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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04

the bedchamber to Queen Alexandra
The tsaritza, as daughter of the
Princess Alice, spent many Of her
school days at Osborne House, in the
Isle of Wight, and there she had for
companion the future Lady Hardinge.
The warm friendship which existed
between the tsaritza and the compan-
ion of her girlhood smoothed many
difficulties from the ambassadors
task. Lady Hardinge's intimate re-
lations with the English court also
stood her husband in good stead.
Not a Politician.
Abstinence from party politics is one
of the chief elements in the strength
of the British civil service. Lord
Curzon went to India with the train
ing and with the instincts Of poll
tician. He had policy of his own
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
MEXICO TO UNvEIL STATUE.
~IR CHARLES HARDINGE, the
new viceroy Of India, is the SUI
~ preme type Of an aristocracy
fhat has odanfod ifsolf To tho

Independence Monument Is 1873 Feet
! High and Of Marble.
One of the interesting features of
the centennial celebration in Mexico
city in September will be the unvell-
ing of the great statue of independ-
ence, on the famous Paseo de la Re-
forma. This huge monument is 1873
feet high. Some of the marble Is
white carrara, the remainder coming
from Mexico quarries.
The four figures Of the socle, which
rises from the plinth, represent Law,
Resistance, Force and Progress, and on
q pedestal is the venerable Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla, fugleman of liberty,
the George Washington of Mexico.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
PROGRESS RE:

We are sending word by wireless:
We've a cooker that is fireless;
The inventors all are tireless
In their efforts to invent things &
which shall be both strange
and new;
We have airships that are gasless; i.
/ We have railways that are pass
less, 81,
But country that was classics.
Though we all hate snobs like
poison. would appeal to very
few.
We have palm rooms that are heat
less;
! We have dinners that are rneatless;
We have wheat pits that are wheat
less,
And the day no doubt is coming
when the horse will disappear;
We have wagons that are shaftless;
We've White House that is Taft
less,
But city that is graftless
Seems to be a thing they haven't
built upon this hemisphere.
IS. e. Kiser in Chicago Record
Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
Marriage Music.

During my school days I met the
late Professor Prout, who was as full
of fun as he was of musical lore. It Is
said that at a wedding at which the
late Dublin professor was presiding at
the organ he played the happy couple
in with "Wretched Lovers" and out
with Father, Forgive Them, For They
Know Not What They Do" - From
"Fifty Years "reminiscences of Free
Church Musician" by e. Minshal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04

Two Miles In One Cocoon.
A single cocoon often yields more
than two miles Of silk.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
Teeth.

Bobby-My gran'ma's so old she ain't
got a tooth in her head. Tommy
Amt she? Well, mebby they're in her
bureau drawer, like my Aunt Titles is
sometimes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04

Egyptian Cotton Crop Normal.
Prospects in Egypt are for a normal
cotton crop Of 1,4OO,OOO bales. Plants
everywhere have a good stand, and the
cultivation also is good.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
Wooded Baden Buys Lumber.

Although 81 per cent Of the area of
Baden, Germany, is forest land, there
is a great amount of lumber imported
from the United States go per cent?,
Russia, Sweden and Roumania.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
GLASGOW Eases Car Ioltinu

The municipality of Glasgow is try
ing out wheels in which the rims are
separated from the centers by a num-
Der Of coiled springs to afford resil-
iency.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
America Heavy Chrome Buyer.

America Heavy Chrome Buyer.
Half the chrome ore exported from
Rhodesia comes to the United States,
entering at Baltimore-in 1909, 11,47O
out Of 22,S71 tons. Other large buyers
are the Netherlands and France.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
Imitation.

