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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

The Republican papers are becoming
sadly mixed over the meaning of ex-
pansion and inperialism> They insist on
using the terms as synonymous. while in
fact they are as far separated as the
heavens from the earth, One means the
acquisition Of territory and a government
under the constitution es a republic and
the other means the government of con-
quered territory. not as a part of the
United States under the constitution. but
under 81 separate colonial system.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

In recent discussion on a certain rail-
road bill in the New York legislature,
Assemblyman Weeks, OF New YORK hap
pened to say: Now, suppose there was
an excursion from New York to Buffalo.
and I wanted to go. Under thu existing
law, what would I have to do?" Get a
pass! interrupted AssennbIynan Frisbie.
of Schoharie The roar of laughter which
followed showed that the joke had not
failed for lack Of Apr, cation, and that
Frisbie knew how to travel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

A Scottish minister was once asked how
long he would require to prepare a
speech. ''That depends" sad he, upon
how much time 1 am to occupy in it's
delivery If I am to speak for quarter
of an hour should like a week to pre-
pare; if l am to speak for half an hour,
three days will do; if I am to go on as
long as I like, 1 am ready now"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

in his way would be greater than he
could bear.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

represented it. Meeting his opponent in
the street one day. he shook hands with
him, had little talk over the situation,
and took leave of him with the quotation:
May the best man win" II hope not"
said Lord Monck, very cord ally, with a
kind little bow.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

Thackeray, anxious to enter parliament,
stood for oxford, thinking he might win
the seat from Lord Monck, who then
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

Coleridges verbosty Illustrated by him
self in letter among the Blackwo0d cor
respondence While in company with his
friend and faithful host, DE-. Gilman,
he had fa:nting-ft His first words on
recovering from it wer-: What a mys-
terry we are! What a pIoblem IS presented
In the strange contrast between the i'm
perishability OF our thoughts and the
perishable, fugacious nature of our con
seriousness" Then he heard his frierd
say: Thank heaven, it is not apoplexy!''
Conceive mans pour ng out this stream
of words-and such long ones-on recover
ing from a fit!
In his "reminiscences of his early DAYS
at Oxford, Max Muller tells of one of tie
canons of Chr st church who had s, ent
half a century in the place, ana read tn.
lessons there twice every cay. OF coures
he knew the prayer-booS by heart, ard
as long as he could see to read there was
no harm in his reading. But when his
eyesight failed him he had to trust en-
tirely to his memory, he would often go
from some word in the evening PRAYER to
the same word in the marriage service.
and from there to the burial service. with
an occasional slip into baptism The re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Leeuwenhoek and His Microscope

ASeuWSuhOCA 1ANA &sAS
 Popular Science Monthly.
 Leeuwenhoek seems to have been fascinated by the marvels or the microscopic world. but the extent ana quality of his work lifted him above the level of the dilettante. He was not. like Malpighi and Swammerdam, a skilled dissector, but turned his microscope in all direction; on the mineral. as we'll as the vegetable and animal kingdoms. Just when he be- gan to use the microscope Is not known; his first publication in refer ence to microscopic objects did not ap- pear till 1873, when he was forty-one years old He gave good descriptions and drawings of his instruments, and those still in existence have been des- cribed by Carpenter and others. and. therefore, we have a very good idea of his working equipment. During his lifetime he sent as present to the Royal Society of London twenty-six microscopes, each provided with an ob- feet to examine. Unfortunately, these were removed from the rooms of the society and lost during the eighteenth century. His lenses were of fne quality and were ground by himself. They were nearly all simple lenses of small size but considerable curvature, and needed to be brought close to the objects examined. He had different microscopes for different purposes, giving a range of magnifying powers from 40 to 270 diameters and possibly higher. The number of his lenses is surprising: he possessed not less than PAT complete microscopes, two of which were provided with double lenses and one with triplet. r. addition to the above he had 172 l~-..es set between plates of metal. which gives total of 419 lenses used by him in his observa- tions. Three were of quartz or rock crystal, the rest were of glass. More than one-half the lenses were mount ed in silver, three were in gold.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
THE COUNTY PAPERS.

