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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-07
RothschIld Committee Reports.

London, December 6.-The secretary of the committee which was appointed by the recent conference held here under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschid. to take charge of the distribution of the funds collected for the relief of Jews in Russia, said to the Associated Press tonight that the committee was being much hampered by the failure of telegraphic communica- ton. He said that the following dispatch had been received from the travelling com missioners, who are now working in vari- ous parts of Russia securing data and statistics for the guidance of those who are distributing the funds: Photographic communication has been entirely stopped throughout Russia and we are without news. We are sending to the frontier.
 After personal inspection we can re- port that the destruction Is indeseribable The damage amounts to millions of roubles
 Forty thousand persons are affected in Kieff alone. Several small towns which had Jewish sections have been entirely burned. and the people are sleeping in the fields"
 Relief Centers Establls
 The secretary said that relief centers had been established at Ekarterinoslav, Gome Kieff Odessa, Poltava. Rostoff-on- Don, Smferopol and Moscow.
 The travelling commissioners say that I'll towns have been the scenes of Jewish massacres. These figures do not include number of villages and Siberian towns, many of which suffered from the anti semitic madness.
 Writing from KieH under date of De- cember 1, the commissioners say that the town was then in open riot. and that firing was continual. The British consul had offered to shelter the commissioners
 The secretary said that up to date s2.- 475,000 had been contributed. This sum included s1.O00.OO0 from the United States, $520000 from Germany and s4350o0 from Great Britain. The sum of s935.000 had already been remitted to Russia.
 The committee, the secretary said, pro- posed to organize a special system of relief for the orphaned children. who would be removed from Russia and given Into the care of Jewish families in other countries This plan he said had re- ceived the endorsement of Jacob H. Schiff of New York, treasurer of the American relief committee. who offered to take any number of children up to 800 and see to their proper disposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-07
CjrcuIatlon Increas4d.

During the year $6s, .793 was added to the money in circulation. The per capita circulation advanced from s30.77 July 1, 1904, to $31.38 November 1, 1904; then de- clinsd to $so.se April 1 1so6. and ss the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-07

lcensinued on Seventh Pass)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
OUR IMMENSE FARM PRODUCTS

All eastern readers of the newspapers
are supposed to be familiar with two
facts concerning Southern California.
They know that this is the land or
the ideal climate and the land par eX-
cellence of the luscious orange. But
comparatively few persons abroad are
acquainted with the fact that South
ern California is n large producer of
dozens of agricultural staples, to say
nothing of its large mineral production
and its unlimited mineral resources.
The orange industry, for which the
southland is famous world wide, is only
one of the great agricultural products,
even though it be the largest and most
widely known.
AS an indication of the wide variety
of such products in this section we
have at hand fresh compilation of
the agricultural output of Riverside
county for the last year. This showing
may be taken as a relative example of
production in all the Southern Calfor-
MIA counties. The data presented,
will astonish in the magnitude of fig
ures even persons who are fairly well
informed on the subjects treated.
1t is widely known. of course, that
Riverside is the banner county in the
quantity of its citrus fruit output. It's
orange crop last year yielded $5,S77, 495
and the lemon crop $1,055,145 But in
addition, in the fruit line, there was
large output of apricots, peaches,
prunes. pears, apples, cherries and
plums There were also considerable
exports of berries of various kinds,
tomatoes, potatoes and other vege-
tables, likewise walnuts and almonds.
But note the grain output of this So
called arid or semi-arid county. The
Press says, in it's general statement,
"two million dollars, in round numbers.
is the value of the hay and grain crop
grown in the county the past year"
The wheat product was 1882 tons,
valued at $4O1 ,296; barley, 26,19l tons,
worth S522, $40. There was also a con-
siderable yield of oats and corn, OF
alfalfa hay there were 5S,541 tons,
valued at $544,67O.
That is not all, however. The total
dairy output amounted to $4OS,S51. OF
eggs shipped there were $4,000 dozen,
of honey 12177OO pounds. and so on.
And these items do not nearly embrace
all the farm products, as they do not
even include live stock.
Enough is shown in this report of
Riverside's agricultural output for the
year to show that the county, like all
the other counties of Southern Califor-
mia, is immensely productive in other
lines than the orange specially, which
mas made the section so famous abroad
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
GRAFT AT THE TOP

