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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

will probably open the way to a large industry.
 At present all sorts of experiments are going on In East Africa. The Germans are planting cocoanut trees in the low lands and coffee trees higher up. They have set out quinine plantations. and are beginning to raise tobacco. rubber. su- gar. cacao and tea. There Is excellent pasture on the highlands and gold in the mountains. Quantities of garnets. agates and topazes have been found and dia- monds are looked for, but so far none has been discovered. East Africa has better connections with Europe than the west coast. There are regular steamers to Zanzibar and Oar es Salaam, and the latter may in time become the chief sea- port of east Central Africa.
 Germany in the Pacific.
 During my stay in Australia I learned much of the German possessions of the Pacific. The largest of them is Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. the northeastern part of the Island of New Guinea. It consists of territory twice the size of Indiana, in- habitated by population of one or two hundred thousand savage Papuans. This country is being developed by a syndi- cate, and until about four years ago the syndicate was the supreme power. At present the administration is in the hands or the kalSeT, WnO mas appointed a goV- ernor for New Guinea. the Bismarck ar chipelago and other islands of the Pa cifc. The governor spends part of his time on the Island of Neu Pommern and a part in New Guinea.
 Altogether there are less than a hun dred whites in Kaiser Wilhelms Land and of these only seventy-eight are Ger mans.
 The New Guinea Company is still car rying on its plantations and trading. It has fields of cotton and tobacco. and is experimenting with coffee and stock Horses. cattle and goats are doing wel but sheep have so far proved a failure. The North German Lloyd steamers to Australia sometimes call at New Guinea
 Some German Islands.
 Almost adjoining Kaiser Wilhelm s Land Is the Bismarck Archipelago con- sisting of several large Islands ruled by the Germans. The New Guinea Com pany has also houses there and it con- trols the greater part of the trade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
If the Panama Decision Could Be,
 Xsut to Vote.

Al C1AS 8GA1I441 0oC1S2Cu O0Uln 6U X!ut to Vote.
 Detroit Free Press (Ind. Den-)
 If the Democratic leaders believe that they can persuade the people of the Uni- ted States to punish MT. Roosevelt for asserting and maintaining the rights of the United States they will prove Chem- selves as bad readers of public sentiment In 1904 as they were in 1900 and 1Sa& No administration yet was ever repudiated by the people for acquiring territory or for protecting the interests of the repub. lie against foreign aggression of any char acter, and none will be. Even when tho. consequence has been war. the party re- sponsible for the war has invariably been upheld at the polls. lieve that 10 per cent of the popular vote could be boiled against the administra- ton on the issue Of recognizing the revo- Iutionary government of Panama. If it were left to the citizens of the United States to say whether this government should stand pat in Panama or retracs its steps. the chorus of popular approval of the administrators policy would be ! deafening. With the dissenters we should 1 find only the scheming politicians of the Democratic party the in-and-out of-sea. son advocates of the Nioaragua Canal, the transcontinental railroad lobby and those excellent but often miE guided peo- pie who feel themselves perp tu'lly un- der obligations to apologize for their coun- try and their countrymen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
rhe Kaiser's Colonial Empire.

