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appears. It is the exaggeration of traV-
elers; the Indian jugglers don't do it.
India is only sixteen hours from Cey-
lon and Indians are numerous here.
Mr.. Moffatt when he arrived at the
hotel. paid the driver of the carriage
what he thought was right. When
the driver expOstulated, Mr.. Moffatt
prepared to cane him. Mr.. MOffatt in
tereStS me because he gets his rights.
find that he has lived in India and
in South Africa; L cannot find out
much about him, except in bits of in
formation he drops at intervals. But
ne is a true EngllShman, a good fell
low, and he gets his rights. He says
that in South Africa, where he has
hunted. he has seen lions and deer
go down to the water holes together;
out after the lions and the deer have
filed up on water, the deer had bet
ter look out, or the lion will eat them.
He also says that there are a tribe of
men in India who are professional
thieves; they admit they are thieves.
Mr. Moffatt once had a lot of these
thieves out hunting with him. but
they are true sportsmen, and enjoyed
the sport so much they they would
not take any pay for beating up the
game. / do not know whether the
story is true or not: and I don't care.
The guests at the dance last night
mad very tame evening, I thought
but they made all sorts of pretenses.
AAAIy AS4t4AAAACQ MS VI 0cSlS dL Il EE-
cept1on' at home; and nobody at home
has a good time at reception" If
you are disposed to pay any atten-
ton to what I say, let me impress this
on your mind. there is nothing in
travel as entertaining as you have
been led to believe. I am going up
into the mountains tomorrow to rest
up for the not, miserable ocean trip
home, no more travel for me. and no
longing for it,
During the Gay Festivities attend
ing the hotel bali last night. the First
70 me mysteriously, as 1 sat on the
+ veranda, and said that thrice during
the afternoon he had driven the crows
/ cut Of my room. He looks" Mr.. Moi
fatt said, mot unlike king Edward. -
From my room at the Gale Face
4 hotel, can hear Old Ocean thunder
+ ing against the shore Tomorrow [
shall move to get rid of the sound: in
future, the gentle ripple of the Mis-
/ gestlOn of water craved by my nature.
went out walking before breakfast
this morning. as breakfast is not serv-
ed until o'clock A rickshaW man
me his rig People here do not seem
/ 10 understand that a man should oc-
] casiOnaly want to walk for exercise
/ ycu cant enjoy Ceylon, the natives
bother you so much, trying to get
money out of you. The Cfngalese are
I the best statesmen IN the world. they
can sell you an article for 20 rupees
and lcck as though they are losing
mcney. whereas, they are really sell
Iirg at a big profit They are natural
I born merchants.
Tuling my walk this morning 7 saw
/ the following notice posted on q fence.
/ THE Fez Question: A Mass meeting
of the Mohammedans OF Ceylon viii be
held at MOrandana mosque. Dec 81
at 4 p. m, to consider the advisabf
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the second roll call no one changed his
vote. A third vote was demanded and
it resulted the same.
1T appears that this committee is not
going to agree said Hornaday. Il
move that this matter be passed for the
present and the committee adjourn for
an hour and allow Mr.. Scott, Mr.. Allen
and any other candidate chance to try
and get together and report a plan for
the holding of a primary to the com
mittee" Sponable made an amendment
that a report be received from q ma
jority of the candidate in thirty min
Utes.
1T is pretty well conceded that two of
these candidates (referring to Scott and
Enright) have a single purpose and that
Mr.. Allen would be in a minority. I will
not agree to a report that is not unanl-
nous"
The three congressional candidates
did rot finish their conference, however,
hind closed doors until O'Clock. and
then adjourned till 1880. Shortly after
10 o'clock it was announced that an
agreement had been reached.
They decided to let the county central
committees in each county name the
judges and clerks of election. There
viii be three judges and two clerks at
each voting precinct Each candidate
will have authority to have any judge
or clerk dismissed, and substitute an
other in his place. The candidate will
not have to give any reason for such
dismissal, either. It is believed that
many of the counties will want to hold
their elections at the same time and
places the congressional primaries are
held. That will save expenses all
around.
But if a county central committee
does not agree to this plan. the candi-
dates Will name a committee, which
viii have the authority to name the
judges and clerks of election, and the
primaries viii be held separate and dis
tinct from the county primaries.
