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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14
Lot lat 39c a ward

Contains t4nch Black Mohair Siciilan. Former re-
Ill price. 53c "A
"t-nch Atwood Abatross. retaled a JOG a yard
3s-inch Aii-wool Storm Serses in all colors. Mo-
hairs all the desirable shades; Pana,nas
Former selling price SOC yard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14
SHADOW SILK,
! &c yd. |

\ very light weight. firm
lining that is very popular
as foundation for thin
summer dresses.
Monday you can have it a
great deal less than il rcgu-
larlv sells for.
1t is 80 inches wide.
All colors and fast black.
Make note of this bargain
offering and look it up Mon
day.
First Floors Kann. Sons & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

CLUNY LACES AND INSERTINGS:
white or ecru; to inches wide and in beau
tiful designs. Worth Ioc to zoe ward
Choice tomorrow of any in this lot L,<.
VENICE AND FILET LANDINGS;
exceptional offering, including some new adj
vance patterns; 2 to inches wide: choice
OF white butter or ecru. Worth up to 6oc
yard. Any in this lot tomorrow, at. *.
FILET LANDINGS; in white and ecru
and really the most popular trimming of the
season; 21z to-5 inches wide many patterns,
Worth up to CSC yard. Tomorrow, Q.
choice at. Observation-Disclosures. w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

ERES sale without in of
Washington il
in ofndvI
AandB-
and and A. A. And these sizes
will be found all
chief, IoI5 B13 and
leather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

Bring the children and have
them fitted at the same time YOU
get your own fitted. ed floor
The earlier you come the better
the selection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

100 pieces of Plain and Fancy
Norstcd Suitings. II, every inlaSi-
nable style and color: IS 10 40 inches
wide; all new spring goods. For
mer retail price. yard, Jnc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

Womens White Cafskin
buckes Tan Ca1kn Button Oxfod. with white Kid
fod white calf Colo
Pumps all feathers leather bows:
let Ties Button Oxods OF kinds
The styles i'll those children that
suitable juvenile shiny dull and kid feathers
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
COMMON SENSE

VIZ nth great shrewdness the st.
w Louis ost-Dispatch says that
John Bull is looking over his
Japanese assets and finds them dis
appointing. It adds that there will be
no yellow peril till there is yellow
treasury The great Hebrew banking
houses which, beyond any reasonable
doubt, have far more control over Brit
ish politics than most British politi-
cians-the banking houses that sug-
gested to Joseph Chamberlain that the
free production of gold in the Rand
and the Transvaal was necessary to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. great and good
agents of progress and reform believe
that to back Japan in any more milf
tary projects would be wildcat finan-
ciering. Having used the Nippon ma
ton in order to be avenged upon Rus
STA for the sake of the Hebrew race
they decline to foster any japanese
ambitions for the conquest of the Pa
ciflc. We would not worry over the
alleged japanese menace if we would
think right down to the hard-pan of the
situation. That the British govern
ment has had fifty years of unlnter-
rupted success as world power is
due in great measure to the Hebrew
bankers. We have enough Hebrew
bankers in the United States-Kuhn.
Loeb and Schiff and thousands of 9TH
ers-to warrant the belief that under
no conceivable circumstances would a
British government aid and abet
an attack by Japan upon this country
Even if British statesmen desired such
a disturbance of the peace the finan-
ciers would stand stubbornly in the
way. But that the statesmen should
desire it is unthinkable. They don't
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
ASKS SQUARE DEAL FOR LOS
ANGELES LETTER CARRIERS

LOS ANGELES, Jan 2S.-[Editor
HERALD: l wish to express to you the
appreciation I feel In the position taken
by The Herald on the political situa-
lions which now confront the public
and the excellent editorials which APP
pear in it's columns. Los Angeles is to
be congratulated on having a good,
clean Democratic paper.
/ am a tourist, and after an absence
of three years I am amazed at the
rapid growth and improvements which
everywhere meet my gaze. 1t seems,
though, that in some ways the city had
outgrown the capacity of some people
to keep up with the march of progress.
In particular, your postoffice service
is as bad as 1 have ever seen in any
city. In fact, 1t would be hard to find
in any metropolitan city methods as
crude as 10 found In your postoffice.
A letter coming day late--I should
have had 1t late the preceding day.
asked the carrier why 1t was not deliv-
cred earlier He said: II know; ! had
il Yesterday, but owing to an extra
amount of mail. ! did not have time to
deliver it, so took it back to the office"
"Cuuld YOU not have strained a point
and delivered a few more, even If it did
take few moments of your time
extra?'' yes he replied, land been
fined for 1t. My salary does not allow
any such drain" Now this is all right
II such rule exists for all employees.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29

