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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
FOR GOOD ROADS

The committee appointed by the Pas
adena board of trade to arouse the
people of Los Angeles county to the
necessity of good roads and beautiful,
as well as eminently useful, boule-
wards, is doing its work in most prac-
tical, systematic and successful man
ner.
BY the liberal employment of cir
culars it has learned that very large
majority of the people in and around
Pasadena are favorable to the good
roads plan, and now it is extending its
inquiries to other sections of the
county.
The plan provides, among other
things, for a $3,OOO,0OO county bond
issue, but the committee expressly
states that such issue will not be pro-
posed until after the Owens river water
bonds are passed upon by Los Angeles
and that great enterprise is determined
upon.
With this understanding the plan
proposed by the able committee from
Pasadena ought to have smooth sailing
in its plea for the Improvements, which
everybody in Los Angeles county real
ICES should not be delayed a single
year beyond the date of their speed
lest realization.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
FINANCE BELOW STAIRS

Half a dozen big Wall street operators
who have been promoting a deal in
volving millions for a month, under a
trust arrangement, have been greatly
puzzled by the activity of an unknown
combination manipulating their stock.
The mysterious actors in the deal COW
cred their tracks so successfully that
all attempts to discover their identity
were unsuccessful until Saturday.
Then information obtained by acci-
dent revealed the existence of "a blind
pool of buffers employed by the leaders
in the trust. The butler of one of the
most famous and daring promoters In
the street acted as manager for his as
sociates. and, with information cleaned
while standing back of his masters .
chair at dinner. organized the pool
among his professional brethren.
With a bank roll Of $4,000, the pool
cleaned up in the neighborhood of $4,000
Unless the members of the pool close
out pretty soon they will lose their
money as well as their jobs.-New York
World.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
BEES AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS

The beeman, as he gently removed a
tawny cluster of bees from his beard,
said:
"Above all things, never set a bee
hive near an arc light. If you do your
bees will die of overwork within a
week
IAN arc light, emitting a powerful
illumination, was put up last spring
near my bee hive. The night it was
put up my bees. mistaking its light for
daylight, worked like beavers, though
dead tired.
when the dawn came and the light
was extingushed the bees, quite worn
out, turned in; but To- in a few min
utes the sun was shining, and out the
poor bedraggled little creatures hur-
ried again, for no bee will consent to
pass the daylight hours in idleness.
"They got through the day somehow,
and at dusk, after thirty-six hours of
unceasing toll, they once more turned
in. Alas, the arc light began to hiss
and glow again, and the poor bees,
worn to shadows, bent, pallid, stag
gered forth for another round of labor
"They were all dead by the end of the
week-victims of overwork, every moth
er'S son of them"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
A RED LETTER YEAR

The annual commercial report for
Southern California, giving full sta
tistics Of products and business, fully
accounts for the wonderful prosperity
of this section Of the state in 1906.
The value of the principal products,
as tabulated, foots up the unprece-
dented figure Of s14O,O0OO00 The most
striking feature Of growth is shown
In the report on manufactures, indi-
eating the rapidity with which Los
Angeles, particularly, is becoming a
great manufacturing center. The total
Of value for such products, chiefly cred
table to this city, is s5O,0OOO0O
Next to the manufacturing output of
the southland in productive industry
comes the yield of citrus fruits, fol-
lowed In order by petroleum, grain and
hay beet sugar, beans, walnuts, etc.
Agricultural products generally showed
an unusually satisfactory profit A
large increase In the area of land
adapted to cultivation also is noted
Other features Of the annual report
wv NV 1853 liNbSiiB AhtAil NllOHt NllINil
show the vast expansion of our indus
tries. This is especially true of Los
Angeles. The statement is made that
this city in 1906 lied all cities of the
United States in percentage of increase
of bank clearances, postoffice business
and b..ilding permits; freight business
of railroads in and out of the city in
creased so per cent and wholesale busi-
ness expanded 30 to 40 per cent"
The increase in the number of manu-
featuring plants in Los Angeles during
the past year, partly reflected in the
extraordinary increase I'm products, is
one of the most suggestive features of
the report. 1t indicates that this city
is rapidly fulfilling it's manifest des-
tiny as a great commercial and manu-
featuring center, as we'll as being the
most delightful residential spot on
earth.
The outlook for the present year. as
forecast by the commercial report, is
exceptionally bright. 1t says; Early
rains have come, bringing confidence
as to crop results from every section
comes the same report of increasing
population, the building of many
homes, of expanding business and ma
terial increase in property values"
AS we get fairly into the new year
not cloud obscures the prospect for
continued prosperity throughout the
present year. And it is not taking a
too optimistic view of the situation to
conclude that even the splendid record
of progress in 1906 will be broken when
the review is presented showing the
figures for 1907.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
cHlNA,s wAR ON OPIUM

