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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
ENORMOUS LOSSES
DE Ex-TAMMANY CHIEF DICK
 CRoKER ON THE TURF.
1000, 900 to the Bad-His Turf Ventures Have All Proved Un- prodtable-Some of His Loss
 es-Some Inside Facts.

Whether Richard Croker will continue his racing venture in England or adhere to- his announced intention of reducing his breeding stud and racing stable in preparation for temporary retirement IS sin doubt.
 The ex-chieftain of Tammany Hall, 1t weeks ago on retirement, but the recent victory of the horse Gladwin, one of M4r. Croker's own breeding. may have the effect of keeping him in racing
 Only a short time before the victory of rsladwin MT. Croker was a big buyer at 6*les of English blood stock, and paid 1Afge prices for several high-bred yearl- angB from one of the greatest breeding establishments.
 Should he decide to keep up the battle &er turf honors, however. he will race on a<1arger scale next season than ever be- fore. for with the products of his own farm at Vantage and the horses that were bought in his name at the Beres- ford and succeeding sales, he will have one of the largest racing establishments in England. His persistence in this direc- ton makes Mr. Croker a remarkable figure fin the turf world. for none save hifneeE can estimate the amount of zsAoney that his experience on the Eng v1ish turf has cost him. while in the eight seasons that his colors have been known on English race courses, his victories have been few and far between.
 None of the great events that have re- warded the Keene stable, William C.. Whitney ,ano Otner Americans WnO nave raced abroad. however, has fallen to him AZ a business venture, Mir. Croker's es- Establishment at Vantage has been co aoesal failure, every department having caused loss. from the kennels to the dairy farm at Moat House. But the losses through these are inflnitesimal compared with the cost of keeping up the racing stable that is MT. Croker's chief pride. Pierre Lorillard, after each season of 1li-success on the English turf, careless A \ he was of expense, would retire in dis ~rsast and wait till he had something to Tsre." and in latter days James R. Keens. with all his millions. has cut down his English racing stable to the fewest pos nibie horses in "off years"
 hezan racing abroad, in 1885, however, He has never wavered, though reports freauently have been sent out that he ssfanded to quit the turf. these reports sven going to the length of stating that 9Sr. Croker had announced his intention ef resiring. The Vantage horses are bred
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
Smoke Consuming Device.
Philadelphia North American.
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Philadelphia North American.
 After working for thirty-two years, Will liam S. Hughes. machinist. of 501 North Sixth Street, has perfected a smoke consuming device for locomotive anG other engine boilers. MT. Hughes inVen- ton has been tested successfully by Cor nelius Vanderbilt, who is backing the in- ventor financially.
 MT. Vanderbilt made a trip in a loco- motive on the Mammalian elevated rail road last Tuesday night. He found that a full pressure of steam, equal to that maintained with hard coal. was kept up with soft coal, and that neither smoke nor sparks came from the locomotive funnel during the trip from Harlem "a the battery. With Mir. Vanderbilt in the engine was F. A. Willard. wealthy yachtsman, who Is also interested in pro- noting the enterprise.
 MT. Hughes said yesterday that the in- Vention is entirely in the hands of MT. Vanderbilt and Mr. Willard.
 Tt has been a long wait for success. 7 said MT. Hughes. Tt was not until three months ago, when the device was called to the attention of MT. Vanderbilt, that l had much hope of reward although l knew that the invention was successful.
 MT. Hughes says that the device saves fuel and makes a perfect combustion of black smoke The double arch can be put into any locomotive tireboX and boiler In three hours.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
GREAT TREES MOVED.
For the Improvement of Country Seats on Long Island.
Brooklyn Fla gle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 No side of the life of New York-and New York today means not merely its center of city blocks, but the broad lands surrounding them as well-is more int~ esting than the splendid way men of wealth and fashion have thrown them selves into making country places. One year a bare hillside, a field. a ragged shore front; then rumors of it's pur- chase from the farmers who have owned it for generations go about; suddenly a sale is recorded at the county seat, and the next year, transformation has been wrought Where but a few months he- fore there was undaveloped country, now a summer home stands. all but complete,
 Before all else is the moving of great trees, thirty, forty. fifty feet high, that is making possible this spectacular weav- ing of Long Islands North Shore into a succession of beautiful country places. Nor has it been the development of the North Shore alone. The hills on the is lands backbone. 70 the north of Hemp stead, Heath and the Meadowbrook Plain have shared this upbuilding in no less a degree. Together they have brought into being new country, perhaps thirty miles in length and four in breadth.
 The man who would have a country
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

