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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

chief has brought it in here to frighten you. Come into the Pawler. and meet Mistew Aiken?" --
 Now, Mister Advertiser if them was hoze 1t certinglee was a new rinkle on my horn? It was undoubtedly the first ho I ever see that didn't have no blade, and no handle! They shorely don't use them kind of hoze on the craps over here in Toadvine valley. But my girl said they was, and I'm bound to beleeve every word she utters. She can make me swear to anything she says when she smiles a little cute teensy smile. sprinkled with white teeth. and dimples! When I see that smile I feel so week I couldn't fight a feel It shore do remind me of day a breaking! She have got a face that makes man think of Sunday morn ing. cinnamon draps perfume, and the sound of soft fiddle on a rainy moon- shiney evening: When she smiles 1t lttes up her face the same as the blast from these Iron furnaces paints clouds before daybreak: and if she follers that smile with laff GentleMEN! 1t makes me feel like capering around similar to four year old mule colt in a past ure lot. And then her store clothes. 1! they shore do fit her like she had been melted and poured in them. I do be- lieve she actually gets measured for em. Kalliker looks like silk on her. and silk pears the same as shining sil- yer when she is wearing it-when she walks towards me its the same as dew drops on morning-glory vines and I jess swear! l want to get down on all-fours and eat the dirt she walks on. and I'd f1te my Grand daddy if he jess hinted that she wasn't the purtiest thing in the hole Uni-vuss
 Yours truly
 Hiram G. Pansy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
BRYAN EXPLAINS.
Says That Republican Victory is Dua
 to Stay-at-HOme Vote. Kansas City Special to St. Louis Re-

Says That Republican Victory is Due
 to Stay-at-HOme Vote. Kansas City Special to St. Louis Re-
 public.
 William Jennings Bryan was in Kan sas City for a few hours today. Mir. Bryan met Moses c. wetmore of St. Louis, here by appointment to arrange for a hunt in the Ozarks. the party to be made up of Mir. Bryan, Mir. Wet more and few others.
 ''The story that I sent out letters to prominent Democrats" said MT. Bryan. Ifs untrue. I sent out no lexeers. and I have not tried to have a conference. My plans do not contemplate a confer- ence of any sort. at least. in the imme- diate future"
 Mir. Bryan was asked to give his opinion of the Republican success.
 If you will examine the returns" said he, you will find that the Re- publican increase was not as much as might have been expected. They show. for instance. that Roosevelt's vote in Missouri was only 1900 over the Me- Kinley vote of 1900. If you take this Republican vote and figure out the per centage you will find that the increase is not in keeping with the increase in population that one would naturally expect.
 50 you see," MT. Bryan went on. "it is not a Republican victory at all. It indicates, rather, a falling off in the Democratic vote, whereas 1t should in- crease. You will notice the same thing is true ir other States. The Re- publican gain was not in proportion to the Democratic loss. The Republi- cans of Missouri would better make the most of their opportunity for there is no evidence of a change of political complexion of the State.
 Tn Illinois the Republicans had about s3.000 increase, while the Dem ocratic vote fell off 10000. In one County Roosevelt had 300 majority more than Mckinley had in 1900, and had, too, a smaller vote than Mckinley had, which showed a stay-at-home vote of more than 1000 Democrts."
 But to what do you attribute the stay-at-home voter"
 '"The reason I have given heretofore. The Democratic party tried to be con- seryative when 1t should have attack ed the Republicans all along the line.. It sounded a partial retreat when it should have been charge That's all there is to it."
 MT. Bryan departed this evening for Topeka. MT. Wetmore returns to St. Louis tonight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

