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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

though very much less than this has been spent in actual cash. The Home Is beautiful. the cottages sub stantial, the work permanent. There may be some little indebtedness hanging over the institution; expenses of main tainance-the food, clothes of inmates, are going on all the time. For some reason the State holds off. I do not criticise. brunt when he has already done so much; to allow him to do So much, is stigma, an undying stigma, on the name and fame of this, one of the grandest conn monwealths of. the greatest peoples the Stinginess, cold-bloodedness, jealousy, politics-surely not this; 1t must be ig- norance. A very little help from our good people will change all this. They do not realize. but the need Is urgent-a little mite for the weary and heart sick; a little pull together boys and girls of 'Sl--boys and girls of 1904.
 ended; crippled, armless, legless, poor, in need, in sickness, in sorrow. alone, for saken, surrendered and the end--the poor God forbid. people of Alabama; God for bid; and yet many are there; and yet many are there.
 Below little poem. not much. but a little poem. even a bad one, sometimes warns the heart. Also a little check which may make one of the Boys" happy a little while.
 With heartfelt pull together, We can soften many a weary heart. Remember the "Blvouac" and the hunger, but withal. the cOmradeship. boys of '61-'65. Could you have stood it alone: When you lay at night at the Bivouac, After the day and the fight were done, And a comrade, wounded and weary,
 whose life was nearly spun, Crawled in and asked for shelter, at the
 setting of the sun;
 Did you help or turn the cold shoulder,
 boys of '61.
 Did you plague him and ply him with What company? Why did you fec? Our rations are poor and scanty and sup
 per is over, you sec Or did you "divVy up'' with him wonder,
 under the old oak tree? ,. How did you do when the battle was
 done, boys of '63?
 When the legions all shattered and
 broken
 Surrendered, all those still alive; What did you say to each other? How
 did you hope to thrive? Did you lock handS and heartfully, hon.
 estly promise to strive To help each other in the days to come,
 boys of 65?
 God! has the world grown colder? Shall comrade want for food? Now that the days are shortening for the
 whole of the grand old brood Of heroes. who lay in BivoIac aftev the
 day was done
 Will you help or turn the cold shoulder
 when their lives are nearly spun?
 '-BenJ Bosworth Smith.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
JACOBS PHARMACY 3 COURT SQUARE. :.

When prescription is beyond the knowl- edge of the neighborhood druggist, when it is too complicated or delicate for the ..eorner chemist it is sent by common consent to this Store to be compounded.
 So it is famous place as drug stores go--- somewhat of central regulator for other drug gists, like the sun dial for a system of chro- nometers. 5.
 Did the importance of having your own prescriptions compounded at such place ever occur to you9
 As matter. of household economy. aside from all other considerations, isn't that the sort of pharmacy to use first hand, for a Il your prescription work.
 Telephones and swift messenger system places it within easy reach of the residents of West End, Highland Park, as well as other sections of the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
AN Expr,ANArroN.

s Some years ago The Advertiser proni- ised it's readers that when there was any
 news of decided value on a Sunday. it
 would always make an extra issue to give that news. Yesterday that promise was not kept. and hence an apology aud an explanation are due our patrons. There is an arrangement between, the Associated Press and The Advertisers management that in case there Is !nl- portant news on a Sunday. bulletins of the news are to be sent collect over the regular wires of the Western Union Tee graph Company as early as possible on Sunday.
 This was done by the Associated Press on Sunday night. But the bulletins were not received at the Montgomery ofnse until 11:4O D. m. However, The Adyer- tiser, with it's mechanical facilities. co'id have gotten out an issue after that tin'e' But unfortunately these bulletins weie not delivered on Sunday night by tho Western Union Telegraph Company They were sent to The Advertiser ohise yesterday morning after o'clock. Tine Western Unions explanation is that IL had messengers strike on hand. and that the storm Sunday night had knocked out the telephone service.
 The net result was that The Advertiser did not get the notice of the important news from the Associated Press. The causes leading to this result were un- usual, 1t is true. but nevertheless tals paper regrets exceedingly its failure to keep it's promise to its patrons. It pledges itself to do all in its power to prevent a recurrence of the failure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

