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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

A factory where all the employees are blind is in prosperous operation in Phil adelphia. This factory does a business of over $100.000 year. Its superintendent Is blind, its bookkeeper is blind, it's 125 workmen are blind. Nevertheless it's va rious products have an enviable reputa- tion for excellence.
 A handsome. buff brick building four stories in height, the factory stands at the corner of Thirty-sixth street and Lancaster Avenue. A stranger, visiting it, might go through its various depart ments without perceiving that it differed at all from any other factory. He would find there men working dexteriously at rattling looms, or running up and down stairs, or handling sharp knives. or dodging swift and dangerous machines, quite as seeing men do.
 There are only two things at the fac tory that would inform him of it's pecu- liarity. One of these things is the cheer fulness of the workmen: they sing and laugh at their labor. The other thing is the workmen's eyes, which have the opaque, blank stare of the blind.
 These men come to work at o'clock in the morning. They approach the fac tory quickly from a half-dozen direc- tions, with a sharp tap-tapping of their iron-pointed sticks upon the pavement. The moment they are within, they lay their sticks, with their hats and coats. aside, and they set brislSly and cheerily to work blind men no longer; for train ing, habit, in the tasks that they per- form, takes the place of sight quite ad- equately.
 Sometimes. in the winter, it is dark at o'clock, when the factory opens. Some-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

''I am a firm believer in Peruna. find that 1t has been of practical benefit to a number of the men employed in the Street Cleaning Department in the city of Jacksonville. They are especially ex- posed to the inclemency of the weather, and a number who caught cold, which later developed into pneumonia, kidney or liver trouble were cured through the use of Peruna."-S. L.. Earle, Superintendent of Streets.
 Mir. J. Brake, of Petrolia, Ont. Canada, writes:
 -Four years ago had a severe attack of Bright's disease, which brought me so low the doctor said nothing more could be done for me. I began to take Peruna and Manalin, and in three months was a well man, and have con- tinued so ever since."-J. Brake.
 At the appearance of the first symptom of kidney trouble, Peruna should be taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. It at once re- lieves the catarrhal kidneys of the stag nant blood, preventing the escape of se- rum from the blood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys to excrete from the blood the accommodating poison. and thus prevents the convulsions which are sure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

an apartment on the ground floor wan aJaf. l walked up and down before inc house and noticed that the family wera
 seated In the dining room eating and
 urihking. At glance I saw that the
 open window belonged to the room used
 as an office, or library. Without hesitat- Ing moment I drew myself to the sin l and slipped through the window of the | little suburban villa--lt was at Maisona
 Lafitte. groped about, and with a piece l Of wire-I had already served apprentice.
 ship with a locksmith-succeeded in oprfl- ing the right hand upper drawer of the writing desk. It is curious coincidenca
 thas in nine times out of ten 1t is always the right hand upper drawer Of writing l desk that contains the objects of the greatest value. I found in the drawer seven gold 5-franc pieces, which at once slipped into my socks. Just as was about to jump out of the window I saw
 a policeman walking by. I slipped boldly door, opened it silently and in a moment was in the street with my seven louis." Such an exceptionally favorable oppor- tunity no doubt encouraged you?" "Yes, but once having succeeded in such an operation, found that any oth- CT occupation was tedious and distaste- full From that September evening be- came a regular cracksman-cambFoileu felt impelled to break into houses by an irresistible passion beyond my con- trol. I kept 1t up for twelve years with out detection, and I would have been free now had not my own brother de- nounced me- I may add that during all my burglaries l have never taken a hu- man life.
 The cottage that Delarue had built with the proceeds of his burglarles waa a sumptuous little house. with exception ally thick walls. Deep slanting holes had been made in the woodwork and stopped up by corks. These holes coA- tained bank notes neatly rolled together. bonds. shares and little piles of gold and silver coin. The corks were conceal ed with paper. Secret pigeon holes were found in the beams, concealing gold watches, bracelets. rings. brooches, gold purses, pearl necklaces and jewels of every description.
 The exploits of the Burglar King" are remarkable. At Dieppe one night, disguis- ed as a waiter, in a white tie and dress coat, he entered the room of an American woman in a fashionable hotel and walk ed off with jewelry valued at $30000. At Rouen he succeeded In robbing jewelry shop and riding away with $40.000 worth of jewels on his bicycle. At Maisons Laffitte he was discovered one dark night by large mastiff while robbing a va- cant villa. Just as the animal was about to spring at him, Delarue, with great presence of mind. struck half dozen matches, and, placing them In his mouth so frightened the dog that he had time to escape, The master burglar is a great athlete, notwithstanding his slight and delicate frame. His methods of operation were exceedingly simple. He depended on his extraordinary skill as a locksmith. his elegant appearance and his ready wit. The French police say that he is the most brilliant and au- dacious robber brought to light since Robert Macaire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
A FACTORY EMPLOYING
 BLIND MEN ONLY
It Has 125 Men on Its Pay ROll---t Does an
 Annual Business of $1OO,OOO.

