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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

that years bring the phiiosophic mind.
 Along about 1880 you wouldn't have heard Theodore Roosevelt arguing Tor making football less brutal His ath- tude then and for many years after was expressed in his memorable man date to Mike" Donovan in the course of d friendly scrap. Send 'em in. pro- lessor want my moneys worth.
 Anyway, President of the United states who eanA change the map or the worid--and whd will probably pc pres ident of Harvard some day, ought 10 ball should be played In his country.
 High Water Mark Baseball.
 Baseball doesn't seem to need any amendment. If the crowds that have watched the New York and Philadei- phia games between the champion league teams, and the many times greater crowds who haven't been able to get there but have talked of noth- ing else, meant anything, they mean that baseball is everything that it ought to be and nothing that 1t ought not to be.
 Nothing can ever supplant 1t in American regard. It typifies the peo- ple, and when the inter-league series began the insurance business had to take a back seat in popular interest and the most brutal of Guidensuppish murders only caused a momentary shudder instead of week of thrills. Even politics was forcsd to give up space in the papers to Elake room for the battle between Matthewson and the Chippewa" Such games as those leave no room for presidential amend ment. Race suicide may be stopped by the executive decree, free moral agen- cy generally may be suspended, but baseball can't be "Theodorized."
 Rollin Knox.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

credible. Tn one case that was reported 70 me an ingenious extortioner bribed one of the Emperor's Ministers to bestow c decorar tion upon . well-to-do corean in north- ern province Taking the decoration iE his hand. he went to the prospective victim of the plot and said to him.
 T am delighted to be the bearer of good news and a reward of merit. Ills Maicsty the Emperor has gractously deignsd fU bs- stow upon you the decoration of the second elssa of the Plum Blossom, and to ssnd t to you by my unworthy handss'lf.
 Then, taking the giittering star out Of hss pocket and delivering it to the astonishea corsan. he added:
 stowal of this high honor will be s5.9oe~
 .sBut." obaected the corean. in disnlays
 q have done nothing to deserve surh | decoration. and l can't afford to pas for t.
 Five thousand dollars would cover all the
 .sThen you scorn the imperial gift and in- suit His Majesty by refusing to accent It. do youf" cried the extortioner. in pretend- ed anger wen. see about thati' And. going to the Governor of the province. hss bribsd the latter to throw the recaicitrant corenn into prison on charge or less ma5este. There he lay until he was torced at last to spend all that he had In ppr- chasing the second-ciass cross of the insx periai Order of the Plum sBlossom--a decor ration that was nominalIy bestowed upon him as q mark of distinction and q reward of nterIt.
 The activities and operationsaof the ex- istins Corean Government may briefly be summed up as follows: It takes from the people. directly and indirectly. everything that they earn over and above bnrn sub sistence, and gives them in return prac- ticaiiy nothing. It affords no adequate pro- tection to life property; it provides nc facilities: 1t builds no roads: fl does not improve It's harbors: it does not light it's coasts: 1t nays no attention what ever to street cleaning or sanitatfon. takes no measures to prevent or check epidemics; 1t does hot attempt to foster National trade or industry: it encourages the lowest forms of primitive superstitions and 1t corrupts and demoraiizes It's subjects by setting them examnles of untruthfui- ness, dishonesty. treachery. cruelty and e cynical brutality in dealing with huuian rights that Is almost without q parallel in modern times. Nsi.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
NEW YORK DOINGS
WINS SURE TO MAKE NATIONALITY
 CAMPAIGN INTERESTING.
A Chance for Hearst te show What He Can Do--High City Rents Make . Suburhan Boon-New
 York Evfdences of
 Prosperity.

