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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
Have you given your dollar or dime
yet?
Message that Ex-Mayor Harper
might send to the district attorney:
"Who's loony now?"
Dr. Cook might find this counter
more to his liking than London. He Is
assured of an arctic reception if he
returns.
The way charges are raining down
on Captain Fredericks must make him
think even the hairs of his head are
numbered.
President Taft insists that there
shall be no more free pfrk barrel.
Thus does the cost of meat continue to
go up steadily.
Visitors to Southern California will
not find gold In the streets, but they
may soon see It growing on the orange
trees all around them.
Chairman Blxby offers his resigna
tion with the understanding that the
supervisors are to regard it in the
Pickwickian sense.
Los Angeles reporters have shown
a commendable restraint in falling to
say that the Time, "like Phoenix, will
v rlse from its ashes."
While cigarettes are to be made
smaller we can assure the public
that their smell will be no less elo
quent than in the past.
Japanese gardens In the parks may
be nice, but for practical purposes the
Japanese and Chinese gardens on the
outskirts could less easily be spared.
Central American revolutionists
must regard the Portuguese, who
couldn't make a revolution last more
than a week, with supreme contempt.
Comparing the California and New
York platforms, we conclude that In
surgency here and progressiveness
there are hardly synonymous terms.
Navigator Larson threatens to go
through Niagara rapids again. Enter
prising papers will not overlook the
tip, and will have his obituary ready
for instant use.
A medical war is again being waged
on the doughnuts as a deadly article
of diet. Not all of the. "sinker" is
bad, however. The hole is understood
to be positively beneficial.
In the past two years there nave
been 2068 executions in Russia. In the
czar's domain it is necessary for fami
lies to call the roll each dayovich to
see if they are ail therosky.
Fort Worth, Tex., claims to pay
the highest average wage of any city
in the southwest, but experienced
travelers say it is worth the highest
wage to live in Fort Worth.
A man In Washington is said to eat
a whole ham every day. An occa
sional man can afford a case of cham
pagne a day, but not many can en
joy the luxury of thirty hams a
month.
After delivering 1500 sermons to his
flock a New York minister has
resigned, saying that he is "preached
out." This illustrates the advantage
of making them half as long; they
will go farther.
A poor woman in New York the
other day threw herself off a lush
building because her husband could
Dot support the family on the wages
received In •' highly "protected" in
dustry. In view of such events pro
tection statistics are a tax on the pa
tience.
OIL, THE NEW KING
Tin: California oil fields are not the
only ones that arc making records
and history these dark days, not
to speak of the fortunes they are pour
ing Into Individual hands. The latest
enormous (rusher is reported from the
Caspian Me. district in the Russian
field. It is said to be spouting at the
rate of 100,000 barrels a day, and this
Is happening in a region that has lons
been producing the liquid wealth and
Is noted for the staying power of Its
wells.
Rut, as the Cleveland Leader says, it
Is not the occasional giant well which
makes the life of the oil business seem
likely to- stretch away indefinitely Into
the future. That hopeful state of
things for the refiners is most plainly
Indicated by the constant widening of
the producing territory. One great field
after another has been found In this
country until oil Is produced In a dozen
states, on a large sca^e, and big de
posits are found all the way from
Pennsylvania to California.
Mexico has been discovered to be
very rich in petroleum. Sumatra is a
rival of the Caspian sea region, in
Asiatic Russia. Much oil Is being pro
duced ln Persia and In the part of
Turkey ln Asia which lies near the
head of the Persian gulf. All signs
point to great petroleum developments
ln various parts of Asia, from Siberia
to the Malay peninsula.
Hut as fast as new supplies are
tapped the consumption seems to
widen. The use of oil In industry Is
increasing quite as wonderfully as
bounteous nature Is giving it up to
the world. Railroads, naval establish
ments and factories are turning- to tho
cheaper and cleaner fuel.
Around cheap fuel supplies inevitably
cluster manufactures. Along with the
development of the California field will
not only come Increased commerce re
sulting directly from it, but a growth
of manufacturing that will bear out
the predictions of the most sanguine
as to the industrial future of the
southland.
The world waited for assurance of
abundant supplies of oil before serious
ly considering its use in place of coal.
