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10 FRIDAY MORNING. THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER. NOVEMBER 22, 1901. PROCLAMATION A Thanksgiving Proclamation that will interest the sportsman is that we now have ready a big stock of the best guns and ammunition in the market. If you are going after game we can fit you out right, We have any kind of ammunition you need: smokeless powder, all sizes cartridges that you can depend on.

Shot guns from $5 to $50. WESCOTT ARMS CO 12 Dexter Phone 431. SPECIAL NOTICES. BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS. There will be a regular session of this lodge on Friday night, Nov.

22nd, at o'clock. Business: Initiation. Your attendance is earnestly requested. By order H. S.

PERSONS, Exalted Ruler, W. J. TUTTLE, Secretary. Convicts for Hire. Bids will be received by the Board of Revenue of Montgomery County, until Monday, Dec.

16th. 1901. for the hire of all persons sentenced to hard labor for the county during the year, 1902. Contractor will be required to take all persons sentenced, regardless of age. sex or condition, for all, their term of sentence, and one price for no classification, and comply with all laws governing the convict gustem.

The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the Board of Revenue of Montgomery County. td C. A. ALLEN, Clerk.

FRED S. BALL. Attorney and Counsellor will be located over 28 Commerce Street Until the Completion of the New First National Bank Building. NOTICE The firm of J. Loeb Bro, was dissolved by the death of J.

Loeb, and since his death his interest in the firm has been purchased by the undersigned. who assume all liabilities and own all assets, and will continue the business under the same firm name as heretofore. J. LOEB, SIMON LOEB. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

South and North Alabama R. R. Office of the Secretary. Montgomery, Oct. 31, 1901.

The annual convention of the shareholders of the South and North Alabama Railroad Company will be held at the office of the company, in the City of Montgomery, State of Alabama, on Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1901. at 12 o'clock noon. for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before it. 30d G.

W. CRAIK, Secretary. HOLM OGREN, Painters and Decorators. 109 Dexter Ave. RIENZI THOMAS, Voice, Piano and Pipe Organ.

At the Jesse French Piano Co. AUSFELD CHAPMAN, Architects and Civil Engineers. Office Moses Building. FRANK LOCKWOOD, Architect, Office First National Bank Building HOT Coffee Beef Tea Chocolate Bastiani Cassimus Chocolate Beef Tea Coffee HOT I HURDLE TRAGEDY HORSE FALLS AND BREAKS HiS NECK. Jockey Brazil Had Close Call, His Horse Rolling on Him When the Spill Occurred -Hair-raising Finish in Second Race.

Washington, Nov. Megibbin in the hurdle race was the only winning favorite at Benning today. the remaining events going to good priced horses. In the jumping race Jockey Brazil on Salesmen had a miraculous escape from being killed. While taking one of the jumps in the midst of the bunch, his horse fell and broke his neck and rolled over on his rider.

A hair-raising finish Letween Happy and Cornwall was a feature. Weather fair, track fast. First race, hurdle, about one and threefourths mile--Jim Megibben, 155 (Barry), 9 to 5, won; Gould, 135 (Houlahan), 10 to 1, second: Tankard, 132 (Dayton), 15 to 1, third. Time, 3:23. Dick Furber, Kufa, Cheesemite, Mr.

Stoffel, Tamarin, Oracle, McGrathiana Prince, The Lost Chord, Betty B. and Roysterer ran. Salesman fell and broke his neck. Second race, six furlongs--Happy, 86, (Henderson), 5 to 1, won; Cornwall, 88 (J. Martin), 11 to 5, second; Royal Sterling.

116 (Wonderly), 7 to 1, third. Time, 1:16. Palatial, Alapaca, Biff, Rabunta, Slidell, Illuminate, Last Knight, Somersault, The Pride of Surrey, Lexington Pirate and Locket ran. Third race, seven furlongs-W. A.

