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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01

Miss. Betty. Angus leaves today for
/ visit to St. Helena with Miss Marion
Wright, from whose SauSalito home
Mss Betty has just returned
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01
Gossip Of The RaiIwaymen

Torpey of the Pennsylvania lines there
has been a big revival during the last
few days in the bringing CT steel 20
this city. One Arm alone has Just
placed an order for 175 tons OF steel
for immediate delivery which has just
been started from Pittsburg under rush
order. There has been considerable
inquiry during the week from con-
tractors about steel rates. and from all
appearances several hundred cars ars
to come here within the next few
weeks.
w. w. Briggs. manager of one Of the
biggest machinery plants in the world.
was telling his troubles to a Southern
Pacific official
What do you think" he said, "of
this performance? During the recent
disarrangement OF the car service ]
purchased a bicycle for one OF our
men to enable him to get about town.
He left our service a few days ago
and took the bicycle to Los Angeles.
When asked to return IL. he wrote a
letter Of five pages. explaining that as
the machine was bought for his par
ticular use. it belonged TO him and
he would give US a warmer welcome
than San Francisco will give the feet
IL we insisted in our impertinent de-
mand-' Suppose 1 had bought a horse
and buggy for him. would he have
walked OF with the riG?"
Never thought of that" said the
Southern Pacific man as he stroked
his chin. What awful fools we are.
We should have stuck to the automo-
biles Hartman provided US with. But.
like set of chunps. we gave them
up That chap is all right. He deserves
the bike for his cheek"
E. E. Calvin, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Southern Pacific.
issued circular yesterday announcing
that the offices OF the company would
be closed on Wednesday and suf1cient
time on Thursday allowed to enable
the employees to see the parade. The
Santa Fe and all other railroad Offices
will grant the same holidays.
At the chief engineers Office of the
Western Pacific 1t was announced yes
terday that track laying Is being ran
idly pushed and that the gap between
Sacramento and Marysville has been
decreased to % miles, while the gan
between AItamont and Oakland pier Is
now only 81 miles.
j. w. McCIymond said yesterday thar
the first carload of cherries was
shipped east from Vacaville on Tues
day.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01
Canada's Railways

Consul John E. Hamilton of Cornwall
has compiled the following summary of
the statistics of Canadian railroads
for 1907.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01

gratifying result that adds materially the
efficiency of the fleet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15

such great central radium store. Furthermore. he added there is at least q possibility that some time or other 1t may become 50 hot as to threaten the life of all surface dwelling beings. Tn other words. the end of the, world thumaniy speaking) will result not from the freezing up of everything. as many philosophers have hitherto predicted. but through a general con- fasration caused by the too rapid de- composition of subterranean. radium mines"
 This. as all must admit. is q more disturbing theory than the freezing one. If the first theory is correct. 1t will require thousands. perhaps mill Hons of years for all heat to be used up and a general freeze of earthly things to come to pass. but with the other it is different. If the center of the earth Is vast mass of intensely hot radium how can we tell how long 1t will be before 1t breaks through and makes things uncomfortably warm for human beings? With all the wonder full qualities attributed to this new metal 1t may break through at any time and muss this old earth in a way that will be unpleasant. to say the least of 1t. And by the way, we won- der if this isn't good way to account for the volcanoes?
 And 1t is we'll to note, as we go along. that Professor Joly (possibly his name should be written Jolly) Is not altogether without support. Sir Ar chibald Geikie. who is probably the leading geologist now living appears to regard the theory with some favor. He speaks of it as "an epoch making discovery" and adds that If radium Is in truth responsible for our supply of heat. existing theories of geologists will have to be radically modified per- haps entirely revolutionized. It will be noted that Sir Archibald puts in an if" which may save him from fall in the future. That little conjunction comes in mighty handy at times, and frequently saves the situation when nothing else would.
 But. as The Globe goes on to argue there seems to be a real stumbling block in the way of this Joly theory. If radium is responsible for the earth's for the change of seasons? Why should we have extreme heat at one time and extreme cold at another2 Why should there always be intense cold in some regions of earth and in- tense heat in others?. Perhaps they may tell us that the suns rays serve to draw the heat from the radium cen- for your genuine scientist Is hard to get around what seems to be q bar, for your genuine scientist is hard to put down. and one of them may come forward and tell us all about 1t some day. All the same. between a pros pective freeze-out on one hand and a general sizzling confiagration on the other this old earth has trouble ahead of it for fact.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
TO RELIEVE CONGESTION.

