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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
Shows Value of Steel Car.

The case was dismissed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
WRITER'S CONTEST

First prize-Los Wagner, FL Centre, grade 9.
Second prize-Eeen g. Mace r. F. d. l, Box 5OoE, Long
Beach.
Honorable menton-Beuah Brode, 9Ol West Thirty
street; Jefferson school, grade g.
LIMERICK CONTEST
Girls rrze-Lucy Larcom Spaudings 81 Claremont drive
Pasadena Washington school, grade o; age H. :.
Boys prize-Raymond Davis 243 East Adams street. age
grade 5, Thirtieth street school,
Honorable menton-Margaret Bennett 1888 West twenty
fourth street Girls Collegiate school, grade TO- Ruth Grant 1886
McGarry Sgfred Westerhom 1l77 East Fittyourth
street. grade s. age IA.
UNFINISHED STORY
First prize-Elsa Winker 615 East ThsiXth street Iwen-
ty-eghth street school,
Honorable menton-Ilene Clark Mckinley avenue school,
grade 8; age H.
ARTISTS CONTEST
First prize-Mare Hutchinson 424 West Thirseventh place.
grade 10, L. A. H. S.
Second prize-Mton Basham Ingewood.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
LONDON STREETS

If some one promised to take you
to a circus you would be very happy
for you would expect to see wild an
imals, acrobats and chariot races. In
London friend might take you to
Ludgate circus, Piccadilly circus or
oxford circus, yet you would see only
a circle where four or five streets
meet. London streets are among the
best made in the world. To keep them
clean they are washed every morning
by a fire hose and cared for during
the day by me and boys who keep
them swept.
With all of 4l4il attention, the walk
ing in the great English city is very
disagreeable on account of the change
able weather The sun may shine for
a little while and then the rain will
come. At the street crossings there is
usually a sweeper, into whose hat
travellers often drop pennies or half
pennies to help pay for the sweeper
work Many London streets are mar
row, crooked and join one another in
puzzling ways For this reason it is
sometimes difficult to find ones way
around, but the policemen, who are
very polite, are always ready to help
a stranger.
There are times when even London
people cannot find their Wav about.
This is when a heavy fog settles over
the city. Then the street lamps burn
for days at time. London is such
a large city that foreigners living
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23

resort where they were spending their
vacations. The leader, the queen, was
about 8 years older than any of the
rest and the children's mammas said
she was q natural-born teacher, and
that their children We're learning as
much in their vacation as they ever
did in city kindergarten or primary
school at home.
One day the teacher said to them,
when they were all seated at some lit
tie desks that had been put up for
them in a cool place. Now, / am
going to show you how to do something
that you have never done before. The
tops of your desks are little gardens.
We will pave them with white, then /
shall give you each wonderful bottle
and a magic wand that you have but
to touch your garden with and little
birds will fly down by tens and by
hundreds. Who wants to see the
birds?" Every little hand went up, one,
the tiniest girl in the room, asking
where the birds were and another lisp
ing out, but how win weth coax theth
little birdths in, NTH Flossy?" as she
looked out into the distance where
some really and truly little birds were
fitting among the trees.
"These will be fairy birds, Bess.
Every little girl and boy have some
safely locked away. WHOM we unlock
the box some OIL them VIII ny out ana
come down into our gardens"
81 know what you mean, Miss Flos-
sy," said the largest and brightest girl.
"Our thoughts are the birds. They are
locked up in our brains, and with our
pens and ink we coax them out on our
paper"
"Good!" exclaimed Miss Flossy.
Nov, one, two. three! All ready? See
whose birds will be the prettiest. See
who can write the best compositions
After the compositions We're written
each read her own, and the owner OF
the best was dressed up as humming
bird and given a bouquet of pink
clover tops from which she could sip
honey.
"It was just dandy to belong to Miss
Flossy's school," a little boy said, and
the next summer some sought and
gained admission; but the boys proved
a little more than Miss Flossy could
manage. "They were not so much like
fairies as little girls" she said. Boys
were more like elves. They should
all be dressed up as hornets and locked
up in a closet, where they could not
get out to sting" Rather severe on
the boys, wasn't she "
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23

