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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17

& -,ers but little from the 1909 model
except i'm refinement of detail Every
improvement possible has been made,
and among them might be included a
mahogany dash which takes the place
of the shroud ION the touring carr;
brake drums have been increased to
fourteen inches in diameter; the oil
tank is integral with the crank case:
tonneau doors have metal panels and
aluminium molding; the accelerator
pedal has been placed between the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17

clutch and brake pedals; gasoline tank
has reserved compartment for two gal
Ions and there is sight feed on the
oil pump. In general appearance the
finish of the car is all that could be
desired, and this model deserves the
fullest investigation by those contem-
plating the purchase of car of the
Oakland 40" type.
The Woodill Auto company, in the
Pacific Eleceric building, is the agent
for the Oakland.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
St. Louis Wool

ST. LOUIS Nov. 1s.--wool-Quiet; me-
dium grades combing and clothing, 24@ 29e;
light fne, ESQ 27ci heavy fine, l4Q22c; tub
washed, 26@sSc.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
Blizzard Races

NEW RICHMOND, Wis, Nov. 49,
A severe blizzard is raging in northern
Wisconsin today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17

Pleasure Cars Delivery
AUfOc0r wagons Motor Freight
ters 1870 East Ninth st.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
{AlTQNS9sR'SSFTf
Atlas VaIveleSS Cars

S145o to $4,000. according 70 model ana
nnish BEKINS-CoREY MOTOR CAR co.
Pico and Flower SITS F3635
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
ChanSIOr & Lyon

The car of simplicity.
Harris BOSBYSHELL-CARPEN
street. Tel Home FbsS5.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17

Chadwick $#SSS $'SSSs $%S7Ss w. ! rH5%s H5$ II
ARD MOTOR CAR co. FbsO9: Bdway 4is0
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17

William Yerance will make his re-
appearance with the Belasco company
after an absence of two years in the
production of Claiming Pollock's play,
"In the Bishops Carriage" which
opens next Monday night.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06
About Selling Real Estate.

A NY piece of REAL ESTATE can be
~ sold at some price.
Every owner would like to sell for more
than he can get.
OF course, property is worth the most it
can be sold for
Generally, property is sold for the most
to the person to whom it is the most useful.
The finding of that person is the import
ant desidcrdtHnt, and the owner who wants
to sell cannot afford to make a mistake at
that critical juncture of his enterprise.
The best GRINDER" of PURCHASERS
of REAL ESTATE known here is the
MINING JOURN4L.
It's part of it business to.do just such work
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

and during most of those years Oar
win had been laboriously collecting
evidence and carrying out ingenious
experiments and original observations.
AS far back as 1914 Darwin had sent
an outline of his views to his friends
LyeI and Hooker, who strongly urged
him to publish it at once lest some
one should f0rcstall him, but he al
ways refused till he had got all his
materials together for his great work.
Then came the fultillment of their
prediction when he (Wallace) sent his
essay, which fell ON Darwin like a
thundcrbolt. How different Darwin's
long preparation and caution to his
own (Wallace's) conduct, The idea
came to me, as it did to Darwin, in a
sudden flash of insight. l wrote it
out, developed it, then copied it on
letter paper and sent 1t to Darwin,
all in one week | was the young man
in a hurry; Darwin was the painstak-
ing and patient student" DR.. Wal
lace then showed how they had workt d
on parallel lines, from beetle collect
ing, through foreign travel in search
of truth, and, singularly, their final
stage was Malthus "Principles Of
Population" Sir Charles Lyel and
DR.. Hooker decided that the proper
course was to couple an early memoir
on the subject by Darwin with Wal
lace's just received memoir, and 50
they were read together at the Lin
mean societys July meeting in 1858.
Forty years Darwin lived hermit
life amid his family, secluded from
the outer world. In the first year or
two they went little into society and
received a few friends, but even that
mild excitement prevented sleep and
induced violent vomiting. SO most Of
those forty years We're lived in the
home circle, and the visits of intimate
and valued friends, like Huxley and
distinguished men Of science, were per-
force very rare. 1t was an ideally
happy home. His only absences were
when overwOrk drove him for a few
days rest to the seaside or to the
London homes of son and q Gaugh-
ter. He spent years over each of his
books, large or small. All were great.
This was the routine of his average
day: He rose early summer and win
ter, took short walk before break
fast, in winter at daybreak; then
breakfasted alone at quarter to and
worked over his plants, insects, micro
scope and rough notes until half past
0-he called these hours his best time;
then to the common room, where he
would view the pile of letters for him
and rejoice when it was small. Ev-
cry one was answered. They were
read to him as he lay on the sofa. At
half past 10 he listened to chapter
of a novel. The kind he liked We're
those of ordinary life told with ordi-
nary skill. For heroine he preferred
pretty woman, and he said law ought
to put down novels with unhappy end
ings.
After this recreation he would go and
work till u quarter past IL. when he
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06
By Oliver Leigh rs

