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The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Apartments To Let.
Furnished and Unfu-nished
THE ALONZO O. BLISS
PROPERTIES
Phone LinCOln 70.

APARTMENT IN EVERY PART
OF THE CITY. UNDER ONE own
EHSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
AGENT VISITS BACH PROPERTY
DAILY
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Situations Wanted-Female.

POSITION as hOusekeeper IN hotel: staSe
salary, can furnish best reference ADDRESS
MRS ELIZABETH W CLARK. south SoT-
walk. Conn. Gen Delivery jazz
COOKING and general houseworE. 1900 NeW-
ton st y W JaA-SC-
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Personal.

sHEEIDAN-WiU young lady who gave In
correct address N1e0S Thursday PLEASE
SEND CORRECT ONE also ba same pIaca
F.; yellow-black hat; 4-S0-5.3e this week 7.
A BACON. 80 @ y W -
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Window Cleaning.

WINDOW CIeanlng.
How. ABOUT THOSE DIRTY WINDOWS
White help and moderate prices LEON L.
CAHOON. Acme Window Cleaning Co re-
moved TO 92I G y W Phone II 1ss
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Situations Wanted
Male and Female.

YOUNG NAN AND WIFE want farm viii
EoTE D. month OF shares Apply 10 g stb
81 =. = 1a1-2t
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Help Wanted
Male anG Female.

MARKER and assorter. Apply TOLMAN
IAUNDRT- 6th and O. y " 5aZ-2tC
MAN AND WIFE for farm white. So.
everything found FISHERS AGENCY. 4l9
10Th desI-St
The Washington times., 1910-01-02
Floor Oils.

c. T. HUNTERS SANITARY DUST-KTII.-
ING FLOOR OIL keeps the floors clean and
bright, gives them polished finish. 5oc gallon
delivered Phone Main 555S- Office II3 Pa
ave y W GOOD FOR YOUR FURNI-
TURE TRY IT Its
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
OUR SCHOOL ARMY

D HE meeting of the National Ed
uCatiOnal association recently at
Il Boston, and the growing interest
in the cause of education it betokened,
gives special interest to figures that
have just been made public concern
ing the public schools of the United
States for the year 1908. They show
that there were 24.613,763 children of
school age, that is, between and IS,
in the country. The total school en-
rollment was 17.061 ,962 and the average
daily attendance was 12,154,172. Less
than One-half of the children went to
school regularly and nearly one-third
We're not enrolled.
Women teachers outnumber the men
nearly four to one, the exact figures
being 390 96S and 1O4,49 Those who be-
lieve that too many women teachers
are terminating" the world will take
little comfort from these figures, and
the figures for attendance given above
are not encouraging from any point of
view The public schools in 1908 cost
$371 34431O, an increase of $34, 445,977
over the previous year.
This increase offers encouragement,
and so does the fact that the school
year in 1908 averaged % days longer
than in 1907. The number of teachers
increased 14,147 and the enrolment in
creased l71,144
Satisfactory as these figures are it
is nevertheless true that one or two
countries in Europe lead us in lower
percentage of ilIiteracy. but this fact
is due largely to our great and con-
stant inflow of polyglot immigration
and our great negro contingent-things
that European countries do not have
to figure into their averages.
But in no country is education so
free, SO far advanced as a science, and
it's higher branches so we'll within the
reach of the masses as here; so that
in spite Of the statistics the United
States, all things considered leads the
world by q large margin.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
THE SOLID THREE

TF any new argument were needed
for a cleaning out at the county
Il courthouse it were only necessary
to consider the matter of the proposals
for furnishing the new hall of records.
What must be said of the methods OF
men placed in charge of the vast in
terests of the county who are so far
lacking in the ordinary business in
stinct as to receive bids for such fur
nishings without knowing, or pretend
ing to know, how much or how little
they want; who give carte blanche to
dealers to make out their own speci-
tications and lists? How can there be
anything but waste, If not worse, in
such procedure? How can there be any
competition or basis for knowing fair
price?
So openly partisan has been a ma
iority of the board of supervisors that
it has seemed plain from the first that
not a desire to get the best or the saw
ing of the taxpayers money but the
awarding of contract to favored
parties has been the handspring of
every vote and act. There has not
been a worse specimen of insolent in
difference toward public opinion, or of
reckless disregard for the square deal
principle, than has been given by the
solid three in the past month.
Election day is near at hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
SEVENTH STREET

