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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Kissing in the Theatre.

New York audiences still decline to hiss, which fact may account for the Formerly there was no hissing in the theatre. The benevolent audience were content to yawn and fall asleep. The invention of hissing is no older representation of "Aspar." a tragedy of Fontenelle. So we are told by the poet Roi in his "Rrcvet de la Calotte." A farce was produced in Bannister's ter" T predict it's fate" said he What fate?' whispered the anxious author at his side. What fate?" said Bannister; why. what can fire and water produce but q hiss?'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Cost of RuraI Free Delivery

Worlds Work.
 In 1897, when the rural service was started on probation, $40,00G was deemed sufficient for its trial. Du- ring the fiscal year that ended June 30. 1904, nearly $13,000,00 was ex- pended for rural free delivery. For the fiscal year upon which we have now entered $20, ,S16.600 has been ap- propriated for the continuance and ex- tension of the rural mail service. There were 24,566 rural routes in ex- istence at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, last. 9,446 new routes having been put into operation during the tis- cal year. On October 1. 1904 there were 27,135 routes established, and the service was being extended at the rate of about 500 routes a month
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Temptntion of Police Captains.

New York Press.
 "Thc temptation of a police captain" says Commissioner McAdoo, lis thousand times greater than that of any bank cashier in tho world. Temp tation waits for him at every corner If you knew what assaults on their characters they have to face you would take off your hats to them" Rot. By his very office the police cap tain should be further removed from temptation than nearly any claSS of public official. Surely no other kind of officer should have had more num- erous or intimate examples of the les son that the wages of sin is death." Practically the principal temptation he has Is the knowledge that he has 3 better opportunity than any other class of crook of escaping the conse- uuence of his crime.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
VIII Have to Buy It

Says a Dover (Del) correspondent Of a Philadelphia newspaper: Tt seems almost a certainty that whoever Is se- lected United States Senator from Del aware to succeed L. Heisler Ball will have to purchase the honor from the Legislature. This may seem an odd statement, but 1t Is nevertheless true, as the conditions here politically are such that legislators do not grant fla vors without being recompensed. Tt Is the custom of the country" as g. has become aggravated during the ten years of Addickism. It is taken that this will be Addickss last stand, If he shall be a candidate.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
How Niagara Helps Trade

IIarptr WeekIy.
 A clever game is worked at Niagara during the winter months by shrewd merchants. Shanties are built on the ice about half may to the shore, on the exact boundary line between the United States and Canada, and occu- pied by traders. As they have neither rent. United States duty nor Canadian license to pay they are enabled to of duced prices. The officers of neither country disturb them, because they would first be compelled to prove ju- risdiction. This would be impossible. for by the time the courts got around to it it would be spring and both the ice and the shanties would be gone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

in Congress appear to have some of the same feeling. and show an inclina- tion to have their own way to . greater extent than Is pleasant to his bump of self-conceit. It will be interesting if he and they lock horns on important matters and between them block some needed legislation. We suspect that his opinion of himself is destined to get a fall
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Mir. Bryan intimates that those Pennsylvania Congressman who want to reduce Southern representation be- cause of the small vote cast down here should have care fest some one pro- pose an investigation into the abnor- mally large vote cast in their own State, especially in Philadelphia. The fraudulent vote of that city is so noto- rious that 1t really would require little investigation to expose 1t. but we doubt if the South-haters would want the in- quiry to take that turn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Money Wasted7
 Health aons7
After Doctors Have Acknc~u~a~. Eheir Failure, We Say c. r. F. WiIl Fesitfvely Cure-Your Monex
 Back if if nOe~u,x

1hs.r Failure. We Say c. r. F. win
 Fesitively Cure-Your Monex Back if 1t Doesn't.
 US a pretty hard matter In thee. SSsys 10 make . sick. despalrinr woman oSieve that there is really one ren, edv when when will positively cure those dis- sas sases and weaknesses peculiar to tho sU one has probably "doctored" ,in- e i purse and patience are both exha uef- T.as tried first one reputed sremedv aiter another-but always with the same result--failure-and if won ara one oI these, we address you in sym paInesic confidence
 0 Y. F. (Gerstle's Female Panacea, .taS o new' untried preparation. It has eshsoou tne test of years and has cured Ife1i;.us: In cases of proiapsus td1ihns t,,1 or the womb). irregular, pain trn,hIas suppressed periods, ovarian dnn,t du4,piss, etc., It has no equal You ah ,,th : nave 10 take our word for 1t .,n, eisnerAget one dollar bottle from rected. then if you can conscisrt;ors say you have not been benefited sts the empty bottle back to fine man ss,So sold It to you and he will instantiv re. fund your dollar Ee
 If your druggist cannot supnlv ,.,,. send us one dollar direct ana ws S,s,1 seno you a bottle express prepaid. IF you reel that your case presents any peculiar features that you need asivics write to the Ladies Health Club csrn or the Gerstle Medicine Co., CRaffa. nooga, Tenn. and your letter win hs answered and the very best adyice freq ly given by experienced and symns tnetIc women. eu-wed-fri.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

The statement of a contemporary that in Holland all the women dress alike" may be true. but we don't know how to take it in. If ali wear the same color, style and quality of cloth ing what's the use of dressing? We mean, what's the use of wearing clothes? No. that isn't 1t. but where Is the pleasure of being well and hand somely dressed If one can't have any advantage over another? Seems to us like 1t would be a monotonous business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
JUsTrFYINe HIMSELF.

