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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
CHICAGO DIvoRCEs NO JOKE.
Mere Divorced Women There than fin
 Any Other American City.

New York Sun.
 The number of arrests for abandon rnent brought hy wives against hus- bands is larger In Chicago than in any other city of the United States. and larger in proportion to population than in any other city. too. Recogni- tion of this has furnished a theme for many persons in recent conventions and conferences to call attention to the probable causes of such conditions.
 But it is not only in the number of such assertions that Chicago (which has had many titles bestowed upon it. but not "the city of homes" among then) takes precedence among Ameri- can cities. It has, too the largest number of divorced women. their mum Der by the last census having been ? 4S6. In New York there were only 2060 of whom 660 were in the city of Brooklyn.
 San Francisco had l.e10 and PhIla- delnhia 1.020. these figures only in- cludinE. of course. divorced women who had not remarried. St. Louis had nearly 1000 and Baltimore and Kan- sas City, the former n staid and the latter a strenuous. town. the same number. though the population of Bal timore is three times as large as that of Kansas City.
 Boston. a~city of s9o 900. had 500: Indiansnolis. city of l7s.00O only. had 300. Washington and New Orleans. with about the same population. had an equal number. Denver. with less than one-half the population of De- troit, had the same number--500 sn each case The number of divorced women in American cities does not in- clude many women of1ciaily described as "conjugal condition unknown. g Many of these are. or have been. d. vorced. In this Chicago stands at the head of American cities. New York fol- lowing, and after New York. St. Louis
 The American city which has the Bayonne, N. J.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
MASS MEETING AT GENEVA.
 -1- Pea River and Gulf ismllroad Project Hm Discussed.

A1DCs801Ws Geneva, Dec. 3.-(Specia1. )--An en- 1 thusiastic meeting of. citizens was held few days ago to discuss the projected Pea River and Gulf Rail- road. Many representative business men were present. and 1t was agreed that Geneva wanted tns road, and would offer every indueement to get and authorized to offer the projectors a liberal proposition. The road will pass through a fine territory, if. it comes by Geneva. s- -et.'
 At the annual mass meeting held Friday night for the purpose of nomi- hating municipal tfcket for next year, the following ticket was nomi- mated: For mayor. D. 0. Vaughan; councilmen, w. k. Kenan, W. W. Barr nett, J. A. Jenkins, J. W. Draughon. b. W. Gilchrist. Messrs. Vaughan, Ken an and Gilchrist at present hold the offices for which they have heen nom, mated. The nominees arc highly re- spected and progressive citizens. Res olutions commenting the administra- tion of the present council were urlan- imously adopte. W. o. MuIkey was chairman and E. F. Ellsberry secretary of the meeting.
 The water works is in operation, and the electric light plant is being rapidly installed.
 A large stone building for the Gene va Mercantile Company, a new corpor- ation. made up of Geneva's best busi- ness men. is under way and will be completed by the first of January. It will be one the incest business houses in this section.
 J. J. Johnson's Geneva's leading mer- chant, is erecting a handsome resi-. dence.
 The Lyceum committee and the lit- erary society of the public school have both recently brought excellent attrac- tions here.
 The foundation for Geneva's school building, to cost over 2f2,0O0, is being laid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
THE RHODE ISLANDERS.
COnRested Cities and Factory TOwns t.ss E DvSfndIing Farm Towns.
Providence Journal.

Providence JournaI.
 The hunter who plods through weary miles of tangled catbrier in Western Rhode Island or the fisherman who casts his fly in the quiet pools Of that green wilderness might be par doned for not believing that ours is the most densely populated State of the Union. Yet such Is the fact. Several censuses have revealed it and the State enumeration just completed gives it new force. For there are fifty thou sand more people in Rhode Island to- day than there were five years ago, and in the interval since 1900 we have not expanded our borders. Our landed area remanis at t,0S5 square miles, and on each square mile of this Athenian tract we have assembled no fewer than 442 human beings. In 1890 the figures of the density were SIS; in. 1895, 355; in 1900. 3s5. By the time the next Federal census is taken there will be on the average more than five hundred men, women and children to the square mile in the restricted area between the Blackstone and Napatree.
 In West Greenwich there are less than ten persons to the square mile, and year by year and decade by de- cade even that scant number seems fat ed to decrease. In Providence, on the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
BISHOP BECKWITH
SPOKE YESTERDAY AT ST. JOHNS
 AND THE HOLY COMFORTER.
His Subjects Were Confirmation and the Christian Miaistry--Met Men
 Of e'arish In The After


