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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-11-08
Jas. II. Farrell, Prominent Chicago
rIan.

James A. Farrell.of Chicago is one
of the best known figures in the Dem
ocrat politics of that city. For years
he has been Marshal of the famous
Cook County Democracy Marching
Club, which has participated in Dem
ocratic campaigns in half the states of
the union, and which went to New
York especially to assist in the election
OF Mayor Van Wyck.
Capt. Farrell is the Oldest member
Of the Illinois House Of Representa-
tives in point Of service having been a
member continuously since 1887. His
constituents have elected him eight
times. He has been leader in that
body from the beginning Of his career
and is one of the best known figures
in Illinois politics.
Capt. Farrell is 50 years Of age and
one of the best preserved men for his
years in the Illinois Legislature, des-
pite his arduous ard constant duties
in that body. Mr.. Farrell is engaged
in the real estate business in Chicago.
Under date of March Il. 1901, he
writes as follows:
Springfield, Ill
PEPsIN SYRUP Co., Monticello, Ill.
Manufacturers DR.. Caldwell's Syrur
Pepsin.
GENTLEMAN: I have found after a
thorough trial that your Syrup Pepsin
is a most excellent and successful
remedy for Dyspepsia. Biliousness and
Sick Headache. 1t is most effective
and pleasing in all cases Of this nature
and it is with pleasure that I recon-
| mend if to others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
THE ADMINISTRATION FORCES
Will Defeat Any Legislation in Be-
 half of Admiral Schley.

Washington Special to N. O. Picayune.
 Present indications, are that not one of the many Schley resolutions that have been introduced in the House will be re ported from the Committee on Naval Affairs. Chairman Foss and the Repuh- iicans of the Committee. it is reported, have received a hint from the White House that 1t will he useless to enact any Legislation of this kind. because 1t will not he approved by the executive.
 Not all of the members of the Commit tee are willing to submit to this course, but they have been informed that 1t would be impolitic for them to press the matter to an issue, as circumstances would oblige the majority to defeat any plan to report favorablv a SchlcY' rcso- lItion, which would. of course, he an- other thrust at Admiral Schley
 Representative Cummings Is anxious to force the matter. but thoroughly realizes the situation. and knows that the friends of Admiral Schley are in an urcomfort- able position,
 Meanwhile the Maryland delegation m Congress. the entire membership of which is Republican, is in a sorry predicamcnt. rreir constituents are not only urging. but demanding in tones which command attention that Congress shall take some action, at least to tender Admiral Schley a vote of thanks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
PLEDGED TO HANNA.
Why Men on His Road Did Not Join
 Cleveland Strike.

Senator Hanna, who has just been elected Chairman of the Civic Federation Consolidation Committee. is one of the largest employees of labor in Cleveland. and never had any trouble with his men In his various enterprises, says The New York Tribune. He came near having a him. Duing the big. street railway strike In that city in' the summer of 1897 Hanna was restless. The strike was on the other system, the Big Consolidated. Consolidated. of which he Is President. would go out through sympathy. He had previously made up his mind to go to Europe that summer. and calling his superintendent, Mulhern, he said:
 George. 1 want to go to Europe the worst way. but if you think there is going to. be trouble on the railroad I'll stay at home"
 Mulhern went among the men and ac- uuaipted them with Hanna's fears The men appointed committee and called
 Senator" the spokesman, said 'we understand you are afraid to go to Eu- rope because you think we may go on strike. We pledge you our word and honor that there will be no strike on the
 Boys. I'll, take your word for it," the next steamer for Europe, and feel easy
 In telling. this story Superintendent Mulhern said:
 T feel convinced that if Senator Hanna had not gone to Europe he would not committee and the strike would have extended to our lines. All kinds of pres- . sure was brought to bear to cause our men to weaken. but they merely said they had given their word to the old man and that they meant to keep it. Hanna felt so confident that the men once during that long strike did he cable or write for information"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
An Educational Result.

