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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
sNAPPING POLITICAL TIES.
levolt OF the Radical West Against
the Conservative East.
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Revolt of the Radical West Against
the Conservative East.
New York Evening Pvst.
Westerners are swapping party ties
on the question OF the tariff. partly
because they resent Its burdens and
tnjustices, but more because they are
Jealous Of New England wealth and Of
the capital of New York and the MID
die States. which appear to them TO be
using Senator Aldrich as an anianu-
ensis to write our tariff dictation. The
West and South against the conserv-
alive East 1t vas no casual thing
that Western Senators pointed out and
denounced the dominance of New Eng
tee Of the Senate. and in other power
full committees Of that body. There
spoke a sectional distrust. and dis
like which may lie prophetic Of .
sweeping readJustment Of parties be-
fore many years have passed.
That 1t will surely come, we should
not think of being, SO rash as to pre-
Diet But its Feasibility lies les oP Sreat 20
may not occur over the tariff. Senator
Aldrich has such glittering bribes IN
his hand that he may be able TO DYE,
the needed votes. But with the tarin
the tendency we have indicated re-
mains, and win have to be reckoned
with. That 1t has entered into NJ. tn -
remote calculations Of President Ts i,.
conciIiatory policy toward the sonth,
hts announced intention OF traveIlng
extensively in the West, his aoVoeac cS
Of the income tax by which pom Sou na
without special meaning. yet they are
the kind OF thing a far-sighted Pres
ident. locking TO his own Succession,
would BE apt to do u ne 81 saw %, o.
iitical alliance that would ahatter ana
DESTROY old party combinations,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
GAS PRODUCTION

Company ordered four gas meters
These four meters were to be able 10
measure o greater fiow OF gas than IL
REQUIRED to supply the whole city III
Philadelphia, and six times an much
as Is required to supply city like
Baltimore. But the manufacturer was
equal to the occasion, and turned out
the four biggest gas meters in the
world. 1t Is said that they are as ac-
curate as they are large.
Artificial gas for Illuminating pur-
poses was first used about 1902.
though II never reached commedcial
scale until about 1910. 1t thereafter
grew in favor. and even the electric
light could not outshine II In the esti.,
nation of the average householder.
While electricity has largely driven
gas out OF the once building and the
large manufacturing establishment
where light Is needed. gas is stili the
iavorite lighting agent in the urban
home. and bids fair to remain so.
Usually the large commercial build
ings have big heating plants. and they
can produce electricity as a by-pro-
Duct OF the heating plant, thereby
making II far cheaper than to buy
gas. About 1000 gas companies are
said to he doing business In ithe Unit
ca states. as compared with 1000 cleo
trio central stations. There are 100,-
GOO electricians in the United States
and not more than one-fourth as many
gas experts. most OF whom are men
who graduated from the school OF en-.
perience.
The action Of the Washington Gas
Company in reducing its rate for gas
to ninety cents Is an illustration Of
the new spirit which Is coming over
corporations everywhere. 1t saw that
public sentiment was for cheaper gas
and that Congress was in q mood to
act In that direction. Rather than
yield only when 1t had to. and rather
than take the risk of even a. lower
rate by legislative action the gas
company elected to voluntarily reduce
the price to ninety cents. There were
Indications that a good bit of the time
oof Congress would be taken up In the
consideration of this one local ques-
ton. The whole country viii prob
ably rejoice that Congress will not have
to devote Its energies to the washing
ton gas question next winter, but win
have that time to devote to more press
sing national matters. t e
Copyright. 1909 by Frederic J. Has
KIM Z
Tomorrow--street Railway Accidents.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The old proverb that "a bird In the
hand is worth two in the bush" seems
10 have had weight with the San Fran
cisco woman who sailed from that city
on a ship bound for Honolulu. where
she was to marry the man TO whom she
had become afianced. While on ship
board she made the acquaintance OF a
man who was more TO her liking than
the other and married him. Just what
her Sandwich Island fance thinks OF
the proceeding is not stated. but per-
haps he considers himself well out or
II, IL that is her style.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
DRIFTWoOD

