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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
MAGAZINE NOTES. The Critic

The Critic Is full of its usual amount of discriminating criticisms. its perti- nent observation and notation of mat ters literary.
 In the April number to The Critic Miss Elizabeth Luther Cary, whose book on Ruskin, Browning, and Emer- son have made her name welI-known has begun the first of series of three articles on George Meredith. On the present occasion she confines herself to his early work. In the Ordeal of and "Rhoda Fleming" the novelist has exhibited a union of phantasy and realism which to Miss Cary is pleas antly coupled with a restraint unplaced in his later extravagances. She feels that through all Mir Meredith has sought for the natural entangled in the artificial. while devoting himself, not to art but to nature.
 Miss Harriet Monroe, in an article on Literary Women and the Higher Edu- cation" in the April Critic. has clear ly expressed her view that If the re- suits of such education have not yet been great 1t is because the influences have not been sufficiently extensive. For the first tim ein history. the world, as we know 1t, Is experimenting on women's brains; and the change from the errors of the past to the crude truths of the present naturally involves inconveniences. When these hinder ing details disappear, the combined minds of men and women will give society a hitherto unknown impulse towards the invisible intellectual goal
 Miss Ida M. Tarbell is the subject of an article in the April Critic by Miss Marie Agnes Best. The author has clearly traced the main facts in Miss Tarbelfs life, and made evident those qualities which have produced the writer of The History of the Standard oil Company"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
Spring Goes A-wooinx

Spring Goes A-WOOing April, beloved. come, just say the
 word to me- Whats this I hear? Not old Winter
 preferred to me? An, you sweet wretch, but that tale Is
 absurd to me- I'm your devoted, your true lover,
 Spring! Come. little sweetheart, fain would
 be lowering Why do you fout me? Those roguish
 smiles lowering Peep through your fingers your rosy
 mouth covering. Glancing and dancing like birds on
 the wing! When you first came there was just a
 white drift of you,- Winter had fashioned the snowy white
 shift of you,- How my heart longed for the exquisite Dainty. reluctant, alluring and shy! Eyes like two pools In the shunshine
 a-glittering. Hair. like yourself. in the chance
 breeze fiittering. Lips like two birds round the heart
 nest a-twittering, Smiles on your mouth and a tear fin
 your eye. April. I love you-come yield to my
 wooing; The sun and the rain a love-potion
 are brewing; Comet Let your eyes then be violets
 strewing-
 Oh. Sweet to be loved you have but
 to be seeni Long have l worshipped you, wooed
 you. and plead with you, Praying the while that loves magic
 be sped with you; Now is the time Nature wills that I
 wed with you Come! Let me weave you a klrtle
 of green. Edna Kingsley Wallace. in the April Critic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

(Swamp-Root Is pleasant to tnke.p
 If you are already convinced fhaS swamp-Root Is what you need. you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one- dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don't make any mistake. but remember the name. Swamp-Root. pr. Kilmers Swamp-Root. and the ad- dress, Binghamton. N T.. on every bottle.
 is swamp-Root in promptly curing even CT CT bladder troubles. that to prove it's pie bottle and a book of valuable in- mail. The book contains many of the al letters received from men and women Root is so we'll known that our read- tie. In sending your address to Dr. re to say you read this generous offer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
some Feeling Created.

London, April 6.-The British Gov ernment has not received from Count Wolff -Metternich, the German Ambas- sador, or any other source memo randum regarding Morocco similar to that handed to Secretary Taft by
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

esa ''Inspired." the worked Up,s ana Finished Landscapes" to the student of this rapidly advancing art.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

