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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
THRICE JILTED BY
FORTUNE

A CERTAIN New York Tribune
u man started IN life with the OBJ
- ject of becoming a great author.
In pursuit of experiences he explored
Alaska for Frank Leslie's. Soon after
his rethrn to civilization he read OF
the discovery of gold In the Klondike.
and tainted. After he had been re-
vived he murmured, Gosh blame the
luckl 1 camped on the richest part
of the Klondike for a week and never
smelled gold. Never even dreamed of
it." with considerable fortitude ne
returned to newspaper work, and, by
way of diversion, tried few expert
ments in simples and compounded a
patent medicine, for which he in
vented a popular name-now known in
every part of the globe. He said good
bye to newspaper work. sold his idea,
his prescription and the now world
renowned name for few dollars-and
went back to newspaper work. The
purchaser OF the medicine began to
make money. He started an advertis-
ing campaign and made more money.
In a comparatively short time he
piled up huge fortune. He needed an
advertising man, and hired the in
ventor of the medicine at small sal
ary. This true story would be incom-
plote if a fact OF local interest were
omitted. The man who missed the
Alaska diggings and the patent medi-
cine gold mine was, at one time, years
ago, a member of the staff of the Los
Angeles Herald. With the singular
discretion that has marked his amia-
BILE life, he sold bit of real estate in
this city, and with the proceeds went
to New York. Almost his first expert.
ence on the New York Tribune was to
reao the story of the phenomenal real
estate boom, which had made his
lightly esteemed Los Angeles proper
ty worth a fortune. A leather medal
will be awarded to the reader who can
find anything to equal this record of
three gigantic misses"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
FOREVER AND FOREVER

HY HE assertion that a wireless mes
sage from the battleship Con-
n necticut may have gone round
the world calls to mind two equally
uneanny facts relating to the imper-
disability of sound and of visible inn
ages. An observer in some remote
world away out in space, II he put his
eye to a telescope of miraculous pow
er and directed his gaze to the earth.
would behold. not us and our doings,
bur the people and the activities that
had been caught and conveyed by that
particular beam which, after many
centuries, reached his telescope. If he
were far enough away. he might see
Adam and Evel And all the words
that have been uttered at any time ex-
list somewhere. and their ghosts haunt
the universe forever. People who do
not believe the Biblical statement that
mans deeds and words are written
in an imperishable book are not
abreast Of the march OF science.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
SAVING ON SNOW

A t a season when the municipalities
N OF the east are facing the annual
4 problem of removing snow from
the streets it seems to be in order to
call attention to the fact that the hap
pier cities of our snowless region are
benefited hugely In pecuniary way by
their freedom from billiards and even
from ordinary snowfalls. and to sug-
gest that with an ideal system OF
economy in expenditure the money thus
saved should be more than sufficient tc
pay for every civic reform and improve.
ment that may be suggested. OF course
there are civic reforms and improve
are beside the present question, which
is one involving a hard fact, akin to
the Where did he get it?" and What
did he do with it?'' interrogatories that
have been stirring up the country. We
brag of our glorious California climate,
and well we may. What do we do with
the enormous sums saved, by the grace
of the climate, for purposes other
and presumably nobler than street
cleaning? We brag of our unmatch-
able weather. What d. we do with our
weather money? IL we may coin that
phrase.
The deputy commissioner of public
works of Chicago gives some basis for
reasonable comparison and conserva-
tive calculation by placing at our SER
vice fha fourac far 4baf offv Daeino
his estimates on the last snowstorm in
Chicago. he says that the factors in
the problem are 1900 miles of i'm
proved streets in the city, averaging
forty-eight feet il width each, and
covered with ten inches of snow. This
gives a total of 11,7ss,SSs cubic yards of
snow to be removed by the street clean
ing service. The average wagonload of
snow is five cubic yards, and team
will haul five loads in d day. There
fore it would take 4e9,3S3 1-3 teams one
day TO carry off the snow. The SER
vices of a team and driver cost IS per
day. The total cost OF teams is s2,346.-
e66,sS FOR ONE sNowSToRM.
But there is more TO be considered.
The average wage per day of the men
who scrape, shovel and sweep the snow
must be added to the prodigious total.
From this enormous cost Los Angeles
escapes scot free. And there is no
equivalent substitute for this cost. AS
far as Los Angeles or any other Cali
fornia city is concerned it is clear
saving, clear gain. What DO we do
with it? Here is money for new jails,
money for new schools money for all
manner of street improvements, money,
money, money galore, and Los Angeles,
to put it colloquically. is that much
ahead" What becomes of it?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
A NEW PERIL"

