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When Nobody Knows Nothing They
 >T sG Just Call Him S I

the telephone line a great convenience
 She was using galvanized iron rope
 herself and she had tied one end of 1t around the telephone line and the other end to an Iron fence on the other side of the roof. Every time the wind blew and frightened the thing up, the galvanized wire cut into the insulation of our line and made contact and the iron fence did the rest. The wire grounded every time there wss puff of wind.
 T went down and told the subscriber about it and though I didn't tell her thought she ought to fire the washlady, Git was her washlady, incidentally.), I put it to her pretty strong. And this is what I got:
 "It all seems very complicated and plausible now, of course. You telephone people always stand by one another don't doubt you would give up your place to save that girl if necessary. No doubt you have your reasons. Certainly 1t has taken you long enoug to straighten mat ters out. And the girl was very imper- tinent.'
 "I reported to the chief and the chief said some things that comforted me lot Then he told me that 252525z Harlem had not responded to the Eocn test or the
 midnight test and that I better go over | and see what was doing.
 'The man of the family was home. He came down to the hall as soon as the girl | told him what my business was He was one of these fellows who thinks that he | was born to be Hawkshaw the detective
 and who sometimes signs because his | father put him in the bond business and | kept him from becoming a dime novel | hero. I saw what was in his eye as soon I Do int Q oh | was a crook using the telephone repair | gag as an excuse to get into his house. "'This is very peculiar he says, 'in- | asmuch as there is nothing the matter | with my telephone and I have made no I complaint-very peculiar. Where Is your | badge, please?
 He threw this at me as if he expected | me to jump through the glass in the hall | door when he said It. I flashed my badge. | He looked at 1t very careful. Then he l lets go with another fly-cop attempt to get a rise out of ne.
 ''whe1e did you get that badge? says
 he.
 q was getting sore. But I only told him I had no authority to be disclosing the inside workings of the company and asked him whether he wanted his tele- phone fixed or not. He said there wasn't anything the matter with the telephone. I said. all right, that I'd tell the company that he was very well satisfied with his telephone the way it was and didn't want anything done to 1t.
 That made him a little nervous. He said he hadn't used the telephone since the afternoon before, and that there might be something the matter with 1t without his knowing it. You see. he did have some of the instincts of gentle man, ever if he had forgotten them in the rush of his detective instincts to the front. But he followed me up Into the urstairs front hall where his telephone was. The telephone was as dead as a door nail He looked stumped, and when I asked him where-the wire came into the house, he was fairly pleasant.
 "'Through the bathroom window he told me, I know because I am something of an electrician myself and I am always
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interested in tfese things.
 He followed me around talking to me as I made my tests. In fact, he said I always install my own annunciator apparatus. I like to do 1t because the professional .leS CT is really artistic about concealing wires. He may conceal them in one room only to make them unduly prominent in another
 T tested al the window and everything was all right there, showing that the trouble was between the window and the instrument. I looked the rooms over. There 5idn't seem to be anything wrong. But in the dining room there was step- ladder. On the floor under it was a pair of pliers. Then I woke up.
 Say I said, careless like. have you done any insalator installing lately
 "'Why, yes," ne says, proud as a goat. 'Surei I have cone job today that I am very proud of. Bet that won't get grounded so that nobody can find where the ground is, he says.
 "It was wicked, but he had used me rretty hard, sc I strung 1t out. I says to him, still innocent and willing to learn:
 "'I wish you'd show me some of your wiring. I'm always anxious to get new ideas about wiring
 'He Jugs the stepladder over to the side of the room and says that he wishes I would just take one look behind the picture moulding. Others, he says, put a wire behind a moulding so that 1t may spring out of place and come Into sight some time. but Willy-every-man- his own-electrician, nay, nay! He fastened his down, he says, so they would never come up. By this time I had seen a heap.
 If 1t isn't too much trouble I said to him, I wish you'd show me a little detail about that It's very interesting Would you mind taking one or two of those staples behind that moulding right along in there where the ladder is and showing me how to put them in again
 q was so darn all-fred polite that he began to look suspicious. He studied my face. But l kept 1t straight. So Willy goes up the ladder and draws out three of his lovely tacks While he was work ing l slips out into the hall and took down the receiver of the telephone. It was where he could see me through the door from the top of the ladder.
 That's what I thought I said to him. Taking out those tacks improves the insulation of this telephone wire won derful.' He just stood there on the ladder with his mouth open and never said word. I called the chief and told him O those volunteer amateur electricians who worked because they loved 1t and not because they had families to support and that he had been so anxious to put in an invisible bell wire that he had driven copper staples right through our wire. which was behind the moulding all the time without his knowing it and that guessed there wouldn't be any more trouble now that he knew what the mat ter was.
 Say, you know I didn't know exactly what he was going to do. I expected him, rather, too call the help and have me put out of the house. But he didn't He came down off that ladder like he had been in trance and walked straight to the sideboard and began pouring out drinks of stuff. Just for the sake of peace I came over and drank one with him. Then he poured out another two. I baked on that, having more work to
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Woes ofthe Telephone Man

