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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25

the Spanish gained control, when the original law was put in force.
 Another change in goVaEnment PtI,S. :. duced another. change in the lay, tne 'old common law" became the law ol
 However, the States formed out of this territory, one by one adosfed tne old Spanish law by legislative enact ment; another portion of Lonie'ahfe @ afe States formed from that portion re- tained the Spanish law with perhaps' notifications: thus the legal exis- tence" of women was established py statute in the Gulf states before MISS Anthony had gained the attention or
 The men who recognized the iinpor- tance of educating women, ana feal- ized in some measure, at 1eaHf. fHe benefit that would accrue not only to individuals and families but to the community; whose aim was to estab- fish an academy for girls h every county: this academy to be supported by the State, in order that their &lrls might have educational advantages equal to those provided for boys. men who had enough zeal in this cause to memorialize Congress to appropriate portion of the public land In each county for the support of these aead : emies; men who recognized that 1us-, tice demanded that the legal exis- tence' of women and that their prop lished and protected by statute, were not driven nor nagged nor ridiculed into these acts of justice, but were actuated by a high sense of duty and obligation to their daughters as we'll as to their sons.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
TODAY IN HISTORY.
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 Name Day: Urbanus. Sun rises at 4:i5; sets at 7:15.
 1622-Petrus Plancius, who with oth- CTS contributed so much to the discov- cry of New Netherland and other coun- tries, died at Amsterdam.
 t760-Insurection of the negroes in Jamaica The loss to the island in hu- man lives was estimated at s500,O00.
 HEST Guy Johnson called an In- dian council at Guy Park. where the Mohawks alone attended, his object be- ing to provide against a rumored at tack upon his person by the revolution ists.
 1775-Generals Howe. Clinton and Burgoyne arrived at Boston, Mass.
 177o-Congress resolved to engage the services of the Indians.
 177S-About 500 British and Hessians from Rhode Island destroyed at Kick nut River, seventy boats and other property. burned the church and sew eral dwellings at Warren. and a church and twenty-two houses at Bristol.
 17S0-Two regiments of Washington's troops mutinied but were persuaded to return to their duty.
 1S04-The American Minister to France was in England in pursuit of said. with the view of obtaining loan for the purchase of Florida.
 1S29-Roman Catholics In this coun- try eel ebrated with much joy the pass age of the Catholic Relief Bill by the British Government
 1S49-Singular phenomenon In Lake Erie at Toledo, the water rising to the height of four feet above It's ordinary level in the space of few hours, with out any apparent cause.
 1843-One hundredth anniversary of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin at Phil adelphla.
 J861-Union troops destroyed seven bridges and five miles of railroad from Alexandria to Leesburg, Va.
 1S62-General Banks defeated at Winchester, Va, and driven across the Potomac.
 1S6S-Vallandirgham delivered to the Confederates at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Confederate navy yard at Yazoo City destroyed.
 1S64-Battle near Dallas. losses 1,5OO men on each side,
 The women of Chicago met to or ganize a dress-reform movement. the object of which was to taboo imported fabrics and thus keep money in this country.
 lSa4-France started suit in the Unit ed States Court against the Worlds Columbian Exposition Company to re- cover S100,00O because of damage to ex hibits by fire in tho Manufacturers Building at the fair grounds.
 189S-The President called for 75,000 additional volunteers. The transports City of Picking. City of Sydney and Aus tralia saiIed from San Francisco with 250O men and a years supplies of am munit!on anl naval stores for the fleet a Manila.
 l9O5-Governor Herrick was renorni- mated by Ohio Republican Convention, which named entire State ticket by ac-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
An Over-worked Secretary.

