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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
WHAT HIS NEIeHBoR SAID

Editor Herald: In conversation with
q neighbor today regarding the merits
of morning papers of our city the
writer stoutly contended for The Her
aid as being the cleanest and altogether
the best to have in the home, and was
met with the reply that The Herald in
its editorials took little interest in
many things affecting the best interests
of our citizens, citing several cases of
minor Importance. such as the smolS-
ing ordinance on the street cars, for
instance My neighbor insisted that
the law as at present is a good one,
and that a good paper, having the well
fare and comfort of the greatest num-
ber at heart, should be bold and hon
est enough to speak its mind at times,
even on such apparently trivial issues;
for most of the people need educating
along lines of decency and fairness, and
1t is anything but fair that after such
an ordnance was passed by the coun-
Gil it should so soon become a dead
letter.
one of the best editorials Of The
Herald of this year was the "Herald's
Plowing," January 2. l often read lt
vet, as we'll as others / have. would
see a sharpened coulter and deep plow-
ing. The world needs 1t. Others VIII
helm to break the clods. J. X.
Los Angeles, September 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
Sixteen Million School Children
philadelphia TeleEraphl

4 Telegraph)
crease characterizes the current fig
ures. More than half million teach
ers of both sexes are now engaged in
instructing 100000 scholars. In 9TH
er words, the magnitude of the Amer
lean school system Is demonstrated by
the statement that 1t has more than
doubled in less than quarter of a
century. The educational bill of the
United States now reaches the round
annual sum of 5000O,000, as against
the approximate sum of $125, 900, 900 in
1888. 1t is interesting to learn that
Philadelphia will have nearly as many
pupils in its schools next week as
there were teachers In all the states
and territories two decades ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
MAN AND BEAST

Editor Herald: What queer and wild
notions religious faddists get into their
heads. T. j. Wilson wants us to quit
killing cattle and hogs, etc, in fact all
kinds of animals and birds because
God has put them on earh J. would
like Mr.. Wilson to tell us what would
become of us If we followed his ad-
vice Why, the animals would crowd
man off the earth in a short while. The
farmer could not raise any crops. Cat
tie, deer, hares and sheep would eat
his grain, the coyotes his chickens and
the lions would eat him.
CARL vOUGT,
Pasadena, Sep. 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
SOME IMPORTANT QUERIES

The press is making much of the
change in Maine from Republican rule
to Democratic rule.
But let us ask a few questions:
VIII this make any difference to the
people of Maine?
VIII 1t increase the wages of the
workers?
viii 1t shorten the hours for the
wage -earners?
VIII ii do away with child slavery?
Will it eliminate the shop and fac
tory work for woman and give her
chance TO be a home-maker?
Will it purify the schools and clean
up politics?
viii 1t make the prices of groceries
and meat lower?
Will it cut down rents and coal billsY
Will clothing be made more honestly
and will the workers be able to wear
woolen goods in winter?
Will the housing of the toilers De
any more decent and will they be
able to own their own homes?
Will there be less boodling and less
corruption?
viii the bosses let the workers form
unions and will there be no more need
of strikes?
Will the unemployed be given a Jop
at right wages and useful labor?
l. C. REYNOLDS.
Hollywood. Sent. II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23


