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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23

WE have various amounts to place ON arst mort
gage on. San Francisco real estate at pre-
vailing rates. w. II. GRIM i CO., Monad-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23
LoDGINa HOUSES ron sALE-con.

LODGING HOUSES FOR SALE-Con.
JOS. SKIRM & CO..
IL Geary ST., San Francisco.
921 Broadway, Oakland.
San francisco Phone, Douglas 323T.
80 rooms; apartments; Oakland; splendid home
and good Income; superior furnishings; rent 500;
cost $1,000. but will sacrifice with terms to
good parties, house is beautifully arranged.
BEST BUY In Oakland so rooms; most central
corner in Oakland; rent less than 81 per room;
owner has mining interests and viii sell on easy
terms exchange for real estate.
JOS. SKIRM & CO.. g2l Broadway.
CALL BRANCH OFFICE. 1851 Fillmore 1t.
pnaf
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23
PATENT ATTORNEYS

DEWEY, STRONG s. Co.--Founded 1860; U. $.
mfchanical movements free. 1105 Merchants
exchange Building. San Francisco.
HARRY g. SCHROEDER. u s. and foreign rat-
enls 80 First Nat. bank, Oakland; tel o 36Io.
SoNNIAG Patent Agency-Estab. 1899. Balboa
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23

s NICE little store FOR any one that does not
70 get rich in 30 days. This is a nice,
neat. little store. with l living room In rear;
can be bought for $325. This will clear 500
every month after you have paid the rent
and your living. Any one that is not will
ing to work and attend to business need not
answer this advertisement.
GEO. A. HERRICK, sos Van Ness sv.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23

4 FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT AND BAKERY
BUSINESS-Any one with a few hundred
dollars purchase this business, which is
4 1ne business for aud wife or young
men. A nice retail bakery business; can
also handle delicscies and light groceries.
Call and let me show you this.
GEO. a. HERRICK, sos Van Ness sv,
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23

SANTA CRUZ REAL ESTATE
HOMES. investments, lots, ranches, acre proper
ties BROWN & WILSON, Santa Cruz. Cal.
PALO ALTO REAL ESTATE
FOR Sale-New, modern house OF IL rooms. sit
uated in best locality; 627 Homer av.. PalO
Alto Inquire at premises
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23

FINE OPPORTUNITY.
Reliable man with $3.50 and services can secure
one-hRf interest in established paying business
down town; experience unnecessary II industrious
and willing 10 learn. Apply $50 Market ST.,
room 207.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-23
REAL EsrATE rO ExCHANGE

$50. .00O-Fruit ranch; nne improvements deep
sediment soil, nicely located, good income
producer; for sale or exchange for San Fran
cisco. Oakland Berkeley inside property.
For particulars write II. A. MARCkRES
COMPANY. San Jose. Cal, owners.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19

Senator Fred Dumont Smith
received a serious rebuff at the
Repu blican county convention of
his home county, Edwards,
when resolutions endorsing his
candidacy for reelection for
state senator were voted down
by decisive majority. Smith
still declares his purpose to be
a candidate regardless of the
action of the Republicans Of his
own county. w. M. Kinnison
of Garden City has also been
entered in the race, and as the
district includes 10 counties,
other candidates will no. doubt
be heard from. The district is
claimed by the machine crowd
of Republican politicians, though
Smith has been on both sides
during his senatorial career and
is therefore Objectionable to both
sides.-Svracuse Journal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19
w. II. Tracy
he Live Stock Auction
G n.
Pratt Rau as
Pratt Kan as

If you contemplate having public sale at
any time or any place don't fall to write OF
wire w. H. Tracy at Pratt, Kansas He is
an ap-.o-date auctioneer and has no other
business, consequently he devotes, his entire
time in keeping himself posted in all lines of
property he may have to sell and is a com
petent Judge of valves of all classes of live
stock. Ne man is fitted to sell your stock un-
less he is posted on quality and values. Is
the high dollar for you means reputation
for him, End, he will work for you from tn
time your sale is billed until the last article is
sold. His terms are reasonable and can be
had at The Meade State Bank, First Nation
al Bank or Fowler State Bank
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19
The Last State Convention.

