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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
THE STAR spANGLED BANNER.
Secretary Moody Has Fixed Upon the Mary
 lander's Beautiful Hymn as the Natfona

Secretary Moody Has Fixed Upon the Mary. lander's Beautiful Hymn as the National Air for the Navy.
 Cincinnati Commercfal-Tribune
 It has been. more than once. suggested that of all nations the United States alone had no national air or hymn, but the real difficulty was not so much in the not hav- ing but in the having an embarrassment 1 of riches in the way of national psaimody or hymnology. Yankee Doodle'' is by no means bad. but on the contrary. decidedly good. and as for Hail Columbia" 1t Is a hymn to conjure by But Secretary Moooy has settled the question. and settled 1t right, as MT Bryan himself might say, by adopt ing the Star -Spangled Banner" as the of- ficial national air. It will now be so rec ognized by the bands of foreign ships
 which. so 1t is said. have too often been in serious doubt what tune to strike up when an American vessel sailed into port and prepared to entertain and be entertained. No better selection could have been made. and such will be the general verdict ..
 At home this embarrassment will finger. Shortly after the war; and when the white winged dove of peace was getting comfort- ably settled again, 1t was the insariaoie custom for bands crossing the Ohio. south- ward, to strike up ''Dixie, and to Keep striking it up throughout the Southern jour ney and until the home coming from the land of cotton. On the other hand the Southern band, journeying up to the North, invariably struck up Yankee Doodle and kept everlastingly at It. Nowadays how ever, "Dixie" and Yankee Doodle" are at home so completely, North and South, that bands of both sections are appropriating the stirring tunes until 1t is difficult to distin- guish between 'tother and which-between the band from Dixie and the band from the North and long may 1t continue to be so.
 Officially the national hymn is now the Star -spansied Banner" for the navy, as |. ,s nracttcally for the army and for the
 whole people But Yankee Doodle" and "pixie'' and Hail Columbia" and Amer ica" will continue to be struck up unoffi- cially as the drum major or the band lead CT may feel inclined. and either or all will be hailed with acclaim--with The Girl Left Behind Me"--the rule when the line of march is taken up and the barracks that knew the boys in blue will know them no more, until fate and the secretary of war decree a return.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
NO DEFENSE FOR HIM.
he New York Post says:

President Roosevelt could do no other than stand by his appointment of Dr. Crum as Collector at Charleston. Until the Senate decides otherwise. he is bound 10 suppose that man sagainst whom no other charge was ever brought will not be kept out of office simply because his skin is not of the desirable shade.
 With due respect to The Post the Pres ident was not bound to suppose anything of tho kind. but if he were it doesn't mend the matter. Nor Is it a fair de- fense Of his course to claim that he could not do otherwise 9than stand by Crum. He has had ample evidence to convince any one but a mule that Crum Is distasteful to the people of Charles ton and South Carolina. He should have been able to see and understand that members of his own party. in and out of Congress. have no sympathy with his ouli-headed determination to force Crum into office If they felt free to speak and act as they feel, without regard to party partisanship. Crum could not be con trmed by a majority of his own party.
 The truth is that this whole business is one of the disereditable acts of thia administration. The appointment |. largely due to Roosevelts malice towards the Southern people who have repudiat- ca him. There was no tenable reason for the appointment, and it was A violation of his pledges, to, apno,nt the man in the first place. His evidan, oetermination to keep him in office is re- garded by his defenders as an evidence or his consistency and justice hut if |. nothing of the kind. It is merely an sx- nioi''on or stuobornness, and a desire to nave ms own way regardless of decepcv or The protests of those most interested. There is no defense for him and if is to oe hoped that the Senate will not srat,- fly him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
LATEST or SHIFTS.
San Ignacio de Loyola Holds the Record
 Against all coIners.

