humanity of wo- men. In this way she achieved great following. Among these women stu a dents there were also gay specimens, who spent more time in coffee houses and wine cellars than over their books They feasted with drums beating and trumpets sounding, and sometimes sat in the windows with their legs hang ing out. At night they sometimes ser- enaded their patronesses and the rec tor of the university. and whetted their swords so lustily on the pavement that the sergeants. who were likewise well- armed women, came out ana scattered : this enthusiastic womanhood to the winds"
 A similar transformation of sex in our modern college towns would not fail to awaken reflections as to the relation of sex to moral standards < What shivers would run down one's back. for instance. if a carful of voc ciferous, somnolent and breath-reeking youth, returning at midnight from a class feed" were translated into the feminine.
 Eifrieda H. Pope
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

parallel pictures of both sexes are finely drawn to show that women are not alone concerned with vanities. So where the foibles of the pedant, in con- tradistinction to the scholar. are mem toned: "A pedant spends his life in the consideration of trivial things s'os A misprint. which reuslts in an appar- ent grammatical error, is sufficient cause for a paper war. saBecause an edition has some poor notes he calls the whole country a nation of idiots. He speaks of minor details fin such a of the universe depended upon these things. Tt Is just so with Miss Bag gatelle. Everything that she does. speaks, and thinks. she spends the day with them. and goes to bed again with them. The number of tucksr that are desirable in her cap; pins a hairs longer or shorter; heels a knife's edge higher or lower: these are matters of great enough importance Co quarrel and scoid about with her seamstress. her young maid, and her shoemaker"
 A Topsy-Tarvy Fancy.
 A dream In which women are repre- scented is taking the places of men in the municipality and university Is at the same time a fine satire upon the men of the day and an example of hu- nor and playful fancy concerning the fitness of things. The description of the students was especially apropos at a time when women's place in, the halls of learning was such matter of dis pute. "As 1t seemed to my fancy, all the professorships were held by wo- mes The, maidens went in groups from one lecture to another. and their servants carried their books for them. There were divisions among them. One party sided with one teacher another with. the other. The parties were dis ,tinguished from one another by dif- ferently shaded courtplaster patches applied to their faces and by the coll ors of, the ribbons of their dress. Yes,
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will admit, that their vanity springs from an inordinate desire to please men. But 1t is not necessary for me to prove how intellectual it is. Be- cause I shall consider all their efforts of dress vain and ridiculous until they can show me a single example of 8 woman who made an advantageous match by means of her adornments of person. and thus became happy through her vanities,"
 One may venture to say that the mere dressing was at that time a more arduous task than the strictest quired. yet the two contrasting pie lures of Modesto and Corinna are not without their moral now.
 Modesto is a good-looking child to whom nature proved herself, at the distribution of perfections, not stfngy,. to be sure, but not lavish either. But she is content with her appearance. She always washes with pure well wa ter. which. indeed. neither increases the whiteness nor the blush of her skin. but neither does it cause it any injury. She wears her hair as is the custom, whenever she goes among people. but makes so little ado about 1t that she requires only quarter of an hour at the most to dress it. She is graceful in her movements. and lets the matter rest there. She never adopts unnatural poses. She does not waste her time with unnecessary dressing and undressing. adornment and applying of ointments. washing and powdering; instead. she employs 1t for household duties or in the read ing of useful books"
 Energetic Corana.
