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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
WHY ROME FELL.


 The history of The Decline and Fall of Rome" has been written with
 more or less detail. learning and truthfulness. so far as the truth can now be known. by a number of mod ern as well as ancient writers. The causes which led to the decadence and fall of the once powerful empire have been given. but all were st fault ac- cording to the theory of a modern scientist who tells us that the catas- trophe was really caused by--mosqui- toes!
 There Is new one for us. after all the learning that has been expended on the subject This new theorist does not claim that the mosquitoes actually overturned and destroyed the city. nor that they assembled in such numbers and were of such a ferocious nature that they drove out or killed all the inhabitants. mailed warriors as we'll as the peaceful citizens, for no one would credit such an assertion as that. so he goes about it in q more credible manner. His argument Is that Rome was rendered uninhabitable and the people destroyed or driven out by malaria. in some form or other. But where does the mosquito come in7 may be asked.
 That is an easy one, if we only think of 1t correctly. The modern theory of malarious diseases, which seems to be pretty thoroughly estab- iished is that malaria in it's various shapes is spread and disseminated by these nefarious little insects. and per- haps in no other way. That being the case, we may assume that the Pontine Marshes and the swamps along the Tiber were the breeding places of in- numerable hosts of mosquitoes. and that these. after the manner of their kind. Hit" on Rome MaiI-clad war riors and august tribunes, noble women and fair maids. toiIing slaves. peace full citizens and tender children all became victims, and in time Rome be. came such a hotbed of disease that hu- man life could no longer exist there. Those of them who didn't die from some form of fever pulled up stakes and pulled their freight for more en- durable location.
 If this is not good and sound rea- soninE where's the hitch? We know that conditions in and about Rome were highly favorable to the develop ment of both malaria and mosquitoes. and We also know--at least the learn- ed ones know-that the mosquitoes carry the disease about and shed 1t promiscuously and impartially; there fore. by q natural and rational course of reasoning we arrive at the inevir- able conclusion that the decline and fall of Rome was due to mosquitoes. Refute that argument if you can.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

That was q pertinent question asked by Senator 'overman, of North Caro-. iina. when the Senate had before it the proposal to appropriate four hum dred thousand dollars with which to purchase house for our Minister in Paris. Docs the Senator think" he inquired, that q poor man could af- ford to live in s4oo.ooo house7' While the question may not settle any thing. it is. as The New Bedford stan- dard says. "a pertinent reminder that the matter is not the simple one which the champions of this idea have
 thought 1t to be. Most persons have found in their individual experience that an expensive, house means sn ex- pensive scale of living What might be called the fixed expenses of A s4oo.- 900 house might not be four times as large as those of . sIoo,o6o house but they would be very much larger. while the collateral expenses of the more ex- pensive house would be very apt to be many times as large. That is the way in this country. and 1t would likely be the same in Paris. We are afraid that the movement for oficial homes for American ministers and ambassadors is partly impelled by the desire to make a great sp1urge."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
A PASTOR CANONIZED. Rev. BartIey Harris, COlOred. Is Made Saint By His Church.

f1untSNllle Mercury.
 The members of the Oak Avenue Primitive Baptist Church. a colored organization. have by official action canonized the late Bartley Harris. who was for forty years pastor of their church and in honor of his memory have named their congregation Saint Bartley's Primitive Baptist Church, and under that name the church was incorporated by papers filed in the Probate Judges office Saturday sign ed by Jack McCrasky and associates The declaration of incorporation re- cites that 1t Is the desire of the incor- poration to preserve in this manner and enduring form the name of a de- voted servant of Christ. Rev. Bartley Harris. who for so long served them as pastor. Rev. Bartley Harris who died fifteen years ago was for a number of years a leader in colored religious affairs He was highly respected by all citizens. This is perhaps the first instance on record at the county court house where the memory of a minister was so honored as to have his name placed upon the lists of Saints.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
DIR. FEIsT MAKES BOND.
He Has Been Allowed BaiI By Nashville
 Judge.

