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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

Capt. Sverdrup has been absent in the
Artics with Nansen's stanch ship
Fran for full four years, and his friends
in Norway are becoming anxious as to
his whereabouts. The object of his ex-
petition was ostensibly to explore the
west coast of Greenland as far north as
passible, but it is thought the captain
had an irrepressible desire to reach the
pole, and that his absence may. be due to
this fact. There are now so many ex-
petitions looking for the pole that it
would seem ito be more difficult for the
pole to be missed than for expeditions
to disappear. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

Until the bodies Of the lost explorers
are found, or the wreck of his balloon To-
Gated. Indian stories in regard to the
fate of Prof. Andree and his two COM
panions will not count. The revived re-
port that the lost men were killed by
Esquimaux has been denounced as SEN
sational yarn by an official Of the Hud-
son Bay company, who knows something
about the value Of Indian tales.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

A Russian journal rams aSdaily coli:
Sumn which e alleged to be edited BY an
invisible assistant1 from another world.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

The increasing popularity of ping-pong
may give fresh vogue to the song AFTER
the Ball."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

Emperor Williams Meteor isn't flash
ing through the blue water with a speed
that justifes her name. = She hiss been
beaten four times; and although the
Kaiser may not take Capt. Parker's adj
may conclude to have the Yankee build
ers tinker with the craft to find if pos
sible the cause of her slowness. Some
time: tinkering completely alters the
ch&ra cter Of a yacht. >| - = - - !"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

When Botha. Dewet and Delarey
come to the United States they will find
that there has been no lack Of sympathy
for the struggling burghers who fought
so persistently for. hopeless cause; and
they will also realize why it would have
been the height of unwisdom for the
United States to have interfered in their
behalf, as some misguided sympathizers
demanded. Friendship linked with fol-
ly would have been utterly worthless.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

The remark of Bishop Riley of West
Australia at the Fourth Of July banquet
of the American Society, in London, that
''the peace of the world is assured so
long as the Anglo-Saxon race lives at
peace with itself and bosses the rest Of
the world,' was bit of buncombe to
please Americans; but there 10 more than
a grain of truth in it, as the power Of
the English-speaking people can exert
tremendous influence when it is COM
bined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
REGISTER NOW.

Attention is again called to the fact that the opportunity for registering will have closed after next week. The law provides that flor six working days next prior to the 20th day of December, 1902 the Board of Registrars shall hold a ses- sion at the Court House of their respect i've Counties. during which time they shall register all persons applying who possess the qualifications prescribed in Section 1So.' This Is the last chance for registering on the permanent life plan and if there are any who do not avail themselves of it they will fail to do so from carelessness or indifference as they have had frequent notice.
 There are at least two hundred and forty thousand white men in Alabama who are qualified to register under the new Constitution and yet only about one hundred and ninety thousand have regis tered, leaving fifty thousand who have voluntarily left their names off the life roll of registered voters. There will be but six more days in which you can se- cure this great boon. After that time the books will be closed. Remember the time, December 13 to December 19 in. elusive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
rr rs A prPE pREAM.

Mir. Bryan's insinuated prediction that the weekly newspapers will driv eout or supersede the 1ailies is one of the mos unreasonable of his many discredited prophecies. There has been a time in our history when daily newspapers were the rare exceptions. but it should be re- membered that even week1ies were not very plentiful in those days. It should be remembered. also. that stage-coaches were the only public conveyances on land and sailing vessels on water. If the time ever comes when people will be willing to spend a month travelling from New York to Omaha, or from New York to Liverpool then the weekly newspaper may drive out the daily. and railroad cars give place to stages.
 The truth iz-and it ought to be as plain to Mir. Bryan as to any one else--that this Is not an age in which people will be satisfied with the news once week. up with the times are not satisfied with the once-a-day newspaper, but must have both morning and evening editions as a regular thing and intermediate is- sues when any important news is in the air. A man who has been accustomed supper tables would almost as lief get history from his library as to be forced to wait for a weekly paper.
 And but little less absurd than Mir. Bryan's prediction is the contention of some really intelligent evening papers that they are more important than their morning contemporaries, and will event.. ually drive them out. This is ridicu- lous theory. There are many newspaper readers so situated that they have no time to look at a newspaper until their days work is over and to them a really good evening paper is satisfactory. but those who want to keep up with the stirring events of stirring world want their newspaper the first thing in the morning. and they want one which contains the news.
 There are many excellent evening pa- pers in the country-papers which really contain all the news obtainable up to the hour of going to press, but this class of papers forms an exception. A major- ity of them are little better than a re- hash of the morning papers and contain little that has not already appeared in the others. For these papers to talk about driving out their morning contemporaries is about such pipe dream as is the Bry- anesque idea of killing out the dailies and putting the weeklies in place of them. That time is as remote as the day when the United States will make silver the only legal tender money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
Great
Distress From Nerves
 and Stomach.
Palpitation. Flutters ing and Srnothering.
Dr. Mi1es' Nervine Cured
 Me Completely.

