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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Once there was a long-headed Father who had taken the Junior into the Down.
 Town Office and was trying to eradicate
 the Greek and Latin from his System. 1 The Junior was a Lovely Chap whose Clothes came to about twice his Salary.
 He resembled the smooth-faced Hero of a Richard Harding Davis .50 Book. By keeping his Hair neatly gummed down and wearing the right shape of Collar, tlikewise vamping few tender Chords on the Piano and holding up his end in a flight weight Conversation, he had man taged to elbow his Way into the Front
 Row of that Select Division of the Hu-
 man Race known as the Landed Gentry, because they gea landed so often.
 i Bertrand Flappingdale was the Name , of this particular Confection. In Our | Set he was known as Bertie and among
 the Employees at the Shop he was known
 as a Blum. Bert's Pathway in Life was so nicely fabricated and every one was go awfully Nice to him that after a while he felt reasonably Certain that the Earth and the Fitness thereof had been dished up especially for his Benefit and he could cancel the Order any time that he saw
 fit.
 , Flappingdale, Senior, had never smok- l ed Egyptian Cigarettes and attended
 Junior Proms during his Incubator
 Period He had been too busy trying TtO IudAO kAAC 0AOeAA AASACNS sASS AACAAt SA4O LSaturday Night to another. The only Time he got real Lungy was when he SHold how he used to work for Six a Week land plant $1OO a year in the Building and Loan Association. It had been many tYears since they took his Boiled Din
 ners away from him and made him eat tArtichokes but he was still a Farmer
 at Heart And when they threw him Unto the long-tailed Regalia with the
 misfit Tie, he had Yap stencilled all over himself
 You may take one of these self-made lILuminaries and wean him away from his Pie and rub him with Silk Underwear for years. but you cannot iron the Lines of ERugged Character from his Front Piece knoR separate him from the Homely Doc ttrines that were called to his Attention
 by means of Hickory Cad some forty years earlier in the Game.
 | Consequently, the elder Flappingdale
 did not hit it off to any large Extent
 with Bertie's Friends, most of whom had
 their Names already set up in the Socie-
 ty Column S65 Days fin the Year but not one of them could have figured per
 cent Discount, unless he had taken a Day off. They did not care for Busi-
 ness, but Business never seemed to Lam
 guish much on that Account
 1 One of the Hard Jobs that Fate had
 mapped out for Flappingdale. Senior, was to prevent his blue-eyed Offspring from
 being abducted and snaked away to the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
School Days Per Capita.

~'1NS1H1EU IyelIBT.
 statistics show that the average amount of public schooling per capita in this country is 9SS days That is. there would be ees days Tor each inhabitant if 1t were distributed around Fifty years ago the average was Aoo days. and at the beginning of the nineteenth century 1t was but eighty-two days. The na- tion gives the school children of today twelve times as much schooling as the youngsters re- ceived 100 year ago
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Street Gar Accident in St. LOuis.

St. Louis. July 3.--Fifteen persons were in- jured today in collision between two street cars at the intersection of Olive Street and Jefferson Avenue. A. c. Killu. motorman on the Olive Street car. Is not expected to re- cover. but most of the others will 1t Is be. iieved. Both cars were filled with passengers. The impact was violent that the Olive Street car was hurled completely over on It's side and all the passengers were piled in q hean.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
Physician Gets His Fee.

