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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
What Stone Did Not Explain.

St Louis Post-Dispatch
 Senator William J. Stones furious rage over the charges in connection with his lobby work in the promotion of poodle alum legislation is not caused by the publication of the charges so much as by his inability to answer them and explain away the discreditahle force of the facts.
 In trying to explain his connection with the poodle alum lobby to the Democratic editors at Kansas City, Senator Stone said that he was an attorney for the baking powder trust, but he did not say that he concealed his trust attorneyship under the mask of a philanthropist. He did not mention the sham public health so- ciety he organized for this purpose. He did not tell them that when actually lob bying for the trust he said to the Senate Criminal Jurisprudence Committee: T appear before you at the request of the Health Society of Missouri. This so- ciety is composed of number of Mlssou- ri people-good people, both men and
 women-living in different parts of the State, with headquarters in St. Louis"
 The Senator did not tell the Democratic editors two vital facts in this connection ia cts he has admitted on a different aud | more trying occasion:
 1. That he was employed for the baking powder trust by Doodle Agent D. J.
 Kelley on the recommendation of Lieu tenant-Governor John A. Lee, who is hid ing from justice.
 ,. That he Csions) organized the Public Health Society and claimed to be its rep resentative because he did not like to ap- pear before the Legislature and the pub lie as the attorney of the baking powder trust.
 Senator Stone may bombastically say of the newspapers which publish these | facts: T laugh in their faces ana spl upon them;' he may theatrically call up on God to "wither his hand. palsy his tongue, and burn his heart in the flames l of hell'' if he dishoners his office, but h' | has not answered and cannot answer thu charge of double dealing and deceit. | If he could, he would not now be rag I ing and tearing his hair.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1908,
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of neyspaperdom which comes under it's notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol | @I denoting golden" which stands for high quality. and Is thus explained:
 Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym hol; but there is higher grade, according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL [~Sl to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol $S and is the only paper 80 distinguished In this section of ths South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
A QUEER PROPOSITION,

An Oklahoma man is fully impressed with the idea that every man, woman and child in this great country, whether they are red, white. black or mixed. should pay at least one visit to the nations cap- ital. He is an elderly man but it was not until last year that he went to Washing ton and took in the sights. Possibly he took in everything in sight. for he has been very enthusiastic about it ever since. The Washington monument almost par alyzed him, and he declared that the Con- gressional Library made him think of the New Jerusalem, though we don't exactly see the connection. He saw many other things there, and now wants others to enjoy the sights and sounds-and tastes. perhaps.
 This gentleman, name of Simmons, has petition which he is having extensively signed which asks Congress "to enact a law to furnish free transportation to ev- cry citizen to visit the capitol of the Uni ted States once during a life time and return to their homes" This, 1t will be seen, takes in all of us. from Madawaska to Key West and from Point Barrow to San Diego to say nothing of the outlying islands Of the sea which contain citizens. They arc to have transportation each way, though nothing is said about ex- penses while in the city and it is pre- stunned that the visitors are expected to find themselves-if they don't get lost for good,
 This is great scheme Simmons Is backing. It will cost Uncle Sam a nice sum but his resources are supposed to be inexhaustible. and the protector of the scheme probably thinks the money may as well go that way as in some of the ways it is now spent. In that he isn't far wrong. for money could hardly be put to worse use than some of the govern ment funds now are. If all citizens should take advantage of this offer when it materializes-the cost would be of dollars. but Mir. Simmons appears to think the money would be we'll spent. Of course there would be few of us who couldn't go, but if such law should be passed we doubt if any city in the civil ized world ever saw such a visitation as Washington would have. The old city would overflow and business would be brisk, while the novelty lasted, at least. But the project isn't likely to go beyond the petition stage.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE.
Esrnicide is Used to Cure Dandrufs.

E. H. Lyons, New York, N. Y., says:
 Il am very fond of Herpicide and en- joy using it. It is refreshing"
 pr. J. H. Bush. Toledo, Ohio. writes: 'Newbro's Herpicide has given better satisfaction than anything l have ever used"
 Mrs Borkey. of Chadron, Neb., says of Herpicide:
 Tt cleaned my head of dandruff and stopped my hair from falling out. It is the best remedy for dandruff I ever used, and l have used a great many"
 R. s. Coleman. Ann Arbor, Mich, says:
 T have used two bottles of Herpicide and derived benefit therefrom." Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps foi sample to The Herpicide Co.,. Detroit Mich. E. G. Fowler, Special Agent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
messengers were maltreated by strikers and rouEhs and were unprotected hy the