n HE engineering department of the
city government, acting on orders
Il of the city council, is compelling
the street railways to lay a cement
concrete base instead of the asphalt
concrete used along the tracks until
recently The city engineers record is
ample proof of his efficiency, and if he
says cement is more durable and bet
ter in every way than the material for
merly used and that the most advanced
cities use cement, he is probably right.
But because there has been some con-
gestion of traffic on Seventh street,
where the trolley company is laying
pavement on the new plan, and on
Broadway, some people are harassing
the department and in effect advising
that It surrender. 1t is charged, and
strenuously denied by the company,
that the latter is delaying the work on
Seventh street to discredit the admins
tration. There is no evidence that such
is the case; but however that may be,
it should be remembered by all good
citizens that if the administration Is
establishing a new and important i'm
provement it ought to be supported in
spite of temporary discontinue. The
ultimate results should be the chief
consideration.
Meantime the drivers of vehicles and
users of cars can DO much to relieve
the congestion by avoiding the Seventh
street route when that is possible.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14


cooling process that may develop q
Tactic acid culture of still another va
riety? Buttermilk, of course, is minus
the butter. Matzoon or yoghoort are
Preventative bacteria that may or may
not develop a trace of alcohol. The
koumiss of the Swiss and the kephir
of the Tartars has sugar and yeast
added, which naturally produce alcohol,
making these milk beers about one
third as alcoholic as malt beer. These
are the drinks which Metchnikof, one
of the greatest living scientists, COM
mends to the world as conducting to
good digestion, health, fair complexion
and virility.
When Attila, the Hun, with his
mounted hordes, swept from Turkes-
tan across the plains of western Eu-
rope to strike at imperial Rome itself.
terrifying the Europeans with theif
man-horse aspect, how did they sub
sist? What was the secret of that ter
rble efficiency. of that personal PROV
ess, of the ability of the barbarian
horde to move so fast? They doubt
less drank kephir, a slightly alcoholic
milk brew. Many of our discoveries are
merely rediscoveries. 1t may be that
kind old bossy will solve the prohibition
riddle for us yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
A RANK INFIDEL

n OES the san Francisco Star want
to get itself thoroughly disliked
A. by shocking those who believe in
the divine right Of capital to its
vested interests? Only on that theory
can be explained this profane slur
against the sacred tariff altar:
We read the other day in news
paper that a steel magnate, not a
steel worker, presented his wife
with a $3.50 900 diamond necklace for
a Christmas present. Many a steel
worker has difficulty in present
ing his wife with Christmas din
ner. The high tariff on steel and
the low tariff on diamonds eX-
plains the first circumstance. The
high tariff on necessaries explains
the second.
There are a few handy old epithets
waiting for anybody who talks like
this-demagogue, socialist, anarchist
When men can give fortunes in dia-
monds to their wives it proves the
country prosperous, and he who dis
putes Is a dangerous character, for he
is undermining our established institu-
tlons. Our export and import statistics
prove that we are prosperous. If the
Star even intimates otherwise it Is no
better than a wicked insurgent
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14


Roosevelt is going to Indiana to help
Senator Beveridge in his campaign for
reelection. Beveridge is the regular
nominee of the Republican party in
Indiana, but he has been leader of
the insurgents in congress and was
strenuous and unyielding In his oppo-
sition to the Payne-Aldrioh tariff, even
to the length of voting against the
bin on its final passage
The Indiana Republican state con-
vcntion in it's platform enunciated n
remarkably clear statement of the
party doctrine on the tariff question,
and, judging the Payne tariff by that
test explicitly condemned the law
framed in the Payne Aldrich foundry.
1t was Il plain statement of facts
which none has attempted to dispute
1t hurt the standpatters sorely, and
after it came intimations that they
would bolt the party in Indiana and
give their support to John w. Kern,
the Democratic nominee for senator.
Possibly the standpatters may see a
reason to reconsider this perilous re-
solve in Roosevelts promised visit to
the Indiana field Of conflict. Senator
Garter of Montana was at oyster Bay
at the time Beveridge saw the colonel,
Carter is standpatter from away
| back and he told the reporters that
| Roosevelt's course in politics was
likely to have "a soothing influence" +"
We doubt it not at all. The stand
patters are in dire need of soothing
and in the process they will be taught
the lesson that they are not leaders,
but, in fact, nothing more than pro-
fessional politicians whose function is
to follow and obey the popular will.
They have been kicking against the
pricks all summer and feel sore enough
| from that process, but now they are
in the way to discover that the flood
tide is too strong for them and are
making ready to be soothed.
Evidence of this soothing syrup by
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
The Buttermilk Fad
Detroit News)


