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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
JUDGE PAYNE ACQUITTED.
United States Commissioner Was
 Charged With Drunkeness.

Lawton, Ok, Dec. 1S.-Judge D. M. Payne of Chickasha, United States Commissioner. has been acquitted in the federal court at this place of the charge of drunkeness and permitting ritory.
 The charges were made public some time ago. The Attorney General of the United States was asked to call for an investigation and the matter was referred to Judge Townsend of the federal court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
NEGRO IN PEONAGE.
Ts Held In Involuntary servitude by
 Brother.

HrOthers
 Macon. Ga, Dec. 18.--A special to The Telegraph from Athens. Ga. says: One negro seeks release from a condi- ton of servitude under one of his own race.
 In Clarke county, Robert Christo- pher. coiored, through his attorney. has sworn out a warrant before Commis- sioner Kinnebrew charging his half brother, George Christopher. with com peliinR him to work for the latter without any legal right to do so and he seeks the aid of the federal court in procuring his release. The com mitment trial of the accused negro Is awaited with unusual interest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
stutlents Dfsuerwed.

Moscow. Dec. 1S.--The police and Cossacks today dispersed demonstra- tion of 5000 students who had assem- bled in the principal streets and in front of the Governors palace. Three hundred of the students were arrested and sixty were injured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
Tvvo ToruesIo no.t. r.o.t-

Tokio, Dec. 10.--(10 a. m.)--The Jap- anese have lost two torpedo boats dur ing all the operations against the bat. tleship Sevastopol which was reported yesterday in advices from Port Ar thur to be completely disabled
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19

Tn a'The Universal Spirit of Christmas" the December Worlds Work describes a curious custom that has grown up in New
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
THE HOUSE.

Probabilities of Adjournment on Ac-
 count of no Quorum.
 Washington, Dec. 1S.--The exodus of members of the House from the city
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19

The first well-dressed man you meet wearing 8 white or fancy vest of correct cut, of striking design and which fits as if it had been made to or der, stop him and say:-
 "Where did you get that vest?"
 Nine times out of ten the ans wer will be:
 "This is one of Levystein's Vests; have never worn any other make, never will; best vest made"
 We've got an endless vari- ety of white and fancy Vests that will look good to any mar on Christmas Morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
RAID ON MER-
 CHANTS HOTEL
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 der and get him to police headquar- ters to arrange for their bonds. They expressed confidence that he would bs around to help them out. All of their telephoning was without result. how ever, Alexander could not be located. At midnight the three men with Strauss, one of the visitors, was locked up, no bond having been furnished for them at that time. All the other men arrested made bond in $500 each and were released. The bondsmen were required to qualify. that Is, they were made to satisfy the police officials that they had over $500 in real estate above any and all encumbrances. It was announcd by the police that no straw bail would be accepted in any of the cases. At 12:30 o'clock this morning an Ad- vertiser reporter enquired at the Mer- chants Hotel for Alexander.
 MT. Alexander is not at the hotei." was the reply of the clerk.
 'Is he in the city?" was asked.
 T do not know. I am not certain. but think he is." was the answer.
 After 1 o'clock this morning W. A. LaPrade signed the bonds of Fully. Perry. Naftel and Strauss. and they were released.
 A short while after the men were re- leased Robert Alexander was seen in a Perry Street cafe.
 Recorder Arlington will probably hear the cases against the gamblers this afternoon.
 Six Negroes Arrested.
 The police were hot after games yes- terday and at 9:15 o'clock last night, Patrolmen Thomas and Cantey arrest cd six negroes shooting dice in a room of a house at the corner of Mobile and Day streets. The men were John Ram dle, Robert Farley, Giles Duncan. wess Manning. Anthony Gunter and Sam Marion. The men were taken to the city prison where charges of gaming were docketed against them.
 Recorder Arlington will hear the cases this afternoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
Commanaer PeIem ss,I..

