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The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS FIND MUCH
MATERIAL AT THE PAN-AMERlCAN.

that has got to come in--very well-by
shifting little you get one OF the mag
nificent entrances to the building: or a cor
ner pavilion. between the breaks of the
foliage. with towers-a host OF them-loom-
1.-THE towers OF the Pan-American Expo
sitiOn are going to be forever famous.
Everybody is bound to find favorita
views-a certain angle OF choice building.
q particular pavilion. special sight from
there-something which. II preserved. will
more clearly take one hack to the EXPOSE
tion and set him once more in the midst OF
all its enjoyments than any panorama or
THE Worlds Fair at Chicago was boon
to photographers. but the Pan-American
Exposition viii have the advantage of sup
plying picturesque subjects at a cloeer
range. Big sweeps of courts, long color
nades and immense structures do not OF
He can get nearer to a building here. and
taking portion of some richly ornamente:A
part with a suggestion of extending cotGfl-
rades and overtopping domes and towers.
give satisfactory impression of the whole
structure. at the same time making far
more pleasing picture. Furthermore. the
make them easier to photograph than the
buildings OF the White City, SO deceptive to
many photographers.
Outside of the exposition. Buffalo's lake
front and her shady streets and parks also
offer excellent opportunities, while with Il
bicycle or automobile the photographer will
ma himsef master OF the hunt on one OF
the richest courses for picture-chasing in all
America
ITO catch views OF Niagara Falls on all
sides and bring your game home. you need
hut the ordinary possession Of bicycle and
camera. while up and down the Niagara
River. at historic Queenstown. Lewiston and
Fort Niagara. and even inland. the wheeling
photographer will find subjects of inherent
Interest and artistic possibilities of prize
taking value. 1 know from the rare ma
terial that Buffalo amateurs have brought
n Of hat n
sport royal for the camerist in all directions
about US.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12
WHEN DAVY CROCKETT WAS IN
BOSTON SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

Boston. Mass. May 1l-Sixty-seven years
ago Davy Crockett, the great statesman Of
the Southwest. who was famous even be-
fore he crystalized all that has been said
of caution and courage into the expression,
BE sure You are right. then go ahead
sixty-seven years ago Davy Crockett was
in Boston.
At that time Davy Crockett was not such
a hero as he became later. Nevertheless he
was an important parsonage. and great hos
p'tality was shown tine quaint, brainy
man from Tennessee.
Crockett had passed two terms in Con-
Sress. The third time he stood for elec-
ton he was defeated, but after two years
of retirement was elected for another term.
|. During this last term he made a tour of the
Eastern cities.
II was known that he was on his travels.
so his appearance in Boston was in no wise
unexpected. He reached the city from
Providence and proceeded directly TO the
fremont House. where apartments. after
wards occupied by Charles Dickens and
known as the Dickens rooms. had been en-
gagged for him
Colonel Crockett weighed. while in the
city. lso pounds. lie wss described abou:
80 years of age. m3idle-sized, stoutly built,
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Buffalo. n. Y. May lit will really be
difficult for an amateur photographer to
take snap shots at the Pan-Americau Ex-
position and not get something worth hav-
ing. and | will tell you why said F. F.
Hemer. who is In charge of designs and
printing for the Bureau of Publicity, with
the experience of twelve months close
study of the exposition's artistic side, which
he has been portraying In circulars and
brochures.
"It is not place made up only of vast
courts and big buildings. though the courts
are indeed larger than those of any previ-
Gus exposition. The courts will be more of
the nature of great gardens filled with the
sort of things that go to make up interest
ing pictures-trees. vases fountains, beds
of flowers. arbors, fantastic seats covered
with awnings. hagstaffs and banners: pa
CODA. terraces and balustrades. with a
wealth of stat,iary set out amidst trees or
under the spray of fountains. And when
you look at the buildings 1t will be almost
impossible to get view without some of
these attractive bits in the foreground.
There will be no straight. unbroken
facades that are so unsatisfactory in pho
tographic compositions. for the buildings
are closely massed together. giving their
towers chance to group in endless charm
ing combinations. while on all sides are
trees. fountains. lakes. canals or vine-cov-
cred pergolas that cannot fail to furnish
relief to the architectural lines.
Imagine yourself In the Court Of Foun-
tains. for instance, AT one side Of you is the
great basin OF the court, splashing and
shimmering under its many jets Of water;
along it's margin are balustrades, seats COW
cred with awnings, strip of grass plot and
trees making backgrounds for some of the
choice works Of st. Gaudens, Macmonnies
and other famous sculptors. You here get
out r-fNrfv rn nvv1nr ofSH Gn mn
west, towards the machinery building. In
your finder You see tree or bit Of statuary
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12