the girls is not necessarily because
he has killing ways"
once again to Messrs. Paul Cook,
Drift Armstrong, George Bailey, ct al.
etc, we extend the invitation to re-
port within. our happy midst and OBJ
CHASING e down liz second ao.lDn wa
pennant.-Nashville Tennesseean.
Five hundred frogs have been i'm
from for .Ss by the
ing may be observed for the purpose
of predicting rain. Nothing like maxi
ing certain of thing. The frogs. are
pretty reliable.
City child on her first visit to the
country said to her grandmother at
the iirst sight Of peacock; oh.
Chicken in full s 5Ioom nis' i'ss ~ 0'D
Don't punish your children when
they are recalcitrant Sitsat your pI-
Julia Sears. the renowned mstsphysi-
ano playing we have heard would be
more punishment for them than -
Listen here: 1t makes a horse sick
right down to his hoofs to haye bis
!
summer and leave him In charge Of
nverystable man who takes advantage
Of the owners ebsehcs TO drive the
dtsconsolate nag to ave or six funerals
day and rent him to fat man as {
saddle horse.
Talk about feeling cheap, but when
a man walks about mile to the post
at home. goes home after 1t. walks
back to the .. o. and discovers on
opening HIS box that there Is nothing
his / box rent Is due. why he feens IKE IKE
town-that's what -
Writer says that '1ove makes young
err" - : :
When he is caught on the street
with q chorus girl he is FRANK enough
when she is caught with another man
she II HONEST enough to say it was
her cousin.
The following. found on our desk
this morning. we print-weil, because:
"A Kansas City funny man won
wife with his jokes.
And Just to think. Mrs. Boyle must
be separated from her rats and puffs.
Amt it awful? Mabei' L
WINE the corner IN wheat caused
men to think OF the bread line, women
continue to think only Of the waist
line
These Days OF Murder TRIALS.
Life Is full OF trials"
Said the villain In a rage.
IT'S nice, though" said the SOU
For It helps one on the stage"
The Difference.
The small boy chases the June bugs,
Out where the roses cling.
The June Dug Is kindly beast
BecausT he'll never sting.
The grown man chases the June brides,4
The fairest girls among,
But alas, unlike the small boy,
He too frequently gets "stung
p. H. A.
Phil Armstrong says marriage is .
game of baseball" SWeil, II It's the
sort of baseball the Houston team has
been putting up, It's a failure-Hous-
ton Post.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

BY disposing OF his interest in The
wilcox Progressive Era the state press
loses one of it's most experienced and
useful members. Mr.. Abner ]. Smith.
For some years he was engaged in
publishing a paper in Baldwin county
and more recently in Camden, Wilcox
county In both instances he served his
patrons we'll and furnished them ex-
eeedinKly interesting and newsy papers.
He goes to the rising town of Gulfport.
Miss. and the best wishes of all his
Alabama friends 90 with him The Era
has fallen into the hands of Hon. S. D.
Bloch. who for many years was a
newspaper owner. So that old friends
have for a measure been brought to
the front again. Mr.. J. S. Hunter will
conduct The Era and his former con-
nection with it gives assurance Of a
wide awake newspaper.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The Advertiser hastens to make cor
rection of an item in The Advertiser
of Sunday under heading This Date in
History" One of the items stated that
Levi P. Morton. twenty-second Presi-
dent of the United States. was born
May 16, 1924. Mr.. Morton was never
President of the United States. He was
elected Vice President at the time Ben
jamin Harrison was elected President
and served from March 4. 1889. to
March A. 1893
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

washington FosI.
1t would be great tax upon the
ability OF the most profound casuist
to differentiate between the ethical
phases OF the tariff revision" comedy
now being pulled off at the Capitol and
the startling denouement In connection
with the sugar frauds in New York.
There Is but, small distinction between
the doctoring Of sugar schedules so as
to permit the infliction of new bur-
dens OF taxation upon millions OF help
less consumers and fixing sugar
scalesy SO as TO gouge the government
The profits resulting In both transact
lions go to fill the Golfers of the sugar
trust.
Meanwhile confidins people are
being RECALLED with the beauties of pro-
hibitive protection, and the sublima tfon
Of rates already excessive by q maxi
mum scheme which will enable the re.
timers to exact greater sums through
due process Of law" than were ever
taken by the equally devious meth DDS
which the government Is denouncing
and Furnishing.
From any standpoint the spectacle Is
decidedly lacking In moral encourage
ment.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
Letters to III. Editor
Auburn. May Il. 1908