Shanghai. Dec. 1s.--It Is reported hers that Commander Pelem of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Rastoropny which was recently sunk at Chefoo with others of that vessels crew. have sailed for viadivostok on the British steamer Nigretia-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
STOESSEL TELLS OF
 BLOODY DEFENSE

tC.ti.aea from Page o.s.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
Y. M. c. A. Delegations.

Birmingham as well as other South ern cities having a branch of the Young Mems Christian Association. will have good representation at the Southwestern Student Conference.
 M. c. Al, to be held at Ruston, La, this month commencing on the 24th. and continuing for six days. Heretofore the Southern States have been sending delegates to these conferences he'd in Asheville. N. C.. but now another con ference has been organized and dele
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19

ever dreamed by Dante.
 The assaults thus far had cost tho Japanese easily 12.000 men while our own were under 1000. The sides Of the hill were literally covered with dead and wounded. The trenches were rivulets of blood and every visible spot was dyed crimson.
 We might retake the hill," said 0ou- eral stoessel, but the hill is not of sufficient importance to us to 1ustify further sacrifice"
 Since then numerous small engags- uents have been waged. but the responsibility for keeping the Japanese from occupying tho hill in force or from mounting guns thereon has bean left mainly to the shrapnel Ire from other forts
 Even the Japanese, who simply use the hill to observe the harbor do 10 at great peril z Following the third assault an armis-a tice of five hours was agreed upon to bury the dead.
 In this task great speed was necos- sary The Japanese undoubtedly made many awful mistakes and beyond doubt heaps of bodies containing helpless wounded were showed in masses into the pits and trenches. The Japanese could not. owing to the darkness and their feverfsh haste disunguisn pe- tween the dead and wounded. Scarcely an officer participating in the battle of High Hill escaped unhurt and the proportion of young officers killed was very high.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
Negro Miners Fight.

report reached the city this morn ing from Drifton mines. in Walker County that general affray took place among the negro coAl miners there and one negro. Plumber McGaudy Is dead Jack Moore, of that county. left Jasper today to make full investigation in- to the affray' and catch the negro who is alleged to have done the killing. Yesterday was pay day at Drifton and the negroes were inclined to be a lit- tie rough. This is a non-unlon mining camp and interesting scenes are ,enact- cd monthly when the money is dis tributed by the companies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-19
B'Naa B'Rith Omcer..

Birmingham Lodge, Independent Or der of B'Nai BRlth. this morning held its annual meeting and elected the fol- lowing, officers for the ensuing term: T. Lowinsohn. President; J. Minisman. vice-President: E. Gusfield. Secretary; !. Band. Treasurer. This lodge will entertain the Grand Lodge of District No. 2. which includes Tennessee, Ala bama. Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas. The, Grand Lodge will meet in May and representative Hebrews from these States will gath CT here. Joseph Beitman of Birming- ham, Is PreSident of the Grand Lodge of District No. .7. A
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
THE GYPslEs.
Their Tribes Existed In Europe
From Immemorfal Times.

Their Tribes Existed In Europe
From hmm emorfa1 Times.
Gypsies were found in England about
1914, according to "a Dialogue of Sir
Thomas More 1920, but the exact
year of their arrival is unknown. They
were present in Scotland in 1905 and
possibly they were the "Saracens"
whose depredations in that country
prior to 1850 are on record.
Bataillard and other authors believe
that gypsies existed in Europe from
immemorial times, for they find no ac-
count of their crossing the Bosporus,
and no record is known to exist Of their
passage to England or Scotland.
They were better received in these
countries than in any other, but so
early as 1881 an act was passed re-
quiring the Egyptians to quit the
realm under pain of death, a similar
edict being issued in Scotland in 1541
and at varying periods in most Of the
European states
Transportation across the seas was
among the milder means adopted and
probably was the cause Of much fur
Their dispersion of the tribes. Under
Henry VIII. gypsies were shipped from
England to Norway or France, and
from France, so recently as 1902, they
were deported to Africa.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

