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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
Women of the National Mothers
 Congress and Their Work

among mothers, and she gave it her hearty support. Mrs. Birney is called the mother of the Mothers Congress and Mrs Hearst It's godmother.
 Preliminary steps were the call for the first national meeting and the for nation of individual mothers clubs in various parts of the country. Mrs. Birney lived in a suburb of Washing ton She began by organizing the wives of the conductors on the street cars on which she passed to and from the city The conductors wives being intelligent women, understood the idea immediately and entered into the plan A mothers club was established among them.
 Meantime in San Francisco, Mrs. Kim caid, an intimate friend of Mrs. Hearst, had an amusing as well as instructive experience in founding club among the mothers of the newsboys. She 1n- vited them to her own spacious and splendid home; she fed them on the dainties that people in society" prize most highly. They came to the first meeting in numbers; after that the at tendance fell off to almost nothing. | What was wrong?
 Mrs. Kincaid determined to find out what would please and interest the newsboys mothers, so she asked them to provide a luncheon for themselves l EE Result, pink frosted cakes and other bakers trash redolent of stale butter | This luncheon was what the mothers desired, and they ate of 1t heartily and enjoyed it and after that were ready for any suggestion Mrs. Kincaid made. l The moral is plain
 | In Washington Mrs. Adlai Stevenson, | wife of the Vice President, CO operated | in the work and was one of tho organ | ization's first vice presidents. Mrs. | Henry J Finley, Chairman of the Press | Committee for the new organization,
 was the individual through whose eff | forts Columbian University at the na-
 tional capital was opened to her sex, | and she herself was the first woman to | be granduated there.
 A medley of topics. including one or
 two hobbies, was brought before the
 public at the first Mothers Congress 1 Mrs. Cleveland received the mothers
 but President Cleveland did not, like | President Roosevelt, address them. | The author of the now world renown ed
 expression Trace suicide" Is the first
 President of the United States to dc
 that The Congress did not make a
 profound impression It was yet in the Il formative stage. Certain wits eV en
 laughed at 1t good naturedly because
 some of it's most active members were
 spinsters.
 But President G. Stanley Hall gave
 one of his learned addresses. and tho 1 mothers also were enlightened on 'Ex l pression Necessity of Evolulion' an+ on the eternal womans club topic 0l
 "A Pure Press" There was likewise
 illumination on the matter of Unoon'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
CUNNINGGHAM's ADDRESS.
Lieutenant Governor PIeases a FlOrenc
 Audience.

Florence, May 6.-(Special )-Lieu- tenant Governor R. M. Cunningham de- livered an address yesterday at the State Normal College before large audience on the subject of Local Tax ation." He was introduced by Mayor A. E. Walker and from the first had his audience thoroughly interested. At the conclusion of the address he was given an ovation, practically the en- tire audience crowded to the platform to shake his hand. He was driven about the city during the afternoon and last evening was the guest of the Masonic Lodge.
 The directors of the Southern Libra ry Association have elected the follow ing officers to serve the coming year; Mrs. Erister Ashcraft. president; Mrs John R. Price, vice-president; Mrs. w. M. Camper, second vice-president; Mrs Emmet O'Neal, secretary and Mrs. L. M Humphries, treasurer.
 The Daughters of the Confederacy, Florence Chapter are making arrange ments to have a museum of Confed- crate war relics. The county court has donated to them the use of large room in the court house and there they will place their relics and have their chapter meetings.
 The Field Day or May Day Festival for which the faculty and students of the State Normal College have been making great preparations, and which was to have been held today was post poned on account of rain.
 An adjourned meeting of the City Council was held last night to consider l the petition of residents of College Street to have the street improved. 1 Since the street car company has laid
 it's track on Tennessee Street College
 will necessarily be the driveway to
 the city cemetery. The street will
 be graded and the ditches filled in from Locust Street to the cemetery, a
 distance of about a mile. and gravel
 thirty feet wide put in the middle. The
 work will cost between $l,SOO and
 $2,5OO The expense will be born by | the property owners.
 | The seventh rural free delivery route | is soon to be established out of Flor ence. with Oakland a small village ten
 miles from here as its objective point
 The route will pass through Rhodes
 vile, Gravelly Springs and Smithsonia
 and connect with routes and 1. A l postal station will be established at oakland with R. c. Smith in charge. | Lauderdale County now enjoys as good mail service as any county In the State.
 At a parrish meeting held in Trinity Episcopal Church the following vestry- men were elected for the coming year;
 NJ. c. Wilson, c. E. Jordan, NJ c. Brow
 der, R. L. Bliss, H. D. Smith, A. D
 smith, c. c. Chapin and A. P. Stone
 Reports of the years work by the
 Rector, Rev. R. R. Harris and the sec
 retary, MT. c. F. Jordan, show the
 church to be in a prosperous condition
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

