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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
HOW CLAY REFUSED.
Persmptorily Declined oner to Make His Son Legatee of $10c, 900.

Peremptorily Declined oner to Make
 His Son Legatee of $loo,ooo.
 Lexington Gazette
 When Henry Clay was Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams there was some scandal connected with the United states Con. sulate at Liverpool, to which the attention or the administration was called
 The President said to Mir Clay that IL was matter requiring c firm. intelligent ano commended Col James Morrison of this city as a suitable person to represent the govern ment and he was appointed. Before leaving on his mission he requested MT. Clay who was then on a visit to his home In Kentucky, to do some writing for him. Certainly" said MT Clay. and prepared to write his will for him After Colonel Morrison. who vas very wealthy man, had provided for his wife and all who had any claims on her or on him self he remarked to Mfr. Clay that he found by his memorandum that he had about $le0 . GOO of his estate left after providing for every one who had any claims upon him or his wife and as they had been friends for many to make his son. John Morrison Clay. his re-
 To this MT. Clay replied: "coionei Morri- son, as you say, we have been friends for many years and if know my own heart it has been free from any sordid or selfish mo. have been actuated by any selfish or sordfd motive and I must peremptorfly decline for my son and myself. But. sir, If you would al low me to suggest, I would say that Tfansyi- vania University is fit subject for your bounty" Colonel Morrison thought a minute and adopt your suggestion. Write. sir" Thus Mir. Clay put away from his family an estate. which if preserved till now. would have been more than princely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Freedom Taking A Bath.

All this week the symmetrical grace of the statue of freedom on the dome of the capitol is marred by an environment of scanting. The figure is taking Its an- nual bath in dilute sulphuric acid.
 Two workmen have for a week past been engaged in the difficult and ap- parently perilous task of fixing about the huge bronze figure a wooden scaffold on which they will spend a month cleaning and scrubbing the statute. Just 357 feet above the ground this hazardous work has to be done, the scaffoiding having been fastened with only four inches of coping for foot hold for the workmen. Only once in the life of that statute has anything Nike >an accident occurred. That was twenty-five years ago, when a de- mented young man threw himself from the lantern and was dashed to death on the roof far below.
 It was intended to clean the statue with pumce stone, but it was found that this process would leave the bronze glisten- ing with a polish that 1t would take years of sun and rain to remove The cleans ing acid will leave the surface dull and ilusterfess.; The workmer Ihave found the metal in good condition the joints be- ing apparently undisturbed by the ele- ments. Here and there are scars where the lightning has struck the statue and melted the bronze or gouged deep gashes and raised welts on the surface. 's~' A..
 Just forty years has the statue stood in its lofty pose, a Nperlod to be rounded out December 2, 1903. "E
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

r We take issue with The Montgomery Advertiser when it asserts that the noun l&ainous district of Alabama is better adapted to sheep raising than any other Iporfion of the State. There Is no grazing Ikand superior to that of our own wire fRrass region, where sheep can live on ksanGe the year round without housing. or bfeeding. If we mistake not, there are kweported to be more sheep in Baldwin fThan In any county of Alabama and oth- Ter adjoining and neighboring counties ketand well in the list. All of which bears kus out in the statement that Southern Alabama, with it's broad acres and SUI perior advantage over less favored sec k6ions of the State, is the sheep raiser s most inviting field. And the wonder is that more of our people do not give attention to the industry.-Brewton News.
 The Advertiser did not positively assert kkhat the hill and mountain regions of the State are better adapted to sheep hus-
 bandry than the Southern portions are, though we were inclined to that opinion.
 We publish the comments of The News
 with pleasure. and will be much more
 pleased if the wiregrass region shall
 prove a profitable field for wool-growers.
 There's money in it, wherever 1t can be
 carried on successfully. and Alabama
 ought to test it fairly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
| .DANoEnoUs pREcEDENT.

