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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

IN HE might of the mikado is not like
the might of any modern monarch
Il of Europe or of any president of
modern republics, for the power of the
modern European monarch is based upon
hereditary rights sanctioned by the ma
Jority of the people. The czar of all the
Russians is said to be the greatest auto
cratic monarch of the world at the pres
ent moment but it is an autocracy as
hollow as it is void of any foundation.
He is finding it out now. A few years
more and the autocracy of czardom will
have to bow low to the pleasure of de-
mocracy. The British puppet is already
a pensioned protege whose regaia is be-
coming more and more dependent upon
the interested recognition and support of
a tottering peerage and the fad of $50
ciety." The kaiser's position Is better
for the moment than that of the shaking
car and the figurehead of British oil
gharcy, because the kaiser is more heed
full of the dangers of modern European
throne and plays his cards accordingly,
conciiating the mob with intelligent adj
ministration The rest of the European
monarchs are being supported more by
comparatively undsturbed old-world
groove of thought in which their sub
jects minds are still running than by the
dint of any distinctive virtue or capacity
of their own.
The only monarch of Europe who, had
it not been for the intense jealosuies of
the terrified hereditary, hallow moparchs
of Europe, could have in time founded a
sovereignty based on the solid affection
and sincere appreciation of his people,
was the Corsican soldier of fortune, the
all-sided genius, the mystery of whose
power the western thinkers Of our day
are attempting to unravel. If the bitter
enmities and conjoined armies of the ma
lions had not been so menacingly ar
rayed against him all the while as to
necessitate his sallying forth from France
to crush them, he would have afforded
to the west the most luminous example
of a monarch who lived for the people
and whose people lived for him. Ma
poleon Bonaparte may have exhibited
many failings in his conduct as a man,
but they were almost all OF them mainly
due to the circumstances which ragged
around him and which it was impossible
for him to overcome except by force of
arms.
The might of the mikado is the might
of the old-wolrd oriental sovereign. The
might of the mikado can only be likened
to the might of king of old India. The
might of the mikado is as yet a mystery
to all westerns despite all it's undreamt
of demonstrations in the late war, and
it will remain a mystery until even
greater demonstrations in the near future
unveil 1t to the astonished gaze of the
whole world. Even the mikado is only
half conscious of his own might. If it
were not so he could not be chosen as it's
and he is almost unconscious
as yet Of its mystery. All the same the
force Of that mystery is functioning
through him all the time and will impel |
him to father all the daring deeds whose |
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

1t will be- seen that the average eX-
cess in price in this country over for
eign cost is 991a per cent. Now If this
tariff tax were removed the consumers
would reap the benefit and no hurt
could come to any legitimate interest,
and the criminal surplus could not be
Haunted in the face of a tariff-ridden
people for political purposes.
The surplus is 13 per cent of the an
nual expenses of the nation. If per
cent were removed from the tariff on
the foregoing articles and the remain
ing 10 per cent from the tariff on steel
and all building materials, sugar trusts,
steel trusts, beef trusts nor any other
trusts could rob the people, and album
dant revenue could be obtained for gov
eminent expenses.
A tariff for revenue only would be a
tariff based on judicious revision of
the present oppressive schedule, and
only by such revision can the robber
trusts be compelled to abandon their
tactics. The trust gravitates to the ILL
gotten dollar-remove the dollar and
the trust cannot exist. The stand
patters of the Republican party will
never grant this revision. and what
are the people going to do?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
WITH THE FUNNY MEN

