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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

body. It puts every pore into healthy con dition; assists Nature in throwing oil poisons from the body; allays inflammation, cools, soothes and heels all irritated parts. It cures chapped hands and lips, and all forms Of chafng No soap, no lotion, no wash ever made will so quickly quiet baby suffering with prickly heat or any form of rash as MunyOn's Witch Hazel Soap. Its soothing effect upon the little one is almost tnstan- taneous. l want every person troubled with hives, or who is tOrmented by any itching' to bathe with Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap, using water as hot as the skin can bear. Re- lief will be immediate. There is not case of dandTuf and know of no scalp disease but this soap will cure. It is ideal for sham pooing It prevents hair from falling out by strengthening and feeding the roots. Ladies will find this soap a great blessing as wash for certain irritations, weakness and discharges. It is antiseptic allays all inflammation, and removes all unpleasant odors. Every gentle man who slaves himself should try this soap. .t softens the beard and prevents the skin from becoming irritated and sore. No smartiDg, no burning, no need of hay rum or witch hazel for bathing. For the general toilet it is an exquisite luxury, 1t improves any complexion and makes the skin soft as velvet. It is as far superior to any otber soap eVeS made as the electric light is 10 the tAllow dip You cannot afford to be careless about your soap, especially if there are young children in the family. Sold everywhere.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
FORTUNE SMILES ON POOR MAN.
Sweetheart Leaves Him Large Sum
 and He Succeeds with Invention.

Sweetheart Leaves Him Large Sum
 and He Succeeds with Invention.
 That fortune has twice smiled on a poor man was revealed recently by an ap- plication made by Ignatius Wiltner, attor- ney for Stephen Neederman of 150 Nassau Street, for permission to serve by pub lication the papers in a suit brought against Thomas Vezer to compel the sur render of 1000 shares of stock in the Rapid Envelope Sealing Company The application was made to Justice Giege- rich, who reserved decision, says The New York Times
 Neederman had battled hard with the world for many years, and the two for tunes have just come to him, as was ex- plained to the court. The first fortune, according to MT. Wiltmer, came by the death of former sweetheart, who tilted him ten years ago for the man he is now suing Neederman was left $25, ,O0O by her will The other stroke Of luck came two months ago. when, after trying for eight years to perfect an envelope seal ing machine, he was successful and now has organized a company with a capital of S1,eOO. OOO
 MT. Neederman was an officer in the Hungarian army when he became en- gagged to Marguerite Tomori, an heiress Vezer also aspired to her hand and won for a time, but before they were married the woman again changed her mind and married young noble, who was also clergyman.
 Neederman has been in this country for eight years, and since that time has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
SHIPToN AND HER FA-
 NOUS PROPHECY,

The lines were first published in Eng land in 14S5, before the discovery of Amer lea, and before any of the discoveries and inventions mentioned therein. All of the events predicted nave come to pass except that in the last two lines That about the horseless carriages and the accidents is especially apropos:
 Carriages without horses shall go.
 And accidents fili the world with woe. Around the world thoughts will fly
 In the twinkling of an eye.
 Water shall yet more wonders do- Now strange yet shall be true;
 The world upside down shall be.
 And gold be found at root of tree.
 Through hills man shall ride,
 And no horse nor ass be at his side. Under water man shall walk,
 Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk,
 In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black, in green. Iron in the water shall float
 As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found mid stone,
 In land that's now unknown. Fire and water shall wonders do,
 England shall at last admit a Jew. And this world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and elghty-one,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
Mastered the Field of Finance.

Like MT 6Pepper, MT. Charles A. Co., nant went into his new field of endeavor as publicist and financial expert from the newspaper field. Even the younger of the Washington correspondents re- member when Charley Conant passed noiselessly about the offices of the Treas ury Department, never raising his voice above the most modulated tone, never speaking unless he was spoken to, and rot then unless he had something to say In those days. not more than five years ago. he represented a New York city financial paper. He devoted himself entirely to commercial and financial sub jects. The daily letters he wrote bristled with statistics and facts. They were SO full of. tabulated statements that 1t got to be quite the thing to say that Charley Conant prepared his articles by mixing up a few tables of figures up to nine places with a sentence or two from the daily Treasury statement and then mailed it. But whatever other people thought Conant pursued the even tenor of his way always hewing closely to the same line After a while when new officials came to the Treasury Department to take up thsir duties they found that Corant could not tell them many things which even the old and trusted employees of the department had forgotten. Some of the old bureau and division chiefs got into the habit of asking Conants opin- ion of policies and proposed Treasury action.
 These were conditions when Mir Root the Secretary of War. looked about for some one to visit the Philippine Islands and report as to the best currency
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
RIGHT HAND OF
 GEAR NICHOLAS
Carpenter Write.c of Witte, the Businecc Manager of the
 4 Russian Empire. e s>.

