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X RETRORSUM, JU
And as for the senator at the head
of the Ballinger whitewash committee,
everybody Knute 'twould turn.out as
it has.
I How does it happen that no one has
thought ''"of advancir-g the brainstorm
as a defense for Mr. Chanler of New
York?.. *
The name of the man who ran
against Speaker Cannon fs Downs.
The name of the man who ran against
Downs is Down-and-out.
We boost our climate as a healthy
one, but should have no hesitancy in
malting it very unhealthy for the Dick
Turpins who are trying to ply their
trade In this city.
When you sit right down and think
of it, it is a sort of fool thing to
maintain two expensive governments
in the area covered by Los Angeles
and environs, when one would do,
isn't it?
Senator La Follette is reported to
be sick, but if misery loves company
he has some consolation in the fact
that he has made some of his adver
saries feel pretty much the same way
recently.
It is said that the only picture in
Count Tolstoy's bedroom is one of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. If his august
sovereign, Nicholas, dotes on Ameri
cans, his choice is probably His proto
type. Czar Cannon.
President Estrada of Nicaragua
wants to postpone the election for a
year, until affairs get more settled.
Some of the standpat congressmen in
this country wish the same thing
might be brought about.
Tho standpat Republican machines
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts are so scared by the course
of events that all you can get out
of them now is a claim that they have
a fighting chance to win.
A Baltimore man aged 96 has just
taken unto himself a young wife.
After all, when a man doesn't learn
sense in such matters in a life of nearly
a century, how con we blame young
Chanler for his little fling?
A Republican elephant named Stand
pat, which escaped from the Maine
zoo the other day, is supposed to be
wandering around in the Canadian
woods, as it cannot be found in New
Hampshire or Massachusetts.
Dr. Parkhurst writes that "silence
is a life preserver," and there is some
reason for believing that the "Hon
orable" William Lorimer of Illinois had
this golden thought occur to him some
time prior to the moment the preacher
let it slip.
Hoke Smith's campaign for the
gubernatorial nomination in Georgia
cost him $17,696, but California, being
a very small state, was canvassed for
a fraction of that sum, if we are to
believe the sworn statements of the
candid
A Pennsylvania man sues Mrs. Ting
ley of San Diego, charging her with
conspiracy in get: ing $300,000 from a
relative. If Mrs. Tlngley should win
out, Madame Cavalleri will have
reason to regard herself as a mere
piker as a female financier.
Caleb 'Powers, ncminated for con
gress in Kentucky, and pretty certain
of election, was for years in prison
and was once sentenced to hang for
Governor Goebel's murder, unjustly, as
US constituents believe. The main
difference between him and some other
congressmen is that they have been
more' successful in keeping out of
prison.
THE NEW DEMOCRACY
THE Democrats of the country seem
disposed to meet the responsibil
ities destined to be thrust upon
their party this year with rare good
judgment and those who acknowledge
allegiance to the party have rets-jn
to feel a satisfaction in the new bap
tism of power that is at hand and con
fidence in its ability to meet the tests
which will be put upon it. Of the pro-
gressiveness of tho masses of the par
ty there has not at any time been a
doubt; it has been a question whether
the right leaders would be found for
what is both the emergency and the
opportunity.
In New Jersey they have been highly
fortunate in the nomination for gov
ernor of a man of rare ability and fit
ness for executive work. Dr. Wood
row Wilson of Princeton university is
as forceful a character as there ls in
American public life. His proven
worth as an administrator, his acumen
as a thinker and profound student of
political history and philosophy, his
geneml virility of brain and body and
Ills high standards of thought and life
stamp him as an ideal public man and
as material of which real statesmen
are made. If he shall be elected, and
there seems to be small doubt bf It
since he must be the refuge of Repub
lican insurgency in the state, still con
trolled by reactionary forces, he will
be perhaps the most lik?ly of all in
sight to be sought as a presidential
candidate.
Across the river in New Tork state
Judge William J. Gaynor has by his
splendid administration of the great
metropolis been making a reputation
as an executive of the very biggest
caliber and his recent affliction has
not only made him an object of sym
pathetic interest the country over, but
has focused national attention on his
wonderful career in an office he has
distinctly honored. His refusal to con
sider a nomination for governor may
not be strong enough for the popular
pressure to that end. In any event he
is potential material of the very best
kind for the party to draft in the fu
ture.
