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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-26
THE SOUTH INDEPENDENT.

 \ have chill. and forsooth the whole country shivers.
 We are such an emotional people.
 A perfectly sound and physically we'll man meets friend, who tells him he's not looking so well this morning; if the next four people give him the same greet ing, he goes to bed and pulls the blanket over his head. As 1ayman let us diagnose the case. The press in great head lines tells of ten millions in gold coming from Europe, fifteen the next day, in all twenty-five millions to relieve the congestion of New York.
 Lets take stock nearer home.
 Four States of the South, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Caroli- na, can sell for gold cotton crop that at today's prices will bring Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars
 It Is fair to presume that three-6fths of this is yet unsold. If we had that much money in our vaults. Gee Whiz. wouldn't we feeffich9
 Yet somewhere under the great blue domed vault of our sunlit skies there is One Hundred and Fifty Millions in re- serve for circulation.
 Let Press and people talk this side of the story, we'll all feel richer. and well soon be richer.
 Some Yankee humorist takes the cake with this:
 "Twixt optimist and pessimist
 The difference is dro-
 The optmist sees the doughnut
 The pessimist the hole"
 Let everybody keep a trading" nothing so depresses the price of cotton as stagnation. # today you can't pay all you owe, pay all you can To our GUS toners and friends in the shoe trade, there is always the hopeful suggestion that few folks in this country gobarefoot and those constantly arriving will cer- tainly come so.
 Con6dentially our October sales show gain of fifty thousand overlast October; and our voluntary Mail orders for this month are running nearly three thousand day, so if there is any Recess on Pros perity, we have no evidence of 1t from RED SEAL Shoe Stores
 Would 1t seem immodest to put ina few lines right here for Home Missionsa The next great forward movement of >the Industrial South will be the making of its own shoes; that will keep at home thirty millions now sent out of our coun- try annually to build up other states.
 The payroll of the RED SEAL Shoe Factory in Atlanta. contributes $2,O0O.OO week to the local circula-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-26
DIR. INGE IMPROVING.

Danger.
 Mobile, Nov. 25.-(Special.)- )-Dr. Har- ry Ingc who for several days has been critically i'll at an infirmary, Is tonight reported as in a better condition than at any time during his illness and his physicians state that he Is now com pletely out of danger unless unfore- seen complications arise. [.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-26
Pians for HuifdinEs.


 "A tentative. plan for the buildings, which will be worked out more fully in the canvass, will provide college made up of a group of buildings. When these buildings. are completed, they will have a capacity fo 800 boarders. The individuality of each building in this scheme will be preserved and sev- eral of them will be memorial build- ings. r., as indicated above, and at the written request of the College Commission. will be known as the John J. Flowers Building
 group will be the Julia A. Pratt Build ing, for which that elect lady mas donated $i0,ooo.
 "If the friends of the movement Will turn their subscriptions into cash or negotiable notes, made payable March i. 1909. we can go forward with as- suranee. Still the public must be pa- tient for in the accomplishment ot an undertaking of his magnitude time for intelligent preparation must be had" ,,,
 The North Alabama Conference will meet Wednesday at Tuscaloosa. The Alabama Conference will meet the following Wednesday at Enterprise
 At both conferences the College com mission will make it's. encouraging ana gratifying reports. And at both con Serences plans for the furthering of inc great movement will be adopted.
 MT. Dannelly said last night that It wa s impossible to speak with any den- niteness as to the time the actual work on the college would begin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-26
,MUNIFICENT GIFT
(Co.ti.ued iron rase One,