How are VIC to believe anything that the medical experts tell us? It has been
 universally taught that foul water. ljne the sewage of cities. is breeder of ty- phoid. and we supposed there could be no. doubt of it. Now comes trio of professors who assert, and one of tb,m testified in open court that typho d germs could not live but two days in sewage polluted water, while they could live ten days in pure water His exper.- lnents proved. he asservated, that Wa ter polluted with sewage was in itself of positive value in eliminating typhoId germs. If this is true Is 1t not a natural and logical sequence that the fouler :he water the less danger from typhoid,
 We see no escape from that conclusion and if all the old teachings are thus up set and dlsproven. what are we to be lieve that we read about germs and dls ease and such? If pure water is danger
 ous must our cities stop all efforts t; purify 1t and let us reveI in sewage sl a preventive of disease? Which is what
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

Congressman John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee. who occasionally makes things lively in Congress and elsewhere. has been resting his mind while he count ed the microbes on a one-dollar bill. Statements differ as to the number found, but The Chattanooga News puts 1t at 492. Whether his investigations were made from curiosity or in the interests of science we do not know, but we do know that he shouldn't trihe with dan ger in that reckless manner. Tennessee without Gaines would be a "stale, flat and unprohtable" proposition. It would be almost as flat as Kentucky without mint juleps. Gaines is large part of the Commonwealth of Tennessee. and should leave dangerous investigations to those whose business 1t is and who can better be spared. Wonder what he did with his microbes, by the way?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
FIGHTING FOR KENTUCKY.
Bryan 1ending Every Effort to Con- trol Delegation to the Con-
 yeutiou.

Louisville Special to Washington Post.
 Will 1t be Bryan Or ti-Bryan dele gation from Kentucky at the National Democratic convention?
 Bryan will bend every effort to control the delegation, He will be aided by Gov ernor Beckham and a very considerable following in opposition to the anti-Bryan element, headed by Hinry Watterson. MT. Watterson has been slated as a de- legate-at-large, with a strong possibility that he would be on the Platform Com- mittee.
 At the meeting held in Frankfort last night the gage of battle was laid down. Both Governor Beckham and MT. Bryan went on record against Watterson, and their position was received with cheers. MT. Bryan realizes that be has strong hold on the State, and has arranged his 'affairs- so as-to be able to remain here several days.
 He came to Louisville this morning, and will go to Owensboro for a confer ence with Urey Woodson, national com mitteeman from Kentucky, and one of Bryan's most loyal followers. Bryan will
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
REnucrNa EXPENSES.

Chicago is threatened with bankruptcy. We have seen one statement that 1t will take 6 matter of twenty million dollars to tide. the city over. However that may be, there is no doubt about the serious problem before the city, and Mayor Har- rlson has plan to get out of the hole. He can see no remedy, he says, but "a reduction in salaries. There will have to be fewer policemen, fewer firemen. less street cleaning. lower teachers salaries" ]" That is what might have been expected. Fewer policemen, when the city Is the home of thugs and robbers. who fre- auently ply their trade in the heart of the city. Human life is but little safer in Chicago than it is in the wilds of Africa, or among the bandits of Turkey The police force is either incompetent CT inadequate to protect the city. but the number must be reduced.
 And there must be fewer firemen, al- though the present force cannot or docs not protect the city from the flames. But all that is nothing in the line of money saving to the proposition to lower tine 
 salary of teachers. Probably there are some clerks, janitors and other employees whose pay can be cut down and save a few thousand dollars a year. Let them and the teachers worry along on low sal- aries, let the police force be reduced. let there be a less number of flremen. for the time has come to economize, says Mayor Harrison.
 And what has brought the city to such pass? It is and has long been one of the most profigats cities in the Union. The boodIer. the grafter, the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker have found t a prac- tically Wide-open town. Money has been wasted, gobbled up. stolen and mlsappro- priated by the millions, and no apparent effort made to. stop it. Ngw. when bank ruptey stares the, rnunicipal government in the face the only remedy of the Mayor Iis to diminish the number of the guar dians of the city and the city's people and property and cut down the salary | of the teachers. --'-
 Is it not a pitiful and disgraceful ex- hibition of misgovernment? If honesty and competency had controlled the af- fairs of the city during the past years lit would not now be found necessary to insert a plug in the spigot while, in all probability. the bung-hole will remain
 wide-open. There is nothing in the May ,ors suggestions. so far as we are aware, looking towards reformation or prom;s- ing an honest administration of the city's l some minor salaries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