cay, while the comparatively new An Elo-American town of the same name on the opposite side of the river has continued to grow. The latest de- scription of the old town that l have seen represents it as inhabited mainly by Mexican vaqueros and their fami- lies. living in rude adobe huts in g. state of contented squalidness. Wheth- CT the curse of blood guiltiness has fallen from heaven upon the town and blasted its prosperity, or memories Of the bloody tragedy enacted within and without its precincts. outraging the charities of the human heart, have made the place forbidden ground for settlers of the Saxon race. or the in- applicable drift of trade has shifted the centre of business to the other side of the river and built a new town there. cannot take upon myself to as- sert.
 The old church remains with the marks of flame and smoke left by Fan min on its venerable inside walls. when he burned his military stores within and began his disastrous re- treat to Victoria. On the vaulted stone roof, it Is said, young tree has sprung up and rooted itself in the earth that has been accumulating there for a hundred years and more, and Is growing vigorously-a fit symbol Of the new race that has taken posses sion of the soil and transformed a wilderness of forest and prairie into the Empire State of the South.
 Some Biographical Notes.
 Captain Isaac Ticknor left a wife and two daughters living in Montgom- cry. After the tragic death of her husband Mrs. Ticknor married again in 1898 General Thornton Talliaferro of Mont gomery and continued to reside there for many years. The two daugh- ters, Louisa and Laura, both beautiful in person and lovely in character. were school mates of mine in 1889 and 1S40 in Mir. Thomas McDougalrs mixed school which was kept in the historic old Bell Tavern" on Commerce Street. often erroneously called of late years by some Montgomery folks "the old Lafayette House" Louisa Ticknor married Henry R. Clayton crHal Clay ton) of Montgomery, son of Cover nor George R. Clayton of Georgia and went away to California. where she died many years ago. leaving issue Laura married, if my memory serves
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

Tnat one frail little woman should supply some three thousand people wItn pium buildings for their Christ. mas oinner seems almost incredible. let there is one woman who has prov ca equal to the task of thus scattering combined delight and indigestion to the ends or the earth. Her success goes 10 prove the fact so often stated that nowadays fortune comes to tine woman who will specialize.
 It was borne in upon Mrs Dudley Miller, young widow in q northern New York town, that if she ever hoped to become self-supporting or rise on the ladder of fame, it would be by uti- ltzing her one talent which seemed to be that of making delicious plum pud- dings. The fame of Mrs. Miller's pud- dings had been a by-word in her fam. fly from time immemorial. The receipt was old and tried. About 1t hung a fa- vor of romance, for 1t had been hand ed down from mother to daughter since Colonial days, and the finished product had graced the hospitable board upon many a festive occasion.
 From first supplying friends with this gastronomic delicacy Mrs. Miller began supplying her friends friends; her fame gradually spread and she be- gan to receive orders from other sources until now her clientele stretches from Maine to California. and she is scarcely able to supply the de- mand. Orders come even from far away England, where 1t has long been supposed that the Christmas plum pud- dlns exists in its perfect state and Americans in Rome, Italy, desirous of enjoying this home delicacy on Christ mas Day have sent even that distance for them
 Mrs Miller believes in the old say. ing that if you want thing well done you must do 1t yourself, and so she employs no out side help. although she has the assistance of some members of her household. They begin work early in November. There are hundreds of nuts to be cracked, thousands of rais- ins to be stoned, millions of entrants to be stemmed as well as all of the other good things to be thought of that go to make up plum pudding worthy the name Finally, when all the ingre- dients are prepared and thoroughly beaten together. the steaming process ensues, after which the rich, brown loaves are all ready to be packed and sent to their respective destinations.
 In preparing a special commodity for the market. it is well known fact that the manner in which 1t is done up largely affects the sale. So Mrs. Miller offers her wares to the public in as dainty a dress as the article and oc- casion demands. First. each pudding is wrapped in paraff1ne paper, then in a heavier quality of white paper. Af- terward they are tied with bright scar let satin ribbon in which are slipped small sprigs of holly which lend a festive air in keeping with the season. In each box there is placed a slip of paper containing directions for the brandy sauce. the burning of which, as every one knows, Is a very important part of a Christmas dinner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

