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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
Says Its n Trick.

Washington, April 2--Former United States Senator William F. Chandier
 counsel for the plaintiffs in the GIo- yer Eddy suit late tonight issued q in which he declared that the new trust for Mrs. Eddy's property, "lz a trick" contrived by her "jaiiers'' to avoid possible receivership and that the defendant in the suit has used her delusions and incompetency to serve their own selfish ends" NJ
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
BIG FIRE IN FRISCO.
Electric Power House in Blaze and
 Lights of City Out.

Lights of City Out.
 San Francisco April 2-The electric power house at 2nd and George Streets is buring, and several sections of the city are in darkness, Many theatres are without lights and business houses are in the same predicament. Guards have been thrown around the temporary hall of justice and bail is being refused prisoners, the police refusing to allow any person to enter or leave the build ing.
 The new business section of the city Is without lights.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
WOMEN DECIDED CONTEST.
Most of Sunragettes Voted The RePv&-
 Iican Ticket.

Kansas City. April 2-D. F. Cornell Republican. was elected Mayor of Kan sas City. Kas.. yesterday. over w. w. Rose. Democrat, and John Gray. So- cialfst, by a plurality of about one thousand.
 Of the 10000 votes cast. fully one- third were the ballots oswomen voters and the large majority of the women voted for Cornell.
 A feature of the election was the can- didacy of Miss Pierra Farow, Republi- can, and Miss Avis B. Chadborn, Dem ocrat, for the office of City Treasurer. Miss Farrow was elected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
Democrats ln Sd. LouIs.

St Louis, April 2.--As the result of the city election today the Republicans conccde to the Democrats the entire city council ticket. all the members Of the school board and fifteen of the twenty eight members of the house of delegates. The Democrats claim five additional. The returns are late and official figures will nov be available until tomorrow morning. M
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
Heinrich Conrled, the operatic impr

Heinrich Conrled, the operatic impre- sario. can make an exceedingly pretty speech on occasion. Not long ago he was chatting with a singer of celebrity who Is also a very pretty woman. Said she: MT. Conried, do you consider blindness or deafness the greater afflic- tion?" With a gallant bow he re- piled: T should prefer to be deaf when I am looking at you and blind when l hear you Sing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03

sA @t and We have fulfilled our statement that we would declare an open shop We are advertising for any laboreri who will work for us. Negotiation, are at an end"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
Fro.t m I.ouisinua.

New Orleans, April 2.--Several points in Louisiana and Southern Mississippi report light frost, but no serious dam. age
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-03
Total. .... .. ..... ..... s2s,O

The committee, consisting of Dr. O. c. McGehee. Rev. M. H. Holt and others, will still continue to work among the Methodists. Subscriptions are still requested. It Is hoped, by the committee. that everyone will take at least some financial interest In the great institution to be established here
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23

he laughed teethfully and hit me on
the shins with stepladder.
The spectacular gent who occupied
the star chamber beneath my garnet
was sleeping as noisily as possible.
and when I started up the stepladder
he began to render Mendelssohn's OBJ
ligato for the trombone in the KEY
Of G. ~. =
Above the roar of the train from
away of in lower No. 2 family could
hear an answering bugle CALL
I, climbed up prepared for the worst
and in the twinkling of an eye the
porter removed the stepladder and
there l was, sitting on the perilous
edge of my pantry shelf with nothing
to comfort me save the exhaust of a
professional snorer.
After about five minutes devoted to
a parade of all my sins I began to try
to extract my personality from nv
coat, but when pushed my arm up in
the air to get the sleeve loose my
knuckles struck" the hardwood finish
and I fell backward on the cast-iron
pillow, breathing hoarsely like a busy
lack rabbit.
I waited about ten minutes while
tny brain was bobbing back and forth
with the excitement of running fifty
miles an hour over a careless part Of
the country, and then I cautiously
tried to approach my shoe laces.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23
The vislonaries.

