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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
AN ILL SMELLING CASE.

The record of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, reminds one of the old saying that 1t Is like a kit of rotten mackerel; the deeper you go the worse it smells. We may leave out his desertion of wife and children in the East and his going to Oregon and taking another name, though that ought to have been enough to make 1t impossible for him to be elected a Senator from a great State. The American people are prone to for get and forgive the shortcomings of those who engage in public life, but we do think that the people of Oregon should have allowed John Nipple to remain in private station and not elect him to high office under the name of John Mitchell.
 But leaving that out as having been condoned by the people of Oregon and by the Senate of the United States, the fact that he is now under indict- ment charged with using his position and influence as a Senator to promote and perpetrate fraud is not a matter to be slurred over. The fact that his law partenr has turned States evidence is the worst jolt that has yet been administered to the accused Sena- tor. One of the documents upon which Mitchell relied for defence was an agreement, presumably signed March s, 1901, by which Mitchell was to share none of the returns from the land-office business of the firm. This compact, acording to the confession of Tanner, was not signed till last De- cember, after Mitchelps name had al- ready become involved in the land scandals.
 Then the public is treated to a letter written by Mitchell to Tanner, the aforesaid partner, in which occur such expressions as these: Don't tell Harry, your son, or any one. Don't let him see our books. Tell him nothing. Burn this without fail. Don't be interviewed. Say nothing" It Is evident that he feared Harry and trusted his partner, but the latter. for some reason, has gone back on him. This will have an important bearing if the case ever comes to trial. He may never be convicted, and the Senate may overlook his dirty record. but that will not prevent the people from be- lieving him guilty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
An Indian Speech.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
 Here Is a speech which an exchange reports as made by an Indian chief My friends, I do not propose to excite hostilities by advancing the proposition that we are on the threshold of life. leave that to the pale-faced graduates of a more athletic curriculum. l come from a town of 300 souls, and eighteen real estate dealers. On my return my kinsmen will stroll out of the tepee to greet their brother and ask him where he got that hat, while the dusky daughter of Bay -Horse-with- the Clam ders will don her pink waist.
 All that the red man is today he owes to the pale-faces. We have been so benevolently assimilated that one measly Government agent could round up and herd a whole Indian reservation. The pale-face lobster gives us a bottle of whiskey with a string tied to 1t. And the string reaches to the Federal court room. where we lie around for d couple of weeks while the witnesses are cashing in their pay vouchers. Then we walk home In a snowstorm.
 The sun of the red man is setting in the West. Soon will his copper colorCd tribes be assimilated by the copper trusts and he will be extinct. You may put him in a bicycle suit and tan shoes, but he will continue to yearn for planked muskrat and Jamaica gin ger. His days are numbered. For d few years he may powwOw with the smooth Government commissioner, but he Is fading away and you can see his finish. I have spoken.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Socialism,. High Priest.
New York World.

New York World.
 The Kansas Senate has passed bill appropriating $400,00O TOT a State oil refinery.
 The Standard oil Company has an swered the Senate by threatening to close all its refineries in order ito teach the State of Kansas a lesson "
 The Kansas House of Representa- tives will answer the Standrad oil Company by passing the Senate bill, which Governor Hoch will sign.
 It will be months before a State re- finery can be erected, and Its capacity will hardly equal one-fourth of the total production, but Kansas purposes to find out whether or not the Standard oil Company Is more powerful than a sovereign State.
 The warfare between the trust and the State Eliminates an extraordinary condition of affairs. There is no pri- vate competition in refining oil in Kansas Private capital dare not com pete with the Standard oil Company. If the State tried to regulate the com pany 1t could close its refineriss and ruin the producers. There is. then. in Kansas no middle ground between a privatA monopoly and a public monop- oly, between Rockefeller power and state socialism.
 Corporate greed is becoming the most eloQuenc of all the priests of soeialism. It makes more converts in day than all the curoBtonS aGitators together ean make in a yeeN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Decoration of T1omew.

