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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-09-24

Ladies up-t0- date Tailored
Suits at DAtiMER BROS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
AMERICANISM

n UR morning Republican contem-
porary says the Democratic party
" is not dead, not even moribund,
land, to tell the truth, not very sick"
This frank admission will perhaps help
to reassure people who have been TAX
ing their political instruction from
eastern Republican papers less frank
and straightforward than our esteemed
friend end neighbor. These papers
have insisted Democracy was "out of
it" and that the struggle of the future
would be between radicalisn and Re-
publicanism. In order that this pro-
phecy might be fulfilled some of the
Republican papers apparently have
done everything in their power to put
the Republican party in an attitude OF
sheer toryism. They allowed might"
to rhyme with right
There are many signs-some OF
which have attracted the attention of
our Republican frlend-that the party
of Americanism is gathering strength
and is renewing its youth as the
eagle" 1t is already apparent Presi-
dent Taft, if he would carry out
Roosevelt policies. must rely on the
Democracy for support and encourage
ment and not on hide-bound, tariff
daft Republicans, to some of whom
the words patriotism and profits
are apparently synonymous. Many
Republicans, who might perhaps be
called liberal Republicans, are thinking
along Democratic lines and advocating
Democratic policies. Students of the
political history Of the United States
win ind the Democratic party has
stood steadily and persistently for
Anericanism-for the first principles on
which this republic is founded. AS
long as the republic lives the Demo-
cratic party cannot die.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
CITIZENS CITY

TN the city of New York it is almost
impossible for an average house,
Il holder to own his home; and if he
occupy an entire house he is fortunate
indeed The majority of the citizens of
New York live in little flats" over
heated by the sun in summer and over
heated by steam in winter. The steam
heated fiat is responsible for numerous
Illnesses and many deaths. The citizen
|carelessly plunges from the overheat
of the fiat into the salty cold of a New
York winter street and catches pneu-
monia. We say salty cold, because
the Atlantic salt air nhngling with the
frost and snow produces a result IA
mlliar to anyone who has experimental
with salt and snow. The cold which
results reaches the very marrow of the
bones.
If the New Yorker is not able to af-
ford a steam heated fiat he must either
live in rooms or hire a fiat in a tene-
ment house The tenement house prob
lem is serious almost beyond descrip-
tion. 1t is difficult to find words to por-
in the tenements.
Fortunate indeed are,the citizens who
dwell in California, this spacious land
of fresh air and sunshine. Here there
is plenty of room, and opportunities
for making a living are abundant.
These opportunities are being increased
with bhe increase in population. And,
owing to a rapid transit system unri-
vailed by that of any other city of SINH
lar area in the United States, there is
no excuse for budding close to the
business center.
Beautiful homes, amid scenery and
surroundings the riches of Croesus
could neither buy nor initiate. are
OWNED by a majority of the citizens
of Los Angeles. In this respect our
metropolis excels any other city in the
world, and the actual interest held in
the city by most Of the residents makes
it peculiarly and particularly citizens
city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
NEWSPAPERS

I N view of the extraordinary growth
of "the newspaper business" in the
n United States, it has every right
to be considered one of the leading in
dustries of the nation, and assuredly it
is the most popular and most powerful
of all the Industries. But there are
some people who are so slow intellec-
tually they cannot grasp the idea of
newspaper supremacy in the publishing
business of the United States.
More publication is made by means
of newspapers than by all other meth
DDS combined - magazines, books,
pamphlets, weeklies. The American
Newspaper Publishers association is
engaged in an attempt to make the
government of the United States un-
derstand this, and it hopes when Wash
| ington is thoroughly aroused to the
fact forests are menaced by the per-
petual levy on them for paper epulp,
paper may be put on the free list and
the paper trust compelled to put it,
self on a competitive basis.
John Norris, chairman of the asso-
ciation's committee on paper has sent
Senator Root letter in which he says
the destruction of spruce is seriously
menacing the forests, and for this
reason alone it would be advisable to
reduce pulp schedules. Mr.. Norris
adds:
Newspapers are entitled to consid-
Grafton from you, even if you ignore the
extraordinary functions they perform
in disseminating intelligence, in pro-
noting knowledge and in facilitating
the work of government. Those who
read the papers are in complete touch
with the work of administration, and
the furtherance of the newspapers
mission is worthy of your serious eff
forts. An increase in the consump-
ton of paper is due to the increasing
intelligence of the people"
And, we may add, the increasing in
telligence of the American people de-
mands that all special taxation on in
telligenee shall be removed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

