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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
HARMON BAN ON DUBOIS.
Story of Offer Made to Idaho Senator
 Bv Churchman.

Washington Special to New York Times;
 A startling statement is made In regard to the efforts of the Mormons to get sen ator Dubois to reconsider his decision 70 Utah. It is stated on trustworthy author ity that an emissary of the church was recently sent to Washington to see Du- bois and urge him to desist from his at- tack on Shoot.
 the Idaho Senator, 1t is declared. that 1T he would be silent and allow Shoot to keep his seat he could have the support of the Mormon element in Idaho as long as he might desire to come to the sen ate.
 Dubois is reported to have replied to the Mormon Commissioner that the price which was asked for a perpetual seat In the Senate was entirely too high. is said, that the Mormon element in Idaho Is already at work to keep Dubois from being returned to the Senate at the close of his present term.
 The Mormons in Idaho hold the balance of power, and can. if they choose, pre- vent the election of any candidate whom they may oppose. It is said that Senator Dubois himself is aware of the danger in which he will be placed, and has decided to make a deliberate fight against the in obedience to the growing sentiment in some of the Western States that a Nor mon should be denied the right to vote, on the ground that he holds his allegi- ance to the church above that which he should cherisi as a citizen to the govern ment.
 The petitions against smoot are still pouring in. and there Is every promise of a bitter struggle. The position of 3ena- Committee in recognizing Utah as a Re. publican State Is counted on by Shoots friends to aid him in winning victory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
DRINK LESS; GAMBLE MORE.
Habits of Men and Women Have
 Greatly Changed.

London Graphic.
 Much more attention Is now paid to the liver than was formerly the case. The doctors in recent years have traced many Ills to drink and have trained their pa tients to be abstemious. That Is one of the causes of the decrease which has been referred to. Another is that the h. spirited man, who was nobody s enemy but his own," who drank to keep his spirits up, Is no longer favorite. On the contrary, he is avoided. The increased habit of dining at restaurants has also acted as a check. It Is to be observed, too. that the boisterous element has been almost entirely removed. Up to about twenty years ago 'knocker-wrenching
 'larking," practical joking the hearty style of meeting which found expressi on in violent slap upon the back, were not only tolerated, but popular. All that Is discredited now
 On the other hand, there is much more gambling today than there was. though, So far as cards are concerned. the stakes are considerably smaller. T rec es ates lost in three nights Is an incIuent which this generation is ignorant of. But almost everyone occasionally gambles in stocks and shares, and many mako speculation their chief object in life. Bridge has be- come little less than a disease especially among women. Many of the latter spend most of their afternoons and evenings over the card table. At the clubs. too bridge often commences early in the af- ternoon, while most of the gamblers in former days only began playing in the late hours of the evening.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
cHoATE's JOKE FELL FLAT.
Was Nos Appreciated in. England,
 But Enjoyed in Missouri.

Franklin Lane of San Francisco Is tell ing very good story which came out at the luncheon table on the occasion of his lunching with the President. Governor F. ancis of Missouri was present and the Governor was thanking the President for the letters which the chief executive gave him for his continental trip and which naturally made the Governors stay abroad a very agreeable one.
 And how did Choate treat your" in- quired the President
 Francis replied that he was very agree able. ''l told him." he said, "that he had made a great hit with the women of Mis- sOuri when, in response to a question as to what he would choose to be if he were reincarnated, he said he would prefer to be Mrs. Choates second husband. I told him they thought 1t very g aceful com pliment to his wife. He laughed and said he was glad the story made hit in Mis- souri. for it fell rather fiat Tn England. Of course, I wanted to know why and he said that shortly after the mot became oubllc hu met the Duchess of Devonshire, who is considered one of the cleverest wo- men in England, and she said: oh. Mir. Choate. I've been wanting to ask you something ever since I heard that story. Who is Mrs. Choates second nus- band?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
THE SOUTH IN NEW YORK.
of the City ot Southern
 Birth.