Large ears, dropping at the top, be-
long to persons more animal than hui
man.
In human beings of low or debased
mental standard the ears are large ana
taabhy. Note those of idiots, cretins,
etc.
Ears in which the chem" is fat, as If
smoothed down with flatiron, accom-
pany vacillating mind and cold, unro-
mantle disposition
When there is no lobe and the ear
widens from the bottom upward, the
owner is of selfish, cunning and re-
vengeful disposition.
Large round ears with neat "hem"
around their border, well carved, not
fiat, indicate a strong will and bull
dog tenacity of purpose.
When the ear is oval in FORM with
the lobe slightly but distinctly marked,
1t indicates for its owner lofty ideal
ity. combined with a morbidly sensi-
tive nature,
The person who has an ear with a
rounded. ovate top is almost without
exception one with a placid disposition
and nature that pines to love and be
H.,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

thetic, impatient nurse will do more to
hinder recovery than the lack of rem
edies. 1t is not acts and words alone
that help or hinder; her very thoughts
are as potent as her general conduct,
and the sensitive patient will be influ-
enced for good or i'll if the nurse were
dumb, She should at all times main
tain a positive uplifting mental atti-
tude and remember that the patients
irritability or melancholia is justified
by her physical condition and is not
perverseness.
Gentleness, patience and, above I'll,
tact are the requisites for good and in
telligept nursing, and the nurse who
lacks these qualities has indeed missed
her calling. Patients have often failed
to improve simply because they did not
fancy their nurse 4 nurse must be
hkable and make herself liked, and it
takes only plain tact and a little cir
cumspection to ingratiate herself with
the most uninteresting of patients.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

Don't talk 20 me of the tenderness
of woman's heart" said the man who
hates women, though he has never
been married. she hasn't any |
was travelling recently on through
train 10 New York from the west, and
in the morning. just after most of us
had dressed and were sitting in the
end of the car. the conductor came and
called two men away. One of them
belonged to an intelligent and well
dressed woman sitting opposite me,
and when he came back she asked him
what the conductor wanted.
why said the man seriously, the
man in lower has been found dead
THE womans eyes widened. and
thought she was going to say some
thing swee; and sympathetic, but she
didn't What she said was:
why. how thoughtless of him. in
a car with all these women toor
Don't talk to me about women
Washington Post
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
A CULINARY GENIUS.
Cooked Dinner In His Home While
at business In His once.

Cooked Dinner In HIS Home While
at business In His once.
The ordinary man is nowhere more
out of place than In the kitchen. All
rules have their exceptions, however,
and correspondent sends a story of
Il man who might have led armies per-
haps, but was certainly equal to Gull
nary emergencies.
In the absence of his wife and family
it became necessary, as he thought, for
him to cook his own dinner and in
view of the fact that he was a man Of
business his presence was also needed
down town at his Office.
Now, the same body cannot be in two
places at once, and this well known
consideration would have settled the
question for an average man. He
would have either spent his forenoon
In the kitchen or gone to his Office and
lunched out. This, however, was
man TO whom physical laws do not
courtesy even as custom to great kings.
The case stood thus:
He was to have boiled dinner and
would have it done to a turn, piping
hot and ready to serve at his home
coming. The meat, turnips and beets,
therefore, which require longer time,
he put on before leaving the house.
The potatoes and cabbage, needing less
time for cooking. were put on the Gov
er of the pot.
Then he dropped string through a
hole sin the edge of the cover, ran it
through a loop suspended from the
ceiling and thence down to the sink
In the sink hole he firmly stuck can
die, to which. two inches below the
top, he tied the string.
Last Of all he lighted the candle and
went to his business. In two hours. or
about half an hour before he was to
return. when it was time for the vege-
tables on the cover to 90 to their APP
pointed place, the. slowly descending
flame burned the string, which releas-
ed the otherwise unsupported edge of
the cover. which dropped its burden
into the pot and fell Back where 1t be-
longed,
When the genius reached home, his
dinner was ready.-Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

When Justice Bookstaver was on the
supreme court bench. he hs'd as special
officer OF attendant a panctilious old
German, who always stood guard at
the door leading to the Justices private
chambers when the Justice was within.
One day a prominent lawyer and two
OF his clients called and asked if the
justice would receive them.
The Officer threw open the door and
called out loudly to the justice:
"Shudgel Two shentlemans und a
lawyer wants to speak NIT you"
The three gentlemen laughed,
'VOr what you laff, eh?'
Don't you count me gentlethah?"
asked the lawyer.
"Ach. you're lawyer only; dat's diff
ferent. New York Mail and Express.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
UNTlMELY CHEERS.
The Misplaced Enthusiasm of an Ex-
Corpse In Ireland.


