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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
The Real Character of Ananias.

It has always seemed to me that, like that of my good friend Baron Munchan- sen, the character of Ananias has been much misunderstood by later generations. Certainly, during my intercourse with him my impression was always that Ananias was a man of probity Socially, I knew he was ever truthful, sometimes embarrassingly so. In evidence of this remember distinctly hearing him answer old lady had been particularly disagree able, in a fashion which was indicative of the highest ingeniousness.
 Am in your way, Ananias?" the lady asked. after Ananias hau expressed some dissatisfaction with her course.
 ''Yes, madam" replied Ananias. Dam nably!"
 The manner in which he spoke carried absolute conviction with it and no one hearing his reply could for a moment have suspected my host of being other than a perfectly truthful man. The same story has been told since of Byron and his wire, but the origin of the retort was, as have said in the house and mouth of Ananias himself The true incident in the Byron family was not as the story Is told by the anecdotists, but after this fashion
 Am in your, way, Byron?" asked Lady Byron.
 Not always" said Byron. T sometimes wish you were. If you'd been in my way while I was swimming the HeIlespont. without a life preserver on, we should not have quarrelled so much since" It was then that the poets wife left | him.
 The statement that Ananias was struck by lightning with a lie on his lips is ab- solutely true, and it was a frightful trag- l. 'edy, but we must not mix LID cause and effect without a due knowledge of the real facts. He had just returned from a fishing trip and was telling his family | about trout that had got away when
 At this point the manuscript is torn and cannot find the remaining lines of the paragraph. It seems to me, however that from the context of experience the intelligent reader can finish the remain der of the story.-Edtor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Takes His Old Name.

Judge A. A. Coleman has granted the petition of N. A.. B. dePavlovski, chang ing his naturalization papers gotten out before Judge James B. Head in 1Ss6 to read Nicholas A. Bothas de Pavlovsk instead of Nicholas A. Bothas. Mir. Paw lovski is a Russian. and was for several years soliciting passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent Railroad In Bir- mingham. He sets out in the petition that when he signed the naturalization papers he was unfamiliar with the Ian guage of the country and left off the de PavloVski." because he thought 1t was title, which is not allowed Amer ican citizens. Since then he has had con siderable difficulty with his friends, eX- plaining his change of name, which he says never was intended.
 Work on New Hotel.
 Workmen are busy at the corner of Second avenue and Eighteenth street. tearing away the stands that have stood there for years to make way for the new Sl00,0eO hotel that will be erected on the lot extending back and embracing the { four-story building now on the corner of the alley, by Mrs. J. E. Torrey. As here tofore stated. the contract for this work will be let during the first part of this month.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Laid on the TahIe

Washington. April 6.-The House Com mittee on Judiciary today authorized a report recommending that the resolution calling upon the Attorney General for d copy of the evidence submitted in the case of the United States against Clar- ence L. Leeds. United Stetes Commits sioner in the Indian Territory, who was acquitted after trial of charges preferred against him, be laid upon the table.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
stockholders, Meeting.

The annual stockholders meeting of the 6loss Iron and Steel Company and North Alabama Furnace Company, subordinate companies in the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company were held here today. There were no changes made in the direc- tory of either companies The meetings were strictly formal. The annual meet ing of the sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

A much travelled paper was filed in the probate office this morning when the heirs of Herman Roehl sold to Helena Roehl the northwest corner of. Fifteenth St. and Eighth Avenue. this city, 1Oox25O feet, for $500. The heirs who made the transfer are Henrietta E. D. Madler de Montjan and husband, of Paris, France; Frederick Roehl and wife. of Covington, La. The signature of E. NJ. OeMontjan is witnessed by John K. Gowdy, Consul General of the United States at Paris, while that of Henrietta E. D. Madler de Montjan is witnessed by Frank D. Hill. United States Consul to Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
No Criminal Negligence.

