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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Does Prohibition Prohibit in Kansase


 Kansas newspaper man, MT. Ewing Her bert, made a statement to the eTect that three-fourths of the towns of Kan and that prohibition in that State Is therefore an utter failure. With view to discovering the real situation relative to the extent of the violation of the pro Secretary of the State Temperance Union. sent out letters to the city clerks and city treasurers and to private citizens of two hundred of the largest towns in visions and requesting information as to the classification of each correspond ent's town. The four classes of cities are described as Q cities which openly li- cense saloons; @ cities in which saloons are clandestinely licensed; CS cities which neither openly nor clasdesttnely surreptitiously and in continual fear of arrest; and CD cities in which there are no saloons and but little occasional boot logging.
 as published in The Kansas Issue (To- peka), shows the following classification: Number of cities in class 1...............2o Number of cities in class 2..............2 Number of cities In class 3...............52 Number of cities in class 4...............92 .92
 That is to say" comments The Kan sas Issue. thirteen per cent of the cities heard from are in open and avowed re- bellion against the laws and Constitu- ton of the State" It continues:
 Tn few of these cities. judging from the nature of the correspondence re- ceived. municipal corruption, both civic and official, is of most pronounced and defiant character. MT. Stephens thinks. however, that throughout the entire State not more than eight or ten municipali- ties as such really license the. traffic, in the same sense and manner that it is licensed in Missouri, Nebraska and other license States: and in all but a few of the worst cities the conditions, although still capable of and demanding improve ment, are already incomparably better than in the average license city of the average license State
 The Topeka Ca"ital (Repl remarks that in the light of this inquiry it is nearer correct to say that prohibition is toler ably we'll enforced in three-fourths of Kansas than that it is defied and violat- ed in that proportion of the State;" and The Kansas City Journal Rep) says:
 The results of the investigation dis close a very encouraging state of things, steady and substantial gain all along the line being shown on the side of law enforcement This growth Is of the most gratifying character. It Is not the effect of any revival or propaganda, hut is the slow development of a public sentiment which is the only sure guarantee of the enforcement of any law on the statute books"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
TAX RATE.

In reply to request from Auditor Sowen on the subject of the tax rate. Attorney General Brown has given an collected on the 2 1-2 mill basis as the assessment was made under the old Constitution. It is a clear and convinc- ing paper. Among other things he says:
 In my opinion the provision in it's very language is only a limitation on the powers of the Legislature; and cer- tainly the language does not clearly manifest gan intention to make 1t self executing and retroactive. Now, If the language were ambiguous. we might consider the surrounding circumstances, and these circumstances, if considered, show that when the convention adopted the Constitution on September 5. 1901, every member thereof must have known that a previous Legislature had levied, or fixed. the rate of taxation and had made all the appropriations for carrying on the State Government; and the Con- stitution providing for its submission to the people for their ratification, or re- jection, the members of the convention must have known that under the law the action of the people could not be had before the tax already assessed would be due and payable and that the taxes for 1902 would be assesable. Thus even if the language were not clear and manifest, these circumstances of them selves are certainly strongly persuasive of the correctness of this opinion and that the provision was not intended to be self-executing and retrospective, but prospective only.
 I am, therefore, of the opinion that the rate fixed by the act of the Legis- lature before the adoption of the Con- stitution will control in the assessment and collection of said taxes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

many ways.
 This is unquestionabIy the most taking story sns ss th in this country to illustrate particular
 points and give 'pungencv to pleadings
 Yet it has never appeared in print in It's
 has been printed many times.
 Today being fine and bracing, the dis tinguished and venerable Senator Pugh came down town from his residence op K Street. Sitting in his favorite hotel lobby this revered statesman. who has made so much history during hts great career; l who was a member of the United States
 Congress before the war between the Congress, and, after 1SS0 for sixteen years in the Senate, fell into charming | ly reminiscent mood. Being urged, he
 related the ''poorhouse and penitentiarv story as, it actually developed. "Cochrane and formed partnership | to practice law. with our ofhce In Eu- faula, our home town," Senator Pugn
 proceeded. After we had settled every thing about the partnership including the agreement that we should equally share | all fees. Cochrane turned to me and salo 'Pugh, it is understood that we snail earn fees and collect them by all means | possible and not unworthy; but there are | two things we must steer clear of- | the poorhouse and the penitentiary. About that time the Supreme Court or Alabama, then composed of radicals, It being shortly after the war, rendereo decision that all contract and agree ments made on the basis of Confederate money were null and void, without force or effect; that contracts based upon trea- sonable currency could not be carried out under the United States government NOW
 there was a friend of ours ours who VI Ina naa .Soss soaa hundred bales of cotton, giving 10 the
 bank a warehouse receipt and certificate that the cotton be delivered to the bank
 upon the cessation of hostlities between
 the Confederate States and the United
 States Our friend, in view of this de-
 cision and of the fact that the cotton had been promised for delivery in considera- ton of what was practically nothing, de, cided to resist delivery, and to that end he employed Cochrane and me as his lawyers ,.,, the bank, through it's legal representative. Governor John Gill Shorter We sought to arrange a compromise, rather than go into the courts. and proceedings dragged half the cotton. Finally Governor Short CT advised the bank to agree to the com promise. and the bank assented. Our client got his hundred and fifty bales of price of cotton being then somewhat up ab ,ut 15 cents a pound. charged him $6, 100 for our services, which he gladly paid. When had collected the money at Jaw office, and sitting down at table I counted out 5000 and passed it over to Cochrane, who was sitting there. wi:i the remark:
 ''Cochrane. that doesn't look much like the poorhcuse, does it?
 i" No. Pugh,' he said. No: this isn't like the pCor house. But we steered damned close to the penitentiary.
 Thus we have the story as 1t actually occurred, and as related by Senator Pugh today, with two cxccptions; the name of his client and the name of the banker, both of whom were greatly and widely honored living and now honored dead. Their names are not required in the story.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