New York Sun.
 The. report that the southerners resi- ment to combine their political strength in order to ''rehabiitate the Democratic party is interesting and not improba- bie; nor is it an exaggerated estimate pathy with them there are 75,nN here
 In 1900 out of the 737,477 native whites of native percentage in New York, there were 2S,5 natives of Southern States, land. 4,437; District of Columbia, l i07; Vir- ginia, 444S; West Virginia, 40: North Car 9lina, 1,1$4; Mississippi. s95; Louisiana, IGSi; South Carolina, 1892; Georgia, 1.5Ss; 1853; Tennessee, 931; Alabama, 7l0; Texas 59S; Arkansas, 1S5.
 ~ Besides these, there were from the Southern States. 13,3S3 native whites of from the South of 36 932. The number of negroes of Southern Dir Il WIS 3l,531.
 Add to this enumeration of Southern whites in New York the number who have settled here since 19oO their chill dren born here and the people of South ern connections and Southern sympathies and the assumed total of 75,0OO at the present time is not unreasonable. These Southerners, too are of high average of ability and social influence. In every learned profession and in the world of ly than the natives of any other group of States unless 1t ba New England. They are also active and influential in politics, and. of course, are almost universally Democrats. They are olsO bound together by strong common svmnathes as South erners. If they should com inc in any movement to '',ehabnt'ta the Demo cratic party they w0ul be powerful.
 The exceptionalv high o,der of ability of the Southern contingent in New York would make powerful any combinati n among them for pol teal purpose. Their influence would not only be felt here but would extend also to the South, aft present the one great stronghold of the Democracy outside the city of New York If they should bring their concerted in- ttuence to bear on the Democratic Ma tional Convention next year they might be able to determine It's policy and the nominations made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER e1, 1903.
A onrrn. PLEA FOR MERCY.

Are there rich people. upper ten' peo- pie. who really believe that their class can do Re~-wropg, Of that if they do wrong they should not be punished as the "common people" are punished? Does there exist in the minds or hearts of some of the high classes a feeling of sppe- riority which, in their own estimation, makes them superior to the laws and to the requirements of honesty and justice to such an extent that they consider 1t wrong for one of their number to go to prison?
 We are led to these queries by some statements in recent issue of The New York Times of a man who stole for years, out was finally exposed. Numerous ap- peals for judicial clemency have been made in his case, and all are based on the Ract that during the time his criminal acts were going on he maintained an outward show of honesty and religion" In other words he was an arrant hypocrite who led a Jekyl and Hyde existence, pretend ing to be pattern of honesty and morali- ty while he was plying in secret the voca- tion of a common thief. In speaking of his case The Times says:
 The only explanation that can be inn ag1ned for the course of his advocates Is the existence in their minds of a queer notion that men moving in their own circle cannot really be guilty of crimes commonly associated with another social stratum, or else of a feeling that even if they are guilty, still they should not be subject to the disgrace heaped upon poor and ignorant offenders.
 It Is to be regretted that the courts and the laws sometimes take the same view that these friends of convicted felon do, but even that is no defence for those who are trying to save this man from the consequences of his crimes. Because he bore the name of a religious man and was accounted honest by his friends and associates he must not pay the penalty imposed on other thieves. Do these over jealous friends fear that punishing him will be a reflection on the class to which he belonged? Do they really believe that the cause of religion will be hurt or hindered by the exposure of a hypocrite? Do they think that honesty itself will suffer in the estimation of good people because the veil has been stripped from one who had used his reputation as an honest man to cover his villany?
 We have little patience with such a code of morals or belief Carried to its legi- timate conclusion it would prevent the punishment of any criminal who had apparently been leading an honest life. It would allow the forger. the embezzler, the bank cashier and all such rascals to escape punishment if it can be shown that they were supposedly leading honest and upright lives while they were really practising crime against the laws and against their fellow citizens. Such a policy as these people advocate is wrong both In theory and practice. While evil dence of good character frequently counts in a criminals favor 1t Is a new and dangerous code of morals or ethics that would ask for the pardon of a convicted thief because he had supposedly been honest and religious
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21

