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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

news Spring is coming! After that you
watch out for our robins, the ones that
nest in the old seek-no-further tree at the
corner of the house. Whether it is the
same old pair that make such q fuss of
going to Housekeeping who can tell? They
look so much alike, but every year they
come. know that when that other symp-
tom Of the spring, spading up the garden,
appears, one of the robins flies down on
the uturned clod and gives a bold, quick
look at me, as who should say: How
about it? Huh? All right? jabs his head
down and snaps 1t back with pink fish,
worm writhing in his beak. / stand right
still and he hops nearer, fiercely plucking
out fish worms that do not want to die
until his beak looks like Joves eagles,
full of thunderbolts. He flies away and
comes again with a companion. Whether
1t Is his wife or oldest son I cannot say,
l think 1t must be his wife, she has such
a bossy way about her. I think she says,
Now, don't you be all day about it. A
bodyd think you had all the time they
was. Them eggs a-gittin' cold, ought to
leave The last words are choked by the
gulp she gives when he rams a fat and
squirming annelid down her gullet with
an alert air of: Hows that? Huh? All
right? Huh? He snatches up two at a
time and slaps them in. 'How'S that?
Huh? All right? Huh? and he keeps pop
ping in tidbits.
Between swallows she jaws at him,
| just because she can, about how those
eggs are chilling, and how he is the slow
est mortal that ever drew the breath of
| life, and If she had known-glup-if she
had known II was going to be this way
gulp-she never in the round wor-gulp-
| world would have consented-Mercy land!
| is he going to be all day picking up few
| little worms? And them eggs a-gittin
cold. He is swapping up big. long fish
worms that just miss being garter snakes
and tamping them down into her insides
| with staccato: There! How's that? All
| right? Huh? Here's another. Hows that?
| Huh? Feel better? Huh? More? All right
Here's one. Hows that? Touch the spot :?
| Huh? Not enough? All right. Here's a
| nice one. Good, huh? Wide, now. Oh, a
| daisyi More yet? and on on till at last
she snaps out: Good land! Dye think
I'm MADE of rubber? Oh! Why, 1 can
| hardly get my breath, I'm so full. No
more for me. My goodness! Them eggsr
and she gathers up her skirts and fits
The fnippy little fellows plucks a worm or
| two on his own account and gives his
| mead twitch that seems to say: oh,
don't know. 1 guess I'm a pretty good
provider, huh? Man of family by Ned"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

CREAM OF THE SPECIALS

the sugar differential. but with the under
standing that II the beet sugar Republic
cans in the House insist on Its retention
1t will be restored.
The Republican leaders of the Senate
do not believe that the opposition which
was so well organised few weeks ago
will stand oat against the administration
after bilf is reported to the Senate.
The Michigan Senator's. Burrows and
fiEht against reciprocity, have little to
say on the subject since the President be-
gan to parcel out desirable Offices to their
constituents. Within a few days c. H
Smith Of Jackson, has been appointed to
a Judgeship In the Philippine Islands An
other Michigan man is to be appointed
to succeed c. H. Ham as member of the
Board of General Appraisers. a position
which pays the handsome salary of 5000
a year. Burrows and Mcmillan united In
recommending Smith and have been ask
ed to select Mr.. Hams successor.
Material rewards like general apprais-
erships and judgeships always have had q
Christening influence on mutinous states
mon. Burrows may not support the re-
ciprocity bill. but Il he does not fight It
Of the Senate will be entirely satisfied.
Senator Clapp,of Minnesota introduced
a bill today which Is regarded by the ad-
mipistration as shot from the skirmish
line, authorizing the President to appoint
a commission Of five persons to investi-
gate economic and industrial conditions
existing in Cuba and empowering the
commission to make provision for the re-
lief of such distress as they may find
among the people of the island. IT, In
their opinion, that distress Is SO great as
to warrant immediate action for relief
they are empowered to purchase seeds,
stock, machinery and other articles need
ed by Cuban planters to the extent of 49,
600 for distribution.
This bill will be shelved by the Commit
tee on Cuban Relations. Both the friends
and enemies Of the Cuban reciprocity
n easure admit that bitter and protract-
ed fight Is in prospect. but Administrative
Senators are confident that the result will
be victory for reciprocity.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

