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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-21
HOnOred.

the most delightful affairs ent social season, given in
 he debutantes, was the Friday evening by Judge
 M. Elliott, at their home
 b avenue. The honorees < Asion were Misses Mary
 aroline Caldwell and Lou 6 Omaha, Neb. The guests ted at the door by little Miss md Master Gilbert Martin. Tome home is beautiful in it. fhere could be anything to attractiveness it was the lecorafions used. In the re-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
REAL FUNCTIONS OF LEAGUE OF
JUSTICE DISCUSSED BY MEMBER

Organization Conceived with Purpose of Aiding Prosecution OF
Graft, Broadens in Scope and Now Embraces Aim to
Promote Civic Righteousness and to Inculcate
Principles of Justice and Morality
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
VOLUNTARILY COMMEND
ARTICLES ON SAN PEDRO

standpoint SO greatly am impressed
with the broad and comprehensive
manner in which the subject was treat
ed that [ want to congratulate you.
and want to say the whole series of
articles should be printed in pamphlet
form and distributed broadcast
throughout Southern California and
the east.
Il have passed nearly all of twenty
seven years on the coast, and have
seen much advertising and other lit
erature-good, bad and indifferent-put
before the public, but never anything
that possessed the genuine merit and
potentialities for the future good of
this section as do those ten articles.
The matter should be taken up by the
chamber of commerce and other civic
bodies, and the truths as told therein
be heralded over the country They
are not only consolidation campaign
literature, they are future commerce
builders"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

A MONG the volunteer commenda-
"a tions from readers of The Herald
"A regarding the papers work in the
harbor fight, the following are taken
from letters received recently
l.. A. Ross, 62S Westlake avenue-"I
beg to thank you for your able, inter-
esting and instructive articles on San
Pedro Harbor,' which l am reading
with deep interest"
C. M. Gordon, 532 Bradbury building
-"Just a word in commentator of the
excellent service you are rendering for
Greater Los Angeles. Your splendid,
skillful and successful fight on munich
pal corruption won the admiration of
all good citizens"
C. M. Jay, 57O314 Pasadena avenue
after having read each of your arti-
cles en- san Pedro harbor, as recently
published in The Herald, / became
much interested in them from his
torical point OF view and much more
so from a business and commercial
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Graft Prosecution Incidental

The fight against graft in San Fran
cisco is not the fight of Heney anu
Spreckels against Calhoun and Ruet. IL
is the peoples fight against graft They
only realized this fact when Heney was
shot. Then for the first time the better
element of citizens awoke to the need
of taking a hand in affairs They talked
of taking the law into their own hands
and organizing a vigilance committee,
but saner council prevailed and more
effective organization, the League of
Justice, was formed. The league is not
organized solely for the purpose OF tld-
ing San Francisco over period of mu-
nicipal upheaval as would have been
the case with a vigilance committee.
It's immediate purpose, of course, is 10
aid the graft prosecution and give the
better element of San Francisco clti-
zens a chan1el through which they
may assist the graft prosecution. But
when the graft prosecution is over the
League of Justice will continue ITS ex-
istence, waging war on public apathy
The death of Heney or Spreckels could
not stop the graft persecution today.
The people themselves have now en-
tered the fight, which no longer rests
on the shoulders of one or two men.
The citizens have come forward and
shouldered the responsibility and viii
see the struggle through to the finish.
And Wnen the HSHl against SldIl 10
over the League of Justice will con-
tinue to exist in San Francisco and
other cities (for it has struck a note
of approval throughout the United
States). 1t will carry on an educational
campaign in the interest of higher
standards of citizenship. 1t will en-
deavor to have the principles of Amer
icanism and pure democracy taught in
the public schools in order that the
coming generation may have true
conception of the duties of the citizen.
1t will educate the immigrant classes,
imparting to the foreigner a knowl-
edge of the institutions of the republic
and an appreciation of the sanctity or
the ballot. 1t will try to keep the at
tention of the public focused on prob
lens which demand public attention,
1t will try to arouse the taxpayer to
the need of guarding and watching the
officials who tax them. 1t will endeavor
to improve the laws of the land in or
der that Justice may be better obtained,
and it will try to improve conditions
in cities in order that men may live
more just lives.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
BY A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE

, 7 have been concerned with ] have
often insisted, much to the disgust OF
officials. that, instead of assuming, as
people usually do, that things are gong
right until it is proved that they are
going wrong, the proper course Is to
assume that they are going wrong until
it Is proved that they are going rlghl.
You will find, continually, that private
corporations, such as joint stock bank
ing companies, come to grief from not
acting upon this principle. And what
holds of these small and simple private
administrations holds still more OF tf@
great and complex public administra-
tons.
People are taught and, l suppose,
believe, that the heart of man is de-
ceitful above all things and desper-
ately wicked;' and yet, strangely
enough. believing this, they place i'm
plicit trust in those they appoint to
this or that function. | do not think
so i'll of human nature; but, on the
other hand, I do not think so well Of
human nature as to believe it will do
without being watched.
Country Faces Unique Situations
"The world has never before seen
social phenomena at all comparable
with those presented in the United
States. A society spreading over enor-
nous tracts while still preserving its
political continuity is a new thing.
This progressive incorporation of vast
bodies of immigrants of various bloods
has never occurred on such scale be-
fore Large empires composed of diff
ferent people have, in previous cases,
been formed by conquest and annex
alton. Then your immense pleXus OF
railways and telegraphs tends to con-
soidate this vast aggregate of states
in a way that no such aggregate has
ever before been consolidated.
And there are many minor cooper
ating causes unlike those hitherto
known No one can say how it is all
going to work out. That there will
come hereafter troubles of various
kinds, and very grave ones. seems
| highly probable; but all nations have
had, and will have, their troubles. Al
ready you have triumphed over one
great trouble, and may reasonably hope
to triumph over others.
"I think that. whatever difficulties
they may have to surm cunt, and what
ever tribulations they may have to
pass through, the Americans may rea-
sonably look forward to a time wheh
they will have produced civilization
grander than any the world mas
known"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Boys Body Found; $1,000 Reward Paid

STOCKTON, Aug. IA special dis
patch to the Mail from Yosemite val
ley says that the bod, of Horace Lo-
gan, the boy who has been missing
for nine days, was found this after
noon at the foot of Staircase falls, to
the rear of Camp Curry. The finder.
Adolph Schnack receives the reward
of $1,000 offered by the Crocker estate
for finding the body.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
PEOPLE TIRED
OF SOLD THREE
ADVISORY BOARD WILL KEEP
TAB ON GOOD ROADS
"Supervisors VIII Hear from Public
Before Long" Is Prediction Made
by Chairman Sidney A.
Butler

For the furtherance of the plans for
making the advisory committee effect
i've in it's efforts to protect the public s
interests and assure the building OF
the good roads for which the bonds
were voted by the peolpe, an offer has
been made by a prominent engineer,
long a resident of this city, to give his
services gratis in the service of the ad-
Visory board.
AT present." said Sidney A. Butler,
chairman of the advisory committee,
yesterday, "he is not willing that his
name should be known. We appreciate
his public-spirited offer very highly,
and trust the splendid example will be
followed by others who can be of ser
vice in aiding the advisory committee
to protect the public's interests.
II shall call a meeting of the COM
mittee as soon as possible, probably by
the middle of next week, to take up
the plan prepared by the special COM
mittee. There are some details of prep
aration which 1 have to attend to
first"
Close Watch Must Be Kept
The plan is to have expert engineers
and others investigate all matters con-
nected with the construction of the
roads, reporting the results, so that the
watch on all the actions of the board
of supervisors.
public opinion should do the rest
declared Mr.. Butler. Public opinion,
so far, to be sure, has been ignored by
the Solid Three, but it hasn't really
begun to show itself in any great de-
gree. The consolidation elections and
other matters have kept the minds OF
the people somewhat from this impor-
tant matter of good roads. but the Sol
id Three are going to hear from the
public before long
AZ have many letters in my posses
sion from prominent citizens making
various suggestions as to ways OF
bringing the Solid Three to time. More
than one suggests ropes. Under sim
liar circumstances in 40 that is the
method that would have been taken,
But Wen hope we won't have to come
to anything like that
81 think people will get pretty tired
of that Solid Three and if they waste
the good roads money when 1t can be
shown by the figures which will be
gathered by the corps of experts which
it is expected the advisory committee
will employ, we may be sure that some
thing will be done to stop it,
Legal Action Suggested
legal action, along different lines.
is recommended by many in the letters
sent me, if the Solid Three should con-
tinue in the course they have pursued
so far.
''The advisory committee is going to
do all 1t can. We don't like to give up,
and we feel that the people demand
that we shall not give up. No matter
how hard our work may be, we are
committed to it. and must go through
with it. The newspapers are giving
every aid, and the publicity is bound
TO tell in the end.
"If others follow the example of the
engineer who already has come for
ward with the offer of gratuitous SER
vice. the cost of carrying our plan into
effect will not be great. When that is
done the supervisors will be unable to
deceive the public in any way regard
ing the expenditure of the good roads
fund"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

