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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

oadsden. March s.-specisl>-W. F. Lay. Chairman of the Coosa River in- provement Association. in regard to the action of the Rivers and Harbors Com mittee in ignoring the Coosa, today said:
 By the recent conclusions reached by the Rivers and Harbors Committee per- taining to the opening of the Coosa Riv- er to through navigation. feel that a very great Injustice has been done this project from some source and probably from . combination of sources.
 'Tt seems that the immediate action cf the Committee Is due mainly to an un- favorable report made by Captain Judson. formerly in charge of this work. l have but must say was very much surpris- cd at his report, for 1t was my under standing that during his short stay on the CooSa he was always a strong advo- and if he ever entertained such ideas as are now accredited to him never heard of 1t until recently. I know just year ago last November, when few mem tee were looking over the Coosa River. just after leaving Gadsden on the steam q Leota. we had . conference with Chairman Burton in the rear end of the cabin. At this conference Captain Jud- son took a strong stand for the Coosa and one of his remarks I remember well. He said the Coosa was an ''unusu- ally favorable stream for improving" He compared 1t with the Mississippi, Red River. Arkansas and other streams. but uaid the Coesa was more favorable for improving than any of them and went into details to show why it was so. can't understand why Captain Judson has chanred his mind so completely.
 The Coosa River is the third largest stream In the South and penetrates prob ably the richest combined agricultural. mineral and timbered regions in the United States, and to talk about aban- doning 1t In this day of trusts and com pines Q out of all reason. It flows about as near the city of Birmingham as does
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
SEARCH FOR coLoRED HELP.
Experience of New England Woman
 at an Agency in New York.

New York Sun.
 New York woman who has had her trou- bles over the intending question of servants, went into an agency over the door of which the sign read. Southern Help Furnished" A colored woman waited upon her. The New York woman is not a native and to the manor born. but halls from New England.
 Does yo' want nanny foh yo' chillun a waitin' maid, a Marylan' or Virginny cook or tes plain plantation woman to do scrub bin an maxim fires an totin coal ?' the first general inquiry by the agency woman.
 The applicant said she wanted a domestic to do general housework
 ''Yessum, l done low yo' wanted somebody w'ot kin wuck but desc heah Southon help dat yo' fine in de Nawth has kline O divided der selves up into packs. Dey, ,-done got dat mo- shun in dar haids fun dis heah white hailp Ef yo' jes want plain ,washin, an no hnery den yo' want some Carliny hnip'
 The applicant repeated that she wanted a domestic for general homework.
 "Yessum. But. lady. I'm moughty feerd dat yo' atn't swine ter find dat kind fun de
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
BRUIN ON A SPREE.
Invaded a Dairy, Drank His Ell and
 Was Happy.

Paris Letter to London Telegraph.
 The proverbial bull in a china shop has found an imitator in a bear, which has been paying an uninvited visit to an es- where milk is dispensed. but in order to relieve immediately any anx- ietye which might be felt on this subject. I hasten to add that bruin behaved ex- tremsly well. and that no bones or crock cry were broken. The bear was being ex- hibited on one of the outlying boulevards when its owner, in an absent t-minded it. relaxed his hold on the chain.
 The animal took advantage of the situ- alton to start on a promenade, and when the people who had gathered around to witness the show bolted panic-stricken in every direction 1t pursued the even tenor of its way until 1t had reached the shop at the door of which pail of milk was standing. It seized the can in its paws, walked into the establishment and squat ting comfortably in a corner. drank of the contents at one gulp
 When the owner of the bear arrived on the spot he found the worthy woman who keeps the milkshop lying prone on the floor behind the counter in a state of abject terror. but otherwise not bit the worse for the adventure. He patted bruin. who was in an even more amiable mood than usual after the little feast to which he had treated himself. duly paid the bill which he had run up. adding Q trifie sum to compensate the trades wo- man for her fright. and then he sailed forth in triumph with his grizzly compan- ion. who. during the remainder of the day. went through his evolutions with even more zeal and energy than he was wont to display, SO that when his owner finally wended his way homeward he dis covered that he had far exceeded his usual average of profits. and had more than recuperated himself for the money spent on the milk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
IN THE sEouo1A REGION.
The Big Trees May be Able to Repro
 duce Their Kind if Protected.


