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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
Gas Economy Taught By Women.

How the gas companies or large American cities have begun a tactful crusade against complaints from pat rous more often than not arising from ignorance of gas range and meter. is we'll told In the March number of Pop- ular Mechanics. A well chosen woman representative Is sent from house to house, explaining the Use of every feature of the range and showing the housewife how she may economize in the use of gas. Here Is a sample Of the gas womans talk:
 "Yes, I understand. You have just bought the range and cannot make the oven heat properly. You see. you are not familiar with the range and have been trying to use 1t in accordance with coal range ideas. Now, we will start at the beginning and learn. First so many women make the mistake of trying to light the gas at the same time they turn 1t on. A second or two should be allowed to elapse before ap. plying the match, so that the gas can expel the air. This makes the burners work better and saves gas. Please re member that 1t Is easy to economizp in gas by using care.
 For instance, notice this little extra burner back here. It is a simmerinK burner, but 1t is often neglected be- cause many women forget that a large amount of gas can be saved by it's use When a saucepan no longer needs the entire heat of a burner fl is only neces- sary to transfer 1t to the smmerinq burner to leave the larger burner free for something else, and to save gas"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08

the A. N. c. co-eds at the ball ground here Friday. The game stood Q to ( until the last inning when the town boys came in with one score. This wal the best game of ball played here Ii some time. The college girls all attend ed to cheer for their co-eds. Mir. W. R. Little, of Gainesville. val here for this week and made loan of $1o.000. MT. Little Is one of 6ainss- vilie's fine merchants.
 Miss Florence Gall. the director for the Gall Stock Company, which was here this week, will return soon with a stronger and better company ana play here several nights.
 Mir. Robert D. Oliver. one of Boil. gees fine me1ehants, spent several days here this week on some important business.
 The people of Cuba are busy nov planting beans. They expect to have more this year than ever before and hope that the prices will be good.
 The peach and pear trees are all in bloom. and the prospects for a good fruit year are splendid. Many of our good farmers are to have Q canning outfit and can a large part of their fruit. They will be able to supply the grocery stores easily.
 The York people have a fine bored well there now. The thing they arc working for should be the privilege over the well. This will be a great improvement for the town. York has will have to work in a hurry to come near the trucking town of Cuba.
 MT. John Lawhorn has accepted the position in Gregory -Mitchelis. store and has started to work. Everybody Is glad to see him there
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
STILL AT IT.

Many good Democrats argue that the best way to consign MT. Bryan to po- litical inactivity, and to prevent his longer being a dead weight on the Democratic Party Is to quit mentioning 6 him at all. They hold that all refer ence to him and all criticism of him. is the way to ignore him completely. This might have a good effect but for the fact that neither himself nor his friends will allow that to be done. Take this extract from an editorial in The Richmond Journal as a fair example:
 Even Bryan's worst enemies admit his wonder'..i ah.!f.'Gs. What tlcs" enemies object to, what wealth and and often so unfairly, fight az ii 1st-- is not Mir. Bryan, but the principles and policies at Bryan advocates and which his opponents know he has the determination and courage to put into practical operation If he is ever given the opportunity.
 MT. Bryan himself never misses any opportunity that will serve to keep him in the limelight. Whether criticism of him is favorable or unfavorable it is advertising, and that has gotten to be the greatest object he has. In this he is assisted by few Democratic news papers which are everlastingly boost ing and boasting. and apparently think that all who refuse to join In their hero worship are enemies to MT. Bry- an. They do not appear to under stand, or else refuse to admit, that good Democrats are not under obliga- tions to support him further, nor are they to be blamed for showing that he should save them the trouble of retir- ing him by retiring himself
 It is true that Democrats admit MT. Bryan's abilities, and 1t is equally true that there is no war on him as a man and a citizen. but The Journal gives the whole thing away when 1t says that it is Bryan's policies that are ob- jected to. The charge that it is wealth, greed and combinations" that Hsht hiiH Hds Bro"H staie' Ahe souho- est Democrats of the country oppose him because of the policies he advo- cates. They know that some of these policies are not Democratic and that their adoption and enforcement would be hurtfu1 to the country. Papers lik 0 The Journal may labor overtime to keep MT. Bryan in the position of lead CT of the party but we have faith that they will fail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
now, and in the past by western states.

