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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
woULD RUIN TRE FALLs.
Diversion of Ss,eo0 Cubic Feet . Second
 Woald Be DisAatrous-

Washington. April "A remon- trance against the recommendations Of the international waterways commits sin regarding the diversion Of the Wa ter of Nisgra river at the falls was filed with President Roosevelt today by J. H. Mcfarland. president. and w R Rowland. treasurer of the American Civic Association. and F. B DeberSd. of the Merchants Association of New York
 The Commission recommended that legislation be enacted authorizing the diversion of 65.e00 cubic feet of water per second The remonstrsnee urges that the diversion of that amount of water would have disastrous effect on the falls
 Although the President has ap proved the recommendations of the com mission in a message to Congress. he regarded the remOnstFance as import ant and promised his callers | refer the subject to Secrstsry Taft and to mem bers of the commission
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Married 50 Years
Mir. and Mrs. 4. G. Elder, honorea residents of Rock Island, ILL, celebrated their hftieth wedding anniversary ans commend DuGy's Malt whisT<ey as the only tonie-stimuIant for the weak szA aged.

The recent celebration of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mir. and Mrs. A. G. Elder. 11l0 Third Avenue. Rock Isl- and, H., In which the bride and groom of fifty years ago participated with their children. grandchildren and im- mediate relatives, was a memorable oc- casion.
 They were married in New Boston, III. fifty years ago, and has resided in Rock Island for about forty years In an interview, MT. and Mrs. Elder said:
 For years we have been using Duff fy's Pure Malt Whiskey, and we believe our sturdy old age is due to it's con- stant and regular use. It is just the medicine for folks of our age, both of us being nearly seventy years old. and il is mild and pleasant to take. and strengthening. We recommend 1t to all aged and weak people as the great est tonic-stimulant known, There is no other so beneficlal"-A. c. FIDER lll0 Third Avenue Rock Island, Ill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
HANCOCK JURY OUT.
Believed That Mfstrssl wul se the Re-
 suit nt Rrewfna


 Hrewton. April 4-(Specfal 1-Judge Brewer this morning delivered his charge to the jury in which the Han cock murder case. together with some special charges prepared by defendants counsel Other special charges were not admitted Judge Brewers charge was clear and plain He read and made plain law covering all degrees of murder The jury took the case un- der consideration at eleven o'clock this morning and up to a late hour tonight no agreement had been reached The opinion now is it will result .a mfstrial
 The docket was cleared this evening and all jurors not serving were dis charged for the term
 tAn The Advertiser of Tuesday morn ing. In a sentence which should have read. Troutman was unarmed-- an error Of the typos made 1t read Iroutman was unmarried This error Is regrettable- Professor Trout- man was single man. as other por- fions of the story made clear.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

paving the air, for he hasn't exactly it shatters the stiffness of the night in- to unholy fragments. We can't always make out what is being said, but in the words of the song We can guess"
 There sa particularly long drawn outburst from the man, a rasp from the long rope, toot from the tug and a bump. Down comes the gangplanki We have arrived at Dover.
 It is midnight as we step down upon the soil of England. Thank heaven, on solid land at last
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Fielding.
TO Invite the President.

Chicago. April "A large delegation of representatives of the league of American municipalities left here to- day for Washington to urge upon President Roosevelt the importance of his attendance at the next convention Of the league, which win be held In this city. September 26. 27 and 2S next.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Kz;; MA. On board ship.
SOME HEAVY SWAPPING.
Remarkable Record Made by Climber.
On board ship.

A*o1IhHE h"uEt ftttyFM MUue Dy OIlmDcfb In
 Mobile Games.
 During the three Mobile games the Climb CTS have made 35 hits and 26 runs while Mobile has made four hits and no runs Apperious leads in the hitting with seven hits in the three games though Busch has a higher percentage with three hits in his one game. Schwartz is next to Apperious with five hits in the three games while Delehanty and Mullaney have four each. pelehant two more times at bat than Null. giving the first baseman the highest aver age
 MulIaney has twenty-seven chances with cut an error while Perry has 12 without an error. Schwartz having fourteen chances with one error-his wild throw yesterday Hs ussn twenty-one and McAlees eight with out an error. The team batting for the three games is .32l and fielding 9sO-if they keep this up the anvil chorus will bo out of business The averages for the three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05


 crescent. We are past now. and over there by the disappear ing light Is De- yer. Nearer and nearer we draw. The long. mar row pier can be be seen. lights are dancing up and down and a tug fastens it. self to our bow and pulls us against the strong black tide. A ynica hoarse from be- ing fed on gin and bloaters. di- rects the opera tions. It is an English long,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
FREK no OUn nrAnwpaI