ton into the collision between a work tram and freight train on the South ern Railway near Leeds, near here last Friday afternoon in which three men were killed and several hurt, has decid- ed that there was no criminal negli- gence, there being a misunderstanding of orders between a conductor and a
 iagman. No arrests were deemed neces- sary by the coroner and a decision has been rendered
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

days three or four large purchasers of pig iron have been looking around in the Birmingham district. seeing for them selves the conditions of affairs This visit, 1t is believed will result in some business coming this way. It is reckoned on that the furnaces in the Birmingham district will find demand enough for their product to continue in steady oper- ation through the entire year. The sales already made practically require all the iron that can be made in the next three months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Another Step Taken.

Paris. April 6.-Another step in the movement for a French understanding with other European countries occurred today. Foreign Minister Delcasse and the Chevalier de Stuers, the Minister of The Netherlands signing an arbitration treaty identical with the Franco British, Franco-Italian and Franco-Spanish Urea. ties.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

ures of her age. I attributed 1t at the moment to the heat of the room, but as the wears have passed have slowly come to share the ladys feelings that certain souls have chosen badly the time of their entrance upon lifes stage Senator Till man, of instance. would have been an or nament to the society of the Cave Dwell CTS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Damage Suits Filed

Frank Washington has entered suit in the Circuit Court against w. H. Ora ham asking s10,OC0 damages He claims the defendant maliciously and without cause had him arrested charging forg- cry.
 Will Lambert has brougl { suit against the Alabama Steel and Wire Company. for $1OOO0 damages, alleging personal in- juries.
 Sarah Shelby. admnistratrix, has filed suit in the Circuit Court against the Alabama Steel and Wire Company. ask ing for S10OOO damages for the death of her principal, Jim Shelby
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Took an Overdose

L. J Williams, aged 32, Is dead at Redding, Ala, a mining town a few miles from Birmingham, from the effects or an overdose of medicine which had been prescribed for him. There was no intention Of suicide in taking the over dose. The deceased had a large num- Der of friends. His funeral will take place tomorrow Tn this city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

composure That is the saddest of all ,r one shattered opportunities of history. TWO such old salts as they we neer shall See again"
 Ihis, It Is interesting to note Tn an acquaintance many years was inc on,,, time I ever saw this cultured voman lose that marvellous self-possession which made of her one of the most brilliant fig
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Senators to Euloeize Hanna.

Washington. April 6-The Senators who will deliver eulogles tomorrow upon the life and character of the late Senator Hanna are: Foraker Scott, Cockrell, Platt of Connecticut. Cullom. Spooner' Blackburn, Elklns, Fairbanks. Daniel. Perkins, Depew. McComas, Beveridge. Deliver, Kittredge, Kearns and Dick,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
MT. Conner speaks,

B. B. Conner, candidate for chairman of the State Railroad Commission, and several Birmingham merchants address sed a meeting at Pratt City, a mining suburb of this place tonight. The crowd was not very large. Efforts are being made to capture the laboring vote of this county.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Beck is Endorsed.

IT. M Beck, Past Chancellor of Jef- ferson Valley Lodge No. Il. has been endorsed by his lodge for the position of Grand Outer Guard of the Grand Lodge of tho Knights of Pythias in Alabama. The Grand Lodge meeting of the K. of P. will be held in Birmingham next month. He is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Grand Lodge now and Is well known throughout Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

to boom the book. We pick out a new native town every day so as to push the Odyssey in that particular locality When our agents get to it shouldn't be sur prised to hear that I was born in Bing- hamton. N. r." -'.
 Before leaving the subject of this mar vellous poet | cannot refrain from quot ing the remark of a Greek wag of the lighter order that, he marvelled at the in- eptness of Homer's name. Judging from this tremendous story of his about the wanderings of Odysseus." he observed. 'I should think he ought to be called Away from Homer"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
BoERs REACH AMERICA.
Men Who Fought With cronje Goi,

