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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

cessful players The stories told of win
 nings and losses at these country houses
 are startling to say the least.
 When gambling becomes, fashionable st Is not surprising that soldiers of fortune
 multiply. They are not all males. The
 most skillful players and the m0et for- tunate is a very beautiful young divorcee whose only income is rather mesgsr g alimony. The record shows 1t to Dc 0.Ouo per annum. and yet her expenses must exceed $10.000. She never allows play ~ her home. She visits good deal and won last autumn over $4U.0O0 at Hcmpsteed. Of course this lady plays because ene needs excitement but If she becomes excited she suppresses 1t wonderfully well. Naturally enough she has not many equals, yet she Is but one Of large high play and much play is induiged Tn because the prevailing sentiment ana thought of the rich people is money. mon ey, money. Indeed, society is money mad.
 The craze is not new to the millionaires or to the fashionable. In Queen Anne's time the nobility of England did little else during the long stupid reign of, George III, and the gay regency ot George ", the young men of England lost fortunes m dice. Thore were the days when the mercantile wealth of England was n,ak- ing a new crop of miiilonaires and specu- lation in lotteries and stocks made men rich over nirht. Angl0-6axons are natural ramblers. It is in their blood. It can De Traced to the medieval German days as described by Gibbon when drunken Teu- tons staked their wives at play. lt nas this aide of the Atlantic and our best 70. cjetv has become e class Of habituai eamblers. And after this experiment, uvh
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
---------------------- GAMBLING IN SOCIETY.
Remarks Called Forth by Mrs. Pat
 trick Campbell's Winnings.

Alfred Cecil in The Forum.
 Whether Mrs. Patrick Campbell won whether she did not is matter so essen- tialy personal that to the public al large 1t is of little consequence But when the report went abroad. industriously set forth by her contemplating press agent, that the winnings were made at bridge whist the players of bridge pricked up their ears. It was not the winning of "a tidy sum as Mrs. Campbell put it. but that she was an adept at the game that charmed the devotees of this popu- Society people are pleased when they know that their vices and virtues have imltators behind the foothghts. It is strange yet true.
 dissipation. At all the large balls this season rooms have been set apart for the use of players. Matrons who have lost their slender, willowy figures in healthy but unpoetic curves of ample dimensions soon grow weary of sitting about ball rooms watching their daughters dance away the hours between midnight and 3 in the morning. And nightly they are to be seen with fat necks smeared with dia- monds seated at the card tables absorbed in the game.
 This is the golden era. It is no longer vulgar or bad form to parade one wealth either by the extravaganza of liv- ing or by mysterious suggestions anent
 
 a new outlet for display. Each lady car ries a check with her. and at the end of the play she gives her check to the gen tleman or lady who has acted as banker for her losses; and the banker gives his check to each winner. It may awaken some surprise in rural districts to know that the winnings and losses of individual players run from 5000 to. $10,000 at a sit ting. To lose gracefully, to pay grace fully Is now the art that Is aimed at by all the grand danes.
 Gambling for high stakes is not new. It is now more openly done, that is all. Hitherto 1t has been confined to small and exclusive circles or to great country houses. There has been a deference paid to public opinion; today the public has no business with the affairs of the rich. Once gay and fashionable society was composed of the rich, who entertained, and the poor, or moderately well off. who held an assured position by reason of birth, ancestry, or social connection. Today 1t is made up of the rich. All the others have been knocked off as bar nacles. Hence the difference that has come in making play private or public. Poker, baccarat and roulette have been the fashion.
 In all the large country houses there is one room set apart and furnished with all the furniture of a well equipped and fashionable gambling house. It contains a faro layout, roulette wheel. a baccarat table, several clrd tables. an abundance of ivory checks. writing desk ant drafts on banks for the use os unsuc-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
KA15 K alyDz.s LENTEN REFLECTIONS

