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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
In the Camera Store.

Owing the fact that Camera Store be quadupled the future which the upseng the whole department during the eight days sell much this stock possible will have be moved from place place As and n of future tWoud be nothing football In its and enlarged will be model of it's knd and than this the equal the country. See window display and note the following prices Eastman Brownies oz andF for  3o asnK daks 900 SC Triods99o DO, 35F 24o daks 20. I25 Sals, 89o
 
 
  Lamps, s I25 Was 79o Develop 6for Form O. 
 
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
Fine L.aces Reduced

There are still some of the high grade faces here. Laces that are worth from 25c to 3 % the yard, put into four lots, and selling for. l5o, 25c, 45e and 95o the yard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
Chief Arthur's Remains.

k . Winrepeg, Man., July 1.-The body of Grand Chies Arthur of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers was sent
 to Cleveland to-day accompanied by several delegates to the convention.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
Summer Ties.

25o ones for l24o--W ashable four-in-hands, large assortment of neat effects to select from.
 loo Ones for Sc eaoh-- Wash able string ties in dark and light effects, striped and figured.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
sun Claim q Tnsre ,- Is No Cancer.

Rome, July 17.-Drs. Lapponi and Mazzoni absolutely deny the statement published in the United States that Pope Leo is suffering from cancer and ridicule it as an ignorant invention. They say they are sure that pr. Ros- soni takes the same view.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
ACCIDENT IN BRANFoRD.
Boy Ha. Arm BIowa or from Prem.

Boy Has Arm Brovn or from Prema-
 iure Expiosion.
 Branford, July 17.-Daniel Daly. aged thirteen years, the son of Carroll Daly. while playing with a toy cannon in the woods near his home here this after noon lost his left arm as result of an explosion. The arm was blown fifty feet away and was found several hours later: The boy ran to his home and fell at the door, exhausted from the loss of blood. He was taken to the New Ha- ven hospital and it is not believed that his injury is fatal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

The Delineator, pattern sheets, and patterns for Augustare here and are particularly attractive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
DROPPED DEAD oN TRACk.
ISing Charles, a Horse in 2:oe Pace at
 Detroit.

Detroit, July 1L-At the Windsor Driving club races to-day King Charles, owned by D. w. Maloney, of White Plains, N. Y, dropped dead on the track at the conclusion of the final heat in the 2:O9 pace. The animal was nak- ing hard fight for position, when he staggered and fell just as he reached the judges stand Over-exertion, re- sulting in the rupture of a blood vessel, was the cause of death.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

Shirt Waist Suits--of lawn and percale, lace trimmed, I.5o value.
 Saturday 95o Very much reduced prices. on linen suits, Costumes, China silk suits in black and white, almost half prices rule on these suits. High grade lawn shirt waists marked at very low prices.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

At the hospital an amputation was made just above the shattered portion The boy, it is believed, will recover.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
Half=Price Sale of Suits.

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

Three Lots for Saturday. High grade lawn waists that have been 400 and 2.5o.
 Saturday l.35 Lawn waists that have been 5. .oo to 400. Saturday l.95 Lawn waists that have been q. so to 6.oo. Saturday 2.95
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

summer Coses styles regular I " IKE oo0 Saturday, a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
THE HOWE & STETSON STORES

NEW HAvRN-sATURDAY JULY THE EIGHrEENTH.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18
A Toilet Necessity.
 Spiro Powder, cooling and heal ing relieves prickly heat.

Chnnc All our zoo oxfords, ligh OllUCo and heavy weight, kid Or
 patent tip, also few pat ent feathers, To close out, 1.65 pair. Sizes 2H to 8, widths B to E.
 A high grade shoe, value 2.5o,a of which we were able to procure, at low figure, quite a number of pairs in A width only We are selling them at 96c the pair.
 Champion Tennis 0xfords. Mems, Women's, Boys, Misses and Cllil- dren's. All sizes and colors, 40c,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

Bathing Suits--Two styles, mo nine cloth and brilliantine, black and blue trimmed with white 2.5o value. Saturday l.98 Brilliantine Skirts--ac cordio n plaitcd, black have been 7.5o
 Saturday 4.95
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11

