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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
nEGRoEs MD coNsuMprIoN.

The December number of The South ern workman. a magazine published at Hampton Va, has very interesting and suggestive article on "the Negro and the Tubercule Bacillus" with dia- grams Showing the comparative mor- tality of negroes and whites from tu- bercuiosfs. The suggestive feature Is that during the slavcfy period the deaths were nearly equal, but immc- diatcly following emancipation the mortality among negroes was vastly increased. Thus, in the period iron, 1865 to 1S7F tho difference was little above two to one: in the next decade 1t was over two and one-half to one: in the next It was over three and half to one. and in 1900 the proportion was 19o whites to 675 colored.
 Another somewhat surprising show ing is that among children under lo years of age the deaths among the colored population was seven and two- third times that among the whites. Another diagram shows the relative mortality in cities having more than %, 900 negro population. In this com parativc table Memphis shows the low est proportion of negroes to whltes' being slightly over two to one. while Charleston shows little over three and one-half colored to one white There IS some variation in other cities, but lat- itude apparently has little to do with it. for Chicago and Philadelphia show a greater contrast than New Orleans.
 When it comes to Assigning reasons for this great disparity the writer Is not disposed to be positive but in- clines to the opinion that it is caused partly by the crowding of negroes to the cities, and largely by the unsani- tary conditions under which they live in the cities. We do not think there need be any doubt as to the latter proposition. Modern research and in- vestigation seems to have fully cstap- lished two facts with regard to tu- bercuIosis: one. that 1t is communities ble. and the other that its spread IS vastly increased by crowded and un- sanitary living. In all the large cit- les, as is we'll known, negroes live in tenements or dwellings and pay little attention to sanitation. As an inevitable result lung diseases spread rapidly and are vastly more fatal than would be the case under favorable conditions and modes of life. The remedy for these conditions is not so apparent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
MT. Hearst,s Ambition.

Birmingham Age-Herald
 The Br ooklyn Eagle is not bit yell Jewish. and its statements can be &C., cepted with every assurance of straight forwardness. It says MT. Hearst pro- poses to run for Governor of New York next year in precisely the same man. rler that he ran for Mayor of New York City. He will by petition cause his name to be put on the official ballot, seeking the support of neither of the big parties. and he will stand or fall by the result
 If elected Governor of New York, he will attempt as final ambition to sweep the country as a candidate for President in 1908.
 It is plain that this program will bring great complications into the New York Campaign of next year, for the Hearst vote ccmes as largely from the Republican as from the Democratic Party. His race for Governor will be remarkable one. and it will not de- pend at all upon the pending recount of the vote for Mayor.
 The Hearst wave is a specialization of radicalism and discomfort which have long been smouldering in this country. These elements will break through the crust of party and con- servatism if Mir Hearst carries the great State of New York next year. If he does, the campaign of 1908 will be the most remarkable the country has ever known, for it will mean that new party alignments and new forces are to be reckoned with hereafter in this country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
By All Mean. Add Another story.

Mobile Register. o
 The United States Government has long outgrown its property possessions here In Mobile. When tha custom house and postoffice building was built before the war it was thought to be of pacity would never be taxed, and, for long time 1t was not taxed; but the growth of Mobiles commerce and the general increase of business have made such demands upon the several de- partments of the Federal service that the building has become too small. The United States engineers moved out good number of years ago. The weather bureau has recently taken up very much cramped for space, the busi- ness of the office having doubled in recent years. There are two days of remedying the trouble. One Is for the Government to replace the present building with larger one, and the other is to add story to the building, Both ways have special merit, but the second way seems to have the more merit. It would improve the general though equivalent in height to an orr dinary four-story building, is rather broad for its height. Another story would give it symmetrical proportions. Besides, 1t is desirable to preserve the building because of it's fine artistic quality. It Is one of the best, perhaps the best, example of Tuscan style in this country. It is doubtful if the Government architects of today would mately of such good taste. If we had our way about it, we would not let them attempt to supply substitute for it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Bernhardt Unwr.ely Critical.

TIIlsUUTR IISpdICn.
 When Sarah Bernhardt arrived in this country recently the public was grat- flied to learn from her lips that many Americans are intellectual without stopping to analyze the statement in it's negative aspect But she seems to have been something less diplomatic across the border, where she rather every prospect pleases and only man is vile" by the remark that while Canada and Quebec were magnificent the people left much to be desired. Whereupon the inhabitants took it upon themselves to prove her words by launching eggs at her. The dispa atches leave us in doubt as to how business was, but it may have matched the climate. Never theless, her experience must have an elevating influence upon the pride of the profession. Hereafter barnstorm- CTS vii be inclined to boast of being egged like Bernhardt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
A Leader in Fact,

If MT. Williams did. actually. disci- pline MT. Lamar for his course in the last session, he has done well. There is too much independence in the Demo- ment and action. A House leader and his party, to be successful, must insist upon the obedience of party members. Otherwise, the power of the minority away, and nothing of value to the country can be accomplished by it. We are pleased to see the Democratic leader knows how to enforce his au- authority Even if there be nothing in the incident than this action of Mir. Williams in objecting to the discussion of a party question in the House, that since it demonstrates the intention of the leader to be leader in fact as well as name,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
MR. EprsoN,s PREDICTIONS.

