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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
NEGRO sTABs YOUNG WOMAN.
SeIzes Her on Street, but is Beaten
 and

SeIzes Her on Street, but is Beaten
 and Arrested.
 Miss Catherine Gaines, twenty eight years old, night cashier at Hop pers restaurant. No. 1753 Broadway, started for her home at No. SS Ans terdam avenue at half past one o'clock through sixty-fourth street and West End avenue tall negro stepped from a doorway and seized her by the arm. He tried to drag her into a hallway, but her screams attracted the atten- ton of three men on the opposite cor ner and they rushed to her assistance.
 The negro drew long knife and plunged it three times times into sn the bGdy aside and tried to escape, but the men grabbed him. threw him down and heat and kicked him.
 Policemen Daily and Mack, of the West Sixty eighth Street Station, who had heard the noise of the fight, sez- ed the negro and took him to the sta James Getter, twenty-six years cid. of No. 331 West Sixty-ninth street, He was locked up on a charge of felon- ious assault. As he was being led to cell the three men who had followed him to the station again attacked him.
 Miss Gaines was taken to Roosevelt Hospital. One of the wounds Is above her heart and others in the right held for trial in 5000 bail yesterday
 The pressure on the columns of a daily newspaper in this city is so ter rife that adequate attention can be given to but one or two subjects at a time: and just now exposures of all kinds of official villainy hold the cen ter of the stage. The increasing fre- quency of these attacks is an alarm ing thing, but in a fHaelstrom of vice such as is known to exist here, they scarcely cause a ripple. You may pity the victims, but there is no possibility that the black beasts who attack them will receive adequate punishment even if they are given what is called the limit of the law" But in the heart of all civilized men the verdict has zone forth. that there is no expiation short of death for an assault on a helpless woman. whether the assailant he white or black. The lax enforcement of the laws, and the immunity which most
 aesc black savages enjoy here. rais- es a menace before which civilization may well shudder. Hell must have been invented by people who were fla miliar with such scenes as are daily enacted here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
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MARCH 15 IN WORLDS HISTORY
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Church Day, Christopher. Sun rises at 6.7; sets at 5:53.
 1527-Pope Clement VII concluded a treaty with Lannoy, Viceroy of Naples, which the Duke of Bourbon disre- garded, and marched for Rome.
 IsO4-Congress established land of- Aces at KaskaslSia, H., Vincennes, Ind,
 IsO5-The City of Luebeck, Germany, surrounded by French troops to prevent English products from being intro
 is20-The treaties of commerce and friendship between the United States and Prussia and Brazil formally rati-
 issO-Yucatan declared itself inde-
 1s54-The allied powers of England, France and Turkey unsuccessfully att tempted to bring sweden to join in declaration of war against Russia.
 Is55-The plenipotentiaries at Vienna exchanged powers and commenced pro- cedings toward agreeing upon the terms of Russo-Turklsh peace.
 A. J. Smith, captured Fort De Russey, La, on Red River, with 325 prisoners, twelve pieces of artillery, 2,0O0 barrels of powder, with an immense amount of ammunition and stores.
 1865-The panic in gold carried quo tations down to IFS 1-4, a drop of IA 1-4 points in three days.
 1s75-At 2 consistory held at the Vatican, Archbishop McCloskey of New York was made cardinal
 1S77-Professor Alexander Graham Bell gives an exhibition of his newly invented telephone before a gathering of scientific men, by which conversation is carried on between Salem and Bos- ton; at another exhibition on April 2d, tinctly heard in Steinway Hall, New York.
 ister at Cairo, warned his home Gov ernment that the Arab revolt was still unbroken, and that thirty tribes were planning to attack Khartum.
 1Ss5SSchofeld, Shurmer and Teagle, Cleveland oil refiners, in afidavits, charged the Standard oil Company with bribinE their bookkeeper to divulge data of the business.
 1S04-Governor Waite of Colorado called out the State militia to install his Denver police and Fire Board ap- pointees. and Federal troops were orr dered out to prevent q clash.
 1S05-Secretary Gresham called upon Spain to apologize because an Amerl- can mail steamer had been fired upon by a Spanish gunboat off the Cuban coast.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
SIDEWALK pENcnNGs
Three Bir Conventions.

