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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
News ano Gossip Qf Washington
BY LuoIzlr JULIEN wALKzR

Washington. Dec. 16.-(SpeciaD-The rare courtesy to a Democrat of being invited to a banquet of the famous and rich Union League Club of Philadelphia was accorded the other day to Congress- man William Richardson of Alabama, who accepted 1t and who, on Saturday
 Returning newspaper men, of whom there were a score from Washington, bear witness to the unusual success of Judge Richardson's speech and the re- ed 1t throughout. Seeing that Congress men from twenty States and the Cover nors of three States were present at the banquet. which was given in honor of Congressman Henry c. Loudenslager of New Jersey, and that amongst the two hundred guests Judge Richardson was the only Democrat and only Southerner, general interest attaches to the event and to his speech.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
HAPPY SENTIMENTS.

In part Judge Richardson said:
 Tt Is source of unfeigned pleasure to nous hall and join the friends and ad- mirers of MT. Loudenslager in expressing to him their sincere and cordial greetings and congratulations. My personal greeting to the distinguished guest is none the less cordial. none the less sincere, because he is a Republican, faithful to the policies and principles of his party. while am a Democrat without variations.
 We rejoice to believe that the sting of political asperities that estrange men is past in this country and never. I hope. to return again. Eternal vigilance re- mains the price of liberty, and for this reason in all sections of our country we find broad, liberal-minded men. patriotic men, who understand and love the prin- clples of our republican form of govern ment, who believe that there should al- ways be with us two great political part les struggling continuously and earnestly for party supremacy and always watching one another.
 Nor are my own greetings to MT. Lou denslager any the less sincere, and the less cordial, because he Is a Northern man. born and bred in the North, proudly sharing. as he does. the sympathies of his section that gathered around and fol- lowed Grant, the great leader of the Un- Ion armies which bore the Stars and Stripes in the mighty conflict of 1s6l-65; while | Southern man of the manner
 
 ments of my native seotion-yea! was a proud follower of the great Lee, who bore the Stars and Bars of the South.
 Be. 1t said. then, that 1t is to the last ing glory of our republic, the perpetua. ton of spirit of true Americanism, that the personal and sectional bitterness, SC naturally the result of such a war-the conflict of such armies as Grant and Lee led-has so nearly disappeared within lit- tie more than the period of a quarter of a century. This of itself stands out to- day as great headlight illumining the strength of the republic in the hearts of the people. And no one contributed more as man to- this patriotic end than did President Mckinley. He was prudent wise. patriotic and brave: and at his bier, the South-the solid South-stood with bowed head and flowing tears of sor- row."
 The press and the newspaper men per sonally declare that these sentiments of the Alabamian secured for him an ova- ton of remarkable fervor.
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Reversed and remanded. Opinion by Dowdell, J.
STEELE V. MAY, BUTTREY &
 COONEY

STEELE V. MAY, BUTTREY 6
 COONEY Action fo Recover Damages for Injuries
 Di,ne to Stock of Goods by Water
 Appeal from the Circuit Court of
 Madison.
 f Evidence; when error in admission of evidence without inJury.-The admls- sion of irrelevant md incompetent eyi- dence is error without injury, when the emaining evidence in the case Is with out conflict, and justihes the giving or the general affirmative charge Tor the party in whose favor the Judgment was rendered and is sufficient to support such judgment.
 ;. Master and servant; when master- liable for acts of servant.-The master Is liable in damanges for the act of his sers want or employe, when the act which re- suits in the injury complained or Is dons while the servant is acting within the scope of his employment in the masters service, and was such as may be fairly said to have bean authorized expressly or impliedly by the master, or was such as was incident to the performance Of the 8. Same; same: case at bar.-In an action to recover damages for injury to plaintiffs stock of goods. which was caused by reason of the overflow of 8 which was just above plaintiffs stock. it was shown that in response to bell being rung by guest of the hotel, ths bell boy answered and was directed to pre rare the tub for a bath of a guest. that he opened the faucets of the bath tub and found there was not a sufficient supply of towels in the bath room, that he left to get them, that he was delayed in his return and stald away until the tub had filled with water and overflowed, causing the damage to plaintiffs stock of goods. for which they sue. Held: That the overflow was caused by the negligc nce of the servant while acting within the scope of his employ. and that, therefore, the master was liable.
 Affirmed.
 Oninion by Haralann L
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MOups Y. ROSE & co. ct al.

