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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
KING EDWARDS HOPELESS DEBT
There is Not Enough Money in the
 World Now to Pay It.

There is owing to the Peruzzi family of Italy a just debt which theer is not money enough n a sss o wSrS ta snee is sao n Which year the money was borrowed from their an an cestors. then great banker in Florence The debt Is owed by the British Government, and if the Perubbis had their legal rights they would be able to attach the whole British British man -of-war afioat. every ounce of gold in the kings crown and every coat to his back is legally mortgaged to the Peruzzis. The Peruzzis compound the interest on the original loan annually and forward dunning letter to the reigning British sovereign every ten years, calling his or her attention to their little bill and intimating that early settle ment would be appreciated The debt now fenS sn st up mo m sor ,he last i've cent
 ries but so far no English monarch has hap. pened to have the amount of money demanded next week." or words to that effect. The Pc ruzzis hold the king responsible as he IS III law. and so Edward VII truly can be said to be the most heavily in debt of any man in
 In the Middle Ages Florence was the great banking center of the world, and one of tho Peruzzis was a great banker there. King Ed ward ny. professed great friendship for the head of the Peruzzi family. for Edward was hard up and had affection for anyone who could lend him money and would He had strained the a or his bsn h m s to with France he had to borrow the funds for his campaign The Florentine bankers lent him money literally. and he fought Crecy and Poictiers, gaining much glory but little cash. After the the banker. Peruzzi. ven tured to remind the king that he had borrowed SIP 900, 900 of him-an enormous sum in those days, and a pretty comfortable one now The king begged that the banker would not mention the subject again. But the banker did, and pressed for payment It was worth while be- ing king in those days. and when the banker got importunate Edward simply issued proc iamation saying that he had little ready money, and so. for the good of the kingdom and his own convenience. he had decided to postpone the payment of his debts indefinitely.
 This proclamation was regarded as very statesmanlike document in England and other crowned heads gave the English king much praise for his wisdom and grasp of public af fairs. The King Of Sicily was so charmed with the financial ability of his royal brother of England that he copied after him and re- pudiated a debt of a million or so which he ow ed to Florentine bankers. Florence was al- most ruined financially. and. to make matters worse the city was ravaged by the plague the next year. The Peruzzi family occupy a re- spectable position in Italy, and never have despaired of getting something out of the King of England eventually. though so far they never have received acent. It is hardly necessary to say that. while making claim for the full amount due them, they would be willing to compromise for a smaller sum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE,
Surprising Cases Proving the Pos
 session and the Lack of. It.


 London Telegraph.
 Lord Avebury opened the winter sea- son of the London Institution with pleasant address on the Senses ana ln- telligence of Animals" Descartes and Fabre convinced themselves that the lower animals were mere automata; Lord Avebury. after numberless obser- vations and experiments with dogs. Wasps, bees and ants. is equally assured that they possess sense and glimmering of reason. the difference between them and ourselves being in degree rather than in quality of sentience. By con tInucus association of food. tea. water and the like with words printed on cards, he taught a poodle to select the appro- priate card when the word was pro nounced. care being taken that scent should not be the dogs guide. His Lord ship gave up the attempt to test the faculty of counting in consequence Of an experience of Sir William Huggins with his dog Kepier If such statement as plus 4. minus 3. were made in the dog 8 presence and his master went round row of figures on cards placed on the floor. Kepler would select the correct one ,"6," an evident case of thought reading Something in the astronomers s manners showed the intelligent creature which was the right card, Besides incl dents of apparent thought Lord Ave bury quoted others of seeming stupidity
 The professional caterpillar appears to be an insect of a very low order of intelligence. ProcesSioIal caterpill2rs when out for an expedition weave a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
OCEANS REPUTATION GOING.
Increase in Ships on the Pacific Fol-
 lowed by Increase of Disasters.

San Francisco Cnronicic
 The Pacific Ocean is fast losing the reputation implied in the name given 70 1t by Magellan, and which 1t owes to the placid appearance of Its surface wnsh he first saw It. The change Is one or the inevitable results of the growth of com merce Prior to the discovery or gold Tn California comparatively few vessels sailed over it's waters. There were. there fore. few casualties to report. Tn ia.e years however, commerce has extended in all directions. The ocean Is niling with ships. and the disasters of the sea are multiplying proportionateiy. . Along the California coast the ocean is placid enough to retain its reputation as pacific. Storms are rare. It is not often that its waters are dashed into fury ike those of the Atlantic in these latitqdes. But along the Oregon. Washington, hrit- ish Columbian and Alaskan coasts there Is little if any difference between the conditions prevailing in the Pacific from those existing in the Atlantic Ocean. Mariners now dread Cape Fiattery. at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, almost, if not quite, as much as they do Cape Hatteras, on the Eastern coast. wrecks are lining the nortk- eastern shores of 1t.
 ing with the white-winged and steam propelled agents of commerce the ratio of shipwrecks Is corresponcingly rising. Perhaps we have witnessed more wrecks on this coast than we should have ex- perienced if the same precautions against disaster had been adopted in the naviga- tion of Pacific waters as is taken in the Atlantic Ocean. The Pacific has undoubt- edly been made the graveyard of many steam and sail vessels which were transferred to 1t from the Atlantic Ocean because they were not, considered safe to keep in commission in the latter. un- der the mistaken belief that milder weather and smoother water were to be found here. Others have been lost through the vicious prac- tice of overlooking, the risk being taken on account of the same error of opinion regarding the placidity of these waters Ship owners are. however, fast learning that rotten hulks and overloaded craft are not any more immune from disaster here than they are anywhere else. The growth of commerce and the increasing perils of navigation resulting from it de- mand the Abandonment of both.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

