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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
ELECTION AT THE PARK WILL VOTE TOMORROW ON
 BOND ISSUE. Citizens of the Montgomery Suburb Will Float $12,OOo in Bonds for Improvement of the
 , Streets.

The qualified voters of Highland Park will tomorrow vote on the question of issuing s12,000 worth of bonds for munic- ipal Improvements.
 The entire proceeds from the sale of the bonds will be used in gravelling the sidewalks and streets of Highland Park.
 There are within the corporate limits of Highland Park 106 qualified voters. A majority of the voters only is required to authorize the bond issue.
 There seems to be no doubt in the minds of prominent citizens of Highland Park that the bonds will be authorized by tomorrow's election. The sentiment ap- pears to be overwhelmingly in favor of the bond issue. A one-sided vote Is ex- pected tomorrow.
 The disposal of the funds arising from the sale of the bonds has already occu- pied the attention of the town Council of Highland Park. It has been determined to put down gravel instead of costiier paving. Both the sidewalks and the streets will be graveled. With Sl2,000 in hand 1t is estimated that practically every sidewalk and street In the city may be praveled.
 The Highland Parkers are expecting great things from their prospective i'm. provements. The graveling of the streets, they say, will make tho town one of the most attractive, if not the most attri ctiye suburb Of Montgomery.
 The bond obligation of Highland Park will become part of the indebtedness however. no friction between the town Council of Highland Park and the city government of Montgomery.
 We are in entire harmony with the city government of Montgomery" said Mayor Tyler Goodwin of Highland Park. We want the beneht of their experience and advice and they have fully accorded 1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
Electric Treatment for the Soil.

London Globe.
 The electric light Is now used for fore ing plants in some parts of America, care being taken by the use of screens to elim- mate the evil effects of the ultraviolet rays 1t contains. Electrifying the soil to promote growth, a very old idea, has also been the subject of recent experiments by the Russian Prof. Selim Lemstrom. His results go to show that electricity from a static electrical machine applied to the soil at the roots of plants by means of buried earthpiates augments the energy to which is due the circulating sap. The more fertile the ground the more effective Is this electrical treatment. Electricity thus employed also hastens the ripening of fruits and roots, etc.. as well as in creasing the amount of sugar. In general, NJ Lemstrom considers that the gain in development of plants under electrifica- ton during growth Is about 45 per cent Some plants-for instance, peas, carrots, and cabbages-cannot fear this treatment unless watered In an articei on his experi- ments, Mir. Guarini. a we'll known electri- clan and inventor in wireless telegraphy, asks why this method of horticulture is not adopted more, and himself replies that all inventions or new applications pass through three phases, viz, conception, ex- perimentation, application. Electroculture has only passed out of the second phase, and Is entering into the third. Its ad- vantage is now recognized, and 1t only re- mains to determine, for it's use to become general, whether 1t will pay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
ITALY HUNTS BANDITS.
Many Expectations and Murders at Last Hes Aroused Italian.
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Tn the first week in November eleven nersons were reported to have been as- saulted and robbed n different outlying districts of the Province of Catania. Similar depredations were committed at Viterbo and other towns of Italy. The brigands, in the accepted sense or the word but peasants of the neighborhood, who, when an opportunity offers in out of-the-way places, do not hesitate to turn a dishonest penny by attacking in- nocent wayfarers not likely to resist The peasants themselves afterward quiet ly return to their field to work.
 Sometimes these criminals are outlaws who live exclusively on plunder. Most of them are escaped convicts or similar desperadoes wanted by the pohce' who take to the mountains and forests in thinly populated territories, where the rude, ignorant inhabitants, moved by fear or sympathy, afford them covert support. They plunder and murder some times in organized bands, which are cas- ily hemmed in and captured, but gener- ally single-handed or in couples. thus eluding pursuit for years, especially If affiliated with the Mafia or other criminal associations.
 Gig. Giolitti, the energetic Minister of the Interior, determined to wipe away this standing disgrace from the annals of Italy. He reorganized the police force and the troops of carbineers attached to perform police duties. gave orders to hunt down mercilessly all evil-doers securing and pillaging in the open coun- try and encouraged the pursuers by the promise of premiums and promotions. The results of this new policy are most gratifying. A gang of robbers, who on Mount Vesuvius committed five murders and assaulted by night a convent or friars, was recently surrounded and ob- liged to surrender.
 The brigand Gerrero is another miscre- ant lately disposed of He pillaged and murdered since 1893, at Favara, near Pal ermo, was nine times under the ire or the carbineers, always escaping scatn- less A price of $1.OOO was set on ms capture dead or alive, and he and an ac- complice were killed last month after dramatic running fight by night ume against eighteen soldiers. On the corpse of this atrocious murderer was found the Carmelite scapular of the Madonna ana in his ammunition pouch a medal or Our Lady of Pompeii.
 The last brigand who is at large is Var saiona, an unerring shot. The terror of the provinces of Palermo and Girgenti. who has successfully eluded for ten years
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19

