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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-22
ADVERTISED Letters.

Advertised Letters.
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please say advertised and give
Ga1e of advertisement. II not called
Tor 4 6fteen days will be sent to
tho dead letter o1lce.
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
Brag q Good Dog, but
Hold Fast q Better One

events. For example, just prior to the
war of 1912 British prestige at sea-, estap-
lished by the glories of Nelson and Traf-
algar. was at it's zenith. When the quar-
rel with the United States began the Lon
don Statesman said contemptuously:
America certainly can not pretend to
wage war with us; she has no navy to do
it with" There was not the Slightest
doust over there that whatever navy we
had would be "pulverized" at the first
encounter.
naval war that followed, British COM
merce was nearly annihilated, over 1900
vessels and 10000 seamen being taken;
and In the eighteen sea fights, some OF
them among the fiercest and most famous
sea duels In history, the royal navy sur
fered fifteen defeats. That is history.
Inc shock to British pride and the re-
vulsion of sentiment at the time was re-
fiected In the London Times outbreak Of
wrath and sorrow: ''In the name Of God,
what was done with our tremendous su-
periority of force! o, what a charm is
here dissolved The land spell of the
French Is broken, and so is our sea
SPELL"
The lessons of history are often against
easy reliance on tremendous superiority
of force" coupled with the spirit Of Ad-
fniral Beresford's "pulverizing' speech
1t was neat rebuke when London
paper quietly retorted on Sir John Fish
er's boast with this quotation:
A king safe on the rock brow
Which looks o'e sea-born Salamis;
And ships, by thousands. lay below,
And men and nations; all were his!
He counted them at break of day
And when the sun set where were they?
--Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
G0LDFIELD COMMISSIONERS
PASS THROUGH LOS ANGELES
Maintain Silence on Nature Of Report.
Delegation Of Mine Owners
Pay Respects at
Train

The members of the commission sent
to Goldfeld by President Roosevelt to
make an Investigation Of the contro-
versy between the mine owners and the
mine workers passed through Los An
geles yesterday morning en- route to
Washington, D. c. They are Charles
P. Neill, United States labor commis-
sioner; Herbert Knox Smith, commits
sioner of corporations, and Lawrence
Murray, assistant secretary of the de-
partment of commerce and labor. They
were accompanied by F. x. Patterson,
who has been acting as secretary.
A number OF mine owners paid their
respects to the commissioners when
they arrived. None of the latter would
indicate what their report to the presi-
dent will be and would not discuss con-
ditions except to say synopsis of their
report had been telegraphed to Wash
ington.
The representatives arrived at s
o'clock and departed at 10. They are
due in Washington Thursday evening,
December 26.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
Influence OF the South
fin National Conventions

poll being 244 at the third and sixth
tests; and on the eighth and final count,
when Harrison received 544 and was
nominated, the Sherman vote had dwin-
died to 118.
Four years later the situation was
different. In 1888 a Democratic presi-
dent had been in office, put in 1892 the
Republicans possessed the power and
patronage, and President Harrison.
who was a candidate for reelection,
naturally obtained the great bulk of
the southern vote. In the fifteen states
comprising the south and the near
south the figures were: Harrison 23O,
Blaine 46 5-6, Mckinley 21. Only one
ballot was necessary. General Harri-
son was triumphantly renominated,
only to lose the election in November.
In 1896 the Democratic party was in
power, so that the southern vote in the
Republican convention was again scat
tered among many candidates. But
unlike 1888, there was no approximate
evenness in the distribution. Mark
Hanna had been busily at work in be-
half of Major Mckinley for two years,
a-d the first ballot showed the result
of his shrewd and quiet efforts. In
the fifteen states already cited Nc
Kinley had 274K votes, while Speaker
Reed, who stood next, received only
i, :. And this time the "hoodoos" of
1888 and 1892 did not work. Mckinley
was both nominated and elected
To anyone seeking analogies for 1908
these considerations may be thought
fully offered: The aspirant for the
presidency who captures the south in
the Republican national convention
mr. or may not win the nomination;
and If he does win the nomination he
may or may not secure the election.
Nor is this as Delphic pronounce
ment as at first glance it may appear.
Put it another way it means that the
support of the south does not insure
success; though 1t is obviously help
rather than a Observation-Disclosures
Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

