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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06

The bay opens funnel-llke from the southwest and stretches for three miles In between the steep green hills. soutn of the harbor entrance ten miles Is the island of Jahashima, whose coal crop pings have been followed by shafts ana long galleries that extend far out under the sea. Shafts have been sunk on other islands, and always one sees the strings of coal lighters going to and fro.
 All the mail steamers of the East save the French Messagertes Maritime coal at Nagasaki on outward and inward trips; All the naval ships fiil their bunkers here, and once each month the American transports, home e-bound from Manila stop to take on coal These mines be- long to the Hitsui family of bankers. who are the Rothschilds of the Empire. ana who. in addition to this great revenue producing property. own dry docks, slips iron works, repair shops and shipyards in Nagasah harbor-all these Hitsul pos session are the most desired prizes of war by the Russians.
 The coalng at Nagasaki is a proceed ing that never loses interest for one. The coal lighters are waiting by the buoy when A mail steamer arrives, and In a trice the nimble joeh have built broad, ladder-like arrangements of plank up each side of the ship, on which they stand in line and pass automatically the shallow baskets of coal.
 A stream of little baskets runs up the side of the ship from the coolies, who are shoveling the baskets full in the lighters to the last men who stand on the ships deck and empty the shallow osier baskets over the bunkers' mouths. All chat as they work, men, women and boys, and those who gather up the empty baskets and hurl them down In bunches have a shrill cry of their own.
 The coal-passees are paid by the ton, averaging about sixty yen Cthirty centsl A day. women and children half-price. and by many holidays and rewards their zeal and interest are so maintained that thev are always beating the record.
 Three years ago, aften an eleven days detention in quarantine here, my ship was brought into the harbor at ! in the evening. Tn half an hour the work had begun, and notwithstanding deluge of rain at 10 o'clock. coaling never flag qed until 1 o'clock in. the morning. In that time 1850 tons had been put aboard and the lighters swung away with all crews cheering joyfully. for the coal company had promised them forty-eight hours holiday, free baths and sake of thrv would get the quarantined steamer away quickly.
 Since then 1.2OO tons of coal have been mt aboard ship in three and half hours. This rate of S72 tons an hour was the marvel of the initiated until this spring,
 when 20 tons an hour went to the credit os the cheerful. joyful little Nagasaki | coal passers. At this last record break ing performances 21o0 tons were put
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06

aboard in i've and 6 half hours. during which time each gang had a half hour rest for It's midday meal.
 Coal Is not put aboard as quickly in San Francisco, Tacoma. Seattle or Vancouver, with all the aid of overhead machinery and elevated tracks for coal cars, dump ing directly to the ship docks.
 With this 60 and 70 sen day as the piece work by the ton averages when divided among the members of one gang, the coal-passer can live in this cheapest port of Japan, but not too luxuriously. Averaging 15 yen 07.5O a month. the la- borer can afford e one or two-room house. with an inciosed cooking place at the back, for which he pays one or two yen. He can buy fifty pounds of com mon rice for yen and 8 half (TS cents.l Chinese rice much more cheaply. Three bowls of rice is a full meal and three meals a day the height of prosperity. Chinese rice is dry, fiat. unpalatablo to the Japanese. who prefer the more solid, glutinous grain of their own rice. and If the coolie would buy in the street he may have a howl of rice for sen or 5 sen. according to a quality and trim mingB.
 soba. a nnacaroni made of buckwhsat flour. is popular with the coolle classes and cheaper-i 1-2 sen for a steaming bowl of dough strings-but the coolies say. 'Soba IS not such earnest eating as rice" It does as a piece or nibble between meals, a substitute for square meal when the purse is lightest
 Country folks cat beans. peas, miilct and barley in place Of rice at some meals, more because they can easily STOW these cheaper substitutes than fer all that is taught to the children in schools and practiced in lay lectures to the elders at the temples concerning the nitrogen, the carbon; the protein, the heat and energy producing qualities of those foodstu1fs. The city workman will have none Of them. and prefers tne cheapest Chinese rice rather than no rice at all. With his rice he must have piclEled or salted relishes to give 1t favor and salted plums, pickled radishes and cabbage, and every kind of dried aAd salted fish season the daily bowls. Meat he seldom eats, but fish always in some form, as many times day as he cdn get 1t. Tea cheers him all day long. be- fore, after. with and between meals and for greater cheer there is the sake or rice brandy. badly initiated by cheap dilutions of foreign alcohol.
 The wife and children work and earn something as well, and as long as peo- pie and goods go up and down the aea in ships propelled by steam the coal coolics of Nagasaki may live. and live we'll, as their class views living. They have their little luxuries. their pleasures and amusements, their temple days and festivals. and are probably the happIcst and most contentec poor that one nsay find.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
ODD WAYS or MAKING MONEY.
Florida Woman Has Large Income
 from Alligator Farm.

