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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
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Tho first baby born on Ellis Island
since the restoration came into III.
world to-day. l,a mother Is Mary Stem.
sui, Norwegian. who arrived on IN,
TeutUtic u week ugo. on her way to he
Intended husband In Wisconsin. Tho
"ihctals don't know where TO hlc tn.
birth certificate. since the mother has
bean excluded from this county.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03

exhibiting what she Supposed 49,
draft. In obtaining from her 80 nj az
time and se.at another. He gave her
:es tiled to-day. he GOT her 10 retnss nosl
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
DROPPED DEAD
IN AREAWAY.
Policeman SaWUnknoWn
Man Die in West Fifty
first Street.

\ policeman saw n man stumble and
!hll into tn" arcaway OF II Yves; Fifty
seventh street. occupied by Theodore
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
Rumor in Boston Couples
Lipton's Name with
Mrs. Stuart's.

very persistent nowadays that S.r
Thomas Upton. the English sportsman
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
HELD FOR ODD SHOOTING.

N""nL. the Complainant. Can"o.
EAplniH II.
Anton Erulich. OF ~ East Seventy.
third street. was held for examination
to-day In tho Yorkvillo Court on the
charge Of having shot At John Nohak.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
GlLLER DIES OF WOUND.

Actrcs. sadie Dean. Arrested. sar,
II Was nn Accident.
Joseph Gillcr. twcnty-seven year, o,a
n cabInctmakrr. OF COO Tenth aye,,,o
who was shot at tina; address by Sad,s
Dean. an actress. Is dead In Roosevelt
Hospital.
Miss Dean was arrested. but said -hs
shooting was accidental.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-01-03
Hundreds Turned Away
from the Lodge at
Oyster Bay, l.. l., After
the Vice-President Ar
rived.
Said lie Learned a Les
son that Tie Will Never
Dependent on
Others Now.

Theodore Roosevelt, Vicc-Pres'deut-
Elect OF the United States, was initiated
into the mysteries Of Free Masonry las;
night In Matinnecock Lodge No 500. AZ
Oyster Ray.
Hundreds OF Mnsons from all over the
State were present and participated In
the ceremonies. while scores o! others,
owing TO the smallncss Of the hall. were
compelled to return home. unable TO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

that account. The fare each way is $5.tO. leaving a "clear gain of $25.20 above necessary expenses. Many other instances might be cited. as this ap- plies sto all other points.
 It would be very difficult thing to convince the people of Alabama (ref- erence is not made to some delegates to conventions or to some legislators) that railroads give passes to public officials simply for the fun of the thing.
 It has not been great while since in certain Legislature the question Of the regulation of a certain company was up for consideration, Upon the tion was to be taken. upon the desk of every member there was placed a free pass from the company under consid- eration. Quite accidental. was it not?
 All honor to Messrs. Brooks. Mur- phree, Banks, Watts, White. Jones and others who are endeavoring to do away with his free-pass-for- all officials business. The eyes of the peple are focused upon this matter, also upon the recorded votes of the members of the Convention now in session, and they will be heard from later. Though the Constitution framed should be other wise good one, if this free pass mat ter be allowed to stand as 1t is. 1t will be like the dead fly in the ointment of the apothecary.
 It is sincerely to be hoped that the article on Corporations may soon be reached. and that then this matter may be deemed eminently "germane" to be treated. Alabamian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
SOME SCHOOL METHODS.

Lately we have been noting with in- terest the opinions of editors in the big cities on the subject of education. and the universal sentiment in favor of certain improvements in educational methods. For example. we find this in The Portland Oregonian:
 Patrons of the public schools of Oregon will be glad to learn that at last we are to have textbooks on geography in the schools that will answer the purpose of instruction in that very valuable branch of education. In the public schools of this city. intelligent, comprehensive in struction in geography has been for some years conspicuous by It's absence 1t is not improbable that most of the teachers will themselves have to become students in geography before they are able to teach it. so utterly has this study been neglected or so superficial has been the instruction in it during recent years
 We do not know, of course, just what is taught. or what is not taught in Portland. but the extract leaves the impression that geography. at least. is not one of the branches which pupils are expected to become proficient in. And The Chicago Inter-Oeean has this lAuIClIAiCibS
 We see hundreds of pupils coming from the Chicago schools to the business of life who cannot write legibly, cannot spell correctly, are ignorant of their country s history and destitute of sound conceptions of the duties of citizenship. From these facts to which there is the amplest tes- timony. the public concludes that school methods are in some way wrong.
 The excuse given by some teachers that they have so many branches to
 teach that they cannot teach any of them thoroughly is not satisfactory to the Chicago paper, which adds:
 When parents ask why some of these branches are not dropped, and time thus gained for those studies necessary to fit their children for the struggle of life, they are answered with learned dsquisi- tions about natural development, correla- tion of faculties. etc, etc. And we have the spectacle of children set to play leap frog to teach them arithmetic and set 10 matching pieces of colored paper when they ought to be learning to spell.
 Perhaps Chicago educational meth- ods are different from those of other cities. but we don't know. However, that may be. we agree with The Leav- enworth Times that 'iAeHsR @ eight
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
Courting Defeat.
Editor The Advertiser:

Editor The Advertiser:
 Does the Convention deliberately court defeat by the people, or is it thought that the machinery is so ad- justed that any Constitution. however offensive. will carry by the official count?
 That malformed and vicious off, spring. said to be "the greatest State paper ever written," lies gasping, dying under the pitiless scorn of contemptu- ous public opinion and must quickly be brought into the hospital and galvan- ized into life, clothed in white raiment and declared beautiful and good.
 And now, with a fatuity born of an arrogant defiance of every sentiment of morality, comes the report on the pass system, which declares that the official conscience is not to be tested by the same standard that governs men in other pursuits of life; that a provis- ion of the Constitution is to be inopera- tive because there is no penalty at- tached to it; that mems sacred oaths are not binding when there is no pun ishment for their violation. This is a confession that people are only good through fear of the devil.
 If such a code of morals prevailed throughout the community among mere men of affairs or of the profess sions, society would simply be destroy ed: no man would trust his neighbor in any relation of life; commerce and banking would cease; the attorney and the physician could no longer be trust ed with the honor and confidence of their clients and patients.
 : The suffrage report might be defend ed by misguided people upon the ground of safety to the State, the pass resolution can only be advocated for the low and sordid reason of profit to the individual.
 The Convention was called for the purpose of elevating our politics, of lifting our people to higher plane of citizenship, into a purer and serener atmosphere. Have the gentlemen of the Convention so poor an opinion of the intelligence of the people, or so low an estimate of their moral sense as to believe that they will not resent this worse than paltry trifiing with the pub- lie conscience?
 The public need not concern itself with the motives or the reasons of the members, but the extraordinary record of the vote during a single day must furnish bitter food for reflection; this display of gymnastics. this headlong rushing in one direction in the fore noon and wild reversal in the after noon, proves how deliberative the body is: how quickly moved by logical argu- ment and pure reason: how convic- tion held at one hour Is found to be false in the next and promptly ac- knowledged.
 That awful stenographic report is perpetrated in cold type and will bring cold shivers down the back of many statesman" before the canvass that must follow the Convention is closed. Many foolish words and deeds might be prevented if the politicians would just bear in mind that the plain com mon people, though. plain and common, are neither fools nor knaves.
 x.Y.Z.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

years lin. school from the age of six or seven to fourteen should furnish the average boy and girl with a good Eng fish education which. will fit them to enter business. or the mechanical and industrial arts. not only able to read clearly. to speak grammatically. to write legibly. to calculate accurately, to spell correctly, but with intelligence and information enough to understand the work and their relations to 1t, and to fit themselves readily to the situa- tion," ks
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
Ground of Democratic Unity.

New Orleans States.
 There is but one way in which Demo- crats can get together and that way is by dropping the causes of the past un- fortunate dssensions and seeking in current questions and in the ancient principles of the party some common ground upon which all can stand. It Is too early yet to even suggest what the burning current issues may be three years hence; but there are certain questions, like that of tariff reform. the prevention of favoritism in legislation. the curtailing of privileges and power of private monopolies, the income tax all questions of vital importance to the country, and over which there ex- ists no difference of opinion among Democrats. Questions such as these may be made the rallying point for the hosts in 1904. and these re-enforced, by such issues as may be current and ap- propriate at that time, will be suffi- cient to arouse the people against the sectionalism. favoritism and spoiliation practiced by the Republican party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
AN ALABAMA FABLE.
Convention and Afterward.

For The Advertiser:
 Who is that fellow making such an awfully lame speech and getting such an icy reception?" asked a stranger.
 "Oh." said a native, that is mem Der of the Alabama Constitutional Convention trying to explain his up- holding legislators in riding on free passes and then collecting 10 cents a mile for the same thing, and also show ing by his vote that he wants officials to ride on passes while claiming to up- hold the law"
 Serves him right" said the other. His reception ought to be forty de- grees below zero. and such man ought never to be allowed to (mis)represent the people again in any capacity"
 He was right. and thousands of vot- CTS. instead of ratifying, will spit upon a. Constitution" that does not give a relief so imperatively and widely de- manded. Jas. Nj. Glenn.
 Loachapoka, Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

