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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
But the court is really bird,

Some interest is developing over the
fact that Congressman Charles Curtis,
who now represents the Topeka District
In the House, has announced as a candi-
date for the United States Senate from
Kansas There would be nothing singular
in such an announcement were it not that
he is part Indian. and if ne is elected he
will be the first man with Indian blood in
him, SO far as we are aware, to occupy
that high position. There is no constitu-
tionaI or other reason why even full
blood Indian should not he a Senator. but
heretofore those who have such an ad-
mixture of races haze not aspired so high.
II Curtis does walk Off with the scalps
OF all his opponents at his belt, it will be
a feather in his headdress.a-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
HERE'S A BIRD.

The SUPP eme Court of Kansas, or some
member of it, is a bird. We are not at
all sure of the species, though it may be
q dodo. The court had liquor case be-
fore it recently and got off this stilted
deliverance:
Whiskey In the abstract, whiskey gen.
ericaly, is by the decree of public senti-
ment quarantined along with smallpox,
leprosy and cholera. 1t is an Ichabod,
for saken. cast out and deSpised, Cool
gosz among the commodities of COM
emerce, and yet we are enjoined to give it
place with the staplel and staff of life,
Ind catalogue it with beef and beans and
bread.
Now, we do not knew anything about
Nv hiskey in the abstract" We thought
we'd seen it in almost every kind of YES
Del, from a canteen to a still worm-or
sicc versa-but never saw any In an abb
ltract. But, considered under any rule of
lbsract be quarantined? We quaran-
1ne existing things, not abstract ones.
Then note the bad names the court gives
his abstract proposition. Ichabod and
Ezolgosz. How did it come to leave out
Bacchus and Cotytto, and all the rest of
Them?
When the court talks about putting
pghiskey on the same level with beef, it
will raise howl of protest from all over
abe Union except in Kansas. The people
OF that State can get whiskey when they
want 1t. but there are people elsewhere
who can't do without it, and if it is put
up as high as beef, they'll rebel. Bread
and bean prices are not so bad, but the
drinkers will all draw the line at beef
comparisons.
But the court is really a bird.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
THERE WILL BE SQUEEZING.

We are edited by statement in The
London Globe to the effect that the ques-
ton of finding seats in the Abbey for all
who will be present at the coronation OF
King Edward has been settled. 1t was
found that there were not enough sesss
for all expected visitors If each was al
lowed unlimited space. so they have set
tied it by allowing eighteen inches of
space for Duchess and fifteen for ladies
of lower rank. This is very much like
old Procrustes and his famous bed which
all his captives were made to fit- II they
were too short. they were stretched and
il too long they were cut off.
Unfortunately for this scheme, even
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
cRuMPAcKER's SCALP.
May Be Taken by an Indiana Demo
crat.

crat.
Monticello Qnd.) Special to Indianapolis
Sentinel.
There are stormy days ahead for Con-
gresham Crumpacker. HIS wears Ss Gn
opposed supremacy in the Tenth D1strict
are over and his big majority STANDS
threatened with the fate which the PIC
turesque language of the western plains
promises the SNOWFALL IN the Woria Dc
yond the Jordan. The Democratic Con-
gressional convention held here yester-
day has resulted In filling the hearts OF
the district Democracy with courage
and under the leadership OF capt. WIZ
liam Guthrie of Monticello the campaign
which Is to ensue promises to deVeiop
an aggressiveness which will give the
Republican Congressman more troupie
than he has ever before seen IN oie
bunch. The undisputed strength OF the
Democratic nominee, his brilliancy as
campaign orator and his personal .popu-
larity are elements which are aireadE
causing uneasiness in the ranks or feo-
eral officeholders, and the determination
and unity of the Democrats OF the DIS
trict add a most disquieting uncertainty
to the situation as viewed from the Re-
publican standpoint. l..
pronounced and definite. 1t comes from
various sources and causes, and the in,
dictmcrt against him may be summed
up something like this:
First-His disposition to ignore the
wishes and advice of his party leaders,
in an attempt to carve for himself per-
sonal fame and make for himself a per-
sonal reputation. -,
Second-His attitude on the force hill
question. -,
Thrd-His close connection with the
trusts.
Fourth-His personal unpopularity.
II is on the first count that Mr.. Crun-
packer will meet his first adverse wind
in his coming race. His attitude during
the present session of Congress has been
distinctly unsatisfactory to his party
colleagues apd he will find himself on
his own resources and without party
assistance in his campaign. During the
session he has frequently clashed with
the administration programmed on the
high moral grounds of independence OF
thought and action, but because he mas
insisted on footing the Crumpacker horn
in the Crumpacker interest without re-
gard to party results. Many OF the Re-
quietly whetted their bowies for him. and
he now stands a fair chance to sail the
troubled Tenth District seas throughout
the campaign without sighting friendly
national committee sail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
TT Is ENDED.

