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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
MusOIino Badly Faded .,

St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 A comparison is made between Tracy, inc Western desperado, and Mussolinos the famous brigand in one of AlexandeR Dumas' novels, who evaded capture for many years. leaving a trail of blood as he went. But Dumas hero did not have to contend with the telegraph, the tel ephone, or even the locomotive or the steaniboat-afl of which agencies are called into service in running down me hound of Dumas day. The criminal who plays a lone hand against the lightning. the iron horse, the bloodhound, the long, range repeating rife and the police or- raT,ization of several States banded for Ria destruction. must show more meetle than Dumas ever dreamed of to prolonG his days of liberty as did Mussolino- ;.
 Liberty consists of letting your ydEd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
GOT THE TITLES MIXED.
An Experience of Ministerial Au-
 thor in Church.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 The Rev. Charles F. Goss. author or 'Tte Redemption of David Corson, |" preached recently at the Tompkins Ave- hue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, and after services a number of persons who had not been in the habit of wor- shipping at that church approached the the nuIpit in orGer to obtain an introduction to 't the author. The features of large woman were seen to be working With emotion as she bustled up and took the doctors hand. "Oh, I'm sure. she praait- tied. its a great pleasure to be able to meet YOU. Now l can say that have been int oduced to the author or 'IhS Redemption of David Harum
 I'm glad you enjoyed the book, mad am." said the doctor gracely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
Queries

Queries. F, '-- BY. CLICKING find in Qualifications of the Alabama Historical Society" Vol. III, page 15O, the following note
 John Click, Revolutionary soldier, iIs the first years of the settlement of"Joness Valley. located on the east side of Valley Creek, between the present Hawkins bis Spring and Powderly. Here he punt q mill which later became the property or his son, Moss Click"
 This was in Jefferson County; did he die there? Can his grave be located or his descendants traced? John CLICK IS mentioned as an early merchant in Tus- caloosa; perhaps he was the same man. Information wanted of John Click incl dents of his life, and location and de- scription of his grave.
 State Historian. 31S. MARTINI want to ascertain II possible the time and place of the death of Holm Martin. who was an officer in the Revolutionary War and a Brigadier-Gen- eral after the same. w. B. R' 319. wILLIAMSON-I also wish to know the time and place of the birth and death of pr. Peter Williamson, and also a record of his services. He was a surgeon during the Revolutionary War.
 w. s. R. 32o. TERRY-Also the time and place of the birth and death of Nathanlel Terry, who was First Lieutenant of the 14th Virginia Regiment and a Quarter master.
 I will appreciate the favor very much indeed # you will give me this informa- lion. w. S. R. s21.. TwIGGS-Will you give me in your columns all the information you can get of the Twiggs family of Georgia? have heard they were from Wales originally and settled first in Maryland and after wards came to Georgia. My great-grand- father on my fathers side was Major John Twiggs. and was born in Maryland in 1750. '.-
 I would like to know if he was in the Revolutionary War. Also the maiden name of his wife and how many children they had and what became of them. My fathers mother was their only daugh- ter. M. H. w.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle. .-,-., ..,,so,
 All these midsummer teachers c9hIer1 c'siS eDees and teachers vacat tion schools should ha sorbidden bv law or closed up. It is the duty of teachers in summer time to to sIn +o ggass and to get strong enough for work in fall time and winter tifne'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

It is all right to entertain woman yls- flor with parties. but a man visitor wants U borsa to look after, and a lawn to mow st in a man. and the shirt should be easy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
Answers .

2s5, MOSELEY-I send the following facts as regard the service of my grand father, Captain Arthur Moseley, of the county of Buckingham, Virginia. Ac- cording to the family Bible. Arthur Nose lev was born November ', 1760 and died
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
CHAPTER DIRECTORY.

