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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1904.
A NEGRO MISTAKE.

Ex-Governor Chamberlain in the open letter to Professor James Bryce to which we recently directed atten- It to say he had never heard of any concerted effort or any individual at- tempt on the part of the negroes to put down the crime that most com monly provokes the application of lynch law Every observer of South ern conditions will support MT. Cham berlain in this. One can hear or citations by negroes of lynch law, but they seem little inclined to aid the whites in stamping out the crime that incites mobs to violence. It Is per haps too much to expect of the negro that he should turn upon those of his own color and tell them frankly they themselves are to blame and that they ought to use every endeavor to restrain the brutes among them. It Is a painful fact, however. that the brute is more likely than not to receive race aid and comfort from his brethren of
 
 say he is applauded. but the negroes of the community are entirely too will ing to see him escape all punishment. They seem to look on him as prosecuted and in distress,
 It is perhaps, too more than could reasonably be expected of a man like the President that he should take a dispassionate view of this question. He puts the original offender and the mob that takes the offenders life in the same category and declares their respective crimes are equal in infamy. Does any sane man cognizant of all the facts of our life in the South consider this to be so? Is a member of a mob that has lynched negro for rape as infamous as the negro himself?
 To cap the climax even. of the negro's tenderness for the negro criminal. a society has just been organized in the national capital. that has for its object raising a fund of $250. 900, to be expended in rewards for the arrest and conviction of any man participating in mob violence. This is a perfectly silly movement in itself, but it Is a significant one. It shows that among the most intelligent of the negroes their race instinct is so far stronger than any sense of justice they may possess, they have deliberately gone to work to shield and protect if they can, any negro charged with the most vile of crimes It need not be said they are cooperating to secure a trial by law. The movement is too absurd to lead to anything so practi- cal as that. It serves merely the one purpose of exhibiting to the world the deeper feelings of the black race. In this matter they are pronounced aliens and they are utterly destitute of any sympathy for the white race when the latter is previously wounded and It's whole social order threatened The negro is for the negro every time. Let 1t be said that is natural also; but it bodes no good for the African in set ting himself up in this lofty Washing ton way a censor of the white man and practical apologist for the basest African crimiRrAA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
Odd Old I,nwa.

Kansas City Journal.
 One of the oldest sets of laws of the Choctaw Nation has just been discov- cred. One clause relates to the killing or witches For witchcraft the penalty was death, and for alleging ones self to be witch or for saying that any person was one was punishable'by sixty lashes on the bare back.
 Another declared that no doctor could take money or any of the belongings Of patient he treated if the patient died. If the patient were raised up from sickbed the doctor could accept what was offered to him, and if nothing was offered. then he could take in goods what was his just compensation.
 In 1884 the Choctaw Council passed an act which made a person who bar gained to sell any of the Choctaw land a traitor and punishable by death Any white man who encouraged such action was deported. An Indian who sold or disposed of land either to individuals or to the United States in toto should be considered traitor and shot on con viction. This was just preceding the work of the Dawes commission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
WHAT DID HE MEANf

There Is a good deal of discussion over the country as to what Cas- man Addicks meant when he declared that Delaware cannot be bought" Some interpret 1t to mean that he has failed to buy it. and that therefore 1t Is not purchasable. Others, again. take him to mean that the State now be- And there are others-probably but few--who think he means what he says in the better meaning of the term, and that political control of Delaware cannot really be had for money.
 But there is one thing against the latter view of the Addicks statement. He recently declared that he intends to keep up his fight until he lands in the grave or in the Senate of the United States. All who know any thing of Delaware politics know that this man Addicks has been trying for years to buy a seat in the Senate. If he has used any other argument or influence but money. and what money will buy, we are not aware of 1t. So far he has failed. and that Is where his two statements are hard to recon cile. If he really means to intimate that he cannot buy the State 1t seems foolish for him to assert that he will keep up the fight. Possibly he knows he will fail but Is too dogged to give up the effort.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
noosrvELr, TIE sLAsDrnrn.

