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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26
Students at Harvard or Kien.

Prince kropotkin in The North Amerl-
 can Review.
 During my stay last month at Cam bridge, the Harvard students held noisy meeting to protest against the mutton monotony" of their food at Memorial Hall In a similar way, but with a more serious purpose, the Kieff students, excited by the fact that one of them had been brought before the Justice of the Peace for misconduct in the streets of that city, also held meeting. At Harvard the meeting ended in fun, but at Kieff the Dean of the University excluded number of students from the university for one year for having held that meeting, and put others under arrest. What would you do in such a case?" I asked several Harvard men, and the reply always was: Why, of course, hold another meeting!" This is what the kieff stu dents did. They held another general meeting and asked the Dean to have d talk with them. Whereupon the Dean sent for the town police, the State police and the troops. Incredible though this may seem. it actually hap pened It is confirmed not only by scores of private letters, but also by an official statement, published in The Of ficial Messenger. The meeting was illegal. and the Dean sent for troops to dispcrse it." The most intelligent of all those who were summoned by the Dean proved to be the head of the Kien State Police, the Gendarme Gen eraI Novitsky. 1 knew him: he ex- amined me while l was kept in the St. Petersburg fortress. He is intelli- gent, and my opinion of him was that, like so many others. he is better man than the institution he belongs to. General Novitsky seeing that the meet ing was quite peaceful brought in the Dean, who was immediately offered an armchair by the side of the chairman, and was treated very politely by the students. But the meeting ended in nothing-the Dean refusing to revise his orders. Was not the meeting up- roarious? Was it not poiitical?' l was asked by my American friends. No, the facts were as l state them; The Official Messenger itself has con firmed them" Was, then. the Dean a madman, or fool?" No, he was neither of these" And there lies the cue to all the students disturbances of the last forty years.
 It's a short alley that has no ash barrel
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

sume the management of the interests of his parent. The illness of Mir. Aber- crombie, Senior, continued and MT. Abercrombie, Junior, conducted the farm with much success. He hal his two sisters educated in Baltimore and became virtually the head of the Aber- crombie household.
 Tn 1882 MT. Abercrombie, at the re- quest of MT. Cecil Gabbett. who was then President and General Manager of the Western Railroad, of Alabama. came to Montgomery and accepted the position of Assistant Roadmaster or that company He served in this ca pacity about one year and resigned to embark in the coal business in Mont gomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26
A Lawyers Story.

am certain that the following anec- dote told by my old colaborer in the Missouri legislature, the Hon. c. c. Fo- gle. will be relished by my brethren of the bar. Fogle says:
 "One of the most original lawyers l ever met in my life was Sam Dysart. Sam was boSn humorist and could have made his fortune in the lecture field. When he lived up our way, he was engaged on one occasion to defend a lot of boys and girls charged with disturbing a religious assembly out in the country, by laughing and giggling is the way the information read. The case was tried before Squire A. C.. Bailey. a good old man who has long since zone to his final reward. Like all cases of the sort, it atu tcted an i'm mense crowd from the VI Inity of the alleged outrage. T. c. Paddock prose- cuted. and he was instructed by the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

other matters while continuing to man. age his increasing coal trade. He be- came interested in an electric plant which was organized as the Ball Light and Power Company. This plant was primarily for the purpose of providing commercial lighting, but sixty lights were furnished to the city. Mir. Aber- crombie conceived the idea of enlarging the scope of this company and turned his attention to securing more capital
 MT. w. F. Vandiver became interest ed with MT. Abercrombie and the elec- tric company was merged into the Mu- tual Light and Power Company, of which Mir Abercrombie was Secretary and Treasurer. This company later consolidated it's interests with the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

sociation, and Is an active spirit in the movement to build a fne hotfi in Montgomery. MT. and Mrs. Abercrombie are prominent in Mont gomery society. They have three in- teiesting childreL-two girls and boy. and live in one of the handsoniest homes in the most fashicuable quarter of the city-419 South Perry Street.
 Mir. Abercrombie served six terms as President of the Joie de Vie Club. one of the leading social organizations of Montgomery. He is an amiable gen. tleman, who has a large circle of friends. who admire him for his many good qualities as well as for his inde- fatigable labors in the interest of the community in which he lives. .,t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

Bessie Eastburn; Joseph A. Fitts and Miss Mary E. Busby; B. w. Robinson and Miss Mary Collins.
 In Montgomery. H. M. Aired of Mis- sIssippi and Miss Annie Langford; w. l.. Dick and Miss Willie E. Lee. both of Pine Level.
 In Morgan County, l.. B. Keller and Miss Fannie Shaw.
 In Troy, Hon. J. M. Carmichael and Miss Viola Johnson.
 In Shelby County, Ollie Seals and Miss Lula Bentley
 In Talladega, Frank Randall and Miss Bettie Shouse.
 In Tuscaloosa County, James Strong and Miss Ada Baker.
 In Walker County, Thomas Blair and Miss Florence Brown.
 In Mississippi, J. J. Sturdivant of Wilcox and Miss Sallie Lou Evans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26
ONE OF MONTGOMERY'S LIVE BUSINESS MEN:
 C.G. ABERCROMBIE, A SUCCESSFUL ALABAMIAN.

