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The Florida star., 1909-02-05
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE.


gNeu wno 0t0utueo Eu8ttSu D0uor I'm
Go Astray at Times.
A little story which has just
found its way across the Atlantic
from an English country house tells
of the recent slip made by a new
a nervous butler in serving his
...ster, a duke, at the luncheon ta-
Lle. Quiet, respectful and assidu-
GUS, he proffered a dish with the in
sinuating query:
"Cold grace, your grouse -
The slip is so obviously a nat
ural one that doubtless the tale is
true. Thus far it is also unchal-
lenged as new, although probably
by the time it has made the full
round of the press somebody will
discover that In its original form
it was an Athenian Chestnut in
the days of Socrates.
An anecdote which at least be-
longs to the same family used to be
laughed over in early Victorian
drawing rooms.
Among the royalties, great and
little, who came to London for the
young queens coronation there
was a certain small, dried up, gray
haired, bright eyed, brisk little old
reigning prince of tiny principali-
ty. He was faraway cousin to an
Irish duke, whose estates in Ire
land he visited before returning
For his entertainment a village eel
ebration was arranged, with games
and dances, and especially Irish jigS
and clog dances.
The gay old prince was delight,
ed. He came himself of a race IA
nous for its dancing. He still pos.
sessed a good eye, quick ear and
a light foot. That same evening II
the great hall of the castle, to the
whistling of his hosts son, he en-
deavored to emulate some of the
feats he had seen.
The dukes solemn English but
ler was present, and his horror al
such unroyal antics was reflected IL
his eyes. The prince perceived il
and, shooting a sudden forefngel
at him, demanded imperiously
''Ehl Tell me, then, what yol
think of my dancingP
Discreet and dignifed, but fur
ried inwardly, the buffers manne
was perfect, but his tongue betray
ed him. He answered:
"Your royal spryness is certain
ly Ugh"
There was a shout of laughter
and the duke, with assumed anger
cried sternly: "What! Do you dar
to insinuate that the prince is ele
vated-that his vivacity is due t
any other good spirits than hi
own?"
. Before such an accusation tn
! poor buffers last remnant of com
} posure vanished, and, turning wild
iy, with clasped hands, from hi
highness to his grace, he proteste'
earnestly:
"No, | never, sir, your royal gray
ness; no, l never, sir, your ice!-
, Youths Companion.
The Florida star., 1909-02-05

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The Florida star., 1909-02-05
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today, and
purchase q dollar bottle, and II you
can honestly say, that you did not
receive any benefits from 1t, after
using the entire bottle, the drug
gist will refund your money to you
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
Of the bottle purchased by you
This offer applies to the large
bottle only and to but one In .
family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
1t would bankrupt US.
The dollar bottle contains % times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is made at the Laboratories
Of E. C. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
The Florida star., 1909-02-05

Nothing else can do this. When
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you must help it by giving it rest,
and KOdol will do that.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
SAYS GAS PERMIT ORDINANCE
ISM RESTRAINT OF TRADE


