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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
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An editor owe, in Indiana has
been arrested for stealing a
livery stable. What an editor
would want with a livery stable
is more than any one can find.
out.
North Dakota has enjoyed an
elegant blizzard the last few
days. We haven't heard whcth-
er any Iowa people, who had
lately moved there, have been
frozen to death or not.
Pencil, of Buffalo, the man
mixed up in the Burdick MUIR
der, has been found to be a de-
faulter for 100000. He
worked the same scheme that
S. A. Broadwell worked in this
county.
Carnegie has offered to pay
all the expenses of the students
of Cornell College who have
been afflicted with the typhoid
fever. That is the most sens
ible thing Carnegie has done
for a long time.
Judge Adams, of the United
States circuit court, handed
down a decision this week in
Which he says the Board Of
Trade of Chicago is a bucket
shop, and is not entitled to the
exclusive right in grain gamb-
ling.
In a full page ad in Sundays
Nonpareil, the printer made
the advertiser say: "the most
profane display" instead of "the
most profuse display" We inn
agine the profanity came when
the advertiser saw that state
ment.
England, Germany and Italy
want Venezuela to pay them
the expense they were to in
blockading the Venezuelan
ports. This is about the mcst
stupendous exhibition of gall
ever seen on the American con-
tinent.
Secretary Hay wants the gov
eminent to pay him $133, 41O.50
for a small piece of land in
Washington city on which to
build a government building.
The land is assessed at only
$32, 900 for taxation. Sec. Hay
evidently wants q good profit
for his lot.
There are nine candidates for
the job of school treasurer of
Exeter, N. H., and the job pays
only SIS a year. AS long as
men are anxious to work for
glory, with postage thrown in,
there is little room for doubling
the perpetuity of American in
stitutions.
There is talk in the news
papers Of new electric trolley
lines being built all over the
state. One line is projected
from Sioux City to Kansas City
and another one from Omaha
to Chicago. In two years from
now the trolley car will be as
common as the farmers wagon.
A trust has been formed in
canary birds, snakes and mon
keys. 1t is coming. to a pretty
pass in this country when a
man can't have snakes without
paying tribute to a trust. There
is always one chance left for
the man who wants a collection
of snakes that will be open to
him as long as the distilleries
run.
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

President Roosevelt delivered
twelve speeches in South Da-
kota yesterday. AS a lorg.
distance talker Teddy is en-
titled to the belt.
The Sioux City Tribune says
that the country newspapers
Which are full of advertise
ments make the best argument
in behalf of the home merchant.
Tom johnson, of Cleveland,
seems to be a hard man to beat
for mayor. This is about the
steenth time the democrats
have elected him mayor of that
city.
The assessment of Council
Bluffs is $12,0o0,9oo this year.
Well, if that is all the property
they can scare up, guess we
will go down and buy the whole
thing.
A woman in Pennsylvania
offered to sell her husband to
another woman for Is cents.
That would be too high a price
for some husbands we know of
in this city.
This is a fast age-we re-
ceived a letter from our son,
Frank Harris, at 1880 this
morning, that was mailed in
New York City at $50 Satur-
day evening.
The rate over the new tele-
graph line to the gold fields of
Alaska is $500 for ten words.
We would want to speak to a
man pretty bad if we paid that
price for ten words.
1t looks like the Council
Bluffs police have caught the
murderer of Bert Forney. If
the evidence is strong enough
the Council Bluffs people had
better Freddy Wilsonize" the
murderer.
Three thousand emigrants
passed through Chicago yester-
day bound for points in the
northwest states, Washington,
Oregon and Idaho. That coun-
try is filling up faster than any
part of the United States.
John Templeton of Council
Bluffs has been made chief of
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
ONE
MINUTE

One Minute Cough Cure gives relief in
one minute, because 1t kills the microbe
which tickles the mucous membrane, caus-
Ing the cough, and at the same time clears
the phlegm. draws out the inflammation
and heals and soothes the affected parts.
One Minute Cough Cure strengthens the
lungs wards off pneumonia and is HARM
less and never failing cure in all durable
cases OF Coughs. Colds and Group.
Our little girl was unconscious from s,raneulation
secured bottle Of One Minute Cough Cure and cave
her three doses half an hour apart The Group was
Cannot praise One Minute Cough Cure too much for
what 1t has done in our fAmiiy.-A. l. Spafford Post
master. Chester. Mich.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
Editorial Notes.

