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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-31

the echo of strange, fierce oaths.
Such air as we breathed! Such
jaunts as we took afoot and afield!
And then one afternoon, one glorious
afternoon, when it meant perfect
physical happiness Just to be alive,
and when all animate nature was
singing a TIE Deum, we awoke from
our obsession. Our walks had always
led to the crest of one of the neigh
boring hills, from which coign of van
tage we could see the Happy Valley
at our feet; could trace the path of
the arroyo through the center of
which a tiny stream threaded its Ian
guild way southwark; could look di-
rectly down on that quaint little
chapel, the Church of the Angels,
sometimes hearing the bells ring for
afternoon service. And this after
noon, looking out over it ALL listening
to the silence and to the wind in the
grasses and watching the cloud shad-
ows making wonderful pictures as they
ranged over plain and foothill, valley
and mountain, we awoke to a knowl-
edge of our undoing, awoke to the fact
that in all the years of our outdoor
existence no other landscape had ever
appealed to us in the intimate per-
sOnal way that these low brown foot
hills did-to the conviction that the
most desirable color scheme in the
world for a landscape is a MONOCHROME
of dusky brown; and then and there
we enlisted under the new banner, and
swore allegiance to "the little hills
One evening the sun sank from sight
into a bank of blue gray clouds before
the time scheduled for his disappear
ance, and the next morning rose glo-
riously to shine upon a world made
new. while dripping roofs, rain
i. I I to-
white clouds and eXultant hooking
birds all FASTENED to tell the good It'd
ings of a shower during the night and
to proclaim that winter had been de-
tanned Just over the shoulder of the
mountains, and would be with us
shortly.
Then followed two months of Cali
fOrnia winter, when weeks of sunshine
would be varied by gray days and
after which the rain would fall for
several days in succession, bringing
benson to the thirsty earth. and veil
ing our hills from intrusive gaze.
Clouds We're alternated with delicate
ly tinted skies at dawn and gorgeous
sunsets, and when the rains ceased
the Sierras lifted snow-crowned peaks
to the azure above, and the deep
crevasses in their sides We're filed with
the same glistening wonder, while on
the plains beneath olive ranches, rose
gardens and orange groves, rich with
a weak wealth of foliage, fruit and
flower, lifted glad faces to the warm
sunshine and took on new life.
Singing, spring came sauntering
from the south. and lingering among
our dear hills touched them with gem
tie hands. while we watched again,
with bated breath. the sacred mystery
of birth TINY vines began at once to
put forth a brave showing of minute
green leaves, and with ear close to
the ground we listened to the murmur-
ings of innumerable other green things
that were pushing and crowding their
way to the surface; we kept tryst day
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
Mob Violence.

A mob OF 5000 citizens attacked the
Greek quarter in Omaha and from
early Sunday afternoon until early
Monday morning the streets or the
district were a scene of rioting. The
attack was in retaliation for the MUIR
der of Policeman Lowrey by Greek
Friday.
Five persons are suffering with gun
shot wounds, IL Greeks are so badly
beaten they are in hospitals and about
10 other persons are suffering from as
saults or as the result of misdirected
missiles. Scores of others have slight
er hurts. No estimate can be placed
on the financial loss resulting from
the destruction of property by the
mob. Five shops Of Importance were
almost wholly wrecked, while 16 small
er ones escaped serious damage.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26

The floating OF the Russian loan OF
$3.50, 900, 900 Is TO be dramatically an
swered by bankrupt japan with the
mobilization in November of the
largest military force ever assembled
by the empire in time OF peace.
The immense Russian loan is ac-
cepted by official Japan as the cars
notice TO the mikado that he is al
'eady preparing to rehabilitate his
military establishment, with Man
churia as its ultimate striking point.
The modifying of her whole military
strength is Japan's reply. Though
not attempting TO conceal her hnan-
cial distress, the island empire VIII
thus announce to the world that there
is still good fight left In her.
The Miyagi Prefecture, where the
maneuvres will be held, is alone send
ing five divisions of infantry, six bri-
gades OF cavalry, one battalion OF
heavy artillery and two companies OF
cavalary equipped with the new light
field guns especially designed to re-
pei Cossack attack.
The announcement OF the maneu-
vers has aroused the war spirit OF
Japan which has lain dormant since
the war with Russia.
News that emigration from japan
to the Pacific is to be forbidden by
the Japanese government as result
of agitation in Toxic, is received from
the steamer Tango Maru which has
arrived at Victoria, b. c.
Count Komura, minister of foreign
affairs. is quoted as stating that the
government will not in the future
dispatch emigrants to the Pacific
coast, and in view of the failure of
Japanese in Mexico and South Amer
lea and that Japanese methods OF
farming are not applicable to Man
churia emigration from Japan gener-
ally will be discouraged.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
The Secret Service.