One Of the natural effects of such
speeches as Tillman's Is seen in this ex-
tract from an editorial in The Minneapo-
lis Journal:
The speech of Tillman furnishes first-
class evidence that the Democratic Party
is not even sufficiently organized. or In
harmony. to keep the South Carolina
blathersk from making holy show OF
himself in public. and betraying the true
inwardness of the party.
In plain language. Tiilman is to be taken
as a specimen Democrat and his speeches
as the exponent of Democracy. We may
resent and dispute this view, but are
compelled to admit that there is ground
for 1t. He is furnishing much ammuni-
ton for Northern Republicans to fire
at US.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
A Disgusting Practice.

Macon news.
One of the most revolving practices to
sensitive and delicate mind that the
Southern women have been guilty of. Is
that of riding in a single-seated buggy
with a negro driver. 1t is common
sight to see a refined woman sitting side
by side with a negro man, riding through
the streets of our cities. The sight Is
horrible to a person who considers 1t for
an instant. in its true sense rather than
as a matter of fashion and OF conven-
fence.
The Louisville Courier-Journal has this
to saw on the subject:
A gentleman who has neither wife nor
daughters broke out into an expression OF
his opinion about matter that had at
tracted his attention. He said:
Eve watched good many ladies-yes'
ladies-driving about town with negro
man sitting beside them on the seat OF
the vehicle Sometimes the lady drives
sometimes the negro. But the rigs arr
narrow. not wider than an ordinary bug
CIV and YOU know how close two people
have to sit in one. To see It fairly dis
gusts me and I don't know what the wo.
men are thinking about to rub up against
a darkev that wav. and I don't know
what their men folks mean by allowing
It,"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
IN THE RUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Some
Prominent People.

At one time Ellen Terry had three sis
tiers and a brother on the stage-Kate,
Marion. Florence and Fred. All attained
distinction behind the footlights. Kate
and Marion have retired and Florence
died in 1896
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has placed a
window in Trinity Church. Newport as a
memorial to her husband. The window
represents a Christian knight seated and
holding in his right hand sword, the
point Of which rests on the ground, and
in his left a shield, upon which Is a cross,
resting on the left knee.
Though not a preacher, Congressman
Gambler of Mississippi takes active In
terest in religious matters, and while al
home during the summer always holds
revival meetings in country places where
Il is difficult to secure the services OF men
of ability and note He has spoken from
several Washington pulpits.
A Boston policeman named Flynn did
some heroic work alta fire and the news
papers of that city have been showering
him with complfm Officer Flynn pub
fishes a statement uring that one William
Wiley be given equal credit with himself
and he adds: There Is enough life-savine
glory for both of US.
Thirty years ago Miss Rachel Dickson
and Peter Barclay of Middletown. N. Y.
were lovers. A quarrel separated them
and he went to Ringold County, Ia.
where he married. His wife and two chill
dren died, and lately he folloWed them
In his will he left all his estate, valued al
$50, 900, to his old sweetheart, who re-
manned single.
The late Bret Harte was good deal OF
recluse, in that respect resembling
Hawthorne more than any other man oil
letters. In spite OF his long absence from
California he never lost the spirit of that
golden State. his latest stories of mining
camps breathing the same air as those
he wrote for The Overland Monthly ir
early days
According to a Republican Congress
man anyone who contemplates calling OF
Secretary Root would do well to wear
heavy underwear and ditto overcoat. The
Congressman called at the War Depart
ment and, thinking to be pleasant al
the start, said: Fine day, Mr.. Root.
He was almost frozen stiff by the icy re-
ply, rs it?'' and is now taking precau.
tons to ward off pneumonia.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

In our opinion too much advertising
and prominence is being given Miss Mary
McLane of Montana. She is either a
crazy lunatic or a thorough degenerate,
according to her own showing. The ac-
count she gives of herself proves. beyond
doubt that she is mentally unbalanced
and thus irresponsible, or else she has
no conception Of right and wrong. and is
entirely without moral perceptions. For
the credit of her sex. it is to be hoped
that she is only crazy.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
FRIDAY, MAY 1e, 1904.
SOME QUESTIONS.