Brooklyn Eagle
 In November, 1900. the vote on the Con gressional ticket in the Seventh District of this State was as follows:
 Nicholas Muller Democrat. ........... 6.933 John O'Beirnc Republican. ........... ,2Oo Democratic majority ................... 3.72S
 On Tuesday, at the special election to fill vacancy caused by Mullers reslg- nation. the vote was:
 Montague Lessler. Republican........7 76l7 Perry Belmont, Democrat ............ 7.2S3 Lessler over Belmont. s9i
 The foregoing figures indicate a tenn porary transfer of thousands of votes from the Democratic to the Republican side. The voters of that District have not changed from Democracy to Repub- licanism. They have changed the rep resentation of their district in Congress from Democracy to Republicanism be- cause they resented the Democrat pro- posed to their suffrages. Not political revolution. but a public revulsion, eX- plains and is attested by Tuesdays vote. The facts, causing that revulsion, con- stituted challenge which the people accepted. It Is risky politics to chal- lenge the resentment of 2 constituency The result is generally educational. It was in this instance. It will also prove vigorously healthy everywhere.
 Columns could be wrtten-and vast aa ito show how this assembly district and that one fell short" or how this lead . CT" or that one played false. All that sort of thing shrivels to uselessness when brought up against the undissuisable fact that the Democratic candidate stalk ed political regularity. personal audaci- ty and financial resources against a moral vulnerability, which was at once a fatality and a defiance, and he lost. It was that vulnerability which put him at the mercy both of better and of worse men than himself and made home and heart hetoOe Campaign against him as cannot be put out of sight under any amount of talk or writing about political or factional division. Nominations which make opposition in any form wear the reality or the appearance of morak duty and whi .h equip that opposition with the fierceneSs If moral enthusiasm are nomi- nations that ought not to he made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
A YANKEE IN GEORGIA.

In a recent issue of The Manchester (N. H.) Union we find letter to that paper from Atlanta. The writer is a Northern man who has spent a year travelling over the State of, Georgia, coming into con- tact with all classes of Southern people, and he tells his Yankee friends very plainly that they are totally incompetent to understand the negro or the Southern people unless they come here and live among them. It is very evident from the reading of his letter that he has learned that he knew very little about the matter until he came and saw. for himself, and it is equally plain that his ideas about the race question are in the main the same as those held by those who were born here. We append the concluding portion of his letter to show what he thinks of the negroes and their future:
 In the South the negro is expected to keep his place, and there the white man must also keep his place, and not be- yond a certain limit infringe the rights and privileges of the negroes. On each and every railroad train in Georgia there are separate compartments for the races, and d white man is no more allowed in black coach than is colored man in a coach of whites. The higher education and cultural advancement of the negro race will not break down these barriers, but will strengthen them, and if in time they become the equal of the white race they will stand on an equal with them, but with social barrier between them stI onger than ever. And let me say too that it is not the whites that are keeping the negroes down to their present level half much as the negroes themselves, who refuse to let the more intellectual of their race lead them. Booker Wash ington is doing good thing for his peo- pie but l. is not from his people that he receives his praise and encouragement, but rather the reverse. It is not possible that race which is but few genera tions removed from savagery should in that time have become the equal in any respect of a race in which the civilizing influences have been at work for thou sands of years. Natural evolution is as slow process when measured by a man s life time, and the uplifting of the negro race is to be accomplished by natural rather than artificial means. And the moral of all this Is that for the sake of peace on earth the Northern people allow their Southern brothers to work out in their own way problems which concern them alone. and of which their Northern neighbors know nothing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
MIND AND MATTER AGAIN.

In order to give all sides nearing The Advertiser prints in another place a letter from a gentleman who Is not in full accord with a little skit which ap- peared in our editorial columns a few theories were treated with somewhat scant reverence. In fact we have utterly failed to be impressed with Mrs. Eddy, but we do not propose to go into any discussion of her or her wild claims, and only publish and refer to this letter be- cause or the evident sincerity of the writer.
 Of course we admit that mind has an influence over matter to certain ex- tent. We have known men to believe themselves rich as Vanderbilt when they actually didn't have the price of another drink If that wasn't mind influencing matter we are away off. As to the statement that no intelligent physician will claim that there Is any pain apart from mind we must beg leave to differ, though we don t pretend to know just what all the doctors really believe. That theory would preclude the idea that animals ever suffer pain. They have but if they don't have pains they act queerly at times, for fact.
 Neither do we admit that the nerves must notify the brain before any pain can exist. The pain Is there and the nerves, acting like telegraph wires, tell ,ly occurs on a railroad it is an actual fact and would be fact if there was no such thing as a telegraph. The wires carry a message to the superintendent and tell him where the wreck is, but the wreck has occurred and the damage has been do with it. If a mar jams his fingers in the door the nerves doubtless inform him that it was his fingers and not his toes that were injured. but we contend that his digits would hurt if he mad no more brains than a saw-horse.
 When our correspondent rings in the boil business he strikes familiar sub ject, but does he want us to think that the nerves must be continually at work to tell us that the boil is hurting? If that is required of them they would be the worst overworked portions of the human anatomy. No use telling us about d boil. for it hurts all the time.
 And the assertion of our correspondent that morphine. for example, would have no effect on pain unless it had first an effect on the mind s all bosh, to speak plainly No physician with suf- ticient medical knowledge to treat q sick kitten would endeavor to save d suffer- ing patients life by telling him there was nothing the matter with him, or by telling him that he was administering a reliable remedy when he was really giv- ing clear water or a pinch of flour Doc tors who have any knowledge of their business dU not conhne their operations to the minds of the sick or suffering, nor do they expect to cure a disease by mind practice.
 But there Is one sentence in our corres- pondents letter that we thoroughly en- dorse. "To have full control oyer all your pains and aches and sickness" he says, 'is simply to know the power with in yourself to control them" etc. That's g a dead easy proposition. the only obstacle being that no one knows that he has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
Mnnicinal owneship Test.