From the New York Sun.
 Trouble? I have no trouble in my gay unscarred existence did you say?"
 The telephone repair man sat and buried his face in his hands as one who weeps bitterly In the face of great mis- understanding. You don't know what trouble is until you have been in my busi- ness for awhile. Wait until I tell you what happened to me this morning.
 Woman over here in a fiat house sent word that the central girl was annoying her deliberately and bothering her and cutting her out every few seconds and breaking up all her conversations because she had the girl called down by the man. ager for being fresh yesterday The man. ager watched the girl for awhile and saw that she wasn't monkeying with the woman's wire.
 But the woman still complained and the monkey business started right in while she was talking to the manager. He didn't believe the girl could be doing It. but she was a deep, dark, Spanish, re- sentful-looking person and he had his doubts. He put another girl in. Same trouble Half sentence, then a long pause Then half a new sentence.
 There was only one thing to do. Call the repair man. Sure. When nobody knows nothing and there can't anybody tell what's the matter, call up mainte- nance and say you want that wire fixed in ten minutes.
 We went over to the house and follow cd the wire to the roof. All regular. We followed 1t down and into the window and right to the instrument All regular. We followed 1t across the block and across the street and two more blocks to the conduit Nothing doin'.
 There's only one thing to do in a case like that. There is just one rule to meet all such emergencies; it's back to the roof,' I went back. The connection was all right all across the roof. I cut in on the wire and talked with the chief. Noth- ing interrupted us at all He said there must have been 8 miracle and the wire had fixed itself. Told me to take another long. last look and then call him up again. By that time he might have thought of something.
 "I went all over every post and staple and joint In the line again. Everything was perfect. Meantime the wind began to come up. When l called up the chief again about six words In every twelve went through. Trouble had all come back. Chief asked me if I'd been drink ing or throwing him down. got enough of that to get the point of it.
 Remember l had cut in on the roof and was talking through this thing" CThe repair man pointed to the kit slung over his shoulder) All of a sudden I noticed that the lapses In my talk with the chief came with the swaying of the clothes on the roof. l forgot to say that there was big wash hung out there Of course that meant something. I hadn't followed the line through the clothes, because it didn't touch any support between one side of the roof and the other and the trouble could only have occurred at support. In about two feet found the whole trouble.
 'The brilliant and intelligent washlady who had hung out that wash had found
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barefoot boy sitting upon fence post. He was swinging his legs and whistling as only some boys can. A lieutenant was in charge of the soldiers and he drew rein when he saw the boy. He inquired for Judge Carr. The boy shook his head an answered that he did not know him.
 The soldiers passed. An hour later they returned and the boy was still upon the gate post. All day the soldiers searched in the woods and all day the boy sat upon the gate post. The following morn Ing the soldiers returned and again the boy was upon the gate post.
 T sat there for about four days" said MT. carr. My father and several neigh bors and all their negroes were hid in the woods, and by means of a signal code we were able to communicate with one an- other.
 Two or three men were stationed in the tree tops. We all had white handker- chiefs watched the soldiers One wave meant that they were in the neighbor- hood, two meant that they were leaving, and three meant that they were not in sight and that all was we'll"
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do, so he opens a drawer and takes out a box of cigars that hadn't ever been opened and says:
 Young man, do you ever smoke 9 l said did, and started to open the box
 No, mo- he says Don't open 1t un- til you get home. If you'd like to smoke now. take these.' And he handed me a handful out of box already opened. Then he takes out his card and writes his business address on 1t and says:
 Any time in six months or more you happen to feel thirsty when you are in my neighborhood, drop in and I'll buy Then he took me down to the door and asked me If I was sure l wouldn't have another drink before I left. and shook hands with me all over again before he would let me go.
 Yes, we have our troubles. But life isn't always a vale of tears"
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SECRETARY GLEASON Of The Woman's Catholic Order of
 Forresters, Chicago,
St. Francis Xavier Court Mo- l74 Endorses Lydia E
 Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