A wonderful man is that Thomas A. Edison. not only in, what he does but in what he suggests. No man living has made so many inventions. and while may of them have never been put to any practical use they have all been intended to demonstrate some theory or to further some object he had in view and thus advance or perfect some of his plans.
 One of his latest suggestions is with regard to electric power. and here he is at home. It may be too much to say that he knows more about elec- tricity than any man living, but cer- tainly he has gotten more results than any other man hasidene. His discoSer- ies ans inventions in connection With electrlcity as a motive power has been as wonderful as they have been valua- ble. and no one may tell where they will find a limit. We are grooping on the verge of another great epoch in the worlds history" he says, and some idea of what he is alluding to may be derived from this Spitome of uiS VIEWS dS SSb Out " thc AA0hSoS City Journal:
 Mir. Edison confidently expects to 1.-Two to see the complete elimination of the steam engine in industrial affairs. as he has lived to see the elimination of the horse in the operation of street railroads. He points out the scientific obsurdlty of shipping coal from the mines to the remote steam boilers. He would establish great electrical gener- Tt is preposterous to keep on putting the coal mines on wheels" says the inventor. Tt Is too clumsy. It is too costly. There is no necessity for it. He maintains that 1t is easier to carry molecular energy over wires than to railroad tracks.
 Within fifteen years from now MT. Edison believes there will not be coal burning locomotive in existence. available water. power will be used. thus reducing the. cost ot light, heat and power to a minimum. The inyen- tors only regret is that it takes the public so long to accept new inven- established the first electric railroad. and for ten years not capitalist would. invest his money in it. Now there are electric railroads in nearly every city on the globe. Edison offer sociates all his patents on electric railroads for $42,000 a quarter of n century ago and today these patents are worth millions.
 Is not that eminently sensible? Why not generate electric power at the mines. just as is done at the wa terralls and thus save transportation? If not practicable, why not?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

As John R. Hegeman, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, sat in the witness chair of the Armstrong legislative Investigating committee. says The New York Com Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Coll yer. with T slight dash of St. Simeon Stylites thrown in to add to the effect of sanctification.
 His emphatic expression of abhor- renee for the perpendicular pronoun" made a deep impression upon William Barnes, Sr.. of Albany. who looked on with quizzical glint in his near eye. When Mir. Hegeman had declared that he did not draw all his salary of $I00,- 900. MT. Barnes leaned forward and whispered to a man in front of him. That is the face of a saint"
 Yes" retorted MT Hughes, softly for he had overheard the remark. But no saint was ever as holy as MT. Hege- man looks"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
IS HE NOT TANGLEDs

It seems to us that Justice Gaynor. of Brooklyn, takes a very peculiar view of marriage and divorce. In re-
 cent case he gave this charge to the jury:
 Something has been said here about prejudice against divorce, and about the matrimonial bond. and you have been examined in that particular to some extent before being accepted as so far as chs enneern geu a gentlegn rein that sacramental or church bond existing between these people. we have nothing whatever to do, with it. If these peo. pie are bound by sacrament or any religious or church bond you and I are not seeking to sever that obligation. When we are through with this case that obligation is left untouched. We do nothing whatever to 1t. If there is a bond of matrimony between these peo- pie which. according to their. church sewers It. we leave that bond scrupu- lously alone. If you decide for divorce in this case, remember you only cut the states law. but you absolutely do not touch the sacramental bond which states that persons are married till much bound by 1t after we get through with them as they were before. We do not sever it. we do not break 1t and that is something that it seems to me is very often misunderstood"
 Now if that view of marriage and divorce is not calculated to bring about endless confusion and misunder. standing we fail to see the reason. If we apprehend his line of reasoning. couple married in the church by minister according to the rules and re- quirements of that church cannot be divorced under any State law and through the act of any State court. If all the matrimonial obligations are not dissolved by the decree of the court is the couple really divorced? Would a remarriage on the part of either be legal or binding? We are well aware that some of our great re- ligious denominations do not sanction the remarriage. of divorced persons, but that Is not the point. The question simply is as we understand it. wheth- CT court can divorce a couple who ]
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

