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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

HYHE treasured half peanut kernel lss
 flat against fhe from teeth. Beh'nd = hr smngly virtaoas lips the teeth Snvisfbly nibble, sqaivel-like, at tt surface, spery saVory morsel releasing to the tongue yhe exqaisife richness tantamoant to boys sense of perfect enjoyment. s
 Behind thf eyes, deVouiiy fxed apon sH1t hated figure sohence proceed sonnds 50 Ehtsligible yet SO nnheard, the soul has sfrayed from fhe prison t loathes and has accomplished the miacle of transmigration isfo the sacred dust of old Israel Putnam, nges dead and eaten Of svorpns.
 The jasps of the traditional s0olf's dc" sacompass him; the jasvs of the sOof siaver nsd gape.in ibe flicker of tke toseh; fhe fer Ful eyes glare tteir defaace before ti'e b0svid spring.
 Steadilp the7 old fintlock rises to the shoulder, steadily the eyes of the ReVofntion,s ASro drasV bead betsceen the tod balls of fire he 50 danntlesSly eOnfromts; fhs steady fHger pHlls trigger 4 deafeaing foaf-7aHd f''e feacher's asufuI voice demaads:
 "WiHie Green, sohere have your >sVitsi gone woolgathering noscy
 Another cherished traditioe of chiidhood falls in ruins, and al of is reality that re- snains amid the Meeting chaos, is the. picture Df the s0olfs den thafinspired II. u .
 Worse, far loorse, is Happening Scih Paul Reuere and his famous ride; scorsfe, far sgorse, scith Sheridan aud his; only fhe lie is geft of Washington and the sacred cherry yree-amd, for al the good ittle girls soh0 are being born into the .soOrld uifh taste for fancy sescing, sohat, alasf is 10 become of the glorious legend of Betsy Rossg, Strange, ism'tH, ho0O modern iconoelasts, Eke some latter-dGy Don QHisofe. are ehGrg- ng pellmeH into onr most highly cherished traditions, hosv they are emdcaporing 10 oVer- throo the most picturesque incidents that made history pleasant 1elien sUe spent to school and since?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

the most important one, was rank seoTne-on. You see. it wasn't the fault of the thought cure it my own. because T. couldn't think hard enough. The professor told
 rightly 1t from Provdence-the Providence that's in Rhode Island, haven't noticed any Provi- dence like that around here There an old geezer ers S @ s%a Ga 6ss bSdns rvssS sssa in D s$ been doing II for nye years could Slgest dongnuts would anything from catalepsy to corns Seem ed to me it must De sand I needed; so tried it. cure was agitatng the community while k was at my turned myseif into competition the Atlantic ocean and failed to put it out of business only because
 While I, was cOnyalescing. some freak artist in New York drew picture of himself n rocking iings accOmpanisd by thrilling tale of an ItaaG tree limb, where he had climbed to die That rocking the American woman has survived the soda fountain
 T was on the verge of locemotor ataxa when the physical culture fad broke loose and announced that hsofs tailand go to sleep as sweetiy gentle babe Why? Why this enormity of & &dsgutison and python in the inscTptable intuition provided by na sDid crawl? Say uo made it rule to aquirm all. the Beloochistan bargain rug had In my bed- suits of pajamas and fourteen square inches of skin
 I'm on the vegetarian diet new and 9e before o l9ns aboriginal ape-nothing but nuts l @ come into res scenes of your boyhood and feeling sorrowfuy happy among the dear old associations of ham and, with
 "sometmes if my terrible career se warning, my course of remedies can proF'F cure, gaze with mingled disgust and compass me benighted human like you. eating pie and .'th To what is that wan countenance that iea:. of foe that gnaws at my depleted vitals-dyspepsia Is 1t not so?" .,,,u o.o ..,s.,,.r taa F. ,n my fife But don't stop. 60 right on and TT listen while get away with my second piece of pie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

moved In rhythmic beauty, responsive to her jaws
 When. at last. admitted that there might be something to the habit beyond the aimless rumnation of the cow she gave the laugh of gay dsdain and told me ips that touched chewing gum touched hers they were too effeminate. It was choice be- tween gum, and terrible ahftcton tied me the gum. , A.. ,,..
 sBut it was only palliative for my nervous tone was lowered by the ineffaceable memories oa those r9oy % lbs my sufferfngs compelled me to torego. It was just then that the thought began to echo along the distant welkn and sounded in my ears new strains of hope -. = 4. ... my dyspepsia, other to make forget. thoge faithiess lips The second thought asssted by blonde
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
PICTURESQUE REFRIGERATION


