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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
CLEARED UP.
The Mother of 8 Dead Infant Made
 Confession.

The Mother of 6 Dead Infant Made
 Confession.
 Florence, May 18.-(Special. .)-The mys- tery attending the finding of the dead baby in the edge of the Tennessee River Thursday evening has been cleared away by Jackie Holiday, young colored girl confessing to It's maternity and impli- eating her mother in its murder.
 According to the girls confession. which Sheriff Hill with much difficulty induced her to make, the child was born Satur. day night. Fearing that the father of the girl. who works at night. might kill them If he found it out, the old woman strangled the baby Sunday morning be. fore he returned from work. and its dead body remained in the bed with its mother all day Sunday. Under the cove, of darkness that night after the old man had gone to his work, the old wo. man took the body to the bank of the 'river and threw in 1t.
 As soon as the body of the infant was discovered, the old woman disappeared and the efforts of the police to discover her hiding place have, so far. been un- successful.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
Geo. P. Haardt & Bro., I3 Commerce St. Telephone 3oo

Great Incohonees Thomas K. Donnelly and Andrew H. Peyton will respond. Great Senior Sagamore Thomas H. Watts will preside.
 Wednesday will be consumed in business sessions and social entertainments. The Great Chiefs will be raised up Wednesday night after which the Council fire will be quenched until next year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
coniraciing

l beg to announce to the People of Montgomery that l am now Contracting again and would be glad to make estimates on any class of work. l am in a position to do work cheaper than any man in Montgomery as all my mater .ials come direct from Manu- lecturers, no middle man has to have any profit from my business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
PRETTY HIGHLAND PARK LOTS

You can buy 8 pretty Highland Park lot for less money now than you ever can again. Many of the 30 choice ones, advertised by E. B. Joseph & Son, at sacrifice prices, on easy monthly payments, have been sold, but they still have a number left. See about this at once.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
New Orleans and Return.

Account Confederate Reunion. Tickets will be sold from all points at one cent per mile on May 18th to zst. inclusive; good for return to May 24th, with privt- lege of extension until June 18th by de- posting same with joint agent on or be- fore May 24th, and payment of fee of 50 cents at time of deposit.
 For general information. call on Agents O. l.. and N. R. R., or write or call on W. l.. Beasley,
 Pass. Agent, -adv. Montgomery. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
Miss Hapgood tells how she was cured of Fallopian and Ovarian Inflammation and escaped an awful operation by using Lydia E. Pin.kham's Vegetable Cor1pound.

"DEAR Mas PNKHAM:-I suffered for the doctors called Sapngit inflammation of the pan rt which distressing and painful amen affecting the surrounding undermining the constitution and sappg life forces had before began taking Vegetable and had noticed the nken saow and macated condition person with me as am today robust hearty and we'll would not months and saved me from awful operation IRENE HApGooD St. Windsor, Ont.
 ovaris of the alopian which sudden on of the womb and other The slightest indication of trouble by shooting pains should claim will neglect
 "DEAR MRs PNKHAM:-I truly that gaved my @ and cannot express gratitude to you in worlds
 Before wrote telling how e had doctoed for two steady spent lots of medicine besides
 failed to do good My did appear
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19

We hope that when we die no friends will gather in an excited circle to hear tha tour liver was as hard sole leather, or relate other faults which we could not help
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
T<HE HOTEL BELLEcLA1RE

THE HOTEL BELLECLAIRE 4 appeals especially to what
 may be called semi-transient visitors: people who desire, for a week or a fortnight or a month, the comforts, conveniences and advantages of New York's great modern hotels, but who wish to avoid some of the noise, the bust1e and the expense that are inevi- table In an extended visit. For such people THE BELLECLAIRE has furnished suites of one, two or three rooms and bath, which may be occupied at reasonable rates for shorter or longer periods. It Is an apartment house with the best features of a hotel. It is e hotel with the best features of an apartment house. And 1t is ab- solute1y new and absolutely fire proof.
 MILTON ROBLEE, Proprietor,
 Broadway, at Seventy-seventh St.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19

