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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
SOUTH'S RESOURCES
 IN THE LLMELIGHT

nearly so per cent of her imports from us; and notwithstanding the greater difficulties of transportation we stlll furnish 49 per cent of her imports to Mexico: and 30 per cent of theirs to Venezuela and Colombia.
 While in marked effect of the ca- nal will thus be the reduction in dis- tance along the routes between the At Z lantic ports of the United States an{s the Pacific ports of the two Americas, this Is second in importance only to the greater trade opportunities that seemingly must result for us in the Eastern Hemisphere. We have large and increasing commerce with China, Australia, New Zealand the Hawaiian and the Philippine Islands. and other Pacific regions Where these will not De brought closer to our doors by the Panama Canal we shall, at least. nave the choice of two routes in reaching tnem. Thus, as with Japan and China, the present routes give an advantage 10 Europe, which the canal may re- serve At present the distance from New York to Australia by way of the Nrez Canal and by way of the Cape of Good Hope Is practically the same. By the Panama Canal, New York will be brought nearly 1000 miles nearer to sydney and over 1.500 miles nearer to Adelaide, the most westerly port of the industrtally important part of Aus tralia. The distance between New Orleans and AreIaide will be reduced over S.000 miles. New Zealand will be brought 5000 miles nearer to New York than the route by way of the Cape of Good Hope and $500 to $500 miles nearer than the route by way of the Straits of Magellan. Today seven eighths of our exports to New Zealand are sent from the Atlantic coast. The efrect of this reduction in distance therefore, seems plain.
 The canal will not. 1t Is true, re- dnce very largely the distance of the Philippines over the route by the Suez by which our trade is now mainly car- Fted on; but it seems probable that with the advantage offered by San Francisco, Aklahoma and Hongkong as ports of call, the Isthmian canal will have the effect ot changing large part of this trade to other routes"
 The exports of cotton manufacturers in the United States. he said. are main- ly sent. to the countries of the Pacific Ocean.
 China and Cotton.
 China" he continued, takes about one-half of our exported cotton cloth and our sales to Australia and num- erous other Pacific countries are in creasing. 4 significant fact concern fTsNuxa,aw.az wr.-.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
GoMPERs IS DEFIANT.
Says He Would Rather Uphold Co .AaAn.Aa.... r,ann. Nn..nA La sa.n.aa.aln..n

Says He Would Rather Uphold Con-
 ntItuffOn Than Court Iniunetions.
 Washington, Dec. 7.--At a recep- tion tersiered by the Central Labor Union of this city tonight to Samuel Gompers. President of the Amertcan Federation of Labor; James oConnell. Vice-President. and Frank Morrison. Secretary of the Federation, Mir. Comp CTS affirmed that when 1t comes to a choice of obeying the injunction orders of lesser courts or upholding the Con- stitution which grants freedom of speech and of the press, he would up- hold the latter.
 He said that only in the case of in- junction cases is a man to prove him self innocent instead of demanding as his right that the court find him not guilty before he can be given his free dom from court restraint.
 James O'Connell declared that he has no fear as to the final outcome of the injunction ffght. as 1t pertains to labor. --.--s--.---
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
WILL ExPEL CASTRO
FRANCE DOES NOT DESIRE HIS
 PRESENCE.
Freuideut Os Venezuela VIII Not Be Pernnitted to Land at Bordeaux.
 An OniciaI Note ts Tasued.

Paris Dec. s.--An official note, is- sued tonight states that If President Castro comes to Bordeaux, he VIII not condition that he merely wishes to cross France and seek treatment else where. .5t-,
 In this case he will be accompanied to inc frontier by French officials. At the same time. if any immediate ope- ration is found to be imperative, the French Government will give permis- sion to it's being performed at Bor- deaux. but the expulsion order VIII be enforced immediately after, unlsss president Castro's measures prejudicial to French subjects in Venezuela are withdrawn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
SAFEBL0WERS GET MONEY
 BY JOB AT COL UMBIANA

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 7.-The pro- fessional safe blowers who have been working Alabama towns got in their work at 1 o'clock this morning at Columbiana, the county seat of Shelby county, South of Birmingham. blow Ing the safe in the postoffiee and get and $50 in money.
 It is believed these are the same men who Sblew the posfof5cs sofo ','t oat Sylacauga Saturday. at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
EXPLOSION KILLS ELEVEN
TerribIe Accidents at Military stat,on fl,
 India.