Columbus. Ohio. has had queer eXpe- riencc in municipal ow nership. judging by the report which Director Kauftm in has made with reference to the gas plant there. The gas plant was owned by the city, but was unable to compete with the private plants. This is what MT. Kaut- man says in q report recently issued:
 Tn consequence of the action of the Council Committee and the. Tax Commits sion. who. in 1899 Formulated the levy for 1900 no appropriation was made for the operation of the municipal light plaIt and the gas and light lew was not sutti- cient to pay for the lights maintained under a contract made in 1896. even with the number of lights reduced to the min imunt of the contract. This fact was communicated to the Council very early in the year, and they were requested to take some action in the matter ana ad-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
Letters to The Editor.
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Alabama Should Be Represented.

AAdphud SAouAo 0c CPAcScheSo
 Auburn. Ala, Jan.f 6. 1902 Editor The Advertiser:
 I was much pleased to note your short editorial in a recent issue, in reference to an appropriation for the Charleston Exposition. l trust you will urge the same vigorously. l am native of South Carolina and love the dear old State. Am of 1t. I've just returned f1om a trip to South Carolina, took in the exposition, etc. While talking with my friends about Alabama after having admired the spleri- did Missouri exhibit, and trying to tell them of the immense wealth of Ala bama minerals, etc.. I was suddenly con fronted with the only exhibit Alabama has there, that of the famous Booker T. Washington. And while we are pleased to note that we furnish the greatest man of his race. tis very mortifying to know we are only represented by negroes. South Carolina is doing so much more for the development of herself than most Southern States, and will do still greater things after this exposition trust. When Congress refused Charleston a dollar and poured 1t out in such great quantities on her Northern and Western cities I hoped at least that our own Southland would come to her rescue and help proclaim our resources. development and progress to the world. I do most earnestly hope that you will urge our Governor to make this appropriation yet and urge every one of your many readers to attend this exposition. in the historic old city with it's grand ocean scenery, colonial build ings. etc. The phosphate beds are won derfuI. splendid tea plantations. and the exhibits are excellent. hope twill be a grand success and I'm sure the press Is a mighty factor in making it one.
 Oh. that Charleston may succeed and that her sister Alabama will not with hold her help.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
IT CONTESTANTS US.

The Chattanooga Times is disposed to commiserate The Advertiser because the white people of Alabama are not paying their poll tax with aIacrity which this paper thinks they should do. Noting the fact that payment of the tax is volun- tary. The Times says:
 The serious omission in the law sems to be that ,she payment of the poll tax was not ,ynade obligatory. the idea being that eNery citizen would esteem it a high privilege if not a distinguished honor to contribute the mite of $1. Qualify himself for performing the duty of ar American citizen. This tdea, while highly complimentary in theory and sentiment to the citizenship of the State ot Rest" has not been found to be very profitable resource on which to realize practical and profitable results. As strange as it may seem. it is never theless fact that most men will not contribute money for any cause unless they have to. and this Is. we gather from our Alabama contemporary. about the situation in that State.
 The Advertiser agrees with The Times that payment of poll tax ought to be obligatory and that it should be enforced just as other taxes are, but that is not possible under the new Constitution and we must make the best of 1t. It Is hard to imagine what higher incentives could be offered citizen to pay tho tax than is done by this instrument. The payment qualities him to vote and the money goes to the cause of education, and either of these ought to be sufficient to cause any white man to pay the in significant sum required. That both these causes will not be strong enough to influence some otherwise good citizens is unfortunately true, but we yet hope that there will not be such lapse from duty as is predicted in some quarters.
 Whether The Times is correct in say ing that most men will not contribute money for any cause unless they have to- we have no desire to argue, but it the white people are not willing to make voters of themselves and at the same time help to educate the children of the State, we shall be compelled to lose some of our good opinion of Alabamians. They have nearly three weeks yet in which to do a plain duty and we hope to be able to record that most of them have done 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
Heavens Dimensions.