San Isnacio de Loyola Holds the Record
 Against all Comers-
 Philadelphia Telegraph.
 The slowest craft that rides the seas--the San Ignacio de Loyola-is once more in port She flies the Spanish flag, and there is not a time that she sails into local waters that she is not a subject of comment. Of ships she is sui generis. There is nothing iiks her She is bark rigged. and she flies the pennsnt for snail like qualities. Capt. Tore commands this peculiar craft. ana there is a legend that will not down that. under whatever skipper, thh bark anchors at night wherever she finds herself Her saiiine is confined to two days of clear skies.
 There is another vessel that Ions bore the palm of nautical laziness until 1t wa wrested from her by the Loyoie, and that is the Italian brig Anita S. 4 comparison oi this brace of vessels is interesting. The Loyola was 127 days making the run from Stables dolonne.. France. Think of 1t; III days when a Yankee or a British captain pushing his craft would have covered the trifling distance in at least three weeks
 It may be in order to apologize for the Loyola. The entire summer was passed between the time the sight of the French coast was lost and the looming up of the American coast. The long run was attrib- uted by the master to the course having been shaped too far south, which took her directly into the region of the caims. The only fresh food eaten on the passage was what flying fish could be caught and the attempts to capture these kept the watch on deck always on he alert
 Some of the voyages of the brig Anita 8. are worthy of comparison with the per formance of the San Ignacio de Loyoia- Among these are recorded: One hundred and ninety-three days from Rosario to Flynn outh, i17 days from Plymouth to Santos. iss days from Buenos Ayres to Plymouth. f22 days from cardoff to Montevideo. lss days from Brunswick to Paysunda to Bal timore, and s4 days from Baltimore to Maranham.
 Were almost any other sailing vessel to take two-thirds as many days on any of the above voyages their insurance would be paid and the ships posted as lost. but the Anita S. would have to be about three years overdue before any skipper would consider her actually lost
 Ten months from Fort de France for Nantes, France. which was never reached closer than Teneriffe. was the performancs of the Anita S. in 1901 and 1909. but on No vember 1T of last year she sailed from Marseilles On March 31. 1903, the Anita s. put into St. Thomas leaking. and adver- tised for 500 francs on bottomry bond which must have been secured. for she ar rived at Marseilles on July { and was there on August 20.
 seventy-four days was the trip of ths schooner Josheph W. Brooks. Capt. David son. which arrived at Havana on Monda, from Newport News. The Brooks left New. port News to load coal for Havana. It fl thought Capt. Davidson tempted the Florids straits to make his trip to the southward and met with the result that he can b. placed in the record with the Anita s. ant San Ignacio de Loyola-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
DIR. BUCHANAN, The Specialist. Treats Without the Knife, Without Paln or Loss of Time from
 Business.

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
TURNING TO FOLK.
Democrats See A Presidential Possi- bility in the Missouri Reformer.

Detroit News.
 More startling things than the nom- ination of Joseph w. Folk, the Mis- souri reformer, for President at the ed in National Conventions. It is true that New York has instructed its delegation for Parker, but nothing else that is tangible has happened to show that Parker is anything but a favorite son, as Is Onley for whom the Mas sachusetts delegation Is instructed. The Democrats have been making common cause against Hearst the self-selected candidate. Parker has individuality has given off no warmth, who was merely the most available, and possibly the most tractable prop osition. His prestige consists iu an instructed delegation of 78 votes and the capitalization of the despair of the party leaders.
 The injection of flesh and blood wonderful changes, and Folk is a man of undisputed qualities, a com mendable record, and a reputation that became national through the unselfsh discharge of disagreeable duties. He is fearless. earnest; competent. and possesses numerous characteristics which develop magnetism to draw to Bourke Cochran, the avidity with which the Democratic Congressmen seized the suggestion, and the desire of the Missouri machine to get rid f an irksome candidate for Governor, afe a few of the clements that argue for the presentation of Folks name to the Democratic Convention. There may be much CT little in the suggestion, but strange things happen in National Conventions
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06

