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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
New Regulations.

Representative Socrates Solomon Smith of the -th Congressional District, will be angry clean through when he learns what the Postofhce Department intends to do with the rural free delivery service from now on.
 Ever since the days of Machen and his coterie Postmaster General Payne has been deeply disturbed by the part which members of the legislative branch of the Government were playing in adminstra- Politics and favoritism have dominated the rural free delivery service, it is claimed. to the serious detriment of a fair and equitable distribution of the ben efits of the rural service.
 The whole thing will be changed. Here after an entirely new policy will be pur- sued in the establishment of routes. Each State will be taken as unit. Congress sional Districts being ignored, and exam nation by inspectors Of proposed routes being the sole prerequisites to their es- gressman who hikes early to the Depart ment will no longer come smiling away from the office of a Machen with his bosom full of complacency and his pocket full of routes. The extent of this kind of graft, the superintendent being accus- toned to expect favors from Congressmen in their support of his claims, when the legislative, executive and general appro- priation bill comes up, In an increase of his salary and allowances. has unQues- tionahly been a tremendous factor in the business
 It is intended now to render the visits of Congressmen more inocuous to the good of the executive service. N 1t is intended that there shall be less expense and delay, to say naught of the annoyance occasIoned by the complaints from districts more deserving than those which happened to be favored. The in spector going into the State will receive the applications filed. each bearing the date of it's receipt. So far as practicable each route will be inspected in the order in which the application for it Is filed, and when it is found impossible to estab- fish all the route on which favorable re- ports have been made, preference will
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
PUTTING IT STRONGLY.

The Milwaukee Free Press thinks 1t is tough punishment to chain a man to a post, saturate him with oil and then set fire to him. as was done in Wilmington, but 1t adds that If mob should hap pen to get hold of a citizen who had been furnishing arms to enemies of the Government to be used against our sol diers, and should serve him as any of the mobs have served the negroes on scores of occasions. there would be small reason for anybody to enter a protest. There are men who engaged in this fear full enterprise. American made arms have been found on captured and slain Filipino rebsis."n
 We do not remember to have seen a more direct or positive incitation to mob law than Is contained in this extract. Selling arms to the enemy, especially in time of war, is criminal and wrong. of course, but we do not remember that any reputable newspaper has before advocated the extreme lynching process that is only visited in the South, or even in the North on those of the colored race whose crime is of the unpardonable kind.
 There has never been a time, we pre- sume. when American cupidity would not induce Americans to sell arms and mu- nitions of war to the enemy. It has been done ever since We had a Government, and will continue as long as love of money dominates the human family. That Americans sell guns and ammunition to the Filipinos is no news, but that they should be saturated with oil and burned at the stake is putting it rather strong we take it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
VIE ALL AGREE ON THIS.

Govern0r CummlnS idea or tarlu leg islation Is in these words: Duties that are too low should be increased, and du- ties that are too high should be reduced" :" If that blanket doesn't cover the entire political; aggregation, we can't imagine one sufficiently elastic to do the job. There's not a Republican or Democrat. a Populist or any other brand of politi- clan who cannot endorse such a deliver ance for it means all things to all men. Even the straight-out free trader can shelter himself under 1t.
 As our Government is at present con- Btituted. and perhaps for all future time. q tariff on imported articles must be maintained. The Government does and must depend very largely on the duties thus collected for it's revenue. Free trade Is very nice in theory. perhaps, but there will be no free trade party in power in the United States. so far as any man is now able to foresee. Revenue is in dispensable and the tariff is the simplest means of getting it, and might be the most equitable.
 2, All this is true. but the most ardent and COuslSlGHL lOW DemOCTaL Tn the Union can subscribe to the Cummins dec laration. that where duties are too low they should be increased, and where they are too high they should be reduced, but right there comes the split. A Democrat who believes in the real Democratic the- ory of revenue tariff will insist that the duties now charged on most imported articles are too high, and he will also declane that none of them are too low, or that they should be increased
 Republican leaders and trust benehcia- ries can also subscribe to the sCummins theory, but they will hold that there are no duties too high under the present law and will also claim ts# Atf many cases the duties are too low and ought to be raised. That is the natural way for them to look at it, and so both low-tarifr Democrats and high tariff Republi- cans can accept the Iowa declaration. They differ very widely when it comes 10 the application of the doctrine enunci- ated, but the theory advanced is sound. If Democrats should get full control of the Government, they will find many items in the present schedule which should and would be reduced and will find few or none to be raised. The Republicans will lind places to raise and none to lower.
 This new Iowa idea is finisher.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
We thoroughly agree with The N,