first prize will be given in this department each
week for papers of letters submitted in the contest
by boys and girls of public school age.
will be dollar cash, with the usual sub
scrpon alternative desired and the second prize will be
handsome book
Contributions from $50 800 words in length must
side of the paper only signed with name, adj
Dress grade and be entirely original and the work OF
the person who signs and submits it.
Papers for competition be addressed Aunt Laurie
Herald Junior, care The Herald. Los Angeles, CAL
Topic: THE Mystery These stories be ghost stories,
dreams or occurrences of real life but must be received in this
office not Thursday October H. for publication No
vember 6. -.
Topic: "The These stories may be of school life
little medicines of the homesome OF the juniors have little
baby sister Maybe interesting family has moved
near Perhaps the Stories i'll this con
test must be received office later than Thursday No
vember 3, for publication November l3
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
TIE FAIRIES, LIGHT

The air was warm and the night was dark,
When all at once l saw a wee spark
OF bright yellow light away so far
wondered If twas fallen star.
And soon the air was all aglow
With lights that were dancing to and fro;
Oh my! The fact dawned on me then
That the fairies must be about again.
They were lighting their tiny FREELY lamps
With their fairy torches, the little scamps.
Fireflies carry lanterns under their WINGS
And at every breeze the lantern swings
Gayly up and down it hobs about.
Hitler and yon, now in and now out,
As they make merry on summer nights,
And the fairies follow the twinkling lights.
Fanny Alrcks Shugert
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23

there at first feel quite lonely and
homesick. Probably on this account
the French people living in the city
all have their homes in one neighbour
hood, the Germans in another, and
so on with the people from other
countries. In one part of the city
most of the lawyers have their Of
fees, in another part the surgeons
and dentists live, while in still an
other street there are many doctors.
The milkmen live on Milk street,
and the dealers in honey are to be
found on Honey street All day and
most of the night the business streets
are crowded with buses, cabs, hansoms
and motor cars, in fact, vehicles of all
descriptions, which move three or four
abreast In London drivers keep to
the left instead of to the right.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
BABY HUNT PROVES EXCITING

Dear Aunt Laurie:
have never been hunting or fishing,
so could not write very well about
either of them, but n write about one
hunting trip, and that was hunting for
a lost baby.
The Saturdays work being finished,
I took the two boys and the baby
down on the beach for the afternoon,
but was to be home at $50. as the
children were to have baths that night.
We all enjoyed the afternoon very
much until half past T. when all at
once l missed Baby Jane, who had
been playing with a lady on the bench
next to me. [ looked all around the
benches. and on the sand close to
where we were, but did not see her. I
glanced down the pike, but she was
nowhere in sight. The boys were play
ing nicely in the sand, and 1 told them
not to go away, as 1 had to go and
look for Jane.
l then began a thorough search.
looked over every foot of sand three
times between the double whirl and
pier, and all down the Pike and in
every lunch room between Magnolia
and the baby bunk. Then I covered
the same ground again. Finally / went
and looked up in the station and down
Ocean front and Pine avenue, calling
her, but no baby came. Two of my
IflenOS Inen began the search with me,
but of no avail. About half past 5 [
asked the Pike policeman about her,
but he had not seen her. I looked a
little longer for her, then sat down and
cried in despair.
] then missed the boys. Pretty soon
Jack came back and said he couldn't
find me, so he and Billy went home.
His mother had sent him back, fear
ing 1 would worry about him. He did
not tell her Jane was lost until after
she had put Billy in the bath tub, so
she could not come down and help me
hunt. After Jack came back 1 started
out again, when a girl 1 knew asked
why l did not phone to the police
station.
I did this without delay, when they
told me she had been there for half an
hour. I went up after her and then
back to the beach after her go-cart. 1t
was a little after 6 when I arrived
home very weary. I looked for her
over one hour and a half, so think it
was indeed a hunting trip.
ESTHER VARLEY.
Aged 16 years. AIT West Fourth
street, Long Beach.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
MISS FLossY's SCHOOL

