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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

fF=ss-znTIE San Jose Herald calls atten-
lEeS~.N zion to the fact that no sue
q H5Sll cessful lawyer has been presl-
III dent of the United states since
Ia WI the Civil War, and that Sec
is ,z rotary Root and Senator Knox.
the two ablest lawyers now in the public
service, seem to he preeluded by their
very professional distinction from politi-
cal consideration, while Senator Spooner,
an even greater lawyer, is laid hopelessly
on the shelf. Successful lawyers are
necessarily corporation lawyers" And
because this fact hoodoos them politically,
Probably in the future men like Mr..
Root and Mr.. Knox will have to be con-
tent with such public station as can come
to them without direct choice of the
people,
This public sentiment in the way of
electing successful lawyers to office un-
doubleday exists. In the old days, when
business was Individual, the successful
lawyer was the leading man Of the COM
munity In it's private affairs, usually its
best student of public affairs and always
its best talker. Naturally, he was the
man usually selected for Importance
Now the lawyer is the servant of bust
ness; business has become Incorporated
and consolidated; the successful lawyer
serves the biggest businesses the curbing
of those big businesses is the chief public
problem of the time and naturally the
public hesitates to intrust that problem
to the attorneys of those businesses.
though some of them, notably Attorney
General Knox, have done it extremely
we'll when given the chance.
So the big lawyer is under the ban.
But who shall take his place?
Not the small lawyer, certainly. Small
men for small places. When there is
big public task to be done the man for
it is the one who has shown that he can
do things In private life.
Newspaper men? Obviously, the news
paper man now fills, in the life of the
community, the place the lawyer once
filled. He is the student and discusser
of public affairs and the organ of public
opinion. Print has taken the place of
oratory and the writer is the successor
of the speaker. For the same reasons
that lawyers once filled most of the more
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

Citizens of Hollywood and Colegrove
have every reason to congratulate each
other on the excellence of the mail
service since the installation of free
delivery. In the business district of
Hollywood there are two deliv-
cries daily In the residential part of
the city one daily delivery is giving
general satisfaction. Some confusion III
getting the system in working order
was to be expected, but it took but few
days to straighten it out The chief
difficulty has been to get residents to
properly number their houses. Los
Angeles is growing in every direction.
Petty and gratuitous knocks from those
who should be among the boosters will
not impede this growth.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
AoUEDUcT COMMISSION
AWAITS ENGINEERS REPORT

After several conferences by the en-
cheering department of the aqueduct
commission regarding the bid of the
Southern Pacific company for the trans
portation of freight for the aqueduct, no
report has been FORMULATED and 1t will
probably be several days before action
can be taken.
Efforts are being made to have the rail
road company modify its bid, which is
unsatisfactory because the rate is much
higher than expected and because the
routing of the proposed line is several
miles longer than was figured on, thus
increasing the charges which the city
would have to pay on through freight.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

According to Geographic accounts the
chief of police of New Orleans, accom-
panied by five detectives, went into a
crowded newspaper office and proceeded
to shoot up the place. After firing sew
eral shots they retreated in good order
with drawn revolvers.
Killed and wounded? Bless you, there
weren't any? All their shots went wild.
We sincerely trust the Los Angeles
force could make a much better show
ing of Workmanship than this.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
ImVe1ts q Sleep Bomb TO
LuM Enemy TO Sluf71ber

ting him to sleep; and it's not nearly so
hard on the enemy.
Mr.. Wheaton is serious about his in
vention and refuses to give away the
secret of the compound which he has pre-
pared and in which he feels such con-
fidence. He really believes that he has
devised something. that will make war;
fare less than wholesale murder. If he
is not too sanguine, and his contrivance
is generally adopted in the future, 1t will
mean the passing of the military hero
Neither the admiring populace nor the
gushful girl will bow down in worship
before a man who goes forth to fight for
his country with no other risk than that
of taking an involuntary nap. The possi-
bilities are immense. Even If they went
no further than to provide for the future
prohibition of Hobsons and Funstons
they would be worth considering.-C
land Plain Dealer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

