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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
What the State Fapers
 Aye Saying and Doing


 Montgomery Had Some "Artasts."
 The gentle art of waiting in front of a, bar room for an invitation to take drink will now become lost art.
 Business Is Improving. Talladega Mountain Home.
 The l.. and N. Railroad has restored to their former amount salaries that Is an excellent indication of business improvement.
 - The Fatal Wounds. Birmingham Ledger.
 Judge Lane had to follow the law and declare the King bill dead. It's death was accomplished long ago. In turning over the body the wounds were found. either of which was fatal.
  E Wen Make It. SylMcauga Advance.
 The shortness of the Egyptian cotton crop. t is thought: yin greatly raise make the cotton ourselves. Let Egypt keep at her old trade of building pyr- amids and preserving mummies.
 Each Mans Duty. oneonta Democrat.
 The world Is gradually being re- formed. but the process would go on much faster if every man would begin with himself and not wait for the next man to start. 1t is so easy to see what others should do and usually so difn- cult to see our own duty.
 New Tax Commissioner. Mobile Register.
 art to be Tax Commissioner for Mobile County to succeed Mir, Fl. Minor Friend meets with approval Were. who recog- nize in MT, Touart a warm supporter standing in the community. He Is likely to discharge the duties of his office impartialy and firmly and fairly, which is all that can be desired in public official
 Good Time tO Swear on. Greenville Advocate.
 Right now is good time for the Alabama farmer to swear of buying Western corn and meat. Did our far mer friends eye. eyer stop stop to consider a tnst sf much on the price of cotton as 1t does on an abundance Of corn and meat In their own smoke houses and corn cribe1 With plenty of corn in the crib and 2 becomes ihdependent of outside aid and once free of debt. his corn crib and smoke house enables him to hold his chant who has advanced his supplies. The solution Of the cotton problem and a little thought will convince any one that this ia a fact. As long as Southern farmers buy Western corn at the price they paid this year they can not possibly hope 60 become inde- pendent. The Southern cotton planter is making the Western corn grower rich. It is time for this thing Go stop. We make the assertion without fear Southern farmers gave half as much attention to raising corn and meat as they do to raising cotton. there would not in the whole world be a more in- dependent set of men. This buying or meat and corn from the West should stOp. It is time Co swear O6
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

the killing power of an express bullet and were interested in the exact length of the Rooseveitian hunting knife. Now. however. these things have begun to pail. They don't seem to care whether the President intends to use his bis stick or s Gatling Rin when he goes after eiephants If it's all the same to him, they want . rest abcdt that excursion to Africa. Many of them look at 1t in the same light as The Seattle Post-InteIligencer. which recently said"
 No wonder these thinss have begun to pail on the public. That result should have been reached long since Sensible people do not care to be told day after day what kind and what number of guns he Is going to take with him, what Kind of ammunition lie will use. how hard he will pull the trigger, what kinds of beasts he in- tends to shoot. what he intends to do with them, and a lot of other rot of the same kind. For a time 1t was ali looked on as news by some Of the news gatherers, who evidently thought that evefythins done. said or thought by Roosevelt was considered of vital importance to the American people. As The Seattle Post says:
 President Rooseveits appeal to the Smithsonian irstitution for fnancisl aid in his African hunting expedition places him in the category of natural ists rather than mighty hunters" Africa to kill lions with his bare hands and to swing . rhineceros around his head by the tail. but it seems that he Is only going to kill some birds and hyehas and things to be stuned for a museum. Oh, pshawi
 Yes. also pishl likewise fudgel It has all been the rottenest kind of rot, and 1t is no wonder that sensible peo- pie are heartily sick of it. While it is true that Roosevelt himself should not bear all the blame, he has certain. ly been very largely responsible for the stuff that has been written about him and his proposed African trip. A large consignment of silence on the subject would be the proper thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

contemporary thinks it Is really disgusting that member of Congress should be valued only in proportion to the favors he can obtain for his con stituents. Yes. but sometimes his job depends on 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
Germany and soutA America.

