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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13
NOT LOYAL 10 THE BRITISH

Tie Canadian voyaCeur is good chuu. as
rllle and would be a downright fine fellow II IL
were not for his COMPOUNDED political opinions.
" hoover lmaEincs that the majority Of the
French Canadians are loyal 10 the British
makes a Woful mistake. Eighty per cent Of
them al least have made up their minds that
the I}ritislIer must go, and they viii never lose
an opportunity be q thorn in our sides, espe-
cfAlly should have with France
paul Fountain. in Longmans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13
ENGLAND AND I. S. or THE CLASSICS,

And Wal about America, our other great
rrrrrna-risI riyalg Has she abandoned Latin
and Creek Ey no means. In America me
In. of glaeefcIl education Is becoming daily
more recognized. America like France, Ger
many and Austria. has long had her school
II classical study-artistic. archaeoIGs'c'u anu
tod is sacrificing her commercial prospects
and her military efficiency TO her insane ceFo-
tso7 30 the study # Latin and Greek has not
-. 49,, .h-a - endow a similar institution,
sir,rly because the friends Of classical learning
in England are, in fact, 50 te" anu 50 uhIhHu-
entail that the necessary I--ioS H''S 4O' 3sN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13
- cARNEGIE rERIL.

Thus Il would appear that Nj Carnegie
places on the shoulders - the youth whom ne
induces 60 follow him "a burden such IS neither
f..g nor their fathers have ever been asked
t0 bear and. such ~ IL Is, unjust and cruel
20 impose il IL further manifest that he
is on the wrong tack IN selecting his benen-
c-arles, and that he purposes 10 regulate the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13

been collected. 1t is true that British school
at Rome has at last, after desperate exertions
been opened; but less than one-third of the
which would be barely sufficient for its
adequate maintenance has as yet been raised
Ct. Rice Holmes, in The National Review.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
What is the Causee
Washington FOst.


 Why is there so much Encouragement in the Republican party? Why is 1t that so many Republicans. including not a few who are in more or less prominent official positions, are Respondent over the outlook for 1904? We give out no secret. nor do we stretch the truth in the slight est degree, when We assert that feeling of gloomy apprehension is more common among Republicans than cheerful cohfl- dence. What Is there in the situation to warrant all this?
 Why should the horn of the Democracy be exalted and its spirits lifted to buoy ancy? Beaten in every election since 1S92-in five successive Congressional and two successive Presidential canvasseS- having not a single Northern State ex- cept Nevada that they can confidently call their own, why do we find the Dem- ocrats looking to 1904 with far less of doubt than their long-victorious and well- intrenched pponenls?
 A study the present status of par ties as indicated by election returns ot all the States, shows that nothing less than landslide can bring in the Democ- racy But more than one landslide has come in that party's direction, and the Republicans-Or a great many of them--- seem to feel that another incident of that kind impends This may be true, in spl:s of apparent probabilities. and, we ma. add, nothing could be better calcula ,ed to make 1t true than Republican discour- agement. The floating vote which IS tou often the decisive factor, does not float into the ranks of the discouraged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
A Land of No Money.
Lexington Herald.


 "I have just returned from Eastern Ken lucky. where I went to inspect some timber" said L. A. Hotchkins of Nor folk. My principal operations were in Leslie County, and was surprised to dis cover a community in the United States where money is unknown, or practically so The entire business of this cominu- nifty is lone on the barter system. The country store keepers exchange merchan- disc for anything and everything the na- tlves have to sell, and ship this motlt y array of products down to Catlettsburg, where the merchant has 1t placed in bank to his credit, when he orders more goods, paying for them with check. These mor- chants usually keep a small amount of money in case 1t should be required, but the natives, as a rule, do not handle a cent of cash from one years end to the other They barter among themselves and with the merchants, and when I bought lands the most of those who sold to me would not accept my money until the merchants assured them that it was gen. uine. Leslie County is in the heart of the Kentucky mountains, and is very sparse ly populated, which accounts for its prim- itive condition, but it is probably the only section of the United States remaining where the people do not know what money "a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
To Make Sahara q Sea.

