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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-07
FOUND.

FOUND-One red and white cow eight or nine years old. about eight miles from town; owner call or write to w. B. Mo- ble, R. F. D. No. ,. 12-6-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-07
PERSONAL.
BUSINESS CHANGES

' to 15 per cent can be realized weekly by our system of investment; handle your own money; particulars free. Will liam F. Sanders & Co.,, Wilson Bldg, Chicago H. E-6-&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-07
Alabama
 Trust and Savings
 Company, 2OO7 First Avenue.

Cash Paid for Beeswax. If you have some to sell. ship 1t to us. . and we will allow you 271a cents per , pound f. o. b. your place, provided the rate of freight to Boston does not ex- ceed 80 cents per 100 lbs
 w. H. BOWDLEAR & CO.,,
 14S Pearl St. Boston, Mass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-07
MONEY TO LOAN REAL ESTATE

in amounts from s250 to s10.000 upon terms to suit borrowers and at lowest market rates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
A WRONG ro VIRGINIA.

Plans have bean submitted for the Car negie Library at Norfolk. Va. and among other things descriptive of the building we find It stated that:
 Around the cornice of the front of the building will be cut the names of ''Vir- gil" Norfolk Public Library, D" Horn- er." On the Thomas Street side will bo cut the names of Emerson, Whittier Howell. LonSfeliow. Hawthorne, Irving and Bryant
 The Norfolk papsrs are complaining at xhis and they are justified in doing so. So far as Virgil and Homer are concerned we see no reason to object They have been dead too long for their locality to cause any feeling of sectionalism. but that is not the case with the other names To havs the building ornamented with the names of seven literary men and not q Virginia or other Southern man among them is just cause of complaint. It may be that this announced list of names is only tentative. but. as The Landmark ob- serves it is subject to change and needs 1t badly" and the people of that city the change made or else have no library.
 Of course 1t will be said by those who are responsible for this list of names that there should be no sectdonalism about a library, and the argument would be a good one, and that is just why the list above given should not be allowed to stand. The South now has, and has had. many literary names of emiRence and if none of them are thought worthy to be inscribed on a library building in a Southern city 1t would be much better to have the walls blank.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
WE SHALL KNOW.

At the New Year reception in the White House the best point of observation was reserved for some twenty newspaper wo- men. This was due in part to the Presl- dents tnougbhtfulness and mainly per- haps to the unerring skill of Mrs. Roose- velt's private secretary, Miss Hager, a most gifted young woman who is as much to her as MT. Cortelyou Is to the President, which Is as much as to say, Miss Hager is Mrs. Roosevelt's right hand in all society arrangements.
 The fair women newspaper workers are sure to tell us all about the new White House, as men and women persist in styling the old mansion as renovated and made more comfortable, more convenient more worthy of the Presidential house. hold, than ever before. The historic mansion is more pleasing, more luxurious, more stately, now than any previous President could have dreamed of 1t ever being.
 In the matter of convenience, of luxury of adequacy of it's purposes, it is a new White House. Yet the exterior of the building has not been in the slightest de- gree changed Inside the advance is that of a century, and the change calls for national congratulation. As the wo- men say, 'it Is just too lovely for any, thing" Just what that means, a man is not supposed to know, but having seen the improvements, the phrase stands as written.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
A GOOD CHANGE.

Under the new order of things at the White House, gabbling women and men of no consequence can no longer be rude or give offense to the guests of the the President. Hereafter those women who receive the honor of being invited to be of the Presidential receiving party must stand 'in front of the line," where nobody will see them or have reason to know they are in the world. In other words, the women, cabinet ladies' and others, asked to receive" with Mrs. Roosevelt, will have to stand before the line," that Is, on the other side of the big reception room from the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, where very few guests will see them at all.
 This may seem almost silly to the great body of American people unaccus- toned to the society ways of Washing ton, but 1t is in fact of great importance to fair woman, without whom there wouldn't be any world worth living in for forty seconds, or even one second. Women win the noblest victories of the world, and win them in ways that some times seem to men frivolous. President Roosevelt, who is to every American wo- man hero-we won't stop to argue why has nothing that will 80 commend hin to American womanhood as his order placing the women who receive witt Mrs. Roosevelt before the hne," for tht women will recognize 1t instantly as being right. What a wonderful way the Preai dent has of doing the right thing in al ordinary circumstances? How wise ( man?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06