Pittsburg, July 3.-Executors of the es- tate of the late c. l.. McGee have settled the fight with lg. Walter c. Browning of Philadelphia. ~over fees for services rendered, by giving Attorney William B. Rodgers. counsel for the doctor, a war rant for s34.0OO, the amount of the recent award of the Allegheny County Orphan Court judges. The amount settles the original claim of pr. Browning of $19O, 900 for medical services he had rendered The fight has been under way for about two years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Trains sT and ss carry Pullman lanta and New Orleans, with supei sleeping car New York and New Atlanta and New Orleans. Cafe
 through coach Atlanta to New Macon il a m. and LaGrange S:i
 Q. b, Tyler. c, A., Montgomer c P. A., Atlanta, Ga: R. D. Ll Charles A. Wickersham. P. and (
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

More marriage licenses were issued in Bal timore on the day before Thanksgiying than on any other one day fin the history of the city. The number was ninety-four The larR- est number previously was seventy-eight on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
aRovH,a CHRONIC oHILL CURE

GROVES CHRONIC CHILL CURE cures the chiias that other chill tonics don't cure. Made of the following fluid extI acts: Peruvian Bark. Black Root, Poplar Bark. Prtckly Ash, Dog Wood Bark and Sarsaparilia Eo Cure, No Pay. 50 cents. su-wed-frl-eo w,riy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

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corps. Gen Haywood has seen the ma
rine corps grow from small body lit
tie regarded by the other branches of
the service into body OF nearly 10000
men, standing on level in the public
regard with the army and the navy
The greater part of this growth has
come since he was promoted to the
head of the corps, ten years ago.
The corps is three times as large as
it was then. His own rank was that
of colonel. It has been raised success
sively by congress to brigadier general
and major general. Gen. Haywood, in
Uerson, has had more to do with the
advancement of the corps from its small
estate than any other man. He has
commanded the respect of congress and
successive administrations, and he has
been regarded as a soldier not involved
in any schemes and plots for personal
advancement.
The marine corps takes pride in It's
fighting record. 1t has seen service in
every war entered into by the United
states, and In proportion to it's numbers
it has acquitted itself with extraordi-
nary credit. It's enlisted men have the
reputation of being better drilled and
of preserving better discipline than the
enlisted men of any other service. In
Col Waller the corps has one of the few
really distinguished fighting heroes of
the United States, and it is due to Gen
Haywood and the esprit de corps which
he has cherished that much of the re-
cent laurels have been won.
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built ten years ago at cost of half
a million dollars. It's chief glory is
the famous staircase hall with it's
beautiful window which has never been
surpassed in New York clubdom
People move uptown and across
town; so it came to pass that the ma
jority of the Progress clubs members
became residents Of the beautiful re-
gions near Grants tomb on the Hud-
son. The present clubhouse must be
sold.
So James B. Haggin, the horseman,
has bought the place, about 100 feet
square, at cost of $735, 900, little more
than the cost of the building alone. 1t
is to be torn down before it's walls
have had time to settle, and upon the
site a mansion costing $500, 900 is to
be erected.
Mr.. Haggin has bought another
plot, 106 by 100, in the rear of his flu
ture home and here he will put up a
stable whose cost public report places
at more than half million dollars.
One four-story and three three-story
houses of the old brownstone epoch are
to be torn down to make room for
this horse-heaven of gilded magnifi-
cence. These houses were in their day
worth 100000 to $4,000 each. They
are not old nor weak nor in any way
undesirable in themselves, but the
neighborhood has grown beyond them.
l suppose Mr.. Haggin's stable will
be the finest in the city, but there are
others that crowd it closely. Yet.
though there are some pretty swell
private stables, it is by no means the
rule for rich men to establish them.
The fashionable coaching set, Alfred
Vanderbilt. young Hyde and their like.
take pride in housing their traps in
rather shabby hired stables. 1t is $50
much like the real thing, don't you
know"
Haggin's horses are different Ii
you kill coach horse you can get
another, but the great racers that Mr..
Haggin affects are aristocrats of equine
blood and must be housed ACCORDINGLY.
even if four great houses must fall to
make room for them. Loving horses
is one thing. liking to be horsey be-
cause it is fashionable is another. Old
Commodore Vanderbilt knew the
points of a horse as, we'll as any man
in New York in his day and liked to
hold the ribbons behind a pair of trot-
tiers. / doubt if his dutiful great
grandsons know bone spawn from a
whiff1etree.
OWEN A N-rrnnN
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work, knitting, crocheting. leather
work, gymnastics. 1t is fun.
