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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
THE MAYoRALTY.

The Advertiser published on yester- day morning card from Capt. A. C.. Forbes. ip which while announcing his candidacy he stated the line of policy he would follow if elected Mayor of this city.
 This morning the formal announce ment of MT. w. M. Teague will be found. It has been known for some time that he was considering whether or not he would become a candidate for Mayor. All doubt on that score is now removed.
 This Is going to be campaign of great interest and 1t is possible con siderable element of warmth may be injected before 1t closes. While those composing The Advertiser may have their individual views as to what may be their duty in the premises 1t Is not improper to state that from the pres cnt outlook The Advertiser will not take partisan stand for any candi- date. It has not been It's habit to do so in the past. and unless great emer- gency should require it does not pro- pose to do so in the future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
MRS. HAYES
Daughter of Jefferson Davis Scores
 Roosevelt.

Roosevelt.
 Mrs. Margaret H. Jefferson Davis Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, in a letter to The World of January 18th attacks President Roosevelt and de- fends her fathers memory. After quoting from the Presidents book, where he speaks of the coarse and brutal barbarian of the Southern character, she says:
 Yet he claims to be half a South erner."
 Where Roosevelt acuses her father of selling his vote for a bad measure in consideration of a higher political position, she says:
 AS a matter of fact, Mir Davis was very indifferent to political positions unlike Mir. Roosevelt; so much so that he never spent dollar on elections and asked no man for his vote. He was in Mississippi but once when elect ed. He fought in the flower of his manhood. when men battled in the field and never stood on a hill posing as a Rough Rider an actor in a desperate battle who was, 1t is said. not in the range of the enemy's f1re-as this fan tastic author of statesmen's history is said to have done at San Juan"
 Where Roosevelt accuses Davis of being repudiator. he says:
 This Is libel and a falsehood. MT. Davis was not in political life at the time the repudiation occurred, and he spent several hundred dollars having printed and circulated a pamphlet on the day preceding that on which he was to be nominated for Congress, an- nouncing that he was unalterably op- posed to repudiation, and this he did because the chairman of the nominat- mig body was a repudiator.
 T do not hesitate to say that do not think MT. Roosevelt has even tried to tell the truth, and I venture to say that the Life of Thomas H. Benton Vyil nnt anFViVa fha NPtffrhapa ne ha generation which will succeed Roose- welt" .-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
THE TYPEWRITER.
Unknown Until Thirty years Aeo,

New York World, January 19.
 Yesterday was the thirtieth anniver- sary of the typewriter girl" and 1t seems almost incredible that so re- gently as the Hayes Presidential inau- guration, fthe typewriter was almost unknown and that as late as Q dozen years ago England regarded the writ ing machine unkind1y.
 Today the typewriter is in every con- tinent and country. It is fitted for fifty languages and a thousand dialects. One of its best markets is in what was Cetewayo's Zululand when it was in- vented. It lightens the labors of Arabian Scribes and Parsee money lenders A modification of it's familiar principle has been made to fit 4.O00 ideographic characters of China and Japan. =- 4fN
 Humorists have made the typewriter girl the butt of many jokes, but she coul4 not occasionally marry her em- ployer and turn upon him the tables of dictation if she had not brought to his offlce grace and charm which thirty years ago it would have lacked. The vast-volume of business now done in the commercial world would be almost impossible without her and her machine. And the manners as well as the business of downtown have profited by what is no longer termed her intrusion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
Russian Jews Won't Fight.

To avoid serving in the Russian army and being sent to the Far East, thou sands of Russian Hebrews are coming to this country. The arrivals of Rus sian Hebrews since last July follows: August. 13,S99; September I1,211: Oc- tober, 9,S06; November, 17.244; Decem- Der. approximately, 23,000. The num- The migration officers look upon this with alarm and are using extra pre- cautions to exclude those who are not entitled to land. Deportations are far above the normal average. In the last ten days 52S immigrants, a large per centage Russian Hebrews, have been ordered back on the ground of being ''assisted immigrants" All over Europe Hebrews have organized societies whose express mission Is to supply the fleeing Russian Hebrews with a ticket to the United States
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
s HER PARTING WORDS.
How a Pretty Girl roelea a Sol.