Butt heard a conversation on
street car. which gave me something to
think about.
Two postoffice clerks were discussing
in no uncertain terms the system in
the Los Angeles postoffice which com
PEELED clerks during holidays to WORK
twelve haurs at a stretch
Bearing in mind the mail carrier
story of being fined if he worked over
eight hours, I took the liberty of ask
ing those men if it were true that they
in a busy season, worked twelve hours
and the carriers only eight. They said
this was So But why this distinction!
God knows" said the elder of the two.
81 don't know and no one in the service
has ever been able to figure it out. we
have no redress and so bear it until
something better turns up"
Does the United States government
know of this discrimination? Really
it does not look like very square
deal" Let somebody get busy ana
straighten out this injustice.
FAIR PLAY.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
CHILD LABOR FEDERATION
URGES CITIZENS TO JOIN

which produces it is depraved and
senseless and must go, too. The Child
Labor federation is doing all that it can
to rouse the whole nation to this
frightful evil. You can help, and you
should help. You have boys and girls
of your own; when you see them
grouped happily about the Christmas
dinner can you feel satisfied with your
self, If you do not give a thought to
the two millions of other children to
whom Christmas brings only the re-
minder that they are wage slaves?
You were a boy or a girl once, or you
are still; do you not feel a vast indig-
nation that these two millions should
be wrenched away and their immature
minds and bodies converted to ma
chimes in mine or factory? How can
your conscience feel easy so long as
this lasts, when you can help change
these conditions? AS a means to this
end enroll as member of the Child
Labor federation and urge your friends
an dacquaintances to do likewise. 1t
will cost you nothing. BY addressing
Gustavus Myers, secretary, 1889 Broad
way, New York city. you will receive.
free of expense, certificate of mem.
bership.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
One Too Many

A street car in charge of newly
appointed Irish conductor had Just leIt
the car barn for the downtown run,
Before II had proceeded many blocks
If was boarded by an inspector. This
official. after a glance at the register
and the occupants of the car, asked, IN
surprise: 'Why, OFlaherty hows this?
You have seven passengers, and the
reoister shows but six FAIRS rung up.
s'Begorra is that SOP" puzzled the
green conductor Then instantly
happy solution of the difficulty struck
him "Ciit out o. here, wan o yez! ne
shouted. "There's wan too many
vez on this carw-Harper's Weekly
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
szEcHENYrs LOOT

~ I.ADYS VANDERBILT is now
IN Countess Szechenyi pronounced
N Zeesheeny). 1t is already certain
that the Vanderbilt "catch" is not a
nobieman in the aristocratic sense OF
that term, but the wearer Of courtesy
title, a member of a big family OF
counts" only one of whom, the senior,
is entitled to the privileges that are
supposed to attend the title. What
these privileges may be is a mystery.
1t IS many years since William Make
peace Thackeray began to ridicule
Hungarian and German counts and
Polish noblemen and to jest them out
of England, where they were putting
the nose of John Bull, jr, out of joint
and walking away with the heiresses.
The counts are now fiocking to the
United States. where they have been
assured by their brethren who have
acted as scouts that rumors concerning
the vast wealth of American heiresses
are not exaggerated. So successful
have been these continental Lochinvars
of lucre that they have carried away
more American millions than would
provide lifelong employment at useful
industries for every workingman who
is now out of job and is trying hard
to swallow that lump in his throat,
heave long sigh and with wearied,
old face stand in the bread line.
The new American "noblewoman,"
Countess Zeesheeny eve might as we'll
Roosevelt the spelling of the name),
will carry with her to that obscure
land of fddling gypsies, Hungary, the
sum of $S0,000,000, all made by the
bands of American workingmen in the
toll and sweat of their faces. And cut
bono? What is the good of it? Is
there any reason to hope for anything
but repetition of an oft-told tale, the
moral of which is persistently neg
lected? Is there any reasonable ex-
pectatfon that the Laszio Szechenyi-
Gladys Vanderbilt auptials will turn
out to be more fortunate than those
Of Anna Gould, Consuelo Vanderbilt
and innumerable other wealthy Amer
lean maidens who have been sacrificed
to the titled European Minotaur?
Everyone Of these victims has gone to
her doom heavily laden with American
dollars, made by American working
men, and in every instance when the
dowry has been dissipated the wretched
creature with the tinsel coronet has
used every endeavor to provoke or to
bring about separation, or, with in
fanny even more revolving and loath-
some, the crawling creature has sur
rendered to his American dupe her
liberty and the remains of her wasted
life for a consideration in hard cash
We certainly wish health and happi-
ness to the American heiress and her
Jaybird count" with the June bug
title" But the bells that ring fol
such International weddings are gen.
orally cracked and jangle out of tune
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. HAD
A BIO SPREE OF POWER