A few days ago The Richmond Times Dispatch had an editorial beginning with this paragraph:
 Our Norfolk correspondent, in report ing a trial in the Corporation Court Of that city, says that the accused; who as one of the most expert railway clerks. and because of his numerous and respect able family connections. after deliberat- ing fifteen minutes the jury returned with verdict of not guilty"
 Since reading it, we have watched our Norfolk contemporaries for denial or con firmation of the story. but have found neither. The Landmark has not alluded to it, so far as we have seen The vir- ginian-Pilot neither accepts nor denies the story, but has a well-expressed edi- torial condemnation of the circumstances, assuming that the story is true.
 Like The Times-Dispatch, we can heartily wish that the entire story Is a fake, but at the same time we must ad- init that we have mo hinge nor loop to hang a doubt. on.' We may condemn such a miscarriage of justice as roundiy as we please, and may denounce court or a jury that will permit such gross and palpable .travesty on justice, as this indicates. It is human nature, perhaps that we should feel more sympathy for a gross and palpable travesty on justice as this indicates It is human nature, per- haps, that we should feel more sympathy for a man who has always lived an hon. est life, and for the relatives and friends who have always looked to him with pride-we say it Is human nature that when such a man falls we should feel more regret and,sympathy than we should if he belonged to degenerate family and was himself unworthy of confidence.
 All this is neither unnatural nor repre- hensible, perhaps, but law and justice are expected to-be free from human sym pathies and human weakness. That even~ handed justice of which the poet speaks should hot be turned aside because of the good standing of one who has violated the laws The ancients pictured justice as a blind-folded goddess. holding the yeniy-baIaneed scales in her hand to show that she was not to be influenced by appearances. The old Latin motto. Fiat }ustitia, ruat coeiam-'Let justice be done. th6ugh~the heavens shall fali," is an excellent one. and there is another Latin motto which declares that Justice is queen of the virtues.''
 n is moi, merely that injustice is done when .law-breaxer escapes punishment because of his wealth, standing or in- fuence. but such partiality in the admin istration of the law naturally and inevi- tably breeds contempt for the law, and that is a condition to be deplored in all civilized communities. We fully agree with The Times-Dispatch in its conclu- sion that If any person on trial in court for an infamous crime is acquitted and discharged, in spite of the evidence of his guilt, because of his social position, or his political position. or his family con- nections, or what not. the Jury rendering such a verdict commits an outrage against the law of the land and against public morals"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.


 small things?" asked the Prophet Zech- ariah. and we are often reminded that a contempt for small things may not always be an evidence of wisdom, When we note the almost infnitesimal price at which pins, matches and various other small but indispensable articles are sold, we can have some conception of the inn mense quantities of them that must be manufactured and sold in order that the business may be remunerative. Take wooden toothpicks as an example of which a recent paragraph in The New Bedford Standard says.
 There are now six important manufac- tories of wooden toothpicks, all of them sitlated near the chieE sources of Ium- Der supplys two in Michigan, two in Maine, one in Boston and one in Penn- sylvania. They are to be combined into a toothpick trust, selling corporation which will receive and market the out put of all the factories. The price of toothpicks has been steadily declining, so that at wholesale 1000 toothpicks are sold for two cents. The combined capacity of the consolidated factories is 10000, 900 toothpiclSs a day.
 Can anybody imagine what becomes of all these little spitnters. for they are lit- tie else? If they were all used in the United States there would be about 45o a year for each manlt woman and child In the Union. but a large majority of the population never see them. It is prob able that a greater portion of them are exported, though we know" nothing of that. Even if that is the case, it leaves an enormous number of them to be used at home. What goes with them? is the question which has SO often been asked about pins. buttons and other small ar ticles, which are manufactured in what would seem to be quantities largely in excess of possible demands. yet the out put goes on year after year without ap- parent diminution-
 As we now remember toothpick history the first that were made for sale were split and whittled out by some sharr Yankee with his pocket knife. They were made of white wood, hemlock and other soft New England woods and soon be- came fashionable. Then crude machin- cry was devised. 1snd that was improved as the demand for wooden toothpicks in creased, until now the manufacture of them is in one respect among the inn portant industries of the country. When we reflect that nearly two hundred of them are made for every minute. day and night, Sundays included. we can form some estimate of the total number made, and when we further remember that 900 of them are sold for one dollar at wholesale, we ean understand that there could be no profit in the business but for the immense number sold. Really the day of small things Is not always to be despised.
 And then to think that this small-big business is to be turned over to a trust and we may have to pay three cents a thousand for them. Next thing will be to unionize the business so that no man can pick his teeth with splinter that hasn't the union label on it. There's serious | times ahead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Alabama at Departments.

