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6 LOS ANGELES HERALD nr Tin- men *i n company { rnAMt n. IIMdWI iT«i,ifm ) ROUT. M. iis r 1-iHlnrlnl Mnnnirrr J , *. It. LAVERTI llmlim '!«•«•' I OLDEST MORNtNO PAPER IN LOS ANGELES • Fnnn4»it Oct. 9, IWTII Thlr«y-fnnr«h Yrnr. (hum her of Commerce liniMin*. TELEPHONK9 — sunset Pro IT Horn* The Herald. The only Democratic newspaper in Southern California receiving the full Associated Press reports. NBWB"BEnVlCß^M*mber of tho A* rnrlnf-1rnrlnf-1 Press, receiving Its full re port, averaging 25.000 worflp n da». EASTERN AOF.NT— J. P. McKlnnry. l IDS Potter building. New York. 311 Boyce building. Chicago. _____ RATES OF BITnSCRIPTION WITH SUNDAY MAUAZINE: Pally, by carrier, per month I .65 J'nllv, by mall, three montha !.?.'• Dully, by mm 11. six months >.!)* Polly, by r, nil ©no year 7.8" Rundnv Her >1.1 by<natl. one year. . I. SO Weekly Herald, by nmll. one year. 1.00 Entered nt Postofflce. Lea Angeles, as Second-das* matter. ' THE HERALD IN SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND— Los Angeles nnd Southern California visitors to Ban Fran, i and Oakland will find Tho Hornld on snlo nt the news «tands In the Ban Frnnclsco ferry building- and on the street* In Oakland by Whentley find hr Amos News Co. Population of Los Angeles. 25 1,463 Fix your mouth up f.^r turkey. Don't lot the gol.l brick twins work you. Bewaro of Walter nnd Walter, the gold brick twins. "Throw physic to the dogs'— and "Doc" Walter with It. About this time tho turkey bird 1* 6ue to get It in the neck. Will Boss Walter kindly pass "Doc" Walter to the scrap-heap. It is now up to Boss Parker to pass "Doc" Waiter up Salt river. Don't stand for "Doc" Walter any more than for "Boss" Walter. Walter and Walter, the gold brick twins, will work you If they ca 1 ). Caruso has regained his high notes, but that $10 note has gone for aye. Lindley stands for Parker; Gates for V good government. Take your choice. The thirsty earth can stand several more such showers before it drinks its fill. J. Pluv. must like this climate al most as well as Los Angeles likes J. Pluv. Rains are to be expected from now on. Get out the goloshes and um brellas. The turkey sympathizes with "Doc" Lindley just now. Its days are also numbered. Heaven pours its bounteous plenty down and Los Angeles gets good and wet again. However, Boni as a waiter wouldn't be half as objectionable as Boni in vaudeville. "Doc" Houghton is quite enough for any city to stand for without "Doc" Lindley thrown in. , "Doc" Lindley got wet yesterday— ! thus proving anew that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. "Doc" Lindley thinks "Boss" Walter his logical leader. Then let him fol low "Boss" Walter; we don't. Voliva says he must be prophet and boss of Zion for life or he won't play. Voliva wants to be the Boss Parker of Dowieism. Mayor Schmitz will be greeted with much eclat when be reaches San Francisco again. Whistling to keep up courage; that's all. As a Thanksgiving offering Loh An geles will open Ascot park, that the guileless may go out and lose their coin betting against a sure thing. The riddle of the Sphinx may have been read, as is claimed, but the real riddle hereabouts Is: Who's going to be mayor? Let somebody read that. Boston people propose to rebuild San Francisco's churches; but events In dicate that more jails will be San Francisco's first and most pressing need. The cold rain of yesterday which blew In from the sea sent chills chas i)g each oilier up anil down Spinal bOlumna, but it set tho grass to grow ing again and the roses blooming bet ter than before. The pity council should authorize both t'i (> Uaoy and Seventh itreel bridges to be constructed at once. There is urgent neoeealty for both and Die 1 11. v has money with which to pay the ■•list. The gas company has found 'itself in a serious 'predicament because of Its inability to meet the Increased de mand. Rain and cool weather yester day ran up the consumption of gag to a point Where the company's generat lira broke down and many people suf fered for want of heat and light. It ls a difficult matter to exercise pa tience under such circumstances, but the enormous growth of Los Angeles during the past year has thrown upon the gas company, uh upon every other public and municipal utility, such a markedly unusual responsibility that some consideration is only fair to those whose business It is to serve the pub lic. The lesson of the past few days should nerve to arouse the gas com pany to h iicttiT appreciation of the tremendous demands which this city, in the course of Its #>arv«loui develop ment, Is making upon It* enterprise and resources. SMASH THP MACHINP lf the Los Ana;p|f>!