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...background for the Demo-cratic nomination persistently remain Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Bryan of Nebraska, Governor Silzer of New Jersey, Senator Copeland of New York?especially the first. One of the others may well turn into Vice Presidential timber...
...woodman's axe rings once more among Presidential timber. Industrious politicians prepare with the approach of Winter to sluice their sturdy oaks through the waters of party politics down to the convention sawmill. The Stewart Edward Whites and James Oliver Curwoods of politics have already written the opening chapters of the great log drive...
...Party are fully as active as their Republican brethren in preparing for the coming log drive. George Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois, and: Thomas Fortune Ryan of Virginia: were the most active of the axemen. The object of their activity was evidently to find among the tall trees some timber with durable and ornamental qualities equal to those of William G. McAdoo...
...much as 15 degrees, through scientific ventilation. Temperatures in the depths of the earth increase from natural causes, but added to this the Butte mines have to contend with fires which have burned for many years in worked-out regions, one continuously since 1889. These fires feed on timber and combustible sulphides, and burning laterally and vertically, have so heated the adjacent rock and air as to render the lower veins untenable for human beings...
...Timber as Well as Souls. Last year the wagons of the Salvation Army collected 55,000 tons of waste paper from the various homes of the nation. This small item, buried in the report of the Social Service Department of the S. A., so inspired Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, that he turned aside from pressing legislative matters to bring the report to the attention of the State Forestry Department, writing an enthusiastic letter to its head, and pointing out that since six tons of paper came from an acre of trees, the Salvation Army had salvaged 9,000 acres...