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AT THE THEATERS
AUDITORIUM—"MiIe. Mischief."
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M VIKSTIC—"In Dreamland."
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LOS AXGELES—Vaudeville.
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FISCHER'S—Musical travesty.
WALKEt—Musical r>ur!esque.
REVOLUTION
FERRER is rig-htly called by our
morning Republican contemporary
a Spanish educator—as well as a
convicted revolutionist. In fact, he
was an educator first —a revolution
ist afterward. He was a revolution
ist only because he found that under
present conditions in Spain it was im
possible to establish the popular, pub
lic school system of education which
he saw must be established if his fel
low countrymen were to win back a
place of honor and importance among
the nations.
The truth about most of the mod
ern revolutionary movements is they
are caused by wrongs far more se
rious than those which moved the
colonies to repudiate the crown. As
this nation is enjoying the results of
the uprising our forefathers called
"the GLORIOUS Revolution," common
decency should induce every American
to take at least a friendly interest
in revolutionary movements in other
lands. He should inquire whether, in
yielding assent to the Tory papers at
home and abroad which stigmatize
revolutionists as "Reds," •'rascals"
and what not, he may not uncon-
BCiously be doing violence to the mem
ories of the great American dead who,
some on the gallows, some on the
battlefield, gave their lives in order
•to establish the American revolution
ary principle which still serves as a
constant inspiration and encourage-
ment to reformers and revolutionists
in all parts of the world:
"THAT TO SECURE THESE UN
ALIENABLE RIGHTS, LIFE, LIH
ERY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAP
PINESS, GOVERNMENTS ARE IN
; TITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIV
ING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM
THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED,
THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM
OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DE
STRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS IT
IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE
TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT AND
TO INSTITUTE A NEW GOVERN
MENT."
BARBARIC HONESTY
I)BV. DR. RATNSFORD In an article
| published in the Outlook asks,
» "Can Africa be civilized?" In the
course of the article he says: "You can
leave a bunch of cows, sheep or goats
for yours in a Mas.sai or Nandi mun
yuta (village) and be quite certain that
an accurate tally will be kept and de
livered to you of every calf, lamb or
kid born in your absence; the beasts
thiit died or were killod by wild ani
mals, and every particular regarding
your property will be accurately re
membered and accounted fur."
We ar. not surprised that Dr. Rains
ford asks "CAN Africa be civilized?"
Think of any community being so far
behind thu times as the African com
munity described by him. Such primi
tive barbaric honwty is staggering,
and there is small wonder .some people
regard the case of the Darkest Africans!
as hopeless.
CANDIDATES
GOOD GOVERNMENT will have its
opportunity at the primaries.
There the citizens of Los An
■ geles can select candidates who will
represent the city creditably nnd
worthily and do its work In n work
manlike and businesslike manner.
Mayor George Alexander probably will
be chosen as candidate for mayor, and
his re-election by a big: majority Is
certain to follow his nomination.
Good citizens are united in approv
ing the candidatures of Harry J. Le
lamle for city clerk, Captain Hance for
treasurer, Walter Mallard for assessor,
Clarence M. Tagrgart for tax collector
and John S. Myers for city auditor.
Our city Is fortunate in the pros- '
pect of the Improvement of the coun- j
Cll by a process that we may describe j
as "remodeling-." The candidates for j
the remodeled council are men of;
whom their fellow citizens are proud, i
Judge John D. Works is known far
and wide as well as locally. Indeed,
he Is a national character, and his se
lection aa councilman would give Los
Angeles a national advertisement of a
highly desirable kind. Other able and
excellent citizens talked of in connec
tion with council nominations are W,
J. Washburn, Miles Gregory, J. J. An-
drewa, Martin Betkouski, George
Williams and Richmond Plant.
For the sake of the schools and the
educational system of Los Angeles, It
Is highly desirable the present mem
bers of the school board should be re
nominated and elected. They are Jo
seph Scott, Fielding J. Stilson, J. M.
Guinn, Roger S. Page, H. W. Frank,
Melville Dozier and F. W. Steddom.
