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Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
POSTAL REFORM"

MIR. FRANK HITCHCOCK, more
wi famed as a politician of the
AA soft tread type than as an able
postmaster. general, has made a bluff
at reform in his department. He is
going to cut down the ten million-dol-
lar deficit about a teaspoonful, having
announced that the land grant rail-
roads will receive hereafter $15.39 in
stead of $17.1O a ton for mail matter
carried in excess of $4,000 pounds. The
railroads tearfully say this is like TAX
ing candy from a child.
1t is Mr.. Hitchcock's business to
know, but in charity it is assumed he
does not know, that the rate paid by
the government for mail carriage is
far in excess of the rate asked by the
railroads of their cousin, the express
trust, for carrying their matter, which
is on the average more difficult to
transport than the smaller and more
compact stuff sent through the mails.
Mr.. Hitchcock ought to know also
that it is a regular trick of many rail-
roads to cheat the government during
the weighing season by padding the
mails for the time and reweighing the
bags in a good many cases.
Congress knows, but Mr.. Hitchcock
might remind it Of the fact, that the
vast growth of the free franking busi-
ness-a form of graft the congressman
consider legitimate-is a cause of the
deficit Wipe out that graft and the
deficit will disappear.
Congress also knows that a parcels
post would add a branch to the postal
service that would make the service
a profit producer. It would take away
some of the business of the express
companies, but they are running a
parasitical traffic, which ought never
to have been carried on by anybody
but the government and the railroad
companies, and have been making from
so to 500 per cent profit a year out of it.
Instead of saving at the spigot, why
does not Mr.. Hitchcock try to do some
thing about the waste at the bunghole?
He cannot, of course, do things that
are only in the province of congress
to do, but a man like Clifford Pinchot
lat the head of the department would
carry on an agitation until he aroused
the people and compelled congress to
establish parcels post and cut down
the franking graft.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17


Even as things stand, Mary was quite
willing to admit, when she saw 1t, that
there are two kinds of women greatly
increasing in modern days. Both have
always existed, but now they are IN
creasing very rapidly and in parallel
lines Of corresponding development
In one column is the enormous army
of young women who remain unmar-
ried till 25, till 80, till S5. Even at that
latter age, and beyond it, in well de-
veloped city like, say, Providence, K
l., in the age period from 80 to 40,
twenty out of every hundred women
are still single.
In the other column is the enormous
army of young women who, outside
of the marriage relation altogether,
lead a professional sex life, venal, FUR
tive. ignoble and debasing; an army
which has existed since the beginning
of time, but which every postponement
of the age of marriage causes to IN
crease in relative numbers and TO gam
new strength for poisoning the blood
of life.
Mary looked at the army of women
celibates in offices and in stores and In
their apartments and in their boarding
houses, women celibates five and ten
and fifteen and twenty years into the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
VESTS EuLoeY OF THE DOG

Editor Herald: In view of the dog
show this week some of your readers
who have not done so may enjoy read
ing Senator Vests eulogy of the dog
which was delivered in prosecuting be-
fore jury man who shot his neigh
boris animal. 1t won the case. Here
it is:
Gentlemen of the jury: The best
friend a man has in this world may
turn against him and become his
enemy. His son or daughter that he
has reared with loving care may prove
ungrateful. Those who are nearest
and dearest to us. those whom we trust
with our happiness and our good name,
may become traitors to their faith. The
money that a man has he may lose.
1t flies away from him. perhaps when
he needs 1t most. A man't reputation
may be sacrificed in moment of ILL
considered action. The people who
are prone to fall on their knees to do
us honor when success is with us may
be the first to throw the stone OF
malice when failure settles it's cloud
upon our heads. The one absolute, un-
selfish friend that man can have in
this selfish world, the one that never
deserts him, the one that never proves
ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
Gentlemen of the jury, a mans dog
stands by him in prosperity and in
will sleep on the cold ground, where
the wintry winds blow and the snow
drives fiercely, If only he can be near
his masters side. He will kiss the
hand that has no food to offer, he will
lick the wounds and sores that come in
encounter with the roughness of the
world. He guards the sleep of his
pauper master as if he were a prince.
When all other friends desert he re-
mains When riches take wings and
reputation falls to pieces he is as con-
slant in his love as the sun In it's
journey through the heavens. If for
tune drives the master forth an out
cast in the world, friendless and home
less, the faithful dog asks no higher
privilege than that of accompanying
him to guard against danger, to fight
against his enemies, and when the last
scene of all comes, and death takes
the master in its embrace and his
body is laid away in the cold ground,
no matter If all other friends pursue
their way, there by his graveside will
the noble dog be found, his head be-
tween his paws, his eyes sad but open
in alert watchfulness, faithful and
true even to DEATH"
Los Angeles, Cal. TOWSER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
SOCIETY WOMEN AND SUFFRAGE

