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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
THE BALKAN QUESTION.
Monroe Doctrine of Europe, and Tur- keys Cuba.


 For many years the world has talked pf the Balkan question almost constant lv. The annual recurrence of the rumor of Trouble in the Balkans" Is so regular that it has become a subject for world wide jest, serious and ever-threatening as it is.
 And vet to almost the whole world the Balkan question is little more than muddle of obscure geography, tangled his tory and still more tangled intrigue.
 Briefly expressed, the Balkan question Is the keystone of that tenderly poised Doctrine of Europe,
 And as the Monroe Doctrine of the United States was susceptible to the meanest outbreak of insurrection in Cuba, time a handful of patriots or hrigands raises a revolt in Turkeys Cuba of Mac edenia
 At any day horde of mountain rob- bers. with no aim higher than to pillage poor village, or a band of devoted lib- era tors with the mere aim of freeing their obscure province from the Turk, may strike the spark that will blow up the whole balance of power and bury the peace of all Europe in the wreck.
 As a concert. the Powers are bent on keeping that keystone of the Balkans in its place. Jealousy and fear are the pow erful motives that make them jealous in the endeavor.
 Individually each Power is studying to gee how it can assure itself of advantage enough to pay to pull it out.
 The two nations most openly concerned fin the Balkan question today are Eng land and Russia England's interest just now lies in keeping the question as 1t has beep. Russia cannot and will not be content Tn the nature of the case till she controls the Balkans or has been so sig nally. defeated in trying that she will not be fn position to try again.
 To Russia the ownership of the Balkans would mean the ownership of an empire
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

Atlanta Sunny South.
 Just before the civil war the country was thrown into spasm of intense ex- citement by the capture of the ship Wan derer, with it's cargo of African slaves, near Savannah.
 The Federal authorities made sensa- ton out Of the affair, and pushed the case vigorously against all who had any con- nection with the Kidnapping of the ne- groes and the forcible shipment of them from their native country to Georgla, where they were to be sold into slavery
 With the successive battles in the courts growing out of the case this sketch has nothing to do, as its purpose Is simply to deal with single incident which caused the Northern half of the Union to boil over with righteous wrath at the time of the occurrence, which 1t must he admit ted was inexcusably lawless and out rageous,
 Many years ago an important business matter took me to Pollard. Ala, and l found 1t necessary to spend week in the town, which was then little village or log cabins and whitewashed shanties.
 Before leaving Montgomery. one of the leading merchants gave me a letter or ln- troduction to Bat Watkins.
 ''He Is the lIveliest man in Pollard said the merchant, and knows lots or good stories Ask him about his raid on
 1 pocketed the letter. with no intention at the time of using it, but my first day at Pollard was so dull and dreary that started out in search of MT. Watkins. Everybody knew him, and their manner when they spoke of him showed that they regarded him as a man who had to be handled with care, and treated with an unusual degree of respect
 That's Bat Watkins. said the land- lord of my hotel, as he pointed out stout midde-aged man in suit Of gray jeans. who a that moment was sttng on the doorstep of double log cabin, ont ha-
 "Jist interduce yerself, Colonel-1've got to go Bat will treat you all right, but hes pecoolyer and high strung You powerful sensitive. Keep this in mind and you'll have no trouble" Assuming an air of reckless but good- humored bravado, l marched up to the rough looking citizen, whose face was partially concealed by his big slouch hat. T am looking for MT. Bat Watkins.
 I said in an of hand way.
 That's my name. was the gruH re- sponse, as the mans cruel, steel gray | eyes, bloodshot, and with red rims around them. looked me through and through. | taking in at a glance every detail or my features and costume. 1t was too late to retreat, ana with forced cheerfulness handed him my let ter of introduction,
 Watkins read 1t once-read 1t twice. and then. pulling his hat over his eyes he read 1t a third time
 Any friend of Charley May is welcome, Colonel. I'll send over to the hotel for your baggage. You must be my guest
 while you are here.
 The man had undergone a wonderful | transformation. He stood erect and fronted me with a smiling face. Even his voice had changed. It was no longer thick and surIy, but rang out in clear, distinct, bell-like tones.
 He was Keeping bachelors hall, with a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
UNDERSTANDS HIS BUSINESS. Dr. B. M. WOOlley and What
 This Great Specialist Says.

