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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
Rest From Railroad Batting.

Mobile Register.
 Railroad managers are congratulat- ing themselves that the era of railroad batting in this country has run its course, and that a reaction has set in. year ago numerous legislatures Tn the West and South were making lie a burden for the railroads, threatening Legislation which. added to the busi- ness depression then prevailing, made the outlook seem dark Indeed.
 The Railroad Age-Gazette attributes the change in public sentiment to the substitution of admonition at Wash Ineton for the "big stick" and says:
 '"The look into the future has. of course, its dubious spots. As a sequel of the year of railway batting an enor- nous mass of statutes taking the coun- try through. has been laid upon the railway corporations. Some Of 1t will stand in the courts; much of it will fall. and especially that part of 1t which bears upon conhscatory rates. some of 1t, notably taxation statutes 3 serious; some of it petty. It may be a considerable length of time before the grains of justice are winnowed from the chAn of prejudice, selfishness, politics and demagogism. But what ever the consequences of past anti railway legislation recurrent prosper ity will go far to overcome them and the present reaction against such law making stands as telling and encour- aging fact"
 Ii happens that at this time there is rest from legislative activity. This Is the closed season for the railroads, ex- cept in Georgia-a breathing spell be- tween times. The railroads and other
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
Passing of The Dispensary
By Frederic J. 1askin.

several other companies in Columbia and elsewhere in the State. The en. tire Fourth Brigade in Charleston was disbanded because 1t would not obey the orders of the commander -in-chief. Governor Tillman called for volunteers, and from the farms and the woods his friends came rushing to Columbia. The volunteers were quartered in the penitentiary to prevent clashes with the citizens of Columbia. Dispensaries were raided at Florence and at several other places in the State. Mass meet fngs were held in many towns and the people begun actual preparations for civil war.
 In Darlington and Florence martial law was declared. and the military authorities were placed in charge of the telegraph offices in those towns as well as In the city of Columbia. War correspondents eluded the guards placed to prevent their entering Darl- ington and Florence. and tapping the wires managed to get out their sto- ries. There were plots to wreck trains sent to Darlington and Florence bear ing troops, but these were abandoned when 1t was learned that many of the soldiers were not advocates of the dispensary. It was fortunate that a number of the volunteers who were not Governor Tfllman's friends obeyed orders and went to Darlington to pre- serve the peace and uphold the law. The citizens of Darlington received the soldiers in the most hospitable manner: such excellent order prevail ed while the troops were in the town that they were withdrawn in a few days. and the Palmetto State settled down again to something like quiet. But that was as near to civil war as any State, with the exception of Kan- sas. ever came.
 And all about the dispensary. No wonder 1t has been an issue in poli- tics, and no wonder it has It's friends little or no thought to the settlement of the liquor problem. The protests of prohibitionists against the enactment of the dispensary, law were met with the assertion that the system should be regarded as a step towards prohi- bitfon. It cannot be said that South Carolina Is nearer prohibition than 1t was sixteen years ago, for while half the counties of the State are "dry' a majority of the people voted them to make the entire State "dry.'' The claim still is made by advocates of the dispensary system that 1t is great moral institution. It Is admit ted that the honest enforcement of the law does eliminate many of the evils of the liquor traffic. One of the best known writers In South Carolina asserted only recently that while not an origin al advocate of the dispensary ssytem, he Is convinced that 1t has lessened the evils of the drink habit. Copyright, 1909, by Frederic J. Has,
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 TOmorrow--Beeinning the Fiscal Year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
Through the Mail bag.


