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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
HORSESHOE sUPERsTIT1ONs.
Belief That 1t Brings Good Luck Prevails
 All Over the World.

Belief That It Brings Good Luck Prevails
 All Over the World. Syracuse Herald.
 The origin of belief in horseshoe luck is so ancient that 1t has never been determ- ined with certainty. and superstition is more universal Ever since horses began to wear shoes these crescents of iron have been accounted lucky emblems of all peo- ples, races and nations that have been ac- quainted with their use
 The Chinese, for instance. say they nall them over their doors AS charm against evil spirits because of the close resemblance In shape between them and the arched body of the sacred snake. Nagandra one of their principal deites.
 Ask Turkish Mahometan for informa- ton on the subject and he will tell you that 1t is because they are in form like a crescent, the sacred emblem of Islam.
 Polish Jew will explain that at the Passover the blood sprinkled upon the lintei and doorposts. In the manner directed by their ritual. forms the chief points of an arch: hence. obviously. the value of arch shaped tailsmans such as horseshoes are.
 The stolid and unimaginative Russian peasant on the other hand, maintains that the luck associated with the horseshoe Is due chiefly to the metal. irrespective of its shape, iron being additionally a charm wherewth to nullify the malevolent designs of evil spirits and goblins.
 I Irishman seeks to account for his liking for the same tailsmanica symbol The name 'Ironclad" or Ireland" he will tell you originated follows: The whole island was once submerged in the sea. out of which 1t only once In seven years, and then on- ly for a short time Many attempts had been made to break the spell and induce the country to reamin permanently above the waters, but 1t were in vain until one day a daring adventurer threw a horse shoe from boat on the topmost peak of Wicklow Mountains just as they were dis appearing beneath the waves. Then at last was the ban removed The Emerald Isle began forthwith to rise again from the ocean depths Into which 1t had sunk. And it has been dry land-more or less-ever since.
 In England up to comparatively recent times. horseshoes were extensively used al- most everywhere as anti witch charms and the custom is not even yet an extinct one. building over the door of which horse shoe-or, better still. three horseshoes-had been affixed. prongs downward.
 The origin of this particular belief Is re- ferable to the old legend of St Dunstan. This versatile English ecclesastic was a skilled farrier. ani day while at work in his forge the evil one entered in dis guise and requested Dunstan to shoe his single hoof." The saint. although he at once recognized his malign customer ac- ceded. but caused him much pain dur ing the operation that Satan begged him to desist. This Dunstan did. but only after he had made the evil one promise that neither he nor any of the lesser spirits his serv- ants would ever modest the inmates of q house where a horseshoe was displayed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

power will fall more and more under the control of party machines working the Gov ernment solely in their own interests. For the want of legitimate votes the Philadel- phia Machine. with its thorough manipu- lation of the ballot box, would have no difficulty, for instance. in piling up almost any desired majority.
 But the important present consideration is how best to secure a more general exer- else of the suffrage without the resort to compulsion of the citizen. The best sug- gestion that has as yet been offered is to es- tablish system for holding the primary elections of all parties on one and the same day. and to make a vote at the primary qualification for voting at the next gen. eral election. It is by no means certain that this plan would wholly overcome the neg lect of the suffrage. but besides serving the purpose of a personal registration of voters 1t would cause a much fuller vote both at the general elections and the pri- maries. while simplifying instead of com plicating the various systems of election laws in the several States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
HUNTSVILLE NEWS.
Sunday School Census-President In.
 vfted-Slump in Live Stock Market.