Swift, 110 (H. Michaels), 8 to 1, won; Dewey, 110 (H. Cochran), 3 to 1, second; Bessie McCarty, 107 (Wonderly), 7 to 10, third. Time, 1:30. Anak, Playlike, Ice Water and Batyah ran.

Fourth race, five and a half furlongsKeynate, 102 (H. Cochran), 2 to 1, won; Extinguisher, 105 (Redfern), even, second; Lux Casta, 102 (Wonderly), 4 to 1, third. 1:08 4-5. Femole, Flora POmona, Prophetic ran. Fifth race, mile and a sixteenth-Flara, 95 (H.

Cochran), 7 to 1, won; Balloon, 96 (Rice), 5 to 1, second; Wunderlich, 104 (Jones), 12 to 1, third. Time, 1:52. Vesuvia, Nanina, Piederich, Prosper la Gail: Curtesy, Puoctual, Charlie Moore, Warranted, Whistling Coon, Sailor King and Millstream ran. Sixth race, seven furlongs--Andy Williams, 100 (L. Smith), 7 to 1, won; The Puritan, 125 (H.

Michaels), 3 to 1, second; Lamp O' Lee, 115 (J. Martin), 7 to 1, third. Time, 1:29 4-5. Unmasked, Ben Battle, Lord Pepper. Lady of the Valley, Honolulu and Himself ran.

Entries Today. First race, six Pirate, 105; Imperialist, 104; Soundly, Wellessley, 103; Certain, Bastile, 102; Palatial, Cheval d'Or, Death, 101; Tartar, Coromorant, 100; Rannenecker, 98; Lifter, Alsike, 97; Brisk, 95; Federalist, 94; Prosit. Punctual, 89; also eligible, Mynher, 104: Tour, 84. Second race, five furlongs-Blanche Herman, Chiron, Sunnyport, The Bandit, Droplight, Wild Bess, Sheppard, Emma A. Rose Court, Sinecure, Clearfleid, Augury, Nuptial, Ischium, Merry Dawn, Parisini, Thoth, Miss Patsy, Millie Morris, Somersault, also eligible, Pedestal.

Martrisa, Lady Teasle, Gay Hilda, 95. Third race, mile and a Richard 111; Death, 106; Scannell, 105; Einus, Shoreham, Ben Viking. 99: Lou Rey, 97; Lady Chorister, 95; All Saints, 94: Animosity, 91; Barbetto, KingsteNe, 88; Little Daisy, Gray Dally, 86; also eligible, Lee King, 105; Raffaello, 108 and Kaliff, 96. Fourth race, six Carroll Hans Wagner, 103; Oria, Misleader, Last Knight, 100; Illuminate, Outsider and May 92. Fifth race, mile and forty, wardsMentona, Tenario, 100: Woolgatherer, Chanticleer, Anna Darling, Rubens, Philma Paxton, Flora Martha Hoffman, Garter Ban, Hawk, Mowitza, Carlovingian, 97.

Sixth race, mile and an eighth--The Puritan, Potente, 125; Carbuncle, 119; Criterion, 110; Alfred Vargrave, 90. At Oakland. San Francisco, Nov. cloudy and track sloppy. First race, mile, selling- won; Darlene, second; Commonwealth Attorney, third.

Time 1:47. Second race, mile and sixteenth, selling -Essence, won; Bonnie second; Castake, third. Time 1:53 1-2. Third race. seven furlongs, gellingSea Lion, won; The Singer, second; Ringmaster, third.

Time 1:31. Fourth race. five furlongs, purse--Readan. won: Josie second; Dean Swift, third. Time 1:03.

Fifth race, mile, selling Ordnung. won: Eionice, second; Fintzkant, third. Time, 1:55. Fifth race, mile, selling--Lodestar, won; Dunblane, second; Alfred Time 1:46, Entries Today. First race, eleven-sixteenths mile, selling-Bontary, Game Warden.

