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New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
MISS STONE STILL ALIVE.

A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT wASHBURNE
OF ROBERT COLLEGE
In view Of the alarming reports from Turkey
about the death of Miss Stone, the American
missionary, THE Christian Herald cabled a
message of inquiry to President Washburne of
Robert College. Constantinople. The following
answer received by cable, shows that the
ports that Miss Stone had been murdered by the
brigands are unfounded:
Bebek November 30.
.f'hristian Herald Bible House. New-York:
Stone negotiations suspended. No immediate
prospects of release. Satisfactory evidence she
has been well treated WASHBURNE-
Bebek is on the Bosporus, short distance
from the Turkish capital
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
RIUOR OF BANK FORGERIES.
REPORTED ARREST IN PARIS OF A REPRE-
SENTATIVE OF AMERICAN COM
PANIES DENIED.

Paris Nov 30-Inquiry at detective head
quarters and at the Ministry of the Interior
elicits the response that nothing is known there
riding the reported arrest of a representa-
tive in 7 london and Paris of numerous American
companies or of any other person on the charge
of completely in extensive forgeries on the Lon
don and Westminster Bank
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
SHOT HIMSELF AFTER QU4RREL

West Point n. Y. Nov. 30.-Chef Musician Will
son. of the cavalry detachment here. shot himself
last night One bullet entered the body just be-
the heart, and the other penetrated the skull
He may die Wilson shot himself in the presence
of his sweetheart with whom he had quarrelled
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
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-,-.--,-I, II,Irrn TO CALIFORNIA.

CrrNsEvr LIMITED TO CALIFORNIA
s;peciaI Sunset Limited Annex CompaTtn tnent anu
SIeeninr cars New York for New orleans via
psrpa r n Southern Rwy.. A 4 w. r. w. OF
4 and L. & N r. r.. Tuesdays Thursdays s ana
SasI1riavs New Orleans with sun
ser limited New York Offices 2l and LIS Broad
way.-Advt.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS. VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.

Reached direct from St. Louis in twelve hours
by the new fast train leaving ST. Louis p NJ ;
arriving Hot Springs A N. for breakfast t.le-
CANT new euupment. Take rest and recreatlon
at the Worlds most famous Health and Pleasure
Resort For Pamphlets write w E Hoyt, e. l.
p Agt 3sI Broadway, New-York.-AdYt-
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01

NEW SLEEPING CAR LINE NEW IORk-
SIruNERVIILE AND CHARLESTON, S. C.
Via Penns r. r. and Southern Rwy- Leaves New
York daily 325 P. NJ, arrives Charleston In0"is e
afternoon 3:e5 P NJ Dining Cars. Popular Route
to The Exposition. New York Offices "a and iIs0
Broadway.-Adyt
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
PENALTY FOR SELLING A MADONNA.
ITALY ASKED TO SEIZE PAINTING SOLD TO Al
AMERICAN FOR 10000 FRANCS.

Rome Nov 30-Francias Madonna having
been sold to an American for $4,000 francs, the
Procurer General has brought an action in the
courts demanding that the Marquis Fangonie
and the agent who arranged the sale be con-
demned to pay a joint fine Of 10,OOo francs, and
that the picture be seized by the State
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
wINrER IN THE SOUTH.

WINTER IN THE SOJIt
The Seaboard Air Line Railway. with Its fast
schedules and unsurpassed train service olsrs touI-
lists a most delightful trip to P1neharst, southern
Pines Camden. Savannah and all fiorica ssSo.ts-
Write descriptive matter Omces ssd q i'isS q -
-Adyt
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01

SPECIAL SLEEPING CARS TO PINEHURSI
N c.. via Southern Rwy. Mondays. Wednesdays
and Fridays New York Offices III and 1,lso
Broadway.-Advt
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01
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FLORIDA & THE SOUTH

soothern Rwy.. foremost in point or superior
speed. sumptuous equipment and SURPRISING ser
- its irSovations begin where others leave OK
1ork Z eHces 2s1 and Is5 Broadway--AoVt
New-York tribune., 1901-12-01

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
THE MoNTGOMERY ADvERTIsEM

much money to educational purposes as can be spared. but when this Is done education will not be universal under present conditions. Either school at- tendance must be made compulsory or there must be such a premium put on education and such ban put on illit- eracy that all the children will attend school at some period of their child hood. We must make education so de- sirable that all win strive for it. and we must make illiteracy so discredit- able that no parent will allow his child to grow up in ignorance. But for Heavens sake stop heralding to the world that Alabamians are ignorant for lack of schools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
MEETING OF CABINET.
New Postal Regulations Will Be
 Issued by Smith.