Prof. Ellie MetChnikoff, whose re-
searches in biology and bacteriology
have been productive of much scien-
tific debate, has gained the popular ear.
The layman may know little of bac-
terra. but when science is expressed in
terms of buttermilk he sits up and
takes notice. The buttermilk season
is here. Indeed. the Metchnikoff theory
has also arrived, He has propounded
the theory, after a study of the robust
Belgians, that fermented milk is con-
ducive to long life. There Is no deny
ing the fact that the so-called arti-
fetal buttermilk fad is sweeping Europe
and has touched America.
Bulgarians, Armenians and all tho
descendants of the Tartars refuse to
drink sweet milk, because of stom-
achc distress which it sometimes oc-
casions. They brew milk beer, yog-
hoort, matzoon, koumiss, kephir, leden
or chema, as the case may be, all the
product of Tactic acid ferment. The
products of milk are myriad and but
few are known to us, like buttermilk,
whey, iunket, cream, curds, cheese,
butter, sour milk. Are we, too. to be-
come brewers of Tactic beer, produced
by a hoplike ferment, a bacteria cui-
ture. or by a quick souring and sudden
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
CAN YOU MATCH IT?

TN HE Diamond Match company-in
other words the match trust-has
Il served notice on Los Angeles job
bers, in common with others through
out California. that they must sell only
matches made by the trust on pain of
having the goods withheld from them.
Thus far, while the jobbers in the
northern part of the state have meekly
submitted, the local dealers are hold
ing out.
This is a modetn hlghbinder method
of trade that was long since made
familiar by the tobacco trust, which re-
fuses to sell to dealers not pledged to
handle only its output, and at its arbi-
trary prices. If the dealers can get
sufficient supply of matches from other
makers they will find If they carry the
! fight up to the people that public
opinion is such that they would be
| heartily supported in their war for in
| dependence. 1t might cost a little to
conduct a campaign of education, but
the results would probably more than
recoup them for the expense.
The Diamond Match company, which
represents Gould money, is an illum-
mating example of the truth that the
tariff is the mother of trusts. Good
matches are made abroad, some few of
which get into this country, but the
trust is SO fortified behind the tariff
wall that all serious competition from
that source is shut out. There is
duty of IS cents a pound on phos-
phorus, 81 a ton on sulphur and 80 per
cent ad valorem on manufactures of
wood. None of these was lowered in
the tariff Mr.. Aldrich claims was re-
vised downward and Mr., Taft says is
the best tariff law ever passed" The
trust looked after that little matter.
We haven't the specific information
at hand, but if the match trust follows
the same methods in foreign sales as
the makers of American steel products,
watches, sewing machines, typewriters,
etc, it sells its goods abroad cheaper
than it demands of the Los Angeles
iobbers for their exclusive patronage.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
Tide Turns Against 'StandpatterS'
fsan Franolaeo cam

CISCO Ialll
way of political medicine for stand
patters was already manifest in In
diana before Senator BeVeridge visit
ed oyster Bay. The standpatters were
reluctantly coming to the conclusion
that 1t was time to be reconciled, for
indeed, they were merely an insig-
nificant minority of the party in that
state. For example, James E. Wat
son, who is the standpat leader of his
faction in Indiana, has abandoned his
intention to stump the state. AS an
Indianapolis dispatch says:
ut is generally predicted now in
Republican political circles that James
E. Watson, candidate of the party for
governor two years ago and right
hand man for Speaker Cannon, Will
not come into Indiana this fall to de-
fend the Payne Aldrich tariff bill Mr.
Watson announced some time ago that
he would speak all over the state In
defense of the tariff bill at the in
Vitation of the county chairmen, but
nothing has been heard of his plans
since that time. a close friend and
former townsman of Watson is quoted
as saying
4 do NOT believe Jim (Watson) will
continue in politics. l do not believe
he will be a candidate for governor
two years from now. He is in po-
sition now to have one of the most
lucrative law practices in the United
states. and | believe he will take ad-
vantage of the opportunity
Mr.. Watson's injured feelings ap-
near to have been soothed. He will
not paint his face and take to the
brush, but will be a good Indianan
Time and reflection help even a
standpatter who happens to have
sense enough to go in when it rains
Mr.. Watson will not stay out in the
wet. which is especially damp in In
diana.
1t is time for all the standpatters to
soothe their afflicted souls and be
patient. The tide is against them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
WlLLlE'S BROTHER