to race under the Croker colors, and for the full eight years that he has been connected with the turf of England, MT. Croker has trained and raced his own stock, while each year he has gone deep CT into racing by the purchase of prom ising yearlings and mares for his farm.
 Added to that he has been interested in a number of losing racing ventures in connection with American racing, so that in eight years he has disbursed many times the amount that his horses have earned for him in his two years on the turf, in 1893 and 1894.
 At the beginning his luck was as good as 1t now is bad, for when, at the ad- vice of M F. Dwyer. MT. Croker bought a stable of race horses in the early part of 1893, he secured the best that were to be purchased, Mir. Dwyer selecting them for him. MT. Croker at once be- came a power on the turf. V It is ind- cative of the amount of money that the ex-Tammany chieftain has invested in racing that he paid $54,000 for three horses at the very beginning of his turf career. and afterward bought others, with the re- result that he had $l00,OOO in horses be- fore the New York season opened.
 At the sale of the F. A. Ehret stable he bought in. the. name of the Manhat- tarf-Sss aSS Srpe cSlt Dobbins for $2O,2OO. the lilly Yorkville Belle for s24,OO0 and the fillv Fairy for $10,000. The investment was sound, however, for in his first sea- son MT. Croker's horses won a total of $S4, ,2O5, and but for one bit of misfortune that a single two-year-Old better than Dobbins was,Iacing that year, MT Cro- ker would have led the list of winning owners for America. At that the Croker stable was second on the winning list, the Keene stable, in which was the great colt Domino, being the only establish ment to win a larger amount.
 In 1894 MT. Croker was third on the list of winning American owners, with a total of $75,990 won He was phenom- enally successful in his betting ventures also, and that perhaps may have led hlm to the conclusion that the turf of fered opportunity for making money. The luck that attended his first investments however, was such as falls to the lot of few turfmen, and in his case has never been repeated, Racing ventures that cost great sum of money were made by him about that time the two most disastrous being the Croker invest ment in the Monmouth Park Racing As sociation at Long Branch. which track was promptly closed by the anti-gambling element in New Jersey, and the Crok sr purchase of a half interest in the breed- ing stock of Belle Meade Farm. at Nash vile, Tenn. from Gen. w. II Jackson.
 The money put in the race track was total loss, but after finding that he had made a bad bargain with General Jackson, MT. Croker sold his share of the breeding stock back to the original owner for price estimated to be about a quarter of the $250.00O that he had paid for it.
 In 1895 another unfortunate venture was decided on by MT. CrOker who, fol- lowing the advice of NJ, F. Dwyer, and in company with that turfman went to England in what was at the time termed an American invasion" of the English turf. All the Croker and Dwyer horses
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
Boy Cured of Collie After Physicians
 Treatment Had Failed.