T am not an advocate or too free spending of the money of the State, ' ventured a well informed citizen. but if I had the power I would increase the appropriation for Secretary of tho Supreme Court. now greatly in need of help.
 with seven judges handing out opinions all the time. one man simply cannot do all the work. Since the opening of the present term there have been nearly three hundred cases put out. Each opinion Is written twice and there are as many as four pages average of each. so that in this alone the Secretary has had to write 2.400 sheets or about thirteen sheets for each working day.
 Besides this ha has to do the cor respondence of the court and many other duties. It Is none of my busi- ness, but there Is one place where some money could be used to good ad . vantage. Other States allow one Sec retary to each justice; Alabama has one for seven"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
FRIDAY. MAY 2s. 1eoa.
THEY CELEBRATED.

On Sunday last in the good old town of Charlotte. N. C.. they celebrated the anniversary Of the famous Mecklen- burg Declaration of Independence. which the residents of that State claim was signed on May %, TITS. thus get ting the drop on the more famous dec- laration of IT'S. We suppose now we are likely to have the whole subject threshed over. as there are scholars and historians wfo insist that the whole thing is myth. A short time ago there was an extended and volu- minous discussion of the matter but 1t seems to have settled nothing. The people of the old Tar Heel State, how ever, believe in it and no argument will convince them that their forefath- CTS didn't declare" ahead of anybody not, they were just the sort to do 1t.
 As might have been predicted, South Carolina is inclined to make faces at the claims of her sister State. These two are always showing their jealousy of each other. They have quarreled over the birthplace of Andrew Jack son until If the old hero were living he could almost regret that he was not born in Kalamasoo or some other out of-the-way spot .and now South Caro- lima is turning up her nose at the Mecklenburg claim. The Charleston News and Courier speaks of the cele- bration as ''The Triumph of 6 Myth" and somewhat sneeringiy asks; What difference does 1t make. looking at the affair from 8 strictly commercial point of view, whether the Mecklenburg Declaration was proclaimed or not? It furnishes the occasion for a great am nual gathering of the people of North Carolina in Charlotte, and it makes much business for the railroads and merchants and newspapers. It also af- lords the orators of the state and of other States the opportunity of uneork- ing their eloquence and speaking with every appearance of sincerity about an occurrence that did not occur, at least, in the manner and form SO much ex- plotted"
 We'll. 1t makes quite a material dif- Terence to the people of the Old North State who firmly believe in what The News and Courier designates a myth. If the claim is 8 true one 1t shows that the people about Mecklenburg county were more than a year ih ad- vance of Thomas Jefferson and his compatFiots in the work of throwing down the gage of defiance to Great Britain. And 1t should also be borne in mind that the authors of this fam ous declaration were a small body of men and not the representatives of all the Colonies. It required nervy pat riotism and perhaps gall for these few people to get together and tell the mother country that they proposed to paddle their own boat in future. South Carolina can lose no glory by admit ting what her sister State claims.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25

money to carry on the work, and if It makes no disposition the work must stop. If the appropriation is made specifically declaring that the money shall only be used for the construction of a sea-Ievel canal we fail to see how the administration can use 1t in any other way.
 < We adhere to our conviction that the Senate Committee acted wisely In adopting the majority report for sea- level route. The Presidents assertion that this would delay the completion of the work a quarter of century is not entitled to much weight. He is not an expert canal builder nor Is he bet ter qualified to judge than were the foreign engineers who favored the sea- level plan. It will be unfortunate If a conflict between the President and Congress should stop the work, but the latter body should adopt the majority report and provide for a canal at sea level.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
SIDEWALK PENCILINCs
Numerou. PIcutc ;rcuud..

montgomery Is blessed indeed in de- iightfui and accessible picnicking few years since the only place that . small party could go for an outing was Oak Park, and now there Is no city in the South, considering the size, that can boast of parks and pleasure grounds more beautiful and more cas-
 sTn Pickett Springs we have an ideal picnic ground. beautifully laid out, walks, plenty of shade, clear. cold sprinx water, delightful orchestral music, and with it all the finest trolley ride between the city and the Springs,
 Then for amusements. Elecsrie Park cannot be excelled. and if Sun day school teacher wants to really en- certain his or her class more desira- ble place could not be found, for ev- cry device known in the amusement line is installed at that attractive place.
 \ E~"Booth's station Is a fine place and Pan easily accessible one. too. as tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad has conve- nient train schedules, making the place a very attractive picnicking ground ,
 Oak Park has lost none of it's charm. and will. no doubt. be favor 'ite outing place during the summer months"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
rRoBApLr ComrIrCArIoNs.