Men Who Fought With Cronje Going
 to St. Louis.
 Newport News, Va, April 6-GeneraI Cronje and 2o0 Boers. accompanied by 12O British soldiers who saw service in the Boer war, fifty women and children and twenty Zulus. Kaffirs and Zambesis, arrived here this afternoon on the steam CT Doune Castle, from Capetown.
 The ourghers in the party were with Cronje at Paardeburg. General vilioon awaits the party at St Louis, to which point tIA exhibit Is now being moved via the Ches 2eake and Ohio Railway bv sna- cIal tram.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
PRISONERS SENT TO CAMP.

Eight State Convicts Go to Serve T. Sentences.
 Eight State prisoners convicted during the February term of the criminal divis- ion of the City Court of Montgomery were yesterday taken from the Mont gomery county jail to the Henderson,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Pig Iron Market Strong.

The pig iron market in the Birmingham district is itill very strong no iron to be purchased under $lO per ton for No .2, foundry iron. During the past two
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
Paper from Abroad.

Company was held several weeks ago 1T Jersey City. N. J., the home office
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

All lovers of good music should hear ottokar Malek, the great piano virtuoso, at the Theatre, Friday, April 9th.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

to the minute the discovery of America by Columbus, the overthrow of George III, by Washington and the development of the political conditions of the present day. Concerning the latter, I remember that once after hearing her graphic des- cription of the rise of President Roose- welt. I asked her the obvious question:
 And who followed him?"
 She laughed pleasantly. I've been try ing to find out for some weeks" said she. but can't seem to do it. He occu- pies so much of the horizon al that point that l can't see past him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

Donough Street. MT. Gilbert had a simi- lar attack Friday night of last week. Ap- pendcitis IS feared
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

Don't fail to hear Malek, the fa-- nous pianist, at the Montgomery Theatre, Friday, April Sth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

Dr. M B. Kirkpa trick has returned from Marlin Springs, Texas> much i'm proved in health.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

HOLT RENovATEs HATS 1O9 s. Court. Telephone 4ao tu-thu-sat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07

MT. S. Lyons, well-known young busi- ness man of Mobile is in the city and will be here today.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
RIKsDAG is WORKING
Has Many Important Matters to De-
eide at This Session.

Has Many Important Matters to De-
eide at This Session.
The Swedish Riksdag convened on
Jan. 18 having before it many I'M
portant questions, notably the meas
ure to extend the electoral franchise,
The financial budget will not cause
much worry as the incomes are much
greater than were estimated. The GUS
tom duties, liquor tax, beet sugar
duty, and railroads are over 5000, 600
kr. ahead of the estimates and IN
comes from the forests and, stamp
duty produce the expected increases
there will be handsome surplus as
| the deficits in other departments Will
hardly exceed the average OF former
years. !.
There is asentiment among the peo-
pie that something Should be done to
restrain the excessive demands or the
military party. # -
The Oldest member of the first
chamber is N. J. Bostrom OF Skara-
| borgslav who is just 80. He has not
seen so much service, however, as
Marshall Won Essen, who has had a
seat in forty riksdags. The youngest
member is J. G.. Beckfrus Of Oster-
gotland, who was born in 1852:
In the second chamber Folke An
derson of Helgesta, Nerike, is the old
! est in age, having been born in 1929,
but the veteran A. Hedin has sat in
thirty-two sessions. Three of the
members, A. Ekman, Ostergot1and, ID.
Anderson, from Bohuslan, ana V.
LARSON, Of Westerns, all Of whom
were born in 1868. > ~ - =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

in the past five years is tersely put by
The Outlook, as follows:
The Finnish people have now been dis
armed; their fundamental laws have been
sembly has been taken aways their -lan-
guages ( Finnish and Swedishy are no long
err tolerated in their own senate; their
press has been gagged or destroyed;
their most prominent leaders have been
banished; and their diet is to be convened
this year only in case they show q prop
erly submissive spirit; and yet Mr.. Won
Plehve, the Russian minister of the inter
Tor, declared, in his recently published
letter to Mr. Stead, that "the fundamental
problem Of every supreme authority Is
the happiness and prosperity Of the gov
ernedl'
An equally long list OF fragrant acts
could be added without texhaustine
the complete record of the Russian
oppressive measures.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
WOMEN WIN A POINT
Will Be Allowed to Hold Government
Jobs in Norway.