Washington. July 5.-The cabinet was in session about two hours today and devoted the time largely to minor matters. Postmaster General Smith explained how the revenues of the pos tai service were being kept at a point far below what they otherwise wolld be but for the fact that under the present classification a large class ol periodicals was being handled at the rate of l cent pound, which was a great financial loss to the service. It was his purpose to modify the regula- tion5 so as to compel this class of pub lications to pay cents a pound. in- stead of l. as now. These new regu- lations, it Is said, will be issued in a few days.
 Secretary Hitchcock stated, after the Cabinet meeting, that the proclama- tion opening to settlement the Wichita Kiowa and Comanche lands in Okla homa wodld be given to the press for publication next Monday morning. The date of tn" opening will not be an nounced until that time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06

rot these great and repeated ma5ori- ties quite as likely to have been right az are MT. Bryan and his dissolving Populists?
 Events have proved MT. Bryan to have been wrong in every one of his arguments and prophecies on this sub- ject In 1896. The country has under the gold standard more money of all kinds than ever before, and 1t is all good. IL has greater prosperity, higher wages, higher prices for farm products, vast ly larger export tadc. with diminished public and private debts.
 MT. Bryan may choose to go on fight ing forever in the last ditch of a back number lost cause. but unless all pres- Ant signs are misleading he will not again have the Democratic party at his back
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
ENTRY LISTS CLOSED.
Drills to Take Place at Conclave Of
 Knights Templar.

Knights TempIar.
 Huntsville. July 5.-Entry list for the competitive drills to be held here dur ing the twentyeighth 1ienisl con clave of the Knights Ten1plar Of the United States. August 27-3O, were closed today. Nine drill corps are entered af follows: Allegheny Commandery, NO 35, of Allegheny, Pa; Columbia com. mandery. No. 2, Washington, D. e.; Hanselmann Commandery. No. 16,' of Cincinnati; St. Bernard Commandery No. 35, of Chicago; Mount Vernon Commandery. No. 1, of Columbus. o. mounted; Calvary Commandery No. s of Parkersburg, W. Va: Colorado Comma ndery, No. 1, of Denver; Cali fornia Commandery, No. l, mounted and Golden Gate Commandery, No. 16 both of San Francisco.
 The drills will take place on the sec ond day of the conclave. There will be an infantry and mounted divisson in the contest. This will be the first in- fantry competitive drill held by the Knights Templar since the triennial oi 1883, at San Francisco, while the in- troduction of a contest between troops Is a complete innovation in the order.
 Silver trophies of an aggregate value of $6 900 will be offered as prizes, four prizes in the infantry division and one for the winning mounted commandery troop. The successful infantry corps will receive a banquet service of thirty four pieces, valued at $2,500. Three United States army officers will act as judges of the contest. The drill will be held at Churchill Downs. where the Kentucky Derby is annually run. At the same place on two days of the week an exhibition of Kentucky thor oughbreds, trotters and pacers will be held for the entertainment of visiting Templars and their ladies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Some o1
 Those Talked About.