My boy when four years old was taken with collie and cramps III his stomach sent for the doctor and he injected mor- phine. but the child kept getting worse I then gave him half a teaspoonful ol Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy. and in half an hour he was sleeping and soon recovered.-F. L. Wilkins, Shell Lake, Wis. Mir. Wilkins Is bookkeeper for the Shell Lake Lum- per Co. For sale by E. G. Fowler, Drug giSt. -adV.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

feits that must pile up and the amount that MT. Croker has lost in betting, and the total sum in American money that the ex-chief of Tammany Hall has pour .d into racing in England will reach into the millions
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
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No Cordela. we can't all be hero-wo-- shippers; some of us must be heroes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

Only a mother can understand what 1t means to let child pound the piano and beat ths drum, if 1t wishes, ito keep 1t quiet"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

October Sd and 4th, 1852 two days of
carnage where many brave men died
and many were distinguished for valor,
Gen. Van Dorm named one man for
conspicuous heroism. OF Col W. P,
Rogers, commander of the Second Tex
as Infantry, who was born and reared
to manhood in Monroe county, Missis
sippi, and moved to Texas after his
term as captain, with the gallant regi'
ment CT Col Jefferson Davis in. the war
with Mexico had expired, he says: 81
cannot refrain from mentioning here
the conspicuous gallantry Of noble
Texan whose deeds at Corinth are the
constant theme of both friends and
foes AS long as courage, manliness,
fortitude, patriotism and honor exist
the name Of Rogers will be revered and
honored among men He fell in the
font of battle and died b5neoth the col
ors of his regiment, in the very centre
Of the enemys stronghold. HE sleeps,
and glory is his sentinel" In memory
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
sne.cial Occaslon.

Summer School Knoxville, Tenn, June
19-JulY 80 1902. Reduced Rates via
Southern Railway
For the above occasion the Southern
Railway will sell tickets from all points
on its Lines to Knexville Tenn, and
return at one fare for the round trip
selling June 10th, 18th, 18th, 2Sth, Goth
and 3Oth and July 18th, 18th, and 18th
with final limit for return passage Aug.
18th 1902 For further information
call on any Ticket Agent of the South
can or write,
G. A, Benscoter,
A, G. P. e., Sodtnirn Railway Co.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

Of Col. Rogers and the brave men who
fell with him, large and beautiful
monument has been erected by the peo-
pie Of Mississippi and Texas over the
grave of Rogers, who was buried where
he fell with military honors by the Fed
eral commander, Gen Rosencrans,afte
the body had been almost deprived Of
its outer clothing by the Federal sol
diers in their desire to collect strips Of
it as mementoes of the deeds Of this
brave man
On October 10th, 1865, the first legis
lature elected after the war, assembled
and the first governor Of Mississippi
elected, in his inaugural address, among
other things, said; The South, having
ventured all on the arbitrament Of the
sword, has lost all save honor, and now
accepts the result in good faith. 1t is
our duty to address ourselves to the
the promotion of peace and order-to
the restoration of the law the faith of
the constitution, and the stability and
prosperity of the Union; to cultivate
amiable relations with our sister states,
and establish our agricultural and com
mercial prosperity upon more durable
foundations trusting that the lessons
taught by the rebellion will not be lost
either to the North OF the South; that
free men once enlightened viii not sub
nit to wrong OF injustice, that sectional
aggression will meet with sectional re-
sistance, and that the price Of political
perfdy is blood and carnage" The
Governor who uttered these sentiments
was the mao who so disguished himself
at Gettysburg on July 2nd, 1858 that
his great corps commander, Longstreet,
in referring to the battle afterward
Southern Historical Papers, vol. ", p
65,), singled him out from 1900 Of his
comrades = Mississippians GeOrgians,
South Carolinians, Alabamians and
Texans to illustrate the intrepid dql
ing of all the rest in what he did not
hesitate to pronounce the best three
hours fighting ever done by any troops
on any battle field" That mans name
was Benjamin g. Humphreys.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

The legislature of Mississippi recog
nized the devotion and loyalty of the
state to the cause in toe following reso-
luton, adopted Jan'y 27th 1862: That
the women of the state of Mississippi
for their exertions in behalf of the
cause of southern independence, are
entitled to the hearty thanks of every
lover of his country, and this legislature
acting from a sense Of justice and Of
gratitude, extend to them individually
and collectively the hearty thanks of
The people Of this state for their noble
efforts in aiding the cause of our com
mon country"
In his inaugural address to the legis
lature, November 10th, 1868, on this
subject, Governor Clark said: One of
the most gratifying indications Of the
times is the resolute spirit of industry
manifested by onr women The spin
ming wheel is preferred to the harp, and
loom makes music of loftier patriotism
and inspiration than the KEYS Of the
piano"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

