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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

St. Petersburg. Oct. 24.-(3:46 a. m.)-- The railroad strike situation has now entered on a highly serious phase.
 The movement is spreading rapidly to Ill the railroads of the empire and ap- parentiy cannot be stopped, while in many cities 1t is communicating itself to mill and factory employees. The general strike in all branches of labor which the Socialists planned for the end sof this year is seemingly bursting forth of It's own volition.
 Minister of Finance Kokovsoff yes- terday received a telegram from the governing committee of the Moscow Bourse, which said that continuation of the strike for a week longer would force every factory in the Moscow re- zion to shut down owing to lack Of coaI whether or not the factory hands took part in the strike.
 The same condition of paralysis threatens all the trade and industry of Russia unless the strike Is speedily settled. The inhabitants of Moscow are already feeling effects of the strike in the increased prices of food and they are even confronted by famine.
 As the demands of the men are pure Iy political, it seems impossible to sat lsfy them by economic concessions.
 Spoke fo Eeaf Ears.
 Prince Hilkoff. Minister of Railroads, has vainly appealed to the Moscow strikers on the basis of his own expe- riences in England and the United States, but he spoke to deaf ears. The men talked of nothing but their polit- icai rights. which, of course, the Prince was powerless to grant.
 The situation is apparently at a deadlock from which egress can only be had by the surrender of one side or perhaps the proclamation of martial law on the railroads.
 A fio3d of dispatches yesterday from simbirsk. Saratoff, vyazma, Poltava, Nixhni, Novgorod, Kharkoff, Smolensk. Kieff. Elizabethgrad. Kazan and other railroad centers all over Russia, an nounced the complete tying np of all the transportation.
 The last link that bound Moscow. the commercial center of the empire, with the outer world, was broken yesterday afternoon when the men on the Nich- oIat road, connecting Moscow with St. Petersburg, went on strike. The en-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
Memorial to GIudntone.

Earl Spencer is to preside at the un- yelling in London of the National me- morial of the late Mr. Gladstone on Oct. 2l, and the ceremony will be perform ed in the presence of a representative assemblage of politicians and civic no tables Invitations are being sent out. but the program has not yet been set tied. Statues of the deceased states man already exist in Westminster Ah- hey and the central hall of the House of Parliament, the former having been erected at public expense and the latter by private subscription. This National memorial. however. is not to be a statue only, but an important monu- mental group. The bronze statue itself represents Mir. Gladstone in the pictur- esque robes of Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and Is said to be an impressive rendering of a fine personality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

The first thing that catches the eye of the visitor to the office of William Travers Jerome. in the Criminal Court building. Is a plain cardboard sign, says an exchange. It says: "Open game" The sign is a souvenir of one of the District Attorneys raids on rambling houses. The little piece of cardboard was posted for a number of years over a poker table in well known gambling house and it inform ed the patrons of the house that he who had the price to buy a stack could sit In if there was a vacant sAnH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

the country and enter an atmosphere that is intensely American become as- simulated and changed with remarka- ble speed On the contrary those that remain in New York and huddle into the Italian quarter, the Jewish quarter, or the Hungarian quarter, flocking only with their kind remain virtually for eigners, sometimes through several generations
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
How a Porcupinc Fights.

Los Angeles Times
 dog never attacks a porcupine but once. If he survives. the lesson Is enough to make him wise in the way of porcupines ever after,
 Ordinarily and when at ease. the quiils and hoary hair of the porcupine lie flat upon his back, but when anger ed he bristles up. and every part of him. even to his toes and the tip of his nose, is protected by the armament of sharp quills His plan of fighting Is wholly on .he defensive, and so de- .atructive is his veritable bayonet fine 10 the attacking foe that even the bear. the panther and the lynx will not mo- lest hipl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
Jet Black woodchuck.