The regulations of our ancestors don't do us much good when we are looking for @ job.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19

always your wonderful remedies and hope that these others who suffer did your remedes"-MRs T. C. WILLADsEN, R. R. Mo- l. Manning Iowa.
 Lydia F. Pink hams Vegetable Compound over diseases of women Pinkllam their ln"~7 entirely
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
G. Y. B0CACkI,

sas... Doors, Wan Paper, Cabinet xantsls, BuiIdess' Hardwars and
 Supplies. Mall oredrs solicited.
 and given prompt attention. Phone SS0 o4 Commsrcs. st
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19

suffered much pain. 1would daily have fainting spells, headache, backache and bearing down pain, and was so weak that it was hard for me to do my work
 "I used your medicine and treatment as directed, and after taking three bottles of Lydia E. Pinl1ham's Vegetable COm- pound, menses appeared, my womb trou- bles left me, and have been regular ever
 since. I used fourteen bottles of
 Lydia E. Pinkham's. Vegetable
 Compound and Blood Purifier , together, and am now restored to N perfect health. Had it not been for you, would have been in my grave.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19
MILTON ROBLEE,

Proprietor, Broadway, at Seventy-seventh St. NRw YORK.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-19

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

ing story of today can be made to mirror the everyday life and its happenings which forms the sphere of our own par ucular existence. and through other eyes We see ourselves as others see us."
 Nothing is more influential than great book-no. not even great man. The black man who came to England with Livingstone understood the picture gall iery, for the face of his own child an- swered to the faces of Raphaers cherubs. He understood the cathedral, for 1t re- minded him of his own altars and hymns. He understood the city for it was like many towns brought together in one. But there was one thing the savage could not understand. It was the great library crowded from floors to ceiling with books; strange white pages. with little marks. over which the reader bowed as one who listened to voices in the silence or sat wrapped n trance of some great Con- jurer, while smiles and tears alternately showed on the readers face as sunshine and clouds chase each other across the meadows. No fetish, no necromaney; nc African snake charming was like that. Oh, no-the greatest Conjurer in the world is a book. Under the spell of great book summer portraits banish thoughts of winter, and laughter scatters tears.
 Through our national libraries we are indeed made children of him with whom c thousand years are but as yesterday.
 when 1t is past and as a watch in th night, and when we close the library W. shut the cover of our book the glory cf the past is banished and the spell of the conjurer lifted.
 The Wandering Jew is eclipsed. He could tell us what Is most worth in twen ty centuries, but books of all the centu- rieS,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

Bryce puts very different estimate upon MT. Bachelors work by his comme1t that Irving Bacheller in some ways is to literature what Wagner is to music-I mean with all his power to portray nature. In Eben Holden he has written a book that will live" Steadman puts
 'Eben Holden in association with Snow Bound saying that, If in the far future our successors wish to know what were the real life and atmosphere in which the country folk that saved this nation grew, loved, wrought, and had their being they must go back to such true and zestfui and poetic tales of fiction" And 50 We say or 'Darrel." 1t Is "forest-scented and fresh-aired" and American; but America of the rough, back country, when the
 woods came to the doo- step and when men were curiously old-fashioned."
 The real strength of this story, Is the picture of the fathers sacrifice for the son. Strong, instructive, inspiring, is this mysterious portrayal of parental fidelity. Quaint and mysterious is the plot, and when once the reader takes up the thread he never lets go till he finds the end
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

None will deny that Joseph Altsheller in his novel Before the Dawn" has taken the old subjects love and war and woven them together in a charming and impress sive story. with plot that is not hack ueyed.
 The interest in the story centers around Captain Prescott, staff officer and cap tain in the Confederate army, and his Northern sweetheart Lucia Catherwood, who is a prisoner of war in Richmond.
 Captain Prescott is the embodiment of those qualities essential to a military of ficer-possessing that precious quality known as insight. which gave him a mi mute knowledge of the campaign, and en- abled him to be of great service to Lee.
 Though thoroughly devoted to his cause he runs fearful risks for his sweetheart.
 After strong conflicts with himself he yields to the power of his love and es- corts her through terrible dangers-to the Union army outside of Richmond. Here are the authors words. describing the escape, Miss Catherwood, you forbade
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
Mortaoqe SaLe.