ocrat upon whom attention could hs con- eentrated. Does anybody dispute the soundnsss of his judgment as to thst? Hh judgment has been yindicated and his acts justified by the course of events The dem ocracy of New York has sanctioned his procedures. Nor is that all By his early beginning of the work of organization aud by his presentation of the name 10 . csndi- date the party not only in New York but throughout the union has been kept togeth- CT. encouraged and confirmed in its reseiu- tions of safety and sanity. The progysss Of the Bryan-Hearst conspiracy against . re- turn to wisdom has been checked. Nothing else would SO effectually have put . stop to that dreadful march hack into the realms of death
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
SEVERAL ERRORS.
The Butte CMont.) Inter Mountain has this bit of transformation:

The Butte (Mont.) Inter Mountain has this bit of transformation:
 Once upon a time. as the fairy tales have 1t, in dingy back street of a smoky. dirty city In a troubled land, s weary. plodding. persecuted old man, de- serted by all but a few of his friends. despised. misunderstood, often upbraided by his children. blind, tottering and poor, tearfully.. patiently ground out master. piece. After perhaps eight years of work on this literary marvel. he received s60 for it from a publisher who appre- ciated its power and beauty in much the same degree that the King of Dahomey lifework. the poet sank back, slowly to die. and was forgotten of his generation if not for all time.
 The plain inference from this language Is that Paradise Lost'' was the great poets last work, and that after It's pub Hcation he sank into obscurity. This fs far from being the case. although we believe 1t Is generally admitted that this was his greatest work. but 1t was by no means his last. After Paradise Lost' he wrote Paradise Regained." Samson Agonistes,' History of Britain up to the Norman Conquest" and a number of minor pamphlets and essays. Nor Is 1t true that The sank back, slowly to die" after the sale and publication of his greatest poem, for he lived seven years after the publication of that poem, which were by no means years of ob- scurity .-., -., .-f' <
 Nor IS The Inter Mountain much nearer correct as to the price Milton re- ceived for his great poem, It Is true that he only got five pounds down, with promise of three other payments of equal amounts. depending on the sales of the book, but modern writers and au- thorities state that the pound sterling was worth about three times as much in MiIton's day as it Is now. Thus, if he received the four payments, which is three hundred dollars of our money.
 This does not change the fact. however, that the price was shamefuily low. even for that day of inappreciation. That the admittedly finest poem in the English language, making fairly large volume, should have been sold outright for a sum which some of our modern versihers would look on as an inadequite price for a sonnet, or a short magazine poem. sounds strange to us now. It shows one of three things-that the English public had no appreciation for good literature. or that the author had no idea of its value, or that the publisher took advant- age of his necessities and got his poem for g. mere trifie. Probably all three of these causes operated together, but how ever titat may be, the fact remains that truly. great work was sold by its author for a miserable pittanee. And, finally, John Milton lacks very much of being forgotten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
MIR. HILLS SERVICES.

4NeW OIk IITIles.
 David B. Hill does not suffer very acutely we imagine, because of any unfairness of po- iitical opponents. It is not for his ease and comfort of mind, therefore. but in simple Justice that we again point out his very great service to the democratic party in this year 1904. While other leaders were ruminating or eonferFing he set up a flag pole and raised banner with a name on h. He saw the dominant importance oi New York, not only In the actual campaign hut in the preliminary canvass for a eandi- date He determined in his own mind that New York ought to present the name of Judge Parker. that he had strength and availability above any other New York dem-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
INSTRUCT AGAINST HEARST.
Movement to Have Virginia Dele gates Instructed Not to Vote
 For Him.
Richmond
 Herald

