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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904.
HOW DID SHE DO TIT

The woman did it," was the excuse given by the sons of men from that day to this. When Madame Humbert borrowed millions from hard-headed bankers without any tangible security the world was astonished at the wo- mans powers and at the mems credul- ity. She pretended to have valuable securities locked up in a safe, and also pretended to be heiress to immense es tates in the United States, and on these mythical possessions she bor- rowed many millions of dollars A
 But now comes Mrs. Chadwick in America and plays the same game Just how much she got has not yet been made known. but already suits aggregating $26s.00o: have been filed against her. A Massachusetts man ad- mits that he loaned her $19O, 500. for which he has brought suit. One bank in Oberlin. O.. loaned her $1O2, 1000, and the bank has failed, though she had deposited checks aggregating ~s750, 900 as security for the loans. As the checks could not be collected the bank had to suspend payments.
 Mrs. Chadwick seems to have played the Humbert game on the bankers and rich men. She told the Massachusetts man, MT. Newton, that she had five million dollars in checks and valuable securities deposited in a Cleveland bank and on the strength of that state ment he loaned her the large sum for which he is now suing. She deposited with the Oberlin, O., bank one check for half million and another for a quarter of million and that bank loaned her what she wanted, and so the tale goes. She apparently got all the money she wanted and from whomso- ever she fancied.
 NOW, would these men, good finan- ciers as we may assume, have loaned these large amounts to a man without tangible security? Would MT. Newton have loaned neighbor one-tenth or one-hundredth of that sum as he loan- ed 1t to the woman? Could man have gone to the Oberlin bank and deposited uncertified and unidentified checks fer three-quarters of a million and bor- rowed what he wanted? Of course not, and people are wondering what sort of hypnotic or other power this woman possesses that she finds such easy victims. Perhaps 1t will all come out in the lawsuits, but it is far from plain now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
HE WAS RIGHT.

The Muskogee Democrat Is not at all frightened or put out by the cries of its opponents that the Democratic party is dead. Replying to its neigh bor, The Phenix. which is continually gloating over what it calls the dead Democracy, The Democrat gets back in this way:
 And again, the good old Democratic ship has so often been rammed ano and Jackson has been buried and the final epitaph so often written that the Colonei's arduous efforts in that direc- tion seem more or less obsolete. Away back in the beginning of the 7os when around to form a new party to succeed the Democratic party a little delega- tion of them waited on the Grand Old tie dingy law office down in Columbus. their plans to him. He heard them through as patiently as possiSle .,svs and IM my little law once is too d--d emall a place in which to break up the Dem ocratic party, l bid you good night. :" Anent the old Romans forceful. express that he runs too - small a paper to handle such a big funeral as he has been trying to conduct.
 Thurman was right. In the words of the Proverbs we might say to the Republican brethren: For a just man falleth seven times. and riseth up again" And further. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth." all of which the Republicans would do well to commit to memory and take to heart. During our time the Democrat ic party has had some real hard falls. but it never stays down. Its principles are founded on the eternal rock of jus tice and honest government. It may go down in defeat, but 1t has always risen in due time, and we do not de- spair of its future any more than we have done at other times.
 And there are some politicians who need just such a setting back as Thurman gave his visitors. Those pol iticians who are preening their feath- CTS and preparing themselves as they think. to form a new party and to lead Democrats by new and untried ways are just "a little too previous" There Is no new party needed. for the old Democracy was good enough if we will hark back to it. It is not new party we need but a return to the old one which won victories and deserved to win them. and which can win others If 1t is given the opportunity. All places in the United States ought to be like old Allen Thurman's office. tco small to break up the Democratic par ty. In most cases it will be found that those who are so anxious to re- organize the Democratic party, or to form a new one, look on themselves as proper leaders for 1t. If all such would subside there would be less trouble for Democracy and more cer- tainty for future success.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

President asserts that the newspaper in question has made 1t a point to ridieule and mispresent him. Mir. Loeb added to the announcement of exclusion lasl night verbal statement that the President would have paid no atten- ton to the story but for the fact that his family was also attacked. The chief criticism heard here today is that personal matter and is using his of- hcial power to resent the wrong.
 s Power of the President. has the power to do what he has done. He Is the executive head of the gov ernment. He appaints and .emoves at pleasure every head of department. He can remove any official for cause or for the good of the service. He can prescribe rules for the government of each department. He decides the hours during which they may be open. seeking to exclude the public from ac- cess to information to which 1t Is en- titled. In this instance he Is aiming at the correspondents who. he believes. have treated him, and his family un- fairly. and who. according to Mir. I4oeh have done so for a long time. The question discussed here today Is. Has the President of the United States the right to exclude any newspaper or all newspapers. if he chooses. from access to the usual sources of informationT
 The view taken of it. by one head of a department was that newspapers were legally entitled to no privileges. This official said the newspapers got their information in Washington as a courtesy and not as a right. No Cabi- net Minister was bound to see a news- paper man unless he wanted 10 sca him. The President saw newspaper men every day, hut he was not bound to see any of them at any time. He was required to communicate to Con- gress and to ne other aut hority, and the heads of departments communicated to the public through annual reports. The President, this afficial held, and an undoubted right to order the heads of departments to refrain from giying any newspaper man information.
 Correspondent Was Away.
 The chief correspondent of the Bos- ton paper was not in the city when the despatch to which the President objects was sent, and he knew nothing about it until the edicf against him was issued from the White House
 MT. Roosevelt has been greatly am moved over stories printed about his children from time to time which he could not deny. Many items printed in the papers about his family have been without foundation, and he has felt that he was not getting a square deal"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