Now that the assurance Is found, coal
is about to be dethroned for the new
king. In the change there are won
derful possibilities for Los Angeles and
the whole of this region.
A GREAT PLAY
TOO seldom do great plays come to
the coast. By that Is not meant
amusing plays, or entertaining
plays, or thrilling plays, or plays that
are "the rage," but dramas that de
serve this characterization from every
point of view— literature, as themes
worthy of thought, as things of real
vital and dramatic and theatrical con
sequence. When such a play comes
along The Herald feels like commend
ing it to people.
There are still three days in which
to see Israel Zangwill's "The Melting
rot" at the Majestic theater, in which
may bo found many of the unformed
thoughts of your reading, reflection,
observation and perhaps experience
woven into a fabric of such beauty as
only a shuttle like that running be
tween the mind and heart of a Zang
will can weave. "See Naples and die"
Is an Italian proverb. To paraphrase
it, see "The Melting Pot" before you
give up the theater as a means either
of entertainment or Instruction.
Is the world growing better? Is
America the haven of the oppressed?
is the gulf between the masses and
classes closing or widening? Is the
rich man always rich and the poor
man poor? Is there a rational cause
for the disquiet of the age, spiritual,
mental, social and economic? Is there
the leaven in this fermenting mass of
humanity of the kind that will turn
it into something sweet and wholesome
and nourishing?
A pretty large question for one play
to answer, you say? Maybe it doesn't
undertake to answer, but only sets you
in the way to find the solution. We
are not going to analyze either the
plot or its lesson. There is neither
inclination nor room here. But with
these hints to stimulate your curiosity
wo say that "The Melting Pot" will
make you ashamed of your prejudices,
will open your mind like a flower, will
give you new interest in things in
which. you ought to be interested but
in your selfishness aro not.
The Herald repeats Its advice that
you owo it to yourself to see this play.
If you do you will thank it for saying
so Instead of boring you with the usual
topics of tills space for once.
VOTING BY MACHINERY
THE removal of the precious pile of
junk called voting machines to
the basement of the Temple block
Is made the occasion of satirical com
ments on such devices. It is unfor
tunate that this legacy of tho days of
political corruption in Los Angeles,
which were foisted on the city as a
means for politicians to graft on the
treasury, has prejudiced the public
mind against one of the most impor
tant agencies of reform yet produced.
These so-called voting machines, it
Is true, were a fako and fraud, but
In the various cities of the country
thousands of machines of proved
worth are being used to the entire
satisfaction of the communities own
ing them. So long as Los Angeles re
frains from their use it will be lag
ging ln the march of progress in one
very Important respect.
That voting machines arc a success
is shown by the fact that they can
be had with an absolute, responsible
guaranty that they will do all that is
represented as to perfect mechanism.
accuracy and simplicity of operation.
Mechanical voting, not to speak of
its great moral Improvement in the
conduct of elections, is economical.
With it tho number of precincts and
election official can be largely reduced
with immensely better results as well
as saving in expenditure. The totals
of every candidate can be known In
stantly upon the close of the polls.
The accuracy of the machines is
LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1910.
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such that post-election contests are as
impossible as cheating on election day.
After they are set properly for their
work, not even a mechanician can
"work" them. They Insure the abso
lute secrecy of the ballot. Viewed from
every standpoint, they are the friends
and guarantors of honesty in elec
tions.
It is enough to say in their favor
that their only opponents are profes
sional politicians, for reasons that are
obvious.
FALSE CONFESSIONS
TT IEWS expressed by Attorney Rog-
VIEWS who taking a leading part
ers, who is taking a leading part
i in trying to run down the Times
conspirators, are also voiced by the;
Philadelphia Telegraph. They are to
the effect that large rewards often
thwart the very "purposes they aim to
promote. They are a temptation to
conspiracy on the part of private de
tectives to railroad innocent parties to
jail with manufactured testimony.
They also stimulate cranks, impulsive
people and busy-bodies to lead the
authorities off on false I clews, the
guilty ones meantime finding more
safety in flight. At the same time we
believe rewards should be proportion
ate to the crime, but when such re
wards are offered the authorities must
exercise the greatest diligence.
It will be surprising if this catas
trophe does not lead to some false
confessions for various psychological
reasons. The history of crime is full
of such incidents. Some confess for
notoriety, some for a joy ride (so to
speak) to a new city, trusting for
liberty to a later retraction; some for
inscrutable reasons. The publication
Law Notes, in its September issue, re
calls a remarkable case.