Calcutta. Dec. 7.-An explosion in the magazine at the military station here today resulted in the killing of eleven men and the wounding of twenty-six others Most of the injured will die.
 The casualties were all among native soldiers and n-commissioned officers At the time of the explosion the men were engaged in converting ball cart ridges into blank cartridges.
 It was at first reported that the ac- cident was the work of agitators but this rumor was quickly disDroVed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
CASE IS ADVANCED.

United States Supreme Court sets
 Rates Case for Hearing.
 Washington, Dec. 7.-The Supreme Court of the United States today ad. vanced the case of W. E. Rakes. and set 1t for hearing on January next. Rakes. who resides in Patrick County Va, is under sentence of fifteen years on the charges of conspiring with the distillers to murder persons who had informed against them.
 The reason for asking the advance ment was that Rakes Is represented in the Supreme Court by Hon W. R. Staples. who has been elected to the bench by the Virginia Legislature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
Smoke fin Chicago Hotel.

Chicago. Dec. 7.-Guests at tile Kais- erhof Hotel were aroused from sleep to- day by fire in quantity of grease in the hotel kitchen and filled corridors and lobby with volumes of smoke. Tn order to prevent a panic the manage ment directed the porters and bell boys to notify the occupants of the rooms above the first floor that there was no danger
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
REPORTS NOT TRUE.

Revolutionary Movement Not Gaining
 Ground In Salvador.
 San Salvador. Salvador, Dec. 7-The reports published abroad that the rev. olutionary movement has been gaining ground are declared to be absurd by the Government officials.
 There are no disturbances at the present time in the republic The country still is under martial law. however. although practically normal conditions prevail. Large operations fin coffee have been effected recently with good prices and business generally iS brisk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
HERMAN BILLEK GETS
 STAY OF SENTENCE

Springfield. Ill. Dec. 7-Herman Bu- lek. the condemned murderer, has been reprieved. His hanging, for the murder or several members of the Vzral family in Chicago had been set for next Fri day.
 Billek was granted the reprieve bv Acting Governor Sherman until Janu- ary 29. 1909.
 Chicago. Dec. 7.-Herman Billek re- ceived the news that he had been re- prieved with great surprise as he had given up all hope and had repeatedly expressed the opinion that he would die on the gallows December II.
 The crime for which the prisoner was convicted was the murder of Mary Vzral. Binek's case has been in every court which has ju- risdiction in Illinois and also the Unit ed States Supreme Court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
THOMPSON REELECTED.
Again Heads the New Orleans Cotton Exehange.

New Orleans, Dec. 7--w. B. Thomp- son was today reelected to the pres- ,idency of. the New Orleans Cotton Ex- change for the ensuing year. Other officers selected were:
 John F. Clark to succeed himself as Vice. President; Sam ". Weis. to succeed J. G. Duncan as Treasurer; Directors. NJ. E. Duquesnay. Norman Eustis. A. M West, Jr.: E. J. Glen ny. George A, Hero. O. L. Lemarie. Jules Mazerat W. F. Pinckard, K c. Canning. Robert T. Hardie. E. H. Bright and George W. Clay
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
Prize |. Divided.

Paris, Dec. 7.-The Academy of Sciences has divided the La Lands prize between W. l.. ElkinE of the Yale Ob- seryatory and F. L. Chase. assistant at the Yale Observatory. for their papers on The parallaxis of 163 stars" M. E. smith. also of Yale Observatory. has received honorable mention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
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ALanAMA possE PuRsuEs.