Washington, Aug. 10.--(Special. )-In probing the transactions of George w. Beavers as Superintendent of the Divis- ion of Salaries and Allowances, of the Postoff1ce Department, the postoffice in- spectors are endeayoring to ascertain If he holds any stock in the Yaqui Copper Company, and If so how he obtained 1t. The inspectors are also equally solicit0us as to whether former chief clerk to the First Assistant Postmaster General, John M. Masten, has any stock in this company, and if so, how he procured his stock
 The reason for this solicitude on the part of the inspectors is that the Yaqui Copper Company was organized about the time that the Postoffice Department executed the contract by which it was bound for period of four years to pur- chase time clocks from the Bundy Manu- featuring Company at from $l00 to $l25 each, whereas they sold on the market for from $s0 to s75. A connecting link has been discovered in the fact that George E. Green, the Binghamton, New York politician is heavily interested in the Bundy Company and Is also secretary the organization of which he was the prime mover and that R. B. Brown, a Washington attorney is one of the direc- tors of the Yaqui Copper Company. It was Mr. Brown who represented the Dey Time Register Company, whose register was highly regarded by the postoff1ce off, fcials up to the time that MT. Brown ceased to represent 1t ard the Bundy Company secured the contract without competition or advertising on the part of the department.
 It was about this time that the Yaqui Copper Company was organized and MT. Brown became director therein. Be- fore resigning his position as superin- tcndent, Beavers denied having had any part in the execution of the contract and cast all the blame on Masten who resign ed as Acting First Assistant Post
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
rHEY ARE RnAsr1Nca HIM.

The President is being artistically and
 effectually skinned parboiled and roasted
 for his action in making a full Major
 General of Leonard Wood. passing over
 number of men far better qualified and
 infinitely more deserving And Roose-
 welt deserves every bit of the censure he
 gets. for a ranker bit of favoritlsm and
 partiality has rarely been witnessed. even
 in this day of such practices.
 General Wood was. an army physician when the Spanish war began; an honor
 able and necessary position but not one which specially fits a man for military
 command. Then the Rough Riders came
 onto the scene and Wood got to be Colo
 mel, through the influence or pull of his
 friend Roosevelt, but history fails to re- cord any feats of generalship in Cuba that could place a. halo on his head. Next. through the same favoritism and pull he became Military Governor of Cuba. and here, again, we fail to find recorded evi- dence of any act that wou.u place him in the list of great commanders. And it was this sama spirit of personal favorit- -isM that hAS tpod by Wood, ensured his promotion more than once, and the climax Is reached when he is advanced over the heads of real soldiers old enough to be his father, and who were fighting the battles of their country when he was learning to roll pills.
 Of late there have been several confer ences at Oyster Bay between the Presi- dent and Secretary Root, and this seems to be the outcome. A personal friend of the former has been rewarded, dile- tante soldier has been promoted far be- yond his deserts to position for which he has no qualifications. General Miles has been retired and Wood will soon be- come a Lieutenant General and Com mander-in-Chief of the army. Older and better officers have been humiliated in or- der that a personal friend of the Presi- | dent may be advanced to a high position. | The act is distinctly Rooseveltlan.
 If anything was needed to emphasize the littleness of the administration. t can be found in the treatment accorded to | Wood and Miles. We of the South have no cause to be enamored of General Miles, | and The Advertiser has no disposition to | become his advocate. but he Is a soldier | who has been fighting for the Union from | his earliest manhood and who nas given | so many proofs of courage and ability as | a leader, that 1t would be a waste of | space to enumerate or refer to them. Yet | this grizzled veteran and real soldier was retired with as little consideration or mo- tice as would have been given the dis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
OUR ABSURD LANGUAGE.

Bfander Mathews has an article In the August Harper's in which he declares that ''the most obvious defect of the English language is its barbarous and unscientific orthography.'' and he Is right. Our lam guage has defects of grammar. of con- struction. of derivations and definitions, but when we get down to spelling and pronouncing we pass the limit. we ridi- cule and laugh at the long and uncouth words in some of the foreign languages, and some of the Indian names. especial ly among the New England tribes, look like barbed wire, but we don't See that we have much cause to boast when we get down to some of the words which are looked on as distinctly English.
 The English language of ' today is a thing of shreds and patches, crazy-quilt aggregation of/words. We have male ex- cursions into all tongues, savage or civ iiized. and have levied contributions on all the languages under the sun, past and present. Its only consistency Is its lack of system and it's chief characteristic Is its lack or method or symmetry. The books lay down rules for spelling and pro nouncing words. but many of them are violations of all rules. Let any one read page of book or a coiumn of a news paper and make note of all the words which contain unnecessary letters, of all the words which are spelled alike and pronounced differently. and of alI the words in which the same combination of letters produce different sounds and see what list he will have. It would re- semble cypher message.
 Is there no remedy for such a condition of things? Must our language continue to be noted chiefly for it's "bal barous and unscientific orthography?' The time lost in school in trying to master it. the time lost in trying to understand it, and the time lost in writing the useless letters make up good share of our lives! Many attempts have been made to remedy the evil and all have failed, either because they deserved to faii or because the right influences were not behind them. And one great difficulty in the way of success is that we will cling to the idea that all foreign words incorporated into our lan- guage must retain their original orthog- raphy and pronunciation. As long as this dogma is adhered to, we will never have simple. logical and intelligent language It may come at some time. but 1t is pain fully slow in the coming.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
CRoKER SHADOW
 OVER TAMMANY.
Tiger Leaders Embarrassed by Old Boss's Declaration for Col.
 Mcclellan.