Dr. B. M. wooiiey. Atlanta. Ga. an ex- pert In the treatment of opium and whis- key habits. and who Is the recognized authority in this country upon these dls- eases. says most eases can be effectuaily cured. His record for more than a quar- ter of century s guarantee of the truthfulness of his statement. He is a specialist and understands his huslnebasl ayUyfta h{ra -T u,uns.A,x "A Sl-------a~--G% - fts E1GS-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

covering the entire eastern portion of the European continent
 That would mean the control of the Mediterranean in the East and the move ment toward England's Oriental empire would be advanced by a mighty step
 TO Austria the acquisition of Balkans s territory would mean a free way to the Orient, and Austria Is doing an immense business with the far East. Her interest Is far more important than the world guesses.
 To Turkey collapse of the present con dition means almost certainly that there will be no Turkey in Europe after the smoke clears away whatever other nation is defeated or victorious.
 It is written that Turkey must go cut of Europe.
 It is barely possible that she will go finally without war, squeezed out by the slow and fatal process of diplomatic CO., ercion.
 If she does not go peacefully. it is cer- tain that there will be war in Europe sOOner or later.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
The Last of the Joneses.

The two Joneses, John P. of Nevada. and James K, of Arkansas, have gone out of the Senate, leaving that body without a Representative bearing the since 1872 There is no Smith in the Sen ate now. but this Is made up by the sur plus of Clarks. There are two in the Sen ate, one from Montana and one from Wyoming, and the third will take the AAAk AS Ina AAAAAAA IaaaAS x. Jones.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
The Seryiau Country.

The most comfortable way of enteyipg the land Is by way of Hungary into SSr- the old and simple life of throat sitting and revolution, and are building up fne land rich with agriculture and mines. Austria-Hungary is pushing her feeiers of railroad through it in all directions. Immense tunnels burrow under the moun- tains All the Hungarian railroads lead toward the Balkans. Her constant stream of freight and passengers turns elther into the Adriatic sea across Bosnia or through Belgrade, both by land and by Bulgaria. and so finally reaches the Black sea, the Aegean sea. and the ancient highways leading to the far East.
 One of the last places to be touched by cross into the Servian boundary, is the Austrian Gibraltar-the mighty and an oient fortress of Peterswardein.
 Then the train steams into Belgrade, a city with one of the most romantic re- cords of history. It is magnificent city to approach, for its site on the Danube Is so beautiful that travellers give 1t fourth site among the capitals of Europe --Constantinople, Lisbon, Stockholm and Belgrade.
 Almost everywhere in Belgrade are mon- uments and memorials. They are to martyrs of the Turkish wars, murdered statesmen and assassinated patriots
 Nearly every paving stone is pregnant
  from the time the first stone was laid to the beginning of the present genera ton.
 The last Turkish garrison did not move out of Belgrade until 1867, and until then the entire eastern portion of the town was populated by Turks. The Turk s hand is still to be seen everywhere-in minarets and other architecture, in cos tunes and in manners.
 On Friday, when the weekly market is held in the city. the streets are full of red fezzes. The Servian peasants still wears the Turkish trousers gathered at the ankles Often he wraps a towel-like mass of linen around his high fez. Often he wears a high sheepskin cap.
 Every peasant wears a long, sharply pointed and keenly ground knife on his right side in wooden scabbard.
 From Belgrade the train roars through land which only few years ago was a land of brigands. whole villages being held as openly by them as If their occu- patton were the most commonplace. One particularly famous and strong home of the brigands was the village of Domus- potek Uhe brook of pigs,)
 Now the most unusual occupation of most of those villages is to boil down plums in great caldrons In the open air in the season
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
United States Concerned.

