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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
I RETRORSLIM ft.
The degree of I>. 1.. N. V.. is about
to be reconferred on Oyster Bay.
The lighting companies obviously do
not believe in the old maxim, "What
goes up must come down."
If he can't do it in any other way,
the vice president seems determined
to earn his $I^,ooo salary with his
mouth.
A persistent whistler was killed by a
Colorado cowboy. The Impulsive ways
of those cowboys are .sometimes quite
attractive.
No, "Constant Reader," the con
gressman who was barred from the
"White House the other day was not
Uncle Joe Cannon or Boss Aldrich.
The pugilists and promoters have
done so much talking the last few days
that the sport is again taking on the
characteristics of the old-fashioned
kind.
Chip in a mite and help the Fourth
of July committee raise enough for a
proper celebration of Independence day.
A little from everybody would mean a
large sum.
This campaign ought to have »
the pood purpose of teaching men not
to sign papers until they have an in
telligent knowledge of who and what
they are for.
A former member of congress says
he retired from that body because it
■was not moral. Som" ether members
who nre there now would better pet
their excuses ready.
An American firm has taken n very
large order for alarm clocks in China.
AVhr>n they begin to pet in th<Mr early
morning work there may be a now out
break of anti-foreign riots.
Onp hundred aeroplanes would nnt
cost a tenth as much as a. modem bat
tleship, but equippped with i
they ought to make n whole ar
run like frightened cockroaches.
You rant blame n s for laughing a!
the way the rubber tr;«t has been
stinging the railroad trust. in
the lines has ordered Its clerks to
card rubber bands as much .
and use twine.
"Thousands will attend F>lls/in Light-
Ing company picn;r\" says a headline.
From reading the news columns we
i ithered the impression that none
of the lighting companies in having
picnic lately.
Panama fairs planned to date: Xew
V.irk. New Orleans, San I i >, Snn
o. \\ ith another at Poi I
, i Minneapolis it can be made a
sorl of balloon trip for the easterner
who likes world's fairs.
* ■ a bit of vivid word illustration
there's nothing the matter with Charles
Towne'a "If every Chinaman we
; dd iwo Inches to the length of his
shin it \vq p our cotton mills
running day and night."
Chairman Gary of the steel trust
aboul tho
ness outlook in this country. You
to be an official of an American rail
way system ;.. get that real dark
blown vision of things In tlifno
Willie Hearst admits thai he hasn't
much hope thai Colonel Roosevelt will
pay much attention to his harangues,
which shows thai the yellow editor is
sometimes capable of reaching saner
conclusions than his sloppy stuff would
make us think.
CAN THEY DO IT?
THK lighting companies threaten to
halt extensions of their lines and
damat>« or ruin such owners of
property ns nre dependent upon them
for the successful outcome of real es
tate plans. How great a calamity this
would be if carried out to the full
power of the corporations it require*
only ordinary Imagination to realize,
it is their hope thus to frighten the
people Into voting away a prospective
calamity by repudiating the admlnis- i
trntlon of Mayor Alexander nnd ask
ing for a 0 instead of a 7 cent rate
for electricity,
This is arrogance enrried to a point
that has seldom if ever been exceeded
by an American corporation. Can they
■do it? Is It necessary to vote 9-cent
licrht to escape their wrathful venge
ance? The lighting companies of
Los Angeles are public service corpora- .
UonSi occupying n peculiar relation to I
the people. They are performing a ser
vice that the community can well do,
but that the community has permitted
them to do under Its special grant.
This grant assumed, if it did not ex
plicitly require, that the holder^ of the
franchises shall he able to serve the
public with reasonable efficiency, and
would <in so at all times. If the time
should ever come When they are un
able or unwilling to do so it is at leaßt
debatable whether the fact does nol
constitute a breach of contract and
Ipso facto surrender of the franchises.
There would be one escape from this
conclusion —that the community had,
in the exorcise of its right to fix rates,
nnmed a figure that amounted to con
fiscation, In which (vent the courts
would protect the corporation from in
jury and relieve it of culpability.
