Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel], August 21, 1906, Page 4, Image 4

About Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911

Image provided by: University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA

                
4
LOS ANGELES HERALD
nr mn nERAt.n company '
rn*\K O. FI*I.AYSOW... ; ..Pr»«<MMit
BOUT. M. TOUT KdMorlnl M«m««*»
*. H. t-AVEHTT Bwli«*»« W«H«W
OLDEST MOBNINO PAPER IN
LO9 ANOELES. ■
ronnAtA O<>t. «, IWJU Thlrtr-thlM Ye«r.
Chrnnbcr of Cowinw* IlnlMlnic.
TELEPHONES— Sunset. Fress li>
Home. Th» Herald. _
The only Democratic newspaper In
Bouthern California receiving the full
Associated Press report*.
NEWS SERVICE— Member of the As
■oelftted Press, "^'"f "■ fnll re
port, averaging 25,000 words a day.
EASTERN AGENT— 3. P. McKlnney.
SOt rotter building. Nejv York; all
Boyce building-. Chicago.
Dally: by mall, six months l.» 0
Daliy. by mall, one year 7.»w
R "nday tTerald by mal , one year. . 1.60
Weekly Herald, by mall, one year, l.oa
Entered at rostofflce. Los Angelei. a»
Second-class Matter.
THE HERALD IN SAN FRANCISCO
AND OAKLAND— Los Angeles and
Southern California visitors to Ran
Francisco and Oakland wilt find The
Herald on sale at the news Ktnndg 1 n
Jh« San Francisco Ferry building and
on th 2 streets in Oakland by Whoatley
and by Amos News Co.
Population of Los Angeles. 238,419
Notice how those Hearst relief trains
and ships are not starting for Chile?
• Some one start a fire under "Doc"
Houghton; the city wants owl cars.
. If the Republican convention will slip
a cog and demand owl cars, much else
will be forgiven It.
John t>. Is In bed with stomach trou
ble. John D. has been altogether too
gay of late, evidently.
The czar Is going to visit Finnish
waters. Let it be hoped that there is
nothing significant In that name.
Rockefeller Is to endow a, chorus
girls' home. Even John D. in his old
age can't resist these stage sirens.
Pat Crowe is about to begin life anew
iii New York. He'll find plenty of op
portunity for his peculiar talents there.
jiiThe unions will simply keep on in
San Pedro till the whole town becomes
open shop. That's the way It always
ends.
No, It didn't rain yesterday morning.
In this God-favored climate we get all
the benefits of a shower without its
discomforts.
Really, though the Prohibition con
vention will meet here this week, one
would hardly know it from the excite
ment It creates.
The Rockefeller home for chorus
girls Is to receive them when old age
comes on. It should overflow with in
mates from the first.
The Dowieites have patched it up, and
Dowle will attend to the Elijah end and
Vollva will be banker. That's better—
for all except Elijah.
The machine will begin today to
make public the choice for various of
fices on the Republican ticket which
it made some weeks back.
The first suggestion of aid for the
Chilean earthquake sufferers in the
United States comes from San Fran
cisco. That's your real grit!
Just at present any man who looks
remotely like Paul O. Stensland, the
thieving Chicago bank president, has
troubles of his own In plenty.
Of course Los Angeles will have its
own exhibit at Jamestown, but Its
chief attraction— lts wonderful climate
— people mnst come here to under
stand.
If you're Impatient and can't wait
for the Republican machine to grind
'em out, just ask Walter Parker who
the candidates will be. He can tell you
—if he will.
• Rtackpole Is dissatisfied with the
verdict whereby he saves his neck at
the expense of his freedom. Maybe he
would rather have been hanged, the
only other alternative.
Would Pasadena borough, Los An
geles city, be any less an identity than
is Pasadena town, Los Angelea county?
Hardly. Then let's have the boroughs
and save all that money.
Venice is a good place for the ma
chine convention. Plenty of peanuts
handy to feed the (J. O. P. elephant,
nnd plenty of salt water in which to
pickle the disappointed candidates.
The wheels are all oiled, the cogs
are well greased and the Republican
machine is running along in perfect
condition. There will not be a hitch In
Its public exhibition, starting In Ven
ice today.