The Dothan Home Journal asks some
pertinent questions of the wide-openers
as follows:
Suppose there should be a white pri-
mary, in which all white voters shouio
vote. regardless of past or present party
affiliation; and suppose there should be
trading and swapping of votes. as poll
ticians know so well how to do 1t, might
II not occur that some candidate who had
etrayed OF from sound Democracy would
trade himself into the nomination for
high office? Is not such a thing possible?
And might there not be trading for the
smaller Offices by which many ob3ec-
tionable men would get into office who
were not really the choice of the major
ity? Such things have occurred.
OF course our contemporary SUPPOSE
tion is reasonable, as such things might
possibly occur. Every man who votes in
the primary thereby morally pledges him
self to support the ticket, but to say that
each man who wants to vote in a pri-
mary must first sign a written pledge
that he will vote the full ticket in Novem-
Der is impracticable, to say the least of it.
But The Home Journal asks another
pertinent question:
II a Democratic primary should be
held. what will be the requirements made
of those who wish to vote in that pri-
mary for the Democratic candidates, but
who have for sometime past voted against
the straight Democracy? This question
ought to be definitely answered, 1t ap-
pears to us, before there is further dis
cussion of the kind of primary we are to
have A large number of good men are
interested in it. We submit it to The
Advertiser.
It would be the duty of the State Com
mittee to adopt and promulgate all nee
essary rules and regulations to carry out
the will and desires of the Party, as that
Committee does when it provides for hold
ing a convention. AS 1t is to be State
matter, to select State and county Of
ficers, we think the electorate could well
be limited to those who voted for Gov
ernor Sanford. 1t is doubtless true that
on account of his high character and
qualifications he received the support of
many who were not Democrats, and per-
haps many who voted for him would not
take pert in a distinctively Democratic
primary, but that could not be avoided.
The Advertiser would be perfectly salts
fed to see the Sanford vote taken as a
qualification of voters m ease q Demo-
cratic primary is ordered, but K any
say they may AS well throw down not
only the bars, but the fences and make
the thing unanimous.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
sxrLrroNs IN STRANGE PLACES

Finding the skeletons Of an elephant
and a whale in Arizona, II they have
really found them. is a graphic indication
of the wonderful change In both physical
and climatic conditions which have taken
place on this continent. At present there
are but two species of elephant. the
African and the Asiatic. all other species.
II they existed. having become extinct,
and the two species now existing are
both Old World and tropical animals. II
the skeleton found in Arizona was that
of mammoth or mastodon, there would
be nothing strange about it. for the re-
mains of those huge creatures have been
found in several locations in North Amer
lea, and another would cause little sur
prise.
If it should be shown, however, that
this newly-fcund specimen Is the remains
of a genuine elephant, of the kind now
existing, it will be up to the scientists to
decide how it got there. AZ we have said.
1t is an Old World animal and an inhabi-
tant of tropical regions. II one has been
found in Arizona, which Is neither q
tropical country or an Old World coun-
try. 1t indicates that the American fauna
once comprised an animal that has not
hitherto been looked on as indigenous.
We suppose 1t would hardly be allowable
to hold that some prehistoric Barnum,
travelling with his menagerie among the
savages of the West, lost an elephant,
and some other hypothesis must be found
to account for Its presence. Might it be
possible that Noah sailed over Arizona
and lost specimen?
Nor are we much better OF when we
come to consider the whale whose skele-
ton is alleged to have been found. There
are plenty Of these great fishes in An,eri-
can waters, of course. but SO far as our
whale knowledge extends, they are not in
the habit of wandering some hundreds of
miles from salt water. In fact, they are
rather partial to that fluid, and II one
has been found in Arizona, the only ex-
PLANTATION is that the country was once
covered by the waters Of the ocean. and
that the gradual or sudden elevation OF
the land drove the water to the lower
levels, and what was once the bed of the
sea is now dry land.
The county of which Arizona Is part
is rich in prehistoric remains. Remains
are found Of animals, birds and reptiles
| both terrestrial and marine. belonging tc
species which disappeared long before
| history began. Whether 1t was only
thousands or whether 1t was millions OF
years ago that they lived and fiourished
the fact remains that the West is rich In
remains of strange creatures, some Of
them Of monstrous proportions. and
there is no escaping the conviction thai
they were as much at home there as thu
cow or the horse now is. Some of them
at least, could have fiourished only tr
salt water and a tropical climate. and
this makes 1t probable that the region
where the whales skeleton was found
was once part Of the ocean. Many and
| great have been the changes since thu
| whale spouted and splashed over wha
is now a territory of the American
| Union.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
Have a Crow Hunt Every Year.

