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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
"Punishment-for what7r

Punishment-for whatT
 'rhe staying of Pakenham. in your excellency's garden"
 "Humphw said the governor, "and who Is this with you? An, the Eng fish maidi A pretty kettle of fish we have in the house! well, sir. Pak- enhas is not dead. Your sword missed his heart by an inch or two--he will recover"
 The secretary had expected other tidings. He threw up lis head and breathed freely again.
 "Yes, yes" said the governor, ''ha will survive your thrust, fast enough. for his new-made wife is now nursing him--a clergyman welded him to Margaret several hours ago. She thought him dying at the time and would not be gainsaid. As for you, secretary. since Margaret is the fires brand that has lighted the tow. cana not punish you as I ought--the scan- dal would be too great. Therefore. you take care not to talk of this New Years Eve, and you will Immediately depart from the place. and remain in exile till Pakenham recovers and 1 can pack him and his wife off to Eng land"
 And what will you do with Miss KeppelT' queried the secretary. "To- gether we have made a strange jour ney tonight. and I would know your plans for her future.
 ''She shall remain with me till some suitor more worthy than Pakenham asks her in marriage"
 The secretary raised Miss Keppera hand to his lips.
 "Will you wait for me till I return?S
 T will walt" and the tears cana in her eyes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

A An amusing, story is told of Queen Wilhelmina when she was quite a lit- tie child. Her majesty was not allow ed to share dinner with the older mem bers Of the royal household, but was permitted to make her appear ance at dessert and pIace her self beside some particular fa- Vorite. One day she sat by q courtly old gentleman and after eat ing some fruit the little girl turned and gazed at him. Presently she ex- claimed:
 q wonder you're not afraid to sit next to me-"
 Everybody In the room turned at the sound of her childish treble.
 "On the contrary, I am but too pleas ed and honered to sit next to my little queen" replied the old general But why should I be afraid?"
 Assuming a woebegone expression, the little queen replied:
 Because all my dolls have the meas les; they're all of them down with It."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

Like catarrh. 1t pervades the whole ssytem, and counteracts the effects of The disease.
 great many people believe that they have been cured of chronic Bright's Disease by tho use of Peruna.
 It is certainly true that in the earlier stages of BriEht's Disease, Peruna is an effective remedy.
 Numerous testimonials on this point establish the fact beyond all doubt.
 Mr. Otto A FIeissner. American epi- curean, formerly Chef to Col. W. J. Cody, 1412 sixth Avenue, Seattle, Wash, writes:
 T suffered with kidney and bladder trouble until life did not seem worth living. I had trled many medicines, but did not get any relief until I took Peruna. It was really wonderful how much better I was after I used this medicine only week. At the end of hix months found to my relief that it had rid my system of all poisons and I was cured to stay cure ed.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
when John .. Taurht noxinr.

At one time in his career John L. Sullivan, formerly heavyweight cham pion gave lessons in boxing. but the average pupil lacked much of the for titude necessary, for John was a vig- orous instructor. young man once went to the great fighter and arranged for a course of ten lessons. At the end of the second lesson. pretty well bat tered up, the young man said he thought he had enough. ''Enoughl'' said his teacher in astonishment. Why you havn't learned" T know" the young man interrupted. But I'll tell you how it is. There's a fellow dIS- like. and I arranged for this course sxs as to lick him in the fight. But on second thought have decided it will he just as we'll to send him down here to you to take the rest of the less sons." .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
REPUBLICAN
 PARTY PERIL
CONTROL OF HOUSE THREATENED BY REGENT DISCLOSURES. Revelations of Andrew Hamilton And The Insurance Inquiry As To The Source or Republican Cam paign Funds VIII Have
 Tremendous Effect On
 Congressional
 Elections.

