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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27

on this subject their task would be comparatively easy one. but that is not the case. While theirs Is high tarif organization advocating and con tending for a protective tarifr, we all know that there is not full agreement among them throughout the country on the subject. There are local and sec tional interests in their way just as the re are among others and unless these can be adjusted and reconciled it is quite possible that any tariff law they may enact will be in the nature of a boomerang later on.
 But. as Mir Mccall says. the people will have an opportunity to pay the bills piled up against them by a reck- less administration. We hear little among the Republicans about retrench- ment in governmental expenses, or about looping of useless appropria- tions. There is not nearly so much said about returning to economical and honest management as there Is about finding way to get money to keep up to the example set by Roosevelt In short, the Republican idea Is to keep on spending the money and let the people pay the bills. Will the people stand 1t forever?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
---------------------- CANCER IS INCREASING.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
 Startling statements to the effect strong rival of the white plague and that the toll now demanded by the for mer has reached an appalling total. are made by pr. Harvey R. Gaylord, of the New York State Cancer Laboratory, al Buffalo, in his annual report to Health Commissioner Eugene H. Porter.
 The increase in the disease in the State of New York Is little short of ap- palling," asserts Dr. Gaylord. "The average death rate per 100000 popula- tion for 1908, 1907, 1908. taken collec- lively, Is seventy-six. showing an in- crease in thirteen years, from 1S96 to 1909. of 2S.S per Eent. The average death rate per 100000 for 1906, lsol and 1908 for tuberculosis is 169, show ing a decrease in the last thirteen years of 9.1 per cent.
 We well understand why tubercu- losis is decreasing. It is the result ol our Knowledge of the infectious character of the disease and of the now we'll organized warfare which is being opposed to 1t. Our knowledge of the nature of cancer as a disease is in its infancy, but it Is rapidly advancing and the outlook today offers very bright hope that in the future we shal understand and combat the disease by methods based on the present experi- mental research.
 ''The New York State Cancer Labora' tory was the first special institution for experimental cancer research to bt founded by any state. Our activities have increased from year to year, bui the appropriations which the state hal seen fit to give us have not been adeuuate for our task. The results t6 be obtained in work of this sort are directly proportionate to the amount oi money expended"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
A THOROUGH NUISANCE.
We clip this characteristic news iten from a contemporary:

We clip this characteristic news item from a contemporary:
 Carrie Nation has demonstrated anew pf sr herseif. During the trip across the Atlantic she made herself so obnoxious 10 the passengers of the steamer ba!tic' which arrived In New ad dSr. to ysersas. tSe caS, tain. If she saw anybody taking drink on shipboard she would raise a fuss. Her impertinent conduct in mind Ing everybody else's business disgust kd the other travellers. .
 We are told that we should strive for perfection, and 1t seems to us that Carrie is doing that. She is striving to make of herself perfect nuisance, and if she is not making a success Of 1t. she is evidently getting very near to 1t. No place Is too private or too sacred to restrain her or induce her to mind her own business: though per haps she thinks her business and ob- ject in life is to make herself disagree able. If the captain of the Baltic had locked her up in cell during the en- tire voyage who could have blamed him?
 It has long been a mystery to us that this old virago has been allowed such liberty and license as seems to have been the case. The fact that she is a woman is of course the explana- tfon. but we do not think that fact can be any palliation or defence of the many acts of vicious lawlessness of which she is continually guilty. If she sees a man smoking she wants to knock the cigar or pipe from his mouth. If she sees a man drinking a glass of beer she tries to smash the glass, and so 1t goes. Because she is a woman men do not care to smash her face as they might do If she were . man, and this immunity has rendered her unbearable. Sending her to jail is no deterrent, for she rather glories in Imprisonment and likes to pose as a martyr. In fact, any leniency shown her only adds to her lawlessness and impudence. In short. we can set Car Tie Nation down as a finished specimen % of unmitigated human nuisance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
CIeyeland's 72nd Birthday.

