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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
OFFICERS ELECTED.
United Daughters of Confederacy
 Hold Annual Meeting.

Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, June 8.
 The Selma Chapter of the U. D. c. held its annual meeting for the elec- tion of officers at the residence of the President, Mrs. W. A. Cawthon.
 The meeting was called to order by the President, nineteen members being present. A full and interesting account of the proceedings of the Convention held at Opelika. was given by Miss Mary Howard, one of the delegates from the Selma Chapter.
 Miss Emily Ferguson, Corresponding Secretary, read a communication from Mrs. Thompson, Assistant Chairman of the Committee of Monuments on Battlefields. asking that one member of this Committee be named from this Chapter. and Mrs. B. H. Craig was appointed to serve. All other business being disposed of. the President called Mrs. M. R. Jarvis to the chair and the election of officers for the ensuing year was taken up, and the following were elected:
 Mrs. M. R. Jarvis. President; Mrs A. w. Cawthon, First ce-President; Mrs. William Ullman, Second Vice President; Miss GonzeIla Byrne, Re- son. Corresponding Secretary: Miss Eudora Connoley, Treasurer; Mrs. H. A. Haralson, State Director.
 Following the precedent of the State organization, Miss Emily Ferguson, who was elected Historian last year. will serve another year.
 A motion was then carried that the Corresponding Secretary draw up and forward to the Legislature resolutions expressing the gratitude and hearty approval of the Selma Chapter of the measure setting aside June 3. the birth day of Jefferson Davis. the beloved Chieftain of the Confederacy, as a State holiday, and that the same be spread on the minutes of the Chapter. It was thought expedient that the Chapter adopt new Constitution and bylaws. and a motion was carried to that effect. The following committee was appointed to act in the matter and report at the next meeting: Miss Emily Ferguson, Chairman; Mrs. H. A. Haralson, Mrs. W. s. Monk.
 The question of raising funds for the unfinished Veterans Ward at the City Hospital was discussed at some length, and on motion was carried over until the next meeting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
SHE 1NvENTs DANCES.
Original Ideas That Bring Pin Money
 to 0 Slender Young Woman.

to O Slender Young Woman. New York Sun.
 The slender young woman balanced herself and gyrated gracefully before the mirror Presently she stopped short and kicked spitefully at the cre- tonne-covered shoe box.
 Its no use," she said. T can't test it by myself. I'll have to get the girls to come in and see how it looks when it's done right"
 When what is done right?" asked the visitor.
 why, that new dance" said the slim woman. "ls 1t possible that you don't know what I've been trying to do?'
 The vislto4 confessed her ignorance.
 How stupid" said the slim woman.
 Whom do you mean?" retorted the visitor. Mo or yourself?"
 Well" laughed the slim one, T don't just know who is to blame, but wher- ever the fault lies the result is deplor- able. Here I've spent three solid weeks studying out that step. yet after all the thought and physical strength ex- pended upon 1t you admit that you didn't even recognize it as a terpsi- chorean stunt. This is my first step of the year, and judging by the inaus- picious beginning I'll have to put in all my vacation figuring out new measurss if expect to be ready for the dancing masters in the fall.'
 The visitor looked at the slim wo- man with e wrinkle of perplexlty on her brow. The slim woman hastened to explain:
 I'm an inventor" she said. "an in- vsntor of dances. I devote three or four months of each year to the pro- duction of new steps. You wouldn't believe, unless you were in a position to know, how very obtuse the masters
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
TO BUILD NEW ROAD
FAUNsDALE AND DAYTON LINE
 TO BE CONSTRUCTED.
The Charter Has Been Revived and It Looks as If It Will Be Built-some Grading
 Done.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma Juna S

