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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
safke and Other Things.

Norfolk Landmark.
 An! We see. "Safke" Is so pleasant to the taste that the inhabitants of Ala bama cannot tell whether the cobs were taken out of the corn before 1t was boiled or not.
 There is no use in putting any quotation marks around the spelling homony.. It is true that the more usual form or the word is hominy. but hOmony will be found in the dictionaries as an alterna- tive. It is d little queer, if the Mus kogees knew so much, that the dictionary pe0ule give hominy d good seat and leave !'sa flxe'7 ont in the cold Clearly, the Powhatan Indians have the inside track with the authorities. ,.,
 Virginians may not very often indulge in mixed" food-food. mind you-but they prnerally have what they eat ore pared" before partaking of it. They do not live entirely on quails, rabDlts, ana big yams;" but if they-Lid do so. they would not assimilate these dehcacies raw As to the persistent lhsllud t!o!ls ~l te Advertiser that our people eat corn-cops, in the shape of meal or otherwise, II may he said that there is such thlnR as running pleasantly into the ground. oonle hidden meaning must lurk Tn thIs llsis- tent naruing on the same string. Here in inc Old Dominion we be plain, blunt men who relish not riddles
 Of course corn meal is used Tor Iood in Virginia. N hat does our eontempo- rary think it is used for \ Eoou many s.l, people have escaped to this state from AIaDnma recently, and il is probanty one of these fugitircs from the corn,eob,-eta,t- ing district who propounded to The Rich; m0nd Dispatch the "sinsulsr querE noted by The Montgomery AdVe' user This is indeed the home of rhe corn pone and nd, the johnny cake and The Richmond Dispatch Is their prophet, The corn meal dishes prepared on the type-ma- chimes of that paper are even more luclous JUS than tpe potato pie WhIch we le0e"''1 cnpip1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

birds were carried out of town to reed
 the neishboring country people we nave no idea, but let that pass. The editor of
 The Workman certainly is not the kind of man who would rather bust himself wide open than have anything left over. And he has but slight knowledge of pru- dent housekeeping if he is not aware that the portion of turkey not eaten at the first heat serves to fill out the menu for days afterwards. There are so many ways in which good house-keeper can utilize the fragments of feast that our contemporary can hardly have missed personal acquaintance with some of them And, to conclude, we can understand how fifteen thousand turkeys look mountain ous to the people of a little suburb like Bessemer, but in real city like Mont gon1ery, we are accustomed to plenty And don't you fool yourself with the de- fusion that Montgomery is not growing, for it is. and at a rate that is gratifying to all of us. We are It, when is comes to sound and substantial growth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
BUT WAS THE STORY rRuEp

A few days ago The Advertiser had a short paragraph about man in < icago, whose child was dying with diphtheria, walking the streets until the child died in his arms, because he was unable to find any hospital or other place where it would be taken in. Commenting on this article, The Richmond Times says:
 The man was unduestionably to blame There never was a time in the history of the world when there were so many institutions for the relief of just such cases and with all of its wickedpess and hurry and hustle, Chicago has as many as any other city in the country. We know nothing of the circumstances of this partie ular case, but we are sure that the child would have received proper at tention if the man had sought relief at the proper time and in the right way. This would have been true in Montgomery or in Richmond and in Chicago just as quick.
 We admit that there are many hospitals and other institutions of like kind, and we also admit that such pitiful incident as we described could not occur in Rich mond or Montgomery. but neither admis- sion invalidates the story. We only spoke of 1t briefly, but the case was set out at length and with considerable de tail in one of our exchanges. We are not sure that it was not a Chicago paper, but at all events it was one which as- stunned to know the facts and which set them out at length. If the story was true, it was A serious reflection on Chi cago, and if 1t was untrue. it is re- nection on the paper from which we copied 1t. We merely used 1t to point a moral, and would be glad to know that such a pitiful thing could not happen in any American city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT.