WOODS V. ROSE X co. ct al.
 Action of Trovsr.-Appeal from the Cir
 cut Court of Fayette.
 l. Trover; what necessary to consti- tute conversion.-Ths wrongful assump- ton of dominion over property or anoth- CT in subversion and denial of his rights, constitutes a conversion of such property. lrr respective of whether there was de- mand made for tho surrender and a re- fusal to surrender said property.
 2. Same same; case it bar.-Where cotton, upon which there was a mort gage, is sold by the mortgagor to third person. who pays the mortgagor the purchase price thereof. such sales implies delivery of the cotton to the purchaser. Ing possession of the cotton by the pur- chaser, imports the assumption of do- minion over 1t by the purchaser Tn his own right, and SubVersion of the rights of the mortgagee, and is sufficient proof of conversion to authorize an action or
 3. Mortgage of crop; sufficient descrip- ton thereof.-A mortgage of "all my for indefiniteness and uncertainty. but the descriptive words may be made den- mite and certain by perol evidence show ing that the parties had reference to the crop to be raised by the mortgagor on plantation he was then cultivating in the county where the mortgage was made. L Registration as constructive notice; liability of purchaser to mortgagee.-A mortgage of crops not yet planted, If duly recorded in the county in which the lands upon which the crop Is to be raised, are situated IS constructive to the purchaser of a part of said crops after they have been gathered; and such purchaser is liable to the mortgagee in trover for the wrongful conversion of portion of the crops purchased by him.
 5. Action of tFover; when general af- frmative charge properly given.-ln an action of trover, where the plaintiff claims under k mortgage and the defend- ant pleads payment If said mortgage debt. and the evidence on the issue of payment ~as conflicting, it Is error for the court to give the general affirmative charge requested by the defendant Affirmed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
FITzHUdH LEES TASTE.

Astonishment and pain are experienced by all proper minded nen here that Gen. to suit the nurnoses of Sis aIwsvs rUunu ron' ~ derous oratory to make an ungracious hing at Mir. Cleveland, to whom, directly and indirectly, he owes all his later hon ors, and consequently the $3, 750 which he draws yearly as Brigadier General on the retired list.
 When. in 1895. the situation in Cuba, growing out of the rebellion of that island against Spain. became most serious and threatening. as viewed by Americans. and when the late MT. Williams resigned the Consul Generalship at Havana, Presi- dent Cleveland commissioned General Lee as Consul General and sent him to Cuba as, to a considerable extent, his personal "a statesman out of a job." the best op- portunity Of his life, for it placed him in the thick of all the trouble that cul- minated in our war against Spain. He
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welfare. Taking due account of the poverty of parents and extreme nscessi- ties, all good men and women must unite everywhere be consent. ifsnot by active service. in the demand that children shall be tenderiy cared for, carefully protect cd. and trained for the duties and respon- abilities of citizenship. Public opinion is turning to this question. and will soon compel all legislatures to act for the benefit of the children, and the good ot the State.
 The charge so often made that if the State legislates on the subject of child labor it is interfering with the natural rights of the parents is without founda- ton, and can hardly be made except from interested motives. The parent or guar dian has certain natural rights. beyond douht, and the child also has rights If the parent refuses to provide for the chiid's moral or physical welfare 1t is absurd to say that the State cannot do 1t. The State has a right to protect the children and we believe Alabama will exercise that right so far as work Tn factories and shops is concerned.
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Do the turnips keep growing. or is it only the stories? Our contemporaries have been exploiting bigger and bigger ones, and now comes The Troy Messenger and hands us this account of one just brought to that ofnce:
 The turnip is of the purple top variety and weighs twelve and one-haf pounds. It measures thirty-one inches in circum- ference and fully one yard from the tip of the roots to the tip of the leaves. | That is the largest turnip story yet dug or pulled up. but we shall lose our guess if somebody fails to go a little better,
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Always Favored It.
Abheyille News.


 The Advertiser and other papers are now advocating a dog law or tax, but the question is. will the Legislature fa- vor such a tax. Now since cuffee can't vote, it's possible the law makers may be induced to see the good of such a law when they meet next year. A tax is no hardship on good dog. but death to the worthless ones. We have always favored a dog tax, and we think one of our representatives from this county is favorable to such a m assure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
The Southern Education Board.
V York Evening Post