Miss Flossy was a funny teacher'
Her -schoolroom was not only KIM
dergarten. but a sort of fairy land
where the children dressed up some-
times as humble bees, butterflies
katydids and erickets, or as suniiow-
ers, dahlias, sweet peas, etc. Some-
times each one represented a tree or
q vegetable, even one of the furry an
imals. 1t was the way Miss Flossy
had of teaching nature study. she
herself dressed in white, with long,
flowing train, cute little crown on
her head made of gold and silver pa
per- and a wonderful wand made all
of tinsel, most marvellous thing, that
Miss Flossy never raised but that her
children would become as quiet as
mice, ready to do anything she wanted
them to do.
Sometimes they were dressed as
fairies, with paper wings on their
shoulders, and Miss Flossy, their
teacher, was the queen, who led them
through clover fields and down into
dells and dingles.
Did ever any of the Record Juniors
see such a school as this? Wen,
must tell you. this was play school,
held by some little girls at summer
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
BABY FALLS INTO THE WATER

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Noel liked fishing very much and
he always went with his father or
brother. He was only years old, SO of
course he couldn't go alone. His
brother Teddy went whenever he want
ed to arI this got Noel to thinking.
81 will go by myself the first chance
1 get" he muttered.
A few days later his parents went to
the city and left Teddy to stay with
Noel.
In the afternoon Noel took his nap,
while his brother sat reading near by.
Soon some one was calling him and go
ing to the door he met his chum, Les
lie. He wanted Teddy to play mar
bles with him and surely nothing
would happen to Noel if he remained
in the yard
So it happened that Noel slipped I'M
noticed out the back door and into
the barn for the fishing rod. In a
short time he was running across the
fields, in one hand a long rod and in
the other a can filled with bait.
The pond was about half mile from
his house and Mr.. Laurence's house
was near the pond. So he knew that
nobody saw him but the Laurences.
In a little while he caught a tiny
fish and he was greatly pleased. All
of a sudden the line gave jerk and
pun as ne Woulu he cOulu not pun II
in. He gave a great jerk and the
line broke and Noel fell in. He gave
a scream and Mr.. Laurence, who was
Working in his garden, ran to his aid.
Noel was very pale as the farmer
carried him inc tie house When he
could get his breath he said:
81 want my mother"
Mr.. Laurence was living in that
neigh0orhood short time and had
never before seen Noel.
"What is your name? Where do you
Hve?' asked he.
MY names NOEL
"Noel what?"
Just Noel; that's ALL"
"Then what's your fathers name?'
questioned Mr.. Laurence.
''Why do you ask me so many
thngs?" said Noel.
Il viii take you home" said the old
man. He didn't get far from his house
when Teddy came running.
"How you frightened me, Noel!" he
cried.
That n rht as he was telling his story
his face fell ana he said,~'I forgot to
bring thu fish,"
Never mind, dear, We are glad to
get you back" said his mother.
ELSA WINKLER.
615 East Thirty-sixth street, Twen-
ty-eighth street school.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
AVOIDING MIsHAPs

Don't keep your eyes upon sky,
For il you hold your head too high
You'll stub your toes. as sure as fate,
And then you'll find it is too late
TO keep yourself from falling down
Upon the cold, unfeeling ground.
But If you'll look before you walk
CAnd if you think before you talk),
Much trouble you'll avoid, my dears,
And save yourselves both pain and
tears.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23

I hope one and all of my cousins may
see the beautiful state of Michigan, as
well as you, Aunt Laurie.
HELEN G. MACE.
r. f. D. No. 1, box 3O5E, Long Beach.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01