| system WHICH li1uI-
dates the fields during the freshet,
The other is perennial and depends
upon storage reservoirs and q modern
system of releasing the water as 1t
Is needed.
| The first crops were the result of
seed sown upon the mud when the
! flood had receded. Interloclzed with
| the known and unknown political his
| tory of Egypt from the beginning is
the story of the expansion of systems
for increasing tho area of land made
tillable by retaining the silt-laden
overflow and causing it to take the
place of rain during the season of low
Nile. At present the lode of syenite
| granite that furnished the material
| for the temple of the Sphinx and the
obelisks is the backbone of plan of
irrigation that contemplates still
greater results than have been already
| achieved:
| Tlllable Egypt, except in the prov
| ince of Fayoum and i'll the Nile delta,
is merely a narrow strip of reclaimed
desert, sometimes extending only upon
one side of the stream. According to
tradition, Lake Moeris, a great reser-
voir to irrigate Fayoum, was con-
structed by King Amenemaht of the
twelfth dynasty. 1t is believed, that
Mehemet Ali, the viceroy who planned,
but never completed, system of per-
ennial irrigation, was inspired by the
example of Amenemaht. But Great
Britain claims and must be accorded
credit for planning, financing and
completing the dam at Assouan.
In Upper Egypt the traveller sees
today in active operation the basin
irrigation which tradition says dates
back to King Menes, who reigned some
seventy centuries before the British
occupation of the land of the Phar-
oahs. 1t is simple in it's rudimentary
form, although complex in its devel-
opment. The banks of the Nile are
of deltaic formation and higher than
the valley behind them. The sources
OF the river are approximately 5000
feet above the level of the sea. Along
the river, as its shores slope north
ward toward the Mediterranean,
earthen dikes are run at right angles
to the stream. Dikes parallel to the
stream and close to the ''berms" OIL
high banks, connect them, forming
basins inclosed on the desert side by
the rising ground that marks the limit
of arabic area. The basins drain from
one to another and the last of series
drains back into the Nile. In this
manner the land is arranged in sue
cession Of terraces falling gradually
toward the north. Where the lay of
the land admits of 1t the system IS
extended by the construction of a
second or third dixie parallel to the
river.
The "berms" are irrigated either by
high level canals starting from above
the beginning of the basin system or
by lifting the water from the river
Feeder canals vary in size from IN
significant bitches to considerable riv-
1T. 1arn Gof
From the train as the traveller trav-
erses Egypt. picturesque triangular
sails and slanting bamboo booms OF
the Egyptian dahabeahs seem to rise
from plowed fields
Timer Egypt at flood time is vast
lake. bounded by the brown slopes OF
the desert on the east and west an ana
gridironed by network of dikes The
lakes are dotted by the mud nuts OF the
on mounds and in clusters, or small
villages. The fellah and his family lead
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
BURBANK METHODS

