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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
SUNDAY. JANUARY 20, 1905.
A SOUND ARGUMENT.

The Portland Oregonian, discussing the whipipng-post question, uses this argument to show its inefficiency against wife-beaters:
 No man, unless drunk or crazy, would strike his wife if he knew to a cer- tainty that she would retaliate by any means that lay in her power-from free use of the kitchen poker to appeal to the whipping-post statute-if there beater. knows the woman he is deal ing with. She is moral coward he a physical coward. And against this comDlnation no retormatory statute can prevail. The physical coward of this type will not hesitate to use his fists when enraged or in his cups upon his wife. Knowing to certainty that the moral coward whom he thus assails will shield him from all conseuuences or punitive nature, by silence if nos sible. by lying if questioned too closely. and. failing in both, by begging for his . release.
 The woman in the case may be both moral and physical coward. She may be afraid to resent his brutality at the time or to inform against him, or bear witness against him after wards, for fear that he will retaliate even more brutally. Nor is this the
 
 since the warden of the workhouse at Wilmington, Del. spoke at a meeting of the Conference of Charities and Cor rections. and said that he would gladly see the whipping-post abolished, ad- ding these significant words: We have never whipped a wife-beater. The wife generally repents and the man gets off with a reproof"
 We might very we'll call that last sentence "the conclusion of the whole matter" Added to the fear. which in most eases Is well-grounded, that if she causes the husband to be punished he will treat her still more brutality when he can do so with safety to him. self. Is the almost universal disposi- ton of a good wife to shield the hus- band. As The Oregonian says, she will lie for him if she cannot hide his guilt in any other way, and if all else fail, and he is convicted. she will beg or pay him from under the sentence if she can do so. It is because o fthe kindly and forgiving disposition of the aver age woman toward even a brutal hus- band that 1t will be found difficult to make a success of the proposed law wherever one is tried. Tn a majority of eases she will neither report his cruelty nor testify against him if she can avoid 1t. That there are some who would rejoice in such an opportunity for revenge is beyond doubt. but they ar in the minority Tn short tba vvbin ping-post for wife-beaters would not be used half as frequently as strict justice might demand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
French Coast Defencc..

London Times.
 Our Paris correspondent telegraphs, under date of December 19; At in- teresting official test of the French coast defences at Havre was made yes terday in presence of the minister of war. The object of the experiments, which took place at the Doliemard bat tery on the cliffs of La Heve, was to show the improvements that have been made in the sighting apparatus with particular reference to the rapidity of fire, and also the arrangements for systematically grouping and co-ordin- ating the guns. The first trial was made with 27mm mortars, with a range Of 5000 metres, against targets moving at an average speed of five knots. The targets represented war ships, The re- porter of the Matin affirms that no fleet could have remained five minutes under such fire. The shooting of the new @40mm quick firing gun from the La Heve batteries is described as ex- traordinary. Firing at a range of more than 5000 metres against moving rafts in the Channel, it covered them with a rain of projectilcs. The La Heve bat tories are about ninety metres above the level of the sea"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
The Bone of Conte ntion.
County in. the South, looking to a re-

County in the South, looking to re- duction of acreage.
 l.. IT the farmers can be gotten to work in concert, and produce a small crop or cotton, and great crop of every thing else, they were never so inde- pendent as they will be- As said be- fore. large crop of cotton will bring about, in my opinion, the absolute bankruptcy of ths people in the South. not only the farmers and bankers. but The people of the South are con fronted by eXlgencies such as they have not met in long while. It may he that they will prove themselves un- equal to them. The redemption is now at hard, If it shall be embraced An advance In the price of cotton before the planting of the crop for the pres ent year might prove a great injury to us. but if our people will hold their cotton until the first of May and if a largely smalhr area snail be planted than last year. by the 10th of May. in my humble judgment, cotton will ad- vance decidedly, and<nuch to the prof it of the farmers.
 Yours truly,
 M. Carmichael
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
sidewalk PeneiIinas
woula settlc I..sor prohIem.

The more Horticultural and Sugar cane Growing Convsntions we hold in Alabama the sooner will we be to set tiing the labor problem of the future" said delegate to the Horticultural convention who is staying over few days in Montgomery.
 such facts as were set forth at both qf these conventions will have wide publicity and wherever read are sure to make great impression.
 the East and West who are tired Of pulling through the snow four or five months In the year and having to house Lnefr cattle and stock all of that time. They are gradually learning of the splendid possibilities for farmers. fruit growers grass growers and stock rais- CTS iu Alabama and already there IS a perceptfble movement in this direction. These men do not want large bodies of land for with their methods they can make as much on nifty acres of Mont gomery County land as is now by the average cultiyator on 200. They will De more prosperous than men fresh from Europe, because of their better knowledge of our institutions.
 Tt Is generally recognized that only in the South can be found almost a purely American population and by the inflow of Eastern and Western States the average will be kept up.
 Foreigners for reasons that have not yet been removed when they land in this country do not, except in small numbers. come South of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
The Mystery of Health.

