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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01

ity of the portrait to the man stand ing before it was very striking.
 "Caine turned to go, but seeing me, came to my side.
 'I say, did you notice how the crowd parted to admit me?" asked Caine.
 certainly did, was my reply.
 And do you see how these people make way for me as I go away"
 'Assuredly.'
 "'They think it is l., was his calm, matter-of-fact explanation"
 When the King and Queen recently visited the Isle of Man, MT. Hall Caine was asked to drive with them, in order He appeared to think that the only people of the island were the charac- ters in his novels, and regaled their Majesties with something like this:
 There is the exact spot at which Glory Juayle is first introduced to the reader" Again. Donald MacSheaf passed through that gateway as he en- las" And at another place. There the blacksmith shod the landlords S horse, in The Manxman." Thus the cicerone continued for two mortal hours.
 Their MaJesties were dreadfully bored. King Edward asked to be driv- en back to town and abandoned sight carriage he dropped upon one knee
 Rise, MT. Caine!" commanded his Majesty, according to the story.
 The author got on his feet, muct chagrined. He had confidently expect ed, it Is said at Douglastown, to hear words that would create him a knight: Rise. Sir Hall!'
 Knighthoods had been literally doled out, and ,Caine couldn't understand why he failed to get one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
RUSSIA.

That Russia's form of government is an absolutism tempered by assassina- ton is one of the best remembered of the bright sayings of the French. Less well-remembered. but even more strik- ing, Is a description by Talleyrand of a coronation of one of the Alexanders. He was" says Talleyrand, preceded by the assassins of his grandfather. surrounded by the assassins of his fath- CT and followed by his own"
 In those days the band of assassins was recruited from the factions of the court and intrigues in high quarters dictated the use of the knife or of poison in removing one or more hated persons. The progress of ideas. slow though that progress is in Russia. has stirred among the common people, and particularly among students, aspira- tions towards more liberal and en- frightened form of government that if given effect even measurably would shatter the bureaucracy that now rules the Empire. The bureauracy has ac- eordingly drawn together; have ceas- ed to assassinate the monarchs ana one another and urged on by a common peril they have placed their backs to the wall to fight against the rising tide of revolution. Their power has been such that their enemies, the revolution ists, have been forced in achieving any thing, to resort to the discarded weap- on of the aFistocrats, assassination. There have been a large number of vio- lent deaths inflicted on rulers during the last ten years. but in no country has there grown up anything like the system that apparently exists in Rus sia. This is so.\ for the simple reason that in no country can be found such
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
Facing a New Race Problem. h " o alx,hio


 Forty years after the civil war the race problem Is more serious than it was at the beginning. The problem is not political; its political feature has the colored people raised it to import ance. It is not social in the more re- stricted sense. for the negroes them selves can hardly be said to have raised that issue. It is a problem of the pro- lection of person and property from a growing criminal class.
 The young negroes of today who are committing assaults on women, who are breaking into shops and holding up men on the highway, were born in freedom, of parents who became free so early that they have little or no recoliection of slavery. In that condi- tion the negroes were, of course. sub jected to discipline. recent writer on the condition of negro women di- rected attention to the very large number of them who have to support themselves and their children. Forty years of freedom seems to have devel- oped fin the male negro little sense of the obligation to support his family '. Somewhat more of necessity is thrown upon the negro woman, but she has lit- tie more sense of obligation and her children get almost no training what extent what little religious training they have is not closely connected wit h practical morality.
 In the South, with it's millions of ne- groes, the number of these youths with no more moral training than domestic animals get is uncomfortably large. In the North the absolute numbers seem relatively small. but the worst negroes are probably the most apt to leave the South and drift into the demoralizing z construction camps along new rail- roads or water works. Both sections, therefore, are confronted by this evo- lution of a generation of human beings growing up without the domestic dis cipline that the greater number of young whites. even of the least exemp- lary classes. get hammered into them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
MONDAY, AUGUST I, 1904.
TREES AND TREE PLANrING.