Despite the recommendations or
President Roosevelt in his last annual
message to congress and his earnest
urging in special message later, the
sundry civil appropriation bill, which
was reported from committee to the
house Tuesday, contained the same
clause limiting the activities of the
secret service to the investigation OF
counterfeiting and the protection OF
the person of the president.
This is the limitation that caused a
breach between the executive and
congress early in the present session.
The presence of the Limitation in the
bill is taken to mean that congress
has justified its action through the
testimony of the executive officers OF
the government, who declared that
the investigation of fraud was not
hampered by the limitation of the Sc
cret service.
The bill, however, contains a clause
granting to the secretary of the inter
Tor 81 100000 for the detection and
prevention of fraud on the public do
main. The appropriation last year
was 100000 and the year before
$3.50, 900. Secretary Garfield urged that
It be increased to 81, 000,0 900 this year
that the great mass of land fraud
cases now on hand can be prosecut
ed to their conclusion. This work is
to be done by agents under the al
rection of the secretary OF the inter.
Tor
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
THE BOOK TRUST
PRICES VARY
HOW THE HOLD UP Is WORKED
IN MICHIGAN FOR LARGE
PROFITS.
SEEMS EASY MOI
Scheme Appears to Be Smooth and
Evidently Successful in This State
and the People Pay.

Rep. Straight. of Coldwater, has
discovered what certainly seems like
a rank discrimination against Michi-
gan in the matter of the retail price of
school books. Several days ago a
friend at Fremont, Ind, directly south
of Coldwater and only about a mile
over the state line. sent him a copy
of the Complete Geography, by
Alexis Everett Frye, formerly super.
intendent of schools of Cuba The
book is published by CHM & Co., Bos-
ton and London. and is marked I'm
diana edition"
The friend purchased the book at
a store in Fremont for rs cents and
the bookseller said he was making 10
per cent on It.
Rep. Straight purchased an iden-
tical copy of the same geography at
a Lasing book store and was charged
$1.25 for 1t. This Lansing purchased
copy is marked Michigan and Wis
consin edition" The paper and the
binding of the two editions are exact
ly the same, the only difference being
that there are few more maps in
the Michigan and Wisconsin edition
and copy of the latter edition weighs
one ounce more than copy of the
Indiana edition"
At the department of education in
the state house IL is stated that last
September about $4,000 Michigan boys
and girls bought copy of geography
OF the grade that is sold in Indiana
for TX cantc and q OK In Michipan
This means that the 10000 Michigan
children paid $4,000 more for their
Biographies than 10000 Indiana chill
dren paid for the same kind OF
geography.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
CONDENSED NEWS.

State Highway Commissioner Earle
will speak through Branch county the
first week in March. He is on the pub
lie school lecture course.
The special water power commit
tees will go to Big Rapids February
rs to look over the power situation
along the Muskegon river, where the
Grand Rapids & Muskegon Power Co.
has several sites and is negotiating
for more.
Big Rapids now has two aspirants
for the Office of major OF the Second
regiment, NJ. NJ G., Maj. Falardeau
and Capt. Mccormick. These, with
put up warm three-cornered contest,
ii is expected.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
MEN AND THINGS
TALKED ABOUT
JUSTICE BREWER SEEMS TO BE
PEEVED OVER FLEETS
LONG TOUR.
FIERCE RIOT IN OMAHA
Brief Notes OF Events In Various Parts
of the Country, of Major and Minor
Importance.

