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for the price of his steamship ticket. A
larger game than the pearls had gone
wrong and Isaacs had taken advantage of
his need.
On the other hand. the police had long
suspected him of being a receiver of stolen
goods. He had not known that when he
had shown the innocent appearing gentle
man who had asked to see the pearls the
handsome string, that he would send for
the police Already three of the gems had
been set in rings. Only that fact had saved
lsaacs when the prospect of making rich
sale had tempted him to bring forth the
remainder from the safe before they had
been removed from their settings. What
was to hinder the caller from appealing
again to the police?
Il have none more he muttered, greed
lily eyeing the bills. Il gave them to you
just they We're pledged to me-
Nonsense" insisted Overton, you
bought the whole string. I'll bet you've
got them in the safe now" He sought to
brush behind the counter.
1saacs gave a feeble cry. His clerk seized
a so bill from the till and ruled out
on the street returning almost instantly
with policeman. Whatever Isaacs suffered
from the police in general he saw to it that
the man on beat was all right
The officer led Overton to the police sta
ton, where he left so cash bail to answer
a charge of disorderly conduct in court in
the morning.
In nowise daunted by the first setback,
Overton pushed visiting in turn other
paWrshops until the hand of fate led him
to place where held forth another ISaacs,
brother to the first.
One of the pearls had already been sent
to the brother for disposal. and as Overton
entered the salesman was just about to
conclude the sale of the pin to a woman.
At a glance Overton saw that if this were
not the same it was very like the ones in
his pocket, and without preamble he seized
the woman's hand as she about to
reach for her purchase.
II must have that PIN he cried, flourish
ing the bills.
tits mine" shr,eked the woman, who
saw a bargain slipping away from her.
1T has just been sold,' declared the clerk
to Overton.
Madam implored Overton, would you
separate two loving hearts? Purchase that
pin and ! can never be married"
1t was not to be wondered that the aston
ished shopper came to the conclusion that
Oyerton was a maniac. She tossed the
agreed price to the clerk, and with howl
fed from the store, Overton in hot pursuit.
The knob to the street door was old and
uncertain. With the perversity of its kind
it stuck fast just long enough to enable
the woman to board passing car.
There was hanson standing on the cor
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Sailor Nearly Buried Alive.
From South Africa.