MT. Abercrombia organized a coal business under the firm name of Cham bers & Abercrombie. This firm was dissolved in 1884 and MT. Abercrombie succeeded to the business. He after wards incorporated the business as the Abercrombie Coal Company, which con- cern he successfully managed for sev- eral years.
 In the meantime, MT. Abercrombie had developed unusual business sa- gacity, and he turned his attention to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

There Is no more thoroughly repre- sentative citizen of Montgomery than MT. c. G. Abercrombie, President of the Montgomery Brewery. He is the typical successful young business man of the Capital City and his name is connected with every successful pub lie movement.
 Charles Gordon Abercrombie is 43 years old. He was born June 14, 1857, on the Chattanoockee River. in Rus
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

Montgomery Light Company and the consolidated company was changed to the Montgomery Light and Power Company. MT. Abercrombie is member of the Broard of Directors of this company. He continued In the coal business during this time. and in 1899 the Abercrombie Coal Company and the Montgomery Brew cry consolidated interests and MT.
 Abercrembie became President or the business organization. which po- sition he has held continuously since
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

Bird Dealer-What do you mean by re- turning that parrot after keeping him for four months? What's the matter with, him? .'9-8E Customer-W-w-well. the b-b-b-bIamed She-Then you've been to speak to papa? He-Yes; that's where I've been.
 Papa always puts his best foot fore most"
 "So I discovered -. .@. .s,.
 "Then l take it you got the best o9 papa" s ''Yes; in a y."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

success and devol- opment has been due to his careful and prudent man. agement.
 MT. Abercrombie, since he removed to Montgomery, has also been connected with several other
 successful enter prises. among which
 was the Alabama Construction Com pany. of which he was President. He has also been close ly connected with the material devel- opment of Mont- gomery, and served two terms-1S9S-99 and 1S99-190 O. as President of the Commercial and In- dustrial Associa- tion, Montgomery's s live business organ ization. It was during his adminis- tration that the As- sociation conceived the idea of building au Auditorium in this city, and MT. Abercrombie was one of the moving spirits in the exc cution of the plan. The city also &C., quired control of Oak Park during his admlnistratinn of the affairs of the Association. He Is at present chair man of the Com mittee on Trans portation of the As-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

eA SSdAieys <Ald- bama, five miles from Columbus, Ga.
 His ancestors were pure Scotch, al- though his grand parents were na- tives of Georgia. His paternal grand father. General An derson Abercrom- bic, was a courage ous officer in the war of 1872, and a native of Hancock County, Georgia. His m a t n a l grandfather. Hon. Charles r. Gordon, for whom MT. Aber- crombie was nam ed, was also a dis tinguished citizen of Georgia.
 The father of MT. Abercrombie was a successful planter in Russell County, Alabama. and MT. Abercrombie spent his youth on the farm of his child hood. His educa- tion was secured under the tutorship of Professor Isham of Columbus, Ga. who was regarded as the foremost ed ucator of Georgia in his time.
 Ara n g c ments were made to send MT. Abercrombie to college in Oxford when the health of his father became impaired, and the young man found
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

'IFs easy to be great novelist now- adays. The last work IS always the best"
 Yes. it used to be that authors died, and their works lived Now the authors live and the works e."-Life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

It may require practice to make per- feet in some; cases. but the first time 8 1t just as gracefully as though he had practiced for montba.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

It's a short alley that has no ash barrel
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
N GbosfIy Dispatch.

A CHASTITY dispatch is that from Ber-
lin about the interesting target prac-
ltice" going on at the imperial military
grounds, where the experts are test
ing the capacity of the latest Mauser
model. AS targets, says the dispatch,
Several hundreds of pauper corpses
lare being used" and it goes on to
describe the frightful effect of the
bullets upon the bodies. If the CORE
lspondent had taken the trouble to in
form us how many hundreds of pau
lper corpses'' constitute the daily sup
iply of Berlin and vicinity, he would
have added little to the veri-simili-
tude of this extraordinary tale. That
such an experiment might be made
upon one OF more dead bodies is con-
ceivable and would be a proper means
of ascertaining the actual effect of the
bullets. But the several hundreds
carries the tale into the region of the
grotesque. 1t may be suggested, how
ever, that the German military author
titles would not hesitate to carry ex-
periments of this kind to any extent
possible. The way in which the Ger
man troops in China are described as
shooting Mauser bullets into living
bodies does not indicate any super.
fiuous tenderness, whether or not
live Chinaman be considered the equiv
alent of dead German for expert
mental purposes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
Fools Gold.
BY MRS MOSES P. HANDY.

