PI LINEIS AND PICK UPS

Well, wasn't It worth *S?

Good by, Mr. Bryan; take care o*

fc yourself. Wr, Want you next year.aIL

— 'ly •'

*,s Anpelos doesn't want any more

mann. J UBt now' WIH Wollftber klndly

he lte notice?flivoi . .hiß Jvnd the streets are no better pro-

£°"'<red to stand a rain now than they

houere a few weeks back.

Be'

Harry Thaw's sartorial display In0 court should make the Thaw case break

into even tho tailors' Journals.

What a relief It will be when theThaw jurymen are all chosen. Thetrial willbe that much nearer a close.

Mr. Bryan became ao enamored withLog Angolos that he wouldn't leave ex-cept on a train bearing the city's name.

From the heart of the navel orange

district wehave this pleasing statement:"Oranges were never in finer shape andnever did orchards turn out a greater

percentage of extra fruit than Is seennow. Every indication at present pointsto the fact that the fruit is in the finestpossible condition for retaining itskeeping qualities."

Although much the larger part of theorange crop Is still on the trees there isevery present reason to believe thattho aggregate value of tho season'scrop will break nil records. While thevolume willbe slightly less than thatof last year and much less than that ofthe year before, the superior qualityof the present product and the activedemand willmore than compensate forthe smaller output.

Tho general conditions In orange mar-keting are more satisfactory thus fnrdurtnK tho season thnn they havo boon

In several years. Notwithstanding the,

Immense volume of shipments there ha*been but little complaint of car short-age since the season fairly opened. The

old troubles about routing have not de-veloped and tho railway companies

have been credited with greater effortthan ever before In satisfying shippers.

It Is estimated that the proportion of

the crop now on tho trees Is about thesame as was In evidence nt this timeInst yo.ir. The aggregate shipments to

date are considerably below those ofInst year for the saino time, the crop

this senson having matured unusunlly

late and being somewhat less In vol-ume than last yonr's product.

Within the last three or four days,however, there has been evidence ofgrowing weakness In the eastern mar-kets as a consequence of the heavyshipments and unfavorable weatherconditions. Growers and packers areso eager to realize on the crops at goodprices that they are taking the risk ofoverstocking the demand and causinga material decline Invalues.

Orange shipments from Southern Cal-ifornia have averaged nearly 150 car-loads per day during the last twoweeks. Allowing380 boxes to,a load,the daily output has been (14,000 boxes,equal to nearly 6,000,000 oranges. Re-cent prices have ranged nearly 25 per

cent higher than the figures for the

tike period last year.

ROSRATP ORANfiP CONDITIONS

IThat woman who won 1cent damages

in a breach of promise suit should nowattend all the bargain sales and spend

every dollar of it.Supporters of the proposeu misfit char-

ter in Long Beach have called out someof the preachers. Now what in thename of all that is knowable do thepreachers know, more than every tax-payer knows for himself?

The mud you wallowed through yes-

terday morning is the same old mudthat was Inevidence several weeks ago.Yes, same old mud.

IAfter his reception here it would be

awfully disappointing to Mr. Bryan tfLos Angeles should go against him inthe next presidential election.

A careful estimate made by Long

Beach taxpayers shows that the adop-tion of the proposed freeholders' char-ter would increase the city's expensesover $60,000 a year. That ought to set-

tle it.

That rival gas company looks good—

on paper.

But if that new gas company doesn'tmove any more rapidly than does itssponsor, the Evening Way Freight, Itwon't be in operation very soon.

CYNICISMSOnly unhapplness is preserved in fam-

ily Jnrs.A little wisdom now and then Is found

c'en in tho upper ten.Wonders never cease while thore are

press agents.A woman's face Is also her misfortune

sometimes.Love doesn't count the cost; it hasn't

the price.

One state willnever forbid fighting—

the state of matrimony.

What you don't know won't hurt you—or do you any good.Many a jest is spoken Intrue words.The best way to keep a cook Is to try

to discharge her.Philosophers aro men who preach

what they don't practice.Some self-made men cheat themselves

badly.

The office may seek the man, but notlike the creditor does.

Most saints are only sinners npJrtmindout. -Jm. H. C.

"Not everybody Is bo fortunate as tolive In New York," says Mr. Pulitzer'sWorld. No, indeed. Many die thereevery day.

Somebody states that Harrlman hasfew friends in Wall street. But whogoes to Wall street for friends?

