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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
 Prohibition.
Huston Post.

Huston Post
 Not long ago Mr. Ewing Herbert a Kansas newspaper man, made a state ment that three-fourths of the towns in Kansas virtually license the liquor traffic and that prohibition in that State is therefore an utter failure.
 Mir. F.. T. Stephens, eX-Secretary of the State Temperance Union. made an inves- tigation with the idea of testing the ac- curacy of MT. Herbert's statement, with the following astonishing result; He found that twenty-five cities, in violation of the laws and constitution of the State, openly license saloons; that twenty-three cities clandestinely license them; that fifty-two cities have saloons running which are not licensed, and ninety-two cities have no saloons and but little oc- casional liquor selling.
 So MT. Herbert's statement is found to be not far from correct. Prohibition in the United States has been found to be a failure wherever tried. In many places where the prohibition experiment has been made 1t has been found that, owing to the larger quantities in which liquor Is purchased when it is difficult to get, drunkenness has increased. While the people of the United States are on the whole a sober people there is no doubt that they believe in temperate drinking In the last year for which statistics have
 
 the United States 25,S46,0OO gallons of wine 934, ,2100OO gallons of beer and Sl, 900 900 gallons of whiskey. Ava yet this is less wine than is consumed in Germany and far less than in France, less beer than Is consumed in Germany CT Great Britain and less spirits than is consued in Germany. If the consumption of whis- key per capita Is considered. We con- sume less thar France, Germany or Great Britain.
 The theory of Professor W. O. Atwater that alcohol Is a food and in moderate quantities is beneficial to the human sys- tenn. has recently given great encourage ment to believers in temperate drinking. who constitute a large majority of the people of the United States. Professor Frederic S. Lee of the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons and Dr. William Salant formerly of Cornell University. have recently strongly championed Pro- fesor Atwater's theory, which they claim to have verified by their experiments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
Latest on Abandoned Farms.
Liberty H. Bailey in Country Life

Liberty H. Bailey in Country Life in
 America.
 Viewed as an economic question, the abandonment of New England farms should not disturb us more than other shifting of population. In the present day, most of the lands that are now abandoned would not have been settled They would remain in timber; and now by the inexorable power of economic forces, they are returning into forest The first flush of the settlement of the West has passed. Manufacturing indus tries have attained stable conditions People are looking again to the country. The better farms are being farmed. On the hills of Western Massachusetts I found COW w-puncher from Oklahoma set ting on an aba ldoned farm, to make his living by farming. Farmers are buying up adjacent lands and extending their tl siness. Near the railroads city people are building cottages and retreats on the sites of old farms, to find respite and peace. The remoter places are passing back into forests, and numbering is again an industry in old New England. Where once were "inowings' and ''ploughings' are now wild and free stretches of wood land. Dilapi1ated stone walls ram5l 3 through the woods and are heaved by he roots of great trees. Here and there is the ruin of a foundation. with trees growing inside. and the tiger lilies still persistng at the border. Now and then only a clump of tansy marks spot where people lived. Roads that once we .e clean from wall to wall are now mar rowed to mere wagon tracks where straw wberries ripen in June and golden rods bloom in September There are abandoned roads silent avenues of a rural life that has sunken into the past. There are schoolhouses on these old highways where the wild growth is steal ing into the playsrodnds There are school houses where no children go to school. One can follow these narrow roads over the hills until he loses all contact with human effort, and is over come with the feeling that he is far and far away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
A MISTAKE.