New York, oct. 20-(Special Cores pondence) There is really lot that is picturesque in the Republican choice of William M. Wins to run against Mo Clcilan for the Mayoralty. The fact that Wins was in the nature of a straw to a drowning and disheartened War wick makes 1t even more interesting. Wins is a man with keener sense of humor than most. and the serious inter- ests of life, with him, have passed into such a materially different sphere. Of late years, that he can afford to go into this race as sort of a diversion, re- visitation of old scenes.
 Some people and some newspapers have spoken of Ivfhs as "forlorn hope" Nobody knows better than Iv- 'ins that he isn't even that. The chances are that if he had thought there was a ghost of a chance of being elected he would have declined the nomination as positively as did Hughes. My own im- pression is that MT. Twins is in this thing for the fun he can get out of 1t. Ii is pretty certain that he will get fun out of 1t. Wins is vivisectionist by nature and from of old he has consid- cred Tammany subject for operations of this nature. His candidacy will lend a spice to the campaign that 1t would otherwise have lacked.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
GRAFT IN coREA.
-s Hermit Kingdom Is Paradise for the Crooked Ones.

Hermit Kingdom Is . Paradise Tor the s Crooked Ones.
 The indefatigabie George Kennan has found one place on the face of the gione Philadelphia grafters. But he had to go to Corea to do it. His article IS m Ihs Outlook and is in connection with the Joo now on Japan'sn hands by virtue or the. Mikado's agrestnent to effecp Tero,ms Through the Emperor of coreas'" Says Mir
 Tine Emperor of corea regards his little country as something created for his spe- cfai deiectation. and all the people as fiocks and herds intended for his slauRhter. he is as incapable of grasping the meaning of the age he lives in as q t0-year-old young ster would bs of taking Port Arthur. He is In daily "communicatfon with spirits py means of spirit mediums. He has burned men with hot irons. imprisoned them in cangues. broken their bones with levers. or torn them asundar by driving apart four bullocks harnsssed to then ankles and wrists. He Is not only bad. but weak and cowardiy. Fear causes him to turn night Into day. He never ventures outside the walled and strongly guarded inciosure of the palace. and spends most of his time in a room eight or ten feet square. which is situated in the midst Of other rooms. and which is so close and damp that. in spite of It's fiocr-covering of oiled paper. it often has to be dried out bx artificial heat. even in the suitry dog days of mid- summer. In this hot. damp cupDy hVfe the Emperor. surrounded by his attendants. feels comparatively safe. and there .he vir- tualiy lives from one years end te an other.
 There are thirteen provincial Governors in corea These pay from 10000 to 4o.o0o corean dollars for their places. and then not only recoup themselves, but annass fortunes by robbinG thesdefsnseiess people whom they are sent to govern As there are no independent law courts and as every Governor or Prefect is Judge. as well as an administrator. a corean who IS robbed must seek redress from the robber If he be q man of resoiute character and some means he may carry his grievance to the supreme Court in Seoul. but as that court Is component part of the palace ring which appointed the robber, tte victim of the injustice is merely appeai- ing from brfEand No. to brikand No. l. and may regard himself as fortunate if No. 1 does not take away from him all that No. 2 has left.
 The methods of robbery in the prcv- inces and prefectures are illegal and exces- siye taxation. 'squeezes'' on all official business, Imprisonment on trumped-up charges, seizure of property without war rant or excuse of any kind. and bare-faced sxtortion on pretexts that are often so fam tastic and preposterous as to be almost in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

Finally the professor said severely; young man, we have been walking together for half an hour. and you have said nothing which was not commonplace and stupid. True" answered the boy, his wrath pass ing his modesty "and you indorsed every word I said" Then they shook hands and word went home from the professor that the boy was all risht and that they were great friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
Told of President Angel.

Before President Angel of the University f Michigan reached his present eminence e young hopeful just entering college was recommended to his notice. He took a walk with the lad, who several times en- deavored to open a conversation, speaking of the lovely weather, the pleasant walk. etc, the professor answering merely "fes'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

If Mir. Hearst can be induced by the zeal and naive enthusiasm of the so- cialists, who are the soul Of the muni- cipal ownership movement, to make frank ana uneluivocal campaign on the only question he seems to stand for. he will do his city and the country ti- chief service of his career. The coun- try will watch the campaign with In. tefest.---Chicag3 Evening Post.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
High City Rents Boom Suburbs.