Patents issued this week:
 Francis M. Arlington, Jenifer: non-re- f1llable bottle
 Mark W. Johnson. Birmingham; device for charging blast furnaces.
 Thomas N. Renfroe, Woodlawn. as- eignor of two-thirds to J. w .Jeter, E. J. McCrossin, B. J. Saunders and J. Sweet 6 Son, Birmingham; car-replacer.
 Pensions granted to Alabamians
 Robert J. Byers, Richard Sloss, John Isabell, William A. Mitchell. Jesse Poe. $6 each.
 James W. Nelson. Alonzo Humes. ss each.
 Elbonan Ayers, John Kimmo IS. Thomas B. Henson, $l0 each
 William Oliver. Garrett Stanley, $13 each.
 Postmasters appointed:
 Avant, Butler County, Columbus c. Majors, vice William F. Howard. resign ed. Schley. Coosa County. James E. B. Hull. vice Joseph D. Hall. resigned. Verona, Dale County (new office), John ney F. Simmons.
 Mp Pike County, James F. Giddens. vice J. M Carter, resigned.
 Malaby, CuHman County. Edward H. Byram, vice Andrew J. Gibson, resigned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
To Victoria vyanza by Rail.

A. B. Lueder In The Wcrad's Wogk
 From the coast the road climbed steadily ascending more than stx thou eand feet in the first three hundred miles. Corrugated iron shantaes and tezats mark ed the railway: telegraph end construc- ton posts, and little clusters of nahve huts and a bungalow or two nearly a hundred miles apart showed where the white trader or raiiroad employee was . town unto himself. The piahea4@ held huge possibilities for grazing and farm ing wealth.
 But on the surface of things the railway wRs little more than a remarkable mis- stonary enterprise and a wedge in empire building The heart of Africa seemed as 1t had always been. Thousands Of antelope and zebra grazed within sight and easy range of the trains. OStriohes acted as pacemakers and sped heslde the car windows, almost within reach of the outstretched hand. Seinbock and gaSelles Joined in the amusement, and big game could be killed from a passenypr ce0ch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
HuaB SPECIMEN.


 We have been somewhat surprised that
 little has been said relative to the huge
 aeroiite. or meteorite. ffat is reported to
 have fallen in the province of Oaxaca, Mexico. a few weeks ago. At least, if
 there has been any ldiscussioh Of it we brief paragraph about it inIa recent issue of The Mexican Herald According to this account the new visitor is about G5 feet in diameter and is estimated to weigh 800 tons.
 When it is remembered that q meteo- rite weighing one-fourth of a ton is Econsidered large, we can understand how fhis one. if the reports are true, is of a size and character to excite both the wonder and the interest of scientists. whether it is a part of some exploded planet, or whether 1t is one of the wan dering fragments with which the astron- omers declare space to be filled, we can not say, and perhaps the wisest among men may not be able to give its origin, lats genesis or the cause of its visit. Show CTS of meteorites are not uncommon. nor ks it q very unusual thing for single spe- eamenstto strike the earth. but such large body, or a solid stone, weighing 500 tons' ones as this are unprecedented, so far us we now call to mind. A solid metallic and falling from an unknown but i'm Emense distance, would jar planet less
 firmly fixed than our earth, and if il should fall on a human being it would. not to speak irreverently. give Gabriel a IHob to rout him out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
KING TO SET STYLE.
All London Awaits His Appearance
 to Know What to Wear.

