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4 Los Angeles Herald * ISSUED EVERY MORNING iiv r THE HERALD CO. THOMAS E. GIBBON President FRANK E. WOLFE.......Managing Editor THOMAS J. GOLDING. ..Business Manager . DAVID O. 8AH.—1E...... Associate Editor Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce In Los Angeles. _^ OLDEST MORNING PAPER IN LOS ANGELES. Founded Oct. ■{. ISM. Thirty-sixth year. Chamber of Commerce building. Phones: Sunset Main 8000; Home 10211. The only Democratic newspaper in South ern California receiving full Associated Press reports. NEWS SERVICEMember of the Asso ciated Press, receiving Its full report, aver aging 25.000 words a day. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION WITH SUN DAY MAGAZINE: Dally, by mail or carrier, a month $ .40 Daily, ny mall or carrier, three months.l.2o Dally, by mall or carrier, six months... Dally, by mail or carrier, one year 4.60 Sunday Herald, one year *-0« Postage free In United States and Mexico; : elsewhere postage added. THE HERALD IN SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND — Angeles and Southern Cali fornia visitors to San Francisco and Oak land will find Th» Herald on sale at the news stands In the San Francisco ferry building and on the street* in Oakland by Wheatley and by Amos Newa Co. A file of The Los Angeles Herali can be seen at the office of our English represen tatives, Messrs. B. end J. Hardy * Co., 30, II and 32 Fleet street, London, England, free of charge, and that firm will be glad to re ceive news, subscriptions and advertisements on our behalf, On all matters pertaining to advertising address Charles R. Gates, advertising man ager; Population of Los Angeles 327,685 CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN AT THE THEATERS ACDU'OBini—Harry Lauder. HABOX— version of "King Lear." HI RBA.NK—"The Girl of the Golden West." IlElrASCO—"Through a Window." MAJESTIC—"Forty-fly« Minutes from Broadway." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. GRAM)— "San Toy." I.OS ANGELES—Vaudeville. UNlQUE—Melodrama, FISCHER'S burlesque. OLYMPIC—Musical burlesque. WALKER—Comedy. <£* ,MILITARISM _f ■- •■ --jL Q^EIiBERATE attempt to create 11 a war scare Is being: made by •* several publications. it has been found th" JTapaaasi population of Hon olulu is increasing. The inference is that the Hawaiian islands are to be garrisoned with Japanese who are to be use In what la called a "descent" "ii this coast The white man, heavily laden with an ever increasing burden, cinning to realize it might have been better if so many years of the nineteenth century had net been de voted to militarism. The deadly perfection which was i reached in the art of killing at v comparatively early period of the cen tury should have been enough, and it might have been thought the imme diate result o£ tlio great Motional s-trife in the United States would have been to bind the world in a perpetual peace pact founded on justice, and to have established courts of arbitration ,nd international tribunals. Wo need not remind our readers that the dread of war was so strong after tho close of hostilities what might have been a tusus belli with another branch of the race was disposed of by arbitration. But other nations did not accept the precedent, and the continent of Europe emphasized its rejection of the prece dent by plunging Into war. The intensity of war-dread is greatly added to by tho unknown terrors of perfected aviation. This is a most in auspicious time for the attempted pro duction of a war scare, it cannot fail to cause nervousness, because dread of the unknown is the worst kind of dread, and what may be the ) logical effect on tho generation about to be born, who shall s-. The aviation leaders who will be gathered at Lcs Angeles could not ren der to humanity a greater service than if they were to solemnly dedicate them ■elves and their works to peace, and were to draw ur. a series of resolutions, sugno" by all of them, copies of which ..uuld be forwarded to cxery | Blent in the world. BIGGEST BOOST PUBLIC interest In Aviation week tk being increased, but public Inter* . : i must be supplemented by cash If the affair la to be an unqualified and .sal success. Mayor Alexander points out tho importance of contrib uting ti> the aviation fund. He tells i lie pointed truth in his usual straight forward manner when he says the big tion meeting; is one of the greatest advertisements the city of Los Angeles , v r has had, and The Herald wishes to echo him with emphasis when he adds: ■ X very one should take it upon himself further the meet in every possible manner." As the mayor points out, a large sum of money will be needed if this great public enterprise is to be all we would wish it to be. He hopes, and we hope right heartily, there will be a liberal response by all his In the city to the request of tlie