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12 Los Angeles Herald THOMAS «. GIBBON, President and Editor. Entered as second class matter at the i t>o«torflee In Los Angeles. OLDEST MOKMNO PAPER IN ■':'■' LOS ANGELES, founded Oct. 2. 1873. 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H. and J. Hardy A Co. 80. 81 and 32 Fleet street, London, Eng land, free of charge, and that firm will b« glad to receive news, subscriptions and ad vertisements on our behalf. _________ On all matters pertaining to advertising address Charles R. Gates, advertising man ager. Population of Los Angeles 327,685 CLEAR, .CRISP AND CLEAN Hello, hello; here's the telephone case up for another settlement. The latest report about Dr. Cook Is —oh, very well, if It annoys you. Uncle Joe Cannon is like the boy who stood on the burning deck, whence all but him had fled. Vermont will hold a state election on September 6th. That is, it la called an election, from habat. As the original Insurgent of promi nence, Mr. Bryan Is keeping surpris ingly still on the eve of the denoue ments. The Pennsylvania man who had the nerve to , steal a locomotive would have made- his mark as an Oklahoma lawyer. The New York American call.i Tom Watson "the dying Gaul." Tom might retort by calling W. R. Hearst the liv ing- gall. Citrus "growers will fight the rail roads on the refrig"ration charges. They say they have been getting a cold deal. Now that he has definitely forfeited the support of the subsidized press, let the associate editor of The Out look look out. Five hundred colonists are arriving daily In the hope of caplng those peren nial bugbears of the east —the ice man and the coal man. Most of the fellows, who complain that "this agitation it disturbing busi ness" are engaged in a business that ■won't bear a bright llpht. Kalamazoo pained 67 per cent in population in the decade. It would be a calamity if it should frrow that much on the length of its name. Roosevelt is talking civic platitudes, rays a reactionary organ. Refore he gets throurh it will wish he had really confined himself to platitudes. "Women's hats are to be bigger," says a fashion note. Tt is surely time for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ladies to take a hand. Here, is a question fnr the debating societies: Who is driving thfl most vntnrs over into the Insurgent ranks— Balllnger, Aldrieh, Sherman or can non? Tt must be said for the actress who married Augustus ilrinze that she didn't Indulge in any twaddle about darning his locks vr cooking his ham and eggs. American tourists, alarmed by the spread of chotera, are hurrying home Europe, Next year they will be wiser and a .1! i ome to California and taki no chance*. Hamer of Idaho, a Cannon congresa in;iii, Is tl !<> fall by the way side, I n ihe mit •• ot hopeful Jim Sherman, when . - ng to ■tart its waning? ■ Barnes is mrprlsed and pained ;u the affront to Bhen ■ man "between whom and the presidency there Btanda but a single life." 11 la bad enough to have Buch ;i situation without Barnes remind! i • at or it. Commenting on Detroit's 63 pel cent growth in* the last decade, an astern exchange says the automobile city will probably lead the showing among the large communities. There is a surprise in store for a lot of people When the roturna for Los Angeles come in. THE NEW NATIONALISM MORE insurgent, more progressive, than even his most ardent in surgent friends hoped, Colonel Roosevelt in one dfty at (hp historic and appropriate field of Oshwatomie changed from n doubtful private to th« leader of the forces engaged In the fight on special ;ivt\ilpß-p.«. His "new nationalism" goes a step farther than any public man haa yet gone In form ulating a .battle plan against the ene mies of equal opportunity. Roosevelt's Osawatomle speech v.ill please the Rrent majority of propreu- Bivea, many of them hitherto inclined to counsel makng haste slowly, for they now- see the folly of making two btteS of a cherry. Mr. Tuft's unsuc cessful attempt to meet the situation that way has made It plain thnt the only St. George brave and strong; enough to meet the corporation dragon Is the federal government, armed with all Its possible resources. The states are unable to cope with the vast aggregations of capital that have been strong enough to capture not only maiv of the state legislatures and federal courts, but the United States senate, and to create political obligations that must be paid back by the appointment of a BalllnKer, a "Wiokersham, a Hitchcock and a Knnx to the president's cabinet. All that is left of the old doctrine of state's rights gives way before the stern cir- cumstances that compel the nation to strengthen for the fight against the forces of organized (freed. Only the negro problem in' the south has kept any life in the doctrine of state's rights, and that pales to noth ing compared to the great dangers in volved in the corporation in polities. But the "new nationalism" appeals even to some of the wisest corporation managers. Some of the railroad man agers have cried out for federal super vision, if there must be supervision, in order to be saved from the conflicting laws passed and harder terms exacted by the states. 