Do you know" said a well known local interior painter yesterday. "that house decoration has become a finer art in the South than in the North. mean that in the South more care and atten- tion is paid to the interior decoration and arrangement of the home than in the North.
 T do not hesitate to say, too, that more taste in house decoration is shown in the South than in the North. Of course the interior work of some of the palatial hotels or in some of the millionaire's winter and summer homes may be costlier and more artis- tic than that in any Southern build ing, but take the average home, the home built by some man of average means, or with a comfortable fortune, if he lives in the South he will follow the custom of his neighbors and make his home as attractive as he possibly can. while if he lives North he Is liable to have the interior work done cheaply and after uniform style used for houses like his.
 T am prepared to speak on this sub ject because I have done this sort of work both North and South. And I may say further that the Southern house decorator knows the finer points of the business better than the North ern decorator"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

paper men. He seems unaware of the fact that newspapers. taking them as whole. not only pay for all the trans portation they get. either in money or as paid advertising, but pay It several times over in free advertising in the shape of reading matter and news. If members of legislative bodies and other officials were as clear of getting free passes as the newspaper men are there would be far less scandal and com plaint than there now is. The Texas solon would do well to inform himself before he breaks loose again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
AN EASY LAW.

The State of Kansas has a very fiexi- ble and accommodating law on the sub ject of bribery. While it Is a crime to accept a brIbe it is not an offence to ask for one. So, when a mem Der of the Legislature wants pay for his vote and finds a party willing to pay for 1t the deal is easily carried through. The law maker simply fixes his price and tells the other party where to put the money. It may be on a gatepost, or any other place where the seller can be sure of laying his hands on it, and that completes the transaction.
 This is a dead easy proposition. There are no witnesses to the transac- tion. no money is actually passed, so that technically no violation of law has occurred. Neither party to the transaction could prove anything, or bear evidence against the other. The legislator asks for a certain sum and afterwards finds it. The briber agrees to pay so many dollars and leaves the amount at the place agreed on. The ease with which any penalty can be avoided is one of the main points in the game.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
CURBOW-CLAPp MARBLE 60.
aOS- -2Iz Dexter Ave-. Montgomery. Ala
 Phone I45.
Non-ReSident Notice ,

The State of Alabama. Montgomery County.
 In the City Count of Montgomery Charles H. Scott, G. G. Scott and T. J.
 Scott doing business as T. J. Scott
 Sons vs. E. F. Jackson.
 Whereas on the 3rd day of December; 1904. an attachment sued out in said Court at the instance of Charles H. scott. G. G. Scott and T. J. Scott. doing business estate of E. Jackson. defendant. and that said attachment executed by the Sheriff of Chiffon County, Alabama, on 6th day of December 1904 at p. m.. by levy- the E. E. Jackson Lumber Company. a cor poration. of the par value of Sluo.OO share as the property of E. E. Jackson. and that notice of said levy was gwen by publication ed in Chiffon County. Alabama, as required by Section 1865 Code of Alabama, and that a branch writ of said attachment was also ty Alabama, on the 2nd day of January. 1905, at a. m. by levying on l0OS shares of Capital Stock In the Jackson Lumo"F Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, the prop erty of E. E. Jackson, and notice of such levy was on the 2nd day of Jan Iary. 1905. given by the Sheriff of Covington County, Alabama 10 Jno. B. Rider as Secretary Of the Jackson Lumber Co., and custodian of the books of transfer Now therefore, the said P E. Jackson, who Is nonresident of the State of Alabama, and is a resident of the State of Maryland IS hereby notified of the issuance of said attachment and the execution thereof as aforesaid, and that he appear at the next term of the said City Court of Montgomery within thirty days lion as required by law, if he thinks proper, and defend said suit.
 Witness my hand this. the 27th day of January. 1905. - - .-,,,,r-.
 Clerk of the City Court of Montgomery.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
WILL SHE EscAPEs

