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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
Policeman with a Telescope.

London Telegraph.
 For some time the residents near Stroud Green. a grassy eXpanse on the outskirts of Newbury have been annoyed by the conduct of gangs of lads who on Sundays have indulged in gambling and objection able language. The police have had diffi- culty in suppressing the nuisance. as the gangs invariably dispersed when a con stable appeared On Sunday, however, Police. Constable Pounds, in plain clothes, took observations with a powerful tele- scope from a garden overlooking the green. with the result that yesterday a number of the offenders were brought be- fore the magistrates and fined.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
NO DEFENCE FOR IT.

It Is painful and humiliating to South ern people tos find themselves unable to excuse or defend the acts of a prom inent Southern statesman. There are so many gibes and criticisms indulged in by a certain class of Northern people. so much talk about the plantation man. ners'' of Southern people, that we are always glad to defend our own when de- fence is possible
 But what kind of defence cah any fair minded Southern man or newspaper put up for the recent escapade of Senator Bailey?
 Mir. Bailey boasts that he has received many telegrams from Texas approving his act Possibly he did. Some of them were sent on impulse before all the facts were known. Others were sent because the senders considered it difficulty be- tween a Texan and ''a Yankee and they were with their own man. But there is another side to it, and The Richmond Times thus voices it:
 But if Senator Bailey will take the trouble to read the newspapers through out the country and will listen to the i'm partial comments of dignified and law abiding citizens here and there, he will be convinced that his act is not only not approved, but strongly condemned throughout the length and breadth of the land If he will make diligent inquiry, or if he will put his ear to the ground, we think that he will ascertain that even in his beloved South, where the people generally respect and admire him. there is dlsapproval of his assault upon Sena- tor BeVeridge. The people of the South are not lscking in chivalry or courage and they do not expect their representa- tives Tn Congress or elsewhere to sub init to insult, but they think that an in- may protect his honor and dignity with out having rough and tumble fight with his antagonist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

mento Bee. issued June 30, is what the boys would emphatlcally call "a beaut" To go through its splendidly illustrated pages of the scenery. the homes and the products of California makes one wonder if such a land really exists in this old world of ours. And when we look at the mechanical and ornamental excellencies of this issue, we realize something of the possibilities of modern journalism. It was great
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
where is the Lord God of Eliiahp

The following from Rev. W. B. Crump- ton will appear in the Alabama Baptist of next week:
 In all my travels in the State 1 have heard the people talk of their distress about the awful drought now prevailing; but l have not heard mentioned, except in ridieule the idea that God could send relief in answer to prayer. The people in tine cities cannot realize the situation and those in the country seem to have lost faith In a prayer hearing God.
 The God who gives salvation through faith in his son in answer to prayer, win certainly send rain if His people cry to him. w. B. C.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
Wise Georgians.

BIrmlngham News.
 The platform of the Georgia Democrats; is significant, not for the declarations it contains but for those it failed to con- tain. The time was not long since when every Democratic convention considered 1t bounden duty to endorse Mir. Bryan and the Chicago and Kansas City plat sixteen feet bie5 5S it @ wss @ consISsSed % Wss tbs part Of virtue to be insistent Recently, however, all over the country the Demo- crats have shown a disposition to break away from the exploded theories and en-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
The Matter of Circulation.

The appended detailed statement of The Ad- vertiser's circulation for the month of June.
 This steady increase is . dattering endorse ment of The Advertisers efforts to give the people of Alabama a thoroughly live. but clean movements in each department. thus insur- inR not only a maintenance of its present circulation. which is greater than the claimed fesIre of any other two Alabama morning news papers combined, but win make new friends and subscribers each day. E,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

By a recent decision of the Supreme Court of New York that body has virtu- ally decided that a young society lady needs and must have 5000 year for her very own spending money. What is to become of those who haven't so much is left to conjecture. but they must evi- dently take a back seat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
HoRsrs w1THour rAr1s.

The Virginia newspapers fairly revel in abstrusities. What they delight in is to get up subject of which TO one knows anything, or ask a question which no one can answer. and debate it in all its real or supposed bearings. The less any one knows of the matter the more arguments they can find.
 For weeks they devoted columns to the momentous question, "Why do a rabbit wabble its nose?' and if the fate of na- tions had depended on showing why the proboscis of lepus sylvatica is in con st1nt state of agitation, it would not have been discussed with more profund- lty or more barren results. Then one of them asked. Who was Gains wife? and that set them in motion again. History. tradition and mythogenesis were raked and exhausted, but nobody yet knows the genealogy of Gains wife. As Milton wanted to
 Call up him who left half told
 The story of Cambuscan bold, so these searchers after the unknowable would have gladly called up the shade of Cain himsele and put the question direct. but they couldn't. and the mys- tery remains.
 Lately The Richmond Dispatch had Lalf-column editorial on the tails of horses. It didn't exactly ask why horse has a tail, but advanced the hypothesis that the continual shaving and clipping of this useful addition to equine anat- omy will. if persisted in, eventually de- velop Q breed of horses which will either be entirely without tails or will have nothing but a broom-handle stub
 It isn't a bad subject to speculate on Some. at least, of the evolutionists req son that when the beings now known as men were monkeys and lived altogether in trees, they needed and were supplied with long and prehensile tails with which they could suspend themselves to the limbs while their feet were otherwise en- gagged. This was convenient and neces- sary faculty in those days, but man ad- vanced ty gradual and successive stages till he not only lived entirely on the ground. but walked on his hind feet. Then he didn't need a tail and it disap- peared. Just why some monkeys are so far behind, we don't remember. Possi- ply in few million years theren be no
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