Mrs. Eddy in one of her lay sermons or whatever she calls them-has this argument:
 You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for matter without mind is not painful. The boil simply manifests your belief in pain.
 Now that is getting down where we can almost feel it. We've had boils. We've had them in all the places where they were most inconvenient and unsat- isfactory, and had them in such numbers that we wondered where the next one would find a place to sprout We thought of Job. who also had some ex- perience in that line, but we didn't follow his plan of scraping. We've quit hay ing them, but are glad to know that they are only painful to the imagination. for we thought they were actually pain full to the flesh. That shows our ignorance. But what difference does it make whether the pain is real or imaginary if it hurts just the same? really thought we had. There's no mind in a decayed molar is there? If not. what does it want to hurt a person for? Sometimes when the tooth was at its worst we didn't seem to have any mind whatever. Then how could we have tooth-ache, if Mrs. Eddy is correct? There was a pain somewhere, and if the tooth wouldn't ache without mind and if the mind was off on a vacation we want to know what was the matter among our grinders. We suppose. too that when we went to the dentist and prepared to be sacrificed the proper thing was to think he was not going to hurt and he wouldn't. There's where we missed it again. for we we're prepared to make affidavit that he did hurt.
 Its wonderful how simple anything be- comes when we understand it-but dc we understand it? Our best impression is that we don't
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

pale of responsibility. A man may sell liquors without being a villain. and another may use them in moderation without committing a sin. If the teachers and preachers will bend all their energies intemperance and the blessings of tem- perance, get rid of some of the intem- perance prevailing on the subject. and quit trying to do by law what human nature is not ready for. they will do a blessed work for humanity and accom- plish infinitely more good than they are doing. But what will they say to Bishop Potter?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
MARRIED WHILE DRUGGED.
Melbourne Mcdowell, the Actor
 Makes Sensational Charges.

Kansas City. Mo- Jan 6.-Melbourne Mcdowell. the actor who ended an en- gagement here yesterday, today in Kan sas City. Kas., signed a sensational dep osition in his suit against Clarence M, Brune, a theatrical manager, who last season starred his wife, Minnie Tittel Brune. and Mcdowell in Sardous play. "Theodora."
 Mcdowell swears that in New York while intQxicated. he was induced to sign bills of sale conveying the rights to the Sardou plays to Brune for $500. He as- serts that fraud was used in bringing about the transaction. and asks that it be set aside. The suit was filed in Ram say County, Minn., and seeks to recover damages and to restrain Brune from producing any of the Sardou plays.
 Other sensational statements are made by Mcdowell in his deposition. one be- ing to the effect that he was drugged in New York. put on board a steamer and taken. first to Boston and then to New port News. and that at Baltimore, later and while still under the influence of the drug, he was married.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Affirmed by Supreme Court.

Washington Jan. 6-Justice Shiras In the United States Supreme Court today handed down an opinion by that court in the case of Alexander E. Orr, against the Comptroller of the State and the Comptroller of the city of New York, in- volving the validity of that portion of the New York State inheritance tax law providing for an inheritance tax upon stocks and bonds. The case was decided by the New York Court of Appeals in favor of the law and today's opinion confirmed that decision.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

It is hoped that The Montgomery Advertiser will not again make an error like the one 1t makes in saying that The Oregonian has apparently just gotten its eyes open to the strong op- position. both in and out of its party. to the present tarn law" The Orego- nian's eyes have been opened on tarif matters these thirty years, and The Ad- vertiser'sl assumption is unwarranted. Nobody should jump at conclusion of this kind without evidence.-Portland Oregonian.
 If The Advertiser has done it's faraway contemporary an injustice 1t Is to be regretted, but we have seen editorial expressions in that paper. and have copied some of them,' which gave us a very strong impression that it either dld not know of the feeling existing in it's own party on the tariff question or pre- ferred not to notice 1t. We should really like to see The oregonian,s atti- tude towards tariff reform made plain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
ACCUSED OF MURDERING GIRL
She Was Thrown Overheard from the
 Steamer Oscar.

