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The herald., 1898-04-30
The Sunset Club

The regular meeting of the Sunset club
was held last evening and was largely at
tended. The subject of the evening was:
Cuba Free-What Them" and was intro
duced in paper by Otheman A. Stevens.
f. A. Gibson also read a paper on the SUBJ
ject, which was subsequently discussed by
Geo. S. Patton, Judge Enoch knight, W.
A. Spalding, Fl. w. O'Melveny, Judge Lu-
cien Shaw, Senator Bulla, Major H. II.
Lee and Percy r. Wilson. The general
trend of the discussion was that the United
States would well be able to take care of
the destiny of Cuba. During the evening an
original poem, Don't You Forget We
Have a Navy" composed by the club S
laureate, Geo. H. Stewart, was sung by the
members to the tune of 1.-THE Battle Cry OF
Freedom"
1t was decided by unanimous vote that
the June meeting of the club should take
the form of Midsummer High Jinks,'
and a committee, composed Of Messrs Fl.
w. O'Melveny, ]. o. Koepfli, John Muir
Frank Virgins and Ben G. Truman, was
named by the president to complete ar
rangements.
The herald., 1898-04-30
A NEW SOCIETY
Women Organize to Furnish Hospital
Supplies If Needed

At the request of Mrs. Mary Threlkeld
some sixty or more ladies assembled III
the Friday morning club rooms yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of forming a
Hospital Aid society. Mrs. Threlkeld called
the meeting to order and explained the OBJ
ject of the proposed organiza ton to be the
furnishing of bandages, delcacies and
other hospital supplies for the wounded in
case 1t should be necessary, and to render
such other aid as may be deemed expedi-
ent. Mrs. J. A. Osgood was unanimously
elected permanent president and Mrs. w.
w. Hamlin secretary. The question of a
constitution, bylaws, dress and other de-
tails, on motion, was referred to a commit
tee of which Mrs. Threlkeld Is chairman,
to report at the next meeting. The ques-
ton of a meeting place coming up for con-
sideration, committee was appointed to
ascertain if Armory hall could be OBJ
tanned for an afternoon meeting once a
week for the present.
telephone message was sent Gen.
Last, who replied at once that the Seventh
regiment would be pleased to extend the
courtesy of the hall to the ladies for the
purpose named Mrs. Threlkeld stated at
the opening of the meeting that Mrs. Hen
bricks, president of the Treble Clef club
had rendered the services of that society
for a concert to be given for the bAnefit Of
the new organization. With a place of
raeeting courteously donated and the gen.
erous proffer of a benefit to cres,.e the
basis of a working fund the prospects lor
successfully carrying forward any hos
ptal work for the wounded and sick that
may be necessary is assured.
The meeting adjourned until Friday next
at 2:30 in new Armory hall, corner Of
Spring and Eighth streets.
The herald., 1898-04-30
BACHELOR MAIDS CLUB
NEW WOMAN MOVEMENT ABOUT
TO BE LAUNCHED
THEY WANT TO REFORM MAN
A Place for Women Of Sentimental
Age Who Will Swear Never
to Marry

The trousered legs of DR.. Mary Walker
have come and gone, as has the political
crusade Of Mary Ellen Lease, who has
kept supremely quiet these many days
agone. But now we are to have a move
ment for the benefit of none but women
who have attained the sentimental age
that period in life when they persist in
saying, "Oh, I'll never marry!" and then
go right on hoping some man will come to
make them break their promise.
Miss Linda Onita Welich, a black-eyed,
ark-complexioned youpg woman, is In the
city now, partly on business that affords
her livelihood, and also to try to Interest
the old maids here in her movement, which,
she says, is already fiourishing In San
Francisco. or course, no up-to-date wo-
man will admit herself an old maid-she is
always young, and to her advanced ears
the word "old'' carries with it an inference
that she does not like. So, In organizing
this club they will designate themselves
Bachelor Maids"
Miss Welich has a few ideas on man
that are worth exposing. not having here
tofore been advanced, and presumably
they were studied out in the quiet recesses
of a Photographic studio, the lady at pres
ent being connected with the local house
of Marceau, and she was also employed
by him in San francisco.
"The object of our association" she
said, "is the reformation of man. We al
ways refer to man as that wretch He Is
in need of the influence of the woman OF
today. He is naughty, domineering, self
willed and obstinate, and It Is our purpose
to subdue him. Our association is a secret
organization, and, contrary to the charge
against woman that she cannot keep q
secret, the truth Is that nothing that we
have ever done in council has been di-
vulged by any members We hold month
ly meetings, during which, besides til,
regular business. we discuss the, to us, all
consuming topic-man.
'"The members of our club are sworn
never to marry. We have been organized
in San Francisco for three years, and nc
member has yet deserted on that account.
1t is satisfying to know that one is going
to be single through life. No, / cannot tell
you the age of our eldest member nor that
Of our youngest, for that is also against
the rules.
"All our associations with man are pla-
tonic and we are with him in the hope OF
reforming him only. We do not allow
them even at our informal meetings. anG
look upon them only as beings worthy OF
all the sympathy and good influence that
can be extended to them.
"a club of this kind is always very pop
ular and has been successful wherever
started. l don't tanticipate any difficulty here
and expect to have a good membership lis
before the week is out. l am going to bt
employed in the city for some time yet
and communications addressed to me ir
care of Marceau's will reach me and be
given attention.
The herald., 1898-04-30
MORE QUIBBLING
Justice Cheated by Technicalities and
Legal Interpretations