Corpse In Ireland.
1t was the rule in Ireland at one
time that after an execution the body
should hang an hour, but the sheriff,
from mistaken lenity, would on some
occasions look away after the prisoner
had been turned Off, while the friends
of the culprlt would hold up their COM
panion by the waistband of the trousers
so that the rope would not press upon
his throat,
When the hour was expired the
deceased was put into a cart, which
was driven at gallop along the stony
road. The jolting generally brought
the prisoner to. One such recovery
was so complete that the resuscitated
man sat up in the coffin and gave three
cheers.
One Of his friends was so shocked at
this indecent conduct that he hit the
ex-coPpse on the head with his shillalnfi
and finished him. The question then
arose whether the assailant Gould be
tried for murder, But It was ruled that
no man could be successfully charged
with the murder of man who was al
ready dead in law.-Pearson's Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
BATTLES OF NATURE.
Unceasing Struggles Which End In
Survival of Fittest.

UnceaSing struggles which End In
Survival of Fittest.
We read the tablets of long ago
which the geologist has deciphered for
us, and we find them an endless story
of battles. The successful species
which occupy the great geological
horizons have come out of great tribu-
lation. The trilobites and stone lilies
OF the silurian period, the gigantic club
moss and duted sigillarians Of the coal
age, the enormous amfnonites of the
jurassic and chalk epochs, the mighty
elephants and majestic deer forms of
the tertiary era are magnates of the
times and masterpieces of the struggle.
They have been redeemed at great
price. even of thousand species and
tens of thousands of individuals who
fell short of the typical fitness and
were killed out. These magnates. each
in it's turn, were pioneers of progress,
like the scouts of a great army and
We're caught in a physiological am
bush.
The pedigree of the horse in the most
recent past has been made out. traced
shall we say, for a hundred thousand
years before man came on the scene
for Lord Kelvin asked the geologist
to hurry up and not be too lavish with
time or we should have said 250,0Q9
years before NAM. The feetness, grace
and strength of the horse are owing to
his ability to walk on one toe to which
have~~been correlated the wonderful
Instincts by which he has become the
partner of man In his industries and
struggles. He has been derived in
almost strict graduation from the two
toed, three toed, four toed and five
toed ancestors which flourished in the
ages which preceded man. Myriads of
Individuals and all the species and
varieties died out to make room for the
one toed selection to enable this favor
lite to occupy the ground unthwarted
by crossing or by recurrence to average
forms. He was redeemed at a great
price and has come through a great
trihulation.-C Review.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
CATCHING AN EDITION.
A Reporters Efforts to Get His story
On fho Wfwn