Editor Herald; An article in yester-
days Herald tells the public that
prominent society women "plan to
thwart the ballot crusade" Truly such
a step on the part of society women
is very timely; for what a society
woman would do with the ballot, or
how she could use 1t conjunctive with
the "hobble gown" is a problem for
modern Solomon.
Equal suffrage from an economic
viewpoint does not usually interest the
average society woman. because her
social duties take too much of her
time to allow her opportunity for In
vestigation of the lot of the toiling
millions Of her sex.
The words of working girl were
quoted because there was q fancied
advantage in their use, not because the
girl could be regarded as competent
evidence. The girl was quoted as an
swering an argument in favor of suf-
frage for women because 1t would aid
the working woman, that Mr.. Com
pers said there were five millions of
unemployed men in the United States,
and that they all had the privilege Of
suffrage" All of which is quite true.
The society woman, or the woman
of leisure, might find time to do more
than scarify the surface of economic
problems If she wished to do so, but
the working girl is only one OF the
cogs in the industrial machinery of the
world, and is too busy with the strug-
gle for existence to study economic
facts The ever present problem of
how to live on $500 a week-the aver
age wage of the working woman
keeps her too busy to learn the real
reason why five millions Of working
men are idle; and that one of the
causes Is the very fact that woman
belongs to a dlsfranchised class, and
therefore is still more Of an economic
slave than her brother, and therefore
she has been pushed into her brothers
place in the industrial world and the
marts OF trade because her employer
can get her services cheaper. When
the woman is helpless, so also is her
child helpless, so the small hands of
the child are used to help her mother
tend the spindles of power loom,
because it means greater profit for
the employer, and so the cradle is
robbed by child labor and the father
and brother are walking the streets
idle, or are staying at home and rock
ing the cradle of the last arrival, and
cooking the dinner for the mother and
children old enough to work.
Society women have the time, but
lack the inclination to investigate these
self evident truths that speak so loud
ly to a just God of our national dis
grace, for 1t shows to the world that
civilization than men, and profit
counts higher than integrity.
MARIAN MARTIN.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
pARWIN,s PRopHEcX

Editor Herald: In this age, era and
epoch of aeroplanes, etc, it seems
passing strange no one recalls the po-
etical prediction of Darwin made long
before steam was in vogue or balloons
were flying:
"soon shall the power unconquered steam
afar,
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid
car,
or on wide waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the fields OF
air
Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above.
Shall wave their fiuttering kerchiefs as they
move,
or warrior band abov ethe gaping crowd,
And armies sink beneath the shadowy
cloudW
Steam accomplished two thirds Of
that prophecy nearly century ago.
Long Beach. Cal. N. o.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
Cluttering Up Justice

