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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01
ROYAL CARES

II ING EDWARD is leading siren
"a uous life, as the following news
IA paper account of one of his day
doings will show:
1.-THE king motored from London d.
rect to Newmarket yesterday and
after lunching in his private apart
ments entered the members stand,
looking in splendid health. After the
racing his majesty visited Egerton
house and inspected his horses in
training. After short call at his
rooms at the Jockey club his majesty
motored to Moulton paddocks, where
he dined with Sir Ernest Cassel."
Queen Victoria was a reader and a
woman of literary tastes. She liked to
see herself in print, and was guilty OF
one artless, prattling book about a
visit to Scotland But Edward reads
so little and writes so seldom that his
ability to rival a Los Angeles high
school boy in either accomplishment
may we'll be doubted 1t is believed he
can spell in German, but when-it comes
to English?
One would think a professional jolly
good fellow like Ed would be a fire.
quent writer to his friends in the
United States and elsewhere.
But the care and anxiety of having
horses in trainipg-and other worries
no less mportant-probably keep him
busy
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BURDETTE'S WAR STORY

| n FACE societies should reprint and
! circulate far and wide DR., Rob
4 ert J. Burdettes story of the bat
tie of Tupelo. Narrated in the Bur-
dette style, without application or
dressing up-a plain, straightforward
account of what war really is, it should
reach the heart of every one who reads
it, and everybody who understands our
language should read it. and it should
be translated into all the other Ian
guages.
After seeing a comrade and friend
killed by his side, Dr. Burdette at the
close of the day, when hostilities were
suspended, formed one Of a burial
party.
Let us quote in his own words one
of the most dramatic, powerful and
convincing arguments for peace ever
made by orator or preacher:
I'VE were hunting for our dead, and
giving them such poor burial as we
could. Pity walked beside US, such
time as she might, FOR WE WOULD
FIGHT AGAIN IN THE MORNING.
BY and by we came upon two Confed-
crate soldiers lying under a tree. One
was an old man, gray haired and gray
bearded He was shot through the
head. The other was a boyle years
old, maybe. He was lying close to the
old man-so close, that when the sting
ing bullet had pierced his breast, as he
fell with the awful fear in his heart,
he had reached out and caught daddy
by the breast of his gray Jacket, and so
he died with that death-clutch stiffen-
ing into a rigid, unbreakable hold.
1T was so natural in the boy! Daddy
always had protected him. Daddy
always responded to his cry for help
from the time he was a tiny boy. So
he called to him now. We could hear
the cry that went with that quick clasp
of the hand. Pity laid her hand on our
hearts as we stood beside them. We
made a resting place for them, just as
they had fallen. We did not try to
disengage that clinging hand, for love
is stronger than death.
Il HAVE SEEN THESE TWO
T. V Ell MEAlOINlAL4 LA <AS
knelt by the grave of some comrade,
with blossoms to lay over his silent
heart, 1 have felt the ache come into
my heart again, as 1 saw these two
Confederate soldiers lying side by side
in the grave where 1 helped to lay them.
Do call them enemies? How can I?
When. even as I looked at them I felt
willing to give my own life to bring
them to each other once more, with
the grave, tender smile on the gray
bearded lips answering once more the
merry laugh on the beardless face. But
[ couldn't"
AS General Sherman said, "War is
hell" so why should peace loving, civ
ilized CHRISTIAN countries devote
energies and resources to a perpetual
ton of the reign of hell upon earth
and ill-will among men?
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CARELESSNESS

j F THE Avenue Fifty drowning ac-
cident had been the first of its kind
"A we might speak of it with nothing
but expressions of sorrow for the fate
of the fine young fellow who lost his
life by diving into treacherous
pond" which was in reality a mud
bed thinly covered by water.
AS, however it was not the first
time there has been trouble and loss
of life caused by ponds on vacant lots
we think there is a reprehensible and
deplorable element of carelessness in
the accident. Proprietors Of lots
on which are dangerous mudponds
should be compelled to drain and clean
their lots.
Boys will always be tempted to battle
in anything that looks like pool, and
especially will they be tempted when
the weather is hot. There are no words
in the language forceful enough to con-
denim the stupid, homicidaI careless
ness which maintains deathtraps on
unoccupied property. A boy who dives
into one of the horrible "ponds" for
which criminal carelessness is respon-
sible will dive to almost certain death.
Drain every one of these unhealthy
water-covered, treacherous quagmires
without delay and keep them all
drained
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TAFT'S POPULARITY