| A Reporters Efforts to Get His story
| ON the Wire.
News Of the blowing ND and SINKING
of steamboat on the Ohio river reach.
ed the Office of Pittsburg paper one
evening some years ago. The city edi-
tor sent young reporter out on a
| search for the facts. The search de-
veloped into an adventure such as any
newspaper man may tumble into at
any hour of the day or night. Worlds
Work tells the story:
He hurried to the station and caught
the first westward bound express.
When the train had started, he learned
that it did not stop within sixty miles
Of his destination.
A cautious hint from a Pullman por-
ter apprised him Of the presence of a
division superintendent on the train,
and in few minutes he received an
order from the conductor to stop the
train for him.
Reaching the station late at night, he
asked the telegraph operator to remain
until he returned. Then he walked
several miles, got his "story" and hur-
ried back to the station, only to find
that the operator had disregarded his
request and closed the office.
Time WAS creeping into the morning
hours and le had the prospect of all
his work coming to naught unless he
secured an operator to get the story to
his newspaper office. He tramped
about the dark village and found that
the operator lived several miles away.
disappointing country folk could not
be induced to rouse themselves.
Thinking hard, the young reporter
walked back and forth on the platform
of the station. Huddled against the
station he saw the sleeping form of
tramp. He kicked the hobo and Of
fered him S. to make the trip for the
operator.
The man got to his feet.
do you want an operatorY
Eyes"
"Well, I'm a bum, but / was an
operator. If you can get into that sta
ton, III send your stuff but | won't
touch a door or window myself"
Knowing that the newspaper would
gladly pay damages, the reporter took
a cudgel, broke the window and clam
bered in. The tramp clicked off the
story, and it reached the office in time
to go to press.
A simple, harmless and infallible cure
for earache is effected by making a
small funnel of stiff paper and saturat-
ing ball of cotton me size Of hick-
DRY nut with chloroform and dropping
it into the funnel; place the small end
of the funnel in the ear. draw long
breath and then blow the breath into
the large end Of the funnel. The fumes
of the chloroform are thus carried into
the ear. and all pain ceases at once.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

A geographical magazine makes the
interesting statement that the Philip.
pine Islands have a coast line double
that of the main part of the United
States The measurement given is H.
444 statute miles, while the total area
is stated as 115,026 square miles. In
the Philippines there is one mile Of
coast line to every ter miles of area; in
the United States the proportion is /
to 500. 1t is said that 5000 islands and
islets can be counted on the charts
HarperSs Weekly
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
Are women Really stinryr

Are women meaner in giving than
menu 1t cannot rightly be urged that
they are. Women, after all in buying
or in giving are commonly making use
of money that others have earned.
They have been trustees of other peo-
pies money for 1000 years, and long
use has made them careful of their
trust. OF course the petty meannesses
of a certain kind of woman have az
forded infinite opportunities for mems
jests and contempt, but those petty
WEAKNESSES are nothing in comparison
with the great meannesses of really
Sordid men.-London Spectator.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
AN INDIAN CIGAR SIGN.
The Fate That Overlook One AgHres-
sive Wooden SAVAGE.

sive Wooden Savage.
The city of Little Muddy, on the up
per Yellowstone, was an exceedingly
wide awake town in 1887. When it
had reached the mature age of
months, every kind of business man
was represented except the cigar deal
er, and the next week a man from Chi
cago named Stark opened a tobscco
store, with large, gaudE and aggres-
SNe wooden Indian in front, holding a
tomahawk sayagely in one hand and a
bunch Of cigars in the other. 1t would
tsske chapter to tell of all the trouble
Stark had with that wooden aborigine.
This variety Of sign was rare in that
region. dnd gentlemen not unconnected
Elts".t the stock growing Industry who
came insfrof1 the ranges Uearing spurs
and weapons would resent his threat
ening attitude for that matter, no In.
dian, even the most peaceably dispos.
cd, was popular He was knocked off
his pedestal bali dozen times day.
Stark learned t6,know what had hap
pened whenever he heard dull crash
in front and would step outside and re-
store his fallen warrior.
But the red fiaFi did not meet his
Waterloo till lobe Hartley and a
friend, preserved to us under the name
of Long Isaac, came in from the Light
ning's Nest neighborhood. A close
friendship existed between these two
worthless. 1t was their first vacation
from the ranch for several months.
They wandered about town in a re-
ceptive mood and sought to enjoy their
visit. No facts are extant concerning
their condition after some hours, but
we may perhaps be allowed our suspi-
cions. Finally they separated, and
lobe. coming along to the Indian and
not noticing his appraised Ratchet, sat
down at his feet to rest He soon fell
asleep and sank lower At this juno
ture Isaac came around the corner and
took in the tragic situation at a glance
KILLED my partner for simple
bunch Of cigars, did you3" he cried.
"Well, we'll see about it, and he pro
duced his firearms and began shooting
accurately and rapidly. At the end of
ten minutes Stark gathered up his no.
BILE savage in basket. while the resus-
citated lobe and the avenging Isaac
moved off arm in arm. Harper's Mag
azine,