99: Spry Lark, Fouclievenden, The Scot. St. Anthony, Rinaldo, Blanche Shepard, Canejo, Searehlight, 105; Ned Dennis, 107; MacFlecknoe, 110. Second race, mite. selling--Koenig, Bagdad, Billy Moore, Morinel, Atlas, 109; Elodiente, Pegalong.

100. Third race, futurity course, selling-St. Sevoy, Sir Louis, Lou Hazel. 105; Bandara, 106; Phil Crimmins, Botany, Prestano, Sol. Prestene, Flattered, Montoya, 100; Commissioner Forster, 109.

Fourth race. mile, handicap -Bedeck, Rio Shannon, 106; Sea Lion, 96; Rubicon. 100. Fifth Orleans. race.

six 95; furlongs, Forkford, selling cate. Bernota, 97: Norford, 107. Sixth race, eleven-sixteenths miles, selling-Tiburon. Fineshot, Burdock, Midnight Chimes, Prejudice, 104: Native, Reina de Cuba, 110: Narra Censor, 105; Clarindo, Mountebank. Mocorito, 107.

Game a Tie. Mobile, Nov. football team from Fort Morgan and the team of Spring Hill College played a warm game of football this afternoon on the College gridiron at Spring Hill, resulting in a score of 5 to 5. Kid Broad Abroad. London.

Nov. were posted with The Sporting Life of this city today for match between "Kid" Broad, the American boxer and Curley of England. The fight is to be for 500 pounds a side and the weight is to be 146 pounds. "Prediction Justified." St. Louis Republic (Dem.) In expressing the opinion that next Presidential nominee of the Democratic party will be a Missouri man.

Secretary Walsh, of the National Democratic Committee, also voices the views of many other thoughtful Democrats who have carefully studied existing party conditions. The logic of the present situation, the wisdom of choosing a Missourian becomes immediately apparent. The State which has stood most steadfast to the Democratic faith, the State which offers as a Presidential choice the best Democratic material in the Union, the State in which the Republican party will make a Supreme effort for victory in 1904, may certainly and with vital advantage to the party furnish that party's candidacy for the Presidency. Secretary Walsh of the National Democratic, Committee, proves himself a clearsighted political student in thus pointing out the likelihood of a Missourian being nominated for President in 1904. There is no stronger probability now visible in the political outlook.

The logic of events promises to verify the Walsh prediction. Nebuchadnezzar's Throneroom. The German Oriental society confirms the reports to the effect that Dr. Koldewey has succeeded in discovering Nebuchadnezzar's throneroom at. Babylon.

It is a gigantic buildIng about 60 feet wide by 160 feet long. Exactly opposite the door 18 the niche in which once the royal throne stood, and on both sides and on the northern front of the hall are richly colored ornaments in good preservation which will doubtless prove of the highent historical and artistic importance. The German expedition has also begun excavations in the city of Babylon, near the present village of Jumjuma, and has already discovered a goodly number of inscribed clay tablets which, according to the testimony of Dr. Welssbach, the Assyriologist of the expedition, contains letters, psalms and vocabularios. They are, therefore, all documents of the deepest interest and are specially calculated to further the study of the Old Testa- ment.

How Lord Curzon Travels. When Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, travels he 1s usually accompanied by Lady Curzon and 120 attendants. Great precautions are taken to insure his safety and everything is done for his comfort. In Southern Punjab the railroad line is watered to allay the dust. At his destination he is receiyed with extraordinary ceremony.

A MONTGOMERY FILLY "SPIRIT OF THE TIMES" WILL START IN NEW ORLEANS. She is a Most Promising 2-year-old and Has Worked the Quarter in 25 Seconds Flat. During the winter meeting of the Crescent City Jockey Club at New Orleans this winter a beautiful sorrel filly with a blaze face and three white stockings will start in the 2-year-old races. This young lady has a decided local interest because she is partly owned by a Montgomery man and Montgomerians will watch her debut in the turf world. The filly is named "Spirit of the Times." Now, to go back a bit.