We thoroughly agree with The New York World that when the health author ities of Stamford, Conn, burned the manuscripts of George Francis Train. 'tthey committed a wrong that has no ground of public necessity to justify it." Train had smallpox and we suppose it will not be denied that the authorities were justified in detaining him at the hos pital or pest-house. or taking other pre- cautions in the interest of the public safety. but that was all, His papers were his own private property and they could easily have been fumigated and rendered tnnocuous. Train may be crank, but that does not justify burning his papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Set the Example.
Clayton Record.

OIdNIOn HeCOrd.
 We sincerely trust that Governor John ston is correct in his estimate of Roose- velt's strength and that the outcome may be what he anticipates. We need a strong nominee on 8 strong platform The Iowa Democrats. in setting aside Mfr Brayn and his vagaries, have set the example that all other Democrats should follow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
polishinp Rrass Bedsteads,

Brass on bedsteads should never be cleaned with the ordinary ,rass polishes. as they destroy the coat of lacquer that is put on to prevent the brass flom tar nishing. The bright parts should be rubbed with a soft cloth, and if they begin to look discolored rub with a cloth slightly moistened with sweet oil and af- terward polish with soft cloth and cha mois skin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

ience is the usual punishment" How does The Post know thisf Does 1t know of an instance where the negroes have voluntarily hunted and apprehended ne- gro for outrasing a white woman? Un- less it knows an instance of this kind, it has small foundation for its opinion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Can't Keen Up.

Fort Gaines Recorder.
 We have been scratching our head and thinking few "thupks" to say about the lynching of negroes up North. but they come so thick and ia t that just as we have completed an excellent CD article on one, we read of another which out does "tother,' and We get so added we don't know nothing" and consign the whole ching to the trash pile and say 1t is the same somewhere else as here if the shoes pinches the same corn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Broad and Marrow Logic.

WHShIngton btar.
 If I had my way" said the man of high principles there would be no money in poli- tics'
 But" said Senator Sorghum: If you didn't put any money in politics it isn't likely you could have your way
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Some Sarcasm.

UHarK ITIDune.
 We feel quite sure that all true Ala bamians are proud of Postmaster Joe Manning: he is such a gracious person. age! He certainly deserves so much at our hands. Some enterprising citizen ought to capture him and bring him down South and charge a small fee for a look at him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Z The Savannah Press thinks if bigamy is the nearest approach the army can make to a scandal, they might as we'll be good at once It has not been so very long since there were scanaals in plenty con nected with the army. ..,a.,A.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Why a lawyer should call any one of his long -drawn-out legal documents a brief is past all human understanding, " muses The Leavenworth Times. If the editor should sit on jury some hot day and hear one of these lawyers speak two or three hours. he would think anything else was brief.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
But Is ItP
Attalla Mirror

AtIaITd MlrFOT.
 It seems that he Cleveland Presidential boom is waning. Guess the parties be- hind the move have learned that The Fort Payne Journal and Marshall Banner are opposed to 1t and have become dis couraged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

The announcement that heavy snow. was falling in portions of Montana last Wednesday leads us to inquire when sum- mer begins up there?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
A Soft Graft.
MohilA Item

MobiIe Item.
 Senator Hanna intimates that If the ''sperit" should hove him he would quit politics and join the Salvation Army. A soft graft must be looming up somewhere in the field of the Salvation Army.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