every effort toward his arrest. In most of the communes of the two western provinces of Sicily he had confederates willing to join him when he requires fol- lowers for some risky expedition and ever ready to harbor him when he is hard pressed by the police. But the bri- gand is wary and suspicious and prefers to act single-handed. Last year an ol6 man formerly belonging to the police force, gave information as to his where- abouts; two emissaries of Varsalonae sought and found the police pensioner in the streets of Cammarata at midday and shot him down in the presence of several persons who considered 1t right not to interfere in the execution" of a spy.
 This cold-blooded murder re-echoed through Italy and the Government de- termined to hunt down the brigands at whatever cost. An energetic and intel ligent police inspector was sent from Rome to direct operations. Two com panies of carbineers and numerous detec- lives were placed at his disposal Cas- tronovo, where the brigand's wife resides, was occupied by soldiers; the neighbor- ing mountains were constantly patrolled and places of concealment carefully searched. All *his however, gave no re- suits. because the friends and sympathiz- CTS of the brigand furnished him with food Tn ms mysterious TetTedI ana WlJn timely notice of the movements of the police.
 At last a sudden resolution was taken One night at the same hour and in four teen communes of the province of Pal erno and Girgenti, all the relatives and all the suspected abettors of the male- factor were arrested at one swoop. At Castronovo. Varst lona's birthplace, no fewer than sixty individuals were seized and sent under strong escort to PaIer- mo- The prisoners included the brigands wife and several land owners, among whom was a Marquis de Cordova, with all his servants. Many submitted to be manacTed and carried to prison
 One man, landowner. whose vast es- tates had been uniformly spared from depreciation by the brigand. refused to surrender. He barricaded his house and fired on the police from the windows. but he also was eventually secured and will have to answer for the death of one of his assailants.
 Varsalona's capture Is now a question of days; he must either surrender or starve. If this system of isolating bri- gands in their mountain fastnesses by arresting all their possible abettors in the plain be persisted in, as it will surely be so long as Signor Giolitti continues to hold the Ministry of the Interior. the occasional highwayman may survive for some time, but the professional Fra Diavolo" Is doomed to immediate extinc- ton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19

is one of comfort. AS : lawyer. 16r. Hill last week. argued the protest of corpora ti0ns against a tax law before the Court of Appeals. and hs retainer is said to q good living out of . poor newspaper. and can command E00 a night by his lectures" We state these personal facts to show that neither man is hostile to suggest the inconsistency of their dia- tribes against ''plutocracy," as they would have 1t understood or as 1t will be understood by those whom they would stir" up by their words.
 The Democratic party will cease to be formidable, if its membership should be reduced to tramps, beggars, paupers and hiFhwaymen. A oevere construction of the words of Bryan and of Hill would characterize all outside of those classes es get back into the Democracy those Dem ocrats who have gone toward Republican, ism on account of Populists, cranks and would-be regulators.
 Bryan and Hill to cut loose from those allies, who cannot go into Republicanism anyway, and to give to real Democrats a real chance to return to real Democra- cv. Plutocrat.'' as an epithet against a man who has made or saved anything and who would like to keep it and increase 1t Is as absurd and as unjust as the word scab." employed to define the hero who would contract for his own labor and skill. on his owR terms. without the dictaticn of others. The expression Is not only absurd and unjust but it is also angering, dividing and immorally incen- diary fin its tendency. We regret to say that form of so-called journalism is re- sponsibie for its introduction into the
 terms of politics. But If the politics which handles 1t and which invests in it should fall to as low an estate as the Journalism which invented and fomented 1t has done. neither warning nor retribu- tion could further go.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
THE HORRORS
 OF THE
 DRINK HABIT Cured Speedily and Permanently hy THE SAINT OMER REMEDY.