Recently The Redwood (Tenn. } Re- publican contained a paragraph stating that in consequence of being overcrowd- ed with advertising we are compelled to give very little attention to local matter" Upon this The Chattanooga Times thus comments:
 If business presses on your columns you
 ought to make more room. The readers of a newspaper, it's subscribers, have
 rights the publisher cannot justly ig-
 nore. One of the most lamentahIe fel- lures of the country press. especially In East Tennessee. Is that they do not give their readers enough original matter each week. East Tennessee has some very staunch, we'll printed and well edited weeklies. and there should be more of
 the same kind. The county newspaper should reflect the standing of its constit- uents, and when it fails 10 do that, 1t l forfeits so much of its claim upon public patronage.
 The strictures of The Times are cor ! rect and of more than local importance
 and application. The publisher of d newspaper expects the public to pat
 ronize and sustain him, and they ought to do it, but the obligation is not all on one side. The editor is morally bound to give his patrons fair re- turn for their money. and he is not doing this when he fails to give them good amount of original matter, both editorial and local. The obligations are mutual, and the editor has no right to complain of lack of patronage when
 the fault is largely his own. And ir
 this connection We clip the following
 from the last issue of The GoodwateI News:
 The investment of a dollar for you i nome paper viii 65 O soo1 :Sves:n;es s | for it will return many Iold as 1t build | up our interest in a general way, besides | you can only get the local news, tha l WhA1n interests you more than any othe ! should, from the columns of The Good | water News.
 The News Is making a good beginning
 towards giving the people of Goodwatel
 and vicinity a readable and interest ing paper and as long as it does this
 they ought to stand up to 1t. If, how.
 ever, the editor allows his editoria and local columns to be filled with SC. lected matter of no interest to homo
 people they will not be to blame i
 they become indifferent or refuse t patronize him. A country paper whici reflects the standing of its constitu
 ents. as The Times puts it, deserves support and no other kind of pape does,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

Ire the party "is not % much for the purpose of changing the personei of
 the organization as its principles. :"
 Perhaps |. was inadvertently said. but he tod the square truth. If his allusion Is to the principles of the organisa-
 ton which be twice led to defeat. he may rest assured that they will be changed. They will be turned about till they face in the right direction. and if the present personnel of the organi-
 zation refuses to submit to or recog-
 nize the change it will have to give way to those who will. The personnei can remain as 1t is. very largely. but
 it can't keep the organization where it put 1t,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Persons
 Talked About Now.


 The King of Siam is sending all the princesses royal to an English school recently opened in Bangkok by Lon- don woman.
 A grammar school in San Francisco has been named after Miss Jean Parker who served thirty years as a teacher.
 Claus Spreckels has contributed $10,- 900 to the American navy monument fund of San Francisco and John w. Mackay and Mayor Joseph D. Pheian S, 900 each.
 Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the late W. E. Gladstone, has accepted the post of warden of the Women University settlement, Southwark, Lon- don. She will assume her new duties early in September.
 A poem by General "Stonewall," " Jackson has been discovered among some old papers in Lexington, Va. Jackson wrote it while a young lieu tenant in the regular army. The popularity of Meissonier seems to be dropping. At a recent sale in Paris this artists Guide" went for sold for, and The Hussar" brought but 
 Albert c. Case of the Carnegie Com- pany, who is to become president of the American Cotton Company on June 1, is a native of New Jersey an1 be- gan life at r as a telegraph operator on the New York division of the Penn sylvania Railroad.
 The Lee family. which until the Civil War had always been rcpreJcnt- ed in the army, was from that tiina until the Spanish war without a single member in the regular servlce. Now there are two Lees in the army cpd a third will also probably suon wear his shoulder straps.
 Judge Danforth of the Maine | Supreme Court had this to say in con nection with the case of a defaufting bank cashier recently sent to prison ''I wish that the law permitted me tc send with the accused everyone of the bank directors who, through a long term of years. expected you to do youI work. live respectfully, bring up large family and be honest-all on salary of $500 a year."
 Mrs. K. O. Rauf, who died in North Dakota recently, was the mother pi four sons, who ranged in stature from six rect to six feet six inches and ir weight from 200 to nearly 600 pounds The aggregate weight of the four boys was about 1.400 pounds Carl K. fIuf who died few years ago, attained a weight of nearly 800 pounds, while his brother Ole is we'll content to old himself down to $50 pounds. Lars ls able to tip the beam in the neighbor. hood of 250, and Chris Is the .atiel weight of this remarkable quartet. be. ing slightly lighter than Lars.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
IN A RAD CONDITION.