There is likely to be tangle of le- gal and business complications grow ing out of the San Francisco disaster as to the liability of insurance com panies. Most of the insurance policies in that city contain a clause exempting the company from liability from losses caused by earthquakes, hurricanes. etc, unless fire ensues, and in that event the liability is only for damage caused by fire.
 The damage in Frisco, or most of It, was caused by both earthquake and fire. and the problem will be to determ- inc how much damage was caused by or from each. If, for example, a house was partially damaged by the earth quake and still further injured by fire; or if the house was demolished by earthquake and the ruins entirely con- stunned. or if it was only slightly in- jured in the shake-up and then burn ed to ashes--in either of such cases how Is 1t possible now to ascertain the liability of the company or the amount of insurance it must pay? Some of the buildings were entirely demolished by the earthquake and not touched by the flames and some which wholly escaped damage by the former were consumed by the latter. In either of these cases the liability or non-liability of the insurance companies Is clear. but where both disasters united in de- stroying a building we think it will rentfipa fnAo @f Cnlnnnn fn de- eide the question of liability. It will not be surprising if the courts are kept busy with lawsuits growing out of the visitation of earthquake and flames
 Then there is still another cause of trouble in this case. The policies of insurance have also clause exempt ing the company from liability for losses caused by explosions. This is usually held to mean that if gunpow- der. dynamite or other explosives were stored in 6 building and by their &C., cidental explosion the building is de- stroyed the company is not liable for the loss. During the Frisco fire num- bers of houses were blown to pieces by dynamite in the effort to prevent the flames from spreading and the companies, or some of them, claim that they are not liable in such cases. On the other hand there are good lawyers who argue that when house was directly in the path of the fire and was sure to be consumed, blowing 1t up merely saved it from being burned down, and as it would have been de- stroyed anyhow the company Is liable for the total amount of insurance. This will furnish other legal complications to harrass the courts and enrich the legal gentlemen who will be called in to untangie things. or. to complicate them still further. In fact, we need not feel very greatly surprised if the legal fraternity make more profit out of the series of disasters than any one else does. It is hardly possible that such complicated and conflicting in- terests can be settled without much vexation and expensive litigation, and years may be required to straighten 1t all out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
Our Coosa.

Birmingham Ledger
 The Coosa is a great river. It tra- verses Alabama from the northwest cor ner to the southwest corner with port down to Wetumpka there are fre- duent shoals that will require locks to make the river navigable.
 For years the congressman from the Seventh and Fourth districts have con stantly begged congress to open the river. From Rome to Greensport the river Is navigable on it's upper reaches but the traffic Is necessarily local
 The government has begun at Greens port and put in three locks and IS now putting in lock four near Riverside. in the CoDsa the government enginee followed the same idea they did in the Warrior of beginning at the head Of water, which is the only common sense plan. The first three locks on the Coosa are very near together, but lock four IS several miles down the river. There are other shoals where the Lou isville and Nashville crosses near Tai ladega Springs and several between there and Wetumpka.
 There is plenty of water in the Coo ga, that is one great argument in fa-- and timber and stone for miles along the river. There is marble and farm produce. The Coosa runs through a Food country. which can be made bet fer The government must continue the work until there is a channel down to Wetumpka, where the Taliapoosa helps the Coosa to make the mighty hama can exert should be used to urge congress to make the Coosa one Of the highways of Alabama---Birmingn Ledger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
nrspLEAsEp soME MORE.

