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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
CULTURE AND THE LIKE.

It is not unusual to read in some of the Northern papers sneering or contemptu- ous allusions to the South as a benight- ed. ignorant and uncultivated section of the Union. It is not unusual, on the other hand, to find Southerners referring envi- ously to the superior culture and enlight- ened habits of the North and East Per haps we are behind them in some things "a very long way behind. Wetmay add that the further we fall behind them the better we are pleased. As The Richmond Times Dispatch says:
 There is much talk in these days about the "old South and the new South" the Northern enterprise and Northern in novation and all that We want to see the South progress; we want to get and lse progressive ideas from the North so far they are good and wholesome. But may the good Lord help us to preserve the integrity of the old South in all that relates to morals and chivalry and the sanctity of the marriage tie; and from represented by the Burdick gang, may the good Lord deliver us, as from scourge, 2estilence and famine.
 Judging from what can be learned by reading the papers there has rarely been a more unsavory affair even among the high-hyers of New York City than this Burdick case. The effort to find who among them all is guilty is working from and in the wrong direction. The detect Ives and other officials would save a much shorter job if they will set to work to ascertain which or who is innocent. The one fact that seems to stand out in bold relief is that the whole affair was un- speakably disgraceful. The parties, male and female, were so consumed and dom mated by unholy and unlawful desires and inclinations that we are not surprised that their crooked lines should have met and crossed, and that murder and suicide should follow the other crimes which en- meshed all the parties. Possibly some of them are or were less guilty than the oth- CTS were. but the trail of the serpent is sv0r them all. and it is hard to tell who has been least guilty in all the disrepu- table business. The Burdicks, the Pen nells, the Warrens and Heaven knows who else, were so mixed up fin liaisons divorce proceedings and the like that it is not to be wondered at if the only way out of the entanglement was by death.
 We only allude to this Burdck case be- cause it is one of the latest typical af- fairs to get before the public. It is one of the results of certain form of cul- sure which has not yet obtained much sOothold in the South. and we sincerely Nope that 1t never will We had rather Bear the reputation of being somewhat eenighted than to advance by the Buffalo soute.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
TUESDAY, MARCH e4, 1908.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole neld of newspaperdom which comes under it's notice and one of these signs IS the mystic symbol denoting golden" which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 Advertisers value this paper more for the elass and quality of its circulation than for tho mere number of copies printed-''
 Such papers are credited with e single sym bol; but there is a higher grade, according tc this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL er1 to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol I0ol and is the oal, paper SO distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
FOUND THE MAN.

| Kansas is another State which is hav- I ing trouble about statues. To tell the
 truth that comparatively new State is
 rather short on great men. or great l names. John Brown and Jim Lane would
 hardly fit, and some of the later speci-
 mems are not much better. for none of
 them can be held up to public view as
 either very great or worthy. But there is way out of the difficulty and The
 Kansas City Journal thus suggests 1t:
 Kansas need not delay until the corrod- ing power of time has dimmed or oblit- erated all of her political hatreds Some
 thing happened recently that ought to
 Hall of Fame troubles. A professor of Kansas University. moved by the finding of the Lansing skull and inspired by cer- tain geologic discoveries. announced the other day that he believed Kansas to have been the site of the Garden of Eden.
 Then, going boldly and without circum-
 location to the point, why doesn't Kan sas erect in that Washington Hall of Fame statue to Adam?
 Now, why doesn't that settle the difn- culty without further controversy? We
 have all laughed over the whimsical pie
 ture of Mark Twain weeping over the
 tomb of Adam, but the time may come when visitors to the Hall of Fame in Washington will stand and gaze in awe and wonder on the marble replica of Adam, the goodliest man of men since born," as Milton calls him. and the won- der and admiration will be intensified when we are assured that it is a likeness of the first settler of Kansas There may be some iconoclasts or unbelievers who will try to cast doubt on the claims of Kansas to the proprietorship of the first man but if so Kansas has only to defy them to disprove her claims. That will shut them up with a snap
 or course it has not yet been definitely shown that the Garden of Eden was To- cated in Kansas. but 80 far as we know it has not been proven that it was not there. so that the argument is pretty we'll balanced. If the garden was there we may reasonably conclude that Adam lived and died somewhere in that region. His grave has not yet been discovered but we are not discouraged. There are many scientists yet to hear from and if some of them don't nose around till they find his tomb we shall feel surprised and dis appointed. We want the United States to get all the credit 1t can and if Kansas should come to the front in the way of statues to the first inhabitant the older States must not feel envious or gloomy over it. We can't all lead the procession and if Kansas lays over all the rest of us | we'll bear it with becoming humility, ac- cepting the reflected glory which will come to us as a sister State. Rah for Adam!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
BACON IS HOPEFUL
GEORGIA SENATOR THINKS
 DEMOCRATS WINNERS.
Discusses Tariff and Trust Questions. Believes Party Will Get To- gether and Make Formid-
 able Campaign,