il in Russia, if the Russian nlujiks break loose from all restraint. In St Petersburg, he says, he was told re- peatedly that the revolutionary move ment was financed in England and di- rected from London. This seemed to be a matter of common faith even among persons who professed friend ship for England The accidental de- parture of the British ambassador for home, contemporaneously with the oc- currence of the railroad strike. was quoted as proof positive that he had full knowledge of all that was to hap pen. A recent number of the Moscow Gazette was devoted to the support of the theory that the revolution is of English origin. As evidence of this it argued that Russian Nihilists and ter rorists, even though their hands were stained with blood, were always shel- tered and feted in England, that Eng fish Liberals like MT. R. Spence Wat son were members of ''the Friends of Russian Freedom" that English publi- eists like Sir Frederic Pollock had fos- tered, more or less openly, the agita- tion which had let loose the revolutions ary forces, which are now bearing their natural fruit in massacre and ar- son. Moreover, the Jewish agitation against Russia always had it's head. quarters in London.
 MT. Stead argues that if this feeling prevails in newspaper offices and drawing-rooms it is probably to be found also in the street, and thai therefore it behooves Europeans Eng. hshmen and Americans to take pre-. cautions. That looks reasonable.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
REAL AND GROWING.

Civil service is now real thing. and all it has to do to be what it ought to be is to grow. It is growing. The work of the United States civil service com mission is constantly on the increase, and in it's report just made it is re- corded that 10000 persons took civil service examinations last year for places in the United States govern ment service, and that positions were secured by 10000 Of them. So great has been the number of persons that take examinations that the expense has mounted up until the commission now recommends the collection of a small fee from applicants for examina- tion. It is hoped by the collection of this fee to eliminate from examinations the large number of persons who take them out of curiosity or for the sake of securing a higher rating on the elig- ible list through re-examination.
 Perhaps the civil service commission knows just what it is about in recom- mending fee for the privilege of being examined. but we doubt it. In this land of the free there shouldn't be any restriction placed on legitimate ana meritorious office-seeking
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
NOT ALI LITERATE.

This is a country of light and learn ing, and yet there are many-too many -illiterate in it. There are 6,1SO, ,069 per sens more than ten years of age who are illiterate. This is one-tenth of the whole number of persons ten years old and over. The proportion is 1O6.6 illit- crates to 1000 of population. The ne- groes are chiefly responsible for this large figure. If they are excluded, the proportion of the illiterate in the na- tive white population is found to be 46.4 per 1000, or less than in 20. For the negroes the proportion is 444.7 per 1000. For foreign-born whites the pro- portion is 1885 per 1000. Progress is being made. In 1890 the figure for ne- gro illiterates was 567.6 per 1000; native whites, 62.3; foreign born whites, 1906. Evidence of progress is seen also in the fact that among those of ages from 10 to 14 there are but 71,5 illiterates per 1000, while in those of the age of 65 and over the illiterates are 1885 per 1000. The younger generation is the less illiterate. There is evidence that girls are tending to become less fllit' crate than boys. At the younger age periods the girls are already less illit- crate than the boys, taking fuller ad- vantage of school facilities.
 As might be expected, illiteracy is in general greater in the South than in the North for all classes of population Perhaps the fairest basis of compari- son between the two sections is that for native white children living in cit. ies of more than 25,OOO inhabitants. Tn ! the North Atlantic division the Hitter. acy for this class of children is 2.1 and in the North Central 1.9; in the South Atlantic division it Is S,s, and in the South Central 1S,7. In considering the significance of such comparisons il ] should be remembered that the Soutf has a larger number of children ir proportion to population than the NortE and smaller per capita wealth. The South is, moreover. handicapped by tht necessity of maintaining separate schools for whites and negroes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
PREFERRED.