LCopyright, 1903, by Frank G. Carpenter.l
 .~.vo 'E ST. PETERSBURG.
 I have had an interview here with the greatest man in Russia if not the greatest man on earth His name is Sergius Witte. business manager of the great Russian Empire. He handles all told in the neigh borhood of a billion dollars a year, taking 1t in from a thousand sources and dis tributing 1t with an even hand to, the necessities of Russia in Europe and Asia.
 He is one of the worlds greatest bank CTS. being at the head of the Treasury of Russia and of the vast government banking system whose capital runs into the hundreds of millions. He is one of the worlds great railroad men, having an enormous network of state lines in Russia, in Central Asia and in Siberia the longest line of the world. From the Czar's crown estates he collects about t4O, 100000 a year, and from the debts owing him gets a revenue of $16. coo, 900. He handles the mines belonging to the crown and drags forth gold and silver. iron and coal in the tens of millions from the bowels of the earth. He is in charge of the tax system and the customs duties and he is a mighty manufacturer. Stranger than all, he is the greatest sa~ loonfst of the world He does an alec hol business which dwarfs that of the American whiskey trust, making and selling ,as a government y proposition. every ounce of alcohol consumed by more than 100000 900 people.
 A Self-Made Man. h
 All this Witte does ably, honestly and for his master, the czar. He has acquired his prominence by his own work, and is what would be called in America a self made man. He came from the southern part of the empire. born of parents com paratively poor. He had a fair educa- tion and began life as a clerk in a rail- road office. This was at Odessa on the Black Sea. He did his work well and rose to be manager. Then he was ad- vanced to another. road which ran from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

was a network in front of the counter and on the shelves at the back were bot ties of different sizes. from little ones as big as a wine glass to some holding half A gallon. The bottles were round and white. and they see ned to be filled with water. They really contained vodka, or Russian whiskey, which is as clear as crystal.
 Behind the counter stood nicely dress ed Russian woman, dealing with her cus- timers through window in the wire net work like teller of bank. No liquor is allowed to be drunk on the premises There were no chairs nor lounging places and one is expected to leave as soon as he makes his purchase. l asked as to prices, and was told that the smallest bottle cost cents. but that a cent would be paid back on the return of the bottle Each bottle was tightly corked and waxed with a government stamp The ordinary peasant buys bottle, takes 1t outside and gulps down the contents. He then returns the bottle and gets his re- bate of kopeks, or l cent. bought a 12-cent bottle and for that sum l got al most A tumblerful of vodka. l have not opened 1t yet.
 Russian Brandy Drinkers.
 The Russians are great brandy drink CTS, for after all vodka is species or brandy. Drinking is common all over the empire and I see many drunken men. do not know that they are as bad as the English in this respect but they certainly drink more than the Americans. The above figures are the profits Of the pusi- ness, and they give a small idea of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
AwoKE FROM TRANCE TO DIE.
This French Woman Was in . Cata-
 leptic State Twenty Years.

Paris Letter to New York Sun.
 Marguerite Roy 2nval, who awolxe Tues day from twenty-years' trance. died to- day. The case is referred to by the news papers as one of the most remarkable known to medical science.
 The woman fell Into a cataleptic trance on May 21. 1888. after giving birth to . child. ......-.
 It was thought at first that she was . victim of hallucination and the police were going to arrest her. At the begin ming of her long sleep she suffered seri~ ous convulsive attacks about every tive months, but eventually all movement ceased.
 Her jaws were clinched violently ana she sank into the most profound lethargy, with physical insensibility and mental in- ertness. Dr. Charlier, who attended her throughout, was able at first to cause sensibility by injecting sulphate of atre- pine sub-cutaneously, but he ceased the treatment when he found that no perma- nent progress was induced.
 Throughout the twenty years the wo- mans respiration was normal and her temperature slightly above the normal. Her face was pale and waxlike, but was not disagreeable to look at.
 During the last few years she showed symptomS of becoming consumptive, and 1t Is presumed that under the influence of this new condition the awakening that
  < pr. Charlier believes that the woman was never conscious, but Prof. voisin. one of the many eminent doctors whn frequently visited her, thought that she sometimes vaguely heard what was being salo 70 her. ss.>ss# s--r-ai- a 3assi
 About five months ago the doctor saw signs of returning consciousness. and re newed their effortsst to revive her, but she -did not eopen her seyes until Tuesday, when. feeling the doctors fingers on her E flesh. she said: sss.:YoHs are pinching me. 2.
 She answered the doctors questions with Yes" or No" but did not con- verse further. From her laconic answers 1t seemed that she was unable to recog- nize her relatives. She mistook her moth- CT for her sister.
 Her memory appeared to be fixed on the time when she worked In the village sugar factory.
 Throughout her sleep she was fed on peptone, administered through a quill where a tooth had been removed for the purpose. She fell asleep at the age of 9 years, and awoke at the age of 42 to the consciousness of extreme physical weak ness and exhaustion, from which she died. The body was almost skeleton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

