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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-17
NERVE FORCE DISCOVERIES
Their Probable Practical Results rs
Forecast by DR.. A. F., Mathews.


Forecast by DR.. A. F. Mathews.
Dr. Albert F. Mathews. writing in
the March Century of 1.-THE Nature
Of Nerve Force" apropos of the eX-
periments made by DR.. Jacques Loeb
and himself, says in conclusions
1t will probably be asked what are
likely to be the practical results Of
possible to predict what practical re-
suits may follow in the future, but it
appears to me probable that the i'm
mediate practical consequences will
very likely occur in the following d.
rections:
First, the physical explanation thus
attained Of one of the phenomena Of
life will, If it proves true. bring US
step nearer the understanding Of other
life phenomena, the artificial synthesis
Of living matter and the prolongation
Of life. There is apparently no inherent
reason why a man should die, except
our ignorance of the conditions gov
erning the reaction going on in his pro-
toplasm.
Second, 1t looks as if we had at last
secured rational basis of pharmacoi-
ogy. If the poisonous action of salts is
due to the electrical charges their par
ticles bear and we are able to offset
this action by particles with the oppo-
site charge, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the poisonous action of drugs
is also so caused and may in the same
manner be counteracted The credit for
this work should be given to Professor
Loeb.
Third, we have at last secured, ap-
parently, a basis for attacking the
great problem Of fermentation, for the
peculiar Preventative or catalytic pow
ers Of colloidal solutions are probably
In their essence electrical. A solution
Of the problem of fermentation proba-
bly, means a revolution in some Of the
great industries of the world, for 1t will
enable us to build up our foodstuffs
from the soil, the air and sunlight, a
power of controlling chemical phenom
ena the results Of which can at present
hardly be conceived. In the absence Of
experimental data 1t Is impossible to
say definitely whether our results will
ultimately illuminate the problem Of
fermentation or not, but they at least
suggest means Of attacking this
problem, and think do not overstate
the probable consequences Of the solu-
ton Of that problem.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-17
WRESTLING CHOIR.

An Unusual Form of Music Intro
duced In Georgia Sunday School.
]. T. Lockhart, superintendent of the
Berean Baptist Sunday school OF Au-
gusta, Ca, is responsible for new de-
partule in church music, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser, and
through his efforts the innovation has
been eminently successful.
Mr.. Lockhart obtained his idea from
1.-THE Burgomaster," which recently
appeared in Augusta. He heard "The
Tale of the kangaroo" whistled, and
when the audience joined in the chorus
the effect struck him as being so
unique that he at once decided to put it
in use in his choir. Mr.. Lockhart talk
ed the matter over with the Rev. ]. II.
Oliver, pastor of the church, and 1t was
decided to try the plan the following
Sunday. The Sunday school numbers
301 members. On the Sunday when
Mr. Lockhart had planned to introduce
whistling music the exercises were
opened by short talk on the sacred
ness of all melody and harmony and Of
the praise that could be rendered to
God in every form of music. Mr.. Lock
hart then told the pupils that they
were going to try a new form Of music.
He said that as great many Of the
young men who had really good voices
would not sing because they had never
been trained In music he had decided
to form a whistling choir
The superintendent had no difficulty
in inducing the boys and young men to
come forward and whistle.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-17
The Man. Not the Prince.

Tribute to Henry Of Prussia
Not to the brother Of king,
A prince of royal birth.
Ny muse her little song would sing,
But to the man of worth.
A king Is but an accident
OF earth's barbaric youth.
While character is Gods intent
Forged on his anvil. Truth.
Though empires pass and thrones decay
And princes are forgot.
There Is no limit to the sway
OF broad. ennobling thought.
We owe the land you represent
A mighty debt. Sir Guest
That land where giant intellect
And genius blooms its best.
30 to this democratic mart
We welcome not the peer,
But the true man Of brain and heart;
Shake hands, Sir Prince. Good chseri
-Nlla Wheeler Wilcox In New York Jesir
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
SOME TARIFF TALK.

