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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

 the column Is hers and led to the .ni.- take. but we learn that Mrs. Crairb.,ad has no connection with the work Prof. and Mrs. Fenaiiosa have returned from their Western trip and are again located at their comfortable home as Spring Hili where they have gathered to- gether so many beautiful and curious me mentoes of their stay. in Japan. Mfr. and Mrs. Gerry Barker are being congratulated on the arrival of young son. Mrs. Barker was Miss Daisy Sage and the young arrival is doubly welcome as the first son or grandson in the Sage The Hamilton Whist Club held it's 'resu- lar weekly meeting this afternoon with Miss Mollie Irwin. The usual members and few substitutes. enjoyed the pleas ures of the game. MT. and Mrs. Hugh Roiston left today for Dallas, Texas; after a visit to rela- tives there they win go to Helena, Ark, where in future they win make their home. %
 The Mallory steamer which sailed today instead of yesterday carried in addition to the passengers already mentioned, Miss Evelyn Harvey and Miss Lottie Pegues.
 
 Mir. and Mrs. Dan Pope who have peen spending the season at the Foot House returned today to. New Orleans.
 Mrs. J. P. Moreiand and children have returned from Point Clear much improved by their stay there.
 Mrs. William Masters and her daughter, Miss Zemma left last night for Buffalo, Lithia Springs.
 Mrs. Rivers A. Rush and children to- day returned from pleasant stay at the Point. Mrs. Carson Fowler and little daughter left today for visit to Oliver Springs. Tenn.
 Miss Vivian Wilson left yesterday to visit Miss Louise walthall of Richmond, Va.
 Mrs. J. T. Schley left today to visit relatives in Huntsville,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18
Rente .viagare Investirated

Paris. Aug. 17S-The proceedings in the Humbert trial to-day were chiefly de- voted to the affairs of the Rente Via gare. an insurance concern founded by the Humberts in the collapse ofsMhipIa many poor people lost their .saxipga, Mime. Therese Fumbert made a number of declarations in the course of which she affirmed that the alleged securities representing the Crawford inheritance of 1O0O0O.O 900 francs, would be brought into court tomorrow.
 < Talk is said to be cheap; yet some pe0- pie indulge in extravagant remarks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Mir. and Mrs. Gerry Barker are being congratulated on the arrival of young son. Mrs. Barker was Miss Daisy Sage and. the young arrival is doubly welcome as the first son or grandson in the Sage family, ..,t, <
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Mrs. Rivers A. Rush and children to- day returned from a pleasant stay at the Point.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

River Packet Arrives. The Mississippi river packet ouchi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

The Mallory steamer which sailed today instead of yesterday carried in addition to the passengers already mentioned, Miss Evelyn Harvey and Miss Lottie Pegues. ,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

The Hamilton Whist Club held it's 'regu- lar weekly meeting this afternoon with Miss Mollie Irwin. The usual members and few substitutes. enjoyed the pleas ures of the game. &
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Tennis Tournament. Newport. R. l.. Aug. 1.-The twenty
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

MT. and Mrs. Dan Pope who have peen spending the season at the Foot House
 returned today to- New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Mrs. William Masters and her daughter Miss Zemma left last night for Buffalo Lithia Springs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Mrs. J. P. Moreland and children have returned from Point Clear. much improved by their stay there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

MT. and Mrs. Hugh Roiston left today for Dallas Texas; after a visit to rela- tives there they win go to Helena, Ark. where in future they win make theii home. -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Mrs. Carson Fowler and little daughter left today for a visit to Oliver Springs. Tenn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18
Personal Mention.

Charles Samuel infant son of J. H. and Francis Johnson, died yesterday at the family home, No. sO9 Elmira Street. The remains were inferred in Magnolia Cemetery this morning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18
Negroes Have Fatal Fight.

Jim Page tonight at Wilkinson and Canal streets. fatally stabbed Israel Ffncher and escaped. Both are we'll known negroes. the latter having a mean record. Fincher was sent to the city hospital.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Miss Vivian Wilson left yesterday to visit Miss Louise Walthall of Richmond, Va.
 Mrs. J. T. schley left today to visit relatives in Huntsyflie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

the column Is hers and led to the r1ip- take. but We learn thatsM Craigh,ad has no connection with the work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

There were forty-nine city and three State cases on the Recorders Court docket this morning. Judge Tharp was about five hours disposing of same.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

ia, recently purchased by the Alabama River Packet Company. Dr. Horn of Monroe county. president. and which is to be- operated in the Alabama river trade. arrived at this port from New Orleans atr3 D. m. The steamer is of handsome model. and made favora- ble impression as she came up the chan neL ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

Frank A, Hervey. Jr., and Guice Ju- hen of San Antonio, Texas, who have been visiting at Point Clear Hotel left for home today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-18

The Independents defeated the Biloxi Baseball Club at Monroe Park yester- day afternoon by score of 4 to 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Alabama Gold.