scheme for the archipelago. The admin istration was much worried at the out look. The Insular Treasury had lost as much as a million dollars in a single year through the depreciation of the money used. The Secretary of the Treasury, MT. Gage, recommended Mir. Conant at a Cabinet meeting. Some one inquired, Why! he is only a newspaper correspondent" That was admitted, but when Mir. Root. a shrewd lawyer and student of men, talked with Conant half an hour he knew that he was qualified for the mission and sent him at Govern ment expense. Conant visited the isl- ands and studied conditions as they &C., tually existed. He made a report on his return. which was sent to Congress With the indorsement of the Secretary Of War that legislation should be passed In accordance with its recommendations congress thought it knew better than Conant what was needed. Radically diff ferent legislation was passed
 Devised the Philippine Currency. n
 It was never taken advantage of, for before copy of the law reached Manila It was seen that conditions made its ap- plication impossible. Another session of the Congress came in due time The same recommendations were sent and were em- bodied in law. That law is now being worked out in the new currency system which is being put into effect in the Philippines today. A big New York City trust company noted the success of Conant as a financial authority and learn ed to prize his ability highly. It had no position which 1t could offer him, but just su.h a financial expert was a valua-. ble acquisition to any institution A position and handsome salary were creat- ed for him. Not more than three months had passed when the Mexican Govern ment began to look over the field of financial experts who could advise her fiscal officers as to the best means of adopting a gold basis in lieu of the sys- tenn so long in vogue there, That took Conant to Mexico with a handsome fee and all expenses paid He returned to his New York trust company position for a few weks. Then Congress passed an act providing for representation, of the United States in an Internatienal Elk change Commission, which had been sug- gested through diplomatic channels, by silver using Scoioniess" No man swas bets ter qualified for such a commission than Charles A. Conant. He was selected. Within the past two weks he sailed for Liverpool and before he returns to the United States he will have met and con ferred with some of the leading financial authorities of the world.
 Howard Obeard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14


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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
Major General Hamilton; 06 Years 0Id' Y Cured of Catarrh and Serious Complications V
 OUTFITS PURE MALT WhISkEY

Alexander Hamilton, Major General in the Civil War. residing in Tarrytown. N. T., writes.
 Gentlemen: For many years I suf- fered from Chronic Catarrh and other complications as a result of wounds re- ceived in the Civil War. After trying almost every remedy without results, I began a few months ago to use Duffy's Pure Malt Whisxey. am SS years of age, feel strong and vigorous possess all my faculties and my catarrh has entire ly disappeared. Duffy's Pure Malt Whis- key is the greatest cure in the world for broken-down constitution"
 If your system is run down, you are nervous, catch cold easily, have a cough, which often results in acute or chronic Catarrh, Asthma. Bronchitis or Consump- tion. You have not sufficient vitality to throw off the first stages of disease and your system needs toning up. Check the first symptoms by taking the only posi- tive cure, Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. It is invaluable for overworked men, delicate women and sickly children. It strengthens and sustains the system, is a promoter of good health and longevity, makes the old young and keeps the young strong
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

spent every cent he could raise toward perfecting his envelope machine. He says that some time ago he again mel vezer and secured from him 5000 to use for the envelope company, giving l,ooo shares of stock as security. Now ha says Vezer refuses to return the5stock for the money, and so suit is brought.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

Bear Tracks outside the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. is the only Indian legislator in the world. He is a. member of the Legislature of South Dakota, and resides at Hot Springs Bear Tracks Is an Ogaallah Sioux. and is an expert barber by trade-rather. perhap ps, close to the old-fashioned habit of the Indian of taking the entire scalp. He has made and lost a fortune, but at this time is in very good circumstances.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
MUNYON TALKS
 TO WOMEN
Tells How They May Have a Beautiful Complexion and Grow Lux
 uriant Hair