OUR English kinsmen are not in gen.
eral given to Dragging. That is an
~ infirmity they are rather disposed to
charge to us. They are noted for GER
tain serene air of conscious superiority,
universal and not open to question; but
Dragging Is not their foible. They dis
like 1t as bad form and ''un-English"; /;
and hence when Sir John Fisher, first
lord of the admiralty, made a flamboy-
ant speech two or three weeks ago about
the present 'invincibnity" of the British
navy, its unparalleled gunnery' at
which he was 'lost In wonder and admi-
ration" and so forth, he was rebuked
and bantered by the press, and reminded
that boasting and bombast often cover
real misgiving and SAVIOR of the pride
that goeth before a fall.
And now Sir Charles Beresford, a fine
sailor VINO has many friends in this coun-
try, rather outdoes the gasconading OF
his fellow admiral by proclaiming in a
speech at a banquet (where the toasts
were not drunk in apollinaris) that 1.-The
British navy is able to pulverize that of
any other country" Perhaps 1t is.
Numerically the odds are all its way. But
In the settlement of that question mere
assertion and bumptious words count for
nothing, and 1t Is neither becoming nor
convincing for British admiral to brag
so prodigiously and extensively in a pub
lie speech. AS the United States now
ranks second in paper estimates of naval
strength. Lord Charles Beresford's boast
of pu.verizing ability might seem to have
special reference to us.
This kind of supreme self-confidence
accompanied by a disposition to fout all
possible competition has frequently in
history been rebuked and humbled by
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

II INTEREST in the Forthcoming Re-
publican national convention CEN
II ters to a considerable extent in the
southern states. These states do not
ordinarily cast their electoral votes for
Republican presidential candidates,
but they have an important share in
the selection of those candidates. So
marked is the difference between their
influence In the convention and on cleo
tion day that the propriety of decreas-
ing their convention representation has
been frequently debated, but thus far
they have been left in the enjoyment OF
their old-time privilege. The south
will have much to say about the choice
of a ticket at Chicago next June.
In view of this fact 1t is interesting
to glance over the national conven-
tions of the last twenty years to see
how the southern commonwealths have
distributed their strength. AS there
was no contest for the nomination in
1900 and 1904 it is sufficient to note
the figures for 1888. 1892 and 1896. In
the flrst-named year Senator John
Sherman of Ohio was a leading candf-
date for the nomination and was be-
lieved by many experienced observers
to have the best chance of securing
it. In addition to controlling the forty
six votes of his own state he was
known to be strong in the south, and
the first ballot showed him far in the
lead of all his rivals in that section
of the country. Including. for the
sake of convenience, the border states
of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri in the computation, 1T is
found that Mr.. Sherman's southern
total was 139 to 9S for General Alger,
"a for Gacrafarv Gresham and % for
General Harrison. In other words, out
of total vote of 229 for Sherman on
the first ballot, much more than one
half came from the south. However,
the Ohio senator failed to forge ahead
as the balloting continued, his highest
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
TWO COMRADES
<kVTT HETHER all the recent saloon
wv killings in Kansas City could
hava haen nrevanfAd hv thA

<k"y HETHER all the recent saloon
wv killings in Kansas City could
w have been prevented by the
exercise of stricter surveillance of
saloons and greater care in the grant
ing of licenses the obvious lesson re-
mains that the liquor traffic is the most
prolific source of crime and disorder"
says the Kansas City Times. "con-
slider 1t a necessary evil, If one will, 1t
still is an evil. 1t is in a class apart
from any other traffic or business which
the law permits, and as such it's own
inherent power for harm justifles and
commands it's complete subservience to
rigid public regulations and makes pre-
posterous and vicious all activity of its
agents in the politics and legislation of
the commonwealth"
1t is not likely that anybody, except
ing of course the whisky men. will at
tempt to argue the point with the
Kansas City Times or any other paper
which characterizes as preposterous
and vicious all activities Of the liquor
interests in politics. The sale Of whisky
being inherently criminal in the moral
code, it is just as unthinkable that the
interests controlling the trade should
be tolerated in political undertakings
as that proprietors and promoters Of
houses Of i'll fame should be regarded
as factors in public life. And yet this
is exactly what society has to face In
more than one city in America. The
power Of the saloon in politics is recog-
nized in every corner of the country.
So closely is the saloon, and not infre-
quently that other social evil, identified
with the machine in power in the ave-
rage American city that to vote for a
machine candidate for Office means to
vote for friend of the saloon.
There is but one hope for the people
who are in earnest in their campaign
against either or both these forms Of
vice, and that lies in the primary.
with a good direct primary law and a
popular awakening to the fact that the
people must name their own candidates
for oface, both the saloon and that
hideous institution known as ''the red
light can be pitched into the depths
Of oblivion. But 1t can never be done
while voters have to accept one OF two
or more sets OF machine candidates.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
TERRITORIAL WOES