Two young women on the way to
their places of business were on a
Chestnut street car in the early
morning, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. Their cheerful talk largely
concerned dress and wealth.
"Aggie," said the one to the other,
"you ought to see my new silk. It's
stunning. And the lace on it," She
rolled her eyes, for speech was in
adequate to express the beauty of the
lace.
Aggie replied that she should be
'just crazy" till she had had a sight
of the gown.
But, Gladys" she said, "as was
saying, it must be grand to be rich
and not have to walk. I do get so
tired"
''Rich!" echoed Gladys. IF was
rich I know what I'd do first of all.
I'd buy enough silk dresses to last
me 20 years, I love 'em so. What
would you do?'
"Me?" returned Aggie, with a toss
of the head. If I had the money I
wanted I'd ride to me Job every morn,
ing in a cab.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23

of sleep boiler factory has it beat
to whimper.
Strong men weep every time the
ticket agent says, Nothing left but
an UPPER" and lovely women have
Mysteries and begin to make faces at
the general public when the colored
porter points up in the air and says:
Madame, your eagles nest is ready
far up the mountain side''
The sleeping car l butted into a
few nights ago was crowded from
cellar to attic and everybody present
bumped into everybody else, and when
they weren't humping into each other
they were over in a corner some
where biting their nails.
While the porter was cooking up an
attack of lNsomnia i went out in the
smoking room to drown my sorrow,
but I found such a bunch of sorrow
killers out there ahead of me that I
had to hold the comb and brush in my
lap and sit on the towel rack while I
took a little smoke.
LIN Jou OVCl AOIlC0 Ou YOUR etddV-
els that peculiar hog on the train
who pays two dollars for berth and
always displaces eight dollars worth
of space in the smoking car?
If he would bite the end of a
piece of rope and light up occasion
ally it wouldn't be so bad, but nix on
the smoke for him.
He simply sits there with a face
like fish and keeps George Nicotine
and all the rag burners from enjoy.
ing smoke
If ever statue is needed of the
patriot Buttinski I would suggest a
model in the person of the smokeless
smoker who always travels in the
smoking car
Two busy gazabos were discussing
politics when I squeezed into the
smoker on this particular occasion.
and I judge they both had lower
berths, otherwise their minds would
have been busy with dark and person
al fears of the future.
When l left the smoker the smoke
less hog was occupying two and half
seats and was now busy breathing in
some secondhand cigarette smoke
which nobody seemed to care for.
How do l reach my Alpine bunga-
low" I said to the porter, whereupon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23
Say! II you're a man and weigh IN

Say! II you're a man and weigh IN
the neighborhood of 225 pounds, most
of which is in the region Of the equa,
tor. you will appreciate what it means
to lie on your back in an upper berth
and try to get your shoes of.
And this goes double for the man
who weighs more than 225 pounds.
Every time reached for my feet
to get my shoes off, bumped my
head of, and the more I bumped my
head off the less I got my shoes off,
and the less I got my shoes off the
more l seemed to bump my head off,
so decided in order to keep my head
on had better keep my shoes on also.
Then I tried to divorce my sus-
penders from my shoulders, but just
as got the suspenders half way over
my head I struck my crazy bone on
the rafters, and there was, suspended
between heaven and earth, but pray
Ing with all my heart for a bottle of
arnica.
Then decided to sleep as nature
made me. with all my clothes on, in
Guiding my rubbers.
So I stretched out, but just then the
train struck curve and went up in
the air till the ceiling hit me, and
then I bounced over to the edge of
the precipice and hung there, trem-
bling on the verge.
Below all was dark and gloomy, and
only by the hoarse groans of the
snorers could I tell that the Pullman
company was still making money.
Luck was with me, however, for just
then the train struck an in-shoot
curve which pushed me to the wall,
and bumped my head so completely
that fell asleep.
When woke up assmall package of
daylight was peeping into the car, so
l decided to descend from my cup
board shelf at once.
I peeped out through the aluminium
curtains, but there was no sign of the
colored porter and the stepladder was
invisible to the naked eye.
The car was peaceful now with the
exception of gent in lower No. 4,
who had a strangle hold on a Beetho-
ven sonata and was beating the
cadenZa out of it.
l made a short prayer and con-
cluded to fall out, but just then one
OF my feet rested on something solid
so l put both feet on it and began to
step down.
Alas, however, the moment put my
weight on it my stepping-stone gave
way and fell overheard with splash.
"How dare you put your feet on my
head?' yelled the man on the ground
floor of my bedroom.
Excuse me! it felt like something
wooden" I whispered, while I dashed
madly for the smoker.
From that day to this l have never
been able to look a Pullman car in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23