A great deal of opposition has been expressed all over the United States to the hanging of a murderess. The cases of Mrs. Rogers in Vermont and Mrs. Edwards, in Pennsylvania, have brought out many arguments. pro. and con. most of them. however. being purely sentimental It is not denied that murder is as great a crime when committed by a woman as it is when committed by a man, nor is 1t claimed that 6 murderess should not be pun ished. The main contention is that the death sentence should not be car ried out against a woman.
 Of course all humanity revolts at the idea of putting Q woman to death, and thus far the arguments are generally in accord. but 1t Is just as well not to forget some of the circumstances att tending the crime. In the case of Mrs. Edwards we can conceive of no plea of sympathy that has any foun- dation. It is true that her husband was little better than a drunken brute, but there were ways for her to escape him other than the ones he adopted. A wife who has a negro paramour, by whom she has a mulatto child born since she was committed to jail, and who with the assistance of her brutal black lover murdered her husband in the most cold-blood and brutal manner that can we'll be imagined-what sym pathy can good people feel for such a criminal? Those who argue for a communication of her sentence can only do so on the ground that she is a wo- man.
 We can imagine circumstances under which a woman might kill her hus- band. but this case is not one of them. Both she and her negro lover wanted Edwards out of the way so that they might be free to live together, and they planned and executed a crime which is rarely exceeded in ferocity. What Shakespeare calls the deep damna- tion of his taking off' may we'll be said of this murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Give Montgomery a Chance.


 There can be no doubt of good to be accompIIshed by the right sort of 8 State Far. IL Uue 44O-A that WouId bring togetner for eXntpI- ton all the farm products, minerals, elc., and display alsU aAl tue mdcnln- cry and appIlanceS used by the peOpIe Wno farm, Inlne, etc., It would be well worth the cost of q trip anu the time spent for the people to go to some con Vehlently locaLeu city and attend.
 Sucn absurdlIles as nave been pa raded unuer the name Ot State taIfS at bIrmlngnam in the past were not worth the gate admIsslOn price to So per cent. ot the fOIks who attended, to say nothing of railway fare and hotel bLls whlIe there. The central and southern sections of the State are the agrlculturaI sections and m thIs sec ton a talr should be held if we are to have one.
 We note that some citizens of Mont gomery are interesting themselves in un endeaVor to raise money tor the holding of a State Fair at that point. Ii they propose to have real 1alr, an exhibit that will interest and lnstruct [
 those who attend, they should have the
 hearty support of the press of the cen tral and southern portion or the state. We probably should say the enure State, but there is so little hope that Birmingham and the section near there will ever countenance anything in tnls line which does not roll some or the almighty dollars towards that city that we simply leave them out of any calculation where only the general good of the State Is concerned. If the promoters of the holding of a fair at Montgomery will plan and work on a plane higher than that of gathering a crowd there to spend money at ho- ! tels, restaurants, dry goods stores, etc., | and will have there one exhibit | n of the right kind they will have no trou. | ble in making 1t an annual affair. If l there is to be a fair The Daily News is very much in favor of 1t being held at Montgomery and giving that city a l chance to show what they can and will | as people can be proud of having at- | tended and which will give value re- ! ceived for the time and money spent | by it's patrons.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
.eTho Goose Rone,, PredlctIon.