Maj. Gen. Lafayette Nc Laws, in a
paper read before the Georgia Histori-
cal Society on Gettysburg some time in
1878, had this to say Of the perform
ance Of Gen Vim. Barksdale and his
men on that day: "Barksdale, who, as
1 have said, had been exceedingly i'm
patient for the order to advance, and
whose enthusiasm was shared in by his
command, was standing ready to give
the word, not far from me; and so soon
as it was signifed to me I sent my aide
de camp, Captain G. B. Lamar, Jr., to
carry the order to Gen. Barksdale, and
the result [ expressed in Capt Lamsr's
words; 81 had witnessed many charges
marked in every way by unfinching
gallantry-indeed, had had the honor
Of participating when in the line with
the First Georgia Regulars, but I never
saw anything to equal the dash and
heroism of the Mississippians You r9
member how anxious Gen. Barksdale
was to attack the enemy, and his eager
ness was participated IN by all Of his
officers and men, and when l carried
him the order to advance, his face was
radiant with joy. He was in front of
his brigade, hat off, and his long white
hair reminded me Of the white plume
Of Navarro 1 saw him as far as the
eye could follow still ahead of his men
leading them ON. The result you know,
You remember the picket fence in front
of the brigade? I was anxious to see
how they would get over and around it.
When they reached it, the fence disap-
peared as if by magic, and the slaugh-
ter Of the red breeched zouaves on the
other side was terrible ''Barksdale,
gallentlY leading his men in the terrific
fight, fell mortally wounded, The last
words of that ardent patriot to fall on
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
A War Story,

After Gettysburg, Longstreet's corps
was sent to East Tennessee and entered
upon that campaign which furnished
to the procession Of great battles Of the
world that of Chickamauga with all
of its grandeur and gloom, regulations
made OF lost, cheers and howls. TRACE
dies and comedies-comed,es beg
cause these are incident to ali great un-
dertakings. And during this period
one of the funniest thing gs Of the war
occurred
The Confederates were in confident
country, already impoverished by three
years Of warfare and SO strict orders
had been issued against fOraging.
Our soldiers had plenty to eat sweet
potatoes cowpeas and hominy for
breakfast; cowpeas, hominy and sweet
potatoes for dinner, and hominy, sweet
potatoes and cowpeas for supp9r-sO
they were dOing well, a complete
change Of bill Of fare each meal-that
is, there was change of the order in
which the different Tor indifferent ar
ticles were served.
General Humphreys, Major McNeilly,
DIR. Gibson, Captain Baskett, Captain
Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Bob Simms and
Drummer Gildart messed together and
got up hungry regularly three times
daily after meals like follow takes
tonic.
All were getting very tired of this
menu, so Captain Fitzgerald sent home
for his negro, Sandy Sandy was fa-
nous provider. He had been with the
mess in Virginia and had been sent
home, out now his services were very
much needed One day shortly after
his arrival all were at dinner and all az
hungry as Confederate soldiers could be
when their appetltes had been sharpen
ed by news of a good dinner. The
General had asked the blessing and
looked awfully severe with his heavy
shaggy eyebrows and wrinkled front,
when in came the cook with one of the
most magnificent pieces of roast pork
ever prepared to tickle the palate of
mortal man. Beautifully brown and
done to a turn the delicious aroma fill
ed the nostrils and the rayaging antici-
pations made the poor, hungry soldiers
wipe their mouths, when in the fercest,
most stentorian voice the General cried
out: Where did this pork come fromY
The poor cook trembled and all the rest
of the mess thought that the General
was carrying discipline too id fal
and wished they had eaten in the kitch
en- tent. But the cook replied, SANDY
fotch it here, sir" "Then send Sandy
here at once" In came Sandy Mean
while every fellow was getting maddel
and madder and feeling like pack Of
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
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Gxf5-acf0 of Interest Hom
Confederate History

