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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
COUNCILS LIVELY DEBATE
ON POLICE COMMISSION

20 pc taken out Of suspense. He
NAG peen opposed to a Police Commission
put since the law had been passed he de-
sir req 70 see the Council do its duty.
men was approached by an Adver-
User User reporter during the Sampaign," said
alderman Sullivan. land asked my views
on me Police Commission act 1 replied
ing votes. got those votes as my
presence here process What right have
we to appear here and say that this law
ony ne clacss "a The courts are the
alderman Roemer said that he desired
70 70 80 on record for a Police Commission
re would stand for 1t he said until the
'a 1892 was put IN the courts and tested.
no more vote to violate this law of the
city than he would vote to violate any
other law Of the city. The city charter.
constitutional law. He would support
the law he said IL II was a law. The
resolution under consideration, he said,
was not introduced at anybody's request.
,Mer De allowed to stand as It was and
MI jackson seconded his motion.
Mr: Foroes insisted on the Council going
law would be tested he declared.
Lei US elect Commission said Mr..
Forbes and IL nobody else will test the
law ! will do it, myself. He was sup
en- to that action. Mr.. Ruth suggested
that a committee be appointed to formu-
late plan for testing the law.
MT. Gunter said that the committee was
not necessary as the law would be tested
without one.
All three propositions before the coun-
Gil were lost by tie vote, seven and
seven, Alderman Lobman being absent.
Called for City Attorney.
City Attorney Ray Rushton was finally
invoked before the Council. He said the
act could be tested whether the commits
sioners were or were not elected. If
they were elected, he said, quo warranto
proceedings could be brought against
them to test the law. If they were not
elected mandamus proceedings could be
instituted against the ColAaG1 to compel
the Council to elect the commissioners.
Finally Alderman Kohn moved to re-
consider the vote by which the league
amendment was adopted and the motion
prev prevailed: The league amendment was
The Council adjourned a few minutes
before midnight, having occupied nearly
two hours in the discussion of the Police
Commission act.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
Montgomery Lumber Man'fg. CO
Ala. Hardwood Mig. Co.
Montgomery Sash, Door s. Blind Col
Montgomery. Ala.

The new installed plant
Mfg Co.. plant they greatly enlarged adding
machinery sticks in their
rough manufactured into Blinds
mill finish, Ceiling
They also in the market Hickory other
I'LL orders Sck Pit
and other loom work and in vita correspondence
for continuance of the liberal Of hs old
which they absorbed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
AT MERCY OF BURGLARS
SIX MONTGOMERY RESIDENCES
WERE ROBBED.
Thieves Secured $4oO Worth of VAL
uables and Police Chief Gerald
Declares Patrolmen Cannot
Protect the City.

Six burglaries committed in Montgom-
cry Saturday night were reported to po-
lice headquarters Sunday morning and
one negro reported that he was held up
and robbed by band of negroes.
Police Chief A. S. Gerald says 1t is ut
terly impossible to protect the people of
Greater Montgomery with the limited
number of policemen provided by the
city. Moreover. he declares. that citizens
are careless. They do not lock their
houses thereby inviting robbery
"One Citizen he said, whose house
has been robbed twice within a week, told
me the back door to his house was never
locked
Not one arrest has been made of per-
sons suspected of having entered the res
licences Saturday night. If the police have
clue to the Identity OF the burglars
they make no intimation of it,
Money and valuables amounting to at
least $500 were secured by the burglars.
The houses entered were as follows
Leon Well, 402 South Lawrence Street;
G. g. Abercrombie, 49 South Perry
Street; Joseph Norwood $40 South Perry
Street; John w. Chastain 100 South Perry
Street. and w. e. NPeeples, Park Place.
Highland Park. Five Sof these residences
city.
Mr.. Peoples was the heaviest loser by
the visit of night thieves. At his house
Tue DuIBldT OF burglars secured $llZ. AL
Mr.. Wells they got $40 or So. Mr.. Aber-
crombie lost two pistols and $25 Fine
gold watches and some money were taken
from the residences of Messrs. league
and Norwood and refrigerator at Mr.
Chastains residence was robbed.
Henry Williams, a negro plumber. re-
ported that he was held up late Saturday
night on Goode Street by several negroes
who cut the pocket to his trousers with n
knife and took therefrom a small amount
of money. He was cut about the neck
with a knife and his life was threatened
Alfred Smith, a negro, was arrested
and Williams has identified him
positively as being one of the negroes
who attacked him.
Bad habits grow with much less cuIti-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
sTERILIZED BARBER SHOP.
A Famous Shop in the Carrolltor
Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland.