emily, to whom reference is made in
what follows) is accepted in sub
stance by the scientific world. \ eel
cbratcd author and divine unnamedl
had the courage to write to Darwin
when his great book, The Origin of
Species" first inhamcd the church
men: II have gradually learnt to see
that 1t is just as noble Il conception
of the Deity to believe that he created
a few original forms capable of self
development into other and necdful
forms as to believe that he required
a fresh act of creation to supply the
voids caused by the action of his
laws"
Great minds of every school unite
in doing homage to Darwin as Il great
man" For the encouragement of am
bilious boys and youths, their parents
and friends, we now use Darwin as an
object lesson which if rightly pom
dered will prove of greater practical
value in life than the usual tales
about genius" which often spoil eX-
cellent budding brains. Here we have
the self revealed portraiturc of an
actually average man" who some
how in the Darwinan way developed
into "a great man" 1t is only fair to
admit that his coed luck in not having
to work for his daily bread gave Oar
win the full chance to put his average
abilities" to the best u"c. He frankly
acknowledges this immense advantage
His good angel, if such raritics oc-
cur in the evolution of celcStials. also
favored him with a distinguished
grandfather and father described by
Darwin as ''the wScSt man | ever
knew" though only Il country doctor,
of ample private fortune, who lived
from 1866 until 1913. Erasmus Oar
win, the grandfather, was a physician
a naturalist and a poetizcr of plant
life. His writings had great fame ill
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06
1909 The Year of Genus-16O9
DarWin'S Centenary
Part Second His Epoch By Oliver Leigh A7
Making Voyage In the "
Beagle 80 The Ongin Of Copyright, 1909, by the
Species" s"--Darunat Home American Press Association
By Oliver Leigh 3
Copyright, 1909, by the
American Press Association

of species. In 1858 he sent me a
memoir on this subject"
This is a mild telling of how, after
you have been pegging away for nearly
twenty years at working out n great
idea, stranger pops up and shows
the world that he has got ahead of
you, and In lightning speed too.
The Linnean society of London met
on July l, 1908, to celebrate the fff-
tieth anniversary of the joint commu-
nication by Charles Darwin and Al
fred Russell Wallace "On the Tenden-
cy of Species to Form Varieties and
on the Perpetuation Of Varieties and
Species by Natural Means of Selec-
ton" DR.. Wallace was present and
made an address. Referring to the
undue credit that had been given him
as simultaneous If not the first dis
coverer of the theory, he wished again
to state the facts clearly and finally.
The idea of natural selection" or
Survival of the fittest." occurred to
both Darwin and himself independ-
emily. But what Is often forgotten is
that 1t occurred to Darwin in 1893,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

Lnelr day, but only a small part Of
their genius was resurrectionized in
our Darwin. This resemblance in par
ticular is notable. Speaking of his
grandfather, Charles Darwin says, "I
am struck with his Indifference to
fame, the complete absence of all
signs of overcstimatiOn of his abilities
or of the success of his works." By
this we see that mOdesty may be a
hereditary virtue.
In his deliberate, matter Of fact way
Darwin tells us that he was a slow
and a naughty child-teachable. but
his little ambitions he fulfilled much
too quickly and easily. 81 was much
given to inventing deliberate false
hoods, and this was always done for
the sake of causing eXcitement"-iI
other words, getting glcry. He stole Il
lot of fruit from his fathers best trees
and hid the plumber in the shrubbery;
then he rushed around proudly telling
his "disCOvcry" of the theft and its
hiding place. When he found that his
wonderful stories were received in
strict silence he realized that the pun
ishment was severer than a thrashing.
His mother died when he was eight
without leaving any conscious influ-
ence on his nature.
Very amusingly, Darwin rather brags
of his humaneness as boy and man.
Like David of old, he pleads that his
slips could be counted on one finger
Of one hand usually. Il never stole
more than one egg out of a nest"
1t remained on his conscience that
once just once, Il beat n puppy sim
ply from enjoying the sense of power"
but he cherishes the belief that he
could not have hurt 1t much, "as 1t
did not howl" Perhaps that was
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