Iu06o 1alkeQ AOOuI. The new Prime Minister of Japan, l Viscouht Katsurt, distinguished him. self in the Chinese war by winning one
 of the greatest fights, the battle of l Kangwasai.
 Professor tFinsen of Copenhagen, the | discoverer of the light cure for lupus, is himself an invalid, suffering from heart disease, but he nevertheless Is a | tireless worker.
 President Mckinley Is planning to | make a trip to the Northwest early next summer, visiting Washington Or egon and the northern belt of States. taking in the Yellowstone Park, which he has never seen.
 Queen Margherita of Italy has the reputation of being the best educated woman in the ranks of European roy
 atty. She reads and writes English. French, German and Spanish, and has a wide acquaintance with the Greek | and Latin classics.
 The vestry of Christ Church in Phil adelphia, replying to the many sug- gestions for memorial tablets at the grave of Benjamin Franklin. says: Tt may not be generally known that the grave of Franklin. though simple, Is
 whae he himself, in his will dictated 1t to be. The church has for past years maintained policy of keeping the his- toric spot as it is."
 Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the Boer commandant. vindicates women against the aspersion that they cannot keep a secret. The most experienced diplo- matist was never more discreet than this lady. During her stay in London she has been besought by interviewers and bombarded with letters. But not a soul has the least idea of what is pass ing through her mind. And she has en- Joyed shopping in Regent street as if she had not care in the world.
 One of the most interesting of Eng lands surviving men of science is James Glaisher F. R. s., who recently entered upon his 93d year. Many peo- pie think of the veteran meteorologist only as an aeronaut, on account of that memorable anu unparalleled ascent which he and Mir. Coxwell made nearly forty years ago. But MT. GlAsher Is not an aeronaut, though he has made some thirty ascents skyward for scien- tlhc purposes. He Is a meteorologist, astronomer, mathematician-and a fine sample of what a vigorous mind in a sound body can do-hale and hearty at over 92.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
IS MIR. BRYAN A
 HOPELESS BoURBoNP
The Party Will Not Back Him in His Hopeless Undertaking.

New York World.
 William J. Bryan is reiterating in brief speeches and reprinting in large type his unalterable devotion to the principles" of the Chicago and the Kansas CCity platforms.
 He predicts that the Democratic party will take no backward ste ps. " hut whether it does or not he will, like John Browns soul. "go marching on, - to the sound of his own voice demand ing free silver at 16 to 1. now and forever, world without end"
 II am fighting on." he said at Roa- noke, Va, not so much to win. for I would rather die fighting for right than win fighting for something else. !" What keeps MT. Bryan so terribly cock sure that he was right and Is right ? Are the great American people fools, or like the sinner of the hymn, knowing +he right do they still the wrong pur- sue?
 Twice in Presidential elections and six times in other elections the Ameri- can people have repudiated. rejected jumped upon and kicked out the free Ailyer and cheap-money delusions. Are
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
HARMFUL AGITATION.

The Conventions determination to
 compel Sheriffs to do their full duty
 in protecting prisoners against mob
 violence. was not taken hastily or un- | advisably. In doing what it did, the Convention has only obeyed a most earnest demand of public opinion. The question was fully discussed when the ordinance was passed. The matter was again gone over when the motion to reconsider was beaten. The Conven- tion again showed its determination when 1t refused to refer a repeAling or dinance to any other Committee than the one originally reporting on the matter.
 The vote of the Convention has been overwhelmingly in favor of its first &C., ton. Everybody has gone on record several times. The time of the Con- vention is valuable. and its most im- portant work is still to be done. Yet a small minority keep up the agitation, and want to waste more time in a vain effort to repeal very wise pro- vision. Since the Convention acted, we have had the outrage Tn Elmore Coun- ty. and the State had to send two com panies of militia to Phenix City to prevent negroes from mobbing a man charged with murder.
 The people are set against mob law, and earnest in their determination to do what they can to put it down. If the gentlemen who think differently will consult the people. they will find that the continued agitation of this matter is generally condemned. What says the State press?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
COL. HERBERT.
The Distinguished Alabamian's Love
 V.resa for His People.