During the month of April Mont gomery will have three large conven- tions, observed a citizen yesterday. The Alabama State Sunday School As- sociation. the Christian Endeayorers and the Grand Lodge of the Indepen- dent Order of B-Nai B'rith will gath CT In annual convention here. Each meeting will be large events.
 Tt Is a rare occurrence that Mont isomery has had three such large gatherings within its limits In one month.
 The citizens of Montgomery. who are in charge of arrangements for en- tertaininS the visitore of the respect i've organisations, are bending their efforts to give to the guests the best reception that Southern hospitality will afford. 1t behooves every citizen to take an interest in the entertain ment of these visitors for we want to show them what a warm and hearty welcome Montgomery can extend. It has always been done in the past and l de. not believe there can be such a thing as fail In the future.
 Should these conventions be suc- cessful fin every sense of the word. the time may not be far distant when oth- CT large organizations will be only too anxious 10 hold their annual gath erings in our city. Let's pull for Montgomery as a convention city"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Letters to The Editor
The Negro Problem Reaching North
Editor The Advertiser


 New York, March 12, 1906. Editor The Advertiser,
 Montgomery, Ala.
 Dear Sir:>-The revelations made here in the last few days regarding the dens of vice owned and conducted by negroes, in which white women have been held as prisoners for years at a time, are simply additional proof of what I have held in my lectures and newspaper articles--that the negro question is being rapidly transferred to the Northern States, The details of these revelations, which have been forced upon the law officials of the seemed determined to prevent them and srevolting that they can scarcely papers here, however, are handling them without gloves, and are calling dow nthe wrath of heaven on the in famous scoundrels who are responsible for these conditions.
 Meanwhile the work of the negro assailant goes merrily on. and the papers are becoming so callous to it that they only give an obscure para graph in an out of the way corner of the paper, announcing the bare facts as If they described an every day oc- currence which was of little or no importance.
 Here is one which appeared this morning on page ten. at the bottom of the first column of The New York World, so hidden by closely printed ad- vertising. as scarcely to be noticed as a news item.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Leader Among Lumber Ports.

Portland OTtBOIIIdHs
 Portland is the greatest lumber port in the world and if there was never an- other bushel of wheat shipped from the city our shipping trade within the next three years would reach maximum never approached in the palmiest days of the wheat trade. There are now in for China, Japan. Australia, South America and Europe steam and sail vessels with a capacity of more than SO 0Oo GOO feet, and for coast ports there ts leading a fleet with a capacity of 5.O60' GOO feet. Following these yes se1s under charter to arrive from for eign ports, Is a fleet with a capacity ( oO0 '600 feet capacity. No other port in the known world can make such showing as this in the lumber busi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
The RooneyeIt Mnx.

Hartford Times.
 MT Roosevelt has So far taken care that no man should reach the Supreme Court by his appointment who was known to be hostile to the imperialist theory of the plenary power of Con gress over the territories of the United States lying outside of the union of the States Meantime public sentiment in the country Is becoming so tired of and hostile to the colonial policy that less interest will be manifested in the views and leanngs of the new judge, whoever he may be, on this question, than in relation to the great subject of railroad and corporate domination which now absorbs the attention of the cOuntry.-Springf Republican.
 It will be a sorry day for the Repuh- lie when the Supreme Court is made over according to the Rooseveltian plan which makes il impossible that any iurist holding the views of Chief Jus tice Fuller, Justice Harlan and Justice Brewer in regard to the fundamental principles of our Government shall oc- cupy a place on the Supreme Bench The scheme which is here referred to contemplates transformation in our sytem by Interpreting" the Constitu- ton so as to make it mean whatever the politicians in power happen to de- sire which means, of course, a radical departure from the ideas of the men who made and adopted the splendid instrument without which our present greatness as a nation would have been non existent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Big Guns and Big ships.

PhlIadeIphla Press.
 The war between Russia and Japan gave modern navies the first extended chance to show what was best in them. It was Togo's great guns. mounted on his most powerful vessels. that pounded to pieces Roiesvensky's Inflated ar made Anything that came within their range met destruction. Europe has quickly learned the lesson taught by the Japanese England first started to build the DreadnauRht of 1S.00O tons battleship of the world. Immediately Japan followed with one of equal ton mage Now comes France with an avowed intention of constructing three monsters of this biggest class, while Germany Is reported to have changed the designs of two battleships already ordered so as to bring them up to the Dreadnaught type in every respect
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