Is there would build himself a home
In this amusing pass,
And think to color it with chrome
Or something in its class?
Then will he kindly step around
In measure with the rhyme,
And at the current price per pound
Pay William Guggenheim.
Does someone wish TO have his tub
Equipped with cold and hot,
And in this luxury to scrub
And splash about lot?
Then will he kindly bow his head
In pleasant pantomime,
And at the market price for lead
Pay Isaac Guggenheim.
Would someone like to line the sink
with pewter, for a change,
Or have a laminated zinc
To go beneath the range?
Then viii he also get in line,
And deftly keeping time,
Step up and liqudate his fine
To Daniel Guggenheim.
Or Is there someone else, perhaps.
Would like to toot his horn,
And boast his conquests in the lapse
u Since fortune saw nln Dorm
Then will he stir himself bit,
And for the pleasure prime
OF having means for doing 1t
Pay Murray Guggenheim,
v.
Is there would come upon the scene
In this eyentful year,
And think to find his lot serene
For merely being here2
Then VIII he share the lot of men
Before him, and for all
The blessings here pay Brother Ben
on else pay Brother Sol
VI
or Is there some alloy, perhaps
That might be costing more
Some little thing In bottle caps
or something for the floor?
Then viii you have the grace to walk
Around I'm double time,
And Just as fast as you can talk
Tell Simon Guggenheim.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A little while ago George Washing
ton and William Penn were under ar
rest in an eastern town for a petty
offense, and now Henry Clay is
charged here with setting forest fires
These veterans mustn't think their rec
ords in the school books exempt them
from obeying the laws.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
PATRONAGE AND LEGISLATION

Editor Herald: while Republican
legislation pending in congress was
opposed by certain Republicans, the
president felt it to be his duty to the
party and his country to withhold
federal patronage from certain sena-
tors and congressman who seemed TO
be in opposition to the administers
tion's efforts to carry out the promises
of the party platform"
The quotation is from the letter of
Mr.. Norton, secretary to the president,
published and bearing date Septem-
ber 15
1t suggests certain queries.
Is there a difference. moral or po-
liticaI. between securing legislation
by giving something to the legislator
and securing legislation by withhold
ing something from the legislator?
Is there a difference between secur-
ing legislation by payment of money
to the legislator and securing legis-
lation by giving office. or the power
to bestow office, to the legislator?
READER.
Long Beach, Sept. 21.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A Chicago dispatch says that more
beef packers are likely to be indicted.
The public would like it better if there
was prospect Of something being
done about the indictments already
found.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Colonel Roosevelt has been condemned
in resolutions by the Young Egyptian
party. If the Young Egyptians and the
old guards could be united in this couu-
try they might make II decent showing
at the polls for the anti-Rooseyelt
cause.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Before leaving town will the dele
gates to the gas mems convention tell
us why it is a reduction in the price
of gas is usually followed by higher
gas bills?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
JUST DROPPED IN

rattered Terry CAS- he hears farmer ap-
proaching the barn)-Get up, Bill KICK
boIc in the roof. roll over on the hay a
connie of times and wen tell the old seezer
we're aviators.-Puck'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

That foot race between Councilman
Stewart and Candidate Stephens at
Venice tomorrow ought to be interest
ing. Both showed ability to run pretty
well on recent occasions.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

President Diaz rang Mexico's liberty
bell at the centennial celebration.
Many who are tolerably well informed
on conditions in Mexico wonder where
that bell ever got its name.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Uncle Joe is said to be preparing
some speeches to make in the New
York campaign. In that case it seems
a criminal waste of money to incur
election day expenses.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A United States consul in Malay says
pearls are growing on cocoanut trees
there. The country that can expect a
boom, however, Is the one that can
show ham sandwiches growing on
shade trees.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Congressman DENLY of Michigan
(standpat) says conditions in the Re
publican party are "grave in the ex-
treme." Yes, and everybody knows
who is officiating at the grave.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
Far and Wide
SENATOR ROOT TALKS

Senator Roots six-day talk at The Hague
did not exhaust his vocabulary. He has enough
words left to express his views OF the situa-
tion in the state OF New York.-Brockton
Times
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Mr.. Aldrich, who is in Europe, has
not been interviewed on the situation
by any American newspaper, but the
cable companies probably have to draw
the line somewhere.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A Portland paper thought it had dis
covered DR.. Cook in a hotel there, but
as nothing further has been heard of
the matter it was probably only the
hotel cook.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
WHAT HE GOT

what thew got at school. The eldest got
reading, spelling and definitions "And ma
what do you get my little man.? said the
father to a rosy-cheeked little felow' .,
30. diets readin' spellin' and spankin'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

The "old guard" in New York doesn't
seem to be able to carry the home dis
tricts of it's leaders, but expects the
public to swallow it's claims that it will
down Roosevelt with the greatest ease.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
A SAFE CONCLUSION

