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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20
HoUsrs-FURNHsHED

FOR SALE-MY BEAUTIFUL. MODERN,
furnished hve-room bungalow, house .and fur
nishings in hrst-class condition; lot S1x1S5 IT, !;
good barn, nice lawn and beautiful flowers,
orange, lemon, peach and walnut trees;
property located "A mile south of Slauson ave.
on Long Beach line, 1705 Merrill ave. viii
make the price right If taken at once
F. A. BUELOW
$40 Wilcox Bldg.
Main ss13 As22s. s-ls-1t
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S1O PER ACRE $1O

5000 acres of fine valley land in tracts of 100
acres or more; suitable for alfalfa and choice
apples and pears in short distance OF r. r.
station; only few hours ride from the city,
for sale at the low price named.
800 acres close to station, for $lb per
acre; a bargain for some one unquestionably.
Also 800 acres in artesian belt at sis per
acre These lands will bear Investigation.
Arrange to go and see them and be con-
WINGED. Small cash payment and balance TO
suit Sample soil can be seen at our onlce.
IOWA REALTY AND INVESTMENT CO.,
phone Ab34 623 Stimson Bldg.
9-20-1
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20

TWO GOOD HOMES
SPECIAL BARGAIN FOR QUICK BUYERS
on SD ST., near Moneta car; must be sold
this week.
ROBINSON-ALBAUM REALTY AND
INVESTMENT CO.,
203 Frost Bldg. Cor. Broadway and Second
Main 1862 A4See 9-20-tf
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I. SHOOP

j. SHOOP,
SO2 o. t. Johnson Bldg.
j 1871. Main 24s5.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20
COUNTRY PROPERTY
1000 ACRES
$s6.25 Per Acre

FINEST ALFALFA LAND IN STATE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20

These lots are located at the southwest
corner of Vermont and Manchester avenues.
high and level giving a clear view OF Los
Angeles and the mountains.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20
GnvERNNIENT LANps

WANTED = SCRIP FOR CALIFORNIA
land; win pay highest cash price. Address
BOX lis, Herald. s-lS-S
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FOR SALEM SOUTHWEST. 6-RoOM
cottage, living room, dining room. Kitchen
screen porch three bedrooms and bath'
lawn front and rear, fruit trees and flow
ers East front one block from cent
car fare. 20 minutes to center of city.
Worth considerable more than asked.
Price 1880, 5000 cash, balance monthly
payments See OWNER. 91S w. Fiftieth
at phone So. 6144, 9-1s-3
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Cincinnati's Population

THE citizens of Cincinnati are greatly
disappointed over the poor showing the
Queen City makes in the census said
R. R. Barney of covington, KY.
"A population of 10000 to $4,000 was
claimed for Cincinnati but 1t is credited in
the census bureau with only $4,000 This
was very small increase as compared
with 10 years ago. Cincinnati has popu-
lous suburbs on both sides OF the river.
Covington, which is practically part of
Cincinnati, has a population of about
5000, and Newport Ky, which Is also
suburb of Cincinnati, contains about
$4,000 inhabitants. Cincinnati is rich
and prosperous city and Greater Cincin-
natl, including its Kentucky envirous,
has a population of fully 100000
The Ohio Valley exposition, to be
held in Cincinnati from August 30 to Sep
tember "a, will be one of the best os
the racing shows for which that city is
famous. 1t will draw great crowds from
the south as well as from the Ohio val
lev"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Senator Cores CHARGES

Senator Gore had introduced a bill in
the last session proposing that all con-
tracts with the Indians should be subject
to the approval of congress. At that
time ]. F. McMurray was endeavoring to
secure from the Indians fee Of SO, 100000,
being 10 per cent of a proposed sale of the
coal lands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw
indians to a syndicate. Jacob L. Hamon,
4 former republican national committee
man. represented the McMurray con-
tracts, and Senator Gore says that Hamon
offered him first s25,ooo then $4,000, to
! withdraw his opposition to the McMur-
ray contracts.
No one who, knows Senator Gore will
question his good faith in trying to save
me Indians in his state from being re-
rnorselessly plucked by the land sharks
and lobbyists in Washington. But it is
on1 hing to. make a charge Of grating
end squlte another to uncover It snd to
oc(sblish - He may not be able 70 pre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
PICKING MIR. ROCKEFELLER

