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Population of Los Angeles 327,685
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
And doubtless the solid three are as
tonished at their own moderation.
The striking brewery workers, who
love their beer, want Los Angeles "dry"
only in a Pickwickian sense.
Peeming-Iy It makes a difference to a
lighting company whether It is discuss
ing rates or assessments as to what
value it places on its assets.
Jeffries is reported to be willing to
"fight Johnson again." Some of the
Reno tourists are cynical enough to
say he never fought Johnson.
Professor Davidson has discovered
that the word California means "b
tiful bird." Well, a lot of eastern visit
ors are kind enough to say that it is a
bird.
'Twill take more than a stamped en
velope to get a reply from pome ma
chine candidates to Judge Works'
questions: a team of wild horses, we
should say.
The political majority of the Rallin
g;or commlttes is said to have white
washed him as "wise, honest and con
servative." Urn, yes; plea
this yawn.
ThP umbrella trust has boon held by
the courts to be a combination in re
straint of trade, and its lawyers will
now have to find some way to pet it in
out of the wet.
Instead of worrying over whether the
armor on tlip sides of war
defective the navy department would
better plan some way i" put a 1
proof armor over the topa of them.
They are po numerous that every day
you are likely to find a personal item
like this in all the daily papers of the
t^tate simultaneously': "Mr. ,
one of the candidates for governor, Is
in town today."
The leaning tower of Pisa is said to
be slowly falling-, but it will In
hurry up to beat several political loan-
Ing political to n oi CalifDrnia whr.ee
centi r of gravity !i scheduled to move
sharply on August 16.
And Alden Anderson is ptin drawing
$10,000 from the state while de
votlng ■ he persona] i v
<>f running for a nor : ■ Governor
(jiiifti ■ ed and
Andei I that he can.
Neg n1 Jack John
son to run for alderman. Jack la
traim - ■ ich in front to
make an idi n, but a liberal
regimen of i - nd po'k chops
migl I tor election
day.
it is expla In. d tha one chief n ■ ion
the govi rnmeni dcx
marble and ■
that ; i
Prootor of Vei rjuar
rlea. < >l«, It'i gre it to pull with
congre
"Let us sweet .
lives of others," said J
feller to his Bunda;
sugar trust will attend, to in.
sweetening if John's gt ili will
k< i-ji on brightening up tl I
his kerosene.
The government should r
railroads, as they have 1.....
f,, r thi to handle, saj
Starr Jordan, Signs are noi
that they are already too big
povermnent ami that IT. Jordan
is fifteen minute* too late.
ONE MORE HARBOR
VICTORY
LOS ANGELES was advanced an
other step toward commercial su
premacy when the Interstate
commerce commission on yesterday
nnnounced a decision granttng ter
minal rates on railroads to our
harbor at Ban Pedro. The Herald
congratulates tho cltlcens and prop
erty owners of that portion of.
our city surrounding its harbor upon i
at last having secured jusl and fair!
treatment on the part of the railroads.
I There lias never been at any time, any
reason or justice in denying terminal
rates to Ban Pedro harbor. In fact,
the denial of these rates by the rail
j roads for so many years has been the
worst sort of an injustice, for during
nil the time that terminal rates have
neon denied the community immediate
ly surrounding Ban Pedro harbor, it
has been granted to the city of Los
Angeles because of Its proximity to
that harbor and upon the theory that
it enjoyed facilities for water com
merce through tha harbor nt Ban
Pedro. Thus another Illegal and un
just exaction of the Southern Pacific
I has been done away with. Tho next
vi tory will be to have fair rates es
tablished between the business center
of the city of Los Angeles and its har
bor. This wrong would have been
corrected long ago had the state, in
etead of the Southern Pacific, possessed
the railroad commission which the con
stitution provides for. One of the great
est outrages now transpiring in the
state is the conduct of the railroad
commission in deferring action upon
the application made to it some time
ago to correct these rates. It is very
evident that the commission proposes
to continue tho rate condition now ex
isting until after the election. Should
its members, by the grace of the
Southern, Pacific, be returned to of
fice, then it may be continued indef
initely. Should they be defeated, they
can at least serve their master for
the balance of their official existence.