4 NEW bugaboo is affecting Eu-
n rope. The German peril feeds
- popular hysteria even as the
yellow peril used to minister to ner-
vous disease in California. The old
dread that Europe would either be-
come Republican or Cossack has been
replaced by a greater dread of what
is called Junkerdom, an ungainly
word that signifies the Prussianiza-
tion of the continent. The spirit Of
Junkerdom is typified by a ruthless.
punitive measure introduced recently
into the Prussian diet by Prince
Buelow, who is endeavoring to ac-
complish the forcible appropriation of
Polish landowners and the acquisition
sum of $75,000,0OO is to be devoted to
the plantation" of Poland. Russia
has had a golden opportunity for a
great reconciliation with the Poles,
and a return to the little brotherhood
of really civilized nations. But Rus
sia's evil genius, which inspires her
to turn to the left when the sign
post says right" is as active as ever,
and the Slavs, in order to curry favor
with the Germans, have chosen this
particular time to harass the Russian
Poles, SUPPRESS their school organiza-
tion, the Mateca, and to resume hos
tilities against Finland. People who
fondly imagine that the triumph Of
Japan over Russia was the triumph
Of barbsrism over civilization are
mistaken. Japan was more civilized
and humane than Russia up to the
time of the occupation Of Corea, where
the little brown man has been at
tempting to conduct government
upon the most approved Russian
methods
1t is not good policy to borrow
ideas from your defeated adversary,
because If you do so you are apt to
appropriate to yourself some OF the
causes that contributed to his down
fall.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
WHITEWASHED
IEur. COMMANDER SIMS. the

IEUT. COMMANDER SIMS, the
IL communicative White house ma
val aid the United States white
Eavy, and the naval construction board
have al, been whitewashed by a report
prepared by Rear Admirals Capps and
Converse, who were appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt as a commission Of
investigation or the criticism of the
fleet made by Henry Reuterdahl,
magazine writer. Citizens whose slum-
bers have been disturbed by the Reu-
terdahllan suggestion that the navy
was suffering from general debility will
now sleep in peace. The official re-
port has Strengthened out everything
that needed Strengthening, and has put
the missinr kinks in the ammunition
hoist. Reuterdahl must be added to
the gallery OF Rooseveltian fabulists.
ge has been declared to be a naval
faker, which is much worse than
nature faker Branded officially by
the White House epithet, lie will cele-
brate V'ashingtons birthday in gloom
and detection. On that day. devoted
to the mos. truthful of men, what
agonies of conscience must be his who
said that our boasted vessels were not
AL that they should be! The armor
below and above the water line is all
tight apparently Mr.. Reuterdahl did
rot see it straight Everything that he
condemned is officially approved, or,
rather. it is officially stated that
grounds for condemnation &C did not ex-
list. But what about Rear Admirals
Melville ans Necalla, who, it was re-
ported. substantiated the Reuterdahl
story? Are they also to be hung-as it
were-in the Gallery of Prevaricators?
Whatever may be the fate of its ira
Gucers. reconstructed by the report of
The commission. the fleet will now
faunt our flag in the teeth of every
'rans-Pacifc Iower, bomb proof, eff
fnient. water line properly limned, with
IL that pertains to the shape of the
ship officially and incontrovertibly
stip-shape.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
FIREPRooF BUILDINGS

