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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
FIVE BAY LEAVES.
An Old Time Valentine.

An Old Time Valentine. My love and I went down the glade. (The dusky glade all damp and sweetl And there beneath the bay-tree's shade. Where sun and shadows fealty meet
 We gathered leaves. Twas good Saint Valentine. loves friend, Who ruled the fresh green earth that (whiie antique elves and pixies lend Their aid to him with gnome and fay)
 Beneath the leaves. Sweet were the leaves with silver lined Glossy green warp with silver wooD The argent boughs deftly entwined Upheld the white-starred tented roof
 Of perfumed leaves. My love reached up and gathered five; (My love was tall, stately and talD With flower and song earth was alive, And noisy with the red-birds call Among the leaves. Then my love gave the five to me (The spicy leaves so smooth and chilly "These guide your thoughts upon dreams To what fair port the good fates will-'
 Fragrant bay leaves!" That Eve. alone. pinned with care Four to my pillows corners four, The fifth leaf decked it's center fair And To! sweet dreams came by the
 score,
 Brought by the leaves. And every blessed dream that came Was dream of him who plucked those leaves
 read my fate-fortune, good damei That Eve, sweetest of all sweet eves-
 With the five leaves. Then gentle maids and ladies all Go gather leaves where bays balm's shed
 Singing some old time madrigaD And read your fate, as oft t Is read
 With Five Bay Leaves. Martha Young.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
MONEY FOR SCHOOLS
CITY GETS UNEXPECTED HELP
 FROM STATE.
Montgomery System is to Receive Share of Township Taken in By Act Extending City
 Limits.

Certain school funds which have ac- crued under the general educational law in the hands of County Superintendent or Education J. A. Thompson will largely swell the money received by the city Of Montgomery from the State.
 This fund accumulated in Superinten- dent Thompson's keeping previous to the massage of the Greater Montgomery act. The old city limits cut in two several townships leaving part of them outside the city and part within the city. Because of this condition the total funds going to that township were not expended. part of them accruing in the hands of the County Superintendent.
 This matter of considerable interest to city officials was determined to the ad- vantage of the city's school fund yester- day. When the city limits were ex- tended this of course increased Mont sand and Superintendent c. L. Floyd in- stead of drawing $7,00O from the State school fund this year drew over $11 OOO : making an increase of over $4O0O to help 1 the city in the maintenance of its public schools. This has already been drawn and the advocates of Greater Montgom- cry have always argued that this addi- tional fund would be nearly sufficient to pay the additional teachers employed on account of the extension.
 But yesterday through the help and at the suggestion of County Superintendent Thompson the city received from the State another 5000 which had accumu- lated in the funds of townships next ad- jacent to the city in the past two years. l and not expended. He yesterday got authority from the State authorities to
 pay over this fund to the city. and the city authorities are delighted at this un- l IVnnfnd ritx this time of great need
 | This money cannot he expended in the
 erection of new school buildings. If is
 to be used in the payment of the salaries
 of teachers and other expenses in the con duct of the schools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
ALLEN ROGERS PARDoNED.
Governor Sets Lowndes County Negro
 -,, Free

Allen Rogers. a negro convict of Lowndes county convicted of murder in the second degree was yesterday pardon ed by Governor Jelks. Convicted in 1897, Rogers has served seven of the fifteen years of his sentence.
 Rogers was charged and convicted of the murder of Claudio Powell. another negro of Lowndes county, in 1897. His pardon was very strongly recommended by the court officials of Lowndes. he having previously borne an excellent rep utation.
 The Governors endorsement upon Rog- er's pardon was as follows: This man was convicted in 1897 of murder in the second degree. One of the prosecuting attorneys writes that he believes he was convicted of a murder committed by an- other person. The judge who tried the case states that, in his opinion, now that Rogers should never have been convicted at all. He is in bad health. and i..deed Is. paralyzed. He has, however, some rel atives who are willing to take care of him. The Board of Pardons recommends that he be dismissed from the States service Pardon Is ordered"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14

tion will have some very influential and distinguished guests that night in the persons of Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway, Vice President A. B. Andrews and the entire board of di- rectors of both the Southern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com pany. These railroad magnates will arr rive in the city at o'clock Tuesday af- ternoon and are scheduled to remain un- til o'clock. Yesterday morning the as- sociation sent an urgent telegram to President Spencer inviting him and all of the directors to remain over to the reception from 8 to Il in order to meet the citizens here. ..a
 It is expected that the invitation will be accepted if possible. If not some spe- cial reception will be arranged for the distinguished party in the afternoon tc meet the business men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
THE BROWN SHOE COMPANY
 RuiId Anofher Rio Fectorv.

The Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis will build four-story brick factory, COX 300 feet, at Thirteenth and Russell Ave- nue. street on four sides, light all around. with capacity of seven to ten thousand pairs of shoes per day. They gained over one million dollars in sales last year and have in stock over eight hundred thou sand dollars worth of shoes for spring trade. They fill ninety-five to one hundred per cent of all orders complete in first shipment and expect to gain over one and a half million dollars in sales this year and are doing it. They gained last week over flfty-eight thousand dollars Their White House Shoes" for men and wo- men are the best high grade shoes made in St. Louis and have helped make this great success. Adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14

superintendent of education showing the following:
 amount received from treasur- ..er up to January 1st, 1904 .......s3, is9 to balance on hand ............ 1,049 70 Amount paid teachers ..Ss,72O s4 Superintendent's com
 uission ........... 14S A Daiance in superin-
 'ehcents hands ........ 979 6S
 A,s49 36-s4.s49 S6 The financial condition of the county eney are glad to report. is satisfactory. ihe statement from the treasurer s books shows as follows:
 General fund on hand February ls'' lsUf ........... ................ .$l5,6ll DO Road and bridge fund .......... 1889 40 Sauseway and bridge fund.-. S,2O7 o2 rlne and forfeiture fund ........ 4s0 9S cost or prosecution ............ IS 6l Total ........ .....................$25.6 .667 56 We have also examined the poor house and find the inmates properly treated and cared for.
 We thank your honor for the able ana clear charge given us. We desire es- pecialiy to thank the able solicitor. s. H. Dent. Jr. who has labored so effi- ciently and conscientiously in discharge or his duties to the county and State. We also thank Captain William Whit ing. our bailiff. for his promptness in carrying out every request made of him. and the sherif and his deputies for many courtesies received at their hands. Having discharged our duty to the best of our ability we respectfully ask your honor that we now be discharged
 Respectfully submitted,
 James S. Dowdell,' Foreman"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
ASSOCIATION HoUsEwARM1Ne.
Party of Railroad Officials May b'
 Guests

Tuesday night the members of the Commercial and Industrial Associa tior will throw open their rooms to their lady friends, the occasion being a house warming in celebration of the removal to their new quarters on Bibb street.
 The entertainment will partake of the character of reception. the hours des- ignated being from to Il. The enter tainment committee is arranging for an evening of social pleasure and enjoyment for all the members of the association and their lady friends.
 The rooms will be decorated with palms and cut flowers. an orchestra will discourse music throughout the evening, light refreshments and punch will be served and in addition an informal mu- sical program will probably be executed,
 There is a likelihood that the associa-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14

foderate soldier, Colonel Andrews would soa tnat bis road furnished the trans nor+ation He did not hesitate; he said be' he would be glad to do all he could for tba ladies of Mobile in such a cause. That is how Captain Ho6son got trans portation to Mobile to lecture for the benefit of the Confederate Veterans. That is all .here is about 1t"
 R. II. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
SENT TO REFoRMAToRY.
Negro Boy Who Pleaded Guilty to
 RobbinP Mails

Joe Lewis, a 4-year-old negro boy. charged with robbing a mail box in the lower part of Montgomery County vr,- terday. entered a plea of guilty to inc charge before Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States Court for inc Ma dle District of Alabama
 He was sentenced to two years in tbo United States Reformatory in Maryland,
 Tom Germany, a negro entered a plea of guilty to retailing liquor without ;i- cense On account of having been cor- fined in the Montgomery County iaII fnr four months. execution of the sentenca was suspended indefinitely
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
Different States of Society.
Indianapolis News.

