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. v:> ,;•• ... - -■■:: :■;■: i MONDAY MORNING. Los Angeles Herald THOMAS K. GIBBON, President ana Editor Kfctered ac second rials matter at the poitofflce la Ix>» An»ele«. " OLDEST MORNING PAPER IN LOB ANOKI.BS. r«»ded October, i, I*7B. Thlrty-»l«l«k I««r. , ■■■■ - Chamber of Commerce Blinding. Phones—Sun»et Main 8000; Horn* 1031!. fh« «nlr Democratic paper in Southern California receiving full Associated Press reports. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION WITH BUND AY MAGAZINE Pally, by mail or carrier, a month ' •*' Dally, by mall or carrier, three month* '• " Dally, by mall or carrier, six month* ••"? Dally, by mall or carrier, one year *■"' Sunday Herald, one yeer ;••_••■••', Postage free United stated and faexlco; «lt«wh«ro pottage added. ~~A file of Th» Los Anjele. Herald can be »een at the office of our English representatives. Messrs. H. and J. Hardy ft Co.. h «, II and 32 Fleet street, London. England, free of charge, and mat firm will be glad to receive news, subscription* and advertisement on our behalf. Population of Los Angeles 319,198 The world would be bettor and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty. To be happy our selves is a most effectual contribution to the happi ness of others. —Sir John Lubbock. OBJECT TO SPINSTER TYPE THE stage Irishman has brought out protests from the Celt. The stage Jew has brought out protests from the Hebrew. A third suf fcrei now joins them—the New England woman, who is tired of stage portrayals of the down-east spinster. The National Society of New England Women, with headquarters in New York, has begun a cru sade against the familiar burlesque creature of corkscrew curls and twang, "There are countless New England plays." says the indignant society, "yet who ever saw a real New England woman on the stager" As stage types crystallize, such complaints are likely to become still more frequent. After the racial protests will come those of the classes. The trust magnates will tile their objections; the re porters: the commercial travelers; the club wom en ; perhaps even the "adventuresses," with their cigarettes and cocktails. "I do not pay you to think, but to write," once said a certain employer of literary labor. "1 do not pay you to observe, but to act," might seem to be the word of the average manager to his per formers. So long as these blink life and are con lent to pattern after one another the "copy-cat" will thrive, well-worn grooves will be worn deep er still, types will stiffen into rigidity and com plaints from the "front" will multiply. The New England woman should not regard herself as an isolated victim. There are others, and she might join with them in Irving to freshen up the actors' outlook on life and to waft a little ozone across the dusty purlieus of the stage. WHY MEAT SHOULD BE FREE THERE is every reason to believe that an at tempt will be made at this session of con gress to take off the tariff on meat, and the wonder is what sort of argument the beef trust will put up to prevent this relief from the present high cost of living. Cudahy and Armour have set forth that the country was not supplying enough cattle to feed the people, and in the face of protests and govern ment inquiry they advanced the prices. If we do not grow enough' to supply our own wants, then what is the reason for a protective tariff? An Australian exporter who recently arrived in New York declares that he could supply beef to that port at 6 cents a pound if the duty was re moved. The trust is competing with this same ex porter in the markets of Europe and doing it at a profit, so why couldn't the same thing be done here? Surely the American stock grower ha? market enough in supplying the more than 91,000.000 of people in continental America, and the question of whether the grower ever gets the benefit of the tariff anyway always has been a mooted one. Already the policy of delay has been put in motion by the trust on the ground that the whole matter would have to be the subject ot ex.iaustive research by a commission. It will be distinctly remembered that when Senator Aldnch wanted to boost the tax on manufactured rubber in the inter est of his own corporation from 30 to 35 per cent Ins friends in the senate and house accepted it without question. Hut the revision of the meat schedule downward in the interest ot the whole people is a different matter and the public will have to wait unless it demands immediate action from its legislative representatives. AS CENSORED BY A PREACHER REV PERCY GRANT, though pastor of a fashionable church on Fifth avenue, New York, never leaped to fame until, resolving himself into a committee of the whole, lie began classifying the news items printed in the New York newspapers, with a view to announcing, at the end of three months, the comparative propor tion o f good, bad and indifferent. At the end pi the quarter the world is favored with tlw exhibit. It appears, from inspecting it, that Rev. Mr. Grant divided news items into four classes, labeled "worth while." "trivial," "unwholesome" and "de moralizing." He found in the thirteen weeks .WKJ news items he thoughi worth while. 