year had passed since they faced the par
son together. and upon his return home he
found his wife in tears.
What are you crying about?" he asked
i've 1-just been r-reading the l-letter In
which you p-proposed," she sobbed.
We'll, I don't blame you." he rejoined
Every time think of that letter I feel like
swearing. "-Chicago News,
Speaking of bad falls" remarked Jones, "a
fell out of window once, and the sensation
terrible. During my transit through the
air l really believe 1 thought of every mean
act I had ever committed in my life"
H'm!" growled Thompson You must
have fallen an awful distance "-Philadelphla
Inquirer
NOW. wouldn't 1t be funny" said Popley,
piayfully, 'lf I were to become little boy
AGAIN."
"Mebbe it wouldn't be so funny for YOU,
pa replied the bright little son. IF you
was to be littler'n me. pa, think I'd square
up a few hings."-Catholic Standard and
Times.
us it true, doctor" asked the summer girl.
that eating cuoumbers will remove freckles?'
"Of course" replied DR.. Kidder, under GER
tain circumstances"
Really? What circumstances"
well, provided the freckles are on the Gu
cumbers. "-Philadelphia Press.
i
You may eat much cloves or swallow sweet
perfumes If you will,
But the scent of young spring onions will
cling around you STILL
Cornell Widow.
"Queer duck. Tomkins"
I'm what way?"
HE bought an alarm clock and then fixed 1t
SO it couldn't go off. Milwaukee Sentinel.
4
mo don't care for English opera"
why not?"
Because it bothers me to listen to what the
singers are saying when 1 want to talk
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Kathleen-Well, mother, do you think 1t a
success? Is the painting like me?
Mother-Yes, the portrait is excellent; but no
one would think that dress cost your Door
father so guineas.-London Taller.
&
PA, what is an imbrogio?"
Anything happening at the White House,
son. Houston Post.
Teacher-Eddy what makes the grass grow
Eddy-The grass has blades an with these
IL cuts its way through the ground Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
CRIME WAVES

TUHE appalling wave of crime sweep
ing over eastern and western states
l. alike is a matter to challenge the
attention of state and national author
tiles. In some measure it may be at
tributed to the effects of the severe
heat on the mental processes of despon-
dent people, or as resulting from COM
plicated hard-luck conditions, as in San
Francisco In either case there remain
to be determined the chief causes which
lead to these periodical butcheries that
shame the American people and make
our claims to a law-abiding citizenship
to be ridiculed.
The wave theory, in mental as in
physical law, is accepted by scientists,
and the effect of bloody tragedy on
the morbid mind of respondent persons
is sure to affect them to like deeds.
Just how such contingencies can be
met does not appear, but rigid in
quiry into their causes will reveal the
class of our people concerned in them,
and from that viewpoint some solution
may appear feasible.
1t is certain the most of the recent
crimes were committed by poor or
needy men, homeless and respondent,
and holding all the world to be an
enemy. If such men could be reached
and given sympathy and some help to
help themselves much good must result.
The Salvation Army has just intro
duced a movement called an anti-suicide
bureau to meet the demand among the
homeless and downcast for sympathy
and help and, singular as it may seem
to many, the number who have already
been benefited by it's ministrations are
very large.
In all large centers of population the
unemployed are present, and hunger
and its attendant suffering prey upon
them mentally till irresistible impulses
to avenge themselves on humanity
master their weak mental powers, and
indiscriminate murder follows. If these
men could have a refuge free from pub
licity where they could find sympathy
and food for short time, giving labor
in return therefor, many could be
reached and helped before loss of will
through suffering had bred in them a
murderous disposition.
Here lies fruitful field for the
churches to occupy, and If some of their
activities were turned into this helpful
channel it would repay them for time
and cost.
No police force can guard against a
sudden and spasmodic avalanche of
crime, and the unthinking who charge
the authorities with dereliction Of duty
in such cases will invariably be found
to be those who know nor care aught
about the man or woman who is In real
need. They are selfish to the core and
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
THAT ABRADED NOSE

