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The daily Alaskan., 1909-03-17

Doubtless Standard oil folk don't care a bit whether the newspapers call 1t that $29,OOOOOO fine" or $202iO,. 900. but to the common people $2io,- 900 is not a tridc to be lost sight of.
 The motor car as 1t stands deserted and lone and listens while the four footed Steed gives 1t the horse laugh and the aviator gracefully aviates above in the ccruIean blue or any pre- ferred tint of the same.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-03-17

Your pocketbook, your bank account your credit. when the merry, merry days of Yule have fled and the New Year festivities have flown and you meet up with the stern accounting of an unfeeling booEkceper and an equal ly unfeellng bill collector.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-03-17

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The daily Alaskan., 1909-03-17

Your personal pride when you look over the Christmas rcmembranccs that your doting friends have sent you and realize what their estimate of you UuSt be.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-03-17

Cold storage eggs when the bers begin Co lay.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
PATRONIZE NATIVE
INDUSTRIES

~ FNATOR FLINT rendered SER
vice to California when he asked
~ a little question concerning the sem
ate's lemonade bill. 1t seems the opera
ton of constructing and passing the
tariff measure made the national WISE
men thirsty. So they brewed lemonade
using 25,O 900 lemons. Here was chance
to patronize the native industries, about
their concern for which Republican tar
iff spellbinders have been prating for
the last fve-and-twenty years. Per-
Torrance is worth all the jawratory
that ever created sound-waVes. In the
triumphant demonstration of their adj
hc-ence to the principals they were ad-
vocating in their speeches, it was sure
" to be expected the senators would
lose no opportunity of using homemade
goods in preference to foreign manu-
features: home grown products in
preference to foreign.
Sanator Flint has inquired whether
california or Messina lemons were used
for the senate's big lemonade. Cali
fornia lemons are the finest in the
world. Whenever any man who rep
resents California in the public service
has a chance to boost" California pro-
ducts and industries, he should do so
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
GREEK GIFTS

T IAIEO DANAOS an dona ferentes.
The Greeks should be feared most
Il when offering gifts. This sage
comment of the old Trojan is always
applicable to any proposals or sug-
gestions made by the corporation which
has always thrown hindrances in the
way of consolidation and will continue
to throw them as long as there is the
least hope of blocking or impeding
plans for Greater Los Angeles and a
free harbor
The offer of the Southern Pacific ITO
give several thousand feet of channel
frontage to the city of San Pedro will
be hinged on certain franchises in a
way that will make perfectly plain the
fact consolidation must be defeated in
order to obtain the gift"
No Greek gift must stand in the way
of consolidation and the triumph of the
plans for the establishment of a great
maritime metropolis which will be free
and independent of corporation control
and will contribute to the growth and
prosperity of Southern California.
The public harbor is public trust.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
OSLER AT SIXTY

T OS ANGELES HERALD unites in
4 the national congratulations to
~ DR. William Osler on the achieve
ment of three score years Of active life.
Along with the great American nation
The Herald now is anXiously awaiting
what dramatists and old fashioned
novelists call the catastrophe. DR.. o.
Ter said a man of 40 had seen the best
of his days, and that at 60 he should
be chloroformed. Instead of being
chloroformed, DR.. Osler sailed for Eng
land to resume active work as regius
professor of medicine in oxford.
Not only has he failed to show the
slightest intention of allowing himself
to be put to sleep, but sundry bulky
rolls of manuscript lectures in his va
lse indicate he intends to put his stu
dents to sleep by methods much less
humane and more agonizing than the
application of chloroform.
Until a theorist is compelled to put
his theory to a practical test it is i'm
possible to tell whether he is in earnest
or is talking for talking's sake. Evil
IDENTIFY DIR. Osler has no intention Of al
lowing the chloroform he recommended
for others to be applied to himself We
must therefore refuse any longer to
take the learned physician lat the
grand serious" as the French put it.
He is a very high grade and learned
let's see? What word can we use
that will be less harsh and hypercriti-
cal than "faker?"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
FIONA

