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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-01

\ A1npensine liquors to their members In
ovadence Of the law.
Mayor James Brown. OF Nashville,
and the chief Of police Of Chattanooga.
hnvo both expressed the determination
% enforce the law 40 its very letter.
while there win no doubt be violations
sof the statute, tfey~wiil not be A. bold
lar ~ nasrant a. has been freely pre-
1icted.
There are only two points in the en-
tire state where the law does not APP
ply. two shimmering cases In . desert
Of drynesa Both OF these are located
within twelve miles Of Memphis, near
the Mississippi State line. The near
est school house II six miles from both
Of these pointa but steps have already
been taken by white ribboners to have
the County Board Of Education erect .
school house within the distance pre-
scribed by the Holiday bill 50 that
there will be no mecca In the entire
otats for thirsty pilgrims.
hitter Politics Recalled.
The advent OF the prohibition regime
recalls ono of the, most noted political
campaigns in the hiNtory OF Tennessee,
4 that Of Governor Mascofm n. Patterson
against former United States Senator
-. W. Carmack and its fearful after
math, the staying Of Senator Carmack
IL Nashville by Colonel Duncan B.
Cooper and his son. Robin ]. Cooper.
both warm partisang Of Governor Pat
larson.
Although defeated on the Statewide
platform, Senator Carmack and his fol-
lowers succeeded In waging q success
ful fight In the election Of the State
Legislature, q majority Of whom were
State widers. The campaign was car
risd on vigorously in Nashville when
the General Assembl. met and the Hol-
laday State wide bill was passed over
Governor Pattcrson's veto.
Thousands of men were thrown out
OF employment at midnight. Barkeep-
ers and others are seeking greener
fieids and every outbound train bears
it, quota, hurrying away to some dis
tant city or State where they hope to
md employment.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
Kept His Feet Dry.

Extraordinary conduct on the part Of
two men upon seeing the body of a
woman in the water was disclosed at
an inquest held at the Victory inn, on
the Hogs Back, Surrey. A farm labor
er named Sidney Smith missed his
mother one morning and on searching
found her lying face upward IN a road
side pond. He ran Cd, land another Ia
borer named Matthews, who passed
the pond, also ran away, neither max
ing any effort to pull her out Mat
thews told the coroner he did not DO
so, as he did not know II he would be
doing right.
The Coroner-The poor creature
might have not been dead at that time.
You could easily have got her out. I
SUPPOSED
~ should have had to 90 up to my
knees IN the water."-London Man.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
MISTAKES IN TITLES.
Loves Discourses" Has Nothing to
Do With Cupid's Franks.

Loves Discourses" Has Nothing to
Do With cupid's Franks.
1t Is interesting to collect certain of
he instances of mistakes In regard to
he titles of books. Thus the old farm
n who asked for "Edgworth on Irish
Bulls" got no doubt something he did
lot expect, and the dainty youth who
applied for Loves Discourses" did
lot really wish q volume of sermons
oy Christopher Love. If application Is
made by messenger, mistakes of diff
ferent sort may occur. An excitable
boy once asked for Bishop Cocks and
Hens Earnest COMMUNICATE" he
meant Bishop Oxenden's. Similarly by
Warne's Moral Cookery" he meant
ais Model Cookery" A maid forgot
Ill about the title of the book she had
been sent for except that it was
something like tomato SOUP" She
was served with 'Red Pottage."
1t may have been a fault Of pronun-
,iation on the part of the purchaser
who asked for rubber bands" that he
received copy Of Robert Burns" but
It was certainly the bookseller who
was at sea who referred an applicant
for Vegas Logarithmic Tables" to the
furniture department" In cataloguing
booksellers frequently err. Thus Mr.
MADAM, the Oxford scholar, who wrote
grammar and dictionary Of the Swa-
hell language, had those works cata-
logued as MADAM Swaheli's Gram
MARI and in the line beneath, 'Do. do.
Dictionary" Recently, too, a book Of
Mr.. Lucas, "a Swan and Her
Friends" giving an account OF Miss
Seward, ''the swan Of Liehfield," was
classified as "Annie Swan and Her
Friends. "-Manchester Guardian.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
THE MUSTACHE.
Ridieuled In England When II First
Came Into Fashion.