But some day this injustice will be
done away with, and some other day
not very far'distant, the city will own
and operate its own double track rail
road from its business center to every
portion of its lvirbor front, and this
railroad operated by che<ip electric
power from the aqueduct, will give to
the business interests of Los Angeles
the lowest railroad rate known.
HERE TO STAY
THERE Is very pood reason why
certain California newspapers find
fault with tho direct primary. It
is tho same reason the Republican ma
chine in New York has for fighting the
bill advocated in New York state by
Governor Hughes and former President
Roosevelt. It prevents the manipula
tion of politics by means of fixed party
conventions. It breaks the hold of ma
chines. It teaches the voter his power
and responsibility and spurs him to
activity in looking after affairs.
But there Is no reason for such a
statement from the Oklahoma Times
as this: "No man of moderate means
can afford to offer himself as a candi
date, while a man without means is
absolutely shut out unless he has the
backing of heavy financial Inter
in which case he would belong body
and soul to the corporations that put
up the money."
The Times reaches this conclusion
from the fact that Joe Slbley, the
Standard Oil agent, spent over $40,000
for iiis nomination t" congress in
Pennsylvania under the direct primary
system. Slbley's use of money was
so profligate that it is now under in
vestigation, It amounted to about $1
a vote, and it is absurd to think any
man can honestly spend ruch a sum
under any Bystem.
in California the direct primary,
passed by a hostile legislature that
was forced by public opinion to enact
Borne law, was purposely made cum
bersome and unwieldy In the hope that
it would disgust the voters, but it has
already proved its great value and will
be simplified by its friends in the next
legislature and retained.
The dlrei t primary law has come to
stay, botli here and elsewhere, because
it has dragged politli from dark
places into the light of day. Its faults
will be corrected as they reveal them
selves in experience, If it becomes
necessary to limit xpendltures of can
didates by law it will be done, but a
poor man of real merit can find means,
if he stands for a principle., to run for
office. Hiram Johnson, tl"- candidate
who is putting up the most vigorous
campaign of the several in the field for
governor in Californ is comparative
ly a poor man, but his cause does not
lack for^ho necessary port.
The direi I pi imary contains the es
sence of real democracy. It will be
hroug as near to perfection as any
thing humanly can be, by the com
mon sense of the American people.
ANSWERS WANTED
m HE bajl lias teen set rolling in the
Til rislit direction by rolling In the
rlghl llr. tion by Judgo Worka
-I- with thu set of questions lie has
seni oui foi answer to the aspirants
for seats In the state senate and as
sembly. Every man who poes to Sac
ramento Bhould do so only an the
pledged, Ifli ally pledged, repre
. ntative of the pi uple who sent him
there. The Herald was about to Rug
gest a set of questions for b ith Kepub
lican and Democratic aspirants when
it was anticlpnted by .Judge Works.
Now let those uho stai lor the peo
ple openly and fearlessly ''' ll
iir impi reply to the questions. They
have nothing to lose and everything to
gain by lolng so. Th« machine chaps
will hold off, spar for time, and hope
for the days to rusli by rapidly By
being prompt the other kind can hi Ip
the people to apply the process of
elimination, and thus find out who is
not willing- to say what he propoa to
do if elected.
Stand uy and be counted.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1010.
M y e/£> tt>K FURHI&H/Nb
y»e hall Of RECORDS
{ HA ILL OF RECORDS j Ust^^^^J
st&gS"'^ \iT/&'A/rHICrH ENOUGH, ~ ""] ■ " ' —" ,
- Mf^y^Z^ pi I }[ADQ .5" OOQ MORE TO IT*
AT THE ROOT
CONGRESSMAN C. H. RANDALL
of Texas has .sent to Tho Herald
a copy of the bill introduced by
him in the house at Washington dur
ing the closing days of the late s. s
sion, having for its purpose the pro
hibition under severe penalties of any
member of congress acting as an at
torney for public service corporations
while holding such membership, and
for any corporation to employ a mem
ber as attorney or agent.