III JASHINGTON-" first thing a
w fellow ought to do when he goes
courting is to get line on his future
mother-in-law, because she's going to
be either his best friend or his worst
enemy"
1t was Carrie Nation who confided
this bit of philosophy to reporter.
The enforced leisure of the Wash
ington workhouse, where she was be
ing held pending a hearing on a
charge of destroying property, had Civ
en- Mrs Nation the chance to turn
her attention from her pet theme, and
it was an off day for the demon rum
as far as she was concerned.
Il am going to devote a large part
of my time hereafter to seeing that
mothers-in-law get the attention they
ought to have from the American peo-
ple," she said, warming to her theme.
why, a man ought to love his mother
in-law as much as he does his wife,
and if he does not it's a sign
either that he's soaked all the
decency out of him with whisky or
burned it out with these fool cigar
cites. If a man does not like the
mother of the girl he's going with he
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01

r. HE Pressed Steel Car Company of
i Pittsburg, which was recently in
the throes of long strike, is estab-
fishing a branch in Washington, not
for the purpose of acquiring new bust
ness in that district, but to keep in di-
rect touch with governmental affairs.
This is following out the policy of
President F. N Hofstot, who claims
that within few years every corpora
ton of any size in the United States
will maintain similar office in the
national capital to keep close watch
on what the government is doing and
make an annual report to it's head
offices wherever they happen to be.
The corporations hope through the
newspapers to disseminate the action
and policies of the Unions executive
officers and offices. They will main
tain their own clerical sleuths.
Business is taking the place of poll
tics in our government said Mr.. Hof-
stot. "The government of this country
is becoming more commercialized ev-
cry day. The commercial interests are
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01
Anecdotes of the Nations Lawmakers

day, "waddled" in to see the president
and out again. The next day, when
hailed by the same reported for news,
Mr.. Payne got even by retorting:
Tell your paper that its reporter
waddled after Mr.. Payne, who replied
that he had no news"
Recently Mr.. Payne called at the
White House and the reporter greeted
him with:
We'll, Mr.. Payne, see you are still
waddling to the White House."
You must go around with a look
ing-glass in front of you all the time,''
came the reply from Mr.. Payne, with
out the bat of an eye.
Senator julius Caesar Burrows of
Michigan, after an exceedingly busy
day in which he called upon the presi-
dent and several members of the cab
met, thereby arousing the suspicion of
the Michigan newspaper men to a
fever heat, was met by one of them.
who inquired:
Senator, have you any news con-
cealed about your person to-day?"
Yes" replied the senator. Thor
oughly concealed"
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01

n URING the heat of the tariff ses-
u sion Representative Serene E.
Payne of New York, who boasts as
large a girth as any member of con-
gress, had occasion to go to the White
House with frequency. The amount of
news he gave up on these occasions to
the newspaper men would have
starved space writer to death in
about two days. In addition, Mr. Payne.
who was always polite on such occa-
sions. firslly became little bit gruff,
because of the rapid-fire bombardment
of questions which were daily thrown
Mt him. Finally, reporter on a
Washington newspaper. who was about
- large around the waist line as Mr..
PAYNE. recorded the call of the Re-
publican leader at the White House
by saying that Mr.. Payne had. that
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01
Attorneys Fight in Washington Court

Il want to show you that the district
attorneys office has attempted to in
timidate this witness!" shouted Lips
comb.
Mr.. Lipscomb knows that he is not
telling the truth" shouted the district
attorney.
You're a liar!" shouted Mr.. Lips
comb.
Then the district attorney made for
him. Mr.. Baker weighs $50 pounds.
He is not so agile as in his college
days, but he was full of fight He
launched a wallop at Lipscomb, which,
had it landed. would have knocked
him across the court room. His aim
was bad, and the blow landed on the
assistant district attorney
Then Liscomb and Baker clinched,
and rights and lefts, uppercuts and
jabs stirred up the court room dust,
and likewise the ire of the Judge, who
ordered the bailiffs to separate them.
Before the court officers could inter-
fere, the defendant, Collier, jumped
into the melee and stopped the pro-
ceedings. Justice Gould called the
fighting attorneys before the bar, gave
the district attorney severe repri-
mand and fined Lipscomb $50 for con-
tempt.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01

