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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26

done, then he gets in and rides down
the avenue or wherever he is going,
without any obstruction whatever TO
his view He outwits the detectives
often by getting away for walks or
drives without their being any the
wiser or without their being able to
follow them. He doesn't tell any
body that he is going out, and the
first the secret service man around
the white house knows is when he sees
the president swinging off down the
walks on his way out Of the grounds. 4"
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26
THE QUEST FOR GOLD.
A Lake in Columbia to Be Drained for
Rich Treasure.

Several members Of the British
parliament are interested in a syndi-
cate which has undertaken to recover
a great treasure in gold and precious
stones from the bottom of lake in
Colombia. Nine years ago, says the
New York Mail and Express, at the
worlds fair in Chicago, were dis
played articles of household use and
ornaments Of gold recovered from
this lake to the value of S35, 900, and
photographs of others to the value of
$4,000 taken from the same place,
which are now in the possession of
the Spanish crown. The Colombian
government also has several thou
sand dollars worth Of treasure trove
recovered from this lake.
The lake is near Bogota, the capital
of Colombia, and the vast amount Of
treasure is supposed to have been
thrown into it first as a sacrifice to
the patron deity of the Chibeha In
dams, second in power and oiviliza-
tion to the Aztecs and the Peruvians,
and afterward to keep it out Of the
hands Of the Spanish conquerors.
Many ofthe gold ornaments owned
by the Spanish and Colombian gov
crnments were recovered, some from
the lake, 80 years ago, 10y a citizen Of
Bogota, who got permission to drain
the lake to get at its treasure. He
succeeded in lowering the waters Of
the lake until a considerable amount
of treasure had been exposed and
gathered. Then a mighty storm
arose, caused, the natives believed,
by the angered spirit of the old heath
en- god to whom the Chibehas used to
sacrifice, and the engineering works
of Bogota were swept away and the
lake filled up again.
Should the syndicate be successful
in draining the lake they will spoil
one of the favorite diversions of the
modern Bogotan. In the cool of the
evening the leisurely people of the
Colombian capital are fond of rowing
upon the treasure-bearing water.
Taking a boat and affixing a small
drag to it, they will pull leisurely
across the lake, often being rewarded
by recovering some small relic of the
golden days The matter of draining
the lake has been talked of for several
years, but now the project has as
sumed definite shape, and work will
be begun just as soon as things have
quoted down a bit in Colombia, now
torn by revolution.
Around this lake the modern au-
thorities agree in locating that FL
dorado which so inflamed the desires
Of the adventures of Spain. Con
zales de Quesada was the first white
man who set foot in the city. In the
year 1885, with l66 men, he arrived at
the port of Santa Maria, sailed up the
Magdalena river to Santander, and
crossed over onto the tableland of Bo-
gotta. There he fell upon the Chibe-
has after the manner of Cortez in
Mexico, and routed them in pitched
battle.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26
The Future of the Republic of Cuba
BY TOMAS ESTRADA PALMA,
President of the Cuban Republic.

What the future of Cuba is to be is a
question that time only can decide. We
who love her, and have faith in her can but
prophesy, and our prophecies are born OF
our desires.
In my administration of the high Office
to which the Cuban people have elected me
it shall be my policy to as far as possible
turn the eyes of the Cuban people to the
future Let us forget the darkness of the
past, and remember only the future beckon-
ing us onward to a realization OF our ideals.
With the crimes and blackness of past days
we must have nothing in common. They
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26
On the Atlantic.

Steamship companies have on an
average 10 give passengers two more
meals on the eastward voyage across
the Atlantic than on the westward.
This is, of course, owing to the differ
encc in time.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26
Why He Is Honest.

