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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
WILL NOT STAND FoR AUrocRAcY.

Former Governor Hoke Smith. OF
Georgia. is un auestionabiy man OF
very great ability, but he developed o
spirit Of intolerance which detracted
very much from his usefulness. His
first great mistake In this line was in
removal Of the present Governor, Jo-
seph NJ. Brown. from membership on
because the Commissioner did not think
like the Governor and act accordingly.
The people of Georgia resented this
high-handed act of autocracy, turned
Smith out of once and put Brown in
his, place.
Just on the eve Of vacating the Gov
ernors ONCE. he allowed his temper
full play and removed from member
ship on the Railroad Board the Pres
ident thereof. Hon. G.. r. McLendon,
and again for the same reason that
prompted his effort to degrade Brown,
viz, because the Commissioner follow
ed his own Judgment OF law and facts
and equity and refused to adopt that
Of Governor Smith. We do not be-
lieve the proper authorities In Georgia
will allow this petty display of baffled
one-man power to stand. An execu-,
tive oficer who tries to force every
body to his way Of thinking Is bound
sooner or later to feel the lash of
public indignation. 1t has already been
applied in Georgia, and other States
in a similar condition only wait for
the opportunity to apply the remedy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
The statement being sent out from

The statement being sent out from
Washington to the effect that the
Postofice Department is manufacturing
Ice at cost of IS cents a ton seems
incredible. We do not know what 10
the cost of making Ice. and of course
the cost may be greater in some
places than in others. but it does not
seem possible that II can be made at
such an exceedingly low price as that
given. That would be but a small
fraction more than cents per 100
pounds, and we can hardly conceive Of
ice at that price. Even after we de-
duct the cost of storing and handling
the loss from evaporation and other
wise, and allowing a fair profit to the
makers. 1t is plain that such ice can
be sold to consumers at prices far
below that now paid in any city in
the Union. II there is no mistake in
the report. the Department must have
made an important discovery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
Election of Supreme Court Judges.

Tuskegee news.
There is a movement to have the
Judges chosen or nominated by the
State Bar Association. Looked at from
some viewpoints that might not be a
bad proposition, butt so far as we can
see the best plan is to call general
convention of delegates from each OF
the counties and let those delegates
name the men for those high places.
Usually lawyers make up the major
portion of the delegates and that ought
to satisfy the state Bar Assocla TO
and at the same time not be a radical
departure from the time honored GUS
toms of the fathers.
There are reasons why we favor as
a usual thing the general primary plan
of nominating all officers, but year by
wear we find our self going back to
The old time convention where counties
sent their most intelligent ana patri-
otto citizens wh o. m Ste,n b 'o c6nfeT
ence determined who was most worthy
and best qualified for the otiices.
It is now SO fixed, according to the
he be moneyed man can make the
race for a state Office. His legitimate
expenses will run into the thousands
before he can cover the he ns Sta in az e eS
county. pay hundreds of hotel bills,
hack fares, etc. Such condition
shuts out men who are among the best
ouaiified for high cffice; The men
whom the people would delight to hon
or. refuse to enter such a scramble.
Under the old convention we hlled our
ofaces in the main, with the very best
men in the state. Now and then some
man bought his way. but the same can
be true at this day under the primary
No. the state Bar Association Is an
able body but there are other citizens
than lawyers who ought to and who
must have a hand in picking out can
aidates Let's have - nothing that
sn1acks of classes in our politics
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
Information Given ON Making Oats.

]. r. McLendon in Luverne Journal.
AS early in october as possible, cut
stalks close to the ground to avoid
stumps in the oats. but 1t is not too
late to do same work in November.
For every acre in oats broadcast one
bale cotton seed and then break broad
cast with a two horse pillow at least
eight inches. Have an extra hand to
follow the pillow to lay all stalks in the
bottom of the burrows. SO the plow
viii cover them at least two inches
below shallow blowing.
When land is broken in this way 1t
will be perfectly clean on top and ready
for the seed to be sown. If sowed
broadcast lay of land in convenient
plats for sowing and cover with any
pillow that will not pull out the buried
stalks but If the McLendon plan is fol-
lowed, lay off land in rows eighteen
inches apart and sow oats in these
burrows at the rate of two bushels per
acre or two and one-half bushels II
land will make fifteen bushels corn
per acre, without fertilizer. If drilled
cover with board.
And in March as oats begin TO grow,
run a small scooter between rows and
let them stand this way until the oats
begin to boot, then put in the scooter
furrow 100 pounds per acre nitrate OF
soda and run small scrape in this
furrow and watch the oats turn from
a green color TO a dark green In a re W
days Following this plan fifty BUSH
els may be made to every acre.
The McLendon oats were grown on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
SATURDAY, JULY q, 1909.
SOME MORE KrPLING.