1t is not urged that an appeal should
not lie in any and every case of con-
viction of a grave charge. Before sem
tence is finally executed a convicted
man should have every reasonable pro-
lection against wronged innocence. In
a sense, society is as much interested
in that ideal as is the defendant. But
error sufficient judgment should be
confined to such mistakes that, had
they not been made, the reasonable
presumption is that the result of the
trial would have been different. Such
a rule, embodied in the codes and prac-
ticed by the courts, would secure to
Dr. Hyde, and to every defendant,
prevent the subordination of the merits
of the cause to the technicalities of
the procedure.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
Good Women and Bad
civilian Hard in Everybody's)


period when nature has by irreparable
edict ordained love. 1t was surely un-
natural, for the mass of them. They
were not vowed nuns. They we're not
devoted to any great cause. They
were Just ordinary, normal young
women, thousands and thousands and
thousands and thousands of them.
Then on the other side, Mary looked
at the great army of women in the
midnight restaurants, in the streets, in
their segregated quarters-women who,
however they may be sentimentalized
about and however irresponsible they
may be for their own condition, are,
as matter of fact, ignorant, stupid,
silly and dirty.
on the one side-intelligent, capable,
effective young women, leading lives
of emotional sterility. On the other
side-inferior women blasted and with
cred by their specialization in the emo
tional life of youth!
The connection between postpone
ment of marriage and irregularity of
living will be admitted by everybody
who is willing to face facts and who
is optimist enough to believe that if,
instead of letting facts lie, we face
them and fight them, we can make a
better race,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
THE JOYOUS PAssAaE

Editor Herald: Have we gone back
to the time of the Crusaders? In read
ing an account of the automobile races
on Long Island last week I am re-
minded of the description of the tour
nament at Ashby found in "Ivanhoe"
Sir Walter Scott summed it UP as fol-
lows:
"Thus ended the memorable field of
Ashby de lie Zouche, one of the most
gallantly contested tournaments of
that age: for, although only four
knights including one who was smoth-
cred by the heat Of the armor, had died
upon the field, yet upward of thirty
were desperately wounded, four or five
of whom never recovered. Several
were disabled for life; and those who
escaped best carried the marks of the
conflict to the grave with them. Hence
it is always mentioned in the old rec
ords as the Gentle and Joyous Passage
Of Arms of Ashby." PHILLIPS.
Pasadena, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
siana 16S,S14. averag-

eraging $685.; Louisiana 1884, averag-
ing 1854.
The total resources, as represented in
bank deposits, were:
California No4z, ooV w
Average per capita .............,. S610
Louisiana Ssb4z, oOaU w
Average per capita .............., S6.dl
The following figures are taken from
the reports of the comptroller of the
currency:
San Francisco
Total savings deposits 1888, Ie2, 1880
Total individual deposits 24S,921, 49,
New Orleans - -.
Total savings deposits ...,......sl6, 1885, 7SS ~
Total individual deposits .......,.. 42,919,O1IlS
Average, San Francisco, $740; New Orleans,
$500.
Increase in resources of national banks,
year 1909-1910:
San Francisco .H03, $50. s2s SO
New Orleans ..............'......''. ZSIV' "a
In the face of such showing New
Orleans and Louisiana do not appear to
be in the same class with San Fran
cisco and California financially. And
California Is as much superior to Lou
isiana in every other respect as she is
financially, just as San Francisco Is
immeasurably superior to New Orleans
in all that goes to make a great and
beautiful city.
San Francisco is the ideal site for the
Panama Pacific International exposition
in 1915. Let congress make no mistake.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
SHE WON

Church-I see your neighbor has black
eye.
Gotham-Oh, yes.
Church-Who gave II to him?
Gotham-His wife.
Church-Im surprised. How did 1t hap
pen?
Gotham-Oh, they had an argument over
lust where the "God Bless Our Home" motto
should hangi-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
FoReErFuL PEOPLE

That letter I gave you this morning, did
you mail it?" asked the wife, looking at
her husband out of the corner of her eye.
mo. dear. 1 did not" said the man,
boldly.
"Of course you didn't And I told you it
was important that 1t should go today"
"Yes, dear"
"And, of course, you forgot to mail it. II
that's not Just like manw
But. dear
Don't but me- I'm angry at you"
But dear look here at the letter. You
forgot to address itp'-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Hearst ran the Independence party
convention in New York by wireless
from his steamer. If there is one
thing more than another that Mr..
Hearst detests it is a boss-in any
other party. .,.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Burglars have been breaking into
St. Louis butcher shops. Why should
any enterprlsing burglar waste his
time on banks or palaces when there
is richer loot to be had with less
trouble?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