in their laugh and sing
 think of the efortw whatever hearted and Respondent
 The female complaints is her; she oppressed that feeling only to be left alone
 uknowb Lydia E Pinkhams all this make will certainly the dvhat Mrs.
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Mro. WInslow's sooth,no svr,,n

the best remeoy TOT DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part ot the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. winslow s Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHS the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLO, and is Twenty-Five cents 2 bostla-
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Policy.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 ''The baoy looks like its mother"
 ''Tsh! We want to make out that she takes after rich aunt of mine."
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Two More Sufferers Cured.

"DEAR MRS. PTNKHAM Fl was sick with female weakness. 1 took all kinds of medicines, you might say, and was operated on by doctors, but they did me no good. After talk ing five bottles of Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound I found relief and am now enjoying good health. Since taking your med icine I have become the mother of little boy. I will praise your medi- cine as long as live. ."-MRs. SARAH E. RREDER, Amsden, Ohio. (Dec. 27, 19oo.)
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MRS M. GLEASON Chicago III
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DEAR MRS. PINKHAM :-I suf- fered daily from backache and ston- ach ache. Menstruation was sup appeared again, but very painful and irregular. Instead of consulting a doctor thought would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. 1 now feel as well and strong as ever I did, and since taking it I have given birth to little boy, and we do bless your medicine. l will advise all sick women to use it. !" -MRs. IDA PETERSON, Box 93, Am- asa, Mich. (March 1, 19o1.J
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 publishing only the merit of Mrs great medicine ill., The efficiency of her advice by thousands of letters from
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
DESIRE NO MORE RATIoNs.
indians Who Declare They are Men
and Can Earn Their Own Living.

st Paul Mimi Pioneer Press.
A delegation Of Sioux and Assiniboin
Indians passed through ST. Paul Monday
night on their way 10 Washington TO ask
the Great Father TO take half OF their
reservation at Fort Pee, Mon. and give
them In return cattle with waich TO i'm
prove their numerous small ranches.
Chief John Long Dog heads the am
bassa doris. ana with him are Chief Bear
Fighter and Chief Chester Arthur. The
latter has served with the regulars, and
was Until recently First Sergeant of
Company /. 10Th United States infantry,
Both the others have been Captains Of
Indian Police. and Chief Bear Fighter
Is in addition, an influential Indian mis-.
sionary Accompany them Is Daniel
Mitchell OF Fort Peck, an interpreter
from the Indian police.
1--WE shall make a treaty" Chief Long
Dog said through the Interpreter. Our
last treaty expired three years ago by
limitation We shalt ask the Govern
ment to take half our reservation, held
Jointly by the Sioux and Assiniboins,
and open It for settlement. We want the
Great Father to give us cattle for the
land, hat we may improve our ranches
and grow IN wealth.
I'VE want no more Of the Government
ratfons, except for our old men and
sduaws and for the disabled. We are
men and can work. We need no help. II
VIZ give up half of the reservation we
shall have a tract twenty miles long and
forty miles wide. Sioux and Assiniboins,
fil..r,. are 1900 Of US. Our land is good.
II we could turn II into cattle we could
poon become wealthy.
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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
FRESH AND STRONG.
Food That, Sends One Along.