Richmond, Va, special to New York
 Herald.
 If movement recently begun obtains sufficient backing, the delegates sent from vcntion at St. Louis will not be instruct ed to vote for Judge Parker, but will be directed not to support w. R. Hearst. This will be an action without precedent SD far as is known and for that reason there will he opposition to it.
 This plan, which will culminate at the State Convention here June g, has been under consideration ever since 1t became known that Mir. Hearst was making ac- tive efforts to capture the nomination. It will come up in the shape of a resolution, which, after reeiting that the State leaves its delegates free to pursue sncn acton as seems most likely to insure sue, cess to the Democratic nominee, yet stpulates that the delegates shall not un- der any circumstances vote fer the nomi- nation of Mir. Hearst
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06

One Major Evans, of the regular army, declares that General Grant was "the peer of Hannibal. Caesar and Napoleon. {" This was laying 1t on too thick for The Portland Oregonian. staunch Republican paper that it is, and 1t devotes a column editorial to show the fallacy of such a claim, winding up with:
 If any body but Grant had commanded at the Wilderness, the Union Army would have retreated, for Lee had blacked Grants eyes and split his lip and smash cd his nose, but he was not afraid of Army of the Potomac, were afraid of Lee Grant was not a man of military genius, but he belonged to the Yelling ron class; a grim, resolute. indomitabie, energetic, agile, enterprising General whose moral grit was more conspicuous than his high military genius.
 This is undoubtedly a fair estimate. Grant lacked the great military genius of Lee, the strategy of Joe Johnson and the dash of Stonewail Jackson. What he ala have was the indifference to human life of Napoleon and the tenacity of the bulldog. He never knew when he was whipped and cared little what if cost to hold a position, because he knew that he could afford to lose mora mensfhan Lee could and win by 1t in the end That is the credit to which he Is antitIe4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Decent Citisens in Revolt.

sense of wrath and contempt in the de- cent people of the country will accomplish great things if 1t be directed straight against graft. In Missouri. for instance. 1t now seems certain that the democrats will nom- mate as their candidate for governor that great wolf-killer. Joseph W. Folk. If they do they will have a standard for the rest of the country. For the issue Is presented so clearly that there can be no mistaking 1t. Folk Is the avowed candidate of the antigrafters. declared to be so and opposed for that reason by all the thieves of the state. These latter said in the beginning that there was no graft issue in the cam paisn. But the people said there was. and now Folk is being bitterly fought because he is the incarnation nightly and militant. of the spirit Of antigraft.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
HAIR WON'T FALL OUT
If You Kill the Dandruff Germ With
 the New Treatment.

John N. Fuller, a well-known citizen of Colfax, Wash, says: T had dandruff so badly that it caked on my scalp, Herpicide completely cured me" George H. McWhirk, of Walla Walla, Wash. says; "Herpicide completely cured me of a bad case of dandruff of 80 years standing" They took the only really sensible treatment. remedy that de- stroys the dandruf germ-Newbro's 8 Herpicide. Stop dandruff. hair won't fall out. but will grow naturally, luxu- riantly. Allays itching instantly and makes hair glossy and soft as silk. One bottle will convince any doubter of its merits. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,. Detroit. Mich. E. G, Fowler. Special Agent. fri.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Retort of . Knownothing.


 The republican majority in congress should be able to defend itself from member of the minority, even though that member be Bourke Cochran. without resorting or re- verting to knownothingisn. The Pennsyl- vania congressman Mir. Dalzeli, told Mir, Cochran that If there be any hoodluma among us they are not the product of Ameri- can soil American institutions or Amerl. can civilization" This is the thrust of a native born at fellow member of foreign birth. But are. not the hoodlums who dis grace the rule of Pittsburgh and Philadel- phia Of the old American stockf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
FRIDAY, MAY @, 1904.
AN INGENIOUS THEORY.

