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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
4 UNIQUE PLAY.
"Union Depet fer Day. is Presented
 at Trey.

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 Troy. Jan. 24.--(Special. l---Friday night at Foimar's Theatre, "a unique and laughab1e play Union Depot for 8 Day." was presented by local talent, under tho direction of Miss Ethel Loveland. teacher of expression at the State Normal College of this city.
 Each character was exeellently por- trayed, proving not only Miss Love- lands ability, but also that Troy Is not lacking in histrionic talent. The play was presented under the auspices of the Elks. and was witnessed by a large and enthusiastic audience.
 J.. c. Sawtell and family, formerly of Montezuma. Ga. have moved to Troy. and Mir. sawtell will be connect ed with The Troy Messenger. Mr. Sawtsll has been engaged in newspaper work for a number of years, and has considerable ability in that line.
 Mrs. o. c. Wiley, wife of Congress- man Wiley of this District, and daugh- ters, Misses Olive and Lois Wiley, left this afternoon to be with Congressman Wiley in Washington for the rest of his term.
 Hon. K. B. Price, who was on the Bryan Special for several days during the recent campaign. is making an ef- fort to have Mr. Bryan stop at Troy when he passes through on route to Florida.
 Mir. James Brantley. who was seri- ousiy hurt late yesterday evening by stepping from a moving train, Is re- ported much better today, but is not considered out of danger.
 The negroes Shut Johnson and Eph. Brown, who were convicted at the special term of the Circuit Court here last week and sentenced to the peni- tentlary for life were carried to Pratt Mines. by Sheriff Cisna Carroll today, where they will begin serving their sentence.
 Deputy Marshals A. J. Collier and F. M. Sheehan brought to Troy this morning Jack Hubbard. charged with operating an illicit distilIery near Mad rid, in Houston County, and Sam Cole. man. charged with operating an illicit distillery near Cottonwood in Houston County. and both were arraigned in the United States Commissioners Court Coleman was bound over under Q s20O bond to await the action of the next Federal grand jury and Hubbard was committed to jail in default of ball.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

The Randolph News has appeared, bearing the familiar name of P. A. Jackson at the mast head. It, there rore. shows that one of the best week ly newspaper men in the State has made another move. The News is published at Roanoke. The people of Roanoke and Randolph County may congratulate themselves that MT. Jackson has taken up bis work among them. When 1t comes to running a newspaper he knows his business. He will not only publish a good news- paper, but the people of Randolph County will find that his judgment is sound on questions with which he deals in the columns of his paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
The Two-Cent Fare Proposition.

Houston Post.
 The statement of President J.. ". Grsyes Of s.d., the rexss ssds,sa,on ay1son T which he affirms the opposition of that body to the 2-cent fare proposition re- commended by the Governor in his an- titled to no little weight in considering the merits of the question.
 Since the members of this orgsniza. ton, composed as 1t Is Of highly in-
 sssns sahS o:. snd f ssp sais raSens railroad trains. 1t is improbable that they would array themselves In oppo- sition to any measure of public policy thsmselves, s. did they not foresee in it's ultimate working evils to more than offset any advantages to be gained Tor themselves and the public atlarge.
 on Thres f Ss ssS 1ss sos sociation unanimously adopted resolu- tions urging the Legissaturc to estah- fish 2ecent passenger fares in Texas by ssa.utSTy sars the the refused to adopt the suggestion. Since then not only have additional burdens been impoved on the railroads in the way of taxatiSn and Sraers t TOT tne ssvsre Sese panic has in the meantime reduced their earnings and arrested needed de- velopment in the way of extensions to new LefFttOTYs V
 "Traveiing men. as a rule. not being obstinately arbitrary" explains Pres ident Graves, "are amenable to reason. great many things had occurred to change their attitude toward this ques. tion since the Houston Convention. nos the least of which was the financial panic, which not only disturbed every business enterprise, but tested. tnelr endurance to the last degree. We re- alized that the railroads were confront- ed probably with more serious prob iems than any of the great industrial corporations, and we felt that in such an emergency it would be our part of wisdom to let well enough alone. While the travelling men wish to do Justice to the roads,-they also ask for ade- quate service commensurate with the
 Tn other words as viewed by the traveling men, improved service is more important just at the present time than reduced fares, and to require such improved service while at the same time crippling tfe financial abil- ity of the roads to respond to the de. mand therefor would not be the part of wisdom even though the roads may have offended by not fulfilling all of their promises to the public.
 As The Post has more than once af- firmed. legislation that proceeds from motives of retaliation is not such leg islation as the State of Texas can af ford to indulge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Fon rHn CouNrRY,s sAkr.