But In view of the fact that the
son company, one of the remonstrants .
here, lias offered to compromise on
rate of S cents for Los Auri les, and to
give Pasadena not only a 4-cent rate.
but to eliminate the minimum charge,
sitfn a three-year contract at the re
duced figure, and supply the new metal-
Ized film lamps free, who believes that
the 7-cent rate with a SI minimum
charge fixed by the public utilities
commission of this city and Indorsed
after consideration of all available
facts by the mayor and council, is
confiscation or anything approaching
It?
Who believes such a thing could be
shown in court? And if it could nol be
shown, would not the corporations, if
they had refused to carry out their
plain obligations in'the form of rea
sonable extensions, be actionable in a
large number of damage cases? And
would they not be the offender in a
breach of contract with the city and
thereby thi losers of whatever rights
they had been granted without re
course?
our opinion is that unless the cor-;
poratlona are pri pared to show beyond
question to the courts that they an
the victims of confiscation they will!
think lont; and well before they will
take the chances Involved In a per
sistence In their present course. Still,
their rash threats against property
owners In case others do not vote them
the rislit to charge what they •
gives reason to suspect that their un
wisdom might carry them so far as j
to risk all the possible dangers of a
to a finish with the city and with
individuals who might be damaged.
THE DANGER
THE preseni controversy over the
price of domi stic artificial lieht
and the unmistakable evidence in
pal quarters of the influence of
tho Southern Pacific and local corpor
ations in the politics of Lns Angeli -
ought to call sharply to the atten
tion of the citizens the dangers now
confronting them and their inten its
—dangers that a month ago did not
seem so apparent, for the old forces
that uspd to run things here without
much let or hindrance had not then
shown their hands. •
It grows more significant every day
— tin' candidacy of "Barney" Healy and
"Doc" Houghton. it becomes plainer
that more than n desire on their part
hieve new honors or serve their
constituents is behind their attempt
to re-enter t i:■ ■ council that brought
them fame and a vigorous invitation
from the people to go away back and
«it down in private life. Some pretty
influential agem les are working for
them and hoping by the aid of a lib
eral expenditure of money and such
popularity as they have among a cer
tain element to use them as wedges
to begin to pry out of power the
present administration.
The. corporations that can't have
tin ir own way and those sinister ac
tivities that flourished unhindered un
der former reg well as those
to whom it was profitable to hold of
fice, under those regimes -a well or
ganized band with the cohi c p >wer
<>f selfish Interest —will be united in
this assault on .Major Alexander and
tlin present council.
The only force against them will be
the unorganized plain citizens who do
nut believe in special privilegi s, and
know that the assets of the city Will
lie actually threatened by the success
of the "1,1 crowd as represented by
Healy ami Houghton.
These plain citizens are numerous
'n to swamp tin' better organized
band now seeking re-entrance t" power
if they turn out on June 80 and vote
as they did list year, If they fail to
i they win find it later on harder
evei t" win bai X the control
from a crowd whosi appetite for
of one kind and another has
. | ened by a taste ol success.
don't believe they are going
rove Indifferent. They arc not
mm h, liut they are a part of
. Rilent undertow al/ over tho
country that la sweeping the feet from
under those who have been lervlng
"tho Interests" at the expenße of the
whole people and submerging them In
tide of indignation that has been
risiiiK since the beginning of fti
vlt's struggle for a square deal.
Btewart and AViiincn are going int<>
the council with a majority that will
|i ;i ye no di übi :.* t'> the attltudi ol
Lo« Angeles on the great question of
the corruption 'if our politics by kjio
cial Interests for personal gain.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1010.
If It Comes to the Worst in the Lighting Rate War
ts3rZ. m Z~*i--9- SACKED TO THE ~
HOME AGAIN
A DISTINGUISHED American who
lefl the home Bhores a year ago
for recreation after seven years of
tun in the hardest work that Ins coun
try asks of a citizen returns today to
a truly wonderful acclaim. It is the
climax—and yet who can bo sure it
really is the climax?—of a train of
homage u> a unique personality that
has no parallel In modern times.
Ulysses s. Grant was another cx-pres
ldent who tasted the homage of foreign
peoples, but that was given because of
the nation he represented and his
achievements on the battlefield, not his
personality, which \vas singularly cold
and almost repellant.
