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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

T spent two days In Annlston. . day in Gadsden. day in Tuscaloosa and two days in Montgomery and in each of those cities. met friends who told me they voted Tor the amsndment but afterwards regretted 1t. Four or fve said they were prevailed upon by la- dies to vote that way against their convictions. Each one of them said he was opposed to saloons in his home town. but did not think 1t just to force prohibition on cities like Mobile and Montgomery, where q majority of the people were in favor of high licenee and strict regulation. Mobile is more hurt perhaps, by prohibition than any other city. It is a sourist city and t used to be a carnival city. And of a carnival.
 ''Prohibitionists have been telling me that prohibition will continue to be the States policy. In a general way this may be true, but it Is a safe bet that in State election on a straight out issue as to whether the drastic law now in force should remain. those opposed to it would win. Scores or people with hom l have talked who used to favor saloons say that they would now favor only the licensing of beer and wine traffic."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
WEDNESDAY, DncnnBnR as. is'
roo MUCH MOB LAW.

Almost every day we find in the news columns of the daily newspapers an account of lynching. or else that ( lynching has been frustrated or mar rowiy averted. In some cases the guard Is poweriess or indifferent. in others the victim Is put to death be- fore any protection can be afforded. ana in stili other cases the officers of the law succeed in protecting the al- legged criminal from mob violence.
 In any of these cases. however. the mob spirit is there. ready to break out and do it's work The Iynchings ara not confined to any section or lo- caiity. They are not visited on one color or race. nor are they resorted 10 as the result of any one special form Of crime. When the mob spirit is fully aroused. and the lust for blood overwhelms all other feeling or sem fiment. the acts of a mob are prone to De indiscriminate and thoughtless
 There is too much of this spirit. but just what and where the remedy lies is not apparent--if there is remedy to be found One of the discouraging Features about 1t is that it seems to be increasing and spreading. Time was when iynching was looked on oR condition of society. or was excused on the ground that there was no law to deal out justice to a criminal. No such apologies or explanations can avail now. Lynchings take place in the midst of the best civilization of the country. where the laws are ann pie and can be applied in due and proper form and time.
 Is civilization going backward and progressing towards savagery and harbarism? Do the not infrequent in- stances of the laws delay. and of the miscarriage of justice tend to breed a contempt for the law? It may be that in some instances both these reasons may prevail. andSthu form in some minds an excuse for lynching. but even then 1t would be we'll for men to stop and ask themselves if condi- tions can be bettered by showing a contempt for law and order. Mob law fig getting to be too common not to cause grave apprehension in the minds of all law-loving citizens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
James A. Herne.
Golfers

The accident which destroyed Herne oaks, on Long Island, did more than bring a misfortune to one family. It put out of existence two of the most continent. Margaret Fleming" was the first sincere, intelligent and inti- mate study of life in the modern real istic method, portrayed in the drama of the United States. Mrs. Herne is so saturated with this play that she may The Rev. Griffith Davenport" Is gone forever, and gone without ever being widely seen. The circumstances of its production were not altogether forum ate, and although a considerable num- Der of observers recognized in 1t per haps the most distinguished and orig inal of all American plays, 1t was to the general public practically unknown Mir. Herne's talent, taste and spirit were never better represented. Had the fire not plotted 1t from the world, the play was one especially which it would have been the duty of the New Theater to reproduce. Today we have in Moody. Mackaye Sheldon, Walter Mitchell, Miss Corthers, and a number of others a rapidly increasing group of dramatists worthy of their art. Mir. Herne was a pioneer Standing alone, he pointed the way. solitary and mo- ble figure. The disaster which has fallen upon his family Is a calamity for us all. When the serious history of the American stage comes to be properly written, one of the places of highest honor will be devoted to Mir. Herne. It would be a pity also if there were not written before 1t was too late biog- raphy of the man who was one of our finest actors as well as our most pro- gressive playwright Already 1t has been made more difficult, for one tragic Herne's private correspondence was de- strOyed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
Changes at the south.

W WdSllnkIOu EOSI.
 The boil weevil is playing big part in the political and social economy of the State of Mississippi. A dispatch from Jackson tells the astounding news that Mississippi is exporting corn and hogs. Thousands of negroes are leav- ing the State because of the decreased area planted to cotton. They are go- Ing to Arkansas, Oklahoma and to the North.
 It is now demonstrated that Missis- sippi can beat even Colorado growing alfalfa, and six mowings of a field have been made In a single season in Noxu- bee County. Alfalfa, corn, salt and hickory wood ashes will make you Q 300-pound hog in the mild climate of Mississippi when the animal is but six months. old. The harsher climate of and larger period to develop the porker of 300 pounds.
 But Mississippi Is to be especially congratulated upon the fact of the ex- odus of the negro. It were infinitely better that the race be scattered and the North receive its full quota of the man and brother. It is true that MT. Booker Washington advises the negro to remain in the South, and he discour- ages all suggestions that he go North.
 But the negro is an American and 1t is to his harm that he be confined to Q single section. Nor will he be confined there, for there are more neEroes In Indianapolis than in Memphis: more in Washington than In New Orleans: more in Chicago than in Atlanta.
 The next census Is going to reveal and we may rest pretty safe in the hope and the belief that the race prob lem will be disseminated and the North made to bear her fair share.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