The Montgomery Advertiser contained an edit orial last Sunday regarding the number of nauor licenses issued in the State the past year, and it credits twen- ty-one to Limestone. This is surely a misprint, for Limestone has only one license liquor house, 1t being one of them thar disinteries," as the disgusted hill-billie called our splendid system of dispensary plan of selling whiskey. It may be. and possibly is a fact, that there are others selling the beverage that tan- gles the legs and befuddles the brain but they are doing so without sanction of the law, and are taking the risk of being heavily fined for their disobedience of law and order. but some times men take desperate chances for the sake of making a few dimes. It is bad enough to profit by selling the destroying article, but 1t is worse when men violate the law and morals. No, MT. Advertiser, you have the wrong SOW by the ear when you granting the privilege of selling wild eye and tangle-foot. Try again. Lime stone is highly pleased with it's dispen- sary system. which is run and managed by the town of Athens, and is growing more popular daily, under the wise direc- ton of the city authorities.
 The Advertiser thanks The Athens Courier, from which the above Is taken. for calling its attention to the matter mentioned. In hastily glancing over the Auditors report of licenses, etc., the fig ures for Lowndes County were taken for Limestone. Our near neighbor is report ed as having twenty-one retail licenses, and Limestone, as The Courier says. has none.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

The proposition that the Government shall pay all the medical and surgical dent Mckinley is repetition of the Garfield case. Then the Congress was asked to appropriate money to pay bills amounting to over one hundred thousand dollars, two of the doctors asking for $25,0OO each. After much controversy and scme bitter discussion, an appropriation was made. covering about one-third the amount asked. There was no valid ar- gument to show that the Government should have paid any of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
No Place for a Poor Man.

Atlanta Journal
 Unless a man be possessed of surplus wealth he can hardly serve as a Cabi- net officer without serious sacrifice of his material interests. A member of the ordinary citizen would consider hand some allowance. But 1t is a very rare thing that a Cabinet officer. lives like an ordinary citizen. Custom Is tyrant 10 whose dictates we all bow to greater or less extent, and custom dictates that the heads of the executive departments in Washington shall live In a style and indulge in expenditures that very soon absorb an income of $S000 year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

In conclusion, let us say. that we rath- er like The Advertiser. It is bright. spicy enterprising and interesting; and If it were not for it's politics (which is abominable) it would be a model paper In every respect.-Pensacola Journal
 Will you listen to that, now? What was the use of putting a fly dn paren- thesis) ain the ointment? Why not say good things during the holidays without any string tied to them? But let us whisper a word in The Journals aural attachment The Advertisers politics, abominable in the estimation of some contemporaries. will be the politics of the Democratic Party in 1904 or the Party will be only a memory. It is not egotism in The Advertiser to say that it stands just where the Party must stand to sue ceed, for this paper has never seen any reason for occupying any other position,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

The New York Evening Post has re- gently been copying items from its files of one hundred years ago, and one of the latest is an advertisement offering for sale a negro man and his wife. They are both highly recommended. but the advertisement winds up with the state ment "They have two small children, on which account they are to be sold" That Is the meat in the cocoa-nut. A negro couple with two small children was an .unprofltable lot of property in New York, and there, as in all other portions of the North. negroes were held as slaves as long as they were profitable, and no longer. It was human nature, there as elsewhere, and humanity had nothing, to do with it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

That intelligent pupil. The Montgomery Advertiser. asks ii dukes for fists is ..oood Virginese" Dukes" Is Coster- mougrel. We repudiate it, Stay an hour after school for Billingsgate sugges- tion.-Norfolk Landmark
 After lodging ''costermongrel we don't need to stay in school one more minute to get "Bilhngsgate suggestion" If you give us "costermonger' We might accept it as good English, though entire- 4y without any relevancy in this connec- lion. Read The Advertiser and be in- ktructed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
The Difference.

One of the college weekly papers makes the following comment on the difference between football at Yale and Harvard: At Harvard a coach, being surrounded by literary influences, must cry, Pierce the line with flerceness. gentleman' At Yale a coach says. Dive into 'em, you lobsters-dlg in your toes and sock it to emn"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
What Gossip Does.