On this page is printed significant
interview with Congressman Dick, OF
Ohio. and also portions of a recent edi'
torial in The New York Journal of Com
morce, a protectionist newspaper. on the
tariff question. 1t is significant because
it clearly points out the inconsistency and
iniquity of the proposed Republican leg
islation on sugar, reducing the tariff on
Cuban sugar only 20 per cent. This small
reduction will not benefit the Cuban
planters, because the duty will still be
so high as to be practically prohibitive,
while it will be high enough to satisfy
the beet sugar interests of this country.
1t is evident that the beet sugar COM
bine has the Republican Congress by the
throat 1t is really an Insignificant bust
ness, compared with various other indus
tries In this country but it appears to he
strong enough to throttle all efforts TO do
Justice to Cuba. Whether any of the
products of that island should be required
to pay a duty at eur ports is a question
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
ANOTHER NEW INVENTION.

There is a constant, never ceasing bat
tie going on in the scientific and inven-
| tive world. one side seeking to protect
and the other seeking to destroy. Nc
sooner has some man perfected an i'm
penetrable armor than some other man
| goes to work to invent projectile that
will penetrate it. When one inventor has
produced a burglar-proof safe, the skill
and ingenuity of the cracksmen is i'm
mediately brought to bear on the problem
of finding way to open the safe, and
they usually succeed. 1t appears i'm
possible for one to do what another can
not undo.
Recently we read a statement to the
effect that a Chicago man has invented
a method of using one electric current In
such a way that he can cut through eight
inches of the best steel in seven minutes
With such an apparatus as that at COM
mand burglar could find his way into
any safe almost as quickly as he could
pick an ordinary lock- If the inventor
likely to do any one any good. If he
has it patented, the process will be made
public and the burglars will get onto ill.,"
If he undertakes to sell his process with
out having it patented, the safe-brakers
will still get possession of it.
One of the tasks at which inventors
have long been engaged is to manu-
facture a metal which will be proof
against the drill and other tools of the
cracksmen. When they think they have
succeeded they find themselves mis-
taken. With his blow-pipe and the in
tense heat which can be evolved or pro-
duced by modern methods the safe
breaker softens the metal and bores right
into it. We suppose no safe can be
made which will be proof against dyna-
mite and other high explosives. but their
use is dangerous to the operator and
Objectionable on account of the noise.
Neither does it seem practicable to make
a lock which cannot be picked, but this
sometimes requires more time than can
be safely used.
If this reported invention is not
fake and the burglar men get possession
of it, something will be doing that will
require a new departure for safes and
vaults. 1t will re quire but very few
minutes for thief to get into safe
and secure his booty, and those who have
money or vaIuables to protect will have
to employ guards all the time, and may
possibly be compelled to employ some
body to watch the guards. The best
thing we see is to have an immense pit or
vault filled with water and sink the safe
into it when not in use. That might
shut 'em off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
FOREIGN I CITES OF INTEREST

Six persons recently started from Paris
to Pekin in an automobile via Siberia.
Mediterranean oranges come to us in
birch boxes made in Maine.
The number of cases of smallpox in
London since August last 81 about 1000.
The number of sick with that disease
during the last week was 800.
The railway from Nyngan to Bourke in
New South Wales runs over plain which
Is as level as billiard table for 126 miles
in mathematical straight line.
Tests made at the Automobile Club in
London showed that machines travelling
at the rate of twenty miles an hour
could be stopped in two and a half times
their length. 1t is expected that this test
Will induce the authorities to increase
the speed limit for automobiles from the
present rate of twelve miles an hour to
eighteen miles.
out Of 4.s1s species of plants gathered
in Europe iur commercial purposes one
ttnth haN' a pleasing perfume and are
ufeG Ia Tie manufacture of scents and
A., caps The color # i,l24 species is white,
rs, hdtinS B.. %, rfume: 95l are yellow. n
with a scent: 81 are red; 594 blue. and 20S
violet, the number of these having a
pleasant 0dor being 81, "a and l39, respect
NelY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1909.
NOT THE POINT.