scious Musical Education solemn horror was expressed at the Increasing disobedfence of children nowadays, Just as if that was the children's fault.
 Now let us see to what after eight vears' work the Congress Is deVotlhs itself today The honorary president of the organization is still Mrs blIbeS The present President, re-electeu ,at sn ,n,5 ; recent meeting, is Mrs. Frederlck eoInfs of Philadelphia. What kind of . iewe1 of woman Mrs. Schoff is we nav learn from an extract from one ei her speeches, as follows:
 'I,ouuacity-talking overmnch-ehat eIt is a fault inherent in too many motheI .si D , and too many fathers, too, II you colAs to that Silence is a blessed thing, ana we should cultivate 1t when we haTe nothing to say" .
 For several years the orsantzeo mothers have been working TOT the eS- tahlishment in all the States of JuVe- riia courts. where child lawbreakers may be tried quite separate erom aouIe criminals. Already there are many ol these courts. Mrs. Schoff herself or ganized and carried through the move ment which led to the law prov luI,' D for such a court in Pennsylvania. ohe has also compiled book of the laWs of every State in the Union concerhlh $ dependent and delinquent children She was chairman of committee Whoss efforts resulted in raising the Saiarles of public school teachers. Through ner u,ork mainly there was also passed the Pennsvlyania law providing prooatlon officers for child offenders out on pall'
 Another task which the mothers have engaged in systematically In re- cent years Is ameliorating the conol s lions of child labor. One of the cnieI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
JswELs 1000 YEARS OLD.
Discoveries at the Temples of Susa Revealed Some Fine Specimens.


 Harper's Magazine.
 In writing of his remarkable discove- ries in the ruins of the temples at Susa, the ancient capital of Persia. Jacques de Morgan tells of the marvels of jew elry brought to light, the earliest ex- amples ever known of that country:
 The jewels of gold and silver which we now possess" he said ,'are the first of those countries, and those ages which have come down to our day. In this they present a great interest. Un- fortunately, 1t is not possible to assign a precise date to each of them. As the cylinders and the seals which form a part of the finds belong to all periods from the fortieth or fiftieth century B. C. down to the date of the founda- tion, so 1t is with the jewels. There are some of every age. The rings of filigree work and the scepter with tho lions head seem to be more recent than the statuettes of gold and silver. which have a frankly archaic appearance. but one cannot be sure of this appreciation. Heva we not been surprised by finding rings which, if their origin had not been certain, would be attributed by the most acut econnoisseurs to the Greek or Etruscan epochs?
 Before my discoveries at Dashur we knew nothing of Egyptian jewelry. The opening of the tombs of the princes of the twelfth dynasty was a revelation. It is the same now as regards Elam; but while in the case of Dashur we were dealing with objects of ascer- tained age, here we can only fix a minimum limit to the antiquity. and this limit Is the twelfth century B. C.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
DEFICIT NOW $s4,OOO, 900.
There Was a Surplus of $2,4Ss,Ss6 .
 Year Ago.