 General Sumter ChapterEReseennee' Mrs. L. c. Woodson, Blrm,ngaam: Light Horse Harry Lee a,I An Regent. Mrs. F. h. Meh' ~ Peter Peter Forney chapter,.RelgSssnat- chap,l zen Mrs. John Wyly, Montgomery; Andrew Jackson Chapter-hegent i.Iss M. McElderry. Talladega. Martha Wayles Jefferson Chapter Regent, Mrs. J. l.. Cowan' FTederick William Gray Chapter Regent. Mrs. J. J. Mooring' Anni5ton.
 John Wade Reyes Chapter-Re- gent. Mrs. Aurora F. Mcclellan. Athens.
 Mobile Chapter-Regent, Mrs. R. H. Clarke, Mobile. Tuscaloosa Chapter-Regent, Mrs. Ellen Peter Bryce, Tuscaloosa. Lewis Chapter--Regent-M L. Y. Dean. Eufaula. Mrs. Sarah McQueeA Regent, Eu- faw.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
9MM - R R AM R M - H @ M 2 ! DAUGHTERS OF THE :. l AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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EDITORS. Mrs. T. Morgan Smith and Mrs. F. H. Nell.
 DIRECTORY. Mrs. J. Morgan Smith. Regent, BIT mingham.
 Mrs. Frank F. Glass, Secretary Montgomery. .- Mrs. A. U. DowdelL Treasurer Opelika. Remember the days of old. con sider the years of many ,i,l tions; ask thy father na ana they will tell thee. .'-Moses. a ...
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

Liberty consists of letting your MiEa do as you please.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

3ol. CUNNINGHAM-"Th published records of this family are so scrappy that they would have to be collected by professional genealogist before they could be utilized. Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham was granddaughter, I be- lieve, of Patrick Cunningham, the Tory leader. -g A, $. Salley, Jr.,
 ''Sec. S. c. Hist. Soc.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

s19. wILLIAMSON-I also wish. to know the time and place of the birth and death of pr. Peter Williamson. and also a record of his services. He was a surgeon during the Revolutionary War.
 w, s. R.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

31S. MARTINI want to ascertain II possible the time and place of the death of John Martin, who was an officer Tn the Revolutionary War and Brigadier-Gen- ara1! after the same. w. s. R.
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
To use the power
to tax by levying
upon all the people
SUBSIDIES.

to raise money to donate to few Of
the people, is an injustice and an out
rage. 1t makes no difference for what
such tax and the gift may be made.
1t is no better, no more just, when be-
slowed upon manufacturers than when
it is given to a syndicate Of shipbuild-
ers, or sugar factory building.
All federal and all state taxation
ought to be exclusively for public pur-
poses. A tax laid for any other than
public purpose, ought to be declared
inimical to the general welfare and
void because not laid in accord with
the spirit and letter Of democratic
form of government. When will
American courts so hold with righteous
unanimity?
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
During the year
nineteen hundred
and one there have
RAILROADS.

been constructed in the United States
more than five thousand miles of new
lines of railroad And yet we are in
formed by many gifted populists that
there is no prosperity in the United
States.
Farming lands have in the year en-
HANGED in value from ten to forty per
cent all over Nebraska, and yet there
is no thrift nor health in us.
Corn, cattle, hogs, sheep and horses
are at the highest kind of figures and
money is borrowable at the lowest
rates ever known in America, and yet
"the rich are growing richer and the
poor poorer" say the oracles Of Bryan
archy.
And now if Capital and Labor come
to an amicable agreement and no more
fighting comes between them, and
strikes are forever abolished, what will
the malcontents, the vagarists and the
populists do for ammunition?
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
THE MEMORIAL TO VIM. L. WILSON.

When Hon. VIM. L. Wilson, Of West
Virginia, died, he was president of
Washington and Lee University, Va,
and it was proposed to raise 100000 to
endow chair of economics in that in
stitution in his memory. Ex-President
Cleveland, in whose second cabinet Mr..
Wilson had been Postmaster General,
gave $1,000, and the fund has grown
until it has reached more than $95, 900.
1t is considered that the memorial is
assured, and it is we'll. In this genera.
tion there has been in public life no
higher type of man than Mr.. Wilson.
A scholar, gentleman, a patriot, a
thinker, despising the ways of the dem
agogue and trimmer, he saw the sound
principles for which he stood lose pop
ularity. A man of principle, and know
ing that he was right, as subsequent
events have demonstrated that he was,
he refused to bow before the storm Of
passion, snapped his fingers in the face
of an insane popular clamor, and re-
tired from public position, ending his
days in honor and dignity and useful
ness in the congenial atmosphere of an
old and honorable educational institu-
tion. No man of the generation de-
serves more than the Hon. William l..
Wilson perpetual memorial. Charac-
ter united with ability to make him
great. Charlotte Observer.
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
A FIRE TREE.

