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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
ORANGE GROVES

FEW YEARS AGO in the east
N there was a sentimental furore
"A over California orange groves" ."
The sentiment did much to alleviate
the lives of poorly paid clerks and
other toilers with active gray matter
and souls that rebelled against the
everlasting round and abhorred deadly
duh routine. OF course 1t is wicked to
abhor routine. We all know that. But
a human being who is enclosed in q
walled corner called a room" Of bird
cage grandlosely named a New York
apartment house, must occasionally
find routine irksome. unless he should
happen to possess one of those placid
souls that are composed of three
fourths mud and one-fourth water.
To the human being with the living
soul routine is irksome always, and that
is why the Lord made the Sabbath for
man. please remember Jesus warned
us Heaven DID NOT MAKE MAN FOR
THE SABBATH).
The orange grove sentiment helped to
advertise California, and to bring many
peOpl6 mere WIN DSCdlllc CliLhuSldoliC
and valuable citizens, even although
their dream of an orange grove did not
become a reality. For an orange
grove means hard work, and our
Garden OF the Hesperides is guarded
by the dragon called Diligence. To
raise an orange grove is IAN undertake
ing" To buy one requires consider
able cash.
1t is interesting to learn in the east
there is a revival Of orange grove SEN
timent. The busy toiler has been told
oranges can't be grown with "sunshine
and whistling." that they don't market
themselves, and that the fairies and the
brownies refuse to go on duty in the
groves. But, fully aware of all it
means, the man from the east is pre-
pairing to come to the Pacific coast and
settle down to health, happiness and
prosperity among the orange groves.
The colonists refuse to believe pur-
chasable groves are scarce (and scarce
indeed they are), and the demand for
orange groves is more than merely
active" 1t is strenuous.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-sou band.
AIASON-"The Travelling Salesman"
BURBANK-"The Silver Girl"
BELASCO-'The County Chairman"
MAJEsTIC-"The Girl Question"
ORPHEUM-vaudev
GRAND-"The Sultan Of sulu."
Los ANGELES-Vaudevi
FISCHER'S-Burles
WALKER--Burlesau
UNIQUE-Vaudevill and comedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
THE DE LARA CASE

n HE Morning Reactionary, which
always seems to feel that its mis-
= sion is to preserve the old order
of things, says the political refugee
now held in Los Angeles Jail is de-
tanned at the request of the Mexican
government. It has published the
statement: "De Lara is now held at
the request of the Mexican govern
ment pending an investigation into the
charges against him in Mexico"
This statement has been denied with
some show of indignation by Immigra-
tion Inspector Ridgeway, who says the
suggestion the Mexican government Is
responsible for the detention of De
Lara is misleading in every detail.
Can 1t be that our contemporary is
better informed than the inspector as
to the innermost workings of the De
Lara case? Are the United States Of
ficials being used (as has been charged)
to act as cats paw for Diaz? Or are We
to accept Inspector RidgeYay's expla-
nation, which astounding to think of
puts on the United States all the
odium of a tyrannical. arbitrary and
cruel act, all the blame of sepa-
rating De Lara from his American
wife, expelling him from his American
home, disrupting his American family.
and delivering him to the vengeful
rage of the governmental gang that
tried to capture or assassinate him
while he was last in Mexico, on an
American mission for the benefit Of the
American public?
In spite of Mr.. Ridgeway and red
tape, this De Lara matter is one Of
most intimate concern to the Ameri-
can public. because it is believed De
Lara's work as reporter or assistant
reporter for an American magazine is
so dlstasteful to somebody that 1t has
put his life In peril, and may make his
American wife a widow.
Either Mexico wants De Lara, or the
United States does not want De Lara.
If the latter proposition be true, why
insist on deporting him to a country
to which he does not wish to
go? Why send him to Mexico, to be
imprisoned or killed? Why not send
him to Canada? The Canadians are
eager for new citizens, especially for
men of the scholarly intelligence of
De Lara. In a twelvemonth about
10000 Americans of the educated type
have gone to Canada. De Lara would
be safe under the Canadian and Brit
ish flags.
Unless he is wanted by Mexico, there
is no earthly reason why he should
be sent to Mexico. If, as is alleged, he
is being expelled from the United
States, and Is not being deported to
Mexico, there is no reason why his
expulsion should be conducted in such
manner as to endanger him.
In the opinion of several interna-
tional lawyers of considerable reputa-
tion, the undesirable-alien law was
framed not for the purpose of delivering
political prisoners to foreign countries
on demand, but for the purpose of
keeping unworthy, dangerous, diseased
or criminal persons OUT of the United
States; not for the purpose of driving
out men and women from the shelter
of the flag, but of keeping undsslrables
from coming into the United States.
But the authorities to all intents and
purposes (and in spite of quibbling
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
CANDIDATES

