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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.
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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
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(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
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