Many a man leads an honest life
because he doesn't relish the idea of
wearing clothes with stripes running
the wrong way.-Chicago Daily
News.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-26
Patriotism and Education in Porto Rico
BY MARTIN C. BRUNBAUGH,
Commissioners of Education O the Island oovsrnn

- HEN American government hold
OF affairs in Porto Rico there build
~ ing erected for school purposes in the entire
81 XAN island SPAIN IN 400 YEARS HAD NOT
II W. ERECTED ONE SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE
Il ISLAND The military government had built
z4M one, but fire had destroyed and the civil gov
! . !. !. !.
HE2 \ SSl faced population of million souls
WTSI6SSSN without building is disposal that
WSSC& struced for school purposes. In the meantime
U4TQ X1U the schools had taken prominent place the
uHT IN XXH upift people. Under military rule
MH& u <XN schools were opened $4,000 pupils
SkS4$0 enrolled Under civil government the first
T22$S 100000 aside for schools, and 800
I'll - schools, with 10000 pupils, opened and
maintained During the second
u year. I9oIo2, $soIooo appropriated by the
local legislature, and schools, with
10000 pupils operation LLITERACY HAS BEEN LESS
ENED TEN PER CENT the demand for schools steadily
growing able pay the salaries OF the teachers
and had the teachers sufficient number could have
10000 pupils the schools The average monthly attendance
10000 rs per cent being per Pnnsy
1893 and only cent less than Massachusetts, in the
year.
begin the work erecting schoohouse Porto Rico To-day
here hrcaSs American schoolhouseS, four
Pnd two and agricultural schools Each
dng stands large campus usually OF one acre and the ag
uura scholars cultivate the soil half of each school day Over
pupils thus receiving systematic practical agricultural edu
EATON These buildings all the names OF prominent Americans
s Washington School, Lincoln school, Penn School, Jefer
School" Mckinley School," Irving School, Horace Mann
School" The flag every school while is in
The of these people equal that OF most
advanced communities
~ young 30 miles the school,
Slept bare floor begged his food and studied diligently that
pc received rural certificate and teaching in shack school
house under the palms the side boy school at
unco had shirt his naked
body lie preferred coming school hafcohed growing up
ignorance In mountain school Mr. Wood of
ors found boy wearing his fathers shirt because the boys shirt
he only he had being washed The fathers shirt bore
its back legend "Plsbuys XXX In the little
Lola the borer the fields and the borers in the
streets attending night school There is lamp in the
town These bring candles and in groups of three cluster
around the candles patiently spell the beginnings edu
i
The Porto anxious He learn The
on these people acquire knowledge of American nst
uons and thus hasten the day when the OF the island OF the
shall nestle the folds of the flag they with ondy
They have accepted the lesson republic needs mprSs that
the public school the statehood in the federal
&nion.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
The Voice of Public Duty.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
We do not think we eXaggerate Wnen
we say that the speech made last night
at Morriston, n. j., by the Hon. Grover
Cleveland, is, both in substance and in
FORM the strongest and Wisest utter
ance ever yet delivered by that gentle
man, and in making that statement. we
do not forget either the tariff message OF
1887 or the remarkable Venezuelan mes
sage written in his second administrator.
1t is not too much to say that in TINS
his latest speech. Mr.. Cleveland points
ont clearly the ills from which the ma
ton now suffers, traces accurately the
growth of conditions that have made
those ills possible and suggests a remedy
which II adopted, would be Immediately
II not completely effective.
should have harked back to his famous
tariff message of 1887. The political bat
tie begun in that year, though panied
oft, is surely to be won by the Ameri-
can people acting through the agency
of the Democratic Party. Mr.. Cleveland 8
araignment OF the Republican Party IL
at once whitening and merited. He
proves conclusively that that party mas
ravise the tariff and he demonstrates that
far from modifying Its ruinous policy
respecting the tariff, 1t has preyed upon
popular credulity and perverted its lease
of power into means Tor roppng with
undiminishing insolence the American
consumer. Out of its aggressions has
come naturally that system OF legalized
monopoly known as the trusts-a system
which both supports and is supported ny
the Republican Party. So long as that
party is in power the great mass Of the
people may only expect TO be robbed until
the greed of the trust is satiated or the
strength of its victim is spent. for re-
lief from intoIsrahle existing conditions
the American people may now look only
to the Democratic Party.
That is Mr.. Cleveland's message on the
eve of election. to the people, whose Gnlef
Magistrate for eight years he was. 1t is,
Indeed, an inspiriting message to every
voter in whose heart love of country out
weighs love of self. In rejecting upon
Mr. Clevelands speech, the voice of the
party-not to mention the voice of fac
TOMS hushed The voice of public duty
alone is heard. We confidently believe
that that voice. speaking to the con-
science and heart of the nation. will next
Tuesday prompt the American electorate
TO patriotic action.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
M0h the Cross