LOS ANGELES, April H.-lEditor
Herald. l see that Mayor Alexander
denies suggestions from citizens re-
garding abuses in city management.
This. of course would include the
bringing to his notice any instances
of graft in the public offices at the
city hall Il might here point out that
a graft is no less a graft because
covered and sanctioned by an ordl-
nance.
Here is one for the mayors (and for
every public spirited citizens) atten-
ton:
While building permit for extern
sions covering, it may be, hundreds OF
dollars, costs but % cents, and Whlle
extensions UP to 500 call for no permit
at all, the gas permit department, on
the other hand, claims to extort
permit fee of 81 for any gas extension
however small-even lone foot OF
pipe"-the office clerk told me. II
this is not graft of a most impudent
brand, [ have another guess coming.
1t is about as though, on purchasing,
say an iron ladle or d length Of stove
pipe at a hardware store, you should
be told 1.-The price is Is cents, but you
will need a permit from the city hall
to use it, which will cost you 81"
That such a demand or ordinance is
IN restraint OF IIdu6, anu SllOuiu
therefore be unconstitutional, l think
is shown by a case l know of.
A man buys an old cottage which
has at some time been piped for gas.
Adding a few feet of pipe and
chandelier or two to suit his own par
ticular needs, he requests the gas
company to connect. The company is
eager for business, but says, you
must, before we can supply you, get
the city gas Inspector to test your
pipes in case of leaks" Now, the in
spector's fee for testing is so cents,
which is all right, but because of a
few feet of extension his office de-
mands an additional 81 for permit.
The householder, being d stickler for
fair play and principle, says he will
see the department - further first
before he will consent to this hold up
and since the gas company say they
cannot supply without the city certifi-
cate, our friend cotinues to patronize
John D. and his old standby-the coal
oil lamp-though he wants the gas and
the gas company wants TO give 1t
him-at the usual per.
Will others please give their ex-
perience and opinion on this topic,
with view to the abolition of this
Ubiquitous impost?
"OIL BURNER"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
POINTS OUT THE INJUSTICE
OF BOYCOTT ON WOMEN

LOS ANGELES, April 28.-[Editor
Herald: notice that according to the
Wright election law women cannot now
be chosen as county superintendent of
schools. The woman should counter
with boycott on their part, and de-
clare that there shall be no more pupils
to fill these schols so long as women
are allowed to hold only the less desi-a-
BILE and poorer paid positions That
would result in the repeal of the Wright
law and other measures of the sort
more certainly than would much petit
tioning to the legislature, lobbying. ct
cetera. The woman who continues to
pay taxes and to send her children to
the public schools which discriminate
against her should not complain OF the
law in the matter, for the responsibility
for the continuance of unjust laws rests
not at all more upon those who make
them than upon those who tacitly ac-
quiesce by keeping them. Even a re-
fusal of all women to pay their taxes,
persisted in with something of the res
olution shown by our English sisters,
would mean a change of law within
three months LOUISA HARDING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
GREATER LOS ANGELES

CAPTAIN FRIES is rendering a
1 most valuable service to Greater
~ Los Angeles by his explanatory
lectures on San Pedro harbor and his
public explanations of the need for
consolidation and exposition of the
benefits that will result from it. One
of the points made by the captain is
worthy of special emphasis He calls
attention to the fact the back country
will derive great benefit from the
movement. Auto trains soon will be
running on macadamized roads from
the country precincts to the harbor,
taking the ranchers' products to ships
sides and returning with goods from
the east, from the orient or from Aus
tralasia
He shows the benefits that will be
derived from lower freight rates, es-
pecially after the opening of the Pam
anna canal. He says consolidation of
the harbor towns with Los Angeles is
absolutely necessary. That hits the
nail on the head. Consolidation is es-
sential if the growth and prosperity
o
Southern California are to go forward
without interruption and if the terri
tory involved is to be developed to the
extent of it's possibilities.
Modern commercial conditions Will
not be slavishly dependent on the rail-
roads. with plenty of good roads there
will be an auto service which will make
the producers independent of railroads.
Emancipation from absolute depen-
dence on railway train service and re-
turn to hlgh-roads and canals with
swift auto vehicles on the roads and
auto boats on the canals and rivers
will be the next great development Ill
the history of modern commerce. In
the near future the search for mar
kets and the transportation of goods
will be conducted with more adYan-
tage to industrialism than heretofore.
General prosperity will be stimulated
greatly by the new conditions, and one
of the biggest sharers in this prosper
ity will be Greater Los Angeles. In
order that the citizens may reap the
benefit of all the advantages the future
will bring the consolidation program
must be carried out.
Greater Los Angeles, with good ROADS
and a fine harbor at its service, Will
easily become the metropolis OF all the
west the greatest commercial center
of the Pacific coast.
Within a few years Greater Los An
geles, with San Pedro harpor, VIII De
one of the foremost cities OF the hehl-
sphere. A firm, unwaverlng pelel III
the magnificent destiny of our city mas
held to their task all who have become
interested in this magnificent metrop-
oils and have devoted their lives ana
energies to its interests. This beller
will be justified by the expansion prog
ress and ever-increasing prosperity or
Greater Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
HIGHLAND HONORS

