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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

in the water forty aht hours after their formation will have nJsntv of food; and adult mosquitoes will rpear six to eight days after the eggs are laid. Clear weather. with quick evap- oration, interferes with the develop ment of the wrigslers, so that H sea son with plenty of rain. but with sun- shiny, drying weather intervening. is not good mosquito wether,"
 lnasmuch as a generation of mos- qultoes appear to torment man within ten days, at the longest, after the eggs are laid; as a batch laid by fe- male mosquito contains from 200 to 4oo eggs; as from each egg may issue larvae or wriggler which in six days VIII De an adult mosquito on the wing Tit IS to the destruction of the lar vac that attention should be directed. The larvae Is slender organism. white or gray in color, comprising eight seg- ments. The last of these parts is in the form of tube, through which the wrtggler breathes. Although its hab- fiat is the water, it must come to the surface to breathe, therefore its nat ural position is head down and tail, or respiratory tube up. Now, if oil is spread on the surface of a pool inhab- tied by mosquito larvae, the wrigglers are denied access to the air which they must have. Therefore, they drown just as any other air-breathing animal would drown under similar circum- stances.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
WOMEN FAVORED IN TROY.
They Earn There in Factories Higher
 Wages than Men.

Troy, N T., Speclal.-Probably the only place In the world where women earn higher wages than men is in this city. A notable industry here Is the making of collars and cuffs and the laundering of half a state linen. In the factories and laundries are employed something like 10000 girls, who earn from s15 to S25 week. according to their industry and positions, while the heads of certain departments are paid as much as s5 per day. Men are em- ployed in both the collar making and laundering, but as they only attend to the rough work. such as running the machinery, stoking, attending to the engines etc. they receive wages which do not average more than S10 to SIP week all the year round.
 A short time ago the head women of certain factories and laundries in Troy and dance. which was unique in It's way. It took place in the biggest hall in Troy and was attended by about 4.000 girls and some 500 men. Each girl contrib uted $l toward the entertainment. which entitled her to bring a gentle man friend if she chose. Only one girl in eight, however, was able to secure an escort and it Is declared by those who ought to know that some men re- ceived as many as thirty invitations.
 It not infrequently happens that wedding takes place in Troy, and then when the bride comes from one of the big factories or laundries there is a big turnout, for these marriages gene rally take place on Sunday.
 Weddings have taken place in Troy at which 100 bridesmaids have been present. while thirty or forty. is very ordinary number. Fortunately for the Rroom's pocketbook, gifts to the brides maids are not customary, while, on the other hand, 1t Is very unusual for girl to accept an invitation to attend the ceremony without providing some little present
 It is computed that the laundry and factory girls of Troy are paid close on $200, 900 week. or $i0,0o0,000 a year, and so it is not surprising to learn that many of them who are of a saving na-
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ture have comfortable little bank ae- counts to their credit.
DipIomacy Eanily peflned.

water Wellman In Success.
 Diplomacy is a matter of business, though a polite business, hedged about by etiquette and forms and adorned with a few frills. Get behind the lin- gerie and the lingo, and go to the heart of the thing, and you will find 1t very much like the practice of law. The man with the best case ought to win; and when he doesn't, and the man with tS poorer case does win, 1t is because he Is the better man and knows better how to present his case and how to handle 1t. There is an- other popular notion that the Ameri- can diplomatic establishment is weak because our representatives abroad contend with men trained all their lives in the diplomatic school. We have no permanent diplomatic estab- lishment. Our Ambassadors and Min isters V1road are picked from law of- fees, editorial rooms and even count ing rooms. Usually they have had no previous acquaintance with diplomatic work. Yet nine times out of ten they are more than a match for the men they have tu deal with abroad Breadth and strength of character. knowledge of human nature and experience gained in the rough and tumble of life count for quite as much as the other fel- lows dilettante culture. It is the judg- ment of the best observers throughout the world that our successful Ameri- can lawyers and editors easily hold their own against, their competitors.
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AN INCIDENT AT THE LIFE SAVING
 STATION
STATION