importnnate petitions from infzuential pso- pie. including, generally, judges, attor- neys-general and Juries trying the cases. People ought to be more partioulsr in thing to hear men abusing the Governor for doing the very thing they asked him to do by petition they probably didn't know they had signed.
 The comments of The Times are appro- priate, and 1t might have gone behind the people who sign the petitions. Part of the blame rests on the courts and the juries which sometimes convict persons on insufficient evidence. or without bring ing out all the facts. Then. as often hap pens. when all the truth Is known it ts found that the sentence is too severe or that the prisoner should not have been convicted at all. In such case the Gov ernor is. sustained by both mercy and justice in reducing or annulifng the pun ishment.
 But there is no doubt about the readi- ness displayed by the average citizen when it comes to signing petitions. Some times they sign them without thought of the consequences. and sometimes in the belief that the Governor will pay no at tention to them and thus the signers will escape all responsibility. Then. too. how frequently 1t happens that judge and jury petition for the pardon of man who should not have been convicted If this is done on account of later evidence, or because the law itself enforced 8 punish ment which judge and jury considered too severe, then there is no blame at- tached to them for asking that the wrong be righted, but this Is not always the case. Sometimes a sentence Is inflicted with the. full approval of both judge and jury and yet fhey will join in petition for pardon. In such case all the blame' if there is blame. should not fan on the Governor.
 But there is another view of the mat ter which should not be lost sight of Gov ernors are human and often, if not al- ways. humane. with hearts to exciain. in the beautiful language of Pope's Uni versal Prayer:"
 Teach me to feel another's woe,
 To hide the faults see;
 That mercy I 70 others snow
 That mercy show to me.
 With somewhat extended opportunity for observation we can testify that some of the most pitiful and pathetic scenes of official life transpire in the office of the Governor of State. The tears of c mother. wife or sister. the mute ap- peals of the little ones. the pleadings of father are sometimes more than mere humanity can withstand. It is not strange that In some instances the Governor al- lows his sympathies to get the better of his judgment and releases a convict who would be more benefit to society in pris- on than out. In such cases if harm comes. if justice is mocked and society outraged, we should not be too ready to censure 8 Governor for being too human. It may be a fault but it is one which does credit to the humaniues of our na- ture.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
The Next Deluge.

New York Press.
 Why waste time discussing another gla- cial epoch when we can look two years ahead and see the next deluge? The ale most universal tradition of the East re- specting the flood is that the waters were boiling hot. So says the Talmud, the Targums, and the Koran. On The wall of the Mug House Club hangs this prophecy: And 1t shall come to pass in the year 1905 that the Hemisphere that Is called Western shall lie under the waters which shall rain down in a great deluge, de- stroying floods of ungodly men who have made me afraid
 The wag of the club wrote this beneath 1t: And who shall find sufficient grace in the sight of the Lord to be the Noah of this second mabbul?. His name is Trust Squeezer. He will have the trusts in his mighty grip, and when he squeezes the water out thereof there will be a hot time and then will the flood come. We have just learned that the water in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company amounts to nearly $4s,000,00O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06

1ewelry, glasswork, pottery, and Pom pefian bronSes fraudulently made in Italy to catch the unwary. Chinese porcelains, and Italian majolica fabricated in France medieval woodwork, pewter pieces and porcleain made in Germany, limitations of old brocades and textiles carefully worn thin and soiled to simulate anti quity, and so forth. It appears that curators of museums have formed a League of Museum Officers for Protec. ton Against Frauds. The league has already spotted various bands of falsi- ficers of antique objects and sent. their names to members. So far they have not published them, but they threaten to do 80 If the marked men continue their operations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1903.
nouBIE ooLpNN sYMBo1..

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole neid of newspaperdom which comes under it's notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol @1 denoting ''golden." which stands for high quality. and is thus expiained:
 "Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym bol; but there is a higher grade. according to this standard authority, which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL [ co to describe adequately their standing
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol L0Ol and is the only paper 50 distinguished in this section of ths South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
Happy Auguriss for 1908.
New York World,

In this issue of bur paper various men who have contributed conspicuously to the discoveries, inventions and enter prises that have made past years note- worthy, forecasts the new years proba- bllities. The most comprehensive horo- scope is that of the wizard" Edison, who says: 'I look for a wonderful year" He gives as a reason for his belief the fact that there is more activity in science than there has ever been before" and with more men working on biz problems great discoveries would be only natural" The great problems of the bacteria, getting electricity direct from coal, and getting power from the ele- ments cheaply." His modest part at the start is the storage battery, which he an. nounces will be put on the market this month ''and It's introduction means that the horse will have to go."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
News an0 Gossip ef Washington
9x LuornN yULxzH wALKHR.

Washington, Jan. s.--tSpecial.) )zIn the historic files of The Advertiser. which. oy the way. embody perhaps, more of Alabama history than all other sources combined. there may be found by whoso- ever cares to look for it . full account of the New Year reception at the White House January l, 1884 together with an elaborate description of the then newly completed decorations of the historic res- ioence of the Presideuts, the story having neen written by a youthful and wholly enthusiastic correspondent of Alabama . most historic and most influential news paper. It was truthful narrative of what boyish fervor and pride not possible of reproduction after nineteen years of toll and unusually varied experience up and down the wide world in various
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
PLEASE WOMEN.

