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The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25
THEIR SERENE UGLINESSES

cling them a cheval and en- plein, the
croupier's warning voice rose above
the chatter, and a few seconds later
there came the announcement:
"Onze! Noir, impaire ct manque!'
He had louis en- plein. one on the
second six and one on the first dozen;
therefore, after his losses had been
raked in, he received, as his gain,
600 francs.
A look of extreme satisfaction over
spread the features of the Misses Ire
herne, and the elder scrubbed some
thing in the little silver-bound book
they had brought in which to record
their winnings.
Drummond was exceedingly lucky
that afternoon. Very soon the pile of
gold and notes before him increased,
until he deemed it wise to exchange a
few hundred louis for notes. Indeed.
in one hour the party had won 5000
francs, Mabel placing the eight notes
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

before we came out" she said at last.
I'VE lost to-day IL 900 francs in three
quarters OF an hour"
well? We can surely AFFORD that.
Remember what we won on the first
day. We must expect some losses"
What about our half a million?"
Mabel asked.
They both laughed as II enjoying
the huge joke of losing such a re-
spectacle amount.
The Misses Treherne finished their
meal hurriedly, as IL was growing late,
and went forth to the theater, while
we sat idling over our cigars and
liqueurs. chatting as men OF the same
profession are apt to chat. Some half
hour later, however, Drummond, smart
in his dining jacket and well-tied black
bow, strolled in, and. recognizing me,
crossed and sat down at our table.
"well?' l inquired; "and how's the
play going2" for the talk at Monte
Carlo is ever OF the play.
"Going?' he exclaimed, as ne helped
himself 20 a Benedictine. why, as
dead against us as II can. Those girls
are bigger fools than took them to
be. They'll fling all they've got away,
and then blame me. l expect"
Lost much?" inquired.
Nearly a hundred thousand" he an
swcred. without removing his cigar
What we've won they've banked in a
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25
help III.
ADVICE

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explain to the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con.
fidence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
help your case. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es-
tablish beyond q doubt the power of
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

Stacked In little piles before them
were about 5000 francs in louis, and
Drummond was testing his chance of
playing always on the "transversales'
OF three numbers, for which the bank
pays IL times the stake.
"Rien ne va plus!" cried the crou-
pier. as l approached.
Dix Noir pair eft manquel"
Drummond won, having a louis on
the numbers 10. IL and IL.
Eleven louis were pushed towards
him, his stake remained where he had
placed It. With a good players fore
sight, he put another louis upon the
one already on the "transversale."
Again the cylinder revolved and the
ball dropped.
"Douzel Rouge pair ct manquel"
He had won. This time he received
% louis. OF $50 francs. To leave his
stake there a third time was too
risky. SO. taking up one OF the coins.
he placed the other on the trans
versale" Of 16, IL and IS. winning
again as the last number came up.
That, however, was the last of his
good fortune. for afterwards he lost
persistently, until the whole Of the
days capital had disappeared. Then
they rose. and the two bony-face girls
strolled about discontentedly.
A week passed, and they lost heav-
fly every time they played. One even
ing l Was dining In the new restaurant
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25
PopuIous China.

The population of the Chinese en-
pire is largely a matter of estimate.
There has never been such census Of
the empire as that which is
taken every decade in this country.
But the estimate of the Almanach de
Gotha for 1900 may be- taken as fairly
reliable. According to that estimate,
the population of the empire is, in
round numbers, about 400,000,000. II
is probably safe TO say that if the
human beings on earth were stood up
in line every fourth one would be .
Chinaman.
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

in the wallet she had brought with her,
for their capital still remained intact.
Ten minutes later zero turned up,
and Drummond, with louis upon It.,
won 700 francs. With the experience
he had bought so dearly in the past.
he placed note for 100 francs on the
number nine, and one for $50 francs
on %. thus backing the two numbers
which usually follow on zero.
Rein ne va plus!" cried the monot-
onous voice.
The sisters Treherne, breathless in
expectation, strained their eyes in the
direction of the wheel, which slowly
slackened until the ball gave a sudden
bound and fell.
"vingt-sept! Rouge impair ct
passe!"
We've wont" cried Mabel, excited
ly. Isn't II jollyl"
"Cent-cinquante francs en- plein!"
exclaimed the croupier, drawing the
note towards him with his rake. The
100 francs on nine was lost but the
croupier. opening the little box before
him, took out a bundle OF 1.O00-franc
notes, counted them swiftly, folded
them together, and pushed them to-
wards Drummond with a smile of
recognition.
The captain opened them and ran
through them. The sum he had won
was over 5000 francs
He handed the higher notes TO
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

ANY are the strange phenom-
ena in our garish, fevered
world, wherein day by day
there accumulate all the ca
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

SPOHN'S DISTENIPER CURE win
cure any possible case of DISTEALPER,
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tie. Agents wanted. Free book. Spohn
Medical Co, Spec. Contagious Diseases,
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Neither.