committee which h.i.s been itrlviug faithfully and patriotically to bring to Los Angeles the greatest aviators in the world. "DEATH IN THE POT" I |-|ECORDS ot ptomaine poisoning, like records ptomaine poisoning, ttke records of appendicitis, rol •*-•' back to the earlli ages, and in yiew of modern discoveries there la now significance in the old Biblical saying, "Thero is death in the pot," while there is room for suspicion in nocent persons have been accused of poisoning and have suffered the ex treme penalty unjustly. The new dis coveries regarding ptomaines explain sufficiently many "poisoning myster ies," but the old-fashioned idea was that if anybody died from poison symp toms, somebody must have adminis tered the poison, and that "somebody" was generally "discovered" by per- j severing detectives and punished in ; spite of protestations of innocence that were repeated on the gallows or in the | electric chair. The sacrifice of the victims of the Valdez feast should teach our people that pure food laws and sanitary pre cautions aro as important in the do mestic kitchen ns in the public fac tory. Verily, the people perUh for lack of knowledge. While there are some subjects which it might not be expedi ent to place on regular school currlcu luma (already crowded) yet it would be both expedient and advisable to arrange for school lecturers on such subjects, who would go from school to school and give instruction in the form of lucid, simple talks, Illustrat ed by pictures, blackboard sketches, or lantern. The commonest subjects are the most neglected. Familiarity with the most intimate concerns of life seems to breed contempt of them. Care of the body, care of the stomach, proper diet, correst exercise, etc. —all such sub jects should be taught at school. How in the world are tbo children to ac quire knowledge concerning thorn if they do not get that knowledge at school? Americanism, spelling, arith metic, history, geography, elementary political science, care of the body and health are the subjects that should be taught in school. Add other subjects, if there should lie time and opportunity, but teach tho*B that have been mentioned. They are absolutely necessary to citizens who would enjoy a full measure of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness in the United States. HARRY LAUDER f^TTT lIV is everybody crasy over II ILiVry LaikOerT" This ciues ' ' ti.in hae been heard s.> often during the last few flays tha! v.o will try to answer it. Harry Laudßr is the latest (but we hope not the last) of,s long- line of brilliant Scotsmen who have shown what ll learnedly called "perfervidum ingenium Scotorum." The enthusiastic genius of the Scots will carry forward to lengths of achieve ment only limited by his physical en durance any son of the heather who "makes up his mind to win." In his own way, in his own field, Harry Lau der is not less remarkable than was Wilson, the workingmnn who turned ornithologist; David Livingstone, the worklngman who became a missionary and an African explorer; Robert Burns, the workingman who became the poet of all the plain people of all the bis world: What though on simple fare we dine, Wear hodden grey ami a' that? ' Gie fools their silks and knaves their wins, Wo Uaur be puir for a' that! Burns knew better than to believe all people who wore silk and used wine could be described by his harsh names, ! but he believed in violent contrasts and he was not always "ower parteeclar." And his lesson was that the poor who have the courage of their poverty were not debarred from successful achieve ment. This Is the lessori of the life of Harry Lander, and is one of the rea sons why this Scots laddie has such a hold on the hearts of the people. In every country he visits he is welcomed by the men who "wear hodden grey and a' that." And yet he is the fore most solo entertainer of his age. Why? The reason Is exactly the same as the reason for the otherwise Inexplicable popularity of the "yailyaird" and "brier bush" books: Lauder is a close analyt ical student of human nature, and a masterful exponent of certain droll, whimsical, odd and striking phbsei of it with which he is thoroughly fa miliar. The man who describes best the life he knows best will, other things being equal, bring the whole world to his book, to his play, or to his entertain ment. Lauder might not recopnize himself in tiie role of a scientist or an investi gator, yet he Is one of the foremost so ciological students and demonstrators of his day and generation. His types are reproductions. He is a faithful copyist; but for what he reproduces he went not to libraries and picture gal leries, but to the coal pits, the country byways, "doon the watter," the village street, "Glesca. Fair," the butt-an'-ben, the "pit-heid." and (tell it not in Gath) the vicinity of the "public noose" on a Saturday nicht. His sketches are as true to life as those of the cleverest artist with pencil or brush who ever carried :i sketch book. "Donal Blate," or bashful Don al, with his ingenious sweetheart who helped him pop the question; Sandy Mac Nab, the supposedly "confirmed bachelor" who brought to naught the predictions of his friends by taking unto himself a wife and making a "splendiEhua affair" of the wedding; Jock McSraw, the tipsy man who "doesn't give a—straw," and the Scot tish exile looking forward to the time when he will return to his sweetheart and to Bonnie Scotland—these are all true characters. And because of their reality, all th» world takes an interest in them. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and 'WE'RE A' JOCK THAM SON'S BAIRNS." For tlie«i whom Harry Lauder is famous; and because of his triumphs i.m I.M which nio.st men find in isuperuble, MS well as becau consummate analytical art, he deserves all the fame he has won. LOS ANGELES HERALD,: FRIDAY >H>IIMN<;, JANUARY 7. 1910. j. l^\ v^jM ■ pa FAITH UNFAITHFUL LA FOLLETTKS WEEKLY has been conducting an analytical in vestigation of senatorial records, with some results which are of keen In terest to citizens of California. Senator Flint's sxhlevenjenja have come in for especial attention. According to La Follette's, Flint was a gold medalist among the "program ers." He was one of the ever faithfuls. In the whole senate only three senators (Kean of New Jersey and Smoot and Sutherland of Utah) surpassed Flint In slavish devotion to the Aldrich pro gram. Out of 127 roll calls Flint voted with Aldrich 109 times and never once against him. When he failed to vote with Aldrich it was merely because he failed to vote at all. "It was Flint who declared that, 'going through these tariff laws from one end to the other you will find that the tariff is not a material factor in the selling price to the consumer; but the price which the consumer pays for an article Is caused by reason of the exoi-bitant prices charged not only in department stores, but stores throughout the coun try in large cities and small towns. This profit is from 50 to 100 per cent on these articles, and I think I can estab lish that to the satisfaction of the sen ate and the people.' "This he undertook to do by the Illus tration of a toy which cost 5 cents to make on which the duty was 60 pPI" cent, and which he said was sold at retail for 25 cents. Another illustration which he offered to support the argu ment was of a suit of woolen clothes, the cloth for which he said cost $7.r,0. on which the duty was $."i.39, and the price of which to the consumer he said would ho |80 to MO. He claimed, there fore, that the $5.89 duty was no factor in determining: the price of the suit to the wearer. "Whereupon Senator Tillman wanted to know, if such were the case, why the committee on finance did not give him the 10-cent duty on tea with which he desired to encourage tea growers of South Carolina. To which Hale, an swering for the committee, said if Till man had a 'real Industry' there, the Republican party would 'adopt the bantling.' But Tillman, more frank than the rest, and more frank than was good for his tea tax, admitted that his South Carolina tea experimenter!, 'like; the others in this country who are seeking to increase their profits,' de sired this duly because they wanted to raise the price of their tea and increase their profits. And, ho continued, and his statement taken from the Congres sional Record is perhaps a sufficient answer to the argument that 'the tariff makes no difference," 'I do not believe in the doctrine which the senator from Weat Virginia. Mr. Scott, and the senator from California, Mr. Flint, have promulgated, that the tariff has nothing to do with the price, else why are these protected industries co clam orous, why are they burdening us with their petitions through the malls and why were their committees and lobby ists in the house when this bill was pending there, and why are they in the senate now, bogging with tears In their eyes not to "touch mine." ' 'After Senator Gore of Oklahoma 'called the bluff' of the finance commit tee by introducing a resolution direct ing the committee to Investigate and report to the senate upon tho subject of these import prices, manufacturers' prices, wholesale prices and retail prices, less was heard of these Imputa tions against the retailers and mer chants. The 'blind senator' quoted reputable merchants who loudly pro tested that the excessive profits at tributed by Senator Flint were un true, and that the figures which li ■ gave for retail prices were wrong. Of course Gore's resolu tion was sent to the pigeonholes of the finance committee by a vote of the senate, and of course also Flint and the Hoots, Toots, Laddie! others who were conspicuous in their attack upon the American merchant voted to send it there — voted