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The herald., 1896-03-13
Y. M. G. A. Entertainment

The auditorium of the Simpson taber-
nacle was about half filled last evening to
see Professor Speedon, the clever cartoon
ist and caracaturist. II was very clever
performance, the artist with lightning
rapidity producing landscapes, portraits of
people in the audience, carica ures and
marvelously exact portraits of distinguished
statesmen, authors and business men. His
work is more rapid than was that of Mast,
while for delicacy, yet iirmness of outline
it is superior to that of Beard. The sketches
were accompanied by very valuable sug-
Restions to those studying illustrative work
for newspapers and magazines, which were
closely attended to and as much appreci-
ated as the able crayon work on the easel.
This entertainment was the last of the
present star course of the Y. Nj. G.. A.
The herald., 1896-03-13
A Piano Recital

Miss Eva E. Williams of the Los Ange-
les conservatory of music and art gave a
successful and we'll attended piano recital
at the Blanchard. Fitzgerald music hall
last night. Her selections included Beetho-
ven's Sonata, op. 81. No. 3; Chopin's Ber-
ceuse, op. 81. and Nocturne, op. 81. No.
2. In Liszts Rhapsodie Hongroise. No. 3,
arranged for four hands, Miss Williams
was assisted by Miss Annie DENLY. Miss
Nina Cuthbert supplied variety with sever
al clever examples of elocutionary art.
The recital was given under the direction
of Mrs. Smiley +. Valentine.
The herald., 1896-03-13
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were
issued by the county clerk yesterday:
William Twaddell, a native of Scotland,
aged 81 years, and resident of Pasadena,
and Katie Conrad, native of Penn ,ylva-
mia, aged 40 years, and a resident of Los
Angeles,
John Strohm, a native of Germany, aged
"A years, and Alice Strohm, a native of
Kentucky, aged 43 years, both being resi-
dents of this city.
The herald., 1896-03-13
STOPPED THE CARS
nania for Standing on the Track and Refus-
Ing to Bulge


Ing to Bulge
An elderly lady named Mrs. Eliza Gro
we'll was taken to the county Jail yesterday
morning and locked up on an insanity
charge. Mrs. Crowell was visiting daugh-
ter on Buena Vista street, and displayed
her alteration by wanting to stand on the
track in front of every electric car that
came along. She would plant herself in
the middle of the track and refuse to move.
Several cars were obliged to stop and wait
until she could be forcibly removed.
Several times she narrowly escaped be-
ing run down by motorneers, who thought
of course she would step out of the wav as
the car approached. An officer took her
in the patrol wagon to the jail, ana she Will
appear for examination before an insane
commission. 1t is said that she was previ-
ously an inmate of Highland, but had been
discharged as cured.
The herald., 1896-03-13
The Talbot Finally Sails

At the Oil Exchange it was yesterday re-
ported that the tank vessel Enoch Talbot
had finally taken on board the balance of
her cargo of oil and had sailed for the
north. Wednesday night she was towed
out some ten miles, where, catching the
wind she cast off and started on the jour-
ney. Notwithstanding the many delays
she has experienced, a quick trip is antici-
pated. and another cargo will be ready on
her return,
The herald., 1896-03-13

was also afflicted with organic heart trou-
BILE. His sudden demise was caused by
the pressure of the water.clogged lungs
upon the weakened heart, causing a rup-
ture of an important artery. Death had
come instantaneously and painless!y. A
verdict in accordance with the above facts
was rendered by the jury.
The herald., 1896-03-13
Want to Buv House

We have client who wants a cottage of
four or five rooms, southwest or on the
hills and near car line, that can be bought
for moderate cash down and balance on
monthly payments. Also have a buyer for
cheap place on good lot on easy terms.
We can sell if the price is right. Lang
worthy Co., lawyers, 226 S. Spring street.
The herald., 1896-03-13
Central W. c. T. U. Meeting

The Central w. c. T. q. will hold a
mothers meeting today at the Temperance
temple, corner of Broadway and Temple
street, at 2:3O. The subject will be Our
Boys and Girls. DR.. A. Davidson will de.
liver the address. which will be followed by
free discussion. Every one is invited,
especially young mothers. A playroom
will be provided for the children.
The herald., 1896-03-13
New Country Everv nile

On the trip around the Kite-Shaped Track
you pass TIN ough each town but once. Spe-
cial excursion ticket good for ten days
allow stop-overs at any point ON the track.
Descriptive pamphlets and particulars at
Santa Fe ticket offices.
The herald., 1896-03-13
The Delightful seashors