The Pell City Coosa Valleyan discusses
the question of ''ready-made editorials
IN country newspapers and admits that
there is too much of 1t in the weeklies.
1t claims that there is in some directions
a reform under way and then adds. by
way of avoidance:
In the meantime. the weeklies might
suggest to their city contemporaries thai
the latter are not above criticism, mas
much as not few of their pages,
especially the pages of the top-heavy dull
Sunday issues. are dependent largely
upon ready-made stuff just as worthless
as the ready-made editorials of the
weeklies.
That Is not a proper comparison, nor
yet a fair argument. AS for the top
heavy Sunday issues" of which The Val
aeyan speaks we have nothing to say, as
The Advertiser never issues an edition
of that kind and does not include itself
In the comparison made, but, aside from
that fact. our contemporary fails to get
Mt the point.
what has been criticised and condemned
As the failure of many of the weeklies
of the country to express editorial
ppinion. Many of them go, week after
week. without solitary line of original
editorial matter. Whatever they have
In that column is either plate matter.
nrepared editorials or items taken bodily
from other papers without credit. This
Ia not creditable to the papers doing it or
TO the profession. and those papers do
themselves grave injustice when they do
Al. Every paper ought to have some good
Vigorous, original editorial in each issue
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

of grave doubt, but when their main
product is virtually taxed out of exist
ence to crafty the greed of a compare
lively few citizens of the United States, 1t
is not a matter of doubt, for there can be
no valid or fair argument in its support
That the producers of cane sugar will
also be benefited does not in any way
change the principle involved.
Mr.. Dick belongs to the extreme protec-
ton side and is opposed to any conces-
sions in favor of Cuban sugar, but he
has to make admissions which ought to
damn his party and drive it opt of power.
He is perfectly willing to let the laws
made in this country can be bought much
cheaper in England than under the
shadow of the factories where they are
made. If you touch sugar. you will have
to touch those other articles, and, there
fore. according to Dicks logic. continue
to rob everybody for the benefit of sugar
beet growers and the Republican Party.
The course Of the Republicans can Meth
err be excused nor defended, and If we
cared for nothing but political advantage,
against the Republicans than will be fur
nished by their action on the Cuban
sugar question, II they persist in what
seems to be their present determination.
What will the farmers throughout the
country say when they find that none of
them will be benefited unless he raises
cane and sugar beets? What will the
users of paper say If no reduction Is made
on wood pulp, so that white paper may be
bought cheaper? And take the consum-
ers of steel manufactures. But few
weeks ago the papers published an ac-
count of how some large consumer OF
steel products in this country. probably
steel rails, went over to England ana
there advertised for proposals from Amer
lean manufacturers for what he wanted
He received such favorable prices that
he closed the contract and then came
home and received the goods here. He
declared. however, that IL the articles had
been shipped to England and back. pay
ing freight each way, he would have still
gotten them cheaper than he could have
bought them here at first hand.
Yet, when all these facts are brought
to the attention of the Republicans. the
only reply they can make will be: Why,
We have reduced the sugar tariff 20 per
cent! If that is all the argument they
can go before the country on, they may
expect to go down to defeat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
A MISTAKEN VIEW.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal Is
usually level-headed and has the faculty
nj going straight to the point at which 1t
aims. In its issue of last Friday how
aver it went wide of the mark, in some
remarks bearing on the proposed educa-
konal aid movement through the gifts
pf certain Northern men. 1t says:
While conceding excellent motives 10
che promoters of this movement, the
South will be slow in accepting It's pene-
Factions The Northern mind Is so con-
stituted that it fully believes the salVa-
kion Of the country depends upon the as
similation Of the black and the white
races. and it has been in fever and
foment for many years because the South
provided separate schools for the respect
Ave races Schools conducted without ref
srence to ''race, sex or creed Will never
be very popular in this section, as any
khing that has a leVeling tendency Will
meet with resistance. The illuminated
gentlemen of the North look upon the
Eouth as a benighted section, and any in
stitution of learning that they favor with
an appropriation or endowment they will
Insist on conducting according to their
bwn peculiar ideas. Southern institutions
pf learning welcome donations from any
respectable source, but they will never
eonsent to yield one particle of control
or deviate one line from their present
rourse. Those generous gentlemen who
would obliterate race distinction can adj
dress themselves to the eXtirpation of ig-
norance in their own vicinity before en-
gaRing in missionary work or establish
ing a propaganda in the Southern coun-
try.
The Appeal will find it a hard matter to
make showing of desire on tine part of
these men for mixed schools. They have
selected mostly Southern men for the ex-
ecutive positions and a class Of men, too
who would not tolerate the idea of teach
ing blacks and whites side by side. The
whole movement is to supplement the eff
forts of the Southern people towards bet
Ter educational facilities, fully realizing
khta the Southern whites heavily tax
themselves for education of a class of
people who foot practically none of the
bills. The money these Northern men
contribute is for education of both white
and black, but on the same lines of sepa-
tation as have always prevailed. Their
motives are good, and the results will be
beneficial and we ought not, on a mere
surmise. to check their good impulses. 4,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
ROTH CLAIM HIM.