M HEN such once wild and woody"
wv frontier towns as Tucson, Ariz..
and Albuquerque. N. NJ, go dry,
and not only go dry but enforce to the
letter the 'blue laws" found among
their city ordinances. it is enough to
cause the Allxali likes and the Sly
fingered Dicks of western history turn
over in their graves and groan. Think
of the pass in the travels of the only
two continental territories = barring
Alaska-that holds up these two aspir-
ants for statehood, In Tucson the
''spasm" of reform has attained such
degree Of contortion that the sale of
intoxicants to minors is to be pro-
hibited. The Arizona Gazette, printed
In Phoenix, the Interest and most en-
vious rival of Tucson pronounced Too
sawn--accent on the second syllable),
directs attention to the reform wave in
the latter city In the following caustic
terms:
"Under the instructions of the city at
torney and the chief of police saloon
men got busy and posted the notices,
which they dug up from all sorts of
dusty recesses. 1t is quite likely that
the consequence of this ordinance will
be a much more careful policy from
behind the bar in separating the wheat
from the tares so far as eligibility to
accumulate a jag is regulated by the
number of summers that have passed
over ones head.
1.-THE various saloons of Tucson have
been warned by the police to post these
notices. In a good many of the saloons
the signs are much in evidence, but in
the places where they had been rele-
gated to the scrap heap the proprietors
were notified that they must be dug up
and placed in conspicuous place at
once, or the unyielding strength of the
mighty arm of the law would be felt
at once"
But Tucson is to be felicitated, from
the viewpoint of the gentleman of the
typical territorial spirit, in not having
been reduced to that state of puritan
ism which has been evolved in Albu-
ouerque, the windy metropolis of the
plateau domain to the eastward. In
Albuquerque, which for years has
boasted that it was the only town in
the United Safes which was permitted
to display every night of every day in
the year a brilliant electric sign. maxi
ing all neighboring illuminations look
like dying tallow dips, reading Keno
Tonight" the "spasm of virtue which
has obsessed its. inhabitants has so
tightly held down the lid on Sundays
that not only has the thirsty wayfarer
been denied the joys of the cup that
both cheers and inebriates, but all
corners, regardless of race, color or
previous condition, have been denied
the right to buy cigars, soda water
(what a misnomer!D, newspapers and
street car rides. The restriction in re-
gard to riding on street cars is not
particularly onerous, for one cannot
ride in the New Mexico city Of wind,
dust and cottonwood fuzz more than i
good walking distance, but that the in
habitants of that city should be de-
prived of the right to get their post
church ''sody"-this is Gaping the
climax of their woes and mailing the
climax down.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
SIXTH SENSE WARNS AUTO
OWNER OF THEFT TOO LATE
Door of N. w. Everhardy,s Garage
Ripped from Hinges and Hand
some 6o-Horse Power Ma
chine Is Stolen

One Of the most daring robberies COM
mitted in the last month occurred be-
tween II o'clock Aaturday night and 2
o'clock Sunday morning, when clever
and reckless thieves broke into the pri-
vate garage of NJ w. Everhardy, at 1401
Alvarado terrace, and rode off with his
magnificent $4,000 automobile.
About O'clock, Mr.. Everhardy awoke
with a sensation that something was
wrong, but though he listened intently,
heard no telltale sound. He returned to
bed, but was unable to sleep. and he
finally concluded that his sixth sense
was urging him to make an investiga-
ton. He examined every room in his
home, only to find everything in perfect
order. He gave up in disgust. believing
that his fears were groundless, when he
recalled his automobile. The door of
the garage had been ripped off its
hinges, and the machine was gone.
Everhardy's machine bears the number
of 45S7 California. and is 6o-horsepower
Stearns.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

