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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

600 horsepower is already under order
and one of the turbines is to be in
stalled next year. Three 5000 horse
power reciprocating engines directly
connected to generators, had been or
dered before the design for the power
mouse was begun, and because of this
and of the desirablity of obtaining a
current from the plant before the tur-
bine makers could insure delivery. en-
gines OF both types will be used 1t
Is an indication of the concentrated
| power of the turbine that the six ma
chimes to be installed will occupy no
more room than the three ordinary en-
gines of less than one-third of their
power
To protect the steel framework of
the building against vibration caused
by the heavy machines 100 carloads
or cement and masonry were laid as
a special foundation for them to stand
on In gallery to the power room
Is the enormous switchboard that con-
trolls the output of the plant. Here
connection Is made with the several
sub-stattons at various points in the
Metropolitan Railways territory which
are to be used as distributing centers
for serving the more distant lines with
full efficiency
In the next section of the building
there are eighteen huge water-tube
boilers of rated capacity of 57s horse
power each to supply steam for the
power producing engines. The boilers
are In two tiers, ten in one group and
eight in the other. an arrangement
which allows of the most economical
handling OF coal and ashes, for there
Is not coal shovel in the building, all
the work of stokers being done by ma
chinery of the most modern type. A
special water supply has been secured
by running a four-foot main, equipped
with powerIul pumps, llUm the pIanI
to the river.
Several steam railroads approach the
new power house closely and two coal
tracks. one above the other. run into
the upper part of the building.
where there are twin coal pockets.
above the boilers. holding about 10000
tons The daily consumption of fuel
Will, 1t is estimated. be between Is and
20 carloads, enough to make a fair
sized train, and to insure rapid hand
ling facilities are provided for the
quick unloading of any type of freight
carriers.
When the coal is dumped from the
cars 1t falls into, hoppers that feed the
crushers which reduce 1t to the proper
size for use in the great furnaces. The
crushers dispatch 1t into the conveyor
that takes it to the storage pockets
thence, as 1t is required. II passes
through automatic, movable Weighing
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12
PATIENTS MUST BE CURED.
Medicine Men Among the Indians Mus
Die If they Fail to Cure.

Medicine Men Among the Indians Must
Die If they Fail to Cure.
San Francisco Call
With the finding OF the body of
Neophrata, the Weitspekan medicine
woman, in g. lonely canyon fifty miles
north of this city. and more than 300
miles from her native village, ends a
most interesting story. the first chap
ter of which had its beginning two
years ago.
practice in vogue with several Cali
fornia tribes is the Staying of the >medl-
cine man when he shall have lost a
third patient 1t has been the ease,
heretofore, that when such a culmina-
ton of affairs has come about the con-
demned person has delivered himself
to the proper authorities in the tribe
and his death has been sure and speedy.
When Neophrata lost her third pa
tient, two years ago, she determined
to cling to life. and disappeared from
the village. The finding of her body
disclosed the fact that though absent
she was not forgotten. and also that
she had been forced to undergo terri
bile punishment because of her attempt
to evade the penalty of one of the sac
red laws of the tribe.
Death, administered to the medicine
man Is usually swift and painless. In
her case 1t was only after terrible tor
ture that death came. Her execution
ers first bound her hand and foot, so
that she was as helpless as an infant
Then they wound about her neck sey-
eral coils of wet buckskin tying it just
tight enough to set close to the throat
without choking her. She was then
laid on the ground where the sunshine
would fall upon her all day. 1t is prob
able-though this Is not known-that
her execuioners remained to keep watch
till the end came, that no rescue should
be attempted. AS the sun dried the
wet thongs of buckskin they shrank
slowly Tightening about the throat, fl
nally producing. after long and agon-
izing process, death by strangulation.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12
CaIve Pounds a sanutorium.

