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Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
bIsONfOSEIISIKN TOCT NID
TfE HUMAN BOOT


ing feat in itself. Getting at the ap-
proximate walking attitude of the
monster in life was likewise a vexed
problem. This was rendered especially
difficult by the fact that no anatomical
or structural resemblance for a guide
could be found among any extinct or
modern animals.
The amphibous dinosaurs to which
this animal belongs disappeared from
the earth long before the dawn of the
age of mammals and their nearest rela-
tives, lizards, crocodiles, etc, are so
remote from them in their proportions
and habits that they are but little help
in posing the limbs and other parts of
the body Of the brontosaurus.
DIR. W. D. Matthew, associate cura-
tor, together with Mr.. Granger, the dis
coverer, adopted the following unique
and satisfactory method: dissection
was made of the limbs of alligators
and other reptiles and the position.
size and action of the principal muscles
were carefully worked out. Then the
corresponding bones of the brontosau-
rus were studied and the position and
size of the attachments of similar
muscles were marked out, so far as
they could be recognized from the
scars and processes preserved on the
bones.
Before determining their final posi-
tion the bones were sketched on large
sheets of drawing paper which were
hung side by side with the suspended
limbs under the experimental scaf-
folding The brontosaurus' limbs were
then temporarily posed and the posi-
tion and size of each muscle repre-
scented by broad strip of paper ex-
tending from tip to base. The action
and play of the muscles on the limbs
of the brontosaurus could be studied
and the bones adjusted until me-
chanically correct pose was reached.
The limbs -'ere then finally set.
The critical studies of the skeleton
made by Professor Osborn and his stan
give some interesting points as to the
peculiar structure and life habits of
the great beast. In proportions ana
appearance the brontosaurus was quite
unlike any living animal. 1t had a
long, thick tail, like the lizards; long,
flexible neck, like an ostrich; thick,
short, slabsided body; straight, mas
sive. postlike limbs, and a remarkably
small head for it's huge size. The ribs,
limb bones and tail bones are excep-
tionally solid and heavy. The vertebrae
of the back and neck and the SKULL on
the contrary, are constructed so as to
combine the maximum of strength
with the minimum of weight. They
contain an elaborate system of braces
and buttresses of thin, bony plates
connecting the broad articulating sur
faces and muscular attachments, all
the bone between these thin plates be-
ing followed into series of air cavi-
ties.
The contrast between the massive
structure of the rib bones, limbs and
tail. and the light construction of the
backbone, neck and skull suggests
that the animal lived chiefly in shall
low water and waded about, feeding
on the abundant soft vegetation on the
bottom and pretty much out of reach
of the carnivorous dinosaurs, which
We're it's principal enemies. The long
neck enabled the animal to wade 10
a considerable depth, where 1t might
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02

Bacon. The prisoner pleaded for inter
ference in his case, because of his
claims of relationship to Bacon. The
solicitor, always ready with a reply,
answered: II have no proof of our re-
lationship. You are doubtless mista-
ken, At any rate. the execution must
take place. for only in that way can
matters be set right. Hogg is not
Bacon until it is dead" 1t is said the
prisoner laughed in spite of himself.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02

his art, which is forcibly shown in his
latest work.
Almost equaling in Importance the
discovery of the animal itself was the
supreme task of mounting the great
leviathan in a natural walking posi-
tion. This, in the absence of any au-
thoritative model or diagram, had to
be an absolutely original creation,
which was ingeniously thought and
worked out by Prof. Osborn and his
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
A Point Of Law

During Queen Victoria's reign one of
the solicitors of the queen who had
Jurisdiction over capital cases hap
pened to be a man named Bacon BY
curious chance a man named Hogg
was condemned to death under his
jurisdiction. The day before the exe-
cution Hogg sent for his executioner.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
A Valuable Investment

Here is still another Peekskill story.
which, needless to say is vouched for,
as are all such tales, by Senator De-
pew. A farmer from the back country
was visiting a store in Peekskill The
storekeeper urged him to buy a bicycle.
It's advantages were enumerated.
But ia sooner put that money into
a cow" said the farmer,
but Just think" said the store
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
Ths pIsappolnted RIshop

Every one has heard of the famous
Banbury bun celebrated in song and
story During recent visit to Eng
land, Bishop Doane. so the story runs.
stopped for few minutes at Banbury.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02

keeper, "how foolish you would look
riding about town on cow"
"Well, yes" said the farmer; 'but
no more foolish, l reckon, than I'd
look milking a bicycle"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
A nu,rssrNC, .HN DIsGuIsE.