It's as easy to secure bargain in used
automobile. through want advertising. as It
used to be-and still is-to secure horse
and carriage
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
WiSeTalkS
By The
"Office Boy"
HELLO, EVERYBODY!

Well, here / am back on the job
again. Gee, | had Jim dandy vaca-
toni l travelled all over the United
States and Canada, but, honest, Los
Angeles has them all distanced on
climate. and we can run rings around
them when it comes to doing things.
Why, 1 met crowd of Elks who had
just returned from Los Angeles, and
they said they thought the South and
the East knew something about hospi-
tality, but they never knew the mean
ing of the word until they struck Los
Angeles. That's the system, that's why
we grow. Everywhere we went, as
soon as we registered from Los An
geles, people would ask us II we knew
this person or that family, and they
all said: I'm coming there to live
very soon." Honest. you and have
no conception of what great country
this little old Southern California is;
why, it hasn't started to grow yet.
1 There is just one proposition where
Nthe East puts it over us, and that is
the good stores don't fill their win
Gpws full of signs, u, 1-S " and y
ofa7-but I'm not going to talk shop
this, morning.
l often think the less a man has to
fuss about the easier it is for him to
grumble. If you folks had seen some
of the sights l saw in New York dur
ing the hot spell this summer. Thou
sands of women and little children
sleeping on the ground, in the parks
and OH the banks of the Hudson for
miles, as thinly clad as common de-
cency would permit you would have
said with me. California is certainly
Gods country, all right, Many a night
/ got so hot and sticky from the hui
midity that l got UP and took a cold
bath and often repeated same a couple
of times before morning. They talk
about "45 minutes from Broadway"
three thousand miles from Broadway
sounds pretty good to me in July and
August. I'll have another visit with
you tomorrow,
FIVE STORES
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Quaint Features of Everyday Life

Ben. Ben's natural enemies are the spar
rows. When he can creep up on one of
them and make its feathers fly he is de-
lighted.
Some time ago a lot of the little chat
terers settled on the limb of a tree in Ben's
back yard. Ben saw them and crept, foot
by foot, to the tree. Up the trunk he eau
tlousIy climbed and finally reached the
limb. At this point the sparrows saw him
and flew to the ground, where they chat
tered vigorously, Ben, In the mean time,
watching them from the limb with hatred
in his yellow eyes.
Then, without warning, the sparrows sud
denly flew up and began a concerted on
slaught on Monsieur Ben. They pecked
without mercy. until he dropped his
and beat a demoraIized refractory
ing meanwhile with pain and rage.
Even as he descended the trunk Of the
tree three OF the birds ollowe him with
vicious bills.
When he reached the ground he ran to
his mistress on the porch and sprang into
her arms-the triumphant birds withdraw
ing their fighting line in good order.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
AM oId Gnme rhnt Failea.

Describing the wearing OF two pairs Of
trousers or the padding on the seat OF his
pants as a futile and obsolete device for
minimizing the pain caused by whipping
at school. Joe Mitchell OF Asheville, N. c.,
appeared at a public school with a novel
scheme for outwitting the principal.
The l2-year-old boy had repeatedly played
truant and been caught by the truant of
ficer. The policeman told him he would be
whipped, When the appointed hour came
he was ready and all the school eagerly
awaited the outcome.
The boy wore q long coat which was
tightly closed at the lower part by chain
and paddock, so that It was not possible to
reach Joe at the place where the whipping
would do the most good. Joe grinned at
the principals prediciment and told him
he had left the key at home.
The resourceful teacher called for help
and the coat was skinned over Joe's head.
lock and all. and then the boy got fun
measure OF chastisement.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Abolition Of the aueue.