In Senator Mitchells career an ex-
ample is seen OF laudable ambition.
crowned with the highest success and
then led to ruin by the alluremenr
that we latterly call graft.
There is only one higher position in
the government than that OF United
States senator. The now disgraced and
dead Oregon senator reached that goal
of political ambition when he was n
comparatively young man, in 1873. But
prior to that election he had assembled
to an enviable height on the ladder
ty-six years of age he became corpo-
ration attorney of Portland, whence
he had lately removed from San Luis
Obispo, California. A year later 1862,
he was elected a state senator. From
the time Of his early manhood until
near his death at the age of over
seventy-two years, a public career of
half a century, he was honored with
the respect, confidence and esteem Of
his fellow citizens.
IloW Coulu SuSii " iii"A nave idllSll
after having passed the psalmist's al
lotment of three score and ten years?
With all his half century of expert
ence in public life and in large affairs,
he succumbed to temptation after he
had reached the point in lifes journey
where there is "one foot in the grave. ."
The career of Senator Mitchell. and
particularly its pitiful climax, affords
one of the most striking examples Of
evil results from the banefu graft
bacilli that seem to have found lodg-
ment in almost every line Of public
life. Senator Mitchell was not the
only man at the senatorial top whose
Eeeord has recently been smirched by
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
ECHO MOUNTAIN FIRE

Thousands Of tourists, from Maine
to Texas, although learning with re-
gret of the disastrous fire on Echo
mountain yesterday, will be glad to
know that the Alpine Tavern on Mt
Lowe was saved from destruction.
The incline railroad, the depot and
car sheds were all burned, and the
loss is the greatest known in the noun
tains.
But surely the railroad will be re-
built. A visit to Southern California
without the experience of riding up
Mt. Lowe to the Alpine Tavern would
be equal to doing without a trip to
Catalina.
The enterprise that instigated the
construction of the original incline will,
of course, be again exhibited, and in
the reconstruction there may be con-
veniences suggested by past expert
ences. The public will sympathize
with the company in it's losses and
extend the hope that it will speedily
replace the mechanism necessary to
resume the mountain tourist busi-
ness
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
GIVE CHILDREN A SHOW

The public school officials are sailing
en- the wrong tack in their effort to
overhaul the orders OF ice cream and
other dainties that are toothsome to
pupils. The venders would not take
their tempting wares to the proximity
OF school houses unless an urgent de-
mand attracted them. What person Of
mature years has forgotten the wealth
OF enjoyment derived from such dainties
in the "halcyon days of youth
Instead Of depriving the school chill
dren the delicious tidbits which their
pennies buy near the schools, why not
make provision for furnishing such
supplies through authc rized purveyors,
with assurance that all stuffs thus sold
are pure? AS reported in The Herald.
"the lunch room at the polytechnic
high school has about solved the prob
lem at that institution. but the venders
still get some trade, and a long line OF
wagons can be seen in front Of the
building every day."
OF the opportunity to buy what to them
seem to be the most delicious of
dainties But make provision whereby
there will be no danger of the sale to
children of any confection or other
edible that may be deleterious to
health.
The women of the Los Angeles Civic
association are aiming to do a public
service in their efforts to stop the vend-
ing of dainties near the schools But
while striving to stop the system of
miscellaneous and irresponsible vend-
ing they should endeavor to substitute
a method whereby the children may
make their trivial purchases, which
they so greatly enjoy, with the GER
tainty that absolutely pure dainties
are supplied.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The promise was made last season
by the railway companies that there
should be no repetition of the incon-
venience and loss suffered by orange
growers because of scarcity Of cars
for transporting the crop. Now, how
ever, before the orange marketing sea-
son has fairly begun. reports come that
much dissatisfaction is expressed by
both growers and shippers at the
scarcity of cars; the work of shipping
has been materially retarded" It may
be that the pre-holiday marketing ex-
ceeds the calculations OF the railway
officials and that the supply of cars
viii be sufficient when the work fully be-
gins after the holidays. There now are
three shipping lines instead OF two, as
was the case last year and there
should be no lack of marketing facili-
ties.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
HERALD'S NEW MAGAZINE
TO APPEAR NEXT .SUNDA Y