of 1904 This question is of far greater
Importance to the south than Mr..
Bryan's ambition or anybody elses am
bition, and just so far as southern
leaders discourage the rehabilitation of
the Democratic party in the north, Just
SO far are they inviting the deluge
Mr.. Bryan is reported to have said
that If a third of the party leaders
were unfavorable to his candidacy, or
If a third of the delegates to the Den
Yer convention should be opposed to it
he would voluntarily retire. More than
a third of the Democratic leaders are
already unfavorable to his candidacy
Indeed, a large majority of them are
convinced that the greatest service he
could render to his party would be to
acquiesce in the nomination of a can
didate like John A. Johnson. who could
poll hundreds of thousands of votes
that Mr.. Bryan could not poll who
would have a fighting chance to carry
states that Mr.. Bryan could not posi-
bly, carry, and who would rehabilitate
the Democratic party even if he failed
of election.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
PuIr RruteI

The truth OF the following story is
vouched for and the moral of it is OBJ
vious. A certain rich man in Boston,
following the example of the Pittsburg
mllionaires. bought an estate in Scot
land. Unlike the Plttsburg millions
aires. he did not take counsel with that
popular land agent, wise old Andrew
Carnegie. He believed the glowing ac-
counts and poetical descriptions In
prose and verse that came to him in
every mail. and finally, after having
parted with his good American coin
and received the title deeds Of Glen
Accra, he crossed the ocean in order
that he might revel in the realization
of his expectations. He found that his
estate was twelve miles away from the
lonely little railway station at which
he finally found himself. He hired
a grim northerner in a high-wheeled
gig to drive him to his Highland home.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
GLIMMERs OF LIGHT


THE HERALD having called atten-
ton to the fact that cruel and un-
- usual punishment was unconstitu :
tional, an attorney pointed a warning
finger to a section of the penal code
which gives effect to the intention of
the constitution and provides that Off
Gals guilty of inhuman treatment of
prisoners may be punished by fine of
$4,000 and confinement in the state
prison. There was no more dillydally-
ing in action, no more shillyshallying in
words. The money for temporary Inn
provements was voted and permanent
improvements will be made in due
course of time. A closer acquaintance
with the constitution of the United
States in its application to the every
day affairs of this nation would not be
hurtful to the average office holder.
We have not yet arrived at that stage
at which all candidates for office high
or low must pass a civil service ex-
animation. That would be too Chi
nese" for the American taste. But
surely we could not be accused of ex-
cessive radicalism if we were to sug
gest that office holders should be re-
quired to know at least as much about
the fundamental principles Of Ameri-
canism as candidates for citizenship of
the United States. The tests Of the
naturaliza ton bureau might be admin
istered to most of our minor office
holders and it is not improbable that,
like President Roosevelt's riding tests,
the results might be drastic.
From time to time, and in some in
stances in unexpected quarters, appear
evidences that there are citizens of the
United States who either do not real
ize or are not troubled about the fact
that the United States should be con-
Quoted upon lines definitely laid down.
Few situations are unprecedented.
Few emergencies are not provided for.
No country on earth has had such
rich experience as ours. Uncle Sans
dominion has been to all intents vast
testing ground for human nature
Sometimes the country has erred, and
1t has invariably paid dearly for its
errors. A constitutional provision for
bidding human slavery might have
prevented the war of the Rebellion
and famous blood-bought amendment.
There are constitutional provisions in
existence that fit every phase of our
modern civilization. Human expert
ence has not been limited in the United
States, and human experience has
caused much OF our soundest lawmak-
ing. Legislation founded upon human
experience lasts. Legislation founded
upon experiment will last only If the
experiment should be justified by ex-
perience. The United States is about
to sum up many recent experiences
mostly disagreeable-and the day is at
hand when citizens will realize that the
cry for a return to first principles is
not radical clamor but conserva-
tive command.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
RACKRENT REVOLT