The American who retains today is
honored, abroad and at home, because
he is who and what he is as a man and
character, not forgetting, of course, the
office he has (ill-"!. Nothing but that
caused the breaking of all precedents
by tin? rulers of Ita.'y. Austria ami Q( r
many, who might have done far less
and met all requirements; nothing but
that won tor him the dignified honors
of university authority, and eoinci
dentally the boyish acclaim of the stu
dent bodies for "Teddy."
The spontaneity of it all has been its
most pleasing phase. The- grace and
d -dm with which it has been re
: has brought pride to all fellow
countrymen, It is an amazing welcome
that awaits Theodore Roosevi ii at New
Y/ork today. -May his honors increase
his humility, not his pride; tor in his
role of leader with the largest per
sonal following in tii'' world he bears a
gn-at responsibility to hlmsell and that
following. He holds his unique dis
tincti* ■• of what he typifies,-a
ainst 111• ■ reign of .Mammon
and all his unrighteousness. If he ever
ecas" t.. represent that protest his fol
lowing -ill melt away as a. mist before
the summer sun.
"HIGHBROW" FIREMEN
Llivi: i v rything else of the kind,
.\\ v service reform is a g l
thins? up to a certain line, but
carried beyond that may become "i'"<
mvi h of a good thins." A case In point
was seen the other day in Xew York,
when Chief Croker of the fire depart
ment knelt and wept over the dead
bodies of two of his. men. T!i> n. turn
ing away from the bodies, he swore at
the system that made their deuth i" 1-
slble.
"The i Ivll service commission," he
sai I, "is responsible for this. They
have given me hollow-chested, clgar
ette-smoking highbrows. I don't want
'em. Give me huskies. To with
scholars n!"
Chief Croker is known the country
over as one of the ablest, most efficient
lire department heads In the world.
His knowledge of that branch of mu
nicipal activity Is unquestioned. When
he says that regulations which are pre
scribed for admission to service as tin
men have given him very generally
men whose chief qualifications were
their ability to pass written examina
tions, he states a situation that cer
tainly calls for reform.
Fire und police departments, to be
efficient, honest and fair, must lie kept
out of politics; and doubtless the con
ditions that Chief Croker describes
grew out of the attempt to devl
system with a standard that would
bring about this reHUlt, but exactions
that can.-'- a process of selection such
as Chief Croker knelt and wept ami
swore over have no place under the
name of "reform."
The proposed raise in freight rates
would amount to about $10 a family,
or $200, 1,000 In the aggregate. If the
railroads can pet away with it they
will capitalise that sum in Wall street
for half a billion and make it a perma
nent burden on the public.
Chancellor Day says "t the Insur
ihit their "wild-eyed socialistic
theories imrt the country." \w had
gathered tiio Impression from the fre
(iiirnt apoplectic tits of the chancellor
that I'" was rather wild-eyed himself.
Merely in Jest
UNCLE EZRA SATS
"Ef it is true that there's a sucker
born ev'ry minute, it is also true that
there's two fishermen born ev'ry min
ute for the puppUß uv landin' him."—
Boston Herald.
OUT OF SEASON
"How are your sideshow freaks?"
"All well but the glasseater. He has
a stomach ache from eating a green
bottle."—Cleveland Leader.
HIS DEFINITION
"Pa, what's a nocturnal combat?"
"Stay up tonight until I get home
from the club and watch your ma
and I."
I
MERCENARY
Elsie (aged 7)— Ma, I want a nickel.
—What for, dear?
Elsie—l asked Willie Jones to play
we're getting married, and he says he
won't do it unless I have a dowry. —
Boston Transcript.
BETWEEN ISSUES
"I fear the hero of this magazine
serial will be bankrupt next month."
"Why so?"
"He leaves a taxicab waiting in the
last chapter." —Kansas City Journal.
HEARD ON THE OCEAN WAVES.
It was one of those modern ocean gi
ants equipped with elevators and eight
decks.
"Going up," called the elevator boy,
.is he started to close the door of the
cage.
■•No," responded the pale man with
a wan smile, "Coming up." And then
he moved over toward the rail.—Chica
go News.