In May, 1812, Russell Colvln, a Ver
mont man, disappeared. After seven
years some of his neighbors worked
up a theory of foul play. Suspicion
was directed against Colvln's two
brothers-in-law, named Boom, and
they were arrested. There was some
circumstantial evidence seemingly
against them, and under some urging
to do so they confessed. The rest is
told by Law Notes:
One of them made a written con
fession that he had killed Colvln,
but asserted that it was done in a
quarrel and that Colvln struck
him first. The confession coincided
substantially with what circum
stantial evidence there was. They
were tried, convicted, and sen
tenced to be executed on January
28, 1820. Efforts to secure a com
mutation of sentence failed; where
upon the confession was retracted
and the condemned protested their
innocence and urged that efforts
be made to discover the missing
man. By means of an advertise
ment tho lost Colvln was found
working on a farm In New Jersey
and partly Insane. He was Imme
diately brought back to Vermont
and the Boom brothers were re
leased.
A few years ago a young man In
Chicago confessed to a murder with
which he was charged, under the pres
sure of the third degree, and told how
it was committed. After sentence to
death ho retracted, but he was exe
cuted, protesting his innocence to the
last. Some impartial students of th*
case believe he never committed tho
crime.
A strange mentality sometimes leads
to false confessions. In other cases
self-hypnotism or the hypnotic sug
gestion of stronger minds is the causa.
Hut whatever the cause, those ex
perienced in such matters have learned
not to believe every confession In the
absence of corroboration. The atti
tude of Attorney Rogers shows that he
and his co-workers are on guard
against impostures of the kind in the
Times case.
The government made the sugar
trust pay back a few millions i! stole
from the customs, but permits it to no
on stealing more millions through the
! tariff. Uncle Sam strains at gnats
i himself.
Temblors
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but assumes ny responsibility for their view*.
DANGER IN BIG REWARDS
Editor Herald: There is no one in
our city who is more anxious to see
the guilty perpetrators of the Times
disaster than I punished in accordance
with their crime, and I am desirous
of seeing swift justice, too. But I
seriously question which is the greater
of the two— the offering of the enor
mous and unreasonable rewards which
Increase the already heavy burden of
the tax-ridden citizens of our city, ac
tually taking the necessities of life j
j from the living, many of whom are ,
poor widows and orphans that are
having to eke out existence without
•sympathy or support from any out
side source. But it also tends to In
duce unscrupulous would-be detec
tives to trump up charges against the
Innocent, that they may profit by such
a rich reward.
I have in mind a certain case where
three men were arrested, thrown in
our county jail, and after more than
six months there one of our present
attorneys can tell what a hard fight
he had to get a jury not believe the
trumped up evidence of the detectives.
And the railway and express com
panies only had out a $6500 reward.
The subsequent arrest and confession
of the guilty ones proved their Inno
cence In less than six months from
their release. Sir, as a citizen and
taxpayer, I am in favor of justice, but
I for one am unalterably opposed to
pauperizing the living that a few may I
he given a chance to prey upon the
Innocent. Be reasonable and just to
both the living and the dead. Com
pare these rewards and efforts with
those of the heinous Poltera crime.
CITIZEN.
Los Angeles, Cal.
WORK FOR TRAFFIC SQUAD
Editor Herald: The subject of smok
ing automobiles continues to be per
tinent in Los Angeles. I have been
down town every day the past week,
and never have I failed to count less
than half a dozen smoking autos on
our principal streets. One especially
that passed me left such a trail of
smoke behind that it shut off the view
of the street beyond like a morning
fog—and smelted a great deal worse.
I thlrrk it would' be a good plan for
the traffic squad to take a hand in
persuading careless drivers to observe
what is really one of the rules of the
road. Why not have its members
speak to drivers whose machines are
emitting quantities of smoke and ask
them to remedy the evil? It would
take only a minute to make the re
quest, and surely some of the negli
gent drivers would bo men enough to
heed it.
