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THE H&RALD IN BAN FT'.ANCIRI . > AND OAKLAND Angolea and South ern California visitors to Ran Francisco and Oakland wi:: flnil Tlio H»ra)d on salo at the news stands In the Bun Pranrlsno ferry building and on the streets In Oakland by Wheatley and by Amos Newi Co. A fll« of Tho Ijoa Angelas Herald can be «een at the office of oi:r Encllsh representa tlv-a, Messrs. E. and J. Hardy ft <""0., JO, Jl and S2 Fleet «treet. London, England, frea of charge, snd that firm will be glad to re ceive news, tnbuorlptloni and advertue menta on our behalf. On all matters pertaining to advertising addres* Charles R. Qates, advertising m«n ager Population of Los Angeles 327,685 CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN y KETRORSUM JU To all those who have recently asked If it was hot enough for us: Yes. Dr. Houghton is going to Mexico on a business trip. Has anybJ ly here teen Healy? Once again, if you haven't registered since the first of the year you can't vote in August. As we interpret It, Mrs. Harmon's plaint against her aviator husband is that he is flighty. The more we read about Senator Aid rich the less our admiration for Cap tain Kidd becomes. If Charley Curry is a believer in omens he must reflect on that auto BCi idem wltn no pleasure. A. Q. Spalding, the ex-baseball mag nate who entered the senatorial race, is not batting in the .300 class. Aldrich lias become immensely rich since he entered the senate a compara tively poor man. Where did he get it? The S. P. didn't dream that it was giving Hiram Johnson such a good chance to -'.start something" in this hot weather. The most important thing for the aviators to find now is a way to come down without dropping into a hospital or a morgue. "Pinchot is a kind of tennis suit is sue," says the .San Franci.sc,, Chronicle. Well, lie is wielding the racket in good shape, for sure. If Teddy Roosevelt, jr., is hunting for deer and doves near Santa Bar bara he is not the chip off the old block we thought him. Dr. Crippen, who is said to have fled London In skirts, may have got the idea from the ladylike, way the Eng lißh police treated him. The I.os Angeles physician who was from a shark at Avalon Is not yel ■■.■; >••. danger. There arc some of I 'tue genue on i Speaker Cannon promised a reply to I ralnst Ald i "Brlstow shoots off hia mouth too much." Hibi I :ig art meeting .mil police ■'. nf eastern towns led. Theri ome v uarters thai oi tore from the hadi ■■: ' fought thi norm An i that In spite of a cheerful - men Mc- Lachlan ■ havi ■tonal at., - The weather bureau nwn is politely Informed that .Los Angtles is satisfied witi" its record breaking in other lines and would request him not to butt In. Wn. the railroad ping milk : ' to hyglenii liul apt word. Dig strike on the I way is on. If It na I Trunk ' railway, over which den, we should regard ' . ■ ratrlbutlvi juatli , The successful bidder foi the hall of records funu-hings should have mauj the bid $1,000 000.01. It looks as if he oould have got away with it just as easily from the solid three. MR. SANDERS REPLY TO Mr. Qporire L. Panders, aspirant for honors in the Tblrty-etghth .senatorial district, belongrs the distinction of beinjr the first to make reply to the set of thirteen questions propounded to lejrlslatlve candidates by Judge Works. Mr. Sanders' letter smacks more of smartness and flip pancy than of frankness, and while it may have pleated him Immensely, of which there is inhoreni evidence, it will hardly suit a largo number of voters in his district, who want se riously to know, definitely! explicit? and eniphactlcally, how he stands with regard to the issues, which are more than usually Important this year, Mr Panders used up much space to quote law, tell about his ancestors and talk about rubber stamps, but ho failed | to come to any one of the several | points. His excuse is that th« letter .ived did not seem to be proper ly vised. Very well; The Herald has a large number of readers in Mr. Sanders' district and feels that it has a right lo ask in their name that he moot the questions. It will not ilii for him to find refuse In the clflim th&t The Herald profrssrs n different brand of politics than he. for Tho Herald is far more Inter ested in promoting the wplfaro of Cal ifornia than of nny political party, find If Fincoro In saying that it likos a pood Republican hotter than a bad Democrat Itp only object In wanting to separate the sheep from the (touts is to let the public look them over in two pasture!. It will trust them to make their own selection. As Mr. Plnchdt hns said (much to the disgust of partisans who base their faith mainly on ancestral and histori cal matters and not on down-to-dat.' problems), there