, West Point. Ga. Dec. 7.--As the { result of a dispute negro named , Barrow Jackson. shot and killed
 } Harvey Dixon and wounded his , brother. Jule Dixon. two well } known young planters, near {
 , Whites Mill. Ala. yesterday. A , sheriff's posse Is pursuing the ne-
 } gro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
DIR. MACARTHUR OPPOSES
 CHRISTMAS TREE CUSTO

New York, Dec. Tiff 1t was left with Dr. Robert S. Macarthur. of the Calvary Bap- tist Church. the custom of hav- ing Christmas trees would be abandoned.
 How came we to adopt this custom which Is one of the GUS toms taken from the heathen. We are deforesting many DOT tions of our State and country. We ought to save the trees to give shade. To do my share in the work, I have forbidden the purchase of evergreen trees in this church for the coming hoh-
 
 days"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
Goen 10 Meet Castro.

Berlin. Dee, 7-Nicholas Kelos- -Goi . ticca. the Venezuelan charge a'affaires at Berlin. has gone to Bordeaux to meet President Castro. who is passen- ger on the steamer Guadeloupa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
Georriann steaI Llnnor.

Statesboro. Ga. Dec. 7.-The office of the Southern Express Company here was broken into and robbed last night of twenty-two quarts of EaisksS Nothing else was molested
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
WEATHER FORECAST.

Washington, Dee. 7.-FOr Alabama Falr FuesdRy with warmer In the north portion; Wednesday fair and warmerI light, variable winds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
DEPENDS BANKING SYSTEM.
Treasurer Treat Speaks at Banquet I
 New Haven.


 New Haven. New Haven, Conn, Dec. 7.-The New Haven Chamber of Commerce at its an- nual banquet ~tonight had as it's guests and speakers Charles H. Treat. Treas urer of the United States. and Rev. George H. Ferris of Philadelphia. Mir Treat cited statistics at great length to show the financial supremacy of the United States and then entered upon the defense of our national bank ing system.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
Champ Clark ia Leader

Before consenting to the swearing in of the new member of the House from the Third District of New York. Champ Clark. the new minority leader. re- quired an explanation of why his cre- dentials ware not before the House. He got an ovation from the Democrats for this, the first exercise of his preroga-
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ROW STARTED IN BARRooM.
Foggy Bottom Negro Convicted on
Three Charges in Police Court.

Percy Fletcher. Foggy Bottom negro,
was convicted upon three charges of dis
orderly conduct and assaulting a police
man and citizen in the Police Court
this morning, and I'm default of fines ag-
sregating s13 was committed to Jail for
eight months and fifteen days. Fletcher s
troubles according to the testimony. de-
veioped over an alteration with man
giving the name of Jerry Harrigan, and
ended with the negro striking the other
man in the back with brick. This was
followed by several other bricks hurled
at Policeman Much of the third pre-
cinct while the latter was attempting to
place the man under arrest. The brick
tossing was accompanied by great deal
OF profanity. which was responsible for
the disorderly conduct charge.
The trouble, it was said, occurred in
the neighborhood OF 18th and 1 streets,
and first started in barro$n in the
vicinity.
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MANY PAY TRIBUTES
Distinguished Men Honor
Memory of Saint Gaudens.
PRESIDENT A SPEAKER
Noted Gathering Attend Meeting in
Corcoran Gallery.
AMBASSADORS ON PLATFORM
Secretary of State Serves as Presid-
ing Oficer-Well-Des
Praise Rings True.
AMBASSADORS ON PLATFORM

More than Twelve hundred persons at
tended the memorial meeting last evening
under the auspices of the American In
stitute of Architects in tthe- Corcorar
Gallery of Art in appreciation of the
work of Augustus Saint Gaudens.
Before the doors were opened at !
o'clock a double line OF persons, the ma
jority of whom had arrived in carriages
had formed from the entrance on New
York avenue to 18th street. Ten minutes
after admission was granted the entire
lower floor of the Corcoran Gallery was
thronged.
1t was a distinguished gathering. The
foremost architects. painters, seulptors
authors. collectors, diplomats. statesmen
and social leaders from all parts of the
country met to pay tribute to the genius
of one of the greatest sculptors of mod
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Secretary of State Presides.