Ridieuled In England When II First
Came Into Fashion.
The custom Of wearing mustaches
did not prevail in France until the
reign Of Louis Philippe, when It be-
came obligatory In the whole French
army. In England the mustache was
worn by hussars after the peace of
1915, and 1t was not until the close
Of the Crimean war that English civil
ians as well as English soldiers in gen.
eral wore hair on the lip.
Shortly after the mustache came IN
to favor among gentlemen Horace
Mayhem was passing through an Eng
lish country town and was Immediate
" noted and followed by a small army
OF children, who pointed to his lip and
called out derisively:
Hes got whlskers under his snoutI
He's got whiskers under his snoutT
For long time the mustache was
the subject Of raillery, even after it
was becoming common, and the ia
nous caricaturist Leech printed in
Punch picture of two old fashioned
women who, when they were spoken
to by bearded railway guards, fell on
their knees and cried out:
take all that we have, gentlemen.
but spare our lives!'-W Westminster
Gazette,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
A skelston In Every closst.

The expression "There is a skeleton
in every closet" Is said to have its orr
gin In the fact that a soldier once
wrote to his mother, who complained
of her unhappiness, to have some sew
ing done for him by some one who had
no cares or troubles. At last the moth
er found a woman who seemed To have
no troubles, but when she told her
business the woman took her to clos
ct containing a skeleton and said:
Madam. I try to keep my troubles to
myself, but every night l am COM
PEELED by my husband to kiss this skel-
eton, who was once his rival. Think
you. then, can be happyT
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27

Roman writer's inform us that Com
modus caused the hoofa Of his horse %
be gilded. Nero when he undertook
short journeys was always drawn By
mules that had silver shoes, and those
q his wife, Poppaea, had shoes Of
gold. From passage in ''Dio Cassius"
there is reason to think that the upper
part only was formed Of those noble
metals or that they were perhaps plat
ed out Of thin slips. When Boniface.
marquis Of Tuscany. one of the richest
princes Of his time, went to Beatrfx.
about the year 1888. his whole train
was so magnifcently decorated that
his horses were shod with silver. The
nails were even of the same metal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
A Curioua Tree.

One of the natural curiosities Of
south Mashonaland is a German
sausage tree" 1t bears deep crimson
flowers, three inches long, in blazing
punches Of twelve, but when the tree
fruits into fat, substantial, sausage
like pods there remain no leaves, and
1t looks like sausage larder indeed.
These beans are twenty inches long
and twelve inches in girth and are be-
loved of the native tribe of Shangaans
and balloons. But the tribe of the
Karenga are very superior people
and would never deign to eat them.
There can be no reason for this, as
at least no one can accuse these 'sau-
sages' Of being connected In any way
with dogs or cats.-Natal Witness.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
Alnhah.tieal Time.

An English firm, Higgins & Dodd,
finding that there were twelve letters
In their name, placed a great clock
over their door with the letters on its
face instead of numerals.
They waited anxiously for days,
weeks, hoping for some return, but
not a soul took notice Of the clock. AT
last, amid excitement behind the Of
fce window, a man was seen to halt
In the street and gaze at the clock, puz-
zled.
Slowly he came to the door, entered
and drawled, Say, is 1t half past Hig-
gins or a quarter to Doddf"-T. P.'s
Weekly.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
The Colossus of Rhodes.

The gigantic Colossus Of Rhodes
was one of the seven wonders Of the
world. 1t was erected in honor Of the
sun by Charles Of Indus, a disciple
Of Lysippus, and was thrown down
by an earthquake about 224 B. d.
The figure stood upon two moles, a
leg extended on each side of the har-
Dor. A winding staircase led to the
top of the figure, from out of the eyes
Of which were visible the coast of
Syria and the ships sailing on the coast
of Egypt. The colossi were the pc
culiar characteristic Of eastern art
and were of common occurrence, many
Of them being over sixty feet In
height The most celebrated 10 the
statue Of Memnos, on the plain Of
Thebes, described by the historian
Etrabo.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
REDPS EXPERIMENT.
J. Of It Grew the Great Fabric Of the
Germ Theory.