 Washington Special to New York Tribune.
 The part of the twenty-f1rst annual re- port of the United States geological sur yey devoted to forest reserves. by Henry Gannett geographer. now in press. but not yet published. contains the reports on the Yosemite and Sonora quadrangles. by C. H. Fitch, and on the Vaudeville, Pyramid Peak. Placerville. Dardanelles, Big Trees and Jackson quadrangles. by George B. Sudworth. The total area in- square miles. is famous part of Cali fornia. It runs from the San Joaquin Valley on the west eastward across the Sierra Nevada into the deserts of Neva- great range of California, and including . part of the great gold belt. or mother lode. groves Of big sequoia trees, the fo- semits National Park, and nearly the en- hoe forest reserves. The area slopes in . long swell from 5oo feet above sea lev el at the western edge to nearly 14ooo feet near it's eastern edge. Up to about 2000 feet the country Is covered with chaparral, with scattered oaks and dig. ger pines. At 5000 feet yellow and sugar pines appear. and the forest continues to over 5000 feet. forming a belt forty to fifty miles wide on the slope of the range.
 The timber of commercial value grows best between the attitudes of 4.500 and $500 feet. The principal timber trees are yellow pine, sugar pine and red fir. Three Yosemite quadrangle. the Merced. the Tuolunne and the Mariposa, Sequoias of all ages are to be found in the Mariposa grove. many of them thrifty trees meas uring from 10 to 90 feet in diameter and 300 feet high. MT. Fitch thinks that. with continued and proper protection against Ire, the sequoias may be able to perpet- uate themselves. but that reproduction is not now going on 10 any extent. and fires are not wholly guarded against.
 Roughly estimated, the territory exam tned by MT. Sudworth amounts to 5,ll0 E01are miles, or about 3.270. 900 acres. As iz4 the Sonora and Yosemite auadrangles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
CHAIRMAN LAY STILL HOPES
 FOR IMPROVEMENT OF CO0SA
Declares That the Fight Will Be Kept Up tor an Appropriation to Open the River
 to Navigation. y

the Warrior and is decidedly the more practical water route for that magnifi. cent city and why her people do not avail themselves of the opportunity ana join in and help to secure the opening able to understand. I took 1t on myself some time ago to look up the discharge of both the Coosa and the Warrior and compare them and put 1t down in my little book.
 1T fnd in the report of the Hon. Sec retary of War. 1s9o part 2. page. l!1o, gives the low water discharge of the Warrior at Tuscaloosa at 400 cubic feet per second. In the same book. page l.s7o gives the low water discharge of the Coosa at Wetumpka at 5,796 cubic feet per second. Thus we find that the Coosa is just 14 l-2 times as large as the War rior. and yet I suppose, we must con- stream navigable than it does a small one. If that be the case then, we had better abandon our large streams and navigate our creeks. This occurs to me a little contrary to the order of things and very inconsistent.
 II don't say this or 2ake this com parison to criticise or cast any slurs at the Warrior for that little river pene- trates the richest coal region in the South. west of Birmingham. and should but we can often show and appreciate the value of one thing more effectually by comparing 1t with another, hence make th'- comparison for this purpose and in defense of the Coosa only.
 tT don't know yet what course we will adopt. but We will certainly not abandon our efforts for the Coosa. Congressman Bankhead, the Alabama Committeeman. Is thoroughly in line with the work. for on the Committee he represents all Ala bama and not one district only. so he will leave nothing undone that will aid the Coosa- Then, the entire Alabama and North Georgia delegations in Con gress are behind the move and with these combined efforts in connection with the great merit of the stream have but lit- tie fears for the ultimate success of the proiect'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