ONE of the able San Francisco cor
respondents of the Associated
" Press, who thinks the sporting
editor is a dub, not worth his salary,
witnessed few minutes rough house
between attorneys in Judge DUNES
court room yesterday and described the
windup as follows:
The only physical sufferer in the brief
battle was Assistant District Attorney
w. H. Cook, the bridge of whose nose
was abraded and bloodied inadvertently
by the knuckles of Mr.. Johnson, who at
the moment was engaged in guiding a
high right hand overswing to the left
eye of Mr.. Schlesslnger. The face of
Mr.. Cook being interposed, the blow
reached a premature destination.
What he meant to say was this:
The only guy what got his was Kid
Chef. De Swede handed him swift
wallop to the beak, bringin' de claret.
The face of Mr.. Cook being inter-
posed, the blow reached a premature
destination.
When Charley Eyton read that he
tainted dead away, and no wonder.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
CRIMINAL NEGLECT

THERE is something insufferably
wrong in the management of work
Il around San Pedro. Trestle work
collapses and men are drowned, der
ricks topple and men are seriously in
jured, and with the public mention of
these things the cases seem to be
closed. Almost all cases of death or
serious injury involve some poor wage
Garner whose family must feel the blow,
and those in authority are permitted to
renew work at the same places without
so much as an attempt at official in
spection to ascertain if conditions are
improved or adequate means employed
to save the lives of men who must work
or starve.
In almost all cases taken into court
for damages against corporations and
contractors the defense glibly pleads
the contributory negligence of the plain
tiff, and juries, under an exposition of
the law from the bench, regularly cut
down the sum sought for or refuse it al
together. What then should be done with
owners of apparatus proved to be I'M
SAFE anu yet COnIliuSu III USE! IL 10
a fact that as long as men are willing
to risk life and limb on construction
work of any nature there is no recourse
for them In case of accident but the
doubtful suit for damages, and when
guilty carelessness is proved against an
owner he pays the few dollars adJudged
against him and is at liberty to tempt
other needy men to certain death with
the same unsafe equipment.
Here is a good opportunity for law
for the workingman benefit, which
would appoint competent inspectors of
building appliances, forcing owners to
make them safe and Furnishing the
guilty with Imprisonment. If the piles
in the bay were insecurity driven, or
the bottom was soft, or if the derrick
was not properly stayed, the contractor
or boss should have known it and re-
membered it before men were allowed
to risk themselves, and If he failed to
do so he should be imprisoned. What
a mass of broken harness, stranded
rope, rotten scaffolding and other APP
paratus would be consigned to the
dump; and what number of working
men and their families would have
cause to be thankful therefor! An inn
prisonment clause would make the
weaker law of damages effective and
check criminally careless employers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
WITH THE POETS
FREDA

Life doesn't seem the same to US
Since F'reda went away.
We talk about 1t every night,
And also every day.
The kitchen seems a cherries place;
We hate to turn the knob
And look into that lonesome waste,
Since Freda yoomped her yob.
We miss our Freda dreadfully,
In fact for her we pine.
Her English was distressing, but
Her breakfast rolls were fine.
And now we 81. and think of her,
And IN our Threats a sob
OF sorrow rises at the thought
That Freda yoomped her yob.
She won't come back. She's married now.
She thinks she's better off.
Perhaps she is-at any rate,
1t does no good to scott.
But every time we think of her
Our sad hearts give throb.
1t makes difference in our house
Since Freda yoomped her yob!
-Somerville Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

do not know and VIII not learn the
altruistic virtue of helping the needy.
1t remains then to some philanthropic
heart in each large center of population
to found an asylum where labor may be
given for temporary help and where the
unfortunate may find sympathy not
tainted with officialism and free to all
If any creed or no creed who are needy.
If Mr.. Carnegie had bent his energies
in this direction the results for good
cannot be told. Books are an aggrava-
ton to hungry man, and stately edi-
fees do not stay his hand from murder.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
THE HUsHED VOICE

