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Milford chronicle., 1901-03-29

KERR Brothers Celebrated White
Wash and Plastering Lime reduced in
price. 5bushels and over SOC per bushel;
in lots less than bushels, 35c per bushel
for cash. A. w. POWELL.
Foe Sl.65 you can get the CHROME
Gle sent to any address in the United
States from now until January /, 1902
New York "Tribune" for ole year,
american Agriculturist'' one.
ne offer for good read
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-29

The w c. r. U. meets with Mrs. L.
b. Graves. Washington street, next
Monday evening at 80. a full attend
ance requested.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-29

The dental Office Of Dr. Walter l..
Grier on South Front street, is the
handsomest furnished Office of its kind
in lower Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-29

RUMOR has it that colored man
named Scott, near Boone's Mill. on the
road from Frederick to Harrington has
the smallpox.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-29

Mr.. IRVING SCOTT will build an adj
dition to his home residence Of West
Front street North Milford and remodel
the present building.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
EDMONDS ON BEAUMONT
TALKS OF THE TEXAS oIl
 ELDORADO.
The Greatest Petroleum Discovery Made in the Worlds History. Extent of the Fields Has Not Been Deter
 mined.

Atlanta Constitution.
 Richard H. Edmond3, editor of The Manufacturers Record, is in Atlanta on his way home from a personal in- yestigation of the Beaumont oil fields Referring to his trip and the impress sions made upon him MT. Edmonds said: -.,
 While I have had a special corres- pondent on the ground ever since the first well was struck. wanted to make personal study of the situatiop In order to gain impressions at first hand. This discoverey is of such far reaching importance and may so revolutionize many interests that it deserves the most careful considera- tion of all business men. So far nine gushers have been struck, but these are all within a very limited area and until other wells now being bored reach the proper depth it will be i'm possible .a fern ::sy sssiia as to the extent of territory in which oil can be found. The natural con- clusions would be that this is the greatest oil discovery ever made in the worlds history, destined to become as noted as the discovery of gold in Cali fornia and to have equally as great an effect upon business interests over a very wide territory in this country and abroad. but it would be unsafe to &C., cept this as assured until the final test of more wells proves the area in which oil can be found.
 The whole situation in Beaumont is now waiting upon this. Many new wells are being put down and in a few weeks we shall be able to form final judgment uupon this remarkable dis covery.
 Tt Is not to be supposed that the 'gusher' will continue to flow for any great length of time as freely as al present, as the history of spouting wells has generally been that in short time they cease to spout and have to be pumped, thus materially reducing their output. But today if all were turned on at once the nine wells would have a capacity considerably greater than the other 10000 or s0,000 wells now ir
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
NOTICE

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 18th. 1901
 Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the AlabaPpa-Mid land Railway Company will he'>held at the office of the company, iE the City of Montgomery, State of Alabama, at 12 o'clock m;: ninetietb. meridian time. on the first Qso day~'of July. 1901. for the purpose and opsect of submitting to said stockholdeIE for their consideration, ap- proval, Sanction and adoption an agree, ment: 3or articles of merger. union ,La and n generalization of the stocks rights, iran corporations, to wit: Savannah. Florida and Western Railway Company, Charles ton and Savannah Raiiway S,-osd ComPsny Enny. nanv Alabama Midland Railway Com. pany' Silver Springs, Ocala and Guli Railroad Company, Tampa and Tnono' tosassa Railroad Company .,rxY
 R. B. SMITH,
 Secretary Alabama Midland HaliWaSS as,sS CompaAy. tu-otoJuN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
THE PAINTED LADY.
BY F. H. LANCASTER