Selma, June 8.
 The old charter for the Fannsdale & Dayton Railroad was revived yester- day and 1t now seems certain that the road will be built. A good deal of the grading between Fannsdale and Day. ton has been done, and with a very small outlay of money the old roadbed can be put in good condition and be made ready for the crossties and rails The Southern Railroad is only fifteen miles from Thomaston. The new road will tap some point on the Southern. either Uniontown or some other con- venient point. but it is in no way set- tied that the road will go to Union- town or to any other designated point. That will have to be settled by the survey and something will depend on how anxious the people living along the line of the Southern want the road.
 It is net proposed to stop the road at the point where it touches the Southern. however, but the intention is to push CT to the coal and iron re- zion at Blocton or some other point in the mineral region.
 At the reorganization meeting yes- terday the following officers were elected:
 J. J. King. President; w. Grout. Vice President; W. c. Eppes, Secreta- ry; M. Myers, Treasurer.
 Directors-C. w. Stone. w. W. Brnna, G. L. siddons. W. c. Epps, W. Grant, M A. Meyers and J. J King
 These are some of .he most substan- tial citizens of Marengo County, and the name of Governor c. w. Stone of Pennsylvania being among the direc- tors. would lead to the supposition that the Faunsdale and Dayton Rail- road Is being backed by the same Pennsylvania capitalists who are de- veloping Selma and the Birmingham Selma and New Orleans Railroad.
 There are some great things in store for Thomaston. It Is conceded that a company of Eastern capitalists has bought 5000 acres of land at that place, and the building of the Dayton and Faunsdale Road is probably the first step toward developing it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
HAPPENINGS IN4lM
 1he CENTRAL CITY

berry bush to the Cotton Exchange this morning that had recently gone through the hailstorm in Wilcox Coun- ty. The side of the bush exposed to the the bush, where the limbs were Timber. the bark was taken off all around the limbs, but further down the tree. where the limbs we're larger and stronger, the bark was only taken off the side of the bush that was pelted with the hail. The storm covered tract four miles wide, but how far down into Wilcox it extended has not yet
 been ascertained. In that territory the devastation to crops is said to be complete.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
SPRING MAKES HIM HoMEsIcK.
Texan Afflicted with the Ailment like
 the Cattle on the Range

the Cattle on the Range Chicago Inter Ocean.
 You can talk about Christmas and Thanksgiving and the othet holidays being the high-tide times for home sickness, bus they aren't a circum- stance to the first spring days"
 The old Texan looked out of the win dow of his Broadway office, and eyed the trees in Trinity Church yard wist- fully while he talked with a Sun re- porter.
 T can stand this blamed town all right, in winter" he went on, and I can put in summer at Bar HarboG without much grooming. but ever< year, when the first spring days como. 1 get so h1mesick that I'm actually maudlln. May be a young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. in the spring, but know one old man whose fancy turns heavily tJ thoughts of Texas. Great Scott! What wouldn't give to be down there today, wi.h a good horse under me. and a herd of cattle ahead of me, and the prairie rolling off, in big waves, to the horizon line. I'm homesick, l tell you. I'd rather be drunk.
 'It's this soft limiting weather that has crept into me That's nature. Why, the very cattle on the range get
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09


 biped is a creature possessing to a rare degree each of the five senses seeing, hearing, touching. taste and smelling-and being ever acute as tC the significance of each.
 The parrot is placed by naturalists at the head of the bird creation; nor is this on account of its vocal capacity, put because of its intellectual superi- ority and its adaptability to circum- stances.
 A clever Journalistic writer has re- gently shown the close relation between the possession on the part of an ami nal of an organ, or organs, by which it is enabled to judge rightly of the relation of objects, and the mental status of that animal. In addition to their prehensile feet. which are near ly as highly developed as human hands parrots are provided with a highly developed prehensile bill, and within 1t a tongue which acts in real ity as an organ of touch. But this is not all The parrot alone, among all birds, has the power of moving the upper as well as the lower java pe- culiarity very noticeable when 1t gapes exactly like human being. It is this strange mobility of both the mandibles at the same time, combined with the crafty effect of the sidelong glance from those artful eyes, that gives the characteristic air of intelligence and wisdom to the parrots face. One nat urally expects so clever a bird to speak. and when it turns suddenly with some appropriate remark no surprise is occasioned.
 The exquisite sensibility of the par rot to the slightest sound or move ment in its vicinity, or even at some considerable distance, suggests its life in its native forest. The way the bird holds a piece of fruit or meat bone in one claw while he strips off the rind or the meat dexterously with the low CT mandible, keeping a sharp lookout meanwhile for a possible intruder, con- veys the whole story of life in the jun gle better than Kipling has. One sees in that act the watchful monkey, ever ready to swoop down upon the dainty plumage of the parrot. who ever and anon changes his position on his perch as if he felt himself upon the spread ing bough of a tree and desired to scan every portion of the dense. tropical foliage.
 The African gray parrot iS in many respects the most remarkable and highly bred Tn the world. Though nc- arrayed in such gorgeous attire as his brethren in other parts of the world his sober suit of gray being merely en- livened by his cardinal red tail. he l. a strikingly handsome bird. Seen in an apartment shaded from the glare
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
We Are Ready for Business.