Washington Special to New York
 Evening Post.
 The second installment of Andrew HamiIton,s revelations and his expert testimony concerning the origin of Republican campaign funds has struck a cold chill to the hearts of the mem bers of the Republican Congressional campaign committee. They realize what a tremendous effect on the pub lie mind this opening up of the cov- cred streams which have been flowing into the money chests of the party will have in the fall election. Impa- tience and anger are expressed at the curious attitude of MT. Bliss in re- fusing even to look at the photograph of the $75.000 voucher which Andrew Hamilton holds.
 Now that the whole system of loot ing of the corporations to carry on Republican campaigns has been made so clear, the wonder continues here that President Roosevelt and Chairman Cortelyou find it possible to remain silent. Testimony offered before the Armstrong committee that Chairman Babcock of Wisconsin took $2.500 from the Mutual Life as the company's share toward preventing tariff revision, has gone undenied. Senator Platt's lucid testimony, telling of the annual cash contributions of $10.000 which he re- ceived, has never been disputed. Now comes the receipt for another secretly made contribution for S75.000, to add fuel to the flame of resentment The Presidents silence in the face of this accumulation of evidence, showing how the party of which he is the titular and actual head buys and pays for elections. and it's sources of income, Is difficult to understand The facts dis closed cannot be ignored. as every im- portapt Republican here realizes. Nor will the issue that has been raised blow over," because no answer is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
Kidney Trouble Is Not Always Recog- aised as Cafarrh-Pe-ru-na Re- Iieves Kidney Disease Be-
 Cause 1t Is . Remedy for
 All Phases of CataRrh.

Twenty-Five years ago, before, Dr. Hartman began distributing his pamph- lets, books and newspaper articles Bright's disease of the kidneys was re- garded as a disease wholly distinct from Catarrh.
 Now Bright's Disease Is thought by many the world over to be q phase Oi catarrhal inflammation.
 To relieve Bright's Disease something must be used that has the power to re- 1ieve catarrh.
 Any medicine ti;at is remedy for catarTh of one organ is obviously a medicine for catarrh of any other or gan.
 Peruna is am internal, systematic cas- tarrh remedy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

'It gives me pleasure to have you use my photograph and testimonial in behalf of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. which saved my life when two of the best doctors had given me up to die and declared that no medicine could help I taking Ds,f- fy's at the time. and kept right on. as I hrd great faith in it's wonderful curative powers. I had lung trouble and weak heart and for six months was unable to lie down at night on account of coughing and smothering spells. reduced to ninety pounds, and was going Into consumption. The ius-- pression Of both my friends and the doctors being that l could not live. Despite their opinion, ] gave up medicine. and after talk Ing four bottles of Duffy's my condition was greatly improved. This was in tho Fall and continued the Use Of your grand med- ieine all winter the result being thai hy spring weighed 125 pounds, and after taIs-- ing twenty bottles my health fully re- stored and never felt stronger or better In my life. I advised a number of friends who had throat and lung trouble to take Duffy,s and 1t never failed to cure them-"-MRS MARY HORN-LOCKWOoD. s49 River Ave- nue. Indiana DOlia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

Financial Secretary Stable Elm ployesU No. Al,
  able
 
 feeling morn of s weak back has no equal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
Heart and Lung Trouble

Mrs. Mary Horn-Lock- wood, who could not lie down on account of coughing. and smother ing spells is restored to strength and health by Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. "After doc- tors and medicine failed to help me, Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey saved my life, and | never felt stronger or better than l do today" The grate- full lady writes:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
SCHOOL GIRLS AND SCHOOL BOOKS

Brains, eandLa
  with RespectThey May be of Value to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey.

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

rect, in sealed bottles only ; he label. Beware of refilled Vely harmful and will not
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
Climbing the Ladder.

The feature of picture sales. per-
haps, of greatest interest to rank
outsiders" is the phenomenal ad-
vance often 10 be noted in the win
ming bids. IN instance of this a
single case will point the lesson.
In 1860 drawing by LAWRENCE, the
eighteenth century French artist,
changed hands for see. In 1885 it
was resold for $4,000, but, as if this
of itself were not more than enough.
it brought $500 last March.
Nor is such climbing the ladder
of dollars and cents peculiar 10
paintings. There was sold al auk'5
egg in April, which the then owner
had procured for $25 in 1859. He
surrendered it for s1.O5e. A Nank-
ing vase. bought twenty years ago
for 1925, realized S29,500 in May.
while. in this present month, a COM
Portable Plymouth Rock hen, after
winning a pleasing little bunch OF
poultry show prizes, was sold for
s750-and the point of the last item
hes in the fact that the seller had
bought the bird not half a day
earlier for $40.
WARWICK JAMES PRICE.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
PROBLEM OF EX-PRESIDENTS