Our valued contemporary, The Ports- mouth Va.) Star, is very decidedly and emphatically "ferninst" Tammany. for some cause or other. It also takes occa- sion to rap The Advertiser because we in- timated that the 6O,OOO or more voters who refused to vote were not able to decide whether Mcclellan or Low would give New York the better government. As The Star is usually correct on all occa- sions. We give it the benefit of the doubt in this instance and append part of it's editorial:
 No. Stupid and shortsighted as he is, the stay-at-home voter, in Greater New York and elsewhere, is not the kind of fool that the esteemed Advertiser would make him out to be. He knows well that Tammany always has, and always will, stand for villainy, thievery and wretchedness. There is no manner of doubt in his mind tha tunder McCle Ian, as under Tweed. VanWyck and Crok r, the powers of darkness will have full swing in New York for another two that Thus enlightened, why is it ttat 60,0O0 of him, by deliberately refusing to vote. made the return of Tammany to power a certainty? A satisfactory an- SWer to that question IS not To De Iound in the supposition that the stay-at- home voter is an exceedingly great fool. The easy-going Adve. tiser may accept that sO- lution of the mystery and let it go at that. Nor is light let in on a very dark business when We call to mind that the stay-at-home voter is, as rule, snug parsonage, respectable and piouS w.thal. What and where, then, we again ask, is the secret of his power and his readiness to work so much harm on his city. h:s State and his country? There are some unscrutable things left in this world. The stay-at-home voter is one of them. Other reasons for his existence doth not ye, appear.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
Few United States Securities in Pos
 session ct Foreigners,

Few United States Securities in Pos
 session ct Foreigners.
 New York Evening Post
 Probably fewer United States bonds are owned outside the country than those of any other first-class nation in the world. This Is largely accounted for by the fact that the bonds have peculiar value to the national banks as a basis for circu- lation which raises their market price to point where they cease to be desirable for ordinary investors. The total of bonds held by foreigners today is $15,O65, ,I5O Of this amount individuals own less than $4- 100000; the rest belong to foreign insur- ance companies doing business in the United States Before a foreign insur- ance company can do business in the United States it must deposit with the Insurance Commissioner of the particular State 1t seeks to invade certain amount of bonds, registered in the name of the insurance commissioner for the benefit of the policy holders of the company in that State. Thus, if the Phoenix Insurance Company of London, England, desires to do business in Ohio, it deposits with the insurance commissioner an amount of bonds determined by the value of busi- ness, inscribed as follows: ''The insur- ance commissioner of the State of Ohio in trust for the policy-holders of the Phoenix Insurance Company of London, England, residing in Ohio." Of the indi- vidual foreign holdings of United States bonds. nearly half of them, for some req SoH, are III CuDd. Our HeIBHoOTS are doubtless attracted by the security which the bond offers
 In earlier stages of the country's history large blocks of it's bonds were sold abroad and branches of the Treasury Department were opened in London for their transfer and exchange. The French people today are great holders of the bonds of various other nations, but they are handling very few of the United States. Quite part of the loan made by the last Cleveland ad- ministratiOn went into the hands of for eign investors at an early date in it's his tory. But with the increasing means of the American people and the growing de- mand of the national banks these securi- ties have begun to come back, until now the world may be searched almost in vain for them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
For Cleveland

John Craft in Mobile Register.
 You can say that my enquiries as to the political situation lead me to believe that the name of ex-President Grover Cleveland is one to conjure with, in the Eastern section Of our country. From what I have observed and have been told. alike by conservative Democrats and many. very many, members of the think ing business element, classed as Repub- for the party to nominate with the view of carrying the States made debatable in the last election the votes of which are toral college.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
The True Position.