Port Arthur, Manchuria.-POrt Ar
thur, Dalny Cor Dairen, or Tairen, as
the Japanese indiscriminately call it)
and the entire Liaotung peninsula are
a center of interest to those who
watch the struggle for supremacy be-
tween antagonistic religions that is
one of the important phases of the
complex far eastern question. Here,
on Japan's newly acquired territory,
1t is to be demonstrated whether or
not her Christianity is to expand
along with the borders Of the empire,
or whether the old faiths, Buddhism
and ShintOism, are to follow the sun
nag. AS this great promontory rep
resents, geographically, greater Jap
IN. Its strategic Importance as field
OF religious conflict is apparent at
once.
An investigator of religious condi-
lions may find Japanese Christianity
here, of specially significant type
And he will also notice the lack of
idols, shrines and temples that con-
front one at every turn on the island
"hlch the Japanese now call ''the
mainland" Chinese shrines remain,
but these, as in China, are compare
lively few. Of interest to the west
ern world is the fact that the only
new missionary agency that has
come in since the war is a veteran
american missionary, Rev. T. C.
Winn, one of the leaders of the Pres.
byterian force in Japan.
New City That Looks Deserted.
A creepy feeling possesses the WIS.,
itor upon his entrance into the edict-
made city of Dalny. upon which the
car had centered such great hopes
and lavished such vast expenditure. 1t
seems like deserted city: yet it Is
full OF people. A sense of perversion
haunts one; for here is a big. sub
stantial European city, with rows of
attractive brick houses, and all the
outward tokens of a prosperous west
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FLIGHT OF THE F'ANcE.
Onnerved by Dreadful Possibilities Of
the Future.

a wayfarer, jogging along the public
highway in pursuit of his own pur-
poses, was run against and knocked
over by wild-eyed youth of fright
ened m1en, who, upon untangling him.
SELF from the peregrinator, elucidated
his narrowing predicament as follows:
Il went over to bask in the smiles
OF my f1ancee and discovered that it
was sewing circle afternoon and the
sitting-room was invested by many
matrons, both young and sere, and sat
me down on the vine-clad porch to
await their Departure; and to my first
indifferent but very presently Mortified
ears were waited snatches of their
conversation, running something like
this: The food is liable to disagree
with its little stomach, and you must
experiment with a variety of milks
from different COWS, invariably steril-
1zing 1t, and try various foods, until
you discover exactly the right one. My
second had the collie almost every
night for six weeks and screamed for
hours without intermission. 1t never
slept longer than half an hour at
time and neither my husband or me
had a minutes rest, day or night. And
then teething set in. Whooping cough
followed, and measles, scarlet fever,
hives, and Then I fed. I don't
know where shall stop and"
You are quite excusable, sir!" re-
turned the wayfarer, who had lived
long and knew much. pray, don't
mention it!"-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23
Wisdom on 7 an.

Mrs. Green, who was deeply alb
sorbed in a romance of the 18th cen
fury, suddenly paused and looked at
her husband.
Gregory she said, listen to this:
BY my halidom,' exclaimed Sir Har.
dynge, it Is past the hour. of 49,
What is a halidom?"
what do you suppose it Isl" 70
sponded Mr.. Green, with q frown.
Cant you tell from the context
Maria? Sir What's-his-name said 1t
was past the hour of IL by his hall.
dom, didn't he7 I should think any
one could tell from that sentence that
he had just consulted his halidom.
Halidom is the old English name for
watch, of course! Why is it that some
women don't seem to be able to exer-
else their reasoning faculties?'- Stray
Stories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-23
THE GREATEST CROUCH.
Good Story Of Dean Swift, Told by the
Man Who Ate Asparagus Stalks.

