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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

Our own moon will pass one degree north of Jupiter on April at 6 D. m.
 Possessors of a small telescope may find the greenish planet Neptune, just one degree twenty minutes north ot the bright star F, Fig 1, and one de- gree, fifteen minutes west of it. The rlanet Mars may also be seen in tn } west pursuing its course across the coE- stellation Taurus, but it Is now much .eo far from the earth to be satisfac- tnrily observed.
 But the most interesting planet of all IS the beautiful evening star, Venus Ever since last January this planet has been mounting up higher in the evening sky and growing rapidly brighter until now it is by far the most conspicuous object in the heavens. As may be seen from Fig. 2, Yer IS is now very rap :5ly approaching the earth. It will at tain its greatest brilliancy on May zs, and finally pass between us and the sun on July 5, after which it will be a morning star.
 Very unfortunately this most inter- esting world which is of almost exactly the same size as our earth, and which comes nearer to us than any other planet, is surrounded by so dense an atmosphere that glimpses of its surface markings are only obtained with great difficulty. These are seen as 1ndistinct patches D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

Perhaps no time of the year is more peasant for studying the face of the sky than a warm evening of early spring. The sun has mounted so high smong the stars that we already feel a thousand evidences of the new year of warmth and life which he is bring ing us
 Standing out under the stars, the ob. server may picture to himself the path which our sun will follow; how it vii. cross Taurus, passing between the Hyades and the Pleiades, and still mounting upward, reach its highest po- sition in the heavens just as it enters Geinini. During the hot days of July ard August it will cross Cancer. and then it will enter the Sickle and our harvest time will come.
 Though in the western sky many of tie bright stars of winter still linge; the fainter spring and summer groups have already spread over more than falf of the heavens. These delicate con- si citations are no less beautiful than the. brighter stars of winter, but to see them well the observer should choose d iijght when the moon is not visible and select a position away from all artificial light.
 He can now readily trace out the long
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tional number of those who wished to take part in it.
 q am also much interested in the state ment made by MT Curry of the pioneer Knickerbocker club, and confirmed by Mr Hassie of the famous old Atlantic club of Brooklyn. that diagram show ing the ball field laid out substantially as it is today, was brought to the field one afternoon by a MT. Wadsworth. Mir. Curry says the plan caused a great deal of talk, but finally, we agreed to try it. While he is not quoted as adding that they did both try and adopt it, it is apparent that such was the fact; as, from that day to this. the scheme of the game described by MT. Curry has been con- tinued with only slight variations in de- tail It should be borne in mind that MT. Curry was the first president of the old Knickerbocker club and participated in drafting the first published rules of the game.
 "It is possible that connection more or less direct can be traced between the diagram drawn by Doubleday in 1853 and that presented to the Knickerbocker club by Wadsworth in 1S45. or whereabouts, and I wrote several days ago for eer- tain data bearing on this point. but as It has not yet come to hand l have decided to delay no longer sending in the kind of paper your letter calls for, promising to furnish you the indicated data when l obtain it, whatever it may be.
 My deductions from the testimony submitted are:
 "First-That baseball had it's origin in the United States.
 "second-That the first scheme for playing it according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday, at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1S39"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29
Conscientious.

From Everybodys Magazine
 The customs of military service reouira officers to visit the kitchens during cook ing hours to see that the oldiers' food is properly prepared. One old colonel. who let it be pretty generally known that his orders must be obeyed without ques- tion or explanation, once stopped two soldiers who were carrying a soup-ket- tie out of a kitchen.
 Here, you. he growled, 'give me a taste of that.
 One of the soldiers ran and fetched a ladle and we the colonel the desired t jte. The colonel spat and spluttered.
 Cool heavens, man! You don't call that stuff soup, do vou?"
 NO, sir,' replied the soldier meekly. its dish-water we was emptyin', sr.''
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whose nature we can infer but little. It is believed that on one half of the planet tLere is perpetual day, and on the other perpetual night Owing to small irregu- larities in the orbital motion an observer rear the boundary between the two halves would see the sun occasionally rise short distance above the ground and afterward set again at nearly the same point. The present is an unusually favorable opportunity for viewing Venus ard the planet will be frequently ex- amined with large telescopes.
 From April 20 to 22 an unusual num- Der of shooting stars may be seen. The observer should watch the constellation Hercules at as late an hour of the night es possible, when he will see bright. bluish stars dart out at short intervals from the point K, Fig. 1, and move swiftly in every direction over the sky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29
' ouny Burns 10 Visif
 Trance For NeAp Victims
BY RICHARD DAHLGREN.

