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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
rALKINc sFNsE.

While some of our contemporaries cp- pose discussion of the race question we are of the opinion that much of this dis cussion Is productive of good. because it acquaints all portions of the country with the views of all other portions. We find. too, that some of the Northern pa pers are modifying their views very much on this subject. The Minneapolis Jour nal. for example. discussing the subject of negro suffrage. evidently sees why there is such objection to universal suffrage. and says:
 If the negro had gradually, from the start, been admitted to the exercise of the franchise this prejudice would not have been so strong as 1t Is, because there would be no specter of the horrors of a rule of ignorant blacks to conjure up from the past.
 sons which control Southern sentiment The old saying that "a burnt child dreads the fire is appropriate in this case. We of the South were very badly burnt some no disposition to submit to a repetition of the experience. It may be. too. that the recollection of that period, and the scars left by the rule of the negro and his allies causes us to be more intoler- ant than we might have been under diff ferent. circumstances. but if that is true 1t is neither surprising nor condemnable. The remembrance of the past may affect the present and color the future, but we are not worrying over or apologizing for 1t. And in this connection The Journal prints an extract from letter written by MT. Lincoln. The paper does not say to whom the letter was written. but this paragraph is interesting:
 I barely suggest for your private con- sideration whether some of the colored people may not be let in, as for instance, the very intelligent and especially those who have fought bravely in our ranks.
 This was an exceedingly conservative suggestion and if Lincoln had lived he might have been able to control the radi- cal methods of his party and thus have saved the South from the most direful experience that any portion of our coun- try has suffered
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

Mr. McKiniey;s majority in the cleo toral college was only 137 and change of 69 votes would have defeated him. It will be seen that there are enough negro voters in the six States to have changed the result of the election. In every one of these States except Ohio and New Jer- sey the number of negroes is more than half the majority; in New Jersey the ma jority would only have to be cut down one fourth, or 1000. to make the negroes more than one-half: and If two-thirds only of the negroes voted they would have been more than one-half the Repub- lican majority in the States of Delaware Indiana. Maryland. and West virginia, and nearly one-half in Kansas.
 If these proportionate figures continue to increase, the negroes may come to hold the balance of power. and in certain emer- gencies might be able to control elections If they were intelligently organized,
 This great power, the right to vote and help shape the policy of our government. was given to the black men without their request. None of them asked for 1t or expected in in 1865, and doubtless only a small per cent of them. If we include those in the Southern States, care much about 1t now The protest against the disfranchisement going on below the Mason and Dixon line does not come from the blacks. James H. Henderson, BooRer T Washington and their other prominent leaders claim that the race IS getting on all right in spite of these measures:
 The Johnnie and the Yankee" have about agreed that the fifteenth amend. ment. considering the time and purpose of its adoption, was a mistake, and that negro suffrage, taken as whole, Is failure. The negro problem would soon disappear if the Republican natinal con- ventions should decide that delegates should be admitted from the South only in proportion to the actual vote cast, and if the South should frankly admit that inc disfranchisement of the negro neces- sairly Involves the readjustment of South ern representation in Congress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
SATURDAY, MARCH 21. 1908.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of these signs m the mystic symbol ] denoting golden" which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 Advertisers value this papsr moro for the elass and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single gym boi; but there is higher grade. according tu this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require tho DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL UO to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol L00I and Is the oals paper 60 distinguished in this section ot the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Yale Sun Dial Stolen.

New Haven Telegram to New York Sun.
 The Yale sun dial has disappeared for a second time. The dial was placed in the new part of the campus between White and Fayerweather dormitOries when they were completed. and Dial night was established soon after. Once a year the students have gathered around the ancient time calculator, sung songs, danced and raised a big racket. The dial was almost as important a factor In stu dent celebrations as the old fence.
 The students who room on the new campus think that the men on the old campus have become jealous of the atten- tion their timepiece was attracting and purloined 1t. When 1t was stolen before 1t came back to it's place as mysteriously as 1t disappeared,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
LODGING THEIR TAXES

As an example of the way personal property escapes taxation The Milwaukee Free Press tells of a case in Wisconsin where two men were joint owners of a newspaper. The entire outfit was regu- larly assessed at s, 900. One of them sold his half interest to his partner for S2, 500 and took his note for the amount. When the tax assessor came around the holder of the note gave it in for taxation at its face value. $2.6Oo. Then the owner of the entire newspaper business gave it fin at N,oOo as usual and it went at that.
 Now. it doesn't require much financial knowledge to show up this transaction. Evidently the entire business was worth S.2Oo. or the remaining partner would not have given his note for half that amount, and the holder of the note con- sidered it worth what it called for or he would not have assessed it at It's face value. So 1t seems plain that the asses sor habitually assessed the property at less than one-fifth of It's value. The Free Press adds that the note was eventually
 