The bill, which was not passed and
will not be passed until public senti
ment is aroused to get behind it, im
poses penalties up to $10,000 for viola
tion of Its pro-, Islons.
The Herald believes that Representa
tive Randall has touched on a vital
phase of the problem of separating
congress from the influence of the
agencies that are constantly working
to further their selfish Interest!
through legislative action. Until there
is some such law the fight of the peo
ple against predatory capital in poli
tics will have to be waged over and
over again, for every new congress is
a separate "proposition" to the in
ts.
It is no longer a secret that corpora
tions Beck to bribe lawyer legislators,
iiiith in congress and state assemblies,
by "retaining" them as attorneys as
soon as they take their scats. An
conscience does not regard this
euphemism as a bribe, but the man
who accepts sui h retainer has sold
himself as truly as if he hud taken a
roll of money in the dark, it cannot
help imt Influence his every act in con
nectlon with the particular corporation
that "retains" him.
The ease of Senator Foraker, who
■,vas exp' n d dripping with Standard
Oil, was only a conspl' UOUS one of
many then and now. It poirjts to a
greal ami growing evil, and Congress
man Randall lias gone right to the rum
of it in his bill.
HOUSTON AND LOS
ANGELES
IN a recent issue of the- Hi
Chronic;. a reprint of
the story published in tin ,lul\
number of the Review of Reviews of
,i aqueducl of !.. s Angeles,
with a most enthu
miration for the city that has under
taken the project. The "inspiring
Story," !1S the Chronicle calls it,
should, it says, v- read by every resi
dent of that town.
The reason tor their partli ular In
terest li that the Texas city had on
hand a project somewhal similar In
nature, though not In scope, to on
ior scheme, Houston Is situated,
like Jxis Angeles, within tantalizing
distance from tidewater, and ha
I to make Itsell a seaport by
digging a ship chai n the 'ult:
to the city, so that lan
reach the place. The fed ■ •■ ■ rn
menl has ben enlisted In the plan,
an. l has promised to i m<
toward it if the city will raise .1 like
amount.
It Is to arouse local pride and cour
age for the thing thai the I. id
Houston ar« pointing to I
Imagination and cr
. -it v of Angela In outdoing all iha
munlties In the world ■
the water, power and hai bi
Bo Houston anil are
|| . and tliiH city Wil
Interest In the i■h( mi M
I, , way. ii Is no ima II
v to know that In addition to
dolnj ■■ thing for oursi l\
been the Inspiring
tor other cities to turn their
nto fruition through the
application of the l,oh Angeles kind of
civic pride and courage.
Solid with the 'Solid Three'
Merely in Jest
PARENTAL I'KSSIMISM
"Paw. what is the 'great continent*! di
vide?' "
"It's the final division of the continent, my
sou. between the Iforgans and the Guggen
helms."—Chicago Tribune.
WHAT IT PROVED TO HIM
The announcer nrose in the sightseeing auto.
"Ladle 9 and gentlemen, we have just passed
the Chinese quarter."
Old Uncle Wcatherby nudged his wife.
"Ain't thai line, Mandy?" he chuckled. "1
can't look nothing like as hayseedlied as when
we Brsi came or they'd surely tried to have
passed that Chinese quarter on me." —Chl-
cago News.
ALL THE CONVENIENCES
Mr. Stoplate had showed Miss Tersleep all
his Imitations of famous actors, and shu had
made j bluff at applauding. Then he asked,
"Do you think 1 ought to go on the stagi
"Oh, you dnn't have to go on a stage. if
you're thinking of going," she answered, "We
are Inside the city limits, and an owl car
goes every half hour."
Shortly after that he went.—Cleveland
Leader.
RETTING HIM RI'iHT
Irate Parent—There's no use talking, young
man; my daughter can never be yours.
Young Man—Of course, she can't be my
daughter, hut she'- going to l>e my wife.
Just the same; and th" pnnner you Ret the
Id a out of your head that she isn't, the |
sooner you'll have room under your lid fur i
some other idea— —Chicago News
OWN UP NOW
eanor sged 6, had been going to school
only a fow weeks. Bho bad learned to raise I
her hand if she wanted anything, One day
sho . ut this Into effect when she was sent i
to the chicken house to get the eggs.