IN ROFESSOR ERICH Won SBY-
sENEGG of Vienna, Austria, and
IL Professor G. Won Buenker OF
Breslau. Germany, are in Los An
peIes. They will visit Luther Burbank
and investigate his methods. They VIII
doubtless be welcomed heartily by our
great California plant wizard. IT the
same time they are probably aware
that for a good and sufficient reason
Mr.. Burbank's methods" cannot he
picked up by others. If the Burbank
methods had been transmissible Is
ii not certain he would have had imi-
tators in all parts of the United States?
The Burbank method consists prin-
cipally of the Burbank brain, which to
that extraordinary degree called "ge-
MUS" is gifted with power to spe-
cialize on the subject of plant life.
Mr.. Burbank has been heard to say
that any one who specialized on ami
NAL life as he has on plant life could
obtain results not less marvellous; and
the somewhat diseoncerting or un-
canny thought is suggested that as
sequel to Mr.. Burbank's life work
higher types of animals may yet be
evolved, not in the course of natures
operations, but by the deliberate in
tent and experiment of man.
To limited degree the work of the
improvement Of various species of ami
mails has been begun; and it even looks
as if mankind might devote some care
and study to the improvement of it's
own species.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
EDUCATION

4 LII friends of popular education in
IA Los Angeles hope the difficulties
"A with regard to school funds will
be adjusted without any clash of au-
thority and without any interruption
of any kind that might have tenden-
cy to mar educational efficiency. 1t IS
particularly desirable at this time,
when a school bond issue Is matter
of controversy and of legal contest,
that there should be no further COM
plications that would have tendency
to hinder or hamper educational work
in Los Angeles. The educational in
terests of this city are of supreme i'm
portance. We cannot advertise it to
the world as an educational center and
then exhibit it to the world engaged in
controversies as to "the sinews of war;
and of education. An early settlement
of all disputes is highly desirable; and
it is not less desirable there should be
no more disputes.
In connection with educational work
in Los Angeles, the summer session of
the University of Southern California
calls attention to the important fact
that the work can be conducted all the
year round. The summer work of the
University of Southern California will
be not less efficient and not less sue
cessful than that of any other period
of the year, and excellent results are
looked for Owing to the fine climate
of Los Angeles, summer students can
pursue their studies here with comfort.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

| anu w llltdiill w AAi
cocks, who made
the plans for the
dam, wears an Or
d e r o f B ri t / $ h
knighthood, c o n
ferred in recogni-
ton of his services.
Agriculture in the
Nile valley Is, Of
course, older than
the Oldest monu-
ments of Egypt.
Irrigation is as old
as agriculture, but
scientific irrigation
upon a scale com
mensurate with it's
Importance as a
factor in the devel-
o p m e n t o f t h e
country is a prod
u c t o f m o d e r n
times. There are
two kinds of irri-
cation along the
Nile. One is 1000
years old. 1t con-
sists of a basin
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

OAIRO, Egypt.-In ancient Egypt it
was believed that tears shed by
~ Isis over the tomb of Osiris
caused the annual flooding of the Nile.
Can man arrest the tears of Isis as
they flow?" was a question implying
the impossible. Today the tears "
Isis are stored behind a great dam at
Assouan in a lake that contains pll-
lion tons and is 140 miles long. Ac-
cording to popular superstition
pearls mean tears. In Egypt the tears
of Isis mean pearls to agriculturists;
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
HOW JOHNNY RUNS AN ERRAND

Johnny wandered down the street
Kicking pebbles with his feet;
Walked a picket fence or two;
Stones at seven jaybirls threw;
Whistled vainiy for friend
Climbed birch to make 1t bend;
Searched for treasures on the ground;
Seven four-leafed clovers found.
Then he practiced handsprings while
Friends commented ON his style;
Chased a dog and treed cati
In the branches threw his hat;
Climbed the tree with Joyous zest;
Found four eggs within a nest;
Emptied them with anxious care;
Traded three for treasurers rare.
Thus he went his joyous way
Till the waning light Of day.
An, the joys that served to while
That brief quarter OF mile,
Till at last he tiptoed back
Without stepping on a crack
While the wrathful family
Waited for that ounce Of fstea.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Mr.. Harriman's promise to build a
fine modern station in return for a valu-
able concession should not be forgotten
by the council, and Mr.. Hartman
should not be allowed to forget it. The
Arcade station does not represent
"lovely Los Angeles" which should be
a city of architecturally graceful and
artistic, big, spacious and well equipped,
up to date railway stations.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
InstalIments