Imitation.
Limitation may be de sincerest fat
terry" said Uncle Eben, s'but dat does
not make counterfeit money any mo-
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO
VIZ HAT will be accomplished by congress at
NV the present session? This question is
aeLed oenerallN hut the answer. is not

NV the present session? This question is
asked generally, but the answer is not
easy. The consensus of editorial opinion is that
not much may be expected in the way OF legisla-
ton that will be remedial. According to the Bal
timore News, under the Chastening of defeat, the
shattered ranks of the party in power may close
up and present program embracing retrenchment
in expenditures and the carrying forward of re-
forms which the country has indorsed in unmls-
taxable ways that will restore it in part to public
confidence The breaking up of party lines and
the desire on all sides for less political maneuver-
ing and more business at Washington may sud
denly develop into powerful backing for MIR. Iatt
if he learns how to encourage and use 1t.
But aside from the business side, there will be
much of interest. With this congress there will
disappear both from the senate and house num-
Der of party leaders, men who for a score OF years
have nodded party policy. A new group will take
the reins on both sides, and it is anticipated that
their influence will make itself felt before the end
of this term. The situation makes for caution,
and political expediency-n view of the presden-
tia election two years hence-Will cause the older
and the wiser heads to try to mark time. But
there are forces at work which may at any mo-
ment precipitate dramatic climax and one which
will have far-reaching consequences. The next
congress may be more important in results, but the
present session. more particularly behind the
scenes, will repay watching.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
WOULD TABOO WETs'

Editor Herald: The discussion by the
Berkeley sophomore class the other
week of wine and beer, or no wine and
beer, at their class reunion demands
the attention of thoughtful people. Can
not The Herald help to create such a
healthy public sentiment as will make
it impossible for students to discuss
the question?
We have a right to demand total
abstinence of our teachers as well as
our preachers. When our young peo-
pies church societies banquet, the ques-
ton of wine or. no wine, beer or no
beer, does not come up for discussion.
The moral atmosphere of our churches
decides the question before it arrives.
Our educational institutions should oc-
cupy the same ground. The lives of our
teachers should preach just as loudly
on the question of sobriety. No matter
what his scholarly attainments, If he is
not clean morally a man is not fit to
train and educate the youth of our
state.
There must be something wrong with
the faculty of our university at Berke-
ley if the sophomore class must hold a
wet-or-dry contest before a class re-
union.
Won't The Herald take up the mat
ter editorially? e. p.
CoVina, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
AND THIS IS WINTER

The last remnants of the Thanks
giving turkey have disappeared, even
from the clearinghouse hash, and
the holiday season is about here. You
wouldn't know It without looking at
the calendar, of course, unless you
took a stroll on Broadway. But the
holiday bells are beginning to tinkle,
and it's time to plan for trip to the
canyon where the holly berries are red:
Bathers are still surf bathing and the
vine roses are commencing to bloom
on the front porch and arbor-still, It's
nearly Christmas. The orchards are
fragrant with orange blossoms and the
gay little Sonora canaries are bathing
at daybreak and cooling at sunset just
as they did last year. Some people
wear an overcoat occasionally, but
they really don't need it. Straw hats
would do, only they aren't fashionable
in winter-and really this Is winter.
You could tell by the throngs Of tour
lists on the streets, if no other way.
And almost any morning now you are
liable to wake UP and find the moup-
tains covered with snow. JumD on the
electric car, Elm that case, II you have
time, and run out to dreamy vernal
Altadena. At dozen different places
on Mariposa avenue you can peep
through the green and gold of the
orange groves to the dazzling snow of
the foothills on a background barely
q mile distant. Then you will be
quite sure it is winter.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
Editorials by the People
RUM POWER FLAYED