Washington, March 23,-(Special J. Senator Bacon of Georgia who is detain- ed in Washington by business which will occupy him yet a few days longer, looks hopefully to the immediate future of the Democratic party.
 believe the legislation by the recent Congress to be of comparatively small value" said the Senator. .'The antitrust laws which the Fifty seventh Congress enacted will afford no additional protec- ton to the people from high prices"
 Speaking of tariff, which he holds is interwoven with the trusts, the Senator said, 'I believe we should take the bricks off the top of the wall, instead of rais- ing the wall to the ground I would lower the rates to the point where labor would still be safe from competition with the pauper labor of Europe and at the same time withdraw protection to in- terests sheltered by prohibitive rates"
 Avowing himself in favor of a reasona- Die tariff which will take away from the trusts the power of oppression and at the same time not disturb existing condi- tons, Senator Bacon said as to the out iO'h ioi tie 1eHlOCratlc party: l would not like to discuss individually in connec- ton with the nomination for President, but the man must be acceptable to New fork State, as well as to other States where the Democracy has hopes of get ting votes
 There is every reason for the two fac tions of the Democratic party to come together now on conservative basis It is childish to quarrel about former dif- ferences. which as issues have entirely passed out of public consideration just as one of the question of low tariff, the country has become adjusted to the single gold standard and that issue no longer exists. It is In my opinion folly to waste time discussing who was right and who was wrong The cause for contention over that has been removed. I believe this is due in large part to the abnormal discoveries of gold. but 1t is useless to discuss even the cause. It is sufficient to recognize facts as they exist.
 With conservative platform and a united party, Democrats should be in a position to make a formidable campaign in 1904"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
A Severe Charge.

Huntsville 4uoune.
 MT. Powers. who fired indiscriminately into the Wrinkle family. has been ad- judged lunatic When men of depraved nature, heretofore at large unsuspected of lunacy, are acquitted of high crime by commission, and sent to the asylum to avoid responsibility. you may expect mob violence to handle criminals in fu- ture. It is now an assured fact that no man can be convicted of high crime in Madison If he has the least backing, and especially Is this true if hts ofrense is fly, ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Viewnnint Connts.

Mary Noailles Murfree. of Murfrees- boro. Tenn. Is better known as Charles Egbert Craddock, for 1t is under this male pseudonym that her tales of the Tennessee Mountains have appeared Miss Murf-ee Is the great gran 1daughter of Col. Hardy Murfree, the Revolutionary hero, and she has on the tip of her tongue a number of stories whi ,h. according to tradition. Colonel Murfree used to tell with great success.
 One of these stories concerns a judge and drunken barber. The judge was being shaved and the barber, whose hand was unsteady from drink, cut him four or five times Regarding gravely in the mirror his countenance bleeding from all those cuts, the judge said:
 Friend, you now perceive, l trust, the evil of tntemperance
 'lnte erlnce does make the skin rather tt@der. sir" was the reply.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
IS THE PEOPLES WILL TO BI
 NULLIrrEDf

