The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-19
What fhe State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
His Political PrestiEe.

Gadsden Times -News.
 | Governor Conner says he has lost his social prestige Ditto political.
 Against CrippIinsS Them.- Huntsville Tribune.
 The people and the railroads arc for proper regulation of railroads but we are unalterably opposed to such ad- verse legislation to railroads as tends to cripple our industries.
 According te fhe Law. Birmingham Ledger.
 Judge Jones made a most satisfac- tory decision in the, Cook Company pie who thought he would decide against the State law just because 1t Is a State law It, is dificult for some people to understand that often judges decide according to the law.
 The Laundry Packages. Tuscaloosa Record. a
 Tennessee has fallen into the list of dry States, at least nominally. Some real excitement was going on about the time of the passage of the bill and the galleries had the time of their life up the "laundry' packages which have Memphis win not continue to come this way much longer:
 Briclhats and BouQuets, s Cherokee Harmonizer.
 Grandma Advertiser spanked Rute Rhodes of The Birmingham News be. him an angel. Rufe sassed back, say self. old lady" Whereppon Grandma cSi1Sa character an and I did as she pleased bSs she would accept the ''expianation" as entirely satisfactory. Grandma" may not be as good partyite as some. but news there is, the others "ain't in It. with Grandma.
 The Home Merchant. Rockford Chronicle.
 The Linevllle Headlight says that the four rural mail carriers out of that town issue from S40,000 to $50, 900 post- GGe a orGe orders SHases each far hS money never returns to the people of that County. Sure, but why should the people not patronize the mall order people know what they have for sale Why go groping around in the dark when there Is light. If the local mer- people would know where togo whes In need of anything.
 + The Cost of It. Goodwater Enterprise. Twenty-three thousand dollars is the price paid so far by the tax payers of Alabama as expense money for rail- road litigation. That amount may con- stitute half of the final bill. Governor Comer's pet schemes and idle fancles come high. but as the tax payers nomi- mated and elected him, they shouldn't stem their fodder Governor Jelks left a surplus in the State treasury of about a million dollars, and 1t seems possible that Governor Conner will leave>a de- fcit of about the same proportion.
 
 Ra,..nIsAaA SuaEYtu- Pine Belt News
 We quite agree, with The Bessemer Weekly when 1t says 1t '1et them sim plify spelling If they will. Any kind so 1t Is correct" We, of the old-time country school. dotted on Webster s blue-back speller which was a reader and spellert combined; also the 'com- mon school dictionary" It is with a feeling of sorrow and regret that that old book was relegated to the rear and new ia Shioned, new Tangled ideas took its place n.the curriculum of the pub lie schools It seems that modern schools attach very little importance to orthography. which we consider one of the most important studies Spelling Bees" were held on Friday afternoons in the schools up to a few years ago and there was keen rivalry between the contesting spoilers It has come under our observation as editor and printer for more than fifteen years that the most highly educated people are the worst spoilers.