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Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
CAMPAIGN BUTTONS

q TRAVIS show which way the wind
~ is blowing therefore what at first
~ sight may be mistaken for minor
or trifiing indications of the direction
of the political breeze are worthy of at
tention, because they may be the re-
liable signs for which we are all agog.
The campaign button men are already
placing their orders at the factories,
and although in order to be on the safe
side they arrange combinations, yet
they have always first and second
choices. on which they give heavy or
ders, taking a risk of loss If the COM
ing convention should disappoint them.
The button makers have picked Taft
for first choice on the Republican side
and Hughes for second choice. The
favorite for Democratic first place is
Bryan. Johnson of Minnesota is second
choice.
The king of all the button men is
Bim of New York. His complete name
is NJ. F. Bimberg, but he seldom uses
it. Mr.. BIN has made huge fortune
out of buttons, and if he had not been
l1e iiiOSl dCCuTdlc pOiiltSdi AOiCSdSNCA
in the United States he might have
lost heavily. If his success were at
tributable to lucky guess work then It
would be sheerly miraculous, because
in 1896, when Mckinley and Hobart
were nominated, he was there on the
spot with the buttons. At the nomina-
ton of Mckinley and Roosevelt, BIN
once more was as accurate as IL he
had the second sight, and when Roose-
Welt and Fairbanks were nominated,
there was BIN, on the spot once more,
with Roosevelt buttons and Fairbanks
buttons, as If he had the ticket and the
program all fixed up in advance. The
fact is that Bimberg is a shrewd political
observer and calculator. He keeps In
touch with conditions, has scouts in the
field and is as well posted as any news
paper or news bureau. Indeed, he Is
frequently better posted than any Of
the ordinary sources of information,
for he has all of these. the newspapers
ETC., at his command, and has in addi-
tion his tips from the various lines of
communication and avenues of accu-
rate political prediction that he has
himself arrange.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
AMENDED RACE TIP LAW

HHE fact is notorious that the anti
race tip ordinance which was re-
\ Gently passed by the city council
is defective, and that is why it has been
violated almost daily with impunity.
The men who prey on the amateur
gamblers Of the city have found ways
and means of lodging the form chart
ordinance, and II is being violated in
manner that makes it impossible for the
city attorney to take legal action. The
present ordinance is supposed to pre-
vent publication of any alleged
prophesy regarding the probable result
of any race. AS matter of fact it does
not. Small sheets are being published
in the city which are sold at an excess
slve price to race track patrons. and
various devices Of printing and make
up have been adopted by which a dope
sheet is still dope sheet. although it is
more difficult for the uninitiated to get
the alleged 'benefit" of the information
IL is supposed to convey.
According to the new ordinance,
names of horses must be printed in al
phabetical order and in uniform type.
1t will be illegal to set the name of
probable winner in onA kind of type, the
name OF second in smaller or otherwise
distinctive type. etc. The publication
of any foreign or extraneous matter in
connection with lists of entries will be
forbidden. 1t will be against the law
to print betting prices or index num-
bers referring to past performances.
either before or after race. No COM
ments of any kind, tending even re-
niotely to convey information as to
probable results in impending races or
races in the distant future, will be al
lowed. Another section will make 1t
unlawful to print the results of morn
ing gallops or any other record of time
made by n horse unless in q regularly
announced and attended race. The
penalty clause of $500 fine or six
months imprisonment or both will be
retained.
The law may now be binding and ef
fective, and If it should so prove and
should be enforced, dull times are
ahead for the men who leech the fol-
lowers of the ponies.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
IDLE WAR TALK

HHE statement of Bishop Hendrick
that there will be no war between
n the United States and Japan If
the initiative rests with Japan should
put an end to jingoism in the United
States. The bishop says war talk is
preposterous or the face of IT. but if
any one wishes to go into details. here
tcey are: Seventy per cent of Japan's
exports come to this country. Japan
cannot live without the United States.
Why should she quarrel with her mar
ket? Japan is finacially crippled but
determined to recuperate. She would
not risk going from bad to worse by
undertaking an expense as colossal as
that of a war with a power like the
United States. And here is the
"clincher," even if the Japs wished to
go to war with this country. they could
not borrow the money, and they have
no other way of raising funds.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
TO PUBLISH BOOK ABOUT
"THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
Mrs. N. A. Janney of Los Angeles Fol-
lows Suggestion Of Famous
California Libra
rian