If good candidates are put In the field
good citizens will be elected to office.
We think the candidates mentioned
form a list that might be quoted in
any city and In any ■company in proof
of the high character and ability of
the citizenship of Los Angeles.
IVINS REVIVED
WILLIAM MACCHIAVELLI IV
INS, at the age of one hundred
or upward, seems to have re
curred as a political force in Greater
New York. For a time, what with
Investigations and one thing and an
other, W. M. had about as much chance
of making any political impression on
voters as the proverbial herring has
of swimming in ice water in hades.
New York suffered from too much
Ivins«-and this was years and years
ago, and he wasn't a young man then.
He was elderly, and red and wrinkled,
and he had a famous smile and a
wonderful sneer, and for ways that
were dark and for tricks that were
V W. Maechiavelli was peculiar,
which the same a great many poli
ticians and other people were prepared
to maintain.
We do not mean to insinuate he did
anything "irregular." Oh, dear no. He
knew too much for that. He was never
the kind of politician who would be
"caught with the goods," any more
than was his whilom opponent anl
junior, Richard Do-the-boys Croker,
who, mayhap, may have taken some of
his inspiration from Ivins.
Ivins was a machine man, hut the
machine became Ivinsizfd and finally
wi nt to pieces. Among the ruins could
be discerned the form of Ivlns, and
people said he was mangled beyond
recognition—but not he.
Sometimes it pays to be "on the
outs." It gives a fpllow time for rest,
recreation, recuperation. It gives him
an opportunity to strengthen the weak
places in his system and to watch
closely what others are doing. Not
infrequently it has happened men who
have kicked out a successful man and
have been heedless of his return to
aggressiveness have really saved that
successful man a great deal of worry
by trying his experiments for him.
When they fail —and fail they must
some time—that Is his psychological
moment, and in he "butts," like Ivlns,
himself reconstructed politically and
morally—or shall we say politico
morally—and prepared to reconstruct
everybody and everything. Most people
did not expect to see Ivlns on state
craft ground again until the general
resurrection of the politicians, but he
seems to have anticipated the trumpet
blast. And perhaps he is palming him
self off —this gray and weather-beaten
ghost—on green Bill Hearst for a new
man! Quien sabe?
GROSSLY CARELESS
C CHAUFFEURS, professional or ama
. teur, who creep up behind poople
' who are walking and run them
down are not much more respectable
than cold-blooded murderers. They
know their locomotive is almost silent,
and thiit unless some warning; is given
to people using" the road these people
will not be able to get out of the way
In time. Users of automobiles own it
to themselves to eliminate from auto
mobiling such Infernal carelessness as
that which caused the death of John
Carno and the serious injury of his
brother Peter.
The published account says: "An AU
TOMOBILE CAME UP BEHIND
THEM AND BOWLED THEM BOTH
OVEIi, killing John and knocking Peter
unconscious for a while."
There are citizens who can tell Bto
ries of narrow escapes from a fate like
that which overtook the Carno Moth
ers. A chauffeur who fails to give
warning of his approach when there
are pedestrians on the road ahead
should be deprived of the privilege of
steering an automobile.
One of the members of the framed
up school board which it is vainly
hOfMd will support the never-can-be
Mushet administration is named Den
nis. It's a line name. He should pass
it around to his fellow victims on the
push ticket. All of them will be quali
fied to use it.
We hope sincerely Theodore Roose
v.tlt won't be inveigled into the Cook-
Peary row. The outlook, the magazine
which brags he is its associate or con
tributing editor, shows dangerous
symptoms of developing Polar bias.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MOKMNC, PCTOHKR 10. 1000.
VOTE THE BONDS
PRESIDENT TAFT'S reminder that
Provldenoe helps tho»a who help
themselves should bo sufficient to
assure the success of the $3,tino,oon har
bor bonds and $3,500,000 Owen's river
power Issue which will be put to vote
on Wednesday, January 26. President
Taft while in Los Angeles said: "Thi re
is another ground upon which I base
my prophecy th:U you "ill get all that
you need for your harbor. In making
appropriations for harbors, the river*
and harbors committee goes a good deal
on the old proverb that Providence'
helps those who help themselves, and
they are very much more inclined to
give an appropriation for improving the
harbor if the city to which it belongs
is putting its own money into the en
terprise."