It will be remembered that the Rus sian Minister, Won Plehve, was killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist named Sasoneff, and it is interesting to note the defence. or pleas of justifica- tion made by the bomb -thrower It reminds us of the reasons usually given by a mob to justify a lynching-that the victim really deserved killing. Sasoneff showed that Won Plehve had committed a number of acts which deserved death. Among them was the murder of the Jews at Kishineff, the persecution of the Films and the Armenians, and other offences of like kind. No doubt the Minister deserved death. just as a rapist deserves 1t, but neither an anarchist nor a mob has a right to become the executioner.
 It develops, also, that the act of Sasoneff was not the act of a seIf-con- stituted assassin or of a crazy anar- chist, but that he was only carrying out the plans or orders of an associa- tion which had decreed Plehve's death. It is stated that there were over 100 men who volunteered to do the job, but the choice fell on -sasoneff. and he did the job effectually. The execution of the Minister by legal process would have been the right thing to do, but his conviction by a Russian court was not to be expected, so assassination was resorted to. He deserved death, but that fact does not justify murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
A ounsrloN AND ITS ANSWER.

paper.s standard is gauged by Its circuias, Nonf We do not boast of the largest ,he largest in the State of Alabama. or sins other State or Territory of corresp0nresrS n,uerS population. That why The sSs. mi. ard and makes 1t the most valuable mea,un' nun. for both the advertising and reaainsa reasa pa psna lie The following statement compheo S . sworn to by our Circulation Manager snoWs tho actual net circuiation of The Adverussi for each day in the month of NeseHoe ID0l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Prosperous Times.
Mobile Item.


 If the Christmas trade Is to be taken as an indication, there were never m re prosperous times In the country than are enjoyed this season. From every city and section comes reports of eX- traordlnary heavy trade, and the people appear to be hopeful and happy. The past has been banner business year and the indications are that the com ing year wilk be one of more activity than the year just closed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
DOdged It.
Ahhpville News

The Republican administration com pletely lodged the race question in the case of Private Smith of the United States army, who was discharged with out honor for marrying a negro woman, by writing in the order "of bad char acter." Doubtless she was as good as the ordinary negro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Buying a New Bonnet.

New Ork WeekIy.
 Mrs. Brickrow-How do you man. age to persuade your husband to buy you such expensive bonnets?
 Mrs. Tophatte-I take him shopping with me- walk him around until he can't stand, and then wind up in a bonnet store. He'll buy anything to get home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
President Harvie Jordan.

T believe in that man" Harvie Jor- dan." said n Northerner yesterday. He seems to be just the right sort of man tu lead the light on the bear speculators os Wall Street.
 From the way he is advertising the meeting of farmers, merchants and bankers in New Orleans January 24, 25 and 26, a good assemblage of business brain ought to be present. There is no doubt that tendency exists among the farmers to hold their cotton.
 Tt will prove a gigantic problem to organize the farmers of the cotton growing States, though. The plan to be adopted m New Orleans should rep resent good deal of study and intel ligence.
 For a permanent plan, would sug- gest the general one of urging every merchant that buys from the cotton planter or sells to them. to talk re- duced acreage from now on incessant- ly. It looks like for temporary relief and better prices they will depend pretty much on the chrystalizing of q sentiment to hold the crop not yet mar keted."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

It is being very plainly intimated that tho President Is not going to have such an easy time bossing Congress as he had thought. He apparently took the big vote for him as proof that the people expect him to have his own way in all things, but his party friends
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Nn,r Yenr RenolntIons.

"DO you knOW, asked a prominent saloon man, that New Years resolu- tions really have an effect on the whis- key business. You see the resolutions street corner discussions, but for us 1t Is no laughing matter. I have noticed that on many New Years days, some of my regular customers, men who haven't missed their morning toddy throughout the entire year, fail to show up on New Years morning. Sometimes s they stay off only a day, sometimes for several weeks, sometimes for several years and sometimes for lifetime. It's a serious thing for saloon keepers"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
In Refinement.
Opelika.

OpeIika News.
 Of course there are people who are opposed to Santa Claus But they have been in secluded retirement for several weeks past.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Farms and plantations.