'Feeling their weakness before the great corporations, several of the states have let exasperation lead them to excess. Hence the reaction ngatnst state efforts to meet the prob lem and the growing conviction that only the strongest kind of central gov ernment can do it. Reactionaries representing the cor poration side—orators in the senate mid on the stump and writers in newspa pers of the subsidized kind—have de claimed about the dangers of central ization, of Imperialistic tendencies, of socialism and other Imaginary evils. They frightened people of properly con servative tendencies for a while, but it became • apparent that their alarm was a wolf cry and that remote evils they warned us against were not to be compared with present evils iMy were trying to cover up while the rlmans, the Ouggenhelms, the Aldriches and their kind nVght seize more of the public domain or further entrench themselves through tariff laws and court decisions. The "new nationalism" is henceforth the watchward oi the movement called insurgency. It will concentrate the sentiment for human rights. It will mass the scattered power of the people to fight the associated power of arrogant wealth in transportation and insurance companies and indus trial trusts, whose ownership has been concentrated In a few groups. It will see that, the country over, the people and not purchased legisla tures elect their senators. It will see that direct primaries everywhere take the power of conven tion manipulation away from corpora tions. It will see the Initiative, referendum and recall put Into the hands of nil thfi people, and that even a United States senator may be recalled for malfeasance. It will see that never again shall railroad power put off such n vast needed work as the Panama canal, or express trust deny the people the bene fits of a parcels post. It will see that never again shall lobbyists of capital become greater than elected representatives. It will see that the fairest method in the world of apportioning the pub lic bunions —the Income tax—will be adopted. It will see that the tariff system that plunder! the masses to fatten al ready swollen fortunes is abolished. It will see that interstate corpora tions must be incorporated by the fed eral government and shall lose their charters for breaking the law. It will see that groed for profits shall not poison our foods. Our socialistic friends see in all this an inevitable evolution into the social istic state:; but since foraign states and cities now control railroads and other public utilities, not only sup plying cheaper and better service on the whole, but escaping the corrup tion brought about by private owner ship, this prospect will not frighten the country, but rather satisfy It that the good sense of the. American people will carry them across that bridge when they come to it. BOND SALES AT HOME THTC new harbor and power bonds a>-,. issued In denominations of $100 and ara therefore within th« reach of small local investors. With out considering other aspects of the iliifstimi i! would be a good thing for the morale of the community if a large number of those bonds could be dis posed of among the citizens of Los Angeles. Nothing so much as personal invest ment in municipal enterprise! would be so sure to interest the people, in the management of th« city's affairs and tnakfl them intelligent, alert voters. He who has a direct stake In the outcome of an election will not go fishing on election day. He will not have to be drummed up to his civic duty by the picks and campaign committees. And «J't be likely to elect to office poli ticians who, like the candid Mr. Croker LOS ANGELES HERALD: FIUDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910. s^^^*s^o^ of New York, are looking out "for the interests of my own pocket all the time." One of the main sources of the sta bility of the French government is the large number of middle class and peas antry who hold investments in the se curities of the nation. The practice makes them