IF Theodore Roosevelt had not been
better posted than many of his
II fellow coLntrymen as to the true
conditions in the British Empire, he
might have been surprised when he
received a Gaelic welcome to British
East Africa and at a banquet was en-
Enthusiastically greeted with full High
land musical honors." This means that
while the pipers played Mr.. Roosevelt
and his hosts stood with one foot on
the chair and one on the table (after
the fashion of the barbaric country
called Scotland) and remarked, in loud,
boisterous tones, "Slaindhe," after
which they partook of pink lemonade
served in teacups very likely.
We hope Mr.. Roosevelt will return
home with such vigorous ideas as to
Scotlands part in the building of the
British Empire, and as to the world
wide prevalence of the Celt from Gale
donia and Ireland, that he will put a
stop to the ridiculous practice of giving
the English the credit for the really
wonderful achievements of the United
Kingdom.
It is the Celt, and not the Sassenagh,
who has made it possible for Mr.. Roose-
welt, with the bagpipes skirling in his
ears in next-to- Darkest Africa, to pay
q tribute to the people of the British
isles for their energies in civilizing the
uncivilized places of the earth.
And we appreciate the fact that
Colonel Roosevelt's sense of humor
must have made his eyes sparkle and
his voice shake as he spoke of the
Fertilization" that had been brought to
Africa by strenuous gentlemen who
climbed up on chairs and table to the
weird music of an instrument that
exulted over the rout of the Sassenagh
when the world was a few generations
Younger. In the United States and the
British Empire, both of which powers
are deeply indebted to his efforts for
their might and their prosperity, the
Celt wants only square deal He does
not like to be ignored, and he refuses
to be snubbed by English or American
newspapers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
RAISIN DAY

nAISIN day will be observed in
X Los Angeles and California and
NJ throughout the United States. To-
day California raisins will be eaten by
President Taft, the members of the
cabinet, Governor Hughes of New
York, Governor Gillett and thousands
upon thousands of other citizens. All
who eat raisns will acquire the habit
The California raisin, whether plain or
cooked, is the best in the world. Like
Caesars wife, it is above suspicion. 1t
is clean, wholesome, delicious. 1t is
one of the finest of food products, and
is easy to eat and easy to digest.
California raisins should be used by
the citizens of the United States in
preference to the raisins brought from
across the sea from the back vineyards
of Europe. If raisin eaters knew the
history of some of these imported
raisins they would demand the Cali
fornia article. Many appetizing,
healthy dishes can be made with Cali
fornia raisins. AS ingredients in pies,
buildings and cakes, California raisins
are unsurpassed. California raisins
form the most wholesome kind of des-
sert, and as a matter of fact when
used as dessert are more nourishins
than any other part of the meal. We
believe Raisn day will be a big sue
cess and will increase greatly the de-
mand for California raisns all the
year round.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
LITERARY KING

ny DIRTY ONE nations united in cele-
brating the birthday of William
"A Shakespeare. After three CEN
turies Shakespeare is still the most
popular author in the world. Not only
does this bear testimony to the ar
tistic supremacy of the Bard of Avon,
but it proves the vitality and longevity
of the drama. The dramatic art which
is nearest nature, is long-lived, and
shakespeare has created a literature
which is imperishabe.
If our popular novelists would seek
real and enduring fame, let them give
their works to some master of dra-
matte construction to be rewritten in
the form of plays. Shakespeare UNI
hesitaungly used the popular novels Of
his time for dramatic material. Many
novels famous in continental Europe
in the spacious days of Queen Eliza
beth and Scotch Jamie are preserved in
Shakespeare plays.
1t is hardly likely he ever regarded
himself as a great dramatic author. 1t
was his business to produce plays
and he produced them freely ransack-
ing all literature for his material, and
benevolently assimilating aught liter
airy that served his imperial purpose.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
HOLLAND