 op sSo.ooo towards the building of the Womans College.
 This Is . magnificent gift and per maps exceeds that of any person or Iamily to the cause of education in this state In all the past. As financial agent send you my cordial thakks and do not hesttate to forestali the action or both the Alabama Conferences in saving that the conditions precedent to this gift will bs heartily compiled with.
 You have made possible in the sphere of education in this State, finan- cfal movement that should thrill the people of Montgomery and bestir the two Alabama Conferences to enterprise tng effort in building and equipping for christi:u education. far in advance of any thing marking our past history.
 Again thanking you and assuring you that shall place the proposition embodied in the formal tender of your donation before both the Alabama Con- ferences within the next two weeks. I am. Cordially and fraternally yours,
 "J. M. Dannelly, Agent"
 Given Out Relsetantly.
 In discussing the correspondence. Mir. Dannelly said last night
 These letters are given out for pub lication with some hesitancy by their writers, but at my earnest solicitation, in order that the whole public may un- dsrstand the stauts of the Woman,s College at this tim.. They place fairly fore the people of Montgomery and of Alabama.
 'The Meth odist woman's College will be a college of the first class and there are at present only three women's col- leges of Class "A in the South. The work to be done at the Institution will be equal to that done at the famous .~kl AR vaa WQllaslaV and Bryn Mawr.
 "Particular notice should be taken of the first condition as set forth in the Flowers letter namely, that the people of Montgomery should raise the sum of tse,ooo.
 T have been deeply impressed with the fidelity to their obligations shown by the people of Montgomery. While this amount was subscribed early in the year, much of 1t was payable in the fall. month ago only half of the amount subscribed was paid, but un- der the trying conditions prevailing, subscribers. with practical unanimity, made good either with cash or by note This Is 6 tribute to Montgomerys en- terprise, and complimentary to the way in which she ne. her obligations. "A second glance at the letter will show that the second condition pro. yides that 50,0e0 must be collected from the two Alabama Conferences. Half that amount has been raised al- ready.
 "As soon as the conferences adjourn in December, a thoroughly organized canvass will be made throughout Ala barna to raise the remainder. There Is little doubt that this can be secured in . short time, under the inspiration of the Flowers donation, and Mont gorneiy's generosity.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

sail succeeded in reaching Australia,
more than 1000 miles away. He
walked 1900 miles to Sydney, shipped
as sailor, reached the Levant, and
for nine years was at liberty working
as a seaman. Then a French mou-
chard (spy) wormed his secret out
of him, and for the sake of the reward
gave him up to justice.
The Dutch government recently
transported about 200 convicts from
the big penal settlement in Sumatra
to Merouke, the new pearl fishing vii
lage in Dutch New Guinea. The men
were kept in stockade, and every
one of them knew that to remain there
was their only chance of safety. The
surrounding country was infested with
head-hunting savages. One night a
large number of the prisoners cut the
wire ana made a dash for freedom,
running straight inland. Every one of
them fell into the hands Of the saw
age Tugaris, and all that was ever
seen of them again by the expedition
sent in search was IL decapitated
heads stuck on poles, mute but grim
" eloquent recorders of the horrors
they had gone through. U.s. =5s:$
The horrors Of Russian revolution
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

ary jails have driven men to strange
risks. On a bitter day in February
1905, Swedish fishing vessel sighted
small boat tossing on the erav
waves of Hernesand. In the bottom
was man, hatless and coatless and
nearly dead from hunger and exnos.
ure. When he recovered he told his
rescuers that for six days he had been
rowing or drifting through snow
storms and gales. He had been ar.
rested at Vasa, in Finland, brought to
st. Petersburg, and thence had made
his escape.
A couple of years ago eight con-
victs made an extraordinary escane
from the United States ship Grant
while she lay in Manila harbor.
Breaking the chains of their handcuffs.
they climbed an air shaft and slid
down the anchor chains into the
water. - :.>..~-
The peril from sharks was well
known to them all, and they were all
weighted with leg irons, yet they at
tempted to swim ashore. One was
pulled down, but the others, after
hours In the water, succeeded in find.
ing boat and pulled on alo7S tho
shore. IS
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