Can any one possessing merely hu- man intelligence fathom the motives that, ,actuate Mrs. Hetty Green. and see into the feelings that control her? Now just past seventy years of age. with no one dependent on her, her whole life is one of grasping money getting. living meanly and apparently enjoying nothing that is supposed to make life worth living. She is reputed to be worth at least sixty millions. and may be worth d great deal more. for we doubt if any human being knows what her wealth is. At all events she has enough to satisfy any human being looking at it from what we should call sensible standpoint
 Mrs. Hetty. so it is stated. says that her only ambition and object in life is to leaye half a, billion dollars to her son. fFor this. which can hardly he looked on as commendable object. she is content to live the life of a grinding. friendless miser. caring mo- thing for humanity or for what hu- manity thinks of her. She has few friends and apparently wants none. She rarely indulges in any of the pleasures and recreations that most women like. In short. she seems to be little more than a hard hearted and hard-fisted grubber. going through life with no other object but raking in money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
FRIDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1905.
AN ANCIENT ISLAND.

The statement that the powers have taken possession, of the Isle of Lemnos will send the scholars back into their little and classically sacred spot of land in the Egean sea will bring up Pliny and Homer and other writers of many centuries ago who wrote of the beauties and sacred traditions of the little island. It brings up memories of the Augonauts' and the Amazons. of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. and much of like nature. It was on this island. according to the old mythology. that Hephaestus or Vulcan fell when his father. Jupiter. threw him down from the upper re- Rions. And it was on this island that the Greeks .on their way to Troy, left years nursing a wounded foot until Ulysses took pity on him and carried him to Troy. In short. the island is redolent with the myths and tradi- tions In song and story of the ancient days of Grecian learning and culture.
 Coming down to modem times we find Lemnos a ratherf insignificant part of the Turkish dominions. some thing like our Guam. except for its traditions and for the fact that it occu- pies a somewhat important position with respect to the adjoining king dom. Its area is set down at about 150 square miles and the population at not exceeding 25.O0o. most of whom are Greeks. with a small per centage of Turks. We do net know what the powers want with 1t. unless it really seen stated. It looks like a small af- fair to raise row over. but even a small bone sometimes causes a fight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Sidewalk Pencilinss
street-sMeepinx Idcn.

T am very glad to see the custom in montgomery of street-sweeping at decent hour" said an old-time resident or Montgomery T should. perhaps, say am glad to know the streets are swept at the proper hour. This Is as near midnight as possible or any time before day dawns. I have often won dered why in other cities the practice or the street commissioners or supe-- lntendents Is quite the contrary. Take birminghan, for instance, where you can see the sweeper rolling down the main thoroughfares stirring untold aust Tn It's wake, in the early part or the night. Sometime 1t may be that the largest throng on the streets IS walking alonside the sweeper and is compelled to breath the1stifling dust. It Is just as easy for the sweeping to bs-done three or four hours lated when nooody hardly would be injured, but the sung is put to work early as If It were necessity There should be law com polling street cleansing to be done only in fixed hours and these when the few est people are on the streets. Why. there was q doctor in Birmingham who came pretty near announcing Tor Mayor in hot campaign~a couple of years ago on the platform of street-sweeping re-
 form. He would force the sanitary business to be done at the most appro- priate time. and said. in discussing his probable candidacy, that he would in- sist on sweeping the avenues after midnight of he lost the vote of every doctor and newspaper man in the city"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
a About Putting Up the Bars.

IT.
 Concerning the discussion in regard to putting up the bars in the next Dem ocratic primary The Leader under stands that no intention is entertained of making a test that will date back to the Kolb deffection or the Palmer and Buckner episode, but that the re- strictions will apply only to regularity in recent years--in other words, only party. And we favor such restrictions. We do not share in the alarm of those editors who see in this movement the ghosts of 1894 and 1896 It Is time the Democrats were taking charge of their own house. They are capable of doing an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Our Long.Liyer Pensioners.

New York Journal of Commerce
 There is still no shrinkage in the pension roll or in the amount of public funds bestowed upon veterans" of our wars. The number of pensioners for the last fiscal year reached 1.004.196. which is the record" and at the close there were 99s.441 on the list. which was 3.679 in excess of the number a year before. though 43,sS3 had died during the year. The disbursements were $14f.142,000. compared with $751; 504, 300 in 1902, when there was pros pect of decline. There has been a steady increase ever since Our pension list. gives evidence of remarkable long evity as the result of service in war. One widow and four daughters of revo- lutionary soldiers still survive.
 The longevity of the pensioner. in spite of his many ills and inf1rmities, Is an amazing phenomenon and should be one of the deterrents from war fn the future. One of the arguments for arbitration, at least for the United States, may well be. not the cost of armaments but the cost of veterans af- ter wars are over
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