|, cane chairs, make rag carpets, make brooms?
 "'Yes. sir: I can do all that "'Well, then, why don't you pitch in
 and work? Why don't you be a man?
 What do you sit here on the street and beg for?
 .sI can't get along at chair caning. or carpet weaving. or broom making, the
 blind may answers.
 you drink whiskey. Do you drink whis- key?
 :" No, sir; don't drink Why can't you get along, thenT Ingrain carpets, says the blind man, | can be bought cheaper than I can weave rag ones: there is no demand for chair caning; and, as for broom making, the raw materials of a broom cost me more. fin the small quantities I buy them. than | a broom itself costs me in store.' "That is the kind of talk" said Mir. | Hall, that I used to hear before the es- | tablishment of this factory. The talk was true and there was no answer I could make to it. The blind were de-
 barred from engaging in the trades they had learned at the institutions in their | childhood, for the reason that, working
 at these trades singly, in small way,
 they should produce nothing that did not | cost 200 or 300 per cent more than it's | market price. You, today, if you should decide to make bfooms at home, would | pay more for the corn and the other raw materials for say. gross of grooms, | than a gross of brooms finished. would | cost at broom factory. | "I saw blind men everywhere who
 either begged. or, supported by their | families, moped in kitchen cor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
FRED REMNELL.
Dangerous Kidney } Diseases Cured.
Pe.ru.na Creating a National Sensation in tho Cure of Chronic Ailments of
 the Kidneys.

Fred R. Pennell, Pianist, Grand Opera House, Hot Springs, Ark, writes:
 Two years ago I came to Hot Springs to take the baths and be treated for blad- der and kidney trouble. After spending two months here under the care of one of the most prominent physicians and re- ceiving little or no benefit. I was per- suaded to try Peruna. I had little faith in 1t, but after using one bottle noticed a marked improvement. Three bottles entirely cured me- can cheerfully rec ommend Peruna to any one afflicted as l was"-Fred R. Pennell.
 Thomas M. Hicks, 1131 18th St., Louis- vile, Ky, writes:
 Neglected colds, irregular habits and overwork brought on serious kidney and bladder trouble. My blood seemed in- famed with poison, my stomach became entirely demoralized, bad odor emanated from my urine, and I realized was a sick man. The doctors dosed me to their hearts content, but I kept growing worse Then fortune brought Peruna to my notice and at once began to mend. I kept taking 1t for five months before I was completely cured. I feel now that owe my life to Peruna, and will never cease to be grateful. l."-Thomas M. Hicks.
 8. L. EarlC, Superintendent of Streets, Jacksonville, Fla.,s writes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

ent places. and, as the contacts on the wheel can be varied, the exact ocation of the fire can be indicated.
 A relation between the character of dreams and the intensity of sleep has been shown by the experiments of N. Vaschide. In profound sleep the dreams refer to latent recollections of long past events and matters seemingly having no connection with the present; but the dreams of light slumber are inspired by recent occurrences and settlements, and are sometimes connected with what is transpiring around the sleeper.
 In a recent test of the durability of woods, stakes two feet long and an inch and a half square. were driven into the ground nearly their entire length. At the end of five years. oak. elm, ash fir and soft mahogany were entirely decay ed. Larch and hard pine were decayed on the outside. cedar of Lebanon and hard mahogany were in fairly good con dition but Virginia cedar was as sound and perfect as at first.
 Last year eleven British vessels. carry ing IS officers and 7S1 men, were employ ed in charting the oceans bed. An area of 12.661 miles was sounded, 8 danger ous rocks and shoals being discovered. and 1924 miles of coast inc were charted. Other rocks and shoals reported from va rious sources numbered 279.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
Lease Of Life Renewed
 After Terrible S ring From
 Heart Disease. Dr. Miles Heart Cure
 Gave Me Health.

