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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13

Fire-shadows leap on oak and carven stone
The great logs blaze defiance to the blast
Whose bleak wild battle-challenge rocks alone
These massive walls, that road OF siege have
passed.
Out in the Storm
Could but fare with Love. should be warm!
Out in the dark,
My soul would soar and sing with any larki
Lights fare from Silver sconces; torches glow
And flash on jeweled cup and tanSard. set
Amid brave cheer where throngs goodly show
OF revelers-for joyous feasting met.
Yet what is bread,
When for one voice the heart is famished?
Out in the gale
Hand-grip in hard-grip over death prevail!
In cleaning silken robesS with dainty feet
Against the age gloom Of rich tapestries
Fair shining.-maidens pass. hear the sleet-
The night-born tempest rage among the trees
Though frayed and rent
One rough cloak shared with me were blithe
content!
Out in the storm,
Fared with Love, I should go safe and warm
Adds Dunbar in Appleton's.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
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Especial attention will be given
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southern and middle states.
The fraternal page is store
house of news of benevolent and
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The Herald will continue to
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The pages devoted to sports
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The policy of The Herald re-
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
A HUMAN CORK

Bathing in Great Salt lake is a unique
experience.
Flights of steps lead down into the wa
ter from the interminable platform along
which the bath houses are situated. The
water is quite shallow at first and you
find a rare enjoyment for time in wrig-
Cling your toes about in the salt that
forms the bottom in place of accustomed
sand. You are obliged to wade out some
distance before you experience the pecu-
liar buoyancy Of the lake. First, you feel
your feet trying to swim out from under
you. You find 1t more and more difficult
to walk. You begin to float In spite of
yourself. Then you realize you are nom
sinkable. You can't sink if you want to.
Throw yourself on your back or sit down
or try to swim and you bob about like a
rocking-chair in a freshet. You feel as
though you had been turned to cork.
You can't help looking at the phenomenon
subjectively. You don't see that there is
anything peculiar about the water. 1t
looks and feels like any other bathing
water-until you get some of 1t in your
eyes or in your month. Then you wish
you hadn't come. Ocean water is sweet
in comparison. In fact, the chemists tell
us 1t Is eight times less salty.
You can't drown in the Jake by sinking.
but you can be suffocated to death. which
is just about as uncomfortable and unde-
sirable. We found signs everywhere
warning us against being too talkative or
too frolicksome in the water
When we came out we brought with us
large deposits of salt on our skim, AS the
water evaporated we found ourselves COW
cred with white crystals. Only a strong
shower-bath of fresh water or good
clothes brush can put you into fit condi-
tion to dress.-The Travel Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
RAscALLY CONTRACTORS

A T a recent trial of the .seven-inch
u guns at Fort Riley, Kas., it was
IA found that two-thirds Of the
shells failed to explode. The fuses in
the seven-inch shells are about an inch
in diameter and should, on impact,
throw small copper cylinder forward
against spike, setting off small
amount of illuminate of mercury. Why
the shells at Fort Riley did not de-
tomato is a mystery. and every effort
will be made to discover the trouble
and correct it.
When the fleets of Admiral Dahlgren
were in front of Fort Sumter in 1863
GA the same thing happened, and thou
sands of shells were picked up after
the war and sold for junk. Rascally
contractors did the work then and
maybe the same is the case now. In
any event a strict inquiry should be
instituted and the full penalty of the
law visited on the offender.
Such shells would lose position to
the best army ever in the field. Men
who would risk the safety of an army
in the field for few dollars of gain
would steal coppers off a dead mans
eyes. 1t may be important to know
who the next major general will be,
but it is vastly more so to know who
loaded those shells.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13

that day were used to discharge car
goes from Liverpool, and the river has
so filled. and still is filling. that con-
stant dredging at great cost is neces-
sary to keep a channel open. The
eastern branch of the Potomac which
seventy years ago was navigable to
Bladensburg, whence large sloops and
brigs brought the bricks used in build
ing the west wing of the capitol, has
filled up until, except in small mos
quito-breeding patches, it does not
show water enough to float ten-foot
flatboat.
The main facts and the results of
study and experience in connection
with the subject have been before
leaders of thought and action in this
country for two decades, if not more.
Why has not the general public been
aroused to a realizing sense of the
peril? The answer is too easy. Selfish
vested interests with no care for the
future, but insane greed for the gold
of the present have stood like lions
in the path. Uninstructed and ungoad-
ed the masses have been content to
let things slide. If the matter has
attracted passing attention it simply
has been treated in the spirit of Ar
ternas Wards observation to the eff
feet that he could not see what he
owed to posterity; what had posterity
ever done for him?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
WHAT rRAMps REALLY ARE