« city and county elections hud occurred soon after the lnfamous work of the Republican con vention at Venice, local machine poll tics would not only have been -mashed but pulverised. Not a voice was raised nor ft word written In defense of the civic out rage perpetrated by the machine poli ticians .-it Venice. In fact, It hardly would have been safe, directly after th,it convention, for any one to attempt a defense of Its record. All classes of citizens, without politi cal distinction, denounced the scanda lous travesty on popular nominations, excepting, of course, the managers and bpneflclarle.» of the machine. Tint the adept* In mnchino politic* wore not BtHtllfSJH to the pecrnt rleitlns of public Sentiment. They knew thnt a storm Of popular Indignation, like B toniatfO Of the middle went, 1^ leTfiblS for ii time, but usunlly is of nhnrt duration They know, too. lb.il II is good policy In hide In tho cyclone cel lar until the storm has passed. The political machinist! wore quits cent for a time after the Venice In- I'liny. but when the storm of popular Wrath began tcr subside they resumed business at the Old Stand. And when they saw that the storm had crystal lized in n popular movement iii favor of :;i>n-pnrtisnnsliip in local affairs, the in stinct of political self-preservation ad monished them to get busy. When the non-partisan city nomina tions wore made the strength of the movement was evidenced by the sub stantial backing of the head of the ticket by SOOO names of Los Angeles city voters. If the city election had oc curred directly after that sho-.vlng, a walkover for the whole non-partisnn li.k.i would have resulted. But there was ample opportunity nnd plenty of time for the manipulators of machine politic? to get in their work by familiar methods. Non-partisan success in the city elec tion meant political ruin to the group* of professional politicians of all shades who depend upon the public crib for sustenance. And ns all In this cate gory saw tho primary necessity of "downing" the non-partisan movement at all hazards; a concerted attack thereon was projected. Tho question will be decided on Tues day next whether Republican voters of Los Angeles shall so soon forget their just indignation caused by the outrage at Venice. It will be for them to de termine whether they shall again meekly submit to being rounded up in the political corral of the very men who perpetrated that outrage. And it will be for Democrats to de cide whether they shall ndhere to the expressed sentiment of the party in favor of non-partisanship in local af fairs or, instead, assist the Republican machine indirectly by voting against the non-partisan ticket. But little time is left now for consid eration of this subject. Every Voter presumably knows what a continuance of machine control in local matters will mean. If the present opportunity for machine riddance be neglected there will be small encouragement to attempt a repetition of it. If the average voter is willing to have present conditions continue, let him at least have the post-election consistency in case the machine wins to abstain from "kicking" — except when he feels impelled to seek a place of retirement wherein to kick himself. THE LIMIT OF GALL A report that comes from San Fran cisco would be surprising if it emanated from any other city or town on earth. Jt in to the effect that the vast surplus of the relief fund is to be used for pub lic institutions that have no necessary relationship whatever with the cause for which that fund was contributed. It seems that the contributions that poured into San Francisco for the relief of its sufferers were greatly In excess of the requirement. "While the ma terial supplies were received in such quantities that they could not all be utilized, the cash contributions piled up similarly. It now appears that there Is a sur plush of cash in the hands of the relief committee which foots up the stupen dous figure of $4,000,000. Never was there so generous a response to a city's cry of distress as was witnessed in the overwhelming contributions that poured Into San FranclSCO from all parts of the United States and from many countries abroad. Now conies the report which, as be fore remarked, would be surprising; if It came from any