AVords could not be plainer, and the
citizens of Los Angeles should be grate
ful to President Taft for his frankness,
and by«vofing the harbor and power
bonds should make certain congress
will grant an appropriation sufficient
to dredge the whole harbor to a depth
of thirty feet. >
Los Angeles is in honor bound to de
velop and improve the magnificent har
bor which has added immeasurably to
her resources and possibilities and has
made her metropolitan leadership of
the far west as absolutely certain as
the rising of the sun and the going
down thereof.
Vote the bonds, and make provision
for warehouses and for public wharvi
and docks. With a thoroughly well
equipped and improved harbor and with
power for transportation and for manu
facturing purposes, Greater Loa An
geles will be the greatest maritime and
manufacturing city of the far west.
Vote the bonds, and let the glorious
history of our enterprising and suc
cessful city be continued enti rprlsingly
and successfully, in the LOS ANGKI.Krf
WAY.
THE PHILIPPINES
TOTAL Importations from the Phil
ippines in August, 1909, amounted
Hi $1,821,135, against $514,D19 in
August, last year, and for the eight
months ending with August, 1909, $6,
--427,189, against $5,496,289 in the eight
months of 1908 and $7,567,252 in the cor
responding months of 1907. President
Tuft's frequently expressed solicitude
for the Philippines seems to be partly
based on the fact that their industrial
prosperity is largely attributable to the
care exercised by the government to
prevent the process known as "ex
ploitation."
Enterprising captains of industry and
finance would have looted the Philip
pines if it had not been for the Influence
and authority exorcised by American
officials. In tact, Filipinos frequently
made complaints of unfair play, but
the rigorous and vigorous system of
justice, instituted by President Taft still
lingers.
His principal trouble was to keep all
within the scope of his influence honest,
nnd it is not Improbable he may have
encountered difficulties of like naturo
nearer home. The Roosevelt policies,
to which he is pledged, are founded on
the maxim, "Honesty is the best poli
tics." That an American colony or
protectorate should have to pay duties
to the guardian country seems to be
somewhat inconsistent with certain
memorable facts in American history.
But the facts are old; and drcum
stances alter cases.
Cass Gilbert, president of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects, says the
California bungalow is not the Indian
bungalow, but a distinct California
type, produced by evolution. Hurrah
for the highly superior style of bun
galow made In California!
Los Angeles is in training fur w -st
ern supremacy and the premiership of
the Pacific. They can "holler their
heads off," but they can't stop her.
"Legally Executed"
UTILITIES ORDINANCE
IT IS expected the Municipal leagues
Initiative petitions *o put "in
commission" before the electorate
the league's plan for a public utilities
commission will be ready for signature
this morninff. One will be r.t TIM Her
ald office. Mayor Alexnirln'r nr<s
vetoing the Drom^old utilities
ordinance will go to the city council
today, and it is believed th> ordinaire
will fail to survive the veto, and the
question of bringing the bona fde
utilities ordinance into practical poli
tics will then be before the people.
The league's ordinance hos been sub
mitted to experts, who have investi
gated it carefully and pronounced it
from a legal viewpoint a thoroughly
sound measure, while from the popular
viewpoint it is patriotic. It looks as
if T-ns Angeles would have a public
utilities ordinance, after all.
It is regrettable two English players
were hurt In the local football match
between Scotland and England. Stu
dents of racial philosophy agree con
tests of this kind should not be en
couraged, unless under exceptional cir-
cumstances. After all, there is an ele
ment in human nature called "atavism,"
and it is always foolish to trifle with
it in cases of men representing races
that at any time have been antagon
istic
Alfonso is scared into trying to put
the blame on someone else. No wonder,
since Victor Grayson in the British par
liament .says (with applause) that if
the head of every king of Europe was
torn from his body it would not half
pay the price of Ferrer's life.