Connected with the antl-foot-binding
movement is another relating to the men.
This is for the abolition of the queue. Hhe
high class officials and the better element
Of the people are seriously discussing do
ing away with the pigtail. This was not
favored by the old empress dowager. IT
was proposed to her in 1898, but she replied
thai no edict favoring 1t should be issued
while she lived. Now that she is dead the
question is again agitated and the queue
will eventually go, Some Of the schoolboys
are already cutting off their hair, and
there is a strong sentiment that this should
be enforced in the army. The soldiers lind
their pigtails very inconvenient in warfare,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

in good condition and look well myself,
too"
Then he told them he had a premonftion
he was going to die. He said he was not
i'll, never had been seriously i'll in his life,
but that he suddenly had become cogni-
zant Of the facts that his end was APP
preaching swiftly.
Well-intended cajolery was tried in the
belief that Hoffman was depressed, but his
smile of quiet resignation had more of
courage than melancholy in It. His
friends became much impressed as he took
a chair and settled himself in a comfort
able position, meantime bidding each Of
those present farewell. They observed that
he closed his eyes, and took 1t for granted
he was wearied by the exertions of pre-
pairing the house for their reception.
After ten minutes a lifelong friend
stepped forward and laid his hand on the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

The late Mayo w. Hazeltine," said a
New York editor, was a literary critic
of the old school. That is to say, he be-
lieved in learning, he believed in pure Eng
lish, he never wrote slang. We have no
such critics now.
His literary learning was incredible. He
knew the characters OF history as 1
knew Smith or Robinson. once. at a din
ner, a Welsh historian said to Hazeltine
bitterly:
You wouldn't have condemned my
book If you had ever heard OF Hook and
Eye. Aha, you frown. You don't know
who Hook and Eye was, do your
Hook and Eye was Lord Vivian, lord
lieutenant OF Cornwall said Mr.. Hazel
tine. His nose was an enormous hook and
the always wore an eyeglass-henoe his
nickname Of Hook and Eye
Their Mr.. Hazeltine told a story about
Hook and Eye that the dazed Welshman
had never heard, He said the lord lieu
tenant, visiting a Cornwall lunatic asy-
lum asked an inmate:
"'What is your occupation, my NAM
THE lunatic, as though suddenly wound
up, answered:
I'm a cherry picker, cherry picker,
pick, pick, cherry picker. But your lord
ship could earn twice as much as 1 could
cherry picking
How SOP inquired Lord Vivian smil-
ing.
oh said the %lunatic, I have to hold
on with one hand and pick cherries with
the other, but you could hang on by your
nose and pick with both hands. I'm a
cherry picker, cherry picker, pick, pick
cherries
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Antl-rootblnainr Moremen,.


The sentiment against binding the feet
is very rapidly growing. The great em-
press dowager sent out an ediUt shortly
before her death denouncing the custom,
and advising all the girls and women of
the empire to do away with IL. Chang
Chi Tung has written an article on the
subject, and before he died Ii Hung Chang
advised that the custom be discontinued.
Many Of the yiceroys and governors have
sent out proclamattons favoTing the abOli-
ton OF footblndiHg, and a number OF So
cietiCs have been started In the different
provinces in favor OF the natural foot for
al women. In all the girls schools the
government regulations provide that the
pupils must come with their feet unbound,
aud a system of %gymnastic exercises has
been instituted which are impossible for a
.crippled-foot pupil. In talking last night
with one OF the high officials OF Marking,
i Wqs told that 1ootblnoing would soon
DISAPPEAR, and that the sentiment against
Il Is rapidly growing. The man rerer to
was educated In the United States. Said he;
Il have two daughters, and one is 10
years old. Neither AVE bound feet. The
same IL true of many well-to-do girls In
my city, and especially so with the chill
dren Of high officials all over the empire.
The edict Of the empress dowager had a
wonderful effect. 1t has made the big foot
respectable, and the ordinary Chinese par
ent win give up the custom as soon as ne
finds his daughters can get husbands with
out It,"
l talked last night with a Chinese Off
cial, who is worth $4,000 900 or more. He
tels me that none of his women are bind
ing their feet, and believes that the prac-
tice' will gradually disappear.
As 1t is now, footblndlng is confined TO
the Chinese. The Manchus, who are the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Hnrdwnre IN His stomnch.