The wisest man. in the world is the man who strives most to please good wo- men. If the man who long ago said: "Allow me te write the songs of a na- tion, and care not who makes its laws" had lived in our time he would have de- manded to know what the women wish- ed. and obeying their good purposes he could have defied all possible sources and instruments of evil.
 It seems to be truer of Mir. Roosevelt than of any other eminent man Of our time that, the good women are his friends. Just why this is so, no man could undertake to say. That remains for a woman to explain. Meantime 1t Is an undeniable force with which all of us have got to reckon in considering the immediate future of the master in the White House,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
The "World Does HEove.U

Elliot Woods, architect of the capitol Is preparing to demonstrate that the world does move" during the meeting of the American Academy of Sciences next month. A wire cord 15s feet long will tol dome to the floor of the grand TO- tunda. On the end of the cord, will be a large iron weight, which shall have an index point. This will be hung directly over a table ten feet in diameter and covered with sand. The movement of the earth in its rotation will be traced by the point of the weight in the sand. It is an old experiment, but 1t Is interest ing and valuable
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
LYNCHINGs IN 1902,

The Birmingham Age-Herald of Sunday has an editorial on the above subject, giving the number of lynchings for 1909 in this country as 9s as against 13b in 1901: 115 in 1900. 107 in 1899. 127 in 1898 and 1se in 1897. In 1892 the highest record was made with 2S5.
 Five of these lynchings are accredited to Alabama to wit:
 William Zeigler, negro, near Troy: William Reynolds. negro, at 1S,scumhia; MaTr s4 nesRO at ssm sS an& scoi ssaOs s%OSi negro, at Marbury. These are the five cases charged up against Alabama in the records kept by The Chicago Tribune. Two of these cases are dOubtful-three are not namely. the cases in Pike, Choc- taw and Lee counties-at Salem, Cocoa and near Troy. The case near Troy has been investigated, and 1t is pretty well established that an innocent negro was hung. The case at Salem arose over an attempt at robbery, and thus far this case has not been investigated, or at any rate no report has been received of the re- suits of an investigation, although the case at Cocoa is still older occurring on March N. No action, The Age-Herald re- grets to say, has been taken In this case.
 The case of Scott Bishop must be taken off of the list as he is now in the jail at Union Springs. being boarded at the ex- pense of the State. The facts are that he is charged with the murder of one Hill last December at Bozeman in Au- tauga County. He was arrested and a mob collecting at Marbury to hang him he became frightened and escaped from the officers. He went to his fathers house near Union Springs and in e few days surrendered. being assured by the Governor of protection and a fair trial.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
.BEHIND THE LrNE.n

There was rensWed and memorable evidence of the godu common sense of the President in the abolition of the be hind the line" feature of the official recep- tions at the White House. Heretofore. ever since the White House was first oc- cupied as the Presidenttal residence, It has been the custom for women ot the cabinet and others invited to be of the receiving party to stand just "behind the line' formed by the President and his wife, or whatever woman might be for the moment "the first lady of the land" as was the case in several instances when the President of the time was not welded. pleasing to the guests. and often 1t was annoying, for the reason that those be- hind the line" took. no interest in those who were passing, but on the contrary, gabbled away to themselves and to such men of the favored few who might be in attendance upon them. Naturally enough, this was not very pleasing to the the persons in question, but who resented their apparent semi-onlcial standing and consequent apparent rudeness. Every one who has been a guest at a Presiden- tial reception will readily remember the disagreeableness complained of, for 1t has been notorious evef since the White House come to figure in the national life. guests by irresponsible women behind the line" has given pain to those not familiar with the conditions.
 Last season, for example, a beautiful little Alabama gentlewoman, who had the cherished privilege of making ct the White House her debut in society, de- manded to know of him who was respon- sible for her for the time being, "who are those rude women behind Mrs Roose- velt?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
An Elastic Currency.
Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
 Canada nffnra fha IInitna SAnAn.

FHIIdUtIpHIA hbCOTu (Iem.l
 Canada offers the United States a work Ing example of a really elastic currency. From May, 1901, to October, 1901, the bank circulation expanded 25 per cent: from October, 1901, to May, leO2, 1t contracted IA per cent; fom May to October this year it expanded 30 per cent. It is aIl automatic. The minister of finance does money market. There Is not a monetary stringercy verging on a panic as regular ly as the wheat is harvested and mar keted. The Canadian banks can Issue notes based upon their credit to an amount not exceeding their paid-in cap ital. a maximum which has now been nearly reached. When the notes are not needed the banks have to redeem them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
THE pARpoNINa PowER.

