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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
Consolidation of Coal Mines.

Chattanooga, May 7.-As a step in the proposed consolidation of large number of coal mines in southeastern Kentucky the Continental Coal corpor- ation of this city has purchased the L. A. Ault and other Cincinnati cap italists. A unique feature of the deal is that the purchase carries with 1t practically the whole town of Black Bear, with It's stores and over 100 dwellings used by the miners. Ken lucky and Tennessee capitalists are interested in the conclusion now in progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
Germn Wrestler. Wins.

Kansas City, May 7.-Ernest Sic fried, the German Oak champion Graeco-Roman wrestler of Germany, tonight defeated Joe Rogers of New York here catch-as-catch-can style, winning in straight falls. The time of the first fall was 1 hour, Is min utes, 59 seconds, but the second fall took only 16 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08

Virginia at the Newport News convention next July, according to the opinion of Representative Bascom Slemp of the Ninth Virginia district, and chairman of the republican state committee.
 Following his interview with the Presi- dent at the White House MT Slemp says that the President regards the election in Virginia as of the greatest import ance, as 1t is the only one to be held this year In the southern states
 It was with this In view that he has selected the commissioner of internal rev enue from Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
Legislature NeeIects "Liquor. ?

Little Rock, May 7.-In a specIal message read in the house this after noon, Governor Donaghey calls atten- tion to the neglect of the legislature in not carrying out democratic plat form demands for the submission of the liquor question at a special ses- sion," and insists that bill to this effect be passed before the adjourn ment of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
Weston Humping Along.

Topeka, Kas, May Edward Pay son Weston. who is walking from New York to the Pacific coast, reached Lawrence at 5:30 D. m. today. mak- ing only brief stop and continued his westward journey to Perry. 16 miles east of here. where he spent the night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08

woman who planned the whole thing" He told of having her searched by the matrou who found the money concealed in her clothing. He testified she said later: "Buhl will be sorry for this tomorrow. That childs eyes will be burned out with acid in about a week."
 Lieut.. Albert Walker of the Cleveland police, testified that Mrs Boyle said; We expected this when we planned the job. You have the goods on, and have got us right, but I am not afraid they will take me back to Sharon
 Mrs. Katherine Boyle and Joseph Boyle. mother and brother of James Boyle, tes- tiled to the visit Mrs. Boyle paid with her husband at his mothers home, and the statement that she soon expected to get some money from her father.
 The rtate rested at 2:3O p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
Little Rock Gets Tim Flood.

St. Paul, May Tim Flood, sec ond baseman and manager of the 1908 St. Paul baseball club, was today sold by Manager Kelley to the Little Rock club of the Southern league. Flood left for Little Rock tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
"somethinq Dolnq.'

Policeman Shattuck testified the defend ant said when she was arrested, There will be something doing in sharon tomor- row. That little boy will have his eyes burned out
 Policeman Frank G. Wood of Cleveland testified that Mrs. Boyle said soon after arrest:
 Just thing of It. am the frail little
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Rats in France and Norway

The rat, according TO a Paris con-
temporary, is the scourge of the French
capital, but his misdeeds are insignif-
cant il compared with the ravages Of
his confreres in America. The chief
of millionaires, we are informed,
would soon be bankrupt if he were
called upon to pay for the damage
done by this vermin in the new world.
1t is estimated by the department Of
agriculture that rats in America cause
damage to the extent of 100 millions
of dollars, or 10000. 600, annually. The
principal offender is the Norwegian
species, and the popularity of it is
that it can establish itself in any
cline.
The Norwegian rat owes his intro
duction to America to shipping. His
bill of fare comprehends everything
that man eats, and thousand things
besides. Cereals are his diet from pref
erence He eats 50 cents worth an
nually of corn and dollar so cents OF
oats. The commodities which he dam
ages or spoils exceed in value what he
eats. The rat undermines the founda-
tions of houses, damages the quays and
sea promenades. destroys curtains and
papers for nesting purposes, kills
chickens and pigeons and steals their
eggs.
The terrible rate at which the rat
increases explains the slow progress
of determination despite the enormous
sums expended. Two rats, undeterred
by what Nautilus desi grated the posi-
tive check, would be responsible in
three years for 20 millions of rodents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Motor Boats in Venice

