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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-05-27

kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
overlooking in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
II used 10 be considered that only urinary
troubles were 10 be traced TO the kidneys
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin.
ming in kidney trouble.
II you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect OF DR.. Kimer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. II stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits EN
by all druggists in fifty Aa'TrYs Z. :4.sE::s:Ea
cent and onedollar siz n ".
es. You may have a ~. Esss g ~
sample bottle by mail Home OF swamp Root
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out If you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp Root. DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root, and the address, Bingham
ton, n. Y, on every bottle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

She wrote in her diary only once a week. abilities by, since they rejected the added responsibility. limiting their brains to their present responsibility and mode oi life.
 It Is remarkable, but it is also true, that if We meet the chances of life in d gallant spirit and don't try to turn aside from them and solve them in an unna- tural way we are invariably rewarded by progressing mentally and bodily. But if We try to temporize and save ourselves, and do the cautious thing nature calmly and deliberately avenges herself by stunt ing us as we stunted her.
 And that's one reason, if you want to know, why the woman who marries e man without love (because he has suf- ficient income to support her, while the man she loves has not) proves her own curse.
 think proverbs, as a rule, are pretty poor things, but here is one that is true: Fortune favors the brave." And that applies particularly to the man or woman who dares-who dares to do the right, the natural. the straight and the wholesome thing in spite of everything on earth.
 And if I have been little too serious I'm sure I beg your pardon. I'll try not to bo so again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
INSECTS WERE SENT IN FROM
 CHAMBERS. Believed to Be Cotton Pest. They Were Forwarded to Depart ment at Washington Where They are Pronounced to
 Be DorYtemus.

There are no Mexican boil weevil in Montgomery county. The Department Of Agriculture at Washington has declared this in positive terms.
 Commissioner R. R. Poole and Chief Clerk Jesse c. Adams of the State Agri- cultural Department. have had weight lifted from tEeir minds. The community about Chambers. in the lower edge of Montgomery county may now give a sigh of relief.
 Until yesterday there was fear and ap- prehenslon in Alabama's Department of Agriculture and there was apprehension and fear in tne quiet precincts about Chambers. Unknown to the outside world the State Department of Agricul- ture has been struggling with boil wee VII scare The terrors of the devastation wrought by the insldious invincible lit- tie insect in Texas have been before Jess Adams. His sleep O nights was banished by visions of Alabama in the clutches of the dreaded boil weevil. But now peace and serenity have been re- stored. Jess Adams slept last night. Smiles were athwart the rotund face of Captain Poole yesterday.
 This uneasiness, this mind-wreckng anxiety came of a bottle of insects sent to Montgomery by H. l.. Smith of Cham bers. MT. Smith was Of the opinion that the insects were the awful boil weevil. He sent Shem to Montgomery for inves- tigation by the St;=te Department of Az ricultuYe.
 Now, in the Department of Agricul- ture, they kEep plans. drawings. and spe- cifications of the boll weevil. They have him. she or it. there in the foreground, in the perfection and from each eleva- tion. They have him checked off and charted with lists of characteristics. Moreover, in dramatically sealed glass
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
INVITATION FROM E. G. FOWLER.
Leading Montgomery Druggist Urges You to Try Hyomel, the Guaranteed Cure for Catarrh.

Any reader of The Advertiser who suf- fers with catarrh, or who is subject to catarrhal colds. is invited to E. G. Fow- ler's store for complete Hyomei outfit on approval. So confident Is he that Hyu- mel will cure the worst and most deep seated case of catari h that he will furnish a full months treatment of Hyomei oA trial.
 While it would be unreasonable to ex- pect a chronic case of catarrh. which has been growing worse for years, could be cure within a month, yet he feels sure that the thirty days treatment will con- vince the user that Hyomei is infalIible In driving catarrhal poison from the sys- tenn. There Is no dangerous stomach drugging when Hyomei is used Simply breathe its healing balsams through the neat inhaler that comes with every cut fit, and the germ-killing and health-giv- ing air will penetrate to the most remote cells in the air passages of the head throat and lungs, and drive catarrhal pol son from the system. Nothing else will so quickly cure a cold in the head or stop an ordinary cough.
 Singers and public speakers will find Hyomei invaluable. It strengthens the voice and gives it 8 rich. clear tone. Ca tarrhal deafness Is cured when HyOmei and the special Hyomei balm are used.
 The complete outfit costs only one dol- lar. and If. after using. you can say that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
MINE BOSS REPORTS
SUPERINTENDENT FILES HIS
 STATEMENT.
Shows Result of Years Work Undsr New System of Working Con- victs at Pratt Mines and
 Flat Top.