tea n.1s ErS1cn-dez1gned GOLD-FIATED sran1et ~ naEd e1Rmelea in pretty eel fer ever Daaes and we Wnzf eTerx -, f1, have o1e. 1en cents tR akanans ks a@ksd Ss of CaseArets with vhaeh fhis dsasfy bax is and wrtte your address plainly ASIrrsN Sterling Remedy CoDpaay. Chf<zxo sx Ns1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
FINANCES OF RUSSIA.
Revenue Collections in she Empire Exc
 ce1led Estimate.

Washington. April 4.--Baron Rosen, the Russian Ambassador received a dis patch today from St. Petersburg an- nounclng that the ordinary revenues of the empire for 1905 exceeded esti- mates included fin the budgets by s23,- 100000 and were ss.000,000 in excess of the income from the same source in 1904. The ordinary receipts for Jan uary of the present year exceeded those for January of 1905 by s4,000.000. The dispatch which Is from the Russian telegraph agency. concludes:
 Taken altogether. Increase of receipts for the first two months of 1906 are all the more remarkable as certain coi- 1ections were adversely influenced by disorders and strikes. The receipts from the government railroads during January show a decrease of s9.500,000 but since the end of February railroad receipts have reached the same figure as in 1905, showing that q normal con- dition of railroad transportation has been re-established"
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Kate Clyde =

; MAKES THE TRANAATLAN11C VOYAGE
 IN LATE WINTER AND BECOMES CON WINGED SHE IS NOT A BORN eAuOk-- IME MAI-DE-MER. HOWEVER. DOES
 NOT ExTINGuIsH HER SENSE OF
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Your Thirty Feet of u,. Bowels

is simply Weakness. CT Laziness of ths BowelMusclss.
 Want of Exercise. Indoor Employmsns. veakens these BovslMuseles. just ss it weakens Arm and Leg Muscles.
 Castor oil. or Gyoerine. ~in grease the pass2ges for one load of Food st time. but these lubricants can't help the Cause of Delay.
 "Physie" Ike Salts. cslomel. Jaiap. Phosphate of Soda. Mineral Waters. sim ply flush-out the Bowels for the one ooea- sion only.
 They do not remove ihe Cause of Con stipation.
 Moreover. they waste so much of the precious Digestive Fluids. tn the flushing process. that Ii takes bigger dose every succeeding time to move the Bowel load.
 But it is different with cascarets.
 cascarets act on the Muscles of the Bowels and Insestines. They act just as Cold Water. or Exercise act on a Lazy man.
 They act like exercise.
 A Cascsret produces the same sort of Naiura, result that Six Mile walk in the country would produce.
 The Vest Pocket Box is sold by all Druggists. at Ten Gents.
 Bevery careful to get the genuine. made only by the Sterling Remedy Co.,, and never sold in bulk. Every tablet stamped "CCc."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

Crossing the Atlantic in late winter. Oh. don't think I'll do 1t again. that's all.
 It's too mluch of a gamble! For three days the machinery purs along without jolt or jar. The third after noon you float along in a sea of oil Your porthoie is open. and you lounge around in your cabin wondering wheth- CT you are headed for England or the tropics and marvelIing greatly at the wonders of the gulf stream.
 Suddenly. that very night the dark ness is filled with creakings and whis- perings of the wind. You wriggle un- easily in your sleep. when crash. slam. bang. you are brought up sitting by a wave trying to break the glass of your porfhole. As It recedes. the ship fol- lows it. and you describe a paraboiic curve. landing on the floor on your ear.
 You rish to the window-porthole of course. I mean--and. behold, the hor- ixon has disappeared. It is somewhere above your head. and you are looking down. into a cavernous hole of churn- ing angry green water.
 And after that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

To forget this IS to strip art of all its nooier and larger interpretations
 Dr. Burton will deliver the second of his lectures tonight at o'clock at the Girls High School.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Nc More sunshine.

