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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Dr. J. T Searcy. Superintendent of the Alabama Bryce Insane Hospital. with headquarters in Tuscaloosa. and s. c. Naylor, Assistant Steward of the Mt Vernon Hospital. are in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Hon. E. O. Sykes, Jr, of Aberdeen, Mss. is spending the day In Mobile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Miss Theo Williamson and Miss Clara Ross left today for Washington to visit their aunt, Mrs. Ned Talcott.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Miss Venetia Danner left today fo Montgomery where she will doubtles duplicate the social triumphs that ar hers in Mobile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Mrs. Gaylard Clark is in the city, tho guest of Mrs. J. T. Billups.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

F. J Egan. superintendent of the Southern Railway, went to Anniston to-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

The County Democratic Executive Com mittee met tonight to name officers for the coming primary. Every member was present. Officers for the city wards were named and adjournment was taken until noon tomorrow to select officers for coun- ty precincts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

W. H. Osborne is convalescent after . serious illness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

MT. Joseph Hodgson. Jr.. returned from New orleans last night and will remain until Saturday when he sails for busi- ness visit to Havana.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01

Rev. ". B. Crumpton, D. D., Secretary of the Southern Mission Board of the Bap- tist Church, Is in the city.
 MT. and Mrs. Jud Brislin have raovef in- to their handsome new residence on Park man and Church Streets.
 Miss Mary Darling Hooper has returned from New York. where she attended school.
 F. J. Egan. superintendent of the Southern Railway. went to Anniston to- day.
 Mrs Howard Davidson of Uniontown is visiting relatives in this city.
 Capt. w. L. Pitts of Uniontown Is a prominent visitor to Selma.
 w. L. Kendrick a prominent citizen of Hagen, was in Selma today.
 Robert Patterson of Philadelphia is wis iting friends in Selma.
 Hon. J. B. Christian of Uniontown was in town today.
 W. H. Osborne is convalescent after a serious illness.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06

In the Boer war, one Of the columns.
half Canadian and half regular. under
Gen. Ian Hamilton, became so notorious
for looting that the soldiers were nick
named THE Thousand Thieves" Gen.
Hamilton reviewed them one day in a
small village near Bloemfontein, says
the New York Times, for the purpose
of warning them against any future
depredations.
The column had just drawn up and
was waiting for Hamilton to begin
the review when a ragged rooster ran
out from a hut and across the front
of the line. A kind of shiver ran
through the volunteers. Suddenly a
private left the ranks and took after
the rooster.
Halt" shouted Hamilton.
The soldier ran on. He shortly over
took the rooster and turned back,
wringing the neck of the fowl. AS he
passed the general he noted the fierce
scowl on his face. The soldier was
an Irish boy from Toronto and not
easily daunted, but this time he tenn
porized. Throwing the defunct rooster
at the generals feet, he said:
There, now; I'll tache We t. halt
whin the gineral says so!''
History records that the column
LAUNCHED and the general smiled. Al
SO that the soldier got only two days
IN quad" for one of the most bare
faced breaches of discipline in the
records of the most irregular corps in
the army.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
THE CASE AGAINST sMOoT.