btS fnuB Deen AhOWS0 nHAA ny N1sMNhAAc
 Judge.
 Nashville Banner.
 Judge W. M. Hart this morning held that Dr. J. Herman Feist is en- titled to bail and fixed his bond al s25.oo0. This is one of the largest, 1T not the largest, bond ever required in once to make the bond.
 The fight really was to force the State to show any new evidence on the question of venue. But If they have any 1t was not brought out. The legal battle was hard fought, the State contending that venue cuts no figure in a bail case.
 On the other hand, the defense con tended that this as much a material point as any other.
 Judge Hart reviewed the case briefly up to the present time. He then said that the case is now before the court two questions to be decided are whetn- CT the case Is hailahle and the amount of the bail. He held that the venue ts as much an element as the corpus delicti or any other point. He saId that the Supreme Court had not located the crime anywhere. and unless there Is some evidence on this point in am other trial. the court would he com pelied to set aside a verdict of guilty. if such were returned. Under all the facts, he held that to keep the defen- unless the State brings out something new on the question of bail.
 In conclusion. he said that he thought the oftense hailable. but did not think 1t shonld be- nominal. "I therefore ux tn" hail at $25.00O
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
TvbcrculOsIu Exhibit.

pear MT. Editor:
 In view of the many orga nizations and individuals who have taken some part in making successful the Amerl- can Tuberculosis Exhibition Tn this city 1t may not be unSeemly for me to ad- dress to you a cordial note Of apprecla- tion of the many courtesies and efficient cooperation extended during our stay In your city. On behalf Of the Nation al Association for the Study and Pre- Vention of Tubersulosis may l thank the scores and even hundreds who have co-operated with so much enthusiasm in this propaganda against needless disease. May I venture to add a word of personal thanks for all that has been said and done during the period or ln- tense activity which has been made effective through the intelligent sym pathy and prompt response Of many ln- stitutions. organizations and indivld- uals.
 The hope is that Montgomery ana Alabama may be the better for the ex- perience. that many lives shall be the longer and human experience nappler as a result of this effort, and bring rich reward to the many who nave maoe it all possible. .,..
 Yours very truly
 American Tuberculosis Exhipitlon
 E. C. Routzahn. Dlrector
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
IS SHE A pEvILs

Is there such a thing as total and absolute human deprayity? Can hu- man being be entirely devoid of mercy, pity or any other better attributes Of our nature? We read of Bluebeard. of Captain Kidd and others whose lives wore little else than a continuous rec ord of the most brutal and inhuman crimes but even they sometimes show cd some signs of humanity and were evidently not totally depraved.
 But if we may judge from the revel- ations that have been made, and from the testimony that has been found, the La Porte woman. Mrs Guinness. must be as thorough a tigress as ever wore human form, and complete example of total depravity such as has seldom been seen, at least among any but the lowest forms of savagery. Already something like a dozen human bodies, or portions of them, have been dug up from the premises occupied by her. but no one yet knows if they have all been found. That the remains of her own three children were found in the ruins of her home to which she Is sup posed to have set fire only adds to the horrors of the case. Whether she burned their bodies, or confined them in the house and burned all together Is not known as yet.
 One theory is that Mrs. Guinness de- diberately lured men to her farm by means of an advertisement in a Chi cago newspaper. in which she repre- sented herself as an attractive and amiable widow looking for a mate. She alleged that she was the owner of valuable farm and sought a well-to- do farmer as a husband, After visit from such & candidate she generally induced him. it appears. to sell his farm and come to her with the pro- ceeds of the sale, at, which time she would deliberately murder him and bury his body on her premises.
 All the details of her crimes and the manner of their accomplishment may never be known, but the fact remains that her home for years appears to have been a literal house of death where, like a monstrous spider she spread her net and caught unwary victims for whom she exhibited as little feeling or mercy as docs the real spider for the unlucky flies that 1t traps and devours. If there was ever a trace of human feeling exhibit cd by her there Is no evidence of it. We are told by one writer that flor years this strange woman conducted her murder mill and her neighbors re- marked upon her good humor and her children played with others of their age In the neighborhood."
 That Is one of the strange features of this more than mysterious case. If the woman had been of a morose and sour nature. and if she had kept her self shut up in her home and refused to have any communication with her neighbors. or receive or return their visits. her conduct would not have ap- peared so strange and inexplicable. but from all accounts she was pretty much like her neighbors and apparently gave no indication to the public of her foul depravity Altogether 1t is one of the strangest cases we have ever
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
\ New Jersey man used a giant fire.