Old Fogie was a quiet man.
Some said he was a crank;
But one fine day his daughter learned
He'd money in the bank
She wanted piano bad
As bad as woman can;
Her father went and bought her one
On the installment plan.
She banged all day, she banged all night,
Until her pa had fits;
He went and got a sturdy ak
And smashed the thing IN bits.
Today passed that troubled house,
And saw busy man.
For he was Juggling out the thing
On the installment plan.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Rear Admiral Sebree< says the United
States will not have a war with Japan.
On this coast that is 'pipers' news"
The war scare was largely of eastern
Ought to be building three or four
Dreadnaughts every year" These pro-
fessional naval men have cheerful
way of talking of building costly big
ships as if they were little ships whit
tied with a jack knife.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

About July Frank Hichborn's story
of the legislative session of 1909 will be
published. Mr.. Hichborn will show the
manipulation by which good measures
were defeated and bad measures passed.
Mr.. Hichborn endeavors to answer the
question how it was that so little was
accomplished by a legislature, the ma
jority of whose members were admit
tedly Independent of machine influence
and desirous of bringing about needed
reforms.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Mrs. Fiske in Salvation
Nell"
MAsoN-.John Drew in Jack Straw"
BURBANK-"Secret Service"
BELASCO-"Shore Acres"
MAJESTIC-KoIb and Dill in Lonesome
Town"
GRAND-Murray and Mack "In Harvard. .
ORPHEUAI-Vaudeville.
WALKER-Yaudeville.
Los ANGELES--Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-Musical comedy.
EMPIRE-Vaudeville.
FISCHER'S-NTuslcal comedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

OF vital Importance to this COM
munity will be tomorrow's session of
the city council when as a committee
of the whole the councilmen will con-
slider a variety of questions affecting
the local liquor selling situation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Consolidation committee will present
it's report to the city council today.
Petitions to call the consolidation cleo
ton will be placed in the hands of can
vassers tomorrow morning. Greater
Los Angeles is as good as made"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
The State Press
Municipal Ownership,

Nor is municipal ownership the
dream of idealism. 1t is a practicable
thing. Oftentimes it is a real benedic-
ton. In some cities in this country,
and in more cities in other countries,
it is the strong right arm of the peo-
pie, actually furnishing light and heat
water, air and even pure soap that the
community ms be healthy and clean
San Jose Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

First Cook-Faith, tits the fine gra-
cious lady I'm wur-rkin' for now, an
I'm tachin' her the art iv cookin'.
Second Cook (freezingly) = Indade!
An what's your object in creatin'
sthrike breakers so GENEROUSLY?
First Cook-Tut, tut! Sure, whin she
larns, shS'll have no Excuses to offer
whin l want an ixthry afthernoon off!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Joseph Brucker, who used to be ed
itor of the Stats Zeitung, says he will
try to cross the Atlantic ocean in an
If he should succeed, it will
no longer be correct to say the news
paper press is in the van of civilization.
it will be in the airship
of civilization.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
A Miracle

The Angler-Is this public water, my
man?
The Inhabitant-Ay.
The Angler-Then 1t won't be a crime
If land a fish?
The Inhabitant-No; it'll be mira
Cle-Jlldge
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Both Knew

She-"They say President Taft has
a Golf Cabinet"
He-"Will you never learn anything.
dear2 They don't call those golf cabi
nets, but golf trunks
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Cattle

The old timers who foretold an end
of the cattle business in the San Joa-
quin valley when fences made their
appearance were mistaken. There
never was a chance to make more mon
ey with cattle than now, and people
will be eating beef for a long time to
come.-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
WITH THE HUMORISTS
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Very Realistic