HOW Pretty Girl Fooled a Soldier W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
 She was beautiful girl and he was handsome youth with a military bear ing. They sat together in secluded corner under the palms that had been hired for the occasion from the florist.
 The music was not loud enough to dis tract their thoughts or disturb their conversation. He was talking in earnest tones, and evidently trying to suppress his emotions. But they were too strong for restraint and he burst out:
 If you would only say some little word or give me some sign that can recall when I get to the Philippines it would be so comforting. I shau be sure then that you are not entirely in- different and that thought will brighten my lonely hours" Do you understand Italian?" she in- quired innocently.
 Not a word" he answered.
 If I tell you something in Italian will you be satished? she whispered in a soft, sweet voice.
 Tn Choctaw or Tagalogr he ex- claimed.
 Very well, then, Iistenp' Placing her hand upon his shoulder. she whispered, sQuarente cinco via Palestrai" and she sighed deeply and turned away.
 That's Aago. all right" he answered. just as some one came up to claim her for 1fg next dance.
 Khe words burned themselves into His brain. They grew to have a rythm like the fragment of an old song, and he used to repeat them over and over to himself as he sat on the deck of the~transport crossing the wide Pacific. When he lay in his tent in the mountains of Mindanao the rustling leaves fitted into the melody; he heard
 1t in the murmur of the brook and in
 the pounding of the surf upon the
 sands. They were dago words. to be sure, and he hadn't the slightest idea
 of their meaning to the rest of man.
 kind. but to him they meant every
 thing-love, confidence and hope, and l the sweetest tones that human lips can | express.
 One day on a hike through the for
 ests of Mindanao he got confidential
 with her brother, who was one of his comrades. As they sat in the shade of a far-spreading sycamore eating
 their bacon and hard tack he casually
 asked if they taught Italian at the
 military academy.
 | Sure! We got a dose of 1t in the third year, but we soon forget all we learned of it."
 The lieutenant wrote a few words her words-carelessly upon a slip of
 paper and passed 1t over to his com | panion.
 Can you translate that?' he asked
 Tt don't need translating," was the startling repliy; fits nothing but the
 address of a pension where my sister stopped in Rome last winter-45 Palestra Street."
 Cold chills sometimes come from the | heart-the same as blushes. The young offlcver felt the goose flesh rise
 up over his spinal column; the sky was back for an instant, and his brain was | awhirL He gave a quick gasp and then roared like a maniac with laugh ter. His companion looked at him with surprise and inquirel: What the blank are you hoIlering abodt?'
 And that was the way a love story ended and a hopeless cynic was made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
SUNDAY. JANUARY a2, 1905.
cRowNER,s QUEST LAW.

We all hear and read at times of the Serdict of coroners juries. and of what Shakespeare calls "crowners quest Saw" but jury of that kind in rhom- esyiile. Ga, is the latest one. In rend- ering verdict on the death of a negro who was killed by a train, they de- elared that he "came to his death by running against the side of the en- zine"
 All of us have heard of birds and other fowls killing themselves by fly- tng against engines, and we have known birds to fly against a house or other obstruction and be killed. but this is the first case of a man killing himself by running against the side of an en- gine.H If the statement had been borne out by the evidence we should put him down as the fastest runner or the hard- est butter in the bunch, but that was not the way the evidence was given. It was in the night, and the engineer of ehe train deposed that he "saw a man pudenly try to cross the track just ahead of him" The train was Iess than ten feet off when the negro tried 10 cross and of course it was not DOS etble for the engineer, or anybody else. to stop But when they did stop and went back to search they found the body of the negro fifty feet from the track with the top of his head cut off.
 This was the evidence given to the bury, and under that state of facts we cannot see that the engineer, or any one else connected with the road. was to blame. and we are totally unable to understand any reason for the verdict. If 1t had been clearly proven that the engineer was to blame we might see how a trucking jury, in an eeort to protect the railroad from a damaA Ae suit. might have rendered even a ridiculous verdict like that one was, but there was nothing of the kind in this case
 We must be allowed to think that the 5ury did not quite finish the job. They should have brought in a verdict against the negro. his heirs and as- signs, for trying to butt a train off the track. We don't know how 1t is in Georgia, but in other States 1t is a crime to try to derail an engine or train. and we can see no reason why this negro should have run his head against this train, or engine, except on the, theory that he was trying to butt it Ncff the track. While the jury was about it 1t should have so framed Ats verdict that the road would have a just claim against the negro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
Swallow Caused a DrlnI.,