. Under and by virtue of the powers and au- thority conferred upon me in and by the mort gage of H. J. Mcclure and M. Mcclure to me- dated Dee. Io 1901. recorded in Mort gage Book I67 page 2T6. in the office of the Judge of Probate Of Montgomery County. Ala bama default having been made in the pay- ment of the debt secured thereby. I. Cecu Wilcox, will sell at auction. for cash Co the highest. best andS bidder thsrefor ak Court Square Basin. in atsomery. Ala. ct noon cn Monday. the lbl iag of rune. lsq2. to satisfy the indebtedness fees and expensaa ae- cured thereby the following described prop erty in the City and County of AonfsonleEN and State of Alabama to wit: The east haik of lot number eleven q D lying on the south side of Clayton Street and being part co the B. F. Randolph plat recorded h Book 4 of Deeds. page 232, in said county. mpra particularly described as follows: Bezimnin4 at a point on the south aide of Clayton SareeN three hundred (3o0) feet east of the northwe&t corner of the tract of land formerly halQnK~ ing to B. F, Randolph, thence west alsg {5O) feet. thence south one hundred ana AftE (I so) feet thence east fifty ts0l fcef. thenc6 north one hundred and fifty (ieol feet to tea point of beginning. CECIL Wll.LcoA.
 FRED s. FALL. Attorney. sa'4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
Should Be Checked.

Norfolk Landmark
 An editorial reproduced in another col umn from The Montgomery (Ala) Ad- vertiser will show that Pennsylva mia ought to enact without delay law like the one recently adopted in New York. preventing discrimination against any man by any person. firm. or organization because of membership in the militia. The radical members of labor unions to break down the militia should be sharply check ed in every State. A law like New York.i would catch the foolish labor union which boycotts the militia. as well as the fool ish employer who helps along the boycott to curry favor with the union. Unless the conservative men in the unions put a stop to the drift of affairs in this regard they will force the States to act.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
COMPLICATED SHOPPING.
Incident That Occasionally Happens
 in a Big Shop.

Baltimore News. , The department shop Is very confusing place sometimes. Only Saturday young wo- man went into one to buy some liberty silk She left a companion waiting for her at the door because she felt 1t would take so shoit a time to make this little purchase that Il was not worth while to drag him at ne chariot wheels through the aisles for the amusement of the saleswomen.
 ''where will find liberty silkT' said she to the first dlsengaged clerk she saw.
 At the silk counter, through the arch way and around to the right, responded tnat young woman, promptly. &
 The woman followed these directions to the letter and found the silk counter. T want pale blue liberty silk.' said she.
 ''second aisle. to the left, last counter. replied the girl she addressed A
 "But they told me I would find 1t here. '" expostulated the shopper iA"'
 ''wen. you won't! It's at the trimmings counter" retortei the saleswoman
 The young woman went down the second aisle to the left, and as far back as she could go. and discovered the trimmings counter do- ing business at the old stand.
 T want to look at pale blue lib'ty silk said she. She was getting tired Of saying 'liberty.'' and was now beginning to ao0re- viate it. .- u.
 Third aisle to the right" said the salesN woman. -
 Isn't this the trimmings eounterT'' asked the shopper, indignantly ..t,
 Tt is.'' fsS .. 2sss
 And you don't keep lib " SIX neref
 We do not" as
 "Tben I don't believe you have 1t in the shop. for. a perfectly veracious young person of the silk counter told me I would Ind 1t here"
 ..Third aisle. to the right; lace counterF' .aid the clerk, briefly and perfectly unmoved, The shopper wentto the third aisle to the r,gbt There were stockings there. but no lace that she could see. However 1t is not for an ignorant shopper to doubt the word of n saleswoman so she said: ''Is this the lace counter?'
 eve have lace' stockings here, if that is what you mean" replica a young woman with red pompadour.
 silk %
 "oh! the lace counter was moved this morn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
ae e Before the Dawn. ss ss