My auto friends tell me that there
is no reasonable excuse for an auto
mobile smoking, and that an incom
petent driver may be known by the
trail of smoke he leaves behind. If
that is true there are many incom
petents in this city. They are not
tolerated in New York and other pro
gressive places, and they should not
be hero. A. SNYDER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
NATIONAL HYMN NEEDED
Editor Herald: The United States is
still without a national hymn of its
own; that is, we havo no accepted
national hymn of which both the words
and muslo are American.
We have "My Country, 'Tls of Thee"
and "The Star Spangled Banner." I
put Dr. Smith's hymn first, as it is
sung a thousand times to the other's
once, and chiefly because the tune of
"The Star Spangled Banner" embraces
so much of the gamut as to make lt
impracticable for the uncultivated
voice. Both tunes are English—the
one "God Save the King" and the
other "The Ode to Anacreon," written
by the English composer, Dr. Samuel
Arnold, about the year 1802.
What the country needs Is a master
ly, dignified hymn wedded to an orig
inal tune, a fine choral such as the
Russian national hymn, the tune to
be simple, and in a small compass
(less than an octave), so that every
body can sing it as they now sing
"America" to the English choral. I
would be glad to see the great Herald
Inaugurate a new contest, but with
the proviso that the Judges shall be re
stricted In their decision so that the
words shall be worthy of the great
subject and the music dignified, me
lodic and easily within the capacity
of the untutored singer.
T. C. CRANE.
Lone- Beach. Cal.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS
Editor Herald: We seem to have
arrived at a state of actual anarchy,
and from all indications at hand that
spirit has taken possession of a cer
tain part of the social organization
and threatens to upset the existing or
der of tilings through methods of vio
lence, whose cause Is to be sought for
in the selfish nature of man. Both
: labor and capital -are needed in our
I existence, and should be used wisely
i in our pursuit of happiness, but as
this pursuit resolves itself in individ
ual effort to pander to the sensuous
nature of man, society, has been, and
always will be, convulsed by manifes
tations of violence, such as murder,
war and calamities of various sorts,
and this because the individual In
stead of merging himself into the so
cial spirit essays to be greater than
the state. Thus the king says, "I am
the state," and the capitalist says,
"The people be damned."
But for the Individual to merge him
self Into society, he first must find
his exact place in that body. He must
be certain of constant work, fair re
turns and be able to pursue some In
tellectual line of research or thought
for the benefit of the social organism
of which he is a part in the same sense
as a cell of man's individual body is
a part of the personality of man. This,
I or course, is only possible In a society
governed by a spirit of righteousness
end absolute truth, In which each
member has ceased to seek personal
pleasure of physical nature and has
become a searcher after truth for the
love, of truth. What appear to be
appalling catastrophes, such as the
destruction of thousands of lives or
millions of property, the existence of
disease, misery and death, all point
out the truth of Its own falsity, error
and limitation, consequently in passing
away must eventually give place to
order of the highest class, and as God
created this earth for the habitation
of his oplrit, it is evident that this
hell must pass away and a different
union than now exists between labor
and capital will rise on Its ashes. i
A. L. HYDE.
Los Angeles, Cal.
A PEDESTRIAN'S TROUBLEB
Editor Herald:- Which I wish to re
mark In language that's plain, that for
pedestrianism that's hlgglety-plgglety
and altogether ln vain, the sidewalk
population of Los Angeles is peculiar.
In fact, no other city can compare with
it, though it is not one of the attrac
tions that are so extensively advertised
as a climatic Ingredient. One must
see it to believe it. One must be
sideswiped by it to appreciate it. And
the humor of it la that every one
appears to be blissfully unconscious of
his or her share in it, as well as of tho
fact that Thus saith the law: Thou
shalt not pass thy neighbor who is
approaching you on the left; neither
shalt thou pass him from the rear
upon the right. These are good rules,
because they, work both ways— going
and coming—and make walking a
pleasure Instead of a pain. To jog tho
memory I might suggest that the
many lapel badges and the window
signs, "Smile," "Don't worry," etc.,
which have been overworked, be given
a rest and be superseded by a linger
and the words, "Pass to the right,
plague take you," "Keep off my corns,
please," "Let my heels alone," "Don't
jab."