until within the last few years has any
thing like success been attained, writes
Ernest La Rue Jones in the American
Review of Reviews for january. This
success Is but comparative, and it has
been attained by but one type OF ap-
paratus.
In order to have a clear understanding
of the subject 1t is necessary to state
the two divisions in which apparatus for
fight Is classed-lighter than air and
heavier than air Even this classification,
while generally used is incorrect. BY a
Fighter than air" machine is understood
one that depends for its buoyancy on
gas of low specific gravity. But ma
chine may be built heavier than air and
still use gas as the principal aid to per-
feet buoyancy, with planes to lift the dit
ference between the total weight of the
apparatus and the weight lifted by the
gas. The motor, If driven fast enough,
would move the planes against the air
with force enough to lift this balance of
weight. Thus 1t is seen that a more dis
tinotive word must be used to distinguish
what is generally meant by a heavier
than air machine. OF late the word gas
Less has been introduced, aad 1t seems
to fill every requirement. Now, then, we
have properly designated the two general
classes, the lighter than air and the gas
less.
The gasless type subdivides into three
the aeroplane, the orthopter or beating
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
BUSINESS MEN DISCUSS .
SUBJECTS OF IMPORTANCE

L. A. Thurston and wife from Honolulu
were yesterday Joined by Robert w.
Single, who is accompanying them on
their tour of this country
Mr.. Thurston is the United States gov
ernment's representative in Honolulu and
is meeting Secretary Frank Virgins
OF the chamber of commerce and other
leading business men of this city relative
to important matters of interest to the
Pacific coast.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

Nineteen hundred and eight, glorious
and shining, came to Marvellous Man.
haitian from one to three hours before
it arrived in Halfsize Houston, Nom
chalant Nashville or Laughable Los
Angeles.-New York Mail.
This from a rugose necked, beetle
browed gink who arose at 4 o'clock,
built fire in a smoky furnace, hastily
swallowed a dozen flapjaeks soaked in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
Coming to Los Angeles

Ell PASO, Texas, Jan. H.-Former Gov
ernor Boies of Iowa has completely re-
covered from an attack of pneumonia
from which he has been suffering here
for the past two weeks, and, accompanied
by his private secretary, ella Dunn, left
today for Los Angeles, where he will
spend the winter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

Judge Hunt of Montana declares that
the right to labor is a God-given
right and cannot be taken from any
man. A good many men succeed, how
ever. in prying themselves loose from
their jobs.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

IS HItIdI anu not HBuTAIIVt. IHt pTU-
jectile designed by Mr.. Wheaton con-
tains an extremely powerful anaesthetic.
He proposes to cast these into the ranks
of an army and to await the result. 1t
Is promised that the wait will not be
tedious AS soon as one or two of the
projectiles have fallen the enemy will
also fall-sound asleep. 1t will then be
possible to take away their guns and do
such other things to them as may be
deemed advisable. Mr.. Wheaton, with
some show of reason, claims that this is
as effective and far more sensible than
the taking of life. All you kill an enemy
for is to get him out of the way, and
this can be accomplished as well by put
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

David Rice Atchison was president of
the United States for one day. Any
body ought to know that. but few per-
sons living in Los Angeles remember
about 1t.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
Orders Low Rate

BY Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Jan. 1.-THE Tennessee
railroad commission today unanimously
adopted a resolution ordering all railroads
In he state to put on a 21s-cent fiat pas
enger rate on April 1 next
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