The old controversy as to whether
Andrew Jackson was born in North or
South Carolina is again up between the
two States. He himself spoke of MY
native State. South Carolina" but the
people of the Waxhaw settlement in
North Carolina insist that he was born
there, or thereabouts, and refuse to give
him up. They argue that he, was so
young when he was born that he couldn't
be expected to remember the exact spot
where he came into the world. ands that
his information on that subject was I'M
reliable. At any rate they propose to
hold to him and claim him as one of
their very own. Really Old Hickory was
big enough and made enough noise in the
world 70 have had as many birth places
as were attributed to Old Homer. North
and South Carolina might have a district
surveyed taking in a portion of both
States and work him in as sort of joint
product of the two. By that sort of
arrangement neither would lose anything
1t is a little singular that any public
man who was so prominent as jackson
was, and of whom so much has been
written, should be the subject of so much
doubt and controversy as to his birth
place. Some old poet. whose name is
unknown, wrote:
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer
dead
Through which the living Homer begged
his bread.
and quaint old Thomas Haywood uses
conceit in the lines:
Seven cities warred for Homer being
Who living had no roof to shrowd his
head.
1t must be remembered that Homer died
thirty or forty centuries ago. and that
he was born, lived and died In an age
where mortuary statistics were not kept
with as much care as they are in our
day. 1t is not strange that the place
of his birth should be in doubt when we
remember that there are those who doubt
whether such a man really existed 1t
is certain that various writer's differ to
the extent of four or five centuries as to
the time of his birth.
In the case of Jackson there would
seem to be no such excuse for doubt.
He was BORN only one hundred and
thirty-five years ago, and there were
newspapers and records kept in those
days. The cyclopedias tell us that he
was born at the Waxhaw settlements, in
North Carolina, but at least one of the
authorities declare that the exact loca-
ton of these settlements, with respect
to the State line, is unknown. and that
being the case we see no way to settle
the controversy, except on our first sug-
gestion, that the two States strike a
circle which will embrace all the dis
puted territory and mutually agree that
both States are part of it. Then they
might erect a monument reading: Here
or here abouts. was born Andrew Jack
son, seventh President of the United
States" That might settle the trouble
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
CREAM OF THE SPECIALS