ION Che Cross" is the new novel just
published by Drexel Biddle. Philadelphia,
written by Miss Won Hillern. 1t 10 the
most sensational book of the year, though
written not at all for sensationalism' s
sake. The author, in the subtitle. has
called her story. "A Romance Of the
Passion Play at Oberammergau." but
never did a title express less ade-
quately the trend and scope of story
than in this instance. What follows is a
merciless narrative of the struggle to
the life between the Christ love of sim
pie faith and the all-demanding love
which is human passion.
The manner in which Miss Won Hillern
has ended the book will be q much dis
cussed point. Some contend that the story
should have been brought to close when
the peasant returns to his Oberammer-
gau; while others insist that the author
has worked out the only consistent end
ing.
The wife of the ex-Vienese Consul at
Washington, thoroughly familiar with
the original production. pronounces the
description of the Passion Play in chapter
seven to be the finest she has ever read.
This book though only issued three
weeks ago, is already in its third edition.
the first two having been quickly sx-
hausted.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
An Ohio Sensation.

The State political campaign in Ohio
has become somewhat fierce and Mayor
johnson of Cleveland made a sensation
In Cincinnati by declaring in his first
speech In that city that he wished to
have no support from The Cincinnati
Enquirer and the political gang of which
II 10 the mouthpiece.
Mclean and johnson have long been
opposed to each other. McLean's news
paper charged, on Friday morning, that
johnson had come to Cincinnati ito make
financial arrangements" and the above
remarks were a part of the big Cleve-
land mans answer. 1t is worth knowing
that the severer the words which Tom
used about John" the better the Cincin-
natl people seemed to like 1t. A correspon-
dent who was present writes: There were
$500 persons crowded within the old tent
and not once was a single voice raised in
disapproval 1t seemed as If neither Cox.
nor Bernard. nor Mclean had friend
In the whole great assemblage. Major
Johnson's vigorous words Of scorn were
particularly delectable to the crowd
Seevral times during his excoriauon OF
Mr. Mclean he was interrupted for a
minute or more by the vehement demon
strations of approval" Democratic sue
cess in Ohio has never, for a moment,
been possible since John r. Mclean be-
came prominent in the organization. 1t
remains to be seen whether the opposition
of The Cincinnati Enquirer can be as
harmful to a Democratic ticket as here
tofore has been Its support
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
Go Ye Into All the World"

SnlCdBO lntGT~0CSdu.
There is In session at Cleveland, o.. a
Episcopal Church. 1t IL made UP Of lead
ers in evangelizing work. of editors. Sec
retaries, presiding elders and minister's.
1t was called to consider plans for for
warding missionary work in home and
foreign fields. In the convention are some
$500 delegates, and it may be regarded
Methodist Church.
Many persons formerly interested in
missionary work have expressed the opin-
ion that missions and missionaries are
retrograding; that the church Is losing
interest in efforts to convert. educate and
civipse the heather. and has lost the
enthusiasm that everywhere prevailed url-
der the old leadership. The Cleveland
convention gave testimony against such
a conclusion when. in one enthusiastic
hour on Thursday. It raised $500, 900 to be
devoted to missionary work.
On the same day the missionary coun-
Gil Of the Protestant Episcopal Church. in
session at Philadelphia, increased the
missionary apportionment Of that church
to 81, 900. 900 annually. This shows renewed
interest on the part OF q church organi-
cation not regarded as over-enthusiastic
In general missionary work. 49,
All indications. in fact, point to con-
tinued. IL not increased, interest on the
part Of the evangelical churches which
have in the last two years raised church
fund of $4,000, 900 to be devoted to educa-
tional. charitable and philanthropic work.
Churches showing so much interest and
enthusiasm in the cause Of education and
philanthropy at home are not likely to
lose interest in missionary work where
missionary work Is most needed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
susrArN rHE HONE PAPER.
In a recent issue OF The Edwsrdsv!lle
stand ard- News we find this:

In a recent issue Of The Edwsrdsv.lie
Standard-News we ind this:
Country newspapers are as much ne
like the large city dailies. hold undis-
puted sway In their respective fields, and
II will ever be thus. While the city daily
furnishes the city people with the news
of the world the people IN the rural COM
for home news. The country weekly ts
firmly established with this class of the
reading public.
The rural population OF Alabama does
not appreciate as 1t should really good
weekly newspaper. Those of them who
are 20 situated as to have the advantage
of daily mails. and can thus get city
daily every day. II they are able to pay
the price, may look down on their country
weekly papers, and AFFECT a contempt for
them, but they do not look at the mat
ter In the right way. The daily may
promptly bring them all the news from
the outside world, but they must rely on
their home paper to give them the home
news. The births. tae deaths and the
marriages and all the other local hap
penings Of the neighborhood can be found
only In the weekly. It is. or ought to be.
q weekly record Of things OF interest TO
all the people Of the County.
In many respects the country weekly
has hard time. Some Of those on our
exchange list are excellent examples of
intelligent and careful journalism. They
are well printed. cieanly edited and filled
with all the local news of the communi-
ty. They are in every way deserving Of
liberal support from the people most
nearly interested. but they do not al
ways receive 1t. Some of them prosper
but others have a hard struggle for ex-
istence. This ought not to be so. While
some Of the weeklies may be deficient In
editorial matter their local columns are
usually full, and that is the matter
which ought to interest their home pat
rons. At the same time. If the paper is
not always as good as IL should be 1t Is
more than apt to be the fault of those
who should sustain it.NsA man in the
country may be so situated that he can
take a daily from the city, but that Is
no reason why he should suffer the home
paper to starve. The Advertiser has al
ways insisted that the people of the coun-
try should literally sustain their own pa
pers. and If they can also afford a daily
so much the better. We are compelled
to look with but little tolerance on any
town, village or community which fails
to patronixe its home paper.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
EHE REPUBLICANS AND STATE
~ AID TO RAILROADS.

> Republican speakers and writer's claim
that the first State aid law was enacted
an 1867 by Legislature composed of white
men who were Democrats. That is true,
but the State of Alabama never lost one
dollar by that act. 1t was so we'll guard
ed that no railroad company sought to
secure endorsement of bonds until Re-
publican government came into power by
force of bayonets and William H. Smith,
gather Of the present Republican candi-
date for Governor was made the Cover
changed from $4,000 per mile to $4,000
per mile and endorsements by the million
were asked for and received.
1t is a we'll known fact that bonds of
the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
were endorsed on the track in four States.
\ Alabama. Georgia. Tennessee and Miss
issippi and the rights of this State were
made inferior to those of the other three
Six miles in Tennessee, from Wauhatchie
to Chattanooga. were never built by the
A. and c.. but belonged at that time and
have ever since belonged to the Nash
Vile ana Cnaltdn0OSa Rdllroad Company
Not only this but when Governor Lind
Say was inaugurated the entire length Of
the road from Chattanooga to Meridian
was bonded at $4,000 per mile although
It lacked 100 miles of completion. Still
more amazing was this when the law
distinctly provided that endorsements
should only be made on the completion
of sections of five miles, and this COM
pletion had to be sworn to by properly
authorized parties, This does not com
plete the chapter of Endorsement of the
bonds of that road for it was found that
there was an over-issue Of $53S. 900. Under
the Democratic State aid law Alabama
had no scandals and it did not cost the
state one cent OF money.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
The Election for the 4th of November

Montgomery, OCT. 81, lSUZ.
In THE Autocrat of the Breakfast Ia
ble," Holmes says that a proclamation
was made throughout the world that. at
a specified time, every one should hollow
and the voice would be so great that 1t
could be heard to the moon. The time
cine. All were listening, and, in the ex-
pectancy of the great noise, all. except
a poor old woman in the Fiji Islands and
a deaf man in the Philippines, forgot to
hollow. and, through neglect of the peo-
pie, communication with the moon was
prevented.
We are on the eve of great election
great, because. for the first time in
many years, the dollar elector is ex-
cluded and only the virtuous and intel
lgent' can vote. Great, too, because Ct
the principles involved. If the Demo-
cratic voters will all let their voices be
heard at the ballot box, a great Demo-
cratic victory will be ours; but. IL from
being too sanguine or for other reasons,
the people do not speak out for Democ-
racy and vote for our nominees, the re-
suit may be very disappointing, as in the
above story. Let every one vote, and let
there be no scratching of tickets. The
primary determined the Democratic cam
didates. and these are our candidates
all of them-and every Democrat should
vote a solid ticket and rejoice in the
privilege of voting once more in fair
election and with the best of company.
Jno. l.. DodsOn.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
TT Is A FRAUD.