| N HE International Society of State
and Municipal Building Commits
n sioners and Inspectors, with
headquarters at Washington, is con-
Quoting a campaign against shoddy
Building construction. Taking the
Parker building fire in New York
for a literally horrible example, the
commissioners and inspectors state
that poor building is the curse of the
country. AS far as the Parker build
ing was concerned, each of the mate
riais used therein was of excellent
quality, and if the materials had been
properly handled and combined an
Ideally flreproof building would have
beef the result. But they were not
properly put together. In no case was
the steel sufficiently protected, and in
no case was 1t at all protected by the
necessary fireproofing tile. The stairs
and elevators were rot inclosed, and
the windows were not screened with
wire glass. All the things that ought
not to have been done were done, and
all that ought to have been done were
leIL 1nC al hC1 phAAAA6
could not possibly be termed flreproof
because, although the walls were of
the best materials. the first principles
of fireproof construction had been ig-
nored in the assembling of those ma
terials. Yet the building was classed
as fireproof and was subject to a low
rate of insurance, THOUGH THE IN
SURANcE PEOPLE MUST HAVE
KNOWN 1T TO BE OF INFERIOR
CONSTRUCTION. Insurance of an
extra risky building is a mere gam
BILE. with the odds heavily against the
shareholders of the insurance COM
pany.
1t was as we'll known ten years ago,
when that building was built, as it is
today that to be safe every particle of
structural steel had to be covered
Acknowledgements the word thorough
ly'-with brick or fireproofng tile. In
order to effect a paltry economy of
three or four thousand dollars this
precaution was neglected, with the re-
suit that four lives have been sac
rificed and there has been a property
loss of two million dollars.
The international Society of State
and Municipal Building Commissioners
and Inspectors declares that buildings
similar to the Parker have been built
in every one of our cities, including
Los Angeles. These buildings, say the
commissioners, and even poorer ex-
ampIes of construction, masquerade
under the name of "fireproof." If a
man covers light frame or even u
wooden frame with galvanized iron he
impudently asserts that his building is
'.fireproof." 1t is the most elastic
term in construction and more abused
thar any other.
American cities should revise their
building laws and make them, as far
as possible, uniform. establishing an
unmistakable standard of soundness
and Of safety in construction. More
over, there should be a stricter en-
forcement Of the regulations. Leni-
ency is insanity when it may cost hu-
man lives.
There is practical wisdom In the sug-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
THE JAIL PROBLEM

TN the new and utiiitarian phase
has assumed. the councilmen
who assert that II will take
six months to pick a site suitable
for jail and year to erect the build
ing are in all probability more nearly
correct and more worthy Of attention
than the optimist who declares en-
Enthusiastically that the entire under
taking can be finished in a year. Time
will be occupied in selecting a site. in
making and approving plans, and in
erecting a building that will not only
conform to requirements but be a
credit to Los Angeles. While all this
is being attended to something must
be done to provide emergency quarters
for prisoners in excess of the number
that can be properly and humanely
housed. in the old jail The only I'M
mediate relief that has been proposed
that is at all practical is that the
council should erect temporary bar
racks or dormitory in one of the parks.
Griffith park has been suggested.
With a dormitory built anywhere on
city lands, the preesnt jail will suf-
fee for two years, during which a new
Jail may be built properly and the
present jail building disposed of at a
good price Whatever else the council
may do, it should erect a dormitory.
This seems to be a more business
like proposition than that stoekade
should be made. Stockades have been
tried in other cities. They involve the
services of extra guards, and even with
this precaution they do not always
fulfill their purpose OF confining and re-
prisoners. With a dormitory
to relieve congestion at the city Jail |
while the new building is in course of
the city, in all likelihood. |
will find that it's vexing Jail problem |
is solved.
On July II. 1906, the executive COM |
mittee of the Voters league petitioned |
the city council ito make an appropri- |
alton sufficient to provide barracks for
certain city prisoners, as recommended |
by the chief of police, or to provide |
some other building to relieve the over
crowding of the city jail" Six or seven |
months ago this recommendation was
and in connection with it Pc
titions were presented from the First |
Congregational church and the w. c. |
T. L. The Church federation was also |
actively interested in the matter. |
Therefore the council was without rea-
sonable excuse for the delay which
now makes emergency action neces-
sary.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
The East
SNOWBOUND

HE sun that brief December day
Rose cherries over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the thickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy,
A portent seeming less than threat,
1t sank from sight before it set.
A chill no coat, however stout,
OF homesPun stuff could quite shut out,
A hard, dull bitterness of cold
That checked, mid-vein, the circling race
OF life-blood in the -sharpened face,
The coming of the snowstorm told
The wind blew east; we heard the roar
OF Ocean on his wintry shore,
And felt the strong pulse throbbing there
Beat with low rhythm our inland air.
John Greenleaf White
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
California
SUNSHINE

