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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-30

carpethag rule for ten years. lifted our Southland from the ashes of despair and placed 1t on the high road to prosperity and happiness forms another and more heroic chapter in the history of his achievements.
 Reunion of 1st Alabama at Shelby
 Springs, Ala.
 About twenty survivors of the regiment met with Col I. c. W Steedman in the dining hall at Shelby Springs. Ala. July 16 1898 and organized under the title of The Association of Survivors of the .rst Regiment, Alabama Volunteers. c. S. A" Col. I. G. W. Steedman was chosen President; E. Y. McMorries, Vlce-President; J. M. Thornton, Secre- tary: Samuel R. Wheeler, Treasurer
 To those who attended, 1t was truly "a feast of reason and flow of soul' thus to mingle with our immediate comrades of the mighty past recount the scenes of our sufferings. achievements. and disap- pointments, and enjoy the presence of our honored and distinguished command CT. It was a memorable occasion in the history of the regiment. We all marked that in Colonel Steedman the asperity of the military man had disappeared, and that In its stead a high and noble na- ture had been mellowed by age into one of decided sociability and strongest sym pathy. A comrade remarked: Tn the army I always greatly admired Colonel Steedman as an officer but now I love him Those who did not attend this re- union can form no conception of Col onel Steedman's intense fondness for the members of his old Regiment. The night we organized he read to us. while tears chased each other rapidly down his cheeks. accounts of our dead buried in the Confederate Cemetery al Madison. Wis. and other Northern prisons. He greatly appreciated the coming of com rades to meet him, and especially of the comrade who had come thirty miles from Tallapoosa County in a wagon with his family. To him he gave an engraved portrait of himself on parting.
 Gn the foregoing sketch the writer begs | to thank The Advertiser for its excel lent mechanical execution; Hon. Thos NJ. Owen. Director of Archives and His tory, for preparation for the press and judicious arrangement of topics, and the public at large for the great interest, as attested by numerous private letters, and some even from strangers. with which the sketch has been reada
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have dwindled to the Noah's arks of the toy stores and the great hotels are dwarfed into cottages.
 What a place for meditation. The grandeur of the mountains is indescrib- able, and you can appreciate the feeling of the cowboy who, coming into Switz- erland at night, awoke to find himself surrounded by these mighty hills. He gazed and gazed, with tears in his eyes, and at last threw up bis hat and in stem torian tones cried out, "Hurrah for God."
 What the Alps Do for Europe.
 The Alps have a beauty of their own which in many respects surpasses that of the Himalayas or the Andes, although the latter ranges are more stupendous in their grandeur It is only the tops of the Alps that are bleak and bare. The val leys are covered with verdure. and there are nests everywhere in the hills good for pastures and gardens. These noun tains are of incalculable value to Flu rope. Bleak and bare as the tops look, 1t is this very cold, evidenced by the snow upon them, which Squeezes the rain from the winds, and through the Rhine, the Rhone, the Danube and the Pc gives Germany, Austria, France and Italy the water that makes their lands tillable. It Is the Alps which furnish the water for the great river trade routes of Europe and which indirectly have made this con tinent the most civilized and best part of the world.
 Peddled sublimity..
 The chief blot on the beauty of the Alps is the Swiss tendency to turn every rock and view and every cubic foot of ozone over to the traveller at so much per min ute. The sublimity in Gods mountains Is peddled out for a consideration. There Is not a beautiful view unmarred. Every place has its hotel On the very noun tain tops you find men selling alpenstocks and picture postal cards On the Rigi was offered a genuine St. Bernards pup py, and was shown kennels in which the Swiss raise them to make money, out of the legend that they sometimes rescue lost tourists. As for that however, learn that the St. Bernard dogs have long since lost their job. The various hospioes kept by the monks are now connected with all parts of the noun tains by telephones, and the lost party is easily found by 'he trackers going from post to post.
 On the top of the Rigi Is a big hotel, the Rigi-kulm, where you can get din- ner for a dollar and full board for about 8 a day, and there are other hotels scat tered from the bottom all the way to the top. If you go to sleep at the top you will hear the toot of an Alpine horn a half hour before sunrise, waking you up for the view, and throughout the day piper plays to the tourists and comes around and pokes his tin collection plate under your nose for pennies. At every step you meet pretty Swiss girl In white cap, who inveigles you into buying nrassed flowers and edelweis, and the picture postal woman has her stand at every beautiful point. with half-tone re- productions of the same. which she of- ,ers you for cents apiece.
 A Big Business in Postal Cards. Indeed, the postal card business is fast ,ecoaling an important one all over Flu ope. There are thousands of stores on he continent which sell nothing else,
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15o extra large CoMFonrs, sold
 regular at $2.oo, for Monday SPA s2.25 COMFORTS, for Monday $1.34 $500 COMFORTS, for Monday $1.e4 s1.e5 BLANKETS, full 11-4. .esc $1.5o BLANKETS, full 11:4. .esc s2.25 BLANKETS, full 11-4. .$1.3s S4.oo all wool BLANKETS. .$2.es 25 pieces French and Embroidered
 WASTING FLANNELS, worth
 75c., for Monday =. .... ....Sec IS pieces 52 inch LADIES' CLOTH,
 in high colors, worth $1.oo a yard,
 for Monday. ... ........ ..4Ac One case extra heavy TEAsLE
 DOWN OUTING, also SAVOY
 FLANNELETTEs, all colors, regu-
 lar 12 1-2c. quality, for Mon
 day .. .... .. ....''' 'oc 2bo Ladies' and Misses 27-inch
 KERsEY JACKETS, black, navy,
 castor. tan and garnet, guaranted
 skinner satin lined, fully worth
 $12.50 to $14.oo, for Mondays
 sale .. .. =. .. ...... ..$6.T4 100 KERsEY JACKETS, black,
 navy, garnet and castor, sold any
 where at $7.oo to $500, for Mon
 day .> .. .. ......... .S4.0S 100 Beaver, Kersey and Melton three
 quarter JACKETS, worth $500, for Monday .. .. .$S.so 100 ladies' three-quarter Jackets, all
 new styles, light colors, for Mon
 day. .. ..'.'' .%~'4o 100 extra fine KERsEY KEEPERS,
 navy and garnet, worth $2'o0, for Monday ....... .ooc 75 WALKING SKIRTS. black,
 navy and gray melton, made in the
 very latest styles, worth $b for Monday. ..'... '''' 'pS'oo Another lot navy blue slot seam
 WALKING SKIRT, worth $7.oo,
 for Monday .... .... $S.4o
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fcontinued from Page Thirteen.)
 route from Corinth to North Carolina were devastation, ruin. and crushed hopes. Still. with a sublime faith in our cause akin to inspir 1tion, we were not at all affected by these facts. and could not entertain for a moment the thought that our banner would go down in defeat. This feeling in the army was not at this time fully shared by the people at home.
