The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
THE LATEST IN RADIUM
BEATS ANYTHING AS AN ANA
 ESTHETrc.
Consul General Richard Guether Writes of Case of Cancer and Its Treatment With
 the New Metal.
Advertiser Bureau,
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s+ Washington, April H.
 Radium is said to beat anything as an anaesthetic; but 1t will hardly obtain much headway for pain-killing when at prevailing prices it would take about nine hundred thousand dollars worth to cure the toothache.
 A letter from Consul General Richard Guenther at Frankfort, Germany, re- marks that Doctor Darier of Paris, de- scribes a case of cancer of the face which, through application of radium. had been rendered painless. Similar rec suits have been obtained by other noted experts He has also found quick and pain-killinR effects of radium in certain diseases of the eye. The influence of ra- dium upon the motor-nerve centers he considers of still greater importance. In two cases of nervous spasms-which oc- cured three or four times a week-weak radfum preparations were applied no the temples for two or three days when the spasms ceased. In 6 case also of pre- sumptive inability of motion, caused by nervous debility. radium effected a com plete cure within three days-probably. however, through suggestion. In acute facial paralysis of entirely new origin. radium effected a complete cure in one day. Samples of weak radie-activity are now said to be rather inexpensive, 50 that other physicians are enabled to verify these resuits-
 Cotton Growing Wild in Colombia.
 United States Consul Alaban c. Sny- der at Bogota, Colombia, writes to the Department of Commerce and Labor:
 The sight of so much cotton growing wild on acres and acres of land un- touched by the hand of man. easily visi- ble and easily accessible from the main waterways of commerce. coupled with the recent excitement in the cotton mar kets of Europe and America, has in- duced the people here to give this mat ter serious thought. A number of arti- cies have recent appeared. all having for their object the creating of a sentiment for cotton cultivation in Colombia"
 Germany and the Isthmian Canal.
 German commercial interests are look ing with great satisfaction to the com- ing Panama canal. according to United States Consul Monaghan. at Chemni'Z. Germany. It is expected that the trade of the Empire with all the countries of the Western coast of South America will receive an impetus when once this great waterway is completed. In 1902 the Elm pire stood second in rank among those countries from which Peru impirted: the total importations from Peru being s, 3,2OO,- roo. surpassed only by England. with s5.- coo, ,050. Since the total imports for Peru for 1902 were SIT, 7,2O0.OO0. Germany views with satisfaction the fact that she shares in a rich sixth of this trade and expects to improve her good position still more through the agency of the new canal. Germany trade publications are giving notice to exporters to be on the lookiut for the coming opportunity.
 Northern Negro Voters Watching.
 VIII the negro voters give Mir. Roose- welt united support in the coming cleo ton? The question is suggested by some remarks made by Register of the Land Office Cohen of New Orleans. Cohen is a creolish-looking darkey who is not at all plea sed with the way Federal patron age has been dispensed in Louisiana. He has been North consulting with sympa- thizers on that matter and also upon the issue of whether the colored voters shall have at the Chicago National RepublI- can convention representation approx imating its importance to the party Cohen insists that his people have been denied their just party rights too long Contestlng delegations will go to Chi cago, and the question will have to be decided fairly or tnefe VIII be some un- calculated results not of the best for the Roosevelt ticket. This thing of ingratI- tude to the colored vote which has been nothing if not Republican must be rec- ognized and rectifed, says Cohen or the Northern colored vote. which counts for something will be heard from in a very significant and effectual fashion. ''It ought not to be forgotten" said Cohen. that such a candidate as Judge Parker would have nothing that could be said against him by the colored voters, and that is something worth considering"
 R. H. Watkins