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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
Robert E. Lee Chapter, opelika.
 Surratt Day.

Their deeds when weighed in the balance have been found equal to their fame" Chapter motto.
 Lend thy serious nearing to what we shall unfold"
 Where the offense is. there let the great ax fall"
 First paper-Best account of the as- sassination of Abraham Lincoln, read by Mrs. l.. B. Whitfield.
 Second paper-Execution of Mary E.. Surratt, by the United States Govern ment, July ', 1865, "As foul a deed as ever plotted the escutcheons of any nation. read by Mrs. Walter Guitars.
 Third paper-Dramatic episode. relat- ed by the man who endeavored in vain to secure a reprieve for Mrs. Surratt, (New York Sun). read by Miss Mary Robertson.
 Incidents of the conspiracy. as relat- ed by Mir. J. R. Benton of Valdosta, Ga. read by Mrs. w. W. Lanier.
 The above highly interesting program was charmingly rendered Friday. Aug. 2 at the regular meeting of the Chap ter at the home of the President. Mrs. A. L. Dowdeil.
 Much valuable information was gleaned from the papers read in regar1 to those accused of complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
 The Chapter has offered scholarship in the city public schools for the son or daughter of a Confederate soldier, who would need this assistance to oh- tain an education. The report of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
other person who had.

OLner person WHO ndu.
 Considering the bulk of the business the mails are interfered with so sell dom that the letter which is said to have been sent through it has never been received may be regarded primar- lily as a myth, and the letter which is said not to have been received. though it has certainly been sent, may be held to have got there. We know that this reflects upon a very common form of apology for seeming neglect. discour- tesy and indolence. but the figures do not lie. They simply give rise to the painful suspicion that there is lack of veracity in another quarter when the explanations are over and the mails are accused.
 There is, however, more than one saV- ing clause in the statistics. Sixteen hundred and thirty-five of the 77,000 postoffices in the United States were robbed last year. and 6S4 were destroy ed by fire. Seventy-one postal cars were wrecked, S7 stage coaches were held up. mail wagons were footed, 656 mail pouches were stolen, 743 were cut. 15S street and rural letter boxes were rified, Here Is the warrant for telling white lies with hard, unflinch- ing countenance. and a possible refuge also for the inventors of black ones. Though it be not sufficient to restore confidence it should serve excellently we'll for saving the face"
 The immunity from loss in Uncle Sans postal business is truly marvel ous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
FEW RISKS IN THE MAILS.
The Immunity From Loss in tho
 Postal Business is Marvellous.

Chicago Record Herald:
 When the chief inspector of the Post office Department admits that com plaints have been received during the year concerning 52.306 letters. of which Al ,056 held inclosures. and also con corning 47,949 packages, the figures are large enough to make the reader feel that there are risks in the mails. though he himself has never suffered a loss. But figures that appear abso- lutely large often dwindle and shrivel when they are subjected to compari- son and that is true in this instance, for the government which receives the complaints handles every year some B. 000. 900 900 pieces of postal matter.
 Supposing also. that the fl .O56 letters which held inclosures all went wrong. the percentage of risk in the inclosure practice would still remain almost in- finitesimally small. The government issues yearly more than SS.000,0O0 mon- ey orders. which are generally sent through the mails and are so rarely tempered with upon this showing that a complainant might feeel that he had aH the bad luck going. The prohabii- ties are that for the rest of his life he would never experience another difn- culy of the kind and never meet an-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

sissippi State Board of Health, at Clin- ton, Miss, in 1897, confined the fever to one portion of the town but their method did not modest the mosquito. If the combating of yellow fever has been accomplished by con- trolling and destroying other agents than the mosquito, under conditions where the mosquito has been absolute ly ignored and permitted to pursue his own sweet way, then 1t seems the mos quito has not been proved guilty of being the sole conveyor of the yellow fever germ, and we will do well to con- tinue our search before crying "EurekaI"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
IF KRUGER COMES. How the Grand old Man Will Be Re- ceived by the American People,