"rhere is neither marrying nor giving
in marriage in heaven"
",rhat being the case. I suppose we may
safely conclude that there is no Reno IN
heaven. ."-Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

The STANDARD Oil trust complains to
the Interstate commission that it has
been overcharged by some railroads.
This seems like taking unnecessary
trouble. Why doesn't it just add the
sum to the price Of oil?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

The Colorado election is announced
as a victory of the progressives, but at
this distance it looks as if the victory
was qualified with apologies to Senator
Guggenheim.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

It is probably still safe for Los An
geles women to go out of their houses
at night if the street cars run in front
of their doors. But you can't tell
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
EVENING UP

BY reducing the size OF the bank and treas
ury notes the government probably intends 10
get the dimensions Of the money down to its
purchasing power Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A former lord mayor Of London is to
visit Los Angeles. 1t will be up to
Lord Mayor Alexander to see that the
honors are done nicely.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
Merely in Jest
A WAITING GAME

"you let two automobile scorchers get
by without saying a word to em. .,
"Don't you worry" replied 81 Simlln'
reckon 1 know the constable business.
confidence an by an by I'll git bunch
with while."-Washington Star
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

The women of England wanted to
mob Miss Leneve, but American women
evened things up by sending bouquets
to DR.. Crippen in Quebec.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
THE MOOD OF A FAN

"yvhy do you watch the baseball bulletins
so carefully?" asked one woman
my husband is an enthusiast over the
,a,,,a" renIied the other II make it
TuIe never to discuss household or millinery
expenses with him EXCEPT on days when
tbe home team wins."-Washington star
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
HOW THEY DO 1T

In q hotel IN MonIaha IS INC luIIVWIIIb
"Boarders are taken by the day week
or month Those who do not pay promptly
are taken by tho neck" -Appinootts
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

A Mephls matron who isn't yet divorced has
shot a man for breach of promise Memphis
Is growing a little more up to date than Chi
cago.-Loulsville courier-Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE Intended
for publication must be accompanied By the
name and address Of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to corresponds ents,
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Letters must not exceed 400 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Has the Ballinger majority considered the
happy compromise Of bringing in verdict Of
not guilty but pay the costs?-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Latest indications are that Vermont
avenue will be made boulevard to the
sea when its namesake in New Eng
land goes Democratic.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE.

The Salvation Army reports that there are
100000 persons living by robbery 10 India.
Does this number include the trust magnates
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
IN ~ RRuTE

The Theosophists say that Theodore Roosf
welt is Julius Caesar reinearnated We wal
interestedy the new Caesars Commentaries
Chicago Evening Post
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
CHANCE FOR SUBMARINES

Those bomb tests by the aviators also sug-
gest the disturbing thought that the bigger
tie warship the easier the mark. Indianapolis
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

Now that Chanler's former wife is
also after his money he may as well
give it up and save trouble and legal
expenses.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

The first man to bore a hole through
one of those footpads should be recon-
mended to Mr.. Carnegie for a medal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
A sHREWD sTRMIsE

whats the meaning OF all these recent
railway poolse" inquired an old lady rs
il the effect OF the damp summer? Ion
don Punck
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
THE CERTAIN METHOD
Non GUILTY, BUT

If that aviator really wanted President Taft
to go up in his airship, why didn't he tell him
it would help the party?-petroit Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
WnLL wHAT wAs MEETING FoR?