Atchison Globe.
 In Omaha recently wild run was started on a bank by a gossip who told that she had 'heard' that the bank was in danger
 The Government recently spent 'ooo sending a court of inquiry to Ssmoa to in- vestigate a charge that Captain rilley was a lrunkard. The charge was found tn he groundless and that 1t originated fin the idle gossip of woman.
 Ever think that the mischief you do by gos- sip is even more serious? The Government is exonerated and the Omaha bank stood firm under the attack. but are you sure that some one has not suffered lasting injury because you talked about them?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

The Nashville Banner has this political sequence: "A lack of rain makes short crops. short crops bring hard times. and with hard times comes popular clamor for political change" By that method of reasoning. Democrats should pray for dry season, if political advantage is the main thing to be desired
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Readers of The Advertiser and other prominent newspapers have noticed the reported discovery made by a Chicago man by which dying is to be abolished. We only allude to it now to ask where room will be found for all the people if they quit dying?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
Maintaining a Record.

The close of November furnlshes
 figures for circulation compilation. herewith
 The November tabulation presentssuaa circula- points out the fact that the spieno,u ,Ts nre- tfon high water mark obtained du.a durins
 cedipg six months Is being main.asnn,n an ,ne head
 The Advertiser still stands easiiy a. ~ Ala of all morning newspapers in the Sta'1, 1,,auence and circulation, guaranteeing to It's pst edi- net paid issue greater than the somoai saroa in the State of AIabama according to the tarv nsa given by the American Newspaper Difec'"'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

If Mareoni shall succeed in his wireless telegraph scheme, it occurs to us that there will soon be lot of old ocean cables to sell, to say nothing of large blocks of stock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
An Indignant Daughter.

The Independence Beige states that the well known author, Maurice Jokai. recently published in a Budapest journal violent denuncIation of some one who had mutilated a wreath which he had placed on the grave of his first wife He also put the matter into the despoer was the poets own daughter who Is married to M, Arpad Festey. and who declares that she committed the act as an expression of disgust at the remarriage of her father. septuagenaran, with an actress of 25 years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the cat-and-dog fight between Hanna and Foraker. If it results in a pair of political funerals, it will leave lit- tie to be desired.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

King Edward. we are told, has con- ferred medals on his South African mule drivers, probably on the theory that theirs is the most dangerous occupa- tion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

.sYou can't lose Chauncey Depew," as- serts The Augusta Herald. Better wait till his position in the new combination has been fixed before you predict too much
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Some of our esteemed Chicago contem- poraries feel very considerably warLsed LID when they read that a man froze to death in Alabama
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

It required two days and three different ceremonies to get Depew properly trussed up in the matrimonial strings. If that fails to hold him, it will be useless to try further.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

The statement in an exchange that 'men are killing their wives entirely too often" leads another curious editor to ask just how often it is allowable for men to kill their wives?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

In some portions of Missouri the fash- ionable women eat camphor gun to inn prove their compIexions. They don't even mix whiskey with it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Congressman Perkins of New York is the leader of the house easily in literary ability. From 1890 to Se5 he lived in Paris. en- gagged in work on French history. "A Life of Richelieu" and France Under Louix XV." were, in part. the result of his labors during the period,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Many of the good resolutions which were made on Wednesday will be care fully packed away. for the year before January ends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902.

A pane of glass little over F i-2 by IA 1-2 feet was recently turned out from a factory in Indiana, and is said to be the largest ever made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Philadelphia claims that raising the retail license from $500 to SLIGO has ~nduccd the number of city saloons from 5.773 to I,7I3 since 1887, and has knocked 400 arrests for drunkenness from years record.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

cured by tramping on the rights of the States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

w A. Scott. Circulation Manager oL Ime Montgomery Advertiser, being duly swo.n' S says The foregoing statement Of Tne Aoter .,ter fiser's g. circulation for the month or NovsnSes Sta IeoI is true and correct, and compiled ai.e ana sil returns from newsboys news agents anu sei'-oe. eopieS ~ w A. SCOTT. Sworn to and subscribed before me this sra
 day of December. ieoi;, ,.rvsoN
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Sold thTou ughout the world. PorrER DRUs AND CHKn. CoRP, Sole PFoPS Boston. Send for skin seere fFSe
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03

