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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
TAM1)G FWOG

the water, splashing it in great drops
all over him.
''This is dandy" said Wattles. Now
it is your turn. You be the frog ana
I'll be the boy"
'FWhew!" exclaimed Trot as he
plunged in, but his feet slipped and he
fell in heels over head.
"Wattles Martin, you did at, and III
tells our mamma.~Ss You tole me TO
lump. youse knows you did"
isn't it nice and cool?' asked Wat
ties. as he took Trot by the hand and
pulled him up.
"I'm doin to tells mozzer," spluttered
Trot. :,
Lets wait It'll we play more frog"
said Wattles, getting down on all fours
and hopping in the water on hands and
knees. "The water is not deep.
wouldn't drown a cat. I'm getting real
cool, 1 am" and Trot, longing to be
cool, too, ventured again into the wa
ter. and began hopping about ike MS
brother.
They thought it was great fun, and
here their mother found them, halr
hour later looking more like little pigs
than little boys. q,
"We're playin' nissel frog, mamma, "
shouted Trot. "You tome and be de
dreat big bullfrog dat hollers More
rain an den de rain tome, mamma,
maybe, and youse be all cooler"
The mother, however, commanded
them both to come out of the pond, and
taking them each by the hand she
marched them home, when the 1rst
thing she did was to give them both
bath in tub of water.
AS soon as they were dressed up IN
clean white suits the mother enter
tained them by telling them something
about frogs that they did not know.
1--WE didn't see a frog" said Wattles'
'"There were plenty there last spring.
Where have they all gomez"
almost everybody knows that frogs
bury themselves at the bottoms of pools
during cold winters, but every one does
not know that in very dry, hot spells,
in summer, they bury themselves-but
the great heat dries up the moisture OF
their bodies" said his mother.
"Where does all the nissel frogs come
from 2" asked Trot.
''From the same place little chickens
come from. The frog lays eggs, ana
the little baby frogs are hatched out:
"They lay very small eggs, massed
together in clusters or chains. There
is one species of frog, it is said, that
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
THE BOY AND HIS TOP

little boy had bought top
The best in all the toymans' shop'
He made a whip with good eePs skin'
He lash'd the top and made 1t spin;
All the children within call,
And the servants, one and all,
stood around to see it and admire
At last the top. began to tire;
He cried out. pray don't hit me, master
You whip too hard-I can't spin faster,
I can spin quite well without 1t.
The little boy replied, IT doubt 1t;
I only whip you for your good
You were a foolish lump of wood,
BY dint of whipping you were raised
To see yourself admired and praised
And If 1 left you, you'd remain
A foolish lump of wood again."
EXPLANATION
whipping sounds little odd,
/ don't mean whipping with rod
1t means to teach boy necessarily,
whether by lessons or more pleasantly
Every hour and every day,
BY every means in every way,
BY adding writing. rhyming, talking,
BY riding to see sights. and walking,
II you leave off he drops at once
A lumpish wooden headed Ounce.
JOHN HOoKHAM FRERE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

TT WAS such a hot day that Mrs.
Martin was nearly sick. Seeing
Il through an open window that her
two little boys were rolling over the
grass under a maple tree, she took a
fan and retired to the inner recesses OF
a darkened room.
Mamma has gone to take nap,
said Wattles, the older one.
II know what I'd rasser be 'an any
fing else,'' said little Trot, as he sat
I'D and wiped his heated brow.
"What?" asked Wattles
"A nissel frog. Den We tould play in
de wasser all day an be COOL" said
Trot.
Les go down to the pond and play
that we are frogs" said Wattles.
"All yite," responded Trot, bounding
to his feet.
Then taking hold of hands, the little
boys opened and closed the garden gate
softly, then sped on down the road un-
til they came to pond, pretty well
surrounded by trees and bushes.
1.-THE missel frogs all. don away
said little Trot.
They're down in the bottom fast
asleep" said Wattles. LES pull our
pants away up above our knees, then
III pertent I am a frog sitting on the
edge, and you can pertent you are a
bad little boy going to hit me with a
stone, and then I'll jump 'ker-chug
right into the water, and it'll be nice
and COOL"
Trot procured the stone, and as he
was going to throw it Wattles made
make believe frog as he plunged into
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
THE NEW JACKET