A rather amusing condition confronts
the prosecution In the misdemeanor cases
against Norris Aschner, Richard Chit
lette, James Gray, l.. Caldwell and Wm
Page, the outfit OF alleged bunco men,
Their trials for the enticement and rob.
berry of Miner N. w. Clark in Aschner's
joint on North Main street some weeks
ago were begun yesterday before Justices
Owens and Morrison. Gray and Chitlette
were before Justice Owens on a charge OF
having enticed Clark into the gambling
resort. The defendants were represented
by w. r. Bacon and w. H. Shinn. Attor.
ney Bacon made the contention that, while
their clients might have enticed Clark into
the Aschner place, 1t was not crime as
the statutes do not prohibit this act when
the victim is not enticed into gambling
resort, and draw poker is recognized by
The herald., 1898-04-30
CITY NEWS
INDEX OF LOCAL EVENTS
Chronicled on pages 7. 8. 10 and IL.

= MYSTERIOUS disappearance Of w. c. I
4 Harris.
\ A patriotic concert and dance at the
= Devon Inn.
! Contractor McComb has filed insol- (
4 vency papers.
! A new society organized to furnish :
! hospital supplies.
4 Lottery joint visitor caught and 4
4 held by the coattalls.
i Organization of the Bachelor 1
\ Maids" club in this city. 1
! Latest news of the local volunteers; 1
4 Captain Steere's artillery.
i Frank T. McClellans commission (
i will probably be rescinded. 4
\ School principals recommend the 1
4 natural system of penmanship.
4 A grocery firm blamed for gasoline 1
4 explosion which injured child. I
4 Reorganization of the Pacific Coast 1
4 Railway and Steamship company. I
4 Supreme court renders decision 1
4 granting new trial in the Holiday 1
= case. 1
\ The death of Mrs. R. Roberts be- 4
+ lleved to be the result Of brutal as 1
4 sault. 1
4 Burglar Hines gets off easily by 1
4 pleading the baby act in the superior 1
= court.
4 Technicalities and legal bubbles will 1
+ undoubtedly cause the dismissal of a 4
4 bunco case. 4
4 Improvements needed in the new city I
4 charter suggested by the Friday 4
4 Morning club. 4
4 Sixth annual intercollegiate athletic /
4 contest to be held this afternoon at (
4 Santa Monica. 4
4 Samples of paving rock examined 4
\ by the board Of public works; recon- 1
4 mendations made. 4
The herald., 1898-04-30

Associated Charities, as there is consid-
cradle poverty and suffering among the
poor and will be great deal more during
the coming summer. Miss Nettie Howell
would like her amount refunded as paying
out money for patriotic purpose is an
other matter and can be attended to later
on. The Los Angeles Sewer Pipe assocs
ton prefers to donate its subscription to
the Associated Charities and H. c. Hance
will give his to swell the boys and girls
fund for the battleship american Boy."
The herald., 1898-04-30
POLICE COURT NOTES
What Was Done by the City Justices
Yesterday

John Traynor was fined $50 or fifty days
yesterday by Justice Owens for disturbing
the peace. Traynor fought with some Mex
leans Saturday night. After cleaning out
the crowd he made a desperate fight
against being arrest d by Officer Sawyer.
Jacob Woerle was discharged yesterday
by Justice Owens. He had been arrested
on charge of stealing a wheel, but upon
his paying the costs the complaint was
dismissed.
Frank Wilder was held in $4,000 bail yes
terday by Justice Owens, to answer to a
charge of burglary.
Katherine Burt was before Justice
Owens yesterday on a charge of disturbing
the peace. She and another colored wo-
man got into dispute, but the defendant
proved that she had not sung any OBJ
jectionable doggerel about the prosecuting
witness and was discharged.
On motion of the deputy district attor-
ney the embezzlement charge against
Wingate Lindsay was dismissed, as the
matter will be settled out of court.
The herald., 1898-04-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