Whatever prejudices or predictions any
Americans may have had for or against
the Beers or the British. we can all re-
ioice in the rame of a common humanity
that the war in South Africa Is ended.
That each may have had wrongs to COM
plain of is possible. That neither Boer
nor Briton was wholly free from blame
is doubtless true. That the war might
have been avoided by mutual concessions
and mutual forbearance is possible.
Which was right and which was wrong,
or whether either was altogether right or
altogether wrong, is only known to a
higher intelligence than ours. We only
knew that a cruel and devastating war
has been waged for almost three years,
and that 1t Is ended.
In whatever way we look at it, or
whatever side we may espouse, war is
always cruel. AS Lowell says:
Ez fer war. call 1t murder
There you hev it plain an fiat;
! don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.
Benjamin Franklin declared that there
never was a good war nor bad peace"
We may not go that far. but we do know
that there never was a war without cruel
ty and suffering, nor one which did not
leave behind it bitter pangs and sorrow
full memories Not many, perhaps, will
agree with Samuel Butler in one of his
speeches in Parliament, that IAN unjust
peace is to be preferred before just
war;" but we do know that it were bet
ter for a nation to submit to some wrong
rather than plunge into a war of which
no one can foresee the end. nor measure
the cost in blood and treasure.
When, at the beginning of the war, Dom
Paul Kruger declared that If England
succeeded it would be at a cost that
many looked on as the arrogant boast of
stubborn fanatic, but his prediction has
been fearfully realized. One billion and a
quarter of dollars is set down as a mod
crate estimate of the actual cost in money
to the Government of Great Britain, and
IL to that we add the incidental expenses,
the loss Of property. the interruption of
business, the increased cost of living, and
all other losses not included in the Gov
eminent estimates, we are prepared to
admit that Krugers was not vain
| boast. And although the actual loss of
life on the British size was small COM
pared to the results of other wars. the
dead and the wounded and the invalids
| help to make, up a total of cost which Is
well calculated to 'stagger humanity"
But, happily for the world and for hui
mainly, 1t has closed and the bloody
chapter in human history and human suf-
fering Is at an end. The right or the
wrong of it all need not be discussed
for all can join in rejoicing that 1t Is
ended. and. however we may look al
what has been done, we can unite in the
| hope that the injuries sustained are moi
irremediable, and that good will event
ually come to all parties in the struggle
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
TO ESCAPE WAR CLAIMS.
instruction in Cuba Against Spain
Declared a War.

Washington Special to New York World.
In order that the United States may
not be liable for the payment of $zo
OO0.O00 on sixteen claims arising out OF
the insurrection in Cuba. counsel for the
Government before the Spanish Claims
nrior to American Intervention a state Of
war existed In the island. This declara--
ton is accompanied by the statement
that Spain herself, through her Cover
r-General In Cuba, proclaimed the
fact that a state of war existed, and
after his declaration had been solemnly
confirmed by the home Government az
Madrid. a final Judgment was made ur
from which the law Of nations gives nc
appeal"
The solemn confirmation. of which
counsel for tho Government speaks. Is
that made by the Duke of Tetuan'
SPANS Minister for Foreign Affairs. in
an official note addressed to Minister
has for the first time been brought to
light.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

