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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1907.
ONE MORE DEPARTED.


 The following significant and rather astonishing notice appeared in The Chicago Chronicle of May 31:
 As 1t has not been profitable of late. the publication of The Chronicle will be suspended with this issue.
 All liabilities of The Chicago Chroni- ele Company will be met as usual in segular course
 Persons who have paid for The Chronicle in advance will receive an nther Chicago newspaper until the ex-
 H. w. Seymour.
 Editor and Publisher.
 We call this publication astonishing because we think 1t will appear so to most people who have any accuain eance with Chicago journalism. Me ehanically. The Chronicle was one of &he handsomest newspapers in the country. Editorially it was strong end vigorous in matter and style Po- litically we have not been highly inn pressed with it of late. From being a vigorous Democratic paper 1t Topped during the last national campaign and become one of the bitterest and most thoroughly partisan Republican organs in the country; so bitter, indeed, that 1t has often lacked very much of be- ing either fair or just
 But the chief significance of the statement we have copied lies in the fact that even in q great city like Chi cago the newspaper field can be over worked It shows that. there is not all ways room for one more" Chicago had five large morning newspa pers The Chronicle The Tribune, The Inter- Ocean, The Record-Herald and The American. Judging solely from ap- porous and firmly established as any of them, and gave promise of holding its own against the field. If there had sbeen room for five big morning papers in the city 1t is fair to assume that The Chronicle would have lived and prospered. The brief. frank and direct "Jotice to the Public which Is cop jed above shows that the editor and publisher had enough ana knew it, and was ready to throw up the sponge in acknowledgement of defeat. Whether or not it has ever been a paying ven- ture we have no means of Knowing, but it appears to have required thir- teen years of effort to convince it that 1t was one too many. It has gone where the woodbine twlneth," leaving more room for the others. Let 1t rest in peace.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

which enter largely into the daily life of the American people we must not omit lead pencils, as they are usually called. though there is no lead In them. Where" asks The Kansas City Journal, do all the lead pencils come from-32o. 900, 900 of them a year Mostly from red cedar, Ghich Is almost indispensable for the purposes, since no substitute for 1t has yet been found Pencil cedar is the only wood which is always sold by the pound. and it is getting scarcer while the demand for pencils increases rapidly. for tune awaits the man who shall hit upon a satisfactory substitute"
 The Journal is correct about the increased demand for pencils proceed ing from three causes First is the natural increase of population. and next the more wide population. and next the more wide diffusion of edu- cation through which a greater per centage of the population has learned to write. The third cause of the great CT demand is based on the changed many of us can call to mind, most writing was done with pen and ink, but the pencil has so largely taken the place of the pen in nearly all writ ing for temporary purposes that 1t is rare to see one using pen. The great n hoe extent checked the increase in the demand for pencils, but that Is still enormous.
 And while on the subject it Is really singular that cedar should continue to be the almost universally used mater ial in the manufacture of pencils. Some white pine is used, as is also some juniper, redwood and some or the other light woods but cedar holds its own as the standard material. we can understand The Journals sug- gestion that fortune awaits the man who will find a satisfactory substitute for cedar. Paper has been tried, but it has failed to supplant the wood, evidently lacking something essential to the making of a good pencil. Some substitute will have to be found, though, for the supply of red cedar is so rapidly diminishing that one does not have to look very far ahead to see it's finish, If the present slaughter of it continues to increase, as seems likely. When there is no more of 1t to be had we must find some other ma terial. Whether a wood as well suit ed for the purpose as cedar Is will be found somewhere, or whether substitute for wood will be found is yet to be seen. What we feel perfect Iy sure oi, however, is that the man who discovers a reliable and accep- table substitute will have something better than a gold mine
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
To-day In History