Some years ago suffered greatly with heart disease. l tried the best doctors in our county and got no relief until began the use of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. 1 used three bottles and have not had occasion to call doctor since. It restored my heart to healthy activity and has given me . new lease ot lite. Prior to taking the remedy was very restless and got ut a few hours sleep during the night, felt tired out, had no ambition, was completely discouraged and had given up all hopes of getting better. had taken so much medicine without relief that l had little faith when l began taking the Heart Cure, but after taking one bottle could rest well. My stomach did not trouble me and in three months my health was completely restored. It is nearly six years since 1 stopped taking the Heart Cure and have had no return ot the old symptoms and know my cure is per- manent."-LEwIs LAWRENCE, Ft. Worth, Texas.
 Dr. Miles Heart Cure pleases every one who tries it. Taken, primarily, to strengthen the heart, the patient is pleasantly surprised to find that after short time, his stomach is Tn better condition, his nerves are steadieT, his color better, his strength greater, his appe- tite is improved and that he rests better at night The rea eason is plam. It cures the symptoms by removing the cause. Stop doc toTinR your symptoms. Remove the cause with Heart Cure, the great heart and blood tonic.
 All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address DE. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
How to Use Perfumery.l

To have your writing paper, whether note or letter size. or a plain business like pad, carry with it breath of dainty sweetness, you must keep it in tightly closed boxes in which are little packets of orris powder. Your bureau drawers will be perfumed. and the perfume will creep into your handkerchiefs and rib bons and your underclothing if you will line the bottom of the drawers with tissue paper; sprinkle this with powdered orris, and lay sheet of tissue paper above It.. A prettier way is to make a sachet the exact size of your drawer by quilting or ris powder between folds of china silk. Little bags of silk filled with orris and kept in the pockets of your gowns will give them very delicate fragrance.
 A pronounced perfume is vulgar. You must have merely a suggestion of it-a whiff-gone in a breath, not a coarse, heavy odor which makes your friends think of musk or. patchouli Perfume poured from a bottle Is apt to scent a handkerchief too strongly to please a fas- tidious taste. You may use your cologne or your violet essence, a few drops at a time, in the water in which you bathe or you may finish your toilet by wetting your hands with a tiny drop or two of your favorite perfume. Liquid perfumes must be used sparingly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
DUMB AND

occupied. with the self-respect that in- dependence gives, with muscles tired every night. they are happy; they sleep we'll; they eat well. It is a pity that the factory isn't bigger 1t Is a pity that more blind men cant work in it. here a are always at least 100 men clamoring for work We have always, like a fash ionable club, d waiting list of over 100 applicants"
 Tn the factory. the first floor is given
 over to carpet weaving and to chair caning. A blind man sat at his loom the | other day. The shuttles shot swiftly 1 back and forth, the loom clattered. and
 at the rate of nearly two yards an hour
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

ners- industrious men, willing to work, desiring above everything else to work. but doomed to idleness, wretched, querulous. unable to eat, unable to sleep.
 T saw that what was needed was a factory for these men-a factory where raw materials might be bought in great quantities, where labor-saving devices might be employed. where many blind men, working together might compete with the men who have sight.
 "So, in a small way, we started the factory that you see here. It has pros pered. It has grown. The men work here ten hours a day. and they earn from $S week up to $10. and even SIP They are self-supporting; about two thirds of them are married. WI minds
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

I keep my eye peeled for chaps that are hllnd-my guide, you know, leads me Up to these chaps. Now. suppose we run across an organ grinder. He sits on stool his little machine whines and wheezes: he has on his breast the pia card. T am blind and he holds in his hand a tincup. I stop before him.
 Hello. I say, are you a blind man"
 Yes he answers.
 Well, that's good; so am I. Now. how is 1t you can't get along better than this? Have you got an education? Have you been to school?'
 Yes, sir, I've been to school
 {" Do you know how to work-how to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

times it is dark at o'clock, the clos ing hour. Then. should there be, per- haps, a visitor the electric lights are not turned on, in order that the visitor may enjoy the novel spectacle of a factory running busly-men rushing to and fro, men minding clattering machines-when 1t is hardly possible to see the hand be- fore the face.
 H. L. Hall conducts the factory; he, indeed, founded 1t. A blind man, tall and erect, with a white beard, with a look of energy and of intelligence, MT. Hall sits all day at his desk, a telephone at his elbow. Ask him the meaning and the history of the plant and he takes his cigar from his mouth and answers:
 "I have always been interested in blind men. l go about a great deal, and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

gives great vigor to the hearts action and digestive system. both of which are apt to fail rapidly in this disease.
 Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because 1t cures catarrh wherever located.
 If you do not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case. and he will pc pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis.
 Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus, o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.
Remarkable Story of a Frenchman Who has Committed Four Thous-
 and Crimes.

and Crimes.
 Paris Correspondence New York Tri-
 bune.
 There was great excitement and sat isfaction last Saturday in that pictur- esque region to the northwest of Paris, extending along the Seine valley from Saint-Germain to Vernon, when 1t was learned that Laurent Delarue, popularly kown as the King of the Burglars, % had been arrested in his mysterious home at Sartrouville. For twelve years the inhabitants of the Department of the l Seine and Disc, which contains innum- | erable chateaus, sumptuous villas anc country residences, have been amazed by the frequency and audacity with which houses had been entered and ransacket with impunity, for the housebreaking haC | been carried on so skillfully and system | atically as to defy detection. Real es
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
ROMAN ALPHABET IN JAPAN.
To Be Taught in the Government
 Primary Schools.