What was probably the last of
the old style political convention
was held here on March 4.
We think that rather more of
the things that people object to
in conventions generally, showed
up in this last convention than in
any one we ever attended.
We cannot say that it was
really run any more in accord
ance with a program previously
agreed on than political conven-
tons generally, but there was
less attempt to hide the pro-
gram. There was more of a
disposition on the part of a few
managers to say: Now we
have this thing all fixed and what
the - do you propose to do
about it?' than any convention
we have observed for long time.
There were some features
about it that added materially to
the gayetv of the world. For
example, the decision of the Nc
Pherson county contest case.
A majority of the county central
committee assumed the authority
to select the delegates to the
state convention, power which
never was intended to be lodged
in the hand of any central COM
mittee and which no central COM
mittee ought to assume even
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19

where there is no open objection.
In the case of Mcpherson county
there was vigorous objection by
several hundred Republicans of
the county. The committee
however ignored the protest,
just as majority of the COM
mittee did in Shawnee county
and selected the delegates.
| When the attack was made on
the manner of selecting the
delegation on the floor of the
convention, the ancient war
horses, Jim Simpson and A. w.
Smith, sat as silent as voiceless
canaries and turned the defense
of the action of the Mcpherson
county central committee over to
the eaglebeaked warbler, from
Harper county, Senator Tom
Noftsger.
Tom was not in very good
form. He did not strike his
usual gait. He wandered in a
sort of indefinite manner and
strayed clear out of the legiti-
mate field of discussion. 1t
would have made no difference
in the general result, no matter
what might have been decided
in the contest cases in either
Mcpherson or Shawnee counties
but the fact that few politicians
insisted on usurping the powers
that rightly belonged to the
people and carried their points
in the convention will tend to
strengthen the common belief
that unless the people want to
surrender the power of govern
ment into the hands of a few
who are in politics for personal
gain that it is time to have the
general primary election.
1t may be that the people will
not act wisely at the primaries,
but at least they have the power
in their own hands. If they do
not use the power we'll it is their
own fault.
We have been asked what
effect the late convention will
have on the primary to be held
next August. Our opinion is
that it will have little if any effect.
If it has any effect it will add
somewhat OF the general soreness
on conventions which was the
impelling cause for the passage
of the general primary law, and
if this is true then the resent
ment will be carried to some
extent against the men who con-
trolled this last convention
Tom McNeal in Mail and Breeze.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19
Democratic Meeting.

Topeka, Kansas March, IL
The Democratic state central
committee which held a meeting
at the Th roop hotel terday
afternoon and night decided to
let the primary election law take
care of the Democratic ticket
for the present at least. Unless
something unforeseen comes up
there will be no state convention
for the selection" of candidates
on the state ticket. The COM
mittee will trust to the Demo-
cratic desire for Office to bring
out the candidates.
The com mittee agreed, how
ever, that unless there are can
didates out for all the state
off of them-before May
10 state convention will be call
ed for June 10. The place of
holding this convention was not
decided and in fact the com mittee
did not designate it as conven-
,tion. 1t calls it a conference of
the party leaders. Unless there
are candidates in the Democratic
party for all state officers out by
May 16 the conference will be
called.
In the meantime each commit
teeman and the chairman of each
county committee is instructed
to organize Bryan clubs, Demo-
cratic clubs or any other clubs
which will tend to stimulate in
terest among the Democratic
voters of the state. The COM
mittee urges that a Democratic
club of some kind be organized
in each judicial district and that
the agitation be started at once
and continued until next Novem-
Der.
The committee opened it's
session at 4 o'clock and closed at
I o'clock last night. There
were no intermissions and with
the exception of a FIVE. minute
-skirmish in the start the whole
session was executive and held
behind closed doors. The mem
bers of the committee as they
came out during the meeting re-
fused to talk and the only things
that got to the public leaked out
through the open transoms.
There was plenty of noise and
a three hour talkfeast.
Col. Bill" Sapp and Col. Bill"
Ryan threatened to mix up once,
Judging from the commotion,
when Sapp attempted to have a
committee of five appointed to
. look after the organization of
clubs over the State. This
would have shorn the State
chairman, Ryan, of some of his
glory, and he resented it. This
work would naturally fall to the
lot of the State central commit
tee and its chairman, but mas
much as Ryan is likely to be a
candidate. for Governor, Sapp
said this work should be in the
hands of separate committee.
Ryan stated that he was not
sure that he would be candi-
date for Governor, and that SO
far as his own feelings were
concerned be vas perfectly will
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-03-19