the Bishop of London as we'll as the only a. fabulous geography of Formo- ca. but an entire Ianguage. grammar and all, which he declared to be For mosan. Compared with this impostor, q Shakespearean play and the Mac pherson who wrote the Ossianic poems, pr. Cook appears as a very amateur of Munchausens, and his in- ventiye genius decidedly deficient
 There 10 stil1 one chance, however. to inscribe his name on the roll of fame. If 1t shall be proved that he got away. with s1Qp,oo0 of It's money, he must be acclaimed as the greatest hold-up man of ali times, and his lightning foray excels the dashing ex- ploits of Jesse James.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
RICHEST MEN.
Terrazas Has S200, ,0OO, 900 and E,ppioy
 10000 Men on His Ranch

TerrazRs Has S200, ,000,00O and EinpiOyes lS,eoo Men on His Ranch.
 Gen. Luis Terrazas is Mexico's weathiest man. Gen. Terrazas is 79 years old, the same age as President Dtaz. The lives of both men have been reward for daring military service that Gen. Terrazas obtained from the Gov ernment large gifts of land which placed him upon the road to the great fortune which he now possesses.
 It is conservatively estimated that General Terrazas Is worth not less than $20O,00o.000. His property holdings are chiefly in the State of Chihuahua, but he also has large Investments in other parts of the Republic.
 General Terrazas is the greatest land and live stock baron in the world, 1t is said. He owns fifteen ranches in the State of Chihuahua. The ranches em- brace an aggregate area of more than 5.000,O00 acres. For many years spe- ctal attention has been given to raising horses upon these ranches. More than 5.000,000 head of horses are grazing up- on the Terrazas land.
 The mule supply for most of Mexico comes from the Terrazas ranches. These animals now number more than 1,O0O,- 900 head, and are scattered over the different properties. General Terrazas' cattle holdings number more than l. 100000 head. Several hundred thous- and head of goats and sheep graze up- on his land. It Is said that the choicest grass lands In Northern Mexico are embraced in the Terrazas estate. Streams of running water pass through them, and the grass grows luxuriant- ly the greater part of the year.
 Some idea of the yastness of these landed possessions may be had when 1t Is known that more than 10000 men are kept constantly looking after the live stock. The services of 1000 men are required to ride the fences." It ls.f Ea q nf t{1 that the wires are kept intact, so that the live stock can not escape from the pastures. Many thousands miles of wire were used in constructing the boundary fences More than a score of towns, some of them of considerable size. are upon the ranches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Zeiaya's escape to Mexico might cause complications. if our govern ment should demand his person and Mexico refuse to give him up. Some thing like three-score years have passed since our little scrap with that neighbor, and all is peace and good feeling. but Uncle Sam may decide that he must have Zelaya and Diaz may resolve to keep him safely in his own custody; then what would hap pen?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
Chess as d scIence.

Boston Transcript.
 Chess is a very old game. but it has hard ly yet been determined whether 1t should be classed as a mere form of entertainment or as a science Those who would invest It with the latter dignity have received im- portant support from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The management has made arrangements for a course of lectures on the subject during the coming two months. The managing director says: with the playing of the game. the Insti- ute, as such. is not. of course. concerned. but as an educational or ethnological eie- ment, with it's history. general theory and esthetic phase, 1t Is quite in our line, The public may not readily recognize its ethno- logical value but that probably lies in the transference of this ancient game from country to country and its effect upon the mental processes of various peoples. In It's essential features it was played in Hln- dustan almost as far back as history runs. From there 1t spread to Persia and thence to Arabia. The Arabs introduced 1t Into Spain in the eighth century. and 1t was then gradually adopted in the other countries or Europe As a player and writer, BenJa- min Franklin was the first American to bring it into prominence. It no doubt fur nishes mental discipline of value. but the number of noted players who have become insane through devotion to 1t suggests that its introduction into the sciences be care fully guarded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
rn4har,a AIathnd

During a recent slight illness 5-year-old stinately refused to take his medicine. says The Deiineator After a somewhat pro- Ionged and intellectual argument with him. hIs mother at last set the glass of medicine down leaned her head on her hands and played" that she was crying. A moment passed and the tender-hearted Teddy una ble longer to bear the sight of his mothers stricken attitude. inquired, Whats the mat ter. mother dear7" Without removing her hands from her eyes she replied. I'm griev- for me" Whereupon Teddy sat up in bed and offered consolingly: "Oh, wouldn't feel badly if I were you, mother dear. Fa- take it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

It isn't often, we judge. that a wo- man finds a present worth a quarter of million dollars in her Christmas stocking. but that was the good for tune of Mrs. J. F. Clark, of New York. It wasn't exactly in her stock ing. either, for it was a handsome house on Fifth avenue that her hus- band gave her as a present. There was & Santa Claus worth having.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
OKLAHOMA ETIQUETTE.
Calls Til IO:8O P. M.. Permitted Only
 End of Week.