HIS MARK.
Her husband doesn't smoke, drink,
chew, swear or play cords.
"Introduce me; widows arc my spe
cialty."—Houston Post.
"" FOLLOWS EXAMPLE."
Knicker — does your wife do
when she doesn't get what she wants?
Bocker — Calls an extra session.— New
York Sun.
«-•-•
State Press Echoes
"CIVILIZATN IN."
Nevi rtheless, we can hardly bo called
civilized when our system of distribu
tion is bo poor that tood musl be de
stroyed in order that those who pro
duced it may get fair remuneration
tor what is left. -Stockton Mail.
NEEDED EXERCISE.
The oatiish at Lnrg Beach which
leaped out of th" water on A golf
course and captured the hull can only
he excused on the. ground that it need
ed exercise. —Sacramento Bee.
WHAT REALLY TALKS.
That order of eighty-five new en
gines tor the Harrlman lines does not
Indicate that the freight rate cases in
juriously affected the, roads.—Oakland
Enquirer.
DEPENDS ox VIEWPOINT.
A scientist declares that insanity is
. n sudi a rapid increase that the time
may come when most of the inhabi
tants of the earth will be of unsound
mind. In that event the same will he
incarcerated in the asylums. What
now constitutes sanity wdl at that time
be classed as insanity.— Kan Francisco
Post.
BAD EXAMPLES.
The great corporations, like Ihe Illi
nois Central, should not be surprised
at the discovery of crookedness among
their employes. Some men are prou
llarlly susceptible to a bad example. -
Long- Beach Telegram.
NEW YORK'S AMBITION.
New York, having in recent years
furnished two vice presidents who
succeeded tn the presidency, aspires to
i nsidered the mother-in-law of
presidents.—Pasadena star.
coon ADVICB.
I.- t the corporations confine their
attention and activity to the business
contemplated by their articles of in
corporation and keep their tentacle* off
municipal and itate politics. It is only
as a corrupting Influence that fair men
opj oia them. - Pasadena News.
Public Letter Box
TO CORHKSFONDKNTB—Letters Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Herald
j gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
I but assumes no responsibility for their view*.
Letters must not succeed WO words.
LIGHTING COMPANIES FAVOR
RAILROADS, SAYS MCASLIN
Editor Herald: It is publicly as
■erted that thr Edison Electric com
pany is selling electricity to the elec
tric roatls for 3-4 a cent a kilowatt.
Now by doing this they nre, assuming
they tell the truth, selling it for S 1-4
cents less than they can afford to do.
They charge you ;i cents and us 12 1-.
(••■nts. l>o wr have to maki up our
part of this loss, and do you have to
contribute your portion by the payment
of an extra price? What kind of a
strangle hold has this service corpora
tion on the Edison company to compel
it to be still and let the roads go
through its pockets for this vast Bum?
The truth is undoubtedly that a rate
of 3-4 of a cent a kilowatt Is a fair
price for electrical energy when fur
nished in large quantities. The roads
say. "You furnish it to U8 at a fair
price and we « ill not put In our own
plant; if you refuse up the plant will
so, you can't buy US off. STou may l»
--the officials ol a city, or even a com
mittee appointed to lix the rate, but
not a railroad."
The price put upon such plants
is fictitious, and a rate fixed in con
sequence—ridculously high, A water
plant costing less than $350,000, was t<>
my knowledge sought to be unloaded
..ii a city for over |800,000. When tile
people get busy and put in their own
public plant, they will Ret a squari
deal as evidenced by Pasadena's pro
posed rate of 4 cents per kilowatt.
M. <;. McCASLIN.
AVhittier, June 14, 1910.
ASKS CONSIDERATION FOR
THOSE WHO SERVE CAPITAL
Editor Herald: Under our present
economic system, which requires that
the ninny must work, while the few
pocket the products of the labor of the
many, it is very necessary that the
men and women wiio are compelled to
serve capitalists in order to live, should
stand by one another. If we only stop
to think, I am sure we will all do this.