+ OS ANGELES HERALD is certain
the intelligence and good citizen
IL ship of voters at the primaries
may be depended on to choose candi-
dates worthy to fill the offices for which
they are thus nominated, and the pur-
pose of the primaries will be vindicated
by the elimination of the "impossibles,"
and by a vast curtailing of time,
trouble and EXPENSE at the election.
We are somewhat amused at the per-
sistency with which machine contem-
poraries dwell on the expense of pri-
maries. When the matter is properly
looked at, the expense is small, and
the payment, if 1t is to be considered
a charge, should be regarded as a pre-
MUM on highly desirable insurance
policy. Good government is far less
expensive than bad government.
We believe the people of Los Angeles
will approve the mayoralty of George
Alexander by renominating and elect
ing him. He is an ideal office holder,
and has discharged the duties of his
important position with constant con-
sciousness of his responsibility to the
people, and with most dependable con-
scientiousness. An eloquent tribute to
the personal merit and the adminis-
trative worth of Mayor Alexander is
supplied daily in the columns of the
Morning Reactionary, the employees of
which are convoluted in frightful con-
tortions and are undergoing indescrib-
able agonies in their endeavors to dis
credit the mayor" The Morning Yip-
per is like a bad boy in a church gal
lery making faces at the preacher.
Los Angeles is fortunate in the pos
session of citizens Of national reputa-
tion. They are known far and wide
and help to make our metropolis one
of the best known in the world. One
whose name is known everywhere is
Judge Works, and his 6andidature for
the city council will have a far-reach-
ing effect.
There is not a city government in the
United States that will not be benefited
by the nomination and election of Judge
Works for Los Angeles city council.
Friends Of good government every
where are rejoicing in the prospect that
Los Angeles will set an example to the
rest of the country by choosing coun-
cilmen whom everybody win respect.
Besides Judge Works, the following
good citizens are willing to serve on
the council: w. ]. Washburn, Miles
Gregory. ]. ]. Andrews. Martin Bet
kousxi, George Williams and Richmond
Plant.
Fortunately for Los Angeles, during a
critical period in it's educational history
our city has had the services of excel
lent citizens on the board of education,
the members of which have stood by
the best and highest interests of the
city, and have helped and forwarded
the cause of education in spite of the
roars of the Morning Reactionary and
the allegorical howls Of "Bottomless
Pit" Mushet.
The educational interRts of Los An
geles win be best serISd by the re-
nomination and recollection Of Joseph
Scott, Fielding ]. Stilson, J. M. Quinn
Roger S. Page. H. w. Frank, Melville
Dozisr and b. w. steddom.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
AS TO REMORSE

II RESIDENT DIAZ has issued an
official impression of President
Il Taft, which no doubt will be cher
ished by our worthy president as GER
tif1cate of character.
"A man of charming personality"
says President Diaz Of President Taft
frank and sincere, whose features car
ry the unmistakable stamp of a man
with a high consciousness of duty, un-
marred by a touch of remorse."
Let us be thankful our good-hearted,
healthy, wholesome president is thus
pleasantly free from remorse. What a
curious side light on the character of
President Diaz is this quaint express
sioni Apparently with him office hold
ing is a business which necessitates
gloomy regrets for various unpleasant
nesses which have marred what might
have been a placid life.
We don't like remorseful men as
presidents of the United States, Mr..
Diaz, and we don't propose to nominate
for the Office anybody who is haunted
by remorseful shadow. We don't
want as presidents of the United States
any great men of the caliber of Rich
ard III, Macbeth, Cardinal Wolsey or
others who might be named. In the
United States, when we think the
rights of the people are menaced or
infringed, there IS a great deal of "hol-
lering," and in a majority of cases the
threatened danger is averted. Thus by
the eternal vigilance which is the price
Of liberty do we free and enlightened
Americans save our rulers from any
danger Of becoming victims Of re-
morse.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