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 The conference of the deans of women of State Universities has been in executive session at Chicago Fortunately. Miss Lucille Dore. tits chief exponent" has told re- porter of The Chicago News something of ''the work she has already accomplished in uplifting Oklahoma society and of the still greater work she is about to launch" She is "dean of the women at the young but thriving University of Oklahoma" and thus the reporter. however. who talks about ''uplifttng oklahoma" the uplifter of us motherinE etiauette The ..one phrase on every girls tongue in Oklahoma is. Is it good form?'" Out of the strong has come sweetness. To Populism succeeds propriety.
 Here is what has been done In the univer- sity town of Norman:
 "Except for public entertainments. such as receptions, balls. and theaters, young women do not accept evening engaKements with men, save at the end of the week.
 .Ali calls are concluded at 1o:So pm.
 ''When young men entertain young women in their fraternity or club houses they have chaperons.
 which they attend in the company of young
 "Aii parties of young men and women are properly chaperoned and end at mid
 Engagemens are not recognized official ly'' by the university authorities. The .giris are pushing the campaign or etiquette tncAi- selves" Why, the reporter asked with In. solent Eastern ignorance, are social customs "so free and easy in the West?" The answer is, in fact. brave challenge to the aristo- cracy of Europe:
 well it is virgin soil The people there were living a pioneer life only short time ago. Under those conditions free social code is inevitable. Social life is so hamper ca by distance and thin population that calls must necessarily be long; dances must ne- cessarily be crude. Horseback rides and shooting parties don't develop the best eti- Quette. you know" .
 Shooting parties and horseback rides and similar raw diversions may have their share in the false code of manners sworn to by the accursed patricians of Great Brit ain and the continent. Oklahoma etiquette will rest upon saner and more "cultur- ed" foundations; Oklahoma will give social laws to the emaciated and feeble East.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Is it not too early to assert in the positive terms that some are doing. that pr. Cook is faker and that his polar claims are fraudulent2 Appear ances are all against him. it must be admitted. but there may be some ex- planation for the seeming faisity of his claims. And we must bear in mind that Peary himself has not ex- actly made his title clear.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

If this country doesn't pretty soon get into war with some foreign power there's danger that some of our fellow citizens will have a serious case of spasmodics. We don't know that we should precipitate a war merely to save the feelings of the jIngoes, but we don't know how else they can be quieted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

President Taft made typical san- ta claus--he had only to put on the whiskers." notes The Chattanooga Times. Yes. he could fix up the part all right but he would have had a strenuous time getting down mod ern chimney fiue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
The Reappearance of Vardaman.

New York World. Dec. 25.
 By sending ex-Gsovernor Vardaman to washington to i'll the vacancy caused bv the death of A. J. McLau- rin, Mississippi will be restoring to the Senate something of its lost char acter. There is serious shortage of fire eaters just now in that august have tanned TiIlman. Jeff Davis. of Arkansas, was never as dangerous as he sounded. La Toilette Is the only real insurgent left. and his speciality is to go out into the home States of other Senators and explain how they
 After "a free run of few years in the wilds of Mississippi. Vardaman must he In pretty savage condition. It Is a long time since he has had a chance to get Into the Congressional Record. On his return the peace and calm of the Senate will probably be in time the novelty of creating sen- sation within hearing of the WaRh- ington correspondents will wear off, It always does. When people show signs of being bored as quickly as they did with Jeff Davis, for instance, 1t re- quires no great stock of brains for a politician to take his cue and look aR wise as silence permits.
 The United States Senate is a great training school. Nowhere In the long run does a man take rank among his associates more surely according to his ability. Capacity and length of ence. not fiery oratory.
 Tn time Vardanan may be worked over into genuinely useful legisla- tor,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Throw your mind back" advises contemporary. but we decline to do 1t. We might not be able to bring 1t forward again, and that would be too bad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

People up in Connecticut. so the newspapers tell us. have been seeing sights. visions and various uncanny things lately. and some of the timid ones are worrying over it. for 1t all came along about or near Christmas day. Let's see; do they still make rum in Connecticut?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