II found a food at last that I could
work on and that would keep me fresh
and strong i have been school teacher
for eleven years, and every year toward
the last have felt more or less worn out.
and have been bothered particularly with
my stomach and serious constipation.
Last year l used Grape-Nuts regularly
at both morning and evening meals ana
the result was really wonderful. l have
been entirely cured Of the troubles
spoken Of, and don't know what 1t is t.
take a dose of physic any more. The OLE
nervousness and sleeplessness have gone.
No more do l lie awake nights until my
brain is in a whirl. Now l sleep all night
long like q healthy child.
l was the only teacher out of fourteen
in our public schools. who did not miss a
day on account of sickness during the
last session. ! have been able to dc
more hard studying than ever before, and
took up the teachers state reading work.
completed the course and passed n sue
cessful examination at the last institute.
Grape-Nuts in my case has proved TN
truth of the assertion that 1t is a brain
and nerve builder l would especially
recommend 1t for tired. over-worked
school teachers. or any other brain
worker" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek Mich.
1t Is far wiser to build up health ana
strength naturally with food than TO
crutch along on some kind OF medicine
and let the disease finally do Its work
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
A CLUSTER OF SONGS.

Professor r. c. Galloway Of Troy. Ala.
Ia in the city the guest or MRS J. !; NC
Kinney. They are soon 70 puonsh
s ear1y Ap Of Thsy are called TSe Green
Kentucky Pastures" Loves Dreaming
song and "Eventide." Those who have
heard them pronounce them all beautlIui;
The first. a descriptive song: , is ,d Turs.
ing and plaintive, and the composer mas
made a most pleasing Interpretation OF
the lines. The following Is one Oh the
verses:
Green the pastures, green the pastures
Where the robins breast Is bright,
And the bluegrass knows song 1ha'
There the daisies dress in white.
And my old home just In sight
Like a friend smiles down the years a
smile to meet.
Loves Dreaming Song is an emo
tional classic of rich harmony:
7 dreamed song that was sweet and
long.
And the night was blessed with an angel
For your face leaned down above me.
heard your words like the voice Of
When the east with morning Pushes.
And oh-my dream wore the sunrise
CLEAN
When Il kissed your cheeks warm
bushes.
My heart still shows your brown hair
CLOVIS,
And your browner eyes above me;
But the dream and song must slumber
long
Lest I wake. sweetheart without thee
"Eventide' has a spring setting full Of
the shutdown and cleaning with a bird
trill intermingled:
But It's dearer by far. my darling.
Than any brd-song bliss
| To be held in your fond embraces,
With my cheek against your kiss.
Proves that love hath full share of
the measures. Professor Galloway is
among the geniuses in the recent book
entitled Popular American Composers"
and in connection with his work Mrs.
Mckinney Is called The Southern song
writer of great ability"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
INSURANCE RATE INCREASED
BY BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS
Raise Of Is Per Cent Made montgomery Shares
Fate of Every City in the United States.
A Reduction Asked For.