| NS1A43 A24t
 The Legislature at its recent sitting
 passed a Police Commission bill, the
 general purpose of which is to take the
 Police Department. from Chief down, out
 of politics. .s..
 As originally introduced this measure
 did not include the Chief of Police, and
 the Commissioners were to be elected by the people in May. The bill was amended
 so as to include the Chief. so as to make l the Commissioners elective by the Coun-
 cil. and so as to become operative Mo- vember i. instead of May.
 The purpose of the last amendment was to let the new system go into effect with the next city administration, so that the new Council to be elected in May could choose the Police Commission. No one will dispute that this was the reason for the change of date. It was the general understanding of the people at the time, and the members of the Legislature had the change made on this account
 The reason for this recital of facts is that it is being whispered around that this bill may be made null and void in this way:
 The Mayor and Council to be elected in May go into office October 12 Since the Police Commission bill goes into effect November l. it is rumored that the new Mayor may before that date appoint the Chief of Police under the old or existing law. and that the new Council may con firm the election of the Chief and his ap- pointments of his force.
 Now it is difficult to believe that any officials who are to be elected by the people would undertake to nullify the peoples will in that way But this is day of politics and of bargains Men seeking office and keen to succeed fre- quently are tempted to take short cuts. Temptations should be removed as much as possible Prevention is better than cure.
 On account of the possibility of the sit uation and of these rumors The Advertiser earnestly advises that all good citizens make sure on this matter before they decide their votes | They are entitled to know the views of candidates for Mayor and Councilmen on | this situation.
 The Advertiser. therefore, in the inter est of all concerned, calls upon each can didate for Mayor and Councilman to ex- press his intentions in this matter We | trust each candidate for Mayor will state | explicitly whether he will take advantage of the two weeks interval to perpetuate | the present system and to nullify the will | of the people, or whether he will pledge | himself to wait for the Council to elect | the Police Commission and carry out the | law AS intended. Or in the event the next | Mayor might undertake to appoint | Chief of Police before the Council could | elect a Police Commission. let the can didates for Councilmen declare their atti- tude in that emergency.
 This is a pertinent issue. and The Ad- vertiser will press it. Upon answers to | this question may depend to large ex- tent the result of the coming primary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
place In some sections of the North or the race question. The Journal says:

A significant feature of the occasion was the earnest applause every time the speaker asserted that the white man must rule in the South, and will not permit the black man to rule. 1t seems to us that this applause reveals that race devotion and that race prejudice which are to be found in most men. try as hard as they may to rid themselves of them; and when the question is so put to white men that they must choose between their own peo- pie and the negroes. Everybody knows the North that the South should be left to settle its own race problem. It is i'm possible to imagine a state of affairs short of an actual general armed conflict of the races in the South in which the North would think of intervening. There will be no more force bills.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

For once The Landmark is able to praise The Advertisers labors in the line of Biblical and scientific research. But 1t is much easier to tell where Noah got the nails than 1t Is to tell where Methuse- uah was when he died.-Norfolk Land mark.
 Needn't worry over old man 'Thuse. He's been dead too long to argue over but if he was not drowned in the flood, he made a narrow escape. The common yer sion of the Bible says the flood began "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life" If he was full six hundred years old. Methusaleh died as the rains began, but If Noah had not lived the full six hun dred when the flood began. then we fear his old grand-dad was caught in the shower. That's as far as we have figured 1t out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
ARE THEY MIRACLEsp

There has lately been considerable fa- vorable comment regarding the discovery by MT. Miller Hutchinson a young Ala bamian. of a method by which the deaf are enabled to hear. Only a few days be- fore that announcement a Paris newspa- per published the account of some ex- periments by Professor Steins by which the blind are made to see Of these ex- periments The Cleveland Plain Dealer says:
 Of course, this Is but beginning. The Hutchinson are as yet but in the iabora- tory stage and will require much devel- opment before they can become of prac- tical utility. But taking at the face val ue the statements of what has already been accomplished. they are veritable miracleSof science in that they have made
 the blind to see and the deaf to near and the dumb to speak"
 No one may say. of course, what Is to be the result of further efforts and ex- periments along these lines, but if they are even partially successful 1t will mark a wonderful advance and a most impor- tant boon to the afflicted. So many strange things are being attempted and so many are actually being accomplished that we have almost ceased to wonder at anything, or to feel skeptical about any claim that may be made by scientist. They are doing what would have been considered absolutely impossible a few years ago. and now when we hear that some other impossibility has been made possible we only wonder what will come next. Certainly all friends of humanity will hope that these two latest announce ments will not prove disappointments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
THE TAX RETURNS.

This is from The Camden Progressive Era:
 We failed to see Mir. McIver's article some days since The Montgomery Adver- tiser computing the tax value of press property in Alabama. We are told that he puts the assessed value of press prop erty in Wilcox County at BIO. The taxes were paid on this plant before we bought It. and we have not investigated the mat ter. but we venture the assertion that some way, or that 1t must be a typo graphical error. as an assessor would hardly accept such valuation. nor any man in our county give in property that since sold to us at good round figure, the same year that MT. McIver gets his data, at so small figure Anyway we say turn on the light, so that Brother Mclver can correct his figures and not do injustice to any one.
 The figures are plainly incorrect, and were noticed at the time. but the error was made in the assessment returns by the Tax Assessor of Wilcox County. An examination of the tax returns for 1901 show that the printing presses of Wilcox County were valued at only $10 and the amount, only cents. In the tax return of 1900 it is found that the printing presses of Wilcox County are valued at $1, ,3oO which was perhaps the correct return It is very evident that the printing presses of Wilcox County escaped the payment of taxes last year. except on $1O and paid the muniflcent sum of 2 cents into the State Treasury.
 There is another plain error in the fig ures Of the article on tax returns wherein the printing presses of Choctaw Coun- ty are valued at $167s7. An examination of the original returns for 1901 show that mills and gins have been included with printing presses and that the figures are correct although the property does not belong under the same heading at all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Like the Hammer.
Ashville Aegis

