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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
A woNnrnruL sArcHrL.

The Indianapolis Star cruelty ex- poses the ingenuity, not 10 say cupidf- ty. of a Kansas City girl who had the misfortune to lose "a little telescope satchei," for the loss of which she recovered damages from the express company. She made out an itemized list of the articles contained in the satchel as follows:
 One fouiard silk dress. s25; one pom gee shirt waist suit. s15; one silk ging- ham shirt waist suit. s10: one brown lawn dress, SIP: two white Persian lawn fancy waists, $1o; one white null evening dress, s25: one black silk coat. silr kaisteS shsm ss on: White Pers sian lawn dress skirt. s5: one fancy lawn apron, s1.5o; one white dimity tea jacket. s1.50; one white madras shirt waist, S5; one brown linen shirt waist, ss; one white pique shirt. waist. $2: one madras Gibson shirt waist. "; four white muslin petticoats, SPA; four corset covers. S2; eight pair muslin drawers, $4.50; four silk net vests, "; three cotton net vests. s1.2o: one lawn empire wrapper. $250; one muslin night dress, s250; one black lawn empire wrapper. S2.5o; two muslin night dress. es, s3: eight pairs black lisle thread hose. s2.25: one equipose corset waist, S3.50: one ebony mirror, with silver trimmings, SC; one gold hat brush, s5; one silver nail brush. s2.5o; one sil- yer tooth brush, s1.25; two and one-half yards black and blue satin riboon, four inches wide, s2: one dozen line, hand made, lace-trimmed handkerchiefs. sl2; three pair kid gloves, $6; one pair long white silk mitts, 75 cents; one gold locket and chain, $10; one gold brooch set with turquoise and diamonds. $5; one dozen fancy collars and stocks. sS; two point lace ties, $10; one point lace handkerchief, s5.
 Here is a bill for an amount ap- preaching s30e which the young lady recovered from the company, and there are two points about 1t which will strike the reader very forcibly. The first is a feeling of wonder that wo- man could pack so much into what is referred to as "a little hand satchel" Of course we do not know the actual dimensions of the receptacle. but we all know that a satchel which a woman can carry in her hand is bound to be a small affair, yet the girl had enough in 1t to have loaded a hand-cart. and the whole would have made load for baggage man. A man would have needed a full-sized family trunk to hold all those articles, and then would probably have left something out.
 Another source of wonder is the ex- traordinary memory of the lady. Is there a man living who could make out such a schedule as that, just from memory? Unless she kept a mem- orandum of the articles. about ninety in number, we must set her down us one of the wonders of the day. She is entitled to go head, both as a packer and a memory expert.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
THE NEWS OF SELMA
Advertiser Bureau.

Selma, May lz-
 The annual training exercises of the pupils of the Dallas Academy and of the Baker Schools were held today and both were attended by large crowds to witness the work of the pupils in this branch of the educational work of the session just closing. The manual train- ing of both the schools is under the management of Harry Reed and the pupils of both the schools show to a high degree the careful training they have had during the past session.
 The principal part of the exercises were at the Baker Schools. where the work of manual training has advanced further than 1t has at the Dallas Academy. Here all manner of basket making. knife work and carpentering were shown by the boy pupils. while tn egirls showed an equal degree of proficiency in needle work and such.
 Many object lessons that had been made by the pupils during the past session were on exhibition at both of the schools and were carefully exam ined by the many visitors who were loud in their praise of the work that had been accomplished. The faculties of both of the schools and MT. Reed de- serve the praise of Selmians for the high state of efficiency which the pupils of both the schools have attained In this important branch of modern edu- cation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1905.
MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP.