What mother said-it didn't matter then,
A loving word, perchance, and then again,
When childish wrath came in our simple play
And little woes beset youths rosy way,
Her sweetly gentle words dispelled the wrath,
And coaxed the buds to bloom that lined our
path
Her voice was sweet to greet the morning sun,
And, sweeter still, when golden days were
done
Her soft good night that sent us to our bed
It didn't matter them-what mother said.
1t didn't matter then. but now she's gone
The world lacks all its sweetness, and, at
dawn,
The sunbeams coming down from heavens
dome
But emphasize the loss from out the home;
No kindly, smiles to cheer the passing day
No mother words to guide us on the way
No loving arms that wait but to enfold
When world and all grow merciless and cold;
The kingdom there, think, is made of such
What mother said! o now 'twould mean so
muchI
Buffalo News.
The lover can't help showing
The girl he's calling on
That when he's slow in going
He's positively "gone."
Mrs. Newlywed-Is this my Jacks?
Accommodating Waiter-No, ma'am; dats
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Crime is so prevalent in New York city
that the police courts are holding night
sessions. At the first of these sessions,
August 2, 1876 cases were disposed of by
1890 a. m. With all this extra work
on hand justice had better consult an
oculist and look to the removal of
that bandage. One eye is not enough.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Says an evening paper: mot salts
ed with taking an amethyst necklace,
two pearl beauty pins, silk hosiery and
other articles that were laying around
loose. thieves stripped the linen from
the beds" in a Westmoreland street
home. 1.-The silk hosiery and other
things laying around" would seem to
indicate that the reporter overlooked
the most interesting feature of his
story.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Sam Fessenden, Republican boss of
Connecticut for thirty years, announces
his retirement from politics because
the game has become too strenuous.
Sam must be getting mollycoddlish in
his old age.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

The fool killer was asleep at the switch
in Chicago Sunday. A man and woman
rocked a rowboat, endangering no lives
but their own. Municipal Judge Lantry
did his best to make up for the F. ks
neglect by imposing heavy fine on the
feather Drained pair.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Pittsburg has long been. meat and
sometimes drink as well to the para
graphers. First 1t was smoke. Now it
is either scandal or graft. Even the
Mexican press occasionally takes fall
out of the iron town, as witness the fol-
lowing hot one, printed in the Mexico
City Record: "a Pittsburg man talked
himself to death. Pittsburg men should
let chorus girls do the talking"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

After five minutes old-fashioned
rough house in Judge DUNES court in
San Francisco yesterday the only man
to show mark of injury was peace
maker whose nose was "abraded' by a
diamond ring on the hand of bellig-
erent. They should provide eight
ounce gloves for lawyers practicing in
boodler cases.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

A New York woman repealed high
wayman with her hatpin last night and
by screaming caused his arrest. Thou
sands of men have been held up and
never achieved this much.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

The Australian blue eye" is a fish
that subsists largely on the larvae OF
mosquitoes. 1t might be well for New
Jersey to import a few thousand of
them, if only as an experiment.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

The whole population of Milwaukee
has been seeing the elephant The ami
NAL arrived there last week, consigned
to the city zoo. Her name is Countess
Heine and, naturally, she has already
been taught to enjoy the stuff that
made the city famous.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
TARIFF TAX

IN view of the present annual sur
plus of $S6,OOO,OO0 now idle in the
= treasury, the following interesting
table of comparisons in cost of essen
tial necessities for rich and poor abroad
and in this country, compiled by the
Boston Herald will be instructive read
ing to the thinking voter. 1t should be
remembered that quality is alike in
both cases, and prices are the average
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

The Baltimore Sun declares: every
mule has a kick coming to him." Prob
ably the remainder of Baltimore's mule
population is too ladylike to indulge
in such pleasantries.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

GOOD citizens" are numerous in the
Philippines. Recent election figures
show that a considerable part of the
male population didn't go near the
polling places.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

One of the Pittsburg newspapers is
Angeles, at present trust prices, even
the rich would be grateful for similar
donations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
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which owns and publishes The Los
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ly been purchased from the former .
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connection with any other news
paper In Los Angeles, and who ,
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

