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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
IND1ANA's NEXT GOVERNOR.
FOresees the Arising of a COnstifu-
 tIOnai Democracy Out of Defeat.

FOresees the Arising of a COnstifu-
 tiOnal Democracy Out of Defeat. Columbia City, Ind, Telegram to The
 New York World.
 formers like MT. Bryan to live in his- tory rather than In ofIfce, Disheart- ening as iS the result in the Republic. the increased vote for Democratic me to hope that the money-mad mag mates will yield to treatment rather than die the death which inevitably overtakes all those who grow arro- gant.
 The business interests will surely see that our party Is not the enemy of vested rights, We strike only at vested wrongs. hope they may be are not they will be fofcibly. These evils would have been cheerfully elim- inaed under Mir. Bryan. I hope they will be under MT. Taft, though grudg ingly.
 The fight has been worth the mak- ing. There are now no discordant el- ements in our party. Factions have been blended in the white heat of per restored. which augurs well for the arising of a constitutional democracy out of the ashes of defeat.
 No such partisan warfare was ever a partial victory, made possible only by direct appeals to men of all parties who yet believe that the people and not the offices should rule.
 In Indiana 1t Is not to be made a partisan victory by my using patron age to reward at the expense of the interests of the people. If I know how, am going to give the State an old fashioned constitutional adminis- tration. which means equal rights for all and special privileges to none.
 If you will only keep up the cry Back to the fathers" we will get there some day, and the sooner the better: for while business and money are good for a people, principle is the one enduring necessity of good gov- ernment Thomas R. Marshall
 Governor-elect of Indiana.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
TYPHOID FnvnR COSTLY.
Each Death Estimated to Impose s7y5O0
 Tax on Community. u.rartnaariuo MaRazine

Each Death Estimated to Impose e7,500
 Tax on Community
 Engineering Magazine.
 1t is worth while to consider the cost of typhoid fever In order to get the im- portance of its prevention we'll fixed In mind. It is a recognized fact that the greater majority of those persons who die from this cause are between the ages of 20 and 35. Easing ones estimate upon the value of human life as given in insurance estimates, the average value in life capital that IS thus destroyed is about $5,000.
 In the summer of 1907 there were studied in the Seventh and Ninth Wards of Pittsburg 194 cases with especial reference to the actual cost in money expended. These cases occurred in 146 families; from them there were eleven deaths; eighty-seven wage earners lost S64 weeks work; caretakers (not professional nurses, but members or the family) lost 1S2 weeks work; there were thirteen of the cases treated in hospitals; total cost. In these three factories alone, S24,S0O This, being proportloned among the l94 cases, amounts to $l25 per case, of S2.20O per death. It Is without qustion that the cost more nearly approximates s2,5OO Der typhoid death. on account of the patient to resume work at his nor anal rate. This makes a total cost per death of s7.5oO. There Is then, with the sole question of the money cost in mind, a very deep problem for solution before this one cause of destruction Of human life is eliminated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
srUMPING CANDIDATES.
Plea for New order of Things in the
 Future.

Plea for New order of 1'hings in the
 Future,
 New York Globe.
 James G. Blaine was the first Re- publican Presidential candidate to go on the stump, and Blaine was defeated. No other Republican candidate, until MT. Taft started on this years jour ney, put wheels under himself No Democratic candidate became sturnper until MT. Bryan set the ex- ample in 1898. and was defeated. He stumped again IE 1900 and was de- feated. Judge Parker stumped in 1904 and was defeated.
 The experience of this campaign has been. such as to suggest that in the next 1t would be better to go back to the old-fashioned way of having the candidates stay at home. It Is possible to have more intelligent discussion of the issues with the utterances made in a more orderly manner than is pos sible when the chief spokesmen are hurried about in railway trains and au- tomobiles. taking ten minutes at this way station and another ten minutes at that street corner. Never has a campaign been more Jumbled than the present one, and that Is largely be- cause of the scrappy discourse of the two candidates.
 MT. Taft went actively into the cam paign because his opponent had done so, and because he felt 1t desirable to stir things up. But in. the old days we were able to work up a fair inlita- ton of excitement without snatching Rlimpses of the candidates as they flew across the horizon. Whoever are the candidates in 1919, they should consid- CT the wisdom of getting together in private pact not to become travelling circuses. Every message necessary to be transmitted can be better communi- eated through the eye.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
rHE nrrTrR wAY.