The annual crow hunt of the Elgfn
QllD Gun Club has been arranged for
MAY II and u. James Morrison and
James Pepple will be Captains of the
the victors For each crow killed the
team will be credited with point. Three
points will be allowed for each butcher
bird. and five points for each hawk The
annual crow hunts are resulting in the
gradual determination of the pests. Far
mers report marked increase in the
amount of grain raised. while the prairie
chicken, quail. and song bird have again
become numerous hereabout. The quail
has Increased and multiplied at least 30
per cent in the last three years.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

equality as that paper virtually endorses
for others.
The Advertiser has a right to speak for
the women Of the South. and 1t assures
The Press that the color lire will not be
broken. and when that paper asserts that
'.any attempt to draw It against the, negro
race must be useless" 1t doesn't know
what 1t Is talking about The line is
there and will remain. Our women can
forego association with other clubs. II
that shall be demanded, but they will not
drag their womanhood In the dark dis
grace of race equality. ..
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
TRANSFERRING CRIMINALS.

The Hartford Comm Times calls at
tention to a complication in connection
with the absurd act Of Governor Davis
of Arkansas. in his pardon of the negro
Thompson. The pardon, 1t will be re-
membered, was issued on condition that
the negro become citizen Of Massa-
chusetts within thirty days" The Times
points out that no one can become a
citizen Of Massachusetts, In the time
allotted, and then proceeds to ask these
questions:
Does the Governor propose to furnish
Thompson with transportation to Mas
sachusetts? and will he interest himself
to secure employment for this undesira-
BILE citizen in the old Bay State? If not,
then how Is Arkansas to be benefited
and Massachusetts duly punished by
having this proposed transfer Of citizen
ship made effective?
Now 1t occurs to us that this unfortu-
nate coon is up in the air, SO to speak.
His pardon is not effective unless he COM
plies with the conditions, and the laws
Of Massachusetts, says he cannot comply
with the conditions imposed on him. SO
what is the poor devil to do? II the
Governor would furnish transportation
the darkey might 60 to Massachusetts as
a sort OF derelict, but he would not be
| a citizen, and the chances are at least ten
to one that he will find no encourage
ment and no hand held out to help him.
He will be "a stranger in a strange land,
without home or friends. Arkansas viii
not be bettered, the negro will not be bet
tered and the State of Massachusetts
| will be injured only to the extent Of one
| undesirable citizen.
But The Times takes advantage of this
| Arkansas episode to point out COMPARE
| SON between the act of Governor Davis
and some other officials in this way:
| But the Governors proposition Is not
| mora omen to criticism than are the police
1 regulations of most of our cities, which
are constantly seeking to get rid OF all
sorts of undesirable visitors by simply
recurring them to get out OF town. no
matter where they go 80 long as tney
do not remain where they are at
| Governor Davis has been severely criti-
cised for making use of his ofnclal power
and authority to shove Off a criminal
on another community, and he deserves
II. but "there are Others" and the cases
differ but littlo except in extent. When
ono c,tv or community drives out crimi-
nails instead of Furnishing them it only
does what Davis did. on a smaller scale
Is It right in either instance?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

TT st. Louis Globe Democrat ridicules
Bryan's ignorance of the Bible, because
he said that Moses led the Israelites into
the Promised Land. Then the G. D.
displays its own lack of Biblical infor-
nation by adding: "Moses never saw it,
nor did his older brother Aaron" If
that paper will read the last chapter
of the book of Deuteronomy 1t will find
thatNMoses went up to the top of Mount
Pisgah "and the Lord showed him" all
OF the Promised Land and assured him
that what he saw was the land promised
to the seed'of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob,
adding: '"I have caused thee to see it
with thine eyes" So The Globe Demo-
crat is as far wrong as it charged Mr.
Bryan with being.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
If We Get Control.