In Connecticut the Democrats have
named for governor Justice Simeon
Baldwin of the state supreme court.
White he is ranked as a conservative
and is lacking in the magnetism nec
essary to leadership he is a jurist of
national repute for his erudition, and
his nomination shows that the party in
Connecticut is disposed to fall in line
with the party in other states by de
serving- the confidence and support of
the voters. Republican insurgency in
Connecticut is hobbled by a system of
state government that perpetuates
machine —very much on the order
of Rhode Island's "rotten borough
system which has perpetuated Aldrlch
in office—and while the Republicans
have nominated in Charles A. Good
win a clean and magnetic candidate, it
seems probable that a very large in
surgent vote will welcome the chance
to protest against evils through de
sertion to Baldwin.
In Ohio there seems -to be little
chance of Governor Harmon's defeat.
In his candidacy is the only refuge of
insurgency, for Cox .and Longworth and
their kind are the only leadership of
fered by the Republicans and the party
candidate for govern ir is Foraker's
choice. Harmon is of 'arge size. Gov
ernor Marshall of Indiana is one of the
most brilliant men In public life, and
both because he is that and a man
of sound judgment and high character
and lives in a state that is pivotal,
he is also potential material for na
tional leadership.
Bell of California and Plaisted of
Maine are younger men of clean and
attractive type who have not only
a present but a future. Hoke Smith
in Georgia restores to the Democracy
there a standing .It rather lost by
Brown's incumbency. Altogether the
out'.iok of the party i 3 the best as to
leadership in many years, and if the
errors of past years are avoided in
amalgamating the new material at
hcnd the prospects fir the future can
be said to be of the brightest.
ELECTION EXPENSES
UNDER the purity of elections law
the candidates for nomination in
the recent primaries have filed
their statements. They constitute a
sorry reflection on the general honesty
and prove the law to be preposterous,
fantastical. They supply an unanswer
able argument that what California
must have, if it hopes to insure clean
politics, is a corrupt practices law,
commanding and enforcing detail in
statements.
In England the corrupt practices law
is so framed that it is impossible to
cheat without absolute perjury, and se
vere penalties—prison stripesfor any
falsehood or evasion. If there had been
such a law in California, who doubts
that the returns just made to the sec
retary of state would have been far
different? Who believes that the affi
davits of fifty-four state candidates
would aggregate only $41,614? Who
does not know that the recent cam
paign was a very expensive one, and
that the whole truth has not been told
about it?
The present law, it is said by the
district attorney's office here, does not
even penalize the failure to file a state
ment, for it only provides that certifi
cates of nomination shall not be issued
until statements are filed, and they are
only as necessary and valuable to can
didates as blue ribbon badges. The
names go on the ballots just the same.
A law to be effective must command
a filing of expenses ln detail, not only
by candidates but by all their agents,
Including party committees, and that
command will be evaded by the un
truthful unless the penalty section has
teeth in it. And finally, but not of
least importance, the statement ought
to be made public before and not after
election. It would help the voter to
reach an intelligent decision in casting
his ballot.
If you will turn the printed standing
of the Pacific coast baseball league
upside down, Los Angeles and Vernon
are occupying a very satisfactory po
sition in the pennant race.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1910.
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WHY MEAT IS DEAR
WHEN the federal grand jury at
Chicago brought an indictment
against the heads of the beef
trust, one of the Indicted men, J. Og
den Armour,.the head of the largest
branch, gave out an interview in
which he said: '-: ■'■'
The defendants do only about
one-third of the packing business
of the entire country. Their entire
proflts are not over 2\_ per cent
of their total business. This mar
gin of profit is less than that made
by any other kind of manufactur
ing business in the world.
The fact that the business has
been conducted with the very
smallest margin of profit is itself
a demonstration that no combina
tion to depress the cost of live
stock or to Increase the price of
the fresh meats could have been
possible. Prejudice has arisen in
the minds of many on account of
the higher cost to the consumer
of porte and beef products. These
higher prices are wholly due to the'
higher cost of livestock.