A FIRE TREE. splendid six-story
department house
in Chicago, was set Oh fire by a belated
Christmas tree illumination on Decem-
ber goth, 1901, and totally destroyed.
The Chicago Tribune of the 3Oth thus
speaks Of this blaze:
"It seemed as if the whole building
was in flames minute after the first
alarm" said M. Moulton, the day ele-
vator boy. Everybody got out, but
some had close calls"
"Mrs. Heiner had just lighted the
candles on the Christmas tree," said
Paul Kennedy, "and the next anyone
knew the whole tree and part of the
room were on fire."
Owned by Mathieson Estate.
The building belonged to the estate of
F. o. Mathieson, who died in Paris last
year. Dunlap, Smith & Go. were the
agents and sent word to all the tenants
that they would be cared for in another
building at Fifty-fifih street and Mon
roe avenue, unless otherwise provided
for.
The Alexandria was erected shortly
before the Worlds Fair by the Hyde
Park Gas company and was largely of
wood interior. The loss on the building
was estimated at $4,000, fully insured.
The property lost by the tenants was
estimated at $4,000. The majority
carried insurance. L. Well, a furrier
and woman's tailor, fixed his loss at
$4,000, while w. S. Best, who con-
Quoted a delicatessen, placed his loss at
81, 900. Both carried full insurance
Christmas trees are more ignitable
than Christmas stockings. The incine-
ration of all the enumerated property
above and the jeopardizing Of three
score of human lives could never have
been brought about by just hanging up
stockings.
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
NEW BUILDING PLANNED.


for many years been insufficiently pro-
vided with house room, and its valuable
collections insecurely stored in all kinds
of temporary and leased quarters. Mr..
Mercer of Omaha introduced on the 18th
of December the following bill, designed
to remedy this defect:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States IN
Congress assembled, That the Secretary
of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, au-
thorized and directed to cause suitable
and commodious fireproof building, for
the use and accommodation of the De-
partment Of Agriculture, to be erected
within the District of Columbia on such
portion of the grounds of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, belonging to the
United States, as he may deem expedi-
ent, said building to be constructed in
accordance with the approved plans
heretofore secured in pursuance Of the
provisions of the Act Of Congress ap-
proved March second, nineteen hundred
after due advertisement for proposals,
to enter into contracts within the limit
of cost hereby fixed, and subject to ap-
preparations to be made by Congress,
for the erection of said building COM
plete, including heating apparatus, ele-
vators, and approa ;hes, and the removal
of the present building or buildings of
the Department of Agriculture on said
grounds.
Sec. 2. That the supervision of the
construction Of said building shall be
placed in charge of an officer of the
Government especially qualified for the
duty, to be appointed by the Secretary
of Agriculture, subject to the approval
of the head of the Department in which
such officer is employed, who shall re-
ceive for his additional services an in
crease of twenty five per centum of his
present salary, such increase to be paid
out of the appropriation for the building
herein authorized.
SEC. 3. That the limit of cost for the
construction or said building complete,
including heating apparatus, elevators,
and approaches, and the removal of the
present building or buildings of the De-
partment of Agriculture is hereby fixed
at two million dollars, and no contract
shall be entered into or expenditure
authorized in excess of said amount.
Mr.. Bryan is as true to his fallacies
as was Mrs. Micawber to the unhappy
Wilkins. He will never desert them,
even though every other citizen turn
against them. Mr.. Bryan is rapidly
assuming the attitude of the one juror
who could not find verdict owing to
the obstinacy of the other eleven
Montana Record.
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
Tbe Conservative.
THE WESTERN
OIL ASSOCIATION.

prosperity UI VIIe
Western Oil Association, located at
Denver, Colorado, and Of which Mr.. @.
M. Hicklin, born and raised in Nebraska
City, and son-in-law of Mr.. Geo. w
Hawke, is a very active, prominent and
useful member. This company, il
seems, has oil enough to grease the
axles of all the business of all the world
Its properties are in Colorado, Utah
Wyoming and New Mexico. They
seem to offer fine opportunity fol
conservative investments.
The Conservative, 1902-01-02
STOPS THE COUGH AND WORKS OFF
THE COLD.