The that beginning
will
ment This will consist of eight full
illustrated of
be
larger attention than
them will be exploitation
exclusively children This
nothing children delight
section
will children
compelled
dislike to give of because it contains
of chldren's matter.
mease to
Herald ChdTens
line anything that would to
permitted it, in fact it will the problem thS
avoiding necessarily often
n worlds
this its Chdrens
critical attention the
be Christmas both
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

the work of graft bacilli A Kansas
senator has been sentenced to a term
in state prison for a crime akin to that
which brought Senator Mitchell to a
disgraceful end, and there are certain
other senators who may be in the
shadow of the prison.
1t is not strange that graft develop
ments are cropping out constantly on
the lower rounds of the political lad
der when such glaring examples Of that
Kind are seen at the top. Such ex-
amples are almost enough to deter an
ambitious young man with a conscience
from striving to reach the top round
of the ladder Of success in public life
When men of such eminence fall to
the level of the criminal the outlook
for purity and fidelity in the manage
ment of public affairs on the lower
levels seems quite discouraging
Where may we look for official clean
ness when senatorial togas are spread
out to the public gaze smeared with
corruption?
The fact that such disclosures at the
top have become possible should con-
vince the American people that the
time has come to crush out official
graft wherever it exists from the low
est to the highest places. Unless that
be done, and done quickly, the infec-
ton is likely to take such deep root
that its elimination will be hopeless.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
HEIRESS TO REMAIN AT KEY
Miss Jessie Anderson Returns to Den-
yer From Los Angeles and Goes
Back to Work as Operator
From "The Music Trades"
December I'd, 1905

Special to The Herald.
II. Anderson, night telegrapher at The
Brown hotel. will remain at the key
of the Postal Telegraph company in
that house for some months. despite
the fact that she has fallen heir to n
fortune estimated at 100000 by the
death of her sister, Mrs. Nellie l}.
Culver, in Los Angeles few days ago.
Miss Anderson has just returned from
the Pacific coast, where she was called
by the sickness of her sister. She is
her sisters only heir, but in the or
dinary proceeding of California courts
it will be a year before she can come
into her fortune.
Mrs. Culver died last Tuesday, and
ten days before that her husband died,
leaving all his fortune to his wife. In
this way Miss Anderson inherits both
her sisters and her brother-in-law's
wealth, which consists largely of cash
in the banks diamonds and Los An
geles real estate.
II don't feel any different, and have
TO live just the same, although I have
a little more cash coming to me than 1
had" said Miss Anderson this morn
ing. II have to eat just the same and
to do so will continue to hold down my
position for several months to come.
/ will go to California some time next
year. but it will be along toward the
fall, and in the meantime i will con-
tinue to send messages the same as
uSual -"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
Back East
with Apologies Abject)

with Apologies Abject)
You must wake and call me early, call
me early. wifey dear,
For tomorrow II be the coldest day of
all this chilly year;
Tomorrow'll be the icyest. the grimmest
and most dire,
So / must stir up the fire, wifey-stir
up the furnace fire!
Once l was but youngster. wife, and
then some others fired,
But now / am the households head. and
this job makes me tired:
The icy wind sweeps from the north:
the snow heaps higher and higher
Hence / must stir up the fire. wife;
must stir up the fire.
A land there is i tn golden west, where
summer lasts all year
l would that you and !, dear wife. might
share its boundless cheer!
But here we have ice, cold and storm
Enough TO rouse our ire
SO wake and call me early, dear. so
may stir up the fre
-W. IL. c.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
Two Bishops