The Kaiser's Colonial Empire. The kaiser's colonial empire has been ,eated since 1884. Germany was too poor
 have colonies before the Franco-Prus- In war. It was then an agricultural q not a manufacturing country. Today
 a kaiser governs five times as much
 rritory outside Europe as in it. His CO.,
 bial empire all told covers a million l,are miles. In Africa alone 1t is one Alrth as big as the United States, and islands of the Pacific have an area 3lf as large as the whole German em- lre.
 l n Asia the kaiser absolutely controls { two hundred square miles. but he Rims the earth. He has really only a 'rip around Kiauchau bay, but all the lad back of this Is known as the Ger hn sphere of influence, and 1t embraces stne of the best parts of China. The rmans are going ahead there as though Isy owned it. They are building rail-
 hds, opening mines and are reaching at their itching palms toward the kngtse Kiang valley.
 The Monroe doctrine Keeps Germany om having a legal title to anything in |uth America. It has a commercial ti- N however, based upon it's enormous Rde. to large part of the business of Ery country. It practically controls #lthern Brazil, where there are pro- bces which have so many German cit ,ns that they are known as West hutschland. Germany is pushing Its bde into Central America and into all D countries of Asia. The kaiser lately N his arms around the neck of the sul- and squeezed out concession for a Erman railroad through Persia, and he Ecajoling and forcing German goods into khry out-of-the-way part of the world. Edeed, the Germans are dong best out ke their own colonies. The territories hv have annexed are about the most Brthless on the face of the globe. and Esy have hardly a colony that Is self |pporting. Their deficit in 1900 was boo, 900, and at present the colonies do t anywhere near meet their expenses. German Africa.
 The best of the German colonies are in rica. but even there they have about 2 poorest lands, the chief exceptions ing the French possessions in the des- of Sahara. The German colonies lie
 both sides of the continent beginning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

Guam. It got the Marshall Islands in 1885 and the Caroline and Ladrones short- ly after we took possession of the Phil ippines. All of these islands are little more than coral rocks covered with a slight vegetation. They have but few in- habitants. and their chief export Is copra or dried cocoanut meat. The Car olines are not so very far from the Phil ippines. and the people are somewhat like our Filipinos.
 The Kiauchau Colony.
 :. learned much about Kiauchau during my last visit to China. It includes alto gether about 200 square miles of terri- tory. which was transferred to Germany on ninety-nine year lease in 1898. The administration Is now under the German navy department and its ruler Is a naval officer under the title of governor
 Indeed Kiauchau is a naval colony with a commercial attachment. It is a forti- fled naval station. the harbor having been improved for that purpose. A sea wall has been built at cost of s20.O0O, ,00O and great piers and light houses have been put up. Railroads are being con-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
German Southwest Africa.

The German possessions in southwest Africa are almost entirely controlled by German colonial company, entitled the Deutsche Kolonial Geselschaft fur Sud west Afrika. This syndicate has charge of an area ten times aS large as the state of Ohio. with population half that of Cleveland. The country Is of little value. It is mostly desert, with a few grassy oases scattered over 1t. Some of it is as barren as the worst of the Sa- hara, and the most of 1t cannot be cul- tivated.
 Nevertheless the Germans are setting out plantations in the lowlands, and are experimenting with cotton. tobacco and vineyards Some of the highlands are good for grazing, and on the edge of the desert are ostrich farms. But little pros pecting has been done for the precious metals, and it is doubtful if they exist There are now about 5000 Europeans in this colony.
 East Africa Under the Kaiser.
 The kaiser has better lands in eastern Africa than in the west. His possessions there are populous and more susceptible of development. Inc territories are found along the central part of the east ern coast of the continent. extending north and south about 800 miles. They are bounded on the north by British East Africa, on the west by Lakes Nyassa and Tangany ka and on the south by Portuguese Africa. They are right on the great route across Africa and In one of the best settled portions of the contl- nent.
 The land here is high and salubrious. At the northern boundary of the terri tory is kilimanjaro the highest noun tain on the continent, and little farther over is Victoria Nyanza, the largest lake.
 The railroad which has been projected from the cape to Cairo will go through this territory. and it will be cut at right angles by a railroad which the Germans have laid out to connect Lake Tangany- lka with the sea opposite Zanzibar. AL ready flly-four miles of railroad and many good wagon roads have been made
 Germany's African Metropolis.
 The capital of German East Africa might be called the center of the German interests It is situated on the seacoast little south of the Island of Zanzibar:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
The Uses of Statesmen.

