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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
Enrt selma Fire.

The fire department was called to East Selma today about o'clock. Ihe fire proved to be box car on sns nos nitai track of the Southern Railway. near Mulberry road. The car was con sumed by the flames. t How the hre originated Is not known.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
KNOW THEIR BUSINESS.

HoIt's Dye works Do Not Have to Ex- pertinent.
 We know from experience what your
 clothes need and do not have to ex pertinent with them. adv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
nrnniIInn CommerclaI Treaty. !.

Buenos Ayres, Jan. s.-The confer ences between the ministers or nnancS and foreign affairs and the minister Sron, ,Rrazil regarding a commercial treaty is still in progress
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
MALLORY WILL RUN
FIORIDA.S SENIOR SENATOR AN-
 NOUNCEs HIS CANDIDACY.
Upsets Plans of sparkman and Lamnr( ( Whose Friends Thought Soion
 Would Retire From Pub Iie Life.

Pensacola Fla, aJn.. 3.---(SpeciaL)-- Information received here today from reliable sources is to the effect that United States Senator s. R. Mallory, whose term of office expires In 1908 will be a candidate to succeed him self.
 The news caused no surprise among the friends of the senior senator from Florida, but will possibly cause sur prise among other sin the State. owing to the fact that up to within a few months since it was the general im- pression that Senator Mallory would retire at the expiration of his second term. Numerous prominent men of the State have been spoken of as oppon- ents of Senator Mallory, among them being Congressman Sparkman of the First District, who Is ranking minority member of the rivers and harbors com nlittee of the House, and also Congress man Lamar of the Third District. and what effect the encouragement of Sem ator Mallory will have upon them is problematical.
 Congressman Sparkman is looked upon here in Senator Mallory's terri tory as the most formidable of any of those whose names have so far been mentioned, and 1t is stated that he was urged four years ago to enter the race, but declined to do SO. Senator Mallory is now in the best of health. and his friends in this section are welcoming the announcement that he will be a candidate for third term in the high CT branch of Congress.
 County officers Seated.
 Newly eelcted county officials were seated today, when meetings of boards to which new members had been elec- ted, were held. The Board of County Commissioners held a session and after the old board had transacted business which necessitated action by the old members, the latter surrendered their seats to the incoming members.
 Of the five members of this three retired, they being Chairman A. M. Avery, who was not candidate In the primaries, and Commissioners Sennott John A. Merritt, H. c. Clopton and J :. B. Roberts and the latter with the two old members who were reelected or- ganized the new board, James M. Am drews being chosen as chairman. This selection was made after John A. Mer- ritt had been nomiated by H. c. Clop- ton and when the former withdrew the latter refused to vote for the selection of chairman. The new chairman am nounced the appointment of Messrs. Sturart and Roberts as members of the finance committed:
 Another meeting of new officers was that of the County School Board. when 1.-two of the members. President A. ". Clubbs and Judge A. c. Blount, Jr., retired and William E. Anderson and H. G. DeSilva were seated. MT. An- derson was chosen as chairman and Mir. DeSilva as chairman of the finance committee. Chairman Clubbs, who re- tired. did not aspire for office at the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
MRS. HELEN ELEBAsH DEAD.

Mrs. W A. Anderton Is spending a few days in Centerville with relatives
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10

Mr. Albert Meyer Is spending few days in Pensacola.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
snciaI nnd PernonnI.s .

Mrs. Albert Kahn will entertain to- morrow afternoon at cards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10
nrenIr lin Roveatt.

hFcuA CR DOSSSN@
 Hong Kong, Jan. 9.-The second and subsequent meetings of the anti American boycotts was frustrated by
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
IDENTIFIED ALL RIGHT.
Peter Powell Had a. Pair of Peas il,
His Pocket Which Served
the PURPOSE.