Let It be understood that the chorus
girls' home that John D. la to finance
is for the clan collectively and not for
any Individual girl thereof. John D.
is not quite up to the usual millionaire
In the chorus girl line.
England Is preparing to pack its own
ineatH. Inasmuch as the English pack
ing houtes were found to be far fllth-
Jer than those of Chicago, It would
seem that England really desires its
meat with a foul flavor.
Ten more letter carriers will be added
lo the wholly Inadequate Los Angeles
force September 1. In the course of a
few years, maybe, the postoffleo de
partment will awake to the fact that
delivery Js vastly more . Important in
American cities than Is free delivery In
auam.
CITY AND PORT WEDDING
"The chief executive of the utat*.
however, did not nee fit to Incorporate
such proposals In the rail, and the
cause of consolidation must, therefore,
wait until the next «<>p»l6n of the legis
lature In 1007 and the general election
In 1008 before the needed laws can be
provided."
.Therein the Lflfl Angeled consolida
tion eommlddlon pays It* compliments
to Oovernor Pardep. The above ex
tract Is from tho official report, of the
committee charged with the formula
tion of a, plan for ooYmolldattng cer
tain parts of Lod Angeled county with
the city. It relates to the. necessity
for a constitutional amendment nn a
prerequisite to such consolidation.
Had the committee! been able to ac
complish that purpose, as declared, "It
would have advanced consolidation
more than two years."
Oovernor Pardee is grilled by the
committee In this direct averment that
he Is responsible for the turning down
of the request made by liOd Angeles
for legislation relating to the consoli
dation project. Only by Incorporating
the proposal for such legislation In his
call for a special session could the mat
ter be taken up. The governor refused
to do that, evidently at thn command
of the Republican "organization" of
San Francisco, and hence the Los An
geles project must He In abeyance two
years.
Passing from the perfidy of the gov
ernor, ad thus officially pointed out by
the consolidation commission, we turn
to the possibilities of progress In that
project without the aid of either the
governor or the leplslnture. The com
mission recommends the same method
of procedure, a« -will be remembered,
that The Herald suggested when the 1
governor's recalcitrance first showed
Itself. That \*, immediate steps for the
consolidation of San Pedro and Wil
mington with Los Angeles, together
with the Intermediate territory. Such a
course Is feasible by the mere process
of agreement by the communities con
cerned. The same plan might be pur
sued In respect to such other communi
ties within the general consolidation
plan as might choose to come Into the
Los Angeles fold sincly.
The only feature of this project that
seems to be at all emergent Is the Joint
ure of Los Angeles and tha two port
cities with the intermediate territory.
The development of the ports already
has reached a stage disclosing the need
of such powerful backing as Los An
geles could give. The experience of San
Pedro In having Its Infant commerce
jeopardized by labor union tyranny, as
It has been for many weeks. Is a strik
ing: object lesson showing the need for
firm and decisive handling of such ob
structionists.
The report of the consolidation com
mission seems to cover the whole
ground of the subject treated. It clear
ly points out the benefits that would
accrue, to all Interests concerned, by
proceeding at once to effect a jointure
of Los Angeles and the port cities
by the simple method of friendly and
mutual agreement.
S. P.'S WHITE FRIDAY
No more will California shippers hear
the standard response of the Southern
Parlflc company to appeals for lower
freight rates. That response, thread
bare from use through many years, was
substantially this: "How can you ex
pect a reduction In freight rates when
the road cannot earn enough money to
pay even the smallest dividend to its
stockholders?"
But August 17, 1906, Is likely to be
known In the future history of the
Southern Pacific company as "White
Friday." By that, designation it will be
distinguished from the two memorable
"Back Fridays" of September 24, 1869,
and September 18, 1873, which shook the
underpinning of Wall street and pre
cipitated financial panics.
The Southern Pacific's "White Fri
day" marks the first dividend ever paid
by the company to' holders of Its com
mon 1 stock. The setting of a dividend
paying precedent means the company
has become so prosperous that. In ad
dition to the many millions of dollars
devoted to betterments, It can afford to
begin the regular payment of pood
dividends to Its patient common stock
holders.