to refns ■ an investigation of the charges which they had raised, even an Investigation in which they were permitted to be accusers, prosecutors, judge and jury, and even in the face of the admission by the chairman of the committee that the committee had no knowledge what ever in its possession upon which these wholesale charges of 'excessive' and 'extortionate' profits could be based." UNDUE INFLUENCE MAYOR ALEXANDER urges action to end the wholesale domination of saloons by the big; breweries, j and says he will do everything in his power to stop it. He ndds: "There is no reason why a brewery trust should be permitted to seize and retain con trol of a large proportion of the saloons of the city and prey on the individual saloonkeepers, using the un just profits they derive in this way in pernicious activity." Good government demands the elimination of the liquor interest from a place of undue advantage and undue political influence in this city. Fair play and square dealing for all concerned suggest the hideous unfair ness of allowing wealthy breweries to compete with petty retailers, struggling to make a living, and too scrupulous or too poor to aslc for or to buy the protection of the brewers' trust. The public should support with all its might the police commission in the struggle that will determine whether the people or the breweries will con trol the retail licjuor business of this city. And we prophesy victory for the people. This city refuses to be owned even in part by any "interest." It de mands absolute liberty and equality of trade and a square deal for everybody. That's the Los Angeles way. President's message on railway and anti-trust laws will be sent to congress today. On account of his legal train ing and judicial experience, the presi dent's utterances on these important subjects will attract even more than the interest usually attached to presi dential messages. The Bport of automoblling flourishes In Greater LO3 Angeles. Conditions here are ideal for this or any other outdoor amusement. There are more automobiles in Los Angeles than in any other city and as a rule they are carefully driven. It is believed that the new council will abate the billboard nuisance. This tawdry, slovenly and garish form of public advertising 1 detracts from the beauty of Greater Los Angeles. The average billboard iH an eyesore. In the sunshine of Los Angeles, It is hard to realize tho condition of the snowbound and below-zero cities. The good people of Los Angeles should send assurances of sympathy to resi dents of bleaker climes. Los Angeles has an excellent govern ment, and now that good men are in office, they should not be hampered or hindered in their work. It Is time for charter revision. Los Angeles Is talking with a broad Scotch accent. Hout awa man. Hoo's a wl' ye. Camtachie, ecclefechan, auchtermuchty and mulguy. Slaindhe. Enst is suffering from the severest cold rfvave of the season. Los Angeles is experiencing a warm wave of -pros perity. Advice to those who wish to share In the 1 onor of a successful Aviation meet: "Pungle up." Progress and prosperity lend to pros perity and progress. That's the Los Angeles way. Public Letter Box TO COBRSFPOJCUKMXa— Intended (or publication mutt be accompanied by the uuint and u.iure*-. of lite hvfilei, I'UB 11 iM given tbe widest Intitule to eorreapondtnls, but assumes no responsibility fur their vhhi». WOMEN SHOULD NOT MARRY UNDE,! LAWS MADE BY MEN LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—[Editor Herald]: Annie Oil takes the view ] that divorcee should be made easier. ! My idea is that more thought should be taken before entering the married State. Women should be more and more reluctant to marry, and I am pleased to see that the modern girl has very little enthusiasm about getting married. Men will have to raise their moral standard before they appeal to the independent modern girl, who is rapidly approaching: the position where ■he can dictate terms to the male part of humanity. Let us educate our daughters to avoid marriage until women are emancipated and have something to say about making the laws. The man from Mars could see at a glance at our law books that the laws were made by men for men. When a married man can collect his wilrs wages ami spend it, when he ian sell and run through with the community property—let girls preserve their self respect by staying single and managing their own affairs. There are too many people in the world now. ui:u:n' standish. More Progress Chicago has at last succeeded in solving its pauper problem. It did not fully realize that it had such a prob lem until it found out that the food supply of a large number of -its estl maHe families came from garbage cans. Of course that was very bad taste, and could not be countenanced by any mlf-respcctlng mlddla-western metropolis. But what to do? The an swer