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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
GOOD BYE TO NIAGARA.

good deal of more or less senti- mental speculation Is indulged in of late regarding the spoliation of Mag tric works now in progress and in con- temptation. It Is seriously contended that so much water above the falls will be diverted and carried off to drive the ed to erect that the great falls will soon either cease to exist or will lose all their grandeur and beauty.
 Here comes an eminent geologist, one Professor Maury, of Columbia Univer- sity, who tells is that it makes but lit tie difference what they do, as 1t will be only about thirty-fve centuries un- til there'll be no falls there. He tells us that the entire region is changing its conformation and position to such an extent that in something like $500 years there'll be no Niagara River and consequently there'll be no falls. That is discouraging prospect to those who are looking @ long ways ahead, but doubtless therell be good deal of electricity developed before the thing plays out. And, speaking of that. the Hartford Times tells us that "the geol- ogists have now been able to figure out with close approximation to probable accuracy the age of the Niagara won der. Applying various methods of call culating the time during which the precipice which makes the falls has been receding they find that the birth of the falls occurred not more than 25, 900 years ago. They have also reach- ed the conclusion that there were hu- man beings on this continent at that time for paleolithic implements have been discovered in glacial gravels which must have been covered up 25O centuries ago."
 Of course this is largely speculative. but 1t shows how the geologists reason out things. and how wide their theories run when once they get into the field of conjecture. for we can hardly call 1t anything else. Whether people lived in that region twenty-five hundred or twenty-five thousand years ago is lit- tie better known to scientists than to laymen, but that matters but little. The Falls are going to play out some of l these days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
 Company. Notice to Stockholders.

Louisville. Kentucky, February 20, 1soo. To the Stockholders of the Louisville q
 Nashville Railroad Company:
 Pursuant to a resolution adopted by ths Board of Directors of the Louisville q Nashville Railroad on the 10th day of Feb ruary, 1905 a meeting of the stockholders of said Company is hereby called to be held at the Company's office. Main and Second Streets. in the City of Louisville. State of March, 1905. at 10 o'clock a m. on that day, to consider and. if approved to assent to the execution by said Company of e mortgage on certain railroads, trackage rights, terminal properties and bridges of said Company. which form a continuous line of railroad ex. tending from Cincinnati, Ohio. by way of Knoxville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia, and now known the Atlanta, Knoxville &r Cincinnati Division of said Railroad Com pany, to secure an issue of bonds not to ex- ceed in the aggregate Fifty Million Dollars; assent to the purchase by the Louisville q Nashville Railroad CoInpainy of all the raii- roads, properties. rights. privileges and franchises of the South & North Alabama Railroad Company. in accordance with the terms and conditions of a proposition sub mitted by the Board of Directors of that Company to the Louisville & Nashville Rail- road Company on January 21. 1905, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before said meeting.
 The stock transfer books of the Company of March, 1905, at three o'clock p. m.. and reopened on Wednesday, the 29th day ot March, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. m
 By order of the Board of Directors.
 J. H. ELLIS,
 If Secretary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

New Bedford Standard (Rep)
 Judge Swayne Is acquitted, and one more step is taken in the direction or discouraging the impeachment of any official of the federal government Let that pass. In his impassioned -argu- ment for the defense, MT. Thurston charge that the Judge had made un- warrented use of private cars: There are reasons why the mantle of charity should be drawn about transactions or that kind by public men," Reasons? What reasons, pray? Because the allu- sion is disagreeable to the public men? That Is the only one that MT. Thurston can think of himself. A public man, dulge in no transactions that will not bear public inspection, and if the in- spection causes him annoyance it is a sure sign that he ought not to have given the occasion. In the confusion Swayne's case. it Is impossible for any but a close student of the evidence to be sure whether the Senate did right in acquitting him or not. The fact that his acquittal was by a party vote indicates that possibly the issue of right was not chief in bringing the final determinatiqn. We should say, as the result of Such attention as we have been able to give to the matter, that probably he was not guilty of of fense for which he deserved impeach- ment; but 1t seems clear that he dld not measure quite up to what ought to be exacted in the way of conduct and of a nice appreciation of his office from a federal judge. In the matter, for ex- ample, of making charges for expenses which were never incurred, the orense can hardly be said to be crime. In deed. it does not deserve that dignity; but in anybody of less position than that of judge, we should say that it was a bit of sneakiness which man with fine sense of honor would not allow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t is il
 Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char coal is the safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature, but few realize it's value when taken into the human system for the same cleans ing purpose.
 Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better; 1t is not a drug at all. but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and car ries them out of the system. Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or eating onions and other odorous vegetables Charcoal effectually clears and im- proves the complexion. 1t whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another. but probably the best charcoal and the most for the money Is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered
 Willow charcoal. and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather lozenges, the charcoal being mixed
 with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will
 soon tell in a much improved condition
 of the general health, better complex ion, sweeter breath and purer blood,
 and the beauty of 1t is. that no possi-
 ble harm can result from their contin-
 ued use, but on the contrary, great benefit.
 A Buffalo physician in speaking of l the benefits of charcoal, says: T ad-
 wise Stuart's Charcoal I.ozenges to all
 patients suffering from gas in stomach
 and bowels, and to clear the complex
 ion and purify the breath. mouth and
 throat; also believe the liver Is great
 ly benefited by the daily use of them;
 they cost but twenty-five cents a box
 at drug stores. and although in some
 sense a patent preparation, yet I be- lieve I get more and better charcoal
 than in any of the ordinary charcoal tablets
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
yIsft of Mr NJumrer.