| New York World.
 Richard Croker's demand for the nom
 ination of George B. Mcclellan for Mayor.
 of which The Worlds cable despatches | told exclusively last Sunday. has made
 the old Boss" once more the most-talk-
 ed-about man in the Fourteenth street
 Wigwam.
 Not that there is talk among the tigers
 of Croker's taking the leadership from
 Charles F. Murphy, because that Is not
 expected to happen. 1 But Leader Murphy, Big" Tim Sulli- van and score of the district leaders
 are wondering why Mir. Croker should
 have broken silence just at this time. Some of the comments which the tigers are making would amaze the former czar of the organization if he should hear them.
 To the friends of Representative McClel- Ian especially great sorrow has been brought by MT. Crokers assertion: We want George B. Mcclellan"
 Leader Murphy also wants Mcclellan as the nominee for Mayor, and nothing would be more to his liking than to see the son of Little Mac" at the head of the Tam many ticket. But MT. Murphy at no time has come out fatly in favor of McClellan's nomination, and Croker's declaration to A. H. Hummel is embarrassing the man. agers of the Mcclellan boom.
 They fear that if Col. Mcclellan should be nominated Mir. Croker's statement in The World would be taken up every where, and MT. Mcclellan would be at- tackled throughout the campaign as "Croker's man" In proof the anti-Tam- many leaders could point to Croker's de- mand two months before the Tammany City Convention that the Colonel be plac- ed at the head of the Wigwam ticket.
 Another phase of the matter which is disturbing the Wigwam leaders is this: They had hoped to conduct the approach ing campaign without having the cloud of Crokerism cast over their movements | After the disastrous fight of two years | ago, eight out of every ten leaders in the | organization were convinced that Croker's | activity in the fight was the chief cause | of defeat They were impressed by May or Lows constant attacks on ''the Eng fish squire" who managed the metropolis ] from his moat house in Vantage" To this line of attack more than any other one thing. the bulk of the Tammany leaders their defeat two years ago. It was with mingled regret and gladness, therefore, that they listened to the old chief when he declared, prior to leaving for England. that he was out of politics for all time.
 Now that MT. Croker has shown that he is not out of politics by turning down the boom of Randolph Guggen- heimer for Mayor and adding that we want George B. Mcclellan" the Tam many leaders are anxious to know just | what part the old Boss intends to play | in this years fight If he had regard | for the wishes of the men who are run
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11

master General, but the former intimacy between Beavers and Green coupled with the information that Beavers holds or has held stock in the Yaqui Copper Company nas led to the suspicion that Beavers at tempted to shield himself behind Masten and that he knows why the clock contract was signed quite as well as Masten does
 This suspicion Is strengthened by reason or the fact that bad blood is known to have existed between Beavers and Masten of this character What became of the $40 to $50 difference between the market price and that paid by the Postoffice De- partment is subject of much interest to the inspectors, this being the now famous 40 per cent" and the possibility that Beavers obtained stock in the Copper Company as a return for favors to the time clock company, is not being over looked
 First Assistant Postmaster General Wynee removed Masten from his position as chief clerk as soon as he took charge of that office although he has not vet made public his reasons for this summary action, and Charles B. Terry, a postoffice clerk, has charged Masten with attenpt- ing to secure slo0 from him for having him reinstated in the dead letter office. Yet up to the present time, Inspector Fosnes who is in charge of the inyestiga- ton into the internal workings of the Postoffice Department under the Beavers Macnen regime, has been unable to secure any conclusive proof of wrong doing on tne part or Masten or connecting him with Green or Beevers in the matter of the time clock contract, or in the Terry case, although President Roosevelt was satisfied by the representations of ths Civil Service Commission that Terry had been wronged and directed his reinstate- ment: In this connection. 1t is pointed out that Inspector Fosnes was associated with Masten in the Cuban Postal Service immediately after the Spanish war.
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
JUDGE ALsroN,s cHARoE.