Alfred Austin's poem, "The Adaman
tine Mind," is either conscious or un
conscious plagiarism, and we prefer to
think It Is unconscious. Austin's verses
are a paraphrase of the work of the
gentleman who thanked the gods for
his "unconquerable soul."
Now, if Mr. Mushet bad only given
the school children of Los Angeles a
square deal how differept everything
might have beeen. Ah, of all sad words
of tongue or pen, the saddest are these,
it might have been.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again; but it must be admitted politi
cal truth gets a good many knock
down blows, evon in the land of ths
free and the home of the brave.
The easiest way to keep the rascals
out Is to keep the rascals from running
for office. Good government begins at
the primaries.
Willie Boy killed himself with his
last cartridge. A sufficiently dramatic
ending to B perturbed life.
Greater Los Angeles has no use for
smaller men.
IN THE NIGHT
ODELL SHEPARD
■mani L'T of the night she came to me,
Hul Into the dark she went —
Now no more than a name to me,
laJtfjl A dear dream thai God sent.
It was a dearer dream to me
Than any rhyme can tell:
Her name will ever seem to me
Sweeter than evening bell.
She filled life's empty cup to me
Brimful, a moment's space,
With soft eyes looking up to me
To drink to her dear face.
( hit of the dark she came to me,
Through the night she tvent away;
But the night is never the same to me
She left a hope of day!
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but assumes no responsibility for their view*.
WOULD PUNISH DEFAMERS OF
MEXICO IF THEY ARE WRONG
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16.—[Editor
Herald]: 1 have road your editorial on
conditions In Mexico with more than
passing Interest. What of all these
charges against President Diaz, any
how? The Appeal to Reason and many
other free lame papers have been out-
Bpoken In their arraignment of tho
Mexican president. The American
Magazine articles supplement this with
startling and revolting recitals. Are
these articles true? If not, then it
seems to me our government ran not
consistently pass over this ruthless as
sault on the honorable president of tills
southern republic.
It is charged that hundreds of thou
sands of chattel slaves are held by the
capitalists of Mexico with the support
and eonnlvanoe of the government, it
is also• affirmed that the Mexican
constitution has no significance, Diase
having assumed the role of dictator;
the constabulary of the country being
us.'ii to suppress free speech and to
hound to death the men who dare re
s' Ht this tyranny. It is asserted that
Magon, YUlarreal and Rivera, the three
Mexicans who were arrested here in
Los Angeles and held for so many
month?, were guilty of no crime save
that of patriotism and that our federal
officials assisted the Diaz government
In order to serve the Interests of capi
talists? who are pouring United States
capital into Mexico and whose interests
can hest be served by continuing the
present policy of despotism. It is
charged that this has been done by the
connivance of the two governments.
Is it true?
If one-tenth of the charges which
have been printed in United States
magazines and newspapers are true,
then Diaz is a monster; a fiend Incar
nate, a worse than Nero or Russian
Nicholas.
If these things are not true our gov
ernment owes it to the republic of the
south to institute criminal proceedings
against all these national defamers.
REV. T. W. WILLIAMS.
DEPLORES FACT THAT
WORKMEN WASTE MONEY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16.—[Editor
Herald]: I read in the Letter Box of
October 14, a letter from Lineman, in
which he seems inclined to make light
or those who "bemoan" the manner in
which workmen spend their money and
leave their (amities in destitution. His
letter would indicate, from its general
makeup, that he is one of a class such
as the writer met many years ago in
attending Sunday evening meetings at
Burbank hall during my sojourn in
your city, that would like to have short
hours and big pay; -then spend it over
the bar and for sawdust soaked in
tobacco juice or for black navy; some
thing that would enable them to squirt
ten feet without any effort on their
part In July, 1907, I heard "Mother
Jones," one of the same class, make a
speech on a Sunday evening in the
courthouse plnza at Prescott, Ariz., in
which she subjected one Murphy, the
man v. Im had been the making of that
town, to everything she could think of
Makers of Farm Machinery
Frederic J. Haskin
HHK manufacturers of agricul
tural implements in the I'nit
ed States are holding their
annual convention In Chicago
this week, In conjunction with
the dealers in their product.