Can the government of China attain
any considerable measure Of success In
its apparently determined effort to free
that country from the curse Of opium?
That Is a question which the govern
ments and peoples of all other nations
are considering today, and they feol
that very much depends on the answer
which events In China may give to II.
Unrelieved Of this terrible evil, which
grows more awful from year TO year.
the world will not dread an awakening
of the long dormant power of that al
most countless people. But II the gov
ernment shows itself trong enough to
grappe successfully with the demon,
the world will take notice that II has
another and greater problem added to
the list Of grave questions that must be
kept i'm sight and thought. Should IL
be demonstrated that the 400,0O0000 OF
Chinese can be turned from their ages
of reverent contemplation Of the past
and set face to face with the future,
their hearts fired with patriotism, their
minds alert, their arms ready to give
blow for blow, that demonstration VIII
affect the world more seriously than
any event that has occurred In modern
times. We will not speculate on the
chances of success or failure OF this re-
form movement, but there is vast deal
of significance In the fact that the gov
ernment has undertaken It, for the
failure of China in the opium war OF
1S39-1S43 was so averwhelmin that its
depressing influence can scarcely have
disappeared. OF all the cruel wars in
which Great Britain has been engaged
that was the wickedest.-Washing
Post
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
LOVE

LIVE
You ask me now to write of love,
That subject fits me like a glove,
For many summers l have had
But most of them were rather sad
o, love.
I'm falling in the second time
And / am scarcely in my prime,
| fell in deep some years ago
And have just scrambled out, you know
OF love.
The girls are rather shy OF me,
They seem 10 favor Willie G.
So just think III let them be
In love.
If you feel bad and cannot sleep
And sometimes feel like you could weep
And strange sensations Ger you creep
That's love.
II sometimes glad and sometimes mad,
Your appetite most awful bad,
Feel like lighting other lad,
Sure love.
When you try hard to please a girl,
And should she treat YOU like a churl,
Just seek some other; madly whirl
In love,
If you have nothing else to do,
A little love Is good for you,
"A little nonsense now and then
is relshed by the best of men,"
In love.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