Ii. doubts as to whether Mr.. Taft
~ would make a popular president
are ended. He has walked right
into the public heart and is a hero.
He sat on the bleachers with the
crowd at the Chicago Pittsburg base
ball match, and by insisting on staying
until the end of the game made him
self late for the Yale banquet at Pitts
burg. Fifteen thousand delighted base
ball enthusiasts cheered him and told
him he was first in war. first in peace,
first in the hearts of his countrymen.
No college boy enters into the spirit
of a game with more zest than the
president. Not for him tho exalted
dignity and aloofness of a special box
He wants to be among the boys, be-
cause he is one of the boys. Golf and
baseball are the NEST democratic
games in the world, and the president
is a devotee of both. AS long as he
can sit on the bleachers and yell "Yi-
yip, go it, good boy" and go out on
the Kinks and roar "Forel" in heaven
searching voice he will never get far
away from the peopla-
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COUNCILOQUENCE

CLOSE observer of the manners
| IN and customs of Los Angeles city
II councilmen says council meetings
are warranted to remain dignified for
about six hours. The grave and rev.
erend city signiors can live up to their
professional reputation for that length
Of time. During most of the six hours
of dignity two and sometimes few
more of the councilmen indulge in eX-
tended soliloquies and labored, states
manlike conversations. At least two
of the lawmakers of Los Angeles may
be counted among the jawbreakers of
Los Angeles, for their long distance
stunts in the use of language would
have a destructive effect on the maxil-
larry of any unframed imitator.
We don't know whether or not the
Los Angeles counciloquence is founded
on a study of Ciceros De Oratore. We
rather suspect it is not. But how much
more effective are the native woodnotes
of wild council warblers than the utter
ances of those whose gift O. the CAB
hath been trimmed and ordered by the
usages of the rules of debate and the
practice of rhetoric.
So go it, We councilmen. Let your
duets and trios escape from the coun-
ell chamber to the vast open, and cause
the heated populace to wipe it's dew
spangled brows and wonder what has
made the atmosphere so unusually OPP
pressiVe.
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FINGERS FASHIONABLE

n EW YORK society has adopted
the motto, Fingers were made
~ before forks" and is living up to
it. The members of the four hundred
give finger and thumb dinners, at
which knives, forks and spoons are not
supplied. Guests are compelled to eat
in primitive fashion. A sample menu
is "cavaire on toast: CLANS, eaten from
the shells; soup in cups; an entree of
mushrooms or sweetbreads on toast,
eaten like a sandwich; small lamb
chops with the bones trimmed to serve
as handles, with dry Clipped Saratoga
potatoes; asparagus salad; strawber-
ries with the stems attached; small
pies or a layer cake and coffee.
From this it will be seen that eating
without forks or knives is not a dread
full ordeal after all, especially when the
bill of fare is arranged with especial
reference to the mode of conveying the
victuals to the facial orifce. But is it
not apparent New York society is in
desperate straits for novelties?
We believe there was a well-founded
rumor current in Park row a few years
ago to the effect there was a standing
reward offered by well-known host
ess to any one who could devise q
brand new way of entertaining her
blase guests. Pity the poor rich. They
soon begin to suffer from brain rust
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A SAFE SPORT