n NOTABLE EXTRACTS FNoM I
Y THE BIG DAILIEs' CoRkk- n
Y sPoNDENTs = $500


with the consent of the Senate. Inc
iegis,ative affairs of the Government
shall be placed in the hands s;,S OF .h 1--WE
branciies--an upper House. when snan
consist. in effect, of the members OF the
Philippine Commission, and a lower
House TO be elected by the inhabitants OF
the islands at a popular election.
The Senate bill provides for the com.
age of silver at its bullion value. II
does not propose any change In the ex-
isting system or value of the silver coins
now in use In the islands other tnan
to have them coined as Philipp6e DOL
coinage nrovision calls for the estab-
lishment of the gold standard and places
a fixed value upon the coins to be issueo
by the Philippine Government
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
The Copper Situation.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is asserted that there rarely has
been a time when consumption of copper
was so large as at present, and practi-
calIy every pound of copper which is now
being bought here, as well as that which
has been shipped abroad during the past
six months, is going into consumption.
The United Metals Selling Company sold
its entire output up to the list of June
at IL cents. Its July output was sold at
- cents. and its output for August has
now been sold at Il IL cents. AFTER this
has been disposed Of however, the trade
production, The belief is that the con-
sumption will this year he increased at
least 25>per cent, by reason of the drop in
the price from II to II cents a pound.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
irculation Doubled in Three Years.

That the circulation Of The Advertiser rs
NSadfly climbing upward Is demonstrated py
~ Aeures given IN the appended statenen,S,
1overing the actual daily issue Tor the mon'h
" May Just pasoed
FROM 4 comparative point OF view, these
2guras furnish much food for Thought for
Grlnr1rs the average daily circulation during
ihe past month has been 500: the average
6undays has been i4.643. The actual net
average gain of this May over last MAY ~
ID I'll: the Sunday average gain Is S.Soz,
Ssu2i to an increase of about one-third IN
tWelve months. 49, ,ooo
nsIxr three years ago. is simply amazing. In
3ksf period the daily average increase mas
Ten S7S2; the Sunday average increhse Il
- The percentages are relatively 9I.4s
~ lOI At In other words, The Advertiser
ATTY circulation has simply doubled IN the
unnk three years-and the end is not YET
= MAY. 1902.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
cuba,s Hopeful BEGINNING.

ST Louis PoSt-DlSpatch tDem.)
The Cuban republic is now a fully ac-
credited member of the family of ma
tons, with all the duties and responsible
ties of national independence. Its people
have the treasure for which they haV !.
struggled these many decades. The be-
ginning OF their national existence is
in good shape and they nave the good
will oe the whole world, Let them uss in
diligently the advantages they have and
Trey cannot fail 70 prosper and grow in
strength and influence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

The Portland Oregonian drops into an
cient history when it refers to the Penn
sylvania Legislature at a time when
that body was controlled by Democrats. :"
That was long ago, as political time
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

As Quay ard Hanna each has a State
of his own. they can afford to look with
commisseration, and possibly with con-
tempt, on those unfortunate politicians
who are forced to depend on the people
for success.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

The latest addition to our exchange list
is The Goosequill, just started at Oak
man, Walker Couney. town which has
had as many short-lived newspapers as
any of its size in Alabama. Henry C.
West is editor of the new venture and we
hone he will succeed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04
GUNNER MORGAN ASSIGNED.
Spanish War Hero to Act as Deck
Officer of Minneapolis.

Philadelphia Special to the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Chief Gunner Morgan of the navy.
whose work during the investigation of
the blowing up Of the Maine and In the
Spanish war together with his matri-
monial troubles and the difficulties which
attended his efforts to secure commits
sion in the navy. attracted so much at
tention, has been assigned to the cruiser
Minneapolis at League Island navy yard.
He will act as deck officer. The gunner
arrived at the island last night. His adj
vent was not expected by the officers
Morgan has twice sued his wife for di-
vorce on the grounds of desertion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

The immigration record in New York
was broken last month and contem-
porary says they were greater in num-
bers and poorer in quality than ever be-
fore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

The fact that Chicago man was first
to look into the crater Of Mount Pelee is
nothing for that city to be proud of. Chi
eaGo folks are accustomed to bad sights. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

the Democratic State Convention of Ten
nessee said 1t as mildly as they could
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

The astronomers say they have dis
covered new comet. but We bet it is ID
hot ball from Pelee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

