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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-02
STANDING OF THE CLUBS

RESULTS OF GAMES
Sacramento 3, Stockton 1.
Sam Jose z, Alameda O.
Fresno 8, Oakland 2.
Santa Cruz 8, San Francisco 4.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-02
Los ANGELES
OAKLAND
Runs AND HIS BY I'M

Total -------------SS II so is
sTwo out when winning run was made.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-02
oAKLAND

Two base hts Blankenship, Kennedy. G.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
AzEAGRD SATISFACTION.

The ofEleial election returns in Ala bama have given the Republicans but meagre satisfaction. after the most desperate light that they have made in the State since, lS7s. The big gains, that were boasted of in ad- vance, failed to materialsxs. To give the Republicans all they are entitled to. it can be said, that after their big fight and after spending money where they believed 1t would do most good, the total gain of Taft's vote over Roosevelt's of four years ago. is s.sl1. and this represents the combined vote of both the Thompson and the David son wings.
 The big increase that was expected from the business men of the cities failed to materialize. In many parts of the State. even up to election day. 1t was asserted that Mobile would roll up a big Republican vote ana that the Republicans might carry the city. The returns failed to show the big vote. but they did show that the Re- publicans had about as much chance to carry Mobile as they did Montgom- cry.
 The total vote was considerably smaller than that of 1904. and Bryan's plurality falls below that of Parker. This Is due to a feeling of apprehen- sion on the part of some business men who were experiencing the effects of a panic, that MT. Bryan's election might possibly delay the return of good times. These business men did not vote for Taft. but enough of them remained away from the polls to re- duce Alabama's total vote.
 The Democrats can not close their eyes to the fact that the Republicans made considerable gains in the white counties where there already existed strong Republican sentiment. Nor can these Democrats close their eyes to the fact that the Republicans made their fight there not on national is- sues, but in vehement attacks on the Democratic State administration. This mode of attack the returns show was effective
 The Republican candidate for Con- gress in the Fourth Congressional District announced during the cam paign. that the people of his district could not be aroused over national Issues. but that he had found one sub- ject upon which they were interested and by which he could stir their ap- proval and enthusiasm. This was the arraignment and criticism of the pres ent Democratic State administration. As the campaign progressed he said he had eliminated much of his speech and amplihed other parts. until 1t consisted almost entirely of an ar raignment of the recklessness and ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
Bls Men tor Illg Dssas

FnuaQelphta Press.
 Individual enterprise ls far from dead even ha this be the age of the syndicate and the trust. There are a number Of striking examples in this country today Of where one man Ia doing what is only expected of corporation.
 Henry II. Rogers. who is a partner of Mir. Rockefeller in the oil business has taken ss1,ooo,60o from his own pocket to build personally railroad through the VirsiniAs. This is nearly foar times tife fortune which olrnfd bequeathed to PhtIs aaeiphia. fot his great college.
 Another partner of the Standard oirs father Is also railroad builder. Henry H. FiAgIer, among his other huge under taktngs. iB at work on the only salt water railroad'' In the world. His re. markaele road over the Florida keys Is a monument to his energy es well as q triumph of engineering. His various lines have cost ~es6, ,0eo,eoOs
 David Moffatt Is one of the biE figures Of the West. Having accumulated a vast fortune. he Is spending a large part ok 1t in building 0 railroad from Denver across the Rocky Mountains.
 These men, and others like them, al though less notable, have the craving to ee monumental work as individuals. Could there be a better proof that such tarBighted individuals have unbonaded faith i'm the future of their country than the risk. of thelr personal fortunes on new railroads. st. a,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
MORNING THOUGHT
pY ,. MARvrN NIcnoLs.