Laxative Bromo. Quinine Tablets cure
cold in one day. No Cure, no Pay.
Price 25 cents.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28

quainted with the parental sources Of its salient
elements. The first scenes are laid in a house
afflicted with the worst kind of poverty, the
kind that is obliged to conceal itself well as it
may. Nowhere in the body of the book Is the
strain of hardship lost sight of for a moment
1t is only at the end that Paul Kelver begins to
enjoy the smiles of fortune But all through the
tale MIR. Jerome remembers that life is rarely all
hard work. OF all gloom. His hero makes friends
with men and women who bring gayety and
hope to the management of the bitter problems
Of existence, and find ourselves, turn
these pages In company that is. on the whole.
very beguiling. The story is not any too well
constructed. Mr.. Jerome will have to do better
work than this before can take him very
seriously as a serious novelist. But as a first
book In an unfamiliar field, it does him credit
and offers promise OF better things to come. 1t
is said that Paul Kelver' is to some extent
autobiographical. Perhaps this accounts for its
failure to quite justify itself The autobio-
graphical novel abounds in pitfalls for the
author. The next time Mr.. Jerome writes
novel he would better look out upon the world
at large for his material.
''Vive PEmpereur' is picturesque little story
Of an Irish girl in whose veins the blood of the
great Napoleon is supposed to flow. Talleyrand
and several other Individuals including the
Sololei fllzsIeTdIu Wnom the heroine mas al
ways regarded her father conspire to place
her upon the throne of France. Here is a
situation for the romancer Miss Andrews
handles it with spirit and achieves fairly eff
fective results, though she leaves us regretting
that she has not done more with her certainly
plquant motive. Still, have enjoyed the
dramatic hutter communicated to her pages.
and we have found the heroine a Thoroughly
hkable young person
Mr.. Brady's novelette,. Woven with the Ship"
is not bad narrative of adventure The his
tor1cal elements introduced are treated with
tact and the action, if rather artificial in
ment is nevertheless diverting The short
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
was in the novest's company at the moment

was in the novelist's company at the moment
that he conceived the germ of the idea of "Dr
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" He was inveghng
against man with whom ne had done business
and with whose methods he dissatisfied.
The mans name Samuel Creggan, some
thing like it. He's a who trades the
Samuel Stevenson declared in his rather finikin
musical Scots voice He receives you with
SamueIs smile on his face; with the gesture of
Samuel he invites you into a chair; with Sam
uels eyes cast down in self-depreciation he tells
you how well satisfied his clients have always
been with his dealings; but every and
again you catch glimpse of the Creggan peep
ing out like white ferret. Creggan's the real
man; SamueIs only superficial. "
Authorship but fragile staff for young
Brookfield, and though he had read for the
bar there were no comforting signs of briefs
So he sought the stage, having for the actors
profession taste and much talent The
record Of his life and observations in the the
atre is half comic and half sadas life is, indeed.
on the real stage. He offers US many graphic
little notes actors and acting, with ilum-
native stories by the way. He gives us to
understand that it is almost impossible to judge,
even alter years of experience, what will go
with an audience and what will not.
remember piece which produced at the
Comedy Theatre by popular author and very
strongly cast, which amused us all so mucn
that We could hardly rehearse it Hawtrey used
every now and then to warn US: Now, don't
speak too soon on that; there's certain 10 be a
big laugh, and we don't want them TO miss the
next line" We rehearsed for six weeks. ON
the first night nothing went wrong-but the
piece. There was not one laugh nor one round
Of applause from start to finish. But remem-
ber-to HaWtrey's great credit-that when the
curtain fell he turned to and said Ladies'
and gentlemen, thank you very much for work.
ing so admirably in such dscOuraging cfrcum-
stances. However people may account for the
failure of the play. they can't blame the act
ing" l have heard other managers on similar
occasions address their company in very diff
ferent terms from these We took off the COM
edy in ten days, during which we rehearsed as
a stop-gap a conventional three act farce with
literary pretensions- l think it ran for
year.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28

that ''those who love to live among the saints
and angels of Perugino and Botticelli will hardly
be very in their daily life These re-
productions of old masters have been assembled
simply with view to placing before children
without any explanation of their meaning, ex-
ampfes of beauty In the contemplation of which
their budding natures cannot but be stimulated
along profitable lines 1t is hoped that they
may be framed for the schoolroom. where they
would unquestionably do a great deal OF good.
There eighteen plates in the collection.
photographers of generous size, printed in red
on good paper. With a single exception, the
works chosen are by Italian masters. One of
Carpaccio's enhancing little minstrels is here,
the loveliest of Melozzo's angels in the sacrsty
of st. Peters is included, and there are equally
inspiring works by Perugino. BOtticeIH. Raphael.
Michael Angelo. Andrea del Sarto. Titan and
others. We especially glad to see that the
selection is not confined TO nfantiIe or angelic
subjects alone. One of the best of the plates is
after Michael Angelo's Delphic Sibyl. The es-
sential appeal of this masterpiece is made, of
course, to the mature mind but the childish
imagination may we'll be touched bv it's grand
eur. and led insensbly to appreciation of the
higher reaches of art In and out of the school
room this publication deserves the heartiest sup
port
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
FICTION.
THE SERIOUS MOOD OF A MAN ACCUS-
TONED TO BEING FUNNY