EMPEROR WILLIAMS expression
H. of joy over the possibility of the
- continuance of the historic house
of Orange-Nassau, with which he
himself is proud to claim kinship,"
failed to arouse enthusiasm in Holland.
If he had expressed only joy, he might
have met with a grateful response, but
when he says he himself is proud to
claim kinship with the Dutch reigning
house, Holland shivers. Fear of the
possibility of annexation to Germany is
plains the almost frantic anxiety for
an heir to the throne. A prince. not
a princess, has been earnestly desired
by the Dutch people, who know a
princess, in all probability, would be
welded to one of Williams descendants
or relatives, and the Hohenzollern
dream of a pan-Germanic Europe
would be aided toward ultimate full
fillment.
Hollands history is closely inter
woven with that of the United King
dom and the United States. Therefore,
the future of the fine little canal
country should be of intense interest
to all Britons and Americans. Holland
was politically (although not geograph-
iCally) the halfway house" for the
New England pioneers who contributed
a great share of the early history of
North America. The remarkable
gratitude with which they rewarded
their generous Hollander hosts by GUST
ing them from control of New Amster-
dam, now New York, is matter of his
tory. In our own time all hope of
Dutch ascendancy in South Africa has
been destroyed by representatives of
the same race that ended Dutch power
in North America.
Robbed of empire by the English, or
American-speaking peoples, the Dutch
naturally cling to the homeland and
within recent years have been nightly
perturbed by the prospect that Ger
many, on some specious preteXt, might
absorb it. Hence every Dutchman has
been hoping and praying fervently sit
will be a boy"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
CRUEL CAPERS

IN BOUT seventy-five experienced
n club wielders were lined up for
IA business. The candidates We're
given a mouthful of lard, face mas
sage with molasses and an egg sham
boo with sawdust trimmings" Yet the
candidates had done nothing to merit
this torture. They were merely fresh
men. The amateur torturers who car
ried out the program from which we
have quoted were clad in nightshirts
and pajamas. A group of co-eds par
ticipated in the ceremonies until, we
are told, they became so thrilling the
goods were forced to withdraw" What
inducement is there to a self-respecting
man to send his daughter as coed
to any educational institution when
from an account of the unchecked and
unrebuked revelry at one of the finest
he learns she may have to- become an
onlooker at vulgarities which finally
become nauseating? Perhaps published
accounts of the ceremonies are too WV
idly colored But one would think in
an institution where there are co-eds
the rights of the fair girl Undergrad
yates would be respected, and they
never would be forced to withdraw
from the scene because of the too thrill
ing nature of the ceremonies.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30

II N agreement has been made. The
u city has done its part fully and
- completely, and your company
has done nothing. Not a single SPADE
full of earth has been turned; not a
nail has been driven in the direction of
that much desired depot structure. 1t
is still a shrug of the shoulders, and
promise, promise. How long will this
be?" The statement and question are
referred to e. II. Hartman for an
swer-and to date nothing has been
heard from the magnate excepting that
Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance
and operation of the Southern Pacific,
has the matter under consideration in
Chicago!
The people will not be contented with
Mr.. Harriman's attempt to pass over
to Mr. Kruttschnitt the responsibility
of a new railroad station to replace the
archaic Arcade depot, which surprises
all passengers who arrive in Los An
geles for the first time. Under circum-
stances that would have been amazing
to a community unaccustomed to the
Southern Pacific methods of operation,
the city vacated Fifth street property
AUDITING on the railroad property on
which the Arcade station is situated.
The council practically made pres
ent to the railroad company of prop
erty worth from $4,000 to 100000.
Mayor McAleer vetoed the ordinance of
vacation, but the council passed it over
his veto.
The Southern Pacific promised the
work done on the grounds would
amount to not less than $750,000, and
perhaps to $1,000OOO, But nothing
whatever has been done. The COM
pany has the land; the public has the
promises the fulfllment of which is
now two years overdue. To place on
Mr.. Kruttschnitt the responsibility for
the actual delay and for what appears
to be insincerity is move that will not
satisfy the public. The people of Los
Angeles, we'll accustomed to Southern
Pacific magnates, men and methods.
will place on Mr. Hartman all the re-
sponsibility for the unremedied. dis
creditable conditions at the Arcade sta
ton. A few months ago Mr.. Hartman
said publicly the Southern Pacific
would build a new depot when congress
reimbursed it to the extent of a mil
lion and a half dollars expended in
closing the break in the banks of the
Colorado river and saving Imperial
valley from damage.
To make Los Angeles stand aside,
kid fashion" Off our readers will par
don the phrase), and wait, wait, wait,
until the paternal Hartman makes up
his patronizing mind to keep or to
break his promises is insulting; and
the insult will be resented by every
self-respecting citizen of Greater Los
Angeles. The public will demand that
the Southern Pacific road be held to
its agreement and compelled to keep its
promise.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
TIMID ARE FRIGHTENED BY
THE "UNSEEN POWER OF EVIL"

