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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
RURAL ROUTE REVERSED.
Improved Mail Service for Carter HnI
 Road.


 Road.
 Rural delivery mail route No. 4. the Norman Bridge and Carter Hill Road routes, will be reversed on September l5.
 The change has been ordered by the Pcstoffice Department on application of postmaster.
 The order for the change was re- ceived yesterday as follows: "Washington. Sept. 1, 1904. 'lThe Postmaster Montgomery. Ala. "Sir-In response to the petition of patrons of your office. and in order to serve a majority of the patrons earlier in the day. you are hereby authorized and directed to reverse Route No. f. as fellows:
 Beginning at the postoffice, the car rier will go thence:
 Miles. "Scutheast and south to the cen ter of Section 19.......... ? East and southeasterly to the center of the south line of Sec tion B.. =. e. .......... 3-4 South and southeast to the in- terscctioh of the Woodley Road. 2 1-4 East and northeasterly to Gus williams's cor..... ........ 2 3-4 ''Northwesterly and west to near center of the east line of Sec tion 2S,. '.......'... l-2 North and northwest to postof- flee .'''........... l-2 "Total length of route. .....25 3-4 You will put this change into oper- alton on September l5. 1904. reporting your action to the Department upon the enclosed form.
 Very respectfully,
 "C. A. Conrad. Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster General"
 The change will be learned with great pleasure by patrons of the route.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
ALABAMA SONS OF VETS.
Commander owen Preparing for Mobile
 Reunion.

Commander Thomas NJ owen of the Alabama Division, United Sons of Con federate Veterans. is engaged in pre- pairing a program for the fourth an nual reunions of the Sons, which will be held with the veterans at Mobile No vember 15 and 16.
 The indications are that the Mobile reunion will be the most enjoyable and the largest In which the Alabama Sons have participated An unusually inter esting social program iSbeing arranged for the reunion.
 The business session will be charac : terized by two important features. At the first session some prominent Ala. bama speaker will deliver an address on the life and services of the Gallant Pelham" The Alabama Division of Sons has undertaken the work of rais- ing monument to the famous boy soldier.
 In his annual report. Commander owen will recommend that the Ala bama Division be divided into three brigades. Such action is authorized by- the constitution and it will. In all prob . ability. be done. It is expected that the three briRades will consist of camps In South Alabama. Middle Ala : bnma and North Alabama. respectively |.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
ARE STILL IN PRISON.
Chestnut and Ellis to Have Hearing
 MOndnY.

Shestnutt ana Eii1s to Have Hearing Monday.
 Scott Chestnut and Ed Ellis. alleged gamblers wanted in Atlanta, are still confined at police headquarters and Po- lice Chief Ball of Atlanta returned home yesterday.
 Chief Ball will probably return to Montgomery Monday morning, when Chestnut and Ellis will have a hear ing on writ of habeas corpus before Judge W. H. Thomas of the Montgom- cry City Court 1, A writ of habeas corpus granted by Judge Thomas to the men was made returnable yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and in the absence of Judge Thomas Judge A. D. Sayre was ready to hear the case. The State asked for a continuance of the hearing until 10 o'clock Monday morning, which was granted by Judge Sayre.
 Yesterday morning Chief Ball of At lanta visited the Capitol and presented a requisition from Governor Terrell of Georgia, for Chestnut and Ellis. Gov ernor Cunningham honored the requisi- | tion.
 | Chestnut and Ellis are well known
 In Alabama. They formerly lived in | Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
COMMITTEES CALI.

Headquarters of the Executive Com
 mittee of the Democratic and Con-
 servative Party of Alabama.
 Selma, Ala, Sept. 1, 1904 The State Executive Committee Is hereby called to meet at Montgomery at noon, on thef12th day of September, 1904, for the purpose of considering and acting on appeals from election con- tests from the counties of Perry, Ma rengo, Houston and possibly other counties.
 It Is of extreme importance that ev- cry member of the Committee be pres ent, as questions will be presented in these contests that should be we'll con- sidered and wisely decided.
 The Committee will also at that meet ins be requested to consider the adop- tion of rules governing appeals to this Committee. The Committee is also called for the purpose of transacting any other business that may be deemed proper.
 H. s. D. Mallory,
 Chairman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
Social aRo Personal
tContinued from Page Thirteen.)