A most book readers are aware.
|E3udyard Kipling is famous for the
|<tyie Of his verse. no less than for
|he frequently Involved style Of his
Exritiuss. 1t IL not always easy to
latch the exact meaning of some of
6is poetry. and perhaps in some cases
Ehe average reader cannot understand
him at all. For all that. all who read
#ftsr him must admit that he 10 one
81 the most forceful of all English
Writers or the age. and he has re-
|6utly given to the public another
<pecimen OF his genius in the book
EntitIed ''City Of Brass. In that book
ka pictures State or a Government
Elven over to the doctrines Of Sociology
Ind bent on obiiterating the well-to-do
E1kizens and reducing them to the level
"a the thriftiess and incompetent. Here
e specimen:
|hey said. Who is eaten by sloth
Whose unthrift has destroyed him
He shall levy tribute from all be-
cause none has employed him.
strfven and gathered possession?
Let MIN be spoiled; he hath given full
proof of transgression.
! we may not call that poetry. or
Hen versifcation, but, as The Brook
~ Eagle reparks.' 1t Is another and
Perhaps more convincing way of stat
<ax what Lord Roseberry lately set
birth in his attack upon the Govern
&,entss financial policy. Mr.. Kipling
no statesman. but he has a wider
kfdience than any statesman In the
Ind. and his metricaI preachment-it
III hardly be called poetry-is heard
every period Of national agitation
argument.
lie 1t is true. as we have said.
-iplings verses are frequently
nd Involved, and his meaning
vs. clear. 1t is not to be de-
he exerts a wonderful infiu-
iglish thought; perhaps more
L ,rws.--~---ercised by any of the ma
8nss statesmen. or by any of her
adern writers. The lines we have
scted are both forceful and suggest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

ally use now 100000 bales Of Amer
lean cotton and has several millions Of
bales less than that amount with which
to operate. IT seems Inevitable that
good prices must prevail. In spite.
therefore of disappointment over hav-
ing so much of their work abandoned.
because Of unpropitious weather. the
farmer can take hope over the good
prospect OF receiving remunerative
price for what he does make.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

The Advertiser failed to note at the
ne the completion of forty years of
awe newspaper work by Mr.. John
Williams of The Talladega Noun
IN Home. That is a good long time
\ be in the harness, but Mr.. Williams
speaking yet young
An with many more years of useful
rs ahead of him. He can look back
ION those forty years work with the
that his aim has always
|en 10 be just and true and to help
|fward those things calculated to
'lld up his town. county. State and
Rntry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
Keeping Him Reminded

Pittsburg Post.
The montgomery (Ala) Advertiser
remarks
The Pittsburg Post is enjoying the
June DAYS by quoting sentences from
Mr.. Taft's ante election speeches on
tariff matters and comparing them with
his present failure to insist on his
party living up to its promises; The
Post should bear In mind that Mr.. Taft
occupies an exceedingly delicate posi-
The POST is we'll aware of the. fact
that the Presidents party has placed
him IN most embarrassing position
II doesn't want him to forget It, for the
reason that 1t lies within his power to
extricate himself and at the same time
6is party who have dared defy their
supreme leader and VINO have entered
into an impious compact with the pow
ers OF special privilege to dupe the
consumer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
Why the nlnerenceR

LuVerne Journal.
VIII some one please tell US the
difference between the violation Of the
prohibition law and the game and
fish law?
One OF The Journals reporters over
heard a conversation near the barbef
shop n few DAYS ago between two high
iy respected citizens of Luverne. They
were giving dispenser Of near beer
tSlitz) particular old bill and before
the burning words OF condemnation
had scarcely left the ends of their
tongues, they were planning to go aud
violate the game and fish law.
what's the difference? Be consistent
ether Fellows OK. The Journal does
81 uphold the violation of any law,
- wa IKE TO see people consistent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
This Date in History
July 3.