This is one of the matters that are
"important if true." That it is not
true we have only to go to the Ar
mours themselves to show. Two years
ago they listed on the New York stock
exchange for sale an issue of $30,
--000,000 bonds. In the statement of the
company attending the listing it was'
shown by them that they had made
a gross profit of $10,582,000 for the year
on a capital of $20,000,00 and earned a
surplus of $7,127,926, or the equivalent
of a dividend of 35.6 per cent. __.
The Armours were then talking to
Wall street and not to the public.
They were telling the truth to
strengthen their credit, not lying to
a dreaded public opinion as now. The
statement of Armour in his interview
is absurd on its face. The beef pack
ing business was profitable at the start
years ago, or it would not have sur
vived and waxed'mighty. Since them
innumerable by products— is said
they turn everything but the squeal
of the pig into some commodity for
sale—have added to the proflts.
Livestock is dearer than formerly,
but that is not the only cause of high
prices of meat. The Aldrich tariff of
three cents a pound on imported meat
must have its effect, or it wouldn't
have been Imposed.
COL. MOSBY'S CASE
IN a letter to a Boston friend ex
plaining why he is no longer con
nected with the department of
Justice at Washington, Colonel John
S. Mosby, whose free-lance cavalry
was one of the most picturesque and
thrilling incidents of the Confederate
side in the civil war, says:
"The' real reason was to punish me
for having three scoundrels indicted
for robbing the Indians, my opposing
their application, which was finally
successful, to get their prosecution dis
missed. They hah arranged for another
$3,000,000 steal and wanted me out of
the department."
Colonel Mosby says that his only
complaint is that he was dismissed
as superannuated without a hearing,
on the word of an assistant attorney
general no longer In the department,
who had to Justify himself in giving
Colonel Mosby no work, and this he
did by representing the Virginian as
superannuated.
There Is abundant reason to be
found - in recent revelations in Okla
homa for believing that the lawyers
who were gouging the Indians had
strong influence in Washington. There
is therefore that much circumstantial
probability that the story told by
Colonel Mosby is partly if not wholly
true. It is a case, anyway, that calls
for the attention of President Taft
and for reparation if it is found true
that the old soldier's dismissal was
due to the fact that he opposed the
Indian graft.
The automobile trade is said to be
lagging, but it will probably pick up
when mortgage loan money cases up
a bit.
"The Old Guard"
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
TO CORRESPONDENTS—Letters Intended for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Tb» Herald gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for tbelr views.
DICK FERRIS' SERVICE
Editor Herald: It seems to me that
Dick Ferris has done the public a gen
uine service; far greater probably than
any he could have performed as lieu
tenant governor. In a most graphic
manner he has called attention to the
corruption that accompanies all our
political campaigns, I care not what
party is concerned. The "bunch of al
leged voters hanging around saloons,"
and "I do not know whether this
money was spent or not. It is my
opinion it was n0t—51396." These and
similar expressions in his sworn state
: ment of campaign expenses bring be
fore us most vividly conditions with
which we should be familiar but ha
bitually ignore.
To me nothing is more remarkable
than the fact that everywhere I find
the opinion expressed that politics is
rotten to the core. In so small a city
as this hundreds of names are- sub
mitted to the voters. Inevitably the
merits or demerits of 90 per cent are
quite unknown. Naturally, the candi
dates try to rectify this by extensive
advertising, and every loafer is utilized
in the effort to obtain publicity. In
fact, elections are their harvest, and
you may hear such men repeatedly ex
pressing the wish that the reformers
would become active. Yet when all Is
done we are offered nothing better
than a series of blind guesses, on the
strength of which we place in office
men who smother us with legislation
and bleed us at every pore.
No private business could be con
ducted on such ridiculous limes, and
public business throughout the coun
try is breaking down under the strain.
H. P. NEVILLE.
Los Angele?, September 15.