Auburn, May II, ievy'
Mr.. C, w. Poyner, Newton, Ala:
Dear sir--Major Screws. Editor Of
The Advertiser. has referred to me your
letter OF May IL. relative 20 Johnson
grass. In reply I would say that the
land for johnson grass should be
plowed broadcast much as for .oats or
wheat: the seed sown broadcast: pref
erahly early In April. and covered rain
er shallow with an ordinary spike
tooth harrow, When. last looked up
prices of seed the cost was about ylIe
per bushel. There Il need for at least
one bushel Of clean seed per acre. ana
OF larger amount II the seed are very
chaffy. Seed are offered for safe by
most Southern seefsmen, advise
caution in introducing Johnson grass
into community WHARF IL is not al
ready present. It's tendency Is 70 DC
cupy the best bottom lands which IN
the Southern portion Of Alabama should
be largely reserved for corn and sugar
cane. Yours very truly.
Director Alabama Experiment Station
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
This Date in History
May 10.

I73s-whiteheld, the great evangelist.
arrived In Savannah from Eng
land.
17s5-Date Of the charter of St John.
n. b, the Oldest incorporated
town in Canada.
1ss4--Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed
Emperor of the French.
1S50-First tract OF land located for
Oakland. Cal.
ls6l-MilItary Department Of Virginia
created with Gen. Butler as
commander.
1S74-Governor Moses OF South Carolt-
ma indicted for larceny.
1se2-Eight thousand people made
homeless by food wave at Sioux
City, Ia.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

Birmingham's building boom has
heen caught on its Southern edge by
Montgomery That city Is now build
ing Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Ledger has yet to learn a great
deal about the growth of Montgomery
and all South Alabama. 1t will have
hard work to keep it's face straight
when 1t learns from the census of 1910
that this part of the State has been
steadily growing in population and
business of every laudable character.
Some people do not seem to look be-
yond their immediate surroundings.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
Director Alabama Experiment Station


Montgomery, Ala, May 16, 1903.
Editor The Advertiser:
In reference to Sdraining Three Mile
Branch. notice the Board OF Health
has been instructed TO cite the abut-
ting property holders to drain their
property and IL they refuse to do 80
that the county do the work and hold
the adjacent property responsible for
the cost. I don't think that is fair.
The lake is not being drained for tho
benef1t OF the adjacent property hold
ers. but for capitalists who are de-
veloping property in that part of-the
county, and who are abundantly able
to pay their part o the cost, IL necss.
sary. but why Is II the duty Of the
property owners to pay for this ms
provement. The lake has been cor
demned by the Board OF Health as .
nuisance. Then It IL tthe duty Of the
Board of Revenue to drain IT., There
Is nothing that they could spend $4,000
or $4,000 on that would be OF more
benefit to the county and the city Of
Montgomery than draining Tbpee Mile
Branch. The city and county have
drained, the stagnant ponds in North
Montgomery, West and South Mont
gomery. Now why not drain the one
In East Montgomery. Be Just and
don't tax few for the beneft Of many.
j. W Abercrofnbie
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
This 10 My 7Ist Birth day
William H. Niles.

william Harmon Niles. noted as a
geologist and educator, was born In
was educated at the LawTt . Scienti-
DC School and the Sheffield Scientific
School. For years he studied compare
tive anatomy with Prof. Louis AgassiH.
For many years he delivered public
lectures on natural science, In 1871
lie became professor of geology and
geography In the Massachusetts, In
stitute Of Technology and since 1888
department OF geology at wellesley
College He IL a member Of the lead
ing scientific societies OF America ann
has written extensively upon geologi
cal and KaoRraphtcai subjects.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18
A MORNING THOUGHT
BY J. MARVIN NICHOLS.