 Dear Mir. Driftwood:-
 Each day As I read the clever column you so 4Diy conduct, the thought re- turns 70 me "stil the wonder grew, that one small head could carry ali he knew" I want to express my ad- miration for your genius as humor ist, which combi iued with the musical talent I hear you possess, no doubt makes you quite a favorite with the fair sex. I am surprised, however. to see you so often with good looking brunettes, for theirs is a class of beau ty to which you never r-fer in the interesting poems you so beautifully compose. and which |metaphorically speaking seem AS a breath of delicious fresh air waited over a desert of stuff fy, dusty. grim realities of life that are written all around them. I like your witty sayings and your dialect pieces but most of all I admire the sweet pastoral poems you sometimes write, and if you do not think me bold fin writing to you and are pleased to hear from me, an unknown friend. compose A pastoral poem for next Wednesdays column and In 1t mention Blue Eyes.
 P. S-But do not ellude to golden hair. for mine is a natural color-not blondined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
ANDREW JoHNsoN,s MEMORY.

A movement is on foot in Tennessee memory of Andrew Johnson. and the people of the Southern States should feel a friendly interest in the enter prise. for Johnson has never been fully appreciated by a section which he be- friended to his own detriment. It was true that as President he narrowly es- capped Impeachment. but 1t should never be forgotten in the South that he un- derwent that ordeal because he chose to stand infiexibly for fairness and jus tice to the Southern States in Recon struction days. If he had temporized, If he had yielded to the dominant fac- tion in Congress. rather than to stand up for just treatment to a section which at one time hated his name the savage attacks on him would have ceased.
 Johnson in his early political life and in the days preceding the war was the bitter opponent of the slave hold ing class of Tennessee and the South. He had risen from the humble shop of | a poor tailor to be one of the great po- iitical forces in Tennessee. He bit- terly opposed the slave holding class. not so much on account of slavery. but because of the political power which had been built upon that insti- tuition. Until after the war every po- litical fight he ever fought was fought against the slave holding class.
 He was nominated and elected Vice President when Lincoln was elected the second time because he had been Union man of the South.
 There remains no reason to doubt dent by the unfortunate tragedy which took the life of Lincoln. represented the views of Lincoln on the plans for restoring the country after the war. These plans were far more merciful and just to the South than the tyranny of Thad Stevens and his followers. Stevens and his followers. however, had the power in Congress. and a cer. tain public sentiment in the North, where the sectional passions still raging favored them. Andrew John son was subjected to the bitterest per- secutions that a President ever had to undergo. Not only was he assailed. be- cause he stood firmly for justice to class with which he had never before been friendly. but his private charac- ter was attacked in a despicable way. Assuredly the Southern people should honor his memory for had he been successful in his fight the South would have missed the humiliation and bit- terness of Reconstruction.
 When Johnson left the Presidential office many in the North considered that he had failed lamentably as a President and that he went out practi- cally in disgrace. But he was firm in his belief that he would be vindicated and to the credit of the people of Ten nessee. it should be said. he was returned by them as a member of the United States Senate in a few years.
 Andrew Johnson was, one man who suffered because he dared to do the right as he saw 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
CHEMISTRY 4,6Oo YEARS AGO.
Employed By Chinese in Cure of Diseas
 PhilOsOpher's Stone.

Employed By Chinese in Cure of Disease.
 Philosophers Stone.
 Yu Tung KwaL Chinese delegate to the chemistry congress, read an interesting pa ly on the chemical industry of China. Alchs- my. he said, was known in China at least 2.7o0 years before Christ, and China still occupied an important position in regard to the chemical industries of the world.
 The principal object of the practice of alchemy 4,60O years ago, he said. was the evolve preparation somewhat analogous to the philosophers stone the result attained being ,aSa.Sn, known as gold pills: pills. su.,n r. known in China from time immemoriaI while the processes of making gunpowder, paper glass and porcelain all originated in the same country, while 1t is admitted that the Chinese of the seventh century had a clear knowledge of oxygen; CT, have now changed. Since China has been known for thousands of years to be enormous wealth of undeveloped minerals, attention has naturally been directed to the study of these two branches of applied sci ence.
 "A Board of Agriculture and Industries has been instituted composed of different bureaus. each bureau managing some Sde- partment, such as land surveying, mine surveying irrigation work. etc. Having It's headquarters in Picking. the affairs of each province controlled directly by pro vincial executive committees and shortly 1t is believed, government experiment stations will be established. Also in the formation of chemical societies provincial societies have been formed. which will constitute section al branches Agricultural societies, too. are being formed in good numbers. and tho last few years have witnessed the establish ment of commercial guilds.
 "A characteristic feature about the teach ing system of China Is that chemistry, to- gether with mathematics is a compulsory subject in the elementary schools This Is insisted upon not only that the pupils mind may be trained, but also that the young student may acquire some elementary knowledge of natural phenomena"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
worklng rhroueh coIIeee.