first day after left my brother out on the prairie I saw a runaway horse at- tached to light buggy. A man In tne buggy was so frightened that he los, ms rock. and he was unconscious when found him. I was trying to bring him back to life when I noticed two other men coming back with the buggy. One and he was exceedingly officious. and l saw that they suspected that I was gull ty of foul play in some way or. other. The victim of the runaway was strang- bed him. As bad luck would have it, they asked me what had in my saddle bags, When I showed them the money. then that did settle 1t. They knew that hand @ 'to out toward @ the bag to take the the money. and took him by the collar and told hirn that if he wanted to live few more minutes he must keep his hands off from me and my property l agreed to ments, but wouldn't stand any monkey work. We were all ready to start when the man came to and explained himself. We all went to town. and while there l met man that knew in Benton. and then we ali shook hands. and they ad- vised me not te carry so much money, and saw me off.
 But that Is not Nil by any means On the way back we had big herd of cat tie to cross at ,the ford of the Missouri. where Great Falls now stands. That was the best ford for hundreds of miles, and the only one that was passable at that time of the year. My brother had all that was left of the money. about thousand dollars in ten-dollar bills In the saddle pockets. and when about half way across the horse stepped on a slip pery rock. and down they both went un- der the water.
 ''The saddlebag slipped off and went whirlng merrily down the stream. My brother freed himself from the horse and started after the bags l rode along the banks. expecting to see my brother drown or give up the chase, but he stayed with it, and in less than a cuar- ter of mile he swan ashore with it in his teeth.
 Of course. the hundred bills were soaked with the water and when we took them out they looked like a chunk of gresn pulp. It was a bright. warm day in July. and not breath of a'r was stirring. We camped for noon on the bottom there, where Great Falls is now. and my brother took the bills and spread them along on the grass in the sun to dry. We had picked up two cow bows with the cattle. We'll you might not believe it, but a thousand dollars in ten-dollar bills make quite show ing when they are spread out on the and we expected to gather them up as soon as we had finished our dinner. While we were eating what did a whirlwind do-thevre so common in Montana at that time of the year-but sweep along and pick every bill in the lot up and Wnirl them sky high In all directions We joined hands and walked four abreast along the bottom for several hours and found all but four or five bills, but 1t was enough for me, and didn't breathe quite easy until we had put what money we had left in the bank. It may be that some one at Great Falls will find one of these old bills some day, However, I suppose by this time the rains and suns of fifteen years or more have left nothing much but piece of moldy pulp"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Dufy's Pure Malt Whiskey

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
WIRELESS TELEPHONY.
Spoken Words Transmitted Through
 the Ground Without Difficulty.

Spoken Words Transmitted Through
 the Ground Without Difficulty. Harper's Magazine.
 The very acme of achievement in the transmission of messages would seem to have been reached in the wireless tele- phone system which has recently been developed by Prof. A. Frederick Collins. an electrical engineer. residing in Phiia- delphia Spoken words are transmitted great distances through the ground with out the use of connecting wire, and in accordance with a plan totally different from that of the Marconi system Of wire- less telegraphy.
 The Collins system simply takes sdvan- tage of the fact that there are natural electrical currents in evidence slightly be- low the surface of the earth at any point that may be selected. and by this inven. tion currents of this character are util- ized to cause a flow of electricity between two instruments stationed above the sur face of the earth.
 The only underground mechanism em- pleyed consists of small zinc-wire screens. which are buried in shallow holes. one at the sending station and the other at the receiving station. Above these are tripods supporting transmitting and re- ceiving apparatus such as is employed in ordinary telephony, a wire affOrding connection in each case with the buried screen. When fhe electricity from a storage battery is turned on. sounds of all kinds may be sent through the trans hitter. and heard. in many instances, even more distinctly than were a regu- lar overhead telephone employed.
 The Collins invention In its simplest form is adapted to sending a message but one way-that is, 1t is not possible to utilize a receiver as a transmitter and reply to message received. but the transmitter and receiver are each equip ped with an annex for performing the opposite function. so that to all intents and purposes this new telephone Is not different from the instruments in use.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

