davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10

The War Department has not yet
made any ailotments or Importance for
the Improvement OF southern water
ways out OF the general emergency
fund Of 100000 appropriated by Con-
gress at its last session Two aIlotr'
ments OF minor Importance have thus
far been made with reference TO the
removal OF the water hyacinths from
the waterways Of Louisiana and the
Improvement OF the Mobile. Ala. har-
Dor. With this exception. nothing has
yet been done and may not be done I'M
the Immediate future.
The rivers and harbors bill approved
June Is. 1909. contained provision for
an emergency fund Of $500, 900 which
has yet been untouched. The depart.
ment Is now drawing upon this fund
with the view OF leaving the sSo0.00f
appropriation contained IN the last ar
preparation bill as intact as posslbls,
Upon the former sum. In recent weeks.
several drafts have been made. for the
Improvement OF Southern waterwaya.
as the subjoined will show white
River. Arkansas. $1,000; Black River,
IS, $50: Current River. s.9SB: st. Francis
River $4,000; Choctaw Hatchie. Ala.
$4,000: Alabama River. $4,000; Coosa
River $500: Tom Bigbee River s&.0e0:
Pearl River. below Rockport, 81 200,
Arkansas River $4,000.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10

fered for the company's plant. OF the
claims presented those held by news
papers all over the country aggregate
more than $4,000 on advertising ac-
counts. The claims OF Pettingill and
Company which are between 100000
and 100000. were not presented today
to be proved.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
CAvE-IN IN ATLANTA.
One Dead, Two Dying and Two Others
In Precarious Condition.

Atlanta. Ca. June 9.-One man dead,
two probably dying and two more in a
precarious condition, was the result OF
a cave in late this afternoon on Mitch
ell Street near the center of the city
where excavations were made for the
foundations Of a new business block.
All the men were negroes.
Eight men were engaged on the
work when tons of earth with little
warning slipped down on them from
one side of the excavation. The escape
of the five was stopped by wagon
which was being loaded with the dirt.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10

Odessa, Mo-, June 81. II. Gehman.
president OF Odessa College, aged 10
years. was found unconscious IN his
apartments In the college building to-
day. He had shot himself in the region
Of the heart and it Is believed VIII die.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10

washtnaten, june .e.--For Alabama !
Fair I'm north, showers In south per-
tfon Fridays cooler In interior, sntur-
day fair, wsrmery light 10 fresh NORTH
east to southeast winds.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
KILLED BY BITE OF SPIDER.
.. J. C. Wilson of Knoxville Dead
Vrou, Iusecf,s PofaOn,

Knoxville. Tenn, June 9.-Nfrs. ]. 4.
Wilson died at her home in this city
to-day from the effects of a bite from
a black spider received Tuesday.
She thought nothing Of 1t at the
time. but yesterday her condition be-
came so serious that consultation OF
physicians was held.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
NIerico.n FeYer sltuation.

Mexico City. June 9.--There are two
yellow fever fever cases at Vera Cruz
an done new case at Tehuantepec. No
new cases are reported from Merida.
Smallpox is disappearing from Tor
reen.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
KuaopATKIN MOVING SOUTH.
st. Petersburg Hears He Is Command
ing In Person.

st. Petersburg, June s.-Among the
runoors that filled the city tonight h
one on better authority than the aver
age. that General KuropatlSin is himself
moving southwark from Liaoyang 1t
sis not possible to authoritatively con-
firm the report.
Except for a brief message Of mys-
ferrous origin from Rear Admiral
wittsoeff. both the people and the Of
fetal world are quite In the dark con-
cerning events in Southern Liaotung.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
OBJECTIONS TO MR.. HIT
Not sufficiently Vigorous for
Arduous Campaign.
Knex Has the nest chance Of Thsse
VINO weald LIKE 10 step
rnto the Shoes Of Late
senator onay.