Chicago TriEune.
 One of those eccentric mathematical fellows who are always calculating the distance which d given number of things will reach when extended in a straight line, has been devotng himself to the dimensions of heaven, taking for the basis of his calculations the verse, And he measured the city with the reed, l2.vO0 furlongs. The length, and the breadth and the height are equal" The results which he obtains from his flgur- ing are somewhat formidable.
 The entire space represents 469, 7S3 OSS.- = GOO, GOO 000,000 cubic Ieet. He generously comedies half of this space for the throne and the court of heaven and half its re- mainder for streets, which would still leave LBS 272, ,0OO. .O0O, ,O00000 cubic feet Dividing up this space he gets 3G321, ,S43,- 750, ,000000 rooms sixteen feet square. Fig uring in a like airy way upon the popu- laton of the earth he finds that if 100 worlds containing the same number of people as this should send all their in- habitants for a thousand centuries to come to heaven. there would be more than loo of the siXteen-foot square rooms for each person.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
Philology of '',Toast. <"

London Chronicle.
 The origin of the word toast in drinking d health Is interesting. The drinks most in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were sack, canary, claret, sherry and others to which it was customary to add honey, sugar, gin ger, cinnamon and other ingredients; also a piece of toast, which floated on top of the liquor and was supposed to give it an additional flavor. Later on, in the eighteenth century, Dr. Johnson relates: "A certain beau, being at Bath pledged q noted beauty in glass of water taken from her bath; whereupon another roy sterer cried out that he would have nothing to do with the liquor-but would have the toast-that is, the lady herself" From this incident. it is said arose the habit of giving a lady's name to pre- face, or flavor, the drinking of the wine. Hence a popular lady whose health was often drunk became "a toast" or a great toast" Later the word has come to mean any sentiment which prefaces drink
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Some Of
 Those Prominent Just Now.

On the occasion of Rear Admiral Schley's forthcoming visit to Louisville: January 29 and 30, he will be entertain1e,o e,oo by the Board of Trade and the Louisville and De Molay communicates, Knights Templar. The first named organization will hold a reception In honor or tue Admiral.
 Baron Schwegel of Austria is coming to America to study the industriai system nf of this country and the methods or trust" organizations of capital lie IS a member of the Austrian parliament and a leader of the German party Tn that body.
 John Higgins, brakeman who had both legs cut on n sa,,nmher an aeripe has made A curious settlement with the raiiWay company. He is to be taught telegrapns at the company's expense ana is eo naxe fs emplovment for life. lie IS aiso to pe provided with artificial legs.
 Conpressmen Beidler of Ohio, Ruppert of New York and Shallenberger of Ne braska are recognized authorities on va rious breeds of dogs and the three are often together talking dog. Beidier runs Ruppert to St. Bernards and Shallenber- ger to mastiffs and St. Bernards. Each Is very proud of his kennels.
 There are two Emile Zolas in France. One of them Is an inventor and does not lack ability in the art of advertising himself and his inventions. Tn a faras M newspaper this notice has appeared: M. Emile Zola of Plamboeuf, inventor or the spring nippers. notifies the pubic that he has nothing to do with his namesake, Emile Zola, the writer
 The Earl of Portsmouth owes his bap- tismal name of Newton to the fact that his great-great-grandfath Niscount Ly- mington, married the niece and coheiress of the famous Sir Isaac. There has been pretty constant succession or isaac Newtons' in the family since, put they have not notably inherited the tastes ol their distinguished ancestor
 The order prohibiting Spanish army of fcers from marrying unless they are 70 years old or more and enjoy an income at least equal to the pay of Captain (about $50 a monthl IS nov tnousnI to Ter simply to prevent his sons marriage to Senorita Consuela De Lanz who. though beautiful and of noble family, IS not in all other ways acceptable to the General
 The street sweepers and cleaners or New York have numerously, but not quite unanimously, signed a petition ask ing the new commissioner, John McGraw Woodbury, not to, put the department under military discipline. The most curious of the arguments urged against the change is that members of the force, being of all nationalities. do not learn new things quickly.
 Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, wife of the celebrated novelist. is visiting the City of Mexico. In an interview she says in regard to the controversy grow ing out of the criticism in MT. Henleys book: Ut would be very peculiar kind of friendship that would prompt person to say what he has said. The best ap- preciation of my husbands character and l,; ne fo fo ha n 10 fD written by MT. Balfour, a cousin of MT: Stevenson"