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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
A Libel on Eve.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 The Rev Hugh H. Carpenter. a Baptist minister at South Norwalk. Conn. Is re- ported as saying In an address: woman comenced to babble in the Garden of Eden, and she has babbled down through the ages from that day to this" A careful search through Genesis discovers no basis for this reflection on our first mother. Tn all that happy period in the Garden, she Is credited with only flfty-one words spok- en on two occasionB-f0rty-three to the ser pent explaining the prohibition of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and eight to the Creator. in mitigation of sentence: "The serpent beguiled me- and did eat" This cannot be called babblinR Eve appears to have been much mora dis erect in her words than in her actions. q
 John Milton was Baptist under anothef name; but even Baptist clergymen have no right to take epic poetry for Bible truth This South Norwatk minister was thinking of Paradise Lost" Milton, in Books iy and K attributes to Eve about 300 lines of blank verse. which is well written, but lacks verisimtlitude
 For heavens sake. clothe them at once '' was Talnes shocked expression after ana lyElng Adam and Eve. the Miltonlc Adam and Eve. an English squire and his good lady. wit hidens underlying their speech that only belonged to a strict ly British civilization. The Rev. Mir. Car penter should read Talne. but only after he has made a careful study of 0snes1s. The Bible is worth attention at every body's hands. Some. eVeR of the valuable time of ministers may be well allotted for It's Dsrusai.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

Che above is the ladder of q Anaus cial caress) 4 st. Louis serysnt etrI hes sued hes her a letter of recommendation. Now who says the American servants are not the real autOcrats of our homes? .SSru %r H:rTiRsn ss iRs sass psturs Ma tsGs9 Han man should be more explicit in tho kind of picture. If he refers to high art the statement should be ''baFe" facts we presume.
 munication with tie dead through the influence of spirits. That's about the only condition in which we . ntd ever dead, yiz. through the ". omlse of spirits" or '
 Parson Snowfall says tha "seeAA ns,nS no Ss hLGy T5y de rIsssy sh b Sometimes a mans hair tsrns pre- maturely gray and then agsn $ome- times 1t turns gray through waitin@ to get telephone connection. already with the reading # the trial. Thornton Hains is going to write c novel about 1t.
 T won't discuss nething with no. terday according ts The Globe I'm tired of arguing. I've argued all my life and never convinced apybody yet arguing. See"' And that's wise brakeman.
 A certain Montgomery woman waa aslrsd the other day if her husband waS | q Socialist. Sure he is," she replied. "Tfe can enter q whole room fun of company and feel perfectly at ease. Ha is the socialist fellow you ever sec"
 A ParIOr Tagedy.
 "My heart Is afame
 For you lovely dame" Sighed q lover one night to e Iasst0
 As he looked in her eyes
 Opened wide in surprise. To say the least at was bra9sys
 Just then her old dad
 Through way that he had, Burst into the room with @ shout
 Heard the young man exclatm.
 My heartSiB afiame." He replied: well, then I'll put yoa
 out"
 (And he did.l
 Dear Drift--why wIal Florida always be against prohfbition1 Because the river Chessa whisky runs through it. RAad@r.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
FRIDAY1 JANUARY ss, l1see.
rn bis inaurural address Hon. Jud

In his inaugural address Hon. Jud- son Harmon, the recently elected Democratic Governor of Ohio. hands out some of the oldtime Democratic states Rights doctrines, just as was to be expected of him. He believes that the people are getting their eyes open to the Kind of ope-man govern ment under which we are now living. and says: g..
 Their devotion to our form of government is oyerbearing the pass ing inclination to call on Hercules for what they could and would bet. Ger do themselves. They realize that 1t is not wise to urge or allow the Federal government to break or even stretch the limit set to its activities. They see that with few, i6 any. bewteen State and nation has been approved by trial. and that their home government more quickly and truly responds io thsir sSs stnss %il; ovsrrrsns we more broadly useful. It's powers are ample and undoubted to grapple with many things which have been devel- oped by new conditions and give gem solute control of all corporations of its own creation and of the terms on which corporations of other States may do business here. Why, then, stand by and let the general govern ment assume to regulate State cor porations because they engage in in- ferstate commerce? Citizens engage in that commerce, too, and Congress has the same right concerning their per- BOnai affairs as with those of State Corporations, no more and no less If Congress gets general Jurisdiction over us If we engage in commerce out side the State, we may as well turn over the capitol to Federal commis- sion and so home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
rAe Presiaent's Esror.
TAs Prsseeuslea for seaitlou.