Distinction of style is always sought by
fastidious women. and when good taste is
combined with individual chsirm the result
is certain to be pleasing Such a waist as
the one sketched may be made at home
without great deal of difficulty, and with
much success if care is used in the selec-
ton of materials. Silk or chiffon broad
cloth would prove most satisfactory.
while the chemisette should offer contrast
both in color and fabric. THE application
of embroidered bands or braid to the
free edges of the waist Is very effective,
though discrimination l. Required in the
selection of tones that will harmonic.
The shaping of the waist is novel and
becoming, the slashed front and cuffs
and the tab collar being essentially new
features. The sleeves may be long or
shorter, as shown. For the medium size
four and three-quarter yards of material
twenty-five inches wide are needed.
6OSO-Six sizes, 80 to AZ inches bust
measure.
The price of this pate Fn is 10 cents.
o o = Q 700 % Q @J~ o 10 % o o
8 ORDER blank o
8 The price of this pattern Is 10 o
@ cent E. when ordering please In @
o close illustration and the follow o
@ ing blanks @
@ Name ........-... .......s .....s.@
o p. o. Address -! %
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8 Address all orders to pattern de- g
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
An English newspaper has it JOIN


ST accumulated my s150,OOO,OOO by fifty
years hard and honest toll " declares
John Archbold. 1t may be 50, John; 1t
may be. There are others almost your
equal in mental and physical capacity
who have worked fifty years and fallen
short of your measure of success by
about $14s, 999, 1926.
81
In describing the attempts of party
of students to break up suffragette
meeting at Nottingham the London
Chronicle declares Miss Pankhurst
picked up one of the dozen mice lib
Grated on the stage and stroked 1t into
acquiescence Is there room in the Los
Angeles Ananias club for the newspaper
man?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

Can it be that Gillett's rafting good
man" is really rafting?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

ARL. M. WHEATON. a Mas
sachusetts man, is the inven-
tor of a new bomb by which he
proposes to revolutionize war
fare. The bomb is intended to
put the enemy to sleep. This
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

OR over two centuries man has
been trying to invent a means
whereby he might navigate the
air. Many have been the fan
tastic schemes for realizing
this great desideratum, but not
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

he San Jose Herald calls atten-
zion to the fact that no sue
cessful lawyer has been presl-
dent of the United states since
the Civil War, and that Sec
retarv RoOt and Senator Knox,
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
Hoodoo coan Is Back in Jail and
Things Are Bound to Happen.

Trenton, n. J.-Sheriff William L.
Wilbur and all of the attendants at
the county Jail are living in fear and
trembling. They know that some
thing is going to happen. John Coan.
Jr.. of Princeton is back, and when he
is in jail things always happen.
Coan was first committed five years
ago. The next day while he and other
prisoners were exercising in one of
the corridors John Dennis. one of the
SQUAD. struck his head and died. Six
months later Coan was back In jail
and that night a fellow-prisoner died
suddenly. The third time he returned
a convict was taken Ill and died the
same evening. Returned for his fourth
term, Coan's entrance was marked by
the escape of five prisoners. Six
months ago Coan came back again and
the same afternoon Albert Berry. held
without bail. mysteriously escaped.
Coan did not have the slightest thing
to do with any of these misfortunes
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
GRADING AND PACKING FRUIT.
careIessness Always Results In Lowe
Prices When Marketing.

To see the way in which some fruit
reaches market. it is no wonder there
are farmers who say fruit growing
does not pay.
Very frequently baskets give evil
dence from their blackened. moldy
appearance that they have been stored
in damp cellars or they show chan
and dust of the hay loft Such pack
ages could not bring a good price for
even the choicest of fruit Second
hand packages or those that have been
used for fruit before, are entirely I'M
suitable Besides being unsightly.
they will cause fruit to decay on the
road to market. The wood of second
hand packages is liable to become i'm
pregnated with the spores OF molds
and rots from former fruit and will
cause the speedy decay OF fresh
fruit coming in contact with 1t.
Very frequently packages are used
which are unsuited to the nature OF
the fruit busheI basket is poor
means for carrying and displaying del
icate. high-class fruit like peaches.
barrel is too large for soft fruit like
Bartlett and Clapp pears Often a 20
pound basket of grapes will be begging
for purchaser, while If the same
fruit were placed in dainty three
pound baskets the fruit would sell like
hot cakes at Is and 30 cents apiece. or
eight to ten cents per pound for the
grapes.
The most common evidence of care
lessness on the part of the fruit grow
er is the sending of ungraded pack
ages. showing large, intermediate and
small specimens of fruit which almost
invariably sell at the rate paid for In
ferior stuff. says Farmers Voice. 1t
would probably sell at better price
if every specimen in the package were
small. the large specimens being a
detriment rather than otherwise. 1t is
a frequent sight in the commission
houses of any of the large cities to see
men sorting and repacking fruit care
fully. which was carelessly put up by
the farmer. The commission men pay
the farmer a minimum price for the
whole package. and that is the best
that -an be gotten for it.
The large. fine specimens are sort
ed out and packed in a smaller pack
age and bring a special price, often
much more than could be gotten for
the whole original ungraded package.
The profit for such grading which
might have gone to the farmer. natur-
ally went to the commission merchant
who did the work.
The grower. moreover. paid the
same freight on the inferior fruit in
the package that he did on the special
grade that brought the special price
to the commits sion merchant
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
Basket Holder fer Fruit.
I'D