Justice David ]. Brewer, of the Unit
cd States supreme court, in addressing
the U. of NJ. students on THE Mission
of This Country is the Cause OF
Peace" hit at Roosevelt and congress
for extravaganza in desiring a bigger
army and navy. Among other things,
he said:
THE assertion that the best way 10
preserve peace is to build up great
navy and army shows an ignorance of
history.
"The trip OF the feet around the
world, as a boastful show of our naval
strength, has been nothing but waste
OF money. After all its folly, its influ'
ence on the orient has not brought
peace one day nearer. Over FIVE mil
lions of the peoples money have been
spent for coaling this fleet alone
What benefit has the nation received
from that expenditure? over IS per
cent of this country's expenses are
due to the army and navy. In 1907
the sum spent in this way totaled
1865, 000,0 900, the largest sum spent by
any nation.
From football to warships, we are
developing a love fotr fighting. We are
rapidly drifting into an admiration for
the trappings of war, instead of TAX
ing the lead for peace.
There never has been a nation
that built great army and navy, but
that they got into war. Peace born OF
force is only temporary. Not until az
nations settle their differences by ar.
bitration will the world enjoy peace"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26

quantity OF fuel consumed In this re-
spect alone the experience gained is
invaluable. Nearly 100000 gallons Of
oil were consumed in lubricating the
engines and machinery.
All Nations Impressed.
II Is as a naval test that the cruise
of the fleet takes rank as the most
interesting and greatest achievement
of modern times. Naval experts Of
foreign nations waited with cynical
patience for the feet to arrive in Mag
dalena bay, battered and disabled aft
er the first leg Of the rigorous journey.
When the ships went through target
practice without any preparation they
FASTENED to report to their govern
ments. Later, when the same ships
continued on their way around the
world and did the same thing at Ma.
Mia bay, the fighting efficiency of the
American navy was unquestioned.
Foreign naval experts also waited
confidently until the ships should
reach California, to see the bluejack.
cts desert in shoals as soon as they
set foot on their own soil again On
the contrary the men kept to their
posts more faithfully than even the
department itself anticipated. This
is the one problem Of the American
navy that has been a source of con
slant difficulty. Refreshments be
come more common than before and
for the men who left the fleet after
the long cruise around South Ameri
ca there were more men to take the
places when they were ready to leave
| San Francisco.
But there were some things, some
very simple things, brought out By
the fleets voyage which seem to have
escaped the critics Of the navy. II
naval operations are 10 be carried by
the United States at long range, and
that will probably be the case, so fal
as the Pacific is concerned theirs
must be golfers TO All the bunkers o.
the battleships, supply ships to fill thu
store rooms, and ammunition shipi
to I'LL the magazines. In their last re
ports the chief of the bureau of ord
nance said that a navy without am
munition was helpless, the chief of tn,
bureau of supplies and accounts salt
that a navy without food for the mel
was helpless. The GOLFERS are bein,
built now and II is only matter o
time before each Of the bureau chief
will get what he wants.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26

ing on the part of the men and ON
GERS at receptions and while on liber-
ty in strange and peculiarly interest
ing places has been far less than was
expected.
From thepoint ofview OF the trained
mariner, bringing a ship around the
world is no extraordinary task. But
bringing 16 battleships, with $4,000
men, around the world Is a most gi-
gantic naval undertaking. Unlike the
merchant ships, they are things OF
massive and intricate mechanism.
They moved in battle formation, ma
neuvering at sea, to simulate, as far az
possible, war conditions. At two stops
in their journey, Magdalena bay and
the Philippines, the great batteries
were brought into play for target prac-
tice, without preparation, to prove the
fitness of the ships for fighting at the
end of long cruise.
Many Countries Visited.
The feet visited 20 countries and
anchored in 26 foreign ports. The 16
ships passed through the Straits OF
bhC JOuhhCy
the Suez canal without mishap and
coaled at Port Said in record time to
be off to help the Italian earthquake
sufferers, all without mishap. Two
passed through the Dardanelles, the
first foreign warships to do so without
grave conferences between the Wig
liant powers, to pick up the young
Turkish officers who were to come to
the United States. Two saluted the
new sultan of Morocco. One division
dropped anchor at Annoy to do honor
to China. The whole feet few their
colors in the ports of japan. The
flags of nearly all the world were un-
furled in welcome to them.
To drive the ships 100000 tons Of
coal were used. Practically all of this
came from America, in order that
there be no variations in quality which
would interfere with the elaborate
steaming tests to determine the maxi
mum power to be obtained from the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
Enaland's Army.

