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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19

w. A. Warren of near Florence. has an old family Bible which belonged to his grandfather and has the date l"e- en- graved upon it. His wife also mas par of sc,.zor. which have been in constant use for over 100 years and are in good condition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19

Rev. w. ID. Gay has returned home from Dallas and Wilcox Counties. where he held meetings in Selma. Pine Apple and Furman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19
DEATH OF P. T. GEwIN.
He Was Three-fourths Indian.
 Death of Mrs. H. W. Sample.


 Florence, June ecial.)-Powhatan Tecumseh Gewin, who was a three fourths Indian, died few days ago at the City Inhrmary. MT. Gewin's youth was passed in the Arkansas bottoms at a time when that country was inhabited by partners. bears. deer and other large animals, and he loved to narrate to his friends tales of wild adventure and hair breadth escapes through which he had passed. At one time he had large ousi- ness interests in Memphis. and also in OkoIona. Miss. He was a Mason and had taken a high degree in the order. He was recently a merchant at Wright. this County, but his goods were destroyed by fire. misfortune that had overtaken him several times in his business career He leaves a wife and three sons. The remains were taken to Waterloo for in- terment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19
PASSING THRONG.

Mir E. H. Cabaniss. a well-known citi- zen Of Birmingham and a brother-in- law of Governor Jelks, spent yesterday in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19

A VOLUNTARY petition in bank ruptcy was filed in the United States District Court yesterday by William Dock of Selma. The petition was re- ferred to w. R. Shafer, Referee in Bankruptcy in Selma. for adjudication.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19

Mrs. H. w. Sample died yesterday af- ter a short illness. The funeral was held yesterday at 5 o'clock. conducted by Rev. s. E. Wasson. Mrs. Sample was Miss Matte Hawkins, her father being form CT Probate Judge of this county sne was about TO years of age and she and her husband, who is IS, would have eel ebrated their golden wedding in septena- Der. Mrs. Sample, in her childhood. lived in the house where she died yesterday and she had lived all her life in Florence. She was one who cherished the insthu- tions of the Old South and her love for the land of her birth was deep. In man ner she was unusually lively and ire quentlv told in a most interesting man. ner many "reminiscences of ante-bellum and war times She was all her life an earnest and active member of the Meth, odist Church and her death is personal lose to numerous friends and relatives. She Iaayeo three daughters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-19

John H. Martin of this city on Sunday saw a big king snake killing large cop per head snake by choking It. the king snake being coiIed tightly around the neck of the copper-head. Mir. Martin killed both snakes.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

The push-button telephone consists
of a complete telephone, including
transmitter and receiver. which, in ap-
pearance and actually, is not much
larger than the ordinary electric push
button. Where electric bells are al
ready installed the push button can be
removed and the new instrument sub
stituted in a few minutes without dis
turbing the existing wires, annuncia-
tors. bells or batteries. With it con-
versations have been carried on easily
over 500 miles.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20
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work on her and she grew thin and
gaunt and half insane. At last she
went to town and told the lawyers all
about the murder. They secuted her
story and wanted to have her tried for
insanity. She persisted and went about
telling anybody who would listen, but
no one believed the tale to be anything
but the vaporings of disordered
brain
At last, after year of EFFORT, she
got the county attorney to issue
warrant for her husband. The sheriff
went to his farm, not believing that
he was guilty, because his reputation
had always been good. But almost as
soon as Cummings saw the officer he
commenced to unburden his mind of
the awful secret which he had carried
three years 81 am glad" he said.
that the thing has come to light;
that l have confessed everything, ana
that I will soon be paying the penalty
of my crime. The penitentiary will be
heaven to what | have undergone since
the death of that girl, and l will be
only too glad to get there. 1 did it
without thinking. i did not mean to
kill her, and now that it is all over
l have only one regret. l am sorry 1
did not call doctor to see the girl
when she was sick after | struck her,
and make a clean breast of the story
then and there. kansas City Jour-
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LOVES IDEAL SHATTERED
Young
Unworthiness