When the committee of engineers ap- pointed to consider and report on the best style of canal submitted a majori- ty report in favor of the sea-ievel plan 1t Is we'll known that the President was not in accord with the recommen- dation. He submitted the two reports to Congress with a message in which he strongly advised acceptance of the minority report in favor of the lock plan. A few days ago the Senate Com mittee on Interoceanic Canals sent In 6 report in favor of the sea-level plan. and we are informed that Roosevelt is greatly displeased" at the decis- ion.
 We are not surprised at 1t. He placed his own judgment above that of the eminent foreign engineers who were we'll informed and competent and who were less liable to be biased or influenced by local considerations than the American members of the commit tee were. In thus refusing to be gov erned by the majority of qualified ex- perts the President followed his we'll established habit of going his own way, for reasons satisfactory to him. self, no doubt. Consequently. we are not surprised that he is displeased, the adoption by Congress of the sea- level plan would throw everything in- to chaos. and probably postpone the construction of the canal for a quarter of century"
 This is in accordance with his well known habit of speaking without thinking. In the first place. if the whole business has not been in a chaotic condition from the beginning we have not kept up with the mat ter If chaos Is likely to prevail to a greater extent than 1t has done things will be in a bad way, for a fact. So far as his judgment as to time is con cerned we agree with The Brooklyn Eagle that there is not the slightest warrant for the assumption that the sea-level project will delay the com pletion of the canal twenty five years. Not one of the engineers who reported in favor of a lock canal before the
 
 not been heard from since has ever published any such extravagant esti- mate, To build at sea level will re- quire more time than to build with locks, but the difference as calculated by qualified men has never been great enough in itself to justify the accept anee of the inferior type. The advan- tages of stability, of operation and maintenance, and of the time saving to the commerce using the canal are all on the side of the sea-level plan. When building it is we'll to build right No reconstruction will ever be required if the advice of the Canal Committee be adopted by Congress"
 Later dispatches report the President as determined to adhere to his own plan, and we may expect q message to Congress demanding that the lock plan be adopted If that body refuses to follow his requirements and enacts laws to carry out the level plan we need not be surprised if he vetoes their work. He is represented as say ing that the plan of canal to be built does not depend on Congressional &C., tion. and that if the two houses re- fuse to endorse his plan he will pro- ceed with the work of constructing a lock canal
 Admitting that he Is correct in deny ing to Congress the right to decide on the style of canal he ought to re- member that that body must vote the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25


 Mobile Herald.
 MT. Joseph E. McCants of The Hart ford Times-Herald. is in Mobile to at tend the Red Mems convention. He Is one of the oldest members of the
 MT. McCants was among today's wis. itors at The Herald office. Speaking of politics down in Geneva County, Mir. McCants says that Dr. Cunningham is very strong in the Wiregrass district and his friends are enthusiastic in his behalf.
 Mir. Conner literally swept our dis trict when he ran against Smith for Railroad Commissioner, but different state of affairs exists now when he asks the people to elect him to the of the fact that he has done nothing in the fat office he now holds.
 MT. Conner was much stronger in Geneva County" continued Mir. Mo Cants, three months ago than he is now. A great change of sentiment down to Hartford and made a dictate rial speech to our people, demanding that they should do as he said in the selection of our representatives at ty against John V. Smith by nearly a old Geneva will be In the Cunning ham column in August. Our people down near the Georgia and Florida state lines had an eye on the big hght CTS and other lifelong Democrats who had never seen Mir. Hamburger or heard of him before that race, were delighted at his victory solely because of MT. Corners unjust fight in Mo- bile County"
 Mr. McCants speaks enthusiastically of the progress and prosperity or the wiregrass section.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
Morgan and Pettus.

