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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
EPON AND STEEL EXPORTS
BEAT PREVIOUS RECORD

ports OF iron and steel. not including
ore, $l62, 900; machinery, $S7,500. 600.
This SS7. 100000 worth of machinery ex
ported in eleven months includes metal
working machinery, nearly $4,000. 900
electrical machinery, nearly SC, O0O. 900.
sewing machines, about $4,000. 900. loco
motives. $S,5O0,000; typewriters, over
100000; stationary engines and boil
ers, over $4,000 wood working ma
chinery, $1,250,000; pumps and pumping
machinery. $780, 900; cash registers
$2,SSS,S3S; printing presses, 81 CSC. 66e:
snoe machinery. over s1,O.O,0OO, and
laundry machinery, over $500 900.
To Japan, where internal develon-
ment has been especially marked in re-
cent years, our exports of iron and
steel included for the period under re-
view, steel rails to the value of 81, 600
900; electrical machinery, S1,25O. 900.
pipes and fittings. over $1,000, 900: loco.
motives, nearly 100000 worth (thoueh
for the corresponding period of 1905 the
total was $4,000 OOO) structural iron
and steel, over 100000, and numerous
articles not separately down in the
monthly statements of the bureau of
statistics.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

navy the japanese rulers went up
against the proposition that two and
two make four. That dream is ended
There is a cabinet crisis due to the
policy of insane extravaganza and the
new budget calls for radical retrench-
ment at the rate of $50,000,000 year.
National insolvency was the alterna-
tive. Japan could probably afford to
be ;nsolvent. The Japanese have small
regard for their obligations, and 1t may
come TO that yet. But they cannot
borrow any more money. Japan is
the poorest country in the world. It's
foreign debt is s1,150,00o,000, paying
the highest rates of interest. A severe
financial panic prevails and strikes
have been numerous, owing to the in
ability of employers to pay a living
wage. The country is paying for the
financial debauch of the war with Rus
sia With all the modern improves
ments war is a luxury that poor people
cannot afford. The remarkable thing
is that the Japanese government did
not seem to realize where it was going
until it knocked it's head against a
stone wall last week. Toxic COR
respondent describes the extraordinary
situation:
1.-THE government is to blame be-
cause, although the indebtedness Of the
can we'll bear, the authorities are reck-
lessly proceeding with an ever increas-
ing expenditure of money in imme-
diately unnecessary undertakings.
Moreover, the exceedingly high tariff
on the necessities of life has resulted
in an increased cost of living in all
directions. The cost of living has gone
up 20 per cent in the last five years,
and without any corresponding increase
in wages or salaries. During the last
twelve months the price of rice, which
is the POOR mans bread, has gone up
to double what it was a year ago and
is now higher than ever before in the
history of Japan. The alarming and
sudden increase in the cost of living,
combined with the weight of taxation,
| leaves the masses justly disaffected
toward the government; yet the latter
goes on indifferently adding to the ma
TONS liabilities by raising loans and
expanding ornaments, and INDUCING
| in various enterprises that even
wealthy nations would hesitate TO af-
| ford"
There is nothing very new in these
facts. The wonder is that Japanese
statesmen have been so blind TO them.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Lawson as a Prophet

Cooper is not such a difficult thing
70 understand when one has spent a
life in it, as l have. Thomas w.
Lawson.
Il do not believe copper will sell for
less than substantially fifteen and one
half cents for five years from April J.,
1903."-T, w. L., October, 1902.
What happened: From August. 1903,
until August, 1904, copper sold between
twelve and fourteen cents; and then
Copper will break suddenly to low
est price in recent years. IT. w. L.,
June 10, 1905, at the fifteen-cent level.
What happened: Copper rose steadily
COR twenty-one months. TO twenty-five
and one-half cents, the highest price
since '73; and then
1.-THE high price of copper is a GER
tainty."-T. w. L., December, 1906, at
the twenty-thi ee-cent level.
what happened: Copper fell piecip-
itously in sever months to eleven and
one-half cents.--Success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
PROPOSAL FOR STUDY OF
SOUTHERN RACE QUESTION

that in Mississippi. Alabama and other
southern states laws favoring peonage
are enforced in contravention of the
federal law, and that the south is in
TINS way not only refusing its hospi-
tallty to immigrants, but is making
1t impossible for the government to
Keep It's treaty guarantees to Italy
ana Austria Hungary by according to
their citizens in this country "the most
constant protection and security for
their persons and property" Federal
grand Juries in these states refuse to
1ndict for the plainest violations of the
statute prohibiting peonage. There
lore, several European states are
warning their citizens against emigrat-
ing TO the south, and the Austrian gov
eminent has officially boycotted Mis-
sissippi.
Mr.. Dees will help dispel the "blaek
peril best by urging the state of
redress the injuries of White labor
New York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
LINES TO LOUISA

