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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
PROPHETS

A JURY in Judge Wilbur's court
IN decided a prophet should be
IN honored in his own country when
that country is California. Certainly
California ought to believe in prophets
and prophecies. From the day the
white man first took up his burden
here II has been prophesied California
would become one Of the greatest,
richest and most populous states of
the Union-the New York of the Pacific.
And is it not a fact California is MAX
ing good and verifying this prophecy?
But prophets should always be optim-
lists. Calamity howlers and dismal
mourners should be suppressed. Calam-
ity howlers invite and attract calamity,
while optimists, like sunshine, fill the
world with health and happiness. Op-
timism has characterized California,
and will continue to characterize it.
Optimism is the "ism" best suited for
Greater Los Angeles, and we believe
the predictions of the most sanguine
and most optimistic regarding the
future of this great city will be full
hled.
Chronic pessimism will kill any
country. mic optimism will bring
chronic prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
UNJUST LEVY

TN HE HERALD believes in and advo-
Gates the prompt payment of
II equitable taxation. Every good
citizen should willingly bear his burden
of governmental expenses, but in tax
imposition and tax collection gouging
tactics are as reprehensible as they are
in any other form of business. The dis
was obtained on the De Longpre prop
erty at Hollywood is not only repre-
hensible, but practically vitiates the
entire tax levy based on th5 offhand
estimate picked up by a careless ap-
praiser,
According to an article published in
The Herald, an emissary Of the state
board of equalization visited Mr. De
Longpres place, and, with his usual
good heartedness, Mr. De Longpre did
the honors." Then the agent asked,
"What do you place the value of your
property at?" The reply was, About
two hundred thousand dollars"
The state boards spy reported this
figure as a basis of valuation for all
Hollywood property, and consequently
owners have found their happy homes
appraised at figures which might be
gratifying if they were market prices.
inasmuch as they would indicate a
boom. But the property holders say
they have been assessed extravagantly
on a basis which has no application to
their holdings. Mr.. De Longpre owns
show place, famous all over the
world. He has a valuable collection of
fine pictures, and, in a word, it is
absurd to make his place a basis of
comparison or valuation.
An old rule says, You >annot COM
pare things that are different" and
everybody knows the De Longpre gal
lery is different" from the home
builders humber holding. The state
is taxing Hollywood on fictitious values,
consequently the general scheme of
taxation may be branded as a fake. ="
The people of Hollywood are entitled
to a square deal assessment ard tax
levy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
MAGNIFICENT HARBOR

nRESIDENT BOOTH of the cham
Der of commerce brings home to
n the popular understanding the
possibilities of the harbor of San Pedro
when he says: "San Pedro is immense
ly superior to Liverpool as a port. 1t
is far better than Hamburg. You
could take the great Earbor Of Trieste
out in our outer basin and lose it,.
BY spending the money that has been
spent on Cherbourg and other foreign
harbors we can offer facilities that will
place San Pedro in the very front
rank"
The chamber of commerce intends
taking in hand the question of pilotage
and dockage, and municipal pilots may
be appointed. In any event, the pilot
age charges for the harbor of Greater
Los Angeles will be as cheap as those
Of any other harbor on the coast.
At San Pedro, the seaport of Greater
Los Angeles, the shippers of the nation
and Of the world viii get a square
deal" Moreover, measures will be TAX
en- to make the railroads reduce what
are fttingly characterized by NJ. H.
Newmark, head Of the Associated
Jobbers as the unjust and ridiculous"
rates from San Pedro to Los Angeles.
He says if the railroads will not come
down.. freight viii be hauled in auto
mobile trucks or in trolley cars.
Automobile freight cars, or auto
trucks, will go a considerable way to-
ward solving the problem. Goods can
be hauled over good roads in auto
vehicles as easily and eXpeditiously as
they can be transported over railroads
In freight trains.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
UNFAIR