The first annual report of w. l.. Rogers. State Mine Superintendent. re- eelved yesterday at the capitol gives de- tails of the unqualified success of the new system of working the State eon- Yicts in the coal mines of the Birming- ham district.
 The greatly increased financial returns to the State, the marked improvement in the provisions for the comfort of the con vlcts were commented on and recorded at time of the filing of the report of Prest- dent J. N. aCrmichael Of the State Board of Convict Inspectors. The report of Mr. Rogers who is superintendent for the State at Pratt Mines and Flat Top was received yesterday in the Governors of flee.
 The report which covers the calendar year 1903 shows that in that year the net earnings of the convlcts at Pratt Mines amounted to $l95.166, of which SlS7, 200. 12 is in cash and S7,965.S4 in permanent im- provements. At this mine SO9 4S9 tons of coal were mined, a daily average of 99S tons. The report discloses the fact that the cost of maintaining each man a month at Pratt Mines was $l0.58 The gross earnings there were $2T1, ,o71 12 with an average of $S7i.4 each working day.
 On January 1st there were 453 men at Pratt Mines.
 At Flat Top the net earnings for the year $4O.7S5.45. of which $S6S79 12 was in cash and $S.9O2.Ss in permanent improve ments. The daily output at Flat Top was 531 tons. The cost of maintainlnq each man was $ls.Ts.. The gross earn ings were S72,5O2.O9 for the year or S25s.a each day.
 There were 1S7 men on hand there on January 1st.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
How They Saved It.

Senator Quay seldom tells a story, but when he does it is usually a good one. His latest is a yarr told in the Senate cloak room to illustrate the high stand ard of morality in the Keystone State. An old Pennsylvania Drtchman. thri:ty but not wealthy farmer. was elected to the Legislature. Several ''meaty'' raii- road and other corporation measures came up for consideration and after t.Ie session had closed the old farmer sIr- priseG everybody by buying and paying cash for property worth $3) GOO. Someone asked if a fortune had been left to him. "Oh. mo-" was the reply. T have just been saving money while in Harrisburg at the Legislature" "Why, Hans" said his friend. you could not save $3O,O0O In three months when your salary was only & n day. "Ah, but you forget cX- plained the old man as he stroked hls beard complacently. my wife didn't Keep hired girl all that time"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
BOIL WEEVIL SCARE IS ALLAYED
 BY REPORT ON A MONTGOMERY BUG

case, securely kept, they have all the earthly remains of a deceased boil wee vii, who has made his last burrow Into a cotton boil. They have the anatomy of boil weevil who did business in Texas one of those who helped to put up the price of cotton.
 When the consignment of insects from Chambers reached the Agricultural De- pertinent, Commissioner Poole and Chief Clerk Adams began thorough compar- ison. They took one of the Chambers bugs and compared him to the boil wee vii drawing. It was very like. They took the Montgomery county insect and laid him, she or it, alongside of the deceased bug from Texas. They were, too, simi- lar.
 The commissioner looked at his chief clerk whose face was visibly pale. What was said is not to be set down here.
 Commissioner Poole and Chief Clerk Adams could reach but one conclusion. The Mexican boil weevil had appeared In the pralries of Alabama.
 But they were not satisfied with their own diagnosis of the Montgomery coun- ty bug. They sent the bottle full of bugs to the Washington Department immedi- ately with the urgent request that they should be examined and a report sent back by wire.
 Of course Washington has more charts on the bug than our department, and more students of entomology.
 This is the reply received in a tele- gram yesterday from L. o. Howard, who appears to be the bug authority of the Washington Department:
 "R. R. Poole, Commissioner of Agricul-
 ture:
 ..N1ontgOmcry. Ala:
 "The insects sent us are not the Mex lean boil wecvIl, but a species of Dory- temus, which lives on willows and will not attack cotton"
 Jess Adams Is not sure that the tele- graph operator got the family name of this new Montgomery county bug cor rect. He admits that he Is not famil- Iarly acquainted with the Dorytemus family of bugs. but he is willing to let 1t go at that. The telegram gave the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Lenrtheninn nf Life