Bishop Joseph Wilmer of Louisiana
and Bishop Richard Wilmer of Ala
bama are cousins and intimate friends.
In their travels in Italy one summer
this Bishop of Alabama was pointing
out with enthusiasm certain architec-
tural beauties. The Bishop Of Louis
lana was bored. He said:
TITS all very fine, Cousin Dick, but,
nevertheless, a rich field, fragrant with
the odor Of new-mown hay, would
please me better"
And the Bishop of Alabama replied
Cousin Joe, there's not an ass in all
italy that would not agree with you."-
New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
The Rarbarous Mantrap

a mantrap has been found in Afford.
Lincolnshire, England, which shows the
barbarity of less than a century ago.
1t is probably the largest mantrap in
{ existence. IL is sevcnty-siX inches in
length, and it's jaws, with teeth pro
tIuding two inches, will open fully two
feet two inches by eighteen inches.
Oldtime landlords who chose to insist
upon their rights in their entirety, as
they often did, were at liberty to plant
these parbarous engines about i'll the
underground of their inclosed land, for
the benefit of any trespasser or possi-
BILE poacher who might chance to set
root near them. Their use was abol-
ished by law in 1S27.-EXchanSe.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The no-pass plan on railways, started
by the Pennsylvania company, appears
to be spreading rapidly. 1t ought to
spread to every railway in the couu-
try. Passes issued to public officials
are graft transactions, nothing more
nor less
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
OUR TEMPERANCE MAN
BY X. Bernard Myers

We have a temperance man,
In our town.
Who has lectured on his plan
With renown.
Strong and kindly is his face,
Full of manliness and grace;
Mark it down,
Though his head is snowy white,
Now-a-day,
Yet his grip is friendly. quite,
And his way
AS when in the days of Yore
Did his call from shore to shore
Bid him stray.
Not a disrespectful word,
Far or near
Can be read or can be heard,
II is clear.
For the man who loves to fight
Ever in the cause of right
Is a peer.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

a Kansas candidate for congress is
going through his district with a cham
pion corn husker. who is engaged to
take the farmers place while the cam
didate talks politics to him. That is a
good second to the old-fashioned plan
of candidates to assist the farmers
wife in the milking or operating the
ch1Irl1
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Los Angeles restaurants have been
cautioned for the last time against
selling milk with more than 100000
colonies of bacteria to the cubic CEN
timeter." Probably an exception is al
lowable in case of a customer who in
sists on more bacteria and is willing
to pay accordingly.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

There never has been any doubt
about Senator Flint's get there" quail
ifications A Washington dispatch
states that Senator and Mrs. Frank
p. Flint were the guests of President
and Mrs Roosevelt at the White House
at dinner this evening"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

1t is noticeable that the automobile
lately appears to have a grudge against
its modest predecessor, the bicycle. In
stead of butting into electric cars and
forcing pedestrians to climb poles, as
formerly, it now attacks the bicycle
Oh sight
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

n conscience-stricken Sacramento
man has made restitution of $3.50 after
the lapse of twenty-five years But
there arc no signs of Il conscience
stricken epidemic in that city.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

They are getting on the main track
now in pushing the case against the
life insurance looters in New York.
Criminal proceedings against the loot
ers are to be instituted. A long row
IN Sing Sing prison, devoted to Nc
Curdys, McCalls ct al, would deter
further robbery of widows and or
phans by the Insurance game.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

A New York dispatch says w. r.
Hearst has announced that he is mot
q candidate for governor" Does
the tapping of his barrel give out
q hollow sound?
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

1t is a queer strike that is reported
from Douglas. Ariz. The gamblers
have closed all their establishments
because of increased license tax on
their business, and are ION strike" for
q reduction.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

President Jordan of Stanford uni
versity in discussing football. says
"as matters are the game is too
beefy." Most obiectors seem to think
it is too suggestive of the packing
house
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

A Des Moines womans club has
adopted for its motto, Quality rather
than quantity; fewer but better ba-
bies." No provision is announced for
answering letters of inquiry for par
ficulars
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The perils of life in Los Angeles
are not confined to the surface of the
earth nor to the air above it, For evi-
dence note that volcano-like eruption
were badly injured
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The street superintendent says he is
mot satisfied with the maner in which
the street-sweeping contractor is
caring for the paved streets" Nobody
else is satisfied, excepting the con-
tra
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Roy knabenshue, the aeronautic pet
of Los Angeles, is ell route hither to
renew operations and experiments with
Rirships. This city is the American
hub of aeronautics. all right.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Marshal Oyama has entered Toxic
In triumph. Owing to circumstances
over which he has no control, Gen.
Kuropatkin did not enter that city
ito dictate terms of peace" in ac-
cordance with his promise when he
cut out the job of thrashing Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
Population of Los Angeles 2OI,249

