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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
Modern Drug Superstitions
(NIilo Hastings)


nature provided and left for an Indian
squaw to find, and the beliefs that
rundown people need tonics and pale
people pink pills have no place in the
modern science of health preserva-
tion.
The drug superstition originated in
the theory that disease was caused by
an evil spirit. lamentations and charms,
tom toms and prehistoric brass bands
were among the early methods used
to drive the disease demons out of the
human habitation. Then vile tasting,
repulsive and poisonous substances
were given the patient for the same
purpose. Polecats' blood, tongues of ad-
ders and toads' skins were among the
early prescriptions, and were followed
by the thousands of varieties of bitter
herbs and poisonous minerals still
listed at the modern apothecary shop,
still demanded by the majority of pa
tients and still prescribed by phy-
sicians who, knowing that the patient
expects to take something" write out
these ancient and meaningless pre-
scriptions because they are too honest
to prescribe bread pills and too poor
to tell the truth.
This column could be filled ten times
over with quotations from great scien-
lists and great doctors deploring the
deep-rooted prevalence of the drugging
habit. A single quotation, however,
will serve to show the tendency of all.
DR.. Osler, probably the best known
physician among English-speaking
people, in referring to the rise of mem
tai healing, recently said:
For generations the people of the
United States have INDUCED in an orgy
of drugging. Between pharmacy in
the profession and quack medicines the
American body has become saturated
ad nauseam, and here, indeed, was a
boon even greater than homeopathy.
No wonder the American spirit, un-
quiet in a drug soaked body, rose with
Joy at a new evangel. In every coun-
try there were dyspeptics and neuras-
themes in sufficient number to demon
strate the efficacy of the new gospel"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
VIEWS OF A WOMAN

Editor Herald: AS the different can
didateS for political hOnors are being
put on record in regard to their atti-
tude toward corporations, we suggest
that they be obliged to outline their
personal convictions more clearly, es-
pecially on the present needs of the
people.
In the daily anxiety of obtaining the
necessaries of life the great majority
are not concerned under what party's
name their rights are restored, nor
what corporations are fiayed by politi-
cal orators, but on whom can we de-
pend to enact just legislation.
The men who are mentally or NOR
ally too dense to perceive a wrong
cannot be expected to remedy it. A
return to barbarism is all we can hope
for from ignorant and brutal rulers,
whether elected by a credulous, misin-
formed majority, or (as is now the
custom) by a subsidized minority who
pride themselves on their chivalry to-
ward the weaker members of society.
We do not need so much discussion
about the far off future, but men who
will act justly and consistently now;
men who have moral convictions that
will urge them to work for the aboli-
tion of poverty and needless suffer-
ing, who will scorn to live in luxury
while little children are hungry. We
know there are many such men. Let
us put them ou record.
EMMA C. SCHAFER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
BOB" AND LIMA

4 FTER reading the financial state
Il ment of his domestic affairs sub
A mitted for our judgment by
Mr.. Winthrop Chanler, we are dis
posed to sympathize-not with him,
but with the sentiment expressed by
his supposedly insane brother in Vir-
ginia, who telegraphed him: Now
who's craZy?"'
We are accustomed to the reverse of
the picture now given TO us by the
fatuous artist who has permitted him
self to be stripped of pretty much
everything but his undershirt and his
appetite. That is, one of the Euro
pean institutions which we most honor
is the impecunious duke who comes
after one of our heiresses for help in
fixing up the leaky roof of his ducal
castle; we even gladly pay out our
millions for him and feel honored when
he sends the object of his peculiar af-
fection home by way of the divorce
court.
But having our young men maze the
mark of Europe's sirens is new ex-
perience. We rather like the diver
sion. Variety is the spice of life. We
might wish the balance of trade, as
the economists call it, were the other
way for what with the fortunes our
European tourists are annually leaV-
ing on the other side and the sums
being taken by dukes and divas there
is danger that not much money will
be left here if the drain is permitted
to continue. But we must have our
amusement at any cost.
We deplore the bad feeling that
seems to have been engendered by this
international incident, and can sug-
gest, we think, compromise that will
restore to the lachrymose Chanler his
wealth." consisting mostly of mort
cages and notes. Let the fair Cava-
lieri forget and forgive the indignity
he offered in throwing the breakfast
marmalade in her face and be sensible
and reasonable about the matter.
Let her give back the dross and keep
the che-ild. Then let her book herself
for a season on the American vaude-
vile stage. We know that right mere
in Los Angeles, if she will agree to
divest herself of most of her clothing
and pose as the worlds greatest COM
bined physical beauty and ICON" artist,
the women of this city will pull each
others hair to get to the box office.
Other cities will repeat, and the re-
turns we feel safe in saying, will be
beyond the dreams of avarice.
Thus may Chanler's tears be stopped,
thus may the diva be assured against
all want for herself and for young
Giuseppe; thus may all the contro-
versy that is rocking our country to
it's foundations over whether it was
nice of her to act as she has after he
offered to be father to her dear
che-ild be ended
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
CITES DICK MILITIA LAW

