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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08

bottom more than one hundred times, but obtained no more than trity-good sound tngs. Besides these soundings I dis covered the remarkable fact that the
 bottom of the pool is covered with sand. There was something so strange about this that I could not leave off thinking about 1t. The interpretation of 1t did not
 come to me till moro than six months
 later. In order that you may follow
 my thoughts l want to tell you a few
 facts with which you may already be
 faminiar. There was a time in the geo. logic history of America when the north estern part of this country was entirely covered with Ice. This is sometimes called the Labrador ice sheet, from the fact that it covered the Labrador Penin- sula and came from that direction. It's southern border crossed the Ohio River near Cincinnati. It extended through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and west of the great lakes.
 ''rhe ice continues to thaw at the southern and western extremities, while the frost and snow kept adding to 1t in the north. This made 1t moro like mighty glacier across the rocks of Cana da. Its immense weight and force ground and secured these rocks and car ried tho debris southward, where it was 0opooit'u VI lEOI ptdCo 10 pldCo wherever circumstances permitted. Before this ice age there was a Niagara River, but when on account of the warmer climate in this region. the ice receded northward and the Niagara again began to flow. its old bed from the whirlpool to St. David's had been entirely filled up, 30 that the river found an easier outlet towards Lewiston
 '"rhese facts are well known. Every student of Niagara Is familiar with them. 1t Is equally well known that there Is a belt of gold-bearing rock that extends all through the Labrador Peninsula and northwest of the lakes. It has an area of over 100000 square miles. In this rock there are the gold mines at Hastings directly north of the falls. In this rock are also gold mines throughout Labrador, Quebec and Ontario. It Is the very same rock in which Alaska gold is found. It is the debris of this rock that was carried down by the ice and deposited in which gold Is found in the Chaudlere country, south of the St. Lawrence. It is the debris of this rock carried down In the same way. in which, according to one well known geologist, there Is gold every where in the United States from Canada to Florida 1t is the same debris that has filled up the St. David's channel, of which the whirlpool of Niagara was q pal l-.
 'When the river began to flow anew 1t was directed against this deposit, like the giant nozzles used for gold mining in the West. Out there they collect fine
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
BIG BEN GETS A WASHING.
Accumulated Dirt of Fifteen Years
 is Removed.
Chicago Record-Herald.