One of the greatest works concerning
womankind is to be published by Mrs
N. A. Janney of Los Angeles, who will
entitle the production Portrait Gallery
of American Women"
This publication, in fifteen volumes,
combining the work of associate artists.
scholars and patriots, gives the history
of American womanhood from the days
of the colonies to the present
One of the features of the work will
be manuscript essays by famous men
and women, preserved on parchment
and written in India ink. The facsim-
Ills of these originals will be Of great
historical value and the patrons edi-
tion," containing them, will thus be
of untold worth historically. If Los
Angeles outbids the rest of the state
for this editions the city Will own 1t
and students may gain access to the
records.
Mrs Janney says the idea originated
with Mrs. Martha Patten Owen, at one
time deputy state librarian at Sacra-
mento and the widow of the late J. J..
owen, founder and builder of the San
Jose Mercury.
United States Senator George c. Per-
kins has done much toward the sue
cess OF the enterprise by his friendly
co-oDeration.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

Justice Rose refused to accept a
wife's payment of her husbands fine.
He said that 1t was not right that she
should suffer for her husbands Of
fense. and sent him to jail for five
days. Certainly it was not right that
she should suffer, but when the justice
refused her money the wife "bade her
husband good ty with tears in her
eyes" Here is one of the cases where
United States justice, even when he
is of long-headed Scottish descent, can
sympathize with Solomon upon several
notable historical judicial occasions and
can wish for some of the wisdom of
the wisest king. A true woman always
suffers for her husbands offense,
whether he is merely fined or sent to
prison. That's the pity of it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
PRETTY GIRL TELLS
CUSTOMER SECRETS
OF HER PROFESSION
Gives Away Large Amount of Informal
tion, and Is Surprised When
She Learns Identity of
Stranger

"Want your finger nails manicured?"
asked the pretty girl in the barber
shop. --latest style, suppose?"
"Style?" said the astonished custo-
mer. 'Well, I've been having girls
around barber shops manicure my nails
for years, and this is the first time
I ever heard of style In connection
with the operation.
Perhaps that was because the girls
did not know their business-or per-
haps you were too busy talking your
self to give them a chance?" respond
ed the girl, and looked up with such a
sweet smile the sting of the retort was
blunted.
"Well, either might be correct" said
the customer leaning back In his chair
in an easy manner and stretching his
hand across the table. go ahead and
tell me about the styles"
well, you see, styles change every
year In manicuring, just the same as
they do in hats and dresses" said the
manicurist. For instance, last year
nails were cut V-shaped-that is, they
came to point and were supposed to
be kept we'll polished"
"Muh-huh.s said the man, "and how
do they go this year?"
well, this season they are cut
round" said the girl, gazing critically
at one of the nails and then shipping
a piece off with her scissors. THAT is,
they cover the end of the finger, but
are round like the edge of a saucer
you know what I mean?"
"Sure," said the man as he tossed
her the half dollar in pay for the op
Grafton. With it came a card which
the young woman glanced at and
looked up in surprise. 1t read:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

or sixty years ago." He
believes this is primarily due to early
training, which is devoid of religious
teaching. The cardinal has lived long,
travelled far and seen a great deal,
and doubtless his observation is as
nearly authentic as any to be had.
Probably the two great moving
causes for this lack of respect for re-
ligion which he deplores are the CEN
tralization of population and the edu-
cational system of the country. Cities
and large towns, which have increased
in population away beyond the ratio
of growth obtaining in rural districts,
present distraction, attractions and di-
versions which inevitably lure both
young and old, and they neglect the
opportunities Of religion for the bright
face of pleasure or the pursuit of
profit. Not only that, but the many
demands upon ones time in the city,
the constantly increasing pressure un-
der which men work either to live or
to advance, too often render people
Indifferent to the claims of the church
and the Scriptures. says the San Jose
Herald.
Then, too, there are our public
schools, our colleges and academies.
Having perfect freedom of religion,
with every passing year there is a
more determined effort to cut out all
religious training in these institutions
with the idea of averting a possible
clash of ereeds. The Bible must go
out of the schools lest 1t teach some
doctrine that is offensive to a part of
the population. There must be no real
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