The threatened disappearance of the
gOndola from the waterways Of Venice
will be the most. serious loss that beau
tifuI city has sustained. The Cam
panile OF st. Mark fell, and is being
replaced; old churches are in a dan
gerous condition. but they are being
repaired; but such glOries can be seen.
elsewhere in Italy. the. gOndOla no.
where, says the London Globe. The
penny steamer, that convenient abOmi-
nation OF the Grand canal, has made
things bad for the gondoIa for many
years; but the steamer could not pene-
trate into the smaller canals and there
the gOndOIa remained supreme.
The motor launch. however is .ubi-
quitious; and it appears to be displacing
the gondola everywhere. The more's
the pity; but it is extraordinarily fool
ish of the local municipality to hasten
the change by abohshing the priVf-.
leges of the gondOliers. If Venice is TO
bow to the shrine of modern progress
its day is indeed over.
The railroad began the business: a
good old Pope, when he heard of the
bridge that spans the lagoOns from the
mainland tOSNenice remarked angrilv.
~Rogues. They Will destroy my beau
tiful Venice And now the motor boat
Will compete with. and ruin the ron-
dola, in order that hurried globe trot-
tiers. who spend a couple Of DAYS in
doing" the sights of Venice may reach
their hotel a couple of minutes quicker.
Well may one say Of progress as OF
liberty, what crimes are committed in
thy name
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
): ANSWERS TO QUERIES :

WHEAT LAND-P.. City. Who can advise
me TO land suitable for raising wheat ana
alfalfa in California:
Communicate by letter or in person
with the state board of trade in the
ferry building.
MILLS BURNED-subscriber City, When
were the wooden mills in alarysville CAL, de-
stroyed by FIRE?
March 10, 1899.
HAY-H. F. c.. Oakland. Cal. How many
cubic feet there in ton of hay in Cali
fornia?
512 of oat or wheat hay.
WITHOUT FRIENDs-P. L. NJ. Subscriber,
City. What can be done for poor man who Is
unable to work and earning living, and has no
friends help of any kind?
Make an application to have him sent
to the almshouse.
FISHES Rita, Oakland, Cal. How do fishes
breathe?
The gills of fish are situated at the
back part of the sides of the head and
consist of a number of vascular MEM
branes which are generally in double
fringelike rows, fixed by the base
only; sometimes these are featheruke
and sometimes they are mere folds of
membranes attached at each end over
the gill cavities. In general there are
four gills on each side. though in
some fish there are more. In fishes
that have bones the gills are attached
to the outer end of bony arches con-
nected with the bone of the tongue
and with the base of the skull, the
connection at each end being made by
intervening small bones, while the
cavity containing the gills at each
side of the head is covered by a bony
plate with two subordinate pieces. It
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
WOMEN CAN ADD MUCH.
TO PORTOLA FESTIVAL
Success of Coming October Fete Depends Largely
On the Energy of Gentler Sex
By M.ARY ASHE MILLER

