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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06
One More Chance at Trimmed Hats,

We place sale entire lot of $4 $s, SC Trimmed
 Hats tomorrow, at one price. You take your e 7O choice; any one in the lot bargain DL.i1 We shall also place sale A Bleaching worth
 everywhere Sc yard. None sold to merchants or more than TO yards to customer Monday 10 E1, yards for r.......................... .JCG few pieces of the 75c quality Black Tissue Silk left, rare bargain indeed Get your supply before it is 1lc exhausted; per yard ....................... L4C Also small lot in Roman stripes, unusual offer, 1k
 which won't last long; per yard ............l lUC
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06
Had Been Reading the Papers.
'hlladelphia Record

Philadelphia Record
 The fact that a knowledge of current affairs is not always compatible with real education was demonstrated in one of the uptown public schools yesterday. when one of the boys who was not exempt from examinations had the question put to him: What are the principle commo- dities of the State of Delaware" The youngster, who reads the newspapers as- siduously. promptly wrote in reply: Peaches and lynchings."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

50 dozen Ladies' GAUZE VESTS,
 white, pink and blue, regular 15c
 quality, for Monday .sc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

White Lawn. 40 inch White Lawn, regular BOG quality, Monday. ...... ..l4c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

500 yards TABLE DAMASK, pink,
 Green and Turkey Red, worth soc a yard, for Monday .......0Ac
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

1000 yards CARBOHYDRATES and
 INSERTIONS, worth 12 1-2 to 15c a yard, for Monday .7c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

100 dozen Ladies' Bleached and Un-
 bleached GAUZE VESTS, for Mon-
 day .... .3c each
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

One hears a great deal of gossip here about the Empress of Russia. Some of the people like her very much. and some the contrary. As far as l can judge she is a charming woman. She is, you know. the granddaughter of Queen Vic toria, her mother having been the Prin- cess Alice. who was the most attrac- tive of Victorias daughters. She is the daughter of the Grand Duke of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
Saved \ 6
From Death After
 Four Years
Of Nervous ProStras
 ton and Debility.
Dr. Niles Nervine Cured
 Me Permanently.

Nervous prostration is the most serious of nervous disorders, It arises from some extra strain, which robs the nerves ot strength, vitality and life. The patient speedily loses self control, is subject to frightful headaches, faint sps Ills, melancholia and morbid tenden. cies. Too weak to drag the thin, wasted body around; unable to get sleep or rest, lite seems scarcely worth the living; the mind frequently broods until 1t becomes unbai. anced and insanity often results. Read what Dr. Miles Nervine did for Mrs. Grsbill:
 "I was terribly afflicted with nervous trouble for nearly four years. was so bad at times that could not help myself, nor carry chair across the room without giving out. One physician attended me for year and half without giving me any help what ever and I also doctored with two others without any good results. My. father and others wished me to try Dr. Miles Nervins which, after lots of coaxing did. took six bottles of the Nervine and some ot the Nerve and Liver Pills. was completely cured of my trouble and heartily Secsgnmend 1t to any woman who is suffering from nervous disorder. I have used Dr. Niles Anti Pain Pills for headache and neuralgis with best results. believe firmly in the efficacy of the Nerve and Liver Pills and am fully conviu. ced that Dr. Miles Remedies saved my lift" Mas. HATTIE GRABILL, Roanoke, Va.
 All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tie Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical O.. Elkhart. Ind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04

yet Ia not at all well understood. It seeme now very certain that the trouble IS not due to the parasitic action of any bacteria as was once supposed by some: one or possibly more fungi which may gain an entrance to the boil largely through punctures made by insects.
 It IS yet uncertain what insects are active In this work, though one at least, the so-called "sharpshooter insect, Is definitely known to do much of this punc- turing work.
 This disease, unlike the rust" appears more largely upon rich ground that Is capable of producing large amount tof ground that produces much vegetation the rot of the boil is likely to appear. Ground that has received much nitrogen ous fertilizer is apt to have the trouble to a large extent. The use of some fer tilizer containing phosphoric acid alone would be very much to be desired when It was suspected that the ground would give too rank a growth of stems and leaves. The planting. of early maturing, short varieties would be better than to l am at present engaged upon study of this trouble and shall be glad to re- ceive specimens of the diseased bolls with any insects that may be found about the be so packed as to reach me when still moist while the insects should be sent in closed tin or wooden boxes alive. Insects should never be sent in paper or paste board boxes. as they are certain 10 be
 I shall be glad from time to time to give your readers through yoru columns any information in my hands regarding any cotton or other plant diseases that may occur in the State.
 E. M. Wilcox. Botanist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
CLARK IS STILL ALIVE
BEL ,IEvED, HOWEVER, THAT
 HE CANNOT RECOVER.
In Fight With Jeff Van Horn He Sprang or Was Thrown From Train Going Forty Miles
 an Hour.