"See here, I'm tired Of complaining
about those noises. Shall | appeal to
the police or leave it to Heaven?"
Don't say anything to the police"
replied the janitor, soothingly. Leave
it to me-"
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25
LYDIA <. PINkHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

to conquer all female diseases.
Mrs. Norman r. Barndt, of Allen
town, Pa, writes:
"Ever since was sixteen years of
age had suffered from an organic de-
rangement and female weakness; in
consequence had dreadful headaches
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
clan said must go through an opera
ton to get well. A friend told me
about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and i took IL and wrote you
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you am to-
day q well woman, and am telling
all my friends of my experience"
The Yale expositor., 1908-09-25

For thirty years Lydia K. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, f1broid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
ton. dizziness, ornervousprostration
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

a great many issues. In some cities its
newspapers issue as many as half
dozen editions in one day. But
Hearst's extras" which are issued
on the slightest provocation, are not
party issues, and we fail to under
stand what the editorial council of the
Doodle Dees means by making the
assertion an issue has been provided.
If Mr.. Hearst and his editors and other
candidates will read the Democratic
platform, they will find issues which
once upon a time they pretended to
support. Now, because their choice
was not allowed to become Democratic
candidate, they pretend they see no
issues. What Mr.. Hearst is trying to
illustrate is that he is better than any
political party.
However, the American people will
not consent to accept candidates nomi-
mated by Mr.. Hearst's convention. yell
low journalism is not a guarantee of
good faith. Such a waste of time, en-
ergy and money as that now being in
dulged in by Mr.. Hearst is unparalleled
even in the ..nnals of Bedlam. After
all, what does 1t mean? What's the
use? Perhaps the best way to treat
it Is to be good natured about it, and
to regard Mr.. Hearst in the same light
in which Mr.. Artemus Ward regarded
his famous pet kangaroo, which, he
said, was IA amoosin' cuss."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
HAS FAITH IN DOG CATCHER
UNDER PROPER REGULATIONS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.--[Editor
Herald: Reading Dog Lovers" note
in The Herald prompts me to add my
mite to the dog discussion. I "love"
dogs, but owners Of dogs, like parents,
always think their dogs are st." and,
no matter whether they bark half the
night at nothing and keep a whole
neighborhood awake and cussing, or
whether they grab you by the leg while
walking the street, it's "all right In
the owners opinion. AS to the tax
proposition, any man who sneaks a 81
tax will sneak a 50-cent tax. It's the
disposition of the man, not the
amount
To my mind the dog catcher sys-
tenn Is a good thing, under proper
regulations and with men instead OF
buns, plugs and hoboes to carry out
these regulations. No wonder they
catch any dog in sight when there is
$6O7 in it in a little over month! VINO
wouldn't? But the great blessing the
dog catcher is to the community is the
Kidding of the city of a horde of scrag-
ely, NANCY, flea-bitten ours.
Get rid of the dog catcher and we
shall have several inspectors" dou-
BILE the number of dogs and no more
revenue, for If we are to believe the
report of Auditor Mushet, it's case
of "pay if you like" in the license de-
partment.
The way the city does its business
makes 1t the laughing stock OF those
who have lived In well-governed cltles'
and one noted man recently salu:
'TWhat this city needs is a foreman.
I hope the dog catcher will stay, put
that the grade will be improved ana
that to his duties will be added the
catching of cats. Z. a. W.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
MAYOR ATTACKED

nROsECUTING Alto RNEY
WOOLWINE asks: Are the
\ people OF this city so blinded that
they cannot see the true inwardness
of what is going on? Can any sane
man doubt the plain fact that the
mayor of this city is tied hand and
foot by the most corrupt and law
breaking element?"
In Mr.. Woolwine's opinion some of
our public officers have been temper
izing with crime and holding secret
sessions with view to arriving at
some plan by which they can evade
the enforcement of the law with the
least public condemnation. Mr.. Wool
wine says after a few days rest he
will find a. way, without the aid of
the police force, of closing some of
the more infamous of the dens which
disgrace Los Angeles.
Many citizens hope that instead of
merely closing a few of the worst
dives he will try to make his house.
cleaning general He may even find
a way to close disreputable dance halls
or to deprive some of them of their
immoral features which are their
chief attraction.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
OPPORTUNITY