patriots of the most sub stantial and useful kind. And it helps the business of France, which is pro verbially one of the most prosperous nations in the world, by drawing into circulation sums of money that in the absence of federal stamp of security, would not be Invested In public enter prises but largely hoarded in idleness, because many will not trust their sav ings to private investment. THE WOES OF THE STANDPATTERS CERTAINLY our standpat Republt oan friends have fallen upon evil times. In our own county they failed to control their convention by the very conclusive majority of more than 100. and all the machinery of the Re publican party of the county Is now completely under the control of the In surgent element. There appears also to be no doubt that the result of the primaries throughout the state, as definitely ascertained, Will pl'iee the next Repub lican state convention as fully In con trol of the insurgents as was the con vention that recently assembled 1n this county. That of course means that the insurgents will ohtain control of the party machinery of the itate, and the standpatters and their boss, Mr. Herrin of the Southern Pacific machine, will, for the first time in many years, be out in the cold. The news from Kansas that the Re publican convention of that state has refused to indorse Mr. Taft'a admin istration in full, and contented itself with praising it for having assisted in the passage of certain measures which were really enacted by the Democratic and iiisuir-f nt votes in congress, is an other sad blow to our standpat friends. The overwhelming reception which Mr. Roosevelt la receiving at the hands of hi* countrymen throughout the west, tells the same story. In fact, it be gins to look like such reactionaries as Messrs, Barnes and Wadaworth of New York, who so gayly and gallantly picked a quarrel with the wielder of the big sti'-k a f«W days ago, had bet ter be hunting their holes, and when they find them, prudence would appear to dictate that they pull the holes in after them. Verily, tin's yfar of our Lord 1910 is not a standpat year. Thorp was such an overwhelming de mand that the services of (Jrove L. Johnson Should not be lost to the state that he was nominated for the Pro hibition legislative ticket by the cast ing of one ballot. Jle could hardly ig nore this voice of the peepul. These are the days when Senator Morgenheim picks up his paper each morning with the remark: "I wonder what that anarchist Roosevelt had to say yesterday." ON THE HEIGHT "I dreamed last nig-ht. my darling, that you stood on a height. Arrayed in shimmering garment* and glor ious to the «i£ht; And men who saw you envied me and paused ft while to gaze. And then at last reluctantly they passed upon their ways." "And in the dream you hail, my dear, where was the splendid height ■' And did no ladle* pass or pause. expressing their delight? Why did tit* men who saw me there foe! envlou* of you? What reason had they. dear, to care? Twm Haughty of them to. "Nay they were Justified, my dear; you stood upon the. height, Arrayed in lovely jtarment» that were gauzy and were white; And evory man who pained to looK learned how to envy me. Tour waist was mads so It would hook up the -front, you «o," "Bring on Some More!" PUBLIC LETTER BOX TO C(mHliSi'OMlKM's-il.rlCM» intended lor puullialiuu iliust lie aicuinim.iiej ny the name and address of t.ie writer. The Herald Rlve» the wldeat latitude to correspond cnta. but assumes no retiuoimlbilltj for their virus. CLAIMS INVECTIVE IS JUSTIFIED Editor Herald: Having: read your editorial headed "Too Strong" in this morning's issue, I ask myself why you should be so condemnatory of violence of speech; unless you believe, with Os car Wilde, that "big words mean so little," in which case I agree with you. Yet if ever conditions justified the use of heated language surely they are with us now. Only a few days ago you printed a letter calling- attention to the awful in- i Tease of abject poverty In New York, despite all the efforts of the charity or ganizations, and the appalling growth of suicide due to want. Never in the history of any country, I venture to say, has there been a parallel to the exposures of political corruption made in almost every one of our leading magazines and periodicals. Never have the methods by which wealth has rob bed and murdered the masses been :-o remorselessly laid bare. Consider also the light that has been turned on our treatment of crime and criminals; the unceasing fire that has been di rector] agatnst the man-hunting and man-shooting—see recent events in Chicago—proclivities of the