1t looks as il those who protested
against permitting Senator Smoot TO
take his seat were in fair way Of
making out a case against him. The
testimony given by Joseph E Smith,
president Of the Mormon Church, has
been exceedingly frank and, from pres
ent indications. damaging to Senator
Shoots chances of remaining d mem
Der of the Senate.
1t has been shown that Mr.. Smoot
had TO get the consent of the APP
postles of the Mormon Church before
he could become a candidate for the
United States Senate, and it has also
been shown that that church still be-
lieves in polygamy, though it doesn't
teach it. Its president, however, prac-
tees it, Notwithstanding the fact that
he knowingly violates the law in do
ing so.
The contention of those who protest
against permitting Mr.. Smoot to oc-
cupy a seat in the Senate is that he
is an apostle of a church which be-
Heyes in polygamy and that he re-
CARDS his allegiance to that church as
more binding than his allegiance to his
government.
1t is. of course. difficult to prove that
he places his obligation to his church
above that to his country, but the
fact that he sought the consent of his
church to become a candidate for the
United State Senate would seem to
indicate that he would obey his church
before he would his country. Be-
sides. President Smith has practically
admitted in his testimony that he
places the doctrines of his church above
the law, and if President Smith takes
that position there is no particular
reason for thinking that Mr.. Smoot
doesn't.
There seems to be ground for think
ing that although polygamy isn't prac-
ticed by the Mormons now, that is,
that there are now no plural marriages
among them, they still hold polygamy
is right and are looking forward to a
time when they will be in a position to
openly practice it again. OF course,
Mr.. Smoot will be able to show that
he isn't a polygamist. that is, that he
has only one wife, but he will not be
able to show that he isn't believer
in polygamy. He couldn't be an apos-
tie of the Mormon Church if he didn't
believe in it. That he doesn't object
to it is shown by the fact that he
visits the families of other apostles,
several Of whom have more than one
family. However much Mr.. Shoots
Republican friends may want to keep
him in the Senate they will find it
difficult to do so and at the same
time satisfy the sentiment of the coun-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
INTERESTING RED CROSS FACTS.


With all of our boosted civilization
and our anxiety to carry the Christian
religion to heather nations there are
some respects in which nations that
we regard as pagan" or as occupying
a low plane of civilization excel us in
the direction of humane endeavor.
This observation is based upon statis-
tics taken from the last official reports
of the Red Cross Societies of Russia,
Japan and this country, and published
by the New York Tribune.
1t seems that Japan has 100000 Red
Cross members, an income from these
members of more than 100000 year,
81, 100000 in the society's treasury,
$500 trained nurses and two hospital
ships, Russia has 1900 Red Cross nurses,
600 Red Cross Committees and institu-
tions, $6,0O0,000 in Red Cross funds and
So. 100000 in real estate belonging to its
Red Cross society. The last official re-
port of the Red Cross society of the
United States shows it has $124 in its
treasury. The report makes no mention
of any nurses or anything else that
would be of service in Red Cross work
il this country should have need of
aid from the Red Cross society.
And why is it that Japan and Rus
STA are so far in advance of this
country in a mater in which the lead
ing Christian nation of the world
should stand at the front? 1t isn't be-
cause the people of the United States
are not ready to assist generously the
Red Cross society. There was never a
time when they could not be depended
upon to respond generously to any
cali for aid for the sick and suffering,
There must be something radically
wrong with the organization of the
Red Cross society OF this country.
IL hasn't been so very long since al
a great reception AZ her home the head
OF the society displayed badges and
medals from governments, personages
and societies Of one kind and another
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
The Worm Turns.