Birmingham Herald.
 In the current issue of The Saturday writes the initial illustrated article, and 1t Is entitled The Cry of the Chil- dren." It is scarcely necessary to add that it relates to the children in the iting. mills in the various States, and her first article includes an account of her visit to Alabama mills.
 She was refused admission to a mlll i in Jefferson ss coanty that % she t does 'g not designate, but in the Anniston section she was more fortunate. On her way to an Anniston mill she met a little a brother in the min. This brother. she said, Is l2 years old in the mill, and 10 years old outside of it. She describes at length the quarters of the workers in that Anniston mill. In the spinning room of the mill itself, to which she was admitted with the little girl, she saw thirty-efght at work, not ten of whom were 12 years old. A T. children of all ages were there, from 1 years old upwards, and the night shift is not much better. Mrs. Van Vorst's story is cut off just after she presents d narrowing picture of the night shift in that Annlston mill. The cherges that she makes should not go unheeded- The law of 1903 for bids the employment at any time in cotton HILLS or children uHQeE lS yedTS of age, and of all children under 13 at night, but that law makes no provision for inspectors or for truant officers or for school laws, and Mrs. Van Worst asserts that the law Is a dead letter. that mill managers ignore it-that children gre employed wholly regard less of it--that child slavery of this sort Is more prevalent in Alabama than it ever has been.
 Either the law of 1903 should be re- pealed or else 1t should be enforced. ly noticeable because of their absence, and perhaps this is the reason why so- licitors and grand Juries overlook 1t. It is simply a non-operative law that no one respects, If Mrs. Van Worst has stated correctly attendant results and circumstances.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

New York Post,
 President Roosevelt's telegram of congratulation upon the extermination of the Moro band in Jolo Is as incon- siderate as the Kaiser's famous dis patch to Kruger. From even the high imperialistic point of view. the wiping out of the Moros was nothing more than a stern bit of disagreeable police duty, about which the least said the better. To refer to 1t as upholding "the honor of the American fiag," is painful misuse of language. We have yet to hear any one speak of that bloody work except with misgivings and disgust. It makes no patriotic ap- peal whatever. And even it's deserip- tion by MT. Roosevelt as a brilliant feat of arms" is open to grave ques- tion. From the army in Manila come bitter complaints that the sacrifice of our men was wholly unnecessary; while in military circles in Washington there is sharp criticism of General Wood for f1lnging troops needlessly against fortifications that might have been taken in a less spectacular and mur- derous fashion. And the stories that are beginning to come out about wo- men and children being included in the indiscriminate slaughter have a strange relation, if they are authentic, to the "honor of the flag We know what we thought and said of the Dutch sol sex We know what a cry of horror would have gone up in this country If such a deed had been reported of Spanish troops in 1897. But the Pres ident could not lose the chance to let off hurrah, even if his dispatch, in the cold light of facts, must read as a piece of either pathos or brutality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

great compliment was recently paid Hon. H. M. Somerville. whose bus- mess requires him to remain in New York but who is stiil an Alabamian. His friends here in this State will read with pleasure the following from The New York Commercial of March 12:
 book has recently come from the press at Paris. and also at Lausanne, Switzerland. entitled De la Jurisdic- tion Administrative Federaie des Etats- unis ct De La Suisse" written by has prefaced his work as follows;
 ITO the Hon. Henderson M. Somer- vile, United States General Appraiser, this work is specially. dedicated for his splendid service to the cause of true and independent justice"
 Dr. Va1Iotton visited the United States during the past year, and made a special study for many months of customs laws and their Administration in this country and recommends strongly that the Swiss Government adopt the principles of the customs ad- ministrative act of June 10, 1890, as the law of Switzerland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Fast Time In n Navy Yard

Apart from the many novel features embodied in the design of the British battle ship Dreadnaught the celerity with which she will be built is sure to establish a new record in construction Hitherto no battle ship of any type has been turned out In less than twenty-two months, and even the standard vessel tisplaced only 15,000 tons, compared with the 1s,000 tons of the newest ship The strain of this high-pressure doIi- structIon has of course been very great, ians engaged has broken down under If. and so 1t may be their good fortune 10 see the great vessel, which they laid down in october and launched on Feb Tuary II, finished by February 1907- that is, In sixteen months from the date the first keel plate was laid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Served Him Right.

TusCaIOOsa IIWts NR441tttV'
 A Virginia bred lawyer was called d liar in a New York court the other day by Anthony Comstock, whose name is and inc lawyer decorated Anthony's face with the blue effects of several well directed blows. The funny part is that Comstock tried to to. get out ! grant one, sympathy plainly being with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Always Time for n Good Cause.

Btrmtng nam 4@euBef.
 The Montgomery Advertiser, even In this political year, finds time to advo- cate goods roads. The farmers should demand good roads. In Jefferson good roads have doubled the cash value of the farms. Some land ten miles from fhe city on q macadamized road re- cently sold for $500 an acre. The land had natural advantages but would not have brought such q price had there been no such road to 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Desk Warriors.
cadsden Times News

Gadsden Times NeWs.
 It is pointed out that a few desk warriors of Washington are trying to stir up a war with China. There is absolutely no reason why the general staff should be so apprehensive as to pick out a commander of the expedi- tion against China as we'll as the troops unless that staff itself is trying to make war where none Is necessary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

In its anxiety to support the Presi- dent in all things The Chicago Tribune makes this charge:
 Democratic senators wish to have Arizona and New Mexico remain ter ritories until they can be admitted as separate states. It is their belief that their party would control both states. That is the reason why those senators voted as a unit to strike out of the statehood bill all reference to Arizona and New Mexico.
 This Is partisanship run mad, and we might with equal justice retort that the reason Roosevelt demanded the combination of four Territories into Republicans can get at least three Sem two States now is the hope that the lators out of the combination. If The Tribune can find no better explanation for the course of Democratic Senators 1t would do credit to itself by remain ing silent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Some Do Not Deserve Tips.