wins apparently HE ALWAYS WORE A
driest works. He SHAWL INDOORS.
is not a stylist-in fact, he bewails
the difficulty he always had in hitting
on the best expression of what he had
to say He succeeds in being clear and
impressive. In his Descent of Man
and Variation In Relation to Sex the
Expression Of the Emotions In Man
and Animals" and the "Insectivorous
Plants" there is a wealth of strange
material which it would be well for
the dissipated novel reader to explore
between his and her fiction spasms.
A hundred years ago this epoch
marking man of science was born, and
fifty years ago his book saw the light.
Some of Darwin's contemporaries
whose Centenaries are to be celebrated
or remembered were born with n gold
spoonful of what is called genius in
their brain pans. The child in their
ease was father to the man, the halo
adorned their heads from the cradle,
according to the fond memories of the
nursery. The average lad is bit dis
heartened at finding his fingers are
not scOrched as they timidly grope
where the ring of glory should be.
Let him read the history of the juve-
nile Darwin's body and mind and as
he grew from boy to youth and from
youth to manhood. 1t will be a surer
tonic than any that comes In bottles.
Here is an unpromising boy, soli-
tary, an ungainly form, a dull brain,
sees no good in schooling, forgets all
It taught him, takes his own unprom-
Using course and so drifts along till
the lucky hour comes that flashes into
activity the dormant quality that
turks In every one of us, but too often
dies for want of the magic touch of
opportunity. Darwin's tomb in West
minister abbey Is the rightful due of
rarely great life of toll In pain, a work
man whose model motto was, "It's
dOgged as does It" 4
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

and this we gather from no less au-
thoritative source than his son, DR..
Francis Darwin, whose address as
president of the British Association
For the Advancement of Science at
Dublin last October arrested univer-
sal attention by its bold dictum that
plants have eyes and see. DR.. Oar
win was his fathers associate in all
his patient botanical Investigations,
and our portrait of the apostle Of evo-
luton will be drawn from his inter
esting memoir.
Charles Darwin himself expressed his
painful surprise that orthodoxy
should have flown into so wild fury
over his very simple, very fascinating
and reasonable theory that our Won
derfully complete organization star
ed from the lowest living organism
and has been perfected by slow proc
esses of adaptation and variation call
cd for by the struggle for existence.
Those that developed their powers
were the strong ones and reproduced
their kind to develop superior powers
In their turn. Those less able to
adapt their organs to the necessity Of
finding food were the weak ones,
whose race and generative power per-
ished. We cannot help but see this
identical process at work all around
us today, and it does not disturb the
faiths of the multitude. Yet even
Leibnitz, as Darwin reminds us, clear
headed philosopher that he was, attack
ed ''the greatest discovery ever made
by man, NewtOn's law of the attrac-
tiOn of gravity" on the ground that 1t
was subversive of religion. Today
the law Of evolution demonstrated by
Darwin land discovered for himself
by Alfred Russell Wallace independ-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06
WnoLr Nunnrn, 1914