Tho discovery that Tucson is theoldest town in the country «eems toleavo Chicago in the position of bains;the dirtiest.

Tho other day Ward Wlgglnilet flya big broadsldo of destruction at n.flock ofsparrows on their oldhen houM>.and after the smoke cleared away hediscovered he had also shot the turkeyhis father won at the Chllo shootingmatch. Itseemß the fool bird had beenlooking out of a hole In the roof, whichIs a very dangerous thing to do.— WeetLafayette (O.) Indicator.

MORAL—DON'T PEEP

Tho district attorney of New YorkIs probing the theatrical trust. Watchfor a panlo among the Plttsburg mil-lionaires.

The n*v. Henry \u25a0Warren, who opens.Wall street with prayer dally, knownvery well that it is out of the questionto close It with prayer.

Why Is It that so many wron*«<lIndlo* s;nt married a*;nln „*soon an thecourt* release them from tho hrutfeSwho rnnde their lives miserable,?

"I nek not wealth, nor fame, norpower." sings a Chicago poet. And th«ywill not be, thrust on him. either.

BPBAKINO FROM EXPERIENCEPoppy -T)o you think dancing as bad

as hugging?Magnolia—No; not half as good.

crop will now think tHJn before itthreaten* failure

ln Ohio a man has been sentenced tothe penitentiary for life for stealingfive pounds of corned beef. IfIthadbeen a turkey they probably would havohanged him.

project best through Sacramento.

With a.corporation-owned legislature,no wonder the power companies thinkthey can sandbag the Owens river

"The American Lawyer; As He Was—As He Is—As He Can Be." By JohnR. Dos Passos, the well known lawyerand writer of New York, Is an originaland complete book on the mission, of-fice and functions of the lawyer everwritten. Itbegins with the genealogyof lawyers. It deals with the variousduties of a lawyer to the state, thecourts and clients; it treats of theorigin and development of the profes-sion, the nature of the lawyer's voca-tion; his education and training, con-cluding with a most interesting chap-ter upon the causes and remedies forexisting evils.

The American Lawyer, by John R.Dos Passos. New York Banks LawPublishing company.

Spelling reform's persistency Is easily

Its strongest virtue. Kven congresscan't killit. Here bobs up F. Sturgea

Allen with his "Principles of SpellingReform." It is pleasclng to know thatit has principles, but its arguments donot convince.

Principles of Spoiling Reform, by F.Sturges Allen. New York: The Brad-ley-White company.

The "Jungle Primer," by Clara L.Brown and Carolyn S. Bailey, presentstho printed symbols of the store of"Mother Goose" rhymes and fairy tales,

which form a large part of the child'sknowledge on entering school. It em-bodies, therefore, the most naturalmethod of learning to read, In the formmost Interesting to the beginner. Fol-lowingthe Jingles are given stories em-bodying the same Ideas and expressionsand introducing but few new words.

Jungle Primer, by Clara L. Brownand Carolyn S. Bailey. New York:American Book company.

What Is undoubtedly the first Iron-clad naval engagement In tho worldtook placo on March 8 and !». ISM. Nt

Hampton Roafls. It was tho memor-able battle fcetween tho Confederate

warship MefTlmac- Virginia mid the

federal warship Ericsson's Monitor. The.Inner history of tho epoch-making fight

has never been adequately told Inprint.It has remained for Cnptnln K. V.

White of Norfolk, Vft.. to give n full.true nnd particular account of thisstirring buttle in which iron-clad wnspitted hgainst the monitor, and which.by Us result, revolutionized naval war-fare for all time.

Captain Whlto's book in entitled"Tho First Iron-Clad Naval Rngngo-

ment In tho World." The captainwrite* not only as n.n oye witness to

tho fight, hut also aa a participant-Junior engineer In charge of gong andspeaking tube on tho gundeck of theVlrnlnln.

No moro valued contribution couldhfivo boon made alike to the history

of naval warfare and the history ofIM win for the preservation of theUnion. Looking across the stretch ofyenrß with an eye undlmmed by theiapse of decades and a Judgment freefrom bias and bitterness the author,

himself a southerner, relates the eventsprecisely as they occurred and In theirlogical sequence.

Tho First Iron-Clnd Naval Engage-

ment. By Captain E. V. White; Pub-lished by the author, Portsmouth, Va.