returned home yesterday after spend ing the summer in New York and New Jersey.
 Miss Louise Marks has returned from a stay of several months in Chicago and St. Louis.
 Miss Clara Simpson has returned from a visit to Mrs. Tunstall Perry in Birmingham.
 Miss Kate Lembsey has returned from Birmingham where she has been visit ing friends. have returned from pleasant visit to Chicago.
 Miss Maud Bayne has returned home after a few weeks visit to relatives at Pine Level.
 Mrs. M. L. Wood and children, are in Petersburg. Virginia. visiting her mother.
 Miss Ida Mae Galatas has returned from a visit to friends at Spring Hill.
 Miss Amelia and Miss Annie Fort Smith have returned from Auburn.
 Miss Etta Barcke has returned from a visit to relatives at Mobile.
 Miss Hanna Cottingham has returned from a visit to Madison, Ga.
 Mrs. Lena Shaw has returned from a visit to friends in Atlanta.
 Miss Mary Chollette Berney left yes terday for Birmingham.
 Mrs. Albert Kelley Is visiting rela- lives in Eufaula.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
Compulnorx Batha.

All new schools in switzerland have priated for baths. Each class bothes once a fortnight. summer and winter Soap is used, and a warm bath Is fol- lowed by a cooler one. Sick children and those having skin diseases are ex- olildAA-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

squadron at smyrna with an extensive suite will visit the Sultan September ,. The visit attracts comment in connec- tion with the renewed agitation in con nection with the American claims and the recent proximity of the American squadron.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Birmingham Herald.
 The ireworks over the birth of the Czarevitch were excelled by the Are works at the other end of the country. at Port Arthur.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
MosIey Electric Co.,, Phone 7o6 zI4 Bibb St.
win Call on the sultan.

Paris, Sept. 2-The French Ambassa- dor at ConstantinopIe reports that the Rdu'%al commanding the British
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

FOR SALE-One handsome Stude- baker Victoria with harness. Good as new. Address F. 0. Box I25.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

returned home yesterday after spend ing the summer in New York and New Jersey.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Miss Louise Marks has returned from a stay of several months in Chicago and St. Louis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Miss Clara Simpson has returned from visit to Mrs. Tunstall Perry in Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Miss Kate Lembsey has returned from Birmingham where she has been visit ing friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

Mrs. Albert Kelley is visiting rel lives in Eufaula.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
The Small Gar.

1t is curious that Nicholas H., one of
the greatest of living monarchs, should
also be one of the smallest-from the
physical point of view; and had he car
ried out his intention of visiting the king
of Italy we should have been treated
to the spectacle of a meeting between
two of the shortest sovereigns of their
time. Yet the car, however small and
slight of stature, has somewhat the adj
vantage, as regards inches, of King Vic
tor Emmanuel H., who requires to get
into the saddle like Napoleon Ill, before
he can be seen at his best. Like so
many men, both the car and the king of
Italy are more the sons of their moth
ers than of their fathers, so to speak,
and certainly there is nothing in the ap-
pearance of Nicholas ii. to suggest his
sonship to Alexander ILL.,, who was al
most giant, or of Victor Emmanuel to
recall the burly soldierlike figure of his
father and his grandfather, the rollick-
ing, fiercely moustachioed Re Galantu-
omo.-London Chronicle
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
FARMERS ARE RETIRING.
Many Western Agriculturists Are En-
jOying the Fruits of Recent
Prosperous Years.