6ea washington dune -
public men in washington. who are
in close touch With the political situa-
ton. almost unanimously agree that
either Senator Fairbanks or Speaker
Cannon win be nominated for the
vice presidency ut the Chicago CON
vention.
with equal unanimity. they agree
that Cannon could have the place
probably without opposition, Y he
would but consent to the use OF his
name and declare himself q candidate.
But his strenuous and sincere oppo-
sition, made emphatic In the way
which only he can employ, removes
him from the list of candidates, unless
the convention disregards his wishes
and dominates him without references
to what the speaker himself wants
Therk are those who believe that
this will be done II. however, CAM
mons wishes are respected and bis
name not presented, Il Il generally
agreed that Senator FAIRBANKS will be'
chosen.
The candidacy OF Representative
Hit OF Illinois. the only other candt-
date now seriously mentioned, ~ not
regarded here as possible to bring him
the nomination and reasons for II ara
now assigned. While Mr.. HIT Is
man OF nre-eminent ability and would
grace the once by his digaity and
knowledge Of parliamentary law, gain>
ed through long service in the House
ii IL looked upon as essential that the
man nominated be capable Of conduct
Ing an active campaign and touring
the country to considerable degree
Mr.. Hits physical condition would not
permit this. In that way Presidents
roosevelt Is regarded as having made
an ideal second place candidate in 1890.
Cannon and FnirhanlxH.
While Speaker Cannon Is not
young mani being IS. he stu has the
energy and vitality OF one much Iesa
Ia years. ana could updsrsSs sise hard
Ii n of Htltrins nausk skl. ApFe y
over, ne is q speaker &c force who
could keep the crowds shouting from
start TO fnfsh.
senator Fairbanks has the physical
endurance to conduct such cane
paign, as the candidate will be called
upon to make. but Is not 50 taking as
Cannon.
The President himself Is understood
to be undecided as TO the course the
convention ought to pursue in this Inn
portant matter. A few weeks ago. at
the commencement OF the Hit boom.
It was given out that he looked upon
the candidacy OF the Illinois man
with considerable favor and was in
ciined to regard Il as the wisest solu-
ton of the question. But now 1t does
not appeal to him 30 strongly. ana
close friends are authority for the
statement that he Is undecided as 70
who would be nominated.
Sentiment has so far developed
strongly favoring the nomination of
either Fairbanks or Cannon that tina
President will undoubtedly coinciaa
with Il and permit the nomination oE
one or the other without objection.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10
SISTER OF CECIL RHODES.
Heir of Dead Empire Builder Found Il
Ashevllle.

Chicago. June "a dispatch to The
Tribune from Ashevilie, n. c., says:
Mary Virginia Rhodes, one OF the
heirs to the Cecil Rhodes estate in
South Africa. has been found in Ashe-
vile. She is now Mrs. virginia
Rhodes Baker. and a missionary. Mrs.
Baker is about As years old. She has
been engaged in mission work in the
Black Mountain district for a number
OF years.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-10

The Presbytery of North Alabama
met here today In special session.
Rev. H. c. Kegley was received from
the Synod OF Texas. lie has been
called TO the First Presbyterian
Church of Gadsden, which has been
without a pastor since the resignation
Of Rev. DIR, McAIpin several months
agon on account Of i'll health. --r.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
WHY NOT BE REASONABLE

In nine-tenths Of the cases where
local legislation is called for to cor
rect some petty abuse, all that Is need
ed is just plain recognition by the
average man of the rights Of others.
This is eminently true of the proposed
ordinance forbidding the use Of the
whistle in factories. There are two
sides to this question. There is an OBJ
vious objection to passing the ordi-
nance referred to, and there Is an OBJ
vious objection to leaving the situa-
ton as it Is. Everything could be
cured by a little consideration, and by
refraining from the abuse of a proper
privilege.
For instance. it is clearly shown by
a large manufacturing interest that it
would be hardship to it not to per-
NIT it to give some audible signal by
which Its employees could be called to-
gether. 1t is easy to give quietly a
sign to quit work. It is not SO easy to
indicate the exact hour at which hun
dreds, or perhaps thousands, of en-
ployes should be in their places. If it Is
not given there is loss of time which,
in the case of so vast a body of men
and carried over period of months or
years, amounts to a very large sum in
actual cash. 1t is just as clearly
shown, and is the reason why this ac-
ton was proposed, that when the pro-
prietor of a factory keeps a whistle
footing hideously for several minutes,
or even for half an hour at a time, he
is destroying public comfort and out
raging the rights of the community.
Now this whole thing could be han
died in the most satisfactory way to
everybody concerned if all would but
be reasonable. A single sharp blast
upon whistle lasting for not to ex-
coed from one to three seconds will
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

