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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
BRADsTRETs REVIEW.

New York, July 2s.-Bradstreet's to- morrow will say:
 Crop reports and fall trade advices are more unanimously favorable than at any preceding time this season.
 Confidence in the crop situation is reflected by good fall orders and a vol ume of wholesale and retail trade eer- tainly are in excess of a year ago and fully equal to the average at this sea- son. Special activity Is noted in cotton gooda, which are in eager demand at high prices with scarcity of desirable makes reported. Trade in woolen fab rics Is good. confirmation of this be- ing found in freer buying by manufac- turers of raW material at ruling high prices.
 Reports from the shoe and clothing lines and from the lumber. hardware and other building material lines are generally satisfactory. A heavy move n1eHt of winter wheat has helped col lections and developed a little more ac- tivity in -four milling in the South west.
 The iron trade shows some quietness after the exceptional activity in pig iron noted last week. The summer shut down of glass factories will be the shortest reported in many years Building is more active throughout the country.
 Failures in the United States for the week ending July .27 number 1ss against of 1904. In Canada failures for the week number 2S as against 22 last week and IF in this week a year ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
sidewalk PeneilingS
SomnOlent CabRen.

T have never heard that Montgomery has any particular narcotic properties" said 2 man. of civic pride yesterday. yet I would like to remind ths police of sleeping hackmen again. Sleeping hackmen are too familiar in Montgom- cry and the fact that few people are stirring at midnight does not warrant cab drivers snoring while In charge. :.
 Last night the climax was reached when 2 horse and cab were seen moving down Dexter Avenue, A couple of men standing in the middle of the street were surprised to see the horse about to run on them. Naturally. they waited until the last moment and stepped aside. It was good footwork and a few spec- tators Thought they were teasing. at first: They. thought differently when the enraged pair wore seen to side in swiftly between the cab wheels, lookS ing for the black meat inside. But there was no driven of any color or condition. The vehicle was held until the driver awoke and came after t. Meanwhile. the anger of the two gen tlemen was wasted on the desert air.
 T say let's have no speed limit On automobiles until we can get drivers for our cabs"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Straight Talk to His Race.

Mobile Register.
 Presiding Elder A. w. Mckinney conference of Colored Methodists in this city last Saturday. telling them that 1t Is not the prejudice of the %aes of eS saehs hs has keep he race down and prevent it's progress. He denied that negro criminals are lynched solely because of race pre1u- but not all, as he showed by citing a case where negro in this state was convicted of murdering a white woman We ana fydsnse .on Se Dy synae es ward the separate car regulation was modation Is furnished equally for cause of complaint. He admitted that l there was no sense In boycotting a railroad because the law required sep because 1t is unjust and impracticable. There Is Mobile experience to prove the truth of this.
 What the elder had to say about negro preachers was to the point
 ''rhe local preacher must study The OK cart stands poor show with the locomotive.
 does not take daily paper. He must know what is going on in the world Don't let the newspaper eat you, but you eat the newspaper.
 "A preacher must be clean One gallus preachers are disgrace to the profession"
 We Believe that this Is the key of the situation Tho intellectual and moral status of those who undertake to guide the race. Reverence paid to an Ignorant and immoral man because of the kind Of coat he wears or the sanctimonious look he assumes, Is idol atry, or worse. 1t Is fetishism. To wor. ship a block of wood or to tremble in the presence of a hoodoo would De a AHa fA "A respect to a man who contradicts by his thought and action the very doc Urine he claims to have been sent must be clean. physically and morally, before he can help In the uplift of his race; and must lead, not follow
 Education. therefore. is the means to this end. The progressive people have always an educated ministry
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
THE HreHrsr FIGURE.