The Secretary of State stepped forward
and made the opening address. The
service which he rendered, he said, was
first of all to friendship, for forty years
ago in Rome he had met and learned to
know Augustus Saint Gaudens, then a
struggling young artist at the outset of
his career. and one of his proudest possess
sions is q small head which the sculptor
then modeled-a ''pot-boiler.
1T is something Mr.. Root said. Ito
have helped so great an artist boil his pot
once on time.
Tracing then the development of Sain.
Gaudens' genius and the influences which
bore on his art, the speaker declared that
today we can do nothing for this great
man. but that we can do much for our
selves. He himself had through his works
won immortality. but that in honoring
him we did credit TO the nation. Long
after those of this generation have passed.
he insisted. the works of Saint Gaudens
will live, witnessing as naught else can
TO the heroic deeds and lives of this day.
which with beautiful skill this sculptor
has int G Ipreted
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ent with Hellenic ideas of beauty and
grace. Take that solemn apd majestic
figure of Sorrow in the Rock Greek GEM
etery which expresses through form and
posture what only the very greatest mu-
sicians have been able to express
through sound. Take that touching rep
resentation in Boston of the young hero
of New England Robert Shaw. riding to
death among his soldiers of a, race just
delivered from slavery.
Evidence Of Strength.
amy one of these is sufficient to show the
strength, the tenderness and the power
Of seeing to the very heart of things
which have given Saint Gaudens a place
in the foremost rank of those who are
restoring to sculpture its ancient fame.
1t is not by reproducing the Greek ideas
of sculpture. but by his gift of imagina-
tive expression that Saint Gaudens Will
live. No one who looks round this room
can doubt that in America. which received
him child. encouraged him. gave him
noble subjects. appreciated and honored
him, his name will live as one of the
artistic glories OF your country
Japan and Mexico Contribute.
The japanese amba ssador. Baron Taxa
hira, also spoke appreciatively and at
length. In conclusion Senior Godoy, the
charge d'affaires of Mexico, added his
tribute, declaring that it is most fitting
that the great American sculptor should
have thus been commemorated here at the
capital of the nation to which he mad
brought honor and fame.
Never before it is declared, has such a
tribute been paid to the memory of an
could the praise have runs truer or been
better deserved.
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threatening the home of Mr.. Lewis, close
by. Mr.. Lewis, with several townspeo-
pie, made an unsuccessful effort TO check
the flames.
The entire plant and contents. includ-
ing much valuable machinery. 1000 cases
of canned sweet potatoes. ready for ship
ment; 800 empty oyster barrels and a car
load of hay were destroyed. Six horses
and one mule were gotten out in safety.
There being no firefighting apparatus in
the vicinity. Mr.. Lewis was compelled 10
stand by and see his property burn to
ashes
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ern times Never did the Corcoran Gal
lery present a more brilliant appearance
never has there been witnessed there a
more splendid scene. The exhibition OF
Saint GaudenS' works which filled the
great hall is In itself beautiful spectacle.
of the women's gowns and the gayety con-
tributed by many lights and excellent
music.
Positions Of Vantage Pre-empted.
A platform was placed for the speakers
in the center of the atrium, opposite the
grand staircase. and the space between
was roped off and reserved for the ac-
commodation of the wives of the ambas-
sailors and other special guests. Long
before 10 o'clock-the hour announced for
the neutrality-suspicious. of vantage had
been pre-empted both in the atrium and
on the stairs. so when at that time those
who were to make addresses assembled the
platform they looked on a veritable sea
of expectant faces. The stairs were used
as seats in the anphitheater. and the audi
ence itself made, as it were an embroid-
cry of color.
1t had not been announced that the
President would be in attendance. SO
there was considerable surprise manifest
ed when. with the ambassadors from
France. Great Britain. Brazil and Japan,
the charge d'affaires of Mexico. the Sec
rotary of State. the president and secre-
tary of the American Institute of Arch
tects and Mr.. Homer Saint Gaudens, he
took a seat on the platform.
Mr.. Cass Gilbert. the president of the
American Institute of Architects, intro
duced Mr.. Root and requested him to pre-
side.
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WHAT'S
Your Health Worth!