(c2pyrighted, 1900, Daily Story Pub. COZ
II was the last grand hop of the sea-
sDn. Tomorrow the band wouia
leave, and thereafter, for the two weeks
before the final closing of the hotel' tne
remaining guests would dance IN the
parlors, to the sound of the piano anu
one violin. Lucy Aston found herseil
feeling melancholy, and somewhat SEN
timental. 1t had been happy summer,
the happiest of her life. She was wen
aware that much Of her JOY was due
to the society of Horace Polndexter
who was, to her mind, the most charm
ing man she had ever met. Her expert
ence of charming men, however, was
small. Mrs. Poindexter took one Oh
her nieces away with her every sum-
mer, and this year the lot had tallen
to Lucy. Mr.. Sturdivant came down 10
the Beach every Saturday, to stay over
Sunday, and from the first he had
singled her out as the especial object
of his attentions. More than one per-
son had warned her, more or less good
naturally, as people WILL that sucn
attentions on his part were rarely Sc
rious. Her aunt, especially, had eau
toned her. Horace Sturdivant thinks
himself a pauper," Mrs. PoindexteI
had said. "He has about $4,000
year, which to a man of his tastes
spells poverty. And every one know;
that he will never marry any woman
that is not an heiress."
Five thousand dollars year seemed
wealth to Lucy. She failed to attacf
due Importance to her aunt's counsel
Mr.. Sturdivant was assiduous in his
courtesies; he waltzed delightfully."- ant
had "a tongue which might vile thu
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
Without q Country.

George W. Smalley, the New YorA
correspondent of the London Times,
writes in a sneering vein to that paper
upon the American governments atti-
tude toward China. Mr.. Sm kley is an
American by birth, who during long
residence in England developed an
affection for English institutions and
ideas. He contrived, nevertheless, to
make himself so unpopular with Eng
lishmen-who have a way of dislik-ng
men who abuse and belittle their own
country-that London became uncom-
Portable as place of abode. So he
came to New York and began publish
ing his libels en- the United States by
cable. Ridiculed in his former home
and despised in the country of his
birth, Smalley is rather to be pitied.
He is now man without country.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

According to Camille Flammarion.
a well-known authority, what are call
ed shooting stars" are small bodies.
weighing at most few pounds, and
consisting mainly of iron and carbon.
They traverse space in swarms and
also revolve around the sun in long
elliptical courses like comets. When
these little bodies enter the SUMS orbit
they are DETECTED toward the earth and
great numbers of them are seen in a
single night. Their brightness is due
to the heat engendered by the energy
of their motion. Their speed is enor-
nous, Az kilometers a second. while
the speed of the earth on its orbit is
only kilometers a second. Conse-
quently when shower of them ap-
proaches the earth in the direction op-
posite to its course. the initial speed
is " kilometers a second; when they
follow on its course they gain 1874
kiloDieters a second on it. Their
mean rate of approach is between 80
and 40 kilometers a second. The frfc-
ton engenders temperature of 5000
degrees, Celsius, subject to which they
burst into flame.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

Marcus Daily and Henry Willard DO
tn died on the same day. These two
men, whose careers had such a simil
arity. passed away within few miles
of each other. and almost at the sam
time. Both were born abroad, COM
ing to this country while still boys,
and both won fame and wealth In the
great Northwest, which they did mu
CHI to develop. Both were millionaires
at the time of their death. Willard, no
ted as newspaper man, railroad
builder, and financier, was born in &c
rmany, and ran away from home at
an early age, coming to Illinois, whe
re his first work was done as news
paper reporter and correspondent. II
is career is briefly stated as follows;
Reported the Lincoln-Douglas debate
s. Reported the first Lincoln cam
paign. War correspondent, the civil
war. Foreign correspondent of Amer
lean newspapers. In 1861 owned New
York Evening Post and Nation. In
1876 president Oregon Steamship &C
mpany. Receiver of Kansas Pacific
Railroad Company. Completed in Is
SO the Northern Pacific Railroad
| President Northern Pacific Railroad {
ompany. President Edison Genera
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
irvine Made In Peultentiaries.

