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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
NEW CLEW IN RADIUM SPECTRoSCoPE SHOWS BRIGHT HELIUM LINES IN PHOTO
 GRAPH. May Solve Gold Elements-KnowI- edge Accumulated Leading Way to Analysis of Atoms.

London Cable to Chicago Tribune
 Every week adds something to the sum Of Knowledge. steadily being accumulated by the investigators into the properties of radium and helum. Sir William and Lady Higgins, prompted by theoretical ideas, have attacked the problem of the spectro- scopic analysis of light emitted directly by radium salt at ordinary tempera- ture, and the results of their work have been received by the Royal Society.
 Spectroscope Shows Helium.
 From a preliminary visual observation it seemed that there were traces of bright lines in continuous spectrum. 1'repar- ations. therefore, were made for a photo- graphic record by means of a quartz spectroscope. Finally a spectrum con- sistlng of eight definite bright lines in the ultraviolet. entirely different from the spark spectrum of radium, and some faint lines, together with a faint and continuous spectrum, were obtained by seventy-two hours exposure. On com parison this spectrum Is so different from the ordinary phosphorescent spectrum with recorded measurements for helium that 1t appeared at once that four and perhaps five of the eight lines agreed with the lines of helium.
 Sir w. Ramsay and Prof Soddy also found distinct evidence of the presence of helium in the spectra of gases emanat- ing from radium bromide. Present ob- servations, therefore, indicate that radium shines largely by the light of the rare gas helium which 1t evolves
 Clew to Basic Theory.
 In this formation of the element ;eiium from totally distinct element radium. the imaginative may see a partial reali- zation of the alchemist's dream. For if the production of one element is tracked down, why not that of gold and silver?
 Prof. Rutherford, it may be reinem- bered already has put forward the fasci- mating speculation that the radiance thrown off by radioactive metals is an object lesson on a small scale of the birth of the elements as in the gradual break down of the radium atom into simpler forms there has been reversed the pro- cess of the manufacture of the clements
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
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Was Romance Only.

Double Springs. Ala, July 20 1903. Editor The Advertiser:
 What relation is The Advertisers Deca- tur correspondent to Mulhatton? About once every three weeks for the past two years he has sent in some story to the paper as news, for which ther was no foundation in fact. As long as he confined himself to informing the public that work was about to begin on The Central Rail- found at Hartselle or that some woman Marion County. Winston County people talk about our people we do object. and this. too, even though The Advertiser may be willing to pay him the regular price per column for his stuff.
 Sometime ago there was a story sent in by this correspondent about tragedy, said by him to have been enacted near had transpired wholly in his fertile brain, and nowhere else. Now he comes with a canard in The Advertiser of the, 18th; killed each other about a girl near Clear Creek Falls. Now. then. if this fellow had completed his fiction by using ficti- bad. If that had been done the editor of The Advertiser and the readers would have been the only persons imposed on. But he was not satisfied with that: to complete his story he had the audacity to use the names of Miss Maggie Will Hams, a young lady who lives near the 1aIs. James w. Core, young man Who lives near the same place. and John Young. who lives about one mile north of Doubis Springs. It Is not, very pleasing nected with so narrowing n affair as this brilliant correspondent describes. The writer would suggest to the correspondent that if he were to meet either MT. Cole or MT. Young that he would find that they are not half as dead as he describes them. Charles D. Hudgtns.
 Gn A letter to the editor of The Adver- tiser the Decatur correspondent says he obtained his information from Winston Editor The Advertiser)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
gropprNe THn p1voRcE M1LLs.