Some time since we saw statement to
the effect that some ill-advised genius
had invented what he calls "a gursiess
Jug In other words. 1t Is jug that
will not be able to say ''guggle-uggle-ug-
gle" when one is drinking from it. The
Savannah News says of it:
The gurgling of the jug is caused by
outflow of liquid. In the so-called gurg-
less jug, there IL a hole through the
handle of the vessel leading to the cham
Der. Through this hole goes sufficient
supply of air. as the liquid is poured out;
thus there is no back-pressure Of air at
the mouth of the jug and consequently no
gurgle. steady and uninterrupted now
OF the contents of the jug Is thus secured,
according to the claims of the inventor.
who thinks that is a great advantage:
And really II might he IL jugs were used
only for carrying molasses and kerosene.
But what fisherman. or what Kentuckian,
would give rap for a gurgleless jug!
Such a vessel might be popular with
the kind OF man who would get into a
dark closet to take a drink from his
brown jug without any one hearing him.
but a fellow who is that selfish ought to
get hold of the kerosene jug by mistake.
No one should invent or make anything
for his benefit, or assist him in his efforts
to keep good things to himself.
One OF the chief delights Of drinking
from the little brown Jug to those who
take pleasure in such things. Is that it
has a voice. As you take long breath.
throw back your head and close your eyes
in blissful ecstacy, while the gurgle Of
the jug Is
Keeping time, time. time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
all earthly cares are forgotten in the Joy
Of the present. That is what 1t is to drink
from the time-honored vessel whose voice
Is associated with all the delightful men,
cries of antiquity. A deaf and dumb jug
Is a fraud.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
THE TICKET.

The following is a copy Of the Of
ficial ballot % be voted next Tues
day, a cross mark (X) being placed
before the Democrat nominees:
For Governor:
K WILLIAM D JELKS
JOHN A w SMITH.
For Lieutenant Governor:
K r. M. CUNNINGHAM
CHARLES P. LANE.
For Secretary Of State:
x j. THOMAS HELM
J. H. KARTER.
For State Treasurer:
II. LEE BROWN,
x J. CRAIG SMITH.
For State Auditor:
T. B. McNARoN,
K THOMAS L. soWELL.
For Attorney General:
W. H. ARMBRECHT,
K MASSEY WILSON.
For State Superintendent Of Eduea-
ton:
J. c. FoNvILLE,
K ISAAC w. HILL.
For Commissioner Of Agriculture and
Industries:
BUEL ANDRUS,
T. B. MORTON,
K ROBERT r. POOLE.
For Representative in the Fifty
eighth Congress of the United
States from the Second District:
JULIUS STERNFELD,
x ARIoSTo A. WILEY.
For Senator:
x BENJAMIN II. SCREWS.
For Representatives.:
K T. NJ. ARLINGTON.
x TYLER GOODWIN,
K THOMAS J. HALL,
K o. G. MANER.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01
Our studious President.

Probably no man who has been in the
White House since Jefferson's time has
been so much of a student as Roosevelt.
He works at being President with all the
eagerness of a college student on the
verge of critical examination. He is
great deliver into books and reports. He
has the Congressional library ransacked
for works which bear on problems for
eign and domestic, legal and economic.
legislative, executive, judicial, political.
He reads far into the night He talks a
great deal, much of the talk being merely
the threshing out verbally of problems
in his mind. He keeps his secretary, Mr..
Cortelyou, long after other people are
in their beds. discoursing to him of traiff
revision, reciprocity, Cuban relations,
isthmian canal, navy army, trusts, rail-
roads, civil service, politics and thous-
and and one other matters which come in
the days work.