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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
TARIFF TAXATION

ON Friday the house will take ac-
ton on the Payne tariff bill; then
~ it will go to the senate; then to
conference. The frank intention of
this measure is not to protect Ameri-
can neutrality-suspicious. is no longer
a word to conjure with, but to raise
revenue. In other words, we may now,
surely enough, say 1.-The tariff is a
tax 1t is held by some legislators,
among them by Fitzgerald of New
York, that the Payne measure does
not do what.it processes to do; that
it does not raise revenues to sup
port the government. Then what ex-
cuse is there for this latest experiment
in tariff tinkering, which was COM
mended to and at first commanded the
respectful attention of the American
people, who were told the Republican
party would provide a tariff revision
which would remove existing inequali-
ties? The removal of existing inequali-
ties by the substitution of others even
more Objectionable seems to have been
the result achieved by the politicians
who have been engaged in a revision
which proposes to tax articles regard
ed by a majority of the citizens of
this republic as necessaries of life.
If the so-called revisionists should
manage to carry out their plans and
make a new tariff law effective no OBJ
servant person needs to be a prophet
in order to realize he is safe" in pre-
dieting that not one but many ma
tional storms, some of them cyclonic,
may "break loose" when the tariff
schedules go into effect and the pur-
chasing public fairly realizes what this
quaint revision but not reform" real
ly means.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
DRINKING FOUNTAINS

n UTRAGEOUS is a mild adjective
wherewith to describe the van
" dalism which destroyed the drink
ing fountain at Main, Ninth and Spring
streets. BY placing the fountain there
the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals had performed Il
public service, and for this as we'll as
all it's other useful and humane acts it
is entitled not only to the encourage
ment and support but the protection Of
the public. Everyone concerned with
interfering with the fountain should be
brought to book and punished. Thou
sands of teamsters were in the habit
of watering their horses at this foun-
tain every day. Who could be so base
hearted as to object to the fountain be-
cause perhaps the teamsters were
tempted" to Stake their thirst with
the fluid used by the horses, instead Of
going to a beer saloon in the neighbour
hood?
The city should re-establish the foun-
tain in good order as soon as possible;
and the good work should not end with
this Let the city establish other
drinking fountains at various points
where they will be appreciated. There
is need for them in Los Angeles, as well
as for public lavatories and other con-
Veniences of civilization. The lack of
these conveniences encourages the
liquor industry.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
THE DESERT HILLS

Weird and hooking and secret-wse,
Changing peaks on the turquoise skies;
Silent stretches of naught between,
Dusty says as a touch of green;
Crowned with the pure of heavens snow,
Burnt like the bulwarks of hell, below
Weird desert hills.
Calm and taunting the mad in men,
Quiet slabs that have always been;
Shifting tints as the day is born,
Dull and gray with the passing morn;
Backed by lonely and lurid streak
Just as the stars have commenced to speal
Calm desert hills
Loved and Turing and calling me,
Stony waves on a stiffened sea;
Weaved my soul in the silent pail
Bowed to the Maker who built 1t all;
None of the charms of a gardened plain
Hold any place in my heart again
Loved desert hills.
-oney f. Sweet in Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

A correspondent whose letter is pub
lished in a conservative Republican
morning newspaper says: For years
the most barefaced cases of robbery
and stealing directly and indirectly
have been perpetrated. and yet not q
single law passed by which the guilty
persons could be punished, and why ?
Apparently the more the people are
fooled the more they want to be-" Yes,
sometimes it looks as if that were the
case
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
AT THE THEATERS

MASON-Lillian Russell In "Wildfire."
BELASCO-"The Dollar Mark"
BURBANK-"In Gay New York"
Neutrality-suspicious."
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-'"The sultan Q
Sulu."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Los MISUNDERSTANDING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EMPIRE-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-"The Generals Dilemma"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
The State Press
Roosevelt's Rest

Former President Roosevelt Is pos
sessed of supreme good nature. He
has far more self-command than we
had any idea of. All reports indicate
that he desires nothing SO much now
as a little privacy He sincerely wants
to be let alone. He is doing what any
private citizen has right to do. He
is taking a vacation. He has chosen
to go to the wilds of Africa to get it.
After eight years of strenuous service
who will say that our former president
has not abundantly earned rest? Yet
is he getting it?-Humboldt Standard.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Mayor Alexanders commission ap-
pointments have been confirmed by the
council without discussion. The mayor,
following out his policy of drafting the
best available men for the public SER
vice, has given Los Angeles a most
highly efficient staff of public SER
wants. Good citizenship and business
ability are represented on the commits
sions, and the best interests of our city
will be guarded right well.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
Dressmakinq by Weiaht