Washington Special to The World.
 With the close of business yesterday ten months of the current fiscal year ended with deficit of upwards of $S4.- OO0 900. During April alone the expen- dltures exceeded the receipts by s. 100000. Treasury officials profess to believe that the deficit for the year will be sealed down to 25,00O.000. One year ago today there was a surplus of $2,43S,3S6.
 The cash balance in the Treasury, the Governments working capital, has ac- tually fallen below the point of abso- lute safety. This balance yesterday had declined to $133,191,777. Including the amount held by national banks . Twenty. millions has been called in, and more will be needed. How to get 1t without unsettling the money mar ket Is a question Secretary Shaw is en- deaVoring to solve.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

Detroit Free Press.
 ment as it is shown In time of peace would be slight compared to the main teuance of the highest efficiency in time time tn he ren1aCed at frequent intervals or the battieships would become, useless, or. at least, no better than the ships carrying guns of smaller calioer. Ut It mnInss efHeientiy served; that they can not not be eficientiy served unless there is abundant target practice and if there is abundant target practice the guns seems are terrifying only in the sug- gestiOn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

addresses at the
 recent convention was that dealing with this topic. It was given by Mrs. Florence Kelley. for mer inspector of fac- tories for Illinois. The mothers have been after the en- pIoyers of children of tender 1ge in nearly all the States
 boua Gtl0 -apd O 6
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

a social Mecca. It all reminds one o1 the translation of Omar's lines: Til on the stilly top of heavens stair clear-eyed I looked-and laughed-anG climbed no more"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
The Ever-Dissatlsried Social Climbers.

The Ever-DissatisfIed Social Climbers.
 John Brisben Walker in Cosmopolitan.
 In New York the dissatisfied man or
 woman who has achieved the full
 round of society and discovered it's
 utter vanity. if not indeed worse may
 imagine, if not familiar with London
 or Paris that in those cities exist superior class of men and women more intellectual and less brutal than those of whom ne knows. The Chicagoian, unfamiliar with New York. hopes to discover in Manhattan something diff ferent from that which is to be found in the Western city. The resident Of Omaha perhaps thinks that if she could attain Chicago she would find her Ideal society. In Hastings, Neo.. doubtless there are many who think
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

nOn't forget the cooking demonstra- tIoas at the BIjOu Theatre every after- noon of this week FheS WI" ~ promptly at s o'clock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

1t would be a heaven to attain social in Omaha. And out on the
 prairie are scattered hamlets in when many socially ambitious young sFIs ana mothars look toward Hastings as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
nnrm. rerror of Blg NavIes.

Inquire at Fowfer's Book Store about
 kindergarten in the home" tf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
EMBROIDERIES.

Corset Cover widths and Flouncings. Those beautiful Corset Cover widths and Flounces shown in our window and many other dainty patterns, reg ularly soc, at ............... ..25c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
EMBROIDERIES.

EMBKOIDEKIES.
 We have better grade, many in match patterns, good Edges and dain- tv Insertions; the real value is far ahead of the price; this week. .9c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

EMRROIDERlES.
 There are many lovely Edglngs ana Insertions in a special lot. Some were as high as 10 and 12 I-2c; we have them all placed at. ...5c
New-York tribune., 1905-03-21
THE TAX on BENEVoLE9CE.

The Senate Committee on Taxation does no
more than justice In reporting favorably the bill
TO exempt from the transfer tax legacies to
charitable and benevolent institutions The
measure should be promptly passed by both
houses and put upon the statute book. 1t is in
tended to remedy serious injustice which ex-
lists more by accident than by design under the
present law. For more than century the
policy of the State was one Of encouragement
and Hberality toward the private charitable and
educational institutions which have been left
here TO do so large a share Of what is really
public work Unlike Michigan, Wisconsin and
many other States, New-YorE has not provided
for the educational needs of its people by build
ing up great university through public taxa
ton. Higher education has largely been left to
private enterprise and made dependent on ap-
peals TO the philanthropic. Therefore good pub
lie policy forbade the placing of any obstacle in
the way of large gifts to education.
That policy prevailed until 1900, when an act
was passed TO refund certain transfer taxes
enormously levied, which by some chance also
repealed the exemption from the legacy tax
heretofore enjoyed by religious, charitable edu-
cational and other institutions AS soon as this
was generally known objection was made to its
injustice, and the next year an act was nassed
partially undoing the mischief The exemption
was restored to religious corporations and spe.
ciic gifts other than money or securities +o
charitable and educational institutions were
likewise made free of the tax. Still. however.
all money legacies to charity and education are
subject TO tax of per cent The pending bill
Is intended 10 do away with this inequality At
present legacy TO a tract society is exempt
from taxation while one TO a hospital is
sweated' per cent. Anybody can leave prop.
erty free of tax 10 bishop, but not to an asy-
lCm or college.
1t needs no argument to show the injustice of
such discrimination and the unwisdom of nenal
iziDg charities Many of these institutions de-
pend on the public treasury where their private
gifts fall short, and all Of them do work which
otherwise would be charge upon tho taxpayer.
Wealthy citizens should be encouraged IN confo-
gifts upon them, and they should have the full
New-York tribune., 1905-03-21
DISCIPLES OF BUDDENSIEK.