, curreo curing Inc Paet go
| dering the business unpron.aoie. anu ~
ing the wltnorawai OF many a,.. ass
the harosnips OF the situation ues ,~.
phasized by the connaslauohs =. .,,.s
rev weeks. WIN no prospecI a..
they are OF the unanimous oplniVn ' Ne.
not only the eooo OF tne 80.
the SAFETY OF the pubic oehahu ina.
should be Immediately anu iarseS a
vanced. ana that unless sucn .,s =
Is promptly made tine companies VIII "
forced to withdraw their ihoemh.sy.
They therefore agree that tnroushoue 'ne
country rates shall De advanced ON
mercantile stocks In all ouholnes' except
such as are occupied as dwellings ABOVE
the grade floor and on frame store puiio-
ings: also on all manufacturing risks
and other special hazards which nave nor
been rated under revised and approved
schedules within one year."
1t was further determined:
To advaAce the rates on all such risks
% per cent and upward, as may be equit-
chile in each case, and that this advance
she'll go into effect Immediately and con-
ttnue until such risks can be specifically
I'd ted under proper revised and approved
schedules
1t is understood that the above action
relates to all territory east Of the Rocky
Mountains, except New York and vicln-
ity
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
TO TRY MURDER CASES
CRIMINAL DIVISION CITY COURT
OPENS TOMORROW.
Four Negroes VIII Re Tried for Muir
der-other Noted Cases to
De Set for Trial.

Tomorrow will be busy day In the
criminal division Of the City Court OF
Montgomery. The prisoners charged with
capital crimes will be arraigned before
Judge W. H. Thomas and he will set
q day for the trial Of each.
The party Of prisoners includes four
negroes charged with murder. who have
not been tried before. These men are
Anderson Shackleford. Heron jackson,
william washington and Frank Williams
Judge Thomas will also set the date FOL
the trial of Alex Wilson. Sam Cartledge
and Jim Wilkins, charged with robbery
These cases have been In court over q
year. They have not been tried because
OF the nom appearance Of Daniel Mum
the chief prosecuting witness. In add
ton to the new murder cases that vii
be set tomorrow Judge Thomas will name
q day for the trial Of Phil Hill ana Hill
Hard johnson accused Of rape.
Other capital cases that will be SCI
tomorrow are those Of Mack Goss ant
, Henry King charged with maliciousl,
| obstructing railroad; Arthur Chamber
and George Clifton charged with arson
and Bill Thomas charged with robbery.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
ACTOR DEFIED OFFICERS.
Terrorized People in a House and
Was Locked Up.

hurry call for immediate police assistance
was sent to police headquarters at an early
hour this morning from a house on the cor.
ner OF Lawrence and Monroe Streets.
Mounted Officers Graham and Smith re
sponded and found F. Knyett. said TO be AT
actor. in full charge Of the place. Knyett ha
run everybody out of the house and was
gagged In breaking up the furniture. He hat
raked the Goals from the fireplace and Sc
Are to the floor. The fire he started had jus
begun TO blaze when the police officers arrived
a chair and dehed the officers. 1t took then
just half a minute to convince him that he
had made a mistake, for in that length OF
time they had him securely fastened ans
were on their way to headquarters.
Knyett appeared to be dazed and under th'
influence of some drug A charge OF disor
Derby conduct was entered against him ant
he was locked up.g
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-23
WILL BE BURIED ALIVE
LEE ATHENo WILL BE PUT UN.
DERGRoUND FOR A WEEK.
Large Crowd Attracted to Show VIM
dow Where Mrs. Athena Was
Observation-Disclosures Will
Take Place Tomorrow.

Mrs. Carl Athena was hypnotized at
$3.50 o'clock yesterday morning and put
to sleep on a couch In the show window
Of j. E. Worswick on Dexter Avenue.
She remained in the window throughout
the day and attracted large crows who
stood before the window and gazed with
morbid curiosity at the sleeping figure.
At $50 o'clock last night Athena walk
ened his wife by passing his hands gent
ly over her face. For one hour she held
a reception In the store and shook hands
with probably two hundred persons after
which she was again put to sleep in the
show window and remained there until
midnight She was again awakened by
her husband and left the window for the
night.
She will be put to sleep in the show
window again this morning Mrs. Ath-
emo said she felt no bad effect from, the
sleep. but when she was awakened she
was very cold and her body was imme-
diately wrapped in heavy cloak.
Lee Athena. who is to be buried alive on
the Jones lot at the corner Of Perry and
Adams Street Monday evening, did not
eat anything yesterday. He drank three
cupfuls of hot water. He will fast today
and tomorrow.