"My trouble began with sleeplessness, iaaes lost my appetite and suffered from indiees. ton. l was extremely nervous, muscles you'd twitch, my heart would palpitate and utter and cause megrestdistress. Isuffered realty from shortness of breath and sinoth- ring spells until began taking Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine and Nerve and Liver Fills and Anti-Pain Pills. These remedies .ffected radical cure in my case and are the ,nly ones that ever afforded me the slightest elief. l have not had occasion to use the Iervine for sometime, as it has entirely cured nc of nervousness, but have and do con- inue. to use the Liver Pills with best results" MRS. L. J. DRrscoLl, Navasota, Texa&
 Sleeplessness, lost appetite, indigestion, ner. vousness, twitching muscles, palp .tation, hut- tering, shortness of breath, smotherinR spells see how the disease crept on, adding . symptom from time to time, until the sufferer was stirred 10 action. Dr NJ les Nervine has rescued hundreds of sufferers from the conse. luences cf their own neglect, but 1t isn't wise wait to .e rescued. Nervine so strengthens he nerves as to make them powerful in their assistance of disease. Keepthe nerves strong md well with Nervine and you need have no fear that disease will ever get a hold on you hat simple treatment will not throw oH. The ime to begin is now, today. ~
 All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Or. Miles Remedies. Send for free book n Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
UP AGAINST TIT

Evidently Senator Spooner has another exploitation coming 10 him if he can fix il up in good shape. for there is certainly a broad discrepancy somewhere. The Oshkosh Times. in the Senator's own state Of Wisconsin, has this paragraph:
 tiftceif hundred people heard Senator Sliooner at Lancaster October zJ when he expressed sentiment in favor of the tsection Of lres.uent, Senate and House ihr terms ot tW Wenty years, notwIthstand- lag wi!Ic,l Mir. Spooner has written q let tpf to Tne New York Independent In which he denies that he ever used the Language attributed to him. The utter ance MaS quoted verbatim in The. MIl- N tukee sentinel, Spooner paper, and was cNeI commented on favorably by Inahy oi those who heard it. Yet the Senator EoN denies it, What is one To tg!nk!
 Well. if We were called on to express q think in plain United States We should say that somebody has lied, but whether it was an honorable Senator of the United States or the fifteen hundred people who claim to have heard his language is the question. Tn the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be establish cd says St. Matthew, and here are five 10 seven hundred times two or three who seem ready to bear testimony to the truth of the charge
 We suspect that the Senator has all lowed ms memory to play trick on him, or he IS trying to wrlsgle out of a very untena ble position. He could not fail to learn very soon after his speech was pub lished that the American people would not stand for any such proposition as twenty year terms for President and Congress. He may have thought that he was pleasing the Republicans by adyo- eating change which would give them twenty years of power without the worry and uncertainty of elections, but he has ready for such a dangerous innovation, and he has also been made to see that if his scheme could be made popular it might leave his own party out in the cold for a score of years. In short, his plan would cut both ways, and Republicans will not endorse anything that would cause such a long wait for office seekers The Senator is up against a hard propo- sition whatever way he looks at it and the best opening We see for him to get out is to claim that he was drunk when he made the speech.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
North American Review.

The North American Review for De cember is number of importance anf It Is rot easy to avoid the use of super
 latfves in describing it. The subject
 could not be better adjusted to the varie
 interests of the hour, nor could more ca. paole pens be found to deal with ther~ than those represented by the unexam pied array of eminent names which ap, pear on the title page. The achievements or President Roosevelts First Year are 5udicially considered by two distin. guished writers. whose identity beyon@ the fact that they are. respectively, "A Progressive Republican" and "A Jeffer. sonian Democrat" is withheld. Ex Speaker Thomas B. Reed asks ''Wha. Shall We Do With the Tariff?" Mark Twain makes some characteristic com. ments on Christian Science" in the first three papers he has prepared on that subject. w. D. Howells pays warn tribute to the genius of the late Frank Norris Cornelius Vanderbilt inauires into the feasibility of using "Electricity as Motive Power on Trunk Lines. David Bispham discourses eloquently on Music as Factor in National Life. !" Apropos of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthony reviews "Woman's Half-Century of Evo- lution. Frying Wirslow, Secretary of the anti-lmperialist League. points out that The Anti-Imperiahst Faith" is stilI living and aggressive element among the political forces of the time. Marion WILCOX describes The Situation in Gu ba." etc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
A Fine Number.