Tuscaloosa Times Gazette.
 Much is being made of Governor varda- in Mississippi The University of Alabama has had little of this going on for some time and it has worked very successfully. For couple of yearn the students have waited on table and there have been fei- lows flying around the old mess hau with dishes In their hands that would be well come guests in any home in Alabama. In- stead of their being a social stigma on the walters the jobs have been very eagerly sought after. It is an experiment that has proved a success. While he Is hardly work ing his way through college the son of the present governor of Alabama is right now engaged in actual work at the University. He is spending his vacation in the electric al work connected with the University buildings
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
A WISE DECISION.

The decision of the arbitrators In the case of the Georgia Railroad and the striking fremen under the terms of the Erdman law will be final un- less appeal is taken to the Supreme Court. It has been given out that neither side will appeal. and, therefore, the matter may be considered as defi- nitely settled. There was practical unanimity in the board. as Congress- man Hardwick. the arbiter chosen by the firemen. agreed to everything ex- cept the clause which recognized the employment of negroes as firemen. To a part of this he agreed. viz, the pay ment to negro firemen of the same wages as paid to white hremen hold ing that the main reason on the part gro firemen was the lower rate of wages paid to them. This inducement gone, MT. Hardwick held, that the roads would be more apt to hire white firemen on the score of greater intelli- gence for the same cost.
 One of the leaders of the firemen. however. who occupies an official posi- ton. comes out with the statement that a possible effect of the decision will be not the raising of wages of ne- sroes, but lowering those of the white men. This Is of the spirit that de- sires to perpetuate rather than allav strife. sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" and 1t is better to await developments than to be raising i'm aginary difficulties
 The great point in the decision Is that which repudiates the claim of the white fremen working on the Geor- gia Railroad. that no negro flremen should be employed. That policy would al once stop the claim of the South srn people that negroes have better chance for work and livelihood in the South than anywhere else. They have always been employed in the capacity of tiremeu on railroads and only re- gently has there been any objection raised by white men. and so far as WE hHOW OIlS OIl hiC NNOA oNO AN-- There Is some reason for believing that if this movement had been suc- cessful It would have been followed not only on other railroads but in other lines of occupation. There is no tell Ing where 1t would have ended or what amount of trouble and financial loss would have followed. The decision of the arbitrators Is calculated to restore confidence, and to prevent condition in labor circles which might have led to most calamitous results
 Montgomery was especially intsJest- ed in this case. MT. Thomas k. Scott. general manager of the Georgia Rail- road. was tor years a citizen of Mont gomery and began his railroad career here. He Is a man of fine ability and splendid character with highly devel- oped sense of justice. He chose as his arbiter our distinguished citizen Hon. Hilary A. Herbert. and he could not have found In the United States a man whose mental and moral make up better fitted him for deciding such a momentous Issue The whole country has unlimited confidence in his fair mindedness patriotic impulses and dis position to hold in even balance tn" scales of justice.
 It is a fortunate thing that all the membe CTS of the board were Southern men. for the questions involved could better be passed upon by men of tn" vicinase than by those of other sec tons of the country. pr. Barrow is the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
What the' State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