INDICTMENTS AGAINST 'GUNS'
Editor Herald: Glad to see J. R. K.
take up the cause against the damna
ble "gun." Who will be the next to
join the force and accept the chance
offered by The Herald and show their
condemnation of this deadly foe to the
human race? I would think Doctor
Barnhart, who was covered with a
"gun" there in Los Angeles on the
morning of the 15th, while his wife
was abused and robbed; and the drug
gist on South Grand avenue, who saved
himself from the holdup man's revol
ver, by dropping down behind the
counter, would certainly have some
thing to say for or against the "gun."
In eitther of these cases the men would
never have undertaken those jobs
without their trusty revolver. Officer
Lyon, who was murdered by Dan Mes
kel, and Meskel, who killed himself
before the law had the chance, would
be enjoying life today had it not been
for the murderous "gun." And Roily
Robey, the fellow who was with Mes
kel when he shot Officer Lyon on Cen
tral avenue October 31, 1907, would not
be wearing life stripes behind prison
i bars today had they had no guns that
night. I say keep men out of prison
by taking the instrument away with
which they commit tho crimes.
B. W.
WOMAN REBUKES WOMAN
Editor Herald: In this morning's
paper I read a communication concern
in the smokers on the street cars. The
writer complained because in sitting
in the front end of the car she was
annoyed by the smoking, and there
have often been similar complaints.
Now why, In the spirit of Justice, I
ask, do the women still persist in sit
ting in the front end of the car, when
that has been reserved for smoking?
They will sit there and then complain
of being annoyed. It doesn't seem Just
fair to me. Many of us do dislike rid
ing inside, I admit, as often it pro
duces nausea, the sldewlse motion of
riding being especially unpleasant,
but we can sit in the rear usually. But
time after time when I have taken the
car do I notice how the women Inva
riably seek the front end of the car.
Surely they must take the result if
they persist in sitting there. 1 am a
woman, too, and I sit in front if it is
not crowded, but if the men smoke too
much for my pleasure It is a simple
matter for me to go where I really
belong—lnside or in the roar.
I don't like stale tobacco smoke,
either, but if I persist in sitting In the
part reserved for smokers I ought not
to complain, nor should any one else
who does so. '
In a spirit of fairness, MRS. D.
Los Angeles, Sept. 16.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer,
POVERTY A CRIME
Editor Herald: Mr. Owen seems un
able to regard government in any
other light than as an instrument of
oppression and repression, and so, like
the typical Hibernian, he is "agin" it.
I am painfully aware of the imperfec
tions of government, and of social and
economic conditions, but bad govern
ment and unjust social conditions are
due solely to the ignorance of the
masses of the people. Suppose every
voter was a man (or woman) of edu
cation and culture, whose college cur
riculum had Included a course in politi
cal economy and economics, how long
would the electorate stand for the pri
vate monopolization of the nation's
natural resources: for a robber tariff
that levies an unjust tax on the con
sumer; that allows a few industrial
and financial pirates to own and oper
ate for their private advantage the
machinery of production and distribu
tion of the whole country? It is a
fundamental postulate of the collectiv
ist philosophy that economic condi
tions determine the prevailing stand
ard of morals and intelligence. A high
standard of moral and intellectual de
velopment can never be reached until
we have abolished poverty and the
fear of It. Under primitive conditions
of production poverty was inevitable;
under modern conditions poverty is a
social crime. Under a collective and
scientific organization of production
ami distribution that would eliminate
waste and exploitation poverty could
and will be established as soon and as
fast as an educated electorate de
mands it. W. H. STUART.
Los Angeles, Sept. 16. . .
ADVICE TO DEMOCRATS
Editor Herald: To anyone studying
the platforms of the Republican and
Democratic parties fairly, indepen
dently and unbiased it must appear
that there .is scarcely any difference in
principle but that they differ merely in
secondary matters. They both uphold
the present system of protection which
has been pushed to extremes, helping
to cause- famine prices in food for the
benefit of the few. To many it must
be evident that the present state of
high prices cannot further be boosted
nor even be maintained long for the
rumbling of discontent among the
masses is plainly discernible. As the
Republican party is wedded to high
tariff with such disastrous results it
behooves the Democratic party, as the
party of the plain people, to initiate
new issues, and that in harmony with
the drift of plainly discernible coming
events. Let them strike out for un
| qualified free trade, which is something
worth fighting for, and that will draw
the masses like honey bees.
