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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
UNCLE SAN, PUBLISHER

greatest demand The great majority
OF the business comes from the sural
disfricts. !.
z To the average man the most asef1ll
work done under the superintendent of
documents 10 that OF indexfng all pubs
ucations issued by the government.
The superintendent says that what IL
needed TO unseAr the veritab BILE. treasures
which are buried In public documents
y complete dictionary catalogue, 7 ut
that this Is not now possible at any
price, owing to the lack OF men train
ed to do II. A former incumbent of
the office estimated that he could. IN
SIX years, prepare such catalogue or
documents, and topical index to the
debates in Congress from the beginning
OF the government down to 1905. at a
total cost OF s1s6,0eo. The present
superintendent frankly says that it
cannot be done in six years. neither
can 1t be done ut an outlay Of s16s,000.
He would probably want ten years and
more than 100000 The indexes that
nave been prepared In the past have
Deen decidedly auateurish. One index
y called Bird.s-E Eye Index OF the
TORY Bankrupt BILL" yet II is only :
single page table OF contents, no better
ana no worse than hundreds OF indexes
OF one Kind and another that Congress-
mas bought at big prices.
Tnings are going better In Uncle
sans publishing business today than
In olden days. The gold braid ana
brass buttons spirit that permeatea
everything then Is entirely done awav
with now. and one feels he a an,onzr
ordinary, everyday mortals once more
wnen he has business there. Nowhere
else In Washington is there such a
splendid example OF how the policy Of
tnose higher up will reflect down to
tne lowest employe. The men who
wore the gold braid are still there. but
the spirit they were then called llpon
70 reflect Is entirely gone. ana I;ncle
sans printing business will perbaps
run as smoothly hereafter as any ether
Dranch OF the government OF course
the people who lost their Jobs bv The
ADVENT Of printing machinery will still
nave their grievances. ami viii.
Irequently air them, but otherwise an,
VIII go along as smoothly as IL n wera
ln instead Of dollars that are be-,
KIM 0oueic :. Has
morrow--studying the Mosquito. n
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
!coerc,ng a LegI.Iature..