I where two strong men could pull them through any sea. But tonight Belle and her father were the only human beings within three miles of those far l ing anxious lights.
 The life saving men were off for their vacation. No provision had been l made for summer storms.
 This, however, was no time for in- action. Without moments hesitation the girl fared an answering light as a signal, and went below to help her father haul out A boat. In five min ute's time they had one afioat and off, headed for the open sea.
 There all was roughness. Short. choppy waves rolled between big un- dulating pillows giving the boat much motion, but allowing little progress. Patiently did they meet rebun and gradually did they leavc the beach be- hind them. Once a sudden slap of wind jerked the boat and caused the girl to drop one oar. It twisted itself in the oar-lock. wormed itself out and slid into darkness. Without comment she picked another from among those in the bottom of the boat and resumed her rowing This contest with the sea was not new to her. She had lived by the water always, and was accustomed to its tricks. Overcoming them exhil- erated her. It called forth the animal strength with which she had becn so generously supplied. She shook back her hair and rowed with unabated viz or. t7.
 The vessel was Danish cruiser that had foundered during the storm and had been slowly sinking for hours. They reached her in time to save the crew and bring them safely to the life saving station.
 Six months afterward the consul from Denmark called at the station and left for Miss Broadway the iron cross of Denmark, awarded to the girl who so courageously risked her life in saving the lives of Danish subjects.
 Relic smiled as she dropped the package into the drawer of the old desk To her this seemed to be mak- ing much ado out of nothing. She had done merely what the circumstances had required of her.
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and other kinds of soil were to be found on Long Island and in the Con necticut Valley. These maps were prettily colored. but without practical value.
 The Bureau of Animal Industry, for which Dr. Salmon got a bill of health the other day, also dips into the Treas ury for hundreds of thousands worth of printers ink. The yearbook of the Department. composed of the bulletins issued by so-called experts, Is another publication that each year costs more than the most pretentious publication put out by publishing houses operated for profit.
 Other departments have also increas- ed their expenditures. but none so rap idly as the Department of Agriculture This is true, notwithstanding the fact that nearly two years ago President Roosevelt issued a general order hold ing down the size of reports. A few officers cut their reports to reasonable dimensions, but the President, by in creasing the production of his own of flee, more than made up the saving achieved by the few who took the or der seriously.
 The Government printing office is one of the most expensively managed insti- tutions in the country, but even with
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bought The Inter Ocean, sunk his fortune in this and was made post master at Chicago. From that place he stepped into the public printery, was public printer five years, was out three years under President Cleveland. was reappointed under Mckinley, and has served nearly eight years since then.
 The alleged governing junta of the printing office, the inner circle that is supposed to be paramount in infiu- ence, Is composed of Captain H. T, Brian, chief clerk; Homer K. Collins. chief engineer. w. H. Tapley, chief electrician and Miss Ora A. Brady. stenographer and clerk to Captain Brain. Miss Brady Is a very capable business woman, and Is credited with knowing more about the big office than anybody else in it. She draws $l,S0O salary. and her father, James H. Brady, Is a '1aboroer" at $3 per diem. The Collins family is perhaps the most striking illustration of the system of nepotism, but the Brians have been thrifty, too. Among members of the Brian family in the office is Mrs Sadie B. Yates, a telephone operator for the private office system.
 Mrs. Yates Is one of the two op- orators to whom the government pays $104 each per month, but the others QOeS most OI the WOTk. deOTBS. bIldh' A son of the chief clerk, was employed in the office while taking a medical course in a Washington institution. He Is now supposed to be practicing in a New York hospital Another son is on the pay roll of the office as an cleo trician. The first Collins in the office was Fred, now dead. He was chief clerk The present head of the family in official influence Is Homer K, chief engineer. A niece was recently ap- pointed to a position in the folding rooms.
 A son. Walter Collins. is assistant superintendent of the Senate folding room. at $2,o00 year A brother-in- law. George A. Cross, is a machinist at S4 day. Edna B. Cross. a niece, holds a position at $2.50 per day.
 The printing office building cost about $2.500,0o0. People who ought to know say it is about as well adapted to its purposes as Westminster Abbey would be for an oil refinery. But even allow ing for all errors in judgment, 1t IS still impossible to understand where all the money could have gone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
THE rEpERAL rRINrERY.
Most wastefuliy Conducted Govern
 ment Inntitution at the Capital.