Carter Harrison will lie
elected mayor of Chicago to-
day.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
Get Three Years Each.

Judge Macy, presiding at the
present session of the Harrison
county district court, this after
noon sentenced Mat Boner and
Joe Chevalier, both residents of
Dunlap, to three years each in
the state inebriate asylum at
Mt. Pleasant. They will COM
mence serving their sentence
this week.
oA8ToEIA.
Bears tho The Kind You Have Always Boalie
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

An editor over in Indiana has
been arrested for stealing a
livery stable. What an editor
would want with a livery stable
is more than any one can find.
out.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

D. t. Child, of the Dunlap
Herald, was a caller Saturday.
He was on his way to Sioux
City to buy a gasoline engine
for his office.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
Labor Ag:tator Asked to Resign.

WATERLOO, Ia, April Sc.
H. Wills, late candidate Of the
labor party in Waterloo for
mayor, has been requested by
Master Mechanic Bell to resign
his position in the Illinois Ger
trail shops. 1t is alleged that
the call for the resignation is
based on political grounds, and
the labor element of the city is
much excited over the affair.
Mr.. Wills declares it was his in
tention to leave the employ of
the company in a short time at
any event.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

Cured When Very Low With
Pneumonia
J. W. Bryan, Of Lowder, ILL.,, writes:
"My little boy was very low with pneu-
monia. Unknown to the doctor we gave
him FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR.
The result was magical and puzzled the
doctor, as it Immediately stopped the
racking cough and he quicklyrecovered."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

Cured q Terrible Cough on Lung.
N. Jackson, Of Danville, Ill, writes:
my daughter had q severe attack OF
La Grippe and terrible cough on her
lungs. We tried great many remedies
without relief. She tried FOLEY'S
HONEY AND TAR which cured her.
She has never been troubled with cough
since.''
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09

President Joseph Smith, of
the L. D. S. church, said in an
address the other day that if he
had a million dollars he would
be ashamed of his boys if they
didn't know how to handle a
pitch fork, and of his girls if
they didn't know how to cook:
If 10 had the million his bows
wouldn't use a pitch fork and
his girls wouldn't cook.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
Good Results In Every Case

Or. CT. Bishop, Agnew, Mich, writes:
81 have used FOL.EY'S HONEY AND
TAR in three very severe cases Of pneu-
monia with good results in every case"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-09
Saved Her LIE from Pneumonia

"My wife had q severe attack OF Pncu-
monia which followed case Of La Grippe
and believe that FOLEY'S HONEY
AND TAR saved her liie," writes James
Coffee, Of Raymond, Missouri.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
The American Language.

Black and White Gondon.)
 The observant will begin to wonder if time Is coming, if it is not indeed in small measure already come, when the American language will be spoken throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles. One may certainly detect with growing frequency the trans-At- lantic twang in conversation, and after deploring the fact come home to find 1t coloring more or less ones own speech. It is very insidious in it's advances. this peculiar manner of punctuation and ut terance. It is doubtful If MT. Willard whom we are glad to see once more in his own country, knew that he was &C., quiring it during his sojourn in the States, but there it is all the same. Possibly Sir Thomas Lipton is in danger, and the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury will re- turn to spread the disease in a society already infected through the innocent agency of fair American brides. Present. ly our only resource will be an English Language Defense League, with perhaps a system of fines
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24

Presidential possibility" Is the remark attributed to Mir. Bryan while in Chicago a day or two ago. He may deny the statement. as he does many other opin- ions which the reporters charge him with. All who respect him should hope he will deny the statement. for if he said 1t there can be but two explanations of it. One Is that he has ceased to be truthful and the other that he never reads the Demo- cratic newspapers. If neither of these explanations will stand the only possible explanation is that he is so blipded by prejudice and conceit that he is unable to see anything not directly in line with his own views.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
A Restatemenr,

Opelika,, Oct g, 1sOs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
CENSUS TAKING IN INDIA.
A Colossal Work Accomplished De-
 cennially by the British.