CoOSa River News.
But II we ever again get control of the
executive and legislative business of the
republic let us elect men, IL possible. who
will carry into execution policies and
Democratic principles as annunciated by
statesmen like Samuel ]. Tilden and Gro
yer Cleveland. Let us have no more of
that brand of Bedlam and -weltering
chaos that characterized the pusillani
NOUS course of the bulk of Democratic
Senators and Congressman under Cleve-
lands last term. Combinations OF wealth
ana thievish taxation to foster the same
will mover end short Of an honest admin
istration of Democratic principles
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
A Redbreast Idyl.

Harvey Sutherland, in Ainslee's.
Perhaps 1t is the same mysterious in
ward motion that prompts marbles in a
boy and migration In bird. but the real
true symptom of the coming of spring is
the returning robin. Any robin at first
will do. You stop dead in your tracks to
hear his Quillity . u" Quality. in the
red-stemmed bushes. A smile comes. The
blood beats Quicklier. You run to tell the
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
With Chicken Hearts,

HuntSVlIIe Mercury.
Persons afflicted with chicken hearts
will shudder when they hear that con-
victs are not fed on chicken pie and
housed In palaces, but those of a practi-
cal turn of mind know such treatment of
convicts is impossible. Coarse, plain fare.
hard beds and harder work is the only
way to punish a strong man in prison and
that is the. punishment inflicted in the
Alabama mines.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
Hurting Our Pride.

1HIIdueBd NtpOrtef.
The humiliating news reaches this
country that a parcel of American naval
officers were arrested and put in Jail for
raising what Is known as a trough
house" in historical Venice. Our pride
was somewhat taken back too, by the ex .
tension of executive oIemency and pardon
OF the boys fs by the ne s hs &
cations in reference to severe treatment
of Italian subjects in this country. To
say the least of it, 1t is "heaping Goals
Of fire on our heads"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
Didn't Work Well.

Bullock County Breeze.
Smithe-It won't work.
Brown-What won't work?
"Hypnotism. Tried 1t on the butcher.
Looked at him fixedly until 1 had his
undivided attention, then said very
slowly and with emphasis, 'That-bill-is
paid"
And what did the butcher do?'
''He said, You're a liar?"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
The conecuh Registration.

Evergreen. May l5.-tSpecial.) -The
Board of Registrars of Conecuh County,
after having arranged and announced the
schedule for the different beats will leave
Evergreen Saturday next and will open
up in beat for the first and only round.
John p. Anderson and John A. Feagin.
They will remain one day in each beat
with the exception of two or three beats
and will wind up in Evergreen In July,
remaining here from the 7th to 18th in
cluaiVe. ssF
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
Troubles Of His Own.

GadSden IfmeS-NeWS.
If you want an article published in the
paper scoring anybody or anything, write
1t and sign your name to 1t and the edi-
tor will publish it. The editor is not in
the newspaper business just simply to
make enemies. He has trouble enough of
his own without inviting more.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
VIII Settle It All.

Birmingham News.
The time is approaching when the SOL
emn-faced young man with pompadour
hair and pigeon-tailed coat will settle
with his little commencement Grafton the
Philippine situation, Cuban reciprocity
the Boer war and all those other great
problems now vexing the human mind.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

Did the President bottle up Minister
wu, as he did Miles and Funston? WI
is exceedingly handy with his mouth, and
possibly the fact that unlimited talk is
not altogether safe in his native country
may account for his free manner of
speech over here. 1t is faSt, however,
that very little has been heard from him
In some days. and it may be that he has
been suppressed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16

II we may take The Washington Post
as authority. the Senators run largely
to colored vests of the most gorgeous hue
Brilliant red. white, blue and all other
snowy colors are favorites, according to
The Post. There is reason why some OF
them should wear loud clothes. but we
hope it is not anything like universal
among them.