early and mserably. But scientists
know that unless they elect the gallop
as their gait they last longer than
persons who haven't money enough to
purchase rest and medical attention,
and who cannot ignore the inroads of
the butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker upon their treasures. And
even the dissipated millionaire is quite
likely to outlast the poorer brother
who cannot afford to recuperate at
springs whose waters are especially
beneficial to the victim of overindul-
gence.
1t is to be hoped that the picking
of Mr.. Rockefeller Will be successful.
and that his days may be long in tho
land which his ingenuity has acquired
for him. But as warning example
to the young man who is too much de-
voted to accommodating wealth, and as
a consolation to the poor who would
like to picture the rich as being less
we'll off than they. John D. Rockefeller,
at three score and eleven or twelve, Is
a rank failure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
StandpatteTS and The South

The washington Times, a strictly indie
pendent paper, states that President
Taft thinks radicalism will increase and
that the breach between the regulars and
the insurgents will widen in the next few
wears. He looks" adds the Times. ito
the south to eventually put a brake on
the tendencies of the age"
Doubtless the Times correctly presents
the Presidents views. He is at heart a
standpatter and always has been. At
every turn in his career he has shown
this tendency.
He is right when he says the regulars
and insurgents will pull apart in the next
few years They are fighting out an i'm
the rank and file control the republican
party? The tariff was made by special
Interests and IT is used as an object lesson
to show the audacity of those interests.
AS an object lesson the tariff is useful,
but It is not the chief issue. The control
of the party is the chief issue and the
rank and file and the special interests are
fighting it out and they will keep at it
until it is settled the one way or the
other.
Mr.. Taft is mistaken if he thinks the
south will come to the aid of the special
interests. AS a section It is mercilessly
exploited by them. and it will never aid
them in any manner whatever. The
truth is it will stand by ready to say,
go it old woman; go it bar and the
President will have to look for succor for
his sorely pressed Cannonites and AL
drichtes in other sections of the country.
try.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
Fraudulent Bills Of Lading

In its anxiety to secure for the ports
the entire cotton trade of the country.
New Orleans, particularly the Times
Democrat of that city. should not Islander
an entire state. Injustice to a cotton
growing state will never operate to Sc
cure the cotton of that state Injustice is
never a winner in the long run.
The particular grievance of the New
Orleans Times Democrat consists in the
fact that the authorities of Alabama
have taken no steps to bring TO the bar
the men who are charged with having
issued fraudulent cotton bills of lading
No one in this state has been able to
get hold of a fraudulent bill of lading
There are cotton men who hold these
valueless bills and they, for reasons best
known to themselves, refuse to turn them
over to the officers of the courts in this
state. The failure to prosecute rests, not
against the solicitor-general or the at
torney-general of this state, but against
those in other states or other countries
who hold fraudulent bills and refuse to
surrender them, or even to make known
the fact that they have them. Some of
New Orleans cotton dealers are standing
in the way of a criminal prosecution of
the men who are charged with the issu-
ance of forged bills of lading. This is
the plain truth, and If the Times-Demo-
crat will turn it's vitriolc words upon
those who, possessing evidence, refuse to
surrender it, it will come much nearer the
mark than it has yet come in this matter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
1 am the very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet.
Wholesale Dry Goods Trade

A city of 10000 people, more or less
centrally located in the cotton belt. with
more railroads than one can readily
enumerate, should have more than one
wholesale dry goods house, large and ex-
cellen+ as that one is. More houses of
that nature would promote the growth of
birmingham and more would strengthen
the trade of the one house we have.
Those who desire to see what jobbing
trade in dry goods will do for a town
should study the story of Knoxville
Take away from that city its jobbing
houses and but little of promise and
greatness would be left Strangely.
enough. Knoxville has become the lead
ing jobbing center of the southeast. Lo-
cation did not do it. Railroad facilities
did not do it, over-abundance of CAPT
tai did not do It, The achievement is due
to the enterprise, foresight all" s0iS
sumption of the east Tennesseeans re-
siding in Knoxville.
That sort of enterprise is needed here
IN regard to wholesale dry goods. and
success without it is impossible. Capital
Is an aid and so is centrality of position
and shipping facilities. but the basic
necessity of such a trade is the trading
facility East Tennessee has it, and
many East Tennesseeans live here. Let
them get together and assist in. establish
ing here a strong jobbing center that Will
rank at least up to Knoxville.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
The Bacon.Shakespeare Question

