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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-02
Baseball League Standing.

FRANCISCO october
leading Legue
Pitburg League
Detroit, Chicago
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT.

SAN FRANCISCO october railroad
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ChanIer Notified.

PoUGHKEEPsIE Governor chanler was
o
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CRUISER GLADIATOR FLoATED.

PORTSMOUTH, Gladiator
today
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Taft's Day to Talk.

speeches yesterday
MANILA AND THE FLEET.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT.
SAN FRANCISCO October
in be
CircuitC
CRUISER GLADIATOR FLOATED.
PORTSMOUTH, England october 1.-The British
collision
WAS today
TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS-
WASHINGTON October 1.-The the tuberculosis
day marked by the reading
CHOLERA IN ST. PETERSBURG
the last
OPPOSED TO DEPOSIT GUARANTY.
DENVER Colorado october 1.-The
MINT IS BUYING SILVER.
1T will purchase
silver bullion coinage
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TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, October 1.-The session of the Tubercl
day was marked by the reading of many papers.
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OPPOSED no DEPOSIT GUARANTY

DENVER Colorado, october 1.-The bankers of Denver
pposing the guaranty of bank deposits.
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/ CHOLERA IN ST PETERSBURG

ST. PETERSBURG October There Of
deaths reported the last twentyfour hours
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
OUTLOOK IN KENTUCKY.
Possibility Of a Big Era Of Road
Building,

I7OD1tNNNteIf VI = I'm
Building.
With the passage of the Boswor:h-
wyatt bill at the last session of the
Legislature the proposition of good
roads becomes possibility in Ken
tucky. No state of the pretenslons of
this commonwealth in all the Union
has such Inaccessible roads. and in
some cases yeritable canal of mud
binds two Important little hill or noun
tain towns together. TO get from
Middlesboro to Harlan, in adjoining
counties. one has to take railroad
train through Virginia and then scram-
BILE on horseback oyer the most pre-
cipitous road In the south to the seat
of Harlan county.
The bill provides n constitutional
amendment to be voted on at the next
legislative election In 1909. 1t gives
each county powerto assess 5iper cent
OF Its total valuation for road repair
and building in distinction to the pres
ent law, which provides only 2 per
cent. In the case Of Shelby county,
which now has but $32. 500 for Its 500
mises of-highways and pixies. 1t would
thus have $050.O0O. though for $780,
600 its roads could be well kept up.
The appropriation from Jefferson and
Kenton would be enormous.
Nothing is more serious to the
itinerant merchants or the immense
rural population of Kentucky than
roads. Any politician who. like Gov
ernor Wilson. Travelled 10000 miles on
roads during n campaign, knows that
the hardships to be undergone are
really tremendous. Often Wilson was
SO sore from the jolting on some noun
tain COW path that he would fall from
his horse and, lying down on a rock,
refuse to ride step farther until his
aching back was at ease. Once in
coming down steep hillside in Letch-
er county, made uncomfortable even by
the sure footed horse because of Its
dIsrepair and roughness, tho animal
stumbled.
"Gosh," gasped Wilson. there near
ly went the whole - campalgn!p
Sheer below ran rock wall down to
valley 500 feet.
Should the people ratIfy the Bos-
worth Wyatt bill there will begin an
era of rond building such rs the peo-
pie of kentucky have never known be-
fore. A state highway association
will be appointed and competent civil
engineers put In charge Of the work.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
A FIREpRooF TREE.
Tho chaparro. ono of South America.
Natural curlositieS.

Tho chaparro, ono of South Amerioa'S
Natural curlositieO.
On the vast plnins OF Colombia and
the north of South America. SCALED 81
vannas. which are pnrched with heat
except during the rainy season. there
Is one Of the greatest Of natural curl
osities. tree called the chaparro.
which is flreproof
1t is the custom Of the Colombian
herdsmen to clear the ground by
means of fire for the new vegetation
which springs up so luxu-iantly in
these regions after the rainy season.
But not even the intense heat of n
prairie fire affects the chaparro tree.
1t survives the flames to afford well
come shade in an otherwise treeless
country.
1t is small tree. seldom growing
to more than twenty feet In height,
with n glrth of about three feet. 1t
owes its curious immunity from fire
to the nature of Its hard, thick bark.
The bark lies on the trunk in loose
layers, which do not readily conduct
heat to the more delicate parts of the
structure.
The natives believe that this tree
grows only where gold Is abundant In
tho soil below. and 1t certainly is COM
mon in auriferous dIstricts.-Westmin
ster Gazette.
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Tho Che apest Roadmaker.