don't think society pays so much at tention to Lent as 1t used to. It objects 6 being quiet for such d long pe11od, so there are a crowd of minor gayeties, ani, really, when you come right down to 1t. there Is quqite as much fun as at any other time. Look at the tcxes at the opera, for instance. I don't see that they are any more deserted than usual. and the co stumes worn are quite as brilliant on. by the way saw one the other even ing which was really quite startling. It only goes to illustrate how far the one-sided effect can be carried.
 You don't know what the one sided eftect Is?
 oh. yes. you do. It is having one side of the decolletage of an evening froci' different from the other. This gown am speaking of was of white spargieo sttiff trimmed with the palest pink pan.'e One s'de of the waist was of the spangled material. the shoulder strap of the other was of the pale pink velvet. At dist ance it looked exactly as if the 1ress had slipped off one shoulder. It was very startling until you investigated, but dare say that at short range it didn't LOOK that way at all.
 However, to return to Lent. some Of lue old fashioned people who wouldn't for the world give dance or dinner
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
FRENCH PEASANTS HARD LIFE
M. Leopold Mabilleau of the French
 Institute Delivers a Lecture.
Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Before some 25O of the members of L'Alliance France, M., Leopold Mabilleau of the French Institute, who recently arrived here from Paris to give course of lectures at Harvard and Columbia Universities, spoke last night & at Aaeiph' AZ,
 He described the condition of the low. est class in French society during the middle ages and later in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries He then di- rcted his hearers to the condition or the peasant in the more recent grip of mod. ern problems, referring with nu;h Wit to the spacious plans devised by the several school of political economists dur cluded with the assertion that the peas antry could only be raised rom their pro sent misery and wretchedness through their own efforts looking toward mutual combination for their own good.
 The meeting was presided over by Con- sul General Brundaul. who congratulated the audience on having M. Mabilleau to address them. He spoke Of his farnii- iarity with the subject as one who has done a great deal to uplift the condition of the French peasants
 M Mabilleau said that the man who titled the soil deserved more from man kind than any other class or people. me character of the peasant" he said. is stolid and yet gay. He Is upcouth be- cause he has had no opportunity. for ed- ucation. His condition in France is about as poor as it can possibly be and from the beginning he has been ground down by lords under whom he lives and his condition has been but little improved since. .
 Still. with all this. he Is the best cit izen of France today. and the one who has suffered most in all the wars. In the frontier department the peasant suf- fers the most. In the seventeenth cen- tury, under Louis XIV, who made France a military despotism, the farm CTS had but little left for themselves. They were ground down to such an ex- tent that they almost became beasts in their ferocity. And today, through com petition with America. the peasant has a hard time of 1t.
 ''The farms are cut up into small pa tches and what Is raised on them is hardly enough to nourish their own fam flies. To work them profitably. they should have modern machinery, but this is beyond their meaps.. To make farm ing a success under such conditions is m impossibiity In 1884 some social eco- nomlsts proposed the formation of asso- citations among the farmers. These were attempted, but almost placed a prohibit i've tariff on everything that would grow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
HAwAIIA'S LAWMAKERS.
Congress Responsible for the Franks
 of Queer Legislature.

Thrum's Hawaiian Annual.
 The Republican minority of both houses did we'll in saving the country from number of disgraceful measures. Per with a fifty-two year franchise in favor of the Tramway Company; attempt was made to Iegalize gambling. and to revive 1kahunaisnT; compulsory vaccination was repealed. and reduction of a dog tax made a pet measure.
 An act to create counties and munich palities, i'll drawn and badly considered In the lower house, was passed by them passed 1t defiantly with all its crudities. because the minority did not like it as 1t stood. Much disappointment was felt by them at the bill. Home Rulers and a certain foreign element hoped thereby to "curtail the Governors power by plac- ing appointments and expenditures in the hands of native voters organized to put down the power of the whites.
 Practically the whole session was taken up with childish wrangling. Desirable measures for the promotion of govern ment and public welfare were neglected or .studiously blocked in committee, as in the case of the loan measure and ap- propriation bills, expecting thereby to force an extension of the session which had been refused them on the ground that "the methods of the present ses- sion had been so wasteful of both time and money with little to show for large cxpenditure of public funds"
 At the close of the regular term they were immediately called in special ses- sion to consider the appropriations, and the same inability to confine themselves to the duty they were called for was manifest The time limit expired before the act was through its third reading, and the session had to be extended sev- eral days for this purpose. finally ad- Journed July 2, at an expense to the country of s45,O0O for its term of sixty days, and 47.0O0 for its thirty days ex- tra session; far exceeding the most ex. these islands, which was in 1886, when $49, ,9S4 .03 was required to defray the ex- penses of its long session of 129 days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
GAN BE CURED IN TWENTY-FouR HOURS. COUGHS
 Which wear you out, COUGHS
 That keep you awake all night, COUGHS
 That make the lungs Sore, COUGHS
 w h i C h irritate the Throat and Bronchial tubes,

