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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
The Selma ball team wound LID a serie

of twelve games on the road last night with probably one of the yellowest rec ords that has ever been heard of. Losing the games would not have been so bad if the team had played any kind of ball, but the support that they gave the pitch CTS was of the rankest variety known.
 They are at home beginning today for nine games, three each with Chattanooga, Nashville and Birmingham. going on the road again with three at Chattanooga and three at Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
Baltimore, 5-10; Boston, 10-4.

Baltimore, Aug. 1.-The Baltimore and Boston clubs broke even in a double header here today. Both pitchers were hit hard in the first game and poor base running by the locals gave the contest to the visitors. The second game went to Baltimore in the sixth when the Boston
 R. H. E.. Baltimore . ......1 200O110 00-5 IA 2 Boston .. .........1 2 O 20 2 2-10 IS 1 Batteries-Foreman and Bresnahan; Lewis and Schreck
 Second game-score! R. H. E. Baltimore . o Eee 0 [ *-10 12 3 Boston .. .........1 0 000 O. II Batteries-Mc and Bresnahan; Cuppy and Criger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
THE SAME OLD STORY
ERRORS LOSE THE SELMA
 GAME.

A Little Rock Amateur Pitched Good Game, But Yellow Work Throw It Away for Him-Selma Opens
 at Home for g Games Today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
Postponed at New York.
Pnstnoned at Boston.

New York Aug. 7.-New York-Brooklyn game postponed: wet grounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08

oeIIIld ''''''
 Summary-Earned runs. Little Rock, 3; Selma, 3: two-base hits, Lynch 2 Gilbert 1: three-base hits. Crozier, Stouch stolen bases, Martin, Clifford; sacrifice hits. Hale; hit by pitcher, Crozer, Hutton; base on balls. off McCloGkey tStouch). off Hale 4 (Crozier, Mauch, Lowney. Mar t!n; struck out. by McCloskey f. Frank. Bush 2, Stouch; left on bases, Little Rock 4, Selma ?; time, 1:45 umpire, Fla herty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
Steady Game Wins for Pittsburg.

Boston, Aug 7.-Philadelphia-B Boston game postponed wet grounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08

Adam wasn't famous as a spr!nter, yet he was first In the human race.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08

|<Aiabama, he said. is growing. and many of the sections are good and should oe in the Constitution. The proper place for Section 5, in his opin- ion, was in the subdivision on Muni- cipal Organizations
 Judge Coleman began to discuss the entire Article. He said 1t had no place in the Constitution. Alabama had got ten along without it in all other Con- stitutions.
 MT. Boone of Mobile. made the point addressing himself to the question. The point was sustained. Thereupon Judge Coleman moved to table Sec ton 5. ..
 By a vote of 34 to A the Convention refused to table the section and by a further vote the section was adopted.
 Section was then read. It prohibits the legislature from authorizing any firm. corporation or individual to be exempt from municipal licenses.
 MT. Weakley, Chairman of the Com mittee. spoke in support of the section Re called attention to the fact that cities in Alabama cannot collect muni- cipsl taxes from the Southern Express Company because 1t was so authorized by the legislature.
 Mr. Foster spoke against the section. He argued that if the section was adopted it would force the legislature to reduce certain State taxes.
 Mir. Boone of Mobile, Vice-Chairman of the Committee, spoke in support Of the Committee report He said that 1t Is not right for these corporations to ask for municipal protection and pay nothing for this protection except lump sum to the State. He declared with earnestness that the Committee had not worked in the interest of cor porations but in the interest of the peo- rJa of Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
BODY REFUSES
 TO RECONSIDER

(continued from Page one.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
Cribbens batted for Bush in the ninth. Score by innings:

Totals :. ............54 8 24 F 57
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
The Glass That Cheers

ON A WARM DAY IS A GLASS OF OUR REFRESH ING AND DELICIOUS SODA WATER. OUR ICE CREAM SODA IS FOOD, DRINK AND MEDICINE ON A WARM DAY. AND OUR DAINTY FRUIT FLAVoRS, PHoSPHATES AND ICES ARE NOT ONLY PALATE TICKLERS BUT ARE IN VIGoRATERS THAT TONE THE STOMACH AND RE- DUCE THE TEMPERA- TURF.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08

It will be seen that the ordinance diff fers quite materially from the existing franchise Of. the company for the SUD- ply of gas.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
What a Reaver Did.