Just as she reached the chicken house
door her mother heard her say, "All you
chickens that have laid an egg. raise your
hands."—Delineator. «-
HE HAD IT
"Have you anything in the way of a car
pet heater?" inquired the department store
ron.
"We have," replied the floorwalker. "Take
the elevator to t'...- seventeenth floor, and
you'll find some rugs at 529.9S thai beat any
carpet you ever saw." -Chicago News.
"ETREAK. BREAK. BREAK"
They were sitting on the beacli and ho
had been strangely silent.
"1 wonder what makes the sea waves
sad?" said Cholly, languidly.
"Probably the narrowing thought of go-
Ing broke on the beach!" giggled Dolly,
Insinuatingly.
A GRAPHIC INSTANCE
"What Is meant by the lat> of luxury?"
ashed the teacher of a small slrl pupil.
•It's when tho cat gets into the pantry
anrt laps the cream off the milk/ was the
unexpected reply.—Chicago News.
NO SKIRTS THERE '
"Show me a man who isn't n/vays skulk
ing behind a rnan'a skirt.-." demanded, tho
militant suffrag
"How about the fellow who sines In the
chorus?" nqulred a. coarse rute In ths
rear of the hall.— Kansas City Journal.
State Politics
I -. polltl lana arc Mtlmatlng thai if the
ii ion of thli itats reachoa Iwo
ngi tea w 111 ■■•'■■ ■ mori a ra
Ij i,. n and state s^ipuors than iSnn Fran-
K>.n ir Ban PTanclaeo retalna iior
t number, Loa Angelei county will
twenty-one. Todaj aha hai only nine.
ii . f oourae, are for the county,
ta city of Loa Angelea.- Bacramenta
L'nlon.
[n California the chief faults of the norn
Inatlng primary law ar.. tlms.. created by It!
in r , i..r to make II unpopular fcx- ,
tltloning should i". doni awa>
i , , , dolce of party nand
for United Btatei senator be made binding
, ,i no) merely "i ■ I ■ aorami nto:
Bee.
ii bacomti more and more certain as the
time, to the primary Khortens that Mr. John
son will Ijo the. choice of h)i party. The
■entlment thmu the aountry sections is
.strom- In his tuvor. and »vi in th cities,
wh.re the machine exerts Iti lureil nflu
ence, ho |i likely to receive a majority.—
I'uirt Alto Times.
If we are to count for much in Wash-
Ingtnn and have our special InMreitl rep
resented to much purpo», we must Mnd
fit men nn.l keep them there. And this not
f,,r their sake at all. but for our own —
.Sun Jose. Mercury.
ramei UeLaohlan'f return home did not
an) ; , ptibla rippla oa the ■
events, hut he is hera anil wants
,gnlzed ua ■ itateunan Mr. Mc
ir baa plenty of cau«« for un««
t ,i i; ,l rnor« enthusiasm over Bteph
i mgresHional a»J)irant —Alhambra
Far and Wide
ONE THING HE SAVTD
In considering the work ion! by congress.
Speaker Cannon "points with pride" to thi
fi.ct that It did not get his resignation.—Chi
cago Journal.
BURYING THE KOHLER HATCHBT
Those accusers of Chief Kohler Ol Cleve
land who have announced that they have
burled the hatchet are disappointed, nevsr
theless. They hai expected to bury It In the
chief.-- Washington Herald.
A WORTHY OAUBK
Won't somebody please start a movement
for the purpose of securing ft safe i»"'l sane
silly season?— Chicago rleoord-Htrala,
A I.IVINO EXCKPTION
Scientists say Idleness will kill men. And
Do; Robinson Is 71 years old!—Atchlson Globe.
BECOMING SA.NEII ,
The Glorious Fourth continues to Tic rather
more deadly than Lexington or Bunker Hill,
but It no longer rival! Gettysburg and the
Wilderness.—Topeka Capital.