London, March 2S.The exhibition made by Jem Roche, the Irish champion, in his recent bout with Tommy Burns, was pitt full. The only advantage his size seemed to give him was that he made an easIer target for the Canadian champion.
 Burns future movements are uncertain When asked him as to what he proposed to do after the meeting with Roche he said: That depends on circumstances. If England has any other men for me to fight. and proper inducements are offered, l will fight him; otherwise I may go to France before go home. I can't tell yet just what I will do.
 When it was suggested that cables from the states intimated that he was afraid to meet Johnson, the big black, Burns laughed. q do not think anybody really thinks am afraid to meet Johnson. Why should I be? What has he ever done to make anybody afraid of him except talk.
 'I may meet Johnson when return to the state or I may not. l can tell better when get there. I will say if there is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

Manager Vaughn agreed yesterday to meet the University of Alabama on the Tuscaloosa grounds April T.
 April 8 was the first date agreed upon, but as Alabama plays Georgia April 9, 10 and H. Coach Pollard was of the opinion that four strenuous bat ties hand running was too big a task
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29
BARONS PLA Y ALABAMA

for his two twirlers. So the game will occur April '. Manager Vaughn will take his catch
 er infielders, outfelders. two pitchers and himself. Many alumni of the university will
 accompany the Barons to the Druid City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29
DOUGLASS WON'T COME

Bill Douglass wired yesterday that he would not report to Birmingham.
 Little Rock won't buy my stock, telegraph ed Bill, "and l won't report this season.
 Bill wants to sell his stock to the Little Rock club at a figure offered last
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season. Little Rock won't buy, and Bill won't be sold to Birmingham.
 Manager Vaughn is now looking for another catcher and in the meantime has written Bill a letter urging him to put aside these little differences and come ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

Come, be our guest tomor- row. The spring opening is really a clothes show. Our $40 Handmade Kirschbaum is cor rect in pattern, fit and style. Varley & Bauman Clothing Co.,,
 1910 Sd Ave.
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enough In it.. will meet him. otherwise not 1 am not fighting for fun or prac- tice."
 Burns, from the fact that he is of French extraction, and has a French name. would make him extremely pop ular in Paris, and I am inclined to be- lieve he will visit the French capital pros fessonally before he goes home.
 The Sporting Times rises to remark: Though Tommy Burns is reproached with picking out all the soft jobs that offer in present-day pugllstics. it may only be that he is seeking to prove his right to the title of the worlds champion wherever boxing f1ourshes. In Bill Squires he downed an Australian; in Gunner Moir. a Scotsman; in Palmer, a Newcastle Eng lishman, and in Jem Roche, an Irishman. France then awaits him with more than one kicking hybrid. and America with the toughest nut of the lot-the buck niggCI, Johnson. But America may call in vain while poor old England is meellly hand ing out 75 of the gate receipts and 45 of the cinematograp ph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

United States judges to whom application was made, the plan of testing the lower fares to ascertain whether the alleged confiscation was real, being adopted.
 Passenger Rates.
 The passenger fare reductions are the only matters which have been pressed by the state. seriously affecting the rail roads While there is pending certain litigation involving freight rate reduc- tions. it has not been pushed, and is still permitted to pend Although the railroads have been seriously affected in the matter of their revenues, this is attributed largely to a fear of the possi- blities under the new laws, a fear of
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what might happen, rather than to any, tEing that has actually been done
 The cumulative penalty features of the Georgia law was brought into direct ques- tion in the passenger rate litigation, par- ticularly by the Central of Georgia rail- road and it is not unlikely that this will be pressed to final decision.
 In the meantime, in view of the United States supreme courts decision, it is con- sidered extremely unlikely that any step will be taken under the Georgia laws which will bring about any more of clash between the railroads and the state than already exists
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29
MELVIN SHEPPARD
 TO BE CHAMPION
HAS AMBITION OBTAIN WORLDS
 MPlONSHIP--THES SCHEDULE
 WILL NOT RESULT IN UNDIS- PUTED TITLE AMONG COLLEGES
BY MANHATTAN.