18O4--Richard Golden, English states man. born: died April ?. 1865.
 lsOS-- Jefferson Davis. President of the Confederate States of America, born: died December 6. 1889.
 1s33-- Joseph Howard. Jr. American journalist. born.
 ISI3-- King Frederick VIII. of Den mark, born,
 is65--Prince of Wales. heir-apparcnt to British throne. born.
 1San-- President Carnot uardOned the Duke of Orleans, who was escorted out of France.
 1l9i--Six hundred men slain in tho defeat of the Government troops in salvador.
 iS93--Gen. Primo Rivera, Captain General of Madrid. assassinated,
 1S0G--Thc Prince of Wales's horse Pcrslrnmon won the Epson Derby.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
Road Making Trust

DIV MInette TlWtS.
 If We could have trust in Ala bama which would be a road making institution. we would favor it. The Legislature should do somethin- along this line. and should be the machinery by which the State may inaugurate a system of good road making. The Dem- ocratic Party is pledged to it by its recent platform adopted in Montgom. cry, Is the pledge to be kept, or will it be overlooked in a fanatical attempt to overdo the railroad legislation act2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

What will war be when armies op pose each other armed with such guns as these? It comes near enough to being murder now, but when the op- posing forces can begin their work of death at four or five miles distance and make it continually more deadly as they approach each other it would seem that murder is hardly a hard enough term for it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
APRI, CIRCULATION.

The MontgoUery AdVertlser BuafaItees its advertisers (and makes 1t part of the contract when requested) that it's Daily cir" cuiation is lar.er than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama-and that It, Sunday edition has the largest circulation of any edition of any newspaper printed ip Alabama without exception.
 The figures for April. printed below, rep resent the actual net circulation all returns having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Now that "Ole Virginny" has figu- ratively, stepped in and annexed Old Hickory's birth place the two Carolinas may as well turn their swords into pruning hooks and consider the discus sion closed It was downright cruel in Virginia, but the deed is done and who can undo it?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
~& WOmen'S h.
 ~. Diseases .

Fully three -fourths of the ills of woman kind are due to over-work and insuf1cientiy nourished nerves.
 As virtue is the backbone of society,"" just so the nervous system is actually-the backbone of our physical existence
 The head, heart. lungs, stomach, liver' kidneys, regenerative organs-practically every part of the human anatomy-is more or less dependent upon the nervous system.
 For over twenty years we have given our entire time to curing the chronic and nervous troubles of men and women.
 We are equipped for this work to m extent and at an expense uncalled for by the demands and practice of the ordinary We treat probably q hundred chronic and nervous cases where the average prac- titloner treats one.
 If your disorder is one peculiar to your sex don't hesitate to call through feel ing of ill-advised "delcacy."
 The matter is too important to neglect. and the attention you will receive here will be as confidential, as private, and more satisfactory than If less experi- enced physician were to attend you ln your own home.
 You cannot possibly make a mistake in writing or calling to see us. There is no 5harge to you for this visit, and 1t does not place you under any obligations to us whatever.
 Call or send for our Pamphlet for Wo- men," mailed free in imprinted envelope.
 Also have a Book for HcH and one on Brain and Neruc EShGustfOn of vital in- terest to every man and woman. Either gent free on request.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

The talk of joint debate between Bryan and Beveridge is arousing con- siderable interest just now. If those two B's get together there'll be some thing doing for the reporters. at all events.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Commenting on the statement that the Dunkers never use tobacco or !!auor The San Antonio Express mora lizes that it does not take much to satisfy some people" Possibly some of them are satisfied because they don't know what they are missing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
ABOUT SMALL THINGS.