Editor Herald: In late issue or
The Herald, you say: Official figures
show that the consumption of liquor
largely increased last year. Election
returns shows that the dry territory
was largely extended. Figure 1t out
for yourself"
1t is not difficult to give most con-
maly. First-The protection and
prom otion of the traffic by the general
government would largely account for
it If no other reason was found. The
fact that the general government is a
partner with brewers and distillers,
must go far toward making all local
prohibition laws ineffective. Governor
elect Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
in speaking before the convention of
governors, said of monopoues which
are much less extended, much less
heartless, and much less powerful
than the rum monopoly: Centralized
business has built up vast structures
of organization and equipment, which
overtop all states, and seems to have
no match or competitor except the
federal government"
If these less extended and less power
full monopolies have passed beyond the
control of states, what chance have
local option laws to successfully con-
tend with this aggregation of muir
derous greed, the rum monopoly, when
it has the support of the federal gov
ernment itself?
AS a second reason why the increase
of dry territory, so-called, does not
reduce the amount of liquor sold, is
the fact that the two dominant poll
tical parties are license parties pledged
to the promotion of the liquor traffic,
so the enforcement of these local pro-
hibitory laws is committed into the
hands of officers elected by license
parties, a majority of whom perjure
themselves by refusing to enforce the
laws which they swore they would en-
force.
A third reason why local prohibition
laws do not more successfully reduce
the amount of Intoxicating liquor sold
is that the local option law concen-
trates instead of stopping the traffic.
It's results are the same as If a man
suffering from the stencil of decay
ing carcass in his own yard should
instead of burying it seek protection
by throwing it into his neighbor's yard
where such nuisances were allowed.
STEPHEN H. TAFT.
Sawtelle Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
SEND MESSAGE OF HOPE

Editor Herald; In the Letter Box
there seems to come pathetic ques-
ton by one of the writers on the sub
ject of death and the hereafter. This
correspondent asks: HAS anyone a
word that will pierce the dark? Not
flowers, but q light" The pathos is
intensified by the statement that he
has 'lived to where book authority
cannot bring assurance" This is sad.
Yet 1 would not have our friend lose
hope of receiving "light'-if only a
glimpse-from the natural world,
which if pondered over will lead him
to accept the bright light" or mar
velous light" which is now shining in
the clouds of unbelief.
Has our friend ever seen the glow
worm, the female glow worm, which
has the power to shed forth its soft
though powerful light and the power
to darken itself instantly at will to
appear as brilliant as before, and also
has the same power as the x rays, to
reveal the "hidden things? Many q
time when a lad the writer watched
them in the lanes of Cornwall, little
knowing then that they were the VS.
ible manifestation of the power of God
to me. Yet so it was.
The glow worm when aglow typifies
the body of Jesus as described in
Ezekiel 1:27, /and which produced the
same light that smote Saul with blind
ness on the way to Damascus, and as
the worm in the natural world has the
power to veil itself at will, so has the
other worm" (see Psalms 22:6), now
perfect Goldman" the power to do
likewise.
Thus we see the natural should lead
us to the spiritual, for no prayer ever
offered has been so munifcently an
swered as David's when he said: 20
send out thy light and thy truth; let
them lead me-" Countless millions or
the scriptures have been circulated
during the last century, and although
the light" has shone but in degree
as mankind turn their faces heaven
ward-the moon being set as figure
vet it is shining more intensely now
than since the creation, fulfilling the
promise
Moreover the light of the moon
shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold
as the light of seven days, in the day
that the Lord bindeth up the breach
az his people and healeth the stroke
of their wound" The day here spoken
of by the prophet Isaiah is now come.
J.~R, X.
Los Angeles. Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
SEX AND PARK SEATS

Editor Herald: I see nothing for it,
Mr.. Editor, but to inaugurate, forth
with, either a Society for the Suppress
sion of Sex, or else a Philanthropical
League for the Painless Extinction of
Prurient People, park (and police COM
missioners to be given preference and
precedence as subjects for treatment.
| do not hold with those namby-p -pamby,
half-baked reformers who would at
tempt to meet the conditions with more
lunatic asylums under the euphemistic
name of nests for the neurasthenic" or
institutes for the isolation of nice
people with nasty ideas" / am sure
we need something more drastic. We
must either abolish sex as something
altogether too troublesome and indec-
orous-not to say indecent-fOr tWenti-
eth century ideas, or we must annihil-
ate those busybodies who would hedge
us round with insane restrictions and
ordinances. For it will not stop at
such Comstocking as the draping of
statuary and segregation of the sexes
on park seats. Street car seats must
soon come under the same rule, While
separate counters at the stores and dis
tinct zones or areas in public halls and
theaters must follow. And, trained
along these lines of sensitiveness Cor
silliness), we shall surely arrive where
the rule will invade family life, and
separate tables, apartments and garden
areas become de rigueur.
BY all means let US have a Fool
killer--and of the largest size!
WILLOUGHBY SMART.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15