2100 he be lieved to be trivial, 1700 which to him appeared unwholesome and 2300 which impressed him so unfavorably thai he set them down as demoraliz ing. This is not so bad. When more news items get into the "worth while" class than into any other of the four dashes, we may still take heart of hope. For it must be remembered that in running a cleri cal guutlvt to reach the goal oi "worth while," an item must show speed, strength and slaying power. Some of the Four Hundred would not put: Rev. Percy Grant's sermons in the '■trivial" class, but others of them, and probably the majority, would negatively classify them that way by refusing to read them. This conclusion brings us back to ihe point of view, a very old point indeed in all matters of newspaper comparison, criticism, adjustment or equalization. Rev. Mr. Grant's list differs widely beyond question, from one which might be drawn by a broker, a lawyer, a physician, or any man in ihe street. However, there is hope for us even under the strict censorship of a minister, and if the laity might be allowed to judge perhaps quite a few of us newspapers would pass muster. Editorial Page <gf 13he Herald WANTED—A REAL STATESMAN THERE is a job open in Washington for a real statesman. The changes in the house make it possible that a man will be found to take the stand that every member should act as if he were there in the interest of the whole people and not merely as the lobbyist f<>r the district that elected him. Three bills have always led to what is called I log-rolling in congress—a public buildings bill, a : river and harbor bill and a tariff bill. All three ■ have invariably been prepared and passed on the ! proposition, frankly made, that I'll tickle you and you tickle me. Hundreds of millions have been j appropriated on that principle of action. Scores of public buildings are in existence which otherwise would never "have been heard of. Insignificant Btreama have been dredged which otherwise would have continued to pursue a shallow and snaggy course. It was log-rolling that did the business. Sen ators and representatives with ambitious towns . in their bailiwicks clamoring for a piece of pork, or rivers or creeks where there was talk of more traffic if Uncle Sam would lend a hand, have prac tically held up worthy projects until recognized. They would have their "share." Otherwise., no ap propriations for such purposes at all. As for the tariff, all sections being interested, all sections have been heard. An industry worthy of protection here has combined with an industry unworthy of it there or yonder. Now "who has a plan for putting an end to log rolling in congress? If there is such a man, and particularly if he is a member of that body, the nresent is his opportunity. Let him address the country on the subject. Let him show how sen ators and representatives may be brought to sec beyond their own local boundaries and put a na tional interpretation on their commissions, and he will attract more attention for the moment than the most promising of the presidential aspirants. But he should prepare for a lively discussion. AVhat he would overthrow is not only a century old in practice, but is deeply grounded in every day human nature. The fathers were log-rollers. The constitution itself is a give-and-take aftair. The beautiful capital site at Washington is sock eted in log-rolling. Nevertheless, great evils have grown out of the practice, and if they can be ex tirpated or even lessened in number and effect, it should by all means be done. Before the pork bar rels can be abolished a remedy for log-rolling must be discovered. \ San Tose educator wants to bar blonde teach ers from the schools there because they arc too lucky in winning husbands. How foolish of him in these days of coiffures that carry super-imposed pergolas of curls and puffs which foil all attempts to discover the real color of the hair that forms the foundation. There is a mystery about four women obtain ing divorces here Friday on the ground of deser tion, because with the kind of weather we have be*n having a sane man would put up with any kind of a wife just for the privilege of living in this climate. Ouch I and what a body blow it must have been to the Panama-Pacific fair hopes of New Or leans to have the secretary of the navy recommend that the Crescent City should be abandoned as a naval station. From the way women crowd the smoking compartments of street cars it looks possible that if the burning of tobacco was permitted only on the roof some of them would carry stepladders. State Controller Nye has announced that San Quentin and Folsom prisons are "white elephants." There doubtless are many men now dodging de tectives or awaiting trial who will