AAOAAA ~~A@%G~e~@ -e@@N@As | Hour Glass.
 The breeding of alilgators for sale to zoos and collectors the world over is the eject and profitable pursuit of 6 woman in Florida, by which she c0nfasses t0 making siO.0O0 year. Spiders are the marvellous merchandise Of another odd trader, who sells many millions of them annually for web-mak- ing in wine vellars. There are morkid collectors of grewsome relies. who pay amazing sums for the tattered garments Of murderer, and consider that their future good fortune is definitely assured thereby, Even sea air Ia now among the less common articles sold to patrons at a distance from the coast Another unique business Is that In which persons retain early stands outside popular theatres and sell their advantage 10 the highest bidders. There are folk who make q lucrative living at this vo- cation.
 Another shrewd speculator sells novel ideas for improving business to frades- men whose luck is at a low ebb. and he ilas proved that there Is cash in tne cu- rfous enterprise. @
 Ulo buttons form the basis of another strange, but lucrative. business, the pros prietor of which has odd buttons of ai- most every Kind ever made. and aelia them at a good profit The hair of certain distinguished per- sonaSes. has a recognized market vaiuo
 among ardent collectors If such menaen-
 toes, and as much as $50 has been pald
 before today for a particularly precIoua lock.
 Speculative freRks of nature and anibi- tlous hospital surgeons often drive hard bargains, whereby the former years boz fore their decrease agree to sell their bodies for dissection, as much as s550 be- ing sometimes paid for an Interesting case"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06

many which the possession of such rec ords has, consider merely the value alone of the autograms of the great actors Of history A reproduction, for instance of a play in which Moliere or Garrick, or any other master of the past had ap- peared would attract. of course. an enor- nous audience. A part from the mere element of curiosity, however, the possi- bility of comparison thus made possible would be of the highest importance. It Is not too much to say that the dra- matic art from actual contact, as 1t were, with these great figures.
 It would be much the same with oratory, either in legislative bodies or in the pulpit. The mere printed record of great orations or great sermons can not give an adequate idea of their origf- nal power or charm. Were 1t possible to hear, so to speak, at first hand the ora tions of Cicero or Demosthenes or Burke ito mention no others-and compare them with the efforts of our present day ora tors, the comparison would be highly in- structive How earnestly would modern preachers listen to the autogram of a sermon preached by Sayonarola or Bos- sueti
 One ia likely to dwell upon the hu- man interest of such an enterprise. Its actual scientific value is even more inn portant. The use of the phonograpn has been unimportant from scientific point of view. It is capable of a much wider utility than most people now imagine. The phonetic survey to be carried out by Cornell University indicates the possi- bilities of one line of scientific investi- Ration. The study of language would, be- sides. be greatly assisted by such rec ords.
 To mention one example. imagine that among the autograms in this living pan. theon were extracts from the speech of the Greeks and Romans. The study of these dead languages would be immensely assisted. thousand points in dispute, which have been the subject of discussion for generations, could be instantly deter mined, and the scholarship and energy which have been thus expended might have been diverted into other and more fruitful channels. The study of old French or early English, with its im- portant effect upon the language as spoken to-day. would be greatly facili- tated. There would be no lost languages in the future.
 The advantages of such a collection to the present as we'll as to the future are of course endless. It seems extraordinary that in view of the comparatively trifiing cost of such an enterprise and it's immense service to art, to history, to science, to scholarship in general, the founding of the great human pantheon should be long CT delayed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
How to Recognize the Dissase.