A BOTANICAL CURE for the disease, DRUNKENNESS. ST. OMER REMEDY can be administered without the patients knowl- edge in tea. coffee. milk water any liquid and has no taste. odor or color
 It will positively destroy the craving for al- cohol in any form. in the most obstinate cases
 Indorsed by the W. c. T. U.. Leading Physi- clans and Temperance Workers Everywhere.
 PROFESSOR BoULANGER, the eminent French chemist. says: My observation of the effects following treatment with THE ST OMER REMEDY leads to the conclusion that 1t is 6 most valuable cure for the drink habit. 1 find 1t free from opiates and min erals and recommended 1t an excellent remedy its work Is indeed marvellous"
 ABSOLUTELY no bad effects from It's use CURES GUARANTEED.
 THE ST. oMER REMEDY is sold by drug gists or sent prepaid for SI. .oo. Sample free by writing MRS, A. A. ELDRIDGE. Secy. the ST. OYER SOCIETY. l3S Fremont St. Bos- ton. Mass. Sold by E. c. Fowler. 10 Dexter Avanue. .hu-aun
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
Pure Silk Tissue.
25 pieces PURE SILK T1ssu

25 pieces PURE SILK TISSUE, black and white, 31 inches wide, fully worth 75c., for Monday 29c 15 pieces WHITE WASH CHIFFON, 52 inches wide, regular 75c. quail ity, for Monday. ..... .. ..35c 100 pieces FANCY BATISTE, in- sertion. stripes, all colors, also dotted SWISS in fancy and solid colors, worth 1sc. yard, for Mon day.. .. .. .. .. .... ..12 1-2c 75 pieces extra fine quality DIM ITY and BATIsTE, worth 15c. a yard, for Monday. .. ... 1oc One Case MALVERN BATIsTE, for
 Monday, a yard. ........... .4c
 White India Linons.
 100 pieces 36 in. WHITE INDIA LINoN, 12 1-2c. quality, for Mon- day.. .... ...... ........ .Sc 50 pieces 40 inch WHITE LAWN very sheer, worth BOG a yard, for Monday loc One case 40 inch WHITE LAWN, in short lengths of 3 to 10 yards, worth 25 to BOG. 8 yard, for Mon day LUG 50 pieces CHECK. NAINsooK, short lengths, 3 to. 12 yards, for Mon day ..7 ..... A .A-|c 50 pieces CHECK NAINsooK, reg ular 1oc. quality, for Monday Sc BLACK VELVET RIBBON, good quality, satin back, in 10 yard pieces.
 No. 2-5oc piece or Dc yard. No. 5-$1.Oo piece or. .1Oc yard No. 7-$1.25 a piece or 12 1-2c yd No. o-$1. 80 piece. or '.16c a yard No. 12-$2.2o a piece or .22c yard No. 1e-$2.5o a piece or .25c yard
 Embroideries. ' 5000 yards Embroideries, beauti- full patterns for Monday Sc. yd. 5000 yards Embroideries with in- sertions to match, fully worth 1Oc. a yard, for Monday. 6c 5000 yards EMBRoIDERIEs, with Insertion to match, worth 1sc, for Monday t.. ...... ..-.........! !oc 5000 yards EMBRoIDERIEs, with Insertions to match, worth 20 to soc. @ yard, for Monday. .1oc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
ORDER FROM GEN. GORDON.
Information Concerning the Confed-
 crate Reunion.