7 The Senate investigation of the act of President Roosevelt in permitting the merger of the Steel Trust with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company is to be dropped. It is to he dropped to save the President and the govern ment as well from grave embarrass- ment
 The guarded announcement sent out by the Associated Press from Wash ington conveys this information as gpardedly as possible. It is shown that the authorization of the merger by the President was in direct con- fiict with the antitrust laws and in furtherance of the plans of one of the largest trusts in the country. The investigation could hardly fall to show that a law had been violated, and before Its violation the consent of the President had been secured.
 The resolution originally passed by the Senate requesting the President to send in all the information it had ooneernins the Illegal merser was no doubt move on the part of the Sem ate in the warfare that the President has forced between the White House and the Capitol. But the shot brought down bigger game that 1t had ein- tended. It revealed more than even the Senate had expected. If pursued 1t would have revealed even more. .
 Attorney General Bonaparte flatly refused to go before the Senate Com mittee. He was fully alive to the sit- uation which, would have been re- ysaied had he given testimony. con- demning, In the mere recital of facts. the President of the United States of an unlawful act. The Presidents re- ply to the Senate was boiled down: T did it and I have no apologies to make. What are you going to do about it?"
 The Senate win do nothing. not out of fear of the President. for the day for that fear is passed, but 1t is going to do nothing because the s'en- ate Is more keenly alive to the na- tional honor than the President.
 The investigation will be dropped and the government can save It's face. It is a bad matter and the 4th of March is not far off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Questions Asked a Greek Professor.

RnlldueipHld tteCOFu,
 "In the course or a year l receive many letters asking me to. translate some Greek word or phrase into Eng fish or vice versa" said Dr. W. A. Lamb erton, professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. "One would expect these inquiries to cover a vast field and to require consider able learning to answer. but Tn real ity ninety-nine out of hundred of them will be about one of three sub jects, and take only most elementary knowledge of the language. The first ask for the correct translation of the word baptizo. This is the word used in the original of the New Tes- lament for 'baptize, and the letters on this subject come from ministers or lnquiring laymen, who wish to find out whether the word means to sub merge or merely touch with water, and thus ferret out for themselves, as they think. whether the method of baptizing adopted by the Baptists is correct. The second class of letters ask to have the word sweetheart or some synonym translated into Greek. presumably to be engraved on some love token, while the third ask for the Greek word for victory proba- bly to be included In the motto for an athletic club or something of that sort Thus, you see, I could tell any one of the translation of just three words and he could answer practical ly all questions which are asked a professor of Greek by strangers. and which on first thought would seem to Involve a vast amount of learning"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
LiIiey, of Connecticut.


 Governor Liliey. of Connecticut, has been amputated from his Congression- al salary. The operation seems not to have been entirely painless, but the task, and Lilley will have to get along hereafter with only one salary-that appertaining to the Governorship of me stase 1as ot asctSS SSden savsrnnr Nne Novem Der. He drew his salary as Repre- sentative for a month following that, and 1t must have been purely inadyer- tent that he did not draw It for two months. for he drew his stationery al- lowance and hls clerk hire for Decem- Der and wrote to the Sergeant-at-arms for his mileage. though he did not go Congressional duties in December He was engaged in arranging to escape a trial under the corrupt practices law tionai. and in other preparations for entering upon the Governorship. Yet he got his stationery allowance and his clerk hire as though he were serv- get mileage for journey he did not make.
 He says he resigned to the previous Governor. who dia not accept the res. 1t was not worth while to call a spe- cial election for his successor, because the man elected would have 90 short a supposed to have been the reason the resignation was not acted on. But no salary and allowances must be allowed to go to waste: If no one else were to he should not collect the salary and stationery allowance and clerk hire and mileage and any other incidentals there might be up to the end of his Congress sional term, although he would not go near Washington
 The House, which came very near ex- polling him for his unfounded accusa- : .,A kNrW. fv.-A ~R his colleagues and some newspaper correspondents felt little computation in cutting off his salary on the-day he was inaugurated Governor of Connecti- Cnt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
A Woman. Paper sn' CAln..