HE sun that glorious winter day
Rose cheerful - not a hill was gray,
And, brightly circled, gave at noon
A warmthfui light, the country's boon.
Slow tracing down the golden sky
Its mute and generous prophecy,
An omen giving certain hope
Of fruitful orchards boundless scope.
A warmth as gracious as of June
Has set the birdlings all atune.
A soft, delightful, winter air,
A fragrant breeze beyond compare,
Unite to stir the eager blood,
Quick coursing in a gladdened food.
To greet this joyful winter weather.
No cold disturbs birds of feather;
They sing and twitter meath the green
Of CALIFORNIA; verdant sheen.
winfield S Morg'
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
BILLIoNAIRE's DoNFS

r Ohm d. ROCKEFELLER, JR.,
who for several years has been
- suffered to instruct a Bible class
in a church of which he is the finan-
cial mainstay, has compiled some
"don'ts' for his pupils. The prohibi-
ton that will attract most attention
is Don't take Christ's command to
give to the poor literally. 1t was new
er so intended. Give them sympathy
and advice, but keep your money in
your pocket unless you get a note in
return and are certain of receiving
both principal and interest In other
words, harden your heart against the
pitiful appeal of poverty that begs by
the wayside. When you give dole to
destitute wretch take his note for it,
II you are sure that he has good coll
lateral When you find woman in
the last agony Of starvation sit down
beside her and .ell her that you are
sorry for her. When you meet a
man with a family distracted by des-
titution and overwhelmed by despair
sxpostuiate with him. Tell him that
he should have known better.
What do the ministers of the gos-
pei Of Christ think Of the billionaire's
Bible of don'ts? Readers Of this
quaint new Bible will find themselves
in a highly appreciative frame of mind
when they turn back to the old prig-
inal Bible and read that Jesus said it
was harder for camel to go through
tha eye of the needle than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom Of heaven.
And this saying Of Jesus is no longer
edifacult" when we know that many
Commentators agree that the Eye Of
the Needle was "a gate in the forth
fed wall Of Jerusalem, so small that
IN order to pass through it q camel
had to be unloaded.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

The health inspectors have been en-
powered to inspect the free lunch coun-e
ters. I. is needless to say that this
kind of work will be in the nature of
en- entire novelty to them. The pure
food law includes beverages. How
about ar official corps of beer sam
plers?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

The legislature i'll British Columbia
is wrestling with resolution, intro
duced by a Socialist member, to inn
peach the lieutenant governor Of the
province How did that Socialist get in
such an eminently respectable body?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

Herbert Kennedy, the mayors secre-
tary, was kissed by old Mrs. Rachel
Kivel when he wrote her permit to
sell notions on the street. Herb is fur
lively hoping that few younger
women may go into the notion
business.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

Professor Agassiz, at the age of
seventy-two, is about to go to Africa
to conduct an exploring expedition.
He and Grover celevland are the two
spryest septuagenarians on earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

California lawyers concocted the
longest hypothetical question ever pre-
pared in order to be answered by an
expert on the witness stand. Let New
York look to her laurels.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

A Glendale roadhouse keeper Shot
himself Jus. for fun" Some people
have extraordinary ideas regarding
humor. but this mans capped the eli
max.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

Civil service rules will govern the
appointment of the officials who win
take the mex, census. Men who see
double are ineligible.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
The Bio Stick

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald has summed up the
varied activities OF the big stick in an
acrostic. Here it is: President Roose-
welt has used the Zig stick on:
Tale bearers In the navy.
Horses in the army.
,Exaggerators of facts in both.
Brownson who was Childish"
Interiors who didn't obey.
Generals who don't cooperate.
Ships that are faulty
Troops that are lacking.
Informers that are "mendacious"
Cliques that are numerous.
Kickers that abound.
Commander Of the solace.
OFFICERS too fat to ride.
Magazines that exaggerate
Experts who disagree.
Sailors who grated prize money.
Desk warriors who love ease.
Officers who exaggerate.
Writers who make fun of riders.
Naval bureaus that quarrel
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

Ruef says that the story about his
projected escape was a joke. That may
be; but his actual escape would be no
joke.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