IS THAT ALL"
A thorough study of the |ilgher-cojt-oMlv-
Ing problem shows It to be largely .lui> to
th° general fonJnessfor food, Bhelter, clothes,
children and recreation.— New York Evening
Post.
NOT "RUBBING IN WHERE "
I The government's decision against the bleach-
Ing process will not be enforced In the case
of peroxide blonds.- Kansas lty Times.
WHAT T. B. MEANS
'■ when Roosevelt advlsei them to kasp cool,
•tie meatu that they muit'nt work him Into
a Bjon.—Atlanta Constitution
CENSUS DISAPPOINTMENTS
The failure of Wilmington and Washing
ton to reach the population expected "'ill be
repeated over the country. The past ten
years Is destined to take Its place as the
first decade In which the United States began
to make the increase in population common
In ul'ler countries. —Philadelphia Press.
THE ACCIDENT CREDITOR
The action of the bondholdsrs' committee of
th« Metropolitan Street Railway company In
taking steps to place the holders of personal
injury judgments on an equal footing with
the holders of yia bonds ia an action which
Bhould be held up for Imitation.—New York
Globe. ' »
THE SOUTHS SOLDIER SPIRIT
Of ten "star" military colleges in tho coun
try, five are In the south, ona in the far
southwest and four In the north. The spirit
of Washington. Greene, Morgan, Taylor, Lee
and Jackson still lives In Dixie.—Baltimore
j Evi ntn',' Sun.
California Topics
A California girl, fined J25 for racing her
automobile asalnat a •t»»ni loeomotlva, toM
thi maxistrate that the tun was wortll tli"
pjjeo. That ia the trouble with the speed
inanlars. Tlio tun Ib more important to
i!.. tn liiiin the ■•f»fy of the publla Ulghwuy
and the fine that may b« thrown In. The
only way to Btop It Is to ImpoM a penally
that le weightier to them tlian tho excite
ment at railroad ipaad on an open road. —
I'lttaburg DiDpatch.
a callfurnia woman'a lifu was aavad by
bar r.it when a robber bit bar upon thu
head with the butt iM ii Ik revolver, which
ahowa that everything i» good for
something.- I'Hisburn Qasette.
The people should Insist that the streams
be thrown >>i"'ii to all anaieri during thi
proper luapont and that ob mora itata aii
1,,, given to stocking privately controlled
water*.—Oakland Bnqulrar.
Taa governor lias applied to District At
torney Frederick! In retard t" tha prav«n<
I iirizu fights. Tha district attornxy
is dir|>"Hi«l to Hlilft the responsibility upon
the city of I.ob Angeles. The district at
torney's offtco cannot no cftn!ly rid Itself
of the matter. It Is the. ulain duty of tho
.Ilstiict attorney to daflna what ho ]iro
hereafter to conildar « "fißiit" as
prohibited by tha state law, and t>>at will
atop It.—i'asadena Mew*.
That I.ok Angeles Btrect preacher whose
oye »a> blackened by a huiky teamitsr,
whom i'« call»d a sinner, now believes in
the soft answer that turnelli away wrath. —
Oakland Enaulrer.
Kull publicity In procuring liy.uor Ui
should he Insisted upon, and no special prlv.
ilc>K<-s ihould b« Rranted undur any Uoenaa
:i : , delegatea dangerous authorlt}
ami power to any one man. —Sacrament"
i'hc Oakland mayor 1! deolaioa lhal "aclen
exhibition* of boxing ami aelf-defenaa
,, all right" will relieve the minds Ot
■i ••■ml scientists who wore OUtbetted on the
Fourth and want to raise «n»ugli Ratu
money to go back home.— San PrWMiaoo
Chronicle.
Spanking Is Discovered
(Hnn FrnlK'lK. n Post.)
That the American child Is not sulll
cielitly spanked is the opinion Of I
Massachusetts university president,
Whether or not the savant wno dis
courses so sagely has spankable chil
dren of his own the dispatch contain
ing his observations docs not say.
Prom the tenor of hi.s remarks it Is
probable that there is no one of spaak
aiile age about his house. Those wh..
have nothing of their own to spank
are most generous In recommending
spanking as .1 panacea for all the
troubles and ills of childhood.
