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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Mir. cIeveland,. Loving Cup.

New York Sun.
 Grover Clevland was probably more touched by the gift of a loving cup from the undergraduates of Princeton than by any other testimonial he has received during his career. A public man may not deserve all his fame; that tutious or fictitious But when the students of democratic Princeton warm to any man year in and year out. and he sTt has H stood % % the infaiiIe m % @ test of chan acter and must he of better stuff than the most tolerant of his enemies and the fairest of his critics will admit.
 All of his ccuntrymen do not know MT cleveland although they know him better than they did when he went out of office with maledicttons as well as plaudits ringing in his ears on graduates who have been passing through Princeton for six years. and the students now on their way through, know Grover Clevelsn1 by intuition and association; and when the under graduates give him a loving cup they mean 1t. He has stood before Prince ton men and made heart to heart talks has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting. "Princeton's con- servatism is one of her chief virtues he said to the studert body in that sympathetic and intims te address as trustee which he mado when Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson was inaugura- ted-an address which showed that MT Cleveland had entered into the Princeton spirit as few but those iden- tihed with the university have been able to do. He owes his great popu- larity at Princeton to the working out of that conservatism, which is an un- erring as 1t Is gradual and critical.
 Princeton had previously listened to MT Clevelands eloquent and feeling tribute to William Mckinley at the memorial services in Alexander Hall on September 19 1901. which none who heard it and saw how the speaker was moved will ever forget, As the first Trask lecturer Mir. Cleveland also made a favorable impression upon Princeton. But perhaps what the coIiegians like him best for is the plainness,, modesty and kindliness of the man. his free dom from pose his indinerence to the gallery, the simplicity of his comings and gofngs his palpable honesty of faith and purpose and his detachment from any desire to be honored by them conspicuously,
 The loving cup manifested Prince toms appreciation of the man as dis- tinguished from the President that was.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
rsrksnE of the New ResnIations and Hew the Manufacturers Have Been Compeiied Tn Many Cases to DisiIiu- sisnire Public Not Harmfally Bat siesantiy Fooled.

washington March 30--Although the pure food and drug act went into force on January 1. 1t will be some time before the government authorities win be able to tell exactly how 1t IS working. The only question Of inter est to the reader is whether inc tood nroducts and meats and drinks he is buying are any purer than heretofore. The government authorities are not sure about this. The men who handle the products of the manufacturers-- the wholesalers--say there has been little change In the character of the goods sold.
 that some manufacturers have been ferced to change the ingredients of their products to comply with the pro- viafor of the law that no deleterious matter shall be put into foods What the wholesalers mean prooapiy IS that really very little deleterious food has been sold and that very few changes were necessary.
 Al feast. the buyer of today knows what he is getting for on every pack are must be label that shall declare fruthfullv what is in 1t. Many per- fectly harmless products were sold un. der false names. just as the nisnest grade of coffee was called Java when n did not come from Java This was done to keep the buyer from feeling had. He wanted to believe that he usas wetting the best so the dealer &C., conanodated him.
 The wholesaler will probably do ynora or as much to see that the law in enforced as the government inspec- tor He is liable to a heavy penalty for selling impure goods and he is not likely to take any chances. As soon as the food law was passed most of the wholesalers sent lists of ques- ticns to the manufacturers of which the following is fair sample:
 T. Do the goods of your manufac- ture or production conform in every respect to the requirements of the law?
 "2. Does the reading on your pres ent principal label fully meet the de- cisfons of the department in regard to the application of the law to your pro- duets?
 "s. If not. do you intend to cor rect the misleading statements by use of supplementary label, and are you
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
HAS THE PURE FOOD LAW
 BENEFITED THE NATIONp


 prepared to send us quantity of these labels at once to be attached to the packages now in our stock?
 How soon do you expect to Is sue your productions with the princf- pal label reading in proper form7
 b Have you filed guarantee with the Department of Agriculture that your manpfactures or products will henceforth conform to the reouire- ments of the law. and what serial num- Der has been allotted to the same7"
 The enforcement of the law is more or less of puzzle because in many instances each case require a separate ruling. Take the matter of blended whiskeys. Gne dealer has two brands of pure whiskey. Neither of them contains any neutral spirits and neith- CT of them Is blended in the general acceptation of the term. He has been In the habit of mixing these two brands to produce another grade Ac- cording to the law the label must set this forth and it is held that the label of the mixed brand must declare that It Is a blended product when really it is not The department will have to make ruling on that separate case and until It does the maker of the whiskeys is in quandary as to what to do about his labels.
 But the law has it's good points. even if 1t has some bad ones Here are some instances:
 Some of the houses have for years been getting up cheap brands of goods in certain lines in addition to the standard grades by which the house has made reputation in the trade. On the cans. jars or whatever hap pened to be the receptacle containing these inferior goods the house would put the name of some fictitious con cern as the maker. There would be no mention of the firm that eactuaIIv produced the goods. The reputation oe the house in this way never suffered
 Under the pure food law this will be impossible. All canned stun must bear the name of the firm producing it. The houses may put up all the inferior goods they wish, but they must conspicuously place their names on the cans. There will be no lodging the issue.
 The thing that has caused the great est rush for new labels is inc pro- vision of the new law that the con tents of all cans and jars must he explicitly stated. It has heretofore been the custom to print strawberry Jam" on label and let 1t be inferred that the jar held nothing but straw berry jam. It Is an open secret of the grocery trade that the real unaduIter- ated strawberry jam would be so ex- pensive that the average consumer would not buy 1t, for they would have to pay champaRne prices
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

