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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
CAMPAIGN OF ISLANDER
 WAGED AGAINST COMER
viIification Takes the Place of Argument---A Statement of Facts in Regard to
 Local Freight Rates

DCmestic.... ....Io 2S Harness and saddlery...3O 3S Agricultural implements.15 20 Hay. .. ................ l7z |Cctton ues.. .s..s The Southern Railroad filed a state- ment January 18th, 1904. before the South Carolina Railroad Commission showing |ccmparisons of local freight rates in six Southern States, as charged by the Southern Railway for distances from five tJ three hundred miles. This statement proved that Carolina fared we'll in com psrison with other States. and that Ala bama paid higher local freight rates on the Southern Railway than any one of the six Southern States in which that railroad operated
 In the face of this evidence introduced by the Southern Railway in a sister State. the Southern Railway and their candidate. Mfr. Jno. V. Smith. say to the as low as they should be- Mir. Conner says such discrimination is unfair to Alabama, and local rates here should be reduced. What do you say? The last reports of the State Auditor and the Railroad Commission of Ala bama show that the average value of the stocks and bonds of six of the largest railroads in Alabama Is s49O00 per mile of track and that these railroads pay taxes to the State on an average yalu- ation of only sis.eoo per mile. The railroads and their candidate, MT. Jno. " Smith, are insisting upon the right of the raili>oads to continue levy freight taxes upon the shippers and consumers of the State on basis of $4s.0O0 per mile. or four times the valu alton on which the railroads pay taxes to the State. Mir. Conner says that it is unjust to allow the foreign holders of railroad bonds and watered stocks to levy texes upon the people on basis of in Hated values.
 Dc you believe this position, which the railroads and their candidate. Mir. Jno. " Smith, are trying to maintain, to be jus. and risht7
 We ask you to support for President Of the Railroad Commission Mir. B. B. Conner, a man who for fifteen years has consistently contended for equitable freight conditions in Alabama; who has earnestly worked to make the position elective; who. has come to the people with a statement of the facts and who Is a business man and the candidate of the shippers and consumers of the State.
 The railroads desire to perpetuate the present excessive local rates and ask you to suport Jno. V. Smith. who has cor rected none of the existing abuses.
 II you believe the railroads should charge tke people of Alabama for local freight service more than they charge the people of any other Southern States, and that the railroads should dominate Alabama politics. vote for Jno. ". Smith.
 If the railroads should give to Alabama local rates equal to those enjoyed by our neighboring States. if the people of Alabama should dictate the policies and control the politics of our State, vote for B. B. Conner.
 Respectfully.
 1t. W. l.. McCaa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Copyright, Davis W Clark.) @&<@&@&Ns&G&%sH

was real temptation to him. Jesus's flesh revolted at such a fate as strongly as Peters flesh did. The flesh of both could only be offset by a zeal of the spirit.
 What Jesus wanted at this crucial mo- nent was disciples who should not be ashamed of this new conception of the Messiahship; disciples willing to forego their widest dreams of political inde- pendence and power; willing to let their cherished hopes of a worldly monarchy die; willing to take the Via Dolorosa instead of the regal highway This, too, not to be an occasional affair, but their very life. To carry the cross always; to die daily; an hourly self-effacement,- this was the essential of the Kingdom of Jesus.
 See the Masters sweet patience with His dazed pupils. He knows that flesh and blood can not attain such an altitude at single bound. He spends the next eighteen months in training the twelve to the unworthy idea of His Kingdom: inuring them to the sight of His formal rejection by the highest court of the nation, and the many things He must needs suffer, even His bloody agony and death.
 One blessed word of comfort He gives them straightway. The Kingdom of a truth Is very unlike what they had ex- pected; but some of them present shall not taste death before they see 1t. And they shall be satisfied.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
MRS. WARREN SELECTED
CHOSEN AS MATRoN OF SOL,
 DIERS' HOME.
eonimandant Brooks will Soon Re- move His Family to Mountain Creek-Improvements to
 Be Made by Board:

Mrs. Mary Warren uf Montgomery. has been selected as matron of the Home for Confederate Soldiers at Moun- tain Creek. Mrs. Warfen is in New York, but she has been Communicated with and is expected to reach Aiabama in few days to take up her new duties.
 The selection was made by the exec- utive committee of the Board of Con- trol in whose hands the matter was left.
 A. J. Brooks of Montgomery, who was elected by the board at it's meeting last Saturday as commandant has qualified, and has entered upon the discharge of his duties. MT. Brooks will move his family to Mountain Creek in the next few days.
 The Executive Committee has active ly entered upon the work of preparing the Home for the reception of fifty .in- mates $ The. furniture for the complet- ed cottages has been purchased by the executive committee and sent to Noun tain Creek. The work of putting the fin- ishing touches to the cottages which are not yet completed will be started as soon as the material can be placed on the ground.
 The erection of the tower for the wa terworke system has already begun The water tower will be put upon a high hill directly in front of the main build ing, The bottom of the tower will be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09

fifty feet above the roof of the highest buildings on the ground. The water works system, which was decided upon by the board at It's last meeting is in- tended to give both complete supply of water to the various buildings of the Home and to be. an assurance of safety in case of fire. 1t Is remembered that one of the cottages built at a cost of s. 900 was destroyed some time ago by fire.
 The water supply for the Home will be drawn from large spring which has already been surrounded by stone and placed in readiness for its future duties.
 The work on the hospital building will be started at once. The hospital Is per- haps more needed at the Home than any other improvement. It is said that of the nineteen old soldiers who are inmates of the Home, not a single one is sound, both in mind and in body.
 The Improvements are being made by the appropriation of s25,o0O from the State of Alabama. The work is being done under the supervision of the Exec utive Committee which Is. composed of Captain J. M. Falkner, W. D. Westcott and. c. L. Ruth, all of Montgomery.
 Captain Falkner has on hand a number of applications from old soldiers for ac- commodation at the Home, and a limit ed number will be granted admission as soon as the eFarrangements are made for the fifty inmates. -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
(Communscated.) !

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 In their efforts to defeat Mir. B. B. Co., mer. and elect the railroads representa- tive, MT. Jno. V. Smith, the railroads have left unanswered the fact that local freight rates in Alabama are higher than in any adjoining State. and have resorted t, vicious personal abuse of the people, s candidate.
 These islanders are a warning to the cit- izens of Alabama that both now and In the future any one sufficiently courage ous to oppose the railroads policies by endeavoring to protect the peoples in- terests will be viilified by paid adver- tisements in the public press and by pla- cards posted in the railroad depots of Alabama. ~
 The railroads and their candidate, Mir. Jno. V. Smith. are unable to give sat isfactory reason why Alabama local freight rates should be so much higher thar the rates in our neighborine State. Georgia, and have therefore resorted to a campaign of islander that the people, s attention may be taken from the real is- sue at stal.e.
 Mir. Comer's platform is. such a. re- duction in local freight rates as will en- able the Alabama farmer to reach the consuming centers of the State with all farm products, and permit the manufac- turing and distributing towns to return t, the country dry goods, hardware. fur niture. farming implements, fertilizers and all manufactured articles.
 When Tennessee farmer can ship corn from Nashville, Tenn, to Mont gomery, Ala. 300 miles. for 13 cents per hundred pounds, and the farmer in Ala bama is charged II cents per hundred pounds for shipping corn one-haif the distance on the same railroad. there Is little inducement to raise corn in Ala fbama.
 When cotton can be shipped from Gen. tral Alabama to Charlotte. N. C., $50 miles, cheaper than it can be shipped from the same point 150 miles to Alabama mills, there is little encouragement to build cotton mills in Alabama. When stoves made of Alabama iron in the Bir- mingham district pay a higher rate to South Alabama than is charged from St. Louis, Mo-. and Louisville, Ky. for a haul of 500 miles to the same point, steve making will not flourish in Ala bansa.
 Below is a comparison of local freight rates as charged on the Southern Rail- road for a distance of forty-one miles in Georgia, and in Alabama. The fig- ures speak for themselves:
 Rates Per Hundred Pounds in Cents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
Second Quarter LessonII. Mark viii,
 27-3S. April 10, 1904.