 London, Jan. A-Big Ben, whose deep tones tell the residents in the neiRhbor- hood of Westminster Abbey and the houses of Parliament the time of day and night, Is having his face washed for the first time in fifteen years. There is a good deal of dirt to take off, especially on the north dial. which looks toward the city, and the east dial, whose face Is fixed upon Westminster bridge road. These were as black as one could say of faces. though an observer 1SO feet below would not have thought it. The south and west d1als, which get less smoke and more rain. are only brown.
 Big Ben's last washing was a diflcult business, as hanging cradles had not then been perfected. and to reach the face A scanold had to be built 19O feet from the ground. With hanging cradles 1t takes but week to wash the face. which is an expanse of 400 square Feet of opal glass to say nothing of the surrounding gilded Iron work With the last speck off his faces and Big Ben standing up four square and clean to all the world. new electric lights will gleam from behind the dials to carry the correct Greenwich time to an unknown distance. These lights however. are experimental. They consist of six powerful Nensi lamps, each of six ty candle power so that when the six are burning they will give light of 36O can dles
 The Big Ben tower which holds aloft Britalns greatest clock gets its popular name from the hour bell, which weighs 18 tons Il hundredweight The hammer for the bell weighs hundredweight, while the quarter bells weigh 7S. 8 1-2 26 and 21 hundredweight respectively. The pendu- lum Is just over thirteen feet long and weighs nearly 700 pounds. The dials of the clock are 22 1-2 feet in diameter The hour fingers are 2 feet long and the min ute spaces 1 foot square The minute hands are Il feet long. They are tubular and made of copper. The operation of winding is performed by two men and means several hours hard work.
 Big Ben's trustworthiness in keeping time has become proverbial with the Lon doner, who hears the boom far away over the city according to the direction of inc wind. From first to last the clocks and bells cost about $11O.000.
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he had just turned 1t into Latin during his absence.
 The now popular wedding hymn, o, Perfect Love-" was written in 1855 by Mrs. Dorothy Gurney for her sisters marriage, to be sung to the tune, 70 Strength and Stay" Slr Joseph Barnby set it to music for the wedding of Princess Louise of Wales. Canon Ellertons 70 Father. Ali creating, was composed at the request of the late Duke of Westminster for the marriage of his daughter to the Marquis of Ormonde in 1S'6. "trom Greenland s Icy Mountains" was written by heDer Tn twenty minutes In 1S19, and the only correction he made was to substitute "heathen' in the second verse for say age"
 A most interesting chapter Is that on children hymns. Charles Wesley wrote the best known of all, Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild" in TAO. It has been said that he wrote 1t for his own children, but thls is a mistake. for he did not marry until some years after There is a Happy Land" was written bS Mir. Andrew Young in 1S3S, at Rothesay. Go go with a tune which he had heard little girI playing. There's a Frtsnd for Little Children" was written by Nr Midlane at Newport, Isle of Wight near the house where Thomas Binney composed hls verses beginning. Eternal Light, Eternal Light. The charming child s hymn, Now the Day is Over" was written In 1S60 by the Rev. s. Barring Gould, author of Onward. Christian Soldiers The magnificent External Father. Strong to Save" was composed by MT. William Whiting. One of the most curious stories iA this admirable volume relates to the hymn beginning 70. Happy Day That Fixed My Choice" This was once sung at the confirmation of the royal children by the late Queens desire. The next day a leading London paper announced that the hymn had been specially written for the occasion by Tennyson, with a scath- ing criticism that if the Poet Laureate could do no better it was time objection was raised to his receiving national pay 1t was really written by Dr. Doddridge, who died in 1751.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
WHY CHARLES DICKENS DIED.
Incidents of the Wear and Tear of
 Genius.

John Hollingshead in The Pal Mall Ga
 zette.
 The attempt to diagnose the causes of Charles Dickens's comparatively early de1th at the age of 68, mostly made by friends and intimates, mas led to little more than one opinion-overwork, over work, and always overwork, mental and physical. No one who looks at the vast gallery of living, portraits which he has given to the world can require 10 be told that these pictures were created by long, intense and coroding labor-labor that never ceased, night or day, labor that concealed much of it's effort and showed the least In the mere surface process of transmission to paper. Many of these creations were worse than nightmares, as all strong characters in fiction must necessarily be. They are daymares. They were with him in his long, and what seemed to me to be dull, mechanical walks governed by mile stones and timed Dy stop watch. He was glad of a con- genial companion to exercise these spir- It's. They came back to him in the even ing and In the dead of night thev often moved him to rise and walk that long tramp of twenty-seven miles from Tay- istock Square to Gadshill, through the ms mist @ or .. early morning Those who can be slngularly ignorant of nervous organ izations such as Dickens possessed. and which probably killed Shakespeare at 52 setting aside the legend of the carouse
 
 son.
 In writing his strongest characters Charles Dickens always acted them He could hardly do otherwise with his dra- matic temperament and the dramatic na- ture Of his works. Why more dramas have never been manufactured out of these works Is found in the fact that they contained too much dramatic and "ob- jective" material than too little. From this creation of dramatic fiction the step to dramatic recitation was easy and sim pie. It was always mistake to call these efforts readings" They were the most dramatic of recitations-''stage plays" within the minutest technical meaning of the act The Christmas CaroT' was mere diversion-pleasant. ge- nial and not too taxing, like the book it. self-a poem in prose. If he could only have stopped at that, but he hankered after the intense and melodramatic. Against the advice of a small body of friends he selected the episode of Bill Sikes, from "Oliver Twist" This (ac- cording to my opinion. and ! was present at the private performancPl. was his death warrant. I was probably one of the few persons present who knew this drama on the stage and this exacting
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
CHEAP AND PRETTY SPRING
 COATS FOR CHILDREN