While building was in process of
construction two of the Tiers became
engaged in a violent quarrel. So vio-
lent was it that the police were called
in and the offenders taken before a
magistrate, relates Harper's Maya
zine. Both of the men were sober and
industrious and good workmen; this
according to the testimony of the fore
man in charge Of their work, who had
followed in hopes of being able to in
tercede for them:
The magistrate asked, in astonish-
ment, the cause of the quarrel. It
seems that one man had accused the
other Of stealing his coat.
"And l can prove it, too," added the
man.
"How?" said the magistrate.
II always keep my card in the
pocket" said the man.
The, policemen we're directed to
search the garment. But the found
absolutely nothing
Gimme my coat" said the work
pan. It was handed to him. He took
two dried peas out of one of the pock-
cts and held them up triumphantly.
"P. P.-Peter Powell. That's me
name. Them's my card.'
He got his coat.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.

The last sovereign to abdicate was
King Milan of Servia. He relinquished
the crown in 1889.
The last slaves under English-speak-
ing people were United States negroes,
set free in 1865.
False teeth of ivory, on plates of the
same material, and held in place by
gold wires, were in use in the year
1000 B. G..
During the past three centuries more
than 200 different systems of short
hand have been devised. Pitman's was
first published in 1910.
The first standing army of modern
times was established by Charles VII
of France in 1445. In England the
first standing army was organized in
$685.
The first attempt at stereotyping in
America was made in ITS by Benja-
min Mecom, printer at Philadelphia.
Previous to this time the Dutch had
stereotyped a prayer book in It'll. The
first printing press in America was es-
tablished in 1639<at Cambridge, Mass.
Earlier than any known paintings,
some tapestry discovered recently at
Deir-el-Bahari, near Thebes, is among
the oldest specimens of human art ex-
tant, with the exception of the pre-
historic drawings on the bones Of ex-
tinct animals by the river drift men,
which, OF course, are incomparably
older. But these paintings represent
the period in which the art of Egypt
was at its zenith, the eighteenth
dynasty, and consequently date back
about $500 years.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
TELEPHONE TIDINGS.

Glasgow corporation owns a tele-
phone system covering 143 square
miles. <
The charge for five minutes con-
versation between London and Brus-
sells is four shillings
Guernsey was the first place to have
a municipally-owned telephone service
n the United Kingdom
The first submarine telephone line
was opened on April 1, 1891. It con-
1ected London with Paris.
The London telephone area, which
covers 600 square miles, is the largest
local exchange era in the world.
London Wall exchange contains $500
direct telephone lines for subscribers.
They are worked by 80 operators.
There are 60 national telephone ex-
changes in the metropolitan area, and
a dozen belonging to the post Office
Three hundred people telephone
daily from London to Paris, each pay
ing eight shillings for the privilege.
The post office telephone plant in
London hasa capacity for 10000 sub,
scribers, but in 1904 only Ii. .2e2 used
the service: 4 Iz51.:.@ i>.5
To speak for three minutes from
London to Inverness cost i've. shillings
sixpence, and from London to Cork
six shtllfngs sixpence. =s.-ss.z . g
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05

that will soon be as good as new, If
he only takes care of them. I didn't
bring his nurse girls, for here's Mar
garet with nothing else to do, now you
are we'll, Sylvie."
They were up the steps by this
time, and I could see how little help
Walter needed. I tried in vain to
speak and smile, and then I felt a
strong right arm close about me, and
I looked up into face all alight with
hope and love.
Dick had taken Sylvie in through
the low French window, and I could
hear him telling her:
"You should have seen him brighten
up when I told him what I had come
for, and that sheewas waiting for him.
The doctor said, all he needed was
something to live and work for. have
had to keep telling him all the, way,
that it would be his own fault if their
lives were spoiled. / guess he sees it
now, but it was hard work, I can tell
you.''
AS we listened, Walter smiled dows
at me.
1T was all through him, love-" he
said.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05