Meanwhile, so greatly has expanded
the modern idea of civic helpfulness
that one school of philanthropy for
adults is not enough. Two summer
schools, one uptown, one down
town, are this summer to teach
thronging classes the art of help
ing people to help themselves. They are
technically schools of college settle
ment work." teaching people of all ages
above Is in the one case and above 81 in
the other, and from every part of the
country, how to train poor children and
clean the dirty places in great city.
One school of philanthropy is conduct
ed by the Charities Organization soci-
ETY., the other by Columbia university.
In the city alone are forty settlements;
from the city 200 summer homes for the
children of the poor, for girls, for boys
in which case the tenting plan is usu-
ally adopted, for mothers of young ba-
bies, are managed.
Perhaps the teachers and workers are
attacking the symptoms rather than the
cause of poverty, but they're doing their
best.
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FOSSIL BEDS IN IDAHO.
Meets with Great Success in
That State.

Prof. John c. Merriam, of the Uni
versity of California, has returned
from the recently discovered fossil
beds in Idaho, from which he and his
assistants dug ancient remains that
will materially help science in clear
ing up some of the mystic con-
corning the appearance and habits
of prehistoric animals, says a San
Francisco report. The exact results
of the expedition are yet to be
known, however, as the fossils are
still inclosed in their matrices of rock
and need to be chiseled out and
classified by the scientists.
The expedition first spent ten days
unearthing specimens at Soda
Springs, Idaho, and left them at
Wood Canyon, near the railroad, for
transportation TO the university. The
specimens are all ammonites, taken
from the lower triassic strata of the
fossil beds. The party then visited
Paris, where a number of fragments
were found. At Evanston, Wyo.
however, the most important results
were obtained, consisting of the
bones and vertebrae of number of
reptilian monsters and animals.
These latter are particularly waltz
able, as they are expected to demon
strate the evolution of the ichthyo-
saurus from the rhyncocephalus, a
fshlike reptile.
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section of the city known as Chicago s
black belt there comes at times ray
of light in the form of one who has
risen above and conquered the sordid
conditions which surround his race in
the city and placed him on a pedestal
as an example of what is possible
Such a case is that of Charles Winter
Wood, one OF this years graduates OF
Columbia university, from which he
carried his class honors. He now goes
to Tuskegee institute as head of the
English department of that school.
In Chicago Prof Wood Is known,
and probably will always be known, as
"the Bootblack Hamlet" His story is
rather romantic and shows the energy
that at times lies behind a black skin
and is exerted in the effort to rise in
the world. Wood was, as a boy, but
city hall bootblack, a street urchin
picking up precarious living by shin
ing the shoes of the freQuenters OF the
city court rooms. 1t was one OF the
city lawyers who discovered in him a
literary prodigy and offered him what
he needed-opportunity He heard
Wood recite sections of Shakespeare.
He was amused at the urchin's ability
and paid him to amuse number of
his friends by reciting portions Of
Hamlet. His amusement in time be-
came interest. He found employment
for the colored boy, and later opened
way for him to attend school, anil
has helped him through college
course. He was graduated from Beloit
college. Later he entered the McCor-
mick Theological seminary, from
which he also graduated. Since 1898
he has filled the chair of English lit
erature at Tuskegee. and it was from
there that he secured the John Crosby
scholarship at Columbia.
There are other "BootblaciS Ham
lets" in the black belt of Chicago.
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to have been concerned in the opcr-
alton of corner hurts them with their
big customers, the men who play the
game Understandings. at one time
had occasion to ask the head of one
of the biggest commission houses in the
city about a corner on corn of which
he was supposed to know something. Il
know absolutely nothing about it, he
said. This company is not interested
in corners. and we have nothing to do
with them
1t is the plunger who attempts cor
ners, and it is the plunger who usually
comes to bad end financially Hutch
inson. the elder, who operated the most
spectacular corner ever known on the
Chicago board. would have died in the
poorhouse but for his sons assistance.
The bear" side of the market is the
surer, though slower side if you under
stand the game. 1t is the bear" that
lands on top in the end,
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continent. Besides the racial elements
of greatest number at this point the
Italians leading, there are Chinese,
Egyptian, Roumanian, Russian, Hun
garian, Swiss, Polish, Austrian, New
Guinean, Venezuelan, Spanish chill
dren-there are even native Ameri-
cans, though these are few.