A romplMe novel «nH some twentyodd short stories form the attractivehill which The People* Magazine offersto Its renders In tho Fobrunry Issue,

now on sale. Kvor since this maga-zine took Its place In tho ranks of

all fiction puhllcs.tl#ns It has beenprinting n gonorou* collection of th«host short stories of tho day. Thocontributions which make, up the 192pnges of the February Issue constltutnperhaps the best assort ment of fictionever gathered ufider Its covers.

Barr, "A Question About Money." ana agenerous Installment of a new serial byCharles Garvlce, "Whei* Love Leads."

there is still hope that New York willlearn who was elected mayor at the lastmunicipal election before it Is time toelect the next one.

New York is importing peaches fromSouth Africa. Perhaps the Delaware

Itis predicted that Chicago Is shortlyto be dropped into Lake Michigan.That catastrophe will end any hopes ofpure water from that source.

Physicians havo discovered that freshair is a cure for insanity. The air inKansas must be fresher now than inthe days of Populism.

What manual training can do for acolored youth has been illustrated inthe case of Joe Gans of Baltimore. Onseveral occasions Joe has been knownto make as much as $10,000 Inone nightwith his hands.

HIS VICTIMPalm— Did her father toe the mark?Popper— Yes; Iwas the mark.

Two sisters of Mabelle Gilman aregetting ready to take the stage and singthe captivating song that Mabelle sang.More trouble for the steel trade.

Scientists sny that cooking does notkill the bacilli. Lots of It finishes peo-ple, however.

AChicago woman wants her husbandenjoined from speaking to her on thestreet. He might get even with her hy

having her enjoined from speaking to

him at home.

Come on, "Undo Old." Your letterwan sure funny lust woek. Let us hoarsome more about men rooking. Ithinkmyself they aro ft poor stock to dohousekeeping. They don't know muchnbout it, and they think a woman hasnothing to do but sit around. They say:

"Well, we don't havo anything to dobut fiddle about."—Sequachee (Tonn.)News.

AN APPHF.CIATION

Over InLondon tho St. .Ininea Oazotte

thinks Senator Tlllman should bo kept

In a padded cell. IM tho (Inzette comeover nnd try to put tho sonator there.

Now thnt the Thaw trial Is beginning

we. may expect to hoar some inoro «x-cltlng things about those "Florodora"girls.

In (lie town of Orsa, In Hweden. :io

taxes are lovlod, nnd tho railroad, tele-

phones nnd llbrnrles are ftlso free. Itmust bo an awful place If they have, to

offer such Inducements to live, there.

Populism Ik responsible, for savin*one life, nt least. A Tilfavenworth, Kas.,

man tried to commit sulcldo, but hiswhiskers got In th« way And tho at-tempt failed.

HIS TROUBLES'Tls when a miner strikes pay dirt.

When that Is what he's looking forThat he begins to feel real glad

His only troubles then are ore.

Kansas is to abolish hanging. As noman has been hanged in that state forhalf a century— legally—perhaps theKansa' thought "what's the use"?

ing installed. A big pottery' is beingbuilt. Pipes are being extended fromthe gas fields. Railroads and trolleylines are being laid down. MunicipalImprovements are calling for a largeamount of capital and are giving em-ployment to a great number of men.Lead, zinc and asphalt lands are beingdeveloped and new coal mines opened.The lumber industry is growing rap-idly and becoming one of the most im-portant in the territory. All thesethings are attracting men and capitalOklahoma is entering into its state-hood with all the vigor and enthusi-asm of the west.

—Cleveland Leader.

The power companies are again tryingto prevent the consummation of thoOwens river project. A snort of sup-port may now be expected from theSnooze.

It ntn t have been gratifying to Mr.Bryan to find Los Angeles under aDemocratic administration. Perhapsthat's why he felt so much at homehere.

It AllDependsThe night looks mighty lonesome

—The road Is mighty rough,

But Ireckon that we'll grit there—

If we hold out long enough!—Atlanta Constitution.

That is to say, Mr. Bryan regardspublic ownership of the railways as a

last resort to curb the rapacity of thecorporations, to be adopted only incase all corrective measures fail. Hencehis emphasis of the point that he fa-vors it only as an "ultimate solution."

"Istated that Iregarded governmentownership as the ultimate solution. Donot overlook

—ultimate solution. I

stated that Idid not know whetherthe country was ready for it or Ifthemajority of my party favored it; butexpressed as my opinion that the coun-try would finally come to it and thatthe railroads, by their corruption andtheir resistance to regulation, wouldeducate the people up to the ownershipidea."