Mobile Register.
 At last. there. is disclosure of what the grand jury proceedings in New York are about. A subpoena issued Tuesday recites that the witness is summoned to testify 'tn the matter of the United States against the Press PuhIishiug Company" in other words York World has nbelied the government. 1t is said that reliance Is placed upon com mon law governing libel and not upon fed arai stetute providing punishement for those who libel the government. and there has been nopS since Adam6 day.
 The sedition law of that time (17es) waS @n Odlous as well as ineffective instrument, and has ever since been referred to with Eeproach: 1t was the cause also of the doynfail of the Federal party and the as
 The history of the alien and sedItion laws shows that the alien ciause was aimed at country and. by their natural affllIation with the Democrats were endangering the supremacy of the Adams party. The sedi-
 which. likewise, was thought to be damag-
 ing to the party in power. oiiiet says. in Tt was natural that the change, from the adniation bestowed. upon Washington
 to the censnres he (Adamsl received,
 shoula aisturb his ,excitaole and expIosfnve
 temper beyond ceatroi TO restrain these
 eensursa. he and his frlneds deemed 1t wise
 to pass the memorable sedition law to pre-
 vent pee~le speaking disrespectfully of the
 GovsFhmsnt and its officers. and to crush
 ont those guilty of doing so. Such law. aside from it's being unconstitutional. not urally increased and multipiied the exprss-
 siOns of dispaFag6ment which 1t was GesIgn- ed to rapfeso. It is painful to know rhat judges were found wiling sO become instru- nlents to execute and enforce such an un- authorised enactment.
 MeeeAew Lyon. . member of Congress from Vermont. wrote and published . let ter. saying of the President that "every con
 sidSrAtaon of public welfare was swallowed up ln . continual gyaap for power. an un- bounded thirst for Fldicuious pomp: foolish Aduiation and Selflsh svarlce.' and that 'the sacred name of religion had been used
 aa Q staae engine to make mankind hate
 was fined ei,000 and imprisoned for four
 Estte received "a two months' sentence and had to pay $500 fine. for symDathizing with Lyon. Thomas Cooper. {. learned and eIa- ,tinGuished citiEen. charged the Preside nt with unbecuming and unnecessary violence in hls official communication. and with suhdry arbitrary and unwaryantedf actions which the monarch of Great Britain would have shrunk from" Ae H0lH for this with afx montha' imprisonment and S4e0 fine | The country. says 0illet was rescued frcIu ita fatal position by the uprising of the Democracy and the adoption and diffusion of thaar benevolent principle5; these laws dasfHned to crush the Democracy had the oDposita effect, and crushed the authors conRPeaS at a suhssqusn. period refunded tc | TlroY and Cooper the fines paid by then with interest. Landon. In his history, says 0hsf ''the remedy devised was worse thar the dfSoaae; It hastened the Federal parts es siss tomb" MeNautsr oe1aments upoI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
OREGoN,s HONOR.

All political virtue has not departed from the land.
 Oregon has just refuted the charge that internal corruption has under mined the republic and that Republi- can institutions are tottering to their fall. In oregon a Legislature over whelmingly Republican has elected a Democrat to the Senate of the United States. A Republican Legislature be- cause 1t was pledged to do 1t has elected a Democrat and withstood re- pested and determined efforts to make it ignore its pledges and elect a man of it's own faith. The charge has been published and 1t has not been denied that Chairman Hitchcock and the Ma tionaI Republican Committee took B hand fin the oregon light and did what they could to for the overwhelm- ing Republican majority to name a Republican instead of former Cover nor Chamberlain who had been selected by a popular vote.
 The danger in such a powerful and well organized partisan movement is seen in the fact that of the members of the Oregon Legislature only seven teen out of eighty-three were Demo- crats. But Governor Chamberlain had made his race before the voters of the State with distinguished Republicans opposing him and in that race he had secured the endorsement of the voters The Legislature was pledged to vote l for him for the Senate. The Republi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
Cheaper Auto.nona,es.