 It took poetry, and good poetry to send him sig ziing along twenty miles of road where there were really only about dozen, with the air shuddering ana the guns booming. and the army running the wrong way, and bully old Sheridan hitting it up Ickety through miles of stanzas until he saved the day. Bang! You used to could almost the bombs bursting square under his heroic nose.
 Those poets, have been pretty fierce anyway, taking liberties with history and getting everybody subscribe grand old of tradition that only partly happened at best, and leaving room for crowd of backbiters so shocking around. years aftsrward for evidence to prove that nothing ever happened to make life worth living.
 Look at Paul Revere We all knew about Paul from the time big enough to want a horse of our own for use similar emergencies. There he was enshrined solid as -the Bunker Hil monument and q good heroic lookng.e
 Where is he now?, Just ordinary patriot of the extraordinary breed they able to raise in those days-an express rider for the committee of safety and various patriotic deeds-but by no means the the particular Lexington ride so magnio- quently embalmed in by Longfenow
 Revere himself a quarter of century after the event. made mention of 1t in letter over his own
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
"shoot if you must this old gray head; But spare your country's nag! she saId.

~ooR old Barbara. Molly Pitcher. serving the cannon all day long the gory field of battle
 never came within several Snillion votes of Ear
 bara's popularity although she was so authsn- kie that they blew her into glass bottles and milk pitchers.
 MolIy-during her swaggering lifetime erstwhilS ycept Moll-survved long that her plain humanity outwore the brightness of her heroism; even Wash" tngton a mortal to his neighbors. And, oesides' hadn't any Whittiers then to play poets laureate
 But Barbara Frietchie had both feet in the grave of old age when General Stonewan Jackson rode through Frederick City, Md, with his troopers Like some modern, octogenaran Joan of Arc, having seen her duty it, sshe stepped elegantly into the apotheosis of the hereafter with the great John Greenleaf Whittier forming for her an aureole or glory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

((- HIS,' said his mentor, he inserted a paral- " telegram of chewing gum between the roses
 of his checks was my hrst hopeful rem
 edy, as it is my last, desperate resource. You who look will not believe that am the victim of ineurable dyspepsia which made free with my previously mpeceable personality from the very hour when became of age and admitted to the seductive but emouments of the free lunch downfall.
 My best girl, whom had often rebuked for her indulgence in the vugarity gum, had over me that strange mysterious influence which is the attribute of best girls and hypnotism alone. believed her. put my youthful faith in her fair. fond face as t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
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the stu more convincing portrait of brave, Old Put himself.
 And if o Idol Breakers the spirit of mercy be not In you-if you dare violate this last of bcyhoods srinssbsware the revolt of souls that hays already borne too much. of who have suffered over long. Paul Revere you send back to his silver smiths bench; the too virtuous George you may rob wholly of his childhood tabled and leave him to boyhood to hnnanize; Sheridan you dismount. and make him walk. if you want to- Barbara Frietchie you can bury as you please. unhonored and unsuns Isut refrain from laying vandal hands upoH Putnam of the ssclfs dsn For has, 1t not besn wrtten-and of one who was only woman. much less a man hero
 <. ..Nho touches one ycP gray head
 At Dies Sos March on!" he said a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
Are the Picturesque Incidents of History Doomede

HVHE treasured haif peanut kernel Ass
 eat against ihe from teeth. Beh'nd h fhe smugIy girtaoHs lips fhs teeth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

to all heroes Between the hammers of the iconocasts and the righteous and unrightsous Of the col iegs professors escaped historic annthilation only by the skin of his teeth
 The controversy over Paul, thus far. does permit. him existed: beyond that-wei. hereafter. when any Boston schoolboy rises to remark in. Long fellow meter. Paul Revere desperately rode. every super-cutured audience win the Inspiring apparition he svokes only through veil of pterroga tion marks ...ea71sae- ars-
 As for Washington and the cherry tree, perhaps now after the smoke of that historic battle has blown away. leaving the Idol smashers triumphant amid traditions ruins. would be hard to find boy in the land who will single regret What good was the miserable cherry tree. after all: and what's any fellow but born sneak going to do about it, specially when his old man has caught him with the xoods9 Now if Georges father hadn't had him dead to rights or if George'd had sister say. to blame it on and then had truth why that ought to have got him a gold medal and showed him up front as a regular teachers pet % s.--e .ssF a''z
 One tale does remainthe wolf hunt tof old Israel Putnam, Of all these thrilling deeds that is one which has most luckily the poets And of all anong then,hecaalHe 1t justsseerns to happen in the course of school study and isn't amed into fellow as though it some insignificant date or q chunk of geoxraphyit enters most naturally most humanly
 into the heart of to take its honored place side by side with the eternal. undenlabe truths of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the sea ana
 Fearless Fred the Free Tighter or erenont oft or the Crying Cruelties of the Craven Kickapoos"
 It is modern iconoclastc history's one sop to the Cerberus the boy must maintain in his eyes as ne atares unseengly in the face of the tyrsRt teacher who would make him wise where he asks only to be happy It Is the half of a half peanut Whlcn. Eouirrelfke he can still nibble until its perfumed hasheesh of youth waits him back to tne %tauSsne
 and the ,nintlock of his ancestors .x1 ,-
 If doubts arise he can always turn to that I'm posing engraving of the den and lip the p@ess "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