other city. The directors of the relief work find that "the need of relief has passed except In such cases as can be taken care pf by the regular charity organizations." The question arises, therefore, What shall be done with the X 000.000 of surplus money In the hands of the relief com mittee? It would sei-m to bs an easy problem fur any oilier city to solve. The solu tion would be, send the surplus back to Die generous donorß, making a pro rata division based on the original contribu tions. How could there rightfully be any other honorable course? All the relief money was contributed for a purpoae, namely, for the needs of sufferers from the fire and earth iuake catastrophe. Any portion of the fund nut needed for that purpose right fully belongs to the donors. It cannot be honorably diverted v> any other use. But note the propositions, as reported from San Francisco, for utilizing that $4,000,000 of relief funds. One sugges tion is "the establishing of a $3,000,000 hospital with a part of the fund." An other is that "the entire fund be turned over to the regular charity or- Bunt.utlona." Various other sugges tion* probably have been made, an It is said "the executive committee has held several executive meetings to deter 111 11. in.- what shall be, done with the money." San Francisco . is no pauper city, needing aid of other communities to LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNTNG, NOVEMBER 27. 1906. build a "$2,000,000 hospital," to support lts "regular charity organisations,' 4 or for any other purpose. TJi«> banks of that city are so stuffed with deposits thnt they are soikllhr vast sums to other cities for Investment. Ami even lf San Francisco needed assistance) for hospital and regular charity purposes, etc., It would, not be Justified in se questering money In its hands that in.i been Intrusted to It for I ho specific pur pose of savin* Its people from Buffer ings consequent upon the calamity. X.m- the snko Of ttir good Tin hip of California it Is tr> ho hOptd ttaal Sin Francisco will noi "hold up" thnt ji.Diin.ono pivcii in Mid it h sufttfrmg ip(ipif>. MANUFACTURING EXPANSION At n single meeting or 11^ board or police commissioners one day last Week twelve permits were mauled I'or power plants in proposed new manu facturing concerns. At th» same m.et ing nine applications for such permits were Submitted. The permits relate. to 11 wide range or enterprises, several of them large establishments, Several months af,-" the chamber of commerce compiled statistics relating to local manufacturing Industries, showing these general results: The number of such establishments In Los Angeles at that time, big and little, was 1660, With an annual output \ liuetf Bt 646,000,000, Those figures weiM for the year inn:,. The tremendous Increase during tho preceding five years was shown in tho statement that the man ufacturing output In 1900 was valued at $21,000,000. In these comparative Figures, taken in connection with the largo number of new enterprises projected, we get an idea nf the immense strides this city Is making as a center for manu facturing industries. As the increase is more rapid now than it ever was before, the figures justify tho conclu sion that the volume of manufactures has doubled, at least, within the last four years. A standard saying of eastern visit ors, down to a recent period, is obso l lete now. It was to the effect that "Los Angeles Is unrivaled as a resi dence city, but it never can be a great commercial and manufacturing cen ter." Only the first part of that dic tum is appropriate now. While not only holding its reputation as a resi dence city, but constantly adding there to, Los Angeles already has taken a place among the more important com mercial and manufacturing American cities. In view of such strides within tho last five years, what may we reason ably expect in the five years just ahead? Such discerning captains of in dustry as Senator Clark and Charles M. Schwab predict that this city and its port will be within a few years one of the world's great industrial and commercial centers. Tho present rapid progress In that direction fully jus tifies the prediction. Weather Man Wollaber seems to be predicting by contraries just now. But if that will bring- rain, he's welcome to do it. Gates stands for good government. Those who want good government will have to vote for Gates to get it. WANDERINGS OF THE JOKE The world is still wuiting for the man of science who will formulate with pre