Scales will be part of every dress
making establishment in New York
hereafter, since Mrs. Leslie Carter
Payne had to pay her dressmaker's
bin. She said the gowns did not fit,
and when the judge suggested that she
might have increased in weight, she
couldn't deny it. New York women.
when theysorde dresses hereafter, will
weigh in.-Fresno Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

In a day and a half 1900 women Of
Los Angeles signed petition protest.
ing against the proposed tariff on
gloves, and Arthur Let's in a telegram
to Senator Flint said if there had been
time five times the number of sigma
lures could have been secured without
difficulty. We believe this represents
a condition of sentiment general all
over the United States.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Saturday evening programs of the
municipal Fairgrounds are highly sue
cessful. The playground Saturday
evening entertainment" is a brilliant
idea, and reflects great credit on those
responsible for it.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

bureau of chemistry of the United
States department of agriculture, have
been adopted by the Civic association.
The Civic association is a credit to
Los Angeles and it's patriotic activities
are a constant and overwhelming refu-
tation of the silly plea that women
should not be allowed to take an active
and voting interest in public affairs.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

WI HEN the Twenty-ninth congress
w met the free traders were able
to count a safe majority, and
it was not long in getting down to the
serious business of revising the Wing
tariff of 1912. That law had proved
great revenue producer, and the treas
ury was piling up too big surplus for
the financial health of the nation. The
demands for revision of the tariff
had been heard the year before, but
nothing in that direction was done by
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

the i WellIY-eiS nun
congress further
than to discuss the
matter in an aca-
denlic way. A bill
reducing d u t / e 5
was introduced, but
was promptly ta-
bled by a vote of
los to 80.
The election in
1874 was perhaps
the greatest go-as-
you-please race the
country has ever
seen. Polk had re-
ceived the nomina-
tlOn LOT preSlueIll
by the operation Of
the two-thirds rule
in the Democratic
convention, while
Dallas, thought to
be a high-tariff
man, was made his
running mate = in
order to make sure
of the Pennsylva-
MIA vote. Clay was
tI,A Whfar nnnIi
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

causing them to strive diligently for
the mind of Christ.
Christian Science is Christianity in
its fullness, and is willing to be judged
by its fruits in the overcoming of sin
and it's evil effects.
WILLIAM r. BROWN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

state commissioners are all right If
you have the right kind of state COM
missioners," says Mr.. Hartman, who
doubtless plumes himself on the fact
that in California ne has had the right
kind of state commissioners.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

In an interview published in the
French papers Col. Roosevelt is quoted
as having said: 81 have always main
tanned that probity in private life is
indispensable in public life. / have
fought the oil kings and the steel en-
perors. They tried to break my back,
but my back is still intact" Yes, that
sounds like Teddy.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

President Taft has announced he
will visit California during the sum-
mer. We hope no one will try to make
him think he can claim TO have made
a visit to California without coming
to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
The PHILIPPINES

Representative Mccall of Massachus-
etts believes the Philippine islands
should have their independence, and
that if they were independent they
should be neutral territory, so as not to
become the theater of war among for
eign powers.-San Luis Obispo Breeze.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

The general public will begin to be-
lieve that Harriman's health is seri-
ously impaired or at least that he has
bad attack of CROUCH" if he con-
tinues to scold like a garrulous fish
wife.-Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Alabama's prohibition law, which was
fought up to the supreme court by the
liquor interests, has been declared
valid. 1t will hold water.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
Their Discovery

William Waldorf Aston, proprietor of
the Pail Mall Gazette, has discovered
what William Randolph Hearst, another
millionaire newspaper owner found out
long ago-that money will hire an edi-
tor, but it takes decent treatment to
keep him.-Fresno Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin predicts
California will have female suffrage in
1911. And then what?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
THE STRAW TEST

With a broom straw to pierce your cake
When you think it's done enough,
If the straw gets sticky rough,
You must longer bake
If it COMES out clean and neat,
Then the cake Is fit to eat
April DelineatoE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Charles Warren Fairbanks is nota-
BILE addition to the good citizens and
good fellows of California.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
Coffee Club

The Coffee club has come to stay.
THE cup that cheers but does not in
ebriate" is one of the rock grounded
institutions of Modesto from this time
orward.-Modesto News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

San Pedro is flourishing. The report
of the deputy collector of the port for
March shows a marked increase i'll
shipping.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
Affinity Humbug
Shock to Some
Tariff Doctrine

A tariff is a simple thing;
1t seems SURPRISING queer
That men so many words should bring
To something that is clear.
In traffic I'm engaged, you see,
And doing very well.
Let all things be entirely free
Save those have to sell.
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
The Public Letter Box

publication
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07

Resolutions indorsing the work of
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-07
Far and Wide
Bringing X Home