'sThey that go down to the sea in ships as the Psalmist expresses it, see many wonderful things, though they do not always come back to give an account of what they have found. One of the wonders of the ocean is the now well established fact that ships are not infrequently wrecked by whales. The publication called "Syren and Ship ping gives a number of well au- thenticated cases. In some of the instances given the vessel ran foul of the great fish during a fog, or in a dark night while in others the whale. either through anger or a spirit of devilment. attacked the ship and disa- bled it so that 1t must be abandoned.
 At first thought 1t might appear almost absurd to speak of a great ship being destroyed by a fish, but when a vessel of the old wooden variety going at full speed strikes a dead weight of many tons, or when the fish at almost lightning speed butts the side of the ship, something is likely to happen. No doubt the whale usually suffers from the collision. but the cases arc pretty numerous. and the evidence reliable that ships have gone down from the ef- fects of such accidents.
 It is altogether probable that at least a portion of the ships which are lost at sea and never heard of again came to grief in this manner. It is not an unusual thing to read the statement that vesesl has disappeared and left no sign. Lost at sea and never heard of' Is the verdict, and no survivor ever comes back to tell what was the fate of the ship or her crew. It may have encountered a leviathan of the great deep and sunk, or may have been at- tackled by the monster and sent to the bottom and no one left to tell the tale That. we should say, has been the fate of some of the vessels that hvae mysteriously disappeared.
 And speaking of the mysteries of the great deep some of the most wonder full of the many fabulous stories Of romance writers are not more incre- dible than are the actual things found in some of the deep sea Investigations made in the interests of science. In a recent article of this kind in St. Nicholas we find the following refer ence to some of the things found by the explorers.
 They caught one fish far down in the Carribean that had no eyes at all, nor any places for eyes, but long antennae Fun out from its nose by which 1t felt its way and found its food. In the next haul was Q fish with two convex lenses in place of eyes. These lenses were highly polished, or furnished; they were of a golden hue, and they gIeamed in the. sunlight like jewels. Another fish. a big fellow. had eyes. ,whieh grew on stems, or stalks, that stuck out six inches from it's head. Then came one with an eye that grew on a long stem like g lily-steIn, quite eighteen Inches from the nose, and the professor said that it was an eye made for poking itself Into other fishes business. The stem was flexible and waved backward and forward, or bent with It's own weight; and sometimes the fish traN elled with the eye doubled under it about the middle of it's body, or trailing in the sand or mud.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
A. N. c. Exercises.

Livingston. May 12.-(Special)-The last day of the exercises oI the conn mencemeut of the A. N. c. showed no diminution of Interest on the part of the Livingston public. and no flag ging of zeal in the part of teachers and students.
 At 10;3O o'clock yesterday the pa vilion was again filled. In opening Miss Tutwler made a brief statement concerning the work and -uturc plans of the institution.
 The school has seven classes and an- other is to be added. The four coll Iegiate classes as they are called, which lead up to entrance into the junior class in the university and three lcertifi9ate classes which aim at prep
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Probate Notice.

The State of Alabama, Montgomery Coan~
 ty Probate Court, May 5th. 1905. To Wiley P. Swift, who resides at DeLfnd,
 Florida, and Maude Ayres. who reiAdes
 at Terrell Texas. Rural Free Delivery
 Route No. |
 You will take notice that on the 9th day of May, 1905, a certain paper in writing. purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary E. Bragg, was filed in the Probate Court of this County by Charles M. Howard. Samuel P. Gillarj and c. P. Atkinson. and therewith their application for the probats thereof as such will; and that the 26th day of May 1905, was appointed day for hear ing said application, at which time you may appear and contest the same. if you Giyen under my hand this 9th day of May .oO5 J. B. GASTON,
 sai "a Judge of Probate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
COURT AT CLAYTON.
Criminal Docket Will be Taken Up
 Next Week.