FaIIs Creek Herald.
 A woodchuck black as a crow and fat as woodchucks ever are, is owned by Thomas Burkett, who lives in the Crawford addition. and Is a curiosity worth mentioning, as black wood chucks are not seen every day.
 About three years ago Mir. Burkett caught the animal when 1t was in its infancy. and took 1t home Since then 1t has grown to be as much of a pet as a kitten and is far less trouble.
 Living the life of a pet woodchuck does not prevent him from fulfilling his part as weather prophet. but he takes his winter nap, as others of his race, only to awaken on the second day of February to see if his shadow Is visible. If 1t is. back he goes to sleep again for the next six weeks Last winter cozy box was put in the cellar for him and there he slept.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
x..vxxerw Win support Jerome.

New York. Oct 2S.-Members of the New York bar, irrespective of politics in national and State affairs. have formed an organization favoring the reelection of William Travers Jerome as district attorney of New York Coun- ty. In the organization are the only four men now living who have held the presidency of the bar association.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
Rats as Wire Walkers.

London Daily Mail.
 graceful rxhibitlon of wire walk ing was given by number of rats at Sligo yesterday afternoon.
 An excise officer who was cycling by the town hall happened to look up and saw an enormous rat making its way along an overhead electric wire.
 He pointed it out to the town hall officials and hey watched nearly IbO of the rats pass along until they were hidden from sight by a lofty flour mill
 The rats used their tails as the pro- fessional walker on the lofty wire uses his balancing pole, and although they were watched for more than 200 yards there were no casualties.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
nscCnrdr,n Man McClintock.

New York. Oct 2S.-When the legis- lative insurance inqury Is assumed to- morrow the first witness will probably be Emory McClintock. the Mutuals ac- tuary. President McCurdy referred to Mir McClintock all technical questions he himself did not care to discuss James McKeen will conduct the direct examination of this witness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
Mule Raced with Train.

Indianapolis Star.
 three mile race between a freight train and a yearling mule was wit messed here today. ending In a dead heat.
 The mule broke from its pasture just as the freight approached. and speed ing along the right of way kept by the side of the train for a distance of three miles.
 In the race the mule cleared three cattle guards and did not stop until it had reached the bridge over the Mus catatuck. where 1t left the right of way The freight was running not less than thirty miles an hour. and the trafnmen kept watch on the mule from the caboose as it made it's record break ing run.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

That Is why the porcupine knows no fear. and why he comes abruptly into camp and calmly investigates things. He has yet to learn that man and his unerring rifle are far more deadly than even barbed and poisonous ouills.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
AIN I'S

Years ago the stage coach was the best means of passenger transportation by land, the talow dip the best method of lighting, White Lead and Oil Hand Mixed Paint was the best Paint
 Do you consider the Stage Coach equal to the modern Steam and Trolley cars3 White Lead and Oil Hand Mixed Paint is as much behind the modem times as is the Stage Coach and the Talow Dip.
 Our Semipaste paint IS to White Lead and Oil Hand Mixed Paint, what the Steam Car is to the Stage Coach White Lead and Oil will readily chalk, rub of and dscolor. and the property must soon again be painted at additional cost Scmi-paste will not chalk and rub off, ltpossessess great covering capacity and durability and brilliant gloss finish
 Since this fact is easily proven why throw away money on old theonesa Sem-paste is cheaper and up-to-date White Lead and Oil Hand Mixed Paint is aniquated and costly.
 Payne, Wi||ingham & Wood,
 Store Phone o76. Factory l540.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
WEATHER FORECAST.

Washington. Oct. 23.-For Alabama Partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday; rain at night OF Wednesday in north and central portions. Fair in south, light to fresh south winds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
RAILROAD STRIKE MAY
 BRING ABOUT FAMINE
Every Factory in Moscow Region and Other Portions of Russia Will Be Compelled to Shut Down
 Through Lack Of Coal

gineers shut off steam in their engines and Prince Hilkoff had great difficulty in obtaining crew for the special train, which brought him to St. Peters burg at midnight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
La.t Line May be Broken.