Germany and the United States are and have been for a number of years on most friendly footing. Ana Ger meny seems less likely that ever to lump at an cpportunity--such as some may conceivd that Castro would facilItate---to secure a foothold in South America. We are not likely to tnterpreted in the way that her in- terventiou of 1909 in Venezuela was. Then many Americans declared that such action was clear evidence of her ambitions; that she would have pur- chaBed the Danish West Indies had she dared, and that the United States was prevented from buying them In 1902 The menace of Germany in South America is not political; 1t is commercial and sconorate only.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

The President, we are informed. will unless he bags at least two elephants and brings them back with him. If the natives wish to make themselves solid with Teddy they will have a couple of good sized elephants ready for him to shoot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

"This world will shrivel when the New England spirit dies out" predicts Governor Hughes. and The Richmond News Leader calls 1t "a rum predic- tion" And there are indications that 'the New England spirit" is taking on new life in some of the prohibi- tion States up there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

We are told that Claus spreckIes. who has just died. leaving a fortune estimated at &5o.O0O,OOO. landed in Charleston in 1s4s with just three dol- lars fin his pocket, and that was the foundation of his fortune. Good thing for him that he didn't land in Hous- ton. Texas with that much money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

Plainly some of the small fry of the infant industry class think Mir. Car negle isn't playing fair. After having become enormously rich through the tariffs protection he now wants to shut off all the others from it's beneft.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

That man spansier. who predicted that the world would come to an end or the last Saturday of the year jus, ended did a sort of split the diff. ference stunt when. he found his prophecy was false. As the world res fused to disappear he did the disap- bearing act himself. thereby escaping the coat, of tar and feathers that had been promised him, There's some times wisdom in getting out of the way at the right time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

Does the editor of The Advertiser mean to intimate that we are not prohis?" asks The Columbus Ledger. We were not intimating anything, but when people see July grAsshoppers in December others will draw their own concIuSlons.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

On last Tuesday occurred the one hundreath anniversary of the birth of Andrew Johnson-and few people re- member 1t or observed it. And yet he. through the vacancy made by the assassin's bullet, became President of these United States. Fats plays strange tricks st times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

Venezuela Is just few weeks ahead of us in getting rid of her dictator. We expect our deliverance tc come on the 4th of March next.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

The bells and whistles Of the city followed Tennyson's advice to Ring out the old. ring in the new." and made 6 whole lot of noise for a time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

The Ohio Senatorship seems settled and brother Charley will not be In the Senate to hold up brother Bill's hands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

At all events The New Year came in bright and fair-alsO dry--in Mont Eomsry. We are not saving what may eoras lstsS. A < -~.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
a,rnRN CIRCuL.ATION,

6WORN CtkCUL4AIIUN...1 ~. The Montgomsrf Advertiser epAfapt1rsS IA itA advertissrs tand masss ] ! RssS. S.sm 9 eir. ts dslRtior Ia larger than that of Any mofnins usIspaper printed in -Aiabama--and lhsi ,s l.s &u6day edition has the tafEess slsSe,s1'H sllsSSe,Ss1 .H of anv edition of any newsp&pef pfsnsse " Aiabama without excsptions AI.x &st.a. The figures for November prinsse .l, pn'Us gs. represent the actual net ctrcu'auon ~'
 turns having been deducted. ... .-.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02

Me2 Daily Ayera@s, November, lsgs as,Sssss s.-.-z ------ d I. Finiean, cifcalation MaEeker os The 1fohtromery Advertiser, being duly ewoFns Ths foregoing statement Of Ths Aaysf- 4s6exa' circulation for the month gf Novem- 6Kf, 1908, is true and eogrecL and eompneo agents. spoiled and isftsover eepass s~vs been deducted. ..a
 e. |. FINIcAN. Circulation ManaEsr;
 sworn to and subscribed before mo this E<H 6av oe December. feee. .....a
 HTcA ALEXANDER. Notary Puehe
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
Threush tAs Mail Bsg: ...