Fully one-third of the tramps in this
country are men of more than the
average intelligence, writes Broughton
Brandenberg in the Metropolitan
magazine and an equal number are
tramps for only a small period of their
lives Also a large number of the
yeggs are tramps not because of pref
erence for that style of life, but be-
cause they are following the course of
the least resistance, and as tramps are
better able to escape the police, having
a greater independence OF movement
and being in a stated class of men that
is generally suspected, are less open to
individual suspicion.
Before passing to the concluding
opinion of any length will summarize
in brief the expressions of number OF
much. When asked If crime paid they
voiced themselves as follows Honesty
is the best policy for starving man,
said one. sit depends on the man ana
his sporting propensities," said an
other. Warden McClaugherty of Leav-
enworth: Crime Is a dreadful waste of
the public funds for correction, the
property of robbed individuals, and the
operating time and prison time and
energies of the criminals. In this
connection it is interesting to calculate
that the 10000 persons that make up
the average prison population of this
country at present If employed at the
average wage rate in the classes of en-
ployment they profess. which I calcu-
late at $534 per year, would earn the
enormous sum of s47.700,000 per annum.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
CROKER DIDN'T CHEER BRYAN

In the year 1900. when l was in Kansas
City at the Democratic national conven-
ton hall there, a rather amusing circum-
stance took place. says Robert Lee Dunn
in Appleton's magazine. Bryan had just
been nominated amid the most tumultu-
GUS sort of hullabaloo, and people were
jumping to their feet, tossing their hats
and shouting. 1 took a f1ashlight of the
New York part of the celebration and
started to move my camera toward an
other part of the house.. when messenger
approached me.
Didn't you just take a picture of that
bunch?'' he asked, pointing his finger at
the Empire state delegation.
"I did," ! answered.
"Well. Mr.. Croker asked me to ask you
not to print it. Take another" He dis
appeared
looked at Croker. He was on his feet.
cheering and roaring louder than the rest,
in anticipation that l would come back
and photograph his enthusiasm. Later in
the dark room I understood. You will
observe from the picture l give here (the
one that Mr.. Croker didn't wish repro
duced) that he kept his seat morcsely dur
ing the first pandemonium. Croker never
was for Bryan. and T happened to catch
him He was sitting very languidly in his
chair, the only man of the crowd who
wasn't on his feet and cheering. That was
what was the matter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
HERRIN SIGNALS

n RECOMMENDATIONS of the Ma
II tional Association of Railroad
AU Commissioners that the several
states pass laws to compel railroads,
both steam and electric, to protect
their track by an automatic signal
system will cause smile on the faces
of Californians who know the, history
of the Santa Cruz Republican conven-
tion and the legislature which fol-
lowed it.
Herrin might be induced to erect
signals, but they would all be the
dollar mark on a wide ground of dis
Greet silence, and such expert engin-
GERS as Casey from "de ate" and Bood-
Ter Wilson from "south of de slot'
would be sure to see them and not only
hold up the train but every man Jack
aboard it. Swipes, silence and secrecy
form the trinity worshiped by the
Herrin cult, and till the whole "out-
fit" is hanged, drawn and quartered
at the ballot box there can be no
safety in California, on railroads or
anywhere else.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13