the country slopes up from the San Joa- duin Valley. past valleys and canyon bottoms from 5000 to 1000 feet above sea level. to peaks that rise from 5000 to 1o- So0 feet high. and 1t incloses in It's high ranges a few large and many small sub
 seventy-five or 90 per cent of this re- zion is more or less wooded. The com middle belt. and consists chiefly of yellow and sugar pines. Fires have prevailed in this territory since very early pe- riod. and they are still frequent, wide spread and destructive.
 worth states that they grow on the west side of the Sierra. at from 4,6o0 to S,4Oo feet above sea level. Eleven isolated groves are found which extend about 2so der of Placer County. Two of these groves. the Calaveras and the Stanislaus or South Calaveras." are included in the territory under consideration. The trunk at at the sround. M This M swell iHd is from 'ss., to 8 feet greater than the diameter at feet from the ground. The length of clear stem varies from 100 to lS0 feet. The trees rec in the, the Gsiayeras 2; a,. sroye range from ground. and from 2S to 325 feet in height. There is no reproduction of the big trees in the Calaveras grove. and re- production is found at only two points in
 Der has protected them. The seedlings are from inches to feet high. and the sapiings are from 10 to 30 feet high. The stump of Calaveras tree. cut down in 1853, measured T feet inside the bark, and the age of the tree is estimated as about 1900 years. John Muir states that 2 tree of similar diameter cut down in Kings River grove was 2,200 years old. He mentions another tree of the same grove as being 1000 years old. and probably older. as all the rings could not be clear ly counted. Probably none of the Gala veras or Stanislaus grove trees are older than this: and the majority are thought to be under 2,5o0 years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Facetiousness is Dangerous.

1sIVerpooI Post.
 It is not always safe to jest with a railway porter. A traveller arrived at a wayside sta ton and. in a wild burst of humor, asked the porter at what time the hye-thirty train left
 At haif-pa:t five precisely" the other re- piled. But," said the traveller, q observe that the station clock points to ve-thirty- seven. the postoffice clock to nve-twenty eight Which shall I go by?'
 You may go by which you like" the DOT. ter answered. ''The trains gone"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
The Baldwins' First Locomotive.

The first engine turned out by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. seventy years ago, weighed about ten tons and was used on what is now a part of thd Reading road. It was advertised by ths road as employed in case of fair wealth. CT, but in stormy weather horses Wsra substituted. There were ninety-fve miles of railroad In the United States when Mir
 Baldwin took the order for the first loco-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
South Carolina Interstate and West
 N Indian Exposition.
 Alabama Day March IT 1Q0o

For the above occasion, the Southern Railway will sell tickets Montgomery to Charleston and return at the rate s10.92 Tickets on sale March 15 and l6. with final limit ten days from date of sale. For full information call on or address
 w. H. Tayloe. Jno Metcalfe.
 A. G. P. A., TP A,
 Atlante- Montgomery. adv-St
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
l03 YEARS OLD,

whiskey Co. Rochester. N. !. |. 1902. thank io3 take long walks day used whiskey med 2f 
 
 pla my colds hope Gods will aid whiskey this wNnderfui century Yours respectfully
 JOSEPH MIG RATH 4t4 East sgd St, New
 OUTFITS PURE MALT wHIsKEY s rue of fife stmuant keep disease OUTFITS wIiISKEY. old PURE MALT WHISKEY regularly three a n mi or will
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
A New Ticket.

Washington Post.
 For President-The Hon. Joseph ". Ivey of Sitka.
 For Vice-Presi5ent-The Hon. Charles K. Wheeler of Kentucky.
 Platform-Twist, brothers, twist
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

The Belgian railway authorities are strug- gling with the locomotive whistle evil The engines will carry whistles producing two tones. one much softer than the usual one This will be used in railway stations or when the train Is passing platforms crowded with passengers,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
"KoRREcr SHAPE q

Best of all men shoes fo- the p1lce. They fit the foot. Only at one place.
 Bullock G FleInlng,
 Leading Shoe House.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Spring Ailments

Such anp Bo Eczema and other eupdon Loss % Appetite Indigestion EseIno General Latad proceed from ted condition of the blood affects all the which the blood crcues accumulation system and clog processes.
 You o of to the rule.
 a fair purify blood this Spring.
 what will ake?-what orwha lido
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 This verified by the
 These combine the most potent aeratve blood purify dutc kidney stimulating catharhc cleansing substances prepared by fully educated and skul pharmacists
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

Of all the bicycle factories in Germany onlv six paid dividends last year. Fifteen large factories are on the point of going out of bust
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
The Oldest Maps in America.