Some of our esteemed contemporaries are disposed to poke fun at The Adver- tiser's statement about the 15,o00 turkeys which we said were slain in Montgomery for Thanksgiving purposes, saying noth- ing of the many other items of food that naturally went with the turkeys. The Besssmer Workman gets gay on the sub. ject and thus chuckles;
 The Advertiser Is always correct in its statements, never gives to the public anything but the most reliable news and of course we believe the whole story. It is proof positive that the reason why Montgomery does not grow faster is now
 son. No people can progres rapidly and have plenty of push and enterprise that try to carry such load. When it comes to eating. Montgomery is winner, and the amusing part of the whole thing is at least 40 per cent of the inhabitants of the Capital City may have smelled tur- key but they didn't taste it.. Has the mantle of Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree fallen on The Advertiser office?
 Avas with your insinuations! We | would have you know that when The Ad-
 vertiser goes into figures, and can Keep It's Mergenthalers from bucking. 1t is something you can swear by till you are black as your ink-roler. We didn't as- l sert, mind you, that all those turkeys were eaten at one meal. but what if we 1 had? A prominent Montgomery states | man once declared that a turkey gobbler | was a very inconvenient-sized bira; rather too large for one person and not quite | enough for two, So that if we had as-
 serted that the forty or fifty thousand people who draw rations in Montgomery had really eaten at one meal the 15 900
 fowls of which we spoke, there would be
 no occasion to insinuate that the ghost
 of the late Col. Tom had been doing
 stunts in The Advertiser office.
 But we didn't say it. How many of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

days ago that a syndicate had beep formed in New York for the purpose of assisting Mexico to reach a gold basis! Tn the course of a year the currency of that country will doubtless be on gold basis.
 As a matter of fact Mexico has found that the silver standard is not quite as good a thing as she tried to make herself believe it was. And it is probable that the great majority of those in this coun- try who were silverites have come to the conclusion that they must have been out of their minds when they were demand ing free silver so fioScely.
 There is one gratifying thing in connec- tion with the silver question, and that Is that the Democratic party is not likely to be disturbed by it again. The silver standard or even .bimetalism may have a few advocates yet, but the number is not sufficient to cause uneasiness in po- litical circles. The silver issue is dead one. and nothing shows that more clear ly than the fact that Mexico has been compelled to come to the gold standard
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
GREAT ALBANIAN.

Former United States Senator Pugh was down town yesterday for the first time in five weeks, he having been con fined to his residence in R Street this city. with severe cold contracted in october and which developed tedious bronchial troubles The condition of the venerable statesman was at no time dan gerous. though at the outset his temper1 ature rose to 10l. On the second day his fever disappeared. since when he has not seen his physician. He 'roasted'' himself by a hot fire as he expresses 1t, and every morning rose at 8 o'clock, retiring every evening at 3.
 In spite of his prolonged confinement to his house. the great old Alabamian looked remarkably well when he ven tured out in this cold, dry. still December day of brilliant sunlight, walking a good mile for unwonted but much wanted ex- ercise: and he was in the brightest of good spirits.
 MT. Pugh keeps in amazingly close touch with current Alabama affairs, con- sidering the fact that he resides perma- nently in Washington and has not been enabled of late to visit that State, his advanced years making travel for him tatiguing and otherwise disagreeable. "1 know my Alabama as well as the young est of you and better than most of you" he said: and continuing, he dwelt force fully upon the great wisdom of our new Constitution and the pre-eminent and lasting good to the State that will result from its wise foresight" to quote his own words
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
GREAT NEWSPAPER.