came almost in v twlinkllng, a Bash of gfinius. "Sprinkle poison in those garbage rans!" prescribed the doctors. Why, of course! Simplicity itself. It these paupers were to be eradicated, their food supply must be taken away. The doctors paid it wc;s highly in jurious to the starving creature* to eat such improper food. If allowed to go on that way the paupers would live forever and the problem never be solved. The rational thing to do was to make the food still more improper. And it is working splendidly. Many children have already been poisoned, others have been arrested because they were so hungry that they were willing to be poisoned, and the rest can rea sonably be expected to die without un due delay. Chicago never does thing* by halves.—Ellis O. Jones in Puck. High He smote, with clinched hand, his heart. 'Shall I swear by high Heaven?" he cried. A deepening of her color showed that her heart was somehow touched. "As high as you like; our family has always been ritualistic!" quoth she, shedding upon him a glowing look.— Tuck. How It Began Man was experiencing his first mlie. "It warns me," he reasoned, "that 1 have violated a law of my nature, and puts me on my guard against doing so again." But just here he happened tn dis cover some anodyne herb which put an end to the ache. "Ha! I needn't trouble, after all—l can go on and do as I please!" he ex claimed, highly . thanking his lucky stars. And from such beginnings rose the great art of healing.—Christmas Puck. Laughter My hours are clothed in quiet grays. All Quakerish and sober. Though in my heart I love always The bright hues, of October. You'd never .guess my secret glad, My dreams of Joy hereafter, When I can say, for good or bad, I am In love with laughter. Oh. many men, of many minds, Have sweetheart* grave or merry; I trust, each to his liking finds His sweet, well-woven fairy. But ah! whom dearer could'l love? Though grief may come hereafter, While blue ski™, smiling, bend above I'll bo in love with laughter. —W. Edson Smith In Christmas ruck. Turbulent Central America ll—Nicaragu*!, Land of Blasted Hope Frederic J. Haskin fiSSHfpEjnrril the greatest canal on WETS! H ""' Blo"a almost ready to j 17 fir MB ml become a reality, Nleara- Ii» <H « n Rim thought it wan des j Sk/V^i tic, l to be one of the fa -1 o&wiVWsyJJU vored spots of i!i<" world. it thought Itself the 1 "Western Bosphorus," and considered j that it was only a question "I time | until the commerce of the oceans would pass through its 'borders via • the Nlcaraguan .anal. Tim ruin d I states had decided upon an Inter oceanic canal, all parties were pledged to it, and indeed both houses of con gress had at one time or another voted for it. Nicaragua was In high hopes, and Hannibal selling the public places i in Home while yet without its walls found a counterpart in the spirit of speculation that possessed the Nicaia guans. liut^in a' moment all was changed. Senator Hanna took up the cudgel* for Panama, the senate turned to that route, the house followed and Nicaragua became the land of blasted hopes. Down Hiiro they still believe that tho monumental mistake of his tory as made when Panama was chosen. i Nominally Nicaragua is a republic, whole the will of the people should be supreme. Its constitution reads us our mvii, but only the letter and not the spirit prevails. Every mail Is fcup- I poled to have the light of suffrage, yet there is 'another provision which sets forth that no soldier in the army shall vote. And the president has the right to enlist whom he will. Result: Wncn there Is a close election thou sands of the opposition are temporarily enlisted in the army. it Is said that In one election more than 7000 oponents of Ztiaya. were enlisted, while all his friends were omitted from the recruits. ! This is the way the laws and consti tutions of Central America are inter preted, and it is such abuses that are largely responsible for the constant tur moil there. Nicaragua has a most unique plan of ; pri sidentlal succession In times of peace. The names of five senators are written upon slips of paper, placed in ms many envelops, shuffled, and three of the envelopes are drawn out and nicd away in the state archives. The other two are destroyed without their contents being known. When their is a vacancy In the presidency the duly constituted authorities open the first envelope and the senator Whoße name la Nwiitcti thereon becomes president. Here we see how th ■ people distrust thi Ir own associates. The name of the heir apparent must be kept a pro round secret lest he or his friends seek to hasten the succe.