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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
MAGIC IN THE ZUNI TRIBE.
Priest Apparently Lifted a Jug of Wate
 With STcafkaI


 With Ecatker.
 From The Seattle Post t-Intelligencer.
 The most startling fact I ever saw" said a guest at the Diller last night, who has made a study of Indians in various parts of the United States for hisown edi- fication. was performed by the priests of the Zuni tribe in Arizona. or, as they were called. The Ancients of Creation" They seat themselves in a circle on the clay floor. around a jar that will hold perhaps a gallon an ancient and sacred earthen vessel. which Is filled with water. The chief priest car rles in his hand two ordinary eagle feathers, which are tied together at the quill ends that they make a fork. Behind the cir cle of the priests are other members of the tribe and the musicians with their drums and gourds. who join in the chants with emotion.
 The incantations continue for several hours and when the participants and spec tators are brought up to a proper pitch of excitement the priest dips the feather tips into the water. lifts the jar with them and holds 1t suspended for a minute or two a height level with his face or breast. Then he lowers 1t slowly to the ground. This feat is repeated several times during the performance. Apparently there is nothing in the hand of the priest but the feathers and they appear to be inserted into the mouth of the jar only two or three inches Of course, there is some trick about it, but was never able todiscover it."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
WEEKLY TRADEREvIEw
uNSEAsoNABLY WARM WEATHER
 HAS RETARDED BUSINESS.
ortfmistie outIoek Regarding the Fa- ture, However. Finds Rehectaon
 in the Enlargement of wholesaIinG and Jobbing.

New York. Nov. 11.-Bradstreet's tomorrow will say:
 Interest in the elections and unsea- sorlably warm weather have retarded trade but the more optimistic outlook as to the future found a reflection lat CT in an enlargement of the wholesale and jobbing business, firmer tone of prices and more assured activity in many leading industries.
 Relatively reports of better collec- tons have come from the South. Col. Iections have been rather better at the West. Railway earnings point to moderate gains over the good results of last fall. Prices testify to a de- nnand pressing on the supply in gen. eral level of quotations close to the highest recorded in the past decade.
 There has been a shifting of activity from the cruder forms of iron to the more finished products of the steel in- dustry without. however. any dfminu- ton of the strength of prices of pig iron which is fractfonaliy higher. h. deed. the disinciinatton of sellers to engage heavily ahead into next year has been factor In restraining ex- treme activity in tns market for pig iron. Other metals are strong. Coal is more active.
 Of the country's leading products special activity Is noted this week ip iron and steel. coal, coke, hardware hides. leather, groceries. lumber and building material.
 Business failures in the United States for the week ending November 10 numbered 1s4, against 20o-last week and 250 year ago.
 Wheat. including flour, exports for the week ending November 10, aggre- gate 1.4S4,275 bushels. against 1,4s2.2o last week,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
WHAT HELPS OPTICIANS.
Man Who Wears Glasses Makes some
 Observations.

M8H Wh0 wears 0AnSeeS MaAeS SOKne
 Observations.
 New York Sun.
 Before ever wore glasses" said a man who now does wear them. T used to wonder how all the opticians made a living, there were so many Of them. It seemed to me that If all creation was blind it wouldn't be enough to supply them all with busi- ness But now know.
 when ] first put on glasses said to myself, Well, that's done. I've got my glasses;' and I supposed that's all there was to 1t. I thought that in five or ten years or so I'd get my eyes examined over again and maybe have to buy another pair, but that in the meantime I should be under no further expense.
 But as a matter of fact l smashed my first paor of glasses the day after I got them, and break my glasses on an average how about seventeen times year. I had thought that my opti- elan and would be comparative Strangehs we are really well acquaint- cd and friends. l certainly couldn't get along without him, and don't suppose he could get along without me.
 And that accounts for ale optician's prosperity. It isn't the origplal num- Der of glasses he sells, but it is the number of the renewals and repairs he makes that keeps him going and makes him rich: and when look at it in this light and reflect that while per haps not more than one person in ten wears glasses, yet in effect his GUS toners number more than all creation, why. my wonder is not that there are so many opticians, but that there are not more"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

