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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

are to gain anything by getting lit- tie more money in one hand and pay- ing out twice as much with the other. It is q kind of game that will not benent them and will injure all other classes.
 The fact of the matter Is that this argument about protecting the Ameri- can working men has been worn to a frazzie. Because q certain product, in the production of which few thous- and people are engaged. cannot be produced or manufactured as cheaply here as in foreign countries. then all the millions who use that product must pay an extra high price for 1t in order to protect the few who make it. That is their line of reasoning and it is rather bald and ili-founded.
 The truth of the matter Is that this tariff question. like the deAcit Is loaded. To increase the cost of living by putting a. higher tatifr on the necessaries of life. and to do this in order to make up the dencit caused by Republican recliessness and ex- travagance. would put the party in a hole. As The Journal from which we have quoted we'll says, such an inc crease would be hard to defend at this juncture; at least 1t would be a policy whose results would be hard to outvote at the next election" And there's the danger point with them. They may by such increase in living expenses institute policy that their party can't sustain at the next eiec- tion. The policy may outvcte them. in short. and put them out of power. 1t might be boomerang. in fact
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
This h My 52nd Birthday
c. Mott Williams.

Gershom Mott Williams. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Marquette, Mich, was born at Fort Hamilton, N. Y, February II, 1851. the son of Brigadier General Thomas Williams of the United States Army. He graduated from Newburgh Acad- he studied at Cornell University. After his education was completed he enter ed upon a mercantile career, but this he abandoned to study law and in 1878 he was admitted to the Michigan bar. The legal profession he abandoned in turn for the ministry He was or. dained to the ministry in 1880 and siyeIy in Bufalo, Detroit, Milwaukee and Marquette. Since 1896 he has been Bishop of the Marquette Diocese. In addition to his pastoral work Bish- op Williams has made a wide repu- tation as an able writer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
A COMPARISON.

Our Republican contemporary. The New Bedford Standard. is not con- vert to the doctrine of jingoism. and argues that there are subjects of more importance than building big war ves- sells. "In the. next two or three years" it says. Chicago win build forty-six school houses at a total cost of nearly nine million dollars. While this is large sum of money. attention. is. called to the fact, that it is almost exactly the price of the new British battleship. the Vanguard. which is to be launched this month. There are persons in this country who want the United States to build equal ly elaborate and expensive battieships and to build more of them than any other country. This is urged on the spacious plea that there is no other way in which to be certain of preserv- ing the peace. though there are others who feel pretty sure that nine million doilafs' worth of school houses would be more effectuai in that direction than nine million dollars worth of battleships Certain 1t is, that the money put into school houses will be of more benefit to more people than the money put into arms and muni- tions of war. It is not credit to civilization that nine million dollar battleahips are taken by so many peo- pie as . matter of course. while the same money put into school houses looks so much like . marvel"
 That is sound doctrine. but it no doubt sounds childish to some of those statesmen who apparently think that the main object of our government should be to build more and bigger battIeships than any other nation has or can hope to have and thus show ourselves able to trounce any of them of the earth. Chicago's nine millions for school houses will be of more ben eft to humanity than would ten times as much spent for big ships of war.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
This Date in History February Ii.

1776-Governor Wright, of Georgia, escaped from the patriots.
 1S04--Congrcss extended the bound ary of Mississippi Territory northwest to the 35th degree of latitude.
 1Sl2-Alexander H. Stephens. Vice President of the Confederate State of America, born Near Ora awfordsville, Ga. Died in Atlanta. March {, 1SS3..
 1S29-Andrew Jackson arrived in Washington in anticipation of his in- auguration as President of the United States. Fa
 1S33-Melvilie W. Fuller, Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Uni- ted States. born in Augusta. Me.
 lse2-Elizabeth City, N. C., occupied by Federal troops.
 1873--King Amadeus of Spain abdi-
 is9o-Arehibald Lampman. Canadian poet, died. Born November IF, 1861.
 l9O3-United States Senate ratified the Alaska boundary treaty.
 190S-The tooth anniversary of the discovery of the combustibility of anthracite coal celebrated at Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
Crime Record.
ARnhiia Ifam