Mr.. A. D. Bartlett, son of the lats
superintendent of the London zoo, has
an interesting story Of a captive Can
adian beaver. A large willow tree in
the gardens had blown down. A branch
about twelve feet long and thirty
inches in Circumference was firmly
fixed in the ground in the beavers in
clasUre. Then the beaver was watched
10 see what he would do. The beaver
soon visited the spot, and walking
around the limb. commenced to bite
off the bark and gnaw the wood about
twelve inches from the ground. He
seemed to put his whole strength into
his task, although he left off every few
minutes to rest and look upward, as if
to determine which way the tree would
fall. Now and then he went to his
Nyad. which was about three feet from
the base Of the tree. Then he would
come out again with renewed energy.
and his powerful teeth would set to
work anew upon the branch. About
4 o'clock, to the surprise of those who
saw him, he left his work and came
llslollly Io"dlu Inc non ltltG. L ne
cause of this sudden movement was
soon apparent. He had heard in the
distance the sound of the wheelbarrow,
which was brought daily to his pad
dock, and from which he was anxiously
expecting his supper
The keeper, not wishing to disap-
point the beaver, although sorry to see
his task interrupted, gave him his
usual allowance of carrots and bread
The beaver ate it and was seen swim
ming around the pool until about half
past 5. Then he returned to his work.
In ten minutes the tree fell to the
ground. Afterward the beaver cut the
log into three convenient lengths, one
of which he used in the under part OF
his house.-Youths' Companion.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

part of the United States. Mr.. Hoshi,
the proprietor, is Japanese of the
most advanced school. He is an ar
dent believer in Japan much more
modern and newer even than the new
Japan of Count Ito and the present
mikado. Among other reform move
ments he is enlisted in the cause of
is laboring for the substitution by this
Japanese of the Roman letters for the
different kinds of kama" or native
characters, and the Chinese signs. He
wants the Japanese to spell out their
words instead of drawing convention
allied picture of ideas. Mr.. Hoshi ex-
poets to adopt Roman type entirely in
his paper after May, 1901, and will
abandon the use of kama and Chinese
signs. He completes his course in Col
umbia this session, and will spend at
least two years in newspaper work
here before resuming in Europe his
travels and studies; and he is desir-
GUS of promoting the adoption of the
Romaji by using it in his paper and by
distributing the latter as broadly as
possible among the Japanese in this
country and in Japan.
EIe thinks that nearly all of his coun-
trymen in the United States and Can
ada can easily read the Romaii, and
that there are at present at least 100
600 persons in Japan who understand
it fully and nearly million more who
understand it in part Among these
more than million of japanese the
Romaji Kwai expects to transform the
inart1stic, illegible script of the Japan
ese into the neat and clear Roman type
now used by the great body of civilized
peoples. But Mr.. Hoshi has anothe"
idea, worthy of a true reformer Of
language. He thinks that the use of
tha Roman type for the japanese may
lead to still more extensive borrowings
of English words, and that, ultimately.
the yankees of the east" and the
Yankees of the west, together with the
British Canadians. Australians and
South Africans. will speak the same
anguage-English, the true lingua
franca of the future.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

church's existence have passed-1t was
erected soon after 16S0-when. in 1897,
these records began to be punctually
kept by Dirck Storm, the parish clerk.
Master Storm was one of the earliest
of American scholars. He came from
Holland to the New Amsterdam set
Elements in 1862, and was one of the
first schoolmasters who taught the
young Dutch idea to shoot in the then
new town of Brooklyn. He was. more
over, town secretary, which was, pre-
sumably, an office something like that
of recorder. Later on he became clerk
of sessions of Orange and clerk OF
Sleepy Hollow. The parish register
had in his day the benefit of schol-
ar's hand for it's keeping; later on the
clerks of Sleepy Hollow were less
clerkly, and the spelling of family
names suffered frightful mutilations in
consequence. Further transmogrlh-
cation of 4Jutch names through Eng
lish spelling followed when English
superseded Dutch as the written Ian
guage of the Pocantico regions.
The parish clerk and his antiquar-
ian brethren have acquired an aston
ishing power of detecting old Holland
names under English disguises by fire.
quent dealings with such records as
these. 1t would be interesting to dis
cover a few Van Wrinkles and such
names by the aid of these experienced
name detectives in the Sleepy Hollow
register, but unfortunately for lovers
of romance and of Washington lry-
ing the only name Of the Rip connec-
tion that occurs is Van Tassel.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
New York's Japanese Paper.

