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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-03

ANSAS CITY, June 2.-Cattle-Receipts,
90 natives, 2,2oo Texans and 800 calves;
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River Forecast.
The Cocsa and Alabama will remain nearly
stationary during the next two days. except
probably very slight rise in the upper Ala
bama tonight.
Cotton Region Bulletin.
L. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.
For the twenty four hours ending at a. M.
18th Meridian time.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, June g
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New York Cotton Futures.

NEW YORK June 2-Quotations for cot
ton futures today were as follows:
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Swell Affairs Kept Out of the Papers

Occasionally some man or woman in
society gives dinner which costs $50 or
SIS or even 500 cover, and when the
newspapers get hold of it they exploit
it as a wonderfully costly feast But such
entertainments as the modish world gives
pale into dullness beside the festivities
Of the fashionable half-world. These, of
course, do not get into the papers; the
swell demi monde does not like notoriety.
Last week there was given at restaurant
more elegant than respectable, a little
dinner party Of a dozen people which cost
something more than $4,000. The host
was young fellow, recent graduate of
Yale, and his men guests We're the most
brilliantly guided youth OF! Wall street.
The women guests included very fam
Gus vaudeville beauty, a. hardly less
famous artists model, and a singer Of
some reputation, whose name is general
ly heard in connection with that of a GER
tain trust magnate, the other three being
notably beautiful women each with a
reputation for cleverness. The dinner ia
vors for them, were woven gold purses,
costing probably $500 apiece. The men
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London, Jan. AT last, through the
determination Of the Daily Mail, an au-
thoritative denial has been made Of re-
cent reports in Germany and elsewhere OIL
alleged misconduct Of British soldiers in
South Africa, particularly to the alleged
miltreatment of the young Boer girls. 1t
was delicate matter to handle, but I'M
der the spur of what the Daily Mail con-
sidered a growing calumny abroad, the
editor of that paper addressed a letter to
Mr.. Broderick, the secretary Of state for
war, drawing attention to the fact that
as far back as two years ago the nrst
reports Of such abominable outrages on
the part Of British soldiers were pub
ished in such papers as the DeutSche
Tageszeitung, the Taeglisch Rundschau,
the Deutsche Warte, the Deutsche lei
tung, the Staatsburger Zeitung Of Berlin,
and many others in other towns, partly
originating from uncontrolled and uncon-
trollable missionaries and from private
correspondents.
These found little attention or credence
with the more sober organs until about
six weeks ago, when a former Pretoria
official and Boer captain named Valleyen,
now living in Berlin, started a campaign
by publishing booklets containing accounts
of the alleged British atrocities, and stat
ing as a fact that about 35 per cent of all
the Boer women and girls in the Trans
fddl etuu II rec oCdLe, uduy VI lueul uuueI
10 years of age, had been attacked by
British officers and soldiers. It was also
pointed out to Mr.. Broderick that these
stories are paraded at all the pro-Boer
meetings, and are also being used in
womens appeals to the queen. To this
Mr.. Broderick replied yesterday inclos-
ing letter which had been sent, by di-
rection of Lord Roberts to a lady cor
respondent who had written to him on the
same subject which he (Mr. Broderick)
considered might be taken as an official
denial Of such outrages. Here is the text
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
Farmers of Iowa Find a New
Field
JUST. SOUTH oF CUBA
Colonization of the Island
in Progress.
INCORPORATED UNDER IOWA LAW
Several Western States Besides the
Several Western States Beside the
Hawkeye Identified With
the Enterprise

New Orleans. Jan. At. J. James, of
Fairfield, Iowa. passed through here en-
route to the Isle of Pines, just south of
Cuba, which has been reserved by the
United States.
Mr.. James goes there to make arrange
ments for the extensive colonization of
the island by farmers Of Iowa, Illinois
and other western states. A large body
Of land has been acquired in the island
by company incorporated under the laws
Of Iowa. Thirteem families from the
town Of Spirit Lake, Iowa, already>are set
tied there and are we'll pleased with the
country. Their letters home have been
SO satisfactory as to promise large
emigration there and Mr.. James goes 10
the island to put the lands in condition
to receive the enligrants.
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Some Of the Philosophy Of Wall Street