FROM oOutn africa.
sailor named Kelly, who was formerly
In the British navy, has arrived at East
London by the steamer Cluny Castle.
While at Port Louis Nautilus few
weeks since he contracted fever and fell
into state of coma. The catalepsy was so
prolonged that he was pronounced dead and
removed to the mortuary. When the coolie
attendants came to prepare his body for
burial they handled him roughly, and his
head came in contact with the stone slab
on which he was laid. The shock broke the
spell and reused him to life again.
The coolies all fed and Kelly had to dis
incumber himself of his grave clothes. He
subsequently took passage by the Cluny
Castle for England. He is being treated
by the ships surgeon, and will enter the
hospital on arrival in London. He states
that he was fully conscious of all that hap
pened when In state of catalepsy at
Mauritius, but that he was unable to move
or speak.
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Nor overton ran to this and jumped in.
'Follow. that car" he called through the
trap. Twenty dollars If you do not lose
The long. keen lash fell upon the horses
back. and a moment later they were DASH
ing in pursuit.
With the advantage of not having to stop
for passengers, the flying cab finally caugnt
up with the car, just as 1t stopped 10 lel
some one off Overton could see the Wo-
man in the car, and with thrill reahzeo
that his chase was almost over.
But his triumph was short lived ouriy
form doomed in front of the morse. ne
heard something said about fast driving,
and. tossing the $40 bill to the driver, leap
ed to the street and started In pursuit VI
the car on foot. 49,.
The conductor was just ABOUT 10 si We, , nd
signal to go ahead, but Overton leaped
aboard Just as the car got under way.
Neither he nor the conductor nouceo ina.
the policeman had abandoned the orlVef' III
the belief that the fleeing occupant was
bigger game. .
Byron chung to the rail for moment 70
regain his breath and entered the car. ne
woman CHANGED to look up, ana WIN one
startled yell made for the front oooi "No
fell off the platform.
She rolled in the sush for moment
then. regaining her feet, started down a
side street, fear lending wings 10 her iee''
The policeman connected the woman ao-
runt denarture with OvertOnS sudden &C
ton. decided that this woman must be MS
accomplice and, abandoning the ca,
started after her the sound of his footballs
and his inarticulate shouts convincing the
woman that Overton was pursuing her.
Meanwhile Overton had bowled over the
| passengers standing in the aisle between
himself and the front door, and ne mao
leaped from the car not half a block be-
yond.
The policeman was stout and scant OF
breath; Overton was winded by excitement,
and the woman led the chase for several
blocks until. half fainting, she fell to the
ground so suddenly that the policeman,
who had almost caught up with her, trlpped
over the PROSTATE figure and slid several
feet along the wet pavement upon his race.
! When he rose to his feet his personal APP
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and had heard little more. The idea upper
most in his mind was that here was the
means for prosecuting his search
In the smoking room he found Jimmy
Orcutt who readily wrote him check for
five hundred dollars, which he cashed at the
desk and, filled with new enthusiasm,
Overton began his guest of the pearls.
The pawnshop where they had recovered
the necklace naturally suggested itself as
the first place to inquire, and thither he
bent his steps.
The proprietor regarded him with small
favor he burst into the place. AS stolen
property the pearls had been a forfeit
Say" breathlessly exclaimed Overflow
I've come for the rest of those pearls
There is more declared the uncle
Sourlv
Yes, there are, three more declared
Byron, waving his bills under the other S
covetous eyes. TN pay full price for
them
For a moment the old man wavered. At
a fair price the three pearls would pay back
what he had given Frisco Red for the
entire string. Red had been sore pressed
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Our Lapsing Humanity.

From Animals Friend.
We In England are rather prone to pride
ourselves on our superior humaneness, COM
pared with other nations. 1t is true that
we were the first people to pass a law for
the protection of animals, but the foreigner
has quickly followed our lead and it is
hardly a question now which has made
the best use of his opportunities In Swift
zerland and Bavaria one sees much more
consideration for the horse there than Is
the case in England. In Norway and
Sweden we are told that there is a similar
consideration for the domestic animals.
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Pointed Paragraphs.

From the Chicago News.
In unions and onions there is strength.
Although paper money is soft it is often
hard to get
Keep one eye on your enemies and two
eyes on your friends
Only inexperienced men laugh at seasick-
ness and lovesickness.
Sometimes when a woman cuts q man
She looks daggers at him.
A poor mans wife never cries over sem
timental novels She hasn't time.
When 1t comes to enjoying a vacation a
man isn't in it with schoolboy.
piano cover with an unpckable lock s
well up on the list of long-felt wants
Don't care II people do accuse you of
having the big head; there may be nothing
in 1t.
The lucky man puts his best foot forward
instead of depending on the left hind foot
of Q rabbit.
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Increase in Price Of Mules.

In 1s49 the father of Jacob Maddox OF
McCrecie township, who has grown gray
in the business Of buying mule colts, in
vested In a bunch Of colts that cost SIS
round, and they were sold in the following
spring at just about one year old for an
average of s35 In 1857 lot Of colts pur-
chased cost an average of SIS; in 1896 the
price paid was Sal; in 1897 the bunch aver
aged SAT; in 1898 they cost $50; in 1899
averaged $52, and in 1904 cost $102 apiece.
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It Fills Uncle Sans Pocketbook.