She looked up at him. Shall we see each other again?' she asked. Upon my soul I do not know? She looked up in his face again and he saw the red blood rising In her cheeks. Borne away by a mighty impulse. he bent over and kissed her but she. uttering a little cry. ran down the hill toward the camps.
 The description of the battle of the VII derness is simply grand. Old veterans will find it intensely vivid. Young people will catch the war spirit
 After this battle Miss Catherwood by superhuman effort carries the body of her wounded lover from the field to a cabin and helps to nurse him back to health. She returns of her own will to Rich mond with Captain Prescott where she bravely faces new trials and dangers and is continually true to him.
 The story ends charmingly with we'd ding bells. Doubleday. Page and Co.,. New York. $1.50.)
 Mary Beale Britton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

Prior to the Civil War when the eyes of most citizens of the United States turn ed eastward to the Atlantic and toward Europe there was a Senator in the National Legislature, William H. Seward, of New York. who foresaw that "the Pacific Ocean, it's shores, Its islands, and the vast regions beyond would become the chief theatre of events in the words great herea4ter." Today there are more who believe this prophecy than did at the time it was uttered.
 Recalling the events of the past decade any we'll informed American will reldily see that the diplomacy of the Unit d States has been Incre potent for good in dealing with Oriental na.i9ns--those of the far East-than that of any other power, and that it was time that com
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
BY JOSEPH ALTSHELLER.

me to return here but have come"
 She was still silent.
 You must leave Richmond tonight" She made a gesture as if to call attention to the frozen world outside.
 T am willing to leave Richmond. if I knew a way f
 T will find a way. I go with you" What abandonment; what yielding to the influence of his love; for this girl in dan ger! They pass safely the outer fortifica- tions.
 Captain Prescott" said the girl as they stood alone in the white silence. T insist that you leave me here. Why should you risk yourselfT'
 If you passed the other Qualifications" he said. you would perish in the frozen hills. Do you think I have come so far to turn back now?'
 Slowly they walked to the top of the hill. Prescott pointed to the valley where the fires glowed from the camps of the Northern army. Here l must leave you," he said.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
American Diplomacy in the Orient.

to this day, not always as the holder of formal diplomatic positions; frequently as the council of his government and arbiter of her disputes. No American unless it was John Quincy Adams has held more positions of trust in diplomatic rapacity. His previous hook, "A Century of Ameri- can Diplomacy is a standard work with large circulation here and abroad among students of history and men of affairs. Mir. Foster deals with certain disputes inyolv- ing the good name of American mis- sionaries with candor, but sympat tn sti- cally, and on the whole approvingly. In his discussion of the Philippine annexa- ton controversy he is judicial. and opti- mistic on the whole Our natural allies are seen by him to be Great Britain and Japan. CIoughton, Mifflun & Co.,, s net
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
V T~'T SPOILSMAN.
BY ELLIOTT FLOWER.

yond a doubt that local politics in a large city demands sacrifices of ones charac- ter and finances so great that upright cit izens of modest means cannot make them. In this respect the book Is an eye opener to students of economic conditions The contrast of two ward candidates IS a good piece of literary work. But the interest of the book centers around the facts and not the manner of their present. ation.
 Relieving the seriousness of the book is a wholesome love story. Q.. c. Page and Co.,, Boston, sl.5O.)
 Nora Belle sStarke.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
BY JOHN W. FOSTER:

petent hand traced the history of our diplomacy in the far East. Hawaii Korea. Spain. Japan, China and Russia in one way or another have felt our hand of steel in a glove of velvet. Today cur prestige is higher than that of any other power. and that not because we have been grasping or interruptions. but because from the first treaty with an Asiatic mower made with Siam in 1883. down to the present time our diplomats have en- deavored to deal justly with Asiattc statesmen. Compared with the records of Great Britian or Russia our record is reckless.
 The practiced hand of skillful diplo- mat and man of affairs is revealed in this book. Mir. Fosters career as a diplomat began In 1873 and has continued
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

ing: you will find 1t in the aisle to the sztrsms left.f
 The palpitating shopper found 1t there IT want to look ct some pale blue iibty siiks~ = said she. grossly.
 We haven't any pale biue'' remarked ths saieswoman. conversationaiiy. we have . very pretty piece of green and some cham pasne colored-that's very styiiuh now. you know-but we are juts out of pale blue. '
 When the shopper, had dragged herxelf te the door she found the man with an expres-l sion on his face that indicated that he would have been gnawiug his mustache if he had had any to gnaw. Well. hope 1t took you long enough said he. T could have bought an entire suit of clothes. a Panama hat and the latest thing in tan shoes in the time you have been gppe. Give me your parcel and wfIl carry it.''
 'I haven't any parcei'' said the woman. hesitatingiy. They were just out of what { wanted" as s1 wet I'll be iisgeredrr said the l, mau, and lef the way, in q silehce that soindsd pro. fame, to another shop. --------------------4--
 When 1t is discovered that a club woman also good housekecper. how the other wouei
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
Darrell of the Blessed Isle.r. M
BY IRVING BACHELOR.