This thing is becoming a craze. First
there was tabloid beer, and now the
local companies are giving us tabloid
ice at an increased price per tabloid.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Mark Twain is said to get 80 cents
word for whatever he chooses to write.
Most of us, sometime or other, have had
to accept %.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

And now local Republicans are talk
in about recognizing the Republi-
can party. Well, the party certainly
needs it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

A London dramatist has written a
play called "Sins of Society" Here's
more work for the censor.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Down in Mexico brewery advertises
1t this way: 1.-THE beer that made Mil
waukee jealous"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Korea seems to have been a case of
malevolent assimilation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

The French are bombarding Casa
Blanca. No, it's not a Los Angeles
county road house, but town in
Morocco.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Southern railway to Standard OIL:
"Did you feel that awful Joit?'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07
The Might Of the Mikado

In the Light of Asia" Premanand Baba Bharati Gives
Remarkable Analysis of the Powers the Emperor of
Japan Yields Over His Subjects
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-07

Mrs. Newlywed-Is this my Jacks?
Accommodating Waiter-No. ma'am; dats
yeah Petti1ohn's ma am-Harvard Lampoon.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-12
g9s


mainly az the Atlantic fleet, now en-
gagged in winter. manoeuvers in the
Caribbean sen. They have been or
dered to proceed to Hampton Roads
III time fog the opening of the exposi-
tion.
The flagship of the fleet will anchor
near the Chamberlin Hotel and the
other bnttleships. the armored cruisers
protected cruisers and auxiliary yes.
sells will be anchored over the re-
maindcr of the tlirce-mile course. the
last vessel In line Icing near Ivy ave
nue. pier. 1t is expected that fully
forty American vessels will be IN line
aud the fleet Will lie the most power
FIJI ever gathered under the American
flag.
One anchorage for yachts and MGR
chant ships will be between Newport
.,ews middle ground light and the Ivy
avenue Dier and the other anchorage
Will be across the Newport News and
Norfolk channels on the other side Of
Hampton Roads and will extend from
Sewall's Point to Lambert's Point.
Further shoreward and nearer the eX-
position site. anchorage will he pro-
vided for smaller and lighter draught
craft. Light drnnSht vessels Will also
anchor In Willoughby bay between
the exposition site and Willoughby
Spit.
Task for Admiral Harrington.
II Is expected that on the opening
day there will be considerably more
than 100 vessels OF various sizes and
types lying In Hampton Roads, and
the task of furnishing proper anchor.
ages for these without obstructing
channels or interfering with naviga.
tion has been left to Rear Admiral
Harrington, U. S. N, chief of the ma.
wal features of the exposition.
After the first week of the exposi
ton, 1t is expected many of the for.
eign warships will cruise up and down
tho Atlantic coast, visiting Philadel
phla, New York and Boston, and re
turning to Hampton Roads for occa
stonal visits. The greatest demon
stration VIII occur on The opening
date when President Roosevelt, botf
branches Of Congress and the foreign
embassies and legations Mt Washing
ton will be present us guests of this
exposition company,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-12
CALLS HIS CURE A
PERFECT MIRACLE
Suffered fortunes With Terrible,
Dry Eruptions Since Reaching
Manhood N Doctors All Failed
Became too Disfgured to Leave
douse - Nov Well and Says:
CUTlCURA REMEDIES
WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD

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Cuticura Remedies. They represent q
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Ever since tho time j grew into man
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In the morning after breakfast I
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MIR. West VIII Attend.

Among those who will attend the
exercises to he held on Jamestown
Island on May 10 by the Society for
the Preservation of Virginia Anticui-
lies, in celebration of the landing on
the island OF the party that founded
the first permanent English settle.
ment in America, will he Mr.. George
n. West. of this city. Mr.. West was
among those who gathered on the is
land in 1857 TO celebrate the two hun.
dred and fiftieth anniversary, and he
and all Others who were present at
that time have been extended special
to attend the exercises
next May.