While he was still a child the fame
of Chopin's genius extended beyond the
limits of his own home. Shortly before
his ninth birthday great charity con-
cert was to ,be given in Warsaw, and,
at the request of several of the i'm
portant men of the city, Frederic was
allowed by his parents to take part in
it. He was not at all disturbed at the
prospect of playing before such a large
and fashionable audience-that was 50
simnle and easy it was not worth both
ering about-but the really exciting
part of the affair was fine new
Jacket with a wide lace collar Wnlch
he was to wear on the great occasion.
He could think of nothing else, so when
he returned home after the concert
where he had been received and ap-
plauded as the marvel he really was
and his mother asked him what the
people had seemed to like best, he an
swered. quite unconscious of having
done anything unusual: "Oh, mamma,
everybody looked only at my coiiar!s-
St. Nicholas.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

wraps chains of eggs about his legs and
thighs and carry them about with him
until they are Matched out little tad
poles, without legs, only with head ana
tail. As they grow larger they lose
their tails and get their legs. Strange
isn't it?" o,,
"Are there many kinds of frogs?"
asked Wattles.
eyes. dear including the toads, there
are said to be nearly 500 species. They
are distributed all over the world
Now that will do for this time, and
don't YOU dare to go down to the pond
again unless am with you"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

T Il WAS such a hot day that Mrs.
Martin was nearly sick. Seeing
Il through an open window that her
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
ALTERNATE PRIZES

a by special arrangement with the
* circulation department, Aunt Laurie Is
8 enabled to make the following an
3 nouncement: Whenever prize of a
s book or of one dollar is awarded to a {
3 Junior, that prize will be exchanged II (
5 desired for subscription to The Herald
3 as follows: A one dollar prize may be
B exchanged for six months subscrip- 8
< tion while a book will be exchanged (
3 for a three months subscription. Z
3 This Is entirely optional with each
3 boy and girl, and no effort whatever {
3 will be made to persuade any one to
3 take the alternate prize. 1t is offered (
merely because of some laments- which &
3 have come from boys and girls whose
3 parents do not and will not take the
3 paper, and this arrangement would
5. enable the boys or girls to have the
5 paper for themselves.
Observation-Disclosures S%>&<%$s
<E(G9>ISE<S%S
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
OCTOBER

The elves are getting ready now to take their
yearly ride -
Upon the backs of squirrels; my! you ought
to see them slide
Straight down a moonbeam some bright night;
and when they reach the ground
The squirrels scamper off to where the finest
nuts are found,
Some elves, besides, make Jack-o' lanterns
funniest ever seen,
Because in Elfland, too, you know 'twiil
soon be Hallowe'en
IS. Virginia Lewis in st. Nicholas.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

(First Prize)

(First Prize)
! I'll venture to say that If Cook \
J. does declare =
+ That the pole stands in snow and <
= is round, !
i Peary will surely assert it is \
+ square and lying fiat on the X
!. ground. i
! VICTOR O'REILLY. \
4 Sacred Heart school, 3012 Mani \
i tou avenue. /
i :. i + / i ! < + i i i + + i 4 !.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

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I wonder what President Taft would declare
If Cook said the north pole round,
And Peary should say the north pole is
square:
For dispute do you think thered be
MAuDE EDWARDS.
1927 w. Tenth street; 9Th grade, Hobart
school.
Listen to me-" jamie did declare,
i've got a dollar that's truly round.
And I tell you the truth my dollar amt
square;
If you don't believe me- you can roll it on
FRANK TOM HOWELL.
ass Third street. Boyd street school, grade g.
Columbus did declare
That the world is round,
And is not square;
With that thought he trod the ground
WILMOT HAASE,
2en Pomeroy avenue Cornwell street school,
grade A5. Age Il.
Said grandpa, well, I do declare!'
AS he looked for his glasses around.
'T cannot ind them on the square.
Though 1 dropped them right here upon
the ground"
125 South Eastlake avenue. Gates street
school, grade BS.
well" said mother, 'I declare
"I've been this wide world round,
And yet 1 cannot find square
OF gold or silver ground.
MARIAN E. ATWATER,
1853 East Thirtieth street.
Always be ready the right to declare,
From good to bad never turn round
Let all that we do always be square
That we may stand on solid ground.
ROSE WILLIAMS,
500 street. Kern Cal; grade Z; age 19.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
VERSE CONTEST