London Daily Chronicle.
 Gladstone, like other statesmen and warriors, has passed into the language "as a common noun," and found fame in common speech. Put your trust in your Gladstone" and Put your trousers In your Gladstone" would have been equally intelligible phrases for many years of the statesman's life. And while Gladstone gave his name to a bag Well lington and Butcher provided us with boots. and Garibaldi with biscuits. Broughman lives In our streets. though Stanhope, as a statesman and a carriage. Is seldom mentioned, but both are con- trolled by the Peeler. And the man who has beaten them all in supremacy in com mon speech Is one Mir Hanson, neither statesman or warrior. It is strange that neither Disraeli nor Beaconsfield has giv- en his name to an article of food or clothing. a soap or a vehicle. By so narrow a squeak a mortal misses the Inn mortality that in inspired bagman con- fers,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

it Is known as Oar es Salaam. and 1t has now something like 25,000 inhabitants. When the Germans took possession of the country this place had only few. hum dred native huts and several stone cabins. It soon grew to town of 10000. and 1t has been growing at the rate of 5000 a year ever since. It has now eight Ger man exporting and importing firms. some good stores. a brewery and three hotels. There are many native shops kept by Arabs and Hindoos who have come over from Zanzibar. and there are also Greek and Portuguese merchants There are several large German companies which have agencies here. their plantations be- ing scattered through different parts of the colony. t
 Some New Enterprises.
 One of these companies has a big rub Der plantation. another is setting out coffee trees and a third has begun to raise cotton. having imported a number of colored students from the Tuskegee College in Alabama to aid in the work. Labor can be gotten for few cents a day. and if these enterprises succeed they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
FOREIGN TABLES D'HoTE.

Are Interesting Places to Observe
 Native Manners and Customs. London Queen.
 AS a study of humanity and how not to eat the table d'hote offers the foreign traveller much food for reflection.
 The individuality of France may still be seen in the provinces, and nowhere more than at the table d'hote. Dejeuner is served at about Il o'clock. In walk the visitors, mostly men. They neither look to right nor the left. They do not bow, as in Germany, but sit down and at once open a voluminous table napkin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

before sitting down. The table napkin process begins again, but instead of go- ing under the chin is generally arranged from one armhole of the waistcoat to the other, or kept in place by a couple of pins brought for the purpose. The meal is not so well cooked and two dishes ap- pear with unfailing regularity. soup. freshly made that morning and still greasy. and rhinfiesh. Beer has taken the place of wine. but the same silence gen. erally prevails, anyway during the ear. Her part of the meal.
 In Scandinavia table d'hotes are differ ent again. In every dining room is a sideboard covered with smorbred. There are often eighteen or twenty small dishes of olives, anchovies. smoked salmon, sar- dimes. raw meat. reindeer beet root, but. ter. caviar and raw fish Beside them are piled little plates and forks. Everyone marches solemnly to this table, helps himself to a plate and with his own fork piles on to that dish as many odds and ends as it can carry.
 This done, he goes of to his own seat and eat his delicacies before beginning the more sumptuous fare provided.
 The smorgasbord is the real institution more particularly in Finland. where 1t is quite as important as the dinner itself Here large silver urn stands in the middle of the sideboard and out of diff ferent taps strong liquors can be poured. vodke being. of course. the favorite, and drunk by the men with as evident a rel ish as a cocktail is in America before dinner. At the end of each meal in Fin land everyone at the table goes and shakes hands with the host and hostess and says "atack" (thank you.)
 English manners over knives and forks are cleanly and nice-but are English maners commendable at a table d'hote {? Each guest stares at his nelghbor makes remarks at his expense, and never thinks of lowing when taking his seat or leav- ing the table. France can teach us how to cook, Germany how to bow to our neighbors, America the possibilities of vegetables, Scandinavians the delights of little delicacies, and Italy or Spain the joys of good. cheap fruits.
 French Mayors JubilAA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

The Solomon Islands belong half to Germany and half to Great Britain and the Samoans have been divided between Germany and the United States.
 In addition to these the kaiser has vast number of islets scattered through out the south central Pacific ocean. It has the Caroline Islands. the Marshall Islands and all of the Ladrones. except
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

tinction of having had one Mayor for half century in the person of M. Ger main-Lacour Moulins-suT-Orne is in the arrondissement o Argentan. and the peo- pie have just celebrated this unique event by holding fete in honor of their mayor Argentan has been represented in Par years,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Worse Than Pidgin English.