Secretary of War Haldane gives .
general outline of the strength of
England's oversee forces as contem.
plated under the great imperial
scheme. Canada. he said, could easily
raise five or six territorial divisions.
Australia FIVE, New Zealand one and
South Africa forur or five. These In ad.
dition TO the existing IA divisions OF
the territorial forces Of the United
Kingdom would give total of 30 df
visions for home defense. With the
10 divisions of regulars ready for
oversee service II was thus hoped tc
attain an imperial army of as divis-
ions, equivalent to % army corps. This
was just the strength of the German
army, Mr.. Haldane said, and no 9th.
er army in the world had SO great an
organization.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
Heavy Touch for Money.

Unless members of the present leg
islature put on the brakes, the forty
fifth session will go down into history
as the most costly in the history OF
the state. Appropriation bills which
have already made their appearance
will call for touch on the state treas.
ury to the amount of $1,45S,255. Many
of these measures are not the regular
appropriation bills, but have been in
troduced to provide means for special
IMPOSES. When the regular appropria.
sn bills make their appearance. the
tai sum will be given a big boost.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
MICHIGAN BREvITIES.

Mrs. Martha Hurd, of Port Huron,
sas obtained $611.40 judgment against
the Northern Accident Co. for the
death of her husband, after two years
of litigation.
The frozen body of Chris Koegle, a
Baroda farmer, was found in a snow.
drift, where he had evidently fallen
from exhaustion after battling with
the storm. His widow and five children
survive.
While William Whitney, aged 81,
was declaring In a Grand Rapids sa-
loon that the prohibition wave was a
poor thing for the country he dropped
dead. His death makes two small
sons orphans.
The $1,000 left by Philip Groppi. the
Italian, who died in Port Huron a
year ago. will be forwarded to rela.
tives in Italy. The relatives were 10.
Gated by Probate Judge Graham
through the Italian consular agent at
Detroit.
A post norton examination of the
body of Peter Gilbert. %, who came
here TO take infusion treatment
for tuberculosis, revealed the fact
that his heart had moved six inches
from its natural position shortly be
fore death.
Mrs. Sarah Ashfield, the Detroit wo
man whose husband began habeas
corpus proceedings for her release
from the Pontiac asylum, has been
released on trial without court &C
ton. The understanding is that the
couple will change their Detroit resi-
dence
President Snyder. OF the NJ. A. c.
threatens to stop the annual junior
hop, unless the students behave. He
has reference to the recent spiking oil
a switch on the college car line, when
crowd of students tried to wreck
the car containing junior hop guests
Prosecuting Attorney Potter, OF Has
tings. has announced that the Law
which provided for the detention oil
a prisoner charged with drunkenness
is useless. The law has been super
seded by the local option law and 3
local drunk who was being held till he
would tell where he got his supply has
jeen released.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26