The weekly local cotton rsport of The Advertiser for the week enAins Thursday. Jsly 2eth. showed that Mont- gcmery for the first time in its his- tory had received over 2oo.ooo bales of cotta. The highest figures ever reached wsse last year 17o.124. and in 1900 when they were 17o.o72. For no other year have the figures reached the 17o.- 900 mark. The indications are that they will foot up for snis year over 3os,oeo. the number pp to last Thurs day night being sol.sss. aa exesss oyer the whole of last cotton year of si.- s14 bales. It is a safe estimate that this cotton has averaged S4e . bale, which will give the totaI of $s,o77.62o. value of cotton received in this city. This is . splendid showing for Mont gomery as . cotton market. The in- dications are that in spite of the re- duction in acreage and, the poorer con- ditions of crops Montgomery will re- ceive fully as much for the coming year a for the past. Cotton men say that arrangements for handling cotton warrant this belief and if this be so . splendid business season is already assured. The prices cannot be beaten down. no matter what the manipula- tors msy undertake co do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

These two groups tell their own story--the greater the density the low iilustrates the other point made. that the character of the freight has to do with the rate. Thus the Pennsylvania, with freight density of 3,79s,856, re- ceives rate of six mills, while the 1itinots Central, with a density of only 1,202,S2S, receiyes a rate of exactly the same amount. The difference In the character of the freight explains this. Chesapeake and Ohio, with great dem sity, received the lowest rates because their tonnage consists of soft coal, which ts carried at a low rate. The Pennsyivanta, and Baltimore and Ohio, with 2 greater density, receive a higher rate, because. while both are large car Fiers of soft coal they have consider able high class freight.
 These are points which those who want governmental control of freight rates must consider. Suppose, for ex- ample, the rate of such roads as the Atchtson, Denver and Rio Grande and Atlantic Coast Line should be applied to the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio. etc. what would be the result :? An increase in earnings that would be the rates received by the Pennsylvania and Erie to the Denver and Rio Grande, Southern Pacific and Atchison, and the result would be bankruptcy."y
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
DRIVING OUT CAPITAL,

The prediction Is freely made that the population of Chicago will de- crease. instead of increasing. unless invest. in industrial and business en- terprises can be protected. The dis graceful and discouraging conditions which have prevailed in that city for more than three months will drive capital away, and when a large man. takes that much capital away but is pretty sure to take with 1t hundreds of employees and their families.
 That this result will follow the events of the past hundred days Is al- most 6 certainty. Last spring there was a general strike in the laundries of Troy, N. l.. most of 1t of the sym pathetic order. Troy does the larg- est laundry business of almost any city in the country. The strike and the disorder attending 1t. and the fail- ure of the authorities to protect em- ployers So disgusted the latter that some of the largest and most exten- sive operators in this line of business removed their entire plants to other cities. Che firm which went over to Rochester employs one thousand em- ployes. and the members of the firm declared that they had much rather remain in Troy. but had no encour- agement to do so.
 What occurred in Troy is almost certain to occur in Chicago, Men with capital will not care to remain in city that affords them no protection, and they will take their money, their business and their influence else where At is q notorious fact that the authorities of Chicago offered little protection to employers. and 1t will be perfectly natural for them to emigrate from a city in which they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT.

The Advertiser can state authoFita- lively that the President will certain ly come to Alabama ocroper 2srd- He will come via Atlanta and will spend from s:so q. m.. to 1o:So .. n,., in Tus- kegee dividing the 'ime between washington's school and the city of Tuskegee. He will reach Montgomery at IF m.. and remain until ? p. m. go- ing hence to Birmingham. where he will spend from 4:ao 10 s:so p.-m. He goes from Birmingham to Mobile and will spend two hours in the latter city on the morning of the 24th.
 If nothing providential intervsnss to change plans. the above Is the program which will be followed in this State. It does not give mucn time in any place for showing the President much of what can he shown. but the cities where he goes will do their best in entertaining him and his friends. that the lirnited time allows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
DUN & CO.'S REVIEW
wEEsgLY sUIAAnY OF C0NDI. TIONS IN TRADE.
Comnsrcial Tendency Continues h Di- fect1on of Improvement, and fn All Lines There Exlsts ODti-
 mtstlc CenAdeaoe.