charlotte observer.
"The Legislature of Texas finally
summoned It's courage to the sticking
point and boldly defeated another pet
measure of Governor Campbell-the
announced that in the event of the de-
feat of that bill he would Immediately
call the Legislature together again In
extra session and have the bill passed.
He may carry his threat into execu-
ton, for he has the modern idea that
the Governor of the State can be the
Legislature as well as the Executive,
the constitution to the contrary not
withstandiLg ."-Montgo emery Advertis-
Governor Campbell may have the
idea that he is the legislative as well
as che executive head of his State but
we venture the prediction that should
ne undertake to act upon this theory
by an attempt to force the Legislature
into adopting a measure which It's
members seriously oppose and which
they have already refused to endorse
notwithstanding his iLsistence, he will
find that he is greatly mistaken.
eminent are centred in his person. He
may carry out his threat and call the
body in extra session. That is ole OF
his prerogatives as Governor; but 1t lie
further and use anything like coerclve
measures he would render himself liza.
BILE to impea chment for violating one OF
the most important provisions u 10.
CONSTITUTION "a us ON0NCs
Where the GoYsraor c~jnvokes the
LEGISLATURE and insists ti,at 1t shall act
in accordance with his -wI and not
that of Its members he VIII learn the
truth of the saying about the he rse
and the water. der ALI ordinary and
normal circumstances the views of a
Governor should have much weight
with a Legislature-we wish the Gov
ernor of North Carolina had the veto
power in order that the Legislature
might no longer ignore his suggestions
as well as that a watch for laundering
or other bad legislation might be set;
but Governor Campbell is decidedly too
strenuously hortatory an executive for
our way of thinking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Sentencing Mr.. Boyle TO life impris-
onment and his wife to- twenty Ave
years for the kidnapping Of the young
whitia boy may seem like severe pun
ishment. but who shall say that Il Is
not deserved? No more mean or cow
ardly crime is ever committed than
this was. and the perpetrators should
be punished accordingly. Their pun
ishment should not only be such as the
crime deserves. but should be Of kind
that will deter others from attempting
an outrage of the sort. In other words.
the punishment should be deterrent for
others, as well as penalty on the
criminal 1t is the surest way to dis
credit kidnapping, and we think 1t will
be admitted that a stop should be put
to It. even IL an application OF the cleo
trio chair should have to be resorted
to. The threat OF the Boyies that they
would both commit suicide IL convicted
apparently had little effect with the
Judge and jury before whom them were
tried. It is not likely that they will
carry out their threats, or attempt to
do so. but IL they do. the world viii be
no worse or. OF course, 1t is not cer-
tain that they will serve their full sem
fences, as some soft-hearted Governor
or Board of Pardons may LET them out,
but whether that is done or not, we
are persuaded that their conviction and
sentence will have good erect.
We have seen some rather unneces-
sariiy severe criticism regarding the
action Of the court from the over-ten-
der people who fall to see the true ma
ture OF the case. They talk about the
wrong Of inficting "cruei and unusual
punishment" on wrong-d doors, tell us
that mercy should be extended in all
cases possible. and much more of the
same sort. They apparently fail to
take note of the nature of the offence
or the necessity of supervising 1t. nor
do they seem to remember the cruel
suffering and suspense under which
the parents of the boy labored while
his fate was yet uncertain. They see
only the Boyies and the suffering they
must undergo. but apparently think
little of the anguish the parents suf-
fered. nor do they appear to consider
the necessity Of discouraging crimes of
the kind the Boyies committed.
The Boston Traveller argues that "a
life sentence for such crime is more
effective than the death penalty" and
no doubt it Is correct. If they should
be put to death there would be some
thing of spirit of martyrdom about
them and their end. Besides when
dead they and their crime would soon
be forgotten but the knowledge that
they are enduring Imprisonment will
be q constant reminder, to other law
less characters OF what may come to
them IL they commit like offence. The
Traveller is of the opinion that there Is
such q sentiment throughout the coun-
try against the crime of kidnapping
that there is not likely to be any real
effort to obtain pardons for them.
Perhaps this is so, and they will be left
to repent over their misdeeds and. let
us hope. be the better for it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

an extent that they could not exist In
sufiicient numbers to do much dam
ago. The indiscrfminate slaughter OF
all kinds OF. birds which has grne on
for years IL no doubt responsible or
the rapid increase Of all kinds Of harm
full insects which are now paying man
for his short-sightedness in destreying
the birds that fed ON them.
1t is well that so many Of
the States have become awake to the
fact that bird slaughter is not only
cruel and indefensibIe. but that the
natural result has been great injury
to the country. That this knowledge
has taken possession Of the country Is
shown by the number OF game laws
made and enforced in the various
States, and the efforts being made to
protect the birds Of all kinds. not
merely for sentimental reasons. but
because of the value such protection
win be to mankind. Most birds eat In
sects, and when the people are pro-
tecting them and allowing them TO
multiply 1t is really business propo-
sition. In short. the trees and vines die
because the insect pests multiply, and
they multiply because the birds have
been destroyed. So It apepars that one
sure method OF preserving the trees
ana vines is nv protectinr the birds
which destroy the enemies of the trees.
Let us hear the conclusion OF the whole
matter: Save the birds and thus save
the trees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

The Boston Traveller has suffered IT.
self to be very much stirred up over
some of the bloviations of Hearst's
evening paper of that city. That paper
virtually claims all the circulation, all
the patronage and all the influence in
or about Boston. and The Traveller
doesn't like it. Just why a reliable
newspaper should get excited over the
braggadocio of Hearst newspaper is
something of mystery to us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
Accounts from the great wheat grows