Denver Republican.
 An effort is going to be made to stop swearing in the navy. Admiral Evans talk, with the reverse English on. win be interesting, to say the least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

Soma tuck one end of the serviette sol ennly down inside their collar above the tie. Yards of bread-hterally yards-are
 handed around Each individual taxes about i've or six inches which he cuts up Utth wonderful skill in spite of It's crisp
 resg and scatters the fragments around hts pIate. If there are two visitors. one
 takes up the bottle of wine. Dours drop
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
WOULD SUPPORT RoosEvELT.

new era Uf civic usefulness for the park is probably at hand.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28
UTENSILS OF QUARTZ.
Bottles, Glasses and Other Articles Manufactured fin Germany from
 Molten Rock.

A Germaa technical factory, which has been making expensive experiments with high temperatures, has produced utensils made of molten quartz, reports an industrial journal.
 After the melting was done the manu- fracture of bottles, glasses and other ar ticles was not much different in method from that used for making glass articles.
 The objects made from molten quartz are flashing and clear, with the effect of diamonds. They are not brittle as glass, and have the further advantage of not being affected easily by heat or cold.
 Glass articles, as everybody knows, from sad experience, will crack if hot liquids are poured into them when they are cold, or vice versa. Quartz articles, however, can be heated to cherry red, and then ice-cold water can be squirted on them without affecting them in the least.
 This is due to the fact that quartz nei- ther expands nor shrinks mach under changes of temperature.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28

works and breweries. The abundance of coal in the vicinity has been of great importance to the town, and the indus trial development of the population of both has increased very much of late years. ty ......@
 In 1893 the municipalities of Elberfeld and Barmen determined to provide bet ter facilities than then in existence for ntercommuncation. At first they con- templated the erection of an elevated electric railroad similar to the Liver pool overhead railway, but this type was rejected in favor of mono-rail suspended railway, invented by Herr Eugen Langen, an engineer of much distinction, who died in Cologne in 1895. .....- ~
 The idea of suspended cars was sug- gested to Langen by the transport diff faculties of the sugar works which he had inherited. and he accordingly pa- tented method for the conveying of goods by aerial cable-way. Later on he adopted the system for passenger traf- flc, and thus was evolved the very in- genious railway which was opened a few weeks ago in Germany, and which is the only one of it's kind in the world
 Tn choosing a means of communication the authorities had to take many points into consideration. The four towns of Barmen, Elberfeld, Sonnborn and Voh- winkel almost join one another, each merging with the other. The absence
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28

considered. Locomotion may be of three kinds: on the road level, underground, and in the air. Tn London and other cities of the United Kingdom the under ground railway is favored; although Liverpool has followed this example, New York, Berlin, and other places have gone in for an elevated electric railway. From the point of view of space econ omy there is a good deal to be said for suspended mono-rail, for 1t can be con- structed along the streets without in terfering with the traffic, and over riv- CTS and canals without interfering with navigation.
 Doubtless such line down the streets of American cities would seem strange to us, but we would get used to it in time. Considering now the question of express passenger traffic the advocates of the Langen system point out that suspended track could be built over the existing metals, and used exclusively as a high speed line. Experimental runs on the Barmen- -Elb@rfeld railway have been made up to 70-S0 miles an hour, and it is confidently believed that with few notifications 100 miles an hour would easily be obtained
 LOUIS LONG.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28