craze New York Representative of today, never got credit for his ability becauss he was known as a funny man, Ald even after death he lived in mor51fnentaI bronze SO caricatured as to lure lanxL- ter-an effigy whose eviction from the place where 1t stood beckoning to newsboy for a .'pape' is one of the first a master of mordaift sarcasm which made him feared in debate. was 1t help or hindrance? Did it aid him to be speaker? Did 1t keep from the Prest- lie life?; |, s'.iEl s:
 1t might seem from many instances that 1t is . misfortune for, statesmap to be witty. Net the giant frame of Lins coin thrusts Itself into the probleni-2 man truly great, who was helped to slc- cess by his gift of homely wit. Perhaps sne explanation is that MT. Lincoln flev. er told story in public simply to make people laugh-always to illustrate q point Of serious importance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

of any of the negro's characteristics or habits unless they choose to do so. The
 dread of isolation. however. Is real one. and may be well founded. One white family surrounded by negroes and practically cut of from white assocl-
 ates is a condition dreaded by our own people, and we do not wonder that for .cigners should look at such prospect with repusnance They appear to have an idea that no white family is safe if there are colored people about. That this lis an almost absurdly exaggerated conception of the conditions existing In the South doesn't alter the fact that such an idea exists.
 The remedy for this. as we see 1t, is to locate these immigrants in small col. onies, so that a number of families, will
 be in touch with each other, and will be free from the isolation which natur- ally attaches to c family in strange land. By this means they would not he entirely cut off from home associations, and they could gradually accustom themselves to the new conditions and familiarize themselves with the agricsl- tural needs and methods of their new homes. This would. In our Judgment, solve the difficulties now existing and in the time to come. would All. up any. gsps, made vacant by the exodus of negroes with an industrious, self-sustaining and desirable population. It Is the surc't.
 method of attaining the desired object and we see no difficulties in the way that
 cannot be overcome by determined and
 persistent effort on the part of those who
 are trying to induce immigration to the
 Sot,th . -t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
! Reading for the. Childre,,

Miss Mary B. Lindsay. of Eyanston. H. tass inois, ,fsss is of shs opinlon that ws should from children. This has called forth thse following very earnest protest from the hev; Thomas B. Gregory: With E.
 Benjamin Andrews advocating the Stafe murder of all children who are not horn
 up to the level of a certain physical and mental marx. and with this Evanston wo- man advising the taking away of sll fairy tales from the little ones who are permitted by the State. to live on, we question: What Is going to become 'ns ns usT God only knows what will become of us unless we can in some way contriye to put quietus upon the sexless. heart- less Philistinism which is abroad iYi thA land. Give us motherhood, and child. hood, and. the tenderness and beauty that have always gone along with them, and all will be well: but relegates motherhood to the rear and banish childhood from the earth, and what is left even the devil himself wouldn't have" Washington Post. ~ -f -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
"oLD JOE" CANNON.
Gives Satisfaction in Speakers Chair
 to All Parties.