" EARTBURNING discussions as 10
II the identity Of Fiona Macleod
II should be ended. What II
writer on a local weekly publication
did mistake him for a woman? Fiona
wrote in such exquisitely feminine
STYLE that the reader who was not
posted in advance inevitably would
have thought he was a woman. Doubt
less that is exactly the effect Fiona
! intended to produce. If he had intend
ed that she should be recognized as a
he, he would not have been so dainty
| in art, and his feminine masculin-
ity would not have been concealed
adroitly in stylist Cor shall we say
"stylish"?) effects. As to the discus
sion, cui bono?
! The writer who plumes himself on
his knowledge that the fair Fiona was
only Mr.. Sharp pays a very maladroit
compliment to Sharp.
But, frankly. we do not believe the
smart person knew it all along" un-
less some one tipped him off, for there
is a masculinity and a femininity Of
style. Some men are women when they
write, no matter whether they adopt
or don't adopt female names. Nay,
more; some are old women. Yea,
their style bewrayeth them. And some
| females are masculine, both in literary
! style and political performance. For
there is a positive mind and mega
tive mind. The positive mind is mas
] far,1iDiDa Some
times by a freak of fate a positive
mind is inclosed in a negative body,
and then the female person, realizing
that as soon as her mind begins to as
sert itself, she is a he (rather bewil-
! dering, isn't IT'D, yields assent to the
fact and helps the reader greatly by
i taking q name that expresses the
psychic and mental quality, and not
the physical structure.
! George Eliot was always George. She
is masculine, virile in every line. If
! she had called herself Georgina the
effect would have been ludicrous. She
knew better, inasmuch as she knew
her own mind, and had enough sense
to recognize it was a positive, mascu-
line mind. And SO Fiona Macleod,
graceful. airy-fairy. delicate, fine,
dainty, eerle, psychical, emotional, will
always be a SHE to the discriminating
reader and critic, and the superficial
triflers in mental psychology who are
making bidding fun of a man who
very naturally took Fiona at her word
and on her merits and called her "she"
are showing they have had no instruc-
ton in the more intimate PHILOSOPHERS
of life. If they had they would know
the man who is held in thrall by the
eternal femininity of Fiona Macleod
is a more accurate soul reader than
the coarse hbered literalist who hee-
haws with raucous JOY over his dis
covery (Which we are willing to bet is
a novelty to HIM that Fiona physical
ly was a male.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
BEACH SAFETY

MORE than the usual number of
N accidents and exciting incidents
AiA are being reported from the bath
ing beaches, and it is evident human
heroism may still be counted on at
critical times. When the hour of danger
comes, with it comes the man. But 1t
Is saddening to think heroism has had
to be followed by the sacrifice of the
life of the hero. In one instance man
who had just effected a heroic rescue
and saved a human life was washed out
to sea and was seen no more. Every
beach should be patrolled during the
bathing season, and there cannot be
too many life saving appliances. 1t
would be worth the while of a great
city like Los Angeles to lend a hand in
taking care of its citizens when they
visit the beaches. If the seaside munic-
qualities cannot afford to have the
beaches thoroughly watched and well
and thoroughly patrolled, Los Angeles
should help to make provision for the
safety of bathers. Los Angeles citi-
zens have been the victims of some of
the accidents recorded. Let Los An
geles take the lead in making the
beaches safe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
PHILANTHROPY

~ ANITA MONICA road race was a
Barmecide victory for the win
~ ners. That is to say, they will
have to be contented with glory. For
them their triumph will be
"Naught but fun.
No mont"
The imp of the perverse looked after
the mon" end, and took care the
automobile bridge across Fourth street
was unattended on the morning of the
race, and the automobiles passed over
scot-free.
Thousands of cars made the crossing,
and the association lost from $4,000 to
$4,000. For involuntary philanthropies
like this there is no recompense. I'm
intentional virtue is not even it's own
reward. and the philanthrOpist who did
not intend to be generous will not get
much credit for his generosity, espe-
cially if the recording angel should have
to work overtime to get an accurate
verbatim report of the language used
to express the feelings of the invol-
untary philanthropist. Doubtless more
different kinds of things have been said
on the subject of the Fourth street
bridge crossing than can be dreamed
of in our philosophy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
SURPRISES