is not n great deal of difference in faith between progres sive Democrats and progressive Re publicans in this year of 1910. Cer tainly this is true in California, whore j the chief desire of all good citizens is to wrest the state from tho control ■if a selfish and corrupt railroad ma chine and to adopt such laws as will keep its clutches off our legislature and bench. Therefore it happens that Judge Works framed admirably for good Re publicans and good Democrats alike • a set of questions that legislative as plranta who desire to he candid and faJr with hoped-for constituencies should make answer to, and if Mr. Sanders felt excused from answering because of '.he sibsence of writing fluid and pilt edge and what not, The Herald asks him publicly to answer that set of questinns frankly and fully, so as to leave n > doubt of the course he would pursue at Sacramento if elected. Lest Mr. Sanders may have mislaid them or thrown them in the waste basket, they are repeated here: 1. • Will you, if elected to the leg islature, support and vote for the candidate for United States sena tor that-receives the highest num ber of votes in your district? 2. Will you vote for the candi date for United States senator that receives the highest number of votes in the whole state? 3. Will you vote for the candi date for United States senator that ; rives the highest number of votes both in your district and in the state? 4. Are you in favor of the elec tion of United States senators by direct vote of the people? 5. Will you support any measure that may be introduced to estab li.-h the right of the people to elect United States si nators by di rect vote? 6. Are you in favor of the initia tive and referendum in state af fairs? 7. Will you, in good faith, and with the purpose of securing its en actment or adoption, support and. vote for bui ii measure or measures aa will secure to the people of the state the initiative and referen dum? $ 8. Are you in favor of a non partisan judiciary in this state? 9. Will you, In good faith, and with the purpose of securing Its enactment or adoption, support and vote for a measure providing for the non-partisan election of judges? 10. Are you in favor of eliminat ing from our politics the Southern Pacific Railroad company and political bosses? 11. Are you in favor of such amendments to the present primary nominating' election law as will make it more simple, less expen sive and such as to insure full opportunity and freedom to the people to nominate their own can didates? 12. Are you in favor of the ex tension of the civil service to county and state affairs? 13. Will you, in good faith, and ■with the purpose of securing its enactment or adoption, support and Vote for such measures aa will es tablish civil service in county and state affairs? Without any unnecessary verbiage about ancestry or law, wli Mr. Sanders answer these questions, paying- partic ular attention to query No. 10 so that the ordinary voter and the Southern Pacific may both be positive aa to where he -land:-? in that paragraph is the essenci <•< the whole campaign, ami D7i it there la np dlvtaion of politi cal parties. I. I i hear from Mr. Sanders, seriathi, and seriously, cate .lly, but not c .'lrhinnatorily, as in his letti r ol ten The Herald would like to print an swers likewise from all other aspirants for legislative h nir md power. Later it may ha ng to say, for the benefit of those «-ho fall back on their party regularity, Jusl ho« some of the "regulars" of both parties stood on im portant matters at Sacramento la.st year. "Scotland Yard thanks Hearst I . - foi- their treat aid in the ? r h i.v- i Irlppen," says one of g chain of Journals, if i <r, i irlp pen ni hla saoure r<; Iremi nl i ■ ;■ 111 hbt ■ c papers ami has a laugh left in ins mi In- OUght I" burs! a few but - . , I bis In one 'lay, it is repor:.;d, Coni man McKlnlay's mail from Washing ton weighed 8100 pounds, all of which i ami under s. frank and consisted ol to bolster up his h a 'nil inn committee will be lg for the causii uf thu postal LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING; JULY 21, 1910. / / \ l p^^^^^^^^"^^^^*^^^^i"^"™™™^^^^B^*^™^*^^^^**^^w iff tf\.'