ing to head Sthe State central
committee in any work it might
attempt. Although Ryan stated
that he was not sure he would be
a candidate, it was given out by
his friends last night that there
was no doubt about it.
The indications are that there
will be plenty of candidates for
Governor in the Democratic
party. Ryan will be out in a
short time, it is said, ]. D. Bot
kin of Winfield is expected to be
a candidate, and Russell J. Har-
rison of Sheridan county IS
already a candidate, and some
of the Democrats are trying to
make a candidate out of Senator
George Hodges of Olathe.
So far the Democrats haven't
much of a line on candidates.
Hugh Farre1fy of Chanute will
be candidate for United Sena-
tor. This is the expressed wish
of Col. w. A. Harris, and Far
reilly has already sent out an
nouncements to some of his
Democratic friends. He will an
nounce himself publicly in a
short time. A. E.. Helm of
Wichita will be a candidate for
a place on the Supreme bench.
F. J. Oy1er of lola may be cam
didate for Attorney General, and
w. H. Kemper of Topeka is
talked of as a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. Outside
of these no other candidates for
State Office have been mentioned,
but the com mittee was of the
opinion yesterday that there
would be candidates for every
Office by May 16.
Ex-senator j.. r. Burton of
Abilene was heie yesterday
and was mixing more or less
with the members of the COM
mittee. He attended the Dem
ocratic love feast when Bryan
was here two weeks ago and it is
generally believed that he is
gradually aligning himself with
the Democratic party.
Among the prominent Dem
ocrats who attended the meeting
Yesterday were w. H. Ryan,
Girard; w. H. L. .Pepperell,
Concordia; III. p. Farrel1y,
Chanute; Jeff Hudson, Fredonia;
William H. Sapp, Galena; E. Y.
Blum, Kansas City; F. M. Pearl.
Moyo Thomas, J. G. Johnson,
John Atwood, Taylor Riddle,
Russell J. Harrison, T. J. Bot
kin, B. L.. Strother, Vernon
Rose. ]. S. Blacker, ]. NJ Dor
sey, H. Oswell, F. Efinger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17

wanted to know IL had and moon g.
my country they had in the Soudan.
IT found them very dexterous IN weaving ana i.,
making the few articles Of furniture and Of drss,
they use, but they not worth much as labor
ers. We paid them Is cents day. and that "a all
they were worth The younger generation wa
quick to learn and worked a great deal b..+.,
than the older people. What they need Is school.
While Triplett there he started school "a,
the natives and the rest or the Tusksges par+,
supported IL. The pupils learned quickly and ~.
fore he went away several OF the boys could soesx
pretty good English and read and write ltttrs
The difficulty in the Soudan is to get labo.
The tribal have almost depopulated ira.
country. have heard IL said that during ths "a,
years that the Soudan under the Khalifa r.
population was reduced from 100000 70 2Ynaa
have frequently ploughed up in tne fields on on,
plantations bones OF men. women and children Nh.
had been killed in some OF these fights I hav,
seen, In going about the country, hundreds ~
empty villages 1t Is TO attempt to tncreaa.
the arabic lands OF the SOudan until IL is posssl.
in some way to repopulats the country. There has
been something said regard TO peoplins tia
country with colored people from America bur 7
do not think any who knows the Soudan haa
thought seriously OF that We went out there e.,
the most part. TO teach American methods "a
growing cotton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
DELANE'S IMPERIALISM.