Thinking that the city papers might
have some personals and locals of
similar local import, the Richmond,
(Mo.), Missourian has picked out a
few characteristic items without call
ing the names of the great metropoii-
tan organs:
Here are the items:
Miss Debu Dante's Bosting bull has
a new blanket cut mother-hubbard.
Mister Myllere has purchased a sill
yer plated monkey-wrench for his au-
tomobile.
The Ladies' Razzle- Dazzle SEVENTH
Club met last night, but didn't hold
any session because the president had
slight headache.
Miss Mae Smythe has a perfectly
lovely and awfully grand new piano.
The Daughters of the Higher Stand
ard failed to meet last night, as the
moon shone SO bright that the ladies
were afraid to go out in low-neck dress
lest their backs might freckle,
Miss Prettypins, the noted soubrette,
has received her second eyesight.
Nine. Leader was indisposed last night
and could not attend the Tiddledywinks
ball, don't you know. because she had
bought the wrong brand of drug store
complexion.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Washington Post Ind.) says:
IF increased pay were to be given
only to members of Congress who can
earn more than $4,000 a year at home,
the extra drain on the treasury by
the proposed raise in salaries would
not be very heavy"
The Chattanooga Times Dem.) says:
THE Senate Committee seems to be
probing to the bottom in the investi-
cation of what the Mormon church
teaches as to plural marriages. But
the Republican managers must save
Shoots bacon. They made a con-
tract with the Mormon Church to turn
over its vote to the Republican ma
chine. The election of Smoot was in
cluded in the contract. Tt shows up
bad for Smoot, the Mormons and the
Republican leaders, a pretty shabby
trinity of traffickers. They got the
reward of the combine and must now
stand together"
ut is as noteworthy as it is graft
flying" says the st. Louis Republic
(Dem.), adopting phrase from Presi-
dent Roosevelt's letter to Postmaster
General Payne, that Mr.. Roosevelt did
not simply mail the letter of congrat-
ulations privately to Mr.. Payne. In
the first place. to have done it quiet
ly and secretly would have been I'M
Pickwickian, and Mr.. Roosevelt has
a perfect horror of things un-Pick-
wickian, though to be sure he once
seemed to look lightly upon the Pick
wickian phase of public conduct and
assured us that great many actions
were done purely for effect"
The Chicago Chronicle Dem.) says:
Most of the Southern states are con-
trolled to-day in every political agency
by Democrats. Only two or three of
them have any considerable Populis-
tic sentiment left. Their representa-
tives at ST. Louis, presumably Demo-
Gratis of character and intelligence, will
md as pretty a fight as they ever saw
going on in many OF the Northern del
egations between Democrats like them
selves and socialists like nobody that
they ever encountered before in ma
ttonal politics. II the South wants a
conservative Democratic ally at the
North, an ally that can and will be
OF service TO the cause of Democracy
everywhere, 1t will throw it's influence
and it's votes In the convention in fav-
or OF Democrats and Democratic prln-
oiples. II the South wants 20 destroy
the Democratic party al the North
and " IL wants TO raise up I'm lts place
"A radical and revolutionary socialistic
ally II will do the other thing, South
ern afiihation with Northern socialism
this year means the estranRement oi
millions OF Democrats nov ana for
ever"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
Smoothing Things Over.

Senator Clapp of Minnesota is a great
campaigner and is constantly called
upon to make speeches in his state,
says the Washington Post.
Last fall he was asked to go to a
town called Erin Corners, which is not
far from his home town. and make
political address.
Erin Corners is Democratic ham,
let, with no Republicans living within
its limits. Clapp is a Republican.
He got to the village and found the
town hall packed with Democrats. He
tried to talk, and they howled him
down.
He tried half dozen times, and
each time was compelled to stop be-
cause of the noise and disturbances in
the hall.
He was just about to quit when an
old man who had worked as hired
man on the farm of Senator Clapp's
father came up to the platform, and
said. Don't mind them. Nose. They re
lot of loafers and rowdies. None of
the decent people would come"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06