She came to the farm house bringing with her the baubles of the green room and an atmosphere of that other life that lay beyond the fields and meadows. Lem Hartwell saw her and he felt all his bigness and awkward ness as his eyes dwelt on her slight figure: her hair shone like ripenine wheat in the sun. and her face-ah, the roses in his mothers garden, he thought, the roses with their Haunting pink, were no fairer. That is the way she appeared to him. Another. meet ing her as he did, might have seen only a frail. slender woman. with thin. bleached hair and a tired look in her eyes. She wore limp, trailing skirts and q wide, dropping hat and lot of little silver bangles and things that tangled at her belt and on her wrist.
 Her ignorance of country life was ap- parent; and Lem watched her, reveling like child in the clover blossoms. In short, he began to love her and to listen for the tap-tap- of her high-heeled shoes on the floor of the room above his own.
 To him 1t seemed a great thing to be an actress and a writer-greater perhaps than being a fine lady-and yet she was all three in one: he saw in her the ideals of his dreams; he loved the dragging ruffles on her skirts. her funny shining hair. her girlish little mannerisms, her wisdom of the world; he weighed not; he cared not-he only knew he loved her-but he felt that to hope for her was like child crying for the moon.
 One night when she first came. and they were sitting on the low porch with the warm. wine-smell of ripening grapes filling the moon-lit night, she spoke of her life in the city. and how good 1t seemed to be in this quiet. rest full place, after the glare of the theater with its tawdry shams, where the edges were raw-cut and raveled, and where everything was pretense and tinsel. He wanted then to tell her-but in his foolish wisdom he was afraid-he d4l not know
 He taught her the secrets of t6 meadows and the forest; the placen where the wildflowers grew, the haun1 of the robin and the whippoorwill.
 The day came for her to go away. He walked with her down the country road, her limp skirts dragging in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

dust and the little bangles dangling at
 you're going away" he said awk- wardly back to your own kind of a life, but I want to tell you, before you go, something know you wouldn't list ten to, or I'd have told you before: but you won't mind my telling you now now that you're going away-and you you won't laugh at nie-will yeu?"
 "No-no-I won't laugh" she said earnestly.
 well then-I-rve loved you every little minute since you first came; I shall just go on loving you, l guess, all the rest of my life; but l knew it couldn't be-you with your actin and your gay city life and every thing--so I just went on loving you and thought I'd never tell you. You're not angry with me. are you? You don't mind when say that I think you are the most fbeautiful and the very brightest and best woman in the world?'
 He looked into her eyes. Its all true" she said simply. "I thought you knew at first; but when you didn't seem to see-or to care-I just went on letting you think well of me. I'm old--oh, so old-my whole self is a sham; I'm going back to work, work. work for my loaf of bread. I'm not a great writer at all-only sometimes I pick up little hack work on the newspapers; and the parts I play are only parts to fill up when someone else Is i'll. I might say was born in the wings of the theater-my mother didn't want me--she was a dancer. I've just drifted along-Pm too old to be- gin over-no one cares-no one has ever cared. It was foolish of me maybe-but I wanted you to always think of me as great and happy. You might as well know-I'm just a paint ed lady"
 He looked about him at the acres Of yellow grain. his own: he thought of the sweet, summer grasses about the farm house and of the hard. unyield- ing pavements of the city street; he looked at the pathetic, dropping figure of the woman before him.
 That's your train now" ne said, picking up the yalise and pointing to the village down the road. You're not going back. I don't care who you are, nor how old you are: I love you; do you understand that'T
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

operation in the United States. In other words Texas has nine oil wells which can, for time at least. pro- duce as much oil as the whole country now yields. If the new wells show that the held is a very broad one. then even allowing for the inevitable decline of output from these 'gushers.' the indi- cations would be in favor of Texas yielding more oil than the balance of the United States.
 The fact of the matter is that the whole oil world Is staggered at the magnitude of this discovery and it will take some months. possibly several years, before all the great questions connected with such complex prob lem as marketing this oil can be solv- ed. It is quite probable that the facil- tiles for the storing. the handling and the transportation of this Beaumont oil. including tank steamers and barges may require an actual investment of $100. .000,0 900, but until the extent of the field is determined more definitely the full development of these enormous facilities cannot be expected.
 Tn the meantime hundreds of com panies to bore for oil are being orga- nized. Some of them are good; many are wildcat In any event oil spec
  not a business for poor people who cannot afford to lose. Sometimes the profits are enormous, but the chances of loss are so many that 1t ought to be only a rich mans game, and where no one would invest anything which ha could not lose without feeling it. In this respect it is very much like gold mining proposition, too speculative ex- cept for the speculator. He can afford to take great chances in the hope of great profits. So far about 200 oil companies have been or ganized, many of them said by Texas people to be absolutely wildcat con- cerns but many legitimate companies, officered by the very foremost business men of Texas and Louisiana, are pre- pairing to do a legitimate oil business. It is quite probable that within twelve months we shall see 25'00 companies chartered. though many of them may never do any business but cell stock.
 "An Texas is aroused and the whoiS State will be bored full of holex look. ing for oil. and though they M11ay no, find it everywhere. they w'H{ find man, will enrich the State/
 "The lesson t2 ts oe learned is that th' soa'n sou t,at n4S vast undeveloped resource iinht noA patient work may prlns U t9es !Yany wealth-creating posslplll' ties. fine oil discoveries of Texas ar alrea .dy causing many Alabama peopl sp eni iprepare to bore for oil in that stat stat aa'I while in Beaumont, an OH pore tolci me that it was almost certal mat, % gas and oil would be found m tn BlrnA nAingham district. We have littl | relatiH. yat of what laten wealtSa .'n So,,tb roalIv has. for W have K th ora+ched the ground i our woNa1iotsS taaS,aionment a New source of wealI VI ,eayt avenues of employ ment wr,ii anostortlv onen to the mag | ic touchti -a;ontific invAstfgation an capital. I od sweat as Ia Beaumont's 0 dlscoverS. other places in the Sout other an}, c,,aIlv as unexpected dis covery."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
WHITE HOUSE
 ASSOCIATION NOTICE