got my professional pride as a chem
ist when I afterward brought you into
the laboratory and showed you small
heap of fine, white ashes, hardly
larger than two ordinary handfuls?
Dagmar was very big dog, even for
her breed and sex. You were aston
ished wheh Informed you that this
was all that was left of her, and threw
the ashes out of an open window for
the breeze to scatter them. I had no
great standardization in the matter.
Other chemists, less distinguished
than I, have accomplished the same
sort of tremendous annihilation; but
wanted to test my own powers, and
did test them. That's ALL
with this he walked instantly from
the room. I sprang after him as the
door closed. Then a great giddiness
came over me and sank into chair.
Perhaps I swooned-memory is misty,
right here. Anyway, when my facul-
ties cleared I had, somehow, the most
curious feelings. I seemed no longer
a man; l had become vengeance.
Hence that second lapse of mine-so
termed. 1t was no lapse at all; it was
long, shrewd masquerade. let my
self apparently slip back into the old
idiot state. Do you ask why? The
murder is my answer. But I could
have 'staid sane,' you will say, and
killed Holme Dyott just as surely.
True; yet, then, there would very
probably have been the scaffold."
'"Your guardians crime was black
one, Lord Thornburne. But now,
when you have so unsparingly avenged
it, IL cannot doubt that grief (per-
haps the sharpest remorse) must tinge
your days."
"Grief? Remorse? I grudge every
hour as it passes. I'd kill him over
again a thousand times in each "a.
1t was for this I feigned craziness.
didn't want them to hang me. That
might have meant only an eternal
blank, and if so it will come soon
enough. Too soon, too soon," he add
ed, with sort of fiery plaintiveness
'Just to go on thinking it all over and
overflow I stabbed him when he be-
lieved himself safest from me-hoW
he saw the sanity in my face, and 'ln
derstood Cat the moment he dropped)
the whole ruse I had practiced-just
to think this all over and over, I say
means for me such mighty consola
tion! Twenty lifetimes could not give
me enough of it,"
Here, with hands tensely clasped, he
dropped back into his chair. Then
by slow degrees, his hands fell toward
either side Of him, his chin fell upor
his breast. Margaret, Margaret"
| heard him murmur.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
An Anonymous" Letter.

A certain congressman from Vir-
ginia has long retained in his employ
a colored man by the name of Ezekiel.
One morning the master left the house,
leaving behind him letter he had for
gotten. Some time in the afternoon
he remembered the communication,
and, as it was of some Importance, he
fastened back home, only to find that
the letter was nowhere to be seen in
his library. He had distinct recol-
lection that the letter had been left
on table. He summoned Ezekiel and
asked if he had seen the letter.
"Yassah, yo' lef' it on yo' table,"
'Then where is it now?'
II mailed it, sah."
"You mailed it! Why, Zeke, l had
not put the name and address on the
envelope!"
"Jes' so, sab! I thought it was one
Of dem anonymous letters. ."-American
Spectator
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05

through my stubbornness. Now I
wanted to be near some one loved.
was glad they named the baby
after me; it made me feel had a lit
tie share in her, too.
The baby was sweet little crea-
ture, and I softened toward Dick
when I saw the tender look the very
sight Of his wife and child brought to
his face; so it was not long till l for
got had ever disliked him.
We led a quiet, happy life, seeing
little company and caring for none.
The little Margaret grew and thrived
Before a year had passed, I felt SO
much a part of the family that l would
have felt it a great hardship to leave
them. Dick and were very friendly;
we both loved the same creatures, you
see.
Little Margaret was nearly two
years old when my twenty-ninth birth
day came. You thought I was older
than that? Well, no wonder, felt so
very much older in the days of which
I have told you. But that spring
felt so happy it made me young again
It was one day when Sylvie was at
the piano, and I, leaning back in my
chair, listened to the soft, dreamy mu-
sic that always fell from her fingers
when she played.
After a time Dick came up the
steps with letters for us ALL Among
mine was one in a handwriting that
even then could make my pulse beat
faster. Walter was aliYe and had not
forgotten me after ALL
tore it open and read without pref
ace or heading of any kind, these
lines:
"You will doubtless be surprised,
Margaret, to hear from me after this
lapse of years-eight think in reality
but 80 to me in the agony I have
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
INVENTIVE INGENUITY.