OF the city of Quebec
by Samuel de Champlain.
assumed command
of the Continental army at Cam
bridge. Mass.
177S-American troops massacred by
the British at Wyoming, Pa.
1S14-American force under General
Jacob Brown took Fort Erie from
the British.
lsI6-Boston and Buffalo were con-
nected by telegraph.
lS63-Last day OF the battle of Gettys-
burg.
lS9s-American squadron destroyed the
Spanish fleet off Santiago.
l90O-Russian imperial ukase publish
ed, abolishing in a large meas
ure, Punishment to Siberia.
l9O3-Harriet Lane Johnston. mistress
of the White House during the
administration of President
Buchanan. died. Born in 1898.
I90S-Joel Chandler Harris, famous
Southern editor and humorist.
died Born December s, l846.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
This Is My SIND Birthday
Ripley Hitchcock .

author and editor, was born in Fitch
burg. Mass, July 8. 1851, and was
graduated from Harvard College at the
age of 20. Since 1879 he has been en-
gagged in literary work in New York
CITY. For several years he served as a
speciai correspondent for New York
newspapers In Mexico and in the West
and Northwest From 1882 to 1890 he
was engaged as an art critic for The
New York Tribune. and of late years
he has been associated with prominent
publishing houses in the capacity or
literary adviser. Mr. Hitchcock has
written a number of books on Ameri-
can history, art ana literature and is
also well known as lecturer upon art
and literary subjects.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
DEMAND For COTTON.

Some years ago when Senator Nor
gan spoke of probable American
cotton crop of 100000 bales, he was
thought to be speaking far outside of
possibilities. 1t has been shown, how
ever, in recent years, that the world
at the present moment needs that much
cotton and that sooner or later 1t will
have to be produced. 1t is the cheap
est article for clothes that has yet
been found and better suited for the
teeming millions of China, Japan and
other Asiatic countries than any
thing the mind of man has
discovered. As those people be-
come better of they will want
more clothes than they are now cred
tied with wearing. and American cot
ton undoubtedly will solve the prob
lem, for 1t can be made here more sat
isfactorily and of better quality than
anywhere else.
With a growth of population
throughout the world in greater pro-
portion than the increase in growth
of cotton, II stands to reason that our
great staple must command good
price. No matter what the weather
conditions for the rest of this season
may be, enough damage has been done
to cut down the yield far below that
of last year A crop of 100000 bales
ought to bring at the lowest not less
than l2l-2 cents. and it is possible
that this years crop Will average far
above that price. II the world can re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

sandy land on q clay sub-soil fifteen
inches below the surface.
am often asked the question when
II the bes time TO use nitrate OF soda
on cotton?" and am not prepared to
give q definite answer, having had but
one years experience In the use of thts
powerful stimulant to cotton. corn and
other farm products.
However, l VIII venture TO offer the
following: Watch cotton In July and
AS soon as the plants show signs Of
having stopped growing apply. the soda
at once and follow with q wide scrape
to keep land in condition to hold mofs-
ture. Land kept dusned up holds mois-
ture much longer than when soil crust
ed. Plow cotton with scrapes as long
as II remains green, even up TO middle
ut August.
Our commercial fertilizers. usually
OF low grade. will be all used by The
cotton early in July and the cotton
must stop growing for the want Of
food. and this Is where nitrate Of soda
comes in TO make the plants continue
growth through July and August.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

Rochester Union and AdVerfiser.
the University Of Chicago, Will find
himself In trouble In consequence Of
his recent assertions that woman re-
mains the eternal savage" that 'the
barrie" that she Is primitive" that
"she thinks the old thoughts, feels the
old emotions Is moved by the old
impulses; dresses In the old gew-gaws,
10 thrilled by the world-old hopes and
fears" Prof. Starr Is a bold man to
give forth such utterances. and in Chi
cago, too, where there are numerous
women's clubs that will haul him over
the Goals for his assertions In DIS
paragement OF the woman of today as
an advanced product Of civilization. No
one need envy Prof. Starr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03