A string of pearls valued at three quarters of a million dollars is said to have been received by Philadel- phia woman as Christmas gift. Wonder what the shade of good old Ben Franklin thinks of such waste?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Even such prominent newspaper as The Hartford (conn) Times. took a day eff and didn't issue paper on Christmas day. As 1t doAsn't publish a Sunday edition it's editorial and working forces had two days to rest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Now some of the paragraphers are referring to him as Uncle Joke Can non," but on some occasions he has shown himself anything but joke to congressman. A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Did the esteemed Congressional Record get out a special Christmas edition? If 1t did we failed to notice 1t. but we have been too busy to keep up with the brisky young thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

From the way our government has been sending gunboats and marines down towards Nicaragua 1t would seem that Uncle Sam is really afraid some body will hurt somebody else down shAA way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
Change of Sentiment

Birmingham ge-Herald.
 After spending two weeks in Ala bama I am inclined to think that many men who voted for the prohibition amendment to the constitution are not sorry that the proposition was defeat ed" said w. c. Marvin. of Baltimore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

- C Stuck on himself. ain't he? CTS he? Say, do you know why he gave up the idea of becoming physician" "Why?" "He was afraid he couldn't feel lady's pulse without giving her heart trouble. e."-Cleveland Leader.
 Character is the touchstone of indi- viduality and the keystone of success. Florida Times-Union.
 Mrs. Church---Are your children be- ing brought up to help themselves? Mrs. Gothem--Oh, yes; never lock the cookie jar!--Yonkers Statesman.
 Life. is not measured by years French.
 Miss Smart--Have you ever been through algebra? "Yes. but 1t was in the night, and didn't see much of the place.
 People who really have brains are the only ones willing to admit some- body else has.-New York Press.
 some of our grominent men," sug- gested the photographer, Hike to have their photos taken In characteristic attitude" Suits me" responded the subject. Photograph me with my nose against a grindstone. Got one | handy ?'--Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
The seaIea Boolx Of the Future.

t1afIIorQ COuFdnt.
 Some time ago we had occasion to refer to Henry CIay's confident belief declared in open Senate-that his compromise measures, had quieted the country, and had banished the agitat- ing slavery question from the Capitol forever. He was as sure of it as John Randolph was that this would never be a manufacturing country, or as Daniel Webster. was (for q while) that without the Pacific Slope than with 1t. As we pointed out, Mir. Clay. had he lived nine years longer, would have seen Abraham Lincoin's election and heard the Sumter guns.
 The yellowing pages of the old rec ords preserve many of these mistaken Judgments and forecasts. There's oth- stance, this speech made by Jefferson Davis in the Senate. June 27, 1S50 He spoke as man long convinced and fully convinced that his paramount allegiance was to Mississippi. and that his States commsnds must be sacred to him. But he said in his speech:
 "When any respectable man shah ist. I will answer him in monosyila- bles. At present I have no wish. to enter into an argument to prove that false which hope no gentlemen VIII charge, and which my whole life ut terly condemns If have supersti. ton, sir, which governs my mind and holds it captive, 1t IS a superstitions inherit a sentiment I may be said to have inherited this from my Revolu- tionary father"
 sworn in at Montgomery as President of the Confederate States of America.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

People who really have brains are the only ones willing to admit some- body else has.--New York Press.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Character is. the touchstone of indi- viduality and the keystone of success. -Florida Times Union.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Life IS not measured by years.- French.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29

Net Daily Average November. 1909 .as'sSs s'sss Net 6nnday Average, November tsvs .s%se~s
 c | E1nigan. circulation Manager of Lno Montgomery Advertiser. being duly s"o1h.
 .-Ths foregoing statement of The Adver- t1sefsu circulation for the month Of NovemDcf. 1908. ~ true ard correct. and compiled aIter nIi returns from news boys news asents' spoi1ed and left over copies have been oe- 6ucfxd C Il FINIQAN.
 'sClrcuiation Manager. 3 Sworn to and subscribed before me tnis
 II RIGA ALEXANDER,
 < Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-29
'Lanigan's Bail:"

In the town of Athol lived one Jimmy
 Lanigan.
 He bathered away till he hadn't a
 pound;
 man again;
 Left him a farm of ten acres of
 ground. He gave large party to all his rela-
 tions
 That stood beside him when he went
 to the wall. So if you but listen. I'll make your
 eyes glisten
 With the rows and the ructions at
 Lanigan's ball. With a whack, hurFoo chorus. No wonder the lady fainted. Tn the midst of the row Miss Kavan- agh fainted,
 Her face all the time as red as the The .adies declared her cheeks they
 were painted, But she had taken a drop too much,
 1 Euprose.
 When FaeGy Mccarty saw that his dear colleen was stretetsd cut ln the iinil, he b-oke all the chanay at Lani- 1t iA related of Gen. Washington that while at a farm house in New Jersey In one of his campaigns. he took small boy on his knee and sang him the Derby Ram:" when went down to Derby's house on a summer day