Canada, with a more sparsely settled territory than ours. Is a land of law and order. Human nature does not change at an artificial boundary line. It is not so that men are iawless just south of the line that divides Canada and the United States and the law-abiding north of it. But this thing is so: The American bad" man whose path Is marked by bloodshed with us no sooner crosses the line into Canada than he becomes a peaceful member of society His nature and disposition have not changed; he has simply run into a different state of society.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
Indispensable.

OHIIdBO NtWS-
 It was down in old Kentucky.
 That city drummer was the dullese chap I ever met" said the proprietor of the crossroads store.
 Tn what way?" asked the man on the prune box.
 Why. he actually thought he could sell pocket knives without corkscrews down here"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
Will Go ID Isthmue

Raleigh, x. C.. Feb. l2.-Dr. H. R Mohr left Asheville today for Washine- ton. whence he goes to Colon in the se5. vice of the Government, presumably in furnish reports of the sanitary condition of the Isthmus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
DoN,r MISS YOUR CHANcE

On our discount sale now ia pro- gress. You know we give ycu back 90 cents on every dollar, and you can select any shoe in our big stock.
 BULLOCK 6 FLEMING,
 The Leading Shoe Hcuse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
Information Wanted.

Persons who have been benefited througt. 'he use of Thachers Blood and Liver Syrup will please. communicate with "A. H." care The Advertiser ofs ice, ..' Adv.-h
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
MADE AUTOS SKID.

The Remarkable Dummy Device of a New York Student and How It Worked.
 The students of the New York Uni versity Law School played their an- nual pranks on Friday night, the oc- casion being the last lecture of the school year. The evening was a most successful one owing to the ingenuity of the head devil in thinking up q new trick.
 The new trick is played with a dum- my that of full sized man. The figure was stuffed with horsehair and was dressed in dark clothes and looked very much like a prosperous business man even to the high collar and the cravet. The dummy made it's appearance just before the close of the last lecture de- livered by Prof. Rounds. It was lower ed down through a skylight into the room on the top floor of the university building on Washington Square. When 1t landed sitting fashion on a students desk there was an uproar in the class room and Prof. Rounds ordered it re- moved. He told one of the Good stu
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
RUSSIANS FALL BACK
 AS JAPANESE ADVANCE
lcontinued from 1st pagel.

l ing them to lombard the land batteries, while fotilla of torpedo boats swept 1 tn harbor for mines. A second fiotilla l of torpedo boats, which had been en- gagged in guarding Port Arthur the pre- vious night, joined the squadron and began the wo TX of surveying the har- Dor.
 The Miyako discovered a company of
 Russian infantry and a detachment of cavalry on shore and dispersed them.
 The survey was completed in the af- | ternoon.
 Two torpedo boats that were recon inoitering and removing mines in the west short of Kerr bay discovered a telegraph line running along the Ta- kushan peninsula. In order to destroy lit Lieutenant Hotta and four sailors landed and sealed the heights under the protection of the guns of the torpedo boats and cut the line. The Japanese vessel then discovered three bodies of Russian troops, one large and two small ones whereupon the squadron advanced close to the shore and shelled them.
 ] The Miyako, which was reconnoitsr- | ing in Deep bay, discovered Russian guard post on a mountain to the north
 west of Robinson promontory and de-
 stroyed it.
 1 A Russian force, estimated at ten
 companies, took refuge behind an en- thence, but it was dispersed by the Jap
 anese.
 Torpedo boats Nos. AS and 49 discov-
 cred large mechanical mine in Kerr
 bay. Their various attempts to blow it
 up failed and it suddenly exploded of litself, cutting No. AS in two. The tor
 nedo boat sank in seven minutes. The
 squadron hurried boats to the rescue
 and picked up the wounded. Three
 other mines were discovered and ex-
 ploded. The squadron completed it's operations at o'clock in the evening
 and returned to it's base.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
HoW To KEEP YOUNG.