Nothing Is more astonishing, nothing is causing more uneasiness just now. han the almost incredible increase in ts in New York. Figures recently 2, shed have shown the increase In
 of subsistence to be far and
 N~r than the increase in sal-
 meats and groceries are cheap when contrasted to the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
Is Roosevelt Tanning Downr

It Is said that MT. RooseveIts in- ervention in behalf of modified foot aaII has already began to bear fruit Tn the work of the big teams whose coachers and father confessors" he summoned to Washington to lunch and talk the matter over.
 It Is not to be supposed that the Presidents feeling on this subject is in any wise parental, or that the fact of his eldest having been bunged up in an unsuccessful attempt to make the Harvard team has anything to do with the ease.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
A show Down for Hearst.

The Hearst canvass. for all it Is pooh- poohed by newspapers other than his own. will be watched with more in terest than any of late years. It is perhaps a mistake to suppose that all the Hearst strength will be found among the laboring people. As mat ter of fact there Is in New York. only in a smaller degree, Hearst senti- ment among the more cultured class. similar to that which prevails in the South and West. a sentiment which the conservative Democratic leaders were thoroughly frightened at just before the St. Louis Convention.
 While there can be small question as to what the book makers will do in making up the odds in this fight. it is not at all unlikely that the Hearst vote may surprise some people. It will be Illuminating any way; for now that Hearst is running on his own ticket and platform, unencumbered or unaid- ed by any regular party endorsement. the outcome will furnish pretty fair line on what a ten year crusade against capital, by a capitalist, in the capital istic center of the Nation, has been able to accomplish.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
Does Your Back Ache?
It's Your KidneysI


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The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
To Save Yosemite.

President Roosevelt has discovered
a suspicious bill which had made its
way successfully through both the
House and the Senate, and has taken
the necessary measures to prevent its
further progress. 1t was bill taking
off part of the Yosemite National Park
ostensibly to be added to the forest
reservation but, according to well-in
formed persons. really to be added to
the property of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway.
When it first became known that the
bill was to be vetoed the reason as
signed was that grove of fine big Sc.
quota trees was threatened by Its pass
sage and it was decided that the pres,
ervation of the trees was of para
mount Importance.
The bill takes from the Yosemite
park and adds to the forest reserve
some lands containing valuable oil
and mining properties. Private inter
ests cannot get any land out of the park
but they can get it out of the forest
reserve. and that was the purpose OF
the bill. 1t slipped through the House
without debate and through the Senate
with hardly any notice. Mr.. Perkins
signed it as acting president in the
absence of Mr.. Frye, and it went to the
Senate.
What excited Mr.. Roosevelts suspi
cion was the discovery that the lands
to be turned into the forest reserve
had already been decided by commits
sion appointed by himself to be part
of the park. The President investi
gated and found that railroad men
and others had been lobbying for
the bill. He discovered its real pur.
pose: sent for member of the Cali
fornia delegation. examined him about
it, and announced his purpose of veto
ing the measure.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
Does Not Teach Polyeamy.

Washington. Jan. 25.-During the ex-
animation of Senator Smoot before the
Senate committee Chairman Burrows
asked if Senator Smoot taught and
preached his faith He replied that he
did. occasionally.
DO you teach polygamy?"
Il do not
DO you preach against polygamy or
unlawful cohabitation?"
Il never have. | don't know why
should. 1t is not tenet of the faith.
1t has been suspended. and think II
would not be proper for me to bring
1t up"
The chairman inquired concerning
the uncertainty of the Interpretation
of the manifesto as to whether it ap-
piled to both plural marriages and
polygamous cohabitation. He said he
understood that the revelation com.
manding the PRONUNCIATION of the mani
festo against polygamy was the result
OF pleadings " President Woodruff
for the command of God concerning
his wishes on that subject
On redirect examination Senator
Smoot said he believes the church
rule requires church officials to obtain
leave of absence to engage In bust
ness, politics or anything else which
might take them away from their
church work, and is not confined to
politics.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
Boom for Barela.