But a short while ago, even in the memory of the living. a man who would preach the necessity or propriety of planting trees for the future timber supply would have been looked on as thought for the morrow" was accepted literally by not only the land owners but by the Government itself. Timber preservation had no place in domestic economy, and the idea of re-forestation had still less.
 All that has changed, or is fast changing. As the Egyptians under the wise counsel of Joseph provided against the seven years of famine. so our peo- pie are taking steps to provide against the inevitable timber famine. The great development of electric power has reduced the demand for wood for steam producing, and the large and in- creasing use of iron and steel in build ing cuts off much of the demand for timber for that purpose. yet the fact remains that there are many needs for wood for which no substitute has been found, and that the natu%al supply Is becoming exhausted with alarming ra- pidity.
 To provide for the future is now one of the problems before individual and Government economists, and they are setting themselves to the task of soiv- ing it. Even up in the primeval and almost impenetrable forests of North ern Maine. Government experts will soon begin the study of trees and tree life, and formulate plans for preserva- ton or reforesting. One great demand now is the heavy and increasing need of wood for poles and for railway ties. Not every kind of tree is suitable for these purposes, for poles must be long durable. And on this point we find the following in an article on the general subject we are treating:
 There would seem to be no reason why people who own farms anywhere country should not make a portion of their lands very valuable through the planting of chestnut trees. No form of forestry is destined to be more prof itable in the future than this. The ordinary chestnut, castanea dentata, of our Eastern mountain slopes. is one of the most important Tn the eyes or the lockers No other, 1t may be said, grows more rapidly or to a greater height. It is distributed everywhere in district bounded by a line beginning in Maine, passing west to Lake Onta- rio and Michigan, then extending south through Kentucky and Tennessee to Central Alabama and Mississippi. and thence to the Atlantic. Wherever there is glacial drift the chestnut thrives well. and grows to a large size, espe- ciaIly in the Middle Atlantic States. The usefulness of chestnut wood to the telephone and telegraph companies is due to the large amount of jamie acid it contains. making 1t very durable when in contact with the soil
 Of late, as will be remembered, there has developed great interest in what Is known as "the hardy catalpa," and re- cent experiments indicate that it may prove an almost ideal tree for the South and West. It Is hardy and of quick growth, and the wood proves to be wonderfully durable. But whether 1t is to be cataipa. chestnut or other trees. the fact remains that provision must be made for the future, and that there is little time to loRA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
CetterS to tbe Gdftcr
Roosevelt and sound Money.

Editor The Advertiser:
 From the excellent speech of MT.
 Elihu Root, as temporary chairman of and the very good speech of Mir. Roose- welt to the Committee on Notification, one can clearly see that the Republi- cans are in the claiming business and if
 they do not succeed in landing MT.
 Roosevelt in the White House on March
 4th next, 1t will not be because they
 do not take credit for everything good, on or above the earth. including ~ vests. ''"' A" 0'"'' H''
 Among the many good things these distinguished speakers cleafmed as a credit for the Republican Party was that 1t was the only and original path boon to humanity in general, and to the people of the United States ip par ticular. known and called "the gold standard"
 Now it is very apparent that the gold standard. or sound money, or, in other
 words, finances is going to play the leading. part in the discussions and writings during the coming campaign
 The tariff, the trusts. the everything
 but sound surrency, are to be subor- dinated to this one supreme qquestinos
 Judge Parker. our nominee, after his nomination, sends a before breakfas. telegram to his friend, MT. Sheehan, to
 take him down and put somebody else In his place, if the convention cant
 agree with him in his gold standai d views. Would he have said so much fl
 the platform had declared for a protec- tive tariff? We don't know, but il | must be gold standard all the way through, or he will none of 1t. Tho | position taken by Judge Parker, and
 the claim put forward by the Republl- cans, on the money question, show ui- mistakably that the battle Is to bt waged along that line, and that the tar in and the trustS are mere side issues | in this campaign. If this be true. and l fail to SC how there can be any doubi about 1t, then had we not better make some investigation and find out whicr Party "can out Herod Herod" the other Party. in claiming credit for the estab- | lishment of the gold standard? The | history of the Democratic Party for the l last eight years is rather against it | in the sound money claiming business but prior to that time did the Republi can Party occupy any better position on the question than the Democratic
 Party? If not. then the question brings us back to the starting point
 who Is entitled to the credit for the
 'Savoyard." In an interesting article in
 that the entire credit is due to MT Cleveland. at one time Democratic
 President of the United States.
 As Savovard states certain historical facts, which are not generally known
 and 8 the question of the establish
 ment of the gold standard is going tn
 be so all important in this canvass. I
 will ask you to please again publish his article Sound Money
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producing causes of oppression and outrage. aimed at whole classes. whole races and whole provinces. Russia Is a barbaric state with a thin veneer of civilization. Scratch Russian.and you find Tartar" Napoleon said. and this Is still true.
 There has been vast deal of horror expressed that 50 violent a doom was inflicted upon Plehve and the various chanceries of the world have through the customary diplomatic channels ex. pressed indignation against tfU crimi- nals and sympathy for the victim, his family and the state about whose bus mess he was engaged. There Is a deal of trumpery bosh in this. The Films, the only weapon they can command. This is not to approve the crime. It is to state a fact and to state this is to protest against all mawkishness of opinion in pretending to a grief that is not felt.
 Russia is in an untoward condition. Driven back by the Japanese. running about like a mouse in a trap to escape with her fleets. threatened within every border of her dominions with uprisings by oppressed nationaiities she has sub- jugated. degraded and outraged. secure in no quarter of her vast dominions against discontent among the masses and planned violence on the part of in- dividuals, she has became a hunted thing. It would be a bold man who would attempt to predict the outcome of the enormous complex of events now proceeding in the world that will determine the fate of the White Czar's Empire. One result may be hazarded as a guess: Never again will 1t seem possible even to her blindly obtusive statesmen, to confine Russia and the total life of her people behind a wall of cold. heartless tyranny. The mis- rule of several hundred years can not be corrected and recovered from in one decade or many; but surely even Rus sia must see her bureaucracy is a fail- ure and that at least a beginning must be made toward founding institutions more m consonance with the growing enlightenment that surrounds her.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
ROOSEVELT IN PROPHECY.
Proved by Revelation That He Can,
 Win.