Last Line May be Broken.
 St. Petersburg has one line to the frontier and the employees of this line held a meeting last night to decide whether or not they should participate in the srike movement
 Brigadier General T. H. Berry and Captain Sidney A. Cloman. of the United States Army, who have been with the Russian army Tn Manchuria, left late at night for Vienna, cn what was perhaps the last train out of St. Petersburg Railroad trains are now running only in the border regions of the Empire.
 Pathetic scenes are reported from Moscow. where thousands of the poorer inhabitants of the adjoining provinces have been waiting for four days for trains to take them home. They are camping out near the railway stations and in the streets and many of them are without money and the necessities of life.
 Moscow Completely Isolated. -,t
 Moscow. Oct. 23-Trains on the Waindau Railroad have ceased running and Moscow Is now completely isolated from the rest of the Empire. .r
 There is only enough meat in the city of Moscow to supply the den1and for a week All commercial correspondence has to be conducted by telegraph.
 Prince Hilkoff, in receiving the mem- bers of deputation send by the strik CTS. talked to them famjiiariy. He said that while in England and the United States he worked sixteen hours daily in order to increase his salary, and pointed the superiority of the produc- tion of foreign Morkmen in quantity and quality at ,fe same wages received by Russian wSrkmen.
 The deputation entered protes, against any man being compelled tc work sixteen hours a day, because suct long hours precluded the opportunity for educational improvement
 Prince Hilkoff, in reply, said that even with sixteen hours day 1t was possible to devote at leat one hour tc reading and to other forms of improve. ment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
JANA WKER JOT.S

The Mcpherson Opinion refuses to
print cards of thanks or resolutions Of
respect, even if paid for it. Seems to
be sort of strong Opinion.
Fred Vandegrift enumerates Preston
B. Plumb, James NJ. Harvey Thomas
A. Osborn, Walter I. Simons, Theodore
C. Sears, John Martin, Edward Still
lings, William A. Phillips, John 2. ST.
John, Joseph p. Root, Edwin Tucker,
Isaac e. Eaton, Wilson Shannon, 5. j.
Crawford, p. P. Elder and d. P. Lowe
as the entries in the senatorial race
of 1877. and then says all are dead ex-
cept Simons, Crawford Martin, Tucker
and Elder. Why this listing John p
St. John among the dead? Now don
let some chump jump up and say it's
because st. John is dead politically
anyway.
Corn story by the Smith County
Pioneer: Gust as a starter we want
to spin a big corn story and by so
doing We hope to gain some idea of
how big the stories of neighboring
papers are to be. The following is
true and we have the corn to back up
our statement if anybody insists on
being shown. The corn in question
was brought into our office Tuesday
by S. S. Emery, who said it was a
sample of the crop grown on the L. G..
Sage place, in Washington township
by VIII Wilson. The two ears weighed
~ pounds and each ear was exactly
ured, at the butt. a trifie over eight
inches in circumference Jess Mere
dith started to husk the crop but was
made so lame the first day by throw
ing the heavy ears in. the wagon that
he had to quit work. The yield is SO
bushels an acre by weight"
The old dog has no home. He has
but few friends. He is hungry, NANCY,
and has feas. Boys and men throw
rocks at him. While the women try to
scald him. He is sorry looking wreck,
but all through his uneventful life he
has been a civil dog. Now that he has
gotten old and homeless children will
not play with him, While other dogs
pass by on the other side of the street,
not liking his company. But he is a
proud dog. When he comes down the
street he holds 10 his head and looks
dignified. He knows that luck is against
him, but he never loses his dignity. Old
and worn, broken and torn, he goes
through life attending to his own af-
fairs, letting other peoples dogs alone.
trying to get an honest living, while all
the time behaving himself as self-re-
speeding dogs should. We admire this
old outcast because he seems. to be
glad he is alive and because he wishes
no harm to anyone.-Bent Murdoch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
T,IfE People VTCTORToUs.