Birmingham. Sept. 3.-(Special .)-Bud Clarke. the miner. who yesterday after noon went head-foremost off a rapidly moving Frisco System train coming to- wards the city. between Cordova and Horse Creek, in Walker County. thirty miles west of here. while having a fight on the train with Jeff. Van Horn, anoth- CT miner, was brought to Birmingham this morning and carried to an infirm- ary. He was picked up yesterday after noon an hour after he made the awful plunge from the fast moving train and carried to Horse Greek. He never re- gained consciousness. This morning an operation was performed on his skull at the infirmary here.
 Van Horn and another miner named Stutts have been placed in the Walker County jail at Jasper to await the result Of the injuries received by Clarke and also to see what action will be taken in the Circuit Court which meets next week. It is asserted that Clarke was not knock ed of the train but jumped after being struck on the head with a bottle. II seems that he and Van Horn had a diff. fculty about unionism. Clarke calling Van Horn ''scab'' or ''blackleg" Neither of the men belong to the union.
 Clarke cannot recover. Van Horn is well known in this State being one of the men who escaped from the County Jail in Birmingham with Frank Duncan the condemned murderer year or sc ago. He was fined heavily for escaping from the County jail which was paid Since then he has been mining. The fight and fall from the train going not less than forty miles an hour was most sensational
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
NOT ARGUING FAIRLY.

The Chattanooga News uses consider able editorial space to controvert what The Advertiser said about silk growing in the South, and winds up its argument thus:
 Silk culture in the South would be dangerous experiment If entered into on any large scale, and besides 1t is entirely too slow for our people. II The Aa. vertiser will agree to try the experiment in the Philippines first, The News will withdraw whatever opposition 1t may the proper frame of mind to advise Southern farmers to sell their cotton growing implements and invest in silk worms. Better leave that industry to those nations that are still fighting with bows and arrows
 The News evidently mistakes our po- sition We did not argue or advise that sericulture should take the place of cot ton growing in the South. Cotton is the great staple of the South and it will doubtless remain so as long as 1t is a profitable crop. We did and do contend | that more attention should be given to other things than is now done, solely | because the South will be benefited. We have continuously advocated a change in | the Souths agricultural system for the South's own good. We have contended that more attention should be paid to food crops, to dairying, to fruit raising and to all other industries that would help to make this section independent. It is for like reasons that we advocate experiments in silk growing. Following
 the reasoning of The News we might
 advise letting cotton culture go back
 to Egypt, cane growing return to the old world along with many of our fruits, as well as wheat and various other | grains. We have brought over and do-
 mesticated these plants and led the
 world in production. We can hardly compete successfully with China and Ja- pan in silk raising, but experiments
 might be profitable, even if we are not | still using bows and arrows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04

country in allowing its Senate to reject the Hay-Herran treaty.
 AS a first step toward resuming nego- tiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica Secretary Hay has begun to consult prominent members of the Senate and House to obtain their views as to what would constitute a reasonable time dur ing which the President should endeav- or to obtain the ratification of the treaty with Colombia, according to the provis- ion of the Spooner amendment, before he turns to the alternative proposition looking to the construction of the canal on the Nicaragua route.
 A story published here this afternoon states that the Secretary had called a sort of formal conference of leading members of the Senate and House in terested in the isthmian canal question to obtain their views. This the secre- tary denies. No formal conference has been called or will be called. But the Secretary and the President are discuss ing the subject with all senators and members who come to see them and are thus getting their bearings with a view to taking action which will meet the de- sires of the country and find approval in Congress.
 Whether this will result in a deter imitation to definitely abandon the Pana- | ma route and reopen negotiations for the construction of the canal in Nicaragua. | it is too early to say. but it is recog- | nized as a good thing to let the Colom- bians know that this government is not | absolutely committed to the Panama route. and that 1t will not hesitate to 7, turn to the alternative proposition if l Colombia continues to delay the game or | endeavor to exact unreasonable terms. | This is the only way in which the in- terests of this government can be safe- guarded in the matter and if the admin | istration is genuinely anxious to make a start with canal construction without waiting another year for additional con- sideration of the subject by Congress, it will not hesitate long about actively be- ginning fresh negotiations with Nicara- qua and Costa Rica.
 | It is held in some quarters here that the protocols which were signed with | those countries at the end of 1900 are in such form that little. if any, further diplomatic steps need be taken before closing a definite bargain with them and proceeding with the work of canal con- struction. The knowledge that the ad-
 ministration has this course seriously in
 mind would unquestionably have a more
 wholesome effect on Colombia, unless
 that country is really so reckless of its
 own interest that it doesn't care whether
 the canal is built through it's territory
 or not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
OHIO DELEGATES.
Not Certain to Be of the Johnson
 Kind Next Year.