This product brings in several hundred
million dollars year in the way Of gross
receipts 1t is one of the most profitable
crops to the government. 1t is classed as
a luxury and heavily taxed Altogether
the treasury gets more than s65.000,000 a
year out Of such duties and taxes; and
last year the revenue tax from tobacco
alone amounted to more than $44, 0O0, 600.
The value of the crop is enormous. AS
far back as 1890, according to an estimate
which have, our tobacco products brought
in more money than the printing and pub
fishing trades The people were then pay
ing as much for tobacco as they were for
boots and shoes and twice as much as they
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state and every locality could be improved
in the same way?"
1T could" was the reply. 1.-The planters
might use imported seed or they might take
the best plants of their own fields and by
baSging them produced the best seed pos
sible from their own crops for the next
year. BY doing this year after year they
would soon greatly improve the crop in
quantity and quality"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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An Awful Theft.
From the Atlanta Journal.

Some time ago at Gainesville, City Sex
ton T. A. Loggins secured number of feft
hind feet of rabbits killed in the graveyard
between u and o'clock on the dark of the
moon and cloudy night. He hid them.
They are now missing. Some of the town
boys are suspected. And the little negroes
are In a state of apprehension and con-
sternation. No telling when somebody may
cross their breasts in the dark with one of
the hoodooed rabbit foots.
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Belied Appearances.

From the Boston Courier 4.
'Zimmerman's wife is an unusually large
woman, isn't she?"
apparently, but if his representations
are true, she's mighty small, all the same"
"Small?"
That's what 1 said. Why, man, he tells
me she goes through his cash pocket nearly
every night
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Editorial Pride.
From the Jewell Republican.

From the Jewell Republican
There were three wedding notices In our
issue of last week, and the bride wasn't
''the accomplished daughter" and the
groom didn't wear the conventional black
in any of them. 1t is our guess that no
other paper in the state ever made a rec
ord like that.
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No Fun in It Then.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Grayce-"After the minister stated his
position on flirting in church, the attend
ance among the young people dropped to
almost nothing
Gladys-'He objected to it. eh?'
Grayce-"No; he said he rather approved
of it."
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and that seed has in IL all the hereditary
germs of the plant from which II comes.
The seeds grow in pods OF when there may
be a hundred on a single seed plant, each
pod containing from 5000 to 1900 seeds.
Growing Seeds in Bags.
The agricultural scientists have found
that IL they take one of the long -leaved
plants and incose ii in a bag its seed viii
produce a long-Ieaved plant with all its
characteristics. If they take full, round
leaf of the kind needed for wrappers its
seed, if so treated. Will produce the same
type: and this is true not only as TO the
shape of the leaf. but as to the flavor or
the tobacco. In other words, whatever the
character of the tobacco plant, they can
reproduce ii under similar circumstances
by merely keeping its seed true to type.
They can go to the field and select the ideal
plant and grow the next year whole field
of such plants. instead OF the ragged, poor
plants found in the rest of the field
They have discovered that they can not
only better the shape of the leaf, but also
increase the number of leaves on the stalk.
Some tobacco stalks may have only five
leaves on them, whereas others may have
forty The seed from the forty-leaved
stalks properly treated, will produce plants
havlnx many leaves. often many
forty, and thus greatly increase the size OF
the crop If they take seeds from plants
having but few suckers the children OF
those plantS-dnd each seed, you must re-
member. may have a half million children
will be comparatively free from suckers: so
you see they can by seed alone materially
change the tobacco crop of the United
States.
A Talk With a Tobacco Expert
During my talk with Mr. Shamel / asked
him whether the tobacco growers in Diff
ferent parts of the United States were bet
tering their crops in this way. He replied:
Not yet. The discovery has only been
made within a comparatively few months,
and it is practically unknown to the gen-
eral public. We have only had one seasons
work at 1t, but have gone far enough
to believe that we shall succeed In greatly
improving the size of our tobacco crop and
its value. We expect to develop new va
rieties by crossing the best plants from diff
ferent localities, and to produce tobacco
which will have all the hardness of our
native tobacco and at the same time the
flavor and quality of the imported strain.
Where are our fancy tobaccos now
grown
There is much experimenting going on
in Connecticut and Florida" said Mr..
Shamel. In Florida they are raising to-
bacco under Stats and are succeeding very
well. Texas is growing filler tobacco
from Cuban seed and promises to raise a
product equal to the Cuban article Tho
crop there will be improved by selecting
the ideal plants in the fields as seed plants
and ncosing them in bags as l have de-
Scribed."
Il should think the tobacco crop Of every
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Coward.
From Life.