Peter Confesses tho Christ.
 It is not a mere incidental note that Jesus is here described as praying. He prayed before ever he chose his apos- ties lie prays now before he reveals the. to them. inscrutable and repugnant doctrine of His Cross.
 The apostles belief in the Messiahship of Jesus had been natural growth. They may have seen in Him at first the son of Joseph only-then one divinely en- dowed a prophet and miracle-worker Now, though they have never yet ex- pressed it, categorically, after eighteen months intimate companionship with Hum. they believe Him the Son of God.
 As a background of their own confess siop, He draws from them the current orfnion concerning Himself. It Is favor able. high and kind; but crude. confused. erroneous. Upon this murSy base Pe- ters immortal credo stands forth like cIear-cut medallion-''Thou are the Christ of God!" That confession is epochal in the history of the college of apostles. It is it's advancement to higher grade
 Now Jesus sets before these sacred un- dcrgraduates the most difficult lesson of the whole curriculum-one calculated to dash their enthusiasm, and shock and dumfound them. Previous intimations seem to have made at best but superfi- cial and passing impressions. Only the regal portraitures of the Messiah. found in the psalter and prophets. had caught their ambitious eyes. They were thor ough1y inoculated with the current He- brew passion for Messiah who should b, a temporal deliverer and a restorer of Solomonic splendors.
 Now the Master reveals to them a Mes s;ah without form and comeliness; a beautiiess root out of dry ground, un- desirable: Shiloh on his way not to coronation, but to a cross-one who should wear a crown indeed. but one of thorns: an anointed one on his way t1 the capital, but only there to be re- jected and to suffer.
 Do you wonder heart and flesh failed these novices at such revelation? They strongly needed the Savior's prayers just offered in their behalf Faint idea had they of a victory that could come through Iowa and suffering. sacrifice and death. 1t was incomprehensible to them. Peter only voiced the doubt of all now. as moment before he had voiced their faith. The Messiah's death meant irretrievabie ruin to them. The wonder-worker who had given life to others could certainly nut such an ignominious fate far from him if he would but use his power.
 It is an evidence of our Lords true humanity that Peters emphatic protest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
EQUIPMENT TRANSFERRED
Governors Guards Secures Arms of
 Old Command.

The arms and equipment of the Mont gomery Mounted Rifles. now defunct. were last night turned over to that commands successor in the Cavalry Squadron. the Governors Mounted Guards.
 The new command Is not yet fully equipped however. The company's re- quisition for an additional equipment. en- dorsed by the AdJutant General, has been forwarded to the War Department. When the supplies are received the company will be one of the best equipped com mands in the Alabama National Guard.
 number of new members have been added to the Governors Mounted Guards since that command was mustered in by Major V. B. Atkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
Icommuncated3 WILKINSON LOYAL
 TO THE DEMOCRACY
Answers Charge That He is Republican, Calls on Smith to Discuss Question at Issue,
 Local Freight Rates, st

t9 Birmingham, Ala. April 2, 1904 ro Democ of Alabama:- An in The Montgomery of . has attention stating position to that E Wilkinson right bOwer s and for twenty years, Republican" This statement line the statements enanatng John v. their attacks MT others railroads policy in Alabama
 Alabama about seventeen Since residing not been in Republican Republican Convention Republican consultation In all County and City politics and only Republican every particular.
 Rather John v Smith, and the supporting should discuss he a issue LOCAL FREIGHT RATES
 article injustice and untrue Coming 1t does
 
 This rail- charged ah4lang Republicans of ; Governor-elect aoebe of Kentucky S'i Respectfully
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
Human Adverb.