II RETHREN, things are not what
X they seem, and a man should
- never prophesy unless he knows
A few days ago the horns of two inVlh-
cibles were being footed throughout
the langth and breadth of this land
by many vigorous horn blowers.
Bugle blast after blast proclaimed
Garry Hermann, who is a jolly good
fellow, would be elected grand exalted
ruler of the Elks without trouble So
frequently was this announcement made
that wise men were dubious. They
had read in a good book that the race
is not always to the swift, and when
Garry Hermann was hailed as sure
winner they began to have their doubts,
and to think j. U. Sammis had an excel
lent chance. And Sammis won. While
the victory of Hermann was being
celebrated prematurely by overcont1-
dent friends, a professor of the science
of fsticuffs was being Herrmannized
By many enthusiasts the victory of
Battling Nelson over Ad Wolgast was
celebrated along with the victory of
Hermann over Sammis. But Mr.. VOL
CAST administered to Mr.. Nelson what
the friendly son Of St Patrick gave
the drum, in the proverb. At the end
of an eventful day the two popular
heroes who were sure to win had not
won. They were gallant and game
losers, and deserved the admiring APP
plause they evoked, but they were
losers. The race for the leadership of
the Elks was not to the swift. The
battle at the Maud Junction pavilion
was not to the strong.
Life Is uncertain and filled with surprises
Never can tell when a shoes going to pinch
Roek then the rede Of the wise who advises
DON'T EVER BET ON LEAD-PIPE
CINCH"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

trolled it certainly is not good, for 1t
is the enemy of all constructive growth
and the works of the hand of man. If
God did not make it, who did? There
is fire in the center of the earth and
coeval with it, as shown by active vol
canoes, and all cosmic speculation
points to the probable event that the
end of all things is by fire as regards
this terrestrial globe. Jesus said that
the wicked shall be in danger of hell
fire, Matthew 5, %. Again, Matthew
10, 40, THE wicked shall be severed
from among the just and shall be cast
into the furnace of fire."
Much more can be quoted from the
Bible and Jesus teaching which is in
direct contradiction to the statements
of r. N, whilst yet at the same time
he processes to believe in his teach
ings and to follow after him. r. N.
says: EVIL is true nowhere, nonen-
tity. it does not exist to true under
standing, which is the solution and
dissolution of evil" Did Jesus teach
that there was no abode of the wicked
or that the burning sensation of fire
was an illusion, or does r.. N. assume
falsely the state of an angel who is
beyond all earthly influences and that
by simply denying the existence of evil
he is not affected by it? c. f.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
GREATER LOS ANGELES

TLKS have received a vivid impress
II sion of the potentialities of
II Greater Los Angeles and viii
carry home with them the news that
the commercial capital of Southern
California is one Of the greatest mari
time centers of the United States. The
Flks can see for themselves that IN
the course of human events Greater
Los Angeles must become the leading
city of the far west. They realize
with the completion Of the Panama
canal our city will take first place
among the cities Of the Golden
West" and that thereafter it's suprem-
acy will never be disputed.
The way Is cleared for the consolida-
ton of Los Angeles with its harbor
cities. A great commerce is being
developed on the Pacific and on the
completion Of the canal the harbor Of
Greater Los Angeles will become BIZ
oceanic and will be a port Of call for
Atlantic liners, as well as headquar-
tiers harbor or home port for many
Pacific steamship lines.
OWING TO IT'S BSO5i d JIL4CaI HltN'1 'iOii'
Greater Los Angeles in the new COM
mercial era will be situated more adj
vantageously than any Atlantic port,
Not only will it be the New York Of
the Pacific, but more. Its business
horizon will be wider even than that
of New York. In the new era water
ways will pday an important part and
under conditions which will give them
a SQUARE deal the industries of
southern California will become more
prosperous than they have been at any
lime in the past. The chief gamer by
the great prosperity BOOM of South
ern California will be Greater Los An
e+eIes. and the new chapter in its
5istory of which our visitors, in the
a lr1 of the consolidation
election are seeing the opening. will be
the most wonderful of all
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
SAYS GRAPE JUICE is WINE,
WHETHER FERN ENTED OR NOT