TN HE struggle between tenants and
landlords in New York is of ma
- tional and local interest, because
1t suggests unpleasant possibilities that
may disturb the social equilibrium
should tenants all over the United
States take it into their heads to form
associations for regulating rents. This
would parallel exactly what was done
in ireland. where governmental inter-
vention first regulated rentals and then,
in despair of arriving at satisfactory
solution of the problem by thus tenn
porizing, took the bold step of regulat-
ing the tenants purchasing power and
the landlords selling power, and of
making it possible for the tenant to
buy out the landlord and imperative for
the landlord to sci, on easy terms If
required to do so. Some people might
call this modified form of confisca-
ton, but no matter what it may be
called it has up to date worked won
ders in Ireland.
Contentment is succeeding riotous
discomfort. Agrarian outrages are sell
dom recorded. The tenant no longer
takes a day off in order to saturate
himself with potheen and go cunning
for the lord of the soil and the manor
The tenants who live in squalor in
Manhattan could for half the rental
they are forced to pay live in comfort
and in comparative luxury in Califor.
MIA. 1t is greatly to the interest of the
lords of the soil and of the tenement'
in New York to keep population in It.
present abnormal condition. The mos
densely crowded part Of the world il
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
PROVED

"a distinguished French physician has an
ornced as the result of his observation of our
ational characteristics. that Americans are
omlng to look alike News iten.)
You don't believe it? Well, it's true,
As I will shortly prove to you,
BY taking you about the place
And showing you face after face.
Come On. and will show you first
Charles Evan Hughes and Willie Hearst
As like are they as twin born peas,
As any blind man plainly sees
Next look at Chauncey NJ. Depew,
And tell me, is he Kyrle Beliew
Or Mr.. Fairbanks? on my heart,
l cannot tell the three apart!
Then there Is also Mr.. Taft
Just look him over fore and aft.
And tell me II tits really he.
Or Colonel William Jennings b.
Amongst the ladies, look around;
Z What marked resemblances are found
'Twixt Carrie Nation, fond and fair,
And Nazimova debonair.
And when Maude Adams comes along
with Nordica the queen of song.
Pray, tell me quickly. II you can,
Which one of them is>Peter Pan?
And so It goes right down the line,
There's Anna Held and Hammerstein;
And Reverend Charles IT, Parkhurst too,
The replica of Johnny Drew,
And dear old Andy Carnegie,
Who looks 50 very much like me.
That beggars stop me by the score
70 ask me for a Dinosaur.
C. V. Drake in Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
SAYS MRS. EDDY is ONLY
LEADER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