A Plan to Send Immigrants to the
 South.
 Cincinnati Special
 Secretary of Commerce and Labor os. car straus came to Cincinnati to con- fer with Candidate Taft. and announces a gigantic government sch eme to re. lieve the congestion in the tenements ot the large cities by distributing in1rfii- grants over the South.
 Cincinnati fs to be made the gateway of the distribution.
 Letters will be sent to 75o,00o South ern planters, asking them what facil- ities they have for taking care of i'm migrants, the pay and other necessary questions
 The east side of New York is cIogRed with emigrants from foreign lands The congestion in physical conditions has also caused congestion in the labor market of the large eastern ci- ties.
 In his private capacity Secretary StrauS has been actively interested in the removal of Jewish immigrants to Western and Southern points, and Gin cinnati alone Is receiving in this man. ner 300 immigrants a year.
 The idea of distribution of imnni- grants throughout the agricultural States of the South and middle West originated with T. V. Powderly, chief of the division of information and dis tribution of the government Labor and Commerce Bureau. who Is here with Straus Powderly made trip through | Austria. Hungary and Italy a year ago, and studied the condition of the peasants in each. He learned that agri- culture was the favorite and best known work of the peasants. and that they would welcome such opportuni- | ties as this country offers.
 In speaking of the plans. Powderly | said:
 It Is our intention to free cities of the hordes of immigrants who conEest the more populous sections and to send the immigrants to farms in the South and West.
 There is no coercion about sending | the immigrants to the farms of the | country. They are free to go where they choose after being admitted to the country However. we place before | them at the various ports of entry of the country. the advantages the farms of the country offer and leave 1t to | them to make a choice" Secretary Straus left this evening for Washington. and Powderly will leave Monday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
THERE'S rRounLr AHEAD.

If any one thinks that science is un- changing and impregnabIe, that one Is mistaken. If any one thinks that the scientists themselves are always cor rect. or that they never differ or change, that one Is again mistaken. Not only are human views, even those of the wisest of mankind. modified or reversed by changed conditions and new discoveries. but the wisest among the wise men differ and contradict each other in a way that tends to confuse those who make no pretense to wis., dom.
 Take. for example, the speculations and predictions regarding the fate Of the earth in the far distant future. What will be its end. and how will it come about? are matters which have been discussed and differed over for centuries. One theory of venerable age has been that the final end will come from cold. The sun will grad ually lose its heat, the heat energy stored in the earth from the suns rays will be exhausted. all descriptions of fuel will be used up. and in the end all animal life will perish from cold and the earth will thereafter be a frozen dead planet and no more life will exist on it, either animal or veg etable. The astronomers tell us that there are already dead worlds in space. and earth will be added to the number.
 turbing theory. but 1t held because there was no way to disprove 1t. AL most any theory will stand until 1t Is disproved, or until something else dis- places 1t. But now comes a theory d. rectly opposite to the chilly one and 1t comes. strange as at first thought it might seem, through the discovery and exploitation of radium. That strange and scarce metal, as we all know. Is one of the new discoveries. and though it has as yet only been produced in minute quantities and at great expense. enough of 1t has been found. and enough experiments made with 1t, to prove that 1t possesses some rare and wonderful qualities. and we are treat ed to something new as to the end of earth.
 "It appears" says The New York Globe, that soon after the discovery of radium some speculative geologist suggested that the centre of the earth may contain enough of that feverish element teS account for most of the caloric W lch make life possible on it's surface. Later information regard ing the widespread distribution of ra- dium and other radioactive substances seemed to make this radium core the ory still more plausible. if not prob able.
 NOW comes Prof. John Joly, presi- dent of the geological section of the British Association. with the announce ment of his belief in the existence of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15