The general results of yesterdays
elections could scarcely have been bet
ter. Wherever there was a straight Is
sue of graft and antf-graft, the people
scored a victory for public honesty.
The success of Jerome in New York,
the overturning of the machine in Phil
adelphia and Pennsylvania, the rebuke
to Cox and Herriek in Ohio are all vic
tories for the people
No more fortunate thing could have
happened to the Republican party than
the defeat of its candidates in Ohio and
Pennsylvania on whom a fight was
made. In those states the Republican
leaders had refused to come up to the
Roosevelt standard of official honesty.
They insisted on retaining the old cor
rupt methods of the Quay gang in
Pennsylvania, and the commercial ma
chine ideas that have been in vogue in
Ohio. The people have indicated that
they viii not stand for either.
On the other hand the results do not
indicate that the people have turned
against Republicanism or in favor Of
Democracy. If Roosevelt had been a
candidate on the Republican ticket
yesterday he would have carried both
/ Ohio and Pennsylvania by larger ma
Jorities than even last year. Where
the issues were strictly partisan the
Republicans gained. as in Massachus-
etts for instance. That state, which
elected a Democrat governor last year
by $4,000, this year elected Curtis P.
Guild, Republican, by about the same
figure.
The results in New York, Ohio and
pennsylvania yesterday were not mar
tisan, but were victories of the people
over the erafters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
PENNSYLVANIA REDEFyDsEp

1nere IS nope for Kansas. The Quay
gang in Pennsylvania has been in CON
troll of the state treasury for twenty
five years and has left fearful trail
Of tragedy and graft behind it. but it
was overturned yesterday by a MAORI
ty of approximately 100000.
The situation in Pennsylvania was
similar to the present situation in KAN
sas, except that it was of longer stand
ing. It has been the practice of the
state treasurer, elected by the Quay
gang, to deposit the states money in
certain favored banks, which then
loaned it to friends of the treasurer
and members of the gang. The failure
of the Enterprise bank in Allegheny
recently emphasized the corruption
which exists and it doubtless had its
influence on yesterdays election.
Last year President Roosevelt car
ried Pennsylvania by $4,000. Today
he would probably receive a far larger
majority than even that. yet the Re
publican candidate for state treasurer
was defeated yesterday by 10000
majority.
In Philadelphia the grafters were
overturned and the reform forces won
by a tremendous plurality. The graft
ers were in control of the Republican
machine organization, but their defeat
does not necessarily mean a RepubH-
can partisan defeat, but simply re-
buke to dishonesty in municipal gov
ernroer1f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
the rear deck of the sausalito ferry

the rear deck of the sausalito ferry
boat.
1.-THE other night dreams about
hats" continued the astute patron Of
the sport of kings. 81 does a sort Of
somnambu stunt all night in nat
store. All sees and dreams about all
night is hats=hats of all kinds and
colors-just nothing but hats say 1
just nearly breaks my neck getting
across the bay to the poolrooms and
there in the first race I finds horse
called HatIess. [ guess that was pref
ty bad, huh? Wei puts up my whole
wad on Hatless at 20 to I. Pretty soon
the operator sings out: They're off
Hatless in the lead. At the quarter
Hatless in the lead by two lengths 1
begins to figure what I will do with
$500. Hat1ess is gaining at the half
and is three lengths to the good at the
head stretch. Then the operator calls
out: sSombrero wons. Dollar Mark
second, Blue Eyes third. Then goes
out and kicks myself. The bunch is all
right but I picks out the wrong hat. -
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Some men are born to rule and some
get married.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that love is a blind.
It is better to hitch your wagon to a
star than 60 the tair of a sky-rocket.
Many q woman wishes she were a
man, and many q man wishes she was.
Most girls are so shallow because
they realize that beauty is only skin
deep.
The dancing man may be graceful, but
it doesn't follow that all others are dis
graceful.
It's a foolish farmer who hesitates to
pIow the soil because he hates to soil the
pillow.
Nervous prostration sometimes results
from too much energy expended in
lodging work.
The fellow who follows the races finds
that it's case OF going broke or COM
ing home that way.
Mrs. Riseandshine-stA daughter is
preparing to make her debut Mrs. MAJ
aprop-s Mercy mel thought she was
too heighty- toighty to make any Of her
own things"
How do we know the world Is
round ~ asked the school teacher. BE
cause we know it isn't square prompt
" replied the boy who had been absorb
ing knowledge about graft ana Doodle.
The incubator knows its tricks,
Yet It can learn lot
It can't be beat for Matching chicks.
But cannot hatch q pot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