NoW xofk WOrlos
 The doom of high satomobiIe pricea has sounded. One can buy a better car today for a1,5Oo than he coud e few years ago for ss.oOo. It is not only a matter of time now until any man who can afford ito keep 6 horse can afford to own an automobile.
 Automobile-b was more or less of an experiment up to short time afo. But now 1t is an exsce science When the modern car Is turned out Of the shop the makers know that it will run. and run well. Close watching of the performances of the earlier machines has pointed out the defects of construction. shops crankshafts, axels. gears. and the like are made in great quantities by spec iaI machinery, The cost of labor and material has been much reduced by system. linttlNnow 1t is possible to turn o,ft a much better machine than for- merlv and charge about half the orig- inal urica for 1t. Turiy. good touring Icara are offered for as little as $Looo-
 Runahouts that will give ten times the service of any horse and buggy bring $500. Then higher-priced cars give the buver better finish and higher power. hut the cheaper automobile is a very sa ttsYactory car in most cases. and has the support of thousands of users lin moderate circumstances And this is only the beginning. The years VIII see a yet more pronounced drop in
 nrIeez. while quality ts maintained
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
Thi. h -Afy ssh Birthds,
BARONESS CLIFTON,

The Baroness. Clifton. the youngest peersss of Great Britain. wac born Jam uary 2a. 1900. and succeeded to the barony in the same year. The ,barony is the oldest honor in the Bligh family. whose head is the eighth Earl of Darn. ley. Lady Betty" Bligh, as the lfttle Baroness is popularly known, is the SeEenteenth holder of the Darony of Clifton, which was held before her by her father. the seventh Earl of Darnley
 who died without other issue, The bar ony was granted in 1908 by writ, and therefore ls open to female suecession. At the time of the coronatiOn Of King Edward VII. the baby baroness was not yet three years of age. Nevertheless, she exercised her right to attend the imposing ceremony in Westminster Ah. hey, dressed in a gorgeous little coron. |. ation robe made for her on the lines of those of other peeresses. -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
DR TFT "

The explosion of the dynamite in the Dupont factory at Lake Hopatacong. N J., recaHs the joke about the Irish -' work in Q powder factory one morning who said to him: My good man, don't you. find working in powder factory very dangerous7e "oh. no nim." was mobiles on the way"
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 And now for the Cooper trial in Nashville. The jurors are being se- fore the week is over. z., +
 When bachelor smokes his pipe and. dreams of a bag Of gold it might be- called a ''bag pipe." The burglars family skeleton is. his skeleton key.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
Telltals Fe.tprfsts Of ola.

sA mai, rieyer knows when he ls eov- ering up his tracks: he never knows how long they will stay covered or who will get on his trail. Up in Can nsT Toronto |waterworks, the diggers found in the blue clay seventy feet be- low the water line the footprints of 2 gentleman who had tramped around fhat way some years ago. The geolo" @ists disagree as to the exact time, Some holding that the freshness of the Footprints indicates that 1t was only 50, 060 years ago. while others believe that the toenail prints indicate that 1t has been about i00.o years since the gentleman passed that way. Not that this slight discrepancy matters to the gentleman or to us, for nobody had to 50, ,oo0t years, even if he did happen 10 be lafes el
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
sound Dectrine. si. nfnAfd Ia Ian 1A fAAA

Editors of The Advertiser:
 have just read in a recent issue of your paper a very able article by Bishop CandIer as to dissolving the Solid S'outh. I write to endorse every mend you for publishing it in your valuable paper. wish we could have more such articles and Jess of the Sycophantic toadying to the powers that be, and are to be. God grant that the day may never come whom the Solid South shall be broken up if it has to be done at the sacrifice of the ficed for SO many years and for which many of us fought in the days cf the eos | am glad to see The Advertiser, in standing by and advocating old ''i''s A'S James R. Crowe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

We bet that doctor of Rockefel- ler's has been paid a goodiy sum for predicting that his rich patron will live to be 4 century old. Such talk has tendency to hearten . man won derfuiiy. '
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
Letters To the Edifsr
WHY JEFFERsoN CouNTxs