A pretty, stylish chfId's coat when bought in the shops tz Nh expensive af. talr, often costing as much as a grownug persons jacket. Half, if not more, of the expense IS saved when the wrap is made at home, and if a reliable pattern IS followed the result win be quite as sausfactory. Almost every child looks well In the long, loose, sack coat SO Ren- eraily worn. The three attractive little coats Illustrated are cut in that shape and are models of what the smartty dressed child will wear in the spring.
 The blue lightweight kersey coat Is pretty and dainty, with its wide collar and revers of white appiqued cloth. A Jacket made entirely of the blue cloth would be much cheaper and more service able without the white facings Large pearl buttons may be used in place of the frogs which decorate the fronts These frogs have an unfortunate habH of wearing out quickly and, besides, ara rather expensive.
 The green cloth wrap is very simple to make and really requires no specially cut pattern from which to, fashion 1t, Take well hitting dress pattern. allow for the double breasted efeect in front, then lay in on each side three deep box plaitS cnf. stitching them down almost to the waist line. When six corresponding plaits ara allowed in the back and the same num- Der in the sleeves, the garment is prac- ucalIy made. This coat is ornamented with beaver collar and cuffs, but braided ones of the material may be substituted.
 The mixed cheviot coat with velvet me- dallions appliqued on the collar and cuffs does not admit of any cheapening, as tha whole effect would be lost In remodeling.
 The Princess Metternich taffeta skirt Is fascinating. but not lasting If you want a skirt which will stand hard wear the material to get is alpaca. When ths ruffies are edged with silk ruchings, you
 MARIETTA STONE.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
EXPENSES OF WHITE HOUSE
Estimates Prepared by Col. Bingham
 Forwarded to Congress.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
 Estimates of the cost of maintaining l the remodelled White House, prepared by Colonel Theodore A. Bingham, have beer | forwarded to Congress by Secretary Root
 In an explanatory statement Colone Bingham says that in view of the fact
 that work on the White House has moi
 been completed it is impossible to give accurate estimates. but that 1t is appar- ent that larger sum than originally asked Is necessary. The amount he es- inmates for maintenance during the year Is $11O264.
 The rough" estimate made by Colonel
 Bingham is itemized in the following statement:
 "One assistant electrician at $60 per month, one plumber at $1 GOO per year, one head fireman at $65 per month, two as- sistant firemen at $55 per month, two ex- tra house servants at $50 per month each, two extra laborers in laundry at $25 per month each, hauling and handling flow CTS and plants, g., 900: for extra labor, sun dries of all kinds for the large functions in winter and for increased entertain ments in the White House throughout the year. 5000; for the purchase of extra flowers beyond what can be supplied from the propagating gardens, $1,5O0.
 At iS iulpOSSlple 10 make LIllS eSumate complete, but. as will be seen, the above amounts to about $l5,0OO which. added to the $S5,0Oo found necessary during the past year makes a total of $5o0OO. and the appropriation should be seO,OOO to cover all contingencies.
 Under the heading maintenance of White House grounds within the iron fence,' the former appropriation was Sl.OVO This was at time when the ser vices of the entire force of gardeners and iaborers used in the White House con servatories were available. As the con servatories have been abolished and the force referred to is no longer available for this use. 1t is necessary to increase this estimate to $4.00O.
 The number of lights in the house has been increased two and half times. now numbering over 2.200; the new electric motor takes two and a half times the current formerly used, and there is an electric dish warmer in the pantry which consumes considerable current. Under the new plumbing system 1t Is necessary to run an electric pump nearly all day.
 Tn addition to all of the above, which Is in the White House itself there is the lighting of the new executive office build- ing, of which I have not now the exact figures. but which very materially in- creases the amount of the current used The former appropriation for this service was $12.5OO, instead of which $20OOO will now be required.
 The item for fuel, which has hereto fore been $SOOO will now require 5000. be- cause of the increased number of fires and the increased quantity of fuel re- quired to heat the new executive office. which Is a separate building''
 The sum of $3.OOO Is asked for the pro pagating gardens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful it ia in Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disnfeet- ant and purifier in nature, but few reaI- ize It's value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose.
 Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of 1t the better; it is not a drug at all but simply absorbs the gases and in1- purities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system.
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectually clears and improves tho complexion, 1t whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic.
 It absorbs the injurious gases which eol- lect in the stomach and bowels; 1t disin- fects the mouth and throat from the poi son of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another. but probably the best char coal and the most for the money is in Stuarts' Absorbent Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form. or rather in the form of large. pleasant-tasting lozenges; the char coal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complexion, sweet CT breath and purer blood. and the beau ty of it Is, that no possible harm can re- suit from their continued use, but on the contrary. great benefit.
 Buffalo physician, In speaking of the benefits oe charcoal says; T advise Stu arts Absorbent Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bow els. and to clear the complexion and , If nA r also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and although in some sense a patent preparation, yet believe get more and better charcoal in Stuarts Absorbent i Iozenges than tH any Oe the Ordinaxxi charcoal tabletx4 wn-Ak
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character, saw 1t repeatedly at the Vic toria Theatre before it was repressed by the Lord Chamberlain's Department. The murder of Nancy, with a powerful actor like E. F. Saville, a brother of Lady Martin Cdiss l. Faucit, as Bill Sikes, provoked the gallery and upper parts of the house every night to such an extent that the GOO rabid and ragged playgoers rose as one man and nearly destroyed the theatre with a tornado of blasphemy.
 have strong and perhaps peculiar opin- ions about Bill Sikes in this connection. I may possibly be wrong, but l regard Bill Sikes as Dickens's Frankenstein ''mon- ster." I could say much more, but it is not for an old disciple to say too much about his acknowledged master.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
FAMOUS HYMNS
FACTS ABOUT THOSE WHO
 WROTE THEM.
Famous Persons Who Loved Them
 Some Children's Hymns Christmas Hymns.