Send us an or- der for a ton of our Dixie Coal and in- augurate a new departure in your domestic e c o Il o. my. You will save time, trouble and expense, W h i c h will c e r t a i n ly make you happy Our coal comes from the richest mines, and is full m quality.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29
ON WHICH BOAT
WILL REACH NOME FIRST
Other Marine News Of interest Gathered About the
Harbor OF Seattle

There's a lively interest aroused In
shipping and In sporting circles over
the sailinga OF the three Nome bound
steamers, Tho Nome city led the
VAN. then came the sailing OF the
Portland last saturday and tho
scheduled departure Of the Jeanne
tomorrow. Several bets have already
been made on favurltca, Many think
that the Jeanle, even with a delay
OF almost a week behind the first
steamer 10 sail. win reach Nome
harbor firsbaA she has done In the
past two years. Others have chosen
the Nome city and the Portland.
The Jeanne makes no stop on the
way. but goes straight through
captain Game. uf the Pacific clipper
line. made a bet q $40 yesterday
with captain Harry Goodail. OF san
Francisco, that the Nome city would
beat the Portland 90 Nome on this
voyage. other bets Of larger amounts
have been put up on other favoritea
Several san Francisco sports. IL Is
said. have deposited amounts as high
as N,V0o on the steamer Portland
and excitement IL said TO run high
az the Golden Gate over the success
VI that steamers trip 10 Nome
well known shipping man. who
objects to publicity, offered TO get
Sic0 today that the steamer Jeanne
would reach Nome harbor first
With this sailing ~ the Jeanne TO-
morrow a considerable amount Of
money r. sure 10 change hands on
the result 20 the steamboat race
20 the land OF the Aurora HOrealls.
The steamer Dolphin. OF tho Alas.
ka steamship line. sails for the north
at 7 o'clock tonight Her paazen-
ger list viii be lighI Since the
northern trails have broken up Few
people viii 80 north until navigation
opens
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29

NOTICE or SPECIAL ELECTION.
Whereas, under and hy virtue ~ Ordi,
nance No. 7u0s. duly passed hy the city
Council Of The city of Seattle on tho Tth
isy Of April. 1909. ard approved by the
Mayor uf said city on the 9th day OF
April. inJ2. entitled AN Ordinance pro-
vidlnE tor special election 20 be held IN
the city 90 Seattle. at which the voters
~ ratd city may vote upon the question
of tho Issuance and sale of the negotiable
bonds oi said oiW. Co. thc amount u one
Hundred Thousand Dollars for the pur-
pose 81 raising the sum OF one Hundred
Thousand Dollars 90 pay 90 George +
MeuchRm and wife the purchase price OF
Block Nineteen uW % Rorens Addition
to the city o. Seattle upon the purchase
thereof by reid city Tor use as site for
tho Seattle Public Library. which ordl-
nance provides that the Mayor ana city
Council of the cts OF Seattle submit Tn
the quaHNed voters IT said city. at tho
special election therein provided for the
proposition and question Of the Issuance
and sale by sntd city OF the negotiable
bonds uf said CITY OF Seattle 20 tho
amount Of one Hundred Thousand Dol
lars, which bonds shall bear date as OF
the day OF their issues, he payable BY
their terms twenty l2W years after their
said date, and shall bear ratio 0f inter.
est not exceeding four 40 ccntum Per
pnuum, payable sent annually, for which
Interest coupons shall DO attached 10 ana
be mart ~ Hid bonds. ana the paId
bonds and coupons shall be payable rt
the ulrUH therein oppressed. FOR the nun.
u0st tf u-uNillrg money with which to
pav to George r. Ntncham and Lucia N
MrnrhlW, hiH wife. tne said sum of ono
Hundred thousand Dollars as the nun.
chase price ~ Block Nineteen tpl a.
lipr,nH Addition Co the city of seattle
for uHc b' % aH site Tor the Ssnttla
Public Library, and which ordinance
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29
IN DIFFERENCE TO
ORGANIZED LABOR
THE KEEL-LAYING
CELEBRATION WILL
NOT Be GENERAL