took a walk through his grounds, rain
or shine, with his white terrier, Polly.
He was six feet tall, had II swinging
walk and the ring of his iron Shod
walking stick was CHEEKY. While die
tating in his workroom he would skip
occasionally across the hall for pinch
out of the snuffboX he kept there to
lead him not into the temptation it
would be nearer at hand. Though
confirmed invalid, he was ruddy
checked. His blue gray eyes hid
themselves in the recesses of the deep
overhanging brow fringcd with thick
projecting eyebrows. He talked viva
ciously, laughed loudly and was free
In gcSticulating, but had to move slow
ly and clumsily around the house be
cause of frequent giddiness.
He was forbidden to eat sweet things
and often vowed he would not then
broke his vow. Wine he enjoyed and
was bettered by it, but he took very
little. When walking he observed all
the birds, animals, beetles, flowers,
with the double interest of a child and
n scientist. Inspecting some seedlings
with which he was experimenting, he
flew into n mock passion with them
''the little beggars are doing just what
l don't want them to do" At 3 o'clock
he rested in his bedroom on a sofa,
smoking n cigarette and listening to
more light reading. If he doZcd Mrs
Darwin would continue reading lest
her silence would wake him. From 4
to half past 5 he was in his workroom,
after which he would rest and smoke.
In the later years he had Il plain tea,
with an egg or piece of meat, instead
of dinner, and would take leave of the
diners, saying, if visitors were there,
81 am an old woman now and must
leave with the ladies' He always
wore a shawl indoors and had lined
cloth boots to slip over his indoor
shoes for walk. When intent on
something in his work he would pull
off his coat, though very subject to
chills. He played two games of back
CANNON with his wife after dinner
with great gusto.
Often he lamented that the nature
anu lOllS VI lis IttDplS Hdu
turned his mind into a machine for
grinding general laws out of endless
collections of facts. The minutest de-
tail was as important as a large view.
Each book was a final abstract of nu-
merous earlier abstracts. He always
had several distinct subjects in hand
at the same time, which he syStema-
tized his own way in about forty large
portfolios. He made rule of jotting
down n thought on the instant and
placing it where it belonged. This in
dicates his methodical habit and his
slow and sure way of working.
Even i'll health had its compensa-
tion. Though it has annihilated sew
eral years of my life it has saved me
from the distractions of society and its
amusements" He laughed at the high
flown talk of artists as If art were
something sacred. His library was for
use, not show, and his work went on
seven days to the week. The village
parSon was an almost daily visitor but
Darwin could not return his calls in
church. When he ventured there i'll
1871 ON the occasion of his daughters
wedding he was overcome with the eX-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

we all know of the man and his mighty
influence; also that "Darwinism." as
it came to be called as Il convenient
cover for our general inability to give
a concise definition, stirred the reli-
gious world as profoundly as when
under Luther's sway.
In Darwin's case happily the man is
more Interesting than his ism to US
who dwell below the clouds, for sci
entific subjects float themselves up
among the moOnDeamS as a halfway
house until they reach the sunlight
of demonstration. Even at this very
hour there are indications that Oar
wins own strongest convictions are
likely to be modified in one direction.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06
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4 III e IL slo w
Darwin was
hUnoreI with an
invitation to join
the government
expedition being
planned to sail Oh
ii. NJ. $. Beagle
as naturalist. 1t
was to CirC le tho
globe in three or
tour years on S /
entitic researches,
and there was to
be no S a | Il + y Z.
Darwin w ould
share the cap
tain's quarters
and the ships
fare. On this peg
hangs Il fact of
great significance,
but not generally
wn. If the
total could be
c1lrIIlotnJ of oil
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

TNIIE name of
I Luther marks
the fierce &c
clesiaStical con-
Vulsion of the
sixteenth centu-
~. That of Isaac
y e w t o II recalls
the no less mo-
mcntous rcfOr-
nation in the
peaceful field of
thought ca u S ed
by his discovery
Of the law Of
gravitation. SO in
his c Ii o s e n de
p art III e Il t of
know wlcdge has
- Il I w in given
distinction to the
nineteenth centu
ry by his demon
tratiOn that man
is not a special
creation, but a de-
velopmcnt from
e ~
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the patient, eX-
haustive, merci
less task of over
hauling all that
was write II
about the facts
of II a t urc. Of
classifying it ( L
his special pul'
pose, of accunu
lating more facts
fro III ev very
source and then
slowly building
up a structure
of verifable the
ory ON the mys
terry of what we
call ere a 10 II.
Darwin's career
comes near to
justifytng g the
worthless Snecl'
that genius is
the art Of taking
pains. His great
ness shows in
the h e ulean
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-02-06