We have put our workshop up stairs, temporarily, over the burned store and are ready to attend to all repairing as before the fire. While our repair de- partment is not as complete as it was before the fire. we are better prepared even now than others to do the work; our phone, 391, has been replaced, and all calls will be promptly attended to. All parties who had work in our re- pair shop will please make claim in writing at once as same will be re- placed. Todd's Gun Store.
 adv. II N. Court St.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
GO TO HUNT WORK.
Negroes Leaving the Storm-swept
 District.


 Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, June 8.
 Sixty negroes have left the hail and storm-swept districts of South Dallas and North Wilcox and have gone to the mineral region of Alabama in order to make enough money to support their wives and children. The fields where the crops recently grew are as bare as the middle of @ road, not a vestige of cotton or corn being left. Many of the planters have told their hands to go away and try to get employment and send the money back to their suffering families. Many of these negroes have been told that their rent notes would be cancelled and that they would not be expected to pay anything on them, as their all had been swept away.
 The tale of destruction and devas- tation that comes from the hail and storm-swept section Is something ter rible. Even the pasturage for the cat tie was literally wiped out, and stock will suffer until a new crop of grass springs up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
THE VITAL STATISTICS
Record of Births and Deaths in Montgomery During the
 Past Week.

Deaths for the week ending yester- day were reported to the City Sani- tary Department as follows: June 1, Sarah E. Peck, age 70 years. cardaic prostration.
 June 3, Sallie Afford. age 4s years, pneumonia.
 June 8, Peyton Enzor, age 60 years. n:itral insufiiciency
 June 4, W. H. Mancha, age A years, .pberculosis. ? years, dysentery.
 June z, Augustus Lyons, age IA years. typhoid fever.
 June 2, child of Charles Stewart, age i3 months. gastro-enteritis.
 June 2, child of c. E. Riggs, age IS months, entcero- colitis.
 Negroes.
 June 1. Minnis Royal. age 1s years. pneumonia. l.
 June 1. Richard Reese, age 1s years. locked bowels. June 2, infant of Annie Crayton. June 2, Lethia Birdsong, age 75 years, diarrhoea.
 June 2, child of Oliver Alexander, age 12 months entero- coiitis. June 4, child of A. L. Potts, age 6 months, entero -colitis.
 June 4, infant of Aaron Givan, 4 days, hamilton.
 June 6, child of Elsie Lewis, age 3 months, convulsions.
 June :, child of Arthur Reese, age 3 years, entero- -colitis.
 June ', Edward Christian, age 27 years, pistol shot wound.
 Three transmit permits were issued for shipment of bodies to other cities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Bolt Strikes Jail.

Lacrosse, Wis. June 6.-Lightnlng today caused a panic at the county jail The bolt struck a tree and then entered the jail cage and played havoc with the iron and steel work. Many of the prisoners were felled to the floor. but none were seriously injured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Plague on Transport Kintuck.