PnlIlGeIpnla FOst.
 Whenever any one is released from jail or penitentiary after a long sem tence, we read that while he was in poor or downright bad health when he entered. he comes out as hearty as a brick. Yet almost without exception jIils and penitentiaries arc unsanitary, sunless places. with no facilities for precautions usually taken by those who wish to get or keep health.
 The mystery lies in two words-rcgu- larity and diet,
 The first is perhaps the most import ant. Clocklike regularity; everything done on the second, and on the same second every day: recognition of the fact that the place is a machine Then, aS 2 supplement 10 this, a simple diet plain. not too varied: enough to eat. but not too much.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Another Modest One

NOrtOlK Nlrg1nina-Pllot
 The Montgomery Advertiser in its usual modest and becoming way an nounces that Alabama has 1000 times as much water power as Is now utll- lzed. This state Is sufficiently definite to be considered altogether oracular.
 In the first place, how much water power Is now being utilized in the land of the Pilosaurus? What wo would like to know of The Advertiser IS what would happen to the water power along it's pet river if few of these animals were to be consum 9d with thirst and drink up all the wa ter In the Coosa. It could hardly ex- pect 10 keep these monsters safely gust sun got busy with their scales Our contemporary has grown hardened py lengthy and continuous combat WVlth It's contemporaries, Lut even at would nos join in the fray when q dozen or so of its pet pliosauri got scent of it's water power
 De lhat as IL may. 1t will get cold comrort when 1t undertakes to secure from the national government an ap- propriation to make it's water power navigable and attractive to men seek Ing sites for manufacturing plants. 1t must bear in mind that there Is now hole in the bottom of the national treasury so that even the Dingley tar in with it's absurdly high schedules, has compelled a party always extraV- agant to pass by the river and harbor bills for two consecutive Congresses.
 Now, if there is anybody looking for desirable sites and delightful climate where the rivers do not run dry. they should come 10 the State of Virginia Here are great rivers that tumble for miles down long slopes without any manufacturing plant save an occa- slonal saw mill to don their banks. De- cidedly Virginia is place for capital ists seeking water power to locate fac tories.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Engli.hmen seciur a Llght,

bdILImOTe HeraIu. Il
 English travellers are coming over in increasing numbers every year, and if the distances were as short or exc penses as little as travelling on the can } tinent we should get more of them |. What has contributed as much as any thing else toward compelling compli- to admit good things in other people. is the knowledge that the American men and women can take care of them selves anywhere and under almost any conditions. They like our independ- ence, which, as sensible Americans themselves admit. is often made to ap- pear unattractive, and they like tour ant Englishman: 1It is easy to look down upon the American, but the se- rlous trouble is to get him to look up to you"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
"A Calf Path /"

4
 tF1omaton, Ala. Jan. B, 1905. Editor The Advertiser:
 noticed in the Sunday. January g. issue of The Advertiser "A Steamboat street in New York city IS being laid out by a cow" l never heard of New York City streets being so laid out. Is not the wfTer I rS s'Gg Boston o have always had the credit of being surveyed by q calf. send you an old poem on the Boston Cow Path. please publish in next Sundays edition and obige a searcher after ancient histori- cal truths.
 Mrs. George Morris.
 A Calf Path. One day through the primeval wood.
 should,
 And made a trail all bent askew- 4 crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then two hundred years have lied. And I infer the calf is dead: But still he left behind his trail. And thereby hangs a mortal tale. The trail was taken up next day. By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheen And drew his flock behind him. too, As good bell-wethers always do. And from that day. OCT hill and glade. Through those old woods a path was
 made,
 And many men wound in and out, And lodged and turned and bent about And uttered words of righteous wrath. Because twas such a crooked path: But still they followed-do not laugh The first migration of that calf, And throTgh through this winding wo0dway Because he wobbled when he walked This forest path became d lane That bent and turned and turned again: This crooked lane became road. Where many a poor horse with his load Toiled on beneath the burning sun. And travelled some three miles in ouc. And thus a century and half They trod the footsteps of that calf; The years passed on in swtftness fleet. The road became a village street; And this before men were aware. A cIty's crowded thoroughfare; And soon the central street was this Of d renowned metropolis. And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf; Each day hundred thousand rouu. Followed the zigzag calf about The teafiic of a continent A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead
 Sam Walter Foss
 (The streets of Boston are said to have been laid out by Governor Win thTop's cows going to and from pas turs during settlement of the cityD
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