sanguinary affair, the losses approx
mating 10000 men out of "A total of
$4,000 engaged, but the losses were
distributed over'a considerable length
of time, the fighting being desultory
during the siege.
How far Is 1T from Alexander of
Greece to Nicholas OF Russian In
point Of time there is a difference of
twenty-five hundred years. Greece
is living Greece no more.s She
had given tituiar church to
Russia and dream of great
ness to humanity The Alexander of
yester age is not the Nicholas OF to-
day, but men lay down their lives for
a name, principle, a thing in the bogs
about the Mongel city in 1904 A. ID.
az they did on the plain about the little
village of Arbela in 33l B. c. The
dream of peace when men viii not shay
for conquest is as much a dream as it
was in the days when the philosophers
Of Greece were held to be traitors for
advising against the resort to arms,
more than two thousand years ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. SUNDAY. sEPTEMBER 4, 1904

serve every purpose required. It does
not constitute a nuisance. It offends
the ear for so short q time flrat the
nerves do not suffer. Nobody would
have reason to object to it, 1T is just
as good a warming, just as sufficient
summons to labor, as q chorus OF
shrieks or howls that convulse a neigh
borhood..
Why cannot the managers of the
concerns that are responsible for the
whole agitation be reasonable, remov-
ing the cause of complaint, securing
the entire purpose that they aim at
and obyiating the necessity for any leg
isiation whatever by adopting this
practice? With 1t we are sure that
everybody would be satisfied. Let as
encourage that mutual respect for one
anether's rights that ought to be the
first consideration of civilized society;
and with it VIII pass all need for a
whole code of sexatious, petty re-
strictions that often afflict the inno-
cent for the sake of reaching a very
few obstinate, bull-headed and callous
individuals.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
WEATHER REPORTS TO
BE SIMULTANEOUS
Complaints of Boards of Trade Bear
Fruit in Washington

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. 3.-or-
ders were issued by the department Of
agriculture today to employees Of the
weather bureau at all the principal
points in the United States to release
the weather reports and forecasts 81
multaneously. This action was taken
by the acting secretary, Prof Willis
Moore, chief of the weather bureau,
because of complaints which have been
made by boards of trade in Chicago,
st. Louis, Kansas City and other cities
East and West, the claim being made
that reports would reach one city
ahead of another, giving the state Of
the weather and crops in the territory
covered by the two markets, and thus
giving an advantage in one market to
buy or sell, according to the indications
before the reports would reach the
other point. In the future the reports
will be telegraphed to the agents of the
weather bureau in the larger cities as
soon as they are completed by the ex-
perts, when all will be posted at
specified hour.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
AT THE GATES OF LHAssA