Universal free trade must eventually
come anyhow, and not until then fair
and equitable relations can be estab
lished throughout the world.
Los Angeles, Sept. 15. C. FISHER.
THE NEGRO'S FAITH
Editor Herald: Please read this be
fore consigning it to the basket. You
shut out Socialism and religion, but
this morning you have published the
third letter by William C. Owen, in
which he abuses Roosevelt. Bellamy
and Socialism, lauding anarchy. Now
that he finds leading men are giving
their might to the cause Bellamy pre
dicted would "need assistance," why
not let us say a word? Then T. J.
Wilson: "I am a convert to the doc
trine that neither minister nor con
gregation can be children of God until
they are vegetarians." I would . not
like to live near him. I am reminded
of the negro ,who believed in prayer.
He had prayed for chicken. None
came.. He read Paul's "faith without
works is dead." The next day he had
chicken. Get on to the text?
S. J. BINNS.
Los Angeles, September 15.
SAYS 'THERE ARE OTHERS'
Editor Herald: The Herald being the
most Just and liberal morning paper in
Los Angeles, receives the subscriptions
of all persons who sympathize with the
people's cause—no matter what politi
cal party they follow. We do not feel
at all offended when our letters are
omitted from the Letter Box, as they
are often Intended more for the eyes of
the editor than for publication. Somo
of our letters are, no doubt, intem
perate, as are the expressions of a cer
tain political leader against a political
party in a magazine called the Out
look. ' ' JAMES JORDAN.
Los Angeles, Sept. 16. '
Educating the People
I In 1908,-when the Hepburn rate bill
was before the senate, LaFollette felt
that the ] eslilent had not gone far
enough in his recommendations—that
the president's bill was a good bill for
possibly five years. When urged by
well-meaning and considerate friends,
on the ground of political expediency,
not to go .beyond the president's de
mands,- he replied: "I want to do my
part to make a bill that my boys can
be proud of." He offered nineteen
amendments upon . equitable railway
valuation and, while none of these went
through, he educated the people of the
nation as he had those of his state on
the Justice of railroad valuation and
taxation. •>
It is not easy to campaign against
this worker for "God's patient poor."
A venerable lawyer at Hudson, Wis.,
a one-time partner of Senator Spooner,
recently complained that you could not
get the people away from LaFollette.
"Now, there is Blnar Halverson.'l he
said; "Einar is a good man. He is a
good Norwegian man. I told him La-
Folette was no good. He said he didn't
believe it. I told him something that
LaFollette had done that was wrong.
He said he didn't believe it, that he
didn't think LaFollette would do such
a thing. I proved it; and when I
proved it to him, he rubbed his head
and just said: 'I don' no, but if La-
Follette did dot, it must ban right;
dot's all.' "..
There is an afternoon newspaper in
Madison that prints its humor in the
The Firefly Puzzle
Despite the fact that science has
been puzzling over the problem for
many yearsexperimenting and ana-
lyzlng and dissecting—the glowworm's
secret is still unsolved. We know
very little more about its mysterious
lamp—physiologic light the experts call
it— than did our forefathers. Even
its purpose it still hidden.
Except to delight the human eye,
the firefly's aimless flashing through
the trees, the nocitlluca's brilliant il
lumination of the sea, seem to be abso
lutely purposeless. They may have
something to do with the reproduction
of the species, says F. A. McDermott
in the Popular Science Monthly, but
this is mere speculation.
Mr. McDermott goes on to tell what
little wo do know regarding physiolo
gic light. It may be summed up as
follows: The common notion that the
light is due to the presence of phos
phorus In the insect's body is a mis
take. Analyses show very minute
quantities of this element, and these
in the form of phosphates. The light
is the most economical form of il
lumination known. Its efficiency is 96
per cent, as compared with 4 per cent
for the best artificial illumlnant
known. The amount of heat produced
by the firefly in running Its lamp is
so small that it cannot be measured.