N unusual number of automobile
accidents again calls attention to
"a the fact that as a rule an auto
mobile is a safe vehicle, but when a
chauffeur takes chances the margin OF
safety is decreased and may disappear
Most of the automobile accidents re-
corded recently in the newspapers
could have been avoided. They were
not the fault of the machine, but of
the machinist.
So much will be said about the per
lis of automobiling when the accidents
of the past few days are under re
view-so much has always been said
with regard to its dangers when any
thing unteward has happened-that we
would call attention to the fact that
automobiling in reality is the safest of
all sports, and with careful driving
over any average road there is hardly
any danger at all, while with careful
driving over good roads there is posi-
lively no danger at all.
However, when human beings who
are in control of automobiles take
chances-when they race down road
with a sudden curve-when they try to
pass other vehicles by hairs breadths,
when they take chances on narrow
roads or make experiments in narrow
roads with steep embankments, or
when they race at breakneck speed on
special courses-we must be prepared
~ hear of accidents
If there was as much reckless driv-
ing by teamsters and coachmen as
there is by chauffeurs there would be
as many accidents with the horse We
hicle as with the horseless.
Don't blame the automobile. 1t is
one Of the greatest conveniences. bene-
fits and helps of modern civilization.
But the man at the wheel must learn
it is NEVER SAFE TO TAKE A
CHANCE, and all automobile dealers,
clubs and associations are anxious this
lesson should be learned and lived up
to in order that there may be an end
of the unnecessary accidents which
have a tendency to create a most I'M
deserved prejudice against automobiles
and automobiling.
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HARTMAN

GIL oW about the Fifth street
ii station, Mr. Hartmann
IL What action does the city
council propose to take in order to
hold Hartman to the promise he made
when he secured valuable property in
the heart of the city? What does the
city council intend to do with regard
to the Hartman promise? What meas
urses will it take to make Hartman
keep his word?
Do our city councilmen fully under
stand the circumstances under which
a former council made what was vir-
tually a splendid gift to Mr.. Harri-
man? There were certain considera-
tionsc attached to that gift. If they
are not to be fulfilled, does the coun-
Gil intend to wink at what would be
to all intents contempt of the munich
pality on the part of Hartman? Why
should not Mr.. Hartman be compelled
to keep his word7
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MILIT4a.RISM

+ INTEREST in Memorial day official
celebration probably was centered
at Gettysburg, where President
Taft boldly addressed himself to the
question of militarism. acknowledging
the founders of the United states had
dreaded the very thought of a big
standing army and had deliberately
neglected to make provision for one.
He said: "The general purpose OF
congress and the American people, if
one can say there is a plan or pur-
pose, is to have such nucleus as q
regular army that it may furnish a
skeleton for rapid enlargement in time
of war, to force ten or twenty times
its SIZE and at the same time be the
appropriate instrument for accom-
plishing the purpose of the govern
ment in a crisis likely to arise other
than war;
We wish President Taft had been
more explicit on this point. Every
body in the United States who reads
his Gettysburg speech will ask, What
crisis other than war is likely to arise?
The celebration of Memorial day
brought to mind the fact that for
peace loving country America has lost
an undue proportion of her best sons
on fiercely fought fields of battle, and
that her three greatest and bloodiest
wars have been contests between varl-
Gus sections or countries of the Eng
fish or American speaking race!
Memorial day is the most solemn of
all the national celebrations, and
every Memorial day address should be
a plea for PEACE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01
TWENTIETH CENTURY
EGYPT
III. The Streets of Cairo
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKlN

NAIRO, Egypt.-In the Thousand
and One Nights" citizen of
" Mosul praises Bagdad highly
as the city of peace, but a venerable
man in his audience replies that he
who has not seen Cairo has not seen
the world. Her soil, he declaRs, is
gold. Her women are an enchantment.
The Nile is a wonder Upon the fol-
lowing evening Scheherezadeah says:
What are the joys of seeing the be-
loved compared to seeing Cairo? When
one has seen Cairo he thinks of the
night when the Nile reaches the de-
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AT THE THEATERs

AUDIT0RIUM-Dark.
MASON-Ethel Barrymore in Lady Fred
erick.''
MAJESTIC-Kolb and Dill in "Weiner and
Schpitzel."
BELASCO-"Merely Mary Ann"
BURBANK-"Under Two Flags"
GRAND-Murray and Mack, 'In Har-
yard"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
MISUNDERSTANDING.
LOS MISUNDERSTANDING.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
EAIPIRE-VaudeVille
FISCHER'S-Extravaga
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The State Press
Strange Alliance