Japanese who reside in this city, says
the New York Sun, may now read the
news of the week in paper published
here in their own language, for the
Japanese American Weekly News has
made its modest appearance in the
newspaper world. At the head of the
first page, which would be the last in
an American paper, the name is given
ia English and in Chinese characters.
In The latter, the sign for the sun rep
rssents Japanese" and the sign for
rice does duty for American" The
japanese do not pretend to suppose
tAat America is the original source of
r'pe, as they fancy Japan is the land
n the rising sun, but. as me" the
most prominent syllable in America"
is also the first syllable in "meshi,"
rice, the sign for rice has been adopt
ed to represent the name of this coun-
try. The paper has four small pages,
which are Autographed from hand
written copy, as is the case still with
many papers and periodicals in Japan.
This is a very tedious and cumbersome
process, but the enterprise could not
support the considerable expense of
bringing from Tokyo the fonts Of type
for the Japanese and Chinese charac
ters. The columns are, as usual. lib
orally strewn with Chinese signs, still
dear to the Japanese, as knowledge
OF these ideographs is regarded as a
oredential of education. 1t is a sort
OF intellectual game, in which the ideas
are represented by Chinese picture
signs, but are read in Japanese equi-
valents. Hajima Hoshi, whose name
in Chinese and Japanese means "Star-
Origin" is the proprietor, and the edi-
tor and publisher is Masatoshi Fuku-
toni of 212 West Sixty seventh street
Mr.. Hoshi is in his last year at Col
umbia university, where he is studying
political economy and the science of
government and law. The entire paper
news articles, market reports, edi-
torials, advertisements and plain or
ornate types the work of the "fude," :"
or brush, of Mr.. Fukutomi, who writes
or copies everything He has had to
try his hand ut drawing barber signs,
glasses of beer and the American flag
for the advertisements. There are some
800 Japanese in this city to read the
paper. and from 5000 to 5000 in this
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
Our Neglected Feet.

What is the matter with Americans
feet? This question was asked last
week at the Brooklyn navy yard by
Capt. Casper f. Ficke, a veteran OF
the German army, now visiting this
country. 5"Do you know" continued
the captain, Il think l counted a dozen
signs in various sorts of foot doctors
in three blocks as l was riding on the
Sixth avenue elevated road yesterday,
ana l have noticed the same condition
on other streets. The chiropodists OF
yolr city must live, and it must mean
frequently see men. and much more
often women, who apparently walk
with great difficulty, and would be abb
soiutely unable to take a continuous
walk of half dozen miles There is
no good reason for this, and it simply
There is one place you can find good
feet, and that is in the German army.
I Know all about it, and if it was fol-
lowed as model we would not hear SO
much about corns, bunions, sore and
tired feet and all that sort of thing.
In our army every private must bathe
his feet once a day and grease them
thoroughly, rubbing the ointment well
into the flesh and massaging the soles
to keep them soft and flexible. Every
army man knows the Importance of
good feet, and if civilians would fol-
low that example you would not see
the sort of pedestrianism that is ex-
Il on cfr bo
as important as the hair or teeth, ana
yet they do not receive one hundredth
part Of the care. This is all wrong,
and humanity has to suffer in conse-
quence Of it."-New York Herald.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
sensation of a Severe Shock.