They called the doctor, who in turn
Called in the dentist, DR.. Skeetum.
Who said. Dear friends. we live to learn
These teeth are too advanced to treat 'em.
He's cut them ALL this forward youth,
And every ones wisdom tooth
/ never saw a set to beat eml'
And II was thus that Theodore
Arrived on earth and took possession,
And from his early moments bore
The marks of ststecraft's stern profession.
Whene' er the Roosevelt household met
They sat around like cabinet
When Teddy called an extra session.
A Teddy bear they gave the child
Which caused domestic confagration;
He loved the calling OF the wild,
But loathed the sawdust Imitation.
SO more in anger than in fairness
He rose and kicked his Teddybear-ness
Into the next administration.
In fairy tales he saw small good.
When Nurse McGee talked ogre hunting.
Told how the wolf met Riding Hood
And how the rabbit clothed B. Bunting.
Then did the infantife rnuckraker
Spring from his crib cry Mature fakerP'
And fall back on the pillows grunting.
Perplexed, they took him to the zoo,
Hoping to cheer his melancholy
He saw the bears, and shouting ''boov'
6prang at their cage with reckless folly.
The brutes beheld this savage rapture,
And fearing sudden death or capture
Cried ''Friends, we see our sad fnalel'
VII
But when the stork was shown to him
His coos approving love attested;
To view a bird whose stilt-like limb
plane Of lofty thought suggested.
And nature echoed with his smiles.
rrF. - NIL -
The home wherein the storklings nested.
VIII
Among his letters soon he sat
And learned to spell by intuition
He introduced in cat
And rather liked the new condition.
When father tried to change the text
He shouted 'Mrllycoddlep' vexed.
And would not tudge from his position.
They brought him in a rocking horse
faithful steed and rather nobby-
For even as a child. of course
T. Roosevelt oft rough-rode his hobby
Bang-jamming int, screens and barriers
Like San Juan foes or common carriers
Assembled in some railway lobby.
And from that day and from that hour
For martial deeds he felt attraction,
Became a Military Power,
He drilled his nurse around the room
with column ringht!' and Garry broom?
Until she loathed the life Of action.
XII
And when the nursely volunteer
Her gallant broom with ease could handle
He jnumped her rank to brigadier.
Thus causing quite an army scandal.
For those whom she surpassed in rank
OF ''favorites'' made mention frank
And swore the game not worth the candle
XII
he let the children who were good
Help build canals In back yards sandy.
His chum was little Leonard Wood
And Willie Taft got half his candy,
But Baby Tillman in the cellar
He locked and called him ''story teller
(For even then the phrase came handy.
XIII
Thus from the cradle Theodore
Employed his days In preparation
For making Peace and Noise and War
And giving lectures to a nation.
Ere to the greater stick he yielded
The Little Stick In youth he welded
with almost constant application.
wallace Irwin In the Woman's Home Com
parlon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
THE AIR SITTER