Sugar interfered somewhat with Wall
street plans the past week. The bears
who had profted by the block in copper
attacked the sugar market and succeeded
beautifully for day and half, running
it down almost to par. The utter lack of
opposition Jared the whole market, but
on the second day the insiders OF the
Sugar company gave the shorts squeeze
which they will remember for long
while. They advanced sugar stock until
at the close of the week it was two points
higher than it was at the close of last
week, and the bears not only lost on the
deal, but dropped some OF the money they
had got out of the field of copper. While
this was going on these same shorts and
some others had little scare lest the
sugar insiders should give them a twist
too; the result was that they ran UP the
price three or four points on one anot her.
But this was all Of no consequence ex-
cept that it showed how dangerous 1t IL
either to buy or sell in the present mar
ket, except for Investment. The big fel-
lows won't let you put prices down much
and the public has not been willing to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
Saturday Review Has Another Fit.

London, Jan. 4.-The Saturday Review
discusses what it describes as the great
est political problem Of the new century,
namely the fate of South America. It is
hardly necessary to say that the Reviews
chief dread regarding that part of the
world is the acquisitiveness of the United
States. 1t contends that the consolida-
ton of the South American republics into
a single empire would be most likely to
secure their prosperity, but says that this
is impossible owing to irreconcilable in
ternational differences. Nevertheless, it
deplores the custom of the British press
to treat these republics as merely objects
of contempt and abuse, and as being ready
to become the lawful prey of North
American greed. The Review disavows
special hostility to the United States. It
bases its contentious on the solid inter-
ests of the British people, and in behalf
of those interests it declares that the
only sensible policy for Great Britain is
encourage the advance of Germany in the
new world as counterpoise to the over
whelming predominance of the United
States, which is the only possible out
come of the prevailing political condl-
TONS It adds:
The presence Of the Germans in South
America would tend to redress the balance
of the new world and save our empire from
a grave menace. With a strong European
power on the south and great world power
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
Now Weep Over This Buried Friendship!

Drop tear, ye sympathetic ones, on
the grave where the friendship of Richard
Croker and Perry Belmont lies buried.
The pair who once loved each other like
brothers-each with shrewd eye to what
he could get out Of it-are now sundered.
Possibly the reason is that neither Of
them got much of anything out Of it. Mr..
Belmont expected Mr.. Croker to boost
him along politically and help him to be-
come president of the United States some
day, or at least governor Of New York.
Mr.. Croker looked to Mr.. Belmont to es-
tablish him in that lofty realm of society
toward which his soul has long yearned.
The partnership was inaugurated with
bright promise. Mr.. Croker made Mr..
Belmont president of his Democratic Club,
and Mr.. Belmont taught Mr. Croker how
to tie dress bow SO that it was the adj
miration of all beho1ders. But that is
about as far as it got. Mr.. Croker's crowd
didn't take kindly to Mr.. Belmont. '*Wat
t'ell,' said they, in their rude, coarse way.
dat pin-headed dude butt into de or
ganization and cop out de fat jobs? Ker-
nit!'' Nor was Mr.. Croker much more
successful with Mr.. Belmont's friends of
the four hundred. They regarded his
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on the north, the too exuberant aspirations
OF Pan-Americanism would be checked. At
present they bid fair to range at their will.
Central America is already regarded by
American imperialists as their own and these
views have encouraged their government.
The feeble surrender Of our Clayton-Bulwer
rights knocked away the last barrier to the
unlimited progress Of the North Americans
in Central American regions without extrnsic
opposition. Their progress southwark is in
evitable by all teaching Of history. Were the
Spanish American countries to pass under
northern control, it would mean the imposi
ton Of tariffs against all foreign competitors
and the capture by the United States of the
whole South American trade. With the open
warnings before us, why do we hesitate to
protect ourselves in time? The answer seems
to be found in the extraordinary hallucina-
ton still prevalent, though not so prevalent
as it was, that common origin with the mer
est fraction of eastern Americans will secure
for US the permanent friendship Of the United
States The story Of the Venezuelan dispute
in 1895 should be sufficient to dlspel idle
dreams.
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Artistic Treat for the Londoners