It seems that our neighbors over in Mexico are not satisfied with matches with one firing end, but have them with both ends loaded At least we judge that such is the case, for The Monterey News says a bill has been introduced into the Chamber of Depu- ties ito prohibit the manufacture of double-headed matches" We agree with The News that such matches must be dangerous. The single-headed ones are not always safe. and one that is liable to go off at both ends must be much worse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
The Only Solution.

bIrnInB nam NeWs.
 The action of the New Orleans con. vention should be concurred in by ev- cry Southern planter. It presents the only solution to the existing situation :, If the sentiment as expressed in New Orleans may be taken as truly repre- sentative of the voice of the Southern cotton grower the reduction plan win be generally approved and abided.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Convicts and Vags.

Work the convicts and the "vags." on the public roads. and relieve the public of the expense of maintaining them while they eat and sleep away their servitude, or loaf and idle away their time on the streets of the city and live upon the results of honest toll.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

The Buffalo News argues that If Nicholas was afraid to meet and ad- dress the crowd. he was a coward, and if he allowed himself kept in ignor- ance of their movements, he was fool. That is putting Nick down to- wards the bottom, but probably the verdict is not far wrong.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Cut Them Out |.

Since the lobby rules went into effect at Jefferson City, the legislators of Missouri find that there are no passes handed out by the railroads. In con sequence the usual weekly excursion of legislators to St. Louis takes place no more.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

The Nebraska State Journal has been studying the Colorado situation and comes to the conclusion that the whole State ought to be disfranch chised." As The Journal is a Republican news paper and it's Party failed to rob the Colorado Democrats of their victory it's disgust is not to be wondered at.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

As evidence that the Indians are catching on the the ways of the white man. the statement is made that one of them worked off a bogus check on Muskogee bank, and got away with the proceeds
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
No Good End to Be served.

kAniaS titY llmcs.
 Some of the military critics contend that General Stoesscl could have held out for several weeks longer and therefore the sur render of Port Arthur was not justified. But none of the critics can suggest any good that would have been accomplished by hold ing out 8 rsR weeks longer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
VIII Not Take 1t
BirmlnRh

bILIHIHBIIdm Lcdger.
 One college President says that high CT education will destroy the human race. That's all right. Most of the human race will not take that form of suicide.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Wbat State Papers
 Hre Saying
Would be Better.

Columbiana Sentinel
 The President says he Is going after the. pig stickers trust in Chicago A little more action, MT. President, and not quite so much talk would be bet-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

Although The York (Pa.) Dispatch could hardly be called a young news paper, for it Is nearly sixty years old 1t is a fact that five men named Young own, edit and publish it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

A paper over in Indian Territory, The Shawnee News, has employed Mrs Ma ton to edit for one day, and we sup pose there will be a good supply of tomahawks laid in for emergencies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

formation. Franklin demonstrated that the lightning could be caught. Morse demonstrated that 1t could be to certain extent controlled. but neither of them went so far as to make . beast of burden of the elusive and dan-
 gerous fluid. Perhaps neither had any thought that 1t would one day not only light up the world, but that 1t would be the controlling power among the vast industries of earth. The Boston printer dabbled in many things. but when he caught the lightning, he laid the foundation of some of the worlds most remarkable achievements.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Expensive SIgnatures.

Paderewski. on his recent session in San Francisco. sold his signatures at s1 each. with bar or two of music at S2 toward his share of the fund for the erection of a monument to Chopin in Poland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

A contemporary heads an editorial "A Five Million Dollar Lie" Who is offering that price for 'em?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

Those bears and frogs and other ami mals which lie up all winter are not such bad sort. after all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29


 E. S. Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn. says: The foregoing statement of The Ad- vertiser's daily circulation for the month of December, 1904, is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from news boys news agents and leftover copies have been deducted. E. S NOBLE
 Circulation Manager,
 The Advertiser CoApany. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of January. 1905
 F. W. JACKSON,
 N P Ex-O. l. F.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

The old writer. Haywood said: "A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink without he will" An Indiana man tried to force his mule to drink and the animal kicked him to death. We suspect the mule was bred and raised in Kentucky
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

Santisgo de Chile, the third largest c!tv in South America, has now q popu- lation of 2s-,o0o The largest in Buenos Ayros. followed by Rio deN Janeiro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
Juaxe KyIe Co,nine Home.

