The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
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 Some people who have been reading son Satan's Mount" the novel by Dwight Triton. which has just been is- sued, believe they can sec, in the char acters of the story, thinly disguised we'll known personages who are today in the glare of the worlds lime light. One writer has called the Phillip Craig" of the book a fictitious John Mitchell: This is the character for whom place is made in the Presidents Cabinet by cre- ating the Department ot Industry. Oth- CTS sec in U. P. Norton" the world-re- nownod financier of the novel, J. Pierpont Morgan. There is,a sort of Rothschild in k'tOn sSatan's Mount who is called Count Sanstrom. There are also char acter5 in whom some recognize Senator Platt, cx-President Cleveland, Senator Hoar and even President Roosevelt.
 Readers throughout the country are dis- cussing a most remarkable piece of fic- tion which has recently appeared in Lip pincott's Magazine and which will prob- , ably be published in book form. It Is called Julian Meidohla. We are informed that it is the second novel by it's au- thor, Miss Mary Moss, a resident of a suburb of Philadelphia. To the Gentle the story reveals the thrice-barred gates of Jewish life. Julian Meldohla' has the fascination of story whi ch convinces in every line without making too obvi- ous its purpose, and impresses upon the reader something more than Is conveyed immediately by its words. In 1t we feel the impact of the Jewish idea upon the Christian world in a tangible and per- sonal way. and follow the story with impatient interest until the final moment when Edith feels the Gall of blood"
 President Lincolns view of negro suf- frage is strikingly emphasized in a VOL tune recently published called 1.-The True Abraham Lincoln" MT. Curtis, the au- thor quotes the following paragraph from Lincoln's last speech, delivered from window of the White House during the evening of April H. 1865, in response to a serenade:
 "It is also unsatisfactory to some that the election franchise Is not given to the colored man. I would myself that it were now conferred on the very intel lgent and those who have served our cause as soldiers" And he adds: We have the testimony of members of the Cabinet that the question of suffrage was s several times discussed and that Lincoln and Mir. Chase differed as to the consti- tutional authority and limitations in the matter MT. Chase held that Congress had the right and power to enact such laws for the government of the people of the States lately in rebellion as might be deemed expedent to the public safe- ty. including the bestowal of suffrage up on the negroes; but Lincoln held that A the latter right rested exclusively with the States In his amnesty proclama- ton of December 8. 1883, he said that any provision by which the States shall pro- vide for the education and the welfare of the "Laboring handless and home less class shall not be objected to by the National Executive" and MT. Usher his Secretary of the Interior. 1ays: From all that could be gathered by those who observed his conduct in those times, tt seemed his hope that the people in the Insurgent States, upon .xercisng author ity under the Constitution and laws of the United States, would find 1t neces- Eary to make suitable provision. not only for the education of the freedmen, but aso for their acquisition of property and security in its possession. and to secure that would find it necessary and expedi- s ent to bestow suffrage rights upon them, in some degree, at least
 Progressive in all departments of life it is not surprising that the Japanese should have enlisted in the war on the mosquito One does not readily associ- ate the Land of Flowers with the pestiferous buzzer that afflicts Western civilization. but the fact is that Japan Is vicfimized by several varieties of mos uuitoes, at least one of which Is of the disease inocplating species. For some time city and town governments have been experimenting in mosquito destruc- tion. Recently copy of Mosquitoes.
 by Dr. l.. O. Howard, of the U. s. De- partment of Agriculture, the foremost liv- ing authority on the development and life habits of these insects. found its way to Tokio A progressive citizen read it and sent word to a fellow countryman who Is In this country on semi-oficial errand, that hero was the thing Japan