miles in extent. In spring and fall the
brown and blue areas are about equal,
while in summer more blue Is observed
than brown.
What schiapareili and Lowell hold to
be the Martian canals appear as hair
line lines In the observations and pho
tographs. They cobweb the planet,
stretching from pole to pole either In
straight lines of mathematical pre-
cision or in semi-circles. They intersect
at points termed "oases"- supposed to
be the Martian cities--and are laid out
with such regard to system that II
seems impossible to believe them the
work Of nature. In the average the
canals are, perhaps, 1900 miles long,
and they vary i'm width from three to
twenty five miles. Lowell believes that
I'm viewing Mars through the telescope
one does not observe the canals them
selves, but the vegetation along their
a few seconds at the utmost. The
boiling of the atmosphere" renders
longer vision impossible.
1t Is on the evidence Of artificiality
in the system of Martian canals that
Lowell and his followers predicate the
theory of habitation. They argue that
In the first place it is contrary to every
known law of nature for her to OBJ
serve such mathematical precision In
her works. They reason that, had ma
ture laid out the canals, she would
undoubtedly have constructed them
along irregular lines, as the terrestrial
brooks and rivers flow. There is abso-
lutely no way to account for the canal
system, Lowell's followers argue, ex-
cept on the theory of planetary habi-
tation; assuming this, they contend
there is every reason for their pres
ence.
Starting with the assumption that
man cannot live without water, the
Lowell school asks what more natural
than that. when the inhabitants of
Mars discovered all their rivers and
lakes and seas drying up, they should
hasten to guard against the destruc-
ton of their race by planning irriga-
ton? To secure a comprehensive and
ineXhaustible method of irrigation. 1t
is argued the Martians would natural
ly go to the only points where the sup
ply of water seemed likely to be un-
failing-to, the poles of the planet.
There was, and probably always would
be, great ice caps about those poles
the greater part of the year and bitches
would drain that ice, when melted, to
the interior of the island, covering with
vegetation the temperate and tropical
zones which threatened within a few
years to become vast stretches of
desert.
And so, the Lowellites reason, MAX
ing necessity the mother of invention,
the Martians dug the huge canals. To
have advanced them to their present
condition must have been the work of
thousands upon thousands of years
years of digging, digging. digging in
which nearly all the population of the
planet must have been employed. Now
that the canal system has been COM
pleted. supporters of the habitation the
ory say that the Martians must be
taking life comparatively easy. enjoy
ing the fruits of their prodigious labor,
and if there are powerful telescopes in
Mars, smiling frequently, perhaps. over
all the fuss and bother this country is
making of digging, in their eyes,
mere little trench across the Isthmus
of Panama.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
THE CASTLE IMPREoNABLE

So, Wind of the North, you are faring
forth
We've harkened before to your call to
And welcome it now as then;
Such strife is good when the sluggish
blood
Creeps slow in the veins of men.
So, Wind of the North,
Come forth! Come forth!
And harry us yet again.
Yestereve he came. when the sunsets
flame
Had burned to an ashen gray:
And we heard him first like far, faint
or horns in the woodland way.
But he gathered might as he rode the
night;
How bitter his strength how great,
We knew at last when his full blown
blast
Rang loud at the outer gate.
And each echoing note was blow that
On easement and roof and wall;
And we heard, in the wood where the
titans stood,
The noise of a great oaks fall
With buffet and blow, and the spears OF
snow
He taunted us sore with the challenge
But gaiiy we flung 1t back.
AS we heaped great logs on the hearth
And over our leagured dome,
In a pennant of smoke from our chin
ney broke
The flag of the castle-Home!
so his hordes swarmed forth all night
from the north
Investing us as we lay
Till the mystic. white, half luminous
Was merged in the whittier day.
1t was then we rose In our might to
close
At handyeripes with the foe,
o! the sally out for that fierce glad bout,
Knee deep in the swirling snow
o. the power to feel In his grapple or
steel
Such thrilling and painting bliss
AS the maiden knows, who requites
with blows
Her lovers audacious kiss. \
o, we felt no fear that our foeman here
Waged war he could hope to win,
For he wrought in the breast but
keener zest.
For ali that was housed therein,
For the love of life, for the babes, for
For Joys that be, and 10 come.
For ali things there In our stanch and
Impregnable castle-Homel
Yea! Wind of the North, come forth.
come FORTH
And harry us yet again.
Such strife is good when the sluggish
blood
Creeps slow in the veins of men.
Catholic Standard and Times
II you want to go east, c. Haydoek.
AFent Illinois Central r R.. lis w attn.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The Royal Arch doesn't seem to have
quite the pull with Mayor Harper that
the holier- -than-thou Way Freight
thought would be the case before he
was elected.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Poor Show for the Hat