Balmy weather, bathing. boating and
fishing at Santa Monica, Long Beach and
San Pedro. Fast and convenient trains on
the Southern Pacific, whose time table will
be found in this paper. Saturday and Sun
day round trip, so cents.
The herald., 1896-03-13

in need of a holiday. though somewhat
10th to take it; now circumstances are i'm
perative. There is the greatest sympathy
throughout the Boston Store over the
presidents accident. which will certainly
be shared by its many patrons.
The herald., 1896-03-13

Every wedding invitation or announcement
turned out of our office is nearly perfect as
ex perience and skill can make it. We furnish
either the printed or engraved at prices no
hi cher than elsewhere. IL. NJ. Lee & Bro, l4U
North Spring street.
The herald., 1896-03-13

Fine Chicken Dinner at the Ra!ston
Today, 4:3O to 1880 p. M; usual good
music. Come and enjoy both. 3l5 w,
Third street.
The herald., 1896-03-13

Fifty cents round trip on Terminal rail-
road to Long Beach and San Pedro. Good
going SaturdaJ and Sunday, returning
Monday.
The herald., 1896-03-13
pecem;on N Misc Antborv

Miss Susan B. Anthony arrived in the
the city last evening on her way to San
Francisco. A reception will be rendered
her this afternoon at = 80 o'clock at the
Nadeau hotel.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
A Dog Playing Football.


a most amusing scene was witnessed
enc Sunday afternoon in Moore street,
Dublin, where number of gamins
were playing football with large blad.
der under their own special rules. One
of the teams, presumably being disap-
pointed in the turn out Of a imam, -
filled the vacancy by substituting in
his stead handsome collie dog. The
dog played his game with extraordi-
nary intelligence, stopping the ball with
his head when it was going against
his team, and upon every occasion on
which he got possession of it he ran
with it in his mouth, and despite all
opposition of his opponents carried it
triumphuntly through the goal. The
game lasted about rs minutes in the
presence of Il large gathering, and end
cd with much excitement in the dogs
team winning by ten goals to nothing.
AS there was no gate to receive money,
and as the teams depended on the gen.
crosby of their patrons, the latter vol
UNFAIRLY subscribed literally. It is a
pity, am afraid, that the best IMAM"
in the feld-or rather the str9et-rc-
ceived very little of the receipts-Imean
the dog.-Freeman's Journal.
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Detroit Free Press.
Origin Of Santa Claus.

As for Santa Claus himself, he ha.
surely guarantee OF Immortality. il
ever a creation of human fancy and
domestic affection did so. lie has a
history-much of it legendary. we must
confess-which Of itself makes him
noted character. He seems to be a
composite personality. uniting the Boy
Bishop of old times in England. the
Christ-kindlein Of Germany-the Christ.
child who came down the chimney on
Christmas eve to fill the children's
stockings-and the st. Nicholas OF
the Fourth century. who. having in
herited large fortune. devoted it to
the relieving of distress, and some.
times the necessities Of those who in
some distress of evil fortune became
embarrassed. or reduced from wealth
to poverty. The reindeer and the sleigh
must be OF far northern origin. Thus
the orient, Britain, Germany and Scan
dinavia, appear to have each a hand in
creating personality which is so dear
to us all because it represents what
is most simple, kindly and benefcent
in the more intimate relations of human
life.-Chicaoo Standard.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
TEACHERS IN CAMBODlA.
A Spiritual Bond Between Them An
Their Pupils.

A Spiritual Bond Between Them and
Their Pupils.
All children who presentthemselvesat
the veat for study-are received. 1t 10
not ever required that their parents
bring them or send them, says Popular
Science Monthly. The newcomer
chooses his professor, and, if accepted,
begins at once to study under his direc-
ton, installs himself in his cell or in
the school hall, and becomes his servant.
II the professor has already too many
pupils, be refuses the new pu-
pil and advises him to choose another
teacher; sometimes he guides his choice.
directing him to o master who has few
or no pupils. or takes him to the su.
perior who will select a teacher for him.
rhe choice of professor is always
grave affair, because it is held in Cam.
bodia, as in all Buddhist aud Brahmatic
countries, that professor and pupil are
bound by strong ties of spiritual al.
fnity. and that the pupil ought to- re-
spect his master as he does his father
and mother. The law inaicts the same
penalty upon an offense OF the pupil
against his master as an offense by
son against his father and mother and
It prescribes that in certain cases the
pupil may be heir of his professor when
he has cared for him or supported HIM
or served him when studying under his
direction; not only a family bond hut
a religious bond, too, is established be-
tween them. for the professor makes ii
his business to teach his pupil the course
by which he may earn more advanta'
geous reincarnation and reach the Mir.
yana, and becomes his spiritual guide.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
t,Awks osscuREp THE SUN.
The Season Next Following tho snake
Season In Maryland Opens Well.