r OS ANGELES has an anti-smoke
ordinance. Just to what degree
- 1t is enforced is not always ap-
parent Careful investigation alone
will tell. But regardless of how much
or how little it is enforced, the fact
remains that in certain portions of the
city the inhabitants are compelled to
take into their lungs every day more or
less smoke-laden atmosphere.
In some cities manufacturers have
learned that there is economy in burn
that actually do the work promised by
their inventors and manufacturers are
to be found not only in many Ameri-
can cities. but through Germany-and
Great Britain. While the use of such
devices by large proportion of smoke
producing plants does not entirely re-
lieve the atmosphere of the deleterious
matter of which smoke is formed, it
goes far enough in this direction to in
dicate that the general use of smoke
consumers would restore the atmos-
phere to approximately a natural condi-
ton.
The London Lancet, one of the most
eminent medical authorities in the
world, in commenting recently upon the
menace to health to be found in SMOKE
laden air. said:
1.-THE amount of solid matter removed
from the air by muslin window cur
tains has surprised him Ga health officer
in an English town.. and it is common
knowledge in the northern manufactur-
ing towns that in dark, foggy weather
they are no sooner up than they are
dirty enough to come down again. AS
he says, they are cheap and easily
washed and should be changed fire.
quently. One condition he advocates,
but does not Insist on, is that they
should not be dressed or ironed. The
advocates of neatness and trimness
would assent to this unwillingly. He
says it would conduce to the healthi-
ness of our homes if all air inlets had
muslin filters. It is interesting, and In
a sense pathetic, to see the struggle
kept up in our manufacturing districts
against the evil effects of the polluted
air on the plants and flowers which the
cottagers cherish with devotion, that
cannot be felt more earnestly by those
who live in places comparatively free
from smoke and dust DR.. Brown
therefore advocates the use of muslin
to filter the air for greenhouses, for
though gaseous impurities would not
be removed there would be distinct
gain by excluding the solid particles.
1t cannot be supposed that the air is
completely altered from even it's sus-
pended impurities by muslin, still it is
an advantage that our lungs are saved
from some proportion of irritating
blacks and dust"
The suggestion that those residing
in smoke-infested sections allow the
air they breathe in their homes to
pass through muslin sleeves is one easily
acted upon. This method Of air puri-
fcation, or partial publication. is
simple and inexpensive. Those who
think they have greatest cause for COM
plant regarding the presence of smoke
in the air they are compelled to inhale
should try the sitting process. BY the
time few thousand air sifters are to
be found distributed through those por-
tions Of this city where the smoke
nuisance is greatest perhaps public
sentiment win compel the erection Of
safeguards for all the inhabitants.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

Margaret of West Adams street. age
S, found in her mothers linen closet a
beautiful little red chair. Bubbling
with excitement she dragged Aileen.
same age. from next door to view the
mysterious treasure. which had in the
meantime mysteriously disappeared.
"0h, it was there when I ran for
you," exclaimed the astonished little
miss.
"oh, Margaret" said the wee ohum.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

There is something unfair about the
workings Of the courts in Baltimore,
where a man was recently awarded
cent because his wife's affections had
been alienated. A south Maryland wo-
man was given $4,000 for the lost af-
fections Of her husband. A woman's
love is higher priced in California.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

with some disgust, "you are having the
same kind of a pipe dream had last
year when thought saw a b-e-eautifpl
dolly in closet, but it wasn't really
there when took sister to see it. Never
mind, 1t may come true. Santa Claus
brought me dolly just like the one
saw"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
RAnYAoop OF ROOSEVELT

When Theodore was three weeks old
A marvel set the household seething,
The nurse fell Huntington behold
The Roosevelt baby started teething!
Along his gums began to pop.
In long, white rows, q bumper crop
That almost stopped the infants breathing!
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
FUNNYGRAPHs
The Boys Idea

''POp!
Eyes, my son."
'I see by this paper that it costs over
$1,000 to fire a single shot from one Of
the largest guns used in the French
army
Yes, my boy"
1T suppose, pop, there would not be a
fine like that II fellow fred 1t on the
Fourth OF Julyl"-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

Santa Barbara is doomed to. disap-
pointment. we fear. Nothing has come
in the wa9 of news from Washington
to Indicate that the fleet intends to
rendezvous permanently in the harbor
Of this delightful but very sclf-satis-
fed little town.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

Another strong opponent to the
smoking habit was developed the other
night when the empress dowager was
nearly suff0cated BY smoking lamp.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

Angelenos are so accustomed to SUI
perb weather they do not notice it.
Was ever a day. more balmy and heav-
emily than yesterday?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

II You want a paper that's clean
In every line, fit to be read by your
wife and children, subscribe for
The Herald and your family is safe.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
a schemer

'arhis play is too rank for me. I'm going to
demand my money back"
wait until after the next act. Bill. Six
teen years elapse between acts one and two,
and you can demand interest on your money
for that length Of time."-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

Many good citizens. scenting impend-
ing disaster, are announcing at home
their intention to swear off smoking.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
Hiuh Enough

ssHow high do these automobiles comeT'
asked the prospective buyer
"Oh, they come high enough for You to get
under them when there's any trouble" re-
piied The salesman. Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

A New York woman has sued a
broker for the theft Of two kisses. Well.
why doesn't he return the stolen goods?