Capt. oberlin M. Carter. who has
recently finished his term of five years
in a federal prison under a sentence
for alleged completely to defraud the
government. has been engaged by
Henry M. F'lagler to build a railway
across Florida. The task is stupen-
dous one and the engineer will havs
to exert the utmost skill in handling
the great problem, for he has no prece-
dent to follow. Flagler declares he
deserves no credit for philanthropy in
hiring Carter at salary of $4,000 a
year. He simply chose a man of whose
ability he was sure. Here's rare COM
mon sense on the part Of both Flagler
and Carter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
BLOOD TELLS

kfTT HE Chinaman is Chinaman
to the last and we know it,
Il declared President Jordan in
his address before the City club yes
terday In burst of satire he sug-
gested that the apparent need Of the
country east and west is .''for more
cheap labor, for more men without
skill and without self respect. who can
be exploited. even as our natural re-
sources are exploited
If DR.. Jordan were a politician in
quest of votes, labor agitator seeking
to quicken the flow of the red blood
in the veins of American wage earn
ers, few thoughtful men would give a
second thought to his utterances on
this questioAp-of vital interest to the
Pacific coast-yes, to the whole coun-
try. But DR.. Jordan is not even
slightly tinctured with that species Of
demagogy which prompts the average
exclusionist to mouthings which have
made the names of some leaders
among the extremists bywords from
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
Los ANGELES SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1907
LONDON MECHANICS.

The streets of London have been
dotted lately with hands ONE new, red
painted motor cabs. which ply for hire
at the reduced rate of eight-pence a
mile. They are fitted with taximeters
and have promptly been called taxi
| cabs"
London has queer strain of humor
in the matter of naming its public
modes of transit. The Central London
railway, whose uniform fares are two
pence, the first of the tube lines, was
no sooner opened for traffic than some
genius named 1t the "tuppeny tube.
Then came the Baker street and Water
| loo underground, which no one dreams
of calling by any other names than the
| "Bakerloo."
| The new Brompton and Piccadilly line
| Is known as 1.-THE Piccadilly" and the
| Thames steamboats, are known as the
| ''khakis" The Trocadero restaurant Is
| generally dubbed the "Troc," the Critic
rion is the "Cri' and no suburban youth
would think of showing his ignorance of
the west end by giving it's full name.
\ For years the st. James restaurant,
which was the center of all human activ-
ity so far as the gilded youth about town
! is concerned, was called "Jimmy's"; and
now that 1t has been swept away to make
room for the new hotel of the same name
! the arQenL young men Oh tHc toWll dIe dt-
ready talking of the glorious times they
will have when "Jimmy's" opens its doors
| again.
| OF course, 1t is cheap when compared
with the prices that the road pirates
| charge In American towns, but even there
the shillings mount into pounds after q
few hours. The 'taxlcab" is altering the
matter a good deal. The only difficulty
from the public point of view, however,
Is that the penny fare Is awkward, be-
cause there is no coin of the denomina-
ton of pence and the public is so used
to shillings that the drivers are benefits
ing undeservedly.
They are, in consequence, becoming
high handed in their manner and refuse
to take passengers unless they are as
sured of strong pour boire, almost rep
resenting in size the amount of the actual
fare. There Is law against this form of
oppression, but the public is generally
timid and does not like to take strong
measures for stopping the imposition
Town and Country.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
NEW COMMISSIONER

~ OvERNOR GILLETT has ap-
VT pointed J. w. Jeffrey of Los
~ Angeles to be state commissioner
of horticulture, vice Elwood Cooper,
whose term expired in July last.
Aside from the individual fitness and
high standing Of Mr.. Jeffrey the ap-
pointment Is an honor to the people
Of the southern part of the state.
Mr.. Jeffrey has been student of
horticulture. especially as it covers
citrus fruit growing, all his mature
life, and with tongue and pen has
ever been the wise adviser Of the fruit
grower. Retiring and unobtrusive in
manner. he is yet remarkable work.
er. and may be depended on to see
for himself every acre of orchard in
California in due time.
In the prime of life, free from all
alliances, and enamored of his pro-
fession, his services must be beneficial
to the great fruit industries Of the
state.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
THE LUsITANIA