JODS In norway.
It is proposed by the Norwegian
government to admit women to Off
cial positions. A measure now before
the storthing provides for the appoint
ment to official places on the same
conditions as regards examinations,
but the positions open to them will
be limited. They are to be excluded
from church, military and police posi-
lions, from the consular service, and
from the higher administrative offices
in the departments for mining, high
ways, canals, harbors and lighthouses,
and from directorships of penal and
charitable institutions for men.
Councillor Schoning presented a
minority report in favor of admitting
women to the church and several
other branches of the government.
The bishops and theological faculty
objected strenuously, declaring that to
admit women to the priesthood was
contrary to the word of God, the
Augsburg confession and the tradi-
lions of the church, and they had
their way.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

be patterned after an ancient timber
"stuga'' or house in Dalecarlia. Anders
Zorn, the famous artist, has prepared the
plans and will furnish the logs from his
own forests. Lieutenant Fritz Treschow,
who is millionaire and a graduate men,
Der of the nation, has contributed a
handsome sum.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
Holmia Electrical Works.

The Holmia electrical works, estab-
hshed last year at Arbra, Sweden, are al
ready on a substantial footing. The plant
machinery, including sixty-seven dynamos
with motors representing 2,427 horsepow-
er. The works employ ITO men. Electri-
cal works are destined to be of consid-
cradle importance in Sweden. Hadiksvall
is negotiating for Vikar falls in Evanger
to establish a municipal light and power
plant, which will cost $4,000 kroner. The
water power rights will cost 100000 kroner
more.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
IGNORE THE FAIR
Norway Finally Abandons All Its Ex-
position Plans.


Following the Recommendation of
the ministry, the budget committee
of the Norwegian Storthing has de-
cided to leave out all appropriation for
a Norwegian exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition, giving as a reason the unset
tied economic condition of the country.
The committee regrets that Norway
cannot be as worthily represented as
at former worlds fairs, but finds it
impossible to crowd an item of 1OO,-
600 kr. into the already overfull
budget. Moreover there is hardly
time in which to make comprehensive
exhibit. .S @
A proposition for the canning indus
tries Of Stavanger to unite in a private
exhibit has failed and hence all that
will be seen from Norway at st. Louis
will be the display of the Norden-
fjeldske industrial art museum. which
among other things will show some
beautiful tapestries from designs by
Munthe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
New Peat Works.

a. Secretary J. G. Thaulow of the Norwe-
gian Bog society has located an excellent
peat bog near the SOLDER railway, where
he recommends that peat works be es-
tablished, as the peat can be advantage
ously converted into fuel. Preparations
are being made to establish such works
in the spring.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
ShIpbuilders Busy,

Norwegian shipbuilders are busy this
winter. On Jan. 1 there were sixty one
vessels under construction-dfty-t three
steamships Of steel and one of wood, and
seven sailing vessels, all of wool. The
total tonnage represented by these yAs
sells is 42370.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
Home for Seamef1.