 Huntsville, Jan. 2.-(Special IA summary census of this city and su- burbs has just been completed by com mittees working under the auspices of the Madison County Sunday School As- sociation. A summary of the census covering all lines of religious Inquiry has been made by R. k. Pettus. chair man of the Executive Committee, and in 1t he shows that of the TITO white peo- pie included in the figures. only 3.327 of them attend church once a month. Representatives of eighteen religious denominations were found and the Methodists and Missionary Baptist are the leaders. Only six vacant houses were found in the city.
 Acting on instructions of the Cham Der of Commerce, Ben P. Hunt, Secre- tary of that organization. has forward ed the following invitation to President Roosevelt:
 The members of the Chamber of Corpmerce of Huntsville, Alabama. pre- seIS their compliments to the President and beg that he will honor them by visiting Huntsville when his tour brings him to the South" A resolu- tion inviting the President here was unanimously adopted at the last meet Ing of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The livestock market at this point has been crippled by the low slump In the price of cotton and there Is no de- mand for horses and mules. Prices on farm stock have gone off fully 20 per cent in the last two or three weeks.
 The Madison County Board of Health has published a card requesting the people of Huntsville to boil their drink ing water until fever that Is prevail ing here disappears. The health au- thorities have been puzzled to find a cause for the numerous cases of a mild type of fever and as a precautionary measure they believe drinking water should be rendered absolutely pure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
INDIANS DRAW
 COLOR LINE
OBJECT TO ALLOWING NEGROES FORMERLY THEIR SLAVES, TO
 SIT IN COUNCIL.
Hold that They are No Longef Gov ernment Wards and Therefore
 Not Citizens.

The color line is being drawn in the Creek Council for the first time in the history of the Creek Nation. There are a number of negro members of botb houses of the council, who were elect ed by their negro constituents, who were formerly slaves of the Indians.
 The negroes have equal rights as citizens of the Creek nation with the Indians and these rights have never been called in question until this year. A few of the Indian members of the council take the position that the Greek" negroes are no longer wards of the government, since their restric- tions have been removed and they may dispose of their land at will. They argue that with the removal of re- strictions comes relipquishment of cit izenssip and therefore their right ceases to assist in making the laws Of the Creek nation.
 Called Down in Council.
 As evidence of the feeling among some of the Indians, negroes who have been making speeches on the floor of the council have been called down by Indian members and reminded in va rious ways that their solicitude in be- half of the government Is not appre- ciated.
 The more conservative members in the council, while they admit that they would prefer that their membership should be confined to Indians, say that there is no means by which the ne- groes can be excluded, and they do not expect any attempt in that direction.
 The race question Is as vital to the Indians as to ths white people. and most of them look upon the negroes as their interiors.
 Separate Schools for Negroes. Creeks nor the members of any oth- CT tribe In the territory will send their children to school with negroes and sA,arate schools are provided by the Indian governments for both racss. Their presence in legislative halls is the natural and unavoidable result of the action of the Creeks after the close of the war in allowing their freed slaves to stay in their country, making them citizens. This gave them a communal interest in the common lands of the Creeks and carried with 1t the right to vote and elect representatives to their councils.
 There are a number of highly edu- cated negroes in the Creek nation who have had considerable to say about running the Creek government. These negroes talk Creek and English with equal fuency and are not opposed in | their ambitions except by the southern element and descendants of old slave l holders.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
The Neglect of the Suffrage.


 Apart from the fact that upon a general understanding inspired by their leaders the Labor Unions cast about their entire vote (estimated at 2.5oO, OOO) for Roosevelt, the most significant phenomenon of the late election was the large Abstention from ex- ercise of the suffrage
 Without going into details 1t appears that not less than 5000. 900 qualified voters ab- stained from exercising the suffrage last November-a much greater relative num- ber to population than in any former cleo tion. The grave question arises whether in this country. as in France and Germany. there is a growing indifference to the per formance of the primary duty of citizen ship. As one of the inevitable consequent ces of this neglect of the suffrage. political
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
WOUND UP 1904.
With Leap Year Party, the New Year
 Welcomed.

