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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
noTuAN AND ITS DRESS srITs.

The chagrin of Editor Han of The Dothan Eagle. over the growth of the dress suit habit in Dothan is difficult to understand, but it is assuredly gen uinc. According to his figures, and we are not in a position to challenge them. while Dothan had only two or three dress suits some years ago. and the owners Of them were continually in doubt the town has probably two dozen new. From the mournfuI way in which The Eagle editor discusses the situation, We are led to believe that he is grieved over the increase.
 Editor Hall. like most of us, was raised in the country where a stin bosom shirt and a store-bought cravat met every social requirement, and where if stranger had appeared in a dress suit, he would have broken up the party. But the Dothan editor should not allow his allegiance to the old order foster a prejudice in his mind against the growing popularity of the dress suit, which he slightingly terms "sparrowtails."
 A man may wear dress suit and be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
UNION SPRINGS SOCIETY.

Union Springs. .Jan.. 17-(Special)- Mrs. w. C. Ellis entertained Saturday afternoon with a miscellaneous shower for Miss Malda Wellborn, a bride to- be of next week. The home was artis- tically decorated in southern smilax and white wedding bells.
 In the hall Mrs. c. B. GoldthwaIte served punch, and to each guest pre- scented a card on which was printed questions. the answers of which were given later by song being played on the piano, the guests guessing the names of songs.
 About thirty guests were present and after partaking of delicious salad course. the fair honoree was seat. ed under a white wedding bell from which fell a shower of dainty linen pieces. which in after years will be 8 happy reminder of dear friends and this happy occasion. Favors of the afternoon were wedding bells and we'd ding slippers. Out-of-town guests were: Miss Wood of Selma, Miss Orr and Mrs. Joe Arnall, of Newton. Ga.
 pr. Scale Harris of Mobile Is in tho city
 Mrs. J. H. Rainer has been right sick this week.
 Miss Hattie Stakely has returned from a visit to Mrs. Dix in MoatgOm' cry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
Growing Old Q Habit.
Orison Sl

Orison SWett Marden, Tn Success Maga-
 Not long ago the former Secretary of a Justice of the New York Supreme Court committed suicide on his roth birthday.
 Essay on the Osler Theory of Life" was found beneath the dead body. It read, in part:
 "Three score and ten--this is the Scriptural statute of limitations Af- ter that, active work for man ceases his time on earth has expired.
 T am 7O-three score and ten-and I am fit only for the chimney corner"
 This man had dwelt so long on the so-caIled Osler theory--that a man is practically useless and only a burden to himself and the world after 6O-and the Biblical imitation of life to three his mind he would end it all on his roth birthday.
 there is no doubt that the acceptance cal life limit has proved decided in- jury tc the race. We are powerfully influenced by our self-imposed limita- tions and convictions. and it Is well the limit they set for themselves. Yet there is no probability that the Psalm ist had any idea of setting limit to the life period, or that he had any au- thorlty whatever TOT so uolAS; EndHy VL the sayings in the Bible which people take so literally are merely hgures Of speech to Illustrate an idea. Sc far aS the Bible Is concerned there Is just as much reason for setting the life limit at 120 or even at Methuselah's age (969) as at 70 or 80. There is no eVtd- ence in the Scriptures that even sug- gests the existence of an age limit be- yond which man was not supposed or allowed No pass. in fact. the whole spirit of the Bible Is to encourage long life through sane and healthtul hVlhg'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
The Tariff and Politics;
 Democracy,s Grea. L,,v.