Crhe same being our forty-seventh maid VIII,
as gone to smash elsewhere)
A week ago we had a maid,
whose memory will never fade
You should have seen Iouisal
She piled the plates on which we dined
80 very high thoy called to mind
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa.
Al other times they did not lean.
When carried by our kitchen queen
Whose other name was Dennisl
But rose as straight as spire or tree.
And then her model seemed to be
The Campanile, Venice.
The leaning tower was first to go.
And when It hit the floor below,
The havoc was appalling
At once another crash occurred.
And then, alasl we knew we heard
The Campanile falling!
see its shattered remnants yet,
Twas half our wedding dinner set
The other half was Pisa.
My chatelaine her protest filed:
Pray leave" she cried, "ere go wild!
For Pelion on Ossa piled
Would be your next, Louisar'
Earl Hooker Eaton in Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

DR.. Samuel B. Mccormick. chancellor
of the University of Pennsylvania, says
women who receive college educations
are untitled for matrimony. AS might
have been expected the chancellor is
being besieged by inquirers who wish
to know why, and he cannot tell He
seems to have been guilty of one of
those jocosities in which pundits in
dulge to their own undoing. for a
scholastic joke is given with such
gravity Of demeanor that it is apt to
be mistaken for a serious utterance.
Why on earth a college education
should unfit woman for matrimony
is a conundrum not less bewildering
than why is a mouse when it spins?"
and equally unanswerable.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The British monarch read the speech
from the throne" Campbell-Banner-
man let him off easily. There was
hardly a word of his Grafton that the
king did net understand. In Old Man
Gladstone's time the reigning monarch
had to take vocal gymnastic exercise
before she could pronounce the for
midable language Of the statesman who
was described by rival as 'intoxi-
Gated with the exuberance of his own
verbosity.'
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

A man who was about to be adjudged
mentally competent disappeared. e is
thought that the fear of being declared
sane drove him insane again. The re-
sponsibilities of sanity are unusually
great nowadays, If man would live
up to them. Some men do not make
the attempt.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

Count Zeesheeny, after marrying Miss
Vanderbilt, lifted up his voice and wept
bitterly. AS Artemus Ward once asked
pathetically, Why these weeps? But
some men are so emotional that the
thought of three square meals per day
guaranteed for life and pocket full of
spending money until death do part will
move them to the very depths of their
natures-not that that is saying much.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
.JAPAN'S FENANCEERENG
IS DECIDEDLY FPENZZED

They proposed to have an army of a.
million men and their naval program
rivaled that of the United States. But
it remains an interesting and unsolved
mystery why these statesmen. whose
astuteness and almost supernatural
wisdom have been loudly advertised.
ventured so far beyond their depth.
1t may be that Japan got out of its
class IN the Russian war and, after
contracting a severe case of the swelled
head, is now getting cured.-San Fran
cisco Call,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

One hundred thousand trees will be
planted on the San Gabriel and San
Bernardino forest reserves. not as much
for the sake of arboriculture as for the
sake of a water supply. Many of the
trees will be set out on the Los Angeles
and Pasadena watersheds.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

A new clergyman who was to be i'm
ported for Los Angeles from Iowa is
laid up in splinters, suffering from a
broken shoulder. He slipped and fell
on an icy sidewalk 1t is only the
wicked that can stand in slippery
places, and the reverend gentleman
should lose no time in coming to a
place where we are all good with one
or two exceptions).
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The revolt of the women of the Uni
versity of California must be taken no
less seriously than the revolt of the
women of Britain, where a movement
that is assuming the proportion OF a
revolution is now in progress. The
university women, in mass meeting as
sembled, opposed plan for their dis
reimbursement. and declared boldly
that they will seek to enjoy part OF
the control of student affairs exercised
by the executive committee OF the
men. Equal responsibilities. equal
rights, say the women.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The eouncilmen told the grand jury
that lack Of funds had made it impos-
sible to improve conditions at the city
jail, but that action has been taken to-
ward building new jail. When the
councilmen realized that it was really
a grand jury matter-but therel therei
Isn't it reported that they are trying
to be good?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