agree with him. Illinois proposes to try the experiment of cur ing its insane by letting them see moving picture shows. There is a popular superstition that some of the picture shows act the other way. This year's crop of north pole discoveries looked very small, but thank goodness Old Doctor Cook has come to the rescue by promising to resuscitate his 1908-190?) "discovery." If you had to have your party defeated, would yon rather have it come in installments, as in Eng land, or be beat by one solid chunk of it, as in our own happy land? In the race between Rockefeller and Carnegie to see which can give away the most money, the public has no other disposition than to shout: "Go it!" Perhaps the Pullman company reduced the price of upper berths by 50 cents in the hope that the extra half dollar would be given to the porter. Federal warnings against counterfeit coins have been issued. As the Christmas shoppers are o-ettintr rid of all their coin, what's the difference? Los Angeles suffragettes "will get there just the same," even if they don't throw bricks and smash heads as their British sisters do. Up in Montana there is a couple that lias just been married after their second divorce. Well— Montana isn't so very far from Reno. An order has been issued at West Point bar ring chickens. No matter—as long as the cadets gel to see the broilers in Broadway. If John D. Rockefeller's income is 32 cents ev ery time the dock ticks, why in the world doesn't somebody stop the clock. Dr. Cook says the "north dazed him." Possi bly it did— but not to the extent of affecting his powers as a romancer. The Herald hopes, in the interest of Votes for Women, that last night's banquet will "sit well" with the legislators. No doubt all the aeroplanes at 1 lie Fresno avia tion show will get into the air. That's a great raisin" country. TENORS MAKE ONLY DISCORD IN FAIR SINGERS' MUSICAL REMINISCENCES HELEN BERTRAM TALKS OF THE OLD BOSTONIANS Light Opera Star Has Big Ambi tion-What Is It?— Why, Grand Opera Role, of Course Helen Bertram, one time prima donna of the Rostonians, will go to Paris soon to study grand opera with Jean de Resike. She has been 111 and is convalescing now at Pasadena. Yes terday she talked interestingly and in a reminiscent way about the Boston ians, and her own plans for the future. It is her ambition to appear in grand opera roles. "The old Bostonlans were not. like a theatrical company." said Miss Bert ram, as she poured tea in her apart ments at the Maryland. "Instead they were like one bis family. They had no 'rules. 1 and no guardian at the stage door Men and women friends of the singers hud ;;s free access to the stage as they had to the drawing room of any of the members of the company, and pood manners and innate polite ness proved sufficient to preserve the privacy of the rehearsals." Miss Bertram, who was prima donna with this company during its most suc cessful years, has nothing but the kindest recollections of the players and the manner in which they achieved the great honors and artistic success for which they were so noted. ' "How are you passing your time out lipre tills winter?" was asked. "Resting and getting my health re stored after an illness, so that I may go to Paris and study for grand opera with Jean de Reszke." "Grand opera! Why, after your suc cess in lighter work, do you insist upon undertaking tills heavier task?" "Because I want to sing the bigger roles, 1 want to sing Nedda in Pagll acchi and Santuzza, and above all else I want to sing Tosca." Surely a beautiful Tosea she would make with her brilliant dark eyes, sen sitive mouth and wonderfully graceful hands. After all the so-called light operas are not so easy for a singer, and the versatility and courage and de termination *he has already shown make an excellent preparation for the grand opera stage. "I have already sung some of these parts in London," continued Miss Bert ram. "I sang Faust with the Carlo Rose company in Covent Garden and Nedda there, too, and when I think of the big, beautiful dramatic roles in the modern operas I just cannot wait to begin my study." Despite her assertion of illness Miss Bertram shows no trace of indispo sition. Her manner is spirited, her figure lithe and slender, and her face as pretty and dimpled as when she won applause and friends in the cap tivating roles accorded her in the Bos tonian operas. "How long will it take you to pre pare for this more ambitious work you wish to undertake?" asked the interviewer. "That Is hard to say. I shall stay a year in Paris anyway and perhaps longer, for I love it there, but with the knowledge and experience I al ready have, the training of brain and body and throat, I will be able, to accomplish much in less time than it would take the untrained singer." "Has the success of Alice Nielson encouraged you in this decision since she, too, was a prima donna with the •; .stonians?" ■•Perhaps it may have exerted an unconscious effect, and perhaps it is