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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
A Portuguese Basket.

to Delagoa Bay. and thence shipped in
by railroad to the mines of the Rand.
They are employed on short time con-
tracts, and as a rule serve only few
months, when they are anxious to go back
home. The Chinese came in on three
years contracts, with the privilege of
extending them to six years They have
made much better laborers than the ma
tive Africans, who, as rule, wish to
stop labor as soon as they have accumu-
lated enough money to buy an extra wife
or so who can support them at home
l stopped at Bamboo creek on account
Of a washout on the railroad going into
Rhodesa. I had Travelled all day from
Beira, on the Indian ocean, passing
through lands largely covered with water.
1t had been raining for week or and
the country is now flooded. Some of the
bridges have been swept away and the
road is so unsafe that the engineers do
not dare to go over 1t at night. The re-
suit is that our party is landed here in
the wilds. There is no town excepting a
hotel and this cotton plantation. The no
tel is tin shanty of one-story with a
barroom in front. a dining room at the
side and kitchen in the rear. The bar
room is filled with mementos of big
game hunting. The huge skull of a hip
popotamus lies on one end of the coun-
ter. and there are lion skulls and leopard
skulls among the whisky and brandy bot
ties at the rear. At one end of the room
Is a stuffed zebra with a stuffed leopard
On top of him. and about the walls are
the heads and horns of a dozen different
kinds of antelopes. The bartender sells
hippopotamus hide whips and canes at
extravagant prices. and he offers to lend
me his rifle if 1 care to shoot big game
He says there are end of rhinCs and
hippos nearby, and that lion can be
found almost any night by going within
a few miles of the hotel. l have not yet
decided to go.
"Sweet Marie" in Black Africa.
We were a curious party as we came
into the hotel for dinner, and our enter
tainment was interesting. In the first
place we had the chief engineer of the
Rhodesia railways, and with him a neph-
ew of Lord Roberts. who is also a civil
engineer. We had another railroad of
fetal, who has charge of line away up
the Zambes in British Central Africa.
and the American cotton planter of whom
I have already spoken Among the other
travellers are a millionaire Wall street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
"A CITY DIVIDED AGAINST TTSELF"-TT DOES STA

HAT. contrary to biblical state
ment. a city divided against
itself" can stand is shown most
strangely in the peculiar case
OF Bristol. Na.-TeDn. The town
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12

|; NEGRO Versus Chinese
1 y Cheap Labor-An Odd
Contract System A Visit
to a Cotton Plantation Run
by an American - Sweet
Marie" at Bamboo Creek
The Chief Cities of the Col
ony - Mozambique q Back
Number-Laurenco Marques
as the Great Gold Port Of the
Future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12

Special Correspondence of The Star.
BAMBOO CREEK,
Portuguese East Africa
WAY out here in the jungle, in
~ the miasmatic lowlands back of
~ the Indian ocean, about two
thousand miles northeast of
Cape Town. in the heart of Por-
tuguese Africa l find an American man
aging a cotton plantation. He is en-
ployed by the Rhodesia Company, and he
has set out a tract of about 500 acres
along the line of the railroad. which runs
from Beira to Bulawayo. His work IS
entirely experimental. The company owns
three miles on each side its tracks and it
hopes to develop a great cotton industry
in the Portuguese possessions.
The cotton is now two months old and
it is already knee high. The plants look
thrifty, and the fields are as clean as a
garden They are watched day and night
to keep out the rhinoceroses and hippo
potami and during the rainy season one
has to be careful how he wades through
the rows for fear of losing a leg to d
hungry crocodile.
/ have had long talk with the man
ager. His name is Stillson and he comes
from Meridian. Miss. He tells me that
one of the chief dangers is from the wild
beasts. The county has many lions, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
BAMBOO CREEK,