Washington Post.
 It is not taken for granted everywhere that Tom Johnson will dominate the Ohio Democratic delegation in the next Ma tional Convention. Ohioans of the faith generally recognize that he is in for tremendous walloping at the polls next November, which should put him out of business as a political dictator. But en- tirely aside from that. it is expected that big fight is due next year to send d conservative delegation to help nominate the next candidate for the Presidency That fight will be so earnest for the eradication of Bryanism and Populism that 1t is not at all sure MT. Johnson will be able to maintain himself
 While there was strong show of op- position to Johnson in the preliminaries to the recent State convention, the strength of the opposition faction was by no means marshaled against 1t. There was considerable contingent of conserv- ative Ohio Democrats who realized that any struggle against Johnson under pres ent conditions was furtile. They were content to let the convention go to him by default The Bryan following in Ohio is still quite large, and they must have at least one more good licking to realize what a hopeless cause they are ChampiOning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
THE FILTRATION OF MIMI.
 GRANTS.

day or two ago the suggestion was made by contemporary that emigrants coming to the South undergo a sort of filtering process before they reach this region. and the remarks was appropriate. Of the great throng of immigrants an- nually coming in from the Old World, comparatively few come direct to the South. Most of them land in New York and then drift 'Northwsrd and Westward, few of them coming South of the old free States.
 We consider this more in the nature of a blessing than a misfortune to immi- grant and to the South. If we could al- ways select such visitors or settlers as we want and reject all others. it would be well, but that is impracticable. Many of the immigrants from the Old World are not of a kind who would get along we'll in the South. They are not only ig- class to make satisfied citizens, espe- ciaily in a section so largely agricultu. ral as the South is.
 The great majority of this raw material locates North of us, and it is there that the process of filtration is carried on. By tarrying for a time in the North and the West. they obtain some knowledge of American laws, customs and needs They are also enabled to learn what kind of settlers will be most likely to succeed in the South. They learn of the conditions down here. what occupations they will be most likely to succeed at and where they will find the best opportunities. A raw immigrant from some portions of Europe would be unwelcomed, undesirable and out of place in most portions of the South. but few years residence and experience North. where he could find people from the old home, would fit him for making a home here to the mutual benefit of himself and his neighbors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04

If anybody believes that Johnson wants to be elected Governor of Ohio, they certainly didn't read his speech of eac- ceptance. Take this as a specimen:
 My friends, you may call it ''red devil'' campaign or call it what you like, but the campaign waged in Richland County against renegade Democrats will be carried on, so help me God, in the State of Ohio. If we are to win, if we are to win the great battle. 1t has to be won first, my friends, by getting rid of the dead timber that hangs around your neck and taking on the. living timber. my friends. that only wants to be col principle I never asked anybody in my life to vote for me for any office, or for any nomination. and never Will; but, my friends. I have asked some peo- men who do not believe in the platform read here today, men who do not think that the platform stands for the Dem- ocratic idea, I ask them not to vote for me.
 There are many Democrats in Ohio
 who do not believe in Tom Johnson, or in his Democracy, and who do not en-
 dorse the platform on which he was nominated. Numbers of them would vote for him as a protest against the Repub- | lican machine, and with the hope of de- | feating it, but here Is a blunt, offensive notification that their votes are moi | wanted. They are plainly told that un- | less they endorse him and everything he | stands for they may 'go to der left, init der goats" for all he cares. They must | come in the position of advocates of ev- erything represented by himself and his I platform or they must stay away. Will it be any wonder if thousands of the best Democrats in Ohio, after this | defiant notice that their support is not
 wanted, should either remain away from the polls or vote the Republican ticket Free white men who have any self re- spect are not given to forcing themselves where they are not wanted nor are they | in the habit of falling over each other l to vote for a man who tells them to stay | away.
 Is this the road to that harmony
 which certain men tell us they
 will bring about if they are not inter. fered with by the "bolters?" Is that
 their idea of getting together? If John l sons speech represents the brand O | harmony they offer, we should like tc know what they would consider unhar
 mony.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04