California, and particularly Southern
California, congratulates the Southern
Pacific company on this tangible evi
dence of Its great prosperity. At the
same time the southland takes occasion
to remind the company that this section
of California has contributed very ma
terially toward the prosperity which
has made the road a dividend paying
possibility. The company's share of
proceeds from the citrus fruit crops of
this section, even within the present
year, has been sufficient to supply funds
for the dividend declared last Friday.
Does not the principle of the "square
deal" demand that the company's ship
pers, as well as its stockholders, be re
membered by a dividend In token cjf the
fat surplus earnings? A dividend in
the form of concessions In freight rates
Is meant, particularly In the high
freightage always exacted from citrus
fruit shippers. The recent unparalleled
earnings of the Bouthern Pacific system
fully warrant such concessions to Cali
fornia shippers, and In common fair
ness a liberal policy should be adopted
now.
While jubilating over its "White Frl
duy" the company should resolve to be
"Just If not generous" to Interests that
have contributed so largely to the
means of placing- it on a dividend pay-
Ing basis.
And as the Santa Fe company has
been correspondingly prosperous, It also
should In justice accord a "square deal"
to Us California shippers. ■'{•; :
Maybe if "Doc" Houghton were
forcibly detained several miles from
home until after the last car a few
times, so that he had tf> walk, he would
get a little more hustle on himself in
the quest for late service
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1906.
GREAT DAY FOR VENICE
A great day for th« American Venice
will hrt thin Twedday, August 21. Thfl
Republican county convention will be
there. For the time being tho normal
attractions of thn pretty deadlde renort
will be In political eclipse. The attrac
tions of the Midway will pale, the voice,
of the megaphone will be ad a whlsperi
and the four-legged Bhlpd of the desert
and the gondolas of the lagoon will be
fordaken.
The Republican machine, fredhly
Piled and In uplenrtld working condi
tion, will be on exhibition as th« pre
eminent attraction of the convention.
It will be like the Hindu car of jug
gernaut In times past, an awe inspir
ing object, but one before which candl
dated will bend kneed and necks at the
rldk of being crushed.
There are v.irup rumord afloat, how
ever, that the convention will present
some features morn suggestive of a cir
rus than of sncrlflclal worship. Inti
mations arc In th« air that the mech
anldm of the mnchlne may prove to
have been tampered with and that It
may occasionally slip a cog when run
ning nt high pressure. Any dnch mld
hap will not be expected, however, by
observers who have deen the perfect
operation of the mnchlne on former
occasions.
More than one hundred aspirants for
offices, as reported, will put In an
nppearance, personally or by proxy, at
today's convention. A large majority
of them appear to be confident of win
ning prizes, nnd all the rest are hope
ful. But even. If the machine meets
with no mishap of any kind it cannot
possibly make more than one-third of
the expectant aspirants happy. When
the other two-thirds draw the "hoohy"
prizes, ancl when they and thPlr re
spective friends realize that they have
"got It In the neck," a transformation
of the convention to a combined circus
and menagerie may be expected.
The Republican gathering today will
be. well worth a Journey to Venice and
the expenditure of necessary car fare.
' Tho fact thnt Prince Mohammed
Ibrahim of Egypt was seriously hurt
by an automobile In Paris makes perti
nent the remark that it's a deal rafer
to stick to camels In the desert, even for
Egyptian princes.
The appointment by the water board
yesterday of three distinguished engi
neers to constitute th* board of engi
neers to Investigate the feasibility of
the Owens river project marks an Im
portant step In the development of
that wonderful pnterprlse. The people
of Los Angelea hardly neetl to be told,
or presented -with more proof?, that the
project is feasible. So far as local and
government engineers are concerned,
that fact has been already established.
The sen-ice of additional engineers is
for the purpose of "making assurance
doubly sure" to the people of this coun
try, In order that the necessary finan
cial assistance may be obtained
through the sale of bonds. It will, of
course, be doubly gratifying to the
people of Los Angeles to know that
they are making no mistake In carry
ing out so great an enterprise.