I.andis Ayr said of 'I2ben Holden con sidered MT. Baeheller's masterpice, that it is an inferior limitation of David Harum'' and that "A schoolboy of ordinary dis cernmen. should be able to rank this lame production where 1t belongs by reason of it's illiteracy alone" Lloyd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

The SD Als in an interesting and inst anar with what ought 70 be ,tion 10 the tax paying contip ity-municipal politics. Cor bribery in the manage mep matters in lars. cities is 1ls working of the political nn 4irly set forth. and the po- s painted in his true colors.
 scene of the story Is laid in
 is true md accurate DOT
 che aldermanic condition of af-
 other cities of the same size.
 sclosures made demonstrate be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
> The Worlds GreateCt Conjurer.

best; know their hopes and failures. man ners and fqibles-better even than those of our household. And when tired and weary of reviewing the kingdoms, empires and civilizations of dead past, the thrill
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
NIP IT IN THE BUD.
First Appearance of Dandrun
 Forerunner of Future Baldness.

That such is the case has been conciu- siveiy proven by scientific research. Prof. Unna, .the noted European skin specialist, declares that dandruh Is the burrowed-up cuticle of the scalp, caused by parasites destroying the vitality In the hair bulb. The hair becomes lifeless, and' in time. falls out This can be prevented.
 Newbros Herpicide kills this dandrurr germ, and restores the hair to its naturai softness and abundancy.
 Herplcide is now used by thousands of neonle-all satisfied that it is tAe most wonderful hair preparation on the mar ket today Sold by leading druggists. Send 1Oc in stamps for sample to The HerpicIde Co. Detroit. Mich. ID. O. Fowler, Special Agent. -sun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

What more powerful or effective con jurer could be found than a striking or thrilling book? Through its mystic me dium comes trooping kings and queens. warriors and statesmen, knights and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17

martyrs scholars and men and women of fame from out the dim and misty past.
 By the waving of the magic wand or the great libraries we meet face to face the worlds greatest, wisest. meanest, worst,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
The complacent Briton.

We happened to be born in an island. It is just breaking on the average Briton that one does not need to hide all his valuables beneath his pillow because the three other men in his compartments do not speak English; that the men who constructed Mont Cenis and St. Gothard tunnels must have at least understood the rudiments of engineering science. The puzzled expression on our countryman's face when he discovers that the foreign CT can give us points in conveyance of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
Weslev on swedehhorr.

sat down to read and to seriously cone sider some of the writings of Baron swedenborg. began with huge preju- dice in his favor. knowing him to be q pious man. one of a strong understand- ing. of much learning and one who thor oughiy believed himself. But could not hold out long. Any one of his visions putt his real character out of doubt. He f4 one of the most ingenious. lively. entef* taining madmen that ever put pen to pa per. But his waking dreams are so wild. so far remote from both Scripture and common sense. that one might as easilx swallow the stories of Tom Thumb and Jack the Giant Kilfer.-Fron John Wea- ley's Journal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
CHOICE EXERPTS ssss s:||' ]
 FROM THE NEW BOOKS

luggage or making of coffee gces te yoQ<
 heart-From Macclaren's Our N@IDh1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-17
Sleep and Death.

We. absolutely know nothing U @1ily which warrants us in attribuking >fozsW perishability. Weare scnt here ag . et4Io| in our education: In both sleep ma death. our consciousness of this phenoln-! enai world-of the kindergarten-has ben entirely suspended. Tn the awakine tA6I us back again. while in the other we lave no further use for the carriage. Hav1ng reached home.-From Bigeiow's The Mys- tery of Sleep.