It is established beyond doubt that dur
 ing the ninteenth century there was in
 all the civilized nations of the worlr an
 important lengthening of the average life, ana that ths improvement is especially characteristic of the last half of the cen-
 tury, It is also clear that the improve ,heht IS limited almost wholly to the car Ter haIt Of life-that is to say, there has MDn M ~" immense diminution of infant y' IioItamty' large decrease of the rate of mortality among children and voutb and on the whole and in general, an increaas in the mortality of advanced life, most particularly among males older tban R, Thus all these influenceh. while saving hfe' tend especially to save lives which are feeble in greater proportion than those which are strong, and thua in the end must lower the vitality of the great mass of the population
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
DEPos1rERs ARE UNEASY.
Closing of Bank Caused Consternatic
 n.a.lsl-.

Closing of Bank Caused Consternation
 in Opelika.
 Opeltka, Feb N.-(Special. .)-The news of the closing of the Shapard Bank fel like thunder clap on the commercial world here.
 The bank was the smallest one in tho city. its capital being s50.0c0. It was in- corporated July 26. 1895, with W. B.. Shapard, veteran banker, as It's Pre- l. dent. He was succeeded at his death by w. l.. Dowdell and at his death c. C. Torbert. the present head came into office Tho Vice-President is William PorterfleId and acting cashier Crawl. Dowdell A majority of the stock is owned by rela- tives of the late W. B. Shapard
 Many rumors are afioat concerning the cause of the failure. The notice on the door. posted there by the bank officials, simply says: Closed pending action by the State Treasurer" 1t Is said that thers are overdrafts. unsecured. to the extent of $36.C00. with some loans that possibly cannot be collected.
 Those more hopeful say that the deposi- tors will be paid in full but that the stockholders will suffer a total loss to about the amount of the stock, In tto absence of any statement from the bank the people are in the dark as to the con dition of affairs. The bank has made no public statement so far as known since it began business. Its assets are unknown Every interest represented in business is caught, and some have every dollar of their money in the bank. It has seriously crippled many even if they get their money. The bank accepted deposits prac- tically up to the time of closing.
 The depositors hope to get the affairs adjusted without the expenses of court. President c. c. Torbert is the heaviest inc dividual depositor and the bank was un- der the sole supervision of William Por- terfield. Vice President. The other banks here have unlimited money, practically. and not one depositor has shown any un- easiness
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Kate Clyde
Comments the Wholesome Natural Mortal ana Scolds the Person Who Becomes "Woppled Sided"

were geniuses and perhaps had some req son to think, SO. They have said at the beginning of their careers: We are not going to feel and act and live like ordi- nary people. We don't have to feel and act like them. We are inspired and filed with the divine fire instead of the ordi- nary red blood.' And they have had to live and have had to feel like ordinary people. or else they were not geniuses and could not make ordinary people feel.
 And I have seen men who for some reason or other have refused to let love enter their hearts. have refused to do their duty by the world in the right way or to have homes of their own. have heard of their even sacrificing the woman who loved them because their views of life were SO distorted that they thought a higher duty called them. And nature has proved that they were wrong, in the surest way of all. by gradually closing and narrowing their ambitions and their
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

A Butter In is not always a wei come visitor. There are always ex- cepttons. however. to the rule anI here is one of them. Ladies we ar- nounce that we have three hundred rolls of Butter in. The kind that has met with so much approbation by all who have tasted its richness of flavor and purity of quality zoe per pound. Would v,u continue to pay 25 and Soc per pound for butter. when you get even better here for less monev. Try it and see if 1t is not all we claim for it to be.
 SMITH 6 WoRNUM. Phone 6O6. IT 1-2 N. Perry St.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Harvard's A. B. Degree at Mid-Year.