 just debt and a fair price for one-half the business.
 But we believe the city of New York has the most shameless system of evad- ing taxes of any place we have read of Suppose millionaire Blank has a great deal of valuable personal property and the assessor puts 1t down on his books at one million dollars. MT. Blank comes up and says: T will pay taxes on one fourth of a million and If you refuse to take that I will swear off all my per sonal taxes and you will not get any thing"
 This looks like foot-pad method of do- ing business but we are assured by the common and that very rich men by such means thus rid themselves of three fourths or more of their taxes and thus virtually rob the city, County or State of that amount. It would seem that laws might be made which would abate this form of rascality, but either there are no such laws or else there is no one to ex- eeute them. And it would be safe to wager that if some poor man without pull or influence owns bit of real estate worth one thousand dollars he will have to pay full taxes on it.
 Another method resorted to by wealthy New Workers unless the city papers are very much given to lying, Is to deny their place of residence. If one of them can find no other way to evade his personal taxes he will claim that he Is a resident of San Francisco or some other place and that he pays taxes there. This is prob ably untrue, but the game works and he saves his taxes. There are various ways for millionaire to escape the collector.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Who Wants To Be a Princep

Berlin Cablegram to London Leader.
 The following interesting advertisement appeared in recent issue of The kol- nische Zeitung:
 A princely family Is desirous of adopt ing a young man (not more than thirty three years of age), on whom the title of Prince would thus be conferred.
 Replies to be addressed, but only by very wealthy applicants. personally to the office of this paper"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Buddhist Priest At Yale.

It was learned today that Yale Cnl- versity numbers among the students talk ing the postgraduate course a Buddhist priest named lchino Shibata. He Is a soldier and fought with distinction and great bravery in the Japanese-Chlnese war in 1894 He received at the close of the war bronze medal, presented by the Mikado himself with these words in scribed on it: Rewarded for special merit" diploma also came from the government eulogizing the work of MT. Shibata and saying that he would receive a pension for life
 He is studying philosophy at Yale to help him in his religious work when he returns to Japan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
"The Shamrock v


 The following poem, entitled The shamrock, has been widely published and quoted apropos of St. Patrick's Day Anna B. Reardon is the author: My brother, see! I send thee across the oceans foam, A tiny spray of shamrock from your dist ant Irish home; For ah 1 know you loved it in those
 happy days of yore When yet you trod, unexiled, upon our Irish shore. And, my brother, when you see 1t, per chance you'll see there too, sparkling on Its tiny leaves glint of
 Irish dew For l plucked it in the morning, while yet its leaves were wet And Heavens own tears shone on 1t like a gem with jewels set. And though your heart is breaking with
 the cruel exile chains. Remember. o, my brother! that the triple
 leaf remains Free and pure on Irish soil, as when in Twas likened by St. Patrick to the Holy
 Three in One. And like unto the shamrock, indigenous
 to the sod, Is the heart of every Irishman-yea, even
 though he trod Through fairest tsrthest lands where is
 seen the richest soil: His heart is always here with us in this
 fair Emerald Isle. Oh, how the hearts of Erin's sons, this day with pride must swell. For my brother, O. my brother! we sure
 ly know full well The day is dawning bright and fair for
 this our own green isie. When Freedom sun with brilliant beams shall sweetiy on us smile. Then proudly wear the shamrock this
 day upon your breast; For soon. 1 trust, and very soon. old Ire
 land will be blest With the triumph of her struggles; and
 tis then we'll see thy sheen Sparkling bright upon her crown, sweet
 tTlpIe leaf of green.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Alcoholism Among Animals.

Paris Cahlegram to London Mail.
 M Grebaut, Professor of Physiology in describing the effect of alcohol upon ani- mals says that the successive stages of intoxication through which they pass are gayety. sadness. solemnity and supreme intOXicatiOn which ends In death
 Rabbits are very curious when under the influence of liquor, and a drunken kangaroo Is brutally aggressive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Lost-A Bunch of Germs.

Boston Telegram to Cleveland Plain
 Dealer.
 The loss of culture tube filled with bacilll of a virulent form on diphtheria has caused reign of terror in the sub urban city of MedfOrd. Because of the virulence of a diphtheria case he was at tending a physician made culture and sent it to the State Board of Health in Boston. The expressman lost the pack age and all day long the entire police force has conducted a rigid though fruit less search for it.
 The city physician estimated that by midnight the bacilli will have multiplied to such proportion that they could cause the extinction of an entire nation If dis tributed properly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

These will fatten your hogs. 1t makes no difference which field you let them in. one Is just as good as another. Get a few pigs now if you have allowed your stock to run out Make your bread and meat if cotton goes to 15c per pound. so much the better, but do not count on 1t for you will never get that price for any cotton for some years to come.
 We started to urge. to beg and beseech you to plant corn. peas and potatoes and other things to eat. You can not eat cotton. Therefore plant corn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Joan of Arc to Be a Saint.