A special from Cuba. in Sumter coun- ty. tells of the presence there of q spe- ciaI agent of the Alabama Great South. ern Railroad. who Is charged with the duty of comforting with the truck growers of that section to ascertain their needs in the way of shipping fa- cilIties and adjust the rates so that the products of the truck farms can be proftabiy shipped.
 This Is encouraging news. And there nave been many more such incidents of investigation. discussion and adjudica- tion between the railroads and their patrons. which have gone unseeonded. Industriaily. they indicate better day for the State and its business.
 The railr6ad Iegislation we have had has been more political than economic. It was sad day for the State when its shipping and railway interests were forced into politics and put to fighting each other, by politicians who have profited by the conflict. Their interests are interdependable. One cannot be prosperous without the othef; one can not have .misfortunes thrust upon 1t without the other sharing It's part of the burden. A Legislature. made up of avowed enemies of the shippers of Ala barna and determined to pass every law that would embarrass and shackle them could do no more harm than Legisla- ture which was the avowed enemy of the railroads and which passed willing iy every embarrassing law that human ingenuity could invent.
 Railroad regulation Is a fixed and settled policy of the State. But there is a difference between regulation and strangulation. Alabama went far be- yond regulation and stopped short only of strangulation. We sowed the wind and we reaped the whirlwind.
 A leading business man put 1t aptly when he said the agitators cut the grass so short in the pasture that the roads were about to starve to death. In cool, sober thought the business men or AL abana do not want this to be true For more than year past the business men and the roads have been sharing common misfortune and in this com mon misfortune they have come to feel more kindly towards each other When the roads come out half way, as they are doing, in an effort to bring about better conditions, the business men are willing to go out and meet them.
 It puts the professional agitator and politician out of his regular job. BpS Alabama has suffered enough from the policy of making a football of great commercial and industrial interests
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
Letters 10 The Editer
FoR CITY HOSPITAL.
cerresponaent Makes AppeRl to People
 of City

Correspondent Makes AppeRI to People
 of City.
 Editor The Advertiser;
 Montgomery needs hospital We had one once. such as 1t was. and to- day its funds are lying idle. Many people are Interesting themselves in this subject and the building of new city infirmary is regarded as imper- worthy undertaking, and yet nothing Is done. Montgomery Is city or prestige. dignity, responsibility. wealth and numbers. No city in the North truly be said. Is so neglectful of its diseased and suffering children. We spend money on public libraries ana we read the books. We spend money walk or ride upon them. We spend money on public schools and send our children 10 them. Let us for once ex- ercise our civic conscience as well as our civic ,utilitarianism ana adding money to what we already have, let us build place of refuge for those among us who are i'll. who are suf- fering, who are dying. Some may say 1t is not useful to. the tax payers. But 1t Is. It keeps the city cleaner and freer from contagion. And not only is it useful to them but what Is fully as important, it Is uflselffsh and Chris tian in them. .f
 A story was once told of a Samar. itan traveler who cared for and cured fellow man whom he found by the roadside wounded and aIling sick unto death. The story has a moral and an application. Its narrator was one who made the lame to walk and the blind to see. and the deaf 10 hear. who spent Himself that others might be made happy and whole
 A we'll conducted city infirmary, once equipped, should be self sustaining. The first expense win not be excess i've. Let us. therefore, not let the mat ter rest till the thing is accomplished. Let Montgomery find and arouse from slumber the best in herself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
CROPS GROW WITHOUT RAIN.
How the Syrian Peasant Makes Use of
 the Moist SubsOiI.

How the Syrian Peasant Makes Use of
 the Moist SubsOiI.
 Chicago Tribune.
 ginning of April until october there is practically no rain, yet In July the fields teen with a vigorous growth Of watermelons. tomatoes. cucum6ers; watering, although at that time no rain has fallen for many weeks.
 In fact, the Syrian peasant. from the moment the seed has been sown. prays that uo rain may fail. During the pe- of the soil to depth of six or eight inches Is perfectly dry and loose: Be. low this surface layer will cs found nd mSSt so 1 %ash the h fOass s mes subsoil plants continue to grow, until late autumn. When the crop Is re- moved in the autumn the rains com mence, and the land is plowed after each heavy rain as soon as the soil
 Two primary objects are kept in view in plowing--to furnish a favora- ble surface for taking up all the water from the subsoil. The great point Is to keep tne upper six inches of soil perfectly loose and friable, so that the moisture from below Is not drawn up- ward and lost in evaporation. but does not ascend higher than the compact subsoil that is not broken up by the blow For this reason the blowing is shallow, averaging from four to six inches in depth.
 When the time for sowing the seed arrives the land is plowed to a depth of about six Inches and the seed Is sown from an arrangement attached to the blow. falls on the damp subsoil and is covered by the soil closing over behind the plowshare. From this time the upper stratum of loose soil pre- vents the escape Of moisture upward beyond the wet subsoil or which the seeds rest and into which their roots after the process of germination,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1908.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN.