Minnesota's binding-twine plant, es-
tablished in the state penitentiary, is
as much a success as the like institu-
ton in Kansas. BY this means the
problem of convict labor has been
solved in these two states to the salts
faction of about everyone concerned,
including the labor unions. Members
of the latter are gratified, as we'll as
satisfied, as penitentiary-maue Irvine
is direct slap at a trust. The farm
ers, too, are happy, as they get their
binding Irvine at from to 5 cents less
a pound than is charged for the prod
uct of the trust. The only complaint
in each state is that the penitentiary
plants are not large enough to supply
the demand.-New York Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
Metz FORKS Divoree Mil

How divorces can be obtained,
without publicity" has been shown
In New York by the arrest of the en-
tire outfit of well-organized divorce
mill. The manager is lawyer, who
undertakes to secure the divorce. He
furnishes the lawyer for the opposing
side and also the correspondent, or
whichever sex is required. He puts In
the bill, the other lawyer files the an
swer, the case goes to a referee and
the false witnesses give conclusive
Testimony of the infdelity of the re-
spondent. The referee reports accord
ingly and the divorce is granted, with
out the second party in interest know
ing anything about 1t. The exposure
of this divorce mill came about
through somebody who identified the
fair-corespondent as having occupied
the same relation in three several
cases. When arrested, she confessed
and the whole gang will probably &C
| to hi'. 1t is a pity that some'of theii
clients might not be included in the
| haul
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

erected there May 10, 1891. by Chi
cago newspaper.
The center of population Is the CEN
ter of gravity of the population of the
country each individual being assumed
to have the same weight. The method
of determining that center is as fol-
lows: The population of the country
is first distributed by square de-
grees," as the area included between
consecutive parallels and meridians is
designated A point is then assumed
tentatively as the center, and the cor
lrections in latitude and longitude to
this tentative position are computed.
In 1890 the center was assumed to be
at the intersection of the parallel of 80
degrees, with the meridian of sc de-
grees west of Greenwich. This would
have made the center of population of
the United States just two miles due
north of Seymour, in Jackson county,
Ind. From this assumed base the veri-
fications were made and the true CEN
ter was located.
The movement of the center has
been steadily westward. On the ac-
companying map its unwavering
march toward the west, with OCCASION
al dips to the south and the north, is
shown. In 1890 1t was east Of Balti-
more twenty miles. In ten years it
had moved forty miles westward. The
annexation of Louisiana brought ii
south and west, and in 1920 it was
sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
when the Roosevelt train pulled out

When the Roosevelt train pulled out
OF Greeley, Col, woman climbed on
the back platform in order to give a
homemade cake to the governor. The
train gained such momentum that
when the time came for her to get
off she was obbliged to make flying
frapeze leap for terra firma. She rolled
over a few times in the sand, got up
and smiled at Roosevelt as he stood
worried for her safety on the back
platform. Then she waved her hand
kerchief in evident delight. and be-
came the envy OF hundred women
who had watched her acrobatic eff
fort.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

A firm in Lyons, France, takes adj
vantage of the shortening of cotton
fibers under nonmercerlzed treatment
by caustic potash to produce in silk
webs certain peculiar and very rich
embossed effects. The silken webs
have cotton threads at fixed distances,
which, when the chemical solution is
applied, shrink, while the silk, keep
ing its original length, is gathered in
tiny folds. In this way the most di-
versified patterns are produced.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

Electric Company. Chairman in 1889
of the Northern Pacific directory.
Daily was native of Ireland, came t
the United States at the age of IS
years, settling in California. His first
work was at digging potatoes, and for
years he earned his living as a day |
aborer. When he died his holdings
were as follows: Capital represented
by him, $10O,OOO,00O His personal
wealth, $22,0OOo0O Copper interests
represented, s75,OOO,OOO First price
paid for his copper mine, $4,000. Hi
annual wage roll paid, $4,000, 0OO
His horses cost s1,000,000. His work
of art cost 100000. His private
car cost $4,000. His hotel cost $500
600. His personal living cost per an.
mum, $4,000. His annual income was
approximately s2,5o0,O 900.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

Two of the old cannon which the
English took from the French in 1745
and threw into the harbor of Louis
bourg have been brought to Toronto.
They are among number recently
fished out of Louisbourg harbor and
have been purchased by the govern
ment. The cannon have been lying
at the bottom OF the sea for 150 years
Esch cannon is about nine feet long
and weighs over 1900 pounds.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
Nesus from PearY.

The arrival of Dr. Kahn, who has
Leeu leading party of scientific ex-
plorers in the Arctic regions, brings
news of Lieutenant Pearys expedi-
ton later than any other, pointing TO
the belief that his summers work has
been only moderately successful. This
is shown by the fact that he is prob
ably winter4ng at Fort Conger, where
he would scarcely be If he had at
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

New Zealand seems to be prosperous.
The revenue for the year shows rec
ord surplus equal to more than $3,00e,-
600 over expenditure. The public debt
of the colony stands at e47,0O0. 900
fs22S,715,000) and the financial state
ment proposes that parliament should
authorize another &1,000,000 ga 1885,
o00) loan to be expended chiefly in the
extension of railways The loan will
NO doubt be authorized.