Nc More sunshfne.
 They come and put on the blind port hole made of heaviest Iron That is to protect the three inch thick glass. and for the rest of the voyage behold your self In utter darkness, save for the electric bulb overhead he ship rocks and pitches and heayes. every timber shrieking with agony You hear noun tain high waves breaking over the deck directly above your head and sweeping away with a roar and a crash that threaten the rails. and there is a leak aver your bed that brings a trop now and then on your nose
 In bed? Of course you are in bed that Is. if you are not on the floor. your peaceful little grave. because, at least. graves don't rock you to pieces. You would give all your chances of eternal salvation if the ship would only keep its poise one second for you to get your internal machinery right
 Of course the doctor Is there. He comes in every half hour and beseeches vou to hold on tight to the medicine which he has given you, and he prom fSes that If you do--
 But you don't' You can't do any thing but. we'll
 In the end even your agony becomes mechanical You only know that you are going on this way for all eternity. But once upon a time. away far back in the dim past. you led a happier. dif- ferent life.
 Away in the distance. somewhere un- derxround. the band is playing dis mally- Suddenly it stops in the middei of a bar. You learn afterward it Is because at this point the band all fell on it's head. and it was half an hour before it could collect It's instruments. At intervals the very much flatted notes of bugfe announce that meals are in progress.
 MeaIsI
 Do you ever want a meal again. Why did you ever eat one In the pasti
 Some Kindly Distraction.
 But there is humor on board as we'll Upstairs in the drawing room Mir. Fat iy is making his elephantine way among the carefully screwed down tables and chairs. Each lurch of the ship sends him wild iy swaying and paving the air. for he hasn't exectIy what sailors
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Albion at Last. i.

The sun goes down. the stars come out. the pilot climbs aboard from his little boat. with it's red and green lights dancing on the waves.
 The coast line Is jeweled with hum dred lights from different villages. Folkestone flashes like q diamond
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

has been recognized for years as the Hundreds who have used 1t continuous tirely to it's regular use.
 Physicians everywhere prescribe IL cases, and as the best cure and prev bronchitis, grippe and all stomach com ment of malaria and low fevers.
 Duffy's for fifty years has been the and is absolutely free from fusel oil everywhere by ministers of the Gospel
 CAUTION-When you ask for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey he sure you get the genuine. Interruptions dealers, mind fuI of the excellence of this prepara- ton, will try to sell you cheap imita- tIOns and malt whiskey substitutes, which are positively harmful. Demand "Duny's" and he sure you get 1t. It Ia the only absolutely pure Malt Whis- key. Sold in sealed bottles OnIyI never in bulk. Look for the trademark, the cold ChemIst,- on the label, and be certain the seal over the cork is un- broken. All druggists and ErOcers, or direct, $1.OO a bottle. Medical booklet and dOctOrs' advice free. Duffy Malt WhIskey Co.,, ROchester, N. Y.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
me s,sv.tlo. BrIghtens.

enough for the ship to stay in bed where he can't pull 1t to pieces!"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
Duhv's Pure Malt whiskey

yreatest tonic -stimulant for old people. ly say their hearty old age Is due en-
 for all weakening and wasting dis entive of consumption, pneumonia, plaints. It is invaluable in the treat
 only whiskey recognized as a medicine, This is guarantee. It Is indorsee and temperance workers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

For sale by all druggists. Special Agents. West Bros. Drug Co. M0ntgom-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
White Ribbon
Remedy

All letters e9ss k- GeAEfisi and &- fyJ&{ when an SWered-
 White Ribbon Remedy sold by druggists every where, or sent by mailin plain pack age, price Hm
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05

Surgeon. My good man I am afraid there is bullet in you.
 Victim: Aw. cut it out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
Gun Cotton a. Fuel.

Light another hundred foot candle
of condensed gun cotton. We mus
make the next mile in less than a min
ute,'
That command, or something like 1t
will be given 10y the commander Of d
United States torpedo 'ua in the next
war in which this country may unhap
PLY he engaged. writes. ". H. Stewart
In Technical World Magazine. 1t will
not mean that, finding his ship in des
perate situation, the captain has decid-
ed to blow himself and his whole com
mand out of the water. II win signify
only the adoption as emergency fuel OF
the wonderful new compound. motor.
tie" a secret composition Of gun cotton
aud nitroglycerin. invented 10y Hiram
Maxim. whose "maximite" is the high
explosive now used by the government
in submarine torpedoes.
Motorite for fuel use is packed in
long steel tubes and under forced draft
can furnish an almost unlimited
amount OF power for short distance.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
A Big schooIPoom In Disorder.