merely the result of that atmosphere of the stage in which we lived. It was sweet and simple and reverent— reverent for life and for men and wo men an-1 for art, and every member of the Bostonian company encouraged us in maintaining our ambitions and ideals." • Tell me something of the members of that company now. Arc any of them on the stage?" "Oh yes, Indeed. There is Alice Nielson, whom we just mentioned. She Is doing beautifully this winter in Bos ton with the Henry Russell company, j and she deserves it every bit, too, for she worked and endured many pri vations 'to get that Italian training which developed her voice so well." "What of the other members of the company?" "Mrs. Henry Clay Barnabee has pawned away from us, but he still lives at Jamaica Plains." "Did Mrs. Barnabee sing with the comi^any?" "No, but the company never could have got along without her. She was just as important as though she had been the principal singer. "Eugene Cowles is appearing in a new piece in New York this winter, ■Sweet Sixteen,' it is called. Then there is Tom Karl, who lived out here for some time, and that is about the list, I think. Jessie Bartlett Davis, Josephine Bartlett and W. H. Mac- Donald are no longer with us." "But the tenor—you have not men tioned the tenor of the company, Miss Bertram." "That's so, I haven't. Well, who was the tenor? I know they never kept one very long. Tenors seem to be changeable persons, anyway," and the singer laughed a ring-Ing, musical laugh, "and I cannot remember .what has happened to those who sang with the company while I was with 1 1 W^ 7 ■ M— I _ l 1.1.1...1 ...» II ■ III'-^—— J I ■'— Editorials by the People ADVISES ADVICE Editor Herald: T would advise John Foster to read "First Principles" of Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philoso phy. It will call for considerable men tal effort, but it is worth it, and I am quite sure Mr. Foster will at last see that there la an Unknowable. W. E. THOMPSON. Long Beach, Cal. OPPOSES SKYSCRAPERS Editor Herald: I was pleased with your editorial in regard to skyscrapers and hope you will back up same. Why should the council grant Mr. Merritt's petition, because it will bo a memorial that he rents for so much a square foot, or because he is going to fix up one fine room for himself, so he won't have to stop at a hotel when ho stays In Los Angeles over night? We all know that skyscrapers are an eyesore to every city. This idea of changing laws to accommodate the rich is poor business. There should be only one law. SUBSCRIBER. Los Angelas, Cal. WOMAN'S ALLIANCE PROTESTS Editor Herald: At a recent meeting of a large organization of women, a speaker addressing the audience re ferred to an article appearing in a recent issue of The Herald with head lines something like this: "She Loves Noodles and Dancing," and then in a humorous vein telling of a young girl's j disappearance from home and of her mother's appeal to the police for help in finding her. It may be the article escaped the censorship of the city editor—we hope so—but in the heart of every mother present there arose a protest that such a tragedy should be exposed to pub licity and ridicule, because it only added sorrow and disgrace to a case sad enough and might deter other mothers from seeking the help of the officers of the law whose duty it is to rescue and protect as well as to prosecute. And wo also protest against the matter as a whole being treated so lightly by news reporters. There would be' no humor in the situation if it were your daughter or sister. It has been said that newspapers print only what the public demand!, but we as part of the public wish to protest against the publication of such so-called "news." And furthermore, we believe we belong to a large pro portion of your readers who do not desire such news, though we may be the'first to express ourselves in a pub lic way. MRS. ALICE M. SECKLEK. Secretary of the Woman's Alliance of the Los Angeles Fellowship. WAGES TOO LOW, SAYS WIFE Editor Herald: Tn reply to J. F. O'Brien, would Bay, 1 know not who you aro or what your station in life is, but i feel quite confident that you are among the competent, one of those fuc cossfui In making money off the labor of men who are underpaid. If they were not underpaid you would not have so much to spend; noitlicr would you voice the. sentiment you did in The. Herald. You are one who would like to make the public believe that a man who is earning $65 for ten and a hnlf hours' service daily (excepting two Sundays a month) is incompetent and not worth any more to his employer. It is evident if such men were paid more salary there would be less divi dends. Do the employes or the em ployer earn the wealth. We know which one gets it. As to your statement: "Unable to regulate tier domestic affairs to fit her income, she rails against a firm which is not accountable for her troubles." The Wells-Fargo company is account able, ai are all other such concern! which