of those moments in the conservatory,
till the gray dawn lulled her to sleep,
and she fell into a gentle slumb Der,
softly whispering to her pillow. My
IDEAL"
Il was ladies day at the club, and
the next day the woman dressed her
self with fastidious care for she knew
he would see her The halls and
lunch-rooms We're filled with guests.
the heat was sitting. and she left her
chaperon and found herself wandering
alone through little narrow corri-
dor
He was in her mind, and she Won
dered why she had not seen him yet.
She paused before a door, which was
open. A group of men were around d
table, with a generous supply OF bot
ties and glasses decorating its surface
She listened spellbound. She heard
the coarse jeSts that came from the
lips of the man she loved. She saw
his Stupor. She saw his bloodShot
eyes and his neglected raiment. With
her heart frozen almost stiff within
her, she heard him joke about his
love affairs" She hated the other
men for laughing at them, and slowly
walking back to join the crowd she
murmured in bitterness, My ideal!
My ideal,'-New York Press.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

So far as government borrowings
are an indication. says the New York
Evening Post, the annual cost OF the
Boer war to Great Britain has been
nearly double that Of the wars against
Napoleon. 100 years ago. In the
period 1792-1S02. when England was
fighting necessarily in almost every
corner of the globe, and was in add
ton substituting half dozen continen-
tai states, the principal of the British
debt increased & 297 .9S9 ,oS7-an aver
age annual increase of S29 QUO.
Between 1902 and 1915. period which
covered the Spanish campaign, the
American war and Waterloo. the debt
increased G323 1856 O41-an annual av-
erage of 6 "a, ST5, 900.
Loans raised by the eXchequer dur
ing the two years following the Boer
war outbreak in October. 1899, foot up
ella 900 900 They include the G30,-
OOO, 900 war loan of 1900. and two is
sues of Gl3.o0o 900 exchequer bonds in
the same year: G6O.000.000 consols in
1901. and G11, 100000 eXchequer bonds.
The above list does not include the
temporary treasury bills issued in 1899
and 1900. or the G14,413. 600 of the
same bills issued after the consols
loan of 1901, and still outstanding
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Neither does the above list ircluds
loans issued by the excheQuer for
other than war purposes
1t will appear, therefore, that. dis
regarding the amount raised by in
creased taxation in this war Or in the
Napoleonic contest. the Boer war has
cost the British government an aver
age of &57 900 600 per annum in loans.
against an average annual cost OF
G24SO0. 900 to G29,9oo,000 per annum
in the Napoieonic contest.
The much greater cost of supplies
ammunition, transportation and equip
ment, as compared with 1902, and
the fact that there have been and are
still more British soldiers under arms
in South Africa than were commanded
by Wellington in 1915, sufficiently 40
count for the heavier outlay. 1t must,
however, be remembered that the Brit
ish war loans of the Napoleonic period
were issued at very heavy discounts.
being put out at prices as low as 60,
and with interest as high as per cent,
whereas the lowest price OF the recent
loans has been 9412 for q "a per cent
loan.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

Multi-millionaires get so used to
making money that even in the recre-
atoms of their country life they cam
not forbear to follow the same custom,
says the New York Press.
H Mckay Twombly has country
place near Caldwell. n. j.. which he
calls Floram, after the first two syl-
tables in Florence and Hamilton, the
given names of Mrs. Twombly and
himself From here he runs milk
route in Summit and Morrison. He IS
also deeply interested in the unroman-
tic pig, which he sells both for food
and breeding purposes.
George Vanderbilt has milk route
down at Asheville. too, where he sells
the milk from Biltmore. He has also
a woodward in Asheville, which he
keeps supplied by the thinning OF the
woods on the place. Biltmore is left
largely in its pristine wildness. eX-
cept along the drives. where are plant
ed the trees and the shrubs of the Ar
boretum, which is in time to contain
every species that will flourish in that
climate.
William d Rockefeller, the poor
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TWO COSTLY ACCIDENTS
9*@%@@@$@$@$@e @@@%@$@.
Which Have Reduced Men
Poverty at Stroke.