her learningi He came TO look for
Monterey. really. No. don't know
why they are having .fete called after
him. after ell these years. too-yes. it
is funny. but I am sure there must be.
some reason.
1t isn't such a difficult matter to find
out something about Portola. and It
would seem more intelligent and bet
ter advertisement for the festival.
of course; no one. expects any ons----.
and least of all a. woman-to know how
to pronounce the. mans name. The best
thing that one can do is to- select ono.
place or. another to put your accent and
stick to that through thick and thin.
You will have excellent authorities. on
either side
1 asked one OF PortOla's press agents
what he thought women might do and
he told me rapturous tale OF a Por-
tola enthusiast who invaded the COM
mittee rooms the other day decked with
a silken rosette having flowing. knot
ted ends. in the carnival colors OF red
and yellow and carrying a bunch Of
red and yellow carnations.
This. he thought. was most pleasins
TO the eyes of any one. whether "fete
mad" or not. and even If femininity at
So. instead of American beauties
large objected to so fambOyant dis
play. they might at least wear more
modest floral decorations in the Span-
ish hues.
alone. or lilies Of the valley, or what
ever your tavorite pale colored bios
SONS may be. show your colors in fu-
ture. Those who have window gar
dens-or could have them-are urged
to plant in them in vivid scarlet and
sold and let your hedges and flower
beds be filed Immediately with chry-
ssnthemums, plants or any other flower
that your fancy suggests that can
marshal tan ranks of carnival bios
sons by October In short, do every
thing you can to produce local color.
Women prominent in the social world
and even those less promtnent-or
who hope to be some day--are. bez
sought to invite guests from afar: and
to plan functions of notable. magnta-
cence for that week in-Oetober.
CoIIegians are urged to use. their
influence to induce ..their learned Sis
tiers to HE them westward and as to
what the c1ubwomsn are expected todo
my space. is too limited 10 begin 10.
recount it here. Il.
After all these suggestions. comes.
the final one-unless L think Of another
very good one---and that is creats'
atmosphere" Talk the thing up Be
enthusiastic about it. Never niind IL
people do say you are. a promoter and.
that sort of thing-in fact-jUst he q
promoter Of the P0rtola festival: ..>..
1 did think of another thing and so.
I'll add the typical feminine postscTipt.::
Remember that money is the most es@
sential factor and if you have. none to
send yourself. induce your. husband. or
father or whatever masculine person
suecumbs most quickly to your infu-
ence. to send as much money as he can.
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is by the movement of these bony
plates that the water is expelled,
which is taken in through the mouth,
and which, after passing among the
gills and supplying them with air,
passes out by the gill opening at the
back of the head. The fish is a cold
blooded animal-that is it's temperature
is very slightly above that of the
water in which 1t lives. Therefore it
needs but little oxygen to keep the
blood warm enough to sustain it's life.
IBsEN-Mrs. NJ. A. Geyserville, CAL When
and where did Henrick Ibsen, poet-dramatist,
He died May p. 1906, at christiania,
Norway, of apop1exy, at the age OF rs.
BLUE GLASS-Subscriber City. When did
the blue glass mania as supposed remedy for
physical ailments prevail?
It started in January, 1874
CALIFORNIA CODES P. F.. Crockett, Cal.
Where can l purchase set of the California
From the secretary of state, sacra-
mento, Cal.
GOLDEN GATE PARK-p. b. H., city. What
Is the acreage of Golden Gate park, San Fran
1898 acres.
THE GOLDEN GATE--what is the width of
the Golden gate, the entrance to San Francisco
hafDor, at its narrowest part?
A fraction less than a mile.
FIVE HUNDRED-H. b. H., City. In no
trump hand in the game of five hundred Is the
joker high card at any time it is played?
In no trump hand in that game the
joker is the highest card of any suit
and may be played on any trick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

NV FOhhN are cldmOTlnS LOT puDllC
M rights and they are getting some
of them; but more certainly and
rapidly are they receiving public re-
sponsibilities
When men. begin to plan for any
matter involving the interests OF hu-
manity at large. upon what do they
count Immediately as one of their as
sets? Women's clubs. of course.
Sometimes these planning citizens do
not approve at all of the woman's club
movement but not for one instant do
they hesitate on that score to seek aid.
This very fact Illustrates perhaps bet
ter than any other one thing the gen.
eral. impersonal part that women are
beginning to assume in the worlds af-
fairs.
Nor is this demand for assistance
confined to the clubs. Any woman
having public or private influence must
come to the fore. And the women
come-there can be no denial OF the
fact that they do their part nobly.
Some people say-principauy men
that women are. in the speech of the
merry, uncultured public, easy; that
they can be made by little judicious
fiattery to do much of the work and
get little of the credit.
This, women know. is mere foolish
ness, but they retort that the average
woman is more public spirited and
patriotic than the average man.
Be the motive what it may. it is
about time that the women OF San
Francisco were displaying a large
amount of the quality. San Fran
cisco is going to have fete of fetes
in diminishing number of weeks, and
so extensive is the advertising being
done now throughout the world that if
the carnival falls fat and is a dull
affair 1t will be pretty sound blow to
the city
San Francisco has received from the
hand of providence about all the blows
that can be philosophically endured
within the last few years. so the Por-
tola fete must be made marvel of
beauty and gayety. The question has
arisen as to what. women can do.
First of all, it would be an excellent
plan, and it would be Just as good for
the men. too. to find out. just who
Gaspar de Portola was and just what
he did Not a detailed account of the
life of the Spanish. explorer, but
enough to give an intelligent answer to
the questions of the sojourners in our
land.
How many times have you heard peo-
pie. strangers generally, ask what the
sign on Goat island meant, or who Por-
tola was. any way. And the answer
is, probably in a nervous. hesitating
way, or with bored, Indifferent mien,
"Oh, he was Spanish. think. 1t seems
to me he discovered this bay-yes. 1 am
sure he did, and maybe he was one of
the governors of the state-ene Of the
early ones, you know-but I'm not sure
about that" and by the side of this
encyclopedia of historic knowledge may
be another who will add with pride at
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