would take too much time and space
to enumerate here, but among which
may be mentioned the rule which con-
strues it as an insult when man in
filling his neighbours glass slants the
bottle backward instead of forward.
More than one sanguinary duel has
been fought to the personal knowl-
edge Of the writer in Austria for q
breach Of etiquette of this kind. In
the same way in the orient, if in
showing the blade of sword to an
acquaintance one happens to turn the
edge thereof toward him he will con-
slider his honor impugned, and if by
any chance he is Japanese of rank
he is capable of going of and commit
ting suicide by ripping himself open,
leaving document stating that hav-
ing been insulted honor demanded
that he should commit hara-kiri, and
calling upon his nearest relatives to
avenge him.
In Relation to the Thaw Case.
With regard to the application of
the unwritten law to the case of
Harry Thaw, there are several con-
siderations to be noted in endeavoring
to bring it to bear upon the tragedy
OF Madison Square roof garden. If
young Mrs. Thaw had been without
any stormy antecedents, and had been
subjected by Stanford White to indig-
mites and insulting proposals since
her marriage, her husband would have
been justified, according to the terms
of the unwritten law, as understood
abroad, in shooting him, though of
course it would have been more chiv.
alrous to have given him chance of
defending himself instead of taking
him at disadvantage and unarmed.
But, unfortunately, young Mrs.
Thaw is not without a past; that she
was educated at the cost of White.
and had known him first as a school
girl, then as a model, and finally as a
chorus girl, for several years prior to
her marriage, cannot be denied. Her
relations with White before becoming
Mrs. Thaw, and also her career in
New York and Paris prior to her mar
rage were of nature to debar her
husband from shooting White unless
he had actually caught him in the
very act of insulting her. That at
least is the status of the Thaw.White
drama from the point of view of I'm.
written law.-New York World.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
CROW HAD $500 RING.
Feathered Pets Liking for Bright
Things Was Unfortunate.

A 5000 diamond ring was stolen
from Mrs. Herman Stoddard's bed
room, Verona, N. j., the black thief
was killed and the ring recovered.
Mrs. Stoddard loves birds. She calls
her home "The Aviary." She feeds
birds and builds homes for them on
the estate. So they become quite fear
less, but, of all, crow has shown the
greatest tameness and familiarity.
The windows of Mrs. Stoddard's
room were open, her rings were on a
dresser. A maid entered the room;
the crow was on the dresser; it said
"caw" pleasantly to the maid, flew out
of a window and perched on tree
branch near. The maid told Mrs.
Stoddard, who could not find her en-,
gagement ring, where she had left it.
She was loath to believe that any of
her pets was dishonest, but the crow
was under such strong suspicion that
Adolph Schmidt shot Il He cut open
its crop; there was the ring. +.
Around the birds leg was . leather
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

! GOVERNOR BY PROXY
By John Taylor Waldorf


else, and l want you to help me out
of hole that has nothing to do with
politics. I've got an old woman here
who takes me for you and wants me
to pardon her son. 1t would be a
shame to undeceive her, and, anyway,
I'm better looking than you are. The
boys name is Dan Higgs. He was
sent up for five years for cattle steal
ing. His father is sick, and both ia
Their and mother are starving. Par
don the boy for me, John. l never en-
We'd you your job until this minute,
and even now l want it only long
enough to pardon COW stealer. An
swer at once. I'll wait here at this
God-forsaken junction until l hear
from you.
Joseph Layson."
It was the longest and by far the
oldest telegram known in Xerxes
Junction. The operator = looked du-
bious, and timidly suggested: You
might skeletonize this and save
money"
mo, sir" said the colonel, decided
ly. Send every blamed word of it..
This is matter of state.'
The operator labored with the mes
sage while the colonel went out on
the platform to tell Mrs. Higgs to wait
patiently. Soon after the message
had gone over the wires the Ardenia
train came putting in.
Come on, governor" said Finley.
1--WE can't wait any longer"
Il can't leave now" answered the
colonel leaning languidly against the
station door,
But you must. We speak in Ar
denia tonight
you can make enough noise for
both of u.s.
"Ardenia counts on hearing you,
governor" urged Finley. "A willful
disappointment like this might ruin
your chances of election"
"You know I never had any, Finley
What's the use of saying that? Any
how, I'm not going" With that he
took seat on the bench beside Mrs.
Higgs. You'd better be moving, Fin
ley" he added. "l'll join you at Beds
burg in the morning."
Just then the operator came rushing
out with message. The colonel
seized it, almost tearing it in half in
his eagerness, then held the pieces in
shaking hands while he read:
Dear Colonel-Have telephoned to
warden at Osborn. No objection
there. Higgs' pardon signed this min
ute. Glad to be of service.
John Randall"
The colonel turned to Mrs. Higgs.
Its all right" he said, thickly, your
boy will be home tomorrow"
THANK you, thank you. You're the
best gunner God ever made" At this
she broke down and sobbed.
"All abroad" shouted the conduc.
tor.
The colonel took step toward the
train. Its all right" he repeated
'Tve done only my duty, but if you
feel grateful, tell the boy to vote fol-
me, John Randall, for governor"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
GIRL IN MALE ATTIRE
WORKS AS A BELLB0Y
SEX is FINALLY DISCOVERED,
BUT SHE LEAVES WITHOUT
REVEALING IDENTITY.