LOnuOH -AIIDWC CtS.
 French engineers have declared 1t Is perfectly feasible to convert the Desert of Sahara into vast lake, thus opening to commerce great regions of the interior of Africa, which can now only be reached by long, tedious and dangerous caravan journey They say that a large portion of the desert lies below the level of the Att lantic and that by digging a canal to let in the water of the ocean the great change could be effected easily and at a cost which would be small compared to the benefits which would acrue.
 If the whole desert lay below the level of the Atlantic the flooding of 1t would create sea more than your times as big as the Mediterranean; but as the Sahara is composed of elevated plateaus. noun tain ranges and depressions, only a part would be covered with water when the waves of the ocean were let in, and the new sea thus formed would be an irreg- ular body of water, probably of about the same size as the Mediterranean. Great comercial cities would at once spring up on It's shores and trade and civilization strike at once to the heart of Africa. The sea of Sahara may never become a reality, but in any event, it is a gigantic and pleasing dream.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
MILLIONS OF BIBLES.
The Holy Book Has Been Printed in
 37O Languag ges

Toronto (Ont.) Mail and Empire.
 To show it's appreciation of the part be- ing taken by Canada in the ce' ebra ton of the centenary of the British and For eign Bible Society, three of its ablest and most eloquent supporters are in c lnada as special delegates. They are the Ven- erable Archdeacon Madden of Liverpool the Rev. C.. H. Bondfeld. the society representative in China, and Sir Algernon Coote. Premier Baronet of Ireland and one of the society's vlce-presidents.
 Sunday evening Archdeacon Madden saying that the Bible Society during the hundred years of Its existence had dist ib- uted throughout the world 1S0000,000 Bi- bles, printed in 37O different languages Last year 1t gave out 6,0000O0 Bibles and portions of Bibles. The enormous work of this society was apparent when it was known that a century ago only 100000 copies of the book were in existence. Now there are 2O0,Ool,OO0 copies of 1t in the world.
 Metropolitan Church and at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Among the signiti- cant facts he presented was that notwith- standing tho 370 languages in which the Bible is circulated. there are in India 1O2 languages into which no part of the Scriptures has been translated In the South Seas, out of t27 languages the Bi- ble has been translated into only 46 of them. Similar conditions were true of China, South America, where there are 300 Indian dialects, and of other portions of the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
DAVID LANDRETH 6 SONS.
Wind up Bushes After One HVn.
 dred and Twenty Years.


 New York Mail and Express.
 We have not so many firms in the United States thatRaate from the Eighteenth Century lowed to phss without comment. .t The asm of D. Landreth & Sons. of Philadelbhia, has had to close it's doors. owing, according to It's doing business, and it's regard for the welfare of It's employees who were kept on its payroll even during the "slack season. in the seed trade. and were pensioned when they were too old to work. Undoubtedly the first reason is more to the point than the second
 The house was founded in I7S4 by David Landreth, an Englishman. and was the first firm of seedsmen in the country and since its foundation has stood in the front rank of business houses in it's line. Some fourteen years ago it's present head Mir. Burnet Lan- dreth, formed the Association of Centenary Firms and Corporations in the United States, which is composed of firms founded in the Eighteenth Century and still controlled by de- scendants of the founder or of his family. The membership of the association is naturally not extensive, but 1t Is larger than might be expected. The firm of D. Landreth & Sons is the twenty-third in order of foundation and when the last book of the association was printed there were some thirty firms repre- sented in the society.
 The oldest firm in the association, and un- doubtedly the oldest in the United States, is the Francis Perot's Sons Malting Company, which dates from l697-seven years before the Bank of England was founded-and is now 2l6 years old very respectable age for c firm in a young country. Some other less ven- erable firms are the Christopher Sower Com pany. dating from I73l. whose founder print ed the first German Bible in this country fin I743 the Brandywine Flour Mills, which fur nished flour to Washington's army: Lorillard & Co.,, who date the origin of their snuft business back to l76o; and others less fa- nous. Four of the thirty firms in this city; only two or three are in New England the others are fin near Philadelphia. It is to be regretted that one of the centenary firms of the country should have to wind up it's affairs; a firm that has endured nearly l20 years, it would seem. should have a perma- nent existence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
women,s stranee Callings.