• Whren I first got caught in tho
Broadway vortex I thought I had
landed in tho midst of a coed fresh
man rush. I tried to keep to the
right till I found myself balancing on
the curb. I tried to avoid jabbing
others, but, bang! came a lady fair,
fat and forty, against a vital spot in
my anatomy. I described a giddy
whirl, and when reason again re
sumed her throne I doffed my hat and
opened my mouth to apologize, but
the lady was sailing serenely half a
block away, and others of both sexes
were aldeawlping me. In doubt of my
own rights, I removed my remains to
the gutter, only to be driven back by
the angry honk, honk of an auto.
As to this peculiar "sldeswiping," I
came to the conclusion it was due to
a left handed compliment or to the
effect of the climate on the optic nerve
preventing the normally correct appre
ciation of distance. I was not egotistic
enough to lay It to my personal at
traction. __
TRUTHFUL JAMES.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Yes, We Are for Woolwine
In the excitement following the dis
aster that occurred in Los Angeles on
October 1 matters . political were for
gotten, for tho time being at least, by
a large number of citizens. .'* :';:
However, the political cauldron has
never stopped' boiling and bubbling, and
a big bunch of fuel was added to the
fire | under it on the night before the
disaster, when Thomas Lee Woolwine,
the Democratic and Good Government
candidate for district attorney, in a
speech at Simpson auditorium, charged
that J. D. Fredericks, the Incumbent of
the district attorney's office and candi
date for re-election, had suppressed a
forgery, thereby profiting to the extent
Of several thousand dollars. He went
Into details of the matter, and the
only reply Fredericks condescended to
make was a general denial of the truth
of the charge. i
Mr. Woolwine has reiterated the
Charge time and again, and has made
other charges against Mr. Fredericks,
and the latter says he Is going to an
swer these charges later. '
If Mr. Woolwlno's charges be untrue
he should immediately be arrested and
placed in Jail for criminal libel, but no
move to arrest him has been made,
and it certainly will require a lot more
proof than a mere general denial to
convince the voters that the charges
against Mr. Fredericks are not true.
Mr. Fredericks has held the office of
district attorney for some time. Ho
was elected to that office, and re-elect
ed at times when only a man that
was satisfactory to the Republican ma
chine, controlled by the S. P.. could be
elected. He has been part and parcel
of that machine. * ; .
This fact alone should be sufficient to
defeat him, as Los Angeles county has
certainly had enough of S. P.-control
of public offices.
Mr Fredericks has been an excellent
official-tor the S. P. gang and Its
friends—but now that the power of
this aggregation seems to be waning.
Aviation's Height Records
Height records have been made and
broken with such rapidity during the
past two years that it has been dif
ficult at times to keep up w,t" rA ,em/
They cover a long range, from 350 reel,
made by Wilbur Wright, at Auvours,
in December, 1908, to 8792 feet, reached
by the unfortunate Chavez, at Issy, on
September 8. made his _,________,«
When Wright made his 350 feet flight
It was looked upon as mighty high fly
ing and remained the record for hair
a year. Paulhan exceeded it by 43 feet.
July 1. 1909, and was followed by Lath
am, the following August. who rose to
a height of 508.5 feet. From last No
vember, when Paulhan more than dou
bled the latter, to the present time, the
records have leaped up by mighty
bounds, in this order:
fnulhsn 1110 Brooking 6175
Latham ... 13«|Drex.l "" WW
Graft in the Hospitals
———————— ~~ (Dr. N. Barnesby, I
Hospital "grafting has become so
universal that lt is now almost con
sidered legitimate. For of course tho
example of the "man higher up" is dil
igently copied by the rest -Thus, the
kitchen force are in the habit of help
ing themselves to tea, coffee, sugar and
other groceries, which they carry off to
their homes. The orderlies and nurses
are more attracted to the medical
stores and thermometers, bandages
and minor operating Instruments con
sequently disappear with wonderful
regularity. The interne, when he has
finished his apprenticeship, usually
finds that he Is well equipped to estab
lish himself in practice. Silk worm
Far and Wide
PATENTS AND MONOPOLIES
The absorption of the Plant ««<>•. ma
chinery by the United State. Machinery
company Is now admitted by '"«"""
ested persons. A* ha* been said already.
I this only hasten* the day of government
regulation, for the people will not submit
to bo exploited by a monopoly If they
can possibly got at It. and they will find a
way , —Fltchburg Sentinel.
DO YOU REMEMBER HIM?