Beaumont, Tex.-Masquerading as
man and working as bellboy in the
Cakes hotel since December II, the
sex of an unknown young woman was
discovered the other day. She left
the city without revealing her identity
or giving any one her history
The young woman appeared at the
Y. M. c. A. and asked to be assisted
in her search for employment. To
the secretary she appeared to be a
young man Is years old.
Her story of misfortune and charm
ing manner elected the sympathy of
the secretary. He obtained a position
for her in the hotel as bellboy She
told him she was originally from
New York, gave her name as Perry
Martin, said she had been i'll in New
Orleans, and was only recently dis
charged from the hospital.
Her sex was never suspected. She
went to the theater with young men
and became popular with many people.
She often spoke of her affection for
young woman in New York, and said
she was engaged to marry her.
The other day the manager found
his bellboy without coat and noted
that the contour was not masculine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

he was recaptured he would suffer Sc
vere1y and lose the ordinary remis-
sion OF sentence, says Answers.
In May last the German steamer
W1llehad brought back to Sgd
ney a story which well illustrates the
desperate risks that man will run for
the sake of freedom. The Willehad
had just returned from the Bismarck
islands, and there she discovered, in
remote part of New Britain, six
French convicts in a deplorable state
of starvation and want. These were
the survivors of II men, who, nearly
IL months before, had escaped from
the French penal settlement of New
Caledonia on two RATS chiefly CON-
posed of the slaves of beer barrels.
On one Of these craft rugged with
mat sails these six desperate adven-
turers had succeeded in crossing near
ly 1000 miles of stormy sea, only to
find themselves cast away on say
age island. i.
There are many true stories of es-
cape from the sea-girt prison of New.
Caledonia. There is an Arab there
who, now II years ago. stole little
16-foot boat, and, with q branch Of q.
tree fQr mast and an old shirt for 9
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
TRIES TO ELOPE
With twin GIRLS

violets and his boxes of bonbons that
nobody guessed he was really in love.
For how could any well-balanced
young man be in love with two pretty
girls at one and the same time?
But open rupture came when Minna
resolved to outwit her sister and enjoy
the society of their common wooer by
herself alone. She telephoned to
young Mr.. Aiken and asked him to
take her to the matinee next day. He
was only too glad and he was then
told to write formal note of invita-
ton that she might show it to her
mother. But wise little Minna told
Aiken that it was Nina on the phone
and Nina got the invitation, over
joyed at having won out over her sis.
ter, whose little plot she never sus.
pected.
Then clever Minna telephoned to
young Mr.. Aiken t lat she couldn't 90
and asked him to call instead The
young man said he would.
I'm going to the matinee an.
nounced Nina, with just little note
of triumph in her voice, Il am to meet
Merle down town"
Il hope you have a nice time" said
her sister.
But no Mr.. Aiken appeared at the
meeting place. Instead he was call
ing at the house on the clever Minna.
When Nina got home, indignant at
having waited so long in vain, she
discovered her sisters little game and
there was war at once Then Mr.. and
Mrs. Naylor interfered and told young
Aiken that he would have to stop
seeing their daughters.
All right" said he.
But the sisters wouldn't stand for
that. Each one thought that the other
was meeting him on the sly. And
each was determined not to be beaten.
The result was that both met him at
least once week away from their
| home
Now comes the strangest part of all.
| Young Aiken was really in love and
proposed to Minna to elope. She
agreed. The he met Nina and, speak
ing about their plans without thinking
it was the other sister, gave the whole
thing away.
And Nina, determined to win the
good looking fellow anyway, made up
her mind to do the clipping, instead
Of revenging herself upon Minna by
telling their parents.
Minna and her bridegroom had
planned to go to Albany, get married
there and hurry on to New York for
their honeymoon there. Nina changed
this and sent word to their common
fance to meet her on train between
Troy and Albany.
Each of the twins thought she had
captured the quarry. Both boarded
the same train for Albany. Neither
saw the other. At Troy young Mr..
Aiken came on board to seek out his
bride-tO-be. Each sister saw him and
waited with thrills of expectancy and
hope-to say nothing of tiny little
bit of triumph.
The would-be bridegroom found
Minna first. There they sat in the
car holding hands and fretting that
the train wasn't fast enough to take
them to clergyman and make them
one.
And then came Nina.
But young Aiken took matters in his
own hands while the two sisters were
upbraiding each other He excused
himself for a moment when the train
slowed down, snatched his suitcase,
leaped from the platform and disap
peared.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27