The Nebraska towns are filling up
with farmers who have retired from
agricultural pursuits to take life at ease
and educate their children, says a re-
cent Lincoln report
Prosperity has prevailed. on the farms
for five or six years, and the farmers
of the west are showing their philosoph-
ical view of life by retiring before they
are too old to enjoy the fruits of their
toll.
None of them are rich in the metro
politan sense of the term. They don't
feel themselves rich. All they have is
a competence, but their early life away
from the temptations of the town has
taught them frugality and they have no
particular desire to put on style. Usual
ly when they come to town they go out
to some modest suburb where the price
of property is low.
They spend $4,000 or $4,000 for a
house and lot, fix things up comfortably
and enjoy themselves. Their wants are
easily satisfied. They have not the
theater-going habit nor the society
habit; they have learned how to get
what they think is good out of life with
out indulging in many of its frivolities.
Measured by their ambitions and their
wants they are as well off as any mill
lionaire-possibly better. They have
enough and are satisfied.
1T is possible for a farmer to retire
on a much smaller amount than most
men who have investments in other
classes of property. A merchant may
get out of active life but leave his money
in his store without feeling that it is
safe. Banks, too, may fail, and the
price of stocks is liable to fiuctuate. 1t
is different with the farm. Nebraska
land has very stable value, and even
in panicky days could be sold for fair
prices. To-day it is high, but good
living is assured; and if the harvest is
big and prices are good there is large
addition to the surplus and money for
any little indulgences.
Those farmers who prefer to stick to
the farm for little while longer are
demonstrating their possession of a
bank balance by improving the appear
ance of their farms. Lincoln con-
tractors have sent 80 or 40 carpenters
out into the rural districts to build new
barns and houses in the last six weeks.
Out in southwestern Nebraska, in the
new wheat section, there is land boom
on, an overlap from Kansas, where
spectators are forcing up prices. The
short grass country wallowed in big
crops this year, and there is scarcely any
government land left in that section of
either Kansas or Nebraska. Real estate
agents have been running harvest excur-
sions into the country and syndicate
buying is now feature of the business,
whole parties of emigrants from eastern
states being landed and settled in the
same neighborhood on newly purchased
lands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
PEGGY AND THE GAS LOG.

When winter nights are dark and cold,
And grim Jack Frost is free,
And whining winds do shrilly scold
Through streets and signing tree,
Homeward bound | hurry fast,
In trolley cars forlorn,
Unto my fiat, where care is past
When Peggy pops the corn.
What matter though the blazing logs
Not oak, but gas flames show,
AS Peggy lightly. gayly joys
The pepper to and fro?
Crickety-crick. snap, pop-pop-pop!
The kernels burst reborn;
From yellow TO snow-white they hop
When Peggy pops the corn.
Now shake the salt out carefully.
And pour the butter on;
Like snow the fluffy dainties be,
And now like snow they're gonei
But more is ready, Peggy cries;
She shakes Plenty's Horn,
What blooming cheeks, what shining eyes
When Poppy pops the corn.
And back my memory pensive goes
To country nights of old,
OF biting frost and flying snow
And whining WINDS a-scold.
But times are better now Tor /
Who sighedsthen night and morn
May take Il kiss, not yainly try,
When Peggy pops the corn,
&c. Nj. Williams in n Y. sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06

Flowers are not always named by
chance. Take the Dahlia, that was
named after Dahl, a Swedish florist,
and discovered of the flower. The mag
nolia after Magnol, a celebrated French
botanist. But there is only one in
stance reported OF a man and flower
receiving name at the same time.
Marechal Mel, on his return from the
Franco Austrian war, received basket
of beautiful yellow roses from a peas
ant woman One of the stems had a
root clinging to it, and this the mare
chal took to florist in Paris, under
whose care it became thriving bush
laden with blossoms This Mel took
as a gift to the Empress Eugene. who,
on hearing that it was nameless, said:
at shall be the Marechal Mel" At the
same time she bestowed upon the as
tonished general the jeweled baton in
dicating his high rank of marechal Of
France.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06