Thi> learned gentleman la broad
minded enough to declare that he does
not recommend spanking •" rN
That Is very kindly ami considerate ol
him But there is the greal trouble,
the problem of all the centuries of
par. ins Nobody seems to Know .iust
how much spanklnjj is sufficient. There
are children who require a great deal
of spanking, nini again there are oth
ers who require scarcely any spanking
, B ]| if 11,,. (earned authority upon
spanklnK had only discovered some
method gauging the amount of spank
ing necessary tor each child, he would
hay* contribute* something worth
while to the world's knowledge, As it
la he has given nothing original. From
the time the first paternal parent, in
When Uncle Sam Buys Fish
The official gucsser for the United
Itatea government has lost his job.
For years the government iiy-s bought
llvo salmon upon the k'»ml eye of B
veteran fisherman who took a squini
at each lish and then put down In his
book what he guessed to be the right
weight The bills wore paid accord
ingly, thousands of dol.ars. Every
year the government buys from 600 to
irnio live salmon for breeding, from the
weir owners on the I vi lesport, Verona,
Orland and PenobSCOl shores. The
price paid is the market rate, from 20
to :(. ri cents a pound, with 10 cents
bonus for each fish, for the trouble of
keeping them alive. To get at the
exact weight Of a live salmon is prac
tically impossible, for it is wry deli
cate work at best in dipping them from
the "pound" in the weiis to the "ear."
which is an old dory tilled with water,
carefully lined with cotton flannel and
covered' with a nutting. The utmost
caution is necessary, for in the spring
the salmon is strangely delicate. So
it is that weighing them is entirely
out of the question. The government
has for years hire d a veteran lisher-
Electric Street Signs
AVith a large number of city organ
izations, all more.or less Influential,
uniting in antagonism to the use of
big: electrlo signs for advertising pur
i>.is."i, the owners of these device*, bo
< dstiy to build and so expensive to
maintain, will, or at least should, be
filled with doubt as to their future
value. Then is cause for both hope
and consolation, too, in the suggestion
that Just hs fast us the signs tiiive in
creased in number has their effective
ness in attracting attention decreased.
It is obvious that only whan the
sign* can flftsh or sign out of dark
ness, complete or comparative, that
they fix the eye, Already on several
streets there are so many of them that
they produce little more than n gen
eral glare, in which no details are
visible, and, while, theoretically, there
will always be the possibility of at
taining conspicuousness by means of
larger size, greater brilliancy and
more ingenious design, the practical
limits in these directions have about
been reached. Advertisers should pon
der well, moreover, the fact that they
do not really know how efficient these
Signs are in making and bringing
business, or even if they are efficient
at all. There are no reports of cus-
Changing the Calendar
iiiii.in Ernst yon Hesse-Warteggr, who was
a leader In the promotion of the standard
time nystem now in feneraj uso all over
the world, has proposed a new calendar
which has been Indorsed hy more than (00
commercial and Industrial bodies In Ens
land. Holland, Belgium and Germany and
Is to bo brought before tho It-slslattiKH of
European countries.
He proposes to divide the year into four
trlmelois'of ninety-one days sacb, tha first
two months of each trimeter to have thirty
days and the last thirty-one. Thla dis
poses of 36* days and the odd day ho pro
poses to call Sew Y..,1r day. It will come
between December 31 and January 1 and
will not be In any month, nor will It be a
day of the week. Every loop year the
extra day, now taken care of as February
"9. la to be Mtd-Yeur day or Leap Year
day and Is to come between the last day
of June and the first .lay of July and, like
Public Letter Box
TO CORRESPONDENTS— Letters Intend*!
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Ths Herald
Elves the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for thr Ir view*.
1 itters must not succeed 200 words.