He-"Don't you think that some of her sayings are smart?" "They aren't, but they do. "-Brooklyn Life. r e f Gradnma-"Johnnie, did I hear you swearing at your little sister just now?" Johnnie--"Y-yes grandma, but we were only playing automobile she's the automobile. "--Judge.
 T shall miss you while you are on your hunting trip, dear" naurmursd the young wife affeetienately, "and l shall pray that the men you are going with will do the same!" Cleveland Leader.
 sonny" said the good old man, "Tm surprised that you should tease the cat in that way" Why" replied the boy, pausing in his inhuman work, do yer know any better way?"-Philadelphia Ledger.
 Skorcher-"Got an automobile, have you? It's very strange never see you on the road" Newman-"That's be- cause as soon as I land there, always pick myself up and scramble back into the machine. e."-Philadelphia Press. !.
 What style of Panama canal do you prefer?" q haven't given the subject much technical study" answered Sen
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

ator Sorghum, but on general prinei- pies I favor the one that will cost the most and take the longest. More chance for quiet and incidental emolu- ments. Washington Star.
 But" said the insurance solicitor, you should do something to provide for your family after your death. ''I'd like to, and will if you can show me how to provide for them while I'm ltE- ing and at the same time help to sup port the officials of your company in the style to which they have been ac- customed. .'-Chicago Record-Herald.
 ''so you enjoy seeing your son play football?"
 Yes" answered Farmer Corntossel, If he ever gets into the habit of work in that hard, mebbe we'll make the farm pay yet. t."-Washington Star.
 Mrs. McSosh-"Do you mean to tell me, sir, that you were sober when you came home last night?"
 Mr. Mcsosh-"Absolutely my dear. "
 Mrs. McSosl-"Then will you explain why you filled the refrigerator with coal and put six shovelfuls of leo in the furnace e?"-Clsveland Leader.
 T wonder" said Mrs. Duzzit, Eff the men ever really looked as the pictures of the olden times represent them?"
 We have just as much reason for supposing so," answered MT, Duzzit, ''as for thinking that the women ct to-day look like the pictures of them in the dry goods advertisements" "- Jrdge.
 She-"Before we were married you wanted to buy me everything you saw"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
couNrERFE1rs MADE BY HAND.
Spurious American Bills for Circula-
 tion in the Orient.

Spurious American Bills for Circula-
 tion in the Orient.
 The counterfeiting investigation started here when the transport sher- man was in port is going on in four widely separated parts of the world. The authorities are working in Hono- lulu, San Francisco, Nagasaki and Ma nila. The result is not unlikely to be an important exposure of making of bad American money in the Orient, in which clever Japanese artists may play large part.
 No money is easier to pass in the Orient than American. for every paper certificate from Washington is known to be just as good as gold itself, and the scheme is thought to have been to use the money in cities like Nagasaki, where a more or less imperfect bill Is easier to pass than it would be here in America, The attempt to pass a bill here was very likely due to an emer- gency in the finances of a soldier, but it has probably exposed the whole scheme.
 A careful examination of the coun- terfeit s10 bill now in the possession of District Attorney Breckons shows that 1t was made by hand, apparently carefully drawn with pen and ink This is the bill which was offered al
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
.s-- l. Would.

If should meet
 A clergyman somewhere upon the And he to speak should soIemniy begin The tears adown my sallow checks Perforce,
 And I would seem as one that's stricken With deep contrition for his sins But, on the dead,
 "Twould be this blooming cold within
 the head!
 If one a tale should tell, .i A piteous tale where I could hear it Mine eyes would water as with gentle
 grief For sorrow past relief,
 And one me would look just like a new And l would beg A handkerchief that might weep And all would say I had a tender heartl But, on the dead
 'Twould be this blooming cold within
 the head!
 If I should go and take A dose ot poison and the passage make Across Cocytus, folk would look around For cause profound '>' For such an act Some wouI5 alIe~o
 my love = Did hopeless prove, And some Ut was short in my ac- By some unknown. but very large amounts! But, on the dead, s. 'TWould be this blooming cold within l Y the head! New Orleans Times Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
4 FLY IN THE OINTMENT.