The school is like every other in its
range Of studies. but there are special
classes in which those who can speak
no English are put for a few weeks un-
til they can take their places in their
grades. In six months the child is
practically an American. and the
scholarship is high, the intellectual ca
pacity great. Was it Darwin who said
that the Albanians had the best heads
in Europe? Some of the little scions
of races unlearned at home show won
derful skill in lessons here 1t was a
little East side girl who wrote the
prize poem sung at the recent cele-
bration of the city's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
death ofa Veternn.

Col Edmund B. Gray, distinguished
Wisconsin educator and soldier, died at
the home of his son in Chicago. Col.
Gray was teacher in the public schools
of Wisconsin before the war Like SO
many others of his class, he enlisted at
President Lincoln's first call for vol
unteers in 1861. He was appointed cap
tain in the Fourth Wisconsin cavalry.
afterward resigning this position on his
appointment as colonel of the Twenty
eighth infantry of this state. After the
war Col. Gray was appointed postmaster
at Whitewater, and served throughout
his term. He was active and useful in
educational work. He was department
commander of the Wisconsin Grand
Army of the Republic at one time.
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tails with vast industry and splendid
skill He was sent to the capitol by the
secretary to explain the bill to senators
and representatives, and it is due large
ly to his clear, cold intelligence that
the measure finally became law.
Carter is'not by any means an "off1ce
soldier" He had years of the hardest
kind of service against the Indians on
the frontier, and he is booked to go to
the Philippines very soon. OF course,
he is not altogether popular among his
military associates. Men of his char
acteristics who have been noticeably
successful seldom meet with the entire
approval of former equals whom they
have passed in the race. And there
are insignificant majors of the line who
graduated from West Point in the same
class with Brig. Gen. Carter.
Troubles of the Postmaster General.
Just at the present moment Postmas-
ter General Payne is the object of more
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Kansas republican state committee. He
is a young man, hardly 40-without a
particle Of camaraderie, bent merciless-
ly on the prosecution of his work.
Probably Bristow is personally the
least popular man in the government
service. Members of congress for years
have been complaining that they could
not get things" out of his division in
the post Office department. But Bristow
hasn't minded bit. He has courted
the distinction, if anything, andRe takes
delight in hewing straight to the line in
everything official.
Bristow is born sleuth. He re-
iOices in the scent of crime, and he will
pursue trail leading up to it with the
relentlessness of a Javert. 1t is a rath-
er curious thing that just at this time
there should be at the head of the corps
of inspectors so typical a hunter-down
of wrong. 1t is quite probable that If
the present inquiry had not been started
Bristow would not have retained his
position in the department long, for he
had lost his political backing at home,
and there were scores of members of
congress who were demanding his re-
moval or transfer But it would be a
rash politician who would Venture to
suggest to the president now that he
dispense with the services of his fourth
assistant postmaster general
LOUIS A COOLIDGE.
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come slowly down the aisle. There is
boy from Cairo, girl or boy from Ma
pies, from Bulgaria, from China. Be
tween the lines floats the flag. At the
desk the files stop and face it. Then,
with the soldiers salute. the school in
unison repeats:
Il pledge allegiance to this flag and
the country for which it stands"
1t means something to these little
ones from all the world.
Col Albert Shaw, department COM
mander OF the G. A. r. for New York; ex-
President Hayes, President Gilman, Of
Johns Hopkins, and of the great Carne-
gle institution in Washington, and
President Butler. of Columbia, have
witnessed this ceremony, not with dry
eyes, am sure.
One hundred children from Italy alone
are every year sent out from this school
In the spirit of this pledge, besides the
fewer scattered scions of other races.