cision he periodic law of jokes. Yes terday Sir Francis Burnard. lecturing at Chester, said that "experience had taught him ♦'"it the witticism supposed to be original or the absurd situation fondly imagined to be absolutely new had, as a rule, already appeared in Punch. A joke, he said, traveled rap idly. After wandering over Kurope and America the poor old joke, done almost to death, was in some queer disguise brought back to Mr. Punch, who was expected to welcome his prop erty as an entire novelty." The knight gave his audience to understand that there is a sort of a Joke Index in the possession of the paper he edited with so much success. "Mr. Punch had only to refer to one of his own volumes to find the joke in a state of perfect preservation, like the fly in amber." Any one who has ever had anything to do with the editing of humorous writing will cordially agree with Sir Francis about the Immortality of all the principal jokeß. Indeed, one of the principal arguments for the posi tion that humor is of the devil Is the shameless effrontery with which people will support the statement that the joke they are purveying is 11 new one. Again and again persons have sent to this office accounts of humorous things said to them, as they alleged, under circumstances which insured the abso lute novelty of the joke. A man will declare that his own small son lately said an elaborately funny thing. The funny thing, on inspection, is found to be the same that Hamilear told of the infant Hannibal, and that has been going ever since. — London News. The Corner of a Heart One corner of her girlish heart she yielded Brai to me, And halted there, because tin- rest was occupied, you nee. -By tenants who were kin to her, and who, us you'll divine, Through having dwelt them ninny years had stronger claims than mine. As Blight concession c'en us this most proud whs 1 to win, And with affection closely packed, 1 managed to move In; Vet soon i found the quarters cramped, and with a wooer's art I coaxed an added portion to that ciii ner of her heart!" I quite forget which one it VII my •Draad of love displaced — if Cousin John's or Uncle Will's heart lodgings were effaced By this designing move of mine. But .sennit one. It is plain, Lost out while I was wining the ex pansion of domain. And yet the corner thus enlarged had held me but a day When, "Some one.'* got to move!" i vowed, "we're In each other's way! Of tenants hern you might transfer to Memory's part! l'll have to have more room than Just one corner of your heart!' The transfer was arranged, and " tin ripple of her laugh, When she avowed, "Your corner's grown till now much more than half My hear! you re occupying, dear. You well know what that means— - That all the "tin i tenants, new, are crowded like sardines!" "Well, more of them will have to move!" with candor i avowed. "While those whom you select to stay must Mini more closely crowd!" And move they did (clear out at last), which shows the greedy part A man will play If he's allow. . i one ■ corner In .i heart! I — Itoy Parrel! (Irene, in ■marl Set. MOVE TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF PLUMAGE IN MILLINERY National Association of Audubon Societies Seeks Legislation to Preserve Rare Species of Birds WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— A national movement for legislation to prohibit the use of blfVt plumage of any description for millinery purposes, as tho only means to prevent ( the extermination of rare species of American birds, Is about to be undertaken by the National As sociation of Aubudon soclrtles. Confirmation of tins statement hns hppn given by the president .if that OT« ganlaatton, William Du tenet at New York city, \vlin has been In Washing ton attending the congress oftne Amer ican Ornithologists' union, In session at the National museum, He showed his personal enthusiasm for the pro hibitive legislation referred to in ■ iii.n this nfternoon. Tie said: "The necessity for legislation or till:? sort Is readily apparent when one has looked Into the existing conditions In detail. The Atidtibon societies have neon endeavoring for years pnst to limit the use of bird feathers for milli nery purposes 10 the plumage of garni birds killed for food. We were willing to come to such mi agreement with those who were not In sympathy with our own ideas, and to raise no objoe tlion so long .is the spirit of this un derstanding was lived up to. Yet we found thai so many thousands of shore birds