December 30, 1908 Mir. Phil Armstrong:
 was glad to see your picture in Sundays Advertiser--for I. like many. had wondered how you looked. have enjoyed your writings so much and some carried me back to my child hood days in my old home. I wish you a happy New Year. Some day may you find a good and lovely wife who will love and cheer you in your old age.
 blue eyed blonde. but am an old lady aged f4 with . big heart full for Sum
 Respectfully,
 Mrs M L B.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27

mo. The boys IN the gallery
cheered so that they fused him. and
he thought l was fruit. We shook
hands, and he turned his head to snarl
at the applause, and, seeing an open.
ing, / smashed him hot clip in the
chin. and he tumbled backward and
broke the ring rope. l vaulted the
orchestra and bolted, and when the
boys finally found me was over near
Waterbury under barn. Eli wouldn't
stand for it, and back went to the
button factory: and here I am, sir, by
the grace of God, an ignorant man."
How did you find your way here,
Gillespie?" demanded.
81 suppose l ought to explain that"
he replied. l waited while he re.
Elected for a moment. He seemed to
be quite serious, and his brows wrin-
killed. as he pondered.
II guessed 1t about half and for the
rest. l followed the heaven kissing
stack of trunks"
He glanced at me quickly, ah
though anxious to see how I received
his words.
Have you seen anything Of Henry
Hoibrook in your travels: Be careful
nov; ! want the TRUTH
Il certainly have not. hope yeu
dent think Gillespie hesitated.
TITS not a matter for thinking O.
guessing; I've got to know.r
ION my honor have not seen him.
and have no idea where he is"
l had thrown myself into q chair
beside the couch and lighted my pipe.
My captive troubled me. 1t seemed
odd that he had found the abiding
place of the two women; and if he
had succeeded so quickly, why might
not Henry Holbrook have equal luck!
you probably know this trouble
some brother WELL" yentured.
Yes; as we'll as man Of my age
can know an older man. My fathers
place at Stamford adjoined the Hol-
brook estate. Henry and Arthur Hol-
brook married sisters; both women
died long ago, believe: but the
brothers had business row and went
to smash. Arthur embezzled, forged.
and so on, and took to the altitudinous
timber, and Henry has been busy
ever since trying to pluck his sister.
He's wild on the subject of his wrongs
ruined by his own BROTHER deprived
of his inheritance by his sister and
abandoned by his only child. There
wasn't much to Arthur Holbrook;
Henry was the genius, but after the
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27

wss r..ir;' and yetS1n my heart I was
lily row about money was ugly at
best; and an unfortunate-even
criminal-father may still have some
claim on his child.
Then, as against such reasoning,
the vision OF Miss Pat rose before me
and I felt whatever chivalry there
is in me arouse with rattle of
spears. Paul Stoddard, in committing
that dear old gentlewoman to my care,
had not asked me to fall in love with
her niece; SO, impatient to be thus
swayed between two inclinations,
chirruped to the horse and galloped
swiftly over the silent white road.
The whole region was very lonely,
and now that the beat of hoofs no Ion
ger rang in my ears the quiet was op-
pressive. / struck through the wood
and found the creek, and the path be-
side it. The little stream was still
murmuring its own name unsteady.
with perhaps softer note in defer
ence to the night: and following the
path carefully came in few min
utes to the steps that linked the cot
tage with the houseboat at the creeks
edge. 1t was Just there that I had
seen Helen Holbrook. and stood
quite still recalling this, and making
sure that she had come down those
steps in that quiet out-of-the.way cor.
ner of the world, to keep tryst with
her father. The story -and-a-half cot.
tage was covered with vines and
close-wrapped in shrubbery. A semi
circle of taller pines within shut the
cottage OF completely from the high
way. craHled through the cedars
and walked along slowly to the gate.
near which post supported sign.
board. l struck match and read:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27