faded away the darkness of the night was relieved by the serene light of the Easter moon looking down as If In pity on the field of carnage, and by the fitful glow of the funeral pyres of the martyred dead; for the Mexican sol diers had gathered the bodies of the slain into heaps, covere them with dry bush, and burned them. Seeking in this way, 1t would seem, to obliterate every trace of the atrocious deed of murder.
 Bret Harte is one of his early sto [ ries of pioneer life in California: The Outcasts of Poker Flat,' tells how one John Oakhurst a desperate gambler with a gang of equally dis reputable and dangerous companions was expelled from the town of Poker Flat, how ip their journey over the Sierra the outcasts were showed in and nearly all perished with cold and star vation on the mountain trail. After the snows melted and the trail was again open. the body of John Oakhurst was found stretched out, with an empty pistol by his side, at the foot of a pine tree to which was pinned with a bowie knife, a playing card bearing this inscription written with lead pencil in bold round characters:
 This is the Body of John Oakhurst. Gambler,
 Who Struck Streak of Bad Luck
 On the 23rd of November, 1850. And
 Handed in His Checks
 On the 7th of December. 1850.
 Perhaps Captain Ticknor's gamblers met their fate with the same philo- sophie calmness and cool indifference that John Oakhurst displayed in Bret Harte's pathetic story. But perhaps, as they were lead out to be shot to death by platoons. the shadow of the Cross loomed before their eyes and they went away to the undiscovered country with prayers for forgiveness on their lips learned In childhood at their mothers knees and never forgotten in all their subsequent wayward courses; perhaps these penitential prayers upborne on the wings of a newborn childlike faith ascended to Heaven, entered within the pearly gates. and were accepted for the sake of Him who suffered a like cruel death on the hill of Cavalry. Who will dare to gainsay this? If any, let him remember the answer of Jesus to the
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day set apart in the calendar or the Roman Catholic Church for the com memoraction of Chirst's triumphal en- try into Jerusalem. when the multi tude went out to meet Him carrying hranches of palm in their hands. cast ing their garments in the way, and crying Hosanna to the son Of David. In Spain and all Spanish American countries the day is observed with much ceremonial. It Is customary af- fer the blessing of the palms for nrocess,on to bo formed of priests and neople who issue from the church and 20 about the streets singing hymns appropriate to the occasion. Alter the return of the procession to the church !. A mass is celebrated and the congre- gation is dismissed.
 In the old stone church at 0oliad on that holy day in 1886 no solemn high mass with its plaintive and oft-repeat- ed Kyrie Eleison CHave pity Lord) was celebrated; no procession Of hood ed friars and devout laymen filed through tho streets, bearing in their hands blessed branches of palm and singing devotional songs of praise. There was a procession of a wholly different order-a funeral train, when the soldiers of Fannin's regiment, four hundred and twenty in number ipcfud- ing the men of Captain Tickpor's com pany, were marched by divisions through the streets and in violation of the terms of surrender, the usages of civilized warfare. and the, common instinct of humanity, were shot to death with musketry on the plain, of Goliad close by the town. A few were spared to serve as surgebns, walters. and laborers; a few others made their escape from the field of massacre by running away and concealing them selves iu the grass and high weeds. The officers were put to death in the fort. Of Ticknor's men only two were spared for service, Sergeant Edmund Patterson and Private Washington Welsh: the rest laid down their lives on the field. When the last level beams of the sun that set on Goliad in the evening of that fateful day had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Iawver Receives A Jolt.

A well-known lawyer of this city tells an amusing incident that recently happened 10 him He was counsel for a man charged with larceny, and as the evidence was con- elusive he advised his client to plead gull ty
 You know that you have a bad record and you have practically confessed your guilt" said the lawyer in soothing man. ner and I have talked with the States Attorney. He says you will be sentenced to about three years in jail.
 This last sentence completely dumfounded the prisoner, but after he had looked about his cell for several minutes he turned to the attorney and in a very serious manner said: ''win you kindly go out and get ma a good lawyer?"
 As soon as the lawyer recovered from the shook he told the prisoner that he would argue the case for hip
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Visitors in Parliament,
Yours truly
 Hiram G. Pansy.
rom the London Outlook.

From the London outlook.
 The country cousin cares nothing for the Commons. but is afl eagerness to visit the House of Lords. He persists in taking u {, clerks at the table for the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. He asks for MT. Balfour. and on being shown a pair of boots on the table brutally demands the Prime Ministers head. which. according to MT. Lloyd-George. may be anywhere but on the treasury bench. Where does MT. Healy sit? Is an inquiry neatly countered by the reply 1t Is sometimes on MT. Redmond; and the embodiment of the law seated on the Woolsack prompts the query, ''Is 1t alive ?" "a question to which MT. Lloyd Georges dissenting friends in Scotland would mourn fully respond, "Very much so"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Woman the DiscOverer of Condensed MIX.