At a sale of thoroughbreds in Lexington, in the year 1899, Archibald A. McKinney of Stanford, bought for the sum of $135 a mare by the name of "Oral." The mare was royally bred, being by the celebrated stakewinner and stud king "Hindoo" out of the no less celebrated mare "Ganges. "Oral" was bred to the great stallion "Imp Hermence," the filly being the result. An arrangement was made by which C. V.

Gentry agreed to take care of the mare and her progeny, he of course to have an interest in her. Mr. McKinney turned over his interest in the filly to Arch McKinney of Montgomery and when the youngster starts at New Orleans this winter it will be in the name and colors of McKinney and Gentryred, white and blue. When the filly was a yearling the name of "Olga" was sent to the New York Jockey Club, but it developed that some one else had already claimed that name. Therefore the name "Spirit of the the New York sporting paper of that name--was given her.

Trainer R. H. Bronaugh has charge of the filly and has worked her since the first of September at Crab Orchard Springs-the first place in the State of Kentucky where the thoroughbreds, for which the good old State is famous, kicked up their heels. After a month's work the filly with 127 pounds up, and a raw stable boy, worked a quarter of a mile in twenty-five seconds flat. This was phenomenal, not only from the fact that she was a 2-year-old, but from the fact that the Crab Orchard track was at the time heavy and slow, and it was only twenty-eight days from the day that she first looked through a bridle.

Two days after that she worked an eighth in 12 1-2 seconds, doing the same distance the following day in 12 seconds flat. "Oral" was next bred to Russell, the celebrated sire who produced George Bennett's speedy, "Miss Bennett." the fastest 2-year-old filly ever shown in the South and West, and one of the fastest 3-year-olds. Readers of The Advertiser will remember an account of her ueath a few months ago at Memphis. In his 2 and 3-year-old form Russell won for his owners $85,000, went wrong as a 4-year-old and was put in the stud-his record there is well known to horsemen. The Oral-Russell colt will be 2 years old next spring, and if blood counts for anything he will be heard from.

His name is "McK." in honor of Superintendent J. I. McKinney of the Mobile and Montgomery Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He is even better bred on his sire's side than his half sister, "Spirit of the Times." but the two youngsters make a valuable pair of animals. "Oral's" pedigree as far back as can be traced is as follows: Dam, Ganges by Hindoo; dam, by Tom Bolling: dam, Taral, by Blarney Stone: dam, Connamara, by Tarragon: dam, Killashandra.

Connamara won $50,000 in 2-year-old form, produced Killashandra, best filly of her years. W. C. Whitney gave Jno. Madden $20,000 her 2-year-old form and was then exported to but died at sea.

Ganges T. produced Oral. Aureall and Oracle, all winners and the only three out of her ever trained. Avoca produced Jubal and Juggler, both stake winners la the East. Squire Brown.

Cascade Restaurant. The best the market affords served in A style. Al Galatas, opposite The Advertiser offlce. adv. A NEW YORK FIRM.

The Owner of the World's Rarest Gem. New York telegram to St. Louis Globe- Democrat. It is learned today that the big blue diamond, the importation of which was announced by the custom authorities here on Thursday, was the property of Diecer Son, of 592 Fifth Avenue. The gem weighs twenty-two and one-1 carats cut, and of extraordinary brilliancy and perfection of form.

The blue is the most precious color in diamonds next to the ruby red, only specimen of which has ever been found. The negotiations for the purchase the one now in this city, and which is the only one in the market anywhere in the world, have been going on for several years, but just where they were begun or concluded can not be learned. 'The diamond is tentatively valued at $100,000. The gem is of marquise shape, and is cut in the modern style. It has about one hundred facets.

Nothing like it has ever been seen in this country before. H. W. James, the gem expert of Diecer Son, said today: "We believe that we have the rarest thing in d'amonds in this or any other country, except England, where the Hope diamond is supposed to be, but we do not care to go into particulars as to how we came by it." SQUIRRELS THAT CAN'T CLIMB. Born in a Box, They Run Away from Trees.