For flags c. f. Weber & Co.. 21O N. Main.
Tourteen-hour specialist See ad. on page
6. Waterman's Shoe store.
Call tel. main 243 for ambulance Bresee
Brothers, Sixth and Broadway.
Mrs. Caswells art lecture today at 2:3O
p. M, Friday Morning club hall.
r. W. Kringel, piano tuner and regulator,
218 8. Broadway. Phone Black 1856.
c. D. Howry, undertaken. Fifth and
Broadway. Lowest prices in the city.
Latest spring suitings and trouserings at
Phillips & Munton's 339 South Spring st.
Robert Sharp & Co., funeral directors. .75I
and 753 South Spring street. Tel Main 1929
Pearl Price, a dope fiend, applied at the
receiving hospital yesterday for medical
treatment.
Watches cleaned, Is cents; mainsprings
50 cents: crystals, 10 cents. Patton. 214
South Broadway.
The regular weekly concert by Lowin-
sky's orchestra will be given at the Hall
of Industry this evening.
A meeting of the boulevard committee
will be held at the Hall of Industry, on
Main street. Monday at 8 p. m.
Special-Borders free with and 7is cert
wall paper In room quantity. Walter, G27
South Spring, telephone 9S3 green.
Honesty in advertising pays" Ladies',
wear our $3.50 So and $3.50 shoes; best value
In town. Burns 2i0 South Spring street
s. Colburn, an electrician applied at the
receiving hospital suffering from a cut on
one of his fingers. He was attended by
DR.. Hagan.
or
street. Plates from 81. Painless extract
ing. 80 cents Filling speciality. Hours,
to s; Sunday, 10 to II.
B. Ballerino yesterday filed a protest
to the council against the proposed widen
ing of Pico street, from Alvarado street
to the west city boundary.
Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday after
noon a slight mist began to fall and in
creased steadily until there was a re-
spectacle drizzle. The rain did not con-
tinue for over an hour.
Bartlett-Logan post, G. A. r., will give
''smoker" Saturday evening at Elks' hall,
South Main street All ex-solders and ex-
sailors are invited to be present and listen
to songs and patriotic talks.
Do you know that a framed picture
makes a most desirable wedding present? !?
If you are looking for anything IN that line
do not fail to call at H. c. Lichtenberger's
art emporium, 202 South Spring street.
The fifth annual meeting of the Young
Womens Christian association will be held
Sunday, May 1st at 3:45 p. M, at the rooms,
2l1h West Second street. Miss Louise b.
Pierson Of the International will speak.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey, Stimson block,
trst floor. rooms 1873, 134. 1876. Special atten-
Sion given to obstetrical cases, and all dis
eases of women and children. Electricity
scientifically used. Consultation hours,
20 8. Telephone 1927.
: An apportionment of $SO,OOO was yester-
6ay made by City Auditor Nichols to the
various funds, which puts all long ways
to the good on the ledger. The apportion-
ment was made from funds received in the
past week, and is the largest single ap-
portionment made by Auditor Nichols
-'"ce he assumed office.
The herald., 1898-04-30
Maximum temperature, go.
Minimum temperature, 80.
Rainfall past "a hours, trace.
Rainfall for season, 5.2S.
Weather Condition,

The depression which extended from Ari-
soma through the interior of California has
developed into quite wide area tf low ba-
rometer, which is central in Utah. This de-
preston is causing cloudy and unsettled
weather. with southerly to easterly winds
in Southern California. accompanied by
light rains. The temperature has fallen
slightly or remained stationary on the Pa
Gifts slope. 1t has risen east of the noun
tains, the change being marked at Denver.
GEORGE e. FRANKLIN,
Local Forecast Official.
Forecasts
Local forecast for Los Angeles and vi
ity: Fair Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2s.-Forecast
for Southern California: Showers early
Saturday morning; cloudy Saturday; fresh
westerly wind.
The herald., 1898-04-30
EVENTS OF TODAY
Orpheum-Vaudeville.