{ $ is f I I^m j^ ■ q4ur 9"3x?Q3lßtV^a 7// Vl ~M wL~jff >H \^u *OT* \ /7 \f£- *— Cr C/ J I \Sj '' *-'fft^ UP TO CALIFORNIA THOSE minions of the old machine and the old order In California were not disappointed in the speech made in San Francisco on Tuesday night by Glfford Pinchot. It had all the truth and fire and virility they dreaded, and it will be a most important agency in the war that all good citizens are making on private corporation government in state and nation. In the face of California's crisis party lines are an insigniticant matter. Anomalous as it may seem to the old gangs whose shibboleth has always been "party regularity," a man like Clifford Pinchot is welcomed in California at this time both by Demo crat and by Republican. Pinchot is nominally a Republican, but he has left us in no .doubt that he is a thousand times more earnest for a principle than for a party, and would rather see his party go down flying the flag of principle than triumph by surrender to the plunder bund of organized private greed. And so no one feels like apologizing for admiration for this tine type of public man, of whose like there cannot be too many in the common cause against the forces that have corrupted our insti tutions and stolen the public wealth. We may differ $s to the man best fitted to carry out the work of which he Is so strong an apostle, but all who are glad to indorse the spirit of political, economic and social liberty that is sweeping over the country, called Insurgency, can find food for profitable thought in these two len iences from Pinehot's address: The reason I am glad to be here ami state my strong belief that California is going to put a clean governor in office is because 1 as any man must sec, that here is one of tin- principal battlegrounds. On the ltith day of next month is to be <ie, ided one of the main fights in this sieat war. Let me tell you—and I weigh my words as I say it, because I believe it to be true-that the eyes of the United States are on California in this fight. As y>u win it or lose it you will bring strength and encour agem»nt or weakness and failure to thousands upon thousands of your fellow countrymen. California may disappoint Mr. Pin- Chot in this choice of the man he most favors, but it will not fail to accom plish his greater desltt —to lire a signal gun ttiis year for freedom whose boom will ba heard across the continent The man who is loved because he is hated by BalHnger and his kind will praise the l.ord if the Golden state doei the thing ill the way that seems to it best, despite his personal leanings. TAKE HIM OUT VfO BETTER evidence of the fact j\ that, in spite of hie bravado, -i-i Uncle Joe Cannon reads his doom in the stars Is needed than I? to be i'ound in the speeches he has been makin? in Kansas. The old man is making a sorry spectacle, answering the blistering attacks of Bflatow and Murdock With unconvincing generali ties, garrulous invective, verent ex clamations to the Deity arid the old appeal whereby the plunderbund so long rallied support behind it—"stand by the grand old party." In his caw the plea la not without its pathos, for ho is tottering toward a political Ki'avc that the spirit of pro gress has dug for him, an I he knows it and cannot halt Its BtepH Not two but many insurgents ar« using him for a mark, and even some pi his supposed friends, after the habit of tho ruts that desert the sinking ship, are turn ing their backs on him In his hopeless plight, for congressional candidates everywhere are pledging themselves against his -candidacy for re-election, One can almost hear thos ■ who are Btill faithful to him and sco his plight echo the cry of the ring at Reno: "Don't let the old man be knocked out. Save him from a knockout!" Thn old man must feel by this time that ho cannot come back. Jf he ivould throw up the iponge hla adversaries would gladly let up, but so lonsr as in per sists in his purpose to stand in 1 '" way of progress the belaboring must and will continue. His MOOBda should In mercy talu him out of the ring. Senate Vaudeville Senator Aldrich is Accused of Promoting the Rubber Trust ITS SWAN SONG IT IS the New York World, ono of the ablest opponents in the coun try of legal popular robbery by means of the high tatriff, that thus sums up the existing industrial con ditions under the Aldrich tariff as written In the signs of the day: Reports from Boston state that many cotton mills are to close down for the purpose of curtailing pro duction. The reduction will affect the work and the wages of 150,000 men. is that a sign of prosperity? A report of the steel industry says: 'Business just now is ex ceedlngly lieht and it is reported that a number of mills in the Pltts burg district are about to close down through lack of orders." Is that a sign of prosperity? (me of the richest and best man aged railways in America, unable, to get money in our own markets, has had to seek it in Paris, Ber lin and Vienna. Is that a sign of prosperity? Reports from the middle west are to the effect that banks and insur ance companies are curtailing loans on land mortgages. Is that a sign of prosperity? The government of the United States has interposed its power to prevent railway! from raising rates to provide an increase of wages for its employes. Is that a sign of prosperity? The