to put their best foot foremost at this
time. Ne says they don't care whether
they win this year or not. They don't
want to thrash out the tariff question
prematurely. But next year they will
take 1t up and press 1t with all theil
force. By that time they hope to have
the benefit of all dissatisfaction in the
Republican ranks and all the natural re-
action from present and past political
conditions.
Trouble is brewing for Speaker Hen
derson Representative httlet neil 1 the
of his friends as a candidate for Speaker
in case the Republicans carry the next
House. LittlefieId has made a great rec
ord since he came to Congress two and
half years ago, and though this is pref
ty short service on which to base q
speakership ambition. he is one of the
ablest and most popular men In the
House. Speaker Henderson Is not us
strong as he was year ago in the es-
TEEN of the Republican members, and
the discoptent with his management is
deprecated and apparently increasing.
But the Republicans haven't won the
next House yet.
The so-called charges brought against
Ambassador Won Holleben by a discharged
employee of the German embassy are con-
sidered in official circles too ridiculous to
merit serious discussion. One of these
charges Is that in the 1900 campaign DR..
Won Holleben used his influence to defeat
Mckinley and secure the election of Bry
an, hoping that German interests would
stand a better chance at the hands of the
man from Nebraska. The absurdity of
this is self-evident Every important for
eign nation looked with fear and tremb-
ling upon the possibility that Mr.. Bryan
might become President of the United
States. DIR. White, the discharged en-
ploye who trumps up these charges, is a
highly educated man. who has an unfor-
tunate disposition. Since his discharge
from the embassy he has been crafty
bitter against DR.. Won Holleben. He pa
raded himself as the journalistic at
tache" of the embassy. and for this rea-
son was discharged. Embassies may and
sometimes do employ journalists. but
there must be no parade about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
Cures Consumption F.!

Utica, N. Y. says: ,"since taking DufYy's
Pure Malt whlskey have gained 80 points
In weight: 1t aids my digestion and acts as
q stimulant and tonic"
Pneumonia Cured.
Gentlemen-I had a severe case Of pneu-
monia last fall. and have used about one
dozen bottles of your whiskey to build me
up, and find 1t does what you claim for It,
Yours respectfully. E. Petersen,
Hamline. Mimi. May ~. 1901
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
Letters to The Editor.
"There are Others"

Editor The Advertiser.
l read your comments on the action
of Mr.. Jerome. District Attorney of New
York. in regard to 3he case of girl
charged with grave crime. Mr.. Jerome
may have stated the case very strongly
in saying Cor as it is reported he said),
Il will seek for an establishment of the
innocence of this girl" ETC., but 1 differ
with you in believing that with the
question of innocence he usually has
nothing to do" as applied to all prose-
cutting officers.
l admit that my experience at present
with Solicitors is quite limited. but in
the past 1t was more extensive, and /
know of at least one former Solicitor
in Alabama who had a good deal of Mr.
Jerome's frankness and feeling, If the
evidence failed to convict he would often
tell the court so and let the defendant
be acquitted. He would dismiss a weak
case without trial. He did not resort to
efforts to distort evidence in order to
convict, and did not resort to trickery of
any kind, but was open, candid apd
fair. l hope l may not be mistaken in
believing that there are others in the
present day like him-at least few 9TH
ers. The man l now refer to occupies
high position in his profession. r.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
As II Shol Id Be.

Marion Standard. \
His royal highness can never complain
of the courtesies extended him by the
American people. And this is as it should
be. Civilization has reached that age
where the sword should yield to arbitra-
ton and friendship take the place of pet
tv jealousy. The world is becoming too
much akin and christianity too sweeping
in its influence not to kill the fatted calf
and make merry in honor OF a visit by
a worthy son.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
Is All Tommyrot.

Limestone Democrat.
1t is to be noted that marked copies OF
The Alabamian are being sent all over
the State. addressed in Ex-Governor john
stons own handwriting. Pray, what
does all this mean? 1t would seem that
the demand 90 made on the gentleman
to enter the race for Governor is being
created largely through his own efforts,
and that his expressed desire to keep out
of politics is ala tommy-rot. The gentle
man is only counting defeat for Jelks
will be our next Governor.