The discovery of the fossil remains OF whale
on top of a 250O-foot mountain eighteen miles
from the sea in a nearby oil district the other day
is not an important event from iduciary stand
point. No data or speculation deducible there
from is susceptible of application to the bread and
butter problem of other than a few text book
manufacturers; and skeetonized dead one of any
species doesn't count for much in this day of joy
rides and hobble skirts. Just the same it's a
rather interesting thing to dream on of a quiet
evening by the open grate-and all the folkA gone
to the play and left you alone with your book or
newspaper. Once that mountain top was sea
floor. In tertiary slime that dead 1eyiathan may
have sunk What denizens were on earth then,
and where now is the land that then was? Oh, it's
interesting bit if dinner sets WE'LL even if it won't
solve the Christmas presents problem.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
UNsAvoRY PLAYS ON THE wANE

A TTEMPTS being made to prevent the pro
~ duction at d local theater OF a play bearing
an unsavory reputation brings again to pub
lie attention the fact that we are being offered
an endless number Of immoral. salacious or So
called problem plays" Many of these dramatic
offerings are in the hands of capable actors and
some, no doubt, are effective, but chiefly as hor-
rible examples. The producers of plays declare
they are giving the public just what the dear pub
lie demands We doubt this. We believe writ
ers and producers have failed to observe the trend
of public sentiment. In many cities municipal
and police authorities have been compelled to take
action toward making the stage somewhere near
clean This should not be necessary
For many years the all-prOtecting cloak of art
has been made to cover indecency. Salacious and
sensuous productions have been heralded as
"studies," and have been used as vehicles by
"artsts" whose lines and work appealed solely to
the baser passions not to noble motive or love OF
the beautiful. Sex problem plays and similarly
evil spectaces that have artistic excellence, no
educational value, and no proper place in public
exploitation, have been presented to mixed au-
dences of all ages and with social and official
sanction. This inevitably leads to liberality Of
thought and laXity OF conduct that bring a lower
standard of morals.
Salacious and sensuous productions are being
driven from burlesque houses and they should be
driven from the operate and dramatic stages as
we'll That the public is really tiring of this kind
Of productions is evident from the fact that the
notable failures this season in New York were
plays of this class.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
COOPERATION DEMANDED

Editor Herald: To obviate the delay
in transit of the p-a-y-e cars through
causes mentioned in my last letter, it
will be necessary to have the hearty
cooperation of it's patrons. 1t will be
a very simple and easy matter for pas
sengers to provide themselves with
small change to pay their fares If they
once can be brought into the frame or
mind to do so. But there comes the
rub. There is no denying the fact that
the average citizen cares little about
doing anything to accommodate the
company. even in this small though
effective matter, when he feels almost
certain that he or she, as the case may
be, will have to hang to a strap or pe
crushed in Il crowded car for miles pe-
cause the company has failed to supply
adequate car service during the rush
hours.
Take the Moneta avenue line as an
example about p. m. When the
southbound car arrives at Fifth street
II is usually sufficiently filled for
comfort. and by the time it reaches
Ninth it is filed to suffocation. Yet
no apparent effort has been made TO
relieve this distressing condition. Be-
tween the hours of and double cars
might be run, or trailers. The patrons
like to sit down. They pay to do SO,
and ought to have what they pay for.
II this were done, how quickly the
patrons would respond in every way
to facilitate transit, for at heart Los
Angelans are a good natured people.
Let the company post notlce IN
each car thus:
"Our patrons are requested to have
change on boarding p-a-y-e cars to
facilitate transit, the company in re-
turn guaranteeing efficient service
during rush hours" or something to
that effect. We will then have the
hest car service In the best city.
CAR PATRON.
Anpalaa
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
THE FEDERATION CLUB AND ITS WORK

T T is a great work that the Federation club has
done and is doing in Los Angeles and the
campaign to increase the membership of this
organization deserves the success that undoubt-
edly will attend the effort. Although composed
largely of churchmen, the work of the club ex-
tends into the secular domain and eXerts great
influence for good in civic affairs. 1t is the de-
sire of the club to increase its membership by 6OO
and The Herald believes this will be accomplished.
On any who are not at present members of the or
ganization The Herald urges the Importance Of
assocating themselves with this body of men. The
club has place and work in the daily life of Los
Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
A HEARTY LAUGH
Being the days best Joke from the news
exchanges.