Editor Herald: Your correspondent.
"B," is advancing good principle when
he says: "T. r. may have made mis-
takes. but we should give a man cred
it for what good he has done"
But the question, it seems to me, Is
not one of pitting a mans achieve
ments against .his few mistakes. 1t is
a question of good faith or hypocrisy
a question of whether T. r. has ever
stood for the people except in few
bursts of "hot air" Judging him by
his acts. and not by his professions,
! am afraid we shall yet see our mod
ern Caesar using his despotic Dick
militia law to set one-half the workers
(as emergency militia) dragooning the
rest of the workers, when high prices
and future panic shall produce its In
evitable crop of destitution and bread
riots. For hard times will come, and
as the people learn more of the un-
deriving facts and causes, they will
become more and more restive and re-
sentful under sufferings they feel to
be Fictitious and fundamentally need
less. PERlCLES j. WilF 1Ah'
Los Angeles, September 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
TO DAPHNE's FOOT

Fair Daphne's foot's dainty thing
Like those the poets used to sing.
So small indeed, you'd hardly dream
1t had sufficient breadth of beam
To bear the weight, however slight,
Twas made to carry, day and night.
When out upon the ballroom floor
You see it tripping gaily o'er
The polished surface in the dance
You wonder greatly If perchance
The efin fairies Of the moon
Have not prepared her dancing shoon.
When DER the cold, bleak pave 1t goes
Mid hustling throngs and drifting SHOWS
You stand aghast that such rare
And fragile thing should venture there,
And as It nears the crossings edge
You tremble at such sacrilege.
But oh that foot! What have ! said
What thoughts unspeakable and dread
When TO the opera I'm inclined,
And Daphne sitting just behind,
Inserts her toe meath where i SIT
And. all unthinking, wiggles III
John Kendrick Bangs, In Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

increased taxation which will continue
wear after year. The wise fish outside
having all the water, electricity ana
many good roads, with ability to get
more, are contented to stay IN their
own lake and not be coraled into
nice little pond in city. park.
At first the plucky residents of Glen
dale did not see the Fly in the oint-
ment'' and many were glad to join in
the movement. However, there seems
to be an awakening to the fact that
should this measure prove successful
all of their business and municipal
buildings will find location on Brand
boulevard and Glendale, the pretty
little city which has taken such cour-
q ageous steps in it's own self improve
ment, will be thing of the past, for
westward the course of empire VIII
take its way. OPPONENT.
Casa Verdugo, Sept. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
LABOR AND THE TARIFF

Editor Herald: How long will it be.
with million coming in from foreign
lands each year to reap the glory prom
ised to our American laborer by the
protective tariff howlers, till the con-
dition of our. working class will be no
better than that of the pauper labor
ers of Europe?
No man has greater sympathy for the
laboring class than ! have, and none
is there who will work harder for an
equal chance for them than l will, but
l have long since seen their chances
growing less from that tariff that
Keeps the product of foreign pauper
labor out and bids for, and admits,
that same pauper labor to come in
and enjoy the blessings intended for
our own people. w. >. b.
Ontario, September 15.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