The Kansas City Star says that MI
W e. Curtis suggestion Of President
Rooseyelts ambition to enter the SEN
ate at the conclusion OF his Presiden-
tial terms recalls the old problem Of
what to do with ex-Presidents. Only
two. John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Johnson, have ever served in Congress.
Adams was elected Representative for
seventeen years and died in Office. In
deed, his reputation rests chiefly on
his career as an independent Congress
man. Johnson went back to Tennessee
after the expiration OF his term and
after being defeated once for the Senate
and once for the House, he was elected
Senator in 1875, but died the same
year after brief service. John Tyler
was elected to the Confederate House,
but did not serve in the Congress OF the
United States after his retirement from
the Presidency.
Washington spent his declining years
at Mt. Vernon. though he accepted the
command Of the army once more when
war threatened with France. John
Adams lived peacefully for twenty-five
years ar his Massachusetts, home after
his Official career ended Jefferson re-
tired to Monticello, where he passed
his closing years In growing financial
fort at HIS Montpelier home. where he
was president OF the County Agricul-
turai Society, Mouross last years were
clouded from lack OF money. Jackson
used to swear that he would not be
driven from the White House 2 beg
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
History in the BACKGROUND,

la the case of the SNUFF box the
history of yesterday and the day be-
fore had, of course, much to do with
its price. So, too, when a lock of
hair brings s16 or an old anvil
$1,000, as last December's news had
10 tell, one only asks, Whose were
they?" II was Thackeray's hair
and 1t brought more than the nov
elist made out of his first book. 1t
was John Bunyan's anviI-and old
iron (even $50 years old never be-
fore commanded such a figure.
Hair from the right mans head
usually brings a fancy price; curly
or straight, red or black, nothing
counts in the hair market but the
owner of the scalp that grew it.
Lord Nelson holds this record.
When twenty-four of his hairs
brought 1925 newspaper readers
took notice, but November last
brought comparatively better sale
than this, when nine (by actual
COUNT OF the admiEai's head
grown spears" commanded $3.50.
Wellington locks come cheaper;
one may set first-rate little bunch
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

gar man like Jim Monroe OLD Hick-
DRY himself survived the expiration OF
his term by nine years at the Hermit
age. Van Buren, got into politics with
an independent nomination in 184S, but
wrote a part of book on The Origin
OF Parties" Fillmore and Pierce both
travelled abroad extensively after tha
completion of their terms.
Buchanan was little heard of, though
he lived for seven years after Lincolns
thought he must go into business to
earn enough money to live in proper
style. Hayes became interested la the
prison reform movement: Arth4-r died
the year after leaving Office Harrison
practiced law and Cleveland, at ,er his
first term practiced law; but at the
conclusion OF his second term he re-
tired and remained at his Princeton
home until he became a trustee of the
Equitable Life.
1t has been suggested that ex-Presi-
dents be given 3 place at the Cabinet
table. But that would be futile for a
Cabinets usefulness depends largely on
the President. The Chief Executives
need not invite all the department
heads 70 confer with him. and Jefferson
even suspended meetings for months
at time The suggestion that former
Presidents may be sent TO the Senate
by a constitutional amendment has de-
cioed perit. The only question ia
whether such an amendment would
conflict with the provision that mo
State without its consent shall oe de-
priYed OF it's equal suffrage in the SEN
ate" Possibly this difficulty could bs
surmounted by some device. In any
event the matter Is worth considering.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

for $50. Byron, who had hair that
was especially beautiful, stands
fairly steady ia the market at 800
per lock. Napoleon, who wore some
of his right in the middle of his fore
head, ranges al the way from S. up
to $10d.
Nineteen-five brought at least six
other big sales in the field of histo-
ric relics. Matternich's desk leads
these, the French government buy
ing Il in for 100000 fairish SUM
even for gold-mounted rosewood.
The others scale down the financial
thermometer as follows:
s7,oe0-A chair used by both
Washington and Jackson.
$4,000 letter from Mary, Queen
OF Scots; fourteen pages.
s700-An oak bedstead, once used
by John Wesley. :
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
Has Just Reached
$I22 a Pound, an
Anvil Brought $1,000,
While Hair From the
Right Mans Head Is
Worth From IS to
$625 Per LOCk..,SoTne
financial Auction
Room ROmanCes =.

