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The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

upon you! Shamey! Remember
grandma is not so young as she once
was and the penitential efficiency of
a bunion is greatly enhanced by the
showing forward of the foot as accom-
plished by the French heel. Command
the old lady to do a cake-walk once
an hour around the dining room table
If you will, but let her do it in COM
Portable Shoes Another item in favor
of trying this resolution is the fact
that you have probably never asked
grandma to wear any kind of shoes
she didn't like, so it should be that
much easier to keep to your resolu-
t1on not to do so.
For young mani resolve from
this day never again to smoke pipe
in church. This sample is highly
recommended. The practice against
which you issue the edict of banish-
ment is reprehensible in the highest
degree. Smoking, while of course 1t
might be solace to you during the
sermon, could not but annoy your
neighbors and fellow worshipers. The
men envy you, leading to countless
domestic difficulties for them. The
preacher Is unable to see whether all
the deacons are awake or not by the
haze from your pipe. Moreover, just
as distinguished statesman once Of
ficially declared that the odor of
cigarettes annoyed him there are
those to whom the smell of pipe Is
a nuisance and the offertory collector
might be one of these Besides, you
would probably be thrown out or ar
rested or something.
For men who ride much in street
cares "henceforth will not mind the
| feathers" This is one requiring con-
| siderable care-but IL strictly adhered
| to will be found of great assistance in
! your daily life. When depending from
a strap and resting your toes on some
neighbor's long stiff quill suddenly
jabs you in the nose giving to that fea-
ture the rich red that which another
class of resolvists have already ac-
quired, do not release your temper.
Smile and pretend you like It, Oft
times you can make yourself believe
1t, after due practice, of course. But
the principal advantage to be cited in
this resolutions favor is that you
might just as we'll" So long as the
| fashion remains the same you will
have your daily communion with the
| tail feathers of an ostrich or of a
rooster and If you resolve not to mind,
how much more placid the temper!
For any one who does not raise
chickens-T hereby resolve and de-
termine not to eat any more strictly
fresh eggs for several weeks to
come" This is in some respects the
prize resolution It's advantages are
many. but all the others are over
shadowed by this one--you can't get
any to eat.
i In spite Of all the teacher may do
the pupil will not learn unless he
himself studies. You cannot make
successful use of these sample resolu.
4 tions without effort on your part But
you should find one among them
which can be kept with the minimum
of struggle. II you have no choice or
you are skeptical as to your ability,
try the last one.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
HEeOLUTTON
YOUNG MEN

and doubtless the answer is in abe
book somewhere if they can only find
it.
The practice Of resolving presents
a similar aspect. 1t is not entirely
perfect at present. But considering
the few years since Adam inaugurated
the outdoor sleeping fad and became
grandpa to the human race it is not
surprising that some details are still
to be worked out. The forming of the
resolution has beer beautifully work
ed out, till almost any one, the merest
novice, can resolve. The date, too,
has been firmly fixed as on the first
of January. The chief difficulty that
still remains has to do with keeping
the resolution once it is made. Some
thing like keeping your aeroplane
right side up once you have estab-
lished a neighborly relation with the
stars.
Probably several years will elapse
before the custom of resolving
reaches perfection and in the mean
time it might be we'll to adopt a
makeshift for the present unattain-
able.
1t would seem as If the difficulty
might be minimized by more attention
to the subjects taken for resolving
purposes. 1t is well to use care in se-
lecting our resolutions, and because
of the proximity Of January /, few
suggestions may not be out of place.
For young woman--Try this one.
81 hereby resolve with earnestness to
no longer insist on grandma wearing
French heels" There are several ad-
vantageous features to this resolution.
To begin with it is humane Just
think of forcing the poor old lady to
teeter down the street with little
church steeples under her sole leath-
er! Her silver locks bob under her
dignified black bonnet and at every
painful step she whispers Ouch" Fie
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