''The Age-Herald industrial letters of towns are attraction much attention in our district" said a resident of Hunts vile.
 Perhaps the most interesting of these articles was that describing placer gold mining in Cleburne county. Although prospectors and adventurers have scratch ed about in both Cleburne and Clay counties for many years, while tales of wealth discovered by the Indians have been numerous, the idea of placer mining has only been recently applied.
 While this process is rather slow, and hardly so fascinating as the search for rich veins and nuggets of gold. yet 1t pays very well, and for a patient pros pector is just the thing.
 'I sincerely hope some day to see the great gold mining industry fully develop ed in Alabama There seems no doubt that the yellow metal exists in the hills and mountains if enough capital could be secured to take 1t from the earth. There Is a great future in store for North Ala bama, as well as all other parts of the state, and some day we may expect to see moonshiners permanently supplanted by gold miners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
POSTAL FRAUDS.

From the Macon News.
 Senator Germans resolution providing for an investigation of the postal frauds by a congressional committee, and cer- tain statements made by him in speaking on his resolution, are giving the republi- cans much worry. The Boston Herald is correct, when it says that Senator Cor man has as good a right to ask for the examination as if he were a republican. and we can not see upon what grounds the majority of the senate can refuse to gratify the minority asking for infor- nation upon a statement of facts or prob abilities. The point that there were two congressional Investigations of MT. Ma chen which did not discover the wrong doing that has since been brought to light is not a good argument against continr,- ing the investigation. The postoffice de- partment has been in part laid bare. ana a foundation has been furnished upon which congress may work with better prospect of success The worst thing that can happen to the republican par ty under present circumstances is to ex- hibit a too eager desire to shut off furth- CT inquiry. The matter is one in which the whole nation now has a profound in- terest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
briefly:

In round figures cotton Is in value one-fourth of our exports. A year ago 1t was but one-ffth, and in 1898 the percentage was less than one-sixth. AS the excess of all our exports over im- ports in the clever months was but $357, ,647, 1t Is seen that cotton almost by itself created the excess. Without cotton the country would make at the close of the calendar year a sorry showing, but with our wealth of our fleecy staple our foreign trade will make at the end of this month nearly as good showing as it has ever made in the entire history of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
This muddy vesture of decay.
 Merchant of Venice.
Russia and Japan in Korea.

Beyond all question the stumbling block in the Russo-Japanese negotia- tions Is the treaty extorted from the emperor of Korea when he was a ref ugee in the Russian legation at Seoul in 1S98. This treaty gives the Rus sians the right to cut timber "tn the Yalu valley" The trouble relates to construction of the phrase quoted. The Russians claim that they have right to cut timber in all parts of the Yalu valley and on the lands of It's tribu- taries, thus giving them a right to gather timber in half of the upper part of the peninsula kingdom.
 Nor Is this all The Russians insist that the right to cut timber includes the right to erect buildings-the build ings being a natural consequence of timber cutting. They first purchased a large tract at Yongampho, and on it they erected large and substantial buildings. Yongampho is one of the best harbors in Korea, and the posses sion of it by Russia puts her in a posi- ton to dominate all Korea. The hold ing of Yongampho is no doubt the chief difficulty in the way of a peacable set tlenent of the questions at issue be- tween Russia and Japan.
 Japan wants nothing in Manchuria except what other nations get or rather she expects nothing else, but does not propose to let Russia dom- mate Korea, and Russia's presence at Yongampho is something Japan cannot accept She will go to war in prefer ence. The Russians do not like to give up what they once secure, and there is the sticking point. Japan does not pro pose to let the Russians turn Yongam- pho into another Port Arthur, and the Russians do not propose to surrender what they secured or rather extorted from the Korean emperor in 1896 by swelling timber concession to a right to erect dominating fortress. Russia must have Yongampho or fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Politics Next Year.

The coming year will be crammed full of politics from it's very beginning almost to it's close. From January to December at least political affairs will be at extreme tension, and in this state we will have county, district, state and national politics all in bunch.
 If the party authorities so decide the situation can be softened to the aver age citizen by holding in the spring single great primary that will take away the edge of the political contests. thus enabling business to go on un- trammeled.
 But even after nominations have been made there win be next year warm interest in the political control of the country-a subject that cannot be decided until the first Tuesday after the first Monday of next November. A year of political interest, if not fer ment, Is therefore before us.
 This interest will not relate, how ever, to Alabama, for Alabama will cast her electoral votes for Arthur Pue German or whoever else the democrats may nominate. But from her many farms and towns and factories and mines the contest in other states will be watched with deep and deepening interest MT. Roosevelt is to be re- nominated, and his acts and caprices will be before the people, and the No vember verdict will be final
 Outside of the all-important national contest many judges and railroad commissioner are to be elected; also, nine congressman, also numerous county and beat officers. It is to be political year, but the state committee can lessen the stress very much by calling one primary to settle all that can be settled by direct action on the part of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