Wholesale Dry Qoods asso ciation has started a campaign against the tariff on cotton goods that compel! the American con sumer to pay 30 per cent more than Europeans. Is that a sign of prosperity? A report from Washington an nounces that the Republican con gressional committee has decided to stand pat for the Aldrich tariff and defend it in the campaign. Is that a sign of prosperity? "Prosperity" is the constant song of the defenders of a fiscal system that enables pne small class to pile up swollen fortunes by going into the pockets of the larger class, but If the signs are not misleading it is the swan song of the system. Millions are no longer deceived by it, and it requires a brave champion Indeed even to breathe about the "full dinner pail." SENATOR DICK, HUSTLER UNEASY lies the back that bear* ■ Benate toga. The United States senate contains many able and noble men, but it would be rank dis» sembllng to pretend that it doesn't need a combing out. Mitchell is doad and Burton of Kansas Is just out of the penitentiary, but there are some Lorimeri left, and the people intend to keep on agitating until they art put out, which will be through the agAtlcy of the direct primary. Remembrance of these caiei aivl "f the Platts who represfintort tlie ex press companiai, the Depewi whn rep« resented the rallroadi, the ForaHerß wiici were nn guard for the Standard i iii company Impeli us tn call attention to tho cisc of Mr. Dick of Ohio, r< - senator >>f the erstwhile Fnrakfr and survivor of tho old and passing politi cal regime In Ohio. Mr. Dick ii tt member of the senate committee on postnfflces, which liai much to do with postal contracts. He is also, as lately discovered, a larp.} stockholder in the Universal Pneu matic Transmission company, which has been seeking contracts for Bupply- ■ ingl the department with tubes to shoot the mails tn the oltles hither and .yon. Although he is not a professional humorist, there is neverther tumor in the explanation volunteered hy William 11. Dinspel, tho Inventor of tho pneumatic tube for which the company owns the patent. Mr, Dinspel says: Senator Dick Is a hustler nn;l a fine man. He has about $200,000 worth of stock, which is selling at par, but of course he did not pay that for it. He pttld $10,000 cash for the first Stock he got. Then 1 K"t him a lot more, and tie is very enthusiastic about the company's prospects. And so Senator Dick is ii "hustler," Probably. And so were Platt and Depaw and Foraker in their way. But as fast iih the people are finding out the liuMtleru they are inviting them to do their hustling outside the portal* of congresa ; Public Letter Box TO CORRESPONDENTS— " Intended (or publication muat be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. The Herald gives the widest latitude to ' correspondent* but uiumu no rrsponmblllty for thnr view*. 1 ittera must not succeed 200 words. ATTACKS NOISE NUISANCE IN BONQ, A LA WALT MASON Kditor Herald: With honks and shrieks atrocious, the autos go fero cious, by day and night we listen to their din, we try to keep on smiling, our weary nerves beguiling, with the thought there is no noise but cannot win. In this glorious town of booster*. where the gay and festive roosters send out with voices clear their morning calls, while with yelps and howls most tragic, which cannot by any magio I"' thought tn seem like music as it falls from a captive dog unruly, in his home quite near yours truly (she i« blessed with ears not too unduly keen) who would like to ask the reason, and hopes it is.no treason to the power that be, and was, and really might have been— why—with (lapping and with crowing. with yelping and with howling, should these kmd continuous noises be al lowed, when the accommodating ped dler, who, with our comfort is no med dler, can no more give word he's com ing to the crowd? In this land where maids are prec ious, and peddlers' cries not vicious, where milady with her own hand tends the door, with horns and hells not Hounding, there will be an added pounding, and tired feet must answer quickly one knock nioro. Would our city fathers listen and make our glad eyes glisten, if lo them we'd send one vigorous appeal to sup press those feathered creatures? To the objectionable features of the auto, dog, etc., lips w'll deal.