Philadephia Press. The 200 is in possession of two squirrels which don't know how to climb a tree. Mogt people would become skeptical if they were told that there were squirrels two years old which could not go up a tree so fast that the eye could not follow them, But it's true nevertheless. Nearly two years ago, one Sunlay morning, two little gray squirrels made their appearance at the Zoo. Their mother nad made a nest for them In the cozy corner of a box allotted to her to live in.

After the squirrels grew up they continued to live in the box. Every day they got a little fresh air by going Into an open part of the pen, bat there were no trees for them to climb and no nuts to store away for Winter. This the mother sorely, for she knew her sons should learn to climb. Yesterday Keeper Jack Lover maved all the squirrels to a warm place for Winter. Among them were these two little squirrels.

"Let's see if they can climb," gall Keeper Lover to himself, as he put them at the base of a large tree. The squirrels lool.ed at the tree and then appealingly at the 1 eeper. Lover picked one up and put it on the tree about three feet from the ground. It trembled with fright and whined in its peculiar way. The other scampered off across the vacant space, but was caught a few minutes later.

"It's a said Lover to himself, as he took them to their new home. One of Davy Crockett's Guns. Baltimore Sun. History does not state how many guns the frontiersman David Crockett owned. Mr.

C. W. Callaghan, proprietor of the Hotel Maryland, has been presented by Mr. Robert Blair of Wytheville, with a gun which the donor says was made for Davy and was his favorite weapon. Mr.

Blair was lately nominated for the lieutenant governorship of his State, but could not accept, because he not yet 30 years old. He 1s a son of the late Frank S. Blair, a former attorney gencal of Virginia. Mr. Blair says the gun was given to his father by members of David Crockett's family.

It is a flintlock of about .40 caliber. It is five and a half feet long, and the barrel is nearly a half inch thick. The workmanship, all by hand, is excellent. The stock light. the wood part extending clear to the muzzle on the underside.

There is a brass slide over the patchbox in the stock. In loading these rifles the ball was wrapped in a cloth patch which was greased. Then it was driven hone with a ramrod. Running down the side of the barrel is a brass telescope about as heavy as a modern rifle barrel. The stock and woodwork under the barrel are decorated with brass trimmings.

On one side of the stock 18 a brass eagle. The maker's name does not appear. No Warrant for Extravagance. Indianapolis Journal. The prosperity of the country does not warrant Congress in entering upon too many new schemes, which may become heavy burdens and which will react upon the party in the elections near at hand.

Such warning may not be necessary, but the schemers will be an army when Congress assembles. To them it seems a propitious season. TORN PAGE SEMPLE TELLS STORY ACCUSED LAWYER HEARD IN HIS OWN BEHALF. He Declares That His Relations with Taylor and Bredell Were Merely Those Attorney and Clients. Nov.

John L. Semple Philadelphia, of Camden, N. on trial in the United States District Court in this city, charged with aiding and abetting counterfelters in the making of spuricus twenty-dollar notes while the latter were in prison, went on the witness stand today and made a general denial of the charges against him, saying that he had been engaged as counsel for Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bredell, the convicted counterfeiters in a regular manner. At the suggestion of Arthur Taylor, he said, he had made an effort to learn the best methods of securing a mitigation of the sentence of the counterfeiters.

He said he had visited W. A. Brockway, in the New Jersey State prison, at the suggestion of Taylor and Bredell, and learn ed from him that the government allowed him to go free on his surrender of the famous counterfeit bond plates. Taylor, Mr. Semple said, had told him that he and Bredell possessed $10 counterfeit plates.

and were anxious to know if by delivering them to the government leniency would he shown by the judge in sentencing him. Mr. Semple said he immediately informed the District Attorney of what he had learned and he (Semplo) suggested to the prisoners that they give up the plates, which they did. The accused attorney denied all knowledge or the $20 counterfeit notes that were made in the prison cell by Taylor and Bredell after the $10 counterfeit plates had been surrendered. It has been testified to that Semple was given $150 with which to got 150 new one dollar notes on which the $20 impressions were made after the one dollar imprint had beer.

washed off. This Semple denied, saying that the only money he had received from the counterfeiters was in rayment for his services as counsel. He admitted having given the greater part of $200 to Mrs. Bredell, but said that he had returned this amount owing to his failure to secure clemency for his clients. BOOM NOT AUTHORIZED GENERAL WHEELER SAID TO BE OUT OF POLITICS Decatur Friends of the Old Warrior Say He Will Not Be a Candidate for the Seat of Pettus.

