The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

people who called themselves Chris tians and wanted to remain so.
 socialism would interfere drastical' " with the laws of marriage and sdf' vorce which at present deal harshly with the weaker sex. In family life 1t would compel the parent to fulfill his obligations to the children. Social ism Is actually swinging back to the first preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom of God on earth"
 Maxim Doubts Edison.
 Sir Hiram Maxim does not believe in the statement of Thomas A Edison that he has invented an electric stor- age battery, which will place automo- biles within the reach of everyone. y MT. Edison has blighted my life." he said to an interviewer. He has been inventing a storage battery ever since Adam was a little boy. and I have been putting off buying an automobile all that time simply because I thought should be able to buy one of Edison's electric cars"
 T have grown old waiting, and il Edison's battery is not ready by next year have determined to buy an ordi- nary gasoline car, so that may help to make lifo a horror to those who live in the country"
 Roseberry on Socialism.
 Speaking of the danger of socialism the other day. Lord Roseberry said:
 Il understand that if fall into a state of poverty and decay I should be entitled to some small allowance for the rest of my life. You treated that as a kind of jest and perhaps year or two ago I should have been inclined to treat 1t as a distant prospect not wor- fhu nf frTrp1adtafn dor ton.
 But events move fast Legislation is not standing still. There is class section of my fellow citizens and subjects. who, if they had their way would reduce us all to a condition In which the aims of the guild of which am now an unworthy member. would be by no means unwelcome"
 The guild which Lord Roseberry re- fers to is that of the Bonnetmskers and Dyers. of Glasgow, of which he was recently made an honorary free man.
 Varieties of Tuberculosis.
 The latest discovery in the never ondinE inquiry into tuberculosis Is that there are two distinct varieties of the disease. one of which is progressive and ger rally fatal, and the other tend ing to sontaneous cure.
 This remarkable fact is given forth in the second interim report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, which contains an account of experi- mants carried out by Dr. Cobbett at the experimental farms for the study of the disease.
 It was discovered that the tuberculo- sis views obtained from human beings must be classified in two breeds" and the effect of each variety was the same when introduced into a COW or a rab- bit---that is to say, the more virulent was fatal both to the cow and the rabbit. and milder variety was com paritively harmless to both animals.
 The mild virus. even when given in large doses, produced in every case only slight local effect, which tended to die away spontaneously. while the virulent form was very powerful, rap- Idly fatal. and general in its effects.
 The result of the experiments Is to prove that bovine and human tubercu- losis are the. same disease, divided in mild and g. virulent form. thus final ly disposing of Rocks theory to the ant to stamp out bovine tuberculosis as a step towards freeing the human race from the scourge.
 The discovery, of course, raises the important question, in treating a pa- tient for consumption. which variety Is he suffering from? To provide data on which to decide, this question will be the object of another great se- ries of experiments. This discovery also provides clew to the many pug zling cases of the disease which have confronted the medical professions.