ertion and strain.
He gladly serv-
ed as treasurer
of the church
and village bcne-
fit societies. With
all around him,
a II d especially
with the serv-
Il II t S, he was
kind and consid
crate. 1t was al
" Il y s, Oulu
you be so good
as to" do this or
that. lie died
April 10, 1852,
and was buried
In Westminster
abbey, DR.. Wal
lace being the
chief pallbearcr.
The non-scien-
tific reader viii,
find many fasci,
mating pages in
some of Oar
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twenty invalid years between the con-
ception and completion Of THE ORR
gin of Species" His genius COWS In
the Interpretation of his labors.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-23
MILLION POUNDS or TOBACCO BROUGHT
TO PADUCAH MARKET In LAST TWO DAYS

at the landings and brought in
the wagons TO the market here.
In the last "a hours competent
judges have estimated that more
than a million pounds, valued
at 100000. have arrived. At
some of the banks this morning
the stream of customers, wait
ing TO cash checks. extended to
the sidewalk.
Sales at Bohmer's loose leaf
tobacco warehouse this morning
we're $4,000 pounds. There we're
no reflections and the bidding
was fast and spirited. A large
number OF local buyers we're
present and the prices ranged
from low $500 to high $3.50.
Most of the tobacco that has
been sold in the last few days
has been received by river from
the Cumberland. Since Monday
30 hogsheads averaging l.5o6.l
and 10 wagons averaging 1900
pounds, each have been received.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-23
Attorneys For Standard Object to
Jury Because There Are too Many
Farmers on it in Big Fine RetriaI
Judge Anderson is Listening
to Arguments Of Counsel and
Probably Will Dismiss En-
tire Venire.

| Chicago, Feb. 23.-The second
great struggle between the United
States and the Standard oil began AT
10 O'Clock this morning.
The examination of veniremen for
the jury TO rehear the twenty-nfne
million fine case was begun before
Judge Anderson.
Distrist Attorney Sims, Assistant
Attorney Parkin. and Special Prose-
cutor Wilkerson represent the gov
eminent. John s. Miller, Moritz Ros-
enthal and A. d. Eddy represent the
Standard. A hundred and fifty men
were In the first venire.
Miller. for the Standard, when the
court opened asked that the entire
venire be quashed. He objected to
III on the ground that the panel was
not properly drawn. He said II had
not been surrounded by sufficient
con litions to make II impartial and
there was too large a per cent OF
farmers.
Counsel for the government and
the STANDARD began n long argument
over the motion TO dismiss the venire-
men. Anderson excused the venire
until the Standards argument was
heard. Miller argued that only ten
per cent OF the men drawn we're Chi
cago men. while under the statute
they should have been 60 per cent.
He declared the government was
enabled to draw any sort OF jury IL
wanted at any special trial.
II appeared at noon today that
Anderson would sustain the motion
OF the Standards counsel made soon
after the trial opened 10 dismiss the
entire panel OF yeniremen and order
a new drawing. This conclusion was
reached from interjected remarks
while the argument was in progress.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-23
MOVEMENT AFOOT
TO REDUCE BOARD
TO FIVE MEMBERS
School Trustees Communicate
With Trustees in Other
Cities.
Word Received from Secretary
Of Newport Board.
WILL ORGANIZE FOR PURPOSE

Secretary Sutherland, OF the school
board. is in communication with the
school authorities In other second
class cities, inviting them to Join in
Ia movement to secure an amendment
to The charter. reducing the board to
five men. He received a reply from
the secretary OF the Newport board,
who said he had been working on
that idea for several years, and the
secretary gave Mr.. Sutherland the
names OF members OF the board, who
are in favor OF 1t.
AS soon as Mr.. Sutherland has Sc
cured replies from all the boards and
with such trustees as
favor the plan, the Paducah board
will proceed to effect an organization
so as to get the matter early before
the legislature and secure the pass
age OF the amendment.
Representative Eugene Graves. who
has been renominated. stated that,
while he will not commit himself to
any project. at first blush he would
think the proposed change is a good
thing. and he will work for any pro-
ject that is for the best interests OF
the schools.
w. v. Eaton, who is candidate FOR
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton. said he would not commit him
self. but he may be relied upon to do
what he considers best for the schools
IL he is nominated and elected.
II is the purpose of those who have
the matter in hand to secure all tbs
influence for the measure they can
from all the cities, and find the best
way TO bring that Influence to bear In
the quarter, where 1t win do the most
good.