The one amusing thing about the late election is seen by going back and reading the predictions made by prom inent men and newspapers just a day or two before; not merely the general results. but in many cases the actual figures. They were so wide of the mark that it is difficult to understand how men could be so badly mistaken. It shows either the impossibility of forecasting results or the indisposltion of the forecasters to tell the exact truth. Which 1t was we cannot say, but We know that there were some wonder fui misses made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
UNDERGRADUATE VANDALISM.
savagery of the Dangerous Kind Thas
 Frequently Characterises Haxing. Nauar rhr NaWa

From time immemorial the school boy has been permitted a certain amount of froiicsome savagery without question, and even when he has taken advantage of his license to commit some outrageous assault upon decency the act has been oondoned as far as possible. It Is bootless to Inquire into the philosophy or history of all this. We don't know when 1t began or why. We are unable to tell why 1t persists or how long 1t Is to continue. We only accept 1t as a fact and submit our selves thereto with whatever good natured resignation we are able to mus ter up.
 dulgent of the old heads must protest now and then. Take the late happen ings out of Evanston, H., for instance, where a band of sophomores took seven freshmen to a pit in the country. one night last week, forced them to walk a plank into the deep, cold water with which the pit was filled. and left them to scramble out and make their way home as best they could. Three of the victims are down with pneumonia now. There may be a funeral as a finale to the college prank" but there will never be 6 murder trial, of course. Or there is the riot which the Pennsylva- mia boys kicked up on the Fall River steamboat. as they were returning with their football club from Boston. Tables were overturned, furniture smashed. windows broken, and general devasta- ton wrought from stem to stern of the big ship Puritan, while night was made hideous by the yells of the young gentlemen" who were so gay1y deport- mig themselves. There Is no record, however, that these little pleasantries had any sequel in the police courts, and no reason to suppose that they will.
 The above are not isolated instances. They have abundant company. as any one who reads the newspapers Is ready to testify. Perhaps 1t is ungracious to commant upon them at all and yet every once in a while there Is a man or a woman unappreciative eoungh of some things in our system of higher education to intimate that there is really an obligation upon the college lad to be q gentleman. Now and then some one actually hints that the col lege authorities. if unable to keep the students within decent limits. should be assisted by the police and the courts. Such people are not numerous, of course. but there are more of them than there used to be, and their num- Der increases at a rate which almost justines one in hoping that they may ultimately have some influence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IF, 1904.
A NEW ARGUMENT.

ProhioIrfon Is largeIy a sentiment. fvr there is not. has not been, and prob ably never will be any real agreement between those who advocate and those who oppose it. There are good people who seem to regard it as the one and only cure for all the evils of intem- perance, while there are others, equally honest. and equally opposed to drum kenness, who maintain that absolute prohibition is impossible, and that 1t woud be wrong to enforce It if 1t could be done. Between these conflicting sentiments there will always be a wide divergence of opinion, but there is a strictly business side to 1t, according to The Portland Oregonian. That paper refers to the urgent need of laborers to clear and bring into cultivation the lands in Western Oregon which are now largely in a state of nature. For this work it declares that white labor from the Old World must be depended on but-and here is the significant part of it's argument-it says:
 Just one word. right here. This transformation never will be effected except through labor from the Old world. And immigrants from Cor many. from Scandinavia. from Switzer- land from Holland, from Austria, from Italy, will not come to q prohibition State. It Is not merely prohibition they 1etest, but the narrow. intolerant tenn per of which 1t Is sign. The class of industrious foreigners whom, we de- gtre do not settle in a prohibition State. They want no moIestation from people who don't. like to mind their own business and let others alone.
 What brought out the editorial from which we have quoted is the effect now Eoing on to enact a prohibitory law Tor the State, and The Oregonian op- poses it. Aside from an occasional ex- aibition of sectionalism and extreme craftsmanship, that paper is one of the Iairest papers on our exchange list. as It is one of the most intelligent and conservative. We can also bear wit ness to the fact that 1t Is an earnest ldvocate of temperance and sobriety. Aot an advocate of the extreme and in. tolerant kind. but one which is always ready to speak up for temperance in III things.
 In the extract quoted our contempo- fary speaks in very plain and positive lerms it's sentiments as to the injury which will be sustained by the indus rial interests of the State by the en- lctment of rigid prohibitory laws. Whether its contention Is well founded. we are not prepared to say, but from he manner Of speaking, we must be- aeve that The oregonian has studied Inc habits. the likes and the feelings of those whom 1t speaks so positively. md that it knows whereof it speaks. If 1t is correct, and if its views are sustained by the public sentiment of Inc State, we may feel pretty sure hat there will be no prohibition in Oregon. It raises a curious and inter lsting question, at all events.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
As n Republican Sees It.