police. Note how Di:>z has been brought under the microscope, and reflect how the pub lic must feel over the extent to which he has use,-] our government to foster I his own ends. All this, and much else one could add, make an indictment so terrific that It actually bewilders us by its vastnoss, and goes far to Justifying the most virulent Invective the tongue can frame. Roosevelt la a virile speaker, not afraid of calling a spade a spade. I invite you to compare his utterances with those of Wendell Phillips or Gar rison during the Abolitionist period. You nil! find Roosevelt tame and in sipid beside those great moulders of public indignation. Yet It is public in dignation that must be aroused, for never were giant wrongs righted until the public conscience revolted to the point of nausea. Reformers of all shades have one universal enemy—general apathy. That they must conquer nt all hazards if they are to come within shouting dis tance of success. H. L. STOKES Los Angeles, Aug. 81. : AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Editor Herald: Would you, for the benefit of many readers, answer in your Letter Box the following ques tions: What is the platform of the Australian labor party and What do they propose to accomplish' at their session of the commonwealth parlia ment? What Is the majority of the labor party in parliament? E. D. EDWARDS. Tha tabor member* 'n the Austral ian parliament now number 41 to 30 FUBloniSta and 4 Independents. In the last parliament the labor mem bers numbered 2fi, Fusionlsts 49. As to program we have not full par ticulars; but among the immediate re forms proposed are: A graduated tax on unimproved land values in excess of $25,000. Arbitration or conciliation courts. A Variation in thp protection policy, by trhtoh any manufacturer who does not give his- workers a fair wage out' of his "prntoctrd" profits, shall have an excise duty placed on his goods.— Rd. Herald. DANGER IN TURKIBH BATH Editor Herald: Some time ago I went to a Turkish bath. While there In the hot room I noticed a party alongside of me and one opposite who it would not require an expert to nee were victims of tuberculosis in ad vanced stages. As everybody knows, the ventilation in a Turkish bath can not be thorough owing to the neces sity at maintaining the hot tempera- ture. Now, if there Is danger of Infection from tuberculosis in riding In the street cars, where there la always some cir culation of cool air, is there not a thousand times more danger under condition* mentioned in " a Turkish bath? [ think Information on this point from medical men would be of general Interest. I'AI.IFORNIAN, Los Angeles, August 31. JUDICIAL PROLIXITY Editor Herald: Plainly speaking, our Judicial opinion% are much too long. They are simply tiresome. The law is supposed to be based on com mon sense and to be within the com prehension of ordinary) intelligence. Why then should It be so often mud dled with long-winded and Intricate essays on all sorts of topics? This state once had on Its supreme bench a man named Heydenfeldt who was able to give his opinion, and his reasons, too, in a very few sentences, and even the lawyers knew more about a case de cided by him than they usually find out about a case after it has been la boured through pages by one of our learned latter day Judges. Really, why should a court cite and discuss In ex tensp numerous decisions of courts of other states? If In such quoted case a point was decided It Is sufficient to state that fact and stop. The judge does not add to the strength of his conclusions by repeating all the rea sons the other court had for Its con clusion. The supreme court of the United States is apt to be concise in decid ing a point. As a general thing there ia only a solitary point involved in an appeal. A judge Is under no necessity to write a long opinion to prove to the bar or to the people his learning (li ability, and usually falls in the at tempt. Some thoughtful person once apologized for having written a long letter by sayincr he had not time to write a short one. Surely some of our judges lack the time to write a short opinion and some, perhaps, may lack th£ ability. O. B. S. Colegrove, September 1. WAR NOT NECESSARY Editor Herald: The advocates of war as a noble and necessary human pursuit urge that without its tonic In fluence the race would lose the heroic virtues. At our present stage of civil ization the argument seems about as reasonable aa the conduct of a pio neering farmer would be if he spent his time and Btrength swinging clubs and dumb-bells instead of planting po tatoes and grubbing out