According to the retiring president
of the Carriage Builders National as
sociation, horse-drawn vehicles are re-
gaining popularity and the trade in
them is much greater than ever before.
This would be surprising news If it
were not for the fact that many reck-
less or drunken chauffeurs have done
their best to bring automobiling into
undeserved disrepute in various parts
of the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

A retirement salary for school teach
ers and principals is proposed. The
reason given for the establishment of
a retiring allowance is the earnings of
teachers are so small it is almost Inn
possible for them to save enough to
support them comfortably in their old
age. The same arguments that are
being used in behalf of the teachers
helped establish old age pensions in
the United Kingdom.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

Smith is becoming more and more
nervous over the silence of the old lady
in the balcony. If Kathleen Mavoureen
doesn't give him word of encourage
ment the serenader will lose hope. Why
doesn't the old girl cackle up and tell
him he's the only-only?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

All citizens should take keen inter-
est in the proposed aviation meet at
Los Angeles. 1t should be doomed
into triumphant success in the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

BY the death of Justice Rufus Peck
ham of the supreme court our country
has suffered what Attorney General
Wickersham well calls "a tremendous
loss" In political affiliation Justice
Peckham was Democratic, in political
principle American. To President
Grover Cleveland the country owes the
valuable services of Justice Peckham.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

It's a poor rule that doesn't work
both ways. Consider for instance, the
comical case of the San Bernardlno
Chinaman who, anxious to return to
his native land, pretended he was in
the United States Illegally and invited
the authorities to deport himl
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

Angeles the first to erect such a mon
ument, and here, as everywhere, edu-
cational clubs are the need of the
hour. There is plenty of fiamboyant
agitation, but exact knowledge is woe-
fully lacking. T. K. G.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

We talk with approval of business
men in politics" But If anyone
would find some explanation of the
great revival in church work let him
look at the lists Of business men en-
gagged in religious activity in connec-
ton with the Y. NJ. C. A. and other
organizations.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
Pubic Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the waite, Hhe aid
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

The Cook-Peary controversy is as
bad as a nature fake. 1t proves
polar bear may become polar bore.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

California cotton is progressing fa-
vorably.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

Alas. poor MushetI
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

On all matters pertaining to advertising
.Sdrass Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
National Good Roads Congress
Bv Frederic j HaSkin

HE national Good Roads con-
gress, now in session in CO.
lumbus, Ohio. is a meeting or
the American Road Makers
association, of which James
II. Mcdonald, state highway
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26

TOmorrow-Amending the Constitution.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN

Every community in California can
point to women who are successful
ranchers or orchardists, says the Mon
rovia News. Many women are prac-
teal apiarists or poultry raisers. Many
other women are making money by
breeding blooded chickens, cats, dogs,
pigeons by raising flowers putting~up
flower seeds, and in many special ways.
Given a piece of ground and water
and almost any woman with little
spare time ought to be able to raise
something for which there is a de-
mand or for which a demand may be
created. It was a woman, Mrs. Harriet
Strong who first raised pampas plumes
and made a demand for them; and we
all remember the crimson rhubarb pro-
duced and introduced by Mrs Theo-
dosia Shepherd. Two women in South
Pasadena have found the raising of
chrysanthemums for the market pro-
1table business One of the large berry
producers of the Tropico district Is a
woman. Left a widow with several
small children a number of years ago,
she leased a piece of ground and
planted out a strawberry patch. Now
she owns the ground and employs
force of Japs to do the work.
There are many possibilities as yet
little attempted-the raising of laven-
der; the collection of eucalyptus and of
other seeds; the cultivation of rare
bulbs and flowers for propagation; the
candying and preserving of fruits;
growing small fruits and table deli
cacies, such as mushrooms, artichokes,
satisfy, okra and other plants not easily
obtainable in the markets.
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CRYSTALLIZED GINGER