—W. H. Y. dog, etc.. lips, well deal. W. 11. T. Los Angeles, July 20. DISCUSSES THE QUESTION OF PRIOR WATER RIGHTS Editor Herald: I write this for in formation. For instance, my equities to water and land claims prior to any other claims, and prior to the with drawal for forestry, were so hampered by claims of less value on the stream below my point of diversion that it was necessary (or me to purchase the rights below me to safely turn the wa ter from the stream at my point of diversion. I was trying to adjust said claims with mine or purchase them, up t" the date of Roosevelt's conference with governors of states, in regard to the conservation of all such resources to the best possible public use. At that time people who had secured the rights below me were building a canal, sup j posedly to use all the water in such manner until they would have under ! the old law a tit]o to. all the waters not turned from the stream. My claim at the head of the. river included all that could be turned at my point of diver sion by gravity, and in my opinion was of more value than all the river. I bo stated in my statement of equities. If special privileges have been grant* ed to the purchasers of rights below me to enable thorn to take my ctijims, It is something they could not find in the laws for the last twenty year*. Well might Mr. Plnehot ask. In whose Interest are wo conserving the re sources? Should success attend the trespassers on my rights, then all the information I have had in the conser vation methods has been misleading. SAM N. BLACK. Merely in Jest WAITING THEIR TURN "Did you folka down In Blngville see Hal [ey'i comet this sprlna?" ask» tho visitor. "Nope," replies the native.. "We never ,'ft any of those bis shows until after they've played a. year In New York.—Judge. THE NATIONAL, OAME "0 Inf to have a patriotic Fourth in l'ltnikvllle?" "We are that. We propose to read the Declaration of Independence, and announce the various baseball asorea between para- I graphs " — Kanaaa City Journal. ONE-SIDED MAN .' . "What part of a railway train do you rritard as the most dangerous?" Inquired the nervoua rnHn. "The dlninr. iar." answered tho dytpeptto. —Washington Btar, • TIIK POOR SKNATuIt . "Ever had 'em strew floweri In your path as you returned home, nenator?" "Naw. l'tn HatiHfled not to have 'em strew banana peallnvi,"— Plttsburg I'ost. "Billy" Kent, Insurgent We have at least one congressional fight in this state that is of national Importance. William Kent will con test with William McKinlay for Re publican nomination in tho district that lies north of Sun Francisco. Me - Klnlay is a congressman of the regular machine type votes program, Includ ing the tariff and Cannon, and plays In with the organisation crowd In his dis trict. Kent Is supported by the L,ln coln-Roosevelt league and by the pro gressive element in his district, par ticularly those that are devoted to the Roosevelt doctrine of conservation. Mr. Kent is the son of a wealthy and well known Chicago business man, long since deceased but still well re membered in the Lake City for his en terprise and Ills public spirit. After leaving Yale eolleg* Kent took charge. of his father's large property Interests in Chicago and In California, which latter consisted chiefly of a large ranch in the northern part of the state At that time—which was about twenty years ago—the Chicago city govern ment was in the hands of as unron iclonable a set of sooundjmi as ever looted a treasury or jobbed a franchise. The council, which was nearly the whole thing in the city government, was made up of half m dozen honest men and two or three score of flee DOOti r! known as "tjrejr Wolves." Kent is one of those people who enjoy the right end of a fight, and if it hap pens at the same time to lie the hard end then he is three or four times happy. So he decided to run for coun cil and stajid with the honest half dozen. He was elected a whaling good campaigner is wily Kent—and for two years he certainly made the sparks By In the city spuncll, Natur ally that was about all he could do w itU the microscopic minority back or him. He emerged alive and with a settled purpose In life; to make over the city council of Chicago and mako The Law Against Cursing (ChsrlMton Nm an.! Courier) The last A irginia legislature passed a law making it ■ penal offense "to curse another in his presence or hear ing." The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot WJW that this is the crystalizatton into law of th« okl view that the passing of an insult is equivalent to striking- the first blow. It is, although it does not give quite the same advantage. Moreover, it Minis that the new law will require CW< ful study of the dictionaries to de termine what cursing ia- For instance, if one man should say to another, I pray Providence to punish you an>l yours,"; he would he Imprecating a curse on him, cursing him. in tact yet it is hard to see why he should be BBIJt to prison for so doing. Many a good preacher has to nil intents and pur poae* cursed the entire community, and very Justly, sometimes; yet the idea that the preacher for so doing should he confined with hardened criminals in a state prison li preposterous. A