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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Industry on Every Hand.

industry and improvement progress and prosperity Is the tune which is humnned by the spade and the shovel, by the ham mer and the hatchet in Montgomery nowadays.
 New buildings are in course of con struction, and hotels are being renovated to meet growing demand.
 In no portion of Montgomery Is the car penter and the brick mason idle. In no portion of Montgomery is there no evil renee nf growth
 Read the following list of new build ings. of churches, of residences and be convinced that Montgomery is growing.
 In the next three months the following buildings will be either completed or in the course of erection. Work on some having already commenced:
 The Pelzer building on lower Com merce Street will be four stories high buildings the entire ground capacity to be 5oxlS0 feet extending to a back street. It Will be coupled by a hardware firm and a carriage manufactury. The building alone will cost S50,O00
 The new Montgomery ice plant Is near ing completion. About s125.GO0 Is to be expended on it. It will be 100 ton capa- city plant.
 The oil mill to be erected in thirty days by Atlanta capitalists and J. b. Hendrix of this city will cost $1O0,0O0.
 An apartment house is to be erected at the corner of Perry Street and Madison Avenue and will cost. 1t Is said. about $l5,0O. The lot Is 100x150 feet and the building will be four stories high.
 The Winter-Loeb wholesale grocery building which has been commenced at the corner of Coosa and Tallapoosa Street will be practically a five story structure md will cost about $40000
 The real estate men of the city say that there are many small residences going up in all parts of the city
 The new Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the corner of Catoma and Church Strets will cost $250OO, and the new Perry Street, First Baptist Church, will he erected at an expense of at least $50, 900.
 The M. c. A. building which, says Secretary Dix, will be built soon will cost $35, 900.
 The Carnegie Library Is being erected at an expense of s50,0OO. And there are others.
 Verify say unto you, Montgomery Is growing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Not Afraid of Ghosts.

Georgiana Enterprise.
 We did not think anything troubled The Advertiser, unless 1t Is the 2x4 news papers who occasionally slur at Cleve- land. And for ghosts we are not afeered of 'em either. We are ghost scared proof. We have the piece of rope that went around the neck of a negro who was hanged for murder and a bunch of rat tlesnake rattles. Ghosts, hob-gobllns and dreams doesn't make our knees wabble Hens can crow, roosters can cacklc screech-owls can shiver loud enough to heard a mile, but we do not tie knots in our pants supporters or throw salt in the fire our nose can itch but it does not make the neighbors come to see us any oftener, when the rooster crows in front Of the door 1t does not make us fix for company When We start anywhere and have to turn back we don't make a cross mark on the ground and spit in 1t for luck. If We are on journey and a rabbit runs across the road 1t does not make us stop or turn back. If we are the 18th one to sit down to 13 dinners every 18th year it would not make chick en bumps all over our backs. We never hshed in the moon, always had better luck in river water We never planted sed in the dark nights" The drills or furrows Is the place and day light is the time. Our stock of super stition has run out. When we hear peo- pie talking about signs" we think of those who not so many years ago were burned by believers in witchcraft All such signs are, well Its all bosh
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
THE MAN WHO STAYS.

The statement going the rounds of the papers that a man has been found in the Russian city of Tomsk who is two hun dred years old is Interesting. but so far several important details have been left out, though part that has been told is not so bad. One of the details Is that he has been a widower 125 years, which would seem to indicate that he Is not much of a woman's man, or else the wife he lost when he was only 75 was of a kind to create distaste towards matrimony.
 But what the account fails to state, and what we want to knuw, Is something about his personal habits, and their ef- feet on his great longevity. Does he use tobacco, and has he always used it7 If so, how and how much? If not, why didn't he? How much vodka or other liquor has he been in the habit of drink quit? And we should like to know 1T ne has any fads about eating, sleeping, bath ing and exercise. Did he play football, or shinny, or leap-froS? In fact there are lots of things we should like to find out so as to get iair idea of the reason why he has remained on earth two centuries. and the prospect of his keeping at it. The knowledge might pc of material ad- vantage in the way of teaching others how to dodge death Ind remain on earth indefinitely.
 If this old citizen has good memory and had been the kind of man to keep track of the various changes and wants of the busy world he could tell many strange stories and relate many incidents that would be new and interesting to peo- pie now living. Russia. however, is not a favorable country Tor the common peo- pie to acquire information. and 1t Is prob- able that the old mans knowledge has never extended beyond the affairs of his immediate neighbors, and what he has seen and heard of the events transplring around him. His Is one of the cases where death has apparently forgotten to call and so he has trebled the ordinary length of human life. His Is a singular case but it is stated that there are docu- ments to show that his claim to two cen- turies is genuine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
THE BURIED PAST.