 Bishop Beckwith preached to a large congregation at the Church oi the Holy Comforter yesterday morning ana confirmed class of thirteen His subject was confirmation.
 Last night at St. Johns church he preached to another large congrega- ton and confirmed a class of eight His subject was the Christian Minis try.
 Both sermons were able and logical easily demonstrating that Bishop Beckwith is one of the great preachers of this country.
 In the afternoon at o'clock the bishop met number of the men of the two parishes at the Church of the Holy Comforter and made them an address. on the subject of missionary work. There will be another meeting in the same interest next Sunday after noon at St. Johns chapel. The pur- pose Is to stir up greater interest in local work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
TO PUT DOWN THE LID
COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS vsxED
 QUEsTlON TONIGHT.
The Tcague Ordinance l. en the Table Ready to Gone Un-0Sner sus
 day CIOsinw Matters.

E
 The City Council of Montgomery VII again come together tonignt. so .r. a.suues !: .'putting down the lid in Montgomery. a vexed question which has been pe' fore the Council in one form or anotnei for the past six months. It is the iiv. est propesition with which the present Council has had to do and, an tnter. esting floor discussion is looked TOT when tho aldermen get together to- night.
 In the first place the original Teague ordinance is before the Council. This ordinance provides for divorce ne- tween the saloons and the restaurants of Montgomery, a remedy, which is agreed | by all will put an end to tho too ID. eral Sundays. that have characterized Montgomery. Tho Teague ordinance 1 last Council, to he vetoed by Acting
 Mayor C. P. Mcintyre.
 | Under the administration of its auth | or, Mayor W. Nj 'Teague. 1t was revitai- ized and reintroduced. Now 1t Is on the l table of the Council, ready to come up
 at any time and start flow of ora- 1 tory.
 The lid has been slammed down In | Montgomery and the eohoes of it's slam ming have been heard in every recent Council meeting and in every Monday afternoons Recorders court. few weeks ago Montgomery was probably the most liberal city. so far as the ob- servance of the Sabbath went, in all Alabama. For the past three Sundays it has been closed as tight as prohibi- ton town. To accomplish this Mayor Teague looked up an old city ordinance which had fallen into innocuous desue- tude and applied Is to existing evils. One amendment to this ordinance which Is a rather rigid Sunday closing ordt- nance has already been adopted and another is even now pending before the Council. The pending amendment affects the business of bakeries and ice deai- CTS
 But the principal attack of those for reform who are opposing conditions on Sunday which have existed in Mont gomery on Sunday for many years is Teague ordinance. Tho principal pro- vision in this ordinance is deciara- tion of divorce between restaurants and saloons. More than two thirds Of the down town saloons have restau- rants in the rear. A restaurant keeper is entitled to keep his doors open for business on Sunday as we'll as on any other day. Tho advantage which sa- loon keeper having a restaurant who might wish to do a surreptitious Sunday business, would have over his competi- tor may be easily seon Those who are fighting earnestly to have all saloons closed at all hours on Sunday are be- hind the Teague ordinance.
 Tn the meanwhile. the old time Sun- day closing ordinance revived has put down the lid" in Montgomery for the past three Sundays and new order for tho time being has been ushered in on Sunday.
 sunday closing at the Council meet ing tonight and which Is the regular semi- monthly meeting of the Council will undoubtedly be the subject of some warm discussion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
What Judge Parker Said.
Hartford Times.