Would some other candidate than Mir
 Bryan have been successful in those States which were carried by Taft for President and by Democratic eandi- dates for Governor? That question Is propounded in all quarters of the Union. It Is a fact we'll worth remembering that in Ohio, Indiana. Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana the Democrats carried their candidates for Governor to victory although Mir. Taft will re- ceIve their electoral votes. In Illinois, where Taft received 150,000 majority, the Republican candidate for Governor received less than 25.OO0 and even that the Democrats may contest In the courts. This is in Western and Middle Western territory and if the charge of Democrats cutting Bryan in the East and voting their State ticket holds ssodg the same vote even to a greater extent must be applied to the States named. The Western Democrats can not charge their Eastern brethren with treachery unless they admit that they are tarred with the same stick. It does look as if everywhere thousands of Democrats wanted State success but did not want Mir. Bryan for President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10

and the untowsrd result of his cam
 n is rather late for .ifs," but there are some Democrats who are serious Iy communing with themselves as to what the figures of the elections re- turns would have been # they had listened to the advice which was plen- tifuiIy bestowed and had made Mir. Johnson their Presidential nominee. He might not have been elected, 1t IS true He probably would not have been elected. But of that great mass of voters who chose to vote for MT. Taft because they considered him q superior man, many would undoubted- ly have gone to Mir. Johnson. MT. but his record was what decided hum dreds of voters to cast their ballots for MT. Taft. There is no blinking this fact out of srht; and both Re. publicans and DemS4rats may as vel admit 1t. And a Democratic candidate like Mir. Johnson would have escaped the distrust tof Mir. Bryans capability as an administrator of affairs which was one of the most powerful factors in deciding the election.
 MT. Johnson will sif he lives, be Governor of Minnesota until Junuary of 1911. Should he reappear as a can didate for Governor that reappearance win be at the time of the Congres. slonal campaign of 1910. Thus he VIII be kept prominently before the coun- try until the next Presidential cam Of course, a thousand things may hap pen to change entirely the face or the political sky ina the coming four years Today the only hope for the Democracy to pull itself together again is in such men as Johnson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10

the English searchlights be doing9 As to the battle overhead which Tenny- sons young man imagined, the profess sor pooh-poohs 1t. "A conflict between two aerial navies composed of balloons belongs to the realm of poetry" he says. Most extraordinary would be the disparity of force if mutual annihi- lation were not the speedy result" But the professor freely admits that the airship may make good in some ways and for some purposes. Tt is not un- likely" he says, that Count zeppe- lin's balloon, when improved. will be the first vehicle actually to carry a hu- man being to the North Pole. If noth- ing more interesting than fields of ice is found there, the result will still be of value by putting an end to useless expenditure of energy which has been going on for generations"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
MORNING THOUGHT
(II.)
BY ,. MARVIN NrcHoLs

JILL A man with real purpose can never People generally sheer at a thing they can never acquire. Nothing can be nobier than the frank admission of a wrong. Did the notion ever strike you to turn out of the beaten pathf .sI. t takes 2 brave man to face the The theories of today seem destined to be the trash of tomorrow, body. the mind and ii the e conscispcs. ' Each successive birth marks one more incarnation of the past. it is to deceive other people. The man who takes the world too seriously Is sure to become pessi- mist.
 IL takes a heap better man to live a theology than f does to make one. .1, The n; man yho aaows jgst little ts.,S. -N--S NNA ~NRr--0' Sin is misdirscted energy No man is at his best in a fog. Nothing is permanent but change.
  'Puir' Is often the tomb of push ]" Nothing can harm you but yourself. Everything is its own excuse for being.
 Nothing Is so dead as dead infatu- atton.
 
 Don't sush over peopfe--just stick to them.
  Borrowing is a sure way of sAcrific- ing the future on the altar of the pres- ent.
 VI + E They call the pathway of life "a rocky road" yet the most of us want to travel 1t.
 -& < If the epitaphs were said over and over again in the homes, there would be fewer on the tombstones.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
This Date in History
November 10.


 1s43--Martin Luther born: died Feb ruary IS. 1546.
 1e20-The 'Mayfower" cast anchor in Provincetown harbor, Cape Cod. 172S-ol.ver Goldsmith, English writer. born: died April (. 1774. 1755-Two hundred Scotchmen from Nova Scotia were banished from Bos- ton
 1779-Joseph Hewes. a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Philadelphia; born In Kingston. N. J.. in 173o.
 1s1e-Two hundred persons drowned in the wreck of the transport liar pooner," off the. Newfoundland coast. 1s53-Thomas M. Nelson, a prominent officer in the war of 1872, died in Co., lumbus, Ga.
 1S6s-England and the United States agreed to arbitrate the Alabama af- fair.
 1S71-Henry RI. Stanley discovered Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji.
 l906-Sultsn of Morocco received United States Minister Gummere at Fez.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
Irenrrt,a Part in It.