Copyright. 1905. by Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence of The Star.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
MORNING THOUGHT
BY J. MARVIN NICHOLS

ssrhey say.s That phrase has blast.
 cd the character and wrecked more homes than any other in the language Call a halt on the lech- srous peddler who comes at you with his wares--They Say" Fire point blank at his cowardly heart-"Who says?" That hits the spot. You can- not afford to miss The person who cfrculates scandal or peddles truth Gone is just as good as the other) is q vampire. He sucks life-blood. No has caused more trouble. pair and sor- row. Shadowy--it hits In the dark. It Is anonymous. It has no personality, It cannot suffer any reaction. It Is wholly irresponsible. The phrase ought to be put under the ban. It is this way: You speak to some one of n1u- tual acquaintance. There is a shrug eyebrows. Then a lowering Of the voice. with the preface They say" Even when the gossip fails to give his authority he has put an evil Idea in your mind respecting the person he speaks of. You cannot rid yourself of the sugge stion. The impression stays. The suspicion turks. A great wrong is eager for that always have a mouth assassination of character has begun. What They say" may sometimes be a true message. But Is 1t necessary messagef Wih 1t make the old world the better or the worse for the tell. ing2 It Is very plain that much suffer- ing and sorrow might be prevented by cutting these ugly words out or the vocabulary. If man or a woman won't cut them out, you cut them out And be quick
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
HE cOwED CHINESE OUTLAWS
An American Scientist Who Hould at,,
 Foe Ay- -

An American Scientist Who Would staaa
 For No Nonsense
 Outing Magazine.
 It was fin August of 1907. Frank N. Meyer. the scientific explorer for the UaIt- ed States government, had set out with coolies and charts for the peach region of northern China. The region he knew. was full of outlaws. brigands. and rnurderors. One night when his guides were asleep, some Chinese Soldiers-hugs Manchurian fellows far different from the American Idea of the Chinese rode elattering up to the inn. and warned Meyer not to 10 on. There was a band of robbers on the road At the word. his coolies jumped from the sleep. ghastly pale. and trembling with fright. They threatened to desert. Meyer forced them to go on.
 Next morning toward midday they were at country inn. when Q great commotion was heard outside. The interpreter dash ed in oreathless with the news that the r1urderers had just beaten merchant jew eler to death on the public highway Mey- CT rushed out in time to see a corpse gash- ed to pieces by pickaxes brought in. Nat uraliy none of the company had appetite for dinner that day. The unnerved coolies went ravlng mad with fear. All that pre- vented them deserting the white man was the distance from home. It was as unsafe to retreat as to go on.
 Meyer handed out long knives for his men to defend themselves and put his own pistol in order giving instructions for the party to keep indoors after dark. The Chinese soldiers offered to accompany the white man part of the way; but that would be only an alternative of evils. Meyer de- cMned. Some miles along the road the ex- piorer and his party passed the band of cutlaws-a ragged mob gathered In a farm field making a pretense at work. with bludReons and huge swords ready to hand.
 When we think of the Chinese we nat uraaliy think of the dwerfed specimens seen in the Oriental colonies of America; hut the north of China native is a huge six-tooter. tough as barbarian. and say age as one too The sun was shining as the white mans party marched past. The light glinted on the long nickle-plated bar rel of Meyers biggest pistol The scient- ,st looked straight and unfllnching in the faces of the outlaws. The leader or the brI1ands nodded to his followers They d4onnsa their bIudgeons and made still greater pretenss of working
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10

National Committee, and next to EliAu Root, the best known trust and poiiti- esi @ isn yer tn the united States. ne-
 It is now made clear by certain statements obtained. from French bankers that among the Ieople asso- ciated with Cromwell were Charles P. Taft, brother of the Republican presidential candidate of the Republi- can party, and J. Pierpont Mirgan. How accurate the assertions of the Bremen bankers may be is difiicult 10 tell. But Charles 4, Taft. like Mir. Involved in the. Taft campaign is heavily interested In concessions of all kinds ranging from gas. and electric lights to railroads. And the story
 Az said before. think this cam. pagn should be conducted on the line pr the discussion of iesues. have here written some discussion of the d. nancial affiliations of men connected with the Republican campaign. Inls is done just by way of showing that if the Democratic party up to this time has talked chiefly of the guaranty of bank deposits. the effect or the tariR on the cost of liviRg. the publicity of campaign contributions, and the abuse of the writ of Injunction, 1t has not been done for lack of ample material with which to attack its oppontnts personally as they have attacked It's
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10