NeXI week.
 Eufaula, May 12.-(Special.)-T civil docket of the court at Clayton was completed yesterday when the court adjourned until next week when the criminal docket will be taken up. The grand jury returned only nine true bills all of which were for minor of" lenses.
 A committee appointed by the Dis trict Conference of the Methodist Church to purchase a parsonage for the presiding elder consummated deal with Carl .uwards whereby his home on Barbour StreeC was secured for the purpose. Dr. Mason and his family will not get possession until atfer the 1st of September
 Thieves entered the meat market of w. NJ. Stokes on Broad Street last night and in addition to carrying off other effects succeeded in securing five or six dollars from his cash drawer.
 Ere broke cut in tho home of c. P. S. Brown on Randolph Street yester- day about noon and but for the prompt action of che department the entire building would have gone up in smoke. Only the kitchen was destroyed.
 Weather conditions have been high ly favorable Ior the crops so far and in all sections they are encouraging. The rains made the grass grow but the sunshine the past four or five days has been ideal for destroying 1t and the farmers have been ttaking advan- tage of it.
 Excursions to the bay down the Chattahoochee have been in vogue all the spring and at least half a dozen parties have enjoyed the trip during the past five or six weeks A cutting scrape between two ne- groes in the suhurOs last night re. suited in the serious or perhaps fatal wounding of one of the participants
 A three thousand --u4lar soda foun- tain ornaments one of the cafes on Broad Street.
 w. \. Cargill and family are al home from a months absence down the river, where they have been en- toying an outing in house boat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
CAPTAIN HUDSON.
Has Reached WashlnGtOn--Says Rus
 AianA Treat PriAonera Well.

Has Reached WashinGtOn-Says Russ
 sians Treat Prisoners well.
 Special to The World.
 Washington, May 10.-Capt. W. V. Judson. of the Engineer Corps, an American military attache on the stan duty here, having been ordered home from Tokio where he was sent after he was captured at Mukden.
 These stories about the outrageous treatment of Japanese prisoners by the Russian are grossly untrue" he says T have seen numbers of captured Jap anese in the hands of the Russians They arc treated according to the most humane rules of warfare. The Rus sian treats his foe with respect.
 Tt would not be proper for me, of Russian army from the military stand point. My observations are made in a confidential report. Personally, though. I can say of the Russian officers that I have seldom met a more pleasant and manly lot. We were treated we'll
 Later, when I fell Into the hands of the Japanese, 1 had an opportunity to meet a number of their generals, and was correspondingly impressed.
 "We were captured the night the Russians withdrew form Mukden. l was slightly i'll, and was In the house of a Chinaman with Col. Howard, at had gone to bed with the din of bonn hardment in our ears. but had no ink ling that the city was to be evacuated. la the morning Japanese soldiers swarmed everywhere. An officer came to the house and escorted us to head quarters. From there we were taken to Tokto and then came home"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

Some weeks ago Poultney Bigelow ran counter to the Boston notion of the negro and received more or less atten- tion from the papers and the advanced idea people. He Is connected with one of the literary institutions of the city, and a few days ago, challenged critt- cism again by saying to his class: You know We had an outfit called the Rough Riders, yet those men were neither rough nor were they riders They were a fancy lot of enthusiastic young college men. By Gods provi- dence they were sandwiched in between two regiments of regulars so they couldn't get away if they would" This is calculated to jar the feelings of the chief beneficiary of the Rough Riders who has certainly won fame and poli- tical fortune on very small military capital
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
The Women of the Civil War.

Boston Herald,
 Memorial day in the South-that is the day when the graves of the Con- federate soldiers are decorated with flowers and their virtues exalted in oratory-comes a month earlier than the date observed in commemoration The day Is observed as generally and with as much enthusiasm as our own grateful and gracious festival It is claimed that this manner of honoring the dead soldiers was instituted first in the South. We do not know certain ly how that may be but the late James Redpath surely began this form of honoring the dead of the Northern of Union prisoners of war buried near Charleston, S. C., in the summer of 1865. The Hon. James l.. Key, in a Memorial Day oration delivered last posal which the Southern newspapers regard with much favor There ought to be erected" he said, somewhere In the heart of the South a monument to ought to rear it's lofty head far above its kind, where the sunbeams that stream over the southland will first kiss it and the evenings golden tints can be a doubt of the splendid devo- ton of the Southern women to the cause which the men of the South es- puused. The suggestion of a monu- and sacrifice is not inapt. If it were built, we suspect that the North would be likely to undertake another similar emblem; for the hearts of Northern women were no less heroic in fortitude and sacrifices for the cause to which they gave their dearest with noble conservation. North and South they were American women who failed not to illustrate the supreme virtues of womanhood exalted by conscience and patriotism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
SEES DANGER IN NEGRO.
Episcopal Church Congress Heari
 SneecheN on Domination.