Jacob Riis' son is a California forest
ranger. If he ranges the forests as
successfully as his father ranged the
New York tenements and slums he
will be the prince an paragon of all
the forest rangers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The new reciprocity treaty with
France comedies an abatement in the
duties on champagne and sparkling
wines imported into America. When
it comes to domestic champagne the
governments patriotism ceases to
s1arkle.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The reception for the fleet is planned.
but the money for expenses must be
raised. In the good old days. sailors
raised the wind by whistling. win
somebody please whistle?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

south and 'falrly study thls gTeal
problem of the races. pledging our
selves and the people of our great state
to aid all such Investigations earnestly
and impartially." In this way Mr..
Does would win northern sympathy IN
an effort to remove the black peril
by disfranchising the negroes.
Enfranchisement was mistake,
which thoughtfut Republican leaders
admit. It is not likely that the fiji
teenth amendment will be repealed,
but educational and other requirements
now eliminate the negro vote, and a
hospitable treatment of foreign immi-
grants would supply competitive
checks which would insure the sur
vival of the better type of black men.
Northern committeeman would find
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

From the straw vote taken at Saw
telle the old soldiers are not particu-
larly anxious to have the canteen re-
instated at the home. This will be
news to some ardent advocates of re-
establishment of the army booze
Joint.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The Chinese highbinders have signed
a truce treaty. II the highbinders that
are not Chinese can be prevailed upon
to go and do likewise what a happy
land this will be.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

Two negroes were killed by south
ern mob for killing their father. The
conduct Of the mob shows something
resembling inconsistency.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

The bad man" Of the United States
army is named Tyranny. This is no
joke. He seems to live under the
domination of his name.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

Prosecuting Attorney Fleming says
that some clubs are only blind pigs,
He threatens to open their eyes.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Inconstant Woman

lnconstant Woman
Bsck-Tm three-fourths in love with
Widow Shapeleigh.
Peck-Grass or sod widow?
Beek-Alfaifa; but that doesn't
worry me.
pack-Blonde or brunette?
Back-I don't know; haven't seen her
since Sunday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Has No Friends

A Long Beach duck hunter made a
bet that he would carry a brace of the
birds through the streets and back to
the city hall without anyone asking
him for them. Strange to relate, he
WON.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

- against $63lOOOOUO IN 1881 anu
S16,250, 900 in 1887. The value of iron
and steel manufactures exported has
increased more than 200 per cent dur
ing the last decade. while that of other
merchandise exported has increased
less than 100 per cent. While the eX-
act figures for 1907 have not yet been
received by the bureau of statistics of
the department of commerce and labor,
the figures for eleven months justify
the statement that the total value of
iron and steel exports will approx
mate, if not exceed, $780, 100000. In
1897 iron and steel manufactures ex-
ported formed but SIS per cent of the
total exports of domestic merchandise,
and in 1907 1913 per cent.
Machinery of various kinds forms
about one-half of this total of $780,
900, 900 of exports, the total for 1907
approximating $95, 900, 900. The exact
figures for the eleven months for which
statistics are available are: Total ex-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
ANY Tax on Pole cataY

Pasadena proposes to levy tax on
Sunset telephone poles. A new kind Of
pole-tax.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

HE ambitious program of the
Japanese governing classes
has come to almighty smash.
1t was simply question of
arithmetic. In their desire to
have the biggest army and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
uncle John Rehuked

My Uncle Johns right, all the time;
And positively says, no
Human being eer could rhyme
A jingTe-line with Fresno"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

No new excitemen. at the Thaw
trial. Up to date it is a frost.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
He Shook the Tree

TIC OIfSOH wv ''NN
How SAD and sorry is his plight
Who stands in anguish dumb;
Whose tree hath yielded him, poor
wight,
A lemon" for a plum
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Not a chauneey Chestnut

An Ohio Depew was held up by
masked robber. The Depews can't
have everything their own way.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Don't Tell Reuterdahl