for model and how she did 1t. and how you knew you'd set the hoot if you spoke it that way7
 Perhaps no one side of the Barbara Friet- chic eyer be convinced that the other side is right.
 or take Betsy Ross, A few months ago, right in own oity Philadelphia, after the public had subscribed to keep the naghouse from the fate rental the of trade. or the desc cratins odorseof liver ana enions-whieh Betsy must have 1healhiIy sniffed tims within It's walls while she alive and had her appetite with her who should come along but lot of iconoclasts who wanted to prove 1t nearly all fable.
 Or. take sheridans ride? Remember that the recitation your detested rival chose: the minute he put in for 1t you knew that whttiers Barbara Frietche" didn't have bit of the ginger in 1t that you had counted on swhen you drew first choces Re- member he hit it up beat the band from the very first lines ~
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 Remember how your inmost soul re3oiced as in his waxing excitement. he reverted to the mistake which, you imagined. had drilled out of him. and pronounced it "chieftyun's." and how you said to yourself. Well. that settles him"9 s@ Is
 What they say of sheridan's ride nowadays? Tutampiy tNtsa At least the eonoclaatie Don ouix- otes doM A ~a
 He'd been to Washington, and got as far as Win chester with portion of his stan. pretty tired and hungry and thirsty, about nightfa runs the story it is told in the pretty Virginia valley city They stopped the Taylor House and repaired dam ages; nobody got up until about 10 o'clock the next morning. 1hdnlging what was only ooquettish ap- petite breakfast, they mounted and rode peace fully up the> valley to Mddletown, ten miles away where Sheridan straggers asked the trou- ble learned it and only then "got moye' on him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

had become Interested in the new breakfast
 A. food. I've all ready to admit that our distinguished inventor is correct when. he insists upon the of wheat flour and barley -four as the most nutritious combination that be in- serted into the human economy But let4as remember that in order to feed the population well we must 'do 1t at d which swill,'at least keep from '. aFsgs E-fcF .lStsClSstaz
 @our problem is the smanufacturs of the best break fast food which upon seale be sold at the lowest price Our costs of maRufaeture a1d dis trbutlon are definitely estimated. The wheat flour win stand us s2 per hundredweight, the barley flour 80 cents per hundTedweignt. We've got to sell it S22e per hundredweight in order to clear the teFia costs of manufacture and distribution our profit all told amounting to 48% per The question is in what proportion afford to mix by. hundredweights. wheat barley Hours?
 'T4et call upon treasurer the solution of this important problem" Z r
 What did the treasurer say?
 Answer to tine problem of the four coal beavers, Andy" could handle in hours, Buck" ir six hours. MiiIigan in twelve hours. McMehael in teen hours
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"Dyspepsia ehl Very sight of' it chokes you, and all that sort of thing. Don't worry; I'll change my table"
 The pink-cheeked martyr raised plump hand, detainingy:
 Don't! I can bear it, in the interest of sci ence. Let me, if my warning prove of no avail, tell you of a cure"
 'You're on, Abou ben Adhem," remarked the pie eater as he tackled the crust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
Problem of the New
 Breakfast Food

(fM vow, gentlemen" remarked the inancier who ~S NJ had become interested in the new breakfast X v food, i've are all ready to admit that
 diatihsnishad inventor ia correct when he
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
Now, WILL
HOLDANAN
Be GOOD?
ans esANpsrANo, sslts
,'eNrrs, AND rRouHtt
STARTS.