Within our knowledge there IS no city In the United States in more depior- able condition today than Charleston, S. G.. and all on account of the liquor question South Carolina has dispen- sary law, but in order to set up or carry on a. dispensary legally the dispenser must furnish bonds approved by the County Commissioners. By some flaw in the acts of the last Legislature the county in which Charleston is situated has no legal Board of Commissioners, and the State Board of Directors. act- ing on the opinion of the Attorney Gereral has closed down all the dis per nsaries in the county. There is not place in the city or county where . drink of any kind of spirits can be law fully obtained.
 When we say that this is a terrible condition of affairs we are not dealing in sarcasm or false sympathy. If the conditions which are now existing in that city would totally prevent the purchase or use of beer or liquors, of course all lovers of temperance would
 rejoice, but everybody knows that this will not and cannot be the case. Charleston is a large city where the people have always been in the habit of buying their drinks just as they
 do in other cities. To say that all classes of the citizens will at once and
 absolutely stop drinking is to belle hu- man nature. Some will quit, of course.
 because they are too conscientious and high-minded to either violate or evade
 the law, but we know and everybody knows that there are others who will
 have liquor, and if they can't get it
 legally they will get 1t otherwise.
 1 If this condition of affairs had come
 on gradually, those who will and must
 have their drinks might to a certain extent have accustomed themselves to
 the deprivation, or made their arrange
 ments to procure it elsewhere. but
 when the legal sale stops without warn ing the illegal sale will begin at once. | As the Legislature will not meet again until January of next year, 1t will be
 seen that there is a period of nine or ten months before the difficulty can
 be removed, unless some other way out
 of the snarl can be found, and we pre- dict that the largest menagerie U blind
 tigers ever heard of in any community will spring up in Charleston. with all
 the consequent and attendant troubles and that the authorities will be pow q n- dition of affairs which lovers of tenn perance or of law and order can con-
 template with satis faction. and 1t seems
 to be one of the results which ofter follows blundering legislation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
rHE cONvNWTuoN.

The scenes in the historic Hall of the House of Representatives yesterday were deeply impressive. Everybody re- alized that the men there assembled have before them a difficult task and that in its working out is involved the future good or ill of the State.
 There was an air of solemnity not only among the delegates themselves, but upon outsiders as we'll. The full Import of the great issues involved was realized, and never before. we ven ture to assert. was an assemblage in that hall % profoundly moved.
 The Advertiser has often referred to the splendid material of which the Con- vention is composed. and expressed the supremest confidence in the conserva- tism and wisdom of their deliberations. After seeing them go forward one by one as their names were called and ES8IEiuB uoW ui6ny hd0 SCAv~N e"S state on the field of battle, in executive positions. in State and Congressional legislation. on the Judiciary. and other high places of trust. that confidence was intensified and redoubled. The sight of that grand and imposing array of patriotic Alabamians as they all stood up and took the oath before en. tering upon the discharge of their du. ties. will pleasantly finger with all who witnessed it.
 The body will be organized today and soon enter upon the great work before it. There is no call for haste-indeed. | it would be criminal trifling with the present and future not to calmly, dis
 passionately and periodically consider the great questions that must neces- sarily be debated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
The Coming Tariff Battle.