 The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sci ences has decided that a man passing enough courses for the A. B. degree at the middle of his senior year may receive his degree at that time instead of waiting until the end of the year. This action has long been favored by President Eliot and more progressive members of the faculty and marks a radical departure at liar yard, where heretofore degrees have been awarded only at commencement. Under this decision the student who enters his senior year lacking but one or two courses to fulfill the requirements for his degree of A. B., if he has done the work neces- sary at the mid-year. may register in the graduate school and thus save full six months in the award of his masters de- gree. It is believed the action ot the fac ulty ultimately will result in the posslbil- ity of obtaining both the degrees of Bach elor of Arts and Master of Arts in the same year, upon the fulhllment of the re- quirements.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Kz Mk |.
ANNOUNCEMENT

We hereby announce to our friends and the public that we are engaged in the typewriting business and are prepared to give best service in fur nishing tvpewriting machines, eith- CT for sale or rent. We shall also keep on hand a full line of typewriter supplies of all kinds. office specialties and labor sav- ing devices.
 Expert repairs to typewriters will be an important feature of our busi- be the best equipped in the State. Our charges will be reasonable and satisfaction in all lines is guaran- teed. It will be pleasure to re- sDond to all calls.
 Terry & Davant.
 Basement Moses Building.
 Phone 12o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
A Distraueht pe stael.

On one page was the rather remarkable Anger is beautiful and grand"
 The women who wrote it showed me the diary. and she said: Tt wasn't anger that I admired then; 1t was force |of character as distinguished from wishy washy goodness. and didn't know lit. It was the strength I admired, not |the bitter hatred. and because strength Ionly seemed to belong to wicked qualities h chose to admire them. wickedness and |all It is rather a bad thing for a child, |a spirited child. when goodness becomes associated in her mind with weakness. u wish I had had some one to show me Swhat I really wanted. instead of wonder hng why l kept on restlessly trying
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

The Hollenbeck Three Barrel Gun.
 One of the latest improvements in mod ern gunnery Is now on exhibition at Todds Gun Store. No gun has created so much talk and met with so much favor as the Hollenbeck two and three-barreI breech-loading hammerless gun. These guns are combination of a double-barral shot gun and rife, all combined in one gun and Is no heavier than the ordinary double-barral gun
 The guns are now on exhibition and for sale at Todd's Gun Store, and they have been given the exclusive agency for the city of Montgomery. The public are tn- vited to call and see the merits of these fine firearms -adv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
White Goods Department.

Our White Goods Department is matchess This is the simple fact We have done worlds of work to make it the most complete department of it's kind in this secton It has made it's reputation but reputa- ton is a peculiar thing. Completeness quality and lower prices necessary to maintain it and we are maintaining our reputation. Here you will find every goods, besides many novelty dress fabrics all at prices that are immensely in your favor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
The Plain Virtnss.

If I were any good at that sort of hing I should write a poem entitled
 The Plain Virtues"
 I am a great believer in the strenuous |fe, I am also a great believer in the
 homely' life. But, if you will excuse le for saying so, the two go together. leople who don't acknowledge that fact
 Ee apt to wake up either failures or
 hbittered with the emptiness of things. IIt is strange, too, that sometimes there lem to be two ways of shaping a life that 1t will be a success and the sier seems to be that which goes kainst nature and the tradition of finrs. But in the end do you know it the hardest, for these things rise up A i'd close on one like silent blank walls. i have seen people who thought they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
TO "ALABAMA,. ,.