Rome Cab;egram to Chicago Inter-ocean,
 There was a final secret sitting or the this morning to consider the canonizauon of Joa of Arc It seems to be admitted that inc canonization will be authorized.
 The next step will be a solemn papaI proclamation that she Is a saint; It Is lions betwen France and the Vatican
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
A Good Showing.
Sta

Ozark Star.
 The census shows that there are more hogs in Dale County than in any other county in Alabama It might he said too, that there is not in the State a more prosperous agricultural county or one where the farmers are more se'f-sus'ain- ing and it Is largely attributable to the fact that we do not depend on the West for our supplies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

The authorities of Portsmouth, Va, have adopted an ordinance prohibiting women from entering bar-rooms, and a Newport paper thinks the Mayor. who approved 1t. doesn't want husbands to run any risks of being caught Maybe he knows how 1t is himself and then it may be possible that they are providing against a visit from Carrie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

''The favorite place for shooting people in the old North State seems to be in front of the postoflces." remarks The Richmond Times Dispatch. Judging from recent occurrences over there we thought any place they could hit 'em was a fla vorite place."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
No Good in It.
Dothan Siftings

IITBN-
 Your Uncle Sammy is going to send some of his ships over to Europe to show how he can scrap when he is mad. but this time he Is not mad. and The Sift- ings can see no good that he will derive from giving Europe lessons. and the same time furnishing his own material.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Czar Did Not Include Jews.

New York Telegram to Philadelphia
 Public Ledger
 The Jews in the United States have been confident that the Czar's edct would grant religious freedom to their brethren in Russia, but the Jewish Daily News to- day received two cable messages from Russia assuring 1t that the edict does not affect the Jews in any way.
 One of the messages was from V. Goko- lof. the Polish editor, and the other was from Baron Ginzeburg of St Petersburg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Ignored Lee Statue Bill.
Richmond Telegram to The Philadelph

Klchmond Telegram 10 Inc PhlIadeIpnla
 Record.
 Confederate veterans here are surprised at the failure of Governor Montague to approve the bilI providing for statue of General R. E Lee in Statuary Hall. in the National Capitol,
 The bill was offered in the Legislature at the suggestion of United States Sen ator Daniel, and passed both branches by a practically unanimous vote. It was expected that the Governor would heart fly indorse the measure, but he merely permitted 1t to become a law under the time limit clause.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

The Advertiser comments to all Its farming friends the timely suggestions of The Greenvile Advocate which are pub lished on this page of today's paper The price of corn and the millions of dollars sent from this section to the West to pay for 1t, ought to be an incentive to keep the corn-cribs nearer home and to have them full next fall and winter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

has ever received is the fact that an en- tire fleet of American warships can en- ter the beautiful harbor and ride at ease in the bay. Commodore Higginson in a that the fleet would be ordered to Pen sacola every winter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Street Improvement.

Montgomery is rapidly improving its streets and sidewalks, especially in the business district.
 Gangs of workmen are now putting in new sidewalk blocks on Dexter Avenue, Court Street and Commerce Street.
 Very few streets in the business dis trict vt Montgomery are not paved and in good condition, but there is still room for considerable improvement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Little Time Left.

BIfmInRham NeWS.
 MT. Cleveland Is to take Western trip just thirty days behind Mir. Roose- welt. If the former President undertakes to explain the explanations of the pres ent President there'll be very little time left for fishing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Plants Something to Eat.

ITttnVIIIe AdVOcate.
 Plant corn. plant corn now. and next week plant more corn. Later plant peas, unknown peas, COW peas or any kind of peas plant between your corn rows, and fin any good place Then plant whole lot of pindsrs and then another field of peanuts, and then a third of sround-peas
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

Montgomery will not lack for amuse- ments this summer and with two street car lines running the people will have no difficulty in comfortably going and com irg to and from the parks. baseball
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