This article is not an advertisement
for some new fad in healing, nor am
fighting the doctors trust In
fact. do not believe there is any doc
tors trust any more than there is an
editors trust, or teachers trusi, vi
a trust in any other profession whose
members meet to exchange ideas ana
talk over their work.
Medicine is today one of our great
sciences; the conquests of surgery, OF
bacteriology of sanitation and hygiene
rank in the forefront of human
achievement.
Scientific medicine has routed half
the great scourges of humanity; IL mas
made fostering wounds mere cuts anu
left malignant growths and deatn-
dealing tumors no place to hide. IL
has nearly doubled the average length
of human life 1t has made cities III
to live in. robbed the swamp of its
miasma and improved on nature at
every point-and now its last great bat
tie is being waged against the super
stition that gave it name.
A few drugs, or more properly chein-
icals. have place in this modern
medical science, but their use Is for
definite and known purposes, such as
to disinfect wounds or produce anes-
thesia. But these uses, the effects OF
which have been worked out ana
proved in modern laboratories and hos
pitals have little relation to the ola
but still popular theory of drug medl-
cation ,,4 IT,
Drugs may dull the sensibility of the
nerve cells: they may stimulate or
check the action of certain organs OF
glands: they may be used to XIII dls-
ease germs externally and, in rare
cases, internally; but science has found
NO drug that can put vitality into the
denleted cell and restore the essence of
life of which chronic i'll health is the
lack. only right living can do TINS
and the medicine chest has small place
in right living. ,,,,..
The idea that each form OF Illness mess
has it's ''specific," which an all wise
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
PROTEST FROM CASA VERDUeo

Editor Herald: 1t would seem that
California law is rather loosely con-
structed when a body Of men recog-
nizing some special interest can form
ulate a petition and taking that pc
ition present it to an unthinking pub
lie manage to secure 20 per cent of
tile registered voters as signers for
their project and plunge a whole COM
munity into expense and controversy.
Such is the case in the present Glen
dale annexation scheme, which is de-
veloping a rather threatening war
cloud over an otherwise peaceful val
ley.
1t seems that few men with po-
litical or real estate or perhaps both
axes to grind have formulated such
petition. They have drawn imagin-
ary lines including certain territory
and excluding others too powerful to
combat and are calling for an cleo
tion to annex this territory, thus
arousing dissension and mourning ex-
ira expense upon the property hold
ers.
The bait given the outsiders has been
cheaper water and electricity, better
streets and sidewalks. All have not
been hungry fish, for they know that
Glendale has not now all the water
she needs and must purchase from an
outsider at a large sum. Electricity
must be bought in the same way In
this territory which they propose to
annex there are already many oiled
and graded streets, cement curbs and
sidewalks. Nothing is said about the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

We should say that if anybody had
a kick coming over expenditures in the
recent primary elections it is Nat FL
lery, who spent several thousand dol
lars and got half a dozen votes, more
or less
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

New York Cinnamon have decided to
cut off their queues. Good news for the
ladies. The way the switch trust has
been soaking them on prices for this
necessary of life is something fierce,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
THE WOODLAND WAY

The little creatures of the wood,
We must confess,
Have notions that are very good
Concerning dress.
They do not get the pattern prints
or fashion files;
But Nature gives them timely hints
Regarding styles.
The lady woOdchuck puts on fur
When snow is due,
In wintertime you won't see her
In peekaboo
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

only the other day Congressman Foss
Of Illinois said: There is a lot of talk
about insurgency, but it doesn't amount
to much" In Thursdays primaries he
fell outside the breastworks. can you
blame us for laughing?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
MAcH1NEs nF PERII

"Do you think airships could be used
effectively in warfare?"
"They might" replied the skeptical
person, "if we could provide the air.
ships and induce the enemy to go up
in them" "-Washlngton Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
AMEuL POSSIBILITY

Editor Herald: 1t is feared that un-
less the library authorities send some
one to clean the dirt off the window
of the branch library on Moneta ave-
nue. soon, the little shoemaker who
lives in the vicinity and has pen
chant for cultivating everything in
reach may be essaying the raising of
orchids in the near future.
MUCKRAKE.
Los Angeles, Sept. 16.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Paris fnanciers talk of forming
trust to corner the copper supply. As
the American trusts have gobbled up
all the food supplies, they had TO turn
to a metal used for cooking them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