be endowed with competence to do
these he is doing in this very
day with miraculous confidence
and mighty faith. He has discoy-
cred that his own commission ov or
life, over the happiness and health
and the fruitage of the life that
now Is, as well as of that which is
to come. is a vastly larger commits.
sion than the world hitherto has
dreamed of. He is finding out that
Providence is partnership and
that no man may be sleeping
partner in the business Of living
without the penalty of losing the
very thing that life is-a world of
potencies converted into achieve
ment.
This is the note, surely, as civil
lization faces the year 191O-the
note of competency, the sense Of
added powers to life, the feeling
that the greater things are coming
on the earth, and that man is u.s.
ing the key to unlock the treasure
house of his own life with sure
ness and wisdom that give prom
ise of a vastly better, richer. juster
universe than he has yet known.
Another note of our time is the
fact that life mirrors itself in such
wonderful way and the things
and forces that make for the bet.
ter day to be are known and read
of all men. We live in the open,
and no man may become champion
OF any cause and keep the world in
ignorance of the character of the
cause and the nature Of his cham
pionship. No man to-day may hide
his light under bushel. 1t is q
tell-tale world, and, more than any
past time, the world to-day has a
juster sense of values and knows
both the things that are saving II
and the things also that threaten
and endanger 1t. Public service
was never SO responsible as 1t is
to-day, because civilization never
had the almost miraculous power
of analyzing and testing the value
of public service as in this present
year. Public life is an open book
and the most impossible of all i'm
possible things to-day is that any
national or international movement
should be misunderstood or misin
terpreted by the worlds best mind
And what is true of public move
ments is true of public men. Nc
public man can deceive his constit
uents to-day, for his constituents
are the world. And the strong mar
to-day is the man who frankly rec
ognizes this.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

grown successfully up to the sixtietn
vacant land will be taken at rate
Of which you have at present no con-
ception. We have enough people in
the United States alone, who want
homes. to take up this land.
What you must do in Western Can.
ada is to raise more live stock. When
you are doing what you ought to do
In this regard, the land which is now
selling for $40 per acre will be worth
from $50 to $1Oo pre- acre. 1t is as
good land as that which is selling for
more than 500 per acre in the corn
II would rather raise cattle in West
ern Canada than in the corn belt of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is bet
ter for the purpose. We have bet
ter market, but your market will i'm
prove faster than your farmers will
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one.half of the coun-
try through which have passed, and
alfalfa and one of the varieties of
clover in three-fourths of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but 1t Is
true"
Keeping pace with wheat produc-
tion, the growth Of railways has been
quite as wonderful, and the whole
country from Winnipeg to the Rocky
Mountains will soon be network of
trunk and branch lines. Three great
transcontinental lines are pushing
construction in every direction. and
at each siding the grain elevator Is
to be found. Manitoba being the
first settled province, has now an ele-
vator capacity Of upwards of $4,000, 900
bushels, Saskatchewan 100000 and
Alberta about 100000, while the Ca
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur. on the Great Lakes.
is upwards of 20,000,000 more.
Within the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
flour and oatmeal mills with COM
bined capacity of $4,000 barrels per
day, and situated along some famous
water powers in New Ontario, there
are larger mills than will be found
anywhere in the Prairie Provinces.
Last year the wheat crop totaled
over 100,000000 bushels. This year
the crop will yield 3O,00O,O00 more. A
recent summary shows that on the 1st
of January, 1909, the surveyed lands
Of the three western provinces, totaled
134,000,000 acres, of which about 32,-
000,00 have been given as subsidies to
railways, 100000 disposed of in 9TH
er ways and 3S,000,00 given by the
Canadian Government as free home
steads, being 100000 homesteads Of
100 acres each. or this enormous ter
ritory, there is probably under crop
at the present time less than 11,000-
900 acres; what the results will be
when wide awake settlers have taken
advantage of Canada's offer and are
cultivating the fertile prairie lands.
one can scarcely imagine.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
STARTLING EIaures.