i
Nine. Emma Calve has founded a SAN
atorium at Caorieres near her residence
in the Aveyron. There nearly sivty,
young girls in need of pure air ana
medical attendance are received every
summer. all the expenses being borne
by the great singer. 1t is reported
that burglars have paid a visit to the
sanatorium and removed everything
they could lay their hands on. Nine
Calve has nevertheless given instruc-
tion for the preparation of the sana-
torium for the reception of the annual
contingent of sick girls.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

hoppers and feed pipes to the mechan-
ical stokers. In case there should be
! a fire in one of the bunkers there Is an
| ingenious arrangement by which the
| coal can be brought off into the con-
veyor and disposed of without injury
to the building. The same cars which
bring the fuel, or other cars on the
same tracks. can be loaded with ashes
from a big ash pocket arranged to dis
| or lower level.
The whole plant is laid out so 1t
| may be extended almost indefinitely as
| the growing needs of the city may re-
| quire. For instance, the room where,
! for the present, there will be Is boil
ers, can accommodate 40, and allow
ance for a large addition to 1t is made
| in the plans. While now there is but
one big smoke stack, 265 feet and IL
| feet in diameter, the complete plans
call for three. and as 1t stands the
whole plant is remarkable example
of economy in space.
The commissioning of the Missouri
River power house of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company marks the
final abandonment of cable cars in the
United States. The cable has held on
longer here than in any other Ameri-
can city principally because of the steep
hills which abound. and which made
electric traction at first impossible
and afterwards very expensive. Now.
however, the trolley has been given
sufficient power to carry it over any
ordinary grade and affords quicker and
better service than could possibly be
provided with the cable, at the same
time greatly reducing the liability of
accident. Furthermore, centralizing
the power producing plant and equip
ping it with the most perfect machine
cry. at the same time introducing the
lightning service to share the cost of
production, has accomplished several
large savings. The item of 100000
for the maintenance of the wire trac-
ton cable of course is entirely elimi-
mated. The use of automatic stokers
and the other methods employed in
handling fuel, which was formerly
hauled by teams to the various cable
houses and fed into the furnaces by
hand, is estimated to cost about one
fifth of what the old method did. An
other economy, which would hardly
occur to the average layman, is
brought about by the condensing en-
gines, with which the engineers esti-
mate the same efficiency can be Sc
cured by the use of rs per cent less
coal.
To overcome the difficulties offered
by the hilliness of some of the street
car routes. the engineers have either
tunneled or graded the lines or chang
ed their course to meet the necessary
limitations. avoiding the stepest hills
altogether and speedily will haSe cleo
trified the whole metropolitan system
of over 200 miles.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

When highly magnified the images
of objects under microscope reach
the eye in a pencil of light so small
that IL is liable to be blurred by de-
fects of the eye lens or floating parti-
cles In the vitreous humor of the eye
In an instrument lately shown the
London Royal Society, w. ]. Gordon
has overcome the difficulty by the use
of second microscope with 1-2-inch
object glass, giving a further magnin-
cation of 100 diameters, the pencil of
light being expanded by an oscillating
ground-glas screen so as to fill the
aperture of this second microscope.
with this instrument a diatom magni-
fed 10000 diameters was shown won
derfully we'll defined and free from
blur. To give an idea of this power,
1t is stated that the same masnifica-
tion would cause the eye of house
fly to cover an area of 312 square feet.
Not all fishes are dumb. but many
species emit sounds and a few give
remarkable concerts. Instances of the
latter have been collected by Henri
Coupin, French author. On the weat-
err coast of Borneo, Prayer one night
heard musical sounds varying from the
resonance of an organ to the soft tones
of an eolian harp; and in the China
Sea- United States naval officer was
struck by an extraordinary blending of
the low notes of an organ, the noise
Of bells and the sounds of a great harp,
the Intensity causing the vessel to
culver. The pogonias or tambours of
the tropical western coast of the At
lantic sometimes congregate about
vessels. producing a maddening chorus.
nf htotfar %
new French apparatus. stores IS liters
of chemically pure oxygen in a 100
gramme tube of agglomerated sodium
peroxide. This little automatic genera
tor gives off a regular current of the
gas at the instant when wanted for re-
storing an asphyxiated person, disin-
fecting, or any other of many uses.
beginning in the dosing of plants
as a means of treating weakness and
disease of the human body has been
made at the agricultural bacteriolog
Zeal station of Vienna. Artifcially pre-
pared foods containing iron salts Of
ten fail to have their intended effects,
because the iron is not completely as
simulated. The purpose of the expert
ments has been to increase the proper
tion of Iron in our natural vegetable
foods. In the first trial spinach was
grown in soil to which hydrate of
iron had been added. and the plants
were found to have taken up seven
times the ordinary percentage of iron,
and this without injury. This iron, in
form free from the defects of the
artificial preparations, is sufficient for
medicinal purposes. other plants
should give as good results, and great
possibilities in the hygienic and me-
dicinal culture of common vegetables
are suggested
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12
c. W. STEGALL s CO.