WELD WHAT WAb MLf4I INu FDIt'
The reunion OF the Rockefeller FAMILY was a
eladsome occasion Bet there was good at
tendance Of the poor reiatlons,-Pittsburg Ca
zette-Tlmes
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
PAY auGGENHEIM

Everybody in this country is paying tribute
to the Guggenhems, and Simon Guggenhelm
sits in the United States senate fixing the
schedules.-Editorial paragraph,)
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 327, ,685
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man
nEer.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19

which could not be equalled by any other London hotel Every day the management has had to turn guests away. Nearly d quarter of q million guests have stayed at the hotel in the 344 days it has been open.
 The success of the hotel, the direct DTS believe. is mainly due to the non tip rule. Guests are forbidden tO of fer any servant of the hotel d gratuity. and servants found accepting them are discharged. People know exactly what it is going to cost them before they set foot in the hotel. and when they pay their bill there is no need for them t. put their hands into their pockets to tip anybody
 Although the rule against tipping is risidly enforced by the infringement, there have been visitors who have in sisted upon offering gratuities- In or der to protect the servants from temp tation the management has had to re quest these visitors either to abide by the regulations or to seek accommOda ton elsewhere.
 The management has had TO diff culty in securing plenty of walters and chambermaids. despite the fact that they receive no tips.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19

Mmc. Sarah, she was so well pleased with her method Of discipling lawless woman that two years later, in Rio Janeiro, she sezed horsewhip just after the curtain had fallen on the second act of 'Adricnne Lecouvreur' and applied it to Mme Noirmont, that actress some days before having struck Mme. Sarah in fit of temper. What the origin of the quarrel be- tween Mme. Bernhardt and either COlombier or Noirmont was is not known.
 Colombicr is dead, Richepin is dead, Bonnetain is forgotten.
 But Mme Sarah at 66 is packing her | trunks to take the ship at Havre next , month She will come and she will act for us in a list of plays that would tax the body and brain of the most robust tragic actor that ever trod the boards She will gather in another million francs and, smilinglly, she will sail away.
 Peradventure. there is a lesson in these matters.
 Perhaps it is that islander is a frail weapon" after all.
 If that is the moral, it is one that should re-eminently console the men and women of the stage. for none are so often and so wantenly made the target of the envenomed shaft--Chica- go Record Herald
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19

furs. feathers. beads, perfumery, cigars tobacco, wine. liquors, and automo- piles constituted the principle luxuries on the list. though in another group were decorated china and bisque musical instruments. toys. orchids palms, etc.
 The figures show the importation in 1910 of $4S,O00.OO0 worth of diamonds and other precious stones. S46.0O0,000 worth of laceS and embroideries. $37,- 0O0.00O in tobacco and cigars, and $23,- 000000 in wines and liquors. In 1901 the value of imporated diamonds and precious stones was $42,500, GOO and in 1900 it was S14, ,250, 900. Laces and em- broidcries showed d slight falling off last year, there having been imported in 1907 $49,50O.OOO worth. against s23,- O0OO00 in 1900.
 Wines, spirits, and malt liquors inn ported last year aggregated $23,500.0OO, against S22, ,o00.OO0 in 1907 and $12.750,- eco in 1900. Automobiles and parts thereof imported last year aggregated in value S3,SO0,O0O, as compared with $4.SO0,000 in 1907. Art works imported in 1910 were valued at S21.000,000, against s6,O0O,OOO in 1907 and $2.5O0. 900 ir 1900. the large increase being due to the removal of the tariff duty on art works twenty years old or over.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19

or winds t'1k it miles in detour before it reached it's destination is a subject Cf conicctIrr.
 On January 27. 1907, Windolph onhis way tp Tampa and Key West passed down the coast Of the Caroln1s in gt .Iercbant:.' and Miners steamship the MoTIiHiac Off North Carolina in an Idle moment he rut his card within a whisky boItIe. and, pushing in the cork against the rail of the vessel, tossed it overheard. Until if disagneered from sight in the green waves Mir. Win dolpiI watcl ed the tiny adventurer, never thinking to hear from it again.
 Three and one-half years after the strange letter came to him from the fishing firm of Manuel Vasconcelles & Company, Spain Within the envelope was the same card which he had sent out. unstained by the water, unin jured after it's long coyage.
 With the card was a letter stating that it had been picked up in | whisky bottle off the eastern coast of the Azores, in the province of Prala, by one of the crew of the fishing smack, D. Carlos, De Ionza, captain. The letter was in excellent English. but from the style had evidently been written by an educated Spaniard. It did not state the exact date of the finding of the bottle.-Philadelphi Bulletin.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19