A match is small thing. taken them make a difference. So, one would think that such an insignificant thing would be so easily manufactured that there could be no trust or monopoly in the business, but that would be mistake. In a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post. it Is shown that the Diamond Match Company has a capital of sixteen million dollars. operates fifty-four factories and con trols immense forests from which to obtain it's supply of raw material. The Post says -...
 It has today an organization cover ing, but not controlling, raw materials. It has alliances with great foreign manufacturers of matches. It has tar fir advantages. It has vast tracts or timber land under a forestry system that assures a perpetual supply. It has automatic machinery that Is more valuable than all these, making matches = per cent faster than the ma chinery of thirty years ago. In lS8l Diamond Match employed 3,oUO to l. 900 people Today with this macHl- nery. at one plant in Barberton. Ohlo,
 
 again as were consumed in the whole country in 1881, and with only 500 em- ployes But in q few years the pd- tents on some of this machinery Will expire, and already competing ma chine has been put on the market, the invention of a former head machlnlst of the company, which is said to turn ont 295 cases per day to Diamond NHtch's 1I5 case. Diamond Match once maid twenty per cent. dividends: It IS now paying ten. and there is talk Of reduction to eight. It had to raise Sl- OoO 00O more capital last year for plant and land purchases.
 Such figures as these show in a ,rrarbic manner the immense value and tmportance of small things. We hay" no data at hand from which to estl- mate the number and value of the matches made and consumed in the T-nitad states. but the details of the carital invested and the number of ,,Iants used by one corporation is an evidence of the value of the whole. If would be interesting if we could get all the details for the past year, for example and find the total output of all the match manufactoriss in our own country alone, leaving out what IS done in other lands All this great money investment and the labor sav- ing machinery of the day explains why matches are so cheap.
 And speaking of the small things
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Secretary Cortelyou says that in his opinion party service should be re- wardcd." That's good Republican doc Urine, at all events.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

The new army rifle is the deadliest firearm ever invented. As tested by ordnance expert it has a range of five miles, will shoot bullet through fif- ty-five men with the nearest man fif- ty three feet away. and at a distance of nearly one mile 1t will hurl it's pro- jectile through the bodies of six men. IL is six inches shorter than the Krag
 JorGenson, weighs nearly d pound less, and 1t requires but a second or so to fix bayonets. The name is the New Model Springfield and will be made at the arsenals in Illinois and Massa- chusetts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

F & Noble. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's curculation for the month of April 1907. is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents spoiled and leftover copies have been de- Gucted-
 E S NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before this E7th day of May 1907.
 RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
Threc Coed Thinss

Birmingham n News.
 By a coincidence the Jamestown Ex- position. the Confederate Reunion in Virginia and the mint season, are all in full blast at the same time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

MT. D.. w. McIver. Jr.. has re- turned from attendance upon the Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, where he Is pursuing his studies prep aratory for the ministry. He left Sat he will remain for seveal days among the Presbyterians there. He will con- duct services in the churches at Green villc. Hayneville. Sandy Ridge and Lowndeshoro this summer. returning to the seminary In September. He has two years yet to conolete his course. He has not been homo in two years and is heinz cordially welcomed by many friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

error, spent last night in Montgomery and leaves this morning for Auburn, where he will attend the commence ment of the Alabama Polytechnic In stitptn this week. Lieutenant Cover nor Gray arrived Tn the city early in the evening and registered at the New Exchanse. where he met many of his Moptromery friends. He Is in fine health and spirits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Mir. Sol Cadden left yesterday for New York whence he will sail for Flu rope to be gone until about Octo- ber
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
Tickets Sales to West Increasing.

Capt. George W. Ely, Travelling Pas senser Agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad, who was hurt T few days ago In a wreck below Selma. is him self again, as much one If the hoys as any~>of the younger solicitors of passengers .n the territory.
 He made the interesting statement yesterday that his ticket ~ales for April 1907. exceeded those of 1906 by :lmost 100 tickets.
 He tnkes this as an indication that the natural increase in travel IS keep ing up and people are more able to go and como than they were a year ago. This seems to be the experience of most of the roads, says Captain Ely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

The Manchester Union. referring to the query as to which are the ten best things to eat isn't satisfied to limit it to only ten. It declares that a per son with a healthy appetite can find at least a hundred best things and enjoy any of them at the proper time Maybe SO. but are not our contempo- raries putting a severe strain on the superlative of the adjective "good?'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