The Weather Is Too Hot to Worry. Morgan County Times. tanooga Times. search Grandma Adver- tiser.
 Their Day Has Passed. Talladega Mountain Home.
 When Editor Mooney. of Memphis. advis- after the demagosue and drive him from office, several politicians ''bridled up,' and "sniffed."-Birmingham Ledger.
 And 1t looks as if the demagogues and professional politicians have hard time before them. They have about served their day and generation.
 Fixing the Values Birmingham Ledger.
 St. Clair and Etowah Counties in a state of mind over the assessment of cer The Probate Judges of those counties say that other land in their borders is as- sesed at less than cents to s1. Really to assess land at Is cents acre Is to make fun of tax paying. The State Board of As sessment compels this little valuation and the probate judges are trying to rectify 1t they say.
 Call for Good Men. Huntsville Mercury Banner.
 A baseball naagnate. it is said. has s2o.ooo not have to be phen ,menons either, just good men of major league calber. West Point is reported to bt In need or a number of young men willing to sceive technical education free of charge and board paid while learning. And a missionary commit tee announces that 1t has places and sala- ries for twice many men as offer them selves The trouble all around seems to be not so much dearth of material as of that sort which make good.
 
 Qualified Supervisor. Jackson North Alabamian.
 Superintendent Gupnes wants a change tr the mode of electing County Superintend- ents of Educatio. He has said something about the County Superintendents being elected named by the County Board of Education.
 We don't think this would give any relief at all. What want is an educa- tional qualification for County superintend ents of Education. It is a shame to have this office presided over by men who have no educat tion beyond being able to read and write It seems to us that superintend- ent of education of a county should be man of superior educational attainments. and a man of high moral and social stand ing He should be a man who Is looked up to by the masses because of his literary attainments and high moral character and he should be a who feels and takes a deep interest in the cause of education
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1909.
TT IS WELL OVER.

The decision handed down by the New York court in the Gould case was m doubt very disappointing to the wo- ? man in the case. so far as ahmony was ! concerned. She wanted quarter oi million dollars year from the husoahu l. she was separated from. and the court z awarded her thirty six thousand. That quite A difference, and yet there are many women in the country "ho would regard three thousand dollars month as quite a handy little sum 10 have about the house. Mrs Gould' however, has been so accustomed to amending as much money as she pleas ed. and in any manner she pleased that to be cut down to what douptless seems a niggardly allowance IS not calculated to make her good tempereu' But she gets loose from the huspaha' and that may be some compensation to her feelings and inclinations, even though she does not get an aosolute divorce. But we are told now that she is delighted with the verdict Of the court. but if that is true 1t can only he explained on the theory that it Is solely because she is legally separated from the husband against whom she claimed to have good cause of com plaint.
 But it matters not how the case end ed. or who gets the better of 1t, 1t has heen no credit to the American people. al Tn life" have become so common In the newspapers that they no longer cause surprise. Whether the high life" peo- ,nle are more immoral than are those of eIesser degree, or whether their esca- pades attract more attention and pub Iicity we are not prepared to say, but there Is no doubt of the fact that cases like this of the Goulds are discourag- ingly frequent.
 As to the woman in this case. lt may be that she was not nearly so bad as some of her detractors tried to make appear If she could be proven de- praved immoral woman the amount of alimony to which she would be entitled might be materially lessened. and il might have been possible to cut her off without anything. Perhaps this ac- counts for much of the damaging tes- timony that was produced at the trial. for it is hard to believe that she was such a woman as some of the wit nesses testified To believe all the ev- idence would be to make her almost B disgrace to American womanhood.
 In one view of the affair IL matters little as to the real facts in the case, for 1t has ended as so many mismatch- es among the upper classes have ended. She was an attractive and enticing show girl and he wanted her. He was a multi millionaire and she wanted to have the enjoyment of spending his money The result was a marriage in which there was no fitness no con geniality and probably no real love. Each wanted the other for selfish req sons, no doubt. and each learned in due &ine that a mistake had been made, so we find the matter in court and all the disgusting details given to the public. But why moralize? Such cases have continually occurred and will not cease as long as human nature is what 1t Is and has been.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30