On one point which haa caused muchdiscussion, particularly in the east, Mr.Bryan clarifies his meaning as ex-pressed in his home-coming speech atNew Tork. He has been represented,

in some quarters, as having committedhimself to the policy of public owner-ship of the railways. The Herald ac-curately stated the facts in the case atthe time, and the statement is sub-stantiated by Mr.Bryan inhis allusionto ithere. In the interview on Mondaywith The Herald representative he said:

On certain questions of special Inter-est In California Mr. Bryan expressesunqualified opinions. Of the primaryelection system, which all reputable

Californlans desire In order to preventrepetitions of the disgraceful proceed-ings In last year's convention, he says,positively, "Iam in favor of direct pri-mary election laws." He also declareshimself "In favor of the election of

.United States senators by the people,of the initiative and referendum andall other reforms that are intended togive the people control of their ownaffairs."

That declaration fits the unanimoussentiment of the Democratic party andwillbe heartily accepted as plank No. 1In the. construction of the national plat-form of 1908. ItIs fundamental Demo-cratic doctrine, recognized essentiallyin former politicalcontests and upheldfirmly by the Democratic minority Incongress. The soundness of It has re-cently been recognized Inits main feat-ures by President Roosevelt, much tothe dismay of the large percentage ofleading Republicans, both In and outof congress, who are affiliated withtrust Interests.

Following the observation that "ItIstoo > early to write ft platform," Mr.Bryan said: "Itseems certain that oneof the most Important Issues, ifnot themost Important, willbe the trust Issue,

for It involves the railroad question,the tariff question, the labor questionand the question of swollen fortunes."

"Conditions make platforms and plat-forms make men," says Mr. Bryan."Ido not say that 1 willor willnot bea candidate, because the time has notcome to decide the question." Itmay

bc Inferred, however, that the matter

of his acceptance hinges upon the plat-form. What that must be, essentially,to determine his decision affirmatively,ls outlined In the Interview with TheHerald man.

ln his Interview with a Herald repre-sentative, and afterward In his »d-dress at the banquet, Mr. Bryan gaveconsiderable Insight to l.ls views onpublic questions; views which arelikely to be reflected In the Democraticplatform next year. Prellntlnarlly hedeftly parried the direct question Inthe interview regarding his own candi-dacy, but In a manner leaving but lit-tle doubt of his acceptance of a nor-n ifmade on a satisfactory plat-form.

"ItIs too early to write a platform,"as Mr. Bryan truly says. It Is not tooearly to do a rood (leal of thinkingonthe subject, however, as he Intimatedby the disclosure of views while In LosAngeles.

PLANKS FOR A PLATFORM

The opportunities which the new stateoffers are attracting many enterprises.One of them is a million-dollar damwhich is to furnish 10,000 horsepower formanufacturing purposes. A cementplant which willemploy ICOO men Is be-

The birth of the state of Oklahomameans something more than the ad-ding of a star to the flag. A consider-able portion of the west is feeling theeffect in a financial way. A largeamount of capital Is being drawn to thenew commonweal^. New opportuni-ties are being opened for the specu-lative and permanent investment ofmoney. Land is being bought exten-sively in Oklahoma. It is absorbing thesavings of many persons in manywalks of life. Prices are going up, andprobably they willgo higher still. Someof the purchasers will soon realize ontheir investments, but many others willbe compelled to wait a weary time forthe development of the state to reachtheir holdings.

A STATE'S BIRTH

GEORGE O. BAKER

Deep Water Gossip

The February Smith's comes with acomplete novelette, "An Insular Preju-dice," by Adeline Knapp, a series of wellprinted half-tone reproductions of thefamous Indian paintings of Edwin Wil-lard Deming, the well-known Ameri-can artist; a funny story by Holnmn F.Day, entitled "The Go-uppers," and ahalf dozen short stories of more thanusurl value, several departments con-ducted especially for women, and anumber of special articles, in whichtimely subjects are handled interesting-ly. Besides these, the magazine con-tains a series of drawings by A. G.Learned, entitled "Fads of the Ameri-can Girl." The series is done with deli-cacy and fancy. The magazine alsocontains a short novelette by Robert

The North American Review forJanuary ushers in a new year in itsexistence with a very distinguishedtable of contents. Mark Twain, in theninth installment of his autobiography,has some notable pages touching Sec-retary Root's recent threat of oblit-erating state lines. In the same num-ber he also tells, in his own vividman-ner, how In his youth he served as amesmerist's "subject." "What is Es-peranto?" is the title of the most re-markable article that has yet beenpublished concerning the new inter-national language. It is a special ap-peal to America by Dr. L. L. Zamen-hof, the inventor of the language.