Two German mechanics are said
to have invented an electric device for
changing hymn numbers in churches.
Baron Won Welsbach, discoverer of
the incandescent mantle, has invented
device by which when the gas tip is
turned on a shower of brilliant sparks
lights the gas.
1t is announced that a Lancashire,
England, merchant has invented ma
chine which will sew direct from two
reels of thread, thus obviating the
winding of spools and threading of
shuttles.
A new process for publication of
sugar-beet juice, by means of hydro
su.phuric acid, is announced by Con-
sui Ledoux, of Prague. The Bohemian
inventors have obtained patents in
Austria and Germany
Clocks are now being made which
speak the hours, instead of striking
them, through an ingenious applica-
ton of the phonograph. They are ar
ranged to call out in various degrees
of modulation, some loud enough to
rouse the soundest sleeper.
Still another chemist is In the field
with an artificial gutta-percha. Herr
Gentsch, of Vienna, has produced an
artificial gutta-percha from a mixture
of caoutchoue and palm rosin; it is
asserted that it's elastic resistance is
superior to that of the nature products
but that it consolidates less easily and
is more glutinous, while its cost would
be only two-thirds of that of the ma
tural product
David c. St. Charles, an engineer OF
San Francisco, has invented a repeater
which will make it possible to tel
ephone clear across the continent.
What the so-called repeater has
done for telegraphy st. Charles inven-
ton, it is now claimed, has done for
| the telephone. The combining of the
echo in nature with the sounding
board of a violin furnished the cleW
to the discovery.
| One of the Berlin papers tells of a
new device for catching herrings. A
German inventor places a microphone
in a metal box perfectly watertight
and plunges it into the sea in order to
ascertain if the fish are passing that
way. A wire connects the submerged
microphone (which greatly increases
the volume of small sounds) to an or
dinary receiver, with which one lis
tens to what is going on in the depths
of the sea. Excellent results have been
obtained n7the1NoEthzsea by the
vention for signaling the passing OF
the herring shoals.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05

suffered. left you resolved to forget
you, but you must have known that
could not be. Sickness, trouble and
pride kept me from writing to you.
''You would find me faulty still,
dear, but all these years I have strug-
gled. to overcome my temper and to
moderate my passions, SO that I think
il life held haappiness in store for me,
it would not be marred by one head
strong act.
But that may not be; my own life
is practically over. I am a wealthy
man, but a hopeless cripple, and there
is yet danger of losing the sight of my
right eye. It is the result of an acci-
dent in a mill of which I am owner
I am in hospital now, and the doc
tors say would do we'll enough if I
could only take an interest in what
life still holds for me. How can, I?
The only hope of my life is gone, for
how can I claim you, now that I am
manned and nearly sightless? l am
not morbid, dear-I am despairing.
II have made my will; and have left
you everything. 1t would have been
so anyway, Margaret, and it is but
tri1e compared to the years I have
spoiled for you.
II have heard that Sylvie is happily
married. How glad I Should be to see
you all. If she could have a sick man
and his nurse in her house, I think I
could come by-and-by. I must not
write any more-my eyes are paining
me. May I hope to hear from you?
Give me a little of your friendship,
dear, although may not have your
love-"
Then followed an address, and his
well-known signature. I read the clos
ing lines over again and then handed
the letter to Sylvie without word.
When she had finished, her tender
eyes were full of tears.
"Of course he may come," she said.
II was always fond Of him for his own
sake as well as yours. You will write
at once, will you not?''
Two days later we had a telegram
from Dick, asking that the closed car.
riage be- sent to the station.
We were on the porch with the little
Margaret when the carriage was
driven up the graveled road. Then I
heard Dicks CHEEKY voice-God bless
him!
Here's your invalid. He was not
morbid not he! With only one, arm.
gone. and q left one at that. and eyes
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Natures Eternal [ aw-