All you have to do Is to carry the little Hyomei inhaler in your mouth while at work during the day, and on retiring pin small piece of flannel saturated with Hyomei to the night robe. On the morn- ing of the third day the cure is complete.
 The germs causing catarrh, bronchitis and consumption can be completely eradi- cated in a few weeks by the same treat ment.
 Group is cured in sixty minutes after the first inhalation.
 If you doubt this. send to The R. T. Booth Co.,, Ithaca, N. Y, for a two days treatment, free, or purchase an Outfit from your druggist. The Inhaler and hrst bottle cost 31.00. The Inhaler will last life time and 50c per month will purchase sufficient of the new germicide to give you treatment three times daily. If it does not cure. your money is re- funded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
WLes Negroes ''


 Lew Dockstader has a new story. Here
 Last season couple of black-face knock-about comedians went over to Paris from this country" says Docksta- der. ito see whether the Frenchmen would stand for a turn where one of the actors carelessly sticks an ax into the top of hls partners head and for all the other knockabout gags that are so familiar to vaudeville audiences in the act would probably be bit startling to the boulevardiers and they had fixed themselves with return tickets to New York in case they didn't make good. fused to sign a contract or even to prom ise them work for any definite time until they had gone on and the public had voted the turn good or bad.
 But one of the black-face boys said to the manager, this isn't very busi- ness-like deal. We came over here at great expense and put on brand new act in your house and maybe we can stay only one night. Is that right?'
 That's about it, the manager told them.
 But how are we to know whether we are to go on or not" the comedian asked him. T.. was the custom of the Paris theatres to place a playbill before the house every day announcing in large type the show for that night. If their names were on the bill the morning after they first went on, he explained, they would be all right. If not, 1t was them to the wharf. Well. they went on and did their turn. but they couldn't tell whether the house liked it or not. Some of the mob yelled approval and the rest yelled other things, but it was all in French. and they didn't know but that most of the house was requesting them to retire to the extreme rear and be seated.
 '"rhey had a room opposite the theatre and the next morning they were both afraid to raise the shade and take look at the playbill In front of the theater. Finally one of them got his nerve up and raised the curtain. He took one flash at the bill and then turned around.
 It's all off. Bill he says to his part ner, shaking hands soIemnly We did |" Whats the matter? Bill says Amt our names up?"
 No the other fellow replied. The sign over there says: Less negroes.
 Oh, go on!" hoWled Bill. who knew saved! Les Negroes means us, and we're going on again tonight
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
CURES DYSPEPSIA
Fluttering Heart, Sour Stomach Constipation, Bad Breath,
 Liver Troubles.
COSTS NOTHING TO TRY!

1yner's Dyspepsia Remedy taken In small doses in hot water quickly-almost instantly--relieves sour stomach, acute in- digestion heartburn, and a few bottles will permanently cure the worst dyspep- sia-the old chronic cases especially. Ty- ney's Dyspepsia Remedy gives tone to the stomach, stimulates the flow of bile from the liver, cures collie, fulness of the stomach, belching wind on the stomach, constipation. bad breath, etc. Try this cure Sold at Drug stores for 50 cents. Trial bottle free on receipt of cents to pay postage. Medical advice free. TY- NER'S DYSPEPSIA REMEDY CO, At lanta Ga. CD
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

luxurious little supper. With the slum- ming expeditions which take one through tenement district have little sympathy. It always seemed to me the height of i'm pertinence that we should intrude into the miserable privacy of these people, whose lives We simply cannot judge by our standards. But when the expedition wends its way through Chinatown then l have no further scruples. because think the Chinese have the laugh just as much as we do. Our ways must seem screamingly funny to them-for instance, our expressions when we attempt to eat Chinese dishes, not to speak of the mess we make with the chopsticks. Then the way We walk around the josshouse, smiI-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
No Money in That "Barfel."