underpay their help—the men who make the vast dividends for the stockholders. If my husband were paid $75 Instead of $55 the stockholders would be shy $20 from the labor of one man alone. They want the big divi dends in order that they and their (the competent*, mind you) may enjoy the ease and luxuries which my husband and others produce for them. That's all right, Mr. J. F. O'Brien. I sincerely hope you and others will con tinue to underpay worthy men. tor just so long as you do It will help to increase the Socialist vote. Were you to change tactics and pay men a liv ing wage then, and then only, will Socialism begin to die a natural death. In order that more men may be brought to see the virtues of Socialism I am willing to make the best of $55, for I know that just such salaries, com bined with the high cost of living, will ultimately spell v-1-c-t-o-r-y for the Socialist party. A WI*E. J,us Angeles, Cal. < MIS* HELEN BEItTRAM DANGERS IN CONTENTMENT Editor Herald: In yesterday's Letter Bex appeared a letter making refer ence to •'incompetent" people, "success ful" people, etc. I infer that the writer considers men and women "competent" who have a natural faculty for crowd ing and getting the advantage? of their Cefiowa, According to his views Walla- Fargo'a Express is in no way to blame for this woman's troubles. They have a legal right to squeeze all the profit they can out of her husband, regardless of whether his family suffers or not. Of course whether they have a moral right or not is not to be considered, as business and morality are entirely di vorced even by so-called Christian people. Ho says we are envious of "competent" and "successful" people. I suppose we must regard every one who has plenty of money as compe tent. I can cail to mind thousands of rich women, society butterflies, who could not earn 10 cents if thrown on the world for support. There are also as many thousand rich men's sons. Yet' I suppose, they are competent, and that is why they enjoy life's good things in idleness. The woman he criticises for making complaint offers a remedy for our pres ent state of society, so her complaints will bring forth fruit. Woe unto us if we had always remained contented, trnd our lot will never improve if we nmaln contented in the future. JAMES JORDAN. Los Angeles, Cal. DEFENSE FOR MRS. EDDY Editor Herald: The lady who wrote the article on "Dying in Error," and claiming Mrs. Eddy's removal from this state of consciousness was due to error, seems desirous to become, en lightened upon that claim and asks for some one, who Is not an outsider, tn explain why all die In error. If she will open her I3ible and read Matthew, nineteenth chapter, sixteenth and sev enteenth verses, she Will become wise, j and not try to east any aspersions on Christ's word: "And behold, one came and said unto Him, 'Good Master, what good things shall I do that 1 may have eternal life'" and He said unto him, 'Why calleit thou me good?' " There In none good, but one, that is God, but if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments, Christ's' death was an error. In all my investigations, both in the literature and coming in contact with those who are educated up to the standard of demonstrating the truth of this science, nonp claim they are great er than Christ, and as all are liable t<> err. if we believe Christ's teachings, and that none Is (perfect) but God. we must accept the truth it' we follow Christ. It would seem this correspon dent is wonderfully prejudiced or else ignorant when she states after all Mrs. Kildy died in error, even though she had made $8,000,000 out of it. This statement alone would go to prove that this correspondent has never been ed ucated in Christian Science, and taught tv demonstrate its truth, and so we must, to be like Christ, draw the* man tle of charity over those -who have not a perfect understanding, and through their imperfect understanding attempt to mislead the public. MRS. F.'NNY E. GREEN. Los Angeles, Cal. What They Say LIBERTY IN NONESSENTIALS Laura Jean Llbbcy snyti it is all right for a girl to marry a man with one leg. Romantic Kirls should govern them selves' accordingly.—Toledo (Ohio) Blade. LARGE PERFORMING STAGE A Texas man walked 800 miles to marry a widow. That can only be done in Texas, where there are the distances and the widows to make such romantic achievements possible. —Houston Post. SPEED IN THE SILK BUSINESS An aviator carried $1000 worth of silk In a biplane from Dayton. Ohio, to Columbus, the other day, covering the distance of sixty-five miles in six ty-six minutes. The people who had ordered the silk wore In a hurry for It, otherwise tho aviator might have dallied along the way and taken an hour and a quarter. Get an aviator to bring it if you must have your silk without needless delay.