Of the many signs of progress in China, one of the most interesting is the editing and publishing of a daily newspaper by a woman named Mrs Chang a native of Pekin. After mar riage to a Chinese official she spent several years in Central China, where she learned much about the condition of the people, and subsequently,, upon the death of her husband, returned once more to her native city in North China. Meanwhile Mrs. Chang's mind had become intent on the progress of her country. and she courageously de- cided to start a daily newspaper for women, called The Pekin~ WomAn's News which, on it's own lines, is said to be without a rival In the whole world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
To Save the Fruit Trees. Troy MessenRer
GIFTS OF HEALING.
Rev. R. J. Burdefte Gives His v
 In NewRpaper Interview.


 in Newspaper Interview. Rev, Robert J. Burdett, b. D., as t-
 ported in Los Angeles (Cal.) Tir
 do not decry, nor do in the liz est way oppose. the gifts Of heall but do say they are very meager, poor, small, starving gifts, as we them and use them today. I dc forget, and I want none of you get that Jesus promised his d.--- that they should perform wonderful works. But we must not forget that the power to do these mighty works Ia predicted upon our absolute, soul-ab- sorbing, 'unquestioning belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God and the Savior of men.
 We cannot do mighty works In his name, so long as we deny the liEhtsst of his claims about himself. I do be- lieve-more than that--I know that the day will come when the tabernacle of God will be with men, and He will dwell with tn em. and they will be Ills people. and He will be their God, >''And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain" O golden day of God! But that will be when all the world has been drawn to Christ; has learned to believe in Christ as we believe in God. I tell you, my children, when we begin to work miracles of healing in the name and power of the exalted Christ, we won't dlnferentiate between functional and organic diseases, any more than the apostles did. We'll open the eyes the blind we'll restore the withd arm; we'll cure the incurable lepr we'll make the lips of the dumb cal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
This Date in History
January 2S.

17ss--Qeorge Handley became Gov ernor of Georgia.
 1S04--Jean Jacques Dessalines pro- claimed himself Emperor of Hayti.
 1a19-University of Virginia estab- lished.
 1S30--The Episcopal Diocese of Ala bamA organized at Mobile.
 1sS7-First numbeH of The New Or leans Picayune appeared.
 41--EarthQuake shock felt in New York City and vicinity.
 1e61--Loutsiana passed an ordinance of secession.
 1Se4-Henry NJ. Allen elected Con- federate Governor of Louisiana.
 1S72--Richard &. Ewell, Confederate General. died; born February 8, 1877.
 1SS2-Charles Guiteau sentenced to death for the murder of President Gar field.
 1905-The Conservative Party won in the Ontario elections.
 1soS-Sabine Lake canal in Texas opened to traffie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Sizes af Shoes.

New York Tribune.
 A national organization of shoe men has decided to standardize the sizes of shoes. But how can diplomatic sales. men in retail places be held to the numbers? Any clerk of months ex- perience will tell his boss that it is impossible to sell some women shoes that 1t their feet so long as the eor- rect sizes are indicated. Many sales man has fitted @ dainty pair of fem mine feet only to be told that the shoes are much too large. Sizes? Why, I never wore anything larger than a five in my life" That objec- ton is easy to meet. The clerk takes the shoes to the back ofssthe store, hieroglyphics on the soles, puts "5' under them and-the sale is made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
rhe PrpaiwaI,. aeturn.