Animal Fables. By A. O. Stafford.New York: American Book company.

A special illustrated magazine en-titled "Prosperous Washington and ItsResources," has Just been issued by theSeattle Post-Intelligencer. The maga-zine is by far the handsomest and mostcomprehensive work of its kind everIssued In the northwest, being a com-plete review of the various industriesand resources of the state, descriptivearticles of cities and the unlimited ad-vantages offered those who desire toseek a home in this great and prosper-ous state.

'\u25a0Stafford's Annual Fables from thePark Contlnttent," by A. O. Stafford, isIntended for supplementary- reading Inthe third year, and presents thirty-fouranimal fables selected and adopted fromthe folk lore of the negro race, both inAfrica and in America. The originalspirit of those fables has been well pre-served, and they are told In a most at-tractive fashion, which will ofttimesremind the reader of "Undo Remus"stories or the "Jungle Books."

Frnnklln Matthews' rxposo of NowYork's police court magistrates loads aparticularly vital number of Broadway

Macailne for February.Other special feature! of groat Inter-

est are inarlea H. Coohrane'e pica forn commission form of government,Mnry Manners' "Tho Winter Pleasures•if Society," nnd Porter KmrrsonUrowjie's account of n Bowory theateron "amateur night.

"The fiction com-

prises Ginre MacGowan Cooke's hu-morous story. "Tho (lathering In ofAbner Wlmborly;" "Gardiner Centernd the BoUlevardt," by1 Alice WoodsTllmnn; "Prince Shcmiiß of Irplnnd,"by Charlei Battell Loomls; "The ThreoKing! of Librrlad." by L. FrankTooker; "Tho Vibrant Wlro," by SaraJ. Hayles: "The Second Motive," byHarris Morton Lyon; "Her Day," byBeatrice Wilcox. and Gilbert P. Cole-man's story, "Patrolman Donohuc'sFirst Arrest."

The modlcal stories appearing InThoPopular Magazine have attracted agreat deal of attention. They are pub-lished under the title -of "StrangeCases of a Modleal Free-Lance," andare supplied by W. '\u25a0 B. M. Ferguson.They throw a flood of light,upon aprofession that is not supposed by thoAverage man In the street to havemuch romance about It. The story Inthe February Issue of The Popularis called "The Case of tho MusicalJackal." It is a story of wonderfulinterest, and Its hold upon the readeris undeniable.

Alnslee's for February has Its usualquota of excellent fiction; Indeed, Ifanything, this number exceeds thehitch stnndnrd with which the maw-r.lne began the new year. The featureis one which willprobably be the mostnotable event of the year In periodicalpublication. It Is the beginning of aserial story entitled "Her Bon." byHorace Annesley Vachell. competentcritics who have read the story Inmanuscript, both hero and In England,have pronounced It to ho one of themost remarkable books written In thelast twenty years.- This first Install-ment gives promise^of confirmation ofthis opinion. Anna A. Rogers Is theauthor of the' novelette, "Candace,"which Is a story mainly concerned withAmerican navy life.' The • scene lachiefly In Venice, but the < charactersare American; there is much dramaticaction and a fine love interest

"Just see that the windows are closed,the safe either locked or empty, thelights out, tn« water not running, nom-ing lying around loose that ought notto be and the door locked.

"Don't very often find anything outof the way—did lock up some papersonce and pretty soon the man comesrushing down pretty near crazy becausehe had remembered he left them—butifIshould slipup on the one room thatwas w^ong Just once thore'd be thodeuce to pay. That keeps up Interest."—New York Sun.

"About six hours," was the reply. V'lonly make one full round a night."

"What on earth do you do to take thattime?"

A man whom business Jfcpt extra lateat his office in one of the/big downtownbuildings learned the oVhor night thatthe night watchman has much to do be-sides sitting in the lobby smoking. Itwas after midnight when he left hlaoffice on the sixth floor and caught sightof the watchman, lantern In one handand a key in the /other, methodicallymoving from door to door, opening eachone, and, after a survey of the office,locking Itagain, all with the single key.