 The State of South Dakota has long pie who desire to shufhe of the coil of matrimony. Thcbe who imagine that they have been married long enough have only to take an excursion over to that happy land and spend few weeks, then they are unhitched and can make another venture. It is almost as easy and expedi-l tious as having suit Of clothes made. That is, it used to be that way. but ac- cording to recent decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, this easy way of throwing off the matrimonial yoke will not hold. As contemporary puts it, "a citizen of one State going to another and residing there only sufficient length of time to come within the statute of such State governing divorce, and later re- turning home, may not be lawfully di- vorced. In other words, the decree of the Supreme Court Is that the residence must be genuine and bona fide and not simply for the purpose of obtaining a divorce'' This view of the law, as may we'll be i'm agined. is a decided setback to those who believed that they had an easy way out of matrimony. It is true that each State has its own marriage and divorce laws and regulations, but for this very reason any State may enact a law declaring that divorce obtained in a certain way by visit to South Dakota, for example is not legal divorce and that persons so divorced are not at liberty to marry again in the State of their residence. That is. the party might be divorced in South Dakota, but not divorced in New York. for instance. and not allowed to marry again in the latter State.
 It will be well if this easy divorce busi- ness can be broken up or at least very materially lessened. While there are dif- ferences of opinion as to the propriety of divorce under any consideration, there should be none in opposition to free-and- easy divorces such as can be obtained in certain States. Marriage is a sacred or dinance, too often entered into without due consideration, but it is better for each party to the contract to bear some evil than that either should rush to the divorce court for a trivial or unworthy reason. The mere fact that either party to a marriage contract finds the other not all 8 that was expected, or the fact that the parties tire or each other, is a poor ex- cuse for separation.
 It is not to be hoped. or expected, that this court decision. however strictly 1t may be enforced, can effectually shut out all the grist from South Dakota divorce mills There will be those who will go to that State and take up their residence remaining long enough to acquire a bona fide residence, whenta divorce would be s legal, and then they Wean Fetnrn to their real homes and re-marry. In such eases, no law will be bar. we presume, out if this decision shall stand. it may at least lessen disgraceful practice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
DO THEY ONLY GUEssp

We must confess that we usually allow feeling of incredulity to creep over us when we read of the alleged discoveries be millions of years old. Here, for ex- ample, is an account of the recent un- earthing of the remains of huge and wonderful animal, named Triceratops. which roamed over Montana three mill lion years ago. Then we have an ac- count of the discovery of human bones in Missouri which the scientists declare are the remains of men and women who inhabited that region perhaps one mill lion years ago. And then we have this, from a Kansas paper:
 Some university students, making a geological survey along the Kaw River, few miles west of Lawrence, discov- cred an old stone house. which had been uncovered by the flood on the farm of Henry Collins. The house had been com pletely covered. field of corn being above it, and it's walls and the chimney are in a fair state of preservation. Within the house. which has been partially ex- cavated, was found an iron stove. show ing that 1t had been the abode of civilized people.
 Now, let us consider a little. If this old house had contained no evidence of having ever been occupied by civilized people, and if 1t had contained a few stone implements and weapons, would not the sc. ntists have deduced, from the thickness of the earth above it, that it was probably a prehistoric structure? The iron stove Is evidence, of course. that the house was occupied by civilized peo- pie in modern times, but if there were nothing to connect 1t with the present age, the archeologists would measure the thickness of the deposits over and around the building, calculate the annual rate of such deposits, and thus probably take us back some thousands of years to find the time when the house was built, and the great skill of prehistoric man In house-building.
 Of course we are not contending that these bones which have been dug up Tn Montana and Missouri are not old. Their antiquity probably forces us to discredlt the ordinary theory of the earth's age, or. rather, the theory of Usher that the earth was created about six thousand years ago. Some. at least, of these remains are of creatures which have not been known in historic times, and which could not now exist on earth, but when they lived, and how long they have been extinct, are questions that form the basis of a great deal of guess-work. evidently. When was the Kansas stone house built?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Seriously, now, would The Montgomery dency, standing on grounds midway the positions occupied by Messrs. Cleveland and Bryan? Everybody holds his breath until The Advertiser answers.-Mobile Item.
 The Advertiser proposes to support the ticket and platform put out by the Dem- ocratic Party next year. but it is free to admit that it cannot see how a platform midway between Cleveland and Bryan can be Democratic one The platform and ticket must be Democratic or Popu- listic, and splitting the difference will not satisfy any genuine Democrat
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
For Protection of Song Birds.

Atlanta, Ga, July 27.-A bill for the protection of singing birds was passed by the lower House of the General As sembly to-day. This measure was de- signed for protection of non-game birds from slaughter for the adornment of women's hats, and its provisions extend ed to the nests and eggs and to the plum age of all singing birds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

let us force the Republicans to revise the tariff and drive of their rust magnstes who thrive on protection. or force them to leave the tariff alone and drive off the best element of their Party. Demo. crats can find thc right man. they can build good platform and they can win, if they only resolve to win
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

The Birmingham Age-Herald's 56-page edition, issued last Sunday, was hum- mer, and no mistake. Not the least at- tractive feature was a 24-page Magazine supplement, and the whole 56 pages were full of Birmingham and its surrounding territory. There is too much of it for a busy newspaper man to go through. but we cordially tender our congratulations to all who had part in the work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
In Cold Storage.
Mnhiln Rnn