There is so much that Is all right in the Presidents message that 1t is both surprising and painful that he felt bound to recommend the immediate admission of two States-one to be composed of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, the other to be composed of New Mexico and Arizona. How he could have arrived at such g. recom- mendation is not understood by those who know the condition of the territo- ries and the feeling of the people of the territories, especially the people of Ar izona. There will be a strong protest against the recommendation. In fact, it has already begun. For instance, the Hartford Courant calls 1t a recom- mendation of injustice and points out that 1t is not like Theodore Roosevelt to be unjust. It adds: What evil coun- sellors have secured his ear? He says there is no Justification for delay. Is there any justification for raw, head long haste--for dragging reluctant, protesting American populations into the Union by sheer force? Upon the political side, the party in power has had Gin the free coinage scare) a rath- CT impressive lesson on the folly of picking territories before they are ripe in order to increase the number of re- | publican votes in the Senate. But this ] time it isn't so much politics that is in a hurry as speculative greed--largely of Pennsylvania antecedents. The Presidents motives are above suspi- cion, but he's on the wrong side of this statehood" question and in decidedly shady company.
 The indications are that there will be lively contest over this matter ir !! Congress. It is known that some o1 the congressman who have been in ia. vor of the course recommended by the 1 President have changed their minds and it is to be hoped that there will be contrary minds enough to carry the day for justice and good sense.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

spreckles Bank while the transport Sherman was in port. Under the mil croscope it appears as a very poor i'm itation of the real bill. The portrait of Mckinley is quite badly drawn The general appearance of the bill if merely glanced at in an ordinary way is fairly good, however.
 Only this one bill has come into the possession of the authorities here. and 1t is thought to be the only ene in town. There was one other attempt .to pass q bill, it is believed, at the Young Hotel. A soldier from the transport offered bill at the bar, handing it to the ,barkeeper folded up in such manner as to hide some
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

portions. As he saw the barkeeper. opening 1t up and examining it he, quickly reached for it and handed out. some silver. | A large sum of money was passed in Nagasaki when the sherman was there on her way here. Japanese, were easily imposed on by the pogu. bills. and they were stuck to the amount of $500 or s7OO.
 District Attorney Breckons said this morning he knew where the money was made and who made it, but the whole story of the counterfeiting is. an official secret So far. It is thought. that Manila Is where the work was done.-Hawaiian Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

He-'I do still. dear. but am so blindly in love with you that can't see much. h."-Pick-Me-U
 Friend Chumorously)-"WeII. do you or your wife rule in the household? % He Neither. We live un- der a provisional government by the cook. Baltimore American.
 Did you never experience the slight est touch of fear in a naval engage ment D Never" answered the officer with hauteur; after a man has gone through the Naval Academy, he isn't afraid of anything. ."-WashingtOn Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents a Word for a full week
 Display advertisements. per inch. one insertion, sI.sO each subsequent inser- tion. 20 cents; one week. sS.2O; one month. Slo; one year. $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

The public debt of Russia. according to the latest official figures, is approx imatelys4 ,ooO. 100000 (7,6S1, ,SS5, ,94S rubles). This sum is larger by 615,oOO,oOo rubles than the total debt one years ago. In addition to the public debt there is said to be a very large private indebt- edness. Of the entire debt, public and private, owed in foreign countries, the great bulk is held in France and Gel - many. .',
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

.'No, limit doesn't work at all now" ''You don't say? Why, when l knew him he seemed to be young man With considerable push.
 "All that's changed now Hes a young man with considerable Dull, and doesn't have to work. "-Philadel- phia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
ONE OF THE RUSSIAN DANGERS.