NTHlsN Sergeant Pegram was called
w TITO the captains Office and de-
tailed Il take charge of the Charleton
robbery ease he realized that it was an
opportunity to make a reputation, but
he also f,lt Bit of trepidation as to
the criticism which failure would in
cur.
Sergcar. Pegram was full Of face.
large OF ylustache and stout of form
as became the modern working mem
Der of thu American detective STATS
He was called a safe" officer, al
though he had never had an oppor-
tunity 20 display any brilliancy he
might have. He always knew that his
opportunity would come and the
Charleton case certainly appeared to
be what he was waiting for.
1t was difficult case; that was evil
dent at the start, and failure to solve
Il would be sure to bring criticism.
The papers would be full of it and the
criticism would be unsparing il the
culprit should not be caught.
The Charleton case was peculiar
one. Willard Charleton was the presi-
dent of the Interstate bank and a man
of mark in the financial world. On the
night of October 6, 1901, he had ar
ranged to go to a neighboring city
where an important deal for lease
hold was to be contaminated between
semi-public body and syndicate Of
which he was an important member.
Should the leasehold be voted it was
deemed expedient 70 close the entire
deal that night, as iewas feared thore
would be public uproar VIXEN the
morning papers heralded the proceed
ing. The dea. involved cash payment
by the syndicate of $4,000, and it had
been determ ined that this money
was made. This payment was to be
made in cash, so as to avoid any pos
sible hitch. So Willard Charleton, who
was the treasurer of the syndicate, had
agreed to accompany the attorneys and
tender the cash. He had drawn the
amount in bills of large denominations
which he had wrapped in a simple ap-
pearing package about the size of a
glove-box, GOV ered with plain wrapping
paper.
He had gone home early, as his wife
was to start that afternoon on a trip
to Europe with party of friends. The
trip be was TO take would compel him
to remain all night in the city where
the deal was to be made. After dinner
he got out small satchel, into which
he pat few necessary toilet articles
and the valuable package containing
the $4,000. His wife called him and
he went into her apartment, which adj
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06

In every country of the civilized world
Sisters of Charity are known. Not only
do they minister to the spiritual and
intellectual needs of the charges COM
mitted to their care, but they also
minister to their bodily needs.
With SO many children to take careof
and to protect from climate and disease,
these wise and prudent Sisters have
found Peruna aneverfailing safeguard.
DIR. Hartman receives many letters
from Catholic Sisters from all over the
United States. A recommend recently
received from Catholic institution in
Detroit, Mich. reads as follows:
DR.. S. b. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio:
Dear Sir-"1fe young 9iri who used
the Perunaw was suffering from Iaryngf-
tbs, and loss of voice. The result OF
the treatment was most satisfactory.
She found great relief and after
further use of the medicine we hope
to be able to say she Is entirely cured. "
Sisters of Charity.
The young girl was under the care of
the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna
for catarrh of the throat with good re-
suits as the above letter testifes.
Send to The Peruna Medicine Co. Co
lumbus, Ohio, for free book written by
DR.. Hartman.
AoIr No n-~s~k e E.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
HOSPITAL ENDOWED BY TOTS.
Philadelphia Children buy Ambu-
lance Gong for Children's Hos
pitaI i'm That City.


St. Christopher's hospital for children,
at Huntingdon and Lawrence streets,
owns new ambulance gong, bought
with the pennies of little boys and girls
in the neighborhood, says the Philadel-
phia North American. 1t is larger than
an engine room bell on ferryboat and
is shiny as gold, and has a spring Taper
nearly the size of baseball, and it's
really the biggest and loudest sounding
ambulance bell in Philadelphia"
This new ambulance bell can be heard
.or mile. When there is hurry call,
on account of very sick baby or little
boy who has been hurt by street car,
two horses bring the ambulance round
the corner from stable right away up
to the hospital door, and the driver, by
special orders, sounds the gong again
and again, so that the children who live
about may hear. They stop instantly,
no matter what they are doing, and call
to each other: There goes our bell!
| hear 1t. Come on" Scores come run
ming from ali directions. And when a
nurse has stepped in at the back of the
ambulance and a doctor, in snow white
uniform, has climbed up on the front
seat beside the driver, and the horssy
start off quickly, with the gong sounding
again and again, the children follow a
little way, out of pure joy and pride, cry
ing: That's pretty fine bell, tell
YOU" Gee! isn't she loud!"
But it is quite different when the am
bulance comes back and the nurse lifts
out some tot who is very, very i'll of
pneumonia or one who is bruised and
unconscious. The driver isn't sounding
the big gong any more. The children
In the street keep away from the am
5ulance. They stand respectfully silent,
wondering, some with hands behind
them, others with arms akimbo, and the
tiniest ones with chubby thumbs in
their mouths. The doctor and the
nurse, with blanket in her arms, go
into the hospital, the ambulance goes
slowly back to the stable around the
corner and the children who helped to
buy the understanding bell in Phil
adelphia" seem to understand,
even better than grown-up people can.
Now, the hospital owns the ambulance
and the gong; but it doesn't own the
horses, and the driver doesn't belong to
the institution. Like the horses, he's
hired; because, to tell the truth, the hos
pital is very poor. And that's really why
the children in the neighborhood came
to buy the gong. They were not asked
to raise the money. They all knew that
old gong on the side of the drivers seat
was too small and didn't have as much
sound as street car gong, and one day
q few months ago child suggested
holding fairs to set the money for a
new one. Then scores of children
caught the idea. They placed little ia
bles and boxes on the sidewalks, and
sold to passers-by cakes and candy their
mothers made, and shoestrings and
things like that. And some boys and
girls bought apples, for instance, for
one cent at the corner grocery and sold
them for two cents. and forthwith
FASTENED to the hospital and turned over
the profit
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
Not Ready for That.