Episcopal Church Congress Hears
 Speeches on Domination. New York Spocial to The Baltimore
 Sun.
 Warning notes were sounded last night at the Episcopal Church Con- gress in Association Hall, Brooklyn, that there is a menace to white domi- nation in the ever-increasing number of negroes in this country, but in the main the speakers were hopeful of the future.
 It was the consensus of opinion that 1t is not In the amalgamatIon of the races, nor the dependence of the blacks upon the whites that the solution of the problem lies, but In the negro him self, who, by identifying himself with the industrial life ,of the nation and keping out of politics, has 1t in him to work out his own salvation.
 Bishop Lines. of Newark, spoke of the lack of sympathy that prosperous and influential negroes have for the struggling masses of their race ani said that negro churches are in this respect the most inhospttable of all. Social lines are drawn and the negro Is not welcome, he said.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
A Skating Party.

Wednesday evening MT. Henry Vaughan delighted a number of his friends wbcn he entertained at a skat- ing party in honor of Miss Jennie Har- rell
 For this occasion the lower floor of the pavilion was used About eleven o'clock the guests repaired to the home of MT. and Mrs. P. T. Vaughan and enjoyed delicious refreshments. Among those present were Misses Nina Lamar Alexina Hooker Aline Darnsby, Bessie Ward, Jennie Harre1l, Ethel Vaughan, Grace Hardie, Ellen Stewart, Sarah Morgan, and Messrs, Bowie Smith, Ed gar Russell. Frank Cothran, Junius Gait, John Carothers, Blonde Perrin, Jim Craig. Joe Baker, Henry Vaughan, and Harold Brown.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
A Small Wreck.

A small wreck occurred on the Meri- dian branch of the Southern yesterday at Marshall Platform, near Gallion. Five coal cars were ditched which blocked the road for several hours and necessitated the transfer of passengers.
 The five cars that were ditched were part of an extra freight train going to Meridian and the cause of the wreck is assigned to spreading of the rails. No one was hurt in the wreck except the conductor. who had one of his fingers slightly mashed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

The losses by fire in the United States in the month of April of this year, as calculated by The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulietin' which keeps a careful account. amount ed to s11,sOo,O0o. Of the fires report ed, 273 occurred, each of which caused a destruction of s1o,o0o or more of property. The fire loss for last month was, however, about half of that Of April, 1904, and about billion and a half less than that of April, 1903 Montgomery's fire los! during the month was S36,0oo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Notice of final Settlement.

The State of Alabama,
 Montgomery County.
 Probate Court.
 April 2Sth, l90S Notice is hereby given that Marian D. Burnett. formerly Marian D. Scott. ad- ministratrix of the estate of D. L. Scott' deceased. this day filed her account, vouch- CTS and statement for final settlement oi her administration of said estate. and that the 23rd day of May. 1905. has been aI-
 J. B. GAsToN. Rat-3t Judge of Probate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
VIII Be a Hard One,

MODII6 fefaIu.
 Race prejudice has been famed into flame In Chicago by the ill-advised action of importing negroes to broak them to shoot down white men. It is quite safe to say that the feeling which has thus been aroused will not soon subside. and the lot of negroes who hereafter go to Chitago in search of work will be a hard one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Not Appointed.

At the regular weekly drill of the Dallas Light Dragons held last night the appointment of on-commissioned officers did not take place, but was post poned until the meeting of the com pany next week. It was decided to have a mounted drill this afternoon and at o'clock about forty of the company turned out and good drill was given.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Goes fO F,uF0Ue.

Miss Josie Belle Eskridge, one of this city's most accomplished young ladies will leave on Monday for New York where she will join party and next week sail for Europe, where she will spend the summer seeing the sights of the old country. During her absence from Selma Miss Eskridge will visit the principal points of interest in Eng land, Germany, France and Italy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
President Intends to Make a Trip to
 This state.