While business has of course felt the effects of the hig slump in cotton" said a travelling man yesterday, whose territory is in South Alabama, it has not yet so far as appearances go made itself on the cotton farms and cotton plantations of Alaban q. The farmer who has held his cotton Is of course feeling blue over the situation. But the two fat years for cotton have ma terially changed the appearances of the farms and plantations of the State.
 Disused acres have been put into cul- tivation. New fences have been built and old fences have been repaired. More comfortable homes for the family and the tenants have been built and the country wears a prosperous air to which 1t has been d stranger for many years It is a pity the high price should not have continued until the South had resumed the agricultural su- premacy of the country"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

After all. there's something in De- pew's alleged claim that his friends bought the senatorship for him and he ought to have it. Like The Memphis ws-Scimitar we don't see how a Re- publican legislator can get around that argument. but perhaps they refuse to stay bought.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
The Fault of It.
Mobile Herald.

Mobile Herald.
 The discovery of a new Assure on Luna is ridiculed by savant, who says 1t is very common In the moon The fault. no doubt. of the man in it making funny cracks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Will be Going On.

Birmingham Ledger.
 President Roosevelt says rebates must go." We are not sure, but have an opinion that rebates will be going on long after Mir. Roosevelt has finally gone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
LtberaI-NtiDded to n Degree.

Philadelphia Record.
 Nell-Maude is rather liberal-mind- ed, isn't she?
 Belle-Liberal-mind Why she cant open her mouth without giving herself away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Mrs. Chadwick insists that her hus- hand Is the victim of circumstances. !" and we can quite easily believe 1t. Several other men are suffering like visa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
No. Never,
Huntsville Tribune.

IUntSVIIIe IrIbune.
 We feel quite sure as high a civiliza- tion does not now and never will exist in this country as prevailed prior to the war. The changed conditions will never admit of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

The Chicago Tribune wants to know lis the minority declining?" We'll, if it is still at it there'l soon be none of it left.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

A California paper declares that "a California girl can beat snnta Claus all hollow at filling Christmas stocking" But doesn't she i'll two of 'em?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Thirty degrees above zero is con- sidered cold weather in Montgomery, but thirty below is winter time in Montana.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

IldTuyeILe SuIl.
 Watson wouldn't do as candidate for the Woman Suffragists. Tom in sists on having the last word him. self
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
Daily Average, November, 1D04. ! Sunday Average, November, 1904... l

P. J. Kelly. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: The foregoing statemen: of The Ad- vertiser's daily circulation for the month of November. 1s0f is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents and leftover copies have been deducted. P. J. KELLY,
 Circulation MAnager
 The Advertiser Company. Sworn to and subscribed before me this sth day of December. 1904.
 F. W. JACKSON
 N. F.. Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. Dayton Plaster of Tallassee. is at
 Clancey's.
 Col. c. R. Bricken of Luverne, is in the city.
 Mir. A. M. Drake of Tuskegee, is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Congr6 ssman John l.. Burnett of Gadsden, is in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Mr. w B. Markstein of Anniston came to Montgomery yesterday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Mir Samuel Lichten of Greenville spent yesterday in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. J. D. Steinhart of New York, ar rived in Montgomery yesterday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. E. H. Kaufman of Selma, was in the city last night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Mir. c. D. Patterson of Tallassee, was In Montgomery yesterday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT L.. H. Fitch of Snow Hill, is 1T Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Judge S. C. woolf of Demopolis, Is a visitor in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. C. L. Boyd of Shorters, was in last night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. T; J. Kinebrew Of Newton, Is at ClanceY's,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

Capt. s. B. Trapp of Birmingham, is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30
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 ARE SAYING. {
Wouldn't Do.
Lafayette Sun.

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

The season is almost over-ony two days more.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-30

MT. J. D. Steinhart of New York, ar rived in Montgomery yesterday.
 MT. w. B. Markstein of Anniston, came to Montgomery yesterday.
 MT. Samuel Lichten of Greenville, spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 Congre ssman John L. Burnett of Gadsden, is in Montgomery.
 Mir. c. D. Patterson of Tallassee, was in Montgomery yesterday.
 Mir. c. L. Boyd of Shorters, was in Montgomery last night.
 Judge S. c. woolf of Demopolis, Is a visitor in the city.
 Mir E. H. Kaufman of Selma, was in the city last night
 MT. L.. H. Fitch of Snow Hill. is in Montgomery.
 Capt. S. B. Trapp of Birmingham, is in the city.
 MT. T. J. Killebrew of Newton, Is at ClanceY'S.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-08
THE SOUTH AND ROOSEVELT.