 A Montgomery man who doesn't be- lieve in signs. not even in the Goose Bone" for curiosity clipped the fol- lowing from The Advertiser late last fall He says the goose bone man cer- tainly hit 1t this winter:
 A Reading, Pa, paper says:
 With each recurrent year, Elias Hartz. the veteran Goose Bone Proph- and he has just declared himself for the coming winter.
 His announcement was waited with interest by scores of persons who have the Weather Bureau at Washington or the time-honored almanacs.
 Fill your coal bins, and do 1t quick ly, for we are going to have very severe winter" is his latest warning;
 Several days ago MT. Hartz. received a breast bone from a young goose matched last spring. The bone Is greatly discolored, dark lines covering both sides. Very few light spots. are shown. The heavy dark lines indicate a severe winter, beginning early in November and lasting until late in the
 The few light spots indicate a short duration of mild weather. MT Hartz said:
 T have been making my predictions from the goose bone sixty-hve years, and never once have I missed. have great faith in the goose bone. I was taught to read 1t when young man. and have followed it's lines ever since The bone I secured this fall Is very dark in color, and we will have a very severe winter. Those who have not yet done so had better lay in a good supply of coal and wood, for they will need 1t.
 My prediction that last winter would be a severe one was correct and the bone of this year is still darker than that of last fall. There will be numerous heavy snow storms and an immense ice crop"
 MT. Hartz will celebrate his 90th birthday anniversary next week.
 MT. W. T. Birch of Washington. D. C.. arrived in Montgomery yesterday.
 Mir. M. H. Baun of Birmingham is a visitor in Montgomery.
 Mir. J. T. Ruskin of Tallassee was in the city yesterday.
 MT. H. K. White of Birmingham is In Montgomery.
 Mir Bird Farmer of Dothau is in Montgomery.
 Hon. W. O. Mulkey of Geneva is in the city.
 Mir W. L. Miller of Talladega Is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
sidewalk PeneiIinaS
Voter Hnn q ComnInint.

If you can tell me which one of the candidates for Mayor will stop the dumping of all the brlckbats in town into the streets, to the injury of horses, will tell you who I will vote for" remarked man yesterday who loves his horses.
 Again. why should street car lines be permitted to tear up streets as on Dexter Avenue and be weeks in mov- ing bricks that are piled up to the dIs- comfort of all who have to use the street. It is a mighty go-as-you-please business in this town of ours"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
COURT AT ASHLAND
Cold Weather Interferes with Trnnsac-
 tiOn of Business

Ashland, Feb. 7,-(SpeciaL) )-CIr- cult Court Is in session here this week but on account of the cold weather not much business has been disposed of. Judge A. H. Alston presides and gave an excellent charge to the grand jury. Next week the criminal docket will be taken up. Yesterday the lociI road law of Clay County was decl ored unconstitutional and void by Judge Alston.
 Ashland has had an epidemic of Ia grip and pneumonia. Four ladies have died in the last two weeks of pneu- monia, Mrs. W. D. Jordan, Mrs. J. D. Garrett. Mrs J. J. Smith and Mrs. NJ, A. Black. There Is scarcely 9 family in town in which there is not 3 ease of la grip or pneumonia.
 Ashland hopes to have the railroad from Pyriton finished in thirty days. The track is being laid as rapidly as the weather permit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Becomes a Farce.
 

When a court of justice makes dis crimination between men according to their wealth 1t ceases to be such and becomes a farce, a traversty on the law and It's purposes. There is far too much of that sort of thing in vogue already, and the country would be b Q ter off if courts could be kept entire lv from the influence of money as well as politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
For Sheriff of Crenshavx.

Editor McLendon, of The Luverne Journal. who was in the city yesterday, reports that at a meeting of the Cren- shaw County Democratic Committee on Thursday, W. L. Tatum, a deputy in the Sheriff's office, was endorsed unan- in ously for Sheriff. Sheriff May Is still absent. and nothing has been heard from him since he left Luverne several weeks ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
HALT1xG THE PRESIDENT.
''Thua far. and no Farther, Can You
 Co.," Says the senate.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
 ''The President shall be commander in chief of the army and Navy of the United States. He shall have power. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present con eur From Section 2, Article II, of the Constitution of the United States.
 Much of the newspaper comment on the contest of President Roosevelt with the Senate shoots wide of the mark because it aims at supporting Ehe cause of International arbitration. This mat ter does not enter into the queBt4an,.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Bad Jefferson.
Rirmineham Age-Herald.