bank went to the bad he sought the
consultations of rum. He and Henry
married the Hartridge twins who were
the reigning Baltimore bellies in the
early 'S0's-so runneth the chronicle.
But ! gossip. my dear, sir; I gossip,
which is against my principles. Even
the humble button king of Strawberry
Hill must draw the line"
When lima brought in a plate Of
sandwiches he took one gingerly in
his swathed hand, regarded it with
cool inquiry, and as he munched it, re-
marked upon sandwiches in general
as though they were botanical speci-
mems that were usually discussed and
analysed in scientific spirit.
''The sandwich" he began, mot I'M
happily expresses one Of the saddest
traits of our American life. I need
hardly refer to our deplorable nation
al habit Of hiding our shame under
blithe and misleading exterior. Chick
en- sandwiches in some parts Of the
world are rather coarsely marked, for
purposes Of identification, with pin
feathers. You may covet no nobler
fame than that of creator of the Fly
ing Sandwich Of Annandale. Yet the
turesque, points rather too directly
to the strutting lords of the barnyard.
A sandwich that is decorated like
fall bonnet, that suggests, We will say,
the milliner's window-or the plumed
knights of sounding war"
With little sigh, a slow relaxation
Of muscles. Mr.. Gillespie slept. 1
locked the doors. put out the lights,
and tumbled into MY own bed as the
chapel clock chimed two.
In the disturbed affairs of the night
the blinds had not been drawn, and
/ woke to find the room flooded with
light and my prisoner gone. The doors
were locked as l had left them. Mr..
Gillespie had departed by the win
dow, dropping from little balcony
to the terrace beneath. rang for
lima and sent him to the pier; and
before had finished shaving tho boy
was back, and reported Gillespie's
boat still at the pier, but one Of the
canoes missing. It was clear that in
the sorry plight of his arms Gillespie
had preferred padding to rowing. BE.
meath my watch on the writing table
l found sheet Of note.paper on which
was scrawled:
Dear Old Man: am having one Of
th?se Nightmares I mentioned in our de-
lightful conversation. 1 feel that / am
about to walk In my sleep. Az my nan
nels are trife buggy, pardon loss OF
your dressing-gown. Yours.,' RQ
P. 81 am willing to pay for the glass
and medical attention; but want a re-
bate for that third sandwich. 1t really
Ucked. TOO =. harshly ~ It, vent down.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27
CHAPTER v.
A Fight on q Houseboat.

At ten o'clock I called for horse
and rode out into the night, turning
into the country with the intention
Of following the lake road to the re.
gion I had explored in the launch q
few hours before. All was dark at
st. Agatha's as I passed. No doubt
Helen Holbrook had returned in due
course from her visit to her father
and, after accounting plausibly to her
aunt for her absence, was sleeping the
sleep of the Just. Now that thought
Of the matter in all it's bearings, &C.
cused myself for not having gone
directly to ST.. Asatha's from the lone
ly house on Tippecanoe creek and
waited for her there, demanding an
explanation Of her perfidy. She was
treating. Miss Pat infamqusly; that
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27

canoes. carefully covered with tar
paulins, lay about the deck. and chairs
were drawn up close to the long. low
house in shipshape fashion. II this
houseboat was the canoe-maker's shop
he had chosen q secluded and pictur.
esque spot for 1t.
As leaned against the rail study.
ing the lines of the house, heard sud-
denly the creak OF an oarlock In the
stream behind, and then low voices
talking. I drew back against the
house and waited. Possibly the ca
noe-maker had been abroad, or, more
likely, Henry Holbrook had gone forth
upon some michief, and my mind flew
at once to the two women at st. Aga.
tha's, one Of whom at least was still
under my protection. The boat ap.
preached furtively. and I heard now
very distinctly words spoken in
Italian:
Have a care; climb up with tho
rope and I'll Follow"
Then the boat touched the platform
lightly and second later man
climbed nimbly up the side. His com.
panion followed. and they tied their
boat to the railing. They paused now
to reconnoiter-so close to me that I
could have touched them with my
hands-and engaged in a colloquy.
The taller man gave directions, the
other replying in monosyllables to
show that he understood.
go to the side porch Of the cottage.
and knock. When the man comes to
the door tell him that you are the
chauffeur from an automobile that has
broken down in the road, and that
you want help for a woman who has
been hurt"
yes, sir"
"Then-you know the rest"
"The knife-it shall be DONE"
have made it the rule OF my life.
against much painful experience and
the admonitions of many philosophers,
to act first and reason afterwards.
And here 1t was case Of two to one.
The men began stealing across the
deck toward the steps that led up to
the cottage, and with rather more
zeal than judgment took step after
them, and clumsily kicked over a
chair that fell gathering wildly. Both
men leaped toward the rail at the
sound, and / flattened myself against
the house to await developments. The.
silence was again complete.
"A chair blew over" remarked one
Of the voices.
There is no wind" replied the 9TH
or, the one l recognized as belonging
to.athe leader.
(To be Contlnued.)
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milty: 1 make it life work to hide
the fact that I was baptized Regi-
nald."
1--WE been expecting you, Mr. Giles
pie. and now I want you to come over
to my house and give an account Of
yourself. I will take charge of this
man, Andy. I promise that he shan't
set foot here again. And, Andy, you
need mention this affair to no one."
Very good, sir"
He. touched his hat respectfully. =,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27
RED GATE.
r. PARTRIDGE.
Canoc-Ma.ker.
Tippecanoe. Indiana.