Munyon's witch Hazel Soap is really c skin food and vitalizer. The only soap containin g witch azel its success has caused imitatsrs to brand
 their soap witch hazel 1; these words cannot be tra d. e. marked. See that the soap is stamp. ed Munyon. It nourishes the skin just as m ch as food nourishes the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

.he acid may affect the glazing and be rem dered unwhoiesome. glass bottle Is the best vinegar receptacle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

The highest speed which matter has been known to reach is that attained by the arup- tion of hydrogen and other gases from the sun. which Is, at times, several hundred miles a second.
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! Save
 Weak Men.

I Have Discovered the Marvellous Secret of Perpetual Youth, and Undying Manly Vigor and I Give It to You Free.
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 Ny Mysterious Compound Startles the World With Its Wonderful Cures-With This Marvellous Se- cret No Man Can Grow Old and It Is My Mission on Earth Hence forth to Bring All Jaded, Worn Out Men tV This Fountain of Youth.
 Send No Money-Simply Send Your Name and Address and This Mar velous Compound Will Be Sent You By Return Mail, Prepaid and Absolutely Free. iit4t have discovered the, marvellous secret of perpetual life and vigor in men, To me 1t has been given to bring to the fallen weary. worn-out / brothers the knowledge of this priceless boon. and even to the uttermost ends of the earth I send my message of love and peace and hope and help. Unbelievers may scoff and cry fake" but I heed them not. My work has just begun and I am saving men.
 The secret of this mighty healing power, this vital spark, this marvellous tonic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
The Russians Like Us.
The Future of Russia.

Your excellency Is considered the most advanced statesman in Russia. It is gen erally conceded that within the past ten years you have done more than any oth- CT man for your country and people along broad political lines. I would like to ask you what you hope for the Russia of the future
 The future" replied Mir. Witte. after thinking a moment. the future Is in the hands of God and destiny What it will be I do not venture to predict. but if we may judge what is to come by the past. this country will one day be the great country of the world. This empire is an autocratic one. and it's condition largely depends on the Individuality of it's rulers. If those to come are to possess the great ability of those We have had since the time of Peter the Great I have no fear of the Russia of the future"
 A Message to the United States.
 Before leaving I asked Mir Wltte to give me message for the American people He replied:
 You may say that Russia is a friend of the United States. She has always been SO and she is more so today than ever. She considers the United States one of her best friends among the nations. She rejoices in Americas prosperity and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14

How about the tariff which you have recently put on American goods Will 1t affect our trade to any great extent?"
 That tariff was one of the necessities of the time" replied MT. Witte. ''It re- lates only to certain classes of American goods and does not touch others It will probably lessen the im- portation of some things but other branches of the trade will continue to prosper. It was business necessity"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
REFUSED TO BE HELD UP
REVENGE OF BOODLERs IN THE MIS-
SOURI, LEGISLATURE.
How Insurance Companies Were Pun
ished for Not Putting Up $4,000
for the Grafters.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June 1s.-According to
of st. Louis. the refusal of insurance COM
panies to put up $4,000 for boodlers in the
legislative session of 1894 was responsible
for the passage of the bills which abolished
rating boards and coinsurance.
Before entering the grand jury room to-
day he said that the father of State SEN
ator came to him and suggested that he
would be good man TO represent the insur-
ance companies during the session, as he
was an Insurance agent and was familiar
with lobby work at the Capitol. His terms
were not accepted. Shortly afterwards
bill was introduced aboishing the under
writing boards in the large cities. This
was followed by another bill, which prohib-
tied coipsurarce. Then came a representa-
tive of the combination and demanded that
$40, 900 be paid to prevent the passage of the
bills. The companies would or could not
passed.
At the session two years ago repeal bills
were introduced. At first the old figure.
$4,000, was demanded for passage. This
was afterward reduced TO $1,000 The COM
panies refused to produce the money and
the bills were killed in committee. This
year the business men of the cities united
in an effort TO get the bills through. Dele
cations visited the capital The insurance
at all. Only the coinsurance bill passed.
Meantime the boodlers had asked from the
companies that 81, 600 be put up to pass all
three Of the bills introduced at the instance
of the st. Louis Business Mems League and
other commercial bodies Louis B. Snow,
OF st. Louis, confirmed part OF the state
ment made by Mr.. Waterworth.