 This state.
 Washington, May 12.-(Special.)- President Roosevelt is not the man to rest content with the laurels of popu- lar acclaim he received in the West and Southwest. Before he quit his last whirl he said to a few newspaper men with whom he lunched that he would next go South when he made a trip anywhere; that there were four States he wished to visit, Alabama Ar kansas. Georgia and Florida, and he wanted to visit them as President of the United States. He had been to Georgia but this time he would go 10 his mothers home in Georgia. He would respond to invitations to go to the other States in two of which, Flor ida and Arkansas. he had never been.
 There was no mistaking the Presi- dents desire to make this trip accord ing to what the newspaper mon say.
 Wilson R Brown of Birmingham spent today in Washington.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

1t will necessarily give her complete victory over her Russian foe. It will end the war. The Russian force Is stronger both in vessels and in men. but the bravery and skill of the Japa- nese will count for e great deal towards overcoming physical odds. Admiral Togo has so far proven him. self equal to every emergency, and we hope his good fortune will continue to the end.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Appointed Live Stock Agent.

Homer Cone, who for number of years has been a fiagman one one of the passenger trains between this city and Rome, Ga, has been appointed live stock agent for this divisions of the Southern. MT. Cones headquarters will have charge of the different roads which branch out from this city to Rome, Ga., Meridian, Miss, Akron, Mobile and Birmingham. He is popu- lar young railroad man and his friends are glad that his merits have been recognized.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
Non-Resident Notice.
Probate Court. State of Alabama.

Probate Court.
 State of Alabama,
 Montgomery County,
 April 29. 1905. To Houston Johnson, whose place of rest- dence is unknown:
 You will take notice that on the 21st day of April, 1905 James F. Johnson filed in the Probate Court of this County his ap- plication for an order to sell certain lands lying in this county. described in the ap- plication. and owned jointly by Jack, Mack, Felix Henry and George Few, for distrtbu- tion among said joint owners; and that the 2Srd day of May, 1905. was appointed day for hearing said application, at which time you may appear and contest the same if you proper. J. B. GASTON. sat-3t Judge of Probate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

It is hard to keep smart Indian from learning the white mans ways and tricks. A Muskogee paper tells of one who has an allotment of land ana has sold the oil rights to six dif- Terent parties, getting the pay from each one. He says 1t Is not his fault that so many want to buy his oil privileges. If he keeps on he may develop into a real Napoleon of finance nome day
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

The Special Trade Edition of The Selma Times, issued Thursday was g. handsome specimen of newspaper work The extra sheet was filled with splen- didly executed portraits of leading Selma men. and pictures of all the most noted buildings and scenes of the good old town of the Black Belt. It was a fine paper and we congratulate all who had a hand in getting it out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
The Recherche whist Club.

Wednesday morning Miss Lucy Part ridge was hostess for the members of the Recherche Whist Club, when she entertained them in her usual attrac' tive manner at her parents home on Mabry street During the morning an elaborate luncheon was served.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

With the formal opening today of it's handsome new union railway passen- ger station Atlanta takes one step nearer to Montgomery in its industrial progress and activity. If Atlanta con- tinues this sort of thing Montgomery will have to put on steam to keep ahead of our Georgia neighbor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
I'm Roth Places,
BM bUtU IT Mohiln Reuiatar

Mobile Register.
 If there Is such a thing as spiritual recognition after death. Johann Hoch will have an interesting time. whether he goes up wonder" or down below" He will probably meet wives in either place, and 1t is safe to say that "ex- plantations" will not be altogether sat- lsfactory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

The expected battle In the waters of the Chinese Sea between the fleets of Russia and Japan is watched for with keener interest than any similar con filct since the world was created. It will be the greatest naval fight that was ever fought; and if Japan triumnha
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

A Rochester paper tells us that liberty was born in Boston and grew to manhood in Philadelphia" It might have finished the comparison by saying that in Philadelphia 1t passed into doddering and imbecile old age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
The Only Chance .
Ririnln

Birmingham Ledger.
 The only chance Jerome has of con victing Nan Patterson is to keep her in jail till she grows ugly. No punch week and then vote to hang her.