The symptoms of Bright's Disease are very slow in making their appearance. Often the early symptoms are mistaken for liver disorders and no special atten- ton paid to them the disease generally having spread to formidable proportions before the victim becomes aware of his condition. This is the main reason why kidney diseases are sodestructive to life. Taken in hand in the early stages there Is no reason why they cannot be cured as readily as any other organic disease. Bright's Disease is no respector of per- sons. It attacks men and women, the strong and robust. the rich and poor, the active body and brain workers, the fathers of families, the bread-winners in every sphere of life, seeming to choose for its victims those who can least be spared. The most mournful feature about this disease is the suddenness with which 1t works its deadly effect. Scarcely day passes that we do not see in the papers an account of the sudden death of some more or less prominent person struck down unexpectedly by Bright's Disease, and in many cases with no provision made for home and family. This sorrowful feature is sharply accent uated. by the knowledge that all might have been different had he paid heed to the warnings of nature. The early symptoms did not alarm him. He thought, as many other victims have, that the little liver disorders and back aches were mere trifies not worth notic- ing. Had he been permitted to peeu into the future, doubtless he would have lost no time in applying proper treat. ment. There are hundreds of thousands of persons now treading the same path and unless they take heed in time, his experience will be theirs. They will pass through the same misery and dis tress, and when at last thoroughly aroused to the knowledge that they have passed beyond help, the same mental anguish and despair at the hopeles: prospect. . All those who have dis ordered liver, weak digestion,s little Irregularities in the urine, uneasiness ir the small of the back, 6e vise is lime cure yourself before your trouble gets beyond control. You have remedy al hand, a remedy that will cure. Prickly Ash Bitters is the hope of the afflicted Kidney Sufferers everywhere have used 1t and have found it bridge to carry them safely over the crisis. Severe cases beyond the help of lesser remedies and declared incurable by physicians have been relieved and cured through its powerful restorative influence. It cures because it heals and stimulates the pros. frated kidneys, revives and strengthens the torpid liver, cleanses and tones ur the stomach and digestion and flushes the sewers of the body by ernptying and purifying the bowels. You have no cause to despair so long as Prickly Ash Bitters remains untried. It is remedy that has a long record of cures performed a successful record during which its great superiority over the methods of the average physician has been amply demonstrated.
 Accept no substitute. Insist on having
 the genuine Prickly Ash Bitters with the
 large figure in red on the front label.
 Sold by Druggists Price $1.OO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
Ha Aaknd Larrelv

Peculiar requests from rural c0nsti- tuents occasionally come in the Congress sional mails A very funny one has been received by a representative of one Of the Northwestern States. It runs: Please send to me and a number of my rela- lives (the names of whom were Eiveul some garden seeds. also want gaso- line engine of eighteen horse power, wood saw. and a barrel of gasoline. Please send them right away"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
Receivers Sale.

Sealed bids will be received by the under signed as receiver of the bankrupt estate of J. H. Laird & Co. until 2 o'clock noon. Saturday, March Eth, 1904. for the sale of the entire stock of goods wares, merehandise and fixtures, and notes and accounts due SaJd estate, all of which property was formerly owned by the said hankrupts, and Is located In the stoTenouse toIInsrg occupied by them sale being made under and by virtue of an order made by the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama on the 2oth day of February, 1904. A particular inventory of said property is on file in said court, and can be seen on application to the Referee in Bankruptcy at Montgomery, Ala bama, or to the undersigned.
 wed-su W. B. sNoDGRASS. Receiver.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
JAPAN's GREAT PORT

At Nagasaki ships of All Nations
 Gather. Kansas City Star.
 While Nagasaki has doubled in size since the opening of Japan. and dock yards, repair shops and slips and their attendant villages now line the opposite shore of the lopg ford. picturesqueness has not gone from 1t entirely. The green. irregular hills are almost too steep for cultivation in places; temples and grave the great slopes, and the broken, irregu- lar hills hold between them the busiest harbor imaginable.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
BRIGHTS DISEASE.