Mobile Item.
 allotment and only eight of these gone. If now looks as though February will make a record in the amount of crime for A single month in many decades. Murder and rapine are stalking red handed In the land, and old and young are falling by the wayside in appalling numbers. The conditions, according tn reports from all sections would war rant the assertion that wave of crime Is sweeping over the land and growing in strength as 1t goes.
 In some sections the conditions are alarming and this is true not alone in inc great cities of our country, but In the hamlets as well. In former years inc crime record seemed to be largest at the anproach of the winter months. but there appears now to be a reversal and. while the month of January had a bloody record, the short month bids that the crime record is growing to an alarming stage.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
wiley and the Chicken.

Dr. IF. W. Wiley the conservator of food almost broke up a dinner party on dining car that Is run be- tween Washington and New York.
 The car was filled when he entered and, seeing that roast spring chicken was the headllner on the menu, he ordered 1t. - ined 1t carefully and then. calling the walter to his side, said in voice that carried throughout the car: This chicken has been in cold storage eight months. three weeks four days and five hours. It has BOnassa umbellas. Take 1t away. - .,-, ,o- Wiley's name. reported the incident 70 ing car service and an order was suo- seduently Issued that no cold storage fowls should be served on that rail- road"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1ooe.

The new scheme for the inaugura- tion. that of assembling Congress Of Masculine Beauties for the ball. is giving the ball more advertising than all else combined. That thought was worthy of Barnum's press agent. The Senators from each State were asked to name as special attendant for the ball some man in the state possessed of both money and good looks Now the whole country wants to see the procession of male beauties. At the present writing. it would seem that this grand, gorgeous and glittering" array of masculine puichritude win overshadow even the new President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
MoRNzNc THoUcHT
nr !. nARvIN NICHOLS.

If the truth were known many unfor- tunstes whom the world condemns are entitled to the protection of the court to the iims,nsss. Hsssa and nd ali lH because thsy lay claim to protection on account % 9t are quick to throw about their shoui- happen @ T snssi to bsiong sss'sss ss that SowlIns force--a segment of the modern social system---societv. have never seen the day that did not have sn infinite side the other two In that. tragedy Protection for heri Yes--and all that the world can give. For Is she not the chattel that a mother exchanged for fers of the artist who equipped the mirrored rooml
 Do .you really know what 1t means to be | friend. Just be real one once. ana thea you will find your friends.
 The Missions on the Bowery reveal a wonderous fact. The majority of educated. Many of them are graduates of our leading colleges and uniyersi- ties. Many were at one time members of the learned professions. These de- reiicts cast npon the rocks are from educated families They are propor- tionately more numerous than those who come from the more drlIt OL the lower ranks. Here is a great field Tor some sober and serious thinking. I know some whose yearning spirits, like the tendrils of vine. are feeling out if perchance they may ind some- thing which they might cling. know of no greater tragedy than the heart whose spirit droops and dies for the want of just such support. l know of no greater criminal than the one who deliberately refuses such support knowing that without 1t, death must come to such 8 heart.
 A mans mind may be likened to a garden which may be cultivated or all lowed to run wild. Whether culti- vated or neglected, 1t must and will bring. the harvest If no useful seeds are put into 1t, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall in the kind. This is s mental law no human can dare ignore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

The intimatiOn that Castro may again become ruler of venzuela sounds strange. but it Is pointed, out that he has never been constitution ally removed. and that the present in- cumbent is in reality an usurper. We do not profess to know much about Venezuelan affairs. and it Is not at all Improbable that Castro may go back, incite a revolution and again become ruler of the country. It is not dlf- flcult to start a revolution in that part of the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

The English directors of the Mar .coni Wireless Company gave Jack sBinn watch, size color and cost not
 stated. Binns Is the man who sent
 the wireless messages for help when the steamer Republic was cut down and in so doing proved all that had
 been claimed for the wireless. Incl sdentally it so advertised wireless steIegraphy and so proved it's worth that shares of the company have al- ready advanced. A watch to Binns in
 America is not considered so generous.
 Let us hope that 1t was not of the
 dollar kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
Match MaItlns As An Industry.

