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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
Why Sizemors Quit.

Editor The Advertiser:
 As many persons have inquired why I have left the service of the Montgomery Fire Department 1 ask that you give me space to state the reasons. 1 have been member of the Depart ment four years, during which time no charge has ever been preferred against me as to the performance of duty. Since November zS nave been driver of steam CT No. 2 stati toned on Scott Street. Cap tain J. R. Cochran is in charge of this station.
 In the recent municipal campaign I was an ardent supporter of MT. Charles P. Anderson for Mayor for personal reasons solely and attended his campaign meet tngs but not to neglect of my duty as a fireman.
 Friday of last week Captain Cochran said to me that he was directed by Chief John F. Browder to tell me that my res tgnatton would be accepted any day. Nat urally desired to know why my resig- nation was sought and demanded thiss information of Captain Cochran. He told me that Chief Browder said that I had worked in the election against his inter est. Captain Cochran sad the Chief had asked that all of the men keep out of politics until it became necessary for a show down in which case they might be called to support one man. He under stood that l had been active in the in terest of candidate and my resignation was desirable.
 replied to Captain Cochran that I had favored MT. Anderson and that I would always vote forfwhom pleased.
 On April 20 l sent my resignation to Chief Browder.
 When l left the Department Captain Cochran gave me letter highly com plmenting my services as a driver and as a fireman.
 This letter is prompted by no other mo- tive than to let my friends and the pub lie know why I severed my connection with the Department.
 W. S. Sizemore.
 Montgomery. April 25.
 (Chief Browder says that he did not ask for the resignation of MT. Sizemore The resignation. he says, was found on his desk and ghe says he understood that Mir. Sizemore had resigned because he. the Chief had sent new pair of horses to the Scott Street station.
 Mir. SiZemore says no new horses were received at Scott Street station while he was there.
 Chief Browder says he took absolutely no interest in the municipal election. He did not know how his men voted and says he made no suggestion to them about city politics.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
TT IS TO FLY.

Somohow or other we can but have a kih1 of sneaking liking for a claimer. It matters not that his claims may be extravagant or even impossible if he makes them with sufficient vim and posi- tivity. When Harry Hotspur. we be- neve it was declared that he could "call spirits from the vasty deep he was dover, or some other doubter. intimated that that the spirits wouldn't come when called for it didn't worry Harry any.
 Here's a Chicago professor. now. who Is a little beyond Hotspur, for he claims that by the use of certain chemicals he can grow wings and fly with them. Now, that Is something like. and gets very close to a great many of us. If there is any one attribute belonging to beast or fowl that men almost universally wish for it is the power of flight. From the days of Daedalus, at least. our race has been trying to initiate the birds of the air. Poets sing about 1t and dreamsrs dream of skimming through the pure sir of Heaven and leaving the sordid earth and all its grossness behind. old john Logan says:
 Oh could fly. I'd fly with thee!
 Wed make with joyful wing
 Our annual visit OCT the globe,
 Companions of the spring.
 "oh that I had wings like a dove" said the wise Psalmist. and his wish has been echoed and re-echoed by the mil Hons who have pIodded along since his day. It has been the dream of inventors and scientists to devise some method of flying. Hardly any enc subject has caus- ed the expenditure of more time. labor. money and ingenuity than has that of aerial navigation. yet little real progress has been made. Machines are invented and constructed which will go up and go forward. and as Nike as not they un- the modification and discomfort of the modern Icarus.
 This Chicago man doesn't propose to take any such chances. Contrivances of wood and metal have no charms for him, and he proposes to get back te first prin- ciples and have wings of his own. It will be an odd spectacle-a human being with wings, and we have not learned whether they are to be composed of feathers, like those of the birds, or of membranes like the bats. That doesn't matter, however The main point Is to set wings which will be part of us, which will be safe, and with which we ran fly. The material of which they are conn vzded they are effective. We wish the Inventor would hurry about 't, and let ps see men and women cavorting through Jpace like the birds of the air.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