Jaspar-"Gayboy has solved the problem
of life. He has married rich widow"
Jumpuppe-"Pshaw that is not solving It.
That's simply like looking at the end of the
book for the answer"
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Sure.
From Life.

If you've any doubts about racing machines
Old Tennyson's lines you'll recall;
It's better, you know, to have mangled and
killed
Than to never have motored at all.
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Overton's Sleuthing.

SARGENT
81 4
IS IS Us
* Is
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In order to show what the crop means
to the United States, let me give you
few figures. We had last year more than
a million acres under cultivation and we
raised in round numbers S16,000,oO0 pounds.
or more than ten pounds for every man,
woman and child in the country. This to-
bacco came from a dozen different states,
audit was by no means confined to the
south. Here are the localities which pro-
duced it [ give round numbers only:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-11
NelEhhorlx Hot RIncultn
Richmond Times-Dlspatch.

Rlcnmond IlmeS- -DtSpatch.
 The Times-D Dispatch has not assumed that Southorners are a separate race. They have great adaptabillty, and can accommodate themselves to changed circumstances and new environment, if necessity demands, But they are a pe- ideas of chivalry, manners, hospitality and association, and 1t is hard for them to change They are a homogeneous people: They have not had to deal been no appreciable injection of for elgn blood. Their tastes are congenial and they find their pleasure in uncon- oo1rtesies si'Gs and fsTors Which VI ha'nasns do nHt embarrass. They recognize that there Is grace of receiving as well as a grace of giving, and a plate of hot biscuits sent from one neighbor to an- other does not arouse suspicious or re- sentiment. The recipient understands the motive behind the attention, and enjoys the hot biscuits all the more because of the attendant aroma of neighborly kindness and good will h. deed, when a Southern housewife has an extraordinary meal 1t is her rule her neighbor, and this to her is one of the greatest pleasures of the feast. We Southerners think that these little at tentions from one to another cOnsCi- life, and, accustomed to them as we are, life would be stale and flat and deprived of it's greatest charm without them. If we go to Rome we try to do as Rome does, and if the sending of a plate of hot biscuits to a neighbor in Rome is regarded as a breach of Ro- man etiquette, in politeness we con- form to the rule. But we cannot say that w@ like it. We prefer the South ern way.
 SouthernArs have been transplanted to New York, and many of them have made money and become prominent in business circles, in social circles and m politics. But with all such there must be longing for the sweet simplicity and hospitality. good cheer and broth erly Kindness of the Sunny South, and with all their, successes we cannot but believe that they would be happier in their own land of hot biscuits and warm hearts. Even our negroes who go North have @ longing for their former environment, and sooner or la.- CT most of them drift back to their home. It Is a sweet land in which to live, for we esteem the sweet ameni- ties above prim conventionalism, and from indulging a generous impulse. Hence we again remark that the place for Southerners is the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-11

He says the shoeting was the result of whiskey and as he did not intend to kill the negro he ought to have been given a life sentence.
 Of course Cater knows he is going straight to Heaven and can almost hear the rumble of the chariot wheels. He recently discovered some writing in blood on his clothing but thus far has been unable to interpret it.
 Cater has borne rather q bad char acter and has less sympathy, perhaps. among both white and black. than any one who has ever gone to the gallows in Perry. Notwithstanding his 45. calibre missed its mark whether aimed at white man against whom he had a grievance and killed one of his own color. The officers have placed the following order written by Cater him. self for his burial outfit. which ia unique to say the least:
 Mir. Jon Scott if you pleas to get me for my burial a white duck suit coat size 3s, pants 34. waist S3. get [ pair of white gloves, a white shirt size 13 1-2 and collar 1s. Pare of black socks for want thsp. J. N. Cater is all right to die"
 The scaffold is ready, the rope test ed and Cater will plunge into eterni- ty tomorrow at noon. unless something unforeseen occurs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-11
SCHNEIDER ON BOND.
Preliminary Trial of the City Marshal
 of CuIIman.