gree upon Daniel Pratt of Chelsea. The
Colonel was also presented with a pair or
iegg1ngs and hunting shirt made of the
cloth prepared at the establishment.
IN the evening a party or about fifty
gave the Colonel complimentary supper
at Gallagher's.
On the removal Of the cloth. THE Twelfth
Congressional District of Tennessee" hav-
ing been proposed as toast. the Colonel
responded In speech of half am hours dura-
tion. No report of the speech was made. but
one of the publica ,ions of the day said
there Were very few persons who have as
little reputation for eloquence Mr..
Crockett who could have made "a better
speech. His language was chaste and pure,
and his manner calm. subdued and fas-
clnating."
Here are few samples of the toasts that
We're drunk ON that occasion:
Colonel Crccllett-The patriotic and fear
less man. the honest son of the West; He
THE present administrations hollow
tree. no more the pride of the forest.
Heaven speed the AK Of the backwoods-
man"
THE patriots prayer-Heaven send those
who want Office to Davy Jones's locker
ett's"
Henry Clay-The orator. the statesman
and the patriot. In time of state dissen-
ecutive usurpation the great champion or
the people,
Daniel Webster-The son OF New Eng
land. the pride Of the Republic: the hopes
OF the people rest upon him..
On the morning of Wednesday the bear
hunter went to Lowell and took look at
all the factories there. He inquired par
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12

House they rode up State street during the
lime of high change" and. being recog-
n!zed by the large gathering of merchants
and Others there congregated. the Colonel
was called upon for a speech.
He was escorted to the lower balcony OF
the city Hall. now the old Statehouse.
where he was introduced to the throng by
Henry Williams. as plain. honest citizen
of Tennessee" The speech was full of force
and rude eloquence and surprising in the
knowledge it displayed
Coione, Davy's speech struck the right
spot. and he was most heartily appiauded.
There were no lovers of Andrew Jackson
within the sound of his voice. and when he
drove away. 1t was amid tempest of
cheers.
The next day the old hunter and frontiers
man took his departure from Boston. never
to return and few years later lost his
lie in the Alamo
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12
WHOSE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS
When That Is Learned. a Police
Mystery May Be Solved.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York, May 1.-THE parents of seven
children will serve the ends of justice if
they can explain how their children's photo-
graphs came into the hands Of two .nysteri-
Gus men whom the police of South Orange,
\. j.. have arrested.
The men prefer TO silently accept SER
tence of sixty days imprisonment rather
than to reveal their identity and to tell how
they came into possession of the photo
graphs.
The prisoners said they were John Reilly
of New York and John Keeiey of Michigan
Two OF the photographs are of girls. -four
of boys and one is of a small baby which
looks like a boy.
THESE two chaps may be kidnapers."'
said Sergeant Vanderhoof of the South
Orange police. '"rhey may have been wait
ing for chance to steal any one OF the
seven children whose photographs they had.
l believe there will be sensational develop
ments in it, .-
The men We're arrested as suspicious per-
cons. They looked like tramps. were rough
ly dressed and travel stained.
The finest equipped eye-testing narlor in
the city can be seen at T.. b. Straus. eye
No T CT OF fatf frv,f froo
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12