October Century
 In India census-takng is a colossal task accomplished decennially with note-
 worthy success by the British Govern ment. Even among those who find de- | scriptions of census methods dry reading at best. interest must be awaken by the | difficulties surmounted in that land of | splendor and squalor, vast population. and innumerable races languages, and re- | ligions
 1 The population of India is 294, 266 701-- a figure so vast that 1t is better realized by considering the fact that there are more than 715,0o0 villages and towns scat million square miles. To make the enum- eration of this vast territory virtually a | million enumerators are required. The successive steps of census organ ization are the enumerator's "block." the circle" the charge" the district, the province and finally the Imperial Gen. sus Commission. A charge comprises two or more circles, circle is composed of ten or fifteen blocks and the block con- tains from thirty to fifty houses. The provincial superintendents begin the work of organization a year in ad- vance of the census date. Officers are designated. the villages in each circle are listed. block lists are prepared, and every house Is numbered. In some pro- vinces the census authorities determine in advance the size of the number and specify the proportions of red ocher and oil, or other ingredients, forming the substance with which the number is to be painted. Even in this simple detail, however, racial difficulties are encoun- tered; in Hyderabad objection Is made to tar because of its color and red ocher is substituted in some other localities, on the contrary, the natives consider red ocher unlucky, and if 1t is used they care fully erase the figures. On huts of wat tied bamboo a small space is plastered and then whitewashed to form a back ground for the number. In the case of huts made of leaves, and also when ob- jection is made, on account of caste re- strictions, to the touching of houses by enumerators, the numbers are painted on bits of tin. tiles. or pots conspicuously placed, and are usually treated with great respect by the natives.
 In this immensely populous and re- markable empire the census schedule is framed to meet a wide variety of To- cal and racial conditions. It is printed in no less than seventeen different lan- guages, and includes in addition to the ordinary inquiries, questions concerning religion and caste.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
SATURDAY, OCTOBER "A, 1908.
ABsuRp D1ALEcr wR1TERs.

Some of our esteemed contemporaries make periodical attacks on the negro dialect stories written by Northern writer's but 1t does little good. Many of these stories. songs and anecdotes are written by men and women who never saw a Southern negro, or heard one speak, and their knowledge of the real darky dialect and accent is frequently so imperfect that Southerner can't tell what they are trying to say. And the most absurd of all their errors is that they mix the broadest dialect with as correct English as was ever spoken. It is no uncommon thing in reading these stories to find words and expressions written in what they imagine to be genuine African orthography to be fol- lowed immediately by correct Boston Eng fish words which no uneducated negro ever heard of or could possibly use
 The truth of the matter is that even a Southerner. born and raised in contact with the negroes, cannot always be taken as good authority on their language and white people, negro language varies with locality. with environments and with op- portunities. If there is such thing as s'negro dialect" which will fit all localities hnd all negroes we have yet to find 1t. Some of our Southern writers. like Har- ris, Stanton, Miller, Mrs. Gielow. Martha Young and others, come as near hit ting off the Southern darkey as 1t is possible for any one to do but in some cases even they put words and expres- sions in the mouths of negroes that We have never heard.
 And equally absurd is the way some Northern writers construct a language which they put into the mouths of South ern white people. Even a writer as we'll informed as c. B. Lewis, or M. Quad" as he is known. who writes much about the South and the Southern people. uses a great many uncouth words and expres- sions which no Southern man was ever known to use, and of which they would not know the meaning. The >object of such writers seems to be to show that Southerners always mispronounce their words and the most absurd and unheard of terms are strung together and given 10 the world as the language of our people, when. in truth, they bear very lit tie resemblance to the language of Southerners.
 We don't know that there's any use kicking at such mistakes or misrepresen- tations. Our Northern literary fellows who write about the South seem to think that they have builded up a dialect for both whites and blacks. which is as inn mutable as the laws of the Modes and Persians. and some of them appear to really feel hurt if We refuse to accent the language attributed to Us. Even the negroes of the south could teach tboso writers something if opportunity coutd be given them. They would teach them for example, that no negro ever used sncb an expression as de eahly buhd he cotcb de wuhm," which we find in a late snaot- men of dialect verse"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24