To repudiate the present declaration OF
Democratic principles uhe Democrauc
platform, ia to annoua 20 that you are not
a democrat The latest platform defines
Demccrac until another Is made by a
national delega tie convention.-Mobiie
Item.
Pray explain, then, why the Alabama
State Convention in 1896 adopted a plat
form which utterly repudiated many of
the main features of the national plat
form of 1892, and asserted doctrines that
platform?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

paiiy Average. -. 80 ....1l,SSO
bunday Average. -. ...... l4,o4o
COMPARISONS.
Daily average for May. i9o2.... 500
Daily average for May. iaoi.... 1928
sunday average for May. 1902. l4.643
Sunday average for May, 1901. VI .osl
esso
wet gam ss...........s....'..ss.. o,oS@
Daily Average Gain Of. SO 23
l Sunday Average Gain Of. .S2 OF
w. A. scott, Circulation Manager of the
Iontgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn.
nys: The foregoing statement of The Ad-
Sertiser's daily circulation for the month OF
Nay, 1909. is true and correct, and compiled
litter all returns from newsboys, news agents
md left over copies have been deducted
w. A. SCOTT. Circulation Mgr
tworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd
day Of June. 1902, F. w. JACKSON,
Iseai-l N. p, EXC. J. T.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-04

1 Daily Average Gain Of. -. 80 90
l Sunday Average Gain Of SO OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
NOBBED by YALE STUDENTS.
Riot on the Campus Over a Ticket Specuia.
tor VINO Sold Football Tickets.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 20.-Two Yale
students tonight asked three spectators
in Yale-Harvard football tickets who stood
in front of the New Haven House Offering
two-dollar tickets for $40 II they really
wanted to sell the tickets. The specula-
tors said:
-Why, Of course. You can have them
from 81 to SO apiece"
Come over on the campus to my room, 4"
said one of the students. The trio Of specu-
lators walked across the street to the en-
trance between Osborn Hall and Wander
bilt. Five hundred students suTrounde d
them and two fed. The third one,
Loeb. was first knocked down by a blow
on the head. Half a dozen began to go
through his pockets after pulling of his
overcoat.
Don't kill me-" yelled Loeb as he lay on
the ground with the crowd shouting all
around him. While he was on his back he
Gays he got kick in the face and was hit
In the eye. The students found ten tickets
in his inside pocket, and these they took
from him.
Before they let him out Of their clutches
they sent the ten tickets over to the Office
of the Yale Football Association and got a
receipt for them, signed B. Ellsworth
On the receipt 1t was said that Loeb could
| get $50 for his ten tickets by calling at the
Office OF the football association In the
morning. They gave the receipt to Loeb
| and told him to leave town az soon as posi-
BILE or they would in ure him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
SHOT PIGEON, KILLED BOY.
small Arsenal Found In Homicidc's Room.
tcpt for His Protection"

Seven-year-old August LAUDER, whose
parents live at 2s9 Stag street, Williams
burg. was killed last evening by rifle
ball fired by Peter BumhoH, pigeon fan
cer, of 1855 Meserole street, who was shoot
ing at bird. Bumhoff hit the bird, and the
bullet sped along about two hundred feet ,
striking LAUDER in the back
The boy. who as on a roof, dropped
about twenty-five feet To the ground.
Some men discovered the boy had been
shot and sent to St. GATHERINGS Hospital
for an ambulance. On the arrival Of DR..
Flynn the boy was dead The body was
taken TO the Stage street station, ann de-
tectives sent out traced the shooting to
Bumhoff and arrested him at his home.
In his room were found two Winchester
rifles. several reviewers. horse pistol and
sword On the way TO the police station he
said he kept the weapons for his own pro-
lection because he had been robbed several
times. The police held him on charge of
lpmiCidp
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
MOLINEIN THtNkS MS FRIENDS
lie and Ills Father CalI on SO, eral Persons
In and Near 0ssining.