who had worn out his welcome and who
finished himself by asking:
'Ah! Mr.. Field, why do you have
wire netting in your window?">
ITO enable me to resist the constant
impulse to jump to ten stories when l
am bored"
"Awl very clever, Mr. Field" COM
mented the Englishman, squaring him
self for protracted stay.
''But it is detachable" retorted Field,
with annoyance, "and am about to re-
move it,
History doesn't record that the
stranger "saw the point" but let us
assume that he did.
The best practical joke Field ever
played was upon his discoverer and ex-
ploiter, Melville e. Stone. During the
Columbian world fair, a disttii1 s iiiisisie 4 &
group of European journalists and dip
lomats had expressed a wish to visit
the office of the Chicago Daily News,
and date for their coming had been
set.
When the party arrived and the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Nature FakersI

Man students in the psychology class
of Prof. William Waugh of the Uni
versity of Chicago have petitioned their
professor to forbid tho wearing of pic
ture hats by girls in the class room.
They say the forests of wells and
plumes interrupt their gaze upon the
professor and cause them to funk. Is
this a jest? DO they really want to
see the professor?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

The $5O,OoO,0OO issue of New York city
AZ per cent bonds. the largest lot ever
offered for public subscriptions, was
oversubscribed six times. A Morgan
syndicate took the entire issue. Is it
any wonder that ]. Pierp. is beginning
to regard the big metropolis as a mere
appendage to his banking business?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

An English resident of Los Angeles
says that by taking thought one can
Danish gray hair from his head. The
trouble is that some fellows might
think SO confoundedly hard that they
would think themselves bald and their
last state would be worse than their
first. And isn't 1t Shakespeare who
says, Better endure the hair we have
than go off on a fy-by-night expedi-
ton in search of some other that we
know not OFF,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
TRUE HAPPINESS

have had my share OF pleasure
And happiness and JOY
Recollection can treasure
OF some bliss without alloy,
If you ask me for the sweetest
That in memory abide,
I reply that joys completest
When the laugh is on my side.
When in some brisk alteration
With man Of nimble wit,
In the common estimation
/ have scored lovely hit,
With a thrill OF rapture shaken,
How a fellow swells with pride
When he sees his point well taken
And the laugh is on his side!
There is nothing, I consider,
That can ecstasy evoke
Like the shout that greets the kidder
When he springs his little Joke.
It's thing 1 banker after,
I will not attempt to hide,
l just love a roar of laughter
When the laugh is on my side.
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

The Elks' national convention will
come to Los Angeles in 1909, other
things being equal and the world still
a-spinning. But it ont come for a
whistle. All who are interested, whether
they are Elks or just the plain, dear
people, should begin to devise ways
and means of enticing the gentle Elk
to cavort hither and browse in our sue
culent orange groves.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
coIearove Cruelty

MADAM, 1 am hungry. Can you
pass out something in ths line Of chops
or steak?'
Eyes, there's about 300 stakes you
can drive along that line of sweet peas,
and here's the AK, you can split about
a cord of those dry eucalyptus blocks.
Take your choice, chops or stakes"
But Wraggles had fed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
cloud skImmers

Miss e. Laura Todd Of New York
has designed an airship and declares
society is likely to take up aeronautics
stronger than ever next summer.
There are plenty OF high flyers in
Gotham's 400. She ought to win.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

Whisky. the race track and forgery
ruined young man from st. Louis.
Such a combination would wreck a
young man from Philadelphia. What
chance had the unhappy westerner?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Back to the Grub pile

A greyhound sold by Michael Ryan
in Oakland to a man in Western Mon
tana in December found it's way back
home more than 1900 miles distant.
They don't have much to eat away off
up in Montana.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
MWIIIiamD in Bic Type