Just because a tired saleswoman Tails
in politeness, don't report her to the
boss, who has the power to take the
bread out of her mouth and perhaps
other mouths who are depending upon
her. Let us stop mid remember that
we too have to serve capital, in order
to stay on this earth. Don't report the
telephone girl, just to gratify your
temper, and don't report the. motor
man or conductor, in order to "get
even." There may be helpless people
depending upon them. We are all "In
the same boat," and should remember
thai fact and stand in together.
"A Lady" and her kind (with a few
exceptions) do not appreciate; our po
sition and have no fellow' feeling for
us, therefore let us form a brotherhood
of our own, until the present system is
a thing of the past, when the brother
hood will be "lore extended.
VERA FIDELIA.
Los Angeles, June 11.
TO A CHILD
Borne time, child, when you are turning
gray,
As I am now, and little children play
Around your chair an you aw playing here,
you'll understand and then forgh c the
tear
Thai fell Ju«t now ii])nn your chubby hand -
.S'imo time, child—well, you will under
stand!
Pome time, child, when you are older
grown,
Tou'll understand why daddy mused alone
In tvvlllKht hours, while you were at your
•play—
Why. Jealously, he watched each truant
ray
of sun that camo find searched your nurs
ery place
To kins jour curls and glorify your face.
Some time, child, when little, children bleu
Your golden days, my wanton selfishness
Will then he plain, and then, child, yog
will know
Why daddy used to Importune you so
To leave your land Of happy fairy lore.
For his urlm hand to romp with him
once more.
Some time, child! "Tin written in to lie,
\ child will be ad you are now to me;
And time will fly as ever time ha» flown
Since tlma began anil time will claim It*
own !
You'll reach in vain to take the baby 1!
hand— •
•TIB only then that you will understand!
—j.lin U. -11». in Buffalo News.
Comment on California Affairs
The king of vegetables, indeed, Is
the asparagus, trained by man's kind
ly hand to realize to the full Its dell
rate possibilities. The white Riant
from California, the slenderer preen
stalk from Long Island, both are su
preme. What benefactor of mankind
first experimented with the stalk as
an article of food? Did lie discover It
by accident, as the scullion In Eliza
beth's kitchen picked the discarded
potato, white and mealy, from tho
ashes, the while his queen sampling
Its tasteless top and pronouncing It
wanting? No, like roast pig, the as
paragus must have revealed Itself to
mere mortals In some solemn offering
to the gods.—New York Tribune,
GRAFTERS NOT PARTISANS
David Starr Jordan says there Is no
difference between the Republican and
Democratic parties except the label.
Perhaps he has been studying the
I.,orinicr senatorial case.—Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
TIP TO MCCARTHY
The mayor of San Francisco Is run
ning the city from a rot in a hospital,
but he can't see the big prize fight
unless he rapidly recovers.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A POINT NOT COVERED
The governor of California's denial
that he said the coming prize fight is a
frnmeup does not amount to proof that
the people who part with their good
money to see the ucrap may not be
suckers.— Plttsburg Dispatch.
GIVE 'EM A SHOW
A California physician has been ar
j rested for having caused the death of
his wife through failure to prescribe
proper remedies. Are they going to
arrange it so that a doctor can't have
more than one guess at the thing?—
Salt Lake Tribune.
WASTED SYMPATHY
J. E. Marcell, the Highland banker,
who defrauded the Bank of Highlands
Of 186,000 and who was pardoned from
Odd Tales of the Telegraph
The women will abuse John Stull of
Fail field. 11l . but the men will admire
him. He is a farmer, and his daugh
ter's wedding was set for f> o'clock. He
was planting corn, and rather than
stop this work, so necessary for himself
and the nation, the wedding was de
layed until too late for that day, and it
became necessary to postpone it a
day.
Are the people tired of hearing of
"The City Beautiful?" F*or two years
there has boon agitation to make a
"City beautiful" of Mont,-lair. N*. J..
and an election yesterday to make one
and one-half millions available for that
purpose lost by such a big majority
the people were stunned. So far a.o
known every citizen of the town had
been just dying for a chance to pay
taxes to be spent in fountains, parks
and paint.
There is a touch of human nature
in a story coming from London. A
great Spanish artist had a painting on
exhibition In the academy, and because
it wasn't hung to suit him he shot it
full of holes.