The recent death of the owner of the famous negro, Dred Scott, recalls one of the most noted decisions to be found in the judicial history of our country, and decision, by the way. which has been misunderstood. misquoted and misrepre- sented to a greater extent than anything else which ever came from a court. How often have we read the statement that the court was dominated by the slave-drivers, that the opinion was made in the interest of slave-holders, and much more of the same kind.
 As a matter of fact the only real point before the court, and the only point de- cided was that Dred Scott. being negro and a former slave, had no standing in the courts This was really all that was decided but the court. for some reason, saw proper to deliver a lengthy decision which covered practically the history of the negro race from the time of his first arrival in this country. and reviewed all legislation and decisions relating to slavery. It was a lengthy, exhaustive and eminent opinion, and Chief Justice Fancy, who delivered 1t could rest his fame as a jurist on that alone.
 But the language and meaning of the opinion were distorted and misquoted by the abolition press and speakers in order to fan the flames of sectional hate and malice and keep up the bitter feeling against Southern shareholders. It was ,.a8, 6oIl 1f writers and speakers to assert that Judge Fancy had officially declared that the negro has no rights which the white man Is bound to respect" He made no such utterance. What he did say was that "as matter of history at the time of the adoption of the Constitution the negro had no rights which the white man was bound to respect This is a different proposition and carries a different mean ing from that put on 1t by the abolition ists of the North for their own pur- poses. It Is also proper to remark that this decision incidentally declared the famous Missouri Compromise unconstitu- tional.
 Almost half century has passed since that decision was rendered, and the emil nent jurist who delivered it has been dead very nearly two-score years. Now the death of the former owner of the negro revives interest in an incident and decision which played an important part in bringing on the election of Lincoln and the great drama which followed. Thus do the ghosts of an almost forgot ten but once stirring past come to the front and serve for a brief time to re- vive memories long dormant, and call up names and characters remembered by but few of the busy people of to-day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
SHAKING THE LIFE OUT.

We had always thought that the woros
 shake we'll before taking which are usually found on bottles of medicine,
 were only for the purpose of getting the
 ingredients properly mixed. We know that prescriptions are frequently com
 pounded of a variety of materials, some
 of which have no love or affinity for
 each other, and that it was necessary to shake them violently so that the unfor-
 tunate patient would be sure to get his due proportion of each nauseous constit-
 uent and send all of them down together.
 That was what the doctors always put the motto on the bottles for in the old times, and they had no knowledge that a much better reason existed for the shaking than the one given. It remained for New York physician to discover that this shaking process serves an end which the doctors of other days had no conception of, and that Is tlie discovery, as he alleges, that violent agitation kills microbes. germs or bacilli. or whatever other name they may hide under. One would think that the average combina- tion prescribed by the doctors would be too much for any microbe possessing any kind of stomach, but that Is not the case. # this New York man knows what he is talking about, and he thinks he does He Is of the opinion that bacteria of various liquid, and that the addition of drugs is not sure death to them. He has found, however, that he can shake the life out of the things, and he proves it, which is more than can always be done with new theories. His method of proof was to
 get a few million of them in a bottle and give them about 1s0 shakes to the minute.
 Then, as we are told:
 The result was that he found that the number of germs In the agitated fluid in no instance amounted to as much as one tenth of those in the unshaken samples. The number was invariably smaller than at the beginning of the experiment. He also learned that the restriction In re- production increased with the duration of the treatment, and that when the treat ment was applied for a sufficient length of time, the liquid could be freed from
 bacilli.
 One would naturally admit that such violent exercise as this would disgust
 and discourage the most robust microbe that ever existed, and that Is evidently just what happened. But as we look at the matter the discovery does not stop here by several laps. If shaking in a bottle will kill them why will not the same treatment have like effect on them after they have been swallowed? When, for example, a mother is trotting her
 baby on the maternal knee may it not be possible that she is inadvertently killing
 the germs which the little one had i'm bibed? And win not the same reasoning apply to games of foot ball and other forms of violent exercise just as well? If
 not, why not? It is 6 great discovery and it's application may be of much great
 CT scope than even the New York doctor
 has any conception of. From now on
 shaking must become a popular pastime and the poor baciih are in for hard
 time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
On Scientific Basis
He Cures the Opium and Whiskey Habits.