The abolition of various war taxes means falling off in Government revp nues of about $73,OOO, GOO a year. This will be relief to certain statesmen who worry themselves over plans to get rid of the surplus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch predicts that the United States will never have another President like the one we now have. May we hope that the esteemed prophecy?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

weight fell during a recent storm at Jes- sore, in Bengal. Metal veranda roofs were perforated. cattle maimed. trees beaten down and man killed outright by the downfall,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

There are six South Carolina statesmen who are after Senator McLaurin's place, and they are already making canvass entirely in harmony with the weather. having reached the stage where they hand the lie out to each other with cheer full inconsequence. As they warm up to their work, they will be likely to say things real frequent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

The Sower.-"But father" replied the erring son, you know every young fel- low has to SOW his wild oats" Yes an swered the father, but you ought to know when you have a big enough crop in"-Ohio State Journal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

There is a species of fish in Africa. . said the returned explorer. that ire quently travels long distances overland. !"
 ''Well,'' said the listener. we ship about all the species of fish in this coun- try in the same way."-Baltimore Amer ican.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Always q Signal for Trouble.-"What started the awful row in that groun of politicians?" 'I don't know. But 1 should surmise that one of them had got ten up and suggested a scheme for har- mony. ."-Washington Star.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

According to a New York paper, if citizen of the United States. he could be naturalized as Albert E. Wettin, without any frills or tails to it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Eighty French soldiers are alleged to have deserted to the Chinese during the recent campaigns in the far East. Some were made officers in the Chinese army, but returned later to their regiments and were let off with nominal punishments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

'I don't understand" said the grocery clerk why Mir. Publico writes four cap ital xXXXs after his name. What do they mean2"
 Mean a lot" replied Uncle Jim from the cracker barrel; Ines ex-Justice of the Peace. ex-Mayor, ex-Senator, and ex- perienced in politicsr-Cincinati Com merclal-Tribune.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

ried Hey ir oss"' st to 9e[a IA coupe coupe were ma
 couldn't understand each others Ian guage," said Mrs. Gilley. And I suppose that they are unspeakably happy" com mented MT. Gilley.-Detroit Free Press
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Heavy snow storms and severe frost which have killed all their silkwor11s have ruined hundreds of peasants ir Pieve di Galore, Northeastern Italy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Budapests postmaster has invented an apparatus by which it is possible to send and receive wireless telephone messages at stations four miles apart.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

There seems to be difference of opin- ion as to whether Congress is most to blame for what it did or what 1t didn't did.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Have you any real Panama hats?'' asked the customer.
 "No." answered the truthful salesman But we have some that are just as ugly Chicago Tribune.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

Comparing Bryan with Jonah, The Norfolk Landmark succinctly remarks:
 Jonah was man who had some deli cacy about him. He didn't want to sink whole ship on account of his own troubles.
 The Nebraska statesman isn't built that way, mores the pity. He would sink deeper than ever plummet sounded' rather than have 1t sail under any other colors than those Drescribed by himself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

At all events. Senator Bailey is getting lot of advertising. but whether it is of kind to please him is another matter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

She-I wish were bird. He-SO you could fly to my arms? She-No; so I couldn't have the tooth ache.-Chicago News.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

When the President comes to decide on a canal route. It would be just like him to split the difference and leave out both the old schemes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
A LITTLE FUN NOW AND THEN
Bright Paragraphs to Relieve the
 Seriousness of Life.
h [ were a. bird. .

The man who desires to keep up with the times wants to go slow.-Philadelphi Record.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
MORNING NEWSPAPERS.
Their Supremacy as Advertising
 Mediums.

Total number of agate lines in morn
 ing newspapers ..........,.....,.3,9IS IS, 2SI l Total number of agate lines in even ing newspapers .................l,6l 6,47S | Excess number of lines in morning newspapers ....................2,3 30 ,SO3 |
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
Great.....
 Sacrifice Sale.