underbrush. Mines must be worked in difficulty and danger; no railroad is built across mountain barriers save by the. pain and peril of tollers. It Is very common for firemen and trainmen, for physicians and nurses, for men and wom»n in many callings, to risk their lives, that others may live In comfort and safe ty. The sacrifices are so common that they excite little comment and are re warded by no flourish of trumpets and waving of bunting. But are they any less bracing to moral sinews, any less noble than the risking of life that oth ers may suffer and die? There are heroes among us still, as many as in other times. Witness the battling with the flames of the last two weeks. Remember San Francisco's superb courage In the face of appalling disaster. When nature Is subdued, when there is no more dread disease to be fought, the race may, need war as a tonic—it surely Is not required now. E. C. C. Los Angeles, Aug. 30. MINISTERIAL INCONSISTENCY Editor Herald! Is it not a strange thing to hear a minister of the gospel stand up In his pulpit' on Sunday and announce the graft, bribery and gen-> eral dishonesty that-have come to char acterize our municipal, state, arid even national political affairs, and then on week days hear the same man speak ing for and trying to keep in power the game gang who locally and in states stands for exactly the worst things In American politics, and working hand in glove with a newspaper which repre sent* and defends all that sort of thing, corporation rule and corrup tion, which the people are trying to throw off, how are we to account for this Inconsistency? W. B. C. ■ Lou Angeles, Aug. 30. * « » SEASONABLE ATTIRE The Hummer girl's papa anew Sends plaintive «I«H* afloat. When ones a battling nit would do, • She'll want a. sealskin coat. '■■-■-■ —Washington Star. Ice Water From Sunshine Manufacturing a drink of ice water with nothing cooler than th« sun's rayg and dry, "tropical Air would probably seem under the province of the ma gician to an easterner who had never traveled farther southwest over his natlvo land than the plains of Colo rado. It is nevertheless a'fact, jay! the Naw York Times, that iby those ever available agencies the greater part of the population of Texas, Ari zona and New Mexico manufacture their Ice water. This not only serves for drinking purposes, hut also pro vide! an efficient medium for the or dinary requirements of refrigeration— for in the cruder sections of the great southwest the artificial production of Ice Is still a trlflo too costly to be feasible. Picture a cattle ranch squatted In the center of hundreds of miles of dry, sun-baked, semi-desert land. There is just enougu growth of wild grass about to satisfy the far-wander ing herds, which drink from the thick, warm waters of sorria artificial oasts. A cowboy returns to the ranch af ter an fill-day's exposure to the blis tering heat. With parched lips he rides quickly up to a little red, oval shnped earthen jar suspended by a rope behind the house. . . , He takes off the cover, which |i merely there to keep out the blowing i sand, and dips forth a cup of 100 wa ter which has never come in contact | with anything bill the sum-exposed i sides of the earthen receptacle which ; incloses It. The water Is always there. and it is practically effortless and cost less In the making of It. Tho secret lies wholly In the con struction of the little red receptacles. This is a simple Mexican creation, and in that language Is called an olla, the two l's being silent according to the Spanish pronunciation of the word. Growth of United States Population * (New York World) Exact figures of, the population of | the United states as ascertained by the | census of 1910 will not be given out i until autumn. The unofficial estimate, ■ which is In fact a close official proxi mation lends interest to the following table showing the country's growth since the first enumeration: ln(t 3,929.214 ,Zn ... S.MS.4SS 1811) 7.239.551 \lll 9,633,822 JU,, ' 12.506.020 ;«iX " ■■■" 17,089.453 ■J|S 23,191.878 'So :::::::::::::::::::: ; 31,443.321 J,-A ""■• 38.558,371 iJSJX "" " » 60.165,783 tson ■"■ " ■•■ «2,« M,230 '"^9 """"!. 