New York, March 2S.---The efforts of Jim Pilkington and Julian Curtis to secure an all-American eight for the Olympic games has proven unavailing This doesn't mean that America will not be represented in the regatta. Not at all. It does mean, however, that 1t is impossible to secure crew com- posed of the very best American oars- men.
 Messrs Pilkington and Curtis have found that the men who would be chosen for the all-American crew have not the time to devote to the practice necessary to enable them to work as a perfect machine. Hence it has been decided to ask the rowing bodies of the different cities of the East Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington and Baltimore to select the strongest eigh ts in tn cir respective cities and have all compete in a preliminary regatta either in Philadelphia or in New York, :ne winner to be named as the Olympic eight.
 It is probable the winning eights at the Poughkeepsie and New London re- gattas will be asked to send their crews to the preliminary regatta
 American amateur oarsmen, as a rule are busy men, and few of them can spare the time to devote to the pre- llminary practice and to the trip to England. The decision to which the committee has come is therefore the cnly practical one. While it will not give us the very best crew possible ns- der conditions, it will give us the besf possible under conditions as they ac- tually exist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

t' Melvin Sheppard, the Irish American champion runner has set his heart. oit winning the worlds championship aC the Olympic games this summer. He therefore regards his suspension be- cause of his recent tilt with Guy Haw- kins at Philadelphia not an un- mixed evil. He had begun to go lit- tie stale. and his enforced idleness has given him chance to get in shape again. l understand that he has def- nitely decided to go into no more contests until the Olympic tryouts, and will only do enough work to keep his muscles timber. and himself in prime condition.
 The intercollegiate baseball season, which opened in the east this week, while it promises many interesting contests, fails to produce anything in the way of schedule which will definitely decide the college championship of the section. This is unfortunately a close analysis of the playing dates of + of the leading colleges and universities, showing many breaks n the chain which prevents anything like a decisive elimination on the basis of rouHd robin play. The situation is fully as weak in this respect as it was in 1907 when both Princeton and Cornell claimed the college championship at the end of tne season. Since these two teams did not meet the only resource was to com pare the scores made against mutual op- yonents, which at best was a very unsat- isfactory method, since baseball is more uncertain than other lines of sport in- dulged in by the college.
 The coming season finds the schedule more tangled than ever before. While Princeton and Cornell compete this spring in two games, Harvard and Pennsylvania will not meet, and Columbia has but three games in the Big Six circuit, one with Yale and two with Pennsylvania. Princeton has no game with Brown, a strong contender for honors last season, ard the same state of affairs exists in the schedules of several other varsity com tinations which are expected to develop s.rcng hines for the premier position in the sport. This state of affairs is more surprising when it is realized that fully SO games are to be played among the l7 college teams which are expected to play high-class baseball during the next few months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-29

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31
COAL MINING In
0S"""" IN 1907

The total production Of coal in Ore
gon in 1907 was 20. 9sl short tons, hav
ing a spot value of sl66, So4.
The Coos Bay field is the only pro.
N~osi'o .oa, ,,uiu IA uuegon. II is
situated in the southwestern part of
the state, in Coos County, and oc.
cupies n total area of about $50
square miles, its length north and
south being about 30 miles aud its
maximum breadth at the middle
about II miles. Among the other
coal fields that have been prosepected
In the State are the Upper Nehalem
field, in Columbia county the Lower
Nehslem field, in Clatsop and Tilla.
nook counties; the Ysquina field in
Lincoln county the Eckley and Shasta
Costa fields, in Curry County; the
Eden field, in Coos County; and the
Rogue River valley field. in jackson
county-all west of the Cascade
Range. None OF these fields have
been developed to the point Of produc.
uon. Another field lies in the basin
Of John Day River, east Of the Cas-.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31