= Observation-Disclosures.
4 Los Angeles-"A Stranger in New 1
\ York" :
4 Burbank-"In Idaho" and 1.-THE (
\ First Born"
= Flag raising at public market-7:30 (
\ q. m.
= Finance committee Of council meets (
+ 10 a. m.
= Intercollegiate field day. Santa Mon
Z ica-2 p. m. (
= OIL men meet, chamber Of COM (
merce-S p. m.
= Promenade concert. Hall of Indus 1
= try-7:30 to 10 p. m.
Z Dairymen's association meets, Odd (
I Fellows building-9:30 a. m. (
The herald., 1898-04-30
FIESTA FUND
What Subscribers Prefer to Do With
the Money

Names continue to come into Fiesta
headquarters consenting to the use of SUBJ
scriptions for the National guard fund.
The latest received are as follows: H. Jew
ne, Los Angeles Printing Co., s. s. Sails
bury, w. c. Walker, H. Mosgrove, Hotel
Monterey, ]. M. Austin & Co., Newman &
Klein. Subscription without comment, Dr.
W. G. Campbell. The chamber Of com
merce will pay its pro rata of the liabill-
ties incurred.
Leonide Ducommun prefers to have the
amount opposite his name donated to the
The herald., 1898-04-30
A Fight Averted

John B. Scott and M. B. Conkling nearly
came to blows yesterday in Justice Nor
rison's court. Scott accused Attorney
Conkling of attempting to aid Conkling's S
clients to rob Scott, and called him shys-
ter, to which Conkling retorted by calling
Scott a liar. Scott dared Conkling out of
the court, but Deputy Constable Brake
shuler separated the men before there was
any further trouble.
The herald., 1898-04-30
law and COLLECTIONS

Advice free and we make no charge If
we don't win your case. Legal matters
and collections attended to in any part of
the country on same terms. Correspond
ence solicited. Langworthy Co., 226 South
Spring.
The herald., 1898-04-30

Wall paper, late styles, low prices, at
A. A. Eckstrom's, 324 South Spring street
The herald., 1898-04-30
For hmm ediate Service in U. 8. volun.

Authorized recruitment of one of four
heavy batteries of California's quota at 14s
West Fifth street. Picked men required
Open a. m. to 8 p. m.
The herald., 1898-04-30

Optical work; accurate fitting. J. w.
Fuller, 315 North Main street.
The herald., 1898-04-30
THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-Rep of observations
taken at Los Angeles April Goth. The
barometer Is reduced to set level
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
HEADS OF GREAT BRITONS,
Gladstone Had a Larger CraniunA
Than BeacOnsfeld, Bright
or Russell.

Mr.. Gladstone's head was, it is we'll
known, of exceptional size. The story
he told at Lord Ripon's once about the
man who could not get hat large
enough till at last the halter called in
desperation for an Aberdeen hat may
well enough have been his own ex-
perience, says the London Daily News.
The compliment to Aberdeen was, no
doubt, relished in the granite city. DR..
Collins once gave to the world the re-
suit of a special study in hats, in the
course of which it was mentioned that
Mr.. Gladstone's number in hats was
7A. The hatters' number is arrived
at by taking the mean of the length
and breadth. Thus hat 7hx6k is
No. hat, which is the average English
size. Lord Beaconsfeld's hat was this
size, John Bright's rs, Lord John Rus
sells IA, all smaller than Mr.. Glad
stones. But the Gladstone hat was
exceeded in size by that of DR.. Chal-
mers' 7ai, and Joseph Hume's was en-
phatically abnormal-S4. Dr.. Collins
had 1876 hats measured at a meeting of
COnyocation of London university, and
found that between 40 and Al per cent
were above the British average, No. {,
between 25 and 26 per cent. were just
the average size, and "a per cent. were
under the average.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
NO SUCH LAW.
There IL None to Prevent q Preacher
from Performing HIS Own
Marriage Ceremony.

''The law is very blank on the ques-
ton which occasionally comes up, as to
the legal right of clergyman to marry
himself" observed a well-known law
yer. "Of course there are not many
clergymen who have ever contended
that they had the legal as well as the
ecclesiastical right to perform mar
riages, when they were personally par
ties to it, and there never will be, from
the peculiar circumstances of the case.
As far as the laws of this district are
concerned, however, clergyman is
just as competent to marry himself as
he is to marry others, for the reason
that the laws do not say anything to
the contrary, and the clergyman's GER
tificate that he marriage has been per
formed is all that is needed to make it
lawful. | am not up in ecclesiastical
law to any great extent, and am not
able to explain the church ordinance
but as far as can learn a clergyman
of any Of the leading denominations
has all the church right to marry him
self that he has to marry Others. The
court of Queens Bench. in Dublin, on
November 1G. 1855. had a case of this
kind under consideration. the only
point in issue being whcther a clergy
man could marry himself. The case was
very fully argued, and is reported in
the reports of the court and quoted by
many English law writer's. The deci-
sion was in the affirmative, and that is
the law of England to-day. Some Of
the state laws may have thought it nee
essary to express an opinion in the mat
ter, but I have never seen any. The
case that 1 refer to is cited in the books
as that of Beamish versus Beamish. 1t
was proceeding for divorce, in
which the question was raised that
there never had been a marriage"
Washington Star.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
RENT FLOWERS FOR HOUSES.
HOthOuse PrOprietOrs Suffer Loss In
business Through the Advent
of Summer Months.