messengers were maltreated by strikers and roughs and were unprotected by the police.
 We know nothing about the cause of the strike. or the equities of the situation. but the result is what we desire to call attention to. When the strike occurred the company endeavored to do its duty by the public in the way of delivering messages. and to do this was compelled to employ others in place of striking nes- sengers. These were attacked and mal- treated by the strikers and the company closed the office. Suppose all telegraph companies. and all railroad and other transportation companies shoud cut out all towns where their employees are in- terfered with-wouid the companies be to blame? How long would people stand it before they would rise up and put down interfering strikers?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

for which contractors will be asked tc bid is one of 10000 pounds of sauerkraut and 10000 of Frankfurter sausages, this being the allowance of the year for the enlisted force. Other items in the sched. ule are I.45o,ooo pounds Of fresh beef, 2@. 000 pounds of fresh pork chops, 172, ,00( pounds of fresh veal. 2s5 900 pounds ol fresh mutton. 230.000 pounds of pork sau. sages, sSy000 pounds of Bologna sausases 2.S0o pounds each of sugarcured hams and shoulders. 14l.000 pounds of fresh beef liver, 2S5,oo0 pounds of dressed chickens and n 800 pounds of dressed turkey.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law,

for it is certain that no interruptions pol itician ever writhed under the lash of an Independent press and had a good opinion of the newspapers. We think 1t altogeth- CT probable that there is not in any por- ton of the United States more thorough ly disreputable political conditions than those which exist in Pennsylvania gener- ally, and in Philadelphia particularly. The State has so long been dominated by the very worst element of the Republican party that venality bribery, corruption and every other form of political rascal ity is the rule in all departments. It really seems that political honesty and fair dealing have gone out of use in that State and that the grafter and the bood- Ter are in full control of officials and poll ticians alike.
 Such condition of affairs could not go unnoticed and unrebuked forever. There have been few newspapers in the State which have held up to public scorn and ridicule the men who have made the out the country. Naturally these papers drew on themselves the bitter hatred of the boodlers and their tools. and it was equally natural that they should under take to get even by a drastic libel law which would punish those who tell the truth about crimes and criminals. The details of the law are not important. It affects only the daily papers, we believe. and applies to 'libellous" pictures as well as printed matter. Under it's provisions any newspaper which prints pictures or reading matter which may be considered offensive by the victim can be sued for libel. and, whether the suit is successful or not the papers will be subjected to vex- atious and expensive lawsuits to gratify the malice of men who feel themselves criminals.
 Now. we freely admit that some of the sensational papers go too far in the way of pictures and cartoons. Some of the latter are not only offensive to the victims but are offensive to any person of good taste. Possibly some law might be passed which would be fair and just and which would prevent some of the disgracefuI cartoons that are occasionally found in newspapers but the Pennsylvania law is q blow aimed at independent and honest Journalism by those who have most to fear from the truth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

The Bessemer Journal advises all union men. when they so into a store to trade, to ask the clerk to show his union card and if he is unable to do so they should leave the store and trade somewhere else. Suppose that !diotic advice should be car ried to it's legitimate conclusion and clerks should refuse to sell goods to any man who fails to show the card. would the merchants approve the clerks act? If not. why not?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
"Kettle" Bridges of Russia

Perhaps the most remarkable bridges in the world are the kettle bridges used in Russia and Siberia. of which Cossack soldiers are expert builders. They are built up of the soldiers lances and cook ing kettles. Seven or eight lances are placed under the handles of a number of kettles and fastened by means of rope to form a raft Each of these rafts will bear the weight of half a ton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
He Fails to Understand.

Mobile Herald.
 It is strange that man of MT. Bryan brilliant mind should fail to understand that his continued attacks on MT. Cleve- land. some of them almost vicious in character, will but serve to increase MT. Clevelands popularity: and that the lat ter maintains a dignified silence which increases the respect in which he Is gen. erally held.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
oLNEY FOR PRESIDENT.
New England Democrats Will Push
 His Claims.

Boston (Mass) Special to Chicago Trib-
 une.
 Richard Olney, former Secretary of State and Attorney General, will be the New England candidate at the next Democratic National Convention.
 That there is much chance of his being made the nominee even his best friends scarcely, dare to hope. His name will be presented to the convention merely to signify that the New England Democ- racy has declared it's independence of BrYanism in all its phases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
Waiting for Providence.

Sheffield Reaper.
 There Is too much time wasted sitting in the shade waiting for Providence and Congress "to do somethin' or other" and eussing the North fur gittin' rich at the expense of the South" More hustle and less cuss, as well as more hogs and fewer dogs. will start the South on the right course.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

The New York Sun says that MT Bryan never could have accomplished what Mir. Roosevelt has done" and we join the friends of Mir. Bryan in endors- ing the remark. And we may go further and say that MT. Roosevelt has done a number of things that the other could not be induced to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
Nothing Like It.