II am glad to observe the evident and unquestioned prosperity of The Montgom- cry Advertiser" Senator Pugh cordially said. Tt Is the best newspaper the how big and good a paper can be gotten out in a town relatively so small as Electromagnetic compared with the metropolitan centres of population and trade. But then, The Advertiser is the State paper.
 "Wailace Screws did more for me when was first a candidate for the Senate than any other man, and l have never forgotten his generous support l remem- Der with greatest pleasure that he and l canvassed Alabama together at that time. Screws had been nominated by the Dem ocratic party for Secretary of State, and l wanted to be Senator. He and traV- elled together and spoke for our party from the same stump, he always speak ing first and winding up the meetings He helped me immensely by speaking prl- Vately in my behalf to our nominees for the Legislature. And. then he always introduced me to our audiences. and in doing SD spoke of me so kindly and so generously that I am glad yet to remem- her 1t. Besides, his paper, The Advor- tiser. was then as now, the State paper.
 It will please all Alabamians to know that Senator Pugh's general health re- mains most excellent. and that his in- sight as regards public men and great questions is as keen and wise as ever IL was in all the fourscore and three years of his successful and honored life. There is stiu the humorous twinkle of his eye. still the indignant flash against wrong still the love of laughter and of reason. till the majestic emphasis" never in the World!'
 Truly. Is he a lovable. admirable. great old man of Alabama. pursuing the sunset way in peace and dignity, with no sense of Iitterness to unhallow the eve
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
News ana Gossip ef Washington
BY LUcIEN JULIEN WALKER

construct, and maintain a dam across the Coosa River, in Alabama, at lock num- bered twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty seven, or twenty-eight. now indicated by the government survey of said river with all other works incident thereto for water-power purposes for generating electricity: Provided, That plans. speci- fications, and exact location of said dam shall first be submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War: And provided further. That the said Robert A. Chap man and his associates shall, at their own expense, make such changes and modi- tications of said dam as the Secretary of War may, from time to time, direct in the interest of the navigation of said river: And provided. also. That ladders suitable for the passage of fish over such dam shall be constructed and maintained by the said Robert A. Chapman and his associates. as may be from time to time required by the United States Fish Com mission"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
KEEP HOPE AND CASH.

It is to repeal this unjust Ind cut rageous provision of existing law that Congressman Thompson of Alabama has introduced bill, the purpUrt of which has been already conveyed by The Adver- tser to it's readers. Until Mir. Thomp sons bill, or some similar bill be enacted into law, the newspapers of Alabama and the South owe 1t to the people they repre- sent to set forth the fact that there IS no hope for the Southern claimants; that 1t is folly for any such claimant to eX- pend so much as a 2-cent postage stamp writing to q Congressman or anybody else upon the subject.
 Unless the Bowman Act" quoted can be strictly compiled with. an Alabama claimant, say, has no more chance to get money out of the government upon any war claim than said claimant has power to acquire ownership of the Bank of Eng land or the Winter Palace in St. Peters burg Whether tho Thompson bill, or any such bill, can ever pass Congress is merest guesswork Meantime claimants may keep their hopes and their postage stamps.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
FRIDAY, DECEMBER ls, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses esr- kain signs to denote the relative standing and merit ef ths whole nsld of nswspapsrdou which comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol I0l dsnotins .xoidsn,. whish stands for hish quality. and c thus explained;
 'Advsrtissrs value this paper more for the siass and quality of its circulation thAA for the mere number Of copies printsd.'
 euoh papers are credited with single sym boi; but there ls . higher grade. according ts this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 00l to describe adequately their standing.
 Ths Advertiser has been accorded this Double golden symbol C0l and Is the only pspsr 90 distinguished in this seotion ef tAs Eauth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
The Gold Standard for Mexico,

If has not been so very long since some of our esteemed contemporaries were nainting to Mexico as an argument in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. They said that Mexico was cxtrercv prosperous and that the Uni ted Ni' si5 States could become prosperous only by making the coinage of silver free and unlimited at the prevailing ratio. No doubt they have come to the conclusion that thrv were mistaken. If they have not they have but to turn their eyes to Mexico. where a movement Is now m progiIcss to place that country on q gold basis For more than a month tHe Mex ican hanks have been accommodating a
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
ABOUT FIAT MONEY.