During the month of July, on account of taking stock August 1st, which closes the first years bus mess of our corporation, we will throw entire stock of Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines, etc., on the market at greatly reduced prices We will sell gOOd large size Upright Pianos for only $IS75O beautiful Organs for $55.OO and good new DrOp-Eiead Sewing Machines for only $2S.OO The usual prices of these goods are almost double We positively will sell goods cheaper during the month of July than you will be able to buy them anywhere else or any other time during this year. Consult your own interest by Investigating.
 We have the largest stock of Sheet Music and small Musical Instruments of any one in the State
 Pianos rented on purchase privileges. Tuning done on short notice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

Thirty-eight per cent. of the habitual drunkards in England are women.
 Women teachers in Prussian schools get beside free dwelling, only $175 a year to begin with. This is raised to $390 after thirty-one years of service.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-17
MUSIC.
The Kneisel Quartet.

Mr. Frederic Lamond took part in the second
concert for this season of the Knesel Quartet In
Mendessohn Hall last night He could do nothing
for the proyerbaI weather. but he did much toward
the middle number of the programme, which
Richard Strauss's sonata In E-lat major. for
pianoforte and violin. In the performance OF this
number he Joined Mr.. Knesel; and If a per-
feet piece of ensemble work lives IN the memory
of a patron or chamber music in New-York than
these two artists put 20 their credit the pcssessor
OF that memory is to he envted- Although there Is
much of the spirit of purely musical beauty in
the work. there is nothing IN It that is super
fcially obvious. and and again IL carries
the players to the verge of abysses that fairly
for the foolhardy and inexperienced All these
critical places were overcome by the happily mated
artists last night with serene ease, and without
sacrifice of tone a 1t exhi-
btion OF the highest virtuosoship both parts
an example of technical mastery permeated
through and through with common understand
ing and sympathy for the music. The sonata has
moments of exalted beauty. especially in it's slow
movement. Its sentiment is strong and manly IN
opening and closing movements. which tell of ter
restrial struggle and conquest as well as IN the
flights into the empyrean, which give distinction
to the middle portion which the others do not
possess. In this Improvisation the composer
calls 1t. there is poetizing of kind. and
of the strainng and striving. the mo-
notonous torturing OF phrase which fill up so
many pages of the other movements.
The quartets played were Schubert's In minor
and Haydn's in d nifnor. op. 76 No. 2. 1t ought to
be possible-t generally is when Mr.. Knesel and
his men play such music-to let record OF
the fact of performance all the purposes of
newspaper review. Why speak for the hundredth
time OF the technical finish of the playing of these
men, of their exquisite of euphony and
tonal balance? But last night the Schubert quartet
did not leave sense of perfect contentment. It
left unanswered a disturbing question of nterpre-
tation. Why there not brisk, energetic
tempo in the group? Why. so far sentimental
expression is concerned. did the opening Allegro
sound more placid than the Andante which followed
it? Why all the pretty. teasing hunor which
have always fancied to be in the characteristic
figure of the minuet sacrificed to the notion that
movement marked minuetto must always be taken
in the suavely undulating tempo of the queenly old
dance? Beethoven certainly left nothing of such
conception except debris. Would it be wrong to
sprinkle bit of paprka the finale? Schubert
had Hungarian longings at times The quartet is
somewhat monotonous in mood: of that there can
be no doubt. Why not do bit Of violence to it-for
its own salvation? Il is too beautiful to lose
New-York tribune., 1902-12-17
FARO MIST GO.


At least three things with regard to Richard
Garfield are certain beyond dispute. He is a
professional gambler: he has been profes
sional gambler for long time; for many years
he has kept faro banks in Newly York. Newport
and Saratoga. Any attempt on his part to
make trouble for District Attorney Jerome or
the Police Department both will surely
suit in more trouble for Garfield than for any
one else His well known faro bank in New
York was broken into. that is true. But is a
customary, persistent violator of the laws of
New-York and Rhode island entitled to rever-
ence and Difference and immunity?
1t will undoubtedly be the wisest policy for
Mr. Canfield to lie low and not to attempt to
make fuss. 1t will be i'll advised course
on his part if he spends a great deal of money
on lawyers. who are likely to land him in 4
worse uuicksand than that in which he is
foundering. If he tries to fight grand juries
and trial juries and public prosecutors and
criminal courts. he may be driven out of New
port and Saratoga, and later may find himself
IN Sing Sing Professional gamblers of the
Canfield type may be convinced sooner or later
that it is more prudent to run away than to
fight the forces of the law Dozens OF wit
nesses testify oath that Garfield is at
New-York tribune., 1902-12-17
AT THE WHITE HOUSE..