We have too large stock of Ladies Childrens psn
on our counters This large stock CO. We make
you price tins week that Just little than Won would
pay for the buttons and thread in the manufacture Tf
you doubt the statement and will convince Won of its
10 Dozen Chdrens Drawers made with hemstitched rue val
10 Dozen Chdrens Embroidered rfe Drawers g5o valns
Dozen Chdrens Embroidered Gowns with les. on aa ..S
49c goods ............ ......... 2syc
Dozen Misses Gowns made with pin tucks and donb
lie rows of embroidery; 69c retailer, for 4;sc
Dozen Ladies Drawers made with eight of pin ucs and
deep embroidered ruffle e9c retailer for - 25c
Dozen Ladies $3.50 Lawn Drawers elegantly made and
trimmed 80. soc
Just the climax will give you your choice of of or
Cheme Gowns Skirts display including garments of
as much $3.50 value for :. :. 49,. 81 90
LADIES AND GENTS TIES AND COLLARS.
Is Dozen so inch ties solid brown champagne red blue black
and many very beautiful mixed coors guaranteed all
100 Dozen Ladies' Boys or Gents Midget Collars. .1Oc
ALL LINEN DAMAsK TOWELS AND CLOTHS
so Mill End Lengths of pure auless beached Irish Linen Dam
ask that run IL and yards long would sell in the piece
3einch ALnen Butchers Linen for Shirt Waistsuts worth
Dozen White Satin Damak Towels our price has been 81 Is
2ooA Linen Damask and Huck Towels that are remnants of
lots that sold for 25c and &c. close, for 15c
Our line of $500 and $500 all embroidery yokng will
on sale TOR - .$1.OO
LADIES AND MISSES HOSIERY
Misses Drop Stitch Black Hose =. :. -. =. 15c
Misses Plain Tan Hose =. :. =. :. =. -. ...... Csc
Ladies Drop Stitch Tan Hose 15c
Ladies Drop Stitch Tan Hose ESQ
We will allow you 25c off the price of each coored drop
skirt in stock and also sell you any of wash shirt
waist suits at the low price of Observation-Disclosures. 81 90
No. 60 AlSik Satin Ribbon .......... 1910
72inch Mosquito Canopes Observation-Disclosures 81 90
80 inch Mosquito Canopies -. :. :. :. 81 so
75c and $100 Ladies Percale Wrappers ....... SOC
Any Silk Shirt Waist in house be bought 81
24inch japanese Silk Habuta in White Black Pink or
Blue Soc
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

The family of A. ]. Alfred wish to
express their most heartfelt thanks to
the doctors and nurses of the City In
hrmary-and also to several others in
Montgomery-fo their very kind treat
ment of Mr. Alfred while he was con
fined there previous to his death.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

FOX River Butter Csc
Elgin Creamery Butter. .. .. .. Csc
Country Roll Butter. :. -. Zoe
Our sales on butter increases each
week. We keep 1t fresh, coming each
week.
SMITH & WORNUM,
Phone 6O6,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY

MISUNDERSTANDING
oxYGEN-MEDCATED - A REGULATING
NORTHUMBERLAND NATURE
A LONG-sOUGHT METAL-BURGI
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

UNEEDA BISCUIT.
Always specify them when you order
crackers! You are entitled to the hest,
and they cost NO more than the others
JOS. MANEGOLD & co,
Headquarters Uneeda Biscuit.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

A color scale prepared by J. F. Toch-
er' F. l. c. for classifying hair, repre-
sents 20 dinerent colors of human hair.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

The novel burglar catcher of an In
diana man. intended for stores and
other buildings unoccupied at night,
consists of steel tube closed at one
END by a cork and at the other by a
smaller tube of gunpowder. and con-
tanning formaldehye or other noxious
Vapor. When an electric circuit Is clos
ed by step on a mat or in other wav.
a small wire is heated, firing the pow
der and releasing the formaldehyde.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

