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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

;aoner 10 20 theirs and take tsstimony
was better while the prevalent NUM-
Der sssmed bent on staying hefe3 and
confronting the witnesses. The. De-
nneAror .of the witnsssss In this heAr-
ing 10 a. Important : factor probably
a. IN any other case Of snaaiser DE-
gree. \, w 4. y ~ ~. q &
Aforeover. II ths court IS .. body went
TO Mobile they could spend only
week there, and II would be q serious
INTERRUPTION n the proceedfngs should
run longer than week ana the court
would have to return, to Montgomery
to nnish the spring term Of work and
then return TO Mobile In tho rntd-sun-
These and other considerations moved
the court to decide on the Capitol "a
the proper place for the trial:
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Orpheum sAews. new bset.rss every
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07
Cancer and Tumor Cared.

\ Cancer and TumOr Cured.
with combination OF soothing, Balmy
bis. Most cases are treated in the
privacy OF ones home. Free iIius-
trated book, hundreds Of testimonials.
Address DR.. Benz. r. Bye, Indianapolis.
Ind. Adv.-frf.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07
TIE NEWS OF SELMA
HANDSOME GIFT or SILVER FOR
MIR. LEvA.


Selma. May ESPECIALLY lat the
meeting of Selma Advance Lodge. No. 8.
Knights Of Pythias. tonight that lodge
formerly presented to Leo Leva
handsome silver tea set OF ave pieces.
Upon the tray there is engraved Pre-
sented by the Members Of Selma Adj
vance Lodge No. 3. X. OF p. to go
Leva X. OF r. and s.. March "a. 1902"
when the session OF the lodge con-
yened tonight, r. n. Mangum with
few appropriate remarks. made the pre-
sanitation,
The handsome present presented BY
his fellow lodge members came US
great surprise to Mr.. Leva.
The set was received today and dur-
ing the day II was viewed by nearly
every merhbsr Of the order here.
II 10 intended as q wedding present
NV the lodge, Mr.. Leva having. on
March "a. welded Mas Gusdorf 81 this
city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

Mrs. 0rffFln. wife OF ID J. Grimm OF
Marion, died at an infirmary here this
morning at an early hour, after an iii-
ness OF several months.
Mrs.Grif1n was brought TO Selma IRON
her home last Friday TOR meaicai tre treat
ment.
Z me remains were carried to Marion
Ifbia AFTERNOON for interment. The de.
ceased was weii-khown througnout
Perry County
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

The members OF the Comus DsIose
r,..s' .na aoIne other guests were
sbs a entertained this afternoon
~ ~ MIS- MIS- Margaret Davidson at her
So,ra an Church street. The games
~ .bridre were played at small tables
erranred in the par1or and sdining
raorn whcths were PRETTY decorated
with ported plants and choice cur
After the games delicious refresh-
ments were served.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07
sand 10 rederal Prlson.

Deputy Keys thib nnurHInB ~ -
yarnas 0'Connell. the man VINO was
convicted in the United States Court
veaterday for the robbery OF the post
sssce 81 orrvilie on the night o. FEB.
10 for Atlanta. where o'conne. VIII
serve his term In the Federal prison.
Before the adjournment OF me c ,,sa.
.ssterdav afternoon. Judge Touimin
ssatsnced c,connail for I'VE years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07
A. ApproachInE Marripre.

I The following INVITATIONS. have been
Issued: Mrs Marion ]. Woods re-
quests the honor OF your presence at
the marriage OF her daughter. Alex
ina, to Mr.. James Gwin Cook. Jr,.
on, the afternoon OF Thursday. May
20, 1908, at 2:so o'clock, 1914 Dallas
street. Selma. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

any property nxed either BY agree
msnf with the County Tax Commits
s1oner. Of " trial bSfore the Court OF
County Commissioners for 1907. to
place Such valuation upon the proper
" for 1908. n II remains In substan-
TALLY the same condition as to I'M
provementss unless the state Tax Com
mission directs you to the contrary.
Respectfully.
~The state TAX Commission Of Ala
s3y ]. !. Mitchell. Chairman"
The Tax Commission has finished
with the hearing Of corporations on the
matter. Of ixins intangible tax values
this year. Some Of the members are
o1t OF thek city on the regular county
tour
Pou,psno, Red snapper.
Fresh Vegetables
OF All Kinds.
hest Meats Of
= Ali Kinds. So
Poultry,
~ Yard laid Eggs.
Meehan q Morris,
Phone 200.
Prairfe Fire Raging.
FL Paso. Tex. May 6.---Aj prairie IRE
fs reported burning fiercefy in Cedar
Mountain and has already devastated
. large range George Miller's ranch
has been destroyed Fifty men are
ifxhffng the fiameA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