It Is this that makes the Balkan ques- ton no mere academic question. but one rife with constant probabiliti for mis- chief that may involve the whole world.
 Now that the United States Is a world power with a thousand foreign interests in places where twenty years ago she had none. the Balkans may be said truly to be of vital concern to this country as well as to Europe. No man can guess at how many ends the world might catch fire in case of general European war.
 So it Is to the present interest of all civilized communities that the Balkan buffer be kept inviolate and undisturbed as long as possible.
 That buffer of mountain and plain. peo- pied largely by semi-savage and half civilized tribes. is no small territory val uable merely on account of it's strategic position.
 It is big enough to make a formidable empire. if ever another Boris or Czar Simeon could arise to suhdue the tribes and hold them together. The Balkan States-Servis. Bulgaria. Montenegro, All bania. Macedonia and other Turkish prov
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
A Large Sample Bottle Free


three columns and If he didn't give your Uncle Bat Watkins perfect h-ll, then, I'm a liar.
 You ask what became of him? I don't know, but I'll bet he became big man in the North. He had brains, was afraid of nothing and had A kingly look. I was glad to get rid of him. That's the story Charley May wanted be to tell you-all of 1t. Now. let's turn in."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

~AhAt FN dl tNh llFl and because she was attracted to at. The rest, the main se- cret, is before you in her own words. Heed it well:
 '' Too many people scatter their energies. l have, succeed ed so far as I . have beca use I tried to do only one thing: It was in a field where achieve m ent is ! dif- cult. but I con- eentrated my mind on my task and kept at 1t
 A writer in Newspaperdo m says of this lady: TX ate Griswold has fnn noHaH L.,,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

Kate E. Griswold is one of the women
 who did,She is sole owner and director Of a. successful magazine of advertising Sh8 has built it and made it by her own splendid business talent: above all. by her invincible pluck and perseverance. 2 HOW she did it all women will want to know. She entered a field of activity
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

You may be honest with others, but are you honest with yourself? When you lack success, and 1t is clearly your own fault. do you admit the facts, and endesvor. tQ applyA the remedX1 A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
Living Dwellers in Past Ages.

Everybody lives in the past. The Balkans were the portals into Europe of all the strange tribes of early time The traces of the Dacians, the Marcomanni, the Quadi, the Goths. the Huns all are to be found in survival in the Balkans. It
 is as if all those irrupdng tribes and races had left their fotsam and jetsam there, to remain unchanged in those un- delectable mounatins.
 Their songs are the songs of the Czar Simeon and the Czar Boris and the Czar Dushan, who ruled more than a thousand years ago. when there was no such thing as a Czar in Russia.
 Throughout the Balkans today the fa- vorite dance is the Kolo which is noth- ing more or less than the ancient Roman dance of Horo, without a change Bagpipers go around everywhere and everywhere the inhabitants are prone to drop their work suddenly and dance and sing as if every one of those queer vil- lages were a stage village and all the peasants were ballet
 The land has been described by one traveller as a land that still lives in tn days of the Troubadours.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
Where All the Balkans Meet.

Where All the Balkans Meet.
 If a man wishes to see all the tribes of the Balkans, he need merely continue on the train to the town of Nisch.
 Nisch will be the great object of ma noeuvres if ever there Is Balkan war.
 Its strong fortress commands the key to the road into Bulgaria and Macedonia Christian churches and Turkish mosques stand there almost side by side. The cry of the Imaam from the minaret mingIes with the bells that call the Catholic wor- shiper.
 Farther on, near the Bulgarian bound dary. is another strategic place that will be heard from in case of war. It is the fortress of Bella Palenka, and Moltke pro bounced it one of the important points of the Balkans. It was the old Roma city of Remesiana. It Is guarded still by an ancient castle-fort built in 1600 by the Grand Vizier Musta oha Pasha. He built 1t by the pleasant .xpedient of tearing down Servian churches and using their stones for 1t. He also took the stones from ancient Roman ruins
 This town Is close to Piost, which stands on the Bulgarian boundary and has true Balkan history It has been occupied at various times by Turks. Bull garians, Servians. Russians and Austrl- ans. Almost every time 1t was taken only after bloody fighting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

capital cook. and two or three other ser vants His larder was stocked with a profusion of good things. including an almost inexhaustible supply of venison.
 Of course, l accepted his invitation, and that night exerted every effort to make myself entertaining.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
The conspiring Bulgarians.