Chattanooga Times.
 The Mobile (Ala.) Register. after a ringing arraignment of the verdict in the Tillman case, concludes that the senti- ment which 1t may arouse may warm the old Palmetto State up to the point of endeavoring to make radical revision of her criminal code" It isn't so much the criminal code of South Carolina that is at fault Its laws are as fair and just AS those of any State in the Union; the trouble Is with the men who are chosen to enforce them. Ever since the up heaval of Populism more than a decade ago, the groundlings following the ele- vation of the Tillmans and their kind have been in control and law justice and equity have had their faces hidden by the most demoralizing political machine that ever disgraced commonwealth. Law has been made to do duty as an engine for fostering political ambitions and courts and juries have been puppets to the perpetuation of an oligarchy of filth and shame in control of the States ma chinery. What is needed is for the peo- pie to rise in their might. overthrow the Tillmans and all their tribes and restore the old-tim reverence for law, honesty, fair-play and honor among men to their places desecrated by the crowd of wan tons that have been rioting in them fo- so long The only consolation to be had out of this latest outrage is that it may serve to warn the people of the anarchy into which they are allowing themselves to be carried by the men they have set up or1le over them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24

8 single error in properly sorting 42,0o0 test postal cards. each representing a This was done at the rate of thirty-three and one-half cards a minute. Far more noteworthy" thinks American Medicine lis the memory of an expert piano play er who will play an entire seasons con certs without note of printed music be- fore him. His memory Is SO perfect that hundreds of thousands of notes must be at the orderly and instant disposal of the will And this is combined with a multi plicity Of synchronous recollections of timbre, tempo, expression, etc. The mystery is at present past the limiting of any explanation, and this fact is as beau- tiful as 1t is appalling. It shows us now Tar we are from any real science of phychoiogy."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
He's a Connecticut Character.

A character in Putnam. Conn.,. is Phin- eas G. Wright. whom everybody calls Gard" Wright. The old man has had his tomb and bust erected in the local Beneath his bust Is inscribed. Going. but can't tell where." MT. Wright who Is one of Putnam's oldest and richest cit izens, now says: 'I am not satisfied with the bust. It don't look nothing like me more than a HOttentot. Here I've gone and blown in $500 or $500 for the image. and it's the durn'd dest looking plug I ever saw. But I ain't going to make no kick on the contractor. Whats the use?-the moneys all spent now Some people ask, if l don't know where I'm going, what I want a monument for. Well. I'm go- ing somewhere, ain't |? I'm honest when l say I don't know where. Ain't I right If l knew where I was going would put it on the bust"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
USE OF TAR ON ROADS.
Experiments in New Jersey Give
 Promise of Success.