Birmingham Ledger.
 The News-Reporter over at Tailadega has so boasted of the gardening ability of the Mayor that his honor has nearly worked himself to death to live up to the reputation. There is nothing like a news paper to keep men in good work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
God Be With Him.

Blocton Messenger.
 All the leading papers of the country are pointing towards Cleveland as the formidable Democratic candidate for President. While the editor Of this paper has never liked him. yet if he can beat the Republican Party. God be with him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
Can Do Something.

Hartselle Enquirer.
 There are several papers who are seemingly sue seeding without the support of the local merchants, and these firms derive the benefit of local paper without paying for it. This is wrong. Every mer- chant can do something to help support the town paper,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

this afternoon.
 Mir. Newlywed-Have any difficulty about it?
 Mrs. Newlywed-Not a bit-except that she wouldn't go.-Judge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
LARGEST IN ALABAMA.

The sworn detailed circulation statement of the Daily and Sunday Advertiser for March. 1908. as published below, shows that it's cir culatfon is not only larger than that of any other morning paper published in this State. but larger than that of any two of them conn kined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

Mrs. Highblower-Elsie. you never speak outside of the quarrels between your papa and myself. do you?
 Elsie-Oh, no. mamma. But whenever you are pleasant to each other l always mention it.-Life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

This item from The Leavenworth Times is suggestive and ought to be instructive:
 The Western Union Telegraph Company has closed its Butte. Mont, office because thA men employRd in the place of striking
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

Mrs. Carrie Nation scores the President because in his speeches he has never roasted the hell-broth dealers" meaning the brewers Teddy is hereby warned hat hell do well to get his roaster in <aaF
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
A Bottle of Red Ink.
Birmingham News.

Birmingham News.
 It is rumored that ex-President Cleve- land> forthcoming address at the St. Louis Exposition ceremonies has induced a Kentucky Colonel to order bottle of red ink, while a Nebraska gentleman is said to be searching the pages of his book on denunciatory synonyms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

"The German carp" indignantly ex- claimed Uncle Allen Sparks, cetaching another one from his hook and thro wing 1t to the dog. 'fs the English sparrow of the American waters!'-Chicago Tribune.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

Grant-So Grimes has been forced to bankruptcy? How did 1t happen? . Gray-A particular friend cf his gave him a tip about a perfectly safe in. vestment.-Boston Transcript.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

"Why did the people turn against that divine healer who had such following down here year or two ago.
 It was a case of hard luck with him. He had a little accident with some kero- sene and lost his long white whiskers. - Chicago Record Herald.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

It is found out that the reason an Atch- ison woman is so proud she will not speak to other women unless they have on their best clothes. is that her brother has an oBice on Wall street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
< WHAT THE STATE PAPERS 1
 < ARE SAYING. 1
They Were Only Pebbles.

Edwardsville Standard-News.
 Bryan's oratorical gem box flew open the other night and a few jewels were gently dropped on Growers head.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

DO you chose for yourself the books you read, my boy?"
 Sure"
 But how do you know what to avoid?" ''Oh, I've got all their names here" Their names?"
 You bet. It's in this list of 100 best books for boys to read. d."-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
A BLOW AIMED AT THE PRESS

Every time we read anything about the newspaper libel law which certain Pennsylvania politicians have been trying so hard to pass we are reminded of John Trumbulls lines
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

she-She's rather cold. isn't she?
 He-Cold? We'll I shoild gay! Why. she's as cold as a yesterday plo1 ming s griddle cake-Philadelphia Press.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

''The Wireless" is the name of a bright little sheet which comes to us from beau tiful Santa Catalina, 'the Enchanted Isle of the Sea-" which lies some fifty miles out from Los Angeles, Cal. All the tele- graphic news in the paper. and there Is a fair amount of it. Is claimed to have been sent by the Marconi wireless system of telegraphy. The Los Angeles Times re- marks that this paper marks the begin ming of an epoch in the dissemination of news in isolated places" and we can well believe it. The issues we have are those of March s and 31. and we do not know whether it is being published regularly every day, but suppose it is. If the many dispatches printed in these numbers of the paper are received by the wireless method. why should there be any practi- cal limit to the number, or to the dis- tance? These are queries for the future to answer. but the possibility of wireless telegraphy seems assured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
A LITTLE FUN NOW AND THEN
Bright Paragraphs to Relieve the
 Seriousness of Life.

'Is Ethel a great charity worker? Dear me, yes! At that last charity ball she danced every dance apd ate three suppers. Judge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
TT SEES LIGHT.