Again the Montgomery Board of Health declares that another day has passed without the development here of @ single case of yellow fever or of suspicious case. The imported case. isolated out in the country. Is free of fever and will soon be up and around. All this, of course. is a cause for congratulation.
 A more important ground of satis- faction was the entire serenity of the people of Montgomery yesterday. There was no excitement whatever. Very few people left the city, in fact the departures were under the nor maj for the season. The more inflam- mable element left on Wednesday, and they were only small percentage of the population. If the bulk of those had remained over a day. they would have recovered from their panic, and would not have left.
 It is very likely that the present scare will prove a blessing in disguise The indications are that 1t Is about to be thoroughly demonstrated that Montgomery can have a case of import ed fever without any danger; that the disease will not spread here. so &C., curate is the present knowledge of 1t. and so efncient is our Board of Health in its preventive methods. Of course, this scare has worked a hardship to almost every line of business. It is serious disadvantage and will cost Montgomery considerable lot of money. But this temporary hardship will very probably prove a permanent advantage. and the financial loss may turn out to be a superb investment. The tendency of the people. not only in Montgomery, but in the state at large. to Q stampede on the mention of the disease bids fair to be forever overcome. That is a consummation most devoutly to be wished.
 In all probability Montgomery's ex- perience will be duplicated many times over in other Southern cities this sea- son, and the rebuilt will be a complete delivery of the whole South from the abject thraldom to fear and panic that has existed on this subject for 50 many years. The people are to be convinced at their own doors that modern science has solved the yellow fever problem. and that it's future dangers can be minimized. There will after this year be no more panic over yellow fever than over smallpox or scarlet fever. All three are to be dreaded, but the mystery of the fever will be gone. and all will know absolutely that it can be avoided just as easily as the other two diseases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
The unrepentnnt suindIer.

Commander Takeshita, the Japan naval attache at Washington, accordi..., to The San Antonio Express. said at d dinner, anent an officer who had broken
 He who once dishonors himself will be always dishonorable. do not be- lieve in repentance.I do not believe that we sin and become good agaiii Sin leaves us ineradically soiled.
 Hence, 1t Is futile to try to reform rascals and criminals. Covertly or openly. as the mood strikes them, these men answer our admonitions as the swindler answered the Yokohama judge.
 The swindler had come. footsore and weary, to the cottage of a poor man. There he had been entertained a month without payment. Finally. departing. he had borrowed the entire savings of the household that had sheltered him. pretending that with this money for lawyer hire, he would bo able 10 get an inheritance that had been withheld from him.
 So the hospitable poor man gave the swindler all his savings. and that was the end of the swndler, of course. But he was caught by the police Il few months later, and at his trial he was proved guilty of having swindled his benefdctOr of his modest hoard
 The judge, before sentencing the swindler, said to him, reproachfully:
 How could you be so base as to swindle those honest folk who put con- fidence In your
 The swindler with q smile replied
 Your honor, I'll make 1t worth your while If you'll tell me how to swindie those who don't put confidence in ne. ,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
EVER TREAT YOU so.
Coffee Acts the Jonah and VIII Come
 Up.