Tho Season Next Following tho Snake
season In Maryland Opens Well.
Next to the eastern shore, the western
counties are the most interesting por.
ton of Maryland. 1t is never dull in
western Maryland. There is always
something going on. Directly the snake
season closes in Washington county,
the hawk season begins in Allegheny.
This past season was one OF the best
snake years in the history of Washing"
ton county. Each day there was nsnake
story, until people got to expect them
in the morning paper, aud felt sorry
when by some chance they did not ap'
pear. The closing one of the series ap-
peared the other day. A snake along
the canal had ruined it's digestion by
swallowing an enormous ear of WASH
ington county corn, with the shuck on,
in the same raw condition as were tho
stories people had to swallow.
But as we have said, that story ends
the series, and the hawk season has
promptly opened in Allegheny, the adj
joining county. The Sun the other day
received the following dispatch from
correspondent in Cumberland:
Farmers from the lower region of
Allegheny county report the passage
in southcrly direction of a flock of
hawks that was two miles wide and
was fully three hours in crossing the
valley. The sun was obscured for awhile
by the moving black cloud. One farm
,er, not satisfied as to the species of
the bird, fired into the flock and
brought down six. They were found
to belong to the bird, and not chicken
hawk species"
Some people may think that this
story is exaggerated, and that the farm
ers in the lower part of Allegheny ex-
banded two yards into two miles, just
as some people suppose they can ex-
pand 50 cents into a dollar. But the
story may be entirely correct, except
possibly with respect to the cloud be-
ing two miles wide. 1t may have
lacked some little of that width.
We have some indistinct recollec-
ton of a true hawk story which came
from the eastern shore some years ago.
According to that story, one of the re-
mote districts of Dorchester county.
bordering on the bay. was visited by
hawks in multitude, such as is de-
scribed in the Cumberland dispatch;
possibly not quite such multitude,
but still multitude. At that time the
county was paying a reward for hawks
scalps. When the hawks appeared,
therefore, every man and boy who had
gun went to slaughtering hawks, and
the county was only saved from bank
ruptcy by the failure of the supply of
ammunition. AS it was, thebill for hawk
scalps was so great that an act was
rushed through the next legislature to
repeal the hawk bounty. Indeed, some
of the eastern shore men wanted a
special session called-Baltimore Sun.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
A Siberian March.

4 remarkable march OF 4.700 miles
across Siberia. occupying almost year.
has just been completed by two Russian
battalions Of line infantry and two
batteries OF artillery. which lately
reached their camp on the Amur. The
troops marched 1900 versts by land
and made their way for 5000 versts by
water. half the distance on RATS con.
structcd by themselves. Their losses
were 6 men dead. - left behind in hos
pitfalls and 20 horses. The others ar-
rived in good condition and excellent
spirits.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

old clock down In the kitchen VA
striking IL when Sam nudged me
with his elbow and whispered:
"That fellow is robbing the housed"
"How do you know?"
because I can hear him moving
about. There-don't you hear that?
We've got to go downstairs and stop
him from taking that watch ane
shawl"
1--WE dasn't!"
Eyes, we dast! I'll 60 first, but you
come along! Robbers always run If
they hear anybody. and.maybe he'll get
scarf off before he gets the things"
We skipped out Of bed and drew on
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
PLANTS THAT SPREAD QUICKLY.
Weeds and Grasses That Cumber tho Soil
of This Country.