A blacksmith's shop managed entirely by three women is one of the interesting sights to be cen in Kansas. The mother took entire charge of the business ab ut fourteen years ago upon the death of her husband and had her daughters brought up not only to shoe horse. but to un- derstand every branch of the trade as well. The mother died. and now the three daughters one of whom is married, have five men in their employ and carry on a very prosperous business. They person ally superintend the shoeing of every horse.
 There IS a fruit grower in Southern Cal owns i5O acres of walnut trees. be ides growing many ether kinds of fruit and nuts as wei She recently read pap'r value of pampas grass as a crop and also on the cultivation of the pom"grsnate in Southern California, which showed com prehonSive grasp of the details of the work. She herself makes a onsiderahle amount of money from these crops pearly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
THE AVERAGE MAN.
The Increased Cost of Living as Af-
 fecting His Comfort.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. .-
 Secretary Job of the Employers Association has issued a bulletin giving the results of an investigation into the cost of living in Chicago in the first half of 1903 to men earnng $500 iS to sseoo 1sss year. as compared with the cost
 The articles taken for price comparisons were flour. granulated sugar, coffee. tea, potatoes, butter. eggs. milk round steak. corned beef. pork chops. breakfast bacon. ham. lard, rent. fuel and clothing. According to Mir. Job z figures the percentage of increased cost of all these items taken to gether Is i6.6
 In other words, e family which spent Sl ,o0c on its living had tos spend Sl, i68 in 1903 to live on the same scale.
 Mir. Jobs figures are lower than those shown prices of $50 commodities show an increase of about 28 per cent on October [. 1908. as com pared with Oct. |. 1898. However Dun's Re- view figures cover materials of industry as well as articles of personal consumption. and are obtained by averaging prices in all the principal markets. many of which are more distant from the great food-producing districts
 Taking either set of figures 1t is easy to see why the average man who is neither capital- list nor member of labor union is not overwel pleased with his condition and pros- poets at the present time. While his income has not materially increased since 1898. he is paying per cent, more on the average for staple groceries, 20 per cent. more for milk. 34 per cent ..nore for meats 30 per cent. more for fuel, 20 per cent. more for rent, and only 3 per cent. less for clothing. The facts that he spends nearly twice as much for groceries as for meats and over two-thirds as much for clothing as for rent are what make his total expenditure for living in Chicago only i6.6 per cent. more than in iS9S
 Those who think that everybody ought to be contented when trusts and labor unions flour lsh should study these figures. They show that the average man, from whom in the long run both organized capital and oganized labor derive the profits over which they quarrel. Is not doing as well as he was in 1898. And they point to the necessity of considering in finance and legislation the average man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
cornorate Capitalization.

Congressman c. E. Littlefeld of Maine having made study of the number anf capitalization of the trusts of the Unital States, finds that there are over 500 trusts with a capitalization of nearly Sl4O00 O00. 0CO. There are 453 industrial trusts, cap talized at over 5000 600 oO0. Of this S1., l651I45S consists of bonds. $?091. EOS, ,S-f of preferred stock and s7 973.S53,S $50 of corn mon stock. Local and natural moncpolles such as gas express. telephone compa- nies, etc. have $4.5O2 O4S. 459 of capital. ol which $l.312 55S. .S19 is bonds and S"96 922 40f is preferred stock and g S92, ,56S, 24O is com mon stock. The capitalization of our rail roads Is S1leSS,l4T,O9l. Railroads and in dustrial combinations together aggregate S20. .O00, 900. .000 in addition to the capitaIl- zation of local and natural monopolies, The last census made the total wealth of the United States $9O,00O, 900, ,Cno
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
General Archibald Gracie's Brothe,