Denver, Jan. 25.-The Republican in
its news column says: There may be
a vacancy in the Senate from Las An
imas to fill one of these days. Senator
Cashmere Barela, the perpetual sena-
tor. may have to give up the seat he
has held since territorial days, and
move from Colorado. To fill the breech
in New Mexico may fall 10 Senator
Barela. A letter received Yesterday
from John Davis, one of the leading
Republicans of the territory, gave the
first cue. The Republicans are divided
over candidate to recommend to the
president for governor of New Mexico.
and the name of the Colorado senator
has been mentioned as compromise
candidate.
Senator Barela was born in New
Mexico and has heavy interests there.
He is partner in the famous Mora
grant.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
Armenian Massacres.

Washington, Jan. 23.-The State De-
partment has made public portions of
a report recently made by Mr.. Thomas
Norton, American consul at Harput,
Turkey, on the results of a tour of in
vestigation made by him under instruc
tions from the department through the
vilayets of Bitlis and Van, which were
the sceIses during several months last
summer of repeated attacks upon and
masacT es of Armenian Christians by
the B irds and other Moslem popula-
ton. These disturbances, attended by
Tightful atrocities, and savage cruelty,
resulted in death, suffering and des-
titutioL. No Americans were known
to have been injured.
DR.. Norton says that Mush is prac-
tically an armed camp, where Arme-
mans are in constant terror He esti-
mates that in the Sassun district 5000
lives were lost in last summers massa-
ere, including 2,771 children.
One salient fact, says the consul, is
that the benevolence of the citizens of
the United States has accomplished
more than the efforts of other nations
combined in advancing the moral and
intellectual welfare of the Armenians
and other classes in the interior prov
inces.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
Revolt in the Caucasus.

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 23.-Captain Or
Ian Cullen, representative of the I'm
perial Marine Association of Toxic. re-
ceived cablegram from Constantin-
ople to-day to the effect that 1.500 Cir
cassians had revolted and killed the
Russian guard numbering 200 at Slav-
mi, in the Caucasus, and that Russians
and Turks in large numbers were
crossing the frontier into the Caucasus
TO spread revolution in Tifiis province.
Tifiis City is practically in a state of
siege, he said and communication is
had only by dispatch bearers.
The Armenian Hunchigist Society at
Constantinople has issued proclama-
ton calling on all Armenians to assist
the revolutionists and numbers of Ar
menians continue to cross the frontier
to assist the Kurds, Armenians and
Circassians beleaguering Tiflis.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
Rider hannard.

Rider Haggard, the author of The
Brethren and a marvellous list of AZ
rican tales, is much more than a writer
OF stories. though the world has known
him for the last dozen years only as
such Back in the seventies he was a
big man in South Africa-master of
the High Court of the Transvaal and
the man who, with Colonel Brooke,
hoisted the British flag over the South
African Republic. He was a mighty
hunter in his South African days and
many of the shooting adventures so
'excitingly set out in his novels are
written directly from actual happen
ings. 1t was in the eighties and nine
ties that he began to produce his fam
GUS novels. In 1901 he took up his in
vestigation of the condition of agri-
culture in England and is now noted
for his tireless work in the best inter
,ests of the British farmer.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
IMPORTANT LAND SALES.
Several Valuable Tracts Change Hands
In Weld County.