Cine of the late new sciences has re-
ceived the name of "Eugenics," and. as
expounded by DIR. Cation. it seeks to
determine the laws governing heredity,
and to apply them to the betterment of
the human race. Part of its work will
be to show the bearing of the decline
Of the birth-rate on national deteriora-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

ton and the conditions that promote
thriving families. 1t will strive to
regulate the passion of love, absurd as
this may seem, and much toward this
Is expected from placing a social ban
on unsuitable marriages. One observer
declares that men and women now Sc
lect life companions less carefully than
they do cashiers and cooks.
Observations in different parts of the
world have suggested that the earth's
atmosphere as whole was made less
transparent than usual in 1902, and
that this popularity disappeared in
1908. Professor Cleveland Able of the
United States Weather Bureau, is seek
ing evidence bearing on the reality Of
this supposed phenomenon, the dates of
its beginning and ending, its extent
and its cause.
new German camera, for secret
use. is concealed in the head of a
cane.
Human sense organs lack the refin-
ed delicacy of the instruments of
science. DR.. Carl Snyder points out
that countless millions of stars are dis
covered by the Photographic plate and
80 N~ANoScPN an pldSe Vi the 0tuUU VlSl-
Die to the eye, and that an object
10000 of an inch in diameter is COM
paratively large in a powerful miscro-
scope although one of 1900 of an inch
is scarcely visible to the unaided eve.
The tread of a fly, which requires a
delicate ear to detect, is magnified by
the microphone to the tramp of cav
airy. The change in temperature of
less than is of degree is not per-
ceived by the most sensitive skin, but
the bolometer registers on a scale an
increase or decrease of a miIlionth of
degree and actually notes the rise
In the temperature of a room when a
match is lighted mile away.
lnVar' the peculiar alloy of Dr. Gull
laume of Germany, contains nickel and
steel In certain proportions. 1t is re-
markable on account of its lack of ex-
pansion on being heated, and 1t NAV
even be so made as to be slightly con-
tracted by heat. 1t is expected to
prove of great value as a means of
avoiding the errors In instruments of
precision hitherto caused by expan-
sion. Measuring apparatus, surveying
apparatus and especially time pieces
Will depend upon it for Improvement.
The novel burglar catcher of an In
diana man. intended for stores and
other buildings unoccupied at night,
consists of steel tube closed at one
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

A new German camera, for secret
use. is concealed in the head of a
cane.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-02-10

ell pretendiente a dichO Certificate co
nOzca bien las materias que mas tarde
ha de ensenar q sus discipulOs, y que
tantO por H. correction como poe 10 Inn
pieza de su trabajO demuestr9 que estA
on aptitud de transmitir sus conOcimi8n'
tos que posee hAbitOs ds limpieza que
mas tarde podran verse refejadOs 81 su
eScusla.
Tn jOven que sin Ia preparation me-
cesaria So preseGta a ex tmen, 1ndlSp8n
sablemente ha de scr desaprObadO; parO
81 de antemano go le ha hech0 Greer cue
cOnOce a fOnd0 las asignaturas que su
clara inteligencia su memOria pOdran
suplir las defciencias de su preparation,
SO le dan asi seguridadeS de eXitO, es
clarO que su fracasO ha de descOrazo
narles, a no ser que, como con tanta
frecuencia Ocurre, supOnga en el Trl'
bunal que iuZg0 sus trabajOs, va una
mala inte 'igeDcia al marcar los cuader'
nos, va demasiada s6yeridad una NAL
querencia hacia Ell que IL Junta esta
muy lejos de sentir, pueS casi en- su to-
talidad los examinadOs le son cOmpleta'
mente descOnocidOs. ReprObado su exa'
men despues de buscar alguna excu
sa, por infundada que ella sea, para
e1plicar su fracasO, decide examinars8
d. nuevo; perO creyendO estar bien Ell
dos tres de- las asigDaturas las descui-
da hasta el ultimo momentO, deiicando
todo ell tempo al estudio de aquellas 60
que fracaso, de donde resuIta que en- los
nuevOs examanes es reprObadO en- las
primeras, asi cOntiuua, de eX5men en-
ex4men, hasta que aburridO desiste de su
empeno.
HablamOs solo dc aquellOs cue hon
radamente Green estar On aptitud pare
obtener su certifcado, por4ue no que
remOs referirnOs para nada los que
Ua2a q GER 81 pdSd9o, III a aquellOs que
aun suponen que SO les debe cOnceder
Ell certifcadO como Ob1'a de ca7Tdad,
sin comprender que la verdadera Oora
de carload consiste en- impedir que Gin
cusnta sesenta ninos pierdan su ITEM
po lastimosamente entregadOs a I'm ig'
norante que NADIA podra ensenarles,
puesto que ell mismO deScOnoce las ma
terias que a sus discfpulos deberia ex
plicar.
La ca,ifcaci6n de los ex3menes SO
hace en<la fOrma siguiente: CompuestO
el Tribunal de tres persOnas elegidas
p0r ell Comisionado tan pronto como SO
reciben los trabajos de los aspirantes,
cada una de elias Sc encarga de exami-
mar los correspondence dos de las
seis asignaturas que la Icy exige, tenien-
do en- cuenta al hacerlo Ell tantO por cien'
to senaladO de antemano por ell Depar'
tamento. Este tant0 pOr cientO es in
variablemente ell 90 On cada ana de las
seis asignaturas, el Is como promedio
total, pudiendo ell Comisionado rebajar
este ultimo 81 necesario 10 creyere. CIa
70 esta que 81 al examinar un cuaderno
SO ve que este no alcanZa los 90 puntos,
al mOmentO son retiradOs los demas cua
dernos del aspirante, pues serla perder
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-02-10
DEPARTAMENTO
DE EDUCACION
SOBRE EXAMINES