The following ladies will compose the different committees for Wednesday l to serve lunch at the Capitol, under the auspices of the White House As sociation:
 General Managers-Mesdames Vim cent Fillmore. T. H. Reynolds and John W. A. Sanford.
 Treasurer-Mrs. E. T. Ledyard, Mrs. Jesse Lamar. Assistant. Committee on Arrangements-Mrs Mary P. Watt, Chairman; Miss Hattie Tompkins. Assistant. On Contributions--Mrs. C. J. Haus- man. Chairman: Mesdames Leon Wy man. Frank Duncan, George Janney, H. c. Tompkins, James Ware, Charles
 Stern and Miss Mary Crommelin. On Refreshments-Mrs. ToombS Ev- erhardt. Chairman; Mesdames Robert GoIdthwaite. Fred Warren. Cad Beale, Luther Hill. D. Loebman, o. J. Caruth- CTS and Miss Katherine Holt.
 On Tea and Coffee-Mrs. c. J. Camp bell, Chairman; Misses Laura Fillmore, Laura Hill. Pinkie Crossland, Laura Benjamin and Gabriella Watts, Assist ants.
 It is earnestly hoped that these la dies will be at the Capitol on Wednes- day and if for any reason they are prevented. that substitute be sup piled. Mrs. Alfred Bethea,
 Mrs. H. F. Hall of Birmingham, Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. c. E. Me Clellan at her home on Clayton Street.
 Miss Irene Ashby of London, who has been for the past four weeks the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. M. de Cottesr has gone. She lectured in Auburn on Friday, in Atlanta on Saturday and
 Monday. She will leave Atlanta fol New York today and in two weeks will sail for London, where she will remain a few weeks with her father and sister After which she goes t' South Africa, her future home. She will be married there to Alfred Mac Fadyan, who is there in England's ser vice. It is interesting to know that while Miss Ashby's sweetheart IS Tn England's service her heart and sym pathys are all with the Boers. some of her articles in London paper were the first to protest against the war;
 The annual commencement of Marion Female Seminary is now in progress and today's program is:
 Tuesday, May 21, S:S0 a. m. to p. m Reception in art rooms.
 Tuesday afternoon, o'clock-Annual meeting of alumnae in seminary par Tor.
 Tuesday. o'clock p. m.-Annual con Lcert.
 Wednesday. May 22, 1O:SO a. m.-Bac- calaureate address, by Rev. c. B. Pn-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
Stops Fallir1g-O,1t

If your hair is coming out, no wonder you are alarmed. IL IL means that you are to have very thin hair, and that is about as bad as badness itself. The trouble is your hair does not have life enough to stay in the scalp. Feed your hair with tyer's Hair Vigor and it will ,e all right.
 If the gray hairs are begin ling to show, Ayers Hair vigor will bring back the rich color of youth to them.
 One dsIIar . SsttIe..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
Is This TrueP
London Cornish Post.