The esteemed Pittsburg Post is not greatly impressed by Son-in-Law Longworth. Quite the reverse of the contrary" in fact. Here Is the way it talks of the young member of the Roosevelt dynasty:
 He far exceeds diplodocus or any other object of curiosity eXhumed from the slime of past ages and mounted in the Carnegie museum. He Is not a mummy of an Egyptian prince of the royal line of Rameses. but an Ohio grape belonging to a modern dynasty, and he has the nerve to gloat oyer auditors that the alternating current of Roosevelt and Taft should be ac- cepted as the new imperial system. It is said that "Nicky' is at his best in reciting "Casey at the Bat" When the real achievements of Casey are re- called, nothing more appropriate could be selected.
 Now isn't this a nice way to talk about the prospective heir of the Roosevelt greatness? He might be nothing more than a low pot-house politician. judging from the opinion The Post seems to entertain of him, whereas he Is the man who married the daughter of Roosevelt. Is that nothing?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
GEoRerA,s VOTE.

The result of last Wednesdays elec- ton in Georgia shows how utterly fu- tile is any effort to break a real South ern State away from it's Democratic moorings. The official count will prob ably show that MT. Brown will have not less than one hundred thousand majority over Yancey Carter. who seems to have been what we might call an acute Independent candidate. In other words, although he was orig inally put forth by Hearst's Indepen- dence League he bolted from that and ran on an independent ticket of his own. He has but little to show for it, but as much as he could have had req son to expect or hope for. What he expected to accomplish by making the race Is not apparent, except to get his name among the "also-rans" of whom Georgia has had a goodly crop.
 The vote on Wednesday shows the same lack of interest that is usually apparent in Alabama in State elections. From the estimates we have seen not more than sixty per cent of the total vote of the State was cast. and the falling of was principally among the Democrats. No doubt at least one- fourth of the Democratic voters of the State excused themselves from voting by the plea that Browns election was an assured fact and therefore there was no need for them to take the trou- ble to go to the polls.
 This is not the proper course for Democrats to pursue. Georgia, like Alabama, is safely and surely Demo- cratic and may be depended on to give safe majorities for the regular ticket, but Democrats ought to show their faith by their works and vote their full strength. Apathy may not be dam gerous but neither is 1t wise or proper. We may not lose an election by indif- ference but we should exert ourselves to show what we can do. We have become somewhat tired of having the finger of scorn pointed at us by our Northern brethren who take a proper pride in voting as nearly their full strength as Is possible.
 Especially should we be anxious to show our full strength in the national election soon to be held. Alabama will certainly be for Bryan, but 1t will be no credit to us as Democrats and good citizens if we give him the electoral vote of the State by less than half the legal Democratic votes We could poll. It isn't half as much trouble to go out and vote as it Is to go to a ball game. but many can find time to spend few hours at the game who are too busy to spare one hour or less to per form a duty that every good citizen should be proud of. We hope the re- suit of November's voting will show that we appreciate one of the highest privileges of free Americans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
some statistlcs on Crims.

Chicago Journal
 The Popular Science Monthly for August contains some figures on crime in Chicago that should awaken the interest of every citizen.
 In an article by Maynard ShIpiey 1t is shown that chicagos arrests in 1905 for murder and murderous assaults were 94.1e to 100000 native whites. but i4s. 65 to 1oo,. 0e0 foreign whites.
 From this Mr. Shipiey deduces the con- ciusion that much of the crime In large cities is due to the presence of immigrants as far larger proportion. indeed. than that which Is due to native born citizens Ig. norant and lawless aliens. he thinks are the chief menace to our civilization.
 Facts regarding New York seems to bear out ths statement Between 1890 and l9os the percentage of aliens from Russia and Southern Europe in that city rose from 90 to 70 per cent. Tn the same time arrests for homicide rose from per 100000 in 1890. to is in 1900. and 21.5l in 1906.
 6tfi further confirmation is found In the statement of a New York deputy police commissioner that of late burglaries have fallen off at least 50 per cent and that homieides and other crimes have consider ably iessened. This comes on top of emi- grafton from New York city between oc- tober. 1907, and February, 1908 of ts.. 900 aliens who had been residing there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
AN uNpLEAsANr POSSIBILITY.