MT. Howard Webber has gone to New York. where he will spend the summer with his grandparents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Some particulars about new army rifle are thus set out by The Chicago Chronicle:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

The Houston Post claims that cer- tain classes in Texas own from five sixths to seven -eiRhths of tine wealth of Texas and pay one million dollars of taxes per annum. while the classes and people who own the other small frac- ton of the wealth of the State pay three million dollars in taxes. We are not informed just how this is but cer- tainly 1t doesn't seem like equal and exact justice if The Post is correct.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Mr. Hugh Stokeley. an attorney of Birmingham. Is in Montgomery. MT. StoGelcv is an attorney for the South and will appear before the Alabama Railroad Commission today in the in terest of his company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Hon. w. D. Jelks. formerly Governo of Alabama now in business in Bir mingham. spent yesterday in Mont EOmerN.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

MT Ben R Howard. a prominent cot ton buyer of Selma, spent yesterday in MODtgOmerY
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Hon. John McDufiie, Representative of Monroe County in the Legislature' snent yesterday with friends in Mont gOmerV
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Mir. Edwin Howell Lewis will leave for New York this morning. From there he will sail for Paris next Thursday. He will spend a portion of the summer travelling abroad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

The following significant and rather astonishing notice appeared in The Chicago Chronicle of May 31:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

MT w. K Terry. of Birmingham, member of the Board of Trustees Of the Alabama Polvtechnic Institute at Auburn. was in Montgomery las'. night on his way to attend the meeting or the Board of Trustees of the 1nstitutc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

Mir. Walter P Cook of Selma is reg istcred at the Exchange Hotel.
  TNr w. NJ Smith of Prattville is visitor to Montgomery
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

MT. Fred Wilkerson, who has taker a course of medical lectures at Column hia College. New York. is home fol the summer holidays for visit witt his parents. pr. and Mrs. w. M. VII kerSon.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-21
SEVEN INJURED IN
AUTO WRECK
Victims Two of Whom May
Die, Chicago People Sight
seeing In Denver

Denver, Sept 20.-Seven persons
were injured two perhaps fatally as
the result of a collision between an
automobile and an electric car on the
outskirts of the city tonight. The
party, which included several Chicago
people had been on a sightseeing tour
and was returning to the city The
automobile was running along at a
good speed when an electric car loom
ed up, coming directly across the
path Of the automobile. The ehauf-
feur expected the car to slow up and
evidently the motorman depended on
the automobile TO slacken It's speed.
Neither the car nor the automobile
shut off power until too late and the
collision resulted The injured.
Mrs. William Ferris Chicago. inter-
naly injured: may die
Alex. Ferris, son, crushed and in
ternally injured. may die.
Mrs Russell Dale, Chicago, both
legs broken.
Mrs $. r. Gardner Chicago. bruis-
ed about body and shocked.
Mrs. $. +. Howe. Denver, wrist
broken.
Mrs L. c. Jones Denver, slightly
hurt.
James II. Tremble Denver. ehauf-
feur, badly bruised and believed to be
internally injured
All were taken TO Mercy hospital
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-21
DEATH LIST IN
TRAIN WRECK
SIXTY THREE
ENGINEER AND TRAINMEN
IN MEXICAN PRISON
Freight Crew Blamed For Dis
aSter ON Central Road VainIy
Attempt to Escape to United
States, N