First Diner (to his friend)-What's
the matter? You look worried.
Second Diner-Well, that fat man at
the hext table has sat down ON my
hat. and now both his fat boys are
sitting on his knee.-Fliegende Blaetter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

1t may seem funny to see Ben TIL
man and Fire Alarm" Foraker in the
same boat but the Scriptures are au-
thority for declaring that "the lion ana
the lamb shall lie down together"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The crossing squad should not weary
in its good work, but remember that
even though the mud does rise as fast
as ii is removed it would be much
deeper If not taken off at all.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The Southern Pacihc's coast line is
still out of business. but If San Fran
cisco has urgent business with the
states metropolis she can reach here
via the valley route as usual.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Spokane, which makes some pre-
lenses to being a winter resort, Is now
"enjoying' zero weather. Winter must
have resorted there in earnest.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Bids have been received for building
the Panama canal but the bidders
should be made to furnish life insur-
ance, so that their heirs and assigns
may carry out their agreements.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The divorce Of another Pittsburg mil
lionaire is recorded but the name OF
the chorus girl interested is by some
unaccountable means left out. What's
the matter with her press agent?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

With more than ten inches rainfall
so far, j. Pluv is reminded that Los
Angeles can worry, along on this for
whole season to come, il it must.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

1t may be some satisfaction to cast
erners now sojourning here to know
that zero weather prevails back home
but that doesn't convey much informa-
tiOn to the native sons.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The blind piggeries in San Fernando
have been raided because they would
not be good. There are others, and they
would better be good now or their raids
will shortly follow.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

According to the plans of reform an
nounced for China, the United States
could copy several Of the schemes, with
great profit to ITSELF
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

There seems to be tendency to
make it hotter for the gas company
than the gas company is making it for
Los Angeles just now.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The consolidation with San Pedro is
only the opening wedge; all the beach
region will be coming in as soon as the
formalities can be arranged.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

This waste of pity over the jockeys
at Ascot is likely to result in an out
break of very lurid profanity on their
part if they ever find it out.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The National Association oT Trade
EXtensionists wants to extend our COM
merce. The first requisite would seem
to be more freight cars.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Considering the rotten character of
its municipal government, won't this
snow rather give San Francisco a sort
of whited sepulcher look?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Huntington Park is now knocking at
our gates. First thing, it will be a
fight to keep other towns out.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Some press agent is due to hunt an
other job. Pittsburg millionaire di-
vorced without an ACTRESS" corespon-
dent.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

That New York man who has in
vented a wind wagon surely doesn't
propose to set up a rivalry with the
water wagon?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The safe way is to have gas, cleo
tricity, a coal stove, a wood fire and
some blankets. AT least the blankets
can't fail you.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Population of Los Angeles. Isl, ,463

The off-and-on gas supply is again
initiating Flanagan.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

A few men with good stiff brushes
could do n lot of good on the downtown
Streets with all this water supplied
free.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The Royal Arch, in failing to secure
the support of Mayor Harper, seems to
be shy a keystone.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

wouldn't these rainy days try ones
soles-unless one wears rubbers?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Kansas, in sending an Indian to the
senate, evidently doesn't expect to
have a good Indian" very long.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

The corporations will fight the con-
solidation with San Pedro by every
means in their power. Go slow and
take all due precautions.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

There is no coal famine; no. But you
can't book an order for delivery under
two weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Chicago has a boy preacher aged
years. But he's not old enough tC
know better.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

crying over that famine in school
teachers impending.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Don't lend your umbrella; you will
need It for some days to come.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Snow in San Francisco. Well, that
town needs a supply of the beautiful
in some form or other.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Remember that it is SS below in
Havre Mont, and be thankful that you
are not there.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

coal famine. But as no one can get
coal what's the difference?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Prepare for trouble; Senator La Fol-
lette is coming here in March.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