 Springfield, Mass, Republican.
 It was a woman who invented "condensed milk" which, while nobody wants 1t who can get the original article, is nevertheless of great value on journeys. shipooard and for emergencies. It was such an emer- gency that led to the first condensed milk. for Mrs. Albert Cashingor. of New Orleans. fifty years ago had sick baby and must get expert medical attention if it were to live.
 That could not be nearer than New York City. and it a long sea voyage away. How to keep the little baby alive through that voyage she did not know.
 But she had put up many preserves and many jellies in her time, and she began to experiment on milk. and succeeded, and put up a lot of jars of her original con densed milk, which fed her child through the voyage. The fact interested several people in New York, and finally Mrs. Cash ingor gave her process away to pack of sharp fellows who made fortunes out of condensed milk and never gave her cent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
The Horses Horse-POwer.

PUCK.
 Jim Persimmons-I reckon dat's a ten n-horse power automobile!
 Pete Possum-Watl You reckon dat machines got ten times as much pow CT as dis horse O mine?
 Jim Persimmons--No; twenty times as much; dat looks like a one-half horse power horse dat yo' got darl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
THREE THOUSAND
 PLUM PUDDINGS FROM ONE WOMAN

one Fair of Hands Sends Combined De- hghn and Indigestion to Many Lands-The Curious Industry New York State Woman Has Built On an old Colonial Re-
 ceiDt-HOw They are Pre- |,
 pared for Market.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
Unity.

Miss Mary Jones returned to Fair
Melrose'" Saturday to attend the
public school.
Miss Rosa Kind spent Sunday with
her parents.
Frank and Henry Quade were callers
b ere Sunday.
School district number 173 has
twenty scholars enrolled. Daily at
tendance is nineteen.
Cupid seems to be at work for there
are rumors of an approaching wedding
here.
Albert Kind and Gustav Quade went
to the Centre Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Lietz spent Sunday
at Melrose with relatives.
Messrs. Brueschke, Lswrenson and
Il. Hummer went to Ashley Saturday
TO fish.
A crowd Of Unity young people were
entertained by the Gritzmacher young
people.
Rev. Bnrmeister returned from
Little Falls on Friday.
Miss Augusta Kind spent several
days last week with her aunt. Mrs.
.sis.hnl as Beck of Melrose.
n 2, ssiss. Sam RUNNER celebrated her
birthday last Tuesday oy entertaining
her lady friends.
Seeding is now in progress.
Redskin.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
Gold Paved Streets,

The Swanville News of Friday pub
fishes the following with reference tc
the mineral discoveries ia that local
ity'
Albert Mielke has been doing a lit
tie prospecting for minerals, on his
farm in Culdrum, since the snow has
left, and while he has found surface in
idicatons which denoted the presence
of gold, silver and copper, similar to
that found at other places in this
vicinity, he has also found what may
prove of even greater value than a
gold mine-pure white mica. He ac-
cidently run on to a lot of this valua-
BILE mineral several days ago, but not
considering it of any value paid no at
tention to it. But the more he hunted
around tho stronger the conviction
was forced upon him, by the presence
of such quantities, of the mica out
groupings, that the chances were that
a m ca bed lies beneath the ground
there and he has now decided to iuves-
iigate. He brought several specimens
Wednesday, and left one piece at the
and three quarters of an inch thick,
that is as transparent as pane of
glass.
Word comes from the Lake Beauty
neighborhood to the effect that the
Duluth parties who have been locating
iron lands there, have taken mining
leases on l3 sections of land and on
Monday last sent into the district
several diamond drill outfits and a
large party of prospectors. They are
now at work there. This land is To-
Gated about six miles northwest OF
this village Falls Transcript.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
MELR0SE LODGE
IS HOSPITABLE.
No. las, A. F. g. A. M. Enter
tain it's Visitors in Royal
Style.