Prizes are trip tickets Redondo Beach with adms
plunge and ride the Human Roulette Wheel tor
the best complete rhyme sent in by Los Angeles writer OF public
school age and similar prize for best completed rhyme sent in
by public school age from outside the city limits
preferred the from out of town select book instead
of the trip.
Papers this must be signed with and address
and of school and grade.
All contributions for this must be addressed Aunt
Laurie, Herald Junior, The Herald, Los Angeles.
The following rymng words suggested and the juniors
all invited four-lne using these words tor
ending each line having than eight nine sylabe
in the longest line
blank lines make fourine stanza keep the
meter nearly possible and how much variety you
lines have by finding unusual sentences to
precede the given words,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 'Pdles
..............................d door
'iii0ie'
This rhyme completed and received at this Office not
later than Thursday, October for publication October H.
,............,.........''..''. ''..''.':eals
.............................. .fair.
This rhyme completed and received at this olce not
than Thursday afternoon October a. tor puDcaton
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
(HonorabIe Mention)

(HonorabIe Mention)
i. When in the sky I do declare \
!. The flying kite looks so round. \
\ But still 1 know that it is square i
!. When lying on the ground. +
!. LENA COLEMAN. !.
!. Colegrove, age 10, 4th grade. +
i X 4 K !. 4 i 4 I. 4 !. \ 4 !. !. Il 4
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
First Prize)

i Said the cube to the ball, Well, \
! do declare
! But you are terribly round,
< Yet l think it much better for me =
i to be square,
4 Because then you can sit fiat on +
\ the ground.
I MARKED ROSE WACHTEL. +
\ 1924 Mission St, South Pasadena. +
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

(HonorabIe Mention)
!. Ny dress won't keep clean, de- :
4 clare;
+ 1 play and romp around,
!. And yet tell you on the square =
< I'm seldom on the ground. =
j. RUTH WING. =
i 1543 Council st. Union Avenue y
j. school, grade B6.
4 i j. !. 4 4 i 4 I. 4 j \ + = = y -
One day said Charlie, II really declare
The earth is really round;
If 1t were square
We might fall off the ground
BLOSSOM ferries,
1927 Manhattan place; grade 6, Cumnock
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
(HonorabIe Mention)

(HonorabIe Mention)
+ The Herald paper is wonder, L :
i declare;
\ To every city it goes around
+ And is sold on nearly every =
i square,
4 While others lie unnoticed on the :.
i ground.
i LEILA CAMPBELL. =
i Lankershim, Lankershim school, =
i eighth grade.
!. =. !. :. !. !. ). :. 4 :. i K !. < 4 !.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

I did not declare
That the world not round,
Because it is not square,
We did not speak of the ground.
BLANCHE HAASE.
2641 Pomeroy Cornwell street schooi'
grade A3. Age s.
DR.. Cook does stoutly declare
The north pole first he did round;
But Peary says it isn't quite square, -
And would dash Cooks hopes to the
MARJORIE LIvEsLEV,
Brawley school, grade I; age H. Braw'eY'
DIR. Frederick A. Cook does declare
That the north pole isn't round;
It's but a block of ice that is square,
And that it's not solid ground.
ARTHUR MOBILES,
S24 East Twenty-seventh street. twenty
eighth street school, grade BS.
Columbus did declare
That the erath is really round;
That it's neither fiat nor square,
But like a ball is our ground.
FRED o. REID,
5911h N St Louis Boyd street school, grade
BE- Age II.
That glorious declaration our forfathers dio
declare s
Then they met the British army on the
square ~
And scores of British soldiers strew the
ground. BESSIE CHAPMAN,
1912 East Eighth street; Al, Ninth street
school.
Twas Columbus who did declare a.
That he would prove the world was rouiu'
Not what we call square,
But made of water and ground
CLARENCE GREENsLIT,
777 College street; BIG. Alpine street sehool'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
(HonorabIe Mention)

(HonorabIe Mention)
:: Christopher Columbus did declare =
i That this great earth was round; =
\ But others said that it was square, !
i So now he is in the ground. =
+ WILLIE BLOOM. X
j. 3s1 N. Bonnie Brae, Temple :
+ street school, grade AS. Age IL. =
!. i. j. :. 4 4 f. i :. i i i. + 4 i !. i
1t is very hard to declare
What is there around
Where there is big square
or people looking upon the ground.
ETHEL SIMON,
1Aoq w pico street. Sentous street school
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
Vests Political Power.