The barber shop in the Carrollton Hotel
Baltimore, sterilizes everything II uses in
the shop. The sterilizing is done by heat
Inc towels, the razors, the strops, the
combs and brushes are all sterilized be-
fore being used on customer. Wher,
there Is no sterilization. have the barber
use Newbro's Herpicide. 1t kills the dan
orun germ and it is an antiseptic for the
scalp. and for the face after shaving All
leading BARRIERS everywhere annrecia,a
these potent facts about Herpicide and
they use it. Destroy the cause YOU re-
move the effect" Sold by leading drug
giists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to
The Herpicide Co.. Detroit, Mich. q, q.
Fowler, Special Agent. tues.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
Take K0DOL for Dyspepsia
Sour Stomach, Tired Stomach Weak Stomach, Pulled
Stomach Nervous Stomach, Gas on Stomach Catarh
Of the Stomach and all other Symptoms Of
Indigestion.

Douglasville, Ga, May II, 1902.
I have been travelling for nearly two
years and have suffered very badly from
indigestion and dyspepsia. ] tried sew
eral physicians and all kinds of patent
medicines but Kodol is the first and only
remedy that has done me any good what
ever: now / have only used two small
bottles and to my surprise 1t has cured
me sound and well.-B. w. Wattern.
Recent experiments, by practical tests
and examination with the aid of the X
ray, establish 1t as a fact that Catarrh of
the Stomach Is not disease In itself, but
that 1t is a condition resulting from re-
peated attacks of indigestion.
The stomach and alimentary canal, or
digestive tract, Is lined or coated with
mucous membrane. Studding the surface
Of this mucous membrane are the gastric
glands. Here, also, are the terminal
branches Of the pneumogastric nerves,
and many branches from the sympathetic
system.
Bottles only. 800 Size holding i-2
times the trial size, which sells for SOC.
Prepared by e. c. Dewitt G. Co., Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
DIED IN PRISON.
Frank Robinson a Negro Expired at
Police Headquarters.

Frank Robinson, negro prisoner. died
suddenly at police headquarters shortly
after 10 o'clock last night
The attention of Desk Sergeant Thomas
was attracted by screams from the cell
occupied by Robinson. Turkeys rushed to
the cell and Robinson said he was des-
perately i'll.
A physician was summoned, but the ne
gro died before medical assistance reach
ed him.
Robinson was addicted to the use of
cocaine. The physician said he might
have died from an overdose of the drug
or death might have been caused by a
lack of 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
MRS 81. c. JONES DEAD.
Expired Early This Morning After
Lingering Illness.

At o'clock this morning death came to
relieve the suffering of Mrs. Henry C..
Jones. who had been i'll several weeks.
She died at the family residenc, corner
OF Mobile and Day Streets.
Mrs. Jones was Miss Gertrude Hudson
before her marriage. and was sister of
w. NJ. Hudson of Montgomery. She was
native of Crenshaw County. and a
daughter Of the late Joseph Hudson.
She was member OF the Clayton Street
Baptist Church. Her husband and six
young children survive her.
The funeral arrangements have not been
made
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
Farmer lent to Jail.

Delaware, Ohio, Nov. 2.-Joseph Stout.
the young farmer who recently pleaded
guilty to a charge of having assaulted
Prince zee, second son of the Emperor
of Korea. was today sentenced to serve
thirty days in Jail and to pay a fine of
SIS and cost of prosecution.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
Formelv Mrs Molineux.
Reward for train Wreckers.

Denver. Col. Nov. "A reward OF %
COO is offered by the Santa Fe officials
for the capture and conviction OF the
parties who caused the wreck OF the
esstbound passenger train from Denver
at Apishapha creek last Friday.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03

Bad habits grow with much less cult
walton than good ones.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
scott-Cheshorough.