Mrs. Annie E. Taylor won what was supposed to be lasting fame by riding Niagara Falls successfully In barrel The fame was not as staunch as the bar rel, however, and her exhibition trip came to a sudden disastrous end at Gin cinnati. She was obliged to ask financial aid of the city relief department. Her manager deserted her. without leaving her a cent of money and 1t is not clear that he took any with him. Mrs. Taylor evidently misjudged the public taste.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

by reason of the agriculturists being obliged to sell to one party who in turn could only sell for another. Duties also had to be paid before the produce could be admitted to towns. These associations were thoroughly incompetent to deal with the problems existing.
 .aThe means to remedy the conditions of the French peasants" concluded M. Mabilleau, will have to come from the serfs themselves in their uniting to do away with the middlemen and bring to themselves the profits, amounting to mil lions of francs now in the pockets of the associations ostensibly formed to benefit q, ptaO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
A LENTEN SEWING CIRCLE.

few friends play bridge or pingpong all day long, and in the evening, after ,l jolly little meal (not a dinner. of course. although 1t has all the requisites of one), there Is music. and if some of the cou- pies dance. why. of course, no one makes any remarks. And thus it is. I may add that some of the best matches of the season are made at these quiet Lenten house parties. You see. young people have so little opportunity for really knowing each other during the height of le season, and the delightful informality of a house party gives them just the right chance,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

In. eemp,acentiy under the large pla, csrds of Chinese lettering hung all arovha ,ha ssss,,ue susrdian informs us. but l have
 mv doubts. | think they are, more hkew emrses .ry on the foreign devils who pol iuts the spot. I'm sure some ot tne" 'oS xn6 sreskins of the josshouse. one China man at least had bit ue, quiet run
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
In Chicago Court.

Chicago News.
 The wise Judge frowned sternly on the prisoner.
 T suppose you are ready to confess that YOU are a confidence man?" said
 "Oh. no." hastened Bunko Billy. with an injured look. T am merely an or nithologist" of birds do you handler"
 "Jays!" furhed the court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Heat from Cold Water.

Heat from cold water seems fabulous. hut if Is an established fact. The water is decomposed by electricity Into its con- stituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. When these gases are reunited the act of combination causes the evolution of intense heat. The well known lime light is an example of this
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
ReceiYer's Sale .

In the District Court of the United States. for
 the Middle District of Alabama In re- J. R. Darby Son. Bankrupts.-In Bankruptcy.
 entitled cause, I will, on Thursday, the 18th day of March, 1902. in front of the Court inc highest bidder for cash. subject to the approval of the court, two stocks of goods. wares and general nerchandise. consisting les: also iron safes and store fixtures ana ok- Ace furniture, one of which said stocks is situated in the storehouse in Troy. Ala. and fine other in the storehouse in Searfght. Ala, in which the said bankrupts recently carried on business.
 nriyileGe of examining said goods. also aA inventory thereof bv calling on Messrs. Fos- ter Sanford & Carroll. Troy, Ala, or Lomax. Crum & Well. Montgomery. Ala
 E. J. SMITH Receiver, care Lomax. Crum 6 Well. Mont.
 gornery. Ala fr-su-tu-th
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Returned to Grace.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Now that Pettigrew has turned out a defender of the Northern Securities meG- ger those New York papers which were iampooning him year or two ago may discover some good in him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Lenten sewing Circles.