the Panama Railroad. The entrance to the canal Is protected by a great break water, built at the upper end of the isl- and. Here are situated the offices. maga- zines, shops and yards of the canal com pany. Wharves and dry docks are to be built inside the breakwater. About six miles from the entrance the Chagres River presented almost insurmountable obstacles. which have finally been over come by the engineers after several cost ly and unsuccessful attempts. The plan now being worked out is the converting of the interior of the isthmus into a vast artificial lake. This eliminates the ques- tion of locks on the Chagres. The lat ter river is to be damned in order to storage reservoir for feeding the upper level of the canal. Another difficulty re- gently overcome by the engineers is the
 moving moving mountain of Culebra;; so s,adss called which threatened to close the cut for the
 Route by Lake Nicaragua.
 ,. Another route is bv way of Lake Nic- aragua and the San Juan River along the ny of GSsta Rsc RSs and ~f NIcs4a qua. The general direction is from east to vest. Beginning at or near Greytown, on the Caribbean coast the canal is to to the San Juan River, above the june ton of the Rio Grande Carlos. the latter stream being too much silt to allow the use or the san Juan HfVef DeiOW thdt point. Thence the line of navigation will be up the San Juan. which is thousand feet wide and twenty feet deep. and of constant How, to Lake Nicaragua. In all this distance from ocean to lake there will be from six to ten lift locks of about ten feet each. Lake Nicaragua Is fine inland sea, 110 miles long by 30 miles wide, and from 90 feet to 15o feet deep. 1t lies lo7 feet above the sea level. The canal route will cross the lake to it's western shore, only sixteen sand two thirds miles from the Pacific Ocean. Here the hills rise> 134 feet above the lake. rendering a deep but short cut necessary: after which the canal will reach the tide water by an easy de- scent through a -systern of ten locks. Of ten feet each and not less than 1000 feet apart The western terminus will be at Brito-At each end of the canal an arti- ficial harbor will have to be formed, there being no natural harbor at Brito. while that at Greytown, formerly one of the finest on the coast. has become so badly siited as to be useless except for small craft.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
Horns and Ears.
London Chronicle.

London Chronicle.
 A very interesting observation Is con tributed bv MT. G. Wherry of Cambridge regarding the functions exercised by the horns on big-horn wild sheep. He sug- gests that they act as ear trumpets. or literal hearing horns. and thus serve to intensity sounds and to indicate clearly to the animal the direction whence the sounds originate. It is noted that in the large. and that 1t lies in the long axis of the open horn-spiral. But in the wild sheep the horns are of very large size and the ear really exists at the apex or top of a hollow cone formed by the spi- raj of the horn. That MT. Wherry has suggested an important and hitherto un- noticed function of the horns in such animals Is therefore evident. It is a function, moreover. which obviously in animals living a free, open, mountain life would be advantageous in respect of making them aware or the approach of enemies amid conditions of mist and fog
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
A WoMAN'S LETTER.
It Almost Makes Man Stand on His
 Head to Read It.

Philadelphia Ledger.
 Girls ways are a mystery to men, They ad- init the fact frankly. and 1t is only very occasional man who tries to make himself or his friends believe that he understands the other sex The proverbial womans mo which means yes and which after all these years Is only just beginning to be compre hended by masculine minds Is only one of . long array of 'wSman's ways' that are dlni- cult for men to solve They have decided that that perhaps these little mysteries are just a part Of life and are meant to be.
 Theer is one funny little thing about girls. however. which men are not content to let alone They cannot see any sense in it; 1t is not even amusing or interesting in any way. and it consequentiy puts them in bad humor. and 1t is the way the girls write, not their
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
Things the Children Like.