The lives of all the S5,500,O0O
residents of the United States are
worth $250.000, 100000.
Unnecessary deaths every year
cost in capitalized earnings. $1,000.
100000. g
Workmen's illness annually costs
In wages 00,000,000
Care of the sick and dead every
year costs $460.O00,000.
tuberculosis taxes the nation
$1,000, ,00o,O 900, annually.
Typhoid fever costs $3.50. .000, 900
Malaria costs s200.00O.000,
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
modern spirit takes of it's enlarged and
enlargng kingdom.

Not the most credulous and believing prophet
generation ago could have forecast the world we
know and are perfectly at home with to-day. Bull
wer Lytton in his short book, THE Coming Race"
endeavored to tell the story and achievement Of
mankind in the day that shortly to be, but his
seeming impossible world has been more than
allied in our own day. The half has not been told
The great note of the day is the large grasp human
life possesses over it's own and destiny the
growing confidence that this old yet renewing
world is solving it's problems, and, under the
guiding of that Providence which Pope's wellknown
lines so beautifully express:
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou
All discord, harmony, understood;
All partial evil. universal good,
is working for the day of perfectly ordered and
perfectly adjusted civilization. The greater power
man is accommodating and employing over his own
bodily life his mastery of the secrets of life which
have been hid from the foundation of the world the
realization that man himself is his providence
in a vastly larger degree than hitherto he has
dreamed Of and that the greater things" the great
est of all Teachers foretod ages ago that he should
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

II Let the Whistles DlOW
ECEYSa9d their heads off, let the bells
(S122oD ring out, let the fog
horn on the lake front shatter the at
mosphere to atoms, let the similar
gladsome noises be let loose upon the
vibrant ozone even in the uttermost
corners of our beautiful city. For the
good resolution is marching forward.
Only a few days more and we will
bask in its splendid presence.
Like the village drum major it
comes proudly prancing toward us
through the week. Get seat early
and avoid the crowd If you would be-
hold it in its glory. Keep your eyes
glued to the splendid spectacle, keep
your ears open for the lofty sounds,
for it will not be long in, passing.
It's safe to say that If all the high
resolves that go into effect on New
Years day had half the endurance of
a Marathon runner the millennium
would come so fast that we'd have to
enact new speed laws to keep it from
melting the asphalt.
II good resolutions were salt mac
kerel what universal thirst would
spread abroad!
Human experience seems to indi-
cate that progress in any line is nee.
essarily gradual. Take the flying ma
chine, for instance. At present the
scientists engaged in the development
Of this interesting device are in po-
sition to assert that many of their
problems are already solved. They
can get up into the air without the
aid OF dynamite and they can come
down again with practically no effort.
or course there are other difficulties
to be overcome such as the tendency
on the part of the machine to select
its own time and place for coming
down. But these problems are minor
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
rhen the scissors cut In.

"You may be sharp" said the thread
in the needle. "but notice you are
always getting 1t in the eye"
"Oh, l don't know" answered tho
needle, II notice that whenever you
get in hole / have to pull you
through"
Hush up, you two" cried the thin
BILE. IF 1t wasn't for my push you
would neither of you get along"
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

What young man earns in the day
time goes into his pocket, but what he
spends in the evening goes into his
character--Dr. Cuyler.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

Father-Well?
Tommy-Will I be monoplane or
biplane angel?
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE
when you want Perry Davis Painkiller, as nothing
is ms good for rheumatism neuralgia and similar
troubles. 70 years in constant 25c 35c and 500
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

Lewis Single Binder straight Sc cigar is
made to satisfy the smoker.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

Mrs. W.nsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teetEing eoftens tho gums reduces In
narnmaton, allas palm, wind coliu CSC bottle
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

We don't blame man for growing
II his wife treats him like a dog.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
Worth its Weiqht In Gold.