OssISISo. n. Y, Nov 90 Poland B. Noli.
reux and his father, Gen Edward +, Moli-
neux, arrived this morning at the Scarbor-
ough station. on one Of the carly morning
trains and walked to" Rockledge. the home
81 Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton 5. Arnold. Here
they paid their n: peC Is TO the good people
of the house, and MIR Arnold got his auto
mobile in readings ~ AID took bis visitors
up to the home of Mr.. and MIS-. Henry
G. Miller on Spring street, where another
call was made. The Millcrs and ArnoldS
were especially courteous 10 the General
and Mrs. Molineux while their son was
in the condemned cell in the prison. When
the ca Il on the Miller family had tcrmira ted,
the party went down to Sing Sing Prison
and young Nolineux tharkcd Warden
johnson, Principal Keeper ConrauRhton
and all the officials with whom he came
in contact during his confinement, for
their kind trotno' {.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
WOMAN ~ STCPOR Ar HOTEL.
IL. &. voorhees," on Murray IIili's REGISTER
Apparently Took (Odetne.

A midnight last night Policeman Mckay
of the West II irtieth street station was
called into the Murray Hill Hotel He was
taken to room POI on the second floor where
a young woman lay unconscious on a bed
Mckay summoned an ambulance from
Bellevue Hospital and the woman was re.
moved % the hospital
The dc ctor said the case appeared TO he one
of morphine poisoning.
Nothing was found To disclose the identity
Of tho young woman other than the fact
that she registered "a Il. G. Voorhees,, New
York city" At Bellevue prescription
was found in pocket Of her skirt. 1t
called for codaine. an alkaloid extracted
from opium.
At the hotel i, was said that the woman
had called up by telephone from the Man
haitian Hotel at 0 o'clock in the evening
and asked IL she could get a room They
said she could and she came down.
At II o'clock a room clerk was passing
her door and heard heavy breathing He
knocked on the door, but got no response.
He and several porters forced the door.
The woman lay on the bed half dressed.
DR.. McCreery, the hotel physician, tried to
revive her, but could not.
A pearl ring, gold watch, and purse
containing 50 90 were found on a dresser
in the room and there was a suit case con-
tanning several dresses.
The Manhattan Hotel people did not
recall her using their telephone.
The woman was made prisoner at the
hospital, being held as Suspicious per-
son" At 2 A. NJ. it was said she was in
a critical condition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
JOHN DREW'S GIFT TO HARVARD
Presents to the Univ ersity the Lowe
Theatrical Library Bought In London.

BosToN, Nov. 2O-The Harvard Univer-
sity library has received from John Drew .
the actor, a gift consisting Of collection
of the theatrical history and biography
left by the late Robert W. Lowe, who died
in London last summer.
The collection contains several hundred
extremely rare books and pamphlets. which
by special arrangement were offered to
Harvard for 81 coo before being placed on
general sale in London. Mr.. Drew bought
the collection and presented it to the uni
versity, thus making the collection Of books
and pamphlets on theatrical history in the
Harvard library probably the richest in
the United States.
In presenting the books Mr.. Drew writes:
The gift is free from any restrictions
OF conditions whatsoever. | regard it as a
great pr, ilege TO be permitted to offer this
collection to Harvard University and
rejoice that such an opportunity has been
presented to me"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-21
MARCONI GETS MESSAGES.
He says Improy enents Have Been Made
In Wireless Apparatus.

SYDNEY. Nova Scotia, Nov. 20. II do not
intend to give out any statement regard
ng the results of my experiments at Tai le
Head until these experiments have been
completed, said Marcon in an interview
with THE Sun correspondent this afternoon.
ANY statement made 10y me now might
only mislead the public, and prefer to wait
till my work here has been accomplished.
Az yet, this station is not fully equipped.
A large part of the machinery has not been
adjusted. and some of Il has not been I'M
packed. so you see that We are not yet IN u
position to do much experimenting.
Yes, will confirm the report that mes
sages were received by me on board the
Carlo Alberto in Sydney Harbor from the
station at Poldhu, Cornwall. am only too
pleased TO confirm any announcement
made by the Italiaa Government. but, az
cordng 10 the terms Of my agreement
with the G Dvernment. they are to max
public the results of my experiments or
board the warship, and cannot give yot
any further information regarding thosr
experiments a. a result Of my work here.
Several Improvements have been MAD,
both in the transmitting and receiving
apparatus. and We are now able to send AT
rate Of forty words minute, while a yea
ago our best speed was sixteen or seventeen
words a minute. have not yet decided
when l will leave here for Cape Cod, but
hope TO complete experiments here befor
sailing and will then make an announce