The good roads without money"
movement that has by means of Kings
split log road drag converted the
slough holes of the corn belt" roads
into model turnpikes is extending to
the eastern states, where most roads
are either very good or very bad, says
Garden Magazine. Mr.. King Is arrang-
Ing with the various state boards of
agriculture to give series of practical
demonstrations OF the use of his de.
vice on eastern roads where the sue
,ess of road dragging is more doubtful
because of sand and rocks.
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VALUE OF The DRAG.
o. Ward King Asserts split Log v,

D. Ward King Asserts Split Log Va
riety Has obliterated Mudholes.
"Niissouri has today hundreds of
miles of muddy mud roads, without n
single mudhole to the MILE" said d..
Ward King in opening his speech on
Good Roads" at Troy, Mo-. the other
afternoon. "a muddy mud road with
out mudhole." said he. us product
of the King road drag. By no other
system cnn mud rouds without mud
holes be made. The twenty-four hours
of rainfall just past has of course made
the mud roads muddy. but on my way
from Mexico saw from the car win.
dow mile after mile of earth road OH
which In srltc of the rain not n mud
hole could be found. Near Martins
burg and Wellsville, on each side OF
New Floronce and Wentzvllle and at
other points along the line are stretches
that to the practlccd eye give evidence
of the use of the road drag"
Mr.. King went to Troy at the invita-
tion of County Engineer Il. A. Hal
Icy and represented the state high.
way commission. He said that Mis-
souri, had made greater progress in
solving the problem of better roads
than any other state In the Union.
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wInnina a Juryman.

It is related of Lachaud, the most
famous of French criminal lawyers In
the last century, that in pleading n Ger.
tain case he perceived that one Of the
Jurors seemed to be hostile to him and
his argument.
In the faces of all the other men IL
the box he saw with his practiced eyes
that his oratory or his shrewdness was
having its effect, but this man, in spite
of all Lachaud could do, remained
frowning, suspicious, obdurate.
Lachaud continued with his work,
however, and presently saw that his
opportunity had come. 1t was a hot
day, and n ray of sunlight had pene
trated a crevice on the curtain and wat
shining ON top of the head of this jury
man, who was quite bald. The lawyer
paused in his argument and addressed
himself directly to the court.
"If your honor would please" he
said, ito order that the curtain In
yonder window be lowered a triae i
am sure that the sixth juryman would
appreciate It,"
This sign Of watchful attention won
the obstinate juryman's heart and
Lachaud's case.-New York Tribune.
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GRAVEL ROADMAKING.
How the Material Should BE Ap-
piled and Selected.
UNDERTAKING. IMPORTANT.

with Proper Grading, Gravel RIghtly
Used VIII Make Most Excellent
Hishways--Tho Advantage of a Flat
Roadway.
Even where gravel employed has
been applied in road construction In
Maryland owing to Its method of appli-
cation the roads do not always main
tain their form as they should in wet
weather. This faults not usually due
to the material employed so much as to
an entire lack of proper grading and
underdralnlng! Merely to throw some
gravel over wet or spongy place
without raising the level of the road
bed or making any provision for the
drawing off of the wafer can never
make road which viii not cut through
and become muddy whenever the frost
eomcs out of the ground. The water
sinks through the gravel covering Into
the clayey foundation and renders the
latter yielding to the everything road,
(which pushes tile wheels through the
gravel into the clay or If the covering
Is thin causes the clay to be pushed up
between the pebbles.
With proper attention toward grad
ng, undertaking and the shaping OF
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
AN ASPHALT ROAD.
New Jersey to Experiment With Mix
ture of That Product With Dirt.