The basic motive for most all crime Is to be found in some mental or phy- sicali infirmity--some unsatisfied de- sire, pesire--the sInolderlng fires And we call it crime.
 In your dreams have you never read the signl Lost! Somewhere be- tween sunrise and sunset, two golden hours. each set with sixty diamond reward for a thing lost forever.
 We have dismal fancies of things that never come to pass. Most of our troubles are nothing more than night mares that are gone with the waking thIs distempeF Of the imagination.
 The young wan who makes every thing convefgs on his fortune buili- ing has established an ideal that will tues. There are things Shat money can neither buy nor create. II Is said that Gladstone died poor because he was too busy to make money. -
 The same sun that hardene the clay thought that he had discovered new world and it turned out to be an ob- struction on the lens. Change your view point; maybe things will take on ne, new and happier fashion. A whole
 Just because you don't happen te think like your neikhbor. you stand aloof like an enemy. Oh, if the jarr. ing would only hush for one moment and your hearts for once could really touch. In the inmost soul, at last. we are all akin.
 I never pass young man on the streets without having como to me again the fAr-away vision. It's the form of a beautiful young woman lowering over the form of her first born. And she's dreaming. too dreaming of the, far.off years when her siumbering baby shall be a man. And wonder If it's only a dream that comes to her.
 The silent sufferings of the mind, as lt undertakes to unravel the tan- gled thread of life and affection, are unavoidable. It has no spoken lam guage. tt tells it's story h the sunk On eye. the shattered neyve, the sii- very hair, the fnrrowed brow. it's a sad story that needs no tongue-lts eloquence Is in the hush that attends. Watch the throng that's passing now --yoTiI catch the message, for such e suffering heart speaks in whispers. It dreads the listening ear and evades the nameless flend who would in- crease the tortue by its ruthless gos- sip. 4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
This D0ts in History

1672--Island of Tobago taken from the Dutch by the English.
 l752.-Thomas Chattertou. English poet, born Died Aug. a TITO.
 1S0e.--Napoieon declared Q blockade of the British Isles.
 lS41.-Sir Wildfrfd Laurier. Canadian Premier born at St. Lin. Qubec
 lSeS;1JudEe Kensaw M. Landis. Of the United States District Court at Chicago. born near Milltille. Ohio.
 l66S.--Discoveries of silver ode re- ported from the White Pine region of Nevada.
 1SSS.-EarI of Elgin, former Cover nor-General of Canada. died In India. Born July 20, 1911.
 1ss2--The great Homestead strike declared at an end.
 1esS--Twelve thousand lives lost by earth hquake in Kuchan. Persia.
 1eod.-President Roosevelt in puhlic address declared Americas future rest home
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1908.
uaxrNe ro pr PRESIDENT.

The Hartford Times takes little stock ,n tha saving attributed to MT. Lin- soln--that he told young man never to try to be President. for if he did ha would never be one. The Times recalls the sRorts made by Lincoln to obtain tho first nomination. It tells how he marched into the convention hall at Chicago with a fence rail on hia shoulder, "a theatrical device" 1t says, "which none of his successors except the present occupant of the white House would have been capable ? -ss4.nitating." in which The Times is
 aStless correct.
 ywhen he was a candidate the sec.
 d time." continues The Times. MT. Lincoln was antagonized by a very large section of his own party. The opposition was brilliantly led in the House of Representatives by Henry winter Davis. of Maryland, and most Of the Republican Senators were against him. AS the day of the elec- ton in 1884 approached MT. Lincoln and his friends were exceedingly anxious Thousands of soldiers who were need ed at the front were ordered home to Pennsylvania and other States regard ed as doubtful, in order that they might vote for him. The whole power of the Federal government was used to aid his reelection.
 we do not believe that Abraham Lincoln ever told any boy not to try to be President. The saying attribut- ed to him is probably a fable like the faked anathema, the public be damned, which the late William IT. Vanderbilt never uttered and which the news papers have made millions of Ameri- cans believe he did utter. and like a great many other alleged acts and sayings by public men which are pure ly imaginary"
 All this shows that Mir. Lincoln was very far from the kind of man to sit down and wait for an office to come to him. With all his alleged sim plicity he was a shrewd politician and there is little doubt that he had his eye on the Presidency in all his bitter controversies with Douglas. and that he was even then laying his plans to reach the highest office in the Union. In short. Abraham Lincoln lacked much of being the simple minded citi- sen that he is generally supposed to have been. He wanted to be Presi- dent and tried hard to reach the of flee. If he said to the young man what we have quoted as coming from him 1t was doubtless one of the jokes for which he was noted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
knnP TaRa IN MINp.