ment InntitutiOn at the Capuni' wasbington Special to New York Globe.
 The government printing office is the last citadel of the old-fashioned spolis system in, the Washington govern. mental departments. It is the most wastefully conducted of them, and the conduct of the establishment, connived at by Coneressmen and other officials. cost the government at least s2,000.OO0 a year more than 1t should. Nepotism and favoritism prevail, millions are spent annually without competitive bidding. These. and like charges against the biggest print shop Tn the world were the means of bringing about. the, present crisis in the institu- tion. The employees. number about r. 500, and the weekly pay roll in wintor Is about s10o,000. It costs about s7.0o0.- 900 a year to run the office and the consensus of expert, opinion is that 1t ought to cost not more than S5,o0o,0 900. This does not take into account the immense amount of useless printing done. It merely assumes that proper business methods should be applied to the business now done.
 4 new public printer will be named within a very short time, possibly fortnight. In place of. Palmer, who was asked by the President yesterday to re- sign before September, IS. The begin ming of the end. 1t is universally be- lieved. was reported when MT. Palmer demanded the resignation of Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of the job depart ment. A certain supply company of New York reports that 75 per cent of its business Is done with the govern ment, and nearly all that 75 per cent Is with the government printing office It is regarded as practically purchasing agency for the big office, and all efforts at competition were long ago abandon ed.
 Public Printer Palmer Is about 70 years old. He has had a long political career He was Public Printer in Iowa. and made a fortune out of It.. owned and published The Des Moines Register. went to Congress. retired, sold his newspaper and went to Chicago. He
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 Belle Broadway and her father leaned doggedly over the weather 2 eplotched sail that they were clumsily patching.
 The one dingy kerosene lamp cast Eloom rather than light over the brawny. big-built Swedish girl and the aeR-dried old man opposite her. Tho feeble flame f1ared pitifully when gusts of bullying wind shook the ill-fitting windows 1
 A three days storm had been raging 10 continuously that the framework of the house had become well-nigh resist less and suffered itself to be rocked to and fro with the gale.
 The girl and her father talked little As they worked--just worked--persis- teutiy. uninterruptedly. The three days of inaction had made acceptable anything that filled the damp. endless time.
 Even the patching was finisned at last The man stretched himself in his chair and remained sitting. The girl rose stiffiy and went to the door to watch the storm.
 She was unusually tall and we'll pro- portioned, showing strength from the mass of heavy. brown hair to the broad bare feet that were not hid by the gingham skirt that sagged about her ankles.
 She eyed the storm with indifference. Ghc saw little of it's beauty and she sc0rned its threats. Scanning the sky she noticed that the clouds had thinned except along the sea line, then a lump of black hung ominously over the south. Presently a faint light ap- peared against this black and Belle Broadway saw a line of thin red fire rise from the sea.
 Her father from behind her saw 1t koo. Yes, there it rose again and again, clear and sinuous, signal of distress from a ship outside.
 At another time this need have cre- Afed no consternation on the island. The station was we'll supplied with boAts built for weathering the rough lest seas. They were stored just below and could be easily run into the water.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
cesT OF PUBLIC PRINTING.
Tn Last Tea Years it Has QuadrupIe
 Adding to Deficit of 1905.

In Last Ten Years it Has QnadrupIed,
 Adding to Dellcit of 1905. Washington Special to New York World.
 Before he gets the papers pertaining to the cotton leak. and Bureau of Ani- mal Industry charges safely tucked away in pigeon holes, Secretary Wilson will be called upon to undergo another Investigation. This will be by the joint Printing Committee of the two houses of Congress, of which Senator Platt of New York is the chairman.
 Under a resolution of last session that committee is to find out why the cost of Government printing during the last decade has increased from a shade more than $3,000,000 in 1895 to s6.500.0OO in this year of deficits. During that de- rade the printing for the Department of Agriculture has more than quad rupled.
 The committee wants to find out why the printing bills cannot be cut down. There is a belief that the Agriculture Department is wasting hundreds Of thousands of dollars on printing The report of the Bureau of Soils. is is roughly estimated, cost last year abOgt e100, 1000. It consisted not only Of tsx. but maps showing where gravels. loaus
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
The Japanese Mother,u Lullabx.

Sleep, little baby. and wake up to joy Father Is coml2g to dandle his boy. Home comes the soldier, the stranger,
 the rover;
 Safe he comes hither-the bitter war
 over.
 Sleep little baby; there's nothing to Soon will your warrior father be here. bacK from far lands. through mis- chances and danger. Ohseathea .ea and rejoicing comes father. Sleep little baby, how seasons have Since fat father 0,E,r said, graveIy. good-by to what marches and battles, what sieges since the men of Japan went across the Sleep baby sleep; all his perils are Furled are the colors of battle at last. Home comes your father, the stranger. To dandle his baby-the bitter war
 -Wex Jones.
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Invents New LIfe Raft.