side the trough is made fast to block
which is curved to fit the body. Sc
cured to this block is a metal band
provided with buttons at each end. to
which strap may be secured. This
strap is provided with a number of
tuttonholes. SO that It may be adjust
ed to the size of waist of the per-
son on whom the holder is mounted.
When placing the baskets in the
trough. A, they will rest on the offse,
at the forward side thereof. and the
extension. B. viii press against them
and bind them in place. The baskets
will thus securely be retained against
accidental displacement as the opera
tor moves from place TO place. .....
Obviously the use OF this holder
Will effect a considerable economy: {;
for. with both hands free. the operator
will be able to pick a much larger
quantity of fruit in a given time.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18

country town may be a country
town, but there Is distinction. There
is the live town and the dead one.
The live town is filled with progress
sive people. the other kind with the
tabled "moss-backs. In the live
town will be found clean and well
paved streets, tidy business places,
fine sidewalks, ample shade. well con
Quoted schools. prosperous church or.
CARNATIONS. an adequate fire depart
ment and all the conveniences that
goes to make up a thriving modern
town. The stores will represent the
enterprise of their owners. The show
windows will be clean and well Ar.
ranged. The appearance of the bust
ness places of a town is indicative
of the life of the place. The exterior
of the stores is attractive and the
interiors stocked with goods well dir
played.
In the dead town the opposite is
found. The streets are in bad con.
dition. mud holes here and there, there
is a dearth of sidewalks. sanitary con
ditions are poor. and the business
places bespeak the dullness of the
place. Intelligent people give their
patronage to towns where there is
life and activity. Such towns are mag.
nets that draw the maximum of sup
port from the country surrounding.
The dead town is a negative thing.
People turn away from it as they
would from a plague. But towns are
what people make them, and there
is even hope for the towns that are
almost dead If 1t is only possible to
liven up the business men of the place
to the activity that means success.
If your town is not the progressive
place it should be. you can do won
ders for it If you will only rightly
work. Stir up your fellow citizens.
Organize for a campaign of improve
ment. Let the people of the surround.
ing country know that you are alive.
Let the merchants make the proper
effort to secure trade. and with the
coming of this trade will begin a
new era for the town.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
CURE FOR CURL LEFT.
Proper Spraying viii Control tho
Disease

Prof. Taft of the Michigan Agri.
cultural college has announced an i'm.
portant discovery in that curl leaf.
which has been SO destructive among
peaches for several years. can be sue.
cessfully treated by spraying. He esti.
mates that fully nine-tenths of the
crop of liberia peaches are annually
destroyed by curl leaf which might
have been saved by spraying.
The solution used is l pound of con-
per sulphate dissolved in 25 gallons
of water. The tree should be covered
with the spray as a single bud escap-
ing treatment might spread the dis
ease. 1t has been found that spray.
ing with the solution in the fall is as
effective as when it is used later II
may be used at any time after the
leaves fall till just before the buds be.
gin to swell in the spring =
In view of the rapid spread of the
disease and the simple method of de.
stroying it. every peach grower should
apply the remedy during the time be.
tween now and the middle of March
and the earlier this is done the better.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
FOR FRUIT PIcKERs.
cevice Which Holds Basket and
Leaves Hands Free to Work.