We have reason to know that the King has acquired one or two genuine Panama hats for use during the warm weather says London Modern Society. A year or two ago his majesty procured a selection of straw hats made up into his favorte Homburg shape, which he has succeeded in popularizing for seaside wear. although the exigencies of court mourning pre- vented him from making much personal use of them at the time. The advance to folding Panama is an important one. because the King has always been rather chary of adopting styles in headgear which are not thoroughly dressy and of q uniform shape.
 Men about town are now on the qui vive for his majesty's first appearance in his new hat, because there Is no doubt that the partic- ular angle at which he turns the brm up or down. and the exact side of the head chosen by him for protection from the sun. will be eagerly studied and copied with that slavish adherence to fashion which is the highest mark of civilization. We should not be in the least surprised If the King should set the anx- ietieS of the universe at rest in this direction next Sunday afternoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
How Russia is Devouring China.

W. M. Evins, Jr., in The Worlds Work.
 On looking at the map the first thing noticeable is the enormous extent of con- tiglsous territory under the Russian flag, and the second Is the great length of her land boundaries and the smallness of her coast-line on open and navigaple seas. The careful consideration of this boun- dary line will suggest the reasons for Russia's past history, present diplomatic and industrial policy, and future aims and aspirations.
 More than a century and a half ago she had arrived on the Pacific, but because of the great distance and difficulty Of travel. and also because of her inability to carry on trading by sea, she had not been able to advance far enough south to get control of port on the open ocean.
 But the necessity of such a possession has been constantly before the eyes of the Governors of the Amur Province on the sea of Japan for, the last fifty years and they have done what they could by territory. Not only have they made the best use of the rowing bands of Cossacks who could be backed up or left to their fate as seemed the most polite. but they have been so steadily at work advancing the Russian influence at the Chinese court that now it Is preponderant Because of this court influence and also because of her marvellous diplomacy she has manag- ed to work farther and farther south in the Province of Manchuria until now at least half of what was moulded in its original boundaries is under her flag Those most intimate with Russian policy know. moreover, that through her kal- muck sovereignty she has been to stab fish a decisive influence at the court of the Llama of Tibet. This far Eastern Pope has been gradually surrounded by a court not only of Russian sympathizers. but also to a great extent of Russian sub jects. As a matter of fact less than two years ago the man who. in Western par lance, corresponds to the Llama's Prime Minister was in St. Petersburg making his obeisancs to the Czar and hts min isters as loyal subject of the Russian crown. Thus having an almost impregna- ble hold on the two most important of Chinas rulers. the Emperor and the Bud dhist High Prist. she was able to make advances of kind and in a manner imnoSSibla to any other nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Novel Marriage Lottery.

Derby (Conn) Telegram to Baltimore
 American.
 A marriage lottery has been organized by the Bachelor Club of Seymour, Once a year the twenty-five members will draw lots. The one. receiving blank ticket must marry within year.
 The penalty for failure Is the forfeit of $50, which each member has deposited with the treasurer expulsion from the the clubs insurance fund. The man who 'abides by the drawh ,-.: receive S20o for his wedding expenses.
 The club has been organized for fifteen years and no member has married.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
May Affect Rural Carriers.
t. Joseph CMol Telegram to Chicago

Record Herald.
 W. P. Fulkerson, cashier of the First National Bank of Buchanan County. is of Boiokow, Mo, which 1t Is claimed will revolutionize the rural mai delivery sys- tenn and put the carriers out of business; delivery system It is operated somewhat on the principle of a trolley car. Each farmer served will have two boxes, the box containing the mali to be delivered will be dropped. and the box left the day before will be taken up and returned with itS contenta.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Combined Ofiace in Wyoming.