Mir. Taft is not showing himself a very astute politician in some respects. When he declares in public speeches that if he Is elected he will devote all the energy that is in him "to prevail upon Congress to pass laws necessary to clinch the Roosevelt policies" he is doing much to clinch his own defeat. Declarations like that will not be as convincing to Republicans generally as he seems to think. To many of them the Roosevelt policies are very dis tasteful and If they can find no strong CT or better reason for supporting Taft than that they'll give him the marble heart on election day. All the same, the more such breaks he makes the better will be the chances for Bryan, so let him put his foot in his mouth as often as he likes. If that is his idea of campaigning and vote getting he is welcome to it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
Letters to The Edit.r
Don't Rob the Soil.

Dont HoB tmc SOIL. Editor Advertiser.
 The following, from The Southern Gazette. expresses great truth so for cibiy. ask you to place 1t before your readers
 Farmers. Throw off this yoke: stop wasting your heritagei
 You should never buy poun1 of fer tiliztr for your fall crops. The air Is ready 10 pour down free at your bid- ding. Farm right. revive your dead soils. shake on a bondage that costs yon millions every year.
 How you rob the soil for Europe and the North.
 And yet. Germany aiono buys .hree or four millions doiia-s' worth of cot ton seed meal from this country cVsiy year and all wrung from the soil of the South, while the farmers try to re- place 1t with pitiful four pounds of ammonia in 200 pounds per acre of 2-s-2 fertilizer. while Germany alone bought last year 1s.s26.950 pounds of actual nitrogen in cotton seed meal nearly twice as much. or last year about three-fourths of a pound for ev- cry cotton acre In the South.
 Then if Germany alone got this much what did all Europe get and the North. ern States? And when we reflect that millions of pounds are used In making fertilizers for the South. and there are hundreds who are not selling 1t, it Is evident that all this nitrogen came from small part of the cotton belt, and that there are thousands selling from their land far more nitrogen than they return Tn the poor fertilizer they use in so small an amount.
 Stop robbIng your soil and go to re. viving it.
 And yet if they farmed right. they could gut from the air as much nitro gym on every acre they own. as a whole ton of 2-s-2 goods contains. And they could get 1t without money and with out price. and in the getting of 1t through leRume crops would get forage that fed to stock would give them manure to make them more independ- ent of the fertilizer trust.
 And yet the first inquiry Is What fertilizer shali use" to make crop on the old dead skeleton of sand and clay, from which the hurlius. the life of the soil has been robbed"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
This b My z3rd Birthday
Richard oIney.

Richard olney. eminent as lawyer and statesman. was born September is, 1883. in Worcester County, Massachusetts He was sraouated trcm Brown University in 1856 and from the Harvard Law School m 1A5S. A year later. hs was admitted to the bar ana began the practice of law in Boston i.
 He became prominent in the Democfatio party In Massachusetts early in his caE reer, though he held no public office for many years with the exception of serving one term in the Massachusetts Legislature. !.
 in 1893 he accepted from President Cleve. land the appointment of Attorney General Of the. United States. He continued to filI that position until June. 1895. when he was made Secretary of State. Since his retire ment from the cabinet in 1897 Mir Olney has taken no active part In politics Tn 1904 he was mentioned as a possible candi- date for the Presidential nomination AS a lawyer MT. olney.s success has been that of counselor rather than that of an ad- voeate. He is regarded as a masterly ex- ponent of the law. relying more upon con- ciseness of expression and cleafness Of statement than upon purely rhetorical ef. feet for the success Of his efforts. I
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
A unique platform has been issued
', :, ] EsSy,srd < I,np q NJ; Shepard on Bryan.