ChurIeSton NeWs and CouIleT.
 The brief reference in The News and Oracle, of New York. made no mention of his come etion with the South and Charleston. Ills mother was Mss Eliza beth Bethune of this city, niece of Mir. Christopher Willman and a cousin of the Paine and Vii imam families, and he was brother of General Archibald Oracle of the C nfederate army. It was --ra ie of mother that I do not thank her for every drop of South Carolina bio Dd she poured
 into my veins" Pres dent R osevelt should be proud of such kinsmen the cJurtly gentleman who last Monday breathed hls last. and the heroic brot CT who fell in battle fighting for Southern
 independence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
Habit Better Than Laws.

Lonely Man.
 If instead of enacting any more laws for the purpoNe of mak ng ourselves pay our debts we should get into the habit of simply paying them, and considering 1t promptly paying just claims might pres ently become as nearly universal as is the practice of tipping negro walters and sleeping car porters. Neither statutory law nor conscience compels us to give tips. but custom does-and we do it. We have made violations of the moral law illegal by statutory enactments; it might now be well to make them disRraceful also by stimuating the public conecience. And If. while We are teaching ourselves to be honest for the love of honesty, we should have any time to devnte to politi- cians and their laws We might spend tt Dy>Weeping at the spectacle of a legisla- ture trying by laws of its own enactment to prevent itself from accepting bribes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
6cs$ip of men ,'e z. se and matter$
A Dutch olobe-Troteer.

 |, e. M. V H. Van Kroonenburgh. Hol- lander or striking appearance, is a unique globe trotter
 The visitor from Holland stands six feet Tour inches in his shoes and wears a long blonde mustache. He is making a ieisurely tour of the world having given nlmself live years In which to make tt @ trip; MT. Van Kroonenburgh comes from Utrlcht. where. he says he made wager of $1o.0Oo that he could ta..e a trip around U tne eoo world without friends and return with
 He left Utricht with barely enough money to. pay his passage across the At iantic; He has been travelling through the United States, studying the country ss sro,h he ,g goes; He came .o Montgomery goes to New Orleans He will leave New Orleans for Central America. It is his purpose to return to the United States next year and visit the St. Louis Worlds Far; From there he proposes to go West. Australia. and Dutch East India. He will then return to Holland by the Suez Canal.
 He Is writing for newspapers and magazines during his travels.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
T. EsDAx, DAsEMBER I, 1908.
MISLEADING THE NEWSPAPERS.

Some of opr Tennessee contemporaries are getting worked up over not un- common incident in newspaper life. Some one, 1t seems, alluded to Senate Bate as ''that d-d old soldier" The Nashvi 10 American charges it to The Chattanooga Times, saying that it used the more of- fensive term, 'd-d old rebel" The Times puts in a plea of confession and avoidance and thinks 1t first saw the Ian- guage used in the correspondence of The American. and that it used the word soldier" not rebel" The American comes back and denies that the statement ever appeared in that paper at all. This nat denial rather obfusticates The Times, and 1t plainly begs that somebody tell the truth about if. 1t wants to know who said t, or who said somebody said it.
 We offer the assurance of our sincere coincidence to our esteemed contempora- ries. The incident shows how We news paper folks are misled and imposed on, and we have another case in mind that Is equally exasperating. Some days ago soma newspaper Ananias charged that Senator Pettus had made a somewhat savage onslaught on gravy. Stralghtway half the newspapers in the country got busy. Discussion of Panama, tariff. free silver and other matters ceased. Even Ann was temporarily side-tracked, and Carrie got rest. The editors generally donned their armor and laid lance :n rest in defence of the great Anne ican standby. It was p, etty generally insisted that genuine gravy, such as We were regaled with in the old times. and espe- cially in the country, is but one lap be- hind the Elixir of Life, for which the an- cients sought in vain. Gravy was voted one of the necessities of human exist ence.
 Now comes The Washington Post with what it claims to be an authoritative statement from our venerable Senator, in which he declares that he didn't say word against gravy" What he did say, as a reason for his old age and rugged health. was that he always ate good, plain victuals and avoided excess of con- ailments" That puts a different face on the matter. Condiment-Latin condimen- tum-is generally understood to be 8 rich  sauce or seasoning for food. It diners from old-fashioned gravy as widely as a Strasburg pate de foi gras diners from a broiled quail. We didn't put much confi- dence in the first story. We were 10th to believe that our Senator would ''go back on his raisin'" in that way. He has Ii. ed in the good old days, and on the heal ,h- full and life-giving fare of the country too long to turn hls back on the delightful food which had so much to do with pro- longing his life and giving him such phy sical vigor as a man of half his yea. might envy Gravy has not been de- throned. Now if the Tennesseeans can strengthen out that ''d-d oid rebeP' story, we can all proceed to discuss matters of vital concern.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01