The time is not far distant when the
The swing back toward the
Question. ancient regime. When Ma
poleon said that the great
est need Of his beloved France was
Mothers" he anticipated the very
need of this present hour
Professor Thomas in a recent arti-
Gle in my American Magazine declares
that the mother should be educated
both in life and in the schools, and the
tion should certainly not be less thap
that of the scientific specialist At the
age OF perhaps the childs brain Is
practically an In; he Is sn nor only In
derstand any abstract principle and
any piece of literature, from the the
DRY of evolution to the Hamlet OF
Shakespeare. but when he spends his
time with an uneducated nurse or an
un-ideaed mother he goes to school and
even to college with a mind so barren
that one of our great colleges has ac-
tually instituted a tutorial system by
which an Intelligent instructor practi-
cally lives with the boy and attempts
the reparation of a misspent childhood.
Mr.. Thomas further declares that 1t
is also true that there never was a
time in the history of the family when
II stood so much In need OF an intelli-
gent mother. Formerly life as a whole
was Largely comprehended within the
family, The industries and arts, edu-
cation and religion were carried on
there. But these interests have now
been distracted from the home to such
degree that the family situation Is
left rather empty. Business pursuits
keep the father away from the home
most of the time. and even set very
narrow limits to his intelligence, and
II Is therefore peculiarly important
that the mother should be At to repre-
sent the interests Of life during that
prolonged period before the child makes
his connections with the outer world.
Morality is with reference TO the
welfare of society. not the appetites of
the individual and a theory of prac-
tice which restricts the interests OF the
mother and thereby stunts the life Of
the child Is, in the .profoundest sense Of
the word immoral"
Jacob Riis says that II we were all
true+neigh bors to those nearest US, the
need for institutional work would be
greatly lessened Jane Adams goes
! further and declares that II every home
did It's duty there would be no need Of
settlement work.
we think Of heaven as something
| that must visit us from afar-but the
| new heaven and the new earth will be
only the unwilling to us Of what al
ready Is. Today, or never. here or no.
| where.
II a merchant church-member use a
! s5-inch yardstick he IS none the less
| a thief. Is he?
The very grant of life that Is made
TO you carries with It the rights that
/ impose a solemn duty.
! When people do not know just what
| 10 expect they give you close atten-
! ton.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18


The following item has appeared in
several OF our Alabama exchanges and
we do not know to which one to give
It credit.
"I was In Montgomery some days
"and l went to policeman and told
him ] was q travelling man and that
was mighty dry and that my liver was
out OF order and that / needed a swig
of the genuine stun to put me in shape.
The police asked me IL knew where
the MAYORS ONCE was. told him
did. He then asked me IL J knew
churches were located. I replied In the
affirmative. You can get what you are
looking for anywhere else in the city
except at the places named, said the
brass buttoned Official. and he saunt-
cred on down the street"
II that travelling man will make him
self known to the proper authorities
1T is more than probable that the po-
iicehnan whose duty II is to aid in en-
forcing rather than violating laws will
be called on to give some testimony as
to matters about which he talks so
glibIy. 1t Is our belief that the re-
ported conversational pipe dream Of
some man who wanted to hear himself
talk. 1t is true then II is high time
that something was doing.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The norsFafss 81 tn. wss. have
Ssni: are bgrssips via Money aHs While
the poor deluded South u groaning
under Increased mortgages simply be-
cause we will not diversity. We pay
1870 for mules ana can raise them for
y76. We pay 81 for corn and can raise
Il for less than forty cents. How
long. OH How long" will our people
remain IN their old rrft?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18


and perhaps the land will not produce
It because the land is needed for cot
ton. We are not expressing any POSI-
tive opinion about that. because we
have not the knowledge to back It, but
we can tell of what we get from a
reliable source and may also speak
from an experience which IL shared by
the older members Of the population.
We know that up to aAcomparattve-
~ recent period good wheat crops were
raised all through this section Of the
State. as many of the older generation
can testify. Whether It can still be
done Is a question we do not feel quail
ned to answer, but we are convinced
that II there were more farmers like
the one OF whom we have been writing
there would be much more wheat
grown in Alabama. Then. too. the
fiouring-mills which have gone out OF
use In many sections would be rebuilt.
and then we would have better -four
at home than we now get elsewhere.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

"a hole has been bored in Siberia to
a depth OF seven thousand feet" says
The Manchester Union. 1T Is reported
that Mr.. Bryan was not found at the
bottom OF it." We guess not, but If
they had looked closely they might
have found a standpatter or two down
about the bottom. Some of them are
very much in a hole.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

That wise contemporary who tells
his readers to keep one umbrella at
home and the other at the ONCE" prob
ably never tried TO follow his own ad-
vice. As a general proposition both Of
Ism are at the other end Of the line
when IL rains.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The fate of the Georgia peach crop
is settled, we hope, and now We are
already beginning to hear things said
concerning the wheat crop. We expect
1t to be totally destroyed several times
before harvest time.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

Obviously the old city of Philadelphia
has little reverence for names, when
1t will sentence a man named George
Washington to twenty-five years i'm
prisonment for burglary.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The Lineville Headlight opines that
Roosevelt will go down In history as
the Davy Crockett Of the twentieth
century" Yes-or the Baron Nun
chausen. We can't tell yet.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

IN. nrsrss scr March printed nei %.
represent the actual net cireuiao'
turns having been deducted. .,tees its
The Montgomery Advertiser SUI ,he con-
advertisers land makes Il part o. 'circuia.s
tract when rsouested) that is oaS morning
newspaper printed in Aiabema-enn9l rcuiation
sunday edition has the larses. Snysnted In
% any edition of any Newspaper
Aisbxma without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The Montgomery Advertiser seems
offended because The Union intimated
that there were alligators and snakes
in Alabama. We hasten to vociferate
that The Advertiser man is neither one
reptile nor the other.-Manchester In
ion.
The apology is good-as far as 1t
goes. We never denied that there are
snakes and alligators In Alabama. We
merely asserted that they are not run
ming round loose.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

c. 1. Finfgan, Circulation Manager of The
Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn
sage: 49,
The foregoing statement OF The AoVer-
flser'n cIrculati1n for the month OF APRIL
1908, 10 true and correct. and compiled az
ter all returns from news boys, news agents
spoiled and leftover copies have bee3 de-
ducfed G. l. FINIGAN
Circulation Manager.
sworn to and subscribed before me this
RIGA XLExANDER, Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

II a merchant church-member use
s5-inch yardstick he is none the less
a thief. Is he?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

The very grant Of life that Is made
TO you carries with II the rights that
impose a solemn duty.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

When people do not know just what
10 expect they give you close atten-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

Listen here: It makes a horse sick
right down to his hoofs to have his
owner go or to the seaside for the
summer and leave him in charge OF =
ifverystable man who takes advantage
Of the owners absencs TO drive the
disconsolate nag to ave or six funerals
day and rent him to a fat man as Q
saddle horse.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

we think of heaven as something
that must visit US from afar-but the
new heaven and the new earth will be
only the unwilling to us of what al
ready Is. Today, or never. here or mo-
where.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

Jacob Riis says that II we were all
trie~neigh bors to those nearest us, the
need for institutional work would be
greatly lessened. Jane Adams goes
further and declares that II every home
did Its duty there would be no need OF
settlement work.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-18

Don't punish your children when
they are recalcitrant. Sitsat your pI-
ano and play for them" advises DR..
Julia Sears. the renowned mstaphysi-
clan. You are right Julia some pi-
ano playing we have heard would be
more punishment for them than q,
chastIainE by Mr.. Jeffries.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-03
sHEBA OFF MS GItARn.

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