MT. A. H. Munger of Kansas City, Mo, who has a wide circle of relatives and friends in Alabama, Is visiting Montgomery and will be here about a week.
 Mc. Munger has considerable inter ests in Alabama. He Is stockholder in the A. s. Knowles Dry Goods Com pany of Montgomery and Is also asso- ciated with others in the development of a graphite mine In Fillmore County. near Mountain Creek, where he owns a summer home.
 Companies in which MT. Munger is interested conduct large department stores in Kansas City and Detroit. as well as Montgomery. He is also inter- ested in several large Western manu- factories.
 Today Mir Munger will go to Noun tain Creek to make an inspection of the graphite mine. He will probably remain there until Saturday, when he will return to Montgomery and stay here until the middle of next week. MT. Munger was ,aoan accompanhied Ihet to to with MT and Mrs. A. s. Knowles on South Perry Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
THE LAST OF THE CABINET.

With the death and burial of Hon. John Henninger Reagan the curtain | goes down on the Confederate Cabinet and the roll-call is ended. The last of that famous band of men who advised and stood by Jefferson Davis has gone to his rest and that chapter is closed. As Postmaster General and for time Acting Secretary of the Treasury, with Watts and Meminger and Toombs. and Walker and Benjamin and others who held Cabinet positions dur ing the short but stirring life of the young nation he witnessed its rise, progress and fall. and survived 1t nearly forty years. All the others preceded him. He brought up the rear-guard in | the last march and the book of the Cabinet closes.
 Born in Tennessee in 1918 he became a citizen of the new State of Texas in its young days. and the remainder of the Texans, and his life work was for the State of his adoption and for her people. Physically and mentally he was a strong man and it Is no wonder that the people loved him and honored him. He served in Congress from 1856 with 1t and into the Cabinet. Again, in 1874 he was elected to Congress where he remained until 1887. Then he was elected one of the Senators from Texas, which position he retained till in 1891 he was induced to resign and accept the position of President of the Railroad Commission of his State, which he held till his death.
 Always a broad minded and strong man, always the enemy of peculation and graft and corruption, always fear less and determined in whatever he un- dertook. 1t Is no wonder that he rend- cred the State of Texas good service in his new and responsible position. It Is said of him that he saved his State millions of dollars, and in the words of contemporary, 'it was the crown ing achievement of his life to sacrifice the ease, comfort, prominence and pow CT of a Senatorship to serve his State in the arduous duty of Railroad Com missioner"
 Much is being said now about the regulation of railroads and railroad | rates, but few think to give Judge Reagan credit for the inauguration of the demand. During his six terms of Congress he was rominent and noted for his persistent fight for a law reg ulating railroads. That Congress eventually passed the Cullom bill does not in any degree detract from the emil nent Texans efforts, and to him should be given credit for the agitation of needed reforms. But he has laid down his work and the Government of the Ccnfederacy is ended. May he rest in peace!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
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Bishop Rowe Speaks Tonight.

Bishop Rowe, who will speak Thursday night at St. Johns Episcopal Church." said one who knows the dis tingulshed prelate, lis perhaps the greatest missionary hero of his denomi- nation. was very much impressed with the narrative of his achievements as published in Wednesdays Adver- tiser.
 He has performed valiant work for the cause he represents in Alaska af- ter suffering the severest privations to visit the helpless and weak ones in that perilous region of the northwest.
 Tn addition to being a great mis- sionary, Bishop Rowe is a magnetic man and a speaker of surpassing ability. His sermon at St. Johns prom ises to be a great treat"
 Bishop Rowe will reach Montgomery this morning and will be the guest while here of pr. B. J. Baldwin. He will leave tomorrow morning for New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

sponse. That day is past and will new CT return till the throne stands for freedom. justice and righteousness. !" That appears to us to be a fair con- clusion- There were times when the Russian people would fall in almost to a man at the call of the Little Fath- er," ready to give up their lives and their substance freely for Government and country, but it is evidently not so now. It seems that the Government has lost its opportunity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
PRESIDENT DEBT FREE.
Under Obligation to no Member of
 Congress.