Ane SonSplrlng buIgarlanS.
 From Servia to Bulgaria is a leap into different manners. different costumes different architecture.
 The Bulgarian does not love the Ser visn unduly. Luckily for the peace be- tween them, the Bulgarians are kept so busy plotting and counter plotting about Macedonia, that their somewhat embarrassing attentions are directed all most entiTely southward just now
 As the Cuban Junta made it's head quarters in the United States, so the Mac edonian Junta makes It's headquarters in Bulgaria. But unlike the Cuban revolu- tionists the Macedonian Committee has not merely enlisted Bulgarian sympathies and aid It has risen to a great Bulga- rian political power.
 It keeps the pitch hot all the time
 Dive out of Bulgaria and into the noun tain districts of Macedonia, and you dive into a land of Alexander the Great of Roman Generals, and C7ars who were CZars long before Russia had any. Time has jumped over this land and touched 1t only in leaps ages apart. The care-free spirit of the Macedonian is beautifully expressed by his simple method of incit- der to attract the attention of the out side world. This charming little bit of statecraft is not rare. 1t explains many things-among others why a Macedonian brigand may be expected to keep his word if he promises a captured traveller that his ear shall be cut off if ransom is not ready at certain time.
 A person who is ready at all hours of the day or night to provoke the Turk into massacreing his friends. Is not likely to hesitate unduly about strangers ear.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

When you cast your bread upon the water, don't tie a stone to it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
GENERAL REVIEW OF TRADE
Conditions as They Appear to Lead
ing Commercial Agencies.
Prediction by Pessimists of Depres.
sion in Business Fail to
Be Realized.

New York, Aug. Sir. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
There is still no indication of the de-
preston in trade and industry that
pessimists predicted would follow the
decline in securities. Conservatism
was developed by the uncertainty re-
garding the effect upon financial con-
ditions, but legitimate business is able
to secure funds as they are required,
and the more cautious progress of
business gives promise of greater per-
manent gain. Weak spots have been
disclosed, and the technical position
strengthened, just as occurred in the
stock market. Readjustment after a
period of imitation must of necessity
bring some losses, yet the outlook is
frightened by the removal of threat
ening industrial clouds. Dispatches
from all sections testify to the liberal
distribution of merchandise anG the
disposition TO prepare for greater con-
sumption of all the necessaries of life
while the crops are making good
progress aside from some cotton dis
tricts in Texas. The number of buy
ers in New York is increasing and a
heavy fall trade is anticipated
Failures this week numbered 10
in the United States, against 173 last
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
In England the cotton trade is in a

In England the cotton trade is in a
worse state than for Is years in conse-
quence of The shortness of the supply
of cotton.
A dispatch from London says the sale
at auction of the birthplace of Charles
Dickens on Commercial road, Ports
mouth, is announced.
1t is announced that 100 of the wealth
lest merchants of Stockholm will visit
the United States and the st. Louis fair
in the autumn of 1904
According to mail advices from Shang-
hal, several hundred lives were lost in
recent great floods at Chefoo.
United States Vice Consul w. G..
Magelssen was assassinated at Beirut,
Syrian Turkey. President Roosevelt
has ordered the European squadron,
now coaling at points along the French
coast, to proceed to the scene and en-
force the demands of the United States
for prompt reparation.
An express train between Buda-Pesth
and Constantinople was blown up by a
dynamite bomb and seven persons
killed and Is injured. Revolutionists
are accused.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
Saturdays Contest for Americas
Cup Called Off by Officials
as a Result.
STORM RACES over The COURSE
and SAILING is IMPOSSIBLE
Committee Decides to Hold Race on
Monday and Each Succeeding Day
Until Contest Is COmp1eted-LOn-
don Dispatch Asks for Race with
Crews Exchanged.