AxOV5BN nAfIs THE SLANDnNhRs
 In his biography of Thomas H. Ben- ton Roosevelt said:
 place among .she hfch< traitors in our annals he had already been known as one of the chief repudiators; it was not unnatural that to dishonesty to- wards the creditors of the public he should afterwards add treachery to the public itself.
 That expression alone ought to make 1t impossible for any true Southern man. no matter what party he belongs to. to vote for Roosevelt. A defamer of the dead Is more despisable than libeller of the living. Whether we look on his as a man. a statesman or much above Roosevelt as Paul stood above Ananias. But perhaps we shouldn't feel rufied over the incident. A man who has knowingly and gross ly libelled Jefferson and Madison and all the other patriots and statesmen of the past could not be expected to spare Davis. It is we'll for humanity that the malice of small minds cannot in- Jure the honored dead. or weaken the hold they have on the living.
 The people of the South have no disposition to make Jefferson Davis or his actions an issue in the present campaign. but they would be untrue to themselves and to their glorious his- tory if they remained silent while their best and greatest men were being tra- duced. vilihed and slandered by such accidental great men as Theodore Roosevelt. When old Job exclaimed, "Oh that mine adversary had written a book.'' or words to that effect. he evidently wanted something to take hold of and to use against that ad- versary that would put him out of the argument.
 The Democrats. and especially the Southern Democrats, have a great ad- vantage over Job. for our political ad- versary has ewritten-not one, but sev- eral books which contain matter enough to damn him in the estimation of right thinking people. He has foul ly assailed all the early Presidents. with the exception of Washington, and with as much self-conceit as malignity has endeavored to belittle all of them in the estimation of the American peo- pie. It was an exhibition of littleness and malevolence that no good and true American would be guilty of. and we have yet to hear that he has apolo- gized for his islanders. Ills abuse of Jefferson Davis is only adding one more count to those for which the Southern people should remember him as he deserves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
Modern Ways in Jaran.

Sakor Shtogo In London Times.
 Ladies In Japan do not wear jew elled rings" I wish to correct that into Ladies of old Japan" etc. If you but try to look at a tiny hand of any girl in well-to-do family of present. day Japan-a hand coming out of a scarletlined sleeve-you will easily find a jewelled ring or rings on her fn- gers. Jewels we had none before, but we prize them just the same. As to the wearing of rings even gentlemen are often seen with d thick gold ring made out of an old Japanese coin call ed "koban." The study of the intro duction of a new custom is interesting In the case of "snow-white pillows they were first used in hospitals, where we adopted everything from the West as 1t was. We did not have sheets for our beds along with that, but cleanness recommended itself to the Japanese and the custom was readily followed by those who took a fancy to it. As to kissing, 1t Is rather delicate to touch on, but it cannot be dismissed with a general statement that in affection and love the Japanese are outwardly unde- monstrative." All depends upon cir cumstances. Generally speaking, we shun the eyes of the public to be de- monstrative, or to seek the occasion when all can join with us. Kissing as practiced in the West is still strange to us. but no one who knows about it would wonder if a young couple of modern Japan should take to 1t to ex- press their love
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
UNsANITARY CAR SEATS.
Kentucky Starts Reform that VIII
 Bear TranspIanting.


 Chicago Record Herald.
 The Kentucky State Board of Health. in it's war on unsanitary conditions n railway coaches, will receive god speed from every railroad passenger in whatever part of the country WHO and disease to which he Is subjected.
 The plush seat Is the central evn which the Kentucky board is attack ing. It has been placed under State every railroad official it can reach In the State who can by any possibility be held responsible for operating cars with such seat coverings Either leather or cane is permitted as a substitute The requirement. extends both to sleepers and day coaches.
 There is TO question hut that the plush seat Is one of the finest Tecep- tacles for filth that could be devised. The dust that blows in through the fast. and If any disease germs are in the air they are pretty sure to find a camping out place on the plush until a human victim comes along.
 Leather seats are not open to any such sanitary objection. but they are hot and often uncomfortable. and not al all to be compared for downright ease with the cane seats. which are usually set aside for day coaches, tourist sleep CTS, and the least pretentious cars. An other good seat covering is of linen. which can be taken off and cleaned at frequent intervals.
 It would be we'll for every State to make provision by legislation for sani- berths. and the best possible ventila- tion. The railway companies have had much more interest in mere appearances than in healthfulness in the past. Some of them are learning that looks are comparatively a minor detail. but others need to be taught.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
IT IS MISTAKEN.

As the campaign progresses the es- teemed Buffalo News adds to its stock of vitrioI and birthstone. It started in with moderate degree of courtesy and fairness, but as the great battle goes on and becomes more doubtful 1t increases in virulence. Take this-par- agraph as a sample:
 The reason for the passionate hatred of the President in a certain section of the country Is that he cannot be bullied. nor backed down. nor deceived nor captured by the most arrogant, in solent and unpatriotic set of men now existing within the United States.
 This is an indictment, not merely of all Southern Democrats, but of all the people of the South. It is not the Democrats only whose contempt for Roosevelt is daily increasing, for there are many men in the South who are not Democrats and who have about as little respect for his methods and teachings as the Democrats have. To speak of all the people of a large sec tion of the Union as arrogant, inso- lent and unpatriotic" would almost do credit to Roosevelt himself, and that Is saying much.
 But, admitting that The News re- ferred only to Democrats. we will be glad to be informed when any of them have tried to either capture or deceive him. None of them wants him bad enough to try to capture him, and we are pretty sure that they are not try ing to deceive him. On the contrary they spare no pains to let him know their opinion of him and try to do 1t in such manner that he cannot possibly misunderstood them. There is no de- ceit about it. All of that commodity that is handed out comes from the President himself when he tries to make 1t appear that he acts only for the good of the country and all the people. Let The News try again.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
roLLY,s GROWN OF FOLLY.
WomaA's Cruelty to Woman Is ineom-
 prehensfble to Men.