PETTlT'S EYE SALVE strengthens old
eyes, tonic for eye strain, weak, watery eyes.
Druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

A woman isn'i necessarily level
headed because her hat is on straight
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

It's easy for woman to paint a
pretty face---if she has one.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

live in and the day when the Romans inter.
changed their social visits and their good wishes
and both gave and received their strenae and be-
tween the then and the now the identity of feel
ing emotion and sentiment concerning this day
is readily discovered.
So many sentiments crowd themselves into New
Years day and all are mostly children in the
way IN which the day appears to them and in
the simple feelings and emotions by which it is
observed. The greeting: "a Happy New Year!"
pushes up through the hard strata of the year. and
the simple emotions which make the whole world
kin bring friend nearer to friend and melt life to-
gether into richer affection and good will be-
comes the keynote of life on this day. Grudges
dropped, resentments dissolved, and the average
man with the average endowment of affection for
his fellows finds it almost impossible to vitalize
any of his hatreds through the emoton-laden mo-
ments of New Years day The personal life has
many things to say to itself; it is at clos
ing of accounts and the opening of a career.
Old things pass away and all things seem to be-
come The things that might have been and
have not become forgotten in the hopes
and aspirations and ambitions which spring up in
the heart on the first day Of the year.
OF course, nobody will be what the hopes
and faith of the day project for the individual life
The most ardent believer in the better day, the
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

were exchanged, presents were
given and received, and feastins
throughout the empire was the or
der of the day. The early Chris
tians at first set themselves against
the usages of the day as observed
by the Romans until the fixing of
Christmas day on the 25th of De-
cember, and New Years day came
to be observed as the octave Of the
Nativity and also as the Festival
OF the Circumcision.
The observance and spirit of the
day have not changed very greatly
In the onrush of the centuries. We
might go back across the long
stretch of years between the day
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24

TRIKE up the band, here
comes the good resolution.
Let the whistles blow
their heads off, let the bells
ring out, let the fog
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-12-24
.REE EH2~.
O. AN4K0A. NJ

EW YEARS DAY has
ever occupied a pecu.
liar relation to the
three hundred and six
ty-five days on which
are etched the doings
and history of a whole
calendar year. The Ro-
mans observed the day
as a public holiday. and
on this day all litiga.
tion and strife were
suspended social visits
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-30
MAN MURDERED IN COURT
". Y. Ellis Shoots His Wife's Di.
v0rced Husband.
Nathaniel P. Willis, Of indianapolis,
Shot at Little Rock, Arkansas,
After Securing Order For Child.

Little Rock, Ark.-Springing from
his chair in Judge Guy Fulk's court
room, w. Y. Ellis, of Pine Bluff,
thrust a pistol over the Judges head
and fired two shots at Nathaniel P.
Willis, owner of a liquor cure estab-
lishment at Indianapolis, Ind.
The second shot passed through
Willis arm and entered his body near
the heart. He died in the arms of
his mother a few minutes later.
Wills was bringing suit against his
divorced wife, now Mrs. Ellis. for pos
session of their child, for ten days.
He had procured an order for the
possession of the child, and the par
ties to the suit met in court to decide
where the child was to be delivered.
Ellis appeared for his wife and SEN
ator JEFF Davis for Willis.
While Judge Fulk was discussing
with Senator Davis the conditions of
the transfer, Ellis fired at Willis
across the counsel table. A court at
tache knocked up his arm and the
bullet was embedded in the wall,
after passing through the Senator's
coat.
Willis ran around the table to the
door, with Ellis close at his heels.
Ellis rested his pistol against the door
jamb just as Willis ran out and fred
a second time. The bullet pierced
Willis heart, and he fell to the floor
dying.
His mother, who had started for
warded to throw herself between the
men, knelt and clasped the expiring
man in her arms as he breathed his
last.
Sheriff Roberts dashed up to Ellis
and threw his arms around the slayer
a moment too late. Ellis handed his
smoking weapon to the judge, and
went quietly to Jail.
The murder adds a chapter to the
sensational divorce suit, Instituted
several years ago in Indianapolis,
Ind. by Mrs. Willis, which has been
followed by several attempts on the
part of Willis to secure possession of
his daughter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-30
Cartoon by Bergman, in the Washington Star.
BOY Who SHOT WEE GIRL TELLS OF DEED
sI DON'T Know What Made Me Xiii Frances,. Says Joe
Kane. Aged Eleven.