Hartford Ilnes'
 will the insurance investigators in New York summon Postmaster Gener- al Cortelyou to tell them how he got the big contributions from the 'big three" in New York a year ago?
 Probably not. for the President might regard such action by the com mittee as in the nature of 'lese ma . ieste." Nobody has forgotten how savageIy Judge Parker was denounced a year ago for saying pretty much the same thing that we find in the edi- torial columns of that earnest Repub- lican newspaper, the New York Press, today, viz:
 ."senator P1att told how he got the poodle from the Big ThreeS and ex- plained that it was given for the pur- nose of protecting the insurance com panies from hostile legislation, mean ing all legislation calculated to give the policy holders Q square deal. Mir. Corteiyou. however. in his single Pres. idential campaign collected from the Big Three much larger sun than 1EIr. Plstt was able to get from them in many years. There is much more req son why MT. Cortelyou should make an explanation about the boodle he collected than there WAS for the Piatt explanation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04

A telegram was received yesterday by relatives in Montgomery eonveyinR the sad news Of the death of Robert D. Boyle in Birmingham.
 He was only thirty years of age. in the prime of young manhood. ad- mired and respected by large circle of friends. both in Montgomery and in Birmingham. His sudden death was a shock to all and hard to realize. He was the only son of the late Bartholomew Boyle. who resided in this city many years ago and he was a cousin of Miss Mary E. Boyle, prin- cipal of the sayre Street School He is survived by his mother. Mrs. Dr. Wynn. of Texas. and by two sisters, Mrs. Mary L. w Everett. of Birmingham. and Mrs. Peter Boyle, of Iowa.
 The remains win be inferred in this city at an hour yet to be named.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
ELKs OF DEMoPoLrs.
Exercises in Memory ef Deceased Mena-
 bcrs of Order.

Demopoiis. Dec. S.--(speciai. )---The Demopolis Lodge, No. sSt, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, held memorial services today at the home in the Mayer building. The solemn service was in memory of de- parted members. r. F. Howze and s. H. Newhouse.
 The members marched in and after the opening ritualistic ceremonies. followed music, The Vacant Chair. This was followed by the ode, The Great Ruler of the Universe" after which prayer wassoffsred by the chap lain, Hon. Lewis EkA4aNers z
 After selected music, Miss Fannie Rernbert recited ''Thanatopsis." A solo by Mrs A. A. Pfeiffer. was fol- lowed by an oration by William F.. Herbert. After a solo by William J. Thaman, the closing exercises wound up the service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
RIVER STEAMER SINKS.
Those on Board Succeed i'm Making
 ThelP Eacame

Pittsburg. Dec. s.--The steamer Twi- light sank at Lock No. ? in the Mo- nongahala River today. The crew of twelve men escaped with their lives by hurrying to the roof Of the boat there being taken of in skins.
 The account is rare in the annals of Tiver men. With tow of six loaded flats, the Twilight was in the harbor. Lock No. 2 is new and the guide wall for boats had not been erected and the current of the rising power of the Twilfghts wheel and the steamer and tow were swung toward the da nbefore she could be fastened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
SUCCESSFUL YEARS WORK.
Rev. Mir. shOfner of Brevston VIII Hay Good RemOrt tn MaAe

Brewton, Dec. 3.--(SpecIal )--After a most successful years work, Rev. J. NJ. Shofner. pastor of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South. of Brewton, will leave tomorrow for Dothan to attend the annual conference. which meets in that city on the 9th. Mir. Shofner has made a large number of friends in Brewton during his stay here. and his congregation would be pleased to have him returned to them for another year.
 Several delegates attended the State meeting of the Cotton Growers Asso- ciation in Montgomery this week, and are very enthusiastic over the result of the coming together of the farmers from the various sections. It is learn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
The EBa of Tt.

First Miilionaire-Do vou regret your tainted money?
 second Millionaire--Nope; the sec eMd seneration will lose the taint and the third will lose the rnoney.--New
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04

Oar competitors are not pleased with the Travellers New Life Policy. Our vatrOns are @siee-iighted." Phone I67.
 R. J. We'll & Co. If
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04

BTJoU FAMILY THEATRE.
 Click Stock Co. T0ni@hs, "A Doctors Crime" 10, 2as 90 cents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
RAILROAD NOTES.