For a constituency that was presum-
ably yearning for a chance to vindi-
cate Uncle Joe we should say the Dam
VILE district showed a strange indif-
ference to the ballot box as a good
medium of expression.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

The mistakes made by that subtreas-
ury clerk in Chicago who has been
arrested for stealing $4,000 is that he
didn't incorporate He could then have
taken anything he saw by vote of his
board of directors with little chance of
prosecution.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

The printed report that one of the
railroads has a considerable "con-
science fund" of moneys returned to
it by passengers suggests the question,
Will the Southern Pacific ever get con-
science stricken and make a nice, lib
eral contribution to the state of Cali
fornia?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
nAcnn TOO RAPIDLY

"Waiter, ask theAorchestra to play
something differently
"Any particular selection, .sir?"
Something slower \ can't chew my
food properly in waltz Rtime. WASH
ington Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

That popular story, MIR. Barnes of
New York" is likely to have an inter
esting new chapter written for it by
The voters OF the Empire State this
week,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
sCANT PAsTURAGE

at am afraid the moths will get into
my bathing suit" said Maude.
at would be a shame" replied May
mie. "The poor things would starve
to death. Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
GRADUAL

The Groom during the honeymoon)
When did nv little Wife discover
that she loved me?
The Bride-When I found myself
getting angry every time I heard any
one call you an idiot.-Answers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

In New York city there are $4,000
pupils on part time in the public
schools. Gotham may be the greatest
city in America in population, but there
are others better to live in.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Some of these fine evenings one Of the
highway gentry will meet a Los An
geles man who is prepared for him,
and will emerge from the interview
looking like a collander.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
Merely in Jest
COULDN'T TELL A LIE

Kind Lady-Aren't you the man gave
a piece of cake to last spring?
The Hobo-I'm dat same, ma'am.
Kind Lady-I suppose you have been
at work ever since?
The Hobo-I can't tell er lie, ma'am.
I've bin in de horspittle ever sence. -
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Mr.. Taft found out that if they did
not have any patronage the insurgents
did have a lot of patrons for their
wares.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

One thing in that furniture contract
for the hall of records they ought to
cut out. They won't need any desk or
chair for Tuss Eldridge next year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Vice President Fairbanks says the
watchword would be: Down with the
demagogue and up with the patriot"
Is this the way the distinguished hu-
man clothespin takes Of announcing
that he is a receptive candidate for
any good office that may be asking to
be allied?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

The city council talks of adopting
new system of keeping accounts. Pos
sibly got the idea from the Chanler in
cident.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Say what you will, every man has
got to take off his Panama hat to San
Francisco for the way it is going after
that exposition.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
THE FxCEPTION

Wigwag-I hear you are always
lucky at poker.
Henpecke-Well, not always. met
my wife in poker game.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
REASON

Bystander-But 7 don't see you ques-
tioning the umpire's decisions. Isn't
that rather unusual?
Chimmie-Huh! When de umpire
owns de only bat ball, glove and mask
in the neighborhood Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
HIS FORTUNATE INFIRMITY

Miss Sweet-Gelday always looks SO
pleasant when he plays bridge.
Miss Dear-Yes; he's quite deaf, you
know and can't hear the things HIS
partner says about his playing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Former Governor Odell Of New York
announces his early retirement. He
was retired some time ago by New
York voters, but Is permitted to in
dulge himself in this formal function.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

San Francisco will probably have a
new chief of police. And why not a
few gendarmes for McCarthys Paris Of
America?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Anyway, Lorimer can eat all the din
ners he wants to with a lot of nabobs
in the senate, so what does he care for
a plain citizen of oyster Bay?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

The humble workingman who hands
his pay envelope over to his wife every
week must wonder what Chanler is
making such a fuss about.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

The recent election cost Los Angeles
$51 900, which means that a good deal
more than that was probably thereby
kept out Of the pockets of the old push
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

When Cavalieri's brother says all is
harmonious he presumably means there
is nothing to arbitrate."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Nobody can accuse the weather man
of soldering on his job during the last
seven or eight days.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
PUBLIC LETTER BOX

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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

On all matters pertaining to advertising
ager.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30
'GODD|IG FREED
ARRESTED
Colorado Banker, Known
Here Gets Short Respite
Then Gives Bond.