CUra*, very Often, like a chicken, comes home to roost, as Roosevelt first remarked, we believe, although the saying was at on* time attributed to Solomon, and very often he who curses is the otic who gets rursed. Provi dence seems to take care of that, and tli.' state of Virginia, renowned H It is is not yet to he considered Provi- 'Bob' Burdette's Gift Canes A local government official was standing on the deck of the liner Clllyo Marti the other day watching Ihe passengers disembark. The alley way in which lie was standing was littered with hand baggage. Pointlli;; to one bundle, the official said: "It's always been a puzzle to me Why these darn fool tourists want to pack three or four gross of walking sticks around the world with them. Look at that for a collection." iu-v Robert Burdette of Pasadena WES standing just beyond the bundle Of walking < anus and within easy ear shot of the speaker. "I'm the darn fool that belongs to that collection," said the reverend humorist, wheeling around and facing the group to whom the official had adressed his remark. "I'll tell you about those canes." Bur dette continued. "If you examine them you'll see that they're all cheap. The most expensive didn't cost 2."> cents M*x I picked them up in different places, and am taking them home for B purpose. Among my good friends in Piisudena are some who never know "Who's Who" Statistics Of the 17,546 , .sons whose names are In "Who's Who In America" tnr 1910-11, just issued, 15.518 pave Jten ecsj educational data concerning them selves. It appears that 5529 of this latter number, or 54.98 per cent, are college graduates, while 47*; are grad uate* of the United itates military and naval academies. Those who at tended college but were not graduated won- 2049. Only 209 were educated privately; 67 were self taught. Lawyers are 3081 of the grand total In the book; physicians, 11)45; clergy men, 2035; artists, (86; musicians, 283; persona In technical pursuits, 1124. It is a striking fact that of the physi cians 49.36 per cent, Just under the halt', are college graduates. In the ministry the per cent is 81.22; in the law, 5228; among the workers in tech nical professions, 46.82; among musi cians, 12.36; among artists, 8.38. Of the 17,546 persons listed, 15,361 are natives of the United States, 379 of England, MI of Germany, 331 of Canada 172 of Ireland, 121 of Scot land. New York furnished 2970 of the native, born; Massachusetts, 1769; Objections to Polished Rice A recent consular report notes the prevalence of the "beri-beri" plague in the Straits Settlements. Physlclanß wore not üble to traoe the cautia of It, all of the known origins of Unit fever being thoroughly traced and found wanting in this case. Finally some one suggested that the polished white rice which was given out and , which the natives called "bad rice," might be the possible oause. Experiments made on fowls showed that the milled rice produced "berl-bcrl" in them, be cause the outer cover of the grain is removed In the prooeu of polishing, aud|also remove! the phosphorus, and It was concluded that the disease can be prevented by substituting rice, in which the polished process has been re duced to a minimum for use in place of the polished rice. Nearly 2000 deaths were cautiod by this disease in the Straits Settlume»ts colony last year and thirty to thirty tive deaths monthly in Singapore. Great hones are «enterlained that tho less , irnrin.' Oatloek) il honest S« got up the Municipal Voter! league ami mi its first presi dent. The politician! almost laughed themselves Into apoplexy at tha rldlcu louineti of tiic thing. After a whllu they <iuit laughing and began to nurse, it only took three in- four election! to do the business. The. majority of tho council was lionost. itnd It has staid honest ever ilnce. Auk the people of Chicago who did it and they name Kent first and then Several others, for it wai more than uny one man's Job. Kent is now a Oallfornlan, a rancher and a large land owner In this statn and elsewhere He is a very wealthy man and a keen business manager. The moel beautiful piece <>f land in his pom s!