Out in a northwestern Kansas town
recently the city council granted a
company of farmers q franchise to run
telephone line into the town and estab-
fish an exchange. Think of that A
corporation made Ut of farmers. secur-
ing 9. municipal franchisei
This is by no means uncommon. In a
good many Kansas towns. where the
surrounding farmers have organized
telephone companies OF their own,
franchises have been granted the farm
ers' corporations to put in exchanges.
How different this condition is from
ten years agoI Then the farmers were
crying, Down with the corporationst'
Away with the oppressors!" Tt was as
much as a mans political life was
worth for him to hold stock in any
kind Of a corporation.
Do you remember those Farmers Al
lance parades of the early nineties2
The men who rode in those times
wagons then are the plutocrats of the
west today and are riding in rubber
tired buggies. They are the men who
are organizing telephone companies
and other kinds of corporations today.
Things are some different from what
they were ten years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's sometimes q deal of difference
one.
Watch for a tragedy on the Crawford
stage with suit case mystery IN IT, most
any time now.
Notwithstanding all the graft that has
been exposed, there still seems to be no
limit to the supply.
A London dispatch says that the EN-
peror of Japan is to be decorated with
the Order of the Garter. The Order OF
the Garter, you know, is a secret society
in which King Edward is the high mogul;
Several members of the British royal
family belong and twenty-five British no
blemen, but otherwise the only members
are foreign potentates who have had the
honorary degree conferred on them. IN
cidentaIly it might be remarked that En-
perOr Nicholas of Russia is one of these
honorary members. Emperor NutSuhlIO
is expected to ride the goat some time
next year. What the work consists OF
in this Garter lodge the State Journal
does not know, but it is expected that
Mutsuhito will have lively time when he
goes through. Practically all of the Eu-
ropean soVereigns will be in on the jon,
and the royal goat is said to be especial
~ trained for emperOrs. Possibly the
Elks and the ShFiners may be called on
for new ideas in order to put a little ex-
ira trimmin's on the work to be given
Mutsuhit0. Very likely Nick of Russia
will be allowed to do some things to Nut
sy that he couldn't do in Manchurla last
summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison G1obe.I
What a lot of time is wasted in
growing up!
1t will usually be found when any
woman is socially ambitious above all
else, that she is also divorced.
BY the time a German woman gets
a company dinner on the table, about
everything in the average cook book
is represented.
When you are working very hard
take some comfort in this: Those who
are idle don't seem to be having very
good time.
The man who spends lots of time
calling on the girls is not necessarily
looking for a wife: Perhaps he is only
window shopping.
Somehow a woman finds a lot Of
comfort in saying that she can't buy
a switch because she is never able to
match the shade of her hair
IF horses could talk they would
point with pride to one of their race
that outruns the automobiles. The old
white horse whose rider is Death.
There should be such a thing as
progress even in marrying: If a wo-
mans first husband was carpenter,
her second should be a contractor at
least.
It has been decided by the club
women that a tooth pick is not
aesthetic but even the club women do
not attempt to say how the teeth look
that need one.