A contemporary remarks that "at the present time it looks ss though the next Democratic Presidential nom- ination lies between Governor-elect JudsoA Harmon, of Ohio. and Cover nor Johnson, of Minnesota" While it is true that the situation is not to be made "at the present time." and while many changes may be made. or come about during the four years of wait ing for 1912, it Is we'll enough to keep such names before the public and not allow Democrats to forget them or their qualifications.
 It is quite true that there is a strong sentiment being worked up in the South in favor of the nomination of A Southern man next time. ana we heartily agree in the justice of the feeling. Does the average reader stop te remember that 1t has been sixty years since the South furnished a President? That was General Taylcr' and he could hardly be credited to the South, for most of his life had been spent in the army. For all that how ever, he was of the South. and hs' elected in fs4s, was the last man our section hes had in the Presidency Taylor was the twelfth President and of the twelve. including hipseif, who held the ofice up to- that time the South had furnished eight, or two- thirds of the number who held the once during the first sixty years Of the governments existence.
 Ia not the above an unjust and uIa' fair discrimination against the South especially on the part of Democrats who know that the party can only elect President by and through the votes of Southern Democrats? The South Is Just as much an Integral part of the Union now as 1t was sixty or seventy years ago. It is just as much entitled to consideration now as tt ever was, and any prejudice against this section which deprives 1t of its political rights is unworthy American citizenship and contrary to the spirit of our government. What is more in- portant, the South has as good men for the Presidency as it ever had, and
 
 as good as any othsr section of the Union has.
 Considering all these matters, there ,s justice, fairness and good sense in claiming that Southern man should be nominated in 1919. but that is a matter for the future to decide. and if we get together . real and united Democracy they may decide that good policy shall demand that 6 man shall again be taken from the North. and in view of that contingency 1t Is well to keep before the public the names of men who are worthy and well dual- iied, ana who have just shown them selves so competent to wear . Dem Dcratic emblem of leadership. Each Is Democrat of the old type and each has carr8ed an enemy State for the Democracy against what appeared to be discouraging and insurmountabls obstacles. While other names will be mentioned and while another may set aside the two We have mentioned, it is well for Democrats to keep in mind the nance of Harmon and Johnson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
7his Is My 67th Birthday
Sir wnfr1d I4aurisr.

Sir wilfNd Laurier Premier of Can. ada who was given q renewal power ae fhe recent general elections in Ine DnnlnioFl, was born at St. LnA 0uepec. November 90, isaI. of French -Canadlana 2 naraTltaIre. His education was receivea ciiefiy at McGill University in Montreal After his graduation in 1884 hs studise law and entered upon the practlce gt that profession in 1856. His public career dates from 1871. in which year he was returned to the Quebec legisla. tive assembly. In 1sT4 he entered the House of Commons and two years later he was appointed Minister of Inland Revenue in the Mackenzie aamlnisIras '. ton but was defeated on going to his constituents for reelection. Quebec East. however, elected him and has remained faithful to him ever since. He assumed leadership of the Liberal party in 1891 and in 1888 he became Premier. with the distinction of being the first French Canadian to hold that high oftace. ST Wilfrid has announced that upon the expiration of his pres ent term of office he intends to retire permanently from public life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
OUR FOOTBALL OUT or DATE.
Lord NorthclifSe's Criticism After yiev
 ing Yale-PrinOet9n Game. New York Times

Lord Northcllffe's Criticism After View
 ing YaIe-PrinOctSn Game.
 New York Times.
 Among the thousands who journsyed to Princeton Saturday and sat in the rain to see Yale beat Princeton at football was Lord Northcliffe, the English newspaper and magazine owner. A Times reporter sought Lord NorthcHffss opinion of American football afterward and got 1t. Our football is good, of it's kind, he says. and is brilliantly played. but--it is not up to date.
 'I had never seen anything antiduated in the United States until saw this foot ball match today" said Lord Northcliffe ITO my surprise I found that the Yale and Princeton teams were playing Rugby school football. with it's tiresome scrina- images. which outwearisd the British pub lie many years ago. The men played bril- liantly. In fact. l don't remember having seen Rugby football played better. But 1t was the old-stylo game with all its tire- some delays.
 Rugby football Is played now, I be- lieve. outside of the United States only in some remote regions of South Wales and in New Zealand. Tn this style of foot ball 1t is weight and not science that tells. feel certain that taking the teams matched this afternoon. the Yale men would outweigh the Princeton men by many pounds. Had I not been in charm ing company, I think I should have been angry at being taken sixty miles on miser- able day like today to witness such a dull pastime as a Rugby football match.
 "Ths American people are husters. Ii they wish to keep up their reputation among the sportsmen of the world l would advise them to play an up-to-dats game. At the same time, they might erect covered stands for the spectators. esps- ciaIly for the women. At a rough ss- Climate there must have been some 6.O0d costly hats spoiled today at Princeton. It seemed to me that under such condi- tions as prevailed. 1t took all the efforts of two bands and six cheer leaders tc arouse interest in the game among thS uagre oniooksrs." -. ......
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
Santa Clause of BrazlI. In-.a