were hopelessly flooded and the owner
was a ruined man.
A story equally as tragic is told of
the Speedwell mine at Derbyshire Be
lieving that rich vein of ore existed
in a nearby hill. the owner rsked his
entire capital to bore tunnel 5000
feet long into the heart of the noun
tain. Suddenly the miners broke
through wall of rock into a vast hid
den cavern. through which flowed a
stream of water, They began to dump
rock into the stream. and after ten
thousand tons, a bridge began to rise
out of the darkness. And then their
further progress was stopped. Month
after month they toiled and at last,
after 10000 tons in all had been cast
into the cavern. they gave it up That
narrow rift is known to this day as
the BottomleSs Pit.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

She stood at the top of the broad
stairway, looking down over the heads
of the dancers, until her eyes found
him, and then sparkled with pride
and Joy.
My ideal" she murmured. My
IDEAL"
The band was playing the new
waltz. the lights We're blazing through
out the house, color and brightness
were everywhere, and the heart of one
woman was light with JOY.
In little group in the corner of the
ballroom stood a man. He was tall
and handsome. His features were Sc
rious and severe. The rest of the
little group laughed end joked. He
seemed cut off from them in his deep
abstraction. and the woman coming
down the stairs. with her cloak on her
arm. saw him and felt happy. for she
1eld in her consciousness the memory
Of his caress and his words of tender
Iove few moments before.
Tier father stood waiting to CON
duct her to the carriage. The serious
man looltekd in her direction, and
smiled q rather calm goodby. which
the JOY in her heart interpreted into
meaning more.
All night long she tossed III her bed.
All night long she dwelt on the bliss
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20
HIS TROUBLES ONLY JUST BEGUN
Enumeration of Trials in Store LOT
Neuly- Elected Mayor.

enumeration of Trials in Store for
Newly Elected Mayor.
The newly elected labor mayor Oh
Hartford, Ignatius Sullivan, sat at the
BANQUET table of the Business Men
Association of that city a few nights
ago. says the New York Times Sim
con Ford was one of the speakers. he
glanced pftifully at the new ofhc1al'
and said:
What a nerve Mayor Sullivan dis
playsl Now that he is elected, he I'M
AGNES all his labors are over. why,
they have hardly begun. He has work
and worry before him for the next
two years that will wear him to SKIN
and bones. He doesn't know what he
is UP against. l have met but one
man who showed more real grit. Right
after the explosion at my hotel, when
the place was a wreck, l went into
the restaurant. 1t was strewn with
broken glass and debris. People were
running about with bloody faces and
torn clothes. In the corner sat soli-
tary guest eating his luncheon
think he was a Hartford man. Every
one else was panic-stricken. 1 oon-
lasAtxlatad him nn0n his co0lness. de
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

Two old-time darkies were engaged
in discussion of death and its mys-
teries when Uncle Nose said:
Reuben, does you b'lieve dat whin
a pusson dies dat he kin turn to a
dog er chicken?"
We'll, l dunno" answered Reuben.
EFF you had yo' way whin you dies
would you turn to er chicken"
Dat depends all togedder."
"AH togedder on WHAT"
"On whedder you lived in de near
abouts er not"
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BEFORE LEAVE TAKING
Copyright, 1909. Daily Story Pub. CO.
By Z. A. HOWRy.

home we were able to prevent its
execution"
Isabel Clarke smiled brilliantly.
1.-The Grays are my dear friends"
she exclaimed land l have often heard
them tell of the time when Jean Prem
tiss dropped on her knees before the
handsome young officer. and pleaded
SO eloquently with him that he re-
voked the order to burn her guardians
home" She glanced up into Col
Stacy's face. 81 conclude you are the
mani"
He bowed his head in assent. Tell
me- he said earnestly, what has be-
come of the Grays, of Miss Prentiss?"
He had not known before the young
girls name.
The old people are dead, the daugh-
ter, Lucy Gray, is married, the family
is scattered and the homestead sold"
And Miss Prentiss?'
Jean is here, in Washington. visit
ing the family of the member of Con-
gress from our district
He bent eagerly toward her. Would
you object to giving me her address ?"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

