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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

Women draw the biggest slice of pen sion money from Uncle Sam's strong box, says the Boston Herald. Twenty four of them might be named who, to- gether, get as much as the total re- ceived by $50 veterans of the $6 a month class. Two, Mrs Garfield and Mrs. McKinley--and we'll are they en- titled to the allowance from grate- full nation-receive $5.0o0 each: one, Mrs Philip H. Sheridan, has only to sigr her name for s2.50o per annum and three others have a regular in- come of $2,0o0 apiece from the same source. The three are Mrs. John A. Logan. Mrs Gtorge B. Mcclellan (moth- CT of the present Mayor of .,ew York), and Mrs. Frank Blair, widow of the famous Gen. Blair.
 Eighteen widows of Generals and Admirals draw s1,200 year in pension money; six get $900 per an- mum, and 200 surviving relicts of dis tinguished army and navy officers re- ceive $500. It will thus be seen that the Government pays annually to 230 widows a total of $165, ,500-an amount great as is checked out in the same length of time to 2,29S veterans at $6 a month. This is not meant to imply that the widows get cent more than they ought to have. but merely to call attention to the fact that the old sol diers do not absorbe all of the cash that Is paid out of the much abused pension appropriation.
 The widows to-day occupy the most conspicuous on the pension rolls. The ranks of the veterans are steadily thin ming at the rate of 35,000 a year. but not so the widows, who are continually becoming more numerous. Before very long they will exceed the old sol diers numerically on the Civil War list, and 1t has been reckoned by the Pen sion Bureau that in 19S6 about 1000 widows of men who fought in the Civ il War will be alive and pulling a small. but regular. income out of the treasury. Many girl babies are still to be born who are destined to be wid4 ows of tho Civil War.
 In Demand us Husbands.
 The reason is simple and easily ex- plafned Aged veterans. with small but ceratin incomes. are always in de- roand as husbands, no matter how stricken in years and derrcpi. they may be Commonly they prefer young wives, and SO it comes about that when they come to die they leave behind them large flocks of comparatively youthful widows. There is at present only one surviving veteran of the War of 1872 but there are 1,317 widows
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
INNOCENT FOREIGN POSTAGE.
Mir. Payne Believes This Among EarIy
 Possibilities.

Mir. Payne Believes This Among Early
 Possibilities. Baltimore Sun.
 Postmaster General Payne is very much interested in obtaining a two cent postage rate to Europe and thinks 1t is near.
 The establishment of parcels post treaties with all foreign countries Is another work in which officials are now engaged. The treaty signed last week with Japan Is the opening wedge. Conventions are now under considera- tion between the United States and every country of Continental Europe. except Germany. The. United States already has an arrangement with Ger many.
 Postmaster General Payne amour ced Saturday before he left for the West that he considered the two-cent rate to Europe the most important matter before the department.
 There IS every prospect that at next session of the Postal Congress, in March, we shall be successful. as we have the cooperation of England and Germany" he said.
 We are also at work to obtain at least a six-day mail each week both ways with Europe. We now have four day sailings. and we are confident that by arrangements with the great lines we snail have six-day mail service"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
Source Of Japanese vixer.

Medical Record.
 The Japanese are allowed to be among the very strongest people on earth. They are strong mentally and physically. and yet practically they eat no meat at all The d1et which enables them Co 4svv1op such hardy frames and such weil-baianced and keen r-alns consists almost wholly of rice, eteta.A4 or boiled. while the bet- ter-t~. t., adf Co this Spartan fare fish. eggs vegetables and fruit. For bev- ers ,-ee. they uss weak tea, without suC ,r milk. and pure water. alcohol- ic sti.-' its being but rarely indulged in. Water is imbibed in what we should consider prodigous quantities to an Engiishman. indeed. the drink ing of so much water would be res garded as madness. The average Jap- anese individual swallows about gal- lon daily In divided doses.
 The Japanese recognize the benefi- ciaI effect of flushing the system through the medium of the kidneys. and they also cleanse the exterior of their bodies to an extent undreamed of in Europe or in America
 Another-and perhaps this Is tho usage on which the Japanese lay the greatest stress--is that deep, habitual, forcible inhalation of fresh air Is an essential ft- the acquisition of strength, and this method Is sedulously practiced until 1t becomes a part of their nature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