 "Corinna is of quite a different spe- cies. Much as she likes to lie abed or- dinariIy, on Sundays she jumps quick ly out of bed with both feet before 5 clock. Then she spends three full
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

though the road was travelled. As I rode up by the side of him he glanced up, with gladnessfn his countenance. ''Namergod! is that you? Why. Howdy. HowJy. how do you do. how do you do? You shore don't look like you've got the assmy now. That pepper remedy I give you will shore knock the assmy into next week. everytime. I hearn you put 1t In the paypurs. and that's doctors don't know nothin' about .prt to be, put in the paypurs. 90 that folks can git we'll an have somethin' left from the doctors. Though doctors ant no wus than these here cussed loryers--that one had last year would shore have got the last red cent of my pension of the 0uvner or the mfuistration. hadn't wisely an mercifully Gas the preachers say) pre- sepved It. tell you, it's mighty hard tp$ serve the country an git knocked cuten H part af your pension every wh1pstitcn s%,
 ayaas cir, they had me up there to that blamed cornscrip, camp eleven times ans it, was wuth, . heap moren I'm gittins but to hevs4 the Guvner .cfouae me outen't some on that amt the thikksits cracked up to Be-, They tell ms he amt no loryer, but. blame me. # I don't. lose my pension. by him jest as same as ef heswus . ioryer. Loryers Is . breed,s ,sunithIp' like that ,derned dog I got in . hsrses swap,-he woulduft eat pothtn' but biskits,, an ,somebody,s rot to furnish the biskits. I've done quit the whole breed. The old judge. when he seed my paypers, tQie mosI ntdn't need no loryer. at all at ails He toi6 me fest to come Into his cote an ulfiistur.s Namergod! jedge. said T.. | hAtn't mover been or deemed ans hain,t never hearn no call as ! hain't never lived close to man what kept q 5ackass .s Tn some ov the churches a feller can pick up an go roun' preechin' without call. but we ole Baptis' won't put up with no sich nonsense like that, an'. there fore, jedge. I can't be ministur in
 mout be good. fur you He said he .wuz a gwine ter seek 1t long like them old feliers way back wonder, an thort
 he wouldn't die without the site an fur me to cum rite, into his cote an niinistur even ef no hans has bin laid on Me,. an that's what I'm agwine to do (Namergod! won't I look purty up thare in his pulpit1. an tell them ior-
 yefs to kiss my foot. Yaas. air, I'm agwfne to git that law of have to go into the ministry. Folks has more respeck fur ministers than they have
 for ioryers-when they stay in their place. No. sir. you never hear ov these ole Baptis' preachers gwine back to
 the beggarly elements an runnin' roun' to be Guvner. Nary one ov lem ain't president of the university an ain't agwine to be. an nary one ov 'em Is loryer. Elf ary one. ov 'em ever gifts to be a ioryer-weil, whare
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enough to "do. tiir the next store
 which was Ia sight.
 When the tobacco was moistened and began to roll under his tongue as sweet morsel. | inquired about my. old friepd. Cook. whom had not seen in some time. Why. namergodf man. ain't you hearn what hes bin an gone an done? Why. he's got up more talk about hisself than the law allows.
 He's diskivered the nawth polel though
 he ,ain't never rity back to tell us of it's pine CT a popler CT . simmon pole. I recken the ole felier Is agwine
 to fetch 1t home of It's wurth bringin',
 an If. he do. he'll be shore. to cum rite
 here the fust thing to show 1t to the
 brethrin. x
 You know long time ago he used to so in an out before the peepul here: that wue before got into Babylon with you fellers. We'll. after so long a time. he tux a noshun to travel among the Injuns an other sheethins in Mississippi to sorter confirm the .eieck an 50 foth.. but every now an then he'd come back to git his feet washed. an be remembered by the brethren. but he 'kep his mouth as tite as Dick's hat ban about the nawth pole. We didn't even know he wus on trail ov it till 10 an behoie the pay- purs wus full ov him. But the pay purs has got him down as two men when the Lord knows there ain't but one ov him. Hits nobody in tho roun world but ole Bro. Perry Cook. Some of the paypurs call him Peary an some ov em calls him Cook an I've jest about studied out how they got him mixed. Them thare internal Eskimose Injuns out thare ip Massissippi is mity onmanneriy an some ov em got to re flfv,v hin, pnarv' f,,r eharf a us aoua oy lem. called him Cook for likewise. an they follered him night an day to gift chewin' gum an coker coier. May be ef he madden tofe