When Gertrude Hoffman and her
company were playing here a week ago,
says the Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une, one of her "broilers," who had
unknowingly stopped at a boarding
house in Pittsburg where there had
been smallpox, went UP to a physician
to be vaccinated.
She was very anxious to have it
where the scar wouldn't show be be
exposed when she appeared on the
stage.
"Ah, yes," said the NJ. D., stroking
his beard 'What is your business?"
"Why, I'm with Gertrude Hoffman.
One of her dancing girls, you know"
"Well," said the man of medicine as
he laid down the virus, 81 guess if
that's the case you'll have to take it
internally"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
THE PROGRESS OF
CALIFORNIA
tsan Francisco chronicls)

Aside from the increased strength
which the census returns show that we
shall have in the councils of the nation
and the new arrangement of represen-
tation upon which every politician in
California is figuring, there is much
to be learned from the figures pub
lished which is both interesting and
cheering.
The largest percentage of increase
shown, as compared with the popuia-
tion of ten years ago is in Los Angeles
county, with a gain Of 1876 per cent
But Los Angeles county is largely ur-
ban, containing many thriving towns
outside of Los Angeles city.
The county showing the next largest
increase is Stanlslaus, which is as rural
as growing county can be. and which
shows a gain of 1876 per cent.
Irrigation did it. or. at least. made
the growth possible. And that Is true
of all the counties which show most
gain.
And while they have done It, 1t would
be more than ungracious to ignore the
fact that their own inspiration largely
came from the magnificent results
achieved on those lines by our brethren
of Southern California.
Only our southern friends we're not
handicapped by an unprogressive local
population. When they took hold of
Southern California there was nobody
there to speak OF, and those who were
there were only too glad to sell out
to them, and now they wish they had
not.
The owners of the great ranches in
this part Of California did not wish
to sell out. Their land, as the Lord
made 1t, was good enough for them.
But some died. their mortgages got
some, and some first became resigned
to the march of progress, and then be-
came infected with the fever. All is
life now in central California. One who
seeks to keep actually informed of
the march of improvement can do little
else.
Ten years ago Central California
was dead. During the previous decade
Sacramento county gained but IA per
cent in population, San Joaquin 2S per
cent, and Yolo but per cent, while
during the same decade Los Angeles
gained 6S per cent. and Orange A per
cent. During the last decade Sacra-
mento has gained At per cent, San
Joaquin 43 per cent and Yolo, which
is just being started, II per cent.
But where irrigation has been prac->
ticed largest, and where 1t is most de-
pended on for production, there, even
now, progress is most rapid. Fresno
county has gained 100 per cent, San
Bernardino 1O3 per cent, Orange 75 per
cent, and Los Angeles 1876 per cent.
Irrigation, intensive culture and sub
division build UP great rural popula-
tions to make business for great urban
communities.
Central and northern California are
only fairly started in the line of prog
ress, but they have the area, they have
the water, they have the fertility, and
now that they have acquired the enter
prise and the energy, the indications
of the census are that California is to
grow up into the greatest Of American
commemorative even earlier than its
most confident prophets Of prosperity
have ventured to hope.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
STUBBORN KNOTS

She tied a ribbon in her hair,
The knot was on the side
Before an hour had gone by
That knot became united.
He tied the laces in her shoes,
OF silk they were, and wide;
But every little while. OF course,
Those laces came united.
A marriage knot was tied one day;
She thought 1t would abide,
But Just a single year has passed.
That knot, too, is untiedl
r-Yonkers. statesma
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15

Councilman Gregory says women are crowding
the smokers off the front seats in the street cars
Perhaps the women-Who seldom smoke-are try
ing to get seats where they will not have to
second hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15

If the Toxic papers accusations OF graft in the
out6tting OF Japans antarctic expedition are true
it would seem to argue that the south pole will
soon be discovered-On the Cook basis.