The University Day and Commence ment number of the University of Ten nessee Record has just been issued. The leading article is entitled Events in the History of the University Since Univer- sity Day, 1902" This article contains an interesting account of the exercises of University Day. the June Jubilee. the s5th commencement. and the opening of the present session. Other articles are: "The Battle of Guilford Court House." an ad- dress delivered by Col. J. B. Killebrew of Nashville on University Day; the address of Capt. William Rule when he presented the Triplett memorial tablet to the University; President Dabney' s speech of acceptance; and MT. James G. Johnson's address on Lawyers of the University of Tennessee" which he de- livered at the banquet of the Alumni As sociation last June.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
A GREAT EDUCATIONAL EXPERT
 MENT

In the tenth civil district of Knox County. Tenn, there is being established a rural consolidated school which prom ises to be of decided value in helping to solve the educational problems of the rural South. The three school directors of the district. have decided to consoli- date several small schools into one cen tral school. thereby combining for the support of the latter $4.5o per capita of all the scholastic population represented by the school; the people in the community have raised 5000 by voluntary subscrip- ton, and the General Education Board has controbuted another 5000. With such a support the school has bright prospects.
 Thirteen acres of land have been pur- chased at the intersection of the Concord and Kingston bikes, a site twelve miles from the city of Knoxville. On this prop erty will be built a model county home of eight rooms, to be ussi by the principal and his wife, and also school house with six class rooms, an assembly nall for school and public meetings, and a library for the students and their par ents. The five acres of bottom land will be used as a farm. the six acres of upland as a garden. orchard and playground. and the two acres of slopins land will be planted in trees and grass. Tn every way possible the houses and property will be made attractive--a model center for the educational life of this prosperous agricul- tural community.
 The principal and his wife, who are em- pioyed by the year. will be assisted by three other teachers for the nine months session. The courses of study will con- sist of the public school course. vocal mu- sic, dairying, poultry raising and elemen- tary farming. From this list of courses 1t is readily seen that an effort is be- ing made to meet the special needs of the children in rural communities. pre- paring them to enter intelligently and progressively into the opportunities around them,
 The principal will begin his work in January or February, and it Is expected that by the opening of the school in Au- gust the houses will be built, the land under cultivation, and everything in read mess. The success of such an experi- ment will undoubtedly be an incentive to other districts to establish this kind of school
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
'ranchises tnaa there Is that it shoulo rive away the City Hall

'ranchlses taaa there Is that it should give away the City Hall.
 wo are not prepared to admit that 'the time for free franchises" ever existed in city of any considerable size and i'm portance unless 1t is franchise for some industry or Improvements which will add to the wealth, population and tax able property and values of the city it. self. A franchise which does neither. and which benefits none but those who se- cure 1t, is certainly worth paying for. and the city ought to have it's value. As The Chattanooga Times reasons. fran chise is worth something or nothing. In the former case 1t should be paid for and if it is worthless nobody will want t. That strikes us as good business sense. either in an individual or in e city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
oDELL's PLURALITY
Over Coler Foots Up Only s.
Nnw YnrL wnrld

New York World.
 Governor Odells plurality over Bird s. Coler at the recent election, it was off cially announced yesterday by the Sec retary of State, was S,S03.
 Tie official figures. as announced yeS- terday, show this relative vote as be- tween the Republican and the Democrat ic candidates for Governor of New York. Ouell .665, 15O Coler ...-........ ..................... .bo6, jiI
 One of the most surprising features of the vote for Governor was the large num- Der of ballots cast for the two Socialis. candidates. Here are the official figures: Daniel De Leon, Soc. Labor. ,SSs Benjamin Hanford. Soc. Dem. .....19, 467
 Total Socialist vote...................45,s58
 A1ted l.. Manierre, the Prohibition candidate for Governor, boiled 20 490 votes, while Edgar L. Ryder, running on the Liberal Democratic ticket. received 1894 votes.
 A surprising increase in the Socialist vote over that of 1900 is shown. Two years ago Charles H. Corregan, Social ist-Labor candidate for Governor, re- ceived 13,762 votes, and Benjamin Han ford. the Socialist-Democratlc candidate. received 13.493 This made the combined Socialist vote for Governor in 1900 2,255. The total vote of the two Socialist cam didates for Governor this year was 45 353, an increase of lS,OOO over 1900 The gain in the Socialist vote in New York In two years, therefore, was more than 6S per cent.
 With the exception of the Socialist vote fin Massachusetts. the vote for De Leon and Hanford in this State is one of the most striking results of the recent cleo tion. In Massachusetts, Chase, the So- calist candidate for Governor, boiled about 3o,0O0 votes, the largest number ever cast in any one State for a Social fist candidate. Chase's vote, therefore. was about 40O0 greater than that given by New York State to De Leon, but 1t was 15,000 less than the combined Social ist-Labor and Socialist Democratic vote in the Empire State. In the local cleo tions in thirteen cities in Massachusetts last week the Socialists boiled IA per cent of the vote cast
 The smalIness of Odelrs plurality is q surprise to the Governors friends. They had estimated that the final figures would show his reelection by nearly 1900. This confidence was based on unofficial returns furnished by the various county clerks on the day after election.
 Those figures, which were given in The World at the time. indicated that Odell would have plurality of l2.SS7. The final count shows, therefore, that The World s original figures, collected through its reg ular news channels, were 4O00 nearer the actual result than the unofficial figures of the county clerks. and within 373 of the official plurality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdon whish comes under its notice. and one of thes. signs is the mystic symbol I0l denoting golden. whish stands for high quality. ani iS thus explained:
 Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of its circulation than for the mere number Vf copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym tol; but there IS higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL. ESsl to describe LdeQriatelg their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded th,s double golden symbol t90l and is the only paper so distinguished in this section of ins south
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