now tells the buyer that 1t is 'noney compound" Some of the spices on the market have contained ingredients that were far removed from the original There must be the same candor in la beling spices in the future.
 The manufactures of breakfast foods and cereals have some sort of protec tion from the publicity demanded by the new law because thev came under the head of proprietary foods. The names are registered and belong to the food. and If they are not intentionally misleading they may still be used. It would be violation of the law. how ever to put on the market a package marked "Buckwheato" because the grocers know that unpaixed buckwheat flour will not make the griddle cakes that he used to get at home. All the griddle cake Hours are a mixture of buckwheat and corn flour or wheat flour, and they must be so labeled
 The government has gone carefully over the whole candy alphabet. The man who buys sweets will come pret- ty near knowing what he is getting Incidentally there ought to be less work for the doctors. It Is provided that there shall be no poisonous color ing or flavoring in candy or any malt or spirituous liquid or narcotic drug
 The task of the drug trade to com ply with the new tdWb anu IeBuldllOHS has been a hard one. In every large establishment there are from 1000 to $500 different preparations kept in stock. The stock on hand all over the country the first of the year didn't have any labels telling the ingredients and the druggists have had to write hundreds of letters to the manufactur- CTS demanding that they send on the ingredients of their compounds or else guarantee that the local houses will be protected in case the law gets after thm for keeping or seliivP the prepar- ations Proprietary ines have until October next tSo t9 abodf fhsif the alcohol, opium and oW.er drugs must be told at once in paster label
 Folks who have long been using pro- prietary compounds have received some rude jolts because of the new law. For instance, the mother for years mas dosed her children with paregoric, be- lieving 1t a harmless remedy. They will find by reading the new labels on the bottles that this so-called inno- cent remedy contains forty-tive per cent alcohol and two grains of opium.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
NIGHT RIDERS WORK.
nesxroy Barn and Tobacco of Promin- nmaauanaanA Gsrnrrer.

Destroy Barn and Tobacco of Promin-
 ent Independent Grower.
 Princeton, Ky. March 30--News was brought here today by a rural mail car Tier of an outrage of the night riders as the result of which the tobacco and other property valued at several thou sand dollars was destroyed near La masco. on the Lyon County line.
 About twenty-five or thirty masked men went to the home of Tom Reddick near here, and forced him to go to his barn and point out tobacco belonging to Mir. wallace, one of the most prom inent independent tobacco men in that district The raiders then put oil on the tobacco and burned 1t.
 From Reddick's place they went to -wallace's farm, where they destroyed his barn filled with tobacco. Wallace had refused to join the Tobacco Grow CTS, Association. The people are greatly wrought up over the news of the latest outrage and a vigilance committe Is being talked of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
.sRltar wrlte. of Amersean.

Rita the woman novelist who so severely roasted the smart set in a sensational set Of articles, has some charmingly courteous things 10 say about Americans in her latest book entitled significantly Personal opin- ions publicly expressed"
 Here are a few choice sentences from her chapter about The Amazing American.
 q have an invincfble prejudice against American manners"
 'I have never been fortunate enough to meet an American gentleman or American lady"
 ITO any idea of an Anglo American entente I say No. thank ycu. The English and the American. desnite what has been said to the contrary. each in his secret heart dislikes or de- spises the other"
 "To business an American brings little or no honorable feeling"
 Looked at dispassionately the American is more an object for con tempt than admiration"
 In other parts of the book Rita" mercilessly scourages the vanities and weaknesses of her own sex. one of her
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
AJnbama nt the CnpitoI

Washington. March 30-(SpeciaI. )-- Postmasters have been appointed as follows: Cropwell. St. Clair County, James B. Turner; Green Pond. Bibb County, Alonzo Phillips; McLendon. Russell County. Harry J. Blackstock.
 Rural carriers appointed: Citronelle, Route No. 1, William H. Clark car- rier. Frederick F. Clark. substitute: Re- form, Route No. 3, Judson P. Conner field carrier. James A. Comerfieid sub stitute.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
pnATH on MRs. vERsoHor.
Aged French Woman Resident of co.
 lunnhiaua.