The sensation of an ordinary severe
shock of electricity is familiar to the
majority of people and is not especially
peculiar, but a Knockout dose of the
current is something entirely differ
EFT. l was splicing connection in a
pcwer-house and mistook an arc-light
feeder, which had sagged down, for a
dead wire. l had pair of pliers in
my left hand, and attempted to push
| remember perfectly. Then all of a
sudden 1 had a most extraordinary SEN
sation. I felt as if my blood were ex-
panding and swelling every vein in
my body to the last pitch of tension.
The great arteries in my neck seemed
to stretch until they were as big
around as ship cables, and were suffo-
eating me with their pressure; and |
had the same bursting feeling in my
eyeballs, my nostrils and even in the
roots of my hair. All this came over
me with terrific swiftness, but it was
nothing like stroke of lightning or
the twinkling of an eye. On the con-
trary, several seconds seemed to elapse,
and the feeling was so entirely different
from what 1 had always imagined it
would be. that it never entered my
mind that l had been shocked by
high power current. Then, as nearly
as l can describe it, my overstrained
tissues appeared to give way, some
thing exploded in my brain like hun
dred-ton gun, and everything became
black. Almost Immediately, it seemed,
I opened my eyes and found myself
on the floor, fully conscious, but very
weak AS a matter of fact, I had been
hurled dozen feet. What | imagined
had consumed at least a tenth Of a
second had possibly occupied a thou
sandth part of a second, and l had
been unconscious fully two hours. My
experience simply shows that we have
often observed in dreams, that under
abnormal conditions the brain loses all
conception of time. l am pretty posi-
tive, from questioning a number of
people, that everybody who survives a
shock from a current over a certain
voltage has an experience very similar
to my own.-Times-De Democrat
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
British Paternalism.

That the British empire looks after
its children the world over is well il
lustrated by the fact that the crown
agents for the colonies are inviting
tenders for the supply of four sailing
ships, or three steamers, to carry In
dian emigrants from Calcutta to Fiji.
1t is the annual trip of coolies to the
Fiji colony, there to work in the plan
tations. The paternal Indian govern
ment takes complete charge of the af-
fair. The coolies are recruited up
country, brought to Calcutta and
placed in charge of the officer of emf
grants for a fortnight or so, in order
that weaklings and those developing
disease may be weeded out Then
they are shipped to Fiji or Demerara
or other West Indian colonies in gov
ernment controlled ships and indented
to the planters for five years, the gov
ernment fixing the rate of wages, the
hours of labor and the conditions of
life.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

The government is hereafter 10 par
tally furnish the quarters Of British
army officers. The amount OF furni-
ture that will be given is not yet spec
flied, but it will include at least the
bed, a chest of drawers, washstand and
bath. This saving in hired or other
transport at every regimental move
will, it is calculated, soon show as a
see-off or reduction of the initial out
lay. Here is a hint for our war de-
partment. Perhaps some officer good
at figures will help the suggestion by
estimating the cost of providing fur
niture for quarters and how much
would be required annually 70 pay tha
interest on this sum and provide a
sinking fund for it's ultimate extin-
gulshment.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
A Stage Con tretem ps.

H. Cooper Cliffe, now playing in
London in "The Price of Peace" tells
an amusing story of his first perform
ance of the spider at the Globe in Lon
don. In the last act of "The Silver
King" the Spider locks case of jewels
of enormous value in an iron safe.
Mr.. Cliffe did some elaborate business
with the key and the safe and turned
to the house to give full weight to his
lines: Securely locked. The jewels
are safe" There was a roar of laugh
ter. He spun around and perceived
that the locked doors were wide open
again, giving the audience full view
through the back of the safe, of a
limelight and the legs of stage car
penter.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

Ihe Missouri Dairy Association
heard some interesting testimony
about the influence OF music on kick
ing COWS. One man had an animal SO
vicious that she always had to be tied
into the stall at milking time. His
two boys noticed that whenever they
began to sing at their work, the COW
became quiet. Now, instead of tying
her, whoever is milking merely strikes
u9 Annie Rooney" or "My Old Ken
tucky Home" and the COW stands per
fectly still. Another delegate said
that in Switzerland farm workers who
have good voices get better pay be-
cause they can milk the widest and
most restless cows The sense OF the
meeting" however, was expressed by
4 farmer, who said: ''It may be all
right to sing to kicking COW, but
want to keep my eye on her feet. she
might take a notion to dance to ths
music"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
WHAT is 0VARITIS?