If automobiles. come into anything like general use, our colleges should add one more feature-that of teaching the boys and girls how to dodge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

The Andalusia Gazette admits that a little plain water lis not to be despised early the next morning" To drink, or to cool your head with?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

The car of Juge-ncat had great repu- tation in it's day as a smasher of people. but 1t was not in it with the modern auto. That instrument of death is becom- ing almost ubiquitous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

When The New York Tribune speaks of the act of the Wilmington lynchers as anarchy. 1t strangely misrepresents the meaning of the word.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

There's nothing like starting in time and going the whole animal, as the vir- ginia Republicans have done by endors- ing Roosevelt for 1904 and 1908.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

". A. Scott, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn, says: The foregoing statement of The Advertisers daily circulation for the month of June. 1908. Is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from newsboys, news agents and leftover copies have been deducted.
 w. A SCOTT, Circulation Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before this 3rd
 day of July. 1903. F. w, JACKSON, I [Seall N. P, Ex.O ]. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
The Cause of It,
Eufaula Times.

Some people claim that they occasion ally hear a long, low wall issue from the White House in the small hours of the night. It is believed to be due to the Payne In the bowels of the administra~ tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

We suppose Roosevelt is satisfied with the unqualified endorsement given him by the Iowa Republican Convention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Patience Taxed.
Geneva Reaper.

GeneVa Reaper.
 The patience of the Caucasian rase has been taxed almost to its last tension and unless halt is called the black man of America must hunt another home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
SANS SoUcI.
A Select Home School for Girls.
 Near Greenville, S. c,

Situs ted at the foot of Paris Mountain in tne ne althful Piedmont region. Sans Souci of Lers every advantage of delightful climate and DeautlIul scenery. Three lliles from tho city Of Or eenville. It has conveniences of city life MitMMt its dangers. Handsome buildings, un- liInped supply of water from Paris Mountain whol esome fare. well cooked and temptingiy servPd. Large, bright sleeping rooms no dor- mi1 Ftes All bed linen, blankets etc. fur. nished Resident physician in charge. Primary, preparatory and academic depart. menAs Music, art, elocution physical cul- tufSi. languages. etc. Cooking, sewing and riding classes. Certificate admits to all lead- pt Is limited.
 For catalogue, terms, etc, address
 Mrs. William HayEe Perry,
 President
 Sans Souci (GFeenvtlle Col. s. c. sAl-wd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
SUNDAY, JULY 1,. 1908.
SUMMER TRIPS.

when you leave home Shis Summer, have The Advertiser follow you Seat by mail to any address. postage prSpaid. aI the following tseS. One week, Daily and Sunday ............s IS One month, Daily end Sunday. .eS Tnfee months, Daily anu Junday........ .oS Foreign pcslage teach monthl extra.... 50
 Resort subscriptions ars ttrtetly in advance order before leaving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

The mosquitoes that are arriving in this the same old sort, and 1t is difficult to say which is the worse-those with an 'M" on their backs or those that carry an "A A-"-Birmingham Age Herald.
 But both varieties are harmless till they reach your city and have the "B" printed on them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Speaking of the lynching of negroes and the causes. The Raleigh, N. C., Post says: We know that the race in gen. eraI abhor the crimes for which mob vio-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Will Regret to Learn.

Blmlngham News.
 Social Personal-Friends of the Willie Hearst boom will regret to learn that It's health has not been improved by its European tour. It never was very strong and the worst is feared.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
4 < 4 < < % 4 % < 4 % < < > M , WHAT THE STATE PAPERS z ARE SAYING. <
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Didn't Know It.