the irrefutable arguments for prompt ac. tion on the treaty. The concurrence oi both houses was requisite. The House has acted. The Senate postpones action until the regular session. s
 The general conclusion will be that un- less favorable action by the Senate was practically assured in advance, the extra session was unnecessary. To entertain that belief is to crtticise the President. The Senate appears to have adopted the perverse policy of supplying the basis for that criticism. We can conceive or nc other motive unless the still more detest- able one of a wish to serve the interests of the Beet Sugar Trust is to be assumed.
 At any rate, the Senate has acted with dagrant disregard of it's public duty and of the national interest. The benehts of the treaty are reciprocal. We shall de- rive as much good from it as Cuba-in the end more The House would have been justified in refusing to adjourn until the Senate acted on the treaty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
Lessons in Courtesy.

There is a very amusing story in the current issue of The German Journal Asien.
 Some time ago an embassy from Japan | went to Hollanu ana the members attract ed great attention from all the Dutch peo- | pie whom they met. One little boy, how ever, who had never seen men like them. did not like their appearance, and as a | token of his d!sapproval he planted him selt in front of them and saucily raising his thumb to his nose, extended his four fingers.
 What does that mean?'' asked the Jap anese Ambassador of the interpreter. for never before had he seen this juvenile and very popular method of expressing contempt: ,.
 The in ,erpreter. who was distinguished Dutchman pondered and then said: "The little boy Is bidding you welcome to Iol- land. The gesture which he has made is a token of good will" On the following day the interpreter sincerely regretted that he had not Id the truth. for.' at the royal audlen e. which was attended by all the members of the court. the Ambassador and his at tendants astonished every one by ap- preaching the monarch and making t e same gesture winch the little boy had made on the previous day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-01
STOP THROWING STONES.

The New Bedford Mercury, printed and published in the penumbra of Plymouth Rock. has this editorial which we copy entire:
 Massachusetts may stop throwing stones at the SouLherners for making lace dis functions and regard the situa uon m sheffield Massachusetts, whe.e the col ored children are to be sepa. ated from the white iA the public schools. The pa rents of the white pupils in the Ashley Falls district especially oIlected to tleir children attending the same school, for in that school were fourteen co.ored oh l. dren and thirty-five whites, and some of school year after year with no ma .e i4l advancement in their own cases, and with a decided tendency toward retardlng the progress of the white pupils. That is the story from the point of view of the white people of Sheffield. Now the school committee of the town has voted to /re- open the .schoolhouse located on the
 Plain" which has been, closed for some months. Miss Cora Fowler. cOlored, who took a four-year course in the ShC fife .d High school leading her ella for with honor, has been engaged as teacher of the school. The members of the com mittee who voted to make this arrange ment, Samuel Fox, Edward Boardman md Ira Manvel. have arranged with c parents of colored children of school age In different parts, of the town to send .nelr lIlS SCHOOL, thus enIISlS separating the white and colored pupils turing school hours.
 It will be noted that there Is no criti- eism or comment on the affair. and 1t wlll De further noted that the school commit ,ee has resolved to provide the sepa ate schools because the parents of the white pupils" in Massachusetts. just like the pa- rents in Alabama. objected to their chil- dren attending the same school" It is a perfectly natural feeling and We heartily