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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

building will be one of the most interest ing departments of the entire Exposition. showing, as it will, the development or every means of travel and iocomotion from the sedan chair to the automobile and from the crude efforts of George Stephenson to the gorgeous transcont- mental ''Flyer" of today. Among the rel ics of our forefathers which are to De shown in contrast to the wonderful mod ern appliances should be placed rev of the cars and a sample of the general physcaI equipment of the Montgomery Street Hallway Nothing which we could offer would be of greater historic interest or would stand out in more marked con trast to the later products Of American science and ingenuity There are no other cars like these in all the unlted States or our colonies and they would undoubtedly attract universal attention. Numbers of visitors to our city have lelt here expressing the regret that they were unable to remain in town long enough to wait for one of these strange ana wonderful creations to pass. Of course the cars sent would reduce the number in use, but this would not decrease the eficiencv of the service as only those who have no other way of killing tune ever wait for a car in Montgomery.
 There are many other arguments wnlch might he advanced and I offer this sug- gestlon hoping 1t may cause some dis cussion in your columns.
 eu'' Cheerful Idiot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

When the stomach won't work the whole body suffers. as every tissue or structure of the body depends on the stomach for nourishment and renewal.
 If the stomach is weak, inactive and unable to properly digest food 1t not only subjects the body to state of chronic semi-starvation or habitually half-fed condition that weakens it and renders 1t less productive of accomplishment and less resistant to disease, but it allows of the absorption of half-digested, rot ting material that Is positive poison to it and taxes the eliminative organs to expel it from the body. Thus it will be seen that the inconvenience and distress, the disturbed rest, the horrors of insom- nia, and the dreadful caprices of night mare. are the most insignificant part of indigestion and that real danger turks behind the condition.
 Few people seem to realize the dangers of weak, defective and disordered diges- tion. Health reports do not give it as cause of death because some other dis ease sets in to work destructive changes, only made possible by the imperfect di- gestion, and the death is accredited to them.
 There are many medicines on the mar ket intended to correct and improve per- verted or impaired digestion but none are so safe. so economical, So convenient, so effective so satisfactory, so popular as are Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. Whether the dyspepsia Is of long standing or is only a case of temporary indigestion, they give prompt and promo unced relief. Their regular use for a time will cure all forms of gastric insufficiency so that good digestion will wait on appetite and health on both.'
 By promoting perfect digestion all tis- sues and structures are better fed and take on healthful activity, the blood be@ comes rich. the flesh sound and firm, the nerves strong, the eyes bright, the skin clear, the mind alert and Cheerful and one begins to feel the lust of life-the joy of mere living.
 Mir. Thomas Scale. Mayfeld, Calf. says: Have used and recommend Stu arts Tablets because there Is nothing like them to keep the stomach right"
 MT. F.. 1T. Davis of Hampton. Va, says: "I doctored five years for dyspepsia, but Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets than in five years of the doctors treatment"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

Phil Brooks, Detroit, Mich, says: "Yoi IF dyspepsia cure has worked wonders in my case. l suffered for years from dyspep- sia but am now entirely cured and enjoy life as I never have before. I gladly rec ommend them"
 Mrs Lydia Bartram of Assyria. Mich, writes: "I have suffered from stomach trouble for ten years and five different doctors gave me only temporary relief. MT. F.. R. Page advised me to try Stu arts Dyspepsia Tablets and four boxes did me more permanent benefit than all the doctors medicines that l have ever taken"
 Rev. J. R. Hoag of Wymore. Nebraska, writes: For six years I have been trou- bled with dyspepsia. Last fall 1 became very much alarmed at some symptoms of heart trouble and came to believe there was sympathetic relation between the two diseases, or rather, that the stomach trouble was the cause of the heart dis turbance. I hit upon Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for remedy and invested dol lar and a half for three boxes which last ed me three months and I can eat any kind of food l want and have good viz orous appetite. Although l am IT years old. I now feel perfectly well and with out being requested by anyone I make this statement as a compliment to the virtues of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets"
 Henry Kirkpatrick of Lawrence, Mass, says: Men and women whose occu7a- tion precludes an active outdoor life should make it a daily practice to use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after meals. I have done so myself and I know posi- lively that I owe my present health and vigor to their daily use. From the time I was g when I graduated from school with broken health from overwork until I was 34 I scarcely knew what 1t was to be free from stomach weakness. had no appetite whatever for breakfast and very little for any other meal. I had acidity and heartburn nearly every day and sometimes was alarmed hy irregularity and palpitation of the heart, but all this gradually disappeared after I began us- ing Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets and I can eat my meals with relish and satisfaction which I had not known since l was a growing bow"
 If your stomach won't work, try Stu arts Dyspepsia Tablets and be convinced of their merits. All druggists sell them at soc a box. Once use them and you will become their advocate and friend
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
NOT HAVING HIS WAY.
Many old-Time Leaders Weary of
 Nebraskan Leadership.