= K ONE fancies the taste Of
Golden Tip" Ceylon tea he
will have 10 pay $122.50 a
& pound for il. If his desire
runs to whalebone he will find
It quoted to him at the mere trifie of
$4,000 a ton. If he proposes 10 buy
old United States stamps-the scent
Buchanan, for instance, or the 1-cent
Vermilion philadelphia carrier
he will find the prices set at 1925
and $3.50, respectively. If it be the
Whistler portrait of Henry Irving
which he wishes to hang in his gal
lery, 10! there stands ]. p. Morgan
10 bid against him with a bagatelle
offer of SIS, 200 for the canvass.
These are not faiFy-tale figures.
They are actualities realized within
the past eight weeks. Moreover.
such prices for paintings and postage
stamps are far from record level,
even though tea and whalebone do
not often play such roles in the
market. Sales like these, however,
bring up once more that ever new
subject of thu financial romances of
the worlds auctiOnj rooms. Almost
weekly come contributions to the
strange story, with the high water
marks pushed up and up with every
month, till men wonder less at the
prices paid than that buyers could
be found TO paw them.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

$4,000 for a Seat; S81, 375
for a Cup.

Record prices are entertaining
things no matter how one look at
them. For instance, as one reads of
$4,000 being paid last spring for a
Sevres vase, less than seventeen
inches high, one sees behind that
siX-minute contest such a triumph
for Madame de POmpadour as must
have done no little good to the pre-
sumabIy restless shade of SO beauti-
ful but SO errlng lady. Roundly
was she abused by her own brilliant
generation for persuading Louis the
Well Beloved to lavish millions of
livres on the Seyres factories, but at
such figures for the ware the French
monarch could have made no better
Investment than buy in all that was
made to resell it today to long-purs-
ed collectors.
Silver at $3.50 an ounce, again,
should cover at least the cost OF
produetion-or land at 81 a square
inch should repay one for advertis-
ing it. These high levels were touch
ed last June. the one at the famous
Christie salesFOoms in London (for
a 1860 wine fiagonl, and the other
In New York when a diminutive lot
at the corner of Broadway and Wall
Street changed hands for three
quarters of a million dollars.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

Here are nalf-dozen other recent
records" in dollars and cents:
S91 900 for a seat on the New York
Stock Exchange, December 90.
$S1,375 for rock crystal vase;
XVI century. May 90.
S25.500 for the Agra" diamond;
weight, 81 carats. February %.
$4,000 for an EIizabethan ever.
silver mounted, February "a.
$4,000 for a porphyry statuette,
mounted in ormoIu, April 2S.
$4,000 for a snuff box, decorated
by Teniers, August 10,
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
Fancy Figured Freaks.

The oldest things of all the auc-
tioneer suts up seem TO get the high
est prices. An egg of old Sinbad' s
roc drew $780, though it should
in fairness be added that the man
who bought it came from Hoboken.
An auk's skin was able to separate
another collector from $4,000, and
does 1t not seem but yesterday that
F. r. Pierson, the Tarrytown mil
lionaire, paid $4,000 for a certain
rize-winning carnation pink?
In fiowerland, indeed, such big
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

profit The other annalist of the
drama, Doran, if he visits the aue-
ton rooms unseen must have been
gratified at hearing his thirteen vol
umes go Gin the Cope sale, Philadel-
phia) for $4,000.
July last witnessed two monu-
mental transactions OF this sort,
with London the scene each time. A
clean copy of the fourth auarto Of
Shakespeare's Richard III'@one Of
the three copies known to be ex-
tant-brought $3.50. while a Cax-
ton volume, dating back to the days
when that pioneer printer ran his
small shop in the very Abbey of
Westminster, fetched" 1.-THE Eng
lishman would say only $4,000 less.
Trotters and PAGERS do better even
than this. November saw Cresceus
change hands for s21, 900. and The
Abbott for s26,500; Dan Patch had
brought 100000, and Major Delmar,
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

Old Books and NeW Beasts.

All the world can spend money on
books. but at least one man knows,
too, how to make money out of them.
In April G. D. Smith, the New York
literary dealer, paid 1864 for Ire
lands famous History of the
Stage and his bookish confreres
said he had paid too much by at
least the 1864. But Mr.. Smith only
had to hold the thirty volumes
twenty-four days till he had found
q purchaser at exactly $1,000 clear
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