The Chicago News says of the Ameri- san silver dollar that Thirty cents of it ls intrinsic value and the balance Is hat," but that 1t is worth one hundred esnts in gold. To this The Huntsville Tribune says:
 Yes. and so is q paper dollar worth one hundred cents. There Is no nat about it, It is the pledge of the Government not to pay 1t in flat but in gold worth one hundred cents. We do trust that intelli- gent newspapers will not raise that old whang doodle free silver humbuggery question again.
 in one sense all the money we use, ex- cept gold. Is fiat money. True, the cyclopedias define that kind of money as 'paper currency issued by a Government lion: paper currency containing no prom ise to pay coin. and therefore not con vertible into coin." Strictly speaking, we have no fiat money because all our pa per currency Is based on coin and re- deemable in coin, yet, after all, the value of that money depends on the ability and promise of the 0overnment-on it's fiat in short--to make 1t good. We all know that the raw material of which silver or paper dollar is made is not worth one hundred cents, yet it passes readily be- cause the fiat of the United States stands behind it and upholds if.
 As to the free silver humbuggeI-y'' of which our contemporary seems afraid, we khink 1t need have no apprehensions, The country has marched away from that de- fusion and the Democratic Party has made good start in the right direction We have no fear that the ghost of free poinage will return to plague the people of this generation. 2, all events. He would be bold man. or a badly-inform- Sd one. who would get up in a national convention now and propose to endorse the free silver deluson. The story of Acteon would be repeated in his case. We have a gold standard and a sound md stable currency, whether we call it fiat money" or something else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
Three Living Ex-speakers'

Tbe death of MT. ReeC leaves only three ex-Speakers of the House siill ,.IN hv- ing-Galusha A. Grow, who was welding the gavei forty years ago and is mem ys1i or who nresided in 1881. and John G. Car iisle. who served from 1888 to 1889 inclus- i've. 1t is noteworthy fin this onnection that hy reason of the retirement of Speaker Henderson and eX-Speaker Grow monv years in which no man sits who Was ever Speaker of the House; In the House of Representatives of the FiftN- first Congress, the first over which MT Reed presided, there were two e%-Spea5k- evar,. man who has since been Speaker and the next Speaker. Mir. Cannon,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
4 Rir River Loke.

The Missouri River played big joke on Nebraska City. Neb,. the other night. When the people went to bed the river flowed by their doors peacefully and quietly, as any well ordered river should. But when they awakened the next morn- ing the Missouri had moved it's bed and was three miles away from the town. And the intervening territory had been taken away from Iowa and thus suddenly brought into the State of Nebraska, since the State line follows the river. More than twenty farms, it is said, have been thus unccremoniously changed from Iowa In Ia Nnbra ska.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
SOUTH CAROLINA FACTORIES
Not Likely to Go Into a Trust

Washington Post.
 Mir Lawrence Holt, the well known cot ton manufacturer of North Carolina, whose career has been so eminently sue cessfui, is a guest of the Ebbitt. He and his family will spend a part of the win ter in Washington, and will sail early in January for an extended sojourn in Flu rope.
 Mir Holt is a large employer of labsr, and in conversation with Post reporter remarked that he had within the past few days reduced the working time of his factory hands from eleven to ten hours per day He believed that his employees would be gathers by the reduction in their hours of service. and felt satlsneo that he would be no loser thereby.
 Asked in regard to the proposed merger of the Southern cotton mills, MT; Holt Holt shook his head dubiously. II do not make any predictions on that subject, , he said. Tine plan of forming trust of the factories of our section may be prac- ticable, but it is a gigantic proposition. It is difficult to see wherein any benefit could accrue to those mills that are all ready doing a big business and prosper ing"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
POSSIBLE OBJECTION.