Accounts from the great wheat grows
ing regions of the West and the North
west Indicate that we are to have a
good crop this year. but It is too early
to be anticipating cheaper bread. II
the farmers fix up a corner on the
grain, the spectators another and the
miliers a third, we guess cheap -four
will not happen along our way In the
near future. There may be plenty of
wheat and still no cheap -four.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

A preacher up in Springfield, No,
the other day told his congregation
that he had become convinced that the
original Garden of Eden stood where
the city of Independence. Mo-. now is.
and that Eve was the real and original
Missouri girl. That is doing fairly
well for Missouri. and the preacher is
Fortified by the fact that nobody can
disprove his assertion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Now they are actually limiting out
loud that Mr.. Roosevelt has not fred a
gun since he reached Africa. notwith-
standing the fact that he has several
dead wild animals to his credit We
are not sure whether they mean to in
innate that, the lions and things were
killed and brought to him. or that he
waded in and slaughtered them with
the big stick.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

1t is plainly iptimated that Senator
Aldrich doesn't understand either his
own tariff bill of thatsof payne. hut
we see nothing strange about that Mr..
Aldrich has not been credited with SUI
perhuman intelligence that we are
aware. of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Down here where the foliage on the
trees has nearly or quite reached its
fun development, It SENS strange to
read in a newspaper published no fur
Their north than Buffalo. N. r. that
Mature is still waiting an opportunity
to put on her robes of green" How Is
that for a contrast?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Chicago. May 14-By the will of the
late Ohio Sashragu, disposing of an es-
tate valued at s3.5oO,O0o. and which
was admitted to probate the American
sunday School Union and four charit-
able Institutions, of Chicago, share in
a beauest of 100000. The re-
mainder goes to members of the tes-
tator's Immediate family.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

A badIy-posted contemporary de-
clares that there is no rhyme for the
word "elks." If ''whelks" isn't a
proper word and a good rhyme we
have forgotten our dictionary leaEning,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

A Boston man is pressing a suit for
damages against another party and
claims something over seventy-six mil
lion dollars as necessary to heal his
wounded and Iacerated feelings. If
the Jury should award him seventy-six
coppers he'd feel bad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
KiIIn Nerro Prisoner.

Fitzgerald, Ga, May 14-In an at
tempt at a wholesale delivery of State
and county convicts at Lulaville, early
this morning, Harry williams, a negro
under a twelve months sentence for
larceny, attacked Guard Patrick and
was shot and killed in the struggle
which ensued.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Now that they have formally and Of
ficiaIly girded the sword of osman onto
the new Sultan, we suppose he is ready
to begin chopping off heads, If he feels
disposed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
Trnnnfers in the NAVY.

Washington. May 14-Rear Admiral
Uriah r. Harris was ordered today to
succeed Rear Admiral Edward c. PEN
dleton as commandant OF the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard. Admiral Pendleton
will be placed on the retired list May
o. because Of age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Various people want various things,
but what we want is some OF these
s2o-bills with Grover Clevelands por-
trait on them. The more OF the pic
lures we get the better win we be
pleased. Our pockets are capacious--
and mostly lacking in that sort of fll-
fnx.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

The f,sures for March printed below
represent the actual net circulation. ~
turus having been deducted. us
The Montgomery Advertiser guarsenns.c cr,-
advertisers land makes II a part 81 ~ sauia
tract when reouested) that It's daily axnine
tfon is larger than that OF any .Sat re-
newspaper printed IN Alabama-an9 ,ist,an
Sunday edition has the larses, ,asatsa In
Of any edition Of any Newspaper pse~ 50
Alabama without execution.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
"A coon ROAD.