Among the many other good reasons for the defeat of Taft which present themselves to The Pittsburg Post Is the possibility that he might not live to serve out his term. "Mr. Roosevelt" |" 1t says, did not break into the Pres idency normally. Is the country will ing to take the chances of a Taft be- ing succeeded by a Sherman? How can his career as a member of that committee on rules. which has been the obstructlonists' chief refuge these lat est stormy years, be excused, explained or justified to harmonize with MT. Tafts assumed character President Roosevelt's strident sponsorship of his ponderous War Secretary for the suo- cession makes inevitable the question: Is Sherman now, has he ever been for or against what Roosevelt thinks. or at least says. he wants to have done? MT. Sherman needs explaining. His
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
TALKING RIGHT OUT.


 We fear The Hartford (conA.) Times is forgetting "the divinity that doth hedge about e king when 1t refers to the President of this great country. Ii is even inclined to be saroa stic when speaking of him. as the following will show:
 Ex-Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska. Wnose daughter became the bride of MT. II. Knox Smith in Farmington tn e Vstner tbts i gay: mas been at the White House thls week, and is willing to have 1t tie master about the Presidentiai nj ine cam ls- palgn. He says he told that explosive gentleman that the people of the West are tired of the campaign of personal abuse" and would like to have tn 6 mud slinging omitted; This is as if should seek out the matador and urge him to emigrate to Vermont and devote the rest of his life to attending prayer
 Where is. the fun in a political cam paign. in which there is no mud sling ing from the White House? Is not and admired President who ever held the office, and is he not the first Presi- dent to indulge in unfair. partisan. de- slinginR timer Is there anything grat- flying or bully, anything to make the average ruffian and hoodlum yell and
 tn row himself, in the sort of cam paign this Nebraska man talked to MT. Roosevelt about?
 We do not believe that MT. Roose- yelt will allow himself self tq be Influenced openly that the President has been drawn Into too many bickerings and quarrels. and that his appearance has the statement that MT. Roosevelt lis- tened quietly to talk of this kind. Is he not in receipt of letters from the hundred every hour. telling him that he is the only man who can "save the campaign" that 1t Is his duty to go out and save 1t hy making speeches all through the West and that the con test would be a dead one" but for the ginger he has put Into 1t?
 talks like moliycoddle and shows many of the characteristics of an un- desirable citizen.
 There may have been cause for Roosevelt to listen quietly-not be- cause his conscience accused him. but because of the man who was address ing him. We do not claim an intimate knowledge of MT. Dietrich's nature and qualities. and 1t may be that he is a man with whom bluff and buster will not go. It may be that 1t was a case where discretion was considered the better part Of valor. and the President thought 1t prudent to take things easy for the time. "The prudent man fore seeth the danger and hideth himself" and even Roosevelt may have a touch of prudence at times. All the same. Mir. Dietrich gave him some solemn truths to ponder on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
An h the Middle Ages. Ruffaln Exnraa

The cholera epidemic is showing the wretched incompetency of the Russian government even more giarinRly than did the war with Japan. In one of the hospitals it was found that three bathrooms were G1ing service for sas patients. One can readily believe the added statement that the death rate In this hospital was very large. The market places are described as being In very filthy coalition and nothing has been done as yet to have them iIeared. The dead houses are overcrowded and corpses lie unhuFied.
 St. Petersburg is in tact as much a medieval city in it's sanitary con- dlron as its government and the plague which has fallen upon 1t Is like- " to De no less terrible than were the famous epidemlcs which swept over western Europe in the Middle Ages.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10