REV. c. J. BUILDING.
 'T have been cured of a most severe form of Diabetes by the use of your celebrated Stuarts Gin and Buchu. l regard 1t as the greatest remedy ever known for this terrible disease. My mother recently died from its rav- ages, and feel that I was saved from a similar fate by using your remedy. God bless you for compounding 1t. Yours truly.
 Rev. c. J. Budlong.
 Washington. D. c.
 Samples Free to All.
 If you have any indication of a de- rangement of the bladder or kidneys. no matter how slight. you owe 1t to yourself to take immediate steps to cure yourself before dangerous stage is reached. thorough test of thirty years has proved stuart's Gin and Buchu to be a thoroughly reliable remedy for any form of diabetes. gra- vel or stone in the. bladder. infiamna- tion, uremic poison, or any other stage of kidney or bladder disease. It promptly reaches the cause of the trouble and dissolves and expeIs from the system the deadly uric acid. at the same time restoring the kidneys and bladder to their normal healthy condition, and building up and adding strength to the entire system.
 We invite everyone to test Stuart's Gin and Buchu without cost, and will take pleasure In sending a sample of the remedy, with complete informa- ton to all who will send their name and address to Stuart Drug Company, 79 Wall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
Marriage offers In Plenty.

No better illustration of the popular ity of veterans in a matrimonial sense can be found. than is offered by the case of Hiram Cronk, the only sur vivor of the War of 1872, already mem tioned. He Is now 105 years of age, and. according to his own account, he has received an offer of marriage for every year he has lived. And why not? Does he not get $25 a month from the government, because of the gallant service which he did with the New York troops? And did not the legislature of New York State recently add $75 a month to this amount, so that the old man might spend his last days in comfort? Any single woman might be glad to obtain such a we'll to-do old soldier for husband. He Is actually an historical character, having been born in 1799, and having seen the country grow from e nation of 7,50o,0o0 people to one of sO,oo0,- 900.
 Most of the people who delight to crlticise the pension system are far from realizing how small are most of the pensions that are drawn. One hundred and twenty-five thousand veterans receive only 20 cents a day. One hundred and seventy i've thousand old soldiers get 26 and 2-3 cents a day. Seventy-seven thousand men who had fought for the Union draw 33 and l-3 cents day. and 100000 are on the rolls for 40 cents a day. Thus 1t will be seen that the government Is not making reckless attempt to enable survivors of our wars to live in luxury and likeness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
Bright's Disease and
 Diabetes News.
Law Ofiices of Henley & Costello,
 San Francisco, MarchlG

San Francisco. March1A To the Legal Profession of Alabama:
 I was e witness to the following: About two years ago Prof. Yost of Palo Alto, who was in an extreme condition due to advanced Brights Disease, came to my oftice- He was attended by his physician who was himself a victim of Diabetes. The object of the visit was to meet a prominent business man who had for months been Investigating an alleged cure for Brights Disease and Diabetes, and hear his verdict. He declared that the claims were fully proven and that the cure had been discovered. Both Prof. Iost and his physician at once adopted the treatment. Within six months both were so well along towards recovery that they considered themselves beyond danger and at this date neither Bright's Disease nor Diabetes hold any terrors for them, and the physician is success fully using the treatment in his prac- tice.
 Learning that my old law partner. Judge R. R. Bigelow. for many years Chief Justice of the State of Nevada, had had four or i've of our best physI- clans. yet that he had had to give up practice and was iu a serious condition, lost no time in telling him of the above It resulted in his complete recovery and he Is again back to active practice. As to the durability of chronic Bright's Dis ease and Diabetes have no more doubt about 1t than that am living.
 Sincerely yours,
 BARCLAY HENLEY, The above refers to the newly discov- cred Fulton Compounds. the first cures the world has ever seen for Bright's Disease and Diabetes. We are the sole agents. Ask for pamphlet.
 When to suspect Brights Disease-puffy ankles or hands-weaknesS without visible cause-Kidney trouble after third month smoky urine-freQuent urination-failing vtsion-ons or more of theee
 D. c. Fowler, Druggist, MontKomery, Ala a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
.,atriotic Jap Women.

No nation has better right to be proud of what it's women have done in wartime than Japan. It Is a matter of record that some 10000 Japanese wo- men volunteered to go to the front as nurses in the field hospitals at the out. break of the Chinese war. and advices from Japan state that the number of women volunteering to go to the front as nurses today is greater than in 1895. And the women who stay at home are not lacking in patriotic devotion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
Nearly n sIIIlon. On Rolls.

The average penslon paId Is only $133.45 annually. The total number of pensioners on the roll ia s96.545. Up to date the pension system has cost the Government $3.134.721, ,000-a sum of money which, if converted into gold coin, would form an obelisk ten feet square and 108 feet high. This allows s value oA s-JO,J.o Pr cuJIc loU. uf minted gold It is great sum of money. but its distribution all over the United States through the medium of pension checks has undoubtedly contributed very greatly to the pros perity of the country.
 Six hundred veterans are totally blind. and Congress has given to each of them $100 a month. good many wholly deaf. and they get $40 a month. there are 1.725 old soldiers who re- quire the constant aid and attention of another person. and each of them draws SIP a month.
 Of course the Pension Bureau gets cheated once in awhile. There was a man actually employed in the bureau for fifty years as a clerk who wore one empty sleeve and drew S3s a month for his lost arm. When seen in his coffin both arms were crossed over his breast. The one supposed to have been lost was kept tied behind him, and the fraud was only discov- cred by the uAlertaker. The surgeon who examined him had been bribed. Applications for pensions are made on various curious grounds-because of decayed teeth, because the hair Is get ting thin. because the eyes fall in old age. and because of corns from long marches. One man wanted a pension for obesity" and another put in a claim on account of Indigestion from using up the teeth to bite cartridges" {"
 Pensioned widows who marry again lose their pensions. Hence 1t comes about that such widows. when remar- ried. often keep the affair secret. It is certain that many of the widows who now draw pensions are secretly married again, They are obliged to make a false oath every month. but they consider that the money ia worth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
KILLED HIS MOTHER.
Rev. 0. ,. Budlong Writes of His Nar- row Escape From Deadly Daabs- tes, From Which Diseass
 His Mother Died
sTUARTs GIN AND BUCHU CURED HIM.

There is no disease so surely fatal as diabetes. or any other form Of Kidney disease. These organs have important work to do, their main function being to remove all impuri- ties from the system. When they be- come deranged, or fail to act prompt ly, this poisonous matter stagnates and remains in the system with serious results.
 The most reliable remedy for all forms of Kidney and Bladder Diseases is Stuart's Gin and Buchu. which new CT fails to give satisfactory results. ease. The following letter from the Rev. c. J. Budlong. prominent min ister of Washington, Rhode Island. is one of the many voluntary testimon- tals from those who have been cured by this remedy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. author of Rulers of Kings, is preparing to leave Munich temporarily for walking tour with a party of friends to the beauti- ful lakes of the Bavarian Alps. Later Danube,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous.

1t. Some of these widows have chfl- dren every year; but no jury will con- vict them because of sympathy. and the Government has given up prose- cutting cases of this sort.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

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 KATHERINE BLADES.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
WOMEN LEAD
THEY DRAW BIGGER PENSIONS
 THAN MEN.

Two Receive SJ,OO0 Each-ReIict Of Gen. Sheridan Draws $2,5OO Each
 Year.-Othcrs Who Fare Wei.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
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 Six years ago had a severe attack of Inhammatory Rheumatism. was laid up in bed for six months, and the doctors I had did ne no good. They changed med icines every week and nothing they pre- scribed seemed to help me. Finally be- gan the use of s. s. $. My knee and elbow joints were swollen terribly, and at one time my joints were so swollen and pain ful that could not close them when opened. I was SO bad that could not move knee or foot. I was'gettiug discour- aged, you may be sure, when began s. S. S., but as saw it was helping mo contin- ued it, and to-day am sound well man and have never had return of the disease. S. S. s. purified my blood and cured me of this severe case of Rheumatism after everything else had failed. have rec commended it to others with good re- suits. R. H. CHAPMAN.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

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The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23
SAD DEATH
OF AGED LADY
Mrs. Asa Parker Expires on
Sixtieth Anniversary, to
the Hour, of Her Marriage

ALAMEDA, March 22.-Mrs. Asa
Parker, mother of the Rev. Gilman
Parker. pastor of the First Baptist
Church, passed away last evening on
the sixtieth anniversary of the day and
hour of her wedding Her demise took
place at oregon City, Or, telegraphic
notice of it being received here to-day.
Death was due to stroke of paralysis.
Deceased was the daughter of Isaac
White, a soldier of the war of the Rev
olution and who during the early part
of the last century was the Sheriff of
Champaign County Ohio. She was born
at Urbana, Ohio, in 1926, and on the 21st
of March, 1874, when Is years of age,
became the bride at Plymouth, Ind, of
Asa Parker who was six years her Sc
nior and who survives her. Besides her
husband Mrs. Parker leaves two sons
and daughter-Rev. Gilman Parker of
this city, A. F. Parker of Oregon City
and Mrs. r. A. Fisher, whose home is
in Georgia.
Mrs. Parker was long worker in the
cause of Christianity and was woman
of notable intellectual powers. Her
funeral will be held in Oregon City,
where the interment will also be.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23
HAHN HEIRS SETTLE
THEIR DIFFERENCES
Appeal From the Decision Setting
( Aside the VIII OF the Deceased
Has Been Dismissed.

OAKLAND, March 29.-The contest
over the estate of Katherine Hahn, de-
ceased, has been settled and to-day no.
tice of the dismissal of the appeal
from the decision of the lower court
was received from the clerk of the Su-
preme Court.
The estate is appraised at $120,522
and is divided equally among five
heirs. The appeal was taken by Rosa
Barron and George II. Hahn, as trus-
tees of the estates of the other heirs.
heirs.
When the will of the deceased was
read il was found that she had di-
vided her estate among Adolph A. G.,
Emil ]. and George H. Hahn, Rosa
Barron, John P. Beck and Mary r..
Kast. She had left the property, how
ever, to two of the children in trust
John p. Beck and Adolph Hahn were
dissa tisfied and contested the will,
which was set aside by Judge Hall
on the ground that the trust clause
was illegal.
The trustees appealed the case, but
have dismissed the same.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23
EVENTS

. BERKELEY. March 22.-The executive COM
mittee of the Associated Students last night
decided to establish training table for the
track athletes for the rest of the season. 1t
is intended for men who have already won
something in previous Intercollegiate contests.
1t will be particularly advantageous to the
long-distance men. though not of any special
benefit to the weight-throwers. For a long
time Trainer Christie has been struggling to
secure training table so that the men may
be served with the proper food during train
ing In the boarding and fraternity houses
where most OF them live, they unable to
get the necessary diet Half the expense of
the training table VIII cost the Associated
Students about $3.50 the other half being
provided by the men themselves. who will
pay individually 81 80 a week
The half-hour of music which was to have
been given at the Greek Theater on Sunday
last by the military band of the cadet rest-
ment will be given in the Greek Theater at
o clock next Sunday afternoon. The pro-
gramme win be the same that announced
for the concert for last Sunday.
Professor w, w. Campbell, director of the
Lick Observatory has been elected foreign
member Of one of the leading scientific societies
in Italy, in which membership is considered
signal honor.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23
EVANGELISTS
END SESSION
Inter DenOminatiOnal Con-
ference Closes It's LabOrs
at Presbyterian Church
Oakland Office san Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway, March 22
Many enthusiastic evangelists attend
ed the closing session of the Interde-
nominational Conference On Evangelism
at the Union-street Presbyterian Church
this evening The first session this
morning was devoted to a discussion Of
practical evangelisttc methods by the
Rev. Z. r. Ollie, pastor of the First
NJ. z. Church of this city. Among the
other speakers We're: Rev. A. l. Good
friend. Rev. w. c. Sherman, Rev. j.
A. Fraser. Rev. w. NJ White, Rev. c.
NJ. Hill and Rev. r. c. Stone.
At the close of the morning session
luncheon was served in the parlors of
the church, and at 1870 p. m. the dele
gates reassembled for a general dis
cussion of the subject of evangelistic
work, in which a large number of
prominent clergymen took part.
The feature Of the evening session
was a description by Rev. H. w.
Houlding of the many difficulties that
confront the Christian missionary in
China Horace w. Houlding has re-
Gently returned from a missionary sta
ton in Northern China, and his dis
course this evening was most enter
tanning After. describing the work in
detail Mr. H0ulding said:
Many of those interested in mis-
sionary work make the mistake of at
tempting TO urge faint-hearted people
to take up missionary work, when they
should rather hold them back. If the
Lord elects that one of his children
shall go forth into the field no urging
viii be necessary nor will there be
any difficulty in raising funds for the
work - -
Few Of you know what the mis-
sionaTy ia China mnst face Not only
the tet4fble Asiatic fevers and the hos
fifty of the natives discourage his ef-
forts, but the difficulties of opening
UP the more remote districts. And yet
In spite Of all this, the Gospel is stead.
ily winning it's way onward"
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23
Poses as colonel in Army.

Abe Becker of the Fawn saloon. 326
Grant avenue, obtained a warrant
from Police Judge Cabaniss yesterday
for the arrest of Thomas r. Scott on a
charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. Becker alleges that Scott
has been cutting a wide swath in the
saloons in the "tenderlOin" district by
representing himself as a colonel in
the army and giving worthless checks
in payment for liquid refreshments.
Becker got a check from him for S25
on the Western National Bank and
was informed that ScOtt's account at
the bank had been closed for over two
months.