los ANGELES, Jan. 26-l i94ltor
1Iaraid1. In your issue of January 70
Alfred FarIow is incorrectly referred 10
i'm \ line over n picture as leader III
CHRISTIAN Science. AS there has heeh
considerable erroneous discussion re
gardine Christian Science leao t'shiP
AMI Mrs. Isddy's successor, the LolloW
ing statement issued by Aired !, tarloW'
manager of committees on publication
will be OF interest;
..1rhis talk about successor to Mrs.
Eddy is pure speculation, and is no more
than a rehash of a manufactured rumor
which has gone the rounds OF the press
for years. 40,
In the first place, the we'll preserved
condition of Mrs. Eddy, as recently as
covered by the public, makes the ques-
ton of a successor very huch cut VI
time.
all familiar with Christian Science must
know the impractlcally and impossible
itv of a personal successor to MIS-.
Eddy. Christian Science is already dis
covered and established, and Mrs Ed
DIV is already succeeded in large
measure by the religio- science Whlch
she teaches, and she will never nave
another successor The Christian Sci
ence church will never have any other
personal leader beside Mrs. Eddy. 1T is
n mart of the mission Of Christian Sci
enee to do away with leaders and to
teach mortals to depend upon divine
guidance. and in compliance with this
fact a bylaw of the Christian Science
church specifically provides that the
term leader" shall not be applied to
Christian Scientists in connection with
Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy, because
of her unique position as the discoverer
aud founder of Christian Science, nat
urally and necessarily becomes the
leader of the Christian Science move
ment, but the consumation of her work
will place the church beyond the neces-
sity of leaders or heads
w. e. BROWN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
HORRIBLE CRUELTY

HROM Pontiac, ILL.,, comes the hor-
n rible story of William Hamlin, an
inmate of the state reformatory,
who was beaten and tortured, chained
in an agonizing position to the bars of
the solitary cell, and. when he tainted,
chilled with ice water to make him
quit "shamming." If the reader will
consult Charles Reade's novel, Never
Too Late to Mend" he will find that
one Of it's most mastery feats of realis-
tic description relates the torture of
a young prisoner by an inhuman jailor
But that was in England fifty years
ago, and all such practices were ended
with the publication of Reade's book.
It is never too late to mend" in the
United States, and torture should be
abolished. Why not make it capital
ofrense2
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
FLOWER o. MADONNA

Mother. mother l dreamed a dream last
night
A DEAN Of beauty and loveliness bright.
Oh. dreamed that you were sweet rose-tree,
The pride on garden all fair TO See
Nay child. but common thorn brake am l.
And far from the eyes Of the world l lie.
mother. mother dreamed dream last
night,
A dream of rapture and joy and delight.
OH | dreamed that was the rose that grew
All stainless and white at the heart Of you"
Nay child. thou art but a meadow flower,
And / shelter you safe from the wind each
hour. :"
Mother. mother, dreamed dream last
night
A dream OF terro' and grief and of fright.
! dreamed that the winter with icy breath
Trom the trembling bough hurled me down to
DEATH
Hush thee. child. whatever the blast may
bring -,
Edward Wilbur Mason in National Magazine
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29
Truly Optimistic

samuel Gompers, while attending the
convention of the National Civic Fed
Grafton in Chicago, got into an arsu-
ment with banker.
At the end of one of the bankers as
sertions, Mr.. Gompers retorted gayly;
Yes. it is possible to say 9 good
word for almost any state OF things
Isn't it? l remember once, in very
untidv chophouse in Syracuse, hearing
a guest exclaim, as he took up a soiled
bill of fare:
by Jove. what an excellent idea
samples of the various dishes glued to
the menui"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29

ton may be enSIaVed Dy Il tyIdlt' ~ q
people may be enslaved by Industrial
conditions while still deluding them
selves with being free. If childhood IS
robbed of the normal advantages, tram
ing. joys, home influences and educa-
ton which rightfully belong to it, then
that is a eorm of slavery, and one OF
The worst. The chattel slave got good
treatment in childhood and in sickness;
it was to the masters interest to give
it. But the industrial slave gives up
everything and gets nothing except poor
wages: the owners have no interest III
him when he ceases to be of use.
First, childhood is stripped, degraded
and squeezed then when the boys ana
girls, by reason of this INSCRIPTIONS
exploitation are of no further service,
they are flung aside like so much ruo-
bish.
Child labor must go. 1t will go. HUI
mainly will not tolerate this dreadful
sacrifice much longer. The system
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29

The city clerk is instructed to adver-
tise for bids for a site for new city
Jail. The laudable speed with which
in the matter of the prison will no
doubt be emulated by Governor Gillett
in the matter of the S. p. rates. But
perhaps a governor sleeps harder than
a city father!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-29

Seventy Hindus employed by the S.
p. have been driven out of Live Oak
by mob" of twenty citizens. This
way of putting it is like saying that a
flock of sheep was mobbed by half d
dozen collies. And yet it explains the
mystery of British rule in over
crowded India.