Uniontown Herald.
Dothan is backed by agriculture. and
one acre of our prairie land ID worth
half dozen OF the sandy lands of that
Of production. Small farms and white
farmers ia the secret Of their sue
cses-
st. Cinir's Good Roads.
Just a little while ana ST. Clais
Countys roads will compare favorabiy
with any in Alabama. The bond COM
missioners are working faithfully to-
been made. The bond money is be-
ing handled economically and will go
further than many had hoped for.
A Home Question.
The tariff proposition may be some
tionai law makers but II Is mere baby
play compared to how to find q solu-
FRANKLIN county that will secure bet
ter roads and at the same time meet
the approval and ideas of all citizens
we must confess
Let JEFFERSON Have Relief.
Carroiiton Alabamian.
The concensus OF opinion throughout
the State appears to- be that u Jener-
son and one or two others desire the
fee system abolished. they should have
special legislation for their especial
cases. In fact, there does not appear
10 be any county whose officials receive
excessive returns from their omces
save Jefferson; and In some cases 'ns
a salary. capable men would accept
the office for.
In d Former Meat Raising Community.
Meat sold in Mouiton last Saturday
at twenty -hve cents per pound. and all
who purchased any felt that they were
uastfcating money at every bite Crit
los who have unpleasant r shnnfE re 20
member that this is millionaire town
and our people are actually throwing
their money at birds Even the print
ers are becoming o Shoate S,,m aie bird
will satisfy them for breakfast--so to
speak.
Wet Spells and Crops.
In conyersation last week with a
gentleman residing In the Myrtietree
Section OF Big Sandy he stated tnat
nine years ago rainy spell OF much
longer duration than the one JUST eng NJ
biackest despair Yet everything came
ali right and that fall a bumper crop
was harvested, one of the biggest IN
the history OF this section. History
repeats itself.
working with a Will.
Tuskegee News. a
For a time it looked like some of
our farmers would be compelled 70
give up a part of their crops to the
grass. but never did we see folks work
harder or keep at 1t so steadily. The
negro farmers have learned that they
must keep blowing no matter ate how how
many of them worked, blowing out
the middIes with turn plows: Now
the cotton gives promise Of fair yield.
They are not going to be In such
the cotton as long as 1t will do any
good. Everybody Is planting peas and
late corn, and then they all Will save
hay. 1t Is hard year. but close econ
omy and no loafing is the rule
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
AEROPLANEs TO ORDER.


Machines Take Their Place Among
Regularly Advertised Commodities.
New York World.
Aeroplanes took their place Sunday
among the regularly advertised COM
modities of the day In the New York
newspapers. They are announced as
practical in flight" They can be de-
livered within forty days from date of
order" The era of avia ton Is thus
ushered In by an escort Of display type.
At Morris Park on Saturday Glenn H
Curtiss circled the grounds on ma
chine that rose and fell as lightly as
bird and rode the air as steadily as a
boat rides smooth water. At Fort
Myer today the Wright brothers expect
to begin the duplication OF their own
wonders OF Night previously demon
strated at home and abroad. In the
country at large over 5000 inventors
have dying machine designs In hand
and machines of several hundred types
are actually In process of building.
Plans for the first airship garage in
New York have already been filed.
Perhaps there will be no immediate
rush for -aeroplanes. Flying is an art
which most men will continue for a
long time to regard from the stand
point OF nerves. But devices of an ul-
innate utility do not wait ON appre-
hension in their development. n gen.
Grafton still in its early twenties re-
members when folk rushed to windows
and curbs in timid wonder to. watch
the passing of the early automobiles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

A man named Biggers. charged with
the crime of deliberate. cold-blooded
murder in Meckienburg County, N. c.,
has just been acquitted by a jury on
the plea Of confessional insanity"
That's a new one on US, but it worked
all right. and that was the main point
with the defense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

our good friend of The Roanoke
ader has almost been converted on
. automobile question. The good
npIe of Dothan took him out riding
their machines, and though his hair
Boa on end and his teeth chartered,
enjoyed it. we are bound to infer.
IN. he intimates that he feels safer
hind some kind of animal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

When you come to think about 1t
Mrs. Gould's aiimony amounts to 800
day, and many people will argue
that she ought to live comfortably on
that sum-at least in dry State. If
she will locate in one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

to The Columbus Enquirer
b. when Maine behring's and Geor-
cotton seed oil are canned together
A are transformed into French sar-
~ and olive oil Well, what does
&Ater. n we don't know the differ
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