In July. 1868, two ways of approach
from the north to the Yazoo remained,
one through Yazoo pass, the Coldwater,
and the Tallahatchie, and one through
Steeles Bayou and Deer Greek. An ex-
pedition of four gunboats, under the
command of Smith, and six thousand
men on transports under Gen. Ross,
was sent to try the first, and Admiral
Porter and Grant in person made a
reconnaissance on Deer Creek.
The expedition down Coldwater and
Tallahatchie, led by the powerful iron
clad Chillicothe, was met by General
Loring, who constructed Fort Pember-
ton with cotton bales, covered with
earth, on the narrow neck of land just
west of Greenwood, and obstructed the
TallahatcLie with raft and the sunken
steamer Star of the West. The Federal
gunboats began an attack March 1lth,
but Loring, with some Louisiana troops
and the Twentieth and Twenty Sixth
Mississippi, easily held his ground.
The Federals were to make grand at
tack on the 10th, few we'll placed can
non shots put the Chillicothe out Of
action. A day or two later, Colonel
Wilson, the Federal engineer in charge,
reported that His Excellency, Acting
Admiral Commodore Smith left
today for a more salubrious climate,
very sick, giving it as his opinion that
the present force of gunboats couldn't
take the two rebel guns in front But
before the expedition had returned to
the Mississippi it was rein forced by
General QuimbY with part of his divis-
ion, and the entire force to renew the
attack on Fort Pemb9rton, which was
reinforced by Gen. D. H, Maury with
Featherstones brigade and six guns
This second attempt resulted in nothing
but bombardment of the fore during
three days, and On the night of April
4th, the Federals again retreated. In
meeting the first attack Col D. R. Rus
sell, Lieut.. Colonel W. N. Brown, and
H. Cantey Of the Twentieth, were
mentioned for skilfull service. Col. A
E. Reynolds and Major Liddell did en-
terprising duty during the second
attack
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

On May 2nd, 1868, President Davis
telegraphed Governor Pettus; Can
you aid General Pemberton by furnish
ing for short service militia or persons
exempt from military service, who may
temporarily organize to repel the inva-
sion?" The stout-hearted and iron
willed war governor answered back the
same day; THE people are turning
out, from fifty to sixty years of age.
Mississippi is more seriously threatened
than ever before. Reinforcements ne
cessary. Send me arms and ammuni-
tion, Our people will fight" And so,
from go, GOO free white men in the state
in 1908, had furnished to the Confed-
eracy 63, 9O8 soldiers. (See House Jour
nal, November, 1862, and November,
1863, Appendix, D. 76) There has been
no such exhibition of patriotism since
Bruce and Wallace left the crqgs OF
Scotland for battle.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

During the second days battle at Shi
loh, Gen. Chalmers, with his Mississip-
plans was attacked early in the morn
ing to the left Believing that one bold
charge might change the fortunes of
the day, he seized the battle-fag from
the color bearer of the Ninth Mississip-
pi, and calling upon his exhausted bri-
gade to make one more effort. With a
wild shout the whole brigade rallied
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

Constant motion jars the kidneys
which are held in place in the body by
delicate attachments. This is the rea-
son that travellers, trainmen, street car
men, teamsters and all who drive very
much suffer from kidney disease in
some form Foley's Kidney cure
strengthens the kidneys and cures all
forms of kidney and bladder disease.
Geo. H. Hausan, locomotive engineer,
Lima, o., writes: Constant vibration
Of the engine caused me great deal Of
trouble with my kidneys, and got no
relief until used Foley's Kidney Cure. 3"
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