A clergyman who pursues his noble calling in a country parish in Iowa, tells of his coffee experience:
 My wife and I used coffee regularly for breakfast. frequently for dinner and occasionally for supper-always the very best quality-package coffee never could find a place on our table
 Tn the spring of 1896 my wife was taken with violent vomiting which we had great difficulty in stopping.
 Tt seemed to come from coffee drink ing but we could not decide.
 Tn the following July, however, she was attacked a second time by the vom- iting I was away from home filling an appointment. at the time, and on my re- turn I found her very low; she had lit- orally vomited herself almost to death, and 1t took some days to quiet the trouble and restore her stomach
 T had also experienced the same trouble, but not so violently, and had relieved it, each time. by a resort to medicine.
 But my wife's second attack satisfied me that the use of coffee was al the bottom of our troubles, and so we stop ped 1t forthwith and took on Postum Food Coffee. The old symptoms of dis ease disappeared and during the nine years that we have been using Postum instead of coffee we have never had a recurrence of the vomiting. We never weary of Postum. to which we know we owe our good health. This Is a simple statement of facts" Name given by Postum Company. Battle Creek. Mich.
 Read the little book, 'The Road to Wellville," in each pkg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04


 news prfty scarse this Weak
 Seth Williams has giv his House a new cote of white-wash. the Hollow is gitting reel Citified let the Eagle screen. ss~.
 Young miss Perkins from Mont. is visiting old miss Perkins. Jo Dodge Sundayed in our midst yes terday MT. Jameses boy Bill says Jo paved him a nickel for a Shine. An. there. Jo-who's the gal?
 Born, Tuesday mornin at ate thirty to Mir Cy Thomsuns Brindle Cow. a spotted Calf. Muther and Calf both doing well.
 sam Capers spent forty cents on ci- gars alone last wensday settin up the boys uv the nayborhood 1t was his short about Sam. ~-
 considerable excitement wus created in our midst Sunday by the arrival In our little hamlett of Dude from Aunt Manly Little covered her face with her hans and run in the House she was afraid he had on nuthtn but his socks. White Shoes are mennase. health of Community not so good. better than 1t was but not so well as 1t has ben. @
 Alex Raines is on the sick lis:. Marian Raines is also on the sick list -+...:. ...>s .. ....>.. ..-..- Fanny and Ella Raines also Tom and Walter Raincs are on the sick list
 Peers like 1t never Raines but 1t pores. (Haw, naw.1
 ther I've wrote up all my paper and aint told you about what Mandy did. ''0'' UNCLE ST
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
EetterS tc tbs Gdftor
Suggest. Staying mt Home.

Editor The Advertiser:
 That was a timely suggestion from lady about the flower vases at the cemeteries. Let every one put his wits to work In the same way and our dangerous enemy, the mosquito. will soon disappear.
 If the flat tin roofs and gutters were inspected. I am sure little pools of water would be found where the mos quito breeds At the back premises of the eating houses and the garbage heaps, 1 doubt not, tin cans containing water can be found.
 1 am sure something is happening to the mosquito. I have been rooming for six summers in the heart of the business section. I have been attack ed by swarms of the hungry "bastes" as soon as I was from under the net in the morning. and during the day they greatly annoyed me. But this summer their number is greatly re- duced.
 The mosquito theory of the cause of the fever greatly simplifies matters, if true, and there seems little doubt of its correctness. Unless they wish to spend a few weeks out of the city any way, I see no occasion in the world for q citizen leaving, Montgomery.
 For it's moral effect, would 1t not be best for all to remain at home this summer? The great majority are far more comfortable at their homes than await is only sort of fad with many to go somewhere a little while in the summer They would serve them selves just as well and perform a patriotic act to their city by remaining at home. w. K. C.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
The Illinois Method of Dispensing