Senator Hanna of Ohio is one of the
most remarkable men in congress. He
is sometimes gruT in his manner and
might easily give the impression that
he is a hard man to enter into CONVEX.
sation with.
While he is one of the busiest men
in the world, he always finds time to
listen to persons who beg his ear.
Senator Hanna has one popularity
that stands pre-eminent. He never
eats alone. If he is not with some
one he invariably enters into CONVEX
sation with the waiter or some one at
another table. He is lover of good
things.
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POLICE OF ca a. =,
Il Patrol Beats Carrying
Long . whistle
3EEEEEEREEEEKtR REEETETE3E1

Villages in all parts of Germany
still maintain might watchmen," who
act as guardians of the community,
and carry when on duty a long lance,
something of the nature of a halberd,
in their hand, as they perambulate
their beats during the long dark hours
OF the night. They also have a whis
tie with them, with which they pro-
claim to the housekeeping Inhabitants
and to prowling men and beasts what
O'Clock it is. 1t is only a very few
years ago that the large cities dropped
their might watchmen," but many of
the smaller towns in the provinces
still employ their services. At
town in Posen, near the Silesian
frontier, one of these old worthless had
ceased to blow his whistle when the
clock sounded the hour. The burger
meister could not comprehend the
negligence, and the delinquent was
summoned to his presence to account
for it. AT first he was at loss what
excuse to make but on being pressed
he declared that a few days before
his last remaining tooth had dropped
out, and that consequently he could
produce no sound from his beloved
whistle.
The burgermeister could think of
no remedy, nor could he punish the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20
Gotham's Sunken Village.

The famous "sunken village" on the
boulevard in New York is to dlsap-
pear and a great granite apartment
house that will cover the entire block
is to take its place. The village is
a little cluster of houses far below
the grade of the street, with high
board fence all around it. The dwell
lers of the village have mayor of
their own; he is also city council and
chief of police. The sidewalks are
three feet wide between the houses.
As q community the sunken villagers
are peaceful. Their industry is selling
milk to those who do not live in the
village. Ingress to the village is
through openings in the fence, the
base of which is above the roofs of
the village houses. One has to go
downstairs to get into the village.
The residents are of pure $utch
stock. The original sunken villagers
wore wooden shoes and other gar
ments now only seen on the stage.
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Freaks of Fortune

Immense plans which seemed about
to be completed but have been
brought to disastrous failure at the
last moment are frequent enough in
the history of industry.
london Answers tells the story OF
a tin mine in England which might
have yielded fortune but for a storm.
With the finding of a new vein OF
ore running out toward the sea. a
new level was driven out below the
water; then it was found that the lode
bent upward too near the sea bottom
for mining to be safely carried on.
Undiscouraged the owner borrowed
money, built a sea wall to cut OFF the
water. erected pumps and again went
TO work On the sixth day, Just as an
enormous mass of rich ore was beng
tapped. a gale came up. ship was
blown upon the wall. which went to
pieces at once. and the sea drove
heavy stones in upon the thin roof OF
the mine. In moment the workings
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

Victor Hugo once gave magnificent
analysis of the mysterious power
which drives criminal to confess his
crime. 1t is not necessarily remorse or
repentance, but a demon something
which will not be appeased until the
story is told to human ears. Even
the criminal who gloats and reJoices
over the blood he has spilled, must
tell someone of the deed. And in the
Cummings case reported from We'll
lington, we have a curious example OF
this power.
Cummings killed viXenish servant
girl by throwing broom at her when
he saw her spit in a dish of food
which she was bearing to the break
fast table. The broom went endwise
and struck her in the temple, but 1t
did not render her unconscious. She
seemed to be getting along all right,
but few days later, when the family
was away from home, she suddenly
died. Cummings buried her body in
cornfield, but afterward dug it up and
burned it in straw stack. The neigh
bors were told that the girl had gone
away She was the daughter Of no
torious woman, formerly of yelling
ton, and there was no one to have
much interest in her whereabouts.
Cummings kept his secret for some
months, and then told his wife. Mrs.
Cummings was faithful to him for
ore than year, but the demon was at
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Waterman. A council was called to
deliberate, and the subject for dis
cussion was laid before the nesting
At first profound silence reigned
Finally one of the members of the
council rose and said he haG heard OF
the possibility of replacing human
teeth by artificial ones; adding, that
to the best OF his belief there was d
man in Breslau who undertook to do
this. He said he could not vouch for
the truth of what he had heard, but
he really had been told that this was
the case! A long discussion ensued,
with the result that the Waterman
was told to go to Breslau to get a new
set of teeth. In due course the old
man returned to the scene of his du-
ties provided with the needful. The
following night the burgermeister sat
up to hear the result. To his astonish-
ment there was no sound of the whis-
tie at 10 o'clock, nor at II, nor even
at midnight! The next morning he
summoned the Waterman, to whom he.
expressed his indignation. You have
got your teeth now" he said: why
do you not whistle as before?" In
voice of humility the old chap replied:
Yes! l have got new set of teeth.
but the doctor told me l was TO put
them in water overnight"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