from the nuns of St. Anthony ossPadua
at Perugia, for whom it was painted in
1905. The principal panel, 6e by Sc inches,
contains a full length figure less than
life size, of the virgin seated on richly
adorned canopied throne, with the child
on her lap. He is blessing little st. John.
On the vergin's left is st. Catherine on
her right st. Rosalia, while below at the
foot of the throne are Saints Peter and
Paul Above is the first person of the
Trinity in an attitude of benediction,
with golden globe in his hand. An
adoring angel kreels on either side Four
of the five subjects which formed the pro-
della of this picture hang in gallery No. 1.
On the wall Immediately opposite hangs
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come in to help you put them up. In
deed, the situation has remained just
about the same now for month or more,
but the month or more makes an essential
difference. Something must happen pretty
soon nog and If you go to inquiring in
Wall street what this something is to be,
you will find it pretty universally believed
that the big advance is due. Expert opin-
ion holds that the advance will begin with
the complete failure Of the sugar scoop.
Money was expected to be easy after the
first, and it Is pretty we'll known that the
big syndicates and pools which are still
carrying heavy loads Of stock, are anxious
to bring about the rise that is to enable
them to get rid OF part Of their burdens.
The question is whether they will go in
for one magnificent boom or be content
with long series OF small rises. am
inclined to believe in the big boom, but ~
we'll known banker said last week that
this was market in which you went in
conspiouously at the front door and
sneaked out promptly through the back
door. Wall street has had several happy
years-it Is wishing that we Will n6~ have
new one. -OAAnA
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This Will Be Done, but It Is Too For
midable a Task to Achieve
in Day.
Croker and Perry Belmont Unfriendly
The Demi-Monde Surpasses
the Four Hundred.