Didn't Know It. Piedmont News. The pension list is on the increase. in the place of the decrease. Probably the resurrection has ben going on and we did not know it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

If Boston sinks into the sea. isn't there danger of chilling the fishes and things
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

be given those which will show the inn
 proved service the greatest number of peo pie, regardless of the political complexion of the district in which the proposed
 routes are located. It is intended also
 to enforce the rule, hitherto ignored,
 that each route shall approximate twen- ty-five miles in length and serve not less
 than one hundred people.
 Fourth Assistant Postmaster-G General
 Bristow, who is executing the reform.
 looks for much opposition from Con-
 gressmen. There are some members
 whose sole service for their constituents
 has been through the rural free delivery system, and that sort will naturally pro- test.
 Representative Leonidas Francis Liv- ingston has already sounded a warning note that the rural free delivery service should not be taken from the hands of Its friends. Colonel Lon, who is a con- spicuous member-or was-of the House Committee on Appropriations, and who has rare reputation of getting what he wants out of executive sources. will be one of the leaders of the opposition to the innovation. But really Congressmen should welcome the proposed change as relief from a burden. Your average Congressman stimulates, If he does not feel. great aversion to visiting the de- partment on small matters. Anyhow, the experiment is going to be tried, and we shall see what Congress will do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Ward Seminary for n..S'I':. .SaH: t1a';'' 1.a;

SSh year begins Sept 24 LltsFaFy Coussss Rsssls AS
 Aioeuea csrslIieaslOR to wSllesley, Baltimore wom- CD College Fsenlty 90. AkIia and equabIo otlasss For caaaiSs address l. D. BLARToM. LL.D.. Bsz A-s.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Can't Break It.

Even the warm Summer months do not af- Feet the circulation of The Advertiser. The Jane proves cofeidsiveffyi that the usual high water mark is being enafntAsAet;
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Alabama at Departments.

Patents issued this week-Neal W. An derson. Montgomery. typewriter; John W. Belyeu. Alexander City, automatic leveling instrument; John L. Phelps, Flu nola, seed-planter
 Pensions to Alaha amians-William T King, James R. Beckham. George L. Shrader. $6 each; henry Lansden Helen Kitchings. Martha E. Brooks. Nancy P. Cash. s each: Monroe Whitecotton Thomas P. Randle. Edward P. Johnson SIP each.
 Postmasters appointed-Brighton,J Jeffer son County. Isaac s. West, vice Bettie Lilly, resigned; Coy, Wilcox County. Wil liam A. Mcleod, vice R. A. Smith. re. signed; Bluff Spring. Clav County. Aftor P. Mitchell, vice Martha J. Street, re- signed; Bosworth. Chambers County John H. Griffin. vice Lula Griffin. dead Napoleon. Randolph County. Nora V Earnest, vice L. c. Earnest, resigned Rtckey, Tuscaloosa County. Frank D Gamble, vice Wilkie W. Blackwell, re signed: Spinks. Coffee County. James R Phillips, vice Louis T. Spinks, resigned
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
The Tradesman's Weekly Report of
 New Southern Industries.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 4.-The pro- gress in Southern industrial development
 for the week just closed as reported by
 The Tradesman includes the following
 new organizations as among the most inn nnrtanf:
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-26
AMERICAN DANCER.
ISADORA DUNCAN, THE GALL
FORNIA GIRL. WILL HAVE
HER OWN THEATER.

Berlin, Feb. 26-Issdora Duncan,
the California dancer, has been snip
piled with s26O.oO by subscriptions
by her admirers. with which to build
q theater to be called by her name.
Externally it will be in the style of a
Greek temple, aud the interior will be
Greek. The thester will be devoted
occasionally to Miss Duncsn's dancing
and at other times to the reproduction
of Greek plays and to concerts. The
Of Miss Duncan has so attract
ed the Berlin public that the prices
charged for admission to her perform
ances are as high rs those Of Coquelin
and Nine. Bernhardt.
Countess Won Buelow, wife Of the
imperial chancellor, and Countess Won
Thiele- winckler. wife Of one of the
leading financiers OF Germany, are
among Miss Dunoan's pstronesses.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-26
LITTLE CHANCE
OF HAVING wASHINGTON'S
STATUE IN BERLIN.