A Disease That Cones on Gradual, Without the Knowledge of the Victim. ltx Symptcms are Misunderstood, Hence the Treatment Is, Too Often,
 Delayed Past the Pos
 sibility of Recovery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06

The Emperor or Russia recently ordered six private parloF cars for of the imperial family These cars will be comfortable and luxurious They are to be constructed en- tIreiy of Russian material and will be built ct the famous Putil0f works. Each car win Dost s22. .oon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
The Chariot Race.

Two other new features with the
circus this year were the acts of Miss
Tasmanian and Crazo. Crazo Leaps
the Gap or Gaps the Gap, as you
choose to call it, on bicycle. Dash
ing down a steep incline which has an
upward curve at the bottom which
sends the rider upward through the
air the rider makes his plunge down
the incline and jumps through the air
fifty feet to a platfrom where he rides
off in perfectly calm manner.
Miss Tasmanian is the first woman
contortionist to appear in a circus be-
fore a Topeka audience. She came to
this country from Europe to join
Ringlings and she is said to give the
best act of any one in America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
HE DIDN'T TELL THE TRUTH.
That Is Why Joe Level Must Spend
a Term i'm Jail.

Sunday Sheriff Lucas brought Joe
Level to Topeka from Kansas City to
serve time for stealing.
This is a case where if the thief
had been truthful and honest after the
theft he would have escaped punish
ment. Level stole a watch and chain
and charm from G. G.. Kahle, a trav-,
cling man, who was stopping at the
Fifth Avenue hotel some weeks ago.
The watch was a present to Kahle
and he told Sheriff Lucas that If he
could get it back he would not prose-
cute the thief Lucas was not long
in determining that Level, hotel por-
ter, was not on the level and he had
a heart to heart talk with him and
told him that If he would tell the truth
and deliver the valuables that he
would not be prosecuted. Level de-
livered the watch and chain and when
asked if there was a charm on the
chain when he stole it he said there
was not. Lucas took the watch and
chain to Kahle and the owner said
a charm was still missing. Then Lucas
waited for Level and located him in
Kansas City and arrested him Sunday
and he will now plead guilty and serve
time in the county Jail. If Level had
'toted fair and delivered the charm
he would have been free. Truth is
the best policy when dealing with
Sheriff Lucas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25

ago had his trial in police court Satur-
day afternoon on a maintaining a nuis-
ance charge. Austin was allowed to go
free, no witnesses were present for the
plaintiff and this added to the fact that
the discriminating evidence was weak
and that Austin was engaged now in
other business acted as a lever in the
withdrawal of the case.
G. w. Anderson who lives on Buchan--
an street and Mrs. Hersch of HOS North
Van Buren, street are the parents OF,
some missing children who wandered
away wrought up by the pleasures of
a glittering circus pageant. Nothing
has been heard of them since. Guy
Anderson who lives on Buchanan street
is nine years old. Manford and Frank
Hersch the otner two boys missing, are
six and ten years old respectively.
There are number of drug stores in
the city which have failed to procure
licenses to sell liquor. The city is cred
tied with six drug stores of this varie-
ty and the chief plans to go after them
They will be pulled just the same as an
ordinary joint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
PEDDLERS REBEL.
Push Cart Men Charge Commissioner
Woodbury. With Oppression.