az ANGELES. july . OWING
" .ss ls.lra Of , h iinldmnu of
.s pafs. to CLEAN q 'Cw thm
~ ,..s ihe automobile farea
~ scheduled Coz tomorrow
~. .,, splts war Is IA pWsrras 70.
n.,msen ilolimHn and those
~. ths automobile races
n.,lnsu 10 crcc'ins a afse
.',a.isrd on The eoafse. and has
IA, N. snme i,50a tickets The
a,, iioidmans enterprise af
~ sale OF tiekets for their
.. .i caused the automobile
a. N n plaa the erection OF q hlsh
Y. v 4, sirlp Of land directly
7 ", ~, a. uoldmans grand iaud
IN ~ santa NeHiya autheft
I. ,eesle to the rngncst ut the
'.', Z, men. lloldmanr eland-
~ ,,als viii cntIile ih' Aoltlefs
X, ~ privilege solely ct hearing
I. -. whir BY IN such ease
p,eaabls that tho ques'
m % into The courts
e,,rrss Il graft fesardins the
80 4 toolh cnncasaipua giuue
4. ,sarss arr iilllHs The uir An
y, n vrudars Of rQmou, pea
N. ianaics and other varieties
/, an i eiamnflas for priv.
=. ~ elalmlng that myuHed
go are rceelylns ehulec laea=
- caarlaiut Is heins made
4, ,hsi one Of the turns ~ the
~, 4 - sharp that accidents
IA K unasoidahle, aad ns a Pre-
49, NJ shlef Of police 1ns 1eea
~ % keep the tafa irc from
cftlqrs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

This muFnlng At the Aoofc the
sale Of season tickets for the i've
performances Of the kirmeas b..
gan, with a long line Of buyers
before the window An those Who
purchase season tickets viii have
the initial choices Of seat locations
and will BE- assured 81 choice seats
for all performances. the coupons.
Of course. being transferable TO any
relatives or ffienda whom the eur.
chaser Nishca 10 send, The sale Of
reserved seats for single perform.
ances Of tho "Kirmexs" will start
Monday morning The "kirmesa"
will be given four nighis and a
Saturday matinee. starting next
Wednesday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

sparsiial. wagnefa famous
mt site musledtama. Will be- the
theme o. Mar ilcludela address IN
Arcade hall Second av near Union
e. tonight at O'Clock Il will be
Illustrated BY aet Of 90 beautiful
eolored lantern views. witch give
a comprehensive idea ef how the
opera ~ presented Al the Wagner
theatre 10 nAreuth. Germany. Mt
Horace Appleton Wlll render a mum
Der % instrumental selections from
the score Of sPHrslihl Admission
Il free.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

short an appreciation Of thc nef
liable homer Of maternity
FtW women are there today who
hold such views, and ao-wo have
afaee aulcidc
tut O narrow viewpoint IL not
the only cansr for the falling of
OF ieponulaiiou among the so.called
upncr claHaea MAny women ahun
the personal deprivaiinns incidon.
tai to maternity Then agniu, eco.
numlc conditions are. / bollcye. q
powerful factor In race suicide
A child meahu an added aul .
constantly Increasing drunght upon
The family purse, aud In many
cases paroniHge Ia avoided ON that
ground
LASTLY there are few men aud
women who have NO high an ideal
Of The duties. difficulties and 70.
Apouslblllilca Of parenlhood that
they avoid II On that account
Needless 10 say. they are the very
people best adapted To become
parents
Il Is my own conviction that the
wnman who does not desire To be.
come u mother should not be nd.
slHed 10 become a mother simply
because she would not make a good
mother An unwolcome child la
handicapped before birth. and often
feels the curse Of parental aversion
ell through hia lie.
To persuade the deliberately
ohildlcsa woman TO become q moth.
cr would be impossible. and, even
II not impossible, would be unwisa
Time Will hring better economic
conditions, simpler habits. wider.
noblef Ideals And In that day the
sacred act Of maternity will again
hocome the ambition u women. not
their task
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
ENGINEERS ARE IN
SESSION AT FAIR

The Pacific Northwest Society Of
Engineers assembled iu convention
THIS morning ut tho Good Roads
building on the AsY,p. exposition
gfuuuds and wlil continue In SOC
sion tomorrow The program TO,
day inciHiisd papers by Prof Minor
Roberta. q The state university. on
The Mineral Industry Of the North
vcat. and a paper prepared by r.
!. Coadon. Of Chicago. on @Cuirerts
and Retaining Walls Yesterday
the delegaies visited E,aEle lIarhor
and hrsmeriou. going through the
cr'osqiilg vurka al the former
place and the navy yard at tho
latiof.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
SUICIDE