Birmingham Ledger.
 The most amusing contribution to the campaign speeches is that of Con- gressman Morris Shepperd of Texas who says the book of Revelations pre- diets the defeat of Roosevelt. He says that in paragraph of Chapter l3 1t says
 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blas- phemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months"
 He says Roosevelt will have been President torty-tWo months when Judge Parker succeeds him. That book of Revelations has been used to prove all sorts of theories. but that a man should hold MT. Roosevelt up as that terrible criminal. just because the book says mouth was given him and the mouth is Mir. RooseveIt's most no- table feature. Is something new. All the same. we are all willing that MT. Roosevelt shall retire at the end of fOrty-t two months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
THE NEW YORK GOvERNoRsHIP.
The Situation is Desperate for the Re-
 publicans.

$hc SNuutiOn IS Desperute TOT the He-
 publicans.
 New York Times.
 Not even Elihu Root can save the State of New York to the Republicans this year. President Roosevelt, ac- cording to a generally believed report, has bcsought MT. Root to take the nomination for Governor. and the lead CTS of the Republican organization join their p!eadings to those of the Presi- dent. They know that the Presiden- tial candidate is going to need help in this State. and they with one accord turn to MT. Root as the most powerful auxiliary force they can invoke.
 date-probably the Republican leaders are right in their belief that he would De their strongest. But how could he help MT. Roosevelt? This is the Pres far better known than the ex-Secretary of War. The public have voted for him before and elected him. Surely and run ahead of all other candidates on the Republican ticket. in which case he might help the gubernatorial candi- date, though 1t is difficult to see how the gubernatorial candidate could help him. We suppose nothing could help him.
 Governor Odell has inspired the peo- pie with so deep a distrust of the Re publican organizations that even if this were to be an ordinary Governorship election without the Presidential com plication, any Democrat worthy of the office would probably be elected. But to the popular resolve to turn out MT. Odells party must be added the i'm. measurable force of the Democratic re- awakening.
 The party is not only united but 1t has a candidate who at the very be" ginning of the contest visibly stirs its enthusiasm and whose rugged strength of character and sound opinions will more and more arouse keen interest and admiration as the campaign pro- ceeds With the heavy handicap of Governor OdelIs record-and he is all the time adding to the difficulties of his part" by the scandal of his double function as Chief Executive of the State and Chairman of a partisan com mlttee-and contending against the formidable strength of Judge Parker's uniting candidacy Roosevelt and Fair banks seem to be doomed to lose the electoral vote of New York; and with the electors goes the Governorship even if MT. Root should be the candl- date.
 Since the executive power of the State Is expected to come to the Dem ocrats they must put up a candidate worthy to wield 1t. The high quality of the Presidential nomination forbids them to descend to the walks of com mon politics for name. There is a chance once more to choose a Demo- .crat of brains and charactaE.r houndA to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
Ancedote. of Hall caine.

Julius Chambers. Tn Harper's weekly.
 Stories about Hall Caine, the Manx author always show interesting phases oI ms personality. The last time saw Sir Gilbert Parker he said:
 T was hurrying along the Boulevard in Paris one day. when my progress was arrested by dense crowd in front of an extraordinary pncture on ex- hibition. The canvas was a remarka- bleidealization of the Saviour-a thin. strongly Hebriac face, with closly crop ped red hair and beard
 Suddenly the crowd parted to ad- init a man who approached with bowed head. It was Hall Caine! He stood before the portrait with folded arms, gravely studying the face and pose of the figure on the canvas. The similar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
SNUB GOV. VARDAMAN.
Postal Officials Refuse to Accept His
 Name for Mississippi Town.
New Orleans Special.