Milwaukee Free Press
 The State of Illinois sells reprives. good for one month, for s1.100. special terms. probably. for two and three months.
 Johann Hoch. bgamist and murderer hang last Friday at high noon. Hoch. insisting that he Is innocent wanted to take an appeal to the Supreme Court, put s,no was unable to & do it nst nasmg ,oa. H6t there was $l.000 to be provided by someone. An unknown" presented check for $500, certified to be good, to the district attorney The pot was still $500 shy. and 1t was almost noon Coy ernor Deneen was in Springfield. ready to grant the reprieve which was to give but refusing to act unless Hook could show the dough-" and Hoch was $500 short. He was to be hung last Friday, not because he had killed one of his could not raise $500. The. Govern.r would not wait an hour. Hoch was told to Put or shut & nGa he ing but tears and mysteries to ofer. and those do not go d great way in a cold business transaction. FlnSlly, WItn he deserved. a lawyer appeared With a check for the wanting five hundred. The district attorney would take no manded the cash. A frantic rush to the bank proved the check to be good, and the money was produced. The Govern or was informed by a woman reporter who tainted away when she reported the interview. Hook was saved for month.
 When Hoch was told of his good luck he made a prayer of thanksgiving. kneeiing about him were the sherin. tears a-streaming. and a lot of other people, mostly women, all on the verge of hysterical collapse.
 There was probably never another such travesty on justice. Hoch is poor man. He has had no other source of revenue for years except widows and old maids with a few hundred dollars each and a longing to get married And he has lived up to his income Ills life has been-not one continued honey noon but series of honeymoons. which anybody who has tried even one knows to be expensive.
 He has a theory-which he has not kept to himself-that only the rich can get justice" justice. In his opinion. meaning an escape from justice Get money and buy justice" Is what he told his attorney during the anxious days he was waiting for 12 o'clock, July 2s. This was his theory, that if a man has money he can do as he will with the courts and with those who execute their decrees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
This is the theory of many moro than

Thi. is the theory of many moro than na . p.:s sss % ,s s9 ,s: s..sss 4ss sss obtain justice? This: she has . con watch guarding him to prevent him 1S WSo pEotssts peoS % his innocence. and esSs sSs tells him--as if to mock him.-that If he will put up a sum of money eleven times ass' IS Highest eosr ,S. he doesn't do this seeming impossible thing. he must hang; There are of. lenses that are punishable under the at the discretion of the court. In HI. nois the penalty for murder is hanging or the payment of sl:ioo.. st the dIscrss,; they raise the money the State gives the condemned man another chance; to do what? Prove that he is innocent. If they fail to raise the money the man hangs. It Is not question of guilt o' innocence. It is not matter of justice u.1o0. To man with ,on Pienty of money , that would possibly save his life would be a small matter. When the choice l. between hanging and spending ones good money the good money ,S ,nn won1d so Hoch was. and has smoney. what can be said of his situation:
 Hoch was as much entitled to take HIS case tO tQe NOuit uo II nv had million dollars. If he has a req sonable ground for appeal he is entitled to appeal, whether he Is millionaire. like Senator Mitchell. or a multi-mil- llonaire, like Senator Clark, or a saloon keeping alderman like MT. Murphy. If he has no ground for appeal. his appeal should be denied. much money or no money. For how can the State have right to kill a man who has no money whom 1t would give further chance for his life if he can raise s1.1oo? How can it say to him: Unless you have the price" to prove that you are inno- cent you hang at f2 m. of the 2sth July?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
HASTY LEGISLATION.

The State of Arkansas seems in a fair way to have an unpleasant reminder of the evils resulting from nasty and dras- tic legislation. That State has enacted an "anti-trust law" which, as we un- derstand its provisions. bars any for eign fire insurance company from hay ing an office or an agent in the State. Extensive inquiries made by the news papers have brought out the informa- tion that the home companies cannot carry one-half the insurance demanded by the people, especially in the larger cities. The natural result will be that much property must go uninsured or else the merchants and other large in surers will do business by mail with foreign companies which own no prop erty in the State and pay no license or other taxes. In short, thousands of dollars will annually be sent out of the State and paid to men and corpor- ations who have no interests in Ar kansas and contribute nothing to the States income and revenue.
 The theory that money should be kept and expended at home, as far as 1t Is possible to do so. is a good one. but there is such thing as overdoing any business and this appears to be case in point. If the law had been so fram- ed as to take effect two, three or more years in the future. there might have been time for home companies to be organised of sufficient strength and capital to take all the insurance busi- ness of the State. but the law went into effect almost at once and already the Supreme Court has upheld it. As consequence people must take large risks with insufficient insurance or help to enrich the foreign companies.
 The Little Rock Democrat declares that in place of freeing Arkansas from the iniquitous trusts, the law has driven out large lines of capital and placed the business interests at the mercy of foreign corporations who. under the law. cannot have offices in Arkansas. and consequently pay no taxes to the State, while getting the same business on a silver platter and at their own prices" The same paper urges the At torney General to enforce the law i'm partially and relentlessly as the surest means of bringing the State to its senses. It will doubtless come to its in the meantime many thousands of dol lars will have been paid for nasty experiment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
BIRMINGHAM's NERVES GETTING
 STEADIER.