Boston Transcript.
 In Quincy twenty years or so ago the present Charles Francis Adams was on the visiting committee of the largest school in the center of the town and a conscientious and interested supervisor. He entered one class room a few days before the holidays that possessed a wise and efficient teacher. MT. Adams noticed the blue fingers and protruding toes of some of the pupils and said, I've been thinking. Miss of giving these children something for Christmas" The teacher, who had followed his glances, said Very good. MT. Adams. as long as it is neither mittens nor shoes"
 He looked extremely surprised. but evidently his reflective judgment con firmed her conclusion. for the last after noon of school each happy boy received a sled and a big red apple and every girl an orange and a dressed doll. As
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when boy and you cannot realize you happy am
 Dear Sir-Your method worked beautifully Results were exactly what needed. Strength and vigor have. completely returned and en- iargement is entirely satisfactory.
 Dear Sir-Yours was received and had no trouble in making use of the receipt as di- rected and can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men. l am greatly improved in size. strength and vigor."
 All correspondence is strictly confidential mailed in plain, sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and he wants every man to have 1t. eo-su
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness. lost vitality, night losses. varicoceie, etc.' ano enlarge small, weak organs to full size and yigor Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. w Knapp. 235o Hull Hldg., Detroit Mich and he will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly most generous offer and the following extracts taken from his daily mail show what men think of his generosity:
 Dear Sir-Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
Resigns Office Hoping to Get Another

tOIumhla IS. C.D State.
 Georgia possesses a politician of a queer sort in the person of the Hon. Joseph M. Terrell. Since 1892 MT. Terrell has been Attorney General of his State. Desiring to become a candidate for Gov ernor in the approaching campaign. MT. Terrell on Tuesday rendered his resigna- tion as Attorney General to take effect February 1, and at the same time an- nounced his candidacy for Governor and his platform. It is rather unusual for a ting the better one he wants. MT. Ter reii is popular in Georgia, however. and it is said that he is the man the other gubernatorial candidates have to beat. Those others so far are Colonel j. H. Estiu. editor of The Savannah Morning News; Dupont Guerry, the tobasco sauce prohibitionist of Rome. and J. Pope Brown, recently Railroad Commissioner and a leading farmer.
 omnlbuses were not introduced Into England
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

they went out MT. Adams said to the no less pleased teacher, "I see that you were right"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

omnibuses were not introduced Into England before 1929.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
THE WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA

n New York and New Orleans linan Vestibuled Sleepers be- n Washington and New Or
 e through coach to and from O'ROURKE, c. A, Selma,
 l. LUTZ., T. NJ, Montgomery. ger. Atlanta, Ga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

Daily. except Sunday Sunday only.
 Trains arrive at Montgomery S:Io a. m.s oPSuman sleepers on No. 5s between Mont gomery and Jacksonville.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26

The North Dakota democratic
state convention will meet in Far
go on Friday, August LIST, as an
nouneed in the official convention
call published this week. The
gathering held by the party lead
ers at the committee meeting in
Fargo, when the party leaders
met to arrange the prelimina1ies,
indicate that the democracy of
North Dakota purposes entering
into the campaign Of this fall with
an enthusiasm that should bring
the full voting strength Of the
party of principles and rights Of
the common people back into line
and demoralize the forces of our
political opponents who have for.
gotten the claims Of the people in
their long continued grab after
political preferment.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26
PRICES FOR WHEAT.

Unfavorable weather in France
has caused an advance Of five cents
in Paris this week and it's influence
has been felt in the LEGAL market.
Added to this has been the co.,
tinued wet weather in the winter
wheat country, which has interior
ed with harvesting. These TIVE
influences have caused = sharp
advance during the week. The
reported corn corner in Chicago
has been another bullish factor
in the market. July wheat rsseh-
ed 79s cents yesterday. When it
vas at 76s it was just fourteen
cents above the price on the cor
responding date last year. Sep
tember was also some six cents
above last years price. Nothing
more has been heard Of the
corner in July. Spring wheat
conditions continue worry promis
ing and receipts have increased
remarkably this week. Wheat OK
ports for the week, flour included,
aggregate 3.860,434 bushels,
against 3,4O0,3l4 last week and
5,520,83l bushels in this week last
year. Wheat exports July l, 1901,
to date aggregate 245,285,883
bushels, against 2l0,137, 3C3 last
season. Corn exports aggregate
ll0,979 bushels against 94,98l last
week, and 2,435,487 last year.
July l, 1902, to date, corn exports
are 26,l93,075 bushels, against
III, 424,2 24 bushels last season.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26

NORTH DAKoTA's population in
creased rs per cent in the last ten
years. Last year 100000 immi-
grants found homes here and this
year it is estimated 100000 more
will come The productiveness
Of the soil is a great attraction for
the farmers. North Dakota is not
only the greatest wheat field of the
world bat is suitable for diversified
farming. The fax crop is larger
than the crop Of the entire United
States has been in recent years.
and will be more than half
the country's crop this season.
North Dakota has a grass area Of
100000 acres, and over this
whole area the average rainfall is
seventeen inches. ....
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26