AZ o wilder or more preposterous
accusation has ever been made
~ even in the delirium of anti-re-
form than that the proposal to revoke
grocers' liquor licenses springs from L
desire to please the Royal Arch. The
Herald has no reason to believe the
complaints against some grocery stores
were founded on anything more snis-
ter than the honest conviction certain
of these stores were acting in man
ner suspiciously like blind pigs" And
of course it is unfair to tax any busi-
ness or industry and then to allow un-
taxed and irregular competition to in
terfere with that business. 1t is this
continual shillyshallying and fool
ing" with question of as great i'm
portance as the liquor question that
is maddening to any reasonable being.
Either have prohibition out and out,
the kind of prohibition that prohibits:
or give persons who pay the city large
sums fol the privilege of engaging in
this traffic a square deal, by protecting
them from the competition of persons
who do not pay special taxes.
Whichever policy is finally adopted,
prohibition or no prohibition, should be
adhered to rigidly. In the meantime,
the dry districts should be dry. They
should not be allowed to afford oppor-
tunities to blind pigs and blind piggers.
A grocer is a grocer; a liquor dealer is
a liquor dealer. If all the grocers of
Los Angeles had to pay a heavy Il
cense and the saloons began to carry
a big stock of groceries "on the side, -
what would the grocers say?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
SUMMER RESORT

II INQUIRY by a Herald representative
shows there has been such a great
Il increase in the summer registra-
ton of Los Angeles hotels as to justify
the assertion this is becoming the most
popular summer resort as we'll as the
best known and most prosperous win
ter resort in North America. on ac-
count of the absence Of humidity, sum
mer heat is not oppressive
Cases of sunstroke are unknown, and
every afternoon there is a delightful
breeze. The great cities of the east are
rejoicing over the departure of sum-
mer for the weather has been intoler-
able. In all the great eastern cities
the death rate has been unusually
high, and the hot spell has been un-
usually distressing. The climatic ad
vantages of California are indsputable.
The climate is always reliable, and
gives every body a square, fair deal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
WELCOME THE SHIP

PREPARATIONS should be made to
give d fitting welcome to the fine
Il clipper ship Edward Sewall,
which early next month will sail from
New York for San Pedro by way Of
Cape Horn, with the first cargo ever
brought from the Atlantic coast direct
ly to our seaport. She will carry mer-
chandise consigned from New York
and Philadelphia to Los Angeles busi-
ness houses. Thus already is The
Heralds prediction verified, that with
consolidation and the inclusion of the
harbor cities within the boundary of
Greater Los Angeles, there will be an
immediate awakening of Atlantic-Pa-
cific maritime trade. And when the
Panama canal is completed the Allan
tic-Pacihc traffic will be multiplied
geles will take its place among the
seaport cities and commercial centers
of civilization.
The Oriental trade viii receive a
great stimulus, and enterprising busi-
ness men of Los Angeles will find
there are great and lucrative possi-
bilities in manufacturing raw mater
falls into goods for the Oriental mar
kets THE Oriental demand, as all our
consuls tell us and as all experience
shows. must be met by special lines Of
goods. Oriental, not occidental tastes
must be consulted. With the estab-
lishment of factories that study the
Asiatic markets, Greater Los Angeles
is destined to be one of the biggest,
busiest and richest manufacturing
cities in The world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
DRIFTWOOD

The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he whose noble soul its fear subdues
And bravely dares the danger nature
shrinks from Joanna Baillie.
He knows not the path of duty
Who says that the way is sweet,
But he who is blind to the beauty,
And finds but thorns for his feet.
He alone is the perfect giver
Who swears that his gift IS naught:
And he is the sure receiver
who gains what he never sought!
Richard Watso1 Glider.
Lean not on EARTH twill pierce thee to the
heart:
A broken reed at best; but oft, a spear;
on its sharp point peace bleeds and hope
expires! Young
The seed ye SOW another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robe ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge another bears
Shelley.
All that is, at all, lasts ever
Past recall;
Earth changes but thy soul ana
God stand sure.
Robert Browning.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Reorganization Needed

Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh,
with the hearty cooperation of the
president of course, is making an ener-
getic effort to put the great business
office of the government on business
basis 1t sadly needs 1t, as nearly all
the offices of the government do,-New
York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Far and Wide
Perlls of EnnuI