The tariff itself is not a popular sub
ject, and in it's nature cannot be. One
might suppose the contrary, for as a
rule civilized men are uncommonly sem
sitive about taxation. But there's the
rub. You may tell millions of men that
a tariff is a tax, but the words fall on
dull ears. Propose a scent duty on
coffee and the millions are up in arms.
Why? Because they know that the
added duty on coffee would mean so
much added to the price they would
have to ay.--Indianapolis News
s.
Horse Doctor Needed
81 suppose that latest expedition to
the south pole took a doctor?"
"Of course"
Just an ordinary doctor?"
"Why, 1 suppose So"
"That was a mistake. Didn't you
notice they were taken i'll after eating
one of the ponies?'
"Well?"
"Then they needed horse DOCTOR,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
=
Affinity Humbug
The day of the affinity" has not
come Marriage remains a bond be-
tween men and women, not beasts.
The shrine of home and family is not
endangered by the example of a NOR
bid artist" who doesn't even know
that true art is the expression only of
pure Notwithstanding Telegraph.
s.
Shock to Some
Explorers are of the opinion that the
south pole is located on high plateau.
This will naturally come as shock to
people who have been laboring under
the impression that it was deposited in
a hole in the ground. Record
Herald.
81
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
Florida.

More than 100 acres of castor beans
have. been planted in Dade county.
Fla. and factory for the extraction
of the oil will soon be erected.
Twenty-four thousand camphor tree
seeds have been planted by l.. Z. But
Ter at st. Petersburg, Fla. He will
produce camphor gum from the grown
trees. The camphor tree thrives in
that state and attains Il wonderful
growth in III Incredibly short time.
The honey king Of Florida is located
on Key Largo with CIV hives of bees.
from which he recently took fourteen
tons of honey without eXhuusting the
supply. This big apiary moves from
place to place in search of suitable
fields of bloom for the bees to work on.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10

polar gateway to its sweep of the
northern ice at midnight. From the
end of the polar night late in Febrn-
airy to the first of the double days and
midnight suns we had forced trail
through darkness, blood hardening
temperature and over leg breaking IL
Fegularities of an unknown world or
ice to an area 200 miles from the pole.
The Midnight Sun
Now we had the sun Enthusiastically
at midnight. and its new glory was
quite an incentive to our life OF shiv-
prs. Observations on April placed
camp at latitude Sc degrees 81 min
utes, longitude 81 degrees minutes
In spite of what seemed like long
marches we had advanced only LOG
miles in nine days. Much of our hard
work was lost in circultous twists
around troublesome pressure lines anu
high. irregular fields Of very old Ice.
The drift ice was throwing us to the
east with sufficient force TO give US
some anxiety, but with eyes closed TO
danger and hardships the double days
Of fatigue and glitter quickly followed
one another.
The temperature. ranging between
SO and 46 degrees below zero f.. Kept
persistently near the freezing point OF
mercury, and, though the perpetual
sun gave light and color to the cheer
less wastes. we were not impressed
with any appreciate sense of warmth
Indeed. the sunbeams seemed to make
the frost OF the air pierce with more
painful sting.
There was a weird play Of orgies
seemingly most impressive mt TINS
tine-clouds of steam rose from the
frozen seas. In marching over the
golden glitter snow scaldS the face
while the nose is bleached with frost
The sun rose into zones of fire and SET
into burning fields Of ice, but with
pain we breathe the chill of death.
IN camp a grip Of the knife left pain
full burns from cold metal. To the
frozen finger the water was hot. With
wine spirits the fire was lighted while
oil delighted the stomach. In dreams
heaven was hot, the other place was
cold. All nature was false, We seem
ed to be nearing the chilled fame OF
new hades. In our hard life there
was nothing genuinely warm. The
consenIal appearances were all deep
ton. but death offered only cold com
fort. There was no advantage IN sui-
eide
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
Sporting Notes.

Jim Rector of Virginia will run
Walker. the South African speed mar
vel, if he comes here for race.
Pitcher Breitenstein of the New Or
leans team of the Southern league
wants to play the outtield in 1910.
Zbysco, the Galician wrestler, has
been engaged to make tour of this
country. where he will be matched
with the best wrestlers in the world.
William Stearne, a long distance
swimmer of Manchester, England, at
tempted to swim the famous English
channel recently. but failed after hav-
ing covered seven miles.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Countess Anastasia de Torby is only
fifteen years old, but already she Is ore
81 the best golf players in Europe
Mrs. J. w. Hotchkins of Guilford,
Conn, who is eighty-three years old,
made patchwork quilt of 1000 pieces
In three months.
When Mile. Helen Miropolosky made
her debut as member of the Paris
bar recently she was attired in sim
pie black gown, relieved by the con-
ventional white barrister's bib.
Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter Of
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,. is only fourteen years old, but
she is said to he familiar with public
questions. about which she can talk
intelligently.
Mrs. Addie Walker of Rife, Colo,
killed Il bear recently in the identical
section in which ex-President Roose-
welt hunted bears few years ago. The
animal had attacked her dog. and she
had quite fight to accomplish its
death.
Mrs. Gilbert Jones, founder of the
League For the Civic Education of
Women and chairman of it's executive
committee. is q resident Of New York
and is much interested III the woman's
suffrage movement. She has of late
appeared prominently as the leading
woman opponent of that movement.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
English EtChlngS.