SAN BERNARDINO, July 9.--[Editor
Herald: &C. FL should get out a
dictionary of his own in his endeavor
to assert that wine is not wine unless
1t is Intoxicating. The juice of the
grape is a natural product and as such
is a food and possibly has some
medicinal virtues. Fermentation is ar
tihcial Christ called for sterilized yes
sells (purified) at Cana the same as the
housewife of today would call for scald-
ed vessels If she intended to make UNI
fermented Wine There is other evil
dence that the wine used at Cana was
not intoxicating. If they had been
drunken they would not have known
the difference between that wine and
any other / am informed that the
Juice of the grape (unfermented wine)
is in common usage in Palestine to this
day. Possibly more correct name for
intoxicating or fermented grape juice
would be grape brandy-the only diff
ference between it and that species we
call california Jack" being a matter
of the percentage of alcohol contained
therein. A. e. CHAPMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
SAYS CONDITIONS AT SOLDIERS
HOME IMPROVE BUT SLOWLY

SOLDIERS HOME, July S.-[Editor
Herald: We old soldiers are very
thankful for the way you have taken
up our fight against the selfish, tyran-
nicaI officers who by courtesy are
called colonel or governor. 1t has pro-
duced it's friends; still the fight must
go on till we are relieved of them, for
a colder, more unkind and selfish set of
officers never existed. We almost to a
man will thank God when they are
removed.
Last winter November and part of
December) when the sudden change of
weather affects us old soldiers more
than ever. most of the time we had no
fire in the barracks and the governor
ordered the engineer not to turn on the
heat without his special order, stating
there was a scarcity of fuel. Still at
the governors residence, the residence
of the treasurer and the officers head
quarters there was not only steam heat,
but the freplaces were full Of burning
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
SENILE AGILITY

NJ OTHING is more inspiring to the
" youth Of the country than an old
4 age which eXemplifies the re-
ward of a good life lived decently and
we'll. Until recently it was believed
the record for senile agility was held
in Scotland where the obtuarian, who
chronicled the death of man of more
than five score, remarked cheerfully,
He was a favorite of the muses., and
at times drank freely" Ire obituarian
might we'll have omitted a detail which
fouts the efforts Of Jealous prohibi-
tionists, and the example of the aged
man cannot be commended conscien-
tiously.
But it seems the old age record has
been beaten in Los Angeles by a man
who is 102 years old, and will ride in
the Elks' parade. This aged pattern
said unto youthful interviewer: He
He. Ho. Ho. 7 drank whisky all my
life. 1 don't smoke, but 1 chew to-
bacco.'
Evenness of temper is supposed to
be as essential as temperance TO long
evity. But the Los Angeles centenariau
remarked blithely: Last fight I had
was in Seventh street when / was
working on the Nordhoff building. I
was talking with a prospector. He
called me a liar. 1 had a sixteen-inch
troweI and I was going to cut his heart
out. l got hold Of him with this hand
and threw him down, and then l picked
up a fire brick to mash his face"
At this rate the Sunday school books
will have to be revised. Truly, this is
an iconoclastic and irreverent age.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

coal. A large number of deaths at that
time among the old soldiers were due
to lack of proper warmth, and 1t Is a
well known fact that during those Bit
ter cold days most of us spent the time
in bed covered with our thin blankets.
Speaking of blankets, l wish the pub
lie could see the miserable, worn, dirty
things that have been in use ever since
this was home. Our chaplain, Rev.
Mr.. Wilson, being appealed to in the
matter of proper warmth, coldly re-
piled, "Oh let them herd together"
Another very serious source of COM
plant is the men the governor has
selected for company commanders,
who, wearing the shoulder straps Of
captains, put on lordly airs.
Proper representations will be made
about this at proper time, and if tho
national board does not give us relief
we are prepared to lay the matter be-
fore congress. We once thought the
home was for the benefit of "the SOL
der who barred his bosom to the brunt
of battle" but have since found out 1t
is for those who never smelled burnt
gunpowder and who were never in the
army. OLD SOLDIER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
AT THE THEATERS
AUDITORIUM-Dark.