DeHlOpollS llmcS'
 Last week, while large company of people, Democrats and Republicans. were commemorating the birth of Gro yer Cleveland, in New York, Mir Taft, the President of the United States, made notable, a grand, most mag unanimous, an honest speech, and pro- nounced an eulogy on the great Dem ocratic President of eight years. four years in. four years out and four years in againj. Mir Taft, as the able. broad gauged man that he is. enumerated many things and acts that the people of America, Republicans and Democrats alike, were deeply indebted to MT. Cleveland for. Main among the acts of the wise and brave President was his unmovable stand for sound money and the credit of the nation. It gives the editor of The Times a peculiar feeling of qualification and pride, in view of the fact that back in the sos he was so severely assatled by large per cent of the Democrats of this, Ma rengo, county and this the first Con- gressional district, and even in this State for being so faithful to the gold standard, to Grover Cleveland and his ideas of government. We felt at the time that there would be a day when all of our Democrats, who knew him, would come to see that he was right in his unswerving faith in that grand and noble President, Grover Cleveland. He is dead and yet he still lives and will live as long as time shall last. We honor and revere his memory. we hon or and revere his spirit which shall live in the nation always.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
BEE sTiNGs FOR RHEUMATIsM.
ExpertmentS BeinE Conducted By New
 York Hospital Surgeon.

Experiments Being Conducted By New
 fork Hospital Surgeon. New York Times.
 Dr. Arthur w. swann. surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital, for the last two weeks has been experimenting, with much success. on rheumatic patients in the hospital. The treatment con- sists simply of sting or stings from the anatomy afflicted with the pain ful complaint.
 T have so far tried the bee treat ment on four obstinate cases" said Dr. Swann. and at least 1t has re- suited in temporary improvement in each case. had nothing to back my belief up as to its efficacy except the New England belief. However, think this is based on the fact that the sting causes counter-irritation. or that the peculiar poison of the bee sting acts as an antidote to the uric acid which causes rheumatism.
 T picked out four. of the worst suf- ferers from rheumatism-those whose joints and limbs were stiffened by the disease. After washing the afflicted parts with alcohol. so as to insure per- feet cleanliness. put two or three bees into a glass and then inverted the covered with piece of thin gauge.
 After a while the bees got busy, and when the patient had been stung once or twice they were removed. The pa t1enl IS WatCncu very Closcly, anu liS treatment renewed daily, the number of bees being increased until I have seen as many as ten bees under the glass at time.
 "Ak I said. the results have been most satisfactory, but 1t Is too early yet to say anything about the ultimate result of my experiments. I hope to try 1t out on some sixty or seventy patients before I come to any definite conclusion, but so far as 1t has gone, am we'll satisfied with the experi- ment."
 It is a well-known fact that people keeping bees. fAnj those who come In contact with theRiS are seldom afflicted with rheumatism, although there are those who prefer the latter to good sting from a yellow jacket or bumble- baa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
PAYING THE BILLS.

For a Republican we must say that Congressman Mccall, of Massachusetts. doesn't hesitate to use plain English in speaking of the course of events during the past few years. "The coun- try.,' he said in a speech to the Har- yard Union recently, "has been pass ing through a wild orgy of extrava- gance in which much has been consum- ed in fire works and fustian. and great burdens of expense have been unneces- sarily fastened on the country. Now, as a result. we are to have taxation such as the country has usually known only as a result of war. and the people will have an opportunity to pay the bills.'
 Commenting on these words, The New Bedford Standard, another Repub- lican, says
 One trouble about this statement is that it is true. Another is. that com parativeiy few people have walked up to the truth that 1t Is true. From the President of the United States to the authorities of the smallest cities in this country there are occasional feeble chirps that economy Is desirable. but the chief anxiety Is to find new sources of revenue. Here and there voice like that of the Congressman is raised In protest, but the truth that the peo- pie will have opportunity to pay the hills is not yet completely realized.
 We are not surprised to hear that the Republicans consider 1t "one trou- ble" that the imputations of MT. Me- Call are true. It is putting 1t very mildly to use the language he does. but it expresses at least part of the truth While Roosevelt dominated his party, the leaders of 1t were either afraid to try to put a check on his ex- travagance or else didn't know how to go about it. but now they know that something must be done and they are cudgelling their brains to find ways to raise sufficient revenue without weak ening their party in the estimation of the risk of being put out of business.
 It is delicate situation in which the Republicans find themselves, for they must largely depend on the tariff for sufficient revenue to meet the em- ergency, and the tariff is always a ticklish subject While 1t Is true that the Democrats in Congress will have a part in preparing a tariff bill, and while 1t is also true that they must haar some of the responsibilitv for wrongful legislation, it is equally true that the Republicans are in control of both branches of Congress and that no tariff legislation can be put through if they combine against it.
 If the dominant party, both in and out of Congress, could be of one mind
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
AMERICAN TARIFF LAWS
 xZU.. TIA Al;ue RU
By Frederic J. Haalin.
M-.Rt MiM Riu