] Promiee of Success.
 Automobile owners and the driving pub uc as well will watch with interest an experiment made at Westfieid, N. J., in | the use of tar sprinkled over a macada- mized roadbed to abolish those twin nuis- ances. dust and mud, says The New York Herald
 In France this scheme has been tried, 1t Ks said, for some time with much sa tisfaction to the automobilists. The plan is simple. The surface of the mac adamized road is cleared of dust and
 loose material. Then boiling tar is sprin-
 kled over the road lightly. and the
 screenings put back and rolled. The
 far sinks into the hard bed, binding the stone anew and forming new face on top. It is claimed that 1t also waterproofs inc roadbed and adds new life to it.
 Macadamized roads turn into dust and blow away. Ruts are formed by constant wear in soft spots and when 1t rains a pasty mud collects that is just as objec- tionable as Is the dust. The tar sprink- ling is intended to do away with all this
 In the experiment yesterday a piece or an ordinary country road. sixteen feet wide. just outside Westfield. N. J., was taken. Two sections, about thousand feet long, were used. On one the tar was run over the roadbed with the dust and screenings just as they lay. On the other the road was swept to the hard surface and then the tar was applied. In both instances the results seemed to meet with the approval of the road-mak- ing experts present.
 The tar was put on in a very crude fashion by hand from big watering can. It had penetrated nearly an inch after being on the road only three hours, and In a short time after 1t was laid there was no tracking on 1t. and 1t did not eplatter on wheels driven over it.
 H. w. Merkel. chief forester and con- structor of the geological section of the Bronx Park, said he was very favora- bly, impressed by what he saw. al- though the conditions were most unfa- vorable. He Is going to try it in the Bronx Park next week on a section of East River walk, along the banks of the Bronx. section of Cropsey avenue, Bath Beach. Brooklyn, Is also being ex perimented on. under the supervision of Director of Highways Fort.
 The cost of treating a road in this way with tar is estimated at between $40O and $500 a mile for a road sixteen feet wide. This would require three thousand gallons of tar to the mile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
Salisburv"s Biting Wit.

The late Marquis of Salisbury used to bt very fond of whist. which he played witt exceptional skill Naturally, therefore it disgusted him to be placed with baC partner. and when he had a bad partner innumerable were the comments, as bit ing as acid, which in his quiet voice Inc would make upon the latter's faults.
 At house party in Devonshire Lord Salisbury one evening was playing whist impeded by a partner of unusual stupidi- ty. Nevertheless the two were carrying of the honors: it almost semed so bril- liant were Lord Salisbury's plays, that they would win.
 In the middle of the game young wo- man paused beside the noted statesman She put her hand on his sturdy shoulder and she said:
 Well. how are you getting on?"
 'Very well indeed" replied Lord Sails bury. considering I have three adver- aaries
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
"No Credit to South Caroline. ~

Spartanburg. (S. O Journal
 The most that can te said in TiIlman's behalf is that Gonzales was intemperate in his criticisms, but everything that Tillman had in his favor was thrown away when he waited five months after cause for anger had been given. Even with the verdict of acQuttal Tillman will not go unpunished. The twelve men who sat on the jury at Lexington may exon crate him, but he will wear through his life a stigma that nothing can ever ef- face. and his heart will be gnawed by a remorse as merciess as the pistol bullet that pierced the vitals of his victim. When he destroyed Gonzaless life he ruined his own. The verdict is no credit to South Carolina and none to Lexington County. but is one of the features of so- Ciety as organized in the South
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
THE CAT DIALECT.

A French savant-we believe that's what they call 'em-goes Professor Garner one better, and claims that he can under harder job than Gamers. for if the doc Urine of evolution be true, we are only a few removes from our monkey ancestors, and 1t shouldn't be wholly impossible to understand their dialect. There are some savages whose language, to the ordinary cultivated ear, is very little in advance of the monkeys gibberish, and if we can learn to understand and translate the jabbering of these savages, we might go further and tell what Mir. Monk is say inS.
 With the cats 1t is different, for they are not supposed to be in direct line ot descent like the monkeys.We are not suf. fciently versed in Darwins theory to tell just where the cat butts in among our ancestry, but it must have been long ways back of the monkeys. which makes 1t that much harder to understand their conversation. This Frenchman, however. pretends that he can listen at a cats voice and understand what the animal is asking for every time. That Is getting the art of linguistics down pretty fine, and if he can make his discovery plain and public. it may save humanity some hard words and the cats some hard knocks. And, by the way. we should like to read his in- depreciation of the language used by cats when they gather on the back fence about be something worth hearing, We have no doubt.