An autopsy performed on a patient who
died at the Philadelphia hospital after suf-
fer!ng for a long time with a malady the
physicians could not define. disclosed one
OF the most remarkable cases on record.
In his stomach was found a collection OF
hardware that ranged from a pin to a can
opener.
The case was the subject OF a report
made to the Pathological society OF Phila-
delphia at its meeting in the College Of
Physicians han, Thirteenth and Locust
streets. The case was reported by DR.. L.
A. Case, who performed the autopsy, and
Or. w, w, Hawke, resident physician OF
the insane department at the Philadelphia
hospitaI.
According to their report, the man with
the ostrich stomach was an electrician.
and was committed to their care because
OF erratic behavior. While in the insane
ward he suffered from a dlstended abdo-
men, and he was taken to the surgical
ward. whore al operation was performed.
Because Of the mans condition Il was Inn
possible to explore the stomach. He died
SOON afterward.'
At the autopsy these articles were found
In the stomach and intestines:
one large safety pin, one hairpin, daruing
needle, small pencil stub. ten wire nails,
six small safety pins, one can opener. one
trunk key, links OF an iron chain, some
small wire pins and a collection of small
pebbles and buttons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
sOrely Tempted.

The legal value of a kiss stolen by a boy
from a school girl has never before felt
the touch of masculine lips was fixed at
S5.75 by Judge Boyles in the city court OF
Atlanta, Ga.
The ruling was mad in the casetbrought
by pretty 16-year-old Ethel Scogglns, who
wanted ~1S-year-old Lon LedGord punished
for forcibly kissing her.
II met me last night" said the girl,
threw his arm around me and kissed me
squarely on the lips. 1t was the first time
a boy ever kissed me and it nearly scared
me to death"
Are you scared now?' asked the judge.
mo, sir" said the girl, blushingIy.
The kiss must have been sweet said
the Judge, but l think 1915 enough for
Ledford to pay. He was sorely tempted"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

There Is a similar organization in far
western china on the borders Of Tibet. aud
for some years a propaganda against the
evil has been carried on az Shanghai There
Is an EnRllshwoman Of Shanghai who has
done more perhaps for the female cripples
OF this nation than any native man or
woman. l refer to Mrs. Archibald Little,
who has written several excellent books
upon China. II was she who originated
this Tian Tsu Hui society. which advocates
natural feet for the women Of China, This
was started about fifteen years ago, with
branches all over the empire. II was sup
ported by the missionary women and other
foreigners. and IL has distributed tracts,
picturing the evils OF the practice, every
where. II memorialized the throne. and
was largely instrumental in getting the
empress dowager to send out the big foot
edict. Among other pictures made by this
society was the photograph of a bound foot
by the x-ray process. This shows how
horribly the foot is deformed, the bones be-
ing crushed out of shape,
o
Small Feet Va. Tight Waists.
I have talked. with many Chinese about
the natural foot woman. The best OF them
deprecate the custom of foot binding, and
all say that It Is bound to go. At the same
time they get even with me by denouncing
the practice OF lacinE. so common among
the women Of the United States, saying
that 1t is worse to compress the vital
organs than the feet. They consider the
small waist ugly, rather than beautiful,
and say both customs have their foundation
in depraved ideas Of the beautiful. One
Chinese remarked:
our men have been accustomed 20 con-
.ga.. aA.,IN ST. han..NlFn1 urhn Nu,n,an
think the men like It, and that the girl
who has a golden lily foot will have a
better chance for marriage. Therefore they
undergo the pain Of binding. Your men
think the wasp-like waist Is beautiful, and
therefore your women squeeze their bones
by tying one end Of the corset rop to a
bedpost and pulling on the other in order
to lace It tighter. You may call our people
a nation Of cripples because the better class
Of women have to hobble around on bound
feet. From tight lacing your people are a
race of invalids. Three-fourths OF your
women are unoer the care of the doctors
half the time, and that from the bad prac-
tice Of lacing. / venture that on the aver
age the Chinese woman Is healthier than
the American woman. Why do you not
stay at home and advocate ar
binding society, instead of coming over
here to write about foot binding?'