The New Iork commercial mas an in- eenious editorial argument on the sup- position that Mr. Bryan Is merely play ing for position. In other words. he has no hope that either himself or Mir. Hearst will stand any show for the nom nation at St. Louis. but they hope that by combining their strength they can prevent the nomination of Judge Parker. or a man of his kind. Then. when It be- comes evident that they can prevent Q nomination Mir. Bryan will turn thefr joint following over to the strongest map with the view to his being given eonsid- eration. That Is. he IS to be given g. place in the cabinet. preferably the portfolio of State.
 It is an ingenious supposition. and The Commercial calls attention to the fact that Buchanan, Marcy, Seward. Blaine ard Bayard were all disappointed Presi- aentiaI asuirants, and that each was made Secretary of State as sort or compensation for his failure to win the nomination. This is all very well, put there are two things to be consioereo' one is that it is hardly probable tha' Hrvan and Hearst will be able to con- troi nne-third of the delegates and With ,,,t this they could not prevent a nonii- r.t;on The other is that If the con ..rvatiye Democrats have not the nec- easarv two-thirds, but have a clear ma s.r,tv. they may change the rules ano S,,e,,, majority to make the nomina- .ion. This they would have a clear rign' to do. though it might not be good pohcX'
 put there is another point to be con- s,aered. Suppose Mir. Bryan could man ,ra the combination successfully and se- ,,,ra the pledge from the successful cam a,aate that he would put Bryan In the ,ah,yet what becomes of Hearst? Bryan could do nothing without the aid of the New York editor, and if he should get that help and use 1t entirely for his own rurposes would not that be playing a anme on Hearst? Would he consider that fair politics? Or. would Hearst also in- vist on a place in the Presidents official family?
 As already stated, the argument Is a plausible one. but there might be a hitch in the program. It might be that the strongest man might oppose any such bargain, or he might not look on Bryan as good cabinet material In either of those contingencies the only plan would be to fight 1t out to the end, and tell the minority to go it's own way. Strange things may happen at St. Louis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Schools at the South.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
 Organized effort must be made to arouse a stronger interest in education and thus build up better schools Money is, of course. needed for this. but money is not as important as educational sentiment. for if the latter be aroused 1t will bring forth the necessary funds 4 campaign for better schools, the state being divided into school districts. for better schoolhouses and an eight months term will be certain of suo- cess if the people are interested in 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
The True Test of Beer.

Albany (N. Y.) Journal.
 The Court of Appeals at St. Louis has passed upon the question as to when hop tea is beer. The courts opinion Is that the tea Is beer when persons who dring it become intoxicated. The test recalls that sometimes suggested to those who ask how one may tell toad stools from mushrooms-if the articles are eaten and death does not follow then they are mushrooms
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Must Work Harder Than Ever.

New York Press
 So I hear you've taken a farm fifteen miles from the city. When do you retire from husiness?'
 'yFlo said anything about retiring from business?"
 It stands Co reason you can't farm and attend to business here at the same time"
 Who's going to support the farm if quit business%' ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Populists Too Busy for Politics.

IndIanapOIIS JOuTndI. ~
 Ex-Senator Butler professes to think that the Populists will cut considerable of Q figure in the coming Presidential campaign. But populists will be so busy cutting their wheat and corn that they will hardly have any time for politics. In fact, most of them have become so prosperous in the past few years that they forget what Populism was all about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06

The Nebraska State. Journal tries to do the prophet act by predicting that Judge Parker will be nominated and that he will be defeated. Like many human prophecies the tulfilIment of this one depends on circumstances over which the prophet has no control. The first prediction bids fair to come true, but the second depends on some millions of voters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06

Those Democrats who express a hone of carrying Iowa next November have a great deal of optimism. The Republican pluraiities in Presidential years have varied from 10000 to nearly 100000. strli, when we remember that Cleveland car ried Illinois in 1892 by about 27,OOo piu- raiity' and Mckinley in 1896 by over he,oOo. we can understand how those Western States jump from oue side to another. Even Iowa going Democratic would not be a great surprise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Perfectly Natural.

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 The announcement that General Wood wants to force the American sol-. diers in the Philippines to learn how to swim is perfectly natural. The Gen. eral himself came mighty near sinking tnS a recent investigation and he knows just how it is. ~f