are killed purely for their plum age, nnd no use whatever made or their bodies, that we now object to the kill lngllng of any of these birds under any pretext. "Ho much difficulty exists In enforcing any hatf-wny sort of s rule that it has been round to be well-nigh Impractic able to attempt It. The layman buying feathers In a millinery simp does not talO ' If he is buying prohibited plum age or not. in manufacturing it is often found that the commercial iim;s dye the plumage so thai it is a lino impossible even for an expert to tell whether the feathers are those of a prohibited species or not. In View Of this difficulty, it cannot be expected that the layman will know, and it would not be proper to saddle Ihe whole responsibility upon him. The only way. after having Investigated .ill the possibilities of the situation is to Urge the adoption of restrictive legis lation which will prohibit tho use of plumage SO effectively that there will be "no chance for any divided respon sibility." Resources of the Association Asked as to the powers and resources which the National Association of Audubon Societies is able to employ for the protection of bird life in Amer ica, Mr. Dutcher said the work de pends in the main upon the thousands of paying subscribers who contribute $"> a year at the minimum as member ship tlues. Many members subscribe larger sums In various amounts up to $750, which is tho annual evidence of one member's abiding interest In bird protection. The fiscal year begins on October 20, and the annual income now reaches $25i,000. The principal is invested In high-Class securities and only the interest expended in the prose cution of the current work. Large bequests to the fociety have been re ceived from time to time, one of $331, 00 left to tne national association last August by the will of Albert Willcox of New York city. In the expenditure of its annual income the association strives primarily to obtain the strict maintenance and gradual expansion of the game warden system, especially along the sea coast and at the breed ing grounds of birds irf the interior of the country. Systematic efforts are made to keep track of the bird laws in every state, and to improve these laws by keeping in touch with local game officials everywhere, and by watching every legislature from tho first day of each session to the last. One especial aim al ways in view is to obtain legislation to shorten the open seasons and to pro hibit the shooting of all kinds of game in the spring of the year. The latter plan [a advocated mainly to prevent the shooting of migratory birds after they have spread their wings for northern (light at the breaking up of the severe winter weather. Bird lov ers know that these migratory birds are invariably muted before turning their heads northward, so that if one of a pair is shot by some heedless, so called sportsman, the remaining ono of the pair is left alone with little chance of finding another mate. Some birds, it 1h known, mate for life, and in such cases the shooting of either of them when they are setting out to Laugh and Be Merry Mrs. Brown— Only think, John! Mrs. Jones has left her drunken husband and gone home to her mother! Mr. Brown (alg-hlng)— Ah! A woman will do anything fur a man who drinks. H traii(f«r-1 Hoard that man inter to "motor care" a* "automobile*"— h« mutt b « your old«at Inhabitant 1 ' Native- Oh I no; uur oldest Inhabitant la mil caJUuK thorn iioretleea carriage-. build a home la even more reprehen sible. Work Among Children To stimulate public Interest In bird protection and to make more generally known such facts as these, the ■ na tional association has been carrying oil a systematic educational movement among the children of the country, to bring them t.i an appreciation of the esthetic side as well as the patriot^ mi. of preventing the extermination of rarr> American species. Leaflets have been Issued in large oditidhs, de scribing the birds of this country, with colored plates, and an outline of the bird which the children can color in crayon from observation, or with the teacher's Instruction, To strengthen the Impression In the child's mind, colored plates showing the types found in thai locality are provided, so that an acquaintance with the ex act type will Insure the child's recog nizing the various species of birds on sight. Full confidence Is felt that as soon ns the Juvenile mind, unhampered by commercial considerations, learns something of the life history of Amer