Mobile Register.
 Carter Harrisons Presidential boom has been placed in cold storage with the idea that there will be some market for il in 1908. He is satisfied that 1t Is too green for use in 1904 We doubt If four years more time will give 1t flavor. at we have seen of the boom indicates that it is not made of the right stuff. Age will not improve it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
The Springfield CMass) Union says:

Battering down jail doors with railroad rails appears to be the approved way of enecttng an entrance into Southern peni- tentiaries.
 Whereupon The Chattanooga Times hands back this one:
 Just as shooting down innocent men women and children and burning and de- stroying private property is the approved way of putting a stop to New England Industries and enterprises. The stone is always In place to be hurled at the fellow who lives in a glass house.
 If The Union is half smart, 1t will not lay down any more gaps of that kind. It can't watch all of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Bream is Dismissed.

Washington, July 2.-Thomas H. Bream who has for some years been su- perintendent of the Indian School at Fort Lewis, Col, to-day. was dismissed from the service. William M. Peterson, assistant superintendent, of the Choicco School in Oklahoma. has been appointed his successor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Something Wrong.

There was something wrong about what o,ss heart. else he could not have made up his mind to rob the poor old maimed and halting soldiers who had gone to the front to fight for the land that gave them birth. We are glad he joined the Republican party before It De- came known that he was a thief.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
The Wife at Home.

Bessemer Hustler.
 And that wife at home has no desire to hear that a lovely and fascinating Mrs. Potiphar was showing her absent spouse the sights of the land of Pharaoh: It she knew that such was the case, his home reception would put Kansas cyclone to shame.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
During the Hot Spell.

Birmingham Ledger.
 An exchange calls Judge Parker hu- man iceberg. We had not given much thought to Judge Parker but If he Is cold enough to cool a town we are for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Rntter Goes Down.

Elgin, Ills. July a.-Butter dropped a cent and a half pound on the Board of Trade this afternoon, being quoted at 1S1s as compared with 20 cents week ago. The sales of the week for the district were S06 500 pounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

St. Louis was long time about dealing with the boodlers, but convicting one in fourteen minutes, as was recently done looks as if they are determined to make up for lost time
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Rlrmingham News.

All the returns are not in yet but the Honorable D. B. Hill is understood 10 ination is not disposed to establish sum mer camp in the vicinity of Woiferts Roost.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

If the astronomers can't do any better in the comet line than the dim little spot now doing a stunt in the heavens, they shouldn't make such a racket about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Holding up a man, getting just six cents and then being arrested and locked up was the discouraging experience of two foot-pads in New York
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
There Are Other Ways.

Anniston Hot Blast.
 An Oklahoma cyclone destroyed A post office the other day. 1t probably wanted to show the Washington authorities that there are other ways of dealing with this postal business
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Dr. Barnette A. Elzas of Charleston has begun an examination of the State records of South Carolina with a view to study ing the part the Hebrews took in the early history of that commonwealth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
The Cause of 1t.

Troy Messenger.
 The low rumbling sound coming from the South which has been puzziing the people of Pike for some time, has been ing on between the E1ha and Enterprise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
TUESDAY, JULY es, 1908.
SUMMER TRIPS,

When you leave home this Summer. have The Advertiser follow you. Sent by mail to any address. postage prepaid. at the following rates:
 One week. Daily and Sunday. ay..............S .l6 One month, Daily and Sunday .66 Three months. Daily and Sunday........ l.e6 Foreign postage leach month) extra.... 50
 Resort subscriptions are strictly in advance. Order before leaving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Senator Tom Platt of New York is said to regret that he didn't have an oppor- tunity to study politics for at least six months in the office of Quay. Just what particular brand of political villainy Platt feels himself short on, we do not know but whatever it is, or what the shortage may be- we have no doubt as to Quay's ability to supply the demand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Y . < < $ % ' C TAT THE STATE PAPERS {
 ARE SAYING. '
;omething Doing.

Mobile Herald. for the finny tribe for awhile now. There is something doing in the cradle rocking line at his home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Is Lightly Loaded

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Automobiles In Chicago must bear a tag but the Harrison bandwagon is ex- empted from the tag list because it Is slow and lightly loaded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Some member of the Georgia Leglsla- ture wants smaller counties and more of them in that much-dissected State. Some l of the present counties are not much Nlarger than good-sied blanket. as 1t IS
 t even that isn't satisfactory. 1t seems.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
pavna Will ao to Work

Washington. July 2Z--Postmaster Gen eral Payne will resume his duties Mon day. Aug. 8.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