t1untsViltS IriDun6.
 We admit the Republican party in Alabama Is not what it should be, this election has demonstrated its utter in capacity to accomplish anything for the principles 1t proposes to advocate In all it's history 1t never made a more dismal failure than ak this time when 1t could have accomplished something. comes to electing national delegates, 1t is clamorous around the pie counter but 1t Is as dead as a No. 3 mackerei when the time couaas for 1t to advance an idea, 10 do something in the way Of harvest. It is today smaller than ever before known in its history and 1t wiD
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
The Advertisers Telephones.
AN INTERESTING COLUMN OF FtGUREi
 And a Few Facts in Relation ts Them.

Circulation is ordinarily hard to get ana as a general rule harder to hold The Ao- vertiser, however. ia not c sufferer rom this peculiar newspaper ailment. We are growing and holding our own with the pest of them. There arc many reasons why we shouid continue to increase and hold II. The Advertiser Is the vehicle in which the news from all over the world Is conveyed daily into every part of Alabama and the ndsoining States and the people who depend upon 1t for the full account of what they can not personally see hear like It ana would not do without it. That It IS appre- rlateA by the reading public is attested by the following statement compiled and sworn to by our Circulation Manager, of our ac- tuai net circulation for each day In the month of October, 1904
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

help sliding the way 1t did. Perhaps we ought to feel thankful that it stop ped where it did. Did 1t hurt much7 We'll, rather. Like the big boy who got a severe jolt. we are too big to cry. and 1t hurts too bad to laugh :. But we'll get over 1t. for 1t isn't our first setback. We've had them before and are still able to set up and take notice. If they keep coming We may get discouraged in course of time. but Hope springs eternal in the human breast" or words to that effect, and there's another day coming.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
A CANINE FAD.
vanced.

In what is called "the swift set" In riety and a certain brand of popularity, and that Is to buy an expensive dog. The more 1t costs the higher up the ladder will the owner find herself Pomeranian brand of canines, and there is a record of one having sold for $1O,o00. Another, purchased by Mrs. Stuyvesafr. 2isA. bEouGhs s100 an ounce, hair and all, the entire price being 5000.
 Of course Harry Lehr is one of the promoters of this fad. as was natural ly to be expected of him. His tastes and inclInations run. largely to dogs. though he occasionally branches off on monkeys. Harry has decided canine tendencies and we suspect that 1t is largely owing to him that so many of the smart-setters have developed into dog-fanciers. Harry himself has a spaniel associate who wears emerald ear-rings and a ruby bracelet Possibly It wears monocles.
 It all seems very foolish, but as The Kansas City World asks. What are they to do?' These petted darlings of society must amuse themselves. They have nothing to do and plenty of money. and time hangs heavily on their hands. They cannot sit still all the time. and if their tastes and instincts run to dogs instead of children perhaps they are merely following their natures At any rate. one who wants to get into the swift set must own a Pomera- nian. Just plain dog won't do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