Decatur, Nov. this morning among the intimate of General Wheeler, who reside here, and who are in close and constant touch with the General, developed the fact that they knew nothing of any authorized or supposed "boom" for Wheeler for the United States Senatorship. One gentleman who is close to the General, personally and in a business way, spoke indignantly of the report sent out from another town, saying that he knew General Wheeler had no desire to re-enter public life in any capacity, and more especially as a candidate for General Pettus's seat. That General Wheeler and the Junior Senator from Alabama were the closest personal friends, he said, and he was positive General Wheeler would allow no use of his name for the seat as long as Senator Pettus lived and desired to retain his place. "Besides," said this gentleman, "General Wt.eeler has made extensive plans, which are rapidly maturing, to devote his entire time and the remaining vears of his life to private business enterprise and literary work.

You may safely say that any attempt to boom General Wheeler for the Senate is entirely without his approbation, and will be at once discountenanced by him, Richardson's Work. Congressman William Richardson passed thrpugh the city today on his way to Washington, D. C. Judge Richardson has lately made an exhaustive investigation of the government works on the Tennessee River and goes to Washington to push the claims of the river in every direction. He, is confident he will be able to secure the needed appropriation to complete the work begun and give steambeat navigation through the river the entire year.

NEW FIRE COMPANY. Volunteer Organization Has Been Formed in Gadsden. Gadsden, Nov. new volunteer fire company has been organized in Gadsden, and is composed of the best young men in the city. The company will have full power to elect its own officers and the city will pay each member $2 for each fire he attends.

At the first meeting held last night, John Parden was elected Chief, Tom McHan Captain, Harry Lilly, Secretary and Treasurer. Gadsden has decided to have to have a Street Fair, to be held here December 5 to 7, inclusive, and a committee composed of Charles Ward, Spoon Motlow, Charles P. Smith, L. L. Herzberg.

J. B. Tolson and Mayor Blackwood was appointed to manage the fair. L. W.

Fisk, promoter of street fairs, is in the elty. The fair will consist of the usual street fair attractions. At a meeting of the City Council last night it was decided to give free licenses to run a street fair, and the management agreed not to allow any gambling. William Brockway Jones, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

M. E. Jones, died Tuesday after a short illness, from complication of troubles. His remains were interred in Forest Cemetery at o'clock this afternoon. The Southern passenger train was delayed several hours last night by a wreck at the furnace.

Two freight cars jumped the track while the Louisville and Nashville switch engine was handling them. Young Kelly, who shot and killed Perry Stovall in Attalla last Saturday, has not been caught. He made his escape on a horse, going across the mountain. Stovall was shot in both arms, twice in his breast and one ball entered just under his left eye. His face had large splinters deep in the flesh from the cue he had in his hand when shot.

The farmers are busy preparing their land to put in a big wheat crop. Many of the farmers have already put in a large amount of oats and wheat. No Tax Reduction Probable. Savannah News. There are tariff taxes which ought to be reduced.

They are not needed for the protection of any interest. They simply enable the trusts to charge higher prices in the home market than they get in foreign markets. The Republican, and as long as assist them it will party, however, loath friend of trusts, do so. No tariff legislation need be expected from this Congress. The surplus will be gotten rid of in some other way.

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Some men are so thoughtful they buy bexes of cigars for their wife's birthday. Some people are 80 enterprising they don't have to go to the devil; he comes to them. You can get old fast enough without worrying about whether your wife's rich uncle is going to cut her out of his will because he knows you voted a different ticket from him.