It Is said that there are a great many concerns claiming to cure the opium ana whiskey habits within a few days. Dr.
 B. NJ. Woolley, the nations recognized authority in the treatment of these hab- It's, states that such claims are not well founded. The doctors success in inc treatment of these habits is based on n scientific principle. and it's simply won derful. If interested you can write to him at Atlanta, Ga fri.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

a requirement. There is no reason why county superintendents of education who handle a million of dollars every year should be exempt from the examination which all other officials have to submit to. It would be better for all cities if there was an official examination of books and accounts at least once year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

One of the unexpected results of the child labor agitation has been to expose a vast deal of hypocrisy in the North and to uncover a condition of affairs really worse than any which has existed in the cotton mills of the South. Some of the people up there who have been loudest in their denunciations of what they call our cruelty to children have either had their eyes opened or their hypocritical cant un- yelled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Western Man Praises Montgomery.

what do you think of Montgomery? ssKea "a reporter of J. P. McCan Wis Sonsin capitalist, in a hotel lobby yester-
 ''I have often heard of your beautiful city. even as far north as Wisconsin" re- phed MT. McCan. but I must confess that that was surprised when I arrived here. q ahe frst thing I noticed was the magnl- nceht union passenger station, which would be creditable to any city. l then walked up Commerce Street and Dexter avenue and was still more surprised at fares.'
 ous splendid buildings, and the we'll paved streets and of the cleanliness of the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
High-priced Bread in Paris.

Bread at 5 cents a IOaf!
 Brethren of Montgomery be glad that yo live in a country where a goodly-slzed loaf of the "staT of life" may be pur- chased for five of your Uncle Samuel's yellow cOrpers
 Read this recent cablegram:
 Paris Feb. 15.--As a result of the poor harvest. bread Is now selling at 15 cents a loaf. The Bourse de Commerce and the Bakers Union say that the price is likely to remain at that figure"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

Some newspaper having made the state ment a few days ago that Mir. Curry and Judge Reagan were the last surviving members of the Confederate Congress, the Norfolk, Va. Ledger corrects 1t by saying that Hon. John Goode, of Vir- gnia, Is yet living. To them We may add Henry c. Jones. John P. Rails and James L. Pugh. all of Alabama, who are yet alive. Those who served in either House of that famous Congress have mostly passed away. but there are still a number left. and a list of them would be interesting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

It comes high to rua m the Democratic State primary in Kentucky. The candi- dates for Governor gre assessed s2.5OO
 If there Is only one candidate he must pay the whole amount Tn case of more than one 1t is pro rated. The candidates for Lieutenant Governor must put up s6Oo-.-on same conditions. The whole amount assessed Is Yl6OOO. the committee claiming it will take that much to meet actual expense of conducting a primary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

taxes should all be paid at the same time to the tax collector and every piece of property in the State should bear a proportionate share. Indirect taxes double some men s taxes and do not af- feet others at all. The legislature should be deliberate, but above all 1t should leave no room for fair criticism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Germ Killing With Ozone.

New York Tribune
 The first city in Germany, and perhaps in the world, to use ozone for the purifi- cation of Its water supply is Schierstein Chemists and bacterioiOgists have long been familiar with the germicidal auaii- ties of this form of oxygen, and a mum Der of attempts have been made in Flu rope and America to utilize the nrinci- pie. Schierstein. which Is suburb of Wiesbaden, appears 70 be a pioneer. though, in the adoption of the system on a large scale. An elaborate factory to produce ozone electrically from inc atmosphere, has been erected at the wa terworks, and has now been turned over to the municipality. Similar apparatus has been installed at Paderborn. Ozone Is used to purify only drinking water, and treatment with it is substituted for sand filtration, the favorte expedient in Ger many for getting rid of obnoxious bacte- ria.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Never Aspired Twice.

Greene County Democrat.
 ''Other Bryan Democrats find 1t possi- hle to sit at the table with Mir. Cleveland, but the Nebraska man will do nothing of the sort. Yes. but they never aspired twice and failed for like position that voted yea for the same number times for Grover, which of course, inclines MT. Bryan's stomach to nauseate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Power in United States.

OWCL HI OAtLCu 0IdJSSs
 A Northern publication prints the fol- lowing statistical report of amount of power used In the years 19O0 1890, 1880 and 1870. which 1t will be seen shows re- markable strides in manufacture in the United States during the intervening years:
 Judging by the amount of power used, manufacturing in the United States has almost doubled in ten years and 1t Is five times greater than 1t was thirty years ago.
 Here are the figures from the census
 Year Horse Power.
 1900 ........ ........ .......... 11,30o,0O0
 1SSO ........ ...... .......... 3,no63l
 1870 .......... ........ ........ 2,336.142
 These vast amounts do not include the power used for other purposes than manufacturing. such as transportation and lighting. More than a million horse power was used in the power-house of the 1900 electric railroads in operation in 1900, and more than million and half horsepower was used in generating cleo tricity for the 3,300 lighting and power distributing stations. More than S5O,OOo horse power Is employed for this purpose in New York City alone
 "Of the total power used in manufact- ures during the census year steam en- zines furnished s,742,4 415 horsepower, or TIA per cent of the aggregate water wheels supplied 1,742,258 horse power. or l5S3 per cent; electric motors. 3ll,Ol6 horse power. or 2.7 per cent gas and gasoline engines. $50 horsepower. or Is per cent and other forms of mechanical pow CT 54,490 horse power or fve-tenths of l per cent. Rented power was used to the extent of 321 .061 horsepower, or 2.S per cent of the total, Of this rented power lS3, ,692 horsepower was electric and t37 369 horsepower was from other sources of energy.
 The modern office building, often hous- ing a population equal to that of small town. is almost wnally a creation of the last ten years, and the power required in these great structures froms large item when the number of these buildings in the United States is taken into con sideration. as about 1000 horse power Is required to operate the lighting plant, elevators, pumps, compressors and venti- lators in a sixteen-story modern building containing 560 offices.
 New York leads the list of States in the use of water power, having 3dS, 456 horsepower derived from this source In 1900 against 233, 795 in 1890, an increase of l34. 661 horse power In 1890, an increase of 134. 66l horsepower, or SIG per cent. di-- rectly traccable to the great expansion of the wood pulp industry in the State."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
In Leisure Moments
Montgomery seaport Town,
By a Reporter.