The Chinese New Year celebration
will begin Saturday. In the vast range
of Chinese chronology, the Christian
era is a mere incident.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

world was too small. why don't the
airship people invent the long distance
cruiser through space that viii annex
Mars2
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
only Shovel Sunshine

A respected citizen of Rochester.
N. Y, fell dead from over-exertion
shoveling snow. No parallel case has
been reported in Los Angeles this win
ter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

General Hempartzoomian BoyadJian
is in New York. Now when Vera Fed
erovina Kommisarjewskaya, the young
Russian actress who seems to nave
made a name for herself, meets ner
distinguished compatriot - but we
shudder to think of the fate of the
introducer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Descendant of John?

Senator Philander Knox says that he
once received a prize for committing
to memory one thousand verses Of the
Bible.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

Jay G. Rodgers. the University Union
man, says that science is another
gospel.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Iowa on the Hoo

An Iowa hog has been sold for &c.,
ooo And yet there are persons in
the goou ole corn state who insist ON
leaving the farm to go into politics.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Both Positive and Negative

Carrie Nation says she would re-
main in retirement if it wasn't FER
those awful cigarettes. There is no
doubt the paper pipe drives people
crazy-whether they smoke them or
not
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31

South Africa complains that it is be-
irg overrun by Asiatics. Looks as if the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Can't See the Joke

The Prince ot Monaco has repudiated
his sons gambling debts. The prince
evidently has no sense of humor.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
No Kick About This

The game of football puts about $780,
COO, 900 per annum into circulation. Sets
the money ball a rolling, so to speak.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Now a Heroine

A Chicago woman acquitted on a
murder charge will make a living by
posing for sculptors and artists.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
This q No Pipe Dream

Andrew Carnegie will buy church
organ for Pasadena. Since Andrew
forsook bagpipes for organ pipes.
music has fiourished in the U. s. A.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Roekabye Treesl

The city forester says that Los An
geles should have a city nursery. A
city nursery will necessitate city
nurse. At this rate arboriculture will
not long be an almost lost art in Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
cupidity

.sTis Love that makes the world so
round--?"
Oh, notion old and funny
The modern cupid's mostly found
Engaged in matri-MoNEY
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
Is He Kept Busy9

is He Kept Busy?
The University Of Southern Califor-
MIA has a students paper. and that
paper has an athletic editor" What
does he do? Punch "l1ickers"?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
A Suggestive Text

A very irreverent youth says that the
forester should preach sermon on
the text, "I See Men as Trees Walk
ing" Suggestion declined with scorn.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-02
In the Planting Season.

S. F. Hood, of the Department of Az riculture, at a dinner where he was the guest of honor, told seasonabIe agricultural story, story that should appeal to all suburbanItes.
 "One beautiful spring morning." he began, "a suburbanite looked suspl- clously over his hedge and said to his nelghbor:
 Hey, what the deuce are you bury. ing In that hole thereT
 'The neighbor iaughed-a harsh, bit. ter laugh.
 "'Oh,' he said, I'm just replanting some of my nasturtium seeds, that's all'
 'Nasturtium seedsp shouted the first man, angrily. It looks more like one of my buff Leghorn hens
 "'Oh, that's all right the other re- torted. The seeds are inside '"-New York Tribune
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-02
The Drawing.
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~oNONOoO0~

The captive was to all appearances living the last moments of his life. With rope about his neck, the limb of tree In close proximity, and the crowd of excited miners, gamblers and pros pectors surging round him, he stood, fearlessly, quiet and resigned.
 The leader of the mob was speaking
 Boys, this critter Is about to de Not because he shot man, not because he killed half dozen men, or Is a brigand No, because he has done what no man In this section of the country would do had he any spark of the stuff we are supposed to have lost on our entrance to the West in hlm-honor He has been convicted by common as sent as a hoss thief. To be hoss thief In the section of the country where we are is to be the lowest thing a man an he ain't man at that-can be- ain't got much to say, and l ain't taking long to say 1t, but he's got to suffer he penalty of his crime"
 Finishing his speech amid the roar of the mems voices, be stepped from the log on which he was standing and ad- dressed the man:
 If you know any prayers, mister, say them cause you won't have long