now, and in the past by Western States. He we'll says that there Is no jealousy in the South for the West. that the circumstance of this exhibit and the attention it attracts should be e spur to Southern enterprise.
 Since the war the West has grown more rapidly than the South by such endeavors. In the matter of an srous- ed purpose, the South is no longer sec ond to the West. The South is now willing to do at least its part to win it's progress. The means to that end is the Southern Commercial Congress through which the South will act to- gether and by which there will be achievements of publicity. which were not possible under older conditions.
 This united industrial effort should receive generous support from a sec- tion that is aroused by a new purpose to more forward.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
EDITOR HALL HAS
 FLUSHED TWO BEAVERS"

During the last few days a couple of men have come to Dothan and walked our streets. wearing beavers and Elias. One, a portly, dignified. middle aged man, wore his with a chip the shoulder air. as if he dar- ed any one to object or make remarks i: fact is. this characteristic was so high ly developed till he had the pleasure of cussin' out few fellows about ma king ungainly remarks within his hearing, about people who wore such clothes. He caught the crowd smiI- ing wherever he went, and had sense enough to know what they were smil- ing at
 The other one walked down town and our phone began to ring. They were warning US all over town. and on attempting to make our escape, we met this fellow, and he looked more like he could back up such a turn out than any we have seen recently. He look ed just like the representative in Con- gress from the Indian Territory, and had the unconcerned air that one might see on the faces of the men walking down Pennsylvania Avenue. Wouldn't care to have-ft reach his ears, but we understand that he is the head of a crew who are selling wrought iron ranges in this section, Q household ne- cessity that many may have heard of before.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
Lending Pistols Bad Habit.

Memphis mercial-AppeaL
 Col. Cooper testifes that he owns no pistol, but borrowed one from the proprietor of a hotel.
 Robin Cooper testifies that he owns no pistol, but borrowed one from his uncle
 It is stated that MT. E. w. Carmack owned no pistol. but that one was giv- en him by his associates on the news paper of which he was editor. It Is also stated that he borrowed another pistol from Maj. Vertrees (Thls state ment, however, has not yet been veri- fled in the courts.)
 If the friends and relatives of the Coopers. and If the friends of MT, Carmack had kept pistols away from them. there would have been no shoot ing on the evening of November g. far as results to society go. as car rying pistols
 The Legislature had under consid- eration & law about carrying firearms. It might go a step further and pass a law forbidding the lending of firearms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
This h My 5Ist Birthday
Ruggiero LeoncavallO {.

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, the famous composer. was born In Naples. March 8. 1858. As a youth he dreamed of a military career, but abandoned his plans in this direction to take up the study of music. He went to France where his lack of funds caused him many hardships. In the midst of his stpdggle to make living by doing such odd musical jobs as he could find he wrote a poem called "MedicL" For tunately for his future. he got an op- portunity to read his lines to Massenet, who advised him to go. to Milan and missqned& & Leonc9yalio rSa 9vtS,, to write music pieted in a year. but the young com poser had a long and v weary p': wait for fort Meantime he took up teaching again to keep from starving. Then he decided not to wait any longer for the production of "Medici," but to try to write something that would be pro- duced at once. That was how he came to produce q Pagliaccr in five months. On May IT. 1892 1t was produced for the first time, and the next morning Leoncavallo was famous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
SOME INTOLERANCE.