The New York Tribune. intensely Re- publican as 1t is has apparently been permitted to see the light regarding the ever-present negro question. In a re- cent editorial devoted to the needs of in dustrial training for negroes 1t calls at- tention to the fact that they must face the necessity of iaboring for a living.
 The Tribune sees what all intelligent Americans ought to see. and what every Southern man we'll knows. that the me- groes of the South need not expect any great share of the purely intellectual positions in this section. Many centu- ries of continued and ever upward ef- fort were required to bring the white man up to the position he now occupies Many centuries of savagery. other cen- turtles of slavery added to his natural intellectual inferiorty, left the negro anchored on a much lower plane. To claim that less than forty years of free dom has elevated him in brain capacity to the white mans level is one of the absurdities of the period.
 It is for these reasons that a purely academic or literary education is of such little real benefit to the negroes of the South. Whether they can ever be raised high enough to divide with the whites the higher intellectual positions of life Is at least doubtful. Certainly they do not now occupy that plane, and we may be permitted to doubt their ever doing so. The white people of the South are going to fill the offices. and they are going to occupy most of the business and profess sional positions in the country. They do that in other sections and they will continue to do 1t here, so there's little need of discussing 1t.
 The negroes are being taught at Tuske- gee and a few other places that their greatest need is an education and trainp ing that will make them better farmers, mechanics and handcraftsmen generally, and he Is their best friend who teaches them these things, and. further, teaches them to be content with those things for which they are qualified and beyond which they are not fitted to go, for the present. at all events. The negro in the South has no worse enemy than the man who would Ill his mind with the belief that few years of freedom have eIe- vated him to the level of the Caucasian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

". A. Scott, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says: The foregoing statement of The Ad- vertisers daily circulation for the month of March, 1908, is true and correct and com piled after all returns from newsboys. psws agents and leftover copies have been de- dncted. ". A. SCOTT, Circulation Mgr.
 of April, 1908 n. w. JACKSON, . Tseall N. F.. Ex-o. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29

sauerkraut for the Navy. Among the items of naval subsistence
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-12

You would hardly expect to very much OF an arts
tic touch such materoffact surroundings and yet
there horoughfare in the city that
color contrasts this Almost from end to the other
the eye lights every great every
conceivable shadethe bright yellow Of bananas the
grant green Of great barrels punching
between big Jumps of ice, the yariegated kale golden
pumpkins the tens of thousands of baskets grapes
the bloom Of freshness still them, the ounces and
peaches and pums and pears the varying green
represented in unrpe tomatoes heaps cabbages
young onions the barrels of glorious pink and
yellow apples boxes of carrots and parsnips
white chinese radShes mountains of peaches In all their
bewderng sunkissed shades bundles fragrant horse
adsh done up fearfuy tight you sure its cir
cuatOn must be seriously nterfered WITH panans
the glarng glossy red of enormous peppers thousands
of crooks of golden butter and cheese its many delicate
shades of yelowa these things mngle long revel
OF color that makes sight of this delight
who sees Its beauty and mngles with its hustle
first time
Here and there the sidewalks instead o being bur-
dened wtn heaps OF grape baskets boxes
filed with crates of cluttering stately geese
that stick their heads through the cages
survey the with solemnity that believe
they know what is in store for them. The meat men
crowd everything between 9th avenue
and Franklin street and you nothing wilder
of carcasses butchers drivers blue Jump
and hundreds of stock yards wagons
with their magnificent of gray and their cIankinp
trapplngs
Up and down the narrow alleys between the piles of
goods, with loaded trucks along, passing one
another in miraculous way without upsettng any
continually moving Off from the front of stores and
going out of the street loaded with merchandise half
dozen seem to be coming in for that leaves
there is abatement In the stir. this indie
scrbabe confusion with the horoughfare wh
wagon wheels nterockng each other everywhere there
are fewer accidents and alterations between drivers
other street in the city this Is SIM
pie enough Every driver who South Water
street knows the unwrten guidance of him
self and his team by heart and, being fully
disastrous consequences If he transgresses them
he is extraordinarily careful Chicago Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-12
Brave in Face OF Death.

One Of the most thrilling incidents
ever witnessed in the arena Is recalled
by the recent feat of the Spanish tor
eador Reverte. 1t occurred at Bay
onne. After disposing OF two bulls
Reverte had twice plunged his sword
into a third. of great strength and fer
oc1ty, and as the beast continued
careering wildly the spectators began
to hiss Reverte for bungling. Wound
ed to the very quick OF his pride, the
Spaniard shouted, 1.-The bull is slaInt
and, throwing aside his sword, sank
on one knee with folded arms In the
middle Of the ring. He was right, but
he had not allowed for the margin of
accident
The wounded beast charged full up