The Jacksonville Times-Un is ad- vocating more factories of all kinds for Florida, and in the course of an editorial on the subject says:
 E Put up a furniture factory Snd the lumber used would he multiplied In value to, the city and the people us whole. No real profit comes to the community from rough timber sold-little by com parison from lumber sent elsewhere in the rough State The value of the steel is multiplied by two thousand times when converted into watehsprings; the rule if not the ratio holds good for the differ ences between a plank and a chair.
 We want tho factory that converts our raw materials into finished products; the higher the grade of taste required fer the finish the better for us all. Any factory is good. but some factories are much bet ter than others. .-,
 That is sensible talk and 1t applies with equal or greater force to Alabama. As The Advertiser has more tn a1 once roint- ed out we have in our state a great variety of most excellent timber. With the exception of a few of the tropical woods. like mahogany and rosewood. we have in Alabama almost every material for furniture making. For firewood it is of slight and transient value. Sold in the rough it brings small returns. and if sent out of the State brings but little money back.
 What we want, what we need end v hat we should have. before it is too late, Is factories where our native woods can be made into furniture. at least sufficient to supply home demands. Then the profits are multiplied. divided and kept at home The owner of the timber. the sawmiil men. the cabinet-maker. the painters and carvers and decorators all get some DOT ton of the profits and but httle of it goes out of the State. It is all for "ur own people. The value of finished furni- ture over the raw material is not as great as the difference between raw steel and watch springs but. as The Times Union says. the rule holds good. if not to the same extent. It will be but few years, comparatively. before our timber is all gone and our own people should get all they can out of 1t. To build factories is the thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
SUNDAY, APRIL se, 1908.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses eer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole neid Of nswspaperdoni which comes under it's notice, and one of these signs is the mystic symbol 0l denotins 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 . single sym bol; but thers is a higher grade. according tc this standard authority, which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL t~~J to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol sv ana the only paper so distinguished In this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
Good old-Time" Journalism.

Cripple Creek Times
 Dickens should have made Mir. Potts emigrate to Kansas. Editors with hIs neat turn or vehemence not only abound in that free and easy State, but are even esteemed, MT. Bayse. of Tie Belleville, (kan) Telescope. is one of them. A pa per in neighboring town criticised the gentleman who represented Mir. Bayse' district in the Legislature. The editor struck the true note in his reply: From time immemorial it has been customary fer ants and heas and flies and fools scoundrels and scalawa,ys and skunks Janusss, jac<'sses ami Judases, liZdreJ leeches and lice, to assail mankind in gen eral and their superiors in partie liar. The attack last week." etc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

but the same authority says that one heart makes 1so beats . minute while the other makes but @. and that's what gets Us. We don't understand the comblna- ton. If the two hearts keep q different time there must be two systems of circu- lation and 1t seems to us that things would get mixed. While one heart is pumping blood at one second intervals the other is making nearly three Hcks In second. It is curious way to do things, but we suppose the eel under stands his business and manages to prevent collisions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
Letters to the Editor.
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Beautiful Perry Once.

think few there are who do not join me in regret over the marTed condition or South Perry Street. 1t will never be the elegant driveway it has been. Those who have horses that just shy little at street cars cannot trust themselves along the entertainments on each side of the car tracks. In view of the fact that we had nice driveway and now this is ruined or at least much injured for driv- ing 1t seems it will be but just for the city to gravel South Street from Hull to Perry so that pleasure and business drivers will have something in the place of their great loss. l believe l represent the public in the city and out of it in this complaint. J. M. Barnes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
Mississippi Farmers Revolt.

Chicago 1nter-Ocean.
 In consequence of the army of local candidates in Mississippi, between 6,00t and 5000 in all. the farmers fin many Of the counties have taken action to protect themselves against the ravages of the candidates, and have abolished the time honored usage in Mississippi that the farmer should entertain every candidate his horse included, who came to him tC explain the political situation and solicit his vote This burden. always willingly borne in the past, has become a grievouf one this year: especially in consequence of the failure of the corn crop, the enter tainment of horses Is expensive. In Leek County the farmers have agreed to house and feed the candidates. but to charge fol the horse. In Warren and other counties at the request of the farmers, the loca candidates have agreed to make nc house toulouse canvass, but to go be fore the voters on their merits, both candidates and farmers saving in this agreement. The next Legislature will bs asked to so modify the primary election law of the State as to assure protection against an excessive crop of candidates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

We can only imagine-for no combina- ton of English words will express it. the unutterable. unalloyed. unmitigated rAaa altogether unthinkable anguish that Tsnds the souls of two of our esteemed contemporaries when they read the almost universal comtnendations If the Democratic press. especially in the South, of MT. Cleveland's Madison Square speech There are some things which language fails to express and this is one of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

and of colleges and universities, and kept the temper and spirit of, her people sSpS6t and unspoiled. The tide of industrialism has not swept them from the old moor ings. The ancient landmark their father set up has not yet been removed. "There are no better Americans anywhere than in North Carolina ts ons of the sanest things President Roosevelt has said.
 Little wonder that the old North State takes high rank ct the Richmond con- ferencei
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