W. A. Scott, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says; The foregoing statement Of The Advertisers daily circulation for the month or June, 1908, is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from newBboys news agents and leftover copies have been deducted
 ". A. SCOTT, Circulation Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of July. lSO3 F. w. JACKSON.
 TSeal.l N. F., Ex-O. J. F.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
A Summer Camp.

editors. and not the preliminaries of an earthquake, as was supposed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
KLINDWORTh

Conservatory of Music. oners superior advantages in the study of Piano. Voice. Violin, Organ. Composition, EIo- c1tion, English. Latin German. French. span ish, Italian, Mathematics. Art. Geography. History, Physical Culture etc
 Fourth Year Book sent on application. Ad- dress, KURT MUELLER,
 P. O. Box 228 Atlanta. Ga
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

City Subscriptions should be paid to the fol- lowing authorized collectors only: ,. H. But ton, City Calculator; T. J. Higgs, Collectori z. l. Eason. Collector, J. F. Glass. and at the Counting room.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28

Atlanta CoIIege or Pharmacy.
 Free Dispensary: only college operating an actual drug store. Greater demand for our graduates than we can supply Aadreas George r. Payne. Deans al W. North Avenue At lRnta. ca. ku-thu-sat-sun
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
Can't Break It.

Can't Break It.
 Even the warm Summer months do not af- feet the circulation of The Advertiser. The following detailed statement for the month of sune proves conclustvely that the usual high water mark Is being maintained.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
The Advertisers Telephones.

Adveftising Department. SC; 9nsiness Office and Circulating Dept. .aJC Czty Editors Rooms. ................,..... g< Edttof1al Rooms. s1l
, 1903-11-11
Hotel Arrivals
WILDWOOD.
GENEpN A IT.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
Pleasant to Take.

The finest quality of graduated loaf
sugar is used in the manufacture of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and
the roots used in its preparation give it
a flavor similar TO maple syrup, max
ing it quite pleasant to take. Mr.. w.
l.. Roderick, of Poolsville, Md, in
speaking of this remedy says: ~ have
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
with my children for several years
and a t%ruthfully say it is the best
preparation of the kind | know of.
The children like to take it and it has no
injurious after effect. For sale by
Cohen Bros, Wildwood; G. w. Dough-
erty, Anglesea; M. l.. Branin, Holly
Beach.
, 1903-11-11
Only Makes a Bad Matter Worse.

Perhaps you have never thought OF
it but the fact must be apparent to
every one that constipation is caused
by a lack of water in the system, and
the use of drastic cathartics like the old
fashioned pills only makes a bad mat
ter worse. Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets are much more mild
and gentle in their effect, and when
the proper dose is taken their action is
so natural that one can hardly realize
it is the effect of a medicine. Try a %
cent bottle of them. For sale by Cohen
Bros, Wildwood; q. w. Dougherty,
Anglesea; NJ. l.. Branin, Holly Beach,
, 1903-11-11
The EIirht of Thing.

The theatrical man patronized a Ger
man barber and always found him Sc
verely solemn. One day the smile
upon his face was too apparent not to
be noticed, and the fact that he had
been made a father was duly an
nounced. In a very few moments,
however, his face resumed its usual
p~ensiveness. and he exclaimed:
Zach Colt! How time flies! Just
think, a year from now that child will
be one year old!'-New York Press.
, 1903-11-11
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

Cumberland county had a stiff fight
on hand centering on DR.. Thompson,
the Republican candidate for Surrogate.
Last year the Republican pluralities i'll
the county exceeded 300. While it
was a big plurality to overcome the
Democrats were hopeful of eleeting
Walter Wilson to the office. DIR.
Thompson was slaughtered in many
parts of the county but landed success
fully by the skin of his teeth. In Bird
geton there was much interest in the
outcome of the election for Councilmen.
1t seemed for a time that the shrewd
tactics of the license advocates would
bring victory to them, but the final
count shows that no-license advocates
in Council will have a majority for
another year. The hope of the license
men was in the dividing of the tenn
perance vote, and while it was far from
being united, it succeeded i'll keeping
the no-license majority in Council.
, 1903-11-11
The Best Liniment.

"Chamberlaln's Pain Balm is con-
sidered the best liniment on the mar
ket,o write Post d Bliss, of Georgia, Vt.
No other liniment will heal a cut or
bruise so promptly. No other affords
such quick relief from rheumatic pains.
No other is so valuable for deep seated
pains like lame back and pains in the
chest. Give this liniment a trial and
you will never wish to be without it.
Sold by Cohen Bros, WILDWOOD; G..
w. Dougherty, Anglesea; NJ. l.. Bran
in, Holly Beach.