Washington, June 6.-The War De- partment has been informed that the transport Kintuck is in quarantine in the harbor of Nagasaki and will not be allowed to depart until the 18th inst. on account of a supposed case of plague among her crew.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
DIXIE MOSQUITO FRAMES AND
 dEmc

The most convenient frame that has been placed on the market, easily attached to any style wooden, iron or brass bed. Frame handles the net, which prevents handling and selling same. ELLIS & GAY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
BRIEF SELMA ITEMS.
Advertiser Bureau,
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Rev. T. H. Jones, agent for the Sum- merfield Methodist Orphanage, will preach to the congregation of the First Methodist Church tomorrow and will take up a collection for that worthy institution after the sermon is over. The orphanage Is doing a great work for the fatherlesg and mothefless little one of Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Rather likes the Idea.

The representative of The Advertiser was talking to a prominent Selma wo- man about Delegate Craigs ordinance on woman's suffrage, and among other things she said:
 T see that some of the papers are Xsposed to criticise MT. Craig for his ordinance. Well, am not one of those to critieise him. do notasee where the politics of Alabama can be made worse by allowing the white woman of Ala bama to march up to the polls and de- posit their ballots. If the women of Alabama were allowed the right to vote, every ballot cast would be for the purity of the home and the elevation of mankind. Of course the rum ele- ment and the political bosses who ride lnto power do not want us to vote, for they know that their calling would be gone, for we would have dispensary right here in Selma, and the bar rooms with their attendant evils would be lriven from the State. do not think, however, that I will ever live to cast D vote. MT. Craigs ordinance will never see the light of day again. It will be pfgeon-holed. side-tracked. ymothered, and all that will come of 1t will be some abuse from certain newspapers for MT. Craig, and praise Ior him from the women who, while they do not ask to vote, would vote right if the franchise were given them.
 have been very much amused at the comments of some of the papers on She ordinance. Great reforms always move slow. From the beginning of the {, world radical changes have been com S,atted by old fogies whose minds get n a groove and l suppose it will be lhat way till the end of time. No, I have no rocks to throw at MT. Craig; and honor him for having the cour- lge of his convictions on this and oth- lr subjects"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

or day, he is neither beautiful nor gau- dy, but when the sunlight quivers up- on ms plumage, the contrast between the exquisite pearl gray and glowing red IS both rich and gorgeous. It is then also observed that the delicately tinted feathers, from a microscopic mil nuteness on the head to feathers sev- eral inches on the tail, are of a tex ture that is raNly seen on any other bird.
 The discovery of a new species of parrot is. even at this late day, no un- common event in the scientific world The common belief that parrots are exclusively tropical birds is a mistake though most, if not all, varieties intro duced as pets are from the tropical re- gions. In this country, the Carolina parrakeet. at the beginning of the last century, used to range in summer as high as the shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. and even within the last forty years t reached, according to trustworthy accounts, the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, though it is doubtful if parrots have been found in their wild state above the gulf States.
 It may be remarked that, with all it's high intelligence. no parrot has yet laid claim to being a saint. The moral deficiencies and reckless animal spir- its of the bird were commented on by the philosophers of old Rome in the days of Nero, who caused numbers Of parrots to be imported from Upper Egypt They became a very fashion able pet in Rome. and were lodged Tn cages of tortoise shell and ivory. with silver wires. but they were professed- ly esteemed as delicacies for the table. fe, eotH fo e. his lions with them. just as Vitellus caused to have prepared a dish com posed of the brains of 10000 peacocks. The beauty of the parrot has been sung by some of the foremost Roman pOets
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Lucinda Coleman, the negro woman who stabbed another negro, by the name of Julia Crawford. in the side, was fined $10 in police court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

MT. Phillip c. Keipp left yesterday for New York. On June 11th. he will sail on the Kayserine Maria Theresa to visit his old home in Germany.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
MONTGOMERY INFIRMARY.
Committees Will Canvass for Sub
 Rcrintinns

The Montgomery Infirmary no doubt will be opened to the public in a few days. The city and and county have each made an appropria tion of $50 per month for the maintenance of the In- firmary. and Eext week a thorough can- vass among citizens for subscriptions will be made by the committee.
 The loyal citizens of Montgomery never let an opportunity pass when they can go good, and there is not much doubt that the citizens will respond to the call for aid to the Infirmary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Chinn Prepnring to PaY.