The Chattanooga Times really thinks that MT. Hearst ''is not silly enough to leader" We don't know so well about that When the bee gets to bunz .ing in a young mans bonnet 1t is hard to say what he thinks
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

Let us not drag Massachusetts down to the level of Alabama; let us lift Ala bama up to the level of Massachusetts, {" said Lieutenant Governor Guild of the latter State, in a recent address before the New England Cotton Manufacturers Association. Could such insufferable cant emanate from any other source than Massa chusetts?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

The most grotesque falsehood that we have lately seen is the statement in The Washington Star that the suppression of the negro vote in the South twice elected Mir. Cleveland President. Unless some body has something better to offer we move that The Star go up head.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

We shall have to let the esteemed Nor folk Landmark so in peace on the John Smith and Pocahontas business. We really were not aware that we were treading on sacred ground when we were discussing the uncertainties and contra dictions involved, but we have learned that we can as we'll try to deprive a virginian of George and his little hatcnet as to intimate a doubt of John and Polka
 Let us admit once for all that she was all that the poets and historians have painted her, and that she actually inter- posed her tender frame between Pow hatan's club and Captain Johns brain receptacle. We admit anything and everything rather than unsettle or cast a doubt on one of Uirginia's pet claims. We allow The Landmark this last rejoinds::
 Go to! We acknowledge ano court of law as an authority on history. As to the idea that an historical epis ode like the rescue of Smith by Pocanou.as Is to be set aside because there are such differences of opinion as to the facts" we repudiate that also. Can The Adver- tiser think of anything so well sttested that there are not differences Of opinion plainly demonstrated that the Southern States had riSst to secede from the Union when they did? will The Adver- user admit that the truth of that prCposi- ton Is shattered by the fact that there are such differences of opinion" about it?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

One of the stock arguments of certain of our contemporaries runs about. like th's: Mir. Cleveland made a good speech, therefore he is a candidate for President. Hope such reasoning doesn't strain their .ntellects. .s-..'.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

After reading about the discovery of the fossil animal with two brains we were prepared for any old thing, and now we meet the statement that an eel has two hearts. That wouldn't be so bad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
LARGEST IN ALABAMA.

The sworn detailed circulation statement oi the Daily and Sunday Advertiser for March 1903. as published below. shows that its cir ether morning paper published in this State but larger than that of any two of them com htned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

An Indiana minister has quit preaching md joined a circus. Probably he knows bast where his talents Ne.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

The man who sat in Henry Gays lap is yet alive. and naturally lives in Kansas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

It's a pity that Darwin didn't have an opportunity to examine Harry Lehr un- der a microscope.-Memphis News.
 Great spoons. man, is 1t necessary to have a magnHying glass to tell what that thing is? Just look at his cars!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

They are telling what a sweet little woman she Is preparatory to adding tha' her husband ought to treat her better Can you guess?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

City Subscriptions should be paid to the fol- lowing authorized collectors only: ]. H. But ton City circuiator; T: J. Higgs. Collector; z Counting Room
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
TIMBER AND FURNITURE.

The Jacksonville Times Union is ad vocating more factories of all kinds fol Florida, and in the oourse of an editoria on the subject says:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-18
LEGAL NOTICES.