+ ~ xi9nrss for May printed es,ov 49, ~
1eon< tne actnal net circulAsions az
&1xtnx tseu deducted. ~.s>. its
1&oEf35ers land Inaxes It . part % sns .,ycu
1|Uc@ when rrQuested) that It's oaAx ming
1W&p1psr printed Ia Alabama-sha e ss
@o4A1 edition has ,>s largest Sar,nssa IN
X1Hhxma vltnout exception.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

81 Muskogee (Okla) Times-Dem-
y having quite lot Of fun with
viSsefious Mr.. Raffles" Of its own
aan.kt be caught, apparently. even
'boalA 90 reward offered for him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

Rome Tribune-Herald.
The Montgomery Advertiser suggests
that the Georgia Legislature may pass
n law regulating the size of chicken
coops. We can't say that there Is any
telling what the Georgia Legislature
will do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
Leetsrs to The Editor



/ consrs.u,s,e you on the sxcsilence-
Of your editorials on .Apdrsw 5ohn-
Ion" They are admirable. I think
Mr.. Carter too severe on your cores
pendent Of the day before on crop con.
ditions. II is often the case that
neighbor actually needs and would
welcome q good rain. And, as for Mr.,
Carriers question. did any one ever see
un vet M answer fsg sSs nave s sGy
years, and am not hundred years
old quite. either. Those years. In the
memory OF men now living. were 1873.
est planters Of the Canebrake never
put splow In 200 acres of rich bot
tom land. and on the lands which he
did plant, he made no corn at all. and
0ns s sac after Il so'son rs e i nsy had
according to DIR. Huggins, who keeps
a record Of the weather. forty-five big
Again in 1898. owing to too much
rain In May and q wet June my own
crop was the poorest ever made.
Such years remind US again and
STc0 of ns sane e. better en
well prepared land. and not too much
to the labor and the mule, never make
very poor crops. David Dickson plowed
a little more fertiiiser. and practised
rotation. and Invariably made good
crops. Yours truly.
r. s. Morrisetts.
A short Crop Predicted.
yerbena. July /. 1903.
Editor The Advertiser:
l notice In your Cotton Gossip" coll
umn this season you have condensed
the crop reports from various sections
Is quite an Improvement over the old
style Of printing the cotton news by
most papers. We can see now at a
ssv the e sosto sar ilnst0n to read
many favorable cotton letters from
cotton buyers in your paper, all this
season up to within the last tive
some @sas Of the buyers are are oferins to bet
that this crop wiz reach 100000 700
Sson the Of Ss crop Word for this
when every old farmer and others
know that wet May has never been
we have n not only had he aUoU wet May, but
over half OF April has been wet, and
nearly the whole Of June has been wet,
in the last ten days to amount to any
thing. and now comes the hot, burning
temperature OF % degrees and above,
And the little stunted cotton is having
ground and high grass.
l hear OF a great deal of land in the
bottoms in other section that has been
abandoned on account of grass. This
season Is more like 1873 than any year
that 1 have ever seen. and that year
Montgomery received only $4,000 bales
OF cotton.
The whole cotton crop that year
amounted to 100000 bales. don't
see how. we will get oyer le.001eo0
bales this year, the cotton buyers to
the contrary notwithstanding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03

~ Uaxlv Average, May, 1909 ......lS,.xs
~ SUNDAY Average. May, 1893 ....xesooe
o. Il rIniEan. Circulation Manager OF The
[Es foregoing statement OF The Adyer-
.1oerr olrculafion for the month OF May.
'661 II true and correct, and complied after
m returns from news boys. news agents.
11af1ed and left over copies hays eee1 as-
Circulation Manager.
Eworn TO and subscribed before me this
RIGA ALEXANDER.
Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
- A Home Question,

The tariff proposition may be some
what of vexing problem to the. ma
tionai lay makers but II Is mere baby
play compared to how to find 9. solu-
ton of the public road proposition In
ter roads and at the same time meet
the approval and ideas Of all citizens
we must confess
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
LET THEM LIVE AND SERVE.

The following editorial from The
Pittsburg Post is well worth reading
and considering
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-03
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing

The treat Secrea.
Uniontown Herald.
Dothan Ii backed by agriculture, and
one acre OF our prairie land 10 worth
half dozen OF the sandy lands Of that
section, yet they lead US in every class
Of production. Small farms and white
farmers In the secret OF their sue
cses.