4 New Jersey man used giant hre- cracker as a cigar-lighter. whether through bravado or ignorance does not appear, but there was no doubt as to the result. They picked up his right hand in the street and the rest of him from a corner of the room for the doctors to patch up. If he lives he may not be as handsome as he was but 1t is a safe bet that he'll have more sense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
This Date in History
May 12.

1S0s--Robert c. winthrop. orator. born in Boston. Died there November l6. 1sa1.
 1S3s-Insurrection in Paris and at tack on the Hotel de Vile.
 lS%0-French chambers decreed the removal of Napoleon's remains from St. Hele7 tu France.
 ls60--i Hnry Cabot Lodge. United States S"nator from Massachusetts, born in Boston.
 1s5l--Jospeh K. Toole. ex-Governor or Montana. born in Savannah. Mo.
 1S60-Sir Charles Barry. architect of the British House of Parliament. died 1S1S-Body of Chief Justice Chase lay in state in the Capitol at Wash ington
 1S74--Women admitted to take de- Brees at the London University.
 lSO3-Governor Pennypacker O.: Pennsylvaniafi signed tho press mug.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
The Washington Star in an effort to be facetious makes this inquiry.


 But who is Smith. and why is he for Johnson for President. Who. or what put 1t into his noddle to tryi to swing the sovereign state of Alabama at this time. Hon. A. c. Smith now a citizen of Birmingham and about whom the above query Is made. for several years was State Senator from the Sumter District, and no man stood higher in legislative circles. He was afterwards and for several years the Chairman of the Alabama Democratic State Com mittee and one of the best that ever served the party. If The star wants any further information it can obtain it from any of the Alabama Senators and Representatives or from any well informed Alabamian who may be in washin gton.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
TUESDAY, MAY 1s. 1908.

The New Haven Leader. one of the reliable Republican papers of New England. is not pleased over the feet that connecticut's delegation to chica- go was instructed for Taft. It says that an instructed delegation will be of no benefit to the party. And we might remark that The Leader is not the only paper to take that view. for there is quite a strong Hughes senti- ment in New England.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
OHIO DoRBTFRL.
Taftites Will Have to Surrender to
 Fornker.

WaSnlnHtOn opeCidI.
 The nomination of Judson Harmon for Governor of Ohio by the Democrats was received here with great satisfac- tion by the Democrats and with regret by the Republicans. for 1t means that in the next election Ohio can at least be counted in the doubtful column.
 Notwithstanding that Secretary Taft will be the Republican candidate against MT. Bryan. the nomination of Judge Harmon also means that the Taft Republicans Tn Ohio will be com pelled to surrender to Senator Foraker and allow him to succeed himself in the Senate. for if they should refuse to do this. Taft would certainly lose the state and former Governor Campbell Democrat; be elected to the Senate in place of Foraker. All wise and prac- tical politicians here admit that if the administration continues its fight peace with him. the State will be lost to the Republicans. It will be bitter pill for the President to swallow, sur rendering to .Foraker, but he will have to take the dose. otherwise his leqatee may he beaten. That lie will do it. though. there seems little doubt. for in many things of importance here the President has proved himself a qultter
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives it as

The Cincinnati Enquirer gives it as it's opinion that eff Johnson and Gray are nominated at Denver Bryan will defeat the ticket" Then The Wash ington Post responds that If Bryan Is nominated he will do the same thing" There we have two ways of looking at it, each of which may be thought right or wrong. all depending on the way one looks at 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
An E@g Sign.