A man must fail at least once to learn how to succeed. The two things which benefit most by marriages are the insurance companies which get the premiums of the husband and the savings bank, which get the wages of his servants. One thing in which all women are alike is that they will never trust a dressmaker to be on time with a new gown for a ball, but will trust any cab driver to call in time for them to catch a train. A Considerate Pastor. "North Carolina pastors," says the Raleigh (N.

News, "are noticeably considerate. The Rev. Jesse H. Page, while preaching at Morgantown one hot Hummer evening, dropped his voice almost to a whisper, saying: "I hope tHe brethren in the rear will excuse me if they do not hear. If I alk louder, I will awaken those in the front pews." ISLE ISSUE A PUZZLE REPUBLICANS FACE A CRISIS OVER PHILIPPINES.

Senator Says Legislation is All But Impossible--Finds Supreme Court Upholds the Democratic Contention. Senator Washington Turner of Washington, one of Special to Chicago Chronicle. the gress, ablest today constitutional predicted that the Republilawyers in Concan party will encounter insurmountable difficulties when it attempts to legislate "I further have no our doubt," said Senator Turner for insular possessions. much the embarrassed in its dealings with "that executive department is very the Philippines by reason of the insular decisions of Supreme Court. The Court gave the law to the Democratic party and the decision to the Court Republican party.

The views of the Democrats have sustained the position the taken in both houses of Congress. When the Republicans begin to legislate they will find themselves opposed by the views of a majority of the Supreme Cou.t. "The only way the Republican pa' ty can avoid bringing the Philippines into the Union, entitling their inhabitants and products to admission to our cour. try, is to keep up a state of war there, because the moment the war ceases and the Philippines are given civil government. according to the decision of -icht justices of the Supreme Court, they are a part of our domain and protected by the Constitution.

"I think the decision of the Supreme Court still leaves the question of our new acquisitions an open one, liable to give rise to a great deal of dispute. There is no doubt that whenever a civil government is constituted for the Philippines that will constitute sufficient recognition to bring the territory within the United States, the Republican party will find itself confronted by a problem which it is anxious to avoid. "The Filipinos fought the Spaniards for 300 years and they are confident that they can fight any power that attempts to control the islands, SO we do not want them, we do not need them, and we will be a great deal better off without them. I have no doubt that the Republican party will accept this view in due time." UP IN MAINE. $3,000,000 Candidate Will Fight for Repeal of Prohibition.

Augusta, Special to N. Y. Journal. An announcement by State Senator P. 0.

Vickery, the wealthy Augusta publisher, and father-in-law of Governor Hill tonight created some excitement among politicians. For many years Mr. Vickery and Joseph H. Manley, a member of the Republican National Executive Committee, have been bitter political enemies. Mr.

Vickery tonight declared that a license law for Maine is better than the "iniquitious system now in vogue." He says: believe that the time is come when the State of Maine should be eliminated from the thraldom under which it has labored since the passage of the prohibitory law under the guidance of the late Neil Dow. believe in temperance in eating and drinking and no man can say that I was ever an imbiber of intoxicants, but the way that it looks to me. under this pertidious system of a low license is that Maine is looked upon by the other States of the Union as a laughing stock. "For the past few months seven murders have occurred in this State, all of which have been due to liquor, bought at country drug stores and by the bottle. 1f the State of Maine should license saloons I think that the moral attitude of the people would be Mr.

Vickery stated to The Journal correspondent that he would spend one half a million dollars for the purpose of being elected Governor of Maine. He is considered to be worth $3,000,000. Newspaper Publicity. N. O.

Picayune. From time to time somebody thinks it is incumbent on him to denounce the public press for reporting crimes and criminal trials. The inordinately pious people who think that a newspaper should be filled with accounts of charities and benefactions, but should never say a word concerning the crimes, the poverty, the vice and misery that make charity and benefaction necessary, are as foolish as would be the painter who should try to make a picture all light, with no shadows. The only object which casts no shadow is a perfectly transparent sheet of glass or crystal. But in human life there is found no individual whose mind and heart are SO absolutely free from guile as to be willing to have every phase of their existence laid open to the world.