The Distinguished Alabamian's Love ssA for His People.
 Birmingham Age Herald. As might have been expected. the unjust and rancorous charge made py former Congressman William M Springer of Illinois, that Hon. Hillary A. Herbert of Alabama. voted Tor MIG Kinley for President. is promptly and emphatically denied by Colonel Her bert. in his direct and manly letter ao- dressed to the editor of The Age-Her- aid and published today" said per sonal friend of the former Secretary of the Navy yesterday. MT. Springer stated positively. as of his own knowledge, to the Washington correspondent of The Age Herald that Colonel Herbert voted for Mckinley Tn 1900. He couldn't have known how Col Herbert himself.
 MT. Sprinrer's recklessness in this instance is in keeping with his repu- tation for inaccuracy while he was member of Congress. from which the Democrats of his own district retired him years ago. Yet certain newspapers which would seem to see nothing good in anything except that which is not good, accepted MT. Springer's untruth- full assertion as truth and proceeded to harshly criticise an entirely innocent and unoffending man. And that. too, in the face of the familiar fact that Colonel Herbert has done more for Ala bamians in the way of getting them honorable and profitable employment under the government than any other Afabamian who was ever in public life.
 This work of friendship and love for the people of his own State Colonel Herbert still continues in private life, although he is very busy man In his own business and is not in the strong est health. have just read private letter from Colonel Herbert in which he tells of certain important action he has taken to further the interests of an Alabama youth whom he has never seen and whose father he doesn't know. The simple request was made of him that he speak word to high author tty in favor of this youth. He did more than was asked and did 1t instantly.
 HThat Is the kind of Alabamian Col onel Herbert is; the man whose very language is being distorted and mis- represented, and who is being abused because William M. Springer slandered him politically.
 No man has a warmer place in the hearts of enlightened Alabamians than Colonel Herbert. Happily he is beyond the reach of the petty spite that seeks to hurt him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
Saldivar Goes Home.

Washington. July 5.-Senor don Ra- fael Saldivar. the Salvadorian Minis ter to Washington, has left for his home. His health has suffered some what and he goes home to recuperate There consequently will be a tempo rary delay in the prosecution of the two claims against his Government which the State Department has pre- ferred in the interests of Americans amounting to about $500, ,000, but 1t is stated there Is every prospect that ar amicable settlement will be reached by September IS, next,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
Where the Joke Was.
Tuscaloosa Times.

IuScAIOOSd Inles.
 The Montgomery Advertiser thinks the Constitutional Convention meant no disrespect to the press of Alabama when the resolution of MT. Greer was referred to a committee, amid laugh ter" and says further that the reso- lution adopted the next day was very handsome and covered the ground of the most exacting.' Very likely the Convention did not "mean" any dis respect, but tk cir action was peculiar to say the least. Perhaps the Conven- tion was in a humorous mood, and as is often the case when people try to be funny, the jokers soon discovered that the joke was on tl.emselvs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
ILLITERAcY IS NOT NECESSARY.

On the subject of illiteracy in Ala bama The Birmingham Ledger. says: The talk about the immense illiteracy | in Alabama is based largely on conditions thar nc number of schools wil remedy. For instance. much of this illiterlcy is charged up to Jefferson and vet any me n, | woman or child who wants to learn to l sonabla time. The lack of scho Jis Is no reason. There will be no lack If schccis | and no lack of teachers. no mater WI at the tax rate.
 There Is a great deal of injustice in all the arguments devoted to illiteracy | in Alabama, as well as in other South ern States. In all cases the per cent age of illiteracy is based on the total population, yet all of us know that of the negroes who were slaves when the war ended hardly one in a hundred could read and write, and very few of | them have acquired an education since, yet these are all included in the total number of illiterates.
 But we agree with The Ledger that illiteracy can never be wholly cured by an increase in the school appropria-
 
 In almost every line that is printed on the subject of ignorance in Alabama the charge is made. by implication If not in direct terms. that 1t is all chargeable to the small school fund and the limited number of school the world as an enemy education. This is unjust and untrue. Those who contend that doubling the school houses will halve illiteracy are mista- ken. Until school attendance is made compulsory all the children will not be educated. The opportunity to obtain a rudimentary education is open to every white child in Alabama during some of the years of its minority. There is not a settlement in Alabama where children have not had some school privileges during the last score of years. Schools are not always con- venient to all the children but that is not an impossible bar. This writer walked two and three miles to school many of the days of his childhood. in
  cause there was no school nearer and his parents determined that he should have some English education. That ed ucation was not at all complete, when it was ended. but it was much better than none. and with it he has man aged to live.
 There may be cases in Alabama where parents cannot spare the child ren the time to attend school at some period of their minority, but we doubt it. There are parents who will not send their children to school. or allow them to go, and this is the main cause of illiteracy in Alabama. We are heartily. sick of the intimation constantly given out that people in Alabama cannot read and write because there are no schools for them. It is not true, and is a islander on the State.
 We want to see good schools in every town and village and hamlet in Ala bama. We want the State to devQte as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
No Sunstrokes Here.