London Telegraph.
 Everyone. perhaps, has his or her fa- vorite hymn. Yet few know its author and under what circumstances it was composed 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" when originally published by Charles Wesley in 1739, began. ''Hark! How All the Wellin Rings" Christians, in 1745 as a carroll for his little daughter Dolly, flor her and for no one else.' In the original the manuscript Is headed Christmas Day for Dolly" It was first published in 1746 in Harrops Manchester Mercury, and was set to music by the organist of the Manchester parish church. John Wainwright. While Shepherds Watched" another carol, was written by Nahum Tate 200 years ago. The popular Abide With Me" was written by the Rev. H. E. Lyte in 1S47, at Brixham. He had become so i'll that he was ordered to Nice. On the Sunday evening prior to his leaving he walked by the seashore alone for half an hour after service, fully con- vinced that he had spoken to his congre- gation for the last time. When the sSn had set he went back to his study. and an hour later the hymn was finished. pr. Monk composed it's beautiful setting in an inspired, ten minutes. Canon El- Iertons popular. Saviour, Again to Thy Dear Name" was composed so recently as lSS6 but has since then been translated t-'to nearly every language and dialect. Q story of how Newman wrote Lead, hdly Light" in an orange boat, while ,almed in the Straits of Bonifacio, Is u known. Rock of Ages"-probably
 most popular hymn in the English iguage-was written by Toplady when ight in a thunder storm near Blagdon wn in the Bay of Biscay in 1866 the omed passengers sang this hymn. It s once translated into Hindustani by
 enthusiastic native convert; and his ldering, literally translated, read thus:
 cry old stone. split for my benefit,
 me absent myself under one of your
 fragments"
 dany stories are told of the hymns of lac Watts. It is said that he wrote: lot All the Blood of Beasts" after a sit to Smithfeld Market, while the arming hymn. There is a Land of ire Delight" was suggested by the view
 Southampton Water as seen from the ie of Wight. He is believed to have itten 600 hymns; many are mediocre; few will last as long as the English 1guage. Jesus. Lover of My Soul' was ggested to Charles Wesley ~by a sea- I'd flying to him for protection during a orm. It was one of the earliest that
 wrote. A good story is told of Keble pr. Neale. both writers of hymns:
 0r. Neale was invited by MT Keble d the Bishop of Salisbury to assist them tn their new hymnal. and for this pur- SC he paid visit to Hinsley Parson- CSSoSiOH MI utNlAS
 go to another room to find some pa rs. was detained a short time. On his turn Dr. Neale said, Why. Keble, .ar' was entirely original!' 'Yes," he lswered fit certainly is.' "Then how mes this?" and Dr. Neale placed before m the Latin of Kebles hymns. Keble blessed himself utterly confounded He ,otested that he had never seen the orig al After few minutes of quiet enjoy ent Neale relieved him by owning that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08

