The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15

breeds He differs widely from the historians. the ethnologists, from stu cst 1f from she bor. n culturists and botanists.
 R L. Mcclure, who in the course Of hs. hsS wSre ocaasion a to gate repeatedly the endless feuds which have made that State notorious. writes: cu.0n at as s%p9yed DS sas for conspiracy in the murder of Will liam Goebel in front of the State House buildin~ in 1900. held his large audi ling statistics upon homicide in Ken had twenty times as many kill York State, and one thirtieth of the number of executions. He found that there was not a place on the face of haen ne whole earth, s Dy nre valent as in Kentucky In one county, Breathitt, there were thirty seven homicides in two years
 Of the thirty-seven men who shed their blood in feudal hatred eighteen were shot from ambush"
 Please turn with me to the bright by the sunny-souled Italian.
 supports S2.ooo,0oo of population on in 1900 had a population of 1.s2s.697 on 52 250 square miles, and Kentucky 2. 147,400 on 40,400 square miles. One and mosg of 1e 1f and is barren rock. Even the plains have little of the rich alluvial soil of North mus9pe ryer and 5asins ahq G fse bs okey in their Italy of To-day. sths accumulated labor of generations g annd9 has smile with fertility. The patient Italian has built up the terraces of the Riviera and set them thick with olive Sorrento coast are literlly made by hand out of bare limestone. cliff. over 3.000,000 acres have been laboriously of no great natural fertility, bears six to nine tons of hay to the acre."
 Kentucky. and Alabama. together only about four millions of inhabitnats, possess a rich soil and great natural resources. Greatness is possible for them, but it will not come while ignor- ant prejudice bars out a sturdy and virtuous class of immigrants whose record as a race is white and famous.
 The grandest architecture the world can boast, the noblest paintings, the most profuse ornamentation in gold and silver and gems are to be found in the most magnificent palaces and land of Italy. and all this wealth has been wrung from a poor soil beneath which lay neither silver nor gold nor gem nor a single pound of coal! In spite of the defect last named, manu- featuring, particularly of silk, is making great headway in Italy at present. The water power of the many streams rushing from the Apen- hines to the sea is being harnessed by the quick -witted Italian, and the pro duct of the. silk looms holds its own industry for centuries.
 It is true that the percentage of ii- liteEacy is lamentably high, more par ticularly in the southern provinces, but 1t is to be remembered that the King dom of Sicily and Naples had been made destitute of everything material by the time the spanish rule ended in the beginnine of the eighteenth cen- tury, and that not until Italy became unIted nation was any serious at- tempt made, despite the fact ot twenty one national universities, to educate the common people in letters.
 Orsi's History or Modern Italy" tells us .at when fin 1870 Italy became a nation. e found most wretched state of affairs In these southern provinces. In 1859 not a yard of railroad had been laid in all Sicily, even agriculture was cation the prominent fact connected with 1t was an absolute ignorance of reading. Now there Is a compulsory school law for the whole country, but like all new machinery 1t Is not work ing as well yet In few years, the article In Appletons Magazine con tinues, probably no Italian will reach these shores without being able to read and write.