William T. Stead, who recently re- turned to England from Russia, thinks that European and especially English Jtg -s&. subjects are likely to be in serious per-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

Texas, in the fiscal years of 1906 and 1907. will pay ssOO,OOO to confederate veterans for persons, besides expending sl54.5ss for the support of the confed- crate home.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

This is good country. "Every sun set during the past five years has regis tered an increase of $s.4OO,OOO in the value of the farns in this country, " according to the statement of Secretary wilson Of the Department of Agricul- ture, in his annual report.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

The central department of the French customs is organizing a unique mu- scum, but one of high utility in it's own sphere. The curiosities displayed sare neither rare nor ancient, but are simply the various devices of more than usual irsgepalry which have enabled the smuggler to defeat the law. Some of these devices sre marvels of perverted intelligence. The exhibition is larger than it is pleasant to contemplate, con- sidering that every exhibit represents a successful fraud-how many times re- peated probably the oldest heads in the customs department could hardly say with any confidence. But 1t 2is hoped that the display will give to thS train ing of future generations of customs officers a completeness which, was wanting in that of their predecesssrs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

During Queen victoria's reign 1t was the custom at the Chapel Royal, St. James, to open a bottle of the price, less old Madeira from the Buckingham Palace cellars in the vestry after ser- vice whenever an outsider came to preach. A few years ago the present bishop Of London preached in the chap el. and bottle was opened as usual He had no sooner tasted the wine than he remarked that 1t was the rankest bad sherry that could possibly be bought The sub-deacon had the af- fair investigated, and found that for years the verger had been substituting for the royal Madeira bottle of the cheapest sherry procurable, and selling the bottles obtained fro mthe Queens cellar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

Nathan straus of New York, who has given liberally both time and money to secure pure food, and especially pure milk for infants was the chief cause of consumption in adults. He support ed his statement by quoting scientific { authority and added that prominent batcher had told him that out of a herd of III cows bought for the New York market. 27 were found to have diseased lungs and that 10 per cent. of all cows bought for slaughter in that market were infected with the disease.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

The Sultan es Turkey is not suppos- cd to understand any language but his own, and therefore all official ques- lions must be laid before him by an in- terpreter. This person usually thun- ders his najesty's questions at the for eigner. but cringes and sbivers with awe while listening to his royal mas ter. The contrast Of manner thus shown borders on the ludicrous. At the conclusion of such interviews the sul- ton usually rises from his throne and says quietly, either in the visitors lan- guage or in French: "Now that our business is concluded, you will come into my study and have coffee''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07
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NEW HAVEN. CONN.
The oasis., 1905-08-05
Death Of James N. Brent.

Very many in Sonora and Ari- zona will regret exceedingly to learn of the death of MT. James H. Brens, one of the pioneer mining men of the west, which occurred at the Casita mine, in the Sahuaripa district of Sonora. on the 18th ut. The cause of Mir. Brent's demise was heart disease, and the fatal at- tack was only two hours duration.
 During some months he had com- plained of attacks of pleurisy, but
 as they were never severe no atten- ton was given. Now it is consid- cred that they were premonitorv symptoms of the disease which finally felled him instead of the pleurisy he supposed. He was buried at the mine.
 In January Mir. and Mrs. Brent went out to the Casita. mine in the ownership of which he had been interested many years, and he had been devoting the time since to preparation for resump- tion of operations. and he had just got everything in readiness to begin turning out bullion. The Casita was many years very rich producer, and the deceased had high hopes of bringing the prop erty to the front once more.
 Mrs. Brent who was with her husband at the mine, came out from the Sahuaripa district via Moctezuma and Douglas. was at Nogales Monday evening, en route to Hermosillo, and from her TIE OAsTs gathered these particulars.
 Deceased was about sixty years of age, native Of Georgia and Confederate veteran. After the civil war he engaged in cotton planting and freighting in Texas. In the early '7Os he came to Ari- zona and engaged in freightiLg and mining. Twenty five wears ago he went into Sonora, where he engaged 2 while in freighting and later in mining, being widely re- cognized as one of the most suc- cessful and thorough mining men m the state. He was at Trinidad ] and Mulatos in the early days of those two camps, and while there, twenty years ago, he acquired the Casita and other valuable prop critics in the Sahuaripa district. In his demi-e there has passed away a rare spirit-one of the few re- maining links connecting the south West with pioneer days.