William c. Rogers is probably the last chief of the Cherokees. It is said that there is very little Indian in his veins
 William Jennings Bryan is being shown distinguished courtesies by European monarchs, all of which rebounds to the honor of plain American citizenship.
 In spite of conflicting rumors to the contrary it seems that Emperor William has almost entirely recovered from the effects of the recent operation perform ed on his throat.
 Swinburne the greatest of living poets, perhaps. is reported to be recovering from his recent illness and the world re- joices in the prospect of receiving some more of his exquisite lines.
 It Is rumored in Atchson, Kan, that Sheffield Ingalls,, son of the late Sena- tor Ingalls, may run for the legislature. The son seems to have desire to fol- low in the footsteps of his distinguished father.
 Mrs Reed Shoot. wife of the Norman senator, is a very attractive woman and seems to be we'll pleased with her lot
 
 politics, but is also a devoted family woman.
 Dr. Anita Newcombe McGee, the noted daughter of noted astronomer, has offered to the Japanese minister at Washington the services of American nurses in case war should break out be- tween Japan and Russia.
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 Congressman Richardson of Alabama is now at his home in Huntsville where he will spend the Christmas holidays He has entirely recovered from his recent mishap in Washington. sustained while alighting from a street car
 John Allen of Mississippi has solved the problem of "auitting," or boarding the water wagon. Says he, Easiest thing in the world. I have quit drinking six times today and will quit a couple of times before I go to bed'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Scene Shlfters.

with the growth of stage mechanism and intricate scenic effects the business of @ theatrical stage employe. or scene shifter has developed into a profession, |" said theatrical man. "ln this profess sion are to be found skilled artizans who know their business well and are paid accordingly.
 ''The days when an obliging town loaf CT helped about the stage at night are passed All first-class stage employees are union men now. There are also var ious ranks which go to make com posit whole where every individual has certain and fixed duties to perform dur ing those hundred moments when the curtain shuts off from the audience all the ghostly hurry and hustle that takes place on the stage.
 First, there is the stage carpenter. or manager, who takes precedence over all others Before going further. it must be understood that all stage employees do not shift scenery. In fact some of them never touch piece of canvas.
 "The stage manager is the boss. He has at his disposal a second hand who acts in the capacity of a general assist ant. Next comes the grip. This mans duties are rather peculiar. For the bene- fit of those who do not know, will state that stage angles such as the corner of a room or hall will not hold together without some device to prevent the two pieces of canvas from falling apart. Therefore there are two projections on the unpainted side which cross at the corners. On one is bit of rope and it is the business of the grip" to tie the two pieces of scenery together as soon as they are in position.
 Next In rank is the 'hyman, Nwho has charge of the loft crew or the men who pull up the drop scenery and look after overhead flys. The house property man the stage settings, such as bric-a-brac and furnishings. A plot of the play to be presented is mailed to him in ad- vance and he makes all necessary prep arations for staging 1t properly. The clearers are those nimble-footed youths who carry articles on and off the stage They are what may be termed appren- tices. Then every first-class theatre has house electrician who has become a man of much importance since light eff fects have become so popular.
 "Taken all together stage employees are very intelligent men and all receive good pay for their hours of work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
THE JAi ALAI.
It's True and Character in the Life of
 Havana.

From the Washington Times.
 In the course of Secretary Roots tes- timony before the senate military com mittee,- it came out that the Jai Alai, which has been represented as a notori- ous gambling hell, Is really quite differ ent, the game, pelota, which is played there, not being an essential gambling game Of course, Secretary Root said. men could bet on it. as they can bet on the races, or on anything else, but the mere fact that money changes hands in a place does not necessarily mean that license should be refused for 1t.
 Anybody who knows anything of Span ish character will admit that love of a wager Is enc of the essential characteris- ties of the Spaniard, particularly the Latin-American variety. The Cuban is like thsh-yer Jim Smiley of the Jumping Frog fame, who would bet on anything, even the length of time 1t would take for a dying person to shuffle off this mortal coil. or bug to reach the place to which he happened to be going. If Uncle Sam had been required to cure Jim Smiley of the betting habit, it Is probable that the cure would have had to be done with chloroform or cold lead; and 1t is hardly more reasonable to expect the Spanish American to give up betting simply be- cause a large part of the population of the United States Is not addicted to the habit.
 But there are gambling places and gambling hells, and the business of good administrator is to reduce the number of the latter to zero, and regulate the proceedings of the former so far as he can without causing worse evils than he cures The trouble with a great deal of this solemn accusation business is that the accusers have no sense of humor or. to put 1t in other words, no sense of pro- portion. They think General Wood ought to have made Havana over into the like ness of Sauashville, U. s. A., or they rrofecc to think sO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
New City Code.

