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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
SCIENCE OF MANKIND
ALABAMA METEOROLOGICAL So
CIETY Is FORMALLY
ORGANIZED
DIR. Thomas M. Owen IL President of
Society which VIII study the
Mental and Physical De-
velopment Of Man.

"The Alabama Anthropological Soci-
ety." the first association of its kind
organized In any Southern State, was
formed last week and an earnest and
sincere study will be made of the tribes
and customs of the men who lived I'm
what Is now Alabama before the White
man came.
The officers elected were: Presi-
dent. Thomas NJ. Owen; ce-President.
DR.. Herbert B. Battle; Secretary, p.
A. Brandon, and Treasurer, Buckner
Beasley. These officers were elected to
serve until the next annual meeting.
The first meeting of the society was
held at the home of DR.. Thomas NJ !.
owen and the committee on permanent
organization made its report there.
The active membership Is limited to
twelve men.
The society Is to hold twelve month";
~ meetings each year.. each meeting
to be held at the home of one of the
members. At each meeting a paper
Is to be presented by some member of
the society and the reading of this pa
per will be followed by discussion
by the members of the society.
J, The Society has raised the follow
ing committees: Field Work. Promo
ton of the Study of Anthropological
Study in the Schools and Colleges, Pub
licity and the Collection of Relics. =
provisional program for the four
months following July were agreed
upon. The FIRST paper will be contrib
uted by President Owen on "Opportun-
tiles for Study and Research Work in
Alabama" Other papers to follow in
succession will be. Dress Of the In
dams of Alabama" by p. A. Brannon;
THE Archaeology of Macon County"
by J. T. Letcher; 1.-The Archaeology
of the Gulf States. East of the Missis-
sippi" by Prof. H. s. Halbert.
The active members of the Society
are p. A. Brannon. Buckner Beasley.
Haygood Paterson, e. G. Horton. Sid
ney Shulein. j. T. Letcher, Dr.. H. b.
Battle, Prof. H. s. Halbert, viii T.
Sheehan and DIR. Thomas M. Owen.
Anthropology is defined by the Gen.
fury Dictionary as the science of man
or of mankind. It includes the study
of mans agreement with and diverg-
ence from other animals; of his phys
icai structure and intellectual nature
of the various tribes of men with ref
erence to their origin, customs. etc. !;
and of the general physical and mental
development Of the human race.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
FIRST CAVALRY BAND
TO GIVE BIG BARBECUE

Under the auspices of the LIST cav
airy Band OF Montgomery. said to be
the best amateur band in the South
the Fourth of July will be given
notable observance in Montgomery. al
though the day Of the celebration will
be July s. as the 4th falls on Sunday.
Hon. H. s. d. Mallory of Selma, who
has a large number OF admirers IN
Montgomery, has been invited to make
the principal address and 1t Is noped
that he will be able to come.
The celebration will be held at PICK
EFT Springs. The principal feature OF
the day will be a big barbecue. But
the band which was brought up to its
high state OF excellence by the late
Prof. r. b Eilenberg, will render
special program of music throughout
the day.
The military companies Of Montgcm-
cry have united in the celebration.
They will all be out in uniform. A
splendid barbecued dinner will be serv-
ed and after the dinner the pavilion
will be cleared and there will probably
be some dancing. other features will
be added to the entertainment, which
the band men say they are going to
make one of the most notable celebra-
lions OF recent years in Montgomery
It Is understood that Professor ia
nelson, who has wide experience In
directing bands, will succeed to the
directorate. Professor Jameson has
been engaged in construction work in
Montgomery for several months past
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Alfalfa Growing Complete
Success in Hale County