Ali the great danes of old French families are now in quest of daughters Srins uo and educate as their own off- snrinp and to launch on the social tide.
 Countess de Pracomtal lately took as q nunil a beautiful Indian princess. a agedIPrfncess Brenda of Jabalpur. SrRa girl has just been betrothed to the oldest son of the Maharajah of Kapur- fhala, Prince ParJameh Singh, who ts sfudying at Harrow, but came to Paris on d visit with his guardian. Colonel Massey. The countess practically brought about the match, and Is said to ha fhe richer for 1t by $1O0.O0o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

And so. after aIl 1t seems that Taft is to inherit Crum-and we bet he'd rather eat Georgia 'possum. Moth ing but obstinacy and spite can ac- count for the persistency of Roosevelt in trying to force the negro on the people of Charleston, and it is to be hoped that Mir. Taft will have more regard for propriety and for the wishes of the Charlestonians than the present incumbent has done
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
Life Is Lengthened.

Oneonta DeInOcrat, ..
 Life insurance statistics show that in the last twenty i've years the average durafion of life has increased by two wears. This Is encouraging and due mainly to greater medical and surgical knowledge. improved sanitati9,,n; an1 ys more people would stop burning the candle at both ends by fast living and injudiciops habits the coming years If Is only too true. as the refrain oS an old song says, that with many peo- oie Ut is not the miles we travel but the Daca that kills" Certainly the pace oe ot,T modern American life fs too rap i'd and it Is to that fact we have so many nervous wrecka and sudden deaths.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
The Public Museum Argument for Free Art


 Mir Thomas Nelson Page. the author. ap- peared before the Ways and Means Com mittee at Washington the other day in favor of free art. Ills a interesilns l sp argu- ern accent and manners, held the atten- tion of the committee in spite of the fact that they had been discussing commercial schedules ali day. It was very evident that the committee regretted that the five-min- ute rule cut him short.
 He said 'tI have a little veneer of the city on me, but deep down, and not very deep down, either, am countryman." IT was especially on behalf of the country peo- pie that he asked for the removal of the duty on works of art only the day before VIrginia where the children of his poor neighbors were taught Noticing the great improvement that had taken place in the last few years, It occurred to him to look signlficant argument for free art. It was the reproduction of a painting called "The Song of the Lark 6y Jaies Sretoni anS ao their delight the history of the painting, a history which in itself was very forcibie argument for free art.
 The painting, which Is one of the most famous in the Chicago Art Institute was imported by MT. Samuel P. Avery of New York, who was compelled to pay very MT Henry Field in 1885, and later Mrs. Field gave 1t with the rest of the Henry Field Memorial Collection to the Chicago Art Institute. A ,,. Pages reminiseence was the fact that Mrs Field was also the founder Of the uttIe industrial school in Virginia referred to. The history of this painting, MT. Page said, was simply an illustration of the gene. rally accepted principle that all important works of art get into the public museums within generation or %o; ane that sH .s, ss by levying import duties upon them va to impair the growth of our great Dopula'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
LINCOLN AS DEPEw KNEW HIM
way the war PE.slaent wlshea ses-