To enable fruit pickers to use both
hands freely while carrying the bas-
kets which they are filling. Mr.. George
S. Paine of Winslow, Me-, has invent
ed basket holder. which easily may
be secured in operative position by
means of an adjustable strap passed
around the waist The holder con-
sists of a trough-shaped member of
sheet metal. which securely binds the
basket in place. 1t is particularly de-
signed 10 hold pair of small baskets
or boxes of the type in which berries
are usually sold, but 1t will be evident
that the holder could only be adapted
TO carrying baskets of other types. AS
shown in the accompanying illustrs-
ton, says Scientific American. the
sheet metal trough A is provided with
an Offset at one side. and an outward
~ inclined wall, b. At the opposite
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
TUFTS STUDENT ENGLISH LORD.
King VIII Assist Him to Secure Es-
tate, Now Held by Cousin.

Bos,on.-Hugh Fitzgerald Lowering
is years old. a student of Tufts col
lege. who lives with his mother in
Lowell. IL has just been discovered. l.
Lord Hugh Fitzgerald Couch of IT.,
land. He will soon come into the
right and title OF his heritage In Eng
land.
"Hughey Lowering" as his college
mates have always called him. is SAID
TO be heir to the title and large es
tates in England. as well as landed
property near Gonstown. In Ireland
King. Edward Is said to be taking a
lively interest In seeing to 1t that the
Massachusetts, boy shall come int
his rightful property and titles and
that the uzurper shall be compelled Il
step out OF the way.
1t Is a cousin who IL now In posses
zion of the Couch estates In Hert
Yorkshire, England. To retain thu
properties there and to GUST the
Lowell boy. this English clalman
will be compelled by King Edward tt
prove his right OF possession. Charlie
Couch Lowering. the present claim
ants father. came TO America q
years ago and married Miss Huntree
who lived near Tilton. n. II. Lowering
was their only child.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
HAS DEADLIEST GUN.

and 1000. 900 an hour If pushed to Its
maximum capacity. The velocity of
the projectiles is from 1900 to 5000
feet a second. according to the will IF
the operator.
The gun works automatically. II
the operators were to place 2.000.0O0
balls in the magazine and turn on the
power the men could go to dinner
and take a walk for an hour. confident
that while they were gone the gun
would continue to hurl bullets so
long as one was left in the hopper.
The plan OF the inventor is to
mount the new gun on truck similar
to an automobile. to be run by Z
hundred horsepower motor. which
would give the carriage a speed of 60
miles an hour
There are to be two clutches on the
auto-one to start and stop the car
riage. the other to operate the gun.
The same motor that runs the car
rage furnishes the power to fire the
gun. which can be worked while the
automobile is in motion. as well as
when II is standing still.
The gun works on swivel. and can
be swung around SO as to sweep an
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-03-18
FIND NEW BONANZA GOLD FIELD.
Sand on Vancouver Island Said to Be
Unequaled In Riches.

Victoria. y. C.-If news brought
here proves correct Vancouver island
will see a stampede this summer I'M
equaled since the days OF the Klondike
gold rush. On the beach sands of
Wreck bay, at Sidney inlet. on the
west coast. bank OF sand 100 feet
high has been found, wondrously rich
in gold. =
Walter Myles. old-time miner of Col.
orado and Yukon. has Just had numer-
ons samples assayed. and results are
sufficient to Justify the widest hopes
of avarice. The sand pans out I'VE
tor fifteen cents to the pan, and the
yield varies from 1920 to $1O4.4O a
ton. On being furnished with assay
figures Myles staked out eight claims
In all my experience in Colorado
and Yukon I have never known this
equaled." said Myles. Near the
beach sands there is a plentiful sup
ply of water and every natural cir
cumstancs - favorable to cle.aing e
gold"