The annual tipping controversy is on. No sensible man grudges a good tip to a really good waiter who serves one intelligently, and with a nice sense of the fitness of things who does not finger too near, nor yet be far away when needed. The chaps that merit not a tip are the bleareyed fel- lows who make ones dinner or lunch con a horror.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

So much Is being said about the great prosperity of Texas railroads. under the extreme rate regulation system pre- vailing there. that it Is well to read what a well-informed man has to say on the subject We publish on this Hase a letter written by ex-Governor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
KIiIa 'Enl on.
Mobile Item.

Congress may not be a place for a poor man, but a poor lawyer may build up a reputation by going there for a term or two--a half dozen terms would kill him deader than he was before he started and take the life out of him for getting down to business of any kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Don't Do That Way Here.

GreenVlIIe AdVOCate.
 The Vice President of Cuba has re- signed because he discovered that the office is purely ornamental We have never heard of an American vice. president or any other office holder resignlng for that reason.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Ahnnf fn Rnrnt.

HuntsVilIe Mercury
 The Presidents conservative friends are having a strenuous time endeav- bring to hold down the lid on that irate individual who has been worked treatment his pet measures are re- ceiving in the Senate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Beware of Free Launches.

Bullock County Breeze.
 Beware of free lunches. We pub lished an account in last issue of The Breeze of seventy-five persons being poisoned by free lunch in Kansas. rie Nation. and free lunches, is a fear full combination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

Among other. articles of personal adornment which Chicago women are adopting may be mentioned nice and serviceable revolvers. It is wise pre- caution for those who are forced to go about in a lawless region.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

They are still complaining of the short ice crop up North'' and we sup nose that will be good grounds for charging higher prices for artificial ice. Many a poor man may be com pelled this summer to take his'n with out cooling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
old FOgy Style.
Pine Relt News

Fine BeIt NeWS.
 The old shop-worn stereotyped ex- pression, used in referring to a mar riage ceremony-they were made man and wffe"-fnds no place in these col umns. It is not correct English, though by common usage Is often so accepted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
want to See work Going On.

JackSOnVlIIe heCUTu. .
 The public is getting very tired of the eternal preparation for work that Is never done, and 1t would be a relief to see the work turned over to pri- vate company that would dig the canal instead of making reports on the sani- tary conditions of the isthmus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
The EnrIlsb snnrro,,,

 Poets sing of mocking birds,
 That warble songs of joy. They sing about the blue birds,
 They have loved since but a boy. The nightengale comes in for praise.
 Since burning Sappho's time. But the little English Sparrow,
 No ones ever praised In rhyme. The little English Sparrow.
 Is an ambitious bird His little feeble chirping,
 Seems -place-absurd. It is l guess when you compare
 It with the mock birds trilI, But the little English Sparrow
 Is feathered songster still He seems part of home somehow
 The vine clad porch you know; Among the honey suckle vines,
 He used to come and go. Sometimes beside the window sill,
 We feed him now in dreams. A part of home and childhood,
 The English Sparrow seems
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
He Was Selected.

Hon. Buster Brown Conner was the first man to agitate an elective rail- road commission. He pictured it as a panacea for all the Ills the people were heir to from the railroads. His wishes in this regard have been real ized.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
JANuARY. reos.

Daily Average, January 1906 ...... ,00A Sunday Average January, 1906 ..... .fJ,uS0 
 E. s. Noble. Circulation Manager of the Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworns saras
 me foregoing statement of The Adver- tis@rs circulation for the month of Janua- rys 1906. is true and correct. and compiled after ali returns from news boys. news aRent4 and ieft-over copies have been de- duetea. F. g. NOBLE
 Circulation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before me this
 F w JACKSON
 Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

The Detroit Free Press has an editor ial on the mystery of bad whiskey." There are men. and not all Missourians. who will have to be shown that there can be such q thing as bad whiskey."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15

Wealth begets unhappiness," re- marks a contemporary. Probably 1t does but we have not noticed that the want of it begets much hilarity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-15
Thinks That a Catching Way.

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 A Pfttsburg preacher advertises his services under the head of amuse- ments, along with vaudeville theatres and burlesque houses.