—Chicago Record-Herald. DECEMBER 19, 19U HOW CANAL WILL HEM COAST SHIPPERS ISIDOR JACOBS SAN FRANCISCO—The era ■' whtS lias opened to the shippers of this Htafl in connection with the competition bfl tween the Pacific Mall Steamship coma pany and Hates & ' Cheßebrough via > Panama shows In a mall degree what* a groat future will come to this Btatfg when the Panama canal is opened The mere announcement, of fast tlmfl between California points and the AH lantlo seaboard cities by way of r\\im a inn has resulted In reservations f<J| all the available space on all the lindH being taken months ahead. It Is noiß estimated that between the Paclflffl Mnll Steamship company and tliJ Balis & Chesebrough line that th«l total shipments during twelve, months! will be close to 200,000 tons of Coli-^ fornia freight to go oast, and it Is, of course,* expected that a considerable quantity Will come westbound. This does not include the enormous ton nage via Tehuantopec, or by slow freight through the Straits of Ma- I gellan. . ■.: " - " r Shippers from California vln. those steamship lines are now able to send poods to New York under the 40-cent rate. A charge of 20 cents a ton for handling is made in New York, and the goods can be shipped as far wjqt. from New York us Chicago, St. I.ouls nnd throughout the entire eastern states. New England and the middle west ntntes lit a siivliiß from 10 to 25 per cent in the freight, ;is charged by tho transcontinental lines, and the time In transit will not be very much longer than if shipped by rail. BOATS CHEAFBH THAN ItAir. The Bates & Chosebrough line, how over, lias opened up a line to Charles ton and New Orleans with rates at ait average of fully 30 per cent less than if shipped by rail, and from this point goods can be shipped west over th.j railroad lines to a large radius of ter ritory at considerably less than the all rail rates. A problem will, however, confront the steamship companies when they commence to haul Roods westbound from New York and the Atlantic Fen board, for it is apparent that our dis tributive railroad rates in California from the seaport cities are out of all proportion and are nut made for the purpose of encouraging: the distribu tion of freights in that way. This makes it apparent that one of the chief causes which is retarding tin; growth of Kan Francisco In tion with her commercial and manu facturing enterprises Is the question of local rates in and out of San Fnm cisco. The rates by the first eUi^a lines from New York west encourage the distribution of merchandise and thereby build up their cities. The same applies to territories surrounding even largo interior cities, such as St. Louis, Chicago and other points. \\V can ship goods from New Yorl: to Chicago via the first class railroad lines at $4.40 a ton. This is a distance of 1000 miles. To ship goods from San Fninclsco to Fresno, a distance of 200 miles, will average over J6 a ton. It Is therefore a self-evident fact that one of tho chief causes that Is re tarding the growth of' San Francisco's commercial and manufacturing enter prises is this question. Announcement has just been mado that the. Santa Fo has reduced volun tarily its freight rates in and out o( Los Angeles, along its entire main line. It is alsc a fact that the railroads Irt and out of Seattle and Portland have made freight rates which proportion ately are considerably less than in and out of San Francisco, and it Is no won der therefore that theao points can build up trade, as against San Fran clco. This will be more keenly felt as the water transportation lines build up to these other points, for already steamship linos are talking of making connections with the Atlantic seaborn «i from Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Los Angeles, and unless we wako up here to what Is going on we will find ourselves still further behind in tha procession lor freight distribution for our merchants, producers and manu facturers. California Topics It is significant that, as a result of a harrowing experience* in municipal mis ruin, San Francisco has adopto.l char ter amendments abolishing party col umns on city election ballots, for bidding the use of party designations after candidates' names and provid ing also what has come to be. known as the short ballot. San Francisco thus places on record its opinion ot party politics in municipal govern ment.—Springfield Republican. By the decision of the district court of appeals, Abo Ruef, San Francisco's former boss and partner of the notor ious Mayor Schmltz, is brought one step nearer the penitentiary to which he has been sontenced forv fourteen years. No one doubts that he was a grafter and the arch-corruptionlst dur ing Schmitz' term; the only question. Is whether a legal technicality will bo found sufficient to save him from go ing to jail.—New York World. A HEARTY LAUGH Bclns the d*y« beat Jok« from th« >•«■ exchangea. Prosecuting Attorney—"Your honor, the sheriff's bull i>U|> has gone and chawed up the court Bible." judge—"Well, make the witness kiss the bull pup, then. We can't uCJourn court Just to hunt up a new Bible."—" Lipplncott'».