The house OF representatives has
nearly 4o0 members They cannot be-
kept in order. and AT every increase of
the apportiOnmcnt the confusion grows.
Conversation Is almost unceasing. aud
applause laughter and dcrision are fre-
quent The phrase Ia most frequent
use comes from the speaker. The house
win be in order" but it seldom is.
Laughter" is the easiest thing there
IL ia legislation Wit aud humor or
what passes FOR such Ina the hOuse-are
Ike play book The matter is dun
and iirpsomc when yon read 70. but
when 10 has the establishment OF a
crowd IL goes There can Doe no as
ccrtafnmcut Of the cause of applause"
aud laughter in congress 10y mail
telegraph or telephone \ person must
De on TIE ground 10 see the perform
ancc. and then when he goes home and
reflects by the light Of his frcside be is
wont 10 pick up the joke department
Of the almanac to Keep ont Of the dol
drums. Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
es the pumps from n rain fall is very
much reduced,
PETIT JURY DRAWN
BY Circuit Clerk Davis For Service
at May Term Of Circuit
Court.

Petit jurors were drawn ycsterda
by Circuit Clerk Lee b. Davis TO aery
at the May term of circuit court.
They are as follows
First Cairo Pfe2inct-C V. Neff.
First Cairo Preclnct-James Me-
han.
Second Cairo Precinct Morris Su
Ivan
Second Cairo Precinct-Chares
Arter
Second Cairo Preclnct-stepheI
bradley.
Third Cairo preclnct-James Cole
man. ST.,
i Fourth Cairo Precinct--Dennis Far
row
| Fonfth Cairo Precinct Seden Fish
Eer{3
Fourth Cairo Precinct Dennis Ma
honey
Fourth Cairo Precinct--Henry vii
| son.
Fourth Cairo Precnct-H. NJ Dieck
meyer
Fourth Cairo Precinct-Frank Carrie
Fifth Cairo Precinct-Alfred Brown
Sixth Cairo Precinct-r A Fuller
Sixth Cairo Precinct-George Far
rim
sixth Cairo Precinct--Samuel 3
Miller.
Sixth Cairo Precinct Martin 0.
Donohue,
SIKH Cairo Precinct. Y Turner.
Seventh Cairo Precinct-Michael ca
hill
Seventh Cairo Precinct-Wm. Gun.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10

Last year there were over nuOI HON
icides committed ia the Quilted states.
considerable increase over The pre-
vious year Jndou lirdly There was
also an increase iu other crimes. The
statement Is made that. with the single
exception 81 tie Italians. the American
people are the most h0micidal natioa
Ia abe civilized wofid Tie Indictment
against this country Is emI,ha zed by
a comparison with the criminal stats
tics 81 other leading nations In Italy
the hoInicides number iu5 Ter million
Inhabitants per year. in this country
last year the ratio was li5 per million.
The annual average ratio OF homiciie-
to population in Germany Is thirteen
per million. in France niHetecn per mill
lion and ia the United Kingdom twen-
ty-seven per miliion.-Kansas City In
dependent
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
A CAPE COD tERMAN.
How the Gentle Yankee Became the
l<inx of jamaica"

! This Is the remarkable story of Cap
tain Baker and jamaica how this gen
/ tie CAGE Goa fisherman became king Of
/ Gtaal Britam's richest West Indian
| isle. Tile history of the conquest began
! thlrty-hye years ago, with an armada
of one lone schooner, she had two
masts and could carry Il hundred tons
Her owner aud skipper was Lorenzo
Dow Baker the son Of Il Wlaler, and Il
child Of the sea as We'll He took car
20 TO ArgostlrA, and on his return trip
carried lot OF bananas. But by the
time be reached New York they had all
rotted The next time he. Went he got
very green bananas. The fruit was not
plentiful. so he began to teach the PEG
pie how to grow them.
The first man who has ten acres in
bananas win be rich man" he told
them with earnest conviction He
touched intimately the lives of the
blacks lie was known in their homes
and at their church soclals. and he
helped them to build the chapel for
which they were collecting money.
He talked to the school children,
rooms full Of bright eyed little picka
ninnies, and he told them Of the good
Of money Then he told them how to
get II, Grow bananas" he said Grow
them wherever your NANNY viii let
you have foot of ground"
Captain Baker had to push his cam
paign Of education at both ends In la-
maica he taught people TO grow ba-
nanas, but in the United States he had
to teach people to eat them. They We're
not yet an ordinary article Of diet, and,
moreover, the yellow kind from ia
muica WAS comparatively unknown.
But he has succeeded lie revived the
island from economic prostration. and
it is flouriShing He did 1t 10y making
the banana trade.
Captain Baker still lives mt Port An
tonic, which now Is not Only an Amer
lean town. but Boston town In the
summer he goes back to Wellheet.
there renews Intercourse with May
flower descendants like himself, tries
periodically to wiring an appropriation
from Uncle loe Cannon for the pilgrim
monument at Proyincetown. quietly
looks after his charities and puts his
sturdy shoulder 10 any enterprise for
the beautfying Of life along Cape Cod
Port Antonio flies the American tlag
although it Is a British possession. The
original plan was to alternate the flags.
Its the noly's business to change
EN-" Captain Baker explained but |
I'm afraid he doesn't know bis busi-
ness very we'll Worlds Work.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
YOUNG MUSICIAN
Miss Jewel Harmed. Pupil Of Miss
Emma Woodward. Will Give
Recital