it is as cure for corpulency. Tat Is disease. the medical men tell us, and now man professes to have found . serum with which he can immaculate a Jack Falstafr and reduce him to a '1ean and hungry cassius." That will be a great boon to the man who is afraid to eat as much as he can hold for fear of growing fat and unwieldy. If that can be done there will be great rejoicing on the part of those who hover between a desire to gormandize and fear of corpulency. for 1t will then be possible for man to eat till his stomach cracks and yet have no dread of 'overSrowth. Great discovery. that is. z.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
The sadhIe Bags Pnssing.

Talladega Mountain Home.
 Many years ago the gifted eloquent and blind Methodist Episcopal minister W. H. Milburn. gave to the literary world the ''Rt1e. Axe and Saddle Bags IL was an attractive little volume, mak- ing the impA ements used in the title symbolic of the men and forces of q past period that have led in the work of western civilization. They typify the hunter. the pioneer farmer and the early itiner ant preacher.
 The presence of two or three hundred ministers attending conference during the week without the sight of pair of saddlsbags is evidence that this typi- cal implement of the travelling preacher has served its day and passed away, and remains os1ly as sentimental memory of a pastkgeneration
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
Cetters tc tbe Gdftcr
Must he fl Mistake.

Editor The Advertisers:
 There must be some mistake in the statement that 69,000 stalks of cotton were grown on seven acres. There are 33,SS0 square yards In seven acres. If the field was in the form of a square, each side would be 184 yards long. Sup posing the rows were three feet apart there would be 1S4 rows and each row would contain 375 stalks, or one stalk for every six inches, 1. e., two stalks to one foot in the row. If there is no mistake in the statement, a remarkable variety of cotton has been developed here in Alabama. Arithmetic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
Give It Up.
Mobile Item


 A correspondent, in regard to the discussion of the public schools board asks this question: Whats the use Of paying a supervisor of music s100 pc: month to sing music when the majority of the pupils cannot sing the multipi- cation table?" We give 1t up, and re- spectfully refer the inquirer to tEo public school board for an answer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
The First Time.
IN E hA - Rirnin nhann News

NHWS.
 A Connecticut woman who went down to the bottom of a harbor in q diving suit probably found herself for the first time in her life in q placs where she didn't care how she looked
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

The Portsmouth Star remarks that "the crops are good and the political situation peaceful. hence the South is contentedly mindink her own busi- ness" We may add that the South has plenty of 1t to do to keep her busy for at least a year or. two. There's a lot of business" in Dixie these dayx.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
PRESIDENT FIRM.
In Earnest in Refusing News to Paper Which Aceused His Children of
 Cruelty.

NdSulIlStou cpecidi to NC" 1oFk Her
 aid.
 President Roosevelt is apparently very much in earnest regarding the attitude he took in the statement issued last night by his secretary, MT. Loeb. denying the story in a Boston news paper that his children had been cruel to Horace Vose's Thanksgiving tur- key and that the President had laugh ed at their heartless sport. MT. Roose- welt had included in MT. Loebs state ment an order that until further mo- tice the department will exclude the in dividuals respon sible for this series of misstatements from all facilities for information"
 Copies of this notice issued to the press last night were sent to every de- partment of the government today and the heads of departments in turn sent copies to the heads of bureaus. There Is no doubt that the order will be en- forced.
 This is the first time anything iof this kind has been attempted. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
Wants Both,
Lafayette Sun.

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has drawn a picture of the heavens. We would be glad to have him draw one of the other place as we wish to show 1t to the Republi- can party as a warning before it reach es its destination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
Lost Rooster.