There is something in a human being
that in the course of a short time re-
volts at absolute idleness, and which
when the pleasure that idleness brings
begins to pail and the ability TO oc-
cupy the mind with work which bene-
fits the world has departed, makes sui
cides ard paranoiacs. - Watsonville
Pajaronian.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Band Wagon Inaccessible

Now that it has been finally settled
that all nominations for public cleo
tive office in the state of California
shall be made by the voters voting at
a primary election, it will not be so
easy for some people to get in the
band wagon" as heretofore.-SantaA Ana
BLADE
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Sandwich

without it's ham sandwich, an in
spired variation on the cold beef theme
furnished by the noble earl, there
could be no railway restaurant, and
minus that, there could be no railway.
In like way, religion would receive a
serious setback, for the sandwich is
the backbone of the church festival
and exc the picnic; and, no sandwich,
no scholar, no relis on.-San Jose Her
oil
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

An American peace fleet soon will
cross the Pacific, and in return for Aus
tralia's promise to build a Dreadnaught
the British admiralty will send to the
Pacific a permanent Australian squad
ron. At this rate the Pacific soon will
have a bellicose appearance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

Whatever may be the opinion as to
business and other methods of Mag
nate" Hartman, everybody will join
in wishing for "Citizen" Hartman a
speedy return to health. Sickness and
death should give this mad world pause.
What is the use of ver-strenuousness? ?
Why grab? Why gouge? Why take
advantage of your neighbor? What
coed will it do the avaricious a hun
dred years hence-or less than a hun
dred7 ?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
The State Press
what,s He Doinq. Then?

While Theodore Roosevelt is in Africa
what appears to be a carefully planned
endeavor to ridicule and discredit him
has been going on in a certain section
of the press Stories of the wholesale
slaughter of animals are published from
time to time from our own correspond
ent." No newspaper has a special cor
respondent with the Roosevelt party,
and any special stories purporting to
come from a newspapers correspond
ent on the ground may be set down as
fakes.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

Judge Hutton, who was a delegate to
the National Irrigation congress, brings
home word the congress probably will
come to Los Angeles in the year when
the Owens river water is brought to
the city. Will convention hall be a
reality by that time? We hope So.
Convention hall would attract so many
conventions to this city there would be
a scramble for dates
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

California Congress of Mothers is con-
sidering the formation of a reciprocity
club at which questions of importance
to women and children along educa-
tional and civic lines will be discussed
and views exchanged. Informal reci-
procity clubs have long been known.
In old fashioned days the members
brOfght their knittin' or their sewin'.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
HowIlna Success

In San Francisco about five years,
ago Gus Brandstreet had dogs bone
grated into his leg. The operation
was a bowling success. Now. in Chi
cago a man has been grated with
lambs bone in the same way.-Santa
Rosa Press
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
BELASCO-'Pierre of the Plains"
BURBANK-"The Morals of Marcus"
GRAND-"The King of Tramps."
MAsON-"The Climax"
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville.
LOS ADMINISTRATIONS.
MISUNDERSTANDING and musical comedy
Observation-Disclosures
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

Direct primaries are in accordance
with the spirit of 'Americanism. A
move to hold conventions in order to
nominate candidates to be voted on at
the direct primaries would be a mon
strous insult tc the intelligence of citi-
zens. Southern Paeifc's attempt to in
troduce partisanship into next election
should be rebuked
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Everlasting Thirst

IF, as Nine. Besant says, drinkers
will have the same thirst for liquor in
the next life with no means of quench-
ing it, they would do better to reform
at once, not by trying to anticipate the
future in loading up, but by conquer.
ing the appetite.-San Antonio Express.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

Benzoate of soda has been kicked
downstairs, and if the pure food inspec-
tors continue to do their duty the prac-
tice of adulterating or poisoning
food with this or any other deleterious
foreign ingredient will stay down-and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Change

The Judge-YOur age, please?
The Fair Witness-Why, judge, l
gave you my age once when | was
witness before.
But that was a number of years
ago"
"Well."-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Literary Activity