Tno Deitneator. Martha had been naughty, so naughty that the punishment had been severe. Martha thought it too severe. and de. cided that she would run away from a home where people were unjust, un- reasonable and crueL She stayed away for two hours; then the bangs of home back. To her great surprise, there was no demonstration over her return; ;ev- eryone had been 50 busy that her ab- sence was unnoticed. Martha felt that something must be said. so in order to attract attention to her return. she re- marked:
 T see you have the same old cat. |"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
\ oueer Advertlaement.

some queer advertisements appear in the Australian papers. Here Is one Morning Herald: Wanted-Some kind person to adopt young gentlemen ab" solutely homeless ana deserted; pres- ent boarding house just sold out; guar. anteed harmless. Please be quick. |" Tt reads like a joke. but people as a rule do not pay advertisement rates for the publication. of their pleasant- ries." says The London Ghronicies
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
schencIr in Lnndon.

When General Sehenck, whose great est fame rests upon his having intFo- duced the game of poker in England, first arrived in London, as American Minister to the Court of St. IAmes. he the sights of the British capital Among other places he visited Mime. Tussaud's wax works. And what do you think asked a friend. ''WelI." replied the General, Tt struck me as being very like the ordinary English evening. par
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

A Texas paper declares that the number of insane people in Texas has increased to such an extent that the asylums are unable to meet the de- mands upon them. Having heard some Texans talk in the past few years we are prepared to accept the news of the growth of insanity as absolute ly authentic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Cabinet oacers.

CCh~bVA AAVHpy4 Ah IhO oShotCb S@NN-
 ary 12.
 The term cabinet officer" has no legal origin. They are not constitu- tional officers nor officers under the Constitution Of the United States. There has been no effort made here or elsewhere to direct a cabinet off cer. He has been directed as the head of an executive department. A man can be a cabinet ofiloer without be- ing the head of an executive depart ment. There is no law on the statute book which makes the Postmaster General a member of the cabinet of the President of the United States. What made that officer a member of the cabinet? It was 8 note of three lines from General Jackson to MT. Barry, then Postmaster General, re- quiring him, or inviting him, to att tend the cabinet meeting the next day and thereafter. The President can make every Assistant Attorney Gem eral every Assistant Secretary of the Interior, or Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, or elsewhere, cabinet offi- cers if he chooses to call them into council.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

Hard Times Coming. Rockford Chronicle. 'hs sDo a.aE Eooksr asw WsSinssona n school making ladies of all the ne- gro girls and Tom Heffinls anti-im- and and Dutch, we win ssSoah" have a hard time getting q washer-womana
 AnEchx's Worst Form.
 It Is very gratifying to note that night riding has cropped out in Ala bama in only a few isolated instances: anarchy and punishment should be meted out to the fullest extent of the law in every case where 1t Is proven that man took hand in it.
 
 Ready for Elmcre's Choice. Alexander City Outlook.
 It's Fillmore county's turn to nam the senator from this district, and al ready several of the foremost citi gems of our sister county on our south ern boundary have been suggested fo more's choice Is gcod enough for Tai. lapoosa. ft
 Your NeighbOr's Farm.
 Look over the fence and see if your neighboring farmer is preparing to put In good. corn acreage this year; to do along this line. Then you can come mighty near telling whether the farmer or the merchant is going to reap. the greatest reward for the years work.
 A Good Editor. Samson Ledger.
 A receiver has been appointed for The -Andalusia News pending the out ership. The News looks like good property. It has done much to build up Andalusia, and we are going to hope that Brer Doty owns 1t, for he belongs" to have a paper belonging to him.
 Newspaper sensatiOnalisna. Mobile Register.
 The story tisiegraghsd from Mobile stroyed by fire" goes marching on. The correction of this, false and in- furious report Is apparently so. fer in We request the newspapers that read this to print the correction. saying that but small part of the college session was net interrupted hy the loss. ss
 Cost To Alabama.
 Governor Conner says he no longer ernor," but prefers to be known as prohibition policy is to bring us all the disatser and distress than can be traced to his fool railroad regu- lation, then may the good Lord de- liver us. Comerism has cost Alabama millions of dollars in stopping the wheels of industrial progress It has Jackson to Mobile.
 -s +
 To Save the Fruit Trees. Troy Messenger. Boykin ovens, an attorney here, says that in passing about over the county he notes that many of the fruit trees are suffering from scales. Tn many places he says that nine out of every ten apple peach and plum trees are thus diseased. MT. Owens says that the government remedy for this is to take a pound of sulphur to a pound and a half of lime and fol- lowing that proportion to make a whitewash and use 1t on the trees and limbs which have scales. He says that this is a sure cure, and he has tried 1t upon trees and has seen the results,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