The Leavenworth, (Kan.) Times, says:
 The figures published by the Spectator snowing the financial standing and busi- ness or the life insurance companies do- lpg business Tn the United states in lSO2 would stun the reader by their immens- ny, If the reader could appreciate fully what the mass of figures really mean. me nfe Insurance companies on the f1rst ea oi ,Ss january last had assets amounting to sz,lOO, ,l3S.473, gain of $1S7 ITS. .19s over the previous year; their surplus over all lia-
 l.nies amounted to S-95 629, ,76S. gain of slS'Fs7s! during the year; they received m premiums $407 .36O +63, making gain of $41, i4s, ,sOl, being SIP 2S3 300 more than was paid in settlement of all claims the pre- csding year; the total amount or lnsur- ance In force was s. .792 2l9, ,793, showing gain during the year of s9ll ,Sll, 625 This ooes not include the Sl, l,S05,l64072 of indus triai insurance in force. thls branch of the business showing a gain of S164, 65l over lnoustrial insurance In force al the close ot lsOl. The table gives the aggregate for nve years, which shows that since 1898 the companies have gained in ordinary insurance in force B. .020 S35, sos. and in in oustrial Insurance $695 090. 563.
 The companies disburse every year nearly S200 OOO, ,0O9~i in payment of matured policies. Behind their obligations they nave the enormous total of 2,10O 000, ,0O0 Tn assets the property of the policy hold CTS The companies are becoming the largest holders of the best securities of the country, thus disseminating the own ersnlp of some of the greatest corpora lions among hundreds of thousands of people of moderate means living in every State and Territory"
 These figures demonstrate the popu- larlty Of insurance and show that the American people realize more every year that II Is the greatest protection of prop erty in existence No business is prob ably so remunerative as insurance and none more beneficial to all owners of property.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
A Japanese Mason

Viscount Tadasu Hayashi, Japanese ambassador to Great Britain. has been initiated a Mason by Empire Lodge, of London He Is not only the first Am bassador to secure membership in an English lodge, but he is believed to be the first of his nationality to be so initiated in the British islands
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
To Import Terrapin.
Eufaula Times.

Eufaula Times.
 Secretary Cortelyou has sent a man to Japan to import terrspin MT. Cortelyou will at least make certain of the unan- imous support of the swell restaurants but the Maryland monopolists will op- post him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Take the Twins.
Huntsville

Huntsville Democrat.
 It is rumored that Russia is stretching out her arms to embrace Norway and Sweden. What is the matter with Tnole Sam's raising a protest and taking the twins to his expansive bosom?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Captain Robson and MT. Bankhead

Capt. Richmond P. Hobson has writ ten a letter to The Montgomery Adver- tiser, and favored The Register with copy, which is printed elsewhere. Cap tain Hobson answers Mir. Lucien Julien Walkers recent letter in which MT
 Walker replied to a reference Captain
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Found More Bears.

Mobile Herald
 The high water in Mississippi found more bears in one day than the President could have found in month.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

Holding temperance meetings in Leav- enworth. or any other part of Kansas, is an apparent inconsistency.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

The crooks must go." says New York's Police Commissioner. and they will go over to another ward.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
The Advertisers Telephones.
Previous Records Smashed.

By referring to the following circulation statement for the month of February. 1908. ft will be noted that the Daily and Sunday out put is gradually increasing in spite Of the mid-winter season being one of the duliest of in point of daily average circulation of THE ADVERTISER.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

If the President Is lucky when he goes hunting in Yellowstone Park he may bowl over dinosaur.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

That Burdick mystery in Buffalo has been a great boon to sensational head line writers. It beats a revolution in South America
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Best Hunt Cover.

Ensley Herald.
 The Montana lackasses had best hunt cover while MT. Roosevelt is in the State looking for a bear to shoot at.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

A St Patriek's party" given by MT. and Mrs. Osterhag. in Atchison. looks like mixing things.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Q F F x E $ & Se @ a E E % x < * & c & WHAT THE STATE PAPERS ss $ ARE SAYING. <
Wanted to Lasso Him.

bITHIIHBHdm Ledger.
 A crazy man from he West was hunt ing in the capital yesterday for the Pres ident. He just wanted to lasso him a few times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
In Leisure Momentr
By C Reporter.

<<ssssS<SsessSf@fS Few men dare show their thoughts of
 worst or best; always sets apart A corner for herself; and therefore fiction Is that which passes with least contra
 diction,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

A strike among the mule spinners in one of the large cotton mills leads a contem- porary to anticipate stubborn fight. We may also look for some kicking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Amazing Life Insurance Figures.

Byron in Don Juan.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-18
PrOfensionRI Tru6t.

To any who regard the whole Legal
profession with suspicion / can only
answer: You are probably right iIh
saying that If lawyer hard played
the Vulturc he ould not tell of it, yet
In truth these evil birds of prey are
not the majority in the law. II they
were more than a small minority our
profession could not sustain the almost
boundless confidence it enjoys from the
whole business world. Remember. a
lawyer is judged day by day. and by
his deeds lie is justified or condemned.
If significant number of us were
traitors 10 our clients or If by our
hypocrisy we undermined tho body Of
professional ethics, the keen and un-
deceived men of this genorati ton would
not be placing i'll lawyers hands every
day their most momentous interests
and trusting implicitly in the honesty
of their advice. Suppose we do have
our little professional attitudes and
poses and pomposities; those are but
superficial mannerisms which may
make us awkward and tedious when
we, too, would write popular article,
but which have nothing under heaven
to do with our faithfuncss to our cli-
cnts. On that faithfulncss we meet
our judgment day six times week.
Everybody's Magazine.