| to six tons per acre. which apparently
may be easily done.
Alfalfa would seem to be the solu-
ton of the agricultural problems of
the Black Belt of Alabama. A large
part of the prairie lands OF Hale
County are a desolation, abandoned to
Johnston grass with the people gone.
This grass whipped the darkey, and
ne has left it and no whites have ever
worked as laborers in this country.
The difficulties are a want of enter
prise with the managing whites that
remain. and the repugnance of the
darkey to change methods OF labor.
Cotton and corn are the, two staple
products with less and less of corn
and in the face OF the facts given above
as to alfalfa. 1t is dif1cult to get our
people even to try 1t just q little.
The boil weevil will reach US in 1912.
and unless the spell Of lethargy can be
broken With our people and they can
be induced to change methods and
plant other products not ravaged by
the weeviL d still further calamity
awaits this, the fairest section, OF Ala
bama.
In South Hale we have the finest
lands, the rarest opportunities and the
worst-abused country on the globe.
Lands are cheap, sell at $40 to $40 per
acre. worth from $50 to $3.50 in Hi
nois or Texas. Labor ACC to Use, the
same 81 to $3.50 in those States, while
the products, corn. hay and hogs are
high with us and cheap with them.
Our climate rs exceptional, and our
people are good, the noblest on earth,
but we all seem to be good for moth
ing. Many of them have gone else
where to be hewers of wood and draw
ers of water for other people, and the
rest of us, from our trifiingness, seem
to be eager to follow. Our Congress-
man, Hobson. is moving nightly on
the right line, and is attempting to
face the coming weevil pest with zone
of alfalfa and food products that will
avert the evil, but / fear our people
will refuse to be worried. We know
too much to learn anything more. We
are graduates long since in wisdom,
and don't need to be taught. The Of
Tense is that any one should attempt to
teach us in anything.
Now, Grandma, am saying these
things hoping through you to wake
somebody up. We must wake upt or
be slaughtered. We must get busy or
get out, and give place to the other
fellow.
Newbern, Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
ITS COST IS GIGANTIC.


Jewish Colonization OF MesOpOtamia
Calls for Hundreds of Millions.
New York Times.
Jacob H. Schiff, who is at the Ritz,
said to The New York Times corre-
spondent Tuesday that the report that
he had committed himself to the plan
for planting Jewish colonies In Meso-
potamia was erroneous.
He thought the valley OF the Eu-
pirates would afford a suitable habitat
FOR the members of the race. especial
~ those from Russia, so far as the
climate was concerned, ana In tue
light of the earliest Biblical history
and tradition there is much about the
region peculiarly interesting to the de-
scendants of Abraham, but the scheme
was q gigantic one. which no mere
three societies could well carry out It
would require the cooperation OF all
Jewish progressive bodies. To trrlgate
the land in question alone, which was
necessary to make 1t capable OF sup
proting considerable populatlon,
$200, 900, 900, 1t had been estimated by
competent authorities. would be need
Mr.. schifr declared that he would be
strongly in favor of the choice OF
Mesopotamia for the colonization OF
the race If the project could be ade-
ouately financed, %but not otherwise.
The suggestion that the large jewish
societies take up the matter together
and ask the sublime porte for CHAR
ter was practical, but that Few IN
yIduals should undertake the project
was simply ridiculous. he said.
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nY c. 5. ANDERSON.

The article appearing in your col
umns recently on alfalfa has sfimu-
lated me to write on the same sub
ject. 1 beg to say, Alfalfa will grow
| luxuriantly In the prairie lands in the
Black Belt Of Alabama. Five crops
were cut last year from fields grown
IN this community. The cutting
began onr~A April II and was moved
ever thirty-hve or forty days after
that till fall The good lands aver
aged not less than three tons to the
acre. The plant has not been cult
waited or fertilized here by any one
Our people are just beginning with 1t
and need to know more about 1t every
way. 1t makes the most beautiful field
imaginable and supplies easily two
thirds feed for work stock with one
of corn. The excessive rains In this
climate are against It as hay crop.
but whilst they interfere with hay
making, they produce q greater growth
as we cut.it I'VE times here. while they
get but three mowings In the dry
West. It is an unrivaled hog food, az
they flourish on 1t the year around
with but little other nourishment A
little physic and some additional food
stuff, corn or slop, will keep them
thrifty Mr.. Mumford, four miles away,
has kept about $50 hogs for three
years on twenty acres of Alfalfa. Be-
side grazing that number, he moved
the field" three times last year, get
ting two tons of hay to the acre.
started two months ago with thirty
hogs in four acres, and am pleased
with present conditions. I have other
lands seeded and propose to enlarge
the acreage and also the number of
hogs. The beauty about the hog and
the alfalfa is the two grow together
without cultivation and with minimum
care and expense. Alfalfa grows on
lime land. with substratum of rotten
lime rock. the light cedar hammock
shell land and prairie bottoms and
sloughs suiting 1t best. The income In
hay from such lands will double that
from cotton grown on them at one
half the vxpense of the making. Melli-
lotus inoculates the soil for the all
falfa, and lands that have grown the
former are adapted to the latter and
are in preparation for it. Seeded in
Johnson grass, it will grow with 1t
and gradually overcome 1t, as alfalfa
grows the deeper root and continues
for years without reseeding. 1t needs
cultivation here to kill out the grass
and weeds that tend to infect it, and
also fertilization so as to produce four
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30