The dispatch** record that on* David
1! Hill appeared at Elmlra, N. V., the
'the? day and made a political speech.
If memory I. not at fault, a man of that
name cut some figure In New York pol tics
last century— Andrew Jackson's time,
we think It was—Kansas City Journal.
ONE VACANCY EASILY FILLED
There seems to be more than a thou
sand men ln this country who "have been
mentioned" successor to President Wood
row Wilson. This reassuring, as '**■*,
feared the place would go begging.—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
MR. HITCHCOCK SILENT
Mr Frank Hitchcock, though a man of
rare practical efficiency. Is not making any
conspicuous efforts to help settle questions
of political ethics now arlslng.-Washlngton
Star.
CIGAR SUPPLY NOT CURTAILED
Connecticut has harvested the biggest
crop of tobacco ln twenty years, so there
should he no lack of choice Imported Ha
vana cigars this winter.-Pltt.burg Gazette-
Times.
SCHOLARS IN POLITICS
Somebody writes: ' Mexico has no scholar
In politic.." Hut what would you call the
president who was a professor of Roman law
in MS younger days?— Mexican Herald.
DOESN'T HELP THB FLAT ABOVE NOW
Le.ohetlzsky. who ought to know, declares
that In 300 year* piano playing will be a
thing of the past. That's mighty slim
consolation.— Herald.
WHY STOP POPULAR PRACTICE?
Have the pure food and drug laws no
clause ln them about adulterating cigar
ette, with woolen waste or leather find
ings?—lndianapolis Star.
SUGGESTION OF A DIFFERENCE!
President Taft seem, to be trying to get
the people to think with him rather than
to shout for him.— Washington Post.
YOUTH'S AMBITION
I have plenty to eat and Dlenty to wear.
And thing* could be worse, I admit, than
they are;
We have days that are bright, .w* have
■ scenes that are fair. I ■
There are place* much worse than tni.
1 place Is. by far; ■ , ___
We have all of tho blessing* that science
can give, .
And father I. making a fortune In Pork,
But life will be dismal until we can live
In glad little, mad little old New York.
We h»ve music and art, we have choru.e.,
We have taxi* and crowds, we have clubs,
We have t»xi. and crowds, we have oluD»,
we have parka; _ ' ' _
We eat and we drink a* the Oothamlte. do,
We have plenty of chance, for dangerou*
lurks; V L ,-_...
We have reason sometimes to be giaa, to
have pride,
We may even be thrilled by the pop or
th* cork; - ' '
But we merely exist.till we go to reside _
In glad little, mad little old New York.
(Lo* Angeles Record)
he la trying to change his spot! and be
considered a Lincoln-Roosevelt Repub
lican. . -•.
So far as the general public, the
common people, is concerned, Mr. Fred
ericks has conducted his office as he
saw fit. If he could act as the people
desired he has always been glad to da
so— providing such action did not dis
please the big bosses. If lt did dis
please them—well, there was more than
one way to get out of offending the
bosses.
Thomas Lee Woolwine has served the
people, tor a short time, as city prose
cuting attorney, but because he insisted
on really nerving the PEOPLE, and
refused to take orders as to how he was
to enforce the law, ho did not last long.
Had Mr. Woolwine been willing to
take orders, and to Interpret the law
in the way tha bosses wanted it inter
preted, he might havo continued as
prosecuting attorney; but ho refused to
lie a too] for the bosses. He believed
that tho law was made to apply to tho
rich man, the man with influence and.
political power, Just as much as to tho
poor man, and he started out to see
that the law was enforced without fear
or favor, and, as we said before, he did
not last long. ;; •
But that made no difference to Mr.
Woolwine. He kept on fighting for
what ho believed to be right, and he
made a mighty good fight.
There Is no more Important office in
the county than that of district attor
ney, and If Mr. Woolwine is elected to
it we believe he will conduct it for
ALL the people, and not for a chosen
few We believe he would see that ALL
the laws are enforced. NO MATTER
WHO WAS AFFECTED.
Furthermore, we believe, he la abso
lutely honest and upright, and would
make an official everyone would be
proud of. _____•- ,
We are going to vote for Mr. Wool
wine ourselves, and we hope that every
voter who reads the Record will do
likewise.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Latham 1700 Morane -. TOM
Latham 3436 Morano ««1
Paulhan 4l6sChavea "M
'Jrooklns 4"M
It will not be surprising If some avia
tor reaches the 10,000 foot record before
the international meet. if so, the con
ditions governing the special prize con
test will doubtless be amended. Why
not make it 12,000 feet at least? That
would be a jump worth while.