csde Range, but little is known con-
cerning it. All the fields west Of the
range except the Coos Bay. are of
rather small area, the largest being
the Upper Nehalem, which has an
area Of less than 90 square miles.
Tie coal of all these fields is lignitic.
Its transportation is confined exclu-
sively to Coos Bay and the Pacific
Ocean, and San Francisco is the
principal market. The Coos Bay
field is divided by its structure into
six portions-four basins and two
arches. The basins are known as the
Newport, the Beaver slough. the Co.
guile, and South Slough, and are
separated by the Westport and Plaski
arches. As practically al of the
product from Coos Bay has been ship
ped by water to San Francisco. the
substitution of oil for coal in most of
tue manufacturing industries of that
city has cot off considerable portion
Of the market for this coal. The
effect on Oregon's production is
shown in decrease from 100, Gal tons
IN 1905, to 79, 731 in 1906 and to 20, 9Ol
in 1907. The decrease in value Of the
1907 product was even more pro-
nouuced, for while the production
showed decrease of $3.50 tons, or
1912 per cent. the value declined
s4G5, 034, or 21.6S per cent. The
average price per ton declined from
50. &c in 1906 to 81. "a in 1907.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31
EBEN

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31

Wreu one OF tuem rematk,d: Say,
jun, let's petition congress to draiu
the blamed thing.
EBEN.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31
EUGENE DOES SOME
GOOD ADVERTISING
Portla nd Market Soes Some Bis
Cherries-Granse Interest.
ed In Good Roads.

Hon. Austin T. Buxton, of Forest
Grove, Master of the Oregon state
Grange, will personally attend the
Good Roads Conference to be held in
the convention hall of the Portland
Commercial Club, August 1lth, and
he is anxious that each subordinate
or local Grange in the state send one
dele9ate, and he requests that such
delegate be named at once and report
made to W. L. Crissey. at Portland.
"Who said Rain" is the latest sd-
vertisement issued by Manager John
Hartog, Of the Eugene Commercial
Club. A Eugene belle is photo
Rraphed three times, standing i'm
glasses, each Of which contains the
rainfall for one year. one in Eugene
with inches, and the girl S face has
happy expression; New York with
45 inches, and that expression be-
comes doubtful, while New Orleans,
with GO inches, makes her cry for
help. The leaflet quotes from report
of the United States Weather Bureau
that during 1907 Eugene had 200 days
without any rain and 10 days when it
rained less than one-tenth OF an
inch.
II. A. Wheeler, president of the
Chicago Credit Clearing Company,
and A. D. Stevens, president of the
American Silk Company, of the same
city, accompanied sby their families,
are visiting the Pacific northwest.
They srent full week in Oregon and
expressed themselves as delighted.
They will report their ides OF the
country to the 5000 Chicago business
men comprising the Chicago Associa-
tion of Commerce.
The new Giant cherry. cross
between the Lambert and the Bing,
creatd sensation one the Portland
market last week There were some
specimens that measured an inch and
a half in diameter.
The Presidential ..Postmasters' Asso-
citation Of Oregon will meet in the
Convention hall of the Portland Com
mercial Club August Z aud 8, and have
invited the Fourth Glass Postmasters
TO meet with them. The commercial
bodies Of the state have joined with
the Postmasters in inviting Post.
master General Meyer to attend and
arrangements have been made for
in Washington and Califor.
MIA so that the postmaster general
may attend all three with the least
possible loss of time.
The active advertising men of
Portland gave a complimentary din
ner at the Portland Commercial Club
last week to that veteran advertiser,
Charles II. Fuller, Of Chicago.
County Judge Goodin. of Washing.
ton County. is interested in the Good |
Roads conference and pledges dele
CATION Of from ~ to 20 representative
Washington county citizens. Baker
Jity, Junction City, Eugene, Albany
md many other points promise good
and there is every assur-
lnce of the best meeting ever held in
oregon.
The lone Proclaimer sent to the
Portland Commercial Club last week a
,ox containing some of the finest
amples of wheat of different kinds
'ver grown IN Oregon. They at
racted much attention aud were uni
'ersally complimented.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31

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the meat line, through our glass refrigerator
counter. Phone 453.
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-07-31

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