Cullman, Feb. 10.-(special. )--City Marshal Bill Schneider was given &. preliminary hearing this morning be- fore Justice of the Peace A. A. Grif- filth on the charge of assault with in- tent to murder on the person of John Mauder the man he shot last Saturday in Frank Arndts saloon. George H. Parker appeared for Schneider and Brown and Hipp appeared for the prosecution with Solicitor S. J. Griffin. After examining Dr. A. P. Martin, the physician attending Mauder, Schneider was released on bond of S1,000 to appear before the grand jury. This bond was promptly made and Mir. Schneider released. Mauder is doing very we'll but is suffering from pneu- monia growing out of the wound In the breast inflicted by the pistol shot.
 A new lodge of the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows was instituted at Berlin in this County last Wednesday night by District Deputy Grand Mas ter J. D. Searcy. This makes eigh- teen lodges of Odd Fellows in the County with prospects for two more In the near future. Berlin Lodge No. 354 starts off under very favorable auspices with fifteen charter members and quite a number of applicants for membership. The officers of the lodge 1TS' S' D. A1u6hBy Ns SsI W. Ets Parish. V. G.; J. S. stripling. secre- tary: T. A. Walton, Treasurer: and the appointive officers are as follows; W. c. Bryce, Warden; W. NJ. Mum. Conductor; Tonic Wise. R. s. N. G.: c. P. Copeland, L.. s. N. O.; J. c. Baskin, R. s. v. G.; L. M. Pierce. L.. S. v. G.; J. M. Holcomb, o. O.; I. s. Schultz. I. G.; W. F. Helton, R. S. B.; J. c. Baskin, L. S. 8.
 At the regular meeting of the Gull man Lodge last night it was decided to arrange for a reunion of all Odd Fellows in CulIman County in Cullmap next summer. There are about 1000 Odd Fellows in the County represented in the eighteen lodges and a reunion would get most of them together The committee was appointed last night to arrange for such a re- union: J. D. Searcy, Ira Childs. R. I. Burke, John Allsood, William Brooks and H. A. Morley. Grand Master A. E. Meadows of Birmingham, and Grand Fl. c. Weaver of Huntsville. have already notified the CullmaD Lodge that they would take pleasure In attending euch a reunion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-11
NEW SOUTHERN BANKS.
Many National Institutions Recently
 OfkamiSed,

Many National Institutions Recently
 ofkanised.
 Washington, Fob. 10.-(speciaI.)- Since the passage of the act allowing national banks to organize with capi- tai stock of less than $50, ,000 and down to $25,oo0, there has been a remarkable increase both in the number of banks and in the aggregate of money Invest ed in the South and especially the Southwest. Since the date of the pas- sage of the act. March 4, 1900, includ- ing Oklahoma and Indian Territory as of the South. that part of the country has organized 7S5 national banks. with a total capital stock of &37. .461, 900. Of these 523 were banks with capital stock under $50,000. Texas leads with 260 banks organized with capital stock ritory, to be the State of Oklahoma, or- ganized 194 banks in less than the five years, with capital stock of $5,9S5, 900. North Carolina is lowest in the list in the amount of capital stock, while South Carolina is at the bottom in the number of banks organized.
 The bulletin of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that Alab7 ana or ganIzed nineteen national banks. with capital less than $50,o0O. and twenty one with capital of $5000o and over; total capital. $2.097,s00. Arkansas has a total of twenty banks organized with total capital of $1,35000o. Mis- sissippi, fifteen banks, with capital stock of $1,455,0O0: Tennessee. eigh- teen banks, with capital stock of SS05,- nn0