•■The American home is doomed to
destruction because it la not on a Pau
line basis. American business on the
contrary ia prospering because it is
run on B Btrlctly Paulino program."
Such is the conclusion of Alexander
Harvey otic of the editors of current
Literature, "When [-say the American
home has gotten away from a Pauline
basis," lip continued, "I mean It has
departed from the doctrine laid down
by the Apostle Pnul In the fifth chap
ter of his Epistle to the Epheslans:
•Wives, submit yourselves unto your
own husbands as unto the 1,0 rd." In
tills verse is the only foundation of a
auccesßful home. American business is
conducted on a Pauline basil because
wherever you find women employed
In offices, shop? or factories they are
under the absolute domination of a
man Every virile man believes n.« I
do !f I could run for the legislature
or for congress on an anti-woman
Power of the "Newspaper Boys"
Ever think of the power of "The
Newspaper Boys^ Die Newspaper
Boys" are all those writers on news
paper* below the editor; the Washing
ton correspondents, the correspondents
in various important towns, the edi
torial writer*, the paragraphers, the
reporters, etc. There are thousands of
"The Newspaper Boys," and they can
make or break any public man. The
editor of. a paper cannot control the
boys" on his paper, for they "stand
In" with the copy reader and with
the managing editor.
A congressman may have no genius,
but if lie is able to gain tile enthusi
asm of "the newspaper buys," lie will
soon become famous. The service ren
dered the congressman by "the news
paper boys" does not cost him a cent,
for "the newspaper boys" will not ac
cept money. Certain of the big cor
porations have Invested many thou
sands of dollars In efforts to control
newspapers, by means of press agents,
without getting anything of value In
return But the politician who under-.
stands tile art of Jollying "the news
paper boys" Rets columns and columns
iif the very best stuff without the ex
penditure of a penny.
We can name a hundred wood pulp
heroes who are the creatures of "the
newspaper boys." And for their no
toriety these noted men paid nothing
Aviation May Improve Health
Scientists are now forthcoming to as
sure the public that the birds are least
susceptible of any of the memben of
the eartli or air denizens, to the ills of
the flesh; they are the lea«t susceptible
In their natural environment to any
kind of sickness, They live a life or
vicissitudes l)iit these relate, to the
death dealing tempests, the voracity ot
snake and reptHe, to the yawning maws
that menace Ihem. As tor parasites
and disease they scorn »uch, especially
the highflyers The point of it all is
that tlie scientists are predicting mat
the fnauguratlon of the airship age wUI
mean added longevity for the ruce. It
will be ;i perilous occupation to people
the air, even when the successors of
the Wrights and the Curtisses of the
present day have evolved the be»t typo
„, hip with the best »afety featureji
even when more people are living habit
uallY i" their floating liomes than are
In the Chinese junks about the harbors
Of Chinese treaty ports.
The compensation is immense. To no.
free from myriads of the ba< illi that
come from llltli and bad air. from con-
the penitentiary only to again eommlt
I crime by defrauding business asso
ciates of 110,000, lias been captured in
Los Angeles. The promise, mado and
tears shed in order to Ret a pardon for
Marcell evidently wer€ in a poor causo.
—Wichita Eagle.
KEEP COOL
New Orleans and San Francisco
should avoid any hard feelings that
will prevent traffic between the twn
towns when the canal is opened.—
Washington Star.
WOULD "STTTMF" BITRBANK
Burbank, the wizard of Santa Roaa,
has succeeded in combining the poppy
and the evening primrose. An inter
esting feat. But for a real thing In
International floriculture there re
mains to wed the poppy, which is the
California state flower, to the cherry
blossom of Japan.—New York World.
HAD THE HABIT .
A San Francisco tourist insisted on
looking into the crater of Vesuvius,
and now the only question Is whether
his body shall be brought home or be
burled abroad. He probably got the
habit of inqulsitivenesa in Yellowstone
park.—rittsburg Dißpatch.
SAN FRANCISCO'S FOURTH
In San Francisco Independence day
will be divided into three parts—before
the fight, tho fight and after the flght.
—Albany Journal.