Weeds and Grasses That Cumber tho Soil
of This Country.
The dandelion is an old world flower,
not native in America, save lar to the
north and on some of the highest OF
our western mountains. But somehow
it was brought here, perhaps from Eng
land in old colonial times. Now we see
it's golden heads and feathery balls at
every grassy roadside, the "clocks"
the boys and girls blow to tell the hour.
A few years ago farmers in the north
west found new weed, vile prickly
weed, in their wheat-fields. In very
short time this weed, the Russian
thistle, has spread over wide acres OF
the best farm land in that part Of the
country, and has done great injury to
the crops.
How do these plants spread SO fast
and so far? They are not carried about
and planted. No one would be SO fool
ish as to SOW Russian thistles. The
mother-plant must have ways of her
own for sending her offsprings abroad
into the world. Plants propagate them
selves in two ways, from seed or from
buds. Sometimes these buds are borne
on slender runners. a strawberry plant,
after it has blossomed, begins to send
out such runners, with buds, unfolding
tufts of leaves, along them. These tufts
are at first connected with the parent
plant, BUT later the runners between
break away, and each tuft becomes
new plant. Many grasses, like Ber-
muda grass and the troublesome quick
or couch grass, have creeping stems,
each joint sending out bunch of roots
below and bud on the upper side. If
you try to hoe up such grasses, you
only make matters worse, for each joint
when cut off is ready to form an indie
pendent plant. Such grasses spread
very fast, and soon take possession Of
tine land they get into-Thomas II.
Kearney, Jr., in st. Nicholas.
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hid been taken away from the stables
and we had returned to the house,
"boys, I thank ye a thousand times over
for this watch, which is something I've
sorter wanted for years, but let me
jest tell ye that We both orter be taken
out and licked fer not tellin' me about
that robber till :Ye had him safely locked
up. Don't ye never DO Sich a thing as
that ag'in as long as ye live on the face
Of this airth." &
"And. boys" added mother,with tears
in her eyes. as she Rugged the shawl
and US, too, II not only thank ye as
much as father does, but say We did
Jest right in not walin' US up; I'D have
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
A Christmas Blessing.

As the Christmas bells are ringing their
chimes OF peace and love.
And the voices Of the angels come floating
from above.
Oh. Thou "Who art in Heaven" for our lit.
tie ones we pray -
Thy tcnderest. sweetest blessing on this
their Christmas day. :.
And to us. whose hearts are glowing with
gratitude to Thee, =
That Thou hast spared our darlngs, With
their sunshine and their glee. ~
wilt Thou send Thy daily presence. give
us patience with our love.
Give that wisdom, Heavenly Father. that
can come but from above. ".
And the power to do our duty by These
precious ones, we pray,
Be the longed-for Christmas blessing which
Thou sendest US to-day.
Good Hou 50 keepinc
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
A MAGIC TREE.
Col. Nolan Discovers q Vegetable Foun-
tain Of Eternal Youth.

Col. Nolan Discovers q Vegetable Foun-
tain Of Eternal Youth.
Col. George A. Nolan, of Los Angeles,
formerly public administrator of Kan
sas City, a manufacturer and man of
extensive travel, tells an interesting
story Of the Hawaiian papaya plant or
tree. He has just made Investigations
that lead him to believe that it embodies
many of the virtues heretofore sup
posed to dwell in the tabled fountain OF
immortal youth.
Speaking of the marvellous tree that
produces papaya fruit Col. Nolan lately
said:
':This tree brings forth strange
looking melon fruit not unlike mush-
melon. The juice of the fruit possesses
the quality of dissolving meat, having
a strange effect on muscular fibers, ap-
parently disintegrating them COM
pletely. Col. John Browler, Of Homo
lulu, showed me q tough chicken which
became as tender as young broiler
when boiled for few minutes in water
to which few drops of the rapaya juice
had been added. If the natives ore to be
believed the same effect is obtained by
hanging tough fowl or the meat of
bullock under the tree in such a way
that the exl,alations of papaine per"
mcate the meat. Great surprises have
been perpetrated on visitors by natives
inclined to be ways by making tough
piece of meat tender in a few minutes
by passing it through water made
strong with papa;ne, pretending, how
ever, 10 achieve the purpose by IN mean
tation to the Goddess Pelc.
1T Is a marvellous fact that ono soon
becomes accustomed to eating the
fruit, which cures dyspepsia and adds
to ones general health."-San Fran
cisco Call.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
Not That Kind Of BOY.

Visitor-Johnny, are you making
great Preparations at your Sunday schoo.
for Christmas2
Johnny-1'm not going to Sunday
school now. ma'am. =
Visitor-Not going to Sunday school?
Johnny-Nome. 1 quit last Sunday,
l don't want folks to think I'm one Of
these boys that's only good durin' the
holidays. I'll start again after Christ
mas is over.-Chicago Tribune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
Afraid of the Waiter.