It Is about time for the British to
prepare some means for getting Young
husband and his force back into India.
Three months from now there may be
nobody to bring back. The Tibetans
have demonstrated an aptitude for
maintaining their rights that the in
yaders did not dream of. They al
lowed Younghusband to penetrate to
the gates of their sacred city when and
how they pleased. The British force sits
at the gate of the city and the purpose
Of the expedition is effected SO far,
but the object of the war1ike demon
stration, the signing Of treaty favor
ing Great Britain, is as far from real
ization as 1t was before the force
crossed the border of Tibet.
The English are opposed by a
strength hitherto unknown to them.
They have brought strange peoples
under subsection in many parts of the
world, but they have met nothing like
the stolid resistance of the priests of
Lhassa. The men Of this strange
church militant say they are very will
ing that the British shall have the
treaty, but they say they cannot sign
it. None may sign such treaty but
the dalai lama and he cannot be found.
Only the lamas know who their chief
is. The British may have him in
their hands, but without means Of
identifying him in the horde of lamas
they are nonplussed.
The lamas are waiting for the win
ter to win for them the victory they
were unable to wrest from the British
It is impossible to get supplies neces-
sary to the life Of the expedition to
Younghusband. It would take a force
twice as strong as the original one to
get through the country that lies be-
tween the borders of Tibet and Laassa.
Lacking the means Of transport it
would be virtual inpossibility to get
ioou dA1 CtoLniAS III sufficient guam
tity to last a considerable force
through the winter to the point where
Younghusband is located. There APP
pears to be nothing for 1t but a retreat,
and there is the certainty that the re-
treat will be rout.
In reaching out the strong hand to
grasp the country Of the lamas the
English government has essayed an
undertaking that is like to be as dis
astrous as the early campaign in the
Sudan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
WORDS OF soBERNEss AND
TRiJTE

By the gods of war; 1t is almost getting
a crime Minnesota for anyone 10 say
a word OF commentator or praise in IA
Vor OF James j. Hill, by all odds the lead
ing citizen, not Of this state alone, but of
ali the great Northwest. I have person
ally known MIR. Hill fer nearly fifty years
and i know the man. To be sure he is
working for his own interests. What a
fool he would be if he didn't; but while
working to build up his gigantic system of
railroads, he has also every time care
FULLY guarded the interests Of the North
west. MIR. Hill is a man every inch of
him; generous true and Kind, and scores
OF men, yes hundreds, owe much Of their
acquired wealth te him.
suppose for instance although I hope
II VIII be many years before such a
calamity occurs. Mr.. Hill should be called
home, and his life work should end, press,
pulpit and people would vie with each
other In paying tribute to his greatness,
his ability, his generosity, his nob1eness
OF character, and the entire country
would regret his demise. Mr.. Hill living
IS worth much more to this world than
Mr.. Hill dead, and / for one, honor and
respect the man, and if it be crime in
this state to make 1t known, you can
make the most of it-Anoka Union.
1t Is a wholesome and refreshing
tAAAA6 "iCl q Illctll odISS sweep dSlOS
with the strong hand of fearless truth
the cloud Of gnatlike lies that hover
over a community. The quotation
above from the Anoka Union expresses
only the plain truth, and what prac-
tically everybody in Minnesota knows
to be the truth. 1t is a deserved trib-
ute to man who has done more than
all others combined for the greatness,
the development, the prosperity of the
Northwest; yet a man than whom none
has been more shamelessly or persist
emily misrepresented and maligned
There are good many people who
will be shamed by such a frank
declaration as this into honesty. Every
migrate, every shyster, every man who
has failed to receive some undeserved
favor, every demagogue, every man
who, without merit or ability. has
sought to hoist himself into place and
income by reviling greatness has been
for many years engaged in the game
rebuked In such bluff terms by the
Union. 1t is time that, il not for very
decency then out of utter WEAKNESS,
this thing should cease. It is time that
a generous people who are not deceived
and who do appreciate what Mr.. Hill is
and what he has done should turn upon
keeps at their vile task and lash them
into quaking silence. The Union has
but said aloud what honest and intelli-
gent men all over the Northwest are
saying. and pointed the way to manli-
ness and justice.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
READY FOR WORK.