The scottsboro Age Says: The Ten. neseee River Association will send theii car through here the second week in December It wili start from Stevenson running from that plnrs through Jack son county to Evergreen, Ala. Tho corn collected Is for the Baptist orphanaae situated in Evergreen This car will pass through Montgomery.
 The Southern Railway has made sev. erai changes recently in Alabama, J. ", Hunter. commercial agent Of the South ern railway at Selma, and very popular in railroad circles. has been promoted to division freight agent of the road with headquarters at Selma. R. D. Pe- gram. chief clerk to T. c. Powell. fifth vice. president of the Southern. has been promoted to the position of division freight agent at Nashville. Tenn.
 N. E. Wright, contracting agent of the Norfolk and Western at Atlanta, has accepted position as chief clerk in the general freight offices of the Central of Georgia at Savannah. l. S. Hoffman, commercial agent Of the Norfolk and Western at Columbia. s. C., succeeds Mir Wright.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN-On watches. diamonds. 1ewelrv guns and pistols: don't worry your 10 us: our business "a strictly confidential
 Montgomery Lozn Co. 0
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
COMMITTEE TO MEET.
Conductors wiiI Assemble ThIs Mern-
 ing im Pensacola.

The annual meeting of the adjusting committee of the Order of Railway Conductors on the Louisville and Nashville system will be held in Pensa- cola. Fla. this morning. Last night Conductor J. M Mccall, chairman of the adjusting committee of the local division, left for Pensacola. where he will be the Montgomery representative. Conductor Henry Allen. who has one of the fast passenger runs between Mont gomery and Nashville. is chairman of the adjusting committee for the Louis-
 vilie and Nashville system. This meet
 ing is only held every two years and the work for the past two years will have to be gone over this week. so that it is probable that the meeting will last for four or five days. a full set Of officers being elected during that time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04

number of delegates to the Grand Lodge of Masons which meets here this week came in yesterday and last night and the union station was lively place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
TOR RT REsiDaA CEs-

FOR RENT--pwelings. We are offering a few choice dwellings for the balance of rent al year. Nj. M. Sweat & O.. 10 South
 Perry Street. f4-st
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
nenth of Rohert E, BovIe.

Union Ticket Agent $. J. Suratt is ii at his home on South Court Street
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
IRON sAEKA.

CHROME and Pateen Steel kScrew-door Bank Safes; fire and burglar proof safes bought. sold and exchanged: all kinds and makes phone 129 tt ViCTOS MANGANESE and Chrome Steel Screw Door uk Safes and s-tes of A3 kinds. bought sold and exchanged. Ellis
 & Howard. 24 g. Broad Street Atlanta Ga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
PERSONAL

MORPHINE, opium. laudanum. cocain. habit; myself cured, will inform you oi harmless permanent home cure Mrs E3ald
 win. Box 12i2. Chicago f-lt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-04
-
 LOST.

LoST-Near Hendricks Mill. one dark bay horse mule. with bridie and halter on. Ftnd- CT will please return to A. Gerson & Son MontEomery, Ala.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09
\ STEAMING FREEZE UP.

In the habeas corpus petition which
Col. j. c. L. Harris has addressed to
Judge Purnell in the hope of inducing
that subordinate Federal Judge to in
terfere with the power vested in the
State Supreme Court, there is a par
agraph which in one sentence altern-
ately speaks of the woodworking sys-
TEN Of Wake county as operated 70, 1.-The
torrid heat of a semi-tropicaf country"
and as being the Siberia Of North
Cardinal Whoa! and to the rescue
lest the Colonel float away like chip on
the torrent of his own eloquence and
be drowned in the flood of his own
scalding tears that are in danger Of
becoming icicles before they wet his
vest! If on no other ground the Pc
tition should be dismissed as running
to extremes. No man yet picked
from an iceberg! This is blow
ing hot and cold with a vengeance!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09