81 wish 1 was out in those woods"
he exclaimed as the car passed a
shady grove. That's a bully place
to play robber."
"Playin' robber" seems to be the
boys chief joy in life. He was
"playin' robber" when he killed
Frances Lord.
"Joe's" eyes bulged and he wept a
little when the policeman led him up
the steps of the old county jail, but
re recovered quickly and chatted
with the turnkey and Sheriff Wor-
rell before he was assigned to a cell.
What to do with "Joe" Is becom-
ing more of a puzzle to the authori-
ties every day. He Is too young to
be put on trial for manslaughter,
and local officials wish that he might
be turned over to some .home So
ciety," and saved from the reform
school.
Testimony of Mrs. Lord at the In
quest that she saw her daughter
shot, and of cleven-year-old Thomas
Ocas, a boy companion of Kane's that
the latter deliberately shot Frances
after threatening her life, destroyed
the theory that the shooting was an
accident.
HE said, Me shoot you; me shoot
you, Frances" She cry, and then he
shoot her," the Ocas boy testified in
broken English, when Prosecutor At
kinson asked him to describe the
tragedy. Kane at first charged Ocas
with the shooting, but afterward con-
fessed that he did it himself.
Smiling and crying alternately as
he answered the prosecutors ques-
lions, the Kane boy was by far the
most interesting witness at the in
quest. Rather small for his age,
with his round face plentifuliy free
killed., the defendant seemed a perfect
ly normal boy, and a murmur of pity
ran through the room as he was
called to the witness stand.
The prosecutor asked him If he
knew what would become of him If
ne told an untruth.
eyes, you'd send me to the reform
school," answered the boy.
But IL you died, what would be-
come of You then, Joe?"
I'D go to the bad man."
The little prisoner then rehearsed
the events leading up to and sur
rounding the tragedy, which were
substantially the same as he had
given in part in earlier confessions.
He again changed the story to deny
that he shot the girl deliberately.
Tommy had the gun and l took
1t away from him; Frances came
around the orner Lookout, I'm
going to shoot you,' 1 said. She be-
gan to cry and then the gun went
off," the witness testified. 81 had
my hand on the trigger" he contin-
ued, "but / just pressed it a little.
l didn't mean to kill her. We were
good friends and played together
For nearly an hour and a half the
jury deliberated before returning a
verdict which was the mildest form
under which the boy could be held.
Mrs. Kane, Joe's mother, broke
into tears as the assistant prosecutor
read the verdict, and tainted when
Coroner Bisbing remanded him to
jail to await the action of the coun-
ty authorities.
Joe gravely shook hands with sew
eral boy friends, who said they were
J sorry for him and hoped he would
get out o But he didn't cry.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-30
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Snakes Leaving Home.

Farmers who live around the base
of Hook Mountain are quite on
cerned about the fight of snakes
from the mountainside. Farmer
John A. Kinnear, of Towaco. advo-
Gates building barbados te keep the
snakes at home. You see," said
Farmer Kinnear, wiping the perspir-
alton of anxiety from his brow with
his bandanna, "in 1885 there was a
fearful exodus of snakes from this
mountain. Everybody of any age
around these parts knows about it..
People couldn't make out what vas
the matter with the snakes. They
yer going everywhere, fast as they
could wriggle, except toward the
mountainside-all kinds of snakes.
And lizards, too, for that matter.
Well, sir, everybody soon knew why
the snakes had run away. 1t just
naturally seemed that the sides of the
mountain were sloughing off, and
boulders came down for three or
four days. Many houses were de-
stroyed, and orchards ruined. And
that's why we prefer to have the
snakes stay home"
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-30

why so long?"
well, you see, I waited until I
could see his way clear financially"
-Lippincott's.