76,303,387 lino (unofficial! • 90,000,000 Thus in 120 years the population has been multiplied almost by twenty three and in fifty yours almost by three. We now have an average of about twenty-nine inhabitants to the | square mile, although there are: many states and territories In which there Is a square mile of room for every two or three persons. Ten years ago Rhode ■ Island had 407 people to the square mile j and Massachusetts 348. As showing that even these old and comparatively ; small states are not too crowded for comfort, it may be said that, based upon the estimated population of] Greater New York, there are now j about 15,000 people to the square mile in this city. ■ . In 1790 the northwest territory had just been organized. Both Illinois and Ohio, states created In that region, Cotton Tariff Plunder (Bacrnmento Bee,) i One of the worst Iniquities of the present tariff Is the cotton schedule, whose evil fea tures are fully and strikingly exposed in the World's Work for August. The increase of duties on cotton goods by the Fiivne-Aldrlrh measure was particularly odious because during the winter preceding the passage of the bill representatives of the New England c"tton goods makers went before the ways and • means committee nt Washington ami said the "interests for which they spoke were satisfied with the duties then existing and desired no Increase. And those duties were very high. Nevertheless, when congress got to work on (he tariff these same Interest* became greedy for still more "protection," and got It. ffi* results of the new tariff on cotton goods are higher price* for many articles of common consumption. Mercerized goods of all softs are largely Increased in retail price, even Id the extent of M 1-3 per petit. Although the cost of mercerizing, a chemical process, Is very small, It called for high "protec- Merely in Jest THE SECRET A certain Washington family is con vinced that its eight-year-old hopeful is destined to become a great scientist. He has already begun to see the con nection between cause and effect. Not so long ago this youngster was looking at a drop of water through a microscope. Here, there and every where were darting animalcule. "Now i know," announced the child to the family, "what sings when the kettle boils. It's those little bugs."— Lippincott's. HE SAVED THE TRAIN A brakeman wjin had not been long employed was going Up » very steep grade on his first run. With unusual difficulty the engineer- succeeded In reaching the top. At the station, look ing out of his cab, the engineer saw the new brakeman and said with a sigh of relief: "I tell you what, my lad, we had a job to get up here, didn't we?" "We certainly did," said the brake man, "and if I hadn't have put on the brakes we'd have slipped back,"—Llp pincott's. LAW AND ORDER MOVEMENT A man descended from an excursion train and was wearily making his way to the street car, followed by his wife and fourteen children, when a police man touched him on the shoulder and said; . "Come along wld me." "What for?" "Blamed If I know; but when ye're locked up I'll go back and find out why that crowd was fallowing ye."— Everybody's. • GOOD TEAM WORK, THIS The preacher's evening discourse was dry and long, and the congregation gradually melted away. The sexton tiptoed up to the pulpit and slipped a note under the corner of the Bible. It "When you are through, will you please turn off the lights, lock the door and put the key under the mat? -—Everybody's Magazine. INDICATIONS Nellie— Hasn't Mr. Feiewalley pro posed yet? -, v t Nora—No; but he ha» gone as far as to ask what time we have breakfast and whether mother is a food cook.— Chicago. News. m northM* Mexico nlla making is ft very profitable industry to the. Inhabi tants, who earn' them over Into Ari zona on tho backs of burros. A good olla can he purchased from the pro prietor of one of these little caravani for Bfl or 78 cents. Thn olln i« made from a crude clay ish mortar oompowpd of burro manure and sand. This, with the use of a little water. Is worked into a pllaoln tnxM by the Mexican, and when dry 111,1 thick enough molded Into the desired shape of the vessel. In dry tne the composition becomes very por ous, nnd It Is this essential charac teristic which contains the secret of the cooling process. After havlnp been painted over, both inside nnd out, by a solution of harmless dye the olla Is ready for use. It is then filled with water and hung up preferably In some place which Is exposed to the wind. If there be any. In a few minutes the exterior of tho Jnr grows slightly dark with the mois ture which has seeped through tho por ous composition. The seeping procoM. however is very slow, and the mois ture which exudes evaporates Into the receptive, dry atmosphere In such riuable proportion that scarcely more than a drop a minutes trickles away from the bottom of the olla. It Is this continuous, and fairly rap- Id evaporation, which produces the cold immediately the Bides of the olla become chilled. And the water within urows gradually cooler. In less than