TT IS now to be hoped and expected
Democracy will live UP to the fine
n opportunity presented to it of choos-
ing as candidates to represent 1t before
the people men of the highest integ-
rity, of unimpeachable character and
of good record. While of course some
undesirable characters may have been
selected, yet The Herald believes the
overwhelming majority of the conven-
ton delegates are free from machine
control, and can be depended upon to
do their duty as American freedmen,
and assert the right of the people OF
the United States to choose their own
candidates for office. We do not be-
lieve machine dictation will be tolerat-
ed, We do not believe railroad sug-
gestion will be entertained. We think
the people have had an opportunity of
seeing this matter in its true light, and
that any attempt on the part of a rail-
road corporation to interfere directly or
indirectly with the liberties and rights
of the people-for that is exactly what
1t would amount to-will be resented
as decisively as would any other form
of attempted treason. We do not
doubt the Democracy will live up to
it's opportunity Of choosing good men
and true; honest and unshackled.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
RAILROAD RATES

I T is to be hoped favorable railroad
rates will be secured for the Elks'
u convention at Los Angeles next
year. Postmaster Flint, who is the
chairman of the executive committee,
says Los Angeles will have $4,000 Wis
itors if the railroad rates are reason
able, and he has pointed out that at
the Philadelphia convention the bank
clearings for the week jumped up sew
eral million dollars. There is no rea-
son why that should not be the case
here, as the convention will be the
most successful ever held by the order.
If the railroads can be induced to CO.
operate with the executive committee.
Not only will the convention be of i'm
mediate benefit to local business, but it
will give Los Angeles one of the big
gest advertisements 1t has ever had.
This is an ideal convention city, and If
the railroads will work with public
spirited citizens there is no reason why
Los Angeles reputation as host
should not bring the greater political
conventions here.
If national political conventions were
held in Los Angeles all records for at
tendance would be broken, because
special convention excursion trains
would be run from all quarters of the
country. Another matter in which the
railroads might help, If they would,
is the proposal to hold a big open-air
athletic contest in Los Angeles. 1t
might be called the American Olympic
games and be pan-American in nature,
all the countries of the western hem
isphere being asked to compete.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
WHAT is THE L.-R. LEAGUE
GOING TO DO, HE ASKS

Los ANGELES, Aug. 12.-[Editor
Herald: Having read your pages for
some months past with critics eye,
beg to enter your sanctum and ask for
short space in your columns Allow
me to say first that for six years
have voted the Prohibition ticket and
keN close watch on reformers as
they have come and gone. Recently
have been very much interested in the
proposed reforms advocated by the
Lincoln Roosevelt league, who yester-
day went down to defeat with their
colors unfurled to the breeze.
Well organized machine politics, with
stnews of war doubtless furnished by
the Southern Pacific railroad, and
events chronicled by their co-worker,
the Los Angeles Times were too much
for party so young in years. The
question now before the thoughtful
mind is what are these Lincoln-Roo
welt leaguers going to do? They have
given it out to the public as their
aVoWed purpose to rid the body polite
of this vile incubus that has so long
stained the records of the state of
California. To kiss the hand that
smote you may have been good advice
in its day, but doubt it's applicability
in party politics, and the words of the
you on one cheek turn the other also,
may have been good advice in that
day. but it would certainly be a little
short of cowardice for the Lincoln
Roosevelt league to humbly submit to
their victors and continue the rascals
In Office. If this was a vile crowd yes
terday, 1t certainly is equally vile to-
day. 1t certainly would seem that
with all the political parties now be-
fore the people these would-be re-
formers can ally themselves with some
party more in keeping with their
avowed purposes; while to fall into line
and elect the ticket they have sworn
to defeat would be but to tighten the
chains that have long bound them to
political principles and to party lead
ers and machine domination in a way
that would guarantee political servi-
tude. In short, if the Lincoln Roose-
welt leaguers now fall into line with
the machine element of the Republican
party in the state of California and
perpetuate the same old gang in office
then they will subject themselves to
the thoughtful observer as being little
better than their victorious enemy.
In the meantime we shall wait and
see what we shall see. G. A, o.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
"a AMOOSIN' CUSS"