EASTERN papers are referring to
North Dakota's boom in lands and
the fact that the states fax crop
is now larger than that of the en-
tire United States, attracts atten-
ton. The soils richness and
adaptability for diversified farm
ing is also being learned, in other
states. When farms can be paid
for in two or three seasons, and
sometimes in one, like last year,
with the flax rop,there is no won
der that North Dakota is rapidly
gaining in population, and that
her lands advance in value. The
newcomers are we'll satisfied with
the conditions as they find them
and are advising their friends to
"catch OIL" before the lands go
any higher. This is the reason
why there is a rash of farmers
from Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Indiana and the middle west, just
as there was q rush of eastern
farmers to the then western states.
The middle west may yet have it's
old home festivals, as the east is
nov having them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26
THE PARENT OF TRUSTS.

Despite all their wrisglings to
escape, the effect of the high.tariff
is primarily responsible for the
trust evil. Republicans will have
to face this truth in the campaigns
of 1902 and 1904 and answer to the
people on the joint Issue of trusts
and the tariff. Also, they will find
it no longer possible to fool voters
into believing that a prohibitive
tariff is benefit to the main body
of the people. OF late years the
fact has become obvious that the
tariff enriched few corporations
at the expense of Consumers and
retailers. The falsity of the claim
that protection is necessary for
these corporations is found in the
fact that they are selling their pro-
ducts in European markets at q
lower price than IN American mar
kets, and that they are undsrsell-
ing the very competitors against
whom they claim the protection of
high tariff. The folly of repub-
lican machine managers in believ-
ing that the people can still be
fooled on this issue is almost in.
credible. Even in the republican
party itself there is a growing de-
nand for tariff revision. This is
due to the widespread PERCEPTION
of the truth that a high tariff sim.
ply imposes burdensoms tax on
the people in order to maintain
the monopolies enjoyed. by the
trusts, and chat the trusts mani
fest their appreciation Of their
power by over charging the peo-
pie for all trust products, thus i'm
posing double tax for trust en-
richment Many republicans now
cry out to protest against this
wronging of the people, bat their
protest is without effect on machine
policies. A decidedly startling les
son awaits republican organs and
republican stump speakers in tho
campaigns of 1902 and 1904 When
they begin to sound the old rally
ing cries that were wont to assem-
BILE befooled voters to the support
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26
Democrtic State Convention.

To the Democratic Electors Of tho State of
North Dakota:
In accordance with the instructions from the
democratic state central committee, a conven-
ton of duly elected democratic delegates from
the various counties of the state will be held at
the opera house in the city of Fargo, North
Dakota, on Friday, August. LIST, 1902. at ten
o'clock in the forenoon Of said day, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates to DO supported
at the general election to be held Tuesday,
November 4th, 1902 and for the transaction Of
such other business as may be brought before
it.
The candidates to be nominated are: Two
Members of Congress at large; Governor
Lieutenant Governor; Secretary of State State
Public Instruction; Attorney General, Com
missioner Of Agriculture and Labor three Com
missioners of Railroads; and one Judge of tho
Supreme Court.
The basis Of representation is one delegate at
each fifty votes or major fraction thereof cast
for the Honorable N. A. Hildreth TO! member
of congress at the last general election. The
different counties in the state will, under the
apportionment herein provided, be entitled to
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Take notice that at the regular meeting of the
of Cavalier and State of North Dakota. to be
held in the court house in the City Of Langdon,
on Monday, the It'll day of July, 1902, the petit
of the legal voters residing in congressional
township one hundred and si1ty:two d62) north
of range sixty-two l62) west, will be presented
to said board, praying that said congressional
township, at present forming part of the civil
township of Linden in said County of Cavalier,
be set off a separate civil township and be nam
ed Mckinley, and that the same be constituted
an election precinct and that the school house
situated on the southeast quarter Of section
twenty-eight (28) of said proposed civil town.
ship be designated as the place for holding cleo
lions therein.
Dated this 9th day of May, 1902.
Signed on behalf of said petitioners
A. L. PERRY.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26

The Langdon Republican says
the sun of democracy has set to
rise no more in Cavalier county,
but intimates that a little moro
work is needed to bring it safely
beyond the reach of "its friends,
the democrats" Taking this state
mont together with that of the
leading democrats that county
will go the old way by several
hundred majority and we are led
to the conclusion that grave doubts
Of success are entertained by the
Republican and it is only whist
ling to keep its courage up.-Bath-
gate Pink Paper.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26

81 the party Of the tariff and the
trusts they will find that these
cries have lost their potency. The
American people have learned the
bunko nature of The high protee-
tive tariff and the malignant pos
sibilities of the trusts. They want
no moro of either and they will
get rid of both by removing from
power in the government the
political party responsible for both.