As household remedy relieve indigestion, stomach bad keeping system perfect order invaluable Wards off sickness ds in the urie bladder troub headaches heartburn dizziness
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08

gold sand between the rails at the bot tom of the Hume. while the water, sand and gravel flow on.> The very same con- dition exists in the whirlpool The water, has flowed upon millions of cubic feet of sand and gravel Take these facts in with my discovery that there is sand on the bottom of the whirlpool,
 would 1t then be unreasonable to think
 that this Is gold-bearing sand?'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
FILLED WITH GOLD,
Tons of It Believed to Rest on the
 Floor of Niagara's Awful Pool.

Floor of Niagara's Awful Pool.
 It has remained for Peter Nissen of Chicago to thrill the hearts of the resi- dents of the Niagara locality with an opinion that there is gold in paying quan- titles at the bottom of the Niagara whirl- pool, that river pocket that Is so full of mystery, says The Omaha Bee. Mir. Mis- sen Is the man who twice boldly naviga- ted the whirlpool rapids in a boat of his own construction, and on his second visit to the whirlpool is alleged to have taken soundings in order to penetrate the mys- tery of It's depth formation, etc. For over six hours Nissen floated helplessly about the pool, taking soundlngs when opportunity offered and now in an inter view, he says the full importance of his discoveries of that eventful day did not come to him for six months. Here is what he says:
 "A little over q year ago hoated around fin the whirlpool one day from 13 o'clock noon to 7:3o o'clock in the evening. I bobbed my lead agaanSt~ths,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
Extortionata.

Philadelphia Record.
 Mrs. Dumley-I don't see why you call him liberal writer.
 Mrs. Wise--why not9
 Mrs. Dumley-why, he charges $2 for his last book, and it's only got about seventy-five pages in it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08
PaIpitation of the Heart.

subject spells of violent heart throb bing painful They regard often about it aggravatng eo cent of these heart
 entirely the stomach and diges- cured by applying treatment For this purpose PRIcKLY effective remedy, it the stom ach strengthens the digestion regulates the purifes By overhaulng correcting system the cause of the heart symptoms helps and vigorous body
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stimuant occasionally The digestive organs the liver,
 the kidneys and bowels lose their effectiveness at times and need help. At such times stimulating, cleansing and reg
 datng medicine is of priceless value because serious diseases spring from neglected disorders in these organs. An admir- able stinulant and system regulator will De found in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08

The uniform this remedy correcting disturbance the due ouot kidney the m o is n hhandare
 nd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-08

A good many years ago a string of coral beads was given every baby to cut it's teeth on. We notice that the young ladies are now wearing them. Heavens, aren't they though?