Willie was an office boy:
Willie was a fan;
Wile knew more about baseball
Than many an older man.
Willie said his brother
Was sick as man could be.
And please could he get off today
To bear him companee -
"You may" the boss said gently.
Gazing at Willie the while.
And WilIie's look as he stood there
Was totally free from guile
His head bowed low with sorrow,
He slowly went outside
While gloom hung over the ofiee
And the secretary cried
Next day he showed up at the office
with a frown as black as night.
The boss, with kindly manner
Inquired If all was not right
"Not on your life" said Willie
Forgetting himself in his rage
Which was rather improper of Willie,
Considering he wasn't of age.
"Oh, tell me, Willie. tell me-!
The gentle boss then cried,
Your brother--is he safe at home
or has the poor chap died?'
81 should say he wasn't safe at homer
(There was venom I'm every word.)
TN the end OF the ninth-de score tie
De batter died at third"
Baseball Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
Metals of Low Specific Weight
(Frankfurter Zeitung)

or ZeItung)
is rather soft and little resistant to
atmospheric and chemical influences.
However, magnesium loses these bad
properties almost entirely even If
only small quantities of other metals
are added to it. Zinc, copper and
aluminium are added to this new in
vention in varying quantities. 1t Is
advisable to add not more than 100
per cent and not less than per cent
to the magnesium. A fine grained,
homogeneous alloy of considerable
strength and low specific gravity re-
suits. This new alloy is of Importance
in constructing airships. A Zeppelin
airship, with its mechanical parts made
of electron metal or of this new alloy,
weighs three and q half to four tons
less than were it constructed from the
materials formerly used.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
PINCHOT WILL HELP

THAT Clifford Pinchot will soon be
heard in Los Angeles in behalf
II of Hiram Johnson's candidacy
for governor was given out formally
by him Tuesday after his visit with
Marshall Stimson of this city to Oys-
ter Bay. Mr.. Pinchot will speak sew
eral times for johnson in the state and
for William Kent, the opponent of
Duncan McKinlay, for congress.
The announcement not only increases
Johnson's chances by a large percent
age, but seems to leave no reasonable
doubt of the former presidents atti-
tude toward the insurrectionists in the
Republican party in California. Com
ing direct from Colonel Roosevelt, the
champion Of conservation appears to
bring the blessing Of Roosevelt on the
party wing that bears his name. We
shall be greatly surprised if a message
of the same tenor does not come when
Pinchot opens his lips on the stump
here to break his present silence as to
what was said to him at Sycamore
Hill as he was departing.
Probably no other person of equal
influence with the general public could
have been secured to aid Johnson s
cause. 1t is a tenstrike for him. The
popular confidence in Ballinger's foe is
not bounded by any party lines and if
anyone can succeed in bringing order
out of the present Republican con-
fusion, Pinchot can.
A photograph of Mr.. McKinlay about
this time would doubtless show him
to be in the throes of a well developed
attack of political ague, to say moth
ing of Mr.. Herrin and others. We
haven't the heart to want to see their
portraits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
Furnishing the White House
Boston Transcript


of the president and his family. Ac
cordingly for each four year period the
mansion is subject to the whim and
caprice, at least in all small details, of
the president and his family The SUI
pelrntendent of public buildings and
grounds, representing the govern
ments permanent interest, is an army
officer assigned for this service by the
president and so is necessarily respon-
sive to the presidents wishes. During
Mr.. Roosevelt's administration the new
state dining room Vas ornamented by
trophies of his hunting trips. These
he would have been very glad to leave
in the White House as a part of its
permanent furnishings had there been
any assurance that bv its future oc-
cupants these would have been well
come But no such guarantee can ever
be given.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
State Politics