nuer ODhSuuOu tO hO OA
 Congress.
 Washington Special to New York
 In the opinion of many persons there is at last New Roosevelt" There is likely to be change In the Presidents s course in reference to appointments in the direction of having his own say as to who shall feed at the government crib" during the next four years, no matter what politicians may suggest.
 Senators and members of the cabinet say that MT Roosevelt. in selecting men for prospective appointments, is playing politics more now than he Presidential nomination. This is pug Zling them. They can not understand why he should be so careful to have men on whose political support he can not to be candidate for President again Yet they say he Is really building up a political machine, and they suspect that he intends to have word to say as to who shall be his successor.
 President Roosevelt will exercise in dependence in making appointments all over the country. He has the patron age at last in hand He owes nothing to any of the Senators or Representa- tives. Most of them were opposed to his nomination. He takes the view that he nominated himself and largely elected himself. and many leaders admit there is more truth than poetry in this idea. He is under obligations not even to Senator Lodge, having paid off his last debt with recent treasury ap- pointments.
 It is said there is one matter on which the President will absolutely ac- cept no dictation from the Senate or from politicians. This Is on the sub ject of appointments on the Panama Canal Commission. The Senate has failed to give the President canal legis- lation in the hope that he would keer some of the men now on the commis- sion in office, but MT Roosevelt will make his own selection, even if that should bring on conflict with the Senate over confirmation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Two New Submarines.

Washington, March S.-The Secretary of the Navy has made a contract with the Electric Boat Company for the construction of two submarine torpedo boats. one to cost s250.00O and the other $200,000. The contract calls for the completion of the vessels within eight months. With these two vessels the United States Navy will include ten submarine torpedo boats.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
EetterS tc tbe Gdftor
A Blight on Civilization.

Editor The Advertisers:
 I desire to record my protest against a piece of work being done on South Decatur Street. where the curbing Is being put down at this time. It seems to me that any intelligent per son would realize that broad grassy lawns in front of houses and school houses would conduce to the beauty and coolness of the home, and that narrow drives would be least costly to maintain. In fact our progressive age is collecting the heat from such re- flective surfaces to drive machinery in stead of placing our homes above fever heat. Citizen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS OF COOK & LAURIE CONTRACTING
 COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given to each and all of the stockholders of the Cook & Laurie Con tracing Company, a corporation, that the Board of Directors of said corporation, here tofore, viz. the 18th day of February. 1905. by resolution then and there adopted. of said Cook & Laurie Contracting Com pany to meet at the office of the Company in the City of Montgomery. State of Ala bama, on Saturday, the 18th day of March. 1905, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the purpose of considering the increase of the capital stock of said corporation from Twenty Thousand Dollars to Thirty Thousand Dollars and for the purpose of considering such other business may come before said meeting of stockholders.
 This the 18th day of February, 1905.
 H. s. HAMMOND. thu-4t Secretary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

When we read in numbers of our con- temporaries about their drinking wa ter we feel renewed thankfulness for the water in Montgomery. For exam pie, The Kansas City Journal tells us that the water they have to drink in that city lis again brown with mud and alive with germs" Similar com plaints come from Chicago, Philadel- phia and other cities, and certainly we are blessed in this city. The water regulations are not altogether fault less. but the fluid itself is almost be- yond comparison.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
A NOvvel Plan.

JOuTHdI.
 The Chicago preacher who Is going to have his church establish a saloon in order that those who will have whis- key can get 1t unadulterated and also be surrounded by Cristian influence while indulging therein is attacking the liquor trafic in novvel way and from an unknown quarter. We apprehend that he is approaching the mule at the live end.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Imnroxsnsnts In GreenvllIe.

Colonel Claude F.. Hamilton. Mayor of Greenville, spent yesterday in Mont gomery and returned to his home last night.
 The city government of Greenville is planning important municipal i'm proVements and Mayor Hamilton passed some time yesterday at the City Hall intervening City Engineer Ford and other Montgomery officials as to wofk to be done in the capital city of Butler County.
 We lave already begun building an electric light plant" said Mayor Hamil- ton. Our lights are to cost us $55 each a year. for an all-night schedule. which, I understand, is lower rate than that given any other city in the State except Montgomery.
 Commerce Street, our main thor oughfare, Is to be graveled or paved and we have in contemplation plans for a sewerage system..
 By careful management, we nave accumulated a surplus of $7,500 and we propose to accomplish these improve ments by a $10.000 bond issue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Mortgage SaIe.