Park People $
Playground

facilities and there excellent trout
fishing that thread the magnificent redwood
OF this wonderful region Andrew F. HILL president OF the
Sempervrens club tells the Mail Of Woodland
within
hamefuly the
magnitude that awaiting them
a a distance from home
be trunks
and then majescaly
height of $50 feet
this forest park is the
world different
than other the world There oaks
ure bays and Douglas frs abund
y
underground
beautiful
as stretching aordng of infinite
relief
that
profusion through the woods
1t should be duty we'll pleasure for Cafornians to
favored spot 1t their property magnificent heritage
obligation the people that
attention intelligent interest the preservation of
features best fostered by visit to the ground
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
MYTHS TELL OF
STARRY CROWN
Corona Borealis Offers an
Interesting Study of
Heavenly Bodies
By ROSE O'HALLORAN

II HoUGH most of the starry outlines
in the heavens bear but remote
resemblance to the objects from
which they were named. there is one
simple group that justihes the COMPARE
son of a bygone age. Now, as thep the
seven stars represented in the accom-
panying diagram could not fail to sug-
gest something encircling. lustrops and
ornamental.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
FiIcher's Figures Are
Funny and Also Costly
COMMISSIONER FILCHER's annual report

NOMNllooONeR FllCfiS annual report, financed by the
state agricultural society the payers presents
example OF disgracefu of public money 1t not
that the report has value 1t very than that
because INDUCES ridiculous exaggeraion OF
facts that would be absudv manifest
moments examination
Mr. Pitcher makes himself and the board responsible for
these aDsudes by introducing them with the statement that the
statistical feature the OF the
increased experience stascan The and value
OF that experience be gathered from the the
represents Alameda apples aabe the markets at S0
pound while Lake the product brought only hall
a centper pound.
Some OF the counties whose prosperity auringy ndeh
ney forth in the report did trouble note
changes OF condition and the lapse supplied by the simple process
OF reprntng matter from past This doubtless labor
device and that the county statiscans making
advances kind of experience if in another In the way
OF beating the they like become expert and should
feel glow of pride and satisfaction the bouquet so
generously handed them by Pitcher.
The state agricultural society fraud The county sas-
clans set OF cheap politicians in the enjoyment OF soft snap
AS Fcher and his prune California weary them
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
SONNETS OF \ PERFORMER
BY Edward F. O'Day

\V/HEN first started in to play this game
w longed to elevate my fellow men;
You betI enthusiastic them
1t used to make burn with righteous shame
When low browed pollies talked about a frame"
And practical tricks to fool the voter when
He trotted out to take program again.
But now l guess I've grown a little tame;
I more which bunch of pirates win '-..-
As long 1 can keep my little snap.
Maybe I'm wicked, but l have to grin
When down the pike some stern reforming chap
Comes bowling that the town must shut up tight
Give him office and hell be all right
Herrin worrying? Well I should smile
\ He's burning gasoline around Paree;
And just to show that he is fancy free
George Hattons gone aboatng up the Nile;
And Gavins making paradoxes, while
Tom Hickey roots at Recreation P
If these are cheerful, tell me, why should we
Lose sleep O nights? Nay nay that's not my style
I've studied politicians and I know
How much they about the public veal;
Take it from me, the very hardest blow
Is when they see the other fellow steal
More than his promised portion of the pie
That's when the bosses yelp, and 50 do 1.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Santa Barbara
Tariff for
Revenue