MT. Matson, chief steward Of O steamer of the New York and New Haven line, has invented a lifeboat which gives promise of being useful. This boat is 12xSxS rect, is water tight with compartments for food and fresh water. It rests upon the decks on a platform, the latter being sup ported by uprights kept in proper po- sition by pins. By pulling the lever chain the lever turns. the platform is tilted and the raft glides into the water. At it's first trisl twenty five men wero lowered into the raft hy an automatic pulley, and in five minutes after reaching the water the raft Iett the side of the steamer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
FALL WAIST OF BLUFF snK RUFFLE

Congress next session as a champion of the canteen at army posts. Mrs Chaf- fee is a member of the Woman's Army and Navy League, on behalf of which organization she will plead for restora- ton of the canteen. It was abolished in accordance with an act of Congress introduced as a bill by Congressman Littlefield, who Is now in Europe study ing army life there.
 Housemaids in livery are the latest innovation In smart" London houses. One fashionable woman has attired her maids in neat skirts, tight-fitting bod ices, with natty double-breasted waist coats of yellow and black, tiny brass buttons on either side.
 Grand Duke Constantine of Russia is said to be the most cultured Romanon now living He has translated a great deal of Shakespeare into his native tongue and in amateur theatricals has appeared as Hamlet His seven chill dren are all being brought up thor oughly to understand English litera- ture.
 Whitney Tew formerly a banker in Jamestown. N. Y, has rented one of the high priced theaters in London and will produce there an opera written by another banker, Vincent Thomas MT. Few himself will sing the principal role. He is quite a noted singer. hay ing been heard all over the world in oratorio and concert work.
 Sir Edward Elga, the composer, who sailed recently for Europe. will return to this country next spring to serve as one of the conductos of the Cincinnati Hay biennial festival. This Is the re- suit of a series of negotiations conduct ed by the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association. An important clause in the agreement provides that the we'll known English composer is not to ap- pear as conductor elsewhere during this visit.
 Princess Anne Karnega Esterhazy, a connection by marriage of the Carols of Virginia. offers to adopt a bright young American or Englishman and be a real mother to him for $75O,00O. the interest on which is to be hers for life and the principal, at her death. to re- vert to the adopted ones family. The keep the wolf from her royal door. She Is 56 years old. The young man will have the right to call himself Prince Esterhazy.
 Although Joseph Choate the formar Ambassador to England, has been home only seven months. he has had occasion to refuse hattering offers for legal ser vices which would have netted him many thousands of dollars He de- clined to mix in the Philadelphia affair a few months aKo and recently he
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all the fine machinery and unlimited resources 1t cannot do printing at prices low enough to suit the Isthmian' Canal Commission. The Commission gets all its big jobs done in private establish
 ments si.
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Cameron Corbett. M. P, has made over to Glasgow. Scotland, his large estate between Loch Coll and Loch Long, to be used at their pleasure by the people. with the sole provision that no intoxicating liquors be sold on the premises.
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 Mosquito larvae, or wrigglers, as they are termed, require water for their de- velopment. A heavy shower leaves standing water which, when the ar is full of moisture evaporates slow ly. Then. too, the heat fakors r tne growth of the micro-orgahisms on which the larvae feed; wrigglers found
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PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT.

Among those mentioned" in connec- tion with the next election of Presi- dent of the French Republic Is Adolphe Carnot, brother of the President, who was murdered during his term of off, flee.
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IN THE CENTRE OF THE
 SHOPPING DISTRICT.
ABSOLUTELY FIREPHOOF.

The OnIy hotel In Manhattan frOnt- ing on Broadway ard Fifth Avenue.
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wrote a positive letter saying that he
 could not possibly be persuaded to go
 Into the Equitable business, Choate is
 in demand from many quarters, but he has steadfastly refused to entertain proposals. His excuse is pressure of business" For a man worth less than a. million this seems strange to many New Workers,
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Justin Mccarthy, whose own activi- ties as a writer have extended over more than half a century, does not agree with the Respondent note often heard in the discussion of English lit- erature. Tt is true" he says. that we have not the old giants with us. We have much fine talent. but not, perhaps, much real genius. It Is the quiet sea after the pillows. What I mean is that in literary history you have times of great minds and then again times of high average talent rather than one of genius. The average quality of English literature has never. perhaps, been higher, and then people are reading more. When the next flight of great geniuses comes along there will be public such as even Thackeray or Dick ems did not have"
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Charles Frohman once produced a play by Henry Arthur Jones which fail ed so utterly that 1t was withdrawn after one performance. The author cabled next morning: How Is it go- ing?'-Jones. The manager answered.: Tt has gone."-Frohman.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

Housemaids in livery are the latest In smart" London houses. One fashionable. woman has attired her maids in neat skirts, tight-fitting bod ices, with natty double-breasted waist coats of yellow and black, tiny brass buttons on either side