Whenever the mob takes the law in
to its own hands. there is large ele-
ment of chance that a mistake will be
made. 1t is true that courts and juries
sometimes make mistakes, but under
the orderly process of law the chances
Of error are minimized; under mob law
they are maximized. And when the
blunder of lynching an innocent per-
son has been made it is irreparable
An illustration in point is reported
from Colleton county, South Carolina.
In May, 1902, at Ravenel, a station be-
tween this city and Charleston, a
white woman. Mrs. Jones, was found
murdered in the yard of her house
Her throat had been cut and her head
showed the marks of blows. The body
was discovered by the woman's little
daughter. Horrified, she ran scream
ing to tell her father, who was at
work some distance away. Hurrying
home, he secured the assistance of
neighbors and started out to hunt for
the person or persons who committed
the foul deed.
Three negro men had been seen in
the neighborhood of the Jones house
early that morning. They were Jim
Black, Jim Ford and Tom Pryor. Sus-
picion at once attached to them, the
theory being that the murder had been
committed for the purpose of robbery,
but that they had been frightened
away before looting the house. After
some three weeks Black was captured
in this state and taken back to Cole
ton. While the officers were en- route
to the Jail with him, he was taken
away from them and lynched. Ford
and Pryor were subsequently captured,
and they, too, were lynched and their
bodies riddled with bullets. 1t was
given out at the time that Black had
made a confession, naming the other
two as his accomplices.
The Charleston Post now gets the
story from Colleton that Jones, the
husband of the woman, before his
death some days ago confessed that he
had himself killed his wife and dragged
bAAC UUQS " WHGtG II was lOuIlOs ne
said he had killed her while in a fit
of passion, and recited in detail all of
the particulars. This confession was
heard by the physician who attended
the man in his last illness. Having re-
lieved his mind of it's burden, the man
turned over and died. If this is true,
three innocent negroes were killed by
the mob without a show for their lives
and without any proof of their guilt
being adduced. The alleged confession
may have been procured under duress
or even torture.
If the participants in the lynchings
can salve their consciences with the
thought that one of their victims made
confession, and that Jones confess
sion on his death bed was merely the
rawlings of a dying man, they will be
fortunate. The public generally will
be inclined to regard the incident as
illustrating the terrible danger of
mob law.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
Personal.

Commander Booth Tucker of the
Salvation Army is trying to induce
Senator Fairbanks of Indiana to in
troduce in Congress a bill providing for
the colonization of arid sections of the
Southwest, after their irrigation, where
immigrants may settle and be assisted
by the national government to take up
homesteads. Mr.. Booth Tucker says
that Senator Hanna had promised to
introduce the measure.
Admiral Sotokichi Uriu, the Japa-
nese commander who distinguished
himself at Chemulpo, used to be known
at Scat" when he was a preparatory
student at the Bradford Military Acad-
envy, Middletown, Conn. This was
some twenty-seven years ago. When
he entered the school he was guyed a
good deal, but he soon made his way
into the good graces of his fellow pu-
pills, few of whom were able to keep
up with him in studies. He was in Mid
dletown for a year before going to
Annapolis.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
1,he Money standard.

The late Congressman Russell, of
Connecticut, was a lover of good
story, and about one of the last he
told in the smoking room of the House
was about an Irishman who had a
friend suffering from blood poisoning,
says the New York Times. The ply
stefan who was called in found the
patient sleeping, and left a powder
with instructions that when the pa
tient awoke so much of the powder
as a ten-cent piece would hold was
to be given the man, cautioning the
Celt that as it took poison to counter
act poinson, the powder was a power
full drug, and must be administered
absolutely according to instructions.
The. physician returned the follow
ing morning, thinking that the patient
would be all right, but was Mortified
to learn from the friend whom he had
left in charge and who was to give
the powder that the patient was dead
Did you give the powder as 1 di-
rected?" asked the physician.
The Irishman hesitated for a mo-
ment, and then replied: "Well, pom
me honor, / didn't have a ten-cent
piece, so l gave him two nickels full. .
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
BRIGHT BITS.

The Judge-"And did you see the
prisoner commit any overt act?'' The
Witness--"No sir. l didn't. All I seen
him do was to bust a couple O. front
windows an smash Patsey Breen over
tn head with a bung starter. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Birthday Present-"One hun
bred penny cigars. That will be eight
and-four pence, please, madam. y
THANK you. Now will you just put
them in Flor De Cuba box? Be-
cause that's the only sort my husband
really cares for!'-Punch.
Applicant (for position as cook)-
How many AFTERNOONS out durin
the wake. mim?" Mrs. Highmore-
well, of course. you can have every
Thursday, and" Applicant-'Tn
askin' We, MIN, how many afthernoons
out We want yersilf. Chicago Trib-
upe.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
Their Rensons.