"How long does it take to make around?" inquired tho tenant.

THE WATCHMAN'S TEDIOUS JOB

The proposed Long Beach eharer pro-vides for six commissions, with a sec-retary for each, all to be apolnted by

the mayor. The politicians, of course,

favor the new charter.

A drunk swallowed half a dollar yes-

terday and nearly died. Yet he couldtake in a barrel of forty-rod and neverquiver. Funny how some men are con-structed.

Mr. Bryan had Bamples of all thevarieties of our weather, so he canmake a choice, and next time he comeswe can have onhand the brand that he-prefers.

Los Angeles still continues to be thewarmc-at town In tho United States.But lovers of hot times need not be at-

tracted here solely by that assertion;itisn't their kind of warmth.

The little finger may be compared tothe ring, except In the- professions inwhich it serves as a point of support forthe hand. Itmay be remarked here thatthe artist has not been taken into con-sideration in these cases.

—Philadelphia

Record.

The ring finger is the least important.Its total loss often does not cause in-capacity. The Austrian tariff assimi-lates this finger to the middle one. TheItalian law is liberal with 8 per cent.The French and German tribunals oftenrefuse indemnity, considering the in-capacity resulting from the loss as verysmall.

The middle finger is of much more im-portance than the Index, says Dr.Melg-non, whom we are citing, and who is nosmall authority, for a great loss offorce is observed in the hand when thefinger is amputated. Yet almost all theauthorities ascribe less importance toit than the index. The Italian law al-lows 5 per cent, the Austrian 5 to 10per cent.

The total loss of the index causes anincapacity estimated at 10 to 15 percent in Austria, 16 to 20 per cent in Ger-many, 15 per cent for the left hand,and 20 per cent for the right by Ital-ian courts; the French allow 15 percent.

The French courts allow 15 to 35 percent value for the right hand and 10 to15 per cent for the left; the Austrianschedule gives from 15 per cent for theleft to 25 per cent for the right; inGer-many 20 to 28 per cent, and even as highas 33.3 per cent has been awarded. Thepercentage is based on 100 as the totalindustrial value of the hand previous tothe accident, a loss of 50 per cent rep-resenting half of the value, etc.

The different fingers are far fromhaving the same value in the eyes ofthe law with reference to their func-tional utilization. Much the mostImportant is the thumb, for without it

apprehension would be very imperfect.The hand is no longer pincers, butm«rely a claw, when deprived of thethumb. Itmay be estimated that thethumb represents fully a third of thetotal value of the hand.

WHAT FINGERS ARE WORTH

When both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Harri-11:1m. who have directly opposing rea-sons for doing so, say that the inter-

state commerce acl doesn't amount tomuch itmust be pretty bad.

The ship subsidy bill will not bo

"allowed" to pass by Harriinan, Hill,et al., till they get their grabs in. l?ykind permission of ilarrlman, Hill,atal., the sun still Ihineg occasionally.

He proposes to take a week's rest inLondon, then walk to Newhaven, andcrosß to Dieppe, where he will resumehis pedestrian exercises through France.Throughout his travels, Mark All wearsthe union Jack on hie right arm.—Lon-don Chronicle.

Some gentlemen who were desirousof disproving this theory agreed to payAll £500 Ifhe could walk 60,000 miles inseven years, earning his livingat histrade, and that he Bhall not bug, sellphotographß of himself, or picturepost cards, make speeches or exhibithimself at music halls. All these con-ditions, he says, he has faithfully ob-served. He has been all over the threekingdoms, and has visited PranceSpain, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland!Italy and Germany, but fulled to getInto Russia. His record now 1b 68,006miles.

There arrived in London last eveningan aged man named Mark All,who hasbeen wandering for the past six years.

Mark Allis an engineer by trade andhe set out from Fleet street on August6, 1900, with the object of walking 60,000miles in seven years. The idea of theenterprise was to disprove a theory,which All attributes to engineeringemployers, that after a man haareached 45 years of age he is useless formanual labor.

WALKING 60,000 MILES

It will be noted that when the cor-porations try to sneak through theboughten legislature a bill killingtin:

Owens river project, the Snooze, theirofficial mouthpiece, Is strangely silent.