What seems to us about the limit of political assininity is reported from one of the counties of Pennsylvania, where both the Democrats and Repub- licans have selected the same man as a delegate to their respective State conventions. He Is referred to as "a roaring Republican" but says he will attend the Democratic convention and help them manage things. we are not surprised that the Republicans select ed him to represent them, but why the Democrats chose him is past finding out. But how is that for a specimen of party principles?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
This Is My 92nd Birthday
Sir Joseph Hooker.

Sir Joseph Hooker. the famous bot anist was born June 30. 1877, in Suf- folk, England. aad was educated at the University of Glasgow. At the age of 21 he accompanied the famous expedition of Sir James Clark Ross, fitted out by the British Government, for the purpose of Investigating the phenomena of terrestial magnetism in the Antarctic seas. In 1S46 he was appointed botanist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. The follow Ing year pr. Hooker undertook a journey to India to investigate the flora of a hitherto unexplored region of the Himalayas. Similar trips of ex- ploration were made by him to Bengal. Syria, Palestine, Morocco and the Greater Atlas. and to California and the Rocky Mountain region of Amer ica. The result of these resea sche s were a number of superb volumes on botany of the various regions visited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
Letters to The Editor
Pathetic OnkwoOd. If 1t wasn't for Hope
 What'd people dof How would they ever
 This worId 20 through?

If 1t wasn't for Hope
 Whatd people do!
 How would they ever
 This world go through?
 When we think of the 1910 pavement realize what the Flower Growers have accomplished. the great work being done by the patriotic organizations. the city, which now reminds one of the beautiful White City of Chicago, a mass of light and beauty. then the for the liberal expending of hundreds of tn onsands of dollars for high school and the Methodist College-we feel proud and glad to acknowledge we are
 But come with me to where your pride feathers will fall and you will hide your face for shame and tears the city of the dead.
 for her cemetery, to allow the drive ways washed beyond passage, while one feels 'tis dangerous to go on?
 Why. is 1t that something has not been done to. beautify this spot; it seems that of all places in the city. that is the spot where work should be- gin and at once. The city now has an efficient landscape gardener to make cannot this same man be placed in charge of the beauty feature Of our City of the Dead? After 1t was once put in order and beautified. it would not be so expensive tv keep up. Those who keep up their lots and try to make them sweet and attrac- dead grass, trash, etc, piled around them, or else are surrounded by walks and lots hidden in weeds. Whose ever business 1t is to look into this. let them be up and doing.
 Let us hope that our new Mayor will bend his energies in that direction and thereby make our cemetery place of beauty and one that when visitors ask to drive to the cemetery we can do so with pride, having no cause to hang our heads in shame.
 Hoping that this will strike a re- sponsive chord in the hearts of all Montgomerians and ring in the ears of those who have heretofore turned deaf ear, to such an extent that we will see in a few months Improvements such as will astonish and interest all concerned therein.
 Willie V. Whitfield.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30

Already the announcement comes that Walter wellman is likely to make another failure at the very be- ginning. as we might say. The state- ment that his balloon has been de- stroyed or injured means that he can hardly get ready for a start by the 1st of August. and that probably means that he will not start at all. Peary is in no danger of being overtaken.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
This Date in History
June 30.

1691-Boston visited by its sixth great
 fire. 1777-British evacuated New Jersey 1820-Frederick Ferdinand Low, ninth
 Governor of California. born in
 Frankfort Mo. surrendered to the
 Russians. 1S59-M. Blondin first crossed Niagara
 Falls on a tight rope. lS63-General Schenck proclaimed mar
 tial law in Baltimore. 1S94-Opening of the Tower Bridge
 across the River Thames at Lon-
 don. 19oS-William H. Taft resigned as
 Secretary of War