KANSAS OlLY star.
Water is a precious article in the
upper Rio Grande region of Texas. The
Rio Grande itself contains an ample
supply for the Mexicans and few Amer
leans who live in that remote region.
but 1t sometimes Is q difficult matter
to transport and distribute a supply.
In the villages and goat ranches,
situated back from the river. the wa
ter problem is one of the most DIM
cult that the people have to contend
with. Many months may pass without
rain The country becomes dry and
parched.
The hardy desert plants are the only
species of vegetation that are able to
go through these long droughts. Wa
ter frequently has TO be transported
long distances from the Rio Grande.
Where the country - mountainous and
rough water carts cannot be used. the
water is carried in water bags, which
flt over the back OF a horse.
These bags are evenly balanced up
on the back of the horse and carry ten
to twelve gallons when filled. The
bags are made of stout canvas and
are fitted with tunnels. It is not I'M
commonSto see dozen or more of these
water pack horses in a single train
going to $or from the river all in
charge of a Mexican driver.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30

Church of the Ascension, Mr.. Irvine.
the Socialist. addresses a large audi
clalistic discussion is held afterward
surely. an unusual activity for the
church. Another Episcopal Church, st.
Georges. which numbers among Its
members some of the richest men in
New York, holds a revival and the
clergymen and choir with all the con-
gregation, goes out and marches. sing
people from the by-ways and hedges.
These unusual new activities are
but a few examples of many expert
n,ents which the Protestant chupches
over here. hoping in the future to
consider more fully the institutional
church, the modern revival, and like
activities.
When summed up. all these move
ments mean just one thing: that the
Protestant churches, having fed from
the common people, are trying various
constructive measures for getting back
ing new ways of serving the people
whether with carpenter shops, baths,
bodily healing or socialist discussions.
And all of them are full of signifi-
of humility. that willingness to do SER
vice which always accompanies the
appearance of new truth. Each con-
tains a fundamentally valuable idea.
ward a new vision Of the high place
which the church should occupy in our
modern life.
these movements doomed large upon
te horizon. for they have had wide
secular publicity. and they have been
eagerly hailed and enthusiastically
commended in certain progressive
church circles. But viewing the whole
field, as we'll as studying specific
neighbour Gods and specific churches.
I have been surprised to find how lit
ton has been changed by all the de-
vices so far attempted. In the first
Mace. comparatively few churches
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
What the Churches Have Got To Do
Nowadays to Revive the Peoples
Iaek of Interest.

The Protestant churches are steadily
losing ground in New York City, says
Raw Stannard Baker in his article,
.The Godlessness of New York" in tn
lime American Magazine. The
eSurches themselves admit this says
Mr.. Baker. and the most enterprising
Of them have adopted the following in
novations to get back to the people:
'There has been. indeed. 40 lack of
experimentation during the last ten or
Afteen years among a growing group
Of thoushtful progressives. Though II
is dificult to break away from tradi-
ton. many Protestant churches have
been doing 1t. 1t was a decided in,
novation when men like Rainsford
in the Episcopal Church. and Judsor
among the Baptists, added to their
church work such accessories as car.
penter shops, gymnasiums baths ant
parlors, and organized all sorts Of
Clubs and classes. II was surely Z
| drastic and original step when mer
| IKE Worcester in Boston, and Batter
| in New York, turned their attentioI
| 10 healing sick bodies as well as sicl
| souls. I have described the Emmanue
| AG0HAmant In a former number OF thA
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among the hundreds In New York have
attempted any of the new work. The
majority of the churches are still sim
ply content. Moreover, where the
experiments are tried, the same sorts
OF Work-clubs. classes. baths. gymna-
Sums, to say nothing Of bodily healing
and socialist discussions. are being
done and often better done by other
agenciesEsuch as the settlements
and schools Some of the churches
which made fine start In institutionai
work are. already finding it difficuIt
to maintain that work with any great
enthusiasm. DR.. Batten and other
clergymen who with rare energy have
been trying the Emmanuel Movement
have attracted uamore people to their
churches-but they are practically all
Protestants drawn away from other
Protestant churches. say this in no
spirit OF carping criticism but merely
as statement Of conditiona A small
group of people, already socialists at
tend and enjoy the address and So
eialist discussions at the Church of
the Ascension"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
M. AGEE WRITES OF DEAD
He Confirms the Accurate Memory of
General Woodward--A Romance
Of the old Town and True
Ghost story.