 Suit May Be Thought Where Paper Is
 Cirenlsted. 44 Editor Advertiser: Conner against The Advertiser was tried in a Jefferson County court Why was 1t that the suit was not brought In MontRomery. where the offense for the alleged damage was committed. Was h brought in Jefferson County because that was the home county of the Gov. ernor and he might expect more fg- yorable verdict from his own neigh borhood7 s$
 a Inquirer. (Under the libel laws of Alabama, q suit need not be brought in the county in which the paper charged with libel is printed. It can be brought in any county In which the paper is circulated. In Jefferson County The Advertiser has a large circulation. The Governor, act ing under the law, brought suit in Jef. ferson County, in which the paper con- taining the alleged libel was given the large daily circulation of The Aa. vertiser.--Editor Advertiser.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

Roosevelrs uncontroilable habit of putting into the affairs of State ofii- cials and iegisiatives bodies doesn't Seem te, be profitable, judging by the knocks he gets There are actually congressmen and State legislators who refuse to be bossed by him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
MORNING THoUcHT
DY .. nlARVHN NIClz0El

PAui IAtske. speaking ef George Of che rietnrss4us incis uenfs Tn the Westing-
 rss. dsssss, essss issssl,e sssss 'ess conD.ns, his ereatest And bittefest rivais the. ' oducern with
 which ne was engaged; in psrpst9al
 was behind the treat fight in Wall
 Street that was sfartsd to wipe the
 name of 0sorfs .Wsstinshouse off the
 som,nsreisi map. is nov iccatsd s is
 activisy of the pfAoe. The face of MT.
 wsss,rsnSusss esas most Rsrsi:ssnt oe patents the General Electric Company everywhere throughout the town in public places. In the public library
 the place of honor ts occupied by a large bust of Edison. In. the main
 Ing of shim. Certainly a. strange turn, that this city should have shcwered
 its greatest honofs onfthe- rival of her
 krestest son. For the want of 'inspirn- own. George sisshopss left the city of his birth and ,ih the city of Pfttsburg began . career that has
 doubled % the iassnataoturinE cspactty of vestment ofover 11oo, 900, 900, and with 10000 men in his employ. he needs no lSchenectsdy to enshrine him as their greateSt son. Even with his afr-braike he has really saved more lives than were lost in all the wars of Napoleon.
 But 1t is only one moro dernonstration that N'.a prophet is not without honor save In his own scountry"-and ss- pecially among his own people.
 A late journal set. fer the dissp- probation of things, ,declares that pub
 lie opinion. if rightly trained. has more power to. eradicate Immortality than all
 hs spa and pSs0rs m pires are everywhere. The great tragedies are no more than the terrific shocks that must come when the for bridie of of the modern social fife.
 Above the. wild tumult of. all thig
 mselstrom, public opinion will at last speak in thunderons tones. And the
 great mass Is going to listen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
Who do the Ts~chlnw9"

'"rhe Montgomery Advertiser is convinced that Alabama js moving forward in -ons path of illumination. It Is hardly to be doubted t says that the next Legislature does. then Alabama may truly be said to be moving forward.'-Columbua State What time making education Compulsory when the teachers are paid to do it 3'' asks the Jack. sonyilIe Times-Union. It 10 true the teach. CTS are paid to do this work, but as q rule they only hear the lossonR They compel the children to set their education al home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

l Boston may think it can "hx the .place'' of American writers but if 1t stilI thinks 1t can keep Poe from occu- pying the foremost place in American literature it may as well give it up and have done with it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

1t is rare indeed that the same day marks the birthday of two such great imen as Robert Edward Lee and Ed gar Allan Poe; one the greatest sol Idier and the other the greatest poet of the age in which they lived. The American people honor themselves by
 honoring the names of such men as
 khess.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

It is said that there is but one grain elevator in all Mexico. The Mexicans evidently prefer to elevate their grain by hand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
SWORN EVACUATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees ita tract when requested) that its daily cireu- ietion is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama--and thai its Sunday edition has the largest circuiatton of any edijon of any newspaper printed n Alabama without exception.
 The figures for December printed netow represent the actual net circulation. su fs- turns having besn deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

Perhaps. after all the odoriferous mess Roosevelt has stirred up is mere- ly his, way of preparing himself for his hunting trip in Africa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
;. .W'hGe tlss State Papsrs > . Are, Saying and Doing
I,ssis Like . ssYeungnter.

