Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-07
IN CURRENT MAGAZINES


de Paul society will sind REPRESENTATIVES
TO visit tn homes on tn Lake Shore
dhrive an investigate their condition
an recite tn number iv childher Twin
in thin, if amy. tn ligislachure VIII
appint a commission that will report
five or six years hence;
AZ. d. R.-Sixty-five years Nv age;
married; large family also married;
capable hard workin' millionaire; has
had ony half time at his thrade since
last year; very sad case.
"'X. Y. Z.-Retired banker; twinty-
three years old. Has completely lost
control iv both iv his railroads. Family
obliged to go to Monty Carlo FIR tn
winter. Very courageous in tn face iv
adversely. Says ivry man shud do his
part in this moment iv naytonal disas-
ter an eight autymobills is enough
durin' a peeryod iv rethrenchmint.
House in shocking condition Elicthric
ilivator broken. Ball room not busted.
Champagne corked. This is very
worthy case. Advise TIL state threas-
ury to advance him twinty millyon dol
lars as a measure iv timpry RELIEF.
Writing on american Music" in the
February Atlantic Monthly Arthur Far
we'll says:
even the severest critic of Ameri-
GAIL llluSlt-dllu illOol VI Tic ~ ANAN7 ' -
with each other for this title-cannot
deny the presence of an extraordinary
and ever-increasing creative impulse
in American musical art. While, for
reasons to be considered, few Ameri-
can works in large forms come to gem
eral public performance, and scarcely
to local. every year witnesses a nota-
BILE increase of orchestral works, cham
Der music, piano and vocal works in
large forms, and other compositions by
American composers. OF smaller piano
COMPOSITIONS and songs the seasons
bring forth an appalling quantity as
well, yet in the midst of this saturna-
liza appear many works of true dis
tinction. of breadth and beauty, works
infinitely In advance of those usually
chosen to represent American music
on artists programs. And from time
to time an American opera rises from
the composers consciousness to COM
pletion-never to performance-and
sinks again into a mysterious obscur-
ity, oblivion or temporary neglect-we
are fain to know which"
In an article on New Business
standards in Washington" C. H.
Forbes Lindsay writes in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for February:
What would be thought of a rail-
road company, a bank or publishing
house which should permit one of its
departments to purchase ink, year
after year, a. the rate of 50 per dozen
quarts while another department was
supplied with precisely the same brand
of writing fluid at the uniform price OF
$40 per dozen quarts, or of large
corporation in which the mornings
mail regularly reached the desks or
the persons for whom it was destined
not earlier than noon of the Following
day? Yet these are but illustrations Oh
practices and methods that until quite
recently prevailed in government Of
fices at Washington.
'It was the Keep commission Of
ficially known as the committee on
departmental methods, that brought to
light not only a number of startling
facts, such as the above mentioned, but
revealed at the same time errors ana
irregularities iIl method which de-
manded immediate correction in the
interest of efficient and economical
government. Many of the indicated re-
forms have already been made but
others must await the sanction OF
congress-"
The second installment of reminis-
cences of the Iu Klux khan, by Colohel
John c. Reed. appears in the FEBRUARY
number of Uncle Remus' Magazine,
giving the account of how the preslden-
tial campaign of 1868 was carried for
the Democratic candidate In Oglethorpe
county, Georgia, despite the fact that
the negroes, together with the few
white Republicans, greatly outnum-
bered the white masses. While the
article is only the account of what hap
pened in q very small part of Georgia.
it is of general interest because it gives
an idea of the power the khan exerted
throughout the south by showing what
one den accomplished In one district.
Colonel Reed writes interestingly and
without prejudice or bitterness.
Prof. S. G. Holmes. writing in The
Popular Science Monthly for February,
says:
'The instinct of feigning death is
doubtfess closely connected with much
of what has been called hypnotism in
lizards, certain snakes and many BIRDS
lizands, certain snakes and many birds
and mammals, may by a very simple
process be thrown into an inactive con-
dition from which they are not readily
aroused by external stimuli. In ordl-
harry death feigning the animal falls
into it's immobile state upon slight pro-
VOCATION a touch, or even jar Is
sometimes all that is necessary. In
the so-called cases of hypnosis more
or less manipulation is necessary Ine
exciting cause in both cases is generally
some form of contact stimulus In the
hypnotism of animals, as Verworn and
others have shown, there is diminished
reflex irritability, and usually tonic
contraction of many at least or the
Similar phenomena are OBJ
served in the death feigning of many
forms some of the insects showing a
lack of responsiveness that is truly
In a water SCORPION that
is feigning death The legs may be cut
off one by one, or the body cut in two
without eliciting the least reaction
from the unfortunate victim. We can
only speculate at present on the con-
dition of the nervous system which
makes such a result possible"
In the February McClures Miss Mil
mine resumes her Life of Mrs. Eddy,
giving the history of the schism in the
early church. Prof. William James of
Harvard sounds battle cry to the col
leges In his article, 1.-THE Social Value
of the College Bred" George Kibbe
Turner's article, 1.-THE Social Value
Learned to Fly" describes the expert
ments of inventors who have made bet
ter wings than a birds and are offering
for sale an aerial warship; William F.
Hornaday director of the New York
Geological gardens, courageously enters
the arena with an article on THE
of Wild Animals;" Ellen
Terry continues the absorbing story oil
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