NeW OTIednS SpeClaI.
 Mississippians are enraged at the failure or the Postoffice officials al Washington to confirm the name of the town of Vardaman, Miss, which Was named in honor Of Governor Vardamar of Mississippi.
 Vardaman is a small town on the Okolona Houston Branch of the South Railway, just being built. Application to the Federal authorities at Washing ton for confirmation of this name as the proper name of the postoffice was made, and the applica tion was refused
 Those interested will appeal to Pres ident Roosevelt, if necessary. Govern or Vardaman's friends attribute the rebuke to his pronounced anti-negro expressions and his criticisms of the Presidents policy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
Tea Punch.

This may be varied with differen fruits to suit the season. Make z strong infusion or breakfast tea, al. lowing four teaspoonfuls of tea to c quart of freshly boiling water. Miz one-half cup of sugar with one cur of water and cook until 1t spins a thread. Take from the fire, add the juice of two lemons and the tea. Chill and just before serving add one cup- full of claret and one tablespoonful of curacoa. In place of the wine a de- licious flavor may be obtained by us- ing. while the syrup is hot. the juice of lemon. orange and pineapple, with a few bits of the pineapple left in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01

no faction. hampered by no allegiances. who will poll every vote within tne party and many more. The stories from Esopus about the demands" and conditions" laid down by MT. Mur- phy of Tammany upon the occasion of better foundation than the gossip of small Tammany politicians. They are, of course, untrue. and have been au- thoritatively denied. The demands arc to be formulated this year and the con- ditfons imposed, not by any man or any leader, but by the high interests of d great party confronted by a great op- portunfty
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
The Cheerful Cobbler.

Cobblers are capital summer drinks and easy to make if one has a shaker or 'medlar." Take a sherry cobbler. for instance. Put a tablespoonful of sugar into a glass. slice of orange and few bits of pineapple. Shrved ice Is next added to nearly fill the glass after which sherry-not too much and shake thoroughly. Ornament top with sherry or berry and drink through a 1traws
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dollars appropriated by the Board of Aldermen of New York for the support of the public schools for the current year looks as though that City is go- ing to fight illiteracy in earnest. If the money can be honestly and judi ciously used. It will do an immense | amount of good in the way of edu- eating the children of the great City.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01

If Uncle Joe Cannon had just stood up in front of Roosevelt and said You are It." 1t would have answered all pur- poses. Then Roosevelt could have re- piled: T knew it all the tme," and closed the incident.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
The Advertisers Telephones,
ouarantees vs. claims.

Following long established custom. the sunday Advertiser for June, is herewith submiissd It will be noted that the state ment is complied after all returns arc de' ducted. and the resuits not only sworn to' but guaranteed. The Advertisers guaran' teed circulation. Daily and Sunday. excseoa the actual issue of all other Alabama uaorning newspapers combined Advertising rAtes absolutely invaSiablA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01

Senator Platt wants New York Re- publicans to nominate a man with a record. Is 3yrne eligible?
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Congressman Tawney of Minnesota, has also surveyed the political field and pronounces Roosevelt's calling and cleo tion sure. Tawney is only one of the many optimistic Republicans who can count up plenty of votes to elect their ticket After the election they will know more about 1t than they do at present.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01
The Sacramento Bee is trying to en- courage itself in this way:

can Campaign Committee Is finding much difficulty in securing subscrip- tions. particularly in New York, and that Its funds this year are likely to be not more than half the sum raised by Senator Hanna for the last McKin- ley campaign, is strong evidence that the trusts and money kings and the monopolists generally, are against Roosevelt
 That is a weak attempt at argument. The trusts and big corporations always have an eye to business and have no desire to hrow away money. They see no prospect of the election of Roosevelt and don't care to put their money in a Eaat hole. Therein they show sense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-01

UdhB HS6fHBe TOT Juhe. P. ]. Kelly, Circulation Manager or the Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn AR1s: The foregoing statement of The Ad- vsrtiser's daily circulation for the month of June. 1904. Is true and correct and compiled alter all returns from newsboys. news dicted
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 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this ftth day of July, 1904.
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With more deeds and fewer words, we propose to keep in the good old path, bringing trade to us on stric- ly business lines. We keep everything in Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mill work of every description.