A dull, throbbing pain, accompans
by a sense of tenderness and heat lo'
down in the side. with an occasion
shooting pain, indicates infiammatol
On examination it will be found tn1
the region of pain shows some sweh
ing. This is the first stage OF ovarlti
inflammation of the ovary. II the roq
of your house leaks, my sister, youha'
it fixed at once why not pay the sam
respect to your own body? j
You need not, you ought not 70
yourself go, when one of your own =
holds out the helping hand to you a1
will advise you without money, y
without price. Write to Mrs, PlnRna1
Lynn, Mass, and tell her all your
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
A Well Known Man in Town.


There is a man in our town,
Whom his neighbors view VIII
doubt.
Whene'er he says he's going in
They know he's coming out.
II he should say 1T looks like rain
They know the sun will shine;
And when he speaks of oaken wood
They know that it is pine.
II he asserts that black is black,
They know quite well it's white,
And when he says the sun is up
They'll swear that it is night.
If he should don a bathing suit
They know, as sure as fate,
That he intends to pass The time
By going out to skate.
When he declares that he will eat
'Tis certain he will drink.
And every time he tells tale
They hear it with a wink.
HIS name is Annanias Fibbs;
He wears the liars crown
He used to send the cablegrams
That came from Shanghai town.
Baltimore American.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

According to the Norwich press, &
syndicate has been formed for q
floating Monte Carlo, to be moored off
Che English coast somewhere just be-
yond the three-mile limit. Negotia
tons are pending for an obsolete At
lantic liner, which would be turned
into miniature casino, at a total cost
including the first outlay for the hulk
Df 950000. The idea is to provide a
haunt for gamblers within easy reach
of London, but beyond the reach of the
betting laws of the realm, and, of
course, capital for running the tables
would have to be provided to the ad-
ditional tune of some hundred thou
sand pounds. 1t is understood that
the Brighton coast is thought Of.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
New Years In the East.

Nowhere is New Years day more
festively observed than in the east,
and especially in Mohammedan lands.
In Persia, the No Rooz, Gas the new
year is called) is by far the most i'm
portant holiday observed by the sub
jects of the shah. On New Years eve
the fun begins with the kindling OF
huge bonfires, and among the more ac-
tive it is considered the correct thing
to leap over or through the flames.
The Persian is careful to perform his
fire dance in old garments, for on New
Years day every one who has the
means is bound by the strictest custom
to appear in new clothes.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22

1t is contended by lne organ Of the
German general staff that the rapid
and decisive manner in which cam
paigns are now carried out will not
allow time for mining. A fortress
will, it is affirmed, be captured by
mbardment or open attack or in
most cases by combination of the
two methods. The training of engin
eers in the German army in mining
work has been abandoned, while the
cumbrous material required for sub
terranean warfare will no longer form
part of the equipment of their forces.
In Austria, it is further stated, the
same views on the matter are held
and the same steps toward carrying
them into practice have been taken.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-22
5 AVED A LIFE.
Inflated Flour Sack Kept Man from
Drowning.


Drowning.
A common flour sack and the use of
his wits saved Chris Hansen, a market
hunter, from death by drowning in
the bay off Sausalito, Cal. 1t has been
his practice to spend the early NOM
ing hours shooting on the bay near
this place. This morning, while re-
turning in a skiff from the hunting
grounds, Hansen in some manner
caused his shotgun, which was lying
in the bottom of the boat, to explode.
The barrel being pointed downward
the man received no injury, but the
full contents of the weapon passed
through the vessel tearing a Jagged
hole in its bottom. In a few minutes
the boat commenced to settle and Han
sens most desperate efforts failed to
stop the influx of water. In despair
he grasped the oars and snatching
flour sack used for carrying his game
commenced to tie them together as a
float to assist him ashore Quickly fin
ishing this work, he jumped into the
water, deserting the boat, which sank
a moment later. Hansen could swim
but little and found the oars an alto
gether inadequate support. His strug-
giles to keep afoat were rapidly ex-
hausting him and at a critical moment
the knot holding the oars together be-
came united and they separated. The
hunter was in despair, when he no.
ticed that portion of the sack used
in tying the oars had become filled
with air. A moment later he had
snatched it up and was holding its
open end toward the breeze, where it
filed with wind. Closing the end
with his hand, Hansen used the i'm
provised life preserver to assist in
bearing him up and easily remained
on the surface of the water The tide
and use Of his legs gradually propelled
him toward the shore and fifteen min
utes later the drifting man was on
dry land.-St. Louis Chronicle.