The estate left by Theodor Henrichsen
of Christiania for a sailors asylum is now
available. BY prudent management it has
grown in these years to 10000 kroner and
fulflls the provisions of the will to the
effect that the funds should be invested
until the capital and interest should be
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
NO MORE BANK NOTES
The Private Banks of Sweden Cannot
Issue Notes,

Issue Notes. =.
Swedish bank notes, except. those of
Sveriges Riksbank, will be worthless
a year from now. There are twenty
six "enskilda,'' or private banks, in
Sweden which have been issuing bank
notes The business world does not
like the idea of having so many kinds
of money to. deal with, and some years
ago arrangements were made thru
agreement and legislation to with
draw from the private banks their
authority to issue notes, other priv
ileges being given nsreSurn.Tif. 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
MOBILIZING EXPENSIVE
The Norwegian Storthing's Members
Object to Army Operations.

Six members of the Norwegian
storthing have joined in an address
TALON maneuvers be dispensed with
during the coming year as a measure
of economy. Not only, does. the mob
ilization of the troops cost vast sums
of money, but the. conscripts lose
much time and make many sacrifices.
There is also talk of introducing
measures in the storthing to gain the
same end, and a half-score of mem
bers are already committed to the
Dlan,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
Medal for a Professor

Professor Nothorst, who led Swedish
expedition to Greenland a year or, two
ago, has been awarded the Lyell medal by
the Royal Geographical society of London
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
( CRUSHING FINLAND
How Russia Has Degraded a Free
People.

People.
]. Incidents such as the escape of a
Finish police officer across the Baltic
in an open rowboat in the dead of
winter, reveal to the outside world
to what a state Of terror the des-
potism OF Russia has driven the peo-
pie of unhappy Finland. In Scan
dinavia it is well known what is going
on in Finland, but the big world little
realizes with what ruthless hand
the Muscovites is wiping out all civil
ization and intelligence to reduce the
progressive cultured Firms to the level
Of the Russian 1noujiks.
Just what has happenedsin Finland
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

If there was ever specific for any
one complaint, then Carriers Little
Liver Pills are a specific for sick
headache, and every. woman should
know this. Only one pill a dose. Try
them. 1.,Esss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

$3.50, New York and Return, $3.50,
{ Via Wisconsin Central Ry.
t. On Feb. 9th to 10th, good for
thirty days returning. For further
information, berths, etc., apply at
city ticket office, 23O Nicollet avenue.
Telephone, Main 355. 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

sufficient to build q home and support
twenty-four old seamen. The asylum will
be built on Karlsborg road.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

"a Wonderful Medicine {
'.Orangeine Powders indeed wonderful il
action and ults.''-MRS. MARIE FROILAND
Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
RIq ore Contract

The Narvik railway has contracted to
deliver 100000 tons Of iron ore from
the Kiruna mines in Sweden to Narvik
for transport. During the past year the
company contracted to deliver 100000
tons, but actually carried 962, 900 tons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

Frat House at UpsaIa.
Westmanland-Dala nation among the
Upsala students has begun the erection of
t'nation'' or fraternity house, which will
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-31
The Nerves of the Road.

Few travellers realize what energy and nerve are
put into the labor that makes their travel COM
Portable. Mr.. Spearman, in his article on "The
Nerves of the ROAD" in the May Magazine Mum
Der of the Ooutlook, likens the train dispatcher
to the chess-player. He writes:
"Yet the work of this marvel, fixing for a mo-
ment the attention of the world, is only the work
of the train-dispatcher, who, sitting under his
night lamp, blindfolded by four white walls, his
right hand on the key and his eye fastened on the
figures of a train sheet, forces his mind, when 9th
er men are asleep, to visualize the long, winding
miles of his division-its trains, its passing tracks
and curves, it's towers and stations, it's semaphores
and witches. At twenty points in the darkness of
his night, and depending for safety on the clear,
instant working of his mind, are swiftly moving
trains of Pullman cars loaded with sleeping men
and women whose waking rests with him alone.
This man is no genius; he is the plain, everyday
American that one meets in the street-car or in
the crowd. He cannot choose his days for play
ing his games; he plays every day from eight a. m.
till four p. m or from four till midnight; or he
takes his transfer at midnight and sits in his
chair through the last of the watches of the night.
He cannot play twenty games and rest; he must