London, June 7.-"The Chinese Gov ernmeut," says The Shanghai corre- spondent of The Daily Express. has ordered that bonds be prepared for the payment of the indemnity"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Miss Dora Parker of Tuscaloosa, passed through the city today on her way to visit relatives in Monroe Coun- ty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Officer Ben Mosley is quite sick at his home on Broad Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

It lsn't necessary for a woman to be an expert nathemat!cian in order to calcu- late how nluch her husband would eage Ga year if he quit smoking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

MT. and Mrs. I. Matt Meyer have re. turned from short bridal tour
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
SENSES OF THE PARROT.

Wonderful Creature at the Very Head
 of the Bird Creation. Washington Star.
 Ornithologists have discovered that the parrot is a wonderful bird in more respects than that of being able to talk. It has been learned by those )killed in bird cult that the vari-hued
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Record of Births.

Births reported during the week were as follows:
 To MT. and Mrs. J. H, Hudson. a boy
 To Mir. and Mrs. Oliver Singleterry. a boy.
 To Mir. and Mrs. W. c. Monger, a girl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

A telegram from General Morgan brings the information that he is now at Warm Springs. Va. for a short while.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
MELONS.

Ice cold watermelons, first of the season. Norton 6 Rudulph.
 Phone A9.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Negroes.

To John and Ida Cummings, a boy. To West and Laura Manning, a girl To Elijah and Alice Gindrat. a boy To Sam and Lizzie Wilson, a girl.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Literally Stripped of Bark. An old colored man brought a hack
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
SOME GOSSIP OF SELMA
YOUNG WOMEN AS CONDUCTORS
 ON CARS.
Worked Through Benevolence and Earned More Than Was Re- ceived-Further Evidence of
 Destruction by Hailstorm.
Advertiser Bureau.

Selma, June ;.
 Selma Street and Suburban electric cars. The ladies of Selma were in charge of the cars, and from 6 in the morning until 12 at night they col lected the fares. There were two young women conductors to each car, who were relieved every two hours. It was a pretty sight to see them walking along the step outside, col Decting the fares and ring them up. There were four cars in charge of the ladies, and the two that did the most business handled over 1000 passengers bach. A certain per cent. of the fares went to the ladies for a benevolent ob- lect, and they worked like heroines From early morn until late at night. And they earned every cent they made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Contagious Diseases.

Two cases of scarlet fever were re- ported during the week, one from Ward 1 and one from Ward q.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
Candidates Cropping Out.

The last Legislature passed an act making the Board of Revenue elective by the people, instead of being ap- pointed by the Governor, as is now the case. During reconstruction days, when Dallas was under the heel of the negro, the Legislature abolished the Commissioners Court and established the Board of Revenue. Since that time the finances of Dallas have been man. nged by this Board. appointed by the Governor. But there was a general lesire on the part of the sovereigns Do elect their own Board, and that right was put back in their hands. as the reason for their appointment by he Chief Executive has long since passed away. Already candidates are bobbing up for the places. and there Twill be from one to three aspirants nnd possibly more in every one of the four revenue districts. By electing the Beard by Q direct vote the tax payers win set servants who are directly re- pponsible to them. as they will get the Commissioners from the people direct ana not from the Governor. It is un- Aerstood that several members of the Present. Board will be candidates. and k is more than likely that some of the pld Board will be elected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Miss Kittie Williams of Frenchburg, Monroe County, passed through the city today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Pompano today.
 Norton 6 Rudulph. Phone 4o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Hon. J. J. King of Marengo, Is ir the city today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

Miss Bessie Kahn. daughter of Ma than Kahn. died this afternoon after an illness of four days.