 Washington Special to New York Tri-
 Since William Jennings Bryan's last visit to Washington week or ten days ago, there has been some lively manoeu- Vering under cover among the Democrat ic politicians Everybody here understands that Bryan is still candidate for Presl- dent, but at thfs time there are few well informed people who believe the Democrats ever again Will make nm their standard bearer. In view or thls feeling, it is not strange that nearly eV- cry Democratic Senator and the great majority of House Democrats resent hls constant interference with the party plans in Congress. The old line leaders, like Senators Vest and Cockrell Of Mis- souri, Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, Money and McLaurin of Mississippi and even Tilman of South Carolina, al though declining to give iEterviews on the subject, are outspoken, and at times almost denunciatory, ;n their criticlsnls of the unhorsed Nebraskans attempts to boss the members or the senate anu House on all legislative matters Tn which he conceiVes there IS chance to make his sort of political capital.
 For example, when MT. Bryan was last here he insisted that the joint reSoilu- ton calling for a Constitutional amend ment for the elections or senators oy the direct vote of the people be made a party question, and he was informed Tn plain terms by some of the older Demo- crats in both houses or congress tnIt' even if the proposition were not undemo- cratic. in that it sought to destroy utter ly the distinctive sovereignty or the States in the Federal Senate. It coulo not be made a party issue by the Deuo- crates for the reason that the resolutloh had been adopted by Republican f1ous. and the movement really was stronger III Republican States like Michigan and Wis consin than it was in Democratic states like Missouri and Mississippi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
BIG STAKES AT ISSUE.
Wall Street Threatens Roosevelt
 With Opposition.

New York Special to New Orleans Times Democrat.
 An interesting drama of high politics and high finance Is being played out, with Washington, Wall Street and the great West as the scenes. The attitude of the Interstate Commerce Commission against pooling Is responsible for the trouble, and the railroads of the country are now com bined in demand on President Roose- welt to call off the Commission unless he invites defeat for the presidential nomi- nation two years hence.
 Capitalists interested in the railroad development have been feeling the effect of the attitude of the administration. The trouble started with the institution of the suit against the Northern Securities Com pany continued with the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in call Ing upon tariff managers of the Western roads to testify as to rate cutting. and still further with the visit of the Commis- sion to Chicago to examine railroad mag mates concerning the combination of the various roads into central management. and the whole has been capped with the action in serving injunction suits on the railroads entering Chicago to prevent them from pooling and discriminating in their rates.
 Railroad men from all parts of the country have felt alarm at this attitude of the administration. and they have been holding freauent conferences with the
 J. Pierpont Morgan, Jarnss J. Hill, Dan- iel s. Lamont. E. H. Hartman, Paul Morton and many othars have been about the White House during the last two weeks, and their visits have meant busi- ness.
 Daily conferences of financiers are be- ing held in this city to discuss the sub- ject. President Roosevelt, 1t is said ex- pressed a willingness to confer with the railroad men on all points at issue, and said that if he could bring the roads and the shippers together on a bill that would safeguard all interests he would use his best efforts to have such bill enacted into law.
 The proposition was received, but the movement fell through from a variety of causes. Since that time efforts have been made to have the President call off the Interstate Commerce Commission, but without success. and it Is now said in Wall Street that one of the stoutest of financial political fights is on, and that if the President does not change his course | he will meet with the opposition of Wall Street financiers when he comes up for | nomina tion in 1904.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
Letters to The Editor.
Utilizing Cotton Seed.

Editor The Advertiser:
 l feel it my duty a citizen of Ala bama to return my thanks for your able l editorial on utilizing cotton seed Any | thing said for the benefit of the farmer meets with my hearty approval. l. there ] fore, appreciate your editorial believing 1t an unanswerable argument against the 1 sale of cotton seed by the cotton growers. It is often said that figures don't lie, and therefore, the immense figures of SAP. OOO.OOO paid by the oil mills is brought up to prove that it is best for the farmer l to sell his cotton seed. When these fig ures are used for this purpose 1t is one time figures do lie. The farmers, instead of gaining anything in the sale are abso- lutely losing the difference between this sum and what they pay for commercial fertilizers which amounts to many mil lions of dollars.
 But this is not all the loss the farmer Sustains in the transaction. The cotton seed meal and other fertilizers used only aids in making one crop, and in a very dry summer some of them do more harm than good, especially when the meal is used, causing the crop to fire, Some years ago. I was at farmers house just after he, had gathered his corn crop He told me that he had put cotton seed meal on A part of his corn field, and left the other part without any, from which he gathered twenty-five bushels per acre. and from the part on which he put the meal he gathered only five bushels per acre. because It had been so fired by the hot dry summer, Another loss of the farmers which should be added to that already stated is :he impoverishing of their land by losing so much of the sub stance of the soil which is contained in the seed. If the farmers would require the tenants on their farms to return all the seed to the land they cultivate, both the farmers and tenants would be bene- fited by the increased cotton and corn crop and the money paid for commercial fertilizers added thereto.
 We believe the oil mills are a curse in- stead of blessing to the South.
 c. E. CrenshaW.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
Warning Republican Factions,