Cologne, Feb 26-Koenisoh volks
Zeitung, a semi-offioial paper, in an
editorial today writes:
"German-American Of Louisville,
Ky, intend to donate q statue Of
George Washington to the vaterlAnd,
but we doubt very much : whether a
statue Of this kind would be sacoepts.
BILE. and it could under no ciroum-
stances be erected in the city Of Ber-
lin. II would be against our national
dignity to place a statue Of George
Washington, the founder ofa republic,
in any public square or park, but it
might possibly find a suitable place in
the garden or courtyard of the militia
ry academy. We are quite sure that
the emperor will concur in this opin.
inn ~
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-26
WAS DEMENTED
MISTAKE MADE BY AN UN.
KNOWN YOUNG MAN.

Washington, Feb. 26-W lille the
roll Of the house was being called up
on the Philippine coinage bill,a young
man, a total stranger, was discovered
sitting near the speakers desk, appar
emily deeply interested in the proceed
ings. Mr.. Kinds, the speakers clerk,
asked the stranger what he was doing
there. 81 am looking for my father"
replied the unlimited guest.
"who is your father'" asked
Kinds.
my father is God" replied the
visitor and | want You to understand
that he is running this place for little
while"
Mr.. Kinds at once saw that the
stranger was demented and told him
that his father was not in the house,
but was out in one of the corridors.
He led the stranger out of the cham
Der aud turned him over to one Of the
guards. Inquiry demonstrated that
the stranger was slightly demented.
His identity was not established. How
he secured entrance to the house, pass
ing the guards, doorkeepers and pages,
no one knew nor could discover.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-26
WANTSIT
Probable the Forty Million for
Panama Canal.
Il Now Seems That There will be No
Further Hitch in the Canal
Proceedings.
CABINET MEETING DISCUSSION

Washington, Feb. 26-There was
serious consideration at the cabinet
meeting OF the Panama canal treaty
and of the proposition to purchase the
holdings of the French canal company.
Just pior to the cabinet meeting Mr..
Knox. the attorney general, held q
conference with Mr.. William Nelson
Cromwell, the representative OF the
canal company in the United States.
Mr.. Knox told the president and the
cabinet the result OF his interview
with Mr.. Cromwell, but refused to
take the press into his confidence.
It is known positively that Mr..
Cromwell has been authorized to act
in behalf of the French company, and
that any agreement which he may
make will be binding upon it. There
is also ground for believing that Mr..
Cromwell has intimated rather strong
ly that he wants an absolute cash pay
ment Of either the $40, 900, 900, which
is the price agreed upon for the
French company's holdings, or else he
wants a. very generous proportion Of
that amount. tbs understood that he
has intimsted that unless such pay
ment is made the French company
will be open to any offers which may
come from private capitalists in either
the United States or foreign countries.
This attitude ON the part of the
French company creates an embarrass-
ing situation for the administration.
As long as the Panama treaty Is held
up in the senate without ratification
the remote possibility remains Of the
Panama route being rejected finally
and the Nicaragua route substituted
for il. While no one here believes
that this will be the outcome Of the
canal fight now being wAsed in the
senate, the administration lie 10th to.
tie its hands. The attorney general
very much hoped that his formal &C.
ceptance Of the French company's
option would bind the bargain. De-
velopments of today did not tend to
indicate that this had been effected.
The administration is prepared to
make IL known to the world that the
United States will not tolerate the
building of the canal by any foreign
country. After the cabinet meeting
Republican senators were made &C.
quainted with the exact situation, and
were urged to secure the ratification
of the treaty at as early date as pos
sible.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-26
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT
THIS YEAR 1T WILL BEGIN AU-
GUST II.

San Francisco, GAL, Feb. 26-Gen-
eral Thomas J. Stewart, commander
in chief of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public, members of the national coun-
Gil of administration, who are accom-
psnying him on his tour, and the local
committee In charge of preparations
for the coming ma tionsl encam pment
have decided to hold the encampment
during theIweek Of August II.
Tickets will be put on sale by the
railroads August 1, and they will be
good for stop overs both coming and
going. The time limit will probably
be so days. The executive commit
tee will be empowered to invite Presi-
dent Roosevelt to attend the encamp-
ment