~.on. Nicaragua Is not noted for a high average of intelligence among Its peo i"< . Those at the head of affairs are usually well educated, and there la also culture among the well-to-do classes of the country, but the rank I ftii are merely Ignorant, unlettered tropical people. They are '•dumb driven rattle," who lend themselves readily t.i the purposes of ihe dema gogue. They are nearly always against the government because they so often teel the law's restraining hand, Borne idea of the prevalence of Ignorance may lie had from a report made by the luad of the department of education who states that in Granada and Leon, the most highly civilised cities of the country, only 80 per cent of the chil dren are enrolled in the schools, ire concludes that only one-seventh of the children of Nicaragua learn to read ami write. The majority of the people live in adobe houses covered with tiles or with thatched roofs. Usually there is no floor in the rural home, and if there is a celling- it is only a sheet of white cloth tacked up to hide the ugliness of ti • under-roof. Beds without mat tresses, rooms without windows, cook ing without stoves and grinding with old-fashioned Indian millstones are ■till tlie rule rather than the excep tion. The clothing of the average Xlca raguan is extremely simple. Among the poorer classes the boys run in the Adamic garb worn before Eve in vented her palm-leaf apron. The girls wear little slips made from a single pieoe of muslin. The ordinary cloth insr of the men consists of a palm-leaf bat, a shirt and a pair <>r trousers. All go barefooted except the Indians. Who wear sandals. The women wear a chemise, a cotton skirt and a kind of light shawl. Those of high crfste imi tate European ways. Labor la plenti ful in numbers, but short in quality. ]t is said that the average laborer wants to be treated as a nabob or hidalgo. Among the poorer classes baptism is considered a more sacred rite than marriage. As a rule the Nicaraguans are polite, honest and fun-loving. Their .speech The State Press Investigation Needed Mr. Hitchcock, a member of the house of representative! from Nebras ka, Introduced, a resolution lately (all ing tor an investigation of the charges now so widely made against the In terior department concerning the pub- He lands. Charges are made thai of flolals of this department have been guilty of gross misconduct in helping private claimants to secure title to valuable public lands against the law and in violation of the rights of the people.—San Jose Mercury. Silence Not Golden But when a high 1 official of the gov ernment is boldly charged by respon sible men over their own name* with serious misconduct in ofllce, and when it is claimed that such charges are supported by documentary proofs, then it is time for him to turn about and face his accusers. Silence is no longer golden, and simple denial is ii'>t enough.—San Jose Mercury. "Pungle Up" "I have an announcement to make," said the militant pastor to his con gregation. "The rector's salary is in arrears, and if not paid shortly this parish will be without a church. It will tax each member of this church just $50 to meet the deficiency, and now let ub join heartily in singing hymn 1.000,000, 'Oh, Let Us Be Joy ful.' " —Fresno Herald. —♦- Militarism After the 21st of this month the na tional guard of California will be .■) flclally part of the army of the United States, for the Dick law will go into effect all over the United States on that day. Thereafter, as we read the act, its orders will come thro sh the war department.—Sacramento Union. Place for Kings Morse, tho Ice king, has beep sent to the penitentiary. Some coal Wngs ought to keep him company.—Oakland Enquirer. labounds In compliments, and their hospitality is such that the stranger is always received with courtesy. I'na best tin house affords, though it ma) be nothing more than -a cup of i and a small cake, is placed at his die posal. The Indians, (hough for oen turies treated «Ith < ruelty by the Spaniards, have not been soured by minute and sthi go their way wit Fi much ong and laughter. They tire quick to coin words and characterize people according to their occupation. Wncn tin: first engineering party on the Nicaraguan canal estab lished Itself at Rival the wife of tho engineer In charge accompanied it. Later she received a letter which hud no address ether than "La Canaler*"— i!lv the woman of the canal. Honesty Is a marked characteristic of the average low caste Nicaraguan. In the little stores the customers often wait upon themselves. .Sometimes the store keepers have their cigars and cigarettes where the passerb) may get them and drop the price in a clip By the side of the box. Even the beg ■ai win not touch this unguarded tup. Cock flgntlng is tin: principal pastime of the people. Bomo of the Nlaaraguans wear their hair trimmed close except for a little circle on top of the head. The barber cuts a cocoanut in half, tits it on tin' head like a cap, then trims away all the hair not covered by the shell. The aiit life of Nicaragua is most in teresting. There Is one species that are agriculturists of a