future is in more need of guaranty than bank deposit in frenzied finan. cial Institution. The country can't swallow the Taft dose without taking also the Sherman chaser"
 As is we'll known, the country has had five accidental Presidents, as we may term them; men who succeeded to the position through the natural or violent deaths of the President. It is putting 1t fairly to say that those who were thus advanced to the Presidency were not always such men as the peo- pie would have chosen for the high off, flee. The possibility that Mr. Sherman might become President should be a valid reason for not supporting Taft, if there were no other cause for voting against him. though that is but one of many.
 The fact is that the great political parties have not always displayed wis. dom and sound judgment in selecting candidates for the Vice Presidency. Sometimes a man is nominated because of his popularity. or because 1t Is be- lieved he will add strength to the ticket, or because of desire to secure the vote of the State he represents, or for some other reason than his fitness to fill the higher place if he should be called to 1t. The Republicans thought they had secured Ohio by nom- mating one of its citizens for first place. and that they could nail down New York by putting man from that State as running mate. The chances are that they not only failed to select suitable man but will also fail to carry his State. Sherman for Presi, dent Is not pleasant possibility.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
This Ls My 55th Birthday
Henry wade Rogers.

Henry Wade Rogers, dean of Yale Law School. was born in H 0lland Pat ent, New York, on October 10. 1853. He received his education at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated N. and IL U D. from W Wesieysn i G inf versity. In June 1876, at Pennington, N. J., he married Miss Emma Ferden Winner. In the following year he was admitted to the bar. After he had practiced for several years he was made professor of law in the school of the University of Michigan in 1883. From 1885 to 1890 he was dean of the law school In 1890 he was appointed President of the Northwest University, Evanston. Ill. which position he held until 9101. when he became professor of law at the Yale Law School, the dean of which he became on January l. 1904. He was chairman of the Worlds Congress of Jurisprudence and Law Reform, which was held at Chica- go in 1893 and has held several other positions of honor. H ehas also writ ten a number of books on subjects of jurisprudence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10

The Indianapolis Star plainly has no doubts about Lohgworth having said just what he was reported to have said about the Presidential succession, and 1t uses long editorial to condole with the President over the blunderbus ut. teranoe of his son-in-law. and to ab- solve Roosevelt himself from all blame for the assinine effusions of Nicky. Perhaps Roosevelt does not approve the manner in which his daughters husband exposed himself but 1t will require something more than a denial from Roosevelt to convince the public that he was in no way responsible for the Longworth prediction. He has quite well established reputation for evading responsibility when he chooses to do so. Longworth will have to bear all the blame of talking like a fool but he has learned some of his irnpu- dence from more elevated source.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
How rarmInR should Re.

J. R. McLendon in LuVerne Journal
 am looking for the farmer who IS enjoying farm life like 6 real farmer should enjoy life.
 Is there a farmer anywhere Inside our county lines, who Is making every acre he owns contribute its share of the expenses that necessarily arise each year?
 No man. who owns land. deserves the name of farmer until he collects profit of every acre he holds a title to.
 The land owner Is doing well. who realizes per cent on the value Of his land.
 Almost every farmer Is ready to run over to his nelghbors to get to rent his surplus acres to a tenant who will almost Invariably leave the land poorer than he found 1t.
 I am looking for the farmer, who is renting at least all his waste to stock Every acre of untillabie land may De made in this way to pay a handsome
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
This Date in History
OCTOBER IO.

1615--Champlain gave battle to the 4roquois in western New York.
 !t53-The Rev. John Cotton was ap- pointed pastor of the First Church in Boston. va tt4
 l7SS-BenJamin West. the great Am eflcan painter, was born. Died March
 l1s7-Major Desbarres, the frst Lieu. tenant Governor of Cape Breton, retir-
 l845-The United States Naval Acad- emy was formally opened.
 lS4I-Jerome Bonaparte returned to France after an exile of thirty-two explorer, born near ChrltianIas
 1S62--Confederate cavalry under Pa. S'
 1s72-william Fl. Seward. Amar,csp n statesman. died. Born May l6. 1901,