Kaiser Wilhelm uses a visiting card
six inches long and four inches wide.
Is this to enable him to get the full
title on in small type?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

Orange grove land is In good demand.
California fruit is California indus
try that is recognized and appreciated
all over the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

or grub or any other cause which
would remove that plant for a single
season. That which feeds indiscrim-
inately on all plants will find abundant
sustenance. That whose stomach re-
ceives vegetable or animal food with
equal favor has a still better chance
of surviving; and that which can catch
the most various sort of prey is more
apt to have prey always at its COM
mand than that whose powers In the
chase, whose courage or whose strength
can overtake or overcome only the most
slow moving or weakest animals. Man,
the most perfect of animals. and the
one who in the present conditions of
the earth could survive all others, has
attained to his position of mastery
largely because he is, of all animals,
the most omnivorous, writes Michael J.
Dee in the Pacific Era
OF all the varieties of man the Asiat-
ic, and especially the Chinaman, is
most diverse in his food. All is meat
to him-animal or vegetable, in the air.
on the earth or in the waters under
the earth. He can gorge himself with
joy on the abundant meat diet of the
EngliShman; he can dine comfortably
and happily upon a brace of mice, or
exc out life for weeks upon few
handfuls of rice. And all the time he
can work without ceasing. He can
pack more of his kind upon an acre of
ground than any New York tenement
life can show, and live there In what
he regards as tolerable comfort. In
this he has precisely the same advan-
tage over the white man as the Euro
pean had over the original Inhabitants
of this country and as the Englishman
had over the natives of Australia.
1t is really, therefore, those charac-
teristics of the Asiatic which we most
despise and which we regard as consti-
tuting his inferiority to ourselves-the
miserable little figure. his pinohed and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Joke for Posterity

Beck-Those ancient Egyptians were
the mad wags.
Peck-where's any record of merry
jests perpetratet by them?
Beck-They made the face of the
silent Sphynx resemble that of a
woman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

A man says that telepathy com
PEELED him to do murder. Gracious!
Has the progress of science invented
another excuse for killing?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

Mark Twain says his health has been
improved. His friends hope that his
financial health is better than ever.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

Some men are born bristlebacks.
Here's a Philadelphia man who has
twenty aff1nities.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Equipped

Crouch-I don't see why you think
old Rocks will make success in poll
tics.
Grouch-Didn't he make a million in
the lime business?
Crouch-Yes. but what If he did?
Grouch-Well. he's right there with
the brush when 1t comes to the white
wash stage.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Ready Repartee

Half shaven and in his stocking feet
the commuter answered the door bell.
I'm calling on the Christian families
of this vicinity" said a lean youth, ex-
tending his empty hands to show 40
deception was intended.
81 see you are. Your next move will
be to draw a third edition of the Life
Struggles of John Bunyan' from wide
pocket concealed inside your coat You
will then proceed to tear off a line Of
talk about the necessity of every family
having one."
Nothing like that at all, old sport.
I've a book entitled Our Duty to the
Heathen.' I do no personal work
among the heather. I'll give a copy to
your neighbor.'
And the heather ragged.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
PROF. N. L. CUTTER,
Instruction in Manicuring
and Hairdressing.

And the customer passed out of the
door with a grin.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Bought Them on Tick?
Too Many Good Things

Charge Tor the guns he said"
Tennyson.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17

ARDINAL GIBBONS, while
visiting in Boston, is quoted
as saying that "the people
of America are today show
ing less respect for religion
than did the people of fisty
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
GENE FIELDS PRIZE JOKE
ON THE FOREIGN JOURNALISTS

rGENE FIELD was RESPONSE
BILE for a great many practical
jokes, but they were always
redeemed by the merit of or
iginality and perfect good
humor. Not long ago 1 re-
.~Aa@A1 l. - A. 4. "a
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
Artists Are Flush

An esteemed contemporary printed a
portrait of a "well known young So
ciety girl" Saturday and proudly
announced that the picture was
"sketched by John Coxen while hand
ing the money to the clerk" Consid-
ering the difficulties under which the
artist must have labored his effort sis
highly commendable. Anyway, it was
generous of John to pay the young
woman's fine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
CHINESE HAVE ADVANTAGE
ENsFEGEET FOR EXISTENCE