The vacation school teaches these chill
dren cooking, bashet-making, bench
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extensive business department Of the
government. 1t is the irony Of fate that
the man under whose auspices this is
being done should meet with wide
spread criticism because he doesn't hap
pen to be doing it in exactly the way
some of the critics might like. To read
some of it one would imagine that the
postmaster general were the principal
culprit instead of the prosecuting Off
GER. Henry G. Payne is one of the best
liked men personally who is prominent
in republican politics. He is regarded
by all his associates as one of the very
shrewdest and brightest political man
ayers in the United States. Mark
Hanna says he is the very best-and
Mark Hanna is a pretty good authority
on that question. He calls Payne
Harry" and Payne calls him Mark, '
and the two are as fond Of each other as
if they were brothers.
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complaints such as cannot be made to
men. supervises picnics and outings,
looks after the factory laws. In more
than one instance the proprietors of the
shop buy and equip a summer cottage,
where the girls can go under direction
of the secretary or her deputy and en-
Joy two weeks off, at cost in excellent
company and surroundings.
One of the biggest of these summer
cottages is placed in once fashionable
and still popular Long Branch. At the
end of her stay-it's tritiing detail, but
shows how carefully everything is con-
sidered-each girl gets box of candy
as.ts a printed souvenir of the trip, with
pictures of the cottage and it's surround
ings. This particular cottage is owned
by an employees association, and is man
aged by the members. The proprietors
of the shop merely presented it. Prob
ably they get the value of the gift in
advertising, but what of it? Don't ex-
anime motives too closely.
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-. expect raise in
prices. The commission man knows
this, and ''bull' letter will bring five
orders to where a bear" letter will
bring one.
The professional operator on the
board, the man who makes the buying
and selling of grain margins a life bust
ness, who thoroughly understands the
game, is more often bear" than a
"bull" He makes more money in sell
ing short" than he does in buying for
a raise. He makes his pessimisEi prof
liable at the expense of the other mans
optimism.
The bull" side of the market is the
spectacular side. 1t savors of corners,
but there has been more money lost
In attempted corners than was ever
made In successful ones. In fact, the
big commission houses attempt to re-
pudiate every effort made to connect
them with corner. To have known
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Sheriff Setright and officers captured
L. D. Gunther, Northwestern Railway
company baggageman, who went in
sane and who for three days had been
roaming the woods near Peshtigo.
Edward Monzel, of Milwaukee, was
drowned at Pewaunee lake by the over
turning of a rowboat Edward Mueller,
his companion, was rescued.
Mrs. F. F. Adams, Jr., wife Of the vice
president of the F. F.-Adams Tobacco
company, reported in Milwaukee that
she was sandbagged and robbed of $751;
500 while on train en- route to that
city from Chicago.
The Oconomowoc school board has
voted to erect new high school building
to cost $35 900 and to adopt the free text
book system.
Spontaneous combustion in grain
started fire in the American Mailing
company malthouse at Milwaukee that
caused loss of 100000.
Forty persons were poisoned in Grand
Rapids by eating ice cream. The trou-
BILE seems to have come from a ten-gal-
Ion freezer of ice cream. Some of those
affected were in a critical condition.
Manitowoc's school systems will be
consolidated and a central high school
established.
Frederick Abbot, former treasurer or
the Wisconsin Central Railway company
and for many years land commissioner
under the management of the late
Charles L. Colby, died suddenly in an
office building in Milwaukee.
L. G. Scott, travelling mechanic en-
gagged in putting sprinkling systems for
fire protection into mills, was heldup at
Appleton and robbed of $72.
Will Carpenter a 12-year-old boy, was
drowned in the millpond Of Murray's
mill at Ashland while running logs
The building occupied by the Beloit
Gasoline Engine company and p Fl.
Crahen's tobacco warehouse was dam
aged by fire and the loss to the to-
bacco stock was $4,000.
jeremiah c. Collins, assistant United
States boiler inspector and for years
marine engineer on the lakes, died
at Milwaukee at the age of SO years.
Louis Gallert, aged Is years, son OF
Rhinehart Gallert, farmer near Mari
nette, dropped dead.
Ole Wiggin, hostler in Menomonie,
and Christion Buss, farmer near the
city. both committed suicide by hanging.
No reasons are assigned for the acts.