Chicago. Nov "A license to marry
was taken out in Chicago to-day in the
names of Wallace D. Scott and Blanche
d. Chesborough. Their ages are given
in the license as 2S and 20 respectively,
and the residence of both is given as
Sioux Falls. S. D.
Formely Mrs MOlineux.
Sioux Falls, s. D.. Nov. 2.-Wallace d.
Scott, who to-day in Chicago. took out
license to marry Blanche D. Cheese
brough. the former wife of Roland b.
Molineux of Chicago. is a member OF the
local firm of Kittredge. Winans & Ccott,
the senior member of which Is United
States Senator A. r. Kittredge. Mr.
Scott is serving his second term as
states attorney of this county. lie left
Sioux Falls last Saturday for chicago
where he is supposed to have met the
former Mrs Molineux. who departed from
New York on the same day that Mr.;
Scott left this city. The law nrm OF
which Mr.. Scott is member represent
cd Mrs Molineux in her recent divorce
litigation in this State.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03

Henry Bethune a negro, is in the city
prison, He is accused of robbing Louis
vile and Nashville box cars Sunday night.
Bethune was caught in the act by Bicycle
Patrolmen oliver and Evans.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03
For Stomach. Liver and Bowels.

Laxo Pills are a mild. gentle and re-
BILE laxative. designed to promote the
ach, liver and bowels. and to correct
ha btual constipation. Druggists. Is cents.
DIV
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-11-03

The negro. who was about IS years old.
was serving a sentence for vagrancy,
having been convicted about two weeks
ago. The body was turned over to a ne
gro undertaken.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
Setting COlOrN In Fabrics.

1t is impossible to tell whether a color
is fast before washing, but by far the
safest plan is to set" the color before
it goes to the tub for the first time. One
of the best methods of settling delicate
colors consists in simply making a
strong brine of cold water and salt and
soaking the garment from IL to "a hours.
OF course this should be done just before
going to the laundry. and the salt should
not be allowed TO dry in it. This is es-
pecially good for all shades of pink and
green, and colors once set this way will
be bright as long as it would be possible
to expect it. A strong solution of alum
and water is good. particularly with
blue, and the more delicate shades of
brown, but it's effect is not so lasting as
that of salt and it is sometimes neces-
sary to renew the bath after the first
three or four w%ashings. Some people
recommend solutions of lead and cop
peras, but as both Of these are poisonous
drugs, it is better to avoid them.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23

tation, fertilizers, and soil management
upon the yield Of crops. The work is
based upon analyses by new and ex-
ceedingly sensitive methods, by which
the amount OF plant food in the soil
moisture itself, which is the great nu-
tritive solution for the support Of
crops, has been determined, and not
by digesting the soils in acids which at
tach the inert mineral matter Of the
soils.
While the conclusions appear to be
in conflict with the opinions held for
so many years by agricultural chemists.
they are in strict conformity with the
experience of good farmers in all couD-
tries, and with actual facts which have
long been established by agricultural
chemists. The fertility of the soil is
thus shown to be due to physical
causes which control the supply Of
water and plant food which it con-
tnins, as the soil moisture in all cases
appears to be about the same in COM
position and concentration. The fertili-
ty is therefore controlled by a physical
cause, and a chemical examination Of
a soil can not be expected to indicate
the yield Of a crop. 1t is believed that
a simple physical method will be de-
vised for determining the relative Ter
tility OF soils.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
THE CHEMISTRY OF SOILS.
An investigation OF the Chemistry
of Soils us Related to the
Yields of Crops.

The secretary of agriculture an
nounces that the bureau of soils has
just finished an exhaustive investiga-
ton of the chemistry of soils as relat-
ed to the yield of crops. The results
indicate that practically all soils have
sufficient available plant food for nor
NAL crop yields, and that this supply is
constantly maintained through natural
agencies in the soils dissolving the ma
terial of the soil grains. The differ
ence in yield is dependent upon the
condition and kind of cultivation and
rotation of crops, maintaining certain
necessary physical conditions in the
soil, under which this plant food can be
used by the crop. A bulletin has just
gone to press giving the details OF the
investigation, and discussing the in
fuence OF climate. texture Of soil, ro-
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23