The late Robert G. IngersolI was a conspicuous figure one night at a gath ering in honor of rising Western poli- ticlan. This man, who had just beep appointed to a high salaried position, had also just been made a thirty-third degree Mason, and on this particular occasion his political followers had given him an elaborate banquet at which he was pre- sented with a massive gold watch.
 Ingersoll, in speaking. said Mir. Ma loney is truly human adverb, for you now see in him expressed time, place, de- gree and mama"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09

But what is the meaning of this cr,,c,aI affirmation? We can not join U,itb tnoss who say that Jesus addressed Peter onIv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09

as the spokesman of the apostles, and
 that what He said to Peter applied equally to all: nor with those who say that Peters confession, not ePter's self,
 was the rock on which Jesus built His Church. These are current interpreta-
 tions It is true.
 But would it not be better just to take the language as it stands. and admit that Jesus built His Church upon the man
 Peter? But he is such a man as Jesus describes-a man with A revelation;
 revelation that did not originate in him. self or In fellow. but one that came from God; a revelation received with faith and acknowledged with joy, It Is the man as a confession that forms the basis of the Church. The confession apart, be it never so orthodox, is dead thing but the confession on the lips and in the character Is the lvest thing in the world.
 We'll saye the apostle, "No man can say that Jesus Is the Christ except God be with him." Of course any one could say the words by rote and parrot-like; but no one can say them as they should be said, In a manner pleasing to God, with right emotions, with faith and love and loyalty, until he has become a new creature. Tn point of time, Peter was the first to make confession in thie manner. He was laid, therefore, to use an oft repeated figure of the New Testament. as the first living stone upon the chief cornerstone. So every one who says that Jesus is the Christ-not by revela- ton of flesh and blood. but of the Spirit which has made Him new creature becomes at once living stone In that spiritual temple whose walls are saliva tion and whose gates are praise
 The gates of Hades, the unsuitable jaws. soon or late, close upon all this world contains. The powerful, the beau tiful. the wise, all alike, sink down in death. Institutions, arts, sciences, liter atures, governments. the remorseless doors of oblivion close upon them But one thing survives the universal wreck. Jesus says: My Church the gates of he'll shall not prevail against it." One thing. and that the best the earth contains, escapes the gaping mouth of death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
USEFUL DISCOVERIES
Are Not Always Startling, Neither
 Do They Create the Most Talk.

It is not always the greatest, most startling discoveries of science that are most useful to the human race.
 Comparatively few people were directly interested in Herschers finding of the new planet Uranus, but many thousands have been Benefited by Prof. Unna's ex- periments. which proved beyond a ques- ton that Dandruff and Badness are the results of the inroads of parasitic germ which invades the roots of the hair.
 The new discovery of the truetcause of badness made. Newbro's Herpicide possi- bIe. Herpicide effectually kills this germ. Destroy the cause you remove the eff feet
 Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herplcide Co.,, Detroit. Mich. E. c. Fowler. Special Agent. sat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09

The positive enactments (whatsoever thou shalt bind), the abrogations (yhat- soever thou shalt loose). the legislation incidental to the growth of the Church, shall be approved and confirmed in heaven.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
TO OUR PATRONS.

For the convenience of our patrons. the business office of The Advertiser will be kept open on Sundays until noon and from to ' p. m. Persons having adver- tisements for insertion in the Monday issue will kindly bear this in mind and endeavor to get their copy in during office hours.,
 Adv. The Advertiser Co.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
The Teachers lantern.