ceAVeu Dy the Amer1can FeOpie, New York Mail and Express:
 Paul Krugen will be a welcome and an honored guest if he follows the pro- ject which is repeatedly and circum- stantially aseribed to him, and visits this country in September-more well come and really more honored than he would have been had he come hither during a Presidential or important party election. The cordiality of his receptisn in this unruff1ed year. when an atmosphere of good feeling envel- opes both parties, will be the exact measure of the American estimate of the man, the justice of the cause which he led. and the wisdom of those who continue struggling for 1t. There will be none. or little insincere theatri- calism for factional effect, or unworthy playing for partisan advantages, or cruel weavings of vain delusions to de- ceive this unfortunate but dear old man.
 Himself almost the last survivor of the Great Trek. the incarnation of a desperate but not yet a lost cause, and the embodiment of the peculiar, vigor- ous. patriarchial civilization that has sprung up on the South African vedit, Kruger's is dramatic and memorable fgure-not so winning or picturesque as Kossuth. not so facile a subject as he for popular idol. but standing like him for one of those tragedies which happily are repeated but rarely in a century. From the kinsmen of his race in this city and elsewhere, he will re- ceive if he. comes a welcome of extra ordinary warmth and he will awaken the sympathetic interest of Americans. the majority of whom have never given in their approval to the course of events in South Africa. But it is to be hoped that he will carry with him no expectation of anything more substan- tial than private aid to his cause The door is closed. as 1t has always been, on anything else. and never more firm Nv than now,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
ENTERTAINING T1PsY MONKEY
The Expensive Guest of . Party of
 Merrymakers.
London Telegraph.

london Telegraph.
 A party of friends who had been luck at Longchamp on Sunday agreed to celebrate their good fortune with a llttle banSuet. They were very merry. and, coming across a monkey on their way to the eating house, they entered into negotiations with it's owner with the result that it was soop trotting along by their side, A hah was then made at a cafe for the purpose of in- dulgfng in appetizers and their new friend was treated to a drink, too, which was the unfortunate cause of the complications which followed, Hardly had the jovial party reached the restaurant when the monkey began to betray symptoms of tremendous ela- ton. It became so lively that a cord had to be borrowed to attach 1t to a leg of the table, as 1t was diverting itself with a series of leaps and bounds of very risky character.
 As i'll luck would have it, when the young men were in the middle of their repast the cord snapped and the mon key now free, made up for lost time by rushing about the room in quite a frantic manner. In @ few minutes the dinner service was reduced to com piete wreck. Broken plates glasses, ana D0tLleS StreWed rhe eFeWnlle con- vivial board, any amount of other mis- chief being also wrought.
 As was only natural under. these extraordinary circumstances the land lord had something to say on this sub ject. He protested in emphatic terms, adding that the company would have to pay for all the damage that had been inflicted on his property. As the young men declined to viaw the matter in this light a joint move was made in the direction of the office of the police conmissary, the monkey being also of the party. -.
 After discussion which lasted fully an hour 1t was finally agreed that the sum demanded by the proprietor of the restaurant should be paid to him. and so mortified were his customers at the responsibility which they had in cured through the ownership of the animal, whose naturally lively spirits had been so dangerously elated by that fatal drop of absinthe that they pre- sented 1t to him as we'll
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
BEAD THIS.

RfPLEY, Tenn, June 1, 1s0l.LDr: E ,o,,, " Han. St Louis, Mo: Having tried veIioo,, rse oersusdes wssogs tt svs 1our
 trial have used one bottle sno .,. though my case is one of long stslasnss that bafrled the skill of the best Rnys,' clans, vet 1t yielded at once to the "Iexes Wonder.. which | heartily recommend te all suffering from kidney troubles; ious .,s. truly. W. H. BRUTON. Pastor 6ap'"' Church. Ripley, Tenn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
UNITED DAUGHTERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACY.

Scholarship Committee was called for after the excellent literary program closed Three eligible applicants were reported as having passed the commit- tee, according to the rules. The choice or one will be as follows: Every ap- ptcation. which has been approved. &C., coroing to previously printed rules, by the committee. will be sealed in enve- lopes and one of these envelopes drawn rom a basket by the secretary at a called meeting Of the chapter on Aug. 2s. The value of this work under taken by the Chapter cannot be too highly estimated, nor a more enduring monument be built to those who wore the gray. It should be one of the chief endeavors of the Daughters of the Confectionery to secure greater educa- tfonai advantages for Confederate children. and by thorough training of mind and heart. render 1t possible for these representations of our Southern race to secure supremacy in its own land. Mrs, W. w. Barnes.
 Corresponding Secretary.
 Historical.
 In last Sundays issue a correspond- erit asked for the poem "To the Flag of Alabama" written by William R, Smith of Tuscaloosa. It gives us great pleasure to publish today Mir Smiths account of the proceedings of that eventful day. Jan. II. 1861. including his own speech upon the presentation of the flag. and the sonnet printed the day following. Tn 1861 MT Smith pub iished book bearing the following in- scription on its title page:
 The History and Debates
 of the
 Convention
 of
 The People of Alabama. Begun and Held in the City of Mont gomery. on the seventh day of
 January. 1861:
 In which Is preserved the speeches of the secret sessions. and many
 valuable State papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
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One small bottle of Hafi's Great Dis ceyery cures all kidney and bladder trou- lnai emissions, weak and lame backs, Rheumatism and all irregularities of the ki1neys and bladder in both men and wo- nan. regulates bladder troubles m cni,, i,, 6s sent by mail on receipt of h. One sman bottle is two months treatmens' and will cure any case above mension1S QF. P. W. HalL sole manufacturef .st. Dox 62s, St. Louis, Mo Send for tesu. monfais Sold by all druggists ana ths Montgomery Drug Company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
XHOLOIHId