One of the pleasantest evenings
spent for many years by st. Cloud
secret society was that of last Satur-
day, when seventy-five members of st.
Cloud Lodge No. %, A. F. & A. NJ,
visited Melrose Lodge No. AS, and to
say that the visitors were royalty en-
tertained from the time they boarded
the train until their return in the wee
sma hours of Sunday morning is but
stating it mildly. Through the court
esq of r. w. Bryan, who is himself a
Mason and likewise a courteous gen.
tleman, special train was provided
and it was a Masonic train from pilot
to the rear end, manned exclusively
by MasOns, who made the special
possible. Engineer James Dickinson,
dressed in glad rags beneath suit of
deming, and Freeman Harry Ford,
S milarlv clad, were on the engine,
while "Billie Waters" looked hap
ply as conductor, for he had no paste
boards to punch. Other Masons acted
as brakemen and the start was made
from the freight promptly at O'Clock,
every seat in the coach being filled,
while a caboose trailer carried the
overflow. Melrose lodge had its plans
well in hand, a committee on general
arrangements consisting of J. N. Can
oyer, chairman, W. w. Matson, P. II
Helmer, and Henry Dood having over
looked no bet that would give the visi-
tors time long to be remembered.
The lodge room was filed from end
to end when the st. Cloud delegation
filed in, and Sank Centre had proceeded
this deleg alton with a score more
The St. Cloud lodge put on the work
in its prettiest form and won the APP
plause of the other lodges represented,
included Evansville aud Alexandra,
besides Sank Centre and Melrose. A
splendid lunch was served at midnight
for which the good ladies, as usual,
were responsible. A smoke social fol-
lowed the lunch and brief addresses
we're made by several of the visitors
A half-dozen Fellowcrafts took the
trip across the hot sands of the desert,
and are glad they did. St. Cloud
lodge enjoyed every minute of their
trip and would like to go again.
Journal-Press
The following masons represented
Star IN the West Lodge OF this city:
Rev. Garland. Byron F. Carr, Chas
S. Allen, NJ. Webb, Wash McNeice.
C. A. Morse. Geo. E. Ingram, M
Johnson, NJ. A. Scherffius, A. W.
Austin, Fl. L. Lamb.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
North Ashley.
he roads are not the worst.

The roads are not the worst.
Farmers are auxiously awaiting the
arrival OF good weather for seeding.
Messrs John KinselIa and Sidney
Laughnan were callers in this vicinity
on Sunday.
Dwight Carpenter and Billy Mickey
were passengers from West Union TO
Sank Centre on Saturday last.
Edward Midlistet commenced piow-
ing his corn ground on Wednesday Of
last week.
Edward Minnett drove to Sank
Centre on Saturday.
Joseph Ma'y was out calling on
Sunday.
Miss Augie Hienigie visited the city
on Saturday.
An assemblage of our young and
enthusiastic base ball players was
seen in this vicinity Sunday play
ing base ball.
a dance was given at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Hienigie on Tuesday oil
last week which was largely attended
By the young people Of this place.
Some of those present say the event
was a most enjoyable one and all had
al excellent time.
A number Of young people Of this
place will attend the show at Sank
Centre on Wednesday evening.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
Music Teachers.

Preparations are already being made
for the third annual meeting of the
Minnesota State Music Teachers AS
ISOLATION which is to be held this year
at Duluth about the middle of June.
Our commonwealth boasts one of the
foremost and most aourishing associa-
tions in this country and the officers,
inspired by success in the past, are
making every effort to crown the
Duluth meeting with even greater sue
cess than has heretofore been ex-
perienced.
To that end, musicians and music
lovers throughout the state are invited
to cooperate with the management, by
aid, both by their presence and their
membership.
The officers for this year are: Pres :,
f. G. Murdoch, ST. Paul: Sec. and
Treas, Ednah F. Hall, Minneapolis:
First Vice Pres, Gerard Tonning, Du-
luth; Auditor, VIM. L. Gray, North
field; Vice Pres. for Stearns Co., Maude
II. Chamberlain, State Normal School,
ST. Cloud.