 The New York Tribune need not worry Itself over the problem of how The Record can support MT Bryan; there Is an equally interesting prob lem much nearer its own office.
 Edward NJ. Shepard. of New York. is one of the most prominent lawyers questio@ned t I @ conWictions SU % sSd man peo- 4S mo crat of the Cleveland style. All his associations are with the most con servatiye elements in the Democratic of the Democratic ticket and given reasons for 1t which the Republican organs will do well to ponder over.
 In the first place. he Supports Bryan and Kern on account of the tarifr, with it's corrupting preferences and socialistic character and it's inevitable and enormous results in monopoly and governmental extravaganza and iniqu- ty. It passes his comprehension how any man who has read and believed what Thomas F. Bayard said In Edin- burgh about the debasing influence of the tariff on our politics "can think 1t a light thing to intrust political power to a President and party who promise to continue the protective tariff, and probably to, raise some of it's rates, al- ready scandalously high"
 In the second place, he supports the Democratic ticket because Mir Taft is committed to the imperialistic pro- gram, which means the perversion of the American Government from it's true and traditional ideal of democra- tic and equal rights here and abroad to the ideal of military and naval power abroad" And. finally. MT Taft stands for everything that is embrac- ed under the term Kooseveltism. "Is there. then" he asks for us anything more important today than the pro- motion or defeat of the three policies to which I have referred? Of what difference Is 1t whether we approve or condemn lesser items of MT. Bry- ans program"
 Mir Shepard does not agree with MT points of greatest importance at the present time. and the three most inti- mately associated with the life and MT. Bryan's views are sound The Tribune should have no further difi- culty in understanding how Cleveland Democrats can support the party ticket.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
ONIONS UNDoINe BERMUDA.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
 Lieutenant General Josceline Heneses wodehouse. ex-governor of Bermuda. who has been promoted to the command of Northern India, arrived yesterday from Bermuda by the Quebec Line steamship Bermudian and will sail for England to- day by the American liner St. Paul He has decorations for distineuished services in several wars and some up to date ideas of what may be good for the promotion of prosperity in Bermuda.
 The Bermudians he said. were behind the times in the cultivation of Bermuda's staple. the onion. and the consequence was that Texas was with her scientific meth- ods Of cultivating the onion, robbing Der muda of her market. He said 1t behooved the Bermudians to change their antiquat- ed methods. and he belived that they were beginning to do so Also he believed that the Bermudians should not depend solely on the cultivation of the onion, They were waking up and exterminatinE the fly that was destructive to fruit and doubtless would enter the strawberry market soon in competition with the Americans.
 Lieutenant General F. ". Kitchener will succeed General Wodehouse as governor of Bermuda He has been in command of the Lahore division of the northern India army.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
FINDING MORE COAL.

PeriodicaIIy--and sometimes oftener we are told that the supply of coal for fuel cannot last . great while longer. The statisticians. reasoning from the estimated quantity of coal in the deposits now known and avail able, and the annual consumption as shown by the reports. can with some degree of accuracy figure out the length of time that the supply will last. Thus they profess to be able to tell us about how long 1t will be until there will be no more coal avail. able and people will have to find other means of warming themselves or freeze.
 And yet. after these gloomy predic- tions have been put in circulation, and we begin to feel sympathy for the shivering mortals who are to come after us. here comes news of the dis covery of a new coal deposit in some unexpected place. One of the latest is that a hitherto unknown deposit has been discovered in British colum- bia, near the States of Washington and Montana, which is reported as being practically inexhaustible." and al- ready railroads are being built into the region so that this coal may speedi- ly be made available for the world. We are told that pr. Selwyn. a promi. nent and well-informed member of the Dominion Geological Department of ottowa, estimates that there are twen- ty-two billion tons of coal available as soon as transportation is ready. and, We are further told. when that amount has been mined it will hardly be count ed in comparison with the amount that has not been touched"
 Twenty billion tons is a vast amount of coal The total production of coal of all descriptions in the United States in 1908. which is the latest report we have at hand. shows that 1t was less than one-fifth of the amount here given as available in this newly discovered area. to say nothing of the amount yet undiscovered. And this is but one in- stance of what may be repeated. This is a big world of ours. and much of it Is an unknown region. especially so far as it's mineral products are con- cerned. Coal has more than once been found in the most unexpected places, and in many occasions regions which had been known for centuries with out any thought that they contained coal. have developed rich deposits. This is possible in many places not yet investigated. There may be vast coal fields in the yet undiscovered parts of the earth. as well as in those regions which man has not yet iu- vestigated. When we consider all these facts and possibilities; and when we further consider the wonderful de- velopmsnts of modern timee in the way of producing light, heat and power without coal, we may reasonably con- cluds that the general freezing of humanity may be postponed many years to come.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
This Date in History
santnmhar Ih.