Hampton Roads, Va, Feb. 22.-The
most stupendous task Of naval his
tory was completed when President
Roosevelt reviewed the feet of 16
battleships as they filed into Hampton
Roads to drop anchor at the port
from which they sailed one year and
two months before.
The Homecoming was much the
same as the departure. The ships
were the same, with the exception OF
the Nebraska and Wisconsin, which
took the place OF the Maine and Ala
bama. The flag of Rear-Admiral Sper-
~ few from the Connecticut, Rear
Admiral Evans, Rear-Admiral Emory
and Rear-Admiral Thomas, who were
successfully in command, having been
placed on the retired list.
Crowding the piers the same wives
and sweethearts gathered to welcome
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Indications of oil have been discov.
cred near Morrice and samples OF the
oil are being tested.
The man killed by an M. u. r. car
near Jackson has been identified by a
son-in-law as John Rose, a farmer,
whose home was in Summit township.
Joseph Halstead. Sc, died from pneu-
monia in the Oakland county tai.
where he was serving sentence as a
disorderly. His home was in Hamilton
Ont.
For the first time in its history the
Branch county jail has not had pris-
oner in the past two weeks. In that
time the sheriff's and the police forces
have not made an arrest.
Miss Eva Best, OF Portage Prairie,
has been taken to the Pasteur insti
tute, at Chicago, TO receive treatment
for cat bite. The cat had been bit
ten by a dog suffering with hydro
phobia.
Robert Lamont, vice-president of the
American Steel Co., has given $1,000
to purchase designs for a new tele-
scope for the Ann Arbor university a
counterpart of that used in the u. S.
HdNdl ODseTNdlOTy.
More than a million dollars has
been expended in new school construc.
ton in Upper Michigan the past five
years, and the facilities are none too
large TO accommodate the steadily in
creasing number of children.
The Kalamazoo Trust Co. has an
nounced that a dividend will be paid
early in March to the creditors of the
defunct Union bank of Richland. 1t
has also turned over its accounts In
the case and asked that new trus-
tee be appointed.
The Saginaw & Flint electric rail-
way opened service on their lines
Tuesday morning. A schedule of three
and one-half hours between Saginaw
and Detroit will be maintained. The
cars OF the new roads are said to be
the finest in the state.
The state board OF pardons has re-
quested the police record of Melvin
Kelly. who was sentenced to Jackson
on February 2, 1907, for entering a
barn in Port Huron and stealing tur-
key. Kelly was sent up for a term
of from one to two years.
John Chellow has been released from
the Marquette prison on parole, where
he was serving a 20-year sentence for
arson and attempted murder August
Beck, whose house Chellow tried to
burn, has been working to secure his
release for three or four years.
Judge Padgham has neither patti
ence nor mercy for violators of the
liquor laws. He has just sentenced
Harry Allgeo. a Wayland druggist, TO
pay a fine of $3S1.60 and serve 80
days in jail for repeated violations.
August Hardy, saloonkeeper, also OF
Wayland, and Reginald F. Graves,
druggist, of Plainwell, got of with re-
pective mes of $21S.60 and $3.50.
Laura, the s-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Seaman, living
near Big Rapids, and two younger sis.
tiers were left alone in the house.
While building a fire In a stove,
Laura's clothes were ignited. Scream
ing with pain, she rushed outdoors,
where every stitch of the flaming
clothes fell from her scared little
body. One of the younger children,
seeing her sisters agony, ran 10 the
home of their grandmother, Mrs. Wen.
dell, about 20 rods away. Mrs. Wen.
dell and others hurried to the scene.
but when they arrived the little girl
was unconscious, and death followed
in a few hours.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
Appropriations Made.

Fifty thousand dollars was set aside
by the board of regents OF the uni
versity from the general building
fund for the new addition to the en-
cheering building. Another $4,000
was set aside for the new chemical
laboratory, and $4,000 was voted on
account to Architects Donaldson and
Myers, of the alumni memorial hall.
An appropriation OF 1929 was made
for the purchase and equipment of IL
beds in the homeopathic hospital.
Ample provision was made for the
purchase of transit for the use Of
the students in landscape gardening.
One hundred dollars was added to the
budget of the department of geology
for the purchase of lantern slides for
the two new lecture courses.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-26
Three Hundred Persisted.

Roasted alive. crushed, mangled to
death with none to help, were the
fates melted out Sunday night to SOC
or more members of the best families
of Acapulco, 231 miles southwest OF
the City of Mexico, when fire broke
out in the midst of q performance in
the Flores theater, given in honor OF
Gov. Damian Flores, OF the state OF
Guerrero, of which Acapulco is the
capital and chief city.
Nothing more terrible ever hap
pened in Mexico, and the diaster ranks
in horror with the worst theater fire
in history.