Those old time Democrats, Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, were two of the trio of Senators who voted rate regulation biii, and both were governed by the same principle. They find that the bill will give to the in- terstate Commerce Commission juris- diction superior to that or the state Railway Commission, since 1t provides that all common carriers engaged Tn interstate commerce shall De suDJect to. the decisions of the interstate con- con. mission There are very few railroads in the State that are not interstate car- riers. and thus the bill, If constitu- tional, and if 1t should become a law, would deprive the State Commission of much of its powers. This defect and another, named by both senators, thas deprives defendants of the right oI jury trial, is so fatal to the sounaness of the bill, that the Alabama Senators found themselves unable to give the bill their sanction.
 We are of the opinion that our sena- tors are right Our attention nss ass, oeen een bill proposes to put the offending ts rair, ways in a special class, depriving them of one of the rights guarsnteed by the have their actions passed upon ! x Jury. The Register characterized he bill as authorizing lynch law in i
 ha ton to o,eha she rslways sa rsway
 regretted that bill should pc p e- serited that would in ell probability be declared unconstitutional All the argument we have used has been In favor of making the bill sound, so that when 1t becomes the law it can stand the test of the courts. This. it appears, the House and Senate have failed to do, and we have a bill that Morgan and Pettus say Is of doubtful constitutIonality.
 The other objection, namely, that the bill encroaches upon the rights or the State, Is new to us, being hrst brought to attention by our Senators, but 1t, too, seems to be well taken. If. however, the Interstate Commission Is raised to paramount power, what De- comes of our Mfr. Conner. and his aspi- rations to make the State railway ef- fective in Alabama? Truly, MT. Co., mers occupation will be gone
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
BRITISH CLUB WOMEN.

If we are to believe the testimony of
 one of them, the club women of Lon- don do not occupy the highest place in the scale of honesty and other vir- tues. This woman writes to one of the London newspapers that mo woman's personal property is safe there Gin the club room) unless she keeps the eye of eternal vigilance on it." Then she gets down to particulars and tells us that in one woman's club that she knows of it is a matter of common knowledge that tablet of soap does not remain five minutes in the dress ing room: and that the table silver is often known to disappear. have to warn my guests not to leave things in the cloak room, and advise them to carry their furs about with them. If you drop anything in the club, walk half the length of the room. and turn around to pick up your property, 1t has disappeared. A purse containing money was lost in one fashionable club. and a little later picked up on the premises, empty. Servants will be the retort to all this. There is no proof that 1t is servants; the proof is all the other way"
 This Is serious indictment to bring against the higher classes of British women, for the lowest classes are not the kind who can spend their time in club rooms, but as the charge comes from one of them we are to take 1t for granted that she knows what she is talking about. True, she refers to Zone club" and it might be inferred from that expression that 1t was an exception, but then We are further informed that these clubs are not like women's clubs in this country. but are places of recreation and amuse- ment where members eat. drink. smoke, play cards" and in all other respects conduct themselves about as the men do at their clubs. Certainly the tes- timony given by her of the actual dis 1 honesty practiced by the women pat rons of these places is not at all credi- table to the sex, It is to be hoped that the writer draws a picture which Is not justified by the facts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25

The Hartford (Conn) papers raise a robust howl because the price of ice this summer is fifty per cent greater than 1t was last year. The natural supply Is controlled by monopoly which fixes the price. It might be thought that an artificial ice plant would be profitable. but one was started and at once the trust bought up the ice as fast as 1t was made and then fixed the price. Pity the people cant find some way to freeze out the trust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25
Enrropd.. wealthy Peer.

One of the wealthiest peers in Eng land Is Ealr Fitzzwilliam, who Is the possessor of some l15,000 acres Of land in England and Ireland. Under the re- cent land purchase measure, however, he has disposed Of some of his Wicklow property. Some twenty years ago the Fitzwilliam estates were put at about 92.00O acres in Ireland. worth $25o,0O0 per annum. and about 24,000 acres In England. worth about $440,O00 6 yer.