- ~ IL Nj G" tne GREAT = aprlc OF the
Germ Theory.
~ was fixed belief of the ancients
thAt many living creatures could come
INTO existence in a spontaneous fash
on, to which allusion has often been
made. The true beginning of the Germ
theory arose out of II ludicrously sim
pie observation made by Redi. a Flor
sntine physician, about the middle of
he seventeenth century. lie debated
with his confreres in Florence the
question Of the ori~in of the mag@ots
appearing In accomplishing meat. The
Did view held, of course, that the mag
COTS were bred within dead and putre-
'ying substances. Redi, taking liote
If meat, covered the mouth of the lar
which it was contained with piece
If fine gauze. He hehcld The flesh flicr,
attracted by the smell Of the drcaying
neat, coming to deposit their eggs. aft
sr the manner of their kind. III The de-
composing substance. The gaU.c. how
1ver, kept them from Erecting this
natural object, with the result that the
Eggs were laid on the surface of the
Eauze and the ma%gots there hatchcd
nut, while the decay Of the meat went
IN uninterruptedly without Il single
naggot appearing in It's Substance.
On this childlshly simple experiment
he great fabric of the germ theory ,f
oday was founded. for If the law Of
Universal parentage applied to the case
If maggots and meat 1t was clear, ar
yued Redl, that it must apply univer-
sally. Subsequent experimentation
proved the words to be true, and so to-
day, when our attention is focused upon
germs or microbes so minute that we
night accommodate many hundreds of
thousands of them on the surface OF
postage stamp, we again come face to
face with Redis first principle that
Zach germ could only have sprung
from a preceding and parental organ
sm.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
The French Academy.

The Fren h academy is one Of the
nVe acLC,n.ies ard the most eminent
constituting the Institute of France. It
was founded in 1850 by Cardinal Rich.
ellen and reorganiZed in 1916. 1t is
composed of forty members. the new
member elected by the remaining thir-
ty-nine members for life after person
al application and the submission Of
the nomination to the head Of the
state. 1t meets twice weekly and is
the highest authority on everything
pertaining to the niceties of the French
ianguage-to grammar. rhetoric and
poetry and the publication of the
French classics" The chief officer is
the secretary, who has a life tenure of
his position. \ chair In the academy
is the highest ambition of most liter
airy Frenchmcn.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
lo.bero DESIGNS.

All the architecture of the world is
represented in natures iceberg de-
signs. Sometimes little berg will
have the appearance Of an arabs
white tent as II rides on a desert look
ing sea; another. IFS sharp outlines
softened in the vaporous atmosphere.
will appear like domed mosque in
green marble \ cluster of Chinese pa
godas comes drifting slowly down the
current, followed by II stately Gothic
cathedral, early style, Then comes a
coliseum, and beyond huge man-of-
war floats down the current. It's stem
submerged. with foam grandly break.
ing over 1t. the stern seventy.dve feet
aloft
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
Why Mems Hats H.v. . b.,

A bow is always to be found ON the
left side of mans hat This is sur
'Vival Of the old days when hats were
costly articles. In order to provide
against the hat being blown away In
stormy weather a cord or ribbon was
fastened around the crown, with ends
hanging so that they could be fastened
to part of the attire or could be
grasped by the hand. The ends fell on
the left side, of course, as the left
hand is more often disengaged. than
the right. When not required it was
usual for the ends to be tied In bow.
The bow became smaller and smaller,
but 1t still remains and is likely to do
so as long as men wear hats.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
A Nahoh.

erich as a nabob" is an expression
not infrequently heard, but why ma
bob" should thus be associated with
wealth and who he was precisely Is
not SO generally known. Under the
great moguls the provinces Of India
were administered by deputies known
by the designation of 'nawab," who
commonly amassed much money and
lived in great splendor The Office and
the title continued under British rule
in the orient but gradually the word
became corrupted into 'nabob" and
was applied generally to all natives
who had grown rich. More latterly It
was bestowed : often in a derisive
-sense-upon Europeans who, having
made large fortunes in India, returned
home and spent their money In a lux
urious and OBSERVATIONS way.-London
Scraps
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
THE CABBAGE CURE.
Old Ezekiel Had Long Been Wanting
q Boiled Dish,