Welcomed.
 wetumpka, Jan. 2.-(Special. )-Sat- urday evening. seven of Wetumpka's most charming bachelor girls improved the last few hours of leap year by en- tertaining their friends at the home Of MT. and Mrs. Adolph Hohenberg. The young crowd of boys and girls saw the old year out on a cow-beiling ex- petition. In wetumpka. the church bells rang in 1905, and the whistles of Montgomery were distinctly heard here
 Misses Mary Bishop and Willula Jud- kins of Montgomery spent the New Year with Miss Ethel Cain.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the 2nd of January was a legal holiday, it proved a rather busy day in the com munity. The school children went back to their books. the stockholders of tho Bridge Company met and transacted much business, and the City Council held an important meeting.
 Tonight an enjoyable entertainment drew a large crowd to the auditorium.
 On January 25 Richmond Pearson Hobson will lecture here.
 Beginning next Monday, Wetumpka will have It's first street fair or carni- val.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

'The Fulton (Kan.) Gazette" reports that a minister of that town was moved by the grief of a husband whose wife was to be buried. and sought to com miserate him in the following manner: My brother, I know that thls a great grief that has overtaken yau. and though you are compelled to mourn the loss of this one who was your compan- ion and partner in life, I would con- sole you with the assurance that there is another who sympathizes with you and seeks to embrace you in the arms of unfailing love" To this the bereav- ed man replied by asking, as he gazed through tears into the minister's face, whats her name?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Conditions That Unfit for Marriage. Prof. Simon N. Patten in The Indepen-
 dent.
 The low-paid employe today can suc- ceed as we'll alone as with a wife, which his ancestors could not do. At the same time his selfish enjoyments are greater without her, for he may live irresponsibly. without a motive to save, and with all his surplus avail able for wayside pleasures of an anti social sort. The disintegrating forces of a great city upon homeless youth are too obvious to need emphasis. The, age-earning girl, on her part. is like[ ly to acquire a taste for fragmentary, pointless and unproductive spending. Both form habits harmful to the altru- istic motives of group-living-of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
A LIVELY SCRAMBLE.
Is Promised For United States senatoS
 From California,

Sacramento, Cal. Jan. 2.-The Cali fornia Legislature met today in regular session. It Is almost solidly Repubii- can in both branches. The most tn- teresting feature of the session prom ises to be the election of United States Senators. The announced candidates for the position are Senator Bard. who desires reelection; George A. Knight an attorney of San Francisco; Frank Flint, a lawyer of Los Angeles and Henry T. Oxnard. the sugar manufac- turer. U. s. Grant of San Francisco. and Abraham Reuf of San Francisco have also been mentioned as possible dark horses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
Jones Trial Continued Arain.

The trial of John Jones. charged with assault with a weapon on MT. Armfield. was commenced this morn ing in the Mayors Court, but was again continued until tomorrow. The absence of two important witness for the defense caused the postponement.
 The alleged assault took place in a barroom Thursday afternoon, and the case was called for Friday after noon but was continued then. Jones'
 who Is a well known young man of high family connection. 1t Is charged
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

home idea. A man who goes from the saloon, street corner. or cheap pleas ure club; a girl who leaves the dance hall and pavement glkter to make 8 home for him, the bare necessities of which are hardly met by his wages. are not qualified by their experiences to bring to a successful issue the supreme test of character that makes stable high standard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

holidays have returned to Athens.
 Ga, where they attend school Mr. R. P. Baxemore and Miss Anncfranc Bazemore have returned to school in Marion, after spending
 the holidays with their parents Miss Christine Nicholson has re- turned to her school at Alberta after spending the holidays with her par. ents.
 Miss Jennie Farrell, who has been visiting Miss Sallie Hardaway has re- turned to her home at Pleasant HILL Miss Lucille DuBose has returned
 home after short stay with relatives In Suggsville and Jackson. Ala. MT. and Mrs. Undertone have re- Savannah. Ga Miss Bessie Strudwick of Demopo- lis is an attractive visitor to the city. Mir. D. M. Scott, Jr., is in Faunsdals for a few days on business Mir. D. M. Scott is in Tuscaloosa on business.
 Mir. Paul Jones is home for a few
 days. Miss Lenie Collier of Clanton is
 spending the day with Mrs. John Mo-
 Kinnon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
The News of Selma.