Discussion over the authorship of the
Shakespeare plays breaks out periodical
~ and it never fails to interest the lit
erarv world. Last October the Rev. DR..
w. z. Evans began a series of papers
in The Age-Herald on What the Ba-
contains Say
In The Age-Herald of Sunday. July "a,
the Rev. DR.. George Eaves took Shakes
peares side, in a luminous article headed
whipping Poor Will" On last Sunday
this discussion in the columns of The
Age-Herald was further enlivened by a
scholarly and trenchant article entitled
THE Baconian Lunacy," from the pen of
Prof w. C. Richardson of Tuscaloosa.
And now comes F. l. Monks w<kh an in
teresting contribution in the form of an
appreciation of Professor Richardson g
vigorous style. Professor Richardson is
in his ssth year, but he writes with the
freshness and virility Of a master of let
tiers of 30 or 49,
All these contributions have not only
been worth reading, but they have given
zest to intellectual play and have tended
no little to broaden the mental horizon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09

sent evidence TO prove what in his heart
he is convinced exists The matter comes
before a congressional committee of in
vestigation. and possibly Senator Gore,
who is a lawyer, viii yet be able to
prove the bribery charge that he himself
believes to be true Possibly he will fail
in that respect. but his friends will not
doubt his sincerity and his motives for
a moment.
Let us hope the investigation will, at
any rate. put stop to the plundering of
the INDIANS which has gone on many
years in the most corrupt manner. The
McMurray contracts consist of about 1000
signatures secured from the Indians COW
erng about 10000 acres of land, some of
which holds coal veins. The Indians re-
sorted to lawyers when the government
neglected to sell their lands. and the
lawyers are demanding millions for serv-
ices that the government agreed to per-
form. The McMurray contracts should
be upset, together with the 10 per cent
fee. The Indians should not be despoiled
of the little that is left to them. This
undonbtad lx- is the cbiaf obisnt Of Canator
Cores charges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
China for the Chinese

The indications are that China can, I'M
aided, build the railways she needs, and
she is certainly right in endeavoring to
do so. She has just completed the Pekin-
Hallway, a line 122 miles long full of en-
cheering difficulties. The engineering
was done by a native, a graduate of
Yale, and all the money invested was
home money She proposes to go ahead
without foreign assistance, and every
well-wisher of the vast country should
encourage her in the great effort.
The bonding of Chinese railroads to
foreign capitalists means the domination
of other countries in strictly Chinese af-
fairs, and nothing is more promising to
Chinese development than her desire to
get rid of foreign control in every form.
This means a new and greater China
and this is coming in the next twenty
years.
The outside syndicate that had been
formed to supply money for the construc-
ton of railroads in China has lost its
opportunity. and another piece of Knox
diplomacy has been thwarted. There is
to be no foreign loan-at least none in
the immediate future, and probably none
at ALL The American people have other
uses for their money. and all they ask is
that no syndicate of foreign bankers shall
be Permitted to furnish China with funds
that would form basis for intrigues in
Chinese internal affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
STREETS OF PARIS
To Them the French Capital Owes Much
of It's Worldwide Fame
Sidney Ossoski in the August Worl
Today