Dr. Swallow, prohibition candidate for President, was walking along a street in Harrisburg when he saw a street laborer seated in the doorway of a new building eating his lunch and washing 1t down with an occasional sip from a pint bottle. The temperance advocate earnestly begged the man to stop drinking and pictured the misery which resulted from devotion to drink. The man was much impressed and broke the bottle. Then the overjoyed prohibitionist gave him half a dollar street at once and entered a saloon. When he came out in few minutes pr. Swallow upbraided him, but the man replied: Well, sor. you gave me half dollar to get something betther to dhrink'-that's what ye said. So I went and took wan. That was cowld coffee in the bottle"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
It Rests With the Peop,e.

New Orleans Picayune.
 Dishonesty in politics is so generally the rule that men who are honest in their private business do not hesitate to falsify, cheat and steal in the mat ter of political nominations and elec- tions If they can do so with any pros pect of escaping punishment There can be no honest politics expressing the choice and voice of the people un- less, in the first place, the people are enabled to take personal part by means of primaries in nominating candidates and, in the second place, unless they perform their public duty of qualifying themselves to vote in all elections, pri- mary and final, and then go to the polls and cast their votes. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22


 For years I suffered from backachs and piercing pains in the side, caused by kidney trouble, which threatened my life. The doctors said 1t was Bright's disease. My liver was also affected. Nothing seemed to reach my cured of chronic kidney trouble by Warmers Safe Cure, and she persuaded me to try 1t. At the end of the first week l was greatly relieved, the pains in my back were not so frequent or Sd severe. After taking three bottles ] was cured. This occurred about a year ago. and I have never had the slightest trouble since."-Estelle Blanchard. 113a Columbus Ave. New Orleans. La. April 16, '04.
 Pains in back head and side; restle- ness at night. poor digestion. female ills. etc, are never-failing signs of kidney disease. If you have any of these symptoms. EXAMINE YOUR URINE It's an infallible test of kidney dis ease. If your morning urine. on stand ing 24 hours. contains a.sediment, is | cloudy, or shows floating particles, | your kidneyaAare seriously diseased and must be treated at once.
 used with absolute safety and confi- dence-Warners Safe Cure. put up for years at Rochester, N. Y., by the War l ner Safe Cure Company, and sold at all drug stores, 50 cents and $1 bottle. Warmers Safe Cure Is used by lead ing physicians. and in hospitals, as the one certain cure for all diseases oi kidneys. liver bladder and blood--ths remedy that cures when all else fails and leaves no bad after effects. Get 3 bottle today; it will save you years oi suffering. 1t has saved thousands of lives.
 WARMERS SAFE PILLS move the bowels and aid speedy cure
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
Guilty, Hut Saved for a Time by Tech
 nicalitIes.

New York Evening Post.
 Joseph Ralph Burton, United States Senator from Kansas, gets a new trial. The Suprems Court declares that there was sufficient evidence of crime to warrant conviction: but the difficulty Is that the original trial court in St. Louis had no Jurisdiction, because the unlawful payments were made in Washington, and not in St. Louis. Jus tice Harlan, who dissents, holds that the payments were not completed till the checks were paid by the St. Louis bank. The decision virtually affirms Senator Burton's guilt, legal and moral, but grants him new trial on mere techni- calities. Under the circumstances, no one can blame the Kansas Legislature If 1t asks Burton to resign. Burton, however, has not hitherto been of the resigning kind. His theory of office holding-as demonstrated in the evil dence brought out in his trial--is to stick as long as you can, and to work the job for all it Is worth. His enthu- siasm for Senatorial lerquisites Is what brought him into trouble.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
The Wedding RInr FIDrer.