up the price as bait to keep them
growing tobacco, but in the run of half
dozen years the trust will take the
tobacco at such price as will leave little
or no profit to the farmers. That has
been the history of tobacco since the
trust was organized. The trust almost
controls the bright tobacco crop and
can nearly fix the price. The railroads,
in fixing freight rates, charge as much
az can be extorted without killing the
business. They do not wish to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg-but
they demand all the eggs except
enough to encourage continual laying.
The hen and the hens owner is al
lowed to cackle. The railroad gets
the gold The Tobacco Trust conducts
it's business on the same principle
manipulating the price of the tobacco
so that farmers whose lands are ex-
ceptionally adapted to growing tobacco
and who do all their own work can
get along fairly well, and giving to all
other farmers starvation prices except
i'm an occasional year when some COM
petition or need to encourage farmers
to grow a bigger crop puts the price
up temporarily. They have the power
OF a giant and they exercise it as a
grant, as every tobacco grower knows
to his sorrow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09
A HOWLING FARCE.

The testimoy taken in New York
has brought out the methods by
which the mutual companies elect di-
rectors and officials. The admins
tration" gets proxies, gives them to
their employees, who vote as the in
side officers direct, and then the meet
ing is held. Nobody has access to
cyholders except the officers and OF
course they always re-elect them
selves. In it's account of the in
vestigation, the New York Times has
the following:
"Officials of the New York Life, the
Mutual Life, the Mutual Reserve Life
the Mutual Benefit Life of New Jer-
sey, and the Metropolitan Life were
put on the stand and closely inferno
gated as to the manner in which the
elections in their companies are held
They all said that very few votes We're
cast in person at any OF the elec-
tons; that most of those which were
cast In person were cast by ofhclals
and employees of the companies, and
that the president of each of the com
panies always kept in his safe a suf-
ficient number of proxies to insure
the election of the ticket agreed upon
bv the board of directors.
1.-The character OF the elections IN
the mutual companies was so wei
brought out as to create no little
amusement, even the insurance men
being obliged to smile at some of the
revelations AS for the politicians
present, they freely remarked that
the mutual insurance company plan
of conducting elections surpassed any
thing they had ever known to be
done, even in primary election con-
tests
The great mutual companies in
New York. as we'll as the stock COM
panies, seem to be in the hands OF a
small crowd, who pay themselves big
salaries and organize subsidiary com
panies that pay the officers big money
which by all fair rights belongs tC
the polcv holders. mutual com
pany in theory is one that gives the
policy holders all that is made. but
as practised by the great New York
concerns it is a company that treats
its policy holders just like the big
stock companies and gives the fa1
things to the trust companies owned
bv the officers. The Mutual Life, fol
example, puts its money on deposit
in trust companies owned by its Off
Gals and gets only two per cent. The
trust companies lend out this money
and pay as high as twenty per cent
This makes the officers rich and the
policy holders pay excessive rates anc
get small dividends. All the giant com
panies are alike, but the pretense
that the big concerns are "mutual Is
bowling farce, that is if mutual
is supposed to embrace the policy
holders.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09
Mr., McCOWn Was Not Familiar With
Judge Clouds Ruling.
Statesville Landmark.

N
When the Hon. Nose McCown, of
Durham, struck Judge Ward Saturday
evening he was, he says, under the
impression that he was aSSaulting q
private citizen. Durham's eX-mayor Is
evidently badly-informed. While he is
cooling his heels in the common jail
of Durham county he should read a
little and post himself. Years ago,
when Judge Cloud was holding court
in North Carolina, it is related that on
one occasion a couple of performing
bears were brought out to do stunts
on the streets of the town where the
judge was presiding at court, where
upon the court adjourned and went
out to witness the performance. Among
the spectators was a citizen who was
inebriated and in staggering about he
stepped on Judge Clouds corns for
which His Honor reprOved him. The
inebriated citizen thereupon cursed the
judge and was promptly arrested and
punished for contempt of court. The
same defence was made for him that
Major Guthrie made for McCoWn-
that court not being in session the
offence was not contempt but simply
a small disturbance between citizens.
But Judge Cloud held that he was the
he was in person and any offence
against him was contempt of court. If
Mr. McCoWn had been familiar with
this ruling he would probably have
kept his hands off Judge Ward.