Primary Schools.
 An important step In the progress of Japan, says The New York Evening Post, is apparently about to be taken in the compulsory teaching of the Roman alphabet, as we'll as a Romanized Japan csc alphabet in the government primary schools. This work has been done. to some extent already in the universities, but, if this proposal of the Education De- partment be adopted. the Romanization of the Japanese language Is not far distant, for the next generation of Japanese of all classes will be familiar with the Latin alphabet. It is difficult to realize all that this will mean to the nation. It will Simplify political and commercial rela- tions, and will render Western thought and literature accessible to the bulk of the people. The scheme. if it find favor, will probably come into operation at the beginning of the next scholastic year. leaving a few months for the preparation of the readers and other handbooks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

Some authors still work in the old painstaking way MT. Wright was more than two years at work on The Printer of Udelrs." And more than that. he re- wrote many chapters after he seemed to have finished.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

All the punishment we would ask for some people is that they could be made to hear their own voices over the tele- phone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

In the new fire alarm system of Emile Guarini of Brussels, automatic signals are sent to the engine house by wireless telegraphy. The rise or the mercury in a thermometer acts upon a relay. and sets in motion a wheel, which makes and breaks the electric circuit by se- ries of contacts. A series of impulses is thus sent through an induction coil and the usual transmitting apparatus. The receiver at the central station, or engine house, includes air and earth conductors, coherer. battery and Morse instruments. The same receiver can serve a number of transmitters in differ
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

With an open gauge in a central part of Edinburgh. Dr. w. c. Black last year
 collected dust and soot indicating to-
 tai fall of twenty-four pounds per 100 square feet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

storms being greatest between new moon and first quarter and least between full moon and last quarter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

Astronomers themselves seem to be tending now to a belief in some conneo- tion between the moon and the weather.
 From statistics from various sources Prof. W. H. Pickering has concluded that thunderstorms are really more nu- merous in the first half of the lunar month than in the last liability to the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY

The Moons Secrets-Ancient Coral Mining-A Snow Worm-Power for Future Use-1-e s2cnge Fishers Foe-Thunderstorms and the Moon--A Wireless Fire-Alarm-How Dreams are Shaped-Decay of
 Woods-ocean Sur
 veys.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-03
Blasts from RAMS Horn.

mushy religion will not make men.
Patience is fruit plucked only in
the gardens of pain.
The only way to exclude the evil is
to entertain the good.
Some people complain because 1t
costs an egg to get a chicken.
Watching others is often an attempt
to hide your own weakness.
The seats in heaven will not be as
signed by the size of our heads.
The attempt to be a good fellow has
often prevented being good man.
Sentimental tenderness to the GRIM
inal may be cruelty to his victims.
When man is in the right he is not
afraid of being misrepresented.
Grasping dime may keep you out
of heaven as much as a greed for a
dollar.
Perfection may be like the North
star impossible to touch but good to
steer by.
You cannot pull man out OF the
mire OF sin by throwing rocks of CEN
sure a! him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-03
EXTRA SESSION OF SENATE.

1t is now definitely determined that
an extra session of the senate will be
held for the purpose of ratifying
treaties, and that the Panama canal
treaty and the Cuban reciprocity meas
ure, at least, VIII then be approved.
The president has hitherto said that if
either of these treaties failed on the
regular session he would issue call
bility of failure has already led him to
prepare proclamation for this pur-
pose. 1t is arranged that the special
session shall begin March 5th. No esti-
mate can be made on the length of time
which will be required to ratify the
Panama canal treaty, as that will de-
pend on the endurance of Senator Nor
gan, who is opposing it by continuous
performance in speech making, but
there is a general impression that the
session will not last less than six weeks.
The adoption of the Cuban treaty in
special session is said to be assured.
According to the friends of this meas
ure, gain of at least six votes will re-
suit from changes in membership of the
senate. that number who are antagon-
istic to it stepping out with the expira-
ton of the present congress, to be re-
placed by those favorable to it,
Senator Morgan. in his determined
opposition to allowing vote on the
Panama treaty. is acting within the
rules, but is also displaying stub
bornness and folly that can not be JUS
titled by any rule of common sense. He
is sure to fall in the end and wind up
with his pains and general public re-
buke as his reward.