We. have conclusive evidence that it VIII De Bryan this year. Our evidence IS an egg, new In the possession of J; C.. Cottle of this place. which he picked up in his yard last Tuesday. This particular hen fruit is of ordiIl- ary size on the small end of which is a very distinct capital "B" This is q rather curious phenomenon and can De seen at any time at the store of r. L. Mckenzie VI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
Corn sI, Cotton Q Cents.

Corn Is worth a dollar or more s bushel and cotton C6nts a pound. At this rate 1t takes n bale of cPtton 10 feed a horse in grain to say} nothing of the hay required which many ol our farmers buy at From $20 tb $30 per ton. Take these figures. MiI Farmer and see if you can figure out tany pront on a one horse crop devoted3 exclusive ly to cotton. And this Is rlot a theo- retIcal problem but an actuPl proposi- tion that Is staring each cotton farm CT In the face and must be dealt with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
PULLMAN OPPOSES INSTRUCTIONS
Thinks Question Is An Unimpertant
 One.

One.
 Columbia Special to Charleston News
 and Courier.
 Senator Tillman Is still as much opposed to the idea of instructing delegates as he has ever been. He now thinks it will make but little material difference in the result, but, on general principles, he Is opposed to instructing delegates from South Carolina because he thinks the dele gates this state will elect will be men who can be absolutely trusted.
 As matter of fact, he thinks all this agitation about instructing or not instructing delegates Is ''moonshine'' CT "foX-fire." He thinks there Is nothing whatever in 1t and that the people are not interested in it. It is his opinion that MT. Bryan will be nominated. and he is strongly of the opinion that Bryan will be elected un- less Roosevelt should be renominated. He thinks Bryan can beat any other man than Roosevelt In the Republican party. and If the DA moLrats could get a Cleveland, not Mir. Cleveland in Person, but a man who stood for the same thing, and could command the support that Cleveland does 'It would be a shame to take the money" the way such a candidate would run away with the race and be erected to the Presidency
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

Some of the brethren are expressing surprise over the announcement that Roosevelt has declared himself su- preme over the army and navy. Is there anything new in that declara- tion? Has he not occupied that ground all the time of late. both by word and aet7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

Once more we beg to remind The Raleigh (N. c.) Times, that in common fairness and justice 1t should abandon its habit of taking editorials from it's contemporaries and printing them as as it's own products. The habit is no credit to an otherwise good newspaper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

We would say that we are now to have some good weather were it not for some recent experiences. We are no longer in the weather predicting business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

Governor Folk. Of Missouri. wants to know whether the saloon shall run politics or politics shall run the sa- looms. Well, in most places they seem to run pretty well together, each help ing the other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

One of the reports from the disas- trious Chelsea fire says that two thou sand cats lost their lives. but we are not informed whether they lost all their lives or only one each.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

People up in New Haphshire are feIicitating themselves over the break ing up of the ice in the rivers. but complain that they are not getting any summer to speak of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

This has been an unusually hard sea son on the crop of Spring poets. They never know whether their brighter effusions will bloom and bear fruit or be frost bitten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
ADyERrIsEMENr FOR PROPOSALS.

U. $. court House and Post Office Building. Mont tgomery, Ala.
 Sealed proposals will be received at this building until o'clock. p. m. May 2s i90s for furnishing fuel lights. water. ice. mis- celaneous supplies. washing towels. hauling ashes, and sprinkIing streets for this build ing during the fiscal year ending June 3o 1909, such portion of the year as may be deemed advisable The right to reject any and all bids is reserved by the Treasury Department. J. P. DIMMIcK. Custodian.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
sWoRN CRCuLATIOl

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees its advertisers (and makes 1t . part Of the contract when red1ested) that tts daily cir culation is larger than that of any morn. ing newspaper printed In Alabama--and that it's Sunday edition has the largest cir- cuia4ion of any edition Of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for April printed below repre- sent the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

We defy Heavenly Houston" or any other bragEart to produce a more beautiful day than last Sunday was in Montgomery. Can't be done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
] sugEestea Quartette.