New Jersey to Experiment With Mix
ture of That Product With Dirt.
The New Jersey state department of
highways is to construct In Mercer
county an experimental mile of n new
automobile road, the plans for which
State Road Supervisor Robert A. Nee
ker recently obtained in Kansas City.
bIr. Mccker says the new method of
construction is simple and cheap that
it is self healing when broken and
therefore practically lndestructible, that
1t improves with age: that 1t is mud.
less, noiselcss and almost dustless and
that 1t is not slippery even when coated
with fee.
In the building of the road the origl-
nal soil is finely pulverized, and then
into this there is worked mixture of
hot asphalt, the whole mass being firm.
ly rolled in the finishing, Breaks are
quickly repaired by traffic, the weight
of wheels cementing them together
The base yields slightly to heavy traf-
fic and then regains its original shape
1t Is equally good for horses and auto
mobiles.
If the experiment proves success, 1t
Is likely that the result will be radi.
cal change in tho road building meth
ods OF the state of New Jersey, with
the substitution of asphalt for the mac.
adam process now used.
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Big BOOST FOR GOOD ROADS
Plan TO Hold Monster Meeting In 81.
Paul In December.

Unless something unforeseen occurs
ST. Paul Will probably entertain some
time next December the biggest good
roads meeting ever held in Minnesota
or the surrounding states. George w.
Cooley, state highway engineer, is
planning on such a meeting, and II the
necessary arrangement can be made,
as now seems probable, 1t Will be held.
The idea of holding monster good
roads meeting was conceived by Mr.
Cooley after the meeting recently hold
III st. Paul, to which the county com
missloners us well as others interested
In good roads were invited. This meet
ing showed the widespread interest
taken In the matter throughout the
state. He expected between 100 and
200 to attend, but the attendance grew
to about 900, says the St.7Paul Pioneer
Press. The same feeling has been
shown In the meetings which he has
addressed in tile smaller towns
throughout the state the farmers com
ing in to attend the meetings in large
numbers and showing an active inter
est in the good road problem.
"If the meeting is held 1t will cover
the field thoroughly" said Mr. Cooley.
at will be an exposition of roadmak-
ing machinery and materials. with
practical talks by men of wide expert
ence in the various details of the work
In large meeting of this kind much
better results can be obtained than by
the smaller local meetings because In
such meeting rs we expect TO hold
the manufacturers will have exhibits
of all kinds of machinery used In rond
making and we can have speakers Of
wide experience at such n meeting
which is impossible for all of the
smaller meetings. a question box
would be feature, and through this
means any one confronted by specia.
problems IL roadmaking would be
able to get the advice of the men quail.
3 fed to give 1t.
II have not yet decided definitely on
the plan, but there Is n general de
mand for such meeting, and II Il
can possibly be done the plans will be
carried out"
Mr.. Cooley's plan is to eliminate the
"hot air" talks about good roads gen
orally and to make 1t an instructlv"
meeting by having men go to st. Pau
who know about the practical details
OF roadmnking. Those who Will &C
Will do so for the purpose of learning
something about the building of gooG
roads, and 1t Is the intention to NEE
this expectation fully. The meeting
will probably last one week. The eX-
hlDits Will cover stone crushers, road
rollers. steel and concrete bridge work,
6ulverts and all sorts of machinery
and material used in road building.
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Re.aIn o0mpo.en. Road oIIleIaI..

1t is asserted that one of the princi.
pal causes for the poor construction OF
roads is that the tenure of office Of
highway commissioners Is uncertain
and that In most cases the office goes
to the candidate who can secure the
most votes Politics, as we have often
said, should in nowise be factor when
1t comes to building roads or paving
streets, says the Good Roads Maga.
zine. Improved road building Is new
art, and competent road builder, like
n poet, is born, not made, and when
his worth has been proved he should
be kept in the office as long as he is
efficient and keeps up with the marth
Of progress In his line OF work. So
long as the office OF highway commits
sioner is elective the voters of town.
ship should see that the best man is
put in the office and then reelected
Much has lately been said in regard to
making the Office of highway commits.
sioner appointive and strictly under
civil service rules. Much can be said
In favor of this plan. but until laws
are changed competent officials should
be retained.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
million a Year Eor Roads.

