Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-26

IES3s1SSaI HE conspiracy in the west and
IW<%MA south of ireland to drive the
IN HGM graziers from the land continues
Ia WSl in deadly earnest and there
~ (MI have been new phases to the
l1s agitation during last week. The
law in some parts of the country is
practically dead letter, witnesses and
jurors are terrorized and the law is
powerless.
Savage attacks have been made upon
postmen suspected of having letters to
deliver which were believed to contain
writs. They were set upon and the
letters were stolen. In some cases the
letters were taken from the postmen by
men disguised as women and some
postmen have been boycotted, intimi-
dated and mobbed by men armed with
spades, four-pronged forks and turf
cutters. In several cases murders would
have occurred had it not been for the
Intervention of the police.
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The report of the medical officer for
the county of London, dealing with the
health of a population of 4,721,217 for
the year 1906 shows a decrease in the
death rate by 30 per cent since the
passing of the public health act of 1891.
London's death rate in 1906 was 15.1
per thousand, lower than any town in
England over 100000, except Bristol
and Leicester. This rate also is lower
than that of Paris, st. Petersburg, Ber-
lin, Vienna, Rome, Copenhagen or New
York
After having spent half of his life in
prison, under police supervision, man
of the name of Pasquale, aged 40,
through the death of an aunt, has be-
come the owner of a great fortune and
the proprietor of villas at Como and
Gravedona.
While working in the prison colony on
tn island of Lampedusa, news came
of the death of his aunt. On being re-
leased Pasquale married widow with
one son. He passed the first days of
his liberty luxuriously at Como. but
soon became homesick for Lampedusa,
where he returned and completed his
honeymoon within sight of his former
prison.
His first action on receiving the
money from his aunt's will was to send
to Lampedusa a great clock which
chImed the hours He says the prison.
ers sometimes found that the dark,
unbroken silence of the nights which
were almost unbearabe would have
been greatly relieved IL they could only
know how many hours were yet to be
passed before daylight.
In 1.-THE Appreciation of Literature"
George e. Woodbury. has written half
dozen chapters which 1t would be well
for all young people to read befof2 map
ping out a course of readingA Prof.
Woodbury. does not believe in TIL high
school and collegiate method of sr1dy-
| ing literature. He pleads for the read
| ing which brings culture. and not for the
reading that merely ends in knowledge.
So, after a general study of first princi-
pies In the appreciation of books, he
takes up lyrical, dramatic and narrative
poetry, fiction and practical suggestions
in The choice of books. He is particular
| ~ emphatic in his plea for the cultiva-
ton of the power of approaching poetry,
which he well says is dying out among
| Americans
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DR.. Paul Carus, editor of the Open
Court has brought out four new scien-
tifc studies, which have been issued by
is own publishing company They are:
1.-THE Rise of Man." sketch of the origin
of the human race, illustrated with some
remarkably suggestive photographs; 1.-THE
Story of Samson and Its Place in the
Religious Development of Mankind also
illustrated, and two Chinese studies en-
titled "Chinese Life and Customs" with
illustrations by Chinese artists. and
"Chinese Thought" an exposition of the
main characteristic features of the Chi
nese world conception.
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The initial volume of Leading Ameri-
can Soldiers" by Prof. r. M. Johnson of
Harvard university, is out. For the
Revolutionary period he has chosen
washington and Greene; for the period
extending from the Revolution to the
civil war. Andrew Jackson, Zachary Tay-