LO All E I4Ooe Washington Special to Chicago Chronicle.
 The condition of almost perfect har- mony that prevails in the House of Rep- resentatives this winter is a fine com mcntary upon the fairness of Uncle Joe Cannon. Democrats and Republicas agree that never within their memory was there such an absence of friction, party rancor and unfortunate Compilations of various kinds. There have been partisan collis- ions but they were forgotten when they were over. The Democrats are satisfied because they feel that they are being given show, as one of their number put 1t the other day. The Republicans are satisfied because the old combinations and cliques that were permitted to exist under former speakers have been disbanded and shorn of their erstwhiie power.
 Every representative, whether Democat or Republican, has access to the Speaker s office and once there is assured of a cor dial welcome and respectful attention. Business never was transacted with such dispatch, notwithstanding that the widest license in debate hes been accorded mem- bers in the consideration and disposition of appropriation bills The activities of the Committee on Rules. heretofore the cause of infinite complications. have been reduced to a minimum. Mir. Cannon a personality has proved as effective as the power of the Committee and very much more soothing to the nerves of the mem- bers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
WISCONSIN, SOLID FOR WALL.
Democrats, Ready to Unite in His
 Support for the Presidency.

Democrats, Heady to Un1te m aas
 Support for the Presidency.
 Milwaukee Special.
 Telegrams from all parts of the coun- try continue to pour in upon E. c. Wall, congratulating him on the announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic norn- ination for the Presidency and many of them offer support. The names of the senders are withheld because MT. Wall does not think the publication of corre- spondence of private nature to be in good taste. 1t is an assured fact, however, that his candidacy Is assured of a very substantial basis outside the State of Wis consin. MT. Wall has a great many warm friends. made while he was a member of the National Committee. who still are members of that Committee and well dis posed. The fact that the Wisconsin dele- gation is almost certain to be united in support of Mir. Wall, while almost every other State stands a chance of being di- vided, seems to give his candidacy excep- tional strength.
 It is certain that with Mir. Wall as it's candidate the Wisconsin delegation will be for him and for no one else, and that there will be no trading off of Wisconsin strength in support of any other candi- date. It will be for Mir. Wall and Mfr. Wall only. In so far as he may have any thing to say about 1t and it Is presumed that he will have everything to say.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Another New Town.

baldwin Standard.
 Ciyil Engineer c. E. Marks has finished tne te iayinE out of twenty-one thousand of sne ntty.nve thousand acres of land be- ..onging to the Baldwin County ColonIza. Koe,iing oe iGiompany. Io Cf Chicago of which John Ssecretary, with off1ce at SO Dearborn S.reet Chicago. The town has been fd,a fEp,eansd S1,. at t. that place. Land has been Iald out In forty-acre lots. roads run on section lines. 15-room hotel will be fin- ised In fifteen days. an extension has already been started. a store and school house will be ready for occupancy in n few weeks; all this is located two miles north of Swift postoffice., A boat viii run run. direct through Bon secour bay and. Fish River to their landing.
 Thirty-nve men are employed in aeRtius the place in readiness for the new ssts tiers, all of whom will be Germans. .Eec- retary Bartling Is to be here the isst Of this week to push the work. -.
 Wall" said Burroughs. ..that the ,hara. est work I know.''
 What is?''
 "To find somebody that's easy to work" Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1904.
ONE OF THE REGULARS.

One of the regular" papers of Ten nessee. which means a paper that Ican-s not possibly see beyond Bryan, charges The Chattanooga Times with lack of Democracy, and gets this reply:
 n.he newspaper that rejoices and icon eratulates the country upon the fact that Bryan and SBfyanism completely block the way to Democratic harmony, will hardly have any call to accept The Chat fanooga Times as in It's class of Demo- cratic papers. T
 One of the most singular phases of lat ter-day politics is the fact that news papers claiming to be Democratic think it commendabIe in Mir. Bryan to stand in the way of party harmony, and every paper which refuses to endorse his ob- straictise sezEourse is at once under the bdh of these "only true Democrats" They know perfectly well that MT. Bryan Is not in favor of harmony unless he gets it on his own lines, and they, ought to know by this time that the great body of Democrats of the country are not go- ing to submit to his dictation or submit to his demands. That ought to be plain to any man with eyes and ears.
 The Chattanooga Times Is among the soundest Democratic newspapers in the South. but it refuses to be an organ. Its Democracy is of the old stripe, and because it refused to follow Bryan away from the correct principles of the party 1t is abused by those who have not it's Independence. Party regularity IS good thing. but it is not everything, and a newspaper can be really and truly Derl- ocratic without being an organ. And every man and every newspaper ought to speak out in condemnation Of Bryan s cbtrusive tactics. If doing that renders one un-Democratic, there can be found plenty of them in every State and sec ton of the country
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Pol Creditable to the senate.