It has been said that man, in his first state of supposed innocence, when he was admitted to communion with the celestial Gods, had no need of speech, because his face expressed truly every thought of his mind and impulse of his heart. He was spiritually transparent, with nothing to conceal and no other desire than to be fully understood for what he was. The time came, however, when he committed acts which, SO far from desiring to have known he sought to hide from all observation. because of the condemnation or contempt such exposure would bring upon him. Then came the necessity for "hardening his face." SO that it would not betray either his guilt or his trepidation.

When he had for a long time persevered in this policy of concealing his thoughts, it became necessary to resort to other means of communication, and thus was developed speech which, a professional prevaricator like Talleyrand declared was the real means of concealing thought. It thus comes about that the honest and reputable press, by exposing crime and vice and misery of every description, becomes a great conservator of morals and a censor of manners. Without donot many things are printed in the papers which it would be best to exclude; but, in judging of what shall he told and what kept back for the public good, the press cannot always be entirely correct. But in the main they desire to print only what is true and what will make for the public good. People engrossed in their own business give but little consideration to anything in public affairs that dees not immediately concern them, and but for the press they would never be aroused to, the enormity of crimes and abuses.

Without a free press to put into constant practice the right of free speech, the guarantees of the Federal Constitution would soon grow into disuse and finally be suppressed. Until men shall so live that they do not fear exposure, publicity will. be the weapon of public order, as it is also of private revenge on the part of the unscrupulous and the characterless who desire nothing better than to drag down others to their own degraded depths. Nevertheless there can be no good without its attendant drawbacks. and mankind must expect some suffering along with the benefits they enjoy.

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Because you are better than the man you despise does not mean you are not worse than' those who despise you. A man knows he has enjoyed himself at the theatre when it gave him a good laugh; a woman when it gave her a good weep. There are EL whole lot of mysteries in this world that are never explained because there is nothing about them to be explained.

A woman gives her neighbor a bad reputation with the same consistency she gives her cook a good reference when she discharges her for all manner of bad things. When a man has the will power to be able to insist upon first at girl's singing a second song when her one nearly drove him wild, he has the will power to become President if he wants it. Better Combine Than Fight. Philadelphia Record. The gentlemen who have got the control of the Pacific railways have concluded to "pool their issues." They find it much more profitable to combine than to fight.

If the public could only be assured that their partnerships were less dangerous than their wars there would be now cause for thanksgiving. The Races in the South. New Orleans Picayune. Maintaining this status of white superiority, the two races live together these Southern States in entire relation which is never disturbed even by the occasional outburst individual, of popular indignation against some one or more of whom have been guilty of an atrocious crime. The indignation In such instances is against the offenders and not against Men's Conditions, Like Their Tastes, Differ.

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the race. Negroes who obey the laws and perform their ordinary duties are never disturbed unless it be by some individual criminal, and they have all the public protection that the laws and enlightened sentiment, expressed in force when needed, can give them. Such are the relations between the two races in these Southern States, and any statements to the contrary are either the offspring of ignorance or of willful malignity. A Ghastly Discovery. During the excavation recently made for the underground electric Vienna it became necessary to touch railway In on ground belonging upto the Papusine Monastery, in the vault of which the In 8 bodies of the royal family repose.

disbelow the earth was walled niche cannot have covered a skeleton was its which been there many preservation. years ,80 That good a certain state of rite of some kind took cross, place religious the body is proved by a black the over flame on evidently made by a torch that the wall skeleton within. It is the reported Crown Prince is that of monks objected to Rudolph, whom the account of the burying fact in that their he committed suicide. vaults on We have noticed that a country correspondent of a newspaper nevor any In his OWR send in until something happens family,.