New ork EVenlng PoSt.
 The Southern Educational Board has Issued a circular entitled Progress With in the Year" and it is a truly remarka- ble progress which Is chronicled. In Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia, a per- manent campaign against illiteracy and ignorance has been instituted, and is to- day the most striking feature of the life of the South. In North Carolina alone twenty of the strongest public men in the State have been stumping it to preach the gospel of education In the same State the people of a number of counties have by popular vote taxed themselves for larger appropriations for the public schools. In all the States the co-opera- ton of the school superintendents and teachers is all that could be desired. This Is clearly growing stronger as the purposes of the Board are more clearly understood. It has sought to work through established systems and duly ap'' pointed authorities rather than by creat. ing a machinery of its own. Moreover, the Board has attempted no colonization of strange teachers. but has desired td interest and stimulate those of the South and to give them better opportunities te fit themselves for the work. Naturally, the Southerners are cooperating under these conditions, and the results are al- ready astonlshingly great. and of the most far-reaching importance to the new South.
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the money to pay his fare home: such
 evidence being irrelevant and immsterial
 Reversed and remanded.
 Opinion by Sharpe, J.
 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COM
 PANY V. CRoCKER.
 Action against telegraph company for negligent failure to deliver message.-
 Appeal from the City Court of Pirm-
 1. Pleading and practice; how motion
 to strike should be shown on appeal.--
 In order for the rulings of a. trial court
 upon motions to strike certain portions of the complaint, to be considered on
 appeal. such rulings should be presented g. Action against telegraph company when damages for mental suffering re- coverable.-When the father of sick schild sends telegram summontng his mother-in-law to the child's bedside. and
 on account of negligence of the telegraph
 company the sendee, who was the childs grandmother does. not receive the tele-
 gram in time to reach the chiid ,o 5etore
 recover of the telegraph company
 damages for mental anguish and suner- ing: the relationship existing between the
 sender and sendee and the person con cenrning whom the message is sent, Ds- Ing of that close degree from which natural love and affection are presumed. B. Same; same; charges of court to jury.-In an action against telegraph  deliver a message sent by the father or sick child, summoning his mother-in- | law to the childs bedside, which message the sendee. the grandmother Of the cniio. did not receive until too late to reach tne child before he died, where the father sues for damages for mental anguish ana suffering. charges which intruct the 1ury that there can be recovery for mental anguish and suffering occasioned by the absence of the mother-in-law, should De given, and charges which instruct the Jury that there can be. no recovery Tor mental anguish and suffering, are errone- | ous and properly refused.
 4, Action for failure to deliver tele- gram. admissibility of evidence.-ln an | action against a. telegraph company TOT | the negligent failure to deliver a message sent by the father of a sick child, sum morning his mother-in-law to the child | bedside, which message the sendee, the grand another of the child. did not re. ceive until too late to reach the child ne- | fore is death. where the father sues TOT | damages for mental anguish and suiIeft | ing, it is not competent for the defendant l to shew, upon the cross examination or | the sendee of such message, now many children and grandchildren she had. ana | how widely scattered they were.
 D. Action for failure to deliver tele- gram; when damages assessed not excess | sive.-In an action against a teiegrapn company for the negligent failure to de- | liver a message sent by the father of a | sick child, summoning his mother-ln-iaW | to the child's bedside. which message tne sendee the grandmother Of the ch1lo, olo | not receive until too late 10 rescn sae | child before its death, where the father sues for mental anguish and suffering, the assessing of plaintiffs damages at $1|e | is not excessive | Affirmed. !. 9 Opinion by Dowdell. J.
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aenealogH of the Smith Family.

One of the largest genealogies ever un- dertaken has been partly completed at Oxford in the history of the Smith fam fly. The investigations have not been although Professor Mahaffy discovered a record of a brewer named Smith in a Pertrie papyruS dated two centuries be- fore the Christian era
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time to consider and deliberate upon an
 general legislation proposed It is true
 that much time is to be taken up in pro-
 viding for future local laws. but that will not give so much trouble as proposed local laws have done in the past. The legislators win soon see and feel the great difference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
BOTHER BARRETT.

President Roosevelt fortunately conclu- ded after all not to send that impossible person. John Barrett as United States Minister to Japan. Barr ett is another man honored by MT. Cleveland who after wards got to be altogether too smart too big for his breeches." MT. Cleve- land made him minister to Siam, and no sooner had he arrived in that country than he began to make an Oriental spec tacle of himself, his constant thought and papers. He did the White Elephant dodge: he got the King to offer him many distinctions. from "a beautiful white girl slave from the royal harem" to "a beautiful white elephant from the royal stables" and so on ad museum.
 Barrett became the joke of diplomacy in the East and folly at home-a yerita- himself and his skintul of varieties and follies into the Republican party, from which vantage ground he took hts shy at MT. Cleveland. ---s --.ze~75 s.-
 Barrett, like all men of his class. talks too much. In the East he talked in a They are now even with him, he will proceed with his spouting for the St. Louis fair, which won't be ready for the opening day. a so much cash per spout.
 As for Lloyd Griscom, the youngster who is to succeed to the legation in Tolkio. admirably well to the hounds. as this correspondent can bear old-world testi- mony. Withal he Is quite a pretty boy, is Lloyd. His going as United States Minister to ancient Japan, irfesistably recalls Harry Furniss's lines in Punch long ago:
 "TolSio, Toldo-
 Lika Jokio, Jolio."
 Verify, this Is a mad world. my masters!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
Made Up Their Minds.