cussions. William M. Springer. Ion. a member of the House, predicted that 1t would always stand as the foremost of all tariff debates. It was in the course of the confederation of the Mills Dill that Thomas B. Reed hrst awoke the nation to his powers as a debater. He told paraphrase of Aesop's fable and the dog which had a bone and lost 1t by trying to get the bone. from his image in the water. Reed pictured one of the finest dogs going, carefully groomed. fat. sleek. and with a nice mutton chop in his mouth. The dog came to a bridge, and in crossing it ne saw his image In the water. Mak- ing dive for the reflection. he lost his chop, and finally got out the nastiest, most bedraggled, muttonless dog in the world" To him the Democratic party was that dog. It saw the mar kets of the world reflected, and was seeking to dive into the water to secure them, the while neglecting the markets at home. and fguratively in It's mouth.
 There were 161 speeches made on the Mills bill in the course of general debate in the House. There were 24O hours of actual talk expended upon 1t, or thirty days of eight hours each. William McKinly. fin speakineg of 1t in his "Tarin in the Days of Clay and After.' says that the debates would fill some twenty-five Quarto volumes the size of an unabridged dictionary. But he seems to be mistaken about that, as the entire proceedings of the first session of the F1ftieth Congress occupy only nine volumes of 1000 pages each. tN
 The Miiis bin was the first tarifr measure upon which party lines were drawn So closely as to make it strictly party measure. Since then all tariff bills have received practically the unanimous support of the party father ing them and the unanimous antgon- Ism of the opposing party.
 Copyright, 1909. by Frederic J.
 Haskin,)
 T0rrsw-American Tariff Laws. XIV. The Mckinley Law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
What the Sfdfe Papers
 Are SaIins and Doing

The National Cane. Talladega Mountain Home
 Tarin reform is the game in wash. ington. but in . few weeks baseball will be the national game.
 Make Men Move. wetumpks Herald. .e
 The esteemed Montgomery Adyertis- licly acknowledging that the women do make the men move.
 Anofher Operation. Opelika Morning Post.
 ing in about going back to V0nexuela 1t would seem that he would not mind another operation being performed up- on his person.
 Come CT send. Troy Messenger.
 There was little doubt in the minds of those who were invited to recent Missouri M eSr wedding as to the cordiality printed and read as follows: You are invited to attend the marriage of Augusta Clay Johnson and Miss Chloe Matilda Baker. at the house of the brides mother. All who cannot come may send"
 Too Cheap h Alabama. Centerville Press. Life is getting entirely too cheap in paper without reading of q murder or two. We talk about tha civilization of Russia! We had better quit that. Ahd think about our own civilization. If juries would do their duty. we would der habit In Alabama.
 With The Mormons. Tuskegee News.
 President Taft will visit Salt Lake thai man has. He viii there make himself solid with each Mormon and his half dozen wtves.-Montgomery But what if MT. Taft has to kiss the Mormon? An adding machine will be is completed.
 Will Keep It Up.
 Editor Ed M. Johnson will in the future conduct The Floraia News. That does not mean that he will cut loose from Tho Samson Ledger with which he has done so well in recent months He will conduct the two weeklies, both of which have been favorites on the ex- change tables of Alabama newspapers. Editor Johnson made announcement last week that he would continue to operate The Samson Ledger although he would retain editorial control of The Florala News. It fs safe to pre- dtct that both these well-known week. lies will pe maintained according to the high standard of the past.--Mont- gomery Advertiser.
 Thank you, grandma, thank you, Coming from you 1t means much to us. and we shall strive all the more that come ashamed of us in our modest sphere.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
Can't Forgive Him.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
 That American who holds the rec ord for the number and decisiveness of political defeats seems incapable or fQrgiving Grover Cleveland the crime of2 having been twice elected to the Presidency. Last week when men of all creeds and parties were uniting in Q tribute to the memory of the dead statesman MT. Bryan lugged into a criticism of Taft's cabinet an utterly gratutious slur upon the only Demo- cratic administration the country has had since the war between the sec tions. The pettiness of nature which nurses political rancor after the grave has closed the score was well illus trated by Aesop's story of the donk ey that found courage to kick the dead lion. The perpetual candidate has good qualities, but modesty and good taste are not among them, Failure cannot make itself respectble by decrying those who have achieved success. To have been thrice rejected by the popu- lace does not prove a lack of merit in the also ran. for the voice of the peo- pie is no more inerrant now than when israel clamored for a king or when the rabble cried for the deliverance Of Barrabas: but the man who aspires to rise by that verdict should be content to abide by 1t when cast against him with triple emphasis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
This Date in History
MARCH 27.