«lon was under Mount Tamal pais. covered with enormous redwoods. This he gave to the national govern ment, to be used na a public park. Mr. Rooeeveli wished to call It tho Kent Wood, hut this did not suit Mr. Kent's Ideas Of propriety and he suggested that it be named Mulr wood, which was heartily agreed to by the presi dent, who is si sincere, admirer of the great naturalist. And everybody who knew him said: "Well, if that isn't Just like Billy Kent." Hero is a man of deep and genuine convictions, courageous independent. forcible, ;i lover ol the people and a student of political issues. Time out Of mind he might have been running for office if he had wished flint kind Of thing, hut he waited and did hi.s citizen duty on the outside. Now he often to serve the people of his district as their representative In congress, and tho event is" regarded by the leader of the conservation movement, Oiffortl Plnchot, as of such national Import ance that lie win come out to the coast in order to speak In Mr. Kent's)behalf . ft is to be Hoped that the Republicans of the second district will rise to the opportunity that js uffortled them. They are in great luck. dence. There Is, it seems, no word In the language which adequately defines What the Virginia legislature evident ly means when it referred to cursing. There are a number of words that aro commonly accepted as distasteful, un gentlemanly, vulgar and disgraceful. Those who use them aro said to swear or curse, but a man may swear or curse and not use any disgraceful lan guage whatever. It in true that almost all of our "curse" words carry with them the Idea of a eursu in the senso of condemnation, whence probably they cane under the definition, ttut then' are countless expressions that do not partake in any way of the. nature of a curse which nevertheless are understood as "curse" words. A man may say "hell" in such a way as to shock everybody, or he may say it in such a way H to do a lot of good. We imagine that Virginia will have a hard time in enforcing the law which has Just gone into effect, as the courts doubtless will have a difficult time in terpreting it. We imagine that it will resolve itself into a question of fact to be At termlned by the Jury. However, wa arc Inclined to agree with our con temporary that the new law will never be enforced, unless Indeed it be used l>y some murderer as a means of es cape from the electric chair. (Fan KranciiK 1" I'alli when It is time to go home. They'll all call on me when I get back there, and when I find myself getting sleepy and unable to go to bed because some visitor has Ignored the march of time, I will jump up suddenly, take him by the arm and lend to to the hall, saying: ■ I Just happened to think of it. I brought you something from tho orient, and I want you to take it now." "I will present him with one of these sticks, lie is not likely to put it back in the umbrella stand. He will hardly carry it with him into the parlor. The only thing ho can do is to take <t home." "Aren't you afraid, Mr. Burdette, suggested the official, "that some of these newspapermen might publish what you say?'' "It might be a good thing if they did," replied Burdette. "You see, some of tho people for whom I have bought these sticks are. pretty slow to catch on, and it might help a whole lot if they knew exactly what they were ex pected to do when I gave them the stick." (New Ynrk World) Pennsylvania, 1516; Ohio, 1274; Illi nois, 744; Connecticut, 532; Maine, 52fi; Indiana, 517. Virginia, New Jersey, Vermont, Michigan, Maryland, Wiscon sin, New Hampshire, Missouri and Kentucky are the other states contrib uting more than 300 natives each. In present residents as listed New York lends with 2031, which is 191 less than last year. Massachusetts han 1771 liritod residents; Pennsylvania 1296; Illinois, 11&9; District of Colum bia. 1107. The editors of the work call atten tion to the westward movement. In dicated by such facts an that Colo* rado, with only five natives in the book, has 18!) residents. They might well quote California, with 141 natives and r>H3 residents. In some eastern and southern states the conditions of migration are reversed. Even Pennsyi vanio shows 1516 natives, against 1269 residents, while for Ohio the figures are 1274 and 64S thl wrong wny. Illi nois, with Chicago's aid, balances for the residents by 744 to 1159. New York state, holding New York City, pre sents 3331 residents to 2970 natives. (Salt Lake Tribune) polished rice will be used effectually to stop tho prevalence of the disease. If so, this will not only be a bleMlng to thi! settlement, but a vindication of the native prejudice which seems to have spread to India, against the use of the polished grain. A reason is thereby provided why tho natives do not wish the polished rice, a rea ■on Which they themselves could not possibly have given, but which was perhaps handed down to them by tra dition from forefathers many genera tions away, whose experience had taught them the lesson and thin lesson was made a maxim from generation to generation without tho accompanying reason for Its acceptance being known. It is a curious vindication of an apparently occult avevsion, now supported by science. Hut if less pol ishing of the rice Is obligatory in the tropics, it might perhapi be better also even In temperate climes if less polish ing were had for tho rice that we ÜBC3.