carried on at the sign OF the Red Light,
For the past fortnight there have been
drifting back to town by various rail-
roads a number of lowbred, hashily
dressed young men. Leyinskis, PanatoW-
skis, Szarlenskis, Berodskis and the like
exiles from oppressed Poland-who have
FASTENED down to the East Side, there to
report to certain once-poWerful poll
tician who has recently announced his
retirement, and who is the patron saint
of their business. These young men are
the agents and procurers for the dens
whittier young girls are decoyed and
where they are kept prisoners for the
gain of the gang that makes a good liv-
ing from their shame. Some of them
have been "out on the road for months.
They have sought their prey over wide
radius of country. Their method is to
lure young girls-under IS. preferably
to New York by promise of remunerative
work or of stage positions, and then get
them into one Of the red light houses.
From the time the door of the prison to
which she has been lured closes on the
unfort innate, she might, for her own sake /.
and that of all who love her. be dead and
buried. There is no escape from her
fate. Occasionally the men who do this
work of recruiting are caught. One was
nearly killed in Salem, Me. Another was
run out of Reading, Pa. The Boston au-
thorities caught one, and for some in
with six months sentence. The au-
thoritfes of Charleston, w. Va, deported
one of this gang from the city, and there
by probably saved his life. Another mar
row escape from lynching was that Of
Levinski who tried to take two young
girls from Richmond, Va. This goes to
show how wide the operations of the syn
| dicate are. Before the election here
| changed the aspect of matters it was the
boast of the politician mention above
| that within year his agents would have
canvassed every considerable town east
! of the Mississippi river. The returning
Red Light cadets have come back at an
evil time. Several of their fellows have
been sent to prison; others are awaiting
| trial. Nothing doing" is the word in
their line. 1t looks as if they must either
work or go hungry for a time, for no part
| of the city will be SO carefully watched
under the new police administration as
that where the Red Light adYertises vice.
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beautifully tied lawn with positive indif-
fernce, and his Tammany mode of express
sion gave them >chills. ''Not at home,
Perry, dear boy" they languidly drawled.
Bring your friend around next summer
when we're abroad
Friendship dropped. The two drifted
apart. There. came time when they
passed each other in the street like ice
bergs waited along diverse currents. The
open split came when Mr.. Belmont went
after the congressional nomination in the
seventh district the other day. Mr.. Gro
ker opposed him. Mr.. Belmont accused
Mr.. Croker Of unwarranted intermeddling.
Mr.. Croker said that Mr.. Belmont didn't
amount to anything anyway Mr.. Bel
mont retorted that Mr.. Croker said the
things which were not. Mr.. Croker broke
out with mysterious references to Ger
tain Percy Bradford, limiting that it was
pseudonym of his former friend. Mr..
Belmont is ahead in the race for the NOM
ination, but Mr. Croker seems to be lead
ing in the exchange of personalities. The
battle has now reached a stage where 1t
recalls the days when James J. Corbett
and Thomas Sharkey, several safe miles
apart, INDUCED in the famous vitupera-
tive controversy and established a record
that hasn't been in danger until the pres
ant
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New York, Jan. 4.-"The people must not
expect that the millennium is coming the
week after the first of January" said
Colonel Partridge, the new police COM
missioner yesterday, and thereby covered
the present political situation. Many peo-
pie there are who look for an imme-
date readjustment of municipal condi-
tions following the Inauguration Of Mayor
Lows reform administration. These are
going to be disappointed. The changes
will not be sudden and violent; they will
be slow and gradual, and so will have a
better chance Of being permanent. Ex-
else enforcement, it appears, will not be
oppressively rigid. 1t is understood that
the decent saloons will not be bothered
and that thirsty man need not fall in a
fit on drug store floor in order to get
drink on Sunday. Peggy" Thurston,
who is to be the new deputy commission
er, vice Devery (bounced), has expressed
himself somewhat alarmingly as to the
righteousness of enforcing all the laws,
but his superior, Colonel Partridge, fol-
lowed this with an intimation that he,
and not his deputy, was going to run the
department, and that there are some
statutes on the books which were better
left undisturbed. It is pretty thoroughly
established that Mayor Low and District
Attorney Jerome are in favor of liberal
municipal creed and neither of them
thinks it advisable to close the saloons
on Sunday, or to attempt to wipe out alb
solutely the social evil, an achievement
that is as impracticable as it would be
dangerous.-z,As- a. member of the incom-
ing administration recently put it.: eve
can't expect to make this city pious; the
best we can expect is to make it decent
and even that isn't going to be done in g
day"
An evil there is the most shameful OF
all, that will be depressed with the ut
| most harshness. That Is the traffic that il
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London, Jan. ITO day is private view
day of the winter exhibition at the Royal
Academy. 1t is a fine and interesting
collection Of old masters, the chief fea-
ture of which is a special collection of
paintings and drawings by Claude. Gal
lery No. is entirely devoted to twenty
five paintings by this artist, while the
black and white room contains sixty-eight
cravings by him, chiefly pen and bistre
wash. In the chief gallery, No. 8, the
place of honor in the center of the side
wall is given to J. Pierpont Morgan's
Virgin and Child Enthroned with the
Saint" by Raphael. This painting is
known as the Colonna Raphael, having
passed into the possession Of that family
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got gold handled pocket knives, worth
$50 or $40 each. The private room, din
ner, wines, decorations and music may be
reckoned at $500 more. The room was
specially draped and decorated and the
walters were dressed in Louis XIV. cos
tunes to match the scheme OF the room.
It is said that the feast was given to cele-
brate a killing which the young host
had made in Amalgamated Copper. This
was probably the most elaborate small
dinner given this season. A near rela-
tive OF the host. however, gave a large
dinner at the same restaurant earlier in
the season. which was far more expen-
sive. Fifteen thousand dollars is given
as conservative estimate Of the cost OF
it. These festivities far outshine any
thing that the world Of fashion attempts
to do. AS rule they are conducted with
reasonable decorousness, though it has
happened once or twice that an ov,r-
Jealous police officer has thought best to
interfere, as in the case of the famous
Seeley dinner at Sherry's several years
ago. There were no women, however,
at that dinner, except the paid entertain
ers who came in late to furnish amuse-
ment for the guests, and-if all reports
be true-succeeded.
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London, Jan. 4.-The Times prints a
poem by Rudyard Kipling, exceeding a
column in length, which is virtually an
appeal to the nation to adopt compulsory
military service. He sneers at the man
ner in which the war in South Africa was
begun and continued and the vainglorious
attitude of the British toward their en-
envy. After declaring that raw striplings
picked from the street were sent to war
while strong men idled at home, he says:
And ye sent them comfits and pictures to
help them harry your foes,
And ye vaunted your fathomless power and
We Haunted your iron pride,
Ere We fawned on the younger nations for the
men who could shoot and ride.
Then We returned to your trinkets; then ye
contented your souls,
With the fanneled fools at the wicket or the
muddied OATS at the goals,
Given to strong deluson, wholly believing
lie,
Ye saw that the land lay fenceless and yet
let the months go by,
Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some say
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Lord RossIyn's Work at Monte Carlo