,151s-Ponce de Leon discovered Flo rida.
 16S4-St Mary's, first settlement in Maryland, founded.
 1697-Silnon Bradstreet, colonial governor of New England, died at Sa- lem, Mass. Born in England in 1903. 1756-French burned Fort Bull, Oneida county. N. Y.
 1776-John Rutledge became presi- dent of South Carolina.
 1So4-Tbe navy yard and marine bar racks at Washington established.
 ls14-Gen. Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at battle of Horseshoe Bend.
 1S9o--Luis Antonio Arguello, gover- nor of california 1S22-25. died in San Francisco. Born June 21. 17S4
 1S36--Massacre at Goliad. Texas.
 1S65-Seige of Mobile begun.
 1SS2-Eleven persons killed in a powder explosion at Oakland. Cal.
 1S95-Great fire in Milwaukee, iD- yolving a loss ofs$1 ,00o.00Q
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
This b My 62nd Biythday
August F. Bruske

August F. Bruske, president of Alma College. was born in Rachen. Prussia. March 27, 1S47. and came to America as an emigrant boy. After two winters in a district school in Michigan he con ceived the idea of higher education. Being without funds to enter college he joined the army, receiving the $500 bounty then paid to volunteers. When the war opened he used this money to gain an education. During his five years in college he lived almost wholly on a single diet of bread and butter, with a baked potato once a week as his only luxury. In 1889 he finished his course at Adrian College and then followed two years in a theological seminary. From 1872 to 1891 he occu- pied pulpits in Charlotte and Saginaw. Michigan, and since the latter year he has been president of Alma College at Alma, Michigan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
Roosevelt in 1912.

New York American.
 As MT. Roosevelt pulls out for Africa on the trail of lions, 1t would seem as though he had left behind a warning word for MT. Taft gentleman who was recently with MT. Roosevelt called the latter's attention to certain signs and signal smokes which went to show out the so-called Roosevelt policies. "
 Mir Roosevelt was reluctant to talk. At last. however, he broke out sudden ly:
 MT. Taft became President upon the understanding that he would carry to success those policies. ! have had every assurance that he'd do so. Should he fail. he will find candi- date against him in 1912, and"-here MT. Roosevelt tapped his shirt bosom as identifyng the man-'I VII be the candidate"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
Letters to The Editor
NOT A CLUB AFFAIR.
President BalI Sets Straight Concert
 Matter.