Crystallized ginger, SO popular for
pudding and ice cream sauce, rice
compotes and home made bonbons, as
we'll as for serving for afternoon tea,
can be made at home at half the ex-
pense of the boughten article.
To prepare the green ginger root
scrape, slice and cook in water until
clear. Drain and throw in cold water
over night The next morning cook
until tender, then preserve in rich
syrup using a little lemon Juice and
strips of yellow peel to flavor. When
ready to crystalline take as many of
the strips as you desire. drain and dry
on buttered tins in the warming oven.
Make a syrup of one cup sugar, four
tablespoonfuls of water and two of
vinegar. When it boils stir in a small
pinch of soda, then remove the spoon
and don't stir again or the syrup will
not be clear.
To avoid burning, let the saucepan
stand on an asbestos mat. Cook from
fifteen to twenty minutes, testing by
dropping a teaspoonful in a glass of
cold water. If it forms a ball that
can be worked, it is all right. Have
the ginger dried and ready. Then
with a skewer dip each piece in the
warm syrup and lay it on waxed pa
per in a cool place to harden. In sum-
mer the refrigerator is best. In cooler
weather a tray set in the open store
room window is all that IS required. II
the first dipping is not successful (and
the only possible cause of failure
would lie in the condition of the
syrup, go over the operation again,
adding a little more water to the
syrup.
When it stands the test dip again.
Syrup can be worked over a dozen
times in case of failure in crystallizing.
Use the best granulated sugar.-Bos-
ton Herald
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over this collection, selecting the in
stances fit for his own use. and thus
completes the work of ten years in one
year. Not long ago one of our great
physicians paid professional reader
$4,000 for compiling certain information
for him.
The business of looking up family
records to qualify a man or woman for
admission to the Sons or Daughters OF
the American Revolution or other his
torical societies is as we'll recognized in
Washington as that of the attorney
who looks up the war record of o
claimant for a pension. And there are
other information bureaus willing and
qualified to write a good speech for
budding statesman or make splendid
argument on any side Of any question.
Or, IL the budding statesman desires to
write his own speech and Is not IA
miliar with the bypaths of history, the
bureau will look up the history of any
bit of legislation, seek out the prece-
dents, cite decisions of the courts and
otherwise assist and instruct.
For fourteen years Kansas City
woman made her living and laid by
competence by designing the costumes
worn in the annual Priests OF Pailas
parade. Another woman in Columbia,
s. G.. is known as official painter of
heraldry to the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution" She makes q snug
living by designing and painting coats
of arms and heraldic designs for those
who are vain of their ancestry.
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MISS BESSIE RULPIN LOS ANGELES POPULAR soNeRIRD