SoDL0mD0F 10. iTT7-Washington and his army crossed the Sohuylkill determined to give battle to Gen, Howe's troops 1792-The President issued a proclamation ordering all persons to submit to the excise law. 1St4--United States troops defeated the Eiglish in battle at Fort Bowyer ls22-Moses Rogers captain of the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic. died at Cheraw S. C.. Born in New London. Conn. in l7s0. 1s2s-Slavery abolished in Mexico. 1se3-President Lincoln suspended the ha- bsas Corpus Act lss4--A party of several hundred Canadian boatmen left Quebec to take part in the Nile expedition for the relief of General Gordon. 1ss7--The centenary of the Consultation of the United States was celebrated In Philadelphia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15

It appears to an outsider that those men in Georgia and Tennessee, who were disappointed at the result of the gubernatorial primaries in those states, would hold up in their adverse critl- cisns until after the election. They give every reason for causing a wide spread belief that they wish to secure the defeat of the regularly nominated Democratic candidates for Governor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-15
POLITICAL POINTERS

Washington Dispatch.
 That the Republicans are uneasy IS shown by their putting Mir. Taft on the stump: Here Is the itinerary now
 He viii go down through kentucky. making at least one. and possibly two speeches in that State. and then go into Nashviiie and chattanoosa. then he will come north again and speak Tn Charleston, wect Va. and possibly one other city in that state. Tn Maryland he VII ss nsfrd S,ii tbsn in saittnGSe to New York City for one large meeting. He may spend little extra time in the city for conferences. While there Is strong desire among New Engianaofrs r,tv 10 nays I, ,s hardly likely that he will do so. as 1t is not believed that the occasion
 Leaving New York. Mir. Taft will speak In Buffalo. then at Erie, Penn. coming into Ohio and speaking Tn Cleveland and possibly one other city in the State. He will make trip through Northern Indiana. where rear platform speeches will be made. He will speak in Chicago. and then go out through Iowa, Kansas. Nebraska. Mis- souri and home through southern HI nois and Southern Indiana. There Is possibility that while he Is in the West he will go to the northwest as far as Montana, but that is hardy prob able. .
 According to the present plans. the trip will start during the last week of September
 Mir Taft thinks he can break the solid South, and he looks to Tennessee, with it's splendid industrial growth and its rapid influx of Northern people, as State that may be added to the Re- publican column.
 Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Admit that party lines are badly broken. the fact remains that in the cities of ohio far moro Republicans are openly adverse to their own ticket than can be found Democrats who are changing their positions.
 In 1905 Pattison was elected Cover. nor over Herrick by q plurality of 42.647 in the State. Herrick carried Hamilton. Montgomery and Franklin Counties. and only lost Lucas by 300 votes.
 Many men familiar with Ohio politi- cal conditions. and some of them ot Republican faith. are confident thar Hartman will carry all these four in- portant counties by heavy najorittes, nd thus pile up an aggregate vote that W will be impossible for the Repubi- cans to overcome. Tn the other courl- ties of the State Pattison's plurality