prices are becoming the rule rather
than the exception. Orchids are be-
coming more profitable than coal
nai2ss. April saw three of the gor-
geous but bizarre blooms sell at
ALSO. 81 200, and 81 100, respective
~. In June the Roger Sander set
the record with 81, 532-its real name
having something to do with it, it
may be, for it was cataiogued as the
"0dontoglossum Crispum." After
which the 1880 received for one Of
T. NJ. Crooks raising preston, Eng
land; August seems bit tame.
Enthusiastic philatelists will not
care to see stamps included under
freaks. but the fact remains that
the average man in the street gasps
a little when he reads OF a penny
letter license" going for $500 That
it was the Transvaal stamp issued in
1877 had little to do with its price;
IL embodied an error (all such are
dbubly dear to the heart that haFbors
the collecting bacillus), reading
''Transvral." And 5000 was called a
bargain figure for it.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

s450-One manuscript page from
Lincoin's last message.
s25o-The original manuscript re-
port of Congress on Arnold's trea-
son.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

even the highest priced PAGER an0
the rarest of rock crystals must
yield place. Stock exchange seats
may hold their own, but not Agra"
diamonds. Nineteen-five saw no
more art sales than the average, but
it has chronicled some decidedly
above-the-average figures. To in-
stance only eight canvasses from the
multitude that changed hands, one
finds his total figuring UP to $685.
eos. The sales referred TO were:
Observation-Disclosures st. Roch,"
purchased by Andrew Carnegie.
$500, 600.
July-Van Dyck's portrait OF
Charles l and his Queen, $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures Betrayal
of Samson" So, 500.
February-MilIet's The Laborers
Return" s70,s0o-
Jpne-Hogarth' Assembly az
Wanstead House." SIS, 400.
June-RaebuTn's portrait of wo-
man; bought by J. P. Morgan, 49,
CTS.
alphabetically VIRGIN and
Child, with Angels. $50, 600
May--Romney' portrait OF the
Horsely children, $22,50o.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25

$40. 900. Grahamstown, South Africa.
Witnessed a $1,000 trade where a
pair of ostriches were held equiva-
lent TO that very good money.
The Washington times., 1906-02-25
$3.50, 900 for Eight Pictures.

Postage stamps are goodish invest
ments-sometimes. In March two
collections we're sold, one in Lon
don and the other in New Lork, their
totals being $1,000 and $500.
In the great field of portraiture
The Glenwood post., 1906-12-22
EDITORS TURNED DOWN.
Ruling Is Positive Against Transpor
tation for Advertising.

Washington-Abou fifteen mem
bers of the National Editorial Associa
ton had an informal hearing Saturday
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in regard to revision of the rul'
ing of the commission that railroads
can not enter into contract with news
papers for advertising and give in re
turn railroad transportation.
Chairman Knapp declared that prom
inent railroad men had applauded the
action of the commission, that the law
comprehensively, explicitly and unqual'
ifiedly prohibited the transportation
by railroads of persons or property eN'
cept in accordance with the precise
terms of the tariffs filed for that pur.
pose, and that every tariff provided for
payment in money. Expressing his
own personal opinion, the chairman
said that il a railroad were honestly
and legally indebted to newspaper
for advertising or anything else, he
saw no reason why it should not issue
transportation for it, but that there
could be no fake" contracts, which
contemplated merely the furnishing of
transportation for advertising.
1t was suggested that members OF
the association were not precluded by
the ruling of the commission from
making test case if they desire to do
so, and have the question pudicially
determined.
The Glenwood post., 1906-12-22
From Lakes to Ocean.

The season of navigation on the in
terror waterways will soon end and 1t
will be record breaker. Particularly
is this true of the great lakes and the
transactions on the Sault Ste. Marie
canals. The figures for October
showed that 4,404 $50 tons of freight
had passed through the canals up to
that time, quantity largely in excess
of any preceding year. The November
returns will bring the total to 50,000,-
600 tons, which will be a gain of more
than 13 per cent. over 1905. The bulk
of the business is done by the Ameri-
can canal. and the largest part of the
shipments is made up of ore from the
Lake Superior beds. These shipments
are certain to increase rapidly and in
definitely, for the development OF the
ore regions is going on at prodigious
rate, says the Troy News. Articles
other than ore are transported on the
great lakes and through the canals,
and will multiply in number and in
crease in bulk as the country grows
in population and advances in indus
try. The time must come when the
canals now in use will not furnish a
sufficient outlet, and the west is in
tensely alive to that fact. The action
of the state of New York in appropri-
ating s1O1, 100000 to enlarge it's
canals is regarded as a great step
toward improved water facilities, but
the west will never be content until
it has ship channel from the lakes
to tidewater, and that is why special
getting congressional approval and
national aid for the deep waterways
from Chicago to the Mississippi.