Dothan Home Journal.
 Most Democratic newspaper offices now have a fine assort,nen. of roos- ters fof sale.--Adver.ise er
 We had one, but ho has run away. We are sorry to lose him, as we still expect to beat somebody some time or other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

Those Republican newspapers out side of Indian Territory which are try ing to show that the Territory is Re- publican. are working in the interests of separate Statehood for nothing is more certain to bring 1t than to con vince Congress that the new State twill be Republican.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

The Lafayette Sun has found a we'll to-do farmer in that County who bor- rows the paper from a negro on his place. being too stingy to subscribe for 1t. Nature is guilty of some strange freaks. beyond a doubt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
Will Be Out.
Ozart Star.

OZaTC SUIT.
 Tom Watson should not be troubled about reorganizing the Democratic party, for we are sure if 1t is reorga- nized he will not be allowed to have anything to do with it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

The Huntsville Tribune says the President has its sympathy, not it's condemnation. because he does not un- derstand Southern conditions. We'll. he is not at all likely to understand them unless he looks to a better. class of advisers than he has been doing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

When Secretary Taft talks about ''cheap money" we at once think of the days of the Confederacy when money was cheaper than mOonshlne whiskey.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
All too Busy.

Birmingham News
 The Honorable Tom Watson con fin ues to give his views at great length. but everybody In the South is too mucf, absorbed in business to pay any atten- tion to them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

Alabama has cotton and cotton money, full corn-cribs and fat hogs what more is needed? Let politics go hang.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

some or the brethren are still telI- ing how it happened. Might as well be trying to explain the flood,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

pr. Parkhurst says the Democratic party is full of impure spirits, and pr. Wiley says s5 per cent of the whiskey is bad-and there you are.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
AN INTERESTING COLUMN OF FIGURES
 And q Few Facts in Relation to Them. .

Circulation is ordinarily hard to get .na as q general rule harder to hold The Ao vertiser, however, is not . sufferer tro.n this peculiar newspaper aiimene growing and holding our own with tne osss of them There arc many reasons WHY . should continue to increase ana no,o The Advertiser is the vehicle in wnicn .ns news from all over the world IS conseys daily into every part of Alabama anu ths adjoining States. and the people who oepeno upon 1t for the full account or wna. .nes can not personally see or hear Mhe " aau would not do without it. That It IA appIo- oiated by the reading public. Is attesteo py the following statement compiled ana sworn to by our Circulation Manager. or our month of October, 1904.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

Some of those self-appointed gener- als who want to reorganize the Dfmo- cratic party might profitably m' pd some time trying to reorgapize selves. 4 / "' '
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

e-President-el Fairbanks gain ed flesh during the late presidential campaign, although he journeyed fal and made many speeches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

By some means a bill passed through the New York Legislature and became a law. prohibiting a contractor from employing his men more than eight hours day on any class of public work. The Court of Appeals has de- clared the act unconstitutional. and The Richmond Times-Dispatch truth fully says of the decision:
 This decision is in the interest of in- | dividual liberty, and it must be grati- lying to every lover of liberty that it has been rendered. If the Legislature may prohibit a citizen from employing his operatives more than eight hours 8 day 1t may prohibit the operatives from working more than eight hours a day If the Legislature may do this 1t may also prohibit an employer from paving more or less than certain wage and may prohibit an individual from work ing for more or less than cert ain wage. Indeed, if the principle involved in this New York enactment be admit ted. the Legislature may put any sort of restrictions it pleases upon the con duct. and capabilities of individual cit izens and turn freedmen into slaves The whole wretched business is in yio- lation of Democratic fundamentals and is not to be tolerated in a Democratic government.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

Innoculation and vaccination have been resorted to for the cure of many diseases. lt the latest application Of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
V " $ & ~e = = WHAT THE STATK PAPERS ARE SAYING.
He Should Not.

Just as everybody were about to forget Coxie. he wakes up and flies a petition in bankruptcy. Jocob nhould not worry us that way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

c,ty subscriptions Ehould be paid to the following authorized collector only: e J. Calm. City Calculator: B. W. Mccain, C. !. Finnigsn. Walter L. Johnson, J. L. Aapss and '. Shaver.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
ABOUT THE EARTHs HEAT.

These scientific people give we ordi- nary laymen no end of worry and trouble for they are forever trying to upset our long-settled beliefs and get us switched off on to something new. We had come to be pretty well established in the theory that the in- side of this old earth of ours Is a mass of molten metal or liquid fire at least seven times hotter than the furnace in which Nebuchadnezzar proposed to roast the obstinate Hebrews. True, no one has been to the centre of our planet to find out the truth about it. At least, no one has returned, and the excavations that have been made have been no more than the scratch of a pin on the hide of an. elephant, but the fact that the heat increases as we go down has always been taken as one evidence that it is decidedly warm down in the center. The volcanoes, | too, spout up some pretty hot stuff. and various other evidences have been ad- duoed in proof of the theory of intense inner heat.
 