I have seen little agitation of the subject looking to reduction on wool en goods; but all artdom is determined tc have cheaper paintings and cheaper Ersnce Italy. Germany. Spain and per cent tariff duty. Now let us look general average % of 'fss them senea net tss par M ticular, mind you. Books pay 24.9s per cent; brass and its manufactures. 4b.32 per cent; bread stuffs, 34.54 per cent; drugs. dyes. and medicines. asss per cent; earthenware. stone and china, 5s.es per cent; glass and glass ware. ss.22. though the duty on one size plate glass Is 57SsS per cent.
 In the general round up, iron and steel look modest with only so.2s per cent ad vaioren. but when you dive in; more % sne robbins 1an in q that sesedule @ % tRan an The The manufactures a of feather are taxed taxed Sn the sus roSs bxs sus e classificationsN and some of them are taxed over 80 per cent Incidentally 1 may say that raw. silk is admitted free lo.S3 per cent. and that is the advan- tage the girl who Is clothed in silk has oyer the girl in linsey. While the n, ss of sk duty 1 of wooden fabrics must pay to the wool manufacturers ss.42 per oent--that Is the general average of woolens. .s,
 The constitution of the United States says Congress shall have power to lay and collect tarif duties; but 80 per cent of the duties of the Dlngley law were laid not to be collected at the custom house. but by the manufactur- ers Take cotton ties. on which is levied duty of one-heif cent a pound, It Is practically prohibi.ory; bale of cotton paid a tribute to the iron master. one.half cent pound on every tie he used to market his cot ton. When we come to realize that the country sov,y Erows some l2,ooo.e 900 bales of penny Pittsburg reaps at the South. It Is true that the hoop iron used in ball. ing cotton, and for some other pnr- poses, was imported to the value of $20,0U In 1907; but that beggarly sum was levied for the steel trust and not for the Federal treasury. shall have something further to say about cotton ties when come to consider the sec- tional phase of tariff favoritism and tarif robbery.
 The taxing power is the highest att tribute of government, and 1t should oe like the dews of heaven--to fall on all alike. If one citizen receives a protection. another citizens pays it. If man cannot make a living without tribute from his neighbor, he is a pau Lazarus. The one and sole argument for protection is that the industry would die without it. Thus folk en- gagged in profitable business are taxed to maintain those who admit they can not live without assistance.
 continued the tarin as the sole para mount.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
BY sAvoYARD.

hI 8AEOIAHB.
 Except some writings of the Parsee Merchant and quotation from Sidney Smith. Incorporated, In a speech made in Congress by Samuel 8. Marshall. of Illinois, about forty years ago. I do not now recalI an eIucidation of the tarifi question that appeals with direct force 10 the ordinary citizen. who works for spuass Ss or d hss ssuas n9 df ts s. ass ssonas ss philosophy. or constitutional liniita- tions of tarin taxation. The average tarin speech in Congress is a little too he Ir peos as sns of.n Son dered why our statesmen dc not under take to expound the workings of the tarin so that 1t can easily be comprs- ,s ,nendso py the farmer and the work
 It is not a dIficuit thing to do. If one underetands the subject and has at hand the data to reinforce his reason purpose ss'ss so osr los sa. 'hsa ts msn s aging editors l shall attempt the thing myself, as nobody. else of the rnou- Sse sands more capable, has seen 1t to
 There Is an agitation just now which has for end the putting on the free list or works sof art. luxuriss that appeal the taste of the poetic. These % things now pay Q duty of i7.so per cent. The argument is that with art on the free list we shall be in condition to develop Michasl ,b6,1 as .a Angeles by % sst of Congress aire by act of Congress, we tax pig iron sl a ton, and certain patterns of plate glass 134.41 per cent. The man who buys q painting or a statue In Europe Is bound to have money, and plenty of it. J. Pierpont Morgan,s coi- tinatsd as costing sSo,oo6,ooo: but he leaves most of them abroad because of the tax the Dingiey law imposes on such stun, of less than IS per cent. Thus 1t would appear that art has so much imagination that there is no room
 Now let us turn to the wool and wooden schedules. Take the article of blankets. The cheapest quality of that indispensable Is taxed f07.6o per cent, The next cheapest. ioe.12 per cent. and per cent. Thus the poorer you are, the higher rate of taxation you pay on an article to keep the cold from your bones in mid- winter. If the blanket be more than nine feet in length, the cheapest Is taxed l65.42 per ctslt; the cent.
 Now I submit that tax on wool or wooiens Is an enormity. It lays under tribute the health of the citizen to en- te the work of the physician and to the profit of the druggist. the under taker. and the cemetery that has graves to sell. This very night tens of thousands of children are thinIy covered in bed because somebody in uiactarihg blankets to % be sold in " a market in which he levies tribute in inverse ratio to his phiian- thropy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
This h My 47 th Birthday
Ezekiel s. ChanleF .