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FAKE JUGGLERS.
Editor Howe Pays a Trickster
to Perform for Him.
Says Work Was Very Crude and
Easy to Perform.
COULD DO IT HIMSELF.
Wrote Letter on a Day He Was
Dreaming Of Home.
Mad at the Oceans Roar, the
Coffee and the Prices.
COULD DO IT HIMSELF.
December %:

Thursday, December %:
At the Gale Face hotel. [ met an
old traveller I had known on the ship
as the major" He highly recon-
mended the Grand Oriental. and I
was somewhat surprised to find him at
the Gale Face
cit is easily explained" he said; st
intended going to the Gale Face, so
4 recommended the Grand Oriental
All the others went to the Grand ORR
entail, and had choice of rooms at the
Gale Face"
The queer name of the hotel, by
the-way, is due to she fact that a
point of land runs out into the ocean
and this is known as Gale (pronOunc-
ed gall). Point Gale is province in
Ceylon.
Mr.. Monatt, my room mate on the
"Simla,' stopped at the Grand Orien-
tai, and last night we invited him and
Mrs. Williamson up to dinner. Mr.
MoHatt was much interested jim the
head waiter, who wore a metal de-
vice bearing the words III. W. Mr.
MOmatt called the III. w" over to our
table and found out a good deal about
the WOmen's combs the men wear
They form sort Of halo; MT. Moffati
thinks that maybe the halo, SO import
ant in this country, originated in this
way. A very poor native band played
during the dinner, and afterwards for
dancing While we were seated on the
veranda watching the dancers, a real
Indian luggIer, OF whom Il have heard
80 much appeared and offered to make
mango tree grow from the nut for a
rupee (about SO cents). So we re-
paired to the garden and saw the won
derful' trick Tt is very commonplace
You hear ja America. that it is a Won
der have seen much better tricks in
the Atchison theater. The man caused
q shrub a foot high to appear from g
pile of sand; ] could have done it my
self with an hours practice. These
wonderful" Indian tricks you hear are
talk. AT home, we hear that the In
dian jugglers cause a great tree to grow
and that a boy climbs the tree ana dis
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OF meme rlalizing His Majesty. King Ed
ward, with reference to the above sub
Ject. Eminent speakers from Bombay
will be present -
ut home it would be about equally
important should a mass meeting be
called to consider the question of wear
ing straw hats after September 20.
The fo: is a little red cap which the
Mohamme dans wear in the hottest
weather. It seems that some one Sug-
gested that 1T would be better if they
were straw hats during the heat of the
day and this the MOhammedans re-
gard as an insult to their religion: they
will import a speaker from Bombay,
and proceed to tell King Edward that
their religion is not treated with proper
respect OF all the known religions
the Mohammedan is probably the most
ridiculous, brutal and intolerant, yet
Mohamme danS are constantly on the
lookout for insults; people who do not
believe in the Nohamme dan fOOlishness
must conduct themselves just So or
there is trouble. In our country a no
tfce similar to the one noted above
would read: Straw hat meeting; A
meeting viii be held at City hall on
the evening of September 2Sth to con-
slider the Straw Hat question. Certain
of our citizens saw fit to wear their
straw hats after September 20, in the
face of ridiculous rule made by no.
body knows whom, that straw hats are
called in after that date. Indeed. rude
boys whistled the air known as Where
Did You Get That Hat when certain
of our citizens passed along the streets
wearing their straw hats on the 21st of
September. True. the straw hats were
somewhat yellow; but are we not Free
men, Are we not guaranteed liberty
by the Constitution Therefore a
meeting viii be held as above stated
to consider the advisa bility of drawing
up q remonstrance to Theodore Roose-
welt, president of the United States
(Signed) The Straw Hat Committee
You hear it said that good
cannot be obtained in Atchison. The
best coffee L ever drank was in Atchi-
son; the poorest at the leading hotel
! in Colombo Island of Ceylon, where
coffee is grown. They say all the good
Kansas beef is shipped away I am
inclined to believe that al the good
coffee produced in Ceylon is shipped
to America.
The proprietors of the Gale Face
hotel are polite and accOmm Oda ting I
cheerfully attest TO that. The trouble
seems 10 be too many native servants
who do not know anything.