The west has long been strong
enough at Washington to get what
ever it wanted, if its representatives
could have been induced to stand to-
gether in political action. The sec
ton has elected so many men to the
house and to the senate, that, had
they formed an organization on GER
tain lines, and for certain objects and
held these lines unbroken, the influ-
ence of the west would have been
paramount in all questions of vital in
terest to it's people. While the west
has not had and has not yet, legis-
latiye majority, it has been so strong
ly represented that an intelligent and
cohesive organization, placing it in a
position where it could have held and
welded the balance of power through
combinations would have made it SUI
IRENE in all national matters directly
affecting it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
Give Tariff Law a Chance.

Many are criticising the new tariff
law, but give it chance. The proof
of the pudding is in the eating. The
best of this new Law will be in it's
operation. Now is not the time to
criticise. Now is the time to wait
and see whether the law will do all
that its creators claim for it. To at
tempt to tear it to pieces and pull
down the party that has enacted it
will be simply to hinder and retarG
the revival of business which is so
earnestly desired everywhere.-Mil.
waukee Sentinel (Rep)
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
TEST FOR CENSUS AGENTS
Director Durand Announces That APP
pIicants for Appointment Will
be Examined November 8.

Washington, ID. C.-Census Director
E. Dana Durand announces Novem-
Der next as the date for making
practical test of the qualifications of
applicants for appointment as special
agents for the collection of the thir-
teenth census statistics of manufac-
lures, mines and quarries. Blank ap-
plications may be obtained now by
writing the bureau OF the census.
No applications which are received af-
ter the close of business October 20
will be considered.
In circular of instructions relative
to the subject, approved by Secretary
Nagel of the department of commerce
and labor, the director states that
about January |. 1910, the bureau will
employ from 1000 to 1,SOO special
agents. AS far as possible it is de-
sired to obtain for this work persons
who have had college or university
courses in statistics or economics, and
persons who have had service in the
accounting department of some manu-
featuring or other business establish
ments.
If the applicants statements as to
business training and experience and
education are satisfactory, and the ap-
plication is complete i'll every respect,
a card will be mailed to the applicant
advising him when and where to ap-
pear to complete the prescribed prac-
tical test in filling out a schedule such
as is required in the actual work of
SneciaI agent
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
TO MAINTAIN PEACE
INTEREST OF THE UNITED
STATES IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Fear That Coming Meeting of Presi-
dents at Ell Paso Has Sinister
Meaning is Altogether
Without Grounds.

The heads of the five little Central
American republics, it is said, fear
that some sort of plot against their
activities will be concocted by Mr..
Taft and President Diaz at the COM
ing meeting of these two personages
at Ell Paso and the point near at hand
In the Mexican Republic And Guat-
emala, the largest of these little
states, is said to have sounded the
alarm among its associates. Thus
October 16, the day when Mr.. Taft ar
rives in FL Paso, is awaited with a
good deal of concern by our Central
American neighbors.
President Cabrera of Guatemala
has two reasons for attempting to
arouse the four other countries near
at hand, and get them to work in har-
mony with him. He fears Mexican
encroachment, Mexico being ON his
northern border. He is also anxious
to form a league of the Central Ameri-
can countries, with Guatemala at the
head Cabrera annd other potentates
of his locality imagine that the United
States and Mexico may want to ex-
tend protectorate over Central
America, because President Roosevelt
in conjunction with Gen. Diaz
stretched forth a restraining hand a
year or two ago, and halted a war
between Honduras and Nicaragua
then just beginning.
Possibly it might suit Gen. Diaz'
purposes in this contingency to make
a demonstration against Guatemala,
so as to divert the attention of the
Mexicans from troublesome home is
sues in connection with the coming
election for vice-president in their
country. That would make Diaz' task
easy in electing Corral as vice-presi-
dent and in defeating Reyes. But the
United States has not the slightest
desire to menace the independence of
any country Central American or
anywhere else. AS the builder of a
canal across the isthmus which will
cost us s400,000,000 or $500, ,0OO,O 900,
and as the guardian of the Republic
of Panama, we have an interest in
the maintenance of the peace in Cen
trail America. But we will not eX-
tend protectorate over any of it's
countries, or make oursel:se response
BILE for the good behavior of any of
them.-St Louis Globe. Democrat
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
THE ANTITRUST OUTLOOK
Wickershan1 Is Planning to Take a
Fall Out of the Combi-
nations.