Under the provisions of the proposedfreeholders' charter Long Beach wouldhave seven eoiuicllmen, elected by thepeople. What their duties will be, ifany, no man .an tell. In truth theseoffices are simply places to be occupiedby war.i heelers. The Long Beach tax-payer is not going to be deceived byany such nonsense.

There are several reasons why an in-

crease In the pay of members is nowrequired. The most obvious is thatthe cost of living in the nationalcapital, where members have to spendthree months one year and some seventhe next, has very much increased.Heal estate has advanced in value andrents with it;board for those who donot have houses of their own, or rentedhouses, is easily twice as high as itwas thirty years since; the standardof expenditures has changed and mem-bers are forced to meet it in some de-gree. Another reason for better pay Isthat congressmen really earn morethan in the past. They do more workand they do It better. Again, theyhave lost a good many of the per-quisites of their office, which wereequivalent to money to them, and someof which had a definite money value.With the general enforcement of themerit system Inthe departments and ofits principle and spirit even in the em-ployment of laborers, not under the ex-amination, patronage has dwindledlargely. The time when every scrub-woman and every porter, messenger ordriver, to say nothing of the subordi-nate c'-erks, were directly charged tothe account of their respective 011-

gressional backers is now pretty wellin the past. Patronage is confined tohigher places, and as to these theheads of departments do not dare tobc as reckless as they used to be.These are considerations of which it lanot easy to calculate the money value,but they add force to the others whichdemand Increased salaries.- YorkTimes.

CONGRESSMEN'S SALARIEB

Sentiment In Long Beach In favor ofconsolidation with I.(is Angeles hasmade wonderful strides during the lasttwo months. ah a consequence thepoliticians down at the seashore arescared half to death lest they lose theirjobs. That's the chief reason why theyraise such a hullabaloo in favor of ther~»'>"««dr~»'>"««d "en charter.

The business concerns which nil mostof the billboard space are non-residentand are not entitled to such considera-tion as might, for special reasons, boaccorded to local business men. Thesocorporations from abroad simply forceupon the public gaze the offensive dis-plays whereby they gather profits fromthe sale of lii|Uoi'Mt the deadly cigaretteand other harmful commodities.

Hillboards are not essential in adver-tising any product and the mainte-nance of them, in face of almost univer-sal public protest, should not be tole-rated in Los Angeles. Ample facilitiesfor acquainting the public with thomerits of all products are afforded bythe advertising columns of the news-papers, and Urn efficacy of that methodof attracting publicattention is attestedby thfl fact 1 hat it Is employed exten-sively by all the large local businessOQOerni that ;u<- MpefiiaUy interestedin Invitingsuch attention.

The mayor concedes that It is im-practicable to abolish billboards at thepresent time, but he thinks that pur-pose may be approached gradually by

a system of high license taxation. Theplan would have the business merit ofbringing considerable additional reve-nue to the city treasury and might like-wise have the effect of "freezing out"the weaker class of advertisers. Themore flagrant examples of the nuisance,however, wojjldbe likely to stand thecost of higher license figures.

Itis easier to recognize this particu-

lar nuisance, however, than to get ridof it. A glance at the lines of businessthat are flared from the miles of bill-boards in Los Angeles at once indicatesthe difficulty in the way of abolishing

the nuisance. Behind the chromaticdisplays telling the merits of whisky,beer, tobacco and other products standvast interests that are potent in thopolitical and business affairs of thiscity.

THAT PERENNIAL NUISANCE"Billboards are a nuisance whlcn

should be done away with entirely."

That declaration is another evidence ofthe level-headedness of our businessmayor. The aptness of the statement

is recognized by all citizens except

those who are directly interested Inmaintaining the dauby abominations.

Hurrah for sleds and snowballs,Hurrah for the swimming hole'

Now he digs In the garden,Now off with line and pole.

He shouts "good by" to mother,Then grabs hia battered can

And hurries to the river—

O, little barefoot man.For you, little man, the future

Holds honor, weal tit and power;The hope of our great nation

la freckled boys this hour.The glorious day Ih coming

When cvi's of the world will acanTh,, mighty boats that follow

Ttiu little barefoot man.—Alvln M. Hi'iidue of Summer.

LITTLE BAREFOOT MAN"Hurrah for the winter's snowing;

Hurrah for the summer time,With balmy spring winds blowing

Hurrah tor any clime."80 Bays the freckled boy,

So says the face of tan,A mother's pride and Joy

—A littlebarefoot man.

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