Fashion long ago decreed that the
straw hat should be packed away
Aug. Is, but the silly season is not
really merged into the busy season I'M
til September. Labor day is the last
playday Of the summer time; it most
appropriately ushers in the season Of
hard work. It is impossible for the
city dweller to remain unaffected by
the stir and the activity that appear to
create a new atmosphere for the fall
season. Even though summer may con-
clude to linger for awhile in the lap Of
fall, energy is in the air and the LATEST
cannot escape the infection.
To the children Of the city the be-
ginning OF the fall season means the
beginning Of work in very real sense.
st. Paul is to be congratulated on the
possession Of ample educational facili-
ties for its youth. The problem that
confrents SO many of the large cities,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
NO EXCUSE

The attorney of notorious criminal
recently executed said, with reference
to the case after all was over: IF
there ever was a case where drunken
ness could excuse or paIliate a crime,
this was the case" There is seldom
statement more fruitful for reflection
or one that raises a question more i'm
portant to society and to the makers
and administrators Of law.
'If there ever was a case" There's
the rub. Is there ever case where
drunkenness can excuse or paIliate a
crime? We are inclined to think that
the sober reflection Of a seIf-respect-
ing people win negative the senti-
mentalisms that have crept into our
laws and Our courts, and answer this
question with a firm and unqualified
mo-" The fiction that drunkenness is
defense for the criminal is a trans
parent extension of that larger issue
Of mental responsibility which the
common sense of the people and the
best judgment Of the courts are begin
ming to construe more severely.
If We may doubt whether it is right
ever to let loose again upon society a
man proved to be subject even tempo
rarily to the homicidal mania, and if we
may question the gain to society Of pre-
serving the life of a mind permanently
unbalanced and bent upon injury to
others, we can have at least little
question about inf1icting punishment in
cases where this responsibility is not
the result of sudden misfortune or in
herited faint in the blood, but is the
deliberate act of the criminal himself
Drunkenness is not an unpreventable
misfortune. The act Of drinking must
precede it; and except in the case of
hopeless victims of the alcohol habit
who are really much more seldom met
with than is generally supposed, this
first step is a matter of choice. why
should a man be relieved of RESPONSE
bility for consequences that, Ii not in
evitable, are at least bound up in
something that he does Of his own vo-
lition?
If man were to attempt to walk
the streets of the city with a loaded
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

and cooked revolver strapped to his
shoulder, and pointing straight ahead
OF him at about the height of a mans
hearts he would be arrested before he
got past the FIRST policeman. He would
be heavily punished for his expert
ment; and If. before it could be pre-.
vented. the revolver was discharged
and somebody was injured or killed.
he would be held accountable for his
inaarderous freak. No argument that
he did not pull the trigger, or that he
did not expect the cartridges to Elk
plode, or any other indirect exculpa-
ton would avail. Because he knew
what might happen, and was guilty of
setting in motion a trail of eircum-
stances leading to the probability that
it would happen, he would be held ac-
countable.
We do not see that the case is diff
ferent with the victim of strong drink.
In every case, we think, he has had
plenty of warning. No man becomes q
drunkard all at once, and scarcely any
man commits a crime in the access of
irresistible fury following the first in
diligence in drink. He knows all that
may happen. He has had opportunity
to test the effect of such stimulants
upon himself, and he has all the ex-
perience OF the ages behind him. The
man who, knowing thus to what it
may Head, yet takes a glass Of aiquor,
does so at his peril. For what may
follow, be it a mild pleasure or a fear
full orgy or a lesser or greater crime,
he is as responsible as any other ac-
cessory before the fact.
The theory that drunkenness Is
defense for crime or palliation of the
act ought to be thrown out of our
courts. We may feel as much SYM
pathy as we please with the victim of
this habit. If we regard him as a dis
| eased and therefore irresponsible per
son, there is only one thing we can do.
This is to shut him up like any other
maniac where his weakness can injure
no one. If this is too strenuous, as it
undoubtedly is, then let him be placed
upon the same basis as all other men
OF varying appetites and passions who
have to pay the penalty when those
passions and appetites hurry them over
the brink of rash action. Drunken
ness Is no more an excuse for crime
than is jealousy or anger, or even
greed. Let us put this false notion, SO
full Of evil consequences to society.
behind us once for all.