Limestone Democrat.
 It is very apparent that there are some papers in the State which have already made up their minds to be displeased with anything Governor Jelks may do. They have prejudged the Chief Execu- tive and are not going to be satisfied with anything he may do.
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A Great Sarvice.
Fort Deposit Reflector.

Thomas A. Edison has invented an electrical machine for killing disease germs. Now if he would invent some- thing to kill out the fellows who are continually discovering new kinds of germs he would do a great service for the people.
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MONROE DOCTRINE rERzsnIY STATED BY ITS AurHOn

We
 
 to declare should their system power have not nered whose independence or pprsns them controlling other the destiny, an unfnd disposition toward tn United
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If you do not register before or on next the permanent list of registered voters. It will be more difficult to register after January 1st
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17

The Solicitors are to be elected by the people. There are may who do not re- member this provision of the new Con- stitution. The members of the Legisla- tJre are not to be elected in future to servo their favorite candidates for Solicit tor ard the shameful scenes of the elec- ton of those officers that have occurred in the past are to be seen no more. The people are to select the prosecuting attor- neys for the State in the respective cir cults or counties or cities, and if they do not choose capable and honest officials, they will have only themselves to blame The terms of the Solicitors are reduced to four years, and they are very largely dependent upon the people in future for the tenure of their office. The new Consti- tuition provides that "a Solicitor for each Judicial Circuit or other territorial sub division prescribed by the Legislature shall be elected by the qualified electors of those counties in such circuit or other territorial subdivision in which such So- licitor prosecutes criminal cases. and such Solicitor shall be learned in the law and shall at the time of his election and during his continuance Tn office reside in county in the circuit in which he prose- cutes criminal cases, or other territorial subdivision for which he is elected, and | his tenn of office shall De four years, and he shall receive no other compensation than a salary to be prescribed by law" The Solicitors elected in 1904 are to hold office for six years to bring their future election at the same time as other State officers.
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Tall Skirmishing.

Shelby Sentinel.
 The Advertiser disclaims nominating Grover Cleveland for the Presidency. There will have to be some tall skirmish- ing to find better or more logical can didate than MT. Cleveland.
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THE ADVERTISER'S TELE-
 PHONES.
New Circulation Record.

the circuiasion Department of The Advertiser to compile c statement of The Adveruse', ,n circulation that breaks all previous reco,us ,h. point of numbers. The average Tor ootn ". a daily and Sunday editions has entered mvu t.,.s new thousand mark--a point that means ,. .nuI, I, 10 those interested in seeking consp,Su,V ,h people of this State appreciate in suostann,.n way The Advertisers determination 10 pu0hsn . live newspaper
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A Better Example.
Mobile Heral.

Mobile Herald. President Roosevelt is undoubtedly
 pained to learn of the Afro-American en- counter with razor and pistol in Liberia.
 American black men should set much better example for the Liberians.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17

There were over fifty thousand white men In Alabama of legal age and pos sesslng other qualifications who had not gotten their names on the permanent registration list on the 1st of August. They have an opportunity to correct this omission today, tomorrow and Friday. The Registrars are in session at every court house in Alabama for that purpose
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A New Jersey man has learned that a stove is not good place to deposit paper money in if the depositor is a man who lets his wife get up and make the morn. tnS fires.
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Register by or on Friday next or your opportunity to get on the permanent list will be lost. Any white man who fails to do so does 50 by his own indifference and apathy.
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Will Give Out None.

Birmingham News.
 There is reason to believe that Senator Jones of Arkansas will give out no anti Roosevelt criticisms for print pending the appointment of the isthmian canal com mission.
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The Kind to Win.
Pines Belt News.

| FInBN b6IL N6W5. | Grover Clevelands Democracy Is the
 kind that will win in 1904. and the party
 is fest coming to his way of thinking, | He Is today the greatest living exponent of true Democratic principles.
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Every white man in Alabama should qualify himself to vote in the future by placing his name on the permanent regis tration list by or on next Friday. as the lists are closed on that day.
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Mark Hanna is having a hard time try ing to keep his Presidential boom from getting away from him.
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From The Dale County News we learn that a neighbor "shot one of his off acci. dently by the discharge of his Gun." etc Wonder how many he has left?
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Kansas City is looking for a new depot to be built. Incidentally. it may be mem tioned that there are people up there who are looking for the millenium.
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Up Against It.
Mobile IteI

Mobile Item.
 A Tennesseean addresses his letters to Secretary Root thus: "Li Hu Root. '" That should put him up against the Chi nese exclusion act.
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The prophet who predicted that this continent would sink or be washed away last Saturday night slipped cog.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17

The registration lists on the permanent life plan close on Friday and after that date your chance to get on that list is forever lost.
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The Advertiser has inadvertently failed to note that The Bessemer Journal is now q daily. and a very readable one, besides They ought to patronize 1t liberally.