l., Chicago travelling man was standing ss sn 'he ioooy of the Windsor Hotel look .ns .ais out on the broad river Alabama. A T,ver steamer slowly came into sight, on IRe slde Of the steamer the words City or Mooile' were conspicuously inscribed
 oid not know before that Montgom- seaport town," unused the knight of the srlp Why l see the city of Mobile has anchored here"
 Ine clerk laughed as he treated the drummer to a fve-cept stogie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

The Advertiser published a letter a few days ago from MT R. E. Pettus favoring a law for examination of books and ac- lntendents of education. It Is very
 wise suggestion and the wonder is that the State has been so long without such
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

The next we know the poets of Ger many will go on a strike. Seventy of them have fixed a minimum price per line, below which no poems are to be sold and all they need now is the union label Perhaps strikes, lockouts and boycotts will come next.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
The Waters of Youth.

Dale County News.
 The Advertiser is indispensable these days. It is full of news from Montgom- cry and Washington. What would the people do in Alabama if Grandma were to die? But she will not die. She eats the food of the gods and drinks the waters of perpetual youth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
What He Fears.
,Jasper Eagle

Jasper Eagle.
 William J. Bryan refuses to sit at the table with Grover Cleveland. Perhaps he is afraid that his special brand of Demoe racy will suffer by such close contact with the old fashion brand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

New York is an American city of course. yet the white native born inhabit- ants comprise slightly less than % per cent of the whole population. There are more Germans than native Americans and the Irish stand very close to the na- tives in numbers. 1t seems unreason- able, but the census shows that almost four-flfths of the inhabtants are of for eign birth or parentaga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
% 4 ' < 4 < = < 4 4 < < < < ' , WHAT THE STATE PAPERS <
 ARE SAYING.
From General Miles,

MOblIe Herald.
 Captain Pershing, who has been con- secrated dattO by the Moros In Min danao, can get some valuable informa- tion as to catchy uniforms from General Miles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
A Burdansoma Tax.

Birmingham Ledger.
 School books ought not to be a burden some tax. but 1t Is the boldness of the outrage that hurts. A 20-cent book for 65 cents makes any man furious and 1t should.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Their Natural Prsrogative.

Birmingham News.
 Few women will be surprised to learn that a New York court has decided that a wife has a right to go through the pockets of her husband and take what she finds there while he sleeps. Most wives regard this as their natural prero- gatlve with which a court has nothing to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

Lieutenant Peary says for $l50,0OO he'll reach the Pole. For half that amount we'll agree not to interfere.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Take an Auto Along.

Age-HeraId.
 The next polar exploration party will take an auto along, and if it blows up at the right point it may land the chaf- feur on the North Pole and render him Illustrlous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
January, 1908.

", A Scott. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser being duly eworn' says: The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiscr' daily circulation for the month of January. 1903. is true and correct, and com piled after all returns from newsboys, news agent. and left over opies have been deducted.
 w. A. SCOTT,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed to before me this
 F. W. JACKSON, IsealI N F., Ex-o. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

on account of it's length why not say au- tobus?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
Not Pleasing to the People.

Birmingham Ledger.
 The idea of putting on lot of indirect taxes is not pleasing to The people, or even
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
A Good Berinniue.

The first month of the new year fnrnisnss circ alaticn statement pleasing to this puoncs- ton. indicating that new friends and new rvso- CTS are constantly being added to tts endless list of admirers. So grows Alabama. so grows The Advertiser-onward and upward
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

woman never loses her temper. If she has one to begin with 1t lasts as long as she does.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

It sometimes hapnns that when people make up their minds good deal of im- D. tant matter Is left cut
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
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