This is the season of the year when
keepers of hothouse flowers, who
thrive in winter, are practically with
out employment. There are more
than 20 concerns in Chicago that make
business of renting potted plants,
palms and other interior decorations
to restaurants, cafes, saloons, and to
families. These plants are changed
as often as wanted. One day there
may be one Of the waving pampas
plumes, and in the same place the day
following may appear blooming ger
anium. The uninitiat ted would imag-
inc that the owner of the room was
also proprietor CT a hothouse, when he
isn't anything of the sort. These
plants may be rented for one dollar
per month apiece, says the Chicago
Times-Herald.
In summer they are taken out and
fresh flowers, born OF rain and sun
shine, placed in their stead. Chica-
gonas do not like the looks Of hothouse
flowers when the weather is warm and
natural blossoms are cheap. Bushes
of fresh honeysuckles grown wild in
the mountains of Kentucky and Ten
nessee may now be seen in many
places. Violets are coming in in abun-
dance. There may occasionally be
found magnolia blossoms, for they are
plentiful on the bayous of the south
this season. Then there are the native
roses and daffodils and dandelions that
give fragrance and take the room Of
the potted plants, which do very well
in winter, but look out of place when
the air is soft and balmy and the trees
are clothed in green.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
WHAT NICOTINE REALLY IS.
A COlorless Fluid That becomes Dark
When Exposed to Air
and Light.

In a communication about tobacco.
in the Scientific American. Prof. John
w. Mallet, of the University of Vir-
ginia, says among other things:
Ignorance of easily ascertainable
scientific facts is, however, common
enough, as often illustrated by the
brown, oily material formed in the
nicotine, though in reality this is mere
ly the tar produced by the action of
heat on the woody fibre of the leaf.
Nicotine when pure is colorless
fluid Of somewhat oily consistence and
strong, peculiar, penetrating odor, but
it darkens on exposure to air and light,
becoming first yellow and then brown,
so that it looks. in this darkened con-
dition, something like the tarry mat
ter which soils a smokers fingers or a.
handkerchief through which tobacco
smoke is exhaled, or is often noticed
as deposited in the stem of a pipe.
This tarry deposit has nothing essen
tial in common with nicotine, and con-
tains but traces of this alkaloid, when
any at all. A part, but only small
part (about one-seventh of the expert
ments of Melsens), of the real nicotine
of tobacco is volatilized without de-
composition; the remainder is burned
and destroyed in the process of smok-
ing.
"The sensational statements occa-
sionally made in regard to arsenic, cop
per, etc. as present in the paper wrap
pers, would be at once seen to be gross
ly improbable if it were but remem-
bered that the wrapper is a single
cigarette weighs little more than half
grain, and that in such a minute
quantity of thin, delicate white paper
there could be introduced but in
finitesimal amounts of such foreign
adulterants without~the presence be-
coming perceptible to common obser-
vation by the senses, aside from the
positive scientific evidence that they
are not present"
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
Keep Tab on the Ministers.

Every time Russian minister leaves
town his colleagues are notified of the
journey, besides the council of the en-
pire, the cabinet of the emperor, the
empires comptroller and secretary,
the sacred synod, the emperor's mill
tary secretary, the empress, the gov
ernors of Moscow, Varsovie, Kieff, etc,
ad inlinitum to all appearance. When
he returns the same minute notifca-
ton performance is gone through.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
Knew What He Wanted.

Mamma" said six-year-old Bobbie.
"you should let Ann put up my schoo.
lunch instead of doing it yourself" !"
"Why, Bobby" she replied, Its no
trouble and I'd just as soon do it my
self" Eyes, 1 know" answered the
youthful diplomat 'but you see Ann
has bigger appetite than you have
and she always puts more in"
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
DeDletiQ0.

Mrs. A.-Isn't this war dreadful?
Mrs. B.-Isn't it! I'm going to take
away three trunks less than did last
year.-Br ooklyn Life.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-10-28
Vaccination Before Marriage.

In Sweden and Norway legal mar
riage is not allowed to be solemnized
till both parties produce certificates
attesting that they bear genuine vac
cination marks.