Marie Colombier's plan of attack was this: She called the central fig ures in her narrative Sarah Barnum, and nobody could be so stupid as to miss the application of that. Then she took her heroine from early childhood to middle age and dragged her through the highways and byways of fast fife in Paris, crOwding her into groups Of f1aneurs, money lenders. absolute bankers. mad actors. wanton women disreputable nObles and bribe- taking journalists.
 The crime lay in the fact that cer- tain known and wholly irreproachable incidents in the life of the uretended original of the dire heroine formed the mechanism of the plot but were SC terribly distorted that monsirous fig ure was created
 Mme. Bernhardt's answer to the out rage may have been unwomanly, but # was intensely human
 She horsewhipped Marie Colombier thoroughly and artistically.
 Accompanied by Maurice and Riche- pin, she broke into the apartment where Colcmbier lived. smashed all the ornaments and furniture she could lay her hands on, and wound up the de- monstration by laying the lash over the shoulders of the mistress of the establishment
 All Paris cried brava to Mime. Sarah, and the law that sine had taken into her own hands did not retaliate upon her presumption:.
 Mme. Bernhardt. having imposed chastisement, subsided. and the law became factor in the proceedings Colombier was sentenced to three months imprisonment and fine. not for libel, but for '''outraging public morals The term of Imprisonment was finally reduced to a fortnight No more was heard Of her until 1SSs. when she published a novel called "The Prettiest Woman in Paris" As for
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19
HOrSewhipped by Sarah
Return of Bernhardt Recalls Affair of
 Sarah Barnum.

At one o'clock on the afternoon of January-2, 1884, a copy of a 2eO-page book, written in French and bearing the title, sarah Barnum," reached New York by the European mali. Thir- ty hours later the first edition of Sarah Barnum" in English was de- livered ito the booksellers. Two hack writers, named Valentine and Hunt, assisted by fifty-three men and wom- en, had got the translation up within twelve hours.
 A wickeder book than sarah Bar num-" by Marie ColOmbier, never was written In English it made d i60- page pamphlet of undilUted venom. Its ap-- palling fabrications were sustained by framework that rested upon just en- ough truth to give the whole daStardly job vraisemblance.
 In Paris last Tuesday Marie Colom- brie, old and disbraced, died. A I5O- word cable dispatch brought the tid- ings. All there was to tell was that she was the woman Mme Sarah Bern hdrdt had once horsewhipped and that she had been fined 1000 francs and made to serve a fortnight i;nprison- ment for "outraging public morals" by writing book called sarah Barnum." :"
 In a few weeks the supreme artist whom the clever scribbler attempted to defame will reach these shores to act in repertory comprising nearly a score of masterpieces of the classic and modern French stage.
 This-in the final adjustment of matters between Sarah Bernhardt and Marie Colombier was the sole purpose that the dying of Marie Colombier served-to advertise the coming of the woman whose reputation she hoped to blast
 It is one of those little ironies of history in which the Parisians delight Had it come to light in Victor Hugo's time he would have made two pages in that delightful Chooses Vues" out of it -as he did of the incident of the embalming of Prince Talleyraud when d servant threw that brain that had manipulated Europe out of the window
 After lapse of six and twenty years time being. they say, your surest disinfectant-it is possible by holding the book in a pair of tongs in one hand and holding the nose with the other to read Sarah Barnum" without contam- ination. The marvel is how it ever got through the United States mails. or how the publisher of The Library Of Universal Knowledge" ever kept out Of jail.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-19
OLD TIME VEGETABLE REME
 DIES.

It is well to remember that many plants which once were used as vege- tables have eben allowed to drop out of our bill of fare. Our forefathers. for instance, sometimes diued off of elder top and burdock root and the early shoots of the hop were consid cred d great delicaey and were cooked and eaten as asparagus.
 Walter Jerrold. in his Highways and Byways in Kent" recalls a tire when Kentish children could tell of many pleasant hours spent among the hedges in search of the wild hop