London Cornish Post.
 The fact that persons who fall great distances often lose their boots in the descent has not yet been explained. Perhaps the most recent case is that of MT. Charls James, of St. Agnes, who was unlortunate enough to fall a dist anee of 120 feet in Polbreen Mine. Dur ing the fall both his boots (which had been tightly laced) came off and were discovered in the shaft fathoms above him. The phenomenon is not confined to miners. I know a case of young woman falling down a plump" losing her boot,Nn the same peculiar manner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

Capt. James W. English was an at- tentive listener at the conference and urged that the enactment of . vagran- cy law was, in his opinion. Q more di- rect method of protecting the child against the alleged injustice of this labor in the factory. He believed that the greatest injustice that could be done boy or girl was to deprive him or her o2 the opportunity of earning an honest living. He declared his willing ness to espouse the cause of any movement that would tend to uplift or benefit the child and make of him the toed and useful citizen.
 Rev. H. Baldwin Dean spoke forci- ply and eIoquently of the necessity of child labor laws that would protect the youth of the State from the greed of the, capitalists and any influence or condition that deprived him of his right development, physically. mentally and morally.
 Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson. President of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. spoke most impressively of the urgent need of the proposed laws. and Hon. c. c. Houston made a brief and interesting address along the same line.
 Mrs. Leonora Beck Ellis was another interesting speaker on the affirmative side. and the concluding remarks of the conference were made by MT. Will mer, Mrs. Ottley and Miss Ashby.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
RECORD OF DEATHS.

Child of MT. and Mrs. P. w. Smith.
 Little Anthom Bragg Smith. the g. year-old son of MT. and Mrs. Paul W. Smith died at the family residence, 51l South McDonough Street yesterday morning after an illness of two weeks. The many friends of the parents will deeply sympathize with them in the loss of their bright child.
 The funeral will take place from the residence at Il o'clock this morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
RECEPTION POSTPONED.

The reception which was to have been rendered Miss A. w. Armstrong of Baltimore. Secretary of the wo- mans Missionary Union of the South ern Baptist Convention by the ladies of the First Baptist Church yesterday afternoon. was indefinitely postponed on account of the indictment weather.
 It was very much regretted by the members of the committee as they were anxious to have the Montgomery ladies meet Miss Armstrong who will leave today for Atlanta where she has an engagement tomorrow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

,.o1,e, In wonesr SQunty, Kansas, recently a Spother SpSIS who areSd leaving, a, lover and a sweetheart ordered, not good friends a The stone for the soGd girls; in grave, W and now the SrTner tnn fer nSs nseyent the court for njunc
 nosed noa 'p memorial. erection of the pro-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
CARD PLAYING IN LONDON.

Snks1 Y 1<A x4kN0 AIN 40N0 0ORss A London letter in Southern paper contains the follow.as concerning card playing in London. Speaking of the English woman and her days doings 1t says:
 In the evening she thaws under the excitement of bridge whist, which game, by the way, contains enough in- terest to stimulate even her phlaE matic ladyship. who is practicing 1t Sd much now in her drawing room that she Is becoming an expert. What it is in this game that differs so much from the old-fashioned whist I do not just know. The latter has invariably been confined to the after-dinner amuse- ment of the dean of some provincial parish, with the country squire and a sleepy old dowager; but bridge is play ed by King Edward VII. and his con- sort. In truth, the whole of polite so- ciety is indulging in 1t. Young ladies, frivolous but fascinating, and young men frivolous without being fascinat- tng'' spend every moment at their dis posaI in the new diversion. Baccarat Is thing of the past. Society" says its habitue, 'has found a really good card game at last and it is going to hold by It."
 Gambling is a vice generally known In Mayfair. There is no necessity of going to Monte Carlo for a stimulus to agitate us, when we can procure 1t at every club in St. James Street and Piccadilly, to say nothing of the state Iy drawing rooms among both sexes in society. The stakes are high and the gamblers (no use of vanishing the name) are rash.
 Droorocctpn a,lobra ta al vvhoJlv unknown. There Is not enough intel lectual capacity required for that ex- citement which is so popular in Amer ican society. The English affect su- periority of taste in all their minor pur- suits. They often confound gravity with the higher elements of thought and they give so much contemplation to what should be relaxed to their con- centrating ideas that game with them becomes a perplexing problem. ..
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 Continuing, the writer says of the English woman's toilet:
 have told you in former letters that she is not always we'll dressed. Her toilet lacks that fluffy, diaphanous ap- pearance of the French-I should call it chic-and the less obtrusive elegance of the American.
 ne IaIIor Irock IS an aDomlnationI London no more understands construct ing a costume of this kind than the English girl does in wearing it.
 The following invitation has been received:
 The Beta Delta Chapter
 of the
 Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity requests the honor of your presence
 at its
 Commencement Cotillion,
 Tuesday evening. June fourth
 nineteen hundred and one.
 University of Alabama. Nine o'clock. City Hall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