ration, and maintenance OF this service.
and the work is going forward with stead
lily increasing volume.
POSTMASTER General John Wananaker,
Who, from the beginning OF his term, Ia
vered this extension of the postal service.
recommended in 1892 that trial be made
complete service throughout the country.
THE question was taken up by Congress
in the session - Of 81 1928. and first APP
preparation of $4,000 made. But a few days
later Wilson S. Bsseil succeeded Mr.. Wana-
maker as Postmaster General. and his opin-
ion was strongly opposed to rural free de-
tion or make any trial of the plan.
Wilson Makes First Experiment.
I'm the next Congress. 1893. the House
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
and the chairman reported the scheme as
impossible of execution. But in spite of the
Bissell again refused to act. William i.
Wilson became Postmaster General in the
fall of 1895. He agreed with his predecessor
added & that Hp if Ssneress chose hs ' to make the the
money available for 1897 he would inausu-
rate the experiment by the best methods he
doubling of the appropriation, putting sl0.-
00J at his disposal.
.'Forty-four routes were selected in widely
different localities in twenty-nine States.
The purpose was to make the experiment as
general as possible. and to have the result
represent the working of the system under
as uiNeTSe cOHuitlOnS ds possible. f1Iteeu
routes were set going In October, 1896, fif-
teen in November. eight in December. three
in January. and one each in February and
April following Some of these routes wefe
in the foothills Of the Alleghenes about
Charlestown. w. Va, others on the prairies
of Kansas and Nebraska. some among the
sugar plantations of Louisiana, others
among the snow and ice Of Grand Isle in
Lake Champlain and on the wind-swept
plains OF Minnesota: some were in the
popnlous old communities of Northern Mas
sachusetts and Southwestern Maine others
among the fruit orchards of Arizona and
the grass lands of Southern Washington.
Ohio. Maryland. Missouri. Arkansas. rir-
ginia, North Carolina, Colorado. Iowa,
pennsylvania Michigan, Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Illinois. Tennessee and Califor-
nia."
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12
Monopolies and Babies.

"A monopoly is like baby" says the
Manayunk Philosopher. Men are opposed
to either on general principles until they get
one Of their rown."-Philade,phia Record.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-05-12

The finest equipped eye-testing narlor in
the city can be seen at f. b. Straus eye
expert No. 705 Locust st. Consultation free.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
RxrrNsrvE ARRIVING.

We have often wondered why 1t Is that farming is not carried on by cor poratiens or. stock companies on a large scale. just as manufacturing and other business is managed. The contention sometimes made that money can only be made on small farms. or by farming operations conducted on a small scale ia shown to be a mistake in at least one case that has come under our oo- servation. That Is in the statement re- gently made by MT. Allerton of Chi cago. who IS what may be called 2 millionaire farmer. He has some sev- enty farms, and has in cultivation apou' tu. 900 acres of land divided among his various farms. On one of these farms of $500 acees, he states that in one year he made a net profit of a fraction over BIO an acre, and he claims that his ex- perience for years is that farming on a large scale pays we'll. Others might not succeed as he has done. but we suppose a stock company conducted on good business principles would make money at farming just as at anything else. ...f .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
The Miners Meeting.

The miners of Alabama who have been in session since last Monday with the exception of one day, have atopted a scale of wages for the coming year. commencing July, 1. and now await the conference with the operators of the District which Is set for Monday morn- Ing at 10:30 o'clock. The Committee on Scale appointed last Tuesday made its report to the convention yesterday afternoon. From yesterday until this afternoon the convention took up the time discussing the report. It was announced at 2:20 o'clock this after noon that the miners were ready to meet in conference with the operators on Monday and had wage scale to present them, With considerable jeal- ousy the miners have been guarding their scale and ether business trans acted in the convention and 1t is im- possible to get any definite informa- ton as to what the contract contains. A member of the convention said this afternoon that he believed the contr lct that was desired by the miners tnls year was more conservative than the one presented to the operators last year. He stated further that he did not believe the conference would last more than a day, for in his mind the scale formulated by the miners would be an easy one to adopt and the set tIement would be amicably decided on In a very short while.
 President Flynn. when askNc tooey as to an outline of the business trans acted by the convention replied tnat he had nothing as yet to give out ana
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
.ao,..R,.y a.s IS CORRECT