Here's to the land of beauteous flowers And inspirations grand; Here's to the land of happy hours. lis dear old Dixie" land! Heres to the land where cotton grows; Here's to its sun-kissed skies: Here's to the land of chivalry- Where faith serene ne'er dies! Here's to it's children-them all. love, l. son of the Western soil! Here's to It's noble sons and sires. Bound are We by Gods own coil! Here's to It's daughters and mothers. too Fair and sweet as the lily pure, Here's to the land where friendships grow That will all time endure! Here's to the land where I was reared And grew to manhOods height; Here's to the State of Alabam'; God bless 1t with Thy might!
 John Proctor Mill. Feb. 18th. 1904.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

relief looked for and that is sufficient.
 The telegram confirms the statement of the officers of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. that there are not nor have been. any boil weevil in Alabama. Sev- eral rumors of this sort have been start ed and in each instance they have prov ed to be without foundation.
 Farmers who find members of the Dor ytemus family roasting on their premis- es are warned by the Agricultural De- partment not to be alarmed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Social AFairs

Mrs. Belle Well entertained a party of friends at euchre Friday afternoon at her home on Oak Avenue. Refreshments were served.
 Miss Louise Howe entertained at Flinch Tuesday evening at her residence on East Holmes Street.
 Miss Floyd Strong entertained the Literary Club Friday eveYang.
 Mrs. s. P. Metcalfe entertained Mon day night last in compliment to Mrs. Charles Gerber of Memphis.
 Miss Mary Jackson of Memphis was the honoree of a pleasant reception given Monday by Mrs. Amelie Dlllard,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
PERRY IS ADJUTANT.
Appointed for Artillery Battalion by
 Major Wescctt.

Lieutenant W. T. Perry. formerly an officer of the Montgomery Field Artillery has been appointed Adjutant and Chief of Staff by. Major s. T. Westcott. com manding the First Battalion of Artillery, Alabama National Guard.
 The place carries with 1t the rank of Captain. Captain Perry succeeds to the place. formerly held by Captain N. H. Jones. Captain Perry is one of the oldest men in point of servi1c in the Ar tillery Battalion. He has for a number of years been a member of the Montgom- cry Battery, either as an officer or a non- commissioned officer.
 Captain Perry was acting Adjutant of the Artillery Battalion at the Mobile en- campment last summer and he.has since then been acting in that capacity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
MAY BUILD CANNERY
NEW INDUSTRY IS IN PROSPECT
 FOR HUNTSVILLE.
Oscar R. Hundlev Emphatically Denies That He Will Be q Candidate for Congress
 in the Seventh.

Huntsville, Feb. 7.-(Special.) )--The es- tablishment of $S5.0O0 fruit and vegeta- bIe cannery is contemplated by northern capitalists who are visiting in Hunts vile at present. The Chamber of Com merce is assisting the visitors in the selection of a site. It Is intimated that after the canning factory Is established, the same parties will locate plant cost ing $25,0O0 for the manufacture of tin cans for use in this cannery and others that are operated by the company in several localities
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
Hundlev Will Moi Run.

Reports that Hon. Oscar R. Hundley will be candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Eighth District are given emphatic denial by that gentleman. MT. Hundleys time is fully occupied in attending to his private business and law practice I'id the only political preferment he is seeking at present Is the position of delegate-at- large to the Republican National conven- ton. It Is not believed that the Re- publicans will nominate a candidate to oppose Judge Richardson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
New Owners of Paper

J. W. Bartee and F. O. Williamson have purchased The Weekly Herald pulp lished at Gurley, Ala, and in a card to the public the new owners state that they will make it one of the livest papers in Madison County c. C. O'Neal, former owner of The Herald, will remove to Florence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

for something which was not given me.
 Well, there are a lot of us who do that. We be- gin by despis- ing goodness be- cause we have seen 1t weak, and then we try to find strength minus that weak
 ening goodness, and then we find, last of all, that the only real strength is good n es 8 D l u s strength. I won der if we could
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

There is only one kind of man or wo- man worth while in this world, and that is the wholesome man or woman. The longer I live the more I realize this.
 Time was when I waxed enthusiastic over the rococo and the wopple sided in characters and thought that to be of those not easily understod-in other words, hard to get along with-was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

sign l was set apart for great things. I felt
 scorn for ctle ordinary nome
 and mother woman, and the sight of a moth CTS magaz 1 n c was as distaste- full as the sight of a recipe for maxi n g t h a t honlely but much prized dish, corn ed beef hash> l have braveiy got over all that and have even ,oe to the extent of