BY A. N. AGEE.
General Woodward was correct as
ITO Governor Bagby having a wife pre-
vious to marriage to Miss Connelle. A
friend at Cieburne has lately visited
the old graveyard disused for the
last fifty years, and long neglected.
ana found her tombstone and the In
ocription thereon. She died in 1926.
These mute monuments might recall
many memories of sleepers there. long
since forgotten, and even the name
blotted out, few only cherished In
Its sacredness.
perhaps in this neglected spot Is laid
some heart pregnant with celestial
ire:
Hands that the rod of empire might
or walked to ecstacy. the living Tyre"
1t is sad to contemplate. But I'VE.
too. shall pass away"
When / was boy. one of these cpl
taphs attracted my attention, 80 inn
pressed me that II has never been
erased from the tablets OF my MEM
ory.
IT was a pathetic story in connection
Herewith. Claiborne was then, per-
haps in 1880, a dourishing. populous
town, which drew many travellers. adj
venturers and strangers from all parts
Of the United States; from Europe also.
young men of good address and
good education was one of them. He
came unknown. unheralded and with
out letters. but was doubtless wan
derer from his then far-away New
England home.
He obtained board in nice family,
but was soon taken sick and unto
death. he was tenderly nursed by
mt IN n a
interested in him. But even to her
he may never have revealed his iden-
fitv nor gave his true name. She
knew him only under his assumed
name. This devoted girl had him de-
Gently inferred, erected neat head
stone over his grave with this inscrip-
ton:
sAIone and in sorrow dark'hours rolled
Friendlsss and forsaken. why should 1
May the turf lie lightly DER the lone
where the heart-broken stranger Is
laid and forgot.
The following lines from Gray's
Eleey on a Church Yard might not
have been Inappropriate for his cpl
taph.
..fIere rests his head upon the lap of
youth to fortune and fame un-
known;
Fair science frowned not on his humble
birth,
Ana Melancholy marked him for her
own"
Gen. E. woodward is also correct
as 10 John B. Morris. He says that
when he was impressed as sailor
ana nut aboard a man OF war at
Savannah In 1915 he sued out writ
OF Habeas Corpus for release: that
the writ was served by John B. motifs,
sheriff of Chatham Co.. Ca. that Nor
rIs was afterwards Sheriff of Dallas
co. and q merchant at Claiborne.
know (from hearsay) that he tMl
was . merchant at Clairborn in its
early days. think the firm was
min a. Morris. He moyed to Mobile
before my knowiedge. and was presi-
dent OF a bank 4
he had a pdmber Of grand children
IN Mobile and Monroe Counties
few. years ago. He also
Had brother William NOR
rss. a merchant and leading citizen OF
selma for many long years whose
family descendants still live here.
Among other old citizens of Clat-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Beautiful Ne,U Millinery

An unusual showing Of Trimmed hats in black
and white Among these you will find fine French
chip and mlans in all the new and wanted shapes,
flower and feather trimmed, with velvet ribbon
and cabouchons. Values range from $3.50 to
$500.
New arrivals Of black and white shapes, in
chip and mion at midsummer prices.
Tailored Hats 1928 and S498
These hats are worthy of quick attention. You
will find them all fashionable shapes and colors,
and the materials such as you find ordinarily In
hats sold from So to SIS.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Victim of the Country Parlor.