Maine continues to be one of the best hunting grounds in the United States. The official record of the Bagor and Aroostook railroad, shows that there were shipped over that line during October and November SIPS deer. 16S moose and 2s bears. all killed in the woods of northern Maine. The number of guides and hunters shot, Is not given, but leaving them out and counting only legitimate game animals 1t is seen that sport was good. It should be borne In mind that this is the record for only one line of rail- road for but two months That many animals were killed of which there Is no record is beyond doubt. and when we add them all up t is.plain that ds a hunting ground Maine is well up to ahe front
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
A .vuaf Man

A slight shower was falling and Mir. Ferguson discovered when on the point of starting for church, that there wasn't any umbrella in the house fit for use, says The Chicago Tribune.
 You can borrow one from the Thomp- sons, next door," suggested Mrs. Fergu- son. They never go to church"
 No, Laura" he answered, with iron firmness. Tt is wrongs to borrow um- brellas on Sunday. I should have bought one yesterday. I shall punish myself for my carelessness by not go- ing to church this morning"
 Thereupon he proceeded to punish himself still further by reclining in an easy chair reading the morning papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
HOM He Knew

In Kansas City. Kan, court recently negro on the witness stand was be- ing questioned about a sick horse by a lawyer. says The Kansas City Times , What was the matter with the horse?" asked the lawyer
 He was ailin',' replied the witness.
 But what was. wrong? With what disease was he suffering?" , "Jes ailin'." persisted the negro, The lawyer was quiet moment. Then he had bright idea. He would try to get at the horses symptoms.
 We'll. how do you know he was ail- Ing? he asked.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Crimes Against the Ballot.

eral other places recently convictions have been had of persons accused of aiding false resignation or fraudulent voting. Some of the offenders have already begun terms in prison and oth- CTS are awaiting sentence. Nor Is the end yet. Others accused await trial or arest and the investigation into the violation of the elections laws, once started. is being vigorously pressed . The 'humiliating feature about this is that punishment of such offenses should be so rare to call for comment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
The Reason Why.

Mrs. Frederick SChOff. the well- known philanthropist, answered at a meeting of Daughters of the Revolution an ancient sheer at womankind.
 "A man." she said, rose in a wo- mans meeting. and with sheer asked why it was that men were not addict ed to saying spitefuI things about one another as women were.
 "The President answered him.
 |" Men, she said, are so busy brag- ging about themselves that they don't have time to attack other men ."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
No Room for Calamity Rowling.

Conner says the Government of Ala bama is controlled by the railroads. Let's see: The State is paving more to the old soldiers and the public schools than ever before within its history; through a refundng of the State deot a much lower rate of in- terest has been obtained: and tbere is about a million dollars in the treasury. Well, that's pretty god showing for railroad control-better call it a, pros perity, wave Mir Conner should close down his calamity news bureau
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
A Mark of Progress.

OiUSUVII JUUTIIdI.
 The greatest progress made by our country during the year has been the conviction of men in high places. All our prosperity and wonderful achieve ments count as naught when compared to the adoption and execution of the practiced by the powerful at the ex- pense of the weak. The conquering of these evils and getting back on a basis of Justice to all and special privileges to none" will prove the greatest factor in our future development and well be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

characerizes the message as "a mess of pIatitudes, and attitudes, and personal reflections of our strenuous young Pres ident He gives a more holief than thou dissertation on such subjects as he deems worthy of consideration and expects us to, or imagines that we will accept as Gospel Our Senior Senator is not alone in his view of the extraor- dInary document, but few will be so outspoken or happy in illustrating Its true character.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

The venerable John Bigelow, of New York, who has been on earth nearly ninety years. declares that Roosevelts interference in the Russian-Japanese war was both impertinent and baneful. We presume John is not looking for any Presidential appointment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Irndnlv AIarnnA-

l am, going to have It out. am go- tor-in- -chief tearing his hair and stamping out of the fice.
 You don't mean, cried the office devil eXcitedly as he paused in his in printers ink on the window, you don't mea nto say you're goin' to k-k-kill somebody. governor?"
 "Oh dry up will you?" replied the e. l. c. angrily. T am referring to this tooth that's aching"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15
Tariff Driving American Concerns to Canada.

Alarming conditions which are rap- idly driving large manufacturing inter- are to be considered within A few davs by the Illinois Manufacturers Associa- tfon. Reports just gathered show that 1s2 of the leading concerns of the coun- count of tarinf restrictions. to estahlIsh st branch plants in Canada.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-15

Asking Congress to appropriate s31.- 000,ooo to construct ship canal for that city to the Mississippi is one of Chicago's latest and cheekiest proposi- tions.