@nAOR RmatAoA SouceTu1uS the CouIeQ-
 crate Reunion.
 The following circular letter has been received by Montgomery camps of Con-
 New Orleans. La, March 12, 1903. ITO all Commanders, Camps and Com
 rades:
 "The General Commanding calls atten- ton to the fact that the same custom which has heretofore existed in regard to the appointment of Sponsors and Maids ot Honor in the past will apply to the New Orleans Reunion.
 As the Veterans are fast passing away. and soon will be too few to hold Reunions. even-nanded justice demands that these honors should be broadened and extended so as to reach, now while the opportunity offers, everyone of these noble young women, even to the hum biest, as they are all active workers for our and their beloved cause.
 t'It Is a beautiful custom, and is in keeping with the chivalrous spirit of the old soldiers of the South, is elevating and point, that all the Headquarters in the Association should have a Sponsor, and as many Maids of Honor as desired This applies to General, Department, Division and Brigade Headquarters. and to all the Camps.
 Nearly every dollar of money which is required for help for the living. and for the care of the graves and monuments for Our Dead is raised by the survivors of the glorious women of the Confederacy and their descendants, these noble young women. Nearly every act of mercy, and nearly every good deed which Is done, can be traced to their loving and devoted hands.
 "The General Commanding therefore. feels that, as they are called upon to fiji the post of Duty, they should also be given the position of Honor.
 Therefore, he desires the original cus- tom adhered to. of the appointment of Sponsors by General, Department, Di- wilson and Brigade Commanders, and by every Camp, with as many Maids of Honor as desired, there being no limit to the number, but with the distinct un- derstanding that the Reunion Committee at New orleans will only entertain and provide sor one Sponsor and one Maid of Honor from General, Department and Division Headquarters, as the expense for the te.tainment of larger number would be too great for the Reunion Com mittee to bear; neither would there be room upon platforms, etc. for any larger number; but 1t Is earnestly hoped and requested that all the rest will attend and grace the New Orleans Reunion with their presence.
 By command of
 "J. B. Gordon,
 General Commanding. "Wm. E. Mickle,
 "Adjutant General and Chief of Stafr."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
NEW ARRIVALS IN Muslin Underwear.

CAMBRIC GOWNS, either square os V neck, yoke trimmed with fou1
 rows showy Hamburg insertion. for Monday. ..e.. ....... .4oe CAMBRIC AND MUSLIN chemiss,
 Drawers and Skirts, beautifully trimmed, for Monday ...... .4ee CHEMISE, SKIRTS and Drawers,
 Fine trimmed and worth $1.5o, for this sale, Monday. ..... .eso Fine Quality Cambric and Muslin Gowns, Chemise, Skirts and Drawers, all handsomely trim med and worth fully $1.75 to $2 each, for Monday. .. .. ..$1.24 SQUARE NECK GOWNS of Fine quality Cambric, yoke trimmed with eleven rows ve1encienes lace, wide Valenceienes lace around neck and sleeves, 8 regular $2.5p gown for Monday. s. a.. .i.- .$1.4a Also have same gown. embroidery trimmed. .. 'i,sss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19

moved to this State in 1867. to practice his profession, dentistry, and for thirty six years he has been identified with the interests or Henry County, taking special diate section. His high-toned Christian character made him a general favorite and the Methodist Church has lost one of its strongest and most conservative members. For more than twenty years pr. Thornton has been Superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School and all though very feeble ne was at his post last Sunday morning.
 A wife and the following children sur vtve him: Mrs. R. L. DeKle of Thomas vile. Ga.: Mrs. W. A. Trawick, w. T., Rufe and Etta Thornton of Abbeville The interment took place this afternoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
Adyer.ltIis.e,,r | Burea,,

Selma, April IS. Memorial Day will be observed Satur- day, April 25. The following are the line of march and order of exercises: Rendezvous corner Church and Dallas Marshall Charles w.Hooper. with aides Band of music.
 Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans with their respective command CTS. N '
 Military companies.
 First Carriage-The President, Mrs. A. ". Cawthon. two ministers. the orator of the day.
 Second carriase-The young ladies in charge of the crosses to be delivered. Daughters Of the Confederacy.
 Schools, citizens, visitors.
 Order of exercises at cemetery:
 Prayer
 Song by quartette.
 Grafton. i35 Song.
 Crosses delivered to fourteen Veterans. SonR. @
 Benediction. .,4-
 Garlands strewn on soldiers graves. The ladies of the U. D. c. Chapter most cordially invite all residents of the city and surrounding neighborhoods to unite with them tn this celebration. Any assistance in any manner will be grate- fully received. Contributions of cut flowers. gariands. wreathes are urgently solicited. These can be sent to the memorial platform at the cemetery on Every one should send some floral of- fering in memory of those who laid down their lives for this Southland.
 The names of the orators and of others who will take part in the exercises have not been announced
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
WE HAVE NO EXCUSE

To offer for daily stopping our deliv- cry wagons in front of the majority of the homes in the city, and serving them with absolutely pure (pastuer- ized) Milk and Butter, except that the people of Montgomery have wanted something for long time and have at last found 1t at 13 Monroe Street.
 City Creamery Co.,,
 Phone HE. 13 Monroe St.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
COL. J. s. MosBY.
His Friendship for Grant Caused
 Great Pecuniary Loss.