Way the War President Wished Jef-
 feRson Davis to Emcape.
 MT. Lincoln was a thin. spare man large-boned, and apparently rather loose limbed. and six feet four Inches in height. He had very homely face. with q sad expression. as If weighted when earnestly discussing some ques- tion, and especially when telling q story. his countenance fairly beamed with the fire of his talk or tne enjoy . black broadcloth suit the coat long sskirted frock. and high vest and out of doors. the invariable SILK top hat. His towering figure In tnis every assemblage.. and especially so when he rode on horseback every at- ternoon to his cottage at the Solaiers Home. accompanied by a stan Of bril- liantly uniformed officers: In speak ing. he had a peculiar cadence in his voice This was caused by special em- phasis on some word near the middle of the sentence and a. stronger one on the last word. He spoke very delib- erately. and his sentences were so carefully constructed that the two words thus made prominent gave par ticular point to the remark For in- stance, he said to TS. me: afssr narfs5Ins ts,, great many stories. I reckon I dot but I have learned from long experi- enee that plain people. take them as they run, are more easily influenced through the medium of a broad ana houmorous illustration than in any oth- er way: and what the hypercritical few may think don't care"
 Gen. sherman told me of an experi- his suEgestIve method of solving difl- cult problems. The general said that the President was anxious that Jener- son Davis and the other leading mem bers of the confederSte s1 ,st govearsnTassns as asax were in custody 1t would embarrass the object he most desired--the paci- ficatiof of the South and the restora- ton of the Union. with the late reoeis inc privileges of American citizenship as before the war, under the old nag except slavery. After the Confederacy broke up and its president and cabinet were fugitives, the general. asking for orders. informed Mir. Lincoln that he could locate them every night, as they were fleeing along the coast, seeking transportation to Cuba or Europe: MT Lincoln knew that in the infiamed con dition of the popular mind the people would not submit to an order for their releases, but were crying for their af- rest, trial, and punishment. 50. in- stead of giving any & direc.ionss, s 9e 9 io1nr Por a few minutes, and them remarked: 1: sT knew a brilliant lawyer who LOOK to drink and sank Into the gutter. The temperarlce folks reclaimed him. and then he became their most successful lecturer. Returning to Springfield. the bar gave a dinner of welcome. When the toast in his honor was proposed, the hosts insisted the guest should take spirits. as water would not express tht warmth of their regard, and he ina ly yielded, by saying: Gentlemen, if you can put some whiskey in my glass unbeknownst to me. will be happy to respond" Jefferson Davis was cap rured against the wishes of the Presl,
 dent and the orders of Gen. sherman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
Sign of life.

Chicago News,
 "Metchinikoff will perhaps increase mans life to 200 years by feeding him oD curdled milk, and Doyen, with his ola age serum, may add another fifty wears to Chat. The signs of long life and short life. though, will stiil hold good. and the delicate-skInned man SSviSl he nrematureIy cut of at 120 or 20. while the man with the coarse, rough hide will round out a generous The speaker, a physician, and him self rse-hided, resumed. thought gully; ,,.o ,a ro,.
 'The signs of short ltfe-and my medical experience has shown these signs to be true-are quick growth, a small head. white and fran seeth siIThtly separated; very fair ana soIl anS haautifuI skin. early corpulence. 8 small mouth and fine, soft hair.
 "The signs of long life osI,sL are eosfS' tesFS coarse hair. a deeply furrowed brow wide nostrlis and a large mouth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
I.arwest Cottonw0oa Los.

MenphI8 C0mmefcIaI Appeab
 The largest cottonwood log ever cut in the South comes from Lula, Miss: The log is seven feet in diameter and twelye feet long, and will cut 4,S00 feet oS lumber. The log Is so big that it Svili have to be split with dynamite. as no mill in Memphis has the capacity to cut 1t. . more raplciy than any other kind of trees Irl the country. Their average growth ts about one-quarter inch q fhis log was cut is believed to be sSe years old.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
ueadauarters At TroY.

For the first time since the A1abama National Guard has been 9rganlzsu .sas ssss he' outside of Mobile. The advancement of Iieutenant Colonel e. ], Hubbard. of Troy. Ala, to the oolonelcy by unani- nous vote of the line officers ct the Isf Infantry was most timely and de- Served. despite the fact that the head quarters will be taken away from our city
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

We do not think it fair to the Dem- ocrats in the Senate to intimate. as contemporary does, that they are hold ing up Crum's confirmation only to put Taft in a hole. They have better motives than that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

We are very much. of the opinion that a man who wanted a bad day and would not take Tuesday for 1t would have been too hard to satisfy for this life. It was hummer. for a fact . slosher, to be exact about 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
swoRN olKcuLATloN.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees Ms nasertisers tand makes 1t q part or she .,,, Son tract when reQuested) that lts uAip ssrs sa.r kaIion Is larger than that of any anos. . .as Hswspaper printed Tn AlaLemak-eno sa,,,n ma sunday edition has the largest elrca.As elrs ,, or any edInon of 1ny newspaper prsheso " Alabama without exception. ..,o.
 The figures for December pflnteo ss =. represent the actual net ctrcuiahiotAs ~sA . lurna hnNll pean daducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
1Gra. sIncIair,s Dlsgust.