Perhaps the greatest crouch of lit.
erature was Dean Swift, that whimsi.
cal misanthrope, who evinced a NOR
bid delight in humiliating his social
interiors, because he himself, when
young, had been outrageously affront.
ed by his superiors.
Swift had acted as private secre.
tary to Sir William Temple. Once,
when Sir William was confined to his
bed with govt, the king, William ILL.,.
visited him, and Swift officiated as his
majesty's guide through the gardens
of Moor Park. The king taught the
secretary how to cut asparagus in the
Dutch way, and Swift had also the
felicity of seeing him eat the vege-
table.
Years afterward, when Swift was
dean of st. Patrick's cathedral in
Dublin, his publisher, Faulkner, called
at the deanery on business connected
with some proofsheets. Having been
detained until near dinner time, he
was pressed by the dean to dine with
AAAA' asparagus was one Oh Tue V0Se-
tables, and the guest asked for Sec
ond helping.
Sir" snapped Swift, pointing to
Faulkner's plate, first finish what you
have upon your plate!"
What, sir? Eat the stalks?" asked
the astonished publisher.
Aye, sir; eat the stalks, or you'll
have no more! King William always
ate his stalks" added the dean in his
most imperious manner
Whereupon the meek Faulkner,
yielding to the deans will, ate the
stalks most submissively.
Shortly after the deans death,
Faulkner was relating the incident as
an illustration of Swift's insolence.
And you were silly enough to
obey him." asked some one.
YES" replied Faulkner, "and let
me add, sir, that il you had dined
with Dean Swift, you would have eat
en- your stalks, too"
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ern community; and yet there are
less than dozen white men in all
Dalny. One may live here for days
without seeing a Caucasian face.
White hands built these houses and
streets and white brain designed it
all. But now the squat Chinese town
off toward the hills is no more orien-
tai than the population of Dalny, al
though externally the city appears to
be the antipodes of any Japanese set
Element.
The signs of ruin and defeat on
every hand are depressing. Some of
the finer buildings were burned by
the Russian forces before they evacu-
ated, and no attempt has been made
to tear down or reconstruct these.
Others are in sad disrepair, simply
because the Japanese, who are camp
ing in them, do not know the use of
the buildings, which are so unlike
their own The windows are curtain
less and shutterless. Bricks are fall
ing and decomposing. The very
metal storks that stand guard on the
caves of the houses are tumbling un-
needed to the ground. The dwellings
are going to ruin and their occupants
are uncomfortable; thus nobody is
satisfied. So numerous, however. is
the Japanese population that it is i'm
possible to rent a house; the Ameri-
can consul asked to be transferred be-
cause he could not get a home for
his family.
Good order Is preserved in this
strange city. The Japanese are en-.
,tirely masters of the situation. There
are no Russians, and more Chinese
than Japanese. The former are the
coolies, the jinrickisha men, the
drivers of the low Russian carriages.
or droskas, and the workmen gener-
ally. While it is plain that the Japa-
nese are in command, there is none
of the overbearing attitude, brow.
beating and oppression that are so ap-
parent in Korea. Toward the coun-
try which it has really conquered
Japan is gentler than toward it's
friendly neighbor, Korea.
Soon after the war was over-1n.
deed, before the Portsmouth treaty
had been signed-the Japanese Chris.
tians in Dalny began to get together.
Their leader was the man in charge
of the entire commissary department
of the army. The same energy and
efficiency displayed in keeping the
widely-separated host of soldiers fed
has always characterized this. mans
religious activities. When he had or.
ganized the Christians, who were
mostly army officers, into a church,
the question of securing a pastor
>. arose.
Thereupon a unique distinction was
conferred upon one of the veteran
missionaries of Japan, Rev. T. C.
= Vim, a Presbyterian of Osaka. MIR.
=, Winn had always been engaged in
pioneer work. Before going to Osaka
b he had been the first missionary at
kanazawa, on the east coast, and
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! many times he had been mobbed
Once he found mob, armed with
! knives, stones and sharpened bamboo
poles (Which make the wickedest OF
spears) waiting outside his meeting,
and even tearing down the walls to
get at him. He calmly went out,
faced them for moment, and then
walked through them, and way
opened for him. But they followed
with increased imprecations Once
they closed around him, and again he
turned and faced them
A little further on, as the crowd
grew more and more vehement, and
the clamorings for his life became
more insistent, he darted suddenly
up a dark alley, although he knew
that should he begin to run his fate