 According to a contemporary Mother Eddy declares that If the science Of life were understood the human limb could be replaced as readily as the lob ster's claw" but are we to infer from this that the lobster understands the science of life? Or, does he produce another claw because he has no intel ligence to worry and doubt with?
 But that word 'if' covers the entire field. No finite man does or ever can understand "the science of life" The wisest scientist of them all cannot tell why fingers grow in one place and toes in another. The beginning and the progress of life is a mystery. Pos sibly if we fully understood all it's secrets we might order our own form as we pleased and prolong life, health and strength indefinitely. Besides, if we could reproduce a missing member on our own bodies we could reproduce 1t on the body of another. and do away with all artificial substitutes, and there would be no more cripples and maimed and disfigured human beings dragging imperfect bodies to the grave. If a railroad took off a mans foot it would grow him another while he waited, and when a man monkeyed with a buzz saw and left part of his fingers dis tributed all over the neighborhood he would only suffer temporary incon- venience while new crop grew to per- lection.
 Yes, Mother Eddy is right-"if."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
NOT A FAIR COMPARISON

The Tuskegee News asks:
 If railroads are to be forbidden to give free passes to officials why should not saloon men be forbidden to give judge. sheriff, solicitor, legislator, etc., free drink or a free cigar?
 and then argues that public men can be bribed &by accepting small courte- sies from saloonists and others as easily as by accepting favors from the rail roads. Our contemporary runs the ar gument into the soil. If saloon keep CT should give public man ad libitum. ad finem. or any other way, or if restauranteur should give an official free pass to his table for the year, there would be some similarity in the cases. for that is just what is done by the rail- roads.
 But 1t Is not altogether a matter of bribery to which objection is made. Nc one would insinuate or for q moment believe that all public men can be se- duced from their duty by the offer or bestowal of a railroad pass. for we all know better. If that were true il would be unsafe for any person to be- stow any form of courtesy on a man in public life. and the world has not yet reached that stage of corruption. We insist that public men ought not to be placed under pecuniary ohliga- tions to corporations which depend for their very life on the laws and the execution of the laws.
 And there Is another side to this question which is too often overlooked and that Is the injustice to the rail roads of the demand for free transpor- tation. Our observation, and it has been somewhat extensive, teaches us that the railroads of Alabama pay their full share towards defraying the expenses of the government, and giv- ing free passes is a species of indirect taxation which is not just or fair tc them. There are people who find i, pleasant to abuse corporations. but however 1t may be in other sections nc one acquainted with the facts can say that the railroads in this State are moi taxed at as near their value as any property, public or private. Let tht law regulate the business and manage ment of the railroads on the principle. of impartial justice and allow them tt charge all alike for services rendered
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
FOUND AT LAST.

There's 8 young girl in New York who comes about as near filling long, felt want as anybody We have heard of yet. It is not because she shines in society, excels in music, scintillates in the dance or corruscates in the par Tor. It is not even that she is an extra good housekeeper or a perfect cook. nor any or all of these accomplish ments. Her superiority consists in the fact that her touch is death to mos quitoes, fleas and such small deer" to all of which contact with her skin is sudden and inevitable death. As soon as any insect lights on her he curls up and passes without the assist ance of a doctor or physic, and stays dead. There's no 'possuming in it.
 This girl, we insist, is a treasure be- yond price, a bright star in the firm ament, a gem in the coronet. a pearl in the necklace of humanity. More of her would be a boon to a suffer 7 world, and the more the better. We need her every hour and in every sec ton of the land. One of her in every gathering would save pain, vexation and possibly some swear words. A fair proportion of such girls would do away with the thousands of devices and inventions on which we now depend for protection from the bites of insect pests and enable the rest of us to worry through life with only a modicum of the ills from which we now suffeT.
 Young lady, we salute you! May your tribe increase!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
More Admirable in Theory Than in
 Practice.

