The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06

| Walter Dunkirk. Berlin, Jan. 5.--Tfow the Kaiser deal' with reporter who managed to gel aboard the imperial train an amusing story going the rounds in Berlin. The reporter had disguised himself in the livery of the Kaiser's servants and stationed himself in the private car by which the Kaiser was travelling with few intimate friends to Pots- dam.
 Suddenly. in the midst of an animated and confidential chat. the Emperor mo- ticed the unfamiliar face of the meniai and became suspicior5. Sending Tor his secretary, he asked: What is that man doing here,"
 On being questioned, She unfortunate man was forced to confess that he was no servant but a reporter. Smiling grimly, the Kaiser ordered the train to be stopped, and the in truding reporter was asked to get out of the train, which went on, leaving him stranded on the railroad track. ten miles from the nearest station. The Kaiser had a good hearty iaugh over the incident
 Professor Robert Iroch's cure for sleeping sickness, the scourge which has depopulated the whole district in Central Africa, is proving completely successful The professor, who is in German East Africa, is restoring to health many natives who came to him dying of the drowsy disorder. The suf- fering negroes make pilgrimages to his headquarters for treatment by him, just as European cripples resort to Lourdes to be made whole. The Koch cure is the use of a serum called atoxyl, which kills the trypans- soma germ in the patients blood. The germ is introduced by the sting of gnat known as Glossina papalis. Although only nine months go Pro- lessor Koch gave up all hope of find ing a cure for the sleeping sickness, and could only suggest that the deadly gnat should be extermfnated, he made one more effort, which has been re- warded by the discovery of certain cure for the terrible scourge.
 The summary court martials, institu- ted in Russia for grave revolutionary crimes, are rivalling. the tribunals Of Danton and Robespierre in their record of blood.
 Every month an appalling and in creasing number of executions are car ried out at the order of these courts. In the first month. the number of vic tllHS was AVft tiO h~@>S - " in the third month 300.
 The sentences are generally carried out within few hours, and no appeal against the sentence. Is allowed. The only power of altering the judgment or the courts rests with the governors ana governors general of provinces, who may auash the sentence and order re-trial.
 But this is never done to the advan- tage of the prisoner. In one case Gen. eral Herschelmann, governor Moscow. had inc sentence on four men altered n day after the trial from hard labor for life in the convict mine to death sentences, which were carried out the same night.
 The sum of one cent is causing the display of no end of red tape at Han over. The money is due to civil ser want who was transferred to another city, and he was credited with 1t after three weeks of auditing his accounts.
 His superiors at Hanover have re- ouested the official to come to Hanover to receive his one cent--a journey cost ing k3.
 Probably he will not think 1t worth while to make the journey, and 1t will then be sent him by postal order. He will be charged 1 1-2 cents on delivery, which he may refuse and then the un- fsFfunate cent will enter a maze Of accounts and reports which only the German bureaucracy can create.
 A practicable wireless telephone, for which 'limitless possibilities" are claimed, has been invented by Profess sor Slaby of Berlin.
 With an apparatus similar to that used in wireless telegraphy, the Pro- lessor has demonstrated that voice VI brations can be transmitted through the atmosphere and distinctly heard in a receiver twenty-five miles distant. His experiment was made between the roof of a building in Berlin, and wireless telegraph tower at Nausen, which is twenty-five miles from Berlin in straight line.
 "The possibilities of extending the distance" says Professor Slaby, "are almost limitless. It ought to be possi- ble in the near future to telephone from Berlin to London or from Berlin to Constantinople. In course of time we ought to have communication be- tween Europe and America by means of a wireless telephone system.
 Such communication, in fact, may be extended all over the world.
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