Miss Emily Ferguson ana Miss
Josephine Jefries will leave on Mon
day for an extended trip abroad.
Miss Grace Nelson was the attrac-
tive hostess this morning for the
members OF the BilIiken Club at her
home ION Selma street.
Delicious refreshments were en-
joyed. 1.
The next meeting win be held with
Miss AImon Hooper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

to her home in Mulberry after a shert
VISIT to relatives here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

Orpheuss stood the are test. rt's
the place for lndies and chxldrcn.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
TRANSVAAL WIRE SERVICE
WILL BE BEST ON EARTH
To Connect Every Town Not Yet
Linked in Great Telephone
System

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10.-Im-
provements and extensions are being
undertaken with the Transvaal tele-
graph and telephone service which
promise to make it one of the best
equipped in the world. Every town
not yet linked with the telephone sys-
tenn is to be brought into it, and the
main trunk lines are to be carried to
every point where the railway lines
cross the border, with the view to pre-
pairing the way for uultimate extern
sion to the coastal ports and Bulawayo.
1t is regarded as certain the Union
government will find telephone COM
munication between Cape Town and
Pretoria absolutely essential under the
proposed arrangement by which par
lament will meet at place so far
removed from the administrative CEN
ter.
The scheme contemplates connections
with farm houses and the establish
ment of call offices at convenient CEN
ters in rural districts, with the idea of
placing farmers within reach of mar
kets and medical assistance, and break
ing down their isolation from the out
side world. 1t is estimated the cost of
the extensions undertaken will reach
$1,250,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
DECLARES GOLD STEALING
RAMPANT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Government Asked to Help Remove
Temptation from Employees
of Mines

JOHANNESBURG. Sept 10.-A Sc
rious indictment against a section OF
mine employees was brought by George
Albu at the recent meeting of the Rand
collieries held in johannesburg. Gold
stealing, he said was undoubtedly as
rampant as ever, and he considered 1t
was high time more practical regula-
tions were introduced for its suppress
sion. The attempts which so far had
been made to limit gold thefts had been
more or less futile, and they should
now be assisted by the government
in laying down such a regulation for
the control of their reduction works as
would render this iniquitous practice
impossible. While in banking and or
dinary commercial and industrial con-
Germs it was comparatively easy
matter to detect a man who was dis
honest, in the case of the reduction
works on a gold mine the amount or
gold passing through different pro-
cesses was a purely approximate guam
tity, and therefore the temptation to
men on duty to help themselves to
portion of this undetermined quantity
must needs be much greater than in
cases where the value was known.
Mr. Albu announced he intended to
introduce restrictive measures where
possible on properties under his per-
sonal control, and If the obstacles
raised against this attempt to remove
temptation out of the reach of the
workmen proved insurmountable, he
would exercise his indisputable right
to call on the government to enact
adequate regulations for the protec-
tion of his companies from systematic
robbery. After all, the government,
apart from indirect taxation, which
fell so heavily on the mines, was their
partner, inasmuch as it took its annual
1.-THE of their actual profits, and surely
the least they could ask for under such
circumstances was that it should as
sist in endeavoring to eradicate this
admitted evil of gold stealing by prac-
tical application of the old proverb
that prevention is better than cure.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
BOLTED DRILLS TO
AID CRIPPLED FATHER
Young Man Works Overtime for PENN
syivania Road and Is Dragged
from Engine to Jail

CLEVELAND, Sept 10.-Because he
says he neglected drills in order to get in
overtime as a Pennsylvania fireman that he
might earn more for the support of an aged
mother and a crippled father, Henry Bran
ford, 21, 1912 Donald avenue, a private in
Co. F, Fifth Ohio National Guard was
taken from his engine in the railroad freight
yard by officers and locked up in the coun-
ty tail.
Branford has been a member of Co. F for
more than a year and, until recently, has
been regular attendant at all drills and
military exercises Last spring, according
to his story, his father, also railroader,
lost foot in an accident and since then
has been unable to work The support OF
the family fell upon the sons shoulders.
Branford says that when. in order to in
crease his earnings, he volunteered to get in
as much overtime possible, the Pennsyl-
vania yardmaster agreed to notify the militia
authorities of his circumstances and to ar
range the matter with them. He was to
have written them to explain the young
mans repeated absences from drill, but no
such letter was delivered. It is said.
Branford is now much worried over his
Job, since its loss means hardship for his
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
POLISH BRIDE DANCES
THIRTY-F0UR HOURS
Concentrated Into Single Effort, Her
Energy Would Run Four
Street Cars