DR.. ]. c. Steffen of Dubuque, Ia,
gave the Presbyterian general assem-
bly, some pretty good advice when he
said, let Rockefeller and Carnegie
alone-go into your own pockets for
college endowments. The alliance of
God and Mammon in religious educa-
ton and especially in the training of
candidates for the ministry is not
tending to establish confidence in the
clergy.-Oakland Enquirer.
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GUILTY

Come on, we're not grown up,
Not grown up at all!
Come here to your daddy,
Well all of us sprawl
All-fours on the carpet,
AS glad as can be,
And scuffie and tumble
And giggle with glee.
Now, sister. hold baby
or wait! Get the broom
Wen seat her on that
And away round the room -
Wen gallop, and drag her
And fill her with fear
II is good for us all
That your mothers not hereI
Now under the tablet
Now! there goes a chair!
But chairs haven't feelings,
So why should We care7
Look out for the tabouret
There by the door!
Now hang to the handle,
Here goes for one more!
Away from the parlor
And out in the hall.
That's right at gallop!
Who cares for a fall
Whoa! who's got a tumble?
Who's that by the door?
That's meyer you, baby,
SPRAYED fiat on the floor!
oh. well. straddle on;
Who cares for a bump?
And no! for the kitchen,
Hop, skip and jump!
The hall is behind us,
The parlor left far,
know where some cookies
Are hid in a jarl
What's that! That's a noiseI
That's your mother! she's come!
Now all in a row
Each one sucking her thumb
The parlor is wrecked
Like we'd been on spreei
Let us all try to look
Just as good as can be.
Houston Post
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AMERICAN GIRL


" URRAH for Anna Marie Nellis,
the brightest girl in Kansas. In
N order that she might wed plain
American citizen she refused an offer
OF marriage from the sultan of Sulu.
It is better to be an American Mrs"
than an Oriental sultana. The Ameri-
can wife is more free than any queen
or empress in the world. over her own
home she reigns, a benevolent despot
bringing up her children to believe
worth makes the man, the want of
il the fellow; the rest is all but leather
and prunella." The American mother
teaches her children that wealth is
not everything in this world. that
honest poverty is better than dishonest
riches, even although the latter may
be called success and the former fail
ure; that a dollar earned is much to
be preferred to a dollar borrowed, and
that the same remark applies to repu
tation The true American is IAN
honest man, the noblest work of God"
And the true American receives his
principal training from his American
mother. We hope the brightest girl
in Kansas will have long and happy
life as plain Mrs. Phillips"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01

All records for the Los Angeles
Humane society, which works among
children, were broken during the
month ended yesterday. 1t is too bad
there is necessity for such an organi-
cation in lovely Los Angeles" but
since that necessity exists let US be
thankful we have an efficient and vigil
liant society.
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nothing but the truth about our south
ern metropolis, visitors from the north
would not be astounded.

The people of the United States are
beginning to sit up and take notice
that one of the greatest industries in
the world is being developed in Cali
fornia. 1t is the oil industry, which,
with the fruit industry and the mining
industry and the shipping industry and
the development of Pacific commerce,
will unite to make California the rich
est and most prosperous state in the
Union.
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Modestv and Beauty

Miss Vergilia Bogue of San Fran
cisco has been chosen by the executive
committee of the Portol& festival as
CALIFORNIA; most beautiful girl. Miss
Bogue is beautiful all right, but we
have plenty of girls here in Kings
burg who are more beautiful than she.
But our girls are too modest to lay
claim to such honors as these, even
when they deserve them.-Kingsburg
Recorder.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01

BY employing a physician for the
poor, Los Angeles health board has
earned high reputation for enlight-
ened humanitarianism. Fortunate in
deed is Los Angeles. which now pos
sesses a mayor distinguished for abil-
ity and honesty, and health board
which "does things
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Far and Wide
Wealthy SmuggIers