The new city code will be ready to go into the hands of the council committee for its approval the early part of the coming year. Sometime ago the city coun- cil appointed Ellington & White to codify the laws of the city, and these lawyers have been hard at work on their task since.
 It has been many years since the city of Birmingham has had a revised code. The new code will contain a copy of the city charter. and all other state legisla- tion with regard to the city of Birming- ham, a list of the present city officers and all of the municipal laws now in ef- feet, with other information concerning the government of the city of Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Christmas Shopplna.

''In spite of the emphasis that has been laid on the benefits of early Christmas shopping said a merchant last night, people seem to be slower about buying their holiday goods this year than usual.
 'The outcome of this will of course be that today and tomorrow we will not be able to handle the trade. People do not seem to fully realize that Christmas Is coming until the day Is actually upon them and then all rush in at once to do their trading. The result of thls is that they are not only greatly inconvenienced themselves but the merchants are at their wits end to know how to handle the throngs.
 ''The trade this year Is excellent, how ever, and the merchants have no reason to complain. There has been good steady demand for goods for more than two weeks and our sales will foot up much larger total than last season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Light Whisky Trade.

"The retail whisky business is decided ly off for this season of the year" said a local saloon man. My sales on Sat urday, for instance, were exactly s1000O less than the corresponding day of last year.
 "All of the saloons in Birmingham re- port the holiday trade has so far been very light. Comparatively few people are patronizing the saloons. and why this is I cannot understand, Of course our regular business is holding up all right, but we serve very few strangers. We expect, hiwever, to do heavier business tomorrow and Thursday nights. The sa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN IS
 ELIGIBLE TO PRESIDENCY

to pers ms whose fathers have never been resident in the United States" The pres ent statutory law. dating from 1855, drops the word natural as unnecessary, but provides for MT. McClellan's eligibility not the less unmistakably on that account:
 Section 1993-All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and Jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens of the United States. are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of cti- zenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the Uni ted States.''
 If MT Murphy should succeed in nomi- mating MT. George B. Mcclellan for Pres iden, and in electing him to that office, there would be no constitutional obstacle to his inauguration MT. Mcclellan is natural born citizen. His birth naturalized him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
Senator Peftus on Panama.

On the day of adjournment for the Christmas recess Senator Pettus took the floor to discuss Senator Morgan's resolutions directed against the power in the President to declare war, the instance at hand being Colombia Senator Pettus discussed the legal aspect of the situation.
 He first showed that the duty of ono nation to another as stated by Vattel is simply the law of common honesty. and then he quoted this telling sen tence from Rents Commentaries: Recognition of independence of a re- volted state is only lawful when such independence is de facto established" Senator Pettus proceeded to show from the action of this government in nu- merous cases what the word "estab- lished" ln this connection means. "We acknowledged" says General Jackson in special message to congress, "the separate independence of New Grenada (now Colombia), of Venezuela and of Ecuador only after their independent existence was no longer subject of dispute or was mutually acquiesced in by those with whom they had previ- ously been united" How differently this contrasts with President Roose- velt's rapid-fire action at Panama!
 Senator Pettus then passed to con sideration of the preservation of the honor of the country. contrasting our dealings in Texas with our dealings in Panama, and President Jackson's views on that point, as read by Gen. eral Pettus in the senate, seemed like direct and intentional reflection upon the course pursued by President Roose- welt at Panama. And President Mo Kinley's dealings with Cuba are no less a reflection upon President Roose- velt's Panama policy.
 Senator Pettus proceeded to show that morally and legally we take the debts of Colombia if we take any of its territory, and he likewise showed that a mere rejection of treaty is not an unfriendly act, especially an act that justifies declaration of war. But if war must come it is the duty of congress, not of the President, to de- clare war. Thus in a speech of mod
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
INDIANA FOR ROOSEVELT.
Beveridee Men Report That the PresI. dent Will Have Solid Delegation.

Special to the New York Sun.
 Indianapolis, Ind. December 20.-The men who are managing the campaign of United States Senator Beveridge for re- election have just completed a careful canvass of the several congress districts in which new members of the state cen tral committee will be elected in few days and say that there is now no doubt that twelve out of the thirteen new mem- bers will be for Roosevelt, thus fixing the party organization for him and practi- cally insuring him a solid delegation from Indiana in the national conven- ton.
 Mir. Beveridge has never hesitated in his fealty to the President, and his friends throughout the state have made his and the Presidents cause one, while the friends of Senator Fairbanks, while not opposing the Presidents nomination. have not been outspoken for it. The younger republicans have rallied, almost to a man, to the support of Beveridge and have thus become progressively iden- tified with the cause of the President.