Nature has invented a bug that eats
metal. Nature is certainly down to
date. Think of worm eaten armored
cruisers!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

WllIie's Garage
Confederation old is the boy?
Woman-I never pay for Willie.
Confederation old is he?
Woman-I tell you
Willie Quitting in)-Tm on the
street car and at school.
=
Muzzles and Muffs
Those new police dogs in New York
will weaa muzzles while on duty. Now
IL policemen Will wear 16-ounce boxing
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

lssEMBLYMAN DEEs Of
jackson county, Mississippi,
has introduced a resolution
inviting the legislatures of all
the northern states to ap-
point committees to visit the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Turnlnn of the Tied

The man-catching dogs employed by
the New York police will avenge the
canine race on the hated dog-catcher.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Alas, Poor Pigl

Pity the sorrows of poor blind pig!
Tear drops it's brow are gemmlng.
1t sweats to think what portents big
Clean from the eyes of Fleming.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

gloves life il the metropolis will be
worth livinG.
--S+-
Mikado's Regret
The mikado has thirty residences,
each a model of comfort, but alas, he,
like other mortals, can live in only one
place at time.
Like Our Ways
The Japanese have passed a law ex-
GLIDING Chinese from Corea. Imitation
is the sincerest fiattery.
So
Hop or Hops?
Opium is being struggled into Cali
fornia. Has that anything to do with
the dopey and inert condition of some
public officials?
-
Only Suckers
The waters OF the Los Angeles river
bank in the hope of bagging stranded
fish. That might be waste of time.
s.
A Modern Midnight Conversatlt
(After Hogarth).
g.. He-Mrow-wow-wo w-wow-wee-ee-e e-
ow?
Shea wow wow-mee-ow -mrow-o w-
ow yeeeee-oo-oo-
It-D-z-z-z-z! xxxxx! S-S-S-S-cat!
-
Writes Fiction
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

A Pasadena woman has hen that
lays eggs nine inches in circumference,
She is preparing to dispose of them to
football teams. They are regular Rugby
eggs.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

IRON and steel manufactures ex-
| ported from the United states
/ made their highest record in the
calendar year 1907, the total be-
ing approximately 5000. OOO,O 600.
against $63, 100000 in 1897 and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
A Modern Midnight conversatIt
Writes Fiction

The editor of the Mine Workers
Journal is a man named Sexton. Well,
1t is unhappily true that the editor OF
mine workers paper has to write an
unusual number of obituary notices.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Christmas Present

Street & Smiths venerable Weekly
asks, "Oh, whence the subtle tie?'
Why, from a bargain counter probably
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
What's Matter Wltzhoff

~
What's Matter Witzhoff
The record of DR.. George A. Witz-
hoff, formerly of Chicago, makes the
marital records of King Solomon and
Brigham Young look silly. Solomon
had 400 wives. Brigham had probably
that many. DR.. Witzhoff has 500.
&
On Queer Street
If the rumor proves true that Harri-
man is for Hughes that will be about
all that's needed to settle that little
New York affair."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-16
MARROW ESCAPE.
Train Running Fifty Miles an Hour
Turns Over.

=, Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 10.-The
wreck Of the west bound North Coast
limited at Mckenzie, 20 miles east
of here last night may be consider
ed one of the luckiest in the annals
OF railroading, according to railroa |
men. The fact that an almost en-
tire train going at the rate Of SO
miles an hour, containing more thar.
200 persons could turn over and go
down a 10-foot embankment with
out killing anybody Is marvellous.
= The train struck a broken rail.
sFhe engine got over safely, but the
tender went off the track, follow
ed by the baggage and mail cars.
Then the coupling broke and the
three day coaches, two sleepers and
the observation car went down au
embankment into a deep snow drift
and turned over without breaking a
coupling. The hard packed snow
saved the train from destruction.
Eight babies on the train were not
even scratched. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-16
QUEER DAMAGE SUIT.
Lady Sues for Being Carried Off by
Balloon.