How to get rid of the rats is now an important question that is being discussed It would seem that the best way to get rid of the rats is to multiply the cats. Just how to get rid of the cats in their turn is another matter
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
One Planet Enough.

NII IItdbU NtWss
 Astronomers at Harvard are great ly excited because they think they are about to discover a new planet. However, Mir. Harriman's planet is suttlciently interesting for most of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
SWORN CIRCUI.ATToN,

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees it's tract when reons..sdI ths, y,Ss Saily circu. iation is larger than that of any mornins newspaper printed in Alakama-and that us 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., 1909-01-25

Money Ia accumulating In New York city more rapidly than at any time in the last two years. Banks are receiv- Ing much faster than they are paying, and Agood investments are being dill- gently sought in every direction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

An apparatus Is being built In Phtl- gation company that win pick up ca nal boats, lift them sixty feet into the air, and dump their contents into a storage pile. wharf. or into an- other vessel.
 Although more than l2s. .oOO.oOO pounds of rubber are used in the been given to its cultivation that the pure. article sells at 2l.50 2 pound. one rOf the highest prices paid for a sta- pie commodity.
 Prof. Percival Lowell announces that spectroscopic proof has been ob- tained of the presence of water on ha' the E scientific American, to settle Once @ 1n Lowelrs favor.
 News from vesseIs kn the Alaska per isued on the grounds of the Alas Iks Y ukon Pacific exposition. The Ppblisation will be known as the the and foreign news sreceived in Seattle by wireless.
 The new woman in China instead of following the example of her English and American sisters in railing against the tyranny of men. has re- volted against her relations-in-law.
  proclaims as it's abject rebellion against mothers-in-law."
 The new catalogue of Columbia Uni versity shows the total number of of- hcers of the administration and ln- struction to be 670; the total number of resident students, 5.62a; as against logue was published eight special funds have been created by specific gift or bequest.
 Briquettes of compressed calcium carbide have been prepared by H. K. Kofter of Vienna, and are claimed to be non-hydroscopic. keeping indefinite ly, and do not continue to give off gas made by intimately mixing finely granulated carbide with a binding ma terial and comprssslng in molds.
 pr. William S. Bigelow. who is re- sponslble for the cutting of the new United States. gold coins In intaglio in- stead of in relief, a new departure iI nunismatist. but the author of the re- cent book on "Buddhism and Immor- tality." He has given years of study to the literature of the Far East.
 Discussion arose at a meeting of the Ballycastle County Antrim) board of guardians on a letter from the local government ooara ara aSa1ns nsda o Wnat , 0rder letter from the board requesting that the paupers should be supplied with forks at meals. It was decided to in- form the local government board that the guardians did not consider forks necessary.-London Globe.
 Two Russian sailors, wishing to de- sert from their ship lying In the Tyne, England. took boat and rowed for the open sea. They took with them food and clothing and $500 In cash The flood tide set them inshore again and they tried to land. but the sea was running too high. For many hours ly their tiny craft was pitched upon the beach of Manhaven, near South Shields, Here they took refuge In a cave, where they lived four days and hsusted. Hunger drove them into the open and eventually they were arrest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

If each individual in New York city owned an equal portion of its real es- tate he would be worth in land $1,520, according to the assessed valuation.