President Roosevelt, In a letter pub
lished through the Associated Press
and printed in today's Herald, demon
strates his desire to get down into par
tisan politics and take a hand In the
campaign. People generally will feel
that the president of the United States
should ' be above such a course.
president has ever before condescended
to wire-pulling and legging, even for
hlg^nvn party.
Mr. Chaffey's successful bid of $326,
000 for the site of the old federal build
ing in Los Angeles Is just as gratify
ing to the people of this city as It is to
the supervising architect at "Washing
ton, because it adds that great sum to
the appropriations for the new build-
Ing and Insures the speedy erection of
a structure that will he v/orthy the
federal government and Southern
California.
If Mr. Huntlngton prefers to speak of
the proposed service as "all-night
cars" instead of "owl cars," the public
has no objection. Owl cars by any
other name would sound just as sweet.
Don't you believe that the "night
hawks" are alone in their demand for
"owl cars," Mr. Huntlngton. There
is the "early bird," and — and — and the
"stork" besides.
SUPERSTITIOUS NEW YORKERS
"If there is anybody In this world
who has the courage of his convictions
It Is the man who is saturated with
superstition," said the grayheaded man.
"Of all these the most courageous /is
the fellow who walks the streets on a
beautiful moonlight night with his um
brella raised. There are several such
heroic men and women in New York.
When I saw the first one promenading
down the street thus shielded from the
soft light of a glorious full moon, I
laughed in company with other skep
tical observers and set the man down
as crazy. Even when I had seen half
a dozen of these victims of lunaphobla
I still attributed their curious perform
ance to eccentricity or a rabid desire
for notoriety. One evening I stopped a
moon fearing stroller and asked him
what he meant by such unusual no
havior. Then I learned that even In
thlß hustling metropolis there are
scores of persons who hold the belief
that the beams of the full moon spell
disaster for whomsoever they fall up
on, and that when compelled to go
abroad at that time of the month they
carry an umbrella to shade them from
the evil light."— New York Sun.
MR. WORKMAN FOR MAYOR
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.— (Editor
Herald): The people of Los Angeles
demand for the next mayor of this city
a man of Integrity, courage and real
backbone. We are in the midst of
great clvln development, requiring a
mayor who knows the city and its peo
ple and who is competent to conduct
these affairs to a successful result.
Such a man is "Uncle Billy" Work
man. Nominate him and Los Angeles
will have a mayor who will do thing's
and do them right.
.JOHN JENASON.
Jimmy (Ashing)— l ain't sltttn' a bite.
Tom ii.v — Maybe d«y ain't hungry,
Jimmy — Hut dat oughtn't to make so
much difference. I kin jtinrally eat
wliedder V t m hungry or not. '
HOW THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD LIVES
Mra. Hetty Green In Simple Retirement for the Summer at Bellows
Falls, Vermont
■'*'■■- .--<,• ' (From the Boston Post.)
Today, Iri the rnpltlly decaying home
stead of the Oreen family nt Uellowd
Kalis, Vt.. Mrs. Hetty Oreen Is living
tho "simple life." The richest woman
in America, an the years begin, to
descend upon her In nn Increasing
burden, hna come back to the old Now
England home (o rest awhile.
Hetty Orren, the mldtresa of $40,000,
000 to $60,000,000 and one of the most
noted lltlgnntd In the courts of the
country, l« with her daughter, Sylvia.
All of the windows In tho old-time,
colonial mansion were closed tightly,
the blinds of nil but four of the win
dows, nnd these on the Hides of the
house, were drawn close, and every door
of the home closed and fastened at the
time the newspaper representative
called, on the hottest dny of the past
week. ■ • •'
Viewed from the Westminster dldfl of
the house, It looks like a deserted pile of
old gray brick that might crumble at
the first knock.
The fence about the place has been
broken down, tho pieces having been
carted away by persons who needed
firewood, and the lawns about the resi
dence have been allowed to run wild, so
that the word "deserted" seemed to be
written all about.
In a small corner of the second floor
of this deserted-looking mansion Mrs.
Oreen and her daughter are living; and
below on the first floor them sleeps at
night the young girl domestic whom
they brought with (hem from their flnt
in Hoboken, N. J.