Horse power is a standard theoretical
unit of the rate of work, equal to $4,000
pounds, lifted one foot high In one
minute, says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
What is womans power?
Stupendous and almost unbelievable.
Recently a wedding between a Polish
girl and man was celebrated in East
Madison, Ill. At Polish weddings the
bride dances with every guest at the
ceremony who asks her. For this priv
ilege the man tosses a silver dollar upon
a plate. If the blow of the dollar on
the plate breaks it he has the privilege
of dancing with her again without pay
ing another favor"
The men who attend Polish weddings
in and about st. Louis work In the
packing houses and steel mills, are por-
ters in the wholesale houses ard are
employed in the gas works. They are
powerful men.
The "favors" a Polish bride receives
at her wedding are her silver dover.
She dances as often as she can, because
every dance brings her husband silver
dollar. A Polish wedding ceremony
lasts as long as the energy of the bride
and her male guests lasts. When
everyone is too exhausted to dance any
longer the bride and groom retire from
the festal hall with the dollars the bride
has earned by dancing. Often the we'd
ding ceremony lasts three days and
nights, the bride keeping on her feet
and dancing all that time if she has the
physique. The best lowered bride is
she who has the greatest dynamic
power.
At the East Madison wedding Mrs.
Rosie zapowa, the bride of Fred Ia
powa, danced almost continuously
throughout the celebration of the event,
which lasted thirty-four hours, and her
dover was $780,
Mrs. Zapowa was married Wednesday
morning at 9 o'clock and the celebration
began Immediately. 1t was the inten-
tion TO close it at p. m. Friday.
Thursday, at p. M, the man dancers
were played out and fell on beds and
the floor in utter exhaustion. Rosie
Zapowa, having no one to dance with,
tied her silver dollars up in a table,
cloth and went home to rest, content
with having brought her husband a
dover of $780,
Mrs. Zapowa was unfortunate in hav-
ing as guests men who were more
powerful in their arms than in their legs.
They broke two tpbfuls of plates with
their silver dollaYs and were able to
dance thirty-four hours. If the power
had been reversed, Mrs. Zapowa would
have had larger dowry, for her nus
band had to pay for the broken dishes,
as we'll as furnishing free beer and
lunch for the dancers. AS 1t was, Mrs.
Zapowa had the dancing capacity, or
dynamic force, to continue twelve hours
longer, but the supply of partners ran
out
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
EGAN ELIMINATES
YOUNG CHAMPI
DEFEATS CHARLES EVANS, JR.,
IN GOLF PLAY
NATIONAL AMATEUR TITLE TO
BE DECIDED TODAY
Robert Gardner of Hinsdale VIII Meet
H. Chandler Eean at Wheaton
Course for United States
Championship
[By Associated Press.l

WHEATON, Ill, Sept. 1O,-Another
day of close golf saw the elimination
Of Western Champion Charles Evans,
Jr., and Mason Phelps, the Midlothian
youth, in the struggle for the national
amateur golf championship.
Tomorrow II. Chandler Egan of Ex-
moor and Robert Gardner of Hinsdale
will meet in the finals to decide the
championship.
Egan disposed of Evans after a
struggle that ended spectacularly at
the thirty-sixth hole, the Edgewater
youngster topping his drive into the
bunker, the only really bad drive he
made in his long struggle.
The Gardner-Phelps match went also
to the home green, but Gardner's ad-
vantage was one hofe better, as he was
/ up, playing for the last hole and
cinched the match by perfect four,
making him up at the finish.
Evans, who was apparently hope
lessly outclassed in the morning play
made one of the gamest uphill struggles
in the afternoon ever seen in national
tournament. Three times he squared
the match, the first time at the twenty
third hole, again at the twenty-seventh
and again at the thirty-second.
Playing the first nine holes in form
InaC COulQ HOL D6 DCdlSh Wy PiCANo
sional champions, Egan finished the
morning round of the semi finals up
on Charles Evans, Jr, the 1S-year-old
western champion. Egan's golf going
out was a marvel of accuracy, and
Evans won only one hole of the first
nine. Egan was up at the turn,
and increased his lead to up on the
eleventh hole. Egan made the first
nine holes in "a, which is a record.
Gardner finished the morning round
2 up on Phelps, the game being char
acterized chiefly by Phelps poor work
with his wooden clubs. His medal score
of 45 for the first nine holes does not
show the wildness of his play, as he
was in the rough after his drive for
the first six holes.
Gardner himself played none too
steadily, taking Al going out
ON the in Journey both settled down
and played like veterans, each TAX
ing SO.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
$3.50 Recipe Cures
Weak M0n--FrG0
Send Name and Address Today
You Can Have II Free and Be
Strong and Vigorous