If a mans age is, as we have been told, merely a matter of his own feel ings, it should stand us all in hand
 to feel as young as we can. Dr. Madi- son J. Taylor, in a recently published article, goes into detail somewhat and ventures the opinion that men do not stoop because they are old, but that they are old because they stoop. In other words, proper system of exer- else, which keeps the upper truncal muscles and the muscles of the neck in good order, will also have benefi- cial effect upon the hearing, sight and Icerebration.
 Applying the same rule to the other
 half of the old saying which maintains
 that woman is as old as she looks, we find a great deal to be said in favor of 1 iudicious exercise as beautifying
 agency. If woman will properly care
 for her health of body and mind, she, too, may avoid growing old, at any
 rate she may postpone almost indefi- nitely the fears of old age. To the woman who has preserved an attrac- tive serenity of eye and feature by | right thoughts and correct living, old age has no terrors anyway, for what is usually so denominated is really the
 crowning glory of life.
 The main thing for us all to remem- Der is that we may keep young in
 heart and mind, If we will, and that we owe it to ourselves to keep not only our muscles but also our opinions and our sympathies both pliable and healthful to the very last. In this way we shall be counted young, even in the "seEe land yellow leaf" because we have not allowed our hearts to become crusted with age. Portland (Me.) Argus.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14

dents to go on the roof and haul it up
 again. But the student slipped in do- | ing this and carelessly let the dummy drop down into the classroom again.
 Then Prof Rounds ordered the dummy removed from the room instantly. Once outside two students, names not
 given. got hold of the dummy between them and walked him up lower Fifth
 Avenue with a crowd of fellow funmak
 CTS following them.
 Down the street came big automo- bile with a party in it. As it came
 along it's headlights lighting the path,
 an inspiration seized the head devil. A
 long string was quickly tied to the leg of the dummy. Then the two escorts of the figure; standing in the shadow of a tree, gave their charge a gentle shove just as the motor car came swinging along. The dummy went over with a tumble not unlike that of a person whose jag has suddenly become too burdensome to carry. It landed on the illuminated pathway of the automobile land lay quite still in the glare from the headlight. Then the boys got real en- ljoyment. As the headlights disclosed the figure almost under the wheels there was a chorus of screams from lsome women in the party and an ex- clamation that wasn't scream from ithe operator. The emergency brake went on and the big machine skid dled" half way around and wound up with it's front wheels against the op-
 posite curb and with it's occupants all in heap.
 When they pulled themselves together a search was made for the unfortunate Iman. but he had gone. There was batter of fleeing footsteps down the side street, and that was all. Almost q dozen automobiles furnished sport for the law students in the course of the Ievening. There wasn't any policeman Ito interfere, although some of the au- Itomobilists looked for one. When they found him the boys and the dummy had disappeared. The boys wound u Ithe evening by going into severa
 Broadway saloons and buying drinks for the dummy who had been saved so often.
 Tt was only done in fun" said one, "but, gosh, we did see some beautiful skldding done by those autos. New
 York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14

near to that asit is easy to get, and by
 themselves the figures are interesting. In the first place, they show a male population over thirty years old of fif-
 teen million. Of these, over twelve
 million have merely a common school education, while nearly two million
 have no education at all. That leaves
 six hundred and fifty-seven thousand
 who received high school training, of whom three hundred and twenty-five thousand added college or some form | of higher education to their high school work.
 To judge of the rewards which edu- cation has brought to the very small minority of men who have received it, the commissioner takes the names in Who's Who probably the best direc- tory of prominent people that has yet been devised. There are 10. 700 of these names, which, of course, include none Iof the illiterates and only twenty-four Of the self-taught. In this select circle the college graduate has altogether the best of 1t. Of the list, 7,700 attended college, while over six thousand have degrees. Of those with high school
 training, there are one thousand and of common school training only some
 one thousand.
 That is fine showing for the college
 men so far as 1t goes, but the standard which 1t establishes is by no means the usual standard of Americans. By getting ahead the ordinary Arneri- can means making money, while the criterion for getting into Who's Who is some sort of substitute for fame, some distinction that puts mans
 name in the newspapers, and is usual- ly professional or literary. If you want distinction of that kind, q college preparation Is the greatest help, and it is becoming more and more nearly a prerequisite, although 1t was very far from being so a generation or two gem erations ago. But side by side with each of ten thousand Who's Who's lwell one hundred other men whose
 names even the indefatigable editor of
 that publication never heard of, and
 most of the outsiders can buy out the
 insider dozen times over. They may
 have made their money in chewing gum, or eorsets, or beer but at least they have 1t, and with it the fine houses and the concomitant luxuries which money will buy. If such man has worked hard for his money he sometimes has pretty forlorn time trying to quit the shop and live up to the social and other pre-eminence
 which his neighbors are anxious to put
 upon him. Nevertheless, his house, his yacht or his automobile are more often the envy of the boy starting out than Is the book or the professional achieve ment which has put the poorer neigh
 bor in the directory of eminence. And the great majority of these solid citi-
 zens never saw a college, or even had
 much acquaintance with a high school.
 So the question of the usefulness of a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14