After having sent In his card, the re
porter wiir compelled to wait fully fif
teen minutes before the woman Creo
sus of the United States appeared.
Dressed In n black skirt that gave
most pronounced evidence of severe
wear, a waist of the same hue, nnd her
gray locks crowned by the smallest,
flattest and most unfashionable of bon
nets, Mrs. Oreen, on appearing, quickly
phut the front door behind her and ln
platert on stepping to the lawn to In
quire the reason for the call.
After a fnw words relating to tho
beauty of the oldtlme location and to
the oddity of her being able to leave her
enormous business interests In New
York for such a long spell during the
summer, Mrs. Green seemed to throw
all her former distrust aside, anfl began
a tour of the place in comrany of the
visitor.
At every turn, as they passed about
the grounds, she could not conceal the
fnct that she had a vast pride for the
old place, but when asked as to why she
did not keep it up in better shape, she
said: .
"Oh, I am here but such a short time
during- the year that It would hardly
pay me to fix It up for the benefit of
others, and I cannot keep any one here
to watch out for it all the while."
Mrs. Oreen then went on to relate her
grievances against the boys of ' Bellows
Falls, who, she said, tried in many
ways to injure her property while cele
brating: the Fourth.
"I know that the people ud here talk
about me and the way that I live, as
they do everywhere that I have had a
home, but the people here are all right.
They simply don't understand all the
worry and trouble that I have.
"I have plenty of money, but every
where I go the opinion seems to' be that
I must either give it away or let them
take it from me as they feel like doing.
"I have made it a rule through my
life, however, that rather than allow
any person to cheat me out of 10 cents,
I will spend $100 to prevent it or to re
cover what belongs to me. .
"There is no need of me making any
splurge with my money up here, or
anywhere else, for that matter, as I
live just as I please, and will continue
to do so if I have ten times as much
money as now."
During the time that the reporter and
Mrs. Green were walking about the es
tate the iceman came on the (grounds
with a great cake of Ice.
In ah instant her attention became
riveted on that cake of ice. Calling to
the iceman, she said: "See here! That
cake of Ice seems very small to me.
How much does it weigh?"
"Well, there If fifty-five pounds here,
missis, I just weighed It on the scales
put there." ■ • ■ •
"Now, you can't tell me that." re
joined Mrs. Green, "for that rake Is
smaller than the one you left last
week, and I want the full weight or I
won't pay for it. Remember, now, If
you bring any more ice here, I want tho
full weight."
"That is the way that they are trying
to cheat me all the time. I know per
fectly well that I am 'not getting the
full weight, and It Is the same with
At the Summer Resort
I
SAME! OLD STORY.
The summer girl is In the sea;
She's learning how to swim again.
The summer man Is there, and aha
Has been engaged to him again.
ATHUOTICB.
Tom-Do you think the modem girl la
benefited by an athletlo training?
Helen-Yes, indeed. It enables her to
6«t In and out of a hammock without
reeking ber neck.
everything else that t buy. I tell you,
I havo to watch them closely, or I
would lose alt I posses*," declared Mrs.
Orern.
The subject of conversation changed
to thr Thaw-Whlto murder cane, nnd
Mrs. Oreen, In speaking of the rich
young men of the fast sets of today,
said emphatically:
"If my hoy Nfd llvfrl nd Thaw did
nnrt committed the crime he did, I'd
give him ». hypodermic myself and put
him nwav where there would be no
more rhnnce for fllftftracp.
"It Is the trouble of n. race for «o
clety preference today.
"They have made nil kinds of allega
tion* that, because. I am supposed to
be Immensely rich, I 'wanted to break
Into New Yoir society for Sylvia's
sake.'
"Every word of that wa* n He, for I
nm not anxious for any of their coin
pnny. and neither Is Sylvia. ,
"Home of the. sots In New York, ami
particularly the one that Thaw nnd
White traveled In, are living In a worse
manner than the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah did, and I know It, for didn't
some of them try to tempt my boy Ned
Just after I took him out of college and
brought him to Chlcngo?