There is also famine in rubbers, if
anyone should ask you.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Are not these showers rather treading
upon one anothers heels, as it were?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

AS it has grown colder again there
are rumblings of another fuel famine"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Good Time Was Had

A delightful tea social was given Fri
day evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas b. Mansell. our talented
harness maker. and pleasant evening
was had. Miss Jennie. the accom-
plished daughter of the house, who
studied music by correspondence for
number of years, played quite a num-
ber of melodies on the gramophone,
the while her mother poured the tea
Middleport (Mich) Gazette.
You can make any man "smile" by
letting money talk.
Even a thief sometimes balks on TAX
Ing joke-if it's on him.
Rose-I'n have to tell my age to that
jury.
Lily-It won't be necessary.
Live right: don't worry about dying;
you'll die, all right.
The preacher doesn't hope that "every
dayll be Sunday by and by"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
TO SPY ON HE MAR1lANs WHEN EARTH IS NEAREST

Professor LOWELL from Flagstaff Arizona viii Peer the Artificial
Canals Which Dug by Men
From IN prooklvn EAGLE
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
The "Commish,"

"Commsh" stood on the heaving deck,
The photo-man was nigh;
Wen rescue Dora Bennis yet;
Well save her or we'll die!"
Then Dora sailed into her home;
"Commish." oh, where is he?
Go ask your Onkel Heiney, who
Scans vainly the salt sea!
w. H. c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
PROSPERITY

This is the wealth that came to be
Flooding the land from sea to sea;
Good Times" ever the sweet refrain
All from the harvest's golden grain.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
THE CROP THAT JACK BUILT

This is the man who sowed the crop,
Working ever without stop,
Up in the morn and MONDAY glare,
Sinking nothing till twilight fair.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Pi-LineS and Pick-UpS
Snow h San FranoIaon

They've had snow in san FrancIsco.
would you think that this could
be,
Less you saw the white flakes falling
all about you gleefully?
But It's true; the weather bureau gives
the record, and it's so.
san Francisco revels in II, for it's novel
there, you know.
They've had snow in San Francisco.
Ye who rail here at the rain.
rake a trip to san Francisco: then
come back down here again.
Yes. the rain is rather tlresome, but
it's merely wet, you know;
Think of poor old San Francisco, where
the folks wade in the snowl
Modern surgery claims a great adj
vance In making bad boys good by
operating on their heads, but the old
process of "skinning 'em alive" out I'm
'he woodshed still works pretty well.
Motors. are now run by either hot
ar or alcohol. Promoters are, also,
some women have so many Jewels
that they have to send for n window
dresser when they want to don them.
-
Modern conveniences are ALI rigbt
but you can't light pipe at an electric
bulb.
How to Win Her
George Walker, who got married to
Mary Barlow yesterday, says IL amt
hard to win a woman. Just give Them
hot air about their looks and let 'em
talk" he says.-Leesville, Colo, Light.
Langtry is now Lady de Battle. She
should try one and cleanse her record.
Maybe Mabelle Is holding off because
she Is aware of the danger in wedding
Pittsburg millionaire.
Poppy-He hadn't the cheek to kiss
me.
Observation-Disclosures you hadn't the
cheek to tempt him.
If 1t wasn't for ceremony some folks
wouldn't have anything to stand on.
The pretty girl doesn't have to go
to cooking school to succeed in matri-
mony.
The reckless railroad Is never the
wreckless one.
Some women wed men to reform
them; some divorce them for the same
reason.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
PROVIDENCE

This is the power that helped him reap
Safe from ruin and pest to keep,
blessings of suns and rains,
Loading heavy the creaking wains.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
THE POLITICIAN

This is the man who credit takes,
All of the rest were no great shakes;
Says to prosper again you must
Vote your ticket for him or bust.
-McLandburgh Wilson.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

II you want to go east, c. Haydock,
Asent Illinois Central r R.. lis w stR.