POMONA. Cal, April 27.-[Editor
Herald: Replying to c. f., VINO says
with an exclamation of surprise,
'Imagine a natural serpent talking
Familiarity with a woman!" l would
say: Just imagine Moses writing
(Gen. SD and Paul indorsing q Cor.
11:O story that was not true! And
just imagine Jesus placing the sea- ol
his approval on the writings of
romancer when he said: Had We be-
lieved Moses, We would have believed
me for he wrote of me. But IL We
believe not his sayings, how can ye
believe my words" John 5:46-4O. l
submit to your readers that the ac-
count of the temptation, written by
Moses, and the reputation or Jesus,
stand or fall together. And why should
not a serpent talk famlllariy win
woman, when "a dumb ass, speaking
with mans voice." forbade the mad
ness of Balaam? e Pet. 2:1O. Why
can we not be straightforward with
one another? We are not pettifoggers,
with a fee and a reputation at stake,
hut men and women, honestly endeaV-
oring to set forth what we believe to
be the truth c.. f. misrepresents me
when he says, HE also denies that
there is any apostolic comment or any
unseen power other than. Moses
record." What 1 wrote was (after
Quoting Gen. SD, Neither does apos
tolic comment on the event suggest
any unseen power, or any power at all,
other than Moses recordse' Then I
quote 2 Cor. 11:S, and I say again that
an unseen power" in the temptation.
is a creature of the imagination and
not to be found in the Scriptures.
c. f. quotes, This is your hour and
the power of darkness" Not word
about an unseen power" worse than
mankind, but it was this hour (of
ascendancy), and darkness, in Its
metaphorical sense. as ignorance, pre-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30
SAYS DIG UP DOCUMENTS
TO STOP TURK oUTRAGES

PASADENA, April -[Editor Her
add: Cassel, the writer OF "The L Las
Great War in the Orient" that OF 1875
1877 and 1878. between Turkey and Rus-
sia ending with the Berlin congress,
saws at the end of his work: THAT
France by taking Algiers in 1880 found
in the great mosque of that place an
edict of Mohammed prescribing to con-
vince those who were not of their
faith to follow that, and if they were
unwilling to leave them alone. If their
temples were destroyed, to rebuild these
and to restore so far as it was pos
sible the damages done to their prop
erty." 80.
A similar edict, the only two left by
him, is to be found at the Sofia church,
Constantinople; that which was found
in Algiers is deposited in the French
academy, Paris, France.
Would it not be advisable to publish
this case, which seems to have been
forgotten. so that search after these
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-30

Joseph H. Call in a letter read at a
meeting of the San Pedro board of
trade said for ten years there has
been no competition whatever between
the railroads of the United States, The
railway combine, with it's grip on
American commerce, is one of the
most extraordinary and at the same
time undesirable products of modern
civilization. That is to say, the rail-
roads, of course, are desirable, but
the combine is not