"Ono of thede actresses tried to dnare
hlrn there and then. When I fought
h<M-, gho came tho religious dodge on
me, telling of how badly her minister
down In Lexington, Ky., would feel
about the position she was placed In
by my boy. «
"I ended her game very quickly when
I wrote to the minister's wife, for if
you want anything to spread just tell
tho wife of the. minister In any com
munity and you will never need to hlro
an ndvertlslng ngent."
Mrs. Oreen then went on lo say that
throughout her life she had remained
a firm believer In the Bible, and that
her prayers, according to the old ortho
dox teachings, had saved many a fight
that sho was forced to wage agatnst
those who sought to ruin her or take
her money away.
"Prayers have saved me In every
fight that I have made, and so long
as I live. I will light for the right
ag-alnst murderers, thieves anH perjur
ers, as they are the curses of the world
today."
Taking the reporter down to the barn
she showed the badly charred "interler
anrl remarked:
"I am having the- carpenter do a few
clays' work here to kind of .fix up the
place for Ned, as he is coming up here
from Texns at about the middle of Au
gust to stay until the first of Septem
ber, and he will need the place for his
automobiles."
In a. genial manner, that Is said to
be entirely contrary to her usual cus
tom, the female. Midas of Bellows Falls
then parted with the newspaper man,
and simply asked that in writing of the
visit she be not misunderstood, and. If
anything was to be said, to be certain
to impress on tho readers that, while
she lived in a manner to suit herself,
she was at least a thoroughly God-fear
ing- woman.
This is the result of a full hour spent
one recent morning with a woman said
to be worth more than $40,00d,000 and
who lives on less than $5000 a year.
By those who know the woman best
and very closely, it Is claimed that she
is not a miser, but that she Is simply
a. sturdy, v clear-headed, conscientious
woman, who has the most hearty con
tempt for show and feathers, and is in
reality endowed with a warm heart that
responds quickly In time of real need
to the wants, sorrows and misfortunes
of others.
Her sole ambition, it is believed,
though she will not admit It, Is to mako
her son Ned, now In Texas, the richest
man in America.
KNEADING WITH THE KNEES
"Italian bikers are all knock-kneed, '
said a globe trotter.
"Why? Because they kneed their
bread with their knees. This enlarges
the knees and deforms them, causing
them to interfere In walking.
"I have often watched Italian bakers
at work. They kneel on the dough,
and, holding on to a high support with
their hands, they prod and twist and
thump the: white mixture with great
vigor. ' *
"As they Invariably bathe before be
ginning to knead, I d6n't see anything
untidier in knee-kneaded than hand
kneaded bread, do you? And lots of
wine is still trodden out with the bare
feet In the remoter districts of Italy
and France, so that, if you can drink
this wine without a shudder, I don't
see why you should suffer any qualms
in the eating of knee-kneaded bread."
FAYETTE
HB KNEW.
Bh«— What is the regulation golf ballt
He— The regulation golf bawlTa "Fore."
NOW AND THB FUTURE).
Jaek-I could follow your footstep* all
my life long, dearest. r
Grace— Oh! yea. you say that, but
when we are married no doubt you 11
walk about 10 fe«t ahead of we, lust like
a.U other husbands.
MEXICAN CUSTOMS RULE
Connui .Times A. T* Roy of t>uran*o
reports on the customi lawn of Mexico,
nnd especially ftd they are administered
nt border ports and applied to Inland
placed. The consul days that the de
fects are thode of administration
•rather than of lnw. He rtedcrlhes an
noying provision* us In fined that are
arbitrarily Imposed for failures to
properly clasdlfy an article, although
on. a preceding oreadlon the article
may have been entered ad described 'ln
the Invoice. Thl« practice. Id said, to be
frequent at El fnnn, Eagle Pass and
Laredo, which are border portd. Thl«
lack of uniformity In administration
Is not only annoying, hut expensive to
nil parties concerned. The. consul
wrlted: . »
"Mexico has adopted throughout the
system of specific duties, assessed al
most entirely by weight. While thla
should conduce to simplicity of admin
istration, Itrenults In great Inequalities
under many of the scheduled. To take
nn^nstance, all klndd of musical In
struments pay 65 cent* Mexican the
legal kilogram, which mean* that a
Stradlvarlus violin, for example,
would enter for a trifling charge, while
a $50 organ, weighing, perhaps, 400
poundd, cased, would have to pny.
more than its original value. In duty
nlone. This operates against the Bale
of the cheaper grade pianos, for which
there ehould be nn Increasing dale In
Mexico, while there are, In fact, a
surprising number sold, considering
conditions hero.