President BalI Sets Straight Concert
 Matter.
 Editor The Advertfser:
 Your news item in reference to the coming of the marvellous Ellen Beach Yaw Is a trifie misleading, in its ref erence to myself as President of the Commercial Club. It is due the club. as well as myself, to say that the Commercial Club is not interested in the matter. A few public spirited gen. tlemen, who want to give the people of Montgomery an opportunity. per haps their last, to hear this world fa- nous soprano. have agreed to assist in arranging for her appearance here late in April. As President of the .Commer- cial Club I have declined to entertain several propositions made to it for bringing here various attractions for reasons which the club will we'll un- derstand.
 Respectfully,
 Fred S. Ball,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27

A Wisconsin Congressman has intro duced a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury in times of great fnan- cial stringency to issue non-interest bearing bonds to the amount of one trillion dollars, as we read his figures. That would be Just bully, and if the money could be equally divided 1t would set all of us up in business. We beg to add our support to his bill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
DRIFTWOOD

fortune teller who fails to tell a girl that she will marry happily is bum fortune teller and will not have 'A'
 Girls who write the Graham system of short hand do not necessarily sub sist on Graham bread---rathert they choose ginger waters and dill pickles.
 Aerial navigation may be termed higher education these days.
 The Pope has expressed desire that Wilbur Wright fly over the Vatican so that His Holiness may witness the spectacle. No use in talking we had rather be Wright than President. years old who has told her that he loves her well enough to die for her and he doesn't she saieth in her heart. ''all men are liars"
 Oh, Manager. manager quite contrary,
 How does your garden grow?
 Begging your. pardon.
 Fills seats up row on row"
 The path of glory leads but to ths Chautauqua route.
 When very angry. always count hundred. says a philosopher. stut- tering man in Montgomery started to try 1t the other day and got so mad he quit and cussed blue streak and then kicked the cat through the kitchen window. ts-. Atlas held up the world on. .his shoulders but; he didn't have to hold up some of these new hats or he would have reniged on the job. We can forgive a woman for painting if her frame is all right.
 
 One thing that never. looks well when framed is an excuse. Just because the stage has wings is no sign that the chorus girls will fly when you approach them with the of fer of lobster supper
 Parson Snowban says when ia ele- phant steps on you treat 1t like it was feather" In other words no ;matter how heavy trouble may hit you, stry to make as light of 1t as you can.
 It is bad luck to borrow SIS on Fri day--make 1t $14 while you are at It.
 Mrs Boyle. one of the Whitla boys a press dispatch. Here's where she should be, as it is. more safe in this country to hold up the public through a box office than to attempt kidnap- ping.
 The Crown Prince of Servia has re- nounced his right to the throne. It's tarily asking to be thrown" like this
 Cincinnati has blind hello" girl. Montgomery hasn't such an oddity as judging by the length of time one has to wait to get number asked for sometimes.
 
 played such remarkable intelligence and general satisfaction in the rendi- ton of its verdict. people are begin ming to wonder after all if education
 Over fin Georgia four prisoners escaped from jail the other day when the sheriff entered to feed them; What beard while in the, African jupgles it is reported, This Is but natural. as he Castro is on his way home to re- coup his lost prestige. He says he has lost all his money and wants no more while there we believe. No wonder he has no money left, operations come high and the doctors need the money. A Philadelphia preacher told the laiies of his congregation that the devil would not even permit bridge to be played In hell. of course not, too often a coolness exists among female bridge players.  A Poets Tragedy. I'll send you" said the poet ff
 Some roses with the dew.
 Still on their fragrant petals.
 Sweet as the lips of your
 That night when she received 'em, She nearly threwia fit-
 The due" was there-the tag said p. H. A.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
Nnt XitnI Question.

SpringfieId RepubICah.
 Secretary Dickinson's positive asser- ton that he enters the Taft Cabinet as a Democrat and will continue to be a Democrat is calculated to make "er- tain old Romans of the Democracy howl in unison with ex-Mayor Dunne, of Chicago. It Is fine question to decide when a Democrat ceases to be a Democrat. but 1t is more amusing than vital.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27

President Taft has virtually decided, the far Northwest this year. as he had contemplated. The reason assigned is that he cannot afford the expense of himself and party and says he will not travel at the public expense. There's another Roosevelt policy knocked out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27

Congressman Sheppard, of Texas, who wants the name of God put into the Federal Constitution doesn't seem to know how difficult it Is to get a The Chattanooga Times thinks, though, that the Texas man is merely catering to the moral wave" that hit Texas lately.