I don't think Lenten sewing circles are as popular as they used to be. They of fered too much opportunity to the social climber who was enabled by this method to reach the charmed innex elxaAA 3A~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

in town during that season get around ..,e difficulty by moving to their country pieces. where they have just Jew friends to pass away the time. These
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

Reading maketh a man full-but they have another name for it in old Kentucky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
The Caldwell Cotton Planter

Is unlike other planters. for 1t drops the seed in the hills at regular distances. This Is done by means of a dropping wheel, revolving au- tomatically into the bottom of the box the cups or tubes in the wheel taking in the seed. Changeable gear permits accurately dropping of seed at any oesired distance. is great Does away with the necessity of chopping cot ton. a farmers great trouble and expense. Strongly built iron and wood Broken pieces inaxnensiveIv replaced Will last many years.
 Saves time saves labor saves seed. all of which means money. Price, 5000
 Address for full particulars,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

deed. I have known women who loathed sewing to sit for hours cramping their fingers and their backs in order that they might have the pleasure of asking Miss Moneybags or Mrs. Van Something -or- Other to pass the spool of black thread or the scissors or the bale of red flannel or whatever 1t might be.
 Do you know. take her all in all, think the Lenten girl Is a big fraud, and as for the girl who poses in penitential purple and violets, if were man I would be afraid of her, but I don't suppose the men have sense enough for that Re- ligion Is one thing. fads are another. would cheerfully exchange the sewing so- ciety girl. the stunning girl and the girl who kneels under a stained glass window twice a day for the merry. honest little maid who goes about much as usual hay. ing good time. but adhering to her "all the year round' principles.
 Summing Parties.
 Dear me! That reminds me. almost forgot to speak about the stunning par ties They are a feature of Lent, both kinds-those which have the avowed pur- pose of bettering the condition of the poor, and the others. composed of those who want to see how the poor live any.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-14
Off In the
Realization
Sale Now
I'm Progress.

back the response to the advertising nothing short
Of phenomenal. ~,.r.
This year it will undoubtedly be even greater, for you
have past experience and testimony of what the Realization
Sale is able to do for you in the way of saving money.
That the present sale will undoubtedly bring the biggest
Crowd that in this store outside of Christmas week.
practically certain for the prices and quality of the goods
beyond question better and cheaper than that of year ago.
Most of the things told of in this page you know the nor
NAL price oNote how much less it will be in this Realization
Sale
Bear in mind there's department. that's not affected
something of nearly everything has been cut the bigger the
surplus the bigger the sometimes the prices haved
then again, only fourth third is Topped oHbu there's
substantial saving for you, well worth the coming for
Run over this page and what is you want-check
it off and bring the page along with you.
N. B.-Please take small parcels
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-14
Furniture in the Realization
Sale.

In this Department are many
special prices, and you save il
every instance a quarter and (
third of original prices.
Solid Oak Extension Table
Well finished, 6 feet long, large
legs, bolted, best slides: regular
price $500. Realization Sale
Price 3.87
Golden Oak or Mahogany Fin
ish Large Arm Rocker-High
back, nicely embossed. shaped
wood seat, well braced and nicely
finished; regular value $2.25. Re-
alization Sale Price 1885
HEYWOOD'S CELEBRATED
VIENNA BENT WOOD CHAIRS
Made from oak and birch, polish
finish, we'll braced, cane seat, a
most excellent bedroom or dining
chair; regular value $1.90. Reali-
cation Sale Price 1885
Golden Quarter Sawed Oak
Rocker-Hands polished, bolted
arm, leather cobbler seat, extra
large size and high. embossed
back; regular price $500. Reali-
ization Sale Price 2.75
Morris Chairs-Golden Oak, pol
ished, spring seat, hair top and
bottom, reversible velour cush-
ions, full regular size, ratchet
back; regular value $3.50. Reali-
cation Sale Price 500
AS Seen in Window-Golden
Oak Dining Room Set, comprising
Side Board. China Closet, Circular
Extension Table, Side Table, 6
Side Chairs and 2 Arm Chairs, all
made of the best quartered oak
and hand polished; regular price
$2O5.O0 Realization Sale Price
5000