Chicago Jan. GA body said to be weight around it's neck was taken from the river here today. Louis Thoms, cook of the steamer oscar and Robert Keis' sig. who also worked on the boat, were placed under arrest following the discov- cry Thoms is alleged to have secured the girl from an employment agency to assist him in the cooks galley. Accord ing to Keissig. Thoms and the woman ouarreled and the latter was knocked un- cnnsciors Reissig sai dthe cook com. pelled him to assist in throwing her overboard. Thoms, the police say, denies th q accusation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

We are not an advocate of mob law, but we really think it would be allowa- ble to lynch any circus manager who undertakes to substitute electrical ap- paratus for horses. How will they do summer sets." and how would a gilt spangled danseuse look cavorting around the ring on some kind of auto jackass? It won't do at all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

The Ensley Herald issued very handsome 16-page souvenir edition for the holidays. filled with interesting and hand somely illustrated articles about that Thriving little city and those who have made it what it is. It was a credit to The Herald and to Ensley.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Want Fair Registration.

GreeNSDOrO Watcnman.
 The white people of Hale County insist that the registration clause of the new Constitution be honestly and fairly car ried out. They don't want any trickery. If this clause is tempered with, and those persons are registered who should not be. the whole object of the Constitutional Convention will be defeated. The people demand a fair deal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Might Have Lived Longer.

Shelby ChronlcIe
 A Georgia toper has just died at the age of 108 years. He would have lived longer, and fully intended to do so. but of late the dispensary half-pint drinkers were too much for him and he had to knock under.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
The Value of a Paper.
AhheVille Times

ADbeVlIIe Times.
 No man can ever measure accurately the value of the humblest paper. It is safe to say that every issue of the most ordinary weekly journal has something in it either to help man in his business prospects and temporal affairs, or to do good to his spiritual nature in some of a thousand ways-imparting joy. comfort, hope, inspiration and purposes of reform
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Germs Commit Suicide.
Birmingham News.


 The bacteriologists of the American So- ciety have launched the theory that some noxious germs are so opposed to water that they actually commit suicide in or der to avoid contact with it. The accept ance of this theory by a nation would serve to make it an ardent devotee of cleanliness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

There is a railroad in Connecticut which has now been in operation about sixty years, and during all that period there has never been passenger killed. It is a remarkable record and we doubt If it has an equal in the United States
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

The New York World trenches very closely on profanity when 1t tells it's readers that the Macomb's Dam Bridge grab was not called up at the final meeting of the aldermen yesterday" !" They were evidently a little tender about that sort of grab
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Candidates Will Be Out.

WILCOX Era.
 Not a great while and the dear candi- date will be out. When he greets you with his sweet smile and tells you he can serve you better than anybody else, are you going to lose the privilege of voting for him because your poll tax is unpaid? Paying it in April or May will not save you this modification.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Would Have a Mint.

Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 Now that a little fellow has invented wireless telegraphy, wonder if we can't prevail upon some big fellow to invent how to make money without working" A genius of this make will have a mint not excelled by the Government
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

The latest exhibition of supersensitive- ness is shown by the action of a woman's club in Milwaukee who will not listen to a lecture from Clara Morris because she is or has been an actress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

It is nothing unusual for rains to put out fires, but in Columbus they put out the electric lights. The old Chattshoo- chee got on q rampage and stopped the operation of the, electric power house.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

That Philadelphia doctor who acci- dentally vaccinated himself on the end of the nose has the satisfaction of know ing that he has one member of his body which is immune against smallpox
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
SENATOR PUGH
Gives Correct Version of a Well
 Known Story.

Lucien Julien Walkers Washington Let
 ter in Birmingham Age-Herald.
 The famous story about former United States Senator James L. Pugh and the late Judge John Cochrane of Eufaula with reference to avoiding the poor been related thousands of times in po- itical speeches in Alabama. and through out the country. and by which Senator Pettus set the Senate to roaring with laughter last session. has been. natur- ally enough twisted and distorted in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
None the Less a Hero.