Until the most conclusive proof is forthcom-
ing that the wholesale collapse of unfinished
buildings in this city on Sunday and Sunday
night was due to another cause, it is safe to
assign that remarkable combination of acct
dents to the use of mortar that was too cold
to be thoroughly plastic. Both probability and
the belief of experts point in that direction.
Unusually low average temperatures have pre-
vailed during the last few months, and builders
have been tempted more strongly than usual to
violate the law in this particular. How many
times the offence was committed in the case
of any of the structures that have just been
ruined cannot be told, but it was often enough
to cause disaster when the first burst of vernal
warmth gave the mortar a chance to yield.
The opinion has been expressed that only
part of the bad work of the winter has yet been
exposed. If so, other buildings will doubtless
succumb from the same cause when the next
decided thaw comes. Moreover, the chances
are to 1 that the disasters will occur on
week day and will involve a serious loss of life.
The prospect is far from pleasing.
Though the severity of the season which Is
now drawing to a close will account in a meas
ure for Sundays accidents there can be little
doubt that another cause has contributed to
the result. About twenty years ago a cOntrac-
tor named Buddensiek carried his economy in
the use of mortar so far that one of his build
We're killed in the wreck. The man tried
for manslaughter, convicted and sent to prison,
he richly deserved to be; and a highly
salutary effect was produced by the procedure.
Other builders were for long time exceed
ingly cautious about repeating the crime. Now,
1t is interesting to compare this bit Of local his
tory with more recent chapter. Only a few
weeks after the opening of 1904 the steel
frame of an eleven story apartment house that
was approaching completion on the West Side
suddenly surrendered to structural weakness.
A number of workmen were injured, some of
them fatally The defect which caused the
collapse was one of method rather than of ma
terial but it violated the building code and it
caused death. Great excitement followed. elab-
crate inquiries were made into the affair, the
municipal bureau which has supervision over
building operations here asked for a few more
inspectors, and preliminary steps were taken to
punish the contractors who were at fault; but.
so far as we are aware, the offenders were
not punished. Their names We're not enrolled
among the guests of the State at Auburn or
Sing Sing. Could lack Of vigor and persist
ence in the prosecution of these men have any
other effect than to encourage all kinds of reck-
lessness among builders? Was it not a tacit
guarantee of immunity to any one who was
disposed to use frozen mOrtdrS
New-York tribune., 1905-03-21
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
lrRom TEE TRIBUNE BuREAU.l