New York. Jy!y as.-R. c. Dun and
 Commercial tendencies are still in Inc direction of improvement, although progress is hampered by some fnfia. sas, s.Sn Sf TS prtee: for the raw materials of ndence expands as the crops are se- cured, each, day putting a large quan- Hsy el arain beyond danger and mak- fective: Weather conditions have been Suced S stocks in the hands of dealers Dea oe,n9 3oSsins Ssssinsctsd in enlarged wholesale
 The industrial situation is a great contrast to conditions prevailing a year aso: when there was much idle ness both on account of 'qufet trade and labor controversies. Complete re- deparsmsnt: p igdic.ts that the first half the ccrresponding six months of last year than even the most sanEuine es- inmates Foreign commerce at this Identical with the resu,ts1 in 1904 Trafno is beginning to feel the pres sure of crops but facilities have proved ample thus far and railway earnings in the same time last year. Resump- ton of work at several steel plants testifies the hrevity ef the midsummer that 1t would De most surprising if the expected failed to materialize. Prices are readily maintained. Hides have advanced still further and successful buyers are beginning to hesitate be- fore placing orders. There is suypris- ingly little disposition among visiting buyers in the Boston market to resist the upward tendency of prices for boots and shoes.
 Failures this week number a1l in the United States, against 220 last year, and 27 in Canada, compared with IS a year ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
WHY SHOULD THEY BET

The New York Post looks at 1t in this way:
 Those critics who have been sneer- ing at the prosecutions Of our eminent highest up always. escape prison. will be sore put to 1t in view of the sem ,snens S1 Senator n ,a Mtchsl Sf fine of sl.o0o.
 Does not The Post know that if a poor man should steal a pair of shoes the general verdict would be that he got on quite easy if he should only get six months in jail? It Is almost cer- tain that he would get year or more in the penitentiary. and if not the newspapers would De down on the court for failing to innict due punish ment for the crime.
 As for that si.oo0 fine |. need hardly be considered. for 1t Is a matter of no moment to such a man as Mitchell. Then The Post should bear in mind that Mitchell is not yet behind the bars by a great deal. The Portland court has granted a stay of execution. in order that application may be made for an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. If this Is grant, ed 1t will mean further delay of moaths. with a possible reversal of the lower courts verdict. and thus with his money and influence he may keep tine case In court and himself out of prison till he dies of ola age.
 We agree with The Post. though, that the value of vhis conviction Is very great. Even If the sentence Is never carried out, the fact that a man of his position. standing and influence has actually been convicted and sem tenced te imprisonment is encouraging to all of us who believe in equal and exact justice to all Something has been gained, as all must admit. even if he gets a ridiculousiy light sen tence. It is encouraging to know that there are courts where the man who occupies a high position can receive the brand of e felon whether the jail doors open to receive him or not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
J. Nj. Barnes.
Cisterns and Cutters. ~ Ia. QnA