RaIeigh (N. CD Post.
 MT. Williams expresses the sensible position for Democracy-one that the party must take to win confidence-when he says We shall fight for a revision Of the tariff. for reductions as far as rossibls consistent with economical and effec i've governmental administration and consis- tent also with the desire not dest actively to revOlutionize existing conditions nor to destroy honest legitimate and non mOnopolstic enterprise.
 This is the true p sition, and II the Democrats will just inc up solidv on this line and nominate the man in whom the country has the fullest confidence victory will be Sure
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
Gossip cf men
 and matter$
Improve Highland Park.

T am sure that Mayor Carr has started in with the detei imitation of giving Mont gomery an honest and faithful adminis- tration of the city government. so Tar as 1t may in his power lie,' said citizen and large tax payer yesterday, and know that he wants to do all in his pow CT for the comfort and pleasure of the people.
 Feeling this way" he continued, T want to make a suggestion that I hope will be taken in the same spirit in which 1t is offered, and if followed I believe 1t will bring much praise to the administra- tion. That Is that Highland Park must be made thing of beauty and a joy for ever. for those of our people who have no other breathing place. There are large number of the best and most use- full citizens of Montgomery who are un- able to take any outing in the summer and they must look to Highland Park and Pickett Springs for what fresh air they get. The city owns the Highland Park property and I suggest that it be laid off in croquet lots and golf grounds tt feasible and a great many seats be placed all over the park from one end to the other. They will not only be con- venient but will afford a resting place for the people. Perhaps if the Montgomery Street Railway would interest itself in providing some manner of entertainment in the way of music and dancing it might succeed in diverting a good share of the patronage in that direction"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
ohio's Lightning Changes.

New HOrK sun.
 Speaking of Governor-elect Myron L.. Ii erricks great Republican victory or 1l4OOO in Ohio. it is recalled that in the Presidential election of 1892, Grover Cleve- land got one electoral vote from Ohio and came within about GOO votes of all the ocrats carried a majority of the Ohio Congress districts. Harrison carried Ohio in 1892 against Cleveland by only 1,Oi2 votes, so that a change of 637 ballots would have given the State to Cleveland Furthermore, it may be interesting to note that the Republican elector who was beaten in Ohio in 1892 by the Cleveland elector was Myr0n L. Herrick.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
.s2O, ,151, ,0o0 $35,S29, ,722


 "At the i've Atlantic ports there was decrease of A,332,246. The increase of S2,- 792, no at New York was but slightly greater than the combined decrease of $2,6n ,3H at Boston and Philadelphia, and the increase of 8 .349, ,799 at Baltimore was more than q, ,350, 900 less than the decrease of $4,694,44S at Newport News.
 Tn the meantime there was an increase at the three gulf ports of $15.67S,6 ,632, the greatest being sS,77457a. or 1ls per cent. was more than three times the increase at New York and the increase at New Orleans was moro than twice the New York increase. It will be noted, too, that the combined exports at Galveston and New Orleans were greater than the ex- ports at New York by more than s5o0,0Oo that those at Boston in 1905 approached those at Galveston in 1so2 and that New Orleans exports have come within s,oo0- Oo0 of those of Baltimore
 One of the sections of the South des- tined to contribute to Southern export trade is in the Grenbrier Valley of West Virginia, where already diversification in the lumber industry has sgseded the instance, to the general lumber business has been added the manufacture of tele- graph and telephone poles cut from the second growth of chestnut. Seebert is in best hemlock, nearly 90 per cent. of which Is readily accessible while scattered through freely is good grade of red and chestnut oak. It is estimated that a tract there of 5000 acres will yield 2o.- 0OO,0O0 feet Tanbark has been the lead ing object in the requirement of a terri tory some 400 miles in length and cover- ing 108,OOO acres, stretching from Durbin to Darlinton, to supply tanning plants at hoth those points.
 An industry that has attracted attention to that section is the manufacture of locust pirA or tree nails to be used in ship building. These pins are shipped In car lead lots to dealers in Baltimore, Md, and Belfast, Me, to cities on the Pacific coast and even to Quebec, Canada. At Cass a network of short-line railways dis largest and best equipped band saw mill in the Grenbrier district. The plant has daily capacity of 150.0O0 feet and during one month recently it's shipments loaded AZ cars. At present the mill yards are carrying a stock of sawn timber exceed ing 3,000,000 feet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
nolls Mada of Steel.