Washington. Dec. 1s (SpeciaD.-Foreisn reiatiohS'
2other than those with Cuba. had scarcely me-
than incidental discussion at the CABINET hieeNe
to-day. There were developments III .,o
Venezuelan situation to consider seriously, asiue
from comment on the outlook, whlch, II 10 nv"
hoped has taken a favorable turn MOST oi the
time of the meeting given TO the CuoAii ieOi
procity treaty which General Bliss had just oelis
cred and about the terms of which much sratiii-
cation was expressed. The arr lnsement met with
complete approval and will be hurried before Con
gIess for ratification.
In the course of the morning secretary fNoo'
icfned the President and Senator Proctor chairIi"i
the Senate Committee Military AIIairs' ,di, aHu
Representatives Hull and Dick. OF the fiousee
tary Committee and canvassed the eSSSIluaI a.
III es the Militia bill, which an asreeinSsnt ~ ~
tv cen the two is expected soor after the
holiday recess. e.o-
Among the other callers to-day were sena.9r Iand1
Burrows. Representatives W. A smith ana Moouy
ard Joaquin Miller with John P lr1sh OF CaiioF-
ria. - ,,, .s..
The President dinner tonight His ist, guests
were the Secretary of the Navy, Senat aIiiSoll'
Senator Hale, Senator Gallinger. Senator FerknlS.
Senator Hanna Speaker Henderson, Representative
C1rosvenOr REPRESENTATIVE Dal2eil, RepreSentaI1V
Cannon. Representative Foss, Representative Day
ton and General Crenville NJ. Dodge
Mrs Roosevelt received feT' personal frlends at
o'clock this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-17

ingly reduce the annual tax. On the SURFACE
this looks like paying running expenses by
bond issue but it is in reality only means OF
preventing the levy of an excessive tax Ihe
present revenue of the city from taxes ana III
come is larger than its needs, and the change
IN the law would only readJust the system so
that the taxpayers of the present day couio
have their fair share Of the benefits OF their
revenue producing property
At present the development Of such properly
is discouraged If we improve the docks TO
make them earn more we must pay for the I'M
provement by increased present taxation, Whle
the increased earnings will all go into swollen
sinking fund to be of no benefit to the taxpay-
ers until 1929. Thus we are not merely paying
our own bills, but piling up huge surplus for
posterity. II the change can be made the TAX
rate will be materially lowered, the develop
ment of income from franchises will be encour-
aged, and the city's credit will still be on per-
fectly sound basis Men of all parties familiar
with the citys finances, including ex-Control-
Iers Green, Myers and Coler, ex-Mayors Grace,
Hewitt and Gilroy eX-COrporation Counsel
Whalen, as we'll as leading bankers and law
yers agree on the wisdom of tie plan, and 1t
looks as il an important reform OF speedy
benefit to the taxpayers might soon be accom-
I1lished
New-York tribune., 1902-12-17
TRENTON CHEAP CHINA"

There is wall in Staffordshire, Eve are
ruined by Trenton cheap china" wherefore
the potters of that region propose TO go for
their Yankee competitors in vigorous fashion
They propose to do what some OF them call
taking leaf out of the American book, though.
In fact, the leaf is one which Americans hrst
took out of the English book. That is COM
bnation. A trust is being formed. Some
thirty or more Of the largest potteries in the
Staffordshire region are pooling their issues
in a campaign against their American competl-
tors They declaring war against trenton.
We have not heard of any consequent panic IN
the city upon the Delaware. and we do not
anticipate one But the incident is worthy OF
passing notice as a sign of the times
1t is now about fOurscore years since Sydney
Smith in one of his most famous edinburgh
Review" articles rhetorically and somewhat
sneeringly wanted to know who, in all the four
quarters of the globe, drank from American
glasses or ate from American plates. The an
swer NAV be late but 1t has arrived. For
considerable time people all over the world
who have wanted to drink from the best glasses
have had to drink from American glasses. The
time has also come when q large and steadily
increasing part of the world eats from Amerl-
can plates. American potteres have become
an important factor not only in America, but
In the world at large The potters of Stafford
shire are experiencing only what has been ex-
perienced by the stanneries of Wales and the
wooIen mills of Yorkshire and the cutters of
Sheffield and innumerable other Industries all
over the United Kingdom, and, indeed, all over
the world.
The Stafordshire complaint and attack are
directed specifically against Trenton cheap
china" 1t may be that the competition OF
American manufacturers is keenly felt in the
less expensive grades of pottery. That is
probable. It may be that Staffordshire potters
would like to create the impression that Amer
lean china is all cheap stuff. That is conceiv-
able but II will scarcely be successful. Trenton
does prodIce a great deal of plain and mex
pensive ware. That is natural, since there is
more demand for such ware in all parts of the
world than for the choicer and costler grades.
But Trenton produces. too, some particularly
fine and artistic grades of china, worthy to
rank and able TO compete with some of those
upon which Staffordshre prides itself, and with
those sent forth from French and German and
Austrian kilns. 1t is Trenton fine china as we'll
as Trenton cheap china with which Stafford
shire finds itself confronted.