An aviator making the height of 10,
--000 feet at the meet, supposing that this
record Is not established before that
time, may clean up $9000, for in addi
tion to tho special prize for this height
there are two other altitude prizes in
the regular list; one of $3000 for tho
greatest height attained at the meet.
and another of $1000 for any height In
excess of that made recently by Chavez.
"Going UP?"
i the October Forum)
gut, catgut, bandages, chloroform,
ether, etc., are expensive Items, and he
argues that the hospital can well afford
to help him out.
The physician in attendance, not to
be loft In tho cold, usually appears at
his clinics with an empty bag ln which
to carry off his share of the loot. And
so the game goes merrily on. A doctor
of my acquaintance makes It a habit
to go to the clinic three times a week
for the sole purpose of "stocking up,",
as he calls lt. His black surgical bag
has six large bottles In it and these
are*'filled thrice weekly with alcohol,
ether, chloroform, lysol, green soap,
peroxide and anything else that he
especially needs.
Merely in Jest
BPEAKINO OF PUNS
Dr. Fenner was th* most famous of medical
jokers. His coachman was a man named
Miles, who had been with him for many years.
Mr. Mile* was the youngest of twelve. Said
Dr. Fcnner ono day:
"Miles, what a pity you never saw your
eldest brother!"
"I did air, often." said Miles.
"But you couldn't," replied the doctor.
"Why not, sir?" queried Mile*.
"Because," said the doctor, "there were al
way* ten Mile* betweaa you."—Tlt-Blts.
A FINANCIAL DEADLOCK
"Who la that man who has been sitting be
hind the bar day after day?" Inquired th*
stranger In Crimson Gulch.
"That's Stag. Coach Charley He* In a
peculiar predicament He went to town last
week and got hi. teeth fixed. Then he com*
here and, bain* broke, ran up a bill on tin
stren'th of his If worth of gold flllln'. ! Charley
won't submit to havtn' the nugget, pried out
an' the proprietor won't let him git away with
the collateral, and there you Washing
ton Star.
AN ENDLESS CHAIN
She— Father believes In the pleasures of an
ticipation.
He—Do you acre* with him?
She—Oh, yes, Indeed! In the summer he
promises to buy me a sealskin coat the fol
lowing winter If I'll give up going to tha tea
side, and In the winter he promise, to send
me to the seaside the following summer If I
give up the sealskin coat. So, you see, I am
always happy.—
A HANDS-OFF POLICY ,
"That nephew of your* Is a little wild, I'll
admit," .aid Uncle Jerry", neighbor, trying to
comfort him, "but he'll reform a. he grow*
older. Leave him to time and nature."
' "Tim* and nature," snapped Uncle Jerry.
"It*, time and nature that make Llmburger
cheese what It Success Magazine.
WHERE SHE BALKED
Miss Flora McFllmsey of Madison Square was
complaining that she had absolutely nothing
to wear. • - ■ , •':■ '
"I draw the Una, of course," she said, "at
the hobble skirt."
Concealing herself beneath an Inverted wash
tub bat, however, she managed to walk up
Broadway without being recognized or attract
ing any particular attention.—Chicago Tribune.
- NO INTOXICANTS NEEDED
Political Blower— I know I would be a
great attraction. Why, at th* last place I
made a speech my eloquence was simply In- .
toxicating.
Postmaster—Well, we wouldn't care about
your speaking here, stranger. This I* a pro
hibition town.—Chicago New*.
, DETECTED
Dealer— why are you sure that dog Is not
a. genuine Boston terrier, madam T
Mrs. de Style—Because he turned up his nose
at Boston beans. No true Bostonlan would do
—Chicago News.
• NATURAL HISTORY ' '
■ The close lt I* a startling thing—
Exciting anyway:
It don't exactly scare you.
But lt takes your breath away!
' —Puck
THE BRASS BAND
Oh. lucky I* the campaign band.
Th* .am. old tune* It gaily blow* .
With occupation at command, ■
No matter how th* landslide go*..