There Is a bg factory in the United States nOw-in New Jersey-acc )rding to Good Hou ekeepng, which makes dolls, very perfect and Durable ones. of she t steel. They are light and strong so strong they cannot be broken even II viii not come off. for their complexion is of baked enamel. not to be rubbed or scraped away.
 bies from New Jersey. for they have ball and socket joints. even for their ankles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21

A number of our contemporaries have been fairly spreading themselves lately and one of the best Is the 4S-page Sixth Annual Edition of The Mobile Item. It is full of good reading, not only about Mo- bile. but of general and local historical interest and information. There is much in the historic old city to interest Ala bamians and The Item is to be congratu- later for the splendid edition just is- sued
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
MARYLAND EX-GOVERNOR.
Says Race Issue Will Not Do in Ma.
 tional Campaign.


 tional Campaign.
 New York special to New Orleans Times
 Democrat.
 Ex-Governor Frank Brown of Mary land, who is here attending the horse show. said to a Times Democrat cores pondent today that the race issue. upon which the State of Maryland was car ried by. his party this month, can not profitably be made an issue of the Presi- dential campaign of next year. 'The question of negro supremacy said he, "has got to be met in Maryland, as it has been met in many of the Southern States. But the question will not be set tied there by changes in the ballot law. As an advocate of restricted suffrage, l have favored constitutional amendment and l think this IS the possible soiutlon, but the question Is not national and can not be made the issue of the national campaign. however much 1t may figure in State elections. The main issue of the national campaign will be the revision of the tariff If Cleveland is nomina ted, and he seems to stand the best chance just now. But the race question will re- main for settlement in the States where the supremacy of the whites is menaced, and Maryland is one of those States"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
Nothing to Do With It.

UZATK ITIOune.
 We would be glad to see MT. Cleveland nominated for he would be elected and why not nominate him? He is the only man that can defeat Roosevelt and wh tt difference to us does 1t make if he has been President twice before? If he i~ the man to beat Roosevelt with, why not nominate him and elect him if he should has that got to do with the matter2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21

and strike all sorts of childish attitudes: tha ne sHns nands sr can pc m.see 'a sodate s0nss @ little girls who have decided preferences as to brown eyes or blue. The hair can be removed for shampoo or a change of cares to pay for a photograph attach ment. Altogether, thfs pioneer American doll is characteristically smart and good looking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
Want of Confidence.

Coosa Democrat.
 We can not help the past but we may profit by it. Nothing is more apparent now than the fact but for the want of confidence in the Democratic Party vic tory would be an almost certainty in 1904. Th's want of confidence is the result of Bryanism and the fiat money craze. The money power of the country will never trust any party that has not sound views on the money question.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21
A PREDICTION
As to Rapid Communication With
 fha 0Id UorId

As to EVdpIu COmmunlcaLIOn Wlth
 the Old World.
 London special New York Sun.
 Prophecy is dangerous. but with a full realization of Its pitfalls the correspon- dent of The Sun ventures the following prediction: Within three months. proba- communication. without intermediate re- beating stations, will be established for the first time between New York and Lon don and telegrams will be exchanged at a speed of more than four times the previous capacity of any cable.
 "I am tempted to go a step further and express the strong expectation that with ing year it will be as feasible to con verse by telephone between the Sun build ing in New York and the Suns London office as it is across Manhattan" l"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21

Lend me your ears" said one of Shakespeare's characters. and another, still more liberal. advised to "give every man your ear," but We doubt If ei'her of them thought seriously of buying and selling human ears, as was recently done in New York. where one man sold one ear for s 900 to be grafted onto another man who had lost most of one of his. Science has many and wonderful sur prises these days.