Minneapolis Times.
 Mutterings of the forthcoming tariff war in Congress are already heard in Washington. The growls of protest over the proposed reduction in the tar if duties on Cuban sugar will develop into a roar all along the line, unless present signs fail. The beet sugar in- terests of the West and the cane sugar interests of the South are organizing for action, and they hope to enlist all other protected industries in their cause. It Is easy to believe that with a liberal Cuban tariff as starter the cause of reciprocity and fair trade IS likely to gain a tremendous momentum in the next Congress unless it is check ed at the start.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
The King and Marlborough House.

London Chronicle.
 It is understood that the King will vacate Marlborough House, with which he has been so long associated, and that the building will be occupied by the heir apparent. Built on the site of the ancient pheasantry of St. James.s Palace, from designs of Wren, for the great Duke of Marlborough. dt was first occupied In 1710. In 1t died in 174A his strong mined and impetuous widow Sarah Jennings. Duchess of Mari- borough According to Horace Wal role, the aged invalid. shortly before her decease, was assured by her phy' sician that she must either be blister ed-or die. Sine screamed. T won't be blistered. and won't die!" and for a time she kept her word.
 Marlborough House was bought py the Crown for the newly married Princess Charlotte, but she did mol live to occupy it long. Indeed ter
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

Massachusetts people have some queer ideas about legislation, as well as other people do. Recently a bill be- fore the Legislature of that State en- countered violent opposition. on the ground that such a law would enable party leaders to influence voters to change their political relations" Evi- aently those who oppose the bill want to make or keep it impossible for any man to change his political opinions in 4hat State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
BoNI WILL RAISE QUESTION
Intends to Ask Delcasse About Re
 cent Events at Metz.

Paris. May 21.-Count Boni de Cas- telIane, who has barely recovered from his illness. announces his intention to raise an important question in the Chamber of Deputies. He wrote to M Delcasse. the Foreign Minister. asking him to fix a day for an interpolation on the recent events at Metz, whicn Immediately followed M. Delcasse' q visit to St. Petersburg. Count Boni aIludes to the presence of the Russian ambassador at Emperor Williams re- view at Metz in honor of the Czar'i birthday, which has made a disagree able impression in France.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Strikes Going Out of Favor.

Washington Post.
 The vastness of our material re- sources, the immensity of our mineral wealth, the superior skill of our clti- zens and all those advantages on which we depend for world-conquering prog ress in the victories of peace are not going to be neutralized or minimized by conflicts between labor and capital. Without compulsion, by their own vo- lition, for their mutual interests, wage workers and employers will quietly set tie their occasional disputes. Strikes will steadily decline to the vanishing point.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Those Gowns.

Where does the Supreme Court of the United States hold forth?" asked the visitor in Washington.
 "In that room you just came cut of." said the official lounger.
 That's what some other fellow told me" rejoined the stranger. but there ain't nobody in there except lot of bearded old women dressed in black"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
A Fired Item.
Covington Enterprise.

Covington Enterprise.
 News reached here Monday of the burning of negro lodge building near MT. Posey Kirkland's In Dale County The reports have 1t that about two hundred shots were fired at the build ing before 1t was fired.-Dothan Sift- ings. The above is the firedest, ali- fired item that it has been our mis- fortune to have fired at us for some time. However, we believe that the building was fired as soon as the two hundred shots were fired" at 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

u1We confess that we are totally un-
 S1le to understand the law lately en- < fgkfed by the Legislature of Wisconsin 'sakempting from vaccination anybody no Do has religious scruples against 1t. ~ ,1xe lay mind will fail to see how a '.sutrictly sanitary regulation or require rnent can offend any one's religious
 principles, or why vaccination should
 m any way conflict with the religion
 of any man or woman. There must be
 some explanation for the law, but we
 fail to see it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
oklahoma's Enviable Prospects.