New York doctors charged Mayor
Gaynor $4,000 and the hospital charged
S6OOO 1t S understood his fearful
pleas resulted in their letting him
keep an h-irloom watch and his bunch
of keys.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Frederick Townsend Martin Of New
York swelldom says weanly in an in
terview that wealth is a great bur-
den and cause of unhappiness. At last
accounts Mr.. Martin had not yet un-
Inaded. however.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Frank S. Rockefeller, a cousin Of
Jaws D., is a candidate for congress
in Kansas. 1t is a cinch he is not
quoting much in his speeches from the
worl. Of his distinguished kin.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Two Pullman porters are held for
robbing a car in Colorado. Why
should Pullman porters take such
risks when it is so easy to hold up
passengers without any risk?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Mr.. Roosevelt's aeroplane flight was
pretty good, but it is doubtful if he
will ever equal James S. Sherman, Will
liam Barnes and Tiny Tim Woodruff
as political aviators.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

The prediction is made that before
many years this country will have a
farmer president. What it needs just
now is a frmer president.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Munich Germany, has a man with
out hands who has become an expert
stenographer. To write shorthand
without hands must be quite a feat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Vivian M. Lewis, Republican candi-
date for governor of New Jersey, is
said to be one of the handsomest men
in the state. Now, il the women Of
New Jersey had the suffrage
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

The treasury department is going to
stop coming gold for a while. But don't
worry. 1t will be just as easy to get
hold of as formerly-and difficult.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

The Independence party candidate
for governor in New York is John
]. Hopper. He Is not only the hopper
but the grist in Hearst's mill.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

The housewives are all through with
their annual canning. The men will
put in the day on Tuesday, November
s, doing political canning.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
KNOWS HIS BUSINESS

"PopF
"Yes. my son."
what is a press aEent?"
"a press agent my boy, Is man VINO
writes only on one side OF the paper"
How do you know he writes only on one
side Of the paper, popY -,
because he wouldn't get in print SO otten
If he didn't. ."--Yonkers Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

An eastern attorney wanted $6S00 fee
out of an estate of $1,000. Customarily
the client does the retaining. Query:
Would you say the client had won his
suit?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
Public Letter Box

TO sPoNDnNTs-Ietters Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
namo and address OF the writer Tho Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents.
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Letters must not exceed 400 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

The residents lease on the Beverly
hous5 will soon expire. 1t is fortu-
nate thing that he has a lease on the
White House running two years more.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Mr.. Taft has given his approval TO
the plan for raising the Maine. He
has not yet said anything in approval
Of the returns from Maine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

It is said the king Of Spain wants
Manuel to go back and fight, but that
Manuel says: "After you, my dear
Alfonso" .I -
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Why sympathize with Manuel be-
cause of the loss of his throne? Is he
not still enthroned in the heart of
Gaby Deslys?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

Manuel fed the palace by the rear
dcor. He got in bad by the stage
door. ,I L.Ja
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

A Yale professor is afraid that the
United States may become monar-
chy. Rockefeller? Or Morgan?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

NOTORIOUS
CHARkcTER WHOSE
lNFLDENcE IN
THE GoNERNNkNT
HAS BECOME "A
PUBLIC
K SCANDAL
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man
Rger.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