"Related with this matter, as bearing
on the subject of mull order business
from the United States Into Mexico (a
business thnt is now growing condlder
ably), la the charge which Is made
in the Mexican postofflces for delivery
of packages coming by parcels post.
Such packages if they come from Ger
many or England pay a uniform 'de
llvpry fee' ('derecho de entrega") of B
rents Mexican; If from France they
pay a uniform fee of 10 cents Mexican,
regardless of weight In all these cases.
But from the United States by treaty
the delivery fee is 5 cents Mexican for
the first pound (460 grams) and 1 cent
additional for each four ounces (115
grnms). On packag?s of only one
pound or so this In of no importance,
but packages often run to ten and
eleven pounds by parcels post, and
then thla charge constitutes In effect a
discrimination against American mall
order business which is to be taken Into
account.
MAN WITH INFORMATION
Even in journalism the Spanish pro
verb holds that knowing something
doesn't take up any room— el saber no
oeupa lugar. Special information is, as
I often have occasion to say to appli
cants for work, the one thing that
gives a stranger a chance In a news
paper office. The most out-of-the-way
knowledge has a trick of falling pat
to the day's need.
Not long since a young American
turned up in New York with appar
ently the most hopeless outfit for jour
nalistic work. He had spent eight
years in Italy studying mediaeval
church history, and that was his basis
for thinking he could write for a dally
paper of the palpitating present! But
it happened Just then that the aged
Leo XIII drew to his end, and here was
a man who knew all the. Papablll. car
dinals and archbishops; who under
stood thoroughly the ceremony of pro
cedure of electing a pope; who was
drenched in the actualities of the sit
uation and who could, therefore, write
about It with an Intelligence and sym
pathy which made his work compel
acceptance, and gave him entrance Into
journalism by the unlikely Porta Ro
inann. It is but an instance of the way
in which a profession growing more
serious is bound to take knowledge
more seriously. — July Atlantic. •i - -
TIN FOIL'S INVENTION
Tin foil, or silver paper, which is
used in the world over for wrapping
cigars, chocolate, cakes of yeast, etc.,
owes its origin, like the telephone, to
America. . .:;.'.:./'
A New York man, over fifty years
ago, gave a good deal of time to an un
successful attempt to cover Iron bolts
with copper. * Such bolts would have
taken the place of the cOßtly ones of
pure copper. The man, though, could
not make them.
But In the beating out of^the copper
he hit on the idea of beating out tin.
He beat It out between sheets of lea.d.
and the beautiful, flexible silver paper
that he obtained achieved an Instant
popularity.
Tin foil, or silver paper, is now beaten
from pure tin exactly as gold leaf Is
beaten from pure gold. It Is usually
rolled In sheets four feet long by six
Inches wide. It is perfectly easy, with
a little beating-.' to double the length
and breadth of these sheets without
adding any new material to them.
ENGAGEMENT NOW OUT.
Ethel— Weren't you surprised when yon
heard about my horse running away
with roe?
Ernest— Not very. I'd do the earn*
thing myself if I got the chance.
■ DON'T BLAME] 'KM.
Jennie— Why do they always refer to
th» ocean as th« "sad se« waves"?
Dob— You'd ba sad. too. If you had to
listen to the name bunches of goo-tcoo
talk every summer engagement seaaoa!
H-Llncs and IPick-Ups
"A«k Parker"
In Venire, ny'thA Hounding sen,
Th<> jvMltlelntA meet ' '
To organlM « ticket, (trtd
To make up their dope micsf;
They'll hem nnd haw for ««v'ral Any*;
They'll almost come to blown,
Hut when they name their 'men, 'twill
he: " ■' • ','
"A*k rnrkrr. for he knows!"
Would you be xvlao to what they'll do.
Today, era they begin?
Would you mnke bet* on th« result
Before thn votos are In?