We believe with The Chattanooga Times, that there was no purpose on the part of the Ohio Democrats to put a personal affront upon MT. Bryan by offering an indignity to his portrait" It was one of those incidents which frequently occur in enthusiastic con- ventions where the delegates don't know what is being done. Such an in- dignity to MT. Bryan would have been as bad politics as it would have been exceedingly bad taste.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Boston Journal. after carefully reviewing the suffrage ordinance pro- posed by the Alabama Constitutional Convention says: ''The net result or this system, enforced in accordance with its apparent intent. would be that all white voters iIliterate or otherwise. would be admitted to the ballot. on the regular payment Of their poll-tax; and that negroes able to read and write. or possessing the prescribed property requirements, would share the suffrage with them. This Is not a just plan, since it keeps in the white iiliterates. while it disfranchises black illiterates;
 but it is not so unjust as some of the other schemes which have been tried"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
THE FREE PASS OUTRAGE.
Let It Be Stamped Out.

Editor The Advertiser.
 The Advertiser for years has rendered splendid service to the people of Ala bama, and it is now rendering such service in protesting against the free pass outrage. State officials ought to be unbiased. Are not annual passes, amounting to hundreds of dollars, a very decided "bias?" Suppose the rail- roads paid them in actual cash that much every year?
 Legislators receive 10 cents a mile from the State for every mile travelled. For instance. legislator coming from Mobile would receive as mileage" the sum of SIS each way. or $36 in all on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Mir. Watts of Montgomery, intro duced new subject into the Constitu- tional Convention last Thursday with his proposition to adopt a clause for bidding the holding of office in Ala bama by negro. The speech he made in support of his amendment appeared in full in the report of the days pro-. ceedings. and it is but scant justice to. say that 1t secured the close attention of the members of the Convention. It has been highly commended as an able legal exposition of the subjeet. ,t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
May Be Seriously Felt.

Rockford Af&us:
 The reduction of the State tax limi- was least expected by the taxpayers from the convention, and the beauty of it,sall was not asked for. and it Is th. opinion of The Argus that if it ha :. been left to the voters t never would have been endorsed at the ballot boz. It has given the old soldiers and the free schools death blow, and will in the near future be felt in the treasury strong box, as it is not improbable tha the credit and honor of the State may be seriously felt,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Younger brothers, just released from twenty-five years of imprison- ment. will find almost a new world confronting them. and we should im- agine that they will find it very difi- cult to accommodate themselves to the new conditions that they will find wherever they go. It is to be hoped that their remaining years will be law abiding ones.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
HAS LEARNED so1rETHsNa.

The Citronelle Call is edited by an ex-Yankee. if there is any such human being as an ex-Yankee. At any rate this editor is Northern man who came South to grow up with the coun- try, or something, and incidentally to learn great deal about people and conditions down here. That he has succeeded is shown by recent edito- rial in which he very intelligently dis cusses the negro question and the dif- ference between the different classes of negroes found in the South. He shows that the old ex-slaves, are usually in- dustrious and trustworthy and that the younger generation are just the re- verse. and then adds:
 That is what we object to in the negro. The Northern papers can rant and fume about this question all they want to- but about. We don't object to a negro be- cause he is negro. We don't object to him at all unless he is useless or danger ous.
 Most of us have the same opinion as to the ranting of Northern papers. We care little for it. knowing that it pro ceeds either from ignorance or preju- dice. and knowing. further. that when they come dow here. if they are hon est. they are almost sure to take the same view that the Citronelle editor does. It is quite an education to Northern man to come South. at least on the race question. He learns a great many things of which he was ignorant and, what is more to the pur- pose. unlearns much that he thought he knew. Most of them know little of the conditions which exist here. or they have no desire to learn the truth while they remain at home. When they come down here and see the negro at close range they know more than they did. and many are honest enough to &C., knowledge it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
Is Not Presumption.
Clayton, Record: ... ,,o,,,..

Clayton, Record:
 Speaking of recognizing the Demo- cratic party, MT. Bryan says It's pre- sumption for an easter man to mention the matter. So far as we are apie 10 observe 1t Is not presu :nption In any one capable of accomplishing the re- suit. Certainly the National party needs reorganizing or re-creating or Something to make it a live issue. IT an eastern man can do it, let's hear from him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Trust Kansas jury to work around a hard place. Recently a man who had virtually plead guilty was cleared. by the jury on the ground that the law under which he was charged was un- the jury thus taking 1t on themselves to decide a point which is usually left to the higher courts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
The Chief Exceptions.