WI INNING all transatlantic rec
wv ords for speed the Cunard
steamship Lusitania arrived off
Sandy Hook, New York, four days,
nineteen hours and fifty-two minutes
from Queenstown, Ireland. averaging
the highest daily distances ever made
in an ocean voyage. The builders and
owners stand justified in their great
outlay to obtain this prestige, as 1t
will cause this ship to be patronized
to her fullest capacity by those who
annually make the European tour, but
no other useful purpose is conserved
by this feat.
AS stated in The Herald, the ship
arrived off Sandy Hook in the night
and had to wait for daylight to make
her dock, so that the passengers really
had no advantage in time over the
ordinary liner OF the newer class. The
ship leaves the Mersey river for
Queenstown on schedule time and must
receive and discharge passengers and
mails at Queenstown before proceed
ing. only when off Kinsall Head does
the real run begin, when the passen-
gers have been twenty-four hours on
board.
Under her abnormal driving it is re-
ported vibration aft was great, plainly
showing she was driven to her limit
of structural strength, and but for
chance smooth seas she could not have
made the time. Men who care more
for comfort and safety than for the
ships record will choose a ship not
in the greyhound class.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
APPLY THE REMEDY

HyHE further the official probe is
inserted into the politically dis
Il eased body of the Southern Pa
cific the more deep-rooted and thor
oughly decayed is the core OF corrup-
tion found to be. The disease is worse
than the symptoms indicated. Accord
ing to the old school therapeutical
idea the more aggravated the case the
more heroic the treatment should be.
Balms and salves will not cure the
maIady in the present instance. The
only effective remedy, to be perma-
nent, is the removal of the seat of dis
ease. The patient should then be iso-
lated until all danger Of Infection has
passed. The safest retreat would be
San Quentin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
SEALSKIN JACKETS
NT OMEN who have any hope Of
w sealskin coat from She head

MI OMEN who have any hope Of a
wv sealslkin coat, from fhe head
of the family or some admirer
next Christmas need not be alarmed
at the report from Victoria, B. c., of
small annual catch of seals. That
report alludes to pelagic sealing and
does not cover the annual supply from
the United States station in the Prih-
ilov islands.
Like the peach crop reports from
New Jersey, which are regularly doc
tored, in the interests of dealers, these
sealskin reports bear the impress of
queer work, and it looks as If someone
with skins to sell meant to bull the
market.
While 1t is true that indiscriminate
killing of young seals has decimated
the herds and that the continuance of
that policy will soon exterminate them
it is not true that scarcity now OBJ
tains sufficiently pressing to yerrant
high prices.
All raw sealskips must be shipped
to London for the cleansing process,
and the tariff both ways and heavy
charges add to cost, but they have
always been at about the same figure
and cannot be much altered this sea-
son. Some day some cunning Ameri-
can will discover the secret of curing
sealskins and then the women may
have coats at reasonable cost. The
weather outlook in the vicinity of Los
Angeles is. however, most discourage
ing to those who have or hope to
have furs. The sunny days bid fair
to last until Christmas and later.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
THE VOICES

r,ovn IN the night I hear them.
rhe voices-unknown- -unguessed.
That whisper and lisp ana inurinui'
And will not let me rest
voces that seem to question
A In unknown words Of me,
ne fahulous ventures and hopes ana creams
~ this and the world to be-
Voices of mirth and music
AS in sumptuous homes, ana sounus
cf mourning as Of gathering friends
In country burial grounds.
Cadence of maiden voices
Their lovers blent with these
And of little children singihs'
AS under orchard trees.
And often up from the chaos
Of my deepest dreams I hear
Sounds of phantom laugher
FILLING the atmosphere
mt aver and ever the meaning
Falters and fails and dies,
And only the silence quivers'
4 with the sorrow OF my sisns'
Ana 7 answer: "Oh. voices, ye may not
Make me understand
Tii NV own voice. mingled with you,
Laughs in Shadowiand.
~ James whitcomb Riley.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13

one coast to another. He is a level
headed, prudent. conservative man, a
close student of economic problems
and, moreover, one of the foremost
authorities on the Chinese question in
America.
Hence, when he reminds us that "a
Chinaman Is a Chinaman to the last,
and we know it," he presents in a
sentence the strongest argument in
favor of closing the door to the yellow
coolie that 1t is possible to advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
VANISHING RESOURCES

A GOOD old proverb of childhood
N tells us that we cannot eat our
Ia cake and have 1t, tool AS
nation we have been eating the cake
of our magnificent natural resources,
ravenously. recklessly and brutally,
until the disappearance of the last
crumb fairly is in sight. When that
shall go, as it must unless instant,
scientific and drastic measures are
taken to avert the calamity, our chill
dren in the second or third generation
may have to face the actual exhaus-
ton of our coal supply. while, at the
present rate of consumption and de-
struction, there is absolute danger that
the last stick of commercial timber
in the United States might disappear
during the lifetime of persons already
born.
1t is not a pleasant prospect for the
country to face, but that it must be
faced, quickly, resolutely and with de-
termination to find and apply such
remedies as can be discovered, goes
without saying From this viewpoint
it is satisfactory to read that the chief
of the chronological bureau Of the ma
tional geological survey, after an ex-
haustive investigation, has sounded
the warning that at the present rate
of increase in consumption the better
part of the country's fuel supply will
be gone by the end of the present CEN
tury. He calls attention to the om-
inous fact that in mining operations
one-half of the coal wastefully is left
under ground, under conditions rem
dering its future exploitation imprac-
ticable; that water as a source of
of millions of horse power, and that
forest fires have been allowed to de-
stroy more timber than has been used
in our industries. Coincidently with
the issuance of this official statement
it is reported that the president in
meet in washington early in January,
its purposes being to secure full dis
cussion of the menace to future Amer
ican prosperity involved in the situa-
tion, and the devising of ways and
means to preserve and conserve what
we have left in the way of natural
resources, so that our posterity may
not come into life in treeless, hope
less desert which once and recently
had been "a land flowing with milk
and honey"
At least twenty years ago scientific
H.. g. Il
gineers with experience on our inland
waterways began to warn the govern
ment and the country that national
deforestation rapidly was approaching
complete destruction, not only threat
ening ultimate exhaustion of lumber
and fuel supplies, but already barring
headwater lands and watersheds Of
the cover necessary to hold and con-
serve water, thus everywhere convert
ing lately steady flowing into torren-
tial streams, nearly dry when most
needed, and devastating when carrying
freshets. Moreover, for a century
American rivers increasingly have been
carrying to the seas billions of tons
of rich soil from cultivated lands
ignorantly plowed down to the waters
edge. When General Washington lived
at Mount Vernon the Potomac river
was deep, clear. navigable waterway
from the Chesapeake to the little falls
above where the city of Washington
now stands. Now the boat landing
at Mount vehnon is hundred yards
or more from the shore site, of the
old wharf where the largest craft Of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
FUNNYGRAPHS

who was carrying a lot Of newspapers under
hs arm said: Don't all those papers make
Nav; don't read EN-" replied the lad
Canadian Courier.
Father" said little Rollo, what is evi-
lution?"
which man has invented for displaying so
many of the traits of the lower animals.
Washington Star.
$50 you don't share the general indignation
toward the railwnysf az,
always felt that locomotive was entitieu 70
a great deal of credit for sticking to the track
instead of -sHorting up and down the coun.rs
roads like an automobile "-Washington star.
Frau Lehman was saying SONS a"iu-
things about you yesterday.
We'll, did you stick up for me?"
.'Oh, no, 1 wanted to hear 1t all, 50 tnat !
could tell you about it afterwards ''--fiiesehae
Blatter.
The prison reforrner met the convicteo iA"
yet in his striped garb. p,
"And what brought you here, unhappy man r.
she asked him. ,sn,.
His old-time cleverness asserted itsen. c
IAN automobile" he blithely replied.-CieVe-
land Plain Dealer.
stella-so you kissed the young parson IN ynr tns
dark hall, thinking 1t was your @ pao'. 20, d,s-
must have felt awfully cheap wneh sou us
Mabel-Cheapi why felt like Friday rem
nant at a Monday bargain sale.
i
..Your wife needs exercise; she sits stiil too
much"
"Ili get her silk skirt"
How will that help?' !,
She'll keep moving so as to make 1t ruS'''
Houston Post.
ry.ry,snv 10 desirable under most con-
ditions. but policy is imperative in ALL IS