Altogether the British fleet carries
144 twelye-inch guns.
There are over fifty authors and jour
nalists in the house Of commons.
Great Britain has 100000 horses
available for the purpose of warfare.
In London sketching in public places
Is prohibited by the police regulations
1t was asserted at the annual meet
ing of the London Mendicity society
that the total number Of begging let
tiers in possession Of the society was
23S.O3S.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10

was at hand, however, to consider seri-
ously the necessity of an early return.
Nearly half of the food allowance
had been used. In the long marches
supplies had been more literally used
than anticipated. and now our dog
teams were much reduced in numbers.
A hard necessity had forced the cruel
law of the survival of the fitteSt. for
the less useful dogs were fed to the
steady working survivors. Owing to
the food limits and the advancing sea-
son we could not prudently continue
rhp outward march IL fortnight longer.
We had dragged ourselves 300 miles
over the polar sea in twenty-four days.
Including delays and detours, this gave
an average of nearly thirteen miles
daily Oh an air line in our course.
There remained an unknown line OF
100 miles before our ambitions could
be satisfied. The same average ad-
vance which we had made on the pack
would take us to the pole in thirteen
days. There were food and fuel enough
to risk this adventure.
Work and Observations.
In the diary of the succeeding days
doings there appear numerous tabu-
lations of work and observations. In
the new cracks the thickness of the
ice was measured. The water was ex-
amined for life. The technical details
for the making and breaking of ice
were studied, and some attention was
given to the altitude of uplifted and
submerged irregularities.
Atmospheric, surface water and ice
temperatures were taken. the barome-
ter was noted. the cloud formations.
weather conditions and ice drifts were
tabulated There was Il continuous
routine of work which does not appear
here. 1t belongs to the specific details
of the history Of the exploration,
which will appear in the later publica-
ton of scientific data.
This work. like the effort Of the foot
IN the daily drive of duty, became
more or less automatic and does not
nj any time enter as an active part of
the story. AS we now run along over
seemingly endless fields of ice the
physical appearances come ulder a
careful scrutiny. | watched daily for
possible signs of dangerous failure In
strength. for serious disability now
meant a fatal termination.
A disabled man could neither con
tinue nor return. but every eXamina-
lion gave another reason to push hui
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
of the Pole
North Of Bradley Land.
Amazing Sensations Of
Dr.. Cook and His Two
Companions - -
NINTH ARTICLEl

We should have enjoyed this curious
experience. but with endless bodily
dlscomforts, combined in aching mus
Giles aud an overbearing lAnguor. there
could be no real joys from the glories
of nature. The pleasure was reserved
for later retrospect.
We now changed our working hours
from day to night. beginning usually
mt 10 and ending at {. The big march
es and prolonged hours of travel with
which fortune favored us earlier were
no longer possible. Weather coudi-
lions were more important in deter
mining the days run than the hands
of the thermometers.
When the storms threatened the
start was delayed. and III strong blows
the march was shortened. but In one
way or another we usually found
few hours in each turn of the dial dur
ing which march could be forced be-
tween winds. 1t mattered little wheth-
er we travelled night or day-all hours
aud ali days were alike to us-for we
had no accustomed time of rest, no
Sundays. no holiday, no landmarks or
mileposts to pass. TO advance aud ex-
pend the energy accumulated during
one sleep at the cost of our pound of
pemmican was the one sole aim In
life.
The observations of April II gave
latitude 81 degrees 20 minutes. longi-
tude 90 minutes 10 seconds. The pack
disturbance of Bradley Land was less
and less noted in the northward move
mpnt. The fields became heavier, lar
ger and less crevassed. Fewer trou-
besome old foes and less crushed new
ice were encountered. With the i'm
proved conditions the fire Of a racing
spirit came for a brief spell.
Passing Highest Reach.
We had now passed the highest
reaches of all our predecessors and
had gained the inspiration of the far
thest north for ourselves. The time
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-12-10
German GIeanings.

In the last eight years Germany has
more than doubled her naval expendi-
ture.
Nobody may be employed in German
business premises at greater height
than sixty-siX and two-third feet.
Unless definitely stated in n contract
drawn up at the time of marriage Il
husband in Germany has the right to
dispose of his wife's property without
her consent.
The German Dreadnoughts to be
commissioned in the autumn will have
a displacement of 1920 tons, speed
over 10 knots, twelve 11-inch guns,
twelve 5.) inch guns and sixteen "a
inch guns