Our Southern Home:
 v Nearly all men very properly take the Fourth as holiday the chief ex- captions being the workingmen of the saloons. the railroads and the news. papers. Those have to work. Without the saloons there wouldn't be much Fourth for some folks; without the railroads many men couldn't get their particular kind of Fourth: and with out the newspapers the survivors of the day couldn't know what had happened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Even burglars sometimes meet with poor luck. A gang of them cracked two safes in Connecticut town a few nights ago and got $12.50 for their la bor. That would hardly pay for wear and tear of tools. to say nothing of blasted hopes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

According to recent estimates the Kansas farmers still have not less than forty million bushels of old corn on hand. so that there will be no famine in that State. even if the present crop is badly injured by the drought,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
We Beg Pardon.

Tuscaloosa Times:
 z For the benefit of the Big inlun oI The Montgomery Advertiser. ana the editor of The Tuscaloosa Gazette, we beg ts say that it was The Tuscai0osa Times which first contained Dr: wy mans solution of the word Chatta- nooga."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Somehow we take little stock in the report that certain Tammany Demo- crats are preparing to open a fight on Croker when he returns to New York If-they propose fighting him they had better start in while he is absent. for when he gets among them they'll be afraid to tackle him,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

A number of learned theorists are discussing the question whether our civil war could have been avoided. We are not taking sides. but can testify that it did happen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
The Party of the People.

Greensboro Beacon:
 The Democratic party is the party of the people. and stands between them and the danger of favoritism and too much government. It Is the restraining power that holds in check the would be Caesars of our day. Whenever we get conservative candidate on sound platform, such as Tilden or Cleveland. we carry the Nation. The other times we do not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

An enthusiastic Kansas Populist de- clared the other day that the drought was making sixty Populist votes an hour. Of course anything that makes votes for his party is welcomed with joy, though it may mean starvation to the people at large.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Memphis Appeal thinks there is need of new morality in Pennsyl- vania." which we look on as something of a paradox. They haven't even an old one on hand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Columbia CTenn.) Herald fires off an ultimatum. or something of the kind. in this style: .-.. .yr~,,.s. k, ss...,
 William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska will not be candidate for that nomina- tion in 1904 But, he will write the Ma tionaI Democratic platform for that year, as certain as he lives, and the man he supports will be the flag bearer of his party, the plutocratic, subsidized press and time-serving politicians to the con trary notwithstanding
 For fear of accidents would it not be prudent for him to write the platform now and have 1t locked up in vault for safeskeeping He might die and thus leave the party to go into the fight without a platform.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

King Oscar of Sweden believes in the Darwinian theory and holds that apes were the first kings. He might go a little further and admit that some kings are getting back to the starting point.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot admits that wome6 create a great deal of trouble. but they certainly keep men out. of the penitentiary." But they get many other men into that undesir- able habitation. all the same.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
Time for a Change.
Florence Times:

FIOTeHCS IIIItS.
 We are glad to see that the news papers of the State are arraying them selves strongly against the present way of conducting the annual excursion of the Alabama Press Association. It is high time a change was made. Other wise the association will not be worthy the support of the editors of the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
What. the Jaunts Are For.

Linden Reporter:
 These iaunts seem to be gotten up for people who have nothing to do ana tIenty of,meney to spend. anyway. NO ordinary newspaper man can anord to leave his business for three weeks. The trips are entirely too big for those wno ought to reap the benefit, ana IL IS hoped the Executive Committee VIII have an eye to this in future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

''The problem of aerial navigation has been solved" we read in all the papers, and we can only mutter,- ''Again?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

It is cowardice to borrow money from a woman. according to Max O'Rell, but it requires anything but a coward to try it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.

Some cities which can't get up rec ord for anytsing else try to make one on their claims for hottest weather.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
Putting a Stop to Lynching.

TUSCALOOSA Sun:
 Should the Convention really wish to put a stop to 1ynching. let them enact some measure which will cause the punishment of at least a few of the
 guilty and change Alabama from sort of No Mans Land. where the Smith K Wesson Is the arbitrator of difficulties, to country where cowardly murderers receive just punishment for their crinleH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The tramway company which is re- sponsible for affecting the acuracy of delicate instruments at Kew. England, is going to bear part of the cost of remoV- ing the observatory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20
circulation High water Mark.

During the month of June, just passed; fyse circulation of The Advertiser reached tSe highest point since the paper was es- fa ahyishai in 1928. and by far the high est vet attained by any Alabama morn
 Here are the figures by days:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Kansas City papers contain an account of three farmers being arrested there while fighting over the possession of an idle man. whom each wanted for farm hand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

The Advertiser will be found on sale in m the following cities at the places nameo' BIRMINGHAM-Morri Hotel. Union De- MOBILE-A. A Hall. Battle House. HELMA--Hotel Albert. ATLANTA--Kimball House News stand. NEW YORK-Brentano's Union Square BUFFALO-A a b m a Exhibit Fam
 American Exposition
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

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