TuRcalOosa Weekly Record.
 linton Sinclair has expressed some v,sx Dor, fnatrimony which indicates that he is decidedly disgusted with the institution Since reading these We shoI,Id think that Mrs. Sinclair shares a disproportionate amount of the dls- gust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

A paragrapher has discovered the trouble with venIremen for service on Tennessee juries. They talk too much or they drink too much--either or both.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

One of the interesting questions just now Is as to whether Roosevelt or the California Legislature will win in the contest now on between them. We are not laying any bets just now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
es~t n Rmhher stamp.

fshe name of the new Lieutenant Gov ernor of Missouri IS Gmeltch. A man with a name like that ought 70 have ~ rubber stamped, for the heneht or those who may have to write it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
4 Valentine from cisy Beautifui.

educational institu,Ions--ths public muse ums,
 Fortunately for the country. Congress. apparently takes this same view of the du- ty on art, and we expect will shortly re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

The Macon Telegraph insists that the term "'Taft Democrat" is clearly misnomer. or course it is. but we have quite an extensive variety of Democrats in these latter days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

[, We'll. this town may have been dry last Tuesday. but we think all will agree that it was prac- tica-1y and generally wet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
prnvIdence Iournal.

Providence Journal.
 ExSecretary OIney told the Brown Alumni at Boston that for ten years we have been living outside the Con- Btitution: which is not quite the same as living in opposition to it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
Whaf she State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
nrensRomery,s Energy.

Opellka Morning Post. nrena arations for her State fair next fall and proposes to make 1t the best one yet held.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

Electing a Senator in Illinois is al- most as difficult matter as is the job of having Hundley confirmed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11
T.ou,sviI1a Courier-Journel.

LouisViIe Courler-JOurHeI; . .t .
 And now they are making great to-do in the Nevada Legislature aoout barring out the Japanese. But uo Japanese. or anybody else. nave any desire to migrate to Nevada3
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

wst Daily Average, Dseembex. ises -ls.es5 Net Sunday Average. December ises. .AesseS
 c. | Finigan, Circulation Manager of The NoutgomeFy Advertiser. being dufy sNorhs says.
 xfnarn circulation for the month pr Oecem- Der, 1908, is true and correct, and cempn- cd after mii returns from news Doys.s nsMs agents. spoiled and leftover copies neVs haen deducted e. I. FIN1GANs " Circulation Manager.
 arvssrn to and subscribed before me thus kth day of January, 1908. .,,
 RIGA ALEXANDER. Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

We often hear of a promising young man. There are too many Of that kind now. always promising" to pay and never do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

France and Germany having signed the agreement guarhnteeing the inc tegrity of Morocco and insuring al- legience to terms of the Ageciras aot, we will if we get our batch of con- sressionai seed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

Mile. Rutkowska, a ballot dancer of note, has just won her degree as Q bachelor Of laws. Now if she can't for her salary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

Now that the Gatun Dam has been pronounced O. K. and the CuI6bra Cut all right let us settle down and plant the garden.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

New York has been robbed on her snow removal contracts. Thus 1t ap- pears that someone has handed Man. haitian a cold deal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

Since last october the Sultan of Tur- key has lost three wives. And just to thinh--that's three more than we ever had. or perhaps ever will.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-11

And speaking along that line. what do you think2 A certain facetious old man in Montgomery has habit of sending in his open-face watch on waiter by a servant at exactly 10isV calling upon his daughter; that is or course provided the young man stays that late. The other night young sport from Greenvflie called upon her up and Ieft9 Not a bit of t. He put the watch In his pocket. He thought he had made such a hit with the ola folks that 1t was sent to him as present.