They are there many thou
sand strong, and will dlacuaa many in
tlng trade problems before the con
vention ends. Thai they have B vast
field of patronage t" cater to is shown
by the fact that the farmers of tlio
United States have nearly a billion dol
lars invested in farm implements and
machinery. This is constantly wearing
out and being replaced by new ma
chinery, and it is estimated that the
average term in which It all must be
replaced is ten years. To build a bil
ii..ii dollars' worth of now machinery
, decade and sell it means work
and wealth for many men.
The man who is now four score years
old has seen more progress in farming
than all of the hundreds of generations
thai went before him. He has lived
from the day of the little hand sicklo
to the time of the machines that cut.
thresh, bag and weigh the wheat as it
goes. He remembers tho day of the
"bull tongue" shovel plow, the stumpy
"new" ground and the ox team, and
sees his son handling a steam pms
plow that can plow as many acres of
ground in an hour as he could In two
days. He sees the check-rower taking
the place of a painful dropping of corn
from hill to hill by hand, and the mod
ern force feed grain drill taking the
place of the "sower of seed" who spread
it broadcast by hand. Instead of the
scythe, the band rake and the pitchfork
for cutting and storing the hay, he
sees the mower, the tedder, the buggy
rake, the hay-loader and the horse
power hay fork.
Instead of the old-fashioned flail with
which the boys pounded out the wheat
and rye and oats on the long winter
days, and of its successor, the "ground
hog" thresher, he sees the up-to-date
threshing machine that handles as
much wheat in an hour as a half dozen
men could thresh in a week in the old
way. The road to market that was
once forty miles long and a succession
of mud puddles, la now a macadam
road thai can be traveled in an hour.
And so the story of progress might be
reeled off for columns.
little wonder, then, that the statis
ticians tell us that only about 35 per
cent of the people of the United States
today are engaged in growing the food
and 'the fiber pf the nation. Eighty
years ago over SO per cent of them
were so engaged, and they could not
raise enough for home consumption—
they had to buy from Kurope. Today
the per capita consumption is much
higher than it was then, and we export
enough to feed and clothe no mean na
tion, and yet 35 per cent of the people
do all the farm work. If we were to cut
cut the exports we now have, and add
as much in imports in proportion as our
lathers imported, it would be found
thai 26 per cent of our pepole are en
gaged in doing the work that required
mi per cent of thew seventy-five years
aS°- . . .
Although the United States has made
BUCh remarkable progress in the re
duction of the amount of labor required
to grow a given quantity of food and
fiber, the rest of the world lias not kept
pace, and is it estimated that even
HOW TO per cent of the energy of all the
people of the world is directed to the
prime essential of life—the growing of
things to oat and things to wear. Eu
rope has largely failed to keep pace
with America, the labor supply being
so plentiful that.hand labor is cheaper
in many farm operations than machine
labor, And then it is obvious that the
small farmer of Europe cannot afford
to equip his farm as does the large
farmer of America. Half the world
still gains Its living with the ma
chete, the bolo or the hoe.
Some have attributed the remarkable
growth of the agricultural interests of
the United States to the railroads.
However, statisticians show that it was
the agricultural interests that made the
railroads. When one comes 1o com
pare the first fifteen years of the rail
road with the first fifteen years of the
reaper and other farm machinery, he
sees conclusively that although the rail
road was first on the scene it was the
later arriving reaper that enabled it to
take part in the development of the
country.
The United States leads the world
in the manufacture of agricultural
implements, as well as in their use.