The Lieutenant Governor of Wyoming acts also as Secretary of State and gets s20oo year for performing the duties of both offices
 The Lieutenant Governor of Vermont gets se a day during the session of the Legislature and 60 per cent of the fees paid to the Insur- ance Commissioned
 land The Lieutenant Governor of North Da- kota receives s1 900 a, year. of South Dakota s10 a day during the session of the Legisla- ture limited to sixty days. and of Virginia $500. . q. A+- "
 The only States which pey sthsir Lisuterasrt mia, which pay 5000 . year. The Lisutenant Governor of Massachusetts receives ss,ooo year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
To Extend Pike's Peak Road.
Colorado Springs Telegram to Chicag

Chronicle.
 Company has completed surveys and plans ana secured right of way for an extension of its line, the famous cog road, from the summit of Ptke,s Peak to Grip pie Creek, a distance of nin4 miles. The extension will be electric and will cost approximately $750, ,000.
 It will leave the mail or steam road at 8 point near the summit and will descend the mountain along the horseback trail through Gillett. The distance from Man ttou to Cripple Creek will be eighteen miles against forty-two by the short-l line steam road The cog road will be exclu- slvely for passenger traffic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
More Lasting Benefit.

Attalla Mirror.
 If those old cranky preachers up North who are wasting their breath about the race question were to turn their atten- ton to the thisving going on in the Post . office Department and endeavor to incul- cate into, their own people the principles of common honesty they might be Of more lasting benefit to their country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

where niaterial must be bought. there are knowiedge and ability to compensate for the outlay. Whatsoever may be the reasons for this revival of interest in an old-time art. We find 1t beginning to De nractised i'm both town and country neigh borhoods, varied everywhere by cicum- stances of place or cultivation of tndi- vidual weavers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Let Him Move.

Jasper Eagle
 If MT. Postmaster Joe c. Manning don t like Alabama and it's people, he should move. He lets no opportunity escape to write long-winded articles to Northern newspapers criticising the people of the South. In his recent outburst about pear as if the whole State were in col fusion in mistreating the negro. He should resign his job as postmaster and go North. If things down here are as he endeavors to lead the Northern people to believe. The State may be able to sur vive his absence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
It is a Pity.
Ashyille Aegis

AshvfIle Aegis.
 It is pity. indeed. that the South not only has to bear the burden of the negro problem and be worried by the race itself but more is the pity that it has to endure such fellows as Manning whose trade is cheap politics and nothing to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

It is claimed that an elephants jaw bone was recently unearthed in Wyoming. but we decline to believe the statement
 The scientists would have gwen it a much more high-sounding and unpro- nounceable name than mere elephant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

The Augusta Herald is authority for the statement that negroes never sing at their work in the North. We do not know how true that is, but 1t if is true it is because they have such a hard time up there tAat they have no heart for singing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
SUNDAY, JUNE 2l, 1908.
SUMMER TRIPS.

when you leave home this Summer. have The Advertiser follow you Sent by mail to any address. postage prGpaids at the following rates: .a One week, Daily and Sunday. ........y..S .I5 One month, Daily and Sunday.,......,... .e6 Three months, Daily and Sunday ........ .e5 Foreign postage leach m0ntha a&tFa.... so
 Resort subscriptions are strictly in advance. Order before leaving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Home Weaving in Country Houses,

Country Dfe Tn America
 Where the two conditions of unusued uma and homegrown material exists. weaving can be made a source of domestic profit. Its revival as a household art proves that in many places there is both time and material to Gpare-ora thats
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
And Do Not TIinch.

Washington County News. A game called Christianity" is being played out in the western part of Ne | braska. The girls get on one side and are called rChristians." The boys get on the other side and are called 'Heathens. II
 Then the Heathens embrace Christianity
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Why do not the Geneva papers tell us something more about that gigantic pre- historian Qs that a good word) recently unsarthed down there? If the account is strictly correct. there ought to be much more to tell of it. and if 1t is a fake, the public should know it. If there are re- mains of any more l2-footers. let them be k&rotted out
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

It is estimated that the loss caused by the recent forest fires in Maine will foot up ten or eleven million dollars-auite a large sum to go up in smoke.