Not as much coffee is grown in Cey-
lon as formerly. An insect appeared
some years ago and ruined q good
many coffee planters. But the pluck
i lest of the coffee planters engaged in
+ tea growing, and are again prospecting.
/ This morning I was shown tea worth
i 500 a pound. although a very fair
article can be purchased here for forty
cents a pound. Tea at a hundred dol
/ lars a pound is rank fooishness.
cannot tolerate tea at any price.
In running around today, encoun-
tered at a public market the jungle
fowl. The ROSTERS look exactly ike
i the red domestic ROSTERS we have at
home while the hens look very much
/ like our prairie chickens. The jungle
fowl is a wild game bird here, much
sought after by sportsnaen. The won
+ derfuI thing about the birds is that the
l rooster looks like the ordinary red
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rooster seen around American barn
yards, while the hen looks like our wild
prairie hen. And this is natural here.
There is d great deal of game in
Ceylon: deer, elk, bear, leopards, wild
boar, jungle fowl etc In the wild dis
tricts where the buried cities are found
elephants still run wild and are hunted.
It seems that the island Of Ceylon is
so old that it has an extinct ciViliza-
ton; it has cities so old that they have
been abandoned, and forgotten, and
covered up by the dust of ages. These
buried cities are found in the widest
and most inaccessible portions of the
island which is upwards of 500 miles
long, and here wild elephants are
found. When you visit these buried
cities you stop not at hotels, but at
rest houses, where only roof is pro-
vided you must take your own food,
your own bedding and your own SER
wants. After you have been at rest
house twenty-four hours you are turn
ed out, if another traveller arrives. and
there is no room for him. The same
queer rule is practiced in the most in
accessible portions of India.
As have said. southern India is only
sixteen hours from colombo and thou
sands of the people of southern India
have crossed over to Ceylon; there are
also great many Mohammedans here
The man who drove US about this
morning was a low caste Hindu. There
are also many high caste Brahmins
here. The Brahmin is the leading
man in India: It is the joy and pleas
ure of all the other people of India to
contribute to the support of the Brah-
min, and bow to him.
When I realize how lazy am be-
coming, I am alarmed. doubt if I
viii be able to get back to the habits Of
industry. I have done nothing today
but drive around and look at things
on dare not walk IN Colombo. II you
do the beggars and tfadesmen will
4 rselTr inf
coed. Out in the Wyoming cattle coun-
try. a man is ali right if he is on horse
hack but if he is on foot the cattle
do not respect AIM and run over him.
Same way here; no one respects man
or foot.
The Christmas holidays are more
serious hefe than elsewhere: the
banks have been closed several days
and viii not reopen until monday, but
the office of Fhes. Cook & Sons is op-
en- every day. If you want anything
in this country, you go to Thos- Cook
& Sons for it. They are excursion
agents. bankers, etc, and their en-
ployes are always polite What
happy thought that was: for Thomas
Cook & Sons to insist upon their
the popularity of Thos. Cook & Sons
will set the business people of the
Orient to thinking.
A good many Of the Cingalese chew
a nut which cause their lips to look
red And thew omen are not as modest
as I could wish: 7 have seen dozens
of them today. naked from the waist
M. z. W. H.
Danger is near at hand when the kid
news are sick Kfdney-Ettes VIII purify
and strengthen the kidneys and restore
them to their normal ana healthy con
dftfon % cents Geo ". Stans6eId.
druggist. and Arnold Drug company.
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A REASONABLE INDICATION OF THE DE-
SERVED POPULARITY

Of plans management may fairly
number of Metropolitan policies only
greater than that Of other in America but
fall regular companies combined
exceeds, fact COMBINED POPULATION "a the
Territories forming Union
Maine Hampshire Vermont Island, Connecticut
Delaware District Columbia Florida Oregon Colorado Arizona
Alaska Idaho Montana Nevada Wyoming Utah, Dakota
New Mexico, Indian Oklahoma
ington Hawaii, and CITIES combined pop
uadon of Greater New York. Chicago Philadelphia Boston,
Louis Cleveland, Cincinnati Milwaukee,
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Friehtfullx Burned.