NITED STATES District Attor-
- ney Daniel W. Baker and An
drew A. Lipscomb, the leading Grim
inal lawyer of Washington. passed the
lie and engaged in a rough-and-tumble
fight under the eyes of Justice Ashley
NJ. Gould several days ago,
Mr. Baker was the prosecutor and
Mr.. Lipscomb the attorney of the de-
fense in the trial of John w. Collier,
a policeman, charged with killing his
captain on Inauguration day. In the
course of the trial Lipscomb insinu-
ated that the district attorney had at
tempted to intimidate Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Mott, Golfers pastor, by writing
a letter to the bishop of Washington
objecting to DR.. Mott appearing as a
character witness for Collier.
Mr.. Baker was on his feet in an in
stant with an objection, but Lipscomb
was not to be headed off.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01
Carrie Nation Gives Advice ON Wooing

better light out and book his spare
time somewhere else, because it's a
sure thing that the girl will turn out
to be just like the old lady.
This law of heredity that I've been
studying lately is a wonderful thing.
It's the keynote of the whole matri-
monial problem. Now, II fellow be-
gins to think his girls mother is pref
ty nice dispositioned, he don't need to
look any farther than that house for
a wife. And after he gets married it's
most likely that his mother-in-law
will be willing to do more for him than
his wife will in the way of cooking and
economizing and minding his chill
dren."
Mrs. Nation owns to 63 years, but
says she will fight to the death
against the demon rum. She has now
achieved the crowning triumph of her
nine years crusade-the smashing of
furnishings in the big Union station.
Mrs. Nations defense was that she
did not destroy private poverty but
a public nuisance.
Carrie thinks the country has i'm
proved in the last three years.
Taft amt my STYLE" she admitted,
but he's whole lot better than Ted
dy Roosevelt. He's a well-meaning
man and he don't drink, and though
| may have said at times that he was
chasing around the country eating a
whole lot more than is good for him,
l think he is better than anything in
the presidential line we've been get
ting lately"
The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-01
Put Spies on the Trail of Uncle Sam

becoming more important than poll
tics. Commerce and business are the
mainstay of the nation, and expect
only the right that the government
should give greater rights to them.
Politics in the future should take
a back seat. This will increase as the
years pass. My own view is that ev-
cry big Industrial firm should keep
in close touch with the doings of the
government, and particularly with
those departments devoted to the COM
mercial and industrial interests"
Mr. Hofstot was asked about poll
tics.
What I get in politics." he ex-
claimed. why, If man wants to
have his name sullied and his reputa-
ton dragged down in this country all
he has to do is to get into. politics;
run for office and the rest is easy"
1t is anticipated that the other big
corporations of America will follow
the ideas outlined by the head of
the Pressed Steel Car Company.
There are agencies already in exist
ence representing the two biggest cor
porations in the world in Washington
known to-day, the Standard Oil Com
pany and the United States Steel cor
poration. But as for business Offices
with regular corps of workmen and
public communication with the affairs
of the government they do not now
CT
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-26
BIR MINGHAM SUPPLY
DEPARTMENTS PROSPER
English City's Enterprises Show
Much Larger Profits

Consul Albert Halstead reports that
the profits on the gas, street railway
and electric supply departments of the
English city of Birmingham for the
year ended March 81, 1910. aggregated
S5e2.S45. an increase of S23,242 over the
previous municipal year.
OF these profits the gas department
contributed $352.7S7. an increase of
s5,027 over 10000 and 54,403 over
1907-0s. The street railway depart
ment contributed $160,1S0, an increase
of $4,000 over 190S-09. and despite the
fact that by shortening the hours of
motormen, conductors and other en-
ployes the wage cost was increased by
about $3S,932. The electric supply de-
partment contributed S49,SS2, in in
crease of S1,1S2 over 190S-09
These net profits are allotted for the
reduction of taxation, and the profit is
only regarded as net after sufficient
sums have been set aside for deprecia-
tion. reserve and repayment of capital
borrowed. The gas department. in ad
dftion TO its contribution of $352,7S7
for the relief of taxation, contributed
s19,466 TO the city and s54,641 to the
public lighting in the city, making it's
total of actual profit above all expenses
for supplies. wages, maintenance, de-
probation. etc, $425,SS9.
The following table of statistics
shows the growth Of the municipal gas
department as well as the price of gas
per 1.0O0 cubic feet: