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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
America in The Philippines
Xxx. THE MA TIVE COMSTABULARY

General Bandholtz proved by brilliant
services that Governor General Taft's
judgment was Not at fault.
Not only as a general offieer, but also
AZ man willing TO take chances with
the men In the ranks, General Band
holtz won the warm commentator OF
the American residents OF the Philip
pines and the respect OF both outlaws
and members Of the constapuiary. Up
ON one occasion he entered. with a. sin
gle guide. the camp OF Antonio Loamo,
who was out" with 100 boiomen and
forty rifles, and told him that the time
limit set for his surrender was up, and
that operations would begin II he did
not come In" The next day Loamo
surrendered.
Although the constabulary now rules
by reason of the fear which II inspires
In the breasts of the native outlaw. It
won Its spurs by hard fighting against
trem sndous odds. The Filipino con-
stables in eight years have been
brought from practical savagery to u
high state of individual civilization,
they have been trained and disciplined
to severe standard they have fought
hard against their own people In the
interest of order. and they are emit.
tied to the reward of the confidence
and appreciation of all Americans un-
der the flag.
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HAD CAUSE FOR WONDER.

That Frenchman who said In his
broken English that the American lam
guage SAY so many things whsr 1t
means SO many other things had good
cause for his preplexity. The New
Haven Register tells of seeing the
words. Authors Goose-egg Senators"
prominently displayed on a bulletin
board. Verify" says The Register.
here is something which seems to say
one thing-if anyone can find out
what that thing is-but really means
another. 1t might appear to have to
do with literature or poultry or states
manship. 1t really has to do with none
| of these, except in so far as all pro-
fessions and trades and occupations
meet In the common ma of specta-
tors of the national g".nr. which is
baseball. Being interpreted, that cryp-
tic sentence means thai the Waterbury
baseball team of the Connecticut
league met and defeated. by a score
Hartford team Of the same league"
But the despairing Frenchman did
not need to read that placard to see
some Of the things that bother many
foreigners whep they endeavor to ia
miliarize themselves with our intri-
cate and often illogical language. We
have so many words with the same
meaning. and often SO many different
meanings for the same word that it
Is no wonder that foreigners are con-
fused and perplexed when they set
themselves to acquiring a knowledge
Of our tongue. We are not SUFFICIENT.
ly versed in linguistics to know how
1t IL with other modern languages, but
we do know something of our own
and we know that it is 'fearfully and
wonderfully made" In some respects.
This is to some extent due to the fact
that ours is what may be called con-
glomerate. We have words and terms
from all spoken languages incorpor-
ated along with what of original Eng
lish we still retain. ane the result is
wonderful, not to say fearful.
But another and more potent cause
is the American habit of continually
inventing and applying new words and
terms to familiar objects and occas-
Ions. These may at first be looked on
as merely colloQuial. and in some
cases as vulgar, but by constant use
they become familiarized and finally
find their way into our school books,
lexicous and other books.
X is true that in England the same
thing is done to limited extent. but
nowhere is it carried to the extent
that It is in the United States. We
are a restless, inventive people, always
new. and we apply that spirit to the
science of language as we'll as to other
things. III you haven't got the ma.
chine you need, invent one" Is an old
Yankee saying. and SO II we haven't
the word we want for particular &C
CO sion we invent one. This is one Of
the reasons why our language almost
drives a foreigner insane sometimes
He cannot see and understand why we
say one thing and mean another, or
why we say one thing in so many
different ways. The Frenchman had
good cause to, wonder at our ways
and styles Of saying things.
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"who Can Explain its" Iadeed.

VINO Jan Expiain itS" Indecds
Under the caption "who Can Explain
ttT' The Montgomery Advertiser dis
cusses species of mania which seems
our statesmen OF the average class
who get to the several legislatures in
The Telegraph has a friend who be-
talities with evil propensities that
have livei in the world are gathered
together In great tun, sort of
1t a pit-which is covered over with
great lid. OF course they have their
own troubles, endeavoring. each fell
neighbor-trying IT on him, as It were.
One has strait jacket, another a
crooked jacket, another long, another
a short jacket. which each thinks fits
only get It on him. And his friend in
OF course this brings on confusion. not
TO Say trSna To- e Ss
neighbor. resists the investment of the
garment made for. him by that same
neighbor And the combats become
fume, and then a perspiration. then
a. sweat, then fog, then cloud: and
then the lightning flashes and the
times Earring the lid so far as to let
some of the effluvia escape. which
poisons the atmosphere that men
breathe. and the contagion gets hot
In fact. our friend contends that
there are q number of these tuns, one
each for the numerous mental and
o COUNTS for A the eptde ea D Measles.
smallpox. yellow fever. as well as
species Of mental unsoundness and in
animsis and caSss episootie s' slsnders
and the like. And they also attack
vegetable life, causing red spider.
black root. brown root and the like
his theory in the fact which The
Advertiser cites and marvels at-that
the disease breaks out about the same
sh %s ~s e Sse.Vss tna tss eaase
is internal and not external: One lii
is blown off, and then another. caus,
ing first one epidemic or plague and
stitutions for standing against them
is a healthy mind in healthy body;
but there is also, he contends. a
lions of minions into their tuns and
puts the lid on again.
Now. this is a theory of infestation
locked to a pslpable condition among
cause we do not know; but we DO not
see why 1t may not be as good theory
as many another one. and we throw
it out for our troubled Alabama con-
temporary to cogitate upon. Mean
while. at least during the dog days.
1t is a good idea to keep ones head
cool apd the alimentary canal in con-
dition.
Statesmen are not immune any more
than the balance of us poor mortals.
In fact, we would not be entirely can
did If we did not confess. while we
have the matter in hand. that our
friend contends that there must be an
extra infesting microbe or two for our
solons among the winged escapes from
the tuns described.
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cut on from each other and made TO
feel their utter loneliness. Had such
q cessation occurred A few years ear.
Her before the extension of telephone
efficiency and long distance service,
the blight on industry due to inter-
ruption Of the telegraph would be oven
more complete than II now Is when
the wires are down or working bad
ly."
Perhaps paralysis would be more
appropriate term than panic to apply
to the conditions that would exist IL
the telegraph lines should all stop OPP
Grating, even for a few days While
It is true that the wide extension and
use of the telephone ssytem would to
some extent supply the deficiency. It
could only fill the want to a limited
extent 1t would require much time
and money to find a substitute for the
telegraph, ana for the business and
newspaper men, especially, to accus-
tom themselves to some other way or
method of receiving and conveying In
formation. 1t has become such an es-
sentlAi part Of the news and business
world that one cannot conceive how It
would be possible to get along with
nut It. or what could be found that
would be q satisfactory substitute.
1t is hard to realize that this great
institution. now considered among the
sbsolute necessities, was not only built
np but was invented within the men,
cry Of many now living. One does not
have to be very old person to remem-
her when the first telegraphic mes
sage was, sent, for this is one OF the
modern institutions In every sense of
the word Pharaoh or Julius Caesar
could send 9 message to their armies
as quickly as Napoleon or Washington.
or even Andrew Jackson could do.
The man who published the first news
paper could get his foreign and 9TH
er news by mail or messenger and
that was all The Advertiser could do
in its early years. It is a wonderful
institution. the telegraph is, and we
sometimes wonder why its coming was
so long delayed, and how people man
aged to exist and do business without
1t. We suppose IL no such thing had
ever been invented the world would
have gone along. but we of this age
are not able to see how 1t could bo
done. Surely a great debt is due Pro-
fessor Morse, its originator. or. at
least the man who brought 1t into
USE
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

COftOn Raising IN mVUhle OOumtTs
Mobile Register.
An enthusiastic cotton farmer. Mr..
]. M. Gatlin. writes from Semmes that
he is preparing an article to be en-
titled lone Hundred Thousand Bales
of Cotton to Mobile on Farm Wagons.
he having made what he modestly de-
scribes as fairly good success In grow
ing cotton this year on freshly out
over pine land. Mn fact" he says. 81
do not think there is any better cot
ton in Alabama than have raised
here this year"
MI. Gatlin is one of a number of
farmers who are utilizing cut-over pine
lands in Noble and Baldwin counties.
for cotton. Experts in soils announced
as soon as they examined these lands.
that, with proper assistance, such soils
could be made to produce as well as
any in the United States. 1t is but re-
Gently however that the actual expert
ment has been made on a large scale,
and Mobile has become a cotton rails
ing county. The cut-over lands were
long regarded as of no great value for
any purpose, and 1t was generally be-
lieved that when the lumber mills had
exhausted the forests along the coast,
there would be no source of livelihood
left in the land; but the intelligent far
mers are proving this prediction false.
The lands are not only source from
which a mere living can be drawn, but
wealth: and Mr.. Gatlin is in no wise
extravagant in his belief that we shall
see a crop of 100000 bales brought to
Mobile on farm wagons, from the coun-
try roundabout.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
SCATTERING n Popular FaIlacy.
Kansas City Star.

There is a popular fallacy about a
drowning man sinking for the third
time The number of times a man
sinks has nothing to do with his
drowning He may sink once. and he
may go beneath the water any number
of times. 1t all depends upon the per-
son who is drowning, his physical con-
dition, and how quickly the lungs NIL
with watcr. That cycle of three is
carried along by those who insist that
a person dies in his third congestive
chill But that is not true. The same
rule holds good in congestive chills as
in the case of the drowning man. A
person may die in the first, or ne may
have half a dozen and still live. The
rule OF three doeS not obtain there.
either
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

1.-THE convers,cr of the South Is not
at all imaginary" dogmatically de-
clares The New York Tribune, refer
ring. Of course. to the conversion OF
the South to Republicanism. OF course
no one may say with absolute certain
ty Just what further trials and tribu-
lations are in store for the South, but
u 1t is ever converted" to the doc
trines and policies OF Republicanism 1t
will be because Southern Democrats
nave lost all regard for their section
and for political principle.
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As To shinplasters.

Selma Times.
The Birmingham Ledger comes right
out. with much audactty, and with lit
tie dignity and says the lone dollar
bill is offensive and not good to look
at" It wants the paper dollar retired
and nice. bright silver dollars put in
its place.
Well
That's the first time we have ever
heard of any kind OF money becoming
an eye-sore. especially to a newspaper
man.
Maybe The Ledger is feeling big
over the fact that jefferson isn't GO
ing to be split to accommodate Bes-
semer.
To say the least of the matter. 1t is
certainly surprising. We cannot ac-
cept the esteemed Ledger's views or
the money question. Believe in sound
money all right, but this 10 going US
one better.
The Birmingham paper admits that
paper money Is easier to dispose OF as
the holder seems to think 1t is unsani-
tary and quick to get threadbare. He
turns 1t loose and the other fellow gets
hold of 1t.
1t has always been the policy of this
scribe to advocate any kind OF money
that circulates the most When 1t Is
flying around in the air like trash In
a whlrlwind. everyone stands 'chanca
of getting his feelers on 1t.
We grow impatient when reput-
able paper like The Birmingham
Ledger tries to be stuck up and wants
to be SO particular about everythingi
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
An OnlcIaI DeIicaCy.

W dBHIuB lOH I1tIuIu
When the President ate 'possurn and
sweet potatoes down South. he set q
precedent that is to be followed In
Punxsutawney. That town In Penn
sylvania, of unique name, Is to have
an Old Home Week, and among other
distinguished guests, Its 5000 citizens
will extend a cordial welcome to Gov
ernor Stuart. Among the homemade
gustatory products that are to be set
before the Governor Is Arctomys mo-
max. Perhaps only scientist would
Identify at frst glance that item upon
the menu What that Latin term
means. being translated. is grounding,
lean marmot, otherwise mountain rat.
That sounds more Oriental than west
of the Susquehanna. But the Governor.
who is known as good liver. is un-
dismayed. He Will advance upon the
feast with unruffled front, and Punk
sutawney will continue to annoy the
comoOsitor
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mel. In reply to or response to your
poem. Far from Town"

mel. In reply to or response to your
poem. Far from Town"
Far away-somewhere-- town,
Where the skies are never blue,
And the rain comes down.
Where the wind seldom stirs the rusty
And ..rn is so scarce there's none to
wherd the perverse old crow with his
harsh old cry
Say, Good LORD have mercy. let me
Where the brook with it's malaria load
And the green lizards flash in the sun
and are gone.
Where the old mill-wheeI turns
Like It's about to go dead,
In It's e1orts to give US our daily
My Kingdom for a plunge in big bath
Where you can turn on the water and
gently rub,
Here there are no electric fans but
the leaves on the trees
That are too thick TO stir O peg IL
there came a good breeze.
On, take me to town or soon / will be
A real mossback and won't give q
Oh. take me back and let me be free
As the wind and the sky and the air,
In the sound of civilization,
And won't care.
Just give me gold enough to half pay
And I'll not worry over things that
set me mad today.
Oh, yes, It's all sweet,
No sin and no strife,
Far. far from town.
That's what ] call Life
Well don't think A E. p
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lust SURPRISING.

Probably few people ever take the
time to think OF what an industrial
and business revolution would come II
the entire telegraph system of even
our own country should be paralyzed
and stopped from working. AS con-
temporary well remarks. something
like a panic would befan the big cities
and the humber hamlets alike, thus
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

The old New Haven Register is
bothered. The weather department
predicted showers" for New York and
vicinity on Monday. and the report
next day gave a rainfall of 46O
inches in twenty-four hours. II a
in one day what would a heavy rain
measure up7 is what The Register
would like to know.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

The great English writer, Edward
Bulwer Lytton. once wrote a letter to
his "ownest" girl beginning: my
own own dearest. kindest, most beau
tiful, most darling Poodle, my angel of
life" and a whole lot more of the
same sort We cannot help wondering
what would be thought of the young
man now who would get off that kind
of sIush.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

Talladega Mountain Home.
! was born in Talladega County over
fifty years ago, at fourteen Joined the
Methodist Church and for thirty years
Naturally with such surroundings 1
Ing upon its ordinances helping to
support its benefactions and desire to
be buried from its portals. Therefore.
/ must have been moved strongly to
signature ana p say tRe 'n church 1esr w ms
nsnding Its energies to imprison our
When deliberately and after con.
IN mind the Fuller bill as 1t passed
the House. This bill has been herald
ed abroad as a church measure. and in
dsngerous bill ever eve A's Sought to be
placed upon the statute books of Ala
bama. Have I Just cause to say this?
Such is my conviction, for I appre-
!. A man or woman who rents q
farm for a term and suffers the tenant
during the term. to make any unlaw-
hfbited BY law fand there are many.
can be sentenced to hard labor.
Z. ANY man or woman who rents
building for cotton or other ware
the term. to store any beverage pro-
hibited by law. can be sentenced to
hard labor.
4. .. InIs Dill makes II the duty OF
the landlord to vacate his lease dur
Ing the term. II the tenant puts the
building to an unlawful use.
4. Any store-keeper. who casually
stores any beverage prohibited by law,
can be sentenced to hard labor.
5. Any persons premises can be
searched day or night on the affidavit
OF ones bitterest enemy.
tailed.
Z. The right of trial by Jury of
ones vtcinage is destroyed, the chan
Gerry court assuming Jurisdiction and
proceeding to full relief.
8. Any enemy can destroy any
mans business by secretly storing on
his premises beverages prohibited by
law, and then making the affidavit to
declare ones premises q common
nuisance. These are but q few of the
drastic and novel plans to imprison
Ter bill.
The master wisdom Is to progress
sively limit the power of church and
state. that individual judgment may be
developed. and freedom of the press.
freedom of religion and freedom Of the
person may be enjoyed.
H [. McElderry.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

Last Wednesday our sister city Of
Columbus came near having a taste OF
hereafter when the ice supply ran
short and the temperature was near
the 100 mark. It was an uacomfort-
ably close shave.
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SATURDAY. AUGUST Fl, 1909.

Considerable prominence has been
given by persons not acquainted with
the situation to the resolution intro
duced in the Senate some days ago
looking to removal of the Capital to
Birmingham. North Carolina paper.
The Enterprise, published at waynes-
Vile, says:
sing all records for freak Legislation.
The latest Is the introduction OF a
measure calling for an election for the
purpose OF moving the Capital of the
State from its ancient site to the more
recent Birmingham. This from III
papers and anger because the police
of Montgomery arrested legislator
1t is really not the police force the
Alabama legislators should fear-its
Jesse Holmes, the fool killer.
OF course every person can form his
own conclusions as to the motive back
OF the proposition, but 1t was from the
start treated as a joke and its final
fate shows that 1t had few friends. 1t
was not due to Birmingham or Bir-
mingham influences that the matter
was brought up, for its leading COM
mercial bodies and representatives In
the Legislature disclaImed all sympa-
thy with or knowledge OF It, Charge
1t UP to freakishness or pique.
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Strong But just Commentator.

DpIUdH EdkIG,
They who heard the charge of Judge
Thos. q. Jones to the jury yesterday
say that it was a masterpiece, by one
OF the strongest minds on the bench.
Judge Jones is not only an able and
closer to the hearts of the people of
Alabama than one would imagine. He
knew that in certain sections there was
more or less prejudice against fedora
courts, but when he had delivered his
charge. no one who heard 1t could feel
that there was room for such pre1u-
dice.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

Let US indulge in the earnest hop
that the farmers OF Alabama this year
will grow enough corn to supply all
home demands. and that there Will ~
somewhat skittish
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

Now the President has been and
gone and done it" again. He has mix
ed Columbus. Ca. and Columbus. Miss.
and the former city feels real bad over
it. We are not surprised at that. but
what does the other Columbus think
about It?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

The statement Is given out that a
man In New Jersey has sent to mar
ket twelve thousand dollars worth of
wool shorn from his own sheep the
present season. That would seem to
be sheep husbandry that pays
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
Through the Mail Bag.

Munrowvil. Ala. Augest 1Steenth, 1909.
Dear "Drift'-Being as you are the
representative of the rite minded citi-
as the forem to set right the deplor-
abel condishuns in which our fair
State Is in. 1t wuld mott be rite to
move the Kapitul to Birmingham. and
go to the extrey exgspense of bying a
lot to bid 1t on, when the state al
redy has plenty of land to bid one
on Just a leetle mite horuhard uf Tus'
caloosa. At one time in the glorious
past, when we had statesmen our Kap:
itul was located at Tuscaloosa, and IT
mought be that with the moving OF
IL back there we wuld agin take our
place amongst the bright galaxy of
progressive peoples. We have hearn a
good many expreshuns among the deer
peupIe that they wished 1t had been
back there afore our present legisla-
ture had been reasemblued to legislate.
Not that we at all would reflect on
they integrity of purpose. but 1t strikes
US they would a big egspense saved
II 1t would have been constitutional to
have had the capitul at Tuscaloosa.
and let some of the representatives
already there to take the place of them
now in the Legislator. The legisla-
turing would have been about along
the same lines, and it mighter been
some Improvement like. II 1t Is not
too late we wish you would have the
bin past to have 1t moved back. We
mought at leest get sum of them In
turested in something beside the two
''Old Artickul."
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SWORN CIRCULATION.

The figures for June printed below .spr
sent the actual net circulation. all fetul"s'
having been deducted. "A.
The Montgomery Advertiser guaIantees ~,
advertisers land makes II q part 81 tne -
tract when reQuested) that Its daily cneN,s
tom Ia larger than that OF any mornins
Newspaper printed In Alabama-ana mat US
Sunday edition has the largest circuiauon
OF any edit. on of any newspaper printed IN
Alabama without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

1T is bad enough to he poor" The
Rome Tribune Herald announces Pc d
enough" doesn't half express 1t; it is
had too much.
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Indiana polls news.
A Louisiana Judge has ruled that
women do not own their clothes. He
Is probably a very young and ineXperi-
enced Judge. howevar.