Dallas CrexD News.
 The E. O. D. is threatened by something like d dozen dogs in a manager. It has more spoiled and dangerous pets thar any other of our political organizations has ever reared It has cultivated spir 1t of dependence and greed which it's most generous and interruptions milkers and feeders cannot hope longer to satisfy. The warning factions of the Republican or ganizations are now at the parting of the ways Protection" is the rock upon which the peddlers of special privileges are about to go to pieces The party Is to go down over an obstruction of It's own creation The old plan of buying the country Is no longer workable. There Is in such deal entirely too many to buy and tCo many to sell.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 MONTGOMERY.

Last Sunday morning The Montgomery Evening Journal made an issue. In its announcement upon the subject was this declarations:
 It Is simply a plain statement of some facts. why The Journal has found good reasons for resuming the publication of its Sunday morning issue.
 Doubtless its reasons were good. We have no quarrel with 1t on that matter. If the "long-felt want exists in Mont gomery and The Journal has the brains. character and energy to fill that want. we'll and good. The Advertiser certainly will not object.
 But when The Journal makes "a plain statement of some facts" it should he careful not to make a twisted statement of other facts. For instance in defending itself from the possible charge of Sabbath violation, it stated that it did ''the type setting, including Associated Press dis patches before 10 o'clock Saturday night" It also placed on its editorial page as headline in bold-face type, "The Asso- ciated Press"
 Now these statements were misleading and calculated to deceive the public. Its readers naturally understood that it was printing the Associated Press night ser vice in it's morning issue. This is proved by a quotation in its own columns on Monday evening from one of its readers as follows:
 Maj W. P. Gorman-'T congratulate you on your Sunday issue. The general news of the world with the press dis patches were all that could be required of the most fastidious newspaper reader.
 The plain statement of the fact is that The Journal gets only a pony report of few thousand words of The Associated Press for it's evening issue. It does not take the whole service of that organiza- tion even for its afternoon paper, and it gets absolutely none of the night service for morning papers, as the following tele- gram from the General Manager of The Associated Press proves:
 New York, March 18th, 1902. The Advertiser, Montgomery. Alabama: Replying to your telegram, beg to say no Associated Press dispatches are fur nished to The Evening Journal for use on Sunday morning. Melville E. Stone,
 Gen. Mgr. The Advertiser alone in Montgomery has any right to the night service of The Associated Press. and for that 1t has the best form of contract issued by that body
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
Assistant Superintendent Marion Militi
 Institute.
"Loved by Little Children"

New York World.
 There Is dead in St. Louis man of whom 1t is written: "He was loved by little children"
 This being true. it follows as the day the night that he was a man of imagi- nation. He did not neglect his business, but he never let its routine run over and wear out his faculty for inventing won derful fairy stories for putting himself in the child's place at Christmas time and for exactly interpreting the latest boys taste in fireworks on Fourth of July.
 He was business man among business men; a playfelow among boys and girls; a Santa Claus, a kindly counsellor. the outstretcher of a strong and friendly hand in the childrens hour of any need.
 It is worth the best efforts of any man to deserve such a six-word obituary note as is the finest tribute to the memory of Billy" Hobbs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
LOOKS LIKE MILES VICTORY,
Roosevelt and Root Hesitate to Re-
 tire the General.


 wsshington Special to New York World President Roosevelt and Secretary Root feaHze that the chances for the pasSa ge oI the general stan bill are slim; also that If the President should retire Gen. eral Milss because of his denunciation or the measure the bill probably would pc buried beyond all hope of resurrec- tion. Tbis may cause the President to await some other chance for exercising h1s prerogative to retire the commanding general Apparently the President has needed the advice of politicians to go slow.
 It also has been suggested to the President that to take action against compliance with a request from the Sem ate would be treading upon dangerous ground. Senator's are sensitive in such matters. As it now appears. General Miles has won a great victory in defeating the pro- posed general staff organization.
 A conference Is to be held in this city April of the forty-one Governors of states who have accepted membership Tn a committe to bring about change in the date of inauguration day. It is not expected that all the Governors will De present. but 1t is said that many Of them will attend and that the others will send representatives.
 There is hope of getting the Governors or all the States to cooperate. The ob- 1ect is to change the inauguration from March to later date. when the weather is likely to be more satisfactory.
 Senator Pritchard of North Carolina is after the scalp of Senator Tillman of South Carolina, and he believes he will get 1t through the investigation of the charges made by Tillman against Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, which led to the personal encounter between the two.
 Pritchard will urge the Committee on Privileges and Elections to report favor ably his recommendation that an inves- tigation be had. He says that if Till mans charges are true McLaurin should not be In the Senate. and that if they are false Tillman should be expelled.
 A majority of the Senate is believed to be in favor of dropping the entire matter, as the only person whose testi- mony would he of any yalue-President dead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
CIGARETTE sMoKINa AT SCHOOL

