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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

FIN discussing the presidential out
ia ri look the Review of Reviews eX-
ISS III presses the belief that when the
lE III Republican national convention
IES III assemblies in Chicago rext sum-
E&Nl) mer no one candidate will have
the support of anything like majority
of the delegates. The Review of Reviews
goes on to say:
1.-THE most promising candidate is Mr..
Taft, secretary of war, who arrived In
this country on December 20. having
sailed from a German port December 4.
Mr. Taft found that the support of his
own state was disputed by Senator Jo-
seph B. Foraker, who haL declared him
self a presidential candidate in response
to an invitation from the Republican
clubs of Ohio. To state the matter pre-
eisely, Mr.. Foraker was Endorsed for re-
election TO the senate and also for the
Republican nomination for the presidency
at joint meeting of the executive and
advisory committees of the Ohio League
of Republican clubs, on November 20,
The resolutions adopted by this league
repudated the idea that Mr.. Foraker
should be retired to private life because
he was not able to agree with President
Roosevelt as to the rate bill. or joint
statehood for New Mexico and Arizona,
or about the Brownsville matter Mr..
Foraker's letter in reply was made pub
lie Move: Der 29. He declared that he
did not wish to appear as candidate
for two offices at the same time. and he
accepted with heartfelt appreciation the
support for the presidential candidacy
which the committees have so generously
rendered His letter in somewhat ex-
tended manner expressed resentment
against the suggestion that the office of
United States senator is to be stripped
of all real honor attached to it by making
it's Incumbent mere agent to register
tho DEGREES Of somebody else instead of
the representative of a state charged
with the constitutional duty of legislat-
ing according to his best judgment for
the welfare of a great nation. account
able to his constituency for his acts and
votes. but to nobody else He proceeds
to explain and defend his course in the
senate, as If his right to act freely had
been denied.
''It does not seem to us that Mr.. For
aker is justified In attempting to make a
public issue out of such a question, in
asmuch as nobody could properly dispute
his thesis. The senate has its constitu-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
RAILROAD PRIVILEGES

NyHE message of the president con-
tanned several recommendations
Il about which too little has been
said by the press of the country. Many
of these suggestions ought to be pointed
to with frequency during the present
session of congress. Futile as the eff
fort to induce action by that body as
at present constituted may be. pro-
tracted discussion will result in the
better education Of the people along the
lines indicated.
One of the most important, recon-
mendations made by President Roose-
Welt pertains to the interstate COM
nerce commission and its duties. After
suggesting that there should be either
national Incorporation act or law
licensing railroad companies to engage
in interstate commerce upon certain
conditions the president said: 1.-THE law
should be so framed as to give to the
interstate commerce commission power
TO pass upon the future issue of secur-
tiles, while ample means should be pro-
vided to enable the commission, when
ever in it's judgment it is necessary, to
make a physical valuation of any rail-
road"
The suggestions relative to a federal
incorporation law and the broadening
of the powers of the interstate COM
rnerce commission are of the gravest
Importance. That they will have to be
settled by congress at some time is q
foreg> he conclusion. But there is still
another, and possibly more important,
recommendation in the message. 1t is
that railroads should be given power
to enter into agreements. subject to
these agreements being made public in
minute detail and with the consent Of
the interstate commerce commission
being first obtained" On this point
there has been little dissent on the part
of the press Of the country, though few
newspapers have done more than to
refer once or twice to the wisdom of the
adoption Of this policy
! It is not likely that any reasonable
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

fornia. Did Governor Gillett think any
one would accept the old saw: 1t takes
a rebater to catch a rebater?
Burma has but one cottonseed mill.
But then they don't use pure leaf lard"
in India.
If some hstic impresario will frame
it UP this way his fame and fortune will
be made:
"Jim Jeffries VS.. Stuyve Fish for tho
heavyweight championship.
mike Twin VS.. john Sharp Will
liams for the welterweight champion
ship.
ABE Attell VS.. Boni Castellane for
the featherweight championship.
kid Dalton VS.. Booth Harrington
for the paperweight championship"
Uncle Joe Cannon would make an ex-
cellent referee. Why not enliven our
ianguishing love for lanistrae?
In Georgia they will remember it as
the first year of the long drouth.
IS
well. there's one trust that Roose-
welt has effectually squelched.'
YES? That's good. Which one is it?"
1.-THE one on the new ten-dollar gold
piece"
s.
Atlantic City boasts hen that can
tank. Well, there's nothing new in that.
Ever attend hen party?
Mrs. Knag reading)-Twenty billion
pins and flve billion buttons are pro-
duced In America annually.
Mr. KnaR-Anv satellites?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
LET US BE GENEROUS