ACKNOWLEDGES.
MASON-"Polly Of the Circus"
BELAsCo-"A Day and a Night in New
York"
BURBANK-"The Lottery of Love"
GRAND-Princess company in THE
Umpire
MAJESTIC-"sergeant Kitty"
ORPHEU M--Vaudeville.
LOS MISUNDERSTANDING
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EMPIRE-Nelson-H yland Fight Pictures
UNIQUE-Vaudeville and musical comedy.
FISCHER'S-Musical comedy and vaudeville
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Some prehistoric skulls were exhib-
tied at the recent meeting Of the
Academy of Sciences. Were they bor-
rowed from some Of the old fogies in
the effete east who can't realize that
Los Angeles is a big, booming, bloom
ing city?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
INQUIRIES If SENSATION
FROM FIRE is ILLUSION

LOS ANGELES, July 6.-[Editor
Herald: win r. n. further enlighten
us as to his assertion that evil, the
concrete expression of error, exists only
to the false or carnal consciousness"
To make a clear case, take the element
of fire, which science declares it does
not know what 1t is
Now, fire as an element is devourer.
destroyer, transformer; when uncon-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Elks say new adjectives would be
needed to describe accurately the beau
ties, glories, attractions and advan-
tages of lovely Los Angeles. There's
only one Los Angeles. 1t is the ne
plus ultra of the cities of the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Former Mayor Stephens told the
members of the Federation club low
salaries and continuous criticism are
frequently responsible for lack Of civic
integrity. PROFESSIONALLY the salary
of an important office ought to repre-
sent what the office is worth, rather
than the lowest sum for which the Of
fetal will render service. Greater Los
Angeles ought to have greater salaries
all around.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Theodore Roosevelt has added dig
dig antelope to his game bag. This new
specimen of the African wild beast
family is now, as it were, enjoying in
the ex-presidential hamper otium cum
diedignitate.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Ballerino the aged Chilean who made
himself notorious in Los Angeles, will
be remembered as the man who intro
duced into the United States a brand
new style of protected industry of a
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Mayor Alexander gave up a social
engagement in order to be on hand
when the san Pedro consolidation cleo
ton ordinance was ready for signature.
George Alexander is ALWAYS to be
depended upon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for their
views
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Harry Thaw's sanity is being estab-
lished by expert witnesses. Really
Mr.. Thaw's wits seem to be of a
patent adjustable variety,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Sipahdar and Sadarassad are the
names of the Persian nationalist lead
ers. They must have stepped out Of
the Arabian nights.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

A man who started a three-card-
monte game on Broadway, New York
should find no difficulty in getting a
high salarled position in Wall street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Let Mr.. Facing Both Ways now re-
tire from the Hall Of Fame. Senator
Aldrich will take his place.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Deer hunting season opens today
Elks will kindly sit up and take no
tice.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
A Safe Rule

Eleven o'clock by the Elks' time
piece; and Alls Well.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

When a fellow, poor or rich,
Minds his biz, you bet
There's lot of trouble into which
He isn't apt to get.
Louisville Courier-Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 315,985
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

Tomorrow-The Empire of India. NIL
Many Gods and Many Creeds.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

On all matters pertaining to advertising
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15

lOMBAY, India.-The Parsees
are the most distinct and PEE
culiar of the many races
which have their home in In
dia; and their religion is In
i teresting as a survival of the
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-17
ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE
Rural Mail Carrier Of Bamber i!
.F-.,tl ri q -, -r--,
Bound Over.

Bound Over.
X aET,st.yTs, q ,fGt ~.
A dispatch from Bamberg says
~. NJ, Steedly, who has been mail
carrier on rural route No. 1 for about
IL years, was arrested about four
miles from Bamberg Saturday. He
was. taken to Orangeburg by Unit
ed States marshal and will be given
q preliminary in that city Monday.
Up to a few years ago Steedly was
considered good for his contracts and
seemed to. do we'll" o., 49,. -
AS stated above, Monday after
noon United States Commissioner A.
A. Brantley had preliminary hear
ing in the case Of J. M. Steedly,
charged with embezzlement. The
amount alleged to have been embez-
zled was $3.50. The commissioner
bound the defendant over for the
United States district court at Char
lesion and fixed his bond as $500.
The bond was secured.
This is a serious charge, and un-
less Steedly can prove his innocence,
which we sincerely hope he can do,
he has gotten himself into a bad
mess. We have seen no statement
as to how he committed the alleged
crime, but suppose 1t was in connec-
ton with his work as rural mail
carrier. We hope when the time
comes he will We enabled to establish
his innocence beyond any doubt.