Sidney Ossoski in the August World
Today.
Its spacious streets make Paris the
most attractive and, in many respects,
the most convenient capital in the
world. Narrow streets and insanitary
areas have been swept away, a large
portion of the city has been entirely re-
built, and its expansion has proceeded
In an orderly manner in accordance
with definite plan, modified from time
to time, but not altered materially.
Paris has now 102 miles of streets SO
feet inches or more in width. Lon
don has not more than SIX and few
of the streets are more than 10o feet
wide, whereas some of the avenues in
Paris are more than 200 feet wide.
and the width of one is as mucn as
$50 feet.
Among world cities that have fol-
lowed a definite plan of development
and expansion, Berlin must receive es-
pecial mention. The broad boulevards
and avenues of its suburbs, Charlotten-
burg and Schoneberg, are characteristic
of the districts surrounding the central
area of the German capital A notice
able feature in the plans of both Berlin
and Paris is the provision of spacious
traffic centers from which the more i'm
portant streets radiate in many direc-
tions. This principle has been devel-
oped in London only to a very limited
extent.
1t is true that London has done mitch,
during the last half century, first
through the metropolitan board of
works, and later through the London
county council, in the way of street i'm
provement, but the works that have 50
far been undertaken have been .criti-
cised by high British authority as
scattered and fra gmentary. forming no
part of a complete scheme and designed
independently. without reference to a
general PLAN"
When we come to our American cit
les. such as New York and Chicago, we
find that, like London, their growth
and development have suffered from a
similar absence of plan and centralized
effort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
SHE DIDN'T FORGET

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Woman has often been taxed with in
capacity for concentrated and continuous
thought Now and then something occurs
to disclose the utter folly and falsity of
such a charge.
The other day two young people in the
East-and in a buggy-were approaching
the romantic crisis of their lives. An au-
tomobile was also approaching them
from behind. At the very instant when
the young man was putting the question
the automobile struck the buggy and
tossed its absorbed occupants to one side
of the road He" was unconscious and
she" was badly dazed. But she refused
to be distracted from the main theme by
the instrusion of any minor issue. Keep
ing the line of communication open, she
gasped for her oblivious lovers hand and
ecstatically murmured: "Oh, Billy, dear,
yes!'
When a woman is vitality interested she
may be trusted not to lose her grip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09

From the Boston GLOBE.
Resolutions adopted by women's organ
izations. calling on a woman by name
to quit smoking, suggests that 1t is barely
possible for woman to do something
even more offensive than to smoke cigar
cites. 1t is a bad habit, of course, or
men would not be addicted to it.
But she who gossips and gives credence
and circulation to things she does not
know may make herself in this day Of
fierce publicity more than a village scold
and become almost a national nuisance.
Surely her lips would not be worse
employed in putting a cigarette in the
seclusion of the. boudoir or the dining
room. The fumes of the little coffin nall
are not smelt afar and the tainted breath
of the user is not perceptible beyond her
own osculatory circle.
Besides, there is no commandment on
the subject of cigarette smoking. while
the rumor monger is forever in peril of
violating the stern injunction that thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
POOR MANS PLIGHT

7 etIIt fNdISdS C1ty TITLES.
Sometimes the saddest thing than can
happen is to have dreams come true"
said a man in Oklahoma, tired Of the
long, hot summer. He had never seen the
mountains, with their pines, their snow
and their waters II was invited yester-
day. he said, ito be the guest of man
who was taking two motor cars, one
loaded with supplies, for six weeks trip
through Colorado and Montana The
itinerary was arranged for loafing at any
place that looked cool and where there
was good fishing. A mechanician and two
expert drivers were to look after all road
troubles. I couldn't go, because 1t costs
too much not to be at work. And that's
why l never used an annual pass l once
had on the Hamburg-American steamship
line in the Pacific ocean,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09

From the New York World.
Every once in a while some school
teacher comes forward with a list of
ludicrous mistakes made in composition
by her infant charges. The following
laughable breaks" were not made by
school children but by newspaper re-
porters and correspondents. Writing is
their business, but they often make RI
diculous mistakes in the haste of
Catching an edition"
In a story about mad dog scare on
Staten Island the reporter wrote "Po
liceman Jones drove the dog into am
bush and killed it."
The head of prominent Wall street
house, in telling about the action of
the directors of certain company, was
quoted as saying: TT came like can
non ball out of a clear sky"
The report of the result of a damage
suit: "Carmini Carusini was awarded
verdict of $1,000 for injuries received
by the jury from the Erie Railroad
company"
This from Brooklyn reporter: He
tried to end his life by suicide"
In the story of a sleep walker found
parading the streets in his pajamas
"The somnambulist had been suffering
from insomnia for some time"
This one might have been due to an
error in typewriting: THE girl was
affiliated with typhoid fever"
A correspondent In a small town on
Long Island, evidently laboring under
great excitement, wired: Mrs George
K Blank was the heroine of the holo-
cast (She played a garden hose on
burning barn. In further describing
the blaze he said: The flames swept
into furious environment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
AHAPPY FELLOW.