The oldest maps in America are to be found in Arizona and Texas. How old they are may not be said. but they date back many centu-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

we used Hcods Sarsaparilla and Pills for ber years and found them to be exactly scented. Sarsaparla is good spring medicine and the Pills cannot be surpassed" Mrs. Alex Smith. West Duluth, afinn.
 ''we sarsaparilla excellent tonic the spring. My husband has great faith in 1t and have 1t myself that tired feeling which is. apt to come with weather" Mrs Caroline A Ingham, Algona Iowa
 Hoods Sarsaparilla and Pills ma Have the whole family begin to take the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
Hoods Sarsaparilla
 and Pills

Fulhl, physicians all the indications of all their purifying the blood of digestion blood healthy functional activity
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
RETlINED BY WEAK STOMACH.

NANTUCKET EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. We have Dufys Pure Malt Whkey and using Uset win it will stay on is the called FRANCIS M. HARRINGTON. Surgeon in Chief.
 JOHN W. GoRMAN, Resident Physician
 Pawt R. l., I3 1901.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

I am sl years old, but much younger l usually take a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparla in the spring. with evident good results" J. P Sheldon 1906 Jackson St, Sioux City, Iowa.
 Tn the spring feeling pad and weighed only s5 pounds When had taken four Hoods sarsa- parila had gained 55 pounds weight and feeling fine The change in condition wonderful" Ida F Cunningham 252s Demng St.. Columbus. Ohio, kc the Spring Medicine par excellence. n TO-DAY
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
CURED CONSUMPTION.

My experience whIsky has been In the article be employed while doing continued suant to Dunys Pure Malt Whiskey. and at | place '~' F. BROOKS M D.. t9l Vestal Ave-.
 Bnghamton, N. Y, Sept. 2I, 90
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
1000 Doctors and 2,ooo Hospitals

After years of scientific research and thorough tests 1000 doctors and 2000 hospitals use and ndorse for all diseases of the throat and lungs and prescribe exclusively as tonic and stimulant when the system is weak and run down from disease erwork.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
DuHy's Pure Malt Whiskey
AFTER OPERATION.

Myself and family never knew the value of Dunys Malt operated ssfuy Prof Gray. Christ Ho three days the doc end used every known meal tered the vomiting stopped can therefore cheerfuy Whiskey all suffering from '''0'o''s' '''"-'" FRANK C. FRITZ. ssos Fifth Av
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-15
Grnwfh of Socialism,

or special interest is the growth or
Socialism as a political factor In Ger
many. II must be borne In mind that
Germany is the birthplace of Social
ism. and that II has attained a higher
development there than anywhere else.
First. as TO its commercial develop
ment. In 1887 the Socialists cast 1890
votes at the reichstag elections, as
against the Center's 1,341. 900 for in
stance. and against the National Liber-
ais 1,46S, 900. In 1873 and 1879, owing to
Bisrnarck's repressive measures, the So
cialist vote dropped to S12, O0O. But from
that time until the last general election,
that of 1898. the Socialist vote rose
steadily and rapidly. and in 1898 Ii at
tanned to 2,107. 900. while the vote Of all
the other parties gr Ldually went down.
and to-day some OF those parties poll
barely one-fourth Of their former vote.
The Socialists to-day are, in point or
numbers, by far the largest party; and
at the next election they will reach the
$500, 900 mark. and possibly exceed t.
North American Review.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-15
His Red Tie scheme.

IT was the morning after, when peni-
tential bromo and Nile-green resolu-
lions were paramount.
by all that's proper, Harry, what are
you putting on that red tie for?" de-
manded the other man.
The cravat was a deeper red than the
poppies know, and against the white of
clean linen IL was almost insultingly
effulgent.
Part Of my SYSTEM" replied Harry.
See my eyes? Not pretty. are they?
Prima facie evidence of indiscretions.
And that nose! Well, don't you know,
II wear this tie, everybody will look at
1t sc hard they'll never see MY face.
Tried 1t before. Whole car loads OF peo-
pie never saw anything but that tie.
Always have one handy, like a life-pre-
server on a boat."-New York Mail and
Express,