According to The Portland Oregonian a crusade is about to be inaugurated il
 the public schools of that city with tn, object of breaking the boys of the cigar cite habit. and of trying to prevent tn, younger ones from acquiring the habit That paper says:
 While it may not he possible. withou means more stringent than moral sua sion, to induce boys who have become
 addicted to the cigarette habit to refrain from smoking, 1t is possible in this way
 to reach boys whose taste has not beer
 perverted and whose moral acuteness has not been blunted by their use, and Induce them to refrain from beginning to smoke
 There may be exceptional cases where boys who are fully addicted to this per- nicious habit can be cured by moral sua- sion. but we apprehend that these cases will be rare. And it may also be possi- ble in some cases to induce boys by the same means to refrain from acquiring the habit. Perhaps there will be more success in this class of cases than in the other. but We fear there will be more failures than successes in even this class. Boy nature Is peculiar. and although it Is right and proper to treat them as req sonable and reasoning beings, at the same time We may go on the theory and
 with the assurance that many of them are so permeated with the old Adam that they prefer to do just what they are advised or warned against.
 However this may be, we are thor oughly in favor of making 1t one of the rules of the public schools that smoking cigarettes shall not be allowed. While it is right and proper for parents and teachers to use advice and counsel and all other forms of moral suasion when ever and wherever they can, the teacher. at least, should be required to resort to sterner methods whenever it is found necessary. It should be made part of the duty of the teachers to look after the physical as well as the mental and moral welfare of the pupils entrusted to their care. If it should be found that a boy was learning the use of opium or other deadly drug, and that a continr;- ance of the habit would wreck both his moral and physical being. certainly the teacher would be justified in adopting strenuous methods, if mild ones would not prevent 1t. -.
 It has been so thoroughly established that cigarette-smoking Is a dangerous practice. especially in the formative pe- riod of a boys life, that no argument ought to be needed to show the necessity of a strict watch over the boys at school, and of prompt measures of prevention. If the boys can he taught by argument and counsel to refrain from smoking, it is we'll. but if gentle methods fail, there should be no hesitation about resorting to such as will be effective. Whether this shall be accomplished by solitary confine- ment or by physical punishment may de- pend on the nature and characteristics of each boy, but such measures should be reserted to as will prove effective Some boys may be reclaimed, while others must be repressed, but that smoking cigarettes by boys should be prevented is beyond question, and other cities might follow the example of Portland in the in- terest of the rising generation of young men,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
CROKER's ENGLISH ESTATE.
Wants A Public Way for His Private
 Drive.

Vantage. England. Cable to New York
 World.
 Richard Croker was away from Moat House last week. Since his return he has been trying to ouy another estate called Klrklands. but he cannot come to terms with the owner. Another thirty acres is ne >ded to bring the domain within MT. Croker's ring fence.
 He has purchased row of old cot tases for laborers close to the Moat House gate. He intends to demolish ther1 and provide the inmates with up-to-date cottages a htle further off.
 He has petitioned the Highway Board for permission to close the public right of way across the Croft. one of his re- gently acquired properties and to close the two-mile fiel1 path from Vantage to Letcombe. as he now owns the property on either side and would like to trans- form the path into a private drive.
 This demand, if granted, would deprive the public of the most direct route be- tween the two places, a route which has been used from time immemorial. some resentment is felt, although there is no probability that Mr. Crokr will obtain the concession.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

The Minneapolis Journal consoles itself and the Republican Party by asserting that there is a chance for an issue be- tween the two parties because as it says, "the Democrats are still soolish enough to canvass for free trade It is singular that Republicans will persist in still fighting bogie which never had any existence except in the minds of the Re publieans themselves and of a very few impracticables of other parties. Free trade is just about as much an actua! creed of Democracy as secession is. and the party hcs as little intention of adopt ing it as a party measure
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

reports particulars which almost stage? belief The army took charge or Havana when deaths were occurring at the rate of % i' 2i,25a per year, Now, with larger population they are but 5,72O per year Smallpox, which had been for years cpl demic. Is entirely stamped out, yellow fever practically SO.
 When the record of the American oc- cupation in Cuba is made up for impar- tial history the highest honors will he theirs who routed General Dirt and drove General Pestilence out of the island.