Fifty years ago Macaulay's History
of England was the best selling book
in the United States. Will anybody be
able fifty years from now to remember
the titles of any of the best sellers of
the present time?-Chicago Record
Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

n play-going contributor says it is
pity we cannot pass an ordinance an
athematizing chocolate creams. From
a perusal of the article we are inclined
to think screams, and not creams. are
Objectionable.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

A Pittsburg judge has declared the
compulsory arbitration law is uncon-
stitutional. 1t certainly might inter
fere seriously with the business of the
courts.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Maryland ThankfuIness

After all, life might be worse. The
tariff bill has been passed, cool spell
has come, and the peach basket hat Is
going out of STYLE For small mercies
let us be Observation-Disclosures Amer
lean.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Great Reformer

President Wheeler of the State uni
yersity last Friday, in a talk to the
student body, admonished the girls to
quit giggling. Who said that Wheeler
was not a great reformer?-San Luis
Ohispo Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
The HumOristS
Strange Chap

She (home from Vassar)-Come out
to the baseball grounds and tell us the
fine points about the game.
He (from Yale)-Oh, l don't know
much about the game.
Say, I guess your college education
has been a failure!"-Yonkers States
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Save the Pennies

Complaint is made that the Lincoln
cents are too thick to go into the slot
machines. But you can slip them into
the savings banks, which is a great
deal better.-Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Magnetic

"I want man with some experience
as a public performer" explained the
stout man.
II think Ill do" said the applicant
hopefully. I'm the only man on our
block who uses a lawn mower in the
evenings. Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Her Hint

He-I see that of the 10000 women
who have qualified for the law in the
United States less than forty have be-
come advocates in the federal supreme
court.
She-Well, | believe the men should
be allowed to do the counting. g.-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Three Hours Before the Wedding

She-Have you secured the marriage
license?
He-No; I'm not going to get that
until the last thing. You may change
your mind.-Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26
Taking Chances

Barker-That fellow Buggins is al
ways making bad breaks.
Parker-Yes; he's one of those chaps
who believe that it's never too late to
mend.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

on all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates advertising man
ager
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

A triumph of science is the discovery
of the cure for a disease which people
imagine they haVe.-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

Population of Los Angeles 1855
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

TomOrrOw-In Modern ohina' yH-The
New Education.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-26

IEKING.-The Chinese imperial
throne has promised the peo-
pie that q constitution will be
promulgated in 1917, and the
prince regent almost daily
j issues edicts urging his Of
eininln A.. e,nnAl,n.. Ahn r,tnt.lr of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-14

"WOmer nlfLSt haze an equal chance"
that ignorance is the fault of the
times in which l live. of the system
that guides the era in which live
Il am what the world calls 'educat-
ed but the world the world of men,
knows better. 1t laughs at me. 1t has
cheated me because l am a woman.
The world of men has fenced ime in
and hobbled me with convention, with
precedent, with fictitious sentiment
If | pursue the business of men as
they themselves would pursue it
am called an ungrateful daughter. If
l should adopt the morals of men
would be called a fallen woman. If |
adopted the religion OF men l would
have no religion at all. Turn what
way | will
But not every woman feels the way
you do. my daughter" broke III the
senator.
mo, you are right, because their
spirit has been crushed by generations,
by centuries of forced subserviency to
men. They tell us we should be thank.
full that we do not live in China, where
women are physical slaves to men. In
our country they are forced to be men.
tai and social slaves to men. Is one
very much worse than the other?"
Then. dear" and her fathers tone
was very gentle, IF you want an equal
chance-want to be equal to a man
you must take your medicine with
Randolph, like man"
What are you going to do, sir?" she
asked, afraid.
I'm going to spoil all your little
scheme, DEAR" he returned. smiling
sadly. "Im going, fear, to make you
lose all your money. I'd like to make
it easy for you, but | can't. You've
got to take your medicine, children.
and when it's all over back there in
Mississippi | shall be able. hope, to
patch up your broken lives and togeth.
er we will work out your mistakes. |
can't think of that now. The honor of
the Langdous calls. This is the time
for the fight. and any one who fights
against me must take the conse-
quences."
He walked over and touched The bell.
Thomas" he said to the servant
who responded, take that letter at
once to Senator Peabody, in the libra.
~"
what is it, sir?' asked Randolph.
ITS the call to arms" responded his
father grimly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-14