-Phlladelphia North Amerlcan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ne hrst of the two new Steamship!
ou.!u!ne at the shipyards OF the New
YORK Shipbuilding Co. in Camden, N
y, Tor the Merchants and Miners Line
1or service between Baltimore an(
Jacksonville will be launched mex,
February g
Prince Jonah X Kalan,anao,e delesat
to Congress qroni Hawaii, who is at Lo
angeles from Washington. launched Ha
Wallis campaign for statehood. "Ha
wall Will make the next bid for state
hoou Fl ne said, land the request viii
come soon. When introduce the bill TO,
statehood, l shall make showing of the
marvellous growth Of the islands" Prince
Jonah Will be a sailor before the mast il
the yacht race from San Pedro to Homo
lulu.
"A technical kidnapping. in which Q
divorced husband took possessio,
forcibly OF child under his forme,
Wite's custody. was reported Saturda,
as having taken place Friday at Fort
une Bay. Herbert Archibald of Ply
mouth, N. H., 1t is alleged drove to the
residence of Mrs. John Canadian. his
former wife. and drove away with
their 4-year-old daughter. The Archi-
ba1ds were separated by the divorce
court two years ago, and each has since
married q second time. At the time of
the separation. the wife took with her
three children. girl and two boys.
Charles H. Moran. also referred to as
"Chappie" Moran. whom the postal in
spectors allege is known in several
cities as a swindler. pleaded guilty in
the United States court at Philadelphia
Saturday to a charge of using the
mails to defraud. but sentence was de-
ferred until September. Judge Holland
said that the indictment to which
Moran pleaded was returned in 1903.
and that he wanted to investigate the
matter. Moran was head of the East
ern Grain Co. of Philadelphia, which
Is alleged to have swindled many per-
sons through the malls.
Brought to the bar of the United
states circuit court in Philadelphia
Saturday, after. she had eluded cap
ture for nearly five years, Sophie Beck.
one Of the principals in the famous
Storey cotton swindle. which found
victims in all parts of the United
States. pleaded guilty to using the
mails to defraud. She was fined $500
and 5000 costs. All the principals of the
Storey Co. with the exception of Stan
ley Francis. fled the country. Francis
has finished a 3la-years sentence in the
penitentiary. Frank Marin. president
of the concern, is serving 15-year
sentence in Sing Sing on charge
brought against him in New York.
and Ewart storey died in an asylum
in France.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11
Mrs, Annie M, DouuaII.

The death of Mrs. Annie NJ. Dougall
occurred Saturday evening at the
home of her sister, Mrs. John Byrnes'
POS Lincoln avenue. after long IL
ness. peritonitis being the cause o.
death. She was born in Stacyvllle
Me, As years ago. Mrs. Dougall IN
derwent an operation several months
ago in Massachusetts, and was brough'
to Maine, hoping that the change
would be beneficial to her health An
other sister. Mrs. ROCKWELL of Somel'
vile. Mass, also, survives. The fun-
eral will be held at $50 o'clock this
morning from ST. Josephs church anu
the remains will be taken to Benedlcla'
Me, on the noon train for intermeh'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11
Somerset Real Estate Transfers

The following are the recent real es-
tate transfers as recorded at the Som
erSet registry of deeds:
Skowhegan-Leslie r. Brown to Will
liam H. Heselton; e. c. Butler to Leon
Poutin: Leslie r. Brown to George H
Webb.
Observation-Disclosures A. Packard to Mar
garet Smith.
Embden-Fred Getchell to Leon
Getchell.
St Al5ans-William P Winslow to
Bertha r. Batchelder
PittsReld--Ethel Emery Blitz to Alice
Sanford Emery: Mary E. Libby to Car
oline f. l.. McNeill J. F. Marden to
I.aforeSt F. Patten.
Majison-Ernest c.. Butler to Rachel
A. Scott; Charles H. Davis to Edgar s.
Tupper: Sadie Tobin ct al to Annette
Weybrant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11
Big Race at Coliseum.

The two little wheel artists, Goggln anu
Hamilton, are~fast rounding into shsp'
for the first race of their series al tn'
Coliseum next Friday night. Both nav.
a big following and the big theatre snouiu'
be filled to capacity. 1t has been iohs
time since big race has been held hei0
and people promise to come from wv
hillsides to hear that familiar go ~
boys" Hamilton is backed by his oro'n.
er. the worlds champion, and Goggin mas
plenty of friends with the stuff to pacA
him. If Goggin is in condition the i''l0
red-top gentleman will be obliged 10 ~
very fast three miles to win. The MS.
row in the balcony will be reserved al "
cents extra. This should be great rae''
Goggin swan the Kennebec river t"~'
Sunday to improve his condition Even
money is the betting now on the resui'
of two out of three races.