New York, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Mary S
Roper, of Brooklyn, tomorrow will
endeavor to convince twelve men in
the supreme court at Kingston, N.
Y, that her feelings were ~lacerated
to the extent of $4,000 when her
foot was entangled in the anchor
rope of a balloon, and she was car
ried skyward in an inverted and ur-
comfortable position in the presence
of more than 5000 persons.
The Anglo Society, under whose
auspices the balloon ascension was
given, is the defendant. The suit
Is the sequel to a story which thrilled
the country on the morning of Aug.
80, 1906, the day after Mrs. Roper,
under protest, accompanied the bal
loon skyward. But the Agricultural
Society goes Mrs. Roper n better
and charges her with having spoiled
the exhibition. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-16
w MORE VICTIMS.
A Fanatic. and q Brave Policeman
Dies From, Wounds.

Dies n TOEHi "Oa1uc
Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 1.-Two
more names were Thursday sadded-to
the list Of dead asa resultsof Tues
days battle between religious fanat-
les and the police here, the total
number now being four.
Shortly before noon today LOUIS
Pratt, As years old, the foremost
disciple, Of James Sharp, died at the
General hospital and an hour lat"'
Michael .Mullane, a policeman, sue
cumbed to his wounds at st. Joesph's
hospital. Policeman Albert O. Dai
bow and Lula Pratt died Immediately
after being shot Tuesday.
Mullane suffered himself to be
mortally wounded because he would
not shoot a woman. According TO
witnesses he lodged behind a wagon
when Mrs. Sharp attacked him with
a revolver and, though she contln-
ned firing, he made no resistance
though armed.
boys, 1 could have killed the
woman, but l would not" he claim
| edo as he sank to the pavement
pierced by four bullets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-16
TEDDY FR0THS'
ROOSEVELT THREATENS TO SUE
THE NEWSPAPERS.
He Says IF They Can be Reached
For Criminal Libel, l will Try 81
Have Them Reached"

Washington, Dec, 10.-"If the.
can be reached for criminal libe!
I shall try to have them, reached,
said President Roosevelt in speaking
this afternoon about chose Ameri
cans who have been guilty of infa
nous falsehood concerning the &C
QUESTION Of the property and tn
construction of the Panama Cana,
ITSELF"
1t was to the committee Of one
hundred of the Lakes-to-the-Goil
Deep Waterway Association, headed
by Governor Deneen, of Illinois, who
were received by the President in
the East room of the White House,
that he made this declaration.
Governor Deneen had presented a
copy of resolutions adopted by the
| Association, and made a few remarks
to which the President replied as
follows:
IT have felt, as the Governor has
we'll put it., that no more important
service could be rendered to this
country than the building of tie
Panama Canal between the Atlantic
and the Pacific, and one thing l am
proud Of in connection with the
building Of that canal is that there
has. not been legitimate cause for
the breath Of scandal connected with
any feature of the proceeding. We
have cause to be ashamed OF only
one set Of Americans who have been
guilty of infamous falsehood con-
corning the acquisition of the prop
erty and the construction of the
canal itself: If they can be reached
for criminal libel, I shall try to- have
them reached. II not, at any rate
all the facts we know or ever have
known are at the disposal OF each
and every one of you here, and of
any one in Congress or: Of all Con-
gress If they wish to e them.
Next only in Importance from
physical standpoint to building the
Panama Canal comes the question OF
developing the use Of our own water
ways. That must be done by the
policy of irrigation at the headWa-
tiers up In the arid regions; and
where you come from, gentlemen, !:
is to be done by making u coast
take a big loop in from the Gulf J..
Mexico to, the Great Lakes. and We,
will see that-the work is done; and
no work could have been done from
beginning to- end more honesty
or more efficiently"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-16
STILL REMAINS SOLID.
Democracy's Hold on Old North
State Strong as Ever.

Washington, Dec. lofts all
tommy-rot about the Republicans
making gains in the South" says
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
who is here on a visit. while Il
is true that my majority was abou.
$4,000 greater than that given Coz
ernor-e1ect Kitchen, the Democratic
vote was larger by nearly 18,0p0
than 1t ever has been. The Republi-
cans polled a bigger vote, Of GROUSE,
which showed that greater interest
was taken in the last campaign than
in any past election.
why should the Southern, States
change their politics? individually
the States Of the South are more
prosperous than the Republican
States of the North. There never
was a time when the South was. more
prosperous. If, therefore, we are
progressing, why. I repeat, should
we change our politics?
Because Mr.. Bryan was defeateI
Is no reason for a change Of mind
on my part regarding him. I con-
| slider him n of the greatest Amer
leans that ever lived, and history
will prove it."