Jn fact, nearly all of the nations of
the earth get the greater pnrt of their
farm machinery from the United
States. The capital Invested in im
plement factories amounts, to more
than $200,000,000, while the value of
the annual output amounts to about
$125,000,000. The factories are turning
out half a million cultivators a year,
the same number of harrows, nearly
three times as many plows, half a
million planters and drills and 120,000
headers and hinders. It is an inter
esting fact that the money value of
the output of agricultural Implements
may be roughly divided by three, har
vesting machinery representing ore
third cultivating machinery on" third
and seeding and other machinery an-
and at the same time there were
thirty-six salnons running, Sunday
evening as it was, in that little town,
each paying $1000 license and workmen
footing the bill, not only paying the
licenses but the high renta, the wages
of the bartenders, who are not allowed
to drink, and for the stuff they put
down their throats to rob them of their
reason and make thorn cry out against
tin. man who has saved his money
and put it to good use—in mining, In
starting factories, building railroads,
drilling oil wells and many other in
dustries that furnish work for this
very ckiss that is continually lighting
them.
Duke, the great tobacco manufac
turer said, when asked how he come
to have DO much wealth, J20.000.000 or
so that he accumulated it by saving.
The fact is he got it by other men's
extravagance—because *hey smoked his
tobacco.
A woman, the wife of one of the men
who run a gambling joint in Prescott,
told me she had known men to go out
and work in the mines and get several
hundred dollars ahead; then come in
to town and blow it all in in one night—
and this was nothing unusual, she
said- and these were the first to get
hold of "Mother Jones' " apron strings.
The thing for us to do is to cut out
unnecessary waste, that which we can
accomplish within ourselves and at the
same time be seeking to remedy other
wrongs now being perpetrated against
us by others that will require united
effort W. S. EURROUGH3.
DEPLORES F>.CT THAT TAFT
HAD TO TRAVEL ON SUNDAY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14.—[Editor
Herald]: The people of Los Angeles
have been delighted to see and enter
tain President Taft. He has been re
ceived and honored as a president
should be received and honored. But
In the midst of it all, there was one
thing which anddened the hearts of
thousands of people, not only in Los
Angelen and Southern California, but
throughout the entire United States,
viz., his traveling the entire Lord a
other third. Illinois leads the world
In the value of the plants for the mak
ing of agricultural machinery, the val
ue of the annual output and in tho
amount of machinery used.
In the western part of Virginia there
is the little valley of the Shenandoah.
It is about 200 miles long and thirty
miles wide. Here was roared Nancy
Hankil the mother of Abraham Lin
coln. Here the father of Lincoln lived
before ho went to Kentucky. Here
was where Washington declared he
would take his troops to the mountains
df Weal Augusta and defend the ban
ner of liberty to the end. Here was
grown the rations that kept alive the
Confederacy until Bheridan devastated
It so that "a crow flying across It
would have to carry his rations."
And it was here that tin- age of agri
cultural machinery dawned upon tho
world. Rookbridge county is at the
i,,■.■! i of the valley. In the northern
end of this county Is the birthplaco
df the McCormlcka and of the reaper.
Robert McOormick had lonir tried to
solve the problem of harvesting by
machinery. He had corresponded with
Thomas Jefferson about it, but It re
mained for his son Cyrus to perfect
the machine. The father's had been
a sort of revolving scythe, but the
son's was different. Those were great
days in Rockbridge and Augusta coun
ties. The gentry and the hoi pollol
nil gathered at Steele's tavern, as if
to see a cirrus, in answer to the
printed handbills announcing the first
public trials.
Invented in 1831, and soon thereafter
proved to be all that was claimed for
It, it was yet fourteen years before
the reaper became a commercially val
uable machine. So limited were the
facilities for making it that it was
]S4r, before farmers began to use ths
reaper to any extent. The binder did
not come until 1875. and the twine
binder even later. To Obed Hussey
belongs the credit of bringing- out the
mower, but it was not practicable un
til Lewis Miller invented the floating
cutterbar, which enabled it to accom
modate itself to unevenness of ground.
The grain drill was invented many
years before it was so improved as to
be practicable for general farm use.