Philadelphia Record.
 A woman doesn't realize the difficulties that Lpset reformer until she geas msr- ried,
 One way to keep warm without coal is to hck the fellow who asks you if you have any.
 Some women believe in the equality of sexes and some in the superb o'ity of their own.
 Borrowell--''I have an old score to settle with you" Wiswag-"That go you owc me, l suppose.
 The spendth,ift is like n,Izz saw. He scatters a lot of dust while running around and has nothing but his board to show for 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

We trust that the esteemed Montgomery Advertiser noticed that there was neither delay nor ambiguity about the remarks of the Hon. John Wesley Gaines. Mir. Gaines knows when he is on safe ground and will swat the trusts early and often.- Chattanooga Times.
 Not having plenty of time to read all the short stories and serials in the es- teemed Congressional Record we failed to note that John Wesley had fully justi- fled our anticipations. The man who thinks that John will fail to make 2 few remarks has lost out on at least one think. for John says things with unde- viating frequency
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
Panics and Tariffs.

Chicago Chronicle.
 Our past experience shows that great prosperity in this country has always come under protective tariff -Presi- dents Message.
 Our experience also shows that great panics and long periods of commercial and industrial depression have also come under a protective tariff, for We have al- waNs had a protective tariff.
 The papics of lS73-9 and 1S92-7 were CO., incident with the highest of high protec- tive tariffs, and both of them were more protracted than that of 1857, which came under what was the neaSest approach that we ever made to tariff for revenue only
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

and had just begun to attract attention and get himself hailed as England's coni- ing man of letters when Rudyard Kip was at once cast into a deep. dark shnd- ow. where he remained until few months ago, when his story of Paul Kelvar'' attracted the attention of the English reading world. Today Kipling is gener- ally supposed to be dead as far as his work as a writer is concerned, and the praise of the critics is being iavished upon Jerome K. Jerome. 1t is an inter- esting case and illustrates the value of nereeyara
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
Suicidal Wave in Berlin.

-NeW Iork Commercial Advertiser
 Much uneasiness is felt fin Berlin st tho In Creasins number of suicides. Not a day passes without its ghastly record. Among those re ported in one day recently were four cases Of suicide by poisoning The first was that of girl Of 22 years who was disappointed in love and the others were those of young mar f1ed woman of 2. after quarreling with he, husband, bookseller aged 55 for pecuniarv reasons, and chemist. aged e6, the reason being unknown ~ iV"s'"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

Your poll tax must be paid by February and 1t must be paid entirely as volun- tary act on your part, in order to enable you to vote. No officer is allowed to or expected to give any notice concerning it. You can vote if you have registered and will pay your poll tax for this year. and the poll tax due February 1, 1902, provided you have not already paid this last item.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10
New Circulation Record.

The month of November just passed. enables the Circulation Department of The Advertiser to compile a statement of The Advertiser : circulation that breaks all previous recoros M point of numbers The average for both the daily and Sunday editions has entered into a new thousand mark-a point that means mug to those interested i'd seeking conspicuity IF Alabama and further demonstrates that tn, people Of this State appreciate fin a substantiai way The Advertisers determination to publish live newspaper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

If you have not paid your poll tax it should not deter you from registering, and If you have not already done so, get your name on the permanent list next week or you will be too late. If you did not pay your poll tax prior to February 1 last you must pay it before February l next, along with the poll tax for this year and if you are registered you can vote in all elections next year. It is a matter that no citizen should neglect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

There are fifty thousand white men in Alabama who have not yet qualified them selves to vote under the new Constitu- ton. Any of them can register any day next week III their respective counties at the Court House and pay their poll tax before February l and be made qualified electors,