lumbiana.
 Colunbiana. March Especial )- Mrs. Verschot. an aged French wo- man, mother of Mrs. J. B. German of this city, died yesterday evening. She was buried this afternoon at 8 o'clock in the new cemetery.
 oIphonse. Joe and Louis Verschot of Birmingham are in the city attending the funeral of their grandmother.
 H. E. Whitaker of The Sentinel. 1t is reported, has sold The Sentinel to Hallet Mcknight There is talk that MT Whitaker and wife will take an extended visit to California.
 There was an enthusiastic mass meet ing held in the old court house last night. called by the anti -dispensary ad- vocates They are much encouraged that their ticket will be elected.
 The election takes place Monday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Historical Relic has Been In England since Trip of General Grant Around the worId--~Rita. ha. written Some Pertinent Paragraphs About the Anaerfcan PeopIe.
BL ROBERT BRoDEfsrCK

London, March 30 --The first Amer tcan flag made in America from Amer ican materials Is soon to be sold in London.
 This historical relic which was once the property of General Benjamin Butler, has been in England many years and was used in the decorations for the reception of ex-President Ulys- ses s. Grant in 1877 when 1t was in- tertwined with Union Jack
 Although its origin seems to indicate some antiquity. the first American stars and stripes Is only forty-two years old. It was made at the order of President Lincoln when he discov- cred that the national flag was being made abroad from foreign material. Abraham Lincoln Inspected the mate rial for the first homemade flag only three days before his assassination
 The flag differs from the modern pattern by having only thirty-seven stars of which twenty-seven are arr ranged in a diamond shape.
 There Is of course no doubt that this relic will now pass into American hands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

pest dpnofiSmS on tHls suDlcCt pobtS The beauty of woman may be on " skin deep. but her vanity goes to the bone"
 Sale of Art Collection
 The greatest art sale of the London season this year will probably be that of the Massey -Mainwaring collection of works of art and jewelry, which foi- lows a lawsuit over a will.
 The collection Is valued at nearly a million dollars and is the richest that has ever been sold at one time, It includes the wonderful Boucheron tiara of emeraids and pearls, one stone of which weighs nearly twenty four carats, besides a number of su- perb necklaces, silver plate, historical snuffboxes, and pictures by old mas ters.
 Women Dispute Over Coat.
 queens valuable lace coat was the subject of dispute at law between two ladies at westminster County Court. W
 Mrs Shelley, living in aristocratic Park Lane. was sued by Mrs. Far sons of Kensington. for s63 to- conn plete the purchase of lace coat which she offered her for s420. saying that it had belonged to the late queen of Portugal. and was old Brussels lace worth more than $i,S0O.
 Mrs Shelley refused to pay. the whole price because she had taken 1t to an expert, MT. Comyns Carr, the dram atist, who was doubtful of It's senuineness and she called expert wit nesses who said the coat was modern Brussels, worth about one tenth Of Mrs. Parsons valuation.
 Mrs Parsons won her case. al- though the judge deducted half the amount for Mrs. Sheliey's counter claim for the return of what she paid as she said, on Mrs Parsons's misrepresentation of the coat. The judge added that there was no eyi- dence to show that, the coat had not really belonged to the Queen of For tugal.
 One of the costliest books In the world is the sumptuous catalogue or J. P. Morgan's miniatures which IS being printed here for private circu- lation The edition Is limited to 100 copes, and the cost of producing 1t is about $to0 a copy. The DOCK, however will not be sold
 1t will be splendidly illustrated in photogravure, gold and colors, repro ductnE the gems Of Mir. Morgars col- lection of miniatures which is one of the finest if not the finest in the world It includes many masterpieces by famous old mfniaturists. such as Hiliiard, Cooper, Oliver and Shelley.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
BEN BUTLER'S FLAG
 IS TO BE SOLD IN LONDON

best aphorisms on this subject being The beauty of woman may be on- ly skin deep. but her vanity goes to the bone"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Praises American schooys

Warm praise for American public schools was spoken by English edu- cational experts at meeting of the Child Study Association here.
 G. A. Tibbey, who has visited Amer ica to study educational methods there said; As far as possible everything taught to American children has some connection with life around them. Who can say that English teachers with their tendency to exclude out-of- doors interests from the school, have not something to learn from this ex- ample? Encouragement of creative work among children Is so general in the United States. and the connection with utility Is as direct as possible, because that link sustains the pupils interest"
 No matter where one goes in Amer ica,' said Mir. R. Blair. Chief ExectT- tive education officer to the London County Council, lone finds less educa- tionaI rigidity than in England The head teachers are more prepared to take responslbiiity-a fact worth con- sidering here. As regards experiments every school in the United States Is self contained"
 We have, however, some things which America does not possess Swimming baths and immense activity to learn to swim is one. Others are such organizations as football clubs and our schools have large play grounds, while those across the At lantic have only small ones or none at all -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
GenernI Combs pead.