disappointed that they will not be able
to hear her once again in what proba-
bly, is her greatest effort. Goodbye in
which her voice is given an opportunity
for a natural expression and range
rarely heard in this city, even on the
part of grand opera singers. In the
event of the audience being sufficiently
nisistent with it's encores it is not UNI
likely that Miss Bulpin may favor it
with this last named selection also.
The program, aside from Miss Bull
pins numbers, includes six overtures
by the entire orchestra, which has been
increased to sixty-five players for this
occasion. thus furnishing a music menu
of an unusually high order. The or
chestral selections will be as follows:
Overtures-"Caliph of Bagdad" (old
style), (Boieldeu: "Entfuhrung," ono
zart); Martha" popular operatic),
(Flotow); "Semiramide," (Rossinil F.;
Jeanne dare (historic), (VerdD /;
Macmillan Robespiere" descriptive,
(Henry Litolff).
Incidental solos, and quartet of
French horns. by members of the Or
chestra and assisting friends
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get out old bottles, rags, rubber, leather
and other junk. It is said that he
realizes from $4,000 to $4,000 a year on
old rubber shoes alone.
Several years ago a shoe buyer for
one of the Chicago department stores
conceived the idea of buying up slight
ly damaged or blemished shoes from
the manufacturers and retailing the
same at sacrifice price. He opened
up with one clerk in a, single room near
the roof of a skyscraping office build
ing. To get a good pair of IS shoes
with nothing more than a little.scratch
on them for So was such bargain that
customers came fast. The business in
creased SO rapidly that the original
store has been enlarged to fifteen
rooms, and forty clerks are employed
instead of one. The capital earned
from the original store has been REIN
vested until now the concern owns
eight large stores In other places.
A New Jersey girl, broken down by
teaching and office work, was ordered
by her doctor to get some occupation
which would keep her out of doors. She
followed the physicians advice by &C
curing a Doggy farm in New Jersey,
where she began the culture of bull
frogs. Persons who heard Of the new
venture smiled until they learned that
she was making q lou OF money SollAuB
frogs legs at big prices to New York
hotels and restaurants. In order to get
the fresh air she does her own killing.
Attired in rubber boots, she tramps
about the marshes and shoots the frogs
with small rifle.
The United States consumes millions
of olives every year, but they are near
ly all unripe. About eight years ago
California woman while travelling
aboard learned the secret OF picking
ripe olive IN a peculiar fashion. The
year after she came home she marketed
twenty gallons of ripe olives. Three
wears later she could not begin to I'LL
the orders which came to her, and now
she is annually marketing over 100000
gallons of ripe olive oil and picked
olives. A novel way of making living
is to do other peoples reading for
them. In the old days when a learned
man desired to write a scientific book
IT, was a labor of years. Not so now
adays in the United States. Suppose
a physician who has attained great
prominence as a specialist In the treat
rnent of a peculiar disease desires to
perpetuate his fame by writing a book
on that subject. What does he do?
Merely makes a contract with pro-
fessional reader to provide the history
of cases of the peculiar disease re-
corded in the medical journels of all
lands. The busy man then goes hastily
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MANY AND VARIED ARE
WAYS OF MAKING MONEY

In the whole history of the world
there has never been a country Wnere
it Is SO easy to make money as In the
United States, and this Is the mos'
prosperous time the people of our ma
tion have ever known. That there are
many WAYS of making a living besides
being a life insurance president, a prize
fighter or a hodcarrier is shown by the
following collection of unusual occu-
nations. says the Kansas City journal
OF the list of unique callings none Il
more peculiar than the business OF DR.
Cockroach" of Louisville. For stlpu-
lated annual consideration the doctor
contracts to keep ones premises rio oi
cockroaches. At regular intervals ne
comes around with queer looking tools
and mysterious powders, by means OF
which he persuades the cockroaches
to go. ,., l.. a..
sign on the shingle which hangs IN
front of an establishment on Broad
way in New York. The proprietor is a
Young woman who takes mammals pet
canary to. board while the family is
away at the seashore or absent from
home at other times. She also has
hospital for sick birds and teaches
backward songsters their mission In the
world and is able to make compe-
tence from her work. r.,
An EngliShman possessed VI d sinai
annuity and in bad health went to Ri
Paso, Tex The expenses of living were
so great in the southwestern city that
he soon found his income inadequate.
He invested all the ready money he
had in eight gilt and gaudy popcorn
stands, with little engines to run the
peppers. The idea worked, and before
long he branched out to San Antonio.
He soon worked up baby trust which
brought him an income of $4,000 a year.
A woman in Boston makes business
of taking inventories of houses which
are rented furnished. She comes to the
house and makes complete lists in trip
licate of every article, with descrip-
ton of it's condition. When the house
is given up she comes again and checks
over the household goods and appraises
the loss or damage. She has been SO
successful in this kind of work that
her services are much in demand. An
italian in New York takes over the
rubbish from the garbage collections
of the great eastern metropolis at a
stated annual price and makes from
500. 900 to $4,000 a year from the busi-
ness. He employs hundreds of sorters
ana pickers. who go over the rubbish to