Extreme intolerance in moral and re- 1igious questions Is as bad as extreme partisanship in politics. In either case the man who believes one way thinks no one can be honest who believes an- other way. We often criticise the old Puritans because of the narrowness of their views. but the spirit has not en- tireiy departed from humanity. as is occasionally made plain. and a re- cent instance reported from an Indi- ana town furnishes a case in point. The little town of Earlham, in that State, some days ago held an election on local option, to determine whether they should have license or prohib ton. and Prof. Trueblood, Professor of English in the high school, voted for license.
 to vote as he pleased on a question of this kind? He violated no rule or obligation of the school, or of any oth- CT organization. yet what is known as the Friends Church requested him to resign because he voted in favor of H. cense. Now. suppose We look at this affair tn another way, and see how it appears. Suppose this college to be managed and sustained by men who believe in license and oppose prohibi- tion. and suppose the Professor had voted against license and the faculty had discharged him for not voting as they wish hed-what then? Would there not have been a great hue and cry all over the country against "the liquor interests?" Of course there would but where is the difference in principle?
 "one of the greatest troubles and dangers of this whole prohibition ques- tion," remarks The Richmond News Leader, "and of the effort to make 1t a moral one is that the advocates of pro- hfbition seem to be unable to see but one side. In their view any means used in their behalf or measures adopt- ed to advance the cause of prohibition are justified by the purpose in view, no matter. how extreme they may be- An employer of labor may believe with all his soul that the success of a Democratic ticket is necessary for his welfare and for the welfare of his country. Yet if he undertakes to CO., cree or compel one of his employees to vote the Democratic ticket or dis charges him for voting the Republican ticket he is a lawbreaker and if he is convicted is punished severely; and the general sentiment of the country ap- proves the law against such methods and applauds the enforcement of it. Yet here are these Friends, usually among the most scrupulously law abiding people in the world, kindly. moral, rigid in their codes, violating the spirit if not actually the letter of the law. punishing a man for his po- litical opinions and vote and believing themselves to be doing right This is the very essence of fanaticism and persecution-the spirit that damns those who differ from us in opinion as heretics, infdels and servants of the devil and justifes any persecution of them. however violent, any means that may be taken to punish or destroy or convert them, however horrible. =
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
How Germany Saves.

William H. Holman. in The Century.
 Regarding the accidents in the Unit ed States, 1t Is the opinion of the en- gineering profession that one half of them are preventable. If so, the next question is, how? A conservative es- innate of the number of annual acci- dents which result fatally. or in par tial or total incapacity for work. is 500, 1000. Reckoning the wage-earning capacity of the average workman at $500 a year (this makes no allowance for the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists. and other high -salaried officials who are injured or killed by the railways, mines, building trades, and other occupations) we have social and economic waste of s250,O00,00 a year. What we are thus losing in work efficiency Germany is saving. "One billion marks, in wage-earning efficiency annually we conserve for Germany through our sanatoria. museums of safety. conval- escent homes. and other forms of so-- cial insurance, by which we safeguard the lives and limbs of our workmen and prevent the causes and effects of diseases which would lessen their eco- homie efficiency" stated pr. Zacher, director of the imperial bureau of statistics, in reply to my inquiry as to how much Germany saved each
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1900.
Needn't say the Japanese are not at

Needn't say the Japanese are not ad- vancing, for they are. They have reached a stage of progress and open mindedness where they are willing for their officials to use foreign ink, or Western ink, as they call 1t. In 1876 the Japanese government promulgated an order that Western ink should not be used in any official document ex- cept those written on Western paper and in one of the Western languages. In short. any official document written on Japanese paper and in the Japan ese language must be written with Japanese ink, and for thirty-two years that imperial order has remained in force, but the government has just abolished the order and now the Japs may use Yankee ink or any other sort they choose. It took them quite a long while to rid themselves of that selfish or intolerant evidence of their dis like and suspicion of all foreigners, but they are evidently wearing it of gradually, even if slowly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
Suuerfiuous Men.

A humorous and entertaining de- scription of a visit to Smith College is given by Ed Hungerford in the issue of Harper's Weekly for February 27. The author, who Is visiting his young kinswoman Theodosia. begins his experiences with a bacon bat Ar terward he Is taken to dine at Beyden's where millions of fowls are reduced annually to creamed chicken hash. Az ter the play Theodosia is seen homo and the male relative is alarmed by figures moving in the recesses of d gloomy building. Burglars. our startled soul said to itself Theodosia reassurred us. What Is 1t" we de- manded. another cult2 Then We were informed that that was tie class in as tronomy. The young ladies of the class held something that appeared like dinner plates. and were really maps of the heavens. in their hands. By means of sharp observations and a goodly lore of scientific lnawiedge they were locating each Of the stars for the evening. We hreatAcd inter est. It was the first class that we had seen at Smith"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
MONTEyALLO SOCIAL NEWS.
Sophomore of Industrial School Te
 dered . Poverty Party.

