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The Herald
D. E. ST1TT, Editor.
Entand a. conil-cUu Rutin- Sptmbr 8.
at th post ortW t Momnoutl), Orwon. under tht
Act of March 3. 187.
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FRIDAY. JAN. 2G, 1912.
WANTS THEM 1NDEMNFIED.
Secretary Hitchcock has com
mitted himself as being in favor
of government ownership of the
telegraph system, but against
public ownership of the tele
phone system, and he gives fair
ly good reason for his opposition
to telephone ownership by the
government, in that it is more
of a local benefit than national.
He favors the establishment
of a parcels post, but thinks that
the express companies should be
indemnified in case of its estab
lishment for the loss they should
sustain.
We can see no particular
reason why the people should
be under obligation to indem
nify the express companies if
the parcels post is put in opera
tion any more than a new ex
press company starting up
should be under the same obli
gation to those already doing
business. Express companies
have grown wealthy in the
carrying business, and the peo
ple have made them so, and paid
them for all the transportation
that they did, and are under no
other obligation as a money con
sideration ended the matter.
The public have a choice in
the matter as to which company
the individual may patronize and
if it wish to set up the Parcels
Post for its convence it (the pub
lic) certainly has the right to do
so without indemnifying rich
corporations for what they have
not earned ami in the majority
of cases never would earn.
Heavy articles would still be
sent by express as would also
most articles of much value and
the increase of business would
give the express companies suf
ficient business, undoubtedly, to
make them paying institutions,
and if it does not do so, the law
of "The greatest good . to the
greatest number still holds
good."
When a railroad is built into
a new country it knocks out the
teamsters and small carriers be
cause of the cheaper rate of
transportation and the public or
people are glad to get it but
there is no thought of indemnity
to those misplaced; they have to
hustle for themselves: the pub
lic paid for the service rendered
and turns to the railroad as a
means of improvement; the
teamster can change his occu
pation, and in the case of tha
express companies, they are not
entitled to indemnity for what
they have not lost.
Chicken thives are coming in
for a good deal of street com
ment these days and we are in
clined to think from the tone of
commentors that the business is
hardly popular and that the
purpetrators may come to grief
if it is carried much further.
There is talk of bird 'shot, salt
and brimstone, shotguns, hen
' roosts and chicken thieves, so
we conclude that henroosts are
somewhere near the danger
line, for if those who rob the
roost keep clear of the law, they
are likely to come to grief otherwise.
The llKKAi.n is in receipt of
an annonymous communication
this week, which we will not
publish, and we will say to our
readers that it is no use for any
one to waste their time and
stamps sending commucations
without signing their name to
them, as such news has the
stamp of cowardice and mischief
and will not appear in the Her
ald. The editor and proprietor
stands behind what appears in
its columns and must know the
source of information especially
when the news furnished is of n
shady character.
OUR POLICE DUTY IN CHINA
We have sent troops to China,
but not at all in the spirit of ag
gression. The step has been
in accorpance with "a treaty
which arose from the emergency
that caused us to go into the
Flowery Kingdom during the
Uoxer uprising. At that time it
was necessary to force a way
from the sea to Pekin for the
purpose of saving the European
and American" Legation that
were in jeopardy in that city.
By treaty agreement the obli
gation rests upon Chinu to keep
that line of communication
open, and if there is doubt of
Chinese ability to do that, the
powers have the right and are
charged with the duty of polic
ing tl line.
There is no immediate pros
pect that our present mission in
China will be other than peace
ful. The field of existing troub
le and turbulence is removed far
south from Pekin; but Uncle
Sam has chosen to forestall the
necessity for any hostile action.
In the present movement on the
part or this Government there is
neither the color of invasion nor
intervention. It is merely the
exercise of an assured right and
the dischaage of a duty some
thing that possibly may not be
understood by every man who
reads the papers. Telegram.
OLD TIME GEOGRAPHY.
8ailora' Yarns and Flights of Fanoy
Recorded aa Facts.
In the old days, before the ex
plorers had so thoroughly mapped,
charted and otherwise made known
to all the mysterious places of the
earth, geography must have been a
vastly more interesting, even fasci
nating, study than It is today. So
little was known positively about
the distant world and so much de
pended on the tples of seamen that
it would seem each geographer
chose his facts to suit himself. The
result .was that there was a never
ending variety about the old geog
raphies. - 1
' "The joint snake," declared the
author of "Geography Made Easy"
more than a hundred years ago, "is
great curiosity. Its skin is as hard
as parchment and as smooth as
glass. It .is so stiff it can hardly
bend itself into a hoop and so brit
tle that when it is struck it breaks
like a pipestem. You may with a
whip break it into pieces not an
inch long and produce not the least
tincture of blood."
"In California," the old geog
raphy stated, "there fall in the
morning great quantities of dew,
which, settling on the rose leaves,
becomes hard like manna, having
all the sweetness of refined sugar
without its whiteness."
Another curious fact set forth by
the old time geographer was that in
the Friendly islands the great men
were fond of a singular kind of lux
ury, which was to have some one sit
beside them all night and beat on
different parts, of their body, until
they went'to sleep, after which they
would relax a little of their labor
unless the subject appeared likely
to wake, in which case the opera
tors would redouble their exertions
until tho subject was again fattt
asleep.
The diversions of tho Scots, ns
given in tho ancient geography,
were "dancing, goff and curling.
Tho goff is a species of hall playing
performed with a bat and ball, the
extremity of the bat being loaded
with lead, and tho party which
strikes the ball with fewest strokes
into a hole wins the game."
To tho question. "What curiosi
ties are there in Franco?" this re
ply is made: 'A fountain near lre
noblo emits a flanio which will burn
paper, straw, etc., hut will not burn
gunpowder. Within about eight
leagues of tho :imo place is an in
accessible mountain in the form of
a pyramid reversed."
In liko manner tho old geogra-
5 hers ranged from Australia to
iew England, setting forth tho
most marvelous matters. New
York Press.
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