year. The mouse thread mill was Sc
constructed that the common house
mouse was enabled to make atone
ment to society for past offenses by
twisting, twining and Keeling from 100
to 100 threads a day, Sundays not en-
cepted.
TO perform this task the little pedes-
trian had to run ten and one-half miles
and this journey it performed with
ease every day. A halfpenny's worth
of oatmeal served one of these
thread mill culprits for the long period
of five weeks in that time 1t had
made 1850 threads of % inches, and,
as a penny was paid to women for ev-
cry hank made in the ordinary way,
the mouse, at that rate, earned 8 pence
every six week. just one farthing 4
day, or seven shillings and six pence
a year. Taking six pence off for board
and allowing n shilling for machin-
cry, there was a clear yearly profit
from each mouse of six shillings.
Mr.. Hatton firmly intended to apply
for the loan of an old empty cathedral
in Dunfermline, which would have
held he calculated, 10000 mouse mills,
sufficient room being left for keepers
and some hundreds of spectators.
Death, however, overlook the inven-
tor before his marvellous project could
be carried out.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
HERE AND THERE.

In scientific forestry the young
trees are thinned out, the underbrush
removed, and every means possible
taken to give air and sunlight to the
growing tree.
If you value the wool product an
even condition must be kept up. Sheep
starved in the winter will have weak
spots in their vol next spring.
-Sugar-cane grows nicely in Mis-
souri, lowlands. Some negro farmers
show fine experiment patches this sea-
son. Some day the juicy cane-stalk
may be offered as a market delicacy.
Handle the sheep reasonably often.
No one can tell by looking at a sheep
whether it is poor or fat. 1t may look
plump and seem fat and yet be little
more than a skeleton.
With better schools, telephone
connection and free rural mail delivery
the tide flowing into the cities from
the country ought to be reversed. Moth
ing can compare with country life il 1t
can be lived in comfort.
One of the best rations to keep the
lambs growing when pastures get short,
is a mixture of equal parts of bran and
ground oats, to which is added one
tenth oilmeal.
Many midland farmers have mi
grated to the gulf coast to grow rice.
Success has not been, nor will be, in
variable. 1t is evident the majority
of the rice-growers must combine o.n-
er agricultural pursuits in order to
thrive.
in Ecuador, South America. TIE
days and nights are of uniformity, L
hours. The temperature, the year
round. is about 80 degrees. This tenn
perature suits the potato, and, as a
result. the finest sweet potatoes oil the
world are grown there.
Mr.. Jim Bailey, a prominent farm
er in south Georgia, had great success
raising hogs and lost none by chol-
era. He accounted for this freedom
from cholera by saying that he always
fed his hogs on top of a pile OF saw
dust, and thought the t~urpentine pre-
vented the disease.
-MacarOn1 Wneal, Oh the variety
known as the Wild Goose and import
ed varieties, has this year produced a
very fine crop in Texas and the Da-
kotas. This is well, since the imports
of macaroni, vermicelli, etc., during
the IL months ending with June, 1903,
were valued at the respectable figure
of $1.171,922.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
Chair and Broomstick Tricks

safely under the stick. With your back
to the wall, however, you can to your
friends deep chagrin pass under the
stick quite easily. This is also an excel
lent way to practice the bend back which
is so essential to any kind of tumbling.
The first time l tried to climb around
a stick, as shown In diagram seven, 1t
seemed to me that even a professional
contortionist could not possibly extri-
cate himself from such a snarl without
~dislocating every joint in his body. The
feat, however, is not really difficult for
a boy who is at all supple. Grasp the
stick firmly, leaving two and a half or
three feet space between the hands. You
can easily judge Of the distance best
suited to you after the first trial. Slip
your left foot over the stick, put your
head under your right arm and then the
test will come. If your back and Shout
ders are flexible they will allow you to
carry the stick on around and to finally
draw your right leg over without letting
go of the stick. 1t is rather unlikely that
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23

more than one or two boys who could
successfully regain their equilibrium
after taking the position shown; but at
least two girls in every three can do it
quite readily. Measure back three of
your own feet from the wall of a room and
place a chair between you and the wall;
then bend over the chair until your head
rests against the wall. Now raise the
chair and attempt, without moving your
feet or touching the chair to the floor or
wall, to regain your upright position. Any
boy, unless he differs materially from the
rest of his sex, will find that the thing
simply can't be done. l suppose the
relative size of the feet has something to
do with the success which usually at
tends a girl in this experiment. The
extra weight which q man carries in the
shoulders may also have something to
do with it.
Diagram Number six shows some fun
with one of the broomStickS. Place one
end against the angle formed by the wall
of a room and ask some friend to pass
his body under it without lifting his feet
from the floor. He will naturally face
the wall in his undertaking, and in this
position it is next to impossible to get
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
Putting the Baby to Sleep,