finder and by virtue of a certain mort. gage with power of sale. and under the poWer therein contained, executed by M D. Kerry E. w. Riggers and NJ. F. Riggers, to e T Edwards surviving partner of Brad ley & Edwards, on the 18th day of January, 1903. which said mortgage is recorded in Probate Office of Montgomery County, State of Alabama, the said G. T. Edwards, surviving partner, will proceed to sell at public auction at the Artesian Basin ourt Square, Montgomery, Alabama, to the high- est bidder for cash. on the 27th day of March, 1905, the following described real estate, lying and being situated in Mont Eomery County, Alabama, to-wit:
 The N D. t of s. W. A and N. w. A of S. D. <, Section 24 Township 12. Range IS and the S. h of N. E. l. of S. D. < less acres Section 24, Township 12. Range IS. This the Fist day of February, 1905.
 G. T. EDWARDS, Surviving partner of Bradley Edwards. HoLLoWAY & HOLLOWAY. Attorneys.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

It is generally believed that when can't get any worse. In that case the Czar will doubtless be glad to know when they reach their worst.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Can't JuggIe With Him.

BIrmIngham NeWs.
 When Uncle Russell Sage reads about MT. Carnegie being dragged over the country ea testify about negotiable notes Uncle Russell perhaps congratu- lates himself that no woman would have the nerve to juggle with his name in frenzied finance transactions
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

We were somewhat surprised to see the name of Funston in The Washing ton Times a day or two since. It was coupled with the intimation that he is to command somebody or something somewhere.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Wbat State Papers
 lire Saying
Their Last Chance,

Mobile Register.
 The New York Post points out that twenty nine of the thirty-six retiring members of the House voted for the salary grab. Well it was their last chance at the pie counter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

The New Bedford Standard is a Re- publican newspaper and generally comes to the defence of the President when such thing is possible, but that recess performance was too much for its stomach. It uses this plain lan- guage about 1t:
 Nobody would ever have propounded the theory of the constructive recess except as an expedient for accomplish ing a doubtful purpose, and nobody would have defended it except from a mistaken sense of the requirements of loyalty. The President and the Attor- ney General ought to have been far above the trick, for which there was not the slightest good excuse, because the plainest common sense. such as MT. Roosevelt Is in the habit of commend ing demands what the Senate Commit tee says it demands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
You are Welcome.

Union Springs Herald.
 With cap in hand and a respectful thank you mann" we country editors should greet Grandma Advertiser for the kindly words of advvice and en-
 couargement that appeared in one of her recent editorials.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
DOdging Time.
Dothan {

Dothan Siftings
 This is an excellent climate. We begin to dodge spring bills on the first of April. and continue the healthful ex- ercise till early autumn. which comes mighty late.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Evergreen Hank Approved.

Washington. March s.-(Special.)- The Comptroller of the Currency to- day approved the application of Allen R. Jones. c. w. Lamar, c. A. O'Neal, c. s. Rabb and ". T. Shepherd to organize the First National Bank of Evergreen, Ala. with q capital of s25.ooo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
4 Confession.
TrOY Herald

ITOy ffeTdIu.
 The consciousness that we are in the majority is not so consoling after all when we reach the conclusion that about eight-tenths of the people are fools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

Santiago, Chile, March S.-The tenth ministry of the present administration has formally resigned. as forecasted in these dispatches Thursday, owing to in- ternational dissanslon&
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

The Omaha World Herald tells us that Missouri retired Senator Cock rell." We'll. 1t hasn't filled his place yet, but the Republicans have hopes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
Who She Is.
Birmingham

BIrmlnSham ABe-HeraId.
 Because a Richmond man exhibited "Psyches Bath" he was fined $25 and sentenced to one day in jail. Psyche is probably a chorus girl and had no business bathing in public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

Commenting on the Czar's manifesto or rescript. The Toronto World says: Once call to rally around the throne would have met with a national re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

gomery and would probably reach home Saturday night. Mayor Carr has inn proved greatly since an operation was performed on him three weeks ago at a Chicago hospital
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
LOOK AT TIT
JANUARY, 1905.

E s Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn aays; The foregoing statement of The Ad- vertiser's daily circulation for the month of January, 1905. is true and correct and complied after all returns from news boys. news agents and leftover copies have been deducted. E. S. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager,
 The Advertiser Company. Bworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of February, 1905.
 F. W. JACKSON.
 N. P, Ex-O. ]. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
A CAPITAL IDEA.

The Montgomery Advertiser. the capitaI newspaper of Alabama's capital city. pre- sents It's sworn detailed statement or Jenu- ary circulation. And judging from the amount of advertising in its columns 1t CIT culates mostly among those who nave cap 1tal to spend | The Advertiser is clean. high grade progressive newspaper, and iJ delivered m more Alabama homes every day than any ether paper in the State.
 I00K AT HI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
A Mildly Severe Comment

Dr. R. H. Hays of Union Springs is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09

Colonel George T. White, United States Marshal at Macon, Ga, Is in Montgomery.