There is a reasonable doubt about
the sincerity of men who, while pro-
claiming themselves as enemies of the
Southern Pacific, stand out for the
policies which will benefit that cor
poration. No fact is better under
stood than that if the oil lands of the
government in several sections of this
state are withdrawn from entry the
result will be to permit the Southern
Pacific, which has in it's possession
vast number of alternate sections,
to drain the entire regi6n.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
If Herrin were opposed to Curry, the
Herrin organs would oppose him as
bitterly as they oppose Johnson.
Johnson attacks Herrln as bitterly
, as Herrin's organs attack him. Curry
has no word to say against the boss
He would not be silent, If, as the Her
rim organs assert, the boss We're un-
| friendly toward him.-Oakland Inquir-
err.
Congressman McKinlay's challenge
| to William Kent for a series of joint
debates In this district touches many
subjects but leaves that of railroad
domination unadorned Not a word
about Southern Pacific ownership, and
control of the Republican party or
ganization in alifornia.-Sacrament
Bee.
What matters it to the Republican
voters of California what the political
bureau of the Southern Pacific thinks
of Hiram Johnson? What matters it
to them what it's creature, the Repub-
lican state central committee, thinks
of him or his Republicanism? ?-Pasa-
dena News.
The president has withdrawn mil
lions of acres of land said to contain
| power sites. But he has not with
| drawn the power site of the Southern
Pacific political machine in this state
Grass Valley Union.
! A vote for Hiram Johnson will be a
vote for honest, clean government con-
Quoted for the benefit of the people,
Pasadena News.
After the election it will be useful
| in proving how many men lied to him
Salinas Democrat
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14

England has another "grouch
against America. The bottom is drop
ping out of the roller skating craze.
During the two years of the boom
some 35O rinks have been built, repre-
senting a total investment of Sl2,-
100000. Every week in London now
brings the announcement of the bank
ruptcy of one of these establishments.
Panic-stricken investors are counting
up their losses.
The cursed idea was yankee" and
so were the people who introduced 1t.
The craze was started by an American
group-who knew when TO get out The
idea was taken up by the English
who didn't. Everybody who could get
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
Proportional Elections in Switzerland
Consular Report)

An initiative petition, similar to one
rejected in 19OO signed by 142,5O7 vot-
ers, was recently presented to the SWISS
nationalrath, or house of representa-
tives, calling for an amendment to the
constitution, replacing the present sys-
TEN of electing members to that body
one representative for each 10000 pop
ulation-by the proportional system
each canton and half canton to repre-
sent district. The petition was rec
commended by the federal council for
rejection for a number of reasons,
among which were the following; All
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14

NBOSton II
The --latest addition to the White
House Library is the press character
ization of a book which a caller has
just left with the president Strictly
speaking, the White House has no Ii
brary. 1t has d room so designated,
lined with book shelves but its con-
tents are the personal property of the
president who, on retirement, carries
his books away with him. How could
it be otherwise without a librarian, or
other custodian, responsible for them?
The White House silver and emma are
in the care of the steward, a bonded Of.
ficer, who is responsible for any losses
that appear when he turns these be-
longings over to a successor. But it
would be picayunish to put all the fur
nishings of the White House under
similar guardianship, as against the use
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14

systems of proportional representation
have proved deficient. artificial and
defective; the freedom of the elector
is lost thereby, for his vote, if it is to
be of value. must be cast for the entire
list of one political party, otherwise his
party is weakened; the proportional
systems are more or less complicated,
and not clear to the masses; the pres
ent system secures a majority as the
necessary basis for parliamentary and
executive action, without excluding
representatives of the minority parties,
which have always been represented in
the nationalrath, etc. 1t is expected
that the amendment will be placed be-
fore the people during the current year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14

IFTdNkIUT
Visitors to the aeronautic exhibition
at Frankfort last year will remember
the electron metal manufactured by the
chemical factory, Griesheim, which re-
ceived a prize and attracted great in
terest on account of its low specific
weight. The great technical import
ance of such alloys that com blne
low specific weight with a high re-
sisting power induced many experts
to make further experiments in
this interesting field. Walter Rue
bel. civil engineer, the inventor of
"Ruebel" bronze, has made an alloy
which will become strong competitor
of electron. It's main ingredient is
also the light metal magnesium,
which, in it's pure state, is entirely
unfit for metallurgical purposes, as 1t