and twins, alike as two peas in a pod,
equally pretty and chic and altogether
attractive
OF course, the sisters were immense.
ly fond of each other, as twins usually
are. But that was before young Aiken
came to Binghamton He was from
Massachusetts and he seemed to have
a bit more polish than the Bingham
ton boys.
And when he met the pretty Naylor
twins he was smitten Immediately
Their invitation to call was accepted
promptly. And then the trouble be-
gan
The twins for the first time in all
their 18 years quarreled while they
were prinking up to receive young Mr..
Aiken on his first CALL
He asked me if he could CALL" in
sisted Nina
That's not So" retorted Minna. HE
asked me, and, anyway, if he didn't,
he meant to-"
He didn't" snapped Nina
At first the attentions of the young
man were made the family Joke. He
was so impartial with his punches of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
M Mes EPNxNCQW1

behind the army regulations to avoid
the consequence of a quarrel at
Vienna, thereby bringing discredit to
the corps of officers of the famous
regiment to which he belonged. Wells
ley, of course, was obliged to
admit that he had been guilty of the
charge. "Then," said the duke, you
had better leave the army
Leave the army, sir?" exclaimed
the colonel. But what am to do If
I leave the army?"
Turn dancing master and be
damned to you!" replied the burly
old royal prince, swinging on his heel
and ordering his aide-de-camp in wait
ing to show the colonel to the door.
A few days later it was announced
that Col. Wellesley, who in his boy
hood had been page of honor of
Queen Victoria, had been "graciously
permitted" to resign his commission
in the army.
Unwritten Law and Perjury.
Perjury is according to every Grim
inal code of Europe a felony, yet the
correspondent in a divorce case, no
matter how guilty, is compelled by the
unwritten law to perjure himself in
the witness box like gentleman"
and failure to comply with this re.
quirement entails an ostracism which
by many is regarded as worse than
death, as one of the most eminent
of English statesmen found to his
cost. In endeavoring to exculpate him.
self of the unfounded charge of tav-
ing betrayed young married woman
whom he had known from childhood,
he admitted under examination that
he had been guilty of too great in
timacy with her mother. This confess
sion, extorted from him in a moment
of evaporation and when smarting
under sense of injustice, resulted in
the ruin of his political career and in
his being blacklisted by English So
ciety.
Perhaps the most mortal of all sins
in the eyes of unwritten law is unfair
play at cards, and there are few fami-
lies of birth and breeding on either
side of the Atlantic who would not In
finitely prefer to have a murderer
among their relatives than man
who has been caught cheating at the
card table. For it inflicts stain upon
the family escutcheon which can
never be effaced, and which is remem-
bered against the house concerned
from generation to generation. A
man caught in the act of unfair play
is exempt from punishment by the
tribunals of the land. But the penalty
imposed upon him by unwritten law
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
NEW YORK YOUTH BECOMES IN
VOLVED IN UNFORTUNATE
ROMANCE.
PROPOSED TO ONE SISTER
But Other Loved Him Too, So Both
Met Him and Insisted on Mar.
riage-Ends Trouble By
0ecamping.

Albany, N. Y-To few men has
come this romantic experience-elop-
ing with twin sisters And that is
just what Merle Aiken, of Binghamton
did. Very fortunately for him, he
discovered his mistake in time Very
wisely, too, he fed to New York to
escape the wrath of the two indignant
beauties to whom he had been pay
ing court, utterly careless of which
one finally accepted his hand. .
To this day young Mr.. Aiken
couldn't tell whether it was Nina
or Minna NaylOr with whom he was
so madly in love. The girls were IS