Birmingham News.
 The South seems to be the only sec ton of the country where people are not dying by the hundred from heat. In the press dispatches no mention whatever is made of unusual heat at any point south of Baltimore and Louisville. The truth is. the Southern States have the most delightful climate in the world. The heat does not pros trate in summer and the cold does not freeze folks to death in winter. Ex- treme weather either way Is excep- tional here
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
Leave It to the Governor.

MObfIe Register.
 The Birmingham Ledger is in error Tn saying the commercial interests Of Mo- bile have endorsed the movement to make the State Railroad Commission elective by the people. The only meet ing of merchants held here to consider the subjec.. favored the paying of the Commissioners by the State, but was careful to say that the Commissioners should be appointed by the Governor. Put the Commissioners up for election and soon will be felt the influence oi the railroad corporations in an ef1ort to get their faverites elected. Leave the appointment in the hands of the Governor. If we cannot trust him we can trust nobody.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06

There's a married couple in Tennes- see who are going to cause some mod ern Malthus no end of trouble if they keep on. They were married five years ago and the first birth was single. the next twins. the third was triplets and the last was four in a bunch. If this mathematical progression keeps up du- ring the usual period of human in-
 crease it will require a sheet of paper eA GM1ka out s last number. to say
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
IT IS NOT SETTLED.

There ought to have been but one ques- tion in regard to reducing the tax rate, After full debate on that very point the convention decided that 1t could. That ought to settle it beyond further Gebate. Birmingham Ledger.
 If our contemporary's memory is not too short 1t will hark back only a few years to a time when the subject of reducing taxes was before the people. Certain newspapers were filled with figures to prove that the tax rate could be reduced 4s or 50 per cent with abso- lute safety. The calculations were made and paraded all over the country that the receipts would not fall below certain sum, that the disbursements would not exceed a certain sum, and that tax of 70 or 45 cents would raise all the revenue necessary. It was as plain as any pike-staff, because the figures were there and figures don't lie.
 We'll. the rate was reduced and the State escaped bankruptcy and ruin by a scratch. The receipts failed 10 come up to the calculations. the disburse- menus NClu lUClT OWh anu IHCiC Woo O lack of money. The worry, anxiety and embarrassment caused by that ill-ad- vised policy have been a nightmare to every administration since that day. Governors have had to borrow and beg and humiliate themselves and the State in order to prevent repudiation of our oblig gations, and shifts and subterfuges have been resorted to which were gall ing to high-minded and conscientious officials.
 The Advertiser Is not doubling tbe honesty and good faith of those who are responsible for lowering the tax limit. They have confidence in the fig ures and estimates upon which they based their action. and feel that ieduc- tion is safe The desire to reduce the burdens of taxation Is not only pop ular but a commendable one, if tt can be safely done, but prudence IS vir- tue which ought never to be lost sight of. We fervently and sincerely hope the reduced rate will cause no trouble and embarrassment in future, but we are still of the opinion that the reduc- tion was unsafe and unnecessary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06

"In view of the -Sickles corres- pondence it would not be surprising if President Mckinley should refuse to allow Evans to resign" says The Leav- enworth Times. and we agree with 1t thoroughly. If the President needs anything to brace him up in the line of his duty some of the letters and in- terviews that have lately been given to the public should be all the tonic that he needs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
His Chances of Success.

WILCOX Era.
 The Democratic party need not get alarmed over the fact that no great leader has yet come to the front to lead 1t to victory. Some good man Will pc found who will make the race, and his chances of success judged of this long before time could not be brighter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06

The question of adjourning over till cool weather is being seriously consid- cred in the Virginia Constitutional Convention. That body. according to a contemporary. ''has grad ually dwindled away to bare quorum limp and heat-fagged delegates" and unless the weather moderates quo- rum is not certain much longer. We are doing better in Montgomery.