There is a very general impression, not only in
Great Britain but also abroad, that England
bundered into Egypt and has been compelled
BY the force Of circumstances to remain there
indefinitely. The notorious reluctance OF Glad
stone in particular, OF John Bright and OF other
English statesmen to undertake any military
action in Egypt the pledges which they gave to
withdraw at the earliest possible moment and
their sincere anxiety to fulfil these promises
have contributed to > is popular belief. Some
OF the authors whom / have mentioned above,
notably Lord Cromer and Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace have still further ngthened this
view which in the eyes OF foreign nations Is
perhaps the most pleasant and British one TO
perpetuate.
But the fact remains that THE Times which
has always been the organ par excellence of
Englands imperialism. realized from the
rnent when the Suez Canal became accom-
plished fact that imperial interests demanded
Fneland's mastery of the Land Of the Nile And
1.-The Thunderer'' laid its plans accordingly,
prompted thereto by selfish interest, but
solely by that intense patriotism which finds
so eloquent an expression in the life and letters
inst published OF its famous editor, John Thad-
deus Delane. whom even the Nationalist ad-
raire so greatly that they ascribe to MIN with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
EGYPT'S FATE AND 1.-THE LONDON TIMES"

ritOry belonging to the debtor government there
was. from an English point of view. considera BILE
danger that either Germany or France might
avail itself of the delay suspension in pay
ment of the coupons of Egyptian bonds to swoop
down upon the Land of the Nile, by way of ex-
acting satisfaction for the claims of it's country
men.
1t by perpetuaIly and at the same time
cautiously mpressing sense of this danger of
some other power establishing herself in Egypt
that The London Times virtually compelled
the British statesmen to play more and more
active part i'll Khedivial finance this. OF
course, entailing, is always the case. inter
VentIon in the internal administration of the
Egyptian government. Of course, IsmaiI PaCha
was averse to the measures taken for the pur-
pose of curbng his extravaganza and his au-
thority. but was plainly told by The Times"
that unless he yielded his deposition would fol-
low by way of penalty. for the ruin into which
he had plunged his country. He was by these
means led to consent to the creation of IN inter-
national commission of the debt. to represent at
Cairo the interests Of the hondhOIderS the
members of which appointed by the
French, German. Austrian and Italian govern
ments Englands delegates being Lord Cromer
then Major Evelyn Barring. of the Royal Ar
+iJlo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
PRIZES FOR BEST COTTON.

Il do not know how much cotton IS now raised
in the Soudan. but IT Is considerable The natives
have always raised cotton. and four companies
engaged In cotton culture buy this cotton Of tina
natives and ship it to Liverpool We have 10 gin
but ship out the seed cotton IN three-huudrsd-
pound sacks. One OF the sacks IS worth abou.
81 80 in Liverpool. The government holds fair
every year at which Il offers prizes the natives
for the best cotton These fairs are held in four
or five Of the larger cities OF the Soudan- In 1917
I served as Judge and inspector at one. We had
thousands OF exhibitors. There was good deal %
American cotton along with the Egyptian ar this
fair and all sorts CT vegetables. We have found
that while the American cotton has not so long
staple as the Egyptian. the plants are more pro
ductive. and. the long run, seem to thrive better
In the Soudan than any other
"One thing we had TO contend against was tbs
fever that came after had turned the water On
the soil through system OF irrigation. Tbs
pIoughfrrg up and foodinG Of this soil seemed &,
bring on fevers which for a time dsadx
There was a time when buried a Of our
force OF fifteen hundred almost every day. and
sometimes not one, but two and three. I sick
for six months with slow fever. and got so low
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
THOUSANDS ON HILL.