AsHNllie AeSlS.
 Those two lines of Grover Cleveland on his political aspirations must have fallen like the hammer of pile driver on the heads of the Watterson and Bryan class Of hls critics. Perhaps the latter Will hardly be sensible of how quickly they have been smashed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
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 WHAT THE STATE PAPERS < ARE SAYING. <
What They Will Become.

Mobile Herald
 Many wild animals are being forced into Kentucky by the flood. They are liable to becomemintjuleptarian If they remain for any length of time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

Referring to our remarks about the man who drank seven cocktails and died, The Ashville Aegis asks: 'If that man had died before he was born would 1t or would it not have made cocktails any cheaper?' That isn't fair question. but we suspect that some other man who was born before he died would have got ten his part.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

A deer was driven into a creek in vir- ginia where two young ladies were fishing and they jumped into the water and killed him. That is all that is told and The Norfolk Landmark wants to know how they went about it. Didn't you ever hear of hat pins? The woman who can't kill a deer or burglar with hat pin has neg S@ctsd her education.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Not to be Wondered at.

DIT HIIHgndm NeWS.
 It should not be wondered at that trained dogs have been introduced in the Gel man army when 1t is remembered that there are at least few CUTS of the biped variety in nearly all standing armies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Such an Awful Jar.

Greensboro Waterman.
 Booker Washington says that social equality is impossible. He is eminently correct, but why should We wish to give Teddy such an awful jar?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Not in the Way.

Blrmingham Ledger.
 Those Philadelphia people did not let their race prejudice stand in the way when they wanted Hossey's medicine for objectionable people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

Senator Tillman of South Carolina lec- tured in Minneapolis last Friday night. and his language was of the kind for which he is famous The Journal has an editorial review of the address and one paragraph of the review is significant, for it shows what great change has taken
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Endure and Embrace.

MubIIe Register.
 Perhaps the persistence of MT. Roose- welt in putting Crum into the Charles ton collectorship Is born of a belief that the Charlestonians will first endure and then embrace Crum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Will Be Ungallant.

Birmingham AgeHerald.
 Arizona Is about to admit women to suffrage, thus increasing it's voting popu- lation and getting ready to re-demand statehood It will then be ungallant to refuse the request
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

A scientific crank claims that he can photograph the human soul. but unless he has magnifying attachment to his ma chine he can't get even the shadow of some of 'em.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

large and important section of Ala Dama resents Senator Moneys charge that Roosevelt lis President of the black beit" Our black belt has no claim on him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Why Blame It.
Selma Times

btINld Times.
 A l-cent cigarette Is reported to have been the cause of a S40O,OO0 fire But why blame the cigarette? It required a match to light the cigarette and a fool to strike the match.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

The backbone of winter may be broken put you'd better not give your uncle mortgage on your overcoat just yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
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Previous Records Smashed.

By referring to the following circulation statement for the month of February. 1903. 1t put is gradually increasing in spite Of the mdwnter season being one of the duliest of the year. February. 1903. is record breaker in point of daily average circulation Of THE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

The Huntsville Mercury fires the word schinning' at us without key or dia- gram. What is 1t?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

Several of our contemporaries announce that The Birmingham Alabamian has changed hands and politics, which is only partially correct. It never had any poll tics to change
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24
Fencing for Women

Those who have seen women who are expert fencers recognize that it is an extremely graceful amusement. Many ladies are taking fencing lessons.
 Strength of leg is necessary as we'll as of wrist and much activity But 1t is a most admira ble exercise, improving the figure and developing the muscles, and 1t is worthy to be made an art
 It Is not the physical strength that is required for this amusement but keen ness of the eye and dexterity of the wrist, and these are quite womanly. Quickness of perception and action are necessary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

". A. Scott. Circulation Manager oi The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn says; The foregoing statement of The Ad- vertiser's daily circulation for the month or February. i2o3. Is true and correct and com piled sftef all returns from newsboys. news agents and left ov.r copies have been de ducted W. A. SCOTT, Circulation Mgr. sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th
 day of March. 1903. F. W. JACKSON
 ISeall N. F.. Ex-O. J. F.