This. then, was the home of the
canoe-maker mentioned by lima, L
found his name repeated on the rural
delivery mail box affixed to the sign
post. Henry Holbrook was probably a
boarder at the house-it required no
great deductive powers to fathom
that. I stole back through the hedge
and down to the houseboat. Several
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-27

very 1rKeiy rilre ACQUIRES Tor N: sonnam-
bulism. q
When had dressed and had my
conee locked my old portfolio and
tossed it into the bottom of my trunk.
Something told me that for a while.
at least, 1 should have other occupa-
tion that contributing to the literature
OF Russian geography.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-01

We refer any who care to know
more of the efficiency of our work to
Honorable Jere M. Pound, our own
State School Commissioner; Profess
sor E. G. Branson, Athens, Ca; Rev.
]. T. Smith, of Dublin, who is our
County School Commissioner. Our
best recommendation could be given
by the members of our local board or
members of our Rural School I'M
provement Club.
One member of our local board
said, eve have the best school on
earth" Another said, There is
none such" The occasion was a
public educational meeting held re-
Gently in the school.
Address all communications to
Miss Emma Perry, Principal Dublin,
Ca, r. F. D. No. I.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-01
III

The new administration went for
ward with power unshakable, with
an uprooting profound. The city
was cleaned as it had never been
cleaned before. AS for the Levee,
the ministers of the town created an
agitation on their own account, de-
claring the spot a danger to morality,
a violator of decency. No less than
ten neighbors of that noisome region
openly avowed, with joint threats of
an action in court, that the Levee
was an intolerable public nuisance.
More than this, the greasy frame ed
ifices were within the fire limit, where
the law declared no wooden house
should be. They menaced, then, the
very existence of respectable edifices.
Hodge awaited himself of these facts
and the Levee was doomed. There
came chill fall day when a ripping
and hammering resounded on Green
street. Many good people, including
Judge Hayden and Isabel, walked
by and gazed with commentator on
of the seats of evil. Every board and
brick was swept away, the ground
was leveled, and the site of that
whilom builded wickedness was as
desert and fiat as a dead Gomorrah.
There would be erected thereon
honest edifices, monuments to The
Chump and decency.
This and other acts made a celeb
rity of Hodge, which spread over
that section of the state known as the
Pocket. Heating was with this
spreading force and made it stronger.
That Hodge was a chump was yet
an indisputable fact in the minds of
many. But there he was, not to be
ignored, sun rolling up through the
murk of the horizon.
That change which in many parts
of the United States began to take
political power and political fights
away from what is called the upper
class, was working in thousand
towns. One other change, more ap-
parent, affected Princeton as it af
fected thousand others, the change
which brought very young men to
the front. On the crest of one of the
first waves of this sort, Hodge rode,
SWeDt I'D like a log on a new strand
After a struggle in the convention
of the first district between two
bitter opponents, behold Martin, un-
ruff1ed, suddenly comes forth the