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during this trying period. Complete
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to me that for the sake of other suffer
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trouble public so you may publish
this letter. "-MRs. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RED, Graniteville Vt.
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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
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through the period of change of life.
1t costs but little to try Lydia E.
Vegetable Compound, and,
as Mrs. Barclaysays,i it is "worth noun
tains of gold to suffering women.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-14

show them all up.
"Oh, I'll DO something" he said
grimly. I'm going to make up fol
lost time. OF course Norton is spec
ulating. Who's behind him!"
stevens and Peabody. I'm positive, II
answered Iaines, and behind them is
Standard Steel"
What" exclaimed Langdon, ste
Vens in a swindle like this! Are you
sure? How do you know"
"A Gulf city man who couldn't car
ny his liquor gave me some clews, and
l worked Norton into telling some
more, answered TIE secretary. Where
is Peabody"
He's here now"
Then he hasn't got my letter yet.> |
sent him a note and signed your name,
senator, to the effect that the Gulf
City claims have been brought before
you so strongly that you might vote
for Gulf City"
Langdon was amazed
You sent that note" he exclaimed
when you know Altacoola is the only
proper place and Gulf City is mud
bank?"
The newspaper man smiled.
"Of course" he agreed, but | had
to get a rise out of Peabody. This
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CHAPTER XIX.

SENATOR LANGpON LEARNS THE TRUTI
V YHEN they were alone Haine
WA I faced the senator and spok
w det,e,r,minediy,
''They told you 1 was nc
running straight he said.
The senator nodded. and the line
about his mouth deepened
Eyes"
Bud Haines stiffened at the word
Every muscle in his body seemed t,
become rigid as he mentally vowet
that he would retaiate against his ira
ducers if it cost him his life to do it
Hope had informed him only too ac
curately, he now realized Little die
the senator know that what he was
now about to hear would give him one
of the Severest shocks of his life
"They told me you weren't running
straight" said Haines deliberately
Nov, neither one of US has been
crooked. but somebody else has been.
and this was the plan to keep us
apart"
"Norton told me you were speculat,
ais ~ Ei't''' ''id iillIn, Stllt ILduGuOu.
"And Norton told me the same of
you" retorted Bud
The senator's face grew very serious
But my daughter, Miss Carolina
Langdon, confirmed Norton's story
HaineS here faced the most difficult
part of his interview. He hardly knew
how to answer. His manhood rebelled
against placing any blame on a wo-
man. He revolted at the thought of
running fathers faith in his daugh-
ter's honesty, especially when that
father was the man he most admired,
man for whom he had genuine. deep
rooted affection. But it was necessary
that the words be spoken.
Il hate to tell you. sir he said in a
low, uncertain voice, that it was your
daughter Carolina who made me be.
lieve this story told about you and
vouched for by your son !:andolph."
Langdon started back II, hast. He |
stared ut TT1ines and knew that he
spoke the truth, Then his white head
Sank pathetically. Tears welled into
the eyes of the planter, and this sturdy
old fighting man dropped weakly into
a chair sobbing convulsively, broken
in spirit and weariad in body.
At length Haines spoke to his strick-
en- chief
II know it hurts" he said 1T hurt
me to have to say it, Don't believe it
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Stevens. 1t seemed to me to be very
like dishonesty. | refused TO speak
to Lorimer Hawkslee in the Carroll
hotel at Vicksburg, and when the peo-
pie there asked me why | told them.
l want to warn you, Stevens. that I'm
likely to meet you some time in the
Carroll hotel at Vicksburg."
Stevens backed away angrily. 81
catch your insinuation, but'-he re-
celved a warning glance from Pea
body and broke into a pleasant smile
calculated to deceive the old planter
"this once l will overlook it because of
our old friendship and the old days in
Mississippi"