ican birds, there will no longer be room for the development of any ten dency to harm them willfully. "if we can teach the coming generation the facts of the life history and value of American birds," commented Mr. DutChl r, "we will give them a tnste for the proper protection of birds and the enforcement of ail laws with this object in view." Shore birds especially are In nerd of greater protection, in the opinion of Mr. Dlltcher, There are eleven species Of small shore birds, snnie of I hem not larger than spnrrows, but. 1111 fortunately, some belong to tho game, bird class, Borne <>f these, known as "Lhnic olnc," should be removed from this (lass to that of non-game birds, experta believe, if extermination is to be previ nted. The ornithologists in session here now have pasted a reso lution looking to this end, ami have r Himieiuicd such a law to the legis latures of all North America. Of the necessity for such action, Mr. Dutcher ■aid: Threatened with Extermination "In North Carolina, in a single spring season. 40,000 of these small shore birds were killed and some species are dan gerously near extermination. Were the elimination of :i single sepcles the only harm done it would be bad enough. But the resultant evils are even worse nnd more far-reaching. For Instance, the killdeer, which is shot ostensibly as n. game bird, is of in estimable value to cotton growers, as it kills the boll weevil, n pest which has done untold damage to succeeding crops and to exterminate which the government is spending thousands of dollars. Yet people in ignorance, or for the sake of sport, as they view it, have been destroying the killdeer. Tho bird is too small to have any great food value, so that Its indiscriminate slaughter lias been principally for mil linery purposes. We have found in stances where the bodies have been thrown away nnd only the plumage taken, so that this disposes of any con tention that the killdeer is shot as a game bird. As it lives in plowed fields principally and gets all its food from the ground it is a valuable aid to the farmer and cotton grower and should be protected for the manifold reasons mentioned. "The wood duck is another species which is in danger of extermination, and to prevent such a misfortune the Audubon societies are advocating a closed season for ten years, in order to enable it to recuperate its wasted ranks. The wood duck is the most beautiful of all North American ducks and its plumage is its death warrant. Its protection should be enjoined upon the legislatures of all the states where It exists." Aigrettes Condemned The movement to stop the use of aigrettes, to which President and Mrs. Roosevelt have given their support, is now one of the principal aims of Au dubon members. Concerning this prop aganda Mr. Dutcher said: "We are trying to stop the use of aigrettes by working along two lines first, by moral suasion, and, when that fails, by harassing the milliners. I do not fare if you use that word. Km phatic speech and action are needed. The small white heron Is the bird which provides aigrettes. It is found along the southern Atlantic and gulf coast, down into South America. Milliners claim that all the plumes they sell are Of foreign origin, from South or Cen tral America, southern Kurope, north RYAN WALKER ' SURE THING. Flrat Scliaora Grinder Hows busl nesa? Second Scissors Orlnfl*r— Dull. M l». A. U. Tutor— lf 111* women would iuat rU« up, aaaert tb*lr right*, march to i h« polls and demand to vote, I'd like to know wUat would atop them. Mr. A. Q. Tator— A mou*«. ■ ■ *m Africa and parts of Asia. Tint w« know there in an Illicit trade from Florida. The Florida plumes fire worth more than their weight in gold. In order to evade detection they are shlpptd from Florida to Nassau find then gravitate to Europe for sale, Our agents are continually watching trade snips In London and other foreign centers and we ars kept fully advised of what Is going on. Rarely nowadays li a song bird's plumage used and only once lti a while one of the smaller gulls. We have practically stopped all eh r>. Unfortunately, however, this does not prove that bird protection in America has enlisted every one's In terest. it shows rather that the great bulk of bird plumage now used is Im ported from other parts of the world because American birds of that type have been cleaned out so thoroughly in this country." Bird Reservations Ar* every state hn* its own RnmP laws and as thpse meet more effectually fill Incnl conditions