There has been some discussion ant diversity of opinion as to the eligibility of applicants for membership in ths U. D. C., from inquiries made of the President, Upon a careful considera- tion 1t is evident that the framers Of the Constitution desired to place It upon so broad and just basis that all representatives of the men and wo' men designated In Article III might attain to membership. We give below the article relating to this matter Each chapter in the light of It's state' ments can decide for itself all ques' tions of eligibility of persons for meni' bership. Article IT.
 Any woman shall be eligible for membership who is the widow. wife mother. sister, niece or iineal descend' ant of any man who served honorab , ! in the arm wand navy or civil serVlc9 of the Confederate States. or Loyalty aaye. material aid to the cause; alst women and their lineal descendant' who can give proof of personal servie. or loyal aid to the Southern cause dur' ing the war;"
 The readers of these columns vii read with profound regret of the III ness of one of the editors, Mrs. J. N. I Thompson of Tuscumbia. The numer- ous friends over the State of this ex- cellent lady will wish for her speedy recovery to health.
 In St. Paul's church, Richmond, Va. are two memorial windows, one to Jeff ferson Davis. the other to Robert F.. Lee. The text on Lees: He refused to | be called the son of Pharaoh's daugh- l ter. choosing rather to suffer affiiction with the people of God" On the Davis: | This man hath done nothing worthy | of death or of bonds." How beautiful and appropriate! In these two texts lives the heart history of people. Question.
 How many Confederate History stu dents can give an account of the Bat tie of Wilson Creek" Mo. the mos | uniuue battle of the war between the
 States, where a regiment of troop,
 lswent into battle. unarmed, depending
 upon taking their weapons from those
 killed and wounded of the enemy by
 the other Confederate soldiers sngag-
 ed?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

What. bac kagain!" exclaimed the lady of the house. Didn't I give you some soup yesterday" 'Yesm." replied the hobo. boldly: "one good tureen deserves anoder."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

Editor-Your copy, MT. Spacewrite, reads that the house burned up. You meant burned down." didn't you? New Reporter-No, sir. The fire started in the cellar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

Boys could grow up to be pretty sem sible on the average, if their mothers didn't have such queer notions about what boy ought to be.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25
TRUST BUYS SHELBY STEEL TUBE
THE RUMOR OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE
PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY.

Official announcement made yesterday by
J. p. Morgan Co that the United States Steel
Corporation had acquired the Shelby Steel Tube
Company the principal competitor of the National
Tube Company. which is already a part OF the
United States Ste-l Corporation.
The Shelby Steel Tube Company was incorporated
In February, 1900 the result Of a cOnsolida ton
OF fourteen concerns in Pennsylvania. Ohio New
Jersey. Connecticut Ind this State Its authorized
capital is $4,000 preferred and 100000 common
stock. and there is outstanding 100000 Of the
that the price paid for the preferred is $50 share
and for the common. SO. not. however in cash:
and that the terms will be offered minority
holders. II is understood that the Shelby company
Will he consolidated with the National Tube Com
pany.
Chairman Gary. of the United States Steel Cor
poration. said yesterday that he knew nothing OF
the report that that company had completed ne
gotiatiOns for the purchase OF the Pittsburg Coal
largest producer of soft coal I'm the world and
point Is made Of the fact that not a few Of it's
mines are in close proximity 10 several OF the
more important plants OF the United States Steel
Corporation. The coal company has paid per cent
dividends its SO 900 preferred stock since the
time Of its organization. I'm the fall OF 1899 and
has a large surplus. which is applicable TO common
stock dividends should the directors so elect
Prior 10 the formation OF the Billion Dollar Trust
several Of the leading companies I'm that corpora
ton made three-year contract with the Pittsburg
Coal Company for its entire output II Is this fact
which has made operators believe that the coal
properties would be bought by the United States
Steel Corporation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25
SALE OF THE CAMBRIA STEEL co
MONY WITH THE UNITED STATES
CORPORATION.