 We are gald to note a glimmer of hope for a return of sanity to Bir- mingham
 On Wednesday The News insisted upon quarantine against Montgom- cry and commended the Birmingham authorities for their promptness. Yes terday the Board of Health there re- fused to acknowledge It's blunder, but The News has the following para graph:
 There is no occasion for alarm in Birmingham over the yellow fever situation in New Orleans. There Is little probability of the disease com. ing here. and even if case should struggle in 1t wouldn't spread in this high altitude and healthful region. Besides there Is every reason to be- lieve science will stamp out the dis ease in New Orleans and elsewhere where 1t exists before frost.
 It seems likely that after The News breathes the pure air of its healthful region few days more, its nerves may be steady enough to realize that there is no occasion for alarm over Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
auEsADA IN CONFERENCE.
Discusses Cuban Rice Duties with Act-
 ing Secretary Adec. ~


 Washington, Aug. S.-Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minister had a conference with Acting Secretary of State Adee today respecting the prospects for suc- cessful legislation by the Cuban Con- gress in the direction of increasing the rice duties It Is understood that the pending bill upon that subject which has passed the lower house Is meeting with indifferent success In the Senate and the authorities here feel concerned at the prospect of an adjournment of Cuban Congress without enactlng this measure.
 The importing interest supplying Cuba with East Indian rice are said to be pressing the bin and have been successful 1t is claimed. in influencing adversely to the bill certain Senators upon whose support the government has counted. An increase of the rice duties in general would. in the view of the State Department, rebound con siderably 10 the advantage 10 the rice growers of the American Southern States, whose present advantages un- der the reciprocity treaty would be substantially increased in the Cuban trade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
A Race of stalwarts.

IUnuDfl NtttITVdI fVVSS- ---------
 The study of the improvement os the hum2r race by selected breeding has In recent times been dignifed by science The glib argument is applied that as we improve the race of race horses by selection of parents, we might produce similar effects by super vising human marriages. There are several fallacies in this reasoning. We are able to breed fast race horses be- cause we want fast race-horses; put the difficulty is that we do not know what ideal of man we should aim at.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-04
THE TIME MAY COME.

The following brilliant effusion is from the cool brain and steady nerve of Birmingham paper-The Age has for years boasted of being yellow fever proof:
 How or where Minnehest took the fever no one seems to know. Did he pass through New Orleans? Did he reach Montgomery via Vicksburg and Jackson? The Montgomery Advertiser is silent on those points.
 pr. Sanders. State Health Officer. goes out of his way to declare that mo occasion whatever exists for the decla- ration of quarantine against Montgom- cry on account of the wandering lum- Der camp man. But Health Officer Sanders was not appointed to decide such questions, and Mayor Ward has ordered an emergency quarantine pend ing a clearing up and effects of the Minnehett case. .--a.
 The AEe-Herald may be brilliant enough to extract the facts out of the wandering lumber man. who was suc- cessful in outwittins various auaran- tine officers and getting in here. But so far tho Montgomery authorities have not been able to do so, and The Adver- tiser Is not c mind-reader.
 Our very clear-headed contemporary is certainly wrong in its judgment that the State Health Officer has gone out of his way to state his opinion in the matter of quarantine against Montgom- cry. For many years 1t has been the special province of the State Health Of ficer to go to every point where report ed danger existed, in or out of the State, and to give advice on the subject-ad- vice that has been almost invariably followed by Health Boards. Governors and minor executives.
 It is unfortunate that Birmingham has gotten into such a state of panic that she has paid no attention to Dr. Sanders's advice. In a week or two a wondering lumberman may slide into Birmingham and develop a case. and If her authorities are brave enough to acknowledge the fact and if Dr. San ders advises the rest of the State not to quarantine. In all probability The Age-Herald may be calm and cool enough to see the wisdom of the State Health Ohicer.