A Mississippi paper is disposed to boast because the Governor of that State par doned only 415 persons during four years while Governor Taylor of Tennessee. par doned 16OO during a like period. To this boast The Chattanooga Times says:
 The chief executives are not 80 much to blame for the excess of pardons as are the people themseives, as every act of clemency was based on large and very
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06

A few days ago somebody asked The Norfolk Landmark where the expression three lead dimes" originated, and that 0aper passed it up to George Ade. though we are unable to see why. At any rate eAat gentleman replies that it is only an ether form of looks like thirty cents." what explanation is almost as lucid as some of the theories about the rabbits nose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
A Roman BAilding in England.

At Castor. in Northamptonshire, Eng land the floor and boundary walls of a Roman building have been discovered by MT. William le Queux. The area Is 40x2O feet, and has in perfect condition its tas- selated floor of red and white squares in a tasteful design. Sections of red fres- coed walls have been recovered. From the Roman pottery and glasses found and much ashes mixed with bones, 1t ;s believed that 1t was a Roman temple ded- icated to Jupiter. There is a hollow in the center of the floor, with the base of an altar still in place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
Kaiser,s Ban on French Wines.

Something over a year ago the German emperor issued his flat against French champagnes and ever since then only German brands have been served at the imperial table. This ukase was not grate- fully received by army officers, who at their regimental dinners drank French wine from bottles disguised in German labels. It is even said that on one oe- the officers of a regiment and drank the prohibited liauor without knowing Of 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
Lorenz and Slang.

The surgeons of New York have in- dulged in considerable quiet amusement over the manner in which the English language has at times taken a fall out of. Dr. .Lorenz-especially the department of American slang. He was speaking of the fees he had earned while here We were told" said one of the younger men, ''that you pulled Armour's leg for S5O,- 00o.'' "NoI said the doctor gravely, it was $S0,000. But not the fathers; 1t was that of the leetle daughter"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
WORK AT sUB-rREAsURY.
Rush for Government Employees at
 This Time of Year.

Rush Tor Government Employes at
 This Time of Year. New York Sun.
 The result of the demand for new bills which, at this season of the year, almost overwhelms the officials at the sub-treas- ury, Is that the life of paper money. is growing shorter all the time. Having learned that the United States sub-treas- ury will exchange a new bill for an old and sOiled one of the same denomination. people are objecting more and more each year to carrying or accepting the hlthy and torn banknotes which are frequently offered as currency.
 At the sub treasury they say that the life of a banknote has been shortened in the last decade from i've and half to three and half years. Many banks in the residential districts now solicit busi- ness with the understanding that deposi- ors shall receive nothing but clean money. They send several times week to the sub-treasury for big bundles of new notes in return for their old ones, and while this attention to the prejudices of their patrons is inconvenient they find that ii pays them in the end.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06

One of the grounds of Colonel Waiter sons attacks on the fashionable Eastern CTS is their fondness for mixed drinks. The Colonel takes his'n straight. and has no sympathy with mixers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06

A Baltimore husband is trying to take a mean advantage of his wife. While she is waiting in Sioux Falls for a divorce he is trying to secure one for himself at home. That isn't playing fair.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
PRESIDENT HAPPY.

Mr. Roosevelt never appeared to more pleasing advantage, and few men in any land can do the honors of high station so gracefully as he or acquit themselves with more praiseworthy distinction. He was as happy as a schooiboy. laughing all the while. yet all the while maintaining a pleasing dignity. His abundant good nature, his proverbial kindness of heart was never more nnaffectedly shown. For more than three hours he kept his place shaking hands in that time with 1000 per- Sindiv we,rnns o ss % he haa stven i've S1oe to +Ss S first. He showed no sign of fatigue, gave not the slightest evidence that the cere- mony was tiresome to him.
 And this remarkable spirit of gracious goodwill as equally apparent on the part of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is one of the most amiable and charming of all our lovely American women. She remained by her
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
TEE ADVERTIsER's TELE-
 PHONES.
New Circulation Rec :.

nc cyrouIatton pepartrnant of The Advertiser fo compile a statement of The Advorusers nirculation that breaks all previous recoros in
 potnt of numbers. The average Tor potn the 6sxly and Sunday editions has entered into now thousand naark--a point that means mucn
 Xlaharna--and further demonstrates that the people of this State appreciate in sunstAnuGs way The Advertiser'B determination 10 puDash "a 1.-Two uGwspapar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-06
THE AFrEnwHILE.

But that same servant of The Advertise CT, seeing again this New Year the old white House. opce more made new and vastly richer than ever before, was happy In wandering another time through the charmed chambers and recalling the facts of that old Advertiser story written when mansion and 1t had no mistress. Even nineteen years count an age in the life of the comparatively young and just that long ago the White House was the great est glory The Advertisers proud young correspondent had ever been permitted to view as the habitatfon of one man, that man the President of the United States. So to this one worker and wanderer this New Year in the White House was fraught with memories that were pleas ing and hopes that were gracious.