I have in my possession a prescription for
nervous debility lack of vigor, weakened
manhood failing memory and lame back,
brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or
the follies of youth. that has cured SO many
worn and nervous men right in their own
homes-without any additional help or medi-
cine-that l think every who wishes to
regain his manly power and virllity, quickly
and quietly, should have copy. So have
determined to send copy of the prescription
free of charge. in a plain, ordinary sealed
envelope to any man who VIII write
me for II.
This prescription comes from physician
who has made a special study of men and
l am convinced 1t Is the surest-acting COM
bination for the cure of deficient manhood
and vigor failure ever put together.
/ think l owe 1t to my fellow men to send
them a copy in confidence so that any man
anywhere who Is weak and discouraged with
repeated failures may stop drugging himself
with harmful patent medicines, secure what
believe Is the quickest acting restorative.
upbuilding, SPOT-TOUCHING remedy ever
devised, and so cure himself at home quietly
and quickly. Just drop line like this:
Dr. A. E. Robinson, 1895 Luck building, De-
trolt, Mich, and 1 will send you copy Of
this splendid recipe In plain, ordinary en-
veope free OF charge. great many doctors
would charge SO to SIS for merely writing
out a prescription like thls-but / send IL
entirely free.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
SUGGESTS MANUFACTURE
OF STEEL IN TRANSvAAL
Government Mining Engineer Reports
Conditions Favorable for Estab-
lishment of Blast Furnaces

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10.-An i'm
portant report on. the prospects of iron
and steel manufacture in the TransVaal
has been submitted by the government
mining engineer. Having pointed out
that the establishment of blast fur
naces with plant for the conversion of
pig iron into STEEL and with rolling
mills, ETC., Is dependent on an ade-
quate and cheap supply of suitable
iron ore, coke and limestone, he states
that it does not seem, from the infor-
nation available, unreasonable to sup
pose that such raw materials exist in
the country of adequate quality and in
large quantity.
The other conditions are generally
favorable, and it appears that there is
a remunerative but small market in
South Africa and an unlimited but
perhaps not very remunerative market
abroad. Under these circumstances,
the encouragemento of enterprise by the
government seems warranted, and 1t is
recommended that the government con-
slider the advisability of establishing a
bounty system similar to that of Can
ada.
1t also appears there is a profitable
and immediate field for the products of
electrical furnaces, which can turn out
high class steel with a comparatively
small output per unit. 1t is recon-
mended that the government share the
cost with the Central South African
Railways of establishing such an cleo
trical furnace at an estimated total cost
not exceeding $150,000. 1t may be ex-
pected the object lesson provided by
such a plant, running, as may be rea-
sonably anticipated, with success, will
induce the installation of further plants
by private enterprise. The report fur
ther suggests that the export of scrap
iron and steel, which form valuable
raw materials for working up into steel
in the electrical furnace, should be put
stop to by the imposition of a pro-
hibitiYe export duty or railway rate.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
RAT IS FINE
ROOSEVELT TROPHY
Considered Great Prize In conslgn-
ment Sent to Smithsonian
Institution

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O.-The sclen-
lists of the Smithsonian institution are
now satisfying their curiosity as to
what the first consignment of boxes
containing trophies of Colonel Roose-
velt's African hunt includes.
There are a large number of birds
In the consignment, as well as valuable
species of rats, rabbits, moles, mice
and other small mammals.
What the scientists consider great
prize is the warty rat. 1t is slightly
larger than the ordinary rat and has
two warts on it's lower lip. 1t has
never before been seen in this coun-
try.
The work of classifying the birds,
which are in a perfect state of pre-
servation, will not be undertaken until
the African experts return. In the col
lection there is every kind Of rabbit,
from the everyday jackrabbit to the
very small and rarely known speci-
mems closely resembling mice.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
"NO BABY, NO VOTE"
PLAN is lND0RSED
Archbishop FaIconio Approves For-
mula, but Fears 1t Cannot Be
Made Law