Chas w. Moore. a machinist, of Ford
City, Pa, had his hand frightfully burned
in an electrical furnace He applied Buck
lens Arnica Salve with the usual result:
"A quick and perfect cure Greatest
healer on earth for burns, wounds. sores.
eczema and piles. 25c at the Arnold DRUG
Co, S21 North Kansas ave.
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State Journal. 1Oc a Week.
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Danger. is near at hand when the kid
news are sick. Kidney-Ettes viii purify
and strengthen the kidneys and restore
them to their normal and healthy. con-
dition % cents Geo " Stansfelds
druggist and Arnold Drug company.
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SIGNIFICANT FACTS
The Companys policy paid averaged in num-
Der for each minute and of each business day
hours and in $1O583 year through.
The and tmeIness of these payments cleaned
the paid during year. 526
policies old, 1891 policies
which had under months and
year of insurance
THE DAILY AVERAGE OF THE CoMPANYs
BUSINESS DURING 1905 WAS:
per day n Number Of Claims Paid.
6,972 per day in Number of Policies Issued
$1,5O2,4 1890 per day in New Insurance
S123788.29 per day Payments Poicy-holders and
Addition Reserve.
$77,275.e4 per day in Increase of Assets.
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a nut which cause their lips to look
red. And then 6naen are not as modest
as I could wish: 7 have seen dozens
of them todaEs naked from the waist
m z. W. H.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
MARKET FOR COTTON
LITTLE TRADING DONE, SALES RE-
 ING ONLY 100000.
The One is Fairly Steady. and at the Close Prices are at Decline of Four Points to Advance
 of Two Points.

New York, April, 2.-The cotton mar ket was quiet during todays session but showed a fairly steady tone after stsaSy at decfne sna of foST pots
 advance of two points. Sales were esti- mated at 100000 bales; tue smallest full days business since @the begin- ping of the recent upward movement. pline of 6 to II points under selling by room bears which was informed
 confidently by better weather in the south and the apparent absence of the bull support But later cables from
 Liverpool reported Urge spot sales. Adyices were received from manufac- turing centers on the continent re- porting that the settlement of the Mo- roccan question was stimulating de- mand for raw an1 manufactured cotton and a local authority issued crop re- port stating that the weather had been bad and that very favorable con- dftions would be required from now on to give. the estimated per, cent in- cred on these various reports and the market rallied to about the closing level of Saturday. There was no in dication of bull support of general de- de session the market be- cause very quiet and irreg- ular within a narrow range. The close was about three points off from the b~st. The new crop was relatively steady all day and seems to De at fresh business. Receipts at the ports today 12.153 bales. against 15,170 last week and 24.S03 last year. For the week testimated) s5,000 bales against year. Todays receipts at. New orleans 1.461 bales against S.674 last year and at Houston 3,253 bales against 9,213 last year. @-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
NEW ORLEANS COTTON LETTER.
ny friSsss Ss.u M,ss ss tsys%.n co%Tsany

scsss cssmsrcs Mss ss X developed no no particuiariy interestinT fea- lures ,,, today. Liyerpooi was If anything. . ,ittis ,ns worse than expected, except on spots, sales amounting to i4.ooo bales. The. wealth CT map showed up clear all over the belt, n the day May contracts sold as low as back to Saturdays closing level. The inac- to ease off several % Joints ef' in the % sfternoon
 but shorts covered to some extent. before only to points on the old crop, and at q net gain of 2 to points on the new crop Spots were quiet and 1-1sc lower on all grades. with total sales of 1.750 bales, The pct that the old crop months closed at . advance for the day would seem to indicate that speculative activity is becoming more Colonel Price today wired that he thought October and January cotton was cheap at which we heartily concur The critical time of the planting season Is now at hand and s operations will be based in a great measure
 s ss ss ss s new ceas
 be shaping themselves for another bad spell. who were inclined to sell on, the firmnsss today. Aside from the weather. the great strength of the statistical position is the next most interesting factor in the present situation. The only bearish feature to be found in the statistics Is the increase in port stochs , aao over last yea. when the tota, was 1000 against 74l. today. It will not ment will be done away with. From April 2nd to April 27th last year. port stocks gained over 100000 bales. whereas this year. a decline will probably take place we do not see how the growing strength of the cotton situation can lead to anything but higher prices. MILLER & COMPANY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
u. .ss; fancy patent $. .2s: half patent s4.7s. Grits-Per bbL $3. 50: per sack s1. 50. MsaI-s2Ac: pearl 67 kc.