Boiled Dish.
This idea that people thrive best
on the food they like best is not as
modern as you seem to think" said
the old doctor to the young doctor
when Ezekiel Holmes was something
over 100 years old he was taken sick.
and my grandfather, one Of the best
physicians In that section. was called
In to see him after the family had
done their worst to make him better.
Grandfather pronounced Mr.. Holmes
very Ill and told the family that the
end was probably near-he might not
live out the night AS soon as this
news spread through the neighborhood
several friends called to sit up or
watch with the sufferer Among them
was a sea captain. who took the sec
ond watch
"a little after midnight Mr.. Holmes
awoke and said the doctor was starv-
Ing him. The captain asked what he
would like to eat.
'Corned beef and cabbage replied
the old man.
Nv captain AOuhO EOlilc III Tue pan
try-it was a staple dish in those days
and gave him a generous plateful,
reasoning, as he said afterward, that
so long as the old mans hours were
numbered he might as well have what
he wanted While he lasted After eat
ing heartily Mr.. Holmes said he felt
much better and went quietly to sleep.
The next morning, when grandfather
called, he found his patient on the
road to recovery. The old man not
only got well. but kept so for four
or five years. afterward, and he al
ways stoutly declared that his mid
night meal had cured him.
era been wanting a boiled dish a
fortnight he used to say, and mother
wouldn't let me have 1t. But l worked
a traverse on her and got well.'
Youths Companion.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
HOMEMADE ICE CREAM.
Freeze i at Least a Day Before Il Is
to Be Used.

Freeze II at Least a Day Before Il IL
to Be Used.
The best ice cream Is stale ice
cfeam,' said the ice cream manufac
turer. You never hear of collie from
Ice cream among children who have
never met the homemade article. 1t is
a queer thing that it would ruin
manufacturer to sell fresh goods.
whereas If you know it Is homemade
and just out of the freezer you will
praise it to the skies as being the SUI
perior of anything manufactured any
where.
III you want your homemade cream
TO be really good and healthy make it
at least day before you use it. Churn
1t hard. but not too hard, and then
pack it away in sailed ice until YOU
are ready to serve it. In this way all
the little particles of ice which make
homemade cream so gritty and really
harmful will have disappeared. The
cream will sort Of absorb the water
that forms the ice, so to speak; conse-
quently your cream will be frozen, not
trapped. 1t is daring manufacturer
who risks his trade by shipping cream
less than week old. Sometimes l
store my goods in ice as much as two
weeks. That isn't a bit too long.
either, although it takes a heap of Ice"
New York Press.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
May Cure Snoring Too.

'I've found a cure for nightmare"
said the man who will eat despite his
subsequent sufferings. when 60
to bed at night slip q string through
an empty spool, secure the spool firmly
% It will not slide ana then tie the
string around my waist in such a way
that the spool comes In the middle Of
my back. The result is that If l Try
to turn on my back in my sleep lie
on the Spool and l can assure you It
awakens me promptly. No; 1t isn't
pleasant to be wakened In that way,
but 1t is better than having to go
through one of the diabolical night
mares from which l have suffered for
several years. New York Press
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
FOLLOWED Her LEAD.
The Chinese Cook Knew Which Eggs
Should Be Discarded.

The Chinese Cook Knew Which Eggs
Should Be Discarded.
Chinese need to be taught to be
more self reliant" said the woman
who employs Chinese cook. "Yester-
day l ordered my cook to make pud-
ding for dinner, stopping minute to
see If he followed my instructions, for
/ had taught him to make this particu-
lar pudding. He had seen me smell
the eggs before putting them into q
bowl, and he began by putting the first
egg to his nose. He seemed ON the
right road, SO left the kitchen for a
minute.
Returning, discovered that he had
nsed FIVE eggs instead Of three, a.
had taught him. Taking him to task
6Og not following my instructions, he
answered: Yes; three here pointing
to the bowl, two here Indicating
where he had thrown the others).
Same as you
1T dawned on me that when l had
taught him to make the pudding l had
found the second and third eggs that
l had broken to be bad and had
thrown both away. He had simply
done what he had seen me do-after
smelling the second and third egg he
had thrown them away."-New York
Sun.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
THE KANGAROO.
Its Hind Legs Are a Most Formidable
Pair of Weapons.