washington March 91.-President Roosevelt To-
day sent a telegram OF condolences to the WHO" OF
Francis c. Travers. Of Oyster Bay. who died suo-
denly on Saturday night at New-York FloraI OF
ferings from the President and Secretary Loeb have
been sent to Mr. Travers's funeral Mr.. Travers
had been a close friend of the President for many
years. and though a lifelong Democrat voted the
Republican ticket last fall. II was through Mr.
Travers's efforts that the President visited New
York last week to attend dinner Of the Friendly
Sons of St Patrick A few minutes before Presi-
dent Roosevelt arrived at Delmonicos. where the
dinner was served. Mr.. Travers was taken III
Many Senators and members OF Congress haFe
called at the Presidents Office within the last rev
davs to bid him farewell before departing for their
homes Among the Senators who saw the Presi-
dent to-day were: Messrs. Hemenway, BeVerluse.
Alger Hepburn, Spooner. Wetmore Blackburn anu
McCreary. The Kentucky Senator's besides LOOKING
after the interests of constituent. wished to learn
the date OF the Presidents arrival at Louisville on
his Southwestern trip. The President told them ne
expected to leave washington on April .. ana
would be In Louisville on April l. Senator Hepburn
presented the name OF the Rev Frank b. Bonner
of Salmon sIdaho. for an army chaplaincyi senator
Spooner introduced party OF women
Robert J. wynne. consul general at London
was one OF the Presidents callers in the morning
when do you sail. general?' asked one OF MS
friends as he was leaving the Office building.
Don't know myself yet. I've got all kinds OF wor-
ries on my mind" he replied There's my house
here for instance; don't know yet whether I'm
going to be able to sell 1t rent II before leave
Then he added. after pause: still. my new
place Is such a good one that tell my friends that
I can AFFORD to feel sorry about leaving."N
Representative Cooper, OF Wisconsin, who was
prominently connected with railroad rate measures
last winter. had talk with the President to-day
at had understood that the President had decided
call the extra session of Congress next October
to take up the rate legislation matter said Mr..
Cooper. 'but since the House passed it's bill have
not given the matter much attention as I did
and don't know what will be done. I have no
doubt that some law will be placed the statute
books next winter. and am certain that with the
extra time for study at the disposal of the in
terested in the question. even better bill will be
framed than the measure considered last session"
Among the visitors at the White House were ex-
Senator John L. Wilson. of Washington, who is In
the East business trip; Judge Deuel.. OF the
District Court of Appeals, and Attorney General
Moody Mr.. Moody to hand to the Presi-
dent his finding in the case Of Judge C. c. Kohlsaat
whose record recently investigated by the De-
partment of Justice. Later in tho day the PresI-
dent made the correspondence in the case public
New-York tribune., 1905-03-21
MUSIC.
The Peoples Choral Union.

Five hundred singers of the Peoples Choral Union
with the assistance OF DR.. Frank Damrosch, their
director, the New-York Symphony Orchestra, Frank
L. sealy organist. and group of efficient solo
singers, who shall be named presently gave a truly
remarkable performance of SIendessohn's oratorio,
Elijah" in Carnegie Hall last night. The oratorto
itself Is old story old, so worn, trite and
hackneyed. indeed that only a remarkable per-
formance could challenge attention IN the closing
weeks OF season that has been full of incident
that IL long ago became a WEAKNESS the flesh to
those who were compelled by duty led by incina-
ton to follow il. 1t not the oratorio which
signhed this concert, however, but the demon
stratfon which was made of the results which have
been achieved by the scheme of popular choral edu-
cation OF which the Peoples Choral Union is an
exemplar. Taken in connection with other mani
festations OF similar culture due largely. almost
wholly indeed. to Dr. Damrosch's remarkable ac-
tivity, 1t meant that New-York to become
possessed or obsessed with the foolish notion that
festivals were necessary to demonstrate its appTe
citation OF choral music II could assemble choir
Of one or two thousand voices TO sing
than well the standard oratOrios a few weeks
notice 1t meant more than this TO those who have
watched the growth OF the popular movement dur
ing the last dozen years. There were of the
features which indicate intelligence and refinement
in a choral body missing IN last nights perform
ance There was balance between the voices OF
the choir perfect to call for admiration in adj
dition to of which enabled it to strike
like thunderbolt IN the dynamic cmaxes, and also
a graduation Of nuances and precision which made
many OF the dramatic moments thrilling that
the professional element in the performance, eX-
cellent as it was at times fell decidedly into the
background. 1t needed only an augmentation Of
the orchestra at least double its numbers, and
little attention to declamatory pauses, the
part of the conductor and the principals make
this presentation of the popular oratoro OF the
most moving episodes in the season drawing to
close
The solo singers who seemed TO feel the insplra-
ton which went out like magnetic currents from
the puissant choral background. Nine. LILLIAN
Blauvelt. Miss Edith r. Chapman. Miss Janet
Spencer. Miss Emma E. Elmer Mr.. Glen Hall and
Herbert Witherspoon All sang so well and kept
perfectly within the frame OF the performances