writer in Lippincott's tells of a
young teacher who had taken special
pains to implant a knowledge of United
States history, who could but feel that
much good seed had fallen on stony
ground when at the final examination
the question, What character do YOU
like best, and why?" brought forth
the following astonishing replies:
Andrew Jackson, because he whip
ped the British with an old hickory. .
Grant, who was elected President
twice and around the world once.'
II like Monroe for doctrin' the peo-
pie and jackson, standing on a stone
wall and fell dead"
Lincoln, who was shot and killed
standing in a booth, and died saying,
Jefferson survives, I am contented.' .
DE Soto, who waded in the MISSISSIPPI
pi up to his elbows and there found
his grave"
"Old Gen. Putnam, who left his OK
and his ass in the field and went and
beat the British"
THE redoubtful John Paul Jones, be-
cause he said, Wen beat them British
I or bust and then did it."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
Got PAY for His Horse.

Senator Knute Nelson went to Bal
timore some ten days ago, and adj
dressed a meeting of bankers and mer-
chants who were giving a banquet.
The Minnesota Senator recalled in hap
py fashion how during the Civil War
he marched through the city as a
private soldier, telling in humorous
fashion how he captured a horse not
far from Baltimore. These experiences
furnished much amusement, but a
couple of days after Mr.. Nelson return
ed to Washington he was given an OPP
portunity to see the other side of the
medal. The man who owned the horse
wrote, demanding payment for the
property which had been appropriated
so many years ago. The letter gave
details which convinced Senator Nell
son that the writer was indeed owner
of the captured animal.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
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-e-sep-e
FUTURE OF SAN DOMINGO.

Is the President anxious to extend
the protecting arm of the United
States over all of the troubled and
troublesome states to the south of us?
Does he want to play the part of the
protector and pacificator of these
states? If not what is the meaning
of the visit of Mr.. Loomis, Assistant
Secretary of State, to San Domingo?
Before going on his trip Mr.. LOOMS
gave to the Independent an interview
in which he said that there was no
intention on the part Of the admins
tration to annex San Domingo, but
that it was its purpose to ascertain
If some way could not be found to
put an end to the outrageous condi-
ton of affairs now existing in the
island. 1t seems the administration
thinks that If the United States do
not interfere for the purpose of bring
ing order out of chaos some of the
European nations will, since San Do
mingo now owes about $25,000 900, the
most of it to European countries.
According to Mr.. LOOMS the inn
preston exists in administration cir
Giles that a better condition of affairs
could be brought about in San Do
mingo by some such treaty as now
exists with Cuba, bringing 1t under
the Plat amendment or some friend
ly protection"
No doubt the United States could
very soon restore order and peace in
the island, but wouldn't it be a diff
cult task to maintain them? The con-
dition of affairs in San Domingo at
the present time is the same that has
existed there periodically for years,
and is likely to continue to exist I'M
less a strong government assumes the
responsibility of preserving order. A
simple protectorate like that exercis-
ed in Cuba, wouldn't be sufficient to
accomplish the end aimed at Some
thing much more serious would have
to be undertaken, which would mean
annexation eventually. Do we want
to annex San Domingo? IT is doubt
full If there is any sentiment in favor
of it or that any considerable senti-
InGtl EOutu NC WI hCd hb al lehN0t VI
it. Nevertheless there isn't much doubt
that it would please the President
immensely to be able to say that UNI
der his administration and in accord
ance with his policy the island had
been annexed.
About all we should gain by annex
alton would be the privilege of pay
ing the debts of the island and bear
ing the expense of maintaining safe
and stable government. The mild kind
of protection suggested by Mr.. LOOMS
in his interview would be the first
step In the direction of annexation.
1t is pretty safe to say that the
American people don't want that first
step to be taken. They have already
all they want in the way of race
problem. Either annexing San Do
mingo or extending protection to 1T
would increase the difficulties of solv-
ing that problem.