New York. July 25.-The pushcart
peddlers of New York have declared
war on Commissioner Woodbury. of the
street cleaning department. They
charge him with fragrant opposition
against them and declare he is using
the cloak of his Office to drive them out
of business.
In face of the commissioners man
date corralling them under the new
bridge, the peddlers have united in a
plan to Illustrate him and compel him
to rescind the order. They held meet
ings in six different East side halls and
decided they would boycott all of the
markets They say they will carry the
fight into the city hall and declare that
they had definite promise from May
or Mcclellan that their pushcart bust
ness should not be interfered with dur
ing his administra ton.
Committees have been appointed
which will march down to the city hall
in a body and ask for a conference with
cipline Commissioner Woodbury. and
call off his crusade against them
Many of the leading wholesale fruit
dealers attended the meetings and de-
clared themselves in sympathy with the
peddlers. They contributed literally to
a cash fund which is to be used for de-
fensiVe purposes. This fund will be
used to employ counsel and a commit
tee will call on Ex-Governor Black and
ask him to become their legal cham
pion.
They will try to obtain an injunction
against Commissioner Woodbury. to
prevent him from carrying out his or
der colonizing the pushcart peddlers un-
der the new bridge. They say that if
this order is enforced it will practically
drive the whole army of peddlers out of
business and cause endless suffering
among several thousand families.
If Mayor Mcclellan does not give the
committees a hearing the peddlerS' as
sociation will try still other means of
reaching him. All the members and
their wives and children will meet on
the East side and if they can get a per-
NIT for parade will march ten thou
sand strong down to the city hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25

The feature Jerusalem and the
Crusades'' is a spectacular pantomime
production said to require nearly 1900
people. 1t is spectacular in every
sense and gorgeous beyond descrip-
ton. The ballet was especially good,
the participants being costumed in
dazzling splendor.
Ringlings circus includes altogether
too many acts to give newspaper mo-
tice to everything. The ring work and
hippodrome racing very rarely
change, and among the performers in
these departments We're seen many
faces familiar to Topeka audiences.
Piamondon and Amondo, the two
Topeka boys, are still with this show.
The DaComa family, the Hobsons and
John Rooney and Alex. Lowande, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
FOR TAMPERING WITH WITNESS.
Suit That VIII Result From the Tai
bot Case

More than a case of prosecuting Po-
liceman Abe Henderson for assauIting
Harvey Talbot at the court house Sat
urday morning is likely to result from
the fracas and the case which caused
the trouble.
Talbot, who is Henderson's brother
in-law was charged with criminally
assaulting a niece of Henderson's. Be
tween the time of the arrest of Tai
bot and the trial the Peterson girl was
smuggled away to Kansas City to pre-
vent her testifying against Talbot and
when she was brought back and forced
to testify she tried to shield Talbot
and admitted on the stand that in
terested parties had talked with her
about the case. On account of her
poor testimony Talbot was discharged.
1t is probable that the county attor-
ney's office will issue complaint
charging some one with tampering
with the witnesses in the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
Wholesale Construction and Repairs.

of the trouble which other roads may
have.
Wholesale Construction and Repairs.
The indications are that the Union
Pacific is starting in on a campaign of
repairs and construction which will en-
brace all the lines and branches in this
vicinity. All kinds of rumors are afioat,
but the latest authoritative dispatch
from Omaha, the headquarters of the
road says;
Omaha, Neb., July est is stated
that the Union Pacific will build con-
Meeting link from Stormsburg. Neb., to
its main line either at Central City or
Grand Island, Neb.. to give direct out
let from Lincoln to points west. The
line would also form an alternative
route in connection with the st. Joseph
and Grand Island for overland trains
from Kansas City in time of floods.
The Beatrice branch from Manhattan
to Lincoln and Stromsburg is to be re-
constructed at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-25
HAYDEN ENJOINs JAMES.
Must Not Dispose of Any of His
Property.

Probate Judge Hayden, acting in
the absence of Judge Hazen, has is
sued an injunction to prevent I. M.
James, and any member of his family;
from disposing of property pending
the trial of the suit in the district
court against James by w. H. Hayes.
James shot Hayes with a shot gun
five years ago while they were disput-
ing one Sunday morning over the line
between their properties. Hayes
brought suit against James for dam
ages and secured a verdict of $4,000.
James has never paid the judgment
and Hayes has had trouble in collect
ing it as James denied ownership of
property and claimed members of his
family own it. Proceedings in aid of
execution were brought in the probate
court. fSt