VIRGINIA.-1n the clerks Office Of the
CORPORATION Court of the city of Alexandra,
on the 18th day of February, 1908. me-,
Eliza A. Seaton vs.. William Parker, ST., WI,
liam Parker. IT.. Frederick A. Parker ana
Blanche Parker. William Henderson ana
Lille Henderson. his wife; Peter 9. Hender-
son and Kate Henderson, his wife maggie
Suthard and Charles ii. Suthard, her nus,
band; John w. Henderson, r., Charies
Henderson, Willis Henderson, fuitoh iic !,
derson. Marion F. Henderson, Saran T..
Mason Emily j. Pollard and - Pollard,
her husband Minnie w. Henderson, Annie
Henderson. Ada DeBocandi and Eugene
DeBocandi. her husband Virginia Hender-
son. Annie s. Henderson, committee OF VIZ
GINA Henderson: Otis I. Mason, George f.;
Ward. Mary Bennett Robert Wade and
- Wade his wife; William ii. Wade,
Charlotte i. Wade, his wife James Wade,
Henry Wade. Lille Wade. Hattie Avery an l
Albert w. Avery, her husband John. W.
Avery. the heirs of LEONARD ID yucher, whose
names are unkn, wa;and the heirs OF lgnauls
Crawford. whose names are unknown, ana
the heirs Of John Leonard, whose names
ere unknown. In chancery.
Memo. The object ofthis suit is to have two
rent charges of three pounds and twelve shil-
lings each Of Virginia currency payable July
first of each year declared to be extinguished
and no longer charge upon the two lots OF
ground on the east side Of Alfred street, be-
tween Prince and Duke streets, in the city oil
Alexandria, Virginia, beginning at the center
of the square and running south on Alfred
street thirty-six 1857 feet, and eastwardly the
same width as in front one hundred (lOOl
feet, and to have the complainant adiudged
either TO be the owner in fee Of the north hall
of said two lots, or that partition of said two
lots made be made either in Kind or by sale
and division Of the proceeds.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed IN this
cause that the defendants, Sarah r. Mason,
Emily J. Pollard and - Pollard, her hus.
band: Otis It. Mason, Ada DeBocandi and
Eugene DeBocandi, her husband; Hattie
Avery and Albert w. Avery, her husband !;
Peter G. Henderson, Kate Henderson, his
wife; John w. Henderson, jr., Charles
Henderson. Willis Henderson, Fulton
Henderson and Marion f. Henderson,
are non-residents Of this State, and that
the names of the heirs of Leonard
boucher, of Ignatius Crawford and Of
John Leonard, also defendants in said
cause. are unknown: IL is ordered,
That said defendants appear here within
fifteen days after due publication of this order
and do what is necessary to protect their in
terests in this suit, and that a copy of this
order be forthwith inserted in the Alexandria
Gazette, newspaper published in the cit- Of
Alexandria. once week for four successive
weeks. and posted at the front door Of the
Court House Of this city. = copy-TEsTE;
JOHN S. BEACH, Clerk,
by NEWELL s. GRRENAwAY, ID. G..
X. Kemper and Douglas Stuart, p. q.
feb14 w4w
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-18
RAILROADS
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule effective Jan. II, 1903

Schedule effective Jan. IL, 1908.
Trains leave Southern Railway Station
Alexandria:
$50 A. M.-Daily-Local for Harrisonburg
Warrenton, Charlotte and way stations.
Florida Limited, frst-class coacht to Jack
sonyille and drawing-room sleeper to jack
sonyilie. Dining car service.
ff;35 A. M.--Daily-U. S. Fast Mail. First
class coaches and drawing-room sleeper 70
New Orleans. Dining car service.
4.23 p. M.-Week Days-Local for Har-
risonburg and way stations on Manassas
branch.
Charlottesville.
Gasp. M.-Week days--Southem's Palm
Iimited-Solid Pullman train-Through
sleepers to Aiken, Augusta, Savannah, Jack,
sonyille and St. Augustine. Club, dining and
COS p. M.-Daily-New York and Atlanta
Exnress-First class coach and sleeper 10 At
lanta. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Sunset Route Tourist sleeper Washington to
San Francisco.
1910 p. M.-Daily-New York and Florida
Express. First class coach and sleeper to Sa-
yanuah, Jacksonville and Port Tampa.
Sleeper to Augusta, with connections for
Aiken. Dining car service.
1921 p. M.-Daily-Washingto and Chat
tanooga Limited (via Lynchburg(. First
class coach and sleeping car to Roanoke,
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis. Sleep.
err to New Orleans. Dining ear service.
1l.05 p. M.-Daily--Washingto and South
western Limited. All Pullman train, club
and observation ears to Atlanta and Macon.
Sleepers to Nashville, Atlanta, Macon, Mem
phis and New Orleans. Dining car service
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Alexandria at $50 A. N. and 4:55 r.
NJ. daily; 1909 and 6:SS P. NJ. week days for
Leesburg.
Through trains from the South arrive at Al
exandria ell, 6:32, 100 and 9:25 A. NJ. and
lao and s:55 p. NJ. daily. 9:57 A. NJ. daily
except Monday. From Harrisonburg 1879
A. NJ. week days and S:45 p. NJ.
daily. From Charlottesville sos A. NJ. and
$50 p. NJ. daily.
For detailed schedule figures, tickets, Pull
man reservation, etc., apply to w. &. LIE
| HEW. ticket agent, Alexandria, Va.
C. II. ACKERT, General Manager.
s. Ii. HARDWICK, Gen. Passenger Agent.
LIS. BROWN, General Agent.
Washington, d. C..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-18
Washington, Alexandria 4
Mt. Vernon Railway.
In effect November 2, 1902.
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.