AtCnlSOn &7lOD0. (
An Atchison woman recently had an
old fashioned experience. She called
on an old fashioned couple who took her
into The Par1or. 1t was a cold day,
and there hadn't been fire In The
Parfor in two years. But II was The
Parlor, nd contained o marble topped
table, an art square with a blue bird
dozen fancy cushions The host had a
bad cold. and the hostess coughed all
the TING. and the guest was sneezing.
but, nevertheless, they must sit in The
Parlor and experience all the delight
of looking at the handicapped CEN
ter table, the art square with a blue
bird in each corner, and the sofa and
the one dozen fancy cushions. The
guest asked to be taken to the sitting
room, where there was a fire.
mo, indeed!" said the hostess. 'You
are our company. and we always hon
The Parlor."
The guest never learned what effect
the cold room had on her host and
hostess, for she. caught cold that
settled on her lungs. and died the
next week. And in her final delirum
of fever all she talked about was mar
ble-topped tables, art squares and blue
birds and fancy sofa cushions.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30

School that is practically completed.
at che corner of st. Louis and Terrell
avenues. was named for Prof. Alex
arder Hogg. he being designated In
the motion as the man who had done
more for the children OF Fort Worth
than any other man. Professor Hogg
thus becomes the frst superintendent
Of schools to be thus honored in Fort
Worth. and probably in the state"
Prof. Hogg was for some years con-
nected with the A. p. I. at Auburn. In
it's earlier days and was afterwards
superintendent of the Montgomery
school system. He went from this city
to Texas, where he has been recognized
as one of the foremost educational men
Of the country. His Alabama friends
are glad to see honor bestowed where
II Is due.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
FINE BERMUDA ONIONS
CAN BE GROWN HERE

That Bermuda onions. as large and
as fine as those grown in Texas or any
other State. can be grown In Alabama.
is shown bv box of huge onions re-
ceived yesterday by The Advertiser
from D. d. Bush of Headland. These
onions are quite as large and quite as
fine as any that have been put on the
market In Montgomery. Some OF them
would apparently weigh two pounds.
Mr. Bush says of the onions in a let
ter:
1T am sending you sample of the
onions that am raising this year.
They are of the White Pearl variety
and were put out in the fall about Oc-
tober"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
A DELIGHTFUL TOUR
to the
PACIFIC COAST

A select personally conducted party
will leave July 10 via the Louisville
and Nashville, stopping at Denver, Col
orado Springs, Cripple Creek. Salt
Lake City. Yellowstone Park, Los An
geles. San Francisco. Portland, Seattle.
Victoria and Vancouver. b. c., return
ing through the Canadian Rockies.
Full information including cost of tour
may be had by addressing Mrs. A. e.
Meadow. 21S2 South goth street, Birm-
ingham, Ala. su-wsd
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Montgomery Negro spenks

Birmingham, May 29.-(SpeciaL)- =
Rev. w. A. Blackwell. pastor Of the
Old Shipp African Methodist Episco-
pal Zion Church. in Montgomery. de-
livered a strong and impressive adj
dress before the graduating classes of
the Miles Memorial College. the insti-
tuition maintained here for the train
ing of negro youth by the Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Entertainn the aoyernor,

Florence, May 29.--(Special. )-Judge
and Mrs. ]. j. Mitchell entertained at
an, elegantly appointed luncheon in
honor of Governor Conner. who deliver
graduating class OF the State Normal
College here. Those invited to meet
the distinguished guest were Hon.
Geroge p. Jones, president; NJ. C. will
son. Judge Archie Carmichael and
Judge John L. Hughston.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Why Bonsisn, Prevails.

Regarding bossism Of cities. United
States Senator Theodore Burton said
in a recent speech in Toledo:
mo boss could hold sway for a year
without the cooperation of a large
proportion of citizens, or without the
cooperation of large business or other
interests which desire to avoid the
complexity of dealing with Boards of
Aldermen, legislative bodies and exec
utives. It is their great wish to deal
with single individuals who dictate the
acton OF the different agencies of the
government. In return. these support
great largesses in the way of campaign
contributions and bring to the support
of any party large numbers of voters
'rhe crying evil of our times. Is IN
intelligent and patriotic voters"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-30
Roth WORD surnrined.

A mission worker in New Orleans was
visiting a reformatory near that city
not long ago when she observed among
the inmates an old acquaintance. ne
gro lad long thought to be a model of
integrity.
"Jimr' exclaimed the mission work.
err SIS II possible ind you here?"
"Yassum," bnthely responded the
backslider Use charged with stealin'
a barrel of sweet pertaters."
The visitor sighed.
"You, Jimr' she repeated. 81 am
surprisedr
"Yassum," said Jim. 80 was ], or
I wouldn't be here"