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 of main streets di5 not allow the build- ing of line on the road level, and as in the Langen system, it was possible to cnstruct certain portions of the line over the river Wupper, which runs through the valley in which the towns lie, this scheme was finally adopted.
 The Mono-Rail Suspended railway was commenced at the close of the year 1896, and at the end of 1898 the first sec tion was ready for the trial runs. Some portion of the line was opened for traffic at the commencement of the year, and in few weeks time the whole line will be declared open with much ceremony.
 The permanent way of the Langen suspended railroad is suspended from tripod girder sections, placed at inter- vals of 30 yards apart.
 A word may be said, in conclusion, with regard to the future of the Lan- gen mono-rail system, and it's possible use in crowded localities may be first
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28

At Johannesburg the discovery of the Pretoria diamond fields was at first re- ceived with pessimism and disbelief. The bona f1des of the new fields was dis credited to such an extent that a lead- ing Rand paper did not scruple to all lege that parcel of 2,000 carats which had mysteriously disappeared from Kimberley a short time before, had re- appeared in the Schuller mine.
 But surprises were in store for the doubters. The year of 1898 saw the pre- cious carbon crystal discovered on the farm Bynestpoort, two hours journey north of Schuller, and on half a dozen other farms; all these discoveries be- ing capped in December, 19o2-the war having disorganized operations for nearly three years-by the locating of the now famous Premier mine on the farm Elandsfontein. The company owning this farm as freehold paid $275,- 900 for it, without being permitted to put srGde or pick into the ground by way o3 prospecting or examination. The capital of the proprietary company is $4o0,000, and the $5 shares are now quoted in Johannesburg at $165. It is only seven months since the mine was found, but there Is sufficient evidence t@-day that there is in this discovery what will probably prove to be the greatest diamond bearing crater ever known. The directors of the Premier mine have had no reason to keep the results since the commencement of op- erations from the public. Although,the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28
RAILWAY IN TIE AIR
Peculiar New Line of Road Just
 Opened in Germany.
The Cars Hang Downward from q ; Steel FrameworI<-Great Speed
 Is One of Its Many :. ~t Advantages.

There has been opened in Germany the first suspended railway the world has ever seen. It runs between Barmen, Elberfeld and Vohwinkel in Germany. The cars are suspended beneath the track, and run on single rail. The pe- culiar character of this unique line mer- its some description, especially as 1t seems to point to 8 possible solution of the problem of express passenger traffic both in congested districts and over long routes.
 Barmen and Elberfeld are two of the most important manufacturing towns in Germany, and are situated on the river Wupper, a tributary of the Rhine. The principal industries of both towns are textile, dyeing and calico printing works. iron foundries, iron and steel manufactories, paper mills, chemical
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-28

leaseholder of the mineral rights of the farm Rietfontein, about 20 miles east of Pretoria, on the Delagoa Bay railway. This particular farm, of which MT. P. Van der Nerve was the lucky owner, was purchased 50 years ago by Oom Piet's father, one of the old Voor- trekkers, for half-a-crown. The size is 10000 acres, as can be verified by reference to the deeds registry in Pre- toria. MT. Schu1ler had prospected in vain for years on this farm for cinnabar and coal One day in August, 1897. his son kicked over an out-heap, from which dazzling crystal rolled out. That crystal was the first diamond dis covered in the Pretoria fields, and Schuller pere has had the reward of his perseverance since then in a very tap gibIe manner.
 During the prospecting of the two dia- Anondiferous pipes discovered on Riet- fontein, and known as the Schuller mines, 3S,012 loads of ground have been washed, producing 12,655 carats of dia- Xnonds, of which portion sold before the war realized close on $50, ,000. The yield was roughly 33 carats to the hun dred loads, which must be considered very satisfactory although the direct ors believe that the actual result was Much greater, as unfortunately during the first stages of working an employe of the company was found to have stolen considerable number of the best qual- ity stones. The first, pipe contained 8 peculiarly hard blue ground which was found to be devoid of lime, and there fore refused to disintegrate as the Kim berley blue does after being exposed on the floors to the atmosphere. This pipe was consequently abandoned. But for tunately a second pipe was discovered within quarter of mile. and has the proper soft blue tested by bore to a depth of 500 feet.