The expected or talked of opposition to President
Roosevelt in the south has developed yet so far
10 interfere with the selection of Roosevelt delegates and
that is the only way in which opposition there could in
teres the president because he neither expects will
get electoral votes in that section of he country
Up till week there had been chosen seventyeght
delegates to the Chicago convention in various parts of
the country, and of that number all but in
struced to vote for Roosevelt Fortyfour the sixty
eight instructed delegates chosen in the southour
In Alabama. ten in Florida eight in Georgia fourteen
South Carolina four in Texas, and four in Virginia
That everybody Will admit is good in section
Of the country which the people told six months
would have nothing do with Theodore Roose
welt 1t that the southern politicians do care
to be caught the rain after next November.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-08
A WAY TO PROVIDE SCHOOLING.

The town Of Bayonne in New Jersey recently elected
who promised to remedy the disgrace OF seeing
good part the children running about the streets be
there school accommodations for them.
After looking the situation he found that there
1000 children unable to gain admission tc
the schools and nearly many who were obliged
to attend halliday sessions.
He therefore arranged to convert the council chambers
and committee rooms and the of the board OF edu
cation in the city hall into school He also
poses the assembly in the large schools for
the purpose and that does suffice he will press
the upper of the engine houses into the service
This determination that there shall be unused
in the cys jurisdiction exempt long there chill
running the streets in search of school accom-
modations has furnished for child and the
people think says the Boston Globe that they have at
last put the right man in the right place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-08
laiIr gA> q a q lie
Nj. M. MURDOCH. Editor.

The congressional convention Of today
TO TWO
and the state convention OF tomorrow
both meeting in Wichita, promise to be
than ordinarily harmonious
Aside from the contest of three county delegations
which contests involve local or interests is
single indication Of struggle trouble The battle
fought and all contentious settled in advance
fact except instanced the issues
passed upon at the primaries.
The convention Of today for the largest congression
district the United States and with greater popula
onehird of of the largest states in Of the Union
it is the wheat empire of Kansas
conventions being very large are therefore, pre-
suraby thoroughly representative Eleven hundred is
the exact number of the delegates to the
many more probably Of friends of candi
dates others interested directly indirectly
These representative citizens Kansas representatives
of the state in than political sense most cor
daily welcomed Wichita, and by all her people, who
without regard to party hope that will return
his home amentng that the convention been fixed
for this city regretng his itinerary of the fair
and promising of great and prosperous
commonwealth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-08
THE ISLE OF PINES.

Enthusiastically that connected with the Panama canal
treaythe senate should have overlooked the necessity
for action with reference the Isle of Pines Omitted
from the definitions of the boundaries of Cuba and by
the Of the Plat amendment the subject OF
future treaty between the United States and Cuba
confidently believed in the United that island
would not become part of Cuba, hut Of American terri
tory and many Americans invested in property on the
island and went into active business. The treaty which
drafted with reference to the island the
in due time but appears have forgotten
by the and committees and it has now lapseG
because of the time limit
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-08

Ernest Shoe and Miss May Little were
married ar Lawton last week. The Shoe
fitted and the Little miss put IL on
Q-.El--D
Mr.. Grass. of Lacrosse, has withdrawn
his name as a candidate for treasurer.
He has saved the short grass country a
world of puns.
l:l-l:l-i:I
In the interest of monogamy ii is TO be
hoped congress won't investigate the
habits of all its members and their COM
panions as closely as they are peeking
behind the bed curtains OF Joseph Smith.
u..i-I.-D
Blackwell Democrats viii meet in mass
convention Wednesday evening TO nomi-
nate a city ticket. Box Nef will be one
Of the masses on that occasion.
,.I.-..i.-
The Vicar of Wakefield. that delightful
character created by Oliver Goldsmith,
had monogamy for his hobby. Now, be
fore electing him TO the senate, let the
w c. T. L. understand that monosamy
as he advocated it, meant one wife or
husband. and only one, both for time and
eternity Death does not release the
monogamist from his or her first vow.
-U-Il-ii-
The reason so many people marry is be-
cause love is blind.
-,oI-. lol-
Some men seem to be made out of
dust with a big per cent OF gravel in it.
:-C-)-.
When you find a person who gossips
over the back fence about neigh5ors. you
will find that person Sinking and all
delighted TO see the same neighbors
when out on the front steps.
(D-(D-tD
An ill-natured. fault-fnding man is like
n stray dog in a drove OF mules-kicked
10 death ny the multitude.
The Standard Oil company has cut the
price of petroleum, but there has been
no announcement of a reduction in the
selling price of kerosene.
An Oklahoma man named Fix recently
lost his mother-in-law. and q heartless
punster remarked that now he is well
fixed.
Isl. IL
With flour SO much higher 1t IL a
question with bakers whether to raise the
price or decrease the size OF loaf. Cut
the loaf.
0..i-I..D
HERE'S THE LAST STRAW.
Why is the baker an idle man? Because
ne is a loafer.