The great tank that is to be built
in the new engineering building at tbs
University of Michigan will be the only
one of it's kind in the world, excepting
that of Denny & Dunbarton of Scot
land. This tank, which is to be sit
uated in the basement of the new
building will be 800 feet long, % feet
wide and 10 feet deep.
The principal investigation for which
1t is designed will be of two kinds
those connected with the modes OF
various styles of vessels and those re-
lating to propellers. Although pri-
marily for marine purposes, the tank
will prove a valuable adjunst to- the
mechanical engineering department in
connection with the hydraulic labora-
tory.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20

Rockefeller raises thousands of
chickens by incubator at his place near
Tarrytown, which are regularly sold
in the name of the manager of the
place in the New York markets.
Grapes and other dollhouse delicacies
are also disposed of in the same way,
when produced in excess of the needs
of the family. John D. Rockefeller has
never shown any taste for such rural
pleasures, nor has he any fad or hobby
with which to relieve the strain Of
money-getting. He is rather fond OF
good trotters. and pays some attention
to them at his Tarrytown place.
DR.. Seward Webb numbers pieces OF
land in the North Woods, and A A.
Low. brother of the mayor, makes
maple sugar and elderberry and rasp-
berry wine on his place in the Adiron-
dacks. selling them for fancy prices in
New York. Both men further amuse
themselves by connecting the various
parts of their estates by private rail-
roads.
Prosperity becomes a poison when it
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fronds from inches and archways, and
brilliant women, and what is better,
beautiful ones, moved from room to
room.
"A good many years ago." Stacy
said, 81 was much interested in fam
lily named Gray; they lived twelve or
fifteen miles from Memphis. The old
gentleman's four sons" he went on
reminiscsntly, were in the Copfeder-
ate army, but he dispensed a lordly
hospitality, and later when an order
WAS issued to destroy his fine ancestral
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said: I am man who has faced dan
ger in every form. Death has for me
no terrors. l was eating corned beef
hash when the explosion occurred.
He is the only man 1 ever met
whose nerve was stronger than Mayor
Sullivan's."
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A rich and eccentric man who died
the other day in Berlin left will
which was to be opened Immediately
and codicil to be opened after the
funeral. The will said: Every mem
Der Of my family who shall abstain
from attending my funeral is to re-
ceive 300 marks" AS a result the
funeral was attended by his house
keeper, a distant cousin. On the codi-
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ell being opened it was found to en-
act that the residue of his fortune was
TO be divided among those who
notwithstanding the loss of the 800
marks, attended his funeral. Hence
the flousekeeper gets all; but the heirs
threaten to dispute the will.
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Il could not be so Impressive now"
she said, gazing sadly at her other
self. This was the audacity of youth
that had confronted no failure
That night she wrote to Lucy Gray
Claire:
Il am coming home to be married;
all the happiness OF my life except this
last has been shared with your people
and | want to associate them now il
this new era in my life" AS post
script she added: Col. Stacy says that
Isabel Clarke must he one of the we'd
ding guests
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Ambuiances at Railroad Stations.

Anbuiances at Railroad Stations.
BY the kaiser's desire, fully fitted UP
ambulance trains have been placed at
seventy-five German railway stations,
and telephone communication has
been made with local doctors.