New York Evening Posl. .....,- ed of his martyrs crown, for which he has substituted 2 fooi's esp: ..a ae psSan ssEi, ana ChanIer; for the little fringe or votes which his personally sondToted sn,.,. independence Party cast was aesoiute- Iy negligible in the large result. rms is a terrible blow not only to an i'm pudent charlatan. but to all his eoass3 fne about the irresistible politcaI noSveT of his newspapers. He and his hirelings have talked as If. when the Journal spoke, 5,ooo.oooo readers saia snsY. and 10000 voters rushed to record their approval at the. polls. That humbug Is now expioSn,a,: spns,,:r0 Wnsn ssta itsaif araInst the popular stream, 1t is swept away with other rotten veg etables. The true continent on Hearst further political pretenstons can pest be conveyed to him in language ol tns kind he uses, and which has been hearo within the past few weeks . .row esT9 nun nss . , Aw, he's a dead one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
This is My z0th Birthday
Amos E. DoIbear.

Amos Emerson Dolbear, Q noted American educator and inventor. was born in Norwich, Conn, November 10. 1s37 and was educated at Ohio Wes- lagan University. He early decided upon a career as scientist and his success In his chosen field Is attested by the numerous honors bestowed up- on him by scientific bodies both in America and Europe. Among the not able things he invented or perfected may be mentioned the mAgneto tele- spring balance anmeter. He Is cred. ited with the discovery of the convert ibility of sound into electricity in 1874. and a process of photographing with electric waves. In 1881 he exploited a method of telegraphing without wires. Dr. Doibear has written extensively for scientific journals and magazines Since 1874 he has been Professor of Physics at Tufts College.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
Physical Endurance.

Richmond Dispatch.
 Even MT. Bryan, with his fine strength and wonderful voice. is de- cidedly the worse for wear For two months both men have been driving themselves. almost beyond endurance making twelve to twenty speeches a day, talking in wind and rain. eat Ing at wrong hours, or not at all. get ting insufficient sleep. making light ming dashes across States. breaking speed-limit regulations to catch trains or keep appointments. A campaign, as at pesent projected, is almost be- yond the powers of an ordinary phys ique.
 Is 1t all worth while? How many votes have Mir. Bryan and MT. Taft won by their spectacular and nerve- wracking canvasses? Why could not they simply have paired" and re- mained peacefully at home?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
order of Labor.

Knoxville SentineI.
 When President Roosevelt was in the Panama Canal zone, as The wash. ington Herald recalls. he declared that the canal diggers were the soldiers of labor and were as much entitled to medals of honor as men whc risked their lives in battle. The idea then expressed is to bear fruit. The exca- vations for the canal recently uneArth- that had been abandoned by the French. It has been decided that this metal shall be used to celebrate the success of American engineers and workers In an enterprise where the French had failed. It will be cast into medals at the Philadelphia mint and the med als will be awarded to all who have had an honorable part in the digging of the great ditch. This innovation. may be regarded by future historians as typical of our age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
what Blaine Said.

St. Louis Times.
 tract from a speech of James q. Blaine delivered to the Merchants Exchange of St. Louis. twenty years ago: .S growth of the Republic: BuS LssI ! Mississippi Department. My reproach to every foot. to every inhabitant Q. the territory of Louisiana. Is that on its surface which represents third part of the United States there is nos s statue raised to Thomas Jefferson.
 Reproaeh enough; and the faSt or twenty years ago is the fact of todsy. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition oi- reetorv will have the support Of the stockholders if t will spend IpD%sasdn its sls the plus on a memorial to 5enerson, 'ne
 If the surplus is not sufficient to start and bring to completion me morial of proper proportions; t Will do for the plans and foundation; The people may be trusted to finish the work on scale demanded by the oSe1' sinu
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
IohDson and the Democrats.

NRW hEWIUIU
 Governor John Johnson of Minne- sota. has been re- elected by a plural itv of approximately 500Oo. while Mir. Taft's plurality was in the netghbor- hood of 100 900. thus making 1t appear that he ran ahead of Mir Bryan by not far from l5O000 votes. His success was one of the most notable personal triumphs of election day. He was a nominee for third term-a fact in itself rather exceptional for Minne- sota-and the Republicans ran against him a popular man of his own race. whose nearness to the people was sed- bis eating with his knife. We have no doubt that he IS an excellent man. entirely deserving of sympathy for both the folly of his alleged friends