Collector Loeb of the port of New
York has thrown a bomb into the camp
of the smugglers, and now they are
willing to compromise on any terms.
They would redeem a trunk containing
$55, 900 worth of Paris gowns by pay
ment of 100000. The offer has been
turned down, very properly. The col
lector proposes to catch the smugglers,
even if some of them are listed among
the upper ten-and that's all there is
to it.-Seattle Times.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01

Inspect your change. Many fake and
Canadian pieces are going the rounds,
and car conductors who won't con-
sciously accept any substitutes for
Uncle Sans mintage are not all above
palming off queer coins on passengers
in self-defense, we presume.
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The graves of thousands upon thou
sands of veterans were decorated by
the appreciative citizens of this re-
public. The bodies of the patriots rest
in widely scattered tombs, and glory,
glory, hallelujah! Their souls are
marching on
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sired height, ana
returns the goblet
of wine to him that
offers it. He let's
the water return to
it's fountain head.
That is. to say he
W a n t s nothing
more. And when
thou seest this land
of Roda thou art
transported with a
joyful delight. And
when thou standest
by the Nile, when,
at sunset, it is
yelled with a tissue
of sunbeams, thou
art revived by the
soft breeze that
fans the S h a d y
shore. "
This was written
of the City of the
Caliphs before Eu-
ropean civilization
superimposed itself
upon the structure
of Egyptian life.
= ! 4 "a
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Clean up" says Mayor Alexander.
1t is good advice, and we hope every
householder and property owner will
follow it. Lovely Los Angeles must
look her loveliest for the Elks and
other distinguished visitors
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Why not raise the Maine? If the
wreck is not soon brought to view
and inspected the mystery of the Maine
will presently become as great as the
mystery of John Paul Jones, who, if
the people of Galloway are worthy of
credence, is buried in two hemispheres.
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Tariff Fraud

The Payne tariff nor any other tariff
law in the United States was ever
framed to benefit the masses, although
the poor deluded laborer and farmer
imagine the cry of protection for
American labor is honest.-Willows
Journal.
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Robbed

That was a pathetic bit of history
printed in the Dispatch of the boy who
has served fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary Tor crime that he did not COM
init. Though yet a young man he has
aged prematurely and looks to be many
years older than he is. What wonder?
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Mayor Taylor of San Francisco said
he was surprised at the improvements
in progress at San Pedro harbor. Our
DISTINGUISHED visitor found himself in
a constant state of surprise all the
time he was in Los Angeles. If the
San Francisco and other northern
had taken the trouble to
tell the truth. the whole truth and
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Irish Commander

forces in India, General Sir Garrett
OMoore Creagh, who will succeed
Lord Kitchener in the autumn, is 81
years of age. He is a graduate of the
Royal Military college, Sandhurst, and
Joined the British army in 1S66.-Oma-
ha Bee,
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First peaches of the season are here.
CThe fruit, not the other kind speci-
mems of which can be observed in
Lovely Los Angeles all the year
round)
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EntomolouicaI

The Osawatomie Globe philosophers
that every purchase of an automobile
discourages the horsefy. The Hutch
inson News agrees, and then worries
because each purchase also encourages
the auto bug."-Pomona Progress.
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The Workman's Hire

The human race needs to learn that
pay doesn't go with the job. 1t goes
with the service performed in the job.
Harrimans job, which is probably
worth ten millions year, wouldn't be
worth SO a week if it was held by a
man who couldn't fill it.-New York
Press
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Good Roads Demanded

Judging from the editorials in the
papers of the towns located in the
southern end of the valley, there seems
to be a general good roads agitation
that will not down.-Fresno Herald.
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Much More Imnortant

The Farm Journal states a significant
fact when it says, 1.-THE man behind
the pillow is more important than the
man behind the gun."-Oakland En-
quirer.
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Gyroscope

Already r. M. S. Lochiel, plying from
Bunessan to Three on the Scotch coast,
has diminished her roll from Is degrees
to about degrees. She is a vessel of
443 tons displacement and her gyro-
scope weighs seven tons.-Yonkers
Statesman.