Hartford (Conn.) Courant,
 When before, if ever, have two Sena- tors Of the United States been indicted 6y grand juries in a single winter? Mir. Dietrich had no trouble in showing to torial oath at the time he made his busi- ness arrangements with the Nebraska postmaster pcs t and the, court promptly de- nyered him out of the hands of his ene- mics Mir. Burton of Kansas tells the public that he did not take the Rialto Grain and Securities Companys g, 500 as a Senator, but as a lawyer 1t was not bribei he says. but merely d fee for professional serViceb.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Do Humor and Politics Mix.

New York World.
 Three days sufficed to make J. Adam Bede. Congressman from Minnesota, fa- nous. On Wednesday few outside of his own State knew of his existence; on Thursday he made a funny speech m Congress. On Saturday. he appeared as the star after-dinper performer at met ropolitan dinner
 into fame of J. Proctor Knott of Ken lucky, who found the then uni-nown name of Duluth in river and .serbor Dill and praised 1t as the zenith city of the -unsalted seas" in mock heroics never surpassed. Knott became famous in d week; Deluth, now a thriving city of 5000 people, is ratlier proud of his sar- casm.
 Does 1t pay in politics to be Q humo. = ist? Knott was man of ability. a Gov. ernor of Kentucky as well as a Con- gressman, yet is remembered by a phrase. Sunset" Cox, far above the av-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Cannot Feel Easy.

SaIOpOIlS OlSpaIcn.
 MT MT; Bryan seems to be one of those are Prepie ie who t can not feel easy unless they Roosevelt are much of the same type, m m their play to the galleries for popu- Jar , approval neither seem to be willing permit anyone to occupy the center Of N"e ed4clum light other than themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Nothing Dishonest.
BirninRh;

Birmingham News.
 There are number of honest men in the Democratic party who would like to see Democratic victory. There is nothing dishonest in wanting to win, Mir. Bryan to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Not So Certain.
Birmingham Iad

Birmingham Ledger.
 President Roosevelt has spt tba e~ ample of receiving civil officers with milf tary honors. He also sent troops with MT. Root to the station when he retired rom ofhce. It is not well in a republic 10 do such things, but Roosevelt is not so certain that this is a republic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
Prises the Bridge.
Mountain I

MOUhtdlh Eagle.
 our friend Bryan still praises the bridge that dldnt carry us over safe. Accord ing 10 our friend, the party should not one and be "ducked" for the third lime.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

The Mobile Register looks on it as ag- tonishing ''how many people down here consider Cleveland the only man who can win.:.' The Register will give some of it's esteemed contemporaries a case of 'phobia if it makes such horrible in-
 situations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
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It is Too Young

It is Too Young. Birmingham Age-Herald. When Mayor Mcclellan performs a mar riage ceremony he does not kiss the bride He says he is too young, but the bride may think differently.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

canvass-back duck and raw beefsteak washed down with wine. is apt to lead to pneumonia. says medical writer. Ho v would 1t do to leave off the duck-and the steak7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

When the farmers get to planting big cotton crops next spring we hope they will leave some vacant spaces to plant hens in. Eggs are too high and scarce, even yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09
What People Think.

Tuscaloosa Tlmes-Gazette.
 Bryan says he was put up by the party twice just to be defeated. A good many people think that it was on account of Bryan that the party was defeated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

Whether it is war or peace in the East the newspaper prophets have struck it, for they have been on both sides.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

: Tn Minnesota a man with a pistol in his pocket hid himself and watched his wife flirting with another man. After they had exchanged sixty-hve warm kisses the husband got disgusted and began to shoot. He didn't like so many encores.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

sam Jones expects to hit Florida or February 1S," says The Pensacola Jour nal. Let's see-thats about the date your other show begins, is it not?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

The Dothan Slftings thinks "it is good newspaper scripture to talk up for your town, even if you haven't much town" Yes. and it is also good hard sense.