The advices from Philadelphia that the Penn
sylvana Railroad Company which recently pur-
chased the Pennsylvania Steel Company. had
also acquired the Cambria Steel Company. were
confirmed yesterday by Judge Gary chairman OF
the Board of the United States Steel Corpora
tion, who said:
President A. J. Cassdtt OF the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company voluntarily stated few days
ago that his people had purchased both the Cam
bria Steel Company and the Pennsylvania Steel
Company and at the time assured me that
IL would be the disposition OF these companies to
operate in entire harmony with the United States
Steel Corporation. Basing my statement pre-
vious business transactions with Mir Cassatt, l am
pleased TO say his assurances received with
perfect confidence and entire satisfaction. None of
the interests Of Of the steel companies will be
prejudiCed by reason of these purchases.
The Cambria Steel Company has a capital
stock of S1G,000.O00. tine par value Of each share
being $50. Only $13 30 share has been paid
up. The company incorporated on Novem-
Der Ii. 1898. and December l of that year
leased the Cambria Iron Company for 300 years
at an annual guaranteed rental of per cent
on the SS,46S.Oo0 capital stock Of the latter cor
poration The Cambria Steel COmpanys prop
erty is in and near Johnstown. Penn. In 1900 II
paid regular quarterly dividends of 20 cents
share. besides an extra dividend Of 81 % in May
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25
OHIO REPUBLICANS UNITED
Continued from first psge.l

pertv vanished. and four years Of disaster fol-
lowed. The soil was as. rich, the sunshine was as
warm the rains We're as abundant. the seasons
az az IN vain The Dsmocratie party was at the helm
hldng; the mills stopped, the mines closed and
ldeness. want, suffering. tramps and riots spread
trade turned against us revenues declined deficits
occurred and multiplied until they amounted 10
Issue after issue Of government bonds became
national credit now high became impaired
that Democratic Secretary Of the Treasury would
until he had organized Wall Street trust 10 guar
anIee a market
Finally, as comes the light Of day after long
black night came the year 1886 and brought with
" another opportunity for the American people
acknowledge failure? Did ii confess incompetency?
Dlq II apologize for the ruin il had wrought? Did
- ues pafnoh OF the wage workers whom il had
turned INTO ialeness by hundreds Of thousands and
ul9n whose families il had imposed hunger. want
and misery by robhing them Of millions? Did II
manifest regret for the grief and sorrow with which
any account? Did Il offer to abandon its heresies
OF or any OF them? Did il show sign Of compunctoh
perienoet Nc NOT one % these things did # do or
iof one moment think OF doing.
CAMPAIGNS OF 1895 AND 1890
On the contrary: 4 threw overheard its old Lead
anoe with The Populists and with free silver for
and despair it had oocasioTed with snnesi ~
preJudloe sought % array class against class labor
aSSnsi capital the poor against the rich that It
i was not content 10 attack only the Republican
parry. II attacked everything and everybody. II
embodied In It's platform all me heresjes of Popt-
.sm, socialism communism and anarchy. Prop
cry rights, vested interests. law. order-even the
courts themselves-were asssiled and placed in
Jeopardy. No such wild. reckless Destructive and
dishonest programme was ever before entered ,nor
by any political organization
ne very lie Of the republic involved in the
struggle, and conservative. patriotic men Including
hundreds OF thousands Of Democrats rallied 10 the
support OF William Mckinley. and nv his election
saved the country. its honor and its institutions
here Is only one intelligent man I'm America who
Goes mol now that oFT2 %, $50
saved US from an irretrievable disaster-and he
edlts The Commoner." Had we then added free
sNef 10 nee trade The most brilliant chapter in the
ECONOMIC history OF this country would never have
oeeh written by return 10 the policy of protec-
We brought prosperity 10 the nation exposed the
5aacies OF free trade and free silver and left the
democratic party without an issue "
Then came the Spanish American War with its
rev duties and new questions. Bankrupt Rrvanisu
TOOK new lease on political life. ola issues were
gone nut new ones were quickly made. As usual
tneE involved an attack the dignity and mower
OF the national government