It is thr aim of .Audubon societies to iirgp tho ennet m< nt of additional legislation upon th* State legislatures rather than upon congress. This plan usually takes the form of applying for tho sotting iisldo nf reservations where, game birds mny be properly protected. Thorp Hre now In eXISt UCh Places, several of which an const reservations. in Florida and Louisiana, while there is one in North Dakota and two in Mich igan. The only federal legislation which the society Sought WM grunted by congreßn last year In the passage of a law prohibiting trespass on these reservations, or the killing of any birds therein. What amounts practically to the creation of another local reserva tion was obtained by the passage of another federal law last winter prohib iting hunting tn the District of Co lumbia. In addition tn thoso legal ro- Ftrletlons, Audubon members are al ways active advocates of forest reser vations .is havens of refuge for game. State societies make 11 practice of look- Ing nut for the maintenance of tho reservations In the loon mien where they HVS. President David Starr Jor dan of Snn Francisco, Prof. J. A. Allen of New York and William Brewster Of Cambridge, Mass.. are among the other leaders associated with Mr. Dutcher in the Audubon societies' na tional movement to protect the gams and. song birds of America from ex termination. WARSHIP THAT VANISHED Dispatches received at Queenstovvn from British Columbia contain partic ulars of the finding of a lifebuoy at HerlOt bay, belonging to H. M.'s sloop Condor, which was lost, with her crew of 140 officers and men, while on a voyage from Esqulmalt harbor to Honolulu, in December, 1901, and of whose fate no definite intelligence was ever received. The finding of the lifebuoy after a period of five years revives the snd story of the lost sloop, which sailed on her initial commission from Esqui mau for Honolulu on December 3, 1901. The Condor was subsequently sig naled passing Cape Flattery anrl on the same day the steamer Matteswan also passed the cape, but neither ship was ever seen again, and the supposi tion at the time was that they foun dered in one of the violent storms that swept the Pacific coast a few days later. Wreckage was picked up near Van couver island, but it was never ascer tained definitely whether it belonged to the Condor. The lifebuoy found in Herlot bay, which was discovered by some sailors, has been identified as beyond doubt belonging to the ill fated vessel. — London Chronicle. PLACE AUK DAMES! In the executive department in Washington where the business of the government is carried on, there is no belief in the Osier theory, as -far as the woman clerks are concerned. Sev eral of the most valued ones working for the secretary of state passed three score and ten long ago. Mrs. Eliza Gridley, mother of the man who com manded the Olympla at the battle of Manila, is almost 80, yet she holds? a most responsible position In the gen eral land office and knows more about records and land law than any six clerks in the department. Miss Mason, who Is nearing the same age, is a pillar of strength to seekers for in formation ip the library of war rec ords. She is the daughter of a former minister to France. In the depart ment of justice are women nearing 70, some of them wives and daughters of former judges, who work faithfully and intelligently and who are prized more highly than the frivolous young er women who compose the greater working mass in the departments.— New York Press. Booiem Uude -Now, the annual boar output la Qulpem Down*— It ain't the output that's worrying me; lt'a the Intake. COULD WfiAT IT. P asaencer-Bay, la this tha fastaat you got Conductor— Im; If you don't like. It you earn get out and walk. > > ■ •. i-_**.n.»r-Ii -_**.n.»r-I ■iu't 1b auch a big hurry M all that. ■ .; \ ■■•• . , jjjjncs and HcMm .. „ Tr for You A " rtls talk o' t.ihky Dnt U hu^ mIKMy « oo<1 ' "',.';" * Htm' tMttan B ' 1 unneritood "h.ih m«h tuhkey An' cranberry MM li.KWlne f come fom, Let me as', dren Is a delate t« ?the rl " up . rllil " gress, of course. mothers* con w^n^b,.::;;:.:^:,,' 1 ; 1 "'" **«, a vow never to marry «.jl av _ tn * c " Marrying the first tlm.'u"^.? Wif 1 m most of the Itosto,, en . Things have come to a nt-Mf,, In Flttsburg when the bol^V^r.? turns out for government "at^ahi » rtrmi^onS;. George's Pet George Fox of the Minneapolis & Northern Is the fond and anxious sponsor of a particularly large and blushing boll, which has bto_Bom,d forth just south of his left car. The possession of this delightful pet lends to its owner .