He seemed in love with laughter,
Nor ever wore a frown;
Though trouble followed after,
1t could not weigh him down.
And every day was brighter
Than the one that went before.
And his simple heart grew lighter,
AS he told his blessings Ger.
He seemed in love with laughter,
No sorrow could dismay:
His mirth would shake the rafter
Upon a holiday.
In his eyes a merry twinkle
Time stroye In vain to dim;
Though the years brought many wrin-
kle,
The sunshine stayed with him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
THE CALL.

1.-THE head to this office is gone. The
real boss has laid down on us and fled.
Proofs are unread; copy unedited; papers
unopened, and the editorial column fiat
and insipid. We suspected 1t Saturday;
we feared it Sunday, and Monday the
realization took place. Saturday she was
discovered exchanging a jelly recipe with
the society reporter. Sunday she care
fully read the household departments in
the Sunday papers; Monday she said
peaches were selling at a good price, and
the weather didn't look as IL it were GO
ing to cool off, and tomatoes were COM
ing on, also corn, to say nothing Of
grapes. Monday morning she visited the
grocery store before the office. When
she finally came in at o'clock, the far
away look of Saturday which had de-
veloped into a haunted stare Sunday, had
plainly become a wild glare Monday. She
fused around the papers for a minute;
picked up some proofs and laid them
down, wandered aimlessly to the desk
and glanced over the receipts and ex-
penditures. restessly hammered nothing
out of the typewriter, and finally said
she must go home. Tt was out. No, she
didn't care If Stubs or Wagstaff were
elected; elections were of no Importance:
telephone. NONSENSE; what was calling
her home had called thousands Of wom-
en- before the telephone was ever In
vented. Yes, 1t was important, 1t was
vital. So she went. AS we expected,
on the kitchen table when we reached
home were SO Jars of peach preserves, q
glasses of peach marmalade, 81 Jars of
peach pickles, so glasses of peach Jam,
also peach vinegar, peach butter. peach
jelly, to say nothing of peach pie, peach
cobbler and sliced peaches for supper
Winfield, Kan, Free Press.
BRIEFLY TOLD.
One dainty summer girl seated in q
hammock. rose-embowered, nibbling choc-
olates.
One vacuous young man smoking
cigarette.
One irate father who appears on the
scene.
One long look on the part of irate
father.
One cold chill on the part of vacuous
young man.
Painful silence.
Departure of vacuous young man.
The girl holds on to the chocolates.
Next,
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-09
LAY of THE MISSOURI HEN

From the Kansas City Star.
A lay on the Missouri hen by Selected:
I'VE have read of Maud on a summer
day, who raked, barefooted, the new
mown hay. We have read of the maid
in the early morn. who MIXED the COW
with the crumpled horn; and we've read
lays the poets sing of the rustling corn
and the flowers of spring; but of all the
lays of tongue and pen there's naught
like the lays of the Missouri hen. Long
before Maud had raked her hay the Mis-
souri, hen had begun to lay, and ere
the milkmad strs peg the nSn is up
and has dropped her egg. The corn must
rustic and the flowers must spring If
they hold their own with the barnyard
ring. If Maud Is needing a hat or gown
she doesn't hustle her hay to town; she
goes to the store and obtains her suit
If the milkmaids beau makes a Sun
day call she doesn't feed him milk at
ALL but works UP eggs into a custard
pie and stuffs him full of custard fry;
and when the old man wants a horn, does
he take the druggist load of corn? Not
much He simply robs a nest, to town
he goes-you know the rest. He lin
gers there and he talks, perchance. of
true reform and correct finance. while
his poor wife stays at home and scolds,
but is saved from want by those self
same fowls, for while the husband lin
gers there. she watches the cackling hen,
with care. and gathers eggs and eggs
she'll hide till she gets enough to stem
the tide. Then hail, all hail, to the
Missouri hen, the grandest blessing of
all to men. Throw up your hat and
make Rome howl! Corn may be king,
but it's plainly seen that the Missouri
hen is the Missouri queen"