Four delegates at large are to 20 to Denver. There are seven candidates :, What about this four: Henry D. Clay ton of Barbour, Dr. R M. Cunningharn Of Jefferson. Osceola Kyle of Morgan and F. s. Moody. Sr.. of Tuscaloosa?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

It is not surprising to be told that Hearst looks on union between poli- ticaI parties as a sham. He wants to be the whole thing or nothing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
SOME STATE PRESS VIEWS.

There is enough Democratic energy being wasted at this late hour in booming Johnson to go a long way towards electing Bryan. The Johnson campaign and the Bryan men hate to see so much energy going to waste.- Selma Journal.
 We believe that the majority of the Southern Democrats are in favor aF MT. Bryan. but the Southa cannot eleet 2 President without the help of the Northern States. It has been clearly demonstrated that Governor Joh nson is stronger in the North than MT. Bryan Is and there Is no doubt about his car ryinE the Southern States if he is nom mated. It Is time for the Democrats 10 drop the senseless sentimentaiism ana get back to practical politics if they expect to win out in the national eiection-opp Era.
 
 The belated Jolmson boom is not proving as effective as its promoters hoped 1t might be. Nine-tenths of the Democrats in Congress are for Bryan and they very well represent the sen timent of their constituents. Whether MT Bryan can be elected of course remains to be seen and Is an unknown quantity. but that he is the only Demo crat who has any chance to win is a substantial fact The majority of Democrats want him nominated and nc IS beaten Dy the autorcfdtic twO-thirds rulo in the Denver con vention, the follow who heats him will likely be Parkerized at the polls next dsden Times News.
 Johnson is a winner of political hat ties. He has twice carried h,s own State for the Governorship while 1t went wheJminglY Republican for other candidates. He has made good as Governor of Minnesota. and he has tho confidence of the people. It is claimed by we'll informed polite ans that he could carry the Republican North west and that 30.0O0 ScandIna- vians in Illinois would rally to his standard. and swing that stronghold of Repubiicanism into the Democratic column.
 This is the way the situation pre- sents itself to practical Democrats. They say, further that Mir. Bryan's Endorsement of Roosevelt's radical measures would. of itself. defeat him in the East: that the country is heart tly sick of so-called reformers and spectacular statesmanshi ip.
 These matters no doubt. will be presented to the people before the date of the primary. and 1t may be that the Democratic voters of Alabama can be convinced that in clamoring for Bryan they are following an ignis fatuus that can but lead to another humiliating defeat-Sheff.eld Stand ard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12

heard or read of. and also among the most incomprehensibie. The whole truth may never be known. hut if there can be such q thing as a huna devil she fills the description.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
Mongst Pleasant Persons
 rx c s. PARTRIDoE.
WHAT TO SAY TODAY.
rs,. Talk For Bronildes During the As" Three Meals.

T.hr. Talk For Bromides During the
 Three Meals. .,
 Rreakfast-Well, how do you uke o,r UTtJe city?-IheA call the iaoies dsna rtment Rebekah.~-Just think or tnat brute burning up the entire Iam- iiy-I expect the whole thing grew ont of some domestic dimcuity-.nes must have run all the way to W Wuss Led piantation-There seems to pc 1. So,yo deal aoout Johnson and Bryan in the paper this morning-They nave got to nil up with somsthins-They are not very particular.
 Luncheon-Well. Beau, how'd the game strike you yesterday?--AH to the mustard. I believe we can repeat tne dose today without feeling too oad about it-i wish they would hurry up with the Gunner woman's trial-fss I'd like to see how many she rsany must have been reading about her The newspapers ought not. to print such things like that the horrors Tn it were more than I could stand--Do you ever 20 to the Council meetings. No, went to most of the tubercul- osis exhibitions, though.
 Dinner-It justs looks as If we must have rain-Well. ff's certainly running cotton up--i ihat's not rain, it's Wall Wall Street puts cotton down-fne pc lice up north are mystihed; they don.t know whether that Ginny woman is dead or aiive-rhat horrible tragedy at our very door Saturday night na5 aken my thou ghts on of her-IlI cer ,ainly be glad to zee the team back axain-They say murder is just Kind of germ--Well l wish couid hang the the germ irst-Don't do anything until FAxt