Denver, Jan. 25-A Greeley dispatch
says: Bruce G. Eaton has sold 1920
acres of land to the Windsor Sugar
Company for $4,000, the sugar com
pany giving a check as payment in full
The deal also includes an undivided
one-half right in the B. II. Eaton ditch
nine and one-half shares of stock in the
Whitney ditch, ten shares of stock in
the Lake Supply Ditch Company and
one-siXth interest in the Windsor lake
and reservoir.
The land is the most fertile in the
vicinity of Windsor and lies one-half
mile south of the Windsor sugar fac
tory. 1t will be used for the growing
of beet crops and as dumping
ground for waste water from the fac
tory. The waste water will be used
in irrigation, in which it loses its of.
fensive odor and becomes purified
through seepage before it reaches the
river. Until last season the water
which washes the beets was thought
to be unfit for irrigation but expert
ments have proven that 1t has fertiliz-
ing power, probably due to the lime,
carbonate and nitrogen contained in 1t.
Field Superintendent Timothy of the
factory states that there have already
DeeH contracted Z,ZOO acres or beetS
for the Eaton factory, 2,275 for the
Windsor, 3,G92 for the Greeley factory,
and that farmers in the vicinity of
Sterling will raise 1000 acres of beets
for the Eaton factory. Altogether,
there will be $4,000 acres of beets for
the three factories next season.
Mayor H. c. Watson to-day sold, for
Mary X. Peasley of Denver, l60 acres
Nf lDt -ix ~
Lone Tree district, to Alden Brothers,
for S10,400. The land is under culti-
walton. but without improvements.
Asa Sterling, the wealthiest man in
Weld county, to-day purchased from
the Union Pacific company 1880 acres
of land for less than 50 an acre. Mr.
Sterling has several thousand acres of
land in the vicinity which he has de-
veloped from raw prairie into some of
the most productive tracts in northern
Colorado.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
CH1NA's DENIAL
HAS NOT BROKEN NEUTRALITY
Charges Russia With Infringing on
Neutral Territory.-chinese Ban
dts in the Russian Army.

Washington, Jan. 25.-China's an.
swer to the American governments
communication calling attention to the
RUSSIAN charges that the Chinese
were violating neutrality, was deliv-
cred to Secretary Hay to-day by the
Chinese minister.
Regarding the charge that the Chin
ese bandits were enlisted in the Jap
anese army, the Chinese government
calls attention to the fact that they
were enlisted first by the Russians as
frontier guards and fought against the
japanese army. If it is true, as al
legged, that they enlisted in the Japan
ese army that is a matter for the bel
ngerents. In the opinion of the Chin
ese government the subjects of a neu-
tral power have the right as private
citizens to enlist in a foreign army.
This is an established fact in the law
OF nations, for which China cannot be
held responsible. Whenever these
bandits entered Chinese neutral zone
every effort was made for their arrest
and punishment, and in most cases
they have been arrested.
We find no Japanese officers in our
northern army at all. We do find in
the government school at Paotingpu,
several Japanese translators. All of
them, however, had been engaged be-
fore the war, and after hostilities
broke out they were required to give
their word of honor to have nothing to
do with the conflict. These are on
the same footing as Russians and the
other foreigners in educational institu-
tions throughout the empire and in our
maritime customs houses. China fur
ther regards this as matter OF inter
nal administration of which no other
government has cause to complain"
The Maotao islands are said to have
been used by the Japanese as a base
for their navy. The Chinese govern
ment for the past year has stationed
rwift cruiser Haiku to watch these
Islands, and the local prefect sum-
moned there the gunboat Haipu to pa
troll those waters. No sign of any
landing of Japanese has been reported
to the government
The Chinese government considers
that Russia has violated neutrality in
a number of instances. Bridges have
been built by the Russians west of the
Lao river and Russian troops have en-
camped on the west side of the river
which is supposed to mark the bound
airy line of the neutral zone. In many
places in the neutral zone the Rus
slams have forced the sale of provis-
ions. The Chinese have made many ar
rests of Russians smuggling ammuni
ton, arms and other contraband arti-
cles.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
La Toilette Chosen.

Madison, Wis, Jan. Ex-Governor
Robert M. La Toilette was chosen in
the Republican caucus last night for
United States senator to succeed Jo-
seph V. Quarles. The governor re-
ceived sixty-five votes out of 1O7 on
the informal ballot, which upon motion
was made formal. Upon a motion to
make the nomination unanimous, a
few members rose to their feet and
voted against it.
Senator Quarles received twenty-six
votes, the other sixteen being divided
between three candidates.