Far Washington, from corner King and
Royal streets, week days, at $40, 615, $50,
6 AZ. 200, Z 10, z 80, as, So, SIS, 80, 900,
9 80, 1000, 1925, 10 80, II 20 and IL AZ a. m.
~ 20, ~ AS 90, 20, 46, 2 10, As, 3 05, $50,
as, 4l5, 436, 455, 5 %, 8 as, 605, 80, 6 50,
7 IS, 7 80, 80, 9 10, 80, 10 80 and II 20 p. m.
Sundays-7Oo SIS, 900, 945, OBS, 1850,
20, $50, 3 %, $50, 400, A so, $50, 5 so, $40,
6 80, 72O, Z so, $50, 10, $50, 1880, II 20p. m.
Leave Alexandria for Four Mile Run lin
addition to local trains for Washington, week
days, at IL 50 p. M and ~ IS a. IN. Sundays
II 80 p. m. and 1873 a. m.
LEAVE WASHINGTON.
For Alexandria, from the corner of Pennsyl-
yania avenue and 13l street, week days, 20,
6 so, 705, 100. 735, 80, 500, SS5, 905, 80,
10 90, 1925, II co. II 80 a. m. II 90 noon, II 20,
~ 40, 05 (express), l 20, 1 50, 202 texpress),
5 40, sos 6 30 7O5, 7Is, $50. s 80, 10, 9 so,
10 30, IL 20 and II 03 p. m.
Sundays 40, 900, 945, 10 80, II 90, IL so
n. m. y 60 noon, u 80, | 90, 3d. 200, 2 30,
! 3 90, 3 80, 400, 430, 500 $50, 500, 6 30, 200,
73O, 755, $50. 910, $50, 1880 Hop. IN.
and II O3 a. m.
FOR MOUNT VERNON.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon, week
days, G52, s 40, 80, II 80 a. IN. II 80, 80,
Q 80, S27, AL GAO and 9O2 p, N.
Sundays-702, 9S3 a. M, II 80, 80, A AZ,
40 and o OF p. m.
FOR ROsSLY
Leave Alexandria for Rosslyn, week days,
7 10, Z SO, s 30, 900, 1000, 1850, II AZ a. m,
II 40, 2 46, SAG, 1876, 8 %, 8 40, 80, $50 and
sundays-si5, 900, 945, 1850, II a. m.
1850, so, $50, $50, 450 $50, $50 and
80 p. m.
Leave Rosslyn or Alexandria, week days,
40, 8 80, 9O3, o 33, 10 33, II 81, a. M, II 81,
/ 81, 3 81 432, 5 10, 602, 629, 7O2, TAI and
Snndays-s So, 94S, 10 81, II 81 a. M, 122 81,
127, 227, 327, 427, 527, 627, 727 and %
p. m.
Baggage checked and carried on the follow
ing trains from Alexandria for Washington
week days: $50 and 10 % a. M, 20, 3 90 and
607 p. 10.
sundays-s IL a. m. and 6 20 p. m.
Parcels carried.
Freight carried daily, morning and evening,
in each direction. No freight accepted unless
delivered at the station at least 30 minutes be-
fore the departure Of the freight trains.
CLARENCE p. KING, }. CoLyIN,
President Superintendent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-18
Washington Southern Ry.
Schedule in effect Jan. II, 1908

Schedule IN elect Jan. IT, ISUo.
Trains leave station corner Fayette and
Cameron streets for Washington and points
north at 3S, s OF and 0 "a a. m. daily, ~ II,
254, 7C0, s 10, and II 90 p M, week days.
Sundays 3S, 8 "a and II 43 a. NJ, 700,
10, and II % p. m.
For Fredericksburg, Richmond and points
south at 427. 756 (local, and II OF a. M;
331, 459 (local), and 8 0S p. m, week days.
Sundays-427 and II OF a. m, 331, 459
(local), and COS p. m.
Accommodation for Quantico Sc a. m. Sun
day only and 4 A p. m. week days. s IL p.
m. except Saturday.
w. p. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager.
w. ID. DUKE, General Manager.
c. w. CULP, Asst General Manager.