Mobile Register.
 An "Optimist" writes to The Mont
 gomery Advertiser denouncing the pro- posed grandfather clause on the ground that illiterates will not take ad-
 vantage of the clause because the very
 pleading of 1t is a confession of de- | ticicncy. If the object of putting in
 the clause is to make the convention
 acceptable to the masses of the whites
 and thus secure its adoption "Opti-
 mist thinks it will fail of success. The plain people" are not going to vote
 for the constitution if they understand
 that the clause which lets the iliterate
 white voter through the bars is a
 clause the very using of which con-
 stitutes the publication of his igno-
 rance or his poverty. This objection l applies to all the ordinances involving | the Louisiana principle. Whether the | operation of the grandfather clause is l dropped in i've years or ten or twenty. l the clause, so long as it lasts, will vir | tually exclude the best voters among the illiterates of the State. They are going to see it as it touches them | selves. and they would probably vote against it.
 There is a good deal in this, and also ] in the objection to any registration
 machinery, the argument being that with such machinery the party that controls the registrars will control thA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

I.uct4tfls. " aat Is wanted Tn Ala bama iss fair election law. and not ( partisan law that will some time hav' to be oveithrown by actions akin t revolution.
 An educational qualification, simpl in its terms, and poll tax payment fo education purposes, will douptless ob tain more votes for the constitution than would the much talked of gram father clause, which, as "Optimlst points out. is always popular where f has not teen tried |"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
WRECK ON K. C., M. & B.
Eastbound Limited vestibule Leaves
 the Track.

Birmingham, June 22.-(Special.)- Train No. .. the eastbound limited yes tibule on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad. the most elegant train that enters this city. was wrecked half a mile west of Winfield, seventy-five miles west of here, tnls afternoon.
 The engine. it is stated, split rail, that is to say. the flange of the wheel mounted the rail, and the locomotive. the combination mail and baggage car, the smoker and the first-class coach were turned over. The engine and the first two cars were demolished. but no one was killed. Mail Clerk Palmer was severely bruised and Fireman Gerald Haran was slightly hurt. A quantity of mail was damaged. A female pas
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
Negro Kills His Sweetheart.

Anniston. June 22.-(Special.)-Hen- " Gill killed Estelle Collins last night at Embrey's Bend. on the Coosa river. seven miles north of Lincoln in Cal houn County. with a shot gun. Dean Collins, father of the girl was badly wounded by Gill. Sarah Collins. moth- CT of the girl. was shot several times. All are negroes. CHI bought Q mar riage license for himself and Esteile Collins and he was rejected by the fa- ther. thus causing the shooting. Gill Is still at large.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
bam1ians

The proposition of Senator Morgan to give the right of suffrage to white women and not to colored ones has rather rattled our esteemed contempo- rarv. The Hartford (Conn.) Times causing it to reason in this style:
 We are not intensely interested in the mnffrage question of Alabama. but Y the ronstit tAion of the United S;ates anoros men that it does not give to black womsn n or red women or yellow women. then 1t Ss a very different Constitution from what everybody supposed 1t to 9e before Neg<fnIey. Gr!ggs and Brown took the job Of interpreting it.
 We may be permitted to remark that we feel pretty much the same way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
Dodson in Birmingham.

J. A. Dodson, General Superfntendent of the Western Division of the South ern Railway Company and the Alaoa- ma Grea. Southern Railroad, was in the city today. Speaking of The ma chinists' strike, he said: As far as we are concernei the strike has been over long ago. We are still running without interruption and getting in a larger force every day. find some trouble here, there being fewer men at work in the shors at this point than at otaer rlaces. We GO no. intend to hire any of the old men back again"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

The Mobile Register got out very handsome edition last Thursday, de- voted largely to information connected with the Southern Railway system as well as to the business and commerce of Mobile. It also has write-ups of the towns along the Mobile and Ohio Rail- road both in Alabama in Mississippi and a large amount of valuable and timely information of interest to Ala bamians
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

The Norfolk Landmark is still en- gagged in the hopeless task of trying to bring certain Northern papers to take a fair view of the Virginia Con- yention. We occasionally put in lick by way~ot helping ouE contemporaries, recognising at the Same time that it Is wasting good white paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23
Like Thompson's Colt.

Fort Payne Journal.
 Senator Morgans plan of lodging the fifteenth amendment by giving the suf- frage to white women and denying it to negro women. reminds one nf Thompson's cout that swam river to drink from branch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

The Memphis Commercial-Appeai seems to have but just now caught on to the information that testimony is purchasable in the courts of New York. why, brother, they keep 1t on the bar gain counter.