Ezekiel s. Chandler. Jr., Representa- trlct of Mississippi. was born in Ham ilton County. Florida. January IS, 1862. When he was 8 years old he removed with his parents to Mississippi. He in that State, and attended the law de- partment of the University of Missis- sippi. He was admitted to the bar when 19 years old. having previously moved by the chancery court, and be- gan the practice of his profession at Iuka. removing a few years later to Corinth. When 26 years old he served as a Democratic presidential eIector and for ten years he was a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of his county. MT. Candler was first elected to Congress In 1900, and has been reelected four tims. practically without opposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
This Date in History
January IS.

17l3-Death of Archangello Corelli one of the early famous viollnists.
 1S16-General thanksgiving in Eng land for peace. following end of Ma poleonic wars.
 1839-Ma achusetts Legislature re. elected Daniel Webster to the United States Senate.
 1S61-Virglnia Legislature appro- priated $1,00o,00O for the defense of the State.
 1S74--Eng and Chang. the famous Siamese twins. died. Born in 1911.
 1SS5-Seventeen patients burned to death in the Kankakee QI.) insane asylum
 1S94--George ". Childs. eminent Philadelphia publisher and ,philan-
 19O7-Dominion government voted $50,0O0 for the relief of the Jamaica earthquake sufferers
 19OS--John R. Walsh found guilty of rnisapplying funds of the Chicago Ma tional Bank.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
What the State Papsrs
 Are Saying and Doing
Th. II.ax.r.atx r.roIIm..t.

Tbe University Enroliment. Tuscaloosa Times-Gazetta
 as n t. hsi s.opy sy sns sss sFess s the feur hundred students were reg istered for genuine college work and there are no freshmen among the number.
 Object Lesson offered. Marion Standard.
 If high prices for food stun has any Influence on causing the farmer to ought to make plenty this year. Prices for nearly everything are going high CT every day.
 What Papers Lose. New Decatur Advertiser
 It is said that sIo0.00o.oeo are vast ed on ads that never pay the adyer- tiser II Is also true that more than si tors. by advertising agents who swim de them out. of the money they have earned.
 Water. Plenty or It.
 Hartford Times Herald.
 Over In Georgia water must be 2 pretty scarce article. for we read Of farm house and asked for drink of water. but were refused. the owner saying he had to hav, drinking water souny ss s' s ary Svfr nsrs ss tSs ba naa s
 Waiting for Him. Alexander City outlook.
 may become a candidate for. the Uni ted States Senate to succeed Senator Bankhead. We have little faith in the the public pulse too well to try such stunt. If he should attempt such a game he would meet a more oyer ernor did in a race against the ia- rnented Morgan.
 stop It Tn Alabama. hqGSh Msst G9laanfg rlangg nrssss msss not b. allowed to get a start in Alabama. News comes from down about Dothan of shooting his wife and daughter. No In bringing the pergetratcrs of this guarantees the pfotection of the law as completely to the poor and lowiy as 1t does the rich and Influential. Troy 4 hsrssid sss Up For Grand Jury. other prominent citizens presented s shs grsnd sa.t,sj jury of Dallas s.s county with not informed whether that particu- lar grand Jury are experts on beer or not. we suppose of course the mayor and other prominent citizens are for they took along a few torha- toes and some pretzels, as comple- ment with the beer, for how Is the average grandjuryman to tell the real article from near beer" unless he is furnished with the etc.
 Misplaced Mercy Andalusia News.
 One feature about the verdict in the Tennessee night rider cases which strikes us as being rather peculiar. Is the fact that the first degree yer diets were rendered with a finding of mitigating circumstances. We cannot conceive how there could have been any mitigating circumstances in the murder of Captain Rankin. It im- pressed us as being one of the most atrocious crimes that the country has ever known, and anything, short of the death penalty for any man .Fho wilfully took hand in its commis- sion is miscarriage of justice
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

We are told by female specialist that the time is coming when no wo man with brains will allow herself kissed. Well. as no man would care to kiss a woman without brains we seeRf>tp be approaching the time when there won't be any kissing. It is all because of microbes, you know, but a woman who refuses kiss for no better reason than that she might catch microbe has no brains of the right shape, we contend
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