Mexico CITY, Sept 2O.-Fuller deN
tails of the wreck yesterday on the
Mexican Central near Encarnacion,
where the El Paso express train coll
lided with a freight, bring the total
number of deaths up to sixty-three.
The number of the injured, many Of
whom will die, is now given at forty
three
The engineer of the freight train, an
American named Brooks, is said to
have confessed to disobedience of or
ders, to which the wreck is directly
attributable Brooks and the con-
duetor Of the freight train, an Amer
lean named Randalman, attempted to
make their escape across country after
the accident. They were captured to-
day by a squad of soldiers and are
now in prison. The Mexican law holds
them strictly accountable for the ac-
cident.
All the killed and injured except
Engineer Mcfarland of the passen-
ger train, were Mexicans who were in
the day coaches, which were filled
with people returning home from the
national fiestas. The trains met on a
curve.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-21
WATERWAYS COMMISSION
READY FOR LONG TRIP

Cleveland. Ohio. Sept 20.-Mcm-
bers of the inland waterways cOm-
mission. of which Congressman Thoo-
dore r.. Burton, candidate for the
mayoraity OF Cleveland against Tom
Johnson. Is chairman are gathering In
Cleveland 10 begin their tour of ln-
specton tomorrow. Leaving cleve-
land, the trip up the lakes viii be
made on a frelghtef, thence across ~
the headwaters OF the Mississippi and
down that stream 20 the gulf. In adj
dltion to the members Of the commits
sion and ita staff score of governors
and President Roosevelt Will take part
In the inspection Of the lower Misgls-
sippi. The president viii Joint the
party In KeOkuk. ia., early next
month. II the great lakes region
special attention Wlll be paid to the
needs of the Detroit and saull ste.
Marie rivers. on which millions have
already been spent
THE members Of the commission
afe. Congressman Burton. chalfmani
Senators Warner Of Missouri, and
Newlanda OF Nevada; senatnf-elcct
Hankhead. OF Alabama. General Mac
kensle. chief Of staff Of the govern
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-21
PROJECT TO EXTEND.
RECLAMATION TO TEXAS

Dallas. Texas. Sept 2O.-A project
for putting the public lands of Texas
upon the same basis Of those Of other
states is now being broached and will
be brought before the coming trans
Mississippi commercial congress at
Muskogee, /. T. Congressman Steph-
ems ls one Of the leaders in the move
ment and will urge II to the attention
of congress. The object Of the desired
legislation Is to arrange for the ex~
tension of the reclamation service to
this state.
When Texas was admitted to the
union she had been a republic for sew
eral years, and one Of her oompacts
was that the public lands should be
held by the state to be given TO the
veterans OF the struggle with Mexico.
This distribution, however, made
hardly no Impression on the vast pub
lie acreage Of the state and now Texas
desires the national government TO aid
In reclalmlng the arid lands and sub
merged districts.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-21
ELEVEN MEN
DASHED 70
DElI.g|:S<
MINE CAGE FALLS 700 FEET
TO BOTTOM OF SHAFT
Bodies Of UnfortunateS Piled
Up In ShapeIesS Mass of HUI
manityi Seven Escape Alive
Badly Injured,

Nagaunee, Mich, Sept. 20.-Seven
men were killed outright and seven
probably fatally Injured by the falling
of the cage in the Jones & Laughlin
mine at this place. The cage plunged
seven hundred feet to the bottom OF
the shaft With its human freight.
the cage was being lowered on its
first trip when the brake suddenly re-
fused to hold. Two men sprang to the
assistance of the man operating the
hoisting engine but they were power
less to stop the wild flight of the car.
The cage shot down couple of hum
dred feet, when a kink In the too rap
idly paying out cable caused 1t to
part. and from that point the cage had
sheer drop to the bottom of the
shaft. The safety catch with which
the ear was equipped failed to operate
at the critical moment. The surging
of the car in its mad flight tore out
part of the side Of the engine house
and ripped out the timbers lining the
inside of the shaft
Workmen at the bottom of the mine
Immediately set about the task of re-
moving the dead. A sickening scene
met their gaze The bodies lay Piled
in one mass Of lfeless flesh and blood.
The bones Of the victims were so shat
tered that the men when they fell, pill
ed on top of each other like so many
pelts of leather, Seven men We're
found still alive, but 1t Is reported that
none of them can recover.