The light from different phosphor
escent organisms has been described as
of very various colors—red, blue, ' green,
Killing the Umpire
According to bleacher law, there are
three particularly Justifiable motives
for doing away with umpires. An um
pire may be killed, first, if he sees fit
to adhere to the rules and makes a
decision against the home team at a
close point in the game. Secondly,
an, umpire may be killed If he sends
a member of the home team to the
bench when the player in question has
done absolutely nothing but call the
umpire names and attempt to bite his
ear off—an umpire has no business to
be touchy. Thirdly (and this is a per
fect defense against the charge of
murder), an umpire may be killed If
he calls any batter on the home team
out on strikes When the player has
not even struck at the balls pitched.
That the balls go straight over the
plate has nothing to do with the case.
There is ample proof at hand to
show that killing the umpire, is a dis
tinctively American sport. Other
countries have tried baseball, but they
Merely in Jest
FOILED
He was very bashful and she tried to
make it easy for him. They were driv
ing along the seashore and she became
silent for a time.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"O, I feel blue," sho replied. No
body loves me and my hands are
°°"You should not say that," was his
word of consolation, "for Q»d loves
you, and your mother loves you, and
you can Bit on, your hands."-Success
.Magazine.
SHE WANTED THE SECRET
Miss Drux—That was Mrs. Reaver we
'just passed. Her hair turned white in
a single night. ,_». i« -ran,,.
Miss Hydro—ln a single night? Why
didn't you introduce me? I'd give any
thing to learn where she bought her
peroxide.— Chicago News.
A SUGGESTION
"Oh my'" exclaimed the. excited wo
man who had mislaid her husband.
"I'm looking for a small man with one
eye" ...,.- •■•'■'
"Well, ma'am," replied the polite
shopwalker,, "if he's a very small man,
maybe you'd better use both eyes. —
Tit-Bits.
* HIS OPINION
Topkins—Do you think/the average
girl will accept a man as soon as he
proposes? ,'••'. " „
Hopkins—As soon as he proposes.-
Great Scott, man, she'll accept him as
soon as he begins to propose.— Chicago
News.
LOST HIS BAIT
"Yes, sir, the fish was so big it
pulled him in the river." .
"And he was drowned?"
"No, but he might's well have been,
for he lost his grip on his gallon Jug,
and it floated downstream, and he lives
in a dry county."—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
NO DIFFERENCE
"City people don't buy gold bricks,
you know/ said the summer young
man. - * „ . ' .
"No," replied Farmer. Comtossel,
"they Jes' keep plkln' along, buyin*
melons an' such that look good on the
outside."— Washington Star.
• •>• ; HIS DEFINITION
i "Now, children, what Is this?" asked
the teacher, holding up the picture of
a zebra. '.';"•- , ' ,
"It looks to me like a horse In. a
bathing suit," answered a little boy.—
Our Dumb Aplmals.
• (Collier's Weakly)
editorial columns.', Its editorial opposi
tion to LaFollette is one of the-funny]
things in the state. Goaded by tho
Milwaukee Journal for several weeks J
to show some reason for its opposition.
it at last came forward with a doubloi
column leaded editorial, in • which 'it I
eulogized Lincoln as the foundation of;
the Republican party. It did not, how
ever, remind its readers that I Lincoln
used the Republican party to emanci
pate men rather than to enrich a group
of men. Nor did it recall the fact that
the heroes of the Stalwart faction voted
the entire Wisconsin delegation against.
Lincoln in the Chicago convention.ln
1860—a vote that ever since Wisconsin
Republicans have been trying to for
get. It did rei^to a long list of more
or less colorless politicians and office
holders—a party roll call—concluding
with the name of a distinguished par
liamentary debater, John C. Spooner,
and insisting that Robert M. LaFolletto
be retired from public life because his
going to the senate .had so bewildered
Senator Spooner that Senator Spooner
had resigned. ■ ' j%S' . fc '_ .