continue to grow smaller. more inac. tive. more worthless to the party. so I@ong @ as its eyes rest alone on ,s the to political cafnpafgns looking to the medication of Republican principles :. We have q machine. but no party. It does not rise to the dignity of party . It Is a discredit to the good name ft tries to bear. What we need is the acquisition of men of character, pa- triots. not pie-counter mediums. And the pie brigade bayonet off all men to our ranks. We now have an op- pertunity, 1t is up to MT. Roosevelt to do somsthiug for Republican princi- ples, he can build a party In Alabama or can perpetuate our present worth less condition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
WASHINGTON DENIES STORY.
Recently Published in Number of NeU..
 papers.

Fuonsneo In Numbef of News papers.
 Tuskegee Special to Atlanta Constitu-
 ton.
 Booker T. Washington today said that the staement published in large mum per or newspapers to the effect that his son, Booker T. Washington, Jr'. has applied sh for a position as paymaster in
 He states that the boy is only 1s years Of age. instead of 23; that he has never been to New Haven, Conn, from which place 1t is represented the appli- cation was sent. nor is he now attend. lnS or has he ever attended the Massa- Shusetts Institute of Technology: nor nas he ever been a student at PhilIips- Exeter Academy, or been captain of its tootball team, as stated; but instead ia attending the Tuskegee Institute. re- ceiVing instruction In academic ana in. dustrial branches. ''
 Washington states that he has en- dorsed no such application, nor have citizens of New Haven or any other place been solicited in his sons inter- es: to do so. He claims there is m basis whatever for such statements as have been published. "9
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Just To Cleveland. rfOlk WfP0irfa pflaf

The VirEinia-Pilot gives the ton of the morning to Hon. Grover Cleveland
 It has had occasion In the past to criti- oise many of his acts somewhat harsh. ly. but his utterances in this campaiSn have been of a character a to com mand the respect of every American citizen who loves truth. honesty and justice. His letter bearing upon the shameful hold-up of the trusts by Mr, cortelyou is one of the most incisiye and biting deliverances that has an peared in many day--and there Is no question that Mir. Cleveland knew the truth of what he was talking about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Good Farming.
Jasper Eagle.

Mir. J. N. Herring of the Maryiee neighborhood, who was in town Sat- urday, made this season wita the help of his two little sons, aged Q and t4 years, fourteen bales of cotton. 100 bushels of corn. 100 shocks of oats and vegetables, etc, for home use. He paid out but S$. 50 for hired help. and during the sUason worked out twice that sun away from home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Motives i'm Ade's Methods

Des MOineS News
 Chicago is much provoked because George Ade intends to spend the win ter in New York. They shouldn' t blame Ade, though The Chicago newspapers recently printed articles saying Ade was making sS,0Oo a week. and. of course. after that he doesn't dare go back 70 Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
The Truth About It.


 An Atchison woman whose husband beats her recalls that she got him by walking downstairs backward with g mirEow in her hand one Halloween. She thought then that the fairies had led him there to peep over her should er but has concluded since that he bad broke into the cellar to steal seuia- thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

An Illinois young man married four girls in a few weeks and boasts that ''it was great sport" If all of them were of the Carrie Nation brand and he could be forced to live with them, his ideas of sport would doubtless un- dergo a change.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Yes. it was A Iandsliae. sp,

Yes. it was a landslide. sure enough.
 We have been hearing of them and reading about them for many years,
 but there's no doubt as to the genuine ness Of this one That it slid in the wrong direction is not our fault, We tried to start 1t the other way. but 1t wouldn't start. The ways were greased hv onr onponents and the thing couldn t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

When a man slips on a banana peel and jars holes in the sidewalk, he isn't interested so much in knowing how 1t happened as he Is in trying to avoid another like it. It is somewhat the same in elections.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

We have often heard of floating votes" and now we believe they exist good and strong They all ioated into the Republican ballot-boxes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

How many of our readers, women or men, know what color ''burnt orange s? Yet that is now said to be the Ashionsele color. although we do not remember ever having seen a burnt |ranRs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
without q yar.
Mobile Item

Alabama came through the election without a jar, and is now ready to march on in the column of progress. from which she cannot be thrown by c tial election that goes In the wrong direction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
OCTOBER, 1904.
Daily Average fur October, I90S. Sunday Average for October, f904.

BuMuHy hVUFHBB TUT VctUUetg I5WE NUrsBo  F.. 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., 1904-11-12
The Talk of the Day.

An old negro died at Holley Springs, Miss, recently. and as he belonged to no church or lodge three or four negroes vol, unteered to bury him, and they were the only followers in his funeral train. After the coffin he'd been lowered into the grave all seemed to feel that something ought to be said They appealed to the oldest man. "Bob' McCraven, who delivered the fol- lowing: Friday Vizor. you is gone; but we hopes you IS better off than we 'spects you is"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

Before the election we were promised some surprises. and we got 'em in punches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Several of Them .

Eufaula Times.
 Carl Schurz insists that there are two Roosevelts. It looks like from the way people voted in Tuesdays election that there were several.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
The Theory of It.

Bfrmfngham NeWs.
 The theory is advanced that the Huntsville hen that laid an egg on which were initials and a date may have swallowed a fountain pen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
Real Inspiring.
nzarE GfaH

No doubt all this talk about the new disease called "craw-craw," caused from kissing, Is real inspiring to poli- tieians all over the country. who wish to get rid of the baby feature in fu- ture campaigns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
What was Coming.

Mobile Register. -
 The Baltimore Sun gave prominence to a notice on Tuesday morning, that given out at the ofiioe. of the paper that night. The Sun must have known what was coming.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12

Even a peaceful man is ever ready to strike a bargain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
. | . v @ v : WHAT THE STATE PAPERS { | ARE SAYING. {
A1& SA G411s
stni at sea .

still at Sea. Dothan siftings.
 We didn't believe 1t until 1t had hap pened, and we yet wonder how 1t really was done so easily and completely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
WHY TT IS SOLID.

The saddest thing The Chicago Trib- une can see In the election results is that the South remained solid. It says:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-13
DEEDS AND WORDS.

Between deeds and words there wide difference Who
think that the Emperor Russia who certainly drove Japan
or allowed himself to be used bring
Penned these words when appealing general disarmament
The maintenance OF general and sensible reduction the
which weigh all nations present themselves
in the existing condition Of the whole world ideal
the endeavor of all governments should be directed This
conference will be- by the help OF God happy pesag
about to Win unite and thus greatly strengthen
of all those which sincerely seeking great con
cpton of universal peace triumph the trouble
cord 1t will at the time them together by general
ecraton OF the principles OF equity and right which the security
of the states and the welfare of peoples"
These words were lofty and ideal enough but almost the that
they written the Emperor preparing take away
tuition the Firms and drive thousands those peaceful and
people into exile and this be followed by occupation
Manchua the Bgovchs eventually the present
The only concusontha very
weak with amiabe impulses did to this con
cuon would be Obliged class him among profound
hypocre that lived To talk peace hand
with the other certainly calls for kind of explanation as
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-13

one can learn the Gar has no will of
his own. He is the victim of mis-
councillors, who really run the empire
to suit themselves, and their own in
terests. He did not initiate the wrong
against Finland, but when his ministers
drew up the decree which abrogated the
constitution he had not force of mind
enough to refuse to sign it. He prob
ably considered that Russia was con-
ferring favor on Manchuria by occu-
plying it, and that it was civilizing and
improving it. And undoubtedly the
same specious pleading was made to
him by his ministers as was made re-
Gently by Count Cassini in America. He
must be regarded as an extremely un-
fortunate man. To be powerful but
to have others WELD the power is an
unhappy position.