"1t will" remarks that sound Demo- cratic contemporary. The Pittsburg Post, "be an unhappy time for Theo- dore Roosevelt if he has anywhere In his past any serious flaws of re- cord. He has been so unsparing, off, f1cious and merciless, not to say med dlesome or meticulous in dealing with other mems shortcomings, that scant sympathy will be his should he. too, be found ever to have acted question ably" It is hardly to be doubted that the holes in. Roosevelt's armor--and skin-will be found by some of those towards whom he has shown so much bitterness and injustice. As to that matter there have already been ex- posures which would make most public men vince.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

man for a that" Robert Burns made plea for the man who wore hodden gray" land dined on namely fare" but who was "a man for a that" It was the man inside the clothes for whom Burns uttered his plea that has gone into imperishable Literature. So. | too. the dress suit wearer is none the less a man because of the clothes he wears. It is what is inside the clothes. not the looks of the clothes on the outside that count. And whether he wears "hodden gray or the sparrow tall" the mans clothes is not the measure of his merit.
 Burns spoke for the class without influence in his country, and to that extent plead for the weak against the strong. In our time, in our day and in our State, the ruling class is a class that looks eontemptuousiy on the dress suit. The ruling class Is the men on the farms and in the small towns who not only never wore a dress suit, but who never expect to wear one and who entertain an un- disguised suspicion for the wearer of the clawhammer. In the smaller towns the man braves public senti- ment who goes to a party in a dress suit, but in the cities the custom is growing rapidly and in the smaller cities it has obtained recognition and endorsement, Editor Hall in giv- ing Dothan's dress suit statistics, un- consciously produces new evidence of Dothan's growth asa city.
 There are two experiences, the im- pressions of which are branded in- eradically in every young mans mem ory's. his first kiss and his first time in a dress suit. Editor Hall has un- doubtedly experienced the thrill of the first and although he may have missed the lesser but more prolonged ecstacy of the second, he surely would not deprive others of the delight Of that experience. Let the young man have his dress suit and let him feel that joyous satisfaction that suffuses his soul and overflows his heart when he wears 1t for the first time in his life.
 We come this way but once-we have but one youth and as many as are its joys they are not enough for us to take from them the satisfaction and consolation that come to the young man with his first dress suit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

Some one proposes that a court be formed which shall perform no other duty but that of the trying eases against Standard Oil and that the judges be appointed for life. As an amepdnehf> would suggest that none but young men be put on the bench.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
Misplaced Mercy AndaluHia NeWa.
,,,, Cost of a Great City.


 One hundred and fifty-six million dollars is the princely sum for which the budget Of New York City calls for the ensuing year. This is s1i.00c,- 000 more than our national pension bill, and is the largest annual appro- priation ever made for any city in the history of the country. Even the se- date and easy-going metropolis has becn startled by the tremendous out lay That there Is vast and criminal waste in the city expenditures goes without saying. Tammany has never been in power for its health.
 Recent investigations have produc- ed some interesting facts, material has been purchased for which the city has been obliged to pay enormous prices. Workmen have been paid fancy wages for their labor. Every munici- pal department seems tol be honey combed with graft. An honest busi- nesslike administration of the great city. on the lines of private enterprise management. would unquestionably ef- feet a saving of millions of dollars and bring gracious relief to the over hurdened taxpayers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
lnch Cnttnn SoId.

Huntsville, Jan. 17.-(SpeciaI.l l-The advance, in the price of cotton during the last week, amounting to about forty points, brought out consider able quantity of cotton that had been stored More than a thousand bales of warehouse cotton were sold to local buyers in addition to the daily re- ceiDts,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
p.r,emh.red hv EmpIoyen.