an hour from the time the phenomenon Is begun the water in cold tnoiißh for drinking purposes, no matter how warm It might have been when poured Into the receptacle. Two or three hours later It Is cold enough to fljl the ordinary requirements of refrigeration for bottled milk, butter and ofher culinary necessities. now have many jnore inhabitants than were then to be found in the whole country. The population of them? states added to that of the other three —Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin—lr now greater than that of the United States at the census of 1840. Tet there were men calling themselves far nlghtert who only a hundred years ago predicted that the northwest territory wns destined for all time to be the home only of wild beasts and wilder men. Since 1860 the center of popula tion has been moving westward in what was once the northwest terri tory. Kven more doleful prophecies were made as to the fate of the Louisiana territory, out of which have been formed states that now have a popu lation nearly three times as large as that of all the states in 1810. Missouri alone has more people than were enum erated at the first national census In 1790. As many people now live west, of the Mississippi river as were found In the entire country by the censun takers of 1850, and Oklahoma, figuring now for the third tim« only in a cen sus, has more inhabitants than all New England possessed in 1820, while Texas has at least three times as many. To come nearer home, New York city, embracing but 326 square miles, now has almost as many Inhabitants as were returned by the national census of 1800 and great as are many of th<* states of the union, only two of them, Pennsylvania and Illinois, have more people than are to be found In this one splendid municipality. tlon," which gave th» cotton trast a monop oly of the American market. Much of the general advance In duties on rotton goods does not show on ths face of the new law. It <ra> accomplished by \ changes In classification, as from specific duties to those on value, or the reverse. In some Instances the Increase of duty In this way ran up to 450 per cent. Another such change hart the effect of doubling the duties on certain cheap cotton fabrics. By still another shift, cloth costing but 7 cents a yard was placed under the head of "lux uries." The duties on woolens have been subjected to like treatment, and are In general enorm ously and outrageously hlKh. Mven Taft was obliged to confess he could not approve them. Between the high duties on whoolens and ) those on cotton goods of alf kinds, the man ufacturing trusts have effectuftily shut out | foreign competition, save on terms to Suit themselves, and have forced up prices to such an extent that the cost of living Is materially Increased. Far and Wide PROGRESS Of SUFFRAGETTES The English suffraslsts had a partial reward for their energetic campaign in favor of votes for women by the car rying of the second reading of a bill In the British house of commons confer ring a parliamentary vote on certain restricted and well defined classes of females.—Washington Post. WE'VE ALL TRIED IT A physician advises the wearing In summer of black underclothing and white outer clothing. During Our wife's absence we wore the former for nearly ten days without noticing that It added anything to our comfort.- Detroit Free Press. CAUSES DOUBT Senator Guggenheim's expressed will' Insness to leave the matter of re-elec tion to the senate to a primary vote In Colorado naturally arouses some sus picion of the Colorado method of con ducting primaries.—Kansas City Timea. GREAT BASEBALL NAMES From one day's baseball scores It Is gathered that the prominent exponents are Zacher, Hoblitzel, Abbatlcchio, Atz, Jube and Zmieh. It Is the great Amer ican game, all right.—Brooklyn Stan dard-Union. LAMP POSTB USEFUL AGAIN The old lamp post gave \vay to the arc at the street corner; now we ar« putting the lamp post back again. But it is a lamp designed for looks as well as light, an ornament as well as a light giver.—Syr.cuse Post-Si ndard. TAUNTON'g FAME Rev. Joe! Metcaifn comet shine* brightly over Taunton; but popular ex perience with the elusive though cele brated Halley's will temper wild curi osity and enthusiasm. —Boston Record. TJIIS MAT BE BALLINGER It would please some of the most en thusiastic of our forest conservation ists if the Tall Sycamore of the Sierra* would kindly go back to the woods.— Pittsburg Gazette-Times. ONE MAN AND ANOTHER What would Mexico do without Diaz? Well, do you notice what Cleveland la doing without Tom Johnson?— Clev eland Leade/