Miss Jewel Harmed. q young music.
ian. ] years of age. will give a recital
this afternoon az $50 O'Clock ar he
studio Of her teacher Miss Emma
Woodward
Mrs. Leigh Wyman soprano. will
assist in the program, the instrumental
numbers Of which are as follows:
Due-R ndo in ID major. opus =.
MOL Gurlith-Miss Woodward Al &c.
oud piano.
Barcarolle from opus y. G2l. Schar-
wenka.
SolfeggiettO-P l. Emhach.
Four Leaf Clover-Leila Bromwell
Entreaty-Carl Bohm.
Waichman's Song. Elm TAM. Ma
tlonai Song-fFrcm opus No. 12i.
Grieg
Who is sylvia FIR Schubert.
Murmuring Brook-Csrl Bohm.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
NEW CLUB HOUSE
Permanent Plans for Alexander Clubs
New Home Are at Hand--By-laws
tc Be Adopted.

Alexander clubs new building
project is not sleeping. The building
committee has received the permanent
plans for the $20.000 club house and
will go over the .pecifcations finally
IN a few days after which il will be
ready 10 receive bids The club bought
the ground. a. is known. and has
about $4,000 t. put into The building.
The balance needed to put up the
building will be advanced by the
banks
The club will be called to meet in
a few days 70 pass ON the new bylaws
which have been posted on the board
at the club house for ,ome time past
II is not likely that much change will
be made, and the adoption of the laws
a. framed by the committee IS under
TODD 10 strengthen the Organization
very matera ally for any responsibility
that will be placed upon il in the cree
ton q the new club house
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
.PU MP|NG RAIN
Sundays Precipitation Not Worth Con.
siderstion in Connection With
Csiro's Big Water Throwers.

The rain fall on Sunday measured
only OILS Il an inch according 10 the
weather bureaus report Il rained
very hard al intervals. in spots and
between patches Of sun shine. and
there was reason To believe that more
water fell. But the government re-
port is correct Of course. and OBS Of
an inch when spread over the 600
acres within the Cairo Ievee is coaeid-
cradle. An inch Of rain within these
levees. if carefully collected. would
measure abolt 5i.31l 500 gallons and
Sundays precipitation would measure
about six million gallons.
That sounds formidable. but IL
wouldn't he much fer Cairo's big
pump to handle. These pumps would
throw over the levees all the water
from an inch of rain n about fifteen
hours and all Of Sundays rain in about
two and half hours. OF course. a con
siderable percent age Of every rain fan
loses Itself in evaporation. and in the
ground when the rivers are low. 50
that the quantity Of water which reach.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-10
FINE COMPANY
RcntfroW Stock Company Is Pro
rounced the Best Of the Season
Ladies Free Tonight.

The above COMPANY wii appear Ia
! high'class repertoire at The opera
house 'all his week. a Jagge ana wal
pieasol au1,euce viltcssad tbo bro
Itacdaa OF Milton Nyuo p3y From
Sire % son, last might Miss Corn
Lagloa Mitchell and EImor Bun.hana.
in the leading roleo. were heartily al.
Iplauded The suppor IS far above the
usual run OF repertoire companies, and
las natural consequences tho entire
play was handler in most artistic
manner. ToJ much praise cannot be
given TO the vaudeville features, these.
.of themselves make a program worth
the price OF admis ion. to say nothing
OF the play proper The japanese won
ders Tho Snuataros.' Grace Rent
frow, Harry King, Fred Damon ana
Baby King, offer NEST clever ana en-
joyahle specialties. The company's own
orchestra IS another feature. and the
music rendered adds brightness TO the
program Tonight the famous play,
lucFetla Borgia, will be pre- ented
with correct costuming and scenic
effects. Big bargain matinee Wednes-
day afternoon, the magnificent mas
terpiece BY Dumas Camille" Ten
cents 70 all parts q the opera house.
The management mas concluded To
run the ladies' free tickets one more
night III procured before G D. IN. at the
box Office.