Huntsville. Jan. 17.-CSpeclaL)- David D. Overton. formerly in charge of the Madison county dispensary' has been presented with a handsome watch charm by the employees of the estab- lishment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

The usually accurate Hartford Cour- ant refers to the South Carolina Sen ator as Senator Tilden." We doubt if the shade of Samuel J. will like that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

The Presidential admirer who tells us that "Roosevelt's messages are written fo~ posterity" comes very near the mark, though in a different way from what he intended. Some of them et least will serve as horrible examples for other Presidents to avoid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

It is suggested in some quarters that Roosevelt's messages be canned. Perhaps the chemists might perfect something that would preserve them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
sWORN EVACUATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees It's tract when requestedl that it's daily circu- tatfon is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama-and that It's sunday edition has the largest circulation Of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for December printed below represent the actual net circulation. all re- turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

We shave not learned that any of the houses in Atlanta had to be set hAnA tS Eivs Taft room to pass
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

Children have more need of models than of critics.-Joseph JoubeFt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
BUTLER IS ACQUITTED.
Sheffield Druggist Not Guilty c
 Violating Prohibition Law.

 Sheffield. Jan. 17-(Special)-R w. Butler. a prominent druggist of this city, was yesterday acc the city recorder of vioh hibltion law in Sheffield It is claimed that som negro a marked quarter in to Buffers drug store said to have purchased a whiskey, on investigation with marks upon it navi covered in the latter's Butler was arrested and speedy trial. which res acquittal before the recor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

John D. Rock efeller is said to own one-fortieth of all the wealth in the United States. His income Is $70.000,- 900 every year. That makes me think! I must go down town and get that gal lon of oil and help pay my part of some S32 900 900 that John D. has seen ht to give to charity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

Mfr Holt, the Englishman who toured this continent. said to the British press on his return home: The American women aro just delightful, and the American man. the typical American. whether he be cowboy or millionaire. is one of the very best of fellows in all the wide. wide world"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

Head erect Eyes to the front. Heart tor anything. The courage of try. The belief that you can succeed. The mer- 1t to hold your cwn in the struggle for place The confidence in your manhood to get there. whether in business or pleasure or knowledge or love-th ese are the things that tell
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-28
AIRSHIP SAILS TO
MOUNTAIN PEAK
WESTERN YOUTHS ALUMINIUM
CRAFT LANDS TRIO ON
MOUNT RAINIER.

Tocamo, Dec. 2s.-ReginaId Weather.
by, years old. who lives at Spanaway
Lake, eleven miles south of here, has
achieved a triumph in aviation. after
three years devoted to experiments,
that gives him high rank as an aeron-
aut. He has completed and success
fully tried out his aluminium aeroplane.
With two companions aboard the
air craft, Weatherby circled the SUM
nit Of Mount Rainier last Wednesday,
night. The party alighted on the rim
of the crater of the mountain at an
elevation Of nearly $1,000 feet and then
sailed off again over the snowfields.
Weatherby was educated at the Mas
sachusetts Institute OF Technology in
Boston. He developed his airship mod
ell at his uncIe's home and is jubiiant
over his success. His friends are
amazed. The new feature Of the
Weatherby machine is a substitution
of system of undulating planes for
the ordinary revolving propeller, by
means Of which the inventor has dem
onstrated speed Of 100 miles an hour
without vibration or Jar. The machine
is made of thin sheets of aluminium,
reinforced with steel, and has a long
neck-like front which acts as a steer
ing point and minimizes the resistance
of the air.
The aviators sit in the body of the
machine tandem style. Along the UNI
der side Of the long body are undulat-
ing planes, which, working back and
forth, shoot the craft forward like a
rocket.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-28
Fierce " Tong" War Breaks
Out IN Chinese Quarter
RUSH IN POLICE RESERVES
NEW AssAsslNs KNOWN AS
"GuN MEN" ARRIVE IN NEW
YORK FROM BOSTON AND GET
IN DEADLY WoRK-AGED cE.
LEsTlAL MURDERED.

New York, Dec. 2s.-Scores of de-
tectives and uniformed patrol men
were sent into Chinatown today to
check If possible the outbreak of a
tong war in which one Chinaman had
been killed and another mortaIiy
wounded. Police Captain Calvin
states that new assassins. known in
the tongs as "gun men" were sent
here from Boston following the recent
legal execution there, of five Hip Sing
tong members who were convicted of
killing several OF the Leong tong men
and that their mission was revenge.
Low jung, rs years old, celestial.
whose body was riddled with bullets
late last night, was the treasurer OF
the Four Brothers society. q western
tong which has taken part in the war.
making 1T three sided. Lu Yo Fong.
a younger Chinese. who was shot
three times was Low lungs assistant
and companion.