'NS ''"N GSSS HTe moSI Fornl0aple
Pair of Weapons.
The kangaroo seems poorly provid,
ed by nature with offensive weap.
ons. His powers Of biting are not
formidable, and his fore paws are so
weak as to seem almost rudimentary
members of little use. His hind legs
are muscular and strong but are ap.
parently of use only to assist fight
from his enemies. On these hind legs
Is found, however, a most formidable
weapon in the shape of long claw as
hard as steel and sharp as a chisel-as
terrible to dogs as the scythe chariots
Of the ancients were to their enemies.
When run down the kangaroo, plac.
ing a tree behind him to protect his
rear, will seize in his fore paws such
indiscreet dogs as rush up to him
and, holding them firmly, disembowI
them with a sweep Of his sickla-like
claws.
Even the hunters themselves thus
caught in the viselike grip Of an "old
man" kangaroo of the larger breeds
have sometimes suffered in like man.
ner and have now and then taken their
own turn at being hunted as the en-
ragged animals turned upon them and
attacked their horses with blind fe-
rocity-St. James Gazette.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
Tho Intelligent Censor.

Some years ago a young man Of ST.
Petersburg. Ivan Fedowski, quarreled
with his sweetheart and then took his
grief out Of the country. About a year
after he wrote to the girl asking her to
make up" and telling her If she for
gave him to insert personal" to that
effect in a st. Petersburg paper not
later than a certain date. The girl was
repentant, too, and she promptly got
the personal ready, and all would
have been well had It not been for the
lynx eyed censor who believed 1t to be
some sort Of nihilist message and re-
fused to allow its publication. After
awhile, however, the stern official was
convinced that the personal" was
harmless, and 1t was printed four days
late. 1t was a little while after when
the girl received word that her lover,
having failed to see the message in
print on the day he had set, had shot
himself two days before It saw the
Hight.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
That aat+Iad IL

The commissioners in lunacy wero
nonplused. The man on whose mental
condition the courts had appointed
them to pass seemed perfectly sane If
spite Of all testimony to the contrary.
His every action, his every remark,
was rational They were about to give
up in despair when matters took an
unexpected turn. "Oh, doctor, permit
me to return the umbrella borrowed
from you last week." said the patient.
And then, at the thought OF earning
their fees with no qualms Of con-
science, the learned men decided that
any one who would voluntarily return
4 borrowed umbrella should be placed
under restraint.
This simply proves how TRIES win
ever mold our destinies.-New York
Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-27
"MATUSHKA V0LGA."
Melody Of Sorrow Heard In Prison and
Palace In Russia.

Melody Of Sorrow Heard In Prison and
Palace In Russia.
There Is an air 80 popular In Russia
that 1t Is even more familiar than their
national anthem to the people Of that
great, mysterious empire. have heard
1t In all parts of the cars dominions
from the Baltic sea to Boring strait
and from Archangel to the Caspian, In
the glittering palaces of Petersburg
and in foul prison dens of Siberia.
1t is simple melody In the minor
key, suggestive, like most Slav music,
Of sorrow and unrest, and 1t Is called
"Matushka Tor Mother) Volga," as for
some cryptic reason every Russian, be
he noble or nihilist, is taught from
childhood to regard this great river In
the light of maternal relative. Yet
the river is full of sad associations,
for convicts formerly Travelled a por-
ton of the journey to Siberia along its
broad, sluggish stream.
l can never forget the haunting
sweetness of "Matushka VoIga" as l
heard 1t sung on a prison barge one
quiet summer evening by party Of
fettered politicals banished to the
great lone land Of exile, for Mother
VOlga" was their last link with home
and the loved ones they might never
meet again.
Fortunately the condemned are now
sent into Asia by the Transsiberian
railway, and the unhappy exile is
spared at least one bitter parting-that
from his well beloved Mother VOlga."
Travel Magazine.