WI ITH the complete lack of sense
w of the ridiculous and the abso-
w lutte want of realization of pro-
portion which characterize it, the
Doodle Dee league, through its chief
doodler, makes the pleasing announce
ment the Independence party has 'at
last provided an issue In listless
campaign" adding, with Hisgen
and Graves on a platform of such
sterling worth as has been created,
the Independence party nails its flag
to an American mast, fearing no man
and cringing to no clique or clan"
This language sounds as If it meant
something, and it is a pity 1t is wasted
on the Doodle Dees, who certainly
cringe to Chief Hearst, and are as
certainly the by-products of his yell
low Journalism as it is certain Mr..
Graves-a worthy man, and in some
respects a good journalists on his
editorial payroll. Perhaps, indeed, Mr..
Graves wrote the very editorial in
which Mr.. Hearst is represented as
saying the Independence party has at
last provided an issue in a listless
campaign. For that matter, we agree
the Independence league has provided
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
BUILDING ACTIVITY

n UILDING reports of thirty-eight
X cities in the United States show
IL a marked improvement in build
ing activity throughout the country,
and this is a sure sign of an equally
marked improvement in general bust
ness conditions.
In thirty-eight cities building In July
reached the total of $SS,522,S21, repre-
senting 9712 permits. Twenty of the
thirty-eight cities show increases
ranging from to POP per cent. For the
first time this year New York city Is
ahead of last years record, which
shows the metropolis is rapidly recov-
ering its financial tone. Los Angeles
was nationally fifth on the list in point
of valuation Of buildings, but as re-
CARDS the number of buildings was
third. In number of buildings Los An
geles was surpassed only by Philadel-
phia, which, like Los Angeles, is city
of homes, and by San Francisco. More
buildings were erected in Los Angeles
than in either New York or Brooklyn.
Los Angeles is making such rapid
progress and is growing at such rate
that those who believe 1t will be the
metropolis of the west will probably
live to see their belief realized. His
tory affords no parallel case to that OF
Los Angeles, which, mainly owing to
the determination, grit and energy of
it's citizens, has been transformed from
a sleepy, quiet resort to one of the
busiest cities in the United States.
People here do not sit and wait for
prosperity. They compel it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
NOTIFICATION

TN HIS speech in accepting the NOM
nation as candidate of the Demo-
u cratic party for president of the
United States, Mr.. Bryan, in happy
phrase, struck the keynote of the CAM
paign. for verify, as he put it he is
the candidate of the rank and file."
Recognizing I am indebted for my
nomination to the rank and file of
our party" he said, land that my
election must come, If it comes at all,
from the unpurchased and unpurchas-
able suffrages of the American people,
1 promise, If intrusted with the re-
sponsibility of this high office, to con-
secrate whatever ability I have to the
one purpose of making this, in fact, a
government in which the people rule,
government which will do justice
to all and offer to every one the high
est possible stimulus to great and per-
sistent effort by assuring to each his
just share of proceeds of his toll, no
matter in what part of the vineyard
he labors, or to what occupation, pro-
fession or calling he devotes himself"
In this recognition of the right of
every American to earn a living and
care for his wife and children, Mr..
Bryan proposes exactly what The Her.
aid has said must be the popular issue
during this campaign, the protection
of the American home. Child labor,
poverty, lack of employment, are all
symptoms of a grave disorder which
threatens to interfere with real
American prosperity, home protection
and the education of our children to
be true blue Americans In their deeds
as we'll as their words. At this stage
of American development, at this
crisis in our history. the election of
Mr.. Bryan is a national necessity, and
we believe that since Goods in His
heaven and alrs right with the world"
he will win.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
CONGRATULATIONS

WE CONGRATULATE heartily the
wv Lincoln Roosevelt league on It's
gallant and memorable fight for
the right. We congratulate heartily
the plucky Democratic league, which
requires Of no supporter allegiance to
any interest but of all allegiance to
whatever is best in American free gov
eminent. We congratulate the Dem
ocratic club on the general results and
on the quality and caliber Of the men
chosen for candidates. We congratu-
late all good citizens on the fact the
delegates elected were, as a whole, good
men, who, beyond any reasonable
doubt, will measure up to their re-
sponsibilities and keep in view the good
of the people of California. A united
Democracy must work tremendously
for the best interests of the party of
Americanism. Not only every Demo-
crat, but every Independent Republican
should work and vote for the candidate
who, as president of the United States,
will represent the first principles of
Americanism. William Jennings Bryan
should receive every Democratic vote
in the land, as we'll as the vote of every
honest man who has at heart the well
fare and prosperity of the United
States, and the greatest good of the
greatest number of citizens. This year
united Democracy fights for American
ism. It is Freedoms battle. 1t Is mat
ter for rejoicing that good citizens can
unite in indorsing the men nominated
who, as a rule, were good. A very old
saying declares good trees cannot bring
forth evil fruit, therefore when good
men are chosen for any responsible
position the fact they were chosen by
this or that organization, this or that
wing of the party, Is not as important
as the fact they are men of character.
When a good man is chosen to dis
charge definite responsibility it is
cause for rejoicing, not for pausing to
emit walls over how he happened to be
selected The delegates chosen at the
primaries were, as a whole, high class.
efficient men and good citizens, who
win endeavor to do their duty zeal
ously and honorably.