From his farm home porch, LaFol
lette looks across the playful waters of
Lake Mertdota to the campus that now
supports at least twenty great build
ings that were unknown to him when
he ran the University Press." Here
he finds his rest in playing with his
children, in hardening up his muscles
by plowing corn and pitching hay. He
looks young and acts young; yet many
are dead and eulogized after they havo,
performed half his labors. , ,•>..;,,
(Collier's Weekly)
yellow, etc. Spectroscopic analyses
of the common firefly's flashes showed
"an unsymmetrical structureless.band
in the red, yellow and green." I A
fluorescent substance may be extract
ed from the common firefly. When
some of Its luminous tissue is carefuly
dried, it may be made to glow again
by moistening it with water. It re
tains this, power for considerable per
iods if kept dry.
It is practically certain that oxygen
is necessary to the production of phy
siologic light, so that lt may be con
sidered as due to some mysterious pro
cess of oxidation. The structure of the
light organs of all phosphorescent or
ganisms is quite similar. They "appear
to be masses of cells of some special
kind" penetrated by a network of pas
sages. What these tubules contain
during life is not known.
It is evident enough from the above
summary that all we are really sure
of at present regarding ' physiologic
light is that we do not know anything
at all about it, at least anything of
scientific value in explaining its mys
terious characteristics. The field is an
extremely fascinating one, and a real
solution of the problem might have
Important- and far-reaching' economic
results, because the present artiflcal
lighting methods are highly inefficient
and wasteful. Of course the puzzle
will be unraveled some time or other,
and a second Standard Oil fortune
may be awaiting the lucky man.
(Harper's Weekly)
hmve not tried killing the umpire.
That is probably the reason why they
have not waxed enthusiastic over base-*,
ball. • For baseball without umpire
killing is like football without girls
in the grandstand. It simply can't be
done. That foreign countries know
nothing about our king of outdoor
sports was Indicated forcibly when, in
the fall of 1909, the Detroit team made
a trip to Cuba under tho management
of Outfielder Mclntyre. J In the entire
series of twelve games* with the, Ha-,
vana and Almendares nines, not one
single objection was made by either
the Cuban players or the silent Cuban
spectators to a decision of the umpires.
The Americans did not know What to
think of it—until they counted up the
gate receipts at the end of the series.
Then they realized that, in their own.
country, it is the delight in killing
the umpire rather than the pleasure in
watching the game that draws the tre
mendous crowds through J the turn
stiles. v , - ; -
Far and Wide
CLEAN. SWEEP
James E. Wood, district superin
tendent of street cleaning in Washing
ton, says that 453,397,856 square yards
of streets in Washington are swept,
clean by machines every year. But
compared with tho clean sweep made
by the machine each year in Philadel
phia ' that is nothing.—Louisville
Courier-Journal. >. M
■ PERFECT HUMAN BLISS
Our Idea of perfect human bliss Is
to be able to answer an attack like
that of the New York Evening Post
and get a dollar a -word for the an
swer.—Washington Post.
DROPPING DISTANCES
After reading all the expert descrip
tions of how it feels to fall six or seven
thousand feet we have concluded lt
feels just the same as falling 8962.—5t.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
> MR. TAFT'S SIZE
An enthusiastic Republican declares
that Mr. Taft is a bigger man than he
was a year ago. Why. does he not try
running again? That might help him
Charleston News and Courier. .
THEY'RE WHERE SHERMAN WAS
It was in the Ozarka that they
nominated Vice President Sherman for
the presidency, but where in time are
the ?— Washington Post. -w;;>v
UNPROFITABLE
Probably there is no more unprofit
able employment 1 on earth than that
of counting the buttons down a wo
man's Galveston News.
MAKING THINGS HOMELIKE
"Liar!" shouts a strong-lunged west
erner to the ex-president. Nothing like
trying. to make the colonel feel at.
home.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. . * ■■..'
Western man has offered to marry
Carrie Nation. The Nobel peace prize
for 1910 is thus early disposed of, pro
vided she takes him.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer. j
Some day a genius will arise and
make a fortune by harnessing the en
ergy now wasted on the average salt
shaker.—Atchison Globe. ,'•;■ L,^f i( - t 'pf.
"Chickens may be kept nine months,"
says Dr. Wiley.. Much depends on the
character of the neighborhood.—Toledo.
Blade. .. ,:'■'.. '; • ;.-',, .1
The cause of the high price of living
appears to depend wholly, upon one's
political convictions;— Record-
Herald.