| Sophomore of Industrial School Ten dered . Poverty Party. Montevallo. March 7--The social committee of the Y. W. c. A.. of the tertained the Sophomore Class last night at a Poverty Party. The receiving line consisted of | Mrs. Wiggs" and her children. The entertainment was given in honor of | Lovely Mary's Birthday" Refreshments in keeping with the nature of the party were served. Miss Mrytle Williams, chairman of the so- cial committee. was untiring in her ef- forts to make the entertainment a suc- cess.
 Miss Pearl McCrory, local Y. W. c. A. secretary for the A. G. I. s.. is bus fly occupied in making final arrange ments for the student conference to be held in MontevaIlo next Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and IA. At this con- ference representatives will be pres ent from the Y. M. c. As and the Y. w. c. As of the different schools ih Alabama.
 very enjoyable dance was given Friday night by the young men of Montevallo in the hall above Mrs. Wooley's new store. Among those present were: Misses Irene Lambert. Lida Hatch, Sidney Kyle. veta Frank lin, 1rma Ellis, Ruby Lawhon, Maude Allen and Messrs. Ernest Hendricks. Billy Strong. Philip Shriner. Burr Ma bors and Tom Place.
 A Flower Exchange will be- held Tuesday afternoon from to 5 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. James Alex Moore.
 pr. T. w. Palmer. Professor Ellen burg. Mrs. J. A. Moore. Misses Stella Palmer) Mary Peters and Clarkie Pur- cell, attended the County Institute for Teachers held yesterday at Columbi- ana. Dr. Palmer read paper on Mathematics"
 pr. Beard occupied the Episcopal pulpit today. Ss
 Miss M B. overton leaves Tomorrow for Talladega to spend a fewAdays.
 Misses Mary Young and Alice w. man are spending the weekend in Sell ma.
 Mr Mcknight of Columbiana, was a visitor to Montevallo this week.
 Mrs. T. W. Palmer will return to Montevallo. Monday, from Mobile.
 Miss Ora Walton. of Greensboro, visited Montevallo this week. the guest of the Misses Grote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
4 MORNING THOUGHT
Brotherhood has two supreme man ifestations: first. the power to be si-
sY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS,

Brotherhood has two supreme man. ifestations: first. the power to be si- lent as death when the Brotherhood repetition of a scan-
 dal Is damaging; and: second, the power to play the role of an oyster when the repetition of a truth does not help q man. Whenever "the truth hurts" you islander a man that Is. the effect Is the same. The only difference between drinking car boiic acid and blowing your brains out Is that the former is a bit slower in its do not make the difference in the ease. The most of us need to know the rare art of keeping our mouths shut. The greatest criminal in the That was an intensely polite and beautiful compliment bestowed not long ago by Heinrich Conreid. the chatting with a celebrated singer. who Is also very pretty woman. Said she: MT. Conreid. do you consider Blindness or deafness the greater afiiictiong should prefer to be deaf when am looking at you and blind when l hear On the far western Arizona hills have seen wild Indian ponies stand ma jestically on the crest of hill-- neck arched. eyes rolling. mane to the preeze8, nostrilS all a-qulVer. Ana even man sometimes feels power tuggipg at his heart.
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 Money, as the unit of measure in character. has its limitations. Mr Bryan declared fn The Commoner that Washington was the richest American of his time, and MT. Rockefeller the richest American of his time Right here, however. the parallel happened to cease.
 This must be a sad old world to the man who believes that goodness Is not forever In the ascendancy.
 
 Shut the door of memory. That ter rible day is dead. Why court the grus- some skeleton.
 One log will not burn alone. Neither can the heart forsake and survive. Hu- manity Is not built for the solitary life
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 Sometimes leading "the simple life" makes one entirely too simple.
 Go clean round the man that is smaller Than his dollars.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
New Decatur Advertiser.