hired hands, but are made by men who have rented space and machines quite ir- dependentlv of one another, and who banded together only for the sake of economy in roof and equipment, but car- cying on their own separate businesses.
 ts $ ssr sss to ssarx RrssSs, an basis of wage-earners and be subjected to the immediate control, supervision. and direction of an employer. Rather than earn the higher income afforded by the factory wage. the young men in the hills prefer a much more meagre existence in the independence and freedom of their own homes. Because of the fact that the inha bitants of the mountains make but few and simple c.nands upon life, the real wretchedness of their situation is said to be but rarely fully appreciated. toy industry can be readily observed from the following figures prepared by the commission referred to. The most remunerative branch of the trade affords 05.1 to $9.59 per week. one-half of which may be considered as profit. In other branches the net income is as iow. at.6 o must rrs se & that these Te are not the earnings of a single person, but represent the labor of entire families
 How inconceivably small the price Ya'i in the ea.e of penc Boxes of the ehssp est quality, for which the maker gets from G to s cents per gross. or about 1-3 cents apiece.
 The daily meals of these people are re- ported by the commission to be confined largely to potatoes. linsscd oil, bread days.
 With the price of wood rising, toy fac. tories increasing in numbers in other parts of the country, and the price of toys falling. 1t seems that the people of the Erzgebirge must, in their increasing wretchedness, find some other means of sustenance. Exporters of toys who oper- ate large factories fin this neighborhood report good business and are of the opin- ion that the house industry of the Erzge- birge is doomed, and that the peasa its will be forced to give up their independ ent production and enter factories
 R. H. Watkins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
Ir wAs Iusr LrKE HIM.

If President Roosevelt 10 capable or feeling small he ought to be suffering from an acute attack of the disease since the Beirut flash-in-the- affair. As The Manchester, N. H., Union says: Because a clerk mistrans,ated cipher dispatch the United States. through It's Government, was made ridiculous by its impetuous and unnecessary haste" That fairly expresses it. A cable dispatch is flashed across the ocean that Consul Magelssen had been assassinated by the Turks. Without waiting for a confrma- ton of the news, or making any effort to learn if 1t was true, the President goes off half-cocked, gets busy" and almost declares war against Turkey. He at once orders the European squadron to proceed to Beirut and demand satis- faction from somebody for something. As the Consul was not killed the fleet must keep on its way and demand satis- faction anyhow, either because the Con- sul was fired at or because he was miss ed, we are not sure which. The Pitts- burg Post remarks:
 Heres another case or the nash-H-tho-
 pan President jumping at conclusions leaping into the ring before he ascer- tained who Is there, rushing headlong into a fray because he has gotten the idea into his cranium that the American people like a fighter.
 Even The New York Post. which is not given to ridiculing the President. sums up the apparent workings of his mind in this way:
 u) An American Vice-Consul has
 been killed, we must send the fleet to enforce our demands for satisfaction; @ The Vice-Consul is alive; let's send the fleet all the same, because lsearen' ing for a reason) of the generally dis turbed condition in the East" This way of thinking, were great issues not al stake. would be merely amusing. But | it is important that the single grea, Power which can look at the Eastern question from the point of view of dis interested humanity should take pains | to be right in all its dealings with the Porte. We are not right in sending a squadron on a false rumor and continu' | ing the order after that false report has l been corrected.
 The whole affair was a ridiculous spec | imen of clustering blatancy. Can an, one imagine Cleveland. or any other dig | nified Executive going off his balance in that style? But it was just like Roosevelt, and little will he care if | causes trouble.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
Story of "Bill Arp"

Baltimore Sun.
 heard the Major tell of a ''cracker" justice of the peace who came to him for advice. Said the justice of the peace: See here, Lawyer Smith. l got case on hand like this: Two young lawyers each argued his respective side of this tarnal case. but neither one cited a precedent. Now. l inst decides all cases by counting the number of precedents cited, right hand for plaintiff and left hand fingers for defendant Now. darn my buttons if either ono of them skunks has gin Il me anything to hang decision on; Ihe common sense. q never hearn tell O no Court decision based on no common sense before slid the justice of the peace The Major said that the more ne re- fected upon the matter the more con vinced ho became that the Justlce or the peace WIS right.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
MISSION OF COOLEY.
To Discuss Regulations Governing
 Labor in Federal Service.

Washington. Sept 3.-Commissoner Cooley of the Civil Service Commission will visit the President tomorrow for the purpose of discussing with him the regu- lations governing labors in the federal service. After leaving Oyster Bay MT. Cooley will begin a general tour of in spection. He first will visit Philadelphia and Boston for the purpose of inquiring into the working of regulations govern ing consolidated boards in the districts of which those cities are the respective centers.
 He will visit New York Albany, Buff falo. Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit. Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Co., lumbus and Pittsburg for the purpose of conferring with federal officers as to the advisability of consolidating the civil service boards and establishing civil ser vice departments in those cities similar to those established for Philadelphia and Boston.