Says Wild Bill trembling (tremb1ng with you
know from
I'll o own
Think of It. Mr. Citizen wild Bill no more
Maybe he viii tell others of his kind
inform all of the pngs Barbara
town and ~Wid Bills" Cigarette Petes Flat
Charles will
Won't It be sad day for
Now, what you think answered This
what he said: i don't if come back
It appears to be the practice OF the Los Angeles speed
to make OF raceac OF the road city
and Santa Barbara ending with final burst the
ougare OF the latter city No doubt might hurt business
courage these joyous folk by the uncomfor
able techncaties OF the law II the testimony of negbor
be trusted the Ventura Free Press says OF Barbara
has been the practice for speedser ride woopng up
State street evening" making life peril every
the highway But if patience had
virtue and that future every officer of the law will be provided
with secocing and reversible bail bond authorizing
collect fifty dollars the spot from the hilarious speed
professional gentleman who makes his living by allowing
mobiles his PROSTATE body arrived This city
Sunday The Call respectfully directs his
the potenaies OF Santa Barbara this field of industry
seems in that city nice regard for law tempered by fine
commercial that has evolved tariff protection bu
for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
There Be
No Fight
About Figs


Adrich
whether Taft him the making
Meanwhile there dis
dscredit the
Adch of course nothing than successful small trader
skilled all the tricks of his calling, but agree with
the editor of the Louisville Courier Journal that the and sord
function which he uls private donor personal
dcredit' The maker OF great national usually
acclaimed by the whole people popular benefacor McKiney
and fame made by the tariff he fathered Dngey,
like Adric small who, like Adrich yielded to the
pressure of the interests Adrich has only reduced Dinghy and
Dingleyism absurdy
But Editor Waerson not find any efuson of praise
popular acclaim directed the from Rhode Island because
of his performance Adrich may still remain
Standard oil circles and the tariff rabbe of New England
but by the country whole he Justly regarded with contempt
and disgust
AS for great why Taft appears to be doing pretty well in
unobtruve determined and there still left the
pretty good although they not quite to
Ads tricks Cheer up; the tariff will be settled without blood
shall fight about figs the of the prophet.
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A Rebuke for
Superservice-
able Politicians

oYer WHICH NAT gIoiesque Parsonage own as LYDIA Pnkham
Stone redes WEIGH ordered for punishment
without hearing stated In fact in
his absence and without notice given.
Judge Smith his judgment of this proceeding in the
following Words:
To hold first that the board legal power
in declaring the Office of voluntary Second the
board exceeded It's legal authority declaring
petitioner the of county
without specific charges being preferred giving
him notice OF such charges and without
be heard before he deprived that the omission
OF the board to specify call for special meeting particular
business to be transacted relation petitioners renders its
action in relation thereto null and void
The superseviceabe supervisors who were so ready 70 do III
dirty work OF the political machine and to DOING
1t in dirty put back where they started and the voters
character Of these officials.
AS Tor the political character Of the commission the public
needs information.
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the Sempervirens park, winch the Old timers
used to call the big basin" of the Santa Cruz
mountains.
Here is, in fact, true basin, set in the
hollow hills sheltered from harsh winds and
beautiful with greenery OF infinite variety.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

on a day OF small men handling Dig ulIngs,
and, albeit there are points of relief he fears
that the small men are likely to get their own
shabby little way. 1t is thus:
The really great men of the time are not in
office They can i'll afford TO be- The idiosyn-
Grassy of the national asniration IS money. and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

ARSE HENRY WATTERSON, isdu1gng certain ilumnat-
Nv ing reflections the OF the which 1t IS ms
pleasure declares that have aenEI
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

EOPLE of the bay region and central California have scarcely
begun realize the potenaes of health giving recreation
brought within their easy reach by the state reservation
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Judge Smith Of the. superior court of tina
county,
Welch was a wholly satisfactory Official
but he. had the misfortune to incur the dis
pleasure OF a convenient tool Of the politica
machine the state fish and game commission