New York, Aug. 31.-For the first
time in the history of Americas cup
contest a race has been postponed
because of too much wind. Saturday
the third of the present series Of races
was to have been sailed. Following
the futile attempt of Thursday, when
there was not enough wind to COM
plete the race within the time limit,
it was earnestly hoped by yachtsmen
that Saturdays contest would be de.
cisive and the series completed. Ten
hours after Thursdays drifting failure
a storm broke over the cup course and
ragged about Sandy Hook. The water
was tumbled into waves that troubled
even an ocean liner. The wind blew
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
LATER,

Caleb Powers concluded his statement
before the court at Georgetown, KY, and
the case was given to the jury.
The nomination at the primary cleo
tons of James X. Vardman to be the
democratic candidate for governor of
Mississippi is assured. His friends claim
| 10000 majority and his opponents con-
cede majority of 1000.
Trade reviews of Dun and Bradstreet
show no indication of depression in bust
ness predicted to follow declines in Wall
street, and the general tone in trade and
manufactures is healthy.
The announcement that the steam
ship Britannia was on it's last voyage
marks the end of one of the most famous
of Atlantic liners. The ship will be
broken up for junk
Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape
architect of the Chicago worlds fair and
many well-known parks, died in Waiver
ly, Mass, aged 81 years.
William G. Magelssen, vice consul at
Beirut, Syria, was not killed, as at first
reported, but was shot at by an intending
assassin. The European squadron will
continue to Turkish waters, as demon
Istration is believed necessary to assure
safety of American citizens there.
Turkish troops sent to reinforce the
garrison at Kirk-Kilissch, near Adrian
ople, were routed by insurgents, whose
numbers are estimated at 5000.
War with Colombia is a possible con-
tingency should the canal treaty fail to
secure favorable action President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hay conferred
OR the subject.
Trains collided near Adine, Italy.
Twenty lives were lost and 80 persons
injured
High water caused two deaths at Oma-
ha, Neb., one at Council Bluffs, Ia, and
three at Nodaway, Ia.
Ira c. Bradley, aged 60, who had been
trying to establish in Cuba an American
settlement known as the Bradley Colo
my" was murdered near Holquin, Cuba.
The only motive ascribed for the murder
was robbery.
With tremendous detonations heard
for miles around a new fissure opened
in the cone of Vesuvius, and from the
new gap came pouring out tons of burn
ling lava which flowed in the direction of
the village of Ottajano.
The department of commerce and Ia
Dor announces the appointment of Ed
win w. Sims, as special attorney in the
bureau of corporations. He has been
lpracticing law in Chicago for the past
item years.
Dick Creaghe broke the worlds rec
ord in five-mile cowboy relay race
in Lamar, Col, the distance being
made in 9:42 2-5. The record was
previously made during the state fair
lat Pueblo in 1901.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
year, and SO in Canada, compared
with IA a year ago."

year, and 33 in Canada, compared
with IA a year ago."
Bradstreet's says: "Trade conditions
are still slightly uneven, due to the
backwardness of crops in some sec
tons, damage reports from others and
uncertainty as to the monetary out
look. Fall trade in favorably situated
sections compares well with a year
ago, while in others disposition to
hold back is manifested. Car conges-
ton reports are still numerous. The
feeling grows that the iron trade is
grounding on the bottom as regards
prices, and small buying of pig iron is
more marked; but here again some
uncertainty is still noticeable Taken
as whole, the situation has many
elements of strength. What business
is doing is of solid character, and, in
fact, any tendency to over-extension
is cOnSpicuouSly absent"