ON THE JOB
It is said that the California oil
fields are developing to such a great
extent that the price of oil will bo re
duced. The price of crude oil will
drop, hut the Standard will see that
the refined product nnd the by-product
don't drop to any alarming extent.—
Wichita Eagle.
THE COMET DID
"Can Jeffries como back?" —The
comet did. and after seventy-five years
; at that .--Milwaukee! Sentinel.
suffrage platform I'd brat the most
popular man In the country."
The young people are getting their
rights these days. A rich Chicago
publisher nnmed W. P. Hoyce lately
announced that he intended to marry
a second wife, and bis son whipped
him in the office of a hotel. Cards
were out announcing the marriage
three or four days In advance, but the,
elder Hoyce hurried up and was mar
ried that Right and left for Kurope on
a wedding trip, probably fearing an
other attack from his son.
The telegraph pays the parties are
riromlnent, and perhaps they are. Mrs.
Hilda Shafer of pittsburg. Pa., is sue
\uk Mrs. Gladys Haupt for $5000 dam
ages because Mrs. Haupt called her a
"fat thing." She also charges that the
defendant said she stole stockings.
Those of you who have great re
specl for titled foreigners) may find an
opinion from the Due do Montpcnsfer
of interest: "A man should not marry
until he is pnst 3. r >, and knows the
world; a woman should marry \A her
teens, and know nothing; of the world."
The duo is the young brother of Pur
de Orleans, pretender to the throne of
France, brother of the queen of Por
tugal and cousin to the. king of Spain,
who is visiting in Now Tork. The,
duke is 2fi, and declares he's not after
an American wife.
Down In Mississippi an editor was
compelled rerentlv to eat a clipping
from his paper, the same containing
certain uncomplimentary references to
a man who stood hard by with a gun.
Elmer Mansfield of Hoboken, N. J.,
gave $2000 to his wife to keep In a snfe
place and she put it in a pillow. The
next morning she shook the pillow out
of the window, being a good house
k. ' per, and the hills went flying In
every direction, and not one was re
covered. Still, she is a good house
keeper. Some women never shake their
pillows.
(Atchlson (Kan.) Globe.)
whatever. Advertisers are charged
very stiff rates, but the clever notor
iety seekers get the very best space
in the papers without paying anything.
Editors know this, and object to It,
but they are powerless. Editors do
not control their newspapers as ab
solutely as Is imagined. It can't be
dime. Besides, the editor Is rarely the
cleverest man on a paper. Every time.
an editor looks over his paper he
screams because some of "the boys"
have violated his policies. But he 1h
powerless; the offender Is too good a
man to discharge.
Some men have no ability In han
dling "the newspaper boys." President.
Taft is a conspicuous example. Taft
had a lot of free advertising when he
had Theodore Roosevelt rs his press
agent, for the reason that Theodoro
can attract more enthusiasm from "the
newspaper hoys" than any other man
on earth; but now that Theodoro
has deserted Taft, Taft is a pitiful ex
ample of a noted man without the
BUpport of "the newspaper boys."
A in'in who cannot handle "the news
paper boys" should not engage in pol
ities, for "the newspaper boys" are in
control ir. every prominent publication
In this country. And they are never
neutral, and whether they condemn or
applaud, they work without reward;
they can't he bought.
(Baltimore American)
gested living, from lack of free move
ment and varied surroundings, from
tin- parsimony of modern domiciles In
regard to light and ventilation. A gen
eration of air dwellers will be hardier
by far than the cliff duellers of an
earlier time. They will have ozone on
tap; they will imbibe It at every pore.
By that time much of the function of
provender and housing will be wrought
out ho scientifically that the children
will recite their lessons above tho
clouds, the cooks will prepare scientific
meals without fuel with cloud banks
beneath them and swallows will con
gregate at the kitchen doom to receive
the tit-bits much as do tho barnyard
fowls under existing conditions.
The airship will offset the ago of tho
reversion of the race to underground
dwelling. So overpopulated is becom
ing the surface of the globe that the
period of burrowing under the ground
has been hailed by dreamers. Hut aw
it is the time of shopping in subway
streets may be permanently Bet back
by taking the surplus population out
Into the broad suburbs of tho spacious
firmament.