Russell Register.
 The American people have already &C., corded Admiral Schley all the honors he claims, and although the Government may never do so, its refusal will make him none the less hero worthy of all honor and admiration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

If the King of Siam wants to make a hit when he visits this country let him bring some twins with him. The present generation didn't see the original Siamese twins,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
A Daily Average Gain of. AS 60
 A Sunday Average Gain of .33. 12

w. A. Scott, Circulation Manager of the Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn. gays: The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of December, 1901, is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents and left over copies have been deducted.
 W A. SCOTT. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th
 r. W. JACKSON, fSeaLl N. P, Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
Victor H. Hanson. Manager of Advertising Foreign and Local.
How The Advertiser Grows.

In accordance with custom. detailed state nent of The Advertisers Daily and suhoay Circulation Is herewith presented for the month pf December. sol.
 Comparisons are also made with similar statement of one year ago, which furnishes Astonishing facts of The Advertisers growth nuring the year 1901:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

Chief Gerald thinks that forty police men do not make a force adequate to the needs of Montgomery. So good d town should hardly need any police force at. alL-Birmingham Ledger.
 Montgomery is good, partly because it is the nature of her population to be good and partly because We nave good policemen. See the pint?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1902.

A Detroit woman was recently mar ried by medium to a man who has been dead a number of years. She must be awfully ugly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

The fellow with a pencil has figured out that the chances any boy has to be- come President are 4l0,0O0 to l. That lets out most of us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
WITH ALABAMA EDITORS.
Bathing Injurious.
Mobile Herald.

Mobfle HeraId.
 The London Lancet has discovered that bathing is very injurious to the health It is probably endeavoring to keep the British officers from carrying bath tubs with them all over South Africa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
The Rice Will Case.

New York Jan 6-The case of the two wills of William Marsh Rice came up before Surrogate Fitzgerald at the re- opening of the Surrogae Court today. As it had been announced that Albert T. Patrick who has beer indicted for Rice's murder would be brought to trial on Januarv E. Surrogate Fitzgerald post poncd the application to liN n date for the trial of the will cases until that date.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

Senator Morgan is furious because the Panama Company has had the audacity to offer to sell its property at the p'ice named by the American commission. MT. Hepburn also thinks it very wrong and proposes to go ahead with his bill in the House as if nothing had happened. But Senators will insist upon consideration of the Panama offer. Senator Hanna. a member of the Committee on Inter- Oceanic Canals, said today:
 "I know dozen Senators who will de- mand careful consideration. Senator Morgan may rave all he pleases, but this is a great business question and must be settled as such a question. I, for one am convinced that at sl0 100000 the Pan- anna property is a bargain. We know we can build a canal at Panama for about $50. .0O05T. and that 1t will be a successful canal when finished. No one-knows what the NicarHguan Canal would cost ol whether !t would be 9 success when fin ished, We are only guessing
 Thus the lines are forming for tho great battle of the canal routes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

And this. after your campaign against ring rule? NeVer.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
An Alarming State
 of Affairs

is sure to come if you persist in buy ing poor coal-fre goes out, money goes out, house gets cold and you have to run for coal at all sorts of inopportune tim es, and wear out tn e coal bod brin gi n g it in, ard tn at without g C t tin g
 Ic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

is DO longer a day of dread and doubt when you have a gas range in your kitchen. w i n d. weather and bad chimney then lose all terrors. You have an even, uni- formly h e a t e d oven that can be regulated to an ex- treme nicety, bak-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

warm. If you buy the DIXIE Coal we sell you'll have fire that lasts and gives the heat you need:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07
MIND AND PAIN

Mrs. Eddy in one of her lay sermons or whatever she calls them-has this argument:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-07

What are the extreme prohibitionists going to do with Bishop Potter? Hear this expression from a recent address by him:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-17
Very respectfully,
Il. McCANTS STEWART.
HOLY GHOST FESTIVAL

The following is the program for the
Holy Ghost celebration, this evening
and tomorrow:
At $50 p. m. concert by the Territorial
band under leadership of Captain Ber-
ger.
At s p. m. till II, music by the Ca
thOlic Mission band.
At p. m. Procession from Cathedral
to the repository of crown and flag.
At 7:15 blessing of aims for poor Rt
Rev. Biship Gulstan, assisted by the
clergy officiating.
At a. m., Sunday distribution of
aims to the poor of the city.
At a. m. till 10 music by the Catholc
Mission band
At 1920 a. IN. Procession from reposi-
tory to the Cathedral, followed by High
POntitical mass and sermon in Portu-
guese. During the mass, singing of the
mass of Ratttmann. with trio and quar-
tet by Miss Campbell, Mrs. Alapai, f.
Valentine and w. Ellis. Mrs A. Kelly
organist. Assisted by the Catholic Mis-
sion band.
At 1 p m. dinner of the poor of the
parish, presided over by His LOrdship,
the clergy and prominent men of the
Portuguese colony.
At $3.50 regular concert by the Terri
torial Band, Captain Berger leader.
Beautiful illumination of the premises
with 400 electric lights by the Hawaiian
Electric Company