Nadie que haya visto los cuastiO
| nariOs presentadOs los aspirantes al
titulO de maestro en- los examenes cele
bradOs el dia 22 del pasadO mos de Enc
rO, p0dra negar que las preguntas eran
bien faciles. Ademas, el Tribunal cali
fcadOr trato do ser 10 mas beDignO po
sibla al examinar los trabajOs. A p3sar
de este, de los 238 que SO pres9ntarOn
ex4men, nejor dichO, 237, pues unO
de eliOs fuG expulsadO On Manati p0r ira
tratar de hablar con el que tenia su
lado, solo Is alcanzarOn ell prOmediO que
ell DepartamentO eXige.
La causa de tan pObre reSultadO no
fue Otra que la falta de preparation de
los examinadOs, ninos en- su mayOria que
aun no tienen terminada la instruction
primaria, pues no de Otr0 m0do puede
explicarse ell absolute desconocimiento
que en- sus trabajos demostraron de re
glas gramaticales tan sencillas como las
de Ia acentuaci0u OrtOgraf1ca y el usO de-
las letras mayuscu;as; dos de las pre-
guntas que comprendla el prOgrama de
idiOma espanOl \ no menOs deplOrable
fue ell reSultadO en- cuantO la redac'
cion de una carta q Ia de una breve
composition referente unO de los tres
temas que SO les prOpOnia. Con tOda YER
dad puede decirse que escasamente un
80 pOr 100 de los que aspirab ban al titu
10 de maestro tienen ell nee asari0 como
cimiento de nuestro idioma para poder
10 eDsenar- El tant0 pOr cientO de los
que cOnocen la G9ografla es quizas algO
mas bajO que ell indicadO antes. y tai
vez llegue a un, 40 pOr 100 81 de aque
Hos quienes SO les podria c0nfiar la
ensenanZa de la Historic. En- las Otras
asignaturas So nota, On general, IN pro
nd a orr
con ell ObtenidO en- los examenes de alO
anteriores: perO no tant0 como tenia'
mos derech0 esperar. DignO de no
tarse es. ademas, ell hechO de que mu
chos ignOransen quien es en- Ia actua'
lidad ell GobernadOr de la Isla como
estan formadas las Camaras legislativas,
y de que solo unos 20 pudiesen decir
quien es ell Presidente del Tribunal Su'
premO de Justicia, cargo que ha sidO
dado pOr los examinadOs a mnltitud de
personals, tantOs puertOrriquenOs como
americanOs.
Si los padres Y los maestros pensa'
sen en- el perjuiciO que sus hijOs
sus educandOs causan permiti6ndOles to-
mar parte en- esOs examenes sin tener Ia
preparation sufciente, fe que ell re-
sultado seria muy distinto. Porque NO
basta poseer una viva inteigencia una
feliz memoria, 0 descollar sobre sus con
discipuIos, como no es tampoco suf
ciente ell tener un conocimiento super
fetal de las asignaturas objeto del exa'
men para obtener ell Certificate de macs
tro. Hoy, que las iDfiuencias no juegan
On ellos ningun papel y que desechada
ha sido la antigua idea de que al macs
tro rural le basta conOcer medianamen'
te las cuatro reglas de Ia Aritmetica, la
lectura y Ia escritura, es necesariO que