 Decatur, Ala. Feb. 2.-Richard A. BallinKer. of Seattle. Wash. who will be Secretary of the Interior under Taft after March 4, next, Is well known Tn the Decaturs. being the first City Att torney of New Decatur.
 Mr. Baliinger was only young lawyer when In New Decatur. He had been out of college but short time and did newspaper work as rtsar iScai eai sSns cSlonei iwsh9 c f EndTeths % the p present ed- ttor. was editor of The New Decatur
 For a short time MT. Ballinger was the law partner of Judge O. Kyle Judge Kyle was then but young man just commencing the practice of the
 Mr. Ballinger left New Decatur. where he had an office in the Bond block late in the '8os and has never been there since. He located in Seat file. Wash.
 The Ballingers came to New Decatur during the boom of 1SS7-S. The father was connected with the Southern Horse Nail Company, which put up a large The plant was failure as MT. Railing CT could not get the material to make the nails at the right price and for and the machinery carried away. The desk on which this article Is now be- ing written was MT. Ballinger's. and sold to this office before they went to the Pacific coast
 At the time the factory was being erected the Ballingers also erected a fine home for themselves in East De- catur, the finest residence by far in that section of country. It was hand somely furnished and when the Bal fingers left 1t was sold to Sam Whar- ton, and Is now the residence of Mrs. Wharton's sister, Miss shepard.
 This office printed some letter heads and envelopes and other stationery for Mir. Ballinger. as attorney, and we well remember how particular he was to have the best work and the incest ough mechanieian. and. although he was no printer he took down and put press when 1t was being moved from one building to another A.. ,. nation that he was going to Olympia. which we believe had just then been chosen as the capital of the state of Washington. He said that If he went catch the boom in real estate qesuit tn g from 1t being just named as tho capt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
This Date in History
 March g..

1695-First Legislative assembly con- vened in Maryland.
 l726-Admiral Richard Howe, who commanded a British fleet in the Amer- lean Revolution, born in London. Died August D. 1799.
 American privateer Leo.
 1S34-Commercial treaty concluded between United States. and Japan.
 IS62-The Confederate ram, the Mer- rimac. appeared at Hampton Roads.
 lS64-General Grant formally pre- sented with his commission as lieuten-
 isSS--Coal discovered in South Da- kota.
 pulpit orator. died In Brooklyn. Born
 1SsS-Congress appropriated $5O,00o,- 900 for war purposes.
 19O6-American troops killed 500 Moros in battle near Jolo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-08
CUBA'S RAPID GROWTH.
Her Population and Trade Show
 Notable Advance.


 Notable Advance.
 New York Mail.
 Cuba owes to; the United States @,;dn the tasSeS aseeS 9f s st sep lowars restoration of the republic. This cen sus. which reveals the condition of the island as of 1907. and has just been o4sssRe sas RuOe an inepease zeGas from isss 476.1S3, or 3o:3 per cent. or this thirds. are white. The colored popula- ss4.ss5 mixed, Sv and 1.8a7 Chinese: Oi the whites, 203.637 are foreign born, Spain contributing 1S5.3s3 and the United States only 6,7i3.
 ing age. 2l2.ssO. or less than one-half. are literate, but among the white males of voting age the literates are In the majority. he figures standing at hird of a'OGS' inc eSdren aH are attenGng school. There are 423. .537 persons. or POT per cent. married, and l76,6o9. or S.6 per cent. "consensually mar ried by consent rather than by cere- to family is AS.
 There are 772.502 persons engaged in gainful occupat6losnsM. h. of whom o,Is 7s,- eNs, 374,96s, or nearly one half. are 1864 in trade and transportation, i2s.O21 in manufastgging ss gg. and aonaat,c me . and personal service, and 12,S05 in professional service. The foreign com merce of Cuba isas increased sharply to $97,334,195, and exports from $49.- 69S,772 to S114,812,S46. The United States sends the island nearly half its imports and takes more than two- thirds it's exports, including practical ly all the exports of sugar, fruit and minerals, and nfne-tenths of the raw tobacco.
 In population and area Cuba is one of the smaller of the Latin Am erican States. but its production and trade rank it among the foremost