Word was received in MontgOmery yesterday that Judge Osceola Kyle will shortly leave the Canal Zone of Pan. anna to spend vacation at his home in Decatur Judge Kyle Is expected to reach Decatur before the middle of February
 Judge Kyle is United States Judge located at Ancon. Reports are to the effect that he has become acclima tod to the Zone and Is well pleased with his work. Ills vacation will extend over at least month.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
COLUMN OF FIGURES WHICH Is
 SPLENDID VERDICT,

For the benefit and guidance ot mei- chants and others who advertise. the tot- lowing statement for the month of De- eember. 1904, has been compiled and swotn % by our Circulation Manager.
 To the many readers and friends wno gre interested In our growth. 1t is sats- xaction to show such stufdy and perme nent increase. It is not only the quantS. put the class and quality of it. of whien VI" are proud
 The Advertiser is acknowledged the lead lng newspaper in the State and is tnorous" " up-to- date in every particular.
 Watch Us GroWs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

Dr. O. F. Gregory, pastor of the Adams Street Baptist Church, who has been confined to his room for the past week with the grippe. has so far re- covered that he expects to preach at Il d. m. today: the closing sermon in the series on S"Elements of Church Pros perity,' which he has been delivering on Sunday morning for three months past. There will be no evening ser vice today. Mrs. Gregory, who was slowly convalescing. has suffered a re- lapse, and Is quite sick again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
War Ships to Fight a Shadow.

MT. J. J. o'Ranker of Selma is Clanceys
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-11-11
EXPLOSION OF GAS
THREE CHILDREN KILLED And
Is GR0sN PERSONS INJURED
Gas Leakage in Basement of Bank
Building Responsible for Loss of
Life at lshpeming, Mich.-victims
Were Going Home From Church.
Steamftter Struck Match.

Ishpeming, Mich, Nov. 6.-Three
injured as the result of an explosion
here which completely destroyed the
Miners National bank. The dead:
Steven Goodman, aged IL years; Alice
MCGEE, aged 10 years; Edward Nc
Grath, aged IL. Fatally injured, Jas.
f. Mullen.
A gas leakage in the basement of
the bank building was responsible for
the explosion and loss of life.
The victims were all church attend
ants, on their way home from mass
Anderson and Peterson, steamitters,
had been engaged to make repairs to
the heating plant, and as they entered
the building they detected the smell
of gas. They thought little of the
circumstance, however, and as they
passed into the furnace room they
struck a match to a gas jet. There
was a terrible explosion. The steam
filters were blown through the door
way at the rear of the building, while
the building collapsed, falling into the
street, mass of ruins. A crew was
switching cars on the sidetrack near
the bank and cars blocked the cross
ing when the explosion occurred. Many
persons were standing on the walk
awaiting the passage of the cars, and
thus were within reach of the explo.
sion. There were a number of narrow
escapes from death or serious injury
James Mullen was in his Office in the
bank building when the accident oc
CURED, and he was not taken from
the debris until the rescuers had
worked for two hours in clearing away
the wreckage. The bodies of the kill
ed were fearfully mangled. The safety
deposit vaults in the bank are unin
jured.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-11-11
MACHINERY.

The Machine which Skins the
cream from milk does not lose a drop,
while the old skimming process was
crude and wasteful. Washing ma
chimes, which VIZ relieve woman of
the drudgery of cleaning clothes have
not proved an encouraging success up
to date, but when it comes to manu-
featuring exclusively by machinery
without the touch of human hands,
there is nothing more interesting than
the history of Pillsbury's Vitos-the
best breakfast food in the market to-
day.
The white heart of the wheat kerr
mel is cut out by steel rolls, conveyed
to sterilizers, and then packed in two
pound, alright packages (this is the
whole story, all by polished steel ap-
planes, no handling, no cooking, no
coloring, no adulteration, just the
white heart of the wheat berry steril-
lied, nothing added, nothing taken
away.
Pillsbury's Vitos is therefore a
healthful, substantial breakfast dish,
actually the Meat of the Wheat"
Price 15c, Rocky Mountain Terri
tory zoe.
A package will supply week S
breakfast for five persons.
See the economy.
Ask your grocer today.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-11-11
Mrs. Todd Lured to Death.

New York.-James Lyons, a night
carriage agent of the Union Transfer
company in the Reading railroad ter
minal in Philadelphia, has positively
identified the body of Mrs. Margaretta
Todd as that of the aged woman whom
he saw walking away from the sta
ton with two men on Friday evening,
October 81, about four hours before
the body was found in a railroad cut
in Paramount park.