San Francisco. March 30.-Brtgadier General Richard Combs. United States army, who retired in 1901, died at the Presidio yesterday, aged TO years. He was born in Ireland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

SILK MoUsTLINE--Dotted Tissues and OrgandiesJ Monday. IF 1-2. 22 and 25c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

BLACK TAFFETA UNDERsIKRTs-- s8.es, s4es and ss.esg each and every one worth double the price we ask.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
BiddIng for MilIinery Trnde

London costumiers are making great efforts this year to intercept the American woman on her way to Par Is to buy gowns and hats. They are organizing a great exposition to be held in June when London will be full of American society women and tourists.
 The object of this exposition will be to show American women and Eng lishwomen too. that they need not go to Paris for the most elegant and best made frocks.
 "The English fashion creators'' says the secretary of the exposition. "are quite as artistic as their foreign competitors. and they fit well and un- derstand the English and American figure to perfection.
 American women see, admire and declare they love London, but they skip through 1t in order to buy their gowns in Paris.
 What we want to make American and English ladies understand is the fact that the ycan get just such ar tistic creations in London as they can in Paris"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
R Racket Store 1os-7 DEXTER AVENUE TELEPHONE 24s
A Unique Display
 of Spring Emery

We lively times here the bargain feast spread for friends The magnetic of will that Il be busy wrapping goods and starting them delighted buyers It will your financial benefit on hand and share the good things awaiting you.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-23

take hold of this question of coollc labor and negotiate n treaty that win be Co the advantage of the laborlng men This demand comes from e,uIy western Jtate. and will popularize the administration. but in doing this the administration should be exceeurngIy careful not to entrench upon the rights of the state Of California. IT the peo- pio of San Francisco are willing to amend their public school regulations, it Is all right with the country. In fac. the country generally, cares not an lota what the city of San Fran cisco does about it's public scnoois. But the people of other sections be- come intensely interested just as soon as the national administration under takes to coerce a sovereign state. Roosevelt has grossly ignored the dual principle of our government by his arbitrary actions in tht3 matter, but it seems that he Is now trying 10 slide out of the dilemma by cooper ating with the San Francisco school board. While the White House IS z very remarkable place in which to hold a session of the San Francisco school board. the president knowing this to be an undissoluble union of free and independent states, should have conferred with the school board before making an assinine spectacle of this country. The board is repub- lican In politics and would glad ly have helped him out of the diplo- matic hole into which the Japanese government forced him by its unreas- enable demands.
 In ether words, the president botch- ed the whole diplomatic controversy and exhibited a czar-like disposition to override the law of the land that is discreditable in a president. And the republican Council of this terri tory in giving expression to this view, and then repudiating it's action, show ed to the miners and workingmen of this country that their party was un. worthy of the confidence of the voters that it did not stand for principle, but was willing to shift around to any point of view if commanded to do So by the "big stick" and the "big stick" in this territory is located in the governors office. The republicans of the Counc! knew that there was really no danger of a war with Japan: that
Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-23

ample. we would not think oI rvpurJ inE ia tuli. the nasty details 0f A aa- laoioua divorce case. merely because Inc Lord permitted the testimony to bo introduced which every aeif.f,s spccting journal would properly re- gard as unprintablo We hgFCo with the Chicago Chronicle that. while it aacms. unsappily. to bo truc that tau American reading public demands the testimony in the Thaw case at con siderable length. the federal authorI- ties are fully justified in Issuing a warning to certain New York nsws' payers. which have made the trial an excuse for sending obscene literature through the malls. Says the Balt!. more Amcrican:
 That newspapers. or so-calhed news- papers. have violated the provisions of the postal law, is well known. There are all sorts of newspapers, just as there are all sortg of men. and some of them have not the regard
 
 should characterize a public journal
 It is absurd 10 make reFatablc newspapers. all over the country. suf. fer for the acts of few yellow sheep in the flock, says the Los Angeles News. The average Is more than decent: 1t Is high class with a con. stant regard for the proprfsties of journalism. The conscientious pub fisher does not fear the law. he couris the law in his own protection. State laws against the printing of obscene literature can be invoked to punish the yellow hammers, and there is no need of a federal tribunal to say what shall and shall not pass through the mails, in the line of legitimate news.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-23
THE JAPANESE
 QUESTION AGAIN.

The people of Arizona irrespective of party, will be greatly pleased if the federal government concludes to shut out Japanese coolie labor. The Japanese are a brave people and the American people respect them as such. but this labor question is very
 grave issue in this country. Our lab orirg men are not getting any too high wages now and every Japanese and Chinese that come to this country cheapens the price of labor and takes that much away from a white man; hence 1t is only justice tu our own men that this government