Congressman Thompson, whose dis the structure would not interfere with the present or prospective navigation of the Coosa; but he is informing himself more thoroughly upon the measure and declares that if it would in any manner interfere with the Coosa navigation scheme. which he greatly cherishes, not withstanding the present opposition or the Republican majority of the Rivers and HarbOrs Committed, he will oppose it to the best of his ability.
 1t appears that the plan of Robert A. Chapman and associates, mentioned in the Pettus bill. is to supply Anhiston and other towns with electric light and power somewhat as Montgomery Is sup piled by the waters of tine Tallapoosa river. Presumably a dam in the Coosa river could be made to iserva rather than hinder, its navigation under the general plan of the army engineers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

precision. we have had "a Gods lavish" of new leaders during the past few years, and what we now need. and what we shall need in the near future, is that some of the old leaders shall get in front and lead the party back where it be- longs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
TO DAM THE coosA.

The bin IS. 623n introduced by Senator Ppttus week before the adjournment of Congress last summer. authorizing Robert A. Chapman and his associates, and assigns to use the waters ot the C7osa River in Alabama. for the purpose of generating electricity, has just nc" ht- gun to attract attention along that river,
 Since the hill has Not h'cu heretofore printed in Alabama. 1t is perphlrs timely now to say that it seeks to authorize MT
 Chapman ARd his assoGiAtes to -->--,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
THE ADVERTISERS TELE-
 PHONES.
New Circulation Record.

the C,rculation Department of The Advertiser to compile a statement of The Advertiser ,l circulation that breaks all previous reeoros ln point of numbers. The average for eotn tn, daily and Sunday editions has entered into z, q new thousand nark-a point that means nnuG ,a n to those interested in seeking consp.Su,S a m Aiabama7and further demonstrates tha ,.s people of this State appreciate In suostsnu,sh way The Advertisers determination to puohsh Q live newspeper
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

Washington, Dec. Especial. )-South- Alabama, continue to receive numerous and urgent representations from their constituents concerning the old and so far hopeless claims for property taken or destroyed by Union soldiers in the war between the States, and in all this vain correspondence there is many a mourn ful. pitiful story of long-gone outrage and ever present necessity.
 Not the least distressing feature of this Voluminous general correspondence of Congressman Is that in numerous cases claimants have denied themselves neces- stiles of life in order to pay attorneys in Washington fees for prosecuting claims impossible of realization and known by the attorneys to be so.
 Today there came a long letter from poor Alabama woman to her representa- tive in Congress. reciting anew her claim alleged to have been inflicted by the Wilson's Raiders" the very mention Of whom still causes a sensation of terror to many an honest heart in middle and mort hwestern Alabama. This woman states that from time to time sine Fcraped together $50, which she sent to her at torneys' In Washington for the prosecu- ton of her claim.
 These attorneys" now demand of her Se0O and a contract to give them half the money they recover from the government, is worse than common robbery But the woman hasn't now got two hundred cents of ready money" and it having been hinted to her that her claim is in jeopardy. she appeals to her Congressman and asks him to collect" her claim.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

What the Dem lcratic platform will be in 1904 is hard to guess. but ii is more than probable that new leaders will have charge of the old ship and 1t Is yet to be seen where they will land the much abused craft.-Wilcox Era.
 Let us hope that The Era is mistaken as to the new leaders" portion of it's prediction. To use a somewhat slang ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12

A woman in Indiana has been married three times to men who served in the war between the States. Two of the husbands are dead and according to precedent she sbop,d be drawing two pensions while waiting for a third.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-12
What Was Meant.
Dothan siftings.

The Advertiser wants to know what we mean by an united party.
 That is just little typographical error; ITO to get too far along in the word, and instead of stopping after the n. hoped over the t. The word should have been united"
 If such an error had occurred in one of the daily papers. the patient linotype would have been blamed. but in the coun- trv office, the editor gets 1t. Yes, we wanted to say united party. but even the types would not have it that way. and united" the party which means. we suppose that there will be another cam paign in which leading men will feel that their fealty to the organized party is dis solved We trust that the party will be united and harmonious, and We belle, the entire party will stand up to the organization. But there is an unrest, or you may say, discordant element in the democracy of the east. which may unite" itself, and cause no end of trou- ble.