In this period when no white man can be convicted of murder in this county, Governor Cunningham should consider at least the mental condition of the condemned negro, Jud Branham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Hanging In LonInIann.

Alexandria, La, Feb. 17--Tom Under wood, colored. aged 4l, paid the eX- treme penalty of the law for the killing of Policeman B. G. Aymond. while try ing to arrest Underwood for Killing a eoiored woman, Iretta Parker,
 The trap was sprung at 1928 and Iynderwood's neck was broken
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Produce His Plays.
Mobile Herald.

Louisville minister has denounced Shakespeare's works as unfit to be read. The first thing we know the the- atrical trust will hear of that man Shakespeare and produce some of his plays.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Burn Both of Them.

Cullman Democrat.
 lars insurance on the two, then inn port a cheap nigger and hire him to burn the old school house and court house? That would be good business, and We believe that God Almighty would pardon the moral wrong doing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Guess Again.
Hartford Journal.

T1dI IIVIU OUUI HUI
 The Montgomery Advertiser says it costs exactly $500 to kiss a girl in Cleveland. O. Wonder how many five hundreds the editor of The Advertiser has blown in to lind that out?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

John Hoch says he didn't love any of his wives, but married them purely as a business transaction. When I found that a woman had money mar ried her." is the way he puts it. and when l got 1t l left her" He is a greater scoundrel than we had thought him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
The Most Curious.
Attalla Mirror.


 The most curious curiosity that at- tracts the attention of strangers visit ing Attalla is the large contingent of Sacred Hogs that roam and root and wallow our streets at will.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
Wbat Stale Papers
 lire Saying
Two Out.
Hartford Times-Herald.

Hartford Ifme5-deraId.
 Governor Vardaman of Mississippi re- fuses to have his State represented at the Presidential inauguration in March. We are not goi- ( either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

A Massachusetts man was so over- joyed at his acquittal that he kissed all the jurymen. He certainly was well pleased at his escape.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

If the kind of weather we have had lately hasn't finished the boll-weevils we have no other plan to suggest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

No one but a keen lawyer could fail to see that Roosevelt's idea of a "con. structivs recess" was a humbug, and not a constructive one, at that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

Note is made of the fact that the postmasters in this State who are members of the Republican State Com mittee have been told to resign from fhe Committee or suffer the conse- quences That Is exactly as 1t ought to be. but the curious minded are likely to enquire why J. o. Thompson, Internal Revenue Collector in this State, and supposed to be pie peddler, can con- tinue in his ofice, and at the same time remain chairman of committee from which other offlceholders are excluded. To be consistent Jodie Thompson should be told to take the medicine which he is helping administer to others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

Texas State Senator has found one of those mares nests which are not unusual among the law makers, and has introduced a bill to prohibit rail-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
A CAPITAL IDEA.

The Montgomery Advertiser. the capital newepaper of Alabama's capital city, pre- sents it's sworn detailed statement Of Janu- axy circulation. And judging from the amount of advertising in its columns, It CIT cgiates mostly among those who have cap dfAl to spend.
 The Advertiser is a clean, high-grade pxoRressive newspaper and is delivered in mere Alabama homes every day than any ntner paper in the State
 LOOK AT TTl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18
JANUARY, 1905.

E. S. Noble. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn says. The foregoing statement of The Ad- Tertiser's daily circulation for the month of January, 1905. is true and correct, and oosmptled after all returns from news boys news agents and leftover copies have been dedncted. E. S. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager,
 The Advertiser Company. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1Ith day of February, 1905.
 F. W. JACKSON,
 N. F., Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

The bill which was introduced by Mir. Wiley and has passed both houses re- iating to land in this district is the old Mobile and Girard Railroad grant, about which there has been so much eonaict It is to be hoped that this oill win quiet titles all along the line ana eonnrm present holders in pos session