No Matter What Route 1t HAY BE Lo-
Gated On.
Tallapoosa County wants a railroad
to Montgomery. and Montgomery wants
one to Tallapoosa County, and they
should get together and build ii. Sucn
q railroad would open up one of the
richest forming sections In Alabama,
and would pay for itself In the course
of few wears. 1t could be built by
capital that IL now in the territory
that 1t would touch without any out
side help, and the indications are that
II will be bufft--Opelika Post.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

"who the are consumers. anyhow?"
asks The Richmond Dispatch.
Well. we are ready to stand up and be
counted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

The proposed road only runs through
about two beats in eur county. but II
we could get road from Montgomery
to TaHassee. to Reeltown. to Thornton
by Camp Hil1otS Dslarepvilleg 10 Devils
ton. to Wadley and one to CRrEolton.
Ga, all the vast amount OF trade that
goes to Birmingham. Atlanta and CO.
lumbus. would go to Montgomery and
cotton and trade would pour into that
grand old city from this section of the
after the war.--Camp Hill News.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Net Daily Average, April, 1909 $50. .le,s72
Net Sunday Average, April, 1909 ....So,S4J
G. l. Finiesn, Circulation Manager Of The
Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn.
The foregoing statement OF The Adver-
kissrs circulation for the month Of April
1909, Is true and scorrect and complied az
ter all returns from news boys. news agents,
spoiled and leftover copies have been de-
Quoted. c. I. FINfGAN.
Circulation Manager.
sworn 10 ana subscribed before me this
9TH day OF April 1909.
RIGA ALEXANDER. Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Amateur poet In Germany has been
nned x157 and sent to prison Tor four
not apply in America. The isils
wouldn't hold 'sna
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

A much more profitable route would
be to have the road come by Tallassee
to Dadeyille and on to Roanoke. coli-
meeting with the A. B. g A. Our peg.
pie should wake up and see that the
road is built where It would do the
most good--Dadeville Courier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Odd that no museum has as yet Sc
cured for an attraction the man We
can umpire ball game and give en-
TIRE satisfaction to both sides. Such a
freak would be worth going miles to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

It Is said that if Won p1ant a,,,,
Der Of walnut trees on your farm IA
nifty years the trees win be worth
Hg s,e than the land. Any farmer 81
may take this advice. And don.f be
disco uraged--ren1embar that n nunher
OF g. Washington's body servanfs are
still planting walnut treea.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

% Be Ike Jonah--hs was very much
lar \. - tne mouth and yet he never
sell, something will turn SOON ana
something dad-the whales stofdacf,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

indiana woman has jnst marrf8d her
that she adopt 3 card index sysfesi to
Keep track OF all OF EN- 50 as to Be
n position 70 avoid confusion or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Air out in Leadvilie. Col. IL 80 rare-
ned that II cannot be breatned by
cats. Must be q paradise OF a town 10
live IN, where there are no feline cofl-
certs at midnight on the back fsnee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Migration from Great Rr,tain - -, r,
ada is raillng of. Adfgrat4ofl OF lm-
s ss bank cashiers to Canada. how
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

Bathing suits way down" sava a.,
advertisement. Glad to hear il. =
certain pretty little brown eyed
~ neste wearing q stylish new nae
snat completely hid her face was sa.sn
yn DexLer Avenue yesterday with 4
70 tai young man. who when he vented
g talk to her hat and Just Euess that
t tae , sweet nttie girl was under it. q
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

an ideal Is sbursted, but IL Is az noth-
Ing to the injured feslipgs Of a small
boy who takes hir bright new cast
iron gun out hunting and feels the
thing explode IN his hands
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15
A Bucking witness.
Russellville Times.

We should not have hard times In
crenshaw County. Corn and feed stuffs
OF all kinds are high and would pay
acre for acre more than an average
cotton crop. IL fortified and workel
with half the care given to cotton
crops. Corn at 81 and hay at $40 to
S27 per ton, are alluring prices and
unless the farmers OF Crenshaw Coun-
ty are asleep to their own interest
they will raise more corn and feed
stuffs this year than usual
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-15