would be quickly sealed when caught.
Strangely enough, he was not fol-
lowed. 1t was many years before he
learned why. On one occasion he
was introduced to a big Japanese,
then become Christian, as the man
who had once saved ais life 1t ap.
peared that the man was ring
leader of the mob; Mr.. WINS atti-
tude had led him to change his mind,
and when the missionary ran up the
alley he stepped in and barred pur-
suit. He had to knock down a num-
Der of men, and throw two into the
river, but the pursuit was discour-
aged.
In sharp contrast to those stirring
days, Mr.. Winn, than whom no eau
casian is more popular with the
Christians of the island empire, was
called unanimously to become pastor
of the new Dalny and Port Arthur
church. When the attitude of the
Japanese churches toward the mis-
sionaries is remembered, and it is
recalled that in all Japan there Is
not another white pastor of a native
congregation, this peculiar honor
conferred upon Mr.. VIM becomes the
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more marked. The man himself is
quiet, retiring and soft-spoken, with
out any signs of self-assertiveness.
The Church in Cathedral.
Still other extraordinary honors
were conferred upon the Winns-for
Mrs. VIM is as popular as her hus-
band with the Japanese, and herself a
resourceful, tireless missionary. While
the American consul was utterly m.
able to secure home, one was Dro.
vided, rent free, for the Wins by the
government Even more noteworthy
was the fact that the Russian cathed-
raj was turned over to this infant
Japanese church for it's meetings
The Japanese Christians talked in
the newspapers 50 much about this
remarkable concession that the all
thorities were, after a time, Obliged
to withdraw it; but not until it had
been found by the congregation that
in location and construction the
cathedral was unsuited to their mr.
poses. A new building was furnished
by the government and this is now in
use, pending the erection of a church.
In this building two Sunday sery-
ices are held. The CONGREGATIONS
vary because of the shifting nature of
the population. The army men who
were responsible for the establish
ment of the church have all gone.
and the new organization might have
lapsed had it not been for the pres.
ence' of the Winns Some of the
leading men of Dalny were present
the Sunday morning I attended serv-
ice and in the evening there were
upwards of hundred men. In the
afternoon Mr.. VIM had a Bible class
RT. 1e-PLATEs AND SHEETS.
with students and civilians, and Mrs.
VIM one with policemen.
Except for the missionary's salary,
the church. is quite self-supporting. It
is more aggressive than many long.
established congregations in Chris
tian lands, for it maintains, with no
outside aid, hospital and a CONNER.
cial school for young men; with, ma
turally, religious features attached to
both. The varied labors Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Winn include writing frequent
articles of timely, practical sort for
the Dalny daily newspaper!
A New War on iiaotung Peninsula.
The recent war which centered its
most noteworthy features here held
the whole worlds attention. This
present religious conflict, while less
spectacular, is also strategic. Budd-
hism and Shintoism are not here in
force or power. The ancient religious
associations are lacking. The out
ward signs, such as idols and shrines
of the ancestral creeds, are wanting.
Christianity is here and displaying
marked vitality. It looks like a rare
chance for the latter.
In addition to Mr.. WINS work (he
being the only American missionary
on the peninsula) the Young Mems
Christian association is serving the
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Social Rank.

At q country dance in a southern
town, when the fiddlers had resined
their bows and taken their places CD
the platform, the floor manager rose.
Got yo' partners for cotillion!" he
shouted, imperiously.
"A1l you ladies an gemmen dat
wears shoes an stockings take yo'
places in de middle OBJ de room. All
you ladies an gemmen dat wears
shoes an no stockings take you places
immejitly benin dem. An you bare
footed crowd jest jig it roun' in de
corners" -Youth's Companion.
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DEFENDS on, the Doqs:

Asa Goddard, of the American Auto.
mobile association, was recounting in
Worcester some of his touring adven-
lures.
Zone summer morning." he said,
"the approach of great flock of sheep
obliged me to pull off the narrow coun-
try road. halted my car, and watch
ed with interest the passage of the
sheep, the intelligent dogs and the
shepherd.
Il had a short talk with the shep-
herd about his odd and difficult trade
"Look here said, what do you do.
driving sheep like this on narrow
road, when you meet another flock
coming in the opposite direction?'
"'Well,' said the shepherd, we just
drive straight on, both of We, and the
one that has the best dogs gets the
most Sheep"