His Friendship for Grant Caused
 Great Pecuniary Loss.
 Warrenton Virginian Dem.)
 Colonel John s. Mosby has received from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, letter enclosing an in- vitation to be present on Grant night'' with the Middlesex Club. The Middlesex is one of the most exclusive of all the New England clubs, and its nights are events of more than ordinary import. President Chamlin of the club writes to Colonel Mosby: We would like to add your name to the roll of distinguished guests. The members of the club, the Republicans of Massachusetts, and the people of Boston would be glad to see and welcome you. beg to assure you that this invitation Is not perfunctory and formal. We earnestly desire that you may be able to accept it."
 Never before was friendship bought at the price Colonel Mosby paid for Grants. At the time of which we speak Colonel Mosby was yet very young man. He owned a beautiful home in Warrenton, where lived his devoted wife and interest ing children. He was enjoying law practice of perhaps $10,000 a year. He was the idol of the people of this Coun- ty and of the State-young. handsome brilliant and famous there was no office in the State he might not have aspired to and won. Ills friendship for Grant cost hin all these things. He was too far in advance of the times to escape the partisan hatred which burned no where so bitterly agair st the North as 1t did in Warrenton. Colonel Mosby's good rea- SC ns for preferring Grant to Greedy made no more impression than a human breath ACainat a He Inst hfa rranffra his home. his certain advancement in poll itics because of his friendship for Grant. but his courageous spirit never yield ed. He would not have turned his back on Grant for all that friendship cost him, though his old age finds him as poor as when he surrendered his arms after the war.
 Colonel John s. Mosby has been sent South on business for the Interior De- pertinent, and he will not be seen in Warrenton for many months to come. Colonel Mosby was a military genius of such force that had his ideas been fol- lowed by all the Confederate forces. the South would have gained her indepen- dence or been fighting now: but that is not all. He Is a lawyer of such ability that had his practice not been interrupt ed he would have had no one ahead of him In the South. and that is not all. He Is so ripe scholar, so facile In express sion. so accurate in his knowledge that he could yet make contributions to liter ature for which he would have the grati- tude of succeeding generations. Mosby is universally called a man with little manners and 1t may be the truth, but at the same time he Is a man of the deepest sympathy and of infinite tender ness, when touched; and his hand Is as open and generous as Kings. There ere few with more of the milk of human kindness in their natures and not one person with less of its oil.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
r. M. 0. A. Notes.

Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in the to men only on a subject of special in- terest. The committee in charge of the Sunday afternoon services are endeavor- ing to make them as interesting and profitable as possible and cordial invita- to be present.
 The Board of Directors will hold the regular monthly meeting Monday evening at o'clock.
 The basket ball game last Friday night between the junior teams resulted in a victory for the 'Blues" by a score of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
As to "Plutoeracy."
Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle
 The discordant notes in all the Jefferson celebrations-of which notice is taken in another article-appear to have been those sounded in the words of MT. Hill at Albany, and in the telegram of MT. Bryan to the dinner in Manhattan. Each of them talked about 'plutocracy" in a way to suggest that the possession or the desire of property Is anti-Democratic. and that he who desires it or possesses It Is not only mo Democrat" but should be regarded by that party as an enemy.
 Mir. Hill Is in affiuent circumstances. and the financial condition of Mir. Bryan
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
Fish Farming in China.

Those ever-ingenious people. the Chi nese, are great at fish farming. and one of their little dodges for matching young fish is most ingenious. Taking a fresh egg they suck the contents through a tiny hole and refill the egg with the tiny eggs of the fish they want to hatch. The hole is then sealed up and the egg placed under a sitting hen. In a few days the fish ova are so far advanced that one has only to break the shell into moder- ately warm water and the little fish spring to life at once.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
The Newc of Selmo>.

to 5.
 The Mems Gospel Meeting at the Rail- way Department Monday evening at 7:tS o'clock will be addressed by MT. C. IT. smith. Every man Is cordially invited
 The Ladies Auxiliary of the Railway Department will give an ice cream sup per at the Association building Friday evening. April 24th, proceeds to be used m making payment on the Association's 2 plano. Some music has been arranged for the evening and pleasant time may be expected by all who attend.