San Francisco. May 13-Fully ten thousand peo-
pie climbed to the summit of Telegraph Hill. IN
this city to watch the entrance OF Adinlral Evans
battleship fleet on the morning of Wednesday, May
g. This hill gets it's name from the fact that a
telegraph station established there In pioneer
days. from which the first news of arriving steam
ers and ships sent to the city below ieie-
eranh Hill is 3a5 feet above the level and from
its summit a splendid view is given or Fort Point
and the entrance to the Golden Gate.
BY 10 O'Clock nearly every foot OF ground on the
top of the hill occupied the crowds being espe-
cialIy dense under the shadow Of the big electric
sign Welcome" erected the topmost point OF
the hill 1t was an orderly crowd. as were all
gatherings that day on San tranciscos many
hills and the police had little to do The knights
of Columbus had obtained the reservation of part
of the hill for their members, but the great public
swarrned far around them the crowd being CON-
posed largely of Italians from the neishborfrS
quarter Though many of them could not speak
English they were all good Americans and their
children carried small American flags, even the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17

method of culture employed. and averages some
thing over bale an acre
Ze.dab where the plantation lies, - le" Hits
.hoya tho function of the Nile and Atbara III
was in the plain formed by the junction OF these
two rivers that Meroe. the ancient capite4 oi
Ethiopia. was situated u was here tnac queen
cansae. who is mentioned in the New testament
lived.
.~There are three distinct methods OF irrigation IN
use along the Nile said Powell the oeher uaS-
.Tbs first and most ancient IS that OF getting lho
water from the Nile with buckets py tiie a.
uent such as we see sometimes here IN the olo-
fashioned welIs-a beam on pole. with BUCKET
on one end and weight on the otner- lou see
great deal of irrigation by this primitive fnethod V
both the lower and the upper ME-. AH1 80 :
49, ,,d1,ss an arrangement Of buckets on a
wheel which is moved by team OF ouhockS- Inc
third method is the steam pump The irrigation dc
Zeidab and the three other plantations conouCIeu
bv E,fopears IL, the Soudan is by steam pumps
To rim these pumps II is necessary to import coai
as there is hardly any wood in the Soudan-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
EngIa Debt to 1.-The
Thunderer" for Her
Mastery There.

copyright. 1905. by the Brentwood Cornpany1
We're The London Times given TO Wanting
its achievements. after the fashion of a number
of its less ancient contemporaries on both sides
of the Atlantic, it might add to a long list of
services rendered to the British nation that of
having brought about England's mastery and de
facto possession of Egypt. 1t is difficult now
adays to conceive the British Empire without its
domination of the Suez Canal and the Land Of
the Nile For one cannot be held without the
other Their command is indispensable TO the
safety Of King Edwards huge Oriental empire
with its colossal wealth and its teeming popu-
lation of more than three hundred million. This
is so self-evident that even those foreign nations
which at first protested bitterly against Eng
lands supremacy IN Egypt are now virtually
reconciled thereto. realizing that she has no al
tentative in the matter and that during the
quarter of a century that has elapsed since the
bombardment of Alexandria she has never
abused her power there at the expense OF other
countries.
Many books have been published about the
manner in which the ancient prosperity of the
land of the Pharaohs has been restored under
British direction its administration reformed.
life and property made secure and financial and
commercial credit placed upon the highest plane,
although prior to the battle of Tel-el- kebr
Egypt was so hopelessly bankrupt that the pros
pect Of her present fourishing condition would
have been then regarded by most people as g.
foolish and altogether utopan dream. Lord
Miner Sir Auckland Colvin, Sir Donald Macken-
zie Wallace Sir Edward Mallett. that wonder
fully able and lucid writer. Edward Dicey, and,
last Of all Lord Cromer, have recounted the
.process by means Of which modern Egypt. as it
is to-day, has been evolved from the ruin Of
thirty years ago. But one will search in vain in
all these volumes clever though they be. for any
mention of the services of THE London Times
IN first landing England the banks Of the