 Our regiment was detained two weeks at Augusta, Ga, until 1t could be re- cruited by the return of our sick and barefooted. We left Augusta March End, and joined Johnston's Army March 14th, and on the 16th took part in the battle of Averysboro, in which our regiment escaped loss. On the 18th 1t participated in the last battle of the Army of Ten nessee at Bentonvilie, N. C., where It formed part of the charging force that stormed the Federal lines and drove them in confusion half a mile. In this last battle several of the regiment were killed and woudned. among the former being Lientenant Williamson of Company c, Guards of the Sunny south.>
 Thus the glorious old First" that had been the first to take up arms in de- fense of their rights and homes, left some of It's best life's-blood on its last battlefield. having nowhere at any time ever failed of its duty. and having re- ceived special mention for commendable conduct in the official report of every commander under whom 1t had served an imperishable honor to every one Of its members and to their descendants for- ever.
 While on one point I cannot speak au- thoritatively for other companies or the regiment, I may be permitted to speak of hny own (Perote Guards). and from this the reader may judge the others. A muster roll of the company recently com piled d9o2) by the survivors, shows ls7 men. Not one of these eyer deserted. put a substitute in his place. or at- tempted to evade the Confederate service by exemption laws or by any other means. All except the few that lived to return home are on the battlef1elds and in the Confederate cemeteries of the North. And this. too, when most mem bers of the company were sons of per- sons of ample means, who could have easily secured their freedom from ser vice.
 Final Surrender of Army.
 On the 27th of April, 1865, the regiment was surrendered by Johnston to Sherman at Greensboro. N. C., paroled. and the men immediately set out on foot to their respective homes, which some did not reach until July
 How this same Confederate soldier. re- turning with blasted hopes to homes Of Restitution and Gesolation, and despite
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 passageway through the ce1fer. witl doors at each end. The seats. of the sec ond-class are upholstered In velvet; the, are clean and comfortable, The window. are in brass frames. and they can b, dropped down out of sight when you wish to look out. The express trains have din. ing cars, called wagon restauran nts and the dining car porter comes through and calls out that dinner is ready fir French, English and German. The Swiss roads are well ballasted. and we'll kept The tracks are watched for avalanches and landslides. and at every crossing stands bareheaded girl. with a red fiag to warn all that the train is coming. At every station you find from a dozen to score of hotel porters. in livery. each bearing the name of his hotel on his cap.
 Up the Rigi by Rail.
 These notes are written at Lucerne, un- ger the shadow of the Pilatus and the Risl. l went across the lake to yitzau the other day and took a ride to the ton or Mount Rigi on one of the first of Switzerland's mountain lines It is built on the same principle as that up Pike's s reA. The cars are open. and they are pyshed by little engine behind.
 Ine views are magnificent. There are no sides to the cars and you rise slowly above Lake Lucerne, which flows in and out like a mighty river through the mountains you are climbing Now the view is hidden by trees, tall, lean ma aples wall the sides of the tracks and the banks are covered with dandelions daisies and red clover
 Higher up the lake view widens. moun- tainous islands rise out of the water like green monsters rearing their heads Mount P1latus comes into view. Its sides are gray and hoary and the snow in it's crevices marks the wrinkles in its with cred old face. You crawl along rayines with precipices hundreds of feet below you.
 The View from Rigi.
 The snowy range of the Alps broadens as you go upward, and at last you reach the top, with one of the most beautiful views of the world spread out before vou Just below Is the Lake of the Four Can tons' With score of Swiss cities and you, walling the horizon, are the mighty Alps giving you a view of mountain grandeur at least 12O miles long. The peaks Of the Alps are covered with snow ana the snow lies in drifts and masses Tn the rocks. In places 1t has formed mighty glaciers great rivers of jce which are slowly but impercebtiy flowing to- ward the valleys below. Ytn are so biyb that everything Is dwarfed. The steam CTS upon the lakes look like toy boats the barns and houses of the nessant,
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and in Switzerland you canot travei nve miles without seeing a postal card stand. Postal cards are sold at the railroad sta tions. at the drinking places, at every ihotel and restaurant and even in the sostofi1ees themselves.
 mean by this there are stands In the potoff1ces. separate and apart from the stahp windows, whicn sell cards bear ing Hctures upon which you must put an additional stamp before they can go. Such tards' are found in all the depart ment Sores at reduced prices. and boys and mel peddle them about the streets. In Geneta I saw woman pushing cart which was loaded with such cards, and while eating my dinner at restaurants outside the hotel I frequently have man drop down e package of cards on the table. telling me to look them over and see if ' don't want to buy.
 These carcs have half-tone engraungs of the public buildings and views of the vicinity. Some bear the coat of arms of the town. as in Berne, where the bear Is the mascot for everything. Some. beautifully colored, represent the types and costumes of the neighborhood. Oth- CTS are comic. and some are fancifuIly artistic. Some, especially those of France and Germany, are indecent, and ok ouSA d tIldt tHcy WOuiu uot pass through our mails. but others are as beautiful as chromos and suitable for framing. The cards sell from to 10 cents. Some are In sets and others sin gle. Such cards are now made in every country, and you can buy German, Eng hsh. French and Italian cards almost everywhere. The most of the cards have little more than a place for the stamp and address upon them, the other side being given up to a picture, with only room for one or two lines in writing. The card saves the trouble of writing letters to your friends and at the same time en- ables you to show that you remember them.
 A Source of Government Revenue.
 l have said that the business is a big enc. It brings the Government of Switz- erland more than a half million dollars a year in extra stamps. The country uses about 40,000.000 postal cards for in ternal communications and 15,000.U for the foreign mails. This, at cents apiece, brings in an annual revenue of sa1oCOo. and the car Is sell for at least that much more. The people here use more postal cards in proportion to their number than any other nation of Europe.
 A Government as Express Com pany
 and Bankers.
 Switzerland has as good a postal ser vice as you will find anywhere. It has about 16,O00 postoffices and about 2000 letter boxes. and 1t delivers mail to the very top of tho Alps. The postal service does many things that our officials would not think of doing. It acts as banker and express company for the people. It will collect your bills for you and bring the money to the house. If you live in Switzerland and a man owes you, say. g, all you have to do Is to send him
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"LYNcH LAW"
How and When the Term Originated