Mr.. Wickersham seems bent upon
taking a fall out of the trusts. He is
at present planning such an amend.
ment of the interstate commerce act
as shall make prima facie the good
and the bad trust. At least, he hopes
legislation may be enacted that will
modify the Sherman antitrust law in
a way to create conditions of distinc.
tion between the trusts that rule and
the trusts that serve society; the kind
that monopolize for suppression of in
dustry and the kind that organize for
its extension. The task is of such an
academic nature that it might be well
to call in consultation board of
economic advisers. There has not yet
been established any ipse dictum way
of distinguishing the good from the
bad sort of trust except that of Mr..
Bryan, which was wholly artificial and
as completely ridiculous.
Everyone who mas no ak to grind
will wish the attorney general success
in his efforts. He has one of the most
capable and level-headed lawyers in
the country behind him, the keen
minded, clear-sighted and imperturb-
able President Taft. But it cannot be
expected that the president shall do
the work for the head of the legal de-
partment. He has marked out the cam
paign, which is not dissimilar to
that of Mr.. Roosevelt, with less of
strenuosity and none of the expletive
of that valorous opponent of concen-
trated rascality, as he saw it. The
question is not whether Mr.. Taft is
on the right lead-he is; but whether
the attorney general shall follow that
lead with the unerring instinct of an
economic dachshund
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
IMPORTANT NEWS
notes OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN lTEMiZED
FORM.
Et ENTS HERE AND THERE
condensed Into Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal Infor.
nation.
PERSONAL.

President Taft, at Seattle exposi-
ton, in his speech said he would ask
congress to pass ship subsidy law.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jennings Bry-
an celebrated their silver wedding an
niversary with a big reception at their
home at Lincoln, Neb.
DR.. Harry e. Hutchins has been ap-
pointed temporary president of the
University OF Michigan at a salary of
$1,000 a year.
War Secretary Dickinson is back in
Washington after an extended vaca-
tion in the south. He said the depart
ment had reached no conclusion on
the West Point hazing case.
Huntington Wilson, assistant secre-
tary of state, has been threatened
with another attack of appendicitis,
but Washington reports say an opera
tion will not be necessary.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind marvel, is to make an airship
flight with Charles ]. Glidden of Bos-
ton and will record her sensations in
the air.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is suffer
ing from a cold, at her home in Cleve-
land. Her physician says it is not
serious.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
GOOD IN PRESIDENTIAL TOUR
Means Better Understanding Between
the Chief Executive and the
People.

There is not much difference of
opinion about the value to the coun-
try of such tours by the executive
head of the nation as the long journey
President Taft is now on. Before he
returns to stay-at-home life in the
White House he will travel as far as
half way around the earth at the
equator. 1t will be like crossing the
United States four times, between the
Atlantic and the Pacific, or making
two round trips from New York to
Paris. And all the while he will be
in his own country, seeing American
life and American people by the mil
lions. Every day he will widen his
already broad knowledge of the nation
he serves, and the public will gain
closer understanding and surer appre-
citation of the president.
Nothing but good can come of such
contact between the chief executive
and the people. The government and
the country will be closer together in
feeling and knowledge. Washington
and distant sections will be less liable
to misunderstanding and errors
Where President Taft goes he will
win friends. Everywhere he will in
crease his multitude of admirers. In
all of the states which he. will visit
there Will be less danger of misrepre-
senting him and his administration in
way which can sway public senti-
ment and do lasting harm
This country is so immense and its
interests are so varied and so far
reaching that no man can know his
fellow citizens and their affairs, sit
ting in the White House, as he can if
he makes such journeys as this of
President Taft. There is no public Of
fetal who would not be broadened and
strengthened by such schooling.