Reno sends a report of the first case
for the season of death from freezing.
Returns of drowning accidents to skaters
will begin to come in soon.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The younger Rockefeller has been
telling his New York Bible class that
flour out of five, perhaps nine out
OF ten men. go into politics for what
they get out of it for themselves" It
is SO different, you know, to squeeze
the grease out of the public by Stand
ar1 Oil methods.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

A Northern California man claims
to have discovered in rattIesnake
poison sure cure for cancer and
consumption. No doubt, if the snake
be allowed to administer the remedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

A queer example of the way the
whirligig of fate works is seen in that
report from Santa Barbara of justice
who is in Jail for embezzlement, in
company with a culprit whom he sem
fenced only few days before for lar
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The battle of Wilmington, to be
fought December 20. will not be as
bloody as the final storming of Port
Arthur, but it will be as exciting for
the belligerents.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Now there is a special opportunity
for an ambitious man to rise. An air
ship is advertised to be sold here next
Tuesday to satisfy a Judgment.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

A testimonial to the honesty of the
late ]. p. Davenport, former coun-
Gilman, is seen in the fact that the
estimated value of his estate is only
10000
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The forest fire on Echo mountain,
as reported in The Herald this MORN
ing, appears to be the most disastrous
that has occurred in this section in
MANY years
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
Pi-LimeS and PiCk-UpS
The Panama Canal

We've helpless. bowling infant, and
1t eats an awful lot
The child is hardly born yet, but
The appetite it's got
1t cries all day for Pabuum;
1t cries all might've shall
Be set almost distracted by
That Panama Canal!
We fed it very lavishly,
When congress met before;
It's swallowed all we gave it then,
And now it howls for more!
A pesky, peevish youngster, tis
And not a likely pal
Won't some one please adopt that kid.
The Panama Canal?
A new block is called 'Pajama flats. "
Maybe because there isn't room in
them for one to wear clothes,
Squirrel hunters nearly shot Gov.
Pennypacker of Pennsylvania by mis-
take for a rabbit the other day. But
he more nearly resembles that other
long -eared animal.
The melancholy days are these,
The saddest of the year;
Thanksgiving scarcely yet forgot,
But Christmas is so near!
But If those Stanford boys had only
put that Uncle Tom" show out of
business for good, they'd have been so
easily forgiven.
Plum-Did your uncle remember yoa
Prune-He sort o. family recollected
me.
The reciprocity that is popular in
congress is doing something for some
one to get him to do something for
you.
Step Up, Gents
Wanted - Five hundred boozers
burglars, backsliders, blackguards
wife beaters, gamblers, swearers and
bad characters of every kind to at
tend a two weeks special campaign
Where? At the Salvation Army hall
on Mariposa street.
Don't this fit you? Never mind. you
can .come.-Fresno, Cal, Democrat.
Yet Bernhardt. in Quebec, could
hardly say that it was a case of be-
ing legged on"
That juror who was excused because
he is to be neutrality-suspicious. the court
thought he'd soon have trials enough
of his own. Or, maybe, that he'd hear
talk enough at home, without depend
ing on lawyers for it,
Butcher Weyler may fight a duel.
Itll be the first affray of his partici-
patton wherein the other side even had
a show--if he does.
Mr.. Pineapple-If kiss you, will you
tell your father?
Miss Poinsettia--No; my lawyer
Football is being downed. Highballs
always have been downed.
Strange that Missouri should take
SO much trouble to get the Standard
oil men to go there to tell all about
it when Lawson could be had for
nothing.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Squirrel hunters nearly shot Gov
Pennypacker of Pennsylvania by mis-
take for a rabbit the other day. But
he more nearly resembles that other
long-eared animal.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

The melancholy days are these,
The saddest of the year;
Thanksgiving scarcely yet forgot,
But Christmas is so near.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
W omen

RE cordially invited
to make free use of
the waiting room
at the Merchants
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

In1Zs1Zzzl uN tIIN INNE NIIdIINo
Trust Company. This room
is fitted up especially for
our women patrons, who
will find there at all times
the manager of our wo-
mems Department, a wo-
man of skill and ability, who
will gladly consult with
them regarding their finan-
cial business.