prehensfble to Men.
 Emporia (Kans.) Gazete.
 v,.i,,ys A young woman in this town own v,saf. weft ing some suburban people in an arIs- socratic neighborhood outside of town; Sne went to party and was 1ntroouceo 10 number of girls. They. seemed nice enough girls, and she had a sood time: But when she met them down from . rabbit. She afterward heard that they said her father was store-
 And she had a good cry at the cruel " or women in general She said she that way!
 But she came home and was visiting for her living. She and the girl had 2 good time one afternoon together. Ana then a few days later the proud storekeepers daughter sailed down town in her fluffy white duds and pass ca the girl she had met few days nefore and cut her dead. Could she be speaking to every hired girl she met on the street?
 Why, of course not. And the second glri went home and had good cry. And she wouldn't treat dog that way.
 And she went to dance in the coun- try where they move the things out from the front room and the kitchen. ana a, put the fiddler and the caller. off
 
 pig-footed Dutch county girl who danced on her heels and threw the boys around like sacks of flour. And the country girl thought the city girl with ner Dig hat and town clothes was just the sweetest thing out of heaven. And when the country girl came to town looking like a fright one Saturday night she ran into the city girl and her chum from the West Side on parade with dapper little clerk and pretty . Iooking tin horn gambler whom all the girls at the shirt waist dance said was the town girl spoke to the big footed country girl with her funny clothes on?
 Not on your tintype. She turned her race the other way and she and the other girl and the two boys sailed by prouder than peacock.
 and vanity stabbing their way through the world. Women are worse than men. Men accept one another for what they are really worth. A rich man who mas honestly earned his money. thinks nothing of talking to someone's hired man. The railroad brakeman and the railroad president have relations that their wives never could assume-pro. |. viding their wives are fools A man IS proud of the fact that he has worked with his hands and come up in the world. There was a woman at the fed = eration of clubs last spring who was once head waiter at the Whitley Ho- tel, in Emporia. and though she was a cultivated, honest woman. she was ashamed of 1t, and If The Gazette had printed the fact at the time the fedora tion would have mobbed the office.
 Now. why? If her husband had once been a porter at the Whitley and had of his rise. Women are funny. This Is funny world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
An Assistant Rector.


 For forty-four years pr: John M Bannister has done faithful and efi- cient service for his God and fellow man as the Rector of the Church of Nativity in our city. If ever man de- served the gratitude of a community. the grand old rector deserves it. If ever man was entitled to rest and as- sistance in the evening of a useful life, a life of beautiful example. full of virtues that men should emulate. the grandest of all Rectors Dr. John M. Bannister deserves it. To retire him. to cut loose his inspiring influence of good. while yet his intellect sparklGs and Eliminates the path of Goodliness, would be as disastrous as to dismantle the church, to silence the bell. For so great is the respect of our people for the life and character of Or. Ban mister. that one wave of his hand could bring more men to order, silent obedience to law. reverence, than the combined influence of any hundred picked men In our community. But m unselhsh. grateful congregation owes him rest, and an assistant He has long since rendered the life ser vice of ,man. and by reason of his greater strength his long and useful activity. he has rendered the services of two men. and yct rtains undimmed his bright faculties. Is it but right we should not tax them lonEer7 But thA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
MILITARY MANEUVERS.
Question Raised as to Whether the
 Game Is Worth the Candle.


 Game Is Worth the Candle. Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Our accomplished contemporary, The Washington Post. headlines about two columns of matter In prominent place, in an inflammatory manner that might have been becoming to a Capi- tai journal ''endurin the wah.' The caption artist makes conspicuous the Victory" that he Surrounded the Blue Army and Captured Duffield." and that The Men Behaved Like Veterans" It Is further explained that General liar Columbia militia, won a signal victory over the imaginary force of the enemy, commanded by Captain Hickok, of the 18th cavalry. The Blue army was "cut ter strenuous fighting since daybreak." This dreadful affair took place near Harper's Ferry. where the District mili- tia was In its annual encampment.
 Camp life constitutes an important drill and experience for the citizen sol. diery; but the plain, unvarnished citi- zen cannot easily avoid the impression that there Is a great deal of humbus in peace: "soldierilg" may be learned within the paths of peace, hut battles and strategy that are not learned in real war are of small account. The sham article seems like a proclamation; at least 1t look a good deal like boys playing soldier with modern guns
 There is to be- little later, a tremen- dous military encampment on the fa- nous fe1d of Bull Run. Here is to be heaps" of strategy and a great fight" Thousands upon thousands of troops are to be there. with horses and accou- trements. There will be many officers and more lace and fancy trappings than there were at either of the real battles of Bull Run.
 It may be all right: but to a man in the cockloft of a newspaper building 1t doesn't look as if 1t would be worth the money 1t will cost.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22