high order. Om them eMrrying little green leaves toward their homes and then going back for more. H was long presumed that the ants Used these leases I'"" food, but Investigation Bhowed that the young ones chew them up finely and then, in combination with another sub stance, use them as a compost in which to grow a kind of tiny mushroom which constitutes food for the ants when they are shut-Indoors by Hie rain. The . vidence of this is so positive as to ad mit of no charge of nature faking. Ants of another apeclea arc great for agers, and travel in hordes on their ex peditions. When they come to a brook that is spanned by a single twig they are not willing to wait until they can pass ovrr single file, Some of their number crawl out on a twig and by Clinging to its sides widen the natural causeway with their bodies. Then the ruad is made wide enough,for columns of fours and eights, and the delay of single filing a vast army across is ob viate.l. Perhaps it does not take rea soning '<> arrive at the conclusion thai columns of fours can cross a place more quickly than a single rile, but it is so close to reasoning: flint it is hard to differentiate it from that mental operation. Nicaragua hag practically the game nrra ns the state of New York, and its population is about equal to that of the city of Baltimore. Five-sixths of the inhabitants live on the western or Pacific roast. The principal port on the Pacific side is Corinto, which h:is about 2000 Inhabitants. The principal town on the east side is Bluoflelds, Which Is 1186 miles from New Orleans. Nicaragua has one railroad which runs From Corinto to Managua, and from there to Granada on Lake Nicaragua, the largest inland body of water In that part of the world. Last Year Nica ragua bought from the United States textiles, clothing, machinery, etc., to the amount of $1,300,000, and sold to this country bananas, coffee, rubber, mahogany, cattle, hides, etc., to the amount of $1,050,000. On the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua there are seventeen recognized types, the product of the tnixtura o( Chinese, negroes, Indians and whites. In the interior there are almost as many varieties of political parties, di vided by distinctions hardly less ex quisite than those which separate tha various races on the coast. The ISSU» on which these parties differ is, at bottom, the matter of the church. In Nicaragua thtre exists a religious! question almost exactly parallel t J that which still troubles the peace ■ 1 France. This situation is probably di I to a considerable extent to that clo.^ sympathy and <iui< k response wliirß Central America manifests towards ■ things French. In spite of tha gj r ,| graphical proximity of the DTnl • States its influence In Latin Amen is far less definite than that of Fraif.v, It Is to Paris that Central AmerHj looks for new ideas. It is French i»«a icies that Central American Itatetn] study und imitate. Much that d American publicist finds difficult .1 understand In Central American aIT I may be explained by referring to <*J temporary movements in Frame. m M Tomorrow — Turbulent Onlra! AmrVa III: Rivalry of I.con und (irnnudii. .■ Far and Wide Most Lawless Nation ;■ In a speech made in the south gM his trip President Tuft called HttlHW to the tendency to permit every m Ist to get laws to tit a special csisi.- ,<E the statute books, which, because iili".' possible of general enforcement, arc. violated with impunity. The disregard of fool laws has bred a contempt for all law, until, considering the number of laws which wo all violate every year, we are probably the most lawless nation In the world.—Boston Traveler. Consolation AN.; triumphantly call attention to the faci Hint while Chicago has recently been called urn overgrown village, a shanty town raid as unknely as the place over Which Satan preside! no body has within tho past low weeks re ferred to It a3 a modern Gomorrah.— Chicago Kecord-Herakl. Nursing Her Wrath? Were you ever In a. mood when you thought the last friend you had in the world had deserted you, and did you ever sit alone in the wee sma' hours of the morning and allow your thoughts to wander away off some where where your mate was waiting? —Oklahoma City Times. -4- Sherman Neglected A'ice President Sherman Is Irritated at not being acclaimed and known. Ho ought to know that his particular of fice is a synonym for political burial unless one has the luck of a Roose velt.—Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union. It May Come Absolutely nothing- will satisfy tho few critics of the president. Some of them want to K"e how ha would look if the smile should come off and are very impatient about it.—Buffalo News. -+- An Interesting World ' Wonders never cease. Dismal Swamp is on ten, and a Poughkeepsie • man has drowned himself because his boarding place closed up,—Boston Transcript.