Pont worry o'er the "delegated,"
Or who aro friends or foes;
The big machine l« cocked and primed—
"Ask Tarker. for he known!"
Many ft man who had he.en against
the peekaboo Is still for It.
There are 0,000,000 Poles In the United
mates, yet two exploring parties are
out now trying to find nnother one.
Hammock girl* strike" Is a news
paper headline But don't fear; It only
means those who make them.
Business Dull at the Jail
This Id the first time In a number of
years that thft Wythevllle county jnU
has been entirely empty. Deputy
Sheriff Robert E. Brown says this Is
the first time since he has been In
office such a thing has occurred —
Wythevllle (Va.) Enterprise,
A ten-hour L rond from Chicago to
New York would do well, but why run
the other wtty?
Plttsburg is to have a 1000-room ho
tel—probably for witnesses In its di
vorce and scandal rases.
Orange— Ho has more luck than
sense.
Lemon— Still, he can't be sail to be
lucky, eh?
It Is difficult to see how the peekaboo
waist can exist In the same world with
Anthony Comstock.
The bureau of engraving and print
ing at Washington hag not had Its ca
pacity overtaxed In supplying the Re
publican demand for $1 bills.
Yarnell Treats the House
Price. Yarnell has treated his house
to a fresh painting.— Combes (Mo.)
Central News.
Pittaburg leads the country In the
output of iron, steel and perjury. Her
rolling mills and divorce mills are alike
unique.
"What shall we do with our million
aires?" What a funny question! Give
them to the comediennes.
A chauffeur in a big, red automobile,
near Norrlsto-wn, Pa., turned the ma
chine and fled from a bull. An auto
mobile will not tackle anything of its
size.
Doc, the Don't-Doer
Doc Houghton. in the council halls.
He roars both long and loud,.
In vitriolic, bitter terms, . \; ':
Against the trolley crowd;
He says it is a Juggernaut, •
It preys on people's rights;
And every time a row breeds, he's •
The center of the fights-
Words, words, words!
;^ ' That's all;
For Doc Jumps Into the band
wagon, »i '■**>*:
Whenever the trolleys call!
Doc. Houghton. on the owl car mane.
Was foremost of the clan;
He speechified before the town
When first the scheme began:
He loudly yelled what he would do.
Craved leadership, did he;
He got the honor that he sought,
And now, -what do we see?
Words, words, words!
That's^ all.
For Doc'lay down with the lion,
'stead
Of heeding the people's csjll!
IT'S UP TO CANADA NOW
Congress did well by Niagara. The
preservation of that waterfall appealed
to many so much that the pressure on
congress to act was strong, and the
bill which it passed seems likely to ac
complish its purpose. It treats the Ni
agara river as a navigable stream, and
the New York state franchises there
fore as invalid, as navigable boundary
streams are exclusively under federal
control. "Whatever the present power
companies are permitted to do ■Is
only at the government's will, and the
total withdrawal is limited to an
amount Intended to keep the deteriora
tion from proceeding further. The life
of the bill and of permits under It is
three years. By the end of that time
It is expected that there will be a per
manent treaty with Canada for the
preservation of the falls— a strip toward
the accomplishment of which the presi
dent is directed to begin negotiations.
Mr. Roosevelt Is genuinely interested in
saving the falls and will now proceed
promptly. Canada, we. are sure, will
make an enlightened and generous re
sponse.— C6Uier'S.
"I'll take that," said the man, Indi
cating a silver mounted handglass, "and
I want you to engrave on It, 'From J.
J. B. to Phyllis.' " ,
"Very well," replied the salesman,
"we'll put It on the back here"
"Oh, no; put It around the edge on
the front. I want her to see It."—Phil
adelphia Ledger. ''■ ■■>•■:■.;
SH I R T
means i good deal -
It tlisds for good mitcrlils, good style*
iood vorimiiiihlp tad food fit
Whin or Color, fait ftbrlct
$1.00 and $1.25
OLUETT, PEA BODY ft CO.
UtfMt MtkMf of Coll.n ud BhirU la th. World
W Bm« |f I of T**tb SO.
Open evenings till t:W, Sundays » to 11.