GuntersYtlle Democrat. A s. ns oa eissg ysass sna The vfiie Democyat with about eighty-five, malees us with out little twenty mine, feel Ike e 1kindsrsartsh pupil:
 rt swAat .Ts sEurdery
 Walker County News.
 In reference to the aequittai of Hains by New York snry.. the papers Of that sty ses 4o sSa not s tRs w under .osrs system. are to furnish the defnition.
 -i t Tie I've .Men. Talladega Mountain Home.
 During the past few weeke. Mr. Taft has been engaged in the pleasant and profitable occupation. Of making friends. while MT: Rocseys.t has ,n. been lam is,mbast srsiiy. The actions of the two men may be said to be characteEistie of their temperament. ~ %Es
 TAe City Beautifel. <. sse
 1 MontS olnery is going to De a "city Beautiful" if the project now on foot S .Ssa, e.y s;.,nssSSS wsS nUs s 5s ssc sof there Is in iife7 Nay, yerily. The rugged iines of .subiimity should be mingled with pare beauty to point
 sai h. est a hS AA vAae. eAsS 's~ WUStrssS.~N.. e--~
 TAs Vassnstfevtsenal Assa.
 Huntsviile Democrat.
 The supreme Court. iase week, made eutional another act of the late Legis- Iature, This time it, is that part of the municipal code. providing for al. yleien. between the connsy ny. ana nc @ city ,s Ss ects of that General Assembly are fall. ing under the axe of the headsmen of the Supreme Court, until the people are beginning to. wonder if the lawyers learned as they thought themselves.
 Verify, the last Legislature will go Gown in history as the great unconsti' tutiOnal General Assembly. e3 rAe ,M1rmin9haM Market Birmingham Ledger.
 Birmingham furnishes Alabama far- tners . great market. and IS a,. and more eggs and more butter and more honey. There never is enough of these things from Alabama farms This Sont tSMH Esnt ss Chem. sS 1t ssts cold storage @ egEs and don't want them. The farm CTS of the State allow this money to go to the West along with the money for corn and oats. .r The Presiaenf's EHrOR.
 Greenville Advocate. Ifever our present President tackles another Senator about graft or sahy. thing else . jury wouldn't convict him of pushing the widows geese into the pond. He has certainly bitten of more than; he can chew this time. He recent | ly accused Senator Fillman of being in. l terested in Q land grafs scheme out West and was very fierce in his accu. sation. The Senator handed him az | good as he gave and a little better and now MT. Roosevelt Is hunting the tau | ttTnhARA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
The Conser Case. Birmingham Age-Heraid.

One cent is the verdict, rsss
 wsy the ny Sa aes S
 of . soft drink Is one % of those ,i; nystsriss in mental and ethical processes -shst must 2 be ss of psychology. s
 Yet. after all, cent msAns a vindication ana :a.is,,ss 5sssise , t II U aoeo net cSs SD sued The Montgomery Advertiser forsefb. 200 for an alleged Iibcious card concernfng him %as rsn,nx for rsroad ss the champion Of the people. s7s
 ~Twenty-fivs thousand dollars seems c pretty big damage claim. but INT. Conner and smash the railroads. and when he aP-i pearedf on the witnees stand in the ciey court of Birmingham in his own behan ne to impress upon hts peers the ttdae that the publication eompiatned9 of had lost htw votes. impaired his credit. hurt AIs Seel-
 But MR. Conner was slecfe1 1yratlroad com missioner by a~larse majority ana later swept the state for sovsrnar. MT: Conner ness man. He Is known to be . gsntleman of buoyant spirits, and in society he Is nor. popular today than ever: The jury ernor Conner had suffered politically. rfinAn- ciaiiy. enotionally, or socially. 9Hsnce ths
 Had the fury said g. cents or even ss. The Advertiser, 1t may be assumed. would have gladly come across From the l-cent verdict there will certainly be no appeal. z
 The trial was full of ginger from the start. There was a. brilliant array oS counsel and the testimony submitted and the parries of sttorneys enliyened Brning- gayety of nations. But alfa wsu that
 i The xss-Hsraid tenders iis Solicitations cased, and to The Montgomsry AdvsrtissF, which, escapss whth the loss ee only censs '