Nice, Jan. 4.-Lord Rosslyn and his
companions, who, like, many others, came
to 'break the bank at Monte Carlo" have
been playing for four days on the Toujours
Montant system, which is very old. They
started with enc louis on red or black,
adding one unit to the stake, when the
coup lost. Lord Rosslyn backs runs, not
1ntermittences. Where he, judging by
results, made mistake, was to continue
his system, with high stakes too long,
even when he was comfortable winner.
His intention was to continue the high
stakes until his winnings averaged one
louis per coup played. This proved dis
astrous Wednesday. He won $500 Tues
day, but had bad luck on Wednesday.
The stakes on that day were soon too big,
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end he soon won $50 louis. Subsequently,
the magistrates were continued, and he
nearly always. lost, until he was. forced
eventually ito stake 5000 francs on one
coup. He ended Wednesday a loser to
the amount of $4,000. With the remain
ing 6 1000 of his capital, he decided to
play roulette by the same system, be-
ginning with five-franc piece. He
won 6 800 Thursday and today. He and
his companions are now playing in relays,
betting on every coup from morning I'M
til night. Lord Rosslyn is still san
guine. He says he lost Wednesday be-
cause he did not play every coup. Maui
rice Eperussi, the we'll known turfman,
who broke the bank four times in two
DAYS. won G5,760 Yesterday.
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The Laureate of Greater Britain :
Excoriates the Conduct OF the
War in South Africa.
Denial of Statements That British
Soldiers Have Committed Out
RACES in Boer Camps.

ing sign idle, openly idle, in the lee OF the
forespent line,
Idle except for your boasting and what is
your boasting worth?
If We grulge a year or service to the lord
Hest line on earth
Ancient, effortless, ordered, cycle on cycle
set
Life so long untroubled that We who inherit
forget.
1t was made with the mountains; it is not
one with the deep,
Men, not gods, devised it, men. not gods,
must keep.
He then proceeds to demand:
Each man born in the island broke to the
matter of war.
Which he promises will result for the
salvation of the country in producing.
Men not children or servants tempered and
taught 20 the end,
Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or
despise HURDLE because Of knowledge,
mighty by sacrifice.
He warns that continuance of In
diligence in the present indolent case will
result in the nations remnant lying down
under the yoke.
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MISS ENID SHAW.

she might the duties which her new posi-
ton as a cabinet officers wife would en-
tail. Miss Enid said it mattered less to
her than to the others, for the reason
she would be abroad or at Vassar, but
she would enjoy Washington on great oc-i
casions, when she hoped to be able to be
there. Miss Erma shared the desire Of
her mother for a return to the old home in
Denison. Master Earl's answer was that
his father, being in politics, should play
the game to the limit and not retire
when the second best position in the cab
met was within easy reach. In giving ex-
preston to his opinion football and other
terms common to the athletic youth were
used The governors only son is brim-
ming over with life and energy.