 physicist with a new theory. And, by the way, those Germans can spring more new ones on us than can any other members of the human family. unless it be the Chicago professors: they are pretty hard to down, them selves. This German puts forward the theory that there Is enough radium in the earth's crust to account for all the internal heat, or. rather, that 1t &C., counts for what we have always con- sidered evidences of great internal heat.
 Most readers have heard or read of radium; the new metal or mineral of which neither scientist nor layman knows anything definite, but which has some most wonderful qualities, among. them being the capacity to give out in- tense and continuous heat without loss of substance. If there are immense quantities of it confined in the earth's crust it might possibly account for the heat, buff that is the case why does it not make the surface of the earth too hot to hold us? Seems as if there might be a hitch in the combination just there, but possibly the learned German can straighten it out and tell all about it. At any rate, if the scholars accept his idea of it they will have to do a good deal of explaining before they are done with 1t, but whether they do or not, we suppose we
 
 some one upsets it or finds a new ore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03
OCTOBER, 1904.

DuAly average Tor October, lS04 .Il,S1s Sunday Average for October, 1904. .16, ,29s P. J. Kelly. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: The foregoing statement of The Advertisers daily circulation for the month of October. 1904, is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys news, agents and leftover copies have been deducted.
 P. J. KELLY,
 Circulation Manager,
 THE ADVERTISER COMPANY. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of November. 1904
 F. W. JACKSON,
 N. P, Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-03

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The Lamar register., 1904-01-13
A Physicians Statement.

Yorktown. Ark. Jan. 11.-I.eland
Williamson, NJ. D., one of our cleverest
physicians, has made a statement, en-
dorsins Dodd's Kidney Pills and say
ing that he uses them in his daily prac-
tice in preference to any other Kidney
medicine. His statement has created
a profound sensation, as it is some
what unusual for physician to pub
licly endorse anything in the shape OF
patent medicine. DIR. Williamson
says:
After twenty years practice in a
sicltly and nalarious country | have
come to the conclusion that 1t is al
ways best to use the remedy that viii!
relieve and cure my patients, whether
ethical or not
II have used Dodd's Kidney Pills
with uniform success in the various
forms of Kidney Disease, Pain in the
Back, Gout. Rheumatism. Infamma-
tion and Congestion of the Kidneys
and all kindred diseases; l always pre-
scribe Dodds Kidney Pills in such
cases and can testify that they in
variably restore the Kidneys to their
normal state and thereby relieve the
blood of accumulated poisons. produc-
ing prompt and effective cures
The Lamar register., 1904-01-13
GIVES $50"
Food That Carries One Along.

It's nice to know of food that not
only tastes delicious but that puts. the
snap and go into one and supplies
staying power for the day. .
A woman says: 81 have taken
enough medicine in my time to fur
nish a drug store, but in later and
have depended. for the health | now
enjoy. on suitable and sustaining
food of which keep on hand tested
variety, plain but nourishing.
"of these my main dependence is
GrapeNuts, especially if l have be-
fore me a day of unusual effort eth
er mental or physical. In this case
l fortify myself the first thing in the
morning with about 4 teaspoonfuls
of Grape-Nuts moistened with cream
and not much else for breakfast and
the amount of work 1 can then carry
through successfully without fatigue
or exhaustion is wonder to those
about me and even to myself.
"Grape-Nuts food is certainly
wonderful strengthener and is not
stimulant for there is no reaction aft
erwards, but it is sustaining and
Strengthening, as | have proved by
long experience" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason four teaspoonfuls
of Grape-Nuts and cream will add
more strength and carry one further
than n plateful of coarse heavy food
tat is nearly all waste. Grape-Nuts
food is condensed. pre-digested and
delicious. 1t contains the parts of
the Wheat and Barley grains that
supply the rebuilding parts for Brain
and Nerve Centers.
Look in each package for a copy
of the famous little book, 1.-THE Road
to Wellville."
The Lamar register., 1904-01-13
Value of the cashew Nut.

4 agricultural scientists are unquaa-
ffeuly enthusiastic over the future of
the Cashew nut, which grows in Porto
Rico on a tree which attains a height
forty feet. Roasted, no other nut can
compare with it in delicious flavor in
the opinion of David G. Fairchild, agri-
cultural explorer for the United States.
Burnt almonds" said Mr.. Fairchild.
are fiat in comparison" The govern:
ment believes that American candy
manufacturers have a good thing in
the Cashew nut and that a big market
for it could be created. Mr.. Fairchilds
recommends that groves be started at
once, and that the sale of the nut be
pushed ut is bound to gain populari-
ty," said he: "in fact. the prospects for
tie Cashew nut are really wonderful. "
Oil, ink, gum, tar. mucilage. cosmet-
les, and dyes are made from it.