Once upon time there was a spend
thrift of the name Of Jones, who solilo-
quized in this wise:
What fool have been! If had
all the money, for instance, that have
spent for beer and cigars l could have
a good bank account instead of being
on my uppers and trying to borrow
money from my friends. I wish / had
it,"
Some one touched his arm.
He turned and there stood his fairy
godmother.
you shall have your wish, my son.
she said, ION one condition-that you
never touch beer or tobacco again in
any form so long as you live"
Jones hesitated-and was lost.
II don't want it bad enough for
that" he said-Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
A Japanese view.

How pleasing the frankness of Amer.
lean girls! They are like book with
the leaves cut ready for reading. What
charming reading that is, full of fancies
and also not without wisdom! How
ever, turn for the epigrammatic is OUT
of fashion nowadays. Happily the
American girls are not crazy after an
indigestible paradox. They are wise In
a healthy way, under the garment o.
implicity.-Leslie's Monthly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06
Salaries of Ru1er..

Various governments pay their chiefs
as follows: United States, $4,000 a
year; Persia, $4,000. 900; Russia, s10,-
100000; Siam. slO,00o0eO; Spain, 81, sO0,-
900; Italy, 5000, 900; Great Britain, 49,
100000; Morocco, S2,500,000, Japan, ST.
100000; Egypt, s1,575. 600; Germany, ST.
10000; Saxony, s70o, 600; Portugal, Swe-
den and Brazil. each, 100000; France.
100000 Hayti, $4,000; Switzerland.
$4,000.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-02-06

Joined his own. leaving the satchel
open.
after a conference with his wife.
which lasted some five minutes, he re-
turned, made few changes in ibis toll
let, closed the satcfel, locked it and re-
turned to his wife's apartment to con-
tinue the conference. Soon after the
carriage was announced and they went
II the depot where she met the Eu-
iopean party. who left by one train
While he met his party. and left by an
ether train. From the moment he
Tucked the satchel Charleton was posi-
tive the satchel was not out of his sight
o. touch for moment. Yet when he
o9ened 1t upon reaching the hotel at
t,s destination the package of bills
vas not there.
This was the case given Sergeant
Eegram to struggle with.
Mr.. Charleton's apartment had three
doors; one connecting with his wifes
room. one with his bath room and the
third with the hail. He was positive
tfat the door into the hall was locked
M the inside when he placed the pack
ts.e CT bills In the satchel and went into
lis wife S room for the short confer
rrce. He knew, Of course, that no
. y .rsons entered through the room where
shn and his wife were. His bathroom
stSd no other entrance excepting
through his room. There were two
windows in his apartment, both 90 feet
Above the ground, and inaccessible
from the outside except by ladder. The
windows were itted with burglar
rlarms. October 6 was a damp night
it'd the ground beneath tn, window
vas very soft. On the following day.
'7aen Sergeant Pegram examined the
fround it was evident the ground had
;oE been disturbed by ladder or foot
,rint. The window in the bathroom
ffas off a court with straight, smooth
fiies and was protected by iron bars.
Sergeant Pegram went at the case
systematically The servants were all
examined and were greatly excited
III excepting the docrman, an English
ran OF stolid personality and wonder
isl self-poise. He had been in the
ta,Jloy of Mr.. Charleton for some five
,ears and had been employed in some
,ary confidential services by the bank,
at times. In fact he enjoyed his
confidence moro than any other SER
,Hnt in the house. This man, Joseph
IalIct by name, showed no excitement
whatever and appeared to regard the
tat,rc affair as quite natural. His at
t.tude aroused Sergeant Pegram's sus-
,,icion at once, but Mr.. Charleton re-
fused 10 listen 10 any suggestion that