In 1851 a force feed attachment was
put upon it, and since then the grain
drill has bees one of the most useful
pieces of machinery on the farm. The
corn planter had its beginning in 1853,
ajid was Invented by George W. Brown
of Illinois. The farmer had to drive
a thrre-runnered sled across the field
to mark the rows where the corn was
to be planted. The planter was driven
across these at right angles and the
grains dropped at each intersection.
Later the Hawotths, also of Illinois,
Invented the check-rower. A long wire
chain is stretched across the field, with
tripping links every three feet. Tho
planter is driven along beside this and
every time the trip strikes a link it
drops the requisite number of grains.
By this method the corn is sure to b~<
planted in rows both ways, so that It
can be. plowed north and south as well
as east and west.
The end delivery buggy rake and the
hay loader mean about as much in the
matter of labor saving as any other
harvesting machinery on the farm.
The potato digger is also a vast labor
saver where potatoes are grown on a
large scale. So Is the nut gatherer
where nuts are extensively grown. The
windmill means much to the farmer in
economy of elbow grease, and many a
boy with water to pump for fifty head
of stock has had the lesson taught
him anew that he never appreciates
the wind pump until it stops. In
ventors are now concentrating theit
efforts to perfect the cotton picking
machine.
What of the future? Will it hold
new Inventions and now labor saver«
in store for the farmer? Will it add
to the things that are lifting him from
tho ranks of the toller with his handa
to those whose brainwork and whosa
mastery of machinery count for more
than toll? That there are Inventions
to come which will work as great rev
olutions as those that, are In use seems
to be Impossible. But when the aver
age farmer adopts all that are now
being successfully used by the few ul
tra-progressive agriculturists he will
eliminate much of his work. The day
of the storage battery—cheap and ef
frctive—ls here with gasoline and de
natured alcohol. The care of horses
is a labor that machinery cannot save
but It can, and will, eliminate the
horse. The farm tractor will ulti
mately draw the plow, pull the binder,
pump the water, drive the thresher,
grind the grain, haul the produce to
market—in short, It will be everything
that the horse has beon.
With the coming of the second dec
ade of tho twentieth contury the ener
gies of the man upon the farm will be
directed to taking up the lost motion
that has been so long the rule. The
next quarter of a century probably
will find the farmer the most carefully
trained of all our citizens—and his vo
cation will be transformed into a pro
fession instoad of being allowed to re
main a hlt-or-mlss sort of business.
The age of machinery will come to be
known as the age of intelligent effort.
Tomorrow— Spiritualists In foilTfntlnn.
day In order to reach here Monday
morning. President Taft is under as
much obligation to keep the fourth
commandment as any Individual in the
United States! It Is as great a sin for
President Taft to violate this law of
God as for any other individual to
do so! God is as much displeased with
his sin as with that of any other! The
president Is under obligation to keep
this command, as well as any other
command of God. It is as much a sin
to violate the fourth command, as it
is to violate the sixth, or seventh, or
eighth, or -ninth! God Is no respecter
of persons. If tho president had "rested
the Sabbath day according to the com
mandment," what a comfort it would
have been to God's people, what a good
example it would have been to the
country, and what a blessed Influence
it might have had! S. M. RAMSEY.
SUGGESTS WOMEN SECURE
NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICE
SEAL GARDEN, Oct. 16.—[Editor
Herald]: 1 am a subscriber and con
stant reader of The Herald and prize
the Letter Box as the most democratic
arena for curt, pithy, pointed and
broad-gauged discussion of public
questions of any Journal on the coast.
While various subjects have been
ably discussed and great freedom al
lowed the writers I have been most
Intensely interested in the discussion
of woman suffrage and was surprised
to learn from an article appearing in
a Sunday paper, Octobar 10, by a local
lawyer that while under the provisions
of the constitution of the state women
were not eligible to vote they were
qualified to hold any office In the gift
of the people of the state In the legis
lative and executive departments of
the state government. If that 18 cor
rect I propose that a number of wo
men secure the nominations for a good
share of the offices and aid In the elim
ination of rings, cliques and political
boiMi. F- A> Y>
Particulars Desired
"She's not like other jlrls."
"Do you mean ehc tun hlptt"