Commit a crime and the earth IS
made of glass. Some damning
circumstance always transpires. The
laws and substance of nature
become penalties to the thief. On
the other hand, the law holds with
eternal sureness for all right action.
Love and you shall be loved. Z.
The good man has absolute good.
which, like fire, turns everything to
its own nature, so that you cannot do
him any harm-Emerson.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
A Present for a Husband.

furniture Dealer-Yes, madam,
there is no nicer present for a man
than handsome writing desk. Look
at this one, for example.
Customer-1t's very pretty; but
what are all those square things?
Drawers, madam. That desk has
l60 separate drawers
Huh! And every time he mislays
anything he'll expect me to find it..
Show me desk with one drawer."-
N. Y. Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Full Of Knots,

The lanky tramp removed his tat
tered hat and displayed his intellectual
brow
'Ah, lady, he confided, II have
brains to burn. There is nothing I
like better than to tackle knotty prob
lems."
The busy housewife reached for the
AK.
"lndeed!" she said. well, go down
to the wood pile. You will find that
last load the most knotty problem you
ever tackled during your career.'-
Chicago Daily News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Wonan's Way.

They were talking about the new
star in society.
"tShe never laughs at jokes" sale
the man.
Maybe she has no sense: OF. humor,
said the other man.
+. Maybe she has false teeth" sale
the woman. .. p
And then the conversation Ian
gufshed.--Louisville Courier.Journal .
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Inconspicuous,

Rural Minister-None of the BROTH
ers whose duty it is to pass the plate
is here to-day. Would you object to
taking up the collection?
Modest Worshiper-I never passed
the plate in church in my life, and I'm
afraid I'd be rather awkward.
"Oh, never mind that. It won't be
noticed. Most of my congregation be-
come absorbed in their hymn-books
about the time the plate goes round"
IN. Y. Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
7 Wo Women.

What is the difference between the
average woman and the advanced
woman? Less than a hands breadth.
but, over that, how they can despise
each other if they will! "Shrieking
sister," on one side, "uninteresting
and commonplace person." on the
other, though they ought to be mutual
helpers, and would be if they had ever
met over one of their hundred mutual
interests.-Women and Progress.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Criticism of Women of Fashion.

Bishop Williams, of Michigan, speak
ing to New York congregation, said:
THE body of many a woman of FASH
ion is often no more to her than the
dummy in the milliner's window
merely the lay figure on which to dis
play her gowns, fashioned after the
latest designs set for the demimond.
aine of Paris.''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Time Works CHANCES.

The visitor, strolling down street
with his host, asked with some con.
Germ, HAS anything happened be-
tween you and the other people in
this town of yours?"
Not thing. Why do you ask?"
when I was here a year ago you
called every man by his first name,
stopped and chatted with them, and
seemed to be friendly with everybody;
but now you pass them with a nod or
brief greeting."
But you forget that last year I was
a candidate for Office Judge.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
Counting EN- BY the Acre.

Yeast-Bombay claims the greatest
density of population in the world.
having 760 persons an acre in certain
areas.
Crimsonbeak| should say that 760
persons an acre sounds very much as
If they were counting 'em in the Gem.
eteries!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-05
AIgerians Are Good Marksmen.

T9e''AHs arc GOOD marksmens
Many tales are told by travellers Of
the wonderful skill of the Algerians
in handling rifles: The, native Al
gerians would rank with our expert
rife shooters. p: =.. g. II: Z: =, - So:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-08-28
BABY TORTURED BY ITCHING.
Cry Until Tired Out-Speedy
Cure by cuticura.


my baby was about nine months
Did when she had rash on her face and
feet. Her feet seemed to irritate her
most, especially nights. They would
cause her to be broken in her rest, and
sometimes she would cry until she was
tired out. had heard of so many
cures by the Cuticura Remedies that
thought L would give them trial.
The Improvement was noticeable in a
few hours, and before had used one
box of the Cuticura Ointment her feet
were well and have never troubled her
since. also used it to remove what
is known as cradle cap from her
head, and it worked like charm, as it
cleansed and healed the scalp at the
same time. Mrs. Hattie Currier,
Thomaston. Me-, June 8, 1906"