The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-23
Stray Topics From, New York

iInsEMRzzlEM MHM MllmE zzbmlHw wIrmR @aw1mI New York, Dec. 22.--If there Is one thing that might make ono regret that the Spanish American war was ever fought, it is the fact, unfortunate but unavoidable that 1t brought few men into prcs1inence who otherwise would never have been heard oY There is, for instance. that insuppresible man HobsoEG Ills war record ia undoubt- did not agree with Hobson to be sud- denly placed in the iEmelight. It created an sinaatiable thirst for more glory" in Robson and, as there was no further opportunity. to win glory. the ambitious lieutenant sought at least notoriety.. Ever, since that time he has broken out into the red light CT notoriety from time to time until he became somewhat of nuisance.
 No matter what happens. be 1t the birth of a twoheaded calf or the found Ing of a new sect, government scan dal in France or two for" revoiu- tion in one Of the Spanish. American republics, Hobson has something to say about 1t and the press, always ready to exploit freaks. gives him ample op@ portunity for the desired publicity. His latest eontrtbutionf or rather his latest bid for notoricty. sthe pronnlBa- ton of his wonderful plan for the re- organization of the American navy, has been duly recorded and forgotten and soon Hobson will find some other way of breaking into the newspapers It is to be regretted that there ts no adequate way of suppressing self.ap- pointed. censors. critics and feformers of the Hobson, Carrie Nation and An- thony * Coustock type. Chloroform might do it. but 1t is rather expensive to be used, in sufficient quantity.
 gr1.a xxya,sfd Aa Af1fhOny C0r1- stock was sat on hard by Magistrate Corrigen the other day but he is used to such . experiences and has become calious to the most scornfui rebukes. ComHtock had arrested q man because he had sold | small reproduction of representing a nude woman resting upon a couch. Magistrate Corrtgan acquitted the prisoner and rsbuked Mi. Comstock for having arrested the dealr CT. From Mir. Comstock's action, said the magistrate, "one would believe that when he takes q bath 1t shocks him to look at himself bereft of clothes"
 .. pr. L.xman Abbott. Is .. strong ad- vocate of football as q developer of TpanlineHs. and. courage, Tn q seEpon to Yale students the other day he said. among other things. you can't de- veiop manly courage without facing real perils and is. worth all it costs if 1t Is necessary in order to get that courage. By real perils' he meant the perils of the gridiron. Perhaps the learned gentleman is right, but would 1t not do to use a nilder and less dead ly method to develop courage among the college students? Would 1t not do to put the young men to work fin a. dynamite factory. Goal mine under tsrana tNam NR afsh
 The musical profession seems to be a great deal more strenous than most people imagine. There are always fights and quarrels among the music Pians and others conhected with the profession. The Metropolitan opera House has been the scene of many a battle royal between the musicians, the singers. the managers and the stage employees and scarcely a week passes without some little unpleasantness within that temple of musical art. The musical and perhaps racial antag- onism between the representatives Of German and those { of Italian music has been the cause of a great deal of trouble at the Metropolitan. The last tilt took place a few days ago and ended with the victory of Italian opera as represented by Gatti-Casazza, new the sole managing director of the house. The Germans, represented by Herr Dippel. were worSted (not "wur- sted.).
 Some of the society. .swells among the regular patrons of the Metropolitan have expressed the apprehension that thls victory of the hyphenated manag- CT would mean the complete abandon ment of German opera at the MetropoI-
 
 loss. but not to the social set occupy ing the boxes but to the musical peo- pie in the top galleries. As to the ex- elusive set In the boxes, they do not care a rap for Wagner. They would much rather listen to ragee time music if 1t were sung by high-salaried sing CTS of international fame for still bet ter, of international notoriety.
 Some parsons havs the most wonder full, almost Indecent luck. They fall into Q sewer and are pulled out with a gold watch and chain in their mouth; bought some apparently worthless stock for thirty cents, a share ana a few days later the same stoek leaps up to $50 a share. ! To that class of favoPites of Dame Fortune evidently belongs the shop girl who was robbed Of her weeks wages. amounting to SlO the other day. while she was riding home On the B. R. T. Strange to say the girl carried her weath In a pocket in the lower part of her dress. When she reached her home she found the pooketbook with the ten dollars gone and in It's place a big $500 diamond. which had dEopped cut of the thie4's ring, while he was picking the girls pocket
 The recent death by sunocation of two young sisters in a poor lodging \ hodse of the East side was surrounded b& unusually pathetic festures. The two girls. one seventeen, the other nineteen years old. came to the United sSateS from Russia 10 make q living for them selves and, eventually to pre- pare the way for, the emigration of the other members of their family from Russia. All day they worked in a svVoatshop and at night they studied English and other things. Fer them- selves they spent oniy enough of thetr uaeaRer earnings to keep them alive the rest they placed in saYiuG8 bahlE4 Wjfth A view of sending for the4r folk ,,t,a.. 4haFr hoard haH grown tn AAR-