CONSPICUOUS factor in the
battle of life is omnivorous-
ness, or diversity of feeding.
That animal which has but a
single plant. for instance,
which it can use for food
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
RSpA..RKi:'s..s. !. /
=: ,FRoM ANN.
|LvE:. !. WIRE,
Pretty Soonly

Pretty soonly
Golfers alleged Jap, "Hashimura
Togo" has this to say-in ragtime--
about California and the Japanese:
1--WE are taking all Japanese
off of California.
They will go to Japan;
They will go to Satsuma;
They will settle themselves on Korea
And less disgusting parts of China.
Pretty soonly
All will be depart from California;
Then who
To general housework, table wait, man.
ufacture salmon in cannery. fruit
pick, employment bureau and other
useful exercises for good of populus
ity together,
Where is them dear Japanese
Went to?'
And Dai Nippon with far-gone wheeze
will distant reply,
Away from here;
Away from the brickbat
And other educational features.
Japanese has came to America
To learn things.
They has learned them and went"
d
Trials VS.. Tribuiatlon
"This world Is full of trials" re-
marked the preacher.
"Sure thing" agreed CRATER. "but
what of 1t? They's blamed few of 'em
ever lead to conviction"
-&
Wouldn't This Chill Your
Native Son-How did you leave the
weather back east?
Tourist-Well. it seemed to be a case
of many are cold and a few are frozen.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-25
METHODISTS WANT LEASE
TO TENT CITY CANCELLED
Ask to Be Put In Possession of Prop
erty at Huntington Beach, Ale
Ieging That Contract Has
Been Violated

SANTA ANA, Oct. 24.-The Hunt
ington Beach Methodist assembly to-
day filed suit against the Huntington
Beach Tent City company for an order
of court canceling the lease OF the
property occupied by the latter, and
for writ of possession to be issued
to the sheriff of Orange county order
ing him to place plaintiff in immediate
possession.
The property in dispute consists of
some thirteen acres of land just north
of Huntington Beach proper, which
was donated to the Methodist assem-
bly, under certain conditions by the
Huntington Beach company. On this
was erected an auditorium which for
three or four years has been used dur
ing the annual campmeetings held
there by the Methodist association OF
Southern California.
Later the Methodist assembly leased
the premises to the Huntington Beach
Tent City company for the purpose of
conducting and maintaining a tent
city. This year the tent city company
allowed the Huntington Beach high
school district the use of the auditor
ium until a new high school building
could be completed, and the complaint
alleges that the lease given the tent
city company was broken and disre-
garded.
Another suit was filed today by the
Methodist assembly against the Hunt
ington Beach high school district and
the directors of the high school,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-25
Drink Nothing but Dl7 tilIedWater
If You Wish to Be Healthy
, and Ward Off Old Age"
Statement made by Or. Leon Ebert Aandone
before the members of the Hundred year
club.

In a recent lecture before the mem
hers of the Hundred Year club DR..
Landone made the following state
ment:
1.-THE only water to drink is dis
titled water. Mineral water only adds
to the mineral deposits in the body;
filtered water contains disease germs
and boiled water, instead of being an
aquarium, is a morgue. Distilled water
is the only solvent of minerals
This is unquestionably true. Every
one should drink only pure water. and
distilled water is the only absolutely
pure water.
Our city water contains considerable
amounts of minerals which cannot be
separated from it by any mechanical
means. These minerals are harmful
a fertile cause of rheumatic and kid
ney troubles.
The only reliably safe drinking water
obtainable in this vicinity. is Puritas
Distilled Water. 1t is absolutely pure.
It is full of life and sparkle, being
thoroughly aerated with pure ozone.
Puritas is bottled with great care
in clean glass demijohns. 1t reaches
you pure and If the demi1ohn IS care
fully corked when not in use, 1t VIII
remain pure until the last glassful OF
water is consumed.
Puritas is inexpensive. Five gallons
cost but 40c. Just telephone us, Elk
change s, either telephone, and we will
see that you are supplied promptly.
Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage COM
pany.