 Captain James ". Balano of the good ship Margaret Thomas has for the past seven years official Santa Clause, by exclamation, to Rio de Janeiro. Every year, while his four masted vessel lies at her dock al Mystic wharf he is busily engaged in making purchases to take to his friends in far-off Rio.
 Captain BaIano is the master of the only vessel sailing between Boston and Rio de Janerio therefore his proud title of the American Santa Clause is in no danger of being usurped.
 From Boston to Rio de Janeiro the Margaret Thomas covers 1000 miles arriving there, as rule about forty days from the time that Boston Lgh' Is passed The cargo carried by tht Thomas is mostly composed of apples which are sold at the very substan tlal price of &26 to $30 barrel upof reaching their destination.
 This shopping business is to me most pleasant diversion and source of much pleasure after a long, tire some cruise" said the captain have everything for the ladies as wei as for the men ani children. l thin that the only thing that I am no
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
travassncs of the Democratic admin.

travasance Of the Democratic admin. istration.
 It is notable that the Republicans made gains in this dlstrict. The Re- publican candidates carried three of the six counties. cleburne, Shelby and Chiffon. They were carried by small majorities but they were carried nevertheless.
 What this candidate was doing in the Fourth other Republicans were doing. wherever they were making . fight. The DemocrStic speakers sen, into the few doubtful counties of Ala. banla had to meet and answer as best they could the attacks on the present State administration.
 A Montgomery Democratic speakei was assigned for speaking In an East Alabama county. He was met by the chairman of the local committee whe said:
 "A Republican speaker spoke her, tnIS f1OTnlnk Io piB CToWu duQ IN devoted his entire time to attacking the Legislature and the State admin. istration. He had the crowd with him, too. When he arraigned them for extravagances and reckiessness the crowd cheered him. Now you answer him"
 The Democratic speaker thought for a full two minutes. Then hs asked:
 What am I going to say in answel to the charge of recklessness and ex. travagance?"
 To this. situation attention is 1 called but for one purpose--to warn Democrats that the predominatins Democratic sentiment throughout car be kept invioiate only by the selection of well poised, able and patriotic of' ficers. who will not commit the gov ernment to violent vassries. but who will give the state an ofdsriy govern ment for the conservation and pro- tection of the welfare of the people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
Gllaanr . TEnee pome.

Eopular- iMechanicSs
 The entire dome of Philadelphia's great city hall Is to be covered with gold. and more than 10,000.O00 sheets of gold leaf will be used before the task is completed.
 So that as little of the precious metal as possible shall be wasted, eash workman will be inclosed in a screen adjusted about his waist as he puts the metal in place. leaf by leaf. hundreds of feet above the streets
 The gold leaf to be used Is being manufactured especially for the city in book form. each book containing twenty-five leaves s-S Inches square These are delivered lh packs of twenty books. To allow a single leaf for every SSi-s inches of space to be covered will necessitate the use of s0.46l packs. which makes 409.220 books or 1O,3s0, 900 leaves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
NKeD OF OPPOSITION.
Democratic Party Must Be Made a Fra
 EEnEnA