How and When the Term OrlSlnAteo' Charlotte (N. O Observer
 Readers may. perhaps, remember , tne story published in the Observer of how Mrs. John H. D. Drake of Nash County saved her family from the ferocious at- tack of Tory Major Beard by the judic- ious use of jug of old Nash brandy. They will recall that Major Beard was wal, hareed in Franklin County. According 10 Wheeler, this incident resulted in the introduction into our language Of word now in the vocabulary of every man-no other than the word iy1ch h-or tne e1- o- cept Wheeler's authority on this point the word owes its origin to the followine circumstances: After Beards capture ne was taken to the camp of Colonel Sea Franklin County. A drSmhead, court, martial was at once organized and Beard brought before It. As they proceeoeo 10 trial some one brought in the report that a large band of Tories were on tneir thrown into a panic. and. after a nasty Consultation. decided to swing Beard without trial This was accordngIy done. Soon after more autnenuc news came that the reported pursuit was a fake and the members of the court-mar- tial recovered their presence Of nina With this restored calmness came tne suggestion that Boards execution pelns carried out DeIore JuuBHioht' "oS In order to ease the tender consciences of the judges, the court was re-organiSed' the body cut down, the trial proceeded, the prIsoner condemned. judged, and. no doubt much to his satisfaction. rehung. The tree on which the body was hung stood on the bank of Lynch Creek. and it soon became common saying in the county round about when person was accused of crime. that he ought to be taken to Lynch Creek" Hence the term lynch law" For the sake of accuracy, we may note here that Webster's Una: hridged Dictionary says this in regard 10 the origin of the term: "The term
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a bill for the amount In a sealed letter with a word or two to the postofice on the outside of the envelope, and in addi- ton ? cent stamp. This stamp pays the postoffice for it's trouble in collecting and delivering the money to you. The charge is 1 per cent. of the amount col lected. If the bill is $10, you pay 10 cents, and if $50. 50 cents. and for this the money will be collected in any part of Switzerland. If payment is refused. however, the Government will not en- force the collection.
 Chickens and Turkeys by Mail.
 After the same manner all sorts of goods are sent out C. O. D. by the stores and farmers. You can order goods of any store in Switzerland, and the post man will bring you the package and send back the money. Farmers forward their butter and chickens through the mails, and I know of two American Con- suls who thus ordered live turkeys, chick ems and ducks. Consul Liberknecht of Zurich got his last years Thanksgiving turkey from Austria through the malls and sent back the money in the same way, and Consul Frankenthal gets all are shipped through the postoffice and the postmen bring the live fowls to his door and returns the money to the Hun garian farmers who raise them. If tnls could be done hy our postoflces what an opening it would give to the American ia mer in the direct sale of his products to the consumers.
 Frank c. Carpenter.
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STAPLES. Only ten yards to a customer.
 Full Yard Wide SEA ISLAND,
10 yards for 44c.