-i deliberation or move '"' h \ v *•!"' * rnvltv of countenance wnicn become him very well.-Mlchl gan (N. d.) Arena, ' Hearst paid $256,870 to be defeated. Add the separate figures and sec why. ltI It costs one-third less to live In Boa ton than in Now York— only, you don't live, in Boston. The news that Mme. Anna Gould is to wed again makes pertinent the query: Where is Lillian Husscll? Lawyers say that Thaw Is a phy sical wreck. He'll soon bo a financial wreck, too. Poppy— Was her stage career a suc cess? Sure; she wed a million Hetty Green seems ambitious to bo the Hearstess of America fighting trusts and giving away her money. Probably the government is glad now that it dldn t lend San Francisco any money last April. That turkey joke on Thanksgiving is a fowl one. The Way of the Reporter Is Hard ltI It is funny what impediments people make to newsgatherers. Recently a stranger arrived in this city known only to a limited number of people, and when the reporter asked one of them who he was the question was asked, "How curious you people are?" and no information was secured. Another case is that of a young lady going riding with a young gentleman, being seen by hundreds of people in his company and yet endeavoring to not have It mentioned. We might mention other cases where we have attended social gatherings, dug up the names of guests and then after they were in type were requested not to publish them. ln a place like this, where news is scarce, every Item counts, and to be deprived of legitimate matter is very annoying. The Times has always care fully avoided the scandal element and when items which we consider per fectly Innocent are turned down we get tired, very tired, for we can't very j well give the news when the people won't give it to us. — Sequachee (Term.) Times. A pew in a New York church sold for $3500 while a stock exchange seat is worth $65,000. There's no answer. P alm—l t's triplets. Pinc—Thise — This is two too much! Ex-Senator Burton is reading the Bible while In prison. Had he read it before he might be free now. I Will wo now have Cuban Daughters of the Revolution also? ! The only elasticity needed in the currency Is a stretch of its buying powers. "Our tongue sandwiches speak for themselves." Broadway cafe adver tisement. A New York man Imagines he Is a monkey, and quite a number of New York monkeys imagine they are men. lt Is with something of a shock that the heading "Graft at the Golden Gate" is read, until It is recalled which golden gate is referred to. Thanks My thanks?— yes. I like mince pies, And pumpkin, too, I won't despise. My thanks?— turkey does for mine; With stuffin' it is mighty fine. My Cranberry sauce, as well; Celery and trlmmlns', too. Do tell! My thanks? Some sweet potatoes, too, With nuts and raisins; apples? Few. My thanks? Well, yes; I would express Them if I'd time, but— say, I guess With all that dinner come to me My day will be all taken— see? — W. H. C. SOCIALISM AND PATRIOTISM can it be possible that appreciation of individual achievement and acquisi tion has been supplanted so quickly by determination to enforce a distribu tion of the results of the endeavors of others? If so surely tho brink of so cialism is not far distant, and the sub jcci is ono which should engage the earnest attention of serious niiiids. Whether the plainly discernible 'ten dency, fomented by demagogy and self seeking, prove to bo temporary or last- Ing there can be no doubt that we aro face to face with a condition such as confronted Germany twenty years ago, and it is surely making headway today even in conservative England. Unlike the continental empire, we have no autocracy with which to combat here sies; but, unless the fathers and sons of the republic even to tho present generation have been grievously mis taken, the spirit of patriotism ,1b not dead and cannot be killed. The living questions are whether It has been per mitted to He dormant too long, and in what way it can be aroused to the necessity of recognizing and solving, with wisdom and tolerance, the imme diatu problems Involved in tho guld 1 a posterity to be counted by hundreds of millions. (Uorge Harvey In tlin North American H. m__ .^ Best ■•« of Teeth as. r_fl-15--<BpS!S->---- - I SSk^SBT i«riel*lttltß______</ phone HsaWTdsr^Tf ■■lEr^ 3 " IHi mjgi!jLlE&o*^*i* H wa^BJaBUBaMMS"^^^ Broadway \p>~~ Eentists. O p«B eveolugs till •:•<>• Surnl-y* • t* IS.