London ChrOnICIe,
 The wedding ring was placed on the the fourth finger because that finger was supposed to have its own private wire" (in the shape of a delicate nerve) to the heart, That finger, too, was called the medicine finger. and the be- nerve it could detect a dangerous poison if simply inserted in the iiduid. From that belief the idea that we'd ding rings-the rings worn on that finger--had special curative qualities rings are rubbed over an obstinate sty on an eyelid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
An Honest Old parkey,s Utterances


 The following good story was re- gently brought to Richmond by Geor- gia lady; A Boston couple were rec reating near Augusta. and met an old negro woman, to whom they took a fancy. They invited her to pay them d visit, aud the black woman accepted especially as her expenses were paid In due time she arrived in Boston, and was installed in the house of the white folks. She occupied one of the best rooms and ate at the same table with her host and hostess. At one of the meals the hostess said: Mrs. Jones you were a slave. weren't your" Yes marm." replied Mrs. Jones" T b'long- ed to Mars Robert Howell.'
 T suppose HE never invited you to eat at his table," remarked the Boston woman. NO, honey; hat he didn't ' replied Mrs. Jones'" My marsteI was gentleman. He alnt never let no nigger set at de table long CT him
 And in making this speech, she meant no disrespect to her hostess She, meant merely to point out a nat ural distinction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
GENERAL wAR oN coRRuPr1oN.

The reaction against corruption, graft and poodle seems to have set in very strongly. It is at work in Connecticut and Rhode Island. In Indiana the out cry against the lobby is most signifi- cant. Delaware is still fighting brave- ly against Addicks apparently with good chance of again defeating him. The administration is going after the land thieves with commendable vigor Even in Pennsylvania the attempts of Governor Pennypacker and his machine to muzzle the press show that criticism is having it's effect even on men sup posed to be pachydermatous. Under the leadership of Folk and the reform forces much may be accomplished in Missouri. We have begun our house. cleaning none too soon. Now that we have begun 1t. we should not stop till we have raised public life to a greatly higher level.
 The above from The Indianapolis News is unfortunate as to the States which 1t uses to prove that there is war on corruption. An election for United States Senator has just taken place in Connecticut and the result demonstrat- ed that the longest pole knocked down the persimmon.
 Some time ago "Trumbull," the New Haven correspondent of The New York Herald. wrote to that newspaper: Tt Is no welcome task to dwell upon the senatorial contest in Connecticut, with the scandalous use that has been made of money this fall; but 1t Is, at the same time impossible to escape 1t if the whole truth is to be told" This senatorship question was settled by the small towns, and settled by procuring the nomination of pledged Bulkeley men to the Legislature. A Connecticut man tells the editor of The Providence Journal that the caucus price of votes for candidates for the Legislature in one town was S10. and that one man received $25 to stay away from the caucus.
 Ex-Governor Bulkeley, who was chosen to succeed Senator Hawley, is the most brazen corruptionist in Con- nectIcut and is on record as believing in the policy of buying your way in elections.
 The situation is not much better in Rhode Island where but for gross cor ruption Dr. Garyin. Democrat, would have been reelected Governor. The Boston Herald says: These two States are probably the worst in New Eng land in the matter of gross and sean dalous corruption; but 1t is not un- known elsewhere. New Hampshire has an evu reputation in this line. The conditions In Delaware and PenusyIva- nia are notorious, and we know some- thing of them in the States of the Gen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
SETTING A TRAP.