em he wus elder in the church they would have shown the. manners they wus born with an put a handel to his name an called him Elder Cook, but Injuns will ary one ov the onmannerly cusses he hain't Tit US about it. But. before I forgit. I'll tell you how he got mixed up as Peary an Cook. Them Injuns don't know no. more how to spell Per ry than a fust grade teacher knows how to spell the hard words in Web ster's spellin' book. Thare wus a 1efeat gang ov the cusses folierin' the ole Teller every whare he went. fur that gum an coker coier, an. when the ole feiier all ov suddint seed the pole lyin high an dry out thare on the prararies he fell down in a it an hol- lered You Rec Ker! which wus the name ov most all ov them cusses what were 4follerin. him. an they no sooner seed what he had found than in the seccund ov a riioshun they all cut stick as fast aA tharei laigsr would carry lem to the teliigraf. Them what called him Cook got Id ther Western Union fust an wireds The lost is found. Cook has got itr an them what called him Peary,
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writing of the author, contain several drawings the various steps by which he developed the jet condenser, which played so important part in driving his successful passenger steamboat in 1f90. et
 Regarding the criticism that ms method of propulsion by means of set of reciprocating paddles, arranged in a frame at the stern of the boat, was cumbersome and awkward. we would point out that. before making use of vertical paddles. Fitch investigated the rotating paddle wheel. and rejected 1t on the ground that much of the power of the engine was uselessly expended because of the obliquity or the paadies in entering and leaving the water, the water being alternately forced down and thrown up, with proportionate loss of propulsive efficiency.
 On the other hand. argues Fitch, pad
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he's gwine to. know, but don't tell. How's your familyf
 After assuring him that the health. of my family waa 6ood and that I had had blessed relief from the asthma (thanks to his remedy which never miads. and inquired of the sentiment concsfning the ~Amendment. ,i 3'..
 ~Namergodi T reckon that's the blamed thing, hearn some fellers talk in about Up to the store t'other day. A teller he'd payper an wus a readin' about somethfn' an he said thare haint never been sich . cry fur liberty sence you an, Koib an, them cried make way for liberty an died. Yaas. sir, the, to your holes about Ticker now, excep' potlicker. He sed the law Is now that pore folks can't hev nothin' fur thare stummucks sake an thare off sinfur- mity, but little. potlicker an purty soon he ,sed they won't be allowed to hay no grease fiur cotton seed oil in that < rHe sed thare is q mity morrul wave agwfne over the State an every. thing like religion an polferticks must stan from under. He sed the Guvner Is powerful bad agin Ticker an all im-. morality an this way the cotton mills hey ov werlxin' little chillun too hard, an sez hes agwine to stop 1t ef he busts his britches, ef he can keep his mine offen Judge Jones long enuff. Hits my opinyun he may curreck the cotton mills an bust his britches. but road to travel in the Ticker bisness. Why, namergodl man. pore folks is agwine to hev Ticker jest as long as the rich uns.. As fur myself. I don't never taste the stun onless somebody offers me some. san' then rhaintagwine to be imperiite. An 1t ain't agwine to be stopped: ThAre's niggers carry in 1t erround like piiier ov cloud by day an a piller ov fire by nite,, but niggers is mighty sharp an they ainst gwine ter sell 1t to none but niggers an the best white uns. These has too much onor to tell on 'em.
 "rhe feller with the paypur sed as how that skippernongs an blackber- ries an simmons an sorghum skim. mins mus go the way ov all the yeth fur thare day ie over Him that was the ole postmaster tfli the Popiists got these ruruls rootses. pricked up his years at that. an said he didn't know so well about that, that surutimes he felt bad ana ittieN blackberry wine hope him up mftify, an eff that's In the 'mendment he'if hev to strike fur his altars an his. sires n'-ris up an sed:
 1T that g stn6 case. III cHau8e my minu, Because sure am strong on wine.
 But late. I thought my time had come. When 10! I heard neighbor say { Cheer up, be mum; this Is the way.
 I'll get you some; II get you sonne.' And when that wine my spirits cheered No longer was the pale horse feared, s Since Richard was himself again.
 So now. I've changed my mind. to vote For home industries, sucha as wine. @ And 'simmon beer--for that isSfine--s