hOHl SOHleEy, Aids, SuiS So, A'"o Editor The Advertiser:
 am impressed with the efforts Dr Goldthwaite and the health officers are making to rid the city of mosquitoes Two causes for remedying the breed ing places seems to have oeen over looked. was told q few years ago by a practical timer whose business it was to put on tin roofs, and repair same. that the gutters or valleys on many of the houses held water after each rain; that these gutters or val leys had low places where a gallon or more water would remain until taken up by evaporation. and this water would in the meantime breed thousands of IT ncsquitoes
 An easy way to fill up these low places it seems to me would pc 70 m each place with gas tar until the low places in the valley could be raised sui fciently enough to run the water or. Another breeding place for mosauitoes is in the old eisterns to be found all over the city Many of these were ,,e abandoned years ago and let half fuii of water, and from this old stagnant water, in many of them today, comes millions of mosquitoes.
 These cisterns are all CT, lots or ante bellim homes, or on many let's oceus nied previous to twenty years ago. I had two of these old cisterns on my lot, and only year or so aEo discoVereo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
MIR. BARNES IN TEXAS.
Writes of Conditions as He Finds Them
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Y There.
 Benjamin, Texas, July 25. 1905.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Hilary Bedford's son Benjamin was 2 ranchmans town. was born about this time, 1t was called for the dead boy. We came to Fort Worth, thence to Wichita Falls, thence to Seymour by has happened to my tot to ride on since the days of the narrow gauge to Ada We left Seymour this morning after 6. and. and came a,, by hack to this place, thirty mud was all depths. never quite up to the hub. We are stopping with c. B. stewart, vice-President of the Benja- side of the hack ran into the Brazos and the Gulf. of the other side into the Wichita and the Red and Mississippi painter The N. and s. Wichita brakes were on the north and the Brazos with It's checkered Things on the south. while the overflow added variety to the pie ture. The green cedars and brush streaked with the deep red of bank and blun so common on these streams gives a weird and strangely attractive feast beholdins. The crops of this county are fine. If the vast plains in those parts and those over which we came yesterday were planted in cotton the bea: might rear. But there Is a very small ar5a planted in 1t yet but its cui- ture grows and ere long this county may make up for the shortage in South sorghum all look fine. Mila maize is the feed crop of this country. I made use us, Of the haekman today to pass away if not better, being not so hard. 72 pounds make a bushei and 1t Is worth as much as corn in the market. It CT NnN xttAh t1r .,1 AS AzA tuft of fruit on top. Fruit Is fine. We have just wound up a good dinner on fresh apricot preserves. all produced, gathered and made right here. We ] have seen nowhere this year such fru,t as we saw yesterday at Award, Bowie and Fruitland. Crops from Fort ern Texas, but not real good Texas crops. We are in the land of prairie dogs. jack rabbits. scissor-tail birds and mosauitoes Wife can not stop looking mud. The hack from Dickens was lost last night in the Wichita at Guthrie. The, driver went down in the quick went back this morning the river had risen and hack zone. This was the vehicle on which we were to go pss Ysi 2ur s nd snss f M Ea cloud ana rsns right now, and too much water and mud already. We are to leave tomorrow at ?. m, if we can go. It Is 100 miles still out west This Is a dry country but this is the exception year. The rains are not ordinary. All agreed that the downpour at Dallas was without an was four feet. It ran all through the street car sheds and tore up the floor. Dallas is ahead of us Dit. They throw their street car switch by electricity. My cousin lives two and, half miles from the Court House. His phone costs him $2 single line per month. Mont gomery can and should keep up with anything anI anybody.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

disposed of the water in them by punching the bottom out .of both, with an iron bar. about ten feet lou1. l out of the bottom and aii of the water ran out into the earth and left the cistern dry. This seems to me would be n easy and w aiso 'o oS asontoe. o @ e ccn- wn tained therein. I know now of my own personal knowledge that three different lots in the city, with these abandoned staenant water. There can be no doubt but that the two causes I have men- tioned aa.breeding places for mosquitoes exist today In our midst, and to demedy them as suggested would be an easy and simple task if undertaken by the
 wm. B. Jones.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

The Kansas City Journal feels out ragged at learning that Nan Patterson has been visiting the race tracks al Brighton Beach. and declares that "heI brasen appearance is . distinct affron, to public decency." Well. we ere free to admit that she would have done we'll to keep herssle m retirement. al least for time. but if every man and woman of shady character could bs 1t not cause quite falling off of wis. itorss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

havs no assurance ef safety, but may censtanfiy szpect their business to Dc interfered with and their employees murdered on the streets. And we say without reservation that capital should avoid . city like Chicago. for they have no assurance of safety. When city learns that men with money to invest will avoid city where thug gery is not interfered with 1t may be that the authorities will wake up and begin to take notice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Could Have Talked for week..