[ A noted London club man once laid
 wager with friend that the latter could not sell given number of gold guineas at a penny piece. He won his wager.
 The people refused to buy. They thought he was offering too much for too little.
 It may be that the claims made for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription seem
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
ley of Havana. Ala. Dsiivsfyr . of di plomasI

The mass meeting that Was fo have been held yesterday afternoon at the First Baptist Church did not take place on account of the rain. The children's meeting held at the church on Sunday afternoon was a full one and Afiss Arm strong made a strong and helpful talk to the children: During her stay in Montgomery, Miss Armstrong was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Charles A Stakley.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
Eor cliff neck there lS--

For stiff neck there lei. rotbirs ho,+a. than @ free applicatioss "osit t T,o DIeoe' lain's Pain Balm. It qtpuck,v relieves the stiffness and sorenesds assoctino sos 9 complete cure. For sale bN i, E C Ee,,,- e Ter. Druggist. 1t -adv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

~ Mlkaao "ial II be presented at the hlsht. may , Nd, by the best musical G LaieH' ,,ratta oa . fcity, assisted by Mrs.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

If your druggist cannot supply you, send us t1.oo and we will express a bottle to you, all charKes psepaid. Be sure and give us 'our Eearesf express o1ace.
 JIG. ATHR O., Lowell, Mass. for our handsome book on The Hair
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

For mlftarb, III lnb, and naval purposes the na- mohs ol HH' ,E,e spend annually 500, ,O0OO 900. lhey Se kSSp pon Ih der arms continually more man o'VVV'VSV h1 en. with six times as many ready to ny &o arms when the word
 moplhze ttii lS si kyoken. It is estimated that the conmunIS loses at least $200 year for eacn niat nso, ,kyyho Is kept under arms, ana is' theiei" Ee unproductive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

almost too great to women who in years of suffering have found no help in doctors or medicines. But it is to be remembered that no claim is made for vFavorite Prescrip- tion " which is not substantiated by thou sands of women cured by its use. Its effects are truly wonderful. It wipes out past years of pain as a sponge wipes a slate.
 Favorite Prescription is the great medicine for women. It estab- fishes regularity, dries
 enfeebling drains,
 heals inflammation and alteration and cures female weakness. It is the best prepara- tive for maternity, mak- ing the baby's advent practically painless.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

Uwhen I wrote toyou in March, asking advice as to what to do for myself," says Mrs Ella expecting to become mother in June, and was sick all of the time. Had been sick for several months Could not get anything to stay Tn my stomach, not even water. Had mishaps twice in six months. and threatening all the tune with this one. Had female weakness for several years. My hips, back and lower bowels hurt Iue all the time. Had numbness from my hips down. Had several hard cramping spells. and was not able to do any work at all. received your answer in a few days, telling me to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. took three bottles, and before had taken 1t week was better, and before had taken it month was able to help do my work. On the 77th Of May my baby was born, and was only sick three hours and had an easy time.
 we praise pr. Pierces medicine for it has cured me"
 Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure bihousness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

THE PLACE TO G,-o, Ross Barber Shop. Exch anaa uo- tel. Everything of the bes' If
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
FOR $3.75.
Pants Mad to Order by HOlt's Dye
 Works.

Holts Dyl Works, 1O9 s. Court. makes pants stt' ly to individual measure, ments L,tshA3 as A3.75 and guarantee fit and WorkmahshAp adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

Be sure you are right and tain that you're sure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21

wednesday. BLUE ANGELS" by F. H. Lancaster.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
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