Il had tried everything to make my
little one sleepy at the right tlme," said
one of the progressive mothers, land all
to no avail. He simply would not sleep
when put him to bed. l had to forbid
the 'romp with papa after dinner, be-
cause 1t seemed to wake the boy I'D so
thoroughly. l tried rubbing his feet
and putting a hot water bag in the bed
on cold nights. tried feeding him Just
before taking off his clothes. Nothing
had any effect on his excited nerves,
Then the doctor suggested a remedy that
worked like a charm. Taking off Jacks
clothes, l sponged off his spine in hot
water, beginning at the neck and pass
ing down slowly and gently, and so
over and over again. I kept the wa
ter as hot as could be borne, and con-
tinued the treatment until the skin was
red. Then the back was dried gently
and the child put into bed. Either the
gentle downward stroke or the hot wa
ter had a soothing effect on the nerves.
Anyway, sleep was sure to follow. A
week or two of this treatment will usu-
ally effect a permanent cure."-Chicago
News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23
BcNt Men For Farm Work.

The best men for farm work-those
who have been raised on farms and
understand the work-have most of
them gone to the towns and cities. and
the boys as they grow UP are going. A
farmer who raised three strapping big
boys, all now in cities, said to me that
he would have to quit farming because
he vas unable to obtain any s~atisiac-
tory help. One of his boys said a few
days ago: 81 wouldn't live on a farm
and work like father does if l had
to peddle papers for a living. He used
to make us boys hump when we were
at home, and then we couldn't do the
it," Rural free delivery and the tele-
phone will not stop the exodus of boys
from the farm while the late-and-early,
push-to-the-limit methods prevail. The
city laborer knows that the minute The
whistle blows his days work is doIle.
The boy on the farm and the hand on
the farm know that they must work
as long as the sun shines, then do a
lot of wearisome chores when they go
home. 81 do not consider the work
hard" said a spirited young farm
hand, but they keep us in the field too
long. We get out early, and then are
not expected in until sunset. Riding a
ploW or cultivator is not hard work,
but twelve to fourteen hours of it a
day is monotonous and wearisome." It
is not possible to work regular" hours
in harvest, haying-time and when
rains interfere much with seeding, and
the boys are well aware Of this, but
il is not difficult to so manage that the
rush and hustle will not last the en-
tire season. Farm life is not monoton-
Gus unless it is made so. II is not
weari3ome unless made so. It should
be the most attractive life - a live,
and can be made so. 1t should be at
tractive to the boys and hired men,
and it car be made SC. 1t is not lone
some" on the farm to any person with
a normal brain and open eyes. 1t is
lonesome only to the rattlepate who is
everlastingly and eternally hankering
for company" and wanting to be in
a crowd of some kind OF other.-Mr.
Grundy, in Farm and Fireside.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-23

gave an account of the way in which
the idea dawned on him.
"In the summer of the rear 1872"
he wrote, 81 had occasion to be in
Perth, and when inspecting the toys
and trinkets that were manufactured
by the French prisoners in the depot
my attention was attracted by a little
toy house, with a wheel In the gable of
it that was running rapidly around,
impelled by the insignificant gravity
of a common house mouse. For a shil-
ling l purchased the house. mouse and
wheel. Enclosing it in a handkerchief,
on my journey homeward, l vas COM
PEELED to contemplate its favorite
amusement. But how to apply half
ounce power, which is the weight
of a mouse. to a useful purpose was
the difficulty. At length the manufac-
turing of sewing thread seemed the
most practicable"
Mr.. Hatton had one mouse that ran
the amazing distance of IS miles a day,
but he proved that an ordinary mouse
could run ten and one-half miles, on
an average. A ~halfpenny's worth of
oatmeal was sufficient for its support
for 35 days, during which time it ran
T36 half miles. He had actually two
mice constantly employed in the MAX
ing of sewing thread for more than a