T tience-"How was the department
store scene in the new play?"
Patrice-"Realistic, but tiresome."
why tiresome?"
zone man was on the stage for near
ly an hour"
What for?"
"Why, waiting for his change!"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Between ante-election pledges and
post-election influences, the Republican
elephant is in a situation graphically
depicted by our cartoonist. Tariff re-
vision. Roosevelt policies, all are evil
IDENTIFY being forgotten by the elephants
veteran mahouts The Aldrich-Cannon
methods have the elephant effectually
"tethered" by hind leg.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Far and Wide
aMizardu Rurbank,s chanee

''Wizard" Burbank having incorpo-
rated himself will have the opportunl-
ty, due to his abundant leisure, 10 reao
stThe Origin of Species" for the first
tinoe.-NeW York Evening Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Boost PaIo Alto

And now let us all pull off our coats
and pull for greater Palo Alto. Cities
are not built up when part of the
population is trying to tear down. To
accomplish the desirde results we must
all pull together and work in unison.
--Palo Alto Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Thouuht II a Snake

Reed-"Isn't that landscape over
there grand?'
.Greene-"Indeed, it is. And look
how life-like that snake down at the
bottom is
That's not snake; that's the art
lists signature!"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
The suffranette,s WAY

He-And if women ever do get the
voting franchise, what would you do?
She-Oh, I guess 1 could find some
thing else to talk about--Yonkers
Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Congressional Genius

To revise tariff downward in such
a way as to cause deficit of 100000
900 to disappear Is task thaI calls
for rare congressional genius.-Chicago
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Respect for Ladies'

Bacon-A woman who wants to vote
is called a Suffragette. is she not?''
Egbert--"Well, yes, that's what
she's called if there are any ladies pre-
sent"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

President Jordan is now the most
eminent living auth -itv on the sub
ject of "things one would rather have
left unsaid."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Illinois shakeup

That Illinois earthquake did no par
tieular harm where 1t happened, and
it may do California great deal of
good-Fresno Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
WiIIinu to Try

She-"Do you think it would take
you long to learn to love a grip"
He--"I don't know. How long have
you got ?''
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Rural Autocracy

Good country roads are almost IN
sight. Every prosperous farmer eltner
owns an automobile or is making in
ouiries as to the price of one.-Chicago
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

City auditors report shows balance
of $4, 475.91 to the city's credit. Los
Angeles is prosperous because it is pro-
gressive.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

Rev. DR.. C. E. Stowe says his mother,
Harriet Beecher, made hardly any
money out of Uncle Toms Cabin; not
even enough to start a school for
negroes, which had been one of her
cherished projects. Is it possible the
printers, binders and distributors made
most of the money realized by the
greatest seller" of the nineteenth CEN
ttlry2
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
tax Fortune Hunters

The suggestion of a head tax on for
eign fortune hunters is offered Mr.
Payne as an easy way of augmentlng
public revenues.-Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

If we have many more magazines
devoted to the achieving of success
some lonesome man will in the course
of a generation be giving lectures ex-
planning how he managed to refrain
from succeeding.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Nixon says Nix

What is the use of trying to develop
the airship if Lewis Nixon has invented
a shell that will destroy it?-Boston
Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Generous

When a girl is told that she has a
fortune in her voice she goes home ana
declares dividends for the benent Oh
the neighbors.--Galveston News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Hetty's Recipe

Hetty Green says she got rich mind
ing her own business. The recipe IS
worth trying, anyway.-Harrisburg
Telegraph.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Cannon

AS the tariff battle goes on it is easy
to see that Cannon is still the biggest
gun in the house.--Cleveland Leader.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
Method in Her Madness

Some men use the cottage plan of
entertaining-they have only one story.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08

A red ant, a chicken sandwich and
a summer shower all mixed together
make a picnic.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-08
PENsIvE PONDERINGs

The more man improves his vo-
cabulary, the better fisherman he be-
comes.
The reason why so many business
men break down is because they try
to work at automobile speed when
they have traction engine gears.