opposition 10 the Moran Bros, grow
ing out Of the employment OF unfair
labor. was the cause.
The following resolutions were
adopted.
whereas. the keel o. the battlcship
Nebraska Is 20 be laid al Moran
brothers ship yards on July next,
and
whereas. the day and the event
make possible a fitting celebration
for Independence Day and the oppor-
tunity OF making a public demon
stration OF Seattle commerce, growth
and increasing manufacturing Inn
provemsnt. and
Whereas. the Benevolent order OF
Elks No. " 81 the city " Seattle viii
hold n carnival In the city 81 Seattle
in August next. ana
Whereas. the merchants and busi-
hess men OF the city viii be called
upon 60 contribute 20 the financial
support 81 the said carnival. aud
Therefore. be Il resolved. That
there be no general celebration by
the city OF Seattle OF the Fourth or
July next. but that the citizens gen
orally and bushes men of the city Of
Seattle and the Chamber OF Com
merce cooperate with Moran Bros.
Company IN properly celebrating the
laying OF the keel % the hattienhlp
Nebraska and the appropriate cerc-
monies connected Herewith.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29

The steamer Lurlluc was sold to-
day tu the Washington Marine Com
puuy ~ this city hy Munuon 81 al.
The consideration ia kept private.
The steamer city ~ seattle. OF the
7. g. line which sails Tor the north
tonight VIII carry a knocked down
steamer built az Portland Tor the
inland waters OF Alaska The Seat
tie went To- Tacoma this morning 20
load the boat The steamer was built
for the Northern Commercial Com
pany ana cost $4,000 The steamer
~ known AZ the Koyukuk aud IL "a
llght- dtaught stern wheeler.
Arthur Walker Htoker on the
hattlsahip oregon. yesterday fcu 20
feet Into the hold 81 the ship and
sustained severe injuries about the
head aud body lie was put aboard
the steamer Athlon and brought to
this city, where ne was conveyed
70 Providence hospital IN the nmbu-
lance.
r. l.. Flaskrtt, the outside Hupsrin.
tcndent ~ Moran Bros. has resign
"a "a become chief engineer OF the
steamer Garounc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29
TRIAL TRIP
OF THE Clutch

The steamer Clutch. which has been
resting quietly 81 the HuHlyn coal
bunkera for several weeks. viii start
ON trial trip Thursday morning
from the Arlington pier The Clutch
has undergone a complete overhaul
INK az Morans and besides sports an
American registry. although "a Cana
dlan-hullt vessel After the trial.
which vii consume bat a day, the
steamer VIII be tied up at a city
buoy and sold By It's owners 10 the
highest bidders. -
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-29
MORTALITY REPORT

Solemn requiem high MAS for the
repose 81 the soul OF Miss Addeia
kcardan will be sung Wednesday az
a. M at the Church % the Immae-
nlate Conception. Friends invited.
X. I. u.
Frances Cole. the infan, daughter
% VIM and Refugio Varela Cole,
died this morning AZ 1905 Jackson
street. Funeral win be in charge 81
Collins, sherman, Foley CO. tomor.
row NJ Calvary cemetery.
Bertha Minor. aged Is years.
daughter % Nr. and Mrs. r. Minor.
died at Nashon this morning. The
funeral viii be held Rt : O'Clock 20.
morrow afternoon from the family
residence. The body viii be buried
In the Nashon cemetery.
Mrs. Anna r. "a. Penney. aged Sc
years, died az the family residence.
a-ol Third avenue west. this morning
The body a. at Butterworlh a sons
at present but VIII be- shipped to
Plymouth. la. for lntsrmsnt.