The Richmond News Leader Is trying to put the President in hole. As is we'll known, he favors the whipping post for wife-beaters. Recently, in ex- pressing himself on the subject of pun ishment for crime he declared himself unable to see any reason why a woman should not be punished exactly like a man for a similar crime. Now The News Leader wants to know if the President will advocate the whipping post for the husband -beater?
 To be consistent he would be com pelled to answer in the affirmative, but we suspect that he'll side step that question. It is terrible. of course, for 8 poor man to be whipped by his wife, and 1t would be more terrible for a wo- man to be publicly tied to a post and whipped, but that would be equal and exact justice. would 1t not? However much the feelings of civilized man might revolt at such degradation for a woman, it would be impartial justice at least. In two States, as we now remember, there have recently been women sentenced to be hanged for murder, and we note in the papers that there has been quite a considerable con- troversy, pro and con, as to whether the sentence in each case shall be car ried out. The law itself can not recog- nize sex, in murderers, and if jury deals out even-handed justice 1t must convict the woman as well as the man, where both are proven equally guilty. All the same, humanity recognizes a difference, if the law does not, and the President will doubtless prefer to be inconsistent in this instance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

then to Catchings. of Mississippi, and that the man now selected to preside over the meeting called by Jordan is Walter Clarke. of Rosedale, Miss, while the Texans are to be placated into agreeing with the program by the placing of Peters at the head of the Committee on Resolutions. If the Texas leaders have any program, it cannot be ascertained here, but 1t is quite probably that they will stick to Jordan. They have been working in line with him, and he has quite a large following in the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post tells how two young farmers at some point in the South, planted and cultivated forty-four acres of land in Bermuda onions and sold the crop for $2S.OO0, clearing fully s22,00o by the operation. This Is a strong story and Is calculated to bring tears to the eyes of cotton growers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

Nothing more graphically illustrates the advance in travelling methods than does the brief statement that when Benjamin Franklin went from Phila- delphia to New York he went in a coach and was four days on the jour ney. The ordinary postal time. now is three hours, but trains can and do make 1t in about half that time. We nova these days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
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Tribute to Colonel Altman.

Colonel J. J. Altman, late Chancel- Tor of the Northwestern Chancery Di- vision, who died in Birmingham yes- terday, had many friends in Montgom- cry who were grieved to hear of his passing away. Colonel Altman at the time of his death, was both Chancellor and a member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham.
 Chancellor Altman was the most dignffted member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen the city has ever known, was the remark of an old in- habitant of Birmingham He be- longed distinctly to the old school in his dress. presenting the striking ap- pearance of a statesman of the early fifties. Ills speech was slow and de- liberate. What he said always drew the attention of his fellow Board mem bers even though 1t was in discussions of routine matters.
 He was a master of parliamentary procedure and when the Mayor was out of, the city Chancellor Altman was nearly invariably put in the chair. The ambition of his A1dermanic career was to achieve practicable municipal own ership of the water works. He was an energetic factor in compelling the Bir- mtngham Water Works CoEapany to build the big Alteration plants at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars. giving the city a daily supply of 20,- 0O0,0OQ gallons of pure water"
 The office of Chancellor which Colo mel Altman vacated by death, is being temporarily held by Hon. A. H. Ben- ners of Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

The Pine Belt News Is seeking infor- nation, and naturally comes to the right place to get it, this way:
 The Montgomery Advertiser is recoR- mixed authority on divers subjects, oth- CT than microbes, feas, mosquitoes, etc. Please tell us. Grandma, what disposi- tion Is made of the pig squeals and grunts by the poSk- packing establish ments of the northwest?
 certainly-always glad to be of ser vice. The squeals are used for making whistles when the supply of pigs tails runs short. and the grunts are for the man who has to buy the meat. How does that strike you?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
Pitr thc Poor Packer.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
 One of the Chicago packers says "the packing industry Is subjected to the severest kind of competition and the profit Is less than in any other busi- ness" Will not some congressman earn undylng gratitude by proposing subsidy for the Impoverished pack ers?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

The Charlotte Observer informs us that Scotch highballs are not prescribed for pneumonia in that city. We'll, some people take medicine without a prescription