CHICAGO, Sept. 1O.--The formula of
mo babies. no ballots proposed by
Father Phelan of st. Louis two days
ago, in which he urged that votes be
given to family in proportion to the
number of children has been approved
by the apostolic delegate to the United
States, Archbishop Diomede Falconio.
"Women in some states are given a
vote on a property qualification, he
said. "Surely children are far more
valuable than property. 1t would thus
be reasonable to give votes to married
persons on the basis of the number of
their children. However" and here
the archbishop sighed slightly, 81 fear
that Father Phelan will have some diff
ficulty in getting his plan adopted as a
law, as he suggests he will try to do"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
KEPT HOME FOR KITTY;
? NOW CAT HAS RUN AWAY
Cleveland Woman Ready to Give Up
Home Unless Tabby Is Brought
Back

years Mrs Lilly Williams kept house at
2o14 North Fifth street solely for the COM
fort of her cat Now the cat has disap-
peared and Mrs Williams is disconsolate.
She is positive, however, that ingrati-
tude dissatisfaction is not responsible
70, the feline's disappearance. She thinks 1t
must have been stolen, and she has been
hoping against hope since last Friday morn
ing that the animal would come back.
Mrs. Williams is widow. Since her
husbands death her cat has been her chief
delight. Upon 1t she lavished the affection
she would have given to a child. 1t ate
nothing but milk and prepared meat. Its
fur was nice and soft 1t was Maltese,
and, she says it was most intelligent
Her principal object in maintainging her
residence on Fifth street, she says, has been
to assure the cat of a comfortable home.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
ELOPERS SWIM RIVER;
PARENTS BLESS THEM
New Hampshire Runaway Couple
Mistake a Ferry for
Ford

BRATTLEBoRo, VT, Sept. 10
After stealing a march on their
parents and friends by getting mar
ried in this town yesterday after an
elopement from Chesterfield, N. n,
Carl W. Hyland, 21 years old, son of
Dr. J. B. Hyland, prominent ply
sician Of Keene, N. H., and his bride,
who was Miss Josephine Burpee, 10
years old, the daughter of R. D.
Burpee, of Exeter, N. H, had mar
row escape from drowning when, on
the return trip to break the news to
"the folks" they mistook the ferry on
the Connecticut river, at East Putney,
for ford, and when half way across
the stream had to abandon their car
riage and swim ashore. The horse
escaped.
After borrowing dry clothing at a
nearby farm house and hiring another
horse, the young couple, happy despite
their misadventure, continued their
journey home to receive the parental
blessing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyland were married
yesterday by the Rev. L. w. Morey,
a Congregational minister.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
JOHANNESBURG is MECCA
FOR THE WORLDS TRAMPS
"Stlffs" Are Encouraged to Drink
Themselves to Death as Fast
as Possible

JOHANNESBURG. Sept. 10.-Just
now Johannesburg is overrun by loaf
ers. Men who are too lazy to be sun
downers in Australia, who have proved
too diSreputable for the profession of
beachcomber at Shanghai or in the
Straits Settlements. who have been
elected from the back streets of
Byculla and barred out of the slums of
Calcutta as a public disgrace, drift by
mysterious ways to the Gold Reef city.
Here they are called "stiffs." Some
people encourage them to drink them
selves to death as fast as possible
there are no warehouses; in the Trans
vaal. Johannesburg is the Mecca Of
the tramp world-that is, the wide
tramp world, for the English or Ameri-
can tramp is usually only mixture of
misfortune and ignorance compared
with the cosmopolitan wanderer who is
ultimately washed up on the shores of
South Africa.
johannesburg has more genuine
"stiffs' to the square mile than any
other town on the face of the globe.
They lean against the corner of the
postoffice until the wall resembles the
hole-worn steps in Canterbury cathe-
dral up which the pilgrims used to ad-
vance on their knees. They lounge on
Market square, watching the boot
blacks at work. till one expects them
to take root In Its stony SOIL. England
knows the tramp and the loafer. Cam
ada has seen the remittance man and
the wastrel, and America has her hobo.
But greater than these is the johann
nesburg "stiff." He is the nadir Of
hopeless unemployableness, the record
in laziness, the last work in tramp
dom. According to his statements, the
whole world is engaged in a conspirlng
to deprive him of work. The genuine
"stiff" wants neither meal nor bed.
He rarely eats. He sleeps anywhere.
He never works. He lust drinks-and
drinks-and drinks. How he does 1t is
mystery. How he gains sufficient
money to enable him to cope with his
astounding and unquenchable thirst
nobody knows