Devooeratle Party Must Be Made a Praeti-
 cal EoFeo.
 Indianapolis News.
 The country has suffered and is suffering from the lack of an opposition party, virile and vigorous into whose hands the govern ment may De committed. We may have the faith to believe with Mir, Bryan when he asks, expecting a negative answer. whether we shall forever subnit--as to secret campaikn contributions. to trust ex- pIoitation to the arrangement of capital and labor. to an unsecured banking system. to extravagance in administration, and so on But meantime the powers that be are continued in place. and the party that pro- posed to bring in the desired reforms was reflected of the people.
 This is a practical world, The way to do things Is to do them, not to dream them. The Democratic party has had enough of the Kind of accomplishmeRt that Mr. Bryan counts to his credit. The great need of the country is an opposition party that shall be feared as Q practical force, and so hold the party In power up to the, mark. The country has suffered incidentally because there has not been tDe fear of this before inc eyes of those that have rioted in power. By whatever name it be called there is needed in this country now for the coun- try's good the mobilization of party that shall appeal to the people as voicins things needed. and as impressing them with it's capacity to apply those things to the practical working of affairs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
KEPr pusY pooING nEATH.
Last Year Boy Was tzlt By sAOt; Thir
 Year it's q Bullet.

Last Year Boy Was lsit by sAot, T'his
 Year itss q Ballet.
 New York Press
 So busy is Jerry Byrnes, Of River head Long Island, in escaping death that he has little time to do anything else. If any thing ts sent ying through the air it seems to be the rule that it keeps right, on until 1t finds the Byrnes boy and hits him. Last year it was a 1s-pound shot; this year it is a pistol bullet. Between times he is kept busy lodging things. Tn fact he has been struck. 80 many times that he dodges instlnctively even when a sparrow or a pigeon dies in his direction
 To demonstrate to what lengths projectiles will so in an effort to reach young Brynes. it is only neees- sary to mention the circumstances leading up to his latest nishap. Frank Hunter, employed in Nugent,s livery stable. has a pistol He was trying to sell it yesterday. The prospective purchaser wanted to see 1t tried be- fore hs bought it. 5 Hunter cooked the weapon. aimed 1t in the air. and pulled the trigger. The bullet struck the side of q small once building near the stable, passed through the weather boarding, bored a hele through two inch studding, and struck lyoung Byrnes in the forehead. Defiected by the bone, the bullet passed between the skull and the scalp and finally stopped in the hack part of the head. Hunter was arrested. but was dis charged by Justice of the 'i Peace Hildreth.
 In April, 1907, a elassmate of young Ryrnes was putting a 16-pound shot It struck Brynes on the back Of the head and caved in his skull. The pressure on the brain was relieved by pr. Paul Pitcher. of Brooklyn, who removed part of the skull. Byrnes could not talk and his recovery was slow. He was just emerging from his period of dumbness when Hunters bullet struck him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
THREE STAGES FOR PAsTORs-- Ostracizcd at 50, OsleFixed at @, Can
 enized at 70, Says Preacher.

Ostf3tt2cM 06 Do, OekoFtEe0 h& ust NAM-
 eRised at 70, seys Prcacher.
 The present ciergytnan Is an expert in the art of being poor. He ls an adept m low finance. The church has done com. paratiSeiy, little for the old ciergynian. He has been shamefuliy neglected. The average. eIergyman Is ostracized at go. oslerised at SD. and canonized at 9o.
 Those assertions were made Sunday by the Rev. J.J. wilkins, seeetary of the League of the Baptised, at the services of the organization held in Christ Pro. testant Episcopal Church, Broadway ana Eeventieth street. It had been explained that the object of- the league is to pro- vide an assurance of support and conn fort to the old ciergymen who are unable to take up a charge and have no other means of earning livelihood.
 At a meeting to be held today in Christ Church the ciergymen of the various churches In which the league has been introduced will report the progress ot the plan to raise s5.0o0.oo0 as rellef funa. The league hopes to enroll all children on the day of their baptism and to make them yearly contributors. The annual tax has been fixed at 10 cents person Bishop J. H. Darlington Of HarrlsouEs. was one of the speakers. The remarks or wilkins caused the most interest. speak- ing of the amount of money preachers receive, he said:
 "The average clergyman when ne De' gan thought he was marching with I .ne army of the Lord, but soon he foano him' selg simpiy with the squad. The church has been withholding the square eeaa. The wages of clergymsn are lower tae1 those hf skilled wofkingrnen. and o1.en .iogvr than those of ordinary laomor1' How can a preacher have peace ana cum fort in his old age on hs salary