assaulted Armfield without provoca- tion and inflicted a knife wound in the latter's neck that came near prov- Ing serious. Armfield's throat was cut from the right ear several inches down Jones was merely charged with affray at first but later the charge was made to read: assault with a weapon" Jones has employed able counsel and will fight the charge of the prosecution presented by City Attorney Shafer
 Armfield and two witnesses for the prosecution testified that Jones went into the bar and after acting sponsor for the drinks engaged in a quarrel with Armfield and stabbed him before he could protect himself.
 The defense in the case will en- deavor to show that Armfield was the aggressor and that Jones cut him in self defensa
 Considerable interest is being taken in the trial
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
Nftnor Selma Matters.

New has been received in the city of an accident to Mrs. M. R. TidwelI at the Methodist Orphanage at Sum merfield, which may prove serious. Mrs. Tidwell. according to reports, was standing near a fire yesterday morning when her skirts were ignited and she was severely burned. She Is an assistant teacher at the Methodist Orphanaga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

The Bruce photographic telescope. the largest of its kind is to be moved at once from Lake Geneva. Wis, to Mount Wilson. near Pasadena. Cal. where the atmospheric conditions are much auDertor,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
A Little Fun.

"A woman has no sense of humor," said MT Hawhaw.
 What makes you think So?'
 When she sees a man fall off street car she wonders if he's badly hurt instead of laughing at him Washington Star.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Wife-Just the same, you never hear of a woman using her religion as a cloak.
 Husband-Of course not, my dear. Religion Is too inexpensive.-Chicag News.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
MT. Mallory Speaks.

The Young Mems Christian Associa- ton is holding interesting meetings for men Sunday afternoons.
 Yesterday at 3:3o o'clock D. m. the association was addressed by the Hon. H. s. D. Mallory. Mir. Mallory's topic was: Where Moses Stood"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

The steamboat Ouichita arrived at the landing from Mobile about 2 o'clock this afternoon. The boats cargo was great and consisted of cot ton and cotton seed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

How did you cure your insomnia?
 q made a list of insomnia cures and get to sleep trying to recite it."-De- troit Free Press.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
Social nnd Personal.

Miss Genevieve Smith popular and attractive young lady of thJs city has returned to Lynchburg, Va, to resume her studies after a delightful visit to relatives here.
 Mir. Gary Hooper and Mir. Flemming who has been his guest during the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
Chewin g-gum, $S0. Ice-cream soda, $47.

Caramels, $50.S5.
 Is this some boarding school girls quarterly expense account, you ask, gentle reader?
 No, this Is the election statement filed by a lady candidate in dear old Colo rado.-Louisville Courier Journal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
"Pa. what's a skinflint?"

Pa, what's a skinflint?'
 "A very mean man who has oonsid- erable money that he doesn't give to people who haven't done anything to entitle them to any of it."-Chicago Record Herald.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
r-ttv rourt ,u senw,on.

The City Court, Judge J. W. Nab ny, presiding. convened this morning.
 Today was occupied in organizing the court and preparing its routine Tor the week. Cases of judgments by default will be heard and settled thts week.
 No cases are set for next week.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
Advertiser Bureau.