honors, the leadership are his. while subordinate, young and able assis. tant do the heavy work as rector. lt is not retirement; but an expression of depreciation of usefulness, of rest deserved, that has wisely prompted the vestry to employ him an assistant: Were 1t otherwise. the whole of Huntsville with one accord. every christian man. woman and child, all of whom know the grand old rector. Huntsville's most distinguished and honored citizen, all of whom love him. would burst with indignation. .6ut the Vestry is prompted by the proper spirit, they merely hand his stan to lean upon. an assistant in & the evening evening rector is Rev. w. W. Claybrook of Ty- Ter, Texas The Tribune will welcome Rev wm. Claybrook and trust, that tha beautiful life and character Of his principal may illuminate his path and add to his usefulness. Dr. Claybrook, we are advised will enter upon ms duties as assistant on the 18th day or Geptember.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
ENTERPRIsING TRAMPs.
Hoboes Take Hand in the Suppress
 sion Of Automobiles.


 Philadelphia Record.
 A new hobo industry Of hobo and industry may be mentioned together without an explosion) which promises to be profitable and safe is likely to be Of benefit to suburban people. The tempts ton to the owner or chauffeur of an automobile to speed on the smooth and uncrowded roads of the suburbs is one which no merely human creature can resist. These roads afford the only opportunity for the owner to determine just what his locomotive Is capable of and to show off to his friends. Al most the principal motive in buying an automobfle is to excite the envy of driver will not be restrained by the fear of killing cickens. dogs, hogs and other farm creatures which stray on the highways, or even by the danger and his family in slow moving farm wagon All the desperate efforts of the rural constables. aided by an in- dignant agricultural popu1ace. have failed to repress the chauffeur's am bition to smash records at the cost of smashing other things.
 This Is why the rural constables magistrates, and farmers, as well as the suburban people who work in town and cannot afford automobiles to carry them thither. heartily approve of the holding-up of automobile parties by bands of hungry and thirsty hoboes who pose as constables and threaten the travellers with the calaboose and Il fine unless they shall "whack up.''
 The interest of the suburban ofi- cials and people in the operation springs from the belief that a few ex- periences of this kind will cure the speeding habit If not, then there is some solace in the robbery of the speeders. To complain of the highway men would be idle. since they are an aid toward the suppression or punish ment of class of men who are cor dially disliked by all who do not own automobiles. The tramps affirm that this form of robbery Is safer and moro profitable than is any criminal pur- suit in the city, where protection must be sought from politicians
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
Guarantee,

This is the best time in the whole year to cure dyspepsia. The outdoor life, the lighter diet, the lessened work and worry, all help the cure. One box of Mi-o,na now will do more good than longer treatment at other seasons. It is not an ordinary medicine. but Na- lures remedy that cures and restores perfect and lasting health.
 The strongest evidence that can be offered for the merits of Mi-o-na and it's curative virtues is the guarantee under which 1t is sold by E. G. Fowler He stands ready at all times to refund the price to any one who has found that it has not done all that is claimed for 1t. aug 22-26.2l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
Decreasing Agricultural Exports.

Philadelphia Record.
 In spite of the most artistic manip- ulatfon of trade returns the fact Is patent that with the exception of cot ton there is a decidedly backward tend ency in American exports of products of the farm. Even the export trade in manufactures is not advancing, not withstanding the policy of the trusts in dumping their surplus products that cannot be sold at home for what prices they will bring in foreign markets.
 Yet in this untoward condition. with exports of agricultural products and manufactures declining or at a stand still. the stand pat" champions have been preparing to hail the election of vor of vigorously maintaining the Dingley tariff The manufacturing trusts may find their advantage in a lop-s sided policy under which this coun- try Is to appear chiefly as a seller in foreign markets. regardless of the earn est warnings of President Mckinley in his last speech. It will be for the American farmers to determine wheth- shall be permitted to enforce the cast iron system. of Dingleyism until Ar gentina. Canada and Australia shall have conquered the European markets for breadstuffs and provisions. There can be no mistake as to the issue. The election of Theodore Roosevelt and of a Republican majority in Congress would be interpreted as mandate of tne peopie to maintain the Dlngley tar ir in all its barbarism. On the other hand. the election of Alton B. Parker and of a Democratic House would be a popular command to relax a system that is obstructing more and more the commerce of the United States with the rest of the world. There need be no apprehension as to the acquiescence of the Senate in the will of the people thus plainly expressed at the ballot box. The corsairs of the trusts thor oughly understand this when making contributions from their spells to the Republican campaign fund