Motherhood means more than
mere child bearing For mother
hood Is a srlrltual experience tho
most exalted ever known TO man.
hind. but child bearing 10 mora
rh1fialoeir act
Motherhood means o. ionusly an.
tclpated and lultlligonuS prepared
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

aepnant. hitherto unknown. de.
clares he will Initiate the gas bag
With every foot Of gas II will oaffs
and STAY In the air AZ long 90 Il la
possible without sublecting himself
to too much danger Then he viii
cut loosc In his parachute. Eddie
Davidson. who has made tho best
records for hiEh flights at the park
this season. has caused a certain
jealousy among other Eas bag rid
orz. and the new man proposes II
possible 10 gather a few lanrols for
himself BY beating Davidson. There
viii be- a flighl sunday night.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

oRcAs. Wash. July william
CLARK. one Of the oldest pioneers
In the county died at his home
near here. Ab0u, cikhtrsn months
ago Mr. CLARK was stricken with
paralysis and had been helpless
ever since.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
BALLOON RESCUED;
WILL FLY AGAIN

The Luna Park balloon. which
last Sunday lodged on The only
limb az the Ycrt top u a tt0fnot
cedar tree IN schmiiE Park. All
fuint vas taken down YESTERDAY
Afternoon. after expert climbers had
worked all week with cables. tackle
and ropes The loose bark made
climbing extremely hazardous. and
Dot unttl special steel climbers we're
made was II possible to ascend the
tfee.
On Sunday Afternoon that balloon
viii be used IN an effort 10 break
It's ewa record In hlgh flights The
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

beginning newt Sunday steam will
be abandoned a. a means u loco
motion In the Cascade tunnel. &c
eoFding to a party Of Great North
efn officials Who len fof the tunnel
In private car 10 oversee the final
Installation Of the motors Freight,
as well a. passenger trains. viii use
fleetriclLI.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
M sURRENDERS
INTER- YEARS TIME

las ANGELES, Cal inly -
a. ssusslirr with bis conscience
\ rcrt than q year " T. Cfnck
q rnenaeTsd TO right impulses
z. t.las 4 ia the eltY pflsna.
~ IL police are Hreparlng TO
~ ~ Pccaisllo Idaho, author.
~ 4 be mans arrest.
,suf.lng 10 Detective Flammef,
1 y,or cFpeAtii surrendered him
u NJ tsshi, Crockett declared
I'll y ~ 1 fusiilve from justice.
j. nsid nat he had sold a
vrs ,simrins 10 a firm for whom
n, spskiss for tsfb, and with
d ~ renl 10 Salt lake City.
f,nA uefked for Caraicnsea
X sI-saa and entertainments are
tlzr4 % lave occurred there
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
IITs SISTER BARRED


LONDON. July BY a vote o.
moi, he church eouncil. which
n 1''entsd b. the leading Dish,
NJ slsrzI aEd laymeH q the church
1uf'sad today declared that mar.
~ 3 : deesafed v.fes sister. re-
40 lssallzsa 10 this country. vas
rka1 70 iAe moral rules u the
ei<2 and to the principles u the
r'Flns Furthermore. the use
4 q eizysftook In the services
r*1nlilaE such marriages VAS
r1nAa'ed ia the strongest terms.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

WALLA wAi.LA. July Reg
iaifatiou books show that sixteen
Chinese will vote At the city cleo.
ton Monday. All except three
were born In whlla Waila.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
|AB FOR DIXIE DAY

lsass Alfred Battle yesterday
sI'..'sd to act as chairman N the
.nlilee 90 Dixie day at tho A..
~ opposition. and the date for
81 ''srt vas fixed as August 10
~ Battle will saiect a commit.
n Day.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

maternity a proud welcome 10 the
little STRANGER 90 suddenly thrust
into cold, curious world. It means
WILLING service TO this tiny ball OF
tender. helpless flesh Il mema. In
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
The Grand
UNITARIAN CLAM MAKE.


fteemrr Bfnk leaves Column deck
al . IN. fitufdny. July 10, for tht
I hours at Nuqunmish Indian Heaer-
walton 10 500 tomb Of Chief Seattle
and ole Man House" and for picnic
and clam bake Hound trip soc,
children under ~. 2bo. Under 9
free
Bring your friends md a full lunch
basket Huy ticheta on dock At
time " sailing from mcmbera of
congregation,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

Or. LArsoN plsoussuo IT AND
SAYS MATERNITY WILL AGAIN
BECOME AMBITION or WOMEN
aATHuR THAN Task" WHEN
THY LIVE RATIONAL LIVES.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09

4, faa " Bu,icr. the spiolef At
!, vaa Camps Of Alaska. on the
y. y silsaA. suffered a spralned
~ Wednesday nlght while nd
Il. !. ne Joy Wheel nsN show
4 1e s''sak Butler declares that
mA'y VA due TO his own care