5
 Abraham Lincoln should have lived 10 the present day to see how the ne- groes in Selma celebrate his historic emancipation proclamation.
 They turned out on masse from town and country for miles around. Fossil ply never before have so many me- groes been on the streets of this city and it is said that Emancipation Day has never been so pompously celebra- ted.
 At o'clock almost the entire negro population of the city which is prob ably larger comparatively in Selma that in any other city in the country paYaded the streets. Societies, schools. churches and organizations of all character were largely represen- ted and the parade which was one of the longest fin the history of the city congested trafic on two of the widest sforoughfares.
 Not only did the negroes require nearly all of the streets for the pa rade but the columns in double file on foot passed on the sidewalks and for more than a half hour business was almost completely suspended.
 The parade was nearly a mile long and including the school representa- tions about 4,ooo passed in review. It is estimated that there were about 150 carriages, buggies and wagons, followed by a division of horsemen. numbering nearly 100
 Before and after the parade the ne- groes held exercises in observance of their annual custom. It was partici- pated fin by many blacks of slavery time who were actually freed by Lin- eoln's proclamation. and by the two succeeding generations. The negro schools and churches observed tho day according to its-significance to negroes.
 With the legal New Year holiday falling with the day the negroes cele- brate their freedom. business has to certain extent been suspended to" day. Many stores and business hous- es open are experiencing difficulty in securing negro help. There are few porters at work.
 The banks and exchanges are closed. 5 but the courts carried out their rou- tine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Competitive examinations for teach CTS In Dallas County are being held today and this week before the Coun- ty Superintendent of Education, D. M. Galloway.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Miss Jennie Farrell, who has been visiting Miss Sallie Hardaway has TO- turned to her home at Pleasant HILL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Selma Fraternal Lodge, No. 27, A F. and A. M, and Masonic Annuity, Selma Lodge, No 10. met tonight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

holidays have returned to Athens, Ga, where they attend school
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Miss Lucille DuBose has returned home after a short stay with relatives !n Suggsville and Jackson. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03

Greii Bros. Wholesale Distributors.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-15

that the United States will be seri-
ously affected.
An observing writer says: eff
Joseph Chamberlain succeeds in his
agitation-as it is said there are very
bright prospects of his doing up
sets the free trade system that has
been the great bond between Ameri-
ca and England since their friend
ship was cemented in the latter half
of the nineteenth century and gets
tariff wall erected around the British
empire, it will be a greater calamity
to the. United States than civil war.
As the English 'statesman's chances
for ultimate victory look in many
quarters brighter every month, so his
intention must count for more and
more on tariff lines in this country,
especially on the question of recip-
rocity with Canada. But Yankee
stubbornness refuses to see such
calamity, and when the shock comes
it will come with almost overwhelm-
ing force because it will be wholly
unexpected"
While Americans have rested in
imagined security, assuming that the
Chamberlain policy would be success
full, if at all, only after long years Of
agitation and effort, there has been
a strange shifting of the scenery in
England. The decided opposition
which it met from all sides at first
has gradually lessened and the force
of the former colonial secretary's
pleading has had it's effect in reduc-
ing the strong unpopularity of the
measure. He has made his country
men reverse entirely their first opin-
ion and brought them largely to his
way of looking upon the best means
of securing the good of his country.
THE SENTRY.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-15
How to Increase Cotton Yields.

Messrs. Editors The Agricultu-
raj Department has gotten up
promising scheme to more than
double the cotton crop of the South,
by means of the COTTON train"
plan exactly like the corn train" OF
the Department, which was used a
few years ago and resulted in a mag
nifcent increase of corn to the acre
in all of the big corn growino States.
A special train of two cars will be
equipped with two Government ex-
perts in cotton growing, who will ad-
vertise their stops alonp the line in
such manner as to always have
good audience, and will give SIM
pie demonstration of the selection
of seed and the cultivation of cotton
fields. Two trains will be run across
Texas from North to South and East
to West. The department has been
working on seed, and it has found
that while the ordinary run Of gin
seed, such as the farmer usually
plants, will produce perhaps one
plant two feet high bearing two
small and sickly bolls while the very
next one will be five feet high and
bear fifty perfect bolls. 1t is all a
matter of selecting seed to be plant
ed and the cotton trains" will show
the planter how this may be easily
and simply done. 1t is believed by
carrying out the methods of the de-
partment there will be an increase of
so per cent in the cotton crop. The
Government in following out the
tactics they advocate have had better
results than that even.
W. H. TODD.
Washington, d. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-15

The State Fair poultry premiums
this year are open for the first time
to South Carolina. The program is
being rapidly perfected and railroads
are already arranging for the great
est number of special and excursion
trains during the fair week that has
ever been expected.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-15

"What kind of a stove did the
prehistoric man useW asked little
lOstend. "Probably he used a noun
tain range"