PAUL KELVER. By Jerome K. Jerome 12mo,
PIP. iv, 424. (Dodd, Mead & Coz
VIVE LEMPEREUR. By Mary RAYMOND Ship
man Andrews Illustrated by f. c. Yohn. 12no,
PIP. 159. (Chares Scribners SOnsJ
WOVEN WITH THE SHIP A Novel of 1865 To-
Getber with Certain Other VeraciouS Tales of
Various Sorts By Cyrus Townsend Brady,
Liz ID. With many illustrations. Emo, PIP. xiii,
sos. Philadelphia: j. b. Lippincott Company
NAPOLEON JACKSON, THE GENTLEMAN OF
THE PLUSH ROCKER. BY Ruth McEnery
Stuart. With pictures by Edward Potthast.
l2mo, pp 1872. CThe Century Company
Mr.. Jerome, like all professional funny men,
has wearied of being funny all the time, and in
Paul Kelver' he has given himself the reaxa-
ton of being serious. OF course, he cannot keep
his Eumor out of every page In more than one
place, indeed, he is decidedly amusing But in
the main he is faithful to a grave purpose-the
exploitation of the kind of life led in London by
d man with no financial resources but plenty of
ambition and ability. The narrative begins at
an early stage of the heros experience. We are
given abundant light on his childhood; in fact
this phase of the story threatens to become a
bore. But it is presently made clear that in
sketching Paurs earliest years, and in portray
ing his father and mother less at full
length, the author aims at enlarging view of
the young fellows character by making Us ac-
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28

stories filling the second half OF the volume are
ingeniousIy devised and are told with clever
ness.
In Napoleon Jackson Mrs Stuart has
sketched Southern interior with delightful
humor The negro who gives the book It's title
is a lazy creature, married to a stout Washer-
woman who, instead of railing at his 1dieness'
finds her happiness in making him comfortable
While she works at her tub with her pickanih-
nies around her, Napoleon sits at his ease in the
rocker which she has procured for him by dint
of accommodating sixty "cow-pons," purchased
with sixty cakes of ''Rench- -me-quick Soap. An
effort is made by certain we'll meaning white
observers of NapoleOn's bliss to make him
ashamed of himself and to put him to work, but
the outcome of their enterprise is hardly what
they expect. We will not spoil the readers
pleasure by disclosing the facts 1t is sufficient
to say that Mrs. Stuart makes very fresh and
original story out of her humble material
New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
CROMWELL s DESCENDANTS.
From Harrison's Cromwell"

From Harrison's Cromwell"
1t is a curious example of the persistence Of
the English governing families and Of their close
fntermarriages that the blood Of Oliver Crom-
well still runs through female lines in the veins
of the following well known persons: Marquis
of Ripon, Earls of Chichester, Morley, Claren-
don, Cowper, heir presumptive to the earldom
of Derby, Lord Ampthill, Lord Walsingham.
Countess of Rothes, Mr.. Charles Villiers, M. p:
Sir John Lubbock M. p; Sir f. W. Frankland,
Sir Charles Strickland, Sir II. E. F. Lewis, Sir
w. Worsley, Sir w. Payne Gallwey. the Astleys
of Checkers Court, the Polhills of Kent, the
Tenants of Glamorganshire, the families of
Vyner Lister, Berners, Nicholas, Gosset, Pres
colt, Field, Mr. S. r. Gardiner, the historian,
etc, During the present century at least seven
persons descended from the Protector have held
office under the Crown. including one Prime
Minister, Lord Goderich; one Foreign Secretary,
Lord Clarendon; two Lords Lieutenant of Ire
land and Viceroy in India.
Among those who have married descendants
of Cromwell are the Earls of Darnley, Lytton,
Lathom, Lord Stanley of Preston, Sir w. Har-
court, M p; Sir A Borthwick, NJ. P; Mr..
Samuel Whitebread, M. P The late Sir George
Cornwall Lewis the statesman and author was
a descendant of the Protector, and Lady Theresa
Lewis, his wife, author of work In illustration
of Lord Clarendon, was descendant at of
Oliver the Protector and of Edward Hyde, the
Chancellor.