Judge Alston, holding the Circuit Court at Huntsville, has struck another sturdy blow for the honest administration of law He condemns jury in that court for riding rough-shod over the law and evidence in a criminal case, in the fol- lowing strong language:
 After agreeing upon that verdict you have just rendered. and before leaving your jury room, you should have writ slayer. informing him that it was not against the laws of this County for a man to shoot down his fellow man. if he daesers Sse o a that he party slain. You should then have framed this and hung it upon the walls of your court house. that all might know that 1t IS a mere travesty upon justice to try to bring the guilty manslayer to justice in this County,
 Such censure by judges tends to pre- serve the right of trial by jury. and make 1t what the forefathers intended it should be. Whenever juries override the law and evidence, they assault the right of trial by jury. The judge who holds the jury up to condemnation. in such a case defends the right of trial by jury. Judge Aiston's action. however. presents anoth- CT tempting occasion for those ambitious of fame to rush to the front and assalI the court, at the next public assemblage 1t is barely possible. however. after re- cent experience on this line. that it may be hard to find the pure patriot who will undertake the disinterested and noble task of trying cases and courts on the stump.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
LETTING MAns nEsr.

Of late there appears to have been let-up on the subject of Mars and its in- habitants. For a time the papers and magazines were full of it. Scientists were kept busy telling us about Its peo- pie. its atmosphere, its temperature and various other particulars concerning it. We were told how communication was to be opened with the Martians and some enthusiasts went so far as to predict that the time would come when travel to and from that planet would be no novelty. The story writers found 1t a good sub- ject and many were the stories. fully H. frustrated, dealing with life on that far away planet.
 As we said, there has been a general falling off in this kind of literature of late. True, Nicola Tesla has set up the claim that we will be able to open up communication with the planet. but that isn't the first boast Tesla has made. His idea Is to establish communication by electricity in some way, but we predict that it will end like many other .extrav- agant claims. When we consider that there are many particulars about the moon which are not yet understood, we can easily understand the difficulty of studying or communicating with world which Is at least one hundred and fifty times as far from us as the moon s. Sir Robert Ball. an eminent astronomer of Cambridge. England, recently declared that if flag as large as Ireland could be waved on the earth there would only be a bare chance that watchful astronomer on Mars might detect faint fiutter." That would seem discouragins to those who imagine that some kind of signal on earth will be recognized and acknowl- edged on that far away world. Even if 1t is inhabited. we are not expecting any messages in the near future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11

ming Tammany> Hall in his absence. Mir. Croker would not be telling any one that ne was opposed to this candidate or in raVor Of that for any place on the Wig Wam ticket. He would be referring all sppncahts Tor hcnors back to Leader Murphy at the East Fourteenth street headquarters.
 MT Crokers assertion to Mir. Hummel has made the Tammany leaders uncertain as to Croker's attitude. They are even oeginning to ask whether the old chief tam may not further change his mind ana return to New York before the Tam many City Convention nominates the Wigwam candidates. The big men in Iammany still believe that Croker will remain on the other side. not only until aiter the conventions, but until after eiecuon' But now that he has given them shock by declaring fiatly in favor or Mcclellan for Mayor, they are pre- pared for almost anything.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11

The Montgomery Advertiser is another of the bolters of 1s9S that does not be- Ieve that Bryan Democrat has a right to bolt In 1904. They are all alike in this respect, the only difference being that The Advertiser is more ably edited than any of the balance in the South.-Chattanooga News.
 Thanks for the compliment. but The News has Its premises littls awry. We have not been arguing about the right of a Bryan Democrat to bolt. nor have we denied that right, per SC. What we have been contending is that the Bryan Democrats, by their denunciation of the Cleveland bolters.'' have rendered it im- possible for themselves to bolt, under any circumstances. without stultifyng them selves. Let them bolt if they wish. but they should try first to wipe out all they have said about the rest of US.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
The Real Bryan.
Mobile Register.

The bitterest enemy MT. Bryan bas would not ask him to pursue any other course than that he has adopte d and as Illustrated by the speech at Urbana
 when MT. Bryan was in prosperity and ident, his demeanor was elevated and he was spoken of as a man of nobla and generous mind. Now, that this ponuIar- fly has waned, he snarls and bites in a way to prove that his keen sense of per- sonal grievance has robbed him of cono- mon sense. It is in diversity that a man shows what really he is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-11
Alabama,s Oldest Man.
Bay Minette Times.

Probably ,Je oldest man in the State, if not in the whole South, is Mir Gabriel z. bard's railroad, in this county He was born in Sumterville District, in South Carolina, August IT, 1i9S. and will be lO6 years old at his next birthday, a little in Alabama nearly all his life and has been a resident of Baldwin County for the past eleven years. He Is hale and hearty and his present good health and remarkable store of strength will prob ably give several more years lease of life. He was accompanied to The Times office last week by his grandson, MT
 Isaac Minchew, who himself has ten grandchildren W