I Connecticut still leads In the good
roads movement as state. She was
the third to get into 1t, New Jersey
being the first, four years before her.
and Massachusetts the second, in 1903.
Now Connecticut spends $1,O00,000 n
year, while the first spends but $780,
600 and the second but 100000 less
than that. Connecticut spends the lar
gest amount per capita for good roads
by far, the only other states whose
total annual appropriations nre larger
being New York, with $5,000000, and
Pennsylvania, with $1,5O0,OOO. but both
states are vastly larger than little
Connecticut
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my community, state or nation and,
finally. are an index to the intelligence,
prosperity and activity of the people.
All these points are In Legitimate
support of the construction and main.
ternncc of coed roads, says the South
ern Cultlvntor. Many other reasons
might be cited in their favor, 1t does
seem anomalous that, amid all our
boastcd national progress, this great
necessity of modern civilization should
he kept so far In the background.
The nation needs better and more
substantial highways, and 1t is hope
ful to see indications that this subject
Will soon receive more attention from
our national and state lawmakers than
heretofore. The Importance of good
rural Highways is being more thor
oughly recognized by business men and
legislators than ever before. and the
farmers need no argument to convince
them that better roads will improve
their business materially.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
Bad Roads, Indeed.

1t is no wonder that the grangers are
speaking pieces in favor Of better
roads, as the mud is something formi-
dable on the country roads. At East
Longmendow, Mass, one of the
churches was closed on recent Sun
day on account of the muddy condition
of the roads, says the Hartford Times.
A Hartford funeral party, driving to
Cromwell, found tho roads impossible
In some places. rendering 1t necessary
to take to the fields. The milkmen and
teamstcrs declare that they "never saw
the beat of It," and the chauffeur who
gets Off the macadam is entitled to a
premium.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
HINTS FROM MISSOURI.
How to Use tho King Drag and Have
an Ideal Road.

an idSai hoaus
In Missouri the roads are really bad,
and Improvement By the King road
drag has been taken up systematically.
The following suggestions are from a
bulletin by tho Missouri board of agrl-
culture:
Don't drive too fast.
Don't walk. Get on the drag and ride.
Don't wait for your neighbors to take
hold. They may be waiting on you.
DON'T wait for the big grader to
come and shape up your road. All
you can do first will help to make the
work of the grader permanent.
Don't try to drag with one piece; use
two. One will scoop out the hollows
In the road and deepen them. When
two are used the one keeps the other
up, and soon the hollows will have
filled and become level like the balance
of the road.
Don't wait for good roads until the
city folks begin to talk about mac
adam at public expense. This will cost
from $1,000 to $1,000 mile, and for
country purposes, where there Is no
heavy hauling, 1t is no better than, not
as easily maintained as, road proper
ly made with the drag. Five dollars
n mile with proper use of the road
drag will keep the ordinary country
road that is properly drained, graded
and Drldged or culvcrted in first class
condition nine months in the year and
make it fairly decent road the other
three months. But this cannot be done
in one year or two. The longer the
drag is used intelligently the better
the road Will become until finally 1t
is oval and smooth and hard and elas-
tic. This is the ideal road, and moth
ing but road properly made with the
drag or an asphalt road meets nll these
requirements.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
STAG ON ROADS.
Use Old Material and sproad Il In
Lavara. 9ays HIuhyyay Expert.

,QSO Otu mdeonat uUu OFNAA - ~
LayerS, Says Highway Expert.
After banquet which followed tho
first annual smoker Of the North Tonn.,
wanda IN. " board Of trade DIR, D..
Ward King of Maitland, Mo-, delivered
an interesting address on Niagara
county roads, says the Buffalo E1-
press.
'While the Idea prevails in the cities
of New York state" said Mr. King,
.that mud roads are mostly all In the
west, It Is well to mention the fact that
New York state has $4,000 miles OF
roads, 5000 miles of which are Inn
proved. The mud road has been O
problem ever since transportation be-
gan 1t is generally admitted by road
builders in this state (New York; and
the United States that with the split
log drag system the difficulty Is ne.
moved"
DR.. King criticised the officials for
making good roads and then giving the
roads but little attention. He said
that roads should be improved and
kept constantly in repair. He advised
the North Tonawanda officials to getia
crusher and use 1t In slagglng streets
In the city. He recommended the use
Of old Stag only as the new Stag from
the iron furnace is too soft. The Stag
must be put on in layers. and each
layer must be rolled instead of putting
the Stag on from foot to two feet
deep and then rolling 1t. The present
system, he asserted, makes short life
road. All Stag should be screened, he
said, and all coarse Stag should go as
the bottom layer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
Facts From France.