John R. Godding, the former
Rocky Ford. Colo, banker who is
known here and was at one time
owner of the Prowell property at
the corner of. d and Second street
but who for the past two years has
served time in the Colorado state
penitentiary in connection with the
failure of Rocky Ford bank, was
freed yesterday on parole from the
government. He was Immediately
rearrested charged with accepting
deposits after he knew his bank was
insolvent. Godding was taken to
La Junta this afternoon, arraigned
before Judge J. l.. Rizer, and his
bond fixed at $4,000. After pro-
curing satisfactory bondsmen God
ding left for his home.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30

sample Of New Cars to BE Used by
Great Northern Received
ON the Coast.

One Of the new refrigerator cars
to be put in general use soon by the
Great Northern has been received
on the coast. The car Is made by
the Moore Refrigerator Car company
of st. Paul, which has built five sam
pie cars for the Great Northern road.
In the regulation refrigerator car
the ice is kept at the ends, and the
cold air circulates from there. In
winter the lamps are also at the ends
and near the top of the car.
The Moore car keeps the ice in the
top of the car at the center, over the
doors, and the cold air circulates
down from the ice in an air cham
Der completely enveloping the car.
making double wall, the water from
the melting ice dropping out at the
bottom under the center of the car,
instead of on the trucks at the end,
as in the old style.
In winter the lamp is set under
the center of the car, the air space
being used reversely, the warm air
circulating up to the top of the car.
Thus, the door, the point where
freezing occurs in winter and where
melting occurs in summer, is pro-
tected by the ice and the lamp, in
stead of leaving that point most ex-
posed as when the ice and the lamp
are in the ends of the car.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30

Two Admitted to Citizenship in Che
Ian County.

The twenty-eighth days OF Janu-
airy and June are set In this county
for the admitting Of applicants for
citizenship.
Adolph Anderson, of Sweden, re-
siding at Peshastin, became citizen
today. His witnesses were George
Merriam and Carl Christensen.
John Nicol, of Scotland, was to
have been admitted, but only one
of his witnesses appeared. The law
requires two. and it is custom to
name four in order to be secure of
having two of them present. He
named r. G. Osborn, John Walsh,
Henry varney and J. E. Johnson.
His case was continued until July
End, when only one more witness will
be required.
Robert Nicol Wilson, Of Scotland,
was admitted His witnesses were
J. D. Walker and L. o. Turner.
Geo. H. McMaster could have been
admitted today, bat was not present.
Lorenz Poprask came too late.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30

Cambridge, Mass, June 29.-To-
days commencement exercises at
Harvard University, Americas Oldest
educational institution, were carried
out with all of the time-honored
ceremonies. Features of the day
were the meeting of the board OF
overseers, the arrival Of Governor
Draper, the gathering at old Massa-
chusetts Hall of the presidents, fell
lows, overseers, faculties, invited
guests, portion of the alumni and
the candidates for degrees, the
march to Sanders theater, the learn
ed addresses, and finally the meet
ing of the alumni association, with
cordial greeting from Theodore
Roosevelt. Among the most noted
recipients of honorary degrees today
was Governor Hughes Of New York,
who was present at the exercises.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30
STRING WIRES IN BEND
Ephrata and Soap Lake Will Get
Long Distance.

Wilson Creek, Wash, June 20
have been completed
and work will be begun at once on
an extension of the line of the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany, southwest from Wilson Creek.
The extension will run from this
city and will take in Soap Lake and
Ephrata, which towns have been
without telephone communication
hitherto. The Quincy line will be
connected with the new line, giving
telephone communication between
the principal towns of the county.
1t is expected that the line will be
completed and in working order in
about two months.