 college depends upon the object to which the boy aspires. and that in
 turn depends upon the bent of his
 mind. If he has the professional or literary bent he is almost certain to get
 to college if he can. That sort of boy
 does not need much urging toward all the education. he can get. But if he
 simply wishes to make money he will
 wish to be convinced by something
 more conclusive than these statistics of the bureau of education before he cuts four years out of his work in the world for college. He will look around at the mens he wishes to initiate, and if
 those are the men of large fortune, he
 will usually find that they found some thing more practical to do with their time than learning Greek, Latin or higher mathematics. It comes down in the end to the sort of boy you have. | If he has a natural interest in college training and a fitness to take advan- tage of it, college is the best place for
 him. If he has not, college training will for the. most part slip from him like water off duck and leave him
 very much the sort of man he would
 have been without 1t, although it may take little longer to get through the husk down to the kernel of the unin-
 tellectuaI man after some college has
 Whitewashed him. In the nature of
 things the men who are it for college training will always be in a small ni- lnority. The great bulk of the coun- | trv's work T11I1sf he done bV the twelve
 million and their successors, who never
 get further than the common school--
 Brooklyn Eagle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
BIG BILL NEXT WEEK.

Frank Mayne and company with the comedy hit of the season will be here
 next week with ''The Tipster.'' The tipping system in vogue will no doubt receive some slight knocks in this latest
 vaudeville success.
 Howe, Barry and Walters with their novelty comedy singing speciality are to
 be one of the leading numbers of the olio. Cliff Gordon with German come ldy, Dewitt, Burns and Torrance with 'The Awakening of Toys" Hale and
 Frances, the worlds .breatest hoop jug glers, Stanley and Berkman, with their song and dance speciality and their im- personation of George Cohan of the
 -Four Cohans.' The Brittons, with their colored speciality, and the electrograph
 with some new motion pictures series,
 will complete the bill.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
NEW HAVEN HARUGARIS IN
 WALLINGFORD.

The Harugari Leidertafel Singing so- ciety of this city was represented by about twenty-five members at the ball of the Eintracht Singing society of Wallingford last evening. The Haru- gari society rendered a few selections, which were evidently greatly appreciat- ed by the spontaneous applause which greeted them. A chorus of some twenty members. of the Wallingford society sang we'll and received merited ap- plause. Tn the absence of Professor Dessan of the New Haven society, Mir Ferdinand Woehet presided in an eff cient manner. The trip was greatly en- joyed by the New Haven memers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-14
Polls 1,heater.

tonight the closing bill at this the r has Bertha Waltzinger and George
 has Bertha Waltzinger and George Boniface, jr., with their comedy
 itch, "The Woman Who Hesitates is h." Others include Walter s. Kel- Robertus and Elfrida, Nellie Syl- ter, Lawson and Namon, Bellclaire others, Jordan and Harvey and the with it's motion pictures.
 rices: Evenings, 10, 20, 30 cents; mat es, 10, 20 cents; ladies at matinees, 10 It's; box seats, 50 cents.