A ss: fancy patent $s. .25; half patent $4.T6.
 Grits-Per bbL 8 50; per sack s1. 50.
 MeaEs2hc: pearl 67hc.
 Lard-Leaf. shc; compound 7Ac; basis Hams-Dove 14hc: others 13h Q14c
 fSrain and Hay-Bran S1. 15i shorts S1 25: corn chops 63hc: white corn 67c: oSts mixed 45c: white 46e: white clipped 47c; timothy s5e; Johnson grass s5e: rust D' Sotton seed huiis--Loose. per ton ss %: baied s7 %: sacks $500: cotton seed meal Fruit and Produee-Red and yellow ouiona s1 per bushel; potatoes. Wisconsin stock Sl sTeen-heads S2. 50 crate: California oranges Sa. begas $i. 65 sack: white peas S225 bnshel: seed potatoes. early rose. peerless SLl5 bushel; second crop Bliss trium ph si.3S busheI; apple and white wine vineg T isc gallon; fancy full cream cheese l5c ib :: fsncy H. P. peanuts ec Ib.. choice peanut. Be ib; evaporated apples Sc; lemons S4 50: California prunes S0-60 sAc: 60-75 74c 70! 50 SAC Ib.; California peaches Sc lb. mixed nuts 2s-lb. boxes l2 hc; walnuts 25hc lb . Tarragona almonds 16c; Ivaca l5hc; oceans medium size 10hc; heavy weight Malaga
 Canned GoodH-Salmon chums xI oe pinks $l 10: Columbla River Sl 50; sockeves Sl SO. sardines. American A -oil t2. IS; mus tArd g. s5; imported q c $14: oysters. F. w.. tomatoes. 2-lb.. si; s-Ib-. sl. Is.
 Molasses-GeoTgia cane. barrel gse per gallon: cases. gallons s3.7S Ter case: maple syrup. Log Cabin. gallons S1A; < gallons t7: SO; quarts sl 35 per doK
 SugaT-Granulated SAC: F. Y. c. 4hc.
 AidesLDry flint 1ses dry saitsd al;
 wOol-clear 1ss to a4a
 Beeswax-26c.
 chieksns-Hsns zee; fryers $50: broilsrs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
COTTON LETTER.
By Private Wire to c. q. Abercrombie & Co.
 32 Commerce Street.

B Commerce Street.
 pected the report for the month na of March re on the progress of the new crop preparations rather 1nfsvorable. returns HG rom correspond- s snts during the paststen days showing that Tek and weather weeks weeks age. but that prospects are stili 65 per cent. of the land being in condition for planting as compared with 42 per cent
 In conclusion. however. it was stated that it will take favorable weather and hard work from now on to bring planting to the acreage to be devoted to cotton this spring. reports indicate no greater increase about per cent. increase over one year An increase in the use of fertilizer is i'm of would I iasa as ao1se ns the acreage to much smaller increase than n generally looked for. and as for the start of behind a normal season
 The excellent state of trade in cotton warrant an increase in the acreage of at least 10 per cent. in or der to provide for the the. wants of the world next season. and in tEis connection an almost perfect planting produce more than 12,ooo. 900 bales.
 full capacity is shown by the favorable week ly trade report cabled from Manchester yes at Liverpool. since last Friday sI, GOO bales, same time last year 11.ooo.
 The official cable from Liverpool yester- day read in part follows: There was a fair amount of business here during the week, and prices were firm. India bought moderately, and China purchased shirtlng cloths, as well as fancy descriptions"
 It is said that the worlds spinning power has been increased 2ia per cent, that the weight of last years bales show a decrease Of 2h per cent, and that the spinning Quai- ity is per cent. less than last seasons crop. The crop movement from which the mills are to be provided in the future is compar- atively very light. the semi-weekly arrivals at 13 inland towns. promising not more than 26, 900 bales, against 65,000 last year. and Ne doubt is the weeks insight will be larger than 13o.o0o. against 232.000 last year.
 Fair weather is indicated to continue. but spot markets will bear watching.
 H, & R BEER