In his last year. Jesus turned from the multitude end concentrated His energies upon His disciples. His ministry to the throng had proved a failure lis pea4 .5 of word and deed had fallen before brutish people. To perpetuate His Church after His departure. He turns to trim and square and polish His apostles as the foundation-stones that are to bear aloft the superstructure. With this in view. He led them to Decapolls and Tyre and Sidon and Caesarea- Philippi, locall- ties where He was comparatively un- known. In such places Ills course of private instruction would be least inter- rupted by public dmands.
 Philips Caesarea was in what has aptly been called "the Switzerland of Palestine" There was the ever-startling contrast between Arctic white and tropic emerald. As they walked amid the oleanders and beside the gushing foun- tain. source of the Jordan, they could lift their eyes to snowclad Hermon and Lebanon. It was a schooIroom worthy at once of teacher and taught.
 It was this glorious sanctuary of nature which first rang with the simplest, sublimest credo of all the ages. as the mouth of the apostles" cried "Thou
 
 art the Christ. the Son of the living God" In that word, Peter burst the shell of an hereditary and universal mis- conception of the nature of the Messiah. He first spread the wings of a true Mes sianic faith, and scared above the tenn poral ideas of throne, army, and conquest. At the sound of this confession. Jesus was in a transport of joy. It repaid Him for all the toll. humiliation and sac rifice of His ministry. But while iov ously setting the seal of approval on Peters creed. He also avows its super natural source. It came not from flesh and blood. It originated not in Himself. nor in some human teacher. It was a revelation of the Father in Heaven.
 The positive enactments (whatsoever thou shalt bind), the abrogatIons Cwbat- soever thou shalt loose), the legislation incidental to the growth of the Church, shall be approved and confirmed in heaven.
 But what Is the meaning of this cruciaI affirmation? We can not join with those who say that Jesus addressed Peter onIy
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Save for my daily range Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ, might despair -Tennyson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09

Scarcely had Peter's superb confession fallen from his lips before there came the injunction against blazing it abroad. Why would Jesus have his disciples taciturn and mute concerning doctrine so tran scendently important? It was evidently matter of discretion. The apostles were not sufficiently schooled to preach it as yet; nor the people to receive it.
 The key to that subtle proft-and-loss text that fell from Jesus lips on this oe- casion is the double sense in which the term life Is used. Whoever makes it his supreme concern to conserve the pro- fits of the natural life shall be bankrupt spiritually; but whose discounts of bod fly life for the soul ohall enrich his im- mortal life. And in the last analysis. the soul is everything. Who can name its purchase price
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17

Henry Delaune, of Napoleonville,
representing the Assumption Deep
Well Co., as commenced the erection
of the derrick that will be used in
boring the tWo-inch test well in Cres-
cent Place, on the east side of the
market. Drilling will probably begin
Monday morning and Mr.. Delaune
expects to strike a satisfactory flow OF
water within two or three days there
after. If this should be the case, the
town will sink two six-inch wells in
the same locality and pure water will
be furnished 30 the residents of Dom
aldsonville in lieu of the diluted Mis-
sissippi river mud with which they are
presently supplied. The result achieved
by theex experimental well will be eagerly
awaited by the people Of this com
munity.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17

Carl Billings, young white man
claiming TO hail from Chicago, was
arrested Wednesday forenoon on sus-
picion of having stolen watch charm
from Fred. Linde, the Well-knoWn
Railroad avenue jeweler. Billings
walked into Mr.. Linde's establish
ment about IL O'Clock and asked to be
shown line of watch charms. Alfred
Landry, the clerk, placed a tray OF
charms on the counter and turned to
get another, when he saw Billings
place his hand in his inside coat
pocket and draw a handkerchief ahere-
from. Young Landry thought nothing
of the occurrence at the time. but after
Billings had leftthe store without MAX
ing a purchase and as he was about to
replace the tray, he noticed that one
ofthe charms, valued at $50, was miss
ing. A search for Billings was started
at once and the young stranger was
found at the T. and P. depot, where he
was placed under arrest by Officer
Ramirez. The charm was not found
on his person, and the sheriff, deem
ing the evidence insufficient to hold the
prisoner, ordered that he be released
and instructed him to leave town with
out delay. Later he was re-arrested
at the landing of the steamer Virgiet
by Officer Variant, MIR. Landry IN the
meantime having sworn to an affidavit
charging Billings with petty larceny.
The accused was tried at special
session of district court held yesterday
forenoon and was adiudged guilty by
Judge Leche, who remanded him to
iail 10 await sentence.