Kansas C1Iy oldT.
 The growth of Oklahoma has been one of the marvels of Western develop ment. For an agricultural territory. -ler~a uhi e SasNsJ the farm products have reached almost incredible proportions. The mineral re- sources, which are almost untouched, are believed to be most bountiful. The future of such a field is not hard to es- innate in a country in which great de. velopments are now but a repetition of recent history.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

X Sometimes an iron-clad law defeats the ends of justice. In Connecticut. for example, the punishment for murder in khe first degree Is death, without any alternative penalty. Recently in that State 6 woman was tried for the crime of murder, and though fhere was no doubt of her guilty, the jury declined to con- vict her because they would not con- aemn a woman to be hanged. Thus. although guilty, she escaped punish usent entirely because the law allows no punishment for that crime but death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Robbery will Proceed.

Dubuque Herald.
 The robbery of the people for the fa- vored few will go on. MT. Baocock will not have his way. The events of the last three or four years show the power of the trusts and the subser- viency of the Republican party to them. They will rule it in the future as they have done in the past.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

vears after her death there was scri- oae tax of pulling 1t down. However. U served as quarters for the Dowaeer Queen Adelaide. and 1t was appro- priated to the heir apparent in lseo. He did not occupy Marlborough House un- iii his marriage, and in the interval tne building was used for the public exni, hilton of the Vernon collection or pictures.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
All That is Needed.

Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 A poll tax qualification" is all that is neded in suffrage reform. This will bring about the desired effect. If a man will sell his vote for a quarter it is certain that he will not take the precaution to pay a tax of g which will be required of him before he is eligible to vote. This method will take away the floating. worthless vote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Where It May Hurt.

Easterner-What do you expect to prove as to the effect of the Chicago drainage canal on your water supply?
 St. Louis Man-We expect to prove. sir, that it contaminates our whole supply. We shall show that 1t causes typhoid and other levers, and is mak- ing our town a plague spot.
 Easterner-Dear! Dear! Is 1t so bad as that? I certainly shall not bring my family here when you hold your worlds fair.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
A Million Years Too Soon.

The youth who was smoking cof- fin nail near the monkeys cage took another one from his pocket.
 Would it do any harm" he asked. If I should offer him one of these"'
 Not bit" responded the attend ant. He wouldn't touch it. A mon key isn't half as big fool as it looks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Pleaded Guilty to Embezzlement.

Bridgeport, .Conn., May A.-Percy L. Johnson, an attorney, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court today to c-noez- element of $50,000 from three trust funds. and was sentenced to SIX years Imprisonment in the state prison. Johnson recently returned here from Mexico and gave himself up to the authorities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Will Find It Out.

Greensboro Watchman.
 If Montgomery doesn't know all her needs as a progressive city. she. will find out all about 1t pretty soon. The Alabama Press Association meets there about the middle of June, and what the editors don't find out along this line won't be worth knowing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
The Time for Tariff Revision.
Journal.

Providence Journal.
 With the need of the foreign markets apparent to everybody who looks around him. the sight of France hostile to our products. Germany of the same mind. Russia aiming a blow at our iron and steel, Austria contemplating prohibitive duties-this sight must con- vince all that the time is ripening for a reduction of some of the profits of the tariff fed trusts and monopolies. Messrs. Rabcock and Roberts and oth- CT Republicans who think with them are right in advocating tariff revision. though their party may not find it ex- pedient to follow their lead for some time yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22

Noting the statement that the Sultan of Morocco is learning to play the bagpipe. The Savannah Press thinks his people must have lots of forbearance. Rerhaps it's a question of listen or lose their heads.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-22
Freak Legislation.

Lowndes News.
 The Sheffield Reaper want law made to keep q man out of his own house. l. C.. to keep the saloon keeper out of or from going into his saloon on Sunday. Such law would come under the caption of fool or freak leg islation wouldn't 1t?