One case fine quality APRON GING-
 HAMS, for Monday, 10 yards for ...... .... .oee Ono case NO NAME BLEACHING,
 full yard wide, for Monday, 10
 yards for .. ......... .49c 100 GROSS PEARL BUTTONS, all sizes for Monday only. .4c. dczen. One case 32 and 36-inch PERCALE,
 the 12 1-2c quality, guaranteed
 fast colors, for Monday ....5 7-6c 40 dozen Ladies' and Misses UNION
 SUITS, silk taped neck, worth soc,
 for Monday, a suit ....@4c 50 dozen Ladies' fleece back. s'lk
 taped VESTS and PANTS, fully
 worth $1.oO a suit, for Monday
 46c a suit or each ......... FAC 50 dozen all wool Jersey ribbed
 VESTS and PANTS, nonshrinkable
 worth $1.oO a garment, for Mon
 day 9Sc suit or each. ...... .4ec 10 dozen TEAsLEDoWN DRESSING SACQUES, for Monday .. =. .4ec Ladies' TEAsLEDowN GOWNS, extra heavy, worth $1.25, for Mon
 day .......... 'fSc French and Embroidered FLANNEL WAISTS; a sample line, worth $4.o0 to 85.oo, for Monday. .$2.3e FRENCH FLANNEL WAISTS, reg ular $500 quality, for Mon- day. ... ..... .$I.eo 100 Children's KEEPERS, worth Al n0 fnr Monday .49c
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Montgomery Light
 and Power Co.,,
 Ioi 1IBB STREET, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
TO OUR PATRONS:

TO OUR PAlRONS:
 On the first day of November, 1902, this Company reduced the price of Illuminating Gas to $I.o2 per thousand cubic feet, and Fuel Gas to $I .o8 thousand cubicfeet. These prices are net and no discount will be! allowed on current bills.
 We mail a card, on the first day of each month, to our patrons outside of the business district, showing the amount due the Company, and the amount on these cards will not be subject to discount.
 All bills are due and payable on the first day of each month, and if not paid by the 10th the Company re- serves the right to discontinue the service and impose fine of one dol- lar, which must be paid before gas will be turned on again.
 The above rule will be strictly en- forced and we urge upon our patrons the prompt payment of their bills.
 Yours truly, < -.
 Montgomery Light and Power Co.
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Boy Cured of Collie After Physicians
 Treatment Had Failed.

My boy when four years old was taken with collie and cramps III his stomach. sent for the doctor and he injected mor- phine but the child kept getting worse then gave him half a teaspoonful ol Chamberlain's' Collie. Cholera and DIar- rhoea Remedy. and in half an hour he was sleeping and soon recovered.-F. L. Wilkins. Shell Lake. Wis. Mfr. Wilkins Is bookkeeper for the Shell Lake Lum- Der Co. For sale by E. C. Fowler. Drug glst -aoV'
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A Sure Cure for Diarrhoea.

Coming, as 1t does. in the busiest sea- son, when a man can least afford to lose time, a sure and quick cure for diarrhoea Is very diserable. Anyone who has Kive,Y it a trial will tell you that the quickest. surest and most pleasant remedy In use for this disease is Chamberlain's Collie Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. There is no loss of time when 1t Is used, as one or two doses of 1t will cure any ordinary attack It never fails. not even. in the most severe and dangerous cases. For sale by E. G. Fowler. Druggist adv
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lynch law Is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch who took the law in his own hands. But this is very dent was related to him by the Hon. B.
 F. Moore. who had the story from the Drake family. It is by no means inn
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Poetic Justice in South Africa

PIttsburg Dispatch.
 Mining sha res on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange have slumped heavily within a few days and The London Mail believes the drop was manipulated by the mine owners in an attempt to dis suade the imperial government from its purpose of making the Rand pay a large share of the cost of the war. This levy mates range from $250. .0Oo, 900 to $500, ,o0o 900. Whatever may be thought of the states manship which would tax the only really loyal section of South Africa into alien ation there is a certain poetic justice In it. The miners of the Witwatersrand. the outlanders of Johannesburg and their financial supporters at home were the insttgators of the war.
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Ardmore I, T.. Nov. 2S.-The cotton gin of O Brien & Byrd at Long Grove was totally destroyed by fire. Loss $S00Oo. full ly insured. The origin of the fire is un- QnoWn.
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Blankets and Comforts.

stock here that will drive competition mad and at prices that will make you buy No need to look further because know you'll back after making compari- will pay you to early before the best ones sold. Some exceptional bargains here.
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For the serious diseases that attack the kidneys, Prickly Ash Bitters Is an unfailing remedy. Relieves backache, swelling of the feet and persistent head aches-symptoms which indicate kidney trouble. adv-su-wed-frt.
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If a man knew what his acquaintances really thought of him he would go away somewhere and do the hermit act.
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As to Trimmed Hats

The continued and increased business has made neces- sary keep Millinery stock full and complete We we'll prepared trim hat today upon the autumna opening days Many of customers await the approach the holidays before buying their winter hats, and to such say well prepared fill every want and aste
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Peau de SOie and Taffeta Waists.

SO Taeta Silk Waists nicely assorted colors, worth "A
 $3.oo for Monday 0ls r 3s extra fine Tafeta Silk Waists, in black; also CD 40
 high colors, worth $4. 50, for Monday~-~~---0ZsfO 12s Peau de Soie and Taea Wasts the latest out in all
 coors and black, sold anywhere at $7 100 to e9 co
 $Io. co, for Monday - WVBVO 200 Chdrens Eiderdown Sample Cloaks all wool very
 fine quality, worth from $7 to $4 for Monday, @f 20 100 Sample Black and White Snowflake Walking Skirts, slot strapped seams, sold anywhere C9 20
 at $o, for Monday. ........................ VUIUJ