URGES LAW FOR PROTECTION
OF DOVE; IS USEFUL BIRD
Editor Herald: i hope through The
Herald's Public Letter Bo* to roach
the heurts of bird lovers and express
my thoughts on what 1 think to be a
wanton slaughter of our beautiful,
cooing, feathered neighbor of the air,
the dove, in the (lissoctinpr of dovei
recently by experts little grata was
round in the craw ot the dove, and
in most cases none at all. Insects
destructive of trees and grain were
tound to be their principle diet. Sov
erai of flip statos have protective lawn
for thla beautiful and useful bird,
Why not beautiful, mm kissed, (lowory
Bouthern California, where those in
the shape of man and woman enjoy so
much? I can'l say human, lor it seems
anything hut human to me to boast of
haggiuK the limit of any of the
feathered beauties of thfl air. n is a
wanton and grewiiome sport in nun
and an unpardonable, and tnercili
in women, tor God Intended higher and
Oner <lutios for them to perform here
in this beautiful world he has given
them to live in than bagging the limit
of (iovo«. Anything 1 can do to secure
a complete protective i»"' for t ii<> oova
before the time for another wholesale
slaughter of thorn is due again l will
cheerfully il" through The Herald's
PubUi Letter Box. MRS. T. S. H.,
A Bird Lover.
Monrovia, July 19.
THE MODERN PIRATE
With ntmiTH ten, a crew of men
Who know what treasures are;
I've seen him rush unheodlng
L'pon defenseless tarts.
And slay and slam long files of Jam
And Uar their bleeding hearts.
I've seen him red with booty.
Hl« crew u-reek with gore, -' "■
Leap for my arms with sticky palm*
And fell to the floor;
I hate to tell the sequel.
—New York American.
exasperation, took off his sandal and
applied It with vigor to the person of
his offspring, it has been admitted that
some spanking li almost Inillspnusahlo
to the guidance <>f tho young. But how
much has been and still Is a problem.
Thinking it over, the profossor who
made this announcement is certainly
without children of the spanking age.
Ho can be pictured In tho qulot of his
■tudy listening to the screaming of a
bad-tempered youngster next door. The
noise gets on bis nerves and he looks
into his library for a remedy for tem
per In children. He discovers some
where thai tho ancient Egyptians or
some of the lost tribes were wont to
apply a sandal to children wh.o showed
signs of temper.> A triumphant light
Comes into tho eyes of the learned pro
fessor, lie has made a groat discov
ery. "I have it," hi cries. "Tho way
to make a child behave is to spank it."
Then he feverishly seizes pen and pa
per and dtiahes off a thesis on the eiii
cacj of spanking in the correction of
the morali of tho young. _But this la
a discovery that the average everyday
father inu'kes without the trouble of
going to college. The professor's dis
covery is s perfectly good one as far
as discoveries go, but it was made
many years ago by the first parents.
ii,cw i-t"ii Journal)
man to make the rounds of the weirs
on Hi,' little power boat and keep ae
couni of the fish. Ali the man had to
go by was his judgment, but he could
tell by a glance at a Hah, even in the
semi-darkness ol the ear, about what
it would weigh—lo, U l, 14 or perhaps
Hi or II pounds, it was guessing, but
by yeara of experience In handling llsh
he oould guess very near. At any rate,
his guessing was. accepted for years
by the flshc ruwn who sold the fish, as
well as by the government. Perhaps
the government officials in Washing
ton didn't approve of paying out
money by guest, Whatever may have
been the conclusion the government
i- has lost his Job. Hereafter
twelve pounds will In the fixed weight
r every salmon paid for. It may
weigh light pounds or il may weigh
twenty pounds, but the Fishermen aro
to li" paid for a twelve-pound fish and
no more or less. This weight is below
the average, as the Rah run. but of
oourae the pkherman is not obliged to
sell mi eighteen or twenty-pounder at
tin- twelve pound basis to the govern
ment unless he chooses, lie can Heml
it to the markets.
cNiw Y.ik Times)
tomers who admitted that their patron
;m>' was thus secured, while the num
ber of people who have openly de
! that they are Indifferent to the
Illuminated appeals or find them of
fensive is considerable, and it aeenia
to be growing rapidly.