Tn the August issue of Success Mag azine" Arthur W. Dunn has an inter esting sketch entitled Senator Morgan as Long Talker.", He tells this anus ing anecdote:
 Some fifteen years ago. after one of his extended efforts. when he spoke for two or three days to aid in the defeat of the election bill. some one asked hinn how long he eout.a really talk.
 1t depends upon the subject" he re- piled. If ft were 6 matter that I thor ouehly understand, could talk for two or three days. if 1t were upon q matter I know nothing about, could talk for two or three weeks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Remember that is only the stexon

Remember that is only the Stekom. via Fasciata brand of mosquito that is dangerous. Then we are told that the only kind that carry fever germs are those that have a habit of standing on their front feet and elsvating the hind feet fin the air. something like a mule. So if you see mosquito kicking up its hells hit him one with whatever Is handy. Also. hit all the others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Just as Easy There as HeFe.
 City, July 27th, 1905.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Please inform two readers of your daily paper whether the United States Government can bring back . deserter from New Mexico. in order to decide . bet. A says they can; B says they can't, We take tho Advertisers de- ctsion. Reader.
 IThe laws of the United States are. if anything more operative in Terri tory than a State. and a deserter. If found in Alaska, can be brought back to Alabama.-Ed Advertiser.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Roekefeiier's Money Good.

MoDlle Heralu
 The Alabama State Baptist conven- tion unanimously voted to accept $25,- 900 offered by John D. Rockefeller to- ward building a science hall for Howard College at East Lake. That there was not a word of protest among the hun dreds of delegates against accepting the gift, reflects credit upon the asso- ciation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

The Norfolk Landmark gives us the exclusive information that MT. Daniel s. Lamont is dead at the age of sixty five" That's the way we newspaper writers sometimes slip up. The re- cords make him ten years younger than that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Bird and Game Law.
Eufaula Times.

I
 At no time in the history of the bird and game laws has the people been more unanimous for a law more protec- tive to our birds. With one accord the people are ready for very stringent law against the batting and shooting of doves for number of years at least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29

Those who are familiar with trot- ting records can hardly realize that it mas not been great while since a mile in two-forty way considered the limit. That would be considered slow these days ~::-:+- ......
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Needs Amendment.
bia North Alabamian.

Tuscumbfa NOrth Iabamfan. Alabama's banking law needs amend ing so that bank cannot establish banking houses without being subject to examination. and by the system in vogue now the counties where branch banks are located are deprived of their just proportion of taxes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Passing it Around.

Selma JOurlIdI.
 One thing is certain, and that is that only one man can receive the Demo- cratic nomination for Governor An other thing is true. however and that is that every fellow who has friends can have the honor of being mentioned as a possible candidate. This honor has certainly. been passed around at a great rate this year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
A Reversal of the Order.
Mobile Register. -. 2

Havana quarantlned against New Or leans is a reversal of the order. But 1t Is an encouraging incident. If Havana, long the hot bed of yellow fever, Is clear of 1t, certainly it Is an indication that 1t may be stamped out of New Or leans forever.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Make 1t Hot for Them.

MOIlTOt JUUI EIfI'
 Let every community organize for the suppression of these and other crimes make 1t so uncomfortably hot for the pistol-toter. the blind tiger and the crap shooter that he will be forced to seek more congerial chimes or serve a term in State prison. It Is a grave re- deetion on a community that evils are permitted to exist unmolested. They should be quarantined with the same insxorable visor that would be resorted to in case of threatened epidemic Of Asiatic cholera or yellow fever.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-29
Quarantine
 Proclamation.
Mayors Office, City of Montgomery, Ala,

Under and by virtue of the power vested m the Mayor of this city by the Legisiaturs of Alabama and the City Council of Mont gomery, and in accordance with the rec nmmendations of the Board of Health of Montgomery County. now. therefore,
 cL c. F hcIntyre. Acting Mayor of the City of Montgomery. do hereby proclaim . quarantine against the city of New Or leans Louisiana. and persons living in any of the towns lying along the line of the the said city of New orleans Louisiana, and the Alabama State line, and any and ail places that or which may herc- after be infected with yellow fever. to the effect that no person persons from such infected point or points shall be allowed to come within ten miles of the city of Mont- gomery. except under such regulations and restrictions as have been imposed by the State Board of Health. or for the purpose until public notice shall have been given of the discontinuance of this quarantine.
 In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the city of Montgomery. this 24th day of July, 1905.
 c. P. MINTYRE
 (SEAIA Acting Mayor.