1t is said that butter can now be
made from pears. What next? We
have known all along that milk could
be obtained from tbs cocoa-nut This
COW. like the horse. Will now have to
take q back Sc T..
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NORTON

that there is no more rest for him. A fter
hours of pain he again rises whining.
and stalks about in a frenzy until his
tortured nature is tired, and he sits down
to wait on events perhaps realizing that
tho end cannot be nearly az terrible as
the waiting.
Brutal anger returns with renewed
strength born of inaction. He waddles
over to the nearest tree and growing. I'M
til the woods resound with the riot. beats
the trap and paw against its trunk until
tho last shred of his energy 10 worn out.
Then he lies down to die. When the trap.
per arrives, this time armed with a rife
for he knows from the fact that the trap
IL gone that the bear Is not far distant,
the poor creature has not. even the
strength to flee few feet into the bush
o.. He is whining piteously. seemingly
pleading for the fatal shot 1t rings out
and the big body relaxes and becomes
motioniess.
Some time thereafter tho grinning face
and shaggy hide are spread before tho
CRATE flre Of g palatial Duluth homo, and
the pretty mistrsss of the house reposes
thereon her slender. slipDered feet entire
~ oblivious of tho tragedy OF the woods
for which he refined tastes and her lona
purse gave the warrant.
In this way. msn and women In pursuit
Of the good things Of hfe. infiict almost
informal sufferings upon their dumb
brethren" No humane society lifts o
hand In their behalf, nor will. The story
Of tho woods is not new. Tho horrors OF
the seal islands have been printed in,
heartrending volumes. But the chase will
always go ON, apparently For the home
must be adorned with tho trophies of tho
Wild and gentle Mary Ann must have
her fur coat
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The Vocal Selection.

From the Kansas City Journal
A wedding was recently held in Topeka
which was of the fashionable kind, and
there were all sorts of preparations and
frills. Among the features was a song
by a baritone singer of considerable local
renown, and just what he was to MARBLE
was matter OF considerable discussion.
A little sister s years old, of the bride.
took much interest in the programme.
Sis she said, 4 want to sing at your
wedding"
mo. dear, you can't sing" was the re-
joinder.
But | can, and l want to- she pleaded.
What would you sing?" her father
asked her.
=" Heaven, Look With Pity" was her
rejoinder, and her father hasn't got over
IL vet
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ed for the stock. for the cave is in a
very arid, volcanic region, where water
is scarce. but now a thriving business
is done in mining the ice in great blocks.
Just what the process of manufacture
here in natures ice plant is not known to
man. The geological and geodetic surveys
have made an investigation and have pre-
scented their theories. but it will never be
positively known how the work is done
until someone digs through the ice and
the rock which subtends 1t and examines
the condition of the earth deeper down;
and this the owners of the Ice mine are
not likely to permit as long they wish
TO make anything out OF 1t, for just as a
spring can be lost by digging into and
around 1t so the ice laboratory might be
put out of business. Blocks of ice weigh
ing from 200 to 800 pounds are daily taken
! from the floors of these chambers, and
by the same time next day the space
is filed with the CONCEALED water again.
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Natural Icehouse.
the Pathfinder.

From the Pathfinder.
In Cook county, in the central part Of
the state, there is a cuplike formation in
the earth at the bottom of which ice
forms floor of an area of some 10 square
feet. At one side of the chamber is a
small tunnel, and If you crawl through
this you Will find yourself In another
chamber of about the same size, in which
the ice likewise forms the floor 1t is
not muddy, dirty ice. either, but is nice
and clean and wholesome. and a company
mines it Just as one would mine salt,
and sells 1t in the neighboring town of
Bend.
At the top of the cupliks hole the tenn
perature in the summer time often stands
as high as 100, but about 80 feet down the
freezing point is reached 1t used to be
that eattlemen would dig the ice out and
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club. This period of suffering may be
days or hours, for those who set wolf
traps have little hope of success and Wis
1t them only when they have nothing else
to do.
There are few who ever think to pity q
wolf, for the tribe has a bad name and
maybe deserves 1t. but the kind Of heart
will regret that his end OF life cannot
come by methods more humane