The exaei remedy for this abuse, will
not be easy to find. Of course a law
or ordinance to the effect that elec
tricity cannot be used for advertising
purposes would be without justifica
tion and absurd. For limiting the size
of the signs there would be no ob
vious excuse except regard for public
safety, and though it has been said
on authority that some of them are
not as strongly put up as they should!
be, the fact would probably be hard
to prove in many instances. In the
development and; manifestations of
public sentiment lies presumably the,
best cure for the evil. Many adver
tlseri of the sort that "desecrate
si <■ in 1 rv" have Hhown> themselves un
fortunately quite willing to offend the
aesthetic sensibilities of the few, hut
none would care to arouse a general
hostility. And, of course, if it can
lie demonstrated that the big signs aro
useless, or not worth what they coat,
their vogue will promptly cease.
New Year day, la to be tn no month and
la not to be a day of the w,-k.
Under this system tho days of the week
would always fall on the same dates.
f'hrtstmas the Fourth of July anrl other
holldaya would always come on deslKnatetl
days 'if thu week and there would not bo
r'tnflon hs at present. He proposes to fix
Sunday definitely at the first Sunday
In April mMwav hntween the fluctuations
of the feast under the present plan.
The ohanges proposed are radical, hut the
new calendar has merits, it would also ho
a oonvenlenoa If we could change the sys
tem so that the day bp^an at sun up In
st.ml of midnight. This would simplify
railroad time cards and conversation. ]!ut
Baron yon Hesne-\VarteK£ has undertaken
a task thai will keep him busy the rest of
hla life, without adding anything else to his
ambitious assault on tho Oreaorian nv'thnil
of computing time.
State Press Echoes
National honor, to t-ay nothing of the va^t
mi. n of money Invested In the canal, demanila
that It shall I)'- defendad In eoine way. And
it* il'.i'-MKe by forts is net prohibited by any
Bnslaßd or any other power.—
.San In
Americani are the greatest producere In th»
world; it we can I-am to husband our re
sources and our earnings h.s well as the
Frenotii for example, we ehall Boon be tha
richest people on the iphere.- Bakerifleld
ho.
Commander Peary Is koliik to present Mr.
Roomvalt with a set of walrus teeth. It Is
none of our bualness, bui we can't help ba«
lieving that It will give the Colonel a flerco
expri ilon about iti> mouth which will detract
From his appearance Be tho champion of a
world peace.— Pasadena News.
Thorc Im some deep relationship betWMH the
growth nf the automobU* Industry and the
falllnß off in tho pi pulartty of bab|ei. Tho
condensod milk Inluntry hai almost com
plOtely collapsed In Kansas, while the f?aso*
llne maiket l» on tho bnnm. rtaby buggies?
nro' almost a curiosity; while the RtreptH of
tho rlttes nre blocked with automnhlles.—
San ETranclwo Post. /
Having Klaneed ovpr tlie fort) eit;!it
painiihlet which Hfriehtry Firillln^er has sent
nut to the newspapers, we recret to report
that we oannot pronounce tho evidence "mpp«
shroilfl of suiplolon." Snn Dernardlno Index,
[f tlie day ever eomos when the honorable .
ambition f(>r public office illes out of th«
inliulK of mon of character nnd cnpaclty. It
will be ■ dark 'lay for tho country. Then
the rnlmlnlHtrnt'on of afTulrs will fall Into
the hands of ■elflah, mean and unscrupulous
men.— Sun Jose Herald.
Joe Cannon says he will return to congress,
"fi.,d wtliiiu " This la casttnß a burden on
the Lord that he Is not entitled to carry.—
Watsonvllle H.Rlster.
PreKident Tflft has recalled a letter Indors
ing CongTeaiman Haj if thli stale. Taft ev
idently wants to m Hayes win without »Uch
hanilleap.—OraKH \ riiltt>' Vulnn.
There Is a. groat world moveftient. grasping
out In the dark. In the direction of securing
ami conserving the rltihts of the people, plne
lng them In front i<l, Instead of behind, th«
rights of property.— Alto Times.
Hamm—Do you recognize the profes
sion ?
Ticket man—Yes. But If you'll stand
out of the lino quietly I won't give you,
away.—Cleveland Leader.