The French academy has refused q
legacy of $4,000 for the purpose Of
reforming the morals of Paris.
Paris now has 100000 mechanics, Ia
borers and others out of work. The
Sunday rest law Is not enforced. If 1t
were one.sixth more people would find
employment.
The annual income of the average
Paris household is placed ut about
ST3O. In the fashionable quarter of tho
Champs Elysees the annual average
household revenue is said to be about
$1,000, In the nearby Faubourg st
Honore $3,7oo, while in the Madeleine
diFtIjett 81 fa1la TO 9boo -..,s'-S;
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Conscience and wealth are not al
ways neighbors.- Messenger.
Tho Worm Turned.

Barrister - Now, sir, you have
stated under oath that this man
had the appearance of gentle
man. Will you be good enough to
tell the jury how gentleman looks
in your estimation?
Downtrodden Witness-Well--ef
IA gentleman looks-er-like--
er-
Barrister-I don't want any Of
your ers, sir, and remember that
you are on oath. Can you see any
body in this courtroom who looks
like gentleman?
Witness with sudden asperity)-
! can if you will stand out of the
way. You're not transparent, -
London Tit-Bits. or
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Profesuor bIaokie's opinion.

A correspondent sends an anecdote
concerning the attempt of serious
minded lady to lure Professor Blackie
2nto giving his opinion OF Sankey's
hymns at time when they had nv
enormous vogue. The lady was giving
the professor lunch, and he tried to
fob her off by praislng a Stilton cheese
on the table. Some time after the lady
sent him copy OF Sankey and piece
of the cheese, hoping thus to draw
him. She succeeded to the extent Of
these four lines Of verse:
Thrice blessed is she that hath done what
she could
To mako n lean man fat and bad man
good
For the body. cheese; for the soul. San
Tor both. tho1kt-.
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A Road Club.

The farmers of Pleasant View dis
trlct, ten miles south of Eureka, Green
wood county, Kan, have organized n
good roads club with S. +. Rocky pres
idcnt and NJ. o. Hanson secretary
The club lms eighteen charter mem
Icrs. In tho district are eleven miles
of road, and 1t is the object of the
club to hive each mile properly graded
and worked regularly with the road
drag. The club Will hold regular meet
ings TO discuss necessary improvements
Und methods for work.
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preamer0.

There was never so much need for
real dreamers as there Is today. The
business man. caring only for "hls
beef. his beer and his pow in eternity"
will laugh scornfully and want to
know how his balance sheet would
appear did he give way to dreaming.
forgetting that his operations originat-
ed years ago in the yaguest visions;
also that happiness Is not a necessary
compliment of a heavy cash box.-Lon.
don Academy.
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Now Method Of nouneIna.

II Cholly in your parlor sits
While low the gasllght burns
And II your hints that he should leaVt
In silent scorn he spurns.
You need not try to Kick him out,
But a physician hire
To tell him that his mitral valve
Demands he should retire.
II Bridget no dismissal takes,
But holds the kitchen fort,
No personal encounter try
To be of strength the sport.
You need but call doctor In
To give the tldings dire,
Inform her that her mitral valve
Demands she should retire.
New York Sun,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-16
Things Theatrical

The New YORK subway has been
dramattzed for vaudeville purposes.
The new play on which David Be
lasco is working for Frances Starr VIII
be ready about January.
One of the principal entertainers In
Anna Held's musical production, Miss
Innocence Abroad Is Leo Mars.
Joseph Brooks and a. w. Dingwail
own the American rights to the new
Drury Lane drama, "The Marriages Of
Mayfair" which was produced in Lon
don recentlv.