N ONGRESS will perform an act that
win call for the plaudits of the
" civilized world if it will confer
upon the president the power to revise
existing arrangements with China to
the end that the United States may
demonstrate its friendliness for and
generosity to a country which just now
needs all the assistance other nations
are able TO grant to it.
President Roosevelt has asked for
authority to cancel the debt to this
country which China incurred through
the Boxer outbreak several years ago
We asked and were guaranteed an in
demnity out of all proportion to the
merits of the case. China showed her
large sum of money for the outrages
committed by some of her inhabitants
upon the persons and properties of
American citizens stationed in that en-
pire. From that time to this the
Chinese government has made every
possible reasonable effort to keep faith
with the Pnited States i'll its promise
that due precautions should be taken
TO avoid repetition of these outpour-
ings of fanatical wrath.
The United States stands among the
nations of the world as the chief ex-
ponent of the spirit of humanity and
liberation. We have demonstrated our
humane disposition as nation in many
ways. We are rich. We are powerful,
we have repeatedly given illustration
of our belief in and adherence to a ma
tional Golden Rule. Why, then, should
we not look upon the sentence i'm
posed upon China in punishment for the
acts of contingent of its people as a
sort of indeterminate sentence, to be
lifted as soon as that country demon-
strates her splendid intentions?
BY comforting upon the president the
authority he seeks, congress will have
indicated TO the rest of civilization that
not only does America hold no grudge
against another nation, great or small,
but that we are glad to assist in every
way any nation which is struggling to
improve its condition and to take a bet
ter position in the community of ma
tons.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

aboard. Overheard them talking about
the dog watch. Now, what in the
world do they want him to watch?
Tolling continues.
Thirteen Bells--Navigator is diathetic
Lieutenant says it's due to his splicing
the main brace too often. 1 can't see
the connection between alcoholism and
splicing a ships rigging. Find the men
applied iron splints to the fractured
cardboard strakes. Those strakes seem
to be something like ribs. The con-
fusion of the serratus magnus was
severe.
Fourteen Bells--I've never heard those
dogs bark. There seems to be two OF
them. hear of the first and second
dog watch. viii bring the matter be-
fore the next wardroom clinic. Over
dose of southeast wind.
Crew takes nournishment regularly.
Chuner-More than 200 men are said
to be working in New York city to im-
prove automobiles.
speeder-That's nothing. counted
more than that last Sunday working to
make them gol
-s-
Railway Commissioner Loveland has
promptly proceeded to lemonize Cali
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
PEACE

If love controlled the hearts OF men.
The deadly clash Of arms would cease.
And all the words Of tongue and pen
Would gladden. earth with endless peace.
Then all the direfui woes Of war
And all the passions born of greed
Would crush the burdened soul no more,
Nor cause the wounded heart 10 bleed.
Then cannon fumes on land and sea,
That hold the human mind In awe
And ill the world with misery.
Would faint the gracious air no more
Then ali the power that rules the state
" ould yield TO meroy's gentle sway.
For sovereign love would conquer hate,
And peace would never pass away.
ID 3. siclsels In Brooklyn Eagle.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

that New York is to ecome WTecK'
Mr.. Hill himself does not say that me
idea is rather that New York has reacheo
its zenith; that people will be scared
away from her by the burdens she I'M
poses. AS between two locations. busi-
ness will seek the location entailing the
less expense, other advantages being
equal, and the location entailins less eX-
nense can hardly be New York The
high prices of New York being repellant'
the recent growth of other cities ana
ports, the shifts in trade, the wonderful
extension of railroads and other CONNER
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

lt has spread 70 New York and BostOn
and is now travelling westward to Chi
cago. 1t seems to be more deadly this
year than during the great world cpl
demie of 1899
No disease has shown itself more
rapid traveller than the grip. 1t spreads
with the speed of an express train, nat
urally, since 1t follows the routes of trans
portation, berg carried by travellers and
letters Physicians know 1t by its symp-
toms and its results. And that is about
all they do know about it. They regard
it as highly contagious and not necessar-
lily deadly. But IL is altogether battling.
Nearly every person has been afflicted
with the disease. No one who has suf-
fered from it has any great longing to
try it again. Unlike some other maladies,
there is no immunity in one experience.
The best way ITO have" 1t Is to avoid 1t.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
alNhlNe sY sYNpIcArE

Plentycash Is an excellent churchman,
And he never Ia missed from his pew.
He talks and he prays. and he willingly pays,
And he works in the Sunday school. too
yes he's one OF the men In the Grease trust
which is outlawed In every state
II lies and IL robs. and does villainous Jobs,
But, you see. II syndicate.
Plentycash wouldn't do a mean action,
or q deed that would harm any man;
lie lives Gay BY day in a sanctifed way,
AS uprightiy as any one can;
His concern is q vile corporation,
A thing all good citizens hate, tt
But he hasn't a qualm OF his conscience tt
calm.
For his sins are syndicatel
Puck.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Reuterdahl seems to be sailing on
and on and on.
This century will have only twenty
five leap years. Get busy, girls.
-
The jaws of a wasp are so powerful
the insect can cut it's way through
shells.
That's good. why couldn't they BIZ
trained to act as campaign orators?
s.
There are lots of funny things coming
from the east, but the Philadelphia
Inquirer man who put this one across
is the worst cut-up of the season:
1.-THE fight on Fairbanks has opened in
Indiana. The fight on Taft has opened
in Ohio. The fight on Hughes has been
in progress in New York for some time.
1t is going to be a case of the survival
of the fittest. And he is likely to be
Knox"
s.
In some Japanese villages a tax is
imposed on bears. If an impost should
be put on the Teddy variety here this
tariff could be appreciably lessened.
s.
Why do folks howl at such rate
And sneer and mock?
Some nations have the ship OF state
Steered by a doc"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

In instituting a campaign to compel
the race track gamblers of New York
state to abide by the law or don the
suits with the horizontal bar decora-
lions, Governor Hughes has set an ad-
mirable example for the chief executive
and the legislature of California.
Arcadia is a strong enough argument
for an anti-gambling law.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

The crisis in Portugal has passed, APP
parently. The people, most of whom
have ever been Indifferent as to what
form of government they have, seem to
like the dictator idea, And, besides,
they know that their monarch is enjoy
ing a rest from political activities and
that during the period of dictatorship
they have nothing to fear except quar-
rels among the ruling classes.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

He recent pessimistic remarks OF
James ]. Hill concerning New
YORK were but the expression OF
a feeling which many another
person has had of late. The ex-
IRENE cost of living, the enorm-
Of doing business in the metrop-
st,lpendous price of real estate,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

render timely the
suspicion that there
is a limit some
where, and { h a t
sooner or later the
burdens b e a ri n g
upon life and busl-
ness in New York
must force life and
business out of tho
city to places where
they can endure
with greater ease
and more profit.
This is not to say
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Success to the church federation in
it's attempt to force, through the
initiative, an anti-prize fight law that
will actually prevent brutal smuggling
matches.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Brace up! Breathe more deeply!
Some fellow with penshong for figures
has found out, or thinks he has, which
is good enough, that one person in q
thousand attains the age of 100 years.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
The Knabe Angelus

We know nothing equal to the fascination Of driving
motor car-te perfect rhythm of its motion glides along
over smooth roadside exutan feeling of the quverng
responsive the ghtes touch OF e
Vibrating Kaleidoscope sweep of landscape field brook and
farn1nless it be the 10Y of playing the beAngeus.
YOU love rnusc-of course-its an instructive passion
which YOU can crafty by OF the Angeus combined
with the Knabe Piano-both in handsome symmetrical
case which occupies no space than the usual piano If
you play piano the player will not Interfere at all with
vour personal plavine it is Piano Pano-PayerPano
inst as Won land YOU will enjoy comparing technique
and Interpretation with the authoritative playing of the An
gelus which is taken from the INTERPRETATIONS OF masters
az course The "Melodant" attachment has contributed
largely to the individual supremacy of the KnabeAngelu
Call on us when down and this extraordinary
instrument
McNzwRMnGD
s~.n--. .uuz9 EKZEga e EEEz
4I6-4I8 So broadway
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

City Auditor Mushet belongs to that
class of men who would rather be
right than be president. He believes
laws were made to be enforced.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Mrs. Howard Gould declares that a
$500 skirt is one of the necessities of
life. If this is SO, how many women in
Los Angeles must be suffering!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Prof. Lowe has been severely jolted.
but there are other rounds to come. He
is a good fighter, sometimes facing
great odds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Heney declares that there are several
United States senators who ought to
be in jail Tut, tut, Mr.. Heney This
is treason.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

prohibition goes to the bat in the
SOUTH" says the Detroit News; and the
pitcher will go to the we'll more fire.
we presume.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Tom Lawson would save the country
lot of annoyance IL he would make up
his mind to run for president himself
instead of framing up daily ticket
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
Log Of the TaddIy AddIy

Log OF the addIy NddIy
Eight Bells-Another day of that
awful rolling begins. This arising at s
o'clock is awful.
Nine Bells-They keep those-pumps
going; it's a sort of aspiration process
they tell me. I don't see what brought
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Spain is spending $4O.OOo.0oO on new
and dockyard construction.
Send a message to congress.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08
Fresh Air the Greatest
Foe OF the Grip

This can be done, physicians say, by OBJ
servance of the following rules:
Keep up vitanty.
Get plenty of fresh air and exercise in
the day time.
Sleep with the bedroom window open.
These, after all, are the primary rules
of health. Greater obedience to them
would eliminate much sickness.
The grip has not yet put in its appear
ance on the coast But perhaps we shall
.catch" it. just as we have caught other
evils from the east The rain and thu
mild climatic conditions of winter here
would form no deterrent for the germ.
Follow the rules, therefore, promulgated
nv the doctors. They may not know how
to cure YOU, but they should know how
to prevent your illness.-Taeoma News.
-
Getting Down to Facts
"some of orr financiers have had trou-
ble in realizing money"
"Of course they have had trouble in
realizing it. A lot Of it was purely mag
t,,.,, ,,-NVashtngtOn Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

GRIPPE. as the French call
1t, which we of America have
shortened into grippe" by
which We expressively mean
grip" has again invaded the
east. Beginning in Pittsburg,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Reuterdahl seeps to be sailing OF
and on and on.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

This century will have only twenty
five leap years. Get busy, girls.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

fornia. Did Governor Gillett think any
one would accept the old saw: 1t takes
a rebater to catch a rebater?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-08

Railway Commissioner Loveland has
promptly proceeded to lemonize Cali
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-02-15
WHITlaN PODQ0Ea
ELECTS OFFICERS
Makes Arrangements for Big Picnic
and Stock Show to be Held
Jolly End, Bird and 4th.

The dates for the annual picnic and
stock show held under the auspices of
the various oranges of Whitman coun-
ty have been fixed for Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday, July End, 3rd and
4th, the place to be at Lyle's grove
on Union Flat as heretofore. This
was agreed upon at the meeting of
Whitman Pomona No. 2, held on the
7th inst, at the grange hall at
Evansville.
All the oranges are entering into
the arrangements for the 1908 show
with zest. and it is already evident
that it is going to be the most sue
cessful yet held, which in view of the
past successes means a good deal.
One of the big features of the coming
show will be the dairy COW contest,
which has become an annual feature
of the show, and which has aroused in
tense interest among the farmers, the
influence of this contest being worth
thousands of dollars in the improve
ment already noticeable in the dairy
herds of the county. In the 1908 con-
test prizes aggregating s410 are offered
by Pullman firm alone, top buggy,
valued at $125, being first prize; a
wagon, complete, value $85, End prize
l4-in. gang pillow, value, $85. 3rd
prize; open buggy, value, SIS. 4th
prize, and a full cabinet sewing ma
chine. value $40. 9Th prize.
The conditions of the contest are
much the same as in previous years,
the test for butter fat to be conducted
on the grounds by college chemists.
The giving of these five valuable
prizes is also conditional upon the en-
try of at least forty cows, and all
cows must be owned by farmers, town
cows being barred. No owner is ELI
gible to win more than one prize. and
all winners in previous contests are
barred.
The interest already being taken in
this contest, and the number of cows
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-02-15

lous lines, including fruits. He footed
1t up for me at little less than eight
hundred dollars. My heart went down
like lead. Father saw my face, and
said, My boy, this farm might be
made better than it is. Can you think
OF something to do to build it up? Can
you be a man a little while, and let me
be boy?''
We looked it over. The first field
we came to was wet. under drained;
never had any clover; had not been
rotated any, and lot of wild grasses
were growing. | decided to drain the
field. | went to town and got long
spade, with blade about eighteen
inches long. We dug bitches, an let
the water run out. Once | got down
in the field, and began to push my
muscles against it, l, forgot the
West. said:
"Old fellow, some day when have
made you rich, some day when | have
made you dry, | will cover you over
with corn and alfalfa, and make YOU
grow for me, home for me and my
sweetheart. "
Then would strip off my overalls,
and go over and see the sweetheart, as
happy as king.
stopped the wheat growing, and
the hay growing. First, little more
livestock, then some manure on the
fields, then the clover. Little by
little the fields increased in fertility.
The alfalfa and clover roots went down
and the nitrogen forming nodules,
which | know nothing about, and
neither do you. formed on them. and
the land became richer and richer-the
long and short of that story 10 that
finally we harvested from that farm
eight thousand bushels of corn, three
hundred tons of alfalfa hay and we are
just getting started When land is
good then you can improve it. After
| had worked several years on that
old farm, no longer wanted to come
West. crossed the water and went
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