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and it generally shows first in the bowels
and liver. A zoe box (week s t1eatment)
of CASCARETS will help nature help
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take a CASCARET tonight. Better in
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Tribute by President Roosevelt.

At the conclusion of his remarks Mr.
Root called upon the President for an
address, and Mr. Roosevelt, complying
Immediately, began as follows:
"Mr Secretary, your excellences uhen,
turning to the audience), men and wom-
en- which at the outset provoked a
murmur of applause.
Continuing, the President said:
Augustus Saint Gaudens was ~
great sculptor. This makes all the world
his debtor: but in a peculiar sense 1t
makes his countrymen his debtors. In
any nation those citizens who possess
the pride in their nationality. without
which they cannot claim to be good cti-
zens. must feel a particular satisfaction
in the deeds of every man who adds to
the sum of worthy national achievement.
The great nations of antiquity. of the
middle ages. and of modern times were
and are great in each several case not
only because of the collective achieve
ments of each people as whole, but be-
cause of the sum of the achievements
of the men of special eminence; and this
whether they eXcelled in war craft or
statecraft, as roadmakers or cathedral
builders, as men of letters. men OF art,
or men of science. The field OF effort is
almost limitless, and pre-eminent success
in any part OF it is not only good thing
for humanity as whole. but should be
especially priced by the nation TO which
the man achieving the success belongs.
Particularly True Of America.
Particularly should this be so with us
i'm America. AS is natural. we have won
our greatest success i'm the field of an
Astounding material achievement: we
have conquered continent; we have
laced it with railways; we have dotted 1t
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CANNING FACTORY BURNS.
Big Establishment of F. G. Lewis
DESTROYED Near Parksley, Va.

PARKSLEY. Va. December 16.-Fire
yesterday destroyed the large canning fac
tory and oyster packing house. stables
and storehouse at Hunting Creek. few
miles from here, owned and operated by
F. c. Lewis, entailing an estimated loss OF
500 600 The fire was not discovered until
it had gained much Roadway and was
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Gifts Of Irish Race. .

lnQeeO has, Since the great ltdHan masters
died out nearly four hundred years ago.
not held so supreme place in art it
did in the ancient world
Il suppose that we should agree that
| among those who. have hourished since
Michael Angelo, the highest renoWn has
been won by the Italian CanoVa and the
Icelander ThOrwaldensen, and the praise
which was bestowed upon them was less
| that of originality than that of having re-
turned to and emulated the manner OF
| the Greeks.
Excellence in Sculpture.
"If we are to ask in what the excellence
of sculpture consists may we not distin-
guish three things, first, the exactitude
| with which 1t reproduces nature. especial
| ly in portraiture; secondly. the pure beau
| ty of form, and thirdly. the imaginative
quality through which it speaks to our
| intellect and our emotions? When we
| talk of imagination in a work of ART
we mean that in which the artist through
| his work addresses the mind and hearts
| of those who see it and makes what we
call an impression upon them.
1.-The combination of these three kinds
| of excellence truth to nature, beauty i'm
agnation. is nothing less than perfection
Any one of them possessed in a high
measure constitutes greatness. Saint
Gaudens had all three. but. as it seems to
me, shone especially by his imaginative
power. When you look at these figures
] which stand around us are you not
chiefly struck by the way in which he
has conceived each person or each scene
Must Have Meditated Long.
He must have meditated SO long and SO
deeply on the character of the man or the
incident which he had to represent as to
have filled himself with the emotion which
each suggested; and thus he was able to
express that emotion with a marvellous
directness and force which brings it home
to the beholder Take that noble study
of Abraham Lincoln, in which the gran
deur of the man triumphs over every
thing that might have appeared inconsist-