"Why do you take squash pie, George7
You told me you much preferred pump
kim"
II do, but don't know Just how to
pronounce it in fashionable hotel like
this, and with as little money in my
pocket as I've got. But squash is dead
cssy,"- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
To Pay a Penalty for Dining

Is rather hard, isn't it9 Yet how many are
compelled to do this after every meal. Dys-
pepsiu, that inexorabIe prosecutor, never
ceases to torment Of its own volition, aud
rarely yields to ordinary medication. But
tranquility of the stomach is In store for
those who pursue q course of HOstetters
Stomach Bitters. This fine corrective also
remedies mulari,.l ind kidney complaints:
rheumatism. constipation, biliousness and
nervousness.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

~save and buy father silver watch and
mother a new shawl for Christmas.
Sam was IS and two years younger.
and we we're the sons OF farmer
who couldn't afford luxuries. We
couldn't hope to do it all by ourselves.
though we did get enough together for
the shawl. Our uncles and aunts and
cousins Clipped in, and the jeweler
threw off 81 on the price Of the watch.
and on the day before Christmas oil!
Santa Claus had the watch and shaw!
and father and mother hadn' t the slight
est suspicion of what was in store for
them. Sam and had sold apples, en-
bezzled eggs, disposed Of old plow-
points, hoed corn for the neighbors.
gathered and sold hickory nuts and
worked various other schemes to get
that S1o shawl and we had a right to
feel e]atcd and proud. We had the arti-
-cles hidden in the hay NOW at the barn.
and about once an hour we had to 60
out there and take look at them.
It was growing dark on Christmas
eve when a stranger on foot turned in
at our gate and asked for lodgings. He
was a well-dressed, keen-looking man.
and the fact OF his being on foot and
the village tavern only two miles away.
~ought to have set father to thinking.
Mother eyed him suspiciously. butwhen
the man said he had rheumatism. and
that be expected to pay for his enter
tainment, father invited him in and APP
reared to think that it was all right.
Not so with Sam and I, however. W..
didn't like the looks of the man. and
when we discovered that he used pro-
fame language and chewed plug tobacco
we put him down as a bad man. After
supper the man told father that he lived
in Cincinnati aud had come to look a t
a farm on the Six-Afile road. He made
an effort to be entertaining and agree
able. and though he succeeded with the
cid folks Sam and couldn't give hin,
any credit.
There was bedroom of the parlo-.
and it was arranged that he should
sleep in there. Also that Santa Claus
should leave the gifts for father and
mother on the parlor table after he had
gone to bed. Sam and would hang
our stockings in the kitchen. The man
excused himself about nine o'clock and
went to bed. and ten minutes later the
watch and shawl were on the table. and
xnother had promised not even to look
in. We hustled off to bed. and by half
past nine father and mother came up.
t'Do you s'pose that Teller heard
~bout the watch and shawl?" querietl
Gam, as we got into bed.
''How could hep
81 dunno. but believe he just came
here to steal 'em. IF he was goin' to
look at farm on the Six-Mile road why
didn't he get off the train at Grafton ?
. I'll bet you he robs the house and clears
out before morning!"
"Let's tell father!"
"He wouldn't believe it. and it would
only scare ma"
~, talked the matter over for few
ajuntes and then fell asleep, and the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

Susie (angrily)-Sir, what right had
you to kiss ne?
Toni was laboring under a delu.
sion.
Susie-Explain yourself, sir. What
delusion?
Tom-The same one you were under.
the mistletoe.-Brooklyn Life. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

The jet mines of England seem to
yield less and less of that mineral. Ten
years ago as much as 1870 pounds were
raised; last year only 16S pounds
formed the total of the production.
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On to WASHINGTON I

Those who contemplate visiting the CAPT.
tai during the Inauguration next March will
do well to travel over the popular "Bis
Four and picturesque chesapeake and
Ohio Ry. Write for descriptive pamphlet
and